St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 28, 1913

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“VOL. 05. NO. 192.

ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, “FEBRUARY 28, 1913—20 PAGES. > ae PRICE — CENT.

EDITION SPORTS

4 4 NEXT SUNDAY POST-DISPATOH

GILL NOT AGAINST. q EY SAYS WARD = Egan Faction ‘Has False information.

Variations Found in ek Democratic City Ward, told Friday, in his testimony in the - Patrick O’ Donnell, » Gil-Dyer Twelfth District congressional test, how he refused to join, Tom a Egan, Fifth Ward leader, in “knifing”’ | Gill at the November election. O'Donnell, who is a veteran politician. a spiced his testimony with aphorisms and i: ‘gide-remarks, which added.-to the al- oe ready enormous record of the case. One + asylums for the Insane; whoss of the sentences which the ee had to take down was: “Our human nature is faulty, atid even ‘the stenographer who is ‘taking my Be ‘words down may be making a mistake at this morhent. - Nothing under Heaven,” he went on, % 4 “wonld make she believe that Gill voted - for a Republican and against Tom Kin- ney for Congress in 1910, particularly | when’ Gill tells me that be didn’t. I know there must be some mistake about that so-called record of his vote at that time. . “] ¢eouldn’t carry my ward for Gijl— there are too many negroes and Syrians down my way—but I did the best I could ‘lin him.” bor Hostile, Miller Says. ‘chakles Hertenstein, president Of the Typographical Union, was scheduled to testify. at the afternoon session. He was called by Franklin Miller, Dyer’s lawyer, in the effort to show that a certaih element of union labor feeling was hostile to Gill. Miller, in whose office the hearing is being held, is endeavoring to show that Gill's defeat in a year of Democratic Success was not due to fraud, but to Gill's unpopularity in his district, and to a Democratic factional fight, result- ‘4pg fiom the charge that Gill had voted st the late Tom Kintiey for Com" ne, as “tt was done by Tom Egan's B: sone Ward friends, who s¢ratched ‘Gill ’ « and voted for Dyer, were shown. Some of the attempts to inscribe the Republican nominee's name on: ballots resulted in: Dwyer (a mistake made by many), Dier, Deyer, Dire, Diger, Dydem, Dyear, Ryer and Dryer. Under the electton law, which requires cnly that the .voter’s intent be clearly indicated. these votes were all counted _ for Dyer. John 8. Abbey, superintendent of the was on the stand most of the morning, looking up the hames of Fifth Ward Democratic judges and clerks in the 1912 directory. Out of fl, he found but 30, but he said the directory list closed in, March, 1912. Only €! days’ residence in the precinct is re- «ulired of election officials. — rot also been knifed. | eratched Kinney. | ticket,” said Egan. poor people ever ‘had. | ut what Gill and Dickmann had done ~ they were finished right then." __ FAIR TONIGHT AND aS Ts 7% La tem A He also said Dyers name was put in ms a matter of advertising, and not to indicate actual residence here, as Dyer was living in Washington. Knifed Dickmann, Too. After Tom Egan had testified Thurs- Gay afternoon that he and his friends rad “knifed’’ Gill because Giil had voted against Tom Kinney in 1910, John Ells- fermann Jr., attorney for Gill, asked lim on cross-examination if Dickmann, Democratic candidate for Sheriff, had Egan said that he had and the reason Was that when they got together they found that Dickmann also had “A man who scratched Tom Kinney * ‘would have a hell of a lot of nerve to run for anything on the Democratic “Tom Kinney was the greatest Democrat St. Louis ever Saw and he was the best friend the When we found

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“Have a card,” said Riggs. Jiggs took the card and read: “Theophrastus Riggs, L. F. H. D. Re 5 fet RN 4 F.C.C.C., B.F.C.A. te Fd "I didn’t know you had been to college,” he said. “T haven't’ re- plied Riggs. “Those are the clubs I belong to.” “Didn't know you were a club- man, either.” “Oo, yes. I'm @ member of the Looney For the iL BET THOSE FFRAGETTE S

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A CAMP FIRE’ “+ SCEw

ore of “Hikers,” After 17-Day March of 250 Miles, Speaks in Street Through Meze- phone for ‘ ‘Votes for Womert”

By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.— a “Gen.” Rosalie, Jones and her suffragette army marched triumphantly into Washington today, through the capitol grounds, and down Pennsylvania avenue, with an escort of local enthusi- asts and citizens which fairly choked the streets and delayed traffic. It was one of the most remarkable street demonstrations ever seen here. : A presidential -inauguration . could hardly have. presented. a more enthu- siastic spectacle than Pennsylvania av enue from the Capitol to the Treasury Building after the plucky, disheveled ‘band of suffrage pilgrims swung wearily around the Peace Monument for the final march of their 20-mile walk for the cause of equal franchise. Incoming Presidents have not iveceived more’clamorous applause than did the company of brown-clad women, who. huddled in a little group, were forced to fight their way through veritable walls of shouting humanity for every step of the last mile of their historic ‘*hike.’’ Police were powerless to restrain the crowds which overflowed from the side- walks and choked the long thorough- fare from the Capitol to the suffragetts headquarters. So dense was the mob of cheering men and women that the march up Pennsylvania avenue ~esolved itself into a struggle to make pr-ugress. Though no brass band heralded the survivors, who 17 days ago left New York for the advance on Washington, a bedlam of sound rent the air from the moment the hikers were in sight of the Capitol until they were jammed into a struggling mass of men, women, auto- mobiles and carriages before suffragette headquarters. Automobile horns and whistles kept up a din accompanying the shouts of the spectators. Even the street grandstands, erected for Inaugu- ration Day, were jammed with people, despite the efforts of guards to keep back the crowds. Comrades Lock Arms. To prevent disruption of their column in demonstration, “Gen.’’ Rosalie Jones and her tired comrades locked arms and in two lines clung together, moving only when police could’ clear the way for 4 short advance. In every block they were halted repeatedly, the crowds greeting them everywhere along the line with tempestuous demonstration. Men and women alike braved the horses’ hoofs and chugging automobiles of the suffrage army escort to grasp the hands of the suffrage pilgrims. When the Treasury was reached, 80 dense was the mob that the police with great difficulty cleared a narrow path- way through which the marchers could pass to the crowning glory of their achievement, at Suffrage House. Here, as soon as she could get her breath, “Gen.” Jones, lifted by stal- wart attendants to an automobile, shout- ed through a megaphone the message of equal suffrage, and gave thanks for the end of the long, hazardous tramp of her army. She begged the tndulgence of the throng, promising to “talk you to death’’ before she Jeft Washington. Biisabeth Foley,>‘war horse’. ef the

suffrage army, and Miss Catherine Burns also spoke briefly, but their words were lost in the deafening cheers that echoed. For 20 minutes the ‘“‘hikers’’ waited in the street until the police could disperse the crowd and then they were rushed into the office of the suffrage workers, where they remained only a moment and were takén to hotels for a brief rest before luncheon. The marchers’ were greatly relieved when informed of the receipt of a tele- gram from the national suffrage head- quarters announcing regret that there had been a misunderstanding over who should deliver the suffrage message to President-elect Wilson. ‘“Gen.”” Jones was assured that her pilgrims would be pe@mitted to take the message, pro- vided an interview with the new Presi- dent can be arranged after the inaugu- ration. ‘HIKE’ SILLY, SAYS MRS. MARSHALL Vice-President-Elect’s Wife Says Women Should Solve Own Problems, Not Men’s. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3.—Mra. Thomas’ R. Marshall, wife of the Vice- President-elect, said: ‘I'm glad of the honor which has come to my husband, I'm looking forward to. living 'n Wash- ington with pleasure. We will I've in the simplest’ manner possible, as we must meet ali our expenses with the V:ce-President’s salary.”’ She described the “hike’’ of the suf- fragists to Washington as “‘too silly fer anything,” but declared men’s thought lessness and lack of interest In affairs has caused women to try to right po- litical wrongs. ‘I don’t belong to an anti-suftragis! society. I wouldn't do anything to op- pose the vote, if the women got it. and I would certainly exercise the right of franchise, but women have yet to tring about dress reforms and settle the domestic problems before they en- deavor to handle men’s affairs.” Mrs. Marshall said she was delighted ai her husband's acceptance vf mem- bership in the Chevy Chase Club, which Gav. Wilson declined.

‘ongresas Ta Woman Suffrage % Fine - etthe J Earnest. ag WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Congress has taken up the woman suffrage queation in earnest by the designation of a sub- committee headed by Representative Hobson, an earnest believer in votes for women, to inquire and report to the Continued on Page & Columa & 20 DIE IN OMAHA HOTEL FIRE, AFTER A GAS EXPLOSION

Roof Falls on Many Guests After They Climb to Window Sills Be- fore They Have Time to Jump, and Several Others Are Killed or Injured in Leaping to Pavement —

TWO WOMEN DRIVEN INSANE; COLD HAMPERS FIREMEN

Hot Ruins in Ba-emen t Make Immediate Re- covery of Bodies Impossible and Destruction of Register Leaves Names Unavailable— Newsboy Injured Rescuing Three Persons. f

By Associated Press. OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 28.—Fi by a gas explosion cost twenty or more lives here today. Hotel, a. second-class hostelry at was destroyed by flames at 4:45 a. m. which swept the three-story, Zero building with a speed that prec weather hampered the work of suffering of the survivors. Some of the guests had time were caught by the collapsing r could be’ rescued from ‘window refuge... re, believed to have been caused The Dewey Thirteenth and Farnam streets, luded attempts at rescue. the firemen and increased the to reach the stairways, ‘but others oof of the structure before they sills, on .which. they. had taker Several persons jumped or fell from windows and met either.inetant death or: mortal myury: nnn em Accounts of the mumber of persons tr the building differed to such an exterit that accurate estimates of the death list were impossible today. The iegister of the hotel burned, but some of the hotel employes said many of the iodgers were not registered. At noon only abou: 23 out of @ persons, estimated to have been in the building, had been ac- counted for definitely, but it was known that many of those who had escaped left the neighborhood without revealing their identities. Several business firma had o.:sarters in the buildings and their losses, a: ded to those of the hotel owners, brought the financial damage to about ‘$260,000. A block watchman discovered the fire and turned in a “still alarm’ by tele- phone at 4:45 a. m. He rushed out and found the clothing store of Raphael- Pred in flames, and turned in a second and third alarm, which brought out the entire downtown fire-fighting fvu:ce. It is believed the fire started in the rear, probably in the furnace room in the basement. Persons in the neigh- borhood at the time say there was an explosion, apparently of gas, and in a few minutes the entire interior was in flames. Among the dead are: Miss Alice M. Bonnevie. James Prokes, a copper smith. Charlies Beverly. Charlies Cummings, bartender at the Henshaw Hotel, who leaped froin <- bal- cony. Capt. Engle, fireman. Prokes and Beverly tried to escape and. their bodies were found in the hallway on the second floor. Two Women Driven Insane. Mrs. C. E. Wilkins, wife of the pro- prietor of the hotel, and a Swedish housekeeper known as Tina, were driven temporarily insane by terror, but both were rescued. Mrs. Wilkins, who, with her sister, had a room on the second floor facing the alley in the rear, dragged her sister, Miss Alice Bonnevie, to the window. There Miss Bonnevie collapsed and Mrs. Wilkins was forced to jump for her own life. Two policeman broke her fall, but she was badly injured. Her sister's body is im the ruins. Capt. Engel, a member of No. 3 fire company, was seen by his comrades to enter the burning building, and was not found afterward. It it not believed that any other firemen perished. The few guests who escapel from second story windows or from the one entrance on the Thirteenth street side, dig so in scanty attire. They were car- ried to a drug store across the rtreet and to @ nearby restaurant and iatert cared for at neighboring hotels. Among the injured at the Omaha General Hospital are Iona Jennings of Omaha, Clara Newman of Omaha, Marx Hemmingway of Ewing, Neb., and Izzin Steiss, a newspaper carrier, who was overcome by smoke after he had guided three people to the street. There were approximately ™% rooms in the hotel and on account of the auto- mobile show here this week, every room was occupied, many of them by two persons and there were cots in the halis. Saw Sparkes at Midnight. Policemen going on duty at midnight saw sparks coming from the chimney at thé rear of the hotel, a

root TH the basement. all right there. . The concerns whose stock was lost tn the fire are: Raphael-Pred Clothing Co,; Joseph Lehmer Wall Paper Co.; Henry Hiller Liquor Co.; the Adams Express Co. Piano Co, Steiss, a newspaper carrier, who was cne of the heroes ‘ofthe fire, was pre paring to start with his papers and was one of the first at the blaze. Even be- fore the firemen arrived he rushed into the bullding and began assisting the night clerk in arousing sleeping cuests. He helped drag three half-dazed per- suns from the building and then, half- suffocated, went to a nearby drwst store, where Alban P. Smith, a night clerk, administered a stimulent. Stelas stepped outside end collapsed from the effects of the smoke. He was earried io an ambulance and removed to the emer gency hospital and later revived. Everything Night.Clerk Arouses “Many. Jesse Nold, who represents the moan- agement of the hotel, probably saved the lives of more than a score of persons. He was the night clerk and was awak- ened by the cry of, fire and, half dressed, hurried through the smoke filled halls arousing the guests. Ite guided a few persons out of the butid- ing, all of them less than half-cled. until he had to flee to avold betne oter- come. He was the last person to leave the bullding. Bitter cold made the firemen's work difficult. The firemen hardly had started streams on the Lotel when frozen ripe lines began to burst and reduced fer some time the efficiency of the fire- fighting force. It was believed after an early tnves- t'gation that the great loss of life wae caused by a gas explosion in the rear of the building. Only a few weeks ago a leaking gas main was discovered, causing the management of the hotel to arouse all the guests. At that time ft was necessary to cut off the gas supply and open the windows and doors of the whole bullding to prevent asphyxiation of some guests. The explosion tn the fire today is be- Heved to have resulted from a similar condition. The rapidity with which the fire spread indicated this condition ex- isted. The firemen had pushed a ladder to the third floor on the alley aide of the building juat as the explosion occurred. It sent the ladders back and prevented from the ladder when the explosion om curred, but he was not badly hurt.’ After six hours, during which from «aix to a dozen streams were kept continual- in

structure. They told the clerk bmade an investigation in the paced and Schmoller, Muellef several persons at windows from es- caping. At least one person was shake - etaiesiieiaatioinh adnan, dealer