St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 7, 1913

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aes 208 6 ‘a sell ee i. ibly never will have,’’ says Public Libra- - Bostwick in his new book, ‘‘The Different West? 4 He points out why the. East does not under- stand this part of the United States. : NEXT SUNDAY POST-DISPATOH a ve rus,” has such & pavement. as Fifth: avenue in New York’ never: Only Evening Paper in St. Louis W ith the Associated Press News ee SE ce, ee tte ee VOL. 65. NO. 199. ee a li. Sea tl, te te i a lly sama ee er ee Oe oe ee ene Et Oe. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH “# 1913—22 > PAGES. - ~ —meene SHIP LOAD DYNAMITE 50 DEAD, 50 HURT ED WITH BLOWS UP: Wessel With Explosive- for Panama ent Canal and a Tug ‘Are Destroyed in Baltimore ‘Harbor. By Associated Press. BALTIMORE, ® persons and the serious injury March ‘7.—The British steamer Alum Chine, bagest with dynamite, blew up today, causing the death of probably of 50 more. Of the dead three were killed on the United States naval col- her Jason, which lay 700 feet away; six were. members of the crew of the tug Atlantic, which was alongside the Alum Chine, and the cthers' were on the Alum Chine or the lighter from which she was loading. The ship and lighter were destroyed, the tug sank, and the upper works of the Jason were blown away. ~_ PATROLMAN POURS GASOLINE ONFIRE HE AND BABY HURT Explosion Seriously Injures Son, 2, Whom Callahan Holds in His Arms, Patrolman Jeromé Callahan of the Deer street station and his son, An- thony, 2 years old, were badly burned in # gasoline explosion at their home, 1428 Montclair avenue, Friday morning.: The child’s condition is critical, but it is be- lieved the father will recover speedily. According to neighbors, Callahan was trying to hasten a fire in the kitchen range. He picked up a gasoline can, } supposing it contained kerosene, and poured some of the fluid on the fire. Phere was” an exploston-and tho man4 and child were enveloped in flames. Callahan was holding the Baby in his arms. The policeman first beat out the flames in his son’s clothing and then tore off his own’ burning garments. Mrs. H. B. Wright of 1422A Montclair avenue telephoned a fire alarm. The house was damaged $300. Callahan and his son were taken to the home of a neighbor, where their burns were dressed, and then they were taken back. home. Woman Waits to Save Two Poodles in a Midnight Fire. Four families were routed from their) homes at midnight Thursday by -« “fire which started from a defective furnace in the basement of Mrs..¥. E, Holden’s residence at 4320 Cook avenue. The fire was discovered by Mrs. Mary Selzer, a boarder. She smelled smoke and, on getting up; found the floor of her room was hot. She aroused. Mrs. Holden ang they-awoke the other boarders, Mrs. Sel- zer’s daughter, Blanche, Mrs. Aline Mil- ler and E. J. Rollander, They also called to Mrs. P, Mars, who occupied the up- per’ flat. - In spite of tte excitement, Mrs. Mars waitéd to carry out her two French poodies. The arrival of the fire department aroused Mrs. R. W. Staley and her two sons of 4322 Cook avenue, and Mr. and Mrs, Fred Thomas of 4822A. They all ran to the street. Mrs. Martha Cunning- ham, 70 years old, who was visiting the ‘Thomases, fell in hurrying downstairs and was bruised. The occupants of the four flats went to the homes of neighbors until the fire department had finished its work. The only considerable damage was done in Mrs. Selzer’s room, where the floor had to be cut open, and in the basement. Firemen Called to Shut Off Water at Forest Park, University. A four-inch water pipe suspended along the ceiling of a basement room at Forest Park University, Mrs. Anna Sneed Cairns’ school for women, broke and was torn from its fastenings at 9 a. m. Friday, flooding the room almost instantly. The basement room was di-’ rectly under the grammar room, whitch is presided over by Miss Annie Lane. When Miss Larne rushed to the base- ment and found it befng filled rapid!y with water, she ran across the campus and turned ina fire alarm. Engine (Co. No, 52 responded and turned off the water. DARROW CASE WITH JURY LOS ANGEIV€ES. Cal., March 7.—From 8:30 o'clock this morning the jury which is trying Clarence S. Darrow for alleged jury bribery deliberated without result. The former chief counsel for the Mc- Namara brothers was plainly disappoint- ed as the day wore on and the ‘Jury made no report, rs nan —vomcenrae The Alum Chine had been here since March 1, an@ was finishing the loading of a cargo of high explosives for the Panama Canal. This morning a lighter with four rail- road cars containing 340 tons of dyna- mite was towed to the side of the vessel, and the work of loading was ex- pected to be finished in a few heurs. Nearby were the tug Atiantic and sev- eral launches belonging to ship chand- lers who were engaged in furnishing supplies to the steamship. Suddenly a puff of smoke came from the hold of the ship, and as- many of the crew as had time to escape from the lower part of the vessel ran to the deck. Alongside the Alum Chine was the launch Jerome, manned by Shipchandler James P. Goodhues. Into this boat leaped 14 of the British boat's crew, and Goodhues turned the bow of his little craft away from the burning ship, and put off at top speed. The first puff of smoke was followed by clouds of greater volume. Scores of vessels- hurried to the scene of the disaster. Floating bodies were drawn from the wreckage and some of the injured were rescued. Thimty or more badly hurt men were brought to Baltimore hospitals. Windows were broken and plitintdite } knocked off houses a dozen or more | Lniites from the scene of the explosion. At Sparrow's Point a school house Was partly destroyed and several chil-| dren were hurt. Baltimore was shaken as if by an earthquake, and _ tall buildings in the center of the city were rocked" by the shock, A Me — Explosion Shoek Feit 100 Miles Away, Takes” for an Earthquake. PHMYADELPHIA, March 7.—The ay- isiamite explosion near Baltimore was re- markable for the great distance the shock.of the blast was felt. At Coates- ville, Pa., the windows in the high school rattled, startling the students. The shock was felt atthe Philadel- phia navy ‘yard, in Reading... nearly -100 miles from Baltimore; in @ number of cities in southeast Pennsylvania and in New Jersey as far as Atlantic City. In many towns the tremor was so dis- tinct as to cause people to believe an earthquake had occurred. The shock ‘interrupted the proceed- ings of the lower House of Delaware, the Speaker remarking: ‘‘that must have | been an earthquake.”’ | was in New .¥érk. Emmons sent a tele- |GRADWOHL AGREED Wilh HOLMAN 10 WED MRS: HOLMAN Dédtor Said te to Have Told of Pian Over Phone, While ax Third Man Listened. DESIRED TO SET HER RIGHT “Where Would That Leave _ Me?” Asks: Mrs. Gradwohl, ~ Ignorant of Any Agreement. When John E. Holman decided that Dr. R. B. H. Gradwohl had wrecked the Holman home past mending, he sat down to a telephone and called up the doctor. The two then, calmly and dispassion- ately, talked of the way in which the wife, Mrs. Ida Emmons Holman, might be “‘set right with the world.’’ Holman told a Post-Dispatch reporter Friday of the strange proceeding. Through an arrangement made by Hol- man, there was a witness to the conyer- sation. V. S.’ Gransden, a Chicago trav- eling salesman, and a friend of Hol- man, sat at an extension telephone in the American Hotel, and heard all that both men said. Gransden, who is in the city, confirmed the story of the conver- sation told by Holman, who is vice- president of. the Holman Paper Box Co. Holman and Gradwohl, at great length and with an absence of passion or re- crimination, discussed the details of the case as if it were a serious business proposition. As Holman described it, they were both impressed with the neces- sity of a solution of the problem, so far as it affected Holman’s wife. “Willing to Wed Mrs. Holman.” Holman said he stated the case plain- ly to Dr..Gradwohl, and asked him what he was willing to do to rehabilitate Mrs. Holman. Gradwohl replied, he said, that he realized that something must be done, and that he was willing to marry Mrs. Holman as soon as he could divorce Mrs. Gradwohl. It also would be necessary, he said, for Holman to divorce Mrs. Holman, to obtain.a divorce. Holman says he told Gradwohl he would throw no obstacles in Mrs. Hol- man’s way and he expected Gradwoh!l to “set her right.”’ In his -preparations to sue for a di- vorce and to bring action against Dr. Gradwohl for alienating his wife# af- fections, Holman is bdeffig afded by man’s father. In response to a mioanage from Hol-) man asking him. #hether Dr. Gradwohl gram to,.Holman Friday 4n which he said-Dr. Grahwohl was in New York ker that he left there Thursday. Holman also has received a letter from Miss Ida Emmons, a wealthy aunt of Mrs. Holman. In the letter Miss Em- mons informs Holman she has disowned Mrs. Holman and has cut her out of her will. Holman told*a Post-Dispatch reporter his suspicions first were aroused when he learned that his wife had wired to Dr. Gradwohl asking him to meet her in Philadelphia Aug. 13 last. Litigation, he says, will be opened on the receipt of data from Europe which he is awaiting. This is expected to throw further light on Dr. Grad- wohl’s movements while in foreign cities. Mrs. Gradwohl’s Position, Mrs. Gradwohl when seen Friday at her parents’ home, 5024 Vernon avenue, declared she knew nothing about any arrangement to assist Dr. Gradwohl and Mrs. Holman in getting divorces that they might marry. She laughed at the idea. the election is over! Not the election for the choice of Mayor and othe municipal officers, but the voting for the most_popular and profitable advertising medium among the St. Louis hewspapers 18 is over. / The voting has been going on day after day for years. For instance, the St. Louis merchants Thursday voted 99 columns of display advertising into the POST- DISPATCH alone and on the same day only 92 columns in its three titors in the race, namely, the Globe-Demo- erat, Republic and Times, all ‘added together. majority of 7 columns for the POST-DISPATCH over its nearest com . three nearest competitors. The merchants have long avo discovered that through the columns of the POST-DISPATCH is the one and only way of’ reaching the people of St. Louis. chosen it because it is First in Everything. St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper, ‘Circulation last Sunday: 326, Daily average for February: 181,171 A clear They have 173 or permit her DR RBH GRADWOHL Frank Emmons of New York, Mrs. Hol.j PEANUT SELLER'S SUN TS DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT 16 Herbert Weiner, Born in Colum- bia, Mo., Achieves Rare Dis- tinction at Harvard. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 7.—No¢r- bert Weiner was yesterday, at the age of 18, awarded a degree _of Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He was born in Columbia, Mo., Nov. 28, 1894, his mother being a Missourian. His father: is now a professor of Slavonic languages at Harvard. When he was eighteen months old Norbert knew his alphabet and at three could read and write; at 6 he had mastered arithmetic, algebra, plane ana solid geometry; at 8.he read books in Latin, German, French and Russian; at 9 he was solving problems in trigo- nometry and calculus; at 12 he was an expert in chemistry. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 7.—Nor- bert Wiener, the student prodigy of Harvard, who at 18 is to receive the degree of .doctor of philosophy, was born in Missouri. His father, Prof. Leo Wiener,: now professor of Slavic lan- guages ‘in Harvard, sold peanuts and fruit on the streets of Kansas City 2% years ago. Norbert was born in Columbia, Mo., ! 1895, at which time his father was teach- ing Slavonic languages in Missouri Uni- versity. Leo Wiener, a Russo-German, came to the United States in the ’80s, after hav- ing been educated in the universities of Russia and Germany. Early reverses in the new country led him to employment as a railway laborer near Kansas City. Later he started a peanut stand here. The principal of a loc al high school, dis- covering that the peanut vender could speak a dozen languages, put him to teaching Greek. The discovery came through a “weather conversation’ the principal held with Wiener while buy- ing a sack of peanuts. Wiener went from here to Missouri University, where he remained six years. From Missouri he went to Har- vard. — —— Inauguration Cost 87 3,000, WASHINGTON, March 7.—Woodrow “Wilson's inauguration cost approximate- ly $73,000. The expenditures of the Cit- izens’ Inaugural Committee were about $48,000, while the receipts from. all sources were approximately $34,000. The deficit of $14,000 will be made up from the guarantee fund of $88,000, which was subscribed in Washington. ‘Garrison and Franklin avenues, | BACTERIOLOGIST AND THE WOMAN WHOSE +b guys WILL SUE HIM MRS JOUN E ROLMAN BLUE WING CLUB MEMBER, STABBED SIX TIMES, MAY Dit Police Say Adolph Hoelscher Was Victim of Knife Wielded by Kaspar Distler. Adolph W. Hoelscher, 39 years old, 4 brewery salesman living at 2548 Univer- is at the Baptist Hospital, in a sity street, critical condition as the result of a fight with Kasper Distler, 4 years old, a wealthy Waker of 4504 Easton avenue, according to the police. The fight took place Monday night at the Blue Wing Rod and Gun Club’s rooms on the third floor of 4488 Easton avenue, a short block from the Deer Street Police Station, but the police aid not learn of it until Thursday afternoon, and it was Several hours later before they found out who the participants had been. Distler then was arrested, but soon gave bond, and was released. In the report of Special Officers Law- ler and Reeves, who investigated the case, it is set forth’ that® Hoelscher has a four-inch gash on the left side of his face, a long cut 1% inches deep in the left side of*his neck, a‘three-inch gash on the right forearm, two stab wounds in the right chest, and one in the abdo- men. Hoelscher is under the care of Dr. E. Dorsey of 1424 North Taylor av- enue. Says Hoelscher Assailed Him. After being arrestéd, Distler told the police Hoelscher had assaulted him during a dinner at. the'club, and had threatened to throw ‘him ‘out of a win- dow. He declared he used his Knife in self-defense. Hoelscher told: Lawler and Reeves he and Distler had ‘a. dispute.” He re- fused to give any further information, they said. The first information to reach the po- lice concerning the fight came when a woman telephoned to Joseph Miller, sec- retary to Chief Young, that there had been a ‘‘cutting scrape” at Easton and Taylor avenues, and: that an investiga- tion should be made. After patrolmen had made inquiries in vain, Capt. Reynolds of. the Deer Street Station sent the two special offi- cers to visit the different hospitals. They went to several places, with no success. Then they called the Baptist. Hospital by telephone and a nurse told them that a man who had been stabbed was a pa- tient there. He proved to be Hoelscher. Over Kraut and Pigtail. Capt. Reynolds says he has learned that the fight took place during a “kraut and pigtail supper” at the club, but he has ben unable to find out the cause of the trouble or how Hoelscher, so dangerously wounded, was removed to the hospital without attracting the attention of outsiders. The building in which the fight took place is on the same side of the street as the police station and is at a busy corner where the platoons of police relieve each other. PRICE ONE CENT. | ar a ets 2 COMMISSIONERS PUT OUT OF POLLS: JUDGES APOLOGIZE [Four Primary Officials Oust Election Board Members, Then Ask Truce. . EGAN: AND KINNEY HELP Fifth Ward Leaders Prevent Drastic Action—Sample Bal- lots Are Seized. Primary election judges in the Ninth Precinct polling place of the Seventh Ward, at Fourteenth and Mcrgan streets, Friday ordered Election Com- missioners May and Wright to leave the room, on pain of being thrown out. The commissioners returned to the city hall and with their two colleagues held a meeting and voted to discharge the four judges. They were then dis- suaded from this action by State Sena- tor Mike Kinney and Tom Egan, Fifth Ward Democratic committeemen. May, who is one-of the Democratic “lection Commissioners, and Wright, lrogressive member of the board, found things in disorder when they entered the Morgan street polling place. -Re- tublican, Democratic and Progressive bajlots were scattered about, and several versons who seemed to have no business in the room were there. Room Ordered Cleared. May and Wright told the judges that this sort of thing would not do. They said the room must be cleared of loungers, and that the ballots must be placed in separate piles, according to party. The judges, both Democratic and Re- publican, showed resentment at the vis- itors’ remarks, and after a brief argu- ment the four precinct officers joined in inviting May and Wright to place them- selves on the outer side of the outer door. If they did not go voluntarily, the judges added, they would go some other way. May and Wright knew the law was on their side, but the law was not so tangi- ble a means of self-protection as they needed just at that moment. So they went back to the city hall. -‘Voted to Oust Judges. Chairman Drabelle, when he heard their report, summoned the fourth mem- ber, Oscar Buder; Republican, and the board then officially looked up the law, found that members had a right to enter any. polling place and give such orders as they had given, and that precinct of- ficials who refused to obey were liable to prosecution. They also looked up the list of election judges, and found that the four who had spoken to May and Wright in such un- couth fashion were Edward J. Fleming and Joseph Byrne, Democrats, and Os- car Houserman and D. F. Tarbert, Re- publicans. The next thing the board did was to pass a resolution ousting the four. Egan and Kinney Intercede. Just as the commissioners were dis- cussing how many policemen they should take back with them,-to put the ouster into effect, Kinney and Egan appeared. They asked the commissioners to over- look the abruptness of the four judges, who, they said, had not known what the law was. They asked May and Wright to return with them, accept the judges’ apologies, give any orders they wished and call things square. The board decided to do this, and re- . Continued on Page 6. Column 2. RAIN OR SNOW TONIGHT; RISE IN TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES, Yesterday’s Temperatures. High 30 at 5 p. m. Low 16 at 8 a. m. YOTE OR SiS | EVER WHO YOUR P While direct primary voters were lined up at the polling places shortly after 10 a m. Friday, snow began to fall, as if in token of the fact that some of the candidates were going to be snowed under. Forecaster Hayes said that the snowfall probably would be of the character officially known as **moderate.”’ This, he ex- plained, meant that it probably: >) would not reach a depth of more ches two inches. There was fa prospect that it would turn to rain, he said. Warmer weather seemed to be in sight, with a prospect that the temper- ature would not go below the freezing point. Official forecast for St. Louls and vicinity: Rain or snow tonight ani Saturday morning; warmer tonight with lowest temperature tonight | ‘age has been done the diplomatic and E€£D CLO FINANCIAL SPORTS Encouraged Traitorous Kill- ing of Madero. TRIED TO EXPEDITE U. S RECOGNITION OF HUERTA Was Diaz Partisan, Predicted When and How = : Revolution Would End and Quickly Ac- = ~ cepted New Government's Ex- planation of Killing. + WASHINGTON, March 7. bility for the overthrow of the diplomatic meddling. night before it occurred. bassador before. Diaz should come ‘to terms, in the embassy. . avowed partisan of Felix Diaz. City, not only among natives, but Some of the narrations of events in Mexico City approach the hysterical *in expressing fear that irreparable dam- commercial prestige of the United States in Latin America. This viement pictures rage and resentment spreading throughout Central and South America eventually reaching upon all our diplo- matic and commercial relations with these countries. : Some assert that the common inter- pretation of Ambassador Wilson's in-. terference in the internal troubles of Mexico is that it was only the forerun- ner of a policy of coercion which the United States might be expected .o ex- ercise from this time on. Others, offering information or ad- vice, are less radical in their conclu- sions, although the consensus of their opinions appears to be that the rlot of Gen. Huerta could not have succeeded without the approval, if not the en- couragement, of the American Ambas- sador. From various sources, all originating in Mexico City, it is possible fo~ the Post-Dispatch to present the first fair- ly sequential account of the events of the “palace revolution.” This «:evela- tion gives a new light to many phases of the situation, in Mexico of which there apparently’ has been no accurate perspective furnished by censored dis- patches. Reports from Mexico City have con tained scarcely a hint of the direct in- fluence which the American Ambassa- dor is charged with having bruov.ght to bear against the survival of the Madero administration. On the other hand, there have been accounts of hiry ap parent popularity and many “cmpll- ments for the efficiency of his work lv protecting foreign residents. State Department and Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson respons t a By Wire Pawn the Washington Bureau F the Post Dispatsla B ¢ —Information, which has. filteré Madero government. Mexican capital these charges are made: That Ambassador Wilson threw the whole influence of the can Government into the balance against Madero. = That he gave encouragement and indirect aid to the traitorous Mex- ~~ ican generals so openly as to constitute the most pernicious form of ~ That he used other foreign diplomats as his facile instruments in y attempting to coerce Madero to resign. That he either possessed advance information of the plot Huerta and Blanquet to turn traitors to Madero or displayed prescience in his official dispatches predicting Madero’s downfall, That Huerta was in frequent conference with the American. Am-_ ee the Palace coup d’etat. - That news of the success of the blow was conveyed ‘by the Amb: sador’s messenger to Felix Diaz, with the suggestion that Hureta at R ve wih That Diaz, distrustful of Huerta, insisted upon an American euctrt:: and protection of ‘the American flag on his trip to confer with Huerta — “= That Ambassador Wilson, brusque, paiva and unsympathetic with the Mexicans, was for months openly hostile to Madero and an_ That without the encouragement and approval of the American Ambassador, Huerta never would have turned traitor and that Madero never would have been defeated without outside interference. That Ambassador Wilson's prompt recommendation that the United, States recognize the new government was precipitate and undiplomatic. — That his haste to seal with his approval the weird official explana-.. tions of the execution of the Maderos and Pino Suarez has further pers judiced Mexicans against Americans. — While much of the information reaching Washington disered- — its any assertion that Ambassador Wilson acted with ‘explicit in- oe structions from the State Department, it all lays stress on, the pre- valence in Mexico City of the impression that he was only execut- — ing the policy of the Taft administration. It is asserted that this 2 impression is apparently fixed firmly in the public mind in Mexico among foreign residents, from Mexico account in part for the shifting color of events and for the tar- diness of its reaching the outside vorld. The new Government has maintained the strictest censorship over prees dis- patches and latterly over all cakie ond mail communication. “s ing of Gustavo Madero and then of eg I’rancesco Madero and Jose Pino : were transmitted by the Post- Mexico City correspondent by a that escaped the eye of the press cei The Huerta administration since has shown itself ruthless in dealing wi individual correspondents who have i tempted to send dispatches aabrtes. : the Government’s wishes. ee The choice of the Mexico City . spondents has been either to send only facts disguised in official veneer, or to leave the country under compulsion | “Article Thirty-three,” providing a portation of any aliens whom the Gov ernment may deem undesirable. Un this law many correspondents have : deported in past years. Several were, removed under Madero’s admin the whose deportation was approved by | heb American Ambassador. a For a fair perspective of the of the 10 days’ convulsion in xic City and the part the American Ap bassador is charged with taking thereii, it is necessary first to get a view. @ his relations to the Mexican c ment. Henry Lane Wilson is a. of the late Senator John L. WI Washington, who rose to political p /nence a the favor of Jame Hi. Henry Lane Wiison married {7 daughter of John H. Vajen. an | dianapolis millionaire. He was app ed Minister to Chile In and wae ferred to Belgium in Rah Explanations now coming tarough Sa ll If You Don’t and Bad Candidates Are Nominated tt Will Be Your Fault—Polls Open. Until 7 P. M.. Vote Ne Sp te i ax + Ce Y ee ee . , 43 cic) Bray Bey, aT ile ee BI Be fae, PBS. - Rents PUGS Aaa PR 16. I SF RP ADs eae AGAR CGR CS te! i tg Ce aS — . r ? we as = ne, -e oe % i xfs rey? ‘SRO ree Me Ri Fae PAI oP SEAT OE EAS Oa oe MON ee, Ot * PG Me ee The fearless accounts of the murdet eA including one American newspaper nal eg