St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 27, 1913

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EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS — ___ SPORTS hy "5 a he Pa FPed Wathie teinted oe. 111053 Republic FALL C Combined. .... .629 > eee Da ‘Louis’ is” Big ig Result Medium _ FAST TRAINS CRASH WHEN DISPATCHER ERRS: FOUR KILLED St. Louisans Dead, Two Badly In- jured, 30 Passengers Slightly Hurt in Wreck Near California, Mo. Only Evening ‘Paper in St. Louis W ith the A ssocialed Press News Service. — eee one PAGES. FRISCO WILL ASK IT. RECEIVER TODAY Ih THE FEDERAL COURT Application Will Be Made in U. S. Court Following a Decision Reached at Con- ference Tuesday Morning by Prominent Officials of the System. FAILURE TO REFUND DEBTS IS THE CAUSE a eee eee ——_— ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, “MAY. 27.1 1913—22 WOMAN AND HUSBAND SHE SHOT AND THEN CALLED UP THE POLICE PRICE a Ve eee CENT VOL. IL. 5. NO. 280. TELLS WHY GIRLS PREFER FAGTORIES T0 HOUSE SERVICE Miss Bulkley, Settlement Worker, Explains to Sen- ate Commission It Is Be- cause Woman of the House Dominates Domestic and She Occupies Lowest So- cial Scale. NO AFFECTION IS SHOWN FOR THEM T. R. TESTIFIES H NEVER GETS DUN Libel Suit Against Michigan Editor, George A. Newett. Note Issue of Over $2,000,- ooo Not Renewed and Other Financing Arrange- ments Give Trouble— Judge Sanborn of St. Paul Meets Lawyers. TRAINS GOING 60 MILES AN HOUR GOT WRONG ORDERS Witness and Mrs. Spraggon and Miss Quick Accused by Senator of Sowing Dis- cord by Opposing Do- mestic Service. a -_ Says He Drinks Abstemiously of Champagne : or White Wines, but Never Takes Whisky or Brandy Except on Advice of Doctor Jacob Riis Takes Stand for Him. Engines Meet With Such Force That They Rear on Back Trucks and Cars Telescoped—Pas- sengers Thrown From Berths— Mail Coach Burned. Application for a receiver for the St. Louls & San Francisco Ratlroad Co., known as the Frisco System, will be made in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals this afternoon, ac- cording to positive information re- ceived by the Post-Dispatch. The proposed receivership proceedings are understood to have been decided op at a conference today of large bondhold- ers of the railroad property and a num- ber of directors, including B. F. Yoakum, State Senator Wilson of the Women's Wage Investigating Committee accused Misses Mary Bulkley, Miss Nellie Quick and Mrs. Sarah Spraggon, Monday, of sowing the seed of discord among girls to prevent them from doing domestic work in homes and to encourage them in seeking employment at poor wages in factories and stores. Miss Bulkley admitted that the Sena- tor’s accusation was true. Miss Quick and Mrs. Spraggon, while silent, did not MPR. grid MRS. EVERETT MCCUTCHEON. By Associated Press. MARQUETTE, Mich., May 27.—Theodore Roosevelt took the witness stand today in his $10,000 libel suit against George: A, Newett, who, in an editorial, charged him with drunkenness, bh S By Long Distance Telephone to the Post-Dispatch. _. CALIFORNIA, Mo., May 27.—Four St. Louis railroad men were killed outright, two others were perhaps fatally injured and 30 passenge=: ost of them St. Louisans, were cut and bruised in a head-** -jision between twin mail trains of the Missouri Pacific Railrdad, about three miles east of here, shortly before 4 a. m. today. THE DEAD. Albert J. Ford, engineer, Buckingham Annex. Arthur W. McDonald, engineer, 3304 Vista avenue. Frank Phelps, mail clerk, Webster Groves. Frank Neal, negro train porter, 1551 Singleton street. Carl Christine and John Barnakel, fire- men, were so seriously injured that sur- geons attending them despaired of their lives. Christine was reported dying be- fore he was transferred with the others who were injured to Jefferson City. P. C. Leve, another mail clerk, was re- ported dead, but this was not verified. ‘First reports stated that Barnakel was among the dead, but he was alive when taken from the wreck. The collision, according to a state- ment of the railroad officials, was due to an error in orders given by Train Dis- patcher Roach at Sedalia. He had or- dered No. 11, westbound, to meet No. 1%, eastbound, at Tipton, Mo., and later or- dered No. 12 to meet No. ll at McGirk’s Station. There is a difference of 10 miles between the two places. The block signal operators at California and Mc- Girk’s permitted the two trains to get within the same block. Travelling at 60 Miles an mous The trains rammed into each other with terrific force while traveling at a rate of speed estimated at 60 miles an hour. The impact was so great that - the engines reared on their back trucks and were telescoped by the baggage cars behind them. One mall coach was burned. The collision occurred near a sharp curve just west of McGirk’s. The trains, alike in makeup, had three steel mail cars, a chair car, a diner and four sleeping coaches each. About 30 passengers asleep in Pull- man berths were tossed Into the aisles, but all escaped serious injury. They were cut and bruised, but were able to continue the trip to Jefferson City on the relief train. There were about 100 passengers on both trains. F, E. Wright, a baggageman, of 6428 Old Manchester road, was in the car in which Neal, the negro porter, was burned to death. He was injured about the back and hips and was scalded. State Senator A. E. Methudy and his brother, Eugene Methudy, occupied berths in the Phoenix Pullman. They were returning to St. Louis from a West- ern journey. Both escaped injury. Dr. U. @. Crandall, a Police Commis- sicner of St. Joseph, was a passenger on No, 12, bound for Jefferson City. He treated the passengers while the relief train was en route from the scene of es sohe «wreck to Jefferson City. The conductors in charge of the trains, '. F. Sullivan, in charge of eastbound qo. ll, and F. G. Conkle, in charge of vestbound No. 12, were injured slight- y. 3 Trains Meet at Curve. At Brant’s switch, where the trains yet, there is a cut-out on one side of he tracks, and a sharp curve at the ther side. Several cars were threatened with de- struction by fire when the collision oc- eurred, but when the relief train reached the scene small progress had been made ee by the flames. Only one baggage ca and a mail coach were touched by flames. The other cars had remained _@m the track and the fire soon was ex- tinguished. Other St. Louisans aside from the _ Methudy brothers who were bruised or __. @ut are George W. Tiemann of 7088 Per- _ mod avenue and T. F. Ohmer of 3828 fered a nervous collapse. He is being attended at his home by a doctor, who says his condition is serious. Roach was unable to attend the inquest at Califor- nia this afternoon. When seen by a Post-Dispatch cor- respondent, oach was able to talk only in brief intervals between periods o7 collapse. “I am unable to explain the wreck further than that it was a misunder- standing of orders as between myself and the train crew,"’ he said. At this point oach seemed about to collapse again. He added: “That is all the company will permit me to say. ’ PASSENGER TELLS OF WRONG ORDER JEFFERSON CITY, May 27.—U. G. Crandalr, member of the St. Joseph Police Board who was coming to Jef- ferson City, on the Missouri Pacific train which was in a wreck today, to see Gov. Major, saw copies of the train orders which caused the wreck. Carl Christine, fireman on No. 12, on which Crandall was riding, car- ried in his pocket an order to meet train No. 11 at McGirk. Barnakel. the other fireman, had the copy of an order directing No. 11 to meet No. 12 at California. This caused the wreck. It was stated here that No. 11 laid at McGirk about three minutes, then received orders to meet No. 12 at California. s - Crandall, who was sitting. with a fel- ow traveler in the smoking compartment of the rear Pullman of the eastbound train, said: “We were clipping off, I think, about fifty or sixty miles an hour when the collision occurred. “I was riding backward and when the crash occurred I was jammed into the cushions and almost knocked breathless. At the same time the man facing me and the heavy chair in which he was sitting were hurled across the little room against my knees. “Passengers tumbled from their berths in great confusion, inquiring anxiously the cause of the trouble. “The impact with which the engines came together was terrific. When the engines hit it seemed as if we had col- lided with a stone wall! This was fol- lowed by a violent rebound, which was almost as bad as the collision. After the first rebound the engines apparently came together again, then jerked back- ward and forward several] times before the cars became quiet. “None of the cars of No. 12 left the track. The heavy steel mai! car in which the clerk was killed, telegcoped the tender of the engine. The windows of several of the other cars were shat- tered. Only one car on train No. ll was destroyed, that being a deadhead baggage car in which the negro porter, Frank Neal, was riding. That was torn into splinters. “Some idea of the speed at which the two trains were running can be given when I say that the cylinder-head of one engine was thrown 100 yards, and buried in the earth. “I saw the passengers of the west- bound train, and saw that several of them were bleeding about the face. One woman had a cut under her eye, another man a cut on the head. I found Chris- tine, the fireman on our train, wander- ing about the field. He was apparently Oased. By examination I found his arm was broken. Otherwise. he was unhurt.” Comminasion Investigates. The State Public Service Commission departed at noon for the scene of the _ Hem ons nome oy “At dissent from Miss Bulkley’s admission, but both declared that they would not encourage women to work as domestics in homes until their work was standard- ized and their social position bettered. Miss Bulkley is a socia! settlement worker and Mrs. Spraggon is president and Miss Quick secretary of the Wom- en’s Trade Union League. THe accusation. was made by Senator Wilson after Misses Quick and Bulkley had spent the morning at the hearing listening to the testimony of girls who earn $5 to $6 a week in factories, work- ing nine hours a day. After Senator Wilson had asked many questions to get some light on why girls refuse to work in homes where he de- Cclared they would be better off physical- ly and financially, Miss Bulkley volun- teered to make an explanation. She said there is no atmosphere of freedom for the girl working as a domestic, that she has no affection bestowed upon her. that she is under the domination of the woman of the house from one week to another, and that she occupies the low- “8st position in the social scale. Miss Bulkley took up the discussion ef the subject after Miss Quick, reply- ing to a question by Senator Wilson, said sharply: “Please don’t talk domestic service to me. It gets on my nerves.” “If the 800 girls in your trades organ- ization were married, would they object to doing their own domestic work?” Lieutenant-Governor Painter asked Miss Quick. Work itn Own Home Different. “They would be working in their own homes,’’ Mrs. Spraggon answered, be- fore Miss Quick had an opportunity. “That is quite a different matter.’’ “Whom do you prefer as a boss—a min or a woman?” Painter asked Mrs. Srraggon. “When I was working I never recog- nized a boss,’’ she said. “I had no choice between working for a man and woman employer.’’ Mrs. Spraggon said she had employed maids in her own home, and treated them as a member of the family, but she declared that this rule is not gener- ally followed, “There is the same sort of a class dis- tinction between a maid and stenog- rapher as there is between a bricklayer and a lawyer,” said Mrs. Spraggin. Senator Wilson insisted that up where he lived the bricklayer is just as well thought of as the lawyer, and often makes more money. Maids Reapected in Small Cities. To a Post-Dispatch reporter Painter and Wilson said that the girls who work in homes in Carrollton, where Painter lives, and Platte City, where. Wilson lives, usually marry well and succeed in their own homes because they have had good training while working as do- mestics. There is no prejudice against Continued on Page 5 Column 1. SHOOTS HUSBAND IN QUARREL OVER Mrs. Hilda McCutcheon Calls Up Police After Wounding Ever- ett McCutcheon. After shooting her husband, Everett McCutcheon, at their home, 2900A St. Vincent avenue, Mrs. Hilda McCutcheon went to the telephone in an adjoining room and called up the police, telling them what she had done. McCutcheon is at the city hospital, with a wound in his shoulder, but is not badly hurt. The shooting took place at 7 p. m. Monday, when Mrs. McCutcheon re- turned home after spending tlhe day a divorce court. Her brother, Georg: Fritz, had obtained a divorce. and the quarrel began when Mrs. Mc- Cutcheon asked her husband to tele- phone to Fritz and invite him to their home for a supper to celebrate the di- vorce. She Had Lost $50 on Car. At the hospital Tuesday, said he refused to telephone to his broth- er-in-law, and asked his wife what caused her to be so late in returning home. He said she told him she had bbeen celebrating her brother’s divorce, and lost her purse containing $60, on a street car. In the quarrel that followed, McCutch- con said, he threatened to leave home. Mrs. McCutcheon went into another room, and, returning with a revolver, shot her husband as he was stirring the tire in the kitchen range. McCutcheon dropped to his knees and crawled toward his wife as she con- tinued to shoot. He took the revolver from her. and started to the telephone to call the police, but she got there first. Says He Will Ask Divorce, “She'll have another divorce to cele- brate when I get out of here,’’ said Mc- Cutcheon at the hospital. Mrs. McCutchedn was arrested and released on an $800 common law bond. She told the police that she shot her husband because he threatened to leave, afier refusing to telephone to her broth- er. The rost-Dispatch is the only evening t.ewspaper in St. Louis that receives or publishes news gathered by the Asso- clated Press. Monday in line The present week started off on Monday with the POST-DISPATCH way ahead of three of all four of the other St. Louis papers all added together in the volume of local merchants’ advertising \carried. POST-DISPATCH alone . 40 columns Three of the four other St. Louis papers combined. This is not unugual, just of the St. Louis merchants POST-DISPATCH as rey « 4 Geleenine further evidence of the faith in the pulling power of the compared with the other papers. St. Louis’ ONE BIG N ewspaper. Circulation first four months, 1913: Sunday............... 319,524 Daily and Sunday.... 199,783 PO pee Mote in | BROTHER'S DIVORCE ; ' Fritz and ! McCutcheon had not been on good terms! McCutcheon | es DEPUTY PURSUES NEGRO, FIRING, IN COURTS BUILDING One Bullet Aimed: at Escaping Prisoner Finds Lodgment 1 Door of Juvenile Court. Norvell Crutchfield, a negro, made a break for liberty from the cage in the rear of Judge Miller’s division of the Court of Criminal Correction, Tues- day. Deputy Sheriff McCann pursued him through the basement of the Muni- cipal Courts Building. firing at him. A crowd of several hundred followed the fugitive and the deputy to Clark avenue and lourteenth street, where Policeman Meinhardt jumped from a Bellefontaine car and captured the negro. Crutchfield was awaiting arraignment on a charge of assault and battery. As McCann opened the cage door and called to him to come out he made a rush, pushed McCann aside and plunged down a stairway to the basement. Mc- Cann ran after him through the corri- dors, firing as he ran, to the peril of. clerks who rushed out of the Board of Health offices and persons who were entering the building through the base- ment doors. , One shot was fired as the negro was passing the entrance to the Juvenile Court room and the bullet was imbedded in the door frame. Crutchfield ran through one of the Fourteenth street doors and toward Clark: avenue. McCann fired another shot at him. By that time a crowd had joined in the pursuit. Policeman Meinhardt, who was on a northbound Bellefontaine car, saw the negro running and the crowd following. He dropped from the car and headed the negro off. Crutchfield thought the crowd meant to harm him and begged the policeman to protect him. He was taken back to the cage and was arraigned shortly afterward. He pleaded not guilty to, the assault and battery charge. Deputy sheriffs complain that the fa- eflities for getting prisoners from the cage to the courtroom are poor and say that there should be a locked door on the stairway leading to the basement. POSTPONED GAMES eee AMERICAN LEAGUE. New York vs. Boston (twe games); rain. Cleveland ve. Caicago (two games): rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Pittsburg vs. Cincinnati; rain. Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia; rain. ee a iter acacia ship petition to Judge Sanborn, who is chairman of the board; James Campbell, Thomas H. West, Festus J. ton. Cannot Renew Notes. Inability of the Frisco management to finance its indebtedness, including the renewal Of $2,250,000 5 per cent short time notes, which mature June 1, is assigned as the cause of receivership. It is planned to present the receiver- wha came to St. Louis from St. Paul this morning. Judge tin Conference. Shortly after his arrival, Judge San- born received in chambers at the Fed- eral Building, Attorneys Frederick W. Lehmann, former. Judge Henry S. Priest and Thomas H. West, chairman of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Union Trust Co. The latter corporation heretofore has taken care of several important finan- cial obligations of the Frisco system. Officials Are Silent. None of the lawyers in conference with Judge Sanborn, or the Frisco di- rectors, or officials who were sum- moned to the offices of James Carhpbell in the Commonwealth Trust Building, would admit that a receivership was contemplated. An official high the counsels of directors, howcver, told a Post-Dis- patch reporter that it had been felt for several days that the Frisco would be unable to tide over its present financial troubles. Rumors of the Frisco’s financial diffi- culties have been reflected for several weeks in the prices of Frisco securities on the New York Stock Exchange. The declining tendency of the com- pany’s shares resulted in an abrupt slump today, when the 5 per cent bonds of the company dropped from 65% to 61144 and the 4 per cent bonds re- ceded to 6, against a closing price Monday night of 69. Preferred Stock Slumps. The second preferred stock declined to $9 a share and the common sold down to $5.50. The common stock at one time sold as high as $80 a share. The first preferred, which sold at $9 a share a year ago, is quoted at $30. FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW, WARMER in THE TEMPERATURES, Yesterday’s Temperatures. High, 73 at 2:30 p. m. Low, 61 at 7 a. m. ‘Two, two, two,” said Jiggs. “Are you trying to imitate a loco- motive?’ asked Riggs. “No, I wasn't, but now that you mention it, that did sound like a whistle signal, didn’t itv’ “Yes, the back- ing up signal.” “Well, the tax rate is $2.22. That’s two, two, two.” “And Comptrol- ler Play: says that with this rate St. Louis will have a deficit, and we have already cut $290,000 off our annual appropriation. “That shows that two, two, two, fs the signal for St. Louis to back up.” WILSON LaBBED ONE OVER ON THE LOBBY. vicinity: Fair tonight aed Wedaes- day: rising temperatere. Stage of the river: 17.6 feet: a rise of .9 of a foot. Missour!—Fair tontirht a Wednesday: warmer toriagh! ar proba btiy in emt and Te paper in adie scuth portions Wedresday. | Ilinois-—-Felr ‘eaigit and iba \emperacure, a — te et ee AP Wade, B. J. Winchell and Murray Carle- Official forecast fer St. Louls and / former President entered a denial. ‘ While he admitted that he was not a total abstainer, he raid a ‘ that he did not drink highballs or cocktails or beer and that he of cities in Ohio. diately was begun by the lawyers mint juleps. His testimony, in substance, as elicited by his attorneys, Was a8 follows: “I was born in New York, Oct. 1858. I was graduated from Harvard in 1880. In the fall of 1881, 1 was elected to the New York Legislature, where I served three terms. In 18%, I ran for Mayor of New York and was beaten. In 1889, | was appointed Civil Service Commissioner and served six years. In 1895 I was appointed president of the Police Board of New York and served two years. sistant secretary of the navy and served one year. In May, 1898, I resigned toy take the lNeutenant-colonelcy of the First United States Volunteer Calvary, commonly called the ‘Rough Riders,’ and served during the Spanish war. In Fighting at Santiago. “T was in the fighting around San- tiago, where my regiment lost over one- third of the officers and over one-fifth of its men, killed and wounded. I was promoted to colonel of the regiment and made acting brigadier-general, return- ing to Montauk Point. The army was there disbanded in September. “Il was at once nominated for Gov- ernor of NewYork and was elected, I PS lend wt, His direct testimony, covering briefiy“his official os a more extended way his acts on his speaking and h ip lasted one hour and 15 minutes and the ence it minutes and then two other witnesses W was Jacob Riis who said he didn’t even believe t : After he had testified, court adjourned to 2 p. wif In 1897 I was appointed as-| served as Governor until the end of und term, but before it ended in the spring of 1900, I was nominated for vice-presi- | dent on the ticket with President Mc-) Kinley, and was elected. | served asi Vice-President from March 4, 1901, until | Sept. 14, 1901, when President McKinley | died from the effects of the bullet wound of the Assassin Czolgocz. “Tt served as President for the un- expired term of three years and a halit and was nominated and elected Preai- dent in the fall of 1904. A little over a fortnight after leaving the presidency on March 4, 190, I went to Africa as head of the Smithsonian Expedition. | came out at Khertcum on March 15, 1910, and after a short trip through Eu- rope, returned to the United States to- ward the end of June, 1910. Since then I have lived continuously at Oyster Bay and have been connected with The Out- look. He Dislikes Smoking. “From 1883 to 1896, I apent consid- erable time on my cattle ranch on the Little Missouri, in the present state of North Dakota. “— mever have drunk a cocktall or a highball in my life. With the ex- ceptions hereafter noted, f never drank whisky wr brasdy except un- der the advice of a physician. | don't eare for the taste of cither. I don’t and I don’t 1 iin did not smoke. He asserted that he touched strong liquors only on the advice of his physician and then only when he had returned | 3 wet or chilled, from a long trip or had closed a strenuous day of campaign speaking. He sometimes drank champagne or whit = wine at dinners, but never took a drink between meals and deel ared that he had not been in a bar room for 20 years. “ele The Colonel was particular tosover in his testes ‘the ¢ from which it is said depositions concerning his alleged ta have been obtained. This included Datu, St. Louis and a 1 ae he ey Yaad ba for Newett. It continned for \ ES i ° he Colonel drank 4 WINE LIST, FROM T. R.’S TESTIMONY| § die ‘Cok Roosevelt testl- | f - W fies he drinks and what he says he doesn’t drink: Whisky — Only on doctor's order, Brandy—Drank 7 ounces in il months in Africa. Takes it only when wet, cold or fatigued from long trip or in milk after speeches. | Cocktall—Never drank one in his life. Highbali—Same Genial as in. case of cocktail. Beer—Dislikes the taste of it. Never drinks it. Miat Julep — Drank part of one in St. Louis, and from cup of it in Little Rock, Ark, Champagne — Sometimes glass, sometimes two, at din- ner. Red Wine—Doesn’t drink it. White Wine— Sparingly at some meals. Sherry—Occasionally. | . Milk—Fond of it with avesiey4 ‘: ‘¥ nuts; sometimes at night with =» teaspoonful of brandy. Re Tea—Drank it in preterence | to champagne. - The Colonel said he neta’td been in a barroom for 30 years and disiikes smoking, ' very occasionally, a of “At home often at dinner I dr wine glass or two of Madeira. In mer, instead of the Madeira, I will ‘> drink a tall glass of white wine and Poland water or ‘Poly’ water. At publi dinner I sometimes drink a glass | champagne, perhaps two. I think th on the everage this means that I w drink champagne about once a month, “The only exceptions to what I} ’ stated about drinking whisky and dy are as follows: pee a * “Mint juleps I very rarely drink, 4 a the White House we had a mint bedy — and I think that. on the @ + ee may have drunk half « dozen an os leps a year. Since I left the | House four years ago. to the best « my memory, I have drunk wee twice; on one occasion at the Club at St. Louis, where I érank p a glass of mint julep, and on occasion at a big luncheon given f Little Rock, Ark., where they around the table a loving cup F- mint julep tn it, and I drank vans : cup was passed to me. o-?, GC eet Ph Ce ee ere called. One of ther, ~ ar ee a ” Sy