St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 28, 1913

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-gystem, Chee of Houses, Flats, Apartments, Etc: for rent want ads. roperty———___ K ra St. Louis’ ‘ONE BiG BiG Want Media Rent Your P Ae CL Sr ann ea my 3 re ae is Salina oe Ss gas Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the- Associated Press News Service. It meee, a VOL. 65. NO. 281. ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1913—22 PAGES. BIR FONTEST * TS-FORECAST FOR > CONTROL OF FRISCO over & Co., Road’s Bank- ers, Say, Following Ap- pointment of Receivers, That Yoakum “Will Have to Explain Some Matters” About the System. B. L. WINCHELL AND T. H. WEST RECEIVERS “Somebody Made a Profit,” - Declares F. W. Lehmann Opposing Selection of Men Identified Closely With Railway. B. F. ‘Yoakum, chairman of the Board of Directors of tle Frisco Railroad “will have to explain a great Many things’ in connection with his ‘financial management of the property, _ which led to the appointment of receiv- —. rs Tuesday by Judge Sanborn, accord- to a statement issued in New York ‘by James Speyer & Co., who floated “Jarge issues of the genéral lien 5 per cent gold bonds of the company. This veiled criticism of Yoakum by ‘the principal bankers of the Frisco, con- sidered in connection with the vigorous objections of attorneys representing the New York bankers to the appointment of Yoakunys associates, B. L. Winchell, president of the road, and Thomas H. West, chairman of the Board of Direc- A> tors of the St. Louis Union Trust Co., as receivers indicates there will, be a 0 seo contest for the control an\; man- -/ agement of the Frisco property, under the receivership, between representatives of the bondholders and former officials of _ railre=a, system. ebody Made Profits.” The Honore cae of former Judge Priest, representing interests friendly to Yoa- kum, that the Bankers’ Trust Co. of _ © New York, one of the banking houses _ Anterested :a Frisco-securities, had made. a@ profit out of its business for the com- pany. and the quick retort of F. W. _ Lehmann, representing other bankers, that it was evident somebody had made > profits or the company would not now be in financial straits, indicated that there probably would be a demand for a thorough investigation of the handling of the financial affairs of the company. ‘Judge Priest later issued a statement to the effect that many of Yoakum’s friends were urgent that he should be » Mamed as one of the receivers, but that ~ he declined. Priest declared Yoakum _had built the Fisco wisely, but added, 3. “but it may be that he has anticipated a ‘ the future.” Yoakum ané@ his associates promoted “numerous railroads in Texas, which were - ¢0ld from time to time to the Frisco. To '@arry these roais, the Frisco issued $29, . 000,000 of bonds on the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico ‘ines, on which :t had to pay interest charges aggregating $1,- 000,000 to $1,500,000 a year. The taking over of new roads not yet *y developed to be revenue producers was a heavy drain upon the Frisco revenues, it _ _ was recited in the petition. Yoakum, who is accustomed to giving out statements for publication on his 4 visits to St. Louis and other points, _ departed for New York in his private ar after the appointment of the re- _ eeivers without having anything to sav -@bout the matter. Foreign to his cus- » tom, he made himself inaccessible +. Swe reporters, The,contest between the rival interests expected to develop when Judge San- _ born takes up the question of appointing “ae third receiver. Attorneys Charles Na- gel and Lehmann, representing the ‘Bankers’ Trust Co. of New York, that floated $50,000,000 of Frisco bonds, ob- = to the appointment of Winchell : West as receivers, declaring the Court should name men for those post- tions who had not been identified with : the Frisco in any financial or official ca- Mexico Revolt a Factor. et According to the receivership petition, . the financia) resources of the Frisco had ‘been drained by the obligations the road £ ‘assumed in the purchase of the Chicago es ee: Eastern [llinois Railroad, which was thrown into the hands of a receiver jin ) Calbago simultaneously with the ap- - pointment of the Frisco receivers in 8t. — Louis. This drain upon Frisco earnings, _ the effect of the Mexican rebellion on the business of Texas strikes in the Illinois coal districts last year and floods this year were the pri- subsidiaries, Mary causes of the receivership, ac- ‘cording to the petition filed by Judge . in behalf of the Frisco system. ‘a he enactment of the 2-cent passen- or fare laws in Oklahoma, Illinois and sas cost the Frisco system 2,- ‘4.000 and an additi JROAD TELLS HOW EMPLOYES’ BLUNDERS CAUSED WRECK| Released Vice-President Pearson Says Signal Op:rator lock When He Knew Danger and Realized It Too Late. In a report made public in St. Louis Wednesday Vice-President E. J. Pea:- son of the Missouri Pacific Railroad told how a double blunder on the part of two employes was responsible for the collision Tuesday morning at Brant. 150 miles west of St. Louis, in which four trainmen were killed. One of the operators, according to Pearson, attempted to repair his error by using the long-distance telephone, but at the minute when he took up the receiver the crash occurred. The first blunder was made by Frank A. Roach of Sedalia, a train dispatch- er, who gave conflicting orders to the conductors of the two trains. The first. ‘given to the east-bound No. 11 train, was that the two trains should mee: at McGirks. The second, given t» west-bound No. 12, was that thev should pass each other at Tipton, which is 19 miles from McGirk’s. However, according to Pearson, the block system of the railroad should have prevented a collision had it not been that H. 8S. Tice, block signal op- erator at McGirk’s, by a tragic coinci- dence, simultaneously made a second blunder, which, added to Roach’s mis- take, made the wreck inevitable. Tice was notified by J. C. Manford, block signal operator at California, that No. 12 had entered his block, and that the block must not be released until the train had passed out of it. In a moment of carelessness or forgetfulness, Pearson declared, Tice released the block and No. ll, thus informed that the track was clear, rushed into the trap. Tice, realizing his mistake, attempted to telephone to Manford to hold one of the trains at California. Pearson re- ported, but was too late. As he took up the telephone the collision occurred. Pearson went to Brant Tuesday and made a personal investigation as to the cause of the wreck. He attemtped to ob- tain an explanation from Roach, he said, but found the operator unable to speak coherently. He had collapsed upon hear- ing of the disaster. Because of his con- dition he was forbidden by his physician to testify at the inquest and before the State Public Service Commission, which Wednesday began an inquiry into the accident, taking testimony at Jefferson City. UMANE SOCIETY BLOCK TRAFFIC They Let Little Animal Go When Crowd at Broadway and Pine Gets Angry. In the presence of a crowd that filled the streets on one of the busiest down- town corners of St. Louis, a little yel- low dog, suspected of being mad, was put through the third degree at Broa- way and Pine street by officers of the Huitrane’ Sorctety “(for "the cruelty to animals), Wednesday after-+ noon. Traffic was blocked and men stood or the tops of automobiles and wagons and hung to the window frames of street cars while the humane officers tortured the dog. Men Let Dog Go Free. In the end the crowd became so in- dignant and threatening that the men, after cutting the dog with a wire loop and choking it with a rope, permitted it to go free. The spectacle which attracted the big Broadway crowd was staged in the ex- cavation left by the demolition of the old Mills & Averil] Building.’ A traffic policeman at Broadway and Pine street had telephoned to the City Marshal's office that an unlicensed dog had been in the ruins of the building for several days. He asked that a dog catcher be sent down. Instead of the dog catcher, two Hu- mane Society officers responded. The dog lay panting on the board floor of the excavation when they arrived. One of the men threw a loop of thin wire about the dog’s haunches as it arose and advanced toward him, wag- ging its tail. If it thought it had found a friend it was mistaken. The wire, pulled taught, cut mto its flesh and. naturally it turned = and snapped at the thing that was hurting it. The other humane officer made a rope lariat and attempted to throw it over the dog’s head. For nearly twenty minutes he made toss after toss with- out lassoing the suffering animal. Crowd Gets Demonstrative. The crowd became demonstratiwe and it was apparent that its sympathies were with the dog. Rope barriers stretched around the undermined pavement were ignored and the crowd surged to the edge of the excavation. Two policemen tried in vain to keep back the throng. _ Threats were hurled at the humane officers and there were cries of ‘‘Which is the dog, the skinny one or the fat one?’’ Finally the crowd lost all patience. One man jumped into the. excavation and others threatened to follow. There were dangerously emphatic demands that the wire be removed from the dog’s haunches, ° ° The “humane” officers made a s‘id- way of boards and up this they pulled the dog to the street level. As a policeman advanced to case the strain on the wire the tortured little ani- mal licked his hand. That was too much for the patrolman. He borrowed a krife from a young man in overalls and cut the wire. The crowd cheered. “He's mad, look out,” said the stout humane officer. “Beat it,’’ shouted the crowd. The stout man then loosened the rope loop from the dog’s neck. With a look of mingled fright and relief, the sup- posed mad dog trotted west on Pine street, stopping to drink at a little pool of water left by 4 passing sprinkling cart. The humane office:s lost themselves in the crowd, Ranker, Fined for Theft, Resigns. WINFIELD, Kaa, May %.—Grant Stafford, the wealthy resident of Win- field, whe recently was convicted of “ory Mrs. Josephine Lawrence, an investizga- IMIR. FEAR SHIPS MEN TORTURE DOG,| HIS FOUR WIVES BALK 10 UTAR He Acts When They Demand He Support 29 Fear, Near, Dear, Bear Children. CHICAGO, May 28.—Petitions asking that George Fear, 65 years old, be com- pelled to support a total of 29 children, filed by four women who claimed to be his wives, were dismissed today in Coun- tidge Owens cotirt when’ fear told tor, that he had shipped all the women back to Salt Lake City, .whence he and they had come. Fear said he came to Chicago to de- velop a patent and brought only one of his wives, Mrs. Josephine Fear, leav- ing her 19 children at Salt Lake... That was early last winter, and just recently the other three women arrived. All was peaceful, he declared, until he had to leave Chicago for a short business trip. Mrs. Josephine Fear then became alarmed lest he had deserted her and the other women, and applied to Mrs. Lawrence. The other women then filed petitions also, giving their names as Mrs. Near, Mrs. Dear and Mrs. Bear, hoping in that way to avoid getting Fear into trouble in addition to that they were making for him. The case remained a mystery until Fear himself appeared today, because of the similarity of the names of each complainant and the charges, all against one man. POSTPONED GAMES NATIONAL LEAGUE, Brooklyn vs. Philadelphia; game post- poned, account of rain. Boston vs. New York; game postponed, account of rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE, Philadelphia vs. Washington; postponed, account of rain. New York vs. Boston; game postponed, account of rain. zame The Post-Dispatch Is the only evening news. naper in St. Louis that receives or vublishes news gathered bv the Associated Press POLICEMAN LOCKED INGELL OVERHEARS THEFT CONFESSION Negress in Next Cage Tells Her . Mother That ‘Jim Lee’ Has Watch She Stole. WANTS JIM TO AID HER Officer Brown Exchanges “Tough’”’ Clothes for Uniform and Goes and Gets Lee. : Patrolman Frank Brown was locked up two hours Tuesday in a cell in the women’s quarters at the Central Dis- trict Police Station and obtained infor- mation leading to the recovery of a gold watch and chain that had’ been stolen. Prown was complimented by Capt. Hess after his release for his excellent im- personation of a “dangerous crim- inal.”’ Louis Glanzer of 3714 Meremac street reported to the police that he had been robbed of his watch und chain Monday night by a negress at Twelfth and Mar- ket streets. He said the negress asked him what time it was, and when he took out his watch she grabbed it and ran. The police arrested Josephine John- son, a negress living at 1404 Chestnut street, but she emphatically denied the theft. Her mother visited her a short time after she was locked up, and Capt. Hess told her to return’in an hour. In the meantime Capt. Hess sent for Brown and instructed him to change his uniform for a ‘‘tough-looking out- fit.’ When he donned the desired gar- ments Brown was shoved roughly through the corridor into a cell adjoining the Johnson woman, and the remarks of the officers indicated that Brown was a “hardened police character.” Brown dozed in the cell almost an hour before the mother of the negress was ushered into the cellroom and talked to her daughter through the bars. “You have got to help me out,” Brown heard the négress say to her mother. “Go to Jim Lee, 3009 Lawton avenue, and tell him to hide the watch and keep it hid. Get out there before the police find out where it is.” When the mother left the cellroom she was .toldby, Capt. Hess to .wAy ia bis office until he. had time to question her eoncerning her daughter. Brown was taken out of the cell, put on his uniform again, and hurried out té see “Jim Lee’’ Lee told the officer that the Johnson womam had made him a present of a watch Tuesday morning, but denied knowing where she got it. Brown took Lee and the watch to the station. Lee was taken to her cell the Johnson woman still denied knowledge of how the watch came into Lee’s possession. Glanzner identified the watch as his property, and told the police that the prisoner is the negress who asked him what time it was and disappeared with his timepieces. ROBBER HANDS MAN BACK $1 AND HALF OF BILL George Spence of 3323 Laclede avenue told the police at Central = station Wednesday a strange tale. Spence said he was at Ninth and Chestnut streets about 12:15 a. m., When two men spoke to him. “We had talked a short while,’ he said, “when one of the men suddenly reached into my pocket and took out $4. I chased them through two alleys and around the block, but finally lost them on Tenth street. A little later I was standing at Tenth and Pine streets when one of the men walked up to me. He handed me a dollar bill and half of another. He said he was sorry the rob- bery occurred and then disappeared.’’ The police took the half of the dollar bill and pinned it to the report for Chief Young. PO aenememe aS ee nme ee added together. POST-DISPATCH, Times, all added together. in its home field is absolutely ropolitan city of the United St Louis’ ONE ——- —— ——= - a Ps ~- Nc Friday, following the decision of the Board of Trustees at a meeting Tue®- day. This will be the first time in its ristory the gates have on Decoration day. — than hall « mile of 12-foot walks NORE, AE RAP LOPLI OE EELS EO PEG LOL KOOL SE been. con- othe ot ee ee man, ' . > x wes . . i e ee een Bee ad “ : PP errr a ger ene * Re a HO ah ee hnty, toes ee! RE oy aE PICTURE-GALLERY AUTO RIDE WINS DIVORCE FOR MAN Photograph of Wife and Her Ad- mirer, Shown in Court, Gets Decree for R..L. Armstrong. The photagegns eof a woman and “SJoyriding” “tn ‘a picture-gal- lery-poodledog-papier-mache . -limou- sine, won a divorce for Robert kL. Armstrong, employed in the éxecu- tive department of the ‘Postoffice, in Judge Jones’ court Tuesday evening. Attorney KElroy V. Selleck, repre- senting Armstrong, in submitting the picture as evidence, stated it was a correct likeness of Mrs. Mary A. Armstrong, defendant in the case, and W. N. Albright, an assistant depart- ment manager for Butler Brothers. Mrs. Armstrong was not in court and was not represented. Armstrong testified that when he found the picture among his wife’s effects in November, 1912, and re- monstrated with her, she told him that if he did not like it he could get out. He got out, he said. Armstrong also stated he found a package of love letters from Al- bright to Mrs. Armstrong, but that she’ snatched them from his hand and destroyed them. The witness stated he had heard that. Albright’s wife had divorced him in Paris, Tex., about a year ago. At the time the divorce suit was filled Mrs. Armstrong was living at 3748 Olive street. where Albright was, a boarder. The Armstrongs were married Dec. 17, 1896. FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; WARMER THE TEMPERATURES. Yesterday's Temperatures. High. .75 at 4 p. m. Low. .52 at 7 a. m. “Well, I see the Frisco went Into the hands of re- celvers,’’ said Mr. W. at the break- fast table. “What is a re- ceiver?’ asked Willie. ‘Well, er—that is. A’ receiver, my boy, is er’’—-- “I know what a receiver is in a baseball game, papa. He's the catcher.”’ “Yes,. my That's right. “And do railroad receivers wear big padded niiits o£ : their hands like the baseball receivers?’’ “I think not, Willie.” Official forecast for St. Louls and viciaity: Fair tonight and Thursday; warmer tonight, Missouri—Generally fair tonight and Thurs- day; warmer in south portion tonight. Illinolsa—Generally fair, except probably lo- cal thunder showers In north portion tonight or Thursday: warmer in south and central portion tonight. | CAN ANY JUNE Day BEAT Tes 2 boy. Gas From Aute Asphyxiates Owner. PHILADELPHIA, May 28.—Alter Weiss, 5 years old, a clothing manu- fucturer, was fourd dead today, sitting upright in his automobile tn his private garage. Gas was escaping from a fix-} ture in the garage, and the police say PRICE ONE CENT T. R.’S DRINKING “REPUTATION” IS DEBATED IN TRIA in Lib] Case Sent Out While Lawyers Argue Admissability of Hear-Say Evidence. — — NIG EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS SPORTS Jury OTHERS DEFENSE AIMS TO SHOW MADE CHARGE —" — i Con‘ends Editorial Was Printed Without Mal- ice; Newspaper Man Testifies Capital Cor- respondent Regarded Reports Col- onel Drank to Excess as Absurd, o_o the jury, interrupted the taking recess. suit “an obscure newspaper with Aa circulation of less than 3000" had been picked out, while similar “intimations in other journals had been ignored. Received hy Monarchs. Although Col. Roosevelt, on returning to Europe from his African~hunt, was obliged to attend banquets and recep- tions tendered to him by monarchs, he moderate degree, was the testimony of O’Laughlin, who said) he had been as- sociated with Col. velt for W® years. The witness said he met the former President on the Nile, after the African hunt, and accompanied him as far as Paris, acting as secretary to Col. Roosevelt. O’Laughlin also accompanied the Colonel on various campaign trips in this country. “During your 20 years’ experience with Col. Roosevelt, have you ever seen him in the slightest degree under the influ- ence of liquor?’’ “T not only never saw him under the influence of liquor, but it seems abso- lutely silly to me to have anyone sug- gest the fact that he ever was,” re- plied O’ Laughlin emphatically. “At banquets have you ever seen him drink any liquor?” “At banquets he sometimes took a glass of white wine. I never saw him drink more than one glass of cham- pagne.”’ Dinners in Washington. O’Laughlin described the various in- ners, official and otherwise, given at Washington, including dinners at the Gridiron Club. “Will you tell this jury whether Mr. Roosevelt mixed his drink at all or not?” “If be took champagne he never took anything else.”’ A question involving the custom of for- mer Presidents in regard to liquors at banquets caused ov,ection by ¢unsel for the defense. The Court held it was competent for the plaintiff to show whether Col. Roosevelt followed the cus- tom in the use of liquor in the White liouse. O’Laughlin said his first experience with Presidents began with the second Cleveland administration, and Col. Roosevelt followed Presidents Cleve- land and McKinley in serving wines at public dinners, ‘‘Are you not in charge of some work ot the Progressive party: O’Laughlin was asked on cross-examination. “I am not,” he answered. O’Laughlin said Col. Roosevelt had appointed him Assistant Secretary of State and he had gone on a mission to Japan for the Roosevelt administration. He sald he went to Japan the same year that Col. Roosevelt ordered the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific. “Now you mention that Col. Roosevelt sent the fleet to the Pacific. was that a measure taken because of the rela- tions between this country and Japan? Was it to prevent war?’ “Well, yes, it was perfectly evident that Japan would not go to war with this country if it was apparent that YO ae ae +. as never indulged in champagne to an im-f MARQUETTE, Mich., May 28.—Admission of hearsay evi- dence, bearing on Col. Roosevelt’s ‘ briety, became the sharply fought issue today in the trial of his $10,000 libel suit against George A. Newett, an Ishpeming newspa- per owner. The discussion, which was eonducted in the absence of ‘general reputation’’ as to so- of the testimony of John Callan O’Laughlan, a newspaper man, and was continued after the noon lad The defense desires to introduce such hearsay testimony in support of its contention that there was a belief in some quar-ers that the Colonel used liquor liberally and it contends that charges of this nature had been printed in other newspapers, without being © challenged by the plaintiff. Lawyers for’ Newett assert that in | his editorial declaring that the Colonel ‘“‘got drunk. ore a re he simply was recotding what had been yt. | what he had been led to believ Newett pointed out that in this liber SR ee, URES © Soe ee : : LP a - # se eens aM : : age 4 Rg org G+. » ” J 2 a “ 6 ~ia Py baka 3 poe Seer bas rr 4 ay a Ee pS. aie “H ity’ - “i ” ; sa - = > OI am ©. $5i, qe nee : ’ wag ~~ United States, he made an visit to the Louisiana Purchase position in 1994, recall dent connected with one occasions when, as he has at the libel trial, he took “a French Commissioner, had made an address of welcome and the Presi- filled the champagne glasses at luncheon table. The President noted that Des- mond and his men had turned their glasses. He looked inquir- ingly at Desmond and said in an undertone: “Not drinking?” Desmond smiled and shook his head. ; The President lifted his own glass and, with an expression which had in it something of invitation and something of challenge, he sald to Desmond: “Hospitality, Major.” “Duty, Colonel,” responded Des- mond, still smiling. his wine, but the detectives’ glasses | remained unfilled. capitals, and he communicated with Ambassador Leishmann at Rome to ar range for the reception of Col. Roose- velt by the King of Italy and the Pope. “You wrote to Ambassador Léish- mann to arrange for Mr. Roosevelt's re- ception by the King and Pope? Was that your purpose?” “Yes, it was to arrange thorce recep- tions."’ Here objection was ontennt by Col. Roosevelt's attorney on the ground this tne of questioning was immaterial. “I regret that this subject came up,” said the Court. “I suggest that it stop right where it is."’ Witness Shakes His Finger. The inquiry along this line accordingly was dropped. “T will ask you if In 1912 and for some time prior there Was not 4 Tre port among newspaper men that Col Koosevelt drank to excess?” sald hare rey Belden. O’ Laughlin, shaking his finger at the — lawyer, replied: + feet with regard to this reply jury was exclude. % Attorney Pound sai@) he found the an- yee I 1. Sh a Re oe FONE PR OER ee PR IEE Bei A : , > *