St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 3, 1913

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* Spy More than the Star POST-DISPATOH sided: 62,604 than the Globe-Democrat and Republic COMBINED. ny Times and St. Louis ONE begin Want Medium. Only Evening Paper St Louis With VOL. 65. NO. 287. FOR VISITED BY T79 MEN SINCE JAN. | ON TARIFF Pennsylvania Senator: Testi- fies in 16 Years He Has Known of No Attempt Im- properly to Influence Mem- bers of Congress—lInter- ested in Sugar Firm. | “TT WILL FAIL WITH DUTY OR WITHOUT” Senator F all” Swears Zinc Trust Representative Called on Him, but He Was “Neither Honest or Dis- honest Lobbyist. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, June 3.—Senator Penrose today told the special Senate Committee hunting for “the lobby” that in his 16 years’ experience in Washington he never had known of any attempts improperly to influence members of Congress. He gave the mames of 175 persons who had called on him since Jan. 1 on the tariff, but declared that none “were lobbyists” in the general acceptation of the term. “It is well. known that certain in- terests have agents here,” the Sena- tor said, “nnd I suppose they are paid salaries. They evidently get informa- tion for their organizations. Their work is perfectly legitimate. I have seen Mr. Burgess for the pottery in- terests here for years and Mr. Brown for the cotton people. Their work is perfectly legitimate as far as I know. My own opinion is that the lobbyist is principally a thing of the past. Congressional committees pay little attention to them now.” Penrose said he was a stockholder in the United States Sugar and Land Co., at Garden City, Kan. “This com- pany has never been a success,” he said, “even under a protective tariff, g@nd either is or will soon be in the hands of a receiver.” Senator Penrose thought that prob- ably Winthrop L. Marvin of Boston - pepresented “the wool people” in Wash- ington, and Senator Reed was insistent to learn if Marvin éver had anything to do with fixing the tariff on wool or Brown with the cotton tariff. Senator Penrose insisted the men did nothing more than present arguments to Sen- gtors and Representatives and _ that neither had anything to do with making the rates of the Payne law. Senator Reed did develop on cross- examination, however, that Marvin at e time war secretary of a joint con- onal committee to investigate the merchant marine. Senator Penrose was the liveliest wit- ness of the morning session. Other Senators testified they knew of no undue influences and told of their personal interests. The list of 17% names which gave the committee was made up of manufacturers, labor leaders, at- torneys, importers and others who feared they would be affected by tariff ae The steel industry and coal interests of Pennsylvania have had no perma- nent representatives in Washington for many years, Senator Penrose said. Their custom of keeping representatives in Washington had ‘“‘died out 10 or 12 years ago.” He estimated that not more ‘than 4 per cent as many persons had come to Washington on tariff business this year as compared with four years ‘ago, but reiterated that the persons here now were here at previous tariff re- iat The second day of the lobby inquiry ‘began with approximately one-fifth of ‘the total number of Senators disposed of. At such a rate of progress, it woulé take four days more’ to finish the investiga- tion. The Senate has allowed 10. Work- ing with morning, afternoon and night seasions, under the consent of the Sen- gtors gto absent themselves from reg- ular sessions in order to hear witnesses, ‘members of the subcommittee taking the testimony were confident today that they would finish this week. Senator McLean Witness. Senator McLean was called as the first witness. He testified he was a small stockholder in several corporations, but he never had sought to influence Sen- ators because of hie interests. He gave _@ lst of various callers who discussed ‘the tariff with him, but he considered none of them lobbyists. - Among Senator M) n’s Connecticut _ ‘eallers were Marcus L. Floyd of Hart- ford and Fred Griffin of Tariffville _ Horace B. Cheney, South Manchester: George L. Cheney, Deep River; LD. _Ruseell, New Britain; Col. W. W. 3kia- _ ay, Stamford; Frederick E. Kip, Bridgoe- q ports H. M. Greist and a Mr. En- audience at today’s inquiry ]COOLER WITH SHOWERS | TONIGHT; FAIR TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. “I see they’ re not going to out meat on the free list,” said Mr. W. at the breakfast table, “Isn't that a shame!"’ said Mrs. W. “Now, if meat were only free it would be so easy to get along. Just think how nice it would be if we never had to pay any butcher bills, though of cpurse other things are very dear, too, es- June pecially the fresh 3 vegetables. I was 13 ~)) .80 glad when you told me /ast week that meat was going to be free. Now, I guess I won't get it.’’ “Get what, my dear?’ “That white leghorn hat I was going to buy with the money saved on butch- er bills.’’ Official fwrecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Clondy and cooler tonight, with showers; Wednesday fair. Missouri—Cloudy and cooler tonight, with showers in south portion; Wednesday, gen- erally fair. Iilinocis—Cloudy and cooler tonight, showers in south portion; Wednesday, erally fair. WOMAN HIRES MAN TO KILL A WOUNDED BIRD Takes Woodjpecker With Brok- en Jaw to Dentist and Has It Chloroformed. A fashionably-attired woman, bur- dened with two suit cases, carried a wounded woodpecker 20 miles, over twv trolley lines, from Lebanon to Belle- ville, Tuesday morning end had it chloroformed by a Bellevfile druggist. A young man waiting for a car in Lebanon shied a rock at the bird on the side of a telephone pole and unexpecx: edly hit it and it fell helpless at his feet. Unwilling to leave it to his fate. he picked {ft up and carried it with him on the car. The woman boarded the @ar at the next corner. The bird ex- cited her sympathy. She took it from the young man and held it all the way to Edgemont, where she changed to the Belleville car. The bird's jaw was broken and there was no chance of saving its life, but the woman carried it on to Belleville and paid xp druggist to end its sufferings. BEES FLY UP AND DOWN ROAD HUNTING TROUBLE They Rout One Man and Then Stop the Plowing Operations of Three Farmers. A swarm of bees over on Missouri Point, across the river from Alton, flew up and down the country road Mon- day hunting for trouble. They found John Schulenburg driving along the road, but he whipped up his horses and escaped with numerous stinging bumps on his face and hands. The bees then located Henry “ent and William and Walter Brown, wiile they were plowing, and caused their horses to run away. Pent and the Brown brothers then filed some boxes with molasses and finally got the bees safely in a hive. ENGLISHMEN LOSE SHOES Put Them Outside of Hotel Rooms as Is Brtish Custom. DETROIT, Mich., June 3.—Members of @ party of English automobile engineers here to attend the Detroit-Sault Ste. Marie’ meeting of the Society of Auto- mobile Engineers put their shoes out side their doors in the Hotel Pontchar. train, according to the English custom when they retired Sunday night. They did not find them when they awoke in the morning. What has become of them is a mystery. : The men were angry and stormed at the hotel managers, who are doing their best to ot the shoes. - MAY “WANT” GAINS | Tes 1S THE MONTH OF LONG DAY S AND SHORT- CAKES. o~ with gen- Post - Dispatch ‘‘Wants’’ show a gain of 1693 for May, 1913, as compared with May, 1912. This gain is on ‘“‘Wants’’ re- ceived in the usual channels, without special solicitation, free insertions, or bonus in- ducements of any kind. It is a’ natural, healthy growth of people’s popular wants from the homes, shops, stores and other business places of St. Louis and sub- urbs, where Post-Dispatch wants need no introduction as result getters. The total number printed dur- ing May was 62,604, which was 4621 more than were printed by the Gilobe-Democrat and Repud- lic combined, and 11,148 more than were printed by the Re- public, Times and Star com bined. Phone your wont the Post-Dispatch. Call Olive—6600—Central. Your credit’s good if you rent @ phone, or your druggist will to TOLD HOW CLOTHES WEAKEN MORALS Woman Demonstrator Says Too Much Attention ‘to Dress Makes Shallow Lives. ADVISES LESS) APPAREL People Would Then Improve in All Respects, Mrs. Lillian Stuart Tells Senators. . The State Senatorial Committee inves-. tigating women’s wages in St. Louis digressed from the beaten path long enough Tuesday to invite Mrs. Lillian Stuart of 3643 Washington boulevard to give the Senators some pointers on dress education. For the next hour the com- mittee was entertained by a lecture on tight lacing and its effect on women; high-heeled shoes, deformed great toes and beauty. Mrs: Stuart is a demon- Strator, who makes a living by lecturing and giving instructions in correct and hygienic dressing. But she gave the grave Senators a free lecturé. One startling: declaration which the Senators received with great satisfac- tion was that men had more beautiful and more perfect figures than women. This statement was brought out by a question put by Senator Greene of Kan- sas City, who asked Mrs. Stuart why it | was that male birds and animals were more beautiful and graceful than the female, and why the reverse was true in the human family. Mrs. Stuart answered that men not only had more beautiful figures, but they were more graceful than women, and that women in _ civilization had merely appropriated the feathers be- cause men had commercialized women’s clothes to make money. Wear Fewer Clothes, She Says. She declared also that men were get- ting away from the idea of admiring girls for their clothes and were taking more interest in the girl herself. Clothes; she ‘said, were responsible for the shallow life of the present day, with its scandals and divorces. The time would come, she said, when people would wear fewer clothes, and they would be improved both morally and physically. The people who wore the most clothes, she declared, had become the mdst im- moral of the human race. Mrs. Stuart told the committee that the wearing of corsets was very detri- mental to health and ought to be aoe hibited. “But,” added Senator Whitledge, “would not some fat women, especially, be frightful looking without corsets?” “There is no sense in any woman be- ing fat,’’ retorted Mrs. Stuart. . “If they lived close to nature like the birds they would not be fat. God knew how to. make a perfect woman, but civilization, with its corsets and high-heeled shoes, has tried to improve upon his handiwork by deforming her feet and body. Why there is not a woman in this country who would have a foot like the Greeks, who had the finest feet inithe world.”’ By means of diagrams Mrs. Stuart il- lustrated how the feet of the human family were deformed by shoes, and how unnatural most people walked. She said she was interested in girls and their wagés and merely dropped into the hearing to Nsten to the testimony. Whitledge Would Aid Her. After she had finished her lecture of dress education Senator Whitledge said that he would be in favor of a bill making an appropriation to aid her in carrying on her work. She said she had tried to get Supt. Blewett of the Board of Education interested in the subject, but that he listened to her with indifference and did nothing. An elderly woman who supported her) crippled husband, and sent her two children to school on wages of $6 ~/' week, which she earned picking nuts. | was commended by the committee as being a credit to womanhood. woman wore a checked shirt: waist, a plain black skirt, and an untrimmed | broad-trimmed straw hat. She said that: her husband lost his leg 15 years ago. as a railroad brakeman, and that she had been compelled to support the fam- | ily most of the time. He was able oc- casionally to help out @y odd jobs, but ' the burden fell on her, she said. She testified that she had fallen be-| hind in her rent during the past two. months, and was having a hard time! to keep up, but she appeared cheerful | and confident that she would pull | through. She worked for the Barnhart | Mercantile Co. Wants to Hear Employers, Two other girls from the same place | testified that they earned $7 and $9 «| week picking nuts. Before the committee adjourned to | 10 a. m. Wednesday it issued a state | ment to the effect that it would be glad | to hear any employer of women | Wednesday morning. The committee | said it Was eager to help employers as well as employes and wished to get the employers’ side of the wage question. Wage Too Low, They Say. The witnesses Tuesday were princi- pally fré6m department and 5 and 10 cent stores. They testified that they received salaries of $ and $% a week. They were asked whether they were able to support themselves on what they were paid. Only one girl was able to get along on her wage of % a week. and that was through the generosity of a friend, who gave her a room «nd two meals a day for $1.50 a week. Senator Kinney asked the girls wheth. er they ever had a chance to go to the parks. Some sald they could not afford ally. i phone your want at office rates. : ih it and others said they went Asses ‘timebook The 'G ee ee 2 - the Associated Press ‘News Service.- Ee © een tt i Ree es ~ ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3 3, 1913—20 PAGES. WAGE COMMISSION UNION TREASURER SHORT, ENDS LIFE AT UNDERTAKER'S “I ocal Shoud Pay Death Bene- fits After Deducting Short- age,”’ Says His Note. “ONLY WAY TO'AID WIFE” Man Found Dead of Carbolic Acid Poisoning in Fair- ground Park. Confronting charges of a discrepancy in his accounts as treasurer of Car- riage Drivers’ Local Union 460, Willian Pearson, 53 years old, of 4582A Cote Brilliante avenue, killed himself with ecarbolic acid in the office of the Tock Undertaking Co., where he worked, «* 4650 Fiaston avenue, Tuesday morning. John Tock Jr. found Pearson uncon- scious at 2:15 a. m. He died on the way to the city dispensary. Pearson had a wife and three chi'- dren. This note was found on a desk in the office: “Take care of my body and leave my family all you can after the funeral ex- penses are paid. Try to keep me out of the morgue. Notify Mrs. Adelaide Pearson at once. The local should pay “death benefits after deducting what I |owe on my shortage. I am sick of ‘iiving, and this is the only way to help ‘my wife and child. The lodge haz turned me down.” Members of the Carriage Drfverg union Tuesday. - said--a-.discrepancy in Pearson’s accounts was discovered about two weeks ago. Officers of the union have not revealed the amount «f the discrepancy. Man Found Dead From Acid in Fair- ground Park. A man in whose pockets were papers bearing the name and address of Mi- chael Hoffman, 1227 Lami street, was found dead of carbolic acid poisoning in Fairground Park near the abandoned bear pits at 8 a. m. Tuesday. He was apparently 55 years old. Cards and a indicated that the owner worked as a laborer at a plow manufac- turing plant on North Broadway. AUTOIST WHO TRAVELED , 35 MILES AN HOUR FREED Lashly Dismisses Case When Constable Says No Other Vehicles Were in Road. Cc. P. O’Fallon of Manchester, arrest- ed for alleged reckless automobile driv- ing, admitted he may have been going 35 miles an hour, but argued to Prose- 'cuting Attorney Lashly of St. Louis ‘County that he could not be heid be- 'cause there is no State speed law. Lashly nolle prossed the case after the Constable who had arrested O’Fallon said there were no other vehicles on the road at the time and he had n9 ‘other evidence of reckless driving ex- cept the speed at which O’Fallon was going. Lashly had a wordy tilt with Justice of the Peace Willecken because of a letter Lashly had published, charging that the county Justices and Constables worked a fee system by arresting speeders and dismissing them when they paid the costs. Lashly told Wil- lecken he had not referred to him in the letter. Willecken then dismissed a case without demanding costs, against M. N. Huber, charged with reckless driving, because he said there was not much difference between his and the case which Lashly had nolle prossed. BELLEVILLE HAS THREE NEW USELESS INVENTIONS arbage System, No Collector; Dog Catcher, No Pound; Cur- few Law, No Late Children. Belleville has a dog catcher but no place to put the dogs. It has a garbage collection sitebecn but ‘no garbage collector. And Monday night the aldermen passed a curfew ordinance though all the boys and girls had been getting home earhly. John Issiehardt, who has been the garbage collector for four years, refuses to work any longer unless paid $3000 a year. He has been making $1500 a year. | The city ordinances, provide that the | garbage collector shall not be paid more than that. By a strange coincidence al] ‘the others, four of them, who bid for the job at the Council meeting Monday night, wanted $3000. The aldermen didn’t take up the ques- tion of finding. a pound for the dog catcher. When they found they couldn't /get a garbage collector they just passed the curfew ordinance. JEFFERSON DAVIS DAY Stars and Bars on Flugstaf*s in Alexandria, Va., Today. ALEXANDRIA, Va., June &—The “stars and bars” are fluttering from ecores of flagstaffs in this city today. for it is the anniversary of the birth of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy. The day was observed in all the schools of the city In the morn- ing, and with a half holiday in the afternoon. Elaborate preparations have been made for a general celebration tonight by the various Confederate organizi- UNS IN AUTO TRUCK RIDE I NEW °Z00" HOME Ostrich Egg, Lady Feather- bloom’s Third, Is Placed Hope- | fully in Incubator. LET THE OSTRICHES BUILD THE BRIDGE (5 ident of the Zoological So- ciety, is a broker accustom- Here is how he figures the finan- cial possibilities of the ZOO One ostrich lays 10 eggs a‘ year. If all hatch there will be 12 yields $80 worth of plumes a year. This would be $960 in revenue next hatch are egg layers there will be 8) new ostriches at the end of the eggs all hatch. This would bring the total number up to 92 and they At this rate, Dieckman figures, the ostrichs in a few years would the free bridge, and—but most ex- travagant fancy does not go be- |WIFE Al AND HUSBAND SHE KILLED AFTER ROW OVER OTHER WOMAN ‘Woman Finally Wins Damages -pending in the courts EORGE E. DIECKMAN, pres- ed to handling money problems. ostriches. ostricheg in the zoo. Each ostrich year. If 8 per cent of the first second year, supposing that the will yield $7360 worth of plumes. yield sufficient revenue to finish yond this, There was more joy in the ranks of the St. Louis Zoologicai Society Tuesday Park Commissioner Davis formally ac- cepted two mountain lions donated by Benjamin Harris and the third ostrich egg laid by Mrs. i eatherbloom was safe- ly transported fiom Forest Park and placed in an incubator at the St. Louis Seed Co. store. It was a great day pean the mountain lons. They rode to Forest Park in an automobile truck efter the Park “om- missioner and bearded them in their den and decided that there was room for them in the Zo. For a time at least the beautiful lions from Montana will divide interest with Col. and Mrs. Featherbloom, but the lady ostrich is likely to get into the spotlight again by laying another of those wonderful eggs as big as a Rugby football. If the hatches from these ostrich eggs are good it is expected that in a> year or two the city will have a most prof- ltable ostrich farm at the Zoo. The lions which were added to the z00 Tuesday arrived in St. Louls last Friday. Park Commissioner Davis at firat refused to accept them on the ground that there was not sufficient room for them, But when he saw them at Dr. Dariling’s veterinary hospital at 4428 Olive street he changed his mind. “They are remarkably fine _ speci- mens,” he said. ‘Take them right out to the park.” Customs Receipts Drop. WASHINGTON, June 3.—Government revenues from customs receipts fell off more than $6,000,000 In March ag com- pared with the same month of tast vear. Treasury officials attribute the Joss to dthe period of tariff revision. CHARLES LL. MARTIN, CASE IN GOURT 1 YEARS ENDS WITH A $2460 VERDICT From Wife of Former Land- lord for Fall. ) case that has been ll years was handed aown Tuesday by the St. Louis Court of Appeals. The decision af- firms the verdict of a jury in the Cir- cuit Court awarding to Mrs. Rose Finer $2460 damages against Mrs. Cecelia Nichols, wife of Elias Nichols, her for- mer landlord. Mrs. Finer was, injured. June 18, 190? when she fell through the floor of a vault at her home, 1247 Morgan street which -she rented from the Nicholses. She filed suit for $6000 Sept. 18, 1902, and has been busy with the lawsuit ever since. Case Tried Four Times. The suit has been tried four times in the Circuit Court, and has been before the St. Louis Circuit Coyrt of Appeals three times. While the case was being sent from one court to another, ard juries varied as to the amount of tse ‘udgment they thought Mrs. Finer ought to have, several of the witnesses, law- yers and interested parties have died. In the 11 years the following fatalities have occurred to lawyers and witnesses: Judge’ Horatio .B.. Wood, .in . whose court the case first was tried, died. Dr. Robert Williams, who attended Mrs. Finer when she was injured, and who testified, at the first trial, died. His wife, who after his death mar- ried again, and who was a witness in the suit, died. Mrs. Amanda Griffin and Fred Kem- per, witnesses, are dead. Christopher Reed, one of Mrs. Finer's lawyers, and Charles Powers, one uf the lawyers for the Nicholses,: left St. Louis and are said to be dead. First Verdict for 8250. In the first trial, before Judge Wood, a verdict of $250 in favor of Mrs. Finer was returned. A new trial was granted, and a verdict for $2500 was returned by a jury in Judge Ryan's court. Judge Ryan granted a new trial and Mrs. Finer appealed from his order. The St. Louls Court of Appeals sustained Judge Ryan and sent the case back for trial. The next trial was before Judge Hugo Muench, April 20, 190, and resulted in a verdict for $6000 for Mrs. Finer. Om an appeal to the St. Louis Court of Apreals the judgment was reversed and again sent back for trial Dec. 31, 1911, the case was tried before Judge Grimm, and a verdict of $2400 rezulted. This derision now is affirmed by the Court of Ap- reais. A decision in 2 If you have a message that Is. worrr: while-—something to buy or vell—er Bryan and Daniels bad conterred the President. ., Although Metcalfe was fret mended by Secretary Bryan, Daniels ahd Secretary Gesriace te ing the appointment, Metcalfe has been in newspaper all his Ife and came into national litical prominence during’ the | of 1896 as spokesman for Bryan) Last year he ran in the primaries on ti ~ Democratic ticket ‘for one ot oa braska, but lost. MAYOR’S WIFE ON Excused From Case in Whith Seattle Is Defendant. = SEATTLE, Wash., June — Mra. 3 4h Cora Cotterill, wife .of the . Seattle, has accepted service as a f in the Superior Court fer aon though she would have not: ”s Dispatch Wants are at your service, . ett aes: I Agee ng He emER A PETAR Theatres After he went to sleep, she said, opened the vailse and found tm it all }