St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 5, 1913

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oo - ~~ oe Oe ee Ce S nee "Poke Smith, After Seeing the 7 TS Pa & », is presented, by OF ¥ Lad PRES : ¢ . ss @® «=6quarter,"’ ee sie gh 7 > wee > i licity and organized campaign v former United States Senator from West _ man Charles B; Landis of Indiana, Rob- - men summoned as witnesses have : Friends of he President are sure | "Continued on Page 2, Columa 7. — ‘y CLOUDS AND SHOWERS ‘tinued to hear Senators in the lobby in- — quiry. PS Ms IO ae 4 gee Poe ak as St ee ss ~ 3 BRE 2s ae eS ray i ae + * Oe * x ; | -2) fg : UN... gr —+ - ose ee Medium. VOL. 65. NO. 289. UNION MAN ONCE FREED ADMITS KILLING DETECTIVE Goes Into Court Voluntarily in Suit of Slain | Man’ s Heirs and Confesses 1910 Murder - -—(Can’t Be Retried. By Associated Press. COLUMBUS, O., June 5.—Lee Cage, a member of the Iron Molders’ Union of Wheeling, W. Va., confessed in the United States District Court *ere tc- day that he killed Detective John J. Reardon of Pittsburg at Steubenville, O., in 1910. The killing occurred dur- ing a period of labor trouble. It developed that Cage had been tried at Steubenville more than a@ year ago on a charge of having murdered Reardon, and that he was acquitted. He refused to take the witness stand. Cage’s confession today was made in connection with a civil hearing before Judge Sater. Cannot Be Tried Again, Having been in jeopardy once, another trial on the same charge is barred un- der the Constitution and the laws of Ohio. Cage’s confession resulted in speedy dismissal of proceedings which were pending before Judge Sater involving the disposition of $5000 reward money offered by the commissioners of Jeffer- son County and another suit by Rear- don’s adminstrator to collecet $5000 dam- ages from Jefferson County because .of wie death. Following Cage’s admission that he fired the shots which virtually riddled the body of the Pittsburg detective, an agreed order was entered, allowing the dead’s man heirs $1500. After settlement of the case Cage left the courtroom hurriedly and is said to have started for Wheeling. The appearance of Cage on the wit- ness stand came as a surprise to at- torneys for ‘Reardon's estate. He de- clared he had come into court volun- tarily. ‘So you were not satisfied with having killed Detective Reardon, but now come into court and confess to that crime, so that you may help to defraud the little daughter of your victim out of what rightfully belongs to her?’’ queried At- torney Lewis. “They Buried Him, Didn’t They t”’ “Oh, I don’t know as I am,” retorted Cage. * Judge Sater, apparently stunned by Cage’s unexpected admission that he killed Reardon, said: “You really mean to tell this Court that you assassinated that man?” re- ferring to Reardon. “They buried him, didn’t they?’ was Cage’s answer. BO, 15, DSFIGURES BG SHOP WINDOWS WITH GLASS CUTER Say He Confessed to Franklin Avenue’ Damage. Investigation of a complaint of Charles 7. ‘Smith, * 801. Franklin avenue, presi- dent of. the Franklin Avenug Improve- ment Association, Carr street police windows along Franklin avenue to Clarence Beard, 15 years old, 907 North Eighteenth street. Special officers arrested the boy Wednesday evening, ‘and they say he confessed. After. depriving him of a glass cutter, the officers turned him over to ‘his parents to await further action of the juvenile officers. Many Windows Scratched. President Smith is in business at 801 Franklin avenue. He informed the po- lice that since May 26 windows in vari- ous stores along Franklin avcnue, west of Sixth street, had been scratched and ruined. He said that Henry J. Dirk of the L. Stumpf Jewelry Co., 810 Frank- lin avenue, saw a boy scratch: one of their 10-foot show window caught him and took him into the stére, where he gave the name of Walter Jones, 2612 North Broadway. Windows were scratched at Blum’s shoe store, 827 North Sixth street; 11 windows, 8 by 8 feet, of the Williams Shoe Co., and two 12 by 6 foot windows of the Thorns Millinery Co. Jones pleaded that it was only a boyish prank, and after the glass cutter, which Dirk found in his hand, had been taken from him, he was released. That was on May 26. Other Windows Scratched. Since then windows of the Le Roy Cloak Co., 614 Franklin avenue; A. Moll Grocery Co., 618 Franklin avenue; Platt @ Thornburgh Paint Co., 620 Franklin avenue; Sam Goldman Furniture Co., 700 Franklin avenue; Reliable Furniture Co., 728 Franklin avenue; Jacob Franz & Co., 821 North Sixth street; Kroger grocery store, 811 North Sixth street and Losse Tailoring Co., 807 North Sixth street, have been scratched. The offi¢ers found that ‘Walter Jones” was Clarence Beard. He ad- mitted scratching numerous windows, the police say, and said he did it merely to gratify a whim. The merchant say the boy would walk along the building line, glass cut- ter in hand, and draw the blade along traced the disfigurement of numerous »force of men worked nearly all night PLOW PUNCTURES MAIN; GAS SEI APIRE IN STREET Flame Shoots Up in University! City Until the Pipe Is Capped at 2:30 A. M. Residents of University City thought a natural gas well had been discovered and set on fire Wednesday night, when theyssaw a brilliant flame flashing up into the air on Pennsylvania avenue, immediately west of the St. Louis city limits; The flame burned until 2: 30 a. m. Thursday. The display was.caused by the punc- turing of a gas main in the street, which was being paved. The point of a steam,.plow tore a hole in the main; and the gas rushed into the fire box, causing an explosion. It was a high pressure main, and the gas shot high in the air, burning with great brilliancy. The University City fire department was called out, but water had no effect on the flames. Dirt was thrown on the main, but the pressure blew it away. A repairing the break. The pipes were cut near the break and capped, stop- ping the flow of gas. It was estimated that $300 worth of gas was burned. 40 MEN GIVING NEW SKYSCRAPER A BATH Forty men are scrubbing 250,000 square feet of wall surface. What does the average housewife think of that as ar. item of house cleaning? The new Railway Exchange Building is being bathed. The bath began Wednesday, and if the cleaners succeed in scrubbing 14,000 square feet of the building’s outer surface a day, as they expected to do, they will finish the jo» June 17. There are 3360 outside windows in the building, which covers the entire ground space of the block between Sixth and Seventh and Olive and Lw- cust streets. In cleaning the. building the small army of scrubmen must also wash the outside of the windows. The building is two blocks high, or one-eighth of a mile from the ground to the room. It will require 16 barrels of soap powder and 250 sponges and brushes to clean the building. The cleaners work on 10 28-foot scaf- folds, four men to each scaffold, so that each squad covers a 28-foot bay the window. It invariably left an un-| sightly cut. all added together. columns. NN ere 5 Keeping it up The advertising columns of the POST-DISPATCH on Wednesday, like Tuesday of this week, show that the St. Louis merchants know how to reach the buying public in St. Louis and contiguous territory, and placed their adver- tising in a greater quantity in the POST-DISPATCH alone than in three out of the On Wednesday, the Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times, our three next nearest competitors, all added er, carried 56 columns of this advertising, while the ST-DISPATCH alone carried the same rams 56 ‘St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. . Average circulation first five months, 1913: 197,286 front in its. descent. The “clean-up” will cost about $2500. four of the other papers 316,533 MRS. ROBINS AND pense from their account books, he said, | fi '@-eents; flour and bread;~%; sugar, ST, LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, 5, JUNE 5, 1913-24 PAGES. LIEUT-GOV. PAINTER DEBATE WAGES Labor Leader on Stand in In- quiry Sets $12 as Minimum Pay for Women. “WORKERS IN SLAVERY’? Painter Says Agitators Like Mrs. Robins Are Responsible for Condition . A running debate was held between Lieutenant-Governor Painter and Mrs. Raymond Robins, president of the Na- tional Woman’s Trades Union League, on the. subject of whether the league's attitude in encouraging women to en- ter occupations was not reducing them to conditions of slavery, which would in 40 ‘years result in a dearth of chii- dren. It was the liveliest feature of GIRL, 16; ELOPES, CHANGES MIND, « DOESN'T WED Marie Shnetinee (Goes With Youth, Makes Him Take Her to Her Aunt’s in Chicago. t THEN SHE AVOIDS' HIM Milton Gekeler, 19, oT Alone—Girl’s Father Doesn’t Oppose Him. Marie Sanguinet, 16 years ore of 42 North Taylor avenue, a Yeatman High School graduate, chansed her mind about marrying Milton A. Gekeler, 19, of 4007 Norin Taylor avenue after eloping to Chicago with him. Gekeler has returned home. The girl is said by him to be at the home of an aunt in Thursday’s hearing at the Planters Ho- tel by the State Senate Investigating Committee on the woman’s wage ques- tion. Painter asserted the attitude of the trades union women in urging girls and city was destroying the home ties that formerly existed, and was subjecting women to worse conditions of slavery women were slaves in the industries, and were subjected to worse conditions : than the African slaves, but she insisted | that women ought to enter the gainful occupations, and be paid what she as- | serted was a proper minimum wage—$12 | a week or more. Mrs. Robins and Miss Nellie McHenry | and Miss Agnes Wilson, daughter of | Secretary of Labor Wilson. were invited | to appear before the committee. Mrs. Robins took the witness stand after | P. C. Baker, superintendent of the Fa- | mous-Barr Co., had testified as to wages | paid the women workers in the Famous- | Barr store. Mrs. Robins said industries that did not pay living wages to girl workers: were parasitic, and that the community , at large had to make up the deficit. In Chicago, she said, a girl ought to have $2 a week for her room and $1.0 a.day for her meals. Here Lieutenant-Governor Painter asked Mrs. Robbins whether a-minimum wage law would not drive girls out of employment and cause their places to be filled by men. She said she did not think it would, and cited the enactment of the 10-hour law in Illinois as proof that girls were benefited in one particu- lar instance by legislation. Before the law was passed girls em- ployed as ticket sellers at the elevated railroad stations were paid $2.05 a dc for 12 hours’ Work, seven days a week she said. The employers threatened to dis- charge the girls and employ men if the law was passed, she said. When thc law was passed the company reduced the working hours to nine hours a day’, increased the pay to $2.15, and gave the girls every third Sunday off. Mrs. Robins declared women not only ought to work, but that they enjoyed being among the multitude, preferring that to the home. She said her work was to make women more rebellious, for the purpose of demanding more for their services and better working con- ditions. “Has not women’s employment in the industries enforced women’s slavery in this country?’ Painter asked. ‘‘Yes,”’ said Mrs. Robins. “And are not the women workers more firmly in bondage than the Afri- can slaves, who were valuable to their owners, and were properly fed and tak- en care of? Do not employers now know that when they wear one girl out they can get another to take her place?’’ Mrs. Robins said these statements were true. Painter asked ner then if the women were taken out of the in- dustries and lived at hotne, and took care of the families, if, they would not be better off, and if the men would not also get higher wages and be better able to provide for their families. “Every woman is entitled to work’ in this country,” insisted Mrs. Robins. “Will not her employment in indus- tries result in such a decrease in chil- dren that the country will eventually beome depopulated?”’ “Oh, no,” said Mrs. Robins. ‘‘There are 25,000 children in my ward in Chi- cago.”’ “But are they not the children of for- eign-born people, and do you not find in every city among the American- -born people that there are fewer children from year to year?” Mrs. Robbins said these facts were true. She said she would be glad to see people go to the country to live, where they would have more room and better air, but insisted that under existing conditions there was not much work for women to do in homes, and it was bet- ter for them to be engaged in gainful occupations. 3 Painter asserted that women agitators like Mrs. Robbins were responsible for much of the concentration of population and the women’s slavery that both de- clared existed. Cost of L fer Girls. He gave the committee statistics pre- pared by the welfare secretary show- ing the actual cost of living. Three of the store’s girls, he said, kept house, renting a three-room and bath flat at $17 a month. The actual items of ex- were: Gas, $2 a month: coal, $2; meats, | women workers to concentrate in the: than the negroes before their emanci- | pation. | Mrs. Robins expressed the view that! § sis = alten or) Ba" an Beetctatee en Stoo eet ee SE ILE ELE Fatared edtveni for Wilhelm Wandschneider who designed’it and his wife who adroitly Palm to Be Given Today to ‘Naked Truth’ Statue WandschneiderWinner y x ye eet ag gt ' = PERE SS A ATRTY 8% SD Re ee —_ a 4 — - ¥ PRICE. ONE CENT Ow ate wine memorial statue to nan pa roman poe W. aided him in the controversy over it. Gute held. Miss’ Sanguinet is the daughter §o. George A. Sanguinet, a builder. Gekeler igs the son of John Gekeler, a black- smith. They have been schoolmate: and neighbors five years. Takes All Her Clothing. Marie told her sister she was not feel- ing well Monday morning and said she would remain in her room. The sister busied herself with household work downstairs until ll a. m., when she went to call Marie for dinner and found she had left the house, taking with her all her clothing. The disappearance of Marie soon be- came known in the neighborhood. While it was being discussed Mrs. Gekeler went to the Sanguinet home and said: ‘“‘My Milton is gone, too.”’ Wednesday morning young Gekeler returned home alone. Miss Sanguinet’s father saw him and hurried out to the front gate. Sanguinet asked Gekeler where Marie was. Gekeler handed him a card oa which was the Chicago address, 661 Roscoe boulevard. This is the home of Mrs. Grove Lawrence, a sister of San- guinet’s first wife. Young Gekeler told Sanguinet that he and Marie arrived in Chicago Monday night and. that she insisted that he take her to her aunt’s home. The next day, he said, he made frequent visits to the Lawrence home, but could not obtain permission to see Miss Sanguinet. Gekeler and Sanguinet talked the sit uation over Wednesday night and San guinet wrote a letter to his daughter. “I believe her aunt has talked her out of the notion of marrying,” he said Thursday. 7 When Mre. Gekeler was asked wheth- er she would consent to her son's mar- riage she said: “‘Why, he hasn't got a job.” *“‘Milton Gekeler is a nice young ma. and I have no objection to the mar- riage,”’ said Sanguinet. Says Mies Sanguinet May Be Hidteg in Springfield. CHICAGO, June 5.—Marie Sanguinet, ‘who eloped with Milton A. Gekeler from St. Louis; later ran away from him and is-now supposed to be hiding in Spring- field, Ill. Mrs. Lawrence Grove, at 664 Roscoe boulevard, today said she had not seen the girl. She supposes the girl has gone to the home of her dead moth-. vlad en Nat ee at Spring- ad Aunt —— — = _ aie — oe | ~~ et ee oe oe el ae se #2) eer” PR POU Hr Oe BE Die w it Chicago and family councils are being | ANON WHEEL HURT BY AUTO OF THE POLIGE CHIC Andrew Farndell Run Down and Leg Is Broken When Street Cars Obstruct View. ~h Andrew Farndell, 21 years’ old, chauffeur of 4%2A St. was seriously injured at 8 a. m. Thurs- day* when he was run over by Chief of Police Young’s automobile. The ac- cident happened at Union boulevard and Windermere place. Farndel] was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital with hia left leg broken, several teeth knocked out and possible internal injuries. The automobile was driven by Ja- cob Landau, police chauffeur, who was alone in the car. Farndell was riding a bicycle going north. Landau was on the opposite side of the street going south Witnesses told the police that two street cars were passing in such a way as to prevent Landau and Farn leil from seeing each other. Farndell star:- ed ‘into Windermere place, crossed di- rectly in front of the auto and was run down. Landau stopped his machine almoat instantly. The injured man was taker: to the hospital in the auto. William Mertens, 21 years old, of 2827 North Twenty-third street, who told the police he is a son of a captain of police at Belleville Ul, was injured seriously at 6:40 Thursday morning when his motor cycle collided with a Lee avenue street car at Fifteenth and Benton streets. His skull was fractured and he was injured internally. He was taken {o the city hospital. In turning the cor- ner his cycle ran into. the car:and he was thrown to the paved street. . a Louis avenue, snleibbeianie ie Mayoralty date. * NEW YORK, June 5.—Di Attor- ney Whitman announced this afternoon that he would accept the may | nomination for the approaching cam- ign if offered’ to uit by “an ¥ P # w : POL hae Bn 7 ; eo Rat re ix aie ee PSS pA RD RIE AR QS gt etme © » ts Cell pine Se aa Yi lat. Er Frei Ww 5 ia — he ; - “ vate! th weit Sencha ines cas meet tw ack, HS 2 | \ Nude Figure, Which Busch Criticised, to Be Wrought in Bronze and Thus Clothed in “Dusky Blush.” Trouble which has been. brewing since Adolphus Busch turned art critic and rejected Herr W. Wilhelm Wandschneli- der’s ‘‘Naked Truth” design for a monu- ment, is likely to be bottled and. corked ‘| before the whistle ‘plows tonfight. Tlie Post-Dispatch ‘has bee@ reliably informed that the close of this long June day will see the triumpfi of Prof. ‘Wandsehneider and the: acceptance of hjs design for the Schurz-Preetorivs- Daenzer- monument ‘which will stand in | Reservoir Park at: Grand and Lafayette avenues as a. memento of three great German editors. _ Committee Ready to Act . The committee on : award, now fully clothed with power to let the monument contract, -has: had many conferences in the last 24 hours and will hold what is expectéd to ‘be its final meéting late this afternoon. Secrecy enough to drape a dozen mon- uments has. been thrown around the ; deliberations’ of the committeé and ev- ery member has been pledged to say nothing and to refrain from telling the naked truth or anything else until time for ‘the férmal announcement of the award. Nevertheless, Herr Wandschnelder and his frau were in buovant mood Thufs- day. A little bird like’ the one in ‘he German song,,““Es kommt ein Vogel,” had whispered to them that the clerr Professor's design would be the wiftner. One thing is said to pe _certajn. Adolphus Busch, donor of $20,000 of the /f%,000. fund contributed. to build the monument will not again attempt to dictate the, committee's: selection. of 2 design. He will not even have a vote on it, as.he Js not a member of the Foard of Directors or of the Commit tee on Awards. Blush to Clothe Sta So now, it is understood, the Naked Truth” will prevail, but from the tips of the hair to the tops of the toes it is to be clothed with a dusky biush. How this twill be done was told to a Post- Dispatch reporter Thursday by a, di- rector whe culled at the Planters Hotei to . felicitate the Wandschneiders on their prospective triumph. “You see,” said this director, “there has been a misapprehcnsion as to the extent of the nakedness of the “Naked Truth.’” It. will be draped, but the draping will be only in the coloring of the skin. ‘‘Adolphus Busch is mistaken when he says that it was the newspaper pic- tures that led him astray in forming a first opinion of the design. ‘It was his lack of knowledge in the _ technica: points of sculpture that bewildered him “You see, when sculptors in the old world submit models in competition be- fore a committee, they proceed on the supposition that the majority of the committee will be versed in the tecf.- nique of sculpture and that the con- tributors or mere art lovers in a gen- eral way will have but a minority rep- résentation. . “Wandschneider prepared a model fo: that kind of a commit is model was all in the one-tone-of-whilie, figures and everything else. Naturally to the unskilied eye, the woman in the “Na- ked Truth’ model looked nude. But in the memorial itself this figure is to be done in bronze. “The bronze ‘Naked Truth,’ shroud- ed by a white background, will be # Heved of suggestion of a bold “Na Truth,” though it might be | mathe | | By Associated Press. jagainst the California anti-alien land 5 ew A a gt 8 SB tote een ewes. oe Holds Treaty of 1911. Contravened, Contrary | te American View; Deadlock be Bo WASHINGTON. June Presi Wilson arranged a conference at 4 p-' rm today with Viscount Chinda, the Am bassador from Japan, to discuss the ° kio Government's latest note of protest » + law. ne It is the first time the Ambassador has availed himself of his. privilege ot addressing himself. directly to the Prea ident of the United States as a reper rentative of his sovereign Emperor ° 4 shihito. | It also was arranged that Secretary Bryan should confer with a Wilson before the Ambassador is” ceived, but it was not khiown that ‘he would: be present later. Lewes: Bryan will give to the President Als views of Japan’s rejoinder to the "aF note of the United yd a ers A of 1911, notwithstanding the of the State Department, ° ‘Secretary of State ‘Bryan is . terested in one construction | 5 kilo note. This is that it is 4 4 more as @ demonstration that California legislation, the action of is zona ahd proposed legisiation in othet Wéstern states tends to impair the equality of treatment of “2 eo nes¢ to ‘whith’ they_bellevé. they, S under ‘the’ genéral prineiple gopher tional law, ‘than to the enlanties thar . the Webb act constitutes, a technic violation of the treaty of 1911, bet’ America and Japan. ae Japan, it is reliably understood, ‘stil : insists that the Washington Caroreanes institute any legal proceedings the California law. To such action. $i the part of the United States, it is erally understood that President. b 6 will not give, hig consent.. The “Amer “an Government has already declares. its: be- lief that the Califorp la alien, par Jaw is not in violation vot the . Japanese treaty. This situation gives rise to the belief that ‘there is grave da two governments becom over this phase of the ques Racial Equa The inference is, piain, it is wun stood in the Japanese note, that. J aims at equality of Japanese ith Americans. It is Known that the ae ministration holds that this ig Jar object, and fn some quarters it. is ! lieved that Japan is ready to sacrific nation-old principle, that of not f ting its citizens to become nationa other governments, in an effort to fi mv the United States ‘and other Cauc a governments to accept Japanese racial equals. ~ - It is believed that Japan will. « make a move.to bring this question the open and Gemand.that steps taken by the. United States to the Japanese on the. same racial | as aliens eligible for naturalization.’ In President’s Hands. The Japanese rejoider was. plac the hands of President Wilson day for presentation to the ~ net tomorrow, when , it is. that it will be considered. only in liminary way, as Secretary. pects to leave the city soon soma meeting for, Pittsburg to attend a quet to George W. Guthrie, the . appointed Ambassador to Japan. Wi count Chinda also will be a neg the function. 25°, The next step in the negotiations’ a reply to Japan's rejoinder. : expected to take up the Tokio Gs ernment’s reiterated contention that ¢ Webb. law is in contravention of treaty of 1911, derogatory to the e treatment which Japanese expect unde international law, and, therefore, 4 cial discrimination. 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