St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 21, 1913

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eke be: ee * Be Adventures. in prey Send ah aia Winter's 8 | Faced Frederick Remington’s drav i ta told in Theodore Roosevelt’s own story of his life, published by special arrange- ment with The Outlook, of which he is con- _ tributing editor. ce sage Sunday POST-Di SPATCH Pe a ig he © Ss te > 3 2 ean aa =e Be ae ae Hee, 2 eS ae oe iii: he + ls ii i therdtniety pa reuabasnaeite Evenng Paper in St Lo Louis With Wun the Associated Press News iSiiedee: VOL. 65. NO. 305. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY RDAY EVENING, J JUNE 21, 1913—12 12 PAGES. OFFER OF FREE” GLASSES BY MAIL 4 © GAUSS ARRESTS Lenses Only Were Free, on Con-' dition That “Gold Filled’ Frames Were Bought at $1. OST $2.90 A i > Harry and Morris Goldman Said to Have Sold 150,000 a Year, Through Confusing Ads. District Attorney Houts caused the ar- rest Saturday of Harry Goldman and Morris Goléman, doing business at 2921 Zaocust street under the name of the Dr. Haux Spectacle Co., under two in- @ictments returned recently against them by the Federal grand jury charg: ing each with using the mails in a gcheme to defraud and sending through the mails envelopes that reflect upon the addressee. The men were released en bond. The indictments grew out of an ex- tended investigation by the Dsitrict Attorney's office into large mail or- Ger operations of the accused in the @umerous complaints have been made te Houts and to the department at Washington, Asserts Cost Is $2.90 a Dozen. The men advertise to sell ‘Dr. Haux’ perfect vision glasses, wurth $5, for $1." The District Attorney expects to prove that the frames are worth only $2.40 a dozen and the lenses only 60 cents a dozen pair. The advertisements state that, as the company has no agent in the neighbor- hood, it will send a pair of the glasses free. When an answer is received to the advertisement, Houts says, the company gends a letter in which it is explained that the lenses will be given away, but that a charge of $1 will be made for the frames. These, according to Houts, DOZEN| 1 t ‘gountry districts, concerning which: PENNY ° TICKETS TO PROVIDE BOX LUNCH Plan to Get Around Anti-Free- Lunch Lawppears on Broadway. How the saloons will get around the State law which, effective Monday, for- bids free lunch in saloons, was dis- _ Closed Saturday. A bar on Broadway | offered for sale a system of coupon tick- ets. Here is a sample of one of them: GOOD FOR Ic At Lunch Counter The tickets are sold in slips of five for a nickel a slip. Any ticket is re- deemable in soup, sandwiches, vegeta- blés or any other edibles the place may have to offer. EVELYN THAW THRILLS LONDON WITH DANCE Wife of Matteawan Prisoner At- tracts Crowds With Clinging, Writhing, Performance. LONDON, June 41.—There is a astrik- ing contrast between Mrs. Evelyn Thaw’s soulful interviews in the papers and the wild, bacchanalian character of \thé dance she gives nightly at the Hip- podrome with Jack Clifford. She says this dance best expresses her tempera- ment, which explains a good deal. Her beauty fascinates the house, while her dancing thrills and astonishes it. The dance may be described as a wild abandonment. Its clingings and writh- ings, its mad flights in the air, its close entanglements, make it an orgy of viclent embracings and expression of barbaric, untamed and primitive pas- sion.. Needless to sgy, it attracts the audience and is a success in every way. FREED BY HUNGER STRIKE Editor of “Suffragette’ Becomes Ill, Is Released. LONDON, June 21.—Ill-health, aris. ing from a “hunger strike,’’ resulted to- ‘day in the release of Miss Laura Ger- are de-jaldine Lennox, formerly editor of the ecribed in bold type as “solid gold,”’ un- ‘Suffragette, who wag sentenced to six der which in small type is the word months’ tmprisonment by the Central “filled.’’ If the proposition is not ac- Criminal Court, on June 17, for conspir- cepted the company sends a pair of the ing to commit malicious damage to glasses for inspection. ries of letters is sent, the first envelope Afterward a se-j; property. Miss Lennox and her companions, al] marked “first request letter,” the sec- of whom were committed for long terms, ond marked ‘second request letter” and refused to eat anything from vane mo- the third marked “final request letter.” “at Js alleged that these envelopes inform persons who see them that they contain dunhing letters. The compary has been in operation for a number of years and is said to have done a large business. Houts @ays a letter received by him from the defendants contained the statement that they sold 150,000 pairs of spectacles in a year. Wording of Ad Obtected To. As a result of protests of the Dis- trict Attorney’s office against the word- ing «f the “glasses free” advertise- ment the form was changed for a time to “lenses free,’’ but the Goldmans fin- ally notified Houts that they would re- @Wume the “glasses free’ advertisement because, while the “lenses free’’ adver- tisements brought no complaints to Houts, they also brought no orders to the Goldmans. The lenses are represented by the Goldmans to be the very best crystal made. The Dfistrict Attorney says he ‘will try to prov | that they are not only worthless, but in many instances harm- ful to the eyes of the wearers. SHOWERS AND COOLER IS WEATHERMAN’S PROMISE THE TEMPERATURES. 80 let the os | Yesterday’s Temperatures, ..94 at 4p, m. Low. .77 at 6 a. m. tot of good sleep to no broke down in the first lap of the match race with he drouth, but til the official ‘orecaster thinks ve will have showers tonight or Sunday, by thund- er. This is not unwar- rantly strong lan- guage because ‘t will be only by thunder that the clouds which have been floating about the norizon tor the last few days can be induced to supply that much Wanted moisture that everybody is look- ing for. If the rain comes we'll have a radish for breakfast Monday. Official fterecast for St. Louls and vicinity: Unesettied weather, with thundershowers tonight or Sunday; cooler. | Missouri——Unsettied weather, with showers tonight or Sunday: cooler in nerth portion agg hog and in east and gouth portion Sun- Uneettied weather with showers tonight or Bunday. Stage of the river: 15.1 feet; a fall ee .4 of a foot, * | -ment they were sent to fail. HOW CHAMP REMEMBERS ; ; ' purpose. Scrambled, 15; lhe rain machine boiled, Speaker Reads 40 Newspapers and Knows His District. MONTGOMERY, Mo., June 21.—In a Ietter to a friend, Rufus Jackson, Speaker Champ Clark tells how he keeps so weil posted regarding the events in his district here. He says he gets about 40 newspapers and he has one of his clerks to réad and note every item of interest, esnecially -i2xaths, marriages and births. This explains why so inany people in this district get so many lIet- ters of congratulations and sympathy from the Democratic Speaker. ROOSTER A NUISANCE Judge Declares Owner Should Move to Country. PHILADELPHIA, June 21.—The crow- ing of*a rooster which the complainant declared interrupted his sleep and rest, was held to be a nuisance that should be suppressed, in an opinion filed today by Judge McMichael in Common Pleas Court here. The Court declared that “if a man desires* to have a rooster and hens, he | should remove them to the country and city residents sleep in peace.” 3 CAIRO MAN EATS 61 EGGS CAIRO, Ill, June 21.—Frank Blake, Those who sat'g clerk in a railway office here, won up all night wait- a $25 bet today by eating 61 eggs. ing for that prom- jigs said to surpass the world’s record, ised rain lost a which is supposed to have been 60. This The 61 eggs were divided as follows: soft boiled, 16; hard 15; fried, 15. THIEVES STEAL $2000 AUTO AND BURN IT IN ROAD Incendiaries Rob Coroner Bopp of Clayton and Destroy His Machine. WOMAN WITNESSES DEED Sn Neighbor of Car’s Owner Waked in Early Morning and Sees Car Aflame. ; Is Incendiaries stole Coroner Louis Bopp’s $2500 automobile from his garage in Clayton and burned it on the La Due road, three-fourths of a mile west of Clayton at 4 a. m. Saturday. The torch was applied to the automo- bile in front of the residence of J. W. Davis. Mrs. Davis, awakened by the crying of her baby at 3 a. m. heard several people in front of her house, and observed three automobiles, two of them without headlights, and one with a very dim headlight. She said she heard a woman in one of the cars say to several men gath- ered around them, “Don’t make so much noise; you will wake the peo- ple in the neighborhood.” Witnesses Act of Destruction. A little later Mrs. Davis said that two .f the automobiles were driven wes: two or three blocks, and stopped, while one saan remained behind. Sud- denly, she said, there was a great flash, as though a quantity of coal oil or gasoline had been set on fire around the machine. It was enveloped in flames wiien she looked out of the window, she said, and a man ran westward t»ward the two automobiles. As soon as he reached the machines he got into one, and they were driven rap- idly away. Coroner Bopp refused to make any statement about the destruction of the machine. Mrs. Davis said from what she could observe, the automobile was deliberately set on fire. No effort was made by the men to put it out. Two Persons Arrested, The Newstead avenue police at 6 @. m. arrested James Ronen, chauffeur, and Orren Sims, demonstrator, when they came ir from St. Louis County in two automobiles, one being towed” by the other. There was aman and woman in each car when the arrests were made. Ronen lives at 4158 Olive street and Sims at 3848 Page avenue. The police were instructed to arrest all persons coming in from the county who in any way answered the descrip- tions given of the persons’ seen by Mrs. Davis at the burning of the automo- bile. DIVORCE DENIED TO WIFE | OF A $500,000 FORGER Jury Holds That Mrs. Van Vlis- singen Was Cognizant of and Profited by His Acts. CHICAGO, June 21.—Holding Mrs. Jesie R. Van Vlissingen was cognizant of, and profited by, her husband’s forgeries, a jury in Judge Petit's court today declined to grant to her a divorce. The jury returned 13 findings, of which the foregoing were the most important. The defendant, Peter Van Vlissingen, is serving a term at Jollet for mortgage forgeries aggregating more than half a million dollars. Mrs. Van Vlissingen sued on the ground that her husband was a felon, while the principal contention of the defendant was that Mrs. Van Vlissin- gen, who was Van Vlissingen's ste- nographer, knew of his misdeeds be- fore she married him. thal Chilq Killed by Brother. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 2L.—Ame- lia Miller, 12 years old, was killed by her brother, John, aged 9, in the parlor at their home here by the discharge of a revolver which the children believed was empty. =— Of interest to advertisers, present or prospective In fishing use the right bait, in advertising your mer- chandise use the right paper, as the St. Louis merchants always do, as they did, for instance, on Tuesday, Thurs- day and Friday of this week when they placed more advertising each day in the POST-DISPATCH alone than in three of the other four St. Louis papers all added to- gether. TUESDAY the POST-DISPATCH alone carried 72 columns, while the Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times, all added together, carried 63 columns. THURSDAY the POST-DISPATCH alone carried 90 columns, while the Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times, all added together, carried 77 columns. FRIDAY the POST-DISPATCH alone carried 74 col- umns, while three of the other four St. Louis papers, all added together, carried 66 columns. Be wise and do likewise. profitable to you in results. Buy advertising that is St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper Average circulation first five months 1912, 197, 286 Sunday one eeeere TS _ Pwst in Everything A MID ee ee Pen ele eS PRICE ONE CENT | a PHONE STRIKER HELD AS THROWER, ADMITS ‘TOSSING Miss Lilian Miller, President of Union, Explains After Stay in a Cell. MISSLE ONLY A_ PEBBLE Charge Made by Hired Escort for Nonstrikers Declares a Brick Was Hurled. nue, phone Operators’ Union, was arrested at 9 a. m. and locked in a cell at the Wyo- G. Duffy of 4047 Westminster place, em- ployed by the Bell Telephone Co. as an escort for nonstriking operators, something” at a taxicab in which he and several operators were riding, at the entranve to the Sidney exchange a‘ Eleventh and Sidney streets. Miss Miller after being held for about an hour was released on a $200 bond to appear in police court on a peace dis- turbance charge. After her release Miss Miller said that she was walking along the street near the Sidney Exchange and absent-mind- edly picked up a pebble. After carrying the pebble some time she threw it away, she said. It so happened that a taxicab Was passing and the escort for non- striking operators thought she was throwing at the machine, she said. dent, accompanied her to the police sta- tion. They said they would lose no time in finding someone to sign a bond for ber. At the Sryorndien: Street Station it was said that none of the policemen on duty at the Sidney Exchange had seen any- thing thrown. Threw Brick, Accusers Say. While the police were reporting that they did not know what sort of mis- sile, if any, was thrown, « statement was given out at the Bell Telephone »f- fices that it was understood there that Miss Miller had thrown a brick. A telegram from the Bell Telephone operators of Boston, who recently won a ‘strike, was received at the local -union headquarters Saturday. It contained an that a check to ald the cause here would follow in the mail. The amount of the check was not stated. Additional policemen were detailed at all of the exchanges Saturday fol- lowing demonstrations Friday night by strike sympathizers in various parts of the city. . A crowd gathered in front of the Sid- ney Exchange at Eleventh and Sidney streets, and hooted and jostled the non- striking operators as they left the build- ing. When Miss Kate Padberg, a Forest operator, who lives at 2607 South Blev- enth street, next door to the Sidney Ex- change, returned to her home in a tax- icab several persons in the crowd threat- ened her, and made derisive remarks. At the Bomont Exchange an official of the company who wag escorting an operator, was jostled and pushed against a wall. The operator ran into the Ex- change Building weeping. One Girl Striker Injured, A girl striker reported that in front of the Bomont exchange a man struck her with his elbow, making it necessary for her to have medical attention. A large crowd gathered around the Ty- ler exchange at 190 North Eleventh Street, when non-striking operators emerged from the building Friday night. Policemen prevented the crowd from closing {n on the girls as they ran to waiting automobiles. Union officials reported that one girl who had gone back to work after strik- ing again had joined the strikers’ ranks. She said she did this after a detective employed by the company as an escort had attempted to hug and kiss her while she and other non-striking opera- tors were being taken to their homes — the South exchange in an automo- e. Three South Exchange operators had a tide to a police: station Friday when Christopher Gray, chauffeur of a taxicab in which they were riding was arrested for violating the traffic ordinance. He stopped his machine facing the wrong way in front of the exchange. He was released on bond and took the girls to their homes. Man Arrested Second Time. Charles Hyde of 132%A Prairie avenue was arrested at his home Friday night on complaint of Miss Ruth Shassner, a nonstriking operator. Miss Shassner, who lives in the flat under Hyde's told rolicemen that he had called her a “scab.”’ He was arrested on the same charge Thursday night. James Noonan, vice-president of the Electrical Workers’ Union, Friday asked the Board of Police Commissioners to instruct policemen to treat the strikers and strike pickets fairly. He said he had no complaint to make against in-/| cividual policemen. He was assured that the police would not interfere with the the pickets so long as they are orderly. KANSAN KILLED BY FALL Democratic Leader at Wichita Meets Death at Elks Club. WICHITA, Kan., June 21-—Ray L Taylor, formerly clerk of the District Court here, andé secretary of the Demo- ‘cratic Congressional Committee, was killed today by a fall down the stairs at the Elks’ Clubhouse. Taylor was walking on crutches as tho result of an operation, and the crutches gave way, He was @ years old, “ ao bes sind a ae 4 gan _ his examination of them in May,}. In previous articles on municipal conditions wm East St. the Post-Dispatch has revealed evidence of illegal appropriat for the personal profit of members of the City Council, and oft settlement of claims held by the city against former Treasurers a a loss of nearly $100,000 to the city. Today it will show the settlement by the Council of @ discre ancy in the accounts of a former Treasurer at a sum much 1 than an expert accountant declared was due the city; the fact ti discrepancy in the accounts of another former Treasurer is | carried on the books as cash, and an interesting story of the remai able activity of the dog-kiliang squad of the East St. Louss He ti e* and settle’ said claim upon his ceiving’ proper credits, and ‘tf taoe “Whereas, the Hon. Charles ‘| ii Lambert, Mayor, the City Comptrol= ler and the City Attorney have mined that it fs fafr, just and r to allow the said Frank ft credit for the sum of oe such amount in which together with. 4 paid by the said Frank Holten’ to F. Gerold, Treasurer ‘ana. rc lector of the City Of Mast: eg is, would equal a sum png —g bal- ance the claim of the City of St. Louis against the sald Frank Hol- ten on account of the oresald. shortage claimed, and -é a claims that he is entitled to a cred= it in‘the aggregate of $236.99 for® — which he exhibits vouchers and: re hy ceipts for and of which he had never # received just or proper credits and in + addition thereto other divers. 1 5. large sums of money paid by him on account of the said City of E St. Louis and the Town of East | Louis, some of which said credits in dispute, and “Whereas, the said Mayor,’ yo City Comptroller and City At (omer | have found that to save expense of 7 further investigation and to save at- | or ¥ the former inadequate system of i bookkeeping is mainly and very prob-— ably entirely to blame for the appat- ent shortage; and that the further claim of said Frank Holten for’ of er and proper offsets and cred seem proper, honest and fair.” This ordinance shows that of $10,562.82 discrepancy Holten able to produce vouchers and which entitled him to additi credits, and that he made oles other credits amounting to. for which he produced nso rs nor vouchers. The Council voted. t give him credit for this amount, and to accept $400¢ iB . in full settlement of the entire « nt Holten pald the $4000 and the «MF is now barred from further action It “ the case, Dogs and Shotgun Shells. “ An interesting feature disclosed | the investigation of a Pe : reporter is the fact that Rast. Louls was infested with 3) stray dogs in 1912 and that Health Department was vigorous campaign of exte The department’ used its warfare on the dogs, hunted vigorously tn the early spri and the fall months, no being found in the hot months to buy ammunition. — The records of ‘the Health De ment are incomplete mm tain statistics which ' a > ee oe: