St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 5, 1913

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WILSON FLEEING FROM HEAT FINDS SUMMER CAPITAL 90) Sateen President, After iieeiirtitataie Cheers of New} Hampshire Villages, Mo:ors Three Miles Through Dust. ——_ - ee ———~ —— - - ST. ‘LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUBY-S REFUSE TOHEAR | |S**GER WHOpeILL WED WeaLTHY "NAMES OF BROGE | come topes BACKERS IN SECRET! city Heads Think Public Should Know Who Makes Propo- sition. i ~ ST. LOUSBOUND RAIN DERAILED IN MILE TUNNEL Passengers, Many of Them Women, Grope Way to Entrance, Led by Negro With Red Lantern and Some, Almost Suffocated by Smoke Fumes, Col- lapse on Way. —— iat i \\\' a Po eee. s\es — —— CORNISH, N. H., July 5.—President Wilson, in search of relief from the siz- zling weather, at Washington, found a temperature of 9 degrees in the shade awaiting him when he arrived at the Wilson summer home here short- ly before noon today. Mrs. Wilson and their youngest daughter, Miss Eleanor, met the Pres- acknowledgments and lift his hat, Pres- ident Wilson joined his family in a} White House automobile and motorcad through three miles of dust to Har- lakenden House. The President made it plain to the correspondents that he could do iio work while here, but if there came from]{ Washington an intimation of public business, he would return to the capital ] — —— _ ¢ Mulhall Tells How, Working T Congressman Gardner, He Ke 8-Hour Measure in Pigeonhole fe ARE OPPOSED TO SECRECY ‘Kiel, Player and Kinsey So In- form Agents of Alton & Mississippi Co. ‘THOSE WHO ESCAPE RETURN TO RESCUE Passenger Tells How He a 4 Groveled in Cinders Along Track to Escape the Chok- ing Gas in Bore Near New _ Albany, Ind. ) ae was received in St. Louis Saturday by the general superintendent _ef the Southern Railway that a South- erm passenger train, due in St. Louis at 6:30 o'clock this evening, was deralled in a tunnel ‘a mile long near Albany, Ind., Saturday morning. - passengers were compelled to scramble ‘from the coaches and make their way journey in the dark passageway. ful time and that _ loss of life was miraculous. eee ._ The air grew heavier and heavier, and ; in the cinders before he could get a they had filled their lungs with fresh the victims by the time the relief train _ HORSE HAS THE COLIC, Outside waited Nellie, a treated the horse and tied it up. ah to the docter. ; ne “next door to his brother, had treated | Nellie once for corns so It was only , fami in time of trouble. Trains were celayed five hours while the tracks were being cleared. The en- gine, baggage and mail cars were de- railed, but tha passenger cars rema on the rails. A locomotive was out from New Albany and the passen- ger coaches were pulled out of the tun- nel, according to the official report, and nobody was hurt. Telegrams from New Albany say many of the passengers were almost suffocated by gas and smoke while they groped their way to the entrance of the tunnel before the arrival of the emergency engine. * Some Unconscious an Hour, Many were in a serious condition and were not revived for almost an hour. In order to escape suffocation the to fresh air. The clothing of many women and children was ruined by the Bus betes eemtonncet Louisville, who was _ says the. tunnel was an} “The 80 passengers had a fear- escaped without When the train was derailed Conduc- tor Jeff Davis went through the coaches and told the passengers to walk through the tunnel with all speed to the fresh air. A negro porter, with a red lantern, le@ the way. Before they had gone far on the journey, the passengers began to grow weak from the gas and stifling fumes. Many of them fell but were helped to their feet by their stronger companions. | Watson says that at one time he had to fall to the ground and bury his face breath of air that was not tainted. _ Many Fall in Darkness. Before the journey was completed, many of the passengers had fallen in the darkness, unable to go further. The ones who got out first realized that the weaker were in distress and as soon as air they darted back into the tunnel and helped out those who had fallen. Around the mouth of the tunnel there were distressful conditions. Many oi the passengers seemed about to suc- cumb. Mothers were hanging over their babies, fearful that they could not re- store them. Dr. W. A. Jenkins of Louisville and other physicians were on beard and by hard work managed to restore most of arrived. GOES FOR A DOCTOR Animal Is Treated After Veter- inarian’s Wife Mistakes It for a Burrlar. ° NEW YORK, July 5.—Dr. John Hal- loran, veterinary surgeon of Staple- ton, S. L, awoke at 2 o'clock in the morning from a dream of peace when his wife shook him by the arm. “John,” she whispered, “there’s a burglar in the house. Can't you hear the roise?” The doctor heard a muffled fumb- ling and, urged by his wife, went downstairs tu investigate. He searched the house thoroughly and then he opened the front door. big chest- mas Mor- ran found He nut mare, belonging to T gan, a contractor. Dr. Hall she had a bad attack of colic.. Nelile, feeling sick in the middle of the night, had broken the halter, Morgan says Mitchell _ Halloran, who has a blacksmith shop natural for her to seek the Halloran r Prefers Cieare to Gems. ete chopped his way with D Nan home of Albert J. a F ‘Park ident at the railway station in Wind- sor, Vt., where also a little party of villagers welcomed him with a cheer. Stopping only long enough to nvd his immediately. main here until Tuesday or Wednes:- day. ~ FRIEDBERG AND GOLDSTEIN FIGHT NEW “GETTYSBURG History of Great Civil War Bat- tle in Clothing Store Starts a July 4th Rumpus. I. L. Friedberg, a clothing salesman, o- | man ges eindarpam a Bana; appeared in the Dayton Street Police Court, Saturday, as the historian of the Battle of Gettysburg, which, he testi- fied, was fought on Easton avenue, ri‘i- day, between himself and Samuel Gold- stein. “The way the battle happened was like this,’’ said Friedberg. “It wss Fourth of July, and I knew Goldstein would have his store open because 2ll the other stores would be closed. So T went out to his place at 4512 Easton avenue to tell him he should buy somos fine blue serge suits which I was sell- ing at a bargain. Blue Suits and Union Suits. “When I went in his store he was waiting on a customer and I sat down.. There was a book on the _ table and I picked it up. It was a history of the battle of Gettysburg. Soon Gold- stein finished with his customer and he came to me end said: ‘I see you are reading a goed bock. What dd you think of that battle of Gettysburg?’ “I smiled and said to him: ‘Mr. Gold- stein, I am partial to the Union side, because I have some blue suits to sell this morning.’ “He said to me: any union suits.’ “I explained that I wasn’t selling union suits, but fine blue serge suits which were a bargain. “Then he said: ‘I’m partial to the Confederate sid? because I want to buy some gray suits this morning, and I don’t want any of your blue suits at any price.’ “Got Me in an Angle.” “TI didn’t like this way of talking and I told him that my blue suits were bet- ter than any gray suits he cou.d buy, and he got mad and made a rerular Pickett’s charge on me and got me in an angle between the shirt counter and the hosiery and hit me on the head with a hammer. I was getting the best of him, though, when he called up his re- serve force, which was his wife, and I lost the battle.”’ Goldstein denied that there had ‘been any battle of Gettybsurg. “It was simply that he insisted on sell- ing me blue suits when I didn’t want them,” he said. ‘He wouldn't get out, so I had to throw him out. His head was cut when he stumbled and fell against a showcase, which it was lucky he didn’t break.”’ The Judge, unable to decide whether the blue or the gray had been the ag- gressor, fined Friedberg and Goldstein $5 each. PUBLIC SERVICE VALUES FIXED AT $187,000,000 Missouri Railroad Assessment Not Increasec Materially Be- cause of Reduced Rates. JEFFERSON CITY, July 5—The State Board of Equalization met today and fixed the taxable valuation of pub- lic service property, which includes steam and electric railroads, bridges. telegraph and telephone companies, a: approximately $187,000, This is an increase of about $2,500 Over the as- sessment of last year. None of the railroads was given any material increase this being due to the fact that they.must operate under re- duced passenger and freight rates. Detailed figures could not be obtained until Monday by the auditor’s force. Under a ruling by the Attorney-Gen- eral, hereafter depots will be assesse.! by the State Board instead of locally. BABY’S DEATH NATURAL Harry Vogler and his wife, Alice, of 274A St. Louls avenue have been re- leaned by the police on the strength of a report by Attopsy Physician Hochdoerfer that the death of their baby, John, 7 months old, was due to natural causes. Mr. and Mrs. Vogler were arrested Friday morning pending a Coroner's investigation when it was learned by the police that the baby had diea about the time that they had a quarrel at thetr home. BAND CONCERTS T¢ TONIGHT O’Falion Park—Vogel's Band ‘Yeat- ‘I don’t want to buy WINGHELL GOES 10 U.P. 2 NEW FRISCO RECEIVERS NAMED W. C. Nixon and W. B. Biddle Will Act in Co-operation With Thomas H. West. Simultaneously with the announce- ment in New York, Saturday, that Benjamin L. Winchell, one of the orig- inal receivers of the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, a position from which he resigned, had been appointed director of traffic for the Union Pacific railroad, an order was filed in the Federal Court here appointing William C. Nixon and William B. Biddle his successors in the receivership. The appointment of Nixon and Biddle was forecast in late editions of the. Post- Dispatch Friday. The resignation of Winchell will take effect July 14 and on the same day Nixon and Biddle are to assume their new duties. Order by Judge Sanborn. The new appointees, according to the order which was written by Judge San- born, are to act as co-receivers with Thomas H. West, and are to be invest- ed with all the power and authorit~ which tlhe original receivers were givéii. Judge Sanborn specifies that Nixon and Biddle are to furnish $100,000 security bond each. The expense of procuring and continuing the bond shall be paid by the Frisco system. The order does not state the amount of compensation the new appointees are to receive. The appointment of Winchell as di- rector of traffic for the Union Pacific Railroad becomes effective July 15, the day after his resignation from the Frisco receivership goes into effect. The dissolution proceedings against the Southern Pacific-Union Pacific sys. tem, of which L. J. Spence was the director of traffic, necessitated Spence resigning from one of the railroads He chose to remain with the Southern Pacific, thus creating’ the Union Pacific vacancy which Winchell has been appointed to fill. The new headquarters of Winchell. former president of the Frisco system, will be in Chicago. The Federal Court order naming the new receivers was filed’ by Thomas T. Fauntleroy,, master in chancery of the Frisco receivership. Brownsville Road Receiver. A receiver was appointed at Houston, Tex., Saturday for the Brownsville di- vision of the Frisco system, which was not included by the original receiver- ship, being controlled by a separate cor- poration. Frank Andrews, a lawyer, was ap- pointed receiver by the United States Court. The Brownsville division, which was built by St. Louisans and sold tu the Frisco, consists of about 500 miles of railway lines in Southern Texas. The receivership will not interfere in any way with the operation of the Fris- co system by the receivers here, ac- cording to General Counsel Evans. In time, it has been suggested in railroa:! circles the Brownsville division may be divorced from Frisco ownership and op- erated as an independent system. FRED VEON SELLS HIS ST. LOUIS PAPER STOCK Business Manager of Star Plans to Leave City—B. F. Warren Reported Purchaser. Fred C. Veon, business manager of the St. Louis Star for several months, has disposed of his stock and is no longer connected with the enterprise. He says he has several offers and has not decided whether. he will stay in St. Louls or go back to the Pacific Coast. When he sold he expected to go to the Coast, but his plans have been disar- ranged somewhat by the serious illness of his wife's mother, which necessitates Mrs. Veon’s presence in Ohio. Veon told a Post-Dispatch he had sold his interest to B. F. War- ren, the editorial director. Warren made the same statement. Edward 8S. Lewis, president of the company, said he and Warren had purchased Veon's interest. All three said Veon'’s severance of his relations with the paper was not on account of any disagreement. Lewis said H. D. Sum, who has been assistant business manager, baie au Veon's suc- cessor. Post-Dispatch Want Ads are of the ee 7 to #3 Otherwise he would re-] § Leo J. Scherer of East St. Philip W. Louis called on Mayor Kiel, Louis and St. Comptroller of the ‘Board of Public Improvements Saturday Attorney Haberman of Player «and. President Kinsey with the expectation of revealing to them the names of the financial backers of the Alton & Mississippi Belt Rail- way Co., which has made a proposition to co-operate with the city in the con- struction of an east approach for the free bridge. They did not make the revelation be- “week ago, reporter | Cause the Mayor, Comptroller and Pres- ident of the board declined to become custodians of that sort of a secret. The three officials advised Scherer and Ha- berman to let. the public know who their backers are. At a conference on the harbor boat a attended by Mayor Kiel and other officials and Assemblymen, a proposition was submitted for the city to ahandon- the- Reber approach and build instead 12,000 feet, of elevated structure southeastward from pier No 4, the Alton & Mississippi to build an extension of two and a half miles to the bluffs and lease it to the city for the interest on the bonds, the city to Create a sinking fund for taking it over in 30 years. Scherer and Haberman were asked who were the financial backers of the proposition and declined to tell, on the ground that they feared attack from unfriendly financial interests. The ‘erminal, for instance, was hostile and might harass the Alton & Mississippi if the names of its backers were known, they said. Councilmen Randall, Rower and Aren- des objected to secrecy. Scherer and Haberman said they were willirg to re- veal the names to the Mayor) Comp- troller and Pré@sident of the Bop d, but not to the public. Delegate McCarthy of the sh-teenth Ward moved to accept the proposition to reveal the names to the three of- ficials and the motion carried. The Post-Dispatch during the week editorially condemned secrecy and urged that the public be fully informed of the identity of the Alton & Mississippi back- ers, MOTHER WITH CHILD IN ARMS FALLS 15 FEET Mrs. Kate Mueller Probably Fa- tally Injured by Plunge From Porch, Baby Unhurt. Mrs. Kate Mueller, 23 years old, of 2727 Walnut street, wife of "eter Mue“'er, fell from a porch on the second story of her home with her l-year-old son in her arms, Saturday morning, and was proba- bly fatally injured. The baby was not hurt. Mrs. Mueller, holding the child, leaned over the banister of the porch at 10:30 a, m. to look at some boys playing in an adjoining lot. Her weight caused the railing to break, and she and the baby fell 15 feet to the yard. Mrs. Mueller’s back was broken, her right shoulder.was dislocated and she was injured internally. She was picked up unconscious, but an examination by physicians showed that the child sus- tained no injuries. —— - GENERALLY FAIR, SOMEWHAT COOLER -THE TEMPERATU RES, a. a. a a Yestcrdnay's Temperatures. 87 at 7 pv. m. Low. .73 at 5 a. m. ———= High. “I’m going to said THERE'S ROOM FOR MANY 1N THE MULHALL OF FAME. raise you,” the boss. *“Gee,”’ bookkeeper, said the eo wonder who he's talking to.” “That's the first time I ever heard him say anything like that,"’ replied the billing clerk. Again the boss’ voice was heard, coming from his Inner office. “I've been keeping you down long enough. Now you're golng to rise rapidly.’ The office boy investigated and found that the boss was talking to a window behind his fiesk. It had been closed all day che Fourth and the office was hot and stuffy. Official forecast for s¢. Louls: and vicinity: Gemerally fair and somewhat cooler tonight and Sunday. Missouri—Generally fair Saturday night and Sunday: cooler. 7 ena gpiO or | fair Saturday night and WEALTHY SHOE MAN| WILL WED Cri OF Engagement of Head. of Local -Conceru arid St. Louis Girl ~ Is Announced. years” old, of the Interna- Henry W. Peters, 457 wealthy vice-president tional Shoe Co., will be married in October to Miss Mae Bradsby of Greer avenue, lifelong friend and chum of his daughter, Miss Ella C. Peters. Miss Bradsby is 24 years younger than her prospective husband. Miss Peters was married Thursday to Arthur F. Laumann. Her father’s wedding gift was a check for $50,000. By a coincidence, Peters and Bradsby were. born the same of the month, which happened to the 14th of February, St. Valentine’s day. In recent years they have cele- brated their birthday anniversary to- gether. It was through the friendship and in- timate association of Miss Peters and Miss Bradsby that the father’s ro- mance, after the death of his first wife, two years ago, ripened into the an- nouncement of their engagement and coming marriage. The friendship of Miss Peters and Miss Bradsby was builded upon playmate association and the confidences of classmates, Miss Bradsby is a musician and is financial secretary of the St. Paul's Methodist Sunday School and the La- dies’ Aid Society and also sings in the choflr. Peters was founder of the Peters Shoe Co.. which was absorbed by the Inter- national. He is president and active manager of the Peters branch. en Miss day be on CORSET STAY SAVES WOMAN FROM DEATH Accidental Shot From Revolver Is Def. ected and Inflicts Slight Wound. A ateel corset stay saved the life of Mrs. F. H. Fuerst, 22 years old, of 19°97 Penn street, when she was acci- dentally shot Friday afternoon while sitting in an automobile at the foot of the hill leading to the lake at Creve Coeur. * Mis. Fuerst was accompanied. by her husband and two women friends who' were watching the boating on the lake. Suddenly Mrs. Fuerst, cov- ering her breast with her hands, ex- claimed that she had been shot. Fuerst hurried into Clayton where a physician examined the woman and found that the bullet had spent its force against the stay and then had deflected into her body. Mrs. Fuerst beais but a slight cut over her heart where the bullet furrowed along the surface of the skin. A man@Was shooting a _ revolver about 30 feet from where Mrs. Fuerst was injured, but according to Fuerst he said he was shooting nothing but blanks and allowed Fuerst to exam- ine all of his ammunition. No arrests were made. Five in Pienie Party Killed. PHILADELPHIA, July 5.—Five per- sons were killed and three injured, one probably fatally, when the “Scranton Flyer’ on fhe Philadelphia & Reading Raliroad struck a wagon containing 1% picnic party at a railroad crossing near Guarertown, Pa. HC CWN DAUGHTER 3518, ---— + HAY SOAKED WITH GASOLINE IN BARN AND WAREHOUSE Thirty Bales.Are Found Scattered About the Premises of Big Four Transfer. Co. Henry Beckemann and Max Cohan, who live at 1123 North Tweltf street, were awakened at 3:45 a. m,. Saturday by the strong fumes of gasoline. They feared a fire in their home and made a quick investigation of all the rooms, but could net locate the source of the fumes. They then notified the police. Patrolmen sent to investigate lo- cated the cause of the odor in the warehouse of the Big Four Transfer Co., 114 to 1118 North Twelfth street, across the street from the Cohan home. On the first floor the police found 30 baies of hay scattered about the floor. The hay was damp and gave forth a strong odor of gasoline. Two empty barrels which had contained gasoline sat in opposite crners of the] large room. In the stable several wagonioads of hay were found which were saturated with gasoline. Five rats and a watch- caog lay dead on the floor, apparently having been overcome by the fumes, the police say. Several pounds of gunpow- cer was found scattered about the floor. Armon Kraxler, proprietor of the ex- press concern, was found asleep on the second floor when the police went up- stairs. He apparently was unaffected by the strong fumes. He woke up when a patrolman shook him. He declared that he hdd been awake 45 minutes be- fure the police came and had walked about the building. He had noticed noth- ing wrong at that time, he said. When asked about the barrels on the lower floor, Kraxler said they had contained gasoline, but had . been emptied the night before. He declared he could not account for the presence of gasoline in the hay and the gun- powder on the floor. He said that he has no enemies to his knowledge who would want to destroy his bth ex’ 5 ee WOMEN IN THREE ILLINOIS TOWNS CAST FIRST VOTE Suffragettes Help Decide Bond Issues and Corporation Ex- tension by Ballot. CHICAGO, July 5.—Women of three Illinois towns were given their first opportunity to vote under the new suffrage law. At Libertyville an issue of $10,000 In city bonds is in the balance and from all indications it will be passed,, the women favoring the issue. Two hundred women of North Chli- cago were asked to vote on a bond issue for schools. The women of Wamac near Centralia are voting on the completion of the vil- lage corporation. At noon 15 women of Libertyville, 13 matrons and two spinsters, had cast their ballots. Out of a possible voting list of 40 women, these pioneers, led by Mrs. Clara N, Colby, came early to the polls In the basemeat of the town hall, to vote on a proposition to bulld a new municipal building. Mrs. Colby cast the first ballot of the day. Two Years—Lobbyist Reported td ‘ Kirby on ‘Splendid Victories” —~= * ennglPt Rete an. CLARK WANTED TO PUT “* REPUBLICANS ON RECORS ‘\ Association Lost Chairman of Labor Comr When Congressman Wilson Became of It—Lobbyist, However, Expressed in the Attitude of Underwood. and atrike-breaking efforts. The Post-Dispatch today prints by special arrangement u the New York World the seventh chapter of Col. Martin M. Muthall’s exp of the National Association of Manufacturers’ lobbying, political @ This installment is Col. Muthall’s of of how he fought labor measures in rte. ges: NEW YORK, July 5 introduced in the House in 1908. The follo...ng letter, dated Feb. 10, 1910, from Col. Mulhall to the president of the N. A. M., Kirby, is self-explan- atory of an exciting week's work he put in as a lobbyist against labor legis- lution on the floors of Congress: “On the 34 inst., while making my Younds in the Capitol, I met Mr. John J. Gardner, chairman of the Committee on Labor, anéd-he informed me that the labor agitators had a committee, con- sisting of William H. Johnson, presi- dent of District Lodge 44 of Machinists. and Joseph Rorke, representing the In- ternational Association of Machinists, who were making a secret canvass among the members of the Committee on Labor to have a meeting of the Labor Committee on the 10th instant, to have that bill reported out of the committee without any further hearings. Democrats Active. “Mr. Gardner also informed me that he had not called his committee together up to the present time, but that the Democrats on the committee, particular- ly Mr. William Hughes of the Sixth New Jersey District, and Henry T. Rainey of the Twentieth Illinois Dis- trict, were making threats that if he did not call his committee together to take action upon that bill that he would be denied the floor. Gardner stated that he was compelled to call the committee together as the five Democrats of the committee were unanimous in making that request. Gardner checked up the of the committee whom he thought would vote against reporting the bill among the Republicans and those whom he thought would support the Democrats unless there Was good work done among them. He advised me to see the Repub- licans of the committee at once and do all I possibly could to strengthen their backbone upon this measure. I instantly called Mr. Emery up by phone and made a full statement of the situ- ation in the Labor Committee to him. He and I advised over the situation and he told me to carry out the instructions of Mr. Gardner and to lose no time about doing it. “tntil Thursday afternoon I saw Mr. E. H. Madison of Kansas and Mr. Sy!- vester C. Smith of California and Mr. Willis C. Hawley of Oregon, all mem- bers of the committee, and these gen- tlefnen pledged me that they would vote against bringing the bill out of com- mittee at this time. Later in the after- noon I arranged for a meeting between Mr. Gardner and Mr. Emery at 1! p. m. members By Leased Wire From New York Burest of the Post-Disp Copyright, 1913, by the Press Publishing Co.—New York World—and the Chicago ‘ = —(From today’s New York Worldij= In the winter of 1910, Col. Mulhall made a stiff fight among tl inembers of Congress to prevent the passage of the eight-hog law, which limited the day’s work on all Government co tract ; and the work of all other Government employes to eight | pirsex » bill, which, two years later, in 1912, was passed: o: Gardner, of New Jersey; was the father of this Billy tw an. At that time Gardner was strongly sympathetic with tlie ri of laboring people, but, as Col. Mulhall has already made’ ¢ he was won over by the N. A. M., and’a part of the return made to them, for their influence in his election, was the pi 20 holing for more than two years of his own eight-hour law, be oll this work again, and through my " | Watson we saw Mr. Amos Allen. ‘y t Second Maine District, who positiv stated that he was against any sia hour legislation in this session, Bartholdt of Missouri, whom [I fou kind of weak upon this subject. Letters From Labor Leaders. 3 “Bartholdt stated that he was ing letters every day from the leaders of his district and that it very unfair for the Senate to tinually shouldering upon the of the House this measure. é tholdt also stated that he told. the I workers who called on him that) would be out of the city on | the tenth, so after leaving Mr. ; I reported to Mr. Emery the had with the different members committee. “On Monday morning I again.t up this work on the Labor Cor and I had a long interview Cole of Ohlo, asking him to Edward L. Taylor Jr., of the Ohio District (of Columbus), w member of the committee, on ou - half. Mr. Cole assured me that Se; would do everything possible us and that he would vouch lor would be all right. “On Monday I had twe in with the whip of the House, Mr W. Dwight, and fully explained x the nature of the fight that the ] Dem crats were making to get this the floor of the House, fer I to understand by one of the De members of the House that cratic leader of the House, MF ' was very anxious to get this bill the floor and put the Republicans § record upon it. Mr. Dwight statee 1 | : he would take the matter up at on and see the different members of committee and do everything he p sibly could to have the bill committee. ie “I also saw, on the wavien: - John Gill, of Maryland Mr. Janw Covington. who is a member Labor Committee from held a long and pleasant inte Mr. Covington, he assuring if he had not pledged himself 1 labor people and had seen me b made any pledges, he would “mt present when the DiII- was rt in the committee and that stay away from the ee day and that he would pot the an ‘al - a y . a m - « \ er co” 2 in aoe ‘f Rd Z : *» et FO SO tn, Re SO | EO cam _ taht ee on ates, and on Friday I took up the Howse. Gardner Names Sub-Committee for Labor Bills to Suit Col. . “At 1:30 p. m. I met Mr. Emery in Mr. Gardner's room and we found that Mr. Gardner did not vish to talk before 4 third person. He ts so cautious about affairs of this kind that when we have interviews he generally locks his door _jand his secretary leaves the room, Ph na emmedig dle Ae ee Buca :