St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 18, 1913
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J., July 18—Miss Emma Mahaney, 67 years 414, of Woos- ter, O., asks $3,000 trom John Wolff. 4 Ti-year-old veteran of the Civil War By Associated Presa. Liew YORK, July 18.—Charles S. Mel- len’s resignation as president of the New York, New Haven . &. Hartford Expected to Adjourn Until Fall. -COUNCILMEN OPPOSE _ ANY HASTY ACTION Setting of Date for Bonds % ©=-—r Vote Favored; if There Is No Legislation in the ‘| Meantime Reber Approach '| Will Continue to Stand. "| Fotiewing the Council hearing Thurs- _ Gay Right, on the Kiel-Kinsey adminis- erdinance authorizing the con- 3 4 ton of an East Side approach to _ the free bridge along the right-ot-way >] of the Alton & Mississippi Belt Rail- "} way and Transportation Co., Council : leaders told a Post-Dispatch reporter - that action on the proposed ordinance | Wilt be postponed indefinitely. The As- sémbly is expected to adjourn, July %, and reconvene about Oct. 10. re the summer recess is taken, er, the Assemblymen favor the of an erdinance setting a date | fer the special election to vote bonds ' for the completion of the bridge. This - &n be done immediately. If no further | iegisiation on the approach question " Were enacted, the present located Reber -— would stand, as the ordinance providing for its construction never has en repealed. uncilman Rower, after the meeting, id that he knew as much or as little | as he had ever known about the Alton © @ Mississippi and he was disappointed "at not learning the names of the finan- ¢ial backers of the enterprise. Rest for the Assembly. “The weather is warm,” said Rower, to the Post-Dispatch reporter, “and the Assembly is entitled to a rest. I think Pe ay os « C 1% ¢ . a os ‘the bridge talk is beginning to wear on ‘the nerves of the people. We are not ready, I believe, to pass on the Alton & \ Wiiseissippi route without the most com- | plete information concerning the com- 7% pany, its financial status and the pro- 4 ject of building a railroad 'n conjunc- ‘| tion with the city of St. Louis. || “3 tmve decided to call another pub- | W6 hearing of the Railroads Commit- % tee, to which other members of the Council will be invited, to hear the ar- guments of the Alton & Mississippi A en ee _ er anne ay nce . oe - a FOR WEARING SUCH ALL HIS FAULT DIME. .! HIGH HAT @ivE U5 A REBATE ON THAT ROUGH THAT 4} i! \, ui T \ eesaanyy \ CAHTy M EPECTY ' 4 | } iy yf 7 A - 4\\ 4 ’ i ‘ Uf, A\ j a HURRAH? SHE CAN NEVER GET DOOR. i i ! Cin HAS A HINGE IN HER PLUME. ‘th i {\' Ht i) Nv few real estate speculators and the approach is bullt along the right of way connecting with their proposed railroad, St. Louls may as well turn over the bridge to the Terminal mo- nopoly and stop its efforts to free the traffic of this city from that competi- tion-throttling corporation. nates from the northeast, and yet it is proposed to build the approach to the . “Ninety per cent of the traffic origi- |, How Lecturing. Pays = Better ‘Than Statecraft WASHINGTON, July 18. R his lecture at Mountain Lake Park W. J. Bryan re- celved a guarantee of $250, gn¢-half of all receipts over $500, probably making several hundred dollars more, and all expenses. FOR GONFERENGE WITH L. WILSON Railroad Co., was accepted by the di- rectors this afternoon. The resignation is to be effective upon the: appointment of his successor, whose selection was left in the hands of a special committee. It has been suggested in some quar- ters that Howard Billiott of the North- ern Pacific might succeed him and that the change would take place not later than Oct. 1. Announcement of Mellen’s resignation followed g long meeting of the directors, most of whom, including Willam Rocke- feller and J. P. Morgan, were present. No Surprise in Street. In railroad and finahcial circles Mel- len's decision will excite mo surprise. In fact, during the day in Wall street and elsewhere it was generally under- stood that the day would mark virtu- ally the end of the. Mellen administra- tion, Charles Sanger Mellen, whose recent management of the New Haven road has given rise to considerable criticism, became president of that system in Oc- tober, 1903, resigning from the pregi- Gency of the Northern Pacific Railway at the request of J. P. Morgan, who re- garded Mellen as the man best fitted to reorganize the cheotic transportation lines of the New England State. Mellen’s immediate predecessor, John M. Hall, had managed the road with all the conservatism which marked the administration of corporate affairs, es- pectally in New England, in the-pre- vious. decade, Mellen’s advent was the signal for a vast scheme of construc- tion, embracing not only the Boston & Maine and Maine Central Railroad, but all the leading steamship lines be- tween New York and Boston and inter- mediate points, as well as numerous trolley lines in Connecticut, Massachu- setts and New Hampshire. The capital- ization of the New Haven System in- creased enormously under the contin- uous outlays accruing from the acquisi- tions. The steady decline of New Haven shares in the local and Boston stock markets has becn a matter of comment for several years. New Haven, which for many years sold at and above 200 and for a long period paid 8 per cent dividends, recently went below par in anticipation of a cut in the dividend, which was reduced to 6 per cent. Mellen Under Indictment. Alleged mismanagement of the New Haven and wrecks which wers costing many lives finally resulted in definite: action and a committee of New En- gland stockholders, led by George von L. Meyer, former Secretary of the Navy, was organized to make an Investigation (Trrrrrryawertrertrtrf, r+? errr eee eee ee eee Oo all de hk i he kh CHARLES & MELLEN. rTrrrrrreT'????TT?TT?T?TT°? = r vTwTrTYrYYrYrreerweeTfgtTTt’tT T7777? JOHNSON BRIDAL PARTY BREAKS TOAST GLASSES MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 18.—Follow- ing the custom of breaking the drink- ing cup used in the toast to the bride. Andrew W. Johnson, son of 2 St. Louis shoe manufacturer, and a party of his wedding attendants tossed cut glass wine glasses to the ceiling of the blue room of the Hotel Peabody early Wednesday morning. According to reports in Memphis so- ciety circles the father, Jackson John- son, gave his son $25,000 with which to celebrate the wedding in true _ astyie and entertain friends. The toast or rather toasts, to the bride proved of the expensive variety, in both cut glass and champagne, as and a retired merchant, in papers which have been ferved upon him here, alles- ing breach of promise. Miss Mahaney asserts she has not seen Wolff since their separation -n ‘63, when he Went fo the front, after, it is alleged, he had proposed to her. She says she has waited 50 years in the hope that her sweetheart of youth- ful days would some day wed ber, and but later received word that the mar- riage would never take place. — She has forwarded scores of alleged love lettera, many of them containing poems. Esty F. O. WATTS PRESIDENT OF THIRD NATIONAL BANK Frank ©. Watts was clected preaident of the Third National Bank Friday tv fill the vacancy created by the death of Charlies H. Huttig. Watts came to 8t. ‘Louis from Nash- vile two years ago to take active charge of the bank following Huttig’s physical breakdown. . During Huttig'’r lliness, Watts was ist vice-president of the bank. He had been - intimately associated with Huttig in the affairs of the American Banker’s Association, and it was at the suggestion of Hutti¢ that he came to St. Louis. - Customers of the bank congratulated Watts following his election. He has large business interests In the South, in addition to his holdings in Third $300 of glass was thrown to the winds. National. months’ advertising in St. Louis Newspapers HE agate lines of advertising ‘ess cheap city contract legal) carried by the the echo which has antoyed speak - ers and audiences in that otherwise admirable auditorium. Jacob Mater. of Pittsburg, “acodstical etigineer.” will do this work, In which several thousand dollars will be expended. The defect in the acoustics of the temple is like that which caused com- plaint im the Century Theater, the New Theater, in New York. | 5 i line was the remodeling of Commons chamber of Parliament building in echo there, which emounted to dening reverberation, was removed the changes made under Maser’s pervision. Acoustics is the last branch bullding art to be placed on basis. Until very recently lNeved that the acoustic building were largely «a and that there was no acoutics except to tear down and take a chance t? : - eg it was St. Louis newspapers for the first 6 months of 1913, were as follows: . promoters, At the same time, I do > fot see how the Assembly can act on | this bill unless the members are ready His salary for the day as Secre- bridge to the southeast, going away tary of State was $38.33. from the traffic. Isn’t that suggestion monstrous folly? Last year 67,000,000 of the road’s affairs. That committee’s experts are now at work on the com- He Will Hurry From _ Lecture |; to stay here all summer. Councilman M. H. R. Arendes voiced \ the sentiment of the five other new _ miembers of the Council when he de- ‘Clared to a Post-Dispatch reporter that | £#t was useless to consider the Alton & _Mississippi proposition until that com- _ pany was prepared to make known its | {entity to the Assembly. )*It strikes me as the height of impu- for a little clique of promoters > demand attention from this Assembly ee they refuse the simple courtesy _, @f presenting cards of identification,” @eid Arendes. ‘The company, on its showing, is entitled to no consid- e Why don’t its representatives or before us with open hands, if expect to get a friendly hearing? ’ should city officials or the Assem- iy waste tims on a corporation cap- Malized at $26,000 with a ‘dummy’ board of directors, secking to make the City St. Louis the tail of their kite on _ the free bridge problem? _ « “I don’t believe the members of this gsembly have any idea of givnig Shis ‘bunch’ any serious thought, not- rith nding the fact that the ordin- have been drawn under the on of President Kinsey of the ‘Board of Public Improvements.” Nik heating wae nddrensed by @itip W. Haberman, a counsel for i@ Alton & Mississippi, and Frank H. = ‘Gerhart ani Cornelius Fauntleroy, . ~ Who spoke in opposition to the pend- _/ ‘ae bills. Haberman said that the bills accepting the proposed Alton & Mississippi approach were the work of ‘esident Kinsey of the B. Pp. and not of his company and efore he did not feel called to advocate their adoption. were some features of bills, Haberman added, to which lis clients probably will object. He aid he preferred to hear what might be said regarding the bills and that pot later than next Tuesday he would md to the Assembly a formal com- hunic tion setting forth the views of She Alton & Mississippi on the meas- ' President Kinsey said that he at- tended the meeting solely to learn ‘hat Comments would be made on the &pproach bills. _ “If there is anything wrong with Proposition involved in these bills, to know it,” he said. LPG LS 2 7% ey Psy sted b ithe river. tons of freight were transported across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, ac- cording to figures compiled by the Mer- chants’ Exchange. Thirty million tons originated east of the river and the balance west of the river. Now, of this 30,000,000 tons, if the toll was 10 cents, there would be added $3,000,000 a year to the burden of St. Louis commerce, pro- vided the roat would be required to pay that sum for the use of the free bridge terminals on the east side of “Now, the bilis before you show thas | the Alton & Mississippi is to name the terms under which the other roads are to use its belt line, and I would not say that 10 cents is an unreasonable charge on a ton of freight. But why should the Alton & Mississippi, any more than the Terminal or any corpo- ration, be placed in a position to dic- tate terms to roads crossing the Missis- sippt River over the municipal bridge?” Illinois Board Report. Gerhart prefaced his remarks by read- ing from the annual réport of the IIli- nois Railroad and Warehouse Commis- sion a statement concerning the assets of the Alton & Mississippi Co. It was shown that the company owns 57 acres of land worth about $67,000, : against which there is a mortgage of $26,000, the total amount of the com- pany’s capital stock. Michael Feinberg of Chicago is president. Gerhart em- phasized the point that the Alton and Mississippi Co. is a foreign corporation and any disputes with the city would be taken to the Federal courts. Assatia Promoters. Gerhart assailed the promoters of the Alton and Mississippi, who, he said, had tried to block the free bridge three years ago. . “They contended then,” said he, “that Congress had no right to grant to the City of St. Louls power to condemn land for a bridge approach and they fought us in the courts on that propo- sition’ and lost. “That unfair adversary, the Alton & Mississippi, is now trying to make terms solution of the problem. But, gentlemen, I am not insisting on the northeast ap- ‘proach, “An approach that will be #6 con- structed as to free the commerce of the it extends, will proach to the bridge and said he would likely have to ask for the repeal of the Reber approach ordinance. “The people don’t want the Reber approach,’ he said, ‘‘and we have got to give them what they want. The AI- ton & Mississippi proposition looks good to me and I take pleasure in giving it my indorsement. At the same time, I favor any approach which the Assem- bly decides on, so long as the northeast approach is left out of consideration.’’ — Washington when Ambassador Wilson arrives here. In Bryan’s absence, John Bassett Moore will be acting Secretary of State and will deal with all the fm- portant problems before the depart- ment. No large question is settled by a Cabi- net officer. President Wilson, ever since he entered tho White House, has been the final judge of all big questions in all the departments under him. The satirical and humorous references in the British press to Bryan's state- ment that he cannot Iive with his salary of $12,000 has driven Senator Ollie James of Kentucky, than whom there fs no purer Democrat, to Bryan's defense. James has announced his intention of making a speech in the Senate defend- ing Bryan. James threatens to reveal some expense account secrets of the State Department and tell how much time previous secretaries gave to their duties. $1500 for Formal Dinners. It is to be brought out how Bryan re- fuses to charge his private entertaining expensed to the Government, which oth- er Secretaries very carefully did. Bryan has spent about $1500, since taking office, on elaborate luncheons and dinners given to foreign notables, for which he has not given an expense account. These func- tions were forma! affairs, given in ho- tela, outside his own house. The principal ones were a farewell din- ner to James Bryce, the retiring British Ambaseador: a luncheon to Dr. Mueller, Foreign Minister of Brazil, and a lunch- eon to a visiting Japanese delegation. It was at the Bryce dinner that grape juice appeared. Bryan is faithful to the dollar dinner idea. His traveling expense ac- counts reveal that the fixed price of every meal, particularly on dining cars, RON Soe o 9 ep Ey ee RR RAE Pe ere. Hepes WH) pany’s books. Mellen is under Federal indictment for alleged violation of the anti-trust laws and an indictment for manslaughter, re- sulting from the Westport, Conn., wreck of last year, also is hanging over him. It is known that an Influential factor in' the board favors the sale of the company’s water lines and many, if not all, its trolley roads. It is believed the New Haven also will relinquish the Bos- ton & Maine Road. According to.the exhaustive examina- tion made by the New Haven System, its assets are estimated at close to $500,- 000,000 against liabilities of $394, 000,000. BRYAN’S LECTURES CAUSE AN ANGRY DEBATE IN SENATE Continued From Page One. were living on $12,000 salaries; that sub- ordinates in: the Government depart- ments would not be allowed to do other work while holding their positions; and that because of his previous attitude before the people Mr. Bryan should have felt an obligation to live within more rigtd lines. “For more than 15 years Mr. Bryan has posed as a public censor of men and measures,’ said Senator Townend. ‘He has preached the duties of citizenship and assumed to establish standard of public service. His public acts, therefore, more than those of any one man except the President, are of influence in tae fixing of standards of public service and public policy. If the American people remain silent at this time and by their silence give their inferential ap- proval’or assent to the policy Mr. Bryan has announced, that attitude of an of- ficial toward his duties must-be as- sumed to be a permanent feature of our governmental institutions. NEGRO BURGLAR TRAILS POLICEMEN SEEKING HIM While two policemen, revolvers in hand, were hunting for a negro burglar in an alley about 11 o’clock Friday morning, the negro was following along behind them, apparently under the im- pression that there was the safest place for him to be. That, at least, is a version of the affair witnesses tele- phoned to police headquarters. The negro was caught trying to break into an open-air theater office at Six- teenth and Chestnut streets by two negro women. One of the women called Patrolman Con Lane, who was on Six- teenth street, and the other called Pa- trolman Will Musgrave, who was on Seventeenth street. The policemen rushed toward each other through the alley back of the theater. Spectatots say the negro jumped behind a fence and hid until Musgrave had passed him. Musgrave and Lane met and Lane turned and went east with Musgrave. The negro caimly emerged from his hiding place, followed them to the end of the alley and disappeared in the Se ae Pp oe crowd which hod collected at the first elarm. # —— pan elated o sm Republic Times Star POST-DISPATCH. Globe-Democrat . (ne Sunday) found them, : @ Over 80% of the circulation of the Daily POST-DISPATCH is in the prosperous families of St. Louis and its suburbs. | @ The circulation of the big SUNDAY POST- DISPATCH is always over 300,000, of which 40% is in its home city and suburbs and 60% in ern States. 5,660, 360 lines 3,548, 700 lines 2,597,100 lines 2,421,600 lines 1,518,300 lines q. 9,660,360 lines is the greatest volume of busi- ness ever carried by the POST-DISPATCH or, of course, any other St. Louis newspaper, for the same relative period with the single exception of 1911, when the POST-DISPATCH car ried 50 columns more. @ The figures in the above table are ¢ correct index to the relative merits of the St, Louis papers as experienced advertisers have ’ the Central, Western, Southern and Southwest- @ You cannot cover St. Louis and contiguous territory without the POST-DISPATCH, while you can practically cover it completely with the POST-DISPATCH alone, Sa. If you want - Ga = Auick and profitable results, six months oo Ee EP Rm sey = 4 Sethe Be _ follow the leaders, Average circulation first of this year “ # oy ta ea ES aes : ie a a OE Ft SERN Ree bm tone eh en gee el
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