St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 19, 1913

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¥ HE more ‘tancinating in the ment printed’ in’ Post-Dispatgh Magazine. = mt a “the oy a the Next ‘New Sunday -seeond edi Only .Evenng Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. “VOL. 66. NO. 30.. eS | ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 191520 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT EDITION FINANCIAL — /A KGWESUP $35,000 INCOME FOR SOLICITORSHIP Sinthovemeor, Home, Says He Has Made That Sum Lectur- ing; New Salary $5000. UPHOLDS BRYAN’S COURSE Washington Prices Make It Al- most Necessary to Work in Vassilis, the Seve. Former Gov. Joseph W. Folk, newly appointed Solicitor of the State De- partment, returned \tom Washington Friday morning, at his home, 5829 Cates avenue, {| 1 a Post-Dis- patch reporter how h\ was sacrific- ing a chautauqua incé :e of $35,000 a year to work for th people at $5000. Bes “For the paat three yea “T have averaged $36,000 chautauqua lecturing alon only a part of the time. this up in accepting the Solicitor. I am not ready, to say ‘whether I shall do any more\ jautau- qua lecturing while I hold tl it posi- tion. I will decide that \pestion when it arises. ) “But I will say that I see no im- propriety in Mr. Bryan’s lecturing in his vacation time, and no good reason for the hue and cry that has been raised about it Hotel Cheaper Than Home. “At Washington this winter,’ Folk continued, ‘‘Mrs. Folk and I will live at the New Willard.. That is an ex- pensive hotel, but it is cheaper than renting a house would be. Such a house as I have in St. Louis would cost, in Washington, not less than $15,000 a year. That is why it is impossible for important officers of the Government to live in Washington on salaries whicn , the Government pays them. “It is pretty nearly a case of having to get out and earn money in the summer to enable one to work for the people the rest of the year.”’ The New Willard is the biggest hotel in Washington. Folk’s St. Louis resi- dence is a handsome 12-room brick house. 1” he said, year from working _m giving _ sition of sadiea shes he had not decided on his titers political activities. He said he would consider any such question without regard to his position at Wash- ington. He was not ready to make a’ maze definite: announcement. Amuseg by Succession Rumor. He seemed amused by the report, ‘ published in a St. Louis newspaper, that he soon would succeed Bryan as Secretary of State. “I can’t discuss such a report with propriety,” he said. The Folk home _ will be closed within a few days, and the former Governor and Mrs. Folk will go to Washington. His law office in the —arce Building. will be mairtained, he said. — He declared his belief that the cur- rency bill, passed by the House Thursday,. would be a more. import- ant measure for-the people than the tariff bill, and would improve busi- ness conditions at once. WIDOW, 55, KILLS SELF Drinks Poison at the Home of Her Son. Mrs. William Moran, a widow, 55. years old, who made her home with an invalid son at 1016 North High street, ended her life by swallowing poison, Friday morning. She entered the son's room and said: “It’s all off,” and drank a mixture to kill vermin. She was started to the city dispensary in an ambulance, but died on the way. SHOWERS AND LOWER TEMPERATURE SATURDAY THE TEMPERATURES. mm. vike wots ob oe a. eee 68 ™m™. atchsescunsees & Pe ee Pe oe ee 70 Oe: 56 bok benno Gee BOOM ecw cckendcte m. is bench: @ a eds a 2 p. m™m. see 8 @ niet See Yesterday’s Temperatures. High, 70 at 4 p. m. Low, 61 at 8 a. m. poe ne THAT BANK “Would you like to work for the city?” asked the mule. “Nay, nay,” ré- plied the horse. “What's the matter?’’ |Elevator Men Strike in Skyscraper at LunchHour Most of the 4000 Persons in the Pierce Building Have to Walk Down, .but Substitutes ‘ Man Cars and Take Them Up. _— At noon Friday, when most of the 4000 daytime inhabitants of the Pierce Build. ing at Fourth and Pine streets were in a hurry to go out for lunch, the elevator conductors went on a strike. In addition, to walking out, the strik- ers also walked down. They ran their 10 cars to the seventeenth floor, right under the roof, and literally left them in a state of suspense. | Before the lunch hour was over, the cars had been manned with emergency conductors and the workers were spared the inconvenience of climbing back to their offices. The trouble started when Dan Bergen, one of the conductors, refused to serve as a relief for Frederick Cotton, a start- er. Cotton thereupon discharged Ber- gen. After demanding Bergen’s. re- instatement, the-conductors voted to strike. According to Thomas Tulley, superin- | tendent of the building, Cotton chos:] one of the assistant engineers to serve as starter when he went to lunch Thurs- day. This angered the conductors, who | thought that one of their number should | have been chosen for temporary service. The conductors, he said, were all ambi- tious to rise to the post of starter, which carries with it some authority and con- sideravle gold braid. Qu icy Siever, who acted as spokes- man for the strikers, said that Cotton did not ¢hoose an assistant engineer but a mere office boy as his substitute. Elevator conductors have a particuler aversion for office boys. Conductors So Straight. ‘When the men decided that they were aggrieved, they went to John M. Rob- inson, ‘manager of the building, and de- manded that Bergen be reinstated. Rob- inson told them that this could uot te done unless ordered by Starter Cotton. The elevator boys went straight 1p and left their cars at the top. . Within half an hour Rebinson, Tulley and Cot- ton had recruited a force from the en- gine rooms and offices and the cars were again in operation. Sixteen—Flight Walk. The strike, coming at the noon hour, When the elevators are always heavily ‘taxed, caused a commotion “in the big office building. Women stenographers and clerks in some cases were forced to walk down 6 flights of stairs to reach the street. Many who did not know what had happened crowded about the elevator doors, pressed the signal buttons and fretted and fumed because of the delay. They said unkind things about the ele- vator service while they saw their pre- |clous noon hour flitting by. ARCHITECT SUES REALTY COMPANY: $85,407 IS ASKED Harry F. Roach Seeks Pay for Plans for Holbrook-Blackweld- er Real Estate Trust Co. Suit for $85,407.43 was filed in the Cir- cult Court Friday by Harry F. Roach, architect, against the Holbrook-Black- welder Real Estate Trust Co. Roach contends that the.firm owes him that sum for sketches and plans of buildings drawn by him. The largest item is $64,000, which the plaintiff says is due for work on a proposed building which was to oc- cupy three-quarters of the block on which the new Railway Exchange Building stands. Roach sets forth that tn 1907 he was employed by the defendant to draw plans for the alteration of the Century Build- ing, to be occupied by Scruggs, Vander- voort & Barney, and that he made vari- ous working plans from time to time, but] owing to unexpired leases the work could not be completed. He sues for $22,500 for this. The plaintiff says that Déc. 1, 1911, he was employed by the defendant to draw rlans for a proposed hotel at Eighth and Olive streets, 18 stories high, and that he performed the work, for which he asks $9358. March 1b, 1913, Roach says, he ' was em- ployed to execute plans for a six-story factory building at 2700 Olive street. For the estimates and plans furnished in This instance he asks $3150. Last April, according to the petition. Roach was employed to make plans for a proposed hotel at the northeast corner of Eleventh and Pine streets, for which he was to receive $7500. Of this sum $4500 was to be paid when the plans and estimates were ready to turn over to the contractors and the balance when the building was completed. He says the de- fendant paid $1650 Aug. 5 and he sues for $2850, the balance of the $4500. Frank B. Coleman is agtorney for Roach. ‘W. J. Holbrook of .the Holbrook- Blackwelder Real Estate Trust Co., in reply to a request by a reporter for a statement regarding Roach’'s suit, said that the claims are ridiculous. “The suit,”’ he said, “is merely one of those annoyances that come.up now and then in business life.” MADERO SLAYERS IMMUNE, ' RULES MILITARY COURT Death Not Brought About by Punishable Crime, Says Judges. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19.—The deaths of the late Francisco I. Madero and Vice-President Jose Maria Pino Suarez were not brought about by a. punishable crime, according to decision pro- nounced by the Military Court here to- day. The ireatiiniiets lasted six months. It started by the military com- cite a of the Federal District im- mediately on the conclusion of the 10 days’ battle in the streets of Mexico City last February, which resulted in Provisional President Huerta coming into power. The result of the comman- dant’s inquiry was forwarded to the per- manent military tribunal which con- tinued the examination of witnesses. HEIRESS, 04, PIGKS AYOUTH, ABED 20, FOR HER HUSBAND Miss Clara: Fisher of Jerseyville ‘Says Orland. Nelson Won Her by Kindness. Miss Clara Fisher, 54 years old, and Orland Nelson, 2%, both of Jerseyville, Ill, departed from that town Thursday night on an interurban car, after tell- ing: “they were going to be mar- ried. They were accompanied by Mr and Mrs. Karl Nelson, Orland Nelson’s brother and sister-in-law. They did not tell where the ceremony was to be performed, but said that they would go on a honeymoon journey to Niagara Falls. Miss Fisher was regarded as the wealthiest unmarried. woman in Jersey- ville. She was reputed to have inherit- ed a $60,000 estate left by her father, Henry Fisher, a dealer in farm lands who died about two years ago. Nelson is the son of Conrad Nelson, a cement contractor. He began paying at- tention to Miss Fisher 18 months ago. [This excited much comment in Jersey- ville because of the great difference in their ages. A report was circulated that Nelson first called on Miss Fisher to win a wager with other young men of Jer- seyville.. He denied this. Before departing from Jerseyville with Nelson, Miss Fisher said she intended to become his wife because he had been one of the few persons who had been kind to her since her father’s death. She has no living relatives. Nelson's family is not wealthy. When Nelson a few months ago be- came the owner of an automobile roadster, he laughed at the gossips a rumor that the machine was a gift from the wealthy woman whom. he was courting. The surprise of the townspeople was increased when, after using the roadster jonly a short time, he acquired a larger and more expensive machine, a touring car. Recently it was rumored that his efforts to maintain the big car had caused him temporary financial embar- rassment and that the machine was be- ing withheld from him until he could pay off his obligations. — G, A. R. Goes to Detroit in 1914. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 19.— Detroit, Mich., today was selected as the meeting place of the 1914 national en- campment of the Grand Army of the Re- public and allied organizations. and did not take the trouble to deny] GRAIN PLUNGER SUED FOR DIVORCE, CRUELTY CHARGED Wife Asserts William Lanyon Cursed and Threatened to Kill Her. IN CORN AND WHEAT DEALS Broker and Mining Man Declines to Discuss the Charges Made in Petition. William Lanyon of 44 Lindell boule- property and for many years a plunger in the St. Louis grain market, was sued for divorce Friday by Mrs. Annie Wil- lett Lanyon, who is now living at the Usona Hotel. Mrs.. Lanyon’s petition. which is brief, charges that Lanyon called her coarse names, cursed her, threatened to kill her, made her the object of abuse, expressed lack of love for her and asked her to re- move herself from his presence. She says Lanyon inherited a large property, which has grown as the result of her industry and economy. She asks the é¢ourt to fix her alimony. The Lanyons were married 31 years ago, Mrs. Lanyon’s petition states, and have two sons, 23 and 18 years old, and a daughter, 21. She does not state the date of the separation. The older son, Robert Morale Lanyon, then a sopho- more in Yale University, was married in 1911 to Alice Lillian O’Connor, a vaudeville actress, and leaving school, went to work in his father’s office in the Pierce building. He is now mana- ger of a mine at Hillsboro, Mo. Has Mines Near Joplin. William Lanyon is president of the Lanyon-Starr Smelter Co. and the Lan- yon Zinc and Acid Co. His mining in- terests are in the Joplin region, and be- fore his removal to St. Louis he was Mayor of Pittsburg, Kan., one of the principal towns of the zinc and lead dis- trict. In the early spring of 1911, Lanyon en- gineered on ‘change a deal involving more than 1,000,000 bushels of May wheat. He took the bull side of the market, and bought all the grain in sight. A vigor- ous squeezing of the shorts, dealers. who lacked sufficient grain to fill their con- tracts with him, and who were thus re- quired to pay to him the difference be- tween the price at which it Was pur- chased and that of the day for delivery, was part of Lanyon’s program. Lanyon, though long in'the 8t. Louis market, found himself short, in. Chi- cago, and got the worst of his big deal, his losses being estimated from $40,000 to $100,000. Lanyon’s dealings in March, 1912, were not so spectacular as those of the year before, but attracted con- siderable attention. He went into a corn deal, and was reported short a million bushels at the time. His loss was heavy. Since that time he has not figured prominently in grain speculation. Lanyon Denies Big Deals. At his office Lanyon toldea reporter that he attributed the suit in part to riewspaper stories connecting him re- cently with grain deals. He ‘said these stories were untrue, and that his deal- ing in the last 15 months had been on a small scale. He said he would not talk of. the charges made in his wife’s petition, but remarked: “You know, there are ai- ways two sides to a story, and they say you can never tell which way a woman or a goat will butt.’’ When the fact of his wife’s absence from the Lindell boulevard home was mentioned, Lanyon said, “I have always had a home, ever Bince I was married. I don’t care for hotels.’’ He would not say whether any desire on his wife’s part for hotel life had contributed to their disagreements. Pigeons on 3000-Mile Flight. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19.—Two car rier pigeons freed from the roof of an office building here are winging their way toward Pittsburg, Pa., a distance of nearly 3000 miles, ‘a flight said to be the “tongest ever attempted by carrier pigeons. The Post-Dispatch fs the only evening news. r in St. Lous is that recetves or l na gathered bv the Associa ata DISPATCH, as regards and only Another victory added to its many previous ones “Thursday was BIG Thursday with the POST- Local Display Advertising placed by the St. Louis merchants, who used 93 cols. in the Post-Dispatch alone 89 cols. in its 3 nearest competitors comb ned— Responsiv these results possible. the Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times. e home circulation—the lasting kind—makes | St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. Average circulation first cight months 1913; Daily, (7smx,) 171,845. Sunday, 304, 867. cian ae Gtk ge BOREL. 2 OS BOY ee Ee ee Evidence Found That Slayer Dis- posed of Helen Green Who Wrote She Loved Him, FOR Blank Death Certificates That Would Have Permitted Easy - Burial in His Effects. EQUIPPED NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Four new fea- tures were developed today in the case of Father Hans Schmidt, who Killed Anna Aumueller. Schmidt is believed to have murdered @ woman known as Helen Green. Among Schmidt's letters, one was found addressed to Anna Aumueller, while she was at the St. Boniface CRIMES [Schinidt Killed Another Girl, Police Say| She Mysteriously Vanished From Flat Priest Called Boy of 5 Years His Son Father Schmidt, in clerical vestments, in three poses. Church house, him in Cincinnati, with these wordg: “You know where.”’. There has been 80 far no record of Schmidt’s having béen in Cincinnati. Mrs. Menzer, the janitor of one of the flats rented by Schmidt, told: the police that the second day after the priest had rented the room, he brought with him a boy 4 or 6 years old, and when she remarked the facial resem- blance Schmidt said: ‘Yes, he’s my boy. I couldn’t deny him if I wanted to.” Schmidt, after washing the youngster. and putting him to bed, told Mrs. Men- zer that the boy lived in New Jersey. Others were found who knew of this boy, but they understood he was the child of a poor~parishioner whom the priest was befriending. “Pal” Thought to be Cousin. Cable advices from Aschaffenbtrg, Germany, Schmidt's birthplace, say that the opinion now prevails in that city that Muret, the dentist under ar rest for counterfeiting, is Schmidt's cousin, Muret’s real name being Adolph Mueller. He and Schmidt were close friends. Mueller, who was a merchant, lived at Mainz. From there he went to Hamburg and then disappeared. . In the marriage certificate which Schmidt ‘obtained, and under which he married himself to Anna Aumueller, the priest gave his mother’s name as Muel- ler. In his fake medical operations he used the name of. Mollierre. Helen Green is the young woman who wrote to Father Schmidt, “TIT could not live; without you.” , According to Mra. J. F. Brent, who oc- cupies” Apartment I2A° at 21” West 109th | street, the’ Green “woman:-rented a room’ " ¢ telling her to addressjin that apartment the last two weeks in January. She kept much to herself. When Helen Green left the apartment she left instructions that her mail should be forwarded to Chicago, general deliv- ery. After she departed several let- lters were received, and forwarded to Chicago. None of them has been re- turned. “We are looking for a woman,” is all Inspector Faurot will say, but in spite of the Inspector's reticence it is known that the police are working on a theory, based on concrete evidence, that this woman was murdered by Schmidt and some disposition made of her body. Among the. letters which Inspector Faurot found in the rectory room of Schmidt at St. Joseph’s are said to be several from women, some married, who wrote, not as parishioner would write to a spiritual adviser, but in a way to indicate that the spiritual relationship was an inconsequential quantity. Two More Arrests Probable. That two more arrests are probable is admitted by the police. A woman. who already has been questioned by the detectives, is believed to know more of the operations of Schmidt and “Dr. Muret than she has told. The othes person ‘under suspicion is a@ man. In- spector Faurot has. been in telephonic communication with Chief of Polics Frank Titus of Englewood, N. J., in an effort, it is said, to effect an arrest. Attorney Koelble was importuned by reporters to allow them to talk with the prisoner. He declined to do so on the ground that Schmidt was ill, bet consented to ask Schmidt questions. The result of this secondhand interview was. Father Schmidt said he had met Helen Green casually and” recollected’ having _Continusg en- Rawe 2. Columa ts. - DR.OSTERHAUS: SON OF ADMIRAL TAKEN TO HOSPITAL RAVING Chair Leg as Foil, Physician: Is . Found Fencing Imaginary:Foe in. Hotel Room.. . 2 . * . . S va » we , a oer” octal Perna Se ERS mere eae hes X, es, se OOOO PP tenccoe atl > ac a5 a | Dr. Karl Osterhaus, 32 years old, son of Rear Admiral Hugo. Osterhaus, re- tired, and himself an assistant surgeon in the navy, was taken to the city hos- pital observation ward Friday, for the second time in five weeks. -_He was found. in his room in the Maryland Ho- tel, breaking furniture and challenging some imaginary enemy to a fencing match. As a foil, he was brandishing the leg of a chair which he had demol- ished. Policemen were called by the hotel clerk, who was informed by guests of the commotion in Osterhaus’ room and quieted him. They found on his body numerous marks, which, they say, indt- cated the use of drugs hypodermically. Dr. Osterhaus has been attached t+ the local navy recruiting office, and was in line for promotion to the posi- tion of surgeon, with the rank of Lieu- tenant. His father, who went on the retired list less than a year ago, is in Germany. — The young physician was taken from his room at the Hermitage bachelor apartments, 458 Washington avenue, on’ Aug. 13, after he had broken furniture 7 _ x #3 ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 18,—Gov. their seats. The vote, which was on the of whether the court should. the challenges, was unanimous such procedure. The’ four Senators ¢ rectiy concerned—Frawley, Ww Ramsperger and Sanner—did not’ ceurt the reading of the long” of impeachment was begun. Judge Cullen Walives the right to decide the ‘question. qyalifications of the Senators ro at ing their seats, he did not take tage of this prerogative. He Arst ¢ rressed his opinion that the ob; ct were not well grounded and then p mitted the entire court to vote ee iseue. In addressing the court, Judge said that no court had the right ¢ in judgment on gny one of ite mem Ir, this, he said, a court ¢ seats in the gallery were some: = opening of the argument. ‘Th the morning spectators polite pos out, bat at nee ee filled. Dismiseal ‘ala Chinttins Asked, “When Judge Cullen directed Clerk Cabe to read the articles of 1 ment a motion was made by Pollock of New York that the be dispensed with, but it wag lost. “What answer does the interpose. to ‘the articles of ir ment filed by the Assembly?” ¢ Judge Cullen when Clerk ee ished reading. Louls Marshall of the uiceatd se] reading from a prepared brief, f asked that the entire. dismissed on the ground that the is without jurisdiction an the Pgh Sho? \ n'a 2, —— ae oe Mee ‘ YA ey ¢ j a ; ; Rr pe a ake Abe if “at Tate _ Immediately following the vote ot th - tion of the Assembly in. Rape th -