St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 2, 1914

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S AEA KS ene, rr " a . * Ses ge FFF $ re 1 * ere „ 3 Be 0 put Ce at as eee ee . Ets 3 Stes , 5 eres S SP ge * . ie ve! ' ( The City Has Already Selected the Reber Route and Paid for It “Wants” times as many as the Four | 332 dm the BIG WANT DIRECTORY. Tuice asmany Globe Democrat Republic — “VOL. 66. NO. 166. — ae ee — — Only ‘Evening ST rOUIS — W ᷓõ —ͤ—— Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. FIN 2 LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 2, 1914-14 PAGES, — . EDITION ANCIAL N ~ DENIAL OF PLEA OF 300 SUFFRAGISTS Wilson ‘Tells Women Who Call at White House They Im- press Him Profoundly, but He Can't Take Suffrage Position Until Party Acts. SOME OF THEM REFUSE TO SHAKE HIS HAND When Executive Says He Can’t Speak for Demo- cratic Party, Woman Re- plies, “Why Not Speak to It! You Can Work Miracles \ With it.” By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—President Wilson gave no encouragement today to ‘2 delegation of 300 working women who marched on the White House with a brass band and flying colors to ask his support for a constitutional amendment enfranchising women. - Twenty-five of the women were re- ‘ceived by the President and five in short apeeches presented their arguments. The President reiterated that as leader of the Democratic party he was limited only to recommend those things on which the party had made up its mind. We don't want you to break with your party, but we would like you to in- 8 fluence it.“ said Mrs. Glendower Evans ie . question of speaking for it.“ a bat is . a either the sanitarium f & of Boston, after the President had fin- ished apeakite. “It isn’t a question of breaking with the party,“ returned the President, ll, why not speak to it?” rejoined 25 as the women laughed. t's what we want. You have such a “power and can work mir- on 5 with it.” The President did not continue the @iscussion, but expressed a wish to meet _ the women who were waiting outgide. “But they told us we couldn't all come in, remarked Mrs. Evans. . Sends for Waiting Women. “Tt must de a misunderstanding,” said the Presidént, and he sent word out that he would like to have the delegation come in. They came in single file, pass- ing in one door and out another. Some or ag Women declined to shake hands Seventy: President, marching by indif- refusing to take his proffered i. At their exit Dr. Mary Walker, in male ture, argued with the women that suf ‘Was a state issue. She was not 5 permitted to enter with the delegation. The pleas of the working women wise phrased eloquently and with a * touch ot pathos and emotlon as they deseribed the hardships of womer rkers: - “Shaking and 4rembling,” said Miss et Hinchey of the laundry workers of New York, “we come to plead with you. You are so square and on the level and so much a real _ © Democrat that I appeal to you to Wipe out the injustice that exists. We could help every Democrat it we 5 had the vote.” Miss Mary Schneiderman ot New 5 York, representing the cap makers, _ spoke with emotion of the hardships dt women in mills and mines. 5 “You Were Gunning for votes.“ At ie not a democracy when only have something to say,” contend. ° Miss Melinda Scott of New Jersey, = representing the Cap Makers’ Union ‘The last speaker was Miss Roso Winslow of Pennsylvania, represent- 125 ss ing the ‘tex tile workers. : ou are entirely too fair and in- telligent,” she said, “not to know is going on in the world. In cases with the working women, tuber- or the streets, I don't have to “Beeches to you, as we are too e f President smiled as Miss Wins stood close to him, dropped a Conversational tone N in closing, to had visited Wilson was a candidate Claimed to have ragement for the elected,” said Mrs. 5 from what you said in favor ot our cause. for votes, then.“ to express my 11 am now,” said the 8 2 in expe + 7 Pa That my indiy m8: 1 n ere e eee gag Z Working | ‘it prosperity to St. Louis. eint and cheapest approach: nal Association? Bion 2 been defeated three times? to carry a bond issue. issues. ANSWER: $2,750,000. grab. 13. What should be done? 5. Is the Reber approach a good eperoach? ANSWER: Yes, it is the shortest, freest, most conven- 6. Cannot the Reber approach be bottled by the Termi- ANSWER: No, berause the United States Supreme Court says the tracks and bridges of the Terminal must be kept open to all roads that want to use them. If they cannot bottle their own bridges, they cannot bottle the city’s free 7. Has not the Reber approach $2,750,000 bond gms ANSWER: Yes, but it got a big majority of the vob cast and only fell short of the two-thirds majority necessary What reason is there for believing it would pass now? ANSWER: The United States Supreme Court decision, which opens the Terminal’s facilities to all roads, has re- moved the argument which did most to defeat the three bond The bridge cannot be bottled. 9. What will be the A. & M. plan cost? ANSWER: Either $4,250,000 or $7,000,000. 10. What will the Reber approach cost? 11. Where will the A. & M. approach end? ANSWER: In St. Clair County, 20 miles away. 12. What is the nature of the A. & M. plan? ANSWER: It is admittedly a speculative real estate ANSWER: ‘The House of Delegates. should join the Council in submitting to the public a $2,750,000 proach bond issue and let the public decide. Free = Bridge Primer 1. Who selected the Reber approach? ANSWER: It was selected by the Board of Public Im- provements and. unanimously approved by .a committee of expert, impartial, disinterested engineers. 2. Do we own the Reber approach? ANSWER: Yes, we have condemned and bought 5140., 000 worth of land for it, which we own. 3. Can we build any other approach? ANSWER: The City Counselor has advised the Mu- nicipal Assembly that we have not the lawful power to condemn any more land for any other approach. 4. Will the Reber approach be used? ANSWER: ’ Ves, because of its convenient location it can be used by all the railroads to un new trade and Reber ap- * ee — CONFERENCE ON ALL BRIDGE BILLS, PLAN OF ARENDES Councilman Thinks Committee Would Favor Submission of $2,750,000 Bond Issue. Suggestions of a compromise and the appointment of a joint committee of the Council and House of Delegates to end the free bridge deadlock were being dis- cussed informally by members of the Municipal Assembly Monday. Councilman Arendes came forward with a plan which he believes might open the way to a solution of the prob- lem. He suggests that the Council and the House form a joint conference com- mittee to consider all the pending and proposed approach bills. Arendes says he believes, such a committee would agree to the submission of the original Hines bill to the people. This bill calls for the issuance of $2,750,000 bonds to build. the Reber approach. If the people refuse to vote for this bend issue, Arendes says, the A. & M. proposition could be submitted to them. Arendes believes that the initiative in asking for a conference committee ‘should come from the House of Dele- gates. On this point Councilman Protz- man agrees with him. Other members of the Council ex- pressed themselves as being strongly in favor of a joint conference and the sub- mission of the Hines proposition, to the people. The Hines bill is now pending in the Council, having been shorn of the A. & M grab amendments which were tacked on tn the House. It was reintroduced in the House by Delegate Brokaw Friday night, but was filed. Councilmen Monday said that if a joint conference committee is appointed the Hines bill probably will not be again submitted to the House until the con- ference committee has made its report. Associate City Comptroller Felix E. Gunn has figured up the cost of the de- lay in completing the bridge at $875 a day. This includes the interest on the $3,500,000 already spent on the bridge and $175,000 a year which is being set bonds which supplied the $3,500,000. While the bridge remains unfinished the city gets no return for the $875 a day. GREEN WIGS IN LONDON LONDON, Feb. 2.—The green coiffure Polini apttupes juuker ware be nod ae [Sater tn eat ana see ay well CCC new wigs. J aside as a sinking fund to redeem the} * * * — —— — — — — — ” | BRIDEGROOM AND JILTED SUITOR IN STREET DUEL Girl Weds While Man Is in Jail and Bloodless Pistol Battle Follows His Release. CHAMPAIGN, Ill, Feb. 2.—Charles Bigelow, a bridegroom, and N. Wunder- lee, a disappointed suitor, marred the tranquility of churchgoers yesterday bv fighting an impromptu pistol duel on the main business street of the city. Wunderlee is in jail and Bigelow is free. No one was injured by the bui- lets. Wunderlee got out of jail yesterday morning, after having served a sentence for thrashing Bigelow, because Bigelow ¢ flirted with Susan Luman, Wunderlee'e sweetheart. While Wunderlee was in jail, Bigelow married Susan. ‘ aaa * BABY BOY BREAKS FROM: MOTHER, 1S RUN OVER BY CAR Child’s Legs Are Crushed Accident at Eleventh and Pine Streets. in PARENT IS LOST IN CROWD Child Expected to Lose Both Legs and Recovery Is Said to Be Doubtful. A toddling boy, hardly more than 2 years old, being led across Pine street at Eleventh, at 1 p. m. Mon- day, by his mother, who was carry- ing a younger child, broke away from her grasp and ran back toward the north side of Pine street. A Tower Grove car struck him, and the wheels crushed both his legs. Men hurried the boy to the Central Dispensary, a block and a half away. When a search was begun for the mother, she could not be found, nor could anyone tell where she and her infant had gone. An hour after the accident, poltce- men still were searchiygg for the woman and her baby, to tell her where the boy was, and to learn his name. Persons who saw the accident said the mother, carrying her baby and lead- ing the little boy by the hand, started to cross from the north to the south side of Pine street. She crossed a short distance ahead of the approaching west- bound car. Then the boy pulled away from her and the accident, an instant later, took the attention of the specta- tors from the mother. Some said she rémained at the corner, weeping hysterically, for a moment, then departed before the boy was car- ried away. It was believed that she started out to find where the boy had been taken, but she did not speak to any policeman, so far as reported. The boy was hurried from the dis- pensary to the city hospital. It was said o be removed and that the left leg t would probably be lost also. His recov- ery was considered doubtful. LEAVES $500,000 TO YALE Strathcona Also Gives $1,000,- 000 to Montreal College. LONDON, Feb. 2—Yale University benefits to the extent of $600,000 under the will of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, High Commissioner for Canada, who died Jan. 21. The Royal Victoria College at Mon- treal receives $1,000,000. Woman With Tight Skirt Breaks Leg. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—A skirt was too tight and a step which was too high caused Mrs. James H. Doxey of Bedford village to break ler leg yesterady, as she was leaving the Methodist Church. She fell forward, tripped by the skirt. —ſ — Another Big Triumph! After beating al all of the other St. Louis newspapers combined in the volume of city merchants advertising car- ht wee ried.on yesterday, k days last month, the POST-DISPATCH eb. Ist, beat both of its Sunday com- petitors, the Globe-Democrat and Republic added together in the total volume of business carried. The count Sunday was Post-Dispatch, 286 Cols. Globe-Democrat, 171 Republic, ..... 114 — For 357 consecutive Sundays nearly 7 years the Sunucy POST-DISPATCH has been first in the volume of business carried. These are unparalleled records. newspaper in 2 United States has ever Sunda approached them. No other metropolitan 3 circulation for the full year 1913. 8 307,824 First in Everything his right leg would unquestionably have | Steamer Which Was Sunk in Collision; Wireless Operator Who Gave Life to Save a Woman We Pee J g x 2 2 175 2 wer N n 1 ad 8 GRIGSBY JURORS ONE TRIES SUICIDE Man Who Cut His Throat Is. Ex- used and Prosecutor Refuses | to Go Ahead. The jury in the trial of Lester J. Grigsby, Chief of Detectives of East St. Louis, charged with burglary and lar- ceny and receiving stolen property, was discharged Monday by Judge Pope in the East St. Louis City Court, because of the attempt of one of the jurors, Louis Braun, to kill himself with a knife Sunday evening. Braun’s suicidal attempt, which fol- lowed an attack made by him on the Deputy Sheriff im charge’ of the jury; was held to disqualify him. State’s At- torney Webb declined to consider a plan to proceed with 11 jurors, and the de- fense did not indicate that it would have accepted such a plan. Wait Hankins, a saloon keeper, is jointly charged with Grigsby. Objected to Being Leocked_ Up. Deputy Sheriff George Holroyd had the jury in charge Saturday night. He awakened in the night to find Braun struggling with him. Holroyd quieted the juror, and gave up his bed to him, re- suming his sleep in the bed of the juror.. A few minutes later Braun again struggled with the Deputy Sheriff. Hol- royd couldn't make out what it was all about. In the morning Braun appeared to remember nothing of the night’s inci- dents. Deputy Sheriff Larry F. Mulconnery, a nephew of Sheriff Muloonnery, was in charge of the jury Sunday evening. The men were sitting about playing cards, when Braun suddenly. threw down his cards and declaring it an outrage to be locked up a prisoner, strode out of the. room. Mulconnery followed and reached Braun just as the juror had drawn a pocket knife across his throat. The deputy disarmed the man and sent for a physician, who dressed the wound, which was not serious. / Kept With Ot Jurors. Braun could not explain his attempt to take his life. Deputy Sheriff Mul- connery telephoned to Judge Pope and was instructed to give Braun all neces- sary medical attention, but not to per- mit him to separate from the rest of the jury. Braun is 58 years old and resides at Lebanon. He is said to be prosperous. He was in continuous fury service last week, having served through the trial of John D. Young, who was acquitted on an embezzlement charge. IGOE PREPARES AN ALIBI Gets Letter From Man Who Says He's Congressman's Father. WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. — Since Repre- sentative William L. Igoe of St. Louls was Who's whoed” some weeks ago ne has received many letters, some humor- ous and some serious. From Westminster, British Columbia, came one. The writer, W. W. Slagle, is most positive that, “although he has never seen Igoe singe the Congressmin was a baby 18 months old,“ he is Igoe’s father. In, his letter Slagke pleads for the Congressman’s address that he may come to Washington and greet his long- lost son. Congressman Igoe is preparing an alibi. Slagle did not explain how one by the name of Igoe could be his son, CRUISER TO ENTER CANAL SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 2.—Col. George Goethals, having promised that his boat will be the first to pass through the Panama Canal, Commander A. H. Rob- ertson yesterday started from San Diego in the United States cruiser Denver. Goethals intends to use the cruiser to . 3 is opened. It will enter the about March 15. : Damage by Brasil Floods. RIO JANEIRO, Feb, “loop ne ay in dhe State of Bahia, Wilen have been aweep- Be te eben districts are incfeasing. — os have been inundated and 1 town has disappeared, DISCHARGED AFTER ‘Friday and sank with forty: persons, died that women and children might be LN . . Sek COD AOD . — > FERDINAND KUEHN.. WRECK OF SHIP UN WhICH 40 WERE LOST, & FOUND Monroe Righted Herself After Being Submerged; Masts 14 Feet Out of Water. | Special to the Post-Dispatch. NORFOLK, Va,, Feb. 2.—The wreck of the Old Dominion liner Monroe which was rammed by the Nantucket has been found lying on her keel in 8: feet of water. Her prow is pointed straight for the lightship, which she was trying to make when the Nantucke* ram her. She lies in the center of her proper course. Her masts are 14 feet out of the water. When the Nantucket rammed her, the Monroe listed as the water rushed in and for a few moments she floated on her side. Then she sank. The searchers were surprised to find that she had righted herself after the sea’ had sub- merged her. The opinion prevails here that few bodies will be found in the wreck. The impression is general that everyone on the ship jumped or fell into the water before the Monroe went down. The ‘condition of relatives of some of the crew is particularly pathetic. Wives of several of the colored employes who rescued, have loitered near the offices: of the steamship company, hoping to bear that the bodies of their loved ones had been located. While the people of Norfolk are re- scunding the praises of some of thes: black heroes, their wives and children face destitution. Assistant Manager E. E. Palen and others of the Old Domin- ion Co., however, have done much to alleviate the sorrows of the poor people. The company has spent $5000 in providing the rescued members of the crew with necessities and assisting the families whose bread winners are at the bottom of the Atlantic. The officials of the Nantucket deny absolutely the story told by Thomas R. Harrington regarding the death of his wife. They say he did not assault apy- one tor sugyesting her body be thrown into the sea as no such thought was expressed. Instead of neglect, the com- pany says the chief engineer, a steward and a stewardess worked an hour trying to revive her. STEEL. REBATE INQUIRY Senate Requests Investigation of Charges Against Trust. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The Senate today requested the Interstate Com- merce Commission to investigate charges that rebates have been received from the railroads by the United States Steel Corporation. The Senate’s action was taken on a resolution by Senator Norris, offered as a substitute for one by Senator Stone in which David Lamar was named as author. Lamar, named on the floor as the “Wolf of Wall street.“ watched final permit him to name eoansel in proceed: villa ges] inge to take the evidence of William H. Green ag to alleged rebates, led the com- *. * Police Find Money Drawn by Merchant on Prisoner Held for Taxicab Murder. ROME, Feb. 2.—The police are invest!- gating a new clew in the case of Man- rice Siegel, the well-to-do merchant ot Leipsig, who was shot to death when on an automobile ride at San Remo with Longfield Wolff and wife of San‘a Rosa, Cal. Siegel fell dead as he alight- ed from the car at the Victoria Hotel. The Wolffs, who are under arrest, charged with murder, assert that Sieg» was shot from outside the car. This, say the police, was impossible, in as much ‘as the body of the car Was en- tirely closed and there is no null mark on the exterior. Siegel's purse, according to the police, > was empty, and it had been cut as with a knife, and a revolver that Rad been fired was found close by. The chauffeur declares that when the shot was fired Mrs. Wolff screamed. The chauffeur alleges that Wolff during the drive re- peatedly tried to induce him to alight, | inviting him to take a drink. The police have a report that Siegel was in love with Mrs. Wolff, who is young and pretty. They say the woman always slept with a revolver under her pillow. The police allege that Wolff has been lately in need of funds and couldn't pay his hotel bills. They allege further that Siegel's gold was found after Siegel's death in Wolff's posses- sion—gold, which Siegel had only shortly before got from the cashier of the hotel, A letter, it is stated, was found in Wolff's room at the hotel, revealing his antecedents, SUBMARINE IN STORM Vessel Which Was Separated From Fleet Reaches Port. GALVESTON, Tex., Feb. 2— The sub- marine D1, which failed to arrive here last night with the D2, D3, El and Ez, came into harbor today. Stormy weath- er caused it to become separated from the other submarines. The squadron is expected to sall for New Orleans Thura- day. — RAIN TOMORROW; TEMPERATURE TO DROP THE TEMPERATURES. ' Da .. a. NM. „665 „ „ „„ „ „ „„ „6 „ „„ — Yesterday's Temperatures. High. 45 at 4p, m, Low. .20 t. m. ‘(Lets BuILo | AN APPROACH To THE ART MUSEUM. “What are you 5 25 i 4 increase of „ * 7 5 3 sz Fe. FP es * Rey: „ - N Sy 7 — e N 4 — * - * l é v r * n x as er ee, oe — a year, * tobe Sir James Renkin, chairman of a I rr