St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 12, 1914

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PA SR NEON A TOES CI I PAM OES ERI MRD, Dic TAMMY re . > etree eer 4 ‘ . | Sign the ee Petiti On Initiative Petitions for a Public Vote ona Bond Issue Are in-Circulation Today mash the Combine | Death by Wireless... iN A Scientist has discovered a new aerial terror. Next Sunday Post-Dispatch See the ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Only Evening Paper in St. Lous With the Associated Press News Service. EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS Tt Atte it ets VOL. 60. NO. 204. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 12 , 1914-—24 { PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT. | SPORTS a - 14 BO Swingley DIES RECOVE Says He Has Reported Al Unsafe Buildings ‘ADOO 10 WED ELEANOR WILSON, CAPITAL TEARS Official Circles Expect a June Wedding—Secretary Is 50, Has Six Children. WHITE HOUSE IS SILENT President’s Youngest Daughter, 24, Has Been Seen Often With Treasury Chief. By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, of another White House wedding be- came more definite today with the per- sistent ‘renewal of the report that the marriage of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, youngest daughter of the Presi- dent, will take place in June. McAdoo is a widower, 50 years old, and has six children. Miss Wilson is 24 vears old. There was no announcement from the White House, and when the attention of officials was drawn to the report they would make no comment. Secretary McAdoo ‘nimself said it would be indelicate for him to comment on the subject one way or the other. Nevertheless officia' Washington is tak- ing it as a, fact that the wedding is in prospect. »* Matty persons who know Secretary McAdoo were not surprised at the re- port, because he has been a frequent social visitor the last year. Washington society has observed the couple at many a dance as well. When McAdoo’s second son, Francis HW. McAdoo, was married last spring President Wilson and his family mo- tored to Baltimore to attend the wed- ding. McAdoo, who is the builder of the Hudson tunnels, knew the Wilson fam- ily before his entry into the Cabinet, and has been an intimate friend of the President since early in the pre-conven- tion campaign. Miss \ ilson was edtiy cated in the private schools at Prince- ton, N. J. ard in the last few years has been making frequent trips to Phil- adelphia to an art school, where she has studied painting. M. A. C. REGISTER FOUND UNDAMAGED IN LOBBY Names of Five Persons Known to Have Perished Entered Saturday and Sunday. The guests’ register of the Missouri Athletic Club was found virtually un- damaged in the lobby shortly before noon Thursday. It lay face down and Was open at the pages showing the reg- istrations Saturday and Sunday night. Names of club members were not kept in this pook. It was used to record the names of members’ guests who were furnished with rooms over night. The register showed that guests who obtained rooms Sunday night were Mi- chael Thuma, E. P. Williams, Charles Schimmel, Thomas 8S. Garvin, E. Vynne, R. W. Trotter, C. B. Baker, W. R. Bor- ders, H. S. Haas and Lester Ackerman. Those who engaged rooms Saturday hight and retained them over Sunday night were D. C. Holmes, A. T. Ranus, Cc. T. Brantzell and Roby Green. Of the registered guests, only five are known to have perished. They were Thuma, Williams, Borders, Ranus and Green. All the others have been accounted for. SIX BLOCKS ON PORTLAND (ORE.) WATER FRONT BURN Two Steamers Are Destroyed, One Drifting Along Docks Spreading Fire. PORTLAND, Ore., March 12.—Fire ear- ly today swept all that section of the Portiand water front on the east side from the upper to the lower Albina Fer- ries, destroying Columbia Dock, No. 2, and Montgomery Dock, No. 1, the steam- ships Cricket and Glenroy and much other property, entailing a loss estimated at $1,000.00. The area burned covered six blocke. The steamship Cricket, laden with as- phait, burned fiercely. Firemen cut her loose early, but the big ship, instead ef going to the center of the stream, floated along the docks, spreading the flames. The fireboat David Campbell went after her, and towed her to mid- stream, where she was anchored, still burning. The first mate of the Glenroy sus- tained a broken arm. The Glenroy caught fire nearly as soon as the Crick- et. The Chinese crew was rescued by the firemen. A number of them jumped 2 overboard. Several were injured. March 12.—Prospects at the White” House im} , ——— Recovering Bodies From'M. A. C. Fire Trap This Morning. a SIEGEL AND VOGEL INDICTED. 2 STORES ORDERED CLOSED NEW YORK, March 12.-—Orders clos- | ing the two big New York department stores operated by Henry Siegel and his partners were issued today by the Fed- eral Court. Judge Hough directed that the receiv- ers appointed Dec, 30, when the Siegel enterprises went into bankruptcy, re- ceive bids to March 21 for the stock and assets of these stores. The Fourteenth street store and the Simpson-Crawford store, among the largest in the city, were the ones affected by the court or- der. What the described as indictments,”’ Henry Siegel president and ively, of the Siegel poration, who were arrested’ vester- day on three indictments, and are now at liberty under $25,000 bail each, was given to the grand jury today. The indictments already found charge Violation of the banking laws and grand Iuvceny in making false statements to obtain credit. The grand larceny indict- rent is based only on the affairs of the Fourteenth street store of New York and tie Henry Siegel & Co.'s private bank, em nducted in connection with it. ‘‘The aftairs of the Fourteenth street store. ’ seid Assistant District Attorney Arthur © Train, “are typical of.the affairs of other Siegel enterprises.”’ . District Attorney Whitman said thar statements of two secretaries employed byw Slegel were the basis of the grand larceny indictment. These secretaries testified that false statements were pre- pered for merchants and bankers: that li: bilities were turned into assets, and that approximately $2,500,000 of money deposited in the Siegel private bank was turned into the retail business while it was losing money. Oe RED cn a MAYOR’S SON-IN-LAW SUED Action Againél Granville Hogan Is for 8550 on Note. Suit on a note for $550 was filed in the Circuit Court Thursday afternoon by Samuel J. Bennett against Gran- ville Hogan, son-in-law of Mayor Kiel. District ‘“‘material for at alleging fraud and Frank E. vice-president, Attorney’s® office least 50 against Vogel, respect- Stores Cor- “The petition alleges the note was given by Hogan, May 7, 1913, to John D. Gill, and that it later became the property of Bennett. The note was payable Dec. 12, 1933. {Nass Hogan was not in his effice reporter called by telephone. when a T1 ARE ROUTED AT NIGHT WHEN FIRE DESTROYS 2 HOMES Eleven persons fled for their lives at 1 a. m. Thursday, when fire destroyed two frame dwellings and damaged a third in Wellston, St. Louis County. The fire started in Charles J. Bevers’ home, 6432 Derby avenue, from an over- heated chimney. In the house were Bevers, his wife, two children and his brother, George. Mrs. Bevers had been to the first floor to warm a bottle of milk for her baby. A few minutes after returning to her room. she smelled smoke. She aroused her husband and brother-in-law. Mrs. Bevers ran downstairs, and her brother-in-law each carrying a cehild. To reach the street thev had to through the parlor where the ceiling already was in flames. At the front gate Mrs. Bevers stum- bled or fell from exhaustion, but neither she nor her baby was hurt. Charles Bevers, Who followed his wife and brother, stumbled and fell while running downstairs and lay unconscious until his brother and neighbors ran into the house and carried him out. He was not injured, The fire quickly spread to the home of Thomas J. Purviance Jr., at 6430 Derby avenue, next door. Purviance, his wife and four children escaped. Both build- ings were destroyed. The other building was vacant. Pass FAIR TONIGHT, FRIDAY; ‘siete ‘TEMPERATURE : ‘Ra 0 FREE BRID cE A RRS AR PETITION ? — a a a a A a 4 “Official fore- | east for St.) Louis and vicin- ity: Fair to. night and “Fri. day; mOderate temperature; the; lowest tonight will be about the freezing point. For Missouri — Fair tonight and Friday; warmer 'n south portion to- night. For Illinois—F air tonight and Fri- day; warmer in south portion to- night. | Se en ee ee ee ee RE nS The Post-Dispatch Is the only evening news paper In St. Louis that receives * publishes news cathered by the Associated Presa Unrecovered Dead "(No body taken from the M. A. C. ruins has. been identified as the body of any of. these men. Four bodies, in such condition that direct identifi- cation will be difficult, are at the morgue.) WILLIAM R. BORDERS, 55, bank president, Sparta; III. MARX HAMMER, president Neusteter Cloak and Suit Co. WILLIAM E. BECKER, pres- ident Becker-Moore Paint Co. JOHN J. RATZ, 42, president Ryffel-Ratz Plumbing Co D. E. FITZGERALD, 43, sales manager Pieree Oil Corporation. GEORGE GOENER, president Wellston Trust Co. J. E. CHASNOFF, tising man. A. J. ODEGAARD, 32, man. BURT CROUCH, ager. J. L. HAEHNLEN, mechanical engineer. ROBY GREEN, merchant, Her- rin, Ill. | THOMAS BB. salesman. E. J. McKENNA, New York. A. T. RANUS, Chicago, in- surance. NORMAN HANCOCK, man. FRANK W. salesman. J. W. McGUINNESS, 42, buyer. ALLAN DOW, 45, buyer. WILLIAM A. HUNICKE, civil engineer. ALLEN R. HANCOCK, 30, 4141 Cook avenue, salesman. 26, adver- sales- sales man- SHYNE, 34, sales- ALBRIGHT, 40, MAN DYING, GIRL HE TRIED TO SAVE KILLED WILLIAMSON, W. Va., March 12— While attempting to save the life of Miss Dixie Blackburn, his sweetheart. whose foot was caught in a railway trestle near here today, William McCoy was struck by a train and tossed into a ravine 50 feet below. Miss Blackburn was instantly killed and McCoy was dying when picked up by the train crew. Goethals ae to Satll March 20. WEST POIN N. Y., March 12.—Col. George W. Goethals and Mrs. Goethals are spending a few days at the military academy, as the guests of Col. Gustav- J. Fieberger, professor of civil and mili- tary engineering. Col. Goethals expects ty sail for Panama on March ®. SIGNATURES PILE UP ON FREE BRIDGE PETITIONS Citizens’ Committee Says Southern Traction Receivers’ O.fer to Accept Cut in Loop Fran- chise Helps 1000 Canvassers Initiative petitions for the completion of the free bridge by ihe Reber approacii route were being circulated Thursday by not less than 1000 volunteer canvass- the Citizens’ which is conducting ers, according to Free Bridge Committee, the campaign. The number of canvassers was being increased every hour by the continuous stream of volunteers applying at the committee’s headquarters in the Bus- ness Men’s League offices at Broadway and Locust street for petitions to cir- culate. Petitions dontaining more than 2000 signatures have already been turned in The committee was accurate estimate by ihe canvassers. to make an of signatures already except unable of the number because the canvassers, have not reported taken, in a few instances, back to headquarters. The committee stated Thursday that the action of the receivers of the South- ‘rn Traction Co. in agreeing with the Joint Committee of the Municipal As- sembly to accept the repeal of the W- year loop franchise and substitute for it a %-year grant with the right of the city to ,purchase the tracks at any time, had greatly accelerated the free bridge campaign. More Than 31,000 Names. The success which the precinct and teneral canvassers are meeting will, in the opinion of the Citizens’ Committee, produce more than the necessary 31,00 signatures by Saturday night. With 60 many canvassers in the field, the com- mittee anticipates that more than twice the necessary number of signatures will be turned in. The first report from a precinct —_—_ -——- canvass was made at 10 a. m. Thurs- day. It came from the Sixth precinct of the Twenty-third Ward. The can- vass was made by Thomas Kemp and Charles Morris. They reported that they obtained 150 signatures to their petitions, found 40 voters who had already signed the petitions, ang had but seven refusals. Michael J. Cremin of 4213A Castle- man avenue, a volunteer worker, turned in two petitions containing 300 signatures. He had a third peti- tion containing 100 more signatures, making 400 in all that he had ob tained in two days, while attending to his regular duties wesides. One Man Refuses to Sign. Luther H.-Conn, vice-president of the Tiger Tail Mill and Land Co., turned in two petitions containinz 320 signatures, and took out his third petition. He said that only one man out of all that he had approached had refused to sign. Many of the volunteer workers have almost abandoned their regular duties in their eagerness to obtain signatures. They are working night and day cir- culating the petitions. The Building Owners and Managers’ Association began a canvass of the office buildings Thursday to get the signa- tures of the lawyers, doctors and other professional men. Butler Bros., a whol-- sale house, reported that 6 of its em- ployes had volunteered their services in the canvass, and would work in any part of the city to which they were assigned. All the precinct petitions for the Fifth. Seventh, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Four- teenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nine- teenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty- seventh and Twenty-eighth wards, and many from the other wards had been taken out by Thursday morning by vol- unteer workers who promised to make Continuecd on Page 6, Column 4 | ED, 16 STILL IN RUINS to McK elvey TWO PERSONS SAY FIRE HAD ITS ORIGIN. / |\Men Who Had Been in Cafe Found Flames on Third Floor, and Chef Says Employe Told Him He Saw Small Blaze There—T. J. Wright’s Body, Little Burned, Picked Up Near Elevator Shaft. Four bodies recovered today; at least 16 bodies remain in the ruins. To get out all which can be recovered probably will take two or three days. The Municipal Assembly's Investigating Committee be- gins its work today. The Coroner's inquest will not. magn before next week. Fire Chief Swingley has men preparing lists of ‘tnsafe hotels, lodging houses and places of amusement. He .says he has reported unsafe buildings, from time to time, to the Building Commissioner, and that that official should have a list of them. ee ae ee M. A. C. chef says a scrubman told him he saw a small blaze on the dining room floor, and that, instead of putting it out, he ran and told the night watchman. ooo The missing register was found at 11:30 a. m. Clerk Graul found, by comparison, that his list made from meme ory was accurate. The number of dead will, in all prob- ability, be 30. The body of Thomas J. Wright, auditor of the Lemp Brewing Co. and secretary of the Apollo Club, and three other bodies, one of then believed to be that of Burt Crouch, sales manager of the Western Electric Co., were taken this morning from the ruins of the Missouri’ Athletic Club (Boatmen’s Bank) Building. This increased the number of bodies recovered to 14, and left 16 or more still in the wreckage, with 100 men working to reach them. Vright’s body was fully dressed, and was so little burned that it was. easily recognizable. It was lying, face downward, on the third floor, near the elevator shaft, and a towel was drawn over the head. This indicated that Wright was suffocated while trying to escape from the building, using the towel as a smoke hood. He had put on his over- coat. Burt Crouch’s Glasses Under One Body. The three other bodies were in a mass of debris near thé rear interior stairway, and apparently might have fallen from an upper floor. They were so burned that direct identification may be impossible, and one of them was headless. Under one body was « case containing a pair of rimless spectacles. The case was from Erker’s optical establishment, and Alfred Aigler, an optician em- tloyed there, later identified the glasses as those he had sold tv Burt Crouch last month. The three charred bodies were taken to the Morgue, where one unidentified body remained from those previously recovered. Wright’s body was found about 4 a. m. by the night shift of laborers, working under are and calcium lights. The other bodies were found after the day shift had gone to work. The day men, sceming to indicate that they were all that remained of a body. Employe Saw Blaze in Dining Room; Another Tells of Flames There Claude W. Gignoux of 3664 Page boule-; Chevalier of 449 West Belle place, who vard, vice-president of the Niemann“&]/ was chef at the M. A. C., teld @ reporter Gignoux Tailors Co., who escaped from / that an employe of the omen whose duty the Missouri Athletic Club fire, andiit was to scrub and clean whose narration of its tragic incidents to a Post-Dispatch reporter Thursday was as calm and dispassionate as any aA so far offered, made the positive as- the dining room, and ran sertion that the fire started on thel/ told the night watéhman., third floor, where the dining room wa4 located. | As further corroboration of this, Louls . # $ IN THE DINING ROOM soon afterward, found a number of boncs, one group in particular _ sa ogi ae aieamecellh lcieeianeetnnibeeia acenenli ee ne ae a Pipeeciat seh ty cdaaive 5, aunt 5 6 te COO a SN ew wn ane eae ‘4