St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 19, 1914

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’ Some Unheralded Beauties of St. Louis Revelation by the camera con- cerning the loveliness of St. Louis women. See the NEXT f Names to Spare ST 0 1s OST-DISP Only Evenmg Paper in’ St-Lous Wuh the Associated Press News Service. CH NIGHT EDITION FINANCIAL MARKETS VOL. 66. NO. 214. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1914—24 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT. | SPO RTS —_ we Sunday Post-Dispatch 1000 PETITIONS CARRY A0,000 SIGNATURES: 3000 NOT YET COUNTED 10,000 More Names Than _ Needed Are Assured, With Many Lists Yet to Report. ONLY FIVE OF 28 WARDS HAVE BEEN HEARD FROM Initiative Petitions Probably Will Go to Council for Recognition Friday or Saturday—Circu- lators Worked Without Pay and Drug- gists Were Among Hardest Workers. Free bridge initiative petitions containing the signatures of 40,- 000 registered voters—nearly 10,000°in excess of the number re- quired—had been filed with the Citizens’ Committee at 1 p. m. “Thursday, thus.assuring the success of the campaign inaugurated by 81 civic, business and improvement associations following the refusal of the House of Delegates to pass the Hines bill, providing for a special election on a bond issue of $2,750,000 to complete the bridge by the Reber approach route. The necessary 31,000 signatures were received in the office of the Citizens’ Committee at Broadway and Locust street at 12:30 p. m., just half an hour after the time announced for the closing of the campaign. With 40,000 signatures already filed, there still remained in the hands of volunteer workers almost 3000 petitions. from but five out of the 28 wards. high as 70,000, Complete returns have been received The $1,000 mark was passed when former State Senator Charles F. Busche of the North St. Louis Business Men's Asso- ciation brought in petitions from the HDighteenth Ward containing 1315 sig- natures. Many More Are Expected. ‘Busche said that several precincts in the ward had not been reported to him. and that he would have at least 10) more signatures to precinct petitions, and that in addition many hundred vot- ers in the ward had signed general p-- tions, and were not accounted for in the precinct petitions. The Citizens’ Committee’s free bridge initiative petition was inaugurated 10 Gays @go. Its success was assured fro:a the very beginning because hundreds of business and professional men, connect- ed with the various associations allied in the movement, volunteered their services to circulate the initiative peti- tions. From three to four men in every precinct in the city tendered their serv- ices to aid in the campaign, and, in ad- dition, approximately 2000 other men, including several hundred druggists. ‘volunteered to help in the fight to com- plete the free bridge. The initiative petitions will be filed with the Board of Election Com- missioners Friday or Saturday. The Commissioners will be allowed 15 days to check up and verify the peti- tiong and certify them to the Munici- pal Assembly. To Be Sent to Assembly. The petitions, with an ordinance at- tached, then will go to the Assembly. The Assembly can pass immediately, without amendment, the ordinance calling a special election on the bond fiasue, or tt can hold the petitions 40 days and then authorize an election on the ordivance. If the Assembly should pursue that course, two spe- cial elections will be necessary—one on the ordinance, and the other on the bond issue. The Citizens’ Committee believes the many signatures to the initiative petitions will influence the Municipal Assembly to call a special bond issuas election without delay, . so that the people may have an opportunity to vote the money to complete the bridge not later than June 15. If the two elections have to be held, they cannot vote directly on the bond issue until November. Worked Without Pay. a remaraaote feature of the initia- tive campaign is that not one of the 4900 men participatirg in the circula/ tion of the petitions received § any money for his work. The men circu- lating the petitions were inspired by civie pride, and a desire to have the bridge completed at the earliest pos- le mement. Thureday the bridge workers be- It is estimated that when these 3000 petitions came in the total number of signatures would be well above 50,000—possibly as nouncement that 800 more would be filed before night. Druggiats Get Many Names. James A. Witkins of the Union Ave- nue.-Pharmacy, 1110 North Union avenue, brought in a petition containing the sig- natures of 160 voters who had visited his store to get their names on the list. Many other druggists reported from 50 to 100 signatures to the petitions they had kept in their stores during the last three or four days. An incomplete report from the Fiftn Ward showed that 6) voters had signed the petitions. The canvassers re- ported that on account of the shifting population in this ward they were un- able to find many registered voters. The canvassers in the Twenty-first Ward will meet Friday night to complete their work, and acknowledge their peti- tions. It is believed by the Citizens Committee that the precinct petitions will contain more than the required 31,- 000 signatures, which will make it un- necessary for the Board of Election Commissioners to check up and verify the general petitions which will contain almost as many more signatures. Workers in the Twentv-seventh and Twenty-eighth wards estimated that approximately one-half the voters had signed general petitions, and that a checking up of all the petitions woula show not less than 4000 signers in the Twenty-seventh and probably 4500 in the Twenty-eighth. The canvassers reporting Thursday said they had met virtually no opposi- tion to the bridge bond proposition in any part of the city. The only diffi- culty was in reaching the voters with the petitions. B. F. Ittner of Flora Court, South St. Louis, told a Post- Dispatch reporter that out of 460 peo- ple he solicited he had but four re- fusals. One of the features of the campaign is that several persons living in St. Louis County, but doing business in St. Louis, volunteered their services in circulating the petitions. Dr. Edward J. Randall, member of the City Council and also of the Joint Conference Committee of the Council and House of Delegates, who has been a strong supporter of the Alton & Mis- sissippi approach proposition, turned in a petition containing the signatures of 130 votes. The petitions call for a vote on a bond issue to build the Reber aps proch. How they do it The amount of display adver- — distributed by the St. Louis merchants in the five city papers Wednesday follows: POST-DISPATCH alone.. 2 morning papers combined ..............48 Cols, pers eree ea 8 & #3 .51 Ools. 2 evening com ...+- 48 Cols, That’s all. Bt. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. oe average entire year 1913: Daily (cf Stneay ) 171,214 Sunday, 307,524 First in Everything. PRESIDENT TELLS SENATOR JONES HE WAS ON THIN IC [Denies That Tolls Message Was Influenced by Sir Lionel Carden’s Visit. a IN A CORRECTION JONES He Informs Senate After Call at White House His Remarks Were Misunderstood. WASHINGTON, March 19.—President Wilson told Senator Jones, Republican, of Washington, today, that he was “skating on thin ice” in his speech yesterday, which broadly intimated that the President had not decided to read a message to Congress on the Panama tolls question until after Sir Lionel Car- den, British Minister to Mexico, visited the White House. The Senator went to discuss with the President certain regulations of a pend- ing fisheries bill affecting the salmon industry in the Northwest, but Mr. Wil- son turned the conversation to the Sen- ator’s speech of yesterday. Got Nothing From Carden. The President told callera afterward that he could not get a suggestion on the Mexican question out of Sir Lionel ‘‘with a corkscrew,” and that the con- ference was purely for information on the general situation in Mexico. The President had written his tolls mes- sage and decided to deliver it before he saw Sir Lionel. Officials said neither the tolls question nor any suggestions for future policy in the Mexican situa- tion came up in the talk with Sir Lionel. Senator Jones returned to the Capitol and gave to the Senate the President's unqualified denial. Jones Gives Denial in Senate. “The President assures me," said Jones, “that there was no basis of fact in the articles I referred to, to. warrant ernment and its relations with Great Britain in, the matter. I think I was niisunderstood in that [ did not draw the conclusions myself, but took them from newspaper reports. I think it only just to the President that I make this state- ment because I do not want to misrepre- sent anybody.”’ Action again was defcrred when Sen- ator Bristow requested that it go over until he could confer with members of the Canals Committee. BROTHER IDENTIFIES FIRE VICTIM’S TORSO Connecticut Man Picks Out EF. J. McKenna by Size of His Body. H. J. McKenna of Meriden, Conn., vis- ited the morgue Thursday and claimed the headless-legless body there as that of his brother, Edward J. McKenna, 26 years old, who lost his life in fhe M. A. C. fire. This leaves three unidentified M. A. C. victims at the morgue. McKenna looked at four bedies and decided the torso was that of his broth- er by comparing the size of the body with that of the others. He told Deputy Coroner Fath his brother came to St. louis a week before the fire with the seneral manager of a Meriden saw manufacturing cempany te work the lo- cal trade for a week. He said the gen- eral manager introduced his brother at the club. Edward McKenna had been married a year. The body will be taken to Meriden for burial. APPENDICITIS POLICY $5 LONDON, March 19.—A group of “Lloyd’s underwriters some months ago fixed a premium of $2.50 for policies »f insurance against appendicitis covering all claims for expenses up to $500. There have been so many claims that it hin been found impossible to continue on these terms. A new syndicate has been formed, however, and the premium has been raised to $5. CLOUDY, MORE SNow, TEMPERATURE NEAR 26 THERES ALWAYS ROOM FOR ONE MORE RE with snow; not much change in temperature, the lowest tonight _— be about 26 e For Missouri— Unsettied tonight and Friday; prob- ibly snow; not . ava change tn senperctune: moderats to brisk northerly winds. For Iliinois—Unsettled tonight and Fri- day; probably.snow; not much change in the conclusions with regard to this Gov- | Arrow/ indicates position: in‘ basement where rescuers found Burke, pinned under timbers. jagged, U-shaped break in the west wall of the M. A. C., a portion of which toppled onto the seed company’s { “building and carried the roof and rear half of four floors into the basement. To the left is the ~ ee NURSE MARRIES DOCTOR SEGREILY, Kathryn Daley and Helen Lawrence, nurses at Henrietta Hospital, Hast St. Louis, last September agreed that the one who married last should buy a din- ner for the bride. Miss Daley, who is 20 years old,:mar- ried Charles Webb, 26-years old, an at- torne;, March.7. They had fallen in love while she was nursing him after Lan operation at the hospital. So Wednes- day afternoon .she telephoned to Miss Lawrence, announcing her readiness to have the dinner. A few hours later Webb, his bride, Miss Lawrence and Dr. A. E. Rives of - the cafe agreed upon. 554 North Twenty-fourth street, went to Neither couple appeared sparing while ordering the din- ner. , “Doc doesn’t care how much-he eats,” Webb whispered to his bride, nudging her and smiling knowingly. “He'll faint when he sees the bill,’’ Mrs. Webb whispered. After the dinner the waiter handed Webb a bill: for $17. “Here, doc, look at this,"" Webb said, “it should interest. you.” “Not interested at all,”’ Dr. Rives re- sponded, nonchalantly. “But you owe it,”” Webb persisted. Whereupon Dr. Rives deliberately drew from his pocket a marriage certifi- cate showing he. and Miss Lawrence had been married at Louisville March 2, five days before the Webb-Daley nup- tials. Webb paid the bill. He is a nephew of State’s Attorney CHarles,. Webb ; of East St. Louis and resides at 625 Norta Twenty-fifth street, Dr. Rives. was the Republican nominee for Coroner of 8. ly winda. temperature; moderate to brisk sabes Clair “Jamt November. WINS A DINNER S FLOURISHING Prosecuting asics fair’ Gaaehy of St. Louis County Thursday announced he would present the names of 21. young men of Clayton to the grand fury to see if that body wished to indict them on charges of gambling. Among the young men, he said, are sons of county offi- cials, ex-offictals and prominent resi- Cents. : Lashly said the names had been fur- nished to him in letters he had received from complaining citizens. The games, he said, are played in pool halls, resi- dences and offices. Poker and Kelly pool, he said, are played. This Clayton coterie, it was explained by a member of it, has become “poker mad" since Excise Commissioner Fine put the lid on penuchle in county sa- loons. Before the’ penuchle lid was clamped, he aisd, the young men gath- ered in private rooms in saloons and rlayed for the drinks, but since then they have been spending their evenings and Sundays playing poker in games in which the limit ranges from 15 cents to table stakes. In 24 out of 2% games, some of the players said, the game is what is kriown as penny-ante. After the games the winner usually buys spaghetti for the crowd. BRYAN IS 54 TODAY WASHINGTON, March 19.—-Secretary Bryan: celebrated his fifty-fourth birth- day. anniversary today, receiving con- .gratulations of colleagues and friends. He had expected to celebrate the event by signing peace treaties with Brazil, Argentina and Chile, but the conven- 4tions were not “prepared in time. r s s IDENTIFIED DEAD. William W. Davidson, 1508 Park avenue, laborer, died on way tod city hospital. Charles L. Gryder, 55 years old, 713 North Thirty-second street, East St. Louis, laborer. Frank Weber, laborer. Thomas Burke, 50 years old, car- penter’s helper, 3910 Evans avenue: taken out alive, but died at city hospi- tal. Walter Spaulding, 55 years old, a laborer. Body identified at morgue by Henry Biehrendt, his roommate at the South House, Broadway and Clark av- enue. DEAD UNIDENTIFIED. Body, taken out at 11:50 p. m., Wednesday; 45 years old, 5 feet 1! inch- es, 175 pounds; black hair and blue eyes, black mustache; blue shirt, black sweat- er coat, gray trousers, black cap and black shoes; knife, red handkerchief and $1.55 in pockets. Body, taken out at 3 a. m., Thursday; 35 years old, 5 feet 7 inches, 180 pounds; brown eyes, black hair, high forehead; blue overalls and jumper, striped trousers, black sateen _ shirt, trown sweater coat, black cap and laced | boots, size 7; wore a ring with imita- tion diamond setting and had black purse containing 2 cents. ; BRITISH AVIATOR KILLED, IS FOURTH IN 9 DAYS Lieut. H. F. Treeby Falls 260 Feet to Death at Army Aero- drome at Salisbury Pi@in. SALISBURY, England, Marth 1).—An- other officer of the Royal fying corps ef the British army was killed tere to- day. Lieut. H. F. Treeby of the Duke cf Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, was flying in a biplane over the army's aviation grounds when the machine side- siipped and fell te earth from a height of 30 feet. Treeby is the fourth I ator killed at Salisbury 1 h army avi- ain aerodroine in aine days, ) MAN LIVES 38 HOURS UNDER - RUINS; DIES WHEN RESCUED - DEATHS FROM FALL Or M. A.C. WALL ON SEED STORE NOW 7 —— Search of Debris Had Been Sus- pended for Six Hours Before | Man Was Found Alive. WRECKAGE ALL SHIFTED; NO MORE BODIES THERE | Thomas Burke, Who Was Doubled Up in One Position All the Time, Succumbs to Exhaus- tion Two Hours After Being Taken From iguana Given Water Through Tube. | After being buriedtee 38. hours in. the, wreckage of the O—-- Louis Seed Co. store, crushed by. the » falling west wall of the burned M. A. C. building adjoining, Thomas Burke, 50 years old and unmarried, a laborer, was taken from the ruing alive shortly after 4 a. m. today. He died at 6:05 o’clock at the city hospital. His death increased to seven the known fatalities of this tragic second chapter of the M. A. C. fire. a“ He was one of six employes of the Wimmer Construetion Co. at work on the_roof of the seed store building when the M. A. wall collapsed Tuesday afternoon. For more than six hours yesterday afternoon, the workers who had been delving into the wreckage for other bodies were kept away from the ruins by order of Building Commissioner McKelvey while he directed the work of trying to tear down the Washington avenue wall of the M. A. C. shell. He had taken it for granted that no victim in the debris was still living and feared that searchers might be buried by another collapse of a wall. At 2 o’clock this afternoon Detective Sergeant Blanehfield told : the reporters at the scene that while considerable wreckage re- mained in the seed store ruins, it had all been turned over by the workmen and no more bodies were there.. When wreckers reached Burke at 4:15 a. m. he was still conscious. Three bodies had already been taken out by the night force of wreckers, and it was not suspected that anyone pinioned under the ruins was still alive. As workmen were carrying the sixth body from the rear sect. tion of the basement they heard a faint cry almost at their feet. ‘‘Please give me a drink of water,’’ said the voice. Laying down the body which they already had recovered, the wreckers started desperately to pull away timbers from above the place whence the voice seemed to come. Ce Gat ee ee ae am wifitacs 30 rg ak eerie ont Be soli After 15 minutes they uncovered Burke, who at intervcls hed : continued to beg for a drink of water. Doubled Up in Same Position 38 Hours. As one of the workmen described Burke’s position to the police, he was ‘¢rolled up like a hoop.’’ He was bent over a timber in such 9 way that face was touching his toes and the weight of a great mass of wreckage above him made it impossible for him to change his position in the 38 hours Be was under the wreckage. Emergency treatme:.t was given to Burke by Dr. A. H. De Masey, . city ambulance physician, zt the ruins. Stimulants and hypodermic injections were administered. It vw. fouid thet his physicial injuries in themselves would not have been sufficieot to cazse death, but the shock and the strain of re- maining so long pinioned wader the ruins without nourishment had sapped his vitality. His right leg was freetured and his body bruised. The terrible ordeal of being sithout water for more than 38 hours, was, in itself, sufficient to account for deiriam and exhaustion, Dr. De Masey said The first thing done to relieve Hurke’s exhaustion when he was found under the ruins was to give him a drink af water, Before the wreckage had been cleared -*/ficiently to get him out, Dr. : De Masey pushed a silver tube through the wreexu ge and ip & short time sue ceeded in placing the lower end of the tube between Burke's .. Water was then poured into the tube, a spoonful at a time. 1 = — Dr. De Masey also gave Burke a small quantity of brandy . ae after administering the water. “Still Some Kind Men in World,” He Says... Dr. De Masey Thursday told a Post- Dispatch 1 with Burke while he lay under the wreckage. eee, ‘* How do you feel? Have you any pain?’’ asked the decter. aks ‘¢<I’m hurt all over,’’ replied Burke. With « view to administering « hypodermic injection to came, the pels Dr. De Masey asked: © . ‘Where does it hurt most?’ | i Z “T can’t move my lege, and iy neck hurts,’’ come the weak reply, When he could get close ex ls a nister 2 ’ Naa Ne “ ; LC Sec: % ee 4 Ai - . Rae Stent ial Oe ee ee I a ~ RI, ee ee em ling eG