St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 20, 1914

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The extensions of car lines recom- ended by Harrop are as follows: FOURTH STREET LINE should be removed from Grand avenue south of Lafayette avenue, and should be run west on Lafayette to connect with the Vandeventer ‘ne at Tower Grove avenue. JEFFERSON AVENUE LINE hould be taken from the Fair- fround vicinity and from Jeffer- én avenue and Hebert strcet it hould be run north to Broadway nad Salisbury street, running ast on Salisbury, north on Broadway and west on Bremen. PARK AND COMPTON CARS should be run to Shaw's Gardcn, this to be accomplished by build- ing a single track on Shenandoah and Botanical avenue from Thurman to Tower Grove avenue. This would give these lines a connection with the Vandeventer line. TAYLOR AVENUE LINE should be extended north on Taylor avenue from Florissant avenue to Broadway and South on King's highway from Man- chester avenue to Vandeventer avenue. HAMILTON LINE should be changed to run cars west on Delmar from Hamilton, south on Skinker road to Oakland avonue, which, the engineer states, would provide direct connection be- tween Maplewood and the west- ern part of the city, and between Maplewood and University Clty. GRAND AVENUE LINE should be extended south from Meramec street and King's highway t Carondelet Park. : SPALDING LINE should be ex- tended west on Spalding avenue from King’s highway to \nion boulevard. The New Loops Recommended. The few loops Harrop recommended to be completed within 90 days are: Hodiamont cars, instead of running eouth on Sixth street, should be run east on Locust to Fourth, north on Fourth to St. Charles, west on 8t. Charies to Broadway, south on Broad- way to Locust, and west on Locust. This change, Harrop says, would re- ig much of the Sixth street conges- Page, Park and Compton cars, in part, should be looped on Tenth and Eleventh streets, running east on Wash- ington to Tenth, north on Tenth to Lu- cas, West to Eleventh, sevth to Wash- ington and west on Washington. each 100 should be Chief Findings on Street Car Service HE principal recommendations Ty and findings of the Public Service Commission's chief engineers, in an investigation of the United Railways, are: Traffic is congested in the down- town district. Four additional loops should be constructed within 90 days. Other loops and extension of sev- eral lines should be constructed within four years. Seventy-six seats for passengers is enough. Smoking on cars stopped. Rear door should not be used for exit. Cars are sanitary. Even temperature of 50 degrees should be maintained in winter. Forced air heating system is good. Average speed of 9 to 10 miles an hour is maintained. OMPANY earms more per car in service than com- panies in many other large cities. Seat for each passenger is not physically financially possible. One standing passenger for each four square feet of space is not overcrowding. . City should prohibit by ordinance use of street railway tracks by vehicles. Pedestrians should be prohibit- ed from crossing street intersec- tions diagonally. Service during rush hours is suf- ficient. Cars in service: Morning, noon, 616; evening, 1261. 1110; on Broadway, west on Chippewa and nucrth on Jefferson. The other loops recommended are: Natural Bridge cars, instead of loop- ing around Sixth, Elm, ‘*ourth and Broadway, should be run east on Carr street to Broadway, south to Locust street, west to Sixth and north on Sixth to Wash street. | | Two loops In the vicinity of Union Sta- tion shoulld be provided. One should he for Park, Compton and Eighteenth street cars, which would run south on Fighteenth, east on Clark, north on Sev- enteenth, west on Walnut, and north on Eighteenth, permitting the turning back of some cars of these lines at Union Station. The other Union Station loop would be for Market, Laclede and Manchester lines, the cars running west on Market, south on Seventeenth, West on Wal- nut, north on Eighteenth, east on Mar- ket. . A loop for Olive streetcars at Grand avenue is recommended to turn back some west-bound Olive street cars. The cars would run west on Olive to Chan- ning, west en Lindell to Grand, north on Grand to Olive and east on Olive. The construction of double traék on Clark avenue, between Seventh and Ninth streets, is recommended. The construction of single track on Tenth street, from Washington avenue | to Market street, and on Eleventh street from Washington avenue to Market street, with curve connections to all in- tersecting lines, is recommended. Harrop reports that the condition of the United Railways reserve for depreciatibn is such that all of the venue and Chippewa iemends a new loop ars would run south n Winnebago, south ’ | MOTHER OF SLAIN WOMAN ON STAND IN CARMAN TRIAL Mrs. Duryee Is First of a Dozen Persons Called by State in Murder Trial. MAID TO TELL STORY Witnesses Tell of Seeing Physi- cian’s Wife Pass Through. | Office Night of Killing. MINEOLA, L. L., Oct. 20.—So swiftly did the trial of Mrs. Florence Conklin charged with the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey, in the office of the defendant’s husband, Dr. Edwin Car- man, in Freeport, move that within two and one-half hours after the convening of court this morning District Attorney Smith had made his opening address to the jury and a dozen witnesses had been examined. .The jury was selected yesterday, the same day the trial opened. Mrs. Jennie Dufyee, mother of Mrs. Bailey, was called as the first witness. Mrs. Duryee, a motherly looking wom- an of 70 years, burst into tears as soon as she took the stand. She said, be- tween sobs, that the last time she saw her daughter alive was at 3:20 o'clock on the afternoon of June B®. “What is this?’’ asked Smith, hand- ing the witness a dark cloth object. “That's my daughter’s dress,’ said Mrs. Duryee. Mrs. Bailey's Carman, Daughter Cries. Madeline Bailey, the dead woman's daughter, was so overwhelmed at the sight of her mother’s dress, that she cried aloud. The dress was blue and accordion pleated. There was a dark stain on the back of It. f Mrs. Duryee said that her daughter Was 38 years old and described her. The witness was then excused and Harry de Beau, a real estate dealer of Hemp- stead, was called. De Beau said that at 7:06 o’clock on the night of June W, he saw Mrs. Bailey at the corner near the Carman house. He had known her for several years. he said, and knew the exact time, as he Was on his way to catch a train for New York. He saw Mrs. Bailey cross the street and go towards the doctor's office. Katherine Haggerty of Rockville Cen- ter, the next witness, fixed Mrs. Bai- ley’s whereabouts at 6 o’clock on the night of the murder at the home of us mutual friend, Mrs. Crahcaw, in Rock- ville Center. Stenographer on the Stand. Miss Lazel Cowles, a stenographer of Freeport, testified that she went to Dr. Carman’s office to consult him on the night of June 30, and that while she was waiting in the reception room a woman wearing a dark dress entered. It was in- ferred that the woman was Mrs. Bailey. Mrs. Carman passed through the recep- tion room twice, the witness said, once after the woman in the dark dress had arrived. When Miss Cowles left the of- fice the dark-gowned woman was still there. _ Coriden Nortoh, Coroner and Justice of the Peace in Freeport, was called to the stand. Coroner Norton said he was called to the Carman house about 8:45 o'clock. Mrs. Bailey was then dead. Later that night, the Coroner said, he examined the office, the window through which the shot had been fired and the ground outside. He said the window screen was propped up with a piece of shingle. The fastenings on the screen were undamaged. Some of the glass from the pane was on the floor of the office, some was on the ground outside and some was held between a lace curtain and the inside window sill, he said. Wiliam D. Bailey, husband of the vic- tim, testified that he had been notifier about 9 o’clock of his wife's death When he arrived at the Carman house, 10 minutes later, he found her bod) on the sofa. Dr. Howard E. Phipps of Hempstead. who performed the autopsy, testified that Mrs. Balley would have become a mother had she lived. Celia Coleman, the negro maid in the Carman household, and two other wit- nesses on whom the State leans heav- ily, were to take the stand, it was be- Heved, this afternoon. Woman Seen in Hall. George Golder of Freeport testified that while waiting in Dr. Carman’s re- ception ne i the night of the mur- der, he heard a crash of glass, closely followed by a revolver shot, Golder said he ran out on the lawn, but saw no one. Just before the shooting, Golder said, he heard someone in the house playing a piano. A woman's voice called from upstairs, “Stop playing.” A moment later he saw Elizabeth Carman, the de- fendant’s daughter, pass down the hall- way. A woman in white, Golder said, passed down the hall from the front of the house to the rear and back again, a 1 and extensions recomm aa Gai en eae 4 Columa : son a Columa CH ADVANCE T0 STRONG POSITIONS IN ALSAG 3 a BRITISH FLEET HELPS BELGIANS IN HOLDING. THE NIEUPORT LINE Battlefield a Sea of Mud,but Germans Continue to Send Up Reinforces ments—French Victors in Bayonet Duels From Floor to Floor of Houses. i By ASSOCIATED PRESS. at BERLIN, Oct. 20, by wireless to Sayville, L. I—It was off cially stated here today that the British new submarine E3 wag sunk on Sunday, Oct. 18, by German warships in the North Sea. The destruction of the British submarine E3 by German warships in the North Sea, as annonuced from Berlin, is, the first logs suffered by the British submarine service since the outbreak of the war. The E3 was completed in 191%, She was 176 feet long and 22% feet beam. She was capable of making 16 knots’ above the water and 10 knots below and was equipped with four 21-inch torpedex, tubes. Her complement consisted of 16 men. PARIS, Oct. 20.—Increasing satisfaction was shown by the people of Paris today on reading the latest reports from the front. These indicate that the allies are continuing their offensive opera tion, which, in the opinion of observers, promise the best results The action of the Belgian army and of a squadron of British war- ships in repulsing an attack by the enemy is‘a subject of particu- larly favorable comment. | The public was equally gratified by the announcement of the situation in Alsace. This was the first time in some days that the War Office has indicated definitely the French positions. It is now seen that French troops have almost reached the outlet of the val- leys leading to the plains of the River Ill, which flows north through. Alsace and empties into the Rhine, : Germans Preparing New Defensive Works Around Strassburg, The French now consider that they are firmly established in Alsace on territory doubly dear to them. Word has been received also that the Ger- mans are hastily preparing’ new defensive works around Strassburg and dige ging innumerable trenches in front of this city. Vineyards have been leveled by the German engineers in carrying out this work. The fighting in the vicinity of Lille has been watched with deep interest here, and it is hoped that not many days will pass before the allies take this position. | The official communication given out this afternoon says: In Belgium, in spite of violent attacks on the part of the enemy, the Belgian army has held its position on the line on the River Yser. ‘‘Theze have been other actions in the regions of Ypres between the allied forces operating in this territory and the forces of the enemy. + ‘‘On our left wing the Germans continue to bold strongly their advane posts around Lille in the direction of Armentieres, Fournes and Le Basses. ‘‘On the Meuse, the enemy has endeavored in vain to drive back the advance posts of our troops, who have moved out along the right bank of this stream in the peninsula of the Camp des Romains. | ‘‘To sum up, during the day of Oct. 19, we have made progress at various points on the front.’’ British Fleet Helps Belgians Repulse Attacks. The official communication issued by the War Office last night said: ‘(In Belgium attacks by the Germans between Nieuport and Dixmude bave been repulsed by the Belgian army, effectively aided by the British fleet. ’ -% ‘‘Between Arras and Roye slight progress has been made at several points, Our troops have reached as far as the wire net work of the defense. ‘‘In the neighborhood of St. Mihiel we have gained some ground on the right bank of the Meuse. ‘‘No news of importance has been recelved regarding the remainder of the front.’’ , Battlefield a Sea of Mud, but Germans = Continue to Send Up Reinforcements LONDON, Oct. 20.—The plunging German attacks on the allied lige near the Belgian coast between Nieuport and by the allies in France between Arras and claimed, a continued allied assault on Lille, and stubborn fighting in the vicinity of St. Mi allies have been trying to drive the Germans lodgement, were the acute points today behal - oo France and Belgium. The communications issued in Britons to visualize for the first line after crossing the Belgian fron the days of censorship were throwing inevitable German advance which followed