St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 10, 1901

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LR i eh is : id age » # * a -k - ed ‘ : Er ‘ 7 : ee a ae as : : ae $ : Ss «J inc 7 4 ‘ Say eM a . a * . . ee ging 2 4 oe : oe . va Let eS ee e , 3 A ae AP ts . ot 4 +) ‘ wn? - pr ~. #, , y : + . a SF ere Gaee. * . » “— Se oA ce ae . * ‘LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPA oe ee XRG ae J met —— aetna ena aan ae ae ee ee _— = gt sp : at a IR he ES 5 IEE EG a ES | 7 * . » ‘ees ae fe ad ee i Sods . 9 a + “VOL. 53, NO. 293. MONDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—JUNE 10, 1901. — : PRICE{ St. ais, One Cent. ~ ide St. Louis, Two Cents. © a ih ee ¥ ed ~ * « TN CAR WRECK Morning Collision Shakes Up Nearly 100 Persons * MANY WOMEN WERE ABOARD INJURED WERE PASSENGER REY- NOLDS AND MOTORMAN. Fourth Street Car, Running on 29- Minute Schedule From Tower Grove Park to Fourth Street, Struck Bellefontaine Car. INJURED. William Reynolds, dry goods packer, 7105 Virginia avenue. Charles Rinker, motorman, 1915 1-2 Park avenue. Two men were injured and nearly 100 persons shaken up in a street car wreck at Park avenue and Grattan street at 7:45 o'clock Monday morning. Wile running at a high rate of speed, in order to make the schedule of 29 minutes from Tower Grove Park to North Fourth street, car No. 182. of the Fourth street line, going east, collided with southbound car No. 1312 of the Bellefontaine-California division. There were between 60 and 70 passengers on the Fourth street car, including many women. The southbound car carried a dozen or more passengers, mostly men. : Charles Rinker, 28 years of age, the mo- torman on the Fourth street car, was caught in the wreckage of the front plat- form and his leg was painfully bruised. William Reynolds, me 44 years, a pack- er for the Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co., who been at work all night and was on his way home on the Bellefontaine car, was bruised and stunned. Both he and Rinker were taken to the be Ba City Hospital, where their injuries were pronounced not serious. Several other passengers, who received slight bruises or collapsed on account of the shock, were cared for tn the neighbor- ing drug stores and were soon able'to go to their homes The Fourth street car has the right of way at this crossing, on account of the down-grade, and the motorman usually slows up without stopping. Rinker and his conductor, E. D. Morris of 3902 Park avenue, admit they did not v F on ee : e - Oo Sw > ‘ * - . a ‘a. 2 4 . . Pe Sy m. 4 43 WOE sp See — é sy es 0, ZG 3 >} > BH stop at the.crossing, although the former says he rang his gong for half a block before reaching it. The motorman on the Bellefontaine car, O. T. Sears of 1026 Newstead avenue, and the conductor, W. Gillings of 4826 Fairfax avenue, say they reached the crossing, slowed up and had almost cleared it, when the Fourth street car struck their car in the rear. Mr. Reynolds, the only passenger severe- ly injured, was sitting on next to the last seat in the car. SCENE OF MONDAY’S STREET CAR ACCIDENT. PARK AVENUE AND GRATTAN STREET 20 MINUTES AFTER THE COLLISION. 6-~0 0-0 —-0-- 0-20-1190 — 0 —o—_o—_o— > 0 _0—_ o_0—_o o_o _ o_o —Photographed by the Post-Dispatch. + -o ¢ ¢ The schedule on the Fourth street line requires that a round trip be made in one hour, or 29 minutes each way, with one minute for switching. The operatives say this cannot be made except by running 20 miles an hour over a large portion of the distance. The front platform and part of the roof of the Fourth street car were completely demolished. The Bellefontaine-California car appear- ed to be but little damaged and soon pro- ceeded on its way. NIST SEEKERS FIND A CORPS Little Girls Discovered It in Abandoned Quarry. REMAINS ARE CHARLES MEYERS HAD BEEN MSSING FROM HOME FOUR DAYS. Nellie and Katie Garvey and their little friend, Mabel Lacy, while hunting daisies on the bluffs of old Carondelet Sunday ai- ternoon, found, near a deserted quarry at the foot of Primm street, the body of Charles Meyers, with a bullet through his eart HE Meyers was a carpenter, 40 years old. He had been missing from his room at 6801 | Sou.> Rroadway, since Wednesday. A revoive., with one,empty chamber, was lying near the y. The theory of the Carondelet police, af- wed a thorough investigat'on. is that he shot mself. But for the children’s visit the body might have remained undiscevered in the clump of lashes by the quarry side. . Nellie Garvey lives at 694 Tesson street, a block from the abandoned quarry. She is ll years old. Sunday afternoon she and her friend, Ma- bel Lacy, started for the river cliffs where the freshest wild flowers grow. Katie Garvey, believing that her 8 years entitled her to go with the older os. set up @ vocal complaint that ended in the granting of her wish. The children found great bunches of daisies around the old quarry. unsatisfied with the flowers at hand, ran to the clump of trees near the quarry brink. Under the high matted grass she peered for ferns and started back fTwith a cry. ‘There is a man there,’ she called, and Katie and Mabel ran to her side. They approached the spot from a different direction than the one followed by Nellie. Nellie was not bold enough to investigate the discovery further, so she and her com- panions ran home with a tale that sént T. Garvey, her father, to the point of mystery. He could not discover the body and he called up the Carondelet police. Sergeant Neun of the Carondelet station responded and found the body. He sent it to the morgue. ONLY QUESTION Building Material Must Be Delivered Quickly. SITE COMMITTEED PERPLEXED MATTER MAY BE DISPOSED OF AT ANY MOMENT. President Francis Is Absent From the City and Vice-President Spencer Will Preside at Monday’s Committee Meeting. How to get building material on the grounds quickest—this is the only snag that delays the selection of a World's Fair site. Secretary Walter B. Stevens says that this problem has assumed most important proportions and is serving to perplex the executive committee more than any other phase of their deliberations. “It is the important question,” he told the Post-Dispatch at noon Monday. “Leaving out the subject of accessibility for passenger traffic, the committee has become confronted with what it deems a more serious consideration than even the first matter. “It is realized by the members that if the Fair is to be built on schedule time, a site must be chosen which can be reached readily with the sinews of war. Conse- quently this proposition is receiving the most earnest attention of the committee. It may be disposed of at any moment.” President Francis departed for the East fiunday night to attend the wedding of his s0n. His absence will in no wise delay the selection of a site when the committee shall bave reached that stage of their work. * Vice-President Corwin H. Spencer con- ferred with President Francis Saturday re- garding the work of the committee. He will de Monday afternoon at the meeting hich takes place at 3 o'clock. President Francis will visit the Pan-Amer- Exposition to look after the Louisiana hase building before he returns. He aiso intends stopping in New York and Bos- ton in the interest of the Fair, so that his trip will consume several days. He did not desire to delay the selection of the site @o called in Mr. Spencer. $ Ze The press and publicity committee met at 12:30 - | = clock Monday morning to consider gneans of advertising the Fair throughout the country and abroad. There was an inti- on that an official bulletin would be é5- SIR WALTER BESANT DEAD. The Famous Novelist a Victim of In- fluenza. LONDON, June 10.—S8ir Walter Besant, the novelist, died yesterday at his resi- dence in H ead, after a fortnight’s ill- from influenza. He was born in 1836. t was to have attended the Atlantic ion dinner to t and propose the toast 8 ing Communities.”’ RECAPTURED A LUNATIC. Dangerous Maniac Escaped From Mis- souri Asylum Two Years Ago. 8ST. JOSEPH, Mo., June 10.—D. 8. Sho- walter, a dangerous lunatic, who two years ago escaped from insane asylum No. 2, has been recaptured. Showalter was sent to the asylum from Clark county, Mo., after made a murderous assault upon a | awaitin Sa ay Ae P ._ = a@ a, 4 ue ‘ ‘ . + 5.1 7! Be SPD BP OA hae Pie pire ne! iy th oy eS RE tape = = 7 &, > } x : a & oo : , : ' 2 a Fe : , Pa ie a Ne ae Bed Bethe ; pte oo pee ele Oe q + | eet a ‘ : ‘ Bree 4 ' , co a 2 as Stee ba eR yin © "ae 3 gee me . CONTRACTOR 1S HELD LABAR LOS FLOYD FINLEY ADMITS HE TOOK) PATRON’S MONEY. HOME IS POPLAR BLUFF, MO. SST = a eh tio He Says He Used the Money in De- serting His Wife for An- other Woman. Floyd Finley, 28 years old, a contractor, who has a wife and 2-year-old son at Pop- lar Bluff, Mo., was arrested at Twelfth street and Washington avenue at 8 o'clock ‘Monday morning by Detective Sullivan, and is now a prisoner at the Four Courts. He admits that the charge that he took $700 entrusted to him by one of his patrons is true, and that he deserted his own wife and child and came to St. Louis with an- other woman. “I didn’t exactly mean to embezzle the money,” said Finley to the Post-Dispatch. “I have been married about five years and have been a contractor for three years. I was trusted and respected in the town. My wife and I never did get along well, and a few weeks ago she went to her mother’s home. “I had a contract to dg some building for J. P. Arrendale. He advanved me $700. I got to figuring up and saw that I was $500 in debt. IE paid ff this debt with Arrendale’s money. hat left me §200. “Five weeks ago I met a fine looking girl from Doniphan, Mo. I loved her the first time I ever saw her. We intend to get married as soon as I get a divorce from my wife. With Arrendale’s $200 we cam to St. Louls, leaving Poplar Bluff at o’clock last Wednesday night. I have just $2 of that money left. I do not know what became of the Laianre. I had just started to work here when the detective arrested me. I intended to send Arrendale’s $700 back to him as soon as I could save it up by working.”’ ree | Detective Sullivan arrested Fifley on a state warrant issued by a justice of the peace at Poplar Bluff. He will be held the action of the Poplar Bluff authorities. AGAINST STREET LITTERING Mayor and Other City Officials Will Request the Public to Refrain From It. An appeal to the public to refrain from throwing waste paper and other refuse on the streets and sidewalks will be issued in a few days over the signatgre of sev- eral city officials. i : While the police, at Mayor Wells’ order, have recently prevented the piling of dirt from excavations in such a way as to ob- struct the streets, it has been found impos- sible for the police to stop the littering of the street with small articl@s of refuse. For this reason it has been decided to lay the condition before the public in the form of an official appeal. A draft of the proposed appeal has been sent by President Phillips of the Board of Public Improvements to Mayor Wells. It is a brief request to the general public to avoid littering tHe streets and to throw refuse into fires or garbage boxes. President Phillips will probably bring the condition to the attention of the of Public Improvements at Tuesday's meeting and the signature of the mayor and stree commissioner, as well as his own, will be attached to the appeal when it is promul- gated. “The littering of the streets has become almost an intolerable nuisance,’ said Mr. Phillips, “and while it might be possible to stop this by instructing the police to make arrests in such cases, we want to firgt oh 4 the effect of an appeal to the public, whic is good natured, even thoug sometimes careless. I believe that the people will pay attention to our request.” MISS WALTER GETS WARRANT. This Time John Hayes Is Named as the Defendant. | . Mias Mary Walter appeared at the Four Courts again Monday and obtained a war- * against John Hayes, alleging assault HS TEST CA Court Refuses Relief From Early Closing Order. IT HAS NO JURISDICTION BUT ORDER IS DECLARED TO BE UNREASONABLE. Court Says Commissioner Seibert Has Acted Beyond Sound Discretion in Making It, but Is His Own Judge. Judge Zachritz handed down an opinion Monday in which he refused to issue a writ of certiorari in the case of August Delabar, saloon keeper at 200 South Broad- way, against Excise Commissioner J. M. Seibert. The case was insituted to test o'clock closing order. At the same time, the opinion says: “From the facts alleged in the petition, it clearly appears that the ‘excise commis- sioner not only has not fairly exercised the discretion vested in him, but has arbitrarily decreed that, because a dramshop, however properly conducted it may be, a family re- sort if you will, a restaurant with a dram- shop annex, patronized by law abiding citi- zens, ipso facto, becomes a disorderly place upon determination by the commissioner that, in his opinion, all places wherein in- toxicating liquors are sold from 1 o'clock to 56 o’clock are disorderly.”’ The writ of certiorari is denied on the ground that the court has no authority to grant it. The opinion states that certiorari can be brougit into use only to lay before the court the proceedings of judicial or quasi- judicial bodies. It’ then refers to the case of Higgins against Judge Talty, in which the Supreme the 1 excise commissioner does not exercise a judicial or quasi-judicial power, but, under the statute, has exclusive control. opinion begins by reviewing the pro- coemes which led up to the institutiga of the certiorari proceedings. it tells how Delabar’s license was revoked on May 22, und says that the petition falis to state whether he appeared when summoned be- tore the commissioner or not. Court Considered All the Allegations. The court then names the four alle- gations in the demurrer filed by Judge John M. Wood, attorney for Commissioner Seibert. They are that the petition of Delabar did not state facts constituting @ cause of action, that the court had no jurisdic- btion in the case, that the petitioner had no legal capacity to prosecute and that the court ougnt to refuse to grant the prayer on the ground of public morals. Only the first two allegations in the de- mufrrer are taken up by the court. The sec- ond one is supported and on this ground the proceedings were dismissed. In regard to the first the opinion holds that the excise commissioner is an agent of the state appointed to deterimine ques- tions of fact. " ‘There can be no question,” it says, ‘‘but that the law contemplates that the excise commissioner shall aléne determine the fact whether a place is orderly or not.” ‘But it holds that he must exercise his power with discretion. Merely being open between 1 and 5 o'clock in the morning ts obviously, it says, not a violation of the statute. or does it of ne- ces#ity make a place * Ag . de > ki x . a = er et wh, & _. * ‘ A is “i ‘ Peete . . / a Ss, 3 a Pe, ? rn iq . : : oe: ie pa ‘. ee. Pesta iF $5 ee, eh 7 rest a supposed burglar on A street. Court held in a sweeping opinion that the, so Se > 2 , nf i : ‘ : Saal ae a tae P . 4 ner 0 eZ 5 : ? ~ es ma sh g >) A ‘ ; et AE aie ck i ES Ce eR ED ap ae Pons PRT RS oe 5: eek me BS ean é ol oorrt * Ee s tae GROWING STRONG ——_ MRS. M’KINLEY’S CONDITION SHOWS MORE IMPROVEMENT. THE. PROGRESS IS GRADUAL Attending Physicians Say That She Rested Fairly Well Last ° Night. WASHINGTON, June 10.—After the usual consultation of Mrs. McKinley’s physicians this morning the following statement was issued: “Mrs. McKinley’s physicians report that her condition is favorable, and that she continues to show a gradual improvement.” Dr. Rixey came to the White House shortly after 8 o'clock this morning. When leaving after a short stay of ten minutes, he said that Mrs. McKinley had passed a good night, resting fairly well. The continued improvement in Mrs. Mc- Kinley’s condition, reported by her physi- clans, is noticeable at the White House ii a perceptible relief from the intense anx- lety that has existed there for the last iW days. Although she is by no means out of danger and there is constant fear of re- lapse, for the preSent she seems on the up- grade and the President is much more cheerful. He saw a number of callers to- day and to his Visitors expressed his en- couragement. While Mrs. McKinley's ‘con- dition fluctuated, he said, she appeared brighter this morning than she had for some days. BATTLE WITH A “WILD MAN” Police of Tacoma Had a Desperate Fight to Subdue Him After His Escape. TACOMA, Wash., June 10.—Yesterday afternoon the police were called’ to ar- When they arrived they found the man had en- tered a house by a rear window. The of- ficers followed and when the stranger saw them approach he seized a board and pounded it to splinters over their heads. Reinforcements were sent for. Chief Fackler being left alone, the man sprang at him with a hammer, but the latter dodged and Sergt. McCoy, who had just entered, wrenched the hammer from his hand. pr a oe aia: SMOKE CLOUDS CAUSE A SUIT Against Imperial Electric Co. SMOKE OFFENDS ITS TENANTS. IT ASKS AN ORDER FOR USE OF CONSUMERS. Plaintiff Also Alleges That Defend- ant’s Steam Pipes and Its Vibrat- ing Machinery Are Sources of Injury to It. The Board of Education brought suit Monday against the Imperial Electric Lighting and Power Co., asking an injunc- tion to compel it to place smoke copsum- ers on its furnaces, extend its steam ex- haust pipes above the Board of Education building and operate its machinery in such a way as to prevent the vibration now al- leged to be caused by it in the Board of Education building. The plant of the Imperial Electric Light and Power Co. is just north of the Board of Education building on Tenth street, sep- arated from it by a 15-foot alley. The petitiion alleges that at present the exhaust pipes from the engines of the de- fendant’s plant are in such a pisition in the alley that the steam is thrown against the north windows of the opposite building. It is asked that they be extended to réach above the roofs, thus releasing the steam where it will not cause the windows of the Board of Education building to be cov- ered with vapor. The smoke, it is alleged, from the defend- ant’s plant causes the occupants of the plaintiff's building great annoyance and the defendant is charged with having negiected a request to use smoke consumers. The defendant’s machinery, it is further alleged, is run in a careless manner, caus- ing the Board of Education building to vi- brate dangerously. The court is asked to compel the defendant to run the machinery with care, avoiding this vibration. FAIR WEATHER 1S. PREDICTED But Dr. Hyatt Is Cautious and Quali- fies the Promise With Threats of Rain. Dr. Hyatt’s weather predictions for St. Louis and vicinity for Monday night and Tuesday are general- ly fair with possibly local thunderstorms. **‘Weather condl- tions throughout the central portion of the country are un- settied,”’ the doctor told the Post-Dis- patch. “Rain fell on nearly all sides of St. Louis during the past % hours, but we es- caped with a little thunderstorm. The storm has not en- still in danger of a shower or two.” The weather will incidentally continue Education -Board.. Proceeds}> tirely moved awayias he from us and we ua _ | : . Frederick J. Yeager, Who Slipped and Fell From a Roof, Describes His Sensations Durin g His Perilous Flight. Frederick J. Yaeger turned two back somersaults 33 feet through the air from a housetop at 821 South Tenth street, alight~ ed on his feet on a shed reof and rebound- ed 12 feet to the ground. He had a sprained ankle. Yaeger ‘says that “it was no either.”’ circus, The unintentional exploit was rformed at the baking establishment of Ira Perry Saturday morning while Yaeger was roof- ing the building. That is his business and he resides with his mother and brothers at 1600 Hickory street. ; He weighs 170 pounds. From his cot jn the City Hospital Mon- day he related his thrilling experience in mid air. He says that he cannot explain how he made the turns which probably saved his life, as the time of his descent was slower than were he to have fallen like a plummet. A false step brought him with his back to. the edge of the roof. His heel caught in the gutter. It gave the body a hand- spring motion and the roofer made a long arc in the air before a convulsive move- ment turned him completely. Just .before he reached the top of the rhed; which he could see in the fall, he re- members that. he made another dosperate lunge, whirled in space and struck the she uise a/million of brick, but squarely on his feet. Too dizzy to stop further flight by seizing any projection, he toppled over in a stoop- ing position and rolled head first from the me ey | roof to the rear yard of the bakery where his sudden nce startled the pastry cooks out of song of the shop. The breath had left the body of the roofer at the last of his mi drop. He lay stretched unconscious until Was removed to the house of a friend at and Po lar streets, the pain from his severe shak- ing up preventing him from being carried to his home. . Yeager and the attending physiolans.sey is little chance of any serious ve en jarred th h ae “I am jarr rough and through,” Y ger told the Post-Dispatch Monéacs _ makes me sick whenever I think of When I struck the roof of the shed I hit it so hard that my knees made my chest sore where thev struck it. I could hear the hoards split like a cannon when I > so “I was so doubled up that I could :4°* untangle myself to keen from falling ern the small roof. I nitched head foremost over the edge, and I said to myself, ‘Well, a e- go re —_ e worst feelings I had was in the air comine down. i : was laving felting on the roof of the three- any Se »Ketting ready to tar ft. I olling e felt ac roof songs the Rony |g to the of as a remember that my heel slipped in t .Then I tried to save ravecit get. my belance. and went “There was a roar like a sea in my ears. But my eyes were wide open and I could SPRAINING HIS ANK . tL YAEGER FELL 45 FEET AND TURNED TWO SOMERSAULTS, __ Az + eeerene eran. see the roof of. the shed coming up to me. REFORM 1S PROMISED NEW TRANSIT COMPANY PRESI- DENT GOES ON RECORD. HE WOULD STOP ACCIDENTS He Says His Aim Is to Popularize the Lines and Make Street Car Patrons Feel Absolutely Safe. Replying to a question concerning his policy as the official head of the Transit company, in view of the recorded increase of street car accidents in which St. Louis- ans have lost life and limb during the peri- od of the last twelve months, President Murray Carleton said Monday to the Post- Dispatch: “lt will become my aim, with the assist- ance of General Superintendent Grant, to analyge the situation as it exists today on the Transit company's system with the purpose of ascertaining where the blame for these casualties ought to be piaceu, + “if we find that the fault is with the company, either through the operation of the lines as a generai proposition or by reason of carelessness on the part of em- ployes, the orrors will be corrected. “This investigation on the part of Mr. Grant and myself will be conducted at once, which means that no time is to be lost to make the Transit system the most pop in the city. It is to our business interest to see that the lines are popularized. ‘We intend to do me minimizing the number of *accidents. e are determined that the citizens of St. Louis shall feel as safe on the.cars of the Transit company as they do in their own private vehicles driven by their trusted coachman. “The approach of the World's Fair with its ——— traffic makes it imperative that the Transit company insure its own safety as well as that of its patrons by eliminating the accident as a possibility. “Just how we will go to work to perfect this much desired end I can not detail at present because I am rot familiar with the practical part of the operation. & dent Grant is in hearty accor¢ abstract ideas, and with his wide ex ence as a practical railway man I expect to see our wish to improve the system carried out to the letter.”’ PAID. $1200 FOR A CANARY This Bird, However, Can Whistle “Yankee Doodle” Through With- out Error. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, June 10.—Louls M. Hodges of 59 Warren avenue has paid $1200 for a ca- nary bird, and he eave he that bird sufficiently patriotic to whistle Doodle” clear through is worth “Yankee a even more. Mr. H bo t ey pa rt pik” ee shoemaker named O'Brien, in 8t. an INCREASE FA FINANCE COMMITTELE’S URGES HIGHER TEAC. SALARIES. “ he oe: 1S, The, Ei. til _ 4 , 2 ——— oo WILL BE READ MONDAY NI pers It Suggests 5 Pet Cent Addition to Over $1500. It is announced that the report of the aes. committee on finance of the Board of Bdu- cation of St. Louis, to be submittel Tues= day night, will recommend that, instead the proposed new schedule of teachers’ sal- with certain increases tn all-day aries, to take effect at the the next scholastic year. The committee, it is stated, will recome mend the following increases: CAR BOLIC ACID AS HOLY WA a Strange Act of Demented Woman Who Neighbors. a Special to the Post-Dispatch. » Pas iy; te sag x 9 ae of A $- < Bes ie aries, the present schedule be continued, _ epee | of £ a ale Pen ae he