St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 12, 1910

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WOMEN AND A MAAN ARE BURNED IN AN EXPLOSION dusband Leaps From Win- dow ;Wife and Two Sisters Probably Will Die. LEADS THE RESCUERS Despite Own Injuries Frank Waser Helps-in Beating Out Flames. Mrs. Frank Waser and her sisters, flisses Tennie and Mary Harris, 18 and 6 years old, suffered burns which prob- thly will be fatal, and Waser was seri- jusiy burned in a gasoline explosion in the Waser home, 523 Gratiot street, at 1:30 a. m. Monday. The gasoline stove in the front room if the family’s three-room apartment on fhe second floor burst while Mrs. Waser Was filling it to get lunch for her hus- sand and sisters. One burner was light- bd and she neglected to turn this off before starting to pour the fluid into the reservoir. As the burning fluid burst over the women and set fire to the bed on which Waser was lying, he sprang up, his tlothing afire, and leaped from the sec- ond-story window. His garments were still ablaze when he ran into Masterbrook’s’ grocery, across the street, and shouted to the proprietor: “Come quick! jeath!’’ The grocer and two customers threw their coats around Waser, and the man: with great blisters om his hands and face, hurried the others to the scene of the explosion. Women Helpless on Fioor. The three women lay on thefloor, with flames about.them. They were Partly censcious, but were unable to tise to free themselves from the fire which was consuming their clothes and burning their flesh. The windows were shattered by the explosion and the air which blew i through fanned the fire. Thée Wreck of the stove was still blazing fiercely. The husband, despite his own burns, led. the other men in bestinig out the flames about thé women's bodies: Firemen arrived a few minutes later and Capt. Meyers of “Engine Company No. 2 jerked the blazing stove from the floor and threw it over a landing into a yard, ; ._The women . were indistinguishable from one another. Their clothing was @estroyed and their skin blackened. Physicians who saw. them before their removal to the city hospital said Mrs. Waser was the only one of the three who had a chance of recovery. ’t touch me!” the. women shrieked as the ambulance drivers, as tenderly as they..could, picked them up. ‘Waser was taken to the hospital ne My wife is burning to them. ‘BRAZILIAN. REBELS SURRENDER Fresh Government Peseab Go to Cobras Island Garrison. - RIO JANEIRO, Brazil, Dec. 12.—The revolting mariners on Cobras Island formally .surrendered today and fresh. Government troops: gepupied the ° bar- racks. "2 ome ABOVE IS. E 1S THE FORECAST em TOMPEMATURGS. a. m........35 11 2. m aS re ” (noon) . 5 16 @ a. eee eee ek : Ws 0.0 8 04.0 OR os once de ves _ Yesterday's Temperatures. 87 at 2 Pp. ™. at eenrev eee eee ee a | at a. ™.. Earmuffs will be in order Tuesday morning and large furnace fires will be affected by the hest families. The ooldést weather of the season, thus far, is coming Monday night ay it will hang on un- til Tuesday morn- ing at least. The tempera- tures according to the best bellef of the prophets at the Weather Bu- reau, willdrop te “TODAY. “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” FALLS 10 Only Evening Paper uni St. Louis With the Press News Service. ae VOL. 63. NO. 114. | ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 42, 1910. ._ “PRICE ONE CENT - hee FROM DOME OF NEW CATHEDRAL Carpenter Who Needed Money for Christmas Killed Soon After He Gets Job. ™)\ . “by \ ye? ae AMC ppl re psiews f y 3 PLUNGE WAS 125 FEET Absorbed in His Work, He Failed to Notice Hole in Rough Flooring. Henry Dinkelkamp of 2849 Montgom- ery street was killed Monday when he fell 125 feet from the dome of the New Cathedral, nearing completion at Lin- dell boulevard and Newstead avenue. He died a few minutes after other workmen picked him up. Dinkelkamp had been out of work several davs, and le was vastly pleased when he pgocured 2 place Friday as carpenter on the structure, and -was told to appear for work Saturday. He wen} home and said to his wife: “I'll have to sharpen up those tools. Means more Christmas!”’ : The force of half a Risin carpenters went to work at _8 a. m. The rough flooring of the dome was laid so as to leave a square hole in the _ center, through which timber could be drawa up frorn below. None of the other car- penters saw Dinkelkamp fall. They think that, absorbed in his work, he must. have stepped through the hole. Half way to earth the whirling body struck a joist, and Dinkelkamp’s neck was broken. A force of pleanbers, idle because the pipes were frozen, heard the body hit the flooring, and rushed in, One of them folded his overcoat un- der Dinkelkamp’s head until an ambu- lance arrived. The carpenter died on the way to the Missouri Baptist Sani- tarilum, and the body was taken back to the Cathedral untfl an undertaker’s wag- on arrived. Qn account of the accident work on the Cathedral was suspended for the day. Dinkelkamp was 50 years efd and had a wife and four children, three of them ‘married daughters. The only sen is un- married. TRAIN HITS COW; COW KILLS A NEGRO; NEORO KILLS A 006, ETC, MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 12.—When a Louisville & Nashville passenger train of Mobile struck a cow near Kirkland late Saturday afternoon, the conse- quences ‘were as unusual and unexpect- ed as they were fatal. The cow was hurled to one side, strik- ing @ negro who was watching the train eo by. The negro was knocked into a puddle of-water and killed. In falling he struck a dog and killed that, too The cow walked away. as a i WELSH RAREBIT IS ACQUITTED He Government Official Says Will Prove Delicacy Harmless. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The Depart- ment of Agri@ulture is advancing to the defense of the Welsh rarebit. Hav- ing proved by extensive experiments with the respiration calorimeter—a dou- ble-walled heat-proof room connected with electrical instruments of wonder- ful precision—that raw cheese is easily digested, the department has now ‘be- gun work to prove that the Welsh rarebit; victim of late dinners and ancient superstition, is grossly maligned and misunderstood. At the conclusion of the experiments Secretary Wilson wi. issue a bulletin explaining how tQ prepare a Welsh rare- bit according to the official Government formula, with beer, or without. .He and his experts are confident the tfforma- | tion will be received with joy by the country. TRUST CHARGE GOOD ANY TIME Indictment of 1909 Held Valid by Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Dec, 12.—Announcing that conspiracy under the Sherman anti- trust law is a continuing offense, the Supreme Court of the United States to- day held good the indictment in New York in 1909 of Gustave E. Kissel and Thomas B. Harned under this law, as far as the statute of limitation was con- cerned. Is sugar fraud cases. —_——- St. Louis, Dec 12th, 1910. —— Sate a ae Bulletin 193 The Sunday Score of columns of advertising in the St. Louis Sunday newspapers yesterday, Sunday, December 11th, was as follows: Post-Dispatch. 3// Columns 22/ . 161 Post-Dispatch Excess Over the Republic..........216 cols. Over the Globe-Democrat.... 150 cols. or 134 per cent excess over the Republic 66 per cent excess over the Globe-Democrat | The Want Ad Score Was: Post-Dispatch 79 Columns Globe-Democrat 40 . Republic 23 _ POST-DISPATCH excess.of Want Ads over the Globe-Democrat and Republic Combined was 16 Columns Over the Globe-Democrat. . . .39 colunins Over the Republic...........56 columns For 198 consecutive Sundays, or 37 weeks in excess , of 3 full years, The Sunday Post-Dispatch has led all of its Pen 2 ila in volume of . y - 66 Globe-Democrat . Republic 6% TF ook ‘ s ope to all, { che two men were identified with thu} » banker, |he married tam Smoke ecm re No. ft » rw 7 n ah + aah a 7 scsi eps bein heb SO a op BS —_—— . Maya Se pny yorr PI GION. ep eo -- i RRC YARD, FUNGSIUGHWEAY AND MANCHESTER Scenes in. M aut C ‘reek vauleu: MORRISON-FULLER, GLASGOW BANKER, | JES OF INJURIES Financier Expires Without Explaining How Wounds Were Received. John Morrison-Fuller, Glasgow (Mo.) who took his wife's name when and who mysteriously was injured in St. at the City Hospital Monday. His wife and daughter, who had been in constant attendance-upon him, were at his bedside when the end came. He at no time regained full. consciousness or power of expression sufficient to ex- ; plain the manner in which he was hurt. Dr. Walter R. Hewitt of the hospita! staff says that the direct cause of death was meningitis, a disease which often follows a skull fracture. Morrison Fuller had been living at the Southern Hotel a month while his wife and daughter were stopping at the Washington, when, on Dec. 6, he re- ceived the injury which caused. his death. Unconscious and bleeding, he was picked up in front of 113 North Sixth street. Wounds on his head led the police to believe that he had been at- tacked and beaten. Remembered He Had Fallen. At the City Hospital, where his wife and daughter had him placed in a pri- vate room, he had a brief period of consciousness, in which he said that he had been drinking and _ that he started to visit the proprietor of a bil- | liard hall at 207 North Sixth street. He said that he must have made a mis- ; take and entered a stairway at 113 North | Sixth street. He remembered falling, but could not recall that he met or spoke to anyone or had a fight. Irwin McElroy, an employe at Duffy’s restaurant, told the police that he saw Morrison-Fuller’ start up the stairway adjoining the restaurant. Apparently he was half way up when he fell and rolled out on the sidewalk. Two men with whom Fuller attempt- ed to transact business on the day he was injured told the police that he had been drinking heavily. At the city hospital no fracture of the skull was found, but the development of mertingit!s leads the doctors to be- lieve that there was a fracture. ‘There will be an autopsy and an inquest to determine the exact cause of death. Mrs. Fuller and her daughter who said that there was ho estrangement between them and Morrison-Fuller, al- though by agreement they were living apart, showed untiring devotion to him while he was in the city hospital, : Saturday night their already over- wrought nerves were further strained when Grover Vice, who had shot him- self, after wounding his sweetheart, was carried into the room in which they were keeping their vigil. They fled from 1 aod taa cca ln rammed. to cuca Louls a week ago, died RABBIT FURTO. FURNISH HATS. FOR GENTLEMEN And the: Really Fashionable Shade Is Going to Be Belly Brown. By-o, Baby Bunting. Daddy's gone a-hunting To get a little rabbit skin - To hide his funny bald spot in, —Lay of the Mad Hatter. Belly brown will be the fashionable shade in men’s soft hats next spring ac- cording ‘to the manufacturers who are now in St. Louls to show their samples to the jobbers. | The color takes its name from the Peems season will be made of fur tak- 'en from rabbits’: bellies. This part of Bunny's coat is a rich, warm, reddish brown of a*”shade unlike any heretofore put into men’s hats. But you will not be able to tell what the hats are made of by looking at them. They will not be rough and furry like coon-&kin caps, but will be as fine and ‘silky as though they were made of beav- er skin. By a special process the rabbit hair will ‘be snioéthed down so that the resulting fabric will have the outward appearance of high-grade felt. “Besides belly brown the other popu- lar colors will be pearl and steel gray.’’ said‘ John Weber, oné@ of the visiting | manufacturers, at ‘the Jefferson Hotel ‘Monday. “For the first time in years St. Louis men will be in style as to | their headgear. Heretofore larger hats i were worn here in the West than in the East, but this year all of the soft hats ‘sold in the United States will. be mod- eled after the kind that St. Louis men have been wearing’ ér. years. ‘‘Basterners no longer will be able to tell a Westerner by the size of his hat brim, because the Hasterners themselves ‘will be’ wearing big-hats. “Crowns will be from 3 to 3% Inches high and-brims from 2% to 3 inches i wide. Fedora hats will be, made as ‘usual; but they are now regarded as ‘staples. The stylish head-pleces will be telescope hats, with much flatter brims than are now’ worn.. The most stylish hats will have the new pencil curl. This means that the stiff brim will be turned upward and rolled at the edge into a tight. curl about the size of a lead pencil. “For those . who. like a larger roll there will be the turban brim, a more pronounced and, larger curl extending all around the edge. “There will be.qo fancy bands this spring. Eath band will ‘match the opteg of. the hat” = + | —_——~ COLUMBUS, .Q.,. Dee. 12.—Charies Smith, 42, a railway locomotive tester of Marion, Tones eet pital Auery.. Ahee, “ts “ee ab y~/his Hn » Pe , a2 fact that the most. stylish hats of the. (For the Information of Smokel Inspector Parker.) 7 x ee PP.” a ', “is } | i VIEW FROM SPRIVG AU CROSIVG, Loanine EAST — - eee ee | 2000 WOMEN WILL WAGE WAR ON SMOKE: NUISANCE They Are to Form an Organization and Plan a Campaign Against Offenders of the Law— Meeting Called for. Tuesday. seore of clubs and other. organizations, have been invited by personal letters to attend the anti-smoke meeting at the Wednesday Club auditorium at 3 p. m. Tuesday, called for the purpose of unit- ing St.. Louis womankind in the move- ment to rid the city of the smoke nuls- ance.. The campaign for the enforcement of the smoke law, urged*repeatedly by the Post-Dispatch, has gained force rapidly since the nuisance became acute with the coming -of winter. Civic and busi- ness organizations have taken up the movement, and the women will be ad- vised by men at Tuesday afternoon's meeting how to proceed most effec- tively. Investigation by Post-Dispatch report- ers has shown that one of the greatest sources of* the daily smoke cloud which hangs over the city, a blur on business and a pall on social enjoyment, is the Mill Creek Valley, with its immense bat- tery of locomotive engines, both of the Terminal ae a mance and of westbound railroads, Core of the Evil. The section adjoining King’s highway is the core of the smoke evil. Rising from the factories, brieckyards and loco- motives of that region, the smoke bian- ket drifts over the Forest Park and Cab- anne residence sections, shutting off the sun, and spreading east, joins with the smoke from: the manufactories, office buildings and hotels beyond Grand ayv- enue. It fills the atmosphere with vapors which make city dwellers choke and gasp, and which cause visitors both to jest and to’make bitter complaint of the air which they have to breathe while here. Less than a decade ago the muddy drinking water of St. Louls was a by- word. Today the water is crystal clear, t the smoke blanket of former years Lis saani Ginette the: aneetes- a the industries that produce it. It has also grown more odjous, in comparison with other cities which have abolished smoke. | In. maintaining a smoke sbatement department the City of St. Louls is acting on the theory that the. smoke repeatedly. urged that the city proceed in earnest to rid Keelf of the smoke nuisance. More than three months ago the Post- Dispatch published a let of 116 tors of the city. smoke ofdinance,. with vey qan be abated. The Post-Dispatch has) Two thousand women, members of a, ) | grcshy eBha eg: These. eotabiien> { & WOMEN ASKED TO AID IN WAR: ON SMOKE NUISANCE By MRS. E. R. KROEGER. HE Wednesday Club invites ee all St. Louls women, whether members of amy woman's or- ganization or not, to attend the meeting at its auditorium Tuesday afternoon, We intend to cet results from the meeting. Women speak- ers will tell “of the smoke nuisance in its relation to health, cleanliness and household economy, and men will tell. us of the work that is be- ing done against smoke, and how we can aid in the campaign. There is no more {important mat- ter before the women of St. Louis today, and I hope that every wom- ~an who has felt the need of smoke abatement will give her aid in the movement to do away with the evil. had blocked were shown. were believed to be ypro- ducing the greatest part of the smoke that overspread the downtown district Smoke Inspector Parker said Monday that he had eent notifications to &% of the 116 that they were violating the law, and that % had complied with the law to his satisfaction. Of the remaind- er, five have made attempts to abate their part of the nuisance, without suc- cess thus far. © Parker, who took office March 17 last, has instituted police court proceedings in only seven cases of violation of the smoke ordinance. His explanation is that he prefers to invoke the penalties of the law only as a last resort. “When a violation of the law its dis- covered,” said the smoke inspéctor, “I first ascertain who is responsible, and send a letter calling his attention to the fact that the law is being violated, and ask him to comply with the law. “If after a reasonable time nothing is | done, I send.a second letter as a re- minder, with a request for immediate ‘ iF : EDITION Appointment. of Fred W. Lehmann of St. Louis as’ Solicitor-General Also Is Confirmed — Martin A. Knapp Is Nominated to — Preside Over Commerce TWO NEW ASSOCIATE - JUSTICES SELECTED © Van Devanter of Wyoming : and Lamar of Georgia Ele- vated to thé Highest Tribu- ~~ nal—Two Nominated Also” for Commerce Commission | By Wire From the Washiugton Bu- reau of the Post-Dispatch. a WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—As a mat._ ter of senatorial courtesy, Associate. Si "40g Evrard D. White was imme- diately confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States by the Senate to- day when his appointment came trom: Mr. Taft. ‘ : Chief Justice White was app ted to the Supreme Court while se ng as a Senator from Louisiana in 13894. The selection was made by Grover. Cleveland in order to dodge the com-- plications created by the unfriendly” attitude of Senator David Bennett. Hill and Edward aie Jr., who Presi Cleveland's efforts to place either , Hornblow-_ er or Mr. ers, on the supreme bench. J White was confirmed forthwith at that time, and the courtesy was ex- tended to the present promotion. 3 The nomination of Frederick W Lehmann of St. Louis to be So General of the United States tos oon the late Lioyd W. Bowers, also was | firmed by the Senate. sent Ta, It is expécted that all the Sunetae sent in by the President will be con- . firmed without. delay. ‘In addition to Chief Justice White and Solicitor-Gen- eral Lehmann, these ‘nominations are % as follows: Fe To be associate justices, United States” Supreme Court, Judge Willis Van De- vanter of Wyoming and Judge Joseph, x Rucker Lamar of Georgia. a man of the Interstate. Commerce ‘Corte mlaiad, for a term of five years; Rob- ert W. Archbold, now United States Court of Customs Appeals, formerly — United States District Judge of the Diss: Mack, now Judge in the ‘Appeliate of the First Illinols District, term one year. New Commerce nicubetia: : i" To be members of the Interstate ‘Come merce Commission, B. H. Meyer of Wis- consin and C, C. McChord of Kentucky. The appointments to the Interstate Commerce Commission are to Ml the vacancies caused by the elevation - Mr. Knapp to the Commeres Court « forthcoming retirement of Senator Francis M. Cockrell of I > The commission will elect its new ‘chat- man, The members of the commissl who remain are Messrs. Clark, Heras Clements, Lane and Prouty. | In the official nomination sent’ | the Senate the members of the ne Commerce Court are designated | em additional cireuit judges. In hand hon, % ing out this, Mr. Knapp is [as a judge for the Second Judicial | cuit; Mr. Archbold for the Third Ja- dicta] Circuit; Mr.. Hunt for the Ninti Judtéial Circuit; Mr. Carland for th Eighth Judicial Circuit, and Mr. Mac for the Seventh Judicial Cirewit.- e ate o er ete: J 7 f Judge Carland of ko named as one of the new judges the Court of Commerce, ls @ Dew crat, having been appointed to th bench by President Cleveland. F a ; appointment makes the comph xtc 3 of the Commerce Courts three licans ang two Democrats, f 3 f tapers. ee nd re Ae el ae ee meet OA A ALOR AA LLL ALE AML LEE ALLL LL ALA ED sete \Peckham, both New Torke 4 7