The Evening World (New York, N.Y.)
December 26, 1908

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T Y e I r 5 b t 9 r ct it P 1 5000000 FAILURE IN WALL STREET t J i 1 t I tf tiS 1 lPf k y t COURT STAGGERS HAINS DEFENSE e h rt i 7 www r 4 4 4 r ION wmummallatw tnnUrhtf Ihtar Clnn4r it W EDITION II W t i I I oJ f IL Y QREEW I lfl1 EDmvn n J rl r Ii I I GI I olIO e FIN A L I J t lh iJ 4 JoiI JA V a J liz i r II Circulation Books Open to All I r f Circulation Books Open to All JUSJIL1S EDITION I i PRIOE ONE CENT NEW YORK SATURDAY t DECEMBER 26 1908 PRICE ONE CENT t I t H W POORS FIRM FAilS LIABILITIES a 5000000 Banker Friend of J P Mor gan Announces Assignment to Mark T Cox l I i LONG A SOCIETY LEADER i Has Fine Residence in This City and Great Country Homeat Tuxedo Renrv w Poor long regarded ai one If Now York biggest financlei r fulled S today Ills banking and brokerage c on corn Known as H W Poor Co with efflceii at No 11 Wall stioct made nn t esstgnment to Mark T Cox of the linn I of Robert Wlnthrop A en for his cred harp without prefeience It Is esti mated that the liabilities will total up ward of 5000000 This IE one of the biggest failure that has shaken the financial district for a decade Henry W Poor was not tint looked upon as nne of the money hI kings of America but his famlls has long held a high socliil position HH I two magiilllcent homes one the old 1 II O rlls W rield mansion nt No I Lex L ington avenue and the other n tons i hatcau tat Tinedn have been Cather ine places of the ultra fashitnahle for ears Statement for the Assignee iawyers leprPivlitiiiK three of Mr lams arpe t ciedllnis made an effort 1 this afternoon to present a bnnkiuptcy petition to a Federal JudKe but could Clod none sitting ftei the posting of a riHImlnary statement of the assign f ment on the door of the IL W Toot i Cn K onices it No 31 Wall street 11 j JOIW clock this morn hng the following s nnnn nceuu ut vn made In John I Cadwalinii of Strong t Cadnn ulei reprersutlnc tlu assignee and Ievvls J Uelilleld of Ira vkius Delatleld rtpie eiitlns certain Mipe creditors H W Poor trnnvnttlnK husliMSt I In the Slate nf Xev VorK under the III in name of 11 W Jooi it Co tins niule a general nioUniiiont for the henefit i f creditors lo Mnik T Cox of nohprt Wlnthrop Co There at nn piefeiences hon1 such as the otatiitn gives to emplnjees A piiprlhlnl eNamlnntlon Jiiiil IPI the belief unit If the ciidltoM int ors few In iiumbei W co 1 operate In enabling the assignee to I 1 effect n favorable liquidation ot the npdet a large sum sill be tenllzeil for their beneili Wrlten a uianc I of tmroriam llnancial i sxtiiiue to such creditors MS will cooperate to titan end has been given y Nelthfli Jli Cox the assignee l jI nor Meyarc Robert Wlnlhrnp X Co err interested as eredltorn 01 other Fli j wife In the HfxlKiied estate it Partners All Withdraw The entire hi nut of tho fnllure le t J loran bi Mi POOL hit former partners liovlnc wlthiliavvn from the flrm The fiippoit of their cnpltil wnt alas with ij drnwn It was said by one of the cied Jid hors lawyers lifter the announcement H of the alignment Mr Ioor war the i linn id inembni of the old concern of Poor 8 GieenotiKli nnd hUH been a mem ber of tho Stock nxclmiiBe nlnrc KJ ie Hid former paitner WS John Jleen nugh at one limn a director wit Ii 1 Charlffl T Bnrney C W Mmsc and 1 other of the Ameilcaii Ice Company fi t lIon this pHitner hl IIIIS dissolved the firm of II W Poor 1 Co was or ganized The partiurK all of whom have wltlidrawn were Henry W Poor I a eon of Henry W Poor William N Phoenix Franklin W Hunt Charles F Ouilimau and Frederick A Karrar Had It not been for the fact that the r Block Exchange true closed today the announcement of the Poor failure would undoubtedly have been reflected In tho condition of the market Com a Ing just before the January settlement the crush was considered us of grave ulrnlficnncfi Six neolis nRO when Mr Poor Megan 1 the ule of hla flSQMQ library them WOK n great denl of speculation in Wall A street as to his motive for Ihn nacrlflce y For thirty yearn buck collectlim hall been one or Ills hoblilea mid hla library K all e aJed us nut to the Ihplltlml t 1 of J Pleipont Morgan In America Ktanford While who wax one of Air Poor doxtit frleiulu hail been Ins I uhlrf adviser In milking hli collection 4 A of book and art object The Puor Sr 1 home at No I Iexlnirton avenue set Jl a mark for elegance und refinement of I tl Jr l If WOMAN IDENTIFIES YOUTHS AS I PAIR WHO BOUND AND GAGGED i I Detectives Who Saw East Siders Acting Like Men in I Bare Feet on a RedHot Stove Satisfied by Hav I I I ing Couple Heldas Assailants David Solomon eighteen years old I of No 11 Ludlow street and Mnrrln I Stein nineteen yearn old of No 226 llclirj street wen held In JTOUO ball 1 inch for the iniiid Jm on a din rge 1nfy tit luliberv li MiRlitrntn DrneKe In the I sex Market Court tits afternoon The were nL o held In JlOOO bill ch I lot Special SesMnns for carrying concealed I ealcil weapons i On Deo 11 drs UOIH Ooldman of I Xo 10 Essex street woe attacked In two onnfi nun taint hit fveiil times on the head with the bull of n revolver toil was gagged and hound to a chair the two Intrmlfis then teat Ins dla monil earrings lioni her ears and Hteal i Inc 1J6 i from II halt the woman wore I I In tier boorn i j Uri eftIve Rnphapl and Bloom arrest ed Solomon and Stein and on each was j WALKER CLIPS A FRACTION j OFF WORLDS 100YARD MARK South African Champion Runner Makes Record of 9 2S and Wins 120 Yards in the Remarkable I Time of II 25 I Jot NNESBLfG Bouth Africa Dec I jr Walker the South African runner I did some excellent work and hroke a i i I record here today In short npilntf at I the Wanderers sport He made 100 I vaids In 92S jocund This equals Mi time mal at Aberguvenny England i last August and It i 16 of n second less than the previous record made h I I Dan J Kelly mt Huoknne ash June 23 WG I I Walker also made the 120 yards dash In 11 26 seconds 1 This N a new record The record for UH yards 11 4B seconds was held bj B J Wefer It was made at Trnver Il and Sept 26 1 S9 These records are for amateurs Walker won the final in the 100 metre dash at the Olvnipicl Games held In London last Hummer i u i TWO BOY SKATERS DROWN AS COMPANIONS TRY TO SAVE THEM I Broke Through the Ice on La ke in Connecticut and All Ef i forts to Rescue Them Fail Disappeared While Others Watched for Them I JEICETT CITY Conn Doe 26A double drowning occurred here today when Robert Jeffrey aged seventeen and Hector GIngras fifteen broke through the ice while pkatlne on a lake iASHPllE COUCHI I FATAL TO TWO TIRED WORKMEN I Third Man Found Overcome on Heap Which Sent Out Poisonous Gases Two employees of the Mlllard Con I struction Company the firm which Is driving the Krle cut through Bergen Hill Jersey City wero found dead this morning on an ash heap behind a com missary shed at No 60 Tonnele ave nue They had thrown themselves down on the warm pile to sleep and gas arising tram the hot ashes underneath had asphyxiated them A third man was found In a dying condition a few feet from where the dead men lay It has been a custom since the cold weather set In for the workmen em ployed nn Uergen Hill to seek the warm Hthcj for a nap after coming up out of tho cut Lying down on the ashes they pull on overcoat over themselves and sometimes sleep for several hours or the greater part of tho night Front time to time they have been witined that poisonous gases often rUo up through warm ashplles and that many persons have lost their H ri In that way The two dead men were known only at No 5IIJ and No USI Their bodies were taken to Hughean Morgue The I third man who was in tidying condi tion was known a No 4171 lit wai l jO t u c a n found a nmKirlne revolver and several clip of smokeless cartridges In court today Aaron Levy counsel for the defendants asked Detective Raphael how he happened to nrnfl the dnfnndants in lonnectlon with the i assault and iobl eny The detective rc lilted tint hi noticed them acting In a peculini manner nod betnine suspicious I What do yn mean In acting in a I pccnllai manner asked the lawyer i j Well they acted 115 if the were in i I their bare feet on a redhot stove paid Detective Haphnel I I Wouldnt YOU net a little pccullai i If you were In your have feet nn a ned I hot stove asked Mi Levy of the de tective Well I suppose I would but I I aught these defendant with the goods implied Knphuil MM Goldman idtiitllled Solomon and Stein and perished In sight of I their com panlons who made every effort to save I them I The bodies were recovered In a short time II t MAlONEY WINS MARATHON RAGE IN RECORD TIME Crowley of the IrishAmeri cans Gets Second Prize in Event ToDay M Maloney of the Trinity Atliletlc Club Brooklyn established a new worlds record for the full Marathon die tan S8 of a mile and W yards when he finished In the lead of 116 runners In a I race from Rye to Columbus Circle New I York City In 2 hours 3tf minutes 26 sec onds this afternoon J H Crowley of the IrishAmerican Athletic Club WM second In 2 hours 46 minutes 3 seconds J Clark of the Xavier A A ot New York third In 2 hOurs H minutlll Z2 seconds MUST GIVE UP OFFICE OR I POLITICAL LEADERSHIP i r I WASHINGTON Dec Secretary Cortelyou tad today that he had asked Mr McCarthy the1 Surveyor of the Port of Boston to resign either that position or the chairmanship of tho Hepublcwi City Committee The Secretary ex plained ttfSt there was nothing unusual In this case It was he added simply an Instance of too much pollttre and he had simply taken the same course that no had In similar cases from time to time Pin Now Turkish Baths now open at the new ulltsr 11111111111 Only tlrrt ohm 40wltolI t4bltluUIII Me4rn la eSsrr dtutU WsstrU asA TwUtfe Utks

MiRII i COURTS COME TO AID OF MOVING PICTURE MEN Justices Gaynor and Blackmar Restrain Police From En i forcing Mayors Order TO HEAR CASE MONDAY j Corporation Counsels Offie Tells the Police What Is a Legal Sunday Show Gu taMi A Rogers nltotne for the Moving Picture Association nnnounteci this afteinoon that he nail obtained nn Injunction rentralnltifr the enforcement of Mayor McClellani older authorizing the police to clo e up the moving picture sit oa s He sad that Supreme Court Justices Gaynor and Blaikinar In Kronklyn had signed the Injunction Four test cases were presented one nv the Peoples Vaudeville Company one li the International Amusement Company another bv the William Fox Amusement Company and the fourth was anonymous Justice Blackmar Mened the International Amiucemmit Companys eu and Justice CJaynor the other three There will be s hearing on the case on fonda Corporation Counsel Pendleton In an opinion glen mil thin afternoon as to what may and may not he given as a Sunday dhow aid An orchestra or other Instrumental or vocal election but not In connec tion with any theatrical exhibition nor In costume lectures and recitations forming no part of any theatrical piece moving pictures Illustrating lee three of an InMructlNe or educational character Regarding those prohibited Mr Pendleton said Sinking in costume moving pictures giving n play or a part of a play thea trical sketches rope dancing acro batic performances and nil other king of dancing Before the issuing of the Injunction there was a conference between the CommlfFloner and about two hundred theatre managers at headquarters There were present manager of near ly every vaudeville house In New York and one Chinaman who runs a moving picture show Percy G Williams pres ident of the New York Theatrical Mens Protective Association was spokesmen for the theatre men I asked you men to come down here In pursuance of a request from His Honor the Mayor who Is my command Ing officer and whose Instructions I will carry out to the letter was the way the Commissioner opened up the con ference I have nothing to 4v to you moving picture men he added Your hash has already been settled Mayors Order Red The following order from the Mayor was then read Off St 1505 Notice Is hereby given that I have directed the Police Commissioner to rigidly enforce the oidlnances and statutes In regard to Sunday per formances and that violations of the same will be prosecuted both In the civil and criminal courts GEORGE B jrCrniJAN Mayor Mr Williams speaking for the man agers of vaudeville theatres where Sun day concerts are given asked the Com missioner If he didnt think It advisable for the lawyers for the theatre men to consult the Corporation Counsel and And out exactly where the theatre men stood I think It highly advisable said Commissioner Bingham Ill be glad to know myself just how the land lays I Commissioner Gives Warning I But I give you fair warning hll continued Ive received my orders and Im Kblng to carry them out ana any violators of the law will be punished I suggest said Mr Williams that our lawyers AVIlllam Grossman and Morris Goodman go Immediately to see the Corporation Counssl because to morrow Is Sunday and we havent got very long to find out where wa stand Bo Messrs Grossman and Goodman hurried over to the Corporation Coun sels otllce Mr Williams asked the Commissioner If he understood the Mayors order to apply to managers who hold full theat rical licenses and the Commissioner an swered no May moving picture exhibitions bt gIven at the close of the regular con cert In our vaudeville tntatres asked Mr Wnllams Yea I think to answered the Com mlslon and then hastily corrsctsd himself Not at all not at all he said There must bot no moving jIcy turn anywhere In New York on Sun nunA f3i1aMrilA w L HARD BLOWS DEALT TO DEFENSE OF i 2 At i si I THORNTON J HAINS BY THE COURT I I I I I I I I I I CZARS POLICE CHIEF KilLED IN FURIOUS FIGHT r Number of Cottes Men Also Fall in Clash With Revolu tionists at Moscow MOSCOW Dec 26 naron Cotte chief of the secret political police wan Iilllud and Col Murakl wounded In a nerve en counter today with revolutionists who were Intrenched In n suburban villa During the fight R number of police men were alto killed and others weroi wounded Troops were summoned to the aid of the police and a regular battle ensued Artillery had litmlly to be brought to the scone to bombard the villa be fore the revolutionists were subdued The occurrence Is thin most serloun since the uprising of Decembei 190G Tho villa where the liGhting took placo occupies a Btrateglo position on Elk Island an islet In the river near Mos cow that Is a favorite summer resort The leader of a evolutionary or ganization were holdlnc a meeting In the house The police got wind of trio affair and surrounded the villa with the Idea of making a number of ar rests As they approached the house the revolutionists opened tire This re sistance was unexpected and the police withdrew The Infantry were sent for and with this reinforcement a second advance was made The police and the soldiers had to re tie a second time and It was In this encounter that heron Cotte was killed and Col Murakl wounded Several sol diets also lost their llveci When the artillery appeared a few i teell directed shots put an end to the trouble The losses sustained by the rovolutlonlsts are not known but they doubtless are heavy i I OR BULL IMPROVES Dr O II Wynkoop who Is attending Pr William T Hull announced this morning that Dr bulls condition his I not changed sine the rally he had on Wsdiicsday and that he had passed a CQjI1tor b JJIIta JUDGE DUNDON WINS RACE AT S IVANNAH The Good Attendance Gives Promise of a Successful Meeting in South epa lil to The Bwnlnir World i HAfUTUACK SAVAVNAH Cla I Dec SO ludgliig from the support re ceived yesterday the Savannah Jockey Club pmnilses to he a success Haln prevented many from attending but IIB It was eel foot of room In the In closure was lilled TodayH attendance IK u repetition of esterday Siniimarlcs FJHSr lt1CEsix and u half furlongs Judge Uundon US ID Murphy 4 to 1 even and out won ItiilomplKm 111 Dale 7 to 2 even and out errand Onion 111 1A illrutmell 1 to 2 mid out itlilid Time 128 Virgil T also run SECOND KACiPurse II BO selling for twnyearolip one mile Spring Frog Ji9 Ooliip u to 1 and out 1 Po catulllKO II24ratoh 21o 1 necond Belle of the Ball joj Crowleyj S to 5 third llmo11 15 THIRD RAfKOne nilloAiitumn Flower 110 Crowley t to 3 to G first Frank Ialor uu Farrow 4 to 6 and 2 to 5 second Panlque 115 Dale 7 0 1 5 to 2 and Ii to 6 third Time IM25 Soiree rilmnap Althur Still well and dt Noel also tan 4 JACK DUNN SIGNS TO LEAD BALTIMORE TEAM HAITIMORE Dec 26Jack Dunn inday signed a contract to manape the Baltimore Eastern League bate ball club next season There had been doubt ever since the close of the last season whether Dunn would again be manager and the mater was not defln Itely settled until today Dunn at one time was talked of as manager of the Brooklyn National League Club but the deal fell through HARGIS JURY DISAGREES NINE WERE FOR ACQUITTAL mVIXE Ky Dec iJThe Jury In the case of Beach Hiugn charged with the murder of his finner Judge James Jiurets thin afternoon reported their In ability to agree tad were dlncharceU The jury stood rilno for acquittal and three for conirtn A IIOISTKHCHI UOItNi A JdltV MMJ Juii what you need for Nau Vejr err Ths born JO 1 t JJKB with louiorows 8rJ fiA M JtII1C iN II IniYes Ito h to UIL anybtety young or otd nOIt flloUlh join In the clrtlrUoo And tesldea 10 oltllp new pone Too Utng Ira Lon ere lI tuarIIt born apt the cone wlii tGJdorrv I SUNUu Judge Staggers Lawyers by Sayings Prisoner Is Guilty if He Aided I and Encouraged the Kill 1 ing of Annis rj lLJ J f COULD BE CONVICTED EVEN IF BROTHER WAS INSANE I Previous Declarations and Acts May Be Taken With Noninterference as Proof of Criminal Purpose and Design He Holds f Because of rulings made by Justice Crane in the Hains trail at Flush ing today the outlook for Thornton Jenkins Mains is anything but rosy While the presentation of the evidence for the prosecution was extremely weak that weakness is offset by the weakness of the defenseas outlined by Joseph Shay of the Mains counsel During the course of Mr Shays opening remarks for the defense Justice Crane handed him two verbal knockouts in the shape of rulings upon the admissabillty of evidence and the standing of the defendant lo the first place the Court ruled out all the story of the relations be tween Mrs Mains and Annis except as to what Peter C Mains and Thorn Ion Mains heard or said about Mrs Mains and what effect it had on the aptains mind Any statement or evidence as to what Annis may have done in so far as such statements may be advanced by the defense as justification for the murder is held by Justice Crane to be inadmissable I Further than that Justice Crane held ROOSEVELT SAYS HE CANNOT TAKE UP GOMPERS CASE e No Chance to Intervene While Jail Sentence Cases Are Before the Court WASHINGTON Dec 26111 an of richil statement issued at the White House today In regard to residential Interference In the tunes of President Gompcie Vicepresident Mitchell und Secretary A1c r lion of the American Federation ot Labor now under sen tence for contempt of court attention Ic called to the fad that the cues are mill befoie the rourta and that no mat ter AUiat the 1ienldcntH opinion limy be as to the Justness of the nuitcneeu Imposed he cannot take my action look Ing to uardari or express an opinion as to the merits of the caned Tim text of the Iltu I elll Ill t follow Various appeals leave been made to the President to Intel ere bj put dona In the case of Ml Comfier and his associates Those inaldnK the appeal are unaware oC the fact that the mutter la still bo fun the courts It 10 a civil suit be tween private lalllt lint there has been no Way by nhioh the Government could hase Intervened even It It had de Hired to da so When the decision la made then thu President can promptly consider wheUler the term of Imprison ment are excessive or Improper Hut It In of course lrnpo ible for the Proal duet to act while an appeal II pending lilt the defendant see tit to abandon their appeal the matter will then of course be brought before the Executive In which cure It will receive Immediate and most cmetul consideration The President has already Instructed the Department of Justice to Iceeji him fully Informed as to hut program of tho clue ao that In the event of He becoming proper for him to act ha may have at frop utfposal all of the fact vhlih will unable hlii to decide whHhfr thrro was justification nf the sentence und wnetler I tlre llla Juntlllcatloii for nuine j unl nntnt the kentencn in or In not altogether too severe Hut at the present the PirildNit ties no more to do with the case than with the cap of the J 2 omono floe lnpoi d bv Judge lJindl on the Standard Oil Company width Is also on Appeal and concerning which the President tau 1a fit rtejftttdjy mKjd QJA torten that although Capt Peter C Halos should be adjudged Insane and therefore Innocent of wilful murder Thornton Hntns mIght be guilty at a principal of murder In the first degree for the part he plaed In the tragedy Because tho Justice refused to let Shay tell any of the unsavory details of William Annlia alleged Intrigues with Claudia Halm the wife of Capt Peter hams and because he was stopped every time he tried to inject argument or conclusions Into his open In lib speech as a whole iras a failure To Depend on Mains Story Summed up It finally developed from Mr Shays confused statements that Thornton Hains rests his hppes of I dodging the hall upon a series of soninHhat dlsconnocteil claim most of which he can only name It he does prove them by his own unsupported II word In direct contradiction of what a number of reputable men have already stated under oath lie will seek to explain his carrying a revolver strapped around his waist In a holster In what ho pays wda a peace ful and proper errapd hytherJaim that hei meant to take ftlsVInsjui brother Peter out In a motor boat rideand car ried alone the gun under his coat so that In cane of a breakdown or an at I tack by river pirates he wquld he pro i i pared either to signal for help or repel boarder I He will say that It was a chance meet ling with a man who manages a con crete plant tho Halns family It Inter I ested In concrete plants that caused the I abandonment of the motor boat ride and sent the brothem to Bayntde to look at real estate at a time when Annis the object of Peter Halnss Insane hatred so alleged happened to be there It Is this mixer of concrete as yet unldentl lied b name who Is expected to fur nish confirmation for tills I Aged Parent Jo Testify I In his ujxnVYiK Shay sklpped lightly over the uncontrovertrd Atatement that I he lingered around tbe yacht landing for twenty minutes attar he found out that the real estate dealer Bujg wee not thore and that Annis was What he did sir was that Thornton llama would claim that his brother got bon 1 his light behind the sail of Annlds boat and began shooting before he realized that the tragedy was even Im pending that after PoUr hun had been seized and disarmed by John Ton uinK Thornton Halm believed his crazed brother wan In danger of mob Violence and only draw his pistol lo pro feet CaN ilsliiK and maintain order I until the police arrl ud fin all of thin It will till Thornton l llaln s word utrahist the word If Mr AiinU and the word of ten member of Mile 111111111 yacht Club and Iwo of its nllloIU II lllthrr through confusion or purpos ly Air htay made an amalnK 4lmts ion j when be laid Uul Thornton hiatus J14 m i 1

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jfll M I r r1 The Evening World Daily Magazine Saturday December 26 190 WjJC rJiit fubllihed Dally ixrept Sunday by the Press 1ublHhne Company Xos U to M 1ntlt How Ncw York JOSEPH PULITZER Im 01 Iark Now J AMir4 BIIAW Mr Tfrn O lArk moe Entered nt time PostOffice nt New York no PeeondClnp Mnll Matter Subscription Rates to The Evening For England and the Continent and World for the United States All Countrli in the International and Canada Postal Union One Year J3M One Tear r7te One Month X One Month so I f VOLUME 40 NO 17204 t t COBWEBBED INDICTMENTS ORMKR ATTOHXEY GKNKR f r AL MAYER stated to the judi cial legislative investigation com mittee that ordinarily a magis trate silt for fifteon day and i1 then oil fnr fiftopn day As semblyman ilurphy of Brooklyn added to this that the justices of Y COURT the Court of Special Sessions take 0 d d every third month off E r 0 Q Q Yet the magistrates are asking r for additional judges and clerks I and the Justices of Special Sessions are asking for more judges and 1 clerks Got Hughes saved the city enough money to put new floors in i the Oily Court House by not appointing two judges to fill the vacan cies there There were more judges than there were courtrooms and l lto fill the vacancies would only make more judges without courtrooms There are enough courtrooms now in the County Court House in City Hall Park for all the Justices of the Supreme Court to sit at one time Neither are these courtrooms constantly occupied because though their number is in excess of the number of judges the exist ing courtrooms are rarely all occupied at the same time with trials and hearings I Xo wonder court calendars are years behind Xo wonder that justice is delayed so long that in some cases it becomes hoary or dies of old age d4o I OFF II II ra 1 7 F i aMk 9r In the criminal courts prison cases are tried in preference to bail cases That is a man who is able to give bail waits for the disposal of his case until jail cases are tried This means that with the constant Jfiux of jail cases the day of trial for bail cases is long postponed ir Time in a criminal case always operates to the advantage of the Scfendant The prosecution must prove its case If the States wit nesses die or move away the case falls In any event time weakens memory and the witnesses are more likely to contradict themselves to forget and not to carry weight with the jury 5 Under the professional bail system any criminal who can raise a little money can get bail The more successful criminal he is the more likely he is to be able to raise the bail money for a professional bondsman Thus justice instead of being most swift against the worst offenders makes victims of defendants without established I t criminal connections or of the failures in crime i Letters From the People 1 o I Caught That FIh Tn the Editor of The R enlnf World The head of a fish Is four Inches long JIB tall Is as long as the head and half of the body Its body Is as long as the head and tall I caught that fish How long was It readers SIDNEY LEST S The American Fins To t e Rlltor of The Evenlnjr World Here Is my answer to the question If It would be an Insult to use the American flag on Washingtons Birth day for a tablecloth I would say It Vnould be a great Insult to the Anierl can naP also to any American citizen Vila saw same used ns tablecloth NATUrtALIZED CITIZEN SuKKrit Milk DIt To ue Editor of Th Bvfnln World Here Is a tip for the man who writes tint his doctor told him he could not live a year as ho is dying or con sumption Seemingly Incurable con sumption has been cured many a time by a milk dirt five to eight quarts a day abstinence from nil forms of ex ipendlture of energy and plenty of fresh i lair The patient begins to put on flesh Ot once and the less attention he pays to gloomy thoughts or forecasts the better for him But If he does not wnnt to take this course of treatment on trust Itt him go to one of the nearby aunt tarlums on the high ground of New Jersey He will find sanitariums where this treatment has been sucreisfull practised for years rXPI nIl CI A HrnvrnrlKlit Ho T the JMItor of The Evening World My eon U thirteen years and eight month of age nnd weighs 1C pounds He expects to bt graduated from public I school In two months Irom now and t as he hasnt shown any energy tu re duce his weight mil our efforts not vlthstandlng 1 intend to end him n r one term to n military school Can any will tender tell me If this U hit cr luggrn anything better ANXIOUS IATiriJH tenant and aM T thf Blllor of The Kv nlp World The letters nn the Prrvant Question liars been of Intrrcft I um a com paratively nung houlfkeeler yet I an well rnrnrr wler a good general housework xlrl ufhnl only lIT or ill a month unit did Ilifl washing and ironing too Now we must pAr from SIS to 2 for the same work And It early I harder to It crnerahou Yorli L 3t e y I girls Who can pay why Vow I please lenders dont answer that It Is I because girls are so badly treated They arc no worm treated than they I were ten oars ago And many a family Mill treats UP eert ants with I kindly ronslderatlon There must be some other reason It cant be that I girls nrn ashamed to le servants A I good servant who does her work well I has nH honorable a position aji a hank president In the World Almnnnc To the Editor of The Kvrnlng World Where can I find n list of high tchoolb for gills In New York City with their addresses PEnny D As to Milivny Clilvnlij To he Cdhor of The Evening World I rend about the man who lifted the other man from Dm cuhwny sent Into which HIP second man had clipped flrM I as a woman was about to occupy it The man who lifted him out of thin seat niBilr first tnp mistake While lifting him from the feat with one hand he should have parted him In the eye with the other I dont believe In any nonsense sense about chivalry If I already havo a rat I keep It Hut too many men grab peat that tired women are about to Atilt Into And If a few of these hogs were roundly kicked It would he Letter all around I think a few of them are imtlveborn Aimrlmim JAIAHAD No 2 T rrvr Moulin of riirllinii To the Kdltor of The BvcnlnK WorM When this letter Is printed Christmas I will lie over So will the Christmas spirit alas Kor once In a year people think kindly of others put others comfort ahead of their own buy 1 presents for others Instead of for j thoniselvi Earrlflrc their own com fort to do good to the poor It to a wonderful ChrUtllke tplrlt Chrlstinus passes and the spirit pitssei with It Why mutt that spirit pans 1f It I run Le brought to life nt nil why lur t It hI brought to life furall time Why I I not let its forget selfishness situ greed and havf yearly twelve months of Chrlmniai It 18 possible to haw Who will tri UfJO llrnkr llrnUc UrdUrJ Tn tie B4n r at The Bii rtr World ilioke rirokr Ilik j ciirlttmus thus In past I1 Or for n crirp saw dollar bill Thats warranted to lasts UD IAOE prr a r t I The New York Girl via n No 11 By Maurice Ketten f s a 4 c r l ii e 1 l fJJJ 1 Bi I VIJ i JJI J 1 I v I I f W 7 P I I II l l i Tf1 I 9 l 1fk A TINEB t 4 R L I f f I i I1 j 1 I y 1 v 4 The Chorus Girl on the Tinsel and Pathos of Stage Stories in the Christmas Magazines o 1 By Roy L McCardell I T BIN rerun up all this week said the Chorus Girl and I bin blurring my I 4 I brain reading the holiday numbers of them ten cent magazines that sells i for fifteen cents 1 tay kid there alnt a one of them but has the dear t old hardly annual The Chorus Girls Christmas The ten cent magazines that sells for fifteen cents cant be printed at this time of year unless they has a story full of tinsel and pathos called The Chorus Girls Oiirnt i v 4 mas They is always written by bedridden exschoi t i S maams of Keokuk Ia and South Bend Ind where the i contortionists come from y 7 They is always prize winners too them The Chorus t Girls Christmas stories and is led off by an explanatory 1 note from the editor which carefully explains what the I 4 story if about and how the whole staff has had the vriUls E since they read It EA 1 This bit of stage tinsel the explanation note alway I say this spotlight on the tender little heart of Imo Peacn rocyncnezru the little girl who went on the stage 10 support her sister nc Lady Lineman who had fallen off a fifteenstory apartment house wJil stringing poolroom wires and suffered from brain fever In coiiEerjuence tills In sight Into the tawdry but tender life behind the scenes will by Its heart appeal alone bring the ear of compassion over pretty Ima frailties and yet not even thock the most faFtldlous among our readers Every character has been thor oughly sterilized and the mother guarding her home flock may read of what befell the little dancing girl aloud to her little one Because we may all agree with our authoress who know whnteof shin speaks That after all kindly heart ben beneath the sock and buskIn and although dainty coquettish friv i olous little Ima Pencil was wicked yet through It all her mornls were above reproach and we nay tx sure that only platonic friendship prompted the kind hearted Wall stict man to keep his automobiles In her name Wouldnt ti suit of stuff malt you cream in your sleep Rut they 0 always dues it TIP rural free delivery subscribers demands they gets The I Chorus Girls chrMmas just an the renders of the Christmas numbers of the Sunday papers Jim to have that good old holiday standby Christmas In Many LandLook and see Well now youre going to ask me whens our chow coming to Broadway Thats what Marmadulte Marsh writes me every mall And all I can say If were waiting our turn In line Others has to come in ahead of us and wishing them no bad luck I hope they all file standing up WhoF Marmaduke Marsh Say hes an actor that acts at acting Theres only one worse actor on earth now everybody think of a different person tnd at first rehearsal everybody else in the cast looked at each other and said I guess hes bad And there was no note of interrogation in the remark Where has you played says we to Marmaduke Marsh and he tnawors haughty I played Sycamore Park near Chattanooga all last summer and 1 guess they thought I was bad And we said It was a good guess but what was the name ol the theatre And he says Well WI didnt have no theatre I played on the bandstand and got over And see moaned and says Was you pushed over or was you thrown For 11 had heard of grandstand players but never of baridstand play ers before Whereat he laughs merrily thinking we do but tease Now he writes me Wire at once when The Gay Life opens Broadway as I can sign with Diamond Jacks Essence of Dogwood Indian Hemedy Co Strongly featured for street or hall and not expected to pull teeth or double ID b and o As you know I am strong worker looker and dresser on and off end drag skirts to fill lAdies prize matinees to capacity and do not booze or dope Wire it once suiting highest MAHMADUKE MARSH P SCan get you refined little lady for Iron Jaw act Can you have part written in to Introduce her specialty Would be cream with tough beefsteak bit In boarding house scene Wire answer M M Can you brat It And Dopey McKnIght getting that proud since hes aated out that he wears his dress suit in place of pajamas as It he was to he wakened arty mother dear to attend one of Gym Barleys musical mornings at the Metropole And what do you think He makes a show of me at Peggy Mnchrrto the ther night We has front seats In the orchestra and he reaohes over and taps thE bass drum and then exclaims In a surprised tone Why Ita hollow Wish me n prosperous New Year Louder kid louder The Ambitions of Sonny and Sue By Albert Carmichael ILI So An1t1EN wl SURE IM narS TnE i1 y y d DOWN TO 1HE THE 8095 rn DERflESI FIFTH PAiR OFFICE AND Gf SUPR9 k l 4 i 405E AWAY SWPPERS FPOft WILL YOU ft 41VE Rftl E P WElL MAAR pt t WHEN YGU WHENHIM r3c7 fnE xnA9 Y r PAESErtT 1 a ai II U naa t YE r SUE AND A LITTLE HuM I AN07NER PAID i Ill AEnEneARttLE fy b g OF sttPPEN51 r NEVER 61 IrtOrt SUE AND OYt ABLE 10 i nE 0095 I J CCPICY ngRRIEG 1 2 Tcr T Ui r I 1 r L r w r r a iff THE WEEKS t I Some ol the Con I ar 1 1 oraimcn ore alialdj Jl v ta Wall fire the President has an Thq only way I ittioatert wit run ace in the hole handlq handle women ia to tcl up igakiil the bill 1 I them to do what they tratAs of civilization t 1 BY MARTIN want to da GREEN K Ij L UWE mused the laun dry man they 6r I seam to be going tiq to put the probe Into Wall street a at last 4 r A probe of spa t Kliettl said the r e 1 11Ian who was get ting his pockase eI The game In Wall street is the most complicated GtIn 2Q in the world It has been framed up through years of experience by clever shifty men look tng for the best of It Their idas Jisn been to maTte it look like a straight square deal proposition on the surface but underneath It Is all filled with crosscuts and tunnels i

el r 11e only lawyora that know any thinG about the inside of Wall street arc all tangled up in the affairs of the dis rlct None of them can be secured by he Investigating committee to conduct the work of examining witnesses And n order to examine the witnesses BO us o get something out of them worth while the questions will have to be put y men who know the system of specu itlon Once upon a time 1 saw a consclen lous country sheriff go on the ground if the county fair to make an Investiga Ion of the big wheel of fortune Out wardly this was a glittering cinch that ha sucker would get an even break tut one man behind the works could lake the wheel stop wherever he want d the pointer to rest and no outsider ould tell how he did It The rube sheriff spent three days investigating re wheel and lost illS They could ave let him win but that would have node him suspicious When the gang noved on to the next fair the sheriff hook hands with the big squeeze and aid he was convinced the game was onest The Governors investigating com mittee having no vested power to com pel anybody to do anything will have i a nice placid session Every man they ask to come to the front and tell what his graft Is will come to the front like o 1 flP i TEDDY r J I rerrrr I a shot out of a gun and tell what the other fellows graft Is When it Is nil o ever the investigators will know a lot 1 more than they know now but they wont kno what they are starting in to find out It will surprise them to find that many of our foremost flnancers will go before thorn anti solemnly declare that the very prac I tices which are considered the most dangerous In the estimation nf Outsiders 1 ers are really the bulwarks of conser vative business The suspension of Marshall Spader Co shows that the J stall has been formed already However lAId the laundry man Congress still sticks to the Idea of calling down the President Fear not advised the man who was getting his package The calldown wont make much nf a splash Your GEr pJtr r ft I average successful statesman has ell the backbone and determination of a d Kippered herring Congress Is proceed ng to call down the President with all tho Impetuous ardor of a man on his way to get his teeth tilled The reason why Is because Congress Is waiting to hear from home The representatives of the peopl want to know what the people think about the Insult hurled at them by the President before they frame up how to resent It If any of them find that they might queer their chances of reelection nr hurt their standing with the organl a lion in their home districts by throwi ng rocks at Theodore Roosevelt theyll ilggle back In a way to make a Salome r lancer look like a cake of Ice Besides time of them are afraid the President has an ace In the hole I see remarked the laundry man that a minister out In St Louis hoe C advised the girls of his congregation to use makeup on their maps If they think It will make them more attr o tive That dominie declared the man who Will getting his package Is a few on the lines nf Christopher Columbus in s particular fold of cxplnrntlon He 1 ye4e ea v C aa t a JN M I c 1 I I I 4 tose0 off y SYNOa S r i I I boa tin against the fundamental tnjtbj that the only way to handle women II to tell them to do what they want to do 1 I If a womans tight shoes make hej nose red all the logic ever uttered could not convince her that the way to re I move the redness from the tip of her I nose is to slop wearing tight shoes But 1 she Is wise to the fact that she can put powder on her nose and wear tight shoe at the same time and the red nose wont show to the superficial observer 1 Anyhow why shouldnt a woman put rouge and powder on her face You i ts I seldom find a woman wilfully dolnc I j 1 anything to herself that will detraS from her attractiveness to the opposite I sex A woman has as much right to I paint her cheeks af a man has to shave because nature undoubtedly intended s thnt men should wear whiskers That was quiten drastic move Mayor McCiellan made closing up all the mov Ing picture shows said the Laundry Juan jives indeed agreed the man who I was getting his package Evidence 1 continue to multiply that there is to be an election In this town next Novem ber iS3S 33 uv at e Story of the Operas l I By Albert Payson erbuna NO DOXlZWrTlS II DON PASQUALE A RNESTO an Italian youth who was wholly dependent upon his rich olfl E uncle Don Pasquale for support fell in love with Norma a pretty but i poor young widow Ernesto and Noiina becamo engaged and complica f Won promptly set In Don Pasquolo was a bachelor Ho had picked out as a wife for his nephew a woman of means But Ernesto flatly refused to marry the heiress and declared F he would always be true to Norma j Tuls obstinacy on the part of his nephew so enraged the old man that he re I solved to disinherit the Ind In order to he certain of leaving his wealth to some I one else Don Pasquale even decided to marry J Pnsquale confided this plan to his crony Dr Malatesta But the doctor was fond of Ernesto and hated to see the youth disinherited So while pretending to agree with PanqualBi views he secretly formed a project to thwart the old man He offered Pasqunl the hand of his young sister a demure maiden fresh from the convent 1asqunle delighted accepted the proposition with eagerness Aa s matter of fact Malateita had no sister But he Intended to persuade Norma to impersonate the Imaginary convent girl and to make her disgust Pasquale with the Idea of matrimony Pasqunle told Ernesto he was about to marry Mnlntestas ulster and Mala testa explained the plot to Norina who readily entered Into the conspiracy e MnlatoBta Introduced Pasquulo to Norma Site was demure and bashful and her demeanor charmed the old man A notary arrived and performed a mock marriage 6tOln the two Barely was the ceremony at an end when Norma whirled about to face Pas quivle raged at him called him a fool and declared she was going to turn his whole house upside down Papquale Blared In dumb amaze at the transformed bride then demanded an explanation from Malatesta But the doctor appeared equally mystified Pasquale tried to soothe the angry woman She retorted by discharging nil servants and announcing that she was going to the theatre without him As she tamped out of the house Norma managed to drop a note 4o the door Pasquale read It It contained a pledge to meet a mysterious suitor that same evening In the cordon summerhouse Don asquales life became a burden lie was swamped by bills for extrav agant clothes jewelry ko that Norma bought When ha remonstrated she boxed his ears Ernesto who by this lima was In the plot agreed to Impersonate the sup posed suitor who was to meet Norma M the summerhouse Pasquale was bent t on going there also to confront hIs supposed wife with her Imaginary perfidy Pasquale und Malatesta reached the garden early In the evening prepared to spy upon Norlna and the writer of the note Ernesto and Norma appeared I walking from the summerhouse In the darkness Pauquale could not recognise his nephew but he rushed forward to Intercept the lovers Ernesto took to his heels to avoid meeting th4 old man Hut Norlna stood her ground Pasquale overwhelmed Norma with bttter reproaches Che angrily denied that she had come to the summerhouse to meet any man Panquale of court did not believe her and worked himself Into a fine fury over her hifldehhty At length as a climax to his threats he declared he would allow Ernesto to i marry any one the youth might care to and that tlu letters wife should share Norlnas place as mlxtreas of the house Norma refused to allow anything of the sort and another violent scene was Imminent when Maloteaia Interfered and told Don Pasquale the trick that had f f been played t i Pasquale overjoyed to nnd he was not really the husband of Norma con j sented gladly to her marriage to Ernesto Calling his nephew to him the old man joined the lovers hands and gave hem his blessing Ulstlu nuinbri uf 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