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480 COLUMNS LARGEST AND GREATEST SUNDAY PAPER ISSUED IN PITTSBURG rrm PITTSBURG P. 8 SECTIONS LARGEST AND GREATEST SUNDAY PAPER ISSUED IN PITTSBURG VOL. 23 NO. 320 PITTSBURG. SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1906 FIVE CENTS MsssiMtBJpsaV i TRIA IS TO BE WASH-JEFF TRIUMPHS OVER BLUE AND GOLD UA1ITED f6TI0Al ON SITE THRILLING BATTLE A IN A GREAT CONTEST LEADING FIGURES IN THAW CASE HtoHs; Formidable Array of Legal Talent Will Be Lined Up in Struggle to Save Millionaire From Electric Chair STARTLING DISCLOSURES EXPECTED Case Will Be Called On First Monday in December, When the Special Jury Will Be Drawn Pittsburger's Wife to Tell Story of Tragedy On Stand i HOW THE THAW ON THE Date set for trial.

December 3. Number of State's witnesses, 48. Number of eye witnesses of the killing', 12. Probable pleas for defense, justification and emotional Insanity. Special charges of the prosecution, murder, premeditation nd malice.

V- Special to the Sunday Press. Copyright, ,1908, by Hearst News Service. New York, November 17. It is anticipated that the trial of Harry Kendall Thaw for the murder of Stanford White will more than rival the sensational developments of the famous Stokes-Fish tragedy, which centered about the captivating Josie Mansfield. Both sides are prepared for the struggle.

The legal battle will be long, keenly fought and thrilling. Riit against the immense weight of the State's direct the story of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, oil the witness stand, is expected Thaw's lawyers to be potent envnigh in itself to save her husbanrTs life. By agreement between the counsel for Thaw and the district attorney the case will be called before Recorder Gotf in the Court of General Sessions on the first Monday in December, and it will have to be finished and the verdict rendered before the end of the month, which marks the retirement of Recorder GofT from the Criminal Court. A -nf I W' ft- 4" 1 I i Mils ELI AND TIGERS BATTLE TO A TIE Merchants and Manufacturers ftssoelatlon Starts Competition On Location for the New Postofflce SECRETARY SHAW TO BE HERE NOV, 26 Mauor Gsorgo W. Outh-rlo Is Requested to Act In Unison With the General Gsmmlttee to Ghoose a Concerted action by the various trade bodies and civic clubs is to be taken during the early-part of the week for the selection of a postoffice site.

The Merchants Manufacturers' Association is taking a leading part, and, following a meeting held yesterday afternoon, it sent out a call to the various bodies, requesting that they name representatives to meet with committees from other bodies along with Mayor Guthrie and three representative citizens. It Is believed that the only plan now available Is to meet and decide on a location and recommend It with all the force of the joint bodies to Secretary Shaw ln opposition to the Penn avenue site offered by the political Interests. Following, the telegram from Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, received by Congressman James Francis Burke, yesterday noon, the various business organizations ln the city were active ln getting started a movement that will mean the selection of a site, which would comply with all the specifications and yet be more centrally loeated. According to advices from Washington, Secretary Shaw will be in Pittsburg on Monday, November 26, to hear the claims of the various Interests and to personally Inspect the grounds offered.

MERCHANTS ARE ACTIVE. At the meeting of the board of direct ors of the Merchants' and Manufactur ers' Association, held yesterday afternoon, the action of President F. R. Babcock was endorsed. A resolution was adopted calling for "a committee of three to be appointed by the president, to meet and co-operate with similar committees from other associations or bodies or committee of citizens, for the purpose of recommending and urging before the secretary of the treasury the selection of such a location for the proposed new postoffice as may be deemed for the best Interests of the city of Pittsburg, such committee being empowered fully to represent the association ln said matter.

Further resolved that the association hereby requests the mayor of the cty of MttsDurg to appoint a oommiitee of representative citizens to the end that such commitee meet and co-operate with the committee of this association and similar committees of other bodies re garding the selection of a site for the new postofflce and further request the mayor to act as chairman of any joint meetings of said committees." Following the meeting. President Bab cock named R. B. Mellon, of the Mellon National Bank, representing the bank ing interests; W. L.

King, vice president of the Jones Laughlln Steel rep resenting the manufacturing Interests and A. M. Scott, of Allen Kirlcpatrlck representing the mercantile in terests. A CONCERTED ACTION. Secretary James W.

Wardron immedi ately sent out notices. Inclosing the reso lutions, to the Chamber -of Com mprr-p Pittsburg Board of Trade, Oakland Board or lTaae, moomneid Board of Trade Mt. Washington and Duquesne Heights Board of Trade, Pittsburg Chapter American Institute of Architects, and the Civic Club. These organizations are urged to name their committees with the utmost dispatch, so that the general Continued on Paj( Six. CENSURE BOLD IDEA OF TRIAL MARRIAGES Local Ministers and Club Women Attack New Matrimoaial Doctrine Advanced bj New-York Saciety Leader NOT ONE VOICE OF ASSENT FOUND IN PITTSBURG.

Announcement of the publication in New York yesterday of a book entitled "The Family," from no less ap author than Mrs. Elsie Parsons, daughter of Henry Clews, the banker. In which she advocates many radical changes in the present laws governing the marriage relation and marriage itself, has called down a storm of protest, some of which comes from Pittsburg. In her book Mrs. Parsons advocates, among a number of unusual views on marriage, a trial period, during which the husband and wife shall become acquainted with one another, and in case they decide that they are not well mated, they shall be allowed, witb no condemnation from popular opinion, to CASE STANDS EVE OF ITS TRIAL Garden.

It Is contended by the district attorney that the evidence which will be presented to the jury will warrant the finding of a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree, the punishment for which is death. DIFFICULT TO FIND JURY. Owing to the belief that it will be difficult to select an unbiased Jury, Jerome will move this week, before Judge O'Sul-livan for the drawing of a special panel of several hundred men, who have already been partially examined by the sheriff and have declared they have no conscientious scruples against capital punishment. It Is anticipated by Mr. Jerome and Lawyer Iiartridge that It will be difficult to find intelligent talesmen who have not read about the Thaw-White tragedy and formed an opinion as to the guilt or Innocence of Thaw.

The shifting of jurors may take a week. The case as it will be presented by the district attorney Is simple and Is embraced under the general heads- "The killing; the premeditation; the motive for the crime." Forty-eight witnesses have been examined in the district attorney's office and most of these, including "clubmen men about town, private detectives' actresses and chorus girls, will testify TuPPf he rl Plan outlined me uismu attorney Thomas Mccaleb. chums Thaw Mr Reale and Mr. McCaleb will be called a he testimony CofeMr8 li'Vl "peciea. will thro cuicieu me are Martin anr.

00k a sat at a table near bv tL. tSEw fd WhUo' Mr. the appearance hit it will be testified, Evelyn it Thaw became r. 1 Of iaw became deeplv aif.u Continued on Page Six. Us of th borough.

The police were kept busy running down the reports, and got no clue. The all" theynies admit they are baffled. PROMISED FOR TODAY. Heavy overcoats and umbrellas will be needed by churchgoers today, if the official forecaster Is to be believed. Nor does he ive any more reassuring promises for Monday.

Here Is the forecast, as telegraphed from Washington, late last night. 'Wetsern Pennsylvania Rain and colder Sunday; Monday, snow and much colder. Ohio Rain or snow and colder Sunday; Monday, local snows and much colder." WHERE IS MRS. CARNEGIE? It was rumored yesterday that Mrs Andrew Carnegie and her daughter, who have been sightseeing at Niagara Fails lately, would arrive in Pittsburg some time yesterday, but so far as could be learned last night Mrs. Carnegie did not come.

At the home of Mrs. Lucy Carnegie it was said last night that Mrs. Carnegie had not arrived in the city, and that she was not expected. J. Frew, who is counsel here for Andrew Carnegie, said over the telephone that he knew nothing of Mrs.

Carnegie's whereabouts. A recent Buffalo dispatch stated that the millionaire steel magnate's wife and daughter had been "doing" the Falls, and would probably leave there Saturday for i ne states case, so far it hear, upon the development of the tragedy UnleaSrK ih Cafe-' elrl ln th evening of June 05 at which were present Jlarry Thaw Eve lyn Nesbit Thaw ve: a lne incidents which Im-nVltCi Pretpdd the tragedy It rfVIA fhow" b- the witnesses thit -r uiiiner narrv vAn VUtoru Perched On Red and BlaGk Banner When "aunnu" Price Kicked Prettu Goal From the Field GOOD PLAYS SENT BIG CROWD CRAZY ExGltement Was Intense On Streets Last Night. When the Washington Bous Turned Out In Force to Celebrate BY CARL E. DAVIS. In a spectacular and hair-raising contest, and in the presence of about G.000 spectators, the gridiron warriors of Washington Jefferson vanquished the husky-sons of W.

U. P. at Exposition Park yesterday afternoon, the only score of the game being made when "Sunny" Price dropped a goal from the field from the 18-yard line. Although defeated, W. U.

P. was by no means disgraced, and the showing they made against the team which had been touted as an easy winner was indeed remarkable. Their line held like a stone wall, and the Red and Black men soon found this out to their sorrow. Time and again they would throw their backs against the mighty line of nerve and muscle, but the impression they would make could hardly be noticed. At the ends they were a little more successful, although with the exception of Price, the W.

J. team did not find Perry and Klawuhn productive of many gains. On the offensive Wup showed great form and it Is Indeed conservative to say that Wup played their pponents even. Their backs ran th W. J.

ends or crashed through the line for many gains an in the matter of trick plays they were not second to tne Red and, mack. They worked the delayed, double and forward pass very successfully an by means of these plays, sandwiched in between good straight football, they on several occasions managed to work the ball down to within a short distance of the goal, only to lose it when one good gain would have carried it over. In the first half They outplayed their opponents completely, and tha play was ln W. J. territory during almost the entire period.

Playing like demons and as though their very lives depended on the result, they entered Into every play with a recklessness characteristic of bravery In its highest form and it was little wonder that when the half was over their rooters had visions of victory in their minds. Their good work continued ln the second half and Just before the end of the game they rushed the ball down to the W. J. 15-yard line, only to lose it through a poor piece of head-word on U'-' part of Uoisseau, who had taken Swi son's place at quarterback, the litti oweae Deing piayea out irom tne strenuous work devolving on him, after being out of the hospital only -a. short time.

The time was short and it was evident to all that but one or two plays would end the game. The W. J. line was holding like demons, as they realized that if they could stave off the attacks for an instant the game would be over. The only chance for victory was a short end run, and while It might not prove successful it was certainly a better chance Continued on Page Kighteen.

vx V', jr The district attorneys office and the counsel for Thaw, after months cf preparation, have declared themselves ready for the call to battle, and only tome unforseen circumstance of great importance can disarrange the' schedule. District Attorney Jerome and iis fs-stistant, Francis P. Garvin, who has conducted the preliminary investigation, will represent the State. The interest of Thaw will be guarded by Delphlne Michael Delmas, famous as a special jury pleader on the Pacific coast; Clifford W. Hartridge, upon whom has fallen the burden of perfecting the details of the defense: David T.

Watson, the Thaw family lawyer; John B. C.leason, Russell Peabody and former Assistant District Attorneys Gans and Iselin. HARTRIDGE MAY LEAD BATTLE. While there nas been much discussion and interest in the selection of the actual trial lawyer to Thaw, and several prominent names have been mentioned, it would not -be surprising if Mr. Hartridge.

who is reputed never to have lost a criminal case, would assume the responsibility of conducting the defence, with the array of associate counsel behind him. Uwrenc White, Stanford son, will be the first important witness to testify against Harry Thaw, when the young millionaire is placed on trial next month for the killing of White's father. This was announced today, it was the first definite statement of the purposes of the -district attorney In his endeavors to convict Thaw. Young; White will he depended upon to prove the identity of the murdered man. This is the first step in a prosecution for murder He will also be questioned ns to the movements and words of Stanford White directly bciYie he was slain.

The Whites, father and ton, dined together on the night the crime. Thev bad a table at Martin's, where Thaw and his wife, whb somp friends, also ate. While I-awrenee White quit Martin's to go to a theatrical entertainment farther up town, Stanford White promising to meet his son later in the night, went directly to the Madison Square roof garden, to fall dead 15 mintues later at Thaw's hand. Thaw is charged with killing Stanford White deliberately, with premeditation and malice aforethought, on the night of Jure 25, on the roof of Madison Square FATHER OFFERS REWARD FOR SON James Taylor, Sr. Says He Wants His Boy Brought to Justice "I want my son brought to justice, and I will give to the person who captures him or gives information leading to his capture." said James Taylor.

of'J)aqusn, yesterday, to Chief of Police Frank Flister. of that borough, as he entered the police station. James Tayjor. is accused of bavins' shot and killed Isaac Carter, a ne-pro. at his home in Patterson avenue Monday, and bus been at large since.

"I will have to sell my property to pay the reward." continued the father of "the murderer, "but I will willingly do It." The father is assisting the police all be can to locate the young man. A coroner's jury has decided that Carter died from a bullet wound inflicted by T.i ior and recommends that he be ap-preh-nded and held to answer to a "irfc-c of murder. Miry reports regarding the missing are heard In Duquesne. One had it that he hal drowned himself, while another said he had commit-to. I in one of the mills.

Another ru.nor Taylor was seen yesterday HON. T. M. DELMAS. (To Defend Thaw.) MRS.

EVELYN NESBIT THAW HARRY K. THAW. Priaceton and Yal Tried Hard for Victory, Which Eluded the Grasp of Both of Them BIG CROWD WITNESSED MAGNIFICENT CONTEST. Princeton, N. November 17.

There are several thousand cords of firewood that will not be burned at Princeton tonight. The Tigers have been saving this wood for several weeks had even stacked it up over the Old Cannon, to be lighted in celebration of Princeton's great victory that has been as good as won for two weeks past in the mind of Princeton but old Yale had no sympathy with any hurrah plans for the old Tiger. She sent eleven bulldogs down here from New Haven, and they not only outplayed the Tigers, but menaced their goal on several occasions, and had the ball on her 12-yard line when the referee whistled. The game was equivalent to a Yale victory, as her team had taken one of the greatest braces in history in the past week. She outplayed Princeton at almost every position, her backfleld coming to life with surprising strength in the last half and battering its way through the Tiger line as it pleased.

The Yale coaches showed great judgment in saving Rooms for the Harvard game next Saturday, as soon as they saw that Captain Morse was quite capable of holding down the fullback's job in first-class shape. Yale was first on the field and had ten minutes' signal and kicking practice before a mighty roar from the Princeton stands accompanied the Tigers as they broke through the gate to the field on the run. Captain Uillon won the toss. and elected to have Miller kick off to Yale. Through the two thirty-minute halves thereafter, the men battled like fiends.

every inch gained by either team being only made by the most desperate fighting. Thirty thousand people were worked into a frenzy as the teams struggled, and as the play became more and more exciting, the delirium of the crowd was almost unparalleled. Yale relied mostly on the old style football, bucking the line time after time for gains of a few yards. Princeton played more of a kicking game. So fierce did the play get at times that the referee repeatedly was forced to caution the players.

Knox so far forgot himself that he began to slug right and left and was put out of the game on that account. Princeton, touted to win, failed to show her expetced superiority to the Yale warriors, and Yale pl-ye strong game after the poor showing she made earlier in the se.i5,i. her traditional burst of reserve power in the second hair, and in the last few mo- incuts as tiiraiij uuipiaymg me i ieer. The whistle sounded, however, too soon to show whether or not Yale could carry the ball over. in some respects tne game was disap- pointing.

With the exception of one 3- yard run by E. Dillon, Princeton's quarterback, the contest was lackiner in sen W. J. PLAYERS WERE INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Returning After the Qame, Their Machine Struck a Street Car Flushed with victory on the gridiron over their old-time rivals three players and a rooter of the Washingon Jefferson College football team are nursing serious bruises and a gloom hangs over the Red and Black headquarters as a result of an auto accident yesterday afternoon. Although the victory was made possible by Kerr Price, the plucky little quarterback, this hero of the game lies bruised in his room at the Hotel Henry.

A big auto, carrying five members of the team and six rooters, en route for Exposition Park shortly after the game was struck by Car No. CIS, Liberty and Lincoln division, at Fifth avenue and Wood street, at 5:20 o'clock. The auto was slightly damaged, the fender torn from the car and the front cab of the car partially demolished. THE INJURED. KERR PRICE, quarterback of the W.

J. eleven, bruised about head and shoulders. Right leg badly wrenched. VfJLLIAM SEAMAN, left guard; bruised about the hips and head. HARRY NEWMAN, right tackle, bruised about body; probably hurt internally.

WILLIAM McKECHNIE, third baseman of the Washington P. O. M. League baseball team; injured about legs and hips. Four automobiles belonging to the Li berty Auto were engaged to tho players of the Washington county college to and from the grounds.

One of the machines, with John Murphy, as chauffeur, containing 11 students and rooters, among them five of the players, was being driven up Fifth avenue, taking the occupants to the Hotel Henry. At Fifth avenue and Wood street the cornerman motioned the auto to stop and signaled the street car, which was running south, to go ahead. Instead of heeding the warning. Murphy, it is alleged, drove the heavy machine ahead and attempted to swerve in front of the car by cutting slightly into Wood street. He had almost succeeded when the car struck the rear truck of the machine and in an instant its occupants were hurled in all directions.

The auto continued a few feet and was stopped just above Wood street. The injured were quickly cared for and when another of the machines hove in sight were hurried to the hotel, where Dr. A. E. Thompson, of Washington, who accompanied the team to the city, attended their injuries.

Price, the quarterback, played a star game during the afternoon, and during wsi evening mere were many expresions of sympathy for the injured members about the corridors of the hotel, McKechnie is one of the best-known players ln the P. O. M. League, and during the season just closed covered third base for the Washington team. One rear wheel of the auto was broken, but aside from a few scratches it was not seriously damaged.

NOT A FIRST OFFENSE, SAY THEMLICE Startling Claims as to Be-havior of Signer Coruso Made by the Patrolman Who Jailed Him PRACTICE OF INSULTING WOMEN IS ALLEGED. Special to the Sunday Press. Copyright. 1906. by Hearst News Service.

New Tork. November 13. Enrico Caruso, know all over the world as the greatest opera tenor living, was held in York-ville Police Court today for "disorderly conduct." The charge against him was tbat he annoyed in a shameful manner a pretty young woman, who said she was Mrs. Hannah Graham of No. 1750 Bathgate avenue, the Bronx.

Neither Caruso nor the woman appeared in the Yorkville court. The singer was in a state of collapse at the Hotel Savoy. The woman had vanished. No trace of her could be found. Caruso, who was to have made his first appearance of the season at the Metropolitan Opera House a week from next Monday, was completely unstrung by the nervous excitement following his arrest.

CITY COULD BUILD ITS OWN SUBWAY Increase in Assessed Valaation Weald Permit Issue Bonds to Araoant ef $17,000,000 MONEY WOULD BE LEFT FOR OTHER BIG PROJECTS. The discovery was made yesterday afternoon that under the new triennial assessment Pittsburg will be enabled to issue bonds to the amount of if It wishes. By borrowing this sum ol money the city would be in a position to make a number of important improvements that have been suggested from time to time. In the first place, the city could immediately relieve the congested traffic condition by building its own subway. It could aiso cut down the hump; buy a suitable site for a ne wmunicipal building and erect a fine structure upon the location; buy the plants of the Monongahela and Pennsylvania Water and still, after these expenditures, have not quite approacht-d its constitutional debt limit.

The objection raised by Mayor George W. Guthrie to the proposition that Pittsburg bulid its own subway, that the city LOOK ON PAGE FOURTEEN TliANKSGIVINOimBMEXT SUNDAY i Something exceptionally fine is what The Press promises In its Thanksgiving number on next Sunday morning. A magazine in which will be pictured charming and typical Thanksgiving scenes, and which will be chock full of the most interesting, live and timely reading matter, is a feature that will at once attract every reader. Fiction, up-to-date and special Thanksgiving articles, a Thanksgiving sermon and splendidly-executed drawings by Press artists will combine to make an unequaled array of delightful features. Then there will be Buster Brown and his antics, and the rest of The Press family of funny people who inhabit the comic section.

And for the women readers there will be Thanksgiving articles by Madame D'Arcy, Augusta Prescott, Margaret Sangster, Ella Wheeler Wilcox anid otners. sational plays, such as the spectators had expected. The officials were in part responsible for the infrequent use of the new plays, as. with few exceptions, all efforts to' use the forward pass were penalized, the officials detecting some Infraction of the rules when the plays succeeded and netted gains. The ball w-'i'-i i back and given to the opposite side.

This was disheartening to the lejL.u.,. which suffered about equaJb- nt tv- h-r? of the field officials, and plays where no question could be raised were resorted to Princeton played a kicking game to a great extent, using Harlan to great advantage. The quickness of the Tiger ends in getting down the field on punts made this form of play effective. Time and again aHrlan was called on to punt even on the second down, and not once did he fall or was a kick blocked. Veeder, for Yale, lld almost equally well on punting.

He missed two attempts for Contisued oa Page Kiaeteea. oe separaiea ana re-married this time more happily, be it hoped. Her statement on this phase of the marriage question is as follows: "It would seem well to encourage trial marriages, the relation to be entered into with a view of permanency, but with the privilege of breaking it if it proved unsuccessful and in the absence of offspring, without suffering any great degree of public condemnation." MANY STRANGE VIEWS. This is only one of the many startling views on this subject expressed in the boox by Mrs. Parsons, who is one of the best known of New York society women.

She is the wife of Representative Herbert Parsons, chairman of. the Coaiiaaed oa Page Hz. would be prevented from carrying such a propect because of its debt limit, may not be a valid reason, if the estimate made by Chief Assessor E. E. Siebert of the increase in the assessed valuation of the city is correct.

Mr. Siebert estimates that the increase will be SoOiOOO.OUO, if certain increases on the assessment of railroad property are allowed. The increase in the assessed valuation will permit the city to issue bonds to the amount of $3,500,000 more than it is permitted, according to its cnarter, to issue under the present valuation. The charter for cities of the second class per- Cantlnued om Pas Six. xne continuance was granted at the request of former Judge Dittenhoefer and Frederick W.

Sperling, the lawyers who represented him. They had a certificate from Dr. Ludwig Weiss declaring that Caruso was sufferng from sciatica and was too ill to appear. So great were the fears for the effect of the great singer's nervous excitement on his voice and his health that the most determined efforts were made to avoid notoriety attending- a police court trial. Supreme Court Justice Truax, an associate of Justice IHigro.

who is the proprietor of the Hotel Savoy, became n-terested in Caruso's case, and hurried to Coatianed on Page Six. The Sunday Press Money Man, who buys 100 copies of the Sunday Press for $2 each every Monday, will again be abroad tomorrow and will buy 100 copies of today's Press. His plans, In detail, are told on page 14. Today's issue of the Greater Sunday Press consists of 60 pages, person failing to receive a complete paper is requested to notify the Circulation Department of The Press..