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AUG a 1912 ADVERTISERS FLOCK TOGETHER WHERE RESULTS ARE PEST Over 1000 more columns advertising in The Inquirer last year than In any other Philadelphia newspaper. And it is still with an increase la the first half of this year of 640 COLUMNS MORE The Inquirer's Big City Circulation Compels Results. THE TIME GROWS SHORT The Complete Set of 16 Portfolios of the Famous BRADY WAR PHOTOS i now ready and can be had at The Inquirer Office for ten tents each, or $1.00 for the complete set. Do not delay, for this unprecedented offer WILL SOON BE WITHDRAWN ft -vCvUv-V-V r. 1 ONE CENT THE WEATHER TODAY Fair PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1912 WatVphnrer o.

VOL. 167, NO. 34 Sought, in Rosenthal Case PHVSICII WILL REPEAT HOLD-OP CHARGE TO PORTER Found, One :0 5 i 4 5 :5,:: J. i nr CH f-m MISS DREXEL IN AUTO CRASH ESCAPES INJURY Maid and Chauffeur Thrown Violently, Probably Fatally Hurt Special to The Inquirer. NEWPORT, R.

Aug. 2. Miss Alice G. Drexel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

John R. Drexel, narroyvly escaped serious injurj- at noon today, when the runabout automobile she was driving collided with a gasoline delivery yvagon at the corner of Yfcnaga and Bellevue avenues, and was almost completely demolished. Miss Drexel" machine was hurled nearly thirty feet, but landed upright. She was pinned in behind the steering yvheel, while her maid, yvho was riding beside her, and the chauffeur, who waa sitting on the running board, were hurled from the oar and painfully, and possibly fatally, hurt. The two latter remained unconscious for some time after the collision.

According to the statement of the chauffeur of the delivery yvagon, he had started to crops Bellevue avenue when he saw Miss lrexel approaching at high )eed. He said he turned off his power and put on his emergency brakes, but could not stop quick enough to allow Miss Drexel to pass on. Miss Drexel also applied her emergency brakes and swerved her machine quickly to the right, but could not avoid the collision. Dre. Anderson.

Murphy and Keenan, yvho arrived yvith the ambulance from Neyvport Hospital, marvelled that Miss Drexel escaped with a few scratches and no physical injuries. The maid was hurled nearly twenty feet. She is suffering from concussion of the brain, a possible fracture of the spine, and two fractured ribs. The chauffeur's left leg yy-as fractured in two places, and be is suffering from deep cuts about the head and internal injuries. i i "WHITEY" LEWIS ON WAY TO HEARING In custody of detectives, one of four charged with murder of Herman Ros enthal is ehoyvn on his yvay to the office yesterday.

Lewis is wearing a cap and is indicated by an arrow. POUTICIIS MADE FREE USE OF CITY STABLES IS CHARGE Director Porter Hints Others May Be Arrested Loose Methods Make It Impossible to Ascertain Cost of Horses Evidence that men wielding poyverful political influence have not only been able to stable their horses, yvithout cost to themselves, at the city van stables, of which the assistant superintendent, Michael Bendon, yvas arrested on Thursday, but have been able to borrow horses there yfhenever they or their friends might desire them, is noyy in the possession of Director of Public Safety George D. Porter, according to a statement made by that official yesterday. So loose have been the methods-employed in recent years at the stables, yvhich are situated at Eleventh and Mifflin streets, the Director said, that even noyv he himself does not know justjioyv many horses the city owns. Horses have been either quartered at the stables or distributed among the various city bu-' reaus jvithout any record having been kept of them, he said, yvhile the bidding for fresh ones has been conducted upon such a sliding scale that the favored contractor who usually supplied them yvas assured of a far greater profit than he deserved.

Director- Porter flatly denied yesterday that had made a confession, as had been reported, in which the names of certain politicians had been mentioned in connection with the free use of or stabling of horses at the van stables. The Director said that Bendon had not made any admissions. "I think he was about to do so. yvhile: I yvas questioning him, but lawrer yvalked in and told him to keep his mouth shut," the Director said. Held on I.arcrny hen Bendon yvas arraigned in the Central Police Court yesterday Magistrate MacFarland held him in bail for a further hearing on next Wednesday, ro --charge than that of larceny, upon which he yvas arrested on, Thursday, being preferred against him.

I'm 1 wus promptly fiirnii-hed for the ac lman and he left the court room yvith his counsel, Henry J. Scott and Bertram D. Rearick. Soon afterwards the report spread about the City Hall that certain politicians had been implicated by Bendon in the case. Director Porter smiled yvhen the report yvas brought to his attention.

He yvas informed Bendon had mentioned James M. Hazlett, former president of Select Council, a political leader of the Tyventy-sixth yvard ami noyy a member of the Board of Road Viewers, Hazlett and his son having the horse shoeing contract for the van stables. "I had Mr. Hazlett on the 'phone this morning," the Director said. "He congratulated me upon the result of my investigation and said that his books yvere open to me any time I might yvant to look them over.

There is certainly no doubt that Mr Hazlett does excellent horse shoeing." Evidence Implicates Others With the admissions of fully thirty men regarding certain conditions yvhich have prevailed at the van stables in his pot-session, Director Porter said that he yvas. prepared to shoyv that Bendon yvas not alone in using the stables as a "good thing." Bendon, appointed a policeman and then made a hostler at the stables, subsequently became assistant superintendent of the latter. Noyv eligible to the pension fund, after more than twenty years in the police service, he can only be disbarred from sharing in it. if the Police Board of Inquiry, before yvhich he will soon be arraigned" as a result of his arrest, should find him guilty of the charges Director Porter has preferred against him. It is said that Bendon claims that he is simply the victim of the system yvhich has prevailed at the van stables over since he has been connected yvith them.

His counsel say that he yvill have a complete defense ready yvhen he is darraigned in the Central Police Court on next Wednesday, lie himself steadfastly Continued on 2d Page, 4th Col. THE WEATHER Forecast from Washington. Ratern rVnnTl-vrnin. New Jersey, pclaware. Maryland.

-District of "Columbia:" Fair Sat unlay and Sunday, moderate temperature: to moderate west and northwest winds. yVestern Pennsylvania: Generally fair Saturday and Sunday, moderate temperature, licht to moderate north winds. Nev York Herald's Forecast: In the Mfilfllo? States and New Knirland today overcast to nnrtly cloudy weather and lower temperature will prevail, preceded by bx-al rain in tiie coast district r.iih licht northerly to westerly winds, followed by clearing. On Sunday fair weather and continued moderate tempera-ture will prevail with liirhr northwesterly winds, and on Monday gvnorally fair and slightly warmer yveathcr. Steamers now leaving New York f'r Kurope will Imve mostly liclit and moderate westerly breezes and partly overcast yveathcr to the Bunks.

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16th it thestnnt Sta. Suspects, One It! V- X. if' "LEFTY LOUIS" Sought by the police in connection wit! Rosenthal murder FI5. GRACE FOUND HOT GUILTY: WILL RUSH TO SICK SON Former Philadelphian Is Acquitted When the State's Case Fails Husband She Was Charged With Shooting Declares He Will Sue for Divorce MRS. DAISY GRACE Who yvas acquitted yesterday of a charge of shooting her husband yvith intent to kill.

Special to The Imulrer. ATLANTA, Aug. 2. ''God bleas you, gentlemen' cried Daisy TJl-rich Opie Grace at 4.40 this afternoon yvhen the jury found her not guilty of the charge of shooting ber husband. There yvas a note of hysteria in Mrs.

Grace's voice and she seemed on the verge of a collapse, but her layvyers patted her on the shoulder and urged her to restrain herself and she soon became calm. -Then she approached each of the twelve jurors and ga.ve them thanks. "I feel like kissing and hugging you all," said Mrs. Grace. "I trusted you all the time.

I kneyv you yvould not believe what they said about Her Blind Son III Mrs. Grace left. the court and yvent to the offices of her attorneys. There she received a telegram from her sister in Philadelphia to the effect that Mrs. Grace's little blind son is ill.

"I yvill go to little Webster at once," said Mrs. Grace. The verdict yvas generally expected. It was conceded that the State failed to sustain the charge that "Mrs. Grace had drugged and shot her husband and locked him in to die in order to get insurance on his life.

It developed today that Mrs. Daisy Grace's remarkable story of the shooting of her husband was a carefully- prepared declamatron, pruned, amended and polished by her lawyers, and as carefully-rehearsed as a dramatic offering by a professional actress. For over two months. Mrs. Grace rehearsed the statement until she yvas letter perfect.

There were eight thousand yvords in the statement, but Mrs. Grace never faltered once during its delivery'. Eugene Grace was not in court. He was taken down to his home in Neyvnan last night and there heard of the verdict this afternoon. "I don't care yvhat the jury said," declared the paralyzed husband, "she's as guilty as and she knoyvs it." Grace announced that he will make a statement about the case and at once sie for divorce.

Politics Rends Joaquim Miller's Home OAKLAND, Cab, Aug. has rent the home of Joaquin Miller, poet of the Sierras, into three factions. Miller being a life-long Jacksonian, has registered as a Democrat; Mrs. Miller is a Republican of the Taft school, while Miss Juan ja, the daughter, declares herself an ardent admirer of Roosevelt. ROOSEVELT BLAMED FOR TRUST GROWTH fj STEEL REPORT J.

Pierpont Morgan Flayed for Over-Capitalization Profits New Laws Urged on Congress, But They Will Not Be Passed This Session Special to The INQUIKKK UIKKM'. I'OST 1 1.1 1 i. WASHINGON, D. Aug. 2.

Ac eompanied by the bills which yvere giv en in full in The Inquirer more than a week ago, the Stanley steel investigation report was filed in the House of Repre sentatives today. The of the report have already been printed exclusively in The Inquirer, and outside of these, which contain the of the report, the document is chiclly interesting for its bitter attack on Colonel Roosevelt, who is charged with having been responsible for the growth of the trusts in the United States. J. Tierpont Morgan and his associates are held up as being beneficiaries of enormous pioits realized from over-capitalization: tli'1 Gary corporation dinners are described as part of a scheme to control steel prices; and Roosevelt is charged directly for making control of the Steel absolute, and is charged with being sponsible for the gigantic stature which the so-called trust has attained. Speaker Cliirk Iiplenel Neither the bills that accompany the report nor any other trust bills will be passed by the House at the present session.

Neither Mr. Underwood, the majority leader, nor Speaker Clark are very well plea-sed with the remedies proposed by Chairman Stanley. They intend to do nothing to aid him in passing the several bills which he has presented. They feel that the subject is entirely too big fcr an off-hand disposition of it, and are quite content that the matter should be held in abeyance until after the election. if the were of a mind to pass any trust bills, the Senate would not agree to the program.

Since the House lias no intention to putting trust bills up to the e. tbere is a double "barrier to any action at this session. United States Steel Corporation is ft iyeil as an enemy of organized labor, accused of lowering the sociological conditions of its employes and of contributing to American industry workmen and work methods un-American and foreign to the best interests of labor. Principal stockholders of the Steel Corporation are accused of exerting a powerful and injurious influence on the business of the United States by means of control exercised through interlocking directorates of railway and industrial organizations. The activity of the corporation in polities is laid bare and its influence described, and the "steel trust" as a tariff beneficiary and its part in the making of the P.iyne-Aldrieh tariff act are touched upon by the Democrats.

The commit tee recommends legislation to cure trust evils and to meet existing conditions. It condemns the Steel Corporation, but does not invade the jurisdiction of the United States Court, in which there is now pending a government ouit for its dissolution. Early in its report, the committee sets forth that it would investigate "as if no proceeding on the part of the United States Government were now pending against said corporation, but not for the purpose of determining the questions involved in the action brought by the government." The government's suit is to discover if Continued on Last Page, 3d Col. -o BOLD THIEF STEALS SHOES OFF SLEEPING MAN'S FEET Marine Was Taking Nap on Doorstep Near River Minus his shoes, which had been stolen from him while he lay asleep on a doorstep at New Market and Wood streets, early yesterday morning, Ira Hamm, of Philmont, X. a maiine attached to the United States battleship Mississippi, was arraigned at the Central Police Court, having been ar-iested on a technical charge of disorderly conduct Hamm appeared in court in his stockings, and when the magistrate learned of his plight he immediately discharged him.

ASKING CITIZENSHIP AT 81. WOMAN WOULD VOTE Born in Ireland, But Resident of California, Talks of Freedom of Sex SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. years a resident of California and 81 years old. Mary Josephine Mel-vin, born in Ireland, tottered into court today and fiieel her first papers to become a citizen.

"1 have lived to see the dawn of freedom for women throughout the world," she said, "and I want to vote before I die." LOST AND FOUND ff "nrif or lean. SOn: additional icofdi. So LOS'i" Setter Cog, black and white, 7 months old, face avea marked, shoemaker's wax on hi nose pood reward, no questions asked. Saloon, ilst and Allegheny Charles H. iSueppard.

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or Pine st return to 14.j4 S. KinsriroM reward. LOST Huston bull brindled tTeiFlilmrhlvlirssFh and Montgomery ave. Pioard, LTCi Monte-ornery LOST Small jioodle doer, suit a file reward, remix to lo38 N. lrirh.

Lost ami Found Ada on XOth. Iiije 1st Column Alleges That Policeman Freed Ons Prisoner Because of Politics Two Assailants, Arrested When Insisted Upon, Are Held Without Bail Although Dr. Benjamin L. Gordon, of 1310 South Fifth street, a police surgeon, who declares he was held up and robbed Thursday night and one of his assailants allowed to escape because of a political "pull," has gone to Atlantic City, the charges against a policeman of the Fourth street and Snyder avenue station will not be dropped. According to Dr.

Max Staller. 1310 South Fifth street, who attended Dr. Gordon yesterday, the police surgeon will bring charges against the policeman on Monday afternoon when he returns from the shore. Dr. Staller also stated that numerous attempts had been made by ward workers in the vicinity to see Dr.

Gordon yesterday morning, and that one of his objects in ordering the physician out of the city was to prevent the.se men from reaching him. Dr. Gordon, in a statement made Thursday night, declared that he had been held up and robbed at Seventh and Jackson streets. He managed to make an outcry, he said, which attracted a policeman of the Fourth street and Snyder avenue station. The policeman arrived soon enough to capture all three mr instrumental in the hold-up, but subsequently allowed all three to get away.

When the physician remonstrated the policeman, he declares, whispered that they Mere ward workers. As he was still insistent Dr. Gordon said, the policeman reluctantly followed the men and recaptured two of them in a nearby saloon. The third was not apprehended. Following the incident Dr.

Gordon collapsed and was tiken to Mt. Sinai Hospital. Held Without Bail The two men arrested were given hearings yesterday before Magistrate Hushes in the station house and each committed without bail for a further hearing next Iriuay on the charge of highway robbery. They gave their names as Edward Murray, 35 years old, 702 Oantrell street, and William Maloney. 724 Cant-rell street.

Murray is judge of election it- the Eleventh division of the Thirty-ninth ward, and Maloney is a committeeman in the same division. Dr. Gordon left the Mt. Sinai Hospital yesterday morning and went to his home. There Dr.

Staller was called in to treat him. As Dr. Gordon's family- is in Atlantic City for the summer, Dr. Staller decided to send the police surgeon there for over Sunday. He left on the 3 o'clock train yesterday afternoon.

Dr. Staller said last night: "The departure of Dr. Gordon for Atlantic City does not mean that the affair will be diopped. The doctor is determined to bring the policeman up for neglect of duty, and is taJso determined to have the third man arrested. He told me that he would recognize his third assailant the moment he saw him.

A'ot Reported to Porter "It is Dr. Gordon's intention to return from the shore Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and he will immediately report the case to Director Porter. I thought it best to send the doctor to Atlantic City both on account of his which is very bad because of the shock, and to avoid the constant annoyance of a number of ward workers who tried all daylong to leach him. They told me that they wanted to hush up the case. Dr.

Gordon is suffering from the shock, and a severe cut on the head which has caused badly swollen features." Director of Public Safety George D. Porter, has taken no action on the case. He will not do so until a complaint is laid before him by the police surgeon. "Dr. Gordon has failed to call so far," Director Porter said last evening, "and until he does I can do nothing.

If a complaint is made the acting superintendent of police, Captain Thompson, will investigate." In his own defense at the hearing yesterday, the policeman against whom Dr. Gordon threatens to make charges, stated that he had allowed the third man to go free because a woman who had witnessed the assault had told him. the man was not implicated. He denied that there had been any influence used in a political way to liberate the man. HAD CURE FOR ARMY WORM, WANTED REWARD BY RETURN Georgia Farmer Tells "House or Senate" What Turkeys Will Do WASHINGTON.

Aug. 2. From a farmer at today came a tip to Congress of a way to rid the South of the army worm. M. M.

Kicklighter wrote a letter in red ink throughout to the "House or Senate" telling of his discovery-. "I saw your advertisement in the Atlanta paper for aid to check the army it began. "I had ten acres of corn and the army worms had just started in. I drove ray turkeys in my field and they ate the army worms up in two days and if it had not been for my turkeys I would have lost 50O bushels of corn b' those worms. "So please send me a check for said amount, for that is the only yvay to destroy the army worms.

Congress recently appropriated to eliminate the worm. "HARD LUCK JOHNNIE" ENDS ALL BY SUICIDE Shot, Stabbed, Robbed by Fiancee, He Takes His Life Speeial to The Inquirer. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2. "Hard Luck Johnnie" Neil died today at Derry, a suicide.

Several years ago" he fell in love. The first night he called on the girl some person fired three bullets into him. He fought death for yveeks. Returning from the girl's home another night someone stabbed him four times. Several operations and months in the hospital saved his life.

He yvas operated on for appendicitis, yvas struck bv a locomotive, and since then has suffered a series of mishaps. Then he brought the girl to Pittsburgh to marry her. Before they got the license she -disappeared in a store, taking with her $200 of Johnnie's money, and never came back. "4 TWO FUGITIVES IN ROSENTHAL CASE NEflBIG ARREST "Gyp the "Lefty May Soon Be in Tons Lewis, Charged Murder, Declares He Was Visiting Relatives at Time of Crime NEW YORK, Aug. 2.

With "Whitey" Leyvis and "'Dago'' Frank Cirofici locked in the Tombs, as two of the four gunmen yvho murdered Herman. Rosenthal, the gambler, on July 10, police headquarters professed tonight to be expecting neyvs at any moment of the capture of "Gyp the Blood" and "Lefty Louie," the tyvo of the quartet still at large. LeyvLs, yvho yvas arrested last night at a resort near Kingston, N. and brought here today, refused to admit yvhen examined by Deputy Police Commissioner Dougherty, that he 'had any knoyvledge of the shooting and said that on the day before the murder he went out of town to visit relatives. He was very vague, however, as to just where these "relatives" lived.

He was held for further examination on Tuesday. Arrests Expected Soon That the tyvo gunmen still missing are in hiding in the same region yvhere Lewis yvas picked up yvas the belief expressed at headquarters tonight, and it was reported that a squad of detectives, still searching the neighborhood, are hot on their trail. It yvas said by Assistant District Attorney Moss, hoyvever, that he had received word from Auburn that the men were hiding in or near that city, and it is understood detectives from the District Attorney's office have been trying to run them doyvn there for several days. Mr. Moss took charge of the case today in the absence of District Attorney Whitman, who left for Boston early in the day, expecting later to go to Manchester, to- remain over Sunday with his family.

Directing his attention to the police graft phase of the case, brought into prominence by the allegations of "Jack" Rose and "Bridgie" Webber that the annual levy of blackmail by the police on illegal resorts amounted to $2,400,000, Mr. Moss examined a number of gamblers and other Continued on 2d Page, 6th CoL a BILLY GOAT A'SAILING WAS HIS OWN WRECKER His Owner and Skiff's Possessor Went to Law in Vain Special to The Inquirer. CHESTER, Aug. 2. Thomas Willis temporarily left his skiff along, the banks of Chester River and a goat belonging to Amos Bell jumped into the craft and chewed the shore line in twain.

The skiff syvung around in the current and yvas some distance from the starting point in Ship Creek yvoods when illis returned. Wh en the goat sayv the shore line receding, he began to groyv excited. He ran from stern to proyv and back again several times until one of its hoofs punctured the craft beneath the yvater line. The skiff quickly filled with water and sank, taking "Billy" with it, and he yvas droyvned. When Willis and Bell met a wordy war ensued.

Bell claimed that Willis yvas responsible for the drowning of his goat, yvhile Willis blamed Bell for the yvreck of his skiff. Seeking satisfaction, they proceeded to the office of Alder- I man Melville, who, after hearing the a. 44 1 it. iter -r 5 3 r' I I i I I -) FRICK'S BALL FLOOR TO STARTLE BOSTON SOCIETY To Appear and Disappear on Lawn i As If by Magic Special to Tbe Inquirer. BOSTON, Aug.

2. Henry C. rncb, the millionaire steel magnate, is to startle North Shore society yvith a "billion doll ir layvn party" at his Prides' Crossing on August 10. Excepting President Taft every man present will be a millionaire and the party yvill be conducted on a scale of Pittsburgh magnificence. The terraces will be-transformed into a sky-roof ballroom, yvhile' guests are being entertained at another part of the estate this will, as if by magic, become green layvns again if the orders placed by the millionaire yvith contractors are carried out.

They are ordered to construct a highly polished ballroom floor yvhic his to be placed on the terraces. The floor must be laid in the tyvo hours between 7 and 9 o'clock in the evening and must be removed betyven 1 and 3 o'clock, the next morning, so that early strollers yvill encounter no trace of the shining door upon which they danced a few hours earlier. The floor yvill be 10O by 50 feet and yvill be constructed and carried over the road from Nahant to Trides' Crossing in sections. ATTORNEY WHIPS JUDGE FOR PASSING THE LIE West Virginia Politicians Stopped by Onlooksrs in Personal Encounter Special to The Inquirer. HUNTINGTON, W.

Ang. 2. An argument oyTer receivership proceedings of the Neyv River Coal Company led to a personal encounter tonight on the streets of Fayettesville betyveen tyvo Republicans of State-wide prominence, Circuit Judge W. R. Bennett and V.

W. Dillon, recently defeated for the Republican nomination for Governor. Judge Bennett taxed Attorney Dillon with yvhat he had said before the Supreme Court, and it is alleged upraided him for telling a "damned lie." Forthwith, spectators say, the lawyer knocked the Judge down, and yvhen the latter got up he- repeated the performance. Dillon threatened to make it a continuous performance, but bystanders came betyven the men and prevented further hostilities. Guards had been placed on the New River property, and Judge Bennett had revoked the pistol licenses of these guards.

Dillon took the case to the Supreme Court, and Bennett's order yvas held up. This led to the altercation. CANADA WARY ON NAVY Fnvors Swelling Imperial Fleet, It it Asks Money Details LONDON, Aug. 2. Robert D.

Borden, Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, has during his visit to London made his position very clear on the subject of the naval assistance that Canada is to offer Great Britain. Mr. Borden and his colleagues of the Dominion Cabinet told the British Cabinet that Canada is prepared to assist Great Britain to maintain her naval when she does so she yvill yvant to be consulted as to the w-ay the money is spent. When Mr. Borden and his colleagues, comprising J.

Douglas Ilazen, Minister of Marine; C. J. Doherty, Minister of Justice; L. P. Pelletier, Postmaster General, and George E.

Foster, Minister of Trade and Commerce, arriy-ed it yvas announced yvith a great flourish that they came yvith an offer to contribute a squadron of four dreadnaughts to England. AEROMAIL WILL START TODAY AT OCfeAN CITY Special to The Inquirer. OCEAN CITY, N. Aug. 2.

If there is not a heavy yvind storm tomorroyv morning, Marshall Earl Reid, of will make test trips w-ith his mac-nine at 5.30 o'clock in the afternoon and start the aeroplane mail service between this city and Stone Harbor. The distance is twenty miles and can be covered by Reid in half an hour against the wind. The lire guards yvill police the beach before and during the ascent. Reid found it impossible to make a trial trip today, aa the motor had to be adjusted. Reid yvas sworn in "as a letter carrier today bv Mayor Headley in the presence of Postmaster Sutton.

Atlantic City Crap Joint Raided Special to The luquirer. ATLANTIC CITY, N. Aug. 2. Director Bartlett's neyv "strong-arm squad" pot busy- tonight, raiding a negro crap joint yvitliin a block of the City Hall.

The game yvas in full progress in tin; back of a pool room at North Tennessee avenue yvhen Sergeant Lacey and his squad descended on the place. A dozen negroes, in money and a full layout yvere taken. The place was run bv Bernard Johnson. Danish-Americans Reach Copenhagen COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 2.

Thousands of Danish-Americans have arrived here to participate in the inauguration ceremonies on Monday of the Danish-American National Park. to be presented on that day to the Danish Government by the Danish citizens of the United States. King Christian has decided to waive the court mourning in order to attend the ceremonies and to receive the members of the American committee in audience. Count Carl von Moltke, Danish Minister at Washington, has arrived here for the celebration. BODY OF TITI1C OFFICER IS FOUND; FLOUT 840 MILES Reminder of Ocean Tragedy Discovered by bhip in Mid-ocean llford Brings Story to This Port Two Suits Being Prepared Here Against Co.

A solitary gruesome moment of the sinking of the great liner Titantic, a life belt supporting above the lapping of the yyaves the emaciated face of a man, was sighted in mid-Atlantic on June 8 by the British steamer llford, Navik to Philadelphia. Announcement yesterday of the preparation of two suits against the White Star Line by Philadelphians, one for the loss of a brother's life, the other for jewelry which went down yvith the vessel, also helped to recall the grim ocean tragedy. When the body yvas sighted Captain Thorpe, of the llford, ordered a boat loyvered and he himself commanded the ereyv yvhich royved to the spot. A body, decomposed and torn, met his gaze. He had the sailors lift it gently over the side of the boat.

It yvas the body of W. F. Chiverton, head steward of the Titanic. The uniform of office still clung in shrreds to the frail frame; a few valuables and letters in an inside pocket gave his name and rank. There was but little for the crew of the llford to do, but yvhat there yvas they performed in the manner, yvhich Chiverton yvhen alive would hay-e yvished.

The body yvas seyTed in a canvas bag and iron chains were fastened to the ends. While the burial service of the dead at sea was read by Captain Thorpe, the canvas sack yvas slid overboard. Doyvn through the yvaters it sank, taking into its depth at last the face, which for fifty-five days -tad gazed upyvard from the life belt. Fetnre Onoe Krinen "I wil never forget the expression in the eyes of the dead man," Captain Thorpe said yvhen the llford reached here yesterday with a cargo of iron ore for the Reading Iron Company. "The features were set, apparently frozen at one time into rigidity.

The body rose and fell in the trouerh of the sea, the waves lapping over the face. "We picked Chiverton up in latitude 40 degrees (j minutes, and longitude 42 degrees 51 minutes west. The Titanic sunk at about latitude 41 degrees minutes and langitude 40 degrees o4 minutes yvest. By dead reckoning the body floated 840 miles northeast of the spot where the Titanic yvent doyvn. "The disaster occurred early on the morning of Sunday, April 14.

We picked tip the body on June 8, making exactly fifty-five days that it drifted. All of that time it was in the Gulf Stream, headed slpyvly, but surely, for Europe. "We sailed from Galveston- on 23 and put into Norfolk, on May 31. It was between Narvik and Hamburg, yvhich we reached on June 18, that yve sighted the body." The llford reached Philadelphia yesterday yvith cargo of 02 lO tons of iron ore consigned to the Reading Iron Company. "Kid" McCoy Released on Bail LONDON, Aug.

2. "Kid" McCoy (Norman Selby), the American boxer, was brought up again at the Bow Street Police Court today on a charge of larceny, and yvas released on bail. The police at first refused to release the boxer on the ground that he had no' information from the persons yvho had preferred the charge at Os-tend. McCoy's attorney argued that the only charge against his client yvas an uncorroborated statement by a woman who hid been arrested as the accomplice of the real Many Americans were in court duricj; the hearing. LL HHODO 'WITS FORTDDAY INQUIRER REGATTA Fastest Boats of South Jersey Resorts Entered in Races Record Time Expected ta Be Made in Speed Boat Class.

Entry List Is Large Special to Tlie Inquirer. WILDWOOD, X. Aug. 2. Stimulated by the prospects that The Inquirer Regatta tomorroyv will be the greatest ever held at Wikhvood, enthusiasm tonight among the yachtsmen ia at the fhjod mark.

This fifth annual regatta, which will be held under the auspices of the Wild-yvood Yacht Club, yvill bring together the pick of everything that boasts of speed in the Cape May, Holly Beach, Sea Lie, Wildwood and Atlantic City Clubs. Chief interest naturally centres in the speed boat class, because it brings together the greatest boats in the coun try, and some sensational time is expected. Colonel duPont, of Wilmington, heads the entry Tfst yvith his sensational Tech Jr. Atlantic City, which has always boai-ted of the fastest power boats on the Atlantic coast, yvill be yvell represented by the tyvo flyers, Sandburr III and Chelsea Special. boats which yvill give these noted flyers a battle are the Elmaja II, oyvned by James II.

Glenn; Slick, owned by T. Stannard; Gibson Girl, belonging to William Dick-el, and the Kathryn, oyvned by Neal McNeal. Some of the Sea Isle delegation arrived tonight, but the majority of the visiting yachtsmen yvill not put in an appearance until morning. Robert G. Weimer, of the Ocean City Motor Boat Club, arrived tonight yvith the Pup, yvhich yvill start in the open power boat class.

Commodore Shoyer, of the Chelsea Yacht Club, formed the advance guard from Atlantic City, and his splendid cruising pover boat, the Quaker, is laying at the wharf of the Wildwood Yacht Club on the Ottens Canal. Kiitrj- List Is Larice There are three classes on the program for tomorroyv, but from present indications there yvill be so many entries that one or two of the classes may be divided into two divisions. Entries do not close until the time for the starting of the races, and the committee believes that in the open power boat class there yvill be so many post entries that the event yvill have to be run off in two sections. Among the entries in the cruiser class is the Cora II, owned by Commodore Starr, of the Cape May Yacht Country Club, the neyv organization yvhich has been formed at Cape Mjy thi3 season. The Sunbeam, owned by Commodore Crabtree, of Sea Isle City Yacht Ciub, will also be on hand.

No race would le complete yvithout George Bilyeu, of the Cape May Yacht Club. His good old cabin cruiser, Ben Riley, yvill be as hard to beat as ever before. Wildwood Well Represented Among the Wildwood Yacht Club boats entered in the cruiser class are the May, Commodore Harry H. Hoffman; Colonel, H. H.

Ottens; John Frank Larkin, and the Gem, James Penny. Rear Commodore Trainer yvill start the Bud T. D. I. Griffin, commodore of the Cape Mav Yacht Club, will be along in the morning yvith the speed boat Media and the cabin cruiser Bess.

Several more cruisers yvill also come in from Stone Harbor and Sea Isle Oty. Vice Commodore Steve Murphy will Continued on 9th -1st Col-.