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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1911. TWENTY PAGES fyJV ri'MT ta Greater 3w Terfc, Kleewhar. KJXti KjJUZI I gmrr Cltjr. and Newark. TWO CLXIh 1 1 BELMOHT HORSES AS A GIFT TO ARMY Henry of Navarre, Octagon, and Four Other Famous Sires Offered for National Stable.

ROCKSAND WILL BE LOANED Announcement byAugust Belmont at Turfmen's Dinner, Where Need for Thoroughbred Is the Theme. About 123 sportsmen from all part of country met at a dinner In th Myrtle jUwm at the Waldorf Uitt night to glorify tlx thoroughbred. was the first dinner ef Its kind, and will probably result In a permanent organisation as. suggested by Harry W. Smith of WorceHer who organised tha dinner.

announcement called It Sportsman' dinner, given by "those Interested In turf and field," and the who attended made up a list that Included many prominent name in hunt-Inj and polo and racing, as well a the social world. The occasion served to bring out an. offer from Augut Belmont to the United Bute of six aialllon of the bt thoroughbred blood. Including two faraeua breeding horses, for tha establishment of a National stud to supply our army with needed mount. -'v-M-wta emphasized at tha dinner that racing did not mean gambling, and several of tha speakers alluded to efforts to purify tha aport In connection with the dinner Mr.

Smith arranged an exhibition of hunting prints and sporting paintings, trophies, and relics, old cups, and prises. These were lent by prominent collectors- and porting men. August Belmont was the toastmaster. In Introducing him Mr. Smith said: "This Is not a dinner of racing men, polo men, er hunting men.

but of sportsmen In the Broadest distinction, for a Lord North so truthfully said, There is a vast difference between a sportsman and a sporting 1 I know that every gentleman Interested In tha future of tha sport feel that The Jockey Club and its Chairman have done their best to uphold clean sport under tbe laws of New York." Forgot Mr. Ryan's Fall Name. In his recital of sporting events and men Mr. Smith cam to the seat of Thomas Ryan, Who was seated near him at the speakers' table. Mr.

Smith occasioned some laughter by persistent ref- erence to him as "John D. Ryan." and when kmd corrections came from several parts of the room, the speaker Joined tn the laugh with Mr. Ryan. Sir, Smith suggested a permanent organisation of sportsmen. "Make it open amiB' the broadest sense from kre and abroad," said he.

"From every toreign country, almost weekly, come iwtlemen who are fond of country life art-have made a life study of horses, sounds or fsriu 1st the provision of entry' be that he It a sportsman and a gentleman in his lioms town, for there- is no reason why should wait, for years before being te mingle with the sportsmen of America, 'and every true sportsman Ik exclusive, for he even has a language of meaning to nisi words others' can never understand." William A. Hasard spoke on the subject f. dlacuaulng the time of the next international match with England, whicli the Pl0 worW, as the KnsiiHhmen have expressed a desire to Pay tho match in August, which date is regarded fnvorably here. fh h.v cbld to the Hurllngham Jt.e should have to ask them to fl.l i fll.l uml thl8 yr not Inter Mr- Hkxard. "With of tfn brought to their notice, and con.slderliig their keen sense forward quite confi-sently to their acceding to our request." All Right If Englaad Caa Wis.

Mr. Hesaid said he did not feei it would an unmixed evil if the cup went to England this year. Arthur Wallace Stedman of Boston. "a -the father of steeplechaslng In ulk on tha history of the "Port. Atin1hkf i aohan of the Mnsler Foxhounds Asso-' how "ntralna of blood in Perpetuated and kept pure aounds from ramous ancestors of fifty I.

wenty-fiva years back with and at great cost to any would-be purchaser." Windsor T. White ni Maatr of Foxhounds Association (Cleveland was the last amh.r among those who sat at the tables.were IthLAiFpIetonu Charles W. Bosworth, fimi.I? Raymond Belmont, James CrnJB- C. Cowden. Frank 'VmSSt' J0- Cassatt.

U. 8. pJvan Fox. J. CJ.

Follansbee. Jame uienaennmif. Henry u. Vi narnson. Major Will- X' lifgins.n.

An-few Miller. Jay O'Brien. H. T. OxnSrd, Pendleton.

William Rauehl Thomas t.r letter R. Mc--artr. OaklvlvK Thn. TiSeK- IMttei.J. Watson Webb, ffii S.Yn'i Thomas F.

While. mens, ana i. ta. Bring. Mr.

Belmoat's Offer. August Belmont's offer of six of his taliiont to the Government was received -n enthusiasm. This will enable the ttlllUry authorlUe In effect to found a Kwlonal stud. Henry of Navarre and octagon are two of the most tamoua stal-or 'n the country. It Is known that he Mid $30,000 for Henry of Navarre.

Oct a- re ot beldame, whom horseman latest mares of this Iw'w M.TJL tt'-hnont aatd the other four rfl-ended to give wuld be in iir WM agreed at the ft rrreBente "ore than hU speech Mr. Belmont said: that beginning to complain lo? Ml readily find nor-ea rtHjulred of it. in this vaot i7.w.:ll, ts magnificent ranches and "orses each year- for niori u'tttcuit to buy, snd cost our army officers find thev am pii.r nurwi nave nduVTr1'0 nouan. lack the quality and Inir SLmn4Jirml mn are now turn-hV xJ.hruRhbred horse breeder for "ai ould happen If tn case of a growing Interna- to tS, Pc. the cavalry had Instead of a good a la fim-r? years, as they vSrt I-PC'; the remounta or the nR but sixty days.

whlcii out sixty aavs. ld Is ih-C20d authority I am nere wouia tney be a spectacle to C.tl..e S. LIraMerf. I. N.

T. Betch it Jl. Four hoars Quickest a. Ua, uii Thoae Hit lit" PARIS SATIRISTS IN A DUEL Flert Toys with Rip, Whom Ho Ridiculed In His Revue." Special cable te Th Kiw Yoag Tisraa PARIS. Feb.

15. A hlffhljr farcical duel took to-day In a private car-den at Neullly between tw of thbet-known Paris satirists. P. Flers and M. Rip.

At. Rip, whoso sarcasm la far-famed, took offense at soma reference to himself In a "revue" at the Folles Bergere, of which Flers was one of the authors. Flers, An company with most Parl-t-lins. was Immensely diverted at the spectacle of a satirist resenting satire and refused to make any changes in the revue." The. duel was the result.

In the encounter Flers, who la a superb swordsman, played with his opponent, seeking; merely to disarm him with one or other of familiar fencing trlckf. Rip's rapier was sent flying thirteen times In thirteen bouts. In some sallies Rip waa disarmed four times, but the offended satirist waa not discouraged and continued to fight, though he received a thrust In the. wrist. The duel was atopped when Rip waa wounded In the hand.

The duel waa held in the strictest secrecy, and It is not known whether the combatants were reconciled. Parisians are interested to see whether Flera will now remove from his "revue" the scene to which Kip takes exception. SHOTS IN THEATRE LOBBY. Chase In Harlem After Mnn. Who Loses His Hat and Himself.

George Donohue and Joseph Powers, ushers In the Gotham Theatre tn 135th Street, near Third Avenue, ejected last night a youth who refused to take a scat. In the lobby the young man broke away from the usher, then turned, and from a revolver which he yanked from Ms pocket fired one shot It went wild. Instantly, the lobby was filled with excited men. Deputy Sheriff James J. Taylor drew his own revolver and fired two shots after the fugitive, who had atarted to run toward Lexington Avenue.

Detective Batton of the West 125th Street Station and Detective Caponi of the Headquarter Italian Squad drew their pistols and started in pursuit. A crowd numbering more than joined in. Half a dozen shot were fired, and LJeut. Downs, hearing them in the Kast 1 fi 8treet Station, sent out the reserves. With the crowd behind him the fugitive turned west in l'J6th 8treet, reached Park Avenue where he turned north, and then disappeared.

The police searched several houxes in the neighborhood, but they did not find the man. A pistol, which spectators said the fugitive had thrown away, was found in a snowbank at Park Avenue and 12Ath Street, and a new derby hat with the initial J. waa found at 125th Street "a.nd Islington Avenue. The police hope to trace the man by this hat. ACCUSE PITTSBURG SCHOOLS.

Voters' League Charges Boards with Graft and Worse. Special to Tht A'rw Ytrk Times. Keo. Vot ers' League of Pittsburg, which more than a year ago lifted the lid from the graft In Pittsburg Councils to-night fired the opening gun In an attack on the Central Board of Education of Pittsburg, as well as many of the Individual ward boards. In a lone article slamed by Secretary Ten- sard De Wolf of the Voters' League.

A. Ico Weil, and others, which will appear to-morrow, the results of more than a year's outet investigation by the leaicue work for which many thousands of dollars was contributed by' Andrew Carnegie, H. C. Krick, and others are set forth and the people of Pittsburg told that the city school system Is being, and ha for some time, been run by crooks, gamblers. saloon keepers, bartender, or worse, and tnat tne mmier win te to-morrow lurnea over to District Attorney Blaklev.

The article aaserta that at some of the annual school picnic given to the school children cheap poisonous canay na Deen sunnlied insteal of the better candy, for which appropriation had been made. It Is further alleged that many of the echool nlcnics of Pittsburr are drunken orgies. and that women of the underworld are annually the guests of the Directors' at these picnic. One picnic is cited where sucn women guest were permmea tw ink. entire rharce of a dancing: platform on which it had been Intended by patron that the children should dance.

it is averted also that beer and other liquors rarried to the school denies in bulk und there handed out. sometimes to the little children. AT DEATH'S DOOR, HE WEDS. John D. Mairs, Stricken with Pneu monia, Married to Miss Wattlson.

Special to Tht A'rtr Yerk Timtt. IRVINGTON. N. Feb. 15.

Behind the marriage notice which appeared tn the New York papers this morning that Miss Mary Dake Mattlson, daughter ot Mrs. Joseph O. Mattlson, and John Dows Malrs were married on Tuesday at Irvington. N. there Is a tragic story, The young couple were to have been mar ried on Feb.

and l.ano Invitations had been issued. The wedding was to have been held in New York and was to have been one of the largest of the season. A week azo Friday young uairs, who Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H.

Malrs. was taken 111 with a and Brio developed. His condition crew worse, and on Sunday specialists were called in. They found that Malrs had pneumonia and was near death's door. Miss Mattlson was called up on the tel ephone and apprised or his condition, and and her mother rushed to Irvlnarton In an automobile.

Wben Mlas Mattlson learned the worst she Insisted that they be married at once. All the invitations were recalled, and Tuesday at noon. In the presence of tne ramuy. me coupie were marnea oy the Kev. John B.

Calvert. Mr. Malrs Is still in a precarious condition, with bis Driae as a nurse. MRS. McCOOK CHANGES FAITH Fatherln-Law'a Anger Leads Bride of Willis McCook to be a Catholic Sptcial -Tit firm Ytri Timtt.

PITTSBURG. PeniL. Feb, 15. To ap pease thf anger of her rich and Influen ttai father-in-law. Willi McCook.

Mrs. Willis HeCook. has enounced her Presbyterian faith and has joined the Roman Catholic Church, accotdlng to In formation made publte to-day. Young Mr. McCook.

it Is said, was t.iptised ea last Monday by the Rev. Father C. A. Mfr Dermott of the St. Peter'a Church, He-Keesport.

Willis McCook. the husband, was present, and after the baptism, the young couple walked to their little two-room house in a McKeesnort suburb. Young McCook and Margaret Non-U, daughter of a poor carpenter, ran away to Cumberland. rix weeks ago to ret married. Mr.

McCook. who on his own marriage had changed his religion, becam v.nr tnnv that hi inn should have wedded a girl of different religious views, ana aeciarea ne wouia not accept hia new dauhter-ln-law. She dopted her husband's faith. The elder Md'ooka then left four Europe, and the younger McCook waa forced to apply for worn in a mm to support ni wire. A complete reconciliation is now expected.

With IncrvMina kaowU4s ot th aaagarte health throusb carvirssly prepared food, eoe- eumars grow mere fastfclleua. DEER FOOT asaaa Bumy, aaiatmeaa, mi nil Tin, aflTi MISS ARNOLD PAWNED JEWELS IN BOSTON Police There Make This Known, Though Family Denies Their Redemption. HOW SHE COT $500 LAST YEAR Grlscoms Refer Questions About Thli to Their Detective- John Arnold Says His Sister Had No Diamonds. Special Tht A'rtr Yrh Timet. BOSTON, Feb.

15. It wss learned here to-day that while Dorothy Arnold, the missing daughter of Francis R. Arnold of New York, was registered at the Hotel Lenox here during the week of Sept. 23, 1010. she pawned her Jewelry for $300.

Her gold watch and chain, two diamond rings, and two bracelets were presented the Collateral Loan Company on Boylston Street In her own name, Dorothy Arnold, and she gave her own home address, 108 East Seventy-ninth Street In New York. At this time George 8. Griscom, waa slaying at another Boston hotel, the Es-rex. and the two were much together. When Miss Arnold's disappearance was announced a Boston Police Inspector remembered that the namo Arnold had ap peared on the slip turned in at Head quarters by the loan agencies.

Following this clue, he located the jewelry. Miss Arnold's father was notified, the Inspector said to-day, and a representative of the family came to Boston. On proving his Identity and paying the amount due he waa allowed to take the Jewelry. Mlas Helen Kemuton of Newtonville. who was student at Bryn Mawr with Miss Arnold, confirmed to-day the statement that Miss Arnold was In Boston in September.

1910. She was surprised, how ever, to learn that Miss Arnold was registered at the Hotel tenox. She had understood that the girl waa staying with Miss Theodora Bat us of Cambridge. George S. Griscom.

registered at tbe Hotel Essex, where be was well-known. on Sept 16. Three days later he engaged a room with bath for Miss Anold at the Hotel Lenox. Both paid their bills and left their hotels on Sept. 24.

It was that day that Mia Kempton saw Miss Arnold. She said to-day that ahe was in a position to know that Miss Arnold's relatives were tn Ignorance of her whereabouts at present and were making every effort to find her. They have written to me and to all of Dot's friends she said. begging us to do all we can to aid in finding her. Sev eral of the girls have consulted psychio experts, but I don't believe in that sort of thing." 1 Special Is Tht tint Ym-k Timtt.

ATLANTIC was made to-night to obtain a statement from George 8. Griscom. concerning tint report from Boston that Dorothy Arnold bad pawned her jewelry there for $5U0 when aba and Griscom were both in that city in September, 1910. Mr. Griscom referred" the reporter who sought the statement to Roger O'Mara, who said that neither he nor the Griscoms had any Information of such an occurrence.

O'Mara was asked if he had received a communication from District Attorney Whitman of New York asking him to bring George S. Griscom. to New York. He answered that he bad not. but young Griscom would gladly tell all he knows about the case to Mr.

Whitman or any accredited representative here. John W. Arnold, and. through him, his father were asked here last night about the Boston report that when Dorthy Arnold waa In Boston on Sept. 23.

last year, sne pawned ner goia watcn and cnain. two diamond rinvs, ana two brace lets for $uOu, giving her own name and New York address, that since her disappearance they had been redeemed oy a representative oi ner ratner. Neither ray father nor myself." said John W. Arnold, has any such informa tion, we nave no report mat tne jewelry was Dawned and none has been redeemed. As a matter of fact, my sister had no diamond rings.

Official denial was made yesterday at Flower Hospital that Dorothy Arnold, the missing daughter or Francis R. Arnold. had been a patient there. The report as told In yesterday's Times grew out of the fact that her sister. Marjorie Arnold, paid a visit on ruesaay ariernoon to tne ln-j BLHU uuu.

ii ri ur. nrnmson xi. AroDio, a distant relative of the family. Is one of the internes. The hospital' formal denial ot tbe report reads as follows: desire to state not only '(hat Miss Arnold Is not a patient here, but that she has never been a patient bare, either under bar own name or any other same.

BERNARD HUSHES. M. Head of the Hons Buff. Flower Hospital. Dr.

Arnold said yesterday that the visit of MarJorie Arnold waa due to an lnvlta tlon he had given her long ago to inspect the place. She came yesterday," he said with Mrs. Thomas Dugan of 85 Central Park West and a friend of the latter. Mrs. Dugan, I believe, is a member of the Women Auxiliary League of the hos oltal.

I met Miss Arnold In the office. showed the horses and then tbe wards, after which we returned to the office. I know the whole family well, and I can say that Dorothy Arnold baa njt been bere at any time. "As to my absence from the hosnl tal last night, was at tne ismtn Hegi ment Armory, where 1 went for a patlen whose nome is out or town. Him name is William Clinton.

Dr. Kellogg, an in structor the Homeopathic College con' nected with the hospital. Is Captain of the meoicai corps ot tne regiment, in wnicn i am a Lieutenant. Clinton had an attack of acute indigestion and was brought to The story waa also denied bv Miss Mar jorie Arnold. John W.

Arnold, and John 8. Keith, the family lawyer. The report started In Atlantic City that District Attorney Whitman was about to tart an investigaion of the Arnold my tery was again and more emphatically denied. Mr. Whitman said he had taken no steps In tbe matter and expected to take none unless information was brought to him that a crime had been committed.

In which case those supposed to have kowkvlge or it would be summoned before the Orand Jury. He has had no com muni cation with the Griscoms and none with the Arnold family since he offered his services to Mr. Arnold some time azo. and Mr. Arnold told him he had no clue to work on.

Francis R. Arnold, father of the missing girl, and lawyer John 8. Keith were closeted wltt Inspector Russell, head of the Detective Bureau, at Police Head Quarters yesterdny morning. Mr. Keith said afterward that no promising new Clue had been found.

Mr. Arnold was anxious to learn. he raid. wht ner an tne ciue received had been worked out to the fullest extent. We went over everything with the Inspector.

nothing of importance waa developed." Thio statement was confirmed last night by Mr. Arnold and at the office of Deputy Commissioner Flynr. (mmI Wemhietrlra'a Birthday tlBClltlA HUT tfHIG Sparta! Train Servloe lfn StaXa r. U. rnitr.

i ma, 4 T-, ue Slat, raiuralag Suadar. Ue Ut-a A SUtesmaa's Discoveries in South America. Georges Clemenceau, ex-Premier of France, will tell in next Sunday's Times what he found in a tour of investigation in Brazil and Argentina. IOMMANDER MARBLE COMMIHED SUICIDE Naval Officer, Said to Have Died from a Fall, Shot Himself in Newport Naval College. WIFE FOUND HIM DYING No Reason Other Than Ill-Health Known for His Act Expired on Operating Table In Naval Hospital Special It Tkt Nerv York Times.

NEWPORT, R. Feb. li. Commander Frank Marble. U.

8. whose death in the Naval Hospital here yesterday was stated at first to have been due to a hemorrhage anfi a fracture of the skull caused by a fall, killed himself by firing a bulet from hi service revolver Into his right temple. This waa revealed to-day when Surgeon J. F. Leys submitted the results of an Inquest to Capt.

James II. Oliver, senior officer at the naval station the absence of Rear Admiral Raymond Perry Rodger. Why Commander Marble should have taken his own life I a problem to hia most intimato friends. Mrs. Marble, who is prostrated by her husband's death, is equally at a loss to account for his act.

Commander and Mrs. "Marble were de voted to each other, and were popular In society here. They entertained and were entertained extensively. The Commander had the distinction of being recog nised as a high authority on International law, and had been busy for some weeks on a work on this subject, which had been begun by the Ate Admiral Charles B. BDerrv.

only the supposition tnat commanaer Marble believed hU health to be falling htm is lffered here in explanation of the suicide. It is known that since his return from the Philippines a few years ago Com mander Marble had not been in the same robust health that formerly had been his His pnysicai condition waa not sucn, now ever, as to occasion the slightest alarm to his friends, and it is suDDosed that the Commander must have brooded over his health until he came to believe himself in far worse shape than was actually the I Since tha discover that crnmmandef' Marble took hi own IIS a' careful eeroiw ha been made for any note of explanaj tlon or adieu that he might have left. NO such note ha been found, however, and it la believed consequently that the Commander's suicide was not long premedi tated. So absolutely without cause does tne suicide appear to the Commander's friends that tnere were some tncunea to oeuevo his death the result of an accident until Investigation disclosed that two bullet had been- fired from his revolver, although only one of them took effect It is auDDOsed that nervousness caused the first bullet to be poorly directed, and that Commander Marble possessed the determination to make a second attempt on bis life, although he had been saved, almost miraculously, from himself. That the reports of neither shot were heard in tho Naval College is accounted for by the fact that Commander Marble had closed the door leading from the library into the hallway as well as that going from the library Into the bathroom, where he fired the shots.

Mrs. Marble was the one who discovered her husband's body. It was at 7:.10 o'clock Tuesday morning, and seeing the blood upon his head Mrs. Marble concluded Instantly that her husband had had a She summoned aid and the unconscious man was carried to the hospital, where at first glance the surgeon were deceived a to his injuries. There was a consultation on the advisability of an Immediate operation, and when this had determined on Commander Marble waa put on the operating table.

It waa then that the bullet wound was discovered. The surgeons hoped even then that a speedy operation might enable them to save the Commander' life, but Commander Marble died on the operating table at 11:30 o'clock. The funeral will be held from the college Friday morning with full naval hon ors. Chaplain Frank Thompson will officiate. The pall bearers will be Commanders Frank K.

Hill. P. W. Houiigan. and Mar L.

Bristol; Lieut. Commander C. T. Vo-gelgesang. Medical Inspector Dlehl.

and Major L. H. Moses of the United States Marine Corps. Commander Marble will be burled la St. Mary Cemetery, Portsmouth.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. Commander Marble was a son ef Manton Marble, once trfe editor of The New York World. He entered the Naval Academy In 1884, and graduated tn 1888.

in the upanisn war ne served on the cruiser New York, Admiral Sampson's flagship. He then served a tour of duty in the Philippines. He was made Commander In October, 1909, and a month later was assigned to duty In the War College at Newport. In 1904 and for two years following he was aid to Admiral Dewey. He then had a tour of duty on the Vermont, and made the voyage around the world.

Five years ago he marrteo Mis isatei laraiey. The Navy Department received a dis patch yesterday that Commander Marble had fallen out of a batntuo ana was tounu dead. The belief was that he had died of apoplexy. No particulars beyond this have as yet reached the department. Commander Marble was held in high esteem by hi brother officers, and the news ot his death was received by officers sta tioned here with profound sorrow.

200 DANVILLE INDICTMENTS. Grand Jury Said to Have Drawn That Many for Vote 8elllng. DANVILLE. I1L, Feb. 13.

With the Grand Jury working without an official prosecutor thl morning. It was reported on reliable authority that 200 indictments for vote selling had already been drawn. In addition to a large number against men higher ty for perjury. The dlsmiseal of State's Attorney Lew nan from the Grand Jury room yesterday created one of the biggest sensations of the vote selling investigation. It la said that Lewman merely asked the witnesses perfunctory question, and this so nettled Foreman Woody a rd that he asked the prosecutor to be more specific and try to get all the Information possessed by the witnesses.

Lewman Is said to have replied that he would conduct the Investigation as he thought best without the assistance of any of the jurors. George C. Welslger of Catlln. an attorney and member of the Grand Jury. assisted Foreman Wood yard this morning in quisling the witnesses The anteroom was full of politicians.

It was stated that an effort would be made to have Hardy H. Whitlock. ex-County Treasurer, who returned to 'Detroit, appear before the Grand Jury, and also E. X. Lelseure, son-in-law of Speaker Cannon, as soon as be recovers from an attack of rheumatism.

aiaa, e'Ma a wa m. swaa eat- fiair ate eur iteiM1 inaranai llaaasa SIXTEEN GIRLS HELD IH FALLEN ELEYATOR Steel Roof Chopped Through to Free Them and Six Taken Out Fainting for Lack of Air. SMOTHERED IN LIME DUST Couldn't Fall, So Tightly Were They Wedged In the Car Safety Clutches Prevented a Disaster. No more on this trip. I'll come back for you in a minute," shouted Eustace Reece, a negro elevator operator In the Mill A.

Glbb Building. 402 Broadway. asJ sixteen girls crowded into his car on the fifth floor of the building at o'clock last night! The sixteen filled the car so that there was scarcely room for Reece to operate the rope with which the old-fashioned car 1 controlled, and as the car started downward there were more than a dozen other girl operators of Gutman manufacturers of muslin underwear, left on the fifth floor. The girls in the car shouted back qulpa at the expense of those who had to wait for the next car or walk down tho five flights. The girls at the shaft door shouted back replies until suddenly there came a crash from the elevator shaft and then the terrified screams of the sixteen girls in the car.

The screams continued, unabated, while the girl from the loft sped down the stairs to the ground floor, expecting to find the car crushed at the bottom of the shaft. But after a rail of three floor the safety clutches had operated and brought the car to a halt midway between the third and second floors. The girls on the stair ran to the basement and brought up Engineer John Keating. Keating shouted up the shaft to Reece and learned that the elevator was holding fast, but that neither he nor his passengers could get out. The girls were still crying in fright, but none of them was more than shaken up, said Reece.

They had been packed together in the car so tightly that none had been knocked over. There was no room to fall. It was 6 o'clock, and there was no one In the building to help him. Keating tried, however, to throw off the safety clutch from the basement so that the Imprisoned car could be lowered to the sec ond floor. He wasn't able to do It, so presently Policemen Malone and Mack of the Mulberry Street Station came to his assistance- summoned by the girls.

The three men were equally helpless, and the policemen sent then to Truck 20, around -he corner. Fireman Spot fard. armed with an return -FYm, th car hr thl thM lrI- m09t ot whom wer hyster- oy now ana were sooDing ana crying, despite Reece's efforts to reassure them. Spoffard found that the safety clutch could not be released. Then he went with hi axe to the third floor, where he bat tered In the door to the elevator shaft.

Below him was the roof of tho elevator, but Instead of being a grillwork It was composed of a heavy sheet of teel. The roof wa covered, too. with quantities of plaster and line which had been allowed to drop down on It while renovator were going over the building recently. Spof fard dropped to the car roof, and. calling to the girls that he would soon nave them out, set to work with his axe.

It-was o'clock, two and a half hours after they had been Imprisoned, be fore Spoffard managed to cut a hole through the car's roof to the girls. Then clouds of plaster and lime dropped In upon tnem. Already the girls were suffering for want of air In the narrow Shaft When the lime and planter dropped upon them It set them gasping for breath. Presently one girl cried Out. then crumpled down between her companions In a faint.

Soon others followed suit. In a moment or two there were half a dozen girls fainting In the car, and their conaiuon sent most of their companions Into a panic. Some of the cooler-headed tried to re. vlve their weaker comDanions. but when Spoffard got a hole througn the car roof ana snouted to Keece to pass up the girls the fireman and the policeman were obliged to lift out half a dozen senseless young women, whom they delivered over to other giria who had waited In the build Ing to see the outcome of the rescue.

Those who bad fainted were carried into a room on the cround floor, where Dr. Saladino of 381 Broome Street was summoned. He found that Esther Psen of 133 Orchard Street wis suffering most from her experiences, but when she had regained her sense the girl Insisted on going home. She wa accompanied there by friends. The other regained their composure rapiaiy unaer tne doctor irlnistratlon and were able to go home unescorted.

What caused the elevator to drop could not do leameu, HOLD WOMEN AS SHOPLIFTERS One Richly, One Poorly, Clad Charged with Stealing Trifles. Two women, one richly and the other plainly dressed, were arrested within an hour of each other yesterday afternoon at the entrance of a department store at Thirty-third Street and Broadway, charged with shoplifting. The richly dressed woman told the police she waa Mrs. Elizabeth D. Cleveland of 200 Columbus Avenue, wife of William S.

Cleveland. President of the Vaudeville Exchange. 1.402 Broadway. The prisoner had a bank book of the Herald Square Branch of the Greenwich Bank, showing deposits of $18,000. She wore a long fur coat, a large hat.

and had diamond earrings. In the West Thir tieth Street Station she wept continuously while giving her pedigree. A detective told Lieut. Walsh he had seen the woman take a vanity Lag from tbe jewelry counter, and the police assert that the bag was found upon ner. Tho nthr Drlsoner said she was Mrs.

Elisabeth Vllandre of 40 Chatham Street. and that her only rela tive in this city was a sister, a Mis Leroy of the Holkind House. She said she had been staying at the Young Women's iiwiarion. Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street- She was accused of stealing two pairs oi eimnin. bag, and one barette, all valued at S4 H0 Lieut.

Walsh said the articles were found upon her, also two rings, a knife, and a n.ri nndant- He said she confessed and aid she had taken the second lot from a xtr. Fllnheth Vllandre, when asked by Magistrate Murphy In the Women's Court last ntht if she admitted her gulit. responded that she did. She was then held for trial In Special Sessions under bait woman in the courtroom who said she was the prisoner sister hurried out to get bail, but at a late hour none was forthcoming. atlaetie City 1i9 r.

asrordare. y. Dm aoee AUumI mtrUt GAYNOR SPEAK IN CHICAGO? Windy City Hears He Will," but Friends Hera Are Doubtful. Announcement made In Chicago last night that Mayor Gaynor would deliver a speech In that week against Carter H. Harrison la hi candidacy for tbe Mayoralty nomination wa received with ome Incredulity In this city.

Chicago heard that Roger C. Sullivan had Induced the Mayor to enter the fight by explaining to him that W. R. Hearst had indorsed Mr. Harrison.

The Mayor could not be reached last night, but friends of his said they did not believe that his health would permit him to go speechmaklng so far away at this time. It i known that, although he ha received dozen of such Invitation recently, his acceptance of them has been only provisional. BROKER A SOUTH SEA KING. Falling Here, He Went to tho Gilbert Islanda, Where He Now Rules. Spetial Tht Aw York Times.

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 15. Archibald C. Everett, who seven years ago waa a broker In New York, is now monarch of all he survey in the Island of Arorai, In the Gilbert group, where ha is known as "Eta Moroa." or "The Immaculate One." ine new of the ex-broker's rise to royal estate waa brought here by the German schooner Tritan.

Everett went broke on the short end of the market, he told the Tritan'a Cap tain, and he disappeared from New York. He took to trading In the South 8ea. and becoming stranded In the Gilbert Group. was elected King two years ago by the Islanders. JOAQUIN MILLER DYING.

Taken to a Hospital and Hia Brother Called to His Side. Special It Tht New Yerk Times. OAKLAND. Feb. Miller, "the poet of the Sierras." waa taken to Fablola Hospital to-day from his home on the heights, where he ha lived for twenty yeara Mr.

Miller caught a severe cold recently while going to lec ture In Oakland, and doctor say he 1 suffering from nervous breakdown. A message was sent to his brother In Port land. to hurry here, as physicians do not believe he will recover. To-night he was reported oellrlous and In high fever. From his home on the heights Miller has a clear view of San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate.

His home Includes dcui ririy acres, ana ne has built a aoien smaii nouses in which he entertains friends. One house hia hedrnnm. another la the kitchen, anothnr bin riirw ing room, aiany distinguished tourists nave visited nis nome. DAUGHTER LEFT OUT IN SNOW Goes snd Gets Married, Then Refuses to Return Home. When her mother, Mrs.

Martha Robert son of 1T9 High Street, West Orange. N. anut ner out in tne snow. Just as they ao in melodramas. Mis Martha Robert' son up her sweetheart, Joseph Stocker of Lakeshld Avenue, and they got married.

The story came out yesterday when Mrs. Robertson, repenting of her treat ment of her daughter! sought the' aid of the police in getting ner back. The young people insist, however, that the girl Is IS years of age and the police will not In. terfere, notwithstanding tbe mother say that Mlaa Robertson Is only 15. Mr.

and Mrs. Robertson have not lived together for some time, and the father la now rn Reading, Penn. The young bride ha writ- nrauinaj, renn. ine young wide ha writ- en him and expects to receive his bless- Mr. Robertson quarreled with her day night, DUTY PAID IF YOU TAKE A TAXI Travelers Stranded on Piers by Recent Loeb Find Unexpected Help.

The recent order of Collector Loeb that returning tourist may pay on all dutiable goods, except wearing apparel, despite the $100 free limit, has resulted In the hold-up on the piers of who have not sufficient ready money to pay. Many now returning left on their trip to the West Indies before the new ruling was enforced. on Jan. 1. When the Royal Mall steam packet Clyde arrived yesterday from Cuba and the West Indies her passenger had to pay duty on the curio they had bought.

Many of them had to telephone to friends for funds and wait on the pier till they came or leave their baggage In the custom shed. The taxicab proprietor came to the rescue of several traveler by offering to advance the duty If the stranded one hired a cab and paid at the other end of the Journey. This offer was joyfully accepted and all the cabs at the pier were quickly engaged. CORSAIR HITS A PIER. Bowsprit of tha Morgan Yacht Carried Away In River Collision.

While making Pier 16. North River, yes- terday afternoon, J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair got too near tbe pier and hooked her bowsprit into It, carrying away the bow.prit and ripping a hole In the side 01 The Corsair Is getting ready to the Atlaatlc. She is to pick up ber owner at Naples and take him and a paity of his friend through the Mediterranean, finally landing them In Alexandria.

Mr. Morgan has already sailed. The Corsair had been at Communipaw. onh.uMe. f'orThvoySgeThV; is the old American Line pier at the foot of Veaey Street.

The north side Is taken up by the rack of the Lackawanna ferry slip. As the Corsair was running the south side of the pier a ferryboat stsrted put from the Barclay Street all p. uivoiu iiiiu .1 i. vU.r... CcSrr.iVi.n.Unh:tPihre pier, but it of little consequence ana not aciaj her voyage.

Theatf r. had a good view of th inn nnTllim, nnl)ve at work. The Lamb' Club and RESTORE CITY HALL ROTUNDA! Burns. irMaurant were deserted In the general rush to see what wa going on. rte Hrwinct captains, in this, as in the Offers $25,000 to Put It in othr caM.

not noiuied of th lm-Its Orlalnal Condition. pendlnr and had no rervs on wonoition. hand until hslf an hour or "mora after Mrs. Russell Sage has made an offer toiflynn's men had completed their work; th. city to restore th.

rotunda of C.ly TJl Hall to It original arrangement and con- itret was not Interfered with except by dltloa at a maximum expenditure of SZTk- ith- one policeman on th beat, who was 000. The" matter ha, ben taken up by very m-ol. rn ZoTt Mayor Gaynor and Borough Present, pUlin men. who struck the Munlctcal Art Commission kA I Art rnmM (tnn Mrs. Sag paid for the restoration of tbe Governor's Room at City Hall a few years ago.

antrr arctrra-fuhud Svathr' eotithraatr LHnll.4 leawe K. gauie. M. T. Ore, $14 VJia A ear.

alia. OSES HYDRAEIC JACK IN GAMBLING RAIDS Flynn Finds New Way Through Steel Door Jails 51 Out of 400 Found In Four Places. SONNY" SMITH ARRESTED Theatre Crowd 8eea Police Axemen Smash Into. Club He la Accused of Running In West 44th Street. An hydraulle Jack capable ef a ten-ton thrust made Its appearance yesterday a a police weapon In gam-iIlng raids.

It pressed open a steel door of the Icebox type at 3 State Street In five minutes, a Job that would have taken half an hour by the usual axe and crow- bar methods, and cleared the way for ten policemen to enter a poolroom while racing chart were being burned In an Improvised fireplace and reports of racing results were still visible on the blackboards. Even small change from the orap tables -was still in evidence, and something like $1,000 In coin was gathered In as part ef tfia police evidence. Second Deputy police Commissioner Flynn, at the State Street place expected to have a hard time, and took new weapon along with him In hia auto-' mobile when he gave, at 4:90 yesterday, a signal that sent four differ- 1 ent flying brigades of raiders against the doors of four saspected gambling houses at the same moment. The four places were in widely acattered) sections and tho attacks are regarded by Commissioner Flynn as the moat Impor tant blow yet struck by the present polios administration against the gambling In dustry- All of the raids were complete suocessee. Lieut.

Frank Rathgaber ot the Bureau of Repairs and Supplies at folic Head quarters, who chopped his way with ten assistants into a place at 120 West Forty- fourth Street, reached the which was tinging as he entered, la timer to hear a startled voice call over the wire: Beat It. fellows, we're raided." A moment later there was another rtnfi) and the Lieutenant this time heard: Go over and tell Eddy to get the bail money ready, we're pinched." IJaut. Rathgaber received the message and another from some one who wished to get down a bet, with a smile. Gathered around blm were sixty-four scared clerk, ticket speculators, and lounger of the theatrical district. He looked them over and said' to some he recognised that he guessed the message were from other places kept by the same proprietor.

Another place. Instead of turning np a theatrical district clientele, produced timid Wall Street clerks and messengers, who pleaded to be allowed to go back to their offices, declaring they had Just dropped in to lay a little money while out on duty tor brokers and bank, and would get into serious trouble If they didn't nurry back. 400- -SwrariseeV 5 Made Frteoaers. The total number of men found inside, the places raided waa more than 400. Fifty were taken prisoners to Police Headquarters, several of this group having been recognised by the polloe as persons for whom they have been looking on other charges.

The number for whom John Doe warrants were carried waa less thm half the -total arrested, and some disappointment was exrreasel that a man suspected of blng proprietor of two of the plce happened to be In neither when the rald- er-rb nnratthernalla rathered In Indicated that nearly every game of chance was I th bibituea of these elaces. It t2 PcarrV the ti-ekea TMafrni wi bTOMB in carry wheel sTiwilr doths. WaVk. IK, The places visltea were tnw ni tr Club. 48 Broad Street, and clubs at Kast Eighth Street and 120 West Forty-fourth Street Later the police arrested Konr.v 8mlth and charged blm with being the proprietor of the last two place.

The raid In West Forty-fourth Ktreet came while the carpenter work on the Ice box door waa till unfinished, and electricians anfl plasterer were at work on the upper floor making them over for purposes to which they had not yet hwn put to use. An item in which the police took keen Interest waa that men known, to them as gambler flocked to the scene of the raid from all directions and hung tVpi to peer In the shattered front doors. nbout the stoop, ana even curoiwu m. tim.iatim. shout from some one tn the captive crowd behind the line of policemen at the door would be answered by a jihoiit of recognition from some esnm on The outside, and word would p.e quickly among the throng on the sidewalk as to who waa among the captured.

The police said that many of these men naa gathered In the nope of detecting some stool rlKon at work with the polloe-iwn. They set a special guard to keep them well back from the building. It was necessary to detain the sixty-four men, taken here for three hours while Cora mis0oner Flynn was completing his tout ot the other places In a search for desirable prisoners on whom to serve hia John Doe warrants, especially provided by Chief Magistrate McAdoo with sucn secrecy that there was no opportunity for leaks through the clerical forces the courts. Han Agalaat the Eight-Hear Day, A few minutes after the police had ea tered a boy not more than 16 years old came down from an upper floor wttn twf eJ look on facJ and a uthef hammer In his hand. He said he was a alalMnt and wanted to go bom, let him'.

A little later a boss electrician produced his union card T. the tool of hi trad and akd fro passage for himself and five assistants. pertniBion was refused, but later on. renewing hi. protest vigorously at th.

1 end or his eight-hour day. he was told ne i nol work orrtime and might ge homm le showed the police the workoa a new metal ceiling for the second floor "TT-n was engaged, This raid wS. in a four-story brie hAUH- of th Old-fahloned type. Just op- th lu-iuMcty -Theater, ana a lew XS Theatre, from as dfiartlng The. Lmb i i in ino 111 ii.a rui.

atolnlne- that iat the vestibu loors with their aces tor fifteen minutes before getting inside. Where the Jack Worked. The Battery Tark which Flynn raided Jrv person, rarried Its bam In tot-tar avian. frl tw rV 4 rwf. pr.tH.red far lUuralaaUen at algal li 1 i- Pi i-:.