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THE BOSTON OLOBE-SATURP A Y. MAY 8. 1915 OilUSltANIk AFTER IAARRIA6E IN BOSTOH Mr and Mrs Stewart S. Mason Were on Way to Live in Suffolk, Eng. ished Just before he loft Spring snrt was published on the of his sailing.

THREE FROM LOWELL. Mrs Worden to Bring Mother From Ireland Mrs Richardson Pastage. LOWELT May '-Lowell was represented in the T.usitania passeiiKer list by Mrs Charles E. Worden of 137 Riverside at, Walter Dawson, formerly cm- plojrd by the Blcai'hcrv pany. and possibly 5tU'hae1 Broderick, father died last February in ClonakiUy.

Ire, and she was on the way to bring her mother hark to I.owell. Mr Worden sajs Ids wife would not have remained on the steamer tf she had known of the warning of the Ger- mnn Amhnssndor that the vesss was to be torpedoed. Mrs Worden, who is old, has three brothers and two Dawson had been in thiscouii- trv about two years. Two weeks ago hla wife and child sailed for England. Ills home is In Klland.

Torkshire. is uncertain whether Michael Brod- Biirk of North BiMorlca w-as on the Lusitania. He intended to jom his wile )n Ireland, bul some fnends say he on an Liner. Mrs Mary F. Ilicimrdaon.

m- te ided to anil next week for Lngland. bVformed a local pa.sscnger agencv to ntght that she would cancel her passage CAPT SECCOMBPS CHILDREN Miss Elizabeth and Her Brother Percy Lived at Home in Concord. Up to three weeks ago Mias Elizabeth 8ccconibe and her brother. Percv Sec- eombe, two of the ra8.scnger8 on the T.usitania. lived with their mother.

Mrs P. Seccombe, in "The Wayside," the old home of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the poet, in Concord. Mrs Seccomhe. who Is the Cant M', S. Seccombe of the (.

unard Line, is now at her Summer borne In reterboro, II. ia Miss Elizabeth Serrombe is about TO years old and her about 21. Capt Seccombe, the father, was captain of the Cunarder Cephalonla when that steamship made hei- maiden trip to this country in 1SS3. For many vears he commanded her on her trips I across from this port and was well I known to many Bostonians I the Atlantic with him. He died a few years ago.

SEVERAL RHODE ISLANDERS. SOME WELL-KNOWN MEN WHO SAILED ON THE LUSITANIA DOUBLE LIFE imARGED Two Claim to Be Widow of Leach. Tangle Follows Railway Death In Worcester. Never Divorced, Roxbury Woman Declares, liAh; hi rinj iKlit. VANDtCnUlbl' Mult! MlUlonfllrr.

(Cop.Trlftht hy Scheryee.) El.BRK HUBBARB. MRS STEWART SOUTHAM MASON. ULIVHK P. Opera Artist. JU.STUS MILES FORMAN, Author of "The Hyphen." GL'NKV TAFT Needham.

F- T.AI'RIAT Of Boston. RICHARD R. FREEMAN 3B Of Wollaston. WITHlMl'rON of Newburytwrt. Bride, Who Was Miss Leste Hawthome Lindsey, Fofmeriy Gave Danchis Exhibitions.

Mr and Mrs Stewart Southam Mason Haw Inndsey), both of i whom were passengers on the Lusitania, were married in Emmanuel Church, Bo.ston, on April 21. Mrs Mason is the daughter of Mr and Mrs 'William Lindsey of 22o Bay State I road, at whose home a large reception was held after the. ceremony. Mrs Mason is a member of the Vincent Club and has been prominent for several vears in the theatricals of that or- as well as in many other amateur dramatic productions. She is a beautlfuLftoucer and has often given exhibition and fancy dSbces and charitable entertainments.

Mr Mason is the son of Mr ajnd mrs Herbert Wilberforce Mason of Manor louse, Sproughton, Ipswich, Eng. He graduated from Christ tiollege, Oxford, with the class of 1906- Mr Mason came from England in April to claim his bride, accompanied by her brother. Kenneth Lindsey, iiarvard, who is In charge of his London office. Mr and Mrs Mason sailed on the Imsl- tania on their way to their home, which Is io be at Rlverdale. Woodbridge, Suffolk.

Eng. LOTHROP WITHINGTON. Lusitania Passenger Native of Spent Much Time Genealogical Student. Lothrop Withington. a passenger aboard the Lusitania, is a New England man.

despite the fact that he spent much of his life abgoad. He was born in Newbury, Mass, about 50 years ago, and is a brother of David L. Wlthlngton of Honolulu, father of Lothrop and Paul Withlngton, the famous Harvard athletes. David Withlngton is at present In Boston. Lothrop Withlngton is also a brother of Arthur Withlngton and Anne lngton of Newtauryport, who is attending the peace conference at "The Hague.

Leonard Withington of Newburyport is was a soa of Mr and Mrs N. Withington of Newbm-y- port. both of whom died witiiin a few years. He wa.s born in Newbury and 19 vears old went to France, whore he attendecl the lectures at the Tniver- By jiioie.sfiion Mr Witiiington is a geneologist and spent severnl months in each vear in pourltig over old records in New ICngland. He tmun- tainecl an offlco In the Huildmg in-thls city and left Boston last week Thui'Sdav, nretJiaratory to sailing from New York a ago today.

Tie had just completed an exhaustive search of old records at Salem. He was marrleri Beverai year.s ago to Miss Caroline idoyd, daughter of the noted Socialist amtior. Tltey had no children. AVhile in America. Witli- ington lived with his relatives in Now- burvport for the mo.st part.

W. W. Jacques of EO Beacon st is a cousin. AUTHOR Justus Miles Forman, Lusitania Passenger, Studied Painting and Then Turned to Writing. Justus Miles Forman, a Lusitania passenger, was the author of now playing at the HolUs Street Theatre in this city.

Mr Forman, who is a noted painter and author, was born in Le Roy, Nov 1, 1876, the son of Justus Miles and Mary (Cole) Forman, He was graduated from Yale in 1898. For three years he studied painting under Bouguereau and Bashchet, and then turned to writing fiction. He has contributed more than 100 short stories to the Smart Set, Ainslee's, and oilier mag- magazine stories Mr Forman went to novels, bis works including "The Island of "The Garden of I.ies. "Monsigny." Carteret" Ftunibling Unknown "The (Ypenlitg and "The Blind Spot He collaborated with Sidney Grundy in dAunatizing "Tlie Garden of and wrote "Tlie Hyphen," originally produced in New York a few weeks ago Mr T'orman lives in New' York for half the year and spends the remaining si.x months in travel. His latest Qovel, Unknown Lady, was nn- One Lusitania Passenger Wat on Way to Live In Ireland.

PROVIDENCE, May Rhode Island persons were Lusitania paseen- gers. Among them are Peter Corrigan of Crary st, this city, who after 35 years in the employ of the Providence Gas Company was on his way back to Ireland to spend remainder of his life; Ernest Burke of 541 Pine st. GenHfJ Falls, who was on his way to visit mother in ids brother-in-law, Harry Holden of 64 Haskell at, Manchester. Eng; Moon of 722 Pine St. Central John Wolfenden.

623 Dexter st. Mr and Mrs Samuel Hanson, 101 lington St. Central Falls: Mr and Mrs Arthur Candllsh of Pawtucket. I OPERA HOUSE ARTIST. Oliver P.

Bernard of London Assisted in Boston Decorations. P. Bernard of London, a Lusitania passenger, was returning home after a visit with Dr and Mrs Arial Wellington George of S8 fet, Brookline. Dr George has an office at 359 Beacon st, Boston. Mr Bernard was 34 years old and married.

He is the resident scenario artist at the Royal Opera Tampon, and has attained consffieraMo eminence In his profe.sston. Boston Opera House was Bernard did some of tlons and made many friends in this I Bernard regretted that he could not serve his country in a inllttary ca- I but because of deafness he was I rejected. E. F. Friend of Farmington, I NF.M Conn.

May of Farmington, a Lusitania is well known in literary elr-' I clfs. He was formerly professor in a 1 college in Boston and came to Farmington about a year ago on invitation of tliss The.odate Pope to engage in itter- aiTwork. -Miss was also a nas- senger on the Lusitania. He is under secretary of the Aincrican for Research. Mrs friend Is thought to he in Boston.

Two South Hadley Falls SOITII HADl.EY FALT.S, May 7- 'I'wo local people passengers on the Lusitania were Mrs James Fyfe. mother (if Rev Fyfe of TIolyoke, and Cjrtl allace of 61 Lamb St. turning to Scotland from an eight' visit, the last three which she had sperit with ft" in-law. Robert R. hyfe of st.

Mr Wallace until recently had nocraplter at the Hendee Manufactur ng ont Su in Springfield and was going TO to accept a Mrs Fvfc is old. Mr Walliice is a graduate of the South Had- lev High School and charter member of tne South Hadley Council, Knights ot Columbus. Four Fall River Pastengers. fall RTVBR. May 7-Among the Fall River passengers on the Lusitania are AVilliam Dewhurst of 156 Bufflnton st, Mary I.ovett of 694 3d st, Marj' Hlggln- hnttom of Franklin st and Sarah E.

WooTcock of 96 Oak Grove av Mr and rouKhltn of Butte. Mont, who been Cornelius of fiM TecumRch st. this city, also gailcd on rimsrder Mrs Coughlin is a sister They were on their way to live in Ireiandj R. R. Freeman Jr of Wollaston.

May 7 Richard F. Freeman Jr. son of Mr and Mrs Richard of 40 Grand Mew av Wollsston, a I.usltania passenger, was bound for Siberia, where be was to he emploved as a mining engineer by British interests in copper nes. He is about 30 vears old. attended Adams Quincy, graduated at Boston I atm sVhool in 1906.

Harvard UniVer- RiU in and Harvard Graduate School of Mining Engineering in 1911. From that time till last November be was em- nloved at copper mines In Ishpeming, Mich Since he has been pre- nnilng to go to Siberia. He is unmar- His father is a shipping broker on Commercial st, Boston. Son of Henry Adams of Newton. newton May- Henry Adams, a Imsltanla passenger, is the foreign agent for the United States Rubber Company and for the last 15 years has ilved chiefly In Europe, his home now being in London.

He is a son of Mr and Mrs Henry Adams of Hunnewell av. Newton, and with his son, William McMillan Adams, was returning from a visit to his parents. Mr Adams, who is about io years old. Is a graduiUe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technolop, and first went abroad as an electrical engineer. Luck Family Not From Worcester.

WORCESTER, May A. C. Luck and her two sons, Eldredge, aged 10 and Kenneth, aged 7. reported as from. Worcester, on board the Lusitania, belong in Francisco and were probably booked 'Vs from Worcester because their passage was secured through a Worcester ticket fiiTpnt at the request of the Graton fcmcht Manufacturing Company.

My nck is a traveling salesman of ar-iton Knight Company and went Europe on a business trip last Jan- ukrv When his wife planned to Join him She wrote to the Worcester concern and' all the details for her sailing from New York were arranged from this city. John Moore of Manchester, Conn. MANCHESTER, Conn, May Moore, one of foremost athletes and for several manager of the Emeralds. seniipro- fesslonal champions, was pa.ssenger on the l.usitanta. He siitled Saturday to visit his parents in Belfast, those sailing with him wa.s his brother- in-law, W.

D. Mitchell of Newpk. .1 and a mil! proprietor iii I Boston. Mnthewson of the Giants had, played on Moore's team. i ON WAY FY WIFE.

Chicago Man Heard She Was In Liverpool Almshouse Supposed Victim of Empress of Ireland. CHICAGO, May 7 -A board the Lusitania when the liner was torpedoed were William Mounsey, his daughter and son-in-law, Mr and Mrs C. L. Lunn. Mrs Monnsey was among those reported lost when the Empress of Ireland went down in the St Lawrence River a year ago.

but her body never was fotmd. Surprising messages recently from Liverpool. 1 hey told of a strange woman in an almsltouse, who, in moments of rational thought, rlaimed to be a Mrs Moiinsey of s'he a terrible dread of water. Mr Moiinsey and his daug'iter law started for l.lverpoo! tn the I oi of identifying and reclaiming ibeli wife and mother. Charles E.

Lauriat of Boston. Charles E. Lauriat Jr of Boston, a passenger on the Lusitania, went abroad alone on business for the firm of i Charles E. Txiurlat Co. of which he i 18 a junior member.

He is married and 'has one child; his home, is at 31 Lln- naean st. Cambridge. His mother. Mis E. Lauriat.

yesterdpv. knew, of course, of the threats that the Lusitania would he sunk, and felt tev- riblv that my son insisted did not fear any dangei. Carlton T. Brodflick of Newton. NEWTON, May T.

Brod- i1ck, a Lusitania passenger, is the son of Mr Mrs Alfred H. BrodrlcU of 56 Bowdoin st, Newton lltghlands. Mr Brodrick, who is about 28. S'aduatcd from Harvard in 1908 and four vears lias been a mtniiiK engineer in Russia. He was return ng ihere after a is Newton.

The elder Mr JRiodtlok is president of the Chadwlck-Bostcin l.ead Company, wltli at 16:: Congress Boston. A. iHOMA.s, h(3 OpeiBtor. CIlAIir.l s'l'HDUMAN, Theatrical Mnuagcr. NOTABLE BUSINESS MEN ON LUSITANIA Mis Thoma.s T.cacli of 928 Harrison Roxbury.

ciaims be the lawful wife of Thomas Leach, sui'crlntend en! of the Bl.acU*tonc Valley HLL-ion of iho FonsoHdatod Ptrcct Rail- who WHS Imrled in tliat citv' day afternoon. says site never was divorced and at no time in her married life was any paper in a divorce action served on her. In tbs face, of this assertton. Mrs Thomas A. Leach, who lives at 210 West St.

Worcester, claims she is the only widow of the street railway man. "While did not know he was leading a. double life. I ausnected the Roxhurv Leach said last night at her home. dangliters iiave gone up to Worcester frequently to see their father, but at no time did lie take them to the place be living.

He seemed nervon.s wlien ttn'v visited b.m and anxlotis that they leave as as possible "Then, again, there can be no dtvone in the CnthoUc church. We both w-ere Catholics and were in the man Trinity Chnrcb. He was a good t'atholic when i met him first he was on the altar in old I Chnrcti on Northampton si. aiiri bis mot her whs as line a woman as one eontd meet. "For some years he worked here as driver for the old Metropolitan btreet Ri.ilwav.

Then he began to negleet me he w.as ordered to niorcv a month. He did iltis, hut it was pretty hard to get it out of him 'times, aUhotigh 1 kttsw was getting good wages, All that he sent me was a scant a mnnfn. "I have never seen this woman in Worcester who savs she his wlm Neither have i seen the fiaughter. Mrs l.eaeh says her husband left her ahont 30 vcats ago. She had ttiree daughters and one son.

hut one dBtign tm- has died. The daughters Mrs Nellie Oihbard, with whom sin' llve.s. Mrs Florence G. Donovan of 58 llftoti st and the son Joseph A. T.eaeli of Northampton st.

The father's name is Still on the door at the house on Hat- corroborated Mrs I.ench in wliat she Iasi ntght. Mr.s Gibbard said site had Worrester and talked with her fatiior. When she read in the papers of ills deatii she look a tiain and went to oflb'c of ttie 1 all way company and asked wliere ins bodv was. She was told that it was at I his home. When site went there she said she was confronted a woman who said she was the whiow.

She also met the woman's danghtct-. Mrs then told the seeoltd Mrs Leach that she w.as the dead m.ari’s daughter from Hoa' ton Gibbard described the conversation thus: "When 1 told the vvoman was his daufiliter she appeared stunned ff)i- a moment, and then tne least said al.qnl a matter of this kind tbe better, and think we should keep it AS quiet as Tbis vvoman talked as tbongh she knew- mv fathei had married, but that he was a widow'er without eliildren when married her, 1 nndersTsnd that no one has been able' to'locate anv marriage eate. and 1 don't know whether there ever was a A Lesson of the European War Once more, among countless times, has the great food value of chocolate and cocoa been Sweet Chocolate has always had this guarantee ingredients of this Chocolate arc guaranteed to be pure cocoas of superior c.WKoffl«« blend and The genuine has this trade-mark on the package, and is made only by Walter Baker Co. Ltd. MASS.

HAS MAN IN VIEW FOR ROME'S PLACE Mayor Refuses Offer From Henry Welles Durham. New Yorker Sap City Stioyld Spend BDY KILLED IN A HST FIGHT Mitchell J. Allan of East Boston Dead. $27,500,000 lor Streets. paraboscHe Held on a Charge of Manslaughtar.

s. M. Kpox, yf- s. Hodges and H. J.

Keser in List. Steel Manufacturers Went Abroad to Close War Contracts. Sidney Taft of Needham. NEEDHAM. Taft, a second cabin pas.scngcr on the T-nsltania, lived fur the last two years at tiic home ot hl8 brother.

George Taft. .332 Hilt.side av, Needham Heights, and had been a machinist in Boston. Mr laft was born In Birmingham. Eng, and was bound there for an Indefinite stay on account of Ills health. Mr Taft has a father, five brothers and two sisters.

One brother. Harry Taft, is with the British troops on the Continent, and another, is with his regiment in England. Most of the family all live in Birmingham. Eng. J.

Harvey Page of Boston. J. Harvey Page of Boston, president of the Mark Cross Company, who had charge of the manufacturing branch of the business In England was a passenger on the Lusitania. Mr Page was born in Boston and married Miss Cora Powers of Cambridge. He is about 40 years old.

On his trips to the States, which were frequent, he stayed in New- York or Cambridge. His home In England was at Walsall. Mr Page ia a brcther-in-lavA of Arthur Bennink, assistant of the Old Trust (Company. John McCormick of Nashua. NASHUA.

H. May McCormick, an operative in this city living near Nashua. Union Station, was a pa.s- senger on the Lusitania, He was on his way to Dublin, Ire, to live after inheriting a fortune in the old country. Edward Simpson of Haverhill. Slmp- aged Bh, of 158 Exchange st.

was a passenger on Lusitania. His sister, Mrs Milner Ijister, says he intended to stay some time in England. Mr and Mrs Riley and Twins Aboard. May and Mrs Ed-I ward lilley and their twin children, i Ethel and Sutcliffe Riley, aged 4. whose i home is at 10 Camden st.

were passengers on the Lusitania. They were going to England to visit relatives for a few months. i Charles E. Hurley of Brockton. BROCKTON, May E.

Hur- ley of 118 Battles st, a shoe cutter, was; a passenger on the Lusitania. His wife and parents live at 19 Ashland st. Hurley went to England, hoping to secure w'ork In a shoe factory. Ten Persians From Chicago. CHICAGO, May 7 Ten natives of Persia, among tiiern Stephen Ohan, a naturalized citizen, were among the Chicagoans on the JjU.situnia, according to their friends here.

They were re- turning to Persia to investigate re- ports received here of a ma.ssacre of tlieir I Wife on Empress of Ireland. DETROIT. May Detroiters were- passengers on the Lusitania. Among them w'as H. Mason.

wife and young son were drowned In che wreck of the Empress of Ireland in the St Lawrence River last May. Former New Orleans Woman. NBVV ORLEANS. May William E. Leverich, a native of New Orleans.

and prominently connected here, was aboard the Lusitania with her daughter. Boslna. They were reiunting to their home in England aiter a visit here. PUn.ADEI.PiHA. May M.

Knox, president of the N('w York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, and William Sterling Hodges, Paris representative of the Baldwin Tvocomotlvo Works, were among the proniinent who were passengers on the I.usilnnia. Harry .1. Keser. vice of the Philadelphia National Bank and widely known in financial was an- 28 persons from this city were on the liner, and local offices of the cotnpanv, as well as the were besieged bv' iinxious inquirers as to the fate of iltose aboard. PITTSBURG MANUFACTURERS.

About 20 Persons Booked for Passage on Lusitania From That District. May 7-According to steamship agents here, 20 persons from the Pittsburg district had booked passage on the Lttsifania. In the number were eight fir.st cabin, nine, second cabin and three third cabin pa.saengcrs. Among the first csbin are fiald to have been several prominent Htee.l and iron matiufacfurers bound for Europe to close eonfracts. Also on board were 10 nieinbers of the Gwent Welsh Male Chorus, who were refurning to Europe after completing a tour of the United Htates.

rancia J. iucas and Charles D. Martin. Engb.sh- inen, who had been working bore were returning on the Lusitania bo enh.st In British Army. EX-CANADIAN MINISTER.

H. M. Daiy Went Abroad to Look After Delivery of Dominion Ballots to Soldiers. OTTAWA, May Maynr Daly of Vancouver, son of Hon T. Mayne Daiv.

a former ('anadian Mininlei, was a passenger on the Lusitania He was diaVatrhed to look after the very of ballots Canadian In E.ng- land and Flanders to vote in the coming Dominion cleciion. The ballots miss- 'ncing on the i.ual- tania berau.se of the failure of the Gov- ernmenf Printing liuicau to do its work on time. Mayor Curley yesferdnv recetxed an offer from Henry Welles Durhani. for- merlx' cltief engineer of ttie Bnresn of lllgiiways of New York city, lo become Commissioner of Pnbllo Works in h's- ton. to succeed I.onis K.

ttonrke. The offer was made in person. The Mayor thanked Durham, but toid liim that he had another man In mind for the place. The announcement of Mr successor is expected In a few days. According lo the Mr Durham told him the secret of good streets in New' York "Hr also toid me what we know already, that we can't build streets on wind," ilie Mavor.

said that we stiould biiUd miles of a at a cost of SLk.Bd (YXI. As we have 540 miles of streets in ton, In 11 years we would have all new' streets on an expenditure of iST.otri.OOO Mr Durham also left wnn tne Bfayor a 0 I 1 of a book he wrote on "Street and in Kuroriean Gities," as the result of a persona! in-i of this problem in Europe few years ago at the instance of the. I.alo Gnynor of Noiv York iniereatlng feature of tiie was ai of diawings a if pavement in the Youths Adjourned to Lot to Settle School Row. As the result of an argument by school bova. wiiirh they proceeded to nettle bv a fiat fight.

14 ears old, son of Mr and Mrs G. Allan of 285 Web.ster st. East Boston, lies dead and Henry Paraboache. aged 15. is held in $10K) bail on a charge of manslanghter.

THOMAS LKACM. Oi the various kinds citie.s visited. Ttie Max-or said tliat this set of slioxva that London and have tlie same juoldein of paving to solve "I.ondon and Boston have three-fifths of their streets laid out In macadam at present, most of the oilier cilirs liave a far greater percentage of granite paving, whieh is reeognlaed as liest." Land Takings Approved. A taking of hind and buildings at a cost of for ji new sclioolhou.s© site adjoining Copps Hill Burying .1. It said the two boys, who pupils in the Samuel Adams School on Webster St.

have been antagonistic toward each other for many and yeater- dav. af the close of the morning session. MRS VANDERBILT ANXIOUS. Keeps Cables Busy in Vain Effort to Learn Whether Husband Was Saved From Lusitania. NEW YORK.

May 7-Mrs Gwynn VandcrhtU kept the cables busy tonight trying to obtain tidings of her husband, but was unable to get definite news She did not once leave her suite in the Hotel Vat.dei bilt, whcjre. only a few hours before tlie sinking of the 1 usitania was announced she liad been in the midst of gay lunclieon party. Her said at midmghl he wa.s iroinc: to remaui no aU night. Mrs Vanderbilt has a.s guesiM in lier suiK? Miss Eieanora Scars and Miss Ethel Mc- Gorniick. They 'sviil remain witli her Alfred Gwynne Vatiderbiit, of late Gornelius Vanderbilt and a brother of Hegiuald Vanderbilt.

Mrs Harry Payne Whitney and Gounte.ss La.s/.lo Szecltenvl, was pertiaps the most powerful figure, financially and scicially, among tlie passengers who sailed cm director of the New York rentral Railroad and Its allied Urtes: ci'irector of the Plaza Bank, the Navigation Company and the International Horse Show Association of both this country and England. inJ has been Mr hobby for years, and hi.s four-in-liand was once a familiar siglit on the roads be- tw'een I.ondon and Brighton. Mr Vanderbilt first in 1901 French. Qi.s second wile was Mrs Hollins MeKim. Ho has two children, WilUaui Heitry.

Ali ired Gwynne Jr. "i nskcd wlicn the funeral was to he held and she told me it was to he. Sat- nrdav afternoon. learned early this morning, Itowever, that It was to be this afternoon, and i sent word to my sister and we went up in time to be at the funeral. The service was conducted bv a minister, although he was a atho- lir 1 did not lioar of it in tiim' to let inv iirott.or know, as he was away to and 1 reach him.

"One of the last times tliat i talked with niv father he told me that my mother, myself and my children would of he died. I don know w'hether he left any pronerfy or not but the matter will be looked Into anti already a lawyer has the ease." ONLY WIDOW. SHE SAYS. Worcester Mrs Leach Declares Street Railway Man Told Her He Had Been Divorced. WORCESTER, May Thomas A.

who lives at 21U West st with her daughter, Mr.s Leon H. Sargent, insisted tonight that she is the only widow of Thomas A. I.each. snperln- tendent of the Biaekstone Valley division of the Worcester Consolidated Street Haiiway, whose fnneral took place thl.s afternoon in the. cliapel of undertaking estabHshinent.

The Worceste! -Mts I.caeh says Mr p.eaeh told her. and has known for yeat-f. that was FJrevtously married I and hftd rhildr-n by the former rlage. I says Mr l.earh told her be secured I a divorce from his fir.st wife some 39 lor 40 years ago in Ctiicago. q'br danghter and only child of the second marriage sajs siie lias always known iier fat Iter had been previously rnaiTied ami divorced, Slie says that when she visiled an uncle, a brotlior of father in Chicago, she heard the murriage and divorce spoken of.

MulleiiS of Boston, a sister of the dei'eased, also eorrohorates the statement to the divorce. The two families. however, never met until for the Worcester Mrs Loach was married 28 years ago and their daughter is years old. Sho declined to say where was maiTied. sue Hiijoimng i npps him Hurying jj( tpp close of the morning sesamo.

Ground, North End, bj the the vacant lot oppo.site Hlmp- misaloners has been approved hy Dock on st and at- Mnvor. The properties tak('n are on i teinptecl to settle old scores. large Charter st. Phipps pi and Pk of boys liad followed them from adjoining the cemetery. Tlte owners of the properties taken Bystanders say that the Pnrabosche and the awards to them aa as follows' bov struck the Allan boy near the heart.

46.37 s.pjare feet bini down, and that the Allan and building. $41 Emilia Gatti. 2944 wia nut UP his feet and building, Gtovan- i foi-l ni and Gluserme FolanUioni, 2855 hands again. before the feet biillding. Raffaele and boy could Aglollna Fasparrillo, 1571 feet boy fell to tne gtound unvon.

and building. Nicola and Tomas- 1 Citl'zens Fioston Reso Hnrrentiiu), 1282 sipiare feet and build- boy was taken a strong ing, $14.000: Giovanni Santosuosso, 899 lief Hospital, where Di scpinro feel and hullding, liffu-' Parabosche garet Spinelli. ,870 feet and build-: ciiorily afterward put waning. John and Catherine Hondero, under arrest on feet and building, Ca-i slaughter. t.Yñw nlace mfilo Marotto, 961 square feet and build-I Tlie place wheie ing, $9000; Giovanni and Filomena about 3e feet in polo.

963 square feet and building, $9000; Gage crossing on M.irgmal si, in and Bevilacqua, 9.54 square rear of the raili oad feet and building. $90rxi. Vincenzo and rs Di Rocco. 918 square feet and is tbe son ot Mi building. $75iX); Gabriele l.o Filato.

770 Paraho.Hclie of 18i Maigina! St. me rano. 1 mi toy i. Find. No One Su.tained D.mage,.

i S'iff Tlie Mayor has approved an order pha fatniiv con.si.st.s of tlie father and tor the the i onimt.ssionefs ror tne Mrs Wliliam Platt ing of land In connection with the lay-I Boston and Leon Ma- iiig out of sewers on Temple at, AYest h.me'y of Revere. Dorothy, who is ail Roxbury. The commission finds no per-; operator in tiic Fort Uoxbury. finds no per-, oc son sustained damages and awards none the Assumption I'arochial School In I ta of liYVY vi'ifl) Iho tHlfinir in ronnfctlon wftli tlie taking. A bid of from Bafchelder Brothers was the in a batch opened yesterdaj at City Hail for sup- I plving the public buildings with blfiiml- DEFEATS PRINCETON.

id.liiB ih. Piihllo wiih bliuM.l-! Cambridge EmJ of noii.s and antlii acite coal. The i.Vimpany bid of $160.174.90 waa the Triangular Debate by Freshmen on lowest bid. The Mayor the Batchel- (ler bid l.s less than in 1913, Tiie lowest bid for coal for the institutions was received from the Coal Company and wa.s $668 low- of last year. The next was the City Fuel Corri- tlmn fiiat lowest bidder pany.

Tlie Mayor yesterday approved Hie application of Jacob Siiapito for Monroe Doctrine. In the Cambridge end of the annual triangular debate of the freshman teani.s of Harvard, and Vale, the Harvard team defcateii the Princeton debaters. Ail three of the debaters were on same question; That the moving picture theatre at 36-44 Bennlng-' miled States should the ton St. Fast Boston, It is planned to as part of its foreign spend $125,000 In construcliug the new Uome team had tlie negative in e4ich cci'test. protest, urging! Good of Cambridge acted as the Water I officer at the Cambridge theatre.

A communication of the need of younger men wun I Mrn Leach says she has had only Hvmi'aihv for her husband and no blame for him becaii.se of first marriage. She insists that there is notlilng In fife to tarnl.sh itis memory. She has placed her legal affairs in the i hands of attorney Thomas Mullens of Boston, tier nepiiew. the need of younger men in the Water I preslclina officer at the Cambridge de- Department. waa received by the which was argued in the New from a committee representing seven; Hall The Judges were Henry yards of thi.s department.

wilt take ficlals of about 334 and of this -------30 years of age. Tlie committee recommended that young men be employed Dmmmee repreHcnimg seven Hall. I rie juuges were riciM.y hi.s department. The Mayor' Attorney General of the up the matter with the of-mate' Judge John Hammond, of the the department. There are' Huperior Court.

and men employed in the yards Giarence C. Smith, recorder of the Mas- 3 number only two are under sschusetts Land Court. A VWY V. 1. The Harvarti speakers at Cambridge, defending the negative side of the S.

M. Knox' Political Career. WILMI.NOTDN. Dei, May xiel Knox, president New York Bhtp- building Comiiany. Camden.

passenger on Lusitania, is Delawarean and former State Senator from MMlmington as Republican leader. He ended the Addlcks Senatorial deadlock in 1903 when hP election of Henatore Ball and Ailee was brought about. He was an active opponent of Addlcks and became head of the shipbuilding company some years ago, Passengers From the Cameronla. NKYV YORK, May 7-The saloon passengers of the Catneronia. who were transferred to the Lusitania, are Robert Wright of Cleveland, Peter Buswell.

Mrs T. O. Osborne. Capt J. FL Muller.

M. O. Gibson, Alex Stuart lUid Henry G. Burgess, all New iorlt. mended that young men be employert defending the negative side ot making repairs on the main gates and! were flenry B.

Walker of on tJie main Iscurboro. Me, William S. Murphy of I Fat! River and Edward Weis.sbuch of (New Y'ork. Opposing them for Princeton were John C. Jr.

of GEORGE H. WHALLEY DEAD. Kay 'V Viu. Tuyl of Miimo- West Dorchester Mart Victim ofiaixiD. aiid I.

Ushburn of liFn.tinke. a. Pneumonia Prominent as Sales- DIVES hrolugh window man in Boston and New York. George H. Whalley.

pBomlnent as a ealesman In Boston and New York, died yesterday at his home. 618 West Park Bt, Dorchester, following an illness of one week from pneumotda. He was in his I6th year. Whalley was horn In Canada, lie was well known among the business men of this city and New York as a traveling He is survived by hla wife and two daughters. Dorothy and Grace.

The funeral will take place at his home this evening at and interment wilt be at Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn, Y. Jeremiah Kelleher of Malden Severely Cut on Head and Arm Headlong Piunge. MALDEN, May 7-Jeremiah late tonight plunged headlong througit a first-floor window of his home at 30 Eastern av and sustained a sculp wound and a bad cut oa ills riglit arm. He was attended at the police station by City Physielan Nichols. His relatives say he is mentally uabalanced,.