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PAGE TWO. NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1916. FIRST SECTION—PART I.
LIBERTY SOLE HOPE OF PEACE, PRESIDENT SAYS AT DINNER TO MARK LIGHTING OF THE STATUE
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Twelve Hundred Hear French Ambassador and Mr. Depew
SYMBOLIC BEACON BATHED IN RADIACE
Buildings Aglow on Lower Manhattan Vie with Harbor Illuminations.
Liberty alone will bring peace to the world, President Wilson solemnly predicted to a distinguished audience of men and woman gathered last night in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria at a dinner in celebration of the illumination of the Statue of Liberty. Until freedom replaces the activities of small groups of men, Mr. Wilson added, amid a storm of applause, the peace so desired cannot come.
"Throughout the last two years there has come more and more into my heart," Mr. Wilson declared earnestly, "the conviction that peace is going to come to the world only with liberty. with all [[illegible]] and sincere respect for those who represent other forms of government than ours, perhaps O may be permitted to say that peace cannot come so long as the destinies of men are determined by small groups who make selfish choices of their own."
Mr. Wilson was the final speaker of the evening and his utterances consumed barely seven minutes. He pleased for a greater understanding of the ideals of liberty for, he said:—
"The spirit of the world rises with the sacrifices of men; the spirit of the world rises as men forget to be selfish and unite to be great."
Pays Tribute to France.
The dinner, which was the climax of a day of patriotic ceremonies, was held in the great ballroom of the hotel, amid a tower of rings that encircled its tier shaded interior in a riot of color. Behind the President an enormous American flag on which a white light played fluttered in the breeze of an unseen fan. To the right of the Chief Executive of the nation sat Jules J Jusserand, the French Ambassador, who spoke for the French republic and delivered a message from President Mills, George B. Cortelyou, Vance C.McCornick, George McAneny, Henry Morgenthan, Rear Admiral H. O. Dunn, U.S.N., and Guzton Borglum.
Recalls Earlier Ceremony.
Mayor Mitchel Introduce as the first speaker Chauncey M.Depew, one-time Senator, who made the principal speech thirty years ago, when the Liberty statue was dedicated. After giving the New York World credit for the enterprise that collected the fund for the permanent lightning of the statue Mr. Depew said in part :-
"Of all the famous company who participated in the ceremonies thirty years ago, I am the sole survivor. Among the French were Count De Lesseps, then at the zenith of his fame as the builder of the Suez Canal, and the sculptor Bartholdi. They have joined the majority, and so have most of the statesmen, generals, admirals and men of letter who accompanied"
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CRANK TRIES TO APPROACH PRESIDENT AT WALDORF DINER AND IS SEIZED
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With Clippings Referring to the Assassination of Monarchs In His Pocket, Man Who Gives His Name as Jacob Acks Insists That He Must Give a Letter to Mr. Wilson and is Arrested, but Found To Be Unarmed
With clippings referring to the assassination of European monarchs in his pocket and a letter in his hand which he insisted he must deliver to President Wilson, a long haired, strange looking man gained unbidden entrance to the Liberty Alight dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria last night, given by the Mayor's Committee of Two Hundred, and was arrested.
He was taken to the Night Court, where he was accused of disorderly conduct. A further accusation by the police was that he was "arrested at the Waldorf-Astoria at nine-twenty o'clock, where he tried to force his way into the banquet hall and give a letter to the President of the United Sates, and where he used loud and boisterous language."
The prisoner gave his name as Jacob Acks, twenty-nigh years old, of No. 610 East 140th street. He said he was a contractor. No weapons were found on him, but his pockets were stuffed with newspaper accounts of President Wilson's, whereabouts and other clippings that referred to the murder of various named and unarmed monarchs of Europe. There was also a letter addressed to President Wilson. It was incoherent, but a few passages here and there indicated that the man had sought the President's interest in gaining his liberty.
Just how the man gained admission to the hall is a mystery. the hotel was alive with policemen, detectives and secret service men. All the doors of the place were guarded and the banquet hall entrances were guarded by special men.
E.J.Smith and John Dillon, house detectives, were standing by the main door leading to the banquet hall when they noticed Acks walking toward the entrance. He was long haired and in evening dress, but his whole get-up was entirely out of keeping with the persons who were in the ballroom. Mr.Smith asked him what he wanted and received such as an unsatisfactory reply that he ordered Acks away. in some way he returned without being seen by the detectives and was discovered suddenly by Mr.Smith making his way through the tables and among the diners on the east side of the banquet hall.
Before Mr.Smith could reach him Acks had gained a position about a hundred feet away from where the President was seated on the raised Dias with the other guests.
"Where are you going?" asked Smith.
"I want to see the President, I have a letter here for him,"replied Acks.
"Come with me downstairs," said Smith.
"But I must deliver this letter," returned the intruder.
Most of the diners were moving about rearranging their seats for the speaking that was bout to begin, so few persons noticed that anything unusual was happening. Smith turned the man and led him back into the corridor and told Captain William Henry, of the Secret Service. The group then went to the offices, where the man was questioned fruitlessly. Acks then was turned over to the police and taken to the Night Court.
So smoothly and so well did the detectives do their work that President Wilson did not observe the incident, nor did he know of it until after the dinner was over.
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RUTH LAW FLIES AS LIGHT APPEARS
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Aboard the Presidential yacht, the Mayflower, as she lay a few cable lengths eastward of Liberty island, President Wilson last evening touched a button connected with the yacht's wireless at exactly five minutes before six o'clock.
Responding instantly to the signal, Bartholdi's towering Statue of Liberty sprang into almost noonday brilliance. The lines of the inspiring figure stood silouetted against the dark background of sky and water in radiant beauty.
The goddess whom France and America alike worship had never before been so luminously draped, while the torch she upholds to the world, hitherto at best little more than a tallow dip, flamed for the first time since it was lifted, a generation ago, with the concentrated power of fifteen 500 candle power electric lamps- the brightest star in the firmament of a city and a harbor all aglow with festival illumination.
Timed to the second came the whirring of aerial motors overhead. The light of a single lamp, spiralling above the mustered naval vessels and the upper harbor, swept through space with the speed of the eagle. It was Miss Ruth Law gracing the occasion by an exhibition flight in the overworked little aeroplane in which she recently established American records for cross country aviation.
From the decks of the Mayflower and the old mine layer San Francisco, which in the absence of the Dolphin, now under the aviation field of Governor's Island to guide her descent.
Upon the decks of the Mayflower, where Mayor Mitchel and Mrs.Mitchel, Ambassador Jusserand, of France and other dignitaries stood beside the President and his party, superlatives failed. So they did in the overcrowded forecastle and on the quarterdeck of the San Francisco. But all agreed that never had a more beautiful marine spectacle been witnessed in New York waters.
Though all the great skyscrapers of lower Manhattan were vying with one another in splendour and the Woolworth tower was a dream of fairylike beauty. A sight that inspired favourable comment from all was the illuminated flag flying from all was the illuminated flag flying from all was the illuminated flag flying from the top of the Bowling Green Building. As the strong northwest breeze made it strain at its halliards, its rippling folds were illuminated by concealed search-lights, so that it crowned the scintillating too if Manhattan like a patriotic beacon.
President Wilson arrived from Washington at eighteen minutes past three o'clock in the afternoon. Accompanying him were Mrs. Wilson , Miss Margaret Wilson, Miss Helen Bones Woodrow and Dr. Cary T. Grayson, White House physician. At the Pennsylvania station the his party had gone abroad the Mayflower another admiral's barge came dancing across the water flying the flag of the Secretary of the Treasury - a catted an chor in the centre of a blue field with four starred corners. Mr. Daniels was received with the whiners due his rank on the quarter deck of the San Francisco, and then the heavily laden naval tug bearing the committeemen and their guests, Among them a host of appreciative and rosy cheeked women, who wore becoming furs to protect them against the nipping wind, was permitted to run alongside the mine layer and discharge her cargo of sightseers. Secretary Daniels was accompanied by Mrs.Daniels, their son, Josephus, Jr., and by Lieutenant Commander McCandles, his naval aid. William C. Redfiled, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, was accompanied by Mrs.Redfield.
Abeam of the insland of Texas and th New York, levithans of the dreadnought fleet, were radiant in evening dress, their lines alow and aloft, their basket masts turrets, 14-inch gruns, smokestacks, jack-staff and taffrail all traced in eletric brilliance. At her forepeack the Texas showed in red electric lights a replica of
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Many Leap at Night Fire on the East Side; Police Seek for Dead
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Forty Families Are Trapped in Tenement House of Chrystie and East Houston Streets as Flames Shoot Upward Swiftly
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SURGEONS FROM SIX HOSPITALS ON THE SCENE
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Their escape from the rooms on the upper floors cut off by smoke and flame, several persons are believed to have perished, many were seriously injured and a dozen rescues were made by policemen and firemen early this morning when fire destroyed the double tenement house at the southeast corner of Chrystie and East Houston streets. It was reported that panic stricken tenants were leaping to safety from flame scorched rooms and that ambulance surgeons from six hospitals were removing the injured persons for treatment at the hospitals.
The fire started in the hallway on the first floor of the tenement house. A passerby who saw the flames ran shouting through the house.
While terror stricken members of the forty families in the house fled into the smoke filled hallways a policeman turned in an alarm.
Fire Spreads Fast.
The flames spread rapidly, passing up through air shafts and hallways. By the time the first engines arrived flames were pouring from the windows on the three lower floors and the roof and upper floor windows were filled with frightened men, women and children.
A second and third alarm were turned in by the first battalion chief to arrive on the scene. Reserves were called from the three nearby precincts to handle the crowds that filled the streets.
While firemen were preparing to raise a ladder to the windows of the fourth floor, Mary Scheinauchiu, twenty-three years old, leaded to the street from a window ledge. She was unconscious when picked up by policemen and was removed to Gouverneur Hospital in a dying condition.
Policemen Save Twenty-Five
The lives of at least twenty-five persons were saved by Policemen Frank O'Hara and Nathaniel Whitman, who were on duty a block away when the fire was discovered. The policemen made their way to the roof of the house at N. 230 Chrystie srteet [street] and with boards broken from a skylight constructed a bridge over the fifteen foot space between the two houses. Over this bridgethey carried many women and children. They were aided in the rescue by Charles Sippola and his brother, Salvador.
While the fire was at its height, Fireman Charles Roth, in charge of a crew of pipemen at the top of a forty foot ladder, heard screams for help coming from a room on the fifth floor. Breaking the glass of a window, he entered the room and dragged Mrs. Caroline Arsella, eighty years old, to the fire excape landing. The woman, suffering from shock and burns, was carried to an ambulance.
Every effort was made by firemen to keep the flames from spreading to adjoining tenement houses. Early in the progress of the fire, dozens of families were ordered to the stree by Deputy Chief "Smokey Joe" Martin.
A short distance from the burning building is the "Three Deuces," the tenement house at No. 222 Chrystie street, where twenty-seven persons have met death as a result of fires, murders and accidents.
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TO KEEP LONDON CHILDREN.
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Novelist's First Wife Refuses to Give Over Daughters to Second Wife.
OAKLAND, Cal., Saturday.-Mrs. Bessie
M. London, first wife of Jack London, declared to-day that she would not turn over the custody of her two daughters, Joan and Bess London, to Mrs. Charmion K. London, widow, as requested in the writer's will. Mrs. London said that she had been amply provided for in a property settlement made with her one-time husband years ago.
"I have means to support my two daughters and myself, and we will continue to live quietly here. Under no circumstances will I ever give up the custody of my two daughters," said Mrs. London.
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