New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 28, 1915, Page 10

MBER [THREE KB IN | Compare Sinking of Leelanaw With i RELIGS:- U,’"S,RA][R[]A]] GOASTER A[",[;II]ENT} Destruction of the William P. Frye T[] BE ms AYFI Tost—Rus- Chugach Natural Forest to Lose T\rain?Jumps Track Forty Feet in Souvenirs of Civil War to Be 85 Million Reet Kir at Coney Island . Sfhown af Encampment : ‘Washington, July 28.—The Alaskan New York, July 28.—A man ;:: Engineering commissi which is to | tWo women were killed an build thy i Y 10“;“ d from others had narrow escapes af co:‘«z{ ® government rallroa Island last evening when & two : Seward' an, the Pacific 471 miles to Fairbanks in the interior has received Washihgton, D. C., July 26.-—To add another interedting feature the events of the forthcoming forty- of the in 110:30 2 m— to now hold a great fl’fbt Riga, sweeping ind Warsaw, thence i stretching away ninth annual encampment Grand Army of the Reépublic near Sokal, e lost 500,000 ~in this, the most ment. of the war and t is not yet broken. river, north of the the Russians have made stance, holding Field ndenberg for the time while to the south the £y . the Lublin-Chelm. along a front ap- les wide towards ve come under the an warships. , Conn., July 38.—Ar- detained while inquiry into the death f his k with a' fractured for 30 days, in orth, between here and. “the “second coming of . “marshalling of the the skies,” as soon “eapture Constantinople, Beach Amusement zz;::;:‘ iog:;f: ‘:ailway. theh"R}?u.ih a permit from the Forest service to/| Hiders” at Jones Walk ek e cut: 86 million feet of ‘timber in the Chugach ‘ National Forest for use in constructing the new line. The per- mit was issued by the District Fores- ter at Jortland, Oregon, wWho has di- rest supervisian of the Alaskan for-: ests, and is in oconformity with the Act of March 4, last, which authoriz- ed the Secretary of Agrioulture to per- mit the Alaskan Engineering Commis- sion and the NavyDepertment to take from ‘the national forests . free of charge earch, stone, and timber for use in government works. The timber will be cut in destgnated areas along the right-of-way of the proposed rail- road, which runsg through the Chugach Natfonal Forest for séveral miles. Tumber Is Good. Hxperiments and tests of Alaskan spruce and hemloek are being . made at the Forest Service laboratory at Seattle, Washington, and s0 far have ‘substantiated the opinion of foresters that Alaskan timber is sufficiently strong for practically all structural purposes. While these tests are go- ing on Fowest Service employes Alasks are making the timber to be cut along the proposed -railroad, the cutting ‘to be done so ‘that only ma- ture trees are taken, the young trees being left uninjured and the condition of the forest improved. 1 Largest Out Made. “This cut of 85 milHon feet will be the largest amount of timber ever felled on the Alaskan forests in one opention, and at the average rate per thousand board feet obtained for timber sold from the Chugach Forest during the fiscal year 1914, it is worth approximately $145,000 on the stump. it will be nearly twice as much as the total quantity of national forest timber now cut and used annually for local purposes thréoughout Alaska, but only a little more than one-tenth of the estimated annual growth of the ‘Alaskan forests. The two national forests of Alaska contain about 78 billion feet of merchantable timber and it is estimated by the Forest Ser- wvice that more than 800 million feet could be cut every year forever with- out lessening the forests’ productiv- . = THREE STATES HAVE NO EDUCATION L4 Southern States Rapidly Comin ~to Front in Schools - A racge to avold being the last state in the Union 'to adopt . compulsory education laws is ~ apparently under) war in the Southern States, according to' reports received at the United States Bureau of 'Education. = There are now only three states.without such iaws, Florida having recently joined Texas and South Carolina in adopting compulsory education by legislative enactment. The three states still with- out laws are Georgia, Mississippi and labama. ‘| county, the county board of education shall call ‘an election to ' determine ‘whether attendance shall be compul- sory therein. A three-nifths majority vote is necessary for adoption, dren between 8 and 14 years of age are required to attend for at least eighty days each year, unless exempt because of physical or mental disability; be- -cause their services are required for the support of a dependent family; or because their parents are unable to provide books and clotnting. By the provisions of the law the county boards of education are au- thorized to appoint attendance officers to enforce the law and to take a census of the children between ¢ and 21 yars of age, Althiugh the Florida law is thus of the optional type, it is a clear recog- nition of the compulsory principle and is regarded as a real step m advance. Big Educational Advance. Officials of the Bureau of Hduca- tion point out that this year's compul-~ fgory educsational legislation is part of a big educational advance afl along the ‘line, Nearly all the state legislatures were in session during 1915, and much of the educational discussion that has been going on for severar years crys- tallized info law. The Alabama legis- lature has reconvened for the summer session and much school will be discussed, including a compul- sory education law. The fact that Ala- bama does not meet again for four yars makes it likely that Georgia and Missippi may get ahead of her in adopting compulsory legislation, un- action is taken this year. ' In the field of compulsory education {throughout the United States it is be- lie that the next steps will have to _do with the adoption or state-wide laws where optional laws now prevail; the raising of the age limits in.con- formity with the best: principles ‘in child-labor ° legislation; ' and more strict enforcement of existing laws. legislation e track forty feet in the i gl‘,'h":p:’:réz Who were killed were shot from the track fo the sidewalic of the crowded Bowery below. Souse of the fourteen were thrown out on the trestle of the roller tc‘mster, but badly hurt. - ¥ on‘ll";x:n;e:duarc James McDonald, driver of the train, twenty-four years old, living at Twenty-eighth street and Neptune avenue, Coney Island; Mrs. Annie Hartman, sixty-five years old. of 165 Gates avenue, Brooklyn, and Miss Ruth Cuddy, fourteen yearold of 287 Jackson avenue, Long Island City. Mrs. Moles Seriously Hurt, Mrs, Clarence Moles of Spring Vals ley, N. Y., a niece of Mrs. Harfman, was seriously hurt. . She was gedfed in the first car with her seven-yegr-oid son. When the accident happened she received a fracture of the right arm, but was not thrown out of the ~ar, The boy, whom she held on her lap, escaped injury. The accident occurred o’clock. eratéd on the railway at the time, ang the regular driver of this, John Clin- ton, who boards at West Eighth street Coney Island, had left his station for supper’a few minWites before; McDon- all relieving him. : In Full View of Crowds. The* Rough Rider,” which is one of the swiftest and hilliest rides on the island. makes a trip from the front of the building on the Bowery. back down Jones , walk and then doubles the circuit on a higher tres- tle forty feet :n the air. - Almost ut the end’ of the ride. the cars. pass through, an opening in the ‘archway forming the face of ' the structure. whizzing by in full view of the street. It ‘was at this point that the car Jjumped. The first truck left the track on! the curve. ' The secand truck, supporting the rear of ‘the first car and the front of the second, also Jumped, but the last truck held to the rails. The first car was almost exactly in the center of the arch, and it turned over on its side, crash- ing against an iron railing that bar- red the opening and threw it back on the runway. Priest at Dying Man’s Side. The screams of the sixteen persons in the cars alarmed the crowd below. McDonald, who was in the front of the first car, was shot head first to the stane walk. In the crowd was the Rev. John B. Gallo of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Newburgh, N. Y. He hurried to where the driver lay, and finding his heart still beating, administered the last rites of the church. McDonald was dead when, a few minutes later, ' an ambulance from Coney Island Hospital arrived with Dr. O'Relilly. Mrs. Hartman and Mrs. Moles, who were celebrating the latter's - vigit from -her up-State home, were with Jaseph Scales, Mrs. Mole’s father. He had refused to go on the ride and was watching the ride from the Bow- ery. The body of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Hartman, struck within a few feet of where he stood. Save Several Passengers. Sergeant Dennis T, Kennedy, who ‘was near by, summoned Policeman John Hubman and Detectives Charles Kellerman and Vitelli. They eclimb- ed up to the archway and pulled back to safety a number of the occupants of the car who were hanging peril- ously over the side. - They found one man hanging entirely out of the car, head ' downward, with a young girl who had been seated next him, des- at and hauled the man back to the car. The. two scrambled down the stairs and disappeared in the throng that choked the Bowery for blocks. on each side. Meanwhile Vitelli and the others fifted Mrs. Male’s child from her lap and freed her. She was car- ried down stairs and treated by Dr. O'Reilly, but insisted on going home, ‘Woman Dies on Way to Hospital. Miss Cuddy, the third occupant, who was thrown to the street, was hurried to the hospital with Mrs. Hartman. The, latter died on the journey, and Miss Cuddy died two hours later from a fraetured jaw and internal injuries: Mrs. Celia Povenova, sixty years olg, of 171 Boerum place, Brooklyn, re- ceived a severe contusion of the right shoulder when, she declared, she was struck by McDonald’s body as it fell. She was taken to Coney Island hos- pital. Several minor cases of shock among passersby who were unnerved by the actident were treated, among them being Mrs.. Mary Appleton and Mrs. Katherine Squey of 336 Fifty- fourth street, Brooklyn, with their four children. Mrs. Appleton reported that in the excitement a pickpocket had stolen her purse, containing a few dollars. The reserves, under Inspector Thomas Murphy, were called out to keep away the crowd. Thomas Ward, the manager of the ride, was arrested on a charge of homicide. He was released on bonds of $5,000, furnished by his .brother, ‘William J. Ward, partner in the com- pany. None of the employes were ar- rested. Coroner Ernest Wagner of Brooklyn and Assistant District At- torney Reuben Wilson arrived in a short time and held an investigation. The coroner refused to make any statement, saying that the examinas tion was not complete. Mr. Wilson said he had questioned Chief Build- ing Inspector John C. Snackenberg and' Inspector Patrick Smith, who re- ported 'that” they had examined the s 5:30 . Only one train was being op- | .aid for the national The fssue over the destruction of tl's: American steamer - Leelanaw, which was sunk by a German sub- marine while en route from Archan- gel, Russia, to Belfast, was regarded almost jdenti¢al with- thdt of the de- struction of the American sailing ship William P. Frye by the German aux- iliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrien, for which the United States has de- place and found with it, Equipment in Good Order. Inspector Smith declared he nothing - wrong half hours before the disaster and that the equipment was in good order at the time. He was of the opinion that the accident had been caused by McDonald sending his train around the curve at top speed. INVOKE AID FOR GERMANY. Protestant Churches In Empire Have Services Sunday for that Purpose. Berlin, July 28, (By wireless teleg- raphy ‘to Sayville, N. Y.)—The Pro- testant Church Board in Germany has decided that next Sunday shall be ob- served by divine services, invoking cause. = The funds to be collected on this day are ta be devoted to the succor of widows | This announcement | and orphans. was made today by the Overseas News Agency. Bishop K. Orum of Treves, this agency declared, has received an auto- graph letter ' from Pope Benedict thanking him for the Peter’'s Pence contribution. In the lettér the Pon- tiff says he deeply regrets this bitter and prolonged war which has robbed the peaple of their possibility of main- | taining personal relations with his best. friend. The Pope closes his communication by sending the Apos- tolic, Blessing to the Bishop of the clergy and their parishioners which like a] lothers in these hard times, is depressed by the prolonged and deep rooted sorrow of the war. ITALIANS CLAIM GAINS IN BATTLES (Continued from First Page.) lent ‘cross-fire from the enemy’s ar- tillery of all calibres, our forces were obliged to file back below the crest, where they are maintaining their po- sitions. On the center We progressed towards San Martino, carrying with the bayonet trenches and a redoubt covering it. On the right wing, by the perfect timing of an infanry ad- vace With the fire of artillery, we completed at nightfall the conquest of a position on Monte Dei, driving out inch by inch the enemy who was strongly entrenched there. We made about 3,200 priscers, including one Heutenant-colonel and forty-one other officers: * We took five machine guns, twg small cannon, trench Mortars, quantities of rifles, ammunition, war materials and food as trophies of a day’s fierce fighting.” Russians Take Offensive. Petrograd, July 27, 11 p. m., via London; July 28, 6:19 a. m.—Military critics - here are giving their atten- tion to the operations on tae left bank of the Vieprz and those 'against Chelm’ and along the Bug. The Ger- mans have brought up strong reserves but the Russians are offering a pow- erful defense and have taken the of- fensive successfully at several points. The pressure of the Germans on the Nadarzyn-Piagecsno line west of the Vistula is regarded as designed to prevent the Russians from witadraw- ing their attention from that section. While a certdin amount of German effort is! noted in the southern arca of hostilities, where operations be- tween the Vistula and the Vieprz have reached a standstill, observers see tendency on the part of the Teutonic had ! made an inspection only three and a | manded the payment of a monetary indemnity and full reparation for the violation of treaty stipulations. One difference, however, between the Frye and Leelanaw cases is to be found in the fact that the Americans on the Frye were taken on: board the German cruiser Prinz Eitel Freidrich and carried to a place of safety at Newport News, while the captain and allies to widen the sphere of hostili- ties towards the east. It is now rc- garded as certain that their aim fis not only to destroy communications with Petrograd, by the operations north of Kovno but also by driving against Brest-Litovsk behind Wai- saw by way of Chelm and at the right bank Jf the Bug. French Official Report. Paris, July 28, 2:30 p. m.—The of- ficial communication given out today by the ¥rench War department as follows: “In Artoise, to the north of Sou- chez, the Germans after a strong bombardment, delivered last: night several different attacks against three of our positions. After a very spirit- ed combat they were driven out of the i irench which they had succeed®d in occupying, with the exception of one point where they retained 20 yards of an advance of our front. The town of Soissons was bombarded yester- day evening. German Attack Repulsed. “In the Argonne, in the vicinity of Fontaine-Au-Charmes, the enemy un- dertook to make %n attack, but they were driven back to their trenches by our iInfantry fire. “On the rest of the front the night passed quietly. “In the Dardanelles there is noth- ing to report, with the exception of some slight progress on the part of | our troops on vur right wing, together with activity by French aviators, who bombarded successfully the new avia- tion camp of the enemy to the north of Chanak. They threw bombs on the hangars and on a gasoline s ply station, eausing a considerable " outbreak of fimes. MIGRATORY RODENTS SPREAD DISEASE Public Health Service so Decides Aiter Experiments Washington, July 28.—That tha migratory habits of rodents have a bearing upon the spread of disease is not generally known, but the United States Public Health service, as a re- sult of experiments conducted in plague epidemic work at New Or- leans, asserts that such is the case. This is but anothér illustration that the fleld of preventive medicine is especially broad, and investigation is therein must be thoroughly familiar with the life history and habits of flies, mosquitoes, ticks, and even ro- dents. Several hundred captured rats were marked for purposes of identification by having their ears punched, care being taken not to render them con- spicuous, as fellow rodents wage re- lentless warfare upon those which appear different from their kind. They were then released in the heart of the city, and allowed to shift for themselves. Trapping was carried on in all sections, and each rat was la- beled as to the locality caught. Fully one-quarter of the rats made wide- spread excursions, that is they were re-captured at points from one to four mies from where they were liberatad. In one instance, a rat traveled 19 blocks, crossing one of the widest anl busiest streets in the city, where there was no subterranean passage, and was retaken within 60 hours from the time of its liberation. From the ex- periments it is concluded that the semi-domesticated rat has migratory habits similar to wild animals, and that these habits are influenced by abundance or scarcity of food, facility for harborage, or the presence of na- tural enemies. It is also believed crew of the Leelanaw, according to reports from London, were taken aboard the German submarine, but were afterward required to take to their own bosts. The Leelanaw in- cident will figure prominently in the controversy between this country and Germany. High officials were inclined to look upon it as a serious aggrava- tion of the situation. that certain inexplicable instincts tend to make the rat a wanderers. That in this instance wvas clearly proven. Disseminates Plague. This migrdtory habit of rodents ex- plains many facts connected with the dissemination of plague; it will also doubtless prove enlightening to those who have attempted to exterminate rats for cconomic reasons. The In- dian Plague Commission was of the opinion that rats seldom journeyed from one section of the city to an- other, but the conclusion of the Pub- lic Health officials is quite the oppo-- site. As a mcasure of the success of trapping operations, it is interesting to note that over one-hailf of the ro- dents liberated were recaptured with- in' a month. KAHLSCHMIDT NAMED IN CONS?IRACY PLOT Detroit Business Man Involved in Scheme to Dynamite Plant of Peabody Manufacturing Co., ‘Windsor, Ontario, July 28.—Albert Kahlschmidt, a Detroit business man, was named in a conspiracy charge read against William Lefler, of Wind- sor, when the latter was arraigned be- fore justice at Sandwich, Ont., today, charged with attempting to dynamite the plant of the Peabody Manufac- turing company at Walkerville several ‘weeks ago. Three charges were made against Lefler. The first alleged he was respon- sible for the explosion at the Peabody plant. To the first count he pleaded not guilty. The second count held that he conspired with Kahlschmidt and a man named Schmidt to dynamite the Peabody buildings and the Wind- sor armory. He was accused in the third count of being accessory to the keeping of explosives to be used for unlawful purposes. Lefler did not answer the second and third charges. He was held for trial on the first count. City items See our fresh “Jumbo” lpbsters, 25c [ today. 1b. Sea Food Store, Arch street.— advt. Thermometer register at 90 degrees Are you taking a daily shower and swim at Y. M. C. A. Summer membership for August and September.—Advt, Clan Douglas, No. 80, O. 8. C,, will play Lexington lodge, No. 72, 1. O, O, P., at carpet bowls on Thursday eve- ning at’ 8:30 o'clock. Clan members are requested to meet at O. U. A. M. hall, Hungerford court, at 8:15 o'clock sharp. « Last week to pay water rent and save interest.—Advt. P. H. McKosky of 246 Clark street who is working on a house on Vincent avenue reports that two planes and three chisels have heen stolen from him. Moonlight waltz, bungalow, Thurs. —advt. Judgment for the defendant was rendered in the city ccurt this morn- ing by Judge Meskill in the case of N. Glowacka vs. A. Chernowsky in an action to recover possession of a tene- ment at 58 Beaver sireet. Attorney D. E. O’Keefe appeared for the plain- tiff and F. B. Hungerford for the de- fendant It was alleged by the plain- 1iff that no rent had been paid by the defendant for the month of June. Conclusive testimony to disprove this lestimony was introduced and the de- tfendant was given judgment with costs, amounting to $3. Swimming classes for, men at ¥. M. C. A. Take out special summer mem- bership for August and September.— Advt, ! i l | Washington is filled with reminders | of the groat struggle; many of these i reiics age owned and held by the gov- ernment-but; tije: average *visitor sees few of them. It Is planned to extend a special courtesy fo the old veter- ans and allow them an opportunity to view somie of theése highly prized treasures, In a fire-proof vault, opening fro a small’room on the taird floor of th | treasury buildihg, are the manu, script archives which set forth the diplomatic efforts of the Confederacy to secure recognition as a member of the family of nations and to obtain the means to establish a navy and maintain an army. Travels of Archives. When the most important of the Confederatc archives were removed from Richmond, the diplomatic corv- respondence, consisting of the “State Department” records, exeept LN cret service papers, which been | | destroyed by My. Benjamin, were hid- den in a'barn {1 Virginia. Later, they were packed in ‘four vellow trunks, and brought from Richmond to ‘Washington, by ‘thelr custodian, Col. John T, Pickett. '“After ‘endeavi : for years to dispose of them, Com Pickett, having indexed them, {00k them to Capada, where in April, 1872, the trunke and their contents were purchased for the use of the United States. On July 3, 1872, the trunk % were delivered at the White Houvse, and. latef were removed to the treas- ury. Colonel Pickett, in payment, re- ceived the stipulated sum of ,75'00"1- a large portion' of which ‘was dis’ tributed to needy widows and orphans of Confedérate soldiers, “ Picket Papers” The money for the “Picket papers” | had been appropriated by special act of congress. Many persons asserted that no, good could ‘result from' th resurrection of these long-buried doc Ig-‘ uments, even If genuine, as som J‘i feared they were not, and Secretar Boutwell had wasted $75,000 on four = trunks ‘!llled with worthless paper. However, time has demonstrated the wisdom of. this purchase. The namey in the indices of the Picket pape in addition to those of the corre pondence of the Confederate treasury and other denartments. have been ereat cnpeniense snd inestimab value in defeating qudu‘éfi;h'-‘""; to the amount of many m dollars. These papend re- mained in the original receptacies un til about a year ago, when the old trunks were sold at ome treasury auctions. The papers had already been placed In three new chests of .polished pine. © Story of Seal. Pickett was % Colonel g X latest known custodian of the great seal of the Confederate States. Of this seal, which never was used, many romarni tic stories are told. “That it was de- stroyed at the close of the ti1s is untrue. In 1870, after having had its genuineness ‘attested by its Eng: lish manufacturers,’ Colonel cket ordered from a Washington jew; many replicas of it, in gold, silver bronze, which were s0ld for the fit of destitute southerners. Oné " the Museum, and another in the st partment of the capital of South C: lina. The original was made in Lo don at a cost of 122 pound shillings. It was finished July 2, 18 and did mot réach 'Richmond ‘un the evacuation of that city. It is lieved that Colonel Pickett's heirs are the only peérsons who know its where- abouts. h Boxes of CUonfederaie Money, In a small dark room under t eaves of the south wing of the tre ury stand seven large packing with covers .rgfled down. Sigh are never permitted to enter th dingy attic room, and very few pe sons, even among tle oldest employe could guess the contents of the box They are- filled with Confederal money, a portion of which was cap tured from southern banks and from dead and living Confederate soldie) and forwarded tHrough the war de. partment to the treasury, The larg share of this money was collected b the treasury agents who conducted the, cotton business of the Upited States in 1864 and succeeding years. These boxes contain not only th bank netes of the Cofnederate govern ment, but thousands of the bills sued by the statés in insurrection, tof take the place of the take the plact] of the “chips” which tradesmen were, compelled to offer as change After the south suspended specle payment in July, 1861 Later the issue of! | small bills by the various states ren- dered these “chips™ unnecessary. KILLED BY TRAIN, Waterbury, Conn., Lithuanian, thought Shagonis or Shergolis, street, was instantly Killeq when he wag struck by o passenge {rain on the Jackson strect trostied Engineer Finkle, of. the irain whicl struck the man, did not see him o the track and dian"t know of thg cident until his train swoppeq at depot, some distance gway, was on his, Ao work when ki He is about 35 years of age, identity has not yet beggw ‘ today,