New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1917, Page 1

Maximalists Usurp Authori Co-operation of S A DISASTROUS BLAZE. |OCCUPIES HOLE DUG [OUR DEABSLEEPING |ALLIES’ WAR PLANS UPSET- CAUSES DEATH OF * SIX'IN NEW YORK / Men and Women Lose Their Lives{ in Building Where Supplies . Are Slupped to Army ‘BODY OF ONE GIRL VICTIM - FOUND IN THE RUINS Fire Started Following the Collapse of a Floor Where Heavy Machinery ‘Was Stored, It Crashing Into the b Cellar, Causing the Explosion of +4 An Ammonia Tank. New York, Nov. 8.—Five women and two men are believed to have . Dbeen killed in the collapse of three floors of a building in Brooklyn . oc~ by & concern supplying pro- ons to tho ‘government, An ex- @re: followed. One My thn of Misg Josephine - Johanns, was recovered from the | ruins, and firemen are searching for ‘others. The bullding, & four-story struc- iture, was owned by the Johanns 3 p Provision compgny, . and was located within a blocld of the recent $32,000,000 warehouse fire in ~Brooklyn. ¢ “ {Heavy machinery, stored on the upper floors, 1s believed responsible A for the collapse of the buillding. Tt “ dropped to the cellar causing the ex- plosion of an ammonia tank. About 8,600 bags of beans destined to the A .Amerlcnn forces in France were TflRPEIlIl STRIKES AMERICAN - VESSEL Slnlis in Few Minutes—-—Four of Crew Dead; Others Missing. \ Yondon, Nov. 8.—The American “seamship Rochester was torpedoed io’(znk at dusk on November 2, r sailors are known to have lost ¥ lives in the sinking, One boat, the second mate and thirteen 48 missing. The captain and twenty-two men /have been landed at Buncrana. One _ Affe bost with nine survivors reached mport, in the cotnty of Mayo, yes- The Rochester plied Between jmore and Britjsh ports. . 8he was d of CaBtain Erik Kokeritz d a crew of about 86 men. h ‘hester, formerly the Ya- ‘Sas built at Ecorse, Michigan, in m #he registered 2,651 tons gross Qfi ‘was 347, feet long. & R Am CROP HARVESTED. y expected that at the meeting | Municipal Farm committee to- s report will be made on the | It was expected to tp the work of digging the po- today and with sufficient help picked up and stored ‘of digging the potatoes ly have been flmshedl y hadynot the automatic dig: .y n pending repairs. INNER ON SUBMARINE 'od Skinner, son of -Mr. .4 3. Skinner; from Newport, R. L, G-3. a Wobmarin 4 student at ‘R. P. oke out. I ot Dson temporarily out of coromis- and who enlisted in Navy last July, has been to Mr. FOR TROLLEY POLE| IN SUNNY FRANCE| BY RUSSIAN DEVFLOPMENT |Gus Samlow Deis Comnctiont First Three Herus o Fall in JUSTICE M[’[fl] |][]'|‘ Co. Gang to Do Its Worst IN FRONT OF HIS -BLOCK Comedy Staged on Arch Street With Property Owner Principal in Cast— ‘War Declared Off When Remou- strant “Sets 'Em Up” for the Boys. Age may be tracing a frosty fresco on the temples of Gus H. Samlow of 391 Arch street; his step may be be- coming not 8o elastic as in years gone by; his voige, it is admitted, is not so mellifluous as it used to be, and his peregrination through life has put a slight stoop in his shoulders— ° But his spirit is good. ‘And thereby hangs a tale, a regular serial. A short time ago Councilman Muel- ler, who lives at .the cerner of Arch and Hart streets on property adjoin- ing that owhed by:Samlow, petitioned for the removal a few feet emst of a | trolley pale mm theé Arch street side/| of his ~Phe, “petition -was granted and a. crew of men employed | by the Connecticut Company advanced on the pole this morning for the pur- pose of carrying out the provisions of the petition. But they reckoned with- out their host, who appeared on the scene in the person of Gus Samlow. As the men unloaded their ‘en- trenching-tools a curious throng gath- ered and in a disinterested manner watched the proceedings, . A wrinkle appeared on Samlow’s brow and he hastened to take counsel with ' the chairman of his board .of strategy, “Charlie” Dehm. He explained that the removal of the pole would be a detriment to his property as it would be immediately in front of Dehm'’s grocery store, “in Samlow’s block. Dehm contributed a wrinkle in his forehead to keep company with that introduced by Samlow and they pro- ceeded to think hard. er several moments of intense cerebral activity, the two decided that the pole wasn't going to be moved. Not today, at any rate. Samlow ad- vanced in single file to the spot where the Connecticut company’s bafttalion was at work. “‘Gentlemen,” he safd, isn’t going to be moved. The men continued to dig, one of. them remarking that he thought he heard a voice. 41 say that pole isn't going to be moved,” Samlow shouted. “that pole rights. That pole will spoil my property.” The speech had little effect on the representdtives of the trolley trust, who were just getting warmed up to their work. “Well, I said it wasn't going to be moved and it isn’t going to be moved,” Samlow said, sotto voce. He followed ! his words by action. He went ‘“‘over e top” and jumped into the hole | that had been dug as a new resting plice for the pole, “Where did you get that stuff?” in- quired one of the workmen. “Oh, don’t mind me, boys, go right ahead,” Samlow replied. Nonplussed, the workmen | forced to drop their tools. Just about this time the secretary were ‘W. O’Connor, appeared on the scene: He made a number of valuable sug- gestions, hinting that it might be well for Samlow to send a note to the Connecticut Company threatening to | break off diplomatic relations. ! samlow wanted quick action so an to obtain an injunction restraining the Connecticut Company from placing the pole in front of Samlow’s block. By this time, a large crowd had gathered and Samlow entertained | them by making speeches. No law- yers were at home today and various J other expedients were resorted to. An attempt was made to reach Mayor Quigley, without success. tions from the crowd were numerous. Someone thought it ‘would be a good plan ‘to place the case before. The Hague. Another intimated that the official dog cutoim might be wmseful l (Cuntmucd on El%&nm l?m) S “I am a| citizen and a taxpayer and I know my-| of Samlow’s board of strategy, Tom | But | Sugges- | Battle Given Honor BUGLES BLOW, TAPS SOUNDED Impreasibe Scenes Maxk the Burial of t}:e ‘Youngsters Who Gave Their TAves 8o the World May Be Safe for Democracy. ‘With the American Army in France, Nov. 8.—The first three American sol- diers killed in the trenches in France are sleeping in French soil, honored by the American army and the people and army of France. Their final in- terment took place yesterday. ‘With a guard of French infantry- men in their picturesque uniforms of red and horizon blue standing on one side and a detachment of American soldiers on the other, the flag wrapped caskets were lowered into the grave ds a bugler blew taps and the bat- teries at the front fired minute guns. Am the guns.went off the French offi- cer nonmu.nmu the division in this section paid tribute to ~“the fallen Americans. His words, which were punctuated by the roar and the whistle of shells, touched both the French and Americans. In conclusion the officer said: “In the name of the —th division, in the name of the French army and in the name of France I bid farewell to Private Enright, Private Gresham and Private Hay of the American i “Of their own free will they had 1eft a prosperous and happy country | to come over here. They know war was continuing in Eurbpe, they knew that the forces fighting -for honor, love of justice and civilization were ( stil] checked by the long-prepared forces serving the powers of brutal domination, oppression and barbar- ity; they knew that efforts were still necessary. They wished to give us their generous hearts. and they have | not forgotten old historical memories, while others forget more, recent ones. “They ignored nothing of the cir- cumstances and nothing had been concealed from them-—neither the length and hardships of-‘war, nor the violence of battle, nor the dreadful- ness of new weapons, nor the perfidy of the foe. Nothing stopped them. They accepted the hard and strenuous life; they crossed the ocean at great ! peril; they took. their places on the front by our side and they have fallen facing the foe in a hard and des- perate hand-to-hand fight. Honor to them. Their families, friends and fellow citizens will be proud when they learn of their deaths. “Men, these graves, the first to be dug in our national soil and but a | short distance from the enemy, are as a mark of the mighty land we and our allies firmly cling to in e com- mon task, confirming the will of the people and the army of the United States to fight with us to a finish, ready ta sacrifice as long as is neces- sary until final victory for the most ' noble of causes, that of the liberty of nations, the weak as well as the mighty. Thus the deaths of these humble soldiers appear to us with extraordinary grandeur. “We will, therefore, ask that th mortal remains of these young men be left here, left with us forever. We inscribe on the tombs, {Here lie the | first soldiers of the Repgiblic of the United States to fal! on” the soil ‘of France for liberty and justice’ The passerby will stop and uncover his Travelers and men of heart { head. effort was made to secure a lawyer | will go out of their way to come here excitement wh to pay their respective tributes. Private Enright, Private Gresham, Private Hay, in the name of France, I thank you. God receive your souls. rst Unit Returns, The first American artillery unit to estublish contact with the *Germans came back to its billets yesterday. The men were tired and muddy, but still as enthusiastic a lot of soldiers as ever came out of gun pits. The artillery had a longer stay at the front than the infantry, and they back, men and horses, (Continugdon Seventh Page) of the guns | T0 ROWDY SOLDIERS Water!:ury Young Man Sel_\t to Federal Prison for Twenty Years. Ayer, Mass, Nov.- 8—Frank Keenan, a former prizefighter of Bridgeport, and Nicholas.Costello, of ‘Waterbury, membera of the drafted army at Camp Devens, today, were sentenced by a general court martial to ten and twenty years, respectively, in federal prisons for assaulting Carl E. Clark, of Waterbury, corporal of the guard on the night of October 13. The conviction of the men met with general approbation because of the brutal nature of the attack on the corporal, and Major-General Harry F. Hodges, commanding, issued orders that the sentence be read to every company at retreat tonight. General Hodges sald it was the first serious bredch of discipline here and he wanted it impressed upon the 35,000 soldlers at Camp Devens that ‘severe punishment would be dealt to all offenders in simlilar cases. Costello was ordered committed to the federal prison at Atlanta. Keenan came wet to the will be sent to the army prison on Governor’s Tsland. The court also ordered that the prisoners be dis- honorably. discharged from the army. Returning to camp late at night, Costello and Keenan were halted by Clark, who = was knocked down, clubbed -and rendered unconsclous.’ | When officers and men went to his as- sistance there was trouble in subdulng i the offenders, who were also convicted of insubordination. Both were mems- bers of Company H, 306th infantry. Clark was corporal of Company G, of the ame organization, | SUES RAILROAD FOR $10,060 | Andrew McGill, Driver of Deu'.ll Hack, Blames Railroad Employes for Ac- cident of December 9. Suit for $10,000 has been preferred | against the New Haven road by An- | drew McGill, driver of the funeral | hack which was struck at the Lake ! street crossing on December 9, 1916, resulting in the death of Michael J. | Claughessy and the serlous injury of two others. | " McGill, who was ‘on the driver's | seat when the inbound Boston ex- press crashed into the hack at 8:30 o’clock on the morning of December !9, claims to have been thrown many \teet and ag a result, he contends, he ! received injuries which have resulted in his being afflicted with an incur- able kidney ailment. In his claim McGill blames the rail- road for the entire accident, alleging , gross negligence. He says that the .gate tender neither lowered the gates nor gave a warning signal. He also blames the engine crew, alleging that the engineer neither slowed down on approaching the crossing nor sounded : his whistle. ',I' ! SUBMARINE 'SC i | Ofticers of Neatral Freight Steamer Thought Ship Would Be Hit. An Atlantic Port, Nov. 8.—Officers of a neutral freight steamer which arrived yesterday told today of a submarine scare which created much en the vessel was near- !ing port of an island on the Atlantic coast on Tuesday last, the lookout sighted a periscope. THe alarm was | given and life hoats were swung out. | But when the undersen boat came (o ! the surface a few minutes later, it w | Jearned that it was an American war i SCARE. | vessel. R s WEATHER Hartford, Nov. 8.—| for New Britain and Fair: continued cold and Friday. e orecast vicinity: tonight El_ltentg Diplomats at Wash- *'ington Shocked by News of Kerensky’s Overthrow by Radical Element. CIVIL WAR AHEAD VIEW IN U. S. CAPITAL | Deposed Premier May Move Pm- visional to _Mosoow ‘and Armed Clash Between Factions Is Anticipated—Ambassador Bakh- Government metoff Declares News Does Not Re- flect Real Attitude of People in His Country: ‘Washington, Nov. 8.—Kerensky’s fall and the collapse of his govern- the Maximalists who propose a separ- ate peace with Germany, is regarded | here as threatening Russia with the | eiyil-wap which all her tflend i perl to dee avoided. 77 v The state department,entirely with- | out advices of its wishing to own, was silent, avoid making any curately assessed on, the basis.of inti- | mate . reports . from Ambassador Francig at Petrograd. . The Russian. embassy, t00, preferred not to make.a statement. until later and until after there has been oppor- | tunity for communication with Am- bassader Bakhamteff who was travel- | ing in the south. The Entente embassies, realizing the developments. mean first of all, probably .a re-arrangement of their war plans, were shocked but not dis- heartened at what is considered a tri- umph of ganda. The general opinion here those in.'position to be best informed of - Russian affairs is that Kerensky and. his followers probably will at' once set up a new government at Moscow, leaving Petrograd to the Maximalists ,and those troops that | adhere to them. An armed clash is counted among the first probabilities | but it is said here that the greater part of the army is expected to re- main loyal to the Kerensky govern- ment . i Does Not Reflect Mind of People. | Memphis, Nov. “The intent and:; spirit of Russia as a whole should | in no way be judged by the news from Petrograd,” declared Boris A. Bakhmeteff, Russian ambassador to the United States, when shown Asso: ciated Press despatches relating t4" the reported overthrow of the Rus- sian_provisional . government. “Until just now I did not haye any | personal or official information ‘on the | subject,”” he said, “and therefore you cannot expect any official opinion.” “ g I AM A VOTER. { Women in New Yark Are Now Wear- ing These Buttons. éw._York, Nov. 8.—“I am a voter,” is the Jegend upon buttons which to- day adorn the coats of many women of New York, although as a matter of fact under the constitutional amend- ment carricd at Tuesday's election, they will not come into their political heritage until January 1, 1918. As 4 result of the adoption of the wofhen suffrage amendment, it is esti- mated, the state will gain at least one million new voters, 400,000 of them in New York city. On this basis it is calculated that there will be an In-. crease of about--60 per cent in the clection precinefs here. In 1916 the | clection expenges in New York were approximately. $1,600,000. With the j enfranchisement of women about §1,- 000,000 will be added to the cost of | cuch election, a¢cording to many estl- jmates. Prominent suffragists today predict- ed that the women would join the old parties in the state and scoffed at the suggestion that a weman’s party woulg be formed. Vi ment in Petrograd into the hands of | j o state- | ments until the situation could be ac- | insidious German propa- ! among | Cessation of Hostilities With Germany Wil S Be Among First Moves of Bolsheviki & HERALD “ADS” BETTER BUSINE Garrison at Capital Failed Premier at l London, Nov. 8 —The rison ,which made possible shed. i .ence and_ff. The pret ™ K A proclamation sent out through the wireless stations of the Russiin | government today, and picked up here, states that the garrison and | proletariat of Petrograd have deposed | the K asky government. The an news agency, whigh, ~|'ay reported”ast. RIgE, iwas: seised: the Maximallsts, sends the following | despatch from Petrograd, dated 9:50 lock last evening: ““The day brought certain changes in the general situation in the capital. | | The Maximilist movement made fresh 1;201 fairly appreciable progress, but ' | { i | disorders have taken place. “Towards 5 o’glock in the after- noon the military revolutionary com- { mittee of the Soldiers’ and Workmen’s Delegates issued a proclamation stat- ing that' Petrograd was in its hands, i thanks to the assistance of the garri- | son, which enabled the coup d’' etat to be brought about without blood- | shed. b “The proclamation -declares that the new government will propose an im- mediate and just peace, will hand the land to the peasants, and will summon the constituent assembly. ) | “Delegates from the three Cossack regiments quartered here.- declared they would not obey the provisional | government and would not mareh |.against the Soldiers’ and Workmen's Delegates, but that they were .pre- pared to maintain public order. “The Petrograd Council of Saldiers’ +and Workmen'’s delegates held a meet- ing this afternoon at which M. Trot- sky made his declaration that the government no longer existed, that, some of the ministers had been ar- rested and that the preliminary par- liament had been dissolved.” Disturber Lenine Cheered. A Wireless despatch from Petro- grad says that the Council of Soldiers’ and Workmen's delegates has an- Minute—Nicholai Lenine Latest Idol 5 Maximalists have’ obtain control of Petrograd and issued a proclamation saying | new government will propose immediate peace, the i official Russian news agency announces. The Maximalists were assisted by the:Petrograd. a coup d’etat without bl Leon;"l'rotzky, president of the central execu committee “6f the Petrograd Council of ' Soldiérs Workmen’s delegates, issued a declaration to the effe that the provisional government was no longer i ! ‘Fr:some of its members had been S\ parliament has been dissolved. nounced date was afterward de upon. The Maximalist, or. Bohhw;kt ment, compriges the most e class' of the soclalists. It. ter was put under the } visional government because { ultra-radical preachments an | suspected pro-German 'leantngw |is kno#n to have been in Petre .for some time past, however, government, order for his arrest fi to result in his apprehension. Trotzky Lived in United Sty Meanwhile the Maximalis .t under the leadership of hig lieutenant, Leon Trotzky," home was in the United ‘Sta the revolution broke out, by sailed for Russia shortly af{aew He was one of the leaders in {l | revolution. The strength of the Maximalisty lain in the support which th.x tained from the military, chi the Petrograd garrison. They ' , failed, however, to impress thelr | cies upon Russia as a whole,, been, shown by the manner in they 'were out-voted in all thi sian congresses and the minorfl they played in the organization of preliminary parliament, in whicht | refused to take part affer they 'shown to be out-numbered. . Ni theless, their: influence upon Ru policy, both internal and external, been marked beaause of:their pred inance in Petrograd, the of. ernment. It was this sialster in ence that in part prompted: t.he proposal by thq Kerensky, ment to rémove the capital a cow, where it was believed “the ernment would be freer to rej adequately the will of the wh e B pounced that the split in the ceuncil has been healed and that a call has been sent out for a delegate from ‘each” 25,000 of the population to ex- press the will of the Russian army. Nickolal Lenine, who received pro- ‘longed cheers, outlined three problems now before the Russian democracy. First, immediate conclusion of the war, for which purpose the new gav- ernment must propose an. armyistice to the belligerents; secord, the hand- ing over the land to ‘the Dpeasants; third, settlement of the economic crisis. “At the close of the sitting a dec- laration was read from the represen- tatives of the democratic minimalist’ party of the Soldiers’ and Workmen’s Delegates, stating that the party dis- approved of thé coup d’etat and with- drew from the council of Soldjers’ and ‘Workmen’s Delegates,” he said: An Exchange Telegraph despatch from Petrograd says a strong detach- { ment of troops of the Soldiers’ and.| ‘Workmen’s Delegates occupied the } Baltic railway station and that the government commandeered all motor cars, confining the troops to the bar- racks. It has been indicated for some time past that an attempt was to be made by the Maximalists in'Petrograd to seize control of the capital. Novem- ber 2 was the date originally set for an extremist demonstration which was expected by its promoters to result in the taking over-of power by this ele- ment. | | l A postponement to an unan- ‘| sian people. The Maximalists have worked fully through the Petrograd C Workmen’s and Soldiers’ ‘du 4 which was theirs absolutely. . Uh tain of their ground at first, they. fused months ago to assume resp! bility, although claiming the power dictate the government’s-polic: terly, however, they apparently been preparing to assert thelr auth ity. 'This was evidenced recei when they appointed a military e mittee to take charge of its on and ignore the government's au ity. Herensky Powerless. to Stem ‘Premier Kerensky seeminglyi' nized that the growing menace ti 4\ government was one that he cou cope with by drastic means, s ed as he was by military pow the hands of his opponents. only within the last.day op ti he has refused to declare the: viki“virtual .outlaws at the re the Cossacks, although assert! j\; government’ was taking all nu to deal with the threatcned uprisig Kerensky's task at the head of B provisional government since als sumption of the premiership on Jul 20 last, has been a formidable Halled as the saviour of Russia in of Provisional Govemment in Petrograd Throug ;iers--Feat Accomplished Without Bloodshed rrested hour of need, he labored with abill and patience to keep the diverse ments comprising the revalutios democracy together. Assailed one side by the clamors of th (Continued on Eleventh P