Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 5, 1916, Page 1

Norwich - Bualletin VOL. LVIIL.—NO. 160 POPULATIC! ‘@d’ 2,219 NORWICH, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1916 TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS The Bulletin’s Circulation in Norwich is Do & «hat of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proporticn to the City’s Population FRENCH ADVANCIN TOWARD PERONNE Have Straightened Line by Capturing Barleuy, Belloy- en-Senterer and Estrees [ONLY SLIGHT PROGRESS MADE ON BRITISH LINES Germans Have Not Permitted the Battle of the Somme to In- terfere With Their Verdun Operations—The Thiaumont Work Has Fallen to the Teutons for the Fourth Time on a Massed Attack Following a Violent Bombardment-— The Russians and Italians Are Lending All Their Strength to the Combined Blow Against the Central Powers. region, have Belloy-en-Santerer front toward Peronne. At E fighting is still going on furi On the British end of the slight progress has been made at some ay that points. Unofficial despatches s the entire British front of ninety miles is bearing its full share of the battle, but it is towards the south that the heaviest fighting is under way. A high British officer is authority for the statement that artillery prep- aration will precede all furather in- fant; determination and fighting qualitie of the Germans, as well as the power of their defenses, are well recognized. Although the French are making a sfady advance in the Somme sector dithout apparently heavy casualties and now face an easier task, accord- ing to expert opinion, to reach their objective, the river itself, the Verdun army is enzaged in particularly heavy fighting, the Germans not having p mitted the battle of the Somme to in- terfere with their operations for the capture of the great fortress. Oa the Verdun front the Germans have taken the Thiaumont work for the fourth time, after # terrific bombardment and by massed attack. Around this work, which has been the center of trocps, co-operating in the Somme river htened their line somewhat by the capture of Barleux, id Estrees and are advancing on a considerably wider trees, where 500 prisoners were taken the desperate attacks and counter attacks, for many day thousands of men which is essential carrying their advance nearer to Ver- dunitself, and to the F their resistance to the Germans and Italians are lend- ing all their strength to the combined Bucharest reports gnificant move- na, and entered garian territory sian front engagements of the severest Russians, driving north from Kolomea, v attacks, as the resourcefulness, | miles and are threatening to outflank General Bothmer’s army and the Aus- tro-German ment prove may have to successful, ‘all back on ans report the capture of many guns and more various secto: eastern front. official communications with respect to the battles along the Austro-Italian front give on idea of the situation as that issued by the Italian war indicates that the artillery and infan- of a continuous The Austrian office 1s silent regarding the operations against the Italians. desperate na THREE YEARS PENAL SERVITUDE FCR GERMAN SPY LINCOLN. Judge Dealt With Him as a Man Con- victed of Forgery. London, July 4, 5.36 p. m—A sen- tence of three years' penal servitude was today imposed upon Ignatius Tri- bich Lincoln, the self-styled German spy who recertly confessed to for: at his preliminary hearing on that charge. A verdict of guilty was found ags Lircoln immediately after the jur ceived the case. The summing up took less than a half hour. Lincoln was sentenced to three days on each of twc charges of forgery, the terms to run concurrently. In summing up, the judge said he was dealing with the prisoner simply as a man convicted of forgery, whose conduct was the more dangerous be- cause he was well educated. No one in court would have heard anything in regard to other aspects of his case, the court said, if the prisoner had not al- luded to them RAIN INTERFERED WITH PROGRAM IN BOSTON. Prevented Open Air Presentation of Scenes from Shakespeare’s Plays. Boston, July 4.—Rain intefered the Fourth of July programme in t city today. It kept celebrators indoors and largely prevented the open air presentation of scenes from Shake- spearc's plays which were to have been given by 1,200 amateur and sssional players in various Some of the scenes were siven between showers. Most of the sporting events were called off. The display of fireworks was_curtailed partly by the rain and partly by the decision of Mayor Cur- ley to use a portion of the fireworks appropriation for the relief of families of militiamen zent to the Mexican bor- Ger. FOUR STATES PAY MORE THAN $85,000,000 IN INCOME TAXES. Connecticut and Rhede Island Paid $1,692,183 Corporation and $2,132,886 Individual, Washington, July 4—Four states, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Massachusett more than 385,000, 000 of the $124, 5 in income turned in to the national treasury dur- ing fiscal year 1916, which ended June 30. A table issued today by Sec- retary McAdoo of payments by nal revenue d shows that York alone paid 345,230,679 and the greatest percentage of inc which raised t from the eignt millions collected last year came from the four stat aded by New York. Connecticut and Rhode Island paid $1,692.183 corporation and $2,132,866 in- dividual. PREMATURE EXPLOSION ON CRU!SER BOSTON. V. D. Burnell, Coxswain, Killed, and L. Blom, Blacksmith, Injured. Portland, Ore, Ju D. Bur- nell, ain of the cruiser Eoston, was killed. and L. Blom, blacksmith, was injured today by the premature explosion of a six-pound shell while a salute was being fired in ceic of the Fourth of July. The explosion on the Boston occurred just as the h and last shell was being fired. According to members of the cre e primer stuck out too far and was struck by the bridze which was’ being raised to a_position |against the shell. Before the block could be closed the explosion occurred, reaking the shell guard. ration ORDERS TO GEN. PERSHING TO REMAIN UNCHANGED. Movemert Toward the Border itary Reasons. ‘Washington, Ju contingerts ational guard pidly as they complete to General he went into The withdrawal of border, while mobilization and the o ico, will stand. the expedition toward the As his force now ing is believed ble position to guard disposed, Pe: the best pc s and defend himself i of an attack behind him. YACHT IROLITA WON RACE FOR PURITAN CUP, The Chief Event of the Eastern Yacht Club Regatta. Marblehead, . speedy sloop Irolita, owned by E. Wal- ter Clark ot the race for the Puritz event of the Eastern Yacht club regat- In a light easterly wind, with mist and showers, she slipped over of more than Philadelpkia, today won _The Squab had a compa victory over wana in the r atively easy ce of the New York The big sloop Shimna, owned schooner Timandia, owned b, Fallon of Bos winners in the L and E cla In class P, closely contes ass events. ted race of the day, de- and Ahmil RHODE ISLAND GUARDSMEN DETRAINED AT KANSAS CITY. Men Took a Swim in One of the Mu- nicipal Pools. mtinued to pass through Kan- guardsmen en route to border s The officers and Rhode Island Light Field artillc h for a swim one of the gade, New Y. LADY SYBIL GREY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED While With the British Red Cross at the Russian Front. 11.35 a. m. formerly governor was seriously wounded while with Reuter dispatch from ing hand grenade practice, a was thrown throuzh a v near which < splinter penetrated her left chee ndow shelter $4,000 Fire on Skunk Farm. nsted, Conn., and two barns on the skunk farm 4.—The house skunk and sheep buildings _were 000, partiali ve started in one Cabled Paragraphs Rumanians Sieze Austrian Cars. London, July 4, 9.10 a. m—The Ru- manian government seized 230 cars and six locomotives belonging to Aus- tro-Hungarian railways which were sent into Rumania while the Russtans were advancing in BuKowina, says a Reuter despatch from Bucharest. All exportation to Bulgaria has been sus- pended. PARKER WOULD PERPETUATE THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY Asks Fellow Partisans to Continue to Fight for Their Honest Convictions New Orleans, La., July 4—1In a tele- gram sent today to the Third district congressional committee of the pro- gressive party in Louisiana, John M. Parker, the progressive vice presiden- tial nominee, urged the progressives to continue the fight against the dem- ocrats and to stand by thir convie- tions “unterrified by desertion and fearless of any opposition.” “We should demand immediate res: ignation of those endorsing parties, he said, “should strictly adhere to our principles and ask support and co- operation of all parties working for national good and human welfare, We are not seeking to get into the band wagon. Our principles are either right or wrong, and as long as we firmly believe we are right, let us continue the fight for our honest convictions, unterrified by desertion and fearless of any opposition.” Asked if this telegram indicated he would not support either the repub- lican or democratic nominees for pres- ident, but would insist on the pro- gressives koeping a ticket in the field, Mr. Parker said he “presumed it did” and that he would have a definite statement on the subject within a few days. MEN AND WOMEN IN PARADE AT NEWPORT Civic Societies and Clergy Marched With Army and Navy Men. Newport, R. I, July 4—Men and women of the summer colony, civic societies and the clergy joined repre- sentat of the army and navy to- day in a Fourth of July parade in which the display of American flags was the chief feature. With the e: ception of the armed forces. every pa- rader of the thousands in line carried a flaz and the march was through streets liberally bedecked also with the national emblem Governor Beeckman and _ Mayor Boyle led the civic dicision, while the women’s division was commanded by Mrs. Beeckman, wife of the governor, with Mrs. French Vanderbilt, Ors. Whitman, wife of Governor Whitman of New York, Mrs. Bradford Norman, and Mrs. John Nicholas Brown among her aides In the reviewing stand were Rear Admiral Stephen B, WS N (retired): Rear Admiral Austia M Knight, president of the Naval War CTollege, and Colonel Asa Bird Gardi- ner, president of the Rhode Island So- ciety of the Cincinnati. After the parade, Henry Clews of New York, who is president of the American ~Peace and Arbitration League, delivered an_ oration in which he advocated complete preparedness for national defense. NEW YORK GUARDSMEN CAPABLE AND EFFICIENT Depot Quartermaster for Brownsville District So Reports. Brownsville, Texas, July 4—Captain Alfred Alce depot quartermaster for the Brownsville division, who has been making an inspection of the New York national gunard, today reported to General :r that the orzanization now in camp is “a capable, efficient and well equipped body of men.” The guardsmen, Captain Alce said, have taken to camp life under war time conditions mer that indicates careful and intelligent training The squadron of the lllinois cavalry ompanied by its machine gun company, reached here at noon. After leaving San Antonio the train made the runs h all lights out and all bridges were inspected. General Alfredo Ricant, command- ing the Mexican forces at Matamoros today issued orders stopping all travel from Mexico into Brownsville except between 9 a. m. and sundown. No reason was given. There has hereto- fore been no restriction on travel the border. CARRANZA’S FORMAL REPLY IS NOW IN WASHINGTON Will be Presented to Secretary Lans- ing Today by Mexican Ambassador hington, July 4—General Car- ran! formal reply to the two sharp notes he has receive from the Wash- ington government regarding the sit- uation on the border and in northern Mexico was at the Mexican embassy here tonight awaiting presentation to- morrow to Secretary Lansing by Eli- seo Arredondo, ambassador-designate. It arrived by telegraph early in the day and only the fact that the Fourth of July was being celebrated by all government departments prevented its immediate delivery. A verbal synop- sis of the communication made public Wa iby embassy attaches with the appro- 1 of Mr. Arredondo, indicates that it of an unexpectedly _conciliatory character. The ambassador himseif spent the day in the country and on his return excused himself from any as_now officially stated. Lacking the text of the note, it was impossible tonight to say whether it 1ld prove satisfactory to President 21,000,000 ABLE BODIED MEN OF MILITARY AGE. Census Bureau Estimate of Number in the United States. Washington, July 4—A census bu- reau table estimate sthe number of able hodied men of military age in the United States at about 21,000,000 men. The imate is based on the as- sumption that there has been an in- crease of 19 per cent. in the population since 1910, when the total male popu- lation of 18 years and under 46 was 19.183,000. Of this number, 14,224,000 were native whites, 2,857,000 were for- eign born whites who had become nat- uralized, 2,052,000 were negroes and 50,000 were In Heavy Fighting Against Villa Men. Chihuahua OTity, ex., July 4.—Gen- eral Ignacio Ramos today telegraphed Gener Treviro from Corralitos that heavy fighting against Villa men near of the barns where some children had Leen playing with firecrackers. +Corralitas was still in progress, with god results so far. discussion of his zovernment’s attitude a Labor Temple NEW HOME OF AMERICAN FED- ERATION OF LABOR. ADVISES CALM COUNSEL The President’s Address Was Inter- rupted Twice by a Hoydenish Sug- fragist Who Was Finally Removed by the Police. ‘Washington, July 4.—President Wil- son today dedicated “to common coun- cil and a common understanding” a labor temple erected here as the new home of the American Federation of Labor. He told a large audience gath- ered at the dedicatory exercises that the greatest barrier to industrial peace had been the difficulty of insuring can- did and dispassionate conference, and that “‘getting our fighting blood up” was “the long way and not the short way” of securing rights. Heckled by Suffragist. The president's address was inter- rupted by a woman suffragist who sought to heckle him regarding his opposition to a national suffrage amendment. She was silenced by cret service men and finally taken away by the police. The Congression- al Union announced tonight that the cffort was but the first step in a new campaign to impress democratic Jead- ers with the advisability of pa the amendment at thi gres o Plea For Calm Counsel. Mr. Wilson’s plea for calm counsel brought repeated applause from the crowd, who apparently interpreted it as having an indirect be g on the Mexican cr The president, how- ever, did not refer to Mexico or any other foreign coun by name. Advises Patience and Candor. “The way we generally strive for rights,” he said, by getting our fighting blood up. and I venture to s: that it is the long way and not the short. If you come at me with your fists doubled, I think I can promise you that mine will double as fast as vours; but if you come at m and say ‘Let us sit down and take counsel! to- gether and if we differ with one an- other, nderstand why it is that we| differ, just what the poi are we presently will find not so far part after a o are the points in which we differ and the points on which we ag are many, and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the desire get togetl we will get togeth- First Interruption. The president had scarcely begun to peak when the st int me. The questione Mi; Vernon, of the Woman's F uption s Mabel rty. standing onlv a few feet from him when he declared that in his position he was not permitted to think of any one class of persons, she shouted If you truly desire to serve all classes, why do vou block the nation- al suff amendment now before congres country - ur million women in this Silenced By Secret Service Men. he Whits, House sc srvice men made their way to Miss Vernon and quickly silenced her. She tried un- successfully to induce them to eje from the crowd. When she sought to interrupt few minutes’ 1 led her away frc She was not arre President Paid No Heed. The president the president, a city police r's stand pparently was un- disturbed by the incident. He paused upon the first question and turned to look at Miss Vernon. who stood wi Miss Alice Paul and Miss M Younger, members of the Congres al Union. but he paid no heed to the second interruption Nothing that the presider aroused such enthusiasm as his pr | of tha ction of the Clayton act de- claring that labor is not a commodi- ty. Treats of Clayton Act. “T am sorry.” he said. “that th were any judges in the United States who had to be told that. Tt is so ob- vious tha it seems to me that sec- tion of the Clavton act were a return to the primer of human liberty: but if judges have to have the primer open- before them I was wi ing to open Flag Should Recall Duty. Referring to the display of American flags carried by the union workers in a parade which he had reviewed. as part of the exercises, the president de- clared the flag alwavs should recall America’s duty in serving the world. “America,” he said, “did not come into existence to malke one more great nation in the family of nations, to show its strength and to exercise mas- tery. America opened her doors to evervbody who wanted to he free and to have the same opportunity that ev- erybody else had to make the most of his faculties and his opportunities and ‘America will retain its greatness only so long ins and seeks to realize those id No man_ ought to suffer injustice in America. No man ought in America fail to sec the d tate of humani Mrs. Wilson Present. Mrs. Wilson, Vice President Mar- shall and several members of the cab- inet attended the exercises. Secre- tary Wilson of the labor department, was master of ceremonies. President Gompers of the federation, who intro- duced President Wilson, started a pro- longed demostration by making an appeal for support of the president, “in peace or war.” VOLCANO STROMBOLI HAS BECOME ERUPTIVE Tugboats Are Beina Rushed There to Save the Inhabitants. Messina, Sicily, Jul p. m.—The volcano Stromboli has been in eruption since last night. Tugboats are being rushed to the neighborhood to save the inhabitants. 4, via Rome, 4 Stromboli is on one of the Lihari islands off the north coast of Sici The volcano has been active for th greater part of 2,000 vears. It broke into violent eruption last November but subsided without causing any loss of life. | with p | ceived Wilson Dedicates |Conn. Troops Are in Quarantine SMALLPOX CASE IN SECOND BAT- TALION OF SECOND INFANTRY. DEVELOPED AT NIANTIC Train Was Fired Upon and the Engi- neer Wounded—Garriso nat Nogales Now Numbers About Six Thousand Men. Nogales, Ariz., July 4—The seconfl battalion of the Second Connecticut in- fantry was placed in_quarantine upon its arrival herce early today becanuse of the presence of a case of suspected smallpox which developed shortly after the train left Niantic, Conn. Waterbury Man Sick. The sick man, Corporal Mathon, H company, of Waterbury, Conn., was not put off the train when he first became ill because it was thought he was suffering from chickenpox. Garrison of 6,000 Men. ‘With the arrival today of the last of the Connecticut infantry, consisting of the second battalion of the First and Second reziments, the garrison here now numbers about 6,000 men. Train Fired Upon. A steel jacketed bullet, found in a ir occupied by a Second regiment company, led to the belief that it had been fired by a sniper. The engineer of the train, who became unconsecious in his seat as the train was approach- ing Lordsburg. was found to have been wounded on the back of the neck. One of the enlisted men of E company, himself a locomotive engineer, took charge of the train and brought it to Lordsburg Movement of Carranza Soldiers. A report reached here today from Mexico to the effect that 3,000 Carran- a soldiers were moving north from Ma. miles south of Nogales. SUFFRAGIST THREATENS OPPOSITION TO PRESIDENT If He Does Not Urge Congress to Pass Equal Suffrage Amendment. Washington, July 4—Mrs. Frank L. Moran, a \Washington suffragist, paid Pre dent on an unexpected visit yesterday warned him that if he did not e passage by congress of an cqual suffrage amendment every ef- fort wouid be made to induce the four million women voters in the United 5 to oppose him in the coming mpaign. Mrs. Moran had no appointment at the White House, but went in with a delegation of the Woman's National Democratic lcazue, headed by Mrs. William A. Cullop of Indiana, calling to pledge the president the support of their organization and tell him of its 1,000 contribution to his campaign fund. Mrs. Moran, who w: not a member of the delezation, interrupted to say she came as an envoy of the suffra- and delivered her warning. A dent’s invitation she remained the subjest further when CAUSED $20,000 FIRE. Storehouse of the Star Ice Company, Meriden, Destroyed. Meriden, C. 4—A skyrocket is eaid to have been the cause of a 000 fire, starting about 8 o’clock tr evening, which destroyed the storehouse of the Star Ice company. The building was about three-quarters filled w a Hart h ice which had been sold to rd concern. and was covered | by insurance, while the building is a total los: While the structure is situated out- de the city limits, an engine was t out from here and with two lines hose the firemen succeeded in sav- ing the boiler house and machines valued at $1,000. The fire spread rap- idly and the biaze illuminated the sky £0 that it could be seen for man around and burned until afte COUNTRY’S PRODUCTION OF LEAD AND ZINC ORES Greater During First Half of 1916 Than Any Previous Six Months. ington, July 4 —Prelimin; compiled by - the geological indicate that the country's pro- @uction of lead and zinc ores during the first half of 1916 f of any previous six months period. The output of zine is estimated in a survey statement tonizht at 25 to 30 per cent. greater than that of the same months last year. Shipments of sphalerite concentrates from the Jop- lin district alone amounted to 180,000 tons, compared with 296,000 tons dur- ing the entire twelve months of 1915. Unsold stocks of zinc concentrates in June were larger than usual, but lead concentrates were in unusual demand ces almost double the average for 1915. REQUESTS FOR A NEW PROGRESSIVE CONVENTION Received by John M. Parker, Nominee for Vice President. r exceeded that New Orleans, La., July 4.—John M. Parker, progressive nominee for vice president, replied last night to a tele- gram from Atlanta progressives sug- gesting that he call a new national convention to complete the party's ticket by declaring that he had no power to call such a meeting. He stated in his reply that he had re- svera! similar requests fram other states. TWO CHILDREN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT. Machine Became Stalled and Was Struck by a Trolley Car. Dighton, Mass., July 4.—Miss Ella Coyle of Taunton and Harold S. Perry, 6 years old, of this town, were killed, and Richard Perry, aged 4, was seri- ously injured today when Miss Coyle's automobile, in which they were riding, became stalled and was struck by a troliey car. Lawrence Claire, who was cranking the machine, escaped injury. dalena and Imuris to a point 20| Condensed Telegrams William Barden of Springfield, Mass., who was injured in,an automo- bile accident in Waterbury, June 27, died at St. Mary’s hospital. The twenty-seventh annual conven- tion of the American Association of Instructors for the Blind opened at Halifax, N. 8. Arthur Yager, governor of Porto Rico, arrived in New York from San Juan. He is in the United States on official business. There are four states, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois where the men of military age numbers more than 1,000,000. The British steamship Moeris, 3,09 tons gross, has been sunk. No infor- mation has been received regarding the fate of the crew. Russian torpedo boats destroyed 54 enemy sailing vessels in the Black Sea near the Anatolian coast, on June 29, says an official statement. Scalpers, dealing in commutation tickets, have cost the New York Cen- tral Railroad an average of $100,000 a year on four of its divisions. William Meldendorf, 67 years old, died at a New Haven hospital today as a result of a fall from a trolley car during the afternoon. Records kept at the Tuskegee In-| stitute show that three were twenty- five lynchings in the United States during the first six months of this vear. The Twenty-third Infantry of the New York national guard with head- quarters in Brooklyn, left Jersey City last night over the Frie Railroad for the Mexican border. Civil and military authorities at El Paso began making arrangements for a memorial service and a military fu- neral for the American soldiers who fell at Carrizal. A squad of Colorado Guard which crossed the border into Mexico and had gone more than a block into the Sonora town, was escorted to the line by a Mexican patrol. Two thousand Connecticut infantry settled themselves in camp at XNo- gales yesterday and celebrated the Fourth along with the other newly ar- rived state troop Battery F of Stamford, Tenth Mili- tia Field Artiliery, left the state range at FEast Haven, where it has been en- camped for some time for Tobyhanna, Pa., shortly after midnight. An average of from gour to six of- icers of each regiment of the ra- tional guard in the Department of the East have been rejeted for border service by the government. The Interstate commerce commission extended until Junary, 1917, a former postponement of proposed increases in freight rates on wool and rice from California to E tern points. The customs bureau of the treasury department began an amination to learn the total amount of arms and ammunition that has been exported to Mexico within the last year. Mrs. J. C. Pridgen, whose husband, a New Orleans newspaper cor ondent, is reported missing in Matamoras in Houston to get in touch w American militar: authorities Brownsville. Lieut. Col. Edward L. Munson and Majors R. B. Miller and William X. Bishpham of the Army Medical Co left Washington or San Antonio to take charge of sanitary organization along the border. Plans for the forthcoming trip to the Pacific Coast engaged the attention of Charles E. Hughes yesterday. The re- publican presidential 1¢ e pects to prepare in advance most the ten or twelve speeches. Five hundred public school boys from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania mobilized at Fort Ham- ilton for military manouevres. began ning under the direction of the Na- ssociation. t tional school Cam: David Daggett, secretary of the New Haven water company and an alum- nus of Yale, Class of ‘79, died of heart trouble at his desk. Mr. Daggett w one of the Yale men entrusted with the task of building the Yale bowl. Lieut. Col. Charles P. Hunt, om- manding the 1,164 men of the First Infantry regiment, Pennsylvania Na- tional uard, when it reahed Kansas City, appealed to Mavor George H. Edwards to supply his men with food. Custom house statistics for the cal year ended June 30, show that e: port from the port of Philadelpaia reached an aggregate value of $193.- ,680, or more than triple the amount reported for the previous year. During the civil war, when the pop- ulation of the country of the seceding states was less than one-fourth as great as the total present population, the number of men in service in the Northern Army at one time or another, was 2,500,000. The importation of large quantities of arms and the toleration of drilling by large bodies of men, first in Ulster and then in_other districts, the report vs, created conditions which render- ed possible te recent trobules In Dub- lin and elsewere. The Southern Pacific company’s steamer Comus, in port at New York from New Orleans, sighted two whales Thursday 20 miles south of Cape Hat- teras. According to the captain a water spout passed close to the vessel and only by a quick change in course was danger averted. Chaiman Shafroth of the Senate committee submitted a_ favorable re- port on the House a bill to extend Porto Rico self-government and grant American citizenship to residents of the island. Fire in the Cleveland block, Win- sted. a_three story business and tene- ment structure in the husiness section of the borough, caused damage esti- mated at about $5,000 last night. The fire started from an unknown cause. Two young women and a youna man who went canoeing on the Sound from East River, Madison, yesterday afternoon, were reported Jmissing to- night and fears for their safety are feit. The young women are emplov- ed as malds at residences in East River and the young man was a _chautfeur. | aay, introduced him and the villager An Epidemic of Infantile Paralysis IN THE FIVE BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK. REPORT 191 NEW CASES More Than 100 Persons, Two Adults Among Them, Have Died of the Dis- ease Since June 26—Fathers Are Sending Families Out of Town. New York, July 4—Twenty-six children have died from the epidemic of infantile paralysis in the five bor- oughs of New York within the last 24 hours, according to an announce- ment made today by Dr. Haven Emer- son, health commissioner. In Brook- Iyn’alone, 191 new cases were reported for observation. Thirty Extra Medical Inspectors. Thirty extra medical inspectors were summoned at noon and sent out to investigate reports of additional cases. More than 100 persons, among them two adults, now have died of the dis- gase since ‘the epideric began on June Fathers Sending Families Out of Town Many fathers were sending their families out of town today to stay until the epidemic has been checked. ACTION TAKEN BY CTHICAGO HEALTH AUTHORITIES Send Physicians to Meet Incoming Trains from New York. Chicago, July 4.—Chicago health horities decided today to send phy- ans to meet incoming trains from York to learn if mothers are leaving that city in large numbers and bringing their children here, as reported, due to their fear of the epi- demic of infantile paralysis. If the epidemic gro in~ New York, all t\ins from that city will be met here by health officers. GREATER NEW YORK HAD SANE FOURTH Pageants, llluminations, Music and Patriotic Addresses Instead of Noise New York, July 4—The five bor- oughs of Greater New York conducted today what was designed to be the anest” celebration of Independence 2y in the history of the city. geants, illuminations, music, patrio addresses, took the place of noise excitement. The use of explosive was alm eliminated and late to- ht not a serious accident had been reported. Loss from fire was trifling. The display of flags never was larger >ction of the ci ges from President Wlison and Governor Whitman, transscribed into electric hts, flashed tonight in prominent places. “We should be guided not only in our demceratic policy but in our deal- ings with foreign nations, great and small, by our enthusiasm, for those things which inspir the fathers of the republic,” d the president in his Fourth o message to the city. It is estimated that 55,000,000 can- dle power was used tonight to illumi- nate the historic spots and public places where meetings were held. A gigantic American flag outlined in electric lights, blazed atop the city ireworks played no part in the observance. 1. day ROOSEVELT ADDRESSED HIS FELLOW VILLAGERS Told Them He Preferred War to the Peace We Are Now Having With Mexico. er Bay, N. Y., 4.—Theodore Roosevelt, addres: v rs at a Fourth of July celebration today for the first time in sev- vears, asserted that he preferred to the peace that the United States is at present having with Mex- ico. . He added that in the event of actual declaration of war and a call for v unteers he would give his home folk the first opportunity to join with him in proffering their services to the gov ernment. Colonel Roosevelt declared, however, that he would rally around him the gle men and those without fami lies dependent upon them rather than choose promiiscuously from all classes of men as in the case of the nati guardsmen now called to the border. The former president did not expect to make a speech, but Frederick R. Coudert, who was the orator of the would not rest until Colonel Roosevel ha daddressed them. The speech was very brief. He carefully refrained from mentioning the presidential cam- paign and reference to the Mexican sitnation and the possibility of a call for volunteers only in a casual way. Cclonel Roosevelt reviewed a parade of the villagers ,headed by Maurice E. Townsend, with whom he went to school as a boy. FULLY 13000 WERE IN BRIDGEPORT PARADE Estimated That 75000 Spectators Stood Along the Line of March. Bridgeport, Conn., July 4—Fully 14,000 men and women, representing all walks of life and practically every nationality, joined here today in the largest Independence Day parade that the city has ever witnessed. It is es- timated that 75000 spectators stood along the line of march, cheering and waving flags as the marchers passed. The exercises were held at Seaside Park, at which Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent, spoke for over an hour on the question of preparedness. CHINA NEGOTIATING FOR A NEW LOAN IN THIS COUNTRY Matter Discussed Recently in Offices of J. P. Morgan & Co. _\'sw%’nrfi, July 4.—Negotiations between Chinese government and New ¥ork king institutions for a new Chinese loan have been going on for several-weeks, although at last re- ports the arrangements had not been definitely concluded, The loan was discussed recently at a _meeting of bankers at the offices of J. P, Morgan and Company.