Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, September 8, 1916, Page 1

Novrwich Pualletin VOL. LVHL—NO. 217 POPULATION 28,219 NORWICH, C 0)" FRIDAY, SEPTEMBE! The Bulietin’s Girculation in Norwich is Double That of Any Other Papr & &&fl its il Total Girc ALLIES MAKING USE OF THEIR AIRSHIPS In Bombarding Points of Vantage Behind the German Lines in France VIOLENT ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT CONTINUED South of the Somme Heavy Shelling by the French Prevented the Germans Making Their Customary Counter-Attacks —The Germans Are Heavily Shelling the French in the Old First Line German Trenches Between the Vaux- Chapitre Region and the Town of Chenois—In Galicia the Russians Are Keeping Up Their Pressure Against the Austro-Germans Westward From the Region of Brzez- any and Halicz—The Rumanian Fortress of Turtukai Has Been Captured by the Germans and Bulgarians, Who Took More Than 20,060 Prisoners and 100 Guns. the Russians who barding Halicz, The infantry of the belligerents in the Somme region of France, was i now are & though in flames, the forces of the tive Thursday, except south of thel ,y'S i C Hie ATHL At river, where the French, to the east of | fending. Denlecourt, captured sections of | In Wedn, fighting in the Halicz trenches from the Germans and| secton and men of the brought forward their front more in | Teuton prisoner. alignment with thelr newly acquired | Both I F line running through Belloy-en-San- | between the terre and Berny-en-Santerre. rivers. The day, however, saw & continua- Likewise Vienna conc: 1 retreat tion of the violent bombardments | of the Austrian forces before the Ru which glways precede attempts at i h advances by the entente allies. ition great aerial activity was French aerial squadrons in ng points of vantage behind vas mac envelping movement. e [2 in th ame regicn the nians have oc Ruma- ried the Gyergyo-Di- me so violent was | ¢ fire that under It| were unable to te: srans ire of Turtukai fortress ans and Bulgarians took more 20,000 prisoners and more than , according to Berlin. st _says the fighting in is of great violence and that both sides have 1 the hapitre and o 1 losses on bheen town of Chenois, in the Verdun sector, | heavy which were taken by the French on| The Russians {n Turkish Armenis Wednesday night. near Ognott continue to drive the In Galicia the Rus: Turks from their strong mountain de- tively in quest of keeping ng to Petrograd and up their pressure a Austro- down a Turkish offen- Germans westward f he region of vest of ngan. On the Ma- Brzezany and Falicz. Near Brezezany | cedonian front and in the Austro- the Rusians have the | he fighting is still be- Teutons from for and nly by means of artitlery. advanced to the 1 4 ast Africa two addition- tributary of the G Kivinje and Kilwa Ki. nts b t some DC Near H aam, have endered to the Brit: FEDERATION OF LABOR FAVORS VOTES FOR WOMEN. Unfavorable to State and Nation-Wide Prohibition. HENRY FORD SUES CHICAGO TRIBUNE FOR $1,000,000 For an Editorial Which it is Charged Called Ford an Anarchist. Hartford Chicago, Sept. 7. for $1,000,000 necticut Fede! was filed by Henr: d, the Detroit manufacturer, against the Chicago Tribune in the United States district court here today. Mr. Ford asks for personal damages as compensation for posed to & an cditorial printed in the Tribune on The convention went on record as|June 23, which it charged called being opposed to state and nation- |Ford an “anarch wide prohibition. A resolution was| The bill charges that the Tribune adopted attacking the st to bring the plaintiff into partment ming as at present hatred, contempt, ridicule that the w injury,” by publishing k done was not and the practical. The appointment of a com- | editorial. in symrathy with the caus The editorial it is charged refer rzed. to Mr. Ford as “ignorant,” a “del hatters came up for discussion and unionists d to send. in contributions to the judsment recently im- ipreme court of the man being, enemy to ti him in his wealth.” 50 charged t would losc th to the border as mem tional guvard. of the na- ev drivers were pres- Sesolation. Zavoring he bonding ot| FORTY MONKEYS FOR ol il St ot ___VIVISECTION DIE FORESHADQWS A THRIFT Were ‘lif::fil:e:aI:z;;gisaxp:iv;gcnts in CAMPAIGN IN CANADA esl : 1 IConjunotion. Mith New War . Loan|[iah 00 oo (SERL) T—Forty, jof} ght from the Or veriments in government 1 oratori n connection with the fight against infantile paralysis have died, it hecame known here today, and ma for Government. ent for e: an for be made pub of the survivors are reported dving. navrood dad How many will be left to ship east the nouncement th could not be determine : eshacowed aj Offc! the monkers ancisco last Canada, cour he must riday n. re in prepared to find the m for muni- | good ¥ reached the 3 “uased here, just | temperate when cool breezes tates finds the money | set up p trouble in the mon- placed there, there being| keys' sensitive lungs. n between thel - = d the getting of | EP e oA that;BR‘DGE ORT B!l_Ll RD ROOM e in ment of KEEPER ASSAULTED nment loan Knocked Unconscious With a Ham- mer in the Hands of a Siranger. > pres SENATE APPROVES PURCHASE OF DANISH WEST INDIES.| ented Bridgeport, Conn.. Sept. 7.-—Alevan- ictor of 2 pool and Main street, k on the head with a ham- mer wielded by a stranger who w into the pool room about 11 o’ today. knocked unconscious aped as no one Lees Than Half a Dezen Voted Against It Senators 7.—The purchase fro: West In, at-the time. In ied by t the hospital, the no roll call and|ambulance was struck by a trolley dozen senators, in-|car but no one was injured. rris, Jones and Lo SHERIFF PUZZLED AS TO E PROGRESSIVES HOW TO SERVE SUMMONS TO REELECT WILSON |On Member of the Last House Who { H Jow i et Matthew Mzle of Boston, Chairman of | is Now in Prison Progressive National Committee. URGED MAIN Hartford, Sept. 7.—Sherif Pease of Fairfleld cpunty is at a loss to know Dover, ime, Scpt. T7.—Matthew [ how to serve on Representative Clitus Hale of Boston, acting chairman of | King of Stratford, a copy of the sum- the progressive national committee, in|mons of Gov. Holcomb to the caal an address here tonight, urged Maine |session of the general assembly on progressi ¥ 5 to help secure the re-clec* tlon of President Wiison by voting the democratic ticket at the state elec- «tion next Monday. Sept. 12. Mr. King was a member of the last house. He is now serving a term in state prison for embezzle- ment | Cabled Parag}apk Emporer William ind France. Paris, Sept. 7, 4:30 p. m.—Emperor William, according to La Liberte's correspondent at the front, is watch- ing in person the flerce struggle that is going on for the possessign of Com- bles. Petition 2 1-2 Miles Long. _London, Sept. 7.—The longest peti- tion ever presented to parliament ar- rived the other day from Ulster coun- ty, Ireland. It was 2 1-2 miles long and bore the signatures of 115,000 per— sons who asked for the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors for the term of the war and at least six months thereafter in Great Britain and Ireland. AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS CONSIDER BORDER MATTERS. Working for a Full Consideration of the Task Before Them. New London, Conn., Sept. 7.—While the American-Mexican commission to evolve a settlement of horder disputes Was not in session today, real progress was made by the American commis- sioners toward a full understanding of the task before them. The American ccmmigsioners spent several hours in studying data on ccnditions along the international line and in Mexico pro- vided by the Statc and war depert- ments. They also questioned at length Special Agent James Linn Rodgers, b}x}'ought north from Mexico City for tha purpose, and Stephen H. Bonsal, also attached t as to their per fairs beyond the At the conclusi the state department, al knowledge of af- order. m of the day of preparation for the resumption of the joint conference, Secretary Lane said American commissioners had found hopeful signs.. Conditions in Mexico, both economic and sociai, ap- pear to be on the mend, he said, and official reports to the state depart- mient ¥ out the views in this regard yesterday by the Mexican commissicners. “ During the day the joint commis- n received a Inessage from Pr son in answer to a despatch sent yesterday to TWashington ana Mexico City notifying prestdent and First Chief Carranza that the con- ferences had begun. An answer from General Carranza i later. The joint sessicns 11 be resumecd tomorrow, Luis ‘Cabrera, head of the Mexican commission, having returned tonight from RBoston, where he was alled vesterday on personal business, ssitating today’s adjournment. Secretary Lane will preside, in ac- cordance with the agrecment that the two comm! u chairmen alternate in directing joint n; HUGHES STANDS FOR THE PRINCIPLE OF REASON ne | Appeared Before Five Crowded Au- diences in Massachusetts, Hampshire and Maine. New Portland, Maine, Sept. 7.—Charles B Hughes told a New England audience today that he would rather stand for the principle of reason in legislation and go down to defeat than yield “one jot or tittle” of it and become presi- Jent of the United States, Before five crowd udiences in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Mzine the ncminee assailed the admin- istration vigorously for the enactment of the Adamson eight hour law. He ‘not an elght hour law,” but law,” said that it passed ededly in ignorance of the rted that while it had been ¢ favor that society favored hour day, soclety had noth- to do with the measure and de- a2 d emphatically that “that kind of rus in our life tion to d ster in the end.” called it a wage “confi Mr. Hughes' first appearance in New ! Mexico City —Tn_outlining England was marked by cheering | the policy of 0, one of the crowds, packed houses, from which | leading pew: of Mexico under | o S thrnad e rect demon- | 18 new m: =ment, Heriberto Par- | strafions and here in Portland tonight, | ¥, now its director, has made an ap- by an old-fashioned torchlight parade, | £°al to the press of the United with red fire blazing slong the w ntas and Cuba for cooperation in Much of the day was spent in motor | oTorts tc forster friendly relations & and the nomince reached this|omong those countries. Asserting he city travel-stained and weary to face | has no doubt of the good fair and hon- an audience in the city hall audito- | oTable infentions of President Wilson rium from which so many were turn- ed away than overflow of several thousand was formed outside, Along the half mile way from his hotel to the auditorium the crowds were so densely that locomotion on the s impossible for much of the distance. HIGHLY PRAISED BY KING CONSTANTINE Oftficers of Salonica. Division Who R fused to Join Revolt Commended. 7 Sept. 6, via London, Sept onstantine this morning re 150 officers of the Eleventh a n of the Greek army ationed at Salonica who had refused to join the rebels when a revolution broke out in the Salonica garrison on September 1. The king delivered an address con- atulating the officers on their a tion, ng in con: ted a brilliant page In military history and set a grcat example for coming genera- tion King Constantine said the offices stizmatized er: those, including the gen- s commanding the eventh div ion, who broke their cath. With such officers and men as those whom ke was addressing, the king said, he was ready to face any enemy. $3,000,000 FOR NICARAGUA UNDER THE NEW TREATY Is Provided For in the General De- ficiency Bill. Washington. Sept. 7.—The deficlency bill carrying $15,000,0 cluding_$3,000,000 for paying Nica gua under the new treaty for an inter= oceanic canal route and coaling base, finally was approved by senate and house tonight as it came from confer. ence. Among the items was one for the salary of George Rublee as a mem- ber of the federal trade commiszion for fifteen months between his nomin- tion and the senate action rejecting ft. general in- Opening of Amherst Postponed. Amberst, Mass,, Sept. 7.—The open- ing of Amherst college will be post- poned two weeks owing to the infan- tile paralySis situation, it was an- nounced {odey. Eentrance examina- tions will start October 5. Timothy Dwight Estate $367,420. New Hawen, Conn., Sept. 7.—Dr. Timothy Dwight, former head of Yale university, who died several months ago, left an estate of $367,420, accord- ing to the inventory filed in the pro- bate court today. yand provides .for .income, inheritance, {muniticns, stock, lquor and misce rternal | revenue {taxes. ! * would bring the na- | Congress Adjourns This Morning 12 HOURS TO ENGROSS EMERG- ENCY REVENUE BILL SINE DIE AT 10 A. M. At 1115 Last Night“t:e- House Unan- imously Adopted a Concurrent Res- olutien Providing for Adjournment of Congress. Washington, Sept. 7.—Congress will adjourn tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Aft- er nine months devoted to legislation, both houses held protracted sessions tonight to wind up their affairs by ap- proving their conference agreements on the emergency revenue bill to raise approximately $200,000,000 desired by the administration to mect the extra- ordinary appropriations for national defense and the Mexican emergency. Only the physical impossibility of engrossing the revenue measure _in time for the president’s approval be- fore tomorrow morning prevented fi- nal adjournment tonight, despite the protests of members of both houses who threatened, but did not execute the threats, to prolong the session by dergands for action on measures which were forced over until December. Leaders of the senate and ho#ise agreed upon a concurrent resolution to adjourn at 10 o'clock in the morning and scores of members left town on midnight trains eager to reach their homes for participation in the national political campaign, Last Appropriation Measure. The last appropriation measure, the genera deficiency bill, was adopted by both houses while waiting for the con- ference report on the revenue bill The corrupt practices bill to limit campaign expenditures and the immi- gration bill, which President Wilson had announced he would veto if pass ed, were put aside and will be taken up and pressed to a vote early in the December session. Gives Power to President. The revenue bill as it will go to President Wilson for approval to- morrow contains drastic provisions for cmpowering the president to retali- against foreign interference with an commerce, creates a nc isan tariff commission, increase the dutles on dyestuffs to encour: their manufacture in the United States, provides mezns to prevent dumping of cheap foreign made goods into American markets after the war Protest by Senator Chambeslain. { During consideration of the report {in the senate, Senator Chamberlain of jOregon, protested vigorously against elimination by the conference commit- tee of a retaliatory provision against | Canadfan control of Pacific coas |fisherles and Representative Gardner {of Massachusetts enlivened the house with bitter denunciation of the- retal atory provision against forsign inter- {ference with American commerce. FRIENDLY WORDS BY. MEXICAN NEWSPAPER Manager Appeals to Wilson to With- draw Soldiers. in regard to Mexico, he dent to withdraw mitive expedition, so that the n members of the joint com- on. now meeting a2t New London, n., will not be in the disadvanta- geous position of having to attempt a settlement of the differences between the United States with pistols at their breasts.” appealed to the Amer] Tt will be the policy of El Pueblo Senor Barron says, to convince foregn. ers that Mexico is friendly to for- eign capital. BRITISH MAKE AN AIR RAID AT EL ARISH | Bombs Dropped on Turkish Station H in Sinai Penisula. London, Sept. 7.—A raid by Bri aeroplanes on Turkish pos Arish, ish ons at Bl in the Sinal penisula, ninety miles east of the Suez canal, is report- od in the following statement given out here today: “On Tuesday two of our aeroplanes raided the Turkish aerodrome and the aerodrome repair section at El Arish. Twelve bombs were dropped, aparent- Iv with zood results. Enemy aero- planes attacked our machines, but did not close in, .only opening fire at long range They ultimately gave up the fight. Our machines returned undam- aged.” SENATOR JOHN HURLEY RENOMINATED IN WATERBURY Had a Plurality of 155 cratic Primaries. the Demo- Waterbury, Conn., Sept. 7.—Sena- tor John Hurlev, candidate for reelec- tion as senator from the sixteenth dis. trict. was renominated at the demo- cratic primaries here tonight, by a plurali of 1 He polled 691 votes to 53 r his nearest opponent, Pat- | rick G. Egan, Representative Jesse De- vine, the third candidate for the nom- ination received 301. This praetically assures the reelection of Senator Hur- ley to the legislature, as the majority in the sixteenth district is aver- whelmingly democratic. Hurley's greatest strength was in the fifth ward of the district, where he polled 423 votes. Movement of Steamships. New York, Sept. 7.—Sailed: Steamer Adriatie, Liverpool Bergen, Sept. 6.—Arrived: Steamer Kristianiafjord, New York. London, Sept. 4—Sailed: Steamer Ascania, Montreal. Live Sept. 6.—Salled: Steam Lapland. New or‘% > uiati | inite information reaching Berne, Switzerland, from Germany, says _al| dispatch to the Wireless Press, Dr.| Tethmann-Hollweg, the German R 8 1916 TEN PAGES—70 COLS. PRICE TWO CENTS on is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion to th Musterifig' Out of Guardsmen 15000 MEN TO LEAVE FEDERAL SERVICE ABOUT OTHER UNITS FOLLOW Order Construed by Some Officials As a Preliminary Move to the Recall of General Pershing’s Regulars From Mexico. Washington, Sept. 7.—Orders were issued by the war department today for the discharge from federai service as soon as practlcable of 12 national guard regiments, comprising about 15,- 000 men, recently withdrawn to their home states from the Mexican border, and a number of smaller organizations of some 1,500 college and universiiy students. Others to Leave Federal Service. Crders for mustering out of addi- tional units are expected to follow soon. The next regiment to leave the federal service will be the 14th New York infantry, now at camp near Fish- kill, N. Y., which will go as scon as its members are freed from danger of par- atypheld contagion. A number of ases of the disease already have been reported in that regiment and it will be held in camp as a matter of precau- tion uatil the infection has been eradi- cated. Surgeon General Gorgas sald today a vigorous campaign against the disease was being waged and that he expected to see it stamped out promptly. A special paratyphoid. serum is being manufactured and special precautions are being taken to pre- vent the infection from spreading. 40,000 in Mobilization Camps. There are about 40.000 still in state mobilization camps and these probably will be despatched to the border ve: oon to relieve men now serving there. Secretary Baker favors giving all thee state troops a chance for the training tc be acquired on_the patrol line. Today’s orders were construed by some officials as a preliminary move to the withdrawgl of General Pershing’s regulars from Mexico. Officers of the gereral staff insisted, however, that the release of the suardsmen resulted principally from the improving conditions on the bor- der. The original crder for all guardsmen the feneral service to move to the horder as possible, althouzh held in abevance by (eneral Funston's 3t, received by the department n the railrord strike was imminent has not been revoked. Secretary Paker is expected to 1ift the suspension and permit troops waiting in tion camps to move as soon as they are ready. Order Releasing College Men. The order releas the college men requires them to go to their home mobilization camps for mustering out and resuming their status in the state guards. It affects the following unit: Headquarters and supply companies and Batteries A, B, C, . of the Tenth Connecticut Field artillery (Yale bat- headquarters and supply com Machine Gun company, First infantry (Norwich college: v A, Colorado i (Col~ Schocl of Mines); Colorado Field artillery ricultural college): nois Field arti Batte First Minnesota illery (University of Minne sota): Battery A. Indiana Field arti lery (Purdue university): band, Sec- ond Tndiana infantry, nd Company I, First Indiana infantry (Indiana uni- ery. WHY GERMANY YIELDED TO THE UNITED STATES Value of Submarine Warfare Exag- gerated, Chancellor’s View. Tondon, Sept. 7.—According to def- imp al chancellor, upon being ques- at the August meeting of the council as to why he yielded the demands of the United States arding the unrestricted torpedoing on the high seas, reploed em- Iy that the value of the Sub- s exaggerated by the adher- T sholesale torpedoing. The chancellor said that insistence on an unrestricted submearine w fare would cause war between Ger- many and the United States. and that the results of unlimited torpedoing would not justify such a policy. Elab- orating this point, he is quoted as saving that Germany could not effec- tively tlockade England or cut off England’s food supplies. tiorpd federal to PATROLMAN SHOT DEAD AT MILFORD, MASS. While He Was Investigating the Cause of Revolver Shots. Milford, Mass., Sept. S.—Harry W. Butler, 48 vears old, a patrolman of the Milford police department, was shot dead early this morning while with another officer he was investigats~ ing the cause of revolver shots heard in the Bear Hill district. A man from across the street called out “What do you men want here?” and when the officers replied a shot fol- lowed that struck Butler in the face. Revolver shots in this locality have been heard frequently for the last five weeks. Shooting Proved Fatal. New Haven, Conn., Sept. 7—Daniel Kragnoski who was shot in the head and breast last Tuesday, died at the hospital today. Stephen Zebrosky, is Cor;iensed Telegrams The Kaiser has relieved General Damling from active command. Retail grocery clerks of New York and New Jersey went on strike. About 8,000 miners in southeastern Kansas coal fields went on strike. The expulsion of all German sub- jects from Athens will be completed today. The Kennecott copper production for the month of August was 10,200,000 pounds. About 150 workers in the Lorillard cigarette factory at Jersey City, went on strike. Fire destroyed the extreme southern portion of North Beach, L. I, at a loss of $40,000. Russel A. Cowles was elected presi- dent of the United Zinc ESmelting Corporation. Albert H. Gills was nominated by President Wilson as postmaster at Kansas City. The Senate voted to take up the Owen corrupt practcies act. The vote was 32 to 14 . Edward Johnston, postmaster _at Mammoth, Westmoreland County, Pa., committed suicide. There were twenty-two cases of in- fantile paralysis reported today to the state board of health m Barney, 23 years of age, of , dieq last night of infantile pa- , after a short illness. Nine deaths were reported militiamen on the Mexican during the week ended Sept. among border 2 ports the exports of cotton for the week ended Sept. 2, at 90,000 bales. Baron von Schenk, director of the German propaganda in Greece, will be permitted to leave Greece today. The Standard Oil Co., of New York, lowered the price of refined oil for export one-quarter of a cent a gallon. A wage increase of 15 per cent was granted to the employes of the 1'1“ national Copper Co. of Bayonne, Harry Blackman of CI was instantly killed by a t 0Old Town road cro: worth. Frederick T. Woodman, president of the Los Angeles Board of FHarbor Commissioners was elected Mayor of Los Angeles. Najib S. Maloof, of New York, died in the Tuxedo Hospital, at Tuxedo, Y., from injuries reeeived in an aw mobile accident. The Australian Government has purchased 15 tramp steamers to be operated under the title of Common- wealth Government Line. A visit by British warships to the Portuguese capital, as an appreciation for Portugal's intervention is recount- ed by the London Press Bureau. Casulty lists for the first two weeks of August show that the British army lost 600 officers killed, 1,102 wounded and 204 missing, a total of 2,508. The Belgian steamer Liberia, out- ward bound for Lisbon, Fortugal, was ordered back into port at quarantine by a government neutrality boat. The United States Government plans to purchase from Jamaica 500 mules and 200 horses annually for military purposes on the Canal Zone. Guglielmo Marcon inventor of wireless telegraphy, has been trans- ferred from the Italian engineer corps and appointed temporary captain of the navy. Prominent bankers have discredited the report from Mexico City that New York bankers were negotiating with representatives of Mexico for a $250,- 000,000 loan. Many colleges and universities were represented at the opening of the seventy-seventh annual convention of the Beta Theta Pi I ernity at Sara- toga Springs. The War Department has issued a call for civillan applicants for ap- pointment with rank of major to the officer’s reserve corps of the inspector general’'s office. Four men were severely burned in the United States Arsenal at New Jersey when a mixing machine caught fire and there was a flare-up and ight explosion. United States Senator La Follette and Governor Phillipp, conservative Republican, were renominated, accord- ing to incomplete returns from Wis- consin’s primary election. The public utilities commission held its first hearings at Hartford yester- day since the close of the ' vacation season. There were six petitions from the Connecticut company for censtruc- tion of trolley tracks. President Wilson last night signed the federal workmen's compensation act passed recently by congress, pro- viding relief for government employ- es injured at their work. Action by the American consul in Alexandria, Egypt, prevented the exe- cution of Henry Hoeicher on the charge of being a German spy. Hoe- lecher is an American citizen. The steamship Sophie Cooper ar- rived at Naples from New York. after experiencing a_ serious fire at sea which destroyed the greater part of her cargo of 21,000 bags of sugar. Mayors from all parts of the United States and from several Canadian ci- ties arrived at Newark, N. J., to ate under arrest, charged with the shoot- ing. Democratic State Headquarters New Haven, Conn., Sept. 7—Demo- cratic state headquarters will be opened in this city 6n Oct. 2' or soon after that date, it was stated here to- day. Wallingford.—Men at work at Lane’S pond reservoir unearthed an Indian arrow head now in the possession of Superintendent MacKenzie. This is the second one discovered there since the work on the new dam started. tend the twentieth annual convention of the League of American Municipal- itles. Congressman Thomas J. Scully of the Third New Jersey District re- ceived from President Wilson a check for $2,500. The money will be divided Dbetween the hospitals in Mogmouth county. Edward 8. Wortz, United States at- torney for northern Ohio at Cleve- land, was selected by President Wil- son for appointment as United States district judge of that district to suec- ceed Judge John H. Clarke. WAcs The Department of Commerce re-| e City’s Population Only Surface Lines G_rippled SUBWAY AND ELEVATED TRAINS RUNNING IN NEW YORK NOT EFFECTIVE Shonts Transportation Facilities of Police Protection STRIKE President Assures Normal Continued as Good as Yesterday New York, Sept. 7.—Subway and elevated transportation lines cn Man- hattan Island were being operated to- night on_what officials of the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Company said were virtually normal schedules, al- though it was admitted that service on the surface lines of the New York Railways Company was seriously af- fected by the traction strike czlied last night. Shonts Says Strike is a Failure. Officials of the Amalgamated A ciation of Street and Electric Railw Employes who are conducting the strike conceded that schednles on the subway and elevated lines were not seriously hampered, but reiterated | their determination to 7ht to the end and announced that vw®.=spread ef- forts would be made to induce strike- breakers and employes who have re- mained loyal to the company to quit their - posts. Theodore _P. bresident of the Interborough, statement late today in which he aid the strike was a failure and that {if police protection continued as good it has been throughout the day, the city was assured of normal transpor tation facilities. Several Arrests Made. Several arrests were made dnring the day, but disorders which occurred in various parts of the city resulted in only minor injuries to a few persons, according to police reports. The most serious disturbance occurred when a crowd of strikers surrounded two surface cars and hurled bricks and stones. Police reserves soon dispersed the strikers, however. In other cases bricks were thrown from roofs upon elevated trains and several attempts were made to “rush” station employes ! fromtheir posts. Surface Cars Ordered to Barns. Disruption of service on surface lines diverted much of this traffic to Aft- New the elevated and subway iines. er the evening rush hours the {York Railways Company ordered mosi {or its surface cars to the barms, d claring they would be taken out again in_the morning. i Mayor Mitchell arrived In the city tonight from-the Plattsburgh training camp and immedlately weat into con- ference with Police Commissioner Woods and other city officials. | GRENFEL MISSION SCHOONER RETURNS FROM THE ARCTIC With Some Members of the MacMillar Expedition. Battle Harbor, Labrador, Sept. The Grenfel Mission schooner George B. Clyett, which went to the relief of the Donald B. MacMillan Arctic ex- pedition in July, 1915, has returned here. Only Captain H. C. Pickles and | the crew are aboard, MacMillan, Dr. E. O. Hovey, who led the relief expedition, and other scientists of the party hav- ing elected to remain for a time in the northern part of Greenland. The MacMillan party wintered aboard the Cluett in Parker Snow bay, cast of Etah, and Captain Pickles re- | ports that on July 29, 1916, when the Cluett left North Star bay, Greenland, about 20 miles north of the expedi- {tion’s wwinter quarters, all the party were in 00d health and had an abun- dance of supplies. The MacMillan party were joined by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer, who has been engaged in that region in mapping cut the coast, and it is understood that they will return by way of Denmark. The Cluett was just able to get clear of her anchorage through a narrow lane of ice, and after four weeks of Dattling with heavy ice reached open water at a point about the latitude of urban harbor, 40 miles north of Cape Dyer. Throughout August fog and south- erly head winds prevailed. The hull of the Cluett on her arrival here appeared to be in good shape, In spite of the hard winter through whick she passed and her buffeting by the ice on her trip south. Her engine has Dbeen out of commission since last Oc- tober and her propeller shaft and rud- der _chains are broken. The crew seems to be in g00d health, @espite the shortage of food and othet hardships through which they passed. The winter's diet of salt horse and bread was varied by a supply of birde and sea plgeors. which were netted ir large numbevs, and whale, sea walrus and polar bear meat. WIDOWS OR VETERANS GET INCREASED PENSIONS $20 2 Month For All Who Have Reach- ed the Age of 70 Years. ‘Washington, Sept. 7—A bill giving to widows of officers or enlisted mer who served in the Civil or Mexicar wars and who have reached the age of seventy years pensions of $20 a month, instead of the present $12 a month, was passed today by the sen- ate. It already has passed the house ‘Widows of Civil War soldiers drop« ped because of marriage to anothey person are westored to the roll by the bill. Queen Wilhelmina Goes Submarine. Amsterdam, ept. 7, via London, 9:13 p. m.—Queen Wilhélmina of Holland has enjoyed the experience of a plunge under water in a submarine. The queen was pregent at the naval man- ceuvres yesterday, according to the Nieuws van Den Dag, aboard a sub- mariné which dived twice while Her Majesty was a passenger. e No Etectlom in Germany During Wan Amsterdmm, Sept. 7, via l.ondony 6:35 p. m.—The Taglische Rundschay announces that the German govern< ment has decided that there shall bg no general election during the wa The reichstag on reassembling, th pper adds, 'lllft- Down in