The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1912, Page 1

w , er mae Se Tuesday clearing; “ Circulation Books Open to All,” The C ae 3 BY an WAITS ONLY FOR SIGNAL FROM ENGINEERS LEAD Chief Stone Is Ready to Call 25,000 Men at Two Hours’ Notice. PRESIDENTS ARE CALLED Building and Are Given Few Hours’ Respite. ‘wero summoned into conference with the Board of Presidente, in Stone intended to refuse the demands of the engineers it was taken that the diMonities and averted the ‘Catcned strike. gineers to the conference committee of the Board of Railroad agers expired at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. of the Brotherhood, had warned the railroad representatives that acceptance of the engineers’ de sis was not in his hands by that negotiations we of the Brotherhood would de; rt immediately to their respective’ and upon two hours’ el on the fifty ratire east of Chicago and north of the will stop with the walking out of 5,00 engineers. 2 Stone counts upon thirty-six the time needed for the last Gele gate io for the strike, nd ¢ the anager: t with consequent nist nd Chief Warren §. Stone Heoth Covyetant. Fi ok The Pres Fubitshing ime of Armistice Passed, Grand QUICKLY AT LAST MINUTE. Meet Secretly in New York Central Tate this afternoon the members of the Railroad Board of Managers oMces of President W. CO. Brown of the New York Central. They brought with them the final answer to the demands of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tivo Engineers, which they had prepared for submission to Grand Chief After the boards had been closeted in joint conference for some time, @ hurry call was sent out for stenographers, and the news bebame known that the answer prepared by the Board of Managers had been changed. Since Mr. Stone had received positive information that the managers the ehange ordered by the presidents might indicate « favorable settlement of The armistice granted by the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- man- Chief ‘Warren §, Stone, if the hour, ld be consideve enced and the various committeemen entres of organization to av ihe strike call. Ae soon as the last organi has ree 1 not ex; ireNuntit June 1, and ported to Chief Stone his arrive! at his cons ib Hi ut iro: 2 ‘ei Ls hi tis one wi end out the call mt ami order, he Sere apes halite ond Rutland roads refused ative on the present tly will Brotherhood in- y after the present difficulty 1s of the hod sid to-day that if the en- is home, This means that the| rive ee F be ordered probably on; Sheers recetve another Mat refusal of Wednesday morning. the demands which they have made up- ‘At the last minute Defore the situation | @ the railroads as the result of to-day’ final meeting of the tee, within thirty con minutes the ol to-day the Board! ta of the fifty rail- | nted by ten pres- New York, passed beyond con’ of Railroad Presid roads involved, rep 1d whose offices are tn virtually took the decision of the } out of the hands of the Board of Mana- gers, Upon a hurried call from Prest- on their way! to thet strike order to leased within fort; 000 men will ight hot rence commit- repre- sentatives of the Brotherhood will be homes to organize e,| tnelr men for the strike and that the be re- dent W. C. Browno of the New York! |) 7He SAengere RAYS ROHAN sto. 18m Central these presidente met in the! to be an ef Stone aald. “If there ts board rooms of tho New York Central | any mediation through the United , ¢ 1 Central building, |Sttes Board of Mediation, t: is up to ne OF Wap phe geod pads to make the first move In Fogty-fourth street and Lexington ave- fia nae The armietice which was extended hough I. G, Ball, secretary to} by onder of Chief Stone of the Broth- President Brown, the newepaper | ! men with assurances that no such| (Gonung on ta eae meeting was planned, he waa inter- rupted by e@ appearance of P dent E. B. Thomas of the Lehigh Valley | FOR BOARDING | HOUSE JOYS. and President D. 0, Willard of the Baltimore and Oxjo, who hurried pas: | Keepers Organtse New Ansociation 4 dived Into the board room. mua Get a Mate Charter. effort wax made thereafter to ah ALBANY, / , cloak the whole proceedings in se i eadaae ateapact Asse Ala Among the presidents in attendance) 2oire [oeners’ | Aeacs inference were Fres.- dents Uncerwo of the Frie, Truesdu!e of the Lackawann, Mellen of the New York Central, New Haven and iHart- upon the secret encomage the Intellectual jof ite members and to ¢ |nent heada’ bi Rae of the Pennsylvania, It was re ported that Uniled States Labor Com- missioner Nelli and Judge Knapp of the Commerce Court were also called to the meeting, RUMORED THAT TAFT TRIED TO HEAD OFF STRIKE. | Te was rumored that Vresidont Taft | himaelf had sent poromptory orders to! the railroad prosilenta to pravont a} strike at any cost, bug ) Uke other) reports, could not be verified at oy oMalal quarter, Cpief Stone said this afternoon that two railroads in to east would not ba/ Affecied by (he wirtke, if a atria te) ontered, ae nye the Contral of New Jereey and (ie Vormont Central and{ Vatland ayetom, } The iret vod fad a 7 the Ceuwal of Now Jersey, ——~—_>__— WILL PAY $100 The Evening World will for one of the ohecks for {o row away from the sini yontract with be suid, improver perma. sera in the city of New : York, where lis inewoore may conven ford, Worthing of the Wheeling and hea 7 y “Lake Erle, Helecr of the Central of New | ree i yi bau via i ia i ‘ 1p al Jersey, Tomas of uno Lehigh and Mos | Wmmip an’ modal i man of @ board of five directors, FOR $25 CHECK. pay one hundred dollars ($100) five pounds said io have been pald by a mililonaira to crew of a4 half-filied lifeboat Kir Titainlo, (ror the Story see Page | ER NEW YORK, ‘MONDAY, APRIL 22, 500,000 PERSONS ABOUT NEW YORK FEAR ROAD TIE-UP Army of Daily Commuters Likely to Suffer Serious | Loss and Trouble. BUSINESS ALL ASKEW. | Lack of Accustomed Traffic Conditions be Sadly Tangle irs. The first, and perhaps the greatest ‘effect of the locomotive engineers’ strike, #0 far as New York and vicinity are con.| cerned, If it is called, will be felt by| the great army of commuters who will! awake Wednesday or Thursday morning to find that they cannot get from thelr suburban homes to their offices. From the minute that the strike call is sent out by Grand Chief Stone until the fight between engineers and railroads is ult!- mately settled, no less than 500,000 busl- ness men, to put it In round numbers, will fing the whule course of their lives thrown askew. ‘The effect upon business can only be imagined, How many business men will! be forced t leave their suburban homes immediately and take up temporary | quarters in'New York, and how many) will have to depend upom the overtaxed| electric lines radiating from the New| York and Jersey ra{iroad terminals can- not be guessed. TOTAL OF LOCAL COMMUTERS EASILY 500,000, The Evening World has collected in- formation for @ rough Aabulation of the number of commuters who will be af- fected by the strike, So far as the rai!- roads that are concerned could give estimates to-day, the following figures | show conservatively the whlespread havoc that the strike will bring about among the’commutery, the numbers car- ried by each railroad leading Into New | York, with the exception of the ten rafl- roads in New Jersey, whose totals are ed, helng given as follows: Ten roiiroads of Now Jersey 1,000 to 400,000 | w York Central.. se 82,500} . C, (larlem River Branch) 33,000 + 40,000 | + 20,000 | B. & 0, (Staten Island Rapid Transit) 2,600 | various. railroad the total number It wan wald at the offices to-day that of fully one-half of the commuters came from distances greater than fifteon miles from the railroad termini, and that this quota of the out-of-town army could not possibly find transportation on slow-go- Ing trolley lines, NEW JERSEY RIDERS AT MERCY OF TROLLEY CHANGES, The Montclair commuter, for example, | can now come from the station of his suburban home to downtown New York in twenty-five minutes. It will take him an hour and a@ half to get by trolley, with all the requisite changes, cnly so inal Building, itve| Long Isiand commuters who veyoud Jamatea will find it a day's work to get to thar offices, On the north Nine that terminates at Oy- ster Bay there are 1 alley facilities, | On the {sland and south shove linvs racks stop comparatively few All of the shore the commuting miles cast of Jamaica. towns 80 popular for wi beat provided w to get into close commun wi 8 Of! Her own wishas wil be consulied as f au the co the Mackay tt and the victims that th 1 we » Where she wil stay, but it ls under how far those Cetails, Ine i.easuwe di to be nob 4 im od the vill vecupy Col. Astor jt a by the transier of now many bodies were non sre pee Whe iat sn house he with the son, Vincent, shipment to Halifax, but it le presumed’ marked by & monumt Amt agen oted an a ey she number was small in view of the STEAMER REPORTS SEEING) (jut sire, Madeleine Force Astor will, phrase “ail not embalmed.’ | MANY BODIES IN WATER. in meantime, be taken to the Astor BALL GAMES OFF, FOG DELAYS NEWS FROM THE) None of the names of the dead whose try place, Ihtaeclift MACKAY-BENNETT, bodies have been recovered have been There ts #ait no re ent on The sume achecuted for to- day at d Ml received in New York, That there are! the part of th Wife agalnat the t unde between ¢ many corpses afloat in the vicinity of | childish second e, and | not ims Piiladelphia |yunic in the wea at 8 o'clock last nis. the disaster shown by ¥ ss mes. able t rr mn wet in the} Notion was postponed on account of | x9 yw: 1 to the shore ages from the steambip Bremen, Capt, | most friendly way after a time wet grounds, ce, = Mes Prage which read abled of sympathy from Wot grounda caused the postponome ow the be steamer b men, bound ew Mrs. Ava Willing Astor has already ‘of tho Boston-Brooktyn game, echodu erad heavy toa |York, and the steamer §1u 1 been received hy Mra, Madeleine Morce for Washington Park this afternoon, ed on the Way on Saturday afsernoon north Ast An ginent was at PHILADULPITA, Of the wreck. jatitude and 49.20 west | ade the once retur The report yorhood of three large icebergs, More interested in © Astor'é will ho Maokuy- lahted aumerous even than fina les iy the Mou! four bodies was doubtless based upon and @ great number of hunan bodies ilundred, The olonel’s matrimonial | | picked up vy steamships as) with aervers on fcating tg the ventures, particularly his recent mar: | 4 and spoke the cable riage to Miss Madeline «has \iding Ti y-Bennet: on the way to jan insatiable curiosity among | ys esen, Bye with w the floating bod! | Mes Yoru Hew. The Bromen ‘a due here to-morrow, | (Comtinued on Fourta Page) Mackay Bennett. ractically ‘he same situation will face | was caused by the necessity of re K the commuters who Ive in the Or the message from silp to ship before it There are, roughly, 100,000 © could be sent to sho H Oranges and Montelair., t from Latitude 41. zen are dependent upon the railroad| urged by relauve Vice-President lent of White ‘Star Who Was on the Stand To-D WITH 50 OF TITANIC DEAD SHIP SEARCHES FOR MORE Delayéd Message From Mackay-Bennett Says! Bodies Not Embalmed Were Buried at Sea. s From information at hand from the cable steamship Mackay-Bennett, which went out from Halifax with undertakers, embalming fluid, coftins and ice, under charter to the White Star Line, to gather bodies of victims of the Titanic disaster, the prospect of bringing any considerable number | of corpses of the drowned to land is small indeed. far as the Park street terminal of the] The following wireless mesraxe, f- pleked up only fifty bodies up to yeater Hudson tunnels tn Newark, and then he}celved at noon to-day at the offices of afternoon and the work had would have to spend twenty minutes |the White Star Line, was sent y ved because of hea « more before he got to the Hudson Ter-| afternoon by the commander vening World has bom ‘The delay in delivery 1, reads “Heavy southwest swells ave in- i tate warrant terfering with operations, Fifty rvation while others are not bodies recovered. All not em- 1!! the bodies have been tn t balmed will be buried at sea at 3 FP. M. with divine service. Can only line corps Mackay-B aring fo The ho went down with the 7 to 1912, 1, 10 SPEND MILLION | IN SEARCH OF SEAS FOR ASTOR’ BODY Son Gives Gp Heb Up Hope Colonel | Lives and Plans to Send Expedition. iMRS, ASTOR SEES NO ONE She Is Unable to Tell Even Her Family Horror of Her Experience. Vincent Astor, son of Col. John Jacob Astor, told an Evening Workl reporter to-day that Mrs, Madeleine Force Astor, his young stepmother, was In such con- dition that she had not been able to tell even to him and members of the Force family any details of her ordeal on the sinking Titanic, detailed manufactured reports of her story in geome morning newspapers notwithstanding, Mrs. Astor is awaiting the birth of « new heir to the Astor estate., Her ex- hauetion and her grief together have complicated her naturally delicate con- dition, For this reason, physiciane in attendance on her have forbidden any one to ask her any questions or to al- low her voluntarily to talk about the wreck of the Titanic, Vincent Astor admitted to-day for the first time since the sinking of the great ship that he had lost all hope of seeing hia father alive, The time in which eur- vivors afloat on wreckage might keep up @ spark of life has long since ex- Dired. Every ship that passed over the floes of broken ice bearing bodies of the dead on the face of the sea has been heard from. ‘Mr, Astor did not know to-day wheth- er he would send an expedition out from Halifax to search for his father’s body. Such an expedition will probably be yet to be worked out. WILL SPEND A MILLION TQ FIND ASTOR’S BODY. At the offices of the Astor estate there was intense activity tn making ar- rangements, While no reward has been fered for the recovery of Col, Astdr’ ¥, it is Known that a million dol . will be freely spent in an effort to find it, The size of the reward for the dis- covery of the body by outsiders may be \‘suessed at from this information. The managers of the estate have been in con jon with ine engineers and have retained several to go with the Xpedition, «| Brom those in the confidence of young Mr, Astor afd from the mana- wers of the estate, 1t was learned that the hurried trip of Col, Astor, which} ed him to engage passage om the . Was due to his desire to make # in bis will in anticipation of vith of his new heir, # contin. the ney of which he had been made cer- Me had already prepared a wiil jwhick covered the fact of his marriage Madeleiny Morce, But for some * | reason ne d to’ make Himore de n of the Jestace whic hild. th was to go to the expected New York of ‘Mrs, », whe divorced Col. ¢ Murlet | coming to Hing wlieve partitioning it afte sons why tn purpo disposing | ri tune that the heirs} did all be in this country, MRS. AVA WILLING ASTOR WILL VISIT HER SON. ' Ava ng Aa s expecte 18 PAGES went, but the details of the plans are| Hast Monday that all |firmed rumors, {morning and afternoon WHITE STAR > TURNED DO Eee ISMAY ORDER TO CEDRIG EDITION. PRICE ONE OENT. FRANKLIN BLOCKED PLAN OF ISMAY FOR FLIGHT ON THE CEDRIC White Star Vice-President on the Stand in Senate Inquiry Makes Public His Wireless Refus- ing to Hold the Cedric. “DIDN'T INTEND TO SPIRIT CREW AWAY,” HE SAYS. “We Based Our First Hopeful Bulle-\. tins on Rumors,” He Explains; “Got News of Sinking at 620 P.M.” WASHINGTON, April 22.—The wireless messages from J. Bruce Ismay which were intercepted by the United States Government and caused the Senate Committee to hurry to New York and begin its in- quiry into the Titanic disaster, were placed in evidence to-day when the investigation was resumed. ‘These messages were put before the Come mittee by P. A. S. Franklin, Vice-President of the International Mercantile Marine, the first witness called to-day: Ismay had called upon Franklin to detain the Cedric—scheduled to sail Thursday—until Ismay arrived on the Carpathia, so he and the Titanic's crew could return in her, Mr. Franklin made public his despatch declining to hold the Cedric and said, as every one knew, she had sailed at noon Thursday. ‘ Mr, Frarktin denied that the White Star company had any Meation to spirit away from the country any Titanic officers or crew, or that the plans to return the survivors of the crew were prompted by any desire to suppress the facts, He said that nothing that the officers Oy crew could tell could atiect what might be told by surviving passengers. All during the hearing the committee room was in confusion. The hubbub was so great, that Chairman Smith said even members of the Committee could not hear portions of the testimony. Scores of society women nearly fought with deputies to hold advane tageous seats and many brought lunches, refusing to leave their places, When the doors were reopened after the recess Committee officials almost had to fight to prevent the Committee members’ chairs being appropriated. Women mobbed J. Bruce Ismay in the committee room when he entered and left. They rushed in a human maelstrom about. Ismay, crushing and pushing him and themselves. ASKS ABOUT FALSE REPORTS. Senator Smith, who questioned the witnesses hére, as he did in New York, attemptes! to get an explanation of the false reports sent out he Titanie’s passengers had been saved. He asked Mr. Franklin whether he or any other White Star official had sent the reassuring telegram to Representative Hughes of West Wirginia that the Titanic was proceeding to Halifax and “all were saved” on Monday affer- noon—at a time hours after fifteen hundred lives had been swallowed up in the icy waters off Cape Race, Mr, Franklin declared they had not, “We have a big lot of employees in our office,” he added.’ “It might have been that some one of the juniors who were answering tele |phones might have given out that information. But certainly none of the oliicers did, It is possible that such a telegram was sent from our office, but I did not know anything about it. It was unauthorized.” ADMITS REPORTS HAD NO BASI: Mr. Franklin insisted that he did not hear the Titanic had sunk until Monday evening, but he admitted there was no authority, save uncon any of the reassuring statements given out Monday fo The witness read from a great sheaf of wireless telegrams received Monday morning. None of them contained any information of value, but it was upon this data that the line issued its statements in an efe fort to reassure inquirers, When the news of the sinking came, he sald, he sent immediately for the reporters and proceeded to begin reading to them the Marconigram from the Carpathia giving the news in considera 1, “1 began to read,” said Mr, Franklin, anic went down this morn. jing at 2.20 A, M.’ and then [looked up, ‘There was not a reporter in the jroom, They were all racing for ‘phones to get the news out to the world.” GREAT CROWDS AT THE HEARING, The inquiry christened the luxurious caucus room of the Senate, res garded as perhaps the handsomest legislative hearing room in the world, In its centre sat the sub-committee with William Alden Smith of Mighie x ; LER Ret q