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—S=—— Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. WHITMAN DECLINES TQ LEAD THE FIGHT AGAINST TAMMANY +: )Organization’s Candidate, McCall, Praises Work Done by District- Attorney, and Declares Fusion - Attacks Upon Him “Asinine.” FUSION CAMP DISRUPTED, » LEANS NOW UPON MITCHEL Whitman Says Designation by Tam- many Proves That Entire Voting Body Is Back of Him. — District-Attorney Whitman, Fusion anti-Tammany candidate for Die- trigfeAttorney, accepted to-day Tammany's designation for the same office an@ won for himself high praise from Edward E. McCall, Tammany's oan- at for Mayor, Wiis S22 the goming campaign. He said in his formal statement that he considers the District-Attorney's office to be outside of politics and that his duty in to attend strictly to the prosecution of criminals, The Fusionists did not choose him to lead their cause as candidate for Mayor; therefore, in his Present position, he hag no political obligations, * Tammany Candidate McCall sald that Whitman is a great Distriet- Attorney and that criticisms of his course are asinine and ridiculons, His {udorsement by Tammany was a public testimonial. sald: “Vo the great nunvber of Wuuirersd Wao have asked me to tlon with regard to nie thy and Ws «aca BY SUFFRAGETTES: 2, Hi HEAD PUNCHED 1 have been @ st of Tam- ‘taracter [Premier Surprised by Two Mili- tants While He Is Playing Golf—Women Arrested. was pummelled by two suffragettes this atternoon while he waa Playing goit a Lossiemouth, Scotland, They knocked off his hat, beat him with their fists and whacked him over ; the head and shoulders with umbrellas. Both were arrested, ~ @TOOD READY TO LEAD BUT WAS NOT CHOSEN. “Mo organisation which has hom- ered me with its nomination for an- ether term for District-Attormey hould think it ungracious om my part to say that I stood ready to lead in & General assault on Tammany Mall if that service had been required. But it was not. -—_ SARATOGA WINNERS, “I do not question the wisdom of cap operas FIRST RACE—Violet May, 4 to those who, agreeing with me as to thele 40g gee; Delft, 9 Ap ily Ly desirability of defeat || gocond; Amy Time, third, Time, 1.08 1.8. that 1 should not leave iny pi 5 to undertake that other and ent work. I accepted their &nd have done the best I could to in- duce all my friends, and especially my perty friends, heartily to unite in the Fusion movement as !t has been latd out. I can withdraw nothing that I have sald publicly or privately in this regard. “If there is any man who can be in- sensible to the unprecedented honor that fae come to me and to my assistas.e in ithe District-Attorney’s office, he te com- ed of different material than I am. “This office has nothing whatever to with any kind of politics. It com- ras mo other thing than the prosecu- mm of criminal offenses, as defined in wtatutes. There is nothing for me fer from the situation, as it hae BACB—Hlla Bryson, and 8 to 6, fret; Donald MacDonald, 4 to & for place, second; Cslonel third. Time—1.39 3-5, Place, second; Leoohares, third. 1.18 ¢8, PIPTE BACB—Dr. Duenner, 8 to 6 and 1 to & first; Dad of Langdon, 5 to 1 for piace, second; Stentos, third, Time—1.40 3-8, SIXTH RACE—Forum, } to 3 and out, fret; Armament, 15 to 1 for place, second; Miss Cavanagh third. Time, 1,16 8-8, Se ES a eloped, than that the voting body of Wew York County, AMERICAN LEAGUE. represented by political parties, wit — me to continue im this office, ana to AT BOSTON. it, as Z have kept it, out of poll- 9 and make it, as J have always tried make it, the effective instrument of WASHINGTON— 00000000000-0 BOSTON— mpiic wit Y thelO 0000000 OM4-. 4 = Mattoriae—Joliumen acu Geta, Col {Continued in Beoond Page.) Ling end Carrigan. Coprriaht. 1918, by The Preen Publishing Ce. (The New York World). Mr. Whitman will not be the champion of the anti-Tammany cause in| In his statement accepting the designation by Tammany Mr. Whitman; “ ASQUITH ATTACKED LONDON, Aug. °8,—Premier Asquith | BATTLESHIP LOUISIANA AGROUND NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1918. _[ Cireutation Books Open to A.” | 16 PAGES = SD PRICE ONE OENT. AT HARBOR OF VERA CRUZ, MEXICO WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The battleship Louisiana is aground on Vera Cruz Harbor, Mexico ,according to a telegam peas by the Navy Department, from Rear-Admiral Fletcher, late this afternoon. RACE FOR THAW AGAINST JEROME | MADEINSEGRET jLawyer Rushes to Quebec With Strong Political Influence. (@pecial from a Gtaf Correspondent of ‘The Evening World.) SHERBROOKE, Quebec, - Aus. a~ Sherbrooke ie waiting eagerly for word trom Quebge. The-scene of Harry K.| Thaw's Aight to setain the liberty he won by his wild dash from Matteawan shifted thefe last night, but met until to-day did {t Gevelop that W. 7. Jerome and Louie St. Laurent were rivals in rece to reach Sir Lomer Gouin, Premier of ‘the Province ef Quebes, first. Mr. Jerome left lest night with Franklin’ Kennedy, Deputy Attorney~ | General of New York and Mr. Jerome's Anniatant.” He made no secret of his soing or the purpose of it. He meant | to ask Mp Lomer to exercise his right to Quah all proceedings here and 20 | free Thaw. Then the immigration off- | clale who are waiting here could grab him, give him @ perfunctory hearing and rush him across the frontier, Thaw's lawyers apparently paid no heed to this Information when it | reached them, and, ingly unmoved, | they watched Mr. Jerome and his oom- | panions ieave on the 6.6 train, But | with their departure there was instant action, Louls St. Laurent hurried to the home of @ prominent Liberal, out- lined the situation to him and got trom him @ letter to Sir Lomer, himself a Liberal, though the government of the Dominion is Conservative, ‘This letter advised Sir Lomer, in strong terme, of the political inadvisa- (Continued on Second Page.) N.H. & H. TRAIN HELO UP BY ACCIDENT One of the New York. New Haven and Hartford Company's fast trains bound for New York, due at Stamford at 361 o'clock this afternoon, did not reach that place until 4.90. The engine broke down at @ point naveral miles east of Stamford, but nobody was hurt. The train managed to crawl into Stamford, where a new engine was substituted for the disabled locomotive, oa FIVE AUTOISTS KILLED | Women in Party Who Meet Deaih in Collision at Railway Cross- ing in Pennsylvania. LANE, Pa, Aug. %.—A party of five tomobiliats from Girard, ©.. includ- Mra. Sarah A. Smith and Mrs. J. E. re killed to-day when ao Pe: Passenger train struck thelr machine at a grade crossing near here. ae JOHNSON SCORED VICTORY | AT TENNIS IN CANADA. NIAGARA-ON At the international tennis tourna- ment here to-day Johnaton of California | de: 1 Hodge of Buffalo, 8-4, 8-4 Whitney of Brookline beat Sherwell of Yoronto, 6, 6-4. Hodge played a | gieat game and kept Jonnaton busting [to win Sherwell piaved weil hi the amerben'a retire Wee too -atcurate WHEN TRAIN HIT GAR, |= E-UAKE, Ont, Aug. | | GIANTS LOSE 000 PHILADELPHIA 3.0 02 0200 Batteriee—Merquard and McLean; Seaton and Killifer, | AT PHILADELPHIA— 1001 BROOKLYN WINS 0 000 BOSTON 4T BROOKLYN— 400 1 Oo 1 aT NBW YORK— Oo 1 Batteries—Schults and Sweeney; Bender and Schang. BOSTONS COULDNT HIT NAP RUCKER The Louisiana is one of the battleships assigned to Mexl- can waters durina*the orisis attending the negotiations of for- mer Governor John Lind to Mexico City. No details of the Grounding have been submitted, but Rear Admiral Fletcher will ~TGANTS BEATEN =” BYPHLLIS IN "| AINE |L8ng Drives at Expense of Marquard and Crandall [) li ee | ; Perdue and Whaling. GIANTS. HIGHLANDERS LOSE TAs 00000 00 3 o- 3\etne eid Oo 200.02a4- 9g ceetpacnie ee CHANGEMEN EASY. [spe * © FOR ATHLETICS, bad] /WHENALLEN QUIT’ BENDERPIOHINGISSSS =: 194: nee; However, |Series of Goose Eggs Marked ita! na Dodger Batters, Gave Him Good Start Firat bese on balle-Of Marqnard, 3: off eaten, 8; off Crandall, % Streck Highlanders’ Efforts Up * cutaby Margearé, 9 by Ganson, tran With Four in First. Crandell, & Heme Run—Mages. Two- th to Eighth. tase bite-Ghafer, Mages (D, Luderua, — a Stolen bases—Dayle, Weikla playe-@nodgrass te Merkle to ROOK ee ak HIGHLANDERS, Doolan, Knabe to luderus, Um- mn, tf. 1 0t 6006 R H.PO. A. B,| piree- inan and Keson. Attend. Shaw, 3 o 17 60 hy ; H ‘ : f Collins, cf » t 0 2 v 0 @ The Brening World) Wheat, Ut + © 0 1 0 0 ‘ i ‘ ‘ . FR Rarionass LEAGUE PARK, PHIL- Daubert, . £ 2 89 @O 0 LA, Aug. 38.---With o chance Smithdd.s 1 2 0 2 Ft © 1 10 © 0) of sestng the Gtante put the Phillies Pisher,as....... 1 1 2 6 0 b 2 4 1 Olout of thetr misery or giving them « Milter, ¢ 0261 0 ; 1 @ 1 Sotignt ray of hope, something ike Allen ovveo oO 4 2 7 1 014,000 tens, tnoluding Jack Kerrie and Rucker, 0001 0 ; 4 H ‘ ©) Jonn Tonjes of New York, who filled — = me two of the lower boxes, came out pas- Torats. . 5 8 27 18 1) Caldwell. oooo timing this afternoon. BOSTON. Totale.......4.. 8 1 37 18 | numperiog thirtntwo men ts teks man R. H. PO, A. E | Caldwelt batted for Sobultse in etgnth.|in the assault. It was Tesreau's day orto ATHLETICS. to pitch, but at the last minute Mo- q . 4 i H RH “Po. a8 Graw ewitched the dope and sent Rube . H.PO. A. B.| Marquard to the mound. © 2 0 1. 2] Murphy, rf. oo 300 eeeee Dootn met this move by © 1 1 0 @|Oldring, it © 1 £ © @lcaiing on Beaton, one of the toughest | 1 2 § 0 0, Collins, 2b 1 1 © 2 O| Proposition the Giants have nad to 00030 Baker, 3b 1 1 2 2 | face all season. The fans here appear 0 2 3 0 ol Melnnis, Ib 2 2 8 © Q|t@ Bave conceded the pennant to the 0 1 2 2 0] Walshct,, 2 2 2 4 4 {tants but are watohing them closely, 0 0 0. 0 o|Barry, ss. 23 3 2 {ust the same, to ese what kind of « Griffithe 0 0 © 0 0) Schang, 196 2 iit ane seaawt Ue . . thietcs, Shh * = = = * Bender,p...... 0 8 1 4 I on ccroun of the gratiela being tn ‘otals eee “= —- == == (right here, urrey en urns swapped Raridan batted for Perdue in oth, | Totale.......... 9 14 27 13 2} positions ‘Meyers reported in Good | rimth ran fom jaridan im Sth. SUMMARY FOR RIGHT INNI eh and volunteered to go in if Me- d NINGS. | Firat Base on Balle-Off Alien, 1; off] First base on balle—Om Schulte, 9: pd ral ane maceaet Sosides | Perdue, %; of Mucker, 3 Struck Out~ of Bender, 3. Struck out—@y Schulte, ie eee Melaan es long as he was | By Allen, 2, by Perdue, 2; by Rucker, 1. " 3 |Home itun-vJ. Smith. Throe-Hane |:,0% Bender. 3. Two-bawe hite—Wol-|ruReT INNING—luma fouled to | Hite—J. Fisher, Cutehaw. stolen | {#7 Sehang, ender, Conk Stolen| Byrne. Shafer doubled to right and | Basee—Muranvilie, Moran , Daubert, basee—Oldring, Schans, Olli Com, scored on Fletsher's single to centre, i Plays r to ~ Dattani RUG Clittan tet Rake r UB aeh Westies Uatsrae Maen een hort: Maranville to Meyer Cutahaw to | Pires Attend: | ane catch of Muray'e line ance ‘Daubert; Smith to Cutshaw to Dauber:, | 4nce—5,000, on je SEY Hit by Pit@ler—-Maranville. O'Day to Emalie Uinpires— Attendance—d,00. Siectal ts The Evening World.) HBRETS FINLD, Brooklyn, NY, Aug %.-—The Hoston Bhaves, who have | heen ing winning ball for some time, me here to-day and begas series of three, games th the Dod, In the aonence of M Y whore wife im at death’ ‘ Weaiigued wa tou ren [Ss Shey, 397 see" ante Npecial to The Evening World) | Byrne walked POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK, Aug,, Paskert sacrificed Considering the poor showi the Highlanderg ne goed, they Knabe also strolled. Merkle to Dovie. of| Mawee hit one into the left held bleach [ere for @ home run, driving Myrne and Were Knube acrons the plate ahead é. 4 him ‘Continued on Tenth Page) Cravath filed to Burns, Luderun filed <oeneines to Bnodgrasm, Three Rune None Left SBCONDD INN and wan our ot Molaun tied \Conumues on teas Pome TRAY RRA! e Watane’ are Centra, apd “*, tid ahs) ines, Cosa ronmm for ‘s a nae -— arene gene SOOO IMPERATOR ON FIRE, OFFICER GIVES HIS LFE TOSAVE 3000 ABOARD Passengers in Panic When Stifling Smoke Invades Quarters, but All Are Safely Transferred to Hoboken Pier. SECOND OFFICER PERISHES IN GRIP OF SAFETY DOOR Ship Lists After Hold Is Filled With Water—May Be Able to Sail on Saturday. The Imperator of the Hamburg-American Line, lying et her dost at Hoboken with nearly 2,000 third class and steerage passengers and 1,126 In crew. aboard, caught fire at 3.30 o'clock this moming, and the blaze persisted for six hours despite the efforts of the ship snd dock fire fighting forces, the entire Fire Department of Hoboken and two firebostr from New York. Second Officer Otto Gobracht, thirty years old, whe was recently promoted to the Imperator because of bravery in 9 fire aboard the Fuerst Bismarck four months ago, lost his life Ike a hero fighting the fire. The officers of the ship did not summon outside aid until they found that the fire was beyond the control of the facilities at hand. Nearly 2,000,000 gallons of water were pumped into the hold of the vessel, and when the fire had finally been drowned out the water in ag after compartment in which the fire started was 35, feet deep. The third cabin and steerage passengers were rushed from the ship to the pier,as soon as the fire was discovered, In this work perfect disci: pline was maintained, although the rush and confusion brought about panicky conditions, All these passengers were transferred to Ellis Island before noon. « WATER MADE BIG LINER LIST. The volume of water poured inte the Imperetor caused her te list twice, fizet to port and then to starboard. Ae the water in her Gold was pumped out ebe righted. View Director J. P, Meyer of the Hamburg-American line visited the Imperator ai the fre was out and questiond the commander. He alsc made a brief Inspection of the afterpurt of the ship and then tesued ths following etatement: “A fire broke out in the provision room of the steamship Imperator at about 4 o'clock A. M. The fire was confined absolutely to the compart. ment where the provision rooms are situated and was under control after & few hours, No damage was done to the passenger accommodations except in some of the companionways of the second and third class through which the hose lines were laid, but this damage was of no consequence and can be repaired in a very short time “The ship to expected to sail on time on Saturday, Aug. 80, ané in the event of unforeseen diMfculties arising she will certainly be despatched not later than Sunday morning and will keep her schedule for future data: for Europe and New York. “Unfortunately the life of Second Officer Gobracht was lost. He forced his way below equipped with helmet and fire suit, but he was cut off and suffocated. The body has been recovered. He was not burned This is the most regrettable feature of this unfortunate ocourrence, bul & proof of the heroism of the German seaman. He was a most efficicat officer and has been in the company’s service for many years, His body will be eent to Europe for burial with appropriate honora, CITY FIREMEN SAVED THE SHIP. “This fre hee very clearly illustrated the wonderfal safety of ts compartment system and of the superior fre system installed on bean the Imperator. “We must also express our thanks to the fire departments of New York and Hoboken for their prompt response to the alarm seat out and for the very efficient services rendered. “The exact extent of the damage cannot be estimated until! the com: partment in which the fire occurred has been pumped out entirely, which will be in @ few hours, ‘ “The statement that there was @ panic among the steerage passengers aboard \s not correct. As soon as the fire was discovered they were aroused and left the ship in perfect order to the upper deck of Pier No, 1. “The further statement that two lives were lost and many were slighuy injured tn Incorrect, as the only death was that of the unfortunate second office: Doctors who were summoned to the fire stated that they worked tor |two hours over « seaman named Stumpf, who accompanied Second Officer Gouracht below and was almost trapped. Between fifteen and twenty men arg of the crow of the Lmperator and prectically all the members of the 4, ~ $