The evening world. Newspaper, August 11, 1914, Page 3

“@f you whould ask me to eell you @ barrel of granulated war 1 @ouldn't do it. We haven't a whole ‘Darrel in our warghouses. The most I could possibly sell would be twenty- five pounds.” This was the statement made to- Gay at the Fifth avenue establish. ment of one of the largest grocery firms in this city. “Furthermore,” the clerk continned, “we are under orders not to sell cer- tain imported gooda to dealers at all and to refer all orders of cane lots to the warehouse.” There could scarcely be a more guecinct commentary upon the pre- vailing condition of the food market at this time. Prices are ekipping up- ‘ward almost hourly. ‘The price of sugar has advanced in every grade. Grocers have very little om hand and refineries are not making Geliveries promptly. Standard granu- Yated sugar is $5.55 per hundred pounds; cut sugar is $6.40 and pow- @ered is $5.60. This price will be ad- vanced within a short time, It is sald. At retail, coffee is two cehts a pound higher and ts booked for another rise. Meats went up another peg to-day. ‘There was an advance of a cent and } @ haif in the wholesale price, and consumers must bear a burden of from 3-13 to 4 cents a pound. Although Pork dropped 50 cents a hundred pound for hogs a week ago, to-day it Tose to $1, a net advance of 50 centa. Hams are 11-2 cents higher and bacon fe 13-4 cents up. Loin of pork is from 3 to 4 cents higher. Butchers ook for an advance of,nearly 4 cents fm the wholesale prices all along the Une before the end of this month. In the cuts the householder buys it fe necessary for the butchers to keep changing their prices. Porterhouse teak is 42 cents a pound to- Roasts aro 28 cents and upward, and chops bring anything a butcher wants to charge for them. One big uptown butcher refuses to sell chops to any eave his regular customers. ‘The price of chickens remains prac- tieally unchanged, but there is a Glight advance of the price of butter and egss. For @ reason the grocer could not explain, yellow and white cornmeal, each a domestic product, have gone up 60 cents a barrel to the dealer. This “> means only a trifling increase to the but one that will be felt has been qa RITISH WARSHIP MAY HAVE BEEN INPAGIFIC OCEAN Wreckage Indicates That a German Cruiser Has Won Sea Fight. @AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.—That } @ British warship was torn to pieces eam «=o by _an explosion off the California |G} coast i» the conviction of persons ( who to-day carefully examined the floateam cast up on the beach here, Bolts and fittings were not only PME, torn away but in one instance the , \: brags runner on a sliding door had been twisted into a tangled knot. An fron reinforcement two inches wide by a quarter inch thick bad been @napped in two. fe a loguards. giationed near_where Business Talks No. 17 Aroin high pricest ‘The war scare is driving the cost of @ertain commod:ties high, ‘Af least that is what some people say, But forget that idea entirely, of i Just read World Ads. and see! ‘They vill shor you that positions are plentiful, workers are ready to do and dare, homes of the most desirable kind ave waiting for desirable tenants ai hand, Investments of the safe and profit- : are within your easy reach, pa Se ve more want-fil week, month id, Times, Sun and ETHER. .| of domestic wines which are as good— OOD STUFFS RISE RAPIDLY IN PRICE AS WAR GUTS OFF ~ SUPPLIES FROM ALL EUROPE Sugar, Meal, Sardines, Jams and Many Other Staples Have Advanced and Warehouses Have Short Stocks on Hand. ' | | | | | added to the normal price of flour! and housewives to-day have to pay | 97.25 @ barrel for it instead of $8. | Sardines have gone up four cents! & can to 42 cents, Marmalades and some of the imported jams are selling at an advance of from five to seven cents a jar. Orders for case lots of | Sardines or jams are unfilled until | tho warehouse van determine whether the supply will warrant such @ sale. Imported salt has risen from 15 to 18 cents for three-pound jars, Vermi- celli, maccuront and spaghetti have. advanced from 12 to 14 cents a pack-| age. The latest increase in the cost of! wines will probably hold for a week, but after that the cost will be ad-| vanced. Champagne ts now $6 a case higher than two weeks ago. The man who buys champagne must pay from $5.60 to $6 a quart for it. There is an increane of 15 per cent. in the prices of still red and white wines. Imported ginger ale, sarsa-, parilias and sodas are & to 15 per cent. higher. Mineral waters are! from 50 cents to $1 a case higher | Scotch whiskeys have advanced $1 a| case, as has English gin. __—_——~>— COCKTAILS NO HIGHER | AND HIGHBALLS, TOO, =| KEEP DOWN IN PRICE.| The price of a cocktail is the same and that of the highball has soared no higher. We are going to get no more champagnes into the country, no more cordials, no more Scotch, no more gin. The bartenders at the| Waldorf, the Astor, McAlpin’s, the Claridge and other places say that prices have not yet gone up. There are no more lemons coming from Italy. Mixed drinks will be higher, but mixed ale will settle down in the same low groove. But there ts relief in pur borders. Andre Bustanoby says we have lots well, when the war is over we'll be experts enough to tell the difference. And then he admitted that his cock- tall was made of apple jack. “If the war is going to last,” said an old time servitor at the Waldorf, “what's the matter with the bourbon and rye of our own country? A whole lot of pedple don’t know what good whiskey is. There's nothing bet- ter in the world than old blue grass bourbon.” It is claimed that the supply of German beers will not last more than three weeks and that the market is hy on id ut. the wreckage was found said that last Friday they heard what they now believe to have been firing far out at nea, The German cruiser sighted off the Golden Gate to-day must be either the Nurnberg or the Leipzig. Best information would indicate the latter. When last heard from the British sloop-of-war Algerine was still at) Mazatlan, The sloop-of-war Shear- water left San Diego Aug. 3. The British cruiser Rainbow left here last Saturday northbound and was sighted late yesterday. The process of elimination would indicate that any disaster that may have happened overtook the Shear- water, HOUSEWIVES’ HEAD ASKS PROSECUTOR'S AID IN FIGHTING FOOD PRICES Mrs. Julian Heath of No. 175 West Eighty-elghth street, president of the National Housewives League, called at the District-Attorney's office this afternoon to enlist the co-operation of the prosecuting authorities of this county tn the fight of her organiza- tion to forestall the imposition upon the public of increased prices for food products and other necessities because of the war. Mrs, Heath said that while she had no legal evidence as yet, she félt jus- | tifled in asserting there is a conspir-| acy among wholesalers, jobbers and! retaflers to take advantage of the great misfortune in Europe for enrichment, This was apparent, sald, from the fact that prices were advanced almost as soon as war was declared and before any of the cir- cumstances alleged by the sellers of goods as operating to increase ces | could have had the slightest ef t. The representative of the District- Attorney assured Mrs. Heath that upon presentation of reasonable evi- dence the office would take prompt action. She said she was conduc’ing an investigation with aview to prov- ing the existence of a conspiracy to Ghee reoulte Within a a to pro- as , spriaeannoons _" PRE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST “11,19 ENGLAND HAS NOW 600,000 Ee aR Troops of the Czar-Hurried to Austrian Border And Type of Foe Expected to Meet Them There CRUISER SUFFOLK, SISTER OF ESSEX, CAME TO SEE US Nosed About Ambrose Chan- nel and Sent Despatches In by Steamer She Met. A big gray cruiser with three fun- nels and flying the British naval flag loafed up the coast near 10 o'clock to- day, stean.ed slowly In the direction of the Ambrose Channel entrance as if intending to enter the channel and passed on down to Quarantine, then at the first channel buoy, about a mile and a half from the bar, turned and headed eastward out to sea. The cruiser, at first believed to be the Essex, which had convoyed the White Star liner Cedric down from Halifax, was positively identified as the Suffolk, a sister ship, by Capt. Bart- lay of the British steamer New York City, inward bound from Madeira, The New York City followed the Suffolk past the lightship, and when the sea fighter turned and went out to sea again the Bristol line steamship con- tinued on to Quarantine, There her officers said the Suffolk had stopped the New York City out beyond Sandy Hook and had put aboard her impor- tant despatches to be delivered to the British Consul-General in New York, The Suffolk's officers told the New York City’s captain:that two days ago the cruiser had captured a Ger- man oil tank steamer, which was now being taken to Bermuda as a prize, The cruisers men also said that recently the Suffolk had sighted a German cruiser giving convoy to & merchantman. The Suffolk had given chase, but the German man-of- war and her convoy escaped. The Suffolk's prize was undoubted- ly the Leda, out of Rotterdam July 23 and bound for Baton Rouge, La. The New York Maritime Exchange recetved from London to-day a re- port that this boat had been captur and sent to Bermuda, This report of the capture of the German tank steamer and its send- ing to Bermuda is taken to explain yesterday's rumor that the North German Lloyd steamship Kronprinz Wilhelm had been captured by Brit- ish scouts and sent to the island naval base. ‘The sighting of the Suffolk in the mists off the Hook caused great animation among the officers at Fort Hancock, and, when the report had been telegraphed to Quarantine, among skippers in the bay. It was thought that the British commerce destroyer Was putting into New York for coal, Capt. Knight of the Ward liner Havana passed quite close to the fighting craft near the entrance ‘o the channel, but wae not spoken by her. The White Star lined Cedric, which was convoyed down from Halifax by the Ensex, arrived early to-day, The Cedric, which had been diverted trom ralght course to New York by the of capture, carried 819 pas- a Cc Bad left OFFICIAL REPORTS OF WAR AS GIVEN OUT IN LONDON Bureau Established by Admiralty and War Offices Says 120,000 Germans Are At- tacking the Forts at Liege. LONDON, Aug. 11.—The new Admiralty and War Office Information Bureau established by the British'Government started work this morning. Its first announcement was as followse Liege, and other German troops are reported to be intrenching along the line| of the River Aisne. | “The large German force ts moving through the Duchy of Luxemburg, and its advance troops are now at the Belgian frontier. “German cavalry patrols have been reported near Marchienr@and Arion, Several individual soldiers belonging to German patrots have been captured both in France and Belgium. In all cases they were reported to be short of food for both men and horses und to have made no resistance. | “The British Consul-General at Shanghai, China, reports that no British | vessels have been pursued or molested. “A report from The Hague, Holland, atates that public nervousness in that country has been allayed since the publication of Great Brit tie | tude respecting the ‘neutrality of the Netherlands. “Tt is atated that the Germans lost 8,000 killed before Liege, but this is unconfirmed, “A report states that the principal Liege forts are still holding out,| although some of the smaller forts have been captured by the Germans. The | |bombardment of the fortifications by the Germans is proceeding without intermission. On one occasion a fort apparently had been silenced, but when German infantrymen advanced to attack it a hail of bullets was poured into them so suddenly and effectively that they retired with heavy loss, “The’German attackers, who are constantly being reinforced, displayed great courage. “It ‘# stated that 120,000 men of the German army are engaged in t| attack of Liege. Refugees from that city describe the conditions as terrib! Many houses have been damaged or burned, “The Austro-Hungarian advance from Cracow in Austrian Galicia jto- | ward Kieloe in Russian Poland 1s reported to be in progress, At the same! time the Ruselan troops are said to be advancing from Rovno up the valley | of the River Styr toward Lonberg, the Gullcian capital, “The Bulgarian Government Ras demanded a credit of $10,000,000 for| mobilization expenses in addition to a previous credit of $30,000,000 for armaments." GERMAN LADS LEAVE PARENTS AND GIRLS AND SAIL FOR THE WAR Resist Appeals of Mothers and Sweethearts and Board the Liner Ancona, gear. Hans Basserman was a man who took passage, a ruddy faced Ger- man with @ mild blue eye and a de- termined jaw. He shrugged his shoulders and sald that he was going home to his regiment. Otto Brown, whose father 1s a hotel proprietor in Hoboken, was another of the reservists bound for tho Kalser’s army. At tho pier was a pretty German-American girl, accom- panied by her brother of fourteen years, both trying to dissuade Otto from going. Anna, Otto called the girl, as she begged him not to go to certain death, He seemed wavering, then with an effort tore himself trom her to sign the reserve call. Anna and her brother were weeping on the pler when the steamer pulled out. Prof. Karl Fedner, a professor of pschycology, said that he was going to the hospital at Vienna. Emile Leuscher, whose father ves at Greenpoint, was another of the re- servists, His parents accompanied him to the picr, The mother wept and tried to hold her boy back in \her arms. But the father patted the mother and son lovingly and said softly that It was the boy's duty and that he must go, The father sup- ported the weeping mother as the steamer pulled away from the pier and Emile bravely sent them a cheer Only fifty German reservists took advantage of the opportunity of re- turning to fight for tho Fatherland on the Itallan Line steamer Ancona, which sailed at noon to-day for the Mediterranean, Count von Bern- storff, who is not related to the Am- bassador, and his friend Baron Knot von Lessner, were Incognito in the second cabin, but when they found that thelr Identity was known they took the bridal suite. “My heavens! My heavens!" cried the Baron when a reporter called him by name. “This is terrible. Now I m afraid that the vessel will be! ‘fom the steamer rail, seized, If the English knew"-——- \_ The Ancona cerried away sixty aad wag al the reperien waieds to’ L600 itallane is tse steerage L STEAM YACHT OFF TO SUCCOR FRIENDS OF MILLIONAIRE Two Others Being Fitted Out to Bring Back Parties Stranded in Europe. of Thomas F. Jones, Mellen National Bank of Pittsburgh, steamed out of this port this after- noon for the Azores. There she will coal and continue to Genoa, whero she will pick up Mr. Mellen, his fam- lly and party, numbering eighteen, who have been stranded tn Italy by the war. Two other yachts, the Columbia, belonging to J. Harvey Ladew, and the Wakiva owned by Lamon V. Harkness, will get away In a day or to ise for European porta to bring back friends of their owners. Mr. ‘adew and his family ar at Rae- quette Luke, N Y., and Mr, Hark- ness Is safe on these shcret Never- theless preparations for e ily ere being rushed, The Alvina carried provisions for three months, and Capt. H. Dixon says he expected to make the Azores In seven days and Genoa in seven more, It is realized, however, that difficulty may be encountered 11 making a quick voyage and return, and that provisions will be hard to find abroad, The Columbia is equipped for two months, and Capt. J, H, Bond sald] him, too, he could accommodate fifty to one hundred refugees. Ho doesn't know, | INQUIRY ON KITING now, however, where he is going or OF FOOD PRICES IS whom “e is to pick up. The Colum- bia is to sail Saturday. All the yachts have now wfteless ee cat eucthrea et at three] WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Investiga- boats hate boon removed to make|ton of whether food prices are being | them more seaworthy, and for the|arbitrarily advanced on the pretext that last few days immense quantities of | they affected by the Bu- food and fuel have been put aboard | ropean to get the yachts In shape jast Friday, The Waki- a of the little fleet, is a and 853 tons displacement, feet on the water hne, The Columbia is slightly smaller. She is 195 She in a brigantine auxiliary of 682) tons and a water line length of 165 feet, The Alvina, though twelve feet longer, displaces only 526 tons. Like the Wakiva, she Is a twin-screw mahip of schooner rig. 11 of last y Nagahama. Mrs, Ladew, thelr two sons and sev- around the world and had put ( the port for repairs. With bed Ginginol, a very concentrated antiseptic of brigantine rig, she bore a strong re-| unfailing effectiveness for sore, soft, bleedin; semblance to a gunboat oO alee CANADA WILL FURNISH SUBMARINES FOR USE ON THE PACIFIC COAST. LONDON, Aug. 11,-—The Admiralty officially announs the ace of the ofter. of Canada to wo a for use on to-day teamship of achooner rig | ( mbia is the yacht which was seized by the Japanese on June In the closed port of he yacht, with Mr. and women Kucsts aboard, was on & GERMANS ATTACKING FORT AT LIEGE ARE ENTANGLED IN BARB WIRE AND SHOT DOWN Helpless Forward Lines Pressed From Their % heavy Joss. the fort. bodies were buried near the fort. infantry. heavy fire from the fort. entanglements was reached. wire waist high. and rushed a) Lille. FOREIGNERS HERE RUSH TO BECOME AMERICAN Other Cities Are Doing a Land Office Business, Now that European countries are hurling thelr armies at euch other, ‘are in a mad rush to be as American citizens. ‘There has been a great increase in applications at the Bureau of Natur- alization in the Federal Building here In the last week and according to reports from Washington Federal courts throughout the United States are doing a land office business in making new voters, The Russians who want to become citizens lead the race in New York, with Austrians second, and there are plenty of Hungarians and Italians. Comparatively few Germans or French apply. New procedure was ordered in the Naturalization Bureau in some cities, Figuring that the whole European map may be changed in a few months and that no alien can tell who his soverign will be In the ninety days before he takes his oath of alleg- jance, It was said applicants were not required to name their present sov- ereign. However, the old method ts in force here and if an embryo citizen finds a new king on the throne he simply will be Feaulryg to renounce ASKED IN CONGRESS| ft Pennaylvan! reaolution would d to investigate he advance, particularly in flour, Representative Kelly's resolution di- Se ees SAVE YOUR TEETH ‘Try Thip New Treatment for Pyor- rhoea, Receding Gums or Loosened Teeth at Our Expense. If you have Pyrrohoea or any of the diseases mentioned above get two ounces of a prescrip- tion known to expert Chemists and Dentists as loosened and sensit 1 will noticethe soreness iter that steady improvement Ginginol is inexpensive and is guaranteed. Sinoly deposit the price of two ounces as an idence of good faith; use as directed, and if this treatment does not bring the Own Ranks Behind While Fort Rains a 13M Terrible Fire—Prince William Killed. BRUSSELS via London), Aug. 11—The Germans made a desperate ob . 3 tack on Fort Seraing, south of Liege, Sunday night, and were repulsed WH It te estimated that 800 Germans were killed within an area of half @ © Tt ip reported that Prince William of Lippe and his oon, whe wane) | killed, were charging this at the head of 100 German soldiers, Thelp Beigian wounded arriving here tell stories of German daring most courageous sort in this attack which 1s only hinted at in the precise nguage of the official reports, They say that the asgault began only after & continued shelling of Fort Seraing by the German artillery. The assaulting party was made up of several regiments of German © Moving forward with remarkable precision the German rushed across the open fields at top speed in massed formation ] ‘The shells from the fort tore great gape in lines but the survivors promptly closed up and kept on until the This was made up of felled brush and small trees entwined ‘The German infantry cut and dragded at the ment, but it has been carefully set and proved almost impossible to The rear guard of the German attacking forces could not inet the advance which was trying to demolish the ments, From the fort a rain of fire was directed at ‘he struggting the rapid fire guns that had been held in reserve for just this Tho slaughter was enormous, The attacking column could not and no signal to fall back was given. The poattion while being decimated by the rain of fire from thi It wan not until more than half of th or wounded that the signal for the recall was blown. and nearly 3,000 wounded was the cost to the German arms of thie vain attempt, according to the estimates made public here, It was tn this fight that Prince William of Lippe, Colonel of the Tist Prussian infantry, wae said to have been killed. 4 of te" ou i i i i diers were forced fort. tacking force had been Bight hundred dead 8 k and Brussels is being rushed through this city, having been brought up from . It is announced here that the Germans have been moving large bodies of infantry with eupporting artillery through Tongres, and they are be- ” Neved to be moving toward Waterloo and Bruseels. an inquiry as to “whe reote manipulation of values by on the Chicago where tn th bas been The steam yacht Alvina, property food suppl a mittionaire | Naturalization Bureaus in This and “About two German cavalry ‘divisions are in the neighborhood of! jumber man of Duluth, and under Tongres to the north of Liege. The German army corps are still opposite! wnarter to President Mellen of the ae Sa SALESMEN WANTED-Ten | fing glasses for $2. | $89 Fulton St,, opp. A. & | LONERGAN. — Suddenly, Aug 10, rope, enced, earn $10 per day easily. See Mr. Moa- Nally & Co., 42 E. 22d’ st, 17 inches deep by 20 inches * | of Trade yultti ea to Burope." Have you “pupoff” sae se you Fi. ty t ; good glasses would be “expensive''? 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