The evening world. Newspaper, August 27, 1914, Page 3

* QUSTED WORKMEN PLAN LEGAL ACTION AGAINST CITY'S OFFICIAL HEADS . Sahel USSIA - es War in Europe, They ins Shall Not Stop Improve- ments Here. CONTRACTORS JOIN IN. Unlawful, They Say, to Hold Them Up on Their Suc- cessfal Bids. Although they have recelved no en- cCouragement from any city official, representatives of the thousands of workmen who have been deprived of an opportunity to make a living by the retrenchment policy adopted by the Mitchel administration are of the opinion that they will soon be able to show that a war in Europe should not stop work on public improve- ments in New York. They are par- tleularly bitter against Comptroller Prendergast, who, they contend, is the originator of the plan to shut down on public works. The Committee on Unemployed of the Central Federated Union has the matter in hand. Legal steps are in contemplation, but must be delayed until Frank X. Sullivan of No. 25 Liberty street, counsel to the organt- zation, returns from the convention of the State Workmen's Federation} at Syracuse. i In the mean time the thousands of | unemployed men who are now feeling | the pinch of poverty and the pangs! of hunger for the first time since en- tering the employ of the two hundred or more contractors who have hitherto een busy with city work, are await- | ing eagerly the outcome of a meeting | of the Executive Committee of the) Central Federated Union in the Labor | ‘Temple to-morrow night. Delegates—| two from each local—will be present to present the cases of the jobless | breadwinners before the central body. One of the chief subjects to be brought up will be a resolution to de. mand of the Chief Engineers in each! borough a list of the contracts held up that have been registered by the Comptroller. It is expected that Mr. Sullivan, the union's counsel, will base his fight principally on these contracts, certified by the Comptrol- ler, and which the union will try to| show cannot be legally held up. Backing up the big army of unem- ployed are the contractors them- selves, who have already called a meeting of thelr own organization, | the General Contractors’ Association, | to protest against the tardiness of the finance Department tn paying bills for work already done. These firms, the employers of the jobless army in times of prosperity, are threatening to bring damage ‘suits against the city if the registered con- trac! re not allowed to go through, The successful bidders argue that when they submitted their bids they had in mind present labor and mar- ket conditions, If after six months or a longer delay the city finally turns over the contracts and the price of material and labor is higher the concerns—still bound to thelr con- tract price—have a just cause for a sult againat the city. In other words, the delay is the fault of the city, not the contractor. Chairman Hannah, at the head- quarters of the Pavers’ and Rammer- men's Union, No, 223 East Fifty-ninth street, to-day began in earnest the mobilization of the army of 30,000 un- employed who will march to City Hall in the next few days to partici- pate in a gigantlo protest meeting and demonstration against the city’s enrenchment policy and the discon. tinuation of the city work for which they are equipped. For the purpose of ascertaining the exact number of unemployed who formerly worked for city contractors, Chairman Hannah sent letters this morning to the sec- retaries of the 150 organizations ~om- prising the Central Federated Union and to thirty-five local union gbap- ters not affiliated with the C. FP, but which are known to include yeh working on city jobs. The secretaries are asked to compile and forward a complete list of the unemployed city workers in each lo- cal, The men are to be notified by the officers of the intention of the central body to hold the City Hall protest meeting as well as other mass meetings still in the embryo, As soon as the secretaries report back a day will be set for the demonstration and a point of rendezvous named, ———— y SENEGALESE RIFLEMEN COMPLAIN ONLY OF BEING FORCED TO WEAR SHOES. Aug, 27 (Associated Press).— n relates that on the arrival of ing wounded Senegalese riflemen, nearly all were found smoking furiously from long porcelain pipes taken from the enemy and seemingly indifferent to their wounds, One gayly told of the daring capture of a machine gun by eighteen of his comrades, ‘The Es it seems, was brought up by a de- PARI ‘The Ma a train bi chment of German dragoons and the exalese bray tured everythi Though their backed b y charged and cap- ‘arma and bodies ' are emma fhe Rentesis A f nothing but e obligation eh Ba ete shoes on. Before goin) into battle at Charleroi, they slyly ri themselves of these impediments and (CHARITIES BESET WITH S00 000 OUT OF EMPLOYMENT, Preparations Being Made for Hardest of Winters for ui, the Poor, 9 ¢ CLOAK WORKERS IDLE. Their Busy Season Here and Manufacturers Shut Down —Cheerless Look Ahead. With the number of unemployed in the city conceded to be well over the half million mark, and increasing by leaps and bounds, the heads of the big charity organizations have begun preparations for the big task before them this coming winter. Work among the destitute families of unem- ployed workmen has increased from 20 to 43 per cent. in the past month. At the offices of the Charity Organ- jzation Society, at No, 105 E: -t Twen- ty-second street; the Suctety for Im- proving the Condition of the Poar, in the same building, and the United Hebrew Charities, Twonty-first street and Second avenue, it was said the hardships of the poor will be greatly increased within the -ext few months. ‘any families with breadwinners out of employment are fortified with a little money, but cannot stand the siege of poverty long. It is when the savings of the unemployed are ex- hausted that the charity organiza- tions anticipate the real trouble. M. D. Waldman, manager of the United Hebrew Charities, said to-day the Hebrow families who have been hit by loss of employment are best prepared to stand the stress of hard times, “Although our relief work has in- creased 20 per cent.," said Mr. Wald- | man, “investigation has shown that |the average Jewish family, by fru- |wal and thrifty living, can go along for six months without employment, subsisting on savings accounts and the income from benevolent societies.” Pointing out this was usually the best time of the year for the garment} | makers, the cloak and suit trade, Mr. Waldman said that thousands who would have obtained employment in August in these trades were turned away on account of the depression fol- lowing the war, Many of the manu- facturers, especially of men’s clothing, have been unable to obtain the neces- sary material from abroad, he said. On the other hand, the manufacturers’ of toys and glassware and other prod- ucts formerly imported in ree quantities from Germany and Austria are running their plants full blast. Frank J, Bruno, District Superin- tendent of the Charity Organization Society, predicted a heart-breaking winter for the poor. The soclety’s relief work has increased 43 per cent. over last year, he said. Last month more than @ $1,000 was doled out of th organization's funds in emergency relief cases. Most of it went to fami- Hes who found themselves facing starvation following the bread-win- ner’s loss of a job. The Municipal Employment Bureau at No, 29 Lafayette street nad cneer- ing news. More than one hundred un- employed men who have been on the reserve list for more than a month were notified to report for work to. day at the offices of a Brooklyn trac- tion company, There are 3,500 unem- ployed left on the books, and Matthew J. Dobbins, the manrger, Is optimistic about placing many ' of those. Most of the applicants ‘are drivers, lronworkers, clerks and elec- tricians. All records of the bureau of applicants looking for jobs have! been Froken Eau month, In the parks can be foun evidence of the great number ate, employed. The Lenches are filled nightly with jobless men who find it hard to raise the price of a lodging. The Municipal Lodging House ts accommodating nightly just double the number of homeless men as at this time last year. Figur8s given out by Supt. Whiting to-day showed that in the month ending Aug 20, shelter was given to 12,227 men, During the same thirty days last year 6,889 were accommodated. American Heads Parts Hospital, KANSAS CITY, Aug. 2.—Dr, A. L, Skoog, professor of neurology in the University of Kansas, has been made head of the La Petre Hospital in Paris, |ecording to word recelved here to-day. . Skoog left here six months ago to itution, e up clinical work at the in ‘The entire hosp'tal staft nite obliged to answer the call to s, and Dr, came back shod in German footwear to void ual ment for losing equipment. Skoog was given temporary char, , [eo GERMAN ADVANCE Frederick Palmer Only RAND GATE: QP ALL REL. MAY BE CUT OFF | Correspondent With British HA |S ARMEDLINER, FROM ITS BASE Communication Line to the Frontier Said to Be Sur- prisingly Weak. LONDON, Aug. 2/.—"The Daily News" publishes the following from Percy J. Phillip, its correspondent at Ostend: “I havo been testing at points the communication line 6f the German army and and find it surprising how | weak that is. The Germans seem to have gone forward with the idea shot Belgium was a beaten country, of no account for tho future, whereas Its avmy really never once has been beaten and a large part never has | been under fire, | “If the allies can hold their own at the front it is certain that the Ger- mans' communicatjons with base can be cut at any moment, In fact, tt would seem that their army is in the alr, It has no supports; | everything has been chanced on tho| promise of more freedom to victory of the advancing army, which| ported from St. Petersburg, and allowed the Baptists, the sect that has their special antipathy, to hold prayer meetings. has travelled fast, like a band of marauding vandals. There is little evidence along their line of that care- ful preparation for transport which 1s regarded as essential for a modern army. “Por instance, railway men tell mo! (t, Uttle use is being made of tho line| from the German frontier, and motors are the chief means of transport.| y Thon, there is the second line to cove! a check to the advancing corps, the Continent of Europe. mitted by the British War Office to take the field. veceives the full Associated Press service. World in the Russo-Japane: it lying on the ground, Frederick Palmer, war. load of French prisoners 4. Frankfurst, tested vigorously and Das Lokal-Anzeiger, a government organ, dech.es that they should be whipped. The French are hoarding their silver coins so that fifty centimes, one franc and two franc notes are being printed, 000 in silver ia now being hidden, Immense flocks of storks arriving in Toulon along the Mediterranean | from the direction of Alsace are welcomed by the French as a good omen, A colonial trooper among the wounded brought to Parts from the front | Francisco arrived from Hull on Au; declared he felt nothing when hia arm was shot off by a shell until he saw | 12, Hating the thought of leaving It, as he expressed It, their | as “meat for the tho Prussian dogs,” he picked it up and ran several yarda | has been stationed in tho lower har- before he was overcome, the well-known war correspondent, designated to represent the Associated Press with the British forces on He is the only American correspondent per- Oddities in the War News Because some German girls gave chocolates and cigarettes to a train-| has been The Evening World Mr, Palmer represented The several German papera have pro- It is estimated that $400,000,- ‘The Russians, who have promised autonomy to the Poles and held out How little news from the outside world now filte: shown by a copy of the Berlin Tageblatt of Aug. | reached London yesterday. which, dispatches say, | the The paper contained a ‘rumor of the death of Mrs, Woodrow Wilfon, but the Tageblatt confessed itacif unable to verity e Jews, have gone one step further, it Is re- into Germany was Mrs, John Korak of Braddock, Pa., gave birth to quadruplets, all boys, terday and she and her husband declare th r| great battles won by Austria, The} serted the father when the possibility of Austrian fail occupying force in Brussels 18 small, | youngsters of names was sugrcsted, to the German fron- | ign of an advance of , Aug. 27.—The Belgian army 1s striking at the German lines of communication, which are very) sald the British soldiers wer “They went into battle smoking their pipe: shall be named for the frat “They can wait, but it w "t bi Jong," ure depriving the as- A Paris refugee who saw some of the fighting on the Bolgtan frontier oosely held, A large proportion of the) 777 — Belgian forces which took refuge in. grains, protected by hcavy detach- Antwerp when Brussels was evacu- nents of uhlans and mounted bat- ated is now in the fleld operating be-| teres, tween Malines and Brussels, The VAaitis, Aug. 27.—Communication Belgians are heavily supported with| petween Antwerp and Paris has been artillery and already it Is believed re-established and important news of they have succeeded in drawing some| of the weight off the attack on the French frontier. It Is not the Intention of the Bel- gian General Staff! to hazard its | army at Malines, after driving out forces in a eneral assault. The Bel-| the Germans. gian army mé yet be needed to Unofficially it is announced from defend Antwerp, But the field forces Antwerp that the Belgian offensive are raiding the German Ines, de- has gone beyond Malines to Vilvorde. stroying the railroads wherever pos-, Newspaper telegrams say that the sible and cutting communication gen-| Germans have abandoned Brussels |? erally, Up to the present the Ger-|and that the next movement of the mans are reported ay not depending jtelgian army will be to re cupy the on their railroa dtsansportation ‘They have an enormous numbe of guvamoblien of every description and | to ese are formed in the movements of the I is re ! | patehes say that King Albert bas es- tablished capital pied Brussels are regular supply | man lines there. yian army ved from there. Official des- the headquarters of his * which had accu. as moving the Ger: the south to re ee crulser ers whi extraordinary beings, "he said, | newspaper av FRENCH AND BRITISH CRUISERS SIGHTED BY FREIGHTERS NEAR BY, by , & Norweeia Ith of the e wteamer (ing be" passed ann American were brought to Quarantine by freight. h arrived there this morning. man of the Commodore + Haid h neh warship off Sandy sy lant evening He St oo abe oe eestor Reporte of both a French and British | close waters | ole saw Hook as could nut After Being Delayed | All Afternoon, The Wilson liner Francisco, a Rrit- ish steamship loaded with grain, should be well on her way to Hull to-day, though her departure trom this port yesterday was delayed for several hours by the United States | battleship Florida, which halted the Francisco as she was steaming past Quarantine yesterday after- noon, The Francisco had two 4.7 calibre rifles mounted on her stern, and It was the presence of these | which caused (16 Florida to halt her. Tho guns were tn position when the and it had been rumored ia mari- |tume circles that the Florida, which | bor to se@ that neutrality regulations jof the United States were observed, would object to her departure thus | armed. he Francisco loft hor pler in Ho- boken yesterday morning, chored off the Statue of Liberty while the captain went ashore for his clearance papers. It was early afternoon when sho started away again, and it was midnight before Florida finally let her go, after her captain had explained his’ weap- ons were merely for saluting pur-| poses. commandant Navy Yard for to the detention son line steamer Franc hip Florida after shevhad been ted clearance at New York for England, with a cargo of grain, ‘nh no official information of the said Seeretary Daniels, "and 1 believe there must be some | circumstances not published in. the unts or the Florida detaiged the Fran- by the orted that the mall calibre guns wesence | BRITISH TO REPLY TO GERMAN WIRELESS REPORTS OF VICTORY.!| LONDON, Aug. 27 (United Prean).— Characterizing the German official statemonts which are being circulated brondeast and are deel ed to be. went from Germany “by wireless as “men. | dacious and absolutely at variance with | the true facta,” the War Office to-day announced that tt will reply to them. t and | dters to destroy their own little homes and ail their contents. BATTLESHIPFLORIDA THENLETSHER SAL ish Steamship Gets Away | and an-| othe esol | 10 AID FIRE FROM LIEGE FOR i * Village Which Obstructed Fire of Belgian G Destroyed by People Themselves When the Soldiers Began to Work. » | LONDON (By mall to New York), Aug. 27 (United Pressl—a& ‘graphic story of the burning of the village of Boncelles by Belgian @ok | diers because it would interfere with the fire from the Liege forts, how even the inhabitants aided in burning their own homes, is told t= . letter received in Wales by the brother of a Belgian soldier. shall never forget the sight of it,” the Belgian soldier wrote. “Ome | hundred and thirty houses and the church of Boncelles formed one bl in the middle of the night, and the poor inhabitants helped the | “It was 10 o'clock when the peaceful inhabitants of Boncelles abruptly 1eminded of the horrible significance of the word An ea gineer officer, surrounded by an army of sappers, knocked at every doot and delivered the message that the houses had to be burned to allow fort to operate its guns without obstruction, While the offices was apeal> — ing sappers were already bringing in wood, cotton and petrol. te | “The inhabitants about the forts were informed that in time of war | Necessity might arise for the authorities to destroy their houses, but i 7) | this ci they had not been warned during the afternoon and most ef = them had gone to rest when the knock on their doors came to tell them of | their fate, I could not describe all of the scenes I witnessed that night, a | “All I remember is women in tears and children praying. Some of them implored the soldiers to let them at least take their furniture away an@ threw therpielves at the officers’ feet. But they were gently raised by the arm and led outside in the dark. “The soldiers rushed In and threw bundles of wood under the staim ry poured petrol over them and lit them. In an instant th ehouse ablaze. A woman tried to push in to save some souvenir, a Dhotograpa, e |cradle, anything, but was ordered back by the soldiers, Perhaps het owes son was among them, “A man who hed just been led out of a house, and who had been ws watching with a stupid look the progress of the fire, rushed away _ his wife and children as if mad. He grasped a mass of saturated {and helped the soldiers with their work. The example had been given, and in a moment the other peasants followed. “The fire had to be set to the church where only two hours age: ants whispered thelr prayers in solitude. Wood and cotton were heap et as far as the altar, and in the tower as high as possible. A little later all that remained was the square tower, a high burning torch, which socom listed over ang came down In a cloud of smoke and flames. One hundred and thirty houses were destroyed in this way and then all trees in the neighborhood were cut.” OFFICIAL REPORT SAYS ZEPPELIN THREW BOMBS — ae 60,000 AMERICANS ASK» PERMISSION TO FIGHT ON MILITARY HOSPITAL.) WITH CANADIAN TROC WASHINGTON, Aug, 7 (Assoclated| VALCARTLER, Que., Aug, 2.—fAsso= Prens).—Offictal advices to the United! ciated Presn),}—More than 60,000 citizens: States. Government confirmed to-day|of the United States have applied for the sropptan uy be none in the city | permission to join the Canadian volume of Antwerp a n Zeppelin, kill-| teers who are coon to see service tm ing many women and children. Diplo-!Murope according to annow g. matic representatives of several neutral! Made here tecday by Col, Sam ta | mover nments had narrow excaper. | lol Eramhes able (nit: oem haa The bombs were almed at the Royal accepted for obvious reasons, Some it Is stated, but struck the |tho arplicants had journeyed to € Royal Military Hospital, filled with | (a ipply Im person to the Department Witia wounded, and demolished several pr pea vate, pullin 10 the, early nouret] HIS FATHER KILLED, | Was nsleope It in mald the bombs. co GERMAN PRINCE IS A PRISONER, WOUNDED.” ininod shrapnel, Several diplomats, i cluding one of the se retaries Am n Legation, were stopping at lesa than two hundred yards see PARIS, Aug. 27 (Associated Preas).— |) iN xaid to-day that|It is officially announced that Primes |) Whitlock had sent! Ernest of Saxe-Metningen has been sérte e Palace, int where one ‘of the bombs | Jip its destru Washington offic A Prince Ernest 1s « son of Prinee jeric of Saxe-Meiningen, who was jat Namur Aug. 25. He was dorm, nd isa Heutenant tn the iment. GREAT CORRAL IS BUILT jet NEAR ALDERSHOT, ENGLAND, | ,,., TO HOUSE THE GERMANS. | 5 ay TROOPS REVE REVOLT ALDERSHOT. England, Aug. (By | AGAINST THEIR OFFICERS mail to York—United Vres)—A' IN DALMATIA, IS REPO huge concentration camp for the tl sands of German suspect who have! |_ LONne {southern Daimati been rounded up by Scotland Yard in parts of England is being constructed at Blackdown, near here, ‘The corral, which covers forty ar ts fenced by barbed wire atrung on ten- foot posts, Outside ix another circle ot barbed wire entanglements, and between the two fences sentries will pace with loaded rifles, prisoners will be housed in quar- tera bullt of galvanized tron, and will be fed on ordinary army rations, > } ‘correspondent, is to the effect that several towns the Slav troops have volted against thelr office siete A SEABURY IS UPHELD. Court ‘The decision of Justice Seabury fn thie, case of Willlam Jay Schieffelin as @) JOHN SARGENT, PAINTER, Behl IS MISSING IN AUSTRIA; iintn? s inate ct, etna | EMBASSY HUNTING HIM. | the constitutional amendment o tion was affirmed in a deciston : down this afternoon by the Ap LONDON, Aug. 27.—John Sargent, jaunt of the Supreme Court, Ji ‘he American painter, has been tra-*powling dissenting. The three Ji |velling in Austria and nothing hag assenting to the opinion were I n heard of him for five weeks. ham, Laughlin and Hotchkiss, | His sister has asked the United States | = | Embassy here to try to locate him, | Sho said she ts confident he Is safo, | jbut unable to communicate with her, | pelea “ate WILSON CONTRIBUTES TO RED CROSS FUND | FOR WAR RELIEF WORK. | WASHINGTON, Aug, 27.—Among the contributions recetved at the Red Cross jheadquartera to-day for relief work in Europe were the following: President | Wilson, $80: Vice-President Marshall, $25; Senator Jamen U. Martine, #1," Sen: ator Hteed Smoot, #2); of John Re Thoraton, $8, nad’ Baroness von Kottele |i» ‘America, $100. eee | HOME SECRETARY DENIES THAT ANY SPIES HAVE BEEN SHOT IN ENGLAND. | LONDON, Aug. 2-602 P M.—Home Secretary McKenna stated thia afte: noon that no spies had been shot in England. a8 ere have been rumors that many Pe jones in the secret employ of Ger- many bad been executed.