The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1914, Page 1

«Herschel! Island, werner ie + pee, be ‘ Pe " Conyrient, 1014, ‘The Press Publis Oe, (the'New ok Wels Che _[*Ctroutation Books Open to All.” | bald “YORK, “MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, MERCY SHIP READY T0 SAL TOAD EUROPEAN WOUNDED Liner Red Cross, Carrying 120 Nurses and 30 Doctors, Will Be Off To-Morrow—Last Farewells Have Been Spoken. Volunteer nurses and doctors on Minnigerode and Miss Reutinger, in board’ the hospital ship Red Cross char ~> of the unit of nurses from New had their first trip afloat to-day /Yor Miss Meyer, Brooklyn; Miss when the former Hamburg-American Bowman, Buffalo and Rochester; liner Hamburg steamed from the pier Miss Burgar, Boston; Miss Lehman, at Thirty-third street to Forty-sec- Philadelphia; Miss Burgess, Chicago; 0nd street, Brooklyn, to take on ad-iMiss Henderson, Baltimore; Mis @itionat stores and then steamed Dooley. Cincinnati, and Miss Beatle, peck. again. Later the Red Cross ‘Cleveland. Misa Hay eaid that, if ‘went. up the Hudson to the foot of Possible, the various units will be kept NOE cieth street. together under these aupervisors hos Hope ehie head of the *ftet they reach their flelds of labor. # Far giae nd aang As yet she does not know whether @qganization, announces that the Red + either they nurses or doctors will be Croes will sail for Falmouth, EMk- assigned to existing hospitals or de- Yana, betwenn 10 o'clock and noon tajied for fleld service. This will be tomorrow. No visitors will be re-‘determinew after the Red Cross eetved on board to-night or to-mor- reaches the war zone and will be de- Tew morning for every opportunity ‘cided by Red Cross officials there, for farewells has been offered since} Major R. U. Patterson, an active the one hundred and twenty nurses | army surgeon detailed by the United and thirty doctors went on board. States Government for Red Cross “The movements of the Red Cross service, {s in charge of the doctor: after reaching Europe are doubtful. Many of them have not had field sur-| Probably she will go from Falmouth gery training and, pe will give them| to Rotterdam and thence to a French | lectures and lessons on the voyage to 7 dical Falmgut e doctors wear the reg- Wert. The huge cargo of medica | tler Be surgeon's olive colored supples has been stored in the ship's | 114) the nirues are. ciae in hold with divisions already made for ' gra ith linen caps bei ig the scar- the various countries. Supplies for | let Insignia tnd blue cloakks with red , {lining Germany and Belgium probably will | TNF enea Cross, which was char- be went from Rotterdam overland ‘tered from the Hantburg-American through Holland. It will be impose- Une for ninety Pig " 1 probably G rta since Make the round trip in thirty or sible to touch at a seuitrement (ory days. landing Its hospital cargo all are mined. ery req end the nurses and doctora at the for care of wounded soldiers has, arious distributing ports, The ship been provided and the cargo includes }1s been painted white, with a red bind. In command is Capt. Arm- 180 tons of cotton and enough gauze | 1004 pus Other oMeers are Com. bandages to stretch in a single strand] jander J. 8, Dodridge, executive of- from New York to Chicago and back. |ficer; Comander F. H. Delaney, chiet Miss Helen Scott Hay, superintend- € ineer; Lieut, Gilford Darst, navi- ‘ent of the nurses, held a final confer- gating officer; = Paymaster RE. ""Mohun and Watch Officers Wogan, ence with her staff of ten super-|yy8sn ,Sullivan and Beach. All are visors to-day. They include Miss United St naval officers, retired. bai a native whaler who had helped Stefansson on the ice that the party had ammunition and food sufficient to last all winter, The last definite word of Stefanson was brought to Nome, Alaska, on Sept. 1 by a schooner from Point Barrow. The captain of the schooner reported that after making an at- tempt to cros# the ice Stefanson and two companions had returned to Mar- tin Point, east of the mouth of the Barter River, on April 16, The crew of Stefanson's ship, Kar- luk, which was crushed {tn the ice north of Herald Island, le believed to be marooned on Wrangel Island. There @re twenty-two men in this party. The United States revenue cutter Bear sailed for Wrangel Island on Sept. 5 in an attempt to rescue them, —————>___ SEVEN MEET DEATH IN BLAZING BARN LA CROSSE, Wis, Sept, 7, STEFANSSON ADRIFT ON ICE IN ARCTIC TWO MEN WITH HIM Explorer Suddenly Cut Off From Party, but Has Sup- plies to Last Some Time. WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 7.—Vilh- jalmur Stefansson, the Canadian ex- plogef, is marooned on the ice off according to Rey ~Seven W. H. Fry, a missionary, who has|men, railway construction employees, been aniong the Exquimeaux and who| were burned to death in a fire in a arrived here to-day from Kitti-| hay barn just outstde the city to-day. ganivit. ‘The men are supposed to have stopped Stefansson is in no immediate |!" the barn to sleep and to have acci- acaaer. dentally started the blaze by striking Dr. Fry based his assertion upon a| matches. iétter he received from an Esquiman ‘on June 8 the day he started south “Phe Esquimau wrote that he kenw —_—~ tt Btefansson had left Herachell! WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—War De- Island and bad gone out on the ice|partment oMcialx to-day with two of his men, Anderson (not| that pre Dr. Anderson, his liewenant) and keep th eral trols in the Colo- | Storkinson, The ice broke up sud- rado coal fields throughout the winter. This was taken to indicate that no ‘denly, the water opened up a few prospects of & settlement of the strike pidave later and the explorer and hia unable to get off. onld be had been veld 2 3 oe a have come out of the negotiations enh heave extended over several | KEEP TROOPS IN COLORADO, |i", announced | jstable Luke Devila, ‘Thomas Spri ‘ations were being mage te!an automobile dealer, with his car, thrown at the walle of his cell, 1914, KAISER’S FORCES FALL BAC FRENCH GUNS GUIDED BY AIRSHIP--BRITISH GUNNERS MARCH ii) On MOLINE ATAGAS KEEPER ON HS WAY TO ASYLUM Defendant in Famous Murder Trial Forcibly Placed in Automobile at Babylon and Carried Off After Formal Commitment. ( (Special to The Eveniog World) BABYLON, L, I, Sept. 7.--Roland B, Molineux, first and then acquited in one of New York's convicted most famous murder triel*s, was com- mitted to the insane asylum at King’s Park, L. [, to-day and transferred there by automobile from the village lockup here. He had been confined since early yesterday and altenists had agi that ae was insane; ‘ounty Judge William G. Nicoll signed tho commitment — papers before noon and Molineux was taken from hie cell at once Peter Kleindinst, a a ue, and Mac Levy, the physica! trainer, were waiting. At sight of Mac Levy Molineux smiled grimly and ex. claimed: ‘Oh, Mac, you certainly \veated me Gaa't your’ Then, before any one could grab him, he swung on the trainer, catch- ing him a blow behind the ear which ulmont felled him, The other leaped on him, he was forced into the car and the trip to &ing'’s Park was be- gun, Gen, Edward L. Molineux, the young an's father; his brother Les- his young wife and her aister, Mon Florence Essleton, were present, but none of them accompanied Moll- neux to the asylum, Molineux, who recently called him- self again to the attention of the pub- lic by his play of prison life, “The Man Inside,” had been confined for more than twenty-four hours, and his coll was filthy with the food and drink which he had refused to eat and had He had had moments of composure, but frequentiy had been very violent, The one-time condemned man, only recontly married, had been, experi- menting*in the production of color- Mos Be s bol FRENCH. AIR SCOUT PIRECTING HEAVY ARTILLERY. and, when the war prevented the !m- portation of German dyes, he became greatly upset. His condition, at first ascribed to nervousness and overwork—he had been devoting himeelf day and night to bis experimente—trapidly became worse, and last Thursday he was taken to MacLevy'’s Reat Farm near here. There was no room for him, but he had shown no indications of violence and @ room was procured for him in a house nearby, He was quiet until late Saturday night, when he arrayed himself ‘In trousers, under- shirt and a bathrobe and started for town, He encountered a Pole accompanied by two women at the outskirts of the village and attacked the man. He knocked him down and then fied, Word that a maniac was at large 6) id quickly through the village and Constable Luke Deviin set out in search of Molineux. He commandeered an automobile for his search, only to find that Moll-| neux, again calm and rational, was in the car. He had begged a lift back to the sanitarlum, Devlin en- tered the car with him, but at Mac- Levy's Molineux raged again and felled MacLevy, whose arm was broken recently, with a blow of bis fist, Devlin, the pliysical culture man and Thomas Sprague, the motorist, overpowered him and he waa driven to the lockup. ‘There his a remounded through the village that Father Jares T. Higgins of St. Joseph's Church visited the jail to learn the trouble. He was cautioned mot to enter Mol Cell, but declared: The priest entered and his presence immediately seemed to soothe Molin- eux. Father Higgins talked with him & few minutes and when he left Molineux fell into a sleep. To-day he greeted an Evening World reporter with the remark: “Well, I supposy you have come to hear about this tule of hortor, There is nothing the matter with me, I came here to buy a big farm, If in- tend to have my family with me and to devote my life to caring for men released from prison. They shali come here and find work on my farm and a friend in me.” Gen. Molineux and Molineux's# wife found him calm and quiet when they visited him this morning. Mrs. Moli- neux was weeping when she left the Jail, but the General was calm, t is impossible to say whether Roland's illness is permanent or tem- porary,” said the General, “All we can do is hope and stand by our boy." Hugo Hirsh, a Brooklyn lawyer, }accompanied the General here, anil, with Justices of the Peace Cooper and Wilson, papers after a and with Dr. Foster, a local physt- clan, who tried to administer a seda drew up commitment tive and then an injecttop of mor- phine to Molineux last night. The young man fought so desperately that Dr, Foster had to abandon tas attempt Two hun- from their narrow escapes from | jay when Turke 1k with the alienisrs | y and} iy ie ie aE TT FRENCH REPORT ALLE, HAVE REPELLED ATTACK OF BiG GERMAN FORGE Garrison at Maubeuge “Continues a Heroic Defense,” According to the French Accounts—Victory I Claimed for the Allies in Fight Almost Within Sight of Paris. GERMANS’ QUICK MOVE TO CUT SOUTHWEST ARMY. Fiercely Attack Centre of Allies in’ Line From Rheims to Nancy—_ a Assault on Paris Postponed Until” German Army Attempts to Pare lyze Field Forces of the Allies. PARIS, Sept. 7.—CAssociated Press.]—A general action ts proceeding tg the east of Paris, from Nanteuil-le-Haudouin to Verdun, ae" cording to ## official communication given out this afternoon. The tent of the official notice is as follows: “A general action has started on the ling through Name teuil-le-Haudouin, Meaux, Sezanife and Vitry-le-Francois and extending to Verdun. . “Thanks to the very vigorous action of our strongly supported by the British, the Germans peter. retiring. “The Germans had advanced Saturday and Sunday into the region between Coulommiers and La Ferte-Gaucher, “In the Austro-Russian theatre of operations twelve” divisions of the Austrian army in the vicinity of Lemberg, Galicia, have been completely destroyed.” [Nanteuil-le-Haudouin is 25 miles northeast of the city of Paris and 10 miles southeast of Senlis The distance from Nanteuil-le-Haudouin to Verdun is roughly 120 miles.] British Cruiser Warrior Aground WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—A Berlin wireless to the German Bm” bassy says: “British cruiser Warrior stranded, probably as result of fight h cruiser Goeben while escaping fromthe Bos phorus.” The despatch contains nc thing to amplify or explain, PARIS, Sept. 7.- ~The War Office, in a message to General |Gallieni, to-day declared that the French forces under the, © limmediate direction of General Joffre, co-operating in a 7 general movement with Sir Joha French, the British com= 4) mander-in-chief, have turned the German right flank. At 07 the same time the British forces broke through the lines left of the right wing. This movement imperilled the entire German right land forced the German commander to hurriedly wi je, Kai ir ' stood’ in naan City, and m Ri of wal my In all of his troops from. Lille and the neighboring strengthen his position. Minne ppsetes pee ast toned us ag cage ta +