The evening world. Newspaper, October 15, 1914, Page 1

Be ene. ath eee ee om We : ) FINAL Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ Covreight, 1014, by .. PRIOE ONE CENT. Prese (The New York World), The NEW YORK, “THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1914. ‘LINER . AFTER 8.0. COL SINKS OFF SANDY HOOK ISION IN THE FOG; S.’ SAVES 76 PASSENGERS. "GERMANS CHECKED: ALLIES CLAM GAINS ALONG WHOLE FRONT River Lys, Lens, Arras, Albert, Berry- * au-Bac and Road to Metz Men- tioned in the Official Report as Points Where Marked Progress Has Been Made. GERMANS REPORT REPULSE OF FRENCH AT ST. MIHIEL. PARIS, Oct. 15 [Associated Press].—The official com- munication, given out by the French War Office this after- noon, is as follows: “In Belgium, German troops coming from Antwerp Ste marching toward the west, and the evening of Oct. 14 they reached the region of Bruges and Thielt (fifteen miles southeast of Bruges). ' “First—On our left wing the enemy has evacuated the left bank of the Lys. Between the Lys and the canal of La Bagsee the situation shows no change. »¢ “In the region of Lens and between Arras and Albert our progress has been marked. “Between the Somme and the Oise there has been no change. The Germans have cannonaded our line without delivering many infantry attacks. ' \“Second—On the centre, between the Oise and the Meuse, we have advanced in the direction of Craonne. To the northeast of the highway from Berry-au-Bac to Rheims and to the north of Prunay, in the direction of Beine, several German trenches have been taken. “Between the Meuse and the Moselle, after having re- pulsed during the night of Oct. 13-14 certain attacks to the tgoutheast of Verdun, our troops advanced on the 14th to the south of the highway from Verdun to Metz. “Third—On our right wing the partial offensive move- ' ment undertaken by the Germans in the Ben de Sapt, to the north of St. Die, has been definitely checked. “In Russia the fighting continues along the front, begin- ning in the vicinity of Warsaw, stretching along the Vistula and the San as far as Przemysl and further in a southerly direction as far as the Dniester. “There has been no change in East Prussia."’ LONDON, Oct. 15 (Associated Press.|—The Rome corre=- spondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company says a inessage from Basel states that the French have reoccupied Altkirch and Muelhausen. The Germans, it is said, were compelled to use 150 motor cars to carry off their wounded. Headquarters of the Kaiser Moved Still Further in France| BERLIN, Oct. 15 (via wireless to Sayville, L. 1.)—The German War Office announces that Kaiser Wilhelm has moved his headquarters further into France. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 15 [Central News Cable].—The Ger- mans have definitely occupied Bruges, about thirteen miles from Ostend, and are in force two-thirds of the way from Ghent to the seacoast. + LONDON, Oct, 15 [Associated Press].—The allied French, iL , Continued og Second Page.) eo . y, Dd WILSON INDORSES GLYNN IN STRONG LETTER OF PRAISE Hopes People Will Re-Elect ! Him Governdr With an Emphatic Majority. SAYS RECORD IS OPEN. Candidate Has Not Kept Any-| thing Back, but Acted With Directness. WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.— Indorse- | ment was given to Gov. Glynn of New York to-day in a campaign letter sent to him by President Wil- | son. The President expressed tne! hope that Glynn would be returned to his post “with an emphatic ma- jority." The President's letter fol- lows: “My Dear Gov. Glynn:— “Lam very glad to hear of the hope- ful prospects of the campaign in New York. I feel a most cordial interest in it, as T need hardly say, and want | to glve myself the pleasure of express- ing to you personally my earnest hope that the voters of the State will re- turn you to your post as Governor with an emphatic majority. “Your record Is open and to be Judged for itself, You have not kept anything back, but haye acted with candor and directness. “The Democratic voters of the State have given you their decisive ap- proval at the primaries. I hope that every man who goes to the polls next month will look upon your candidacy aus embodying the cause of progres- sive legislation and the advancement at every point of the interests of the people. You have my cordial best wishes. Sincerely yours, “WOODROW WILSON." abe Sip eraRt TELEPHONE LAWYER'S SON SUED FOR $50,000 Miss Dorothy James Says Walter H. Cahill Has Failed to Keep His Promise to Marry Her. Walter H. Cahill, son of John H Cahill, general counsel for the New York Telephone Company, who is a lawyer in his father's office in the phone building at No. 18 Dey street, was sued to-day tn the Su- preme Court for $50,000 damages by Miss Dorothy James, who alloges that young Cahil has failed to keep his promise to marry her. Miss James's lawyer, J. W, Fuller- Thompson, describes her as an ox- ceptionally beautiful girl of twenty one who has a large social acquaint- ance, and who live swith her mother uptown Miss James alleges that she met Cahill last November, taat he prom- ised last December to marry her in September, Just past, and that he has |disappeared, She says, too, that sho 1s aproaching motherhgod and asserts that the young lawyer Is the father ie her unbern child. The young lawyer lives with his | father at tho Waldorf-Astoria and ts outside man for the telephone com- pany's legal department. ee ss ala a : is. Ss. Metapan Sunk in Collision Down the Bay : ee Wireless Call Saves Her Passengers| nieleimleloine NEWARK JUDGE'S DAUGHTER ELOPES VIA CLOTHESLINE Miss Elga Herr —She’s Mrs. Mohrbacher Now—Slid to Happiness. Who says romance is dead in New- ark or that little hearts do not go pitty-pat as in the days when there were no six cylinder cars running straight to Gretna Green? Surely not sprightly Miss Flga Herr| that was-Mrs. John Mohrbacher right now, if you please, For last night she siid down a clothes line from her bedroom in her papa, the Judge's home, landed smack in the arms of her brand new husband and went right away from Newark. Little Mrs. Mohrbacher and Dr. John Mahrmacher, medical Inspector of the Newark High School not only went from No, 404 Bergen street, but they are going yet, according to whispered gossip. They may not stop until they get to Bermuda, and there's no telling that they'll stop even there. One angry judge of the Newark Criminal Court, who Incidentally is a father, remains behind in the Bergen street home to-day glowering at a plain white clothes line. Until recently little Miss Elga was 4 nineteen-year-old schoolgirl in the Newark High, Then the handsome young medico, whom all the girls called “Dr, John," began visiting the school and taking the pulse of the girls to see if they suffered from brain fag—or cay heart affection, say, “Dr, John" goon discovered the bright-eyed daughter of Judge Charles F, Herr was good to look upon and got an introduction. To Elga? Oh, no! To her older sister. This doctor person Is a wise—wise man, He managed to get invitations to call upon Elga’s sister and each time he went to the house on Bergen street he caught a smile and the flash of two roguish eyes from behind some door or curtain, Nobody but Elga] » and “Dr, John" really knew why he called gt the home of Judge Herr. But the Judge suspected not Ago.and told (Dr. Jahn" trapkly, es he needn't come around as often as he used to. Eiga was too young to have a beau, said the Judge; what vas more pertinent, there was an In- surmountable difference in their re- Iigions, i At school, however, the wise dog- tor managed to whisper a little ques- tion Into the ear of Elga and she nodded her head with a frightened “Oh-h-h-!" So on Oct, & the doctor reported to the school principal Elga really was not feeling well and should he allowed to go home. She was dis- missed and jumped into a machine Just around the corner and came to New York with “Dr, They were married somewhere; nobody except Papa, the Judge, knows where and he didn’t find out until to-day. Elga—Mra. Dr. John Mohrbacher. excuse us—wWent back to school next day and did “amo—amas” of conju- gation just as if nothing had hap- 4. Papa, the Judge, closely over her, howe fives trailed “Dr. Jo every move, it was sald to-day. queer, At 1.30 A. M, to-day a plain. police: man on post near Judge Herr's home saw a little girl hustle out of a yard with a suitcase, Also with a man. The girl, the suitcase and the jumped Into a big car around the corner and off the machine snorted About six hours later Judge Herr went up to find out why Elga was not at her breakfast and he found !t—a neat, white clothesline hanging from the window aill to the ground, RAIN ENDS 47-DAY PERIOD OF DROUGHT Weather Man Says It Will Continue | Untfl To-Morrow Evening. One of the longest droughts New York ever experienced ended this af- ternoon when a storm began which, the Weather Man expects will Inst until to-morrow evening, At mid- night last night the forty-sixth day of drought broken only by a fall of twenty one thousandths of an inch on Sept, 24 and 26, came to an end The longest drought recorded at the Weather Bureau was 51 days in 1884 and in 1910, but in theae periods firat 43 one hundredths and then i one hundredths of an inch of rain fell, aan Gertrude Atherton, the famous novelist, will report the Carman Murder Trial for The World. Ameng Mra. Atherton's o Sparhawk city eror;" Fortunate Grace and English Hi ‘ona “Rulers Daughter of f the a3 Vines" The Valiant Runaways” tovay” revane t ee end "ihe Goraests ecenafal hooks Her Times; ‘American Wives Rebibibicticeiieteiiet MRS. CARMAN WILL TESTIFY AT HER TRIAL FOR MURDER Accused Woman Will Give Her Version of the Shoot- ing of Mrs. Bailey. (Special to The Evening World.) MINEOLA, L. Is Oct. 15.—The keenest Interest In the trial of Mra Vlorence C, Carman for the murder 4 Mrs, Louise 1), Bailey, which opens next Monday at the court house here, entres In the story that Mrs, Carman will tell on the witness stand, This narrative of what she saw ead heard in her home tn Freeport the night Mrs. Ba in Dr. Carman’s office, ley was shot to death the defense tried in every way to get before the Grand Jury which twice indicted her, first for manslaughter and finally for murder in the first cegree, Her coun- fel sought, even by a walver of im- munity, to get her eerore the Grand Jurymen, but District-Attorney Smith prevailed and Mrs, Carman's version of the tragedy, save as she related It at the Coroner's Inquest last July, has never been heard The day that Mra, Carman ts to tuke the stand in her behalf has not been ded upon py her attorneys, but probably will be on Friday of next week, unless a much longer time Is expected In obtaining @ Jury than the attorneys believe, Surrogate Graham, and George Levy, believe that Mra. will he the same calm, low , listening intently to ques- nd replying with marked liberation, that she was when she} faced Coroner Norton in the stuffy little court in Freeport last summer. It is not likely that Mrs, Carman will be in her assoctate Carman ounsel, with tons an hour for direct examination, Sur rgate Grahar sald to-day that he could ask her all the questions he desired . half an hour, Mr. Levy said two _Relre, wavie would be | be the limit. Pret Wit Mt gf,ecoms, 20 PAGES her attorney, | voiced | the witness chair more than WEATHER—Rain probable to-night and Friday. I . Pane ONE CENT. —— METAPAN RAMMED ~ BY FREIGHTER IWAN ~ ON WAY INTO HARBOR Captain Drives Her Into Shoal Wa- ter and She Sinks With Her Up- per Decks Out of Water as SOS Signals Flash. 76 PASSENGERS TAKEN OFF BY RESCUING STEAMSHIPS Capt. Spencer and Crew Still on Board Stricken United Fruit Company’s Ship. The United Fruit Company steamship Metapan, bound in, with seventy-six first-class passengers and a cargo of bananas, sank at 4 o'clock this afternoor’ in shoal water off buoy No. | at the entrance to Ambrose Channel after a cole lision with the outbound steamer lowan. The collision occurred at 3.15 o'clock. ‘i The sharp bow of the lowan tore a big hole in the Metas pan, and Capt. Spencer soon satisfied himself that the vese sel was doomed. While his wireless aperator sent out SOS signals he sent the boat to the shoal at the west of the chane nel, where she sank in 16 feet of water. Her upper deck was well clear of the water and the pase sengers assembled there until they were tdken off by steamers that had responded to the wireless call for help. The collision occurred in a dense fog. The Iowan drifted away and lay to near Scotland Iightship. It {s understood that she was not badly damaged, but nothing definite could be gathered from her wireless mee sages The Metapan was bound for her East River berth from Central Ameri- can ports and Kingston, Jamaica. She passed Scotland Lightship at 2.50 o'clock, and twenty-five minutes later entered Ambros+ Channel, running at reduced speed and sounding fog signals. Many other boats tn the vicinity were sounding signals and the result vas confusing. The lowan appeared in the mist a short distance away from the Metapan, bearing directly down upon her, Both captains tried in vain to avoid the collision, The vessels were too close together to be manoeuvred out of each other's way. The lowan struck a glancing blow, ripping off steel plates at and below the water-line The hatches of the Metapan were battened down and othrwise fastened for the protection of the banana cargo. It was Impossible to get below in time to take steps to stop the leak, The only open step for Capt. Spencer was to make for shoal water and let his boat down vasy. Near the entrance to Ambrose Channel at the time of the collision were the Ward Iner Monterey, in-bound; the Lanape, out-bound; the Kamina and the revenue cutter Seneca. All picked up the wireless mes- sage from the Metapan and started to her assistance as rapidly as the foggy conditions prevailing would permit. The Sandy Hook life saving crew also put out for the wreck As soon as the news reached the Battery Place offices of the United Frult Company tugs were despatched to the relief of the Metapan, The | wireless operator of the stricken ship, a8 soon as he saw that the water would enter the engine rooms and stop the main battery, connected his ‘apparatus with the emergency storage battery on the upper deck and ‘kept in continuous communication with surrounding vessels, Sandy Hook and Sea Gate. The disaster caused great excitement in shipping circles. As soon as the S. 0. 8. signa! was picked up this query was sent to the Metapan: ‘Are you badly injured; do you need assistance?” “We are badly damaged and in a sinking condition and neeé help at | once,” was the message in reply. At that time the exact position of the Metapan was not known. It wag , feared he was @ considerable distance outside ‘" Hook, Next came) hy Sy Shes