The evening world. Newspaper, November 5, 1914, Page 1

= / ‘SUBMARINES TO RAID BRITISH | RUSHED TO GERMAN NAVAL BAS SIX MEN PERISH IN FIRE WHICH SWEEPS EIGHTH AVE HOTEL AS THEY SLEE Two-Score Frantic Men Res- cued From Fire Escapes by Firemen. CHARRED BODIES FOUND Believed Smoker Started Blaze That Suffocates Waverly Patrons. Six men were burned to death at 7 o'clock to-day in a fire which within @ few minutes swept from the second | floor to the roof of the four-story allding at No. 352 Kighih avenue, three floors of which are known as @e Waverly Hotel. The ground floor | f @ motion picture house owned by Paul Resprepa. THE DEAD. HOCTOR, JACK; eighty-four; laborer. REGAN, ——-; fifty; laborer. LOUIS, BERNARD; thirty- five; laborer. LYNN, EDWARD J.; ves tunchman, OERWILLIGER, fifty-three; laborer. Unidentified man. The Identifications were made by Harry Mahod, the night clerk, who @aid that five of the six men were Tegular patrons ‘The lodging house was run by Sar- rirano & Co, and had accommoda- tions for eighty-five men. Last gight’s register shows sixty-five men @ere lodged there for the night at 46, 20 or 25 cents each, but it is thought not more than fifty were in the building when the fire started on the second floor. It ts believed somebody, in violating the rule against smoking, started the fire, which was discovered by Peter Selly, a watchman, He and Thomas Hurst, the clerk who relieved the nignt elerk at 5 o'clock, rushed through the corridors and warned as many men as cond Page.) thirty- LAZARUS; (Continued on WO FIRE LINE AT BLAZE AT STH AVE, AND 420 ST. While tratiic at Fifth avenue and Forty-second street was at high tide at 8 o'clock this afternoon a fire started on the fourth floor of the oid- fasnioned, five-story building on the portheast corner, Vlames burst from the. windows and smoke filled the heighborhood, Battalion Chief Ross arrived as Policemen were stopping traffic and forming five lines. Vehicles and p @estrians were piling up for blocks. “Open up the traffic and cut the fire lines,” ordered the Chief, “Ten minutes of this will tie the whole town up. Keep ‘em moving.” His orders were obeyed, Traffle moved a9 usual, while the from fought the blaze. In less than half en hour the firemen had left, the ° js attracted by the blaze had @cattered, and but for wet sidewalkn| and pavements cod broken windows there were nv signs of a fire. Lt was probably the first day blaze in New Yorks in usy district ever fouxht pretation” interruption or fire line " : “NOT GUILTY!" 1S WHISPERED PLEA OF ROCKEFELLER Magnate in Federal 1 Federal Court Ar An- swers New Haven Con- spiracy Charge. William Rockefeller, who heads thy list. of twenty-one directors ahd for- mer directors of the New Haven ays- tem indicted on the charge of con- spiracy, was in the Federal District Court before Judge Foster this morn- ing to make hir plea. Mr. Rockefeller was acheduled to | appear at 2 P. M., so only a meagre crowd was prosent when he walked into court, attended by his counsel, John P. Garver, of Sherman & Storl- ing, No, 55 Wall street. Mr. Rockefeller wore « gray tweed suit, black overcont, square-crowned Diack bat aud tan gloves, Ho carried acanc and walked with a slight limp. He scemed relieved to note the sparseness of the crowd, Ils head shook as If partly paisted, and us be lifted his hand to his fuce tt shook slightly, After Judge Foster bad asvande! the bench Clerk Leary called the de- fendant to the bar. “Mr. Rockefeller,” be asked, "do you waive the reading of this tn- dictmont?) How do you plead?” “Not guilty,” spoke the aged de- fendant in « vol» scarcely louder than a whisper, Attorney Garver the, asked the Court for permission to make the usual@motion. within the time fixed for the other defendaats, which was granted, Bail was fixed at $3,000 and the court procesdinss ended, Mr. Rockefeller kat again at the counsel table and watted briefly for the crowd to disper: . Counsel, seo- jug lttle chance of this, then con- ducted him to Commissioner Hough- ton's office, whero a bond prepured by the National ‘urety Company, No, 115 Broadway, was » and Mr, Rock- ofeller was at liberty to go. Mr. Rockefeller was at his town house, No, 689 Fifth avenue, all day yesterday, having come from bis Adirondack Lodge tho duy before, As be lett the court-house he posed for a battery of photographers, Then he touched bis hat, entered his automo- bile and was driven up town, When asked if he had anything to say, bo Whispered: “1 can't talk.” That was his only personal word con- cerning the course of the Govern- ment in bringing in the indictment. Johy P. refused to dixcuas the case. This afternoon John L. Billard ap- peared before Judge Foster and en- tered his plea of not gullty, His counsel, Homer 5. Cummings of Stamford, Conn, in asking thine for change of plea, &e., added that his client might wish to enter a plea in to the indictment, Privately Mr. !Cummines said this would be a plea of immunity based on Biilard's ap- |pearance as 4 witness before the Inter- state Commerce Commission during the Investigation into the uffaira of arver, his attorney, al@! JEWELER I$ SHOT IN BOLD HOLD-UP. BANDITS CAUGHT They Flee With Money, Firing at Pursuers in Eighty- seventh Street. STRUGGLE IN WAGON. Thrilling Chase Ends Near| Broadway After Battle in Swaying Vehicle. a. Ernest, a jeweller, whote shop {a ut No, 568 Columbus avenue, | corner of Eightysseventh street, was! alone in big place of business at noon to-day. Ie wae eitfing at a table Unkering over a bit of clockworks of him two mon stealthily enter the shop and close the door behind them. While one of the men stood by the door bracing It against opening trom tho outuido with his fout, the other steppod ewiftly around the corner of the counter and put @ ptatol to Er. Nest’s houd. “Your money and don't make a row about It ur [ll shoot!” the hold-up mau growled. . Ernest sat quite still and nodded to- ward the open cased drawer at his side, The highw 4 put his froe hand into the drawer, gathered up a aheat of bills and Jumped back around the corner of the counter. Just as he aturted for the dour Een est whipped a revolver from a con- vealed shelf by his knees aud pointed it at the robber. Ho didn’t have the nerve to #hvot. be tatrucer with the gun tired ouce at Kruext; the pul- let ploughed upcthe Jewellers right arm and bis revelver dropped trom his hand Out of the door and onto the atreot the two highwaymen iexped. Both started west on Elghty-aoventh strent toward Mroadway, two blocks away C, Salmeri, a druggist, whose store is next to Ernest's slvp and who nad heard the shot, aturted to pursim them, but hulf way down the block one of the fugitives whirled and fired a mhot past Saimort's ear, ‘That stopped the drugstst, At Broadway and Wighty-aevonth street @ butchers nute YAa driven by Harry Gregory of No. 104 West “ighty-ninth street wis Juat druwing up to the curb. when the thieves dashed past. One of them swerved, loaped to the seat of the van and pushed lis revolver nyainst the rite of the startled chauffeur. ‘Now drive ike b——!"" he yelled, ‘and don't stop to ask any questions, Gregory threw on tis power and the dolivery van started on au orrath course down Kroadway, a crowd that Was uugmented every intnutw fullow- ing. Thy cry "Stop thief!" was taken up by a hundred mouths. The daring thief in the auto seemed to Gave a ter tele tor excape until John Stadler of No. 513 Amaterdam avenue proved himself a citizen of) more than ordinary nerve. Stadler aaw the auto bowling down Broud- way, heard the ery of the crowd ba- hind and jumped out from the side- walk to swing himself over the tall- | board. Gregory, at the wheel, dared }to slacken the car's pace, divining | Stadler's purpose | The thief swung from the » |took his stund among the baskets jfacing tho rear of the van, He levelled his gun at Stadler, warning that he would shoot tho New Haven, | Re aed are three more men to plead, \ are. ries ¢, James oy couldn't bit aay leg ae you, Stadler answei b Ci. ye Nallboord and Bighwaymaa. when he saw by & mirror in front) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 BATTLE WITH BANDIT IN FLYING AUTO ON BROADWAY ss WEATHER—Fair and colder to-night; , FINA EDITION 1914, 18 PAGES ____— PRIOR ONE CENT. BELGIAN REFUGEES ON BOAT AT DOVER Gregory stowed down his maine, while Stadler and the man with the fought In the back of the van, Hinally Stadler, with the help of August Slobert of No, 6) Weat Kighty- elehth rtroet disurmed and subdued tho robber ay the maching came to a stop at Elghty-stxth street, ‘They turned the thief ever ta a policeman there, Meanwhilo tho second hold-up ian hud spod on foot down Mioudway ty Kighty-sixth street, through to West Kod a A down to Bighty- thirds oO he ran Inte the arma of Malloy of the wtation, station the prisoner over- Stadler cave ble name as the other said he ne. Both give No, airest, Brooklyn as No money was found atu powered w 6 Sixtewnth tholr address, on elther ‘The guna they bad thrown away io thelr flight wero afterward picked up. Koxgski admitted shooting the jeweller, STEEL TRUGK SMASHES “L" KIOSK TO SPLINTERS Loaded With Goal It Beco: manageable al Seventy-ninth Street | and Bulls Its Way to Staircase. A Dig steel automobile truck loaded with coal and belonging to the Weber- | Bunke-Lange Coal Company vecame | unmanageable at Seventy-ninth street apd = Brondway = this’—afternoon, | swerve and crashed into the uptown | |subway klosk, wrecking the metal | and miss structure, ho “driver Isaped from hia seat) |beforo the collision took place and| the truck, after smashing several | Steel girders of tho Klowk as easily | 8 It they had been imatehes, kept plowing through the wrochage until |Its forward part rested on thy stair way entrance 1 aaa aces t ana|$12 Men’ 's O'coats & Suits,$5.95 ar ‘The Clothiers, Broadway, cor, Barclay Bet OLD ASTOR HOUSE, will eel th end Friday 2.600 Men's Winter 8 iy and nm joe oats. black Eilbet wns, pened atripen ans ark thinea moral ls, all sizes, Se-44 rida 6s. ote 95.95, our ape le pb Ma ony » | j mento Magdale: |WINTER SAILINGS OF OLYMPIC CANCELLED VILLA TROOPS BATTLE WITH CARRANZA FORCE Fighting Going On Twenty Mile From Peace Convention City— Clash Also in Souvra, EL. PASO, ‘Tex., Nov. 6.—-An official report recelyed by Villa oMetals in Juared wild that a battio was in prog. reas between Villa and Carranza troops twenty miles south of Aguon- callontes, where the cunvention of chiefs recently attempted to adjust their fac tonal dificultien It ts safd Villu has sont a force ut 10,000 1 ro thin 100 ean on tom dvance of the Care whose strength te not rangn troops, known, Ariz., 5. PM hgheln progress near Magdalen between 400 of © Villiata: troops and 4 Benjarnin BRL, th » sent Hill's 1 south trains, White Star Line Says Steamer Has} Been Withdrawn Because of Slim Trattic. | BELVAST, Ireland, Nov. 6, via London.—'Tho winter sailings of the White Star Line steamer Olympic | havo been cancelled and to-day the members of her crow were pald off the office of the White star Line it was suid to-day that the Olympics winter sailings wers dis- | continued eurlier than Usual this year | jbecauay of the small number of pas- | sengers curried on the last trip, The Cunard liner Lusitania! iy the nly one cs the ne areee transatlantic eo pow ip [indictments sup) | Manzanillo, Pi HELD IN $25, 000 BAIL, WANTS A BONDSMAN Mr. Jarmulowsky Can't Find One, the Tombs tor His Prison. M. Jarnulowsky of the banking house of M, & J. Jarmulowsky, No. 165 Kast Broadway, who was indicted yesterday on four counts for having accepted deposits after he knew the bank was Insolvent and Juat before the State Banking Department took it over oarly in August, was arraigned before Justice Mulqueon in General Sessions to-day for vlogding muel Koontg, the banker's coun- asked that ball bo sot at District-Attorney Delehanty ctod, Judge Mulqueen fixed bail $50,000 and sharply dented Mr nig’s request that J rily paroled 4) he day the 1 0. wel Acting Under Judge Mulqueen's after further ple at Detective Her mulowsky in “ie y In the Court Building until 4 0’ which, failing to fin he must be locked up i The Septomber brought in the Mandel beforn Ju sions this aft Timinal ck, after ndsman, to ons In connection act of four. pe with the banks of M, Kobro, which went under at about the same time ax the others. ‘Tho Jury wax dis. charged with the tunics of tho Court, STEAMSHIPS D DUE TO- DAY. Rotterdam ‘ rto Mexico pe Abublnan SAILING TO-DAY. Arundo, 10 A.M. 11A.M Moro Castle, Havana........12M. Iroqueis, 8an Domingo: 3P.M, Patria, Marseill 3P. f Mont; FOR RACING - several carrying submarines and torpedo boats in sections, © FRENCH PRESIDENT Reports From Liege Say That Reins forcements Are Being Rushed to: the German Right Wing on 200 “~ Cars a Day. LONDON CLAIMS VICTORY | OVER 700,000 GERMANS ey THE HAQUE, Nov. 5 (United Press].—Enormous numbers _ | of German reinforcements are en route to France and West Flanders. ; Reports from Liege state that for the last three days lung trains loaded with singing soldiers have been passing through that cit} from Aixela-Chapelle. Two hundred cars pass through in aday. There have Mg also been seen eight trains loaded with ammunition andi x together with their crows and war materials. : It is believed that the Germans arc determined not only | to hack their way through to the coast citles, but that they also plan operations against tho English coast. The torpedo boats and submarines have been sent direct | to Bruges, where large quantities of naval reserves and active. | seamen have been massed. a It is far cnough inlandte Bruges is an ideal naval base. be out of range of the guns of the warships that tho allies have so far brought into action along the French and Boigian: coasts and is connected with the seacoast town of Zev Bruge | by a deep canal. It is reported that seven German destroyers have been seen off the Belgian coast. [t is supposed that they, have been used for scouting purposes and that it is the intention © of the Germans to send them into Zee Bruge harbor to effect a junction with the other war craft there. The Germans have laid mines along the coast from Ostend north, according to late reports reaching here. OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. President Poincare Announces a Repulse of the German Columns © PARIS, Nov. 5 (Assoctated Presa) —President Poincare has sent a letter to War Mintstor Millerand, in which he declares: “After a long seriés violeut combut¢ today our armies, together with the allied troops, have tl proot in this'uew phase of the war of qualities as admirable as those showas by them fn the victoriqua bate of thy Marne, The French official announcement given out in Paris this afte says: “On our left wing the allied forees have made slight progress to the of Nieuport, on the right bank of the Yser. From Dixmude to the Lys German attacks were renewed yeaterday, but at a number of points lessened energy, particularly with regard to the actions of their infantry. The Franco-British lines have at no point drawn back, and our undertaking the offensive, have made notable progress in several di “Betwean the regiou of La Bassee and. the Somme the day was particularly for an artillery contest, “In the region of Roye we have maintained our occupation of Le q noy-en-Santerre, and advanced perceptibly in the direction of | "On the centre, between the Olse and the Moselle, there has ate are Fe ; ie i Oe