The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1914, Page 1

i = | FINAL | “¢ Circulation Books Open to All.’ | PRICE ONE ORBLE shelled dll On yh i: Ryd satiead MOTORMAN IN FRAN “L” TRAIN FROM THIRD CAR, INTERBOROUGH ADMITS \y First Cuts Grok Circuit Defective aN and Second Was Trailer With No Motor. Sins LANTERN SIGNALS USED. Passenger Asserted He Heard Motorman Urge That Train Be Taken Off. The Interborough Company ad- ultted in an ingenuous statement ts- \ ue@-by VieeDresident and General > Manager Frank Hedley to-day that 4 + tee local train which collided with express train at the One Hun- Jared and Sixteenth Street station of the Ninth Avenue “L” ‘yesterday evening was being operated by a motorman stationed in the third car of the train. Joha Collins, a guard, and Gottlieb Minmioh, a clerk of No. 215 West One Mundred and Sixteenth street, were _ Killed and fifty others wore injured ju the collision and the subsequent fire which destroyed two of the wood- em cars. Mr. Hedley said the motorman, T. MoMahon, finding that there _was @omething wrong with the first motor oar “then operated his train from the se ond motor.” To one not familiar with the operating methods of the "L” fead this statement means that Mc- Mahon was in the motor box of the #édond car of the train, But the “L” trains ure made up of Biternate motor cars and trailors. ‘The first car of tho local operated by MoMahon was & motor car, the sec- ond was a tra! and the third was equipped with a motor box. Conse- quently McMahon was two cars away from the head of his train, working the electric control and the air brake while leaning far out of the window, staring into the snow and mist ahead in momentary danger of having hia head knocked off. CONDUCTOR ON FIRST CAR TO SIGNAL. ‘The motor box is on the right hand side of the car. On the front plat- form of the first car was the con- duotor, equipped with a lantern, with fhigh he waved signals to the motor- man, two cars behind. “"iPhis lantern signad system was (Continued on Second Page.) The Question of Defense Much 1s being sald about protecting ourselves against foreign invasion, but how about guarding «gainst Adversity, that bitter enemy who slink. pot the @oorways of our homes jusine. 3 laces, the alert to catch us off bape rob us of employment, workers, conifortab le home: safe Investments, attics or an various nities to 5 8 oP ite in thelr fulness, you arrange to have The World de- tivered at your home or office eve During th: last eleven months 1,203,148 TEhiKs wok 551, 815 “SRE MORE Tan Onn ate Corb Esa Tn dite NEW YORK, THURSDAY, \GAINS ON ENTIRE 200-MILE FRONT | CLAIMED BY THE PARIS WAR OFFICE | WEATHER—Unesttied to-night and Friday . FINAL DECEMBER “10, “1914. 20 PAG AGES PRICE ONE CENT. FATAL CRASH M’CALL DOESN’T BLAME WOODEN CARS FOR FIRE ON THE “L,”” “I was at the scene of the acci- dent last night, and from what 1 saw and learned I do not believe that the wooden cars figured prominently as a factor in the roll of dead and Injured. Numer- 15 Witnesses informed me that all @ passengers inside the two cars had escaped before the flames be- gan their work.’ Statement of Chairman 6. 5. McCall of the Public Service Commisqion, S| $30,000,000 BONDISSUE TO FINISH BARGE CANAL Republicans Plan Constitutional Amendment to Complete Work in Whitman's Term, ‘ The appointment of General Wo- therspoon as State Superintendent of Public Works, with the especial task of completing the $101,000,000 barge canal, will result, it is said to-day, in) @ request by the Republicans for a $30,000,000 bond issue, It is thought that this sum will be just enough to complete the canal. It is said to be the Republican plan to have the bond issue effected by means of a constitutional amendment rather than by the two-time passage by the Legislature, The former opera- tien would permit of the expenditure of the amount during Whitman's term of office, whereas passage through the Legislature would carry it over to the term of the next Gov- ernor, BIGGEST COTTON CROP IN COUNTRY’S HISTORY Yield This Year, According to Gov- ernment Figures, Is More Than 16,000,000 Bales, WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The United States this year has produced the greatest crop of cotton in its his- tory. More than 16,000,000 bales— 15,966,000 of lint cotton and Unters cotton, unofficially estimated at from 600,000 to 650,000 ‘are the crop. ————————— FRENCH SOLDIERS EDIT PERIODICAL FROM THE TRENCHES IN ARGONNE. PARIS, Nov. 30 (Correspondence of An- sociated Press),—"The Echo of the Ar- gonne" Is the title of a new French pe- rlodical edited from the trenches in the depths of the Argonne forest, where the French and the Germans have disputed the ground yard by yard for more than three months. It makes its debut with the announce- ment of a successful skirmish in which | the “blue devils,” the chasseurs, defeat- ed the Germans once more in the Haus- sy forest and tells of a victory of the Kussians in Poland and the progress of | the allies in the north, ‘The leading article, double leaded and TO FINE INTERBORO |BIGAMIST'S WIVES $5,000 A DAY FOR | (4) TELLIN COURT JAMMING SUBWAY) HOW HE WON THEM Maltbie Will] Wooing of Von Wagner Is Commissioner Ask Board to Start Action at Once. STANDEES AT ALL HOURS|SAY HE GOT THEIR $$$. Trains Taken Off in Non-Rush| When He Had Bride’s Money, Hours Cause of Constant Overcrowding. Charged with wantonly violating the overcrowding ‘.w in the subways, of- ficlale of the Interborough Company are.to be brought to task to-morrow when Public Service Commissioner Milo R. Maltbie will ask his.colleagues to kegin ault in the name of the city. Commissioner Maltbie says each day's violation of the overcrowding law im- poses & penalty of $5,000 and he adds that he bas evidence of a sumber of such violations. Commissioner Maltble is proceeding under Section 66 of the Public Service Law, which provides that for every fallure to obey the commissiot ders requiring adequate service, there shall be a fine of not exceeding 96,000 for each violation a day to cover each distinct violation, and that every of- ficer or agent of the company who alds or abets a violation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. “A jail sentence may go with the punishment,” declared the Commis- sioner. Speaking of the action he propores taking to relleve subway conditions, Commissioner Maitbie says: “Investigations of the subway ser- vice in non-rush hours, made at my request during the past few weeks, show that cars were crowded when more trains could have been run, that the orders of the Commission were constantly violated, and that the numerous complaints received regard- ing inadequate service were largely fled, ‘During rush hours the Interbor- ough Company claims to be operating trains to the maximum capacity of the lines, and no more can be ex- pected. But there is no excuse for constant crowding of the cars at non- rush hours and for continual failure to comply with the orders of the Com- mission. Under present conditions, passengers must be indecently crowd- ed at certain hours, but because they are accustomed to It Is no reason why they should be compelled to hang on to atraps when it is not necessary. “A recent tally by the Transporta- tion Department of the Commission, taken at the Ninety-eixth Street Sta- tion on one Saturday night und Sun- day morning between 11.20 P. M. and 1.40 A, M., shows that the nort! trains had standing passe: every period of twenty minutes except one. At another time there were standing “assengers from 10.40 P. M. to 1.40 A. M,' Upon a recent Sunday nigit there was overloading from 9.20 P, M. go midnight. Another count showed congestion from 2.20 to 6.20 P. M. on Sunday. “These are not isolated cases. the orders of the Commission anything, they should be enforced; it they are not to be enforced they ought to be reacind: Boston Steck EB: Graphically Described to Recorder McGovern. “Marryer” Always Disap- peared, They Charge. Recorder McGovern to-day issued a warrant for Karl von Wagner, who ta being sought by the Hoboken police! for alleged matrimonial swindling games. Four women testified he had married and robbed them in quick succession, His partner, Arthur Kiep. | tw held in $8,000 bail for the Grand’ Jury on a charge of conspiracy, which he denies. The Hoboken Police Court was a rendezvous for von Wagner’s alleged wives, ex-wives and prospective wives, They sat close together and talked and talked. They had only one subject of conversation—"HIM.” There was no suggestion of envy or rivalry in the air, They seemed most interested in the problem of how to get their money back; next to that, in the chance of punishing von Wagner, and only slightly in the old song, somewhat altered, “I won- der who's kissing him now!" Recorder McGovern had Klee brought to the bar, Men who keep cafes and lodging houses identified him as the partner of Von Wagner, who got his mail at their houses. Two of the women identified him as Von Wagner's constant associate, and Miss Marie Belich told how he tried to marry her, though she met him only once. “Why didn't you see him again?” asked the Recorder. “I didn’t like his looks,” Marie replied, The spectators tittered. Here are his looks: He js tall, thin, dejected and knockknoed; complexion blond and pale; hair unkempt, mustache pathetically puny, expression sad, Mrs. Rose Stetten Edelman testified she met Von Wagner in Chicago, where she read his advertisement in @ matrimonial paper. He told her he had money, He married her as Ar- thur Edelman, she testified. she drew her $800 savings from the bank and brought it to Hoboken, where she lived three weeks with him, Then he vanished with $600 of her money, she charges, She identified Klee as his intimate friend. Mrs. Anna Schetlen Edelman testt- fied she read a matrimonial advertise- ment, answered it and sa: led to Edelman in chelle last September, She says he took her to Chicago, where he told her his firm would pay her 8 per cent. @ year on her money. She gave him $400, “and next day he said he had received a telegram and must go right off to New York.” She hasn't seen him since. Klee, ah » Was bis in- timate associate. Mrs. Anna Koller of No. 1001 Third Avenue, New York, testified she was married to von Wagner in Waukegan, {L, and that he took $500 from her. she, too, knew Klee as his partner. Mra, Martha Mueller testified she we Reopens, BOSTON, Dec, 10,—The |the Church of the married von Wagner Oct, 28, 1905, at Most Holy Re- ing and Sunday you will be well) fre to thwart ‘dversity and put) Im to rout. coming diate! In the trenches, in fut face type, announced the forth. | ution of 14,000 briar pipes | jafter a suspension of trading for 109| Bowron |deemer, in East Third Street, New York. ‘As soon as he found she had Stock Exchange was reopened to-day | 19 money he vanished, aanane Greek Minister Sails, ‘business days due to the war, Aggamemnon Schiiemann, who has) five members were on the been the Greek minister to the United | the gong sounded. The first transas- Stutes for four months, started | hor | tion was in American Telephone at ALD | 12°" day on the America of the Mullan) 117, the same listing ax when the ex- | change closed, The sale was quickly | a Weare ssn se alatarbed pos of approved by a special committee of tbv@ “Se nase on all sales, Fifty | bis country. floor when! Beoorder MOO ED. popounong oe the Argentine Coast, north of the Atlantic entrance to the Straits of Magel: | 0 i for ignoring the cage. (Jan and west of kland Islands, hese swindlers have used the) It fs reported here also that the German auxiliary erulser Prince Eitel malls to defraud scores of Innocent > women," he said from the bench, fe cruising in the South Atlantic and that she has on board 1 ‘and I can't for the life of me seq | soldiers. why the Federal people can't take up | ig the case and give these wretches! belr deserts,” Women Who Tell of Bigamist’s Wooing, and His Alleged Aide eas <n LAST TWO OF RAIDING FLEET REPORTED SUNK BY BRITISH Wireless Report to Buenos Aires Says the Nurnberg and Dresden Went Down in Running Battle. BUENOR AIRES, Dec. 10 (United Press-.--The British fleet of Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee { reported to hive completed its victory over the German fivet in the South Atlantic by overtaking and sinking the cruisers Nurnberg and Dresden. The report was received here to-day In a wireless from Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands, which are British possessions According to the information received here six British cruisers were engaged with the Germans, Nothing is known as to the make-up of the British aquadron, except that it was accompanied by one transport. The battle which resulted in the sinking of the German cruisers .| Scharnharst, Gnelsenau and Leipzig started In Argentine waters, but de- veloped into a running fight which was carried {nto the high seas, and the German cruisers are reported to have gone down off the Falkland Islands. The German Admiral von Spee went down with his flagship, the Scharn- horst. The British losses, according to the wireless report, amounted to leas than one hundred killed and wounded. The British vessels were but slightly damaged. The Germans tried to avold a fight with the British fleet, von Spee was endeavoring to get out into the open Atlantic, In addition to sinking the three German cruisers the Brittsh feet captured and sunk five man merchant vessels in the vielnity in which the battle occurred. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec, 10 (Associated Press).--Wireless reports received here indicate that the German erulsers Dresden and Nurnberg, Admiral the survivors in the engagement with an English fleet Dee, 8, In whieh the Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau and the Leipzig were sunk, closely pursued by British warships, are fleeing In thy direction of Port Santa Cruz, on LONDON, Dec. 10.—King George to-day sent a message of congratu- Nation to Vice Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee and the men of bis fleet, 500 German SIX GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED BY FRENCH IN ARGONNE REGION Paris Reports Gains South of Arras, on Heights of Meuse and Other Points and Capture of Trenches Near Rheims. BERLIN CONTRADICTS PART OF FRENCH CLAIMS LONDON, Dec. 10.—Official and unofficial reports from Paris indicate that the German armies have been forced to give way at many points on the 200-mile line stretching across France. Although the official claims of the French and Germans ‘are directly contradictory as to the situation in the Argonne, where both make specific claims to gains, the French ane nouncement gives many details of the fighting that are [lacking in the Berlin statement. | Specific mention is made in the French report of the capture of trenches, of victories in artillery duels and of advances. These onslaughts have led to spirited counter- attacks by the Germans who yesterday are said to have made no less than six of these attempts in the Argonne. The French War Office makes no mention of any reverse. It declares that near Le Quesnoy, gains of from 200 to 600 yards were made. In the Aisne and on the heights of the Meuse the French artillery mastered the batteries of the enemy and near Rheims French cannon compelled the evacuation of trenches. Counter-attacks were repulsed near Perthes and in the Argonne. In the latter locality new trenches were taken by the French. PARIS, Dec. 10 (United Press}.—Brisk fighting continues in the vicinity of Ypres and along the entire line from the coast to Lille. Ypres has again been bombarded. Another report is that the allies have taken full possession of Diz- mude, This position has changed hands repeatedly. The official report this afternoon says: “The day of Dec, 9 passed quietly in Belgium, as well as in the region of Arras, where the enemy made no attempt at a re- sumption of offensive operations. “Further to the south, in the region of Le Quesnoy and around Andechy, we made advances varying from 200 to 600 yards. Our gains were maintained and consolidated. “In the region of the Aisne and in Champagne there has been no change. The German artillery, over which we gained the ad- vantage during the last few days, yesterday evidenced increased activity, but wa: jain mastered by our heavy artillery, “In the environs of Rheims the heavy French pieces compelled the Germans to evacuate several trenches. This evacuation was carried out under the fire of our infantry. “to the region of Perthes the enemy, by means of two counter attacks, endeavored to recapture the intrenchments which he lost to us Dec, 8. He was repulsed. The ground taken by us has been effectively’protected, “In all the Argonne region we have continued to make prog- ress, We have occupled new trenches, repulsed with complete suc- cess six counter-attacks, and completed and consolidated the ground won from the enemy. “On the heights of the Meuse there have been artillery engage- ments in which we maintained a distinct advantage, and this in spite of the very activity of the batteries of the enemy. “In the Forest of Le Pretre we have taken some new trenches. Berlin Reports the Defeat of the French in the Argonne BERLIN (by wireless to London), Dee, 10 (Assostated Press) __ oficial communication isqued by the German Army ong