The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1914, Page 1

+ SUBMARINE DIVES PAST MINE FIELD; SINKS BATTLESHIP IN DARDANELLE Turkish Battleship Which Was Sunk in Dardanelles, And the British Submarine Which Torpedoed Her 1 ) r a Che =— PRICE ONE CENT. Conrntents 1914 by the reese Pablisi (Li el York Werld), by [*‘Cireutation Books Open to All. iA ) ERO T= wey Ae ot Circulation Books ) Open “Reg pene J WARRING. PO WERS ORDER’ BIG SUPPLIES ee BS4$L to All. WEATHER—Fair to-night and Tuesday; much INA] NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 18 ‘PAGES “1914, PRICE ONE OCENT> GERMANY’S SECRET SERVICE REVEALS HUGE ARMIS ORDERS IT SAYS U. 8. HAS RECEIVED Gives List of Enormous Muni- ITHIS MAN WOULD KEEP tions and Names of Con- AEHOG Factories. GU! > IN THE MILLIONS. Says Deals Indicate Allies Expect War to Last Two Ye... More. The German secret service ts work- ing vigilantly in the United States to disclose the enormous orders for war. supplies placed in this country for use by the allied armies of Europe. ‘The information secured !s being pre- ented to the Government in Wash- ington as an argument in f ot Germany's demands upon President) Wiisoh to stop the exportation of munitions of war. Resolutions to this effect have been presented in both Houses of Congress. Representatives Barthold and Voll- | mar in the Lower House and Senator Hitchcock in the Senate are the chiet| supporters of the resolutions. ‘The Evening World has obtained the latest list of guns and ammuni- tion orders as compiled by t man secret service, giving detailed amounts and names of manufactur: | ers. | In contending for prohibition of these exports, Germany argues that Russia possesses practically but one arms factory, the Putilow works, and ig dependent on this country for war) munitions, England ts alleged to be unable to manufacture at home suf- ficient arms and ammunition to sup- ply her increased army, France has ginal! arms factories, but Is in need of heavy fleld howitzers. In the vase as presented by Ger- many there ts the following extraor- dinary peace argument, coming from the most warlike nation in the world: “While In the report orders for ar- tillery ammunition do pot seem to play an important part, the orders placed cover the whole output of the combined American factories for the next two and one-half years. “This seems to show that the allies are determined to carry on the war eyond this period with the help of American industry.” “Germany's Secret Service Report of Arms and Ammunition Order by the Allies in the United States” Is as follows: 200,000 rifles, calibre .30%, from the Remington Arms Company. 10,000,000 cartridges (alleged to be dum dum) from the Union Metallic Cartridge Company. 200,000 rifles, culibre .803, and 200,- 000,000 cartridges from the Winches- ter Arms Company. Total output of artillery cartridge cases of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company: 4,000,000 pounds of powder from the Du Pont Powder Company. 1,500 machine guns fre Works. (Larger orders pe! 0 =orevolvers from Works. 200 armored motor cars, with ma- from the Autocar Com- the Colt ding.) the Colt chine guns, pany. 000 rifles, calibre .22, and am- munition for drilling purposes from the Winchester Arms Company. pan FRANCE’S WAR SUPPBY ORDERS. wy six-inch howitzers, delivery hin eighteon months, from the m Steel Company powitsers from hl hell ¢ ame Comy uu poe powder from the ‘ompany gion win, ANd 14.009.000 cartridges, abgut 3,000,000 cartridges pes week 2) gs ieeanh Ine | those cards to anybody byt me. he Ger-| body else knows how old they are, tiem, calibre 7 Tit SECRET THE AGE OF ANN). “Confidential Employee” of City Knows the Age of All Wom- en on Payroll. Before the State Civil Service Board in Jts investigation Into the affairs of the Municipal Civil Service Commis- sion titre appeared thig afternoon as Aa witness George L. Wallace, who de- scribed himself as a “confidential ac- countant” in the office of the Commis- sioner of Accounts, iWafAt. do you mean by confidential. accountant?” asked Frank Moss, counsel to the Board. “Well,” replied the witnens, “I mean generally confidential, like for in- stance, the ages of the ladies." “The ages of the ladies? “Yes, sir, You see the ladies em- yed in the various departments are very nervous about anybody finding out how old they are. In their appli- cations they must tell their ages and their ages appear on the designating cards. Now they don't have to show No- ‘and 1 keep tt strictly confidential.” Mr. Moss took a drink of ice water and sat down COLD WAVE WARNING AS MERCURY TUMBLES New York and Surrounding Terri- tory Given Notice of Frigid Weath- er for To-Night and Tuesday. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14,—Coller weather throughout the East is fore- cast by the Weather Bureau for to-night and Tuesday. Cold wave warnings were aflutter from the aeries of the forecasters throughout New England, New York, Delaware, Maryland and West Vir- ginia, All the South Atlantic and Gulf States except Southern Florida may expect freezing temperatures to-night. OMAHA, Neb., Dec, 14.—The coldest weather of the season prevailed in this part of the country to-day. Nor- folk, Neb., reported 21 degrees below zero, Seven degrees below was the minimum in Omaha, are being shipped from the United States to Fran RUSSIA'S WAR SUPPLY ORDERS. 40 to 50 large guns, 9.2 inch calibre, from thé Bethlehem Steel Company, (Bight of these guna were shipped recently via Vancouver per steam- ship Novgorod to Viadivostok.) Shell cases for these guns from the Bethlehem Steel Company. (Part of the order went forward per steamship Novgorod.) 000 tons of powder for artillery and infantry cartridges from the Du Pont Powder Company. 100,000 carbines, calibre 30-4 the Winchester Repeating A from Com: | pany 100,000,000 cartridges for carbines ‘Aeroplanes from various firms. Ten car loads were shipped per steamship Novgorod Sellers, the Wright Com- the above 4,000,000 aerial arrows Artillery ammunition, 000,000, from the estimated Crucible v at. | (ni ~ CORONER SUMMONS SHONTS AND HEDLEY TOHISL” INQUEST Riordan haa to Spare None in Fixing Responsibil- ity for Fatal Crash. RILL EMPLOYEES. Wants to Learn If It Is True} Men Are Taught to Use Fourth Car Motors. Theodore P. Shonts, President A the Interborough Rapld Transit Com- pany, and Frank Hedley, Vice Presi- dent and General Manager, are to be subpoenaed to appear at the Inquest of Coroner Riordan into the Ninto o"“L" wreck’of last Wednesday night, when two persons were kille! and fifty more injured, The inquest will be held Dec. 28. “It has been said time and again that the Coroners’ office is controlled by the Interborough and other big corporations,” said Coroner Riordan. “Now I'm going to prove that at Jeast one Coroner is under no obliga- tions to the gentlemen of the Inter- borougit “I'm going right to the top to fix the responsibility of the collision of last Wednesday night. The statement made to an Evening World reporter and myself Saturday afternoon by Motorman McMahon of the local oper- ated from the fourth Car was a stact- ling revelation. “I am going to find out from Presl- dent Shonts and Manager Hedley if it is true that motormen are taught to run their trains from third and fourth cars, and if it is true that, although express trains are supplied witb six- nal lamps, locals are not. WILL SERVE WARRANTS IF THEY STAY AWAY. “To-day I have ordered Conductor Rolffs, Motorman George L. Alberet- tus, Inspector McAnerny and the two signalmen who figured in the wreck to appear before me at once, I did not issue subpoenas but have notified Police Headquarters that the railroad employes are wanted. If they do not show up by 2 o'clock they will be served with warrants, “The statement of MoMahon that he was given charge of a train with defective motors at the South Ferry terminal will also be looked into very carefully. “MoMuhon says he saw Motorman Albereitus, who preceded him in charge of the wrecked train, say something to Inspector McAnerney at South Ferry, McMahon says he be- lieves Albereitus reported the defoc- tive moto! I'm going to find out if he did, and, if he did, why McAnerney did not order the car shuated to a side track, “Perhaps McAnerney wil be able to say somethings In his own defens If President Shonts or Manager Iled- ley of the Interborough can be proved responsible for the extraordinary con- dition of affairs udmitted by Motor- man MoMahon they will not be area." SECOND CRASH ON “L" IN FOUR DAYS. The second end collision four days of elevated trains in Avenue started more official investi- gations to-day, No one was seriously hurt in yesterda collision when a southbound Sixth Avenue local of four cars ran into a stalled Ninth Avenue local of five cars at One Hundred and Fiftieth Street at 3.15 P.M. There were about 100 passen- gers on the two traius, In his report to the Public Service 4|Commission, Clifton W, Wilder, chief! in i electrical engineer in chi we of the wlatae Rttarrcks vores, GGOETHALS REPEATS REQUEST WARSHIPS BE SENT 10 ZONE Charges Radio Violations and Misuse of Neutral Water to Supply Belligerents. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14,—Col. Goe thals, Governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to-day felterated his request that two torpedo-boat destroyers be sent to Canal Zone waters to prevent violation of neutrality through the misuse of wireless and the taking on of supplies by belligerent vessels. Because of the confidential nature of Col. Goethals's despatch Secretary Garrison declined to make it public. He issied this statement: “The substance of the despatch tr that in Col. Goethals's judgment the misuse of radio communications within Canal waters and the preven- tion of the misuse of these waters as a base of supplies require the pres-| the | ence of swift moving ships of variety mentioned, “Since the questions involved re- quire the consideration of the State Department and the Navy Depart- | ment as well as my own, I have take: the matter up with the other depart- ments, and as soon as the require- ments are fully ascertained proper action will be taken to meet them,” Secretary Garrison declined to dis- cuss the situation In the Canal Zone or to Indicate which of the belliger- ents was violating the neutrality law It is known, however, that the Aus- tralian collier Mallina, which recent- ly left Balboa without clearance papers, has been under ¢lose observa- tion, That ship as well aa other col- liers have been suspected of supply- ing British ships In Pacific waters, Alleged violations of Canal Zone ahip- ping regulations have been the basis of strong representations to the Brite ish Minister at Panama, The Lamson, Worden, Terry, Por- kins and Walke are in reserve at Charleston, 8, C., and one or n of these vessels could be sent to canal waters almost instantly, SENATE BACKS 0'GORMAN AGAINST M’ADOO WASHINGTON, Dec 14.~ Upon recommendation of Judiciary Com- mittee, the Senate in ative a Bion to-day rejected the recent nom- ination of J. BD. Lynn of I be United States Attorney Western District of New Senator O'G Lynn, who was indor McAdoo and Assistant the Navy Roosevelt, Mr had urged Thomas K. Boyd, for York as Opposed to by Secretary Secretary Exchange Governors and Hundreds of Emp U.S. STEEL NPS 10 99; ALL OTHER STOCKS BOOSTED Promptly Lift Ban on Stocks That Were Tabooed—Brokers Jubilant loyees Return to Work. | Prices on the Stock Exchange day sajied upward with a joyous boom, Railroad, mining and indus- trial stocks took aeroplane Mixhts high up in the air of reviving pros- perity. Brokers and financiers were excited and happy. old with everything gliding smoothly making money in Wall Street. E It was the good days, and everybody the cautious governors of the Siock Exchange were carried away by the extraordinary developments of the day, and they ordered anothor of \the restraining. barriers against free jand unrestricted trading lowered for to-morrow. All stocks on the regular lint now traded in through the Clear- ing House will be admitted to deal- lings on the floor of the Exchange, The only restraining rule now In op- eration is that no transactions are jnllowed below the minimum prices \nxed by the ruling committee of five Through fear of heavy foreign sell- Ing only a part of the stocks have |been allowed on the Exchange dur- ing the two days of trading. Salen of many securities under the ban had to ‘be made in written offers through the Clearing House, whose committee held tight rein on the market. But Clearing House wan almost swamped to-day with buying orders (hat boosted prices far beyond both the officially fixed minimum and the «of July 30. United States Steel, for exainple, went up to 56, which ix a rise of four points over the July 20, and nearly twenty points over some of its private sales in the outlaw market of New Street Bevinning to-morrow, all the old favorites will be thrown out on the floor of the Exchange again, Steel, that has been sold hundreds of tlines over, will be there along with all the Pacifics—Union, Southern and ‘Canadian, International Harveat sant: eee reg New York Central, Great Northern|damage on Turkish wi and a lot of others. traordinary gains were made in hy atocks to-day the over ev the Exchange's closing day last July. the , Among most noticeable w Nort acific, Lehigh Valley, Reading, Smelters and all the copper mining stocks. It was a poor security [indeed that could not show at least two points up, and many af them notched off five and six points ‘Total sales for the day were stocks, 281,111 shares; bonds, In all the big broker: segnes of jubilation, Customers flocked into the bourd rooms and the easy chairs were filled with customers, actual and prospective. Private wires restored to many in- and thousands of long idle employees were called back to work, {t was like the good old daya on the New York Stock Exchange this morning. The public came into the market and the brokers were joyous 4s they bought and sold for real money and somebody eine's money at that, To be sure the lamba were only Umidly nibbling, taking little ten and twenty ahare lots of various stocks, but the volume of these orders that accumulated over Sunday kept the brokers busy. ‘There was sunshine in the financial skies and prices of securities sailed upward like aeroplanes. Everybody Was telling each other the good new. ‘The railroads are going to get that 6 per cent. increase in freight rates, Copper is selling at 191-4 cents per pound in the market and advancing | steadily, Mining stocks boomed on | the news. Retail trade reports were better and the spirit of Christm: cheer got in the veins of the financial crowd. It was @ grand opportunity , to make @ little money for day celebrations after so many weeks @ hoi. | BI bork. The B-11 bie Uae e Under Five Rows of CRAFT WAS UNDER WATER Mines in the Dardanelles, Blows © Up the Messudiyeh, and Escapet From Torpedo Boats. NINE HOURS AT ONE TIMI LONDON, Dec. 14 [Associated Press).—A communtcatiaiiil |issued by the official bureau to-day announces that the” IT B perhaps the boldest marine exploit of the war. ‘urkish battleship Messudiyeh has been torpedoed by a ritish submarine. ae The text of the official bureau’s statement is as followss “Yesterday submarine B 11, in charge of- Lieut, Commander Norman B. Holbrook of the Royal Navy, entered the Dardanelles, and in spite of the difficult current dived under five rows of mines and torpedoed the Turkish battleship Messudiyeh, which _ was guarding the mine fields. “Although pursued by gunfire and torpedo boats the B 11 returned safely after being submerged, on one occasion, for nine hours. “When last scen the Messudiyeh was sinking by the stern.” The feat of Lieut. Commander Holbrook is described ce Russian guns have from time to time inflicted hips bombarding Russian po but the disaster reported to-day robs the Porte of its first” big ship. prices of Saturday, which in them-|ships have been, then there were a number of G selves were well above the figures of | officers on board. boats are reported in a message from Trieste to have sunk in the Adriatic. struck mines. Important Advance Made in Alsace, afternoon reports comparative quiet in Flanders and artillery e: elsewhere. north, co @ point north of Altkirch and about ten miles to the east of the frontier, of gloom. Woe saat Tye toe Fase Oy If the Messudiyeh was manned as other Tu: (The Messudlyeh was built at Blackwell, England, in 1874 ané reconstructed at Genoa in 1903. She was 332 feet long, 59 foot beam and of about 10,000 tons burden. She had a speed of 171-3 _ knots and her main battery consisted of two 9.2-inch guns im turrets and twelve 6-Inch guns in battery. In the war with Greece, in 1912, the Messudiyeh was reported badly damaged in a naval battle in the Dardauelles. She carried a crew of 600 men.) » ({Lieut, Commander Holbrook of the submarine B-11 ts one ef five brothers, all serving with the colors, the sons of Col, Arthur Holbrook, a newspaper owner of Portsmouth.) ROME, Dec. 14 (United Press)—Two Austrian to: The torpedo boats were en route to Lisha when tl The crews of both vessels were lost. Declares the French War Of PARIS, Dec, 14.—The French official statement given out in Parle In the Meuse German batteries are said to be moving ba In the Woevre district the French captured a trench and repulsed ¢ unter attacks. The advance of the French line Into Alsace brought §§ ‘The text of the communication follows: "In the region of the Aisne, to the northwest of Soupir, ther #1. enemy bombarded violently our intrenchments. We replied and | demolished his positions, There were no Infantry attacks from ope side or the other, Our artillery destroyed an important fleld work of the enemy in the vicinity of Ailles, “On the helghts of the Meuse there has been violent cannom. ading. Batteries of the enemy would appear to have been moved | positions further north, “In the Woevre district, after having occupied a Ine of oo trenchments along a front of five hundred yards, in the Forest a Mortmare our troops repulsed two counter attacks. “In Alsace our advence has brought eur front he {ab vagla No nares mee