The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1915, Page 1

— FINAL Gbe_ I" Ciroat tion Books Open to, All | Copyright, 1 DE Aaa ONE CENT. 915, by The Prees Publishing Cor (The New York World). YORK, NEW “THURSDAY, “JANUARY 7, eorld, FINAL Circulation ation Books Open to All.””| THE \/EATHER—Palr To-K aht and Friday: to All.’" | _ ERMAN LINE PUSHE * INHOT FIGHTING, SAYS PARIS; BERLIN, 100, CLAIMS GAINS Progress Made Toward St. Mihiel in Alsace and Near Lille,Says French Report—Germans Report Re- pulse in Argonne. t PARIS, Jan. 7.—The French War Office in its report to-day says the Ger- j@an line is being pushed backward at various places. Mention is made of am important advance in the Woevre district ‘resulting in the capture of a ertion of the German first line. An advance in this district, If continued, @light threaten the German wedge in the French line which reaches south- ward to St. Mihiel. In Upper Alsace also the forward movement of the Brench 1s sald to have continued. A determined German aerial raid directed against Dunkirk and the ammunition and supply bases in that vicinity is reported to have. been de- feated by the accurate fire of the French aerial guns mounted about that > Hespevale fighting took place last night andy to-day in (ewe Lifle. The Germans made a determined attack against a line of trenches ‘under cover of mine throwers and artillery. The onslaught was so ter- refic that the French were compelled to abandon the trench, but later, when reinforcements had been brought up, they attacked in force and recovered the ceded territory. {In the report issued at Berlin to-day there is no mention of the fighting about Lille, The tsermans speak of a battle north of Arras over trenches captured from th: allies by storm, but Paris ix silent on that incident. {According to the French report there was no fiahting of con. sequence in the Argonne, but Berlin claims guins in the eastern and western part of the forest. im reports the repulse of a French night attack near Cernay, Ajsace. Paris reports say two German attacks were re- pulsed in this region. Progress toward Altkirch is also claimed by Paris.) The text of the Paris War Office report follows: “During the day of Jan. 6 there occurred, from the sea to the Lys nothing other than artillery fighting, in which we had almost always the advantage. Our batteries put to flight certain German aviators who were coming in the direction of Dunkirk, and they compelled a cessation of the German mine-throwers in the region of Zillebeke. “The enemy bombarded violently the head bridge to the south of Dixmude. “In the region of Lille we repulsed with success a violent German attack on one of our trenches, This trench, in the begin- ning lost by us, was recaptured with great brilliancy and by the exploding of mines. We demolishea a portion of the German field works. “Between the Somme and the Alane there has been nothing to report except artillery engagements. “Ro the east of Rheims, on the Alger farm, was exploded some mines yesterday evening. This ‘resulted in the stopping of the enemy’s field work. “In the Argonne, to the west and to the north of Verdun, there were yesterday artillery engagements in which the enemy did not sbow much activity. “In the Woevre district the advance made by us to the aorth west of Flirey is more important than was at first taken to be the case We made ourselves masters of a portion of the enemy's first line. ii “At Steinbach and at the adjoining heights the enomy has not delivered a counter-attack. A persistent rain, together with the state of the ground, made any operations diMcult. We have re- tained all the positions conquered by us in preceding days. There were two attacks on the part of the enemy—one to the west of Watwiller, and the other near Kolsehlag. Both were immediately repulsed. We have inade progress in the direction of Altkirch by occupying the forests situated four kilometres (21-2 miles: to the weat of this towa, Our heavy artillery reduced to silence that of the enemy “During all the day of Jan. 6 the enemy bombarded the pital at Thann.” of the Belgian hos- Desperate Fighting Near Arras Reported by Berlin War Office ' BERLIN (by wireless to London), Jan. 7 (Associated Press).—The { German official communteation on the progress of the war given out in Berlin this afternoon reports that further advances have been made by the Germans in the western part of the Forest of Argonne and that dosp:rate fighting » going on to the north of Arras, French attacks in the eastern portion of the Argonne Forest and to the west of Sennheim (Germany), in Alsace, the statement says, were repulsed. (Continued on Gecond Page.) 1 Two City Heroes Who Figured In the Great Subway Tie-Up FIREMAN O'REILLY AND POLICEMAN BISHOP, In their operations against the Russians the Germans claim to be! TOBE GIVEN FACTS IN ROGERS TANGLE Will Be Asked to Decide if j Lawyer Is Guilty of Any Crime. START INQUIRY MONDAY Prosecutor Says Officiai Con- sideration Has Been Ex- | tended to Limit. The Grand Jury of Bronx County will be asked by District Attorney | Martin Monday to look into ail the data which the District Attorney has About Lorlys Elton Rogers and deter- mine whether he is guilty of any crime in the course of his triple do- Mestic entanglements. “It will be asked to say whether his relations with Mra. Ida Sniffen Wal- ters, the mother of his two children who died of poison given by her, in themselves were a violation of law. They will be asked to decide whethe he purchased the poison, and, if he did, whether he purchased it legally and f legal purpose. “Ther t much eriticiam of | this office," said Mr. Martin, “for not having taken action before now, But, | until to-day it has been my impres- | |s stands differently. | “Official consideration for the mis eine has gone as far as is proper.| {It is a question in my mind whether] | the interests of justice do not require PROVE 10 BE THE [that he be barred from the hospital jand from nmunicating with his wife, who is actually a prisoner| charged with two homicides." 9 M Mortin reealled that when Mrs | Walt first came down stains to give the ilarm that the children were --_— {poisoned she said to her lady, |, aes IMrs, Surns: “Johnny has taken pot- | Though Overcome They Went son and has given it to the baby have given them ipecac. I Back on the Work of Res- cue After Being Revived. Later #he said she had herself taken | poison and had taken # quantity of | ipecac, Apr which acted as an emetic. | tly she was able to save her wn life, gh she ve the| Two of the many members of the! y. : id oe y NEUER fail sti weve Ks 2s r ; he! WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Europe's war lives @ ty'n Police and Fire Departmental i, converting thousands of men into He added: who rendered efficient aid to the helD= | raving maniacs, according to Major J | “when: ok visited) tie: hogie lesa passengers in the subway accl-| J. Dickinson of the State Departinent, junt the poisoning dent yesterday were Joseph O'Reilly,| who recently saw fighting in the jhhowse was littered with lett a member of Truck Company No. 28] trenches near Solnsone papers and photographs, all of which|and George J. Bishop, a patrolman! “They don't fire at each other, he might have been enlightening to the | stiached to the Traffic Squad sald, “but the din of artillery directed Jauthorities, Before the detectives At the covered trenches te positively made a second visit Rogers and his| O'Hellly was overcame by the #MOke | inuddening. Now and then I divorced wife, Annu Roquemore| three times, and the last time his cons] jump up out of the trenches and go at Rogers, went to the house and gath- | dition was so serious that Mrs, Henry | eseh other with baye or in mad Jered up every acrap of possible evi-| russel) Drovne, a volunteer nurse und /TUAh for each other's thr dence ang it was taken away and Frow my position from trenches a) Lesateghun Jutomobile ambulance provider, #itm- jittle behind the actus! firing tine E saw | ‘The District Attorney has learned |! a priest to administer to him hundred ment hit heck | rites of the Church did not seem to ne wounded. They wore that in the course of hin friendship ' Re eA BP MQUBA NE: THN Nat for Mrs. Roquemore Rogers the law This AKOMAN Garried OUE ANE UN Tee that touddentng rout of artll vir 1 as her attorney, notably | conscious women when seconds pane by tht ina © transaction against a cou. counted in saving lives, Me go 1 tell you this nation doesn't: know | sin, Fermanly Wood, w# cotton vil | three of them after he had been re- | anything a to fuel. thie t | bess Mr, Martin has also learned | yived by the une of oto ty thse i that Mrs, Walters has an nc AY betcun actan eevkcdcaown enviced (Gl pst ie |Jah Sniffen, employed by the Aque pibedi Measles y further sights like | duct Comminsion at Valhalla. ourth time he tried to break away | those T have witnessed | Bome of the persons who have | ind go buck into the tube | > visited Rogers at the hospital say Se Wan Gna ap ane tical G6 Ratan that he has been goaded by publio | Sishon Was one of the first to enter loriticiam to the point of making a| the tube after the fire alarm was full statement of his wide of the | sour He went in from the itty Lea hi atknat wtatlon andiran dewa Extra of The Mine Blow rps the stalled trains, With the assixtance tting at rest 4 jan named Fi ae he canted of hundreds PNK i t ' y by announce: rf wo Women to the Fifty-fifth stree ne a mine the North and rKeL eA and then wer tuck r ere inet eventoen members of her crew drowned i got two more Luter, after he HE FIR > hu been overcome ninohe and re. R to print the fact, een : nuke remarkable interview STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY, ised by tiie pulinvior treatmont, he | with Fite Ghiet Kenlon, and. a made a search of the (tunnel with «|| fairly complete list of the pas: aM, | persons. sion that the unfortunate woman *n Ithe hospital was ut the point of She is now on the way to a : ; recovery and the matter FREMAN AND COP | 10 A.M, lantern and aided in rescuing several! | p | John BIG WAR IS TURNING MEN BY THE THOUSANDS INTO RAVING MANIACS. sengere overcome and removed to roopitale. FEAR OF ANOTHER SUBWAY BLOWOUT STIRS INVESTIGATORS TO ACTION BACK [BRONX GRAND JURY TATUM CASE JURY IN UPROAR AFTER |ASKING AUDGE'S AD Question Court as to Whether Making Opportunities Was Sufficient for Verdict. WIFE SEEMS DEPRESSED. Jurors Warned They Must Not Let Sympathy for Pretty Woman Sway Them. ‘ (Gveciel to The Evening World.) MINEOLA, L. I., Jan. 7.—The jury in the trial of the divorce action of Tatura, wealthy middle-aged cotton broker, against his youthful and brilliantly beautiful wife, Mary Jane, received its charge from the court and pytired to delthernts @¢ 11 o'clook to-day. After an hour and @ half the jury returned for tnstrae tions. Justice Crane elaborated the law on the questions with regard to which they asked and ordered them back, No sooner had the door of the Jury room closed on the last man than there were sounds of angry ar- gument within which rose to an up- roar which continued for ten min- utes. It ceased suddenly and the juy asked to be sent out for dinner, Fhe point-on which Foreman 8. D. Smith sald the jury wanted enlight- enment was whether Tatum was en- titled to a verdict if it had been shown that hi: wife had made fre+ quent opportunities for wrong doing with young Jack Ottman, wholesale butcher. Justice Crane announced to counset that he would give the jury until half past 4 o'clock to find a verdict and would dismiss them If they had not agreed Justice Crane said with some im- patience that he had tried te make the point very clear in his charge Mere opportunity was not in itself evidence of guilt, But if there were opportunity and also a disposition to misbehave, shown by lovemaking, inviting words and in « thousand and one different ways, the jury might assume that there was wrongdoing. In hin charge, Justice Crane told the jury that they were to set aside all their natural sympathies for a | pretty woman and the temptations which might surround her if sne were neglected by her husband, It was their duty to decide how she had act- ed and not to find excuses for her or “give her another chance.” ‘Throughout the charge, the defend: ant, looking worn and hollow eyed in contrast to her girlish bouyancy and defiant cheerfulness during the trial, sat bow the shoulder of her youthful ' Her depressi Kan yesterday when ti ) Max D. Ste lexeribed he niled girl a fasts taught to way that fy jurymen or the welfer wolf would {yet auiltlens 1 when Mr nn portant little fool, js indineretion to bring sua. | picion upon her ‘Then caine the action of the eourt in withdrawing from the jury all con Steuer ack Oloman ae who had sideration of her cron sult for @ eparation from Tatum on the ground of bis intimacy with) her former friend, and the mother of her ltt -> SAILING TO-DAY. 18 “PAGES ‘of dangge of any kind PRICE ONE OENT.. EXPERTS SUMMONED TO HELP REMOVE PERILS FROM TU Seventy-Seven Victims of Disast Still in Hospital as Public Service Board Begins Hearing To-Day. TRAFFIC DROPS AFTER WORST TIE-UP IN nigh Fire .Commissioner . Asks Mayo Compel Exits in Tube for ee in Case of Emergency. The Public Service Commission began an open inquiry into day's subway accident this afternoon in the public hearing room inf Tribune Building. Assistant District Attorney L. S. Breckenridge ff Present to take notes of the proceedings. The Interborough was sented by James L. Quackenbush. The witnesses scheduled to be heard to-day were.C. W. Wilder, electrical engineer of the Public Service Commission; Robert Rid his deputy, and the members of the crew of the Lenox Avenue which was stalled near the splicing pit in which the short circuit Mr. Ridgeway, who was one of the engineers in charge of the. trical installation in the subway, was the first witness. He d length the equipment at the scene of the accident: The Broadway at that point, he said, were put in for ventilating Purposes | between Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh streets a fan was installed for’ purpose of clearing the subway from eben to Fifty-ninth Stre bad air. The new subways now under construction are being supplied more and larger ventilating tubes and emergency exits than the old, Ridgeway said. Experience in the operation of the first subway has taught the engineers many lessons in constructiofi. District Attorney Perkins does not appear: to be as keen about am lle” as vestigation as he was yesterday. Thus far neither he nor his r has been able to get any evidence upon which to base the asm 4 ‘ that any one is criminally responsible for the accident. He was to 3 questioned many of the passengers to-day and had sent out subpoenas} = sixty of them, but the authorities of the various hospitals informed Sim that to summon these people now would endanger their health he has decided to postpone his inquiry. He took the statements of Das Walsh, motorman, and Daniel Murphy, conductor, of one of the t sis that figured in the accident. “If short circuits, as General Marager Hedley says, are liable to and cannot be prevented,” says Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson fo report to Mayor Mitchel to-day “it is indefensible to continue the use ef 4 wooden cars. “Had a wooden car stopped within reach of the fire in yesterday's dent in the subway,” the report continues, “it is not necessery to what would have rred. The direct loss of life resulting pantie would surely have great, We have had repeated wi of the danger of continuing the use of wooden cara in th are not allowed in the Pennsylvania tunnel or the McAdoo indeed, steel cars are being substituted for wooden ones by the rail the country generally. “Yesterday's fire emphasizes the fact—if it needed any wooden cars should be entirely withdrawn and their use pi WANTS FIRE EXITS BETWEEN STATIONS. Commissioner Adamson suggests that if an inquiry ts to be cond: } by the elty, or by anybody wuthorized to do so, Fire Ohlef John Keales, becwiiee of his intimate knowledge of the questions at issue, should Be given # prominent place in it. The Fire Commissioner also ndpipes in the subway so that there would be a ready water supply quench flames and mentions the possibility of a fire alarm system He also favors (reescapes between stations tw permit quick egress ip been 4 | As & result of yesterday's accident the elevated railways and the Begurance, Vera Crus 2M. El Oriente, Galveston wm, Alliance, Colon .. + OPM, face care carried more passengers than ever before ia their