The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1915, Page 2

SPORE Lm HITMAN ORDERS PROBE 90 | 18 @ eplicing station at the time many passengers would be killed.’ Pérsons in at least three carn, he thinks, would be burned or overcome by the fumes. ee Revere Te eee, eee te toteenaey ink eae 4 eccumulaiton of smoke and deadly fumes tm the'eubway case euch Mloréan to-day sald: “I'm not gging to do a lot of talking | accidents in the future, Meck ae oy cousnuee con 1/bave need ca toveoes enching oni | OED NOP BELIEVE SUCH ACCIDENT POSSIBLE. ribs As order developed ol more was beta accomplished. Let the other fellows do the talking, I'll «trike pdteane Tages to couse uch 8 demraliontion ef the (rah ih g New York. It was something the officials of the Interborough and the Pub: The surface car lines carried 132 . Coroner announced that while the Interborough people had been | ie gervics Compiasion had never considered Dosaible, i in Raving their corrent lines insulated on the inside, the other! On both sides of the subway, te) - were of plain burlap, which if ignited by « spark from the third | bedded in the ‘walls, are mate! OTEAMER . t ’ the highest degrees of service, it te ‘Serrent lines should be protected on the outside as well as the inside. [ Géroner's Physician Otte H. Schultse to-day performed an‘ autopsy.on| Claimed, The high-tension wives, Dody of Helen O'Grady, the young woman who met her death ax the Str"? © vottare Sf ito and convey AND COT 10 of the subway accident. He found she died as the result of esphy2I® |, W455 to gubstations, where 1 te die ga by emoke and wot by compression or crush. There were no bruise Of berihuted along low-tension wires, r ‘Dedy, but there was a slight laceration over the left eye which carry a voitage of @ and OF OXYGEN CAUSED TROUBLE. > aes z~4 go a, nae power Bion Professor William H. Katsenbach of the Polyclinic Hospital taculty,) 4 4 nibhey Viale ‘ae ‘ane port fia charge of smoke victims in the institution, in discussing $B¢] wings running along close to one an- ba anticipated, that polsomous gases were responsible for the persoas|five. Mecause of their great wetgnt,| British Admiralty Does Not} r . Instead, be sald, he discovered that It was lack of oxygen these wires are made in stripe of 800/ 4) the P tF “bed caused the trouble. The gases im the eubway, be sald, had evi-|feet, which makes hecemary what ie ait for rotest From eaused @ displacement of the oxygen in the air and this caused the aad cee fa Washin, on be overcome. : \ gton oa Ske toterverceg’ officials lie when they declare that there were no Bee ae) MOOUOTIELEE wen) .t wed cars in the subway near the scene of the blow-out.” declared! oii. stations are de ns in] LONDON, Jan, 7—The' atten ry. weat down ini t nore: in| laden eteamer nver, erect Feinberg to-day. “I it di into the subway right | ine walis of the subway, which open | lad it De with wap the eceident and made a thorough investigation. I found that the | into the street through a manhole, but | diverted into the Orkney letamfa by the seat of the trouble was composed partly of wooden | may be reached through the subway, |4 British cruiser was ordered re- of metal cars. The escape of the wooden cars was a/if necessary, through doors of hye? a ent before the American pretest smoky made rip fi te | ever, that these doors are opened. | ‘The steamer was loaded wnaer the oplp ated yada ats with papi dh tar lbege ys ‘The insulation of the wires coa- |supervision of a British conaular rep- certain. As president of the Manhattan Board | ste of silk, canvas, treated with a|resentative who had certified to het oe ke D. Riordan to 4: 11 other | SRPPOBedly non-combustible varnish, | Cargo and the arrest tame as a eur. Ming nae aa aang fat ereegengte ty ‘sea craay then rubber, over which 1s & coating | price to. the: Admiralty oMcials| ANNIE of lead, the whole encased in steel | themaelves, 0) PRE subway aceident There will also be an inquest! piping. Between splicing stations the| The reply of Great Britain to the/ 4 ROGERS- p . wires are set in vitrifed brick in the | American note regarding interference \ i jsemment of the Public Service Commission investi-/)qasonry of the walls, When the! with its shipping, it is eui@, ie con- “While 1 don’t think I ought to express an| Wires reach a splicing station they;ciliatory and shows a diapédiiom "on pefere the results of the investigation are known, I will say that the Stretch acroas it on steed racks. Con-} the part of Engiand to do everything f chee would barn slowly and give forth plenty of smoke. He believed |low tension feed wires, insulated to ORDERED RELEASED! and its victims, protessed eurprise to-day because he did not €f04,| other and on the east olde twenty- gated steel. It is very rarely, how- |againat her detention could be ‘Hled. ef yeaterday has shown the need of more light—plenty of light fn Bections between the wires on the} within reason to avert delay to Amer- 4 wire to one able to stand the strain | on thi rt of England to protest }Mighting can or wil! be devised | cannot say, but the public can rest as! on the other aide. in the pa ie pr ‘mére darkness in the cubway, even in the face of a smoke accidant.”| ther wires, The heat ultimately gen- | of belligerency. 4 erated did what none of. the offic . Germai STILL IN BOSPITAL. thought ever could be dorte—literally Pri ba tha cetheg Chak eon Gan (Continued From First Page.) trom the various hospitals to which the victims of the accident | melted the corrugated steel doors that gmany probably Would call forth ob- show that seventy-seven of them remained under treatment) separated the splicing station trom sections from the aljies, although cot- | ™&king progress in spite of ¢ ef these were so far recovered that they will be dis-|the subway, belching into the/ ten te not contraband, because the| Of the communication follows: during the day. Nearly all have developed | tunnel vast quantities of smoke and | aiiies, it in sald, would regard guch qmahe bronchitie, and a they leave the hospitals they are advised | Polsonous fumes. , use as a rqundabout means of escap- continue to destroy Belgian and French villages themecives against catching cold, The insulation on high tension | ing the effects of the war, thin they do by: bombardment. ‘At thie afternces’s hearing before the Puylic| W!res !s estimated by experts to lagt Objection is not Ukely to be made “North of the Arras severe fighting is atill official nay it often tants twenty-five eplicing chambers, eo that they have no connection years. he taculatiénven the’ wires and their prospective use clearly {n- aye proper; installation of more ventilator? 804! tiiinea y. 4 dicated. It is probable that thewiiée ‘af all times. West and cast aide of the tunnel are} ican shipping at a time when freight eaone 4 heme by which ™4¢ by means of amall wires across | ra @ high and consequently loss . Sates coake a pare sip Sooded ie tans ohn cers nits the| the roof, and aré for the purpose of| of time in so costly to ship owners, . of smoke or a water accident an easier matter. Just what manner | transferring power from an dverigad-| It is declared there is no disposition Bar * againat the purchase of German ves- \@hat the best thing poasible will be done. It ia believed that the first wire to| sela by Ameribans where the sales D) “De you mean that the subways ought to be well lighted and that the | burn qut its ingulation yeaterday was|are genuine asd the abips are not thoeld enéortake such Lightning ™ was asked. jon the went side, causing short clv- | ured #0 as to avoid what might rea- “7 haven't Gerided just how the work should be done. But ther must ult that burned the tasulation of | gonably be called the consequences 7 unfavorable weather conditions. The text ‘ “Im the western arena of the war the English and the French behind our front; going on for the Electrical Engineer Wilder will likely recom) from flght to ten years, Subway | untit shipa are actually tanaterred| . posheasion of the trenches we took by storm yesterday. “In the western part of the Forest of Argonne we made fur- ther progress. The attacks which were de?ivered Jan. 6 in the ‘Sew arrangement of feoder cables, fine the aubway operied, more tuan| il) take the position that the'sale/ + oaotern part Of the Argonne, not far from Courte Chaussee, ad- money shall be helt untif the ‘close ‘Will digclose, it 19 believed, that subway trainmen|ten years ago. Twenty-one of the of the war as a guarantee that ft: will’ vanced as far as,our trenches, but the enemy wa: Amertvan trade taly probably would Thoir attacks broke down under our fire and thi SPLICING OTATIONG ARE TESTED | ATity "tne sallieg and pravent™ane| in cur pocacualon.” EVERY MONTH, formal objection, a.a stimujatian: of “We inspect every splicing station| the trade with th Al ‘te once a month, sending through a cur- | sreatly arelred by all the al about the usual crowds below One Hun- Leia agsy gph centinglhoc 4 see Cotton Mhip Can’ Find a Pisst. y walle was resumed throughout the system early to-day Ged teen! trains gave geod service. There was a marked falling of corresponding increase in eales of ticketa en below One Hundred asd Tenth | would keep the smoke out of the sub- |... satchel, from Boston Deo. 34 only exceedingly dimoult.” been held up, here because treet thet eueh accidents may happen Btreat the, doorease | sain, ae chert elreuite cannet be quarded egainet and ne men oan pn- against that town. investigators ‘ate werking'en| " ISQUEDUN ‘ENGLAND: ' from Wectiol Hnglncr Wah ot the Pu |p theories oe’ thet the asus AMERICANS OBEY (T @ cables carrying electric! tion wan defec.:ve and the other that , " service and, therefore, | the cables ‘overionded.” taken by the Russians. i 5 “ if driven back from Bot be of assistance to belligerents. |* our positions all along the line with heavy losses. Our casualties passengers are safer in the cars Nod epllcing station Aon sera reg An assurance that German ships inj’ Were comparatively slight. cases te cqihes a leaker a route apse pry nye ig ree Tenet hace punchaced wet “To the west of Sennheim (Cernay) the French again attempted foug! ad or a “ a will again through ar foley ah ; hake woula \aaoune in. the Bauth last night to obtain possession of the height called “Hill 42 e height rematned '| Russia Begins a New Offensive Bresdway branch showed © a Fish) tne subway ana the epicing satigns |, MARUBRG. Denmark sia Landon), Toward East Prussian Border OF PUBLIC SERVICE C out abe Intervorough th slevated rte tnt ns ot us ei, netoa tte mee | Divorced Wife of Lawyer Rogers; an increase of 76,230 passenger: He May Have to Answer Charges the Public Service Commission. He ‘ WHITMAN TO ASK LEGISLATIVE PROBE OF PS. BOARD Will Send Message Urging a Special Committee of Inquiry. (pecial to The Evening World.) ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 7,—Gov. Whitman received reports on the sub- way disaster from District Attorney Perkins and Secretary Whitney of! will use these in connection with the coming investigation of the commin- sion and will send a special message to the Legislature when it convenes next Wednesday recommending a special committee of inquiry, The Governor takes the view that while the commission 4: sible for the acc! serves to emphasize the necessity for vigorous action and completo reor- ganization in order to end deplorable conditions, ———>—_—__. REPARATION ASKED FOR SHOOTING OF AMERICANS Washington Wants British to Pay Indemnity to Families of Smith and Dorsch. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—State De- partment officials to-day began pre- paring a note to Great Britain asking reparation for the families of Charles Dors¢h and Walter Smith, the two Americans fired upon by Canadian troops while duck-hunting in the Ni- agara River, The representations, which will be transmitted to the Brit- ish Embassy this week, will also ask, it is understood, that the Canadian troopers be punished. Evidence has been presented to the department that they shot to kill. Smith was killed almost instantly bre Dorsch is in a precarious condi- on. Tetaicnhbageecnntanit SOMERVILLE LOSES HIS JOB. Oficial Whose Appoin Critiotas ALBANY, Jan. Somerville of New York, whose ointment as Chief Clerk in the State Engineer's Of. fice was criticized by the Civil Service Reform Association, was removed from office to-day+ by State Engineer Wiil- It was charged by the associa- tion that Somerville, an appointee of er Btate Engineer John A. Bensel, Deen advanced in his examination ing by the Civil Service Commission, His successor has not been appointed. —_—__ CARDINAL MERCIER . HAS NOT BEEN ARRESTED, GERMANY DECLARES. LONDON, Jan. 7.—The German mili- | tary government of Belgium has tasuedy) an official det of the report that Car- for make inspection , PETROGRAD, Jan. 7 (United Press).—With all aggressive operations bia ae coli acd bits Depa ne presse £m Sa st cee fer rmeth ee in Southern Poland checked by unprecedented wet weather, which has Me. Hedley agreed with Mr, Wilder ihe tate tise nevi-| made it impossible for the combatants to.move their guns, the theatre of |4 new American record for passenger -eixth Btreet tation decrnased wating the tained Capt. tha deep agtion has been shifted to the north. A new Russian army has taken the |carrying aeroplanea was reported to a chapel ee pe pen. offensive against Miawa on the East Prussian front and is moving steadily | the War Department to-day by the LONDON, Jan. 7 (Associated Press).—Although neither Turkey nor | geitimere B Mr. Hedley declined to discuss the 7 ,Ansociated Press). | Germany has conceded the defeat of Turkish armies in the Caucasus, late theories, Hoe sald panic was one of ports indicate that the disaster to Turkey has been as complete as that the various Inv: tore mene ‘qhlof feature domasding ; — te wermt danpars boas seneny ons 4 s aes vr yh fered by any forces since the outbreak of the war. In spit eof this, the I 5 é | i j more, but Mr.| thet if the minds of passengers bad latest official communication from Turkish sources ignores the fighting in the Per-| Ward Smith, son of Mr. and M ptatement makes tests to determine the ith stories of the Caucasus and dwells upon the struggle which has epread o ecndition of cables at oe _ Bicker have Medd sian frontier to Urumiah, an important town where the Turks say that, eubway is work out or has deterio: @ menace |to leave the care in @ more orderly |.°° aided by Persians, they have defeated the Russians, etreuits eapecially during the rush houFs, when the; Manner. Ha sald, as to guards open- In Poland the Germans apparently are no nearer Warsaw, and there yan General Manager Hedley of the Inter- | iPS, ‘he doors of 1 eae | Americans Who Tesched. B {ie less effective than when It inet the company hen to Xa “owes | poster on he stalin Lae ita ry 7 when three times the | (marssncies. There ia = formalition. . ’ Girected against it. |suarde when It ts necessary. ive in Bukowina, which is pdpulated Paras am eA ee ARIZONA LABOR LAW VOID, ees Court Pesses om Act Protemed by WILSON IS TAKING NO ACTION IN THE + Two of her sisters! | REMEDY FOR SUBWAY TO MA ody for everything, and the acel- dont had to eceur before a remedy head to be sought.” TO THE AUSTRIANS, | Wile, nous f the Vitals of (he s0t!| newspaper Miampa anys that the Italian) Mr Herve ee nat avy employer With | covernment has demanded from Austria |?! | ENGLAND'S EXPORTS Smet tte A: é aiartes oy Saar nies motes Lad ce FELL OFF $476,000,000 es ears IN FIRST YEAR OF WA j GERMAN OFFERS $8,000 | LONDON, Jan K—The effect of the (Prom the Olactanstt Raguiser ) "FOR TAKING A HOSTILE war on Mngland’s foreign trade wes! There are 0,696 languages and Cy? and oe | shown in © etriking manner in the year wr s i) }ly returns of the Beard of Trade, on: aA: ne with @ ——=>- AIRMAN, DEAD OR ALIVE. eo without 4 TURIN, Jan. 7 (United Press) —The | international question BRYAN DECLINES KE INQUIRY ON use hie inf valle 000 \ that ude and only 109,000 ia Mttle alteration in the battle front extending from the Baltic to the Car- pathians. The Russians seem to be still concentrating their main effort in the Carpathian passes. At the same time they are continuing a vigorous y by Roumanians. ‘olving legal or dinal Mercier, the Belgian member of the Bacred College, has been arrested by the German authoriti ——- War Aeropinne Files High. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—Making of army aviation echool at San Diego, when ‘or where Oe nent wilt’ PORT-AULE — ‘The Germans have heavily reinforced their lines here and tt will easage announced that att prob-|Cal. ‘The message a was trom the nermel 900 to 60, There was a ‘wEW Pass! ably be a couple of days before this offensive materializes inta real fighting. In the preliminary skirmishing a number of outpost positions have beén | 11,690 feet in one of the new tractor Lieut. Carburry, with Lieut. Christie as & passenger, fiew to an altitude of military machinew. ———_—- to Wed New Yorker, | and attentive, but you look as though | stinking, corroding, corrupt, hell-rid- “ELL-RIDDEN NEW YOON HIT BY BILLY SUNDAY L Evangelist Calls City Everythinng® That Is Bad, but Says God Will Get It Yet. (Special to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7—"Do you know how I've sized up you people in Philadelphia?” asked Evangelist Billy Sunday to-day. “You're good you ate too much, slept too much, were too self-satisfied and quite con- tent to sit back and let your good old, town slide straight to hell. oi “But I don't care what you say. God can move any city. There's rotting, den, God-defying, devil-beridden New York. God'll get it yet in his owa good time, He can move it, and, ob, how he will move it.” nT Sunday is in the fifst week of ares *# vival that has deeply stirred Phila- delphia, thousands attending hie sere: + vices day and evening. ‘ ‘There's a new drink in Philadelphia, It's the “Billy Sunday,” and can be taken either in temperance or antil- © * temperance form, The anti-temper- © ¥ ance is composed of a little brandy, 4 dash of vermouth, couple of dashes of benedictine, small plece of Iime—and finally a dash of red pepper. “The pepper injec sald one bartender with a wink, “is in keeping with the idea, for lots of our customers say that “Billy” is making {t too hot for them, We add the benedictine be- ©“ cause It seems to give a churohy flavor.” t The temperance “Billy Sunday” is* a little plain soda, some white toe’ * cream, few slices of orange, piece of pineapple and three red cherries. The cherries are to remind the drinker that sin lurks everywhere, and their red color is to show that none of u# are #0 good that we can't be a littie better, he hy A four-year-old child, as yet .w identified, was run over at Fifth Aves nue and Twenty-first Street, Brook- lyn, this afternoon and is dying in the’ Norwegian Hoxpital from a de- presed fracture of the skull. The wagon, owned by F. Kindt, baker, at No. 1015 Atlantic Avenue, Was driven by Theodore Roonan of No, 426 Sixty> + sixth Btree FAGE FULL OF =. = ITCHING PIMPLES: And Blackheads. Itching and Burns, y. ing Almost Unbearable. So Dis- figured Ashamed to Go/Out. ,Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment Healed, 3 Morrell 8t., Brooklyn, N. ¥.—"Pim- bad peg and Ointment Healed me in three months." (Gigned) Hyman Novins, August 7, 1914, Sample Each Free by Mai! ‘- With 82-p. Skin Book on request, Ad- dress (Spectat to The Evening Worl BALTIMORE, Jan. 7.—T! ment of Miss Ellen West daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wi Carter Page of Baltimore, to Willi ‘Albert Smith of New .Yo Caer et ssumaea to-day. The families ate prominent nocially method; unprohibited by hank for deter. In Memorium, Fa * LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS, LOST—Jan, 6, between 6 and 7 P. v Sino te Sen, Sivieee Tea aA returned to Weat 424 at. ‘Advertiond Bueclels Are vl Mele wi All Our a! ¥" iT FT CANDY HAS PLEASED SEVERAL GENERA- who made the identification ACCIDENTS TO BE TIONS of Candy Lovers. It is enjoyed in DUMDUM BULLETS if LBFT highoock GBhe was employed as FOUND, SAYS BDISON. A et the eivillaed world, The FT higheset wan on Sep hee 4 te work. Top feat (vecia bo or Rvening Wer . WABSIINGTON, "| WASHINGTON, Jan, 1.—Secretary | out of eur mammoth, 16 one of the marvellous features of the) weet ORANGE, N. J., Jan. 7.— [| tne an iniative fivan to-dny Informed Count Bernatorf,|] | no matter whether the priee le Se or $8.00. ‘4 i E ° Sie German Ambassador, th he Unit jacture, hand! act step startling revelations crowing out of the accident is that such Poe Ne ae tanite = pracecges a eases onuee te. Btates, in mainialaing hen prehed by ¥ yon and isu fbation ‘of real Bueets, hn ge a @e caused yesterday's trouble, in the opinion of Clifton W. | Pt Mi must refrain from off. . of tons per acoures absolute freshness, purity |] culation under conditions eveh a8 f) "|, price -|Preaident Wil je ng we port in | Ine wholessmences. darted the subway fire in Ni ute violated the guar «| the passport odbndat in which Hy ° York yeaterday, Thomas A. Edi- |) ty poche has been alleged to ba snvelv ener peeeieenine | rs fon at hie laboratory bere to-day nc | EXPLAIN ARRESTS, If he could furnish proot thac |} | pomp soeatng ake ths oaid ° 4 forbidden war materiuls were being nee 6%, loc “We seoner or later fad a rem- on 18 ITALY’S DEMAND shipped by American firms Preal ire. WAP, coven fear ere boo