The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1915, Page 2

@llether steel care can be pro- to the Interberough. jr. ald: | . that Mr. Wilder be asked and report to the com~ the earliest possible day 4% steel car bodies to replace composite cars in the subway can soured from car builders and stur- A, so that we will have our own gation.” motion was unanimously enr- Commissioner Adamson to-day 4 a new committee of ¢= fw \Investigate Wednesdays ac~ im the subway. The Public investigation yesterday and District Attor- Perfins examined to-day a num- me of passengers in the endangered who aavert that they were not ited to lave the cars. ie evidewce at hand that the phorough managememit. frightened | the widespread condemnation by the most serbous accident history of the sutwway system, ing to replace the wooden care with all-steel carsand up or otherwise isolate the splicing chambers. This and =omuch Little old wooden IDENT IN THE ; ‘unfortunate subway manage- bamdie another aceident eoatact: shoo the for- ovt. i re ff F E te partment men been summoned entty | rouldn't have been even any there from smoke. Te was Admitted by General Man ager Hedley yesterday that there are four very dangerous and six threat- ening points in the subway at which bern-oute may oecur from short cir- cufts. Chief Electrical Engineer Wilder of the Public Service Commis- men jeeated the four menacing spots for The Evening World to-day. DANGER POINT LOCATED NEAR THE CITY HALL. The first and mast dangerous, be- eause of the fabt that it is located at the “meck of the bottle” in tho great traMc currents, is below City Hall Park, between the City Hall and the Pulitzer Butiding. If a blow-out oc- curred there in rush hours’ a great accident might result. No one but the Interborough Company knows how many cables ate spliced near the City HaD sub-station. At least the Public Service Commission doesn't. ‘The second point in importance from @ danger standpoint is Nineteenth Street. Here there is a sub-station, Mike that at Fifty-thi the accident occurred, and a big splic- ing chamber, where from forty to ty cables are banked side by side like has already demonstrated the possl- bilities of a blow-out. At Ninety-sixth Street there is an- other big sub-station and aplicing chamber. “City Hall station and Ninety- sixth Street are the terminals of the Dig haul in the subways,” said Chief Engineer Wilder, “As you go above Ninety-sixth Street the road branches andthe load carrying lessens. The game applies to the section of City Hall tation. Big as the Brooklyn traffic might seem, it is comparatively small when compared with that of the heart of Manhattan.” Te-day both the Public Service Commission and the Interborougb be- ones. H. T. Bcott, hend of the power department of the Interborough, and who te said to be one of the greatest experts in the country the sub- fect of genemation and transmission cost, and devise schemes that will gen- erally minimize subway dangers. It is r that the Interborough di- rectors, thoroughly scared, will to- and agree to appropriate mill- tor improvements all along the FIRCT “SUIT FOR DAMAGES AGAINST THE INTERBOROUGH . suit againat th i Ackerman, an attorney 0! 5 Naasay Street, gileges negligence an a contributory cause of the misha Peases Hunting Negre, Bitter Over Attack on Little Gti PORTSMOUTH, O., Jan. 8.—-Posses of citizens, many of them armed, joined the city paiice and county authorities to-day for @ negro who last night ima Arthur, eleven yea 5 ye) her almost Dossible lyn he was rife EN WaaA each oe In cape he ts cap- child, who had been sent to a Tooting found in an al- consclousn description vot re rie: yah, 16m; Pie 1 cit Ms poe nm 118, Se Yor TO elke fF oe mle Tol, "etautad, Way, 108 Py Pen von a ‘Ute Oe on, © Mas iP 106 be jenny Mutoh iar piice ollotenee laine raise P Trek tae ceemrerener JUAREZ ENTRIES. in entries tor Womerrew ss races on te te TE Ta A SR ry y wy Ty! YOUNGEST REFUGEE OF WAR HERE SHES BUT 14 MONT OL Baby Daughter of Captain Saw the Charcas Sunk by Eitel Friederich. ‘HE TELLS OF CAPTURE How German Cruiser’s Shells Sent Down British Ship De- scribed by Capt. Norris. ‘The youngest refugee from the wars on the sea reached port to-day—Miss Margaret Norris, fourteen months old and as loyal a Britisher as ever bit Into @ teething ring. i Mise Margaret's carly Hfe—when was thirteen months old, to be| exact—was marked by an experience which comes to fow persons of larger years, Sho was taken from a doomed ship, made a prisoner of war by tho Germans off the coast of Chili and heard the crack of the four-inch guns which sank her fathor's freighter, the Charcas, Dec. 6. The former North German Lloyd passenger boat, Prins Eitel Friedrich, co... -ted tv a com- merce destroyer by the mounting of four wicked quick firers on her decks, was the active agent which brought the experience to Miss Margaret. Capt. A. C. Morris, his wife, Baby Margaret and the eight officers of the ill-fated Charcas, which was owned by W. R. Grace & Co., arrived In port to-day aboard the United Fruit Com- pany'’s ebip Carrillo, from Colon. Capt. Norris told story of the loss of his ship to the German cruiser, Incidentally, he gave to this end of the world the first news in many woeks of the elusive Hitel Friederich, now known to be the companion in the Pacific of the fugitive cruiser Dresden, which escaped annihilation in the sea fight off the Falkland Inlands, TELLS OF SHIP'S CAPTURE BY GERMAN WARGHIPS. The Eitel Friederich was on the China run from German ports before the war, was fitted out as @ commerce destroyer at Kiaochau and has since hay Mass of Flying Dutchman of the ific, Bo far as te known she the only German converted cruiser “1 ealled from New York Oct. 1 for Valparaiso,” said Capt. Norris to-day, “ left the port of Corral, Chili, Deo, bound for Guayacan, with only 200 tone of nitrate In the holds. The fol- lowing day was very thick, eo I had to put away from the coast for safe- ty's aake, At 6.40 o'clock on the morsing of Dec, 5, while the fog still held, 1 sighted a + steamer off the port bow. She ran up signals for me to show my nationality, and the minute I ran up the red ensign ordered me to stop, “A boarding party in command of a young lieutenant came over to us and I was ordered by him to prepare to leave the Charcas within half an hour. We were allowed to take noth- ing but hand baggage, and not much of that, The boarding officer would not even tell me the name of the ship which had captured us, WATCH eBHIP THAT HAD THEIR HOME GO DOWN. “The crew, officers, Mra, Norris, the baby and I went over to the Eitel Friederich in Chareas’s boats, wea cocks were boarding party fol- lowed, After we were aboard the German her commander ran her off about a mile away from the Charcas ne his crew began to make a tar- wet of the poor old hooker, It was ap unpleasant thing-to nd on deck and watch the shells jode all o} what had been our home—the baby's “ good many months. “But te the opened sea cocks and the seven shells the Eitel Fried rich sent through her hull, the Char. sink until an hour and right afte sank and we could see the Youngest Refugee of theWar. And Parents, Who Saw Ship Sun | | | WHEAT PRICES HIGHER THAN IN FIFTY YEAR IN CHICAGO MARKET European Demand Makes Quotations Parallel Those During the Civil War. CHICAGO, Jan. 8.—On another wave ef buying May wheat to-day went to $1.41 a bushel, the highest figures with few exceptions in fifty years, the parallel thus going back broadly to the American Civil War. To-day’s high prices were supported by despatches telling of excitement in the grain trade at Liverpool and admitting that the demand there was keen, Meanwhile {t was announced that bide from Great Britain at the Ameri- can seaboard had risen four cents as compared with yesterday. It was also stated that a cargo of durum wheat had been sold at the rate of $2.07 a bushel, delivered in Italy. Only twenty-four hours ago it was thought & marvel to get $1.991-2 for durum that was also bought subject to the cost of all charges to the Mediter- ranean. The opinion was general that un- doubtedly James A. Patten, whose name is one to conjure with in the pit, was in the market, but from the tone it wan accepted that the situa- tion was outside the power of any individual. Heavy cash purchases and conditions abroad were credited with responsibility for the present situation. Boenes in the pit were of the frensied order, Before the day was over commission houses found necessary to demand a big increase of margins from customers who sought to trade in wheat. The vio- in a margin of 10 cents a bushel being genorally required. Recently five cents has been the rule. The doub- ling of margins put speculatgrs under @ handicap and soon reduced the volume of pit transactions, just as proved to be the case when the market ran wild in the earlier periods of the war, ee ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. 000,000 New York Central six d one-year 5 per cent, notes, . 1, 1914, purchased by @ syndi- cate headed by J. P. Morgan & Co, have all been sold, Chicago and Great Weatern’s groas for December declined $20,814. From July coast, only eight miles away. Germans were a close-mouthed tot. We couldn't lean from them where they had been since the war broke out and what ships they had sunk, if any. Next morning they landed us in boaty at the litte Chil > Port and auiled our way to rail and subsequently to Panama by steam Colon ( be shipped to Kng- aR at Hat SS corTTo MARKET. h 4 wie dees CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN MARK » v ® ' ws ON 1 gross decreased $212,476. A special meeting of Alaska Gold Mines Company will be held Jan. 21 to authorise $1,600,000 ten-year 6 per cent debentures to be convertible Into stock at $30 a share. A holder of 60 shares of to take $100 of bonds n the curb from 22 to My crew | extending the cap: ations to 20,000 toi Canadian Pacific Koad announces that pay off at par time up to ye ' toature, ite $12,840,087 6 po mortgage debenture bonds A right of subscription to new it Ithou 00 6 per cont " watidated it | An lent changes in the market resulted | i, ? | CAPT A: G NORRIS. WALLSTREET Stock market opening was active and strong? with greater breadth of trading than on any other day of late. There was a large attendance in com- mission houses, and brokers reported many inquiries received over tele- phone, Indicating a reawakening of public interest. Sellmg ex-dividend Great Northern opened at 114, a gain of %. Maxwell Motor Company stocks all made gains over a point, and many of the industrial issues were strong and active. During the morning United States Rubber responded to the announcement of regular divi- dends on all three stocks. Third Ave- nue stock sold at 40, up 2%. New York Central and Northern Pacific re- covered their dividends during the second hour, and American Locomo- tive gained 1%, to 25%. In the early afternoon the market had short dull periods and was a little irregular, showing a reactionary tendency, which Increased in the last hour, when a number of issues soon showed losses from yesterday's close, while in a few of the specialties the advances were #o rapid that they tended to create an impression that the rise was ertifict pre ll THE CLOSING QUOTATIONS. With net changes compared with previous ng, Net clos low, chs, Alara Geld Mines, wie 26% na ‘op Am. feet’ Riu bd Am! ¢ at i S Laat. 2% : $s ; Bite & i st a @ 1 SF FFE FEES ES a8, idan . Olio, pane Hetieun tel Het! rooklyn I = SESRSPSELSISELT= pe on eee iSactbuebavens gz’ ee +11 +i OSE PSEEES FR FEE ET FERS OE + tHe i biel Va Tone SeuSerausraseste a= 1 Coe Kan, & ‘Dea. Bas IZ¥' ELELE PREECE E zi eedeete [te itltee [te ltete + | tig! - BP sled A tee Sn Kleel ihe FE am sete A eer Oa Duties Halwa Siskin Hallways pa Freee 7 WERT ERS Ee ete 2 ures empires at 3 M to-day, it alent wre before total are ascertained Vederal Reserve Rank at Philadelphia chased $600,000 additional New York Melpal revenue warrants, mak wh dn all 1 | The Meock of Veecific Ratlway— was quoted on the Macha thon - stetstes.. svtescks ee eee dete + 44+ + = 2 SS FESO ET TEE OF FTES FETE OF ztze CS FTTH < 7 Gains in the Argonne, at Rheims ) 2 ‘ YJ And in Vosges Claimed by Berlin BERLIN (bP wireless to London), Jan. 8 (Associated Press).—in the official statement fasued at Berlin ‘to-day tlie Germans abnounce that they have made further gains in the Argonne Forest and th French to advance in the vicinity of Rheims and in the Vosges Mountains have been repulsed. The text of the report follows: “The continuots rains swamp tie. un’ in Flanders more and more, and our operations in congelyen are very mugh'hin- dered. 2 “To the east of Rheims the French attempted dtiring the night to take one of our outer trenches, but they wére driven back into their own positions by a countér attack, losing fifty prisoners. “In the centre and in the eastern part of the Argonne we made further progress, “A night attack by the French against our positions on the Buchenkopf, south of Diedolshausen, if the Vosges, was repulsed, Repeated French attacks on a height to the west of Sennheim (Cer- nay) broke down under our artillery fire. We took two officers and more than 100 men prisoners. Fighting still is going on for the village of Overburnhaupt (Burnhaupt-le-Haut), to the south of Sennheim.” MeningitisAmong Canadian Troops; May Be Moved to Avoid Epidemic SALISBURY PLAIN, England, Jan. 8 (United Press).—The prevalence of spinal meningitis among members of the Canadian expeditionary force {is causing considerable uneasiness. It is understood thet the authorities have decided to move the entire contingent to some other part of England to prevent a grave epidemic. More than 1,000 Canadians of 30,000 here are in the hospital and there are twenty cases of meningitis. ‘The artillery and cavalry have already been moved to various villages in the Salisbury district and the men have been billeted in the houses. The divisional staff officers have moved to Shrewton. TURKS READY FOR FLIGHT FROM CONSTANTINOPLE (Continued From First Page.) BULLE WAKES i “IN AOTEL WITH ttempts of the} St. Georges we gained ground, and we inflicted serious damage on the trenches of the enemy in the vicinity of Steenstraate. % “In the sector of Arras, at the For- est of Rerthonval, without being at- exclusive bombardment of the hospl- tal at Thann, which has been evac- uated.” pees Eta ay CANADIAN TROOPS HAVE MENINGITIS IN tacked, we were compelled to evacu- ate certain trenches where our men were up to their shoulders in water. To the left bf Boisselle our line of trenches has been moved forward an’ we occupied the road from Boisselle to Aveluy. “In the valley of the Aisne the ar- tillery exchanges yesterday were quite spirited, Our heavy artillery secured good results near Blanc Sablon, At this point the mine throwers of the enemy inflicted losses on us, but in the afternoon we checked this fire from the Germans. “In the section of Rheims, to the west ‘of the Forest des Zouaves, we blew up & blockhouse and occupied a new trench 200 yards in advance of our lines. “The artillery engagement between Betheny and Prunay was conducted yesterday with great fierceness, The Germans left many dead on the field. Our losses were not heavy. “Between nchery-sur-Suippe: and Souain we time and time again re- duced to silence the artillery of the; enemy, demolished his trenches and destroyed his breastworks. { “In the Argonne, to the West of! Haute Chevauchee, the enemy, by! means of a mine, blew up some of our first line trenches which were com: | pletely demolished. A violent attack, | undertaken at once by the enemy on our positions, was repulsed with the bayonet. We took some prisoners and we maintained our front except for a distance of eighty yards. Here the demolition of the trench blish our line twenty yard dack. "On the heights of the Meuse and | between the Meuse and the Moselle here j# nothing to report. Here the | Ind blew a tempest all day long! Jan, 7. | ‘Our offensive continlled yesterday in the region of Thann and near Alt- kirch, and brought important re- oul ‘We reoccupied the trenches on the eastern flank of ‘Hill 425,’ a posl- tion where the enemy two days ago, mucceeded in reestablishing himself. ‘We then gained some ground to the east of these trenchs. Further to the south we occupied Burnhaupt-le- Haut and at the same time we made | in th Gaection of Pont | @'Aspach and the alberg. ‘The artillery of the enemy, which | had endeavored without success to reach our batteries, gave over shoot- ing at our artillery in favor of the| CAMP IN ENGLAND. SALISBURY PLAIN, England, Jan, 8 (United Press).—The prevalence of spinal meningitis among members of the Canadian expeditionary, force is causing considerable uneasiness. It is under- stood that the authorities have decided to move the entire contingent to some other part of England to prevent a grave epidemic. M than 1,000 Canadians of 30,000 here are in the hospjtal and there are twenty cases of menihgitis. ‘The artillery and cavalry have already been moved to various villages in the Sallshury district and the men have been billeted (n the hditses, ‘The divisional ed to Shrewto: = That Tell of Splendid Special for Friday, Jan. 8¢ = aea! Loe a ‘The Bpecitiod Welght Includes HS H POSNER, SHS WARS CME Movie Star Stood By While Banker’s Son Berated Clerk, Divorce Witnesses Say. What happened when David R. Posner, son of Alfred P. Posner, millionaire banker and broker of No. 115 Broadway, complained about the high cost of a room in the re Hotel, Atlantic City, while pretty. Miss Anna Luther, known, in movie world as “Billie @purke'a” Double,” stood by, was related to Supreme *Court Justice Cohalan to- day by detectives and bellboys in Mrs. Posner's suit Mrs. Posner before marriage waa Miss May Harris of Washington, The wedding, in 1909, was'a social ovent at the capital. They separated Decoration Day and Posner took an apartment in an uptown hotel. ‘ The first night of thetr estrange- ment Mrs, Posner received a tip from detectives that her husband and Miss Luther had registered as “Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Paxton" shortly after 2 A. M. at the Alamac. The principal witness for Mrs. Por- ner was a bellboy,’ who ° déstribed Posner a8 a “very loud person who created a good deal of disturbance in thé hotel.” Depositions by other witnesses were read. One by August T.' Murphy, chief clerk of the Alamac, contained this: “I saw Mr. Paxton—that's the name I knew him by—on the 30th of May. He came up to the desk and loudly proclaimed that the ‘service in the dining room was no good. He said, ‘I have a good party and we are spenders and we should havi service.’ He was very fresh.” William ©, Sommerman, the night clerk, said in his deposition that the banker's son berated him because he charged $8 a day for the rodm occu- pled by Posner and the motion pic- ture star. He quoted Posner as saying: “You might as well hold mé ‘up with a revolver as charge me ‘that much for a roo for the little time I've been here. ‘i Posner and Miss Luther went eut for a walk, came back later and late that night Posner and Sommerman had a quarrel over a wine bill, the wealthy water having been liberally splawhed by the banker’sson ané his pretty companion: § 5:5 5 i Justice Cohalan reserved decision. A Powerful Battery of Friday & Saturday Specials Values and Economies Special for Saturday, Jan. 9th . ‘Advertised Specials Are on Bale at All Our Stores. 147 Cree Fone deceit. = the Container in Hach Case. McKLROY.—On Jan, 1. MARGARET Mo- ELROY, born Fermanagh Tempe Parish. 10 @oleck, FUR COATS . ODD PIECES. Unparalleled Reductions Ori many articles a0 mush as 40% to 603 FUR SETS... . as lowas $185 “a. © “ $25 . 1 $5 $10 $15 Fulton and Smith Streets, Brooklyn From MANHATTAN, 15 minutes in the Subway to Hall, the first station in Brooklyn, will esve many te 6 ve