The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1915, Page 1

INAT EDITION Preee jew York Wertd). 10 PAGES BERMANS RETAKE LINE OF TRENCHES; ADVANCE ON THE AISNE IS CHECKEL Children Abandoned by Parents GUS WILLIAMS, — |MAIN-LAW SAILS FuDONs FAMINE AND COLD NOW THREATEN SURVIVORS OF EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY Obstructed Roads Block Autos With “Provisions—Soldiers Digging Vic- jsurprise TO FRIENDS. ‘tims Out—Mother and New- born Babe in Ruins. re ‘‘Down to Last Cent’’ GERMANS FALL BACK FROM TOWNS ON COAST Se Sens Paris Admits Kaiser's Troops Have | Retaken Trenches Lost Near Carency, and Berlin Claims Cag: NOTEDCONEDIA,|TOFIKUPROMANGE| een SHOOTSHSELF, PAIVLA BUSTED Actor Fires Shot in Yonkers | “That Cid Fab a Fool, Jim Pollard,” | Down in Bermuda, Had | Just Better Look Out! | eels Station After Hunt for Engagement. }HE.RAN OFF WITH GIRL. Veteran German Character|Ma. Answers Young Hubby’s| Sang and Recited Last Night “S OS” When Pa Kidnaps ROME, Jan. 16.—While trainloads of wounded earthquake victims con- ‘Unue to arrive in Rome, additional details of the horror come in, all tend- ife. tne" to confirm earlier estimates of the tremendous loss of 1 indicate that next to Avezzano, the towns to suffer the most are Pescina,| G8 Williams, who established the with 4,600 victims: at Masons’ ture ofPositions NortheastofArtas FRESH BRITISH TROOPS Love may not laugh at locksmiths German comedian type on the Amer-|in Missouri, but the Missouri brand ican stage two score years ago and | of Cupid has a way of providing him- Paterno, with 1,000 dead, and Samelino, with 600 of population of 1,600 wiped out. All are environs of Avezzano, S | Whe horror of possible flood added to famine und suffering from cold|¢!ped make Tony Pastor's famous, | self with a jimmy, which amounts to exists in tho neighborhood of the Fucino Canal, which has been obstructed | Shot himself in the head to-day in the| the same thing, ‘and dammed up by a landslide at Montecorvino-Rovella. Soldiers and ciy- | station of the Putnam division of the |.which young Clyde Oliver, of New, igh it seems HURRIED TO FIRING LINES To prove all of New York Central at Yonkers -] afternoon > ena wis tuken to 8 Joseph's Hospital, where he died. He are working desperately to clear the canal, GERMAN COME abae the’ Bernadine eer enon ee ee @stablished that the present eart! Will not rival that of Messina’ uated all the coast towns and villages as far north as Marlakerke, wht Is north of Nieuport, Westende and Middelkerke, and.three miles southe west of Ostend, train from New York due in Yonkerg at 1 o'clock. On his way from the train he Not that young Oliver ts Alarespect- ful enough to call his new mother-in- law, Mrs, James F, Pollard, a “jimmy” WHO CAUSED SURPRISE jO8 in the number of dead, the BY ENDING HIS LIFE percentage of casualties appears to be Much higher, due, it seems, to the dry construction of bulldings that was almost untversal throughout ihe! atricken district. stopped and sent the following tele- gram to Mra. Alida Austin at No, 137 West One Hundred and Forty-sixth you understand. But when the sweet little old lady with the apple cheeks, who halls from West Plains in that grand old State of Mizzoury, sailed with young Oliv Islands of lovers, she knew her mis- These towns have not yet been occupied by the allies, PARIS, Jan. 16 (United Press) —The new French ai to the Aisne Is holding the Germans in check. In the territory from Soissons to Rheims it is doing very effective work, “Tell Mattie come quick. Emma for the tropical Messina had 76,482) P dead and 95,470 injured; present re- ‘ports indicate 20,000 death, &s many injurics in this catastrop The only buildings not levelled by! this earthquake were the few made with reinforced concrete. When his wife who, as Emma Mid- dlebrook, married Williams twenty- elght years ago, when they were both acting in “Keppler’s Fortunes,” was she said that her husband had gone to New York early to-day for @ consultation with his manager, She's going to pry the lock which now keeps the very new bride, . Clyde Oliver, a prisoner bereft from the front received to-day. The Prench have been unable to maintain their Dame de Lorette, near Carency. It is admitted that the retaken trenches which were captured by the French two days ago. French are making steady, although slow, progress at B LSON ORDERS INQUIRY ON WHEAT PRICE RISE DESERTED KIDDIES |" ARE BRAVE; ONE IS A rusty and crusty old lock it is— one James F. Pollard, the papa of this very new bride, Hundreds are dying in Sora of cria Attorney General Told to Learn and hunger, Ten thousand persons who escaped with their camped in open fields utterly eut pretection, The government finds & part way there but are held up by the complete destruction of roads that! will take a long time to repair. J. J. Armstrong of No, 1402 Broad- He had been in good spirits in It all started back in the University of Missouri, where Clyde Oliver and spite of his long iliness from a stomach | Evelyn Pollard were students togeth- disorder, from which his physician, Dr, Nathan Warren, recently predicted a jand so forgot such unimportant things speedy recovery. She had never known |4s8 sheepskins and decided they'd him to be morbid, she said, and was|¢lope. They did, and were married at @t a loss to account for ‘The office of Armstrong was closed |@cross the continent to New York, > the Paris garrison hat been sent north the alifed line, and it le understeed that Whether Law Has Been Vio- lated—Flour Rates Included. They were desperately in love, “GING TOBECOP” General Gregory whether there had been any viola-| Kiuek in command, are reported to have tions of law in the rise of prices of | stretching along the Aisne and gorth to Arras, Richard and Jimmie, Five and The Duke of Abruzzi arrived at Avemsano last night and inspected the ‘Work of rescue. He visited every spot and gfive such a! when the news reached Broadway of | 0und for a honeymoon in Bermuda, the attempt at suicide. Carol Johnson of the old minstrel team of Johnson | took his bride down to the Bermud, and Powers recalled that Williams ap- Three, Do Not Weep for Parents Who Left Them. wheat and flour, , not farmers, are the ones benefiting by the soaring price today’s official report follows: Just a week ago proud Mr. Oliver age boat and installed her in the brid. could... He expressed the intention of ‘visiting all.the villages that had suf- fered; some of which are still cut off from communication. As an instance, +Dews only reached here to-day that In peared at an entertainment of the| Suite. He went ashore a few minutes St, Cecile Lodge of Masons last night, of which he was a member, and in the | PY telegram back to Papa Pollard in gayest of spirits sang man yot his| Missouri and when he came back to old songs and told everybody that|the ship's gangway there was papa, Pennsylvania declared th: In my opinion,” said Farr, “be- tween 75 and 80 per cent. of the sur- plus wheat In the United States is in the hands of operators, who are before the boat salled, to send a hap- “FATHER AND MOTHER:” MMUNICATE WITH THE EVENING WORLD. TWO BIG NAVAL GUNS ‘the town of Pescaseroli many persons @re buried in the wrecks of houses end that up to the present time af- teen podies had been taken out and eighty injured persons rescued. MOTHER AND NEW-BORN CHILD FOUND IN life had used him well. blocking the way to the decks and Gus Williams, whose Seal name is| loudly threatening to “tan the hide” Leweck, began his career at Tony |of the bridegroom if he came a step Pastor's in 1866, when he sang a| Nearer. number of songs in a characterisation he called “Fascinating Fred.” He was born on July 19, 1844, holding it for the speoulative ad- vance in price.” Fare o0id as a result of this aitua- tion the farmers will not reap the reward if wheat brings $2 a bushel. “The Jump in the price during the last month has caused the farmers to SHIPPED FROM HERE Liner Orduna Takes Fourteen-Inch Cannon to Ireland—Shipper The lines were cast off, the whistle tooted and Papa Pollard backed up leaving a dis- 1 No.| with the gan; Keep the family together. & regiment that was about to reassemble; causing an explosion in A Pobing episod of’ the earth- quake happened Friday at Capelle, ust north of Avezzano, which village » tein ruins, While thi , Wad’ proceeding the soldiers heard etrange cries and, led by the sound, tressed bride, Papa had eloped with his own sweet daughter—which was quite a joke, 4s Papa Pollard saw it, But young Mr. Oliver has a wise head on his shoulders. in the the wires between Manhattan and with the result a German battery, the destruction of fleld works, &c. “In the Argonne there was yesterday a rather determined ar- tillery attack on our positions at Fontaine Madame. “From the Argonne to the Vosges: We checked completely a spirited attack of the enemy directed against our trenches at Flirey, and the Germans evacuated the crest of the hill to the north For ten years one of the great favorites in t! tor aggregation of actors and 5 His song hits of other years were Don't You Want to Buy a @ That My Grave's Kept and “Oh, What a Night.” was educated Street school. Thought to Be Schwab. iTwo fourteen-inch naval guns, each weighing 150,000 pounds exclusive of| « its carriage, were sailing companions the Cunard steamship Orduna sell to the big dealers, and they are the ones who now control our sur- MAYOR GOES ‘‘SNOOPING’’ Abandoned by thelr parents : rush of @ shopping crowd, two blue- » one five and the other three years old, we the Children’s Court to-day and held onthe technical charge of ‘’nproper & spot where they found p woman buried under the debris with @ new-born child. Both were extri- eated alive and uninjured and are do- ing well. A captain of carabineers, who was among the rescuers, was asked to be the godfather of the child, and suggested that the boy be oalied Terre Motino, meaning a small earthquake. when she pulled gut from her wharf for Liverpool to-day. The big guns were consigned to Harlan & Wolff, the ship builders at Belfast, and are doubtless designed to take their places in the turret of some superdreadnought now building. Nobody abourd the boat would say neturer Of the guns of Clemery, east of Pont-a-Mousson. This they were compelled to do by the fire of our artillery. 35 Cannon Taken at Soissons, . Says the War Office at Berlin. * BERLIN, Jan. 16.—Further German successes, this time in the region of Arras, are claimed to-day, It is etated by the War Office that following a general aseault by the French at this point the Germans counter attacked me he enlisted and went to the |that a fow days ago dear little Ma front with the Elghty-fourth Indiana | Pollard dropped off an overland train He received an honorable | With guardianship.” Back of that charge lies an in- tensely pathetic story told in a tear- stained note found pinned to the over- coat of the older of the youngsters, was “Richard Hef! In simple language plained the parents could not care for the two little ones properly because they were “down to their last cent.” AROUND MUNICIPAL BLOG, Rumor Has It Unexpected Visit Was to See If Department Heads Were “On the Job.” Mayor Mitchel unexpectedly paid a visit to the Municipal Building short- her bundies and parcels. klesed her new son-in-law right in biic and told him she guessed she'd go right down to that Bermuda place with him, wherever it was, and teach that old’ fool Jim Pollard ni tinker with young folks’ hap So to-day the new hubby an mamma-in-law | sailed for discharge in 1965, 12-INCH GUNS LARGEST IN COAST DEFENSES who the manuf, In front of the railway station at{was, but an easy guess Avessano was found the body Filippo Fratucci of New York, who has just returned to Italy with 35,000 francs in his pocket. who were awaiting him at the station all killed youth of eighicen, Schwab's Bethlehem plant had turned | them out was not indignantly dented. | They are said to be tlie first of many similar sisters of Prepared to take tho trip across the} ‘atm wad El Just call it a second honeymoon for ournelves,” lard chirped as she waved yoodby to the reporters. ade AGED PAIR STRANGELY DEAD. Neighbors of Stephen Farley and his wife, who had lived for years at Second noon to-day, and word was immediately passed around that he wanted to find out how many of his ads of departments were “on Among the offices visited were those of Commissioner of Ac- counts, Clty Chamberlain and Com. Policeman Frederick P. Baer saw the children in the vestibule on the thirty- second street side of Gimbel's store. It was only after he had promised to give Richard @ policeman’s helmet and club and “make a real cop” of him that he consented to go with Baer, who took the boye to the West Thirtieth Street WASHINGTON, sponse to Representative ; | resolution of inquiry on the condition of coast defenses, Secretary Garrison informed the House to-day that Mere are no guns of more than 12-inc! diameter In the defense of the U ates with great vigor. Two first line trenches with their occupants was the German prize. Following is the text of the War Office report: “In the western theatre of war only artillery battles took piece in the neighborhood of Nieuport. The enemy's atfacks on our positions northeast of Arras were repulsed. In a counter attack our troops captured two trenches and made prisoners of the ee destruction bel! hen the carthquake occurred, were ith the exception of af Among the cighty saloon passengers | and Mra, Hamilton Bell of Two hundred soldiers 4rUillag in a Dullding in the military bérracks weve all killed fond with. some of them still ranks, holding their rifles, ‘The Catastrophe at Pexonta, south- east Of Averzano, is growing in grav- Re Tho Victi.ns, according to re- ~eatinued on Second Pase,) that those guns have heads were found busy at work. Asked if he was on 4 scouting tour to learn how many of his staff were * the Mayor said: | London, returning home a tended visit in Ja ond Passaic Streets in Passaic, N. J., "i a range of 13, 000 yards when mounted | grew anxious to-day because they had ‘Japan's participation in the war | 0” disappearing carriages, but that|not seen the old people about their carriages |house and broke in the doors, 4 Mrs. Farley dead on a bed and her husband lying on the floor by hi ide unconscious. fhe, room or any, indication thal come to her death violently re ‘ambulance from eae senr The younger of the two—"Jimmi C Richard called bim—was in « From the police ata- thon the pair were transferred to the Children's Society, where they spent the night. of the Society tried to learn from “The hamlet of La Boleelle, northeast of Albert, which mentioned frequently of late, was completely deatroyed and cleared of all Frenchmen, by “Northeast of Solssons quiet reigned. ‘whe ‘member th tale captured there trom the French from the 12th to the 14th of Jan uary was inoreased to thirty-five, 29 mounted on harbette have a range of about 18,000 yadrn, en considered by the Japanese ore in the light of autu vres than actual fighting, The British dreadnoughts of the |) sald Me, | Queen Elizabeth type, the Hecretary not really know whether it is at war or not now that its single object, the capture of Kiao- chow, has been achieved.” ang .¢ of about 21,000 ) Which, he sald, was about four until ‘noon Baturdays. greater than the guns on the it defenses, heads now and then fail to show up at all Bajurtaye, Plt yee,