The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1915, Page 1

i » WA Boiler Tube on the San Diego ’ i i Blows Out as Vessel Is Off EDITION _PRior ONE OENT. “ Cirenlation Books {Open to NEW YORK, } EXPLOSION ON U.S. RUISER KILLS 4 MEN AND INJURES 3 ‘ON PRAGTICE TRIP AT SEA Coast of Mexico. | 828 MEN WERE ABOARD. Most of Victims Were Firemen| Working Below Decks—One of Dead Was From Brooklyn. ON BOARD U, 8. 8. SAN DIEGO, LA PAZ, Mexico, Jen. 21 (via wire less, via San Diego, Cal., Jan. ' Four men were killed and nine serl- | ousiy injured yesterday afternoon on! board the armored cruiser San Diego, when a@ boiler tube blew out after hours had a steaming trial of four been completed. THE DEAD. Oscar J. Wyatt, El Centro, Cal. Ambus J. Hardee, Joplin, Mo. William F, Elliott, No, 660 Grand for Mexican coast patrol duty for sev-| the plant and probably will face the) Street, Brooklyn. | Clifford A, Western, Davenport, | Cal. All were firemen. THE INJURED. Benjamin H. Tucker, fireman, Lead- mine, Mo. RV. Glidden, firema: dianapolis, Ind. fireman, Downs, with, fireman, Pueblo, C: George Ohm, water tender, Yutan, Neb. Dar- vel L. ‘Tex. Charles W. Petersen, fireman, Racine, Wis, Emanuel A. Shappi, sea- fran, Laporte, Ind. Patrick A. Mer- Piman, coal passer, Wolbach, Neb. © Low water in a boiler caused the ex- Immediately after the . cident the @ruiser left for Guaymas, where she @rrived at 2A, M. ‘The San Diego is the flagship of the Pacific fleet and is in command of Capt. Ashley H. Robertson, The ves- gel was formerly the armored cruiser California, but her name was changed ‘when the battleship of that name was laid down, 787 men. WASHINGTON, Jan, 3.—News of the boiler explosion aboard the United Btates armored cruiser San Dingo yea lterday was flashed by wireless to tbe Navy Department by Rear Admiral ‘Howard, commander of the Pacitic ‘Reet, early to-day. Secretary of the Navy Daniels immediately ordered a _thorough investigation by court mar-| “lal to fix the responsibility, ‘he ac- | ident was one of the worst in the| navy In recent years. The official re- port adds no details to the new de- ,apatches except to say that some of J the nine injured were In a grave con- dition and others were nut so badly ‘hurt. The next of kin of the dead were notified at once by the Depart- ment Near Admiral Howard's report gave this account of the accident: “The San Diego comploted her fi hour full power trials and made Just at the completion of the trials a} f tubo in No. 4 boiler ruptured, due to] 5 Jow water. No endurance runs were attempted. A full investigation bas lege piprgnies Am proceeding to} o { yaa Diego Was completed in Ay ata cost of about $4,000,000, Her |displacement Is 13,680 tons, The ves- js considered one of the best |home o She carries 41 officers and ve BROOKLYN MEMBER OF SAN DIEGO’S CREW KILLED IN WARSHIP EXPLOSION. WILLIAM Fe EXLIOTT eral months A telegram came from the Navy artment at Washington to the arles Elliott at No. 660 c Grand Stre that his pn in a William Francis Elite mily of seven, + twenty plosion of a boller on the! Lower California. father and moi sailor. ‘They ha since he April 18, 1911; but the term of his en- listment expired on the same date of the coming April, and young Elliott's father, mother and six sisters were preparing for a happy homecoming. They all had the sailor's promise that, of the partment assured Mr. and Mrs, El- Hott that every effort would be made to send their son's body home, JOPLIN, Mo. Jan. 22.—Ambus J. Hardee, one of the men killed in the explosion on board of the U. 8. 8. San Diego, was the won of James Riley Hardee of this city. He was twenty- nd the eldest of eight mother died several Hardee enlisted here four FOUR WOMEN HELD ON CHARGE OF USURY Complainant Says They Charged Her High Interest for Money Loaned. An unusual spectacle was witnessed in Yorkville Court to y when four fashionably gowned young women were each held in $1,000 bail for trial on the charge of usury. The young pinwall, twenty- third Street; f Ni Nostrand Ave- ine of No, 657 Twenty-ninth lyn Fretwell, who said she worked in un office and lived at No, Broadway, was complainant. ss Fretwell sald she borrowed $52 on Oct. 25, 1914, from Miss Mitnacht and agreed'to pay back $76 in twenty weekly payments of $3.85 each, She declared she borrowed $49.50" tri Mins Dougherty, who was in business with Mrs, Mitnacht at No. el coal in the navy. She was etached to the Pacific fleet under Aa- _ miral Howard and has been assigned conditions, and then borrowed $62 in a similiar way from _ Miss wall with the alleged consent of one . Was one of the four killed | Diego off the coast of John Kins, The blow fell heavily upon the aged young not seen their boy ran away from home on once he was discharged from the | That word doesn't sound nice. They're navy. “he would never leave home | rough necks all right, though. We call again. The telegram from the Navy De- |OUrselves ‘professional strike breakers’ women gave their names i Mrs. | $39,900 worth of pawn tickets and $5,000 Georgia 1. Mitnacht, twenty-five | worth of loot. Mann and Otto Planger- years old, of No. 1410 Avenue U,"|man were remanded until Jun, 29, in Brooklyn; Miss Helen Dougherty, |hope the police may find the owners of thirty-one, 131 East Forty. | the mass of loot nd Hertha Horn, | Janet Brown was allowed to go free, UARMY UNDER GERMA FRIDAY, “JANUARY 22, 1915. rr irculation Books Open t WEATHER—Snew late to-night and Seturdey; cold. . FINAL to to All.” | to All.” | 22 PAGES = PRICE ONE CENT. N CROWN PRINCE REPULSES THE FRENCH, SAYS BERLIN STRKERS SLAYERS ESCAPED, AMAZING | STORY OF OF LEADER Eighteen Who ihn dally Fired | Shots Smuggled Across Kill to Staten Island. ALL HIRED IN NEW YORK Eleven of Twenty-two Others Arrested ard Bailed Out Have Fled, One Leader Says. ‘Twenty-nine out of the forty armed “deputy sheriffs” who fired into a crowd of strikers at the Williams & Clark fertilizer works at Rooseveit Borough, N, J., Tuesday, killing two and wounding twenty, were hired at Bleecker Street and Sixth Avenue, New York. ; ‘ighteen, described as the ones who Jactually fired the fatal shots, were! ismuggled across the Kill to Staten Island and have escaped to various parts of the country. Eleven others, out of the twenty- |two arrested Wednesday and released on bonds of $2,000 each at New | Brunswick to-day, fled from the State. The remaining eleven are still at \ charges, because they are described as not having been hired in New York, but in Newark, and by special Wy | orders did not actually participate im Brooklyn, to-day telling | the battle, This information was given to- day 0 The Evening World by the “dep- uty sheriff who gave his name aa 385 Market Street, New- ark, That is not his correct name. Ho lives in New York and admits, he makes his living by “rough house” work at strikes, He is the man who reerulted twenty-eight others in New York. At noon to-day he started for| the West, “The papers have it all wrong,” sald | King, “those men are not gunmen. i We live that way. “I'm pretty well known for that sort of thing and when they wanted a gang to do the rough stuff In Jersey, why they naturally came to me to round up enough guys. “Jerry O'Brien runs a detective agency in Newark and the company hired him when tho strike first broke sometime ago. He sent for me. At 7 o'clock the evening of Jan. 5, « man came Into Mills Hotel on Bleecker street and says to me: ‘Red, I want (Continued on Second Page.) ficial Ts a WOMAN BURGLAR TO PRISON. Second Female Raffles Freed Be- cause of Linens. ‘Two men and two women accused of burglary were disposed of in General Sessions, this afternoon, by Judge y. They were alleged to have worked under the leadership of George Mann, who had a flat at No, 1987 Madi- son Avenue, in which the police found Rose Borst was sentenced to the peni- entiary for a day less than a year, and because she has appendicitis and must undergo an operation mae STEAMSHIP DACIA I$ CLEARED TO SAIL ¥ 30 Bast} ance Forty-second Street, under the same|for the FOR ROTTERDAM. GALVESTON, Tex., Jan Cleat WE WILL T CONVICT OUT AND MAKE Manufacturer Says All the Ex- Convicts Employed by Him Are Making Good. GOMPERS A_ WITNESS. G. W. Perkins Predicts New Industrial Depression If ‘Dariff Isn’t Changed. Henry Ford, motor manufacturer| ¢ and industrial philanthropist, sat on a platform in front of States Industrial Commission in the City Hall this afternoon and ex- plained how he handted the men who earn for bis company “from twenty~ eight to thirty millions a year on a business of from eighty or ninety mil- lions, capitalized at two millions.” Reluctantly, he told the @tory of his life, after a) carefully prepared statement of his} profit-sharing plan had been read by Chairman Walsh of the Commission. Mr. Ford ts lean and angular. His| face is that of a nervous, weary man, but his eyes constantly light up with boyish flashes of enthusiasm. It was not hard for his hearers to under- stand how the man before them had spent a fortune trying to persu Michigan song birds not to migrate south in the winter. One of Mr. statements was the following: “We have many cripples in our em- ploy and they are making good. “We have many me in prison. We will gua every man out of Sing a man out of him.” Applause was suppressed Walsh. by Mr, plant to adapt men enough to have been in pr! toa history of the rise of chinist and engineer. Oh, yes, and on a farm, I farmed for a while, Q. How long? A. Until I was about sixteen, I presume. BUSINESS COLLEGE. boy in a machine shap, Q. Did you have any other school- ing? A. Yes, IT went to a business college for a while. your | luminating Company, | jday from twelve to cight hours with- out adding @ man to the payroll, Q. How did you do that? chief engineer. After that I went into the automobile business. After papers were Issued this afternoon steamship Dacia by the local United States Custom House. pit. ds gapeoted Lo wall late to-day or ‘ow for Rotterdam. tp 7 pat Ted Q. (by Commissioner Ballard.) In your opinion, has an apprentice to-day the same chance for advan (Continued on Second Page.) e United | in brief, bashful jerks, | Ford's most remarkable | ing and make Asked what means he took in his unfortunate Mr, Walsh tried to get an informing Ford to sixteen or seventeen years of age— WENT TO PUBLIC SCHOOL AND Q. What education did you have? A. Public schools while I was on the farm. into Q. Where was the farm? A, Near . Detroit. | Q. When you left the farm? A.| Went to Detroit and was Looted |. Q. Where were you employed after | apprenticeship? A, The Edison | of Presid Ll was there a year I shifted the working | A. Twas) boy ' | EVERY OF SING SING A MAN OF HIN FAMOUS MANUFACTURER OF AUTOS WHO TESTIFIED, BEFORE COMMISSION, "| FAG RODE4OOG4 DIODE © segeseooreooeees ¢ F: | 96866646 444446946444 HENRY FORD. HATS OFF! FREED AS URED, GIRL MAKES 11TH SUICIDE ATTEMPT Father Blames Kings County Asylum Authorities After Miss Bauer Cuts Self. GU! ARDED HER AT NIGHT, Then She Eluded Him and May Die from Self-Inflicted Knife Wounds. Helen Bauer, twenty-six years old } daughter of Robert Bauer, Te ALLIES M AKE PROGRESS jot College Polat, L. 1, afflicted with quicidal manta alnot th ‘of her mother, three year: ago, She was out in @ latinch wit) & party of friends in Flushing Bay two years ago, Jumped overboard and narrowly ped drowning. Since then she has taken poiton twice and cut her wrists, ‘Ten times, in all, ahe has tried “to destroy herself. When she took wood alcohol, ten days ago, her father, on advice of the family doctor, had her committed to the Kings County Hospital for the In- sane Miss Bauer returned to her home yesterday, dischargetl as sane by the hospital officials, het father sa: Ladies and Gentlemen: HERE’S A MAN WwHo FOUND SEATS VOR THE WOMEN IN TH SUBWAY! A citizen called up the Evening World to-day and gave oyer the |phono the following remarkable bit of news: “Twas riding in a South Ferry ex- press this: inorning from One Hun- dred and Sixteenth Street Statton, All |the way downtown a guard busied himself in finding seats for ladies, YES HE DID. “He was so busy finding seats for ladies and asking gentlemen to move useful life, Mr. Ford answered up that he nearly got in a scrap with “We never let the other worker#]an elderly man who didn't care know anything about thelr prison) whether ladies sat down or not. record.” “This unusual guard's number was 0192, [ hope he'll get a prize from } somebody. He ought to have a prize, riches and industrial leadership. This | that guard ought to. is how he succeeded: ime Q. How did you begin life, Mr. Foret A; In Delvoll SMASH-UP ON BROADWAY. Q. But in what capacity? A, Ma- A motor bound for a at Lexingt Ave and Twenty-elghth Stree into a York Transfer and ‘Thirtieth ste i ar driver exe brutes Wilson's F | Was “Thom > Tet day oe CI 1510 and $12 ats and Bulmucaans, black jaturday the n's Winter a ql /palane of 0 Its, Suite thibet, grays, blues, browns and dark tar- ~ Uap chicks; all sizes. 44 to 444 our apacial | price to- Open Gpturgey night wl ae tin to. mr tha Cleanigre, | i 3 tha bane see eee was so alarmed by her appearance and her tendency to suicide that he ed out of bed all night to watch he This morning he remained away from work to take care of her, He went out of the house for ten min- utes at 11 A, nd when he came back Helen was missing. Mr. Hauer ran to the basement, he found his daughter lying ous on the floor wslayhes and punctures from a carv~ ing knife in her head face and neck and her right hand almost severed at the wrist. She was taken to the Flushing Hospital, where it is satd she, will probably die. Mr. Ba ares the County Hospital authorities negligent in wetting her at and says he will complain State Hoard of Health, POLICE HAVE MAGAZINE EDITED BY INSPECTOR with a#ix Kings were liberty to the First Copy of the Police Bulletin | Will Be Issued on Monday. The Police Bulletin, a new monthly magazine devoted to the interests of the department, will make its bow on Monday, when copies of it will appear at every station in the greater city for the uniformed force. would you believe to it? The Bulletin in Commissioner Woods's id but Inspector Cahalane and the officers In the Schoo! of Ins struction constitute the editorial | hoard, ‘The police printer will be re- | sponsible for the dress of the sheet, which is to comprise sixteen pages in the first issue. “General Order No. “Police Co- | operation With the St Cleaning Department,” “The Use of Autos by ‘Thieves’--these are some of the ppy articles to appear ia Monday's | issue, The Commissioner assures his | readers there will be no sex storles nor muck raking articles in the now publication erasing FRENCH ATTACK ALS INST. MURIEL BATE, AND PARIS ADMITS French War Office Says 150 Yards of Trenches Were Lost, and | ‘ Berlin Declares the “Front Is © Cleared of Enemy.” ON THE CHANNEL COAST | _ BERLIN (via wireless), Jan, 22 [United Press].—Compigte defeat, of the French forces attempting to break through-the German ling east _ of St. Mihiel was claimed to-day by the German War Office. Prench troops that attempted an assault upon the Crown Prince’s army be © sieging Verdun were also thrown back upon their defenses, it was offl- cially announced. “Our front is now entirely cleared of the enemy’s forces near St. © Mihiel,” said the official report. “The French were forced to evacuate a row of frenches and abandon their offensive movement at this point.”” Artillery engagements continue in the Pont-Mousson region east of St. Mihiel, it was stated, but the French are making no progress. On the extreme southeast, near Hartmaansweller, the French were forced to abandon strong positions on the bills, the Germans taking toe) officers and 125 men prisoners. It In officially admitted in Paris that the Germans continuc to roll back the French armies operating near St. Mihlel, The French attempt to drive a wedge through the German Une extending from St. Mihlel to Mets has failed and the Germans contioue their advance. The French forces evacuated 150 yards of trenches south- cant of Nt, Miblel. It Is also admitted that the Germans recaptured part of a trench northwest of Pont-a-Mousson, The French claim an advance in the region near Lom- vielnity of Rheims, slight gains were reperted west of the Argonne a German attack near OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT. French Repulsed at Three Points 4 On Eastern Line, Says Berlin BERLIN (by wireless to London), Jan, 22 (Associated Press) —The~ War Office issued the following statement to-day: “On Jan, 21, In the western theatre of war, a continuous rain rendered impossible any important fighting between the coast and the Canal of La Bassee. Artillery duels took place near Arras, One of the trenches which we took on the day before yesterday, to the southwest of Berry-au-Bac, was abandoned and blowa up. It had been partly destroyed by the collapse of the wrt of @ factory. “A Krench attack north of Verdun was ri “od easily. After the battles of the day before yesterday to Suth of St. Mibiel, small French detachments still held out in the neighborhood of our positions, By means of an advance the region before our ¢ront was cleared of all Frenchmen as far as their old positions, “The battle for Croix-des-Larmes, northwest of Ponte-Mousson, continues, A strong French attack on the recaptured part of our positions was repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. “In the Vosges, north of Sennhelm, our troops threw the enemy out of the heights of the Hartman-Wollerkopf Hills, We took two officers and 125 men prisoners, “In the eastern theatre of war the situation {s unchanged, Our attacks on a branch of the Szucha made slow progress, ,Tuere is nothing new east of the Pilica,” OFFICIAL | FRENCH REPORT. Paris Claims Gains | Near C Admits Losses at Other PAIUS, Jan, 22 (Associated Press).—Following is the text of the cial report given out to-day by the French War Office: “In Belgium the enemy yesterday bombarded Nieuport with falr degree of violence. Our infantry made some alight i to the east of the Lombaertsyde Highway. Between) Bei APNG As