The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1915, Page 2

ety duels took “tems place om the remainder ef the frost fa important engagements to the northeast of Wlodawek [on fewer Vistut, € miter southeast of Thorn} were successful 7 = Feeling of tenyortance hes happened in Poten@ to the west of = the Vistala River or to the east ef the Pilica River.” OPFICIAL FRERCH REPORT. ive Attacks Repulsed at LaBassee, Says the War Office in Paris PARIS, Jam, 26 (Associated Press} —The Freneh War Ofico (his after- i @2v0 ou8 the following report: “On the Teer from Beigian troops have made progress in the | He | | i le Li te & Je | HT rl Fr i - ORE ¢ se Hit && aft stopped by the fire of our rest of the front between the deels. WIS SUCCESSOR WAITS Whitman Gives Head of Highways! Cortiand, long-time . Whitman came to Al- to atep into Car- any minute, The erig- PUGKPOCKET MYSTERY . WO MYSTERY AT AtL Police Are Vindicated. The Police Department ts vindicated, "| little apartment | June $0 he would nev Disappear Like Magic Bogy’s Mustarine Greatest Remedy on Earth for Headache, Earache, Backache and Neuralgia. ads il staat the yellow 4 4 she would commit suicide, but vowed al lee, Bet CUPL SPED KING SHES OF HS LOVE! Joe Tracy, Auto Racer, Mounts Gasoline Pegasus and Writes His Way Into Court. POEMS IN DIVORCE surr.| Joe's Metre Back-Fired Some- times, and Poetical Ignition Was Stow, but He Got There! wen the Vanderbilt race in 1906, If Your memory iso bit dull on that in- TL ie He lost her then, but won her hack Pipey, Who Inspired His Love Verses BOEe4 eens PTIDE-TLLDISGOOOSGOOE9-0OO PE 9O6G8 + 86-5-9 05-06 POREORS QUARTER BILLION GIVEN BY FATHER SAYS ROCKEFELLER (Continued on pire ans ;|Sority of the audience “The gray companies? A. | do not think that ie Justiffable, Q. If you knew that an official of one of your corporations had per- @istently violated the lawa of Colo- rado would you vote gpr his diemis- eal? A. If he were persistent or at all knowingly defiant. of law—yes, certainly. Q. Is it your belief that a director should ascertain at first hand whether there were wrongs to be righted in his corporation? A. Not at Grat hand, sir, but as far as possl- ble. It is the duty of every director to inform himself and to right them. Q. Without the interference of such commissions as this or other outside agencies? A. With or without such @id—but to right them. APPOINTED MINISTERS BETTER THAN NONE AT ALL. Q. Do you believe that officers of coal companies ought to control the in after she bad married Vraucie| Wolves of capital” watchmen and/ religious activities of mining com- wee Coles jr., © wealthy broker | e>*eryers for corporations interested | munities? Do you believe that “they ta the Commission's should appoint or dismiss min- ‘These Geclowerce and ‘an abundant| OBJECTS TO GUARD BY POLICE! isters? A. I should say that it would ® copious sprinkling of poetry, writ- OETECTivas. Following his invitation to Mother be better to have the ministers ap- Pointed by the company than to have ten by Joe, who signed hbimscit! y, c no ministers at all. “Daddy” and’ addressed the girl aa|se' wis atest to tetorme the pollen hee | Mr- Walsh read a letter trom Pree- “My Pipe Child," came out before tectives who have been trailing him tm and out of City Hall that their in- ident Welloorn of the C. F. & I. to @tarr J. Murphy of the Rockefeller @ divorce suit) tentions wore Kindly meant but an- otaff regarding a complaint from the oaly twenty hours, She disappeared from their domicile suddenly and Coles dia ing) lp agaed that he had a rod pickle for any @ubordinate who TeepomMble for any further ac- in forming a hollow square him in the street. At the conclusion of his testimony, Mr. Rockefeller balked angrily when & policemon tried to direct him down @ back stairway and out a basement entrance of the hall. T'm going out with the rest of the crowd,” he sald. “Why not?” “This sort of a thing makes me look he said. “No one will ind I will appreciate it if me go to and from these wife of the company minister at Sunrise, Wyoming. i t Mr, Wellborn’‘waid ‘that: he ‘would adjust the matter, butadded that the a had made hg eae Ludlow, Col., by talking agains: company, also that he a "was ndiscreet and his wife is repu be a Greek, but, as the writer add- hae Pilg rena quite honest.” ir, Rockefeller deciined to discuss ® matter he knew nothing about. Q. As a citizen, not us a director, do you think that corporation officials should dictate the expression of the views of ministers A. I certainly believe that there should be complete freedom of speech. Mr. Rockefeller was asked if he knew that Sheriff Jeff Farr of Huer- fano County, Col., was elected by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, and 7 @ her poetry. Here is @ sample) Mot asked for protection and I do not/swore in as deputies over 350 men joated to “My Pipey”: “I go to concert, party, ball, bat profit ia'in tess? 1 alt alone the wall And a I te at re ‘ ber shrine. busa ‘That's because she's twenty-one And | am thirty-nine.” pr thie Lament of tae, Seliawes: ‘a “Pipey” responded vorse as follows, the title “Together”: From land to land, from to een, you,art there shall every ‘Wyere'er. thou art Until the end of time. anne te Until death do we part. To Hades’ ceotes, to Heaven above, While night time follows day, 1 will follow thee on the wings of love Forever and for aye. Until death—aye, after, too, With smooth watravelled brow. For DEATH to part us now. These lines were found in Mre, Coles’s trunk after she had left (n Jersey City, where it la charged had been visited by Tracy and had told friends she was the racing man's wite. ance of Jee and Fanny te-over, Late mance of Joe ‘anny \a over, ters were found in which Mrs. Colea dec! neo her Mra, Coles in the letters solemnly didn't because, she something siee 1a, Justice Cohalan took the case under advisement. | ae AMERICAN CONSULAR AGENT WAS WOUNDED IN AIR RAID AT DUNKIRK, PARIS, Jan. Benjamin Morel, American Xonsular agent at Dunkirk, was only slightly wounded in the head when » bomb drop) @ German avia- | tor partially Kay ee consulate, ac) ispatches to-day, eid foot wean ten feet A wan who had given his\name as John McAleon committed suicide by in- h day in a furnished room Kart Beventy-eighth Street. ‘The suicide, who was about forty . old rented the room lay and re- He not een alive 8 fully dressed in bed when was turned on, ‘} and masses Despite this the police remained seatterdd throughout the audience and several known radicals employers equi do justice to thei Mr. Rockefeller maintained the @ame serene demeanor on the stand de yesterday, answering the most in- sinuating questions calmly and firm- ly. With a amile ho persisted in his refusal to discuss incidents tm the Mines regarding which he had no 4i- Tho “check-off" system was called to the attention of the witness, It ts Dills, union dues and fines, hospital Qseceaments and rent are deducted from pay envelopes. Mr. Rockefeller said: ‘ “1 do not know, Mr. Chairman, what the particular conditions are. For we've been too long together, love, | But I should say offhand that a com-| the commission from pany ought not'to make arbitrary de- auctions,” ‘ Q. Do you believe that a committee of employees such as i» being or- janized in the Fuel Company will be effective unless it has a union or- ganization behind it--an organiza- tlon strong enough as o last resort to call a strike? A. I do, Q.' Did you not say you favored collective bargaining and organiza- tion of labor? A. I did not specify, | t ik, I said employees in groups, men could to the beat advantage make common bargaining. Q. Mr, Mackensio King ia employed by the $100,000,000 fund donated by your father—he is not employed by your father directly and is mot !u- terested in any of the industrial cor- porations in which your father is intereated? A. No. Here the chairman read a letter from King to J. D. Rockefeller jr. in which Mr, King said that the war in Mr. Rockefeller called for the whole letter, Mr, Walsh went into another line of questioning. Q. Do you believe in the right of an employer t establish a blacklist? A hink it well for an empleyer to Europe would so change laber con- | 5, red hi before thi could not with fairness to omployees pase on reports with regard to which he knew nothing. Q. As a citizen do yor approve of taking over control county government in the adminis- tration of justice and control of police power? deprecate and Oppose anything a verything an- tagonistic to or destructive of the} W' democratic form of government. Q. What would be your attitude as director toward an executive officer who admitted spending the company’s funds for such a purpose? A. I should be inclined to tuke immediate ste to disassociate myself from him, he were dishonest in one thing would be dishonest in anoth t in seeking to become completely disas- sociated from him. Q. What more could you do? I don't know now, WILL LOOK UP CASE OF DI8- t ABLED WORKER. A letter to Investigator Manley of W. J. Dalton‘ot Cleveland, O., was read. Dalton was injured in a Colorado Fuel and Iron Company rolling mill in 1908, His left eye was destroyed. The com- pany, sald, promised him work Yor fe. ain in 1906 by! fective shaft vi and years later was totally disabled by the fault of an- other workman. He was discharged. He wrote to claim agents, manag and repeatedly to John Db. Ky feller si nd to public officials, There y, that of Mr. Sima, elder Rockefeller, saying that Mr. Rockefeller was not making business engagements and was at present engaged in recreation, John D. jr. said he knew nothing of M dulton, but took his name and address and promised to look up the ". h took some pains to find out just how Mr. Rockefeller divided his time, This waa followed by a Question inviting Mr, Rockefeller to confess that he had falled to set aside time for studying labor condi- tions. Mr. Rockefeller returned bi: hie usual answer that it was ctical for directors to enter uj cl which ought to be left to executive officers, . Did you not say yesterday that th 01 not treat. iti oi Ct men fairly and make profit it ight well go out of This may yet be ti y. It cai isiness? =A. | thel |CAN'T TRUST EMPLOYERS TO keep data regarding persons whe have 4 chown themecives unfit fer empley- @ And cond ouch liste to -— AE bo JUusTI Returning from | Reckereller” said he had etudied the meaning of @ question : SIE . LUERWIEN VU $26,900 FOR THE + SEHOOL LNGHE Evening World Plan of Provid- ing Food for Poor Pupils Is Aided. the sum of $26,500 to equip sixty ic schools with euitable furnish- ings for the service of penny lunch- eons to school children. The reaolution wae introduced by Al@erman Henry Curran as a result of The Evening World campaign. Although Alderman Frank L. Dowl- ing, Tammany leader of the minority, voted for the resolution, he expressed the hope that the appropriation would not be the first step in pauper- ising the children im humbler walke of life, Aldermanic Chairman George McAneny left the chair to reply to this, He eaid: ‘The plan of The. Evening World in advocating the penny lunches and the resolution of Alderman Curran to equip the schools to furnish those lunches aim to build up a better Gate of health throughout the city. In solving the problems of Toust begin with the children. they are poorly fed, under-nourished they will to manhood and wo- manhood that “Alderman Dow!l tlons cont mo at's true, But it happens thi he money spent in them ts a great economy. In one big district the death rate amon; young babies was reduced from 2,008 to 3,000 in one year alone. Isn't that ecenomy? When we add to human health, to human happiness, to hu- man efficiency we are economis! “The City of New York is getting more sensiie each year. It knows that some people, through misfortune, are ill fed. To make them good citi- zens we must see to it that they are fed. That isn’t paternalism.” pets de? =e sat TRIED TO SEND 375,000 RIFLES TO GERMANY Papers were served to-day on Aus- tin, Nichols & Co., Inc., wholesale grocery firm, In a@ euit inatituted by Ernst H. B. Wetherall for $876,000, claimed ae due for services rendered. Wetherall's lawyers, Carmody, Blau- velt & Kellogg, assert that he under- took to deliver 375,000 rifies in Ger- many for Austin, Nichols & Co; that, rough no fault of his own, the deliv- 'y was not made, and that, under the ie contract, he is entitled President of Austin, hen questioned about the suit this afternoon referred in- quirers to Cari Ehlerman jr., a taw- yer of No. 15 Broadway. Mr. Ehler- man said: “The firm of Austin, Nichols & Co. was never in euch a transaction as that alleged in this suit. know Wetherall. The firm of Austi Nichols & Co, is in the wholesal grocery business exclusively and says milk eta- not dealing and has not dealt in arms or ammunition.” Chairman Walsh asked several times during the morning. “whether employers ‘genera ether employers ge implicitly trusted to pretect, unsuper- vieed and veluntarily, the rights and needs of their werkers. My answer ne. ‘The letter of Mr. King to Mr. Rocke- feller was again taken up. Mr. Rocke- feller said that he thought Mr. King t because of the European union leaders would in time be willing to come to terms without in- sisting on “recognition” or the ex- clusion of non-union labor from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's mines and shops. “Don't you thin! iked. “that he ff | employees who have risked and some. times lost their health and lives do not deserve a greater return than a man wh simply invested y and has not been near the property for ten years?” “I can see no basis for such # com- parison,” said Mr. Rockefeller. ‘Labor should be properly paid, fairly paid. Capital should receive a return justi- jestment SuSE ALL FOODSTUFFS: on Sweeping Measure? Taken to Meet England’s Efforts to “Starve Her Out.” BERLIN, Jan. ‘26 (by wireless to London).—The Federal Council has put into effect sweeping regulations for the conservation of the food aup- ply as follows: All stocks of corn, wheat and flour are ordered seised by Feb. 1. All business transactions in these commodities are forbidden from Jan. 2. / All municipalities are charged with the duty of setting aside suitable me RS of preserved meat. ‘he owners of corn are ordered to their stocks immediately, confiscation, at Price, will follow. A Government distributing office for the regulation of consumption will be established, distribution being made according to the number of in- babitants. use eres temsertes eat wing the confiscation of [eg “There is no dowbt that the measure ordered taken cuts much deeper into the economic life of our people than all the other eco- nomic regulations hitherto adopt- ed by the Federal Council during the war. It is, however, necessary in order to make certain the eut- ficient and regular supply of our people with breadstuffs next threshi a ate “The ateps heretofore taken have proved themselves not far-reach- ing enough to bring about the sparing use of our limited suppiies of breadstufts, which, however, are in reality sufficient for our needs, In. particular t! measures hith. erto introduced hi not pre. vented the feeding of bread grain to cattle, “The present order g'ves us the certainty that our enemies’ plan to starve Germany will be upset and assures us of plentiful bread until the next harvest.” WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The order of the Federal Council of Germany for the seizure of corn, wheat and flour by February is construed by some of the officials here as likely to deprive the owners of the cargo oft the American steamship Wilhelmina of the right they claim to land their food tion that the grain was not in- for the German army or the German. Gevernmént, but for ‘non- combatant individuals and therefore not subject to selsure acco: ig to the terms of The Hague convention. ees RECT FROM OF Fi Maraschino D at es a GAN BUILD ALSTER : CARS FOR“ EA Would Be Lighter Than) ° Wooden Ones. Cliften W. Wilder, one of the eleo- trical enginesrs of the Pubtte Services Commission, reported to the Gommis- aston to-day that it was possible te’ wuild an all-steel car for service on the elevated ratiroads which would met weigh any more than the heaviest wooden car now used. In shia repert | George Gibbs, Consulting Baginesr, concurs; the heaviest wooden car new used on the elevated weighs about 24,000 pounds. yy 4 car now Stomach Troubles Due to Acidity } fil ‘ll teh! Jan. 94, MARY KELLY (nee Connors), mother of Mrs. Margaret Moore and Tire. to St. Andrew's Church, Duane st., where requiem maas will be offered. Ia- terment Calvary Cemetery. LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. 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