The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1915, Page 3

~ WED BY KAISER, ~ SAYSM.E STONE “Banded Deadlock Over $800,- 000,000 Indemnity Japan ood S ) mpcx ” \ iY \¥J i Demanded, He Reveals. SS herep ON T. R’S PLEA. ars ae About Peace When ‘Renewal of War Seemed Imminent. Emperor William of Germany was the twelfth hour and deciding factor {a dringing peace between Russia and Japan out of the deadlock existing at|that the German Emperor the Portemouth Conference of August, 1906, according to an article by Mel- ville E, Stone, general manager of the ‘Associated Press, which appears in, Now, with Bussche's telegram before the current Saturday Evening .Post ‘Hitherto hidden history of the nego- ations ie thus revealed. When the plenipotentiaries of Japan and Russia were hopelessly Jooked over the question of a $800,- 000 war indemnity demanded by fepan and refused by Russia, Presi- it Roosevelt made a direct appeal to the Emperor of Germany, accord- ing to Stone, to urge a peace which, ‘While not imposing direct indemnity wpon Russia, would entail the pur- chase by that power of one-half the Siberian island of Sakhalin, then in Japanese hands. The purchase price “|, Waa to be determined by a jjoint com- “Can you not take the initiative by a amount a mixed commission may termit This is my proposition, to which the Ja have assented re- juctangly and only under strong pressufe from me, The plan ts for each of the contending parties to name an equal number of mem- bers of the commission, and for they KS tis to name the odd member. ‘The Japanese assert thet Wi (ne has in principle po 2 U ae ai ata should pay somothi et back the north half of "Waxnalin: and, in deed, he intimated to me that they might uy it back ata reasonable figure, sete on the scale of that for which Ala ‘was sold to the United States, ‘These terms, which strike me extremely moderate, I have no presented in this form to the Rus- sian Emperor. I feel that you have more influence with him than I or any one else can have. As the situation ia exceédinsly strained and the relations betweon the plenipotentiaries critical to 2 degree, immédiate action ie nece: sary. Can you take the initiative ‘by presenting these terms at once to him? Your success in the ma‘- ter will make the entire civilized world your debtor, This proposition virtually reio- gates all the unsettled issues of the war to the arbitration of a cixed commission as outtined above; and I am unable to see how Russia can refuse your request if in your wisdom you aee fit to make it. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “It was at this juncture, Cog Nag most effective work. Before the peace @eommissioners had assembled at Portsmouth he had “held an advisory conference with the Czar on the Rus- sian royal yacht in the Baltic Sea, him, he sought once more to calm the, troubled waters. “There were telegrams ae ar and forth between Berlin Petersburgh; and, as remit om this fateful Mond ceived a forty-word cable. trom "the r imperial master which held them in leash until the final purpose of the Japanese should be disclosed.” GIANT GEORGIE WORKS MIDGET BOSS INTO COURT Magistrate Discharges Man Who Hired Youth Under Sixteen Years of Age. John Schnille, five feet tall, w Presenting these terms at once to him (the "Czar)?" Roosevelt cabled, and the War Lord, acting on the request, hrought peace between the two na- » tons now ranged together, ten years Jater, a» his enemies. Stone says that at the time when agreement on every other point of React had been reached between Komtra, Count Witte and their as- , mpclates at the Portsmouth. Confer- ence Japan's insistence upon the phy- ‘ment of a big indemnity had so dead- Yocked the negotiations that Witte _was ready to withdraw hin delega- ‘Hon. He. had even. gone to such Jongths as to prepare a code word, which passed by word of mouth, out ef thé council room and hurried to the cable would start Gen. Linevitch’s million men in Manchuria upon an ‘@paault on the Japanese lines. e It was at this ithpanse that Baron Kaneko, one of the Japanese pleni- potentiaries, approached Roosevelt, then at Oyster Bay, through Stone, with the. plea that Roosevelt secure the. mediation of the German Em- peror. oopevelt, finding his resources for paace exhausted, jumped at the idea 2/an@-on Aug. 27 sent through Baron ‘von Bussche-Haddenhausen, acting ‘Charge of the German Legatton, the following personal oH ‘our Majesty; Peace can be ob- » tained on the following terms: ceoRussia to pay no indemnity what- “ar"e¥er, and to receive back the “*'north half of Sakhalin, for which it, is appeal. to the to pay Japan whatever DRINK RELIABLE HOME TREATMENT. <'fhousands of wives, mothers and sis- "ieee ‘are enthusiastic in their gee of ORRINE, because it has cured their “Drink Habit” and thereby brow bt bappiness to. their given secretly. OR- m costs only of 00 pet or. Ask for Free Booklet. Tiber eee ninety-two pounds, who keeps cery store at No. 8317 Third Avenue, the Bronx, pleaded guilty in the Bronx Court of Special Sessions to- day to employing in his store a boy under sixteen years of age. The boy, he said, was George Boelle of No. 507 East One Hundred and Sixty-fourth street. “Let us seo the boy,” suggested Justice Salmon. ‘There was an upheaval at the back of the courtroom. Something begaw to unwrap itaelf and project itself into the air. It was the fifteen-year- old George Abelle. George is 5 feat. 11 inches tall, weighs 100 pounds, has a deep bass voice and long fuze on his cheeks and chin. He looks like a White Hope. In view of George's physical de- velopment and the fact that he will be sixteen in a few days sentence on Schnille was suspended. DUKE OF MANCHESTER | NOT NAMED IN WILL Zimmerman Made His Daughter the Duchess, Chief Beneficiary, With Proviso as to Creditors, CINCINNATI, Jan. 2%8.—The Duke of Manchester is not mentioned in the will of the Eugene Zimmerman, railroad magnate and capitalist, which was filed for probate here to- day. The value of the estate is not given, It is to be held in trust and the income paid to the Duchess of Manchester, the daughter of Mr, Zimmerman, for life. A paragraph in the will relating to this says; “But under no circumstances are the trustees to pay to my daughter any sum to satisfy the claims of any cred- itor of my daughter,” After the death of the Duchess the estate is ordered continued held in trust for twenty-one years. Attorney John E. Bruce, who eg th i applied executor trustee, The Duchess of Manch was named a trustee In the will, but owing to the fact that she is a citizen a Great Britain the Court held a few ys ago t she could not act in 3 Beautiful FREL! amy anna | e iibrery Phonograph CORTOFONE_ Z ‘vane “WORLD, “TRURSDAY, “FANUARY as, ON Nw chrvan, aan FAG e Kiana et Young Rockefeller Ten’t t Big Enough to Overturn Alone Entire Capitalistic Sy: tem, She Says, but He Can Give Workers Liberties of Free Speech, Free Assemblage and Free Press. ——— ee By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. A woman of the people, whose eighty-three years have whitened her hair but haven't dimmed the fire in her blue eyes, called by invitation yesterday on the short, sturdy, sober-faced son of the richest man in the! they met in City mission on Industrial Relations is world and told him what he might do for men an‘/ women, who labor. That-very office on the fourteenth floor of No, 26 Broadway, into which she stormily— and vainly—charged a few months ago, has now seea “Mother” Jones as the honored personal John D, Rockefeller jr. More ‘than that, young Mr. Rockefeller has asked the veteran labor agitator to accompany him during! his investigation of the Colorado mining district. “I, want you right\ with me,” he assured her when| guest of Hall, where the United States Com-| holding hearings, “Mother” Jones athiles‘and ‘says that of.course Mr. Rookefeller was just joking. But in the next breath she admits that she’s going back to Colorado as soon as she can get there, that personal investigation. And if she’s there and he’s th habit of. doing, that! can really accomplish for the bette ‘ment of industrial conditions in Colo- | the rado?” I asked hi “Suppose you jhow him proofs of the various ‘abuses, even as you say you have described them to him this afternoon. ‘What do you believe he cam do about itt “Mether” Jones believes frank- ly that the begt Jehn D. Recke- feller jr. can de is to make the lives of his werking folk more en- durable until the big change comes, until labor possesses the fruit of labor, She dose net be- Neve that John D. Reokefeller jr. is big enough te overturn the capitalist system of whieh he ie a part, even if he were convinced of ite wrengness, The workers must bring about this reversal. Nevertheless, before they de it they must have learned how te think. By assuring te them the simple American liberties of free schools, free speech, free assem- blage and free press Mr. Rook: feller will increaee the number of thinkers and thue hasten indirect- ly “the day” of I HOW HER IMPRESSION OF ROCKEFELLER CHANGED. Not that she put it with this suc- cinct severity, or that she la unap- preciative of Mr. Rockefeller intentions. lother” Jones looks and talks like somebody's grandmother, She is not tall and her chunky shoul- ders stoop a bit, She has plump, wrinkled hands, a warm smile and eyes that know how to twinkle, as well as kindle, behind the gold-bowed spectacies, She wears a small black bonnet with bead trimmings, and a black silk dress with a white frill down the front of the waist. “E think we sometimes misjudge people when we don’t know them,” she started off, having insisted that I take the most comfortable chair in the room while she sat trigly erect on the couch in front of me. “If we could be better acquainted with each other we shouldn't say such hard thing: I ,talked straight to Mr. Rockefeller {nis afternoon, and I told hing what I thought about things. | even told him that in my speeches for ten months I had called him @ high- handed burgli He just Jaughed. But 1 h been much impressed by what I've seen of him in the last few days. “I believe Mr, Rockefeller wants to do what is right, and that's the first step toward doing it. I believe he will go to Colorado and see for him- self, And that's a wonderful move for a man In his position to make. “Think of all the influences pulling him away from the workers and their ‘way of looking at things! Money has always, surrounded him from the time he was born. His nurses, his Ge aspen, bis Seize have best to progtitute his ry 004 | ¢, nd that she truly believes Mr. Rockefeller will soon take up c and she doesn’t show him a thing or two—well, “Mother” Jones will be missing a chance, and she's not in. the “What do.you think Mr. PR ir ig Ace cs SE mind. to the power of wealth. Le of @ system, ‘To know really how the work- re feel he would have to starve and freeze and toil and be shot at. He is laborin: peace i “And after he nas seen and talked with@the workers, what can he do?” I Prompted. “Didn't you make some suggestions to him this afternoon?” WHAT “MOTHER” JONES TOLD JOHN D. JR. “I did speak of some of the chief grievances of the Colorado miners, she admitted. “1 told him that the education of the children ought not to be in the hands of the company, that the State should take charge. I said that we ought to have the American rights of free sp free press. In some of th you know, they wouldn't let me to the miners, and in oth they wouldn't allow any except those which they through and approved, “I told Mr. Rockefelle: wspaper ad looked that the men ought to be paid every week in money; that their coal ought to be weighed and their wages handed out in coin they could spend anywhere they pleased, instead of being obliged 10 go to the company stores, | suid that the workers ought to be allow’ to form their union and run it as the liked. And I said there must be an end to the policy of hi drunken gunmen to commit mu . “Mother” Jones's eyes were flashing {n earnest now. She has been called the Jeanne d'Arc of the labor move- ment, but to me she seems more like d Barbara Frietchie. nothing saintly or mystica she's just a brave, enthusiustic, loyal old woman, who talks with a bit of a brogue and not the best of grammar, but who is willing to suffer for what she believes. Out of one period of ten months, after her elghtieth birthday, she spent six in prison. Rockefeller said Id it was n palliatly before ti great. change comes and we should be ‘ul for them,” she said earnestly, “Every little bit helps, particularly when there js a spirit of good will behind it. But of co sball never have justice until it em is overthrown, and Mr. Rockefeller isn't big enough to buck that even if he wanted to do GIVE THEM FREEDOM OF SPeecH AND FREEDOM OF THE AND ever, well ne tion Th Borot No iMrection of settling the strike. Unloaded 200 cots and a big supply #|of provisions at the Armour plant early lodge in sy Gree fn Car, ‘Thirty-eighth Street, between I body of an elderly woman who] and Tenth Avenues, Brooklyn; suffered a mortal selzure of heart failure] Eastern Parkway line; the new ele- in an Amsterdam Avenue car Tuesday] vated road in Roosevelt hight was identified at the morgue by] Corona; the concrete construction on Jullan Stark and his wife ua that of hin] Queens Boulevard; the junction ata- moth one, Aven A bik euchre, concert, bridge ond] street, where the new subway dence are planned for the benefit of st,| double-decked. Inspections were * Long Island City Hospital, st/ made of the approaches for the tun: oe held in the Waldorf on the night| el Under the Harlem ver ant See te ent ete on the MEM) Serome Avenue, One Hundred and McDonnell, Bishop of Brooklyn, ia] Thirty-eighth Street and Southern Vr ent of the hospital, which is con-} Boulevard branches and the White Gwe THEM One DAY OFF eacn weerc but yours or dade) might rival hie if we ha the same training and we had concentrated on le seems so tired, just all worn ing more like a grandmother than say too much to him. human and that you sympathy for them. I should I don't try to get in with rich people and society people, clubs, and Ih I refused it.” EXPECT 12 INDICTMENTS FOR STRIKERS’ KILLING Testimony Before Grand Jury to End To-Night—Strikebreakers_ County Grand Jury of the killing of two strikers by special deputy sheriffs at the fertilizer plant ine Roosevel: probably result fifteen indictments. It is expected tho taking of testimony will be concluded to-night. breakers are The strikers are trying to call out warehouses of the Fertilizer Trust af Identify Body of Woman Who Died PRESS — THE RIGHT TO UNIONIZE “MOTHER” JONES NOT HIRED BY CAPITAL ing @ business success. he added inconskequently, look« “That's why I didn't want to It's just as to let those people Know you're got human "t have to Him if he hadn't asked me. T had an invita- to-day to speak at one of their lekialative committee May Be Imported. je investigation by the Middlesex Engineer Craven, ugh, N. J., last week, will in from twelve to progres been made in the A tug the present lin Brooklyn; the proposed ‘Montague Street; Centre Street loop; to-day, indicating that strike- ¥? to be imported and 4 in the buildings. sion; now nearing completion. hy the men employed in the| “dl * point, &, 1, and Newark, a Sea Beach exte cut line to New Fourth Avenue subway. 0 and tion at Queens! Astoria line Street subway. r, Mrs, Henrietta Stark, seventy- who lived at No, 27 Manhattan ue. ~—_— hire to Ald by the Sisters of St cr direc her, higher grade AF least ee ee. Broken trial order for OUR BEST VALUE, ae Etre wat se ch Bet whee hin ratte OSE ES bree A fe pI! h Plaing elevated extension. InColoradols Make Miners ’ Lives Bearable PRETTY 10 RECEIVE = Give Miners’ CHILDREN SOeooL masTERS NEW SUBWAYS AND “L” INSPECTED BY PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD PROBERS Senators Thompson and “Mills pe Visit Many Points’ in Dash By Motor Car. ‘The new subway and elevated tines were inspected to-day by Senator George Thompson, Chairman of the investigating the Public Service Commission, and Senator Ogden L,, Mills, a member of the committee. They were accom- panied by Chairman McCall and Chiet They looked at the Steinway tunnel and the work being done on the diag- onal subway stations on the Grand Union Hotel site. In automobiles they visited Times Square, where the Sev- ’ enth Avenue subway connects with he Beventh Avenue line to the Battery; the new tube to tunnel to the newly finished \ the Brooklyn Heights terminals of the East River tunnels; the Flatbush Avenue exten: Manhattan Bridge plasa and the Fourth Avenue subway in Brooklyn, The filling in of Shore Road in Brooklyn was inspected, as were the n and the open recht Avenue of the The party looked over the work on urth the Avenue, The party was taken seventy fect underground through solld rock Lexington Avenue and Ninety-sixth is the double beta) Coffee at an actual saving of A } the ie Thirty-ninth at WHITE CROSS AD Standard Not Not Léoks but Re- finement, Manager Lawrence Says—Explains Arrest. op Man, Said to Be Son Of. Mi Commits Double Visit to. Sanitariums = HOUSTON, Tex., Jems as trickling under the s at the Baptist San! day, was the first intimal had that Ward M. Anyder. # Years old, had cut the beautiful wite and’ then had bichloride of metoury,: TH®: was found dead. Snyder,’ the son of a. millionatre ‘Pit oll operator, is dying,’ The the tragedy is a mystery |) ‘The couple were going: Christ! when Mrs. Snyder, dently taken il) -here @ few } Her maiden name is not Francklyn Lawrence, Chairman of the White Crosm Society, which week ago opened the five-story man- sion at No, 51 West Fifty-first Street, formerly the residence of Mra. Pe: Vroke Jones, to “refined but destitute women,” to-day explained he had been misinterpreted in a report pub- Wehed to-day that only “vretty girs" we wanted at the shelter. ; “It ts true we are accepting only wonten of education and refinement, jto whom the average relief home Would be repulsive,” he said. “In this house to-day we are taking| but she is believed to: care of five persons, only one of whont} 44, can be called a young woman, She came to us at 10 o'clock last night rel or struggle a —_—_—— after she had been turned down at CAN YOU thy the rectory of a large Fifth Ave {church, where she applied for aid. Bhe was advised by the clergyman to seek the Municipal Lodging Houn, but, instead, came here. Mr. Lawrence to-day escorted porters through the twenty-seve: room Jones mansion. The first per fon met was an elderly woman with white hair, who sald her occupation was a dress! jor in more prosperous times came to the iter two nights ago with thirty cents and all her earthly bel es in a@ amali handbag, the explained. Her roommate, an educated, digni- fied woman, whose bair was also streaked with gray, said she had beon an actress’ but had been unable to obtain @ positio Two other occu} has pla; product! juvenile roles for’ movie 8. . Both were taken in on the mmendation of the Prof nal Woman's ue, it was nal widow who wan taken in by us a week ago, shortly after her hua- band, a stock broker who lost every- thing at the beginning of the war and afterward, committed suicide, left us yesterday Mr. Lawrence said. “A friend of her dead husband managed to dig up $400 tn cash that was owed to him and brought it here. her because of a ne ich mado it or her to secure employ- ment Mr, Lawrence readily admitted a ecemente Aesth he had been arrested was bes { on” “ne sald, “that was in March, 1008, when I was ve soca of a publica. Hina eat, He B Hatria a by aren: ang man, Hea whom I hed employed Tallelter, Ties cavers hn coer ith the Fr, oR arrent ‘on th vf oa eg Ay wtook i tn com- @ declared was not in- ae dl the qivil court ol against Harrie for onaree, and false imprisonment.” rt rebords show that a Henry B. maces of No. 406 Gold street, Brook- Norfolk, V ‘My health was vei nervousness, had 0 and ep os. thin 4 the firs ue ‘in begin to Wthe Danwina, folk, Va. It is the medicinal elements of the cod’s by the blood. making and strengthen proserties of tonic iron which makes Vi ar auperior to all other tonics, - Oat Biker: & Hegeman