The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1915, Page 2

= 1K VE Off ~ ENGLAND'S COAST. | Thousands of Trawlers Requi- | sitioned to Sweep Sea for Floating Bombs. feet 11 inches tall, carries REAL ‘MOSQUITO FLEET.’| Armed With) Rapid-Firers, Help Guard | Belgian Coast. { | Some Trawlers, YARMOUTH, England, Jan, 3 (Correspondence of the Associated, Preas).—The nickname of “Momuito| Fleet,” applied to the navy's torpedo flotilias, should properly be given to the ateam flashing trawlers, of which the Government ts gathering a awarn ‘The Canadian Pacife | tor the three-fold purpose of mine the bridge and trains Of / sweeping, protecting battleships from sta onto the tracks Of | submarines and operating in the shul- over which § tb¢| jows of the Belgian coast against the trac rights b®/ Germans. Over 600 of these boats aad Matiawankeng,| Were requisitionnd last week, and 5 thourands are alread: out. They are found #0 useful that the Government evidently thinks it cannot have too many. ‘Trawiors atill continue their orixin- al duty of seining for menacea to ahip- ping, a8 enormous quantities of mines are still strewn at een. Following the German raid on Scarborough and the Hartinpools last month, as many as 1409 mines were picked up in one week. Many boats have been Jost in this work, more than has been offi- clally announced. These German mines, with their bristling contact points, often expiwo They have enough eo they run with the tido te ane the Nos snallones water, where the weignt strikes bottom and anchors, vowing io 00 effective again oy eub- as @ cordon of trawiers | 2 if Hi af be De i 2 i + Fa i 2k re f the big asaltars and fishing boate are now left out of ita once great &re allowed to fish if coast. Mo ig a : cy Fs i F i B § HF E Fe bie. navy : which he be- ye @ liberal rental for ti | ws (DANCERS FOX-TROT cae NAN SIE CLOUDS pte IN RESTAURANT thvnee dere | the Bi rf point overcoming the enemy Germana “Hetweon the Bomme and the Ole and along there is no important development to réport, with the exception of a Ger- myan attack on Beaumont, which was jnot renewed bontharded Noyon, Where the Germans were re- as their forces. Our shells auned fon which could be seen for more than two hours and a half. “Our methodienf progress in the pyman Aviators Showing the E They Drop on. the British Coast Cities third was Mans entered one of our tronches, but immediate counter attack at the of bayonet resulted Only @ tow muocoeded regaining fF poaitions. in the front of the Alane Our heavy artillery the ratiroad atation at two explosions, the smoke Sas rm, magne epson tame Grafh te Bere. Goebre, an- piri en ees Before Finding Fire i Bustanoby’s Kitchen, Firemen ayy to Search Long] region of Perthes continues, We have occupied another small forest the northwent of thie village. “In the Woevre giatrict the enemy delivered an attack on the weatern side of the Bouchot Forest (northeast | of Troyon), which was at once driven | pack, | | | Bi MEAT FYOUR ws the section bounded by “Mroadway, Sixth Avenue, Thirty-eighth and For. Ueth Streets this afterncon caused a umber of persons to turh ta, ge alarms and at 8 o'clock there w. where the fire was, f t It was impomsible to ene across Broadway, | weather conditions eausing the #.. ke to stick close to the ground. After a search, Batialion Chief Ross located the sourve of the| mmoke in the basement kitchen of Bustanvby'’s Restaurant in Weat Street-nehr Sixth Ave- |; th F ks nue. A pan of grease had upest on the stove and caught fire, and the fe had read to the chimney and'to a big tilting fue which punimne hot air out of the kitche: ry When the firemen entered the res- | taurant they found it Milled with smoke, but the orchestra. wap bang- | ing out dance muaic and the dancing Boor was crowded with fox w! efi; b inal itt eifsi i vottera| + couldn't eee their partner's faces use of the smoke. The fre had been exti: ante tf ? taped but in n the rea taurant. The smoke cloud outside attracted an linmense crowd. WILL TREAT AS PIRATES MEN WHO BOMBARD UNFORTIFIED CITIES PREROGRAD (via London), ih ed 2 5 FF i : wont Ui oh “There Is nothing to report on the | Thick, black smoke hanging over| font" Korgaine and int COMMONS IN SESSION | FOR THE FIRST TIME 4 SINCE NOVEMBER RECESS. | | 7 apperatus all over the rented LONDON, Feb, 2 (Associated Pr But nobody could be found Who know | —pariiament reassembled to- mons #ince Nov. 27 and for the House of Lords since Jan. & dispensed wald carefully re: ———— | EMPEROR WILLIAM ae BERLIN, will leave Berlin to-morrow helmshaven, on the North Bea, to In- spect the German naval base there. $40,000,000 GOLD » Vouges. ‘fa recess for the House of Com- ‘The members with ceremonies and 4 at once into business con- of various matters, chiefly ancial, which have arisen aa a re- sult of the wat truce under shelved the 600 members now at the front uestion put by . Labor member whether the Govern: considering the matter, of price Premier Anquith A TO INSPECT NAVAL BASE IN NORTH SEA. Feb, 2.—Emperor William for Wil- —— ee 1S NOW ON HAND IN BERLIN, (via London), Feb. 2. (As are ~The Reichs bank state. henge sone ines Ste sawn, TWO GERMAN ARSHI FLEETS DROP 100 BOMBS IN RAIDS (Continued From First Page.) in our |F% tne rem trenau (5128.51 174,900,000 marks «34 decreased 171,976,000 Haseibeso tases THREE MILLION TONS OF GRAIN SEIZED BY | ROTTERDAM, (Associated Preas).—The Courant learn® that the German War Gratr an organiaation the purpose of which in to Germany has seize arain, The atuff public WASHINGTON, Wilson said | saw nothing Gatlanite tos howard A r4 mak 4,000 GERMANS REPORTED PENNED UP AMSTERDAM, rid. The President was asked if there thing definite | WILSON LEANS TO CONCESSION ON THE SHIPBILL Calls Progressive sii: Kapaa for Conference After Bolt by Democrats. WASHINGTON, Feb. .—While the Administration Senate Democrats caucased to-day to reorganize their shattered lines and renew the fight for the Ship Bill, President Wilson conferred with Progressive Repub- Mean Senators at the White House, seeking a basis to make the bill agree- s to baat acts of that wing to fill the y the sudden defection ) er oi Deaberatio votes in yester- day's sensational coup, when the anti- Administration Senators threw the — ae the shadow of dofeat, of the strong possibilities of a an of coperenios was that a declaration of principle might be in- Corporated in the bill, saying the gov- ernment intended to buy no baci which would involve contro with the European belligerents, oat that It would be so framed as not to surrender any of the rights of the United States, Senators Norrie and Kenyon urged changes in the bill during thelr con- ference with the President. Later, the President told the news- paper men at the White House +r) was confident that the bill would pass. When asked if there would be amendments, he replied the changes contemplated would not alter the spirit of the measure. He hoped, and was inclined think, that auob changes as were made would satisfy tbe Progressive Republicans, who were not asking anythin; consistent with the prin- ciple of the bill, but wanted, chiefly, he said, to declare a policy and not surrender a right. ‘The President pointed out thateven though it were intended to buy, no Paper says none of this food-| beligerent ehips, legislation restrict- wil be nit, the atlsposal of the! ing the right to buy them might be —-_— construed as an international prece- SIGN OF PEACE ® dent surrendering certain rights of a YET IN SIGHT, SAYS — | Discussing tne surgestion that pro- PRESIDENT WILSON. Incrunsed 18,703,040 50), o taint on. 8,250), 76,047,000 tneren discounts wed 63,664, 96 bill Increased 49 ); note clreul (843, 994,000), GERMAN WAR COMPANY via London, Fob, Company, nequire all the available grain in {hd store It untll next May over threo million tons of Vision be made against reselling the vebsels {f the venture became profit- able, Mr. Wilson pointed out thateany ‘hat wna wnt action taken now would not, of course, bind future Congresses even to the point of the repeal of the bill, The President said he was sure the bill would not be displaced on the Senate calendar, but If It were It would be he was sorry to say there] only temporarily. > Ap forecasting the ‘purpose of the Administration not to buy belligerent ‘ships, even though contending for that right, {t was regarded as significant that the President declared that the Feb. to-day i owing | hop fF peace all over ON MUTINY CHARGE. butlt promptly. He said that tramp Feb. '3 (Central| steamers built to carry large cargoes News).—-The Telegraaf's correspondent| were most needed now, and in reply hich | ut Lommell fovorta, that the Germans which | « to have eo of & A ye Youth of ment REPORTED KILLED IN question said he di not believ: many of the German ships now in American ports were of that type. ‘The President stated emphatically no foreign Government had made any t. |representations on the subject and barbed wire-enclosed ees. which Yor mutiny or for refusing to fi —— MASSACRE t mn ¢ Industrial Board soard tale to Let Miners’ Widows Describe Colorado Strike Battle. the Sudden deoision of the United States Industrial Commission to call women survivors of the “Ludlow Massacre” to the stand as witnesses disturbed the even course of the tak- ing of testimony to-day. The announcement of Edward P. Costigan, counse) of the United Mine Workers, that Mrs, Mary Dominiski and Mrs. Virginian Petrucci, survivors of the Colotago strike battle, in which thelr children were smothered, were type ofvships most needed could be/ ,, present and desired to be deard, came ae a shock. When the commission was in ses- sion in Colorado former Gov. Ellas Ammonn and Gov. George Carison both objected to the calling of these unhappy women th give testimony. ‘They said that the appearance of the bts would block the orderly proc- of juatice in Colorado. It became peda to-day that t union ad- herents had brought the “human in- terest” witnesses to New York to circumvent the technical value of Marv Western objections, |. (By Commissioner Weinstock) — It vee knew ¢hat a union which de- | sired to enlis¢ your employees had « reputation for contract-brenking, and violence, would you be inclined to al- low them to organize your employees? A. I should not, Sir. Q. Then, though the union which sought’ an entrance to your plant openly asserted (as have the 1, W. W's) that they would repudiate any contract which they might make with you if it was to their advantage, you would meet their committees? A, T would. John R. Laweon of Denver, tho President of District No. 16 of the United Mine Workers of Aynorica, was suddenly called upon to stand up ip the audience and say whether or not his organization, as a body, was joommitted to socialism. “We are not!" said Mr. Lawson, afd sat down. PENNY SCHOOL wn lief of Poor Children Becoines a Law. Mayor Mitchel to-day dae the Curran resolution appropriating: $26,- 60 for the equipment of sixty public Schools to, serve penny ‘lunches to ‘achool children, "fhe measure was introduced as a result of The Evening World's cam- Paign, It is expected that the reno- ition will be unanimously concurred in by the Board of Estimate, at its Meeting on Friday. ; WILSON’S “NO” TO SENATE. Preatdent Returds to it Decu- “ mients om Ship Setenres. WASHINGTON, Feb. , 2.—Dectaring {t “incqmpattple with the publi¢ in- terest.” \Pregidenit Wilson ‘this after- noon refused ta,rend to the Senate the State Department's correspond- ence with foreign governments over the selgure of cépper shipments. The information was asked in a resdlution bag Be nator Walsh, calling Alao for the ~ mndence relative wo making co) conditional or ab- septs ee The Presi 0 réfused, for the nd the Senate t correspondence cohcernin ing of naval storen contraband. SUBWAY TIED UP THREE TIMES BY ELECTRIC FIRES (Continued From First Page.) ninth strnet station can leave by the end car.” Tbe majority of the passengers sat etill, but when the smell of smoke began to conte in through the doors, which the guards scrupulously left open, many women and a few men hurried through to the end car, dropped off onto the tracks and ninth mired € IN DARK NESS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES, A southbound Bronx express train caught between Eighty-sixth nd Seventy-ninth Streets, was packed. All the lights fn the train went out Mr. Costigan to-day told the Com- mission that the United Mine Work- ers of Colorndo want the Commission to look Into the Rockefeller Founda- tion as a factor In the Colorado in- dustrial warfare. Leaders Lawaon, Doyle, Hays and himself, he sald, had heen sent here by the union to demand a bearing of their charges against the Foundation. “In Colorado,” said Mr. Costigan, “where Mr. Rockefeller i# financially interested on the carning aide, he has ignored tho standards to which the Foundation is dedicated. He hae . Mr. Welborn “He did not so proceed when the vice districts of New York and Chi- cago were under scrutiny. There he sent export and incorruptible Investi- gators. “But he sat indifferent, bis eyes closed and ears deaf to the sorrows and ories of mon, women and children in Colorado, Society has a right to demand that charity shall no longer cover @ multitude of sins. “Practically within a year after its incorporation,” he continued, “the Foundation’s promoters had the re- sponsibility properly placed at their very doors for a record of total fail- ure along each of the designated lines of Its activity. “In @ great human crisis precipi- tated within the very houschold, so to speak, of Mr. Rockefeller, him Foundation has been hecdiess or im- potent. And the conclusion forced on an unprejudiced public has been and is that Mr. Rockefeller, the business man, hae cold-heartedly and without hesitation brushed aside and im. posed allence on Mr, Rockefeller, the philanthro} iat. . Frederick H , President of the Cleveland (o> ‘Trost Company and head of Cleveland Foundation, a char- itable Institution, also testified. “We found in Cleveland,” said Mr, Goff, who described himself as the originator of the foundation, “that those who gave money for charitable jurposes were too apt to limit the scope of their gifts. “One man would limit his gift to hospitals, another to beautifying a o metery. We worked out, therefore, a plat which the gifts out of urplus wealth of a community coul used broadly for the best good of the community. The foundation is really & declaration of willingness by the Caverns ‘Trust Company that it will that there had been no protest. Ho said, however, that there had been paveney with the representa- ARTILLERY BATTLE, |;us even rise to the idee that there was something formal. He added, VON KLUCK’S SON BERLIN, via Amaterdam and London, | however, that none of the conversa- » 2 (Associated Preas).—The foe} tions bad been by direction or au- son of Gen, yon. Kluck, who ws 1 euter an ar Jan, 2 ted to ha' thorisation of any foreign Govern- near mage fates ment, and'that it was but natural the former non-commisioned change of registry question should nt, ullery ‘battle called to drill new recruits, whe are under fifty years of age bynes] be discussed by the diplomats and bee R tara, Oy Rotterdam . THE REICHS BANK. Moheh American officials whenever they hap- pened to meet. With a view to weeking terms upon which Progressive Republicans would eupport the Ship Bill and to confer with Democrats who bolted yester- *\day, the Democratic caucus ap- ponte’ 8 ‘& committee of three to con- sig cy He and report at an- pound a en ee — SAILING TO-DAY. —_—_—- minister any funds intrusted to it the public good. A committee ap- pointed by city offict judges and trustees of the trust company has tire juriedicti ‘The foun to chariti orate will propose terms under which hey can return to the caucus and the Admialeratiog wing as follows: ‘That the bill shall in no way be re- garded as a Government ownership measure and be so framed as to make it clearly an emergency projects and, further, that no ship of belligerent nations now in the United States be bought. When the Senate session was re- oui ator inter proposed an amendment ti ne belligerent ships be pyrehaeed ana that ne Gev- ernment ships be arene te Gure- ay tll passe fies ‘The train was dark for nearly Afteon minutes, When the light# were turned on the passengers oxpected the train to proceed, but it didn’t. It remained right where it was for Gve minutes— ten minutes—fifteen minutea—twenty minutes, ‘Then the guard at the rear of the train began to Bilow passen- gers to step from the reat platform of the last car to the platforgh of a local which wae al. .gside, The trai.s- fer was made over a wooden seat taken from one of the cars. Word went through the train that people were passing over to the local, walking through and getting out at the Seventy-ninth Street Station, at which the forward car of the local was located. An orderly movement toward the rear of the train followed, but the t.ansfer t» the local was slow An alarm of fire was turned {n al- most immediately after the discov- ery of the flames and Battalion Chief Burns came with the apparatus, He ordered lines of hose carried down through the east and west kiosks, but before the w was turned on firemen with hand extinguishers had the blaze out. After a block of’more than half an hour, during which time people be- wan to pile up at the express stations, where tickets Nad been withdrawn from sale, the congestion at Seventy- fAtth Street began to be relieved. At 9.40 a algnal box almost oppo- site the centre of the Spring Street station blew out, sending flames to the roof, and two smaller blow- outs occurred alongside the third rail twenty-five feet north. AGENT SHUTS OFF POWER IN SECTION. Station Agent Deegan immediately threw the emergency switch, which cut off all power in what are knows as sections three and four, between Nineteenth Street and Brooklyn ee ip |] ans ite Si -— “ei hia pu i Da f i b READY T0 rl fF en All ct SENT T0-GE x Notice to State Subs Depart Follows German Action’in _ Taking Over Grain. WASHINGTON, Feb.’ 2. — areal ‘ Britain notified the United States to-day, although not in official fprm,; that foodstuffs of any kind destined | for Germany, Austria or Turkey ht be regarded as contraband of war. The action of the British Govern- ment is based upon the recent Ger- man decree whereby that Government will take over all grain in Germany" for common use. Because the steamer Wilhelmma ~ sailed from New York for Bremen be- "» fore, the issuance of the decree, it is * understood that her cargo of food for German civilians will be paid for and © appropriated by the British Govern” ment the ship allowed to go free: But bercafter food-laden ships sail- ing’ from the United States directly >“ for German ports or for neutfal ports «4% in Europe, where it appears that the cargo may tltimately reach Germany, will be subject to seizure outright, ship and cargo, without compensation. Tho State Department now is con- sidering this latest announcement of the British Government, but so far « has not committed itself to ite ap. prov: a Bridge. Ten minutes later repairs were made and power turned on. The early morning blaze near ” Seventy-ninth Street tation was, caused by the blowing out of a wire connection with the signal box. Fire spread to the oily journal of a nearby | reserve car, but was extinguished by trainmen. At almost the same time of the blowout at Seventy-fifth Street so! feed wire blew out under the thi cur of ao express train at Grand Ci tral Station. Edward Keiley, of 1822 Southern Boulevard, the train’: rawled under the oar to” was the matter and was" knocked out by smoke. He was re- vived by a doctor from Fina 2 Hospital. At the office of the Interboror Rapid Transit Company it was that the unusual rain storm ptiwones day, followed with the snow all dur. ing the night, and af all places where ventilating shafts open into the Subway from the streets permitted of considerable snow and water going down into har Subway through them. leakage of electrical current.on ber $ track at Sevonty-ninth sea caused a moderate short cireult from the third rail to one of the signal nds. The power was automatic- ally cut off. 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