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G “Circulation Books Open to All.”” ‘Prees Publishing Wont Werte) Paige ONE OENT. Orvrag, 3838, NEW YORE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ry "1915. 10 TONS OF ROCK {GERMANY CHANGES BURY WORKMAN | FRONT IN WARNING ROGKEFELLER SR FOLLOWS CARNEGIE AT LAGOR INQURY Helped to Witness Stand by Two Secretaries, He Defends } His Foundations, CHARMAN MT CALL TOO BUSY ‘Wm LAW PRACTICE TO HEAR COMPLAINT AGAINST SUBWAY MARSHALL FIBLD’S e io See. Prominent FIANCEE, WHO IS TOO ILL TO BE MARRIED | Mass| Statement “Cautions” Them as to Dan- ger in War Zone. Hundreds See Great Fall on Man at Thirty- Eighth Street. Refused to Se Physicians on Day He Was Busy in Court CARNEGIE’S’ EPITAPH. (MAKES LONG DEFENSE. Reveals His Gifts Total; Unusual Accident Occurs in|!t Is Announced That Strict ‘ Ss $324,657,399 in Past Work on Excavations Measures Will Be Taken Was Finally Forced to Aban- 14 Years. for Subway. Against Transports. don Work Outside of the Commission. BERLIN, Feb. 5 (by wireless to Sayville, L. L.).—The Chief Admiral of the Staff of the German Navy has issued the following official munication: “England is on the eve of shipping numerous troapsand. large quant!- ties of war material to France. Aguinat these English transports we will proceed with all the means of warfare at our disposal. John D, Rockefeller ,unexpectedly appeared as a witness before the} Commission on Industrial Relations in the hearing in th letropolitan ) Life Building at 3.15 Y'clock this | afternoon. When his name was called, right after Andrew Carnegie hay left the witness stand, it was supposed that John D. jr. was meant. The elder Rockefeller was very weak. Two men, one at each elbow, supported him to the stand and aided him In seating himself in the witness Broadway witnessed an unusual accident at 3 o'clock this afternoon, when a man was buried under ten tons of rock in the sight of hundreds of persons. It was at the Thirty-eighth Street hoist over the new Broadway sub- way, which is being constructed thirty feet down in the solid rook. After blasts the rock comes up in big Edward E. McCal, Chairman of the Public Service Commission, was on the witness stand all of to-day before the Legislative Investigating Com- mittee in City Hall defending himselt | against the revelations of negtecting Pliblic duty for private law practice. He commended the policy of the com- | steel “gondola cars,” is swung along * mission not to institute criminal} chair, It was announggd that Mr.|a superstructure about thirty feet to jutral shipping i earne@tly cau- PFosecutions of corporations who vio-| 4 Rockefeller had appeared in answer | hopper, whence It is let fall into|t!oned aguinst approaching the north- Itbough the Pubtic to a subpoena despite ill health. trucks under a chute. ern or the westerm coast of France, _ date the law, a iB! Mr. Rockefeller produced a type-| An Italian laborer whose name is|## 1 these waters auch vessels would Beryice Act disfinctly provides for written statement defending his jnot yet known was standing by the|'UM the serious danger of being con- guch proceeding. Foundation. He said he believed the founded with ships whose purpones side of the chute governing the open- |‘ 4 pen tare warlike. The best route for the | North Sea is around Scotland.” The | WASHINGTO;! Feb. 5.—The Ger- | man statement of last night aroused public was protected, because the charters of the Foundations may be revised by legislation, Carnegie invited the commission to For two hours during the morning Gession Judge McCall argued and de- Bated with legislators and thelr coun- ing and shutting of the trap above the rock wagons. A fresh truck had been backed under the chute. MARSHALL FIELD 30 ILL, ¢ 4 man opened the trap, and just he Gel. He was in legarparis anpen ant WEDDING IS POSTPONED attend the meetings of his founda-|eoarse lumps of at pagel & Sent Goal of autiaty te oMeial flow of specch was like a ; tions, and welcomed investigation. | out he lost his footing wnd fell yt, | citeles It was regarded an one of Pouring out Niagaras of words, al- “We have nothing to conceal,” he the most serious developments of the is 5 ie i P the bottom of the truck below. thowah he kept his temper. ‘The #6] Young Heir to Cucct Merchant and] said, ‘A ten-ton masn alipeed den on| War: St was dincuated at a meeting Bion disclosed the follo ae ee Bride-to-Be Both Have Andrew Carnegie then took thelion of him. Hie screams could be {ot the to-day, Counsell More days, in addition to tana; bata Cnr Wlceetana * could be} Lansing occupying the seat of Se: ae re tae the Grip. + 1g “What is your business?” asked | greq # block and @ crowd Bath= | retary Bryan, who is out of the city. Bee POM anent On brive as ¢ Marshan|Ch#irman Walsh, “Just now.” an-]° phe foreman of the surtace wang | Atte” the Cabinet meeting Mr. 1 en. While the. wedding: Of Marshal) ve eced Sr. Carnepis, “it ja todo the ace KAN8 | sing sald no protest was being pre- Declined to receive two proml- . . Field 34 and Miss Evelyn Marshall, daughter of Mrs. Charles Marshall of No. 6 East Seventy-seventh Street, summoned as many laborers as he could to remove the rocks from the imprisoned man. But the work, done He refused to discuss wheth- He in- ‘most good I am able. 1 have retired trom active management of business pared, er‘one would be sent later. nent physicians who asked for a conference on subway construc- tion complaints because he Wa | has been indefinitely postponed, it is | “tir. by hand, waa necessarily slow. ‘The | Vested, However, that the question too busy, while on the same day |nor unlikely they may be marriea} ‘it was damn white of Andy!” — lnuried man’ screamn dropred tof ™&# fully covered by Internationa he was attending to @ law case. | next Monday or soon thereafter. He] That is the epitaph which Car-) -roans, and finally ceased. After a |'®¥ ’ Denied that public business suf- and she are ill with the grip at the negie wants put on his tombstone, he] hai¢ hour of frantic labor his body It was said that If Germany in- fered, even though he was ab- gent* from commission meetings, because he always examined, the ealendag and kept posted on what qvas going on. No criminal prosecution of cor- told the commission, explaining that the sentiment was uttered by a fugi- tive ex-burgess of Homestead, Pa., when he sent word through Prof. Dyke of Rutgers to the man who was workipg as a laborer in a Mexican tended to extend her war zone around England as a blockade she muat make it “air tight” or else the United States will not recognize it. The notice the State Department re- ceived was regarded as merely a dan- wax still concealed, When the workers finally released the imprisoned man they were dum- founded to find that beyond a few cuts and bruises, he was not hurt. ‘The rock had formed a rough protec- home of Mrs. Marshall, but both are improving and may be well enough for the wedding in a few days. The young couple's romance began at sea last September, when they met on shipboard while returning porations that violate the law | from Europe. Ho is the son of Mar-| mine, that he wanted to ald him! tion over his body as he slid into the} 8°" none werine ee warn- and defy commission orders be- | shail Field jr., of the noted Chicago | financially. Wagon, supporting the weight of the |/D&* Previously given by both Hng- cause Judge McCall and George |family, and under the terms of his| Mr. Carnegie's statement revealed! pie above. land and Germany asiyiod mips yes B. Coleman, counsel to the com- | grandfather's will he will inherit,| that in the fourteen years since he] tHiy name was Louin Scopa, Pending further notice from Ger- Basin, Meat. Uallere (8 sich. [ee he te arte yeneg ata, anetil| retired frees business to give away r= aed many, officinis were silent beyond methods, although the Interstate |afths of the Marshall Field estate,| the bulk of bis wealth in an attempt indicating that the United States WILDER R LEFT $250,000. to die reasonably poor, he has given will resent forcibly any outrage to American ships, providing a block- Commerce Commission does. which will give him some $200,000,000, investiggtion will adjourn to- a away, through his six foundations . lose until Ménday. Bp nay ved abroad “suce nernee and otherwise, a total of $324,657,899, | WH! of the “Comedian ves For-]ade is established without being Col, Hayward, counsel to the tn-|cently married a British noble Mr, Carnegie described why he tune to Chit made effectual according to inter- national law. A statement issued last the German Admiralty said; had established his various founda- tions, and disclosed for the first time that, in their behalf, he had taken vestiga continued probing deeper into the neglect of Public Service Commission business for private law Young Field has been brought up in the English fashion, und is a gradu. ate of Eton and of Oxford, Marshall P, Wilder, the actor, who died recently, left $250,000, according to hin will filed in the Surrogate's of- night by spt ends’ “The waters around Great Britain . fifty-nine days dls over the funds of 148 of his friendy'| fice to-day. . soaalilt allel us Big ovsigghoe lao oad bid ee New | widows and was paying them 6 per] All of this, except $500 xiven to Alice | and Ireland, including the whole En (Continued oa Second Page) Abi 'y Hall last December and} ot interest. These funds now|Brooks Mason, « faithful servant, forma! lish Channel, are declared a war s scan sui "?___|took out @ license to marry. “He gave amount to $3,197,894, ® trust fund for his two children, Grace} on and after Feb, 18, 1915. his age as twenty-one years and she gave hers as twenty-five. They hur- ried away, refusing to tell the report- ers when the wedding was to be. Young Field returned to C hicago not long after that aud there was considerable speculation as to when the wedding would take place. Young Field returned to New York last week. Ordinarily he stays at the St. Regis Hotel on his visits here, but this time he and his uncle, Stanley Field, and Marshall P. Wilder jr, Bach will recelve half of the income during thelr minority Dr. Edmund F. Henks and his wife of Westwood, N. J., where Wilder lived, are executors and guardians his statement The tronmaster sald: “1 have read with deep interest the testimony given before you by many in Every enemy merchant ship found in thix war zone will be destroyed, even if it is impossible to avert dang- ers which thpeaten the crew and pas- sengers. Also neutral ships in the war zone are In danger, as in consequence ‘of the misuse of neutral flags ordered by the British Government on Jan. 31, and in view of the hazards of naval warfare, it cannot always be avoided that attacks meant for enemy ships endanger neutral ships. pa SAILING TO-DA Cretan, Savannah. Hamilton, Norfolk. FARRAR MAY Quit ‘OPERA. (Continued on Ninth Page.) twas announced this afternoon that Geraldine Farrar, who, since her first appearance here in 1906, has become the woman star of thé Metropolitan ra Company, is to leave that organi- Bre are see of this senach’ anh went ig the Rome: ot Mra, aid Mise place herself under the management of = Se Charles A. Ellis of Boston. The officers | CPi fietopoltan® Opera House ree| BOOZE IN THE PUMPKINS. | fused to discuss the report, Rumor was that Miss Farrar had " been notified that her salary of $1,500 @m appearance was considered by matagement as sufficient and that she @emanded more, placing herself on « ; ars with Caruso. Miss Farrar signe a contract with ‘ar Ellis he will undoubtedly take h ‘a concert tour of the country. He ‘the manager of the Boston Symphony tra and has mana| cert may ROCKEFELLER GAVE AWAY $250,000,000; BUT CARNEGIE GAVE $324,657,399. In the race for position as the world’s greatest philanthropist Andrew Carnegie wins over John D. Rockefeller, On Jan, 26 when John D, Rockefeller jr. was asked by the Federal Industrial Relations Commission to name the amount of his father's benefactions, he answered: “T cannot say exactly, Bul I feei justified in placing the amount at a quarter of a billion dollars.” To-day Andrew Carnegie read before the same Comnilssion carefully estimated sum of benefactions—-$! He said he began ousiness on borrowed capital of $7,500. Way Found to Evade West Virginia! Prohibitio KENOVA, W. Va., Feb. 5.—Prohibi- | lon officers were to-day Investigating | the high price of pumpkins brought into this State from Kentucky. It is said that many of them have brought from 181 to $1.50—hollowed in the middle with a botue of liguor tiling the v — Are You Going south? ickete, aailings and dewriptive lite i foumecn, Weat indian: Rermus South Afuerican @teamshi ines TRAY wed wr torid Buitling aes ow, N.Y erin Heckman 4000. Gorck team ioe Uregage ud ‘pervs open day’ end as -yiten ay iste hia UPON BROADWAY) TONEUTRAL SHIPS: Issued To-Day|: SCREAMS DRAW CROWD. NO THREAT IS NOW MADE MAN WHO VANISHED AND YOUNG BRIDE COE LEFT BEHIND 98909940 000000000% ‘e sit A case as strange as that of Dick- ens's “Mystery of Edwin Drood” is the disapeparance from his home in Boston of Henry Clarke Coe jr. twenty-two, son of Dr. Henry Clarke Coe of No. 8 West Seventy- sixth Street, New York. Young Mr. Coe was married last June at Arlington, N. J., to Miss Hel- en Virginia Ainslee, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Allen Ainslee, The couple went to live in Boston, where he be- gan his business career as an em- ployee of the Standard Oil Company. Last Saturday morning at 8.30 o'clock the young husband started away from his home at No. 1200 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston, He was on his way to work, When he failed to return In the aft- ernoon, his bride communtcated with oMcials of the Standard Oil Company. eneral Manager Wilkinson sald Mr, Coe had not appeared there, and that it had been thought he was indigposed, On Sunday Mrs, Coe telephoned to Dr. and Mrs, Coe in New York, They hurried to Boston and took cl of the search. A despatch from Boston to-day suid the bride is prostrated with grief over her husband's ab- sence. Before leaving this city Dr, Coe com- municated witht a detective agency and arranged to have printed 6,000 circulars containing the young man's description and picture, and stating that a suitable reward would be paid for information leading to his finding. ‘These circulars are being distributed throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. BOSTON, Feb. 5.—General Manager Wilkinson of the Standard Oi! Com- pany reiterated this afternoon that Coe's gecounts are absolutely cor- ST aaeaenaneamaaaedl Ate 20 PAGES 00,000 IN GREAT BATTLE IN POLAND ‘ON A FIELD ONLY SIX MILES LONG “DION OF DEATH” BERLIN REPORTS 6,000_ | PETROGRAD (via London), Feb, 5.—Not since the battles around mans delivered such determined attacks a¢ these of yesterday when they attempted to break through the Russian line near Borjimow, thirty miles - from Warsaw. Probably never before in the eastern arena of the wai have they concentrated such a force upon a single point. the Germans threw 105,000 infantrymen, together with heavy forces of cavalry, the whole supported by 100 batteries of artillery, comprising in all 600 guns. e f nearly thirty thousand men to the mile, coming on in ten or twelve lines” | like the waves of the sea. PRICE ONE OENT.. | LEDKASER'S TROOPS IN BAYONET ATTACKS trograd Claims to Have Held the Lingjfor Two Days and to Have Retdken a Village from von. Mggkensen’s Army. 3 RUSSIANS CAPTURED. 2 Sey es in Poland, in thp early part of DecentBer, RAVE WE Gis 7 In a distance of six miles between Humin [Gourmine] and Borjimow, It is estimated that in part of this short fine there were: >! {Oficial reports from Bert to-day declare that Gen. von Mach- ~ ensen's army has captured 6,000 men and 26 officers in the last four days on the battlefield before Woreaw. It ie ebméitted that the Ruasians are “counter attacking with great fury.” Their efforts are declared to have been halted, Berlim oleo says the Rusetans, are attempting to resume the offensive in East Prussia near Til- ait, but declares “strong Russian attacke were reputecd along the Niemen River." The Russians, warned by the attacks of previous days im this came % | vicinity, concentrated correspondingly heavy forces to resist the German ¢ advance. There were at least 100,000 Russians im this battle: So close . were both sides packed in this narrow space that the artiMery became prec. tloally useless. DAY-OF-REST LAW UPHELD BY COURT Unanimous Decision Declares in Favor of 24 Consecutive Hours in Week, for Workers. ALBANY, Feb. 6.—The constita- tlonality of the law securing to em- ployees in factories and mercantile eatablishments twenty-four consecu- tive hours of rest every week, was upheld by a unanimous decision of the Court of Appeals to-day. The decision was rendered in an appeal from judgments of the City urt of Buffalo convicting the Klinck Packing Company of that city of vio- lating the law. The statute in ques- tion is known «@ Rest in Seven" Law. ers declined to recognize and numerous lawsuits resulted. wan stated to-day that the em] age 4 will carry the Klinck decision, was made in a test case, to the United States Supreme Court, INDICTMENTS FILED IN PASSPORT PLOT]: The Federal Grand Jury returned two Indictments to-day before Jndge Killits against Carl Rurode, Arthur W. H. Sachsse, Walter Muller and others in an alleged passport plot. Maurice Deiches, arrested Ja in Philadelphia and held in nominal ball, charged with complicity, was ing at 10 o'clock in the morning after a fight which lasted all night. > German prisoners_in the bends of the Russians relat#hat in the Ger- man camp the division chosen to lead oly ne, PRE