The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1915, Page 2

eupplying Engi Merthants with foot FFICIAL GERMAN REPORT. Russians ! rh iu @f the Sereert character and at close quarters. pat eter ged t E j i rf : h ti 3 nil | | iti i i i ih fi; ne tsk rig ‘explained, “and I fas Sekecenty "Rierney Huth brought out that great reliance e@pigrams which she| C labelled “To L¢ $ PUT FOOD CARGOES UNDER CONTROL IS ——— Text of the Proposal for Con- sular Supervision Is Made Public. ASKS U. S. TO BE FIRM. Declares That Foodstuffs From Neutrals Will Be Used Ex- clusively by Civilians. : WASHINGTON, Fob. 17 (Associ- )—The official text of “1—The Federal Council's decision concerning the seizure of food prod- ucta, which England alleges to be tlie cause of food products shipping to Germany being treated as contraband, fs exclusively on ‘wheat, rye, both ‘unmixed and mized with other prod- ucts,’ and also ‘wheat, rye, cate and barley flour.’ “$. The Federal Council makes an expreas exception in Section 46 of tho order, Section 45 provides as follows: “The stipulations of this regulation do not apply to grain or flour imported from abroad after January 31.’ “$—Conjunctively with that saving clause, the Federal Council's order contains a provision under which im- ported cereals and flours obuld be @old exctusively to the municipalities or certain specially designated organ- isation by the importers. Although with | that provision bad for its object sim- »| Dly to throw imported grain and flour into euch channels as supply the private consumption of civilians ‘and, in consequence of that provision purpose of the yore a Ger the eu sion of a aot if uessnary it will iteelf make @ proposition in that bed @at to remain late at Sehnsen, bie wife and thet? children, ‘Beware, Gve, and Ruth, one, were be- Hevea to have lost thelr lives tn a Gre at Mo, 101 Third Avenue. While i i rill HH Pint ze? f it fur been tif | pri not taken her friend ‘he ex- resses that firm hope that the Amer- in Government will stand on its Tight im this matter.” —— NO PRIZE CREW PUT ON THE WILHELMINA; MERELY A NAVAL QUARD LONDON, Feb. 17 (Associated Press). —The report which last night received wide publicity to the effect that a prise) ‘roneous. chatty ‘of ‘aire Wilhelmina ania thet the detachment. was not @ prise crew, but —_——S>—" 4 STATE DOINGS AT ALBANY. ‘BVENING WOR Aa “LD RDN ESDAT, pusavant tt, Ship Seized by British'Cruiser and Searched ! For Contraband When Off Coast of Scotland GRBLADDAS LORDO4LBEDIDERDEDEDDEDDD4 O944 We erokdhaon Weetsrn Front GERMANY 5 PLAN} ZEPELINS FAL SAYSNVENTORO THEMONOPLANE Bleriot Declares the Dirigibles Can Do No Real Damage on Their Raids. (Copyright, 1018, by the United Press.) PARIS, Feb, 17.—"The much vaunt- ed Zeppelins are utterly worthless for purposes of war. They. are certain goon to disappear entirely as a factor in aerial navigation of any sort.” Tt was Louis Bleriot, inventor of the monoplane, who waa talking, And he had been carefully reading the United Presa interview with Count von Zep- pelin, in which the German inventor declared his great dirigiblés would be material factors in ending the war. Bleriot, the first man to fly the Eng- Msh Channel in a heavier-than-air machine, is France's chief consulting expert in matters aerial. “This war has killed the Zeppetins,” he continued. “They are bound to Gisappear entirely because they are impracticable, They are too bulky, too light, too frail for stern work, and are entirely at the mercy of the el to protect them against the weather, f@ @ handicap that eannct be over- come.” “Then you consider Paris and Lon- = !HER OLD LOVE LETTERS GO WITH HER TO GRAVE Treasured Relics of Dead Days Placed in Spinster’s Coffin as She Requested, ‘The ghosts of old loves of long dead days went to the grave with Mery Ashton Wade, « spinster, who died at her home, No, 218 Warburton Ave- nue, Yonkers, on Jan. 11. The treas- ures of the springtime of her life many years ago, her love letters, were buried with her, on her breast over the withered hands, according to her ‘fnal request. ‘This last line in the shadow ro- mance of Mary Wade was added to- day when counsel for her brothe: ture | Horace Wade, of No. 272 Wet Seven- ty-third Street, an executor under her will, notified Surrogate Sawyer, ip troller | Yonkers, that when Miss Wade died he | “t have reason to . Whitman passed a bill Pes the contin Smployment provisional State em- whore term of service has to- ie permission will be json: @ object of 6 of Assemblyman Mac- resent Commissioners T, Munt, Albany: Hd . Byron; on he m8; Leon c. jew ‘York; Charl Donald. bill would pe the 7 establishing a new Bi json for the eastern part of the State to replace Sing Bing. A. vill incorporating the village of Baratogy, Springs as the City of Bara- of @ emall package was found in her desk, upon which was @ note written in @ feeble hand, “Please bury this With me.” “That package,” said the law; with a note of reverence in his voloe. believe contained the things dearest in all life to this ee CREWS OF BRITISH SHIPS SUNK BY THE GERMANS ON WAY TO NEUTRAL PORT BUENOS AYRES, Argentine, Feb, 17. te that the German FATAL SUBWAY FIRE IS LAD AT DOOR OF THE SERVICE BOARD (Continued from First Page.) four men in it with a hand drill. They had been instructed to uncover an T-beam of the present subway and were drilling through the concrete. The man who was holding the sledge faw the drill suddenly go through the material into something soft and su; gested that the work be stopped. The Public Serv! engineers had given instructions about the drilling, and yet the work was not stopped then and there. Suddenly the drill the men were using begun to dance and a flash of blue flame shot from, hole. Tho four men fled, so I told, but they came back later found that the “bull burned completely off. There were no Public Service In- tors there then, but they were on the ground within an hour, and the cable which was burned was drawn from the duct. And just at the time the drill causéd the flash of blue flame the accident happened in the splicing chamber up Broadway. And fust.as you said it would the weakest point in the namission of the current. Mr. Williams, the Public Ser- Commission, ite engineers and must have known of the} removal of that burned cable and; the orn pag eee a nes le is, Clty. got, told o: Was tt on, ecéaust 3 “pqasing yuck” m., the. igh to Now, vice th it the mn Wasn a rw ¥ ca wor ahow | that the Public Service Commission ‘had falled of supervision of the new aubway contracts and that, the acci-| dent was not up to the Interborough? Commissioner Williams—I don’t thigk it would have shown that. "Here Col. Hayward produced two tements, bp iprti ag | sta\ which: held out before tl Commissioner, ing? Here I have two statements from men who were at work in the man- nd Street, was foreman of the job, and the other is Lex Diggs of No. 468 West aa fundred and Fiftieth Street, the man. Dice pays: Commissioner Williame—Here, wait a-minute. The District-Attorney is an investigation of this mat- the commissioners are to ‘or retained? Chairman Thompson, appealed to, instructed Col. Hayward to proceed ‘as it was time the people of the city learned how the accident occurred, ————_——— HELO FOR MAIL ROBBERY. be retired Clarke Yale and James Carey Witt! @! Be BExtradited, Halm, sixty years who were ar- No. 1056 Lex- charged with robbing the maiia, were arraigned in Yorkville Folice Court to-day. At the request of Post Office Inspector Ji e they were remanded for forty-eight hours to await extradition to Washington, where the robberies charged against them were committed. Yale's wife, twenty-eight years old, and arrested with him, went to Wi ington willingly last night after mal ing @ confession to the authorities. Amemblyman John R. Yale tele- graphed the Associated Press from Brewsters, N.-¥. as follows: “- gee story published widely circulated this morning ref , mail robber, as a broth {9 Sisambiyman John Re Yale of Bre SS gi ok meer bate or half er. JOHN R, YALE.” KINGS REPUBLICANS BOLT. Feer Senators Halt V: pensation Appropriation Bill. ; ALBANY, Feb. 17.—A bolt by the| four Kings County Republican Sen- Gilchrist Com- it msation appropriation bill fy i to pass asible ior oe Upper House ators except Lockwood ‘opposed to the amend- ment inel in the bill, which would Dermit direct settlement between em- Dloyers and employees. Lockwood agreed to vote with the other three | Francis Hustace Suicide, Say EXPORT OF WHEAT DOUBLED, ESTES EXPERT AT NUIY Produce Exchange Statistician Gives State Bread Inves- tigators Figures. Important witnesses who were ex- pected to throw light on the alleged boycott of dealers who sell bread for five tents were missing when the State inquiry into bread prices was resumed to-day in the Attorney Gen- eral’s office at No. 299 Broadway. News also arrived that two of the principal witnesses from Chicago, | who were expected to come here with- out subpoena were missing. One of them Is in the far West aid the other has departed for Florida. They cannot be brought here by subpoena. Deputy Attorney General Alfred L. Becker denied James A. Patten, the noted wheat speculator, was one of the missing pair. He still expects Mr. Patten to come here and throw light on the bread situation. Henry Heinzer, chief statistician of the New York Produce Exchange for the last twenty years, was the first witness to-day, . He, sald there was no means of ¥nqwing,. officially, before.March 1 each year the amount of wheat held back by the farmers. Certain firms mploy agents to collect information this subject in’ advance of thé Government report, he said. “Are those reports colored to sult the purpose of the firms that get them up?" he was asked. “Well, they may be partly biassed,” said Mr. Heinser; “but if firm should give out false information, truth will prevail and that firm, in the long run, would suff The beginning of the wheat crop year, Mr. Heinzer said, is on July 1. On that date, in 1914, the Government report showed there were 76,236,000 bushels of wheat carried over from 1918, and a total of 967,253,000 bushels on hand. This was an increase of more than 200,000.000 bushels over the supply on wand vuly 1, 1913, which was 763,380,000 bushels. by crops of 1914 were the greatest evet harvested in this country, The a@mount of wheat required for con- sumption in the United States from July 1914, to July, 1, 19! is esti- from 500,000,000 to 625,000,000 bushels. There has been used for home consumption up to Feb. 1, 1915, 305,396,000 bushels; 210,000,000 bushels bave been exported and 85,000,000 bushels saved for seed, so that up to Feb. 1, 600,396,000 bushels have been isposed of. There was on hand Feb. 1, 1915, 366,857,000 bushels. This leav free for export 123,000,000 bushels from now until July 1, 1915, the end of the wheat year. ‘The exports of 191 than double those of crease in the crop this year is 128,00 000 bushels. The increase in the e¢: 1, 1915, ts 20,000,000 n the increase in thy crop of the previo: La 17.—A landslide caused by the torrential rains at Varcosabina buried a house occupted b: ht per- . None of those entom! has been Celebrated Hats SPRING STYLES On Sale Tomorrow Thursday, Feb.18 NEW YORK Chicago Philadelphia Agencies in All Principal Citiea, | i in the same room g Dr. Hustace in bed ¥ dining room to loor over < papers until Dr. Hustace was for breakfast. He waited n hatt an hour and was on his wa; ick to the bedroom, which: ts th ¢ the apartment overlooking son, when the tele; * ge, Edward Egstro ‘su of the bulicin. was co to tell Mr. Reynolds that his in was lying dead on the driveway. He had missed Burnett Madden, @ negro workman abou. the ho n iy trro*feet in his fall. uae AS Mr. Reynolds told Polleéman @qit- van that Dr. Hustace had been under the burden of serious troubles lately which were of interest only to mem- bers of the family. The remark led to the suicide entry in the pojlog re- port. hae The cousin later explained, fo,,ghe reporters thet Dr. Hustace bad ,@pt- fered from a severe nervous malady due to his long hours of Intense siggy and had for some months, a patient of Dr, Albert Abhe,,o@)d¥o. 13 West Fiftioth Street. Dr. was subject to attacks of Yertlepar, lawyer said, and might easily. nave been overcome while looking ouf,t Dr. Hustace was an honor manat Columbia in the class of 187% and, hed a country place at No; 60 Plymbuth Street, Montclair. Walling tn-ithe parks and In the country waa his.oul; recreation, his cousin sald. .. Hew the son of William Hustece:.eho ‘formerly lived at Madison Avepe land Forty-eighth Street... His, qaly sister, Mrs. E. V. Z Lane, ves at nth Btreat.....¢ DOGTOR KILLED BY PLUNGE FRO TWELFTH STORY ck. of je Hud rang. intendent Police, but Cousin In- sists He Fell. VERTIGO, HE ALLEGES. Falling Body Hurtles Down Within Two Feet of Man. Dr. Francis Hustace, an elderly scholar, whose only medical practice was for charity, a gradtate of the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons in the class of 1873,:was killed by falling from the window of his apartment on the twelfth floor of the Kelmscott, No. 316 West Seventy-ninth Street, to the driveway of the service entrance to- Police records say he committed but his cousin, Eustace Reyn- jawyer of No. 2 Rector Street, insisted that bis fall was due to an attack of vertigo. who ocoupled a bed Politician Dead tn ond. * PROVIDENCE, R. 1, Feb. 17.—Ftan- cis Crowell, prominent in Démotratic politics, w44 found déad: In Woodville Providence, Compare Af pare ir the QUALITY Connoisseurs find in Lord Salis- - - ; bury the. same superior Turkish’ leaf quality asin Turkish brands of : higher price—the same richness’ of aroma, mellowness of flavor and delightful mildness. = ep ae G.* 2 oo weve ys? we some me athe 100%, Pure Tarkish Cigarettes! 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