The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1915, Page 1

oe Cireula oe. Rooks Open t9 All E SCENT RATE TO BROOKLYN AND CUT ALL ALONG ThE LINE FIXED BY PHONE PROBERS; At ‘Evening World Wins in Fight for a Reduction—P. S. Board i. Given One Week to - Order Reduction. ‘The new Gve-cent telephone rate, for which Tne Evening World has fought on behalf of the public, was announced to-day by the Foley Legis- lative Commilttee at a meeting held in the Coupty Lawyers’ Aspociation rooms, No. 165 Broadway. John L, Swayse, counsel for the New York Telephone Compuay, an- ) Rounced that the principle of a five-cent rate Would be accepted by the } company, although he would not ‘approyo of 188 schedule as propented. k ‘Tee company objects to the property valvation fixed by’the commilttes as vat tbe Tow. WO A bole iwi It was practically agreed that net —__— | EST Plas See Cactuswon vol FUNERAL GOAGH BEATS THIEVES IN HOT CHASE ‘het ap referee to decide on details of the new schedule and the amount to Women Malireat Three Prisoners After Shots Stop Them be cut out of the company’s earnings in Street, Wi New York City. ' WILL GIVE P. 8. BOARD CHANCE The necessities of police business de- layed an east side funeral this after- TO ACT. oon when Detective Rotchford com- i Senator Foley said: “We will report at once fo the Legislature our find- Mandeered a coach carrying four pall bearers and used it in a burglar chase. ings, and at the same time will trans- mit a copy to the Public Service Com- mission with the recommendation that it order these rates put into effect. ‘We are willing to withhold temporart/ ly pressing a mandatory rate bill be- tore the Legislature to give the Com-| He rounded up Joseph Goldstein, Phillp mission opportunity first of making | Klein and Louis Cohen of Nos. 221, 213 the reductions through the regular) anq 214 Madison Street, respectively. mata Poss Se weak ehOWe Mrs. Yetta Levine of No. 712 Kast Com- |Ninth Street, returning to her flat after malssion to act, If substantially th @ short visit to a store, met the three yates cannot be ordered by that time, | young men coming out. Each of them carried a bundle, She screamed und took after the men who ran eurt in Ninth Steet. Rotehford was at Avenue B, The coach was going by and he took pos- session of it. Lashing his horses, the coach driver made good time and in a af Abe details of the rate schi \that the section of the Sanitary Code ‘we shall present a bill to tho Legis- Jature embodying our findings.” Lawyers for the telephone com- pany approved the plan of both sides going before the Commsision to ar- rive at a compromise valuatign of the eompany’s property and Ss ava out couple of blocks was abreast of Gold- stein. The detective jumped off, nabbed that young man and fired two shots which halted Klein‘ and Cohen uni!l they were gathered in by Patrolman Dyker. Women In any event, a five-cent rate will be fixed as the basis for the new rates. The Foley Committee rate schedule pails for the following reductions: A total cut ef $3,000,000 in the telephone company’s = annual of the neighborhood Subscribers direct line rates word) eeraiohes ant Rugged, their Beet NtN oF ohare neitter pre sey of ae te And’ a are believed| thirty minutes after the Germans, at a heavy loss, had stormed the city.| three sunk by torpedo boat destroyers in the Straits, one by the ; seaen clothes an vere ’ en drowned, hi ; i ‘ ‘coast j oe per ay tor 000 calle pyr) with filth, Goldstein, Posh andioee tection to the public.” Mh teat of the bureau's announce- While his troops were rounding up Russians still hiding in houses there,} and one whlch met disaster off the motiNenners prefit in New York City. you CAN HAVE 800 CALLS FOR #0 A YEAR. per year for 800 calls for residen- ove and $42 por year for 840 mes- gage for business houses. This (Continued on Fourth Page.) —_—— Bis WAR ORDERS T0 BE LEVIED BY STATE neath of spun i sone, and. ed feared that the vessel bes) the fighting. It was imposible for them to keep him out of immediate Crew of the Carib Reported that it woul unreasonabie to ho! TO BE FILLED FOR ITALY ——_ Fuel Oil, 6,000,000 Tons of Coal, and 10,000 Horses to Be Pur- chased Here. La Veloce Line's steamship Stam aboard Capt. Carlo Pfister, of the Ital- Palisa, in to-day from Italian ports, had swarmed around the two officers and maltered the prisoners in every way thelr Ingenuity could suggest. They hen were locked up, chav burglary. — $18,813,303 DIRECT TAX Whitman in Message to Legislature Advises That All Appropriations Be Delayed for Time. ALBANY, Feb. 24.—A direct tax must be levied this year to meet State obligations amounting to $18,- 813,303, Gov. Whitman advised the Legislature in a special message to- wee Text ae NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, GERMANS SINK ANOTHER BRITISH SHIP; SEVENTH TORPEDOED IN THE WAR ZONE WOMAN LOSES HIGHT ON DOG MUZZLING LAW Supreme Court Justice Up- holds Legality uf Regulation to Stamp Out Rabies. i MUST PROTECT HEALTH. Mrs. Knoblauch, Held in $100, Says She Will Carry | Case Still Higher. | Kuroki, the champion Roston bull, owned by Mrs, Mary Knoblauch, wi of Charles Knoblauch, banker, ai hundredg of other highly valued ca; Rines 49 Now. Forks Cty, hap tinue to wear théir muczles find held by teushes white upott according to the decision hunded dows, \ fiend by Supreme Court) Juatige man, who upheld the Board .of: Has muazzie and leash regulation, | Mrs, Knoblauch made.a costly fight | to have the’ law declared invalid, Lut Justice Lehman held that she must stand trial in Special Sessions for I ting Kuroki wander without muzzle or leash. It was announced that Mrs, | Knoblauch would carry. her case higher. Justice Lehman held that the pub- lic can be protected from rabies if all stray animals aré driven from the streets and dogs allowed at large only under the double protection of muzzles and leashes. “Persons who own dogs,” Justice Lelman says, “have their rights, but such rights cannot menace the heaith of other people.” \ Mrs, Knoblauch’s contention was providing for the muzzling of dogs was unconstitutional and not humane, The American Kennel Club, which filed a brief, contended that the au- thority to regulate the keeping of dogs belonged to the Board of Alder- | men and not to the Board of Health, The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals admitted that the rarity of rabies was no ground to urge in demandin, dogs go un- muzzled, but adde "It is, however, believed that complete protection to human beings can be effected without the enforcement of so sweeping @ regulation as that under conaldera- tion, The court’ probably will have little difficulty in conceiving of situations where the proper use of the leash or of some form of closed Justice Lehman says: “Matters of health are specifically placed within the jurisdiction of the Board of Health, and if the regul tions enacted by tie Board of Alder- men are insufiicient in that they fall that the Board of Health has not power to make additional tions.” Two months and a half ago Mrs. Knoblauch was held in $100 bail for trial In Special Sessions. She imme- djutely sued gut a writ of habeas |C corpus and was paroled in the cus- tody of her lawyer, Mrs, Bertha Rem- baugh. aieacammese one WILSON APPOINTS FRANCE, Brooklyn Man Ie Given Office of regula- 4 | N Mes 1915. 16 PAGES. PRIOE ORE Onur. ‘|Kaiser Who Watched Big Russian Rout; General Who. Directed Victorious Army Wate THREE SHPS ATTACKED BY SAME SUE IN ENGLISH I British Steamer Oakby Sent to Bottom To-Day Without Warning, but Her Crew Is cued by Fishing Boats. HONHON DENIES it WAS _TR ices ey Feb, 24 pete Prem) Winn a “ ous: British coast; German submarines have torpedoed thee vessels last ‘twenty-four hours. It: was officially admitted this aftefdon | the British seamer Oakby ‘was torpedoed and sunk by a German sea raider in the English channel a few Tailes off Folkstone, © [She is the seventh vessel torpedoed in the war sone around the British Isles established by the German Government.) Some of the Oakby’s survivors were landed at Ramsgate, n of Dover. They said that the steamer was struck without Submarine shot a torpedo against the port side of the vessel. The X ~~ | slon was so terrific that the Oakby’s main hatches were blown off. The boats were lowered at once. Ten minutes after they pulled from her side, the survivors said, she plunged benesth the waves, A fishboat rescued part of the crew. According to the crew of fisbboat, she was four miles from the Oakby when the torpedo struck, ty the explosion was so severe that the fishing craft was herself A second fishing vessel picked up the remainder of the crew landed them at Dover. This led to @ report that two vessels hed: sunk off Folkstone, but the admiralty was certain this afternoon that original report of the sinking of two steamers was an error. The submarine that sent the Oakby to the bottom is believed to” been the samo one that attacked the British collier. Branksome © and sank the Norwegian steamer Regin in the same waters yesterday, It was announced from Berlin that the British transport 198 was & off Beachy Head, but the British admiralty insists that y Germens 4 wt ERS: Sronsee BRITISH NAVAL VESSEL MISSING WITH 280 MEN Merchant Cruiser Clan Mac Naughton Not Seen Since Feb. 3 and Believed Lost. CASRN F FIRING LINE WANTED 10 LEAD CHARGE Dashed to Battle Front in Auto and Had to Be Restrained From Taking Part in Fighting. By Kar! H. von Wiegand. (Copyright, 1915, by the United Press.) WITH THE GERMAN ARMY AT SUWALKI, Russia, Feb. 19 (By automobile courier to Insterburg, East Prussia, thence via Berlin and . took the Branksome Chine for a transport. , Word of the sinking of the Oakby was brought to’ f Cabinet was assembling to determine finally what policy is to be to meet the new form of German attack. It created a profound im here, though shipping circles were somewhat solaced by the report @nee Paris that one of the German submarines operating in the war sone Ee been destroyed. The submarine referred to was the one that attacked the packet. toria yesterday. The commander of the French destroyer wired to ae LONDON, Feb. 24.—The official In- formation Bureau announced this af- ternoon that the Clan MacNaughton, an armed merchant cruiser, is miss- ing. The vessel was last heard from Feb, 3, and it is feared that she has been lost, The Clan MacNaughton carried a ment follows: “The Secretary of the Admiralty re- grets*to announce that H. M, 8. Clan MacNaughton, an armed merchant cruiser, Commander Robert Jeffreys, R. N., has been missing since Feb. “An unsuccessful search has been made and wreckage suppowed to be portions of this ship has since been discovered. Clan MacNaughton was made in the early morning of Feb. 3, and it. ts feared that she was lost during the bad weather which prevailed at that time. The Clan Macnaughton was byllt at Glasgow in 1911 and was of 4,985 tons 3,| by bayonet. London, Feb, 24).—Kaiser Wilhelm was on the actual firing line when von Hindenburg swept the Russtans out of Prussia. He sped into Lyck the Kaiser addressed his soldiers in the market square, giving vent to bit- ter words over what he termed the senseless destruction of property by the Czar's troops. The Kaiser was with his men when they took Weszczellen, near Lyck, His staff officers could hardly restrain him from taking part in danger, The Kaiser's entrance into Lych teemed with the dramatic. It was as if his arrival had been perfectly timed as the climax to the third great scene of triumph for German arms in the eastern theatre of war. His big auto “The last signal received from the! mobile. rushed into the East Prussian city just us the Czar's armies, after of desperate, bloody re: nce, began fleeting the town. Before the Emperor's eyes, von Hindenburg and von Ludendort deliy- ered one of the mightiest smashes of the war, once more clearing German soll of Russians. The Tenth Russian army under Gen. Sievers, comprising eleven divisions of 165,000 men, was two-thirds captured or annihilated, Von Hindenburg’s mighty machine swept through East Prussia with to-day that he was positive a shot from one of his guns sent the to the bottom. Reports indicate the loss by the Germans of five of their ‘The loss of the Oakby apparently was mentioned in a despatch from Ly44, England, last night. This message referred to thé to pedoing of “two vessels” off Hastings. The Oakby was 275 feeb long and of 1,251 tons, and was built in 1897 and was owned im- ‘West Hartlepool. Bas No Word From Evelyn’s 3 WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Minister Van Dyke at The Hague cabled the State Department }ts first official confirmation destruction of the Carib. His message says: “The steamer Carih ported sunk by a German mine in the North Sea on a route beg prescribed by German instructions. ‘ The Carib 1s the Government War Insurance Bureau's wre cargo was insured for $235,000, the hull for $22,863, The Evelyn and Gam mean $658,253 loss to the bureau, or more than the. sccrued day. He recommended that no appropria- tion bills be released until a compre- hensive plan for raising this amount had been formulated. grows, Her length was 429 feet, beam| startling velocity, sending the Slavs scurrying in retreat, The Russian Tenth 63 and depth 34 feet, She has been in| army that since last October had occupied the narrow strip in East Prussia, the Indian service, for ‘she reached | extending from north of Gumbinnen, southward to Darkehmen and below London from Calcutta Nov, Johannisburg, was rolled out of Germany, crushed and disastrously beaten years, bbe wan owned py Os as the result of desperate battling cast and south of the Magurian Lakes. $$ fan Navy, and a former naval attache of the Italian Legation at Washington. He said he was here to contract for large supplies of coal and fuel oll for the navy. A month ago he was here received. The crew of the Carib is reported from German seuress to saved, but the whereabouts of the satlors is a mystery. Ambassador Gerard cabled this afternoon from Bertin on inf from the Bremerhaven Coneu) General a report on the Evelyn disaster, United States District Ati 7 WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—President Wilson to-day nominated Melville J. France of Brooklyn United Btates At- torney for the Eastern District of New vine & Co, of Glasgow.” and ogee brush wt 000 tons mig Finks Pes York. Beginning at Darkehmen, 1 bare It was to the effect that the vessel struck two ¥) of rate pe Bia Gown or two Hleu- | ZU PASO, Tex., Feb. 24. Curley Offers Bills to Prevent Treating tm| been wire 8 Gorman, gid ee and the counties bodies of Russian| hours later, Only two boats were manned. Capt. Sm! tenants and elsht non-commissioned | ‘Mis *fternoon announced the postpone-| | reser, ital sh oy yl sen nt Hiasiwe of ot | operon SS. Pek Hi-Two Pe gt alto Ss acisan south to| 18 ‘The character of the battle-| the Dutch pilot went in the GANCAED Of. (he Tenlion: army Wore com. | met. (ht Johnson biker hdl) pee zat aw erleet shesaehls Woes v4 podeg apa thely retreat became, panicky. |Srue’, Ond the rondw over | urday but whose present whereabouts, the Consul ‘ | AN y B Tole wea ovidens by the absadonns | ire. i? Rtgs! conBles was waged le Firet OMcer Swenson and thirteen men went in img te purchase 10,000 horses in Amer- fi Gepending op the time Johnson arrives tm Jeures, bed J wore taken to Heligojand, iia A W123 | to prevent treating in any. hotel, Pau, al or cafe were presen’ pene