The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1915, Page 1

aod PRICE ONE O * Ciroulation Books Open to All. ENT. Oe: (rne'New Toa wer Pabliching fort). SEIZE ALL FOODSTUFFS FOR GERMANY, IS ORDER ISSUED BY ENGLAND TO-DAY PITY POOR CHICAGO! Hamburg-American Line “PLOT OF HUSB NEW YORK, , MONDAY, MARCH 1, “1916. WEATHER—Falr Te-Might 9 oD - NA] EDITION 16 PAGES AND'S FOES,” PASSPORT PRISONER'S WIE SAYS OF AR REST IN HOTEL Mrs. Stegler Avers Assault Charge Covers Attempt to Make Her Sign Repudiation. ; TELLS THRILLING STORY Woman Is Discharged in Court —Husband and Two Others Indicted. ‘The ‘German passport scandal, in- volving by imputation officers of the Kéledy’s Embassy at Washington, @uddenly shifted te-day from the chancellories of the national capital | to @ hotel room and the West Side | Court. From bearing upon the prob- | ity of Richard P. Stegier, the recant- ing spy, who was indicted to-day, it shifted by a bewildering turn to direct a white light upon An- nette Pope Stegler, the priscner’s wife. Arrested near midnight in suite No. | 99 of the Hotel Grenoble upon the charge of Arthur W. Matelkat, who accused her of assaulting bim with hfs cane and a sizhon | ottle, Mrs. Stegler made to an Evening World reporter to-day the passionate charge that she was the victim of a plot which sought to stake her honor against the price of her betraying hor husband. She declared that she was trapped | by @ false friend into a position where she bad to match her wits against those of two representatives of a Ger- man-American newspaper and, con- fronted with the alternative of being revealed in a compromising situation or of branding her husband as a liar, she chose to sacrifice her reputation, if need be, to save her husband, COPIES OF FINGERPRINTS ARE) TAKEN. After spending a night in a cell of tho West Forty-seventh Street Sta- tion, Mra, Stegler was taken to Head- quarters early to-day and there her fingerprints were registered. Thence she was piloted to the West Side Court for appearance before a Magis- trate on a charge of assault made against her by the German reporter. Magistrate Barlow in the West Side Court discharged Mrs. Stegler after she had sworn that she was not dis- robed at any time during her presence in the hotel room with her two ac- cusers. Barlow expressed his regret that (Sonhnued on Fourth Page.) ONE DEAD, TWO HURT AS MOTOR RUNS WILD ‘William C. Provost of No, 8727 Twen- tleth Avenue lent Als fine, new six-cyl- inder car at noon to-day to his friend, Bernard Baas of No. 1667 Cropsey Ave- nue, Bath Beach. Driven by Dennis Gorey of No. Bath Avenue, the car was spinni jong at a 60-mile pace when the steering gear failed and it ran wild. As the car swept to the left acro: road just below Harway Aven struck Miss Clara Haughton, nineteen, of De Nyse Lane and threw her against the fence. Then it hit a telegraph pole and collapsed, hurling Gorey into @ front yard forty feet away and burying Mr. Baas in the wreck. The injured girl suffered internal in- Juries, but was able to go home, Baas died at the Coney Island Hos- BEE So soe con ia f PHONE DIRECTORS AGREE TO SUBMIT TO REDUCED RATE Order Policy of “Peaceable Compromise” in Fight for Cheaper Tolls. CONFERENCE IS CALLED. Executives of Company Plan Details of $3,000,000 Cut Ordered by State. | | Directors of the New York Tele- ‘phone Company met to-day and or- |dered a policy of peaceable compro- | mise with the Public Service Commis- |ston of The Evening World's long fight for cheaper telephone rates for | New Yorkers. Executives of the com- | pany are working out details of rate jschedules and seeking how the $3,- 000,000 cut ordered by the Commission | will affect various classes of service. Conferences are being held between officers of the company and represen- tativos of the commission designed \to settle the whole case at Thuraday’s | meoting of the commission. The plan contemplates presentation by the leampany at the morning session of a jcomplete rate schedule, based on cer- |tain compromise propositions. If the commission approves the directors will meet at once to ratify the terms. The telephono company's counter proposals have not been made pub- lic, but It is endeavoring to gain through private negotiations part of what it lost in open fight, It objects to the appraised valuation of its property, both the $65,000,000 fixed by the Foley Legislative Committee and the $82,000,000 fixed by the Public Service Commission. It is seeking to have that raised. The American Telephone & Tele- graph Company, which owns all the stock of the New York Telephone Company, objects to having its rich rake off of 4 1-2 per cent, of gross receipts cut down as ordered by the Commission, New Yorkers taxed $1,200,000 per year in rates to pay this tribute to the Telephone Trust. It amounts to $2 per instrument per year, taken in the form of liv nae rental. The Commission says $1 per year is enough. Whatever the secret negotiations, the demands of the public stand un- changed to-day as they did when presented first by The Evening World two years ago: A maximum five-cent rate for sub- soribere. Abolition boroughs. Reduction of charges to apartment houses so that tenants oan have five- cent telephone service. Phe toll gates between SHOW GIRL AND RICH YOUNG HUSBAND WHO IS SUING FOR DIVORCE ——————— | MR.amnd MRS _ROBERT <o) GOLDMAN WAR SITUATION TO KEEP WILSON IN WASHINGTON ie President Says He °; “Tied by the Legs” and May Not Be Able to Even Visit Frisco Fair. WASHINGTON, March 1.--Prest- dent Wilson told callers to-day the European situation 80 much of his attention that he was doubtful if he would be able to leave Washington this spring, even, pos- sibly, to make his proposed visit to tho San Francisco Exposition, “I am tied here by the legs,” was the way his callers said tho President exprossed the situation. He told a committee which called to invite him to the Southern Conference for Edu- cation and Industry at Chattanooga, Tenn., in April that his plans were very uncertain. MORSE LOSES CONTROL OF HUDSON NAVIGATION That Charles W. Morse, President of the Hudson Navigation Company, has been shorn of most of his powers in that line is common rumor in Wall Street. Though as a matter of fact Morse has not been actually deposed as the head of the corporation. The active head of the business of the company Is John j' Ousley, First Vice President, in char, of operation, who was placed in office at the last meeting of the board of directors and took charge Feb. 1, At the same time Marshal M. Ferguson, who was con- nected with the banking firm of Hay- den, Stone & Co, of Boston and New York, was made secretary and treas- urer, taking the place of Harry F, | Morse, son of Charles W. Morse, and | Nehemiah H. Campbell, who was treasurer. In Wall Street it is said that the board of directors is controlled by Hayden, Stone & Co.'s interests, they hat it about the election of was demanding! NEW YORK DIVORCE RAIDERS ARE NIGER That’s Whe fae, Mrs. Goldman Said When She Was Caught in Windy City. SMILES ON BOY HUBBY. Youngster Was Exilead by Father When Marriage Was Discovered. Twenty-year-old Robert Goldman, son of Henry Goldman, millionaire banker of No. 998 Fifth Avenue, to- day heard his father’s private secre- tary describe in vivid detail how Mrs. Edith Oatned Goldman, the boy’s wife, signed a confession after she had been caught in @ Ninth Street artist's ‘studio with Nathan Harris, a young married lawyer. Young Goldman, tanned and rugged, arrived to-day from Meeker‘'s, Col., where “Ranch L 07," his exile, is lo- | ‘With an English tutor the boy was sent out there to be x cowboy and to forget his costly experience on Broadway. On May 26 last Goldman ran away from Williams College, where he was |a junior, with Edith Ostend, a chorus \ girl, and they were secretly married | in Jersey City. In behalf of his exiled son, Mr. an brought suit for a divorce againat the show girl and she in turn aioe, the banker and his wife for 00,000 for alleged alienation of her husband's affections, YOUNG WIFE GAZES AT HER BOY HUSBAND. When Mrs, Goldman, who is nine- | teen years old, first tere 1 the court- |room she took a seat at the long | counsel table where she loked square- ‘iy into the eyes of her young hus- band, She smiled and her husband returned the cordial greeting. Then his father sitting In back of the boy, tapped him on the shoulder and whispered to him. Robert turned his back on the girl and for the rest of the day kept his cyes trained away from her. The first witness called was Ches- ter E, Mann, pri ecretary to the banker. Mann headed the raiding party that visited the house, No. 66 West Ninth Street. At 9 o'clock the raiders reached Mrs. Goldman's apartments. They did not enter until 11 ofclock, when one of the detectives went to the roof, climbed down the fire escape and stole into the room through the window. WIFE WAS NUDE AND SMOKING A CIGARETTE, “Mrs. Goldman waa, sitting on couch nude with Harris,” sald Mann. “One of the men with us sald to Mrs, Goldman, ‘This is a fine situa- tion for a young married woman to be found tn.’ ‘Ob, I don't know,’ Mrs. Goldman eaid u. concerned and con- tinued making a cigarette.” After looking at the palr a few minutes, the witness sald he advised Mrs, Goldman to sign an affidavit confessing her guilt #0, as the wit- ness sald, “things would be easier for Nathan Harris,” Mrs, Goldman signed the alleged confession, and then proved herself a hospitable, though highty nervous, hostess by offering the raiders beer, whiskey or “stingers.” Justice Greenbaum inquired the na- ure of “stingers,” and the witness described them as a potent ulcoholic beverage. After drinks were offered, the witness said, Mra, Goldman vol- unteered the information that she (Continued on Fourth Page) _ Offi cials Are Coaling German Warships Fraud in Manifests Charged Against Director, Manager and Others. FOOD WAS SENT ALSO. Federal Grand Jury . Says Three Ships Were Sent “ From New York. The Federal Grand Jury which has been investigating charges that cer- tain steamship men obtained false manifests and then sent boats out to supply coal and food to German war- ships this afternoon returned indict- ments against the Hamburg-Ameri. can line and the following offict and others connected with thé’com- pany: Carl Buenz, a director of the com-! pany. George Kotter, general superintend- ent of the Hamburg-American Com- pany. Walter Poppenhouse, whose real name, according to the indictment, Is J. Poppenhaus, supercargo on the steamship Berwind. Adolph Hochmeister and Felix Seff- ner, employees of the Hamburg-Amer- ican Company, The specific charge in the indict- ments ts “conspiracy to defraud the} Government by means of false mani- festa.” ‘The indictments relate that at the beginning of the hostilities abroad many foreign warships off the Ameri- can coast were In need of supplies, and that the Hamburg-American line, | through those connected with It ‘con-| spired to supply” these warships with coal and provisions. Among the boats named as having been sent out by the alleged con- spirators were the Lorengo, the Fram and the Sommerstad. The latter two are Norwegian boata, but it is alleged that they were fitted out by Germans and sent to supply German warships EXPLOSION KILLS 30 ON MEXICAN GUNBOAT GALVESTON, Tex., March 1.—-De- spatches reached the Mexican Con- sulate here to-day telling of an ex- plosion on board the Mexican gun- boat Progreso which resulted in the death of thirty persons, including hye women. The explosion, accord- ing to the first report, occurred yea- terday morning while the gunboat Was at Progreso. It is said that what purported to be o barrel of rice sent on board was in reality a bomb, prepared by persons opposed to the Carranga regime, The Mexican Consui here has cabled for further information, as he is inclined to doubt the report. pall ais? WHITMAN TO RUSH ALIEN LABOR REPEAL ALBANY, March 1.—Gov. Whitman will requost the Legislature in a spe- cial emergency inessage to-night to repeal the Alien Labor Law, It would | be possible under such conditions to wipe out the statute immediately, Labor unions generally have stood for a strict enforcement of the stat- jute. Clarence A, Crane, Secretary lof the General Contractors’ Associa- tlon of New York City, brought the test case. The Spring bill intended to repeal the law has been in the Senate La- |bor Committee for some time. It meets with the Governor's approval, The procedure, therefore, probably will be to report the bill out to-night, pase it in the Upper House and ie it to the bly with a view Indicted for BRITISH PREMIER WHO TELLS OF EMBARGO ON WOOD FOR GERMANY. a HON TsHaASQUITH $8,500,000 A DAY ISENGLAND'S TOL TO)CARRY ON WAR NO TIME FOR PEACE TALK NOW, ASQUTH TELS THE COMIMO British After Seven Months of W: More Determined Than Ever { Continue. Until Purposes of Allies Are Accomplished. LONDON, March 1.—An embargo against all shipments of modities to or from Germany has been decided upon by the ernment, Premier Asquith announced in the House of Commions' temnoon. This drastic step, the Premier announced, was’ de retallation for German submarine attacks upon British n The Premier declared that Germany had violated the conventions intended for the mitigation of warfare. She had ts further steps by organizing “AN UNDER SEA CAMPAIGN OF PIR AND PILLAGE,” Germany, he declared, was not blockading and could never | ade English shores, Referring to what he termed whispers of peace, Mr. Asquith was not time to talk of peace; that this time would arrive WHEN THE GREAT PURPOSES OF THE ALLIES ARE IN § OF ACCOMPLISHMENT.” “After seven months of the war the whole empire is every determined as at the outset,” he declared amid cheers. The purposed measures of reprisal against Germany, the Prenter ti would be enforced with strict observance of the dictates of humanity, & the allies did not purpose “to allow their efforts to be strangled in & work of judicial niceties.” There was no intention, he explained, te fiscate detained ships or cargoes unless they were liable te con! under the ordinary conditions of war. ‘The allies would hold themselves free to capture goods Expenditures wes Biaatly Rising but Will Lend More Money to Allies. LONDON, March 1.—Premier As- quith this afternoon asked the House of Commons to vote $185,000,000 for war expenses for the remainder of the period ending March 81, making a total appropriation for the war thus far of $1,810,000,000, The war expenditures are steadily rising, the Premier said, By April 1 the war will be costing England at least $8,500,000 dally, The Prime Miniater assured the House that England was so situated financially that the drain upon her resources could continue for years without causing an actual crisis. He announced that as the result of the recent conference at Paris, Eng~- land probably will advance more funds to Sery 1 and to Belgium, This will be in a/dition to the $4,000,000 already advanced to Servia and the $50,000,000 ‘ndvanced to Belgium, The vote of credit, the largest ever put before the House, was adopted unanimously, >. a HE JUST GIVES ADVICE. Mayor Mitchel professed not to taku very seriously to-day @ story from Washington which makes his Corpora- tion Counsel, Frank Lyon Polk, succes- wor to United States Senator O'Gorman ‘as the man to be consulted in the dis- tribution of Federal patronage. “Personally, I don't think any one man occupies the position Mr. Polk ts credited with holding,” said the Mayor, “But if Washington 1s seeking advice on the question of deserving and fit Democrats I don’t think it could go to & better, @ more qualified man than oe A saat yada ea es See FD reve ete mmne be te 8 ec AN Wl OL co nettles agent presumption that such goods were destined for the use bli enemies or had been sent from hostile countries. Laying of the embargo is virtually a decree of blockade of the man coast. It is believed that few neutral vessels will care te the danger of running the blockade of British fleets off the German and that Germany will bo “starved out” and forced to sue for peace. In government circles regret was expressed that German should be made the innocent victims of England's new policy. @ however, justified their course by stating the belief that England, by’ shortening the war, is acting in the interests of humanity, induding German non-combatants. The United States, Holland, the Scandinavian countries an@ Maly the nations whose commerce will be most affected by the British The government anticipates that some complications will reeglit the laying of the embargo. Officials, however, took the view this noon that by declaring all commmodities destined for Germany contraband England avoids controversies with other nations such es developed by the seizure of the Wilhelmina, the American ship for Germany with a cargo of foodstuffs and the selsure of neutral bearing cargoes of cotton Referring to the attick on the Dardanelles, the Premier said that had been no impairment of strength of the allies in France or in as a result of withdrawals of men for service in the campaign Turkey. “We shall continue to give the fullest and most effective support he added, referring to the western front, “Neither has there been, for the purposes of the Dardanelles any weakening of the grand fleet. The enterprise was carefully with distinct political, strategical and economle objects, The Premier said that the operations against Turkey again the close co-operation among the allies, French and British Envoys Outline Reprisals to Brya WASHINGTON, March 1.—France and Great Britain served the United States today that they would hold themselves at liberty all shipping hereafter to and from Germany, A communication outlining measures of reprisals on the part allies for the submarine warfare on merchant ships was delivered to Secretary Bryan by the Freach and British here, who called personally at the State Department together purpose, ae Secretary Bryan promptly apprised President move, dut declined to make any statement, What the is was not disclosed by the Ambecsadora. ! a