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_ANARCHISTS’ WITNESS MADE DEA‘1H THR INA] EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. BRAVE GIRLS RESCUE FRIEND AS FLAMES SWEEP FIERCELY TRROUGH FACTORY BUILDING Drag Fainting © Comrade Through Smoke Filled Halls as Flames Follow. | | MANY BARELY ESCAPE. Blaze Spread to Tenement and Nearby Gas Tanks Were Threatened. Fire started in the thira story of the Nicholas Althaus Cigar Box fac- tory at Nos. 6837-89-41 East Elgbteenth Street at 3 o'clock this afternoon, im- periliing *he lives of forty-five girls and seventy men at work on the floors above. The girls were in a panic as the smoke broke through into thelr Noor and ran pell meil for the stairway. ‘The men were ahead of them. One girl) named Annie Zarnow, whose home is on Jefferson Street, Brooklyn, was overcome by smoke and fell fainting to the floor. Nellie Matthews of the Southern Boulevard, the Bronx, and Minnie Moshier of No. 601 East Eighty-third | Street, saw their companion fall and ran back to her aid. They dragged her through the halls, where the flames were making thelr way through the black smoke, They suc- ceeded in goting the girl to the street. | She was removed to a drug store. ! When the fire apparatus reached the| acene smoke and flames wero rolling out of the upper windows of the bullding. The flames had communi- cated to a tenement at No. 635 Enst! Mighteenth Street and to one on the other side of the factory, Beyond the tenement at No. 635 are two big gas tanks and the fear of an explosion caused the turning in of another alarm. Fire Commissioner Adamaon and Chief Kenlon came with the second alarm. Four firemen hed gone up to the roof of the tenement at No, 645 and their companions were unable to reach them with ladders after the building caught. At the rear the imprisoned firemen found a lead pipe, down which they sbinned to a window on the top floor, through which they let themselves In- to the building and made their way to the ladders which had been sent up to that height. JOHNSON-WILLARD FIGHT | TO START AT 1 O'CLOCK Managers Agree That Men Shall Be in Ring at 12.30 Havana | Time Next Monday. HAVANA, April 1.—It was official- ly decided at a meeting of the various managers to-day to start the Jack Johngon-Jess Willard championship, fight at 12.30 Havana time, Monday, This will be 1 P, M, New York time.) Following this announcement Jess| Willard named Otto Floto of Denver as his time keeper. | Many sportsmen dre now reaching here for the battle, Many of them are winter tourists from Florida r sorta, They expect to, see Willard and Johnson in their final workout to-morrow. Bob Vernon of New York has been appointed offictal timekeeper of the club, with Ben Harris, also of New York, as alternate, Sam Leonard of ‘Yoronto is the timekeeper for John- 50m ANARCHIST IS HELD FOR DEATH THREAT AGAINST POLIGHAND Detective Arrests “Red” Who He Says Bit His Khuckles ‘at Him. Giuseppe Alta, an Anarchist, was arrested at noon to-day in the corri- dor of the Criminal Courts Building for threatening the life of Policeman Amedeo Pollgnano, who, by joining an Anarchist group, caused the ar- }rest of Frank Abarno and Carmine Carbone. Pollgnano made the arrest in person, on orders Issued by Judge Natt, who is presiding at the trial of Abarno and Carbone on the charge of Placing a lighted bomb in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Yesterday Anarchists hooted Polig- nano and spat at him as he wan en- tdting the court room. ‘To-da: he was passing a group outside the court room door, Alta, Pollgnano swears, bit the knuckle of his first finger. Thin is the Italian death sign, It 1s equivalent to a threat of murder and is so recognized tn Italian erim- {nal circles, Poli volubly, but made no effort to assist their comrade. Alta, protesting and cursing, was dragged down to the Centre Street Pollce Court by Polig- nano, Capt, Tunney and several de- tectives. There he was locked up in the prison pen to await arraignment on a charge of threatening the life of a police officer, Later he was held in $600 ball to keep the peace for six months. ‘Alta began to cry when he found himself in a cell, Polignano says Aita was a member of the Brescl group of Anarchists, ander the name of Joseph Negre, and ts a son-in-law of Joseph Rubino, the Anarchist leader in Cuba, Aita had been previously summoned as a witness for the defense. ‘The defense of Abarno and Carbone (Continued on Second Page.) ————- POLICE IN MOTOR.CHASE THIEF FLEEING IN BUGGY After a long chase through Flat- bush streets in which two motor cars | manned by policemen and a mounted | patrolman had a hand, Peter Soren- sen of No, 2211 Ridkewood, was ar charged with having robh of Mrs, John Bough, No. ford Avenue. Mrs, Bough came home and dis- covered a man in the house, He ran out and got into a buggy which with another man in it stood at the curb, Then the chase began. It laste with new recruits at various points, as far as Albany Avenue and Ha thorne Street, A pair of shoes w thrown from the buggy during t chase and a quantity of jewelry w @ lot at Albany Avent of the bugey riders leape out and escaped Borensen denied the robbery, saying: that the other man had leaped into his buggy and with a re- volver made him drive off. . Circulation Books Open to All. Cree Hike ee ton wena Vyckoft Avenue, | suddenly | a RAE TANZER SEES INDICTMENT AHEAD BUTISNT WORRIED James W. Osborne Is Called Before Grand Jury as a Witness To-Day. GIRL TALKS OF CASE. Public Service—Is Going Into the Movies. James W. Osborne was subpoenaed to-day to appear as the first witness before the Federal Grand Jury In the proceeding against Rae Tanzer and others charged with conspiracy and using the matis in an attempt to de- fraud. . It ta not expected the invea- tigation will be concluded in one ses- sion of the Grand Jury. Lawyer Spielberg, who succeeded Slade & Tanger, !s so certain that his client and others will be indicted that he notified United States District Attor- ney Marshall to-day of arrangements he has made to furnish bail. He also sald that he would produce Miss Tanzer’a sinters, Rose and Dora, who identified James W. Osborne as Rae suitor aud nov adinit they were imi | taken, | Rae Tanzer, Mr. Spielberg said, has [decided to capitalize the notoriety | Paised bis right hand to his lips and | that has accrued to her from her suit against Mr. Osborne. She hax algned | Underwater Boats Proceed To- | a contract, according to the lawyer, to appear in a series of moving pic- | tures portraying her association with Oliver Osborne and subsequent sistant District Attorney. RAE TANZER- THINKS DESERVES CREDIT. Miss Tanzer has not yet seen the \clothing und other effects seized in the quarters of Oliver Osborne at No. 161 Eust Sixtieth Street, She sald to-day that from the newspaper ple- tures and accounty of this property SHE ‘she Is inclined to believe that it did not belong to the Oliver Osborne she knew. However, she has made so many contradictory statements that this one is not taken seriously by Mr. Marshall and his assistants, Mr. Wood and Mr. Hershenstein, who are convinced that the Oliver Osborne of East Sixtieth Street and the Oliver Osborne who wooed Miss Tanzer are ‘one and the same | ‘The $50,000 breach of promise suit against James W. Osborne, which caused all the trouble, tinued in the Supreme Court to-day Justice Bijui ed the order permit- (Continued on Second Page.) > M°ADOO HAS RELAPSE, But Reports From His Home Do Not Bear Out Statement | of Serious Condition, WASHINGTOD April 1.—That Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, recently operated on for appendicitis, had suffered a serious relapse was re- ported to-d: The official account was that he was improving. Doubters pointed out, however, that Assistant Seere- tary Peters had taken over arrange+ ments for the Pan-American financial | gathering ortginally scheduled here for May 10, and that the moeting hed been postponed until May 24, They thought this significant. Thinks She Has Performed a Blade as counsel for Mise was discon- | WASHINGTON HEARS: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, FRENCH STEAMER TORPEDOED AND SUNK WITHOUT WARNING; 19 LIVES ARE LOST [GIRL BURNED TO DEATH IN FACTORY; MANY HURT Newark [uilding Takes Fire and Many Have Narrow Escapes. Mary Creliman of No 18 South Tenth treet was burned to death Frederick Stoutonbach was fatally in Jured by Jumping from a fourth story window and many others were burned and hurt in a fire this afternoon 41 the Kelley Paper Box Factory across the the new million-dollar Ratiroad station In the heart of Newark, N. J ‘The dead and tnjured were employees railroad tracks from Pennsylvania It ta feared other bodies will be found in the ruins. An explosion In a room on the #ec- ond floor in which rags were soaked in off for paper preparation started the fire, Many of the thirty giris in the room were spattered with blazing oll, Miss Creliman, with her clothing ablaze, mtarted to climb on a window still to jump to the street, She faint- ed and hung there until the firemen arrived, When taken down she was ; dead. . ‘The bullding ia a five-story struc- ture covering almoat the block front. Three alarms were turned tn. ‘POTSDAM PASSES BRITISH SUBMARINE _ FIGHTERS AT SEA ward Dutch Coast and Helgoland. lininediately seized Alta. events connected with her attempt to; The Anarchists urose and protested | obtain $50,000 from the former As- | | | | Preparing A@ evidence that the undertake Britian are to submarine raids on their own account, passen- Holland-Am gers on the “a liner Potsdam, here to-day from Rotter- dam, say that a few hours after leav- ing port they passed two submarines A quarter of 4 milo distant Roth submarines ran up the Union Jack, saluted the Potsdam, which re |turned the salute, and continued {toward the Dutch coast. The under- water craft were numbered 93 and | respectively, no alphabetical pretix | being in evidence. Frank F, Boulton, President of th Federal Forwarding Company of this | city, described a narrow escape which the provision ship Vitalie sustained jon the way from Falmouth to Rot- terdam. | Boulton had chartered the Vitalie to carry provisions to the latter port, but she was captured by the British Jand held at Falmouth, He went over |to adjust the difficulty, and after twenty-one days of negotiations, the | Vitalie was allowed to proceed under the guidance of two B three Dutch pilots, During the voyage through the fourteen-mile passage which was supposed to mark the safety zone the Vitalie just grazed a mine, A British ship just aheal of the Vitalie was seen to slow up suddenly during this trip, and when the Vitalie drew closer it war wi he ship ahead was | surrounded by five mines, two of j which we a vhead and were | connected by w PASS CORONERS BILL. ALBANY, April 1 intended to abolish the office of Coroner in New York City on Jan. 1, 1918, passed th mbly to-day, 56 to 38 ‘The bill w vide that after the terms of th proners expire thelr duties wor * performed by a Chief Medical assistants and whose ape pointment by the Mayor would be au- thorized. |awful glish and} The Stoddard bill| one WEATHER —Portiy cloudy to night ond Pridey, INA] © ¢ EDITION [*cirentation Rooks Open to ane| 1915. 24 =P ‘SS WHO SAW WAR'S TRAGEDIL 'HORRORS SHATTER NERVE OF BARONESS "HURSNG SOLDERS |Frau H. von Ettner Back From Six Months of Harrowing Work in Galicia. WAS IN THE TRENCHES. Screams of Wounded Begging Protection From Surgeons Still Ring in Ears. Few women have lived through siz euch nerve-racking months as fell to the lot of the Baroness Hedy 7 fi von Ettnei y - — Inspired by devotion to her Em-| S*"ONESS Dams peror and nation the once gay Baron- | ess, who for two years attended @ll the big dansanta in New York, went Into the battlefields of Austria- Hungary as a Red Cross nurse. She returned to New York yeaterday on board the steamship Duca d'Aosta of the Italian Line a saddened woman PASTOR TESTIFIES " FORGIRL ACCUSED ~—OFTAKINGS1,000 —es and a bundle of tingling Tho Baroness, before quitting Vi- enna, had conferred upon her the Nighest Hed Cross decoration that} can be given in the dual monarchy. | The Baroness was actually in the trenches, She saw men shot, she suw thousands die, she listened to the last murmured mossages of the dying and wrote hundreds of farewell letters for the war's victima, "Ob, 1 mhall never ves, Children’s Society Agent At- tends Hearing of 15-Year- Old Albertine Marlowe. over forget the| c aimed the Har- scenes!” x “How many women know how oness. it feeix to have a wounded soldier cling to you und scream for protec- tion against the operating surgeons? cloty wa an Interested spectator at the trial in the Children's Court this afternoon of pretty, wie and demure On, that 1 could forget the awful| Albertine Marlowe, who Is accused by scenes. Mrs, Robert Nulker of St. Louis of “Day after day and night after) stealing $1,000 in bills, The theft in ight 1 sat beside the dying and held thelr hands and took thelr last me sages to the dear ones back home. I had to leave before my reason left me. LT shall remain in New York until the war Is over. The Buroneas wont early in Au- ; at to Oswiecim, Galicia, where her brother-in-law was the dant, She organized a Hegod to have occurred last Satur: day while Mrs, Notker and Albertine, her protege, were in Scharf's hair- dressing establishment at No, 907 Se enth Avenue The object of Mr. tending the trial was to determine whether or not he Id move the comman- Red Croaa | Court te turn the custody of Albertine Pimarro in at- nerves almost failed her she went to the Castle Gratz and established @ base hospital, There she labored until a munth ago, when she was ad- vised to return to America. No queen ever had much a fare- well as { had,” said the Baroness, “when I left Castle Gratz, All the wounded who could stood on the bal- cabaret performances which he not like. Albertine joes calm and composed, dl- ed her counsel, John A intervals, Mrs. Nolker was not prew ent when tho trial opened te complet her examination, be ond the defense put several character ur yenterd: conies and in the windows and sang] Witnesses on the stand and then wept us I bade them fare-| Among them was Kev Davia J | well." Burrell, pastor of the Marble Col- | Tp> Baroness said the Russlan|'esiate Church He cestitied that the | Wouuded were like children, At first| &!t! 9 @ member Of hiv Sunday Sehoot they thought they would be tortured | class and he has often seen her at and put to death, but when they |ehureh services, In his judgment Al- round they were treated with kindness | bertine is an holst, innocent child they could hardly express themselves Another charveter witness was At Christmas the Baroness distributed | Elizabeth Morris of No 16 West cheap watches among the wounded.|One Hundred and Sixth Street, an “The battlefields were terrible," {elderly and portly womon, She satd said the Haroness, “I have seen them she considered Albertine's parents where the ad lay two and Urree | perfectly lovely people, and Albertine deep upon the ground and where |the sweetest, lest and most lov burial had been impossible for weeks |able and absolutely at a time, had ever met ‘The Baroness told about a wounded | honest child she “Whore have you met this defend Austrian soldier who had concealedjant and ber family to have such in @ little bundie under his mattress, tinate knowled of thom?” agiced | When the nurses attempted to in-|Isider Kresel, counsel for Mrs. Nol vestigute the man would mako a ker ferce protest, They finally let him “At Shanley's restaurant.” replied keep his bundle. After he died the the witness Baroness took the packagt from be- —— : neath the mattress. It contained SAILING TO-DAY. little doll which the dead soldier had o purchased in a Polish village for his Hellig Olave, Christiansand little girl at home. ‘The Barcncss Allianca, Colon waw that the gift was sent Prine Maurits, Hayti..... emma Agent Pizarro of the Children's So- Turley, at‘ = AGESB 8 tT. . ——_- 242 TORPEDOED STEAMER WENT 10 THE BOTTOM WITHIN THREE MINUTES —_—_—_ e¢2—___—__ Only Two of Crew of Twenty-one Escaped, Because Missile Was Fired the Moment the Submarine Was Sighted. BRITISH DESTROYER PICKS UP SURVIVORS LONDON, April 1.—The French steamer Emma, bound to Bor- deaux, was torpedoed Wednesday in the British Channel, off Beachey Head, by a German submarine. Nineteen members of her crew were | drowned, sonly two being saved. | The periscope of the submarine had hardly been sighted from the Emma when the torpedo from the undersea boat struck the French ship’s engine. No warning of any kind was given, The ship foundered in three minutes from the time she was struck. A British destroyer subsequently picked up two men who had been in the water for two hours and at the same time recovered two bodies. The Emma had a crew of twenty-one men, All the others lost their lives. Two French steamers named the ma are listed in shipping records. | One ts a 1,617 ton vessel from Havre; the other is a 262 ton steamer from Boulogne LISH AVIATORS BOMBARD GERMAN SUBMARINES. LONDON, April & (United Press).—English aviators have again bom- barded the German submarine yards at Hoboken, near Antwerp, the acy miralty announced this afternoon The English fying corps commander reported he bad good reason to believe that considerable damage was done, $ Russians Claim Big Gains "~~ On the Warsaw Battlefront HOLDUP MEN IN DASH [st"ise,o%8,.2re enton GET GEMS WORTH $3,000 in the German lines west of War- saw, the Slavs have delivered a num- corps and was sent to the front. For from hor parents over to the chil or hy awit smashes against Gea. four months she worked on the aree 8: Roe ne dae es angen ef erie oa along a “fty-mile battlefields, and then when h BO GRAD TRIER to) he: Ce a female ; ending from the \ stula ¢o ve eer) arity with Broadway restaurants and| One Levels Pistol at Two Jewellers! Opocano, The frat infantry charge was e+ dered Tuesaday morning. Almest hourly fresh Russian battalions have hurled themsvives upon the German trenches, and reports from Warsaw thia afternoon indicated gains at sev- eral points, Mackensen’a forces have been greatly depleted, according to word in Store While Other Rifles Sate—Escupe in Auto. 1.—Two PHILADELPHIA, Apri jwell dressed bandite to-d dashed up to the Jowelry store of W. Berah- latein & Co, in an automobile, and while one held up W. Bershateta and his brother Bernard the other ried] brought to the Ru the safe of $3,000 in gold and gems sian War Office. Both escaped in the waiting auto, Lonnie drawn away from bis army \ 0 co-operate with von Hindenburg ———— in the Mazurian Lakes fighting were /DONOVAN GETS DEATH rica tnrscn sguayens ware hur: | NEWS IN THE ASSEMBLY, defense of the Carpathian passes. Though the fighting south of the Vistula thus fur has been of local | , sae |Churscter therw are indications that |New York Member Notified of| a reat offensive, designed to throw | Piancee’s Sudden Death—Was to |D8¢k tae Germans from in front of Fiancee’s " v ° | Warsaw befure the spring campaign Have Wed After Easter. | opens, te about to be launched, t is now officially admit that the Russian loses in the oer pathlan battles have beon extremely heavy im the last fow days. The Aus- trians, however, are reported to have lost more than 20,000 in killed and | ALBANY, April 1.-Summoned home when his fiancee dropped dead, Assemblyman Donovan of New York was excused from to-day's seasion of the Lower House, The Assemblyman wounded near the Lupkow and Ussol ‘was tobe married shortely after Bas- | ey Mar = | $12Men’sTopcoats&Suit Two Lawyers DI ‘Two attorneys, Francis H. ¢ THE "HUB" Clothing Corner, Br cor, Bay olay Street, opp. ‘Wi K iffin and | Bullding, will sell to-day and Friday 4,1 s Lainie ; men's Spring Suits, Topcoats and ‘William Bhriich, were disbarred by the | Men's Spel suits, Topcoate an re4 on te » opinions | thibet, blues, tartan checks, ‘ 1 raye & dark mixed worsteds, sed of forgery ff to 44; worth $12 In any Using the mails to de> gur special pri day & adv, a li ?