The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1915, Page 1

Bethlehem Steel Rises 29 Points in Sensational Fi ht } FINAL — ww BOB ONE C Che [* Cirentation Rooks Ope nto san | fia Carrion. 1998. be ENT the Rew bork Wortay Fee Pecan Petditating NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1915 LATHER—Pelr to-atgin ond Oridag, » FL (* Cirentatton Be a Open = 22 PAGES to an | PRICE ONE osst owe ees = GERMANS ROLL BACK FRENCH ATTACK: AUSTRIAN ARMY REPORTED CUT IN TWO a | Hess deals, Miss Garrett still f MARY GARRETT'S MILLIONS GOTO MISS WM, PRESIDENT OF BRYN MAWR Richiee sol “ais of Late Magnate Had Fortune of from $2,000,000 to $15,000,000, Railway BENEFICIARY A FRIEND. Money May Be Used in Part to Carry Out Miss Garrett’s Philanthropic Plans. BALTIMORE, Miss M. Cary Thoinas of Bryn Mawr Colloge, inherita, uncondition- ally the bulk of the estate of Miss Mary Garrett, who died at Bryn Mawr jast Saturday. The will bated here to-day. No intimation of the value of th estate is given, but it has been Variously estimated at from $2,000,000 to $15,000,000, Miss Garrett, April 8.- President was pro- daughter of the late John W. Garrett, who was President | ef the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was known as a shrewd business Woman as well as a philanthropist Ghe helped her father build up his great fortune by serving as his con- @dential adviser, although officially he held the title of “private secre- While engaged in many big busi- d time to engage in charitable work One of her biggest enterprises was to found the Bryn Mawr Preparatory Bechool in Baltimore, where poor girls @re prepared for college. As one of the alumnae of Bryn Mawr College of Pennsylvania, Miss Garrett was deeply interested in the @elfare of that institution President M. Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr was one of her most tn- timate friends. It was to President Phomas that ‘Miss Garrett went waen @he sought advice as to proposed benefactions. It is generally believed @he has left her fortune to President Thomas, with the understanding that part of it is to be devoted to Bryn Mawr scholarships and part to the CARY THOMAS, inay. ‘N MAWR PRESIDENT WH ¥ MILLIONS OF MARY GARRETT. \ ‘PROHIBITION BILL GETS FINISH BLOW IN SENATE Shelved in Committee, Now Re- garded as Dead. ALBANY, April &—The Howard- Jones State-wide prohibition Dill to- day is regarded as dead in both houses, A week ago the Assembly recommitted it, and to-day the Sen- tee from further consideration of it. The bill would permit communities 4s small as election districts to hold local option elections. ‘The vote on discharging the Senate Committee stood For—Bennett, Burlingame, Crist- man, Greiner, Hill, Jones, Lockwood, G. F, Thompson, G. L, Thompson, Baltimore preparatory school. Whitney, Wilson—11 Miss Garrett has founded several] Against — Argetsinger, Boylan, fellowships at Byrn Mawr. The first) Brown, Cromwell, Dunnigan, Emer- of these, known as ‘the Mary KE. Gar-|son, Foley, Halliday, Hamilton, rett European Fellowship, was] Joseph, Lawson, Mills, Mullan, New- founded in 18/4, and was for students] ton, Patten, Ramsperger, who had pursued graduate studies at] Sage, Sanders, Spring, Towner, Wag- Byrn Mawr for two years. The}ner, Walker, Walters, Wicks wecond was called the “President's} Senator Jones, who introduced the honor of President Fellow,” in F award of $500 annu- Thomas. 11 is an (Continued on Second Page) —————— An American Subject ! bi and sought to have the Committee discharged, declared on the floor that for more than a week he bad been striving unsuccessfully to induce ator Emerson, Chairman of the Com- mittee in which the bills rests, to have 4 vote on the measure, Senator a ‘ Emerson only smiled at Jones's re- That line o' type looks peculiar, eerbaag nly ao at Jon r doesn't it? Several Senators opposed discharg- Kingdoms have “subjects,” but over] ing the Committee until a yole was here in the “land of the free and the] taken. me of the brave” we have citizens, —— ome oF metres a. great. American| GANG TURNS ON POLICEMAN, “subject” of talk, thought and of ut- most importance Attack Hin iy ‘ THE SUBJECY OF ENE ET Went After Inu And it 1s with this sublect that World) oe womun:who ‘euld ate ‘wn Wds. deal to a marked degree. Annette Cedlach of Ne. 417 Bust Sevens 8 611 tleth reet upp dote Patrolman * i Thomas ‘ord, On fixed post at sevens WORLD “HELP WANTED" ADS. LAST J tieth Street and First Avenue, to-day WEEK, to protect her fram the insults ef a te that had followed her The mem More Than hae © OTHER New York | ord Biante) BUPA. The ts A AG Merning and Sunday Kowa r. it Pareles Ae the 1 aned jabout in che duck ve ging - uck him te thy ! ehair Phen they, excaped 1 f OUR | "ir Venus hoKeNL 4 tion Ho: A SUBJECT WORTH YOUR") Socal ge tsp to CONSIDERATION! Ford bad received « ‘broken right hand, Howard-Jones State-Wide Measure, | ate refused to discharge the commite | BETHLEHEM STEEL SKYROCKETS FROM | ) 88 10 T7 8 Wild Scenes as ‘eo Kouta Stock Hits Par for First | Time. | — CLOSING PRICE IS 105, General Motors and Rubber Shares Also Go to Higher Levels, Steel with the market this the Stock Exchange was wild with excitement. Starting the day at 88, Bethlehem started a steady rise of 29 points, touching high water mark of 117% before the close ‘When tho stock reached par on the Way up there was cheering and ex- eitement on the floor, but the scenes were mild compared with those during the sensational skyrocketing which |came later, when fluctuations of five points between sales were frequent, After touching the high point It re- acted and closed at 105. There were many rumors to account for the extraordinary bulge. In some quarters it was said that a group of speculators had been caught short of the stock and were being squeezed hard Another report was that, despite the statements of President Schwab, | adverse to dividends, a melon would be cut in the form of a 100 per cent, dividend on the common stock. Up to the present Bethlehem Steel has not paid anything on its com- mon. Leaders of the Stock Exchange liooked with disfavor upon the wild speculation. They said it would have a tendency to scare away legitimate investors and that the public would be wary about coming into a market | lke this, Seldom has the Exchange known a non-dividend paying stock to reach par, even in days of wild speculation. {Tt is now more than fifty points above United States Steel common, which likewlse pays no dividend. Although the Bethlehem Company has made enormous profits from war orders during the past six months, President Schwab is against cutting a melon for stockholders and insists that the money shall be put back into the plant and debts paid off. Standard securities like railways and old time industrials moved only in fractions to-day, while the specu- lative group of war stocks Indulged in high kicks and capers. | General Motors went up nine points to 143. It was 80 on Jan. 1 last United States Rubber and Goodrich Rubber both climbed up the scale to higher levels oo YONKERS MAN MISSING. J. Foster Jenkins Disappears av Bethlehens stock ran away afternoon, and at ty years old, has been missing since yesterday, Chief of Vollee Wolff of Yonkers asked the local police to look for him to-day Mr, Jenking left his residence at No. dS) High Street for hia offices at Ni a Palisade Avenue at § o'clock yesterday niorning. He took $59 from the office safe and informed his clerks that he was Kolng to the Federal Building, New York When he did return to his home ight, for first tlme in thirty vt married life, his wife started an gation and found he did not call ral Building» ie STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY, Santa Marta, Cristobal..... Pacific, Tyme sessanseeranes TTA M. 104. M,! un VICTIM'S BODY FOUND; MAY HAVE BEEN GERMAN SPY a Woman Thought to Be House-| keeper Has Papers Showing They Were Married. HAD ANOTHER — Man of Same Name Arrested] for Stealing Torpedo Plans Here. After police reserves, firemen and laborers of the Building Department had worked for more than sevent hours they brougbt out of a caved-in well in East Fortieth Street, Flat- bush, to-day, the body ot William Ea- ser, & @uppoeed Getman secret aer-| vice man, who was buried yosterday while digging the excavation. For a time it was believed he migtit! last night and early to-day five man from the Bullding Department started/ in, The body was recovered ut 2) A. M. When the body had been found some strange revelations were made con- cerning Esser, who was looked upon in Flatbush as a man of mystery, The woman who had charge of his tumble-down shack in East Fortieth| Street, about 1,000 feet from the! Kings County Hospital, and was gen- erally belleved to be his housekeep announced she was his wife and dis- played papers showing they had been married in Chicago. Persons who knew the man sald that several years ago he went to Chi- cago with a wife and children, The second Mrs. Esser knew of thut wife and sald she did not know whether the woman ever had been divorced. All she knew was that she was mar- rled to Esser a little over a year ago and that he brought her to New York. Another queer circumstance was that Esser kept an automobile in the old shack where he lived. The man never was known to do any regular work, but always was plentifully sup- plied with money. Detectives were trying to find out to-day whether Esser was in any way connected with a William Esser, who, in 1908, was a mechanio In the employ of the E. W. Bilss Company, of Brooklyn, which then Wad a contract for manufacturing Whitehead tor- pedoes for the Government. In July, 1908, the Esser fn the employ of the Bliss Company was arrested for stealing plans of the Whitehead tor- pedo, and was convicted, When Esser appeared in Flatbush, about a year ago, he built the shack in which be and his wife lived, Re- cently he had a dispute with the Flat- bush Water Company, and then de- elded to open an old well near the shack, Louis Storz of Woodhaven was employed to clean the well, He and Esser had a dispute and Esser then st od in to do the work him- | self, He was down about thirty feet when the sides of the well caved in, Gustav Meeseberg, a florist who| bas a place near the Esser shack, | | sald he bad heard that Exser was aj | German secret service agent. | “He told me he was compelled to} flee from Germany bov.ase of tr Sle there,” said Mosseberg, “I don't know why he kept the automobile in part of his shack. He would make long trips in it, but never used it! much around the neighborhood.” | Esser was about fifty-four, tall and | well built, with blonde hair. | a SAILING TO-DAY. Colon, Cristobal .... Jefferson, Norfolk 3PM! aP.M, | Street and Webster Avenue | GIRL OF 10 TRAILS ROBBER 7 MONTHS: ARRESTS SUSPECT Lite Helen Moritz’s Long Search for Man Who Hit Her Is Rewarded a Last. "HER CLUE. But She's Not a Detective. Says—Dear Me, No! Just a “Monitor.” Followed by two big dotectives, Helen Moritz, a ten-year-old school girl, tripped into the Morrisania Po- lice Court to-day to tell Magistrate Cornell how for seven months she trailed a robber who hall struck her With @-plece ef gas pipe. Members of the Police Department | had told ber they couldn't find him, | and her Felatives had advised her to give up her search. But ehe kept be alive, so the searchers tolled ail right on, because she was sure she; would know the man If she saw him. Always sho watched for a tall person | with “queer blue eyes.” At One Hundred and Se ning she came upon such a man. He was standing in front of a ator Without losing sight of him Helen went to a telephone and called the Bronx Detective Bureau. The HNeutenant on duty remem- bered the girl as soon as she gave her name, and when she said she had found the fugitive, he rushed Detectives Pickett and McGrath to the corner she named. ‘There thay found Helen standing within a few feet of her man, holding one hand | before her face so, a8 she explained afterward, be would not recognize her. “That's the man!” she exclaimed when sho saw McGrath and Pickett, who were detaiiod to search for the) robber after he had attacked Helen while she was alone in the home of | her step-siater, No. 1286 Washington Avenue, the Bronx, last Septethber. Then she seized him by the right arm and sald: “You told me you were a gas tn- spector and I opened the door, and then you hit me with a piece of lead pipe, You ought to be ashamed of yourself. But I'm glad I found you.” The prisoner said he was John Dougherty of No. 578 East One Hun- dred and Sixty-third Street. At first he denied ever having seen Helen be fore, tut when closely questioned, he became silent and told the detectives tu prove thelr caso, When he was arraigned to-day hie hearing was put off Ull to-morrow “I Know 1 didn't make a mistake,” said Helen, in court to-day. “Why, I had a porfect picture of the robber in my mind. IT worried so [ didn't study as much as I should have while hunt ing for the man. velf that maybe he might bit some other gir) while she was alone in a flat, and that made me look all the harder, Ww, please, Mr. Keporter, don’t the police didn't do their duty They did, but I had seen the man and | the detectives hadn't. So it was easy for me to pick him out when L saw him, And please don't call me a de- tectlve, ‘cause I'm not. Just aay I was @ ‘monitor’. Helen lives with her stepfathor, John Kiehl, at No. 1406 Wobster Ave nue, and is @ pupil of Public School No, 53, at Teller Ave and One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Street. ee $1 2Men’sTopcuats&Suits,$5.95 THEHUB'Clothinus Conner troudway, at '‘Woolwor Buliging, mah e and Friday $500 men's Bering Suits, Topconte ae Malmacaans with loose back « thibet, blues, tan checks, raya & dark mixed worsteds | $U°o' 44; “worth $12 tn any. other stor our special aces to-day & Friday, §5.; onhevt cn ad hil Ll say She | T kept thinking to} GIRL WHO CAPTURED MAN SHE ACCUSED AS THIEF WHO HIT HB. SB HkLEN Monit me ‘THIS READER OF MINDS DREW A BLOOMING BLANK Mr. Seymour Penetrated 88 Brains. ty Ocean Pastime, Phen Met His Waterloo. | ow A. Seymour, manager of a cocoa lfactory, returned to-day on the United Fruit Line's st r Santa Marta from a cruise fo& his health to the West Indiex Mr, Seymour said ho felt’ worse jthan when he sailed oH is aix feet three inches tall and weighs 270 | poun {His | mind reading He read the minds of eighty-olght of the | Santa Marta’s passengers with start- ling aceuracy. Ho interested them, delighted them and seared them. Io tried to read the mind of the eighty- ninth passenger, He worked on his subject for two days until he became @ nervous wreck without so much as a giimpse of the man's mind. ‘The elghty-ninth passenger was an bag Hshman’ hobby is ceontineins WEDDIGEN IN COMMAND OF SUBMARINE U-29 WHEN SHE WENT DOWN. BERLIN (via The Hague April § The Ge 1 Admiralty to-day con- firmed the report that Liuet.-Com vander Otto Weddigen, former com |mander of the was in command jot the U-2%, which is now admitted | }to have been sunk by the British The Berlin newspap to-day exe pressed the deepest sorrow over the loss of the 1-24 and ber brave cap. tain, They pointed out tha | Engliah nized in Weddig worthy of admiration > WINNERS AT BOWIE, FIRST year-olds; RACE four furl. 1), BM to , first; stings, WK (Ambrose), & to $3 to 5,1 to 4, ond; Ciucinat, }109 Cauder), 10 to 4, 4 to 1, third. ‘Time O48 165." Gentle W Hole Mins ae s {In cree ran Yel rolday Aix fasion BLL (McAter): & first: Pair He 17 to 5 and § 105 ¢ third Rebecea, Moses, Beat Bib and Tucker and Energetic also ran, SEVEN FRENCH ATTACKS “ON GERMANS AT ONCE IN ST. MIHIEL REGION Berlin Admits That, Regardless of Enormous Losses, the French ‘ Have Renewed Onslaughts, and Paris Claims to Have Made Gains. AUSTRIAN ARMY DEFEATED, THE CLAIM IN PETROGRAD BERLIN (via wireless 1o London) April 8.—Regardless of their great losses on ‘Previous days the French to-day renewed their onstaughts at seven different Points between St. Mihiel, Etain and Pont-a-Mousson, according to the official reports. They are spending Ives recklessly in smashes against the German fortifications north of St. Mihiel, prepared months ago and, almost unconquerable except by heavy artillery. Despite the loss of two battalions on the Combres heights, the enemy is again sacrificing soldiers in headlong rushes up the hills. In the Ailly forest, west of Apremont woods, north of Flirey and in Le Pretre woods the most desperate engagements are going on. The text of the War Office report follows: “The fighting between the Meuse and the Moselle continued yesterday Tn the plain of the Woevre, east und southeast of Verdun, all French attacks failed. In the Combres Hills torces of the ay, wh plese penetrated into our outer trenches, were driven back by a counter: ttuck, Battalions of the enemy which advanced agatast our positions fata the wood of Selouse, north of St. Mibiel, were driven back into tae forest with very heavy losses “Bitter fighting at short range ts again golug on in the forest of Ailly In the forest to the west of Apremout our troops are in pursuit of the enemy, Who made an unsuccessful ck. Their attacks on p north of Flirey, as well as two evening ks to the west of Le forest, broke down under our fire and the sined heavy losses French advances during the night in the Le Protre forest failed, “The total of French losses along the entive front again das ' ea extraordinarily heavy, without their gaining even the slightest eutcuy 2 All Gains Are Being Hela, (| Declares the Paris War Qf :ce PARIS, April 8.—French guns are again raining shells at long range upon St. Mihiel, while a great battle is raging north and south of the German salient. Paris ts filled with rumors of most important develop- ments, but the war office to-day withheld almost all news 6f the fighting The objective of the French northwest of Pont-a-Mousson is the rail- way that forma practically the only effective means of transporting sup- plies to the Germans holding the important St. Mihiel wedge, is the text of the war office report “In Belgium the day was marked by artillery engagements, “In the Valley of the Aisne and the district to the east of Rheims our ‘forts, in spite of the abnormally bad weather—continued with great ac- tivity and we have maintained our gains between the Meuse and the Moxelle in their entirety, while at the sare time we are proceeding to make further progress, “In the Brule Forest we captured a German trench, at the same time taking a large number of prisoners on this section of the front.” ch have at certain The Following “The rains of the last few days have soaked through the clay soll of | the Woevre to a great depth, rendering difficult the movements of art | and Preventing the explosion of shells. Our troops hare oysolld progress made on the previous day, We maintained all our adva spite of counter-attacks of extraordinary violence | t Les Eparges, especially, the last German counter-attack was car- ried out by a regiment and a haif and was completely repulsed. The enemy sustained enormous losses; corpses of thelr men covered the fleld Three hundred men who momentarily were able to advance from the German position were mowed down by our machine guns. Not one of them escaped,” | Austrian Army Is Cut in Two, ~st “Lagerian, | . Latest Report From Petrograd PETROGRAD, April &—Although | Ary y under Gen. Hoeroviteh In twe the early unofficial reports indicated | places. The eastern wing of thi that the Kussian advance near Lup-|army is said to be in a precarious kow Pass in the Carpathians had! position been halted by German reinforcements, | ‘The Russians haye captured Smo it was later announced that the fink east of Lupkow Pass. The Russians Lave also Csar's troops bad cut the Austrian thrown