The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1915, Page 1

‘ oe ! Over a Million Shares of Stock Traded In On ’Change To-Day FANAL Tbe . FARAL® [*Cieeulation Rooks Open to an \ — PRICE ONE CENT tes ithe sew Meal Se NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1915 24 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. FRENC CLAIM GAINS AT ST. MIHIEL; DEAD FILL THE WOODS AND TRENCHES — — ~<9e--—-——— j 18 GRENHUT CO STORES or eter the C8 Tope er a Me TO CARE FOR WOUNDED Berlin, Declaring That the Enemy’s sateen ‘STOCK PRICES SOAR lowe . nN MILLION SARE Attacks Continue with Increas- ing Fierceness, Agrees with Paris SSETS ARE $7,405,419, | ONY, FIRST OF YEAR | inReporting Enormous Loss of Life Firm Says Big Dry Goods Busi- ness Will Be Continued— | Bank Not Affected. FRENCH MOVE CHECKED, GERMANS STILL INSIST . ly, but Calms Down Atter The J. B. Greenhut Company, oper-| PARIS, April 9.—German trenches so choked with German dead the French troops were unable to occupy them, and woods full of dead and dying, were described in official despatches to-day, telling of the terrible battles now raging around St. Mihiel. So trighttul has become the loss of life in the drives against the German positions between St. Mihiel and Pont-a-Mousson and Etain that military operations actually are being hampered by the piles of dead. Despatches: from Paris and Berlin to-day agree in one par- troular This relates to the great sacrifice of human life. The Germans declare that the French attacks between the Meuse and Bethlehem Steel ace Wild- ating department stores on both sides of Sixth Avenue, between Bighteenth| | A million share day brought joy to! and Nineteenth Streets, was thrown B into pankruptcy to-day by Unitea|the New York Stock Exchange to-day. | States District Judge Learned Hana | Transactions in stocks and bonds were Waiter | th® largest since the blight of war fell upon the markets last July. om the petition of creditors. ©, Noyes, formerly a Judge of the| United States Circuit Court, and, tal sales of stocks amounted to 1,281,- Willlam A. Marble, President of the | 4nd of bonds to $4,878,000, Merchants’ Association, were ap-| Pri pointed receivers under joint bond of $100,000, with authority to continue the business. mired in scores of secu ra and some of the market lea made high-water marks that evoked The bank connectod with the J. B,| cheers from the brokers after their the Moselle Rivers continue with “inereased flercene Berlin Greenhut store is not involved in the | long and heart-breaking period of juvists hat the French losses are the heaviest, and claims gains in failure. This bank was an enter-| quliness. | sectors where Paris reports marked a e8. prise controlled by Capt. Joseph B. | Greeniiut, Benedict J. Greenhut and Charles A. Cooper, who took it over on Jan, 1, 111 eavy were the Both speculation and investment buying volume | The battles ar ing waged with suph fury that neither army has had time to go tot 1d of its wounded, much less to bury the dead. ‘The sides of the Combres Plateau and the Eparges region north of St. Mibtel are nded to create an unusual business: The huoyaat nspired every- nt “British tro PMBSENGE : ‘ hight of April 7-8 a German attack. TIRE PRESERVER | French offensive. ‘This fact Indicates) “netween the Mouse and the Mo- that the battles to smash the German] roxress was made, At wedke have not yet approached the! Les Eparges wo gained new ground nd | 4nd have remodelied the trenches The Freneh mov ot ta on three) captured from the Germans, which | 1 sectors, ‘Tho first ts on a front Of) were choked with bodies #0 as to fourteen miles to the east of Verdun,! make the parapets face the other way, the actual line running southeast! and woe repelled at the close of the | from a point near Etain; the second! day two counter attacks made by the | | moa trons boty Rt an Hy pat |enemy. In the Montmare wood all the | Pont-a-Mourson, w ho French! progress we gained has been main- | re attacking from the south. tal despite very violent sttacae | atta | o repelled during the : - strewn with dead withdrawals following the Heary) ya i yy et with hope and THE BOATS LEAVING ree . INT, NEWS | ihe ‘ fficinl com Pe PEL te Oe Megel failure that the Greenhuts de-| Co iacnce for quick ratay FAL A BA per nay 4 Bemwees | THe r ° the banking buai- | COMMdence for quick return of pros- auis8 | War Office this aft n threw Litth | ded to go oUt « | perity, Po SENGERS hess. Notices were sent to all depos- | . Hs Ye 1 Dec, 14, 1914, that no inter- | ,, est would be paid after Jan, 1, 1915 Of the 58,000 depositors on that date with aggregate deposits of $5,020,000 | all but about 5,00, owning deposits | agsre 0,000 have withdrawn their acounts. TWO ACTIONS—ONE FRIENDLY, ONE HOSTILE, ‘two actions are involved in the Greenhut failure. One is a suit tn! equity filed as xeon as court opened to-day by Monmouth Securities | Compa: a concern doing business at West } Monmouth County, New bh Benedict J, Greenhut, likht on the actual progress of the started as” the With scandalous ranging from 105 to 118 within the first few min- utes, but it never got outside these sella frewh fluctuations in 4 sting of sev Xplanations by change oMetals, denying ma there were corners, but it was not e that the stock quickly quieted down and sales were limited after the first hour, It closed at M11, t Steel romped to the front in the prnoon and sme the leader na race that was wildly exciting at hire 4 in h eo c nird ix in the north in the vicinity| yesterday of Gussainville, where the #reneh|” “tn the wood at Allly we captured now dominate the valley of the Orne; now trenches and repelled two coune and are threatening the railroad be-| ter attgoks, We ala secured six ma Jersey, of W ie ond the Rive ‘ F y agon of Capt. Joseph B. Greenhut, | He Minish. inch of steady, Se Ne rant i het ee oeare | cine eae and two trench marten) youth See 1 rellables sped after it and the APPROACHING TAME STEAMER The teat of the War Office report! ‘phe enemy ceased his counte chs Treasurer, The Monn : . | icine aa aoe pe nay Fr attacl ties Company is really a subsidiary of “SDE f Z andard: ivie K the} \Eye-W itness Describes Com-! n midda. the J. I. ¢ nut Company, It has! Place of sky-rocketing war speclaltie ‘The picture to the left above shows the tite in [ite preservers despite which many were drowned : delighted the hearts and pockets of! bouts leavi Wall Street financiers. 1 Biven by the a claim of $200,000 for money loancd st the Greenhut Company and He ee mG, uae of te boat were amp owning w | bat in Which German Air- | Berlin Reports Heaviest Losses Also holds some of the bonds of thi 3 quer et mots Are ae OU Ss | in "to the citys oe cud “abe asanea tent Ra sunch the torpedo that sank the steamship. | ship Is Destroyed. On French Side; Claims Gains corporation, , 0 volnts It A Lb aLs, SS Le ae Immediately following the filing of| was followed by anothe 1 | | [Two rports were sent to-day The Sayville message said dum- ; Bp mie veh aster, Wet ngs whieh : THROWS HER BOY OUT | 2,000 GIRLS NINE- ADA | FOROS, omen cnah| am fein seeing the aaa | Proneh presse wie Keine a rman aivera was the 334th ’ the other via the Sayville wire- ° regiment. There wae peed mats Be _|_ sonnel ee pas OF WINDOW, THEN JUMPS <x tron, DAY IS GUT TO EIGHT, "=", _— brought down by Roland G. Garros no reference to this in the de- | Chicago, Havre. sn 3P.M, Inside the al nes, id dexeribed by| less. The report through London spatch sent through London.] 7 x , | Major Riou n of tho!) was considerably more extended MERLIN, via London, April 9 (Aa | HOW LONG CAN GERMANY Woman Dies in Tragedy at Salva-} Hamilton, Norfolk... 3 PM./ Western Union Announces Reduce ein ri arn ea ce one through Sayvilte, [sociated Preach April cane tion Women’s Home on [=== ; ——= tion for Female Day Employees | witnessed the combat, The German | a = =|ment given out to-day by the Ger- ; | | i at first suececded in rising man General Headquarters staff saye East Side. 1 Larger Offices . ‘ “ KEEP UP HER FIGHT? Last Side, New York | in Larger Off eee eee ce”) TUG ATTEMPTS TO RAM akan apie ee M Hoyle, (wenty-nin | An eight-hour day in piace of nine) & Clover twist, escaped and then Mew =f A GERMAN SUBMARINE]! Su tt What is the economic condition of Germany to-day ? What food has she for her immediate and future needs? John from a fitth-story window of the 0 aster Fashion Parade ‘Weitann Union Welkaraph pmpany | “FP f ri ment th enn awe 8 i an Moors and 100 san and i , ance! ha 5 F * it yn Army flome for Women at he put Into effect in dis larger | Bostlen became er Bim BEA, . i hine sun ere captured, What of her finances? What ot bee iodustes| health |} *''' Hon ran Sein toe omnes at on Sunday {na be nue tite iecteck Jn 1 IAbaee Pontus, “Presently the cracking ef V's Daring Efiort Fails, How-| “Ia retaliation for the bombard- | generally? The duration of the war hangs largely upon sfiernoon:and leaped after hit: Bith f next week, It was announced at the] ® wick-Arer showed the Frenchmun aver, and Bare ncTow [e ment of villages situated behind our answers to these questions, And to get these answers |] were taken to lieilevun Hospital with Fifth Avenue Between wat rf the company to-day, MAREN Ms RNR cine 38 , positions, the city of Rhelias, in whieh i The World, in February, sent to Germany a man who |} inyernit tauren Central Park and Nhe ardnr affects aout #000 women | oa in: great bounds, but the G ute ower ] has been a valued member of its editorial staff for more eee ‘ Washington Arch Tnigat have boon working from xovea | TAA Obsetver used his carbine freely,| SOUTH SHIELDS, England, April] barded with tn ; A ee acentury. This man has just re- ||) round a #100 din the Street, ue PORTIS ; 4 hat bullet M9 The tug Hom ) the French | "North of the village of Beg n | oe t Co hageertey o aie from ae jue is PRUieatilian Cuines nvartion ice. | Between the Hours of 12 (Noun, a ey : Up mirk ¢ Faunie off hey _ | Mortheast of Les Mesnit ee oak ean 14 aioe 1 ayy uth, He studied, through the coat the! antad inn Noruiw mater thee Sele Point yeoterday, way attacked by a{ {he Prench last nine i from north §9 s0Hiy reese delnas Get Ready for the Big Exhibition $12Men’sToncoats&Suits,$5.95 : German submarine, according to pec {ee tt? machine guns, ‘Two attempt of March, every phase of life in Germany. The result SP atvicawhiah war Bravented 2 "HUB" Clotning Corner, Tf ME ; weording (9 te-] to recapture the position during the is a series of articles by all odds the most important by Last Sunday's Dlizzard Bur ding, wilt hi tosday mi Wena ; iad Ane ae ee vi a b ee rr n eyes tack In the a The 5 ose i nf ing Suit 4 u ') h v the sub-| “A Frene! at attack In the thus far of the entire war, The first of these articles es ve. [planes LO IDaEaNe wlth ic aa wer j . \ wa, but missed | Argonne forest, during which’ # ; ma itigs wba deat Make the New York E t t at p will be published by The World next Monday morning, |} recat eta tf Make the BASES” Tl tuete, Bins Cibot, Bives tartan re oe + AM f Phe f Fronch ployed asphyxiating + P > i etean Fashion Parade a Great il nize worth $12 ACHING | wie \ April 12, It will occupy two pages. Pie sv eRe at St RveArt metre i Wer nny 1 Piotitla NIGRE Kore te \ hin SM, Annual Event! mre AF aBaalaL Prior Iprainy @ RAUurY | LIB Oy a WON Vor heayet® ‘ between the Meuse and ; —EE pigbls adit, Adib S jand this explained ite rapid fall” toe bel wacayed, the Moselle rivera coutinue with in- i ° n . i } 3 ‘ f ‘