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BOOM IN MARKET A _ Che = [* Cireular gpk PRICE ONE CENT 8. he tion Books Open to All’ The Five Petsieming Mone NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, FOUR AIRSHIPS REPOR IN FIRST DAYLIGHT RAID OVER BRITAIN ‘SPECULATION IN STCCKS RUNS WILD ON EXCHANGE: BOOM IN ALL WAR SHARES 'SWOBODA’S INNOCENCE | ‘ PROVED" TO BRYAN Send ments on Ship Fire to Am- American Locomotive Leads Flight With Jump of 18 Points at Opening. Secretary Agrees to Docu- AIR BRAKE GOES TO 94.) bassador Sharp. Wild Scramble on Floor of GTON, April McLoa submitted to Seere Exchange When Bell Starts | to. Things Going. Ls Md ik, K. y Bryan which, he said, nd Swoboda innocent of attempting to destroy the liner La Touraine, as charged. Bryan agreed to forward the infor- mation to Ambassador Sharp, ——— CRUISER BERWICK WAITS TO CATCH KRONPRINZ British Warship Painted to Resem- ble Hugh Wave at Dis- tance. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., April 16.— incoming to-day ty documents Rayn Speculation ran riot to-day in an- F other million-share ye York Stock Exchanxe, ithim a week. ahe aased by y mania for gambling session on the the fifth Exciting a8 has been trading, it was out- reckless, that broke previous the plan Jone = at the sound of the opening gons this | feareion Sales for the five hours amounted tol 1,118,000 shares of stock and $4,047,000 in bonds. A new vessels reported British Cruiser Berwick, her hull gray and white to resemble the sea, lying group of speculators has sighting the | with market veteran operators of New York, t money barons, the shrewd manipulat- ors of inside cliques have been pushed aside for the time being by a vast hrong of amateurs, aen from the West, with money in their pock-| ets and daring schemes in their minds, Over the wires from Western cities come volumes of orders to buy a keep on buying stocks, The New Yorkers have been on the bear side, predicting day after day reaction and fall in prices. But every short seller | has been caught and the bears have been forced to turn bulls for their | taken possession of the painted blueish five miles off the Virginia capes ap- parently awaiting of the Germn com pring Wilhelm. It was said no other foreign war craft were within twen- ty-five miles of the capes. The Berwick, according to the re- ports) had a ragged line extending from stem to stern on both sides of | her hull, dark at the bottom and | gradually lighter as it goes up, creating from a distance the effect of a wave, She shows no name and the reappearance mostly ree raider Kron- LAWYER ROGERS’ WIFE, WHO TESTIFIED TO-DAY IN HER DIVORCE SUIT. ~ Sa ‘Camouiner Goines mocens $ | DETECTIVE SHOOTS. FLEEING PRISONER ON EIGHTH AVENUE Brings Down Boy Who Tried Escape After Identifi tion as Thief. Attempting to escape a few minutes own protection. no flag Republic Iron and Steel Company was the newest star of the afternoon, It shot upward from $26 per share yes- terday to $34.60 to-day,, Kallway Stee! Springs Company performed simila) gymnastics, going from 20% to 35%, American Locomotive Company stock took the place of Bethichem Steel as the sensational skyrocket of the day. On Monday last stock was quietly selling at $31 per share, Ru- mors that the company was recelving European war orders started the stock crawling upward so fhat by last night it had reached 491- Then the tip went out broadcast and hun- ra planned a plunge pets ot mes wee ra planned ab The Union Railroad Company te on it for to grading and regulating at the scene of ‘Around the trading post a mob of |e ae brekers gathered and a0 great was oe the confusion of the first five minutes | GAMES POSTPONED. {t resembled a riot, lt was im- . : Possible to fix an opening price. Tick- Brookfeds and authorities finally sent out the an- for to-day at Buf ouncement of 3,500 shares at from] i on account of wet 60 to 68, The initial (Continued on Sixth Page.) | ne a KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT. Machine Jumpa b and Throws Out Bernard Broderick, Bernard Broderte Hundred » fifty-five, of One and Seventy-seventh Street and Jerome Avenue, was killed to-day while driving an automobile on Tremont Avenue. Broderick tried to make a short turn near Black Rock Avenue, The machine jumped the curbstone, throwing Broderick to the pavement and killing him instantly, Dr, Weil of Fordbam Hospital was called, but the man was dead. The gare between | Buffalo, 7 redule WAS Ostpo! and Phil- for t Joon ace fight was 18% mal — Ae ~| HAVRE DE GRACE RE! U You Are to Be Made Many eeereeee SULTS. Attractive Offers! lanack Mae april tteoten amecite Jof to-di TRACES follows three-year- Through advertisements in last Sunday's # races We World: FIRS (Metoulh to 5, third, ‘Time Blume Glomer, Penanc Belle of the Kitchen also ran, And that s about what you may expect to find advertised in NEXT SUNDAY'S WORLD! H ona telat after he had been arrested this morn ing ona theft of theft, lo, twenty-one, of No. 348 West Thir- ty-ninth Street, was brought down with # bullet from the revolver of De- tective Barney Devanney, who fired through a m of traffie at Pifty- third Street and Eighth Avenue, ‘The bullet lodged in the back of Gallo's neck, He was taken to Polyelitic Hospital, where It was said he would recover. Benjamin Thomas, a dealer of No, 215 West Street, had just identified was brought tives Devanney man who had yesterday aft motorevele Fifty-third Gallo, who by Detec- ann, to his plac and Me stolen a After Gallo was identified Met left to go to a telephone and started to the West Side Court with his prisoner ‘Thomas and an employes walked be hind Gallo was not handcuffed At Fit y-third Street and hth Avenue he \suddenly swung about and jmunched the detective in the jaw. As I vanney fell back atunned € darted into the street, There many wagons and autos passing and he dodged through therm. “Stop or [ will shoot!" De shouted kept as on motoreyele noon ann Devanney lo were anney f, but wagons recovered hims the | covered by fallo until he ran into the side of a tax! 2,019 persons oltered employment, yids and upward; six furlongs.—T and was thrown Into rar of the 1,442 tendered their services. foo (Metealf), & to to 5 and | detectives gun, Gallo fired low, bu 1758 aang : hemes and business 3 to 5, first; Unele Ben, 107 (Ural), 50] the impact with the taxi had thrown places fo) to 1, 20 to Land 10 to 1, second: New | : y SORES " bed ho c Ko. 3 ' tallo forward and the bullet struck 4,029 described houses, lots, farms, &ey sia /en, 112 (Matthews), > to 1, & to 51y re fie for sale. him in the neck $84 sought buvers for established busi+ 1 third, ‘Time, 1148-5. Ray} 4 crowd surroun P ness enterprises » Monty Fox, Last he ran toward w nis ‘ orded gilaneous opportuni. ran but he shows eld 993 afford 1 aig vitae pportani Selling; for two : ney ‘ four furiongs.--Greetings Al ~ 05 nbrose 1 to 8 and out WORLD ADS. ALTO* fing (Taplin), 5. t6 Nicholas Gal-| MRS. ROGERS WIL GET DIVORCE, HINTS JUSTICE AT TRIAL | Wite of Lawyer Who Figured in Baby Poisoning Case Witness Against Him, 2PS ON THE STAND, Wants No Alimony From Her Husband, Mra, Caroline Giddings Rogers ap- befor the Supreme Court to-day and by her peared Justice Giegerich testimony in the divorce suit brought by her against Lorlys Elton Roget the dual-lived lawyer, chapter to car her tragic matrimonial ‘The initial chapter was re- corded last October when Mra, Ida Sniffen Walters, posing as the wife of the lawyer, killed her two infant obildren with bichloride of mercury. Friends of Mrs. Rogers had pre- dicted that she would not stand the ordeal of testifying without collapse, as she had frequently announced after her husband's duplicity was brought to her attention, that she stil loved him, She did not collapse. She was in a highly nm throughout the proceedings sat near her brother, Prof. Franklin Giddings, of Columbia University. Rogers did not app He was sented by Lawyer M. lL, Jacobs, Rogers was dressed plainly in ja blue serge suit trimmed with silver silk. She wore a black straw sailor hat and her features were partially hidden by a light vell, When Justice Ge ich called her to the stand she was assisted to her feet by her |brother, She walked to the stand unsteadily, clinging to « brass railing. | “When were you married?” asked amory R. Buckner. ‘October 9, 1909, answered, “Have you any children by Lorlys Elton Kogers' in Chicago," he “No,” she responded and lifted her veil ars were falling and Mr. Buckner waited until she bad re- gained her composure Justice Giegerich wanted alimony. one whatsoever,’ Edward Meckert, owner of the apartment house at No. 1431 Univer- sity Avenue, where Rogers and the Walters woman first lived, ldentifed photograph of Rogers as that of the man who lived with a Mra, Rog ers in @ three-room apartment in his house, Db asked if she she replied William Grant 1 Oxden Avenue sald teat he had known the lawyer and his wife for several years, but when Mrs, Rogers was directed to stand up for identi- fleation physician sald he had never seen her before in his life. "IL was culled to the Kogers apart- Hague of No again the ment to attend Mrs, Rogers in con- finement,” said the physician, “She wag introduced to me by Mr. Rogers jus his wif), When the ehlld was |born 1 attended her, and Mr, Rogers |was overjoyed about the event After this visit the Rogers's moved to No, 244 W enth that Dr st One Hundred and and tt Was Hague called | Sixty treet, this house Tells Justice Giegerich She] Fought Opposition With Iron in| son added the final! Honaire, died of apoplexy just befere vous state, and| NELSON W. ALDRICH DIES SUDDENLY IN FIFTH AVE. HOME L:x-United States Senator From Rhode Island a Victim of Apoplexy. \ POWER IN THE SENATE. Hand—Grew Rich on Rub- ber Stock. Former United States Senator Ne! Wilmarth Aldrich of Rbodo Island, for many years a leader.in the Senate and in the national Repubil- can organization, many times a mil- 10 of Fifth Avenue. years old. Mr. Aldrich was slesed with an a! tack of indigestion late yesterday af- ternoon, He was attended by Dr. Joho F. Thatcher and Dr. Allen W. Thomas. He seemed entirely com- fortable when they left, and Dr. Thatcher found him nearly entirely recovered when he culled at half-past nine o'clock to-day. Ten minutes after the physician left, Mr. Aldrich was stricken with an apoplectic atroke and died shortly afterward. His wife, his daughter, fe was seventy-three 1915 : ! | SPECULATORS RUN WILD © irculation Book « Open 28 PAGES whatne ~Petiy cloudy , FINA EDITION te nght end Seturdep to All. | PRICE ONE ons. IN BATTLE [= SENATOR WHO DIED IN THIS CITY TO-DAY OF APOPLEXY, SS ON RUM, BUT HAS AWHACK AT GUM “Don't Hang Over Piano All Miss Lucy Aldrich, and bia son, | Winthrop Aldrich, were with him at the ead. His eon-in-law, John D. Rockefeller jr., and Mrs. Rockefeller were unable to reach him before he died. Mr. Aldrich will Be burted Sunday in the family plot, in Swan Point Cemetery, at Providence. The death of Mr. Aldrich will cause an Indefinite postponement of the trip of John D. Rockefeller jr. for a per- jsonul survey of the fag Western plants of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com- pany which be promised Mother Jones, the labor agitator, he would make this spring with her after the hearings of the United Btates Com- mission on Federal Relations lust January. He had arranged to start West to-night. Mr, Aldrich wae born in Foater, R. L, Nov. 6, 1841, Ife was the son of well-to-do parents and was edu- cated for a business career, His first appearance in public life was in the Common Council of l’rovidence. Tn 1876 he was elected to the State Assembly and four yeurs later was sent to Congress. He succeeded Gen. Ambrose LE. Burnside in the Senate in 1881 and from that time until hia retirement on the ground of iil health in 1911 was a dominant figure there. Early in the McKinley campaign he was publicly described as "General Business Manager of the United States.” The Utle stuck to him through the Taft Administration, The Payne-Aldrich Tart Bill, the Vrecland-Aldrich Emergency Currency Act of 1908, and the Monetary Com mission were the lesgislative achieve ments which are associated with hin memory most prominently, but be was always busy with every legislative programme which affected the tariff or the National finances. A great part of Mr. Aldrich's wealth was derived from the Inter- continental Rubber Company, in which ho Was an active director and which his enemies did rge him with fost jon and not hesitate ing through Boveromental ine | Senator Aldrich had a large fam- il His sidext daughter, to attend the two ‘dren | Greene Aldrich, is the wife ‘of John wien bichioride of mercury was ad-|D. Rockefeller jr; hia other sona are | ministered to them William Truman, Stewart, Richard 8. pe ; Winthrop and Edward 1. His daugh Ab shat YINy CIs You ion ters Elste and Lucy T. lived with him woman who called herself here. His wife was Mise Abby Was not the wife of the He be 4to the M Tuck ew York and Jekyll Isl Ida Sniffer ¥ He as he papers 6 caso and @ desision in two weekg, prowlsed an 1" learned thet | Mauruce a Aldrl y f Nelson W, Aldrich with her husband for New ¥ Ww to attend the father, ft k to funcra! of ber nn Abby | Day,” He Tells “Frizzle- Haired” School Girls. (Bpecial from 2 Statt Correspondent The Evening World, PATERKON, N. J., April 16 Billy Sunday went to the Paterson Normal School this morning and told the achool girls not to waste their time “being foolish, frinzie-haired, gum chowing slasies, spending all thelr time hanging over the plano singing, ‘Does the chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost over night." He had been invited addres the achool by F. W. Smith, the principal There were nearly three hundred boys and girls in the audience. “Don't think the world or any one else owes you a living,” he added. “If you sit back and wait for your datiy bread to be broux! to you you will be like a cow backing up and waiting to be milked.” Often during Billy Sunday charged that the members of the National Ketat! Liquor Dealers’ Association had raised a fund in the neighborhood of $100,000 to tent Sunday and his campalgn Samuel Hatnesworth, President of the Passatc County Branch day denied the charge. ‘Sunday has his stay in Paterson has of the association, | truthfulness of 6 not Injured our trade & dollar's worth,” he sald. °We are not worrying a little bit Why, In [Philadelphia the saloon trade pick Jed up thousands of dollars from Billy's thirsty converte. We haven't rained a fund to ruin him or run Ihis campaign out of town or thought of interfering with it in the least way But Ui) say Isunday keep jhe says, no but we are watching bir if he affords us « for action t y doing.” th So long as Billy within the law in what lg will be done by us; —_—.-———- $12Men’ sTopcoats&Suits,$5.95 "HUB" Clothing Corner, Broads way, cor. Harclay Str, opp. Woolworth Bullding, will vel torday and saturday 600 1 ‘ Boring Butts i store day, $5.95. Open Saturday nigh The HUB, Broadway, cor Adve BOMBS FROM THE SKY HURLED BY TAUBES ON TOWNS NEAR LONDON Aeroplane Raiders Follow the Zep- pelins Which Bombarded Twelve Places Last Night—Call for Patrol of Approaches to Capital. ZEPPELIN AT THE FRONT; MAY ORDER RAID TO-NIGHT LONDON, April 46.—Two night raids over Great Britain by Zep- |pelins within thirty-six hours, raids by aeroplanes this afternoon, the | report of the battle 2,000 feet in the air between British and German avias tors, and the story that Count Zeppelin is at Cuxhaven to direct an attack |upon London—possibly to-night—have aroused a new terror in England ‘of attacks from the sky. The taubes which took part in the afternoon raid—the first daylight attack by London. airships over England—dropped bombs on Reports differ as to the nhmber of raiders ‘two, but some despatches two towns near There were at least put the number at three or four, News of this Jattack came while a conference was in progress at the Admiralty to deve ways to meet the expected Zeppelin attack. Flying corps commanders were summoned to the Admiralty tad y tor a conference of defense. 4 municipal auth ter & CANNERES BILL TALK COMPROMISE | | i The appeal was particularly directed to motor clubs, which were requested to urge the nbers to trols rop! Within thirty-two miles of Lon- don two of the enemy's Taub: launched explosive missiles upon Sittingbourne, in Kent, after first bombarding Faversham. form for volunteer auto Zeppelins and to wateh nes Governor Announces He Will), They then sped northward toward Sheerness, enzaged by Not Approve Measure and | three British aviators tram the aviation camp at Chatham. A re- Another May Be Presented, | Pert from Chatham said that one ba | of the Germans had been brought down by rifleshots fired by the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. BATTLE IS REPORTED 2,000 FEET IN THE AIR, sto the Admiralty de ALBANY, April ty advised Assemblyman Hewley that he would not approve the Thomp slared et ubove the won-Bewley bills ntended to permit hg battle women and minors tow ty leading from Sittingbourne two hours a week in canneries, Hew WAN (FeHORIOR IB tite | oute, the English he bill from the |, cut off the ‘ » North Sea, | Mt a comference at Sheerness and w erween Come |4 avintion station at ne baal and rey Chatlau believed to have been sentative t inners for the pur-|the main objective of this newest alr pose of drawing a promige meus |ra The Germans also attempted ure, Amendments to the law, de-}to « 0 camp of the | signed to pert wer hours of labor je al Dublin Kus s near Sit. fin emergencies, probably will | tngbourne, were dviven off by a > hot fire, after hurling explosive | MRS. ROOSEVELT BETTER, ("3% o'r 200 yards from tho bere a n aviators flow eve: W ofelock this after- " win nost a. Th eotly over the dropped no " 1 i direction « pal) SESE RUDE: | as Ive minutes later they aan Pi . b returne {left Canterbury in a eal ceed ai ace north rly direction fortatleln i CROWD THOUGHT A TAUBE HAS ha ‘ | BEEN HIT, 1 i ap An " we ' pt in the beer ja 1 tly K ; ijon wes auch Thad been brow, t ' t ugh he was : : i Hi and asce HeaIn, disappearing in wn easter enon dao novither of the Kent towms bew-