The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1915, Page 1

Fame. __PR.CE ONE CENT Echt Dra ran | YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, SIR JOHN FRENCH CLAIMS BRITISH GAIN; 1915 Cirealation Rooks Open to All | Roosevelt Wired to Platt: “You Are Not an Easy Boss” Preomeriy tel te might and Wednesday Contingsd earl ria = PRICE ons CENT. — mr) PAGES 8 REPULSED IS THE REPORT FROM BERLIN ROOSEVELT SORRY IT WAS TOO LATE TO REGALL BILL AND SAVE RAILROADS FROM TAX New Batch of Letters Show Ex- President Was Almost Servile to Boss Platt While New York’s Governor. By Samuel M. Williame, Gpecial Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 27.—Theodore Roosevelt resumed the stand today to undergo the sizth day's ordeal of his examination in William Barnes's libel suit against him. Counsel for Barnes bombarded the ex-Prosident with a new batch of telegrams and letters which had passed between Boss Platt and Roosevelt and which further proved that the latter had bowed to the wishes of the boss. At the afternoon session more correspondence was introduced, con- @isting of an irregular political and personal interchange of letters between Roosevelt and Barnes covering a period of six years down to Aug. 4, 1910, (ee date of last letter before the two men finally broke, Even this was cordial in tone. The correspondence showed that the relations between Roosevelt and Barnes were intimate and sympathetic. The Albany boss was always a good Dr. Jekyll. He was not transfigured into an evil Mr. Ryde until after the Lincoln Day dinner in the New York Republican Club| im February, 1911. Col. Roosevelt arose early to-day and took an automobile ride into the country before he went to the court house. “You are not an ‘Easy Boss!’ cried Theodore Roosevelt in a telegram to ha sy Senator Platt in 1900 after jected Vice President of the Gnieea States. & telegram in which former United States Senator Platt urged Theodore Roosevelt to sign a bill for exempt- fag from the franchise tax bill grade crossings of steam railroads and sald that “our friends of New York Central” and Senator Depew were “anxious was read. In reply the Colone! wrote Benator Platt he had recaived the telegram “too late.” He was sorry, be eaid, if there was any hardship to the ratiroads. Chancellor Day of Syracuse Untver- ity, friend of John D. Archbold of the Standard Oil Company, who has engaged in bitter controversios with Col. Roosevelt, attended the Barnes Ubel trial to-day. He sat close to the Colonel, but there was no sign of recognition. The day's examination of Col, Roosevelt began witii questions con- cerning Roosevelt's disinclination to take the Vice-Presidency nomination in 1900, Q. Did you consult Senator Platt to get his advice on it? A. Yes, Q. Did you have a desire to be re- nominated Governor? A. I did. Q. Did you value Mr. Platt’s advice with reference to your renomination as Governor? A.I. n't answer yes er no. I valued his service, @. You had enjoyed being Governor (Continued on Eighth Page.) acai “sab SET HIMSELF ON FIRE IN COURT ARGUMENT Lawyer Conti, in His Hammered Pocket That Held Matches. Lawyer Tommaso O, Conti was de- fending Paolo Miragiia, on trial to- day in the Brooklyn County Court for sending mon out to solicit money for a fake mission, He waa in his beat form. He called Heaven to wit- ness the supreme innocence of hiy much-abused client, He beat his breast, “Counselor, you're afire!" cried Judge Hylan, “But ni eried the signor, in great rise, Intensity, | ut yes!" shouted two husky court! pane grabbing off the signor's coat and beating out the flimes in a baz of matches that he had hit as he struck at hie heart. FREAK HOT WAVE SENDS MERCURY T0 90, RECORD MARK Sea and Land Cool on Both Sides of Belt 100 Miles Wide Along Coast. To-day was as hot as the hottest April day New York ever had and the weather bureau sharps had notions that before the night even the record of April 18, 1896, might be put out of tho way. Tho thermometer had reached the mark of that famous hottest April day about 4 o'clock, It was at 89 degrees at 3 o'clock and at 2 o'clock. ‘The hottest April 27 on the weather records was tn 1891 when the ther- mometer reached 177 To-day's ther- mometer was thirteen points higher, ‘The hottest April day on record was April 18, 1896, when the mercury reached 90. The present hot wave is one of the “freakiest" in the history of the Weather Bureau, It extendas along the coast from Connecticut down to Maryland, Tho belt ts only 100 miles wide, and on both the land and water sides of it the temperatures are un- comfortably cool. “Has the hot weather come to stay?” Forecaster said to-day in ro sponse to a query. “Not by a great deal, We probably will have frost in New York before summer sets in, This wave is merely an unusual visitation.” —_——. _ _—_ Regular United Staten Steel Pre- ferred Dividend, The United States Steel Company to- day dectared regular quarterly dividend of 1 8-4 per cent, on preferred stock, No action was taken on the commen dividend, t earnings for March 31 quarter, and $17,994,361 1914, quarter, in March Monthly net earnings compared with a, previous year follow: January, $1,687, 160, decrease, $3,254,187; February, $3,638,578, decrease, $2,017,033; 67,189,081, decrease, §265,352. $10,943,170 In De- | YOUNG ANDREWS {Baseball To-Day| MADE HIS FIANCEE | ELUDES MAMA AND WEDS “PRINCESS” Yale Senlor at the Vanderbilt Announces Marrlage to Mrs. Hayne. BRIDE WAS DIVORCEE. Claims to Be Daughter of Slain Austrian Prince—First Husband in English Army. Donald Ghielde Andrews of Cleve- land, a eenlor at Yale, announced te- Gay at the Vanderbilt Hotel be mar- ried Mrs. Alma V. Hayne of New York and Pleasantville, N. ¥. last Saturday in Mamaroneck, Justices of the Peace Mooney performing the ceremony. Town Clerk Fairohilé of Mamaroneck confirmed the statement. The former Mrs, Hayne declares le “the daughter of the late Cro Prince Rudolph of Austria and Baron- ess Vetsera,” who were found slain in ® hunting lodge in 1899, and that ber emall eon, about six years old, ls “an Austrian Prince and one of the heirs to the Austrian throne.” The marriage was accomplished after many obstacles had been over- come by young Andrews, who was said by his bride to have been en- | gaged to her “dearest friend,” « Cleve- land girl, Andrews ts a eon of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Andrews of Cleve- land, who had done their utmost to keep hin away from the former Mrs. Hayne, Beveral days ago, according to re- port, the parents heard he was about to elope and had private detectives take his clothes and keep him prac- tically @ prisoner in the Vanderbilt Hotel while they were hurrying here from Cleveland. The mother then ac- companied young Andrews to Now Haven, but op Friday he eluded ber and a chum and camo here, His parents could get no further trace of him, and went to New Haven yester- day to look for him, Mra. Hayne who has a studto in West Fifty-ninth Streea was the wife of George Osborne Hayne, said to be a Captain in the British flying crops now. He formerly was a New York broker and he and his wife figured in print before they were divorced. She was married to Hayne when she MH waa sixteen, She used to call herself Princess Alma Vetsera of Austria, and says ehe was brought to New York when very young, with a priest and funds for her maintenance. She ob- tained a divorce in New Jersey, When Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated last year, it waa intimated Mrs. Hayne's little son might lay claim to the Austrian throne through bis mother. His name is Rudolph Spur- way Hayne, Persons familiar with the history of the unhappy love ro- mance of the dead Arohduke, how- ever, say Mrs, Hayne’s claim ehould not be taken seriously, and that it ts well known there were no children of the morganatic union. FORD WILL GIVE BACK $50 TO CAR OWNERS Announcement was made to-day by Henry Ford that the Ford Motor Car Company expects to pay back $50 to every purchaser of a Ford car since Aug. 1, last, In line with the promise made by Mr. Ford last year when he said that the company would share its profits with it# customers, if its males aggregated 800,000 cars between Aug 1, 1914, and Aus. 1, 1916 Tho 300,000 mark is now assured at | the end of eleven months, according to Mr, Ford, March 4 DONE LMEMY PURE TR Se NATIONAL LEA LEAGUE AT NEW VORK 023 fw YORK— ‘ o10 tories -—— Rudeip! a Oowdy; Verritt and Meyer Umpires Quix- AT PHILADELPHIA, BROOKLYN— 0020 PHILADELPHIA— 0102 Batteries — Rucker Chalmers and Kuli Byron and Orth. {ale any AMERICAN LEAGUE. T BOSTON. A MIGHLANDERS— ay fer, 0000001 BOSTON-— Batteries—Keating and sweeney; Foster and ‘Thames. ar WASHINGTON. ATHLETICS— o1 WASHINGTON— 02 Batterise—Shawkey and MaAvo; Shaw and sevary. Umpires—M ullane and ——— FEDERAL LEAGUE. AT BROOKLYN, BALTIMORE— ool1o BROOKFEDS— 0020 Batteries—Smith and Owen; ham and Watson. U% mick and Westervelt. AT NEWARK. BUFFALO— mopire 010 NEWARK— 30 | = nd Miller; Umpires HAVRE DE GRACE CE WINNERS The results of to- paayin: races follows fu Adings; furlongs—Joe 6 to 6 and) {Louder 1 and i I cap; four-year 1 to 1 and (Burke), 7 to md, Little BL a to 1 and » 10, also rai Fc first; to band « (Butwell), third. ‘Time, ran 118 1.14 4-6 109 "(Martin Increase, U: Mallet, Ob. Boy also ra dollar: wo straight, | Little Coe Innovatio LONDON, A to. ond; Stainte ke milles—-Wooltex, n. RTH RACH. SECOND RACE. two-y olds; longs.—Lynn, Cove, 104 (Meehan) Bettiah Army 0 Fall With Sea FIRST RACE—Sellin, throe-year Finn, * 10 vr, El he 133; even, 1, 2404 ugh, even, frst; ; for (shi ‘10, thir ln Bs olds and upward; Star Gift, 114 (Shuttinger), 9 1 to 4, first tol, 4 Time, 1.12 thre 144 Luth Car Kenet, Crossbun, Jeane jr, The Nv as mares and nd ups wie Ming), 1.13 tyson and . 12 to 10, 3.08, handicap; six fur: Relamour, Marjorie J wark Sell~ yenr-olda and rarda, Cartons Sea LEXINGTON WINNERS, Amalfi, 1 and out, also April 27.—Te- ited as follows ling: handieap six fur Taggart) MeTuwgart), or, OF Hayberry Candle . Dr men, 1 Y Ning ean, of Gaelle and fer straight Mex place ema (Field) for matden| they ought four and one-half fur 104 (Pol vols $110.60; pril 27 rand Mec! Sub- Neott and @ mechante naw d when a sen plane in which ‘e Clying collapsed at Calshot et enn» a » frat Litte Innovation. 066 4-5 Method. and Czar’ pald—Lynn how, $8.20 show, $6 ante ut. Med- d Hughes ¥ | Miss Emily Wheeler, on the steps in | front of her home in Stratford last | night. "}to Cowl for some thr TINK SHE AIDED IN HIS SUICIDE Young Cowl Fired Fatal Shot Himself. M. PLAN MAY HAVE FAILED. Girl Sweetheart Trapped Into Pulling Ribbon Tied to Re- volver’s Trigger. iti Correspondent @ Evening World. BRIDGEPORT, Conn, April 31.— Health Examiner W. B. Coggswell to- day said he believed Arthur Hearn Cowl himself pulled the trigger of the revolver that sent a bullet into his brain as he eat with his sweetheart, (Special from a of Th The young man, who wan twonty- two years old, died in the Bridgeport Hospital shortly after midnight. He was the son of Clarkson Cowl, Proal- dent of the Central Mercantile Asso-| elation of New York and « grandson of the late George A. Hearn, million- alre New York dry goods merchant. After an investigation to-day young Cowl was declared to ba a suicide Dr. Coggswell wont further and do-| clared it would have been Impossible! ¢ for Mins Wheoler to have discharged | 2 the revolver by pulling the ribbon! Attached to tho trigger, She had been tricked by Cowl into pulling the thren-foot piece of blue rivbon, one half inch wide, ‘To-day she Iv in a doctor's care, suffering with hysteria In the bellef that unconsciously she had killed her sweet rt. Miss Wheeler is the daughter of Arthur De Forest Whi \ wealthy Lridgeport banker, i years old and beauttfu her studies only a few w aw n’s college. Her mother to- day declared Einth report that the sulcid giving or ment ring DENIES THERE WA® TROUBLE BETWEEN THEM. in not at home,” Mra told reporters, “She has ollowed the the return of the engage- “Emily Wheeler one, All the talk about tho ring Is absurd, Arthur had given engagement ring some time ago, He had not been well, But there wos ho trouble between the young paople It is quite untrue, also tol Arthur used h her an that the pis been hanging on though Mrs Sarah J Rober " the wall susper by wribbon in our] Although Mrs Sarah abartann hom 1 don't know where it came} Wife of Dr Joseph A. Robertson, from.” visiting: surgeon ut the Polyelinte Young Cowl was a short, stonder,! jogpital, won $126,000 Ip one year in dark-haired man of very nervous dix porition, He had known Miss Wheel er two years father was anxious for him to take up active work in the Hearn store Some months a in New York, He tried it, but his health interfered and he recently went to Hermuda, While there he corresponded with his flances. In one letter ho told her he thought to break thotr engages ment because of his delicate health He sald he believed it ought to be done in fairness to her. A week ago C 191 I wi ho had been ataying temporarily, oom: | yrc muting to New York, Tho best of feeling existed between (Continued op Second Page.) | Wall street, ago hin} Mofore Supreme Court Justice Don-; nelly ¢ the being sued by the Wall Street firm of If, Content & Company for $83,000, al- | loged to be due them aa a regult of her} | for soi her whl GERMANS ADMIT LOSS OF TOWN 71) FRENCH AND BELGIAN TROOPS RS. J. A. ROBERTSON, WHO MADE $126,000 BY STOCK GAMBLIN: GAVEUPHUSBAND | RATHER THAN QUIT MARKET GAMBLING beon sent away and cannot se any! Mrs Robertson Tells on Wit- ness Stand How She Made $126,000 in Wall Street. slay that she knew nothing intricacts of the game Bho being caught short on Union Pacifie in 1, Her husband had begged her andon speculation, n a letter to Harry ker ag "Dear Harry," fr ———_— (Continued on Second Page.) Sir John French Reports That His Troops Have Made Gains, but Berlin Declares All Their Attacks Were Driven Back. FRENCH TROOPS REGAIN THE VILLAGE OF HET SAS Admission that the French troops, backed by the Belgien .» artillery, have forced the Germans to abandon the town of Liserne, om the weat bank of the Yaer, north of Ypres, te contained tn the ” Official report sent to-day from Berlin via wireless to London. A@ cording to the Belgian offictal report this town has changed honde four times and ts now in control of the allies. Three attache eve reported repulsed by the Belgians in the vicinity of Dirmude, There is sharp conflict in the statements given out by Sir Joke French and the one sent from Berlin, The British Field Marchal declares the British took the offensive from St. Julien, nartheast of Ypres, and made considerable progress. This was over ground : 3 3 ahe admitted to a jury heretofore lost to the Germans. took the village of Het Sas. capture of fifty machine guns in French attucke failed. Both atd @nd the Moaclic and other points 33 3 *| BMRLIN, April 27 (by wireless tel- ography to London).—The German Army Headquarters to-day gave out the following official statement: “The British attacked in Flanders with very strong forces the new line of our positions north and northeast of Ypres, which runs from three to four kilometres south of the previous line from close to the north of De- choudt Farm, on the Ywer Canal, by way of St. Julien, in tho direction of Grafenstafol, “Those aseaulta, which partly were attacked in the rear by German artil- lery southeast of Ypres, completely broke down under our fire, with ex- traordinarily heavy losses “Tho enemy's fire completely demol- fahed the houses in Lizerne which wore vacated by us during last night. The bridgehead situated on the left bank of the canal, immediately to the east of Ligerne, still is being hold by ue ts hitherto ITALIAN ULTIMATUM IS SENT TO VIENNA Immediate Answer Demanded Rome—lttaly’s Envoys to War- ring Lands Summoned. of! ts in ROME, April 27 (United Preas).—It fa reported in diplomatic circles here to sending copies of Italy's latest de- mands to Vienna with # statement that Italy diate answer the young people and they bud been cinta resort, and at the sane thme| TR® nature of thewe latest demands ; tomether ¥. At 40 otclocks last | playing the market, She went on to| !# not known, night they went out of the house and yay | ‘The Measagero says the Itallan Am- walked up and down the lawn, Miss cpwo years ago L mado $126,000 in| baseedore at Parla, Vienna, London Wheeler told her mother later that tyy market on Union Pacific and Steo),| #84 Berlin have been summoned to they were discussing his offer to re-|qmiy year L think there is a chance on| Rome for @ conference, lease her from the en, nt. Pinale the long end, Lowon playing ‘short,!| 18 Rome this action is regarded as ly they went down and sat on the With kindest wishes to all anda litt, | PFellminary to the announcement of 4 #rave and important decision on the part of the Itallan Government Berlin inaists that theae British assaults alt broke down, with Reavy losses on account of an artillery attack from the rear, sug gesting a partial flanking movement, to-night that the German and Aus-, Content, ®) tran Ambaasalors have united in| returned and went to Stratford, where | member of the firm, shs addressed the thanked him t and flowers he had sent abe was wintering at a Vir- has demanded an immoe-) Sir John also says the French re The Germane mention the the vicinity of Ypres. Although the Paris report claima the recapture of Hartmene Wotler Kopf, in the Alsace hills, the Germans insist that the claim gains between the Meuse on the vastern front, British Army Outflanked, % Is the Claim Made in Berlin fought at Ypres our troops took figty machine guna, “We have commenced to bombar@ the important railway junction em@ military headquarters at Popertaghe, about 12 kilometres west of Yyrem with apprectable success “In the forest of Argonne a Freneb night attack to the northeast of Wie enne-le-Chateau was repulsed. “In the Mouse Hills we also secured further advantages yesterday. Alb though the French brought up sew forces the attacks made by the epemy against our positions at Combes failed. “A ferce attack in the forest of Ally was repulsed by us with heavy logue to the enemy, Further east of district the enemy gained no ground. “In nocturnal hand- -to-hand fighting we also worked our way successtully in Le Pretre wood, “Tho cnemy repeatedly commenes@ Attacks last night against our positions on Hartmans-Wellerkopf, All bis attacks failed.” Ss ALLIES RECAPTURE TOWN OF LIZERNE, LONDON, April 27.—Both the Brit. [ish and Belgian reports from tie | batule front to-day announce repulees of (he Germans at many points in the neighborhood of Ypres, storm centes | of the groat battie now in its sevent> day. ‘The Belgians claim the second re | capture of Ligerne, an the weat baal of the Yser Canal to the north @f Ypres. This town was first taken the Germans last week. On Sunday the Belgians reported its recapture {but yesterday Berlin announced the {town in German hands, The Belgian report to-day admits joss the town after its recapture Sunday, but declares King Albert retook #% yesterday. In his report to-day Gen. Str Joga French says the British troops made progress near Bt. Julien and waat of a ie Sm