The evening world. Newspaper, May 18, 1915, Page 1

ae TRANSYLVANIA FIRED AT BY SUBMARINE ESCAPES THE FATE OF LINER LUSITANIA | FINAL Tbe [*Cireulat PRICE ONE CENT. bigs 5 ) by The Pree ubliebing The ‘New Berk Worla). jon Booka Open to All, dd N EW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 18 { “Cire nlati in Rooks Open to All 18 PAG s5 — WEATHER—Fair to-night and Wednecd - Fi’ a | PRICE ONE cant. 3 ‘ $300 OFFER FOR DEATH OF FOLEY’S AIDE; ROFRANO, CITY OFFICIAL, IS ACCUSED BATTLE FLEET SAILS AWAY, SAYS SUBNARNES 'PASSFNGERS SAW TORPEDO ROARING OUT SALUTE IN REVIEW BEFORE PRESIDENT Secretary Daniels and Admiral ’ Fletcher Thank the City for Its Reception as Ships Start for the War Game. The Atantic Meet of dreadnoughts, battleships, torpedoboat destroyers aad submarines went out to sea to-day, reviewed by President Wilson, saluting with guns aud dipping of flags and amid all the pomp and cir-| oumstance of naval ritual. The President, on the Mayflower, sailed down the Hudson from Forty- | second Street into the shadow of the upraised arm of the Statuo of Liberty, taking station there at 11 o'clock. Along roofs of buildings and from unnumbered windows, from pier and open spaces al! the length of the river front were black masgs of spectators. The walks of Battery Park were so Jammed that moving was impossible. Resides those the President, as the Mayflower moved iow rivor, man merehant Hoboken, looked out on the ¢ fleet in sanctuary CALL FOR 300,000 tricked out with every streimer and | fing in their lockers and making a decorations of the he shipping: bead of him le saw Cunarder Orduna slide our of the Narbor bound for the war zone: to rgit and left saw Am n submarines with sajl- s standing Dutea tow watting f t ships, the ors on their # inches above the the signals from thet old monitors and the Fulton, to Join in the wake of the outgoing monsters Below the Mayflower, at her anchor- age, lay the Dolphin, flying the) anchored flag of @ecretary of tho Navy Daniela, Below her was U.S. 5 Yankton and the revenue cutter Mo- . ; hewk. ‘The tiny naval yacht Spray | LONDON, May 18 bustind between t Rack of them wa British S for etary War Says Allies Will Use Dead- ly Gas in Reprisal, In the House of Lords this afternoon Lord Kite ener, on the steamer Mandalay were the] secretary for War, sald he wanted wives and familics of officers Of! sondoo more recruits to form new the fleet ax guests of The Wor mies the Sandy Hook liner Monmouth, t aren river boats Washington Lrving a Ho expressed bis confidence that In Trojan, and a score of yachts little} the very near future the eountry and big, George x as it fe Siow neil ue Pears teats o chbold’s Vixen amon oly a ane a fat ferryboat tun) THR teeard to the supply of am. of Aldermen and an tron ¢ maou MUN Ho oF two. The news from the Galli@li Penin Twenty minutes after the any: sula and the Dardapelles was thor Peer ack call of smoke with | CURLY satisfactory, Earl Kitchener which the funnels made gloomy Jeolared ekfes betiind t van of He also stated that the British and in dim outline as SMOKY | troops must be adequately protected Us, flaw othe! ployment of similar methods, These oF he Dig Wyoming was novt Jose | Would remove the nous and un that the faces of her crew, Hned lone | justifiable advantaxe which must (Continued ion Gecond Page.) The British forces in Manders have haha forced, — Lord » PIMLICO WINNERS. Kitchener sald, and are now in @ po- ameeeeseoneer siton to take the offensive ——-—— “MINE ZONE EXTENBED BY GREAT BRITAIN Malden t my 10, | NW stee » u and Ups) \ two miles Ser rey GA] Washington Is itied of t Fee re dla nine 83 An. whow | Washington Is Notified of the Nar- $3.10, won: Tat. tie vigible Meine) "pln r ot tie Navigibte jock tls ft Waters WASHINGTON, May 18 A mes- iT Gener Skinner to Department shows that the » Admiralty has greatly ext {the mine flelds about ritain and narrow The navigebl waters materially, *sHO! ' HELD BACK SHIPS FROM LUSITANIA { jCapt. Wood of Etonian De-! clares German Boats Chased ONE OF THRE \ Vessels Racing to Aid Liner. | | | } | Torpedo Just Missed Narragan- sett, Claim Made — Exeter | nd Etonian Dodge ya | | (Special to The Bvening World.) BOSTON, May 18.—A charge that| the Germans deliberately prevented other ships from going to the rescue of the Lusitania passengers off Old Head of Kinsale on May 7 by means of two submarines other than the one which sent a torpedo into the Cunard liner waa made to-day by Capt. W. F. Wood of the Leyland Line steamship Etonian from Liver- | pool, after sho docked ut Hast Boston. Had not the two German subma- | rines interfered, he declared, three steamships to ‘his knowledge would have gone to the resuce of the pas- sengers of the Lusitania, with the probability that many more lives | would have been saved than was the; case, ‘One of these, the Narragansett, was made a target for a torpedo from one of the two submarines. ‘The torpedo missed her by a few feet, is the claim made, The captain of the Narragan- sett thereupon, according to Wood, warned him not to attempt to res- ue the Lusitanta’s passengers, | Capt. Wood's dramatic account of the episode, siven to an Evening World reporter, follows: “We had left Liverpool without un- \ al incident and it was two in the afternoon of Friday, May 7, that we | received the wireless 8 OS call from the Lusitania er wireless op or gent this mesaage, “Wo are ten miles south of Kinsale. Como at once.” “1 was then about forty miles dis. tant from the position he gave me wo other steumships were abead 01 mo, going In the same direction. They wore the Narragansett and the City of Eacter. Tho Narragansett was | other on the starboard bow. This one Was directly ahead and on the sur face, not submerged I starboarded hard away from him, be swingin we did. About eight minutes submerge I continued at te hours and saw no more of the submarit “Both thetie submarines were long craft and the nd one had wire. less masts. There is no question In my mind that these two Were acting in concert and were so placed as to torpedo any ship that might attempt to go to the rescue of the passengers of the Lusitania,” WHIZ BY TRANSYLVANIA AS LINER DODGED SUBMARINE +< Death-Dealing Missile Missed Cu- narder by Only 40 Feet—Captain Took Zig-Zag Course and Saved His Ship LONDON, May vania, under charter to the Cunard: Line, {R (United Press) —The ‘arrying 879 passengers, nar rowly escaped the same tate as the Lusitania, according to Pease net who arrived here to-day from Glasgow A German sub torpedo at the Transylvania Sunday afternoon, they asserted ! he 1, but the death missile passed forty yards astern, “I was standing, with two others, on the Transylvania’s forward deck @t about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon,” sald Wal tor RK. Burston of Kent, who was returning to England from Jerome, Ariz. “One of the other Passengers | Suddenly spied the periscope of a submarine-and called our attention to tt “An ins! later there was a fash through the water aud we saw the white wake of a torpedo. yards astern. “We did not wapt to alarm the other passengers, but seat word to Capt. Black on the bridge. The Transylvania {mm adopted a aig-raggy course, She continued rushing about tn this manner for several | hours, carcening from side to side tn ag alarming manner." Burston’s statement was corroborated by Kenneth Douglas, an actor in the “Silk Stockings” company, why also arrived here from Glasgow aboard the 6 o'clo@& train. Burston sald that the Transylvanta, which salled from Now the same day the Lusttanta was sunk, was in mid-ocean before gers learned that any lives had been lost aboard the big Cun “An hour before the Transylvania safled, ww York new tho rumor that the Lusitania had been torped&@d,” said Hurston also had reports that she had been beached without loss of lite. The Trans) lvania revolved her passengers instead of proceeding to Liverpool with them, Until they arrived at the Glasgow railway statlon yesterday afternoon most of the Transylvania’s passengers firmly believed that the majortty of the Lus! tania’s passengers had been saved.” ALLIES REPULSED, BERLIN want It passed, as near as I can estimate, about forty Hately her passen ts carried “but they "|WILSON NOTE TO GERMANY | PUBLISHED IN BERLIN closer to the Lusitania und she an. | KEREIN, May TR. Geri ny} It Will Be Several Days Before It swered the 8 U8 cal hradquarters to-day gave out the fol-) Re 1 pg Ato Bs Med ubwerved the City of | iowins report Can Be Answered Owit ) Exeter cross our bows and she raliennik ah “any | + ds A nalled asking whether we bad hearu | Surt relanel y ! | Wide ibe anything of the disa: Ypres on the canal near Rrer - "At that very ind Het Sas, Southeast of Bossinghe RPRLIN, May is Aiciad tex periscope of 4 subliarit n the east bank of the canal!ot the American 2 arine Was abuul @ quarter of a fighting developed at some p hatha was publis Ja jle directly ahoad of us. She nu. | continues to-day {tt w Aad 7 nediately dived ay avon ax she saw South of Neuve y ay aa wuld a relan Otter us coming for her, 1 distinctly saw | yng again to-day t achs wore {that It would be mute aluys before ber oabtncraagee® ater Cau¥ed OY} suised with heavy losses to the} the anawer of the Imperial Gover I signaiied {0 the engine ro enemy: linent was rea every AVRO Tee eee eer | eect eiewed French attacks on the| iment wae read there Was a prompt response. Heights of Lorette, near Ablain and! ‘This ts becs nite: ‘Paine “Then we saw Che suninanrine west of Beucneg, resulted in fa BS j : up astern of us, with tl Vrisoners to the number of 190. re pointe, an MetiGn be cope in line nowt or 4 fuil| mat nour hands at this point. | eween several arti peed ad and we left the sub “Near Ally the tixhting of the in-| Government w " |marine slowly. ‘The periscope re. | fantry came tow standstill, and ayo mained in aight about twenty min. | Freneh advance broke down under Paring ar ules. Our speed was haps two [our flanking fire | we nal miles an bour better than the syb- Sena Fa op of San Kea marine could do KROME, Taly, May ' sooner had we lost sight of the ‘CHURCHILL AND FISHER The Cons al Congregation 4 ' submarine astern than I made out an- | y to ' 1 ol SAID TO HAVE MADE UP May 18 It ¢ Benedi Right Rew jdishop of Hanna was of San Frav LONDON was in mated in authoritativ lay that any diffe swhoh mayo ow, ¥ have existed between Winston nay ex W \ Churehtil, First Lord of the Admiral- ty, and Lord Fisher, the First Bea hange, wn to the Hoard of wrd, bad been satisfactorily cow: 1 ba eon atisla: ray wD atect Sano. the . boned, htt me tee eee AE WA Peaululiabe ob | York on! orders tu put into Glasgow and disc haran RENVETH DOUGLAS WHO SAW A TORPEDO MISS TRANSYLVANIA, ee) = ~ BRINGE VON BULOW REPORTED READY TOLEAVE ITALY German Ambassador Is Con- vinced That Relations With Germany Will Be Broken. ROM, May 18 It was reported to- toy that Prince von Bulow, the Ger- Man Ambassador, Was preparing to leave the elty, being convinced that | ttaly was about te break relations with Germany The Cabinet counctl to-day was one f the longest on record. At ite close 4 brief _anun tlon was insued stating thot the Ministers discussed, | the statement to he made before Par- ainent No further intimation was r what action was taken, ry is in arin awalting w r the Government offices, Salandra sat im cons Ministry the tof the Austrians and Ger- ne fn Rome, except those detained by urgent | oft the capital for oh rian borders to hata T at the railway natinacted curious crowds, but fon repetition uf the hostile Tdemonstrations of @ few days ago. The ou eneral Lonudochowsky Rome to-day. It was reported j wax convin uu “averted and) wee 4 to leave for Austria ih ak <1) was reported | Jesuit lader Was enroute to Vi ' (ke @ final appeal to Prange Josef hteresta of peace The a Jew of every member the ¢ with the exception of ' ; ! were comman ' the army authorttie. RUDAPES?T, via Amsterdam and 1 Is -Adinission that be rial compensation | 1 t © of continued t wu c Count an ise " an Pre- er posed ' " i to) alate. (he 4 proposed Asi ver M ‘ The Ital \ at ‘ ference Hyun today, pre Viverioan diplo Pout Wiles should Maly >-- * World Wants Work Wonders. ! $15 A WEEK PAID BY ROFRANO 10 HIRED SLAYER, COURT HEARS ‘Payments Stopped When Murder | Was Delayed and Man Who Failed to Kill Hired Another, Says Witness. -|\OTHER MURDERS PLANNED IN FEUD, HE DECLARES The prosecution in the trial of ¢tano Montimagno, on trial be- fore Justke Davis for the murder on March 6 of Mike Gaimagi, one of ex-Sheriff Thomas Foley's lieutenants in the Second Assembly District, brought into the case, through a witness, this afternoon the name of Mike Rofrano, Deputy Street Cleaning Commissioner and guiding spirit of the Home Rule Democratic Club, the anti-Foley organization. Rofrana was at one time a close political ally of Foley. Tho witness was Joseph La Salle, who has confessed to murder and@:ig serving @ term in Sing Sing. He said: “After my brother and 1 killed Jimmio Minott, one of Foley® mon, J went to Brooklyn to the home of Rocco Cornell and stayed there several days. Monttnagno came there nearly every morning, and I heard the murder of Gatmart tixed up. “Roeoo Cornell maid to Montimagnt @ one morning, ‘Mike Rofrano paid me $15 a Work for two years to Mike Gatmari killeL When T didn't pull off the Job at the end of two years he quit paying me the money. Now I want you to get Gaimart and Tl pay you $800, “Don't mise him thts time like you away, having been held in a Magtes trate’s court for the murder of Gale mari. “My brother and me knew Mamtic no," sald the witness, “but Joe knaw him better than me. Montle magno passed our oeil in the exercise hour and apoke to us. He asked Jod did 4 year cg ees ker Gamar'lit ne had heard what happened te we'll wet Mike Bt, Angelo, and t Gaimari, and then he tol Se ae ne cues nikce: Jagan aimari, an on he told us how he laid for Mike for a wee: to get Bing and how he would have made a cles ketaway If a citizen hadn® followed him into a saloon and sean him throw hiv overcoat away. ‘The cittsen called cop, he said, and he was pinched.” Fennimore at that time was in the Tombs awaiting sentence on convice tion of having @ loaded revolver im hig possession, Antonio La Salle, proe foooding with his testimony, saida “Montimagno asked Joe to tall Fennimore not to admit that he |him, Then he told Joe to go to | Fenalmora, who was on the seventh ler, Feuntmore gave Joo a paper Wrapped up and tho three of wg opened it in our oell, It contained “ five dollar bill ana five one dollar billy which we gave to Montimagno, Joo aid that Frank sald for Monti< maxno to keep quiet, “Two days jater Montiinagne wes taken to West Side Prison and then |! was convicted and Joe took @ ples nd We went to Sing Sing and made onfession to the District Attonnes and 1 was brought back to New York and put in 4 cell in West Side Prison, Mcoucunagno was there and when he asked ine how [happened to be there after my conviction Lf told bim I took slung to Foley's club.” ny created a @oensation . which was packed He ne followers Asnembly District Joseph Lu Salle's| he had seon art was Btreot, who The contin In the court with Foley from the Karlier in the day brother had testified that whjoh G asexmion of Cornell tn Homo iule Democratic Club, * proceedings Monti- fled by three eyo- | witnesses ay the man who shot Gai- jmart at Oak and Chestnut Streets and threw a ble revolver at his head es he lay on the walk, dying. ‘This rovolver played an Important part to: evtting the name of the Home Democratic Club on the records of the trial Antonio La Salle was the witness who brought out the nama He, with his brother Jomepb, killed James Minott, & Foley captain, on Jan, 1 | Antonio was convteted of murder in the second degrees and then Joseph} pleaded muilty, They were sentenced to serve from twenty years to life in ‘Sing Sing a § to prison m waion to the District Ate} and pnt the revolver kh the In yesterd | mano was I veney about the murder of which an appeal they wer ivicted and the murder} “Then he asked me how I thought © Gain ho stood and t tuld Dim he was in bad. Then be asked me if f thought if he would mention the other three ted Frank onntmore nell, jeaders | to the District Attorney it would do Home Kule Club, and the latter) 4ny good and I said it would." | indtetinent. for urging |, Td® crowded courtroom was death- aie [iy su when La Salle paused at tate | sene to ke aumark part of his narrative, Assistant Die- | Int Salle, called as a wit-| trict Attorney Brothers asked: eas, to-day testified Wiat on March 9 3 ad is mention Say pennere ; ere acoupyia ¢% he mentione ‘ank Fecal- }Re.and hls brother were occupying B the big pollucian, and Roooo feel on the third ter in the Tombs, He told me we Were both all awaiting trial Killing Minott./ right because we had a bly politioian Montimagno, he said, was brought behind us @ bows. ‘Then be asked , 1 thought the District At nto the Tomb+ on that dato and| eae he used Rocco's pistol and I , threo cella’ bum yea.” Yodged iu the ame 2, eke Sodere ed a