The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1915, Page 1

= Bez! The Circulation Books Open to All. _PRICE ONE OENT. ht, 1915, “Ceprrianty ty Che New New York World), ‘The Prese Publishing MEDIATION BY | BY COUNT VON BERNSTORHE IN FS TALK ‘German cease Says Wilson Should Take Up Case With Great Britain. GETS NO ASSURANCES. Secretary of State Declines to . Express an Opinion in Ab- sence of President. WASHINGTON, July 16—Count yon Bernstorff, the Gorman Ambas- eador, told Secretary Lansing to-day he believed the German reply to the last American note warfare presented | rettlement of the controversy by fur- ther diplomatic negotiation. The Ambassador conferred with Mr. on submarine! opportunity for Lansing an hour and talked later with Assistant Secretary Phillips. In the absence of President Wilson, Secretary Lansing was unable to in- form the Ambassador what course } the United States would pursue In ' its next note, but he heard with much Bernstorff's ex- = interest Count von planation of the purposes of the Ger- } man Government to satisfy publio opinion at home on the maintenance of submarine warfare, and, at the to maintain friendly re- came time, lations with the United States. * “Phe Ambassador personally is con- vinced there will be no repetition of the Lusitania disaster, and that Ger- man submarines now are exercising great precaution to avoid incidents which might inflame public opinion in the United States, With that idea in mind, he urged that the United States take advantage of the intima- U.S, URGED WITH LANSING ITALIAN SURPRISE ATTACK WINS PASS 6,945 FEET HGH Soldiers Scale Slopes of Ravine Always Considered Inaccessible. ROME, July 15 (via Paris, July 16.) —The official statement issued t night by the General Staff says: “In the upper Cadore region our troops continued to bombard the bridges of the Platzwiese and Lan- dro, which were partly demolished, while an enemy battery installed on the plateau of Rauchkofel was partly dismounted, “Encounters favorable to the Ital- fans occurred on Mount Zeillonkofel and upon the Durgstall Crest (3,460 feet high). “A detachment of infantry succeed- ed in escalading the slopes of a ravine heretofore considered inacces- sible and occupied by a surprise tack the summit of Falzarego Pass (6,945 feet high). On the night of Tuesday and Wednesday this de- tachment was counter attacked, but the enemy was repulsed, sustaining serious losses. BOMB PLACED TO WRECK THE BROADWAY LIMITED Infernal Machine Filled With Dyna- mite Found on Track Few Min- i tion in Berlin's reply, that Germany would be willing to have the entire question of freedom of the seas med!- ated with Great Britain through the American Government. Such a course American officials have indicated might be more wel- @ome if accompanied by some assur- ance that during the pendency of the negotiations American vessels and lives would be safe from attack and danger. Count Bernstorff declined to reveal what had taken place at to-day's conference beyond saying it vas a very satisfactory interview and he felt encouraged to belleve the dan- ger of a rupture In relations had been reduced, He based his optimism on the view the German Government did not want a break and would do all + im its power to prevent one. Hoe is confident that the United States holds a similar view, The Ambassador is strongly of the opinion that diplo- macy Will be able to settle the issue. The Ambassador's interview was In- formal. He came without special in- structions from his Government. That Js not unusual, as he would be expect- ea by his Forelgn Office In such a situation to exert every Influence tow- ard bringing about / ing. He rent a lone re on his visit by wircless to the Berlin Foreign Of- fice, Secretary z would make no statement on the conference, The vorpedoing of tho American steamer Nebrarkun, f which many hes expressed regret and prom ised reparation, also wis discussed, The note from Austria-Hungary on war exports was not discussed, It was ted on the highest authority. . Tee Ambassador Glecupend with Mr. save, ’ ) understand. | utes Before Train Was Due. (Spectal to The Evening World.) ALTOONA, Pa., July 16.—Pennsyl- vania Railroad policemen are to-day trying to discover who attempted to wreck the Broadway Limited, the nineteen-hour New York-Chicago train, at Vineyard, fifty-two miles east of Altoona, last night by placing a bomb fashioned from a section of lead pipe, eighteen inches long and six in diameter and filled with ten pounds of dynamite, across one of the rails of No. 4 track, Robert Westbrook, a brakeman on the Reading road, who is spending his vacation at his father’s farm near Vineyard, found the explosive while walking home, took it to the operator in the nearest’ tower, who in turn no- tifled the division police headquarters here. The bomb was discovered a few minutes before the Broadway Limited was due, at 8.20 P.M, Phillips arrangements originally made for the safe conduct of Dr. Anton Meyer Gerhard, who went to Berlin as a personal envoy of Count von Bernstorff. Safe conduct was given for Dr. Meyer Gerhard with the idea that he would return to the United States, Now it is believed he will not return, and that arrangements are being made to relieve him of any pledge he may have given Aa Last Two Days of Big Sale. | af? Men's Blue Serge Sults, $5.95, | The “HUB" Clothing Corner, Broad- corner Barclay Str, (Opp, Wool- Worth. Building), will sell to-day and Saturday the balance of their Men's $13 GREAT U-BOAT 51, REPORTED SUNK BY THE RUSSIANS Undersea Craft Had Eluded the British Blockade and Passed Gibraltar, SANK BIG BATTLESHIPS. Torpedoed Majestic and Tri- umph Before Slipping Through Straits. LONDON, July 16.—The German submarine U-51 has been eunk in the Black Sea by Russian warships, ac- cording to information received from Varna, a Bulgarian port on the Black Sea, by the Athens corre- spondent of the Exchange Telegraph \Company. ‘Tho U-51 performed one of the most notable exploits of the war by pro- ceeding from Wilhelmshaven to Con- stantinople, through the Mediter- ranean, the longest trip ever under- taken by a submarine, Arriving off the Dardanelles on May 25, she tor- pedoes and sank the British battle- ships Triumph and Majestic, and then made a safe passage to the Ottoman capital. She was supposed for a time to have been stopped in her operations by the allied wah fleet around the Dardanelles. Her com- mander, Capt. Otto Herzing, was awarded the order Pour le Merite by Kaiser Wilhelm for the Constanti- nople trip. No accurate statistics of the size of the U-61 are available, but she was credited with being one of the most powerful submersibles ever con- structed. The British blockading fleet off Gibraltar was reported to have been warned of the approach of the U-51, but failed to catch the under-water craft, which went from Gibraltar to the Dardanelles, where she did so much to prevent the allies’ warshl) from co-operating with the land forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Later the U-51 passed through tho Sea of Marmora and reported to the German commander at Constantinople. If the report of her destruction in the Black Sea is true, she evidently went from the Turkish capital through the Bosporus, probably to operate against the Russian Black Sea fleet. Her de- struction might make it safer for the great warships the allies have as- sembled at the Dardanelles. |Going Away From Here? The Vacation season is now at Hs height. Thousands of New Yorkers are leaving every day in search of health, rest and recreation at one or the other of the numerous Seashore, Mountain and Country Summering places for which America is famous. Some will return blithe and gay, reju- venated, as it were, by the Joyous ex- periences they will have had. Others, unfortunately, will learn, when it is too late, that they were too hasty in choosing a place to spend their Outing. Be not of the latter class! About 1,300 “Summer Resort” ads, will be printed in Next Sunday's World Over 2,000 Resort Hotels and Boarding H Houses are described in The World's | Summer Resort Annual for 1915, a FREE copy of which may be had at any World office, So Why Spend Your Vacation at a uits, all wool, fast color, | also’ large variety of 3+ “bec ng Suits, in Meht and dark colors; At sizes, 34 to 44, Our ogee price to-day and Raturday, 96.98, Murday night til 10. The Hub chains Barclay 6tr.— lers, Broadway, i oem Place That Does Not Afford You the Benefits You Seok? 12 ‘PAGES WEATHER—Showers Probable to-night and Saturdays F NA] EDITION — veg THAW RACES TO PITTSBURGH IN A AFTER HIS RELEASE ON $35,0 Harry Thaw Leaving County Court House, Elbowing His Way Through Great Crowd (Photographed Specially by an Evening World Staff Photographer.) ————_ AMERICAN ARRESTED AND HELD IN BERLIN j ‘zenship, George S. Speets, Representing Copper Interests, Has Been Under Surveillance Several Months. BERLIN, July 16 (via London),— Goorge 8S. Speets, understood to repre- sent American copper interests, was arrested here on Tuesday and is held at Police Headquarters on charges that have not been divulged. Speets, who has an American pass- port and who maintained an office for general brokerage business, had been under police surveillance for several months. Some doubt exists as to Speet's clt- and Ambassador Gerard only yesterday, while still Jgnorant of Spect's arrest, had started an in- vestigation regarding the manner in which Speets had obtained an Ameri- can passport. The Ambassador also had communicated with the German authorities on the subject. BROTHER OF THE CZAR SAYS ALLIES WILL WIN “Germany's Armies Are Doomed,” Declares the Grand Duke Michael, PETROGRAD, July 16.—"Germany's armies are doomed to ultimate catas- trophe, despite some temporary suc- the Grand Duke Michael Al- exandrovitch, brother of the Czar, told correspondents who interviewed him to-day, “The Germans thought to crush us in two or three months and impose conditions of peace,” said the Grand Duke. “In spite of long preparation |and perfection in military technique, they have failed, It was a cruel mis. take, They have suffered mortal blows.” ‘Trawler Hits a Mine Of the Port of c CALAIS, July 16.—Ten of the crew of iain, the French trawler Nieuport lost their lives when the vessel was mined and qunk off this port yesterday. PMs Aa, aA SS TEN LOST ON FRENCH BOAT.! ee oe re 4900004 DRAG SHEEPSHEAD BAY FOR YACHTSMAN’S BODY Former Commodore Believed to Have Been Drowned by Fall Off His Sloop. The police of Sheepshead Bay and the members of half a dozen boat clubs are dragging the waters in the hope of finding the body of Jullus R. Pratt, who 1s believed to have been drowned there last evening. Mr, Pratt took a rowboat at § o'clock from the foot of Dooley Street and went out to his sloop, the Henrietta, to get a storage battery that needed repairs. He has not been seen since. The battery weighed 60 pounds, It is feared that in lifting it into the rowboat Mr. Pratt slipped and fell, stunning himself by striking the gunwale. A broken oar found in the rowboat confirms this. He was an excellent swimmer, and an ordinary fal! into the water would not have hurt him. Mr, Pratt lived at No. 2286 Emmons Avenue, Sheepshead Bay, and was sn the produce business at No, 2101 Em- mons Avenue, He was formerly com. modore of the Sheepshead Bay Yacht Club. He had only recently been com- up a lucra- tan and had pshead Bay to felled by fll health to giv Manhi tive position in opened a stor be near t} Plot Death of © of Greece, PARIS, July 16.—A despatch to the Havas News Agency from Athens says that a private letter received from Constantinople states that the You Turks’ committee Is plotting the sassination of former Premier V ni zelo8 of Greece, e police, ens advices siate, have taken the necessary measures to protect the life of the former Prime Minister, the Ath- Pee ee oe PELOSI HS-H-96-004-5-9-9404-0-6-6- 24248-81489 G AT DO4E4 ADAGE SO9O 099M GERMANS RUSH 80,000 NEW TROOPS TO YSER Despatch From Rotterdam Hints at a New Drive Toward Calais, July 16.—"Highty thou- #and Germans and numerous guns left Aix-la-Chapolle Wednesday night and Thursday morning, bound for the Yser, apparently for a new drive on Calais,” said a Rotterdam despatch to the Daily Mail to-day BRITISH BEGIN PAYING FOR SEIZED COTTON Make First Settlement in Washing- ton for Cargo Taken—Valua- tion Put at $250,000, WASHINGTON, July 16.—The Brit- ish Embassy to-day began the prac- tice of making payments in Washing- ton for detained American cotton car- goes, the identity of ownership of which his been satisfactorily estab- lished. ‘The first payment, 4 partial one for @ cargo at the rate of 10 cents @ pound, was about $260,000. The payment made to-day was for the cargo of the Greek steamer ros Vallianos, from Savannah, which was taken to Falmouth and Cardiff, The go Ix owned by Inman, Akers & Inman =o whit Of to Newport. ALBANY, July The Governor and Mrs, Whitman left Albany to-day for their summer cottage at Newport, where they will spend the week-end, returalng Tue sing HUSTLED FROM STATE BY SHERIFF, Declared BURGLAR STEALS NEW MAGISTRATE’S PANTS Esterbrook Woke Up and Saw Masked Man Dive Out of Window. City Magistrate O. Grant Ester- brook, appointed ten days showed up in his court room this morning with an old pair of trousers of the “I-may-use-them-to-go-fish- ing-some-time” Kind, and @ coat and vest that obviously had not ben cut to his figure. “Why the Charley Chaplin effect?” some one inquired, “Because the pants are all the bur- «lar loft me,” replied the Magistrate. “The coat and vest are borrowed.’ Then he explained that he was awakened at 8.30 o'clock this morning in his room at the hotel in Blue Point, L. L, where he is spending the sum- mer with his family. He next saw a masked man leaning over his trunk. Tho burglar threw a la bundle out of the window and took a fifteen-foot drop to the lawn below, Magistrate Esterbrook ran down- stairs, but the chug-chug of a motor boat showed how the thief had made his escape. Among other things taken were four suits of clothes, the Ma, trate'’s first pay check from his new job--unindorsed, fortunately—a gold watch and chain, 4 fountain pen, his eyeglasses and his permit to carry revolver, Also $14 In cash. —— | WILSON FREES NEW YORKER, | mica, Who Gave Up B | Serve Term, Soon to Leave Jail. WASHINGTON, July 16,—President Wilson today commuted to expire at | once the jail term of Robert B. Hicks, the New York man who, after twelve years of successful dodging of impris- nt for a violation of the Postal ave Ub @ prosperous business and surrendered himself. The Bowery Mission of New York, which Hicks Was a er organizations, aident for his rele as soon as the suntice ean arrange | tes, | Code, Dopartinent of tain formali- Ticket Office a Souths UTO FURNISHES GUARDIAN Sane by Justice. Hendrick and Cheered by Thousands Along Broadway-—State Files Notice of Appeal to Higher Courts. ALIENISTS ARE CRITICISED | IN JURIST’S DECISION Harry K. Thaw, set free by Justice Peter A. Hendrick of the Supreme A Court toxfay on a writ of habeas corpus and hustled out of the St by Sheriff Grifenhagen, is on his way to Pittsburgh. Released under bail of $35,000 because of an appeal of the Attorney General. against, Justice Hendrick's decision, Thaw started at once in an automobile for Philadelphia, where he intended to take a train for the rest of his journey, David Levy, the head of a Pittsburgh physical culture establish ment, took charge of Thaw at the instance of Mrs. Mary Copely Thaw, his mother, who started for Pittsburgh yesterday, sure of his release, orker, and | to the | He will be | Jand listen, BAI HIS MOTH . i Before Thaw was out of the County Court House he had begun to issue innumerable statements to the press rewarding the damage done to the writ of habeus corpus and the Con- - stitution by the action of the Attor~ ney General in serving a notice of appeal from Justice Hendrick's de. cision, ISSUES STATEMENTS AS FAST AS HE CAN. By the time he reached Newark, where the police reserves were called out to restrain the crowds which wanted to look at him, he was issue — ing a statement every quarter of an hour and had developed them to the point that he was asking if martia) law had been declared in the effort to suspend the right of habeas cor- pus to his detriment. Leaving the court house, which was Milled to overflowing on every stair. way, corridor and rotunda with eu- rious and noisy crowds, Thaw was escorted by Sheriff Grifenhagen and two deputy sheriffs as well as by 4 squad of private detectives headed by his own personal bodyguard, Nor- man Fitzsimmons, who is to acoom~- pany him to the Panama-Pacific Bx- position. ‘The broad steps of the court house were filled with @ cheering | crowd, Chambers Street was for a block. A platoon of police re- serves made a lane down which he. marched In trtumph, bowing, smiling and waving his hat. At the bottom step he stopped and looked over the crowd, His brow clouded. By God,” he exclaimed, “I had # bigger crowd than this in Boston.” ‘Thaw got into the first of a string of automobiles lined up at the curb with Shoriff Grifenhagen and Deputiow Bowers and Miller. In the next ear were his pald guards. Behind them were several other cars filled with reporters and photographers who cheerfully proclaimed themselves ¢o ~ curtous inquirers as “The Squirrel Squad.” MORE CAMERAS CLICK AS “SQUIRREL SQUAD” MOVES ON, While movie cameras clicked and hundreds shouted his name, the car# moved slowly to Broadway and tu downtown, The size of the proce: and a small herd of newsboys running | amuck on the sidewalks alongside caused some of the hurrying thousands: of the Broadway aidewalk to stop, looke Now and then @ man or woman at the curb turned to