The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1915, Page 1

_. N Supposed German Agents Watch Every Move Made by the Commissioners. PRESSURE ON THE BANKS Mysterious Agents at Biltmore as Financial Men Arrive to Discuss Plan. Barriers of unusual secrecy and pre- caution have been erected around the visiting British and| French financiers who are in New jemation of York to arrange for foreign loans and credits, The Gerinan spy corps has been turned on the visitors personally and the insidious efforta of system of let to atir up opposition to tion of loans to the allies, the German propaganda has been loowe throughout the country any prop Baron Roading and his associates | on the commission remained in strict the Hotel! visitors were seclusion this morning in Biltmore few admitted to the su one of Only a © they occupy on the uppermost floors cf the hotel and all information was refused concerning their deliberations. It was stat of each di d that a brief statement y's pro! edings would be| Mlackett, the English delegates, as the ouly cou could be | given out by Basil P. one of munication that mado at present. The commission found soon after Its arrival that the movements of its Members and all visitors were being watched by supposed German spies. Buspicious characters were discovered in the corridors of the hotel watching and listening around the rooms of the delegates, It was considered advisable for the commission to remain in the hotel rather than go down to the Wall Btreet region for conferences with financiers, The report that meetings would be held in the Chamber of Commerce was pronounced untrue, as the members had no desire to go to So public a place, nor did the mixed membership of the Chamber, which includes prominent Germans, relish the idea of harboring representatives of two belligerenta, Reports have been received that} propaganda agitation ix coming to the| surface in various cities designed to keop bankers from participating in any Joan to the allies, The plan so} far as developed appears to be to in- | atigate to inform banks that they do not approve of the trang- | action and to threaten withdrawal of! deposits if the bank subscribes, From New York bankers who have talked with the visitors It was learned to-day that efinite propositic ons | have been advanced by either sic The Americans have inrormed British that loans can be and credit accounts establis vided three principles are These are: depositors no the negotiated | pro- agreed to. than 5 per cent. Good security, ponds and stocks now owned abroad. Fstablishment of dollar exchang whereby bills of exchange for inter national commercial transactions wh ee BOB ONE CENT SPIES ANNOY ALLIES HERE TO GET BiG WAR LOAN FROM THE AMERICAN BANKS | fread |paintully, Satisfactory rate of interest, not less | preferably American | to continue s, Co (The Fe Peeves tee Som Borie) ("Circulation Books Open to Al.” | NEW YORK, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER QUARREL IN VIENNA OVER DUMBA RECALL; AUSTRIANS PUT BLAME ON BERNSTORFF ENVOYS U.S, TROOPER sa, TWO WOUNDED BY MEXICAN BANDITS Cavalry Border Patrol Mem- bers Fall Under Bullets of Gang Near Brownsville, BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sept. 13.— One United States trooper was killed and two others wounded, one prob- ably fatally, when a gang of Mexican bandits carly to-day attacked the American patrol of seven men at an irrigation pumping plant several miles up the river from this point. The soldier killed was Private Kraft, who received a wound through the head, Private Forney was shot through the back and ts expected to die, Private Walsh, also wounded, is not considered in a serious condition. The firing was heard by nearby de- tachments, but assistance which was rushed to the beleaguered men arrived too late, The squad of troopers was upon from the darkness by a gang of forty, It is believed the bandits have crossed into Mexico, The men were from Troop C, Twelft Cavalry, and were in charge of 4 non-commissioned officer, Immediately upon receipt of a re- port of the fight Col. A. P, Blocksom, commanding at Fort Brown left for the scene to make an Investigation. Before leaving, Col. Blocksom issued orders doubling the United States army guard, both at the International Ferry and the International Airidge here lest renewal of the border war- fare occurr. ——<__—_. FOUR WOMEN INJURED BY FALL OF ELEVATOR Temporary Operator Loses Control of Lift in Columbia Building on Broadway. While Julius Pressman, a hallman of the Columbia Building at No, 29 Broadway, was temporarily in charge of one of the elevators to-day he lost while descending past the ‘The car hit the bottom f the shaft with a heavy Impact Tho operator and the four young women in tho ear wero lying dazed 1¢ floor when Policeman John J plly 8 of the building pried open the doors of the car. Miss Alice Me + a stenograph- of No, 285 Macon Street, Brook- n, was badly hurt internally and taken to Hudwon Street Hos- pital, Miss Clara De Gomar, a trans- tor, of No, 78 Buffalo Avenue, | Brooklyn, thought cut and bruised | used wo KO to the i control third floor, on and emplo: er, was pital. Josephine Mertling of No. 12} Park Place, Brooklyn, and Helen | Fricke of No, 1575 Gates Avenue, |Brooklyn, both stenographers, suf. fered from hysteria due to shock, Pressman, though bruised, was able work 2 ‘The World Travel Bui \ et M% Stpmotiies Tor tices Check ‘mom, Ue (Continued on Second Page % Ges and Langit give Gay and mighty Telephone iu) SANT’ ANNA SAFE: "CAPTAIN REPORTS FIRE IN HOLD OUT Blaze Started on Fabre Liner Sea With 1,938 on Board. at | MAKING FOR AZORES, Officials Think Bomb y Have Been Placed Aboard Her Here. Here ‘The following wireless message was received at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the Fabre Line offices in this city from Capt. Francois Pavy of the steamstff Sant’ Anna which was re- ported by wireless to Halifax last night as on fire and in grave danger in mid-Atlantic. “Fire No. 2 hold. Fire is out. Proceeding to Azores escorted by Ancona, (signed) PAVY." The Sant’ Anna left New York for Naples and Genoa last Wednesday evening with 17 first cabin, 44 second cabin and 1,073 steerage passengers and a crew of 175, a total of 1,938 per- sons. The Ancona of the Italian Line left New York for Genoa on the same date and w’s probably close to the Sant’ Anna when the latter ship sent out her wireless call of distress. The first intimation of diMculty abourd the Sant’ Anna reached Hall- fax late last night in the shape of a wireless messuge stating that the ves- sel was on fire and in need of assist- ance in latitude 40, north, longitude 47.20 west. No other information was received until Capt. Pavy's aerogram came to D, H. E. Jones, senior mem- ber of the firm of Elwell & Co, the Fabrefigents, this afternoon, While waiting for definite news Mr, Jones and shipping men generally were greatly concerned, although they felt quite sure that the Ancona was near enough to the Sant’ Anna to ren. der assistance, There cre several Americans in the Sant’ Anna’s first cabin and the entire steerage is occu- pied by reservists on the way to join the Itdllan army. Although the Sant’ Anna and the Fabre Line pier were guarded by a small army of detectives and city police while she was taking on cargo here, Mr. Jones ts of the opinion that @ spy sneaked aboard and concealed fire bombs in the cargo, Tho Sant’ Anna carries no munitions of war, but there have been suspicious fires on other boats of the Fabre Line fleet. Mr. Jones has sent a notification to Capt. Pavy in care of the agents of the line at the Azores to send full particulars of the fire. That the blaze started in the cargo, which was stored with the greatest of care to avold all danger of spontaneous com- bustion, is regarded as suspicious by the agents of the line. pi a NAVAL FORGES BATTLE ON THE ADRIATIC SEA |Rome Reports that an Austrian Tor- pedo Boat Was Seriously Damaged. ROME, Sept. 13—(Via Paris)—A battle between Itallan and Austrian naval forces, the former assisted by a curred on Thurs- Sea, The made the French submarine, oe day last in the Adriatic inistry of Marine to-day owing announcement “The French submarine sinted by our naval forces, torpedoed on Sepi, 9 in the Adriatic ne Planka a group of Austrian tc boats, one of which was dainaged #e- Papin, as- 100,000 SCHOLARS | NCITY’S SCHOOLS: 4,000 PARTTIME Inadequate to House All Pupils. GARY PLAN Brooklyn and Bronx Show Greatest Increase in Number | of Enrollments. More than 800,000 boys and girls re- ported at 9 o'clock this morning for study in the public schools. ‘That ts the number as estimated at the De- partment of Education. Registration figures will not be in hand for nearly a week. It is expected that nearly 40,000 children will be on “part time” at school, being given only haifa day of instruction dally. The greatest increase in attendance was in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, These boroughs have in- creased so rapidly in population of late that the supply of schools cannot keep up with the demand. Even if the Board of Kxtimate had granted the appropriation of $8,000,000 asked November to erect elghteen for last new schools and additions throughout Greater New York, Brooklyn and the Bronx would still be short of ac- commodations. It is expected that the high schools will be more crowded than ever and have a greater proportion of “part time” pupils, So many boys and girls between fourteen and twenty years find it impossible to get work that they return to school for at least one more term, Hundreds of them could be seen this morning enrolling in the upper grade schools, whether for full or part time. A typical example was the Morris High School in the Bronx. Dr. John H. Denbigh, the principal, said that the total registration hero would probably reach 4,800, which is between 500 and 600 more than that of last year, ‘The school has seating accommoda- tions for 2,328; so the pupils are di- vided into what is really two schools, each with a long half-day session, The plan seems to work fairly well, but the pupils cannot, of course, make as satisfactory progress as if they had a full day's work on the regular plan. One of the busiest and pleasantest schools in all New York was Public School No, 28, at Tremont and An- thony Avenues, the Bronx. Here the Gary plan, invented by William Wirt, was in full operation. Half the pupils came to school at 8.30 A@M. and began work in the classroom, At 9.30 the other half of the puplis reported These went to work in the vocational department of the school, learning how to do carpentry, cooking, garden- ing, painting and a dozen other trades. At half past 10 o'clock first division went out to the ground, garden and workshops, the second division took thelr places in the classrooms. Eight schools in the Bronx have been designated for the operation of the Gary plan, but only No. 28 was ready. The lack of funds because of the Board of Metumates acuion delay the other seven for a long time, the will Just before the schools closed last June the “part time” pupils eas follows: Manhattan, 1,747; Bronx, 12, 810; Brooklyn, 15,648; Queens 3,697; 24; high schools, 4,203; It is expected that the will occur in about the fons this year, nx running to 14,000 and Brook lyn to 17,000, The actual registration of the children will be completed on Wednesday, Richmond, « Buildings in Greater Cain tay Prove 4 IS~ TRIED. | $ with the| 13, 1 AUSTRI STRIAN BARON WHO IS ADMINISTERING THE DUTIES OF DUMBA. se beeeee teens Seba bes 46-MINUTE TIE UP OF SUBWAY TRAINS Traffic Between Bridge and Ninety-Sixth Street. Blow Up. Stops A short circuit at Ninety-sixth Street, the cause of which had not been determined late this afternoon, tled up the subway from Ninety- sixth Street to the Brooklyn Bridge for forty-six minutes this afternoon, The accident occurred at 1.28 and {t was not until 2.09 that the break was remedied and traff resumed. The a red at a time when traffic In the subway is lightest ent during the day and It ix estimated by the Interborough people that not me than 12,000 persons were dis- commoded. Fearing a blowout all along the line, the power was shut » boundarles of the mis- ted between the bridge and Ninety-sixth Street. From the latter point cars were turned back and resumed running from there to Van Cortlandt Park and from the Brooklyn Bridge to Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. The passengers caught in the re- stricted area were told to leave their walk to the nearest sta- ‘o aecidents of any serious were reported. May Regan of No, 436 F One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street was a heroine of the tleup While men were rude and to get out of the train stalled between Ninety-eighth and One Hundredth Street, Mrs. Florence Murray of No cars and tions, nature Mins 1226 Southern Boulevard, who had three children with her, the eldest being five years old, fainted. Miss Regan, tall, slender and brown-eyed, with a mass of auburn hatr, quietly picked up the eldest child and car- ried her to the Inety-sixth Street platform, She mado three similar trips, the last tin taking with her Mrs, Murray, who had just opened her eyes and was beginning to get hysterical over her missing kiddies a 18. John bruck, an American ranchman, ped lust week by taken acrows the b Mexican band- ita umbua, N. M., and held for # som, has escaped his capt according to a spatch early day from Hachita, NM, to the Times The Kidnapping of Lowenbruck had t r od to the Stute and War De- partme at Washington x-Gov, Harris of Ohto Dead, BATON, O ept. 19.—Andrew L, Harris, former Governor of ¢ dled early to-day, He was Governor fram 1906 to 1909 inclusive wan x wrnduate of | Miami and for the last thirty y one of Ohio's leading citizens eighty years old, Mr. Harris University had been He was ! SANT’ ANNA CAPTAIN REPORTS FIRE OUT; VESSEL SAFE ped I" Cireutation Books Open to Open to All.”"\ 12 PAGES WEATHER—Portly cloudy to might one Tesetep, j . Fe ——s PRICE ONE CENT. — HOT TELEGRAMS ABOUT DUMBA BETWEEN VIENNA AND BERLIN ARABIC CASE UP BEFORE LANSING AND BERNSTORFF German Ambassador Once More Asks for an Arbitra- tion of the Matter. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13,--Count von Bernstorff went to the State De- partment at noon to-day to confer. with Secretary Lansing. Mr. Lanain, before seeing the Ambassador, went to the White House to talk with the President. Mr, Lansing left the President after a forty minute conference. He de- clined to talk, Von Bernstorft reached the State Department at 12 o'clock and remained for half an hour, He told reporters that he had nothing to say further than that he had no appointment to seo the President. Secretary Lansing would not discuss the visit. Seeretary Lansing sald after his conference with President Wilson that no decision had yet been reached by the United States on Germany's pro- posal to arbitrate the Arable case, It was indicated in official quarters that both Germany and the United States agree that to arbitrate the question of indemnity involves arbi- trating the justification and the facts. It was generally believed that be- fore the United States would enter in- ty formal negotiations on the Arable it would be necessary first to confirm Germany's assurances of the cessation of attack by submarines on liners. Germany's explanation of the unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Cunard liner Orduna on July 9 Is that the submarine ocom- mander violated his instructions, which were not to attack any Nini but that because of the weather he was unable to make out the character or nationality of the Orduna. It was learned that von Bernstorft told the Stato Department that such incidents as that of the Arabic will continue to occur until Great Britain disavows orders to com- manders of merchantmen to ram submarines on all occasions, Germany, it was said, looks to the United States to undertake to secure such @ disavowal from the British as ® means, according to the Ger- man viewpoint, of proving America’s real neutrality, ‘There was @ report that by ‘full satisfaction” for such incidents as that of the Arabic, Germany means only “full regrets.” Arbitration, it will be pointed out, will be absolutely necessary as Ger- many views the matter, to settle such controversies, inasmuch as the Kaiser will not recognize Ameri- cans’ rights to traverse the war sone in belligerent ships. A> EE SUBMARINE ATTACKS A NORWEGIAN SHIP. With Lumber, Dam- Presto, awed, but Crew In Rescued, LONDON, Sept. 15,—An attack with gunfire on @ neytral ship by @ German submarine 1s reported in a despateh from Christlania to Reuter'’s Telegram Company The submarine ia sald to have upon the Norwe cargo of wood, was saved, fired ian ship Presto, with a last Friday, The crew ———_ —+4-— - — Foreign Minister Burian Believes the Ambassador Acted Under the Influence of Bernstorff, but the Hungarian Party Defends Acts. EMPEROR IS DISPLEASED WITH ATTITUDE OF U. S. GENEVA, SWitzerland (via Paris), Sept. 13.—The Vienna moming newspapers are replete with leading articles on the news of the demand for the recall of Dumba, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States, From these articles it would appear that the request for his recall jhas divided Austro-Hungarian statesmen into two camps. Those /{ the party of Baron Burian, the Foreign Minister, apparently are persuaded that Ambassador Dumba acted under the influence of Count von Berns storff, the German Ambassador to the United States, without orders from the home Government. . The Hungarian party believes that Dr. Dumiba did his duty in order to prevent arms and ammunition reaching the powers of the quadruple entente. —— UNDERSTANDING WITH GERMANY ON THE ARABIC? Von Bernstorff and Lansing Said to Have Come to an Amicable It ts learned from the newspaper articles that Emperor Francis Joseph was displeased when he learned of the action that had been taken by the United States in the case of the Am- bassador, and that in substance he expressed the view that the person- ality of the Austrian Ambassador was @ sufficient guarantee against state- Arrangement. ments attributed to him by the United Meplinsild ‘hoes States which were without a solid WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—An “am. | basis in fact, ; Tt is declared Mkewine that tele- foable understanding” was reached at] peas of womewhat bitter tone were to-day's conference between Ambas- exchanged on the subject between sador Hernatorfft and Secretary of| Foreign Minister Burian and Dr, von State Lansing, it was officially stated paeeaerumg ees ae . neellor, jerman peror is \copslieeboilgnetge declared to have been greatly inter- ested in the development and to have recalled Foreign Minister von Jagow to Berlin, the Foreign Minister hav- ing been preparing on Saturday to go to Vienna, The question of diplomatic ruptures with the United States ts being dis- cussed by the papers, LENOX, Mass., Sept. 18.—Dr. Con- stantin Theodor Dumba was prepar- ing to-day to leave his summer home here within a very short time, He hag engaged a packer to prepare his per- sonal effects for shipment and has also notified his chauffeur that he would not require bis services after the end of the week. It was said at the office of the Ems bassy Staff to-day that no formal statement on Dr, Dumba's recall was ready for publication, It was under- stood that this would be withheld unm- Ul official advices had been received But a point of great danger in the German-Amertcan ait- uation, it was learned on the best of authority, threatens future friction, There was good reason to believe that this “understanding” concerned only the case of the Arable. America, it was understood, has agreed to arbl- tration on the question as to whether the U-boat commander, in this parti- cular instance, was warranted in be- Heving the liner was attempting to ram his submersibl pidaeialahis- ca B. N. DUKE STRICKEN AFTER FRIEND'S FUNERAL Tobacco Magnate Suffers Nervous Breakdown and Doctors Order Absolute Rest. from the Austrian foreign office at (Gpecial to The Evening World Vienna. DURHAM, N. C., Sept. 13—Ben-| Madame Dumba will leave Lenox jamin N. Duke, whe arrived in Dur- for New York Wednesday morning. ham last Friday to attend the funeral of J. E. Stagg yesterday afternoon, suffered & nervous breakdown at his She will go to a New York hotel to await the arrival of Dr. Dumba from Lenox. Rasestsea ES home on West Chapelhill Street in this city, The first news of the to- NEW YORK RIFLEMEN bacco man's filness leaked out this morning when !t was reported that "ALPIN TROPHY Mr. Duke's physicians had dented him WIN M PI P all callers, The doctors said that r > while they did not consider Mr. United States Marines Second and New Jersey Third at Sea Girt, SEA GIRT, N. J., Sept. 13.—Ner York won the rifle match for the Mo~ Alpin trophy here to-day with a score of 1107, ‘The Marines were second with 1006, Duke's illness of a serious nature he would have to have absolute quiet and rest, The death of Mr, Stagg, who was Mr. Duke's close friend and for many years his private secretary, af- fected him deeply, Mr, Duke attended the Stagg fun- eral but immediately afterward went home and has since been confined to his room, J. B, Duke was scheduled to leave Durham this morning, but his brother's illness caused him to defer his departure indefinitely, New Jersey was third with 1055 and the District of Columbia fourth with 1023, : |