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4 peace ous CENT. OE pe oe gm ee $15,000,000 FINAL _ oe fn U. S. Goods Are Che comets 1th, Teale Ctreulation Books Open to All. NEW yoRK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER i “14 PAGES Seized by British Prize WEATHER—Prepabiy Fels To-might ane Fritay. Fane L — U.S. GIVES BERLIN FACTS ON THE ARABIC; BERNSTORFF PROMISES DISAVOWAL o_O FOUR SEIZED STEAMERS DECLARED 10 HAVE CARRIED FOOD MEANT FOR GERMANY Court Holds That Vessels Were Tak- ing to Copenhage Shipped to steamships. The products, valued at forfeited to the crown. n Twenty Times the Amount of Meat Ordinarily That Port. LONDON, Sept. 16.—The British prize court to-day condemned | the greater part of the American products forming the cargoes of, four several million dollars, are déeclaréd, The judgment was delivered by Sir Samuel T. Evans, President of ‘the court. It involves the cargoes ‘Alfred Nobel, Bjornstjerne-Bjornson of the Norwegian steamships Jim, and Fridland, All the goods on these vessels, consisting principally of American meat products, are confiteated with the exception of a small proportion which the court released to ~-¢aimants. ‘The case has been pending for sev- @ral_ months. The steamships were seised jast November, and although efforts were made by the American owners to obtain an early trial the British authorities set tho hearing for June. Thea hearing closed last month and judgment was resorvod until to-day. In a lengthy judgment, Sir Samuel eaéd it was plain these ships were carrying toward Copenhagen when captured more than thirteen times he amount of goods which under jormal circumstances would have been taken to that port. That fact gave practical and overwhelming as- surance that the goods were inten to find their way to Germany, al- though, of course, it did not prove conclusively that they were destined for an enemy of Great Britain. One circumstance throwing light on the reai destination of the goods, Sir Samuel said, was that the exportation of lard by one American company alune to Copenhagen In three weeks after the outbreak of the war was twenty times more than in periods of peace. As to tins of canned meat, he said, jt had not been shown they had been sent to Denmark in any great Quantity before the war, yet hundreds of thousands were on the way when the vessels were captured, These tina, {t seemed, could not have been meant for any persons other than German soldiers. Referring to the vonsignments of ber, described as gum, the Pre: nt said: "I have come to the conclusion that m ig not a true commercial descrip- jon for rubber, and that it was used in the ships’ manifesto in order to ‘avoid the difficulty which would re- ult in its capture by a belligerent. Any congealment of this sort will, while I sit in the Prize Court, weigh heavily against those who adopt such courses, “Neutrals are expected to conduct their neutral trade during the war without false papers and with candor, and belligerent are entitled to expect from neutrals a frank course of con- duct.” ‘The meat cargoes, shipped for the “most part by the great American packing companies and valued them at $15,000,000, were found by President to be* destined, except for gome smal! items, not for consumption fm Denmark, but for delivery in Ger- many. He held that their eventual destination was the German Govern- ment, for the use of {ts naval and military fore: To rule otherwise, Bir Samuel said, would be to allow one's eyes to be biinded by Uieurios aaa technivalities. The court disallowed sixteen claims, including those of the Mor Armour, Hammond, Swift and Sulz- berger companies, It allowed eight claims, inc ading that of the Cudahy Company of Chicago, The others were Damish consignees, Sir Samuel guve leave to appeal, fixing securit the costs Men divi among the ble appel- He also gave the crown attor- 3,1 leave to appeal in the cases of the Cudaby and other claims which were allowed, at} BRITISH ADMIT LOSS Turks Claimed to Have Sunk Submersible and Captured Her Crew. LONDON, Sept. 16.—The Admiralty officially admitted this afternoon that the recent Turkish claim that the British submarine E-7 has been sunk and its crew captured “is presumably true.” The E-7 has not returned to her | base, though overdue, and is now ie UP as lost. | he E-7 was 175 feet long and dis- | placed $10 tons. She had a speod of |16 knots on the surface and was one lof the largest and fastest of the | British submersibles. She carried normally a crew of 16 men, The E-7 carried three officers and a crew of twenty-five men at the time she was sunk, it was stated. She has not been heard from since Sept. 4 ——2 BRITISH LOST 79,238 IN DARDANELLES War Secretary Reports 1,130 Offi- cers Killed and 2,371 Wounded, LONDON, Sept. 16.—British losses at the Dardanelles to date total 79,238 in killed and wounded, Under Secre- tary for War Tennant announced in the House of Commons this after- noon, These josses, Mr, Tennant sald, were divided as follows: Officers—1,130 killed or died of their wounds; 2,871 wounded, Men-—16,478 killed or died of their wounds; 59,259 wounded, \PROF. THAYER DEAD IN RIVER, w School Had Dean of Harvard Been Missing Two Days, BOSTON, Sept, 16.—The body of Kzra R. Thayer, dean of the Harvard Law School and an authority on interna- tional law, was taken from the Charles River Basin, off Deerfield Street, Back Bay? by the police to-day. iveatn was apparently due to drowning. A examination mage by the police failed ty disclose any marks that would indi- cute Dean Thi had met with foul lay, Pi iter an dn uiry Medical Examiner MoGrath the case was one of sul- Use“ thayer hed been under the care of a physician for some time, Because of i! health he had obliged to glye up some of ures at the lew scool. He from | New York on bout 4 o'clock SENT SHIP ASHORE AND GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ONE OF CREW Survivors Here Tell of Thrill- ing Wreck of Graecia on Coast of Bermuda. CAUGHT IN HURRICANE. Capt. Boothe Sought Life Pre- server for Fireman and Was Only One Lost. ewe aThe Quebec liner Bermudian ar- ved from Bermuda to-day with sixty shipwrecked sailors among her pas- sengers, and brought the story of how Capt. Ernest Boothe of the British steamship Pollokshield, caught off the Bermudian coast in a hurricane and fog. ran his vessel ashore head on and sacrificed his life while trying to insure the s@fety of one of his crew. This story has added interest because the Pollokshield was, up to the out- break of the war, the Hamburg- American liner Graecia, plying be- tween New York and West Indian and Central American ports. The Graecia slipped out of New York Harbor with a cargo of coal for the German cruiser Karlsruhe, was captured by the British, taken to Gibraltar and sold. Her nan was changed to the Po:lokshield and she was used by the Admiralty as @ supply ship. The Pollokshield, with a crew of thirty-two men, left Cardiff, Watcs, for Bermuda on Aug. 22 with a cargo of shells and gunpowder. In mid- Atlantic she efcountered the great Gulf hurricane and fought wind, fox and seas for five days. Capt. Boothe had lost his bearings when at 8 o'clock in the morning of Sept. 7 the fog lifted and he found himself almost ashore on Elba Beach on the south coast of uda. He aan val to get his vessel away from the reefs but the gale was too strong. Nothing remained to be done but run ashore, Capt, Boothe ordered the fires banked, called all the men up from below and assem- bled them on deck, tied down his whistle cord and headed his ship for the coral shore, The journey was not @ long one and the Pollokshield soon struck, burying her nose in a great smoth of waves beating over the reefs. She beached herself In such a way that she rested on a shelf of coral and in a few hours she began to break in two just forward of the mainmast, Capt. Boothe discovered that one of his firemen did fot have @ life preserver, The fireman said he had not been able to find one, The cap- tain started aft for a preserver just the ship broke in two, and the last carried away on the crest of a wave ‘The rear end of the ship slipped off into deep water and much of the cargo fell out into the sea, The thir- ty-two survivors were taken off after thirty hours by Antonio Marshell, a Portuguese fisherman, who manipu- lated a whaleboat through the surf and got it alongside the stranded hulk. Five of the survivors of the Pollok- shield remained in Bermuda to work at recovering such of the shells as remain in the wreck, The others will remain ©) chey will start for England, Besides the survivors of the Pollok- shield the Bermudian brought thirty- three survivors of the wreck In mid- Atlantic on Aug. 16 of the Italian steamship Purificazione, bound from Genoa to Norfolk, Va, and crew of the Purificazione aban- boned her several went to the bottom and were picked his men saw of him he was being The captain hours before she PRENDERGAST ASKS THE CITY SCHOOLS ‘Comptroller Would Save $4,000,000 and Eliminate All Part Time. “GARY PLAN” THE BASE He'd Cut Down Number and Salaries of Teachers and Have Longer School Sessions. Sweeping changes of a most radical nature affecting the entire public school system of Greater Now York, ‘with Its 25,000 teachers and principals and close on to a million children, are to be recommended by Comptroller ‘William A. Prendergast at to-mor- Tow's meoting of the Board of Katl- mate. If the recommendations of the Comptroller are adopted—and it is very likely they will be—$4,000,000 will be saved the taxpayers; part time and overcrowding, it is promised, will be entirely eliminated in the schools; four weeks will be cut from the sum- mer vacations of teachers and puplis, which, he says, are so lengthy they are a “public scandal;" the school day will be lengthened from five to six Hours; teachers will receive no ex- tra pay for services in vocational echools and the general number of teachers’ positions reduced 10 per cent. After the present public school tem of the city shall have been com- pletely revolutionized, the Comptroller recommends that the system in vogue at Gary, Ind,, brought here by Prof ‘Wirt, now reorganizing twelve schools, be adopted. It is the Wirt plan which will enable the city to con- duct 496 classes with 448 teachers. It is certain that the organized teachers of the city will fight the Comptroller and those members of the Board of Estimate who uphold him to the-very last ditch. There is al- ready much bitterness toward the Comptroller by certain teachers as a result of the Cqmptroller's reports ex- posing the bankrupt condition of the Teachers’ Pension Fund. This last stand of the Comptroller will be looked upon by the leaders of teach- ers’ organizations as revolutionary. GARY SYSTEM AT BASE OF RE- FORM. The Comptroller explains at the outset of his crusade ; what he be- Meves to be a remedying of most of the present New York public school evils, that under the Wirt system the 10 per cent. reduction in the number of school teachers’ positions will be made possible by lengthening the school days and the school year. He also remommends “a change tn the system of promoting teachers whereby merit alone shall control This means the eradication of the system of paying teachers more for service in the Seventh and Wighth grades and the substitution of a plan whereby each teacher shall teach the classes for which she is best fitted. The reforms Prof. Wirt suggests will bring about a reduction of the common school course to seven years, Mr. Prendergast says. In his exhaustive report to the (Continued on Seventh Page.) ere ONLY 228 IN TOMBS. District Attorney Has Cat Dow Number of P non How District Attorney Of these fr at afternoo n leaving 143 awalting trial, as against 245 of Pa a ero ie Mtivee nia ia! up a couple of days later by the Brit-|a year ago. Lunt year there wore, 9X4 body Hia| ish steamship Cayo Gitmano, which | indictments pending wt this time. This near his house. 4.20, cn "hed stopped at fogs than jo Bermuda, wvar there are.but 600, FOR REVOLUTION IN: PROXY FOR HUSBAND handling the crimina! busingss of the H ass MILDRED N Wealthy 1 Sails to Wed Man Who Stood at Altar for Friend. \ The world war, and the custom of proxy, have added a novel turn to the romance of Miss Mildred Colliton, the pretty daughter marrying by of a wealthy Willimantic, Conn, thread manufacturer, She was to have married Lieut. Lesile Montague Cowan of the Ox- fordshire Light Infantry on June 12, 1914, but the wealthy young British army officer was dered to India, Consequently his friend, Courtney Badinridge, also a British army of- ficer, acted as proxy; and on July 14, 1914, Miss Colliton was formally wed- ded to Lieut. Cowan, When the war came, Lieut, Cowan was ordered from India to France and was killed, and his proxy bride was left a widow. To-day Mrs. Cowan sailed on the United Fruit liner Zacapa for Jamat- ca to become the bride of Mr, Badin- ridge. FRANCE WILL CALL BOYS OF 18 TO JOIN THE ARMY Men of 47 Also be Held Readiness for Service at the Front. PARIS, Sept. 16.—The Government to-day introduced in the Chamber of Deputies a bill calling to the colors the class of 1917, the date to be fixed by the Miaister of War, The bi!! also pro- vides that the members of the class of 1888 hold themselves in readiness for unexpectedly or- to in service at the disposition of the War Minister until the end of the war The bill, which probably will) be passed at once to the colors Fr without debate, brings nch youths of eighteen years and orders men of forty-seven who are still fit for service to hold themselves in readiness, paceaaaciaecas Shes Gang Belleved Same That «north of here. na and soldiers, the leading a trail of blood. y pursued Unrough> the Wawa lave 00° eas 8. TROOPS FIRE ON BANDITS) jcused of killing Gaimari. WILL MARRY v aay THO WITNESSES TOSWEARROFRANO ORDERED MURDER District Attorney Finds Men Fennimore Said Attended Conference With Slayers. TWO NEW INDICTMENTS. District Attorney Trying to Get Evidence Against Others “Higher Up. Two important witnesses, who are sali by the District Attorney to be in position to confirm Frank Fenni- more’s charge that Mike Rofrano, un- der indictment for murder in the firet degree, hired an ssaesin to kill Mike Gaimari last March, were hurried into the District Attorney's office to-day by Central OMice Detective Meally, who found then In Brooklyn. Their names were furnished by Fennimore, ‘They are #aid to have been present at conferences betwen Rofrano, Fennt- more and Rocco Carnivale at which the assassination of Gaimari was dis- cussed, A new name Was brought Into the Rofrano to-day by Frank Tringuella, a witness before the Grand Jury. He swore that a promt- nent criminal Idwyer coached him in perjured testimony to be given at the trial of Carnivale and Gactano Montimagno, and rejected him be- cause he could not stand a rigid cross examination, After finding two additional indictments the Grand Jury adjourned until next Thursday The delay will give the district at- torney and the police a ohance to round up witnesses and confirm, in all probability, the details of a plot to kill Tom Foley and Congressman Dan Riordan. Mr. Perkins has in- formation that two separate at- tempts were made on the life of each. Mr. Perkins is particularly inter- ested in the story that two assassins, armed with knives, hid in the door- way of Foley's home to attack him on his arrival. Thoy got thelr sig- nals mixed, ran into each other and fell down a flight of stairs, Foley heard a voice he says he recognized call from across the street--the man speaking thinking that Foley had been done for—"That's yours, Foley, | for what you did to me Election Day.” SAY OTHERS ‘HIGHER UP’ WERE INVOLVED IN KILLING, ‘The police have information that two or more mer prominent in the Second Assembly District and closely associated with Foley up to the time Rofrano broke away from the Tam- many organization, were implicated in the plot to kill Foley and Riordan. In order to make out @ case it will he necessary to get the testimony of two men, one of whom ts in Sing Sing prison serving a sentence. These two will talk, it Is expected, before the Grand Jury meets again, Joseph Brondin|, a Brooklyn saloon- keeper, and Tomasso Portaro, an olive | loll importer, were indicted by the Grand Jury to-day, Brondini of sub- ornation of perjury and Porcaro of perjury. Porcaro was one of the wit-| nesses for the defense of Rocco Car- nivale and Gaetano Montimagno, ac- It is al- leged that his testimony in both trials was false and that he was hired and case Killed Two Soldle ROWNSVILLE Tex, Sept. 16.— ndits belleved to be those who re- killed two American civilians) ed to-day on the Preanos Fired on | magno will be searched by the Grand schooled, with others, by Brondini, The entire record of the defense in the trials of Carnivale and Monti- Jury for signs of perjury, It is an- | SContinued om Second Page) BASIS OF WILSON’ STAND iN FORWARDED 10 GERARD T BERNSTORFF'S REQUEST German Envoy Clears Up Suspicions Raised in Minds of President and Lansing .by the Report of U-Boat Commander. FORMAL REPUDIATION WILL COME WIT HIN TEN DAYS BERLIN, Sept. 16 (via London) «—The American Ambassador, James W. Gerard, received to-day a communication from Washington bearing on the Arabic case and the submarine problem. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.—The communication to Ambassador Gerard referred to in the foregoing despatch Is a summary of the evi- dence now in possession of the American Government on the sinking of ° the White Star liner Arabic. Secretary Lansing forwarded it at the request of Count von Bern- storff, the German Ambassador, that the Berlin Foreign Office might know from what facts the United States was drawing its conclusions in the latest critical phase of the submarine controversy, The evidence shows that the Arabic was peacefully proceeding with out resistance when she was torpedoed without warning. cans were among the lost. FREIGHT WORKERS’ STRIKE LAID TO WAR AGITATORS Poles, Austrians and Germans Lead Tieup, Railroad Officials Charge. Strikes of freight handlers wore re- ported to-day from the yards of the Lehigh Valley and the Central Rail- road of New Jersey in addition to an nerease in the number of strikers at the West Shore yards near Wee- hawken, About a thousand handlers had quit their jobs at 3 o'clock this afternoon, Railroad officials say the men have been demanding 25 cents instead of 20 cents or less. the demands are the work of agi an They say pretexts to cover tors among the Ger- man, Austrian and Polish workers, Italian and Greek laborers have com- plained that they would qnit the strike if they could be protected from their associat The agitators have thousands of Polish- paperg setting forth hope for a free Poland ts in the de- feat of the allies by cutting off ship- ments fro mAmerica, Unskilled laborers were belug hired by the hundred to take the places of those who quit AMERICAN STEAMSHIP DETAINED BY BRITISH Muskogee, Was distributed American news- that the only From New Orleans, Bound for Goth- enburg, LONDON, Sept. 16.—The American tank steamer Muskogee, from New Orleans for Gothenburg, and the Dan- ish steamer Polarstjernen, from Bal timore for Gothenburg, have been de- tained by the British authorities, The Swedish steamer Sir Ernest Cassel has been aned, The Muskogee, which sailed from Newport News Aux. 27, has twice be fore been detained by the British authorities, She was released by the Prize Court April 16, and was] egain held up at days in July. The Polaratjernen sailed from Bal- timore Aug. 23 and arrived at Kirk- wall Gept. 11, Kirkwall for three hour! Two Amerl- > —_——~—>—_ BERNSTORFF PROMISED DISAVOWAL TO WILSON OF ARABIC ATTACK. Count von Bernstorff, German Am- bassador, will leave the city this eve. ning for a short holiday while awadt- ing a reply from Berlin which he ex. pects to settle definitely the contin- uance of friendly relations between | Germany and the United States, which were jarred on account of submarine warfare, A condition of distrust has been | created in the White House because the Arable handed by the German Foreign Minister to Ambagsador Ger- ard in Berlin last week, which has caused President Wilson and Secre- tary of State Lansing to regard with suspicion the good faith of Germany in promising to modify submarine warfare against passenger liners, That note transmitted to the United States Government the report of the submarine commander who sunk the Arabic and gave as his excuse that | he thought the liner was trying to run him down, The note added that Germany wanted the question of in- demnity referred to The Hague tri- bunal. Count von Bernstorff has informed Secretary Lansing that there is no intent on the part of Germany to re- pudiate in the slightest degree the declaration recently made in writing that unarmed passenger liners would not be sunk without warning, The Secretary replied by asking that Germany prove this by form- ally repudiating the act of the sub- |marine commander in the Arable case, and Count von Bernstorft de- clared that he would obtain such @ declaration from Berlin, ‘The explanation offered by the Am- bassador for the Berlin note was that its choice of language was doubtless | confusing to the American Govern- | ment, but that the German Goverae i} t meant no repudiation of its pre> | vious promise, It was merely trans- mitting to Washington the report of its submarine commander, which had been requested by Ambassador Gerard, and the Berlin Foreigf Office was net saying this was final or concerned with the principle at issue, ‘Thia evidence was all that Berlin bad to go on until to-day when the evidence of the Arabic's sinking of the language used in the note on ;