The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1915, Page 1

Oe et Horr PRICE ONE CENT. eres: teas ow vad ee er DISASTER STARTS INQ Che {*Ciroulation Books Open to AlL”\ . NEW. vorx, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1015. rr Vet Bore) =z. ee ——— UIRY INTO ALL SUBWAY WORK 1* Cirentation Books Open to All." WEATHERfev to night end Fraey, wormen HOME AGES PRICE ONE CENT. ALL U-BOATS REPORT AT GERMAN BASES; CAPTAINS DENY TORPEDOING HESPERIAN | _ KEEP UP SEARCH FOR DEAD IN NEW SUBWAY WRECKAGE; RAL INQUIRIES START —_ Four May Still Be Held in De- bris of Seventh Avenue Collapse. ‘DUMBA MAROONED: NO SAFE CONDUCT UNTIL HIS RECALL Plan to Go Away “On Leave” Is Regarded in Washington as Impertinent. TO FIX RESPONSIBILITY. Public Service Board Will Also Investigate Safety of All New Subway Lines. ‘While the search for bodies still went on in the debris of the Seventh SEVEN ‘WORKERS’ [BIG STEEL MERGER TRIED IN BLOCK | WITH SCHWABSAS FOR A MURDER) DOMINANT FIGURE Men Iimplicated by “Dopey Benny's” Confession Watch All Independent Concerns Out- side of U. S. Corporation Re- Selection of Jurors. ported Ready to Combine. G. WALSH IS FOREMAN.|TAKE ACTION ‘TO-DAY. Herman Liebowitz, the Victim, Was Killed on Aug. 4, 1910. Plans Submitted to Attorney General That Will Keep It Within the Law. PHILADELPHIA, Sept, 2%,--An- other gigantic steel mercer, embrac- THE JURY. 1—GEORGE WALSH, President of the Herman Tappan Company, fore-|ing every large independent ateol man. company not controlled by the United 2—~JOHN 1. CRONIN, apartment States Stee! Corporation, ts about to intendent. house superinte: be formed, if persistent rumors in Avenue subway collapse to-day, suve- ral investigations were started to de- termine whether an excessive dyna- WASHINGTON, Sept. 23,—The State Department . has received. & telegram from Dr, Dumba, the Aus- For the first time in the history of New York County seven mon were put on trial to-day as codefendants financial olroles here to-day are borne out, ‘The intéreste organizing the new mite blast or defective shoring was|trian Ambassador, announcing that Feoponeible for the deaths of at least! he intends to depart for Vienna on seven persons and the injury of) the Rotterdam on Sept, 28 “on pearly one hundred. The disaster has/ leave,” and that he would like to aroused officials to the danger of have the United States arrange with | dynamite blasting under six miles Groat Britain and France for safe of city streets and an inspection of| passage. all shoring and construction work| But the Administration has no) therger are said to have already sub- mitted a tentative plan of the con- solidation to United States Attorney charged with murder in the fitst degree, The remarkable case te pre- sided over by Justice Tompkins tn the Criminal Branch of the Supreme| Genera Gregory for approval. The | Court new steel combine would «mb: | The defendants are Morris Strup-| the Bethlehem Stee! Company, Cru- lnicker, Max Sigman, General Secre-|cible, Cambria, Midvale, Pennayl- vania, Lackawanna and ¢inalier in- aor ale bes been ordered The chief inquiry i# in the hands of the Public Service Coimmission,| which is responsible for the construc tion of the new subways. suring the rafety of tho Aroused by the apparent vase with which the street roofing collapsed yesterday, the Commision to-day or- dered an Inspection of every foot of supporting structural work on #ub- ways under coustruction throughout the city. At least fifty expert engineors will ve employed in the work. They will compare s# nearly as possible the conditions that existed on the Seventh Avenue job between Twenty-third and Twenty-ffth Streets with those that now exist on other big jobs, par- tleularly those in the lower section of Manhattan ‘Travis H. Whitney, Secretary of the Public Service Commission, is autbor- {ty for the statement that the United States Realty and Improvement Com- pany, which is in charge of the sub- way seotion where the acoident oc- curred, uses heavier timber and more timber than any of the other subway contractors, Mf Mr, Whitney's information in correct the elements of danger through weak timbering are far ter in other big subway jobs (Continued on Second _Pase,) ‘Where There's a Crowd The flocking to World want-filling ad vertisements is no exception to this rule. 4,763 _ 3,086 More Than Li Seperate Worl! Ads.| say Yesterday 1,460 LTD the OPHEK New York Sexapapers COMBINED! ihe ler Mere Than Morning With these figures should not requir of imagination to 5 ly of hiring, rentin World Ads, are It's No Jest That World Are Best! 1 facts at hand resporwible fu Ads. There Is Soinething Doing! | | | intention of allowing Ambassador tary and Treasurer of the Interna- Dumba to attempt to save his face at tional Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Un- the expense of this Government, The publication of the text of Dr. Dumba's intercepted report Thelr on-| criticising President Wilson tended gineors are charged with the duty of to aggravate the Irritation which the making regular inspections and in-| white House and the State Depart- | work:| ment feel toward the Ambi ador. The Administration has been wait- Ing for almost two weeks to get an/ answer to the request which was sent to Vienna to have Dr. Dumba re- called, Up to the present time no formal acknowledament of this de- mand has been received by the Sta: Department. . The Administration has no inten- tion of arranging safe conduct for Dr. Dumba until the Vienna Foreign Of- fice replies to the State Department's request for his recall. It was suggested to-day that Dr. Dumba might leave the country with- out safe conduct under the impression; that the British cruisers would allow him to continue to Rotterdam, Safe conduct already has been arranged for Mme, Dumba, and, in the event that Dr. Dumba should decide to com- pound the aggravations which he has offered this country and venture on he seas without protection, at least nis wife would not be molested, Following Ambassador Dumba's message and the White House confer- ence, it ls understood that Acting Secretary Polk has decided to advise Ambassador Pentield that the Admin- lsiration had received no reply from Vienna, and suggest that he Infor- mally lake the question up with the Austrian Government, ee ‘COWARDLY,’ GERMAN PAPER CALLS AIR RAID Besides, It Says, the French Used} German Marks on Their Aeroplanes BERDIN vit: wireless to Tucker ton, N, J), Mept, The Deutsche Tagennel to-day ditteris con fomned wwardly" the Wren raid ys Jay on Stuttgart Wurtemt ’ ay marks on thelr acvoy'ay paper said, he wews- ton; Soloman Metz, President of the United Hebrew Trades Union; Julius Woolf, general manager of the Cloak and Sult Makers’ Union; Max Singer, former member of the joint board of the Cloak and Suit Makers’ Union and now @ manufacturor; Isidore Auspits, a manufacturer, but at the time of the crime alleged a member of the Cloak and Suit Makers’ Union and a designer, and Abraham Weidinger, also a unionint They are charged with the murder of Herman Liebowitz, who was #0 terribly beaten in front of the tem- porary strike headquarters of the Clouk and Suit Makers’ Union at No. 85 Hast Fourth Street on the night of Aug. 1, 1910, in the biggest and one of the bitterest strikes among the gar- | ment makers, that he died in Bellevue Hospital a few hours later. According to the prosecution, Lieb- owitz found that he was unable to make a living in this city because of the strike and weut to Hunter, N. Y., wi he obtained work in @ non- union shop, He was then lured back hore, the State contends, and as- saulted with iron bars. But the defense alleges that Lieb- owilts was fatally injured in a fight between union garment makers and strikebreakers, after having joined the union only the night before mosity between two unions, counsel for the defense wil] seek to prove, is responsible for the so called “frame up" against the seven defendants The principal attack of lawyers for \the accused will be directed at Max |Sutkess, a private detective, who is |the District Attorney's chief witness Stross will be laid on the fa t that no evidence was adduced against the accused men until May, 1914, when on nformation supplied mostly by Sul- kesa, it is said, Strupnicker, Sigman and Mets were indicted for murder in | tho first degree, but admitted to bail by Justice Blanchard of the Supreme } Court, It was not until May last th | blanket superseding indietmont was | Hed againat the three and also Woolf, sin ger, Auapitz, Werdinger and Louis! 1| Holtzer, ‘The eight dofendants were Imitted to bath by Jus ord tn! otal of $120,600, On Sept, 13, Justice Tomokina dis visded the tndletment against Holt jaer on the xp nd chat t ndletment [vas impr »pevly brought aad should not bave been returned, An attempt Ani-| dependent concerns, Chales M. Schwab, according reports, in the dominant figure in the new merger. An important step is expected to-day whon directors of the Cambria Steel Company meet and are expected to exercise the op- tionthey hold on the majority hold- ings of Pennsylvania Steel. TSR LAMAR HARDY MAY BE CORPORATION COUNSEL George V. Mullan, Mayor's Law Partner, Declares He Is Not a Candidate. It ls said that the Mayor ia oon- sidering the appointment of Lamar Hardy, a close personal friend, as successor to Frank L. Polk, who gave up the corporation counselahip to fill the place vacated by Secretary Lan sing in Washington, He may an nounce the appointment by the close of the week, Mr. Hardy is now counsel to the beef interests. George V. Mullan, former law part- ner of the Mayor, who was mentioned for the place, has announced he in not @ candidate. — a to will be made to introduce in evidence] ships over to commercial uses, They! estimated that between 15,000 and 26,-! German Factory at Submarine and @ part of Justice Ford's decision,| are abolishing the warriors in Eu-| 000 now are living here. Yee allowing the defendant's their liberty| rope now. What T am afratd of is! The 481-4 per cent. tax on Amert- Military Base Said to Have fon bail, At that time the Justice] that at the end of the war—whicli| can automoblies has caused consider- Been Destroyed. |said, according to counsel for tle! will come when the peaceable people! able pessimism among the agents of | accused revolt against the fighters American makes. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 28—-Anglo- | yo say the Joast, the evidence in| not be enough men over —————— French aviators bombarded the Ger-| [the cuse is inconclusive as to all| carry on the work of poace "yo GAS OR ELECTRICITY man submarine and military base at ‘and of queationable probity force ual “if we have weapons, whether air Bruges Sunday and Monday night, © most ¢ f " ship: ible by wireless for bomb doing heavy damage to most of the defendants |ships dirtgible by wireles ua IN CONSTANTINOPLE UAE POORE ARAM, sey ual The first juror was found in George | dropping, for wiping out navies ly GRRE feticee ke caenate Walsh of No, 436 Fort Washington| hy under-water boats of sma st, | sid Bhat Avenue, president of the Herman|tnere will be tio need to manufacture | TO EXECUTE 3 BELGIANS. Tappan Company, manufacturers of|ihem. The mere fact that they can, Reports Via Geneva Also Declare ELGIANS, perfumes. Mr. Walsh waa the first} ne produced will prevent any one Thave Is ‘Nob ven) Candles l@etmane Gonience Them tor tmae-| | talesman of a epecial panel of one) from making war on us z a hetioss’ te PAR l hundred cailed to the siand, Agsls > jor Lighting i lant District Atlorney Jamem A, De Accidents Aaphy xiated. AME RDAM, Sept * tvla London, lehanty interromated him on beaalt of dentally di ubb: iMNEVA, Monday (v *), | Sept, 23).—KFor exling 16 into the Btate, while Abrahain Levy ques Mary Orr 1, as Holand, ® German court-mortial at toned him for the def Mr ; WAA aovbysiat=| 54 fr onatan e writes tol Antwerp has ner Heigian | Walsh, by virtue of being the ir [ed to-day at No 214 Halsey Street, tho caaette de Lausanne that t citizans to death and thirty-three othe: SU Be aS Hreokiyn. Her husband, Hanes ¢ ; be at ‘ ventvemon to quality wine # furniture deal Manhatia Ap: mi Susles to hard Jabor fy pelaen fo ane nan of the Jury, Me took Tuck “ 1h ” M8 ing trom tien ae es 118 tne hae st 4 SAILING T TO-DAY. accardink to the Brio Reise | ‘The second juroy was found inf t Pha nike vennmanined 10) Geko atten | 1. Cronin, eo apartment how | Algonquin, San Dominge 3P.M ' Potivr an Alex Joseph iutensent, living a Lexington |Calon, Colon 3P.M i tin Germany are idle! Baveketnan, 4 aid Alex Avenue. GC, of Ot. Louis, Saveannah,... P.M, on accounl of lack of raw materiale, ander ‘Freak, ry makaas, FORD GOES DOWN IN A SUBMARINE TOVGET NEW IDEA \Inventor Visits hale evs Yard and Declares Cheap U-Boat Will Banish Present Ones. MAKE WAR IMPOSSIBLE. pedo and Will Swarm Over Sea Like Fish. Honry Ford, firm tn hia belief that he can cheapen the cost of sub- marines, went to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to-day for hin first look at a submarine, Pho arrangement for hie vistt was thade by Seorttary Daniels at Wash- ington yesterda: Mr. Ford ts eure that @ gasolene motor can be made which will work under water, Mr. Ford assured Secretary Danielw and President Wilson that the difficulties whieh naval engineers have had in "| the effort to invent a motor which can live on the limited supply of oxy- gen which can be taken below water and the necessity for arranging an exhaust which will not betray on the marine could be overcome. As basis for going to work on the prob lem he wanted a chance for an Inti mate first-hand study of a submarine from the inside The automobile manufacturer was good-natured to-day regarding the ridicule aimed at his homely deserip- tion of a cheap small submersible boat “with a dynamite pill on tho end of a atick.” He had not meant to be taken Hterally, but to express his goneral idea in a way to appeal to the imagination of his hearers, ho sald, A small submarine, with an under- water cruising radius of about twen- ty-five miles and handled by one or two men, he said, can be made for but little more than the cost of one of the Whitehead torpedoes now shot from the present type of sub- marine. There could be no possible defense for a battleship or a fleet of them from a sufficiently Irge school of such deadly fish. “I know," he id before going down into the hatch of the submarine, “Just what I shall say when I come out. We ought to destroy every one of these horrible weighty things. “The only way to abolish war ts to abolish the warriors. Destrey the Can Be Built at Cost of a Tor, surface the whereabouts of the sub-| armaments of the navy and turn the! WILLIAM WALDORF asor| WHO'LL PAY $1,260,000 IN BRITISH WAR TAX W MALDORF ASTOR TO PAY $1,290,000 IN NEW WAR TAX ;Anglo-Americans Hit Severely by 33 1-3 Per Cent. Assess- meni on Incomes, | LONDON, Sept. 2%—-The smart, wealthy Anglo-American contingent in London will be bit severely by the increase tn the new war income tax, They already have contributed large- ly to many forms of relief. Weil-tn- formed Americana, in discussing the extent to which the pockets of thi Anclo-Americans would be affected, to-day estimated that William Wal |dorf Astor would have to pay proximately $1,280,000 annually, cording to the new rate, which ie 33 1-8 per cont. Other estimates by them were Mra, William B. Leeds, $300,000; the Duoh- oss of Roxburghe, $170,000; Lady Gra- nard, $100,000; Mre. Beatty, wife of Admiral y, formerly Miss Edith Field, daughter of the Mar- shall Field, $200,000; Paris Singer, $100,000; Lady Waldstein, formerly Mrs. $60,000; the Duchy Manchester, $50,000; the Duch Marlborough, $28,000; Mrs. Jonn Astor, $30,000; Mrs. Bingham, for- merly Mrs, Alice Chauncey, between $40,000 and $50,000, and her sister, Lady Newborough, about the same, jand Lady Cunard, $25,000, | The Increase in the tax also will muke a big hole in the pockets of a jlargo number of Amoricans resident throughout the Britiah Isles, for It ts MINE SINK THE HESPERN: “NO SUBMARINE NEAR LINER GERMAN ADMIRALTY INSISTS Report Made to Foreign Office in Berlin Declares the Irish Sea Has Been Strewn With Explosives for Purpose of Blowing Up U-Boats. KAISER TO SEE GERARD ON RETURN FROM FRONT By Carl W. Ackerman. BERLIN (via The Hague), Sept. 23 (United Press).—Tbe Admiralty has submitted to the Foreign Office a memorandum declaring positively that no German submarine attacked the Allan liner Hesperian. The Ad- miralty memorandum siggests that possibly a British mine, intemled for the destruction of German U-boats, sent the Hesperian to the bottom off the Irish coast. The Admiraity informed the For TWO SHIPS BLOWN UP, | German mupmariner omit a PROBABLY BY MINES, som wrecked. the Hdsbtas tar aa) ted. No submarine attacked any timer answering the description of the British Steamer Groningen and Swedish Steamer Forsnik Lost —One Man Killed. LONDON, Sept. 28.—The British steamer Groningen has been blown upiby a mine, One of her crew was killed, ‘The survivors were brought to shore The Groningen displaced 988 tone and was owned by the General Steam Navigation Company, She was reg< istered at London, fi CHRISTIANSAND, Norway, Sept. 28.—-The crew of the Swedish steamer Forsnik, sunk by a mine or German torpedo last Saturday, was landed here to-day The Forsutk displaced 1,107 tons and was registered at Christiansand, LONDON, Sept. 28.—The Dutch meamer Koningen mma of 9,000 tons which, a¢ was reported yesterday, struck a mine as she was on her way to Amsterdam from Batavia, Java, capsized amd sank in the Thames to- day he 250 pumengers had been previ- ously taken off the Koningen Emmi which was belng towed up the river when she sank > BRUGES BOMBARDED; AIR RAID BY ALLIES Hesperian, the Admiralty reported, and no submarine waa in the vicinity jot the Hesperian when the explosion thro open her side. Submarine boat commanders re- ported that they sighted scores of | Mines floating In the Irish Sea and off the Irish coust, These mines, Was atated, apparently were strewn {ee the purpose of sinking Germap U-boata, ‘The Admiraity memorandum ia un- derstood to have been delivered to the Foreign Office yesterday or the day previous. It probably will be em- bodied in 4 note to America, It was reported in some quarters to-day that, such a note already had been deliv~ wred at the American Embassy, but thie report was not confirmed either by Foreign Office officials or by Am- bassador Gerard. “It TL had received a note on the Hesperian case I would be unable to acknowledge |." said the Ambas- dor. As evidence of the desire of the Government to bring about a speedy adjustment of German-American fe- lations, it was made known to-day that the Kalser is to receive Ambas- sador Gerard upon His Majesty's re- turn from the eastern front within a few days, The American Ambassador has not conferred with the Emperor for many months, because the latter has been at the front with his armies. Germany continues absolutely com- fident of the ability of Ambassador Bernatorff to arrive at a complete understanding at Wi ington \ <aanaeelibvosneune NO CITY LOAN TO ROFRANO, | “The published statement ¢ [City Chambertain in 1911 |Michae! Rofrano $32,000 on his pre- |Perty tm Oliver Street worth $18,008 |ie not true,” said Chambertain | Bruere to-day t one cent hee |been loaned to Mofrano. It ts true jthat his atx-story flat house at No. | 52 Oliver Street ie for sale under an order of the Supreme Court, but the Hien of approximately $33,000 om it ropresents back taxes from 1864, to- wether With tho prwsent taxes, Coste At Mr Bruere’s direction an ant, looked up the records ip that James B. Bray property since Y id g, el athe a) US ae. 0 who owned. th began to let 1a At hin de M lames 10 broperty tw sold at auegow to satiety the City’ nm for unpe: taxes, by Josepa ‘Day om Oct 13 next