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» , ame ~ Banks Check Whirl of Gambling on Stock Exchange | ———___ FINAL The I = ("Circulation Books Open to ali.” * Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE ONE CENT. beat ey ree NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1915 16 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. PARIS REPORTS GERMAN LOSS OF 120,000; LOST GROUND RETAKEN, SAYS BERLIN a —s WEATHER—F ew to night end Theredey, trent prebetin - Fao —— — ——-— —-4e2—___—__ — WLD SPECULATION CURBED SRLLEFTTOME FREMENSAVE2O0 em he na HL WN THE ARTOIS TAKEN, WSTORMY DAY Oca, YS HTERBNG AS AES 22255 MORE GAINS IN CHAMPAGNE, SALES CLOSE 701.500.0002 sams sass ns OFFICIAL REPORTS OF ALLIES Attacked Her in Employ- moned to Check $200,000 French Troops in Stubborn Battle Win Hill No. 170 at Nimy, as | British Attack Third Line of —_-.— . Bankers and Brokers Call Halt] PRISONER ESCAPES | e's Home, She Says. | Blaze. no Toman, lone. ast ON way TO THE TOMBS svi) BY MISTRESS. PHONE GIRLS HEROINES. Commissions | Assailant Had Written Threat-; With Fire All About Them ¥ Had Been Sentenced to the Elmira WAR S TOCKS IN FLURRY. Retormatory Just Before Giv- : ing Warders the Slip, } ening Letters to Girl Who | They Stuck to Posts and iI German Trenches at Loos. Gambling Craze Now Grips ao at Cnn Santein yeas | Once Invoked Police. | Spread Alarm Far. GERMAN TROOPS CUT OFF . the , ry arry Stein, slipped away from a Country Like Wat group. of prisonera in the Criminal| Sugo Fredericks fr. a dealer in| (Special from a Stat Correspondent | AND TAKEN AT MASSIGES Time Mania. Courts Building as they were being | typewriters, telephoned to Police of The Evening World.) taken bac o J ‘o +f a . Y., Sept o 4 y nt of ihe onel of Ceneatiwentes Headquarters shortly after 7 o'ctock | SUFFERN: N: ¥ Sept. 29.—Fully at 12,30 o'clock this afternoon and es- {thls morning, stating that he M44 | scaly ‘wade “senudd’ by: Aingien (as caped. He had just been sentenced by | found Minnie Burkhardt, a seventeen- | Judge Crain to a term in the Reforma. | year-old servant girl, bound, gagged | Policemen early to-day during a fire stock market, banks and heads of tory at Elmira for burglary. and unconscious from gas in the| that destroyed # block of frame bulld~ Jeading commission houses decided to Deputy Sheriffs Georg Levy and A.| kitchen of his home at No, 398 &t.| ings on Main Street and finally was OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. PARIS, Sept. 29.—Following Is the text of the report issued to-day by the War Office: “The reports which are coming to hand make it possible two hundred women, children and After another day of wild specula- tien and reckless plunging in the put an end to the mad whirl, The apeoe were in shares ot sh Pape fae ane She ari mee him | conquered largely through the hero- | to record each day more fully the importance of the success ob- a 4 ai is sf of eleven prisoners, Levy leading and|letters yesterday, he said, which hel ism of telephone girls who stuck to| ae 3; fs 1 Brakes wore put on many heavy trad Jacobs bringing up the rear, Kirsch-|had turned over to the police, in| their posts with the flames so near tained by our recent offensive abbehcoa tt a (Ok: Champsene | ers, higher commissions were demand- enbaum was not handeuffed and| which she was threatened by a man| the windows cracked, and called ald| district, combined with that of the allied troops in the Artois @4 in brokers’ offices and loans #tif- when the deputies cot back to the} signing himself “Jack the Ripper.” from nearby towns. No lives were ebri, fened in the banks Tombs they discovered that he had| Mr. Fredericks said the girl was! lost, The damage may reach $200,000, district. The effect of these measures became vanished | hysterical but in a moment of quiet Apparent in the last hour of trading One of the prisoners told W said that the man who had threa this afternoon, when there was a de- Hanley that Kirsehenbaum had/ ened her had entered the kitchen] adjoining building on the upper cline in many of the wildly boosted slipped the up ax it was| from ear door at 6 o'clock this! foors of which lived many families. prices of war stocks and a diminixhed, crossing the Hrid Sighs and | Morning as she was preparing break-| so rapid was the spread that prac volume of transactions had gone back to the Criminal Courts | fst and had knocked her down and Transactions for the day amounted; Building. This ts thought to have | 1 4 gag into her mouth. Then ho to 1,474,185 shares, about 180,000 less been impossible and the man is be don the gas In the kitchen than those of the previous day ved tu have escaped somewhere in ve and fled. The odor of gas 4 killed, wounded and prisoners, amounts to more than the effec- Even with this check the Stock Ex-| one of the corridors he traversed be-| tracted Mr. and Mrs. Fredericks and| taken out they assembled on the lawn IR JOHN FRENG CH © 4M Pre tive strength of three army corps (120,000), The total number ghange was the scene of wild ex-| tween the courtroom and the deten-|they came upon her in time to savel near the Erie station. Many were -—— Peete ; ri —-—-—~ of prisoners is at present in excess of 23,000 men; the number Citement and tremendous activity dur. | tion pen on the mezzanine floor Liber forced to remain there for hours be- DA isa acialon, ‘the pacitas| palbscstin Aer seiiet When the girl was revived she told| tore clothing was provided for them. | of cannon brought to our rear is 79. ‘ he detectives a story which was part- v i tarted with the biggest first \ pa Several families believed for a time “Seventee: and and y-five ate sol fant a aa See ay STRIKERS A MENACE ly corroborated by letters she had|q have perished were found later cud- | ; ‘Seventeen thousand and fifty-five private soldiers and 316 Ree auinmiog: 15) 304000 ln the lant Li given Mrs. dricks, She said that] ged up to keep warm near the ruins. officers, taken prisoner by us, already have gone through the Bor, All'the skyrockets Kad tale nt| IW FIFTH AVENUE BLOCK pn ceyeral occasions when leaving the) Aly those rescued lost thelr house- town of Chalons on their way to the points where they are to home she had been fol- end, but still managed to maintain | hold goods, ; fae, siintne: Pa if uiyese aaa jfewed by a man, She paid no atten-| q@he Rockland House in near the | be interned Beem showing # sm gain over) Police Reserves Break Up Their| nt Bun and he seemed angered, scene of the fire and guests hurried | Organized efforts are at present under way to clear up the re previous day's re Parade ‘and Make’Sixt Nivereta seas ie bp aor “ wi from it, the largest hotel in town, In } field of battle and to take definite count of the arms of all kinds int arade and ake Sixty jahe eaving a ca ne Hundre ain body of on the Wat. the scantiost of attire, As the flames Tho blaze started in a livery stable | “The Germans have been compelled not only to abandon nd was carried by a high wind to) along an extended front certain positions strongly enternched in the defense of which they had been ordered to resist to the very end, but they have suffered losses, the total of which in tically all of the rescued, many of whom were carried from windows and over roofs, were n thelr night- | clothes, As family after family was} however, wore exit Raisin Apralte and Twenty-ffth Street and Third | jeaped more than 100 feet in the air in cmscenninasaicuaions ancien and of the war material belonging to the artillery and infantry | Kain, U. 8. Steel, so long the leader Seae wayres woe ee eee rene ned Ber | places it was feared the hotel would branches which the enemy has been compelled to abandon to us. +B 1; 80 as. Wha Gaming ‘ , and handed her a letter, Then he ops : . J - “ ‘ rict the vress re > J ot the iathet: rankod Ground Th ait gbatcatlon, Uesdiay. egeiaae tiehy | MUmBeS and walked aay > ne telephone girls bexun summon-| War Office Also Claims Partial Success Near In the Artois District the progress reported yesterday to fa toward the last feil fractionally and) demonstration to-day against Rich-| phe girl is unable to read English . ‘ ‘ the east of Souchez continued yesterday evening, and in the at 78, its lowest of the week, | ard A, Hickson at No. 657 Fifth Ave- ety ing aid a9 soon as the fire was seen 7 ‘S 1 rth- a pes " vie Locotaotive and Lnoke-|nue. One hundred and tty of his popes Nie Label {he meaning! to be beyond control. Smoke poured Souchez, but Admits Fai ure No course of last night, after a stubborn engagement, we reached 1B oO! letter, 6 was frightone excl =} . e i wanna Steel were the star performers striking tailors with 250 others took to the home of a tana pep ini’ the See tet isha west of Souain. Hill No. 140, the culminating point of the crests of Nimy and / e its gym-| po: 7 atwe ‘| window popp niater ee a the Asien (Or ia sooner] 1 peemerye baryare) Lol Later in the eveing, returning to the|they remained at the awitchboards and the orchards to the south of this point, The number of un- rise in price, On the opening at 10) marching up and down in crowds ani “Ste WW ae haar one Hur an TESA | Seon BRS. FHaDIRE: 12 SER 008) Bets OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT. wounded prisoners made by us in the course of this fighting is | d | tolow 1 e Hundred and 1 palt bers of : q c spt, 26 ofr fi ivi o'clock a sironriing mone Sroners looking 80 menacing that several|/-Twenty-fifth Street and Highth Ave- alle a ying paper eee BERLIN. (via London), ‘Sept, a9 —-Recapture from: the British of| more than 300, the men belonging mostly to the two divi- 4 around the Baldwin post) won > had drive nas ay Ape , A Gere 1 Rasite racer as w am n wie nee aan sh be order) nue. companies from Spring Valley, Ram-| part of the territory won from the Germans north of Loos was an- | sions of the Guard. | costumes dured not leave their cars.| Yesterday morning whet otiel: . | \ ; | ‘ istric i i ders, So great was the confusion th Capt. Alfred Thor marched twenty-|went to the basement ges tie Beet eenene Nyack and} ounced to-day by the War Office. | ‘In the Champagne District the fighting is going on with- e If mi Ave reserves from the Eas Fi RR : s ° » entire o’ Be a ate varying from 18 18: Meee are eer at LHL fret] windows sho found another letter on| Most of the rescues were made by| Following is the text of the German War Office report: | out respite along the entire front. In the region to the north 40. 8 fterward the quota-| end of the block, and raided the mob,| the window sill, She took both letters| the police and firemen of Suffern be- ry ” smnts | mer nigee ine of Massiges, further in, groups of Germans have surrendered. Grace chegod down to 14baN8 3h |They made sixty prisoners before tho| to Mr. Fredericks and he notified the| fore other departments arrived. By | The enemy's attempts to break through our lines con re z ; ; augged down to 128 and t i i mace & prieonel EOFS Abe le de ad a " othe: epa a J m { eety e . ( 5s last e | pallet ee to 13 assemblage scattered, took Third Branch Detective Bureau. 4 o'clock scores of streams of water tinued with bitterness in the present region of attacks, A coun- | In this sector alone the total of prisoner last evening reached Lackawanna Stecl, that at the be-|thrwe patrol wagons to the Ye The letters, were scrawied on plain| were pou-ing into the flames and ter attack, following another fruitless British attack, led to the 1,000, There has been no other important action on the re- of the year was going a-beg-|Court, where they writing paper, one piece of which] they were under contre | Peli sets ci BR heuntin ctr at ai h inder of the front. eee eh hoe Mae, opened tosday |barors Magiatrale Krciel was cut into the shape of a heart.| It is believed that the fire originated | recapturing of part of the territory we abandoned north of Loos, meee eanu bombarded violently” chi at 83 and continued climbing point by ———— They were signed “Jack the Ripper," |in the livery stable lately vacated by “The heavy losses which the enemy incurred during often- The enemy ! ombarded violentlyfour trenc es to the point to #4, Tennessee Copper soines) STORM HITS LOUISIANA and informed the girl if she “got! Melvin Stall, Tramps sleep there, and | repeated storm attacks against the hills at Massiges were in vain, north and to the south of the Aisne; in the regions of the St. the acrobatle class with a gain of five | ’ Bia wear abe would wet $1,000, iy is quppoatd nat one of them The hills have been maintained by our troops without a break Mard Forest, of Troyon and of Vailly, We responded to this ening a je police belle © letters may | dropped a cigarette, ¢ ec intained by without ; Points on its opening jump and then have been written by some demented that } apt I hich they fire with energy.” three points more to 68, after opel c ne ready help that came from a Attempts of the French to recapture trenches which they lost at 4 ert Hila back to 63 again, = NORTHWARD aiaeas ‘saiteinsdiipacmmanig. dozen neighboring towns and villages la } ‘ite Morte fa The number of prison has been ine a= THE TRADING WAS IN BIG| {s all that saved Suffern from vanish- rue a | LATEST OFFICIAL BRITISH REPORT. ‘ Lots. Tropical Hurricane Races In From ing in flame, The burned block is 200 | ed LONDON, Sept. 29.—The following, dated last night, has be Trading was in big lots, Thousand a : by 100 feet, ‘The principal loners are: | “In Flanders two British aeroplanes were shot down, The ’ rable oy SR Bn, has been re share orders were tossed about the| Gulf, Blowing Fifty Miles an SUED FOR $7,599,090 J, Bloom, F. J, Waanor, news ccupants were made prisoners,” ceived from Field Marshal Sir John French: . 3 : occupants were é@ prisor floor as though they did not involve | Hour—Wires Down, awe papers ans eh beds 78 ioieh b Ai iv fierce British attack f reainn ae 4 a ere fighting has continued to-day around Loos and to 4 aanate ira, confectionery; Moses Samuels, ce tack egion of Loos broke { vast sums of m: in broker f+) ey = ee copes Lencral wR vie rica mre eee the north of that place. We now hold all the ground north of ‘ fices the little players o2 the game NEW 1» Bepk, AT jReceiver Dickinson of Railroad) ewehy; dowii with losse i eieay> . we grew reckless and raised their orders | runner of the West Indian hurricane] Biles Action | Cent Store; Richborn Bros.’ grocery | ipepeatediand alubborn French altacks in’ th F | ill No. 70, which the enemy retook on the 26th. Y yveeping northward over sout ies Actioy Supreme ed 04 » Quin- epeated a ubbor rench attack ne region o 7 = « from tena into hundreds of shares. was sweeping northward over south es Action in Supreme and the dry goods store 6f the Quin- | : t aR De neh R ; “We have made further progress to the south of Loos and h ‘War stocks were the only insues| eastern Louisiana early tosday, The Court Here lan siste | Souct and Neuville were partly repulsed by strong counter. f | that counted, Following the two] Weather Bureau issued a warning| Jeaders were Crucible Steel, Westing- |{hat its centre would probably pass] J drich | between New Orleans and Atchafa- | Chi Joseph J. Ryan, a son of Thomas F, attacks lb M, Dickinson, receiver of the} Ryan; Otis H. Cutler, E of the} et ‘1 | u Champagne also all attemp’ tt emy to break api another gun The total number of guns captured by s is now twenty-one, There are several more between us and , 4 16 ok Ishand racithe erican Brake Shoe ». ' ‘ house, Pressed Steel Car, go, Rock Island and Pacifte| Americar i xe enemy which have been abandoned by them, Rubber, Republic tron & laya Bay, eighty miles hwest of Railroad Company, to-day brought! H. MeConnell, A. 1 Henderson and wre ti unsuccesstul, The only result has been the ene ¢ be L Great Northern Ore, all f here, and that the ga Probably|auit in the Bupreme Court here toj other prominent men carne, own in * enemy et been driven out of our trenche Our number of prisoners now exceeds 3,000, the plungers who boosted their pr would reach hu base ALDNL DN crash HUAN Wa Oia RAL Lae tea. Benuita 1 hin oat norih f ; ; r acdiiance oft “The number of machine guns captured is forty. Many t ni tides prev wind in New the Chicago, Hor land and Pa. | ¥ yo Ad nie O08 gain northwest of Souain, extending o ince x ’ up from ane to: A¥e pointe onch ane Ble an hoe fhe ilway Comp m [burned off his bac | } t ‘ ; | more have been destroyed by our bombardment. the first hour, and 9.22 0 1 alleged to haved here genrpas-emprer-pengel i} metre | ‘i Z ee ioe 4 avaanit i Ono after another war stocks were ALSTON All) been unlawfully diverted | ana, tia Wa ag Conslanlly, advarielie: waves of Brench attacking troop | The enemy's lines taken by us are exceptionally strong. : , or exhibition fights and! Wire communica belweon Galvex ds of the railway comy 63 Vark Kom, N.Y Hey. SRN URE IE § ¢ BACKING: MOODS hey consist c vuble front * which inc 4 trotted ant for cenlbltion ilgita 90s re ee Read lake BTN be ae taland ok at tice ai Satie tint Set broke down before the inflexible resistance of Baden battalions, hey consist of a A uble front line, which in Tuded two large iB then allowed to iy back, off, There is no indication, however,| Railroad Company in connection with hecks and money orders for sale, va Khineland Reserve Regiment No. 68 and Westphalian Infantry works named by him the Hohenzollern and Kaiser Wilhelm ree ransactions involving stuck of! ead % J that the tropical storm raging inj loan the * i remobiies for hire. |. N@ontinued on Fourth Page.) Louisiana will reach thie city, ieee ise, © on Regiment No. 158, ‘risco” lines. » .. doubis, These consisted of a network of tranches and bomb- 1 ‘ SE, JE soe ~— os a ad