The evening world. Newspaper, October 1, 1915, Page 1

OFFICIAL GERMAN AND FRENCH REPORTS OF. FINAL = PRICE ONE CEXT =... NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER BERLIN CLAIMS DEFEAT OF 84.000 FRENCH — 1, Circulation F¥Circatation Books Open to All.” 22 PAGES BATTLE Wha me a Rete to-might, Ostuntey prebebty clearing, - a IN THE GREAT BATTLE IN CHAMPAGNE ENORMOUS SALE OF STOCKS SWAMPS BROKERS, BUT CALL TO CLOSE “CHANGE 15 REFUSED —_——_ 1;500,000 Shares Dealt in as KUHN, LOEB & 60. WILL Plungers Keep Up Their Wild Speculation. MILLIONS POURING IN. Request to Close "Change To- Morrow Voted Down by a Large Majority. ®peculation on the New York Stock Mxchange to-day exceeded the records for the past week's orgy of gambiing. Transactions during the morning hours were at the rate of almost a £,000,000-share full day. They fell off fa the afternoon to a total of 1,600,000 shares for the day. Bo great was the rush of business that the odd-lot houses and several Wire houses approached the Board of Governors with an informal sug- @stion to close the Exchange on Sat- “urday, which is only a two-hour day, @0 that they might have an oppor- tunity of catching up with their office business. All the weck brokerage houses have been working their forces day and night and the mon are near- ly used up. It was reported that sev- eral clerks collapsed to-day and bad to be taken to hospitals, The governors, however, declined to consitter the proposition. It was too short notice, they said, but if the rush continued they would be agreeable to & suggestion to shut down next week Saturday. The overworked brokers are themselves to blame for not hay- ing sufficient clerks, so some of the governors thought, because they had allowed thelr organizations to disperse (Continued on Second Page.) NOT HELP FLOAT LOAN Jacob Schiff Says Firm Will Not Participate, as Russia May Benefit. The banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. will not help to Moat the §500,- 000,000 credit loan to Great Britain and France because it has been un- able to obtain assurances that Russia will not be benefitted thereby. Jacob H. Schiff, senior member of the firm, #0 asserted to-day in the first formal statemept ho has josued on the subject, Mr. Schiff's statement says: “With differing sympathies on the part of, the indivitival members of our firm we decided at the outbreak of the war to refrain from financing public loans for any of the govern- ments of the belligerent nations, "Concerning the present Anglo- French loan we have felt that as American bankers we should assist in what we believe will result in pro- moting the interest of the country’s commerce and industries, but it not having been found practicable to give ony actual assurances that the Gov- ernment of Russia—against whose inhumanity the members of our firm have ever raised their voices—is not to derive benefit from the funds thut are to be raised through the Anglo- French loan, I have felt constrained to advise my firm to refrain fror becoming participants in the loan." ——_ Italy Has New Minteter of Marine. ROME, Oct. 1.—Admiral Corsi has been appointed Minister of Marine in the Italian Cabinet, succeeding Vice Admiral Viale, whose resignation was tendered several days ago, it was of- ficlaily announced to-day, The new Marine Minister was received by King Victor Emmanuel at the Isonzo front yesterday. Remarkable Advertising: Lead ing the Last Nine Months There Were Printed 967,448 SEPARATE WORLD ADVERTISEMENTS 503,978 MORE THAN THE HERALD e AND THE WORLD IS GROWING! 132,807 SEPARATE WORLD ADS. LAST MONTH 20,627 MORE THAN CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR! THE CIRCULATION OF THE WORLD IN NEW YORK CITY, BOTH MORNINGS AND SUNDAYS, EXCEEDS THAT OF THE HERALD, TIMES AND TRIBUNE ADDED TOGETHER? Advertisers Follow Results !, ——$ | MARRIED AT SEA 'BY PROXY: HUSBAND | SOOMILES AY Mrs. tress, Now Mrs. Harrigan, Wife. Sara Rose®Once an Ac-} a Banker's RESORTS TO STRATAGEM Gets Around Venezuelan Law Providing for a Long Pre- Nuptial Residence, [her Few brides have surmounted the obstacles which confronted Mra, Sara Rose by proxy now Mrs. Harris Har- rigan, who, according to a message received by her friend, Mra. W, P. Winston, of No. 15 East One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Street, the Bronx, ts now travelling the last leg of her bridal journey to Caracas, Venezuela, Mra. Rose, with her four- year-old duughter Dorothy, sailed from Montague Street, Brooklyn, Sept. 22 on the steamship Philadel- hia of the Red D Line, and although long-distance bridegroom was nearly 1,900 miles away, she became Mra. Harris !arrigan of Venezuela after the Philadelphia had passed the three-mile limit. The ceremony was performed in the Captain's cabin and Don Juan Paris, a wealthy plantation owner at Maracaibo and friend of Mr. Harrigan, who was on board, acted for the far-off bridegroom. This unusual ceremony was the re sult of a friendship of two years be- tween Mrs, Sara Rose, a pretty widow, and Herris Harrigan, now manager of the Commercial Bank of Spanish Amerika and a leading figure in the banking and business life of Caracas, The couple inet at a re- ception in the home of Mrs. Winston, back in the early part of 1913, Harrt- gan was then connected with a New York banking house, The friendship ripened, and a year ago when Mr, Harrigan sailed to take up tmportant duties in the bank at Caracas the couple announced thetr engagement, A few months ago, being successful in his new business, Mr. Harrigan cabled the cheering message which caused Mrs, Rose to prepare a trous- seau, But soon thereafter came a note of alarm, Friends of the bridegroom to be had called his attention to a law existing in Caracas which mado It necessary for a brido to be to reside there for at least thirty days before the ceremony was performed, No such delay was contemplated by either of the principals, At first the proxy bride's parents decided to have her sister, Bessie, ac- company Mrs, Rose and the daughter and stay with them until the Cara- cas law would permit the wedding, But before this had been settled Mrs. H, C, Baron, the bride's mother, held @ family meeting at their b . 7 West Tremont Avenue, Then it was decided to have a marriage by to overcome this by having the cere- mony performed when passed the Chree-mile lied the open sea, firsthand information ty avail- tu how the ceremony was per- but Mre. Winston says a wlan Jawyer friend of Don put the legal touches to the ony, while Dow Juan Paris the #8 , Who is now only old, was formerly }an actress, having pl Y with, De Woift Hop Joe Welsh and. Lew She was married when a widow A Ifred Barc y a leading vat thuberts, but is now. connec the Trust Company of America, and eft proxy at the bride's homo. A new! obstacle balked this arrangement. | Would the United States Government consent to such an t the family asked, Would come in the procedure it was decided | | Ora | BANKER'S PROXY BRIDE WED THROUGH FRIEND ON VESSEL AT SBA, +treee tooseseoosooores SECST He Fee OOT EE TE PETE deOde OP OOT EE S2e0oseors: dhtatntatatatnlitatitetataad SISTER OF CHARITY LED RUSSIANS TO VICTORY With All Officers of Regiment Killed, She Rallied the Men and Then Fell Mortally Wounded. PETROGRAD, Oct. 1 (via London) —A Russian Sister of Charity, Mira Ivanovna, was on the field of battle during a severe engagement on Sept 22, Heedleas of the entreaties of the officers near her, including brother, who is @ regimental surgeon, that she leave the fleld, she continued to care for the wounded : mid @ hail of rifle and machine gun fire. The comma and all the other officers of the Tenth Company of her regiment were Killed in the action Realizing that the position was a critical one, she rallied the survivors of the company and with them charged the German line, drove tt back and captured a German trench. At the moment of victory she fell, mortally wounded Riess Sn EARTHQUAKE GIVES FRISCO A SHAKE Other Pacitic Coast Cities on Fifty- Mile Streich to South Also Feel the Shock. SAN FRA 10, Oct, LA slight earth shock was felt in Ban Jose and other bay cities and San Jose, fifty miles south of here, about 7.80 A. M. The shock was of about three nds in duration, No damage was reported, —— NEW G. A. R. COMMANDER. Capt, Eling RK, Montfort of Cineta- natt Elected to OMee. SHINTON, Oct..1—Capt, Elias R. Montfort of Cincihnatl to-day de feated Col. Frank 0, Cole of Jersey Jelty and William J. Patterson of Pittsburgh for the Com mander-in-Chlet of rm jeorge M. Slay baug mn D. Cy wus elected Senior View Com: mander -_ LAUREL WINNERS, 1 Pci nae $12 MEN’S FALL SUITS, $5.95. Clothing Ce a THE way, cor Bullding, will "HUB" wher, Hroad= oolworth day, ts, aprclal price Open Saty nt and ‘Satur $s, ght ull 10. The n ed with | rub athileray Broudway, cor, Barclay at, her | ‘| THE GERMANS ASSERT pagne failed, Following Is the text of day. Our counter-attack north and north of Neuville failed. at Vauquois. citizens, DRIVE ONLY BEGUN, | SAYS KING GEORGE, Congratulates ‘Poincare on Sticcess “at Outset of Our Common Offensive.” PARIS, Oct. 1.—A personal tele- gram of congratulations from King George to President Poincare and | Gen, Joffre to-day removed any doubt that the present onslaughts of the allies do not constitute the beginning of a great drive, The British monarch sent warm congratulations on the successes won by the French troops “at the outset of our coinmon offensive.” Monarch similar message, recalling the victor lea won by Gen, French and the} British, ——— OUTNUMBERED 6 TOT Oct. 1 (via London) nen) Gaxette declares that rinans on the western front opposed by forces between four | five times as strong as their own, "G hine guns and can. hon” suys this newspaper, “mowet down tho enemy, but dosp: mount ot bodies the Frei umns continued to provided Wt to ten di ted on nburg and Belgium » offensive on this front din a completo de President Poincare replied with al , All expe B, boot G. the report: Monitors of the enemy bombarded the environs of Lom- baertzyde and Middlekerke (Belgium), without result. The British did not attempt to make a fresh drive yester- of Loos made further progress in spite of the enemy's flerce resistance. A few prisoners, two machine guns and one mine thrower fell into our hands. Attempts of the French to gain ground east of Souchez In Champagne the enemy under- took an attack with strong forces east of Auberive, but failed. All French attacks in the region northwest of Massiges, in which detachments of troops belonging to seven different divisions participated, were equally unsuccessful. The number of prison- ers taken thus far during the attacks in Champagne has been in- creased to 104 officers and 7,019 men. Successful mine explosions damaged the French positions French aviators dropped bombs on Henin-Lietard (Pas-de- Calais, sixteen miles southeast of Bethune), killing eight French We suffered no losses. 96,000 RUSSIANS TAKEN PRISONERS IN MONTHS FIGHT {Germans Claim More Successes and Prince Leopold in East. by Von Hindenburg BERLIN, Oct. 1 (Vin London) —- man War Office announced that during September there aptured on the Russian front bout 96,000 men, thirty-seven can non and 298 machine guna. The official statement adda: “During the battles east of Miad zilol and on the front between Smorgon and Wischnew Russian at- tacks broke down with heavy Meld Marshal Hindenburg’s urmy group took 1,360 prisoners yes loanes. von | terday, “Army group The enemy r tacks. All his advances were repulsed and six officers, 494 men and six ma- chine guns fell into our hands, * “Army group of Field Marshal von Mackensen: situation need, Army group of G gen: Our att of Prince Taapala The un fy auto te r £5 and Bae gio Gn ty ola A MORE GAINS IN ARTOIS SECTION, OFFICIALLY REPORTED IN PARIS ALL ONSLAUGHTS REPULSED; GROUND TAKEN, SAYS BERLIN >|German Report Declares That the British Were Pressed Farther Back at Loos—Coast Towns Bombarded. OFFICIAL GERMAN REPORT. BERLIN (By telegraph to Tuckerton; N. J.), Oct. 1.—The Brit- > | ish have ceased their attacks and the Germans have made further progress 3 north of Loos, the War Office announced to-day. All French attacks east of Souchez, north of Neuville and in Cham- IContradictory Claims Ma Claims Made by Parte > | and Berlin as to Results of the Fighting on Both Ends of Battle Lines in France. GERMAN LOSS OF 150,000 THE LATEST ESTIMATE In sharp contrast with the Parts offich report to-day, Berlin claims that all attacks were effectively checked, Paris claims a definite check coca i i Ca te tt part in an attack which failed northeast of Masdges.:” "malls doe the statement that seven French 7 The German report indicates a battle three enilés eatt @f Matson de i | offegts this with 84,000 men—took Champagne, the point mentioned by the French, The French report says two German attacks In the Artois region Against this Berlin declares the French were defeated “east of Souchez and north of Neuville.” Paris reports: Progress southeast of Neuville in hand grenade fighting. In the French report it is stated that the German artillery opened an attack north of the Aisne. Paris makes no mention of this, nor of fighting in the Argonne, where the Germans say French works were destroyed, The Germans claim that the French prisoners taken In Champagne now number more than seven thousand, . No official report has come from London since Tuesday night, but Berlin again claims to-day that the British have been pressed further back north of Loos, Berlin algo reports a bombardment of Lombaertzyde and Middlekerke by British monitors. German Counter Attacks Fail, Says the French War Office OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. PARIS, Oct. 1.—In the great battle in the Artois district the French have made further progress by means of attacks with hand grenades on German trenches, was the announcement to-day by the War Office. In Champagne a German counter attack near Maisons de Cham pagne was checked. The Germans violently bombarded French trenches near Soupir, north of the Aisne, but made no Infantry attack. This move is probably intended to ease the pressure In the Artols and Cham- pagne districts, Following is the text of the War Office report: “In the Artois district we have made progress by the use of hand grenades in the trenches and underground passages to the east and to the southeast of Neuville, “Two German counter attacks have been delivered—one against a fort which we conquered yesterday in the forest of Givenchy, the other against the trenches to the south of Hill 119, where French troops had installed themselves, Each one | of these attacks was conclusively repulsed, “To the north of the Aisne, near Soupir, the enemy can- ducted a violent demonstration against our trenches, The fir ing of their artillery and their infantry was not followed by an j infantry attack. ] “In the Champagne district our fire put 2 definite check to a German counter attack in the vicinity of Maison de Cham- pagne, “The number of prisoners made yesterday evening during our advance to the north of Massiges is 280, including six. offi- cers,” 1,000,000 British in France; 500,000 More Troops Going LONDON, Oct, 1.—The British troops now in France are estimated were repulsed, < | ‘Teroteae Jal 1,000,000 men, These will be increased by $00,000, Dally lengthen- in ceillciaciosnadicinemneastotcae