The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1915, Page 1

——— a HOME ee BIOE ONE CENT. Police Seek Th _ Cie Circulation Rooks ("Circulation Books Open to All"\ Au. oy ‘Sew Fork World The Frese Potsiebing IS REPORT mits Order Compelling Fur- nishing of Up-to-Date Lamps ®ULLIFIED REDUCTION. Bays Old Style Globes Sup- plied Now Consume Much More Power. Public Service Commissioner Hay- Ward, after conducting hearings since June 1 bearing upon alleged discrim- ; nations in the fixing of electric light kk Edjson Company aed-the United rie Light and Power Company of requiring customers to buy lamps Gr pay extra for lamp service, thus Prading the reduction of price from 0 cents to 8 cents per kilowatt hoar, hes submitted to the Commission two orders for its approval, The orders @re directed against the two com- panies and provide, in brief: That the compa after Jan. 1, 1916, shall supply to customers for general and domestic use tungsten or more efficient lamps | ef not more than twenty-candis power instead of the Gem lamps now pushed by the electric light peeple, which consume much more power and therefore cost the consumer more than the tungsten lamps. That the companies shall can- | eel all standard contract riders | by which owners of property are | ebligated to refrain from estab- Hshing or buying power from pri- | vate plants, or buying power | from any other than the Edison ‘for the United Company. That standard contract riders | by which landlords, in considera- tion of using the power of one or the other company exclusively, | @re granted a rebate amounting (+ practically to free light while the feompany reads the meters of the tenants, shall be cancelled. That discriminatory contracts ander which owners of adjoining buildings, or buildings within 100 deot of each other, under certain Btated conditions, receive sub- Aoasnsea! on Sixth Page.) The Meaning of Things! res mean nothing in themselves. One must know what they represent before their significance can learned. fake the figures 967,448. As they stand they may mean plus minus, miles or cents. But how different when the story ts o 5 told: 967,448 te Want-Filling Advertisements aiak Printed During the Last 9 Months in 503, Now York, Halt as Many YOU HAVE MON OULD MEAN A WHOLE LOT TO THE PERSON SEEKING PUBLICITY OR DESIRING TO FIND THE BEST pssiBL POSITION, WORKER, INVESTMENT, BARGAIN, &C., R TMi. SHORTEST POSSIBLE TIME] The Only ertisemeute "7 re eS } tariffs and the practice of the New) A STORY THAT BILLS FOR ELECTRIG LIGHTS RAED BY OLD STYLE LAMP T0 P. S, BOARD Commissloner Hays Hayward Sub-|BLEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL THREATENED WITH DEATH BY SCHOOLBOY ONLY 14. MARY LACHOW SK) EUGENIA’S PAWNED GEMS SENT MOTHER TO COURT Was Informed That She Couldn't Have Al Davis Ar rested. The visit to the West Side Court which Mrs, Edward Kelly made late yesterday aternon was to obtain froin Assistant District Attorney Bleer in- formation on a point of criminal law. Why Mrs. Kelly did not go to her lawyer, John F. McIntyre, for the in- formation, she did not tell the young assistant prosecutor. It seems that Mrs. Kelly recently discovered that her iehter, whom she is trying to cure of an Infatua- tion for Al Davis, the dancer, had pawned some jewelry. Mrs. Kelly was told that Eugenia was lable to prosecution for pawning the jewels, because, while the mother had really given the gems to her, the girl was still under age and therefore not the real possessor. told her,” said Mr. Bleir to-day, “that a gift was a gift and that her daughter had a legal right to pawn It or to dispose of it in any way she saw fit. Mrs, Kelly also asked me what could be done with this Al Davis who, she said, kept Eugenia out until 4 o'clock in the morning. Ireplied that so long as the young |woman was over elghteen years old the Court cauld not inte ZEPPELIN RAIDERS START $5,099,000 FIRE Report in Berlin Is That Bomb Narrowly Missed Great London Arsenal. By Carl W, Ackerman, BERLIN (via Sayville Oct. 14 (United Press) Zeppelin raid on England started a fire near the biggest London ars al and $5,000,000 worth of property was burned, an American traveller from London told me to-day He said that with each succeeding raid bombs fell nearer the arsenal, and during the last one they missed it by only 100 yards, Naturally I was unable to verity ‘these statements, but my informant is known in the United States as re- liable, wireless), The last big BOY THREATENS TO MURDER GIRL IF He Directs Her Father to a Vacant Lot Where Money Is to Be Deposited, | *|\CAUGHT BY THE POLICE. His First Black Hand Letter, Written in July, De- manded Only $500. Louis Grodner, the fourteen-year- old schoolboy, of No. 2107 Mapes Ave- nue, the Bronx, who threatened the family of Dr. Jacob Lachowskt of No. 1458 Washington Avenue that he would kill their eleven-year-old daughter, Mary, unless money were paid him, it is believed did not act alone..in his, blackhand plot, but to have been under the others. While the boy is held at the rooms of the Children's Society for arraign- ment to-morrow in the Children’s Court on a charge of juvenile delin- influence of quency, detectives are searching for hia accomplices, The boy told the police that he wrote the threatening letters, and that he wanted $1,000 to buy a Boy Scout's uniform and other things for himself, Grodner knew the Lachowski household, as the physician had treat- ed members of his family. The first threatening letter was sent by the boy on July 14, It was printed to dis- guise handwriting and read: “It you don’t put $500 in Crotona Park in the Indian Lake House we will kidnap your daughter, Put it there July 1 This was signed “Black Hand” and bore the customary skull and cross- bones. The Lachowskis were much fright- ened by this letter, The police were notified and watched the park for days without result, Mrs, Lachowski took Mary and her brother out of the clty and did not return untill Septem- ber, Then every care was taken to guard the girl, Whenever she went to or from school her mother either accompanied her or followed a short distance behind, A second letter arrived on Oct. 11 This read: “This is your last warning, If you don’t put $1,000 under a stone in a va- cant lot on Mapes Avenue, between One Hundred and Hightleth and One Hundred and Pighty-first Streets, we will Kill your daughter, Put it there Wednesday at 5 o'clock, I will watch. This is your last warning, I want no monkey business, Don't notify the polics The signature and skull were ap pended as before, The police were notified and Detec- tives Degilio and Batto prepared a roll of stage money for the doctor and hid in an office overlooking the lot while he placed it, Dr, Lachowskt lost his way getting to the lot and had to ask @ small bov for directions, It hap pened that Grodner was the boy After the money was placed the de- tectives saw the boy the lot, throw a stone with apparent careless ness toward the one under which he enter had seen the doctor place the roll, and then, as he stooped for it again, take the money, They ran out of hiding and caught him in the vestibule of a nelghboring house, Grodner's mother told the police that he had been going about with a much older boy who, some months ago, had taken him on a pleasure trip to Philadelphia, The police are look- ing for this boy, NOT GIVEN $1,000, — ae YORK, THURSDA FIVE ARE DEAD, TWO WOUNDED IN NIGHT OF MURDER ictims Include Two Women —Most Dangerous Killer at Large. FEW CLUES FOR POLICE. Hundreds Hunt Drink Crazed Man Who Stabbed Ho:- pital Orderly. Detectives under Capt. Gildea of the Second Branch Detective Bureau are searching for Joseph William Nicholson, sixty-five years old, a peddler of grease removing com- pound, who is wanted for the murder of John Cavanaugh, an attendant in Polyclinic Hospital. Nicholson, who te married and has. been living at No. 815 West Thirty- eighth Street, was taken into the hos- pital last evening suffering from al- coholism and a cut over the head caused by a fall. Cavanaugh attend- ed him. Through an oversight the patient was not searched. After a physician had dressed his wound he was left alone in a room. The man wandered was annoying a maid when Cava- naugh seized him. Brought down- stairs again he drew a knife and stabbed the orderly in the left side. As Cavanaugh fell dying, Nicholson leaped out of @ rear window, Mrs. Cavanaugh, who lives acre from the hospital, saw him wipe the blood stained knife and ran over to give a warning that something had hap- pened, She was not told of her hus- band’s death, ios WOMAN FOUND SLAIN IN STATEN ISLAND HOME; POLICE HAVE NO CLUE. upstairs and In her cottage at No, 1093 Old Stone Road, Bull's Head, Staten Island, Miss Marion Hart, twenty-nine years old, was found beaten to death last evening. Julia Watson, a neighbor, discovered the body. Unable to open the door when she made a late call, she forced a window and entered She found Miss Hart's body lying in bed on the second floor with the left +| side of the face and skull crushed In ‘The slayer evidently had used an axe covered with burlap. A policeman summoned by Miss Watson was examining the rooms in the cottage when Calvin Decker, who boarded with Miss Hart, entered, He expressed surprise and grief over tho death of Miss Hart. — MURDERER OF WIFE SHOOTS HIMSELF AS POLICE BATTER DOOR. After killing his wife Henry Apker, forty-five, walted till the police were battering at the door, then blew out his brains in the kitchen of bis home, No. 2191 Bighth Avenue, last uighl, Incidentally he had shot his stepson, Herbert Webber, twelve years old, in the left side, but it was said to-day the boy would recover, Apker lived on the ground floor and worked in a Columbus Avenue liquor house, He went homo last night, and, according to the boy, his wife de- manded rent money it was alleged he had collected from a tenant of the house, where she was Janitress, “You want that money right now, eh?” he shouted, “Well, here tt t»— take it!" He fired two shots, one hitting her (Continued on Sixth Page.) Y, OCTOBER 14, 1915. FRENCH BOMBARD FOR 20 HO THEN RUSH GERMAN LINES IN Phomers prebeble to-night Friday party clewtye § / Ho™E Sd I" Circulation Rooks Open to au"\ Society Belle Who Will Marry Kentuckian at St, Bartholomew’s ‘ if] ate KATH SBine Ss. The wedding of Miss Katharine 8, Sands, daughter of Dr, and Mra, Robert A. Sands, to John M. Thatcher, son of Thomas M. Thatcher of Somer- set, Ky,, will take place on November SANDS Phote by A-DUPONT. 17 in St. Bartholomew's Chapel. Only relatives and a few intimate friends will witness the ceremony, which will be followed by a small reception at the home of the bride's parents, No, 101 Hast Thirty-ninth Street. WAR SPOILS ROMANCE OF BULGARIAN PRINGE Had a Love Affair ‘With Eldest Daughter of the Caar, Boris (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) 30. SOFIA, Sept, “The announce- ment that Prince Boris, the Crown Prince of Bulgaria, will be Com mander in Chief of the Bulgarian army recalls the love affair between him and the Russian Emperor's eldest daughter, the Princess Olga, Prince Boris 1s only twenty-one years old and is the eldest of four children by King Ferdinand’s first wife, the Princess Mar Loulse of Parma, While King Ferdinand re: mains a Roman Catholic Prince Boris is a Greek Catholic, The Prince's conversion, which took place at the early age of two yoars, waa a condi- tion demanded by Russia in return for Russian recogniton of Ferdinand as King, BICYCLIST SPY IS SAVED. Well Kalser Pardons Doerfinger, Known Here an i RERNE, Oct. 4. —T edoral thorittes have been Informed that K Wilhelm has pardoned the Swiss bley clist, CG. A. Doerflinger, who was con demned to death as a spy, re au Doerflinger, a resident of Basle, charged with haying o! information damaging ermany, He was said to have entered into the ar was ained military rangement with a representative of one of the bell nations while tray ling in Alsi nd Baden for & busin house. § ridden in many big ra in New Yor: — mae 17 GERMAN STEAMERS OVERDUE IN BALTIC Only Ten of 27 Which Sailed for Stockholm Have Arrived—Did British Sink Them? YHAG cor ¥, Oct. 4 ty-seven German ore steamers due at Stockholm only ten had arrived to- day, It had destroye: AIRSHIP SHOT DOWN BY THE TURKISH GUNS Incident Indicates New Activities in the Direction of the Suez Ot twen- was feared 1th British submarines others, Canal. BERLIN, Oct. 14 (by wireless to Sayville).-An official communication from Constantinople says the Turks have shot down an alreraft east of El Arish, Tho aviators were cap- tured, Fl Arish is on the Sinal Peninsula, about 100 miles east of Port Said and 40 miles west of the Arabian border Its on the Mediterranean. It was in this region that the Turks, sey- eral months ago, made thelr unsuc- cessful advance in the attempt to reach the Suez Canal, Of recent months there have been no reports of multary activity in this vicinity: PAGES GREAT BATTLE TRENCH FIGHTING AT LIHONS: GAS BOMBS IN CHAMPAGNE Paris and Berlin rific Engagements at Many Points { With Trenches Lost and Regained and Terrible Losses on Both Sides. SERBS HOLD UP SWEEP OF THE TEUTON ALLIES OFFICIAL FRENCH REPORT. PARIS, Oct. 14.—Following is the text of the report given out to-day by the French War Office: “In the Artois district the artillery fighting continued last night, Both sides taking part. ‘This fire was particularly violent to’the northwest of Hill No. 140, between Souchez and Givenchy, The fighting from trench to trench with bombs and torpedoes has continued with great activity : in the region of Lihons. “In the Champagne district the enemy has directed a fire with asphyxiating bombs against our rear lines. To this our batteries every- where made reply. “A German attack in the forest to the west of Tahure has - checked by our fire. “There has been an almost continuous cannonading in the Corrs district, In the vicinity of Reillon and Leintrey.’* Firing Heats Guns So They Can’t Be Touched With Bare Hands LONDON, Oct. 14.—Violent artillery engagements and hand-to-hand fight- ing with bombs and torpedoes in the trenches throughout the Artois region last night are reported by Paris and Berlin, Berlin reports that the fighting on Monday and since in the districts around Loon and Souches was partic- ularly bitter. An Intense bombardt- men of twenty hours preceded the French attack, which began on Mon- day morning. It was directed against the hill near Vimy, as well ae against the German positions further north, between Loos and Givenchy. The particular object of the French onslaught was the elevation to the west of Vimy, which commands the flat land of Bins, The artillery bate tle was of such Intensity that the suns could not be touched with the bare hands, The French, according to Berlin, Serbs Claim Recapture Of Town From Teutons NIBH, Servia (via Athens and Lon- | ing to an oficial statement issued om don), Oct. 14,—The Serbians are still holding thelr enemies at bay, accord- MARTIAL LAW AT THE HAGUE. Proclamation Affects the Trades Which Furnish Army Supplt THE HAGUE, Oct. 14 (via London) Martial law in @ specified and partial form waa proclaimed here to-day, The | proclamation affects the vartous trades which furnish supplies for the army. aa = ls HOUSE IS WILSON’S GUEST. President's Political Adviser in Washington on Visit, WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Col House, President Wilson's close sonal friend and political advise rived at the White House to-day for a visit with the President, _ PRICE ONE CENT. +| repulse of the invaders in part com- it 7 = TT oe AT HILL 140; ecm ~ Both Report Ter- Denetrated the German trenches in only one small section, where the de- fenders and their guns had been buried by the French artillery fire. Bavarian troops threw out the French, using knives and hand gre- nades, The losses of the French ase described by Berlin as very severe, ‘i A message of the Dailyy Telegragh a: from Rotterdam declares a terrific bat- tle {8 going on from the coast of AB ras, and that for the past two days big guns have roared continually in Flanders, Further to the south am other great battle is reported, According to this message the fixte of the Germans in Belgium and pep- haps Northern France hangs on these fights, Thetr whole line is declared to bee ni ered by the successes of x petween Ypre and Arras pondent declares that in Be! hundreds of trains are being et army. | readiness In caso of @ retreat of the day, North of Pojarevatz two attacks on tho Serbian ne were repulsed with Breat loss Sunday night, it was stated, and the recapture was claimed of @ village the enemy hed taken in the Smerevo district. Two night at- tacks on the Serbians in the town and fortress of Smerevo were sald to have been heavily repulsed, The statement included detaile of how the Serbians’ charged, specially masked, through a sea of asphyziat- ing gas near Zabrez Sunday, with the pletely across the Save River, This force, it was said, made a fresh at- tack later, but was again beaten back to its trenches, losing a number of prisoners, PY LONDON, Oct, 14,—The Germans and Austrians continue to report @ieady progress on Serbia. territory,