The evening world. Newspaper, November 24, 1915, Page 1

FANSL Che (“Circatati Books Open to au.” + PRICE ONE CENT. Oovrriant, 19: Press Pal (he Now Work World « WEATHER—Fair To-night and Thursday, . FANSL NEW YORK, | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, (1915. 4 PA —————— GES PRICE ONE Caae. BIG ARMY IN BALKANS FROM GALLIPOLI; WAR PLAN CHANGED TO APPEASE SHE WAS KISSED BURR DISMISSED BY MAYOR WHILE HE PRESSED ACTION > AGAINST CENTRAL TRACKS, Conduct of Case “Not Pleas- fe ing” to Mitchel, Declares D Frank L. Polk. (BURR ATTACKS MAYOR. Denial by Mr. Polk That He | Approved the Amsterdam- * Brooklyn Electric Deal. Mayor Mitchel was accused before the Thompson Legisiative Committee Qo-day of dismissing Assistant Corpor- tion Counsel William P. Burr be- Cause of his activities in trying to get New York Central tracks out of Blev- entb Avenue and of doing nothing for more than two years to remedy the PPenth Avenue” situation ‘The sensational development came finexpectedly when former Corpora- Bion Counsel Polk, now Counsellor to the State Department, testifying In Feference to certain Public Service Commission proceedings, was asked hy Mr. Burr, who had long been in Pharge of franchise cases, had been Bsked to resign, After denying that Politics had anything to do with the Matter or that the case in question fas involved, Mr, Poik said that it Pras the result of a policy determined fapon by Mayor Mitchel, in connection mith the Franchise Bureau, of which Mr. Burr was tn charge, “It involved the New York Central Ratiroad,” he suddenly volunteered @fter fencing for some time, “The Bleventh Avenue tracks were in- ved, That was the case in which yor Mitchel was interested.” “Did Mr. Burr represent the city in Phat case?” 1 “Yes.” , “Was the Mayor dissatisfiefid ir, Burr?” 4 ten” } “Did he give his reasons?’ “I don't recall.” Mr. Burr, woh was present at the aring, blazed with anger, and when turn came on the witness stand fiercely attacked the Mayor, ac- Qusing him of favoring the New fork Central Ratiroad in the con- roversy. “Now, I am glad to know why the Mayor removed me," he exclaimed. This is one of the proudest moments of my life, because the work which @ia not please the Mayor was the pest I ever did in ali the years of my @ervice to the city, I shall always with } (Continued on Seventh Page.) rs EVENING WORLD WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED TO-MORROW (THANKSGIVING DAY) FIREMEN HURT HGHTING TO SAVE PEOPLE IN HOUSE Fast-Spreading Flames Near Hospital in 59th Street Places Many in Danger. Fire in an old brownstone front five- story building at No, 116 East Fitty- ninth Street, between Park and Lex- ington Avenues, this afternoon, spread so rapidly that Battalion Chief Gra- ham, who arrived with the first en- gine, ordered a second alarm and in- structed the police to turn in calls for all the ambulances available, Six ambulances responded to the call. There was rescue, Willtam Bassler, who is employed as a clerk in a store at No. 122 East Fifty-ninth Street, heard some one crying for help one in the burning house. He entered No, 118 and went through to the rear and found a man at a window on the third floor, Bassler got a stepladder and climbed to the fire escape in the rear, Ho secured a board and sisted the man down. ‘The basement of the building was occupied by L, Lichter, a tatlor, the first floor by L. Goldstein, a tailor,and furrier, All the employees of these concerns were out to lunch when the fire started. ‘The old Orthopedic Hospital and Dispensary with seventy patients is two doors away from the scene of the fire. The patients in this institution were made ready for prompt removal. Mrs, Mary Murphy, a paralytic, liv- as- | ing on the second floor, was rescued by persons who entered the building before the firemen arrived, ‘The fire was brought quickly under control when the engines arrived, While the firemen, under the direo- tion of Chief Kenlon and Deputy Chief Hayes were swarming through the building in the height of the fire ten dropped from the fourth to the third floor because of the collapse of a hallway gallery. All sustained cuts and bruises, but none was incapaci- tated. ‘The only person asleep in the house when the fire started was Aristo- phanes Kominis, who had a room on the third floor, He found himself hemmed in. William Baessler, a clerk in @ store at No, 122 East Pitty-ninth Street, entered the house at No. 118, stretched an ironing board across from a fire escape landing to the win- dow of Kominis's room and guided him to safety, A Mrs, Abmeyer who lived in the house escaped over the roof to No. 118 When the fire was out Lieut groping about in the basement, saw something floating in the water. He grabbed for the object and picked up @ live turkey with its feet ted to- wether. The turkey revived under a drying out process and was awaiting @ claimant late this afternoon. Mojo, The firemen who were treated by Dr. Levy of Flower Hospital were Vincenzo Maggio of Engine Compa No, 8 Lieut, Clotus J, Nelson of & gine Company No, 39, Firemer tam Prush of Engine ¢ Thomas Meehan of Engine Company No. 8, and Lieut, Gustay Moje of 8 eas Company No, 4, | WONT LET BABY — WHITLOCK RETURNS: and | DIE HERE DESPITE WISH OF PARENTS Father, Mother and Grand- mother Try to Stop Oper- ation to Save Life. BUT SURGEON INSISTS.| | Hospital Doctors Make Every Effort to Prolong Life of Deformed Infant. ‘The case of Baby Bollinger, out in Chicago, in which Dr, Harry J. Hai- selden and the mother permitted the Infant to die because it was de- formed, t# being reversed in New York to-day. In the Babies’ Hospital, No, 136 East Fifty-fitth Street, hopelessly de- formed for life, is @ baby girl, born jlast evening. The parents of the lit- |tle one, Mr. and Mra. Joseph EB. Rob- jerts of No, 159 East Seventy-second Street, and the grandmother, Mra. Margaret Branely, insist that #ho be | permitted to die. But they have been overruled by Dr. Maurice Rosenberg |of No, 1887 Seventh Avenue, a spe- |clalist in obstetrics who was called |in on the case soon after the birth of the infant last evening. Officials of |the hospital, in a statement Issued to-day, also let it be known that every effort would be made to pro- long the life of Baby Roberts. The infant was born last evening in the Roberts home, Soon after the child came Into the world Dr. Jultus Goldsmith, the attending physician, discovered the deformities and sum- moned Dr. Rosenberg, He found that the baby was paralyzed below the waist, had club feet, stiff joints of the knee and that its spine was open near the base, The brain apparently was normal, “We must have an immediate oper- ation,” said Dr, Rosenberg, and he had the infant hurried to the Babies’ Hospital. Meantime Roberts ex- plained the case to his wife, Both knew of the case of Baby Bollinger. They insisted that their child, too, should be permitted to pass away rather than live hopelessly deformed. Roberts hurried down to the hos- pital. Dr, Rosenberg was there ready to operate, The father told him it should not be done, Then Mrs. Branely, too, went to the institution and insisted it would be best to follow the precedent in the Bollinger case, Dr, Rosenberg pleaded, but thefather and grandmother were determined in their purpose, Under the cireum- stances he decided not to perform an operation at that (ime, but to have Dr, L. Emmett Holt of No. 14 West Fifty-fifth Street, examine the in- fant. | After a trip to the hospital to-day however, Dr. Rosonberg decided to do everything in his power to save the infant as long as tho case ts in his hands, The hospital authorities decided on similar course, They issued tho following statement this morning “The case in question is not an un common form of deformity, some of which are favorable for operation. It these cases it is performed, Others are unfavorable where the risks of operation are great and the hope of any improvement or the saving of life {s negligible. Tho child will be kept here under observation. When Dr, Rosenberg was told of| the hospital state | "t wanted to baby's lite, but permit It, They | mother SHOWS STRAIN OF LABOR IN BELGIUM Minister Refuses to Talk of Any Phase of His Diplo- matic Work. WIFE IS Will Go to Washington, See Mother and Then Return to Post in Brussels. WITH HIM. Brand Whitlock, the American Min- ister to Belgium, returned to this country to-day on the Holland-Amer- ica steamship Ryndam. At first glance at him it was evident in the gravity of his expression, in the lines of his face and in the low tones of his voice, that the strain to whieh he had been subjected in war-torn Belgium had drawn heavily upon his vitality. Any idea that Mr. Whitlock re- turned to his own country for the reason that he was persona non grata with the Germans he set aside by saying that he intended returning to his post before the end of the year, sailing from New York for Rotter- dam on Dec, 28, He declined with marked but quiet forcefulness to say a word about af- fairs in Belgium, his own work there or any of the events with which he had been associated. He would say no word at all upon the case of Edith Cavell, the English nurse executed by the Germans, All that he would say of himself was that he felt much better and was rapidly recovering from the nervous breakdown in the fall. But while he talked he showed, in the nervous manner in which he kept his cane flipping from hand to hand, that ho | was still under considerable strain. No sooner did the newspaper me who went down the bay {n the re enue cutter to meet him, reach his side than he put an arm about the two who stood nearest him and said “Now, I want you boys to do me a great favor, I want you not to ask me any questions about Belgium, “After Thanksgiving 1 shall xo Washington to report my arrival iu the country and make the customary statement of a returning Minister. After that I am going to Toledo, but I shall stop at Cleveland on the way to see my mother, When the revenue cutter went down the bay to meet the Ryndam it car- rled a delegation of three representing the civic organizations of Toledo sent on to meet Mr, Whitlock: When tho delegation and the cam-| era men were aboard and tho I dam was on her way up, Dudley Field Malone, Collector of the Port, ap- peared alongside in his motor launch utrality, | It was noticeabl Mr. Whillock's exp’ he seemed to have grown so mu thinner than when he was last he in this country, He wore 4 browr flat-rin ed soft hat, a black fur- lined overco. . ad spate, | Mrs. Whitlock wore a blue suit wit . purple turban and red fox furs. The | latter just matched “Micka," the Pekinese she carried In the crook of| her arm, Tho dog, by t , was | chiefly in the taking pletures, ———EE SAILING TO-DAY. Algonquin, Turks Isle Morro Castle, Havana 3 P.M, w serious wa ssion and how ep way the motion > the World Travel Gureau, Ana 1 m relspuoue | BRAND WHITLOCK AND WIFE WHO ARRIVED HERE TO-DAY FROM BELGIUM. Gaaaceoasoonee SAYS CARNEBE NOW HAS ONLY A MODEST FORTUNE Dr. Pritchett Claims Most of His $400,000,000 Has Been Placed for Public Benefit. PITTSHURGH, Nov. %4 AAtreesing the students of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a large number of invited guests at the celebration here to-day of Andrew Carnegie’s eightieth birthday anniversary, Dr, Henry D. Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation for teaching, sald “The most noteworthy thing about Mr, Carnogie's preaching of the doc- trine of consecration of wealth is the fact that his practice has squared | with his preaching. of his accumulations, nearly $400,000,- the advancement of The great bulk | ¢xamination, gay? BYRICHPALN-LAW,, SAYS EXPONY” Mrs. Herrmann Declares Os- culation Put Approval on Her Marriage. HE SEEKS TO ANNUL Chorus Friend of Mrs. Belmont Thinks Three Highballs Are Enough. Did James 8. Herrmann, a dignified middle-aged millionaire, ever kiss his ninoteen-year-old daughter-in-law, Dorothy Gates Herman, who married his son Phillip, aged eighteen, to save him from @ suicide’s grave? Tossing her ermine covered head and shaking her blond curls, Dutoh- cropped at the neck, Mra, Herrman awore on the witness stand to-day, | that her! before Justice Gavegan, father-in-law did kiss her, showed, she thought, his son's runaway marriage to her, Mra, Herrmann appeared tn court to defend the annulment suit brought against her by Mr. and Mrs. James Herrmann on the ground that their @on was under age when the mar- riage was contracted, Justice Gave- | gan had to wait half an hour for the appearance of Mrs, Herrmann, and | when the young wife rushed into court with Mra, Raymond Belmont, with whom she lives at No, 245 West Fifty-fifth Street, she was rushed to the witness stand. Two days before Christmas, last yoar, Vhilip and Dorothy were mar- ried by an Alderman and for several months they kept their marriage a secrot, Philip staying at his wife's apartment each evening and then hur- rying to his parental domicile at No, 238 West Seventh-first Street. It was not until an insurance solicitor called at the Herrmann home to talk about policy on the son that the parents learned of the elopment. Mr. Herr- mann was angry and pleaded with his daughter-in-law to agree to an nullment When Mrs, Hermann was asked if she was a chorus girl, ahe waxed in dignant and explained she was not, but prided herself on being a “pony.” “Show girls," she said on direct which tall and I'm a pony, and ponies are he approved of} “are five feet six inches J OFFRE PLEDGE TO DRIVE BULGARS ~ AND TEUTONS FROM SERBIA EGRAPHED BY ASQUITH \Four More Transports Arrive at | Salonica as the British Premier Announces That the Allies Are Preparing a Surprise in Balkans. |BOTH RUSSIA AND ITALY ARE SENDING BIG ARMIES | PARIS, Nov. 24.—Gen. Joffre’s recent visit to London changed the entire plan of the operations in the near east, according to the military authorities here. He insisted on practically abandoning the effort to take Constantinople by way of the Dardanelles, and also that Britain should | send évery man now at the Dardanelles to Serbia and should reinforee them with every man she could spare from her camps in England. Reports from Athens say that Great Britain and France are prepar- Ing for important new efforts in the Balkans, The correspondent at Salonica of the Havas Agency says more transports heavily loaded with troops have arrived in port.” The Salonica correspondent of the Petit Journal says he has learned from a member of the Serbian Government that Premier Asquith of Great Britain sent a telegram on Monday to the Serbian Government giving |firm assurance that Great Britain and France will carry through the expedition. “1 ean assure you," Mr. Asquith is quoted as having said, “France and England are preparing sur- prises in the Balkans. You will hortly have corroboration there- of.” The recent “grand offensive” of the British in Gallipoli peninsula it is declared, was not an offensive at all, but a diversion to cover Four 3 Gen. Bailloud’a French forces around Koustorina, Serbla, Gen, Batlloud has been commanding the French treops in the Dardanelles since Gen. Gouraud was wounded there in July. No previous mention had been made of his presence in the Balkans, Joffre Is suid to have told the Brit- ish War Council that the Battle of the embarkation of @ major por= Joos had no practical effect what- tion of the British troops, who lover, ‘The results, he said, were not have been rushed to the Balkan theatre of war. ‘This statement 1s made by military officials here and given added woight by the offictal French state- ment which tells of the operations of commensurate with the and ammunition. ‘The stalemate in the west, he added, could not be broken, and the only hope was to make a great effort in the Balkans. The French Generalissimo won his t, It fs asserted, and was allowed » hand, with the result that the Hritish troops were withdrawn from Gallipolt to Salonica, where they are now being landed, In addition 80,000 men were sent out from England and evey Im-| available man from France, #0 | that the areat war may yet be forght out in tie Balkan: cost in life a fr ‘PRAISE FOR GERARD IN HOUSE OF COMMONS Efforts Have proved Condition of British Ambassador's 00, bas been turned back by him to| bard to get.* | = Ger Most he public to be used in the cause of| Mr* Herrmann was asked if she Prisoners in Germany military men bel eve the Balkan human betterment. He is to-day a| smoked cigarettes and drank, LONDON, Nov. repiying to a] Semeatan, sennet be. on. lame nan of moderate fortune, Thin fact| “Oh, yeu, I smoke cigarettes and) yuewtion on the reported sifferinss Aaa ews ba Weed one in: Franee s the first astounding accomplishment | drink highbails,” the witness said h orinansin {a Geena, ar and Russie: Bus that 1S. Wie ae ) which the historian will point when| “How many highballa?” if al alle {arolt one of the most sanguinary in Jue comus to estimate Mr. Carnegie’s| “Never more than thr t know! seca sl mi ie feta the whole war. etre Just how many to take. I know what SS AEE Rnciae’ lak enuitlene aioe Noy, 24.—Ttallan ang —s of Commons to-day that conditions| other axe on: thalr wanda tian some men have never learned—to| arity war camps 1D | Baikar ahd y u \SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN PM le a p war camps in| Balkane in great numbers, ‘The Tale ee ne cnianaae any a pent of th An troops are sald to have been land- , I . ed several days d COST WOMEN $87 131 was very much in love with me. He exans | 91 SETSt ae MibsbiN ae ’ begged me at least sixty times ne Borltr — to aid Serbs, Thseate af — marry him, and one time [ left New| \ir. ‘Tenna Bu le invanian’ oe Albania, mom ALBANY, Nov. 24.—The unauocess- | York to get my mind off of him, but) wi sto wnt Wee" |ctug Italy's bold in the Adrlatie, tol effort at. the #ecent election tol 2” foilowen O Thon Raally © told d : mea hee GAiase ain for women the to vot,,| 188 he could not live without me and Koved Sacecdea pote message tron: Berlin, vik Maka New York cost the Empire State| ‘eatenod to kill himaelf uniowm cra of war in this country , declares 4 semi-official news Suffrage Campaign Committee $87,181 = a) Boy Sra D BAYO) cy there asserts Russia has 350,000 rding to the expense statemen Just before we were married, how ‘SCHMIDT WILL DIE men ready for an invasion of Jal filed to-day with the y of/ever, Mr, Herrman, my fath saris f these $0,000 are at Real and ate. Receipts totalled $89,308. ‘The | law, called on me as my apartme nt IN WEEK OF JAN 10) 00 are at Ismuil, in Bessarabia, on ale ansociation oppored to suffrage | And warned ie not to marry hie son. the Danube, opposite Roumania. “Phe received contributions amounting to ar tia Lest ana ania he had on ther at Odessa. The Ber- |" 548 and spent $31,159, no objection to mé ag & daughter-in- nm 1ge says the men are splen- TO SACS TOABE OF Gh. ox Ganatitnuen | law, as he might have done just|Court of Appeals Sentences Former) didly equipped, It adds thas “in the he Conatitutio, at his son did when he was twenty specu Meee piiedinte Fusueo Daw avenin Aaa t 1 nated labilitles, e \ boil na xy {upon the Balkan front in the Ly Mi were ' \ told oe House of 1 » witne 1 N Mo—The Cou t mr yOOR Cos $5,000 oane ws 1 Sie Hareniatiy walled os | aged die. 6 eal been cou W. M or manded to know wha Ne rs 1 Al the land ’ n ‘ to do about marriay x | \ bt under one ne, $ Met Dod plained she would not Mt to wn] tro Hans Schmidt, the un r Nhedmer’a, aon. #2. Ch { annult expected an heir, | frocked. priest convicted of the mur-| ‘The Promier’a statement was tn pee b kefellor, 1. Mr tenivd the kissing | der Anus Aumuller in New York | ply to a question by Sir George Beott ST = in wv Robertson, and Thomas Y. Ryan, 61,000, spedent ‘biti wis. Robi { SS Se ee ee er oor j ' sid i Tea CG RTS