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URI RT ETRE RTT ene Pe ee {“Cirontation Books oO en to All. | Coprriant, 1915, by The Press pypaewe NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER ‘o, (The New York Work Weather—Rain and warmer to-night; Saturday clearing. orld, FINAL J Circulation Books Open to All. | 1915. 24 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. — | WOOD VOTED $1,500,000 CONTRACT — TO FIRM OF JOHNSON, HIS ACCUSER BERLIN EXPECTS AUSTR SUBWAY CONTRACT CIVEN TO CHANGE DEFIANT TONE | BY WOOD'S VOTETOFRMOF. = Letters to Betrothed Girls, and the Galt Home. “Sal Told h to Get C Was Necessary for Maintenance; — ” i Jo eS be: tracts,” Testifies Lawyer for Com= of Dignity, and That Next One! é ere ; Will Be More Compliant pany Which Dismissed Salesman ca ia After Alleged Bribe Demand. FINAL "PRICE ONE CENT. 17, Woman Doctor Landing at Naples After Rescue From Liner Ancona ‘WOMAN “POSON” ‘WILSON WEDDING. NOTE WRITER HELD GUESTS GATHER INS8,000 BAIL FOR CEREMONY amuels of Goshen Con- IN COURT IN MOURNIN ; Hearing Monday, but U. S. At-| Honeymoon of President Not torney Hints She May Be | Expected to Be Marred by WEDDING CAKE ARRIVE BERLIN (via Amsterdam), Dec. 17.—Berlin does not expect any diplo- tic break between Austria and the United States esult of Austria's | Sent to Bellevue. War Complications. | - Rillzesi to; forabay promptly with Aiweri¢an| Gamands in ber reply’ to the ee eee ol CHARGES AGAINST WOOD § © Ai ote. — ™ EM css ie willing to make important concessions to prevent such a) Miss Therest Samuels, a brunette of WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—All ar- | PRESENTED TO GRAND JURY. break, according to information received here. Another exchange of notes ractive appearance, twenty-five|rangements are complete for the | Probably will clear the whole situation lyears old, s arraigned before| wedding of President Wilson and | + y | Soon after the presentation to the Grand Jury to-da: charges ‘ The position taken by the Austrian? |V'nited States Commissioner Houghton | Mrs, Norman Galt to-morrow night, | sual Ls p se poe A y y of > eke | Foreign Office in its reply not only |this afternoon and held in $8,000 bail! and most of the guests have arrived accusing Public Service Commissioner Robert C. Wood with having i is heartily ar roved here, but is pelt Ip MINED for a hearing next Monday on alin Washingion, Mrs. Francis B. | solicited a bribe for the Centre Street loop signal contfact revelations | Be totiet otis jotarge: Of mending Improper letters} Bayre, Bresident Wilson's ceughtes came before the Thompson Legislative Committee that involved. Weed Pay | pected to take. It was sald by offi-| | rea from Willlams- GREIL ARRIVING. &T NAPLES jthrough the mails, cl da that t have complied ‘ iM maak with the Liesrlo " pod gi TORPEDOED cording to Port Office Inspectors | town, 3 and Mrs, Anne Howe of NT NEWS SAR still further, ee 2 at once would have cost Ausiri6 ‘iteh and Duryea, Miss Samuels ac- | Ph the sident’s sister ~ —$—$——_—_——— It was brought out that Sidney G. Johnson, from whom the five eae ee ene : edged to them yesterday In her/and Mra, Anne Cochran, his nie WAR HAS COST EUROPE | nousand dollar bribe fs alleged to have been solicited, had been instru- Eeeneee Gown (popular deniinoiayen) at N that she was expected at the White House | ; ; upon the Austrian Governn See : sepa eee cian i Sr Brac tikedig. Gi Hake mental in getting the Fourth Avenue tunnel signal contract from the “Austria having — maintained RDG AUIOR OF ERSBEN | MSHGER REDE 28 Chon ee ee heor nels te ne ane | $38, 800,000,00 000, 000 $0 FAR| . s her position in a dignified manner OMce oMicials during the) Gult’s relatives who will witness the | Pub lic Service Commnission for the General Railway Signal Company, he her reply, can now araceflly | ' ane? Lee om eh La Conenroay’art:jers, ac : ine French Deput | which hired him after he was dismissed by the Union Switch and Signal yield to America in a subsequen' | ayenpool. Netw ' * | been received by young womer ¢ Report to-day had fixed pretty ibot So Informs Frenc¢ eputies note,” said one German official. Levenpool, Which Sailed From] jarrianes or engagements had been definitely on 820 P. M. as the hour hey Vot Company, “To have bowed down to Washing: New York, Beached to Pree [#7 momnege,in,the newspapers. | lof the wedding, which will be held | re tea ——— > 8, 0, Levitison of Chicago, comet ton in the reply it has just de- #) 2G OEUEN Te- Miss Samuels told the inspectors) at the home of the bride-to-be | Creilit for the Union Company, swore on the livered would have raised a storm va ‘- R Pay ees she planned with a § rend, four} phe marr license was sent to- | a es stand that President William W. Sal- en ava: There ts vent Her From Sinking. | joars ago, to send letters to persons| aay to the Rev. Herbert Beott #mith PARIS, Dec, 16.—The Chamber, by a Ba 2 F ged “whieh ea t vote of S04 to 1, voted the credits mon of the General Railway Signat ’ every reason for believing that just marr or engas nich | redior of ft. Margarets Episcopal i ie Bee 4 the Austro-American controversy ROTTERDAM, Dee, 17.—T Bel would tease them The plan Was! enureh, who will perform the cere i ! or earth first _wemes- Company told him he had hired John- will be solved just as the trouble jo a ie Fada *{not carried out at the tine, but tWol mony, ‘The wedding ring, a narrow |Many eee and Heavy Dam-|'*" aN ; nee #on to get contracts, Wood cast ¢he over the Lusitania was settled” =) £10" relief ship Levenpool, from New) veary ago she had an irresistible Im-!circiet of wold, initialed “W, W, to 5s Vet aes muse fica itad onmatiene decisive vote in the Fourth Avenue ‘The Vienna press, apparently ut the] ‘Crk. Has mined or torpedord.| yuise to carry it ot, and ald 80/12, 1, G., was nestling in the Presi ave at Different Places fiona took wb ssoondany piace We ald ’ Tunnel contract, ‘The contract was suggestion of the Government, Is re-| |” ¥ oetogs Heel Of sinking and) gy cted the names from the so-| dent's watsteoat pocket s Her GENK ERG WAR WIA. Teak woven for $1,414,404 fraining from sounding deflance in) WAS Mached on Hucking Flats on the | cig Jumns ofa New You naw wedding cake, shiped from St in Path of Storm ior SOON: Bad ew ye sae an | ee razed wee the Siete editorials on the Ancona affair, TL EITAA eke | paper |p Minn., ia here. [t ia heart min tho conrad of the discussion Dep u re pe committee this afte _ tee eee “aaee vi hekbigars ‘ i, A letter would be addressed to the d, iced with orchids, nee ial fut Roche said war al bs a eae Fah tue years sttaeee a= yere to-day, reported that she : : : ; ‘or the Union Switch and Signat ‘s ob of her spite, warning the|blossoms and Mlies-of-the-valley. aa, Dec, 17 elye | rewuly cost France 26,000,000,000 WILSON AND ay passed the Levenpool near Kentish-| 000") othe man sho was about | Ther ice iitti Cupid mon DIAN, Mi i Dee, 11.—Twelv |ts 0,000,000) tee ane | Company of Swissvale, Pa. ‘AK. S' My ock, ves sr tees ihe cite ay : ‘J are reporte imore 0,000 frances ($9,400,000, - | thay tae vas : TAKE UP THE AUST. mek aw, oftlonra of the Nyroea|t® marty, or had just married, was|wedding beilx with miniature red] than a hundred, hu whole | 00 ‘hn a whol General Railway Signal Com-| @ Were you present at the meeting NOTE, DELIVERED TO-DAY sath Ware tesael oot ue Ha ny oc" | the lawful husband of the writer and| streamers, ‘Tho cako ix six inches! sown of Cullum laxpend : of the Union Switch Company’on July pees a Hoandidn aan a REN ARN AMF) the father of twins, In twenty let-| thick and twenty inche diameter. | nado early to-day $35,800, pany Got It After It Was 15, 19147 A. Yeu, WASHINGTON, Déc. 17.—Austria’s | viii eee jtors the form varied little. Included} It was baked by Mrs. Marion Co Gs garicnawete Wad aed wane ti : . Mr. Levinsgn named thee, preseat, reply to the Ancona n was | ‘The Levenpool sailed from New|! the letters were scurrilities of an| Hist assisted by her husband and! nust here, Property damage at Me ‘RAILROAD SLAUGHTER | Once Given Out, Including Col. Prout, Presideht W. D. ceived at the State Department dur-} York on Nov. 24 with 6,600 tons of| imtensity characteristic, according to} Miss Pansy Bowen of St. I’ Con-} ridian w Warde At Gties.| Uptegrate and Sidney G. Jonneem, fng the night. It was decoded to-|jard and bacon for relief work in Bel-| P8¥chologists, of a cultured mind) gressman Van Dyke was assured* of | yy wy 1 Novuss was: Blown | LIKE TRENCH WARFARE! —Ss | “The question came up," ho said, “as day and placed before President Wil-| gium, destined for Rotterdam, which had been attacked by dixease.| its acceptance by tha President Ate Ags wnien ware Killed | ihe ¢ offered tor the] 1 the payment proposed by Col. son and Secretary Lansing. + No members of the Kolief Com-| Miss Samuels was pve tn matic} C. M. Reed of Rall | pwo pec on are sald to be] | signal syatem in the Fourth Avenue! qrout a one oY Mr. Johnson to A dispatch from Ambassador I mission were on board. Sbe carriea|!" Sending the letters, The impulse) way Malls went Word finjured in Lauderdale and in Kem- | 1 ; | : ; |Commisstoner Wood for securing for field, evidently delayed in transmis-| only her regular crew. | to harrow tho feelings of women who | ahead to all mail clerks to “handle it] Len County Fotal of Accidents 1 November | subwa were as ollows us the Centre Street loop contract.” sion, was received just ahead of the Because she was flying o Com-| *ere unknown to h except a8| with care” and to seo that its passage | ae 5,046, With 22 Dead: Increase | Feder ul Signal Co , Q Becuring the contract or using note. It said the reply had been mission's flag, officials. expressed | "mes cane at trremul intervals. | was expedited Union teh and ul Co his Influenc A. Well, be was to get livered to him by the Vienna doubt to-day thet ste was tor The recent death of her mother at} White House attendants were busy 16 BURNED T0 DEATH Over Last Ye Railway Signal Co us the contract vere vce Wedneaduy at noon aud | and felt trae want, the was torpedoed) stone Sinal Hospital In this city 1s| packing travelling bags and at Mra. | by Seen Sink unt Sena? i gery “The question atoen’-Mr, Laviaaan that he had immediately forwarded It) hap {t was due to striking a mine, | P¢eved to have increased her mor-| Gult's home florists began decorating, | IN TRIPLE TRAIN WRECK ; 78 * r tract w t given to the |continued, "on Mr, Uptegraff's refusal to Washington, i evanneal wan tulle A ‘ bidness, | There was no rehearsal to-day of the oe pears g 2 ; . pacar 1 Company the bids jte ign a check for $5,000 for Mr. The translators finished decodir ) side banners, deck bar nee ghd Assistant United States District At-| ceremony. Messengers arrived at the | Reaches ae aie Ot ore. rt ae & request of |Wood. At the request of Col. Prout : Taha Gs : ey wel) aide Danners, deck banners and | romney McDonald told Commissioner | Galt house ¢ g the da an 4 : none AE ( Jood, who sal es-|and Mr. Jo! the note while the Cabinet was in scx-| signal boards, indic.ting to belliger-| (crue? MePonald Ad Somoresian: n| Galt house during the day with oU-) rin. Other Persons Injured and anode * Role & min r Wood, who watd tn tes-/and Mr q mason ibe matter was gion, and a State Department 1 t Vessols that she was a relief ahip,| eousnton be would movo to have) m nts * : ; | trmony ) subsequently, that he|brought up before the board. The % State Departine es- ssels tha was a relle es r icant t xa n “ . t. The Senger took St to tho White House,| officers of the Commission sala when| ie Samuels went to Bellevue for monn plana of Prenids everal Missing When Cars Are Jaid no at the suggestion of T, H. Wil-|tme was past, They had promised It atvence was sent in to Secretary] the United Press bulletin was read|?Pservation if anybody could show | Wilaba are:not tobe upact by ‘tntere ad 2 \ ms, President of the B, R. 7, Mr,{to pay the money and they wanted bags i to ahem. 3a addition ae laigs him anything in her conduct or bear-| national events, The honeymoon iy} Burned on Railway in England. Ut) Nex that the Genera! [to make thelr word good, ana (came “secretary Lansing said after the| full ghting system, ilu: i ing which indicated she was unbal-| not likely to be postponed or short-| xp WweASTLE, England. Dec. 1t— ¢ 1 1 device was the | did i want to lose’ the contract” Cabinet meeting that ho did not| these banners at night and making |°"°*! Miss Samuels, who was|ened because of the situation with] sisteun porsons are known ius : . 2 ator Thompson) Are gpu know when the official text of tho | !t practically out of the question that|(ressed in heavy mourning for lier) Austria, it was learne 1 to-day, Ith icen Killed, more th fitiy injured mt revived bid the General ting was called at the hote would be given out for publica-| He identity might be mistaken, mother, raised her vell only at the| will be spent not far away and the Hdl peer : . sipany BROMAhY. tial faurke (downto tof Mr. Uptegra? A. Well; tion and that it certainly would not | ee insistence of the Commissione | President will be in close touch with fay between a No-|$2.414,194 This was still $117,494)Col, Prout and Mr, Johnson were tn- be made public until he had an op (ZEPPELIN BLOWN UP Bail was furnished by her brother,| the White House tary of State pL‘engini and’ a: tisdaneeh| Kove the Federal company's bid, [1] ating on the payment and Mr. Up- portunity to study it carefully and| Sigismund Samuels of Goshen, Isaac| Lansing will be able to visit thelirain in a heavy fou near - Rid cae fam Estar BAA Commissioner | tegraff swore he would not sign any at length. ‘ ON THE WAY T0 YPR Levy of O'Gorman, Battle & Vander-| President if decisive action regard-| pour coaches overturned, caught fire Dl Wood cast the deciding vote ch check as that. The helnousness Diplomatic relations, although jp ES veer appeared for Ing Austria becomes necessary, That] ang were destroyed. _ of paying a bribe did not seem to danger of being broken off, are not| — | “They will not w those letters | this will not become necessary within| Sixteen corpses, so badly charred as ‘8° FREE TO BAN “VIRTUE” FILM, impress them. The thing they urged | Likely to be discontinued before there | . . to my brother, will they?” was the! a fortnight, Insuring the President at|to make identification 1 linpos bw : was that they must be allowed to Eee beah aactbe? exchange of notes (EUS Crew Reported to Have} young woman's only remark to a re-| least that much su © trom official | WP pave. yeaa ts mothe hel yee rg RE ee 1ake good their word, inasmuch as with Vienna and so the crisis may Been Lost With Great porter after the hear Her voice | cares, was helleved | At near ey had promised to pay the: Saeey ie Gaia ook to be in lis final stage!” ene: | was calm and soft The lst of wedding guests num-|e¢ a id nind telling you that we Atotiab note setting out: why thel Air Raider bo formal complainant against! bers about thirty, confined mostly to| fl ( | directors talked it over the day be- United States cannot accept Austr AMST AM. D =D ,.| Mrs, Samuels is the bride of Agsist-| the Immediate famplly of the Presi-| ir : BIG ITALIAN LINER rt Live fore and eed that if they insisted reply will go forward before tt tu-| : rman % r lin Ne ant District Attorney Claudo dent and Mrs. Galt, Of the Presi-| py in mont » deal Ww : n going through with the bribe ia ip Ll Mie on 1G + oppet: bate he | ! ‘ ay open t y t r | ¥ Thompson, who received one of t — — we'd put them ou The issue Was There are hints of informal nego i 8 fl n ba w wa 1) twenty letters #0 far reported; in the (Continued on 6 Second Page.) STEAMSHIPS D DUE TO-DAY. Y U ARI ' : ie ‘ fs n-cut, We had waowa about it y travellera arriving here Map AMEMHHS aAteT ane Garcon? Pune: See for some weeks, The proposgl tiations walch might smooth out the! pees | Inter rig HA ae , Geoutina’ gituation. The trequsnt| she ; over aye {Mut her name should be used $12 Men’s 0° coats & Suits, $5.95 Minnehaha, London SAIN) Gonnon, D SA flare ; | wns to bribe a public oMelal, and we uy? . gdp Was passing over tt > THE "HUB" Clothing Corner, Broud- | Advance, Cristobal QAM nce an} ' did not desxcond much to details, Cal, call ft 1 Zweidinek my 1 | Porto: Bald has % ; alls ©. taron Aweidinelk, — the joutskirts of Namur headed for Ypros| Neo Mid ht Christmas Ma Baruicor winrey 908 eVgclwortn Guantanamo: Puerta Mexico 410A Me [oe orto Sa has de k utd AN F fl Prout and Johnaon pleaded ames Avatrian sharge at the Bint De! warts} with cargo of bomt ‘ dnight Christinas mags 1000 Men's. Sult Mane | Zulia, San Juan 11A4.M, | 0 tt uy, but we had a meeting that lasted ment, give color to discussion along |trayellers said, What esused the a ated in any Roman ¢ lack thibet, grays, Napl 1 \ V 1 practfeally all day that line, and those who expect that{eldent Is unknown wong Island, dark inixed worsted ¢ Europa, a 1A.M re Said w a by ich” Mban’ aR any: PRPS, at the end the differe will be Three peasants, working in nearby —— Worth $12 in a Oh store Our ——_ s tt Ma 4“ v of GC 7 eles” Di Ou 1 ¥ nver any plea the a n J oO Yr owe WOU ul ye u he wean’ | Court explain i wo be Se aiusied, am on Sn of |Germany in an effort keep the news | 7g ay scr Fut Glovers Broadway, cor. Bards igs Bel i wan built in 1684 und displaced 6,803! contrary ie public’ morale. to (urthor [sw that he had promised the monoy , AYES & ron trom becoming public, -- Bid ats they ase $2) and’ $25 elserriace,. Y, City, Talaohooe eekmnss 4000. Adrk, {OL8, _. bestraln Commissioner Bell, ang be wanted to pay tt Col. Prout