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f * , & Fifth Avenue curio dealer, wore arrésted last night charged ‘with @ plot to biow up the Welland Canal to prevent the shipment of men and munitions to the allies, were arraigned before United States Com- missioner Houghton and held in $50,- 000 and 000 bail respectively. They ‘will be examined on Jan. 12, Bail for both was furnished by the American Surety Company. «As it in believed that the greater part of the confidential documents which Sebeind! abstracted from the vaults of the National City Bank are in the eafe of the Hamburg American Line at No, 4 Broadway, tho police an- nounced their intention to obtain an order to-day for the opening of the safe Scheindl’s arrest is the fourth in the latest round-up of German sccret agents in this country by the Federal thorities, aided by the New York police, At the Detective Bureau at Police Headquarters it was said to- day that there was certainty of other arrests within a few hours. In addition to the arrest of Schieindl detectives to-day made the discovery of documents in the office of Koenig which bore out in detail the story told by George Fuchs of No, 630 West One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Street of trips he had mado to the Welland Canal in Canada, which, it is alleged, the enemies of the Allies had deter- mined to wreck. The arrest of Schicind!, who ts twenty-seven years old and married, was made by Police Captain Tunney and Detectives Barnetz, Walsh and Bterrett. Both Schieindl and his wife took the arrest with the greatest cool- ness, Detective Barnetz, who made |fore Magistrate Nolan the latter asked Detective Barneta, maker of the short affidavit on which the defend- jant was held, what was behind tho arrest beyond the charge of purloin- ing papers from the ational City ondecker were Hed, “thoy indi had aupplie them with valuable confidential in |formation, including abstracts of the manifests of vessels carrying cargoes destined for the Allics. © ascer- tained that Scheind! had furnished them with the rnanifest of the At- jantic Transport liner Minnehali which sailed from here with a large consignment of magnetos and which took fire at sen on July 7 inet after An explosion aboard. We believe that many of the doc- uments supplied by Bcheind! are now }1n @ wafe at the offices of the Ham- burg-American Line at No. 46 Broad- way, and we are making application for the opening of that sate.” When Koenig and Lyondecker were arraigned bofore United States Com- missioner Houghton Assistant United States Attorney Roger B. Wood, rep- resonting the Government, explained to the Commissioner that the Federal Grand Jury was investigating the case against the two defendants and be asked for an adjournment until jJan. 12, which was granted for the two protested the ball demanded as exoen- sive, saying that they were ready to furnish $25,000 apiece, and that this was all the bail asked In the Fay “But wo regard this as of far more Importance than the Fay case,” re- plied Mr, Wood. “We want the full TEXT OF THE AUSTRIAN NOTE ~ DENIES BLAME FOR ANCONA (Continued From First Page.) Cabinet on this unustal path, since it by no means possesses authentic knowledge of all of the pertinent correspondence of the Government of the United States, nor is it of the opinion that such Knowledge might be suffi- cient for it In the present case, which, insofar as {t is informed, Is In es sential points of another nature than the case or cases to which the Gov- ernment of the United States seems to allude. “The Imperial Royal Government may therefore leave it to the Wash- ington Cabinet to formulate the particular points of law against whieh the commanding officer of the submarine ts alleged to have offended on the occasion of the sinking of the Ancona “The Government of the United Statos has also seen fit to refer attitude which the Berlin Cabinet assumed in the abovementioned spondence. the rere The Imperial and Royal Government finds in the muth es- was made, Should, however, the Government of the United States thereby have intended to express an opinion to the effect that a prejudice of what- ever nature existed for the Imperial and Royal Government with respect to the juridical consideration of the affair in question this Government must, in order to preclude possible misunderstandings, declare that as a matter of course it reserves to itself full freedom of maintaining its own teemed note no indication whatever of the intent with whieh this reference | _THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18 |TWO UNDER ARREST | IN PLOT TO BLOW UP ' THE WELLAND CANAL. Amount of bail asked “Here are countrios throats, Commissh said, “and we are best to be neutral, each other's ¢ Houghton ying our very Tho United Staten is spending large sums to prevent just such actions are charged here— preparing means for a military enter- prise against a country with which ‘we are not at war, Jency, the Ambassador of the respectful request to be good enough the actual arrest, went to tho Schieindl home at 6 o'clock this morning and took his prisoner to @ hotel in Har- Jom where Capt. Tunney was waiting, There Sohieind! was questioned searchingly. He admitted taking cer- tain documents from the files of the National City Bank, and when his pockets were searched there was found in them a cadlegram in dupli- cate to the bank from the Banque Belge Pour Etrangers. Ite message was ip relation to communicating with the Hudson Trust Company of New York concerning a shipment of 2,000,000 rifles, Sobloind! admitted that he had taken the cablegram from the bank yesterday. Under the inquiry of Capt. Tunney and his detectives Schleind! confessed that he was « German reservist and that when the war began he reported at the German Consulate in thie clty with other Germans. There he was told that he would be needed later. Last May be went to the Manbattan Hotel with another German, bo said, ‘and there was introduced to Paul When Koenig learned that he was tm the National City Bank, he sald, he ‘was told that he could be of the great- “It might be possible for these de- fendants to run away if they were under even $100,000 ball, I feel they should be put under sufficient bond to recompense the Government for its expenditures in matters of this sort and to put a stop to the activitt those who come over here to foment plots.” time avails himself of this opportunit: Austrian Report —— WASHINGTON CONSIDE CASE AGAINST KOENIG WASHINGTON, Dec As if in OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE | ayaweor to vie request of the Austrian — - Government for the proofs upon WASHINGTON, Dec, 18.—Juatica| which the United States demand in the Ancona cae, the following text of the Austrian Admiralty’s report on the sinking was given out by the State Department: “Oficial Austro-Hungarian Admir- alty reports foreign press spreads false reports about the sinking of the Ancona, which took place as fol- lows: The submarine fired one shot before the steamer’s prow, upon which the steamer fled full speed, according to the order of the Ttalian authori- department oMcialx to-day indicated that the evidence in the case of Paul Koenig and others arrested to-day in New York is perhaps the most im- portant which has come into the hands of the government concerning violations of neutrality. A succes- sion of telegrams to agents all through the enst were sent out from the department this morning. These telegrams are believed to deal with t el TSeepe will be taken to ave agents to those who had Germany's p Feo heart. It was explained to him whatthe could do, and Schlelnd said that since that time he has been cablegrams and other docu- from the records of hep bank gurning them ovér to Koenig. @ long time the police grilled and when at last he was taken to Police Headquarters to be locked up preparatory to arraign- ment in Centre Street Police Court, Capt, Tunney said that Schieindl, with ready access to the records of the bank, was in a position to learn much, about the sabipment of war supplies to the allies upon vessels ‘which later caught fire at sca. FEDERAL AUTHORITIES LONG AFTER KOENIG. As s00n as Schloindl was arrested the National City Bank was notified mod to-day the records will be checked to learn in detail just what meéetages and information Sghleind! secured. ‘Track of Schieind! was obtained by the police during their shadowing of Koenig, in checking up papers foun in the office of Koenig, Chief of Po- lee of the Hamburg-American Lino, and from information given by! \ George Fuchs, a distant relative of Koenig. For months the Federal authorities sought Information against Koenig. Of late they have been particularly in- terested in the Welland Cana! plot. Recently they received word that Koe- mig and Fuchs had had a disagree- ment. Detective Vincent Correll, whose mother and father are Germans, was assigned to “get next” to Fuchs, It was not until Jast Monday that he succeeded in doing this, and when he got information which reauited in the arrest of Koenig, Richard Emil Lyendecker, a dealer in curios at No, #47 Fifth Avenue; Frederick Metsler and Schieindl, When the police searched Koenig's offices they found written records of trips to the Welland Canal, with dates other data, just as Fuchs had stated, and other documentary corro- boration of the story he had related to the detectives. a MANIFEST OF MINNEHAHA, WHICH CAUGHT FIRE. When Scheindl was arraigned be- To Make a Hit Send = Seovly of keep under surveillance all of the al-| ties, which runs: ‘Flee or sink sub- logod German agents on the list] o'r taken from Koenig. Chief Bielaski, | &rine: i of the Bureau of Investigations, who] “Submarine pursued steamer an in understood to be directing the|/continued firing. Steamer stopped caso, was expected back in Washing-| ony when hit several times, Sub- feo te a J marine allowed forty-five minutos 1 to abandon steamer, where panic HEARSES OF SLAYER AND reigned, tut omy: smart number ot . boats lowered, and occupied priv- SLAIN PART NEAR GRAVE cipally by crew. Great number of boats, probably sufficient for saving Triple Funeral at House of Ex-Fire- legal views in the discussion of the case of the Ancona. “In having the honor to have recourse to the kindness of hin excel- inited States of America, with the most American Government, and on this occasion to state that the Imperial ahd Royal Government, in no less degree than the American Government and |—————— under all circumstances, most sincerely deplores the fate of the inno- cent victims of the incident in question distinguished consideration to his excellency the Ambasador. on Which U.S. Based Demands HCHAR to communicate the foregoing to the 5 & LEYENCEC KE ‘The undersigned at the same y to renew the expression of his most $9,000 BRIBE NOT PROMISED’ FOR WOOD, DECLARES PROUT (Continued from First Page.) “BURIAN.” on Ancona utes subinarine In presence of other approaching steamer, submerged and torpedoed Ancona, which sank after further forty-five minutes “If passengers lost life this was by crew's fault, because steamer tried to escape when she received order for stopping, and then the crew only saved themselves, not passengers. Foreign press reports that submarine fired on lifeboats is a mondactous in- fosing the Unton presidency and ree mained there until last October. He told of the long and expensive titiga- tion between the Union Switch and Signal Company and the Goneral Railway Signal Company over new patents on a system of controlling switches and signals with alternating vention. When ateamer stopped aub.|leetric currents. The Union won in marine ceased firing.” the United States District Court at The despatch of a second note was| Trenton, N. J.; then made a com- délerinined upon late yesterday after | PPOMIse, retal 7 per cent. of the President Wilson and his Cabinet had | U8iNess done under the patent and considered the official text of the|the General accepting 25 per cent. Austrian reply to the first American] Its share. ‘This agreement was communication, It was regarded as| made in October, 1910, and will eon. wholly unacceptable to the American | tinue until 1925, Baca emeituan, Chase. 62 Ane Col. Prout added one detall which Austro-Hungarian Embassy, con. |thfows @ strong light on tho bitter- ferred with Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, to-day and soon afterward had a conference with Secretary Lansing. ‘The Charge was understood to have received more in- structions from his Government. The veracity of at least one of the Ameri- ness between the Union and the Gen- eral companies, The agreement in- cludes the provision that either com- pany doing more than its agreed share of business must pay a penalty man Schaeffer, who Shot His Family. 2 000 WATERS GO OUT IN LOWER MANHATTAN: PLAN BG HOTEL STAKE Ask 60-Hour Week and Stan- dardization of Pay and Work of Both Sexes. Some two hundred persons stood in the rain this morning In Forty-second Street, Corona, and watched the triple funeral resulting from the act of Frederick Schaeffer, a pensioned city freman, who killed himself after killing his mother-in-law and his daughter Anna, ‘They sew the funeral hearses go different ways. That which contained the body of Schaeffer went to Luth- eran Cemetery followed by a single coach, In the latter rode Paul and Elizabeth Schaeffer of Union Course, brother and sister of the dead man. Behind the white hearse which car- ried the body of little Anna and the black one which contained the body of her grandmother, Mrs, Annie Bray, beveral curriages trailed, and the casket of the child was hidden by floral pieces. Grandmother and child id in the same grave at St ‘s Cometery, Astoria. There w o nervices In the house, both conducted by Rev, Arthur G. Roberts of Grace Church, Corona, Mrs. Sobaeffer, wife of the suicide, ls in St. John’s Hospital at Hunters Point suffering trom three bull wounds inflicted by her husband, — ERIE RAILROAD CASHIER HELD FOR THEFT OF $4,000 Jersey City Alleged. Poolroom Keeper Also Arrested After Rob- bery of Christmas Fund. Charged with si Two thousand walters employed tn restaurants in the section south of Fourteenth Street and east of Lafay- ette Street, in Manhattan, walked out on a atrike at 12.30 o'clock to-day ‘This number includes about 66 per cent. of union men employed in that district, 35 per cent. of the employers having already signed a now agree- ment, which calls for a sixty-hour week and a 10 per cent. increase In wages, The agreement was sent to 600 employers Monday from the headquarters of the Walters’ Union, at No, 12 St, Mark's Place. According to William Sacks, of No who264 Grand Street, one of the em- ployers who refused to sign the now agreement, the trouble hinges around the waitress question, He declares that the dntent of the union fs 80 standardize wages for waiters and waitresses, which ho says is impossi- ing $4,000 of a Christmas fund which was to have|”Soiig wit naturally work for less been distributed Monday to employees| money, but they draw a whole lot of the Erie Railroad, John J. Brown- rigg, an assistant cashier in the office of the railroad, was arrosted day in his home, No, 205 Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City. Charles Goode, owner of more business than the men, A girl can make more money is attributed to the tips they get ‘gfhe idea of those in charge of the sifike is to standardize the work na H-a-weak |} salary, than a man can on $7. This,| All passengers, remained wnoccup'e] cang saved trom the Ancona Who |Care let Cont. t0 the other. So the after fifty minutes. After fifty min- made an aMdavit is being attacked. |G*"¢"@! company, with the rich Fourth Avenue subway contract in hand—the biggest ever made—has to pay a heavy tribute to the Union, which has not got a subway contract since it fired Commissioner Wood's friend Johnson, Q. (By Senator Thompson) What was the real meaning of that agree- ment? A. The protracted litigation was making a heavy cost on our business, Q. It did prevent any other com- pany from competing with these two ‘MOVIE’ WORKSHOP BLAZE | INJURES 2, SCARES MANY Firemen Overcome in Broadway Building Tenanted by Many Picture Concerns. Two firemen were overcome by smoke and scores of young women ee A. Yes, because these | two owned the patents, made a wild rush to the street in a . film fire in the workroom of the Atlas|,@ You have met Mr. Uptegraft from time to time? A. Only occasion- ally; never by appointment, Q. You knew the Union Company Film Company, on the fourth floor of ‘the Mecca Building, Forty-eighth |Street and Broadway, at 11 o'clock this morning. ‘The fire was confined | Mt {he entra) Company ‘had bid to one room in the building, but other |" ine Fou venue contract? tenants were badly frightened, The exploding of a film which was being wound started the fire. On floors above were the offices of the Universal Moving Picture Company and the Vitagraph, Lubin, Selig and Essanay combination James €ilholland of Engino G2 fell} discussion of the hearings Commis. overcome by the smoke and was Id in the F taken to Polyclinic ‘Howpital. Other | “oner Wood held in the Fourth Ave- firemen who Were slightly affected by | MU® case. . smok® were taken tnto tor’s, on} @, Did you know when the Union the ground floor, and wer®'given hot}and the General were to bid for the ‘drinks, Fourth Avenue contract. A. I heard ———~e—— in @ general way, MIDDAY STREET EXPLOSION.|"Q° Dia you know the Federal Com- pany was the low bidder on the con- tract? A. Yes, That was a matter of general information. It was in the air. “Theoretical ?"* Thompson. Q. Did you know the General Com- pany's bid was higher? A. Y Q. Did you ever discuss that point with any of the Union people? A. Never, Col. Prout swore he never heard any Manhole Cover Hurled Five Stories ae Lafayette St, Conduit leniten, The cover of @ manhole over the © duit carrying the trunk lines of Edison Company at Lafayette and White Streets, blew off with a terrific explosion at 12.30 o'clock to-day, ‘The laughed = Senator the of the Hungerford Butlding | and |breaking into pieces at the feet of P \Hceman Schine of the Ellaabeth Street station. Flames poured out of the ning for half an hour, until the cur- nt was shut off. rs of the Edison Company, aided e thered the burn- bles by dumping © explosion was in the conduit ignited by Select for iron rose to the level of the fifth story . " = Senda ber:of fine your gt a Ale. an alleged pool room in Jersey City, where it was claimed Brownrige lost much of the money, was also arrested, charged with receiving stolen goods. The fund from which the money ts sald to have been taken was known nas the Terminal Relief Association. The railroad employees contributed to it during the year and it wae cus- tomary to divide the money just be- was held with Goode for oxaminatl en Auto Runs Down Two Boys, Arnold Kaboxs!, six years, of No, 443 , and Pletra Gor, 17 Hast Hleventh Street, unning west across Avenue A, No. 174, to-day when they were by a small sutomobile arble Company, nd Stres soven, were appor knocked dow Good Christmas Cheer, & OPLITS. ALL DEALERS, je Oa: ort clreult, due to water a girl work up @ good station (two or! spar three tables in a restaurant, whore | leaking in she has her own patronage) the union —— would give everybody @ chance at} Tiatatation, se thatthe wages of, NOORDAM DOCKS IN FOG. everyone would bo uniform. No man with any senee of business is going to) raving tho thick fox which hung abide by an agreement of that kind." | over the inner harbor to-day, the Noor- H. Kleinman, Secretary of the | dam of the Holland-Ameriea Line felt ey te ONO Oa rleants teem (2 shock and docked at Hoboken, she il the waiters of the city into one| ried 129 cabin passengers and a Sowerful union organisation large Dumber of socond, aad third. aA i > Intter were 150 Roumanian “We couldn't very well tle up the | women who had managed to keep whole city with a general strike,” he |ahead of the hostilities in their native added, “ao we are taking the city |innd until they reached 4 point of natty piecemeal, After we settle up this! where funds could be provided for them pO! e rou bp BAMe ne ol +h M. eee ee yey Mattie: from | Karl Von Wiegand, ‘The World cor: procedure in the hotel district trom | wchondunt at Herlla, wae ernone ihe Fourteenth Street to Forty-second | ee eee ta an ye One Convey én the ideal home. i He Street, We expect to get to this In was somewhat worn from hia months of about two weeks, {active work at the various German hut otherwian In the best of i# observations ‘To Prevent The Grip, published will Grids, cues Ort ieee ni BE gE | be ders from day ‘o igpajure 04 bos, int, to - Have it suggest trae sentim Park vLilford ccolalesad Bontons conrcsfronafed and not ercelled and happy sentiment dha the Fest candies udealige | Prk vTilfords at dealers everywhere . and our stores ie 1915 Col. Prout admitted that there are !more than 1,500 patents for automatic epeed control systems and that none of them has yet been found sntisfac- of automatic speed control, Q. Was that a sufficient ground up- on which to award a contract? A. I should eay that they would be justi- fied in placing such a contract with a highly responsible signal company. Q. Did you hear of any ono repre- senting any company meeting with Commissioner Wood while this mat- ter was pending? A. No, sir, DENIES BRIBE Ww. PROMISED TO woOD. Col. Prout contradicted Solomon O. Levinson's testimony that he bad Promised to pay Commissioner Wood ja bribe of $5,000, or that Johnson had ‘made a promise to pay tt. Q. Who called the meeting of the Board of Directors? A. I—uh—think I did.) Yes, I did. T considered that I should bring that matter to the Board of Directors so that we might define our policy. Q. (By Senator Thompson) ‘To make a policy for your company to pay a bribe to a Public Service Commis- sioner. A. I do not say I would vote for auch an act. It would be up to the board Q, Was it the policy of the Union Company to bribe a Vublic Service Commissioner? A. (Very virtuously) ‘0, sir. Q. Did you vote to pay the bribe? A. No-o-o! Col. Prout was very hazy as to the details of that meeting of the direc- tors, “Look here, we are much annoyed," exclaimed Senator Thompson. “That was the day you lost your $25,000 job, | Don't you remember the details?" es,” wald Col, Prout | hen «ive them to us," Senator “Why, am 1 not—uh—answering ail | the questions?” asked Prout in sweet Jim-Ham-Lewis tones. But he Kept on dodging, shifting and fencing Just the same, “TOWING WOOD) MEANT “STRINGING” HIM. Q. What did you mean by your in ructions to Sidney G, Johnson to “tow Wood along"? =A. Why—er—uh—I meant— (By Assemblyman Burr) —String him along! Col. Prout (solemnly): Ah—yes—ah— string him along. Q. How long before the meeting had the directors known of the proposition to give Wood the $5,0007 A. Oh, should say from ten days to two weeks. Q. Was there any opposition to it? A. Ah—well, I should say no; none. And yet, perhaps—— Q. (By Senator Lawson) Did you and the directors discuss at the Duquesne Club meeting how such payment should be made? A. Oh, no; I will not say we discussed that. Q. And yet you all knew that such & ‘proposition was before you? AY urged the | i Q. Was any suggestion made then to drop Johnson? A. Oh, no. “The simple fact is that here was a small contract (Centre Street loop) to be followed by a larger contract (Fourth Avenue contract), which we desired to get, The company getting the first contract would be in a strong strateg@ situation toward the next, So it was important to decide what we should do with Commissioner Wood, who had the matter in charge. We could not decide to do anything, but put it up to the full board, Q. (By Senator Thompson) If the board had voted to pay Commissioner Wood the $5,000 would you have gone ahead and bribed the Commisstoner? A. Ah-—er—is it fgir to ask me that question? Well, honest Injun, I do not think & would do it. I would resign first, Col, Prout volunteered that in his opinion all the directors present at the Duquesne Club would have voted no, Indeed, all the directors would have voted no. He himaelf expressed no opinion, “Then what was the nec calling a directors’ meeting Senator Thompson. | “It was so important a matter that the full board had to act on it. And I may say they were very indignant.” Q. Do you want us to believe that you were dismissed by them because you red to bring up that bribery proposition? A. Ah—er—yes, Col. Prout declared that he had ne- gotiated the contract for the speed control system now in use in the In- terborough Railway, the present New York subway system aiieanneaind Bank Reserve $185,258,300, ‘The statement of the actual conal- tion of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows tha they hold $158,868,300 reserve in ex- team of legal requirements. Thin in a decre of $20,257,810 from it week, bex distir Cndies nt beauty ly frresented yes," affirmed Col. Prout WILSON A GODFATHER solemnly, Q. Did you ever discuss that point 0 FD N D with any of the Union people? W HIS W DI 6 AY A. Ne} daughter, Eleanor Wilson Me- to-day enjoyed Mra, other married daughter, Helen Woodrow Bones, were godmothers, during the pre: pnt Administration, Room. Mrs. Anne Howe, the sister, Mr. and Mrs, Sayre, Misses Nona and Sallie McAdoo >. WILSON BUSY WITH STATE AFFAIRS ON HIS WEDDING DAY (Continued from First Page.) taken against any one other than the jimmediate relatives and a fow intl- jmate friends appearing on the premi- | ses, ses. tra polich oMfcers linve heen de- jtailed to watch the home and none but the guests will be allowed to ap- proach the entrance after 8 o'clock. President Wilson will dine at the | White House at 7 P. M., and leave for the Galt home shortly before 8 o'clock, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Margaret Wilson, and his cousin, Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, About the White House to-day there Was a noticeable stir, The servants moved with alacrity, furbishing up the interior as if to welcome imme- | diately the new mistress, At the Exe. | cutive Offices the wadding annow | ments were being prepared for the jmail. They will go to every one ap- pearing on the official list of the White Stands Sponsor for His Grand- Sranddaughter of President Wilson, the honor of being christened on her grandfather's wed- President Wilson was godfather and | Francis Sayre, the President's and Miss hie cousin, EKleanor is the only child christened in the White House The christening was held in the Blue In addition to the President there were present at the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. McAdoo, Margaret Wil. son, Mr, and Mrs, Joseph R. Wilson, President's and the tam G, McAdoo, with Mr. Mr. McAdoo; the President's Joseph Wilson, with Mrs. Wilson Miss Allcé Wilson, and bls sister, Mrs. Anne Howe, with her daughter and granddaughter, Mrs, Cothran and Uttlo Miss Josephine Cothran, and bis cousin, Miss Helen Woodrow Bones. Of Mrs. Galt's family—Her mother, tory. Yet the Fourth Avenue con- Adoo, at Ceremony. Mrs, William H. Boling; her three tract was awarded to the General ¥ “ - sisters, Mrs, Matthew H. Maury of Railway Signal Company on the{ WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—Little/ Anniston, Ala; Mrs, Alexander H. ground that it had a superior system| Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, the only|Galt and Miss Bertha Bolling of Washington; her tive brothers, Jobn Randolph Bolling, Richard Wilmer Bolling and Julian B, Bolling, all of ding day. She is named after Mrs. | Washingt McAdoo's mother, the President's first | of Lexington, Ky., and Rolfe . Boll- wife. Rev. Roland Cott Smith, | ing of Panama; her brother-in-law, christened the child, who seven | Alexander H. Gait, and ber nephew, months old. | Bolling Galt, the son of Mr. aud Mre, ama, Mrs, Richard Wilmer Bolling and Mrs, Julian B, Bolling, both of Washington. ONLY FOUR GUESTS OUTSIDE: THE FAMILY CIRCLE, Others Will be Dr. Cary T. Grayson, the President's physician, and Miss Alice Gertrude Gordon, the young friend of Mrs, Gait, with whom she has travelled much. Two of Mra. Galt’s family servants, both of whom were presented to the President ly after he became soqnaes Se a8 mistress, will witness * and will not be here bas been learned. The duration of the wedding trip ts . being that th Weil ee thing certain being ey 4 turn before Jan. 6, ag on that date the President is ¢, attend one of the tune- tions given for the Pan-Ameri¢an Sel- entific Congress, and on Jan. 7 Cay od the Pan-American reception at the White House. ee BARK ASHORE IN FOG ON THE JERSEY COAST — The Pero d’Alemquer Hits on Upper End of Barnegat Bay, but Crew Stays on Board, The Portuguese bark Pero d'Alem- quer, from Lisbon to New York, with & cargo of cork, went ashore in the fog before daybreak to-day a mile and a half south of Mantoloking, N. J., off the upper end of Barnegat Bay, The bark ploughed into the outer bar about 250 yards from low tide line, Her signals were seen by Keep- ec Howard Horner of the Mantoloking Coast Guard Station and Keaper W. 8. Simpson of the Chadwick Statluu. During the morning the breakers, loshed by a 25-inlie wind out of th House—all the Ambassadors, Minis-| southwest, had gone down enough so ters, Congressmen, Senators and|that Horner was able to take boat friends of tho President and Mra,|out of the bark. Capt. Barros re- Galt who are customarily invited to| potted the vessel resting easily and the functions at the mansion during the social sason, Now and then the hustle about the grounds was enhanced by the ap- pearance of an auto express wagon bearing the last loads of gifts. At the home of Mrs, Galt there was the greatest activity. Decorators and florists were engaged in putting the finishing touches on the simple but beautiful surroundings within whicn the wedding ceremony will be per- formed to-night. In the kitchen, oc- casionally personally directed by Mrs. Galt herself, dainttes for the wedding supper were being prepared. And through it all, Mra. Galt's colored maid, who came to Wash- ington many years ago with her, then a bride for the first time, was moving around with her usual ease and competency, seeing nothing was left undone in preparations for th big event. Following the wedding the President and his bride will leave immediately on the honeymoon, The only person fo accompany the President and his bride on the wedding trip will be bis private stenographer, Charles Swem, The destination continued a secret during the day, although it was stated on good authority it would be » place in the South, The only matter standing in the way of an uninterrupted wedding trip was the threatened crisis with Austria. Should any emergency arise while the President ie away requiring an imme- diate conference with Secretary Lan- sing arrangements already have been made for a speedy trip by the Secre- tary to the President's honeymoon re- treat. The probable list of guests to be at the wedding follows: | Of the President's family—His three daughte: Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis B. Sayre and Mrs, Wili- attractive in no danger unless the wind should shift into the east. He has a crew of twenty-two men, but said he did not think it snecesnary for them to Wiborg & Co, agen lemquer, at No. 90 Broad Street, asking that © wrecking tug be sent, The agents also had the cutter Seneca sent to her, —_>-- BOY LOST 5 DAYS IN SNOW, J. Dec, 18 Cyrus years old, a student at he Butler High School, has been missing since Monday, and it is now thought that he ‘Hes buried in a snow drift alony oad between New Foundland and Cant tee He ts the son of Mr. and Mra, Theodor Stickle of Canisteer.” Monday afternoo: he started out to walk home with companions, Stickle parted from others and set out alone to cover four miles between New Foundland and his home, ‘That was the last seen of him, oo, oico. FAY.—On Friday Dec. 17. JOSEPH PAY, beloved son of Mary A. Fox and Patrick Pa Funeral services Sunday, Dr 10 A. M., from 108 Hekford lyn, Interment Calvary Cemetery, LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. * ion Terrac Terrace, Holiday Greetings! Just imagine a Christmas tree of such gigantic size that one could hang upoa its branches thousands of workers, homes, investment securities, lost arti: | cles, bargains of one sort or another, lots, farms, family pets, &c. Well, as strange as such a tree may seer, » He more than the equivalent of srid’s great Directory of Wants which carries thousands of offers to | hire, work, rent, buy, Sell, invest, &&e,, into more N York City homes and. offices, both mornings and Sundays, than the Herald, Times and Tribune | COMBINED. And right now, holiday opportunities | are reflected in its columns to a marked degree. 25,280 | WORLD ADS. | LAST WEEK !| Advertise in The Big | Sunday World To-Morrowl ° 14,660 More Tease! « Alexander H. 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