The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1915, Page 2

zi “Win relinquish the solf-im —— him to normal health. When we left Christiania the physician was un- decided whether to recommend that Ford return home or take the rest cure at some quiet place in Norway “Before leaving Mr. Ford said: “If Tam well onongh I will join the ex- pedition later. Mr. Ford undoubtedly [] Will be selected as a member of tho | neutral peace conference.” /) Business Manager Plaintiff, to all practical purposes, has succeeded Lochner and Mme, Schwimmer as the director-in-chiet of the peace party. Before leaving Christiania Plaintift | forced all the delegates to pay their own laundry and other personal bills. ‘This raised a vigorous howl. COPENHAGEN, Dec, %4.—"Henry Ford has quit the peace party because he realizes it Is imporsible to make further headway,” aid a Christidnin despatch to the Exchange Telegraph this afternoon. “He is downhearted because of the quarrels among the peace delegates and also because Mme, Schwimmer’s assurances of of- ficial recognition of the peace party | by Scandinavian countries were not fulfilled.” LONDON, Dec. %4.—Despatches from Bergen regarding the sudden departure of Henry Ford for home say that he left a check for $270,000 to defray the expenses of the par- Commissioner Hayward to Of- | fer a Resolution for Full Investigation. NOW THE TIME TO DOIT. Officials Know More Now Than They Did and May Take Salutary Action. pots in Bergen and Christiania the | belief was expressed that Ford's de- parture will have a serious if not disastrous effect upon the peace en- terprise, The Norwegian pubilc, though not in sympathy with the peace plans, expressed admiration for the personality of Ford himself By Sophie Irene Loeb. That the Public Service Comminston will doubtless investigate the “Fourth Avenue contract," which the Thomp- fon = Investigati committee hee brought forward so forcibly, showing the various ramifications in the awarding of contracts by the Public Service Commission, ts evident trom Mand declared that any success At-|4 statement mado by Commissioner ‘tained by the expedition must bo | credited solely to Ford. Opinion in Denmark and other Buropean neutral countries apparently was the same. Mr. Ford's announcement that the | Women's International Peace Associa- tion henceforth will conduct the expe- \ dition would seem to indicate that, #o * far as he personally tn coi a he whioh he erpreswed in the phrase “Out of the trenches by Christmas.” ‘The Women's International Peace held @ congress at The last spring and apointed dele- to visit the capitals of various and American nations. Ono ‘0f the most prominent women at the was Mme, Rosika Schwim- President of the Hungarian ‘oman Buffrage Association and a member of the Ford peace party, Af- ter the congress at The Hague Mme. Schwimmer came to the United States to continue her work for peace. Bhe went to Detroit to see Mr. Ford, and {owas reported It was whe who sug- gested to iim the idea of the peace ———— _ WEWS FROM KAISER’S SICK BED HELO BACK ‘Amsterdam Recalls That Reports of Serious Illness Were Circulated a Year Ago. , AMSTERDAM, Deo. 24.—Authori- ative information regarding the Kal- jnér’s tiness was lacking to-day. It was recalled that at the same time last year the Kaiser ws ill and ‘that sensation! reports of his condi- \iRion were circulated. Within a fow { he was able to be out of doors ' left for the front on Dec, 20, IPNDON, Deo. 24.—According to ‘rumors in Berlin, Bi.jor William's ““iiess is very serious, says the Morning Post's Rottordui. corres- pondent, eee rumors have been oMélally “It was only when the rumor in- @isted that an operativn .wr cancer necessary in order to save the ror’s life,” correspondent “that the physi..ns Issued a declaring that his illness was due to inflammation of the cellular ‘tdasue.” “New York's Leading Victrola Stores” nd Hayward to-day. “The contract for signals, which ts deemed the largest of its kind ever fiven, was awarded to the General Signal Company of Rochester, This award was made after a vigorous fight on the part of rival companies, one of them being the Federal Com- pany, which had the lowest bid. Commissioner Hayward stated: “As soon as | secure the approval thorough in- vestigation of this contract. In view of the contradicting testi- the Thompson committees | think we will be recreant in our duty if we do not fully look into the mat- ter before the work proceeds much further, since only 15 per eent. of the work has been com- pleted. “We should study especially tho ‘speed control’ device which I under- stand is only in the experimental age after a yoar's work on it, “Also, I am confident that many of the facts brought out in the present Investigation were not before the Commissioners who voted on that contract. “In view of all these conditions, t think it would be unwise to allow this work to go on to any great ex- tent until the commission is thor- oughly satisfied that the contract was made in good faith and that the work is progressing accordingly. “I oan eee no reason why this should not be done as svon as possible, since 60 much money ts involved in this contract, If the Chairman ao de- aires, I will bo willing to act on a sub-committee to investigate the whole matter.” As it now appears, there are various items pertinent to such an investiga- tion. It was while this contract was under consideration before the com- mission, according to the testimony of Mr, Alfred H. Renshaw, President of the Federal Company, that his salesman, Mr. John T. Cade, met Commissioner Wood following one of the hearings, and he, as stated by Mr, Renshaw, “practically made our Mr. Cade the proposition that for a finan- cial consideration he could get us the award of the Fourth Avenue con- tract.” When the estimates for the Fourth Avenuo equipment were opened, it Victor Factory Distributors s 427 Fifth Ave. 563 Filth Ave. and 39th Sts.) (46th S:.) West 34th St. West 42d St. ypselect | Your Christmas ned Renerde fron the laegeet bam i in Bow Von oe ity. ‘oar Oonventanes. OPEN’ ‘EVENINGS IRED OUT _— STOMACHS See Gren shenee,te, Test sng, tos sature FeRee “teed Strwustn by the use of Stuart's DYSPEPSIA Rey OT Stuart ree sample. feces WSK, for" was found that the following bide had been made: Federal Switch and Signal Company, $1,895,917; Union Switch and Signal Company, $1,582,- 246; General Railway Signal Com- pany, $1,812,645; Hall Switch and Sig | 4 a nal Company, $2,656,651, ‘Thus with the bid of the General| i Company half a million dollars higher than that of the Federal, the former concern came in with the proposition that they had secured new patents for a special control sys- tem and they offered to install this|{ system at the bid submitted by the Federal Company. Later this offer was reconsidered, Following a private agreement be- tween the officials of the B. R. T. and the General Company, a later propo- sition was made that the latter would install th m, covered by the new paten' ice to be $100,000 | | lower than the bid of the Federal | Company, When the matter came before the commission the Fede: Company he | Drotested that the bids should be re- ne | Opened before action was taken, ‘This was not done, new sy! On Dec. &, while the matter was|) pending, the books of the General Company disclose that, $20,000 wae paid out of the $50,000 fund for pat- ents, Ten days later the commission voted not to readvertise, and ap veyed the contract which the B. R, paid Cos OMINT t and ton “ol” PILL An Effective Laxative Purely Vegetab! Constipation, Indigestion, Biliousness, ete, Q OR O Ounign Ohocolate-Coated or Piain a |S Yan Re ate a," RANDRETH == thera THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, PS. COMMISSION WILL CLEAR UP The MYSTERY OF ATH AVE. SUBWAY CONTRACT the General upon, The vote wast Commissioners | Wood, Willinms and Cram for; Me- | Call and Maltbie againet, About this time the Geni Company suddenly discovered that the new patents, for which it had set aside a fund of 000, of which already $20,000 had expended, would not work, Mr. Simmen, owner of the much discussed patont, who is In the city under subpoena, will appear before the Thompson committee next Tues- day. According to Mr. Wilder, Chiet Engineer of the Public Service Com- mission, after a year's experiment with this patent, only half a car has been equipped. BRITISH LOSSES UP 10 DEC. 9 TOTAL 928,227 Premier Asquith Gives Out Official Figures in Reply to Member of Commons. Company had agreed LONDON, Dec. 24.—Replying to a written question by P, A, Molteno, Momber of the House of Commons, Premier Asquith to-day gave the total British casualtios up to Deo. 9 The Evening World rejoices wi battling against frauds, shams and Edward B, MeCall, Chairman o! moved by the Governor on charges five years of battling against the Ki 95 cents to 85 cents. Penny lunches for poor school Evening World. Then the plan was Five-cent telephone rates made Taxicab extortion finally ended The Evening World exposed the Opposition to the proposed new World's exposures of its Jokers and whelming defeat at the polls. Taxpayers showed for the first wasted, and a movement started fo burdens. Evening World Xmas Presents To the People of New York City tories accomplished in behalf of the public during the last year. fare of the people, The Evening World, happily, is able to put in Father Knickerbocker's Christmas stocking today the record of crugades com- pleted and promises fulfilled. Here they are: Last of extortionate rates for gas in Greater New York lowered after Hic Service Commissioner Williams revoked his former decision only yea terday and announced that South Brooklyn prices would be reduced from Widowed Mothers’ Pension Law enacted by the Legislature in re- sponse to The Evening World's demands and the new humanitarian sys tem Inaugurated throughout the State, appropriation made for support of the system. years of aggrossive fighting. A total of $5,000,000 a year is saved to New Yorkers from the rates charged when The Evening World began its battle, regulated basis, under strict olty control, of $14,000,000 on the metropolis and forced its abandonment for next year. ith its readers over some notable vic In its wrongs, and for the rights and wel- f the Public Service Commission, re- pressed by The Evening World. ngs County lighting companies. Pub- children afded and extended by The adopted by the City Government and a reality on July 1 last, after two and cab service of the city put on a needlessness of the direct State tax Constitution started by The Evening spectal privileges, resulting in over- time how their money is apent and r drastic legislation to equalize tax ALLIS IN GREECE FORM BATTLE LINE BEFORE SALONICA Sixty Thousand Germans Also Massed at Monastir to Help As 628,227, divided as follows: killed, 119,928; wounded 888,758; missing, 69,64 Detailed Mgures of the casualties corrected the figures concerning losses at the Dardanelles given yesterday tn the House of Commons. At this time the caaualtion up to Dec, 11 wors given as 112,921, « smaller total than the Premier gave to-day for the op- erations to Dec. 9 The casualties were distributed as followa: FLANDERS AND FRANCE, Killed... Wounded Missing Total mon 387, DARDA? ILLES, Ofticars, Other Ranks, Killed... 2 Wounded 8,028 Missing 850 Total officers and men, 114,555. OTHER THEATRES. Killed Wounded 10,053 Missing . 2,518 ‘Total officers and bay 25, 684, Grand total, 528,227, WALL STREET The market held firm and fairly active up to the close, United States Steel was very active and closed at 87%, General Motors at 485, up twen- ty points from yesterday and thirty- five points above to-day’s low. Quotations, Jon Wits et asso too yrevions closing, Laat. Low Bs Mt Allie Chalmeny, if, ‘Ain. « s abezhsy Peete SBE: PRE er net So crear OSE STE OS, eee re Preset Sar ae se PE eared = 2 i | ++ 14+41 e+ Max, M Mexican Heroin. Mex. Peeroleam p Hac) Cooper National Tend Fore. id 3e a ss 1 Pees FECES SRERTTTES mii 1) #1+14+ mi STF SSE OR SE = SE Ree ERS FE +11 B= Sat ate zt ae bit] +41 144+] +! = = . | defending Chalcidice. 8) surprise Bulgars and Turks. PARIS, Deo, 24.—The battle fronts of both sides in the conflict m the Serbian theatre of war are given tn @ despatch from the Salonica corres- pondent of the Echo de Paris. ‘The correspondent states that 60,000 Germans aro massed around Monastir with the Bulgars concentrated !n the center of the Vardar Valley and two Turkish divisions taking 4 position on the left of the Bulgars. The French are ranged in a semi-circle -|GERMAN SUBMARINE AIDS ARABS IN REVOLT British Compelled to Abandon a Post on the Egyptian-Tripoli Border, CAIRO, Dec. 24,—Serious outbreaka by b forces operating in Tripolt and Egypt have forced the British to evacuate the frontier Jort of Sol on Egyptian-Tripoli bor Was admitied to-day, It is believed that Turkish agents are stirring up revolts in both Egypt and Tripoli, A German submarine, it is said, participated in the fighting, Tho British coast guard, with a garrison of Egyptian troops, was sur- prised by a large force of Arabs. Simultaneously the submarine drew in close to shore and began shelling the British troops, They fell back! upon Marsa Matrous after losing twenty men. — ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. Philadelphia Company, eight m rnings increased $556,00! sed $1,488,700. ntha’ Net around Salonica with their left on the Vardar center, facing the Greek frontier near Doiran, and thelr right) connecting with the British troops ATHENS, Dec. 2%4.—The Government to-day granted fur- loughs for one month to fifteen per cent, of all classes of reserves. The official announcement was a in view of persistent rumors that the Bulgar-Austro-German in- vasion is about to begin. In some quarters it was taken to mean that Germany ‘has given definite assur- ances that no troops of the Central Empires will cross the Greek frontier for at least another month. By others it was interpreted as a step in the fulfilment of the reported promise to the allies to demobilize fifty per cent, of the Greek forces, ROME, Doc, of King Peter, has arrived here after an adventurous escape from Albania) with his wife, The Prince says that | what is left of the Serbian army has| resumed contact with the Bulgarians @ast of Elbassan, where fighting has been going on for three consecutive days. King Peter went on horseback from Scutarl to Tirana, the Prince states, and then to Aviona, from which place he is watching ‘the operations of hia army, which-t8 commanded by | Gen, Missitech. BERLIN (via wireless to Sayville, | L, 1), Deo. 24.—Anglo-French mil tary commanders at Salonica ha ordered the evacuation of twenty Prosperous Greek towns between tho for Landzads and Galiko Rivers strategioal reasons, the Athens respondent of the’ Frankfurter tung reported to-day. plein icine MYSTERY IN DEATH LEAP OF HUSBAND LONG ILL Despondency over it! health is given to-day as the cause that led Max Greismann, fifty-two years old, a wealthy retired merchant, to leap from the second story of No. 24 West Seventy-fifth Street. ‘The police say there may be a mystery in tho case, because they did not hear of St until eight hours after Gretsmann was found dying. ‘They were notified by Dr. Albert A. Wes- ton of the New York Hospital, who refused to sign @ death certificate. Acconiing to Dr. C, G. Burdick of the New York Hospital Mr, Grels- mann, who had been il] for @ year, and his wife retired on Wednesday night a# usual: Mrs. Greismano awakened Thursday morning to find that her husband was gone. She was searching for him when Hdward Knowles found Greismann's body. Dr, W. A. Morgan of No. 265 West Eighty-first Street, the family phy- Sjclan, asked the Flower Hospital to send an ambulance, The transfer to | the New York Hospital waa made institution, Morgan, who expressed a desire to give the case over to Dr, Burdick, otenteszever?! aBShses Fe Fe SS aS fe eRe a friend of the Gretsmanns., At the Greismann home all information was | before dir Greek M.—Prince Alexis | Karageorgevitch of Serbia, a cousin Tennessee Co} quarterly divid Payable Jar Jan. 3 y, regular ts a share. of record Under proposal shortly to be p etors of the Che EUSP es. BiG GUN BATTLE IN GERMAN DRIVE One gaged on Each Side in Ypres Region. Thousand Cannon En- PARIS, Deo, 4.—The greatest tillery duel of the whole war is ported to have been in progress for a week in West Flanders, Ypres, al- ready badly battered, has again been the victim of the shelis of the Ger- man howltzers. When the cannonading opened, was sald the K ar. re- it ser ordered another drive to Calais, and that th. bom- bardment was the usyal artillery preparation, The Germans have massed huge forces of men back of Ypres and their ammunition supply seems inexhaustible, The German fire ts now concen- trated on the British works npar Poperingho, northwest of Ypres, where British guns are replying vigorously. niore than 1,000 guns on each aide be- ing im almost constant action. Trenches have literally been wiped out, the whole country being searched out by shell fire to discover hidden troops, Poperinghe itself has been obilter- ated, Returning wounded say the in- tensity of the flrovis indescripable. The British are rushing up reinforce- ments, some of their troops being new levies which have never been under fire, LONDON, Dec, 24.—Tho latest French official report admits that the French troops who took the left of the summit of Hartmannsweilerkopf have been compelled to fall back into their 1 positions in the face of a furt+ attack, On the centre ie y claim to hold the ground they conquered, under heavy artillery fire, A snow storm is raging. Berlin reports that the summit of the height has n recaptured, with tremende 3 to the French, of | whom 1,558 were captured, The Ger- mana add they are now engaged in clearing a trench along the northern | slope which Is still held by the French, | ——_ | CHICAGO WHEAT ANO CORN! MARKET. High, opening. Strengt had decided Influence house buying Was liberal and if taking sales were well absorbed. Market closed near top prices «of Tndlviduaia ‘in exchange for Chevrolet stock at ratio of Lto 5B, This includes at p pnt the shares owned by Dur: reste, Consolidation of M fornia Petroleum prop: Doheny and allied inter being worked out and a by th te is now] MANHAT MIXED — Com. prising Fre Crem, Cocoanut POUND. BOX eaert rte and kinds: Samr 15 En RED, Re naa ED JO} Sahin 45; NT! COV, Ds— Very Ki ain Grade Chocolates You h SUPER CHO LATES of Bonbons and Choe Better than dealers sell at 61.50 ® pound, FIVE~ fest OxXES, tz! Sib: Boxes: Bust PARK ROW & NA\ according to Dr, Valentine of that | at the request of Dr, | ForBelated Shoppers, the int. ith hiss mettingn teat nome 54 BARCLAY STREET. 29 CORTLANDT STREET. 400 BROOME STREET, 88 EAST 23D STREET, IC |a7a vuLTON 5r., wKLYN, Will Be Opened To-Morrow, Dec. 25th: NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. | AGAINST BRITISH | the elevated who have been ten years ‘ployee is on auth the full minimum time or not, $250,000 WAGE BOOST 1S GIFT OF B.R.T. TO WORKERS he B, R. T, also announced this morning that it had issued to the Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society free tickets on all surface cars to take children to the, Christmas Tres at the Triangle Theatre, Flatbush Ave nue and Fulton Street, to-morrow eiween the hours of 9 o'clock in the morning and 1.80 o'clock In the after- noon, The sum of $1, annual Christmas o An $8 wold pieces, Ri fell ict from Mrs Sage, was _ among the 440 olty | Motdrmen, Conductors and, tre legk Guards on Surface, ‘I.’ and Subway Lines Benefited. OTOR Bus lines have been started in Philadelphia, Wash- ington, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and other cit- ies, but the only one in America that has suc- ceeded is the one de- veloped by progressive improvement based on experience in bus trans- portation extending from the days of horse- drawn stages. It has taken years to perfect the operation of the lines of the Fifth Six or seven thousand employees | of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com-! | pany tre to recelve a Christmas pres- ent this year which won't break, fade, rip at the seams or lose its attrac. tiveness through constant use, They |ore to get a general increase of wages, | effective Jan. 1. | It is estimated that this gift will ost the company close to $250,000 a year, In making the announcement of the Increase this morning Presl- dent Timothy 8. Williams sald It was given “in recognition of the fidelity of our employees and in pursuance of the company’s policy to make condl- tions of Work attractive to competent men who are desirous of continuous employment at increasing rates of pay based on seniority and efficiency.” Tho result of this polley, President Williams remarked, was indicated by the unusually high percentage of em. ployees whose service has extended over a considerable yumber of years, This is the third general increase of wages which the B. R. T. has given its men in @ period of three and a halt years. This timo the increase affects all motormen and conductors on surface cars, all conductors and guards on the elevated and subway lines, ali-motormen on tho elevated and subway Hnes who have been in service ten years and a great number of miscellaneous trans- poration employ Included in| Musical Gift the above class! | Suggestions | enue Bus . or more, not ations The motormen and the conductors of the surface cars aro to get an In- crease of one cent an hour, making their pay range from % cents to cents an hour, according to effle and period of service. Motormen on or more with the company get an In- creaso from $3.75 per ten-hour day | to $4 | In the case of the conductors and | muards in the subway and on the elevated the increase comes in the form of a liberal time allowance, com- | pensation being given for a minimum | number of hours whether the om- SPECIAL L NOTICES. | HARPS ASK FOR and GET | $75 to $1,800 March THE ORIGINAL VIOLINS Ort AEE | MALTED MILK $5 to $500 advance. 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