The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1915, Page 3

COAL IS SCARCE, PRICES GOING UP, CARS LACKING a City Institutions Have but Two Weeks’ Supply on Hand Now. * $1 A TON SOFT COAL UP $ Dealers Say Anthracite, Will Soon Jump to a High Figure. Too, | New York City ts confronted by one! of the worst coal famines tn its his- 'New York Nursery and Child’s Hospital Kiddies Enjoying T Their Mother Goose Illuminated Books, ENJOYING THE WORK\OF CHILD READERS EVENING THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, SPY IN BANK GOT $350 FOR GIVING Schleindl Makes Full Confes- sion of Stealing Secrets From National City Bank. The confession which Trederick Schieindl, the National City Bank | employee, made to the police when | arrested for abstracting confidential information from the bank's records and giving it to Paul Koenig, an agent of the German Government, was put in evidence thie afternoon when Schleindl was arraigned for examina- tion ‘before Maristrate Devel in the Centre Street Police Court. The charge of grand larceny laid KOENIG RECORDS: _1016, BRITISH EMBASSY DENIES BLOCKADE | OF THE RED CROSS; Shipments to Germany Will) Be Permitted Under Cer- tain Conditions. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The British Embasey to-day officially de- led the report that Great Britain had declined to permit the shipment of | American Red Cross supplies to Ger- many, The embassy has been conducting negotiations with the American Red Cross headquarters at Washington re- garding hospital shipments and the results have been referred to the French and British Foreign Offices. | 'WILSONS ASKED TO JOIN HONEYMOON XMAS PARTY | Six Other Newly Wedded Couples | at Hotel in Hot Springs Arrange Celebration. HOT SPRINGS, Va, Deo M— ‘There was a whisper of excitement, a fluttering of nerves all about the Homestead Hotei to-day. It was re- | ported that seven honeymoon couples would Join night in @ monster Christmas Eve celebration, The real excitement came on the tip that one of the honeymoon couples would be the Prosident and bis bride, At any rate, the other twelve honeymooners: will have a celebration, and will be joined by the hotel guests. Mr. and Mrs. on are keeping their Christinas plana strictly themaelves. Their fellow honeymoo! ers wrote a joint letter to them to- day requesting their company at the public celebration. It is believed the President and his wife will drop in, for a fow minutes, at least. President Wilson and Mrs, Wilson kept close indoors all morning. It was known that the President had a number of messages, received during the last few days from Secretary of KILLED, S HURT BY WRECK, ALL IN WOODEN SLEEPER Passengers in Steel Cars on D. L. & W. Road Escape When Trains Crash. SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 24.—The sec: ond section of Delaware, Lackawanna and Western passenger train No. 9, en ‘route from New York to Buffalo, whlch was rammed at Slateford, near Dela- ware Water Gap, late last night by the third section of ie same train, caus- ing the death of two persons and in- Juries to five others, reached this city early to-day, bearing the victims, who were taken to local hospitals. While one or two of the njured were seri- . ° No act be tory. Coal, both soft and anthracite, against Schleind] was dropped and p action has yet been taken either ‘© Lansing in W. ington, and/ously hurt, it se believed all will re- cause of the demand for ships on! two charges of misdemeanor were from the Foreign Offices or trom the that he has been tn telephone con-| cover. 1s soaring in price, and many dealers | account of the war it 1s impossible to | / substituted. The first charged him | embassy, It was stated. Versation with officials here, Tho Killed were both colored, one a gay that it wil! double In cost within) bring this coal up.” | f with violating the anti-tipping Iaw| It 1s understood the Red Cross sup-| While the links were quiet at the porter of the wrecked train and the a few days unless herole measures| Frederick Willenbrock of — the| [pod in recetving pay for betraying his om- pve rar ee Peasnpeea co we 1685 Gor- tran war author, Ne gE ee ae ae Mab ARAN GeeniT Ob fithnen. : ‘ x wit 5 slight con- * are taken to get supplies into the Mencken and Willenbrock Coal Com- i Dloyer and the second with making | ditions attached ities ‘Tho President's mail comes in spe-]N. Y. ‘The most seriously injured Nekatie |pany, No. 1 Broadway, said: “The ; public confidential information, | cial pouches eo that the curion ro: Mra. J. W. Styles, Montelair, metropolis. situated W VRS recs. TER eeu f Schletndl 1a under $26,000 bail, which See been able to note J.; Miss Frances Styles, the ten- x ry yles, the Sie institutions have only two! weeks’ supply on hand, and unless the coal embargo meagre supply is consumed the con- | tractors are ready to throw up their hands, The same thing appiles to the large manufacturing concerns, which depend on soft coal, The situation with regard to the householder and/| other users of anthracite is growing serious, As yet, however, hard coal has not increased in price with soft coal. | ‘The principal reasons are the short- | age of cars, congestion in the tide-| ig lifted before that) |, has Increased over $1 a ton and it 's likely to go @ great deal bigher or even double in price. There are plenty cars loaded with coal over in New Jersey and in fact all sone the ¢ rail. roads back to the min Imponsibie to. get. these cars To tides water. The terminals are congested with shipments of ammunition. “Even with the coal at tidewater It fg difficult to get it across to New York, because of the scarcity of bare Rates are away up and this, of course, effects the price of coal. New York 1s absolutely at the mercy of such a situation because of the lack of storage places on Manhattan. ‘The railroads explain the car short- age through the fact that they can- not get thelr cars unloaded when they EVENING WORLD'S MOTHER GOOSE KIDS SUBWAY JOBS STOP IF FREIGHT TIE-UP REAL JOY MAKERS: 1S NOT RELIEVED |Creating Genuine Happines: Construction Companies Can’t} he was unable to furnish, and his at- torney, Charles Studen, demanded an examination for him to-day, The confession of Schieindl stated that last July he met a man named Muller, who later introduced him to a man who called himself Werner, but proved later to be Paul Koenig of the Hamburg-American line. The three talked about the war and Bobieind! told Koenig that he was in 4 position to furnish him with valuable inform: tion about the shipment of munitions abroad. At the second meeting with Koenig, READY WITH PLAN TO END ‘‘DEATH AVENUE’ Prendergast Says Solution of Rail- way Problem Will Come at January Meeting. Comptroller Prendergast has called A meeting of the Port and Terminal Committee of the Board of Estimat for Tuesday morning, Jas. 4, at which the Death Avenue question and the tar haven't puciber of Christmas gifts which tho honeymoon couple are receiving, but the bags have been bulgy. ROGKEFELLER'S MEN MUST SWEAR OFF JAN, 1 Those on Pay Rolls of Colorado Coal and Iron Company Told to Bid Adieu to Demon Rum. (Speotal to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Dec, 4.—Every man tn year-old daughter of Mrs. Styles; Mrs. P, P. Merrill, Now York; J. O Foster, porter, Cambridge, Maas., and L. Ogden, Buffalo. The train was made are of a buffet car, five Buffalo and two Ithaca sleepers, and had be bean in the block near Slateford by is ~ abled freight train, As it was about ready td pull out the third section crashed into it, tearing be Ithaca sleeper at the rear from trucks and spreading Mt across both tracks. The engine of the third section wan derailed but pone of ite 2 wrecked or leeper was the only wooden car 2 the train, and the occupants of thi car were the victims. All of he Sohieindl, according to his confession,| plan to bury the Central Ratlroad others were of steel construction and ¢ ck ba n, water eriainalt Ae ee ier parkea| reach tidewater, j . . submitted copies of important tele-| tracks along Riverside Drive will be bd tage road ot the Colorado Coal and | Were Bet emaged, superintendent Seer sree th Stannatiaa, ‘here| Ba ~ They're “Solid With Santa | Get Cement and Steel— | «rams, tetters and cablograms re-| discussed. It is believed that a det | 17" SERDAnY OF Srhich John D.! of the Lackawanna, places the blame seeiras natde Dip Cr tkaon ae oe BURIED 4 DAYS IN MINE tie N ferring to shipments of supplies for| nite proposition will be ready by 2| ockefellor fea sratinehdio spirit,.| for the Accident on the engineer of ie also & scare o! bor at ~ ; ; the allies. These, Koenig told him,| .:. 4 aes must raise hia right hand on Jan. 1| Section 3, who, according to Mr, Rine, mines, many of the workers having Claus” Now, 18,000 May Be Idle. |were of the greatest Importance to] °clock on the same day, when the) (oo it tie on Rum. Hore| Pan past torpedoes and lighted’ fare, fuses, round tt moro prontabie to encaee) MAN 1S TAKEN OUT: ALIVE! - the Fatherland. For, this frst batch | committeo will moot the representa. | AP) 0 neta aued by the con | ai, ain? bast a flagman and auto: fo . be | of communications Schleindl atated | tives of the rad company. oaPn Ban 00 aay 'y the con-) matic signals that Were in perfect wien tse Heep et plants — Several hundred New York chil-| supway construction work will have| that Koenig Kuve im #35, Subeo- Said Mr. Prendergast: “Uniews some|°*cpne ‘nan’ who «ponds hia money | “o'KIMs order and set agatnat him. . C, Harris, treasurer of the| |dren who competed in The Evening " ‘ t quent, deliveries | of information| unforeseen element crops up I feel| for booze is not on the road to sue. George D. Harris Coal Company of Without Food While Entombed, but] wor : to stop and 18,000 men will bo thrown | brought remuneration to a total of | Ute seas, wi UT igen, No. 1 Broadway, a concern that has| contracts to supply the greater num-| her of New York's public institutions, ; © Public Service Com- ‘olice Head ft wi{ tion between Sixtieth Street gnd|does not give you the kind of seid to-day that the coal situation) os onen, pa, Dec. sh—Atter|224 orphans in the New York Nur-| mission. to-day Cee e datmad erred Grace teen | aaurten Duyvil has been worked out, |atrength that pute the punch into was desper"ir ing entombed by a tush of coal at {87% 4d Child's Hospital at No. 161] yforo than alxty construction con- | Tecorde Tho exceptions deal with pointe in| your work with the piel ; Chartes Evans Hughes $ “The railroad terminals are so con- ng entom 9 coal at! wont Sixty. A s tt the vicinity of Spuyten Duyvil, The ulletin states that the only] preme Court Justice Hugh gested that {t Is almost impossible to| the Richards colliery of the Reading t Sixty-first Street, as a result|tracts on subway jobs In the bor- tunnel for the stretch between Six- | offensen for which an employce of the ments, Doctors Say He Will Recover— Others Risk Lives to Save Him. Company since Monday Iast, a period | of their efforts to win the three prizes 's Mother Goose picture contest, which has just closed, have brought Christmas cheer and happiness into the hearts of scores of little sufferers out of work if the railroads into this elty continue thelr embargo on all freight except foodstuffs, it waa an- oighs of Manhattan, Tho Bronx, inforced concrete alone averages 100,- | $350, | period of fifteen weeks. the deliveries extending over a Detective Barnitz testified to the identification of Koenig by Schleindl confident that @ final solution will be reached early next month, With o! or two minor exceptions, the whole physical plan bearing upon the aec- tieth and One Hundred and Twenty- there to any proposition to roof over coss, whether he be @ coal digger, a steel worker or an officer of the com- ny “Exercising your arm Iifting glasses company will be discharged without} urges co-operation with the new Col- HUGHES WON'T ACCEPT, Veoar the offer of the private secretary : "maid Mr. Har thot 1 $3,000,000 DIVIDED tend , ill be ed without | Suiy to Chatman Oscar B. Straus of 1 fat vpAlieet “a i sph Pia of ninety-six hours, Joseph Renock, that were offered for the best coloring Brooklyn and Queens depend upon s , ae eae beast poy (high re Rayer epee rata aig io bain ee Hapa aa F-| . miner, was taken out alive at 19|/9"¢ binding into book form of the| ing railroads for all their cement, steel AMONG ITS EMPLOYEES ‘Terminal Committen very much pre- | {sed at most of the campm an ago aa {tendered Ue position te’ Mr. sup goa serennate are filed with oars the) © OOO thas exeraiag, Mother Goose pictures that have been | ang tumber. ‘The cement used in re- eee ein Cemreronaa tans | tine. ain be Hae, Sher Secmanniinn Fomerar Heim understood th railroads cut down on the coal ship- appearing in The Evening World, as a ‘A torce of 120 men had been work= trict Attorney Perkins will be offered ton Law, tng for the last four days at the risk @@wn by Miss Eleanor Schorer. pan Lew of their lives in an effort to rescue The Evening World to-day turned the !mprisoned man, The rescue work OVer to that institution two hundred the tracks, or the place. 1000 barrels a month on the various underground Jobs, The supply is used almost as rapidly as it is received. “The city could have stored enough coal during the summer to meet such General Chemical Company Distri- butes Christmas Gifts on Basis an emergency as this, but this was) i. aeoeodingly dangerous owing to Of the most neatly and cleverly fin-| giout G00 railroad cars a month are not done. Woe simply cannot get’ i. many hundred tons of loose rock !hed books that were entered in the | ised in bringing it here. | of 10 Per Cent. of Salary. {it Pennsylvania coal in sufficient quan-| o6.4 cont which separated them from Contest, to be distributed among the! Wriig there is a small supply of ce _ . CAMDPN, N. J., Dec. 4.—The Gei tities to begin mecting the demand. | ty vi iae, little children in the nursery and| ov on hand, it was explained by| CAMDDN, N. J., Dec. 4.—The Gen- : “cas ‘The same is true of the Virginia coal! m_ mon encountered @ large steel hospital as Christmas gifts from the] ++. Commission, It will be used up|cm™! ¢ ies ertae4 Bevisg \ / i supply. The greater amount of the! oo: in the gangway, and it was neces- | ther kiddies in the outside world. | very goon and unless new shipments Piped Ais Sere a orp 98 pray \Mb ‘amg latter is shipped to New York from sory to chisel the car away before| 80 meritorious were six of the books | °o 0°, in all work in which concrete | States, to-day 3.000," | Norfolk by steamers and barges, Be- among its 15,000 employees on a basis of 10 per cent, of thelr earnings the past year, The Camden plant employs 400 workmen and their gifts ranged from $50 to $150. The moncy was deposited with the the rescue work could be continued, | ¢ntered tn the contest that The Eve- Members of Renock's family were at | 2/0 World has decided to award six the mine when he was released, He | PTz68 of $5 each, instead of three, - was able to talk but was in auch a 89 announced. Two prizes will be varded In each of the three classes weakened condition from exhaustion | “Wr Seiya . |into which contestants were divided | enters will have to be suspended. This means that practically every job must shut down. ‘The item of steel is also very im- portant, for the new subways are en- For Constipation h Telephone Etiquette and lack of food, that he was im-| tirely of steel and concrete. Bome of | National Stute Bank, each man re- A A id B mediately rushed to a hospital, He| @ccording to age, the contractors are reaching the end|colving checkbook’ containing his n id to etter In the first class, for children under a blank check so that he | Will recover. | of their supply and unless shipments | share and Telephone Service OUSTED FROM SCHOOL Commission began taking In the second class, between five he railroada will likely ‘Trolley Collides With Dirt five years of age, the prize winners tt to come in| Might allow tt to remain on deposit are Henrietta Fitchner, five years old, | fF" Ne rae nat of the work will |? Withdraw as desired, iv ae | RIDGEFIELD PRINCIPAL — or So, sass Besckor stieet, Brookiyn, |S ha fous has’ the situation bo- | §1X HURT IN CAR SMASH Good telephone service is in a large measure | oP. 4 ft rious has = Ne. t erie Wear etree “that enginesrs of the Public elie dependent upon the constant practice of certain stock to-day. well defined rules of telephone usage that help | and ten years, the prizes are awarded | 9 appealed to and asked to make Cart, Injuring Passengers. | ii rove the quali: of your service. , The Delicious Laxative Chocola| { of Education in New Jersey|', Wiliam Edgar Jones, nine years | steel and cement exceptions to the ea this atter-| il mp! q nee brief! joa os Ex-Lax rolleyes. congtipation, regulatae Board of Education in New Jersey} ciao No, 210 Elton Street, Brooklyn, | embargo rul Lgpiakapeibabdiy elit ie ae we These rules may be briefly summarized a Fee cs claetion: Good for Town Takes Action After a and Spat, aaa ua Oke ~_ NDREDS IN A RIOT collided with a dirt cart at One Hundred | il follows:— \ |. 10¢, 25¢ and 50c, > f 01d, of No. 609 West One Hundred an and Eighth-first Street, the Bronx. The| A ". jl = Stormy Session, Sixtieth Street, New York, HU most seriously injured was John McGin- | 1.—Always consult the Telephone Di- (8pectal to ‘The Eventng World,) The thira class prizes, for children AT JERSEY SILK MILL nla of No. 4469 Park Avenue, driver of rectory to be sure you callthe - | HACKENSACK, N. J., Dec. %4.—| from ten, to Aifteen years old, Ko to | we cer ae Tan noghelle, “the Lehane right number. | he ald Pi a .| George Marquardt, eleven years old, | -_—— lance surgeon, treated five passengers 4 4 e The Ridgeflela Park Board of Educ ot No. 21 Arthur Street, Clifton, Nod, for rain oF or ingurtes, | -If you cannot find the desired tion after a stormy session to-day! ang Lona Smed, thirteon years ol 5 Non-Union Night Workers At- number in the Directory,call ‘In- found Principal Walter D, Davis of|No. $25 Vanderbilt Avenue, W: 0 gon, nati t ict! 3 f tian, he High School guilty of the charges | haven, Ls. 1 | as y 250 of Day 478 Wickersham Avenue; formation. Absolutely Removes ie igh Bohoot guilty of ¢ meeee Honorable mention for their excel-| tacked hy ' : Rapeerne, Ho. 518 Sieve are: 1 d. distinctly di- | Preferred against him. ‘The voto waa) ont contributions has been awarded Shift—5 Injured. Hundred and Bighty-fourth Street, and 3.—Speak clearly and distinctly dé Indigestion. One package |» to 4, and dismissal was at once or-| ihe. following children: ‘aynvond |Sainuel Well, No. 1982 Clay Avenue rectly into the transmitter. dered. Gleason, age seven, No. 116 Charios T, N. J, Deo. 24.—In a riot Seana = it tition of ves it. abcat all dru; ists, | ase reaseneltos W Bie SUMMIT, N, J, 2 4.—Listen tothe operator's repetition o! pro ee Principal Davis was charged with| Street, New Jtochello; Warren Hrouk | arly to-day at’ the Summit Sk) PROGRESSIVES CHOOSE T. R. the number and acknowledge it. being inefficient, with mispronounc-| fy; Robert Byron, elght, Mills, in which seventy-five non- anion ing words, with using ungrammatical | phrases, with conduct unbecoming a teacher In once teaching bis class on When talking over the telephone give your whole attention to the telephone conversation. unton night workers were attacked by 250 union day workers, four of the night shift were beaten and slashed Move to Hav Mt nue, Brooklyn; Dori N a Pr y LANSING, Mich, Doo. 24.—Petitions | ff . oe eink Tent an ua a alge iain te jand another man may love AN @¥8 11, digce the name of Theodore ~To recall the operator move the Pees oneavatine . ™ nine, No. 283 Brighton Aven Paul Gerl!, Prestdent of the com-t vee on the Prosidential primary ballot receiver hook up and down slowly Amboy, N. J.; Murgare 4 Fast Moriches, Long | ; Adaline Nugent, ten, No. 660 Pulton Bt pany, issued an ultimatum that If the union men do not return to work on individuals he will not as candidate of the Na- were fled to- Moat in Michigan tional Progressive Party day with the Secretary of State. —Answer your telephone promptly. It's a courtesy your telephone TO QUICKLY CLEAR AWAY : ? Brooklyn; Edna Verderber, n, | Monday as wore obtained in De- iates, No, 1183’ Lafayette Avenue, Brook- | again employ them Sf aie elgnataren ‘eae © in I caller apprec' wr . BAD BREATH GOES REDNESS, PIMPLES, RASHES, | Wyn; Ruth Fiaitich, eleven, No. 1178] qnere has been trouble at the mills] “It te understood that former Progres. 8.—When you have finished talking, '* tnam Avenue Brooklyn; verett | auring the Iast eighteen months, ‘The | sives who have returned to the Repubit- and said “Good-bye,” replace the Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets, the sub- w. alsh, el J unton of the weavers ts a local one|oan Party are giving impetus to @ move- atitate for calomel, act gently and ef- When it is necessary to quickly clear nue, Bronx and not affiliated with any national ment to have ol Hookavalt's nanie ‘also receiver on the hook. a vegetable compound mixed with olive | Poslam can serve you in this manner, on bone epee ntdean wrote tn shels Ths Hotine was aveliod Behe ootty: | Hole tm Temple tn Brooklyn Home, 10,—-Let the telephone reflect your per- oil. Known by their olive color. Take sonality in as pleasing a manner ‘one or two every night for a week. Hine as though you were talking face all occasions, you will understand why it is accepted as the standard remedy for Jultus Bauer, twenty-three years old, connected with Car! Bauer's and or orphans destined to receive their contributions in the hospital, One of and Child's Hospital when the picture pot yy 864 Sold by all __| these letters was as follows ‘ Mee aleinititeds tamesae Son, plano dealers, of Brooklyn, was to face. Fe ee eral Mecin aia se ases. Sold by all druggists. pT, the child that gots this tn aoe ee ee ifte were ivan ete ely | round dead with « bullet hole in his e808 Sf GPURararS Ady 0 hospita 0: f 6 home, No, 1199 Carroll ‘ , " | On EAL elim ae ~ | little group of half a dozen kiddies | temple at his home, No. arro| The Olive Tablet Co. Columbus, 0. i= = = Opie Callas Z wis yon f Merry” |eathered at a small tabla and soon | stroct, ‘ The| 2 The Voice With the Smile Wins. )Q_ $$ <r ‘eta Fa gan grossed the picture d- | police repa — = Happy New Your, I hope vou got For Mother Goes. Even the suicide, By. a mistake in the | better and live to see many an ate toc ‘0 know wi sport his name Was tecorded as that many'a more happy “Chriatn jlttle tots too small to Know what the | petite cousit Josenn lnuer, an officer | New York Telephone Company ; ANNA KULLMANN, ala ee ie} " of Stute & Bauer, plano No, 803 One Hundred “and Fifty Were caught by the gay | turers, of Manhattan, and © gn tos oF found articles ad~ Oth Bitten Noe wane Clee the children had put Into theiz| Hauer suffered much annoyanc Nertised in The World will he Another Tinto’ contestant wrote the | artistic efforts, and they enjoyed the| the error, forma= 2 an tne an |} books with the old tddies. Sofiia RPS Building Pe ee, eee le. ne eater | So all the ch n who took part Chill Bays Silver Here, ellen ee r Hditor; If my book does SDB) CUE AR Pa ae tae Sey LIMA, Veru, Deo, 24.—In Une with and Hrondway not take a prize, Lhope that it will | Rave made Te emit | the recent legislation through which tt ; make some sick child happy | jie cape and brought Chriatmes;i@ Planned to solve the problem of frac- stmas Day cheer into the hearts of two hundred | Uonal silver cotnage the Government has sail SH, Waifs ov thvalids: purchased in New. York 145,000, ounces * provkiyn, for 30 01 New les jot silver, which will be shipped to Lima following the printing of th York y —— by wa) on to be coined in the mint Le eee amaent, Exclamations of glee and tittle! aly One “Brome Quinine.” |. ‘hore. It is probable that another tot of — Lf shricks of gladness and surprise filled | ty Bea Suis leahus sanaare of “4 allver will be purchased @bortly, to be = the wards of the New York Nursery |W, GWOVE, Ours Cold la One Day: abe-raan; coined in Phdedel pe