The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1915, Page 1

KIRCHWEY ASKED TO TAKE OSBORNE’S JOB AT SING SING. SS Che [“ Circulation Books Open to All "| PRICE =———— ONE CE ablishing The Preas York World). FRENCH D SING SING POST OFFERED 0 RIRCHWEY DISMISSAL [8 IMIMINENT a Former Dean of Columbia Law School Has Conference With Governor and Riley. OSBORNE GIVES BAIL. Held in $2,000 Bond, but Pleading to Indictment Is Delayed. ALBANY, N W. Kirchwey of New York wi fered the Wardenship of of- Sing Sing Prison by State Prison Superintendent | Riley this afternoon. pected to accept the offer. Kirchwey is ex- He would succeed Thomas Mott Osborne, who will be dismissed by the Superintend- ent following the charges of the Westchester County Grand Jury Kirchwey, who formerly was dean of the Columbia Law School, bas been associated unofficially with Osborne in prison work. Although Kirchwey's appointment ts in the hands of Superintendent Riley it is known to have the en- dorsement of Gov, Whitman, Kirch- ‘wey came here early this afternoon to confer with the Governor and Riley. After a conversation of more than two hours, Supt. Riley left for a short time. He said Mr. Kirchwey had not reached a decision and that probably ho would not make up his mind until Mate in the afternoon or to-night. Mr. Kirchwey remained with the Gov- ernor. Following out bis expressed beliefs, Kirchwey would continue the humane methods in his administration of Sing Sing. Less radical than Osborne, he either would abolish the Mutual Wel- fare League or decrease its powers, dt Is expected, OSSINING, N. ¥., Dec arriving at Sing Sing 19,—Upon Prison from White Plains Warden Osborne found hundreds of telegrams from all over of the port “Every righteous feeling out- raged by this dastardly action,” read one from George Foster Peabody. "I @end you my warmest sympathy and should be glud to do anything pos- sible to uid.” “Stay with them until hell freezes over, and then fight them on skates,” was the text of « message from the Pathtinders’ Club, “’housands of people in this coun try are behind you in your noble work,” was the message of A. Lin oln Filine of Boston country assuring bim sup: Y., Dec. 29—George NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1915. RIVE IN J “Circulation Books Open to All. | 14 PAGES THE VOSGES HALTED; WEATHER—Rain to-night; Thureday clearing. PRICE ONE CENT. RUSSIANS REPULSED, BERLIN CLAIMS TELLS A THRILLING STORY OF ANCONA dr. Greil Says U-Boat Was Used to Slaughter Pas- AS OSBORNE sengers in Ship. CREW WAS COWARDLY. | irs Manned Only a Few Boats: | When Shells Were Crash- | ing Into the Liner. Dr. C. F, Gretl, an American woman who was saved when the Italian lner ‘Ancona was sunk, arrived here to- | day on the French line steamship Ro- |chambeau, with a thrilling account ot} the manner in which the submarine} poured shots into the Ancona’s life |boats as they were being lowered, The | <9 GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY: :> | woman's own esca pure luck, maid from death was| rted, her she a Greil Nov, 7%." said Dr “when we | NEW N 0) Ny FLASH felt a tremor run through the ship as| | | | | plosion of a shell. The boat was dis- | tinetly stopping at that instant, When |1 reached the deck shota from the —_>— | having been killed by a shell when the engines were stopped and then| reversed, A moment Inter there was) submarine were pouring into us, I |#aw the submarine about one hundred only a few inches away from her, REE HIP p) | “I was seated in the dining saloon at the captain's table at noon, on a shock forward, caused by the ex- yards off in spite of the thick fog. |Coast Guard Cutter Seneca | “They attempted to lower fifteen Races to Aid of the | boats, but the shots kept pouring into! |them, both on the deck and in tho Thessalonik water, and only eight were launched sucecssfully, I was in one of tho eight | Our only impulse was to row away. 1 have been asked if we thought that the | submarine might aid us. The thought! never crossed our minds. We had no {dea that this agent of death would be | f any assistance The mon aboard her were used to slaughter and what they were engaged in was not re; it was mas The captain told me later that he Summoned by a wireless call for help, is speeding to the aid of the Greek | steamer Thessaloniki, With 300 pas sengers aboard the Thessaloniki was this the coast guard cutter Sene to us in distress morning about 250 | miles east of New York and laboring| ere toward this port at the rate of two had seen the faces of the subma ] miles an hour jrine'’s crew, and he judged the dis: A despatch from New London,| taro to be about one hundred yar I burried below and was leaning over my trunk trying to get some things packed, when a shell came through the port hole of my cabin and tore Conn., says the Seneca reported by wireless at 1 o'clock this afternoon, thirty-nine fifty-five north, seventy- two thirty-four west, that nothing|nway the scalp and part of the skull| had been heard from the Greek|of my maid, who waa by my alde, ae een GOs i otsinck standing crect. ‘The shell went on The Greek vespo) is bound from rea lah iad arnaen ates Piraeus, Greece, 4d New York. She it _ Ae passed Gibraltar Dee, 1, Last ROD fh BAY SUE OR GACK BRS | found @ scene of wild excitement will not say anything havior of the crew, bi 1 the be- can't | Wednosday, when 700 miles from the American coast, she sent out her first $8 OS call, reporting that her boller| bout ause | and engine rooms had been partly|®Y anything that w pul be good flooded in a heavy storm, The steam- | phe’ BATHS MOR Wve ad onon ship Stampalia hurried to her relief, | Probably ad fathers and husbands, were crazed with blood and seeking but soon received word that the cane. caneeed Thessaloniki would not require ald,|@!! they could get it 9 sub OSBORNE IS HELD IN as tho water had been pumped from) marian orem ok 1 ¢ mia ty on 7 her holds, while we rowed away, and, at pre $2,000 BAIL, BUT HIS Yesterday morning the Thessaloniki | claly slock by my wrist wateh, PLEADING IS DELAYED | reported by wireless that she was) the Ancona plunged to her grave. The me 300 miles east of Sandy Hook and In| submarin 9 still ins at that) Special to The Bening World,) no danger. Early to-day thy Atlantic) time WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., Dec, transport liner Mongolla, lying at} “{ will say that I don’t think the Thowas Mott Osborne, Warden of| anchor off Sandy Hook, picked up a| submarine inteutionally fired on Bing Sing Prison, unde Indictment| wireless message from the Thess-| lifeboats. | base this assertion on on charges of mismanagement of the} ajoniki saying that she was again in| the fact thut those eight lifeboats lay prison and personal immorality, ap-| distress, giving her position and add-. helplessly in front of i could peared before County Tudge Willlam ing that she was " aking two miles have been destroyed ¢ ly. They were P, Platt this morning and was ad-|an hour toward New York." Her trying to sink the Ancona with shells, mitted to bail in the sum of $1,000 on | engine room is floode? again {to save a torpedo, but when they each of the two charges against him.| ‘phe news was forwarded to the that impossible they finally Robert Brewster of Mount Kisco, mil-| radio operator at the New York Navy und sent her ty the Monaire Chairman of the Westchester Yard and thence to the commander t whidn ft the harbor t was w French d, Will require nearly! 1 lost $20.1 <4 reach the distressed furniture 1 owned kee world wee abverd thal slip | Lane concluded | is reddish.” Lloyd Osbourne’s Hair W as} Red, but She Admits She Was “Experimental.” Mrs, Irene Sheffield Ere to- day her expressions of disregard for her husband, Lawyer Justus Shep field, before Vice-Chancellor Vivian Lewis in Jersey City, who Is constd- ering her plea for a divorce. Mocritt his cros-exantina- tion by asking questions as w par-| allels in real life of the persons and situations In her book, the “Golden. Hollow,” in which she described her {deal Dream Boy with black wavy hair which wns fingers through “Did you ever moet a man who ap+ pealed to you?” he asked. | “I never met nine te mun the such a man,” answered, “My husband never} roused the mating instinct in me.! Every woman has a rigtt to be roused. It {8 an instinct God given her.” | “My Ife is ke an inverted tele- scope’ you say in your book,” the lawyer continued. “Is that your view of life? | “It all depends on which way tho| telescopo is pointed,” she replied “But [ know what you mean, things too sensibly.” “Did you invite Joseph Colt to your home in Short Hills?" “Yes, because my husband wes al- ways away. There were lots of other men who would have come to me at my beck or nod. J only met Mr. Colt but a few nights before, but I invited him to dinner none the less, I have an experimental mind, 1 wanted to know| sho has “No,” answered the plaintiff, with a sniff; “he had Mght hair." “Ah!” beamed the lawyer; “ana| what sort of hair has Lloyd Os-| bourne, the author?” Mrs, feld replied, with cold scorn: “What hair Mr, Osbourne has “Your heroine sent a diamond- studded miniature to her Dream Boy, said Mr, Lane, "Did you ever send a miniature to Lloyd Osbourne. “T did not,” she snapped. Mr. Lewis read 2 passage from the book In whieh shy called her home a co-habitation f an unspiritual enigma.” “is unsoclabtiities and that a description of your asked Vice-Chancellor Lawty * replied Mrs. Sheffield, “Why an enigma?” inquired Mr Up te Movenibes of this year Sheet » to November of this year Sheviln ane, In the : iden Hollow" is @ de- r presontative He) panies, i t com seription of 4 rousquerade at which | jp i ante @ Pr ' ' Shovi Tha hersiie and Ua ; Pika be I flenry BR. Ma in or r if first premiums Shevlin paid on ter who Is 4 portoait of Sheffield, ane hi on | Re Oba EG IBRUERDSS WES Papo ried tended costumed as Charlotte Cor- | ee? Na til day and Marat. | no wa i Ahevitn, Company holding “You knew,” asked Mr, Lewts,! 4", ah f imber interests of “what ¢ Jott rl eas fea Diatreot vil wo win le the fet Attorr rt vonetiomry t fe ineurance I remember, Mra, Shee. | “1 bs i 14, ahovite was thine field stabbed Nin to death in 4 1 1 mas “fl , us th As wo a bathtub, Was that your fecling toward you at Eoulbe0 wae ha Gio F husband’ Was that y jea of what wen he died a few ought to happen to him w Ary ago “Oh, I don't know,” said Mra. Shet-| Prank A } football at Yale fou e |ney Ger 1 4 be tain durt h ant | (Continued on Second Page.) Tease: tau or In 1000, y of A } b 1 Inte aver played on ¥ An bi Ron 7 fm a 1 . ur far ant 1 i would in athiet nN 1 w rat vee w r a 1 ‘ i How t natn ‘ 1 oO * a 1. I ¥ yin 1 war, 1 did not | a no hor lige the 88 of the interna 1 TBLMILURtKEA, WHE i SAILING TO-DAY, Thar ais v the pene ut la " Dr. G % Bi Algonquin, Turk’s Isle 3PM P . hotel doe alti iichany are C. of Columbus, Savannah.. 3P.M played un the Fi - — wit “ Wastin " all ASALE TO REMEMBER, to Miss Kliz , TON Siy pea YT We 619-50 y in 1009. He ty survived Gerning Viv dimwatoss bie ats the are ago and 045 eisewiegg’advy by bia wife and two children, POODL® CLGHH DYE * DO ROG a WOMAN SUR NONE LIKE “DREAM BOY,” __ SAYS MRS. SHEFFIELD ee eeeens THREE WAR STRIKE PLOTTERS ARE HELD UOERS5 00 BAL ) “Wolf of Wall Street,” Taylor it he would come.” | “Did Colt have nice wavy black hair, like your Dream Boy?" asked Mr, Lane, meaningly. and Monnett Give Them- selves Up. David Lamar, the "Wolf of Wall Street,” wit ven others of Labor's National Peace Council lead- ers, was indicted yesterday the Federal Grand Jury for violation of the Anti plants, Sherman ust law in fos tering munitic went to the Federal Building at noon to-day and gave himself up. Jacob C. Taylor, President of (he Peace Council, also Indicted, appeared t Rach pleaded not guilty before Judge Hand Augustus N in the United States District They were held in $5,000 bali TOM SHEVLN DEAD FROM OLD TAKEN COCHIN YALE Famous Football Star, After Effort to Regain Health, Is Stricken With Pneumonis MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. Thomas L, Shevlin of Minneapolls, millionaire lumber man and Yale football coach, died at his home here early to-day of pneumonia, Mr. Shevlin contracted a cold while training the Yale football squad last fall. He had confined to bed only six days After leaving Yale Shevlin went to California to rest. He returned to hia home in Minneajolis last Wednesday ne following day pneumonia devel oped. Dec, 29.— Shevlin, who was one of the most heavily insured men in this country, carried policies aggregating $2,000,000. ' ——_—_——_+4-—__ — EIGHT ATTACKS BY RUSSIANS IN DESPERATE EFFORTS 10 BEND BACK AUSTRIAN LINE Berlin Reports That for One Stretch of Twenty-Five Hours There Was Continuous Fire by the Russian Guns, but Enemy Failed. BRITAIN READY TO DRAFT :| THE UNMARRIED ‘SLACKERS’ =RLIN, Dec. 29 (via London).—The offensive movement under- taken by the French in the Vosges, at Hirzstein, is Saidvby the German War Office to have broken down last night. | “The French twice attacked positions on Hartmannsweilerkopf, jtated certain points in our trenches, After the first attack the enemy, was driven off everywhere immediately, Fighting for possession of cer= tain trench sections continues.” The Czernowitz (Bukowina) correspondent of the Tageblatt says the Russians have made eight attacks against the Austrians on the Bess- arabian border since Christmas night. Despite a tremendous expenditure of ammunition and men the attacking forces have not yet succeeded in breaking through the lines, , Every time the weakened columna WILSOH AND HIS BRIDE |x % sen na CAUGHT IN A STORM rained The Russian maintained “ gunfire for twenty-five hours, which Drenched With Kain While Out for a Walk They Are Hurried Was audible in Czernowite, Back to Hotel. LONDON, Dec, 29, HOT SPRINGS, Va, De President Wilson and hie br out|that Russia, {1 for a walk this afternoon, were caught) ¢ in sudden storm, A White House automobile tok them, dripping, back to the hotel telegrams repulsed ~Deaperate fight.’ ing on the Galictan-Bessarabian fromt is mentioned in both Russian and Austrian official state 29.—| This seems to sup, nents, ‘ the forecasts tead of dire - acking Bulgaria, hopes to pees the Pressure on the entente allies in the Balkans and in Asia Minor and tme press Rumania and Greece by a di- congratulating Wilson on his tifty-ninth | Yersion to the north, with the inte: st, birthday continued to-day to pour|{f possible, of breaking t into Hot Springs. More than 200 bad| Austrian lines s through the Approxl- | News also ¢ Rather vomes of the capture py Lansing, | the MKussiang of K han, one of the na rincipal cities of Persia, and of an al ituation, advance toward the aull more im- portant elty of Ispahan. Undowbte edly the Russian advance will by ave THREE AIRSHIPS LOST an ...portant political effect in Pere and possibly an influence upon pre octed movement of the came tral powers against Exypt. Sar — >— {One Was a Large Aeroplane Which Ms REAT BA TLE OVER Was Shot Down in Baitle CONSCRIPTION TO BE | FOUGHT IN COMMONS LONDON, Dec. 29.—The greatest Parliamentary battle in many decades was foreshadowed to-day by the aus BY BRITISH, SAYS BERLIN in the Sky. Deo. 29 (v Jay the W In a London) r Offtee | BERLIN, its report t The Hritish lost two aeroplanes | 0) 20m yesterday. One wus forced to |thoritative announcement that the end 1 pe t 1e north of Lens. jSereroment intends to introduce next The other, a large aeroplane, was shot | Vee* & BLL providing for a modified Jown In an aer battle ny of | Couseription, Hun, On December 27 a third-claaa ane aa? adopted the follow- Ing polie Hritish aeroplane was destroyed by fire, wost of Lille," | First—The Premier's pledge to take single men before mar- id men is binding on the whole Governmen BRITISH OFFICER HELD | <itranern™"™ 0 IN $199,099 THEFT) ceisemes sortase” * | Third—The principle of coms pulsory service shall be ae: cepted; Fourth—The Premier shall make this announcement to P: liament as soon as possible after it reassembles Jan, 6 An Informal conference of Labor | members of Commons now in London |was called, Other Laborites are en a here from provincial districts, ‘Trades union heads who early ta the be matter Was purely political, war dapounced conscription were ex-