The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1915, Page 1

=r FANAL | eS MAYOR ON WITNESS STAND INDORSES EVENING WORLD'S PLAN TO QUT TAK BURDEN GAN'T DRINK AND FLY," SAYS W, THAW IN COURT French Scores State for te for Seating City With Millions to Build Up-State Roads. j Army Airman Denies Pub- lished Allegation That He Was a “Scapegrace.” | PLEA FOR REAL “You Can Change It by Turn-' ing Your Hand,” Says ESTATE, Lieut. William Thaw of the French aviation corps, whoae internment has! been demanded by German sympa- | tnisers in this country, was before | United States Commissioner Hough= ton this afternoon in his Mbel suit against the New York American for| $200,008, Mayor Mitchel, Thaw, undor examination, sald that Btand before the Brown Investigating! he joined the French army on ac- SOON vount of his affection for France, his Sere fein ce one ny necessity, alike for Germany and his fondness for (ying. He admitted that he was The Evening World's i» under age when be took the French Oqualizing taxation and easing Allegtance, but said he bad the per- frurden on real estate. mission of his mother, His sult ts for ‘As the Mayor urged that thé State {damages on account of alleged mis- representation to the effect that be must do its share toward helping the ¢lity, Senator Brown sald Was a scapegrace regenerated by his “I think [ read this in ‘The Evening Wagner (to Brown. on the witness) indorsed grainme for thé marriage to Miss Gladya Virginia Bradley, a sister of Mrs. Anthony | Drexel Biddle. Ho declared that he is unmarried "World." and ia a half nephew to Hurry K.| . a a,” ’ e Thaw. He dented that he is intemper. ee a ee tat , bus claimed being a testotaler Mayor, “but the ideas are ideas that Reine and fy, you-I mean the Legislature—must ee oonsider.” ~ WOMAN ANNOYED ACTRESS. Ths Mayor went along and set eae forth the entire Evening World pro-| press Designer Is Ar gramme and some ideas of his ow! particularly with reference to ex- t osicaid Magistrate Ten Eyck, in the West cise. x8 ‘ Side Court this afternoon, warned The Mayor then said that if New Rares: Florence Fontaine, a blue-cowned | York is to get through the next ten pave te Set hid blonde, that she must cease annoying | ‘' 1 ster the State will | 2 STA aoc algal Miss Henrietta Crossman, who is ap-| have to render material ald by #0 caring at the Palace Theatre. Miss he burden of taxation that | Pearing @ Cee ee ey ad Fontaine had been brought into court the tax rate of the city shall be cut | Penn ie ee mocured. by Maurice Fem swenty-alx to chirty pointe Campbell, husband of Miss Cross. | {Birst the Mayor suggested regulat-] man, who complained she had been | tening is wife! ing expenses so that there shall be | @nnoying and threa: ad direct tax next year and tie city | Sg. toat Be feared she might attempt bodily injury. will be saved $14,000,000 and the tax| The woman denied any intention to rate will be reduced 174 points harm Miss Crossman and said she “T'd like to outline what the State| Was merely trying to get the money should do for us to enable us to save for some gowns she claimed to have | | designed for the actress and $500 she} thirty poi If the State can andj said she had loaned her. She had| will void the levy of direct State tax sued for t money in a civil court, | ask also that we be given home rule powers over county expenditures, the | Mi‘ ADOO NOT INS SENATE RACE, result would be about $2,000,000. Also daceins ‘we want salary control. "We want the State to bean the cost of vocational training. We could save $1,000,000 and reduce the tax rate 1% points. ‘We ask, that the State give city a proper and equitable share ated mt the! © Theatre, WASHINGTON, Dee. 30 —Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has no desire or intention to be a candidate for the Senate to succeed Senator O'Gorman of New York, it was stated authoritatively tozday on, behalf of the Cabinet officer Adoo's attention was called to New York roports too, that he would run for O'Gorman's place, ¢ i Tt was said the Sec- of the proceeds of the bond issues, |Sitary had no knowledge of 0 Gormants eggregating $100,000,000, for new roads, | plans. oe SS This would save the city about pate 0 s sed. 000 or 2% points in the tax rate. | Cafe Owner Is Sentenced. Louis Holliday, who conducted a near- Bohemian restaurant at No, 60 South Washington Square to the distress of the highbrows and other uplifters exalted neighborhood, pleaded fealty in Special Sessions to-day to sell~ ng liquor without a license. He was sent to Jail for thirty days and 200 days more, less one day for each dollar he pays the city Further we'd like the State to give us stock transfer tax proceeds, which ‘would give us approximately $5,000,000, ‘and 65 per cent. of the automobile tax fevied in New York City. The chief ‘wear and tear on highways i# on city We could save $75,000 in this of that favor of the Stat ontinuing the | system of good roads as heretofore | established | "Yes," replied the Mayor, “but I think the five counties should have a share in the proceeds of the bond ts- sues for this purpose,” "You talk,” said Senator Brown, “as if these measures you speak of could e acocmplished just like turning your ) hand over." Mayor Mitchel made a strong plea for legislative action which will give this city an equitable share of the money it pays {n taxes for the build-| ‘ng of up-State roads. The city ha already paid $35,000,000 for this pur- pose, not a penny of which bas been expended within the city Hmits, and 4s committed to the expense of $ 000,000 more. Ghauld share in any way in eppropri- | O°? PUt Jn Senator Wagner. "Do ation for highways, Mayor Mitchel | '* 80d 1 will help ones replied that it is time somebody took own said that first wp the question, because the city, in sacand: 650 addition to paying for the construc a tion of up-State roads. is now being | yy, a a pee tal yield the muleted for repairs to these reads, apportionmen es Naeeeaattne @emator Brows uphed: “Are you dy Livin,” A. Circulation Books _Open to All.’ Conretants 1916, by The Prove Pabltshing The New York World). | bids were opened on Sept. 10. | Osborne Saved by Whitman; Gets Vacation to Fight ee HANDED TO U. S. AMBASSADOR AT VIENNA BG SIGNAL JOB SWUNG BYB.RT,, ~— SALMON ASSERTS He Also Says He Accused Rival Firm of Conducting a Bribery Campaign. HOWHEHIREDJOHNSON, Place After ‘ne! Admitted Placing Money for Other Corporation. Gave Him Wilmer W. Salmon, President of the General Railway Signal Company, | that got the $1,500,000 signal contract for the Fourth avenue subway, was a witness to-day before the Thomp- son Investigating Committee, committee is particularly anxious to learn what truth there is in reports that a $50,000 “slush fund” figured in this contract. Mr. Salmon said his company was invited early in August, 1914, to bid on the contract, He advised his peo- ple to complete as soon as possible a “speed control” system on which they had long been working. He urged the railway people (the B. R. T.) to extend the time for bids as fas as possible. His company was try- ing to buy the Simmen speed control system, They got it on Sept. 8, and the On Bept 17 he asked leave to submit a proposal based the speed control scheme on pressed and said he would ask the Muntcipal Railways Company to enter- tain a new bid based on this system. His company, he said, prepared a new bid and late in October the rajl- way company told us they had ob- tained the consent of the Public Ser- vice Commission to their accepting our bid, This left us still subject to the approval of the engineers of the The| HER HONEYMOON MAY BE ABRUPTLY ENDED ‘WHITMAN OFFERS HISWIFETOLD HIM. “*s'ehaze tt OSBORNE VACATION SHELOVED ANOTHER =~~gage"*=": TO FIGHT CHARGES, SHEFFIELD SWEARS Kirchwey Will Run Sing Sing, Also Asked Him to Stay Away) While the Present Warden While She Had “Adven- Is Away. | ture” at Home. pares Ri, WAS BLOCKED.)/ONCE WAS VERY LOVING. | Prison Head Wanted to Oust Osbome Summarily—Whit- man Deluged With Protests. |Governess Tells of Turtle Dove | Slage in Life of Pair Who Seek Divorce. | | | | | ALBANY, N. Y., 30.—Gov. | Whitman s'spped into the Osborne. | Dee, Justus Sheffleld’s defense against lis wife's charges of cruelly and his) Riley prison controversy to-day, ad.| effort to prove that she had wilfully! vising Riley against “hasty decision | deserted him was begun before Vice Chancellor Vivian Lewis in Jersey City. Miss Victoria Thien, for two at the Capital, | years @ governess in the Sheffictd| Riley had announced that unieny| Ome at Short Hills tn charge of the Osborne resigned to-day ho would re- | little boy Netson, now dend, wan the | first witness. Sho was questioned Ah effield's attorney, Merritt Lane. Q. What was Mr, Sheffield's attitude toward his wife’ A. He was very af- fectionate to her always. He was the most affectionate husband I have ever neen, He was always kissing Mrs. Sheffield) He made a fuss over her every time she came near him. Why, Mr. Lane, if he was forced to go to the elty on business the telephone was tinkalinking all the time—he calling her and she calling him. Q. You had full opporunity view thelr family Hfe? A. For t yeurs I lived with them as a member on the question of Osborne's removal, ccording to @ report in circulation | MRa, IDA Vo! von, CLAUSSEN DONA. FLIGHT 10 MARRY LIKE MOVIE, SAYS IDA VON CLAUSSEN | But the Extent of Her Honey- |move him, aa a resi of the Sing! Sing Warden's indictmen* on charges of negligence and !mmorality. Whit- man's alleged promise to retain Os- | borne unless charges were proven | | was cited as a powerful influence in the Warden's favor. to-day received hundreds of telo-| grams and letters demanding that Osborne be retained pending his trial. | At the conference it was decided to send an ultimatum to Osborne. | This was that Osborne must retire as head of the prison, at least until! the The Governor) Indictments are disposcd of. | moon Trip Will Depend Representatives of the other bidders! Under the plan he would retain the | % the family, 1 dined with them and were there title of Warden, but Dr. Kirchwey | Went to New York and dined with On the Money “Two days later,” said Mr. Salmon,| would be designated ax the active|“°™ tere. 1 never knew but one I went over the merits of the Sim-|head of the Institution with full wereement Detweed. them, Thay | men system with Chief Engineer Men-| authority over its inmates | was when Hutchins Hapgood came| Mrs. Ida Von Claussen Dona, who den of the Municipal Railways Com-| qt was decided that if Osbc ene, to ak Raid one afternoon | was married Monday while under pany (B. R. T;) and my own chief en-| would not consent to this Supt. Riley | Whe" MEY tad Al enkaweknie | carole from thy State Hospital for the gineer. Mr. Menden seemed much im-| would remove him from office, Dr, | 9!?° : "sa sanigttl wanted to keep the engagement and| Insane at Matteawan, was tn blithe- Kirchwey immediately sought to con- | ave Mr. Hap) t Short Hills, 0 ° ong ¢ sult with (Onborne by telephone at | ee%*_ Mr, evened a Ber some mood when reached by long dis Sing Si ison to lay the plan be. | Sh® Wouldn't go, and Mr. SheMeld| tance telephone at the Hotel Dennis Bing Sing Be y the plan be-| nad to stay home and dine with Mr. fore him, Difficulty was experienced | in Atlantic City this morning. | Hapgood “Talk about you 0 “ in catablishing wire connection and | HOUSE WAS FURNISHED IN nice abe desler. tert gre Dr. Kirchwey announced shortly after COSTLY STYLE. seen me making my escape from New jnoon that he would leave for Sing] 2. Was Mra, Sheffield stimped for] york to New Jersey after wo wore Sing on @n carly afternoon train it] money? A. No, she bad plenty of|inarried, My disguise was an old he could not otherwise connect with| money. For the first #ix weeks ol skirt, a long coat and a hat a pulled the Warden. were at Short Hills a van drove up Municipal Railways Company and the| Dr. Kirchwey reached Osborne by| every morning with furniture sbe bad sore ote My PROR: U Sene vey Public Service Commission. telephone shortly after t o'clock. The] ordered to refurnish the house, She Fhere do you gu from’ where you When a public hearing was held two| Warden asked and was granted time|pought Venvtian carved beds and Oa dabeatiins ‘Belen We, cals of the competing companies’ repre-|te consult with his attorney, George|eyen bought doors to match them. o're running away from New sentatives complained that the Gen-|Gordon Battle, and some other of bis! ‘There was a relief medallion of a] York, you know,” was her ingenuous eral Railway Company had simply |friends, and promised to give a def} man's face she liked and I remember | ropiy. That's the idea, but I'm afrald reduced thelr bid below what had|nite reply later in the afternoon, She paid $2,000 for that | can’t run much further, You see, 1 hitherto been the lowest. After that, | Pepa | @. Was she considerate of ber hus-|ieft in such a hurry tbat all my Mr. Salmon said, he had ton or) WILL NOT QUIT UNL band? A, She was not. One evening| trunks and my money are still in twenty interviews with the engineers there were twelve guests expected | Now York.” | REMOVED, IS OSBORNE’S John T. Cade, Vice-President of| a MS Wondering why the bridegroom the Federal Signal Company, whose | STAND IN SITU. ATION. (Continued on Fourth Page.) didn’t proceed to replace the missing bid for the signal conyract was first epaenene | > wardrobe and supply the neecssary accepted and then rejected, was Special to The B funds for the honeymoon, the reporter called to the stand before Salmon} OSSINING, N. Y -A gen- THESSALONIKI REPORTS asked for further details about th: concluded his testimony Salmon chose to begin with his engaging Sidney G. Johnson, who had been forced to resign from the Unton Switch and Signal Company, Inci- dentally Mr, Salmon took several hot shots at that company. Johnson came to Rochester and asked him for a job, he said, telling him had been forced out, “He told that he m said Mr, Salmon, “that at a special meeting of the directors about July 15, 1914, L think, he had ben forced to resign. “He sald he was called to a special meeting of the directors, ‘They asked him whether he had disbursed money in getting contracts, He said plied ‘Yes: places and to persons a8 re as ordered by (Continued on Second Page.) comnized by Ge 40 (via London). — many ha 4 recognition to the de facto Government of Mexice headed by Gon. Venustianoc Carranse anen H BERLIN, De exte I paid it at times and in| 1 afr of cheerfulness pervades in ing Sing Prison to-day despite the Francia Albert Gilbert Dona, whom Mrs. Von Claussen bas married, Un- nature of the place, for the convicts til a day or so ago he was quite un- "NO CAUSE FOR ALARM,’ are convinced that the Mutual Wel known to the general public, and evi- fare system has been saved to them,|Greek Liner Making Port Under] dently--from the address he gave and they sure if Warden Thomas | |when procuring the marriage license Mott Osborne leaves a man in sym-| Slow Speed—Probably Here has been living a life in the pathy with his ideas will take bis| on Saturday. |freight yards of the Reading Raii- place. They are also Juljlant because | road, near Philadelphia. the warden is still with them, The| A radio message was received here What does your husband do, Mra tension which followed Mr, Ogborne's| to-day from the Greek steamer Thes-| yon Claussen; what is his business, L indictment has relaxed and there jy|Saloniki, which is making for this| jean? asked the reporter. not much fear of an outbreak \port, with her boller room partly Ue is an architect and an interior | Warden Osborne arrived at the| flood | decorat ame back over the wire. prison shortly after 9 o'clock thi “On account of small dan ‘Where did you meet him?” morning from Albany, He again de-| the message, “we come with On a steamer when L was coming Jclared that he would never get out| speed. Hngineers assure no cause for| puck from Hngland a couple of years of Sing Sing until he. way removed or/#larm. Account of strong winds! ago. We were introduced by mutual | had a leave of absence to prepare for speed four + When weatt m- | friends." | ia trial; Bofore Ieaving Albany the | Brave be six or seven| "He is not a recent acquaintance, {warden conferred with D I mile thea? | ward an Kireh- Re . , "Oh, no, I've known bim for two and was assu by Prof, K or tls 9! c ork Wne sald that) years, and when he sw what they . hat he would not accey at the rate of ed sie ls now] were trying to do to me in New York wardenship of Sing Sing Pr ,ex-|Mmaking the Thessaloniki should | he came to the rescue,” cept it wag distinctly understood he| each New York Saturday morning. Weal ta matad tis. Now-T think was to act only during the leave o¢| At noon yesterday she was 190 miles! my yrothus will turn over my prop: e@byouce of the wardeu, "off Sandy Mook. . WEATHER—Partly stoudy to-night and Friday, | » FANSL a aGke § _PRIOE ONE CENT. “ALLIED SQUADRONS SINK TWO AUSTRIAN WARSHIPS IN BATTLE ON ADRIATI i Destroyer Triglav Sent to Bottom by Torpedo, and Sister Ship Lika Is Blown Up by Mine—Rest of Squadron in Flight. ITALIAN TROOPS OCCUPY ANOTHER ALBANIAN PORT WASHINGTON, Dec 30.—Ambassador Penfield at Vienna has received Austria’s reply to the second American note regarding the sinking of the lIner Ancona. An official announcement to by effect was made by Secretary Lansing to-day. Ambassador Penfield reported that the reply was about 3,000 words long and that considerable time would be necessary to place the communication in code in the Embassy in Vienna. There was nothing in his depatch to indicate the tenor of the reply. Officials of the State Department believed the note would arrive some time before Saturday. French and Italian Fleets Head Off Austrian Warships PARIS, Dec. 30.—Two Austrian torpedoboat destroyers have been sunk in a battle between sea forces of the allies at a point outside of Cattaro, in the Adriatic. The official announcement of the French Marine Department reads as follows: “An Austrian naval division, having come out from Cattaro for the purpose of bombarding Durazzo, certain squadrons of the allies went forth to give battle. The Austrian torpedoboat destroyer Lika encountered a mine and was blown up. The destroyer Triglav, of the same type, was destroyed by the fire from the ships of the allies. The remaining war- ships of the enemy were pursued and fled in the direction of their base,” (There have been several previous encounters of lesser im- portance than the oné now reported in connection with Austrians’ attempts to interrupt transportation of Itallan troops to Albania and of supplies for the Serbian forces which have retreated to that country, Several supply ships have been sunk by Austrian war- ships. The destroyors Lika and Trigiav were sister ships built in 1913, They were 266 feet long, of 787 tons displacement. Each was armed with two 89-inch guns, six 1l-pounders and two torpedo tubes. Each carried crews of ninety men.) GENEVA (via Paris), Dec, 30.—It is reported here on good author- ity that Italian troops have occupied the Albanian seaport of Durazzo, This report apparently is corroborated by the fact that the German |Consul at Durazzo, the members of his staff and fifty other Germans passed through Bellinzona, Switzerland, yesterday on their way to Berlin. |GERMAN PEACE TERMS [SURGEONS USE LANCE PROBABLY INSPIRED) ON THE KAISER’S NECK BERLIN, via wireless to Sayville,| LONDON, Dec. 30—A despateh |. 1, Dec. 90.—The tentative peace] from Zurich, Switzerland, to the Cop- program published by a Zurich news-| tral News, says: | Paper and ¢ cul by the Wolft mperor William, who is suffering not | from @ suppurating phlegmon in the wa agency, thoug an_ofticial ement from the German Govern: ment, was ily inspired,"| eck, has been given some relief, Rts the Berlin T ied ¢o-day,| doctors having resorted to lancing.” Nothin) known Geneva dispatches say cancer of the te in Berlin,” said [throat is the Kaiser's trouble. Am- ut the person in question (meaning | sterdam wires he {s suffering trom. the writer) says in this article wh cet a “non malignant furunol ) and fe in he or she more or less doors though not in bed. heard in supposedly we circles in Germany. The a of possible peace te NEW YEAR'S SPECIALS Mred, It is dict sous 912 Men's Overcoats and Sults, that it will serve a ood AUse hae hd ae tig Hd. iy eae pringing about peace,” cor, Barclay 8t.. of ‘oolworth Bull bringing about p ing, will sell and Friday vase yes . Men’s Suits and Overgoata, ane, The peace programme circulated by | thihet, grays, pencil he Wolff Bureau sugmested eva ed worst od; al jon of Helelum and horthe rance by rmany, the establish }ment of a Polish Kingdom inated n Friday night citer ‘sue ju Broadway, cor, by and the pit nt of a r war indemnity of about $3,600,000,000, Charges —