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} ONLY A 1 JANE EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. Copyrtant, 3026, ‘The Press Publishing ees ithe New York World). MERICAN NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1916, World, inking Greek Liner to Save 90 of Crew “Cirenlation Bor Books Open to. Al 2 0 P A rt E 8 WEATHER—Cloudy to-night and Wednesday; warmer: | EDITION : “PRICE ONE CENT. SAVED FROM PERSIA TELLS FIRST DETAILS OF SINKING WHITMAN HASTILY ACCEPTS WOOD'S RESIGNATION: PUTS ENGINEER HODGE ON BOARD Thompson to Ask Inquiry by LEMUELE. QUIGG Senate Into Commissioner's ON NEW STOCK TRAIL. , Wanis Stock Deals of Wood's Brother's Firm and Check Given Wood Explained. Henry Hodge’s Name for Vacancy. announced that he intended to lose no time in investigating the ap- pointment of Mr. Hodge. “In the Senate to-morrow,” Bender Thompson this afternoon | | New light he | Commissioner Wood, Publite Service Commissioner, John] resignation resignation to Senator George F Thompson, Chairman of the commit- | from his committ plate Houry W. Hodge of New York! jy)s was shed this afternoon jon the resignation of Public Service its prompt ac- eaid, “1 ahall move that the Sen- | wentance by Gov. Whitman befor the ate Committee on Finance shall |e. .ay charges were presented, and Investigate every, circumstance [in equally prompt appointment of surrounding the appeintrent of | risincer H.W. Hodge to the Mr. Hodge and the history of it) . ning to end.” Lemuel EB. Quigg. attorney for tt Gov. Whitman has done w the! Interboro, and general “accelerator” Thompson Legislative Invest | for rporations, appears as the man behine h EX ted of Committes refused to Romwocentea |e Ne a pected disposal of the resignation of Robert Colg A Senator on the Thompson Com- Wood, accused of misconduct 4% &/ mittee learned yesterday that the of Wood was taken to) B. Sianchfield, as Mr. Wood's attor-|Albuny by Quigg, and that Hodge's mey, three weeks ago offered Wood's une was prevented by the same Senator Thompson heard the report! » member yester-| tee, on condition that the investica-|day and it was promptly denied by tion into Wood's acts in office shou Governor's leading representa- caine tive Action at Albany last night, > to all appearances, bore out the Gov, Whitman announced to-day] ,, port. Senator Thompson sald to- his acceptance of Wood's resignation. | gay: and that he has appointed tn Wood's) “isn't it about time that Quigg and Interboro crowd were kept a es Public Service Commissioner. Mr.|from the Albany capitol? It was told Hodgo is a civil engine He was} that Quigg had carried the Wood res- mentioned for tho position of Publlclicnation, dated Dec, 31, to the Gov- Bervico Commissioner when Col, ernor and that he had presented th Bayward was appointed last spring. |name of Mr. Hodge. Ccmmissioner Wood sent his resig- mation to Albany last night by hand of his secretary, J. P. Archibuld, who took it to the Executive Munsion, handed it to the Governor and re- eetved from the Governor a written reply accepting the resignation. Senator Thompson, who is in New it from the net result Governor, of our cleaning out the vacancies, It is up to Gov, W! man to let the public know the fi Tt was further stated to-d. the letter from Commission Public Service crowd if Quigg is to fill If this is true the people of this State should know What is the the York City, this morning called the}. ee e . Bxecutive Mansion by tetephone,| WHich was carried to the Jearned that Secretary Orr know] 8#t Maht was not his resignation but nothing of the resignation, and ed | # Teauest to Whitma bean to act at onee. Nim to urge the Governor not to etal ge, not knowing that ul th 1 Governor had already acted, effect at all on the galttee,” seid Senator Thompson to reporter for ‘The ng World, “It would not be fair to Cominissione | acts of this com- Pneumonia Fatal to Noted Green- wich Man, Whose Endymion Won Ocean Race. Williams or even to Judge McCall, for Me to let Wood uff wo © "Charges inst Robert Wood, which will go tu the Governor to-night, include seven specifieutions, and we may add to the numver, We! whall charge against him everything that was charged against Judge Mc Call--and @ great deal more. We charge: 1, That Wood solicited a June, 1914, from Sidney ¢ the Union Switeh und Signal Con pany in connection with his ort cial} action in the Centre Street ioop sub- way contrict. 2, That Wood solicite bribe from John eral Sicnal Com connection with t ip the Fourth Avenue subway ®& That Wood participated in th ily. GREENWICH Lauder Jr, wh Conn, Jan, 4, Geo soho Endymion fin ed fourth i di pneumonia n 1905, 4 shall | « | years bribe in He wa onot| Yacht Club, and of whieh built the for defender of the the tional Mr graduated from SheMel Ya 1 1. director of the Manhatta member the synd ne Deflance, a ¢ Americ inter went nee ler was Kave u new Medical School, * (Cemtinued on Geoond Page.) prominent yachts- insatlantic race day seven New York «Cup in | WENT TO WHITMAN |“ AND SAVED vo Report Also Says He Presented } | “HOTEL GUESTS LEAP GREW TO ABANDON FROMFLAMESINTO. GREEK LINER AS NETWORKOF WIRES HELP NEARS HER One Killed Have Legs and Arms Broken as Eighty Seek Escape. Search Made for Possible Vic- tims in Ruins of Water- bury, Conn., Building. WATERBURY, Conn,, Jan. 4.~ man was killed, six persons were bad- ly injured and many cold and exposure as a resitlt of a fire which totally destroyed the Con- necticut Hotel here early to-day The property loss is estimated at $154,000, Hampered by a high wind and bit-| 24 ; teriy cold weather, firemen had dif- fculty in fighting the blaze and res- culng the eighty guests. |jured leaped from third and fourth- story windows into life nets. All but one of them dropped through an en- tanglement of electric wires, break- Ing their arms or legs before landin, in the nets, Several firemen Injured falling walls, Charles Decker South Norwalk was killed outri ‘The injured are: Charles F. Hanks, Gardner, Mass.; John C. € Bantam, Conn. D. Darling, brook, N, Y. umbus, 0,; Joseph McAvoy, bury, O.; Annte Shotus, hote Members of a New York burlesque company, who had retired, 1 ried eacapes in thelr nig losing nearly all thelr personal cffects, cording to Vincent Dusey, of New ork, thelr manager. Tho origin of the bl Guests were forced were Sunny- Prank McCaullaw, 120 Is not Known, to flee in night and Six Others | Ninety Men Aboard Crippled *FER FROM COLD, P \SSENGER: RS ON PATRIS. One | suffered trom | Those in-| | CONSU SULTING ENGINEER | APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR AS SUCCESSOR OF WooD 1eo0040006 Ship in Long Fight With Gale. Tow-Line Parted in Night and SOS Calls Were Renewed. Despairing of being able to bring the Greek liner Thossalonikt into*port. | 4 WNANIHTAARE the ninety members of the crew re mati ord have signatied to the United andinavian-American Mner States that they desire te bandon | the craft to her fate. The other mem- bers of the cre id the 300 passen- | gers who boarded her at Piraeus Nov ure safe on the Patrir, another Greek Line steamer, This information concerning the hapless ship, which has been bat. | tling wind and wave for many days {in an effort to reach New York, was clothes to adjoining buildings before | the rapidly spreading flames. As the register was burned it Is impossible to tell how many persons were in the building, but tne clerk thinks that. the number was about cighty. The police conducted systematic search of other hotels and| boarding houses, to which guests fled after the fire, in an endeavor to fully acedunt for’ every one. Later in the day tho opinion was reached that only one death resulted from the tire. ea ere orem MRS, WILSON TAKES CHARGE OF WHITE HOUSE, to bg Executive oitices, previously spurned thought he had shot himself while in| one outward-bound | nit A Pines. a nightmare, He was addicted to Jot the Scandinavian-Ame sine . Antent ae leant’ a radio Gale Nis, morning | Sleep walking and violent dreams, Stating that she had changed her| The doctor was a member of the course to go to the assistance of the|Crescont Club and a graduate of the swered call for help from contained . recetved the in following wire this afternoon from Capt "| Brooklyn Physician, che of the Un State a Sleep “Our NANA) et in He: Forty-three miler from ‘Theassioniki, | alker, Puts Bullet in Head which has ninety of crew left. on < bis Dre board. Want to abandon ship, Pass While He Dreains. sengere and balance of « »w on Patris, a “(Signed) GOBTSCHE, Dr. Arthu eve of No. 420 Gold > eived cone} Df Arthur cerning the location of the Patria,| Street, Brooklyn, shot and killed him- | whtch was towing the Thessuloniki| self with a revolver early to-day, His last night until the hawser bioke Wits, wud. @ansalbening besiis Oim; Tue SOS calls Greek \iner vay awakened by the shot, She wore received by all the coust wire-| Vs awakened h loss stations for almon wo hours) found him lying back on the pillow early this morning. The ‘Tnes-{ with a bullet wound in his forehead. dloniki, jn tow of tie steamship! tte was dead when a physician ar- Patria of the saine line, was Being) rived trom across the street slowly dragged tow New Yori} ; eslienwitieal when, during a sixty-mile gale lagt| Mts, Reeves sat Nreiisee night, the hawser parted, leaving|come in early last night and bad the unfortunate vessel at the meroy| Passed the evening with bor and her of the seas, The Thessulonikt im-|daughter, Ilo seemed in the best of mediately resorted to Ler wireless and| spirits. He had eaten a hearty supper in asked aid of just before retiring, she said and rs she had Thessaloniki Another message picked up by a coast station and sent t) the Scan- jun-American line reads sumship United st Long Island College Medical School class of 1897 GRIP EPIDEMIC WORST | EVER KNOWN IN COUNTRY an- | ‘Thes- sition, at north and United States who gives her . as latitude 0 west longtitud tuformed Thessaloniki, a >A. M., — that she ts coming to her assistance |Big Show of Activity as New|!) Wes only and not to tow!) public Health Service Reports Show Mistre Arrives Wtih nas ae Disease Js Spreading Rapidly the President. WANTS INQUIRY ON RISE | and Causing Many Deaths WASHINGTON, Jan, 4--The new! IN GASOLINE PRICES WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The most uistress of the White House took per- serious epidemic of influenza ever Congressman Steene sks rt . = handed his bride from the automobil: mEresAN ASKS] disctoned in renorty before Surgeon and walked with her into the I Whether Justice Departinent Has |General Blue of the Public Healt tive Mansion, There were smile ladon y Gervice to-day, The reports, which | the faces of the doormen and Acted! and: lf were from Public Health Service of found bows as Mrs, Wilson passe}| WASHINGTON, Jan, 4 The De-/ficers, show that the diseane read through the entrance | partment of Justice wa Joy asked|ing at an alarming rate, and is cuu Throughout the Mansion activity |i, a resolution by Revresentativaling many deaths. Of the larger cities Increased ax the word passed quickly nowota, wh t hos) influens widely prevalent in Now that Mrs, Wilson rived A rk, Chicago, Philadelp Rosten. The first work fronts Mey | gp ite th 1 Francisco, Seattle, Cleveland and Wilson is that of the scor fu ne th in the pr trott two late i avin, of wedding presgats sent to Hine, and, probably 100,000 ¢ Executive couple, While she wa Fer Phe Federal authorities explain that Hot gifts huve been te ce aro practically lielpless to ald down 1 the Galt home to mania hellnainet r ne] in stemming the tld © epidemic White Hou lod 1ote aNd] Hrfoes have been hugh cone | Momuat be deal, with by tanth r Ww 1 had Justice Pepartiaent Of % ff . 1 the public. In the hope Wh nor y ne | Inve 4 ne a oF op « ‘ «ha President lett lis brits and y puny muy. be sta Hederval of-poalied for yepurte tt sll paris ¢ cers in Coicaga, , the country, | | WILSON IS BACK ANNOUNCES QUICK ACTION ON PERS | Delays cae hes Meeting Until | Lansing Obtains All the Facts As to Sinking | TALKS WITH SENATORS, | biter az i} Members of Congress Make Bitter | ches on U-Boat Raids. Some | Preparing to Spee WASHINGTON, Jan. 4--OMteial ennouncement that the Government ‘will wet quickly In the newest phase of the submarine orisis brought on by the sinking of the Persia was ade to-day at the White House. Secretary Tumulty issued this state- ee for the Prealdent> “The President and the Seore- tary of State are taking every means possible te obtain the full ote in this arave matter and will act just as soon as the in- formation is obtained.” There were evidences that the Ad- | mntet ation leaders were anxious} | that the public mind should not be} |inflained further while the President and his advisers were trying to sus- pend judgment and all the agencies of the Government were In motion to! collect all the facts upon which the | next move may be made. For the first time since foreign re- lations become delicate during the war President Wilson to-day con- ferred with the ters of the C wwionul committees on foreign af- Senator Stone and Congress and it was afterward an they were to be advised ts in the vod nounced the of the steps and developr situation, This action met the approba- tion of many Senators and Rep- resentatives who have been con- tending that in such a serious situation as the present promises to become Cong should be consulted in any moves which may involve the country in meas- ures at least short of war, An oxpeoted attack on the Admin- istration’s policy probably was avoided by a hasty adjournment of the Senate within ten minutes after it assembled, and there was no indi- cation of an outbreak in the Houne. A meeting of the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee to-morrow at which the subject was expected to come up was deferred until later in the week, awatting further informa- | thon, | Secretary of State Lansing | has informed Ambassador von Bernstorff informally that the State Department is considering | modifying its position with re- gard to the carrying of guns by merchantmen. The 4.7-inch gun carried by the Per sia might have been used effectively | tat a distance of 20,000 yards—more |inan eleven miles | This fact developed to-day in a din cussion among Navy Department of- regarding the difference be: tween # gun carried by a merehaut lefensive purposes ind one offensive work ! cers sald the ¢ the #hip's commani sny gun he might bave from one-inch calle A qu miral said, could stern, an wae | used just og ef Itactively in offensive work an mounted forw The Unit | Navy hae | pre wed eff yar Ay years old, ef cighing 170 pounds, and| b way taken ill in front 4t h AN 4 8 mit doe a east nadia, otc he body waa en to the Avenue Police Stetien. | telegram reported HYMNS SUNG BY SURVIVORS AS LINER SANK INTO WATER TAKING VICTIMS 10 DEATH CharlesGrant of Boston,Who Floated on Wreckage for Fifteen Hours, Describes Scene of Horror When Explosion Wrecked the Persia. MANY CLUNG TO THE DECK AS THE SHIP ROLLED OVER. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Jan. 4 (via London).—Charles Grant of Boston, one of the two Americans known to have been on board the British steamship Persia when she was torpedoed in the Meditertanean last Thursday, has arrived in Alexandria, Mr. Grant, so far as is known, is the only Artiérican from’ whom can come the story of the Persia's sinking. He gave to-day the most detailed account yet received ofthe disaster, Se vas ed oe A “I was in the dining saloon of the Persia at 1.05 P. Ms," esa “Thad just finished my soup and the-steward was asking what I we a “The saloon became filled with smoke, broken glass and steam from the boiler, which appeared to have burst. There was no panic on. board. We went on deck as though we were at drill and reported at the lifeboats on the starboard side, as the vessel had listed to port. 1 clung to the railing. The last thing done was to tie on Capt. Sprickly’s lifebelt. “As the vessel was then listing so badly that it was impossible to launch the starboard boats [ slid down the starboard rail into the water. I got caught in a rope, but I broke loose and climbed on some floating wreck- age, to which T clung. “The last 1 saw of the Persia she had her bow in the air, five minutes after the explosion. “After floating about on the wreckage until 4 o'clock in the morning | saw five bouts. I was pulled into one of them. We rowed about looking for other stragglers, “The boats became overloaded and the occupants were redistributed. Four boats were tied together by their painters and the fifth followed some distance away. “My boat left the others in order to search the more frequente? steam- ship channels for help. We rowed for three hours. Then we saw a cruiser and called out, ‘we are English.’ We explained that we were survivors of the Persia and gave directions to the crulser as to where the other boats were, They were soon found and the occupants were taken off imme- diately by the English sailors. “Robert McNeely, American Consul at Aden, sat at the same table With me on the voyage, He was not seen, probably because his cabin was ep the port side. “It was @ horrible scene. The water was black as ink, Some pas- sengers were screaming, others were calling out goodby, Those in one boat sang hymns.” Men, Women and Children Hurled From Liner Into Sea Scores of Persons Clinging to the Deck of the Persia as She Sank—Dead Number From 250 to 300. ‘Scenes of horror preceded the final plunge of the in the Mediterranean, according to despatohes received to-day from Alexandria. LONDON, Jeo. 4 torpedoed liner Persia The Persia turned turtle while boats were pushed away from her side. Monster waves had washed from her decks more than a score of passengers who {alled to reach the Then the sending men, Women and chiliren slipping down her deck into the water, Before the eyes of survivors in the last boat she rolled over while perhaps score of person» were still clinging to her decks. of the cighty first-class passengers were saved, a Cairo The estimate of dead ranges from 250 to 300, Robert MoNeely, American Consul to Aden, was in his cabin when the aplosion rocked the liner, the survivors at Alexandria declared, and he wis one of the last of the passengers to reach the deck. rsons on deck began strapping on lifebelts while the crew boats, steamer dipped sharply to pert, twelve cr boats, Nearly seventy persons crowded into one boat, and when it struck the water waves washed over the sides and threatened to sink tt. Another boat was dropped and several mem in the overloaded beat were trapater red, jtake for my second course when a terrific explosion late |