The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1916, Page 1

Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing (The New York World), _NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, WEATHER—Fair to-night and Saturday; warmer, . FINAL EDITION “Circulation Books Open to All.” 1916, MOTHER ONLY ONE RESCUED ORL eM ASTHODAUGHTERS AND FOUR ern OTHERS PERISH IN TAG HOME Sent as Const Has Viriual- ly Decided Vi German ‘ Girl Overcome at Babeohnnh as She \ os Firemen—Had Previously | Called Brother Who Aided _ ey Bring 1 ‘ : : P | on Board Liner Atter Ger- | in Saving Their Mother. = |HER PRISONERS HERE. Tales of Hunger| ' mans Captured Her. fr ‘six women: died in a fire that early to- -day destroyed the home of Mrs, Hannah M. Tag, widow of Casimir Tag, the millionaire banker, at No, 243 Hancock Street, Brooklyn. Her two daughters were among the victims, All the bodies were found on the third and fourth floors. ¥ Mrs, Tag, who is sixty-eight years old, was the only person in the house saved. It was through the heroism of her daughter Caroline that | c She igalive. The dead are: | TAG, CAROLINE, twenty-five years old, +f |, TAG, HELEN, thtFRy-ane, ' a SNAVLEY, HANNAH E,, sixty-eight, a cousin of Mrs. Tag. STEDMAN, ISABEL FRANCES, of No. 100 Penn Strect, nurse, who was spending her first night in the house, CAIN, ANNA, fifty-two, servant, CAIN, ELIZABETH, forty-five, servant and Anna’s stepsister. WASHINGTON, Spring-Rice, Feb. 4.—Sir Cec the British Ambassador, | to-day presented a formal demand on ernment, f behalf of his Gor r the re turn to British owners of the liner Appam, taken by a German prize rew A new diplomatic controversy | with Great Britain is foreshad- owed,"as-the’ United States prac- tically has decided to hold the Germany's. trained had decided to hold that the Prus- sian-American t ’ s the Appain case ‘The dead were believed for several hours to number seven, because and all that remained to Delia Farley, the cook, had not been accounted for. Firemen were stil] “ie Wes te in appileation of the searching for her body when she appeared at the house to prepare break- ¥ ton " terme, she called up Brooklyn Fire Head- “This house is on und demons: Floor Scrubbers Share Equally with | ish appetite Department Heads in John A. when it has Hill’s Odd Will nothing } ae NE many days. o| dobn A. Hill, the we “For the last three days before we -| publisher, left a | me into port, and for a full day J estate t ifter we got there, there was nothing ate what a ty Brit do to Ame n food 4 to be content with ce for a stretch of quarters and cried: fire; I'm choking.” OVERCOME AS SHE GAVE ALARM | AT PHONE, Apparently she then dropped th receiver. Fire Headquarters had trace back the call through the * phone central, hy New York of his|¢ nployees by provisions Meantime, Dr. Tag hurrted, Of his will probated in Newark, N. J served to us, J to his mother’s home. The tlames| to-da y of the British M Corps had made such headway he and Po-| Hi retury, Miss Rose Steiner, |! that Hicemen Edward Friel and Alphonso| who accompanied Hill to New York nang Groninger of the Gates Avenue from Pueblo, Col, many years ago, |* ». But for the ton could not get in the hous receives $40,000, Each employee in| ys I was so tired of rice L heavy dvors of which were locked, Hill's service for t y-tive yeurs 0: There was no a They went through the home ot) jhe | tual sickness caused by this fare, James Tregarthen, at No. 241, and on) inc though many of the pusyengers be e weak.” their way heard screams. Going to! y¢ a third-story window they saw Mrs. ‘Tay, in her nightclothes and lystert- eau » of the late passengers of the qually r is highest department ence, On the contrary |they were a pink and heart? lot, Dr M! Crichton, a young fellow of Dr. Courtney's, might have n freshly arrived in ty" from home in England, so fit nage $19, 300,000 ASKED T0 FINISH PANAMA CANAL : iy (Continued on $$$ ,, “SILENT ASSASSIN’’ SENT TO MATTEAWAN his country ldid he appes The same Hoyd, O. W could be sald of (. BE Firth, B, W. | Ge vethals Also Wants $8,230,000 for mirantanit Before Being ( sommitted as Insane] Fortifications—Can’t Tell When aero ee a ictal ayente of the Severy Tells How He Shot Witterway Will Be Reopened, | volitioal service in Nigeria at Fifteen Persons, WASHINGTON, | 1. — Gon], Mn Boyd displayed as an dntere Jing souvenir experienc ALBANY, Feb, 4.—Harold 1. Sev- | Goethals rot t Spy ery, the Boston youth who lust Pris to-day pr is of $19 day shot four persons, mortally, | 300,000 for completing the Panam in this city, was committed to Mat-| Canal and $8,230," urther fo : teawar State Hospital for e Crim! fleations | inay ine by County Judge Ad-| PF # of clea Bd ain to-day, The Court's wetion | reopening the a a0 owndealitrat follow, 4 the repor pe ered y he House A mision of alienis t Bevery w re + a , insane for probable reope f the or Severy addressed Vourt for wy id work 0) nearly lialf un tow ne th rapluly, th would he opened of his wanderiags dikd of the attempin agli } Ye he had made to pat an r i | ‘ 1 ‘ ection to whi \ apagelO been subjec v the sil city on sta ; shot 4 1 te ' ‘i mary’ ; eR the of of the Hue : a eae silat ne but ao fi vuld tell ; i : sa rane intended victimy Was hu day, according to his tal : aa tom persons in Albany, 4 iGentinusd eo tame é il} | Interborough, te $150,000 BONUS ri R.. R, | know what the: servi | nothing but the bare fubt as indicated to-day by Secre- {¢lared. that Andrew Freedinan (dead) Itary Lansing that the United Statos|Was the director who moved to make , | $59,000 to I. GI VEN SHONTS a eh ‘Voted ¢ Girt \ter| Nurse Who Lost Life in Fire Subway Deal—Andrew | In Home of Millionaire Tag Freedman Blamed. = | fa inkngpucnn a | \, FREEDMAN IS DEAD.) \ Rogers, Lawyer, Got} $50,000 Gift, and as Auditor Received $10,000 Bonus. Horace M,. Fisher, secret f the} fed the| day that the 4 $150,000 to 7 Thompson Comm company had v dore P. Shonts for his “ extraordinary serv the contracts with tending the subway.” Fisher did not s were, told conflicting stories as to who moved the resolution, The» minut book of the board of Whwetors showed jong quibbling, de Fisher, after nts's award $150,000 instead of 00, It also borough dl $1 Inter. developed that the a bonus of and 8 voted Rogers, $10,000 to B, F. J, Gaynor Rogers was assoc a lawyer, fast. It was her night out, and she had spent it with friends The first personal ac Panama and later beearme counse st ( , T, ; + ioe for the Interborough ” } L Miss Sareline Bag, who was to have been married on Feb. 18, the police of ie ton, aareae oh. ‘Atlantic. to, SECRETARY ASKED TO BRING ne ‘ oe were told, to Charles Zinn of No, 284 Jefferson Avenue, a produce mer- Nortuik in command of | WAGONFUL OF BOOKS. oo oe “A . it chant, smelled smoke about 3 o'clock this morning. She aroused her Bers and his German prize crew] Fisher, who Is an officer in’ the ‘ = mother and ran to the telephone, calling up ler brother, Dr, Charles H. Were & out to-day at the Prince) New) York and Bears Pat 4 . “la y Comp: , the Subway fealty < Tag, whose home dt No. 284 Jefferson Avenue is in the rear of his mother’s | S°°°#" Hotel by Fee ent anol ake Now Work * BELLE STROMAN q “| officials who came up from “Virginia | Pany and th ib ‘ 2 mone: by train and arrived ahead of the|Company was asked to produce th Den Ae ee ae Miss Tag told her brother shew “file ” . nat }minute books of the Interborough smelled smoke, could not switch on i vedi coerce . Rar’ d@ Transit Company from Jul exposure, Hardly had the ambulance (here was. fire In the house. ! e beg gp less Ch nee hana Mlof the Public Service Commission— Mrs. Lena Heller of 12 East One| iy, 1h wae learned tater;| H y] EARS |¢,"ctock this morning ana proceeded | of the ie § Wk ENGeH Connaned, RE “You'll need a won to carry them all," remarked James L. Quack enbush, counsel for the Interbor- ough, BIG BALTIC IS SAFE: REPORTED TORPEDOED ial District Had Wild Rumor ‘aptain of White Star Liner Sent Word All Was Well. Reports spread through the f While the Interborough books were being brought infMiles Dawson took a seat beside Bainbridge Colby, coun sel to the committee. Mr. Dawson is the actuary and expert who examined the books of the In-} Patrolman companies for Charles in his tnvestigation into the | insurance frauds in 1!) Mr. Daw-| son iy going to examine the Interbor accountant | James Conners Risks Life to Rescue Child Vho Fell Into Manhole, | Finar ough books for the Thompson Com-| ni pela , side. foial Metrict this afternoon that mittee. Liem | the of the White Secretary Fisher testifled that th kon the west sid . vortly armful of books produced containe near One Hu 1 od 2 full records of the minutes of direc- | 5, Snow shov ‘inch of th tors’ meetings, payments, bonuses, |) Nar anowRror ‘the jatient leit hich is inward boynd from &e, 5 . i aying “Anything ther commit manhole of a sewer in tto reach Quarantine 8 A, Mt menta’?” asked Se Thompson lowalk nearby. Suddenly the |to-morrow. All wel tu dry, wr began to 18— ‘PAGES —-— sania. WILSON TAKES UP GERMANY’S LAST WORD; LUSITANIA SINKING LEGAL, SAYS BERLIN GERMANY HAS GONE LIMIT IN MAKING CONCESSIONS, DECLARES HGH OFFICAL “You Must Not Kesar to Humil- | iate Us,” Says Under Secretary of | State Zimmermann—‘“There Are Limits Which Snap Friendship.” |GERMAN PAPERS TALK | OF BREAK WITH THE U.S. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—President Wilson returned |to the capital from his Western speaking tip shortly after He went at once to the W hite }1.15 o'clock this afternoon. | House. | He read the Berlin despatches on the situation while his train was running between Baltimore and Washington. He made no comment, but members of his party said they renee the situation as “unfavorable.” | BERLIN, via London, Feb. 4.—Information reaching jthe Associated Press to-day indicates that under no cir jcumstances will Germany admit that the sinking of the Lusitania was an illegal act. The new instructions forwarded to Ambassador von Bernstorff, according to this information, contains simply one phase of the new formulation of the proposed note of regret for the sinking of the Lusi- The suggested sentence is short, consisting of only eight words, It represents the extreme limit a case, “illegal.” of Germany's concessions in the Lusitan The vi and does not contain the word iew is entertained here that one of the most serious crises of had been told her girl was drowned, She took Ella who is three and a/ the war has arisen in connection with the Lusitania case, and that it is im- ' half years old, home amen a possible to foresee the outcome from any indications here. The result of the negotiations appears to hinge solely on the one word “illegal.” In the way of an agreement between the United States and Germany stand jonly these seven letters. | DR. ZIMMERMANN SAYS SITUATION IS GRAVE. Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in an interview with the Associated Press, expressed the hope that the new Hformula forwarded to Ambassador yon Bernstorft would offer a possi- ble basis of settlement, ie made no effort to cor eal the gravity of had der no circumstances the situation and was most explicit in his statemen t Germany reached the extreme limit of concessions, and ur would concede the illegality of her submarine campaign in the war area. The Government is willing to do everything in {its power, and has done everything in its power, to Secretary Fisher st ' reain ' ‘ Pei Fit ca sure smile, but did not st 1 sewer opening "| BRITISH BLOW UP | meet American wishes,” he said, “but there are limits DIRECTORS Agia TT a attracted Patrolman Jaine s| beyond whicl™even friendship, snaps. [ do not une SHONTS F f . - ul . ‘ r . ae Bast ne Hundre i >, Counsel Colby read from the minute C4 erate undred GERMAN POSITION) derstand America’s course. We had thought the book of the biterbor 11 Vs 8 , : . 3 the re of a-regular meeting of tw child had tulle »| Berlin Reports Activ t Enem submarine issue settled, and the Lusitania question He ae de Povele i . shia asi: Artiller sng th * We tern on the way to arrangement--had agreed to pay , Y were " rd sweater a 1 ron 5 : : : abe aM bee Be ET on re Aino pasa i indemnity and all that—when the United States sud- man, Wi a ate ae Seas ies i AL eee 1" Enemy denly made its new demands, which it is impossible for George W 1 ue ae ‘Weniosn if p he A us lo accept. You must not push your demands too Resolved, In View the Tadd u eck Mii ‘ ar y W . Sue SAIL A ne » low and Ww rely the) Be : far, You must not attempt to humi » Germany.” Jerre 1 t red ‘ was ln ‘ hortiwe 1 n ee SY ; Fi itlot fl aint dh!" SAYS GERMAN) HAS GONE THE LITT 1 ; ‘i ' Riv A 1 . . w King Nea lor, Zimme f i there. have ; \ i ' s ( ; i ude Pe ion dout sf f Mark 1 years ff ' vndainawed. t il viol | { Ger ler \ tn the: Bile Gorn thy nan tVOM 1 » inher ry H ‘ \ Ie port q uh la a] 1 STs ( Qt A 6 resolution i , ‘ ' whi Kt tak Arine 1s I (Wentiayed om Bighth Pag 1 th lid to be sultering He a gain a gain if the | States desired to ro pte entnes om