The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1916, Page 1

i 4 a i x by Une New | ote _V¥cirentation Books Open to All. A NEW YORK, “SATURDAY, FEBRUARY ry ‘The Press Publishing York Worl), John R. Higbie and Leon Pettit of Babylon Were Driving New Auto Engine. GATES WERE NOT DOWN Machine Hurled Through Air and Victims Are Crushed Beneath It. John Robbins Higbie, President of the Bank of Babylon, and Chief Leon Pettit of the Babylon (L. 1.) Fire De- partment were killed this morning when tho new alitomobile engine of the Department was struck by a Long Island Railroad train at the crossing just east of the Babylon station. @ fire, Higbie driving and the Chief the only other man on the car. The watchman failed to lower the gutes through a mistake, and they dr atgaight in the path o train, The five engine was thrown forty feet and Higdie and Pettit were pinned un- der itt, Higbie Was the son of tho late Senator Richard Higbie and war ove of the wealthiest nen in Babylon. He ‘was an enthusiastic volunteer fireman and aided the department with his money and services, He had a record of being the first at the quarters of the Sumpwams Hose Company at every alarm and when the bell sound- ed this morning he raced in from hig home on the outskirts of the city in his motor oar. When he arrived at the quarters of the company on Deer Park Avenue he found Chief Pettit awaiting him. It has been a rule of the company to walt until at least five memb in the house before starting ou Mr. Higbie urged Chief Pet. to start out and he consented. With the bell ve clanging on tho combination hose eart and chemical engine they started out, ENGINE RACED AT TERRIFIC SPEED. Speed records for getting to fires were boing broken by the new engine, whieh had been in servico but two weeks, according to saw the car flash wy, As they headed down the road to- ward the railroad crossing it is said they were going close to forty miles az hour, While they were still some distance away the gates were lowered while an eastbound train passed. As the train left the crossing tho watchman who saw che fire engine approaching, raised the gates had just brought them up when he turned and saw that a New Yoi bound train, due in the station at 7.20 A. M., was coming from the west He tried to get the gates down and shouted to Highlo when the engin was not more than one hundred fi witnesses who away. Highie apparently realized the dange moment too late. The big car swayed to the right and left across the tracks, just grazing the gates, which were being lowered, of the railroad track when the en- gine struck it. It was Mterally lifted from tho ground and hurled througn the alr, hose and apparatus scattering along the track. Both men seemed unable to get from the entanglement of their sen with the car, A score of jen women awaiting the early train at the station « short distance wreckage. While an ambulance was being (Continued on Second Page.) \ t a ‘The motor éngie was being run to to apprehen¢ for a minute, then plunged straight |‘0~ The fire engine was in the widdie | and were carried along , ana | morning | away saw the men pluned under the | BERLIN FIR M, BACKED BY PUBLIC 0 , COL.HOUSE REPORTS BY CABLE TO WILSON | LONG ISLAND TRAN KILLS BANKER AND FIRE CHIT IN SMASH-UP AT CROSSING HUNT PLOTTERS IN OTTAWA FIRE; ARRESTS ARE DUE Sa Parliament | Buildings Were Set Ablaze —Sirony Is Released. OTTAWA, Ont., Feb, 5.—The great- est roundup of aliens since the be- sinning of the war was orderpd by it Tho. CHARGE TO JURY “NON-COMMITTAL IN MRS. MOHR’S CASE; Individual Verdicts Are for in the Case of the Three Defendants. BAN ON _ PREJUDICES. Healis's Story Is Considered the Pivotal Testimony of the Trial. (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) PROVIDENCE, R. L, Feb. 6.—Tho Jury in the case of Mrs, Elizabeth | Tiffany Mohr, Victor Brown and Henry Spellman, accused of the mur- der last August of Dr. C, Franklin | Mohr, went to the jury room at 10.45 o'clock to-day. The jury was still out at 4 o'clock. When court opened this morning. ts Canadian authorities to-day. Dominion police have been ordered 1 ail foreigners known to © left Ottawa Thursday night, when the $5,000,000 Parilament build- ings were burned. there remained only the charge to | the i by Justice Stearns, He took less than an hour to deliver tt, The charge wa: an exposition of the Prende of Charl session |cent investigation of ‘the Stare Mi- Civil | nictpal showed campaign money contributed by Civil Servic CITY EMPLOYEES’ JOHN D. JR 10 CAMPAIGN FUND PAID TO HERVEY BY SAVING ANOTHER Asked|Whitman’s Candidate for P. $.; Will Reclaim Young Convict Comunissioner Ran the Pren- dergast “Dough Bag.” | ATTACKED | Tg Fire for Several of His Official Acts. The announcement of the les 8. vice Commissioner has cauf'a con- siderable speculation, is expected when the Governor sends the nomi- nation to ‘hat body for confirmation, Mr. Hervey has been a public functionary” for many years, and various of his official acts ara being commented upon, ‘\among these is)the fact,that the thm mplo 1916. 12 Weather—Rain of enow probable to-night, Sunday cleaty [*Circulation Books Open to All.”| tion Books Open to ‘PRICE ONE CENT. PAGES REPLACE SLAIN BOY. to Fill Void Left by Death of Lad Shot at Mines, ‘MOTHER’ JONES'S PLAN REPORT. | Angel of Miners Gets Pledge of Millionaire He Will Pay Cost of Regeneration, Man Is Under Specgal t Evening World ) _| CHICAGO, T The millions of Jobn D. Rockefeller jr. have reached through the appeal of white haired “Mother” Mary Jones, the cighty-one-year-old champion of the working man, to finance a campaign to bring from behind the walls of Joliet Penitentiary the youngest lifer there, to take the place in the world of another hoy shot down by militia om guard at Rockefellers mining property io two years ago. In the rattan shops of the Joliet Prison is at work to the young- est inmate of the institution under @ life sentence--Herman Coppes. He ts Th selec Hervey as Public he been and a lively in the Senate onfirmed Prominent re- Service Mr. Commission Hervey received oyees In the fall of 1913, MILLIONAIRE WHO TO RECLAIM BAD BOY; WOMAN WHO AIDS HIM PINION, WILSON IS DELBERATING ON LUSITANIA CASE; CALLS ~ OFF CONFAB WITH LANSING Despatches From Washington Say the President Still Insists Upon De- mand for Acknowledgment of IIlle- gality Contained in Original Note. GLOOMY VIEW IS TAKEN BY BERLIN NEWSPAPERS By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Feb, 5.—So grave is the situation growing out of the Lusitania case through the refusal of Germany to admit the illegality of the act of her submarine commander-in-sinking: the ‘liner, that the conference betweerr President Wilson ani Secretary Lansing was post- poned, It is said the President already has the proposal from Berlin before | The general beliet in © ow |law alone, with no review of the) go success: ‘ ‘ there because he shot and killed Mrs, 1 ‘ He gener 1 belief in Can now 8 Bo successful were-his efforts that) 4 gieep in her home on a farm {him and wants to go over it carefully before he begins conferences with is that fire which destroyed the | evidence. | was collected in a byreau ef | Maw Gh anh teen -WHh anaes! | 4 Z aint a historic Parllament Buildings was| ‘Throughout the charge Mrs. Mohr,|twenty or twenty-two men, After 3 ie A tae hoadé of foe, ¢ ‘the Secretary of State. It was pointed out that the situation was not one started by German plotters, Sir Rob-| Brown and Iman 1 the|the campaign Mr. Herv Soe” | ner children, the older four years of which called for haste, but this very deliberation was regarded as giving ert Borden has ind 1 he ts con-| Justice very closely. The jury was! pointed Deputy Comptroller by Comp- | 4 : ; = yA ee rad vinced the blaze was incendiary. Fel-| compelled to stand as it was given. | troller Prendergast. The money was | *** Ree. NyananvcocMldered jemphasis to reports as to the seriousness of the case. lowing another mysterious fro de-! The Justice told the jury that Its task collected by George W. Francis, who} TH a te hi 4 oye Pp tunaial In addition to the proposals of the German Ambassador, the Presi- poring they ry of the Grant, | was an individual verdict In the bad Sots from: Paname and only} vsison, is not a Chicagoan. He never! dent had before him the confidential report of Col. House. This re- Holden & Graham Company, manu-| of each of the three defendants in the city for three weeks wh I. . . ti te aah ‘ i 4 facturing supplies for the Govern-| added |was appointed by Mr. Hervey ag| has been in Chicago in his life, and |port, it is said, declared that German public opinion strongly opposes ment, early to-day, and what was ap-| “you will be asked, ‘Is Brown | standardization “expert” in ite Bu-| he says set ir acct is tt any admission that the torpedoing of the Lusitania was illegal. parently an attempt to blow up the! gutity or not guilty?’ ‘Is Spollman|reau of Standards, farthest from his home in Plano he pond 6 han famous Victoria Bridge at Montreal, |euitty or not guilty?” Ta Mre Mohr | The State Civil Sorvice Commis. [ever has been, He will be seventeen { eaceful relations between. the two authorities decided to take drastic! guity or not guilty? Mrs. Mohr can- | Sioners who made this report do not] years old on F He has been in MISS FARRAR T0 WED nations balance on a single word. Tha fon fn an effort to round wn aliens! not ba found gullty by you unless you | Mince words in characterizing this] the prison nearly three years, word was “disavowal,” but now it hay 0 may be responsible-for the sud-lfnd Brown and Spellman guilty or|Dlece of work. This interesting re-| Herman Coppes t# one of the “last] LOU-TELLEGEN IS REPORT been altered to ‘illegal because th: den outbreak of violence | Brown or Spellman guilty port says: nance boys" in whom Jack Robbins) , "MOTHER" JONES u German language contains no such It was cxplained that the rounding} “phere is no question that a mur-| "TRE Provisions of the Civil Ser-| Gvho is head of the Boy's Republic! By World StafP Photopnapher ar 5 ‘ “a ” up of all aliens leaving the Dominion| ger was committed. Counsel for both | Y® Law and rules wero repeatedly| movement of Chicago and organizer -— = | Rumor This ‘Time Says Marriage] term 48 “disavow: will be paratively easy, By an| sides has said #0. In deciaing this | Yilated by tao municipal commissi f Last Chance Boys Club in various | NO AGREEMENT BY Will Take Place Next It is an amazing state of diplomacy [arrangement with the railways the! case the first mT enould “think |/2 Order to enable the Bureau of} citi long has been interested and | Tuesday. that after nine months of negotiations {numbers and destinations of alt] o» “| Standards of the Board of 1 for whom he has done eo much. Tt! | uesday, . % dS oa | You'd take would be to decide w See ike necotien) ae ape be a ROADS AND TRAINMEN ie tear eae ted that | Al!t @Xhankes of notes over the atnk- tickets sold to foreigners are turned |). " 0 ¢o) « e services of so: auc tobbins who rought ie report recently clroulate a Browa and 3 by . % 4 | ing of the Lusitania it should narrow over to the police a icinen experts! in ‘standardizing’ sa Coppes to the attention of "Mother" =, Geraldine Farrar, formerly a prima) i as tute late day toa singt ‘ rs naa | Fite ive » employee: ractioally | a , yn at this late day toa sin ; Tt was through this system that] yo. can take up the question of Mra. |" sel sepecidrieyongeds Jones Demands of the Unions Not Yet/donna at the Metropolitan Opera] *” : ‘cad sei Arles Strony was arrested at Wind-| Monr and decide whether whe pros | Cater Me Withers testified that he)” she nad appealed to him atter young] V4nd I May Not Be Pre- | House and now « moving picture atar,|27 INR two mreat nations very ‘meas sor. Hoe was orderod released to-day,| gured the murder of her hust "A pseatp2 es " lide ral He A mochotelieryT AIO Ne USE BELRONS aaa a an padi lin to b 1 to Lou-Tell , | bette. Reeaitink nett. but scores of other arrests ox. 5 > canes || Work for whic ‘8 employed at! )..1 agreed to finance the re | sented for Weeks | > ‘be married to Lou-Tellegen, " Ae redied But the accessory cannot be four , $8 oF $10 per day, and several of] "e erage ng one Seige |"matinee idol,” was rovived toeday,| 't !* Bvt merely a word that Preat- Girony ibe. willaly known mater (Cue r degree than the| them testified that they lived outalde | ghe ee a He gant, i wphatical denial was made to-| hig time it was to the effect that the| dent Wilson is anxious about, but the or, who during tho season just ieee Boe eet lof New York elty prior to their uaa Ghoae C Cie eas aice by ved i hs oe ne atisgatiaee P| marriage will take place In New York] great principle of humanity for whieh r ‘ar a e testimony in* the | no ont. a om | One? & 6 bo; one L volved | threatene Ke of | ne. niente A wen weiae contract to the Chl-| casa is concerned, if Healls is to be Raveeesiesnien gece we ut ot them t{ salvation the feller millions {350,000 trainmen that both sides had a Phere nfirtantion of the dec | eee eae ane: Wie Lee cago Gyand Ope Company to con- es si i 7 ‘al ° ss Pas sg) he r hone on} pelieved the defendants and himself| through influential friends. should attemp' jretehed an anders K and Would ent report could be obtained tosday, Lf The Use of the word, Tt is under Fricnds in musieal and society oire | WT 2ecomplices. N may| “The case of George W. Francis Nberation of Coppes, (he first} shortly sin new contracts, There/put friends of Lou-Tellegen insisted | 004 that the President is standing cles in Chicago worked hard to ae. | Ze,,cceeumany. of © bo| is probably the most flagrant be- ep in bis reformation, depends upon| las been uo communication on the! ima the ceremony would be per-|4?™ Upon the Lusitania note of July une Hin velanee “ : 8) trusted? When uncorroborat cause Mr. Francis acknowledged | the clemency which Gov. Dunne may et eon the railroads and the |formed on Tuesday at noon. £1, wherein he made the following de- Strony left Chicago last weer to| (timany should be accepted w on the witness stand that he had snd. ‘Those who are interested in uinen at any time | ‘Phe romance of the prima donna] ¢l?ations and demands, using both sqStTony Heft Chicago last week t0] caution. It noo not bo corroborated | gallected political campaign cone boy must appeal to the Pardon] The four big untons of engineers, land the star boxan when they met at |e Words "disavow" and “Illegal.” Paritsn Stacia ete pales T\ in detail, but there should be somo| tributions from employees of the sard, secure Its recommendation to} conductors, &e, have not formally a moving picture studio in California “The rights of neutrals in tinge eae a oni bald Perpeben| evidence to support it in the main, | bureau in the fall of 1913 and | the Governor and then convince the} Mdopted the demands that a Hl six months ago, Since then: itis said, | Of War are based upon princi role a epete fers ae an pstasghi “You must considey thea Interest) turned the full amount, $475, over xeoutive of the propriety of Hber-|made, A vote is counted On| poy has been a persistent} Met upon expediency, and the wad to a Scheer Ric ay that witnesses may have in giving) to @ superior in the offic | ating ‘the ‘boy before the sefarmation of hour day.!Wooer, und has tinally won “yes principles are immu! . The cAsbia LA ERE a Gein ow GH thelr testimony, Healis had an in-| ri was still ¢ in begin. | re members leon, the American singer who has| Government of the United States cep an eng ager t ann’ his speed in Jorent, for instance, Ho was & F193 600" pen yaar: 6 -| At is SOR Pikh af ‘those. epansaning jen ce been courted: by millionaires: and ‘9 cannet-belleve: thas the \lpperial folng ‘abont Ottuwa tn a tasicat,{ BArkable witness, aud it ts for you| vestigation closed (Jal the campaign t the life of Coppes [2% the union vm blemen Government will longer refrain aroused suspleion. a (to) Gatepny bw ruch Of what he “He testified before the State| shall take the place in the world of | tel! mand I the at from disavewing the wanton act 7 3 anit aaltaalas } told was the truth and how much un Comumlaalon 0 on Dec. iets {the lite of Elarcta Snvder ator dawn ne the || oktly gavel wernmvansar le atane ad no evidenve r ee | oot ¥ We NUE) GR see t BB tributions in the office--in the buiid- | vy militiamen guarding the Rockofel | {ng the Lusitania: ar trem etferiny Ps ony. PH | and Ww and if you| fig during oftce hours? Ac did mot| ler mining propertios at Ludiow Col,,| _Widew of Abe Graher Dead, | reparation for the American lives ip Pe: iF gin sy ‘la your duty orn th have lect it, the mo: Jin 1918. The mucceas of the campaig Mr Anne Gruber, widow of Abra’ nam BY SWEDISH FISHERMEN far as reparation can be REAL, I Wibaeiis bac ee ere Wee means the virtual restoration at the [Auber dled to-day at her realdence, No. rales for a needless destruction to have been an attempt tol guvjected, “ | Q, How mush lives of two in the life of one—for by | husband, who was a prominent taure in} Already They Have Found 3,000 = mune ie. 00 Tene ee cg We ; i 0 | subjec you cont Xs Q. Did each | taking the place of Harold Snyder in |focal and State Republican politics, died | 4 he main hope of officials is that ikon y : te sa a here ay “As to confessions, a man doesn't) Gp gh contribute the same] the life outside the prison, Herman [about & month ago, | Barrels From Cargo of Steamer | Bernstorff has been given authority rustrated by Canadian guards early |, vhich ineriminate hin} amount? don't think s . aw —_ ry it Mine ty 7 ‘orelg 2 oe S guards early) toy) things which iner teh am ma eS any HO ee 47 [Copper will alwo have the chance to| —_ | That Hit Mine, by thi man Forelgn Office to go ms | without a reason for de so, Pro-| * eee Gare: edt | make a place for himeeit | Salome ps Dead In Street, Bs touter's Copen. | C0%2n# the memorandum he present mises of favor, duress, any numbe A, The sum A \. Murray McKnight, fifty, a sules-}| LONDON, Feb Reuter's Copen-| oa vg Spvediad een ‘4 ‘ “Q. What did you do with the Following the Kilt young Sny-| forrest Avenue, |hagen correspondent senda an explan+|°? Yesterday ip trying to arrange a 470 BULGARS KILLED of things may br shout a confes- money? A. It was given to the |e), Mother Jones burat out with an} iid hadi loupatch of vearerday | settlement, Secretary Lansing indi- ion, But to be valuable a confession! Campaign Committee of the | iiick upon young — Rock | Sedma. ation despatch yesterday | cated to-day that the situation is not { must be. volunt If it is secured! Comptroller. ‘ were a =| in which ald that nearly the en-| iogetner hopeless. | “Q. Who was the Campa charging him with responsibility for | = “| tire Bab, fishing fleet had aban-| eric by trick or a the law allows Pi | a , Ld “Ia th tu eadlocked ?”" ny a met ST Commit A. tr, Hervey was | “murder Rockefeller telling {ity regular work to bunt bar m te mtuation Geqdhenmee ay me neers pa to go in. Chairman, | believe. Her attack had effect, Rockefeller | H1¢ Coppes el ephedra wr) was asked Official! Report Also Says That) “If you should find that the cont Q. re,wham a did you give the | wont to Colorado to study conditions |t » hie de CHEUDE WR Eran: § ean getis “While confidential negotiations Gollan and Healls| 2 A. Mr. Hervey. ay: £6 ‘ 0 1 bis having been picked up]. ‘ Pipe More Than 500 Soldiers | alone neatabalids Iman and Healis| Meyy ou know that t was a mis. (for himsclt and lived and worked aa! 4 came a long *! thus far : P continue.” answered tho Secretary of jwere obtained by threats or othe Gs ee ON SE nliectionselone of the mine Apa RG CAMBRAI AAG, ts hue ts . Atate, ‘tly situation cannot be called Were Wounded, wise, and ruthful 4 for a Pracaa Neyiert , cobestioug | ene. 9b: ¥ H waar tallinuy Der 'so no anes ! Advicos reaching Copenhagen from reageysl . ¢ called - ii +a fi ete nt as ; 7 Bho told mt should pay th Ix, She wrote b. ih barrels are tro ~ PARIS, Fob, S-—An oMeial Bul-| you to ¢ hem tn thet Nght.! The Municipal ¢ oma mor nats good the Ifo of the boy by the veclae| him. 4 About what we wre sey ine Ip Noroite whicn| Count von Bernatorff had ittle tu ean fae forwarded trom In ono of the so-called conferences, it erately violated the prov: g tion of another, tockefelley went | 4 cambrleh It aati fa eunk bya thine ig the North Sea|#ay to-day beyond @ non-committel th 0 aT ys tha! 479] has been held by the tttorney for the | PASERE iiranals ts s Now York Mother” Spe SS RLaieoe December, she had on board 6,000] expression of belief that things would eve led and more 1 609| defense that ae and uae’ | month as e “appointee, | Jones 0 Washington atte r Of oll fs nn mand mt daleg 0) come out all right. 1 recent attack by | Vo nadoue a thing co murder he neg | ae pen they perimitied Iii to. ting Jib Robbins in Chic and JOUN D, ROCKEPELLEE Jt Wl ae ee eeh etoninor Ate | BERLIN, Feb, %—German officials nm Bulgavian| only himself to blame if ve is taken ill eek pandlog the promuleation ving hout Herman Coppes. | preman Copp he son of Willian im. Which Was stopped by the |to-day scoffed at the possibility thar seriously: ot the eligible Liat: From Washington sbe wrote to and Loulaa Coppes of Plano, 1. ish ang taken into Kirkwall Germany's refysal to disavow the ' a owe ; ] ] \