The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1916, Page 1

FRENCH DEFEA JAB EDITION s asetealeadeediniadaiaenemaneiineettie: mmnineemdntead timate taidint i tiats acini TED IN TWO BATTLES, BERLIN CLAIMS. eisrid. | NEW YORK, “MONDAY, ‘PEBRUARY 14, Weather—Fair and cold to-night. Tuesday clear; warmen Circulation Books Open to Au?) 1 9 1 6. WILSON FORMALLY DECLARES HE WILL RUN AGAIN 1,100 YARDS OF TRENCHE CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS IN TWO BATTLES WITH FRENCH Berlin Reports as, teicciiees in| Champagne and at Town Near Border. FRENCH ADMIT LOSSES. Fighting Spreads to All Sectors } of Front and Combined k Losses Are 100,000. ' BERLIN, Feb. 14—(via London).— Mmportant gains for the Germans in two engagements were reported to- Gay by the War Office. Northwest of @abure, in Champagne, positions over a front of 700 yards were cap: tured, seven officers and 300 men be- faq mado prisoners. Te the region of Ahersept, vear the Wrench frontier, allied positions 400 ards long were captured. | “Lavely fights have continued over a Great portion of the front,” says the) official report: “During the night the / enemy aga!’ directed bis fire on Lens| and Lievin | “South of the Somme stubborn fights developed around an advanced and extending saphead of our po’ tion. Wo guve up a surrounding at-} fack on outpost trenches.” | — i ALLIES AND GERMANS i HAVE LOST 100,000 MEN IN TWO WEEKS. LONDON, Feb. 14.--By battering Dlows south of Sainte Maric, the Ger- mans aro making desperate offorts to Grive a wedge in the French line with Wie object of bending back the whole French front in the Champagne, The fombined losses in the last two weeks fre estimated at 100,000. The German drive has been success- ful, according to Berlin despatches. They report gains on the French left wing that more than offset the ad- vance made by the French on their right in the fighting northwest of Massiges. ; Both Berlin and Paris agree that fhe fighting in the Champagne is heavier than at uny time since the Prench rushed forward in the great ‘Offensive movement of last Septem- —— GERMANS CAPTURE, THEN LOSE TRENCHES IN UPPER ALSACE. PARIS, Feb. 14.—German troops cap- tured 200 yards of French trencaes east of Soppois, in Upper Alsace, the French War Office admitted in an oM- clal statement this afternoon, but most of the lost ground was retaken by a French counter-attack ‘The War Office statement indicated no important changes in the situation im the Champagne, or north of Arras, where the German and French have HOW WELLESLEY GIRLS COMPARED WITH THE FAMED VENUS OF MILO LGROEY NEMEN TS OF VENUS. feet 4.9 fae WELLESLEY GIRLS. it 5 feet 3.2 Inek .13.3 inches CITY CHAMBERLAIN WHO WILL LEAVE HIS OFFICE IN SPRING. RENRY BRUERE _ WELLESLEY GIRLS (UTOONE BY VENUS CHAMBERLAN'S JOB == 2= ~~ AT SWARTHMORE W iets a F Is a Pert in Measurements, Declare Her Friends. M PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14—The “composite Venus” of Wellesley Col- lege is outdone by Miss Margaret Wil- lett, the beauty of Swarthmore Col- lege and leader in women's athletics, according to measurements of wise Willett made publie to-day by friends. The Venus de Milo tecestt Pod almost the sar those of Mias Will In height, weight urements the Swarthmore girl varies only by the e~allest fraction of un inch from the famous statue; the bust is practically the same and the leg measurements are almost identical Miss Willett’s neck was declared to be perfect, measuring 12.5 inches, the same as that of the Venus de Milv. ——_____ J, E. ROOSEVELT SOBS HE STILL LOVES WIFE Breaks Down at Annulment Trial and Expresses Deep Regret Over Enforced Separation, Justice Crane, in the Supreme Court, Brookiyn, heard evidence to- day and arguments in the suit of John Ellis Roosevelt of Sayville, L. L, 4 cousin of Col, Roosevelt, for the an- nulment of his marriage to Edith Hammersly-Hriscoe ftoosevelt. Mr, Roosevelt is sixty years old. His wife is thirty, Mr. Roosevelt testitied at length, He told of meeting Mrs. Briscoe at the bome of his sist Mr, Roosevelt turned his back to the bench and the crowd in the court- room and ¥ as he told of how his » proportions as it was said. been locked in desperate struggles | {qs of happiness with a younk for more than forty-eight hours. |pated, He was tearful throughout The German onsiaught in Upper|the proceedings, and appeared to be| ‘Aleace was preceded by u violent bom~ | Mer* Pie: per ae ara bardment that wrecked portions of | Myr. Rvosevelt asked for a French trenc! Br t of t ‘lage on the groun could dig themselves in the t hie r been consummi Grivenout of most of the newly con- | Rowswreit, was om quered positions. ay ; nine Ge. Gen . The War Oftice reported a French | hinced'on the record. One of the vistory In an encounter at the village | sickins f the city. C of Frise, south of the Somme. Randull, couns i Mr, Thonaey at “Sunday afternoon we captur ye] pveee Se BRORNES ate eral German ‘renches,” said t Me Me E val nony tend jal statement, “The Germans counter- | to ) t in wife’ is-of a attacked, A German cc was Lighiy nervous temperainent, Ha suid ecimated, excepting # ¥ men WOO | oe a OF oxtre femeat te Wine that were made prisoners, The German! thoy are unable to live together as koases were considerable,” a man and wife fect 7 ype| and waist meas-| | | | partments under the Mayor and BRUERE TO RESIGN TOENTER BUSINESS To Notify Mayor Mayor Formally Soon, but Will Work for City Until Spring. City Chamberlain Henry Bruere will, within the next day or two, der his resignation to Mayor Mitchel, The Mayor will accept it, through an understanding he and the Chamber- en- lain reached some time ago, but it will not become effective until late in the spring. Mr. Bruere’s reason for leaving his important office in the city adminis tration is that he may accept an executive office with the American Metal Company. He will not, how- ever, loave the City Government until he has completed a voluminous re- port, now in progress of assembly, on the work accomplished in the last two years in the twenty-eight d ne formulation of a definite working programme for the next two year. Every assurance was given by Mr. Bruere this afternoon that his own interests and not the suggestion of a difference between himself and the Mayor had prompted him to resign his office. “For a long time T have consid- ered leaving the city government,” he sald, “and I have been fortunate in having bad several opportunities offered me to go into business. In that way I have been able to select the work I most preferred and this I shall undertake late in the spring “But I do not mean to cut myself entirely from constructive off work I haye been pe mitted to do a | was the first » Presi Chamberlain, I should, in fact, much} gent hay consented formally to have prefer to remain in office, but my own| hia name used in connection with the terents require that Iresign, How-| ,omination, His name has been| ever, I shalt give my Sundays and don primary ballots, in several nd any other spare time t | States, however, through the wetivi- | ty whenever my servic are! tiem of friend But I no political us-| phe i 5 al us-| Phe President takes the post or interests, and Lam no st tinanclally t the chances of poll why | need el um leaving o PRESIDENT'S NAME PLACED ON ORIO PRIMARY BALLOT -—WITHHIS FORMAL CONSENT Wilson Ribdy to ¢ to Go Before| Democrats So They May Show Preference. lw. RITES STATE OFFICIAL}, While Not Willing to Enter a Contest He Wants People’s Decision Given. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—President Wilson to-day formally gave his con- went that his name be used as a can- @idate for renomination. In a letter to the Secretary of State of Onlo the President stated that he was unwilling to enter @ gontest for the aviination, but was ready to permit the ues of his mame in the coming primary in order that the Demecrats of Ohio night “I am enclosing you a letter the occasion of which I dare say will be quite obvious. Friends tn Oblo have called my attention to Section ot the General Code of Obio as amended in 1914, with regard to pri- mary elections and have requested that I indicate my willingness to have my name used. I accordingly take the Mberty of sending you the enclosed letter aa formal permission under the statute. The “enclosed letter” reads as fol- lows: “Honorable Charles Q. Hildebrand, “Secretary of State, Columbus, 0. “My Dear Sir: While I am entirely unwilling to enter into any contest for the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, { am willing to permit the use of my name that the Democrats in Ohto may make known their preference in regard to that nomination, In order, therefore, to satisfy the technical requirement of the statute of the State of Ohio, | hereby consent to the use of my name as 4 candidate for the Presidency by any candidote who secks to be elected a delegate to the National Democratic Convention which {s to assemble in June next. “Respectfully yours, “WOODROW WILSON.” The letters were mailed to-day They were made public at the White House without comment The President made known hia posi- tion in order to comply with the Ohio primary law which requires candi- dates for delegates to the party con ventions to make known thelr first and necond cholées before Feb. 25, and alvo requires that the candidates for delegates have the consent of thelr to make use of their names. President was formally notitted | requirements of the law lost and to-day sent the abov | that the voters will to determine | whether he will make the race for the | Presidency in 1916 as the Democrati ate, written to & Mitehell Pen In a 1nd Tmust thiak} that be would oals the nest ten} again if the Wemocra 1 ) r we sired AY sti Political advisers and frien er Mr. Mit il’ d to P ott ? th nominee Bre feats 1” was! made thei, pr aet has prepufed all the campaign Mr. Bruce Balas i H- terial with the iden that he would b berledn is $12,000 4 year. ne the party caudidace, ~— 4,958) on Sa CYR TAKES | HURRIED LEAVE OF PHILADELPHIA |Report on pene That He} and Wealthy Wife Have Separated. (Special to The Prevtng Wor'A,) ! PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 14,— The} sudden departure from this city tot | Washington of Jack Thompson, alias } Jean Aaralt Wdward Saint Cyr. one | the efreulatfon of a report that ha | wife, who was the widow of James | Henry “Stilent™ Smith, }to Europe combined is soon to go to give that tte rise to the report to-day couple have separated. It is stated on what appears to be! that Mry. after Raghaliees advice from lawyers | in New York who have investigated | good authority Saint Cyr, her husband's ant nts, id now] convinced that Saint Cyr‘) not what he represented himself to be, The same authority states that Saint Cyr has agreed to drop out of his wi life forever, but that before he made the agreement he ¢ @ guaran-| tee of a sum which will enrich him greatly. Saint Cyr’s departure Belleyue-Stratford unexpected, He was accompanied to | Washington by lls bosom friend, Robert Von Sehwom, and a third man whose identity was unknown to the hotel manag ent Mrs, Saint Cyr is still at the Be vue-Stratford, Sho ts a sister of Mrs Anthony J. Drexel, and through the Drexels has from the was burried and Louis 8. Levy, of the firm of Stanch field & Levy, counsel for Mrs. Saint AT STILL RAINS GOLD | FOR 'SWINDLER" LYMAN: More ‘Than Wats onh. 000 loys broken, He was taken to Fordham ore nN $15,000 Has Come! The two pasesngers injured Through Mails to J. H. Putnam & Lau of No. 660 Kast One Company Since Exposure | Hundred and Bighty-ninth Street, and + than 4166s Albert J, Stewart of No, 811 Bast On: ei bein heeks, from +i!) Hundred 1 Ninety-sixth treet parts of the United States, hue come! pet nad ‘ | through the mails to H. Putnam & Voth ha tons of thi |Co, No. 68 Brond at tn laxt Motor tr on two loca n n de the City roninus duriog th Wa. The ane ' ‘ Mt xinte t 1 W Str It wa RUISES TOO WARE CLINE d \ as m4 ‘ lth und wu ndition ‘Bor, NX, Ci, Dedepuone Mewamad 4000, =A, ure or walk, Cyr when told to-day of the reporta of separation current in Philadel- phia, said ‘The reports are without founda- | tion, Mr, Santt Cyr went to Wuash- ington on business, He and his wife | a have ne od and he will re-|a turn to Iphia as soon as hin | ge busi shington is tinishe BRS J-H-ST CYR. 2nd ER HUseand | REPORTED SEPARATED AFTER DIS HUSBAND CLOSURE OF IDENTITY. REAR END CRASH ON °L” IN BRONX: TIE-UP IN SUBWAY jPhird Avenue One Hundred and Bighty-third Street Station motorman of passeng Trains. Wedged Together by Collision on Third Avenue held a number of con ‘i Hdential conferences with eminent Line at 183d Street. lawyers in this city, ax well as New % York ; Slippery rails caused o rear-end a jcollision of express trains on the Elevated Line at the tls morning, in whitch the rear traln and two injured. re Wi A southbound express was in the station taking on the last nd would have few under way around the curve fr passengers tarted downtown in but be could nother express swung Fordham Road ‘onds, ro tt ation and crashed into it So heavy was the impact of the col { Motorman Cha: 2017 Honeywell As pinned in vear tr es Buehler 6 right BANKER'S OWN LETTER SHOWS PRESSURE ON SHONTS AND CITY IN $170,000,000 BOND LOAN ‘Morgan Threatened to Cancel Agree- | ment to Lend Money Unless Deal Was Rushed—City Forced to Pay $2,300,000 Interest. i\COLBY SAYS PRENDERGAST ERRED IN TWO INSTANCES | Letters showing that J. P, Morgan & Co, exerted pressure on the City of New York to jam through the subway contract with the Inter borough were introduced before the Thompson Investigating Committee to-day. Horace M. Fisher, Secretary of the Interborough Company, was.on the witness stand atthe time, Bainbridge Colby, Counsel: for the mittee, read thé letters to Mr. Fisher and then asked him what they, meant. He replied that he “didn’t know.” It was made plain in them, however, that J. P. Morgan & Co, did jot think the subway plum was being plucked fast enough by the Inter borough Company, and that it wanted quick action. It was also disclosed that the elty was forced to pay $2,300,000 Interest In charges on the loan of $170,000,000 made the Interborough by the Morgan firm, CRUISER ARETHUSA, DARE-DEVIL OF SEA IS SUNK BY A MINE Mr. Colby proceeded to show how J.P, Morgan & Co, “put pressure” on the city authorities through the In- terborough Company by writing te T. P. Shonts, threatening to cancel its supplementary agreement to fur- nish $170,000,000 to finance subway construction. On May 3, 1912, J, P, Morgan & Co. wrote to Mr, Shonts: “Referring to our letter of ud fer 9 and your letter of April a ; 5 q 2 in reply in regard to the Ten Lost From British Warship} tnancing of the Interborougn Rapid Transit Company's pro- posed contract with the city, we beg to advise you that all the —374 Lives Lost on French Cruiser Charner. proposed = arrangements — for LONDON, Feb. 1. /The British] Mnancing as outlined tn, the lete crulver Arethusa, which has figured| ters referred to contemplated the In some of the mons exe naval exploits of the off the east thrilling English . has struck ‘The Ad- ution of @ contract with the city within 4 reasonable time, & mine cou “We understand from you to- miralty announced this afternoon that| day that the decision has net it iy feared she is a total wreck. Ten] een arrived at, and we are { her crow were loat therefore obliged to give you no- The Arethusa, a Nght cruiser, built| tice that unless such contract is in October, 1913, had several encoun- tera with German torpedoboats and other warships early in the war and became known os the daredevil of the agreed on promptly it may very likely be neceswary for us to ree vine the method and scope of the financing. English fleet, Her exploits Inspired “We are not willing to commit several English poets to create! ourselves to the investment of rhymes in her honor and the Are $17,000,000 any time in the thusa’a crew were popular heyoes in| future regarless of conditions. England “Accordingly, unless we hear The Arethusa displaced only 3,520) frem you within the next few tons and as armaimont mounted only| days that the contract with the two six } and six four-inch guns,| city has been closed we shall be Hho curried alvy four torpedo tubes.| compelled to cancel the agree- Her length was 450 feet ment set forth in the letters PARIS, 14.—Thr hundred referred to.” and =seventy-four ves were '|SHONTS WROTE TO McANENY } when French cruiser Amiral URGING ACTION, }Charner was su M Shonts on May 4 wrote to Vinaw » ¢ George McAneny, then President of ve he }the Board of Aldermen and Chairman risiae maid th only onelof the Board of imate's Raptd aan out of saved, Transit C {ttee vandling subway ont Pdittenlies | be m oO r en) with the bank- te ; : a, vee " « mused 4 understand i ; ? th the city officials that the H ‘ wnt 8 made Was accept ! ' ww majority. both of the J L. Serv ‘ nission and ——) Estimate and Ap Avie White Soe Wonuded | i would vi Aviat pily aeied upon and approved Vn aed ot f Hecause of ad de , 4 ay pa f e*conmittee 1 j v the Board of orguch. gained elroulution, ‘* Getimate aud Apportionment aee { | ial