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Lemuel PF. Quigg, salary 10,250.00 | curities on the baris of the acquired | Pitt eee Svar rh office he declined to con ti of ‘he losses, | snawe: Galen. Bostwick & Coleman 408.91 companies and it wrote off the Wawee | rig a: first that the sum was Bawin Sefton, fee... 2,590.00} Q. Aw a matter of fac | nothing like ‘so much as $900,000; aleo James M. Quackenbus'! « 10,000.00 | stock of the Interborough Company @ | that it was sent to Pittsburgh as & Franklin Rartiett. 12,600.00 | milistone around the neck of the Met- | part of the Aaular business of the ; 5 2| T. A. Gilloxple Company. Young Gilles- Niool!, Anabelle, Lindsay and ropolitan Consolidated Corporation? | 1/0) aked to produce the vouchers |. Puller . cecccescceee 4,228.60] A. No, 1 would not put It that way the acdeltee woes, which W. 3. Wallace, retainer. 5,000.00/ Auditor B. F. J. Gaynor of tho In-| the laren eum of money was sent to f ‘The legul expenses in 1908 were: | terborough testified that the East) h. 3°» declined to do #0. Cravath, Henderson & de Gersdorft $41,214.69 tan, to Clark Street, Brooklyn, is River tunnel from Old Slip, Manha TO PRODUCE ANY CIFIC VOUCHER. be- Henry D. Macdon 8,800.00! ing built for the Interborough Com-| “Tell me the voucher you want,” he Lemuel EF. Quige. 8,750.00 | pany by Flynn & O'Rourke, It fs the osc Perley Moree, “and I'll get it Charies F. Kinesiey.. + 1,800.00) connecting link of the new subway] Assemblyman Feinberg, Chairman Franklin Bartlett... + 6,100,00| between the two boroughs. It Is eX | of the sub-committee, reported young Nicoll, Anable, Lindsay & pected to be finished on Feb. 6, 1918, ps pies refusal to Chainman Faller ....00006.. .000.00| and the engineers say it may be done | Thompson of the investigating com- Harris T. Russe! ‘ 271.17 sooner. Mr. Gaynor testified that the! The bank accounts of President Guggenheimer, Untermyer & | cost of equipment of the new subway | Theodore P, Shonts of the Interbor- Marshall sesvees 60.60 | Will be $22,000,000, gee Company have been subpoenaed te by the Thompson i tigatl "i In 1909 the legal expenses were: TOTAL OF $80,000,000 TO FINISH pron investigating com Cravath, Henderson & de THE SUBWAY. Gersdor® ..... “es Q Which added to the $58,000,000 Miooll, Anable, Lindsay & |for construction makes $80,000,000 Fuller ......-.. total? A. Yea, William J. Wallace... There were no legal expen and 1911, In 1912 the legal expen of the merger were refer to it in their Q. Yet Mr. Shonts and Mr. Morgan letters, as $77,- 00,0007 A. That was preliminary to mittee, and they will be produced to~ day. Miles M, Dawson, the actuary acting a® assistant counsel to the committe lied at President Shonta* office. Mr. Shonte’s secretary agreed to bring down the bank books of his employer. Auditor Gaynor of the Titerborough returned to the witness stand this afternoon, He contended that all the ‘special preliminary expenses the In the actuality. ' . * n! ROER wag | “Wuipment of the new subway to/ paid by the city. ‘They were doing Loss IN MERG Slate? A. It in $1,165,206 the work of extending rapid transit IN ae facet, Counsel Golby read from the record | Bs aay treet pees There has been no legal expense! iheae remarkable items tas 4 op futher ¢ i aince for the merger, Mr. Fisher suld.| pont discount... + $48,000.00 {would hardly put it that wey We Q. What services were required in expense 55,000.00 were heartily co-operating with the 1906 to involve the payment of these sllaneous cquipm 42,906.00 | city. substantial fees? A. 1 don't know. Law expenditures char have no knowledge of these trans to construction 40,88 actions Miscellaneous construcion Q. Tho lonses to the Interborough | expenditure 161, Rapid Transit Company in that mer- Expense on tunnels ger amounged to $45,000,000, did they Interest during construc not? A. If was not a money lows. It} ion Sphere 20 was a stock loss, a matter of bOOK-| Ho wor plant electric equip keeping. ment . . Q. But the company has actually |p pnace equipment Joust through the depreciation of It) G7 notice that what might ee ty artutees 2a Tiara eet called “allen items" amount to $6 Consol y 000, How do you account for th Hidaved Corporation insued 86-14 ie rather surprixes me. Debt 4 count and expe’ that we conalder “allen.” Q. Do you expect to operate dual subway system within years? A, Yes, It is expected to gin operations in various sections fore June 90. 1918, It will not wholly in operation, Probably vi GET THIS HABIT 59,266.00 two substantial sections will not be ready | them togeth SAYS CITY DERIVES BENEFITS 0.00 | FROM EXTENSIONS, TOO. | Q Would you not always heartily 1.00) CO-operate with anybody who wiil guarantee you an Income of $14,538,- | 000, and undertakes to pay the extra Jexpensen? A. The city derives bene- 8.00 fits from the extensions, as well as | our company | Q. When was the application for ithe recognition or pwance of $1, 500,000 of extra expenses made by yor company? A. In or about June or duly, 1913, Q. In what form was it made? A. By our counsel, Mr. Rodgers, calling no Mr. Coleman, counsel for the 20 89 be | 00, his? dis. nee are the only itema | Public Service Commission Q. What preliminary discussion had there been? A. Mr, Rodgers's requost to me to furniu the figures. : me to give the details of the various itema of extra expense, Q. Did he say he had an under- standing that these items would be paid? A. No. He .ad spoken at times about the necessity of getting or. the be- be- bo ery befor that date. Q. At the time you made the claim Kae | 4 of $1,500,000 for extra expenses had We | LAS MEN INCOME OF THE INTERBOROUGH |) of ine items been actually paid? WILL BE GREAT@R. A. No; they had not Q. Will the Income of the Laterbor-| Mr. ‘Gaynor submitted the Tn . : bite of ough Rapid Transit Company be | porovK st of expenses incurre Don ° P for the project of subway extensions saya k ok gl Akfast | greater or lean immediately after tho fom Get a Tele, March ale Ltd until you drink glass inauguration of the new subways? A./ Q. ‘The actual work done upto that : be ter after the roads are | time seems to havo amounted to of hot water. Hit in apevation than it iw now. | $2718.10, ‘That's a good way from fully in ope Q. Who is going to make up t equipment acco Happy. bright, alert—vigorous and vi- vacious—a pin pi a lagp i ural, rosy complexion and freedom from heal end blood. If only every woman | ceed $22,000,000. every man could realize what « gratityi Haneed of thousands of sickly, ‘aneemic-looking men, women and girls! tion. change would stand it. complete equipment for initial ope: with or muddy complezions; | $22,000,000 the difference we must) Fitead “of” the multitudes of “nerve | apply to any deficiencies in the con- wreeks," “rundowns,” “brain struction account. and pessimists we should see « virile, Q. (by Senator Thompson) Have optimistic throng of rosy-cheeked people nt if it exceeds $22,- 000,000? A. I have never heard any- | illness are assured only by clean, | thing to make me think it will ex- | . reali Q. If there is a deficiency the city) the wonders of the morning inside | wij} make it up? A. Not as I under- ‘The company ts to provide If we do that for less than $1,632,000? A. The disbursements were made by the Interborough Com- pany in connection with the proposed extension of the lines. Q. Why is there a charge for soap, cups and shields in 1910 in connee- tion with extension work? A, Prob- ably in the engineering department, where they were making plans. Counsel Colby asked if it hag not been the original idea of the Inter- borough Company to extend ita own lines. Mr. Gaynor dodged but finally admitted this was true, Mr. Colby read these items: March 31, 1910, quarterly payment of salary to Willlam Barclay Parsons, $6,26' advertising charges In the new hat | | ras | all tho Items of construction cost been; papers, $27, everywhere. on ages Q. What was the advertising? A Ap inside bath is had by drinking, | Passed upon by the Public Service) we’ conducted a publicity campaign each morning before breakfast, a glass|Commission? A. They have been re-| ty educate the people. (Laughter). of real hot water with a teaspoonful | ported to the Public Service Commis-| Q, Who directed you to put all of limestone Longa re a to wash}ajion as they occurred. ith Wome in, the claim againat the mach, liver, ki ir 5 tity of New York. A. No one. “_ the heen ~ t cewlane and) Q. And you reported to the Publio| (iy of New indigestible waste, sour fermenta thus cleansing, sweetening Service Commission the $125,000 bonus to President Shonts? A, It was part Q. sim for its preliminary expenses on How much did the Interborough ¢ fresnening the entire alimentary | of the $327,000 the Commission allowed i a oxtaneloe plan? A. About canal before putting more food into|us to pay for preliminary expenses, 1D, ow much wae alowed? A the stomach. | hie ‘beat This bonus was awarded to Mr.| $549,246.02, Those Cpanel Reese Page piped Shonts for “special and extraordinary |" city PAID THE $125,000 TO po ogee particularly those who have |%rv!ces” In promoting the dual con- PREGIDENT SHONTS. Py pallid, ‘sallow complexion and who|tract by which the city and the In- ‘ate constipated very often, are urged | terborough Company join in buliding g20n0nt be Mal pir pers shart ed to obtain a quarter pound of limestone |the new subways and the city car-| fricking: $54,857 for Garten CrtEhe at the drug store, which will cost but « trifle but is sufficient to demonstrate the quick and remarkable in both health and appearance | those who practise internal ries most of the load. Thomas H. Gillespie, son of 5 Investigating Committee, He ex- | i peaetion. We must remember that| Tiined various details in the Cee atone $0500; ‘Edward Mt, inside eo ectase the Leportant | counts of the elevated railroad third- Groyt, $15,166.67; Richard Reid Rodg- than outside, ‘suse the skim does) tracking Job, but when he was asked ers, $4,333.33; Administration, $128, not absorb impurities to contaminate | qpout the sum of $900,000 alleged to ; E. M. counsel the blood, while the pores in the thirty | have been recently transferred from July 7, 1911, $10,000; J. P. Morgan fget of bowels do —Advt the company's Now York office to tho 8 aStiast? payments, each of | For Weak Women Vinol Creates Strength Weak, nervous women whose strength has become depleted by overtaxing their vitality need Vinol, because it is a wonderful combination of the most famous reconstructive tonics,-— Beef and Cod Liver Peptones, Iron and Manganese Peptonates, Glycerophos- phates, etc., with a mild tonic wine. Nothing equals this combination to restore strength, vitality and vigor, inol A Splendid Modern Tonic Is always sold with a definite guarantee to return the purchaser's money if it fails to give satisfaction. For sale at Riker-Hegeman and Liggett stores and at all Greater New York drug stores that display this sign ee @P. S.— There is a Vinol drug store in your own town wherever you live. Look for the sign. head of the T. A. Gillespie Co., teati- fied this afternoon in private before the subcommittee of the Thompson which the Interborough got the City sions and $327,405 for subway exten- sions, and included in these were “logal expenses, administration and engineering.” Some of the payments the Q., That $125,000 for administration ‘was the bonus to Mr. Shonts, wasn't ' money, | @. By what authority did you charge that to the city? A. Authority je the Interborough Board of Direc- tors. | Q, What items that you chargsd in this actually had not been expended before the allowance was made by the city? A, Those of Jullen T. Davies, Mr. Dillon and Mr, Nicoll, part of the Grout payment, and the payments to Mr. Rodgers tnd myself and the administration charges. They were paid by the Interborough after the application was made to the city but before the application was allowed The committee adjourned early so that Sei r Thompson cowkd attend a meeting of Republican leaders up- town Duncan Mac Innes, chief auditor of the Finance Department of the City of New York, was subpoenaed to-d before the Thompson ‘ommittes. He has been Comptroller's ofles since Aug. 5, 189 Senator Thompso: declared that h learned from the (omptrolier’s office Investigatin tn th that Mac Innes, who worked until 1 A. M, to-day, has an ulcerated tooth. He was excused until to- morrow The T. A. Gillespla Company sent ten truck loads of books and papers to the Thompson committee this af- ternoon, also @ long statement to the effect that they could be examined only when a witness was on the stand before the committee, Senator Thompson's sub-committee got to | work at on | ——-—___ U-BOAT PLACED MINE. ion Accounts for tlon of the Areth LONDON, Feb. 15. —The | cruiser Arethusa, reported probably a total wreck off the the east coast, struck a mine laid by a German submarine, oF m. British low | fore abe settled, it 7A. It was allowed for administra | tion expenses, and Mr. Shonts got the, ING WORLD, TUE MRS. PROCTOR SAY HUSBAND WAS FOND OF RER GIRL CHUMS Wife of Theatrical Manager Says Nerves Were Wrecked by Pajama Incident. WIFE ONCE FORGAVE. Husband Replies in Separation Suit With Tale of Wife's Midnight Horseback Rides. If 4 beautiful young woman who had been your friend for years came to pass week-end at your country home and you caught her sitting up in the guest's room talking to your husband, who was clad In pajamas, would it make you @ nervous wreck? It has brought to auch @ condition Mra, Georgia Proctor, wite of Fred erick F, Proctor jr. son of the mill- jonaire theatre owner, sccording her statement to Supreme Court J tice Cohalan before whom #he has brought suit for separation, The girl- hood chum of Més, Proctor is Miss Calla Wallace | Mr. Proctor, who is contesting the sult, says it is his wife's fault if she in a nervous wreck, for, tye alleges, # | mutual friend of the Proctor's dis- covered Mrs, Proctor reclining on a divan while John W. Argenbrieht, a Fifth Avenue furrier—also end guest at the Proctor Central Valley, N Y¥.—was aftec ately petting he Furthermore wife’ | | | | Mr. Proctor says, nervous condition might have been brought about by his discov that Mrs. Proctor on several ocea- sions went horseback riding in the moonlight with Matt Hasbrouck, an- other week-end visitor, and did not return to the house until midnight These charges and counter charges did not cause the first quarrel be- tween the Proctors. ‘The troub! frone in the first instance, Mr, Proc- t hecause Mise Corally De Ve v young French woman, p sented him with a gold belt in recog- nition, he says, of his “ valuable as- sistance to her in a certain business transaction.” It was only a few weeks before this gift changed hands, he says, that his wife gave him a similar belt and Miss Devet's gift bore such a close resemblance to hers | that Mrs. Proctor became jealous, Relieving that her jealousy was founded, Mrs. Proctor says she es- sayed the role of detective. At Sun- set Lodge, Asbury Park, she alleges she watched and was rewarded by finding her husband in Miss De Vet's room. Mr. Proctor, the wife alleges, then made the declaration that he wa a “free lance” husband and would do as he pleased and Mrs. Proctor could do likewise. When Calla Wallace visited the Proctor home, Mra, Proctor's attorney, Abraham Levy, told the court, her Sherlock Holmes intuition got the bet- ter of her and she discovered the pa- Jama incident. Mra, Proctor forgave this incident, but not until after her husband had | written a note in which he said: “I do not contain the various attributes that go to make up a perfect husband—but, knowing this, please allow for me and do not take to heart so much those things that to you are not right It was not long afterward, however, that trouble came again aboard the Picaroon Il, Mr, Proctor's steam | yacht, anchored off Port Washington. | A party of friends was making merry jwhen Mr, Proote and one of his friends went ashore, and was indis- Again Mrs, Proctor was angry, d her belongings and left his ry | i} | creet, she the . Justice Cohalan awarded Mrs, | Proctor alimony at the rate of $30 a week upon the showing that, as gen- eral manager of the threescore the- atres owned by Fy Proctor st., young Proctor received more than $30,000 a year. ie TRIFLE WARMER TO-NIGHT SAYS WEATHER FORECAST Meanwhile Cold Wave Hangs On, | With 2 Above the Lowest Mark This Morning. ‘The mercury crawled very higher above zero to-day than yes. terday, The lowest temperature re- | corded wa. between 4 and 7 o'clock | this morning, when the Weather Bu- | reau thermometer registered two degrees above. At 8 o'clock the temperature had risen three degrees and in the neat four hours jumped to 16 degrees, ‘The prediction of the Weather Bur- eau was fair with a rising tempera- ittle | | ture to-night and to-morrow, and variable winds. Those cared for at the Municipal) Lodging House last night numbered 28, of whom 37 were en and children, This is about a quarter of ihe number who were cared for every | day during ‘1 period of extreme cold | last winter, Wo! —— en CHICAGO WHEAT AND CORN MARKET. Vo Prevent the Grip, Statre Brome he qury T ly ove KO! 1B, WG sores algae Quis ie ‘a0 YARDS OF TRENCHES | me |Highth Avenue, was send to the work- Fonino, a chef employed in the Hotel Pfister here, Ho was taken to centrnl station held for the arrival ef Chic joe | "They ‘wit n him in co) \tlon with th oning of the gu at the bana iven_in honor of Ag bishop Mundelein and. the alleged p to blow up y buildings. RUF OB DU, Bb AMNT, | ‘DAY, FEBRUARY GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP INQUIRY IS FAVORED Senvte Vols 39 to 23 tor Investi- gation on Advisability of Ac. quiring Public Utilities WASHINGTON, Feb By a wot of 89 to 23, the Senate to-day went on record as favoring Congressional in quiry into the advisability of Gov ernment ownership of public utilities. 08 against Government regulation and control. Tt adopted such an amend ment proposed by Senator Borah to Senator Newlands’ resolution to direct special inquiry into adequacy of rail- road legislation and the Interstate Commerce Commission, i —————— TAKEN FROM THE BRITISH, Berlin War Office Announces No- table Success Near Ypres on + Belgian Border. BERLIN, Feb, 15 (via London).— British positions over a front of £00 yards near Ypres, Belgium, have been captured by the Germans, the War Office announced to-da GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL, THE RUSSIANS CLAIM i} i Unable to Make Progress on the Riga Front—Outbreaks | at Vilna. PETROGRAD, Feb, 16 (via Lon- don).—An official statement issued to-day reports the failure of all Ger- man attacks along the Riga front, where Russians are declared to be \ining all thelr positions, rhe statement also asserts that have serious outbren ng the German troops near Vilma, in one of whioh a Heutenant was! killed and numerous officers 1) diers afterward court-m- peers get ‘WFC or OR. LYMAN HERE FROM EURO SWOLER OT FOUN Woman Does Not Hear of His Flight Until After She Leaves Liner. A young woman accompanied by an infant, registered as Mrs. L. B. Lyman and declared to be the wife of Dr. J. ‘ant Lyman who obtained more than $300,000 in stock swindling schemes in this city recently and then disap- peared, arrived this afternoon on the American liner St. Paul from Liver- pool, On the vessel she was known to the passengers and officers as Mra. Grant Lyman. Oceurving the same stateroom was Mrs, Lyman's mother, e two women and the child re- mained on the steamer tll all the passengers disombarked. Before go- ing ashore Mrs, Lyman asked the purser anxiously several times about her husband, whom she expected to t her at the dock. Finally Mrs, Lyman, carrying her child, came down the gangplank and was met by two women, sald to have been servants in the Lyman house- hold at No, 108 East Seventy-ftth Street. The women informed Mrs. Lyman of what had happened during her absence, and she broke down, ‘Two Post Office inspectors were on the dock to meet Mrs, Lyman. They did not molest her. Federal ofcials suid that sie would be requested to visit the office of Assistant United States District Attorney Edwin M. Stanton and tell all she knows about the operations of her husband, Hefore he left the city, taking with him more than $800,000 of other peo- ple's money, Dr, Lyman told his serv- ants and the people working for him in his Broad Street office, where he posed as J. H. Putnam, head of J. H. Putnam & Co., that hia wife, who had fone to England early in Janua woukl return on the St, Paul, Aft the revelation of his swindling opera. tions, the Federal authorities trying to find him and bring him to justce, placed no credence in the story that his wife wo rn to New York. Aaron 8h moving pleture xteman, proprietor theatre at No. of a se for twenty days by the Special Justices this afternoon for d children, unaccom- panted by parents o- guardians, to nt tend his’ theatre, Policeman Schaefer of the West Thirty-seventh Street Sta- tion was the withess against Shuste- man. Shusteman $100 a ye having permit was arrested and fined r ago for the same offensc ARRESTED AS SUSPECT IN CHICAGO POISON PLOT. MILWAUK order dot | Feb, 15.—Acting on of the Chicago police, Milwaukee ctives this afternoon arrested Marco BB > “Load NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE, ‘Opel Low. Last Mareh | May Taly Ausrust Lobe Dena Market 15, 1916. NEW U-BOAT ORDER | BITTERLY: OPPOSED BY AU.S, SENATOR Sterling Introduces a Re ; > .,« |Wwar order stocks, advancing Crucible tion Declaring It a Serious {ana Baiawin Locomotive 2 to 3 points WALLSTREET | uted largest quota to activity in first jhalf hour. There was extensive Jauidation and prices, without oxeep tion, showed recessions due to prc fearional activity and profit taking. |War industrials lost-a point and ma- rine issues wore weak, losing 2 points. . labove the low. General list was in- Matiace to Continence: «Save avert General tet wan'oy active. z eae At midday « selling movement WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—A yeso-|siarted in the traction stocks, caus Intion protesting against recognition |ing lower prices in those issues and by the United States of Germany's |copper stocks, Marino preferred loat order threatening to torpedo armed |3 4-8 pointe Vessels was introduced in the Senate} Crucible Steel advanced 6% points to-day by Senator Sterling, a Repub- | fre n low for to-day, Marine pre- Nean, of South Dakota. line envi GMa ene Uk at aes Sterling’s resolution declared the|!m “gg.” akternoon and gold at Shi. 3 off 5% points. Towards the close ‘Senate views with concern the late|short covering helped to rally pric order of thy German Admiralty that|led by recovery in Marine issues, armed ships of any of the allies, |C)Pper stocks and United States whether armed for offensive or de- fensive purposes, may be torpedoed | without warning after Feb, 29." Closing Quotations. | With not clianges from previous closing This order “constitutes a more} ie ta serious menace to commerce, partic- | Alaska Gold Mine ay ularly that of the United States, than any act of the war,” the resolution asserted, {t also declared: any recor nition on the part of the United States of the new German. order, would be a step backward and aban- donment of our contention of the! freedom of the seas and contravene the policy of the United States." LONDON, Feb. 16.—Consideration the question of the treatment of neutral shippers raised by the Ame can notes to Great Britain has reached an advanced giage, with the 1h | DkUn. Cal Petroleum... Central Loather. Canadian Pacitis..; tay, prospect of important modifications |! BA designed to benefit the status of + tral shippers, and which, it is + & lieved, will give satisfaction to those | & who are making the chief complaint. sy Under the present system, when | * cargoes of perishable iy selzed deductions are made a) proceeds go that the shipper pays thi +2 of detenti = dues, de- stat, ete, The new principle would protect neutral shippers from charges and in ease the cargoes are detained or subjected to loss the shipper will be given an indemnigy. Panna: GERMAN GUNS DAMAGE FORTRESS OF BELFORT! Berlin Reports Destruction of Fifty! Houses and Flight of the In- habitants. BERLIN (by wireless to Sayville), Feb. 15.—Advices from Swiss sources to the Overseas News Agency state that the shelling of the French fort- ress of Belfort recently by heavy German guns has done great damage, It is said about fifty houses nave been destroyed, that entire streets have been damaged badly, and that the well-to-do inhabitants have fled to Switzerland. The number of dead and wounded |s not revealed, ——»———— fanne ot Marine Uf, ot kik ‘& Weatern, Airbrake i is Ry Steal) Spring Reading... Rep, Steet. 3 Studebaker Tenn, © racic, Ind Aiahot Rubber 8! Steel. Y tee) pit $1,125,000 DAMAGE ie IN ZEPPELIN RAID|*i3.4.0 8) Athens Reports This as the Loss Sustained oy Eight Merchants \ in Salonica. ATHENS, Greece (via Paris), Feb. 15.—The Chamber of Commerce of Balonica places the losses caused to eighty merchants there by the recent ITEMS FOR INVESTORS. Treasury Department proposes amend war revenue act and devise som: heme of taxing stocl value, Also proposes t: share on orixinal issue o conta ® share for each subsequent trans- er. Standard O11 Company of New Jersey regular quarterly dividend of $5 4 share. Zeppelin bombard: ent at 5,640,000 | payable March 15, to atock of record francs, about $1,125,000, Feb. 18, LONDON, Feb. 15.—Reuter's cor-| Rutte and Superior Copper Company respondent at Vicenza, Italy, says that | quarter ended Dec. 31," Net profits $3,- 095,799 equal to $11.37 earned on 272,018 acroplanes yesterd ~ bombarded the | sh . against $10.11 earned on same Italian town of Schiv, fifteen miles | Stock previous quarter. from Vicenza, killing six persons and other Utah Copper pany's surplus for woes | quarter ended Dec. 31, $4,482,408; tn- $1,602,994, Approximate return Year compared with previous year, total income Increased $10,740,490, Surplus, $11,009,399; Increase, $4,664,294, ‘Total Income equal to $11.02’ per share. MAIN MISSISSIPPI LEVEE GIVES WAY Flood Watets Dash Through Big Crevasse Over Rich Lands National Enamelling and Stargping Compan: earnings for year \ 191 were 44 an increase of $514,985. arnings are ‘equal to per cent’ on ammon stock, compared with deficit in 1914. Ses Below Natchez. ancien, atin, tx tne GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT twenty-five mics above st. voweph,| — {§ REPORTED AS LOST twenty-five miles above St. Joseph, | Miss., broke early to-day. The flood | waters are pouring through a huge} COPENHAGEN, Feb. 15.—The find- crevasse and spreading over a large ing of tin box by Danish Ashormen area of rich farm land, along the North Sea Coast to-day led The gap has widened to a mile and | to the belief that a German torpedo- hundreds of persons are making their | boat may have gone down with all way to the high lands, The parishes |on board, Inside the box were eleven of Tenasas, Concordia, Madison, | lotters, written in German, Franklin and Catahoula’ are being) On card had been written® the ficoded and fifty towns will be in- | words: "Torpedoboat now sinking; undated, [thirty-six on board. EXTRA SPECIAL FOR TUESDAY + RED ST, NICHOLAS WAL S—The bh flavored with various nd velvety Chocolate, eX TRY SPEC POR MOND, this sweet matic Spires, mounte AY POUND BOX 15c WE AkKE NOW OFFERING RVINE CREAMERY CARA. CHOCOLATE In rich Ch ‘ eth dain Day. SPECIAL FOR WEDNESDAY FRUIT KINSES—This ents w choice blending of ‘crushed Figs ad Datens hukar Cream, formed bie morsels of 10¢ Miclou FOUND BOX 1OADWAY 206 BR 7 p.m, Us| | MORE ARRESTS DUE NARN AMBER (Continued From First Page) ssolu-|In second hour a recovery started in} County in event their clent ia in- dicted. or it to-day admitted that he had purchased an empty bott! Madi in, Wise drug, store just betere retly left adison for his it to the girl, according to State Attorney Dady. In the opinion of the State Prose cutor the admission strengthens the case against Orpet who yesterday repeatedly denied that ne had bough a bottle, full or empty, Despite denials of the State's at- torney it was believed to-day that Mrs. E, H, Lainbert, mother of Mari an, is working to help free the youth suspected of her daughter's murder, Mrs, Lambert to-day refused to eee reporters, but sent her husband to the door with a message “What's tho use,” she sald, “of prosecuting Will? ‘Phat won't bring Marian back to me.” Her husband, however, reiterated that he believed Orpet guilty, and while not seeking vengeance, believed he should be prosecuted Mrs, O. 1, Orpet, mother of the student, belleves he is innocent Nothing can change that belief, she sald to-day. 6 student's mother, a tall, gray hafred, dignified woman of about fifty-five years, was clear-eyed and even smiling when she was inter- viewed to-day “Our faith | our son is unshaken.” she raid. “A son of mine could not mmit murder. t have two sons. Willlam and Roland, Both of them h yet to tell me their first Ile, ‘Williain has never caused me one bit of trouble and we are positive that at the proper time his innocence Will be established | ‘L know nothing of with Moria excepti were schoolmates tog Mra. Orpe' vas asked whether she knew Will ade a seeret trip to Lake F first week after the Christmas holidays. At first ab answered no, but changed her rep’ to “I don't remember,’ She has not seen her son since he has been placed in jail at Waukegan, she said, and declared she could not just when she would vis “He will bes se the “for I am sure he n, smiled, is inne cent Young mother Jatled. Dex Orpet several has called for his times singe he was tehes from Dekalb, day revealed that Miss Celestia You- ker, whom young Orpet hoped to marry, had been told every detail of the traged Miss Youker's mother would not permit reporters to see her, but an- nounced that Celestia received news calmly. She war greatly tm fter a severe ¢ tack of heart it Ww: sald. Friends of Miss Youker at Dekalb sought to foster the impression that Orpet’s attentions had been annoying to Celestia and that she was not en- waged to him. Mh, to will you patron, have hulit fest option! practic UY RIVINg matinfaes to our he eye glassom at prices absolur ve a prices absolutely the Us and Convi glasses, Guclu ton of your eyes by segiatered Speciatis $1.50 to $6.50 est. FOUR 633M, Singe STORES Optometrists § Opticis 981 Prospect AV.Bx. 114-FuLron 604 W. 1812! ST. Map. Avcor. oO'IeEo, BEGGIN.—On Feb. 14th, at her nome, 80 Britton at, West New Brighton, & 1., Miss ELIZABETH A. BEGGIN, Maas Thursday, Feb. 17, at 10 A. M., Church of Sacred Heart, Fuveral privat Ploase omit flowers, Interment Calvary Cemetery HELP WANTED—MAL, MAU. salary Quit Wigli arade product Urvater tail store an culient wveortuaity fer md worker with esicamanshiy ablle. 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