The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1916, Page 2

RI ET 2 forces have been compelled to retreat stili further. A similar statement came from the French War Office yesterday in admitting a retreat from Beaumont, Samogneux and Ornes. It is possible the left wing has been torced to evacuate the Cote du Pouvre ridge, falling back upon Bras, or that they have only been forced pack to the Cote du Pouvre defenses, The text of the French War Office statement follows: “The fighting is #till being carried on bitterly n the region north of Verdun, where the enemy continues his efforts on the front to the east of the Meuse. After the last gagement our troops retained their positions in spite of the repeated assaults of the enemy, which no Jonger counte his sacrifices. “Im the region of Douaument the battle, which is still raging, has taken on @ most sanguinary character. On the front of the Woevre the advance post which we held as Unes of dteervation from Ornes to Hennemont eince tho battles of jast year have been attacked by infantry forces from both sides of the Mouse. Our artillery on both right and left banks of the river replies without ceasing to the bombardment of the enemy. “Nothing of importance has oocurred on the remainder of the front.” ; i. A despatch from the front says French artillery is replying, shell for shell, to the German fire. Entire French Line Forced Back, The Gloomy View in London LONDON, Feb. 2%.—The only word) was made to reduce Verdun, and .| some of the Incidents of the fighting concerning the German claim to 'k-) hich “then occurred were of a mem- ing the armored fortress of Dowau-| orable character. mont comes through German sources. Lng the fig of wore aS: ted anx-| near Verdun, in September, 1914, the Further information is ed trate-| Commander of the fort ceased to re- jously, owing to the recogn! bs ply to the bombardment. The Ger- fe importance of this fort, which 18] mana, it wag said, believing that the the base of solid field works on a line| fort had teen evacuated, approached in order to destroy a redoubt. The of hills about six miles northeast of eeinthanilen OF the fort thea set fre to two carloads of straw inside the ‘The last detailed information showed ee = e pormane, oes French wo and a| Vinced that their shells had started be bg oo cei the fire and that they could easly alles beyond Douau: take the place, advanced in close Fort do Douaumont was evact-| formation, it te feared this move was pre-| The French siddenly brought their cofed by the collapse of the whole| Machine guns to bear with a deadly front from the ridg® of Cote| “re and the bodils of 7,000 Germans wre were said to have been abandoned oa eastward through Bez0n-| the slopes below Fort Troyon. Seinen canine’ It t# considered certain, in view of the Douaumont's position, that the whole French force defending Verdun been driven back into the fortress under the most terrible ‘stroke de- itvered by the Crown Prince since the Verdun fighting began. , Paris has not yet oMcially confirmed the Joss of the fort, but advices from the French capital say that the Ger- man loss is at leaM@ 160,000 men—a —— terrible price to pay for success. From Douaumont, the Crown Prince = y now bring his heavy guns to| Victory Opens Way for Junc- bear upon the forts of De Vaur and 4 yy a4 ape vo 8 eet gbede te tlle tion With British Forces south, and upon Fort De Belleville, in Mesopotamia. just outside Verdun and southwest _————. of Douaumont, At the same time he} prepRoGRAD, Feb. %.—The im- wweep the entire northern plain | portant Persian cit’ of Kermanshanh the city with a fire which n0/ has been captured by the Russians infantry force withstand. after a three-days’ battle, according It appear that in addition | to delayed despatches received here losses elsewsere on the field) to-day. The Russians are expected nearly two German army corps have | to march toward Mesopotamia, form- ped out in massed ing a junction with the British at Kut-el-Amara, 150 miles away. Kermanshah is 280@miles south- west of Teheran and has a popula- tion of about 80,000. The routes from Bagdad, Shuster, Ispaham by way of Hamadan, and Sulelmaniyah meet there and make the city an impor- | tant centre of traffic, The Russian operations in Persia, embarked on a venture planned to/ture of bring France to her knees, The French line has now been | activitics of hostile mountain forces thrown back for nearly four miles | and organized bands of Kurds, in ad- upon an eight-mile front, the great- ‘ oat reverse suffered by either side since the September offensive of the allies, when the French swept forward on @ fifteen-mile front in the Cham- pagne, occupying German trenches to a depth of from two to three miles, In addition, the Teytons have cap- expeditionary forces {n Mesopotamia. News of the city's capture came as & @reat surprise. The latest des. patches reported the Russians pur- suing a mixed force of Turks and Per- sian irregulars, oficered by Germans, tured one of the key fortresses to |toward Kermanshah, but declared the one of the most strongly fortifled po- |eityy natural defenses so strong that feitions in Burope. a long struggle probably would pre- ‘The latest Paris despatches, how: | ooge the city’s capture. The capture ever, reported terrific fighting in the | 4¢ Kermanshah, from the Russian sows along the ridge of Cote du| standpoint, is only surpassed by the Poivre, about half a mile northwest victory at Eraerum. of the fortress of Douaumont. Whole} Advices received here to-day sald regiments of Germans were madly | in. turks in Armenia, after a battle assalling the French armored trenches of several days, have been driven and redoubts on the hills 1,200 feet above the wooded plain. LONDON, Feb. 26.—Simultaneous- GERMAN RIGHT WING ly with the official announcement of further Russian progress in Persia, in CAPTURED BIG FORT the mountainous region east of Bag- , dad, Constantinople reports a revival IN:DRIVE AT VERDUN of British activity near Kut-el- Amara, on the Tigris below Bagdad, The conquest of Fort Douaumont} aithough it declares the attack was was made by the right wing of the| repulsed, huge attacking army, which has scored the greatest advance in the assault on the French positions, Dou- aumont Is somewhat to the east of| what has hitherto been the principal | ine of progress, being situated four | dens around Kut, and the only prese- niles east of the Meuse River. The) ing need is for talking machine natn force of the German attack, as needies, Such small wants are sup- ndicated by the previous official! plied by aeroplane, the aeropla: ommunteations, was being cxerted | 7\4,°ys" {ne camp and dropping them. southward along the Meus a . The capture of Douaumont te the | Tow nost important achievement since bad job. p he Inauguration of the German grat gays at, Pillionen fearon drive at Verdun—an onslaught which manian Minister of War, and an for tury and for weight of men and SVvowed partisan of the allies, will de 4 part on Sunday for P% suns has few precedents in the’war. ti. fussian front as guest of the Verdun is the strongest fortress of Kuswian eneral Staff. The Rou- Wrance, and is of particular impor- | manian War Office, says Reuter’s, has ‘ance from the fact that; it offers 4i-|!s8ued orders to all naturalized Rou- rest communteation with Paris, which | Tut tur military nercioay we 2 Fee s 180 miles to the west. Verdun Acconting to a despatch from a correspondent with Gen. Aylmer’s column, who quotes wireless reports, Gen. Townshend's men at Kut-ele Amara are planting vegetable gar- — ortherly point of the EN | AG | treat French defenses, agninot_ vt. CHILDREN OVERCOME BY GAS, tacks from German territory, the most we southerly being Belfort, as between | Mother Found Them Dy these two points lies the stretch of| She Returned to Fiat, frontier on which Germany touches| Rosie Gavan, #lx, and her three-year~ coldentally turned The most important, probably, of|on a small gas stove in the room at France, | old brother, Alc ae the French forts along the Belgian | No, $26 Fifth Street, where their mother and Luxemburg borders was Mau-| Tessie, had loft them this beuge, which was taken by the Gor-| When mans with sacrifloes to them estt-| both children unconsctoun on the floor mated at the time, In September, 1914, | Patrolinan Wa) ag between $0,000 and 140,000’ men: | Maxwell from the Fifth Stroet Station Since that date no important fortress | &eY°" door off, und they gave th hil ern front. About the time Mau-Iting thers. ‘The child Wore taken to mews, was taken a desperate effort tho honpital and have a chgnoe to five, : which have culminated tn tho cap-! Kermanshah, have had the| this morning. She is the } local purpose of putting an end to the! the Italian Line, from Nap dition to preparing the way for a junc- | tion of the Rus#ians with the British | |the sun as the Napoli | NOT BE ADOPTED > Lewis Reports Majority Against Measure and Certain Sup- port of Wilson. WASHINGTON, Senator Lewis of Iiinots, De tie whip of the Senate, to-day notified Senat Stone that the supporters of the | President were ready for the Gore |resolution to warn Americans against J ealling armed merchantmen, to jeome to a v at any time. “We have made a rough can vass of the Senate pnator Lewis @nid, “and are convinced that there will be a safe majority against the resolution.” It was a certainty, he added, that the Senate would stand by the Presi- dent. Senator Lewis had prepared a reso lution which would commit the Sen- ate to an indorsement of the Presi dent's International policy in the present diplomatic crisis, but could not introduce it to-day under tho | rules, He may introduce it later Representative Glass of Virginia was to-day preparing 4 statement challenging Speaker Clark’ to prove his assertion that the House over- whelmingly favors a warning resolu- tion, Glass insista the sentiment is jexactly the reverse. Representative Adamson, as spokes | man for the Goorgia delegation in the House, to-day announced that if any | warning resolution t# brought up all support the President. They will offer n substitute resolu- tion declaring that “while it is obvi- |Inal disregard of the rights, duties, obligations and peaceable relations of their Government for American citt zens to take pasaago on ships of r belligerant, we have unbound- nfidence in the ability and intex- ed | rity of the President, whose constitu- | tonal duty Is to conduct all diplo- matic business, to discharge his re- | sponsibilittes.”” At the White House to-day it was estimated that the telegrams receiv supporting President Wilson in his stand on armed merchantmen as be- |ing about 16 to 1 against asking that Americ: be warned off armed sh! as advocated by Bryan, ‘TWO GUNS, SIX GUNNERS | ON ITALIAN SHIP HERE | ‘Seventh Armed Steamer to Reach New York Has Mounted Weapons Since German Decree. | There seems to be no disposition on the part of Italian merchant ves- sels to do away with guns and gun crews, despite the controversy be- tween the United States and Ger- many, The seventh Italian steamer to reach the port of New York with guns mounted on her decks arrived apoll of Well aft on the upper deck of the Napoli is the steering gear house, and on the roof of this two formidable 76-«millimetre guns, point astern No attempt was made to conceal the guns, the barrels of which glinted in came up the |bay, Six naval gunners are on duty and each has ammunition sufficient for several hundred rounds. ‘The Napoll is one of the largest of the Italian Line passenger vessels, but for several months has been used in carrying freight to Italy. The steamer sailed from New York on Jan. 9 without guns, She left Naples | announes back to a point nine miles from Bitils. | ograd to visit | When morning. the mother returned she found Fr summoned Doorman on ber present trip on Feb, 14, the guns having been mounted since the 1 intention of Germany to sink armed merchant ships. ‘COURT MUST DECIDE | WF MAN KILLED SELF Widow Contends Grant Was Mur- dered, but Insurance Company Al- leges He Committed Suicide. A lnwasuit involving the question of whether a man committed suleide or was murdered will be brought to trial in the Supreme Court next week, |The action is that of Mra, F. Rogers New Yor! way, attorney for Mrs, Grant, con- \tends Grant was murdered, The tn- ‘surance company says he killed him. self, Grant, a real estate dealer of | Asheville, had gone into the country | Oct, 4, 1912, to Inspect land. Ho had ja man companion with him, Grant stepped into some woods and a few minutes later a shot was heard Grant was found dead with two bul let holes in his head, A revolver was nearby, There were signs of a Kxle It is hinted by the attorneys of both sides that a mysterious woman frie of the dead man will b van cover $5,000 on an aceldent policy her | husband earried i | Health Board to © te, The New York City Health Depart- Ment on Mareh 9 will celebrate the semt-conte with a dinner at the Hotel Plaza Among the speakers will be May Mitchel, Henry sre, City Chamb: jain; Surgeon G U. 8. A) Btute Health Commis Hormant M, Biggs and rice of Canada, A female foundling, flve months old, was found tn bed tn the apartment Anna Holich of No, 188 Preatdent Street mother, THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, Gurneé Munn, Who Willi jurned Munn, Who Wit TOWNS GOT FEE FROM NTERBOROUGH hin sei n-ve AFTER GAYNOR SWUNG TO CONTRACT stroyed After Single Show- ing ($5 a Ticket) PALM BEACH, Fia., Feb. photo play, with soclety leaders p ing all parts and which de rescue of affair maiden from « villain who has carried her tn an to a deserted isle, is being staged ‘SENATEPOLL SHOWS 2” GORE BILL WILL —_—>— 26.--a | ray Interborough.” ts the! eroplane It will be shown In the dining room of the Royal Poinciana Sunday night, March 5, after which the The exclusive fused to act unless hibition was agreed to. this exhibition will be $6. the proceeds will go to Ambulance in Paris, Tho piay is “The Isto ae iw booted formerly Miss | $5000 from tho Interborough for In-| apout transactions betw vo our Now ro ak higher rgd Philadelphia, | Pducing President Shonts to Mayor] York office and our Pittsburgh office, film will be enst re. single ¢@x- Tickets for and part of » American | of Happts | Gurnee Loulse Wanamaker of F The hero is James K. York golf player, and bis rival is an Georgia members have agreed to | {ously foolish, reckless, showing crim- | MRS GURNEBR MUNN MUNITIONS BROKER | DISAPPEARED WITH $9,375, I CHARGE Felix M. Levy Accuses George G, Dodge of Taking His Firm’s Money. Roger R. Hill, with whom the heiress is in love. Th8| that 1 had received $5,000 for making first scene is an engagement dinner tn the cocoanut grove, at which affair Mrs, Munn’'s engagement ta Mr. Hyde is announced, New York ¢ aviator flies away |Goynor had written an article in a} Court convened. She learns tha’ he is after her money sleeps in a tree and Is seeking a cocoanut break-|monopolze the situation in New| good results beng obtained by it,” she spies 4 snake and the villain locates ber | more screais. , in & motor boat, searches for He of away with her in They return to » to swim to the arrives in time to r, Which Is the father's re in the picture, and a wedding , a lawyer, of No. Liberty Stre Attorney's offic Corporation, ia eas 4 : | Operators and Miners in Deadlock! s5 0092 4. 1 Conterence Postponed Pending Outcome. without the ors and repre- sentatives of the miners mpire Trust Com- | to reach an argre: conference was edjourned until Mon- consent of nt to-day and the property of the corporation, | White of the Mine W to the police la ence of anthracite miners and oper- uesday and until Thursday Tho prospect for the outcome of the soft coal negotiations to-day is any- y. President White his assistants have not lost all he ment, but they know operators in Ohio, Miinots and sylvania are firmly opposed to to-day that, ace Dodge is in Havana, presented by Attorney's office | asked Chicf Magistrate thing but re of a final agre stood other complaints would be filed Pennsylvania 1s unalterabl the “mine run” proposition operators served morning that there must ¢ big reduction in the Dodge came Norfolk, Va. at the outbreak of the | business of York from rant of Ashoville, N, C., against the} ‘United States Casualty Company of| buying horses for Fran tunes varied, but he vtracting gu uaded John J. P, Connelly of No, and Hugh Gordon vin him in ineor- Gulian Ri Maton of Nota Broad] LL PLAYERS MAY ig STRIKE, WARNS GILMORE |:*::°° Vitth Avenue er, a lawyer Hy was president of the! corporation which started | Organized Baseball May Be Investi-| years after your conversations? A. paid up eapital of $500, | gated by Federal Trades Com- mission, He Also Intimates. ‘ausher of No, Warnings that | 1912 and voted for the contract? How] Q, You are sure that no part of the eball is about to vestigated'by the Federal ‘Tra warehouse on | tridges would ce 8 an advance payment led as a} witness Mrs. Grant ix suing to re- | ordered by the Baseball Players Fr rut, a certified ‘check | tomnity before April 20, were sound It is charged he deposited the check and on the same day drew out $9,375, | “funeral meeting” here. ——_— the cartridges, nim up and ques: | tioned him, and ft is charged that he Immediately cmpire Trust Company and dis- nial of its foundation! Mrs, Silver, thirty-one years old, of Ninth Street, {tstein, thirty-thre @NOFe) "ME, Shonts in July, 1012 roehl| in my office in an action, fn'iesex Market Court to-day, charged| im inY ¢ with attempted grand larceny, Silver was sentenced to the Workhouse, ed to twenty da her of | sister, Mre, eral W. C, Gorgas, | ———— Schooner Wreck Blown Up. Guard cutter destroyed with explosives to-day Feed) Hodgo, “that there was an agreement | the books of the Interborough C Cah, AMt®.| between the city and the companies | pany—and that means crime, Chiet Rin, Mayal that tho question of the legality of| Engineer Alfred Craven of the Pub- wrock of the schooner John Rossert, | testified they saw Mra. St open women's market places abandoned on stranded one | side miles south Mrs, Susan Maclau at No, 145 West Ono! Hund: and ‘'Thirty-elghth Street to-| }day, was a letter on the bed ad- dressed to Mrs, Maclin and written by Newark, who said she was the child's Georgetown | the Admiral suit. 1 always thought| making the dual contract,’ 1916. a i a ee ¢ (Cont First Page) that the lawyers and the court knew speach neds’ bdo) that the sult was instigated by the | spending methods of the Interborough| Q. What hearing were you holding sid ‘Transit Company. when this information came out about sete ; - ceewny {the Admiral Realty Co.? A. It was Testimony taken to-day showed |an action, replied Mr. Hodge, by the that the Int $109,250 a year on its coal bills, The|the Interborough Co., the Inter, {company buys 476,000 tons a y 4 j sor Trust Co. in an effort to convince |from the Berwind & White Company |tho court that a combination of all and the Consolidated Coal Company | the companies in New York to control for $8.23 cents a ton, The samo con! |All the railroads in New York was a can be deliverod by severe! com. |70ROPOlY in restraint of trade, con trary to the laws of the State of New panies and in the quantities needed | york, for $3 a ton, BK. J. Berwind of the} Thomas H. Gillespi@ then brought Berwind & White Compe an In. | to. the witness stamd some reports B pewind ‘dah mpany Is an M-! aited Feb. 18, 1914. He wanted to Shes pelt ae Keep them in his possession Mirabeau I. Towns, the Brooklyn] ‘They're under subpoens.” sald Mr attorney, denied on the witness stand | Moss. he r “Um perfectly willing,” said Mr. his afternoon that he had received] (itjgupi to Laewen any qucstions Gaynor. He said he got it for labor-. but I will not allow Mr. Mor: | _ through them. I will testifv— ing with Mayor Gaynor between Oc Ew tenitcs Taorwecn, tober, 1909, and May, 1910, to per- direct you to hand those reports to suade him to consent to the dual contract. But he admitted that the | 17 anel! not, on eave aid Mr, Gillespie, money was not paid to bim unt) er Mog angured Mr. Gillespie that | May, 1912, shortly after Mavor Gay- all the committee wanted was to get | nor did consent to the making of at what was done with the money the contract sent to Pittsburgh; that no private S affairs of the company should be TOWNS TELLS ABOUT THAT Dubie. pd $5,000 FEE. Gillesple still refused to sur- | Mr. Towns said he had known T, P,| Tender the papers. ‘ A | ae Seokenhen, 1008, Pe 1 now direct you to hand those Shonts since December, . napers to this committee,” said Sena- | discussed many times the proposed ex- tor Thompson, | tensions of the Interborougt,” saldMr,! Gillespie still refused. ; A Iq “ , . “Let a transcript of this be made,” ‘Towns. “I spoke many times, begin- | -oacrea tho Honator, ning In October, 1909, with represen- I will tell you,” volunteered young | tatives of the Interborough as to a pie, “that during two «our campaign against the tr-borough New York office sent $514,000 to |any retainer, After the consultations “That 1 not what ‘became formal I was requested to do| Senator Thompson. ou are testi- certain things, which I attempted. [fying as you choose. What we want | Q. Did you introduce Mr. Shonts to Bag wane pi ly gl ay og thot of Mayor Gaynor? A. Mr. Shonts got! attendance. out of the automobile and the Mayor! Mr, Gillespie seemed not disturbed, recognized him. I did not get out of | Senator Thompson first ordered that | to gO shall not, on advice of my coun- want,” ruled nd aside but remain in omobile. , * {a transcript of the testimony be sent the automobile. T had made @ pre-| 1, the District Attorney, but later it vious appointment which had not | was decided to take tillesple before been kept and communicated with! the bar of tho Senate on a charge | both on this occasion | of contempt, H Q. Were you requested by Mr,| CRIMINAL INQUIRY FOR INTER- |shonts to arrange a meeting? A. BOROUGH. ‘They were both anxious to meet each| Following the disclosures concern- | other and cleks up the elloation Ing the manner in Which interbor- ough officials have been spending Q. Mr. Shonts went down thére to! money, District Attorney Swann has take tM bull by the horns? A. I'a{had a’ special representative at ail| not say that. They wanted to meet |the hearings of the Thompson Inves- sf tigating Committee, and it was an- cach other, I was surprised to read | nounced to-day by a man close to| the District Attorney that an extraor- | that introduction. I had really | dinary Brand. jury would be impan- | worked for the Interborough from |fivestigntion and a Special, Tera ot October, 1909, to May, 1910. Mayor|the Criminal Branch of the Supre:ne | magazine before hin election criti-} _ "District Attorney Swann does not | « wish to interfere with the progress cising the Interborough for trying to of the investigation, nor with the York. It was decided by Mayor Gay- | aid the man who gave The Evening nor, after I had talked with him, nec] World thie Information. “It is not of alked with him, not! nig intention to insttute any court} to oppose the new plan, and he con-| proceedings at the present time, nor chided not to do anything in the mat- | Will ho do go until the committe hay ‘ aie finisbed its work or some specitic ter until after election. crime is shown which demands imme- Q. To whom did you report? A. To| diate action.” Mr. Campbell of the Interborough| Since (ho testimony before the mostly, [ saw Mr, Shonts two or three | Thompson committee showed seem | times, I tried to convince Mayor Gay. | Ely unwarranted spending of huge rough was losing }Continental Securitles Co, against} ts | the Guaranty Trust Co. and the Wind- | lor the Se Tee Tee Se NSPE STAND ANY 14.00 VOTED BY. HOUSE COMMITEE Figures Near War Depart- , ment’s Estimate — Gen. Wood's Plan Defeated, WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — he House Military Committee late to-day voted for a regular standing at yor 187,000 men, with a 2 per cont, 4 ance for recruiting, bringing the num- ber up to 140,000, which is slightly more than the War Department asked The Republicans and three Demo crats carried the vote. The War Departgnent’s estimate oW additional officers for the regular army also was increased from» 186 to 1,000, ] Tho section for reorganizing the National Guard was framed to pifo- vide for a maximum strength of 424,000 men, of which 60 per Sent. must be recruited within two yeaner The Senate committee has prao- tically agreed on a provision for sey- eral summer student encampments at the direction of the President. Those who take the instruction would. be mustered into a spectal Fedoral re- serve, pledging themselves to sérve the country If needed, but being quice apart from the regular army reserve National Guard. The p) sembles the Continental army scheme somewhat A resolution of Representative Til- son of Connecticut fixing the strength at 220,000, as suggested by Gen, Laon- ard Wood, was voted down, “ Representative Kahn, Califorhia. |who was absent when the votes were taken, favors a reconsideration of the question, but. it is understood that it Will not be reopened, Extending the {dea of Government manufacture of munitions of war, the bil will authorize an appropriation of $20,000,000 for a plant to manufacture nitrates, to be used in peace for fer- Ulizers and for powder and high ex. plosives in time of war. At presen? the United States is dependent for nitrates on Chill The plan provides for the leasing of the plant In peace to a private concern at a rate of 8 per cent. on oom investment, with power to the Bec-"™ retary of War to fx the prices of fertilizers. In war time the plant would be seized by the Governm| The plant would be located at vater power site controlled by the overnment —— —- /ACTRESSES ARE HURT AS BIG AUTO HITS TAXI Driver of One Car Is Held After Crash at Ninety-Sixth Street and Broadway. Anita Temple, a moving pleture actress living at No. 801 Weat End Avenue, and Lois Whitney, alao an ress of No. 50 West Forty-fifth Street, are in Knickerbocker Hospital suffering from contusions, cuts and possible internal injuries, which they recelved when the taxicab carrying them south on Broadway, at Ninety~ sixth Street this afternoon, was knocked over by a large automobile belonging to Henry C. Fox of No, 210 sums of money by Interborough of- nor that it would be better to confer District Attorney Swann has | a benefit upon posterity than to go on| had Leslie J. Tompkins, one of his | nursing a grouch, associates, present at all hearings of | dl 80 omov aa the committee Q, And so you removed Mayor Gay-| reports to the Diatrict Attorney, and nor’s opposition? A.I should not|is now engag sh | ax well as I could, tain particular matters laid before | the Grand Ju Mr. Swann {s of the opinion,” said didn't get it until two! The Evening World's sources of in- years later. formation, “that the manner of giv-| GOT THE FEE AFTER MAYOR] {Ze those bonuses was a violation of| law, and that Is one phase of thc CHANGED HIS MIND. revelations which will Q. When did you get the $5,0007] special attention.” A. f think in 1912. Q. Was that $5,000 all you received OF CONSTRUCTION, from the Interborough? A. Every L, Frank Kohler, who is in charge cent, including my disbursements of] Of the “prior determination squad” $100, of the Public Service Commission, * Was to be one of the most interesting Q. Your work was altogether with} witnesses before the Thompson co the Mayor? A, Yes; I stood between | mittee to-day, He and ois squad were Mr, Shonts and the Mayor and ex-|4ppointed to determing just how changed their views, I kept on uti | Much should be allowed to ‘the Inte borough fur its expenses incurred I was told my services were no longer| when the company intended to ex- neede I felt aggrieved and humili-| tend its own lines with its own ed to read that I received $5,000 for | Money. that introduction. It was for my | Afer the dual contracts were made the Interborough claimed $1,500,000 for hard and conscientious work, these preliminary expenses; but the Q. (By Senator Thompson.) How| Fublic Service Commission allowed it often did you see the Mayor? A. 7| $081,000, It was a part of the contract should say two or three times a week | With the Interborough that reason- Q. And for that you only received | He has made daily |} receive his SHONTS'S BONUS NOT A PART| able “prior determination” expenses from October, 1909, to May, 1910. | ypould be allowed to the Interborough times. Q. Did you know that Mayor Gay- nor refused to vote for the dual con- tracts in July, 1911, and wrote a ler- n which he used the word, “ras- A. I believe so, I have read investigators: I show you an item, June 5, 1918, $125,000 to 'T. Shonts, A. That w: not included in any of the items I sd, but tt was included in 1 subway not checking up “‘pro- va weren't paid for two| Posed subway routes?” A. No. Q. But you weren't paid for two! "OQ “Was there any portion of that j subway route account in this deter. I am painfully awaro of that. mination? A. Yes; that item of $129,- Q. Yet you got -your check for $5,000/ 000, ‘That includes all the salarien of : ; engineers, oifice rent, towels, supplies, soon after he changed his mind in| (netneere ee do you account for that? A, I don't) $ 000 to Mr Borns bec ore any | know y to acco! 01 sor'y| Part of the determined cost of con- | know how to a unt for the May i uction or equipment? A, Abso- change of mind, Men are emotional. | jytely, A man will laugh to-day and ery to- Mr. Kohler will be asked to ex- 1) morrow, plain how it happened that the books James Gilmore] THOUGHT OBJECT OF ADMIRAL nner est oe” agua | of the Federal League at the League's SUIT WAS KNOWN, amounts charged by the Interborough J, Aspinwall Hodge, a lawyer since} for “construction.” The items appeat the 80's, was then sworn. Mr. Moss | in the Interborough accounts but are asked him to tell the origin of the] blind in the Public Service records, Admiral Realty Compan; prevent the dual contracts whereby | without explanation the City of New York became @ part-| There is not a question in the ner in building the new subways. world,” says Senator ‘Thompson, "th testified | there were ‘commitments and obliga- said Mr.| tions’ that could not be charged on m= the dual contracts should be sub-| lic Service Commission, who was 08 rand Mrs.| mitted to the Appellate Division of| partly examined as to these-eonstruc- | in| the Supreme Court. This was not] tion accounts, suddenly got sick and | the east done, but afterward, on the sugges-| went to Pinehurst some weeks ago tion of Mr. Nicoll, a taxpayer's suit | He must return and testify further. | was begun to settle that issue, Until] We've got to find out all about the now I had always thought that every | ‘prior determination’ charges that the one knew that this was the origin of | Interborough loaded on to the city in ‘8 sult to] being merely “construction” charges | | Riverside Drive, driver of the large car, Louis Sichner, No. 49 West One Hundred nd Sixteenth Street, was arrested by atrolman Baumann and taken. t the West One Hundredth Street Bta- tion, charged with felonious assault. iver of th taxi, George lynn, No, 1056 Third Jvenue,- ded his head dressed by Dr. Jam thur, who also gave first aid to the injured giris before they were taken to the hospital, _— —— All Ready to Use “You will like it” RELIGIOUS NOTICES, | wenn nen te this | should be within the mark if I say I| by the city, |Senvicr oF REJOICING. celebrating “ain w Mayor Gaynor forty or fit Mr. Kohler has been questioned by |, *enivetwary, founding oting Women's % ed 7 ¥ ¥ Y\ the sub-committee of the Thompson {tien Amoctation tn, Auerice, Camegie Mall, Maren M. 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