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4 \4 f f | | i ] ‘ ea Rd i {NEW $120,000 (‘ee PRIC E ONE CENT. Copyright, 1916, by ‘Co. (The New York Work ad ‘ Sa The Prese Publishing NEW YORK, sa aan Dit sacaiadiceaenieiaa ee WEDNESDAY, a a ll MARCH 1, BRITISH SHIP SUNK IN NE W | EDITION I PRICE ONE CENT. U-BOAT RAID; | 16 PAGES CONGRESS PLEDGED TO BACK WILSON ee LENVES CONT Action Taken After the Leaders Have Conferences With the President. SUPPORT IS ASSURED. “House Unanimous for Presi-| Went,” Says Chairman Flood of Foreign Affairs Committee ‘WASHINGTON, March 1.—Follow- the call of President Wilson for MPote on a resolution that would ex- the sefme of Congress in tho tion arising over the new U-boe fare, House leaders drafted to- for consideration of the House Measure proposing that Congress its confidence in the Prest-| dent's handling of the armed mer-| chantmen controversy, and recognize that it is not » matter but of Executive concern Pending the sounding of sentiment on the resolution, the meeting of tho of legislative (Continued on Second Page.) | OUSE DRAWS RESOLUTION I OF CONFIDENCE IN WILSON: VERSY TOK GERMAN ULTIMATUM SENT TO PORTUGAL Demands the Restoration of the Ships Seized Within Forty- eight Hours. LONDON, March 1.—Germany has sont an ultimatum to Portugal de- manding the restoration within forty- eight hours of the German ships re- cently seized by that country, accord. ing to a despatch from Madrid to Reuter's Telegram Company. The first seizure of German mer- chant vessels by Portugal occurred on Feb. 28 at Lisbon, when the naval au- thorities took possession of thirty-six German and Austrian ships in the ‘Tagus. On Feb, % the seizure of| ‘This last was the big object of the elght German steamships by the|assemblage, and so strange a thing Portuguese author at St Cape Verde Islands, we Vincent, announced the outbreak of the war that ortugal was about to declare a st. of war with the central powers be. ‘ of her treaty relations with Great Britain — Home Ci World Growth DAILY (Morning Edition Only rculation t (City News Companies’ Figures) WORLD. H{ 1916... 310,990 AMERIC 192,477 198,327 CORRESPONDING FEBRUARY DATES: AN HERALD. TIMES, 36,278 210,523 41,528 203,823 1915.. 300,864 Gain, 10,126 Lom 5,850 Loss, 5, Gain. 6,700 250 Sunday World Growth In Home Circulation DURING THE FIRST TWO MONTHS OF 1916: (City News Companies’ Figures) 1916. WORLD. 24,978 Gain... 11,81 AMERICAN. HERALD. TIMES, Jan, 2. 324,092 304,678 89,879 174,677 Feb.27 349,070 316,494 92,459 183,130 6 2,580 8,453 The World’s Gain Greater Than the COMBINED Gain of its three principal competitors fy 4 | World’s Gain. . Combined Gain of American, Herald } World's Exce fg|| THE WORLD (Daily s Over Combined Gain... ... se eeneees 04,978 & Times. .22,849 129 and Sunday) Leads All Other New York Daily and Sunday Competitors in Advertising FEBRUARY COMPARISONS: WORLD Columns. 3,06315 2,42434 February 1916. February, 1915 4 World Leads the Hera AMERICAN Column: 2,35334 Gain, 6888.4 Gain, 24234 Loss, 199 World Leads the Time: World Leads the American HERALD. Column: 1,751) TIMES Columns 249614 2,111 1,950! 2,073 Gain, 49303 S 567 Cols. 109% 4 Cols. 3 Cols, ) wils Idi... 1 —_—_—_—_—_ Ee! ees re have been frequent rumors| pledge to work for Wilson's re-elec- STATE CONVENTION OF DEMOCRATS 1 | AL FOR WILSON Harmony Reigns and Tam-| | many Acts as if It Held All Offices, | UNTERMYER IN DOUBT.} Chairman Osborn Opposes Naming Him as One of the “Big Four.” By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) SYRACUSE, N. Y¥., March 1.—The Democracy of the State of New York met tn convention at noon here to- day to designate four delegates-at- large to the National Convention, to adopt a platform of principles with reference to national affairs and to pledge the party to the renomination jand re-election of Woodrow Wilson. jis politics that the very men who |were sending out to the nation a |tion were the men who stuck out to |the last against his nomination in | Baltimore in July, 1912 | The convention was in the hands of | organization men who have been com- pletely overlooked by President Wil- son in the matter of patronage. There only a few Wilson or anti-Tam- many office holders, but the regulara who have been eating snowballs and were out in force. It were | atmosphere |must be said in the interest of ver- Jacity that a great many of the dele- |sates went about the endorsement of | President Wilson and pledging them- setves to help along his re-election v all the earnest eagerness of a an getting ready to have his right taken out They can't forget that the only mmany Hall office-holders in N York are Thomas F, Rush, who i |100 per cent. pure organization by any jmeans, and young Dan Finn, When {they cheered for Wilson to-day they crossed their fingers, but the exi- |gencles of politics demand that they |be Joyal to the course marked out for |them, Anyhow, they may feel more |cheerful when Election Day comes | around, eight months henco, | State Chairman Witllam Churob |Osborn has injected the only dis- coréant note into the cadence of harmony prevalent hereabouts, Mr. Osborn is opposed to the selection nuel Untermyer as one of the Four” delegates at Large, Tho leaders who thought it would {be a god idea to name Mr. Unter- myer have sought in vain for a defi- | nite 1 why Mr, Osborn is winst Mr, Untermyer. Mr, Osborn ly doesn't want Mr, He denies he is opposed to Mr. Untermyer because | Mr. Untermyer has at any time been active against any corporations in | which ‘he is interested. Inasmuch as under the conditions |existing here Mr, Osborn controls very few votes, he has no chance to |get up @ regular fight. The other follows wouldn't fight with him, how- Jever, They want to please him, and if his peeve endures they may drop Untermyor |? he n Untermyer named, says Howeve the convention assem. bled the slate was Senator James A, O'Gorman, George Meyer of Buffalo, | William Church Ost and Samuel Untermyer MORE INTERBOROUGH PLUM IN-FORCE ACCOUNT CHARG @ T0‘CONSTRUCTIN PURPOSES Testimony About It Haltec 8 PRINGESS? AH, NO ants May. Be Informed. MAYOR ORDERS INQUIRY Corporation Counsel Told to Find If City Suffers Be- cause of Bonuses. The latest discovered scheme for charging additional “costs of con- struction” of the new subways to the City of New York was brought out by the Thom.vaon Investigating Com SHE IS JUST PLAIN RS, COURAUD OW That Dear Prince Vanishes From Her Ken as Court Signs Parting Order. nd Princers have pert ed sially and informally, the mittee to-day. It is called the “Force Account.” It amounts to $120,000 a year, and {t includes the pay of law- yers, &¢,, Who settle the claims of citizen clerks, assessors of whose property is damaged by the new lines. L. Frank Kohler, an engineer for the Public stopped before he about st by the objection of James L. Quackenbush that publication of the settlements would Service Commission, could tell sums Involved ir make other property owners claim more. Mr. Kohler said, when he was called to the stand, that it would take | three vans to bring all the documents in the “Force Account.” The Inter- borough makes the “Force Account” a part of the cost of construction of the new subways and elevated ex tensions Q. What interest has the city these charges? A. It forms the basis of the interest charge on construction which is to be coducted from oper ating expenses. Mr. Quackenbush objected to put ting the items of the “Force Account" in evidence, He thought that attor. neys for property ownera who are trying to get big damages out of the elty might get valuable information out of them. They might therefore stand out for higher damages. Coun- 601 Moss could not see the force of this. “Every crook in New York," he said, “knows just what the District Attorney gets and what every or = his assistants gets, but that doesn't help them any,” The records were put in evidence, the Mr, Kohler testified that only “prior determination” yunt for first quarter year of “contract No. in new subway building had been ap proved by the Public Service Commis sion. The Interborough Company ob Jected to It because /he allowance was not big enough. Mr, Quackenbush renewed his ob Jection to putting the “Force Ac count” in evidence. “We have settled, he said, “with 60 | (Continued on —" : $10,000 FIRE IN HOBOKEN. | One Batiding Is scond Page.) Damaged By Th Fire starting from nyorhe stove in the three-« at No, 98 Adams Street, I cupled by the New Jerse CONVENTION HALL GIVES DELE. GATES THE CHILLS, | | Atmospherically & the con jon wag the rr frigid in the tory this State ry mhecntre, ac moving ploture Nike a cold storage ware i a | | (Continued on Second Page.) co) on was heid, wos more Dune Company, this afternoon atroyed the str The flames frame building at 4 part) t sture, we ntory ¢ bs * Cot, 0. pied by the Rezintcow Art Photo Studio ‘The entire fire department of Hoboken waa called out by three alarms ‘The lose te estimated above $10,000, damages, | event took place some time ago, but formally it | when Suprerm occurred Justice Clark My Court 1 the separation papers te jParting the Princess Misktnott and} her husband. Yvonne, the foster- |daughter of the Princess, remains with her and tearfully declares never was infatuated with the Prince and never will be. Tho most noticeable effect signing of the papers was Vicinity of the He Fifty-ninth Streot where the | iat and of the In the and Fifth Avenue, Princess, Yvonne and the t adopted baby occupy the blue ld suite [cess made bellhop, | clerk the rs had been signed ty surrounded y at the h every matd and separation pa- All the pomp the Princess One had but for the Princess and every one y who was To-day there was no P: Sat the hotel to-day “Princess Miskinoff? ess) | Miskinoff heard that name t clork was ow I have heard it can't think just where “I do not know of such a person,” sald the maid in the blue and gold aulte, when inquiry for the Princesa was made, "Yes, I am quite sure I ot know of such a person.” remember woll ne where fore when Inquiry made before, but I dor “Rut only yesterday"—— “Ah, yesterday—but that was terday and to-day 1s to-day. No, I no not know of such @ princess. Mrs, Mrs, Aimee Crocker Gour- this morning, 1 Netherland, at| An order of the Prin-| — “BERLIN AND VIENNA RUSH 3K SQUADRONS OF (-RADERS TO MEDITERRANEAN SEA -+—— FORMER SHOW GIRL WHO WAS DIVORCED BY YOUNG CLUBMAN \Paris Officially Announces That a German Submarine Torpedoed the Former French Liner Provence With aLoss of at Least 1,000 Live ‘MANY BIG LINERS NOW IN U-BOAT DANGER ZONE. { LONDON, March 1.—Twelvé hours after Germany's new sub- | marine decree, sanctioning attacks without warning on belligerent armed | merchant ships, went into effect word reached London of the sinking of | the West Hartlepool steamer Thornaby. Lloyd's despatches reported | that all members of her crew nad been killed or drowned. 4 {Although the British censorship prevents transmission of de- | tails concerning the reported sinking of the Thornaby, the refe: | a ence to the members of the crew having been killed or drown | indicates she was sunk by @ mine or a torpedo.) he first really great big sea tragedy, if one comes as the result of | the new submarining decrees, is expected to occur in the Mediterranean, |The number of Austrian and German submersibles operating off the Italian coast is Known to have been greatly increased. Many Italian pas- | senger liners are passing through that zone, A despatch from Stockholm says the Swedish steamer Torborg has been sunk in the Mediterranean by an Austrian submarine. Her owners |were notitied to-day that the crew took to boats, were picked up and landed at Leghorn, Italy. The Torborg displaced 4 tons and was {owned at Landskrona, Sweden, It became publicly known to-day, according to Paris reports, that it was a German submarine which torpedoed and sank the French auxiliary cruiser Provence in the Mediterranean on Saturday, with a loss of life {now estimated at between 900 and 1,100. Announcement that the jformer French liner was torpedoed was made by the French Ministry }of Marine, | Though an official statement yesterday afternoon reported about | 870 of the 1,800 persons aboard the Provence saved, the latest despatches Be Wcati ia nay Macca} whowe |tO-day accounted for only the 696 survivors landed at Malta and Melos. shapely } or, rather, limbs--de- | It is believed possible, however, that other survivors were picked up by Ughted thousands of playgoers, and| Greek fishing craft in the vicinity and are being taken into Greek ports. SEES paverses ig Rs Rea Je To-day's reports from the Ministry of Marine also carried the state. SALSGIE ACRUGMARG,, Gustine Tomp.|ment that the Provence is the former great transatlantic liner of that king, in the Supreme Court at White|name, which was taken over early in the war and transformed into an Plains, haw granted an interlocutory | auxiliary cruiser decree of divorce to the husband tha | 222 'PARRISH GETS DIVORCE FROM SHOW-GIRL WIF Decree Granted at White Plains, but Name of Co-Respondent Is Concealed wud, occupies this apartment to-day | wa and fust_non ralinat secrecy nan veen maintained! Pledge Give . S. Stands, ere EO Ee Says High G Offici epernton: papery, corny tha seatag | tgaioet ble wife. “A. Dov Says High German Official f the Princess. When tle Prince ching gowns and property —_——- 4 _Comright, 1916, by the United Prem.) aaa Faith en ream mint 18 the VY | BERLIN (via Wireless), March 2 vestige of hia title t Mrs ah et pane Alameda ite a tv that armed merchantmen in the fu- ning she ever learned about the Rus. | Aging over 17000. | = doesn't change the pledges Ambasea- wlan nobility and her eenallive natura asict, Palbatcee dic nee Be on| Stops It With Bombs and Then] dor von Beynstore gave the American a : * ithe stage, shortly after he Aitacks It With Machine o cance id neces when they were more of the foreign nobility for | UAted from Harvard, Gun. nerohant iz ry w at rap Be "oe, me," the Princess said to a triena, | Novenmer, 11, » the first|clared Baron Mumm von Bohwarege: mother, Mrs. F BET Lk he first aaron Mumm von Schwarsen- “I want to forget all about {t, Both Nivalatl Avante, Hiconty: ae y of ul warfare, |#tein of the Foreign Office to the Yvonne and I aro tired and distressed | © cahiegram. from ‘ held u venemy| United Press to-day, at all these court matters and Taming wedding of i ¢ ike ht. 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June of last year = 4 ral Ww Offlee t ftern on | Pt dees,” he continued, “ aWay Very goon, probably to Florida, | ta tive: together t dent | dreamed that the British Government rthe winter R A ; ed by | Would instruct merchant Muers to conm- © was ill for several days fe on ; 7 ; with volduct offensive tare f of the sensat Workin fe At Mee For this reasun, the German etate- 1 which t rince told of her| adjoining t the Ce f pve r ts remain divtinct and separate, nfatuation for him, but shel ‘ S spall He} The tir 1s made by Ambassador ‘ost entirely recovered 1 ened me Fit f ; t Bernstorft, applies to liners as they 1 Mra, Gouraud in wali this L x 1 th ne, should to conform to international b She, t profe i wie not armed vffensive Purposes. ‘ prospect of seein nor Hi 1 ' h eeond memorandum appiles to " 1 very ae ate urmed for offensive warfare, 1 } t Lemisiaiute Ila 0ues Sadie a Maniiest teeta. ’ , ’ also contrary to international WINTER CRE InBA TDW ARMER CLiIwns i : " at we t Ral ; bas been working wale All n I raiem, al) Kno na : a i oust Were captueed aha! Untarily as aa aide to Foreign Secre- Pee “Duliwuer tora) Bulldiag, “he ‘Benato wr epoke of Boissons the ecou.| tary Yon Jagow and Under Secretary Row HT ClG! delopbone Beaanas 4000. —, of Justioe Werne: pantn of which ently were dead, Zimmerman He wae esked why, in ‘