The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1916, Page 7

“GHENIGAL PLANT I§ SHATTERED BY MANY EPLIINS Bombed,” Say: * Says Manager ol Works at Niagara Falls, 100 Have Narrow Escape. NIAGARA FAL March 8 Niagara Falls was shaken and a farge part of the huge plant of the Niagara Electro-C al Company demolished by a series of explosions and fire Although five to one! \ day n early to guards said from sev hundred and thirty-fiv the plant only one man is known to have been killed and one seriously in- men were in jured. The damage $150,000, Or. Hector R. Carvath, manager of the company, issued a formal state: | ment this forenoon to the effect that the plant had been “bombed. Dr. Carvath stated that he has heen making sodium peroxide the outp of the works for number of year and after talking with his chemists he had come to the sion that is estimated at cone the fire was not the result of an accident. In direct contradiction to a state ment accredited to him earlier in the day, Dr, Carvath at noon issued th following statement “I do not know what caused the explosions. It 4 thorough investigation is my purpose to make to discover if possible the cause of them, Th plant was not working on wat orders, It has never had any war orders, W were operating as we been oper 8 necting ating for years, demands ' explosio: hat part the may | the plant n ture of Carva the men in| the building time have been accounted for, with one dead and one fatally injured, ‘The escape of 100 or When You Consu't an Optometrist You enlist the services of An Eye Specialist whose entire study and thought are devoted to serving and _ strengthening EYES and increasing the power and scope of vision, Optometry Laws enacted in the public in- terest point the way to safety and the office of a Registered i rasablee Published by Boclety of the FINCH 215 W. 42d St, S80 te, 10 Kenmare St., * on ® to TOF LOOK’ tor ‘Tiectrio joaed Sundave Moving SIGNS s nel explanatton | n ear in thie \ © do Jrugeiat about . Kalish Pharmacy First in Numbers BECAUSE First in Results 8,505 Advertisements Were Printed in Last Sunday's World, 2 G5 More Than the 5 ’ in the Heraldt Printed World Advertisements LEAD \smashed, Big steel tanks were ;explosion occurred contains appara Becouse They Succeed THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, [MYSTERY OF JEWELS HARD COAL MINERS more through poisonous gases that followed the fire and explosions is considered miraculous, The man killed was Peter ty-nine years old THAT VANISHED MAY BE ONE FOR MOVIES; — blown to bi plant has been under heavy fuard since the recent dynamite ox portion of the plosion in another works last month. The explosion was heard for sev- miles eral around and across the caused a hasty mobilization of the militia guarding the frontier. ‘The first explosion followed an out- break of fire shortly before m‘dnight and others occurred intermittently rying About $12,000 in Gems His Son Jack “Lost.” “Jack is the best juvenile lead in until shortly before 9 A. M., when| the moving picture game. He tried to eight blasts of tremendous force shat-| do a little press agent work for him tered the shell of the burning plant] self but his foot slipped and seattered twisted flaming debris So stated Wilham L. Sherr of over a wide area, Firemen concen- | No. 230 West Seventy-ninth Stre 1 their efforts on saving the}day when asked concerning de prage house, said to contain high} spatches from Chicago th told explosives: the loss by his son, Jack, n| Worth of family Jewels. Acc ‘The police roped off the etrects yp to the vicinity of the plant as the fira| the Chicago accounts, Jack had been was driven toward chemicals of a| having @ series of parties anu de ligh explosive nature, The firemen] clared that the jewels, which he was were } 4s to cope with the spread-| Roing to have reset for his mother, had disappeared from his po on. “Jack, Who is eighteen, and an actor with the Frohman Amuse | pany, of which | am pres went to Chicago a few days ago with Ma: Miles Minter, the film star," said Papa ne blaze becwuse water mixing with the chemicals only added fuel to the 10 building, of brick and steel eon struction about 300 by feat dimensions, has been completely ent Com: in molished, The first explosion h Sherrill hey appeared in several the slate covered, steolurch rvof with | theatres, and Jack de 1 to seta its massive girders fully one hundred | !ittle publicity for hi aid t came “Kor a while [ was a was true, for we Chicago and we had several tho worth of jewelry feet in the air and landed {t several hundred feet away in another section of the plant's yard A string of fre dollar ina ht cars standing sit Vault in charge rina on a siding two blocks away was| 0 bowled over, while one of the huge|! had Chicago on the long distance electrio hauling locomotives of the! ie tonne eee ce eae Niagara Junetion Railway was Shei te never drank 1} his, life, hot through a three-foot solid brick wall needs but fare Bi se 10 rah aia COX PNEUMATIC COMPANY The peroxide plant in which =| 1$ SUED FOR ACCOUNTING That Ques Be Settled the manufacture of a la reantage of the chloroform t ‘eed th ted States. Enormous quantities of peroxide of erdinand Hagen Ask tion of Patent Ri hydrogen are also manufactured “Sues Ofticials Also. The plant manufactures nitrates ax} bc babe hth uy; | a: a A asdcciods coowalix aehteaet en, as rin the Cox Pneu- the various powder companies work-| \ fpanufacturers iny on war orders. It is understoc See ubeort ye they have immense direct war or- Onahba HUNIy: CORI ders. | William Cox, tts Vice! - ce | and Henry Seibel, its Seere- vunting and to en- FIREMEN SAVE ELEVEN peng Cox, the prtnetpal ‘ ase certain t rights or from | transferring t rights or the th y Fire Drill in Fa wtory ory B lilding Pre- x in Los An 1 atter was head | vents Loss of Life When br shion Apparatus Blaze Spreads. t men and three ned to-day on the roof « tory factory bulking at No. 1 Street while a fire burned its | rikhts a Seibel bought 40,000 got the right women y now sued down the stalrway in sufet The that the firms occupying | His Fre the building had a regular fire dritt, | It was expected that Prince Miskin- h Wis CHL ‘0 the let off, husband of Mra, Aimee Crocker dita ales : MECOLENS a | Gouraud would testif esterday be- probably prevented loss of life, as Surrogate White the sinoke was very dense. will of conkers fire gtarted in the rear of t second fi occupied by the R this A mpany, employing suse the me five women, on this could floor above. Aa soon as th 8 1 iad women t was the emplo ; time Kioen @ window shad ; Vic- from the roof fro} t Mrs. Riley became 1 and would have leaped t f Foreman Orville Pease caught he y wor hysteric few hours Big Deed Men Chew Gum The men with that determined, go-get-’em spirit that makes them leaders. They chew gum because it’s a nerve steadier and thought producer. And it’s a national habit. Wide- awake Americans should chew SMITH BROTHERS’ S.B. CHEWING GUM because it relieves the throat while you enjoy the chewing. The same ingredients and flavor as Smith Brothers’ Cough Drops— famous since 1847, Made by the Mebers of SMITH BROTHERS’ COUGH DROPS Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Meanwhile Sherrill Is Not Wor-| MARCH 8, 1916. ; — demanding the abolition of heme | | work, sanitary shop conditions and ’ ' an Increase of from 15 per cent. to | 0 per cent. in the fate of wages. \ Mr. Gompers declared the employers | held themselves up to the contempt of the public when they permitted a strike to be called in the custom ' | tailors’ [industry by men who demand | they should not be compelled to work in their own homes, which should be | ’ outside the pale of commercialism. _- -_>- —_—o— ny As to the increase in the price M W M p Vigoss , the finished product, which the em- Mel More a item a Says iS <i} alo ¢ f g i eader Sc ployers allege would have to be borne | * 4 , ™ = but) Ambassador Says His \ttair sa a Hunting| Union Leader Scores Custom} > the buyers, Mr. Gompers potnted spe Ss a 20n- nH Shape ey: sh S, s i Tai sech Enc y, [out that It was much easier for the rospec oe at Con Are in Good Shape for Pos- oris,”” Has Woman in Failors in Speech Encourag- |in'who ean aftord to pay #0 of 8 srence o thie Siiecacenr | 13 acta, in vile aa for a sult to pay a little more if ference Will Be Long. sible Successor. Flat Arrested. ing Strikers. necessary than it would be for @ | paenebatrhts sinensis workingman to pay one additional Anthracite operatota will go into! WASHINGTON, March &—Ienry| Mrs Harriet Curtis appeared be-| Ready-made clothes are made un. |J0lar for a sult | 4 ’ “ In reply to @ question as to whether the hard coal conference at the Un- Morgenthau, Ambassador to Turkew, [fore Megistrate Murphy in the West] der more sanitary conditions than ex- iene Whe any ‘poasibility of stopping fon League Club to-morrow, pledged jwill not return to hte pos’, but wilt{Side Court tia morning to explain] pensive made-to-order garmens eell-|the publication in newspapers of a 'to stand together against the -|remain In this country to tke up ac. | What he knew cbout $1,600 in cash| ing trom $50 oF 975 @ suit up to double} vert pemente calling for, strike Loney | plete recognition of the union." which tive work for the W Admintatra. {and a watch and diamond stick ptnlthat amount, Well-todo men who lero” ae ten vere anid nee wo | President White and fh t 7 vhieh Charles R berm Union, Mr. Gompera said he waa op- Presiden: " his jon, it was strongly indi 1 in of. | whte Aries Rosenberger, a Ruffalo! pay igh prices for their clothes do 4 to anything that smacked of [contend brings with it the = Ifictal clretes to-day Imerchant, anid had disappeared from|not know that the garmenta they wear| curtailing the liberty of the press loff system. The operators, aded| More wu himael?, gat the! nearly yesterday Morcit®}are made in the homes of the custom by S$. D. Warriner of the Lehiga |White House, adinitted sin Ade [WHI was aslecp in an apartment! tatiors in the bedrooms, parlors and Coal and Navigation Company, an ministration leaders had urged him |{t No. 280 Riverside Drive Kitchens of aqualld east side homes, Evening World reporter was informed|to remain and work for the pecelece | According to her account of thel where the children of workingmen to-day, are prepared to grant a rea-|tion of the President. From reitable| ineldent, 1 nbenger came fo the | aptiloted with disease are likely to Ine sonable increase, but nothing Nik@/sources if Was learned that if the; apartment after midnight on Mon-| fect the garments with contagious the 20 per cent, demanded by the|Ambassador finds his scrvieeq are {day With a Mise Dorie Castle, Whom | germs, United Mine Workers of America needed in this country he will not re. | had met ina Aroadway cafe. The|” These were some of the statements They will not go beyond o flat}turn to the Pur Bast plaintiff's ition was such, #helmade to-day by Samuel Gompers, 5 cent Increase, it was said, and! Although he says at present he, Sills that he went promptly to bed] progident of the American Federation though they expect the conference to] plans tu leave some time in May, {aM fo sleep. Mise Castle then an-lo¢ Labor, in an address to a gather. ag out as did the soft coal one,| atill declares his work ia in such wag, |Motinced that she was “going out WIth Ting of members of the Journeyman they are hopeful of @ settiement| dition and the work cleared Billy fo get something to eat” Wholpaiorw Union in Plaga Hall, No. 110]] On Your Third based on about the same increases! such an extent that a now ma | Billy was did not come ont in her) past Fiftyeninth Street. (8h—h—h!) ‘awarded for the bituminous districts. | easily take it up Jatory, but she sald that berser! Summarizing the conditions under The man never lived who When the leaders of the miners’ un-| off should he awoke presently and an ed that | winte ie " biseu! ion came to New York two weske| Senator Lewi hg renentiy and announced thit|which clothes sold at Fifth Avenue didn't like hot ite f ss 7 stood to have shops are made, Mr, Gompers do- Make them elwaye light with ago it was Gnnotinced that they! ointment of Ira Ne the police nounced the present system of mak would not demand the ‘check-off| Minster to Swe The withers sail she offered himline these garments in the homer of system” in the hard coal fields, but| post if Morgant hone, but the hall : | only feoeeattion 4? the tnlen, j return. ‘ rhe a wreaals ot the tailors and declared it was a dis- | : : | Morgenthau ‘ Washington : that such things are allowed | They have changed their ideas to-day to secure imeane of shipping | bring the law into thel yy continu since the first conference and will food supplies to iniubitants of bales. | ne declined to connect! civcg Mirch 2 ¢rom 16,000 to 18,000 : he operators col- | tine. who are now Lol | . » police statin: 4 7 jnow domand that the operators col- | OAt, nent merchants of tect ot with police BATON) custom tailors have been on strike, lect the dues of the unton from every end 100 tons of supplies t KT ephen, suid Mrs. Curtis, she suggests miner omployed in the industry. It 44 transportation fa that the plaintiff go out and get a po- had not been decided to-day whether na ed. He ale liceman, which he dtd, and presently the reporters would be admitted to piies.t0 t if the st ent of aup the pearoh for Disappearing Doris : plies to the American colony in Cans | Was begin [the Union League Club during | Btununopie, he sive, will be| The nearch proved fruitless, the conferences, but it looks as if| short of food by fi) rE hight Rosenberger had Mrs.’ ( they will not. ‘The operators are . tle arrested for “ac ting in concert” ie Mant 0 said to be opposed to having a room) ACTRESS HELD AS THIER, | with # permon committing wrand la " net aside for them, and the miners | ¢ : je Magistrate Murphy info have nothing whatever to do with it to ilrenrathal rt Scenes) Curtis that on th own @ time a labor and capi ral Life. fegurt sie had ltd herself Hable: to i ‘ has been held at th veal ee! aght) three years in jail for knowingly Tee{ =| Tite Millinery Department on the First Floor Union Lei or any o lub of f : , id not ii ’ , ¢ Hie eekly u basting obtained #43 |} eer ane would AALHe is now showing, at moderate prices, The general conference of tie sof From Be Ht. Stacy & Con} Mins Castle. coal distri is in session to-ds to 7 bah ele sere. , Tie rney ey ratify the findings of its su = Grrietnaa. rush Payee 4: arth Braneh Bureau, cry ig at A x mdatinad rah, Aer he Mawnpeate vimientre| The Spring Importations of posed to the increases, bu it is ex- Wat traveling. With a murical| newed the searc : mania | pected the agreement will be in | Curtis said she merely rente¢ eee ae era ee ee 8s | Wines Detectives Murvhy SE EO orate nated Millinery Trimmings | formal contract sign before the | ¢ Mee Ue snow when Rosenberger av he thought | operators leave to-night for their | {es 11 Tie SOMME ana: he there with her instead | ahs homes playing the : will oe with ‘the woman who ix eisaing, comprising a large and diverse assortment of cae area comune alle wed the be ind they! Rosenberger has been stopping at} Ne the Colonial Hotel, One Hundred and | Flower Fruit, Foliage, Ostrich and Fancy venty-fitth St and Kighth Ave+ /ENTIRE NAVY OF CITY IS OFFERED FOR SALE Police Boat “Patrol WI Which Carries| Four Guns Too Big for Hunt- ing River Pirates. The police boat Patrol, ries four-inch guns fore aemor plated and hax a 1,000 candie- power n Jewel ly PEP OMe LOLOL NO LO UO Ne DELO Ley a att searchlight, is to be | pubic wuetion on March 21 will not part with the cre than $25,000, Announcement of the © is made to-day in order that rep resentatives of South Amertean re publics seeking to increase + vies may present themselves sold 4 BCS TXT TSTIG TOAD TOIT ders, It 18 also pointed out 7 Patrol is a splendid craft in which nduct a filibuster or foment a revo- | | x lution. \| : bal he Pollee Department _docan' | [i For Just This Weather ig| want the patrol any more bec \Es river pirates are not so mime: and smaller, swifter effective in hunting left of them. Purchased by the city in 1894, Patrol is 187 feet over all, with a foot beam and a draught of # feet Her tonnage ie 285 and her coal ton- boats are more || down what Winter Overcoats Odds and Ends at tne! |e Re nage is 30, ead Bs WHITMAN IS HUGGED =: $9.75 | BY A CONVICT'S WIFE Governor Promises Woman, Seek-| iB Were $ | 47 D $ | 9.75 | ing Husband's Pardon, Ei ancllaomenevan Righer Look Into Case. | Bh if CLEVELAND, March 8. — Before |Es Gov, Whitnan of New York could gain an inkling of her purpose, Mrs. | Anna Schmulovitz threw about his neck in the here yesterday, She also kissed his hand in }@ plea for clemency for her husband, | who has been in Sing Sing Prison If You Only Realized the wonderful opportunity we are offering you, we would not be able to handle the crowds. her a Statler Hotel There are not many of these overcoats left, and they are all this | vince 1908 serving a twenty-year sen Pi winter's models. | |tence for the murder of the “otner| Ef : ] | woman.” A Word of Advice | Mr. Whitman, in resp | fervent appeals of the conyict’s This is really an unusual opportunity of which many will avail said he would look into the case themselves, Won't you please call as early as possible, for by he returned to New York, doing so you will have a greater variety to select from, and greater <ccinahiialiiais i a | Naliatatn tat oe ae il satisfaction will be the result | Jacob @ contrac = Macy's—Fifth Floor, M4th Street o8 Seve nspecting some of whieh he Manhattan reconstruction work undry re baseme hi al \d LR cirsehpeint Haat : icy YO pat © he who pu help. Siegler was fatally Large Map of Ireland, in Four Colors, Showing Localities and Titles of All Principal Irish -SPECIAL FEATURE NEXT SUNDAY’S WORLD= = Feather Ornaments, Braids, etc., embracing the materials and colors that are to be the vogue of the season. Te-morrow (Thursday) there will be in this Department A Sale of Spring Hats in smart, becoming modes made of the fash- ionable straws, featuring flower, feather or ribbon trimmings, specially priced at $8.50 & $11.00 The Lace Curtain Department has now ready a complete collection of newly- received Window Draperies for the Spring and Summer seasons, embracing virtually every variety of curtain that will be in demand. Among the inexpensive Curtains for cottage and Summer apartment use are the following, all of which are in the regular stock at the moderate prices quoted: rai Ruffled Muslin Curtains per palr . 85c. and upward Plain Hemstitched Scrim Curtains per pair $1.00 and upward Hemstitched Scrim Curtains, with Cluny edge per pair $1.35 and upward Novelty Net Curtains, pair 1.35 and upward Imported Scotch Madras Curtains per pair $2.00 and upward Also a large assortment of Imported Swiss Curtains per pair ° . . $2.25 and upward Fifth Avenue-Madtson Avenue, 34th and 35th Streets New York