The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1916, Page 1

es oe —— = WAL F Ublic Warned Against Unnec- essary and Hysterical Fear of Infection. ANY FALSE ALARMS. F New Jersey Taking Precau- tions to Keep Out New York Children. “Don't get intoa panic. Keep end, above all things, follow advice the officials give from ~~ to day.” — Warning of all city ty fear of infection from in- tile paralysis is causing the health @uthorities of Greater New York more trouble than the actual epidemic, For ) 4 elty this size the number of deaths from the disease does not constitute | Grounds for alarm, yet hundreds of Parents, frightened by symptoms of s in their children continue to re- cases of “infantile paralysis" to fhe Board of Health | Investigation shows © great pro- Portion of these cases to be coinpara- Wvely harmless ailments which would mot have been reported at all prior to! the epidemic. The health authorities @re a unit in agreeing that the scare @aused by the epidemic ts out of all reasonable proportion to the danger. The alarm has spread to adjoining | itory in magnified form, and loca! | th boards tn all the nelghboring, tricts are taking quarantine meas- | of such needless stringency as! work great hardship on parents children who are secking only to! pe the heat of the city. | Almost a 50 per cent, falling off In} ths from infantile paralysis was Pevealed in the figures issued to-day By the Board of Health. | Brooklyn reported twelve deaths as, @aainst twenty yesterday; Manhattan had but four av compared with six; | Queens had one, a decrease of two; | the Bronx hud none as against three on Tuesday, and there were no deaths Richmond either yesterday or to- ‘The total deaths for all boroughs fo-day was 17 as against 82 yesterday. grand total of deaths tn this @pidemic is now 287. The figures for the twenty-four Bours ending at 10 o'clock this morn- \) fag show a falling off of paralysis ‘eases in practically every borough, | (Continued on Fourth Page.) “MEASLES EPIDEMIC LAST YEAR WAS MORE RI eh GE gee. rte ‘ DEATHS FROM PARALYSIS SHOW BIG FALLING 0 EDITION Se OO PER CENT. FALLIN IN DEATHS 7 PARALYSIS ¢ | affects the thirty-foot PRICE ONE CENT. BRITISH LOSE TRONES AND MAMETZ WOODS; REPULSE OTHER ATTACKS WITH BIG LOSS YORK, WEDNES UR BOROUGHS CONEY’S BEACH PUBLIC PROPERTY, COURT DECIDES , Fight to Oust Amusement Park Begun in 1913 by The Evening World. ALBANY, July 18.—The ocean and low tide lines belongs to the pub- lie, which ts entitled to its free use, according to a decision of the Court of Appeals rendered to-day. The case is one which has been in the courts since Attorney General Carmody brought @ test suit in 1913 at the instance of The Evening World against George C. Tilyou and his business associate, Emile Huber, to evict them from portions of the beach which had been fenced in and which the public could not reach ex- cept by paying an admission fee, Both are now dead. A decision against them was made by Justice Benedict in Brooklyn in September, 1913, and was affirmed by the Appellate Divi- sion Jan, 1, 1915, Only one exception to the order is made by the Court of Appeals. ‘This front of the property now owned by Joseph Huber, which was specifically granted by the State in 1897, ‘The infringing private owners based their claims on ancient Dutch grants as vold between high and low wate: lines. ‘This final decision clears the way for the city's remodelling of the Coney Island waterfrbnt into a great water- front park on clty property worth millions of dollars. = iinaauseae TOMBS PLOTTERS FACE GOURT FOR MAIL THEFT One Pleads Guilty and Will Aid Prosecution—Escape Frustrated Last Week. At the opening of the trial of Thomas Benson and Louls Windler before Federal Judge Howe to-day Kdward J, Quigley, one of their al- {leged confederates in the robbery of $504,000 worth of registered mall, pleaded guilty, thus paving the way for his appearance as a witness for the Government, Benson and Windler were frus- trated in their attempt last week to escape from the Tombs. Their plan of escape was one of the most elab. SERIOUS,” DR. EMERSON Emerson, Health Commis- joner, to-day pointed out that during the opidemlc of measies which ran from March to May last not unusual to have om 600 to 900 cases of that dis- , While mor- “There were more lives lost and more permanent injuries from the epidemic of measles last year than will result from this outbreak of Infantile paralysis,” sald Dr, Emerson. If tho public mind should be thrown into a state of pan account of the disease, Dr. E gon foars that would speedily reftected in an increased mortality rate anong infants and children tn the city, Who would be cooped up unnecessarily when they should be out in the open, on playgrounds and elsewhere outdoors. orate ever conceived in the famous —»~——— NEW JERSEY CANNOT BAR HEALTHY INFANTS | Action by the State Board of Health Is Declared Illegal by Attorney-General, 0 OF TRENTON, N. J, July 12.—The| sudden turn of events, and there was State Bourd of Health having barred| much questioning as to the real cause, from New Jersey infants from other| Polities were freely hinted at as the es during the paralysis epiden true reason for discharge of the regt 4 Dey ment’s two cael muanders, ne babies ow KEL BUREAU, 1 to suRReSt | Sulding vie all Ber. South’ “American, waren Sitar WALDO IS NAMED TO COMMAND 69TH BY GOV. WHITMAN: onic Action Follows Order for In- quiry by Wilson in Conley Case. | | | | | | GEN. SCOTT TO PRESIDE. | 3 Is |Capital Hears ecutive “Personally Interested” in the Case. Rhinelander Waldo, former Police Commiasioner, is to succeed Col. Con- ley in command of the Sixty-ninth Infantry, by special appointment of Gov. Whitman, it was reported at the headquarters of the Department of the East this afternoon. Mr, Waldo saw six years of service peach a¢ Coney Istand between high|' the Philippines as junlor and #00-| hysteria. 4. serious operation was ond Heutenant of the Seventeenth Infantry, U. S. A., and as a captain of the Filipino Scouts. He resigned from the army Sept. 10, 1906. Mr. Waldo formerly was connected with the Sixty-ninth WASHINGTON, July 11.—An tn- vestigation of Major Gen, Leonard Wood's order mustering out of the service Col. Louis D. Conley and Léeut, John J. Phelan of the Sixty- ninth Regiment wes ordered to-day by Secretary Baker after a conference with the President. Major Gen. Scott, Chief of Staff, will conduct the inquiry. A delegation of New York Congressmen protested to Secretary Baker that the action of Wood ns was arbitrary and unnecessary, President Wilson is said to have taken a personal interest in the mat- ter. (Spectal to The Evening World.) MRS. BEUTINGER GROWS HYSTERICAL IN NEWARK JAIL onal Calls for Children and Issues Statement Blaming Husband, CHARGE IS UNBAILABLE, Lawyer Says Case Must Take Its Course—Has No Rell atives in America. Mra, Margaret Claire Routinger, who shot and killed her husband at Caldwell, N. J., yesterday, collapsed in the Essex County Jail in Newark this afternoon and passed from one fainting spell to another. She was at- tended by Dr. Edward W. Markens, who sald that she was suffering from pertormed on her several months ago. Frank McDermott, one of her attor- .neys, gave out the following state- ment under her name: “My husband was pronounced a prince among men, but he was a devil to his family. No matter what they do to me, I can’t be any worse off than living with him. It was a question of his life or mine, I did it for the aake of my children.” ‘ Those who saw Mrs. Beutinger say that her body is a mass of bruless and that one of her eyes is badly in- jured, This, she asserts, was done by her husband, whom she accuses of at- tempting to gouge out her eyes Mrs. Beutinger has small hopes of freedom, She spent an hour and a half in consultation with one of her Jawyers, Walter J. Brandley, who an- nounced afterward that he thought the case would have to take its | WELL-KNOWN ACTRE: DAY, JULY 12, STAR FOR MANY YBARS, WHO DIED HERE TO-DAY MRS, FRED NIBLO DEAD; 100 MUCH DANCING, IS REPORT Sisier of George M. Cohan Victim of Heart Disease Due to Exertion. Mra, Fred Niblo, who was Joseph- CAMP WHITMAN, N, Y., July 13.]course, She te held on an unbatiable|!n¢ Cohan, a sister of George M. —The Sixty-ninth is on its way to Texas to-day with Col. Louls D. Con- ley still in command, although he|cording to her counsel, is centred in Seventy. whieh the courts have uniformly hela| Must hand over the regiment on|her five children, the oldest but nine | reaching the border, Lieut, Col. John] years of age. P, Phelan returned to New York last night. It ts reported that both will ask for a second physical examina- tion in order to prove their fitness for service, The fi ction, composed of equipment, got away from Green Haven about 4 P. M. The second sec- tlon, with Col. Conley, his staff and the first two battalions, left at 6.62 o'clock. Thé third and last section, with the third battalion and six hun- dred recruits, who will join other units on the border, pulled out about oP. M. Lieut. Col. Phelan jumped into hie touring car ehortly before the last detachment left the camp and went to Poughkeepsie, whence he took a train for w York, It was said that he had applied for a leave of ab- sence and intended to go South, so as to be in readiness if efforts to have the ousting order rescinded should be successful. The Twenty-secend Engineers of New York entrained for the border this afternoon. The Third Infantry wae breaking camp as the Engineers departed and will leave to-morrow After two days of rain the camp was “steaming” to-day under the sun's rays, The downpour of the past twenty-four hours drenched tents, clothing and equipment. Tho men slept in wet blankets on the ground. The first New York armored motor car arrived this afternoon accom- panied by a motor cycle equad. The troops were depressed by the} ™ offense—murder, Mrs, Beutinger’s whole interest, ac- Bhe is anxious to see them, but they cannot be taken to the jail and are staying with servants at the Hillcrest Road home in Caldwell, where their father was murdered, Bhe has asked repeatedly for them since her imprisonment. It is ex- pected that they will be placed in an institution pending the trial, Mrs, Beutinger has no relatives in the United States so far as her at- torney can learn, Her aged father ts il in England, After leaving Mrs, Beutinger at the county jail, Attorney Brandley visited the prosecutor's office at the court house and had a conference with that oMocial, What transpired was not disclosed, but It {s belteved that Mr, Brandley offered assistance to the prosecutor in learning the past history of Mrs, Beutinger, none of which she seeks to hide, it 4s sald, Her position is one of self-defense for the deed she committed, because of brutal treatment by her husband, The children were crying when their mother was taken to jafl in Cohan, died this morning in the Hotel Belleclaire, Broadway and eventh Street, after an Ill- ness of al months. One report says that her death was due to overexertion caused by danc- ing. Mra. Niblo died of heart disease, from which she had suffered ever since her return from Australia. When her husband realized at 3 o'clock this morning that she was rapidly sink- ing he telephoned for Dr, Oscar Letiser and also for George M, Cohan, who was at his home at Great Neck, Long Inland, An hour later @he died. Her brother did not reach her side until fifteen minutes after her death, al- though he had made @ break-neck automobile run from his Leng Island home. The Niblos were married on June 2, 1901, and have one child, Fred, who is thirteen years old Mrs, Niblo, as Josephine Cohan danced and sang her way through @ number of Broadway successes, In the early years of her theatrical life she appeared with her father, mother and brother, long known to the stage Newark, but to-day seemed more|as the Four Cohans, |, ‘Te it is Hughes he oan be no worse | LONDON, July 13.—Germaa troops] & number of prisoners were tenes 1 cheerful in their home, which A little more than @ year ago sho! Wilson, The worst he can do te | regained some lost ground in the this raid. $ bought In January by the Beutingers| and her husband returned to thin city (2, 4eclare war on Germany, and cer. | Aghting last night between the Following te the text ef the War for $25,000, after an absence of more than thren|‘inly that would be preferable to! Mamets und Trones woods, east of | OMc® announcement: “My mamma has gone away, but! years, In that time they toured Aus.| {ht Present Amertean neutrality, Albert, but all other enemy attacks ince the commencement of the she'll be back to-day,” tittle | tralia, playing soveral Broadway tw, ff tM* should happen, every one | wore beaten off with heavy enemy| Pattie the enemy bas received Marte said, "My papa is dead and|in the larger cities and achieving an |” CUS MAVY would shout and throw | joss, Gen, Haig reported to the War large reinforcements, Yesterday gone to heaven, Mamma Killed him. | enviable success, up his hat, for It would mean un- Office this afternoon, ‘The British} 4d last might strong bostile @t= That's why she went aw We In 1907 the Niblos made an eight |!nited sea war against England, commander said the German troops tacks were made against severe) were all asleep, but we woke because | months’ tour of South Africa, where | VU! Present navy is held in @ net of had beon heavily reinforced, points of our new positions. to there was a lot of noise, and we|they played @ repertoire of musical | notes. A party of Irish Fusileers pene- “Except 2 Mamets Wood end beard mamma scream. Papa and|comedies. ‘Their bookings oarried| “What do you think the United) trated German trenches at a strongly| Trones Wood, in both ef wbigh le- ma had been mad at each other." |them as far up the East Coast an | States would do? You could not raise | neid position southeast of Loos last] calities the Germans. regaineg « “L can't help it, I had to do tt," Mra. | Durban. eT ee ee nein Ameat night, ‘They remained twenty min.| °Me ground, all these attacks Beutinger is said to have sobbed,| Mrs. Niblo was forty years old, evn ports, but if you tried to use utes, killing many Germans and re-] Were beaten off with heavy loss to “For ten years iny life has been a hell! having been born in Providence, fh. thom to corey supplies and munitions tiring with slight losses, the enemy. on account of this man,” 1, In 1876, She began he & (othe allen we Would sink them The Seaforths made another auc “Between the main battlefield Heutinger was 4 German-Swias, In| career at the age of seven and 5 Darryle) BRA, MOU ee e: cxsful rald on the German lines in! and tho sea we have boen actively the Spanish War he was @ private in that time to her deat wa 4 THoNthiv.lestroy the the Hohengollorn redoubt, two miles} e@ngaxed in bombarding the en- the United States army, Later he ously before the public. entire merchant Meets of Che leading north of Loos, Thev forced a por- positions and raiding bie became a Sergeant and was attached, The funeral will be held on Priday powers, paralyze Bngland and Win ion of the German trenches and in| front line, Southeast ef Loos @= to the Quartermaster'’s Departinent|at 10 o'clock in the Church of the [Ne War Then we would sart all a tite fight killed many Germans,| partly of Royal Insh Fusiitere ’ | Blessed Sacrament, Broadway and any nation and regain our povition destroyed several machine guns and penetrated the enemy's trenches. (Continued on Second Page.) Geventy- fret Btree 4a a leading commercial power,” @uccessfully bombed ememy dugouts, So ee me a a a a 1916 _——- Ciorid, culation Rooks Open Al | cir HARD BLOW 2140 TO OUST HOLLWEG UNLESS U. $. ACTS ON THE BLOCKADE Bitter Fight on Chancellor Who Stood Out Against Weether—toir To night ond Vhuretey: Continesd WER FINA: —) ‘PAGES PRICE ONE ORNT. STRUCK AT VERDUN; FRENCH ARE. CAPTURED ———_—_-. Irish and Scotch Troops Pierce Ger- man Lines in New Attacks Near Loos—French Claim Success in Hard Battle at Dead Man Hill. - RUSSIAN DRIVE HALTED, SAYS BERLIN WAR OFFICE a Break With America. By Carl W. Ackerman. BERLIN, July 13 (United Press).— The overthrow of Chaneellor von Bethmafh-Hollweg, champion of a conciliatory policy toward the United States, and the unloosing of German. submarines within three months, was predicted by von Tirpitz supporters here to-day unless President Wilson acts against the British blockade, A private source, close to the For- eign Office, made this statement re- garding the attempt to unseat Beth- mann-Hollweg at a time when the war is approaching a crisis: nless America does somethin: against England within the next three months there will be a bitter fight aguinat the Chancellor, One cunnot tell whether he will be able to hold his own against such opposi tion, The future of German-Amori- can relations depends upon America.” Despite this political drive against the man who stood out against a break with the United States in the Lusitania crisis, Americans here be- Neve Bethmann-Hollweg will again emerge trumphant. , The fight to oust the Chancellor, the beginning of which was reported a few weeks ago, has now grown to such proportions that It overshadows in interest tho allied offensive, The attacks on the Chancellor have grad- ually grown bolder since the appear- ance of Prince Bulow's book “Deutsche Politik,” because this book is believed to be the opening of Bu- low's lor | he occupied until succeeded by Beth- | mann-Hollweg in 1909, The movement has grown more forceful since the German answer to President Wilson's ultimatum was sent, Within the few dave I have discussed the situation with leaders of several parties In the Reichstag. A National Liberal member of the Reichstag, who was formerly a sup- porter of von Tirpitz and the von Tirpitz submarine policies, said he hoped Bulow’s success shows that the opposition to America is not dead, “Who is going to be your next President—Wilson or Hughes?’ he asked, and then, without waiting for an answer, continued mpuign to oust the Chancel- | and step back into the position | \ \ According to admissions made by Gen. Haig in his te- port to-day the British troops were uneble 0 held Mit Ground they had gained in the ten days’ drive sleng @ eight-mile tront beeween the Somasé anGrhmere rivers. Germans, with heavy reinforcements, made counter | attacks last night in which they rolled back the British line | between Mametz and the Trones woods, where British gaing 4 were announced yesterday. At all other points, Gen, Haig @ says, the Germans were beaten back with heavy losses.. Paris reports a lull in the battle along the French front in the Somme region, but says there was a renewal of violent fighting at Verdun. Two German attacks in the Dead Man's Hill section are said to have been repulsed. East of the Meuse the French claim to have regained part of the ground lost in the German offensive yesterday. The Berlin War Office says that 39 ofticers and 2,106 men were captured in yesterday's battle at Verdun. on the east bank of the Meuse. ms Berlin reports to-day that the battle with the British | continues with great violence. Late reports from Petrograd assert that the Russians are sweeping on toward Kovel, and that since June 4, wheat | the offensive began, up to July 10, captured Teutons num bered 5,620 officers, 266,000 men, 312 guns and 666 machié} guns. Berlin claims that the drive toward Kovel has besa checked, + REINFORCED GERMAN ARMY WRESTS GROUND FROM BRITISH |Heavy Counter Attack Halts the Advance North of Somme, but British Inflict Heavy Losses,