The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1916, Page 1

i ~ 1.3 B q officials of the ~ PRICE ONE CENT. F _—_ CAPTURED LNER | “THRD AVE. STRK BEGINS; “STEW MARK FATELATETOAY ALL Z£OITION "FIFTY CAR CREWS WALK OUT ALL POLICE VACATIONS OFF <4 900 Officers Recalled, and Those IN| sox HER TO NORFOLK Military Training Ordered to Be Ready to Break Camp—Bronx Cars Run Under Heavy Guard. Word reached Police Headquarters this afternoon that a strike of the employees of the Third Avenue Railroad lines, involving seven trunk and crosstown lines, had actually begun. Fifty crews refused to fake cars out of the Sixty-fifth Street barns of the Third Avenue division. The organizers and managers of the strike on the Westchester and «Bronx lines, under the same system, had not intended to call the men from their cars until after a meeting of the carmen to-night, though, according to the best information of the police they had the promise of 800 of the 2,000 employees to quit on call, Inspector Schmittberger at once’ started on a tour of the company’s lines, after notifying the 3,000 police reserves held in the stations all over the city to be ready for instant re- sponse to an emergency, All poljcemen on vacation, num- bering 900, were recalled, and the police in tho military encampment at Fort Wadsworth were ordered to be | ready to break camp and return to) the city on the police steamer Patrol, | Though better order was main- tained in the area of the Bronx and Westchester street railway strike than for several days past, the trans- portation outlook for persons on the Umon Railway routes grew worse. The twelve inspectors and elght starters of the Union Railway sys- tem surprised their employers and started uproartous cheering in strik- era’ headquarters, Courtlandt Hall, in the Bronx, by appearing in full unt- form and enlisting in tho strike, Street car men said it was the first fnstance in which this class of men have openly joined in a street rall- way strike. READY TO CALL OUT WORKERS IN THE BARNS. Organizer W. B. Fitzgerald said he was in @ position to call out the “ghedmen,” or workers in the car for the company, who are already mombers of the American Federation of Labor, at any time. At the instance of the merchants of the Bronx, as well as the thous- * ands of residents who are losing ime and moncy because of the strike; Borough President Mathewson, with We cordial approval of Mayor Mitchel, undertook mediation to-day. He summoned Organizer Fitzgerald And his aides into a conference and Id them he had been in touch with railroad, Mayor Mitchel said he had author- iued Mr, Mathewson to act for the olty and to call on the City Hall when it seemed likely that the Mayor's personal services would be accept- able in a peace conference, Edward A. Maher jr. assistant spokesman and executive manager for his father, the vice president and general manager of all the railways affected, said he should accept Mr. Mathewson's invitation .» attend a conference but intiraated he could not gain any common ground with the union organizers ond that the negotiations must come to nothing. “Our men can come back to work at any time under t:.» existing agree- ment,” he said, “Our wage scale is higher than that of fifty other com- panies in this State and as high ae that of five more. We will have no dealings with men not in our employ, I ghall be glad to confer with Mr. —_——_ (Continued on Second Page.) TWO WOMEN DROWN AS PLEASURE LAUNCH IS RAMMED BY TUG Men in Cruising Party Are Saved in Accident Near Sea Cliff. (Special to The Evening World.) SEA CLIFF, N, Y,, July 29.—Mre, George Leyair of City Island. and Mrs. Lucy Howell, wife of Louts Howell, an engineer employed by the Westinghouse Electric Company, were drowned last night in Hempstead Harbor when the pleasure launch Vita, in which they had been cruising with a party, was run down by a tug. In the party were the husbands of both women, Addison Price of New York and William Graham of City; barns, and all tho electrical workers | land, The four men were waved. According to them the launch was helpless on account of engine trouble, All lights were burning and they claim that those on the tug could not have helped seeing them, Further. more, they say that no effort was made on the tug’s part to ald in their rescue, the men being picked up by another boat, The Vita was owned by Mr, Leyatr and the others were guests of himself and wife, The launch was not more than forty feet from the Glenwood pler and Mr, Leyair was busy at the engine when he first saw the tug, then bearing down on top of him. Selzing his wife by the waist he Jumped overboard just as the crash occurred, The tug had two barges, both lixht, one alongside of her while the other was towing with a line, Josera Lang, who was watching the launch from the cliff by the Nassau Light and Power Company's power house, declares that whoever was steering the tug could not have helped seeing the-Vita and that no attempt was made to save anybody. John Falter saved two of the men while other boats picked up the others, The body of Mrs. Leyalr was recovered to-day, Her head had been crushed, Mr, Howell has been installing the new cables at the power house for several weeks, and brought his wife here a week ago to-day. They were married in January, his wife having been Miss Lucy Morgan of Salem, Va. She was once a nurse at Johns Hopkins, The ("cba Dota Gres te USSIANS CLAIM 350,000 PRISONERS; TWO BIG VICTORIES ON EASTERN APPAM IS AWARDED TOBRITISH OWNERS U.S. . Court Rules Th Rules That German Prize Crew Lost Legal Claim by “Laying Up” Ship. Decision Holds Action by Kaiser’s Prize Court in Claim- ing Steamer Has No Effect. NORFOLK, Va, July 29—Federal Judge Waddill to-day ‘-cided the libel Proceedings for possession of the cap- tured British liner Appam in favor of the English owners and against the German prize crew which brought her here. The Court held that the German Government lost all legal claim to the Appam and her cargo as prises of war when Lieut. Berg and his prize crew on Feb. 1 of this year brought them into the neutral waters of Hampton Roads, with the intention of “laying up” the vessel indefinitely. The Court held, turth that tho Pruasian-Amerioan treaty of 1799, re- newed in 1828, does not apply or con- trol in the case #0 as to guarantee the prize crew system in United States waters, ‘That the action of the German prise court in declaring the Appam a pris! ] while the case was in litigation in the United States courts has no effect on the jurisdiction of the courts, That the jurisdiction of tho United States Courts in the case is established by a long line of prece- dents, including several by the Su- preme Court. “The court's conclusion,” the decision reads, “is that the manner of bringing "| the Appam into the waters of the United States, as well as her presence in those waters, constitutes @ violation of the neutrality of the United States; that she came in without bidding or permission; that she is here in viola- tion of the law; that she is unable to leave for lack of crew, which she can- not provide or augment without further violation of neutrality; that in her present condition she is without a lawful right to be in and remain in thene waters. “That she as between her captors and owners, to all practical interests and purposes, must be treated as abandoned and stranded upon our shores and that her owners are en- titled to restitution of their property, which this court should award, tr- respective of the prize court proceed- ings of the court of the Imperial Gov- ernment of the German Empire, and it will be so ordered.” WASHINGTON, July 29.—The Fed- eral Court's decision holding for the British owners in the Appam case confronts the United States Govern- ment with deciding what to do with Lieut. Berg and his prize crew, which brought jn the ship after one of the mont thrilling captures in the sea Niatory of the war. Generally speaking, Berg and his men are regarded as part of Ger- meny’s naval forces, and If that view were carried out to its conclusion, they would have to be interned for tho war with the crews of the two cther German commerce raiders, Prina Eltel Friedrich and Kronprina Wilhelm at the Norfolk Navy Yard, When the Appam came in her Ger- man captors declared that rather than surrender the prize to the Brit- ish they would take her outside the three mile limit and sink Federal Court, however, has pos- session of the ship and any attempt to move her undoubtedly would be questioned. siamese Amb jor Elkus to Sail, Abram I. Elkus, newly appointed Am- bassador to Turkey, will nail Aug. 17 to take up his duties, He will leave for Copenhagen on the Scandinavian- American liner Oscar IL PLAGUE DEATHS WITH 44 INDAY Now ae Is Only| One Below Record for Whole City. 161 CRUSADE ON No Week-End Health Cards Because Officials Are “Too Busy.” “CURES.” A high record in new cases of in- fantile paralysia was established tu- day in Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens. In Brooklyn there were %4 deaths, which ts equal to the high record of July 4. There were 4 deaths in the whole city, the highest point reached. Appording to figures given wut b7 the Health Department, there were 4 new cases in Manhattan. The highest numbers previously recorded were 423 on July 26 and 2. In the Bronx there were 13 new cases, which ig one above the record of 12 un Jul) %. ‘Twenty-nine cases were reported in Queens. This is four above the reo- ord established July 26, The total number of new cases to-day in all the boroughe—l6i—is only one below tho record of 162 reached om July 14 ‘and again on the 26th. Following are the tables of deaths and new cases ATHS. Boroughs. To-day. Yesterday. Brooklyn Manhattan . » Bronx . 2 Queens . 1 Richmond 2 36 Totale ......+ C Boroughs, To- Day. eslomay Brooklyn . 66 a STIELOWTOKNOW -—DECISIONATE. a] After AtbNight Struggle Jus- tice Guy Delays Answer to Condemned’s Plea. WON TEMPORARY S STAY. | Prisoner Misses Chair By Nar- rowest Margin Recorded | in New York, Until 6.80 o'clock this evening, just four hours and « half before the time set for his execution, Charles F. Btie- low must wait in the death house at Sing Sing not knowing whether the may of execution secured for him this morning will be extended into a for- mal reprieve, pending a new trial, or whether he must. go-to the electric chair. His électrocution had been set for 6 o'clock this morning. lelow had made his peace and the black suit with the sinister elit in the trouser leg was ready for him to put on. His wife and two little girls were waiting outside the prison to receive the body, At 6 o'clock the telephone in the prison rang imperatively, Supreme Court Ju Charles L. Guy was on the other end of the wiro asking for Warden Osborne. He had heard some new evidence in Sticlow's case, he said, and wanted time to consider it. Could the execution be deferred? In the absonce of Warden Osborne and Deputy Warden Miller, Princi- pal Keeper Fred Dorner agreed to postpone the execution until 11 | o'clock to-night, the last hour within which it legally could take place. “Thank God," faltered Stielow, when the news was broken to him, “Ob, I hope they can do something | for me." It was past midnight last night when Justice Guy was awakened at hia home, No. 335 Convent Avenue, by Mra Inez Milholland Botssevain, Queens Richmond . Totals ...eseseee Total deaths to dat Total cases to date, 3,723, The Health Department to-day began a crusade against druggists ana othera throughout the city who are selling so-called “remedies” and “preventives” of paralysis, The first to be arrested was Joseph Fiooks, a South American, who has a drug store at No. 25 Chrystie Street, Fourteen actentists of world-wide reputation are to take part in the conference on paralysis to be held here next Thuraday. They will come ‘as guests of the city, thelr oxpensos being paid out of $2,000 appropriated by the Hoard of Estimate Health Commissioner erson to- day gave out the names of the follow. ing men, all of Whom have been in- vited to take part: Dr, Victor ©, Vaughan of Ann Arbor; Dr, Milton J. Rosenau, Professor of Preventive Medicine and iyqone | in the Harvard Medical Schoo! W. Jobling of Vanderbilt University; Dr, Pout A Lewin of the Henry Phipps Institute, Philadelphia; Dr, C. C, Husa of New Orleans; Dr. Theobal: Smith of Princeton, N. F, Ander- ft Ni J Dr, Dr. Herman Bachr of Mount Binal’ Hos- pital; Dr, Francis Carter Wood of the Crocker Research Fund; Dr, William Wood, Dr. W. H. Park, Dr, Elaer of Cornell. Government surgeons who are in New York fighting the epi-| demic also will take part in the con-| ference, | That the epidemic hi among “susceptible” — persons in Brooklyn and hereafter will begin falling off was the theory advanced thls afternoon by Dr, John 8, Billings, who is In charge of the paralyais |Only the new evidence in the case Di has enlisted such Stuart M. Kahn, acting as Stielow's attorney, and Mischa Applebaum, head of the Humanitarian Cult, of this city. These three came prepared to make one final effort in behale of Bticlow, whose plight has aroused so much sympathy and whose story seems to have created strong doubt of his guilt, They had new evidence to offer in the shape of an affidavit from a man alleged to have been near the scene of the crime, in which Sticlow was absolved. They had sworn atate- ments testifying that the condemned man ie mentally deficient, They had the reports of alienists who have ex- amined Stielow and who swear that hia vocabulary ta less than a third of that displayed in what was intro. duced as a@ confesnion taken down verbatim, All this, and the fact that the man cannot read nor write was presented to Justice Guy, From 21 o'clock until 6 o'clock this morning the Justice went over the papers, He took a short rest, then went at them again, hoping to be able to render @ decision by 11,30 o'clock, When t hour came ho announced that he must reserve de- cision until 6.80 o'clock thin evening, would have any weight with him. he naid, and if he believed the prisoner should be retried on the strength of !t, he would see that a revrieve was ranted, Stlelow was convicted of killing a former up-State, but doubt as to hia guilt baw been felt ever slice he was! arrested No criminal in recent yeara| active sympathy, It In said that the members of the Mutual Welfare League at Sing Sing put on foot the movement which re- fight across the river. (For Racing Results Bee Page 2.) multed {n his escaping the chair this morning by the narrownst mareia o time on record in this Sta! se A A A A ft Genators O'Gorman and | DAUGH TER OF 0.H. KAHN SAILS TO JOIN WAR RELIEF IN EUROPE Galling to-day on the LAfayetté for France, where they will enter war relief work, are Miss Maud E. Kabn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, and Miss Marianne McKeever, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 1. Chauncey McKeever. Both are young girls, Mins Kaba entered society last winter, and Miss McKeever has not yet made her debut. Both have been intcrested in war relief work and Miss Kahn took part last season ip several entertain- ments arranged for that purpose. The young women will cpnnect themselves with one of the American war relief organisations in Paris, ATTACKED, WN. Y. LINER DRIVES U-BOAT OFF Tie Italia Then Continues on Her Way to This City, Says Rome Report, ROME, July 29.—The Italian liner Re Italia, bound from Genoa to New York, beat off an enemy submarine and continued her voyage, according to announcement made here to-day, The oficia) statement also detatled enemy aeroplane attacks on Bari Mol- fetta and Otranto, Bombs killed sev- eral and wounded more than @ soore of persona, The liner Re Italia te the property of Furness, Withy & Co,, Lid., of No, 32 Broadway, At the offices it was stated to-day the Re Italla sailed from Genoa on July 10, The New York agents had not heard of the submarine attack and could furnish No detalles as to how the vessel “beat off” a submart, tack, but they assumed that her » perior speed outdistanced the sub- mersible, —_———~—_— SENATE MAKES PLEA FOR IRISH PRISONERS Votes 46 to 19 to Have Wilson Ex- press Hope to British That Clemency Be Extended, WASHINGTON, July 29.-—By @ vote of 46 to 19 the Senate to-day adopted & resolution requesting President Wil. son to transmit to the British Gov- ernment an expression of hope that it would exercise clemency in the treatment of Irish political prisoners, This was the last act in the fight for a resolution asking clemency for Kir Roger ement, but in the final draft his name was not mentioned, By its action the Senate overturned the report of a majority of its Por- eign Helations Committee and fol. jowed a course outlined In a minority report made by Chalramn Stone and Pituman, 10 =i 2) i | Delville Wood were repulsed. NY ieee PRIOB ONE PRIOR ONE OENT. So; FRONT THUTONS ARE OREN BAGK ON TWO RUSSIAN FRONTS, - ~ LOSING THOUSANDS OF n. Haig Reports Brlin Progress North ots age and Defeat of Germans at Delville Wood—Paris Claims Success on Somme and at Verdun. BRITISH ATTACKS FAIL, SAYS BERLIN WAR OF Pewograd in confirming the capture of Brody, the Gitician border, announces that 20,000 man, 400, and 66 guns were captured in the last few days. feports say 360,000 Teutons have been taken pati: far in the present campaign, Further south the Russians under Gok, Letchiteky wo an important victory on the Dniester River in the direction _ of Stanislau, sccording to the Petrograd reports, A retirement of the Teutonic force, was admitted yester- day by Berlin, but a Vienna report, dated Thursday, claime the capture of 1,000 Russians north of Brody. London announces that the capture of the rest of the village of Longueval was followed by British progress north _ and northeast of Posieres. Two German counter attacks at WEATHER-—Fow Voight ond Gundey, Betlin claims that strong Beitish attacks ta the region of Posicres were halted, sia son st'voneamntempee soon haan attacks west of Vermandovillers, south of the Somme. Twe German attacks south of Fleury on the Verdun front age also reported checked. NEARLY 9 TEUTON ARMY CORPS REPORTED CAPTURED THIS YEAR Victory at Brody on the Galician Border Fol- lowed by Another on the Dniester, Further Southward. PETROGRAD, July 29,—Gen. Bru-| nounced to-day, siloff bag resumed his offensive and| 4s again The captures by Russian troope ty the fighting yesterday included 4 Officers and 90,000 men, it was off. clay announced. Fifty-five Teuten thrown back the Teutonic line on the whole Kove front from the Rojiatecha Rallway to Brody, the War Office an- Wear Sona GERMAN CRUISER TAKES BRITISH SHIP Steamer Eskimo Battled for an Hour Before Capture, Says Berlin Report. BERLIN, July 29 (by wireless to Bayville).—A German auxiliary cruiser at 1 o'clock on the morning of July 27, after an engagement lasting an hour with the armed British steamship Eskimo, captured the ves- acl and brought her into port, ac- cording to a statement given out to- day by the German Admiralty, ‘The encounter took place at a point 16 miles southeast of Arendal, a Nore wegian seaport on the Skagerrak, —_ WILSON OFF CAPE CHARLES, View! CAPE CHARLES, duly 29, naval yacht Mayflower, with P Wilson and some relatives aboar chored off here thie morning, i guns were taken. A eomi-official estimate of the number of prisoners taken by the Russians during the firet half of immer campaign just eloa- laces the total at 950,000, Gen. Letchitaky, the Russian state, ment adds, won an important victory the Capture of Bret to the south of the Dniester in the direction of Stanislau, The oMiclal report of the War Of@lue adda: “An herole Cossack division by @ cavalry attack surprised the tives and took Iserzany, which situated on the road to Thamaeh (Atteen miles southeast of Stanige lau). been captured, “Caucasus front: Our advange | in the direction of Sivas Kharput continues aad we a Pee “According to supplementary time 4 formation, the total numbur of prisoners taken up to July Amounts to 400 officers and 20,000 of the rank and file, The aums ber of captured guns ts 65, In ads © dition many machine guns large quantities of booty w have not yet been computed nave