The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1916, Page 1

————— AL £oiITri = PRICE ONE © On ENT. ‘ mt, Oe, owen, tite ‘ircalation Books Ope br the Press Pw Rew Dork World), NEW YORK, MONDAY, LEADERS THREATEN TO ORDER STRIK JULY 31, 1916. Corid, fe ‘rentation Rooks ypen to All. | 16 PAGES WEATHER—Losier, thunder showora PRICE ONE CENT TYING UP EVERY CITY STREET CAR —_————_ <9 -——_—_— TWO HELD IN BIG EXPLOSION: THREE INQUIRIES ARE STARTED; LOSS PLACED AT $20,000,000 Lehigh Valley Officer and Dock Official Are Held Charge—Hunt sives in Rai on Manslaughter for More Explo- lroad Yards. Manslaughter is the crime chai accused of causing the terrible explosi rged against the three men thus far ion which yesterday killed at least three persons in Jersey City and shattered the windows of buildings and cracked walls in New York. Two arrests have already been made and a third man has been notified that he is wanted by the police, Acting on The Evening World’s suggestion, the .authoritles have begun q search for more cars loaded with munitions of war among the four miles of railroad yards in the same neighborhood. The Federal Government and t sey have begun action to punish al chance of a similar crash, Though a property loss in destroyed war supplies and munitions, shipping. buildings, window glass and damagod foundations over an ar of more than 100 square miles 1s estimated at $20,000,000, the apparent loss of life ig almost unbelievably small, Albert M. Dickman, Lehigh Valley agent, and Alexander Davidson, su- perintendent of the National Storage Company, were arraigned before Judges Mark A. Sullivan and George Tennant to-day charged with man- slaughter, Their cases were post- pened until Friday morning at 10 o'clock at request of Prosecutor Rob- ert 6. Hudspeth. ‘The defendants were released under $5,000 bail, Counsel for Theodore B. Johnson, President of the Johnson Lighterage | Company, said that Johnson would return from the country afternonn and surrender himself to the authorities. ONLY THREE KNOWN DEAD, FEW MISSING. The body of one man, unidentified, blown into the bay from the freight yards of Black Tom Island, or from one of the water supply ships floating near ite bulkheads, was picked up in the bay. The Chief of Police of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, for which Black Tom Island was a foreign freight terminus, {s believed to have been blown to pieces by an explosion at 2.40 o'clock, which, after bn interval of amaller detonations, followed the first explo- sion at 2.08 o'clock. A child in arms was killed by the shock in its home near the water front in Jersey City. There are numerous inquiries for persons employed in the neighbor- hood of the munitions docks who have been missing for twenty-four hours, But the extreme estimate of the police after a careful canvam of these inquiries was that at the worst the death list would not exceed ten, after an explosion that was felt itn Philadelphia, and, according to some accounts, in Baltimore, The damage in property destroyed at a distance from the warehouses which were wiped out in the six-hour succession of shocks \s a measure of the horrible loss of life which might have afflicted the city and the met ropolitan district had the thing hap- pened at any other time than jus before a Sabbath dawn, Sidewalks from the Battery to Park Place, Manhattan, were carpeted with Jagged splinters of glass, Freakish gones, in which were shattered win- dows high tn alr and on ground floors, tizagged through the borough. Brook- (Continued on Second Page.) } late this | he States of New York and New Jer- 1 those to blame and to prevent any ® SLOCUM NOT TO BLAME FOR RAID ON COLUMBUS Inspector General’s Report Made Public—This Dash by Villa Brought on Crisis, WASHINGTON, July 31,—Extracts from the final report of the Inspeo- tor General's department on the Villa raid at Columbus, N. M., made public to-day by the War Department, show that Col, Herbert J. Slocum of the Thirteenth Cavalry has been exon- erated from all blame for the sur- prise attack upon his headquarters and the town, It was this raid that brought rela- | tons between the United States and the de facto Government of Mexico to a crisis and led to the despatch of Gen, Funston's punitive expedition, The bandits, several hundred strong and led by Villa himself, crept upon Columbus under cover of darkness, boldly engaged the small force of cavalry there, and looted the town before the troopers under Col, Slouum report said in con- clusion: “I recommend that Col. Slocum be advised that no stigma rests upon his conduct of command at Columbus, N, M., at the time of Villa's attack, and that he and his command are highly commended for thelr prompt and valorous action in the repulse of Vill forces and the pursuit of the sam: FRYATT EXECUTION ENRAGES ALL BRITAIN LONDON, July 31.—Great Britain proposes to bring to justice all those concerned in the execution of Capt Fryatt, no matter of how high a sta- tion, In proper time, Premier Asquith told Commons to-day. “This atrocious murder,” he de- clared, “shows that German high commanders under the stress of mill- tary defeat have reverted to ter- rorism."” WILSON TO GET AFTER BIG SUFFRAGE VOTE WASHINGTON, July 81.—President Wilson is going to make a strenuous effort to land those 4,000,000 suffrage votes about which he has been told much during recc:.: months by suf- frage leaders. At a long conference to-day with Chairman Vance McCor- mick plans were made for the organi- zation of @ women's department to direct the work in the twelve suf- trage States, ‘ -*. PLAGUE DEATHS MAKE NEW GAIN: | CASESDECREASE| 35 Fatalities in City To-Day and 132 More Victims Are Reported. CRUSADE ON QUACKS. Shavings Steeped in Naphtha Sold as “Sure Cure” by One Druggist. An increase throughout the city in deaths from infantile paralysis and @ decrease in cases was reported to-day by the Health Department. Brooklyn and Manhattan showed a surprising advance in deaths. While there were only nine fatalities in | Brooklyn Sunday, twenty were re- ported to-day. There also were nine | deaths in Manhattan, against two! | yesterday, | Deputy Commissioner of Health John 8, Billings expresse1 gratifica-| thon over the decrease of cases in Brooklyn, where ho has charge of the fight against the epidemic. Sev- enty-six cases were reported yester- day. To-day there were fifty-nine, The total number of deaths re- ported to-day was thirty-five, almost three times that of yesterday, when thirteen were recorded, Following are the tables of deaths and new cases: DEATHS, Boroughs. To-day. Yesterday. | Brooklyn .. ...4. 20 9 Manhattan 9 2 | Bronx eee 1 C) | Queens. .. 6 2 Richmond , 0 r) WOURIB) ss) ceeiessss 5 13 NEW CASES. Brooklyn .. 69 16 Manhattan . “4 40 Bronx .,, 8 1 Queens .., 21 15 Richmond ... . 0 7 Totals... sseeee 132 145 L. P. Brown, director of the Divi- sion of Foods and Drugs Inspection of the Health Department, is con- ducting @ crusade against patent medicine quacks and others who are advertising remedios for or preven- tives of Infantile paralysis, and wholesale arrests are expected. “We have been surprised,” he said to-day, “to find the number of per sons who are trying to turn this epi- | demio into something for their own profits, One man, who sold old shav- ings saturated in naphtha, adver- tised in Italian and Jewish papers that he had a sure preventive of in- fantile paralya! He said that his preparation was guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Act, and urged mothers to buy it for their children, “Other persons have been selling camphor balls wrapped in cloth and advising that they be placed around the necks of children as 4 preventive. This department 1s going to to }it that such swindlers pay the full | penalty of the law.” The campaign is being conducted tn secret so that all of the alleged swin- dlera may be rounded up and ar- | rested In a body before having time to |flee from the city. The Children’s Society has estab- lished a quarantino system to protect its young prisoners. All children ar- (Continued on S | eracy | WASHINGTO: July 31.—By a vote| lof thirty-five to seventeen the Senate \to-day declined to take up the immigra- tion Hteracy test on a motion by Sen- ator Poindexter of Washington. Demo- cratic Senators voted solidly against the proposal, which was injected into the |midst of debate on District of [Columbia Appropriation Bi, f low Fort Hancock, Tex. |mid day with @ TWO AMERICANS KILLED, ONE WOUNDED, BY MEXICANS WHO GROSS THE BORDER ‘Eighth Cavalry and Eighth Massachusetts Infantry In- tercept Villista Raiders. FIVE OF THEM KILLED, a Survivors of the Band Are Being Pursued on Mexican Soil by Our Troops. EL PASO, Tex., July 31.—Two troop- ers were killed and one wounded in a clash with Mexican bandits who had crossed the Rio Grance five mile be- rly to-day. There wore ten bandits in the party, five of whom were killed. The U. 8. troops are in pursuit of the survivors on Mexican soll, Private John Twoney, Troop F Eighth United States Cavalry, and Robert Woods, a United States Cus toms inspector, were killed. Sergt. Lewis Thompsun, Troop I Eighth Cavalry, was serious! wounded, More than 200 shots were fired dur ing the engagement, It is reported The Mexicans, it is belleved, crossed the Line to steal horses. They were dis- covered by American outposts and were attacked by the cavalry patrol, The Mexicans, mounted on good horses, attempted to flee, but were Intercopted and forced to fight, The detachment of the regular cav- alry was supported in the clash by a detail of C Company, Eighth Masa- achusetts Infantry. Company C of the Eighth Maesa- chusetts Infantry Regiment was re- crulted almost entirely from Cam- bridge. The command is headed | Capt. H. Dwight Cushing. Gen, Francisco Gonzales, command- ing the de facto Government troops in Northern Chihuahua, said to-day that while he had received no reports of to-day clash near Fort Hancock he had received despatches indicat- ing that a small band of cattle thieves were engaged by Mexican customs riders Gaturday night in the vicinity of San Ygnacio, on the Mexican side, a few miles south of Fort Hancock. His despatches indicated, he sald, that the Mexican authorities were proasing the outlaws, and he ex- pressed the belief that the bandits had fled across the river to escape the customs avthorities. Mexican reports also said that three of the bandits were captured in the fight with the oustoms authori- ties and that for several weeks the outlaws have been raiding ranches and mining properties just south of the border, Six hundred goats, a number of horses and mul na oth- er live stock which had been etolen were recovered, Gen, Gonsales declared the live stock would be returned to the own- ers and that the captured bandits were being brought to Juares. Bla SEL THERMOMETER UP TO 92, 4, Hour for Hour, Far Ahead of Yesterday's, Although yesterday was a hot, hu mounting thermom eter, to-day's record 19 far ahead of yesterday's hour for hour Yesterday's high mark was 80, To-day's high mark at 3 o'clock 92, with reasonable promise of even a higher register, Yen day's reports compared with to- are as follow: ay aterday, To-Day 6 8 80 TWO MEN ARRESTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER IN DYNAMITE BLAST PITTSBURGH'S CITIZENS LOOK LIKE MINSTRELS) Strike of White Wings Blackens the Faces of Those Who Walk the Streets. PITTSBURGH, July 81.—Eleven hundred striking street cleaners and teamaters, the city’s entire force, were to-day discharged, after going on strike, by Robert Swan, Director of Public Works, In @ statement to the public Director Bwan called for aa- sistance to prevent the spread of din. | ease because of Althy strects until the new force can be organized and put to work, ‘The strikers, who want an increase of 5 cents an hour, are meinbers of the American Federation of Labor. Tho streets are littered with a week's rubbish and filth, and almost shoesole deep in black smoke dust as @ result of the strike, The pedestrian ut every step stirs up a small cloud of dust, and sweat- ing humanity ts caked with {t on the face and hands. In some sections| the people looked more or less like a parade of blackface mmatrels. The public, backed by some of the newspapers, have begun clamor for a settlement of the strike if pos sible, aia (For Racing Results See Page 2.) swan THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, ‘Arcade Pulltes (World), isd Fee rr a money Ary, PARIS AND LONDON CLAIM BIG. GAINS: BERLIN DENES I oniestipaienta All Reports Agree That a Terrific Battle Is Raging on Somme Front. DEAD COVER THE FIELD. Germans Insist That the Allies Didn’t Gain a Foot of Ground. LONDON, July 31,.—Repulse of vc.y strong German attacks by the French north of the Somm», slight gains by the British and a twelve-mile ad- vance from Brody into ¢ Ly the Rusal:.ns are the outstanding foatures The text of the French official statement follows: “To the north of the Somme, toward the close of yesterday evening and in the course of the night, the Germans multiplied their counter-attacks against our positions in Hem Wood and on Monacu Farm, The fighting was particularly violent around Mon- acu Farm, where the enemy suc- ceeded for a moment tn gainin, foothold, but a brilliant offensive return of our troops regained poss seanion of the place. “At Hem Wood all the German assaults were repulsed by the French counter-attacks. At the same time the French batteries on the left bank of the Somme, enfiladed the German troops, in- filoting great loss, “On the left bank of the Meuse in the Verdun sector, a German attack on the northeast side of Hill 804 fatied, “On the right bank of the Meuse the French progressed slightly in the region southwest of Fleury.” Gains by tho British are announced in the following official statement: “Last night was spent in im- proving the positions gained yes- terday. There were no further developments in the situation, ‘As the result of local encoun- ters we advanced our poste at some points on the plateau north of Basentin-le-Petit. pS NO GROUND GAINED BY ALLIED ATTACKS, BERLIN REPORTS BERLIN, July 81 (via London).— Anglo-French troops in their attack on Eunday againat the German posi- tions in the region of the River Somme did not gain a foot of ground, according to the German Army Headquarters Staff in ite statement innued to-day. The text of the state- ment follows: “The British operations near Posieres and Longueval lasted into yesterday. They heralded a fresh great Anglo-French attack which followed In the morning along the whole front between Longueval and the Bomme, the enemy bringing into action at lonst six divisions, Between Po- xieres and Longueval the attack was kept down during the day by machine gun fire, and in the eve- ning only developed into local at- tacks, also made with very rivong forces. “The enemy was repulsed everywhere with heavy losses, and be has not gained # foot of ground, Where hand-to-hand combats developed they were de- cided in our favor, thanks to the energetic assault of Bavarian and (Continued oa Secoud Page.) NEW YORK RAI GO OUT TO-NIGHT, IS CLAIM LWAYS MEN U DEFIANCE TO STRIKERS Third Avenue Lines Practically Paralyzed, but Company Will Not Grant De mands, Says Vice President Maher of the Road. POLICE CLASH BLOCKING EAST SIDE CAR. of the reports to-¢:~ from the a William B. Fitsgerald, National Organiser for the Street Ratlway e -éo" from eur’. oe wentern battle fronts. Employees, announced this afternoon to a crowded ! the New York Railways Company, tem of the city, union within a few hours. As these two statements were company was just beginning to fight, tion, that it would not recognize the TRAINMEN TO CANVASS THE “STRIKE VOTE’’ HERE Views on Railway Strike by Men of Four Brotherhoods Will Be Known by Aug. 8. CLEVELAND, 0., July 31.—Prest- dent W, 8. Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers to-day an- nounced that the District Chairman of the four railway brotherhoods will meet in New York to-morrow to can~ rike vote.” ‘The referendum vote of the Brother- hood membership, it 1s predicted, will give officials power to “act” in .ase they are unable to reach an agree- ment with the railroad managers’ committee regarding an eight-hour day at ten-hour pay and time and a half for overtime. Over 360,000 em- ployees are affected President Stone said that he ex- pected the vote wo.!d be counted by Aug. § When it ts counted the Brotherhood’s committee will meet the railroad managers. TWO FEDERAL INQUIRIES INTO EXPLOSION BEGUN Department of Justice and Inter- state Commerce Commission Take Up Investigation. WASHINGTON. July 81.—Investi- gations of the great explosion in New York Harbor tuo learn if it was the jrenult of violation of Federal law | Were begun to-day by the Department of Justice and the Interstate Com- merece Commission. ‘The inquiries at frst will be infor- mw. and designed only to determine if either department has jurisdiction la the case. If {t develops that elther regulations of commerce or the neu- tral'ty lawa have been violated, the Government then will begin extended investigation into the facts leading up to the explosion, meeting at n ' Hall in Eighty-sixth Street and Third Avenue, that all of the employees of WITH MOB the surface branch of the Interbor+ ough-Metropolitan Company, had been organized and that a strike order will be Issued to-night for the purpose of tying up the entire surface sys This statement closely followed the assertion of Matthew J. Hig-. gins, General Organizer for the employees, that there was every pros- pect for bringing the men of the subway and tie elevated lines into the being made by the union leaders, ' Edwin A, Maher, Vice President and General Manager for the Third |Avenue lines, issued a straight defiance to the men, declsring that his that It would not arbitrate any ques- union under any circumstances and that there would be no readjustment of the pay schedules Fitsgerald'’s announcement of the widening of the atrike was received with enthusiasm. He sald: “I can announce to you that with- out fail the New York Railways men will go on strike. The men of the Now York Railways have been or- Ganised as a union and the call for @ atrike will be given to-night.” ‘The counter-statement from the company officials, as made by Vice- President Maher, follows: “We are just beginning to fight. There will be no arbitration, and the only terme upon which the men can come back to work ie that they will walk in and take out their care as they were under the old conditions.” “At the meeting with Borough President Mathewson we offered to put it up to the Board of Directors to determine just what matters would be subject to arbitration on the con- dition that the men would stop or- nising. They did not stop orgaa- {aing, and that offer doesn’t hold good any longer. There will be no arbitra- tion, as those were the last words of President Whitridge before he wens to Europe, “We are putting inte operation a more efficient service every hour, and are satisfied that in time we will be able to operate our railway without any difficulty, One thing that I want to make very clear is that there will be no change in the wage scale and ho recognition of the union, nor will we permit the organisation of the union among our men. We cannot afford to pay any more than we are paying, for you cannot take blood out of a atone.” Mr. Maher sald that the railway would not have been tied up had the city furnished uniformed policemen for the cars sooner, He declared that when the policemen did come they wero too late, for the reason that the men had already been intimidated by the atrikers to a point where they conkd no longer be held, As to the attitude of the men to- ward arbitration Organiser Fitager- ald sald: “We shall insist on the company recqgaising the union, and * ine is tat a Serie eta