The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1916, Page 2

ELLI Black Tom Island and fifty munitions ships and barges blown up || Place, of pafety. The same & reasucg rane © aT 4 2 cept tees $4 8} en with @ loss estimated at $20,000,000, were in progress a stray shell pases | ‘Three known dead, eloven missing and forty-one injured. through the kitehen of ee ELLIS ISLAND HOSPITAL WARD... Ellis Island hospital and other buildings wrecked by shrapnel, |) xehooners and reasonable compensa ® ti " FE Soe sly Bedloe’s Island bombarded and Manhattan skyscrapers riddled, j ton for thelr ect cael J LAMES AND EXPL S ISLAND HO Oo ARLEN PITAL %, : a =x een + ~ THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 381, ODING SHELLS PUT NEW YORK IN BA11LE ZON E WRECKED BY SHRAPNEL FROM BARGES; POLICE BROUGHT from FORT WA BEDLOE'S ISLAND GETS ITS PORTION $$ TOW Which Caused Sidewalks from Battery Place National Dock and Storage © “ROOKIE” POLICE ON DUTY NT DSWORTH TRAINING CAMP GUARDING DOWN N STORES ewer nN Facts About Munitions Blast Loss of Millions | ‘ompany warehouses and pliers at }) to Thirty-third Street carpeted with — ’ found Gi orge W. Blaey J ist of a mana of (1 * which also was biasing, # peril to his boat and his = ‘ chard nays he schooner toot Unguished the Meee Vick. ok CoA tLOtad aad WS- ithe Union officials announced thin | operated on the hint avenue tines |Capt. . Clifton Has Bugler broken lees: plate slase Windows broken fs far uptown Sone 7,000 ROOKIES (IES START a ofternoon their tention of proten! north of Sixtyesinth & ot P x, ‘eet. Tt in broken wind s hhattan alone put al 5 boa ote is aia x baat syd The. tee’ GF policies ° Fa Be eB ea Sound Alarm at First Damage in Brooklyn estimated at $250,000, ON EIGHT-DAY MARCI! Gttitude of the mon of those lines [claiming that in mame instances tho | day. rooklvn ar’ North River Explosion, City Hall in Jersey City badly damaged; St, Peter's Chureh and - ‘ } Fhe Third Avenue system te prac: | was most encouraging, Freckice’ Wer “ka cparaia, he ours. | pare ty Maen al work, entirely many other buildings partly wrecked by exploding shrapnel. Loss 1) Four Hours Required to Get En ttonlly at @ etandetill, Only 112 out] A member of the General Executive Thin was denied by the polloe f he Canal Street crosstown| Bedloc's Island, on which etands|] there, $126,000. tire Plattsburg Command of the wrual 600 cars are being op- | Board of the strikers made thie state ah ) out Of commission, Tho| the Statue of Liberty and the army Many persons hurt in Manhattan and Brooklyn by falling «! pissed it the East " » 4 no and Avenue post known as Fort Wood, was bom, completely tied Up. save one |Parded by shrapnel, bullets and alb h was sent ot Iv to-day |manner of missiles froin % o'clock on the Aveuue B line, Two officers | until nearly 9 o'clock A. M. Capt. A. ments “A committee of 160 of the employ- litan Street Rail- y waited upon the Under Way. PLATTSRURG, N At 8 o'clock this morn Goods in store windows exposed to looters and hurry ealls police in military training at Camp Wadsworth back to act ag Firemen fought flames on floating munitions barges amid rain of # wtatement made by Organiser attempts were being the subway and it t Harler organise of the column of 7,000 student sol both felt went with the one car, . Clitton, the Commandant, esti- |} shells. ‘ Bevated Cy ApS iked them to take | | \ On the abridge and West 4 diers marehed out of the permaner ae effort Tusilae, etanne a Pes ii, company eat ref Heinen the damage at more than ; df ou tons of raw sugar in warehouses destroyed, with camp ofjmilitary instruction for + (an4 overhead lines in addition to the and arrange to Twenty-nfth effort to wat Ralf of the cars out of|' ‘There are twenty-one buildings oc- || 1088 of $3,600,000. practice march and manoeuvres Wines new on strike. He sald that have them Join the atrike, Also a| and lrondway-Am to weheduie The ran Without Feed ae Ss teasteina wai teneeeene —— which will cover a period of eight rte aren £8 ABR OIG, Ym cormmetinne ot, the -treoeve. Sele captd damage. ‘The warehouse, on days. many eyswitnesses and obtained the names of others.» They also visited the Jersey City hospitals and obtained tho stories of injured persons. | the western side, which part of the island bore the brunt of the fusillade, practically was wrecked, It was corrugated iron structure on a wooden It required four hours for the bie: tire command to get under way, by the time the last of the rookie Acts of Gangsters Will Be unless the etrike leadere arranged include that system in the etrike they TWO ARE HELD AS who have been to pee us t they be ineluded in the § *s an ‘Mirtke represent 1,000 workers,” sald Higgins. “In addition to this hun- reds of individual requests havo been reaching the union officials tor @eneral organisatio: “During the last twenty-four hours endreds of employees from the Inter. borough and the Third Avenue elovat- @d lines have come in small groups te arrange for meetings with union officials, They have been followed by aples employed by the traction lines. ‘These groups have urged that we pro- ered with general organisation, In my judgment the organisation and complete unionising of the New York ines ts only a matter of @ few houra “I do not say that the calling of a gene men will be included in the union Fanks at once.” Natio: Organiser Willam B. ated at noon that 3,900 Of the 3,400 men employed by the Third Avenue had already joined the wpion and that he expected the re- mainder to come in before nightfall, Me also declared that representa- would organize and join the strike ‘on their own account.” The report that efforta were being made to draw tho surface lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com- pany into the strike this afternoon brought from the ofMclals ef tho Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company | the foWowing statement: “Ae far as we know there fs not any Glsnatiafaction among our men, We think that we have as loyal a body of men am any large enterprise in the country, We think that they have been given to understand that company pI improve end Their remuneration will be increased, “Our employees have had their Wages increased three times In the last four years, Under these condl- tion @ strike, with its terrible conse- quences, would seem to be impoasibla “We are confident that it would not originate in any general act of our own men. We have no knowledge that outaiders would attempt to stir up diasatiafaction among our workers, “Lf they sbould, we will atand by our men and protect them in the dis- charge of their duties.” Strike Will Be Felt on Lines In All At @ conference of union officials: te be Meld in the Hotel Continental late to-day it will be determined just how far the strike ip to go, the meet- lag being called to consider the re- Quests of delegations of employees from other companies who want their Unes unionised, Of the 434 cars normally operated by the Third Avenue system in Manhai- tan only twenty-two were in bervice to-day. Thousands of persons wilo de- pended upon these lines to ga to their places of employmen: were forced to walk long distances to the eerer 208 clevaies lines, they found packed to the suffvcation Point because of the increased tramic, ‘There Much discomfort as a re- ult of the crippling of the troley eervice, That the tie-up on the Thin’ Avenue lines in Manhattan and the Broux tas Feached a grave stage is shown by the police report that only 112 out of a lL Ss POSLAM Ph yoee own own akin tall tell Pecan how won Oia aety Ronee ly ives away Pimples, disposes of Rashes fammation. A splendid y to a small affected surface end nate, improved eu spain of in the morni whieh} Parts of the City Bormal total of 660 care are being Fun in both boroughs, Strikebreakers and starters in the West Farms barn to-day clashed over the orders that had been issued for using transfere, On account of the Gifference the unusual prospect was presented of a small strike within a big one, The strikebreakers threaten to quit thoir places if the differences are not adjusted, Several minor canes of disorder were reported during the morning, but on the whole the police had little to do tu either borough beyond guarding the few cars that left the barns, Police Commissioner Woods has the entire Manhattan strike gone under aute mobile and motorcycle patrol and in Various points under instruction to got Headquarters the moment trouble ap- Pears imminent. having been suspended, training camp at St this city in case of an emergency, ting work after the supper hour, A ected, vompany carry uniformed policemen fee eered lo this brio? time” cad show! seer 04 coe ip ony orepwienet and railroad inspectors on the fron platforms, | eb ré thelr conditions will | addition has policemen stationed at | im telephonic communication with Every station house | fourth Bt has @ big reserve force, all days off Arrangements have been made to trexeport the 400 men in the military on Island to The strike spread to Brooklyn dur- ing the night, the men employed on | thelr efforts upon this line, the Brooklyn and North River Rall. road, @ subsidiary of the Third Ave- nue, operating from Flatbush avenue to the Desbrosses Street Ferry, quit- the present time 263.84 miles of track~ Ago of the Third Avenue system are Kuch cara as were operated by the From all points came the Feport Uhat the public was (oe the Gfieen out of one bundred care District Attorney Swann to-day served notice upon the street rallway, orieials, the leaders of the employees" uniens and the ‘Third Avenue strikers that he would hold any persona who erejwoyed gunmen and gangsters in \etble for any unlawful acts committed in this county, The District Attorney sald that ho Aid not intend to hold any confor- ences with the officials of the Third Avenue line, the strikers or the union officials, “1am not going to hold auch a pnfercnee,” he sald. “There ts to bo’! no joint aoeting in regard to the aet- Uuinont of the strike, ‘That is not my business “1 shall, however, give notice to the officials of the Third Avenue line and to tho officials of the unions that I shall hold them personally responsible and responsible as individuals for any gangaters or thugs who may be em- yed on elther side. 1am golng to do this because it has been the custom in strikes of this Kid to employ gangsters, I am not prejudging any one, but merely tak- to woo that the law The District Attorney said that Bection 2 of the Penal law provides that any one who cures the commission of a crime is equally guilty with the person who actually commits it, and he added; ‘8 are employed for only ) and that purpose is un- They do only one kind of 1 ehall, therefore, hold their work. employers responsible for what they do in this county, Just as though the employers did the #ame thing them- selves." Policemen who were sent out with an Avenue B car at 1.40 A. M, to-day stopped @ violent demonstration at Rivington and Evsex Streets shortly after the car got under way and a rested Albert Kutllroft of Not South Second Street, Brooklyn, The r left the barn in charge of two ei |atrike-breakers, ‘Two policemen were taken along as passengers, At Rivington and Essex Streets a mob formed and stopped the car, | Kutiiroff jumped on the car and be- gan abusing the motorman. Th pressed closely to the car and r to permit it to proceed, The police. on the car, alded by other po- ne Exsox Market Court. employees who attempt- twenty cars from the nth Avenue and Pitty. Forty © ed to taki |barne at the Forty | the West Belt and the Tenth Charged to Their Employers the barns; no attempt was made to on the Twenty-eighth and the surface strike personally respon- | lds, abets or pros | topped the demonstration in j Short order and took ite leader to | ines, were forced to bring their vars run Tw No pl plete t an in the lower east side of the j1n normal times the Grand Street Lino runs twenty cars, the line run- ning over the Williamsburg Bridge, fourteen; the East Belt, fifteen; the Manhattan Bridge Line, forty. Only a few of the “Red Line” cars that serve the upper west side of the city were in operation and residents of | Broadway, West End Avenue, River- side and abutting streets who re accustom d to patronize these tines wei ipelled to use the Cee “Riverside Drive bu were unable to handle the (nereased patronage that came their way. Thousands of commuters from New Jersey were force! to walk from the ferries at West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street and West Forty-scond Street, only one car be- ing in operation on the former and two on the latter, Despite the fact uniformed policemen were on the platforms of these cars they carried few passongers, Westchester strikers to-day refused | to conaider & proposal for settling the differences between the Third Avenue Company and its employees. Tho peace offering, it 1s understood, was made to meetings held at Yonks White Plains, New Rochelle an: Mount Vernon, Members of the union said aftor the Yonkers eeasion, which waa held in Hibernian Hall, that Vice President Maher had offered to make settle. ment with the Westchester men if they agreed to stay out of Now York City and to cease organising efforts in the city proper, The untons refused to treat with the company on any basin that separated tho city unionists from their own cause, ae SARATOGA RESULTS, three-year-olds a and upw with add a wbx furl ALL (Ke 11 to} to AL to 'S, first) Frank, “6 to dand 8 tol, V3 (J, MeTaggart), a} $3 L s to 1 and 4 to |, third, Time. 1, 1.12 3-5. True As 8 Pustmaster, Julia le, Longfellow Amana, My Donnie, ig Todo, Blanchetta, Dr, ‘Gremor and Gnat ‘also ran. Sevieeaiiinindiioss SAnhTORS ENTRIES Aaa a ts ¥ na at Seta ie mei brick buildings, the exterior w sioned officers and enlisted men a looked as if a hurricane had swept through the: ame applied to the Administration Butlding, |less station and the hospital, j buildings were all brick, and this, cording to Capt. Clifton, ‘was the only thing probably which prevented them from being totally wrecked, ———_——— PARIS AND LONDON frame. The six houses on Officers pret the 1, The barracks of the non-commi CLAIM BIG GAINS; BERLIN DENIS TI ipiiihinas tone Sie trom First Page.) Saxon reserves and brave Sohles- wig-Holsteiners, “Twelve officers, 769 nien and 18 machine guns were captured. “South of the Somme there were artillery battlos, “In the region of Prunay, in the Champagne, a weak French at- tack broke down under our fire, “Bast of the Meuse the artillery fire wae frequently increased to violence. Southwest of Aaimumont work there were small hand-grenade battles. Conflans was a bardment of Pont ‘A French aeroplane squadron #ent against Muehlheim and Ba- den was stopped near Neuenhurg by our Fokkers and to flight, In the pursuit the leading enemy aeroplane was brought down northwest of Mucthausen, t, Hohendorf put his elev- enth enemy machine out of action north of Rapaume, Lieut, Wint- gent brought down his twelfth wire- | store in three was damaged nearly | RESPONSIBLE FOR BiG but inside much furniture was wrecked, plaster on the walls and ceilings was torn down and city, only one of one hundred and two nearly every pane of glass was v operating ordinarily from tho broken, “Most of the chimneys were and Street barns being in service. | toppled o (Continued on Sixth Page.) lyn, directly across the bay. from the Great blast, auffered even more, One the whole length of Fulton Btreet. The loss by broken glass in the met- tapes distyct ts estimated as over $250,000, a circumstances saved the city | trom the possibility of a great loot through cracked windows, The po- lee force of the city had been held in emergency readiness because of the street car strike, and 350 police- men, under military Instruction at Ford Wadsworth, were ready to be raanes to Manhattan and the Bronx ecause of the same strike uncasi- ness, These men on duty later in thelr olive drab shirts and breeches and sings caused reports through the lower end of the city that the city had been put under martial law by the regular army. ‘The firet efforts of the authorities and volunteer investigators was di- reoted to learning whether there was any possibility that tne explosion was the regult of a plot against the allies and especially against Russia, to whom much of the material destroyed was conajgned. Not the slightest cir- oumstance was found to bear out any euch suspicion, ‘The warrants tasued charged the defendants with causing the death of pt. Cornelius Leyden of the Lehigh Valley Pol ‘by criminal and gross negligence. Leyden was geen last near the warehouse on the pier a few moments before the first of the two great explosions. His body has not been recovered. The theory of the authorities is that be was buried MUNITIONS EXPLOSION P. M. to-day jn the burning ware- house of th rorage Com- ck Tom: and it and soon the flames diminished, If information that came to James Norton, Deputy Commisstoner of Public Safety, is correct the explosion was due to a barge captain's desire to save a $25 towing one I have it on good authority,” sald Mr. Norton in his office in Jerse: There was a slight explosion at 12.30 | Wrst of| Training Regiment, were engaginit Four more linos of hose were | the imaginary enemy in. the fret ad | skirmish of the war game which te ched in, making ten lines in all, | #Kirmiah OF ne ing the hike. The first camp will be pitched te- night on the Little Ausible Sayer. i City, “that barge No. 24, in whic! the fire atarted, wan loaded at the plers of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, a mile above the pler where she was when the fatal fire began. The captain did not want to pay $25 which it would have cost him to be towed to his destination down the bay, so he had had his barge taken down to the Lehigh Valley pier to wait for a full tow golng down the bay. We hope to get him and get proof of what he did. —~— TUGBOAT MAN WHO SAVED TWO SCHOONERS NOW ASKS SALVAGE What ts probably the first legal pro- ceeding to result from the big explo- sion yesterday morning was begun in the United States District Court’ in Brooklyn to-day when Foley and Mar- tin, attorneys, No, 64 Wall Street, be- gan @ libel action in behalf of the Goodwin-Gallagher Sand and Gravel Corporation for salvaging two schoon- ers, the George W. Elzey Jr. and the TiJovea, The Goodwin-Gallagher con- cern owns the tug C. Gallagher, which towed the two schooners out of the fire zone, Capt. Frederick Bouchard, according to the papers tn the case, was in charge of the tua, which was lying at the explosion took place, Investigat the Long Dogk in the Erle Basin when | ~ were off the camp grounds ant marching to the south the advancy uard, consisting of the Sevent?: about eight miles south of this HE Pennsylvania @ta- tion-Riverside Drive service which has heretofore run via 57th Street has been re-routed via Cathedral Parkway (110th Street) and is known as service No. 4 The Washington Square Riverside Drive service (No, 5) continues via 57th as heretofore. This line via the Cathedral Park» way route of the Fifth enue Bus iv aS Ka ‘ons aeroplane east of Peronne, A Frenoh biplane was brought down Mousson and an- destroyed south of ‘Thi- Sument by anti-aircraft guns," ———————— under the wreckage of warehouses ‘and cars or blown into the river. WARRANTS CHARGE CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, Johnson and Davidson. it is charged, were criminally negligent in permit- EY SUGAR OUTS—A. collection did Farlews ef ve ck to the burns, Th t Pteqplechase: for RY? ‘Special for Monday, July Slat nat they fouad ii strest crowds too | jie end ti _ titel ee Manan | i" Pe ‘ aff, |ting the captain of @ tug tn charge |]) Ser eT ig nL ORBOMB——A hostile to mike the passage safe, | eo. Lon a; | Non ak 4 t # of cne of Johnson's barges to tie up congress of allky finished, exquisitely |The men were then sent out on the |} redale, 140, Han A 1 — 4 |two the pier with a cargo of dangerous le cushlonsehane ees |}ifty-ninth Street crosstown line cya oe 2 hyle ie’ ff it ta + Us kman’s nesl it all ie Th ean explosives, Dic! ‘. gence. né street railway officials centred + Iie ie i ue gs ise BET Thiers lian te tha fact that be iving up a = rote the, other crosatown attem} a ° Lee any Sine rat il i a } i; permitted box cars containing 2,000 ARGUAY STREET ‘he men who rought the cars | Kid ads cases of high explosives to be plac’ |] 000,50" 6.80 p.m. ie! pm. eerie “en gin’ The | ae at ee Tar Rigs ting te tot: ut ug «| tho railroad siding at the plier in|} go GORTLANOT 8TR er were forced to abandon the early en Sra he 8 — | such @ position as to be likely to catch : {Mins to protect themaolves ards Mur, Ri 8% log = ¥ | fre and explode. The police report showing how tho ES Vor threes raft upwant: So 88% — | ‘The decision to cause the arrest of varloun lines of the company “have “ayes ; i FH age oe belt ype aa ernegr oon crippled, followa: On the Quo | dee nei these was Tene Asy #3 Hundred and Twenty-Afth | Street | os . sha Ncadd aa “ior 2 ee y + Qlence of Jersey City officials in the eet awe nay cros#town Hnes only three out ali , Beatiaes i ¢ of Frank Hague, Commissioner - A hormal sixty ears were. tn poration: ie ea Saas cy ki i Ry |crpeaus banc ts Cy Male toe Mena RCA SW RO" ton the Fifty-third and ‘Tenth Avenue | Pyrat tmp.) nu Bot, 108 MOM Ty 1 i line, the West Side Belt Lino, or 9 | age ey 8 ise, Ver pounds i fy hd t t lowing a viatt by all to the ene of || 11 EAST 420 STREET, oN wee, 1 deny the explosion, where they questioned Offering for Monday and ‘Tuesday, July 31st and Aug. 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