The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1916, Page 1

ITS HOLD UP PAY CLERKS; GET $45,000 _ ALL AL { EDITION EDITION (cir ation Rooks Open to All =— = PRICE ONE CENT. CeO to ee New Wen NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1916. 12 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. weatnue Cioudy, uneettiod ae =z HEDLEY REJECTS STRIKERS’ DEMANDS; — — TIE-UP SLATED FOR EARLY *0-MORROW © BERLIN CLAIMS RECAPTURE 3AUO BOTS, BLAMEFORSTRNE. “i. ARAUID OF MEN PLEDGE LOYAL . OF ENTE TOWN OF FLEURY Simons aves ounualfl=) NQ STRIKE AT ALL. SAYS SHONTS et — 2 “GREEN CAR” HANDS! RailHeadRefuses to Meet Employees’ Committee as Members of Union MARCH 0 ASSURE cll fe a M AYOR AND SHONTS ers—Men in Queens Is Ready. GRAND STREET CAR STONED; Committee of 120 Says Over POLICE CLUB THE RIOTERS 94 Per Cent. of Men Will mira me Stand by Company. Vice Vresident Hedley of the New York Railways Company | ~ 3 practically rejected the demands of the union when he sent a letter Factory—Pursuit Taken Avenue President Caused / INDESPERATEVERDUNBATLE Up by 100 Detectives. | the Trouble. . | Paris Admits Loss of Part of | Miremdicaii | cae This Village, Which French |OCCURS IN BROAD DAY. PRO MISED TO ARBITRATE Took Yesterday. “a SINKS A SUBMARINE": of the Robbers Injured by And | hen l eft for Europe, DEAD COVER THE FIELD. Shot—The Three Men | Leaving His Subordinates Wore Masks. | Without Authority to Act. Charges, Counter-Charges, Ar- bast tillery Duels and Hand-to- | DETROUT, Aug. 4—Three masked At the hearing thix afternoon he- Hand Fighting. bandits, carrying rifles and equipped fre the Public Service Commiasior gnting. with an automobile, held up pay clerks !8t0 the circumstances leading up t¢ Capt. Thomson of the Strath- entering the plant of the Burroughs | the Present traMe situation Chatrman ness Had a Six-Inch Gun (Adding Machine Company here at 2, Sttus of the commission auld: | matties as violont as any w have taken piace in tho 146 days “L think that from the testimony One hundred and twenty conductors Junt before the 8 o'clock time limit expired, saying he would not t Verdun are proceed- y 24 o'clock this afternoon and after shoot- ; ° : n ’ et Jalan) edhate neil Worked by British Men. Ing one of the clerks escaped with “veloped We have arrived at a point and motorme is of the New York City moet a commitics as representatives of the unten, i . where this Commission is justified in allways, styling themselves @ i Meation tremendous artillery en-| BALTIMORE, Aug. 4.—Capt. Quvid | PES Salt fo have contained $45,000, 0 uel diy ‘aussie cunt [mittee of Representation trom the Violence began in Manhattan as the time for the strine vote eounters, desperate charges, hand-to- ‘Thomson, ma) of the British mer- | mployees of the plant gave chase Ld’ HeBE mnaathoe Py ‘ Bmployees,” went to the offices of the which will tle up all surface cars at 1 A. M. to-morrow approached, |company at No. 165 Broadway at noon liosday and eeked to) a0p MRSREOGe! A car on Grand Street was stoned by strikers and sympathizers, and Mr, Hedley, Most of them were Police reserves clubbed the rioters and arrested several strikers. os stripes on their At the Broadway termiuus of the subway there was a free-for-all © than ten were Under) fight between owners of big buses and jitneys. @nother automobile and a running Bard strugsies, capture of positions, chant steamship Sti. tess, which ‘enly t them again, and heavy | » y EF g _| Sent ented down Seoond Avenue, ‘aly to tos0 Eni arrived here to-day from Med tera et ean ae ee etak rencreag |FHge of the ‘Third Avenue Company fleas of life; but there is sharp con-| pean ports, told of an engagement | vas | in 1918 reached an agreement with th flict as to the actual results, which he declared his vessel had with | YoUnded me Yonk a dw | Paris reports tho capture last night Word of the hold up was flashed to ie FORKOre And Werlrheater | "lt appears that President Whit-) | men with se arms, Not m thirty-five years ct men ¢ © and not a a German submarine on July 15, in lines that all differences which might | 4 y ro re se! Workhouse fo mol id the vues f 4s rm, Bae St) sis cn teetere tian ean care police headquarters, and half a hun-| ties should be arbitrated. ‘There is | few were.nie who once drove horse Six Bronx strikers wei nt to the Workhouse for six months erdun, but admits tha © Germans 4 : a aaa, eave ‘he by \ e | cars on Broadway after pleading guilty to soaping street car rails, I uintercattucks regained a| TWO kupners from the British navy |dred detectives were rushed to the! pears to be no dispute that the men When Mr. Shonta, followea by Me, Li y P Hadley, enteted the direoipre’ re In preparation for the strike 4,000 strike breakers have bees in which they were sasembled the! recruited, men set up a cheering ead hand At unlon headquarters, it was sald to-day: “We have signed Jelapping, shouting, “'Ray fer Mr. . up 95 per cent, of the motormen and conductors of the New York |Shonts; "Ray for Mr. Hedl A big red headed conductor from City Railways, Not fifty car crews will remain im the barns nue division, in- |the Lexington Av ey too joined in the par len the Yonkers and Westchester lines | re ready to arbitrate but were in charge of @ #tx-pound gun | vicinity mounted on the afterdeck of the | Strathness for defense purposes. | “The Strathness was struck several | ‘thold in the town, and claims the ing is still going on. According to the Berlin version the tire village was recaptured this oa ing in the entire Verdun region ts of bit once by a torpedo but no great General Manager Maher that Presi- great violence. It says that at one damage war done, and the freighter SHOT DOWN SAYS BERLIN dent Whitridge forgot this agreement time the French troops penctrated | escaped wi several dented plates, ’ A resolution of the board of directors suit in automobtles not only w | asked the opportunity to arbitrate the after the strike order.” troduced by fifteen or twenty vole the Thiaumont work, but were forced | Portions of her superstructure were | i . lon June 26 placed power exclusively jat once as “Rusty Livingston,” wae At the office of the New York City Raflways it was sald toe out by @ Cexperate counter drive, | demolished Lieut. Mulzer Puts Ninth Machine) in the hands of Mr. Whitridge to deal lhustled to the front esman. | i pes 7 a Berlin does no mention this incident,| “The submarine attacked us in the ‘Out of Action tn Aerial with the men, Mr. Whitridge having |He was not fluent and choked two days “A representative committee of 120 of our employees has but claims the »:tuation in Fleury and | Mediterranean, near Algiers. The : ‘ kone to Europe July 15, when the men | or three times in pis first sentences, | called here and presented a list showing that they have con- Wielaity is now the same as befors| Strathneas was shaken by the impac Battle. came later to deal with Mr. Maher but took heart frm shouts from the sulted 2,568 of our m nd conductors and that £428 have the French attack. of @ shot striking her amidship, n BERLIN, Aug. 4.—The following re-|he found himself not able to deal committee of “Go to it, Rusty; you're signed pledges to sta ‘ — . the water line, It was the first in-| port on the work of the aviation see-| with the situation. | jall right!" and “Don't get ratt a pledge, and 586 were not seen by co POSITIONS TAKEN, timation we had of the under-water| tion was give out to-day by the War| “It was this that precipitated, if it] Rusty; don't try to make a speech; 94.33 per cent. of our men _ THEN LOST, IN BIG craft. In an instant our two gunners | Offi | did not cause, the strike on the Yon- | just tell ‘em about it." BATTLE AT VERDUN. had their piece trained on the sub-| “Lieut, MMdger put his ninth enemy jKers and Westchester lines, Then ai. Ri — ~.| “I don't know much about making © Two-thirds of the py of Ma *| marine and began firing. I ordored machine ont wf action in an aerial bat-| camo the efforta to organize the men |speech," said Rusty, twisting his cap the reserves were put on a “war” footing to-day, Aug. 4 (via London). | Ul speed ahead, but the submarine | tle near Lens, and Lieut, Frank! his on the Third Avenue system, oores | U,$, PLEA FOR CASEMENT \ both hands, “I'm only a conductor, B. RT. officiain, made publie letters signed by 2,100 subway mr BSE.4 <8 Lenion kept up with us, firing rapidly sixth enemy machine near Braumetz! accelerated by the strike giving tha ‘ins Liat we come here, roprescating. a Wo] gud elevated employees proclaiming faith in the company. Presl- The village of Fleury, north of Ver-| “arier mbout an hour's run a shell| on Wednesda | Yonkers and Westehester men oppor- | WAS NOT DeiVERED an show you by this pap “4 dent Willams prepared for trouble, but sald hls mem would ree ua, was regained by the Germans] from our six-pounder struck the sub-| “One enqny biplane was brought) tunity to organize the Third Avenue | per cont, of the platform mien (con. wala leva this morning, it was officially an-| marine near the conning tower, An] down by our aviators yesterday near! system. eee _ _|duetors and motormen) of this com- if , 5 gdunced to-day by the German army | &xplosion followed, and with her gun] Peronne and two machines wore There ia no question that the strike |5eNate Resolution for Clemency T00} pany." Here the spokesman handed Chairman Straus of he Public Service Commission this after> still on deck and the hatch open, the} brought down on Aug, 1 southwest of/ 6) the Yonkers and Westchester Late—Offices Were a memorandum to Mr, Shonts, "We noon declared that the strike In Yonkers and the situation tm headquarters. submarine dived suddenly. That was| Arras and near Lihons respectively. | roads and Third Avenue lines and the Closed come here to tell you how we feel New York is due to the attitude of Presidemt Whitridge of the The situation at Fleury and in it#) che last we saw of her. “Our anti-aircraft guns brought) threatened strike on other lincs in chica about a number of things ‘Third Avenue system, vieinity, the statement adds, now is _——- sane aes Bere. Aeron BP BEN this city is due to the attitude and| WASHIN , Aur ‘ Te Pn-| “Kirst, we have given no authority —_—— the same as it was before te French eries-au-Lous, southwest of Arrass| action of President F, W. Whitridge | ate resolution ng for clemency | to any one to present demands to the = ‘ Sanam civila tit te GIRL OF 17 KNOCKS QUT Jana another near Namur, the latter] sete thind Avenue lines It nravee | for Roger Casement was not deliver i comneay for vat The last chance of settling the traction strike without a tie-up of all Northwest of Thiaumont, on the ROlOs CHOOS Psat Wes St-| that elthor he intentionally violated ie: the zal Authorities HAUL sf ond, we think the relations be-|the surface lines of the city vanished this afternoon when Vice-President Chapitre sector and in the mountain AN INSULTING MASHER tacked, Nar * material! tne agreement he made with his men|Casement had pal! the death penalty, | tween us and the company don't need! 6 aaewan itn sas AF ‘ = = forests of tho Vosges, eres ettarks dama _ . to arbi or that he was so negli. [it wa mrned here today, |. 44 | interference from any body for any and General Manager Hedley of Song Sots ig ie hag were repulsed with heavy Frenc’ iss Anke: ite Him Souarels went of his duties as to forget his ie =—message §=6was = dispatoned | settlement; nly with the request of the union leaders that he answer their demands by On the Somme front Anglo-French on the Jaw and He Takes Edward A. Maher, senior, Vice-|London that night PVE SPROTeONE. Mr. Hedley to work out a plan with |3 0'Clock, attacks north of Ovillers, southwest of the Count. T0 BR TISH BLACKLIST President and General Manager of| ve @o the fact that the British Gov-|\, by which the employees will have Ina letter from Hedley, replying to one from a committee of the office no! pe until = eet oe Guillemont, north of Monaou farm y 7 the Third Avenue, the Yonkers and|@mment offices were not op aU) | grievance committee which can al ; and near Barleux were repulsed. SRA REE BAe, AUG) 1 Mina Reser wae [the New Rochelle trolley tines, was|MOFaing, the menage WaM not deliv~ | \i\5 moot the heads of the company [employees reiterating the demands, received at union headquarters about 4 A : Winifred Drinkwater, seventeen years) [nclues ‘Three American Sailing ered until that time ; hea te, ee venue tage cere {olds daughter of John Drinkwater, Maser aie &| recalled to'the witness stand. a to adjust anything the men think! > o'clock, there was no reference to the company’s intentions as regards ttle northeast of Verdun last night | |. Sy ERS essels—Two Get an Admiralty Louis Fridiger, counsel for the rati- ought to be changed; : prominent in politics, of Jersey Ave- le s te: he letter aske e > me { 4 Gis Germans suffered enormous loss- be pened Bay poe 2 ahi Kon iO. Ki Rad amplesese had & newsaner! PETITIONS ARE SENT OUT “Fourth, we want to pledge our. |the demand Instead, the letter asked the men to meet Hedley at @a in repeated counter-attacks with) wren aii: Was:eccouted by a man. who. Son $ Pah advertisement in his hand and began| |aelvea to prevent #o far as we can}o'clock to-morrow afternoon, not as representatives of the union, but as massed formations, it was officially | ide an insultin LONDON, Aug: 4 he latest black=|t> talk about Chairman Strav dec- © with the service; eal sit » New York Railways Compan: iz remark to her, ; . 0 | 4 mployees of the New York Railways Company @nnounced this afternoon, Mise Drinkwater stopped a moment, list of neutral SUIpBIe /aias to-day! jaration yesterday that whichever fi JU TICE RY} we would like Mr Shonts hie! further refusal ito ecoatine ihe union) means (hati the WhiGw The fighting continued throughout! surveyed the stranger and then doliv.| PY TF n of the Admiral-| sido makes a change in the situation —= — | from this committee here tat the night and carly to-day with frst) ore a smashing blow on the fellow's| Y TPresy) tons of steamers’ wii) be to blame. He called attention| These Are Expected to Secure Des! mittee to go to the Mayor to/leaders will carry out their plan to call out the men on the 1,291 green one side and then the other advanc- v, knocking him sprawling to the| 4nd sailing vessels on the clain that) tg the statement of ‘Theodore P. nation for the Nomination a for protection for Us IM St@¥-] ine cars at 1 o'clock to-morrow morning, this decision being reached . et. He took the fulp’ unt, they are now or have been engaged in) ghonts, President of the Interbosoug . . | our jobs—protection for Ife, ‘a The text of the official statement A unneutral service, Company, that the railway empluyeos for Governor limb and body, as street car men and |eariier in the day, ‘ y 4 The i} 54 . 1 : " ¢ end » T 00 motormen and conductors oe" wen out this afternoon by the THERE'S A BIG S ’ The list contains, in addition to those | “intend to hold a meeting at 10 u'clock| BUFFALO, N. ¥., Aug. 4—Destg-|as clUzens t : The 600 motornien an \ Fresen War Department in which it | published previously, the names of the! tnig morning and declare a strike on|fafing petitions to place Judge Sa The Mayor, ~ bi naid Mr.[of the New York and Queens County, in Lyceum Hall, where the men are fe admitted that the Germans have , | following ships ying the American] the green-car Hnes.” uel Seabury in nomination for Goy-|Shonta, “will give you that protee- | Company are getting ready to quit thelr| to vote on the strike proposition to- Gueceeded in recapturing a portion of OFF THE IRIS uOAST flag: Clara Davis, Fannie Palmer and| phat statement. by Mr. Shonta is{@Pnor at the Democratic primaries! ton. The company will do all I} cars at midnight, sw that by to-mor-| night, the police will be on hand in the village of Flwury follows: ee Oakley C, Cr all sailing vessels. maade in ed felt Mr. Fridigor @x: sen out from Buffalo to-day by| can to protect you as far as the AW} row morning surf: car transporta-| large numbers in that vicinity, ri¢ “On the right bank of the River | QUE STOWN, Aug 4,—A shark] These Am x, Queens One of the interesting developments a) have ‘bee: 2 ihe Gack ; allows, But 1 want all of you to 6°] tion tn Manhattan, the B: n ships have been! oaimed, “We made a written request |the Seabury Non-partivan Committes, | allows: | Bul §°) tion in Manhattan, th Mouse the battie continued along | scare struck Queenstown to-day.|temoved from the Hacklist—steamer | yoon Mtr, Shonte yesterday as to the| Explaining this action Chairman] to the Mayor, Let him seo you and) and probably Richmond boroughs will of the situation to-day was the sen- the Thiaumont-Fleury front, which | not Joseph McCarthy reported | Seneca and sailing ship Edward W.] gemands of the men, to which we ex-|Willam = Burnet Wright — said; | see what sort of men you ure, 1) te ata standstill tencing to the Workhouse for six ‘aoe . yi iy bf there oj} adm ” ave er w ae omnfront with his outlook, bo . of the Germans attacked all last | sighting a 2%-foot man-eating shark MA the statutory blacklist of | ect AN answer at 8 o'clock this after |"Under the present law there Im no/ admit } LS hay 2 hy nana ie Con ran 1 a! ae iy hee monthe of six former employes of the Bight with great ferocity. Several | in the harbor barely 100 yards from] || hve lit Bidlblous Mek o noon, and then we shall report to a|W@¥ for nominating a car Hidate ex-laver, 4 oxy ong aie bay BNL} widen ‘to the contn Ny vet Gale nion Railway in the Bronx who had counter-attacl:s in large numbers | a boat. pneu Horm tho anipping Didck- | necting of the employees thie eve. (cert through designating petitions) no auch crowd as this No enorgles toward strengthening pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in upon our positions, near the Old fishermen said they believed aah DOVOY AOE OMOMY NEO AGE! placing his name before party voters | Mayor's of the other day a man! jines nat bids fair to be one! having “greased” rails of the company. Thiaumont work were repulse 1 school of sharks has been attr ted => - | “he statement by Mr. Shonta ts AB SHEE Bela ne a mantinitieepaee 4 UBL ARG ue He opr irae ‘i ithe: minal BILOrhY ‘i ae he a The most serious disorder fy: a. with heavy josses for our adve to the southwest coast of Ireland| (eo¢ Racing Resulte fee Page 2.) {absolutely untrue. Wo ‘old him in au gles between cay and labor in| was an attack on the strike Hon to fill vacancies cons’ f WHl-| not believe him then; now LT know | ¢ jam Burnet Wright Jr of buffalo, | pe was lying until to-night, The news-| John J. Hopper of New York City and | WAY qe Kak! sO sgaries, In the course of this fight- | by scores of bodies of victims of] iag our troops even occupied the German submarine operations, n] 4g WPbiaumont work, but they were | Victims from the Lusitania, sunk tory of the country, ‘The) crew of a car crossing throug writing that We shall not act upon his ans » reported ofa eo! ‘rancis F. Baker of Muffa 4 “ gements to protect life eompelled subsequently to evacu- » mit e aust. Therefore, he publishes this ‘ prop ‘ q in the Thi enue system's, — raised to the surface during recent — FATHER 30) Nv INE FoR - - Jat violen Ant tng a Dis service in beth Manhattan ah (Continued on Ninth Page.) heavy storms, they said, ! (Continued on Second Page.) Gives suranga lo Ward Ol! disease, —Aaart, (Continued on Second Page.) | demonstration at the (wo meetings Bronx to-day. Care were operate . 5 ‘ | , g 4 \¢ at