The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1916, Page 1

PRIOR ONE CENT. cower 18 A Books Open to All.’ | to All.” NEW Previioming YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 6, Day Wilson's Plan to Avert Railway faye The ("Circulation Books f reulation Rooke Open 1916, 14 PAGES = Strike WEATHER—Cieudy to-dey) cooler ALL ¢ EDITION to Al’ ] = PRICE ONE CENT. MAYOR AND STRAUS RUSH BACK TO PREVENT NEW CAR STRIKE 358,000 TEUTONS TAKEN NN GREAT RUSSIAN DRE _ OFFICIAL PETROGRAD CLAIM os Victory at Jablonitza Followed | , by New Successes on the Carpathian Line. ,{ CHECKED, SAYS BERLIN. ‘BITE OF A RATTLER KILLS TAXIDERMIST IN A CARNEGIE INSTITUTE Serum risa Pee From Bronx Zoo to Save Him Arrived Too Late to Be Used. (Special to The Evening World.) PITTSBURGH, Aug. 16.—Bitten on the right hand while showing a den of rattlesnakes to a class from the University Gustay A. Link, Carnegie Institute, died to-day, Rivers Report Success on the Dniester and in the Car- pathian Section. _—_—— PIETROGRAD, Aug. 16 (via Lon @on).—Between June 4, when the, Russian offensive was inaugurated, and Aug. 12 Gen. Brussiloff's forces eaptured more than 358,000 men, the ‘War Office announced to-day. Following is the text of to-day's Russian War Office report: “According to final reports re- ceived, the total captures by the troops of Gen. Brussiloff during the operations from June 4 to Aug. 12, in which period the for- tified lines of the Austro-Ge { atretching from the River Pripet to the Roumanian frontier were regarded as pets the deadly nature of their venom he shov no fear. Even when bitten yesterday he tried to conceal the fact. After the wound had been inflicted “ans taken, were as follows: Jhe continued with his class for an “The number of oMcers and hour, By that time the polson had men, including combatants and | made him very til, fever had set in non-combatants, taken prisoner | and he ended the exhibition. ) and cannon and machine-guns Students who became concerned | taken by the troops of Gen, Kale- over the sudden change forced the} ding were 2,384 officers and 107,- 225 men, 147 guns, 459 machine- guns and 146 bomb and mine- throwers; by Gen, Letchitaky, 2,- 139 officers, 100,578 men, 127 can- - non, 424 machine-guns, 44 bomb | Within a few minutes after tt was and mine throwers and 85 pow- | learned that Link was bitten Dr, ©, admission from him and immediately sucked the wound. Others wired to Bronx Zoo for serum, but It arrived | too Inte, physicians said, der carts; by n, Saknaroff, 1,- | H, Eigeman of the Carnegie Institute, 967 officers, 48 men, 76 guns, | Pittsburgh, called Dr, Raymond 1, 232 machine-guns, 119 bomb and | Ditmars, curator of the Bronx Zee, mine throwers and 128 powder | on the long distance ‘phone and carts; by Gen, Scherbatchoff, 1,267 [asked him to rush two tubes of a officers, 55,749 men, 56 guns, 211 | al esrum for snake bite, to that machine-guns, 29 bomb and mine The serum is made from the throwers and 129 powder carts, “Thus the total captures were 7,157 officers, 350,845 men, 485 elty, blood of an animal which has b rendered immune by many injections of reptile poison, @uns, 1,326 machine-guns, 339 The two tubes were handed to the mine and bomb throwers and 292 | conductor of a Pennsylvania train Powder carts, leaving here at 5.04 last night and “In addition there were taken a largo number of rifles, 30 versts of small guage ratlways, tele- Graphic materials and several de- ‘ pots of ammunition and engl- neering materials.” “On the River Ziota Lipa, in the Tegion south of Bresezany, our troops occupied at some places the western bank of the river, The enemy, having resumed his counter attacks, is checking our further advance. “In the region between the Zlota Lipa and the Dniester our troops are fighting their way forward, ‘The enemy here 1s also making & . desperate resistance. “On the River Bystritza we have | reached the Carnegie Institute at 3 o'clock this iforning. Although the treatment should be given not later than an hour after the bite, injec- tions were made at on But the serum arrived too late, |ONLY 879 OUTOF 190,000 Not Considered a Large Defection of Troops Under Dependent Relative Provision, SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug. 16.—It in of Solot. |W% announced at department head- cccupled the little town of Solot- | carers to-day that to date a total vina and the village of Griava, to | OMe Tet a Lena The southwest of Aolotyins, | release under the dependent relative "In tho regions of Delatyn and | TON Ml Vorokhta the enemy, owing to our | Omcers do consider this num- pressure, is returning to the went, | a en nrionutty lutue in View of the Our troops have captured @ series tact that approximately 100,000 State of heights to the west of Vorokhta | troops are engaged in border duty and Ardzemoy, In the direction of the Kirllbaba region, at Capul Mountain, attempts by the enemy to resume the offensive were trus- trated by our fire.” | The last part of the above report { ords progress beyond Jablonitza the Carpathians, where the Rus- tinued om Second Pr ¢@,) Record When the nile in Thy tine was | HOP | Deaths for Day Drop to 34] of Pittsburgh yesterday | taxidermist at the| Link had kept a box of snakes in| the institute for four years, and fre-! Commissioner Emerson made tt plain quently handled the reptiles, which he|that the se Although he knew | out at [in the GUARDSMEN RELEASED) | Wilson to-c ‘iver, | SCHOOLSTOPEN WILSON'S 8-HOUR DAY PLAN TO BE PRESENTED 10 600 ON SEPTEMBER 25. AT THE EARLIEST Tentative Date Fixed as Pa- ralysis Epidemic Gives Signs of Subsiding. WORST IS_ PAS and New Cases Go Down to 113. Health Commissioner Emerson and President Willcox of the Doard of E¢u- cation agreed this afternoon that the opening of the New York public | schools should be postponed at least until Sept. 26 ‘because of the infantile ‘paralysis epidemic, The postponement will not affect, training schools which admit only students over sixteen years of age, nor the training schools for teachers, which will open on Sept. 11. letter to President In a Willeox, | pt. not definite, 25 postponement that later wan saying be fixed the exact date could and an- | nounced not less than two weeks in advance of the opening. This means that if the epidemic continues to die its present rate the schools will be opened on the 25th, but that if Its severity increases there will be A postponement until at least Oct. 2 After receiving Commissioner Em: son's letter to-day, President Willcox sent a reply, in which he said: “Tam glad to note that the De- partment of Health will await fur- ther developments before making a definite recommendation, for there appears to be no suffcient reason for xing the exact date at this time Your suggestion of a public announce- ment two weeks In advance of the date finally dectded upon will fully meet tho needs of the schools from an administrative standpoint “T hardly need assure you that the Department of Education will cheer- fully adopt) whatever recommenda tions the Department of Health may decide to make, both as regards the fate of opening the achools and the precautions deemed advisable for avolding any danger of infection.” It was explained at the Commis- sioner’s office that the postponement also would affect the parochial and private schools throughout the city, DROP IN CASES GIVES HOPE EPIDEMIC IS SUBSIDING. decrease from yesterday of five in the number of deaths and of fifty new cases of infantile par- alysia caused physiclans who have been studying the situation in New York to express the bellef to-day that the epidemic is slowly but surely passing away A hirty-four deaths were reported to-day Thero were thirty-nine deaths yesterday, One hundred and thirteen now cases were recorded to-day by the Heaith Department, as against 163 yesterday Brooklyn, which has been the of the epidemic, showed the most en couraging drop tn new twenty-six being reported seat cases, only to-day, (Continued on Fourth Page.) ——>—___. Southerner Now Dircet WASHINGTON, Aug of ¥ President H 16 jay nominated BP. J Von | Engetken, Kast to be} Dircetor W. Woolle for the I Palatka, Fin eding Robert Director of Publicit campaign committee Pci ce (For Racing Results s (For entri to. Page 2.) RAILWAY UNION CHAIRMEN Commission Proposed to In- vestigate and Settle Other Demands, MEETING TO-MORROW. President to Have Heart-to- Heart Talk With Men at White House. | (Bpecial From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Presi- dent Wilson late to-day completed a definite plan for settlement of the threatened ratiroad strike which he will submit to-morrow to the Genera) Committee of 600 representatives of the employees and to the managers committee, The plan involves the acceptance of a basic elght-hour day, pay for overtime and an investigation | by a commission of other issues. Out of the controversy between the] 400,000 employees and the ratlroad managers there may come into being a Federal Commission t all railroads by their employees Just how this nis to be organized has not been determined, but investigate and settle demands made upon pmimisst |{t appears to be conceded by the repre. sentatives of the employees and the railroads that it should have extraor- dinary which would almost gmount to Government control of the railroad systems of the country insofar as relations ti and em- ployee are concerned While no officlal statement w {yom the White House on the this ts belleved to be dent Wilson's plan for present controversy and may arise in the future pects of a general railro remote tn the light veloped from the ¢ the President, the represent the unions and the represer the managements of the railroads, EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR FREIGHT powers. tween employer ued ct, f Prest settling the ra which Tho pros- ad strike are part of what has de- ynferences between utives of stives of WOMAN WHO SAYS DETECTIVE TRAPPED HER IN THE STREET. with regular] Mis White House, dent's requir WANTS HEART-TO-HEART TALK |!" but put this off WITH MEN, The President wants to have an old-fashioned heart -to- heart talk with the men before their own meet ing. He cancelled to-day's engage ment with the 1 hagers a their request Three statist experts for th (Continued on Fourth Pag: MRS. A. J, DREXEL TIES | UP HER HUSBAND'S YACHT TRAINMEN In prospect, as a result of the White] He Defaults in Payment of Allow- House conferences, 14 the adoption of ance Made by British Court an eight-hour day by the 1 t ays: of 8 abv eat ns with application to men opera ng freight trains, LONDON, Avy, 16.--'T marital The Bast Room of the White Hou Aitticulties of Mr, and) Mra thony will be the scene to-morrow of t J f y of Philadetp! most important econtere ever held | were \ fore th art with relation to unton labor, The] to-day, Apt n wis made on President will meet 600 railroad em | behalf of Mrs. Drexel for an injune ployees, who carry the power, vested [ten to rest husband from in them by 400,000 me f the | dealing wit ¥y property in th four great railway 1 »|eountry, t yonara, whi leclare a strike which would up | is unde er to the Gover every ste railroad in ntry nd from re 108n pa There in every confider n Ad on t ministration circles ter Phe court tan in once will not only o ' ra settlement of the curr: ee ioe tween the rail und t ‘ F ky ployees but will render tiny ‘ Pa Oaue Seah $e ‘i cept under conditions not now fore. | on ae seen, any future danger of a nation. | ites aes wide railroad strike PA as aaba President Wilson sald to-day he had H - decided to summon the 600 gene ; ; Ph chairmen to the White House to-mor tt . Arles row morning, He had a long tath H Mrs, Drexel was over the telephone w ne eas \r »» President of Orde THe WORLD HOVER Bone, Railway Conductors, before lie made Areata Huakat MC Hiking the ouncement, Garer had! ot ‘ es he via arranged for a private t f i Am the committee before golng to the gluta fur'ule: Pelesbous Hesamas Gods! "4" a a at the} MISSION WORKER SAYS DETECTIVE | SETTRAP FOR HER Friends Rally to Aid Found Guilty of Soli ing in Brooklyn. eacher FINGER PRINTS TAKEN. His Face Familiar, So She Re- turned His Greeting, Miss Sylvester Says. Influential friends of Maude Hoyt Sylvester, Bunday school teacher, mission worker and Daughter of tho American Revolution, who was found guitty yestorday in the Adams Btrect Police Court, Brooklyn, of solicitine | Rawin A. Waltword, a vice squad de- | tective, said to- day that they not | only would appeal from the convic- | tion, but would ask for an investi- gation of her arrest. Although never tn trouble before and bearing a good reputation, Miss! | Sylvester was found guilty because she admitted having fir with | Waltword, according to Magistrate | Folwell. The sentence and to go home Magistrate suspended permitted the woma with her seventy-eight year-old father, John FP. Sylvester, former deacon of the Rrooklyn Tab ernacle and at present a worker in the Good Will Industry at No, 269 State Street, Brooklyn, Misa Syl- vester ts thirty-five years old and has apent the greater part of her life in Brooklyn, To an Evening World re called this morning at the orter who Sylvester rtment, No Avenue, Brooklyn, Misy Sylvester told her | story, For a long time she refused | onen the door and talk to the er, fearing, ax she later ex plained, that “it might be some one Jirom the poliee who musht- try to her up.” m all alone during the day, and neo this awful trouble my family jax told me not to see any one, said through the slightly opened door It is 4 sad mistake and has brougit | the Intense suffering tomy aged father and myvelf, Lb was never Jrested or in trouble before in my life We have always been quiet people. "On Sunday night last, waen 1 was rrested by this young detective, 1 was on my way from the Plathu Avenue subway station to the Berge | Mision h Avenue and Her treet. 7 etective lifted his ta nd spoke ne, ng if le could hot walk along for @ block with me Tdid not answer him, for | was w iy face Was foniliar — recall no hat L probably saw him tn Long Island station at Atlantic Avenue yenings around & o'clock, 1 » there to walt for iny father a struck once by an auton bile and I have tried to be a protection to him. As the tive and T were walk a ne spoke of the movi ind ed me if E diked them, N end of the bl he asked re EU ne tot to my 1 told vt would not and grew y ih him to leave me arrested Ho at first ted that patrol wax but 1 told hin 1 was a? res} able young woman a fhe mu me to go in h Hid. On the way t hatin me t had ' IMak int (Continued on Second Page.) ‘ SHONTS AND HEDLEY SPLIT OVER RECOGNITION OF UNION AS CARMEN THREATEN TIE-UP |Men to Vote To-Night on Steps to Be Taken — Organizer Gives Threat of Walk-Out in Twenty- Four Hours. SURFACE LINES, SUBWAY AND ELEVATED INVOLVED A split in the Beard of Directors of the New York Railways Com- pany over the quesiion of recognition of the newly organized carmens’ union now threatens (o bring about a strike that may tie up every trans- portation line in the cit The union leaders, who yesterday sent an ultimatum demandi:g an immediate conference with President Shonts and who now say they will give the traction officials twenty-four hours | to to ho attempt to conceal their concern over | information which fas reached union headquarters from the offices of the company. come terms, made According to this Information, which the unfon men say 1s authorita- tive, President Shonts has been insisting that the company live up to the agreement signed | the presence of Mayor Mitchel and Chairman Straus of the Public Service Commission last week and under which the men re- turned to work. General Manager Hedley, the union men has been vigorously opposing this plan, and, backed by August Belmont and other directors, 18 for standing flr ainest recognition of the union, no matter what the conseque clors have been in session all day. military camp at Plattsbu FOR ALL TIME, SAYS BORAH| sss. sccsrtinc ttn union Chairman Straus, who left the ty a fow days ago, 1s also sald to be his way home He me Sentiment Demands It, ’redicts Cuba Will C the Union. SHINGTON, bun The whole controversy has nar rowed down now to a clean-cut fight on the question of unionism and the When the \ leaders say they will carry the Clark) Mattie for recognition the last for inde- | ait Aug. 16. minus the i to fixing a tim again in th Borah, B ation o noup The union men base thelr sole hope A peaceful settlement of the new ences that have arisen between # company and themselves on the y of Mayor Mitchel and Chair. han Straus to bring the company of- 4 realization of their duty y, Senator ared the t after it 1 pa index elingut jent were the union lead- hat the traction officials would ue to ignore their organiaation they went ahead openly with heir plang for handling another trike, MITCHEL REPORTED COMING | BACK FROM PLATTSBURG. Tho employees of the New York Rallvays Company will hold @ meet- to-night at Lyceum Hall, Kighty- . and Third Avenue, at gost which the national organizers and of the local unions who have to conduct negotiations ompany will make @ report. r nelusion of the meeting Ay nounced Louis Fridiger, the union's ei ney, “the men will vote on four ons: Whether they shall strike rat ntir that \ineriean p fore man vill « ito th inion, ~ FIRE IN CLOTHING PLANT. the Wo Noonday « of six Stroet mediately; whether they shall aus thorise thelr leaders to ask Mayor ohn Mitchel and Chairman Straus to try ney Ang $2 Arrange another conference with He eK any officials; whether they ndov hall authorize thelr leaders to try to 1 ’ igo such @ conference without en+ hundred " 1s the help of the eclty officials; q vtiteher they shall decide not to take ; 4 te} any action at present. " it | While Attorney Pridiger would not mun Au ; i 4, so Into details regarding what will bricst, to-day was found not be done at to-night’s meeting, * is si]