The evening world. Newspaper, August 25, 1916, Page 1

AIL EOITION ec PRICE ONE CENT. f new} Wort Cie ("Circulation Rooks Open to All.” ) 1h: Peres Pontianing NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1916 in TWiorid, {Circulation Rooks Open ta All.” | 12 PAGES Te Days Weatherntain LANE EOITION PRICE ONE CENT BRITISH AGAIN SMASH SOMME TRENCHES rn re RAILROAD HEADS GIVE WILSON ULTIMATUM CAN'T ACCEPT 8-HOUR GAY WORKIN PICK WITHOUT RATE RAISE AND ARBITRATION, SAY RAILROADS 2¢ “Entirely Up in Air,’ Declares One of President's Advisers—“We're Sitting Tight and Won’t Compro- mise,’ Says Garretson — Roads Accused of Lobbying. ( cial From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-The Evening World learns on good authority that the sub-committee of three ruilroad presidents empowered to consult with President Wilson over the controversy with the railroad Brotherhoods will go to the White House this evening with something in the nature of an ultimatum. This proposition will embrace the stand of the railroads that they cannot accept the eight-hour day princiy rate increases to meet the increased cost of the eight-hour day be gi anteed and that the Administration commit itself to pass through Con gress a bill for compulsory arbitration Inasmuch as President Wilson has t self to the eight-hour Bailroads accept It pending investixa- | OIE FROM PARALYSIS tion as to the additional cost, th position of the ra feats te make tonville, and Mt, Holyoke Junior However, it is believed that President Is Vie in Y ke Wilson ts in position to advance a 5 Victim in Yonkers, compromise plan which the railroad) GLOVERSVILLB, presidents will be asked to co! Just what this plan might be has{a studeat of Wellesley Colleg pad presidents | \Wellesley Student Su situation serious ¥,, Aug. 26,— died at not been disclosed and cannot be Fultonville this morning of infantile | imagined in the absence of oficial in- paralysis She was tll only a few formation. hours. Miss Burr reached Pulton- ‘The negotiations have reached a Ville trom Wellesley a week ago, critical stage and call for somethin Mina Ella Hoyd Eddie, twonty-one; fn the way of definite action within | a junior at Mount Holyoke College, Is twenty-four hours. sd at the home of her father, Rion CLOSER TOGETHER THAN EVER do Bddie, in Yonkers of infantile ralysis, BEFORE. ybert Brown It was said the presidents were Marshall 8. Bre etanding more cl. ly together for ar- f : . » tt dy, ‘The parents of t ‘ co the Bitration than at any timo since they! nemberw of the Yonkers Be had assembled here, and that some Education, and because of the spread of those who at first wore for ac- of the disease they have been instru cepting President Wilson's plan } mental in putting into effect a atrin- been brought over to a majority | Set adarantine there <> which was described as standing “backs to the wall.” President Wilson had a two-hour conference just before noon with the Citeens of Bremen Rates 620,000 ten, son of FE eof Columbia Ur hare heads of the four big ratiroad brother-| fOr Skipper of the Deatachland, hoods, Messrs, Garretson, Lee, Carter BREMEN, Aug. 25.—Nearly 100,000 and Stone. marks (about $20,000) has been con tributed by a nur of this elty for pre: f r of wealthy men pt When the union ¢ came out of the White House Mr. stron told | S Koenig, of the Cor the reporters there was no change iN Deutschland, and hls ere the situation, Local papers had sux-| qb ested that a brand new propbsition Koents, Was to be put before them, the basis United sand return, of which was a compromise on eight a hours’ pay for eigh( hours’ work, DEAD GIRL UNIDENTIFIED. “No such thing,” said Mr. Garretson Mab cabs to The Evening World representative, ody of Young man Who Died “We are sitting Ught, Compromise o8 “h" Pla jalined. en an olght-hour day we practically, The body of a well droased young have in our hands? Never! “Tho situation, insofar as we are concerned, is absolutely unchanged. No complete, concrete proposition to. s which the railroads will agree has been tender us, Our position ts exactly the same as it was when we accepted the President's plan. We | brown oxen and wo Dave deviated from it in no way wl te bu Keskin shoce and a blue gern beg skirt Her cars had been pierced for whatsocver ferlien atham Square Station of the vated Road, remained as ubout twenty Inches tall, and She! had “No auch thing,” said Mr. Garret ee ee to The mini World represen ESTATE PAYS $179,445 TAX, ative, “We are sitting tight, Com ———— win of Lett 0,245,550, Surrogate Cohalan to-day signed an Tho situation, Insofar as we are order State transfer tax on concerned, is absolutely unchanged me ae vue me i Gand win, soul of the late Merpont Morgan, Bo Gpmplete, concrete proposition to | sig 145. Tho estate hus been appra the railroad will agree has | at $7.246,050 which —_—_—_ James J Goodwin was a member of the fi of J M & Cc u (Continued on Sccond Page) — died June 23, 1918, S® BP day we | damen promise on an eisht-b practically have in our hands? jever! organ * ¢ Miss Helen Burr, seventeen years old. | jas ra ot BIG PURSE FOR CAPT. KOENIG. No, 78 East One Hundred and {woman who died suddenly last night | TIES UP SUBWAY: THOUSANDS WALK -> Exeavator Chops Feed Cable and Stalls Lenox Avenue Trains at Rush Hour, NO TRAFFIC FOR HOURS. Protesting Passengers Grope Way to Exits When Assured Third Rail Is “Dead.” comy jthe L subway above Ninety-sixth Street | this morning and grope their way |along the tracks until thay reached the nearest exit, and other thousands who were compelled to walk long dia- sd to leave stalled trains on ‘tances to the elevated when the sub- ‘way service on that branch was crip- pled for more than four hours ple without assurances that freight are not going to think any more of| N " Jason Jacobson, a labor of No, 173 st One Hund and ‘Twenty-sec- ond Street, when they rm that he was responsible for the inconve- nience they suffered. Save for a shuttle service which was inaugure between One Hun- Jdred and Porty-ninth Street) and rig some time after the oc- We currence of the mishap, the line was Jout of commission from half past }8 until twenty minu cumbs at Fule in, 8 to 1, when regular schedule of trains was resumed Mason reached the xcavation In front of No, 81 East One Hundred snd Thirty-second Street, where he n working for several days, at 8.26 by his Ingersoll, At 8.27 he lit his pipe. At S28 he spat on his hands and his piekax, At 829 he swung from the hip and buried the point of his pick in one of the subway feed cables and at preetsely 8.40 every train ins that part of the Lenox Avenue subway between Ninety-third Street and West Farms came to an abrupt stop. esse reity, is seriously Ul with the/ OPERATOR IS BURNED AT HIS) heavily fired on by WORK IN POWERHOUSE, The blow grounded the wires and \caused a short cireult which put chat part of the underground system out | of commission at its busiest hour, The cable le: ds to the sub-station Thirty-second Street, a short dis- tance from, where the blow was \struck, Instantly the operators at the power house noted the mishap, and one of them, R. L. Pell of No, 114 Daly Avenue, in an effort to manipulate his apparatus so as to keop on the power Was badly burned Meanwhile the thousands of pas- k is being written by Capt | sengers in the stalled trains were do- ing his voyage to the! manding explanations from — the guards as to what had happened, Phe inability of the railroad off. clals to locate the cause of the trouble caused a delay of fifteen or twenty minutes before word could be sent Along the line to have the passengers transferred to the tracks with in- structions to make their way to the nearest subway stations, PASSENGERS PROTEST AT OR. DER TO WALK, This notice was received with shouts of protest from the passen- gers, many of whom announced that they were not going to take any chances of coming iM contact with the third rail On belng assured, however, by the subway attendants, and police who had been sent to the various stations that the current was shut off and that there was no dan- ger, men, women and children piled Jout’ of the cars and stumbied along in the semi-darkness, protesting every step of tne journey On reaching the subway stations |the p: ® presented with | transfers to the elevated and surface nox Avenue branch of the! AND WCUNDING THIRTY-SIK Pf ceaineiesaienitneeceaniaseineainint asin Three Men, Three Women and Two Children Slain in City’s Outskirts, | RAIDER ONE OF SIX. TAKE POISON ON : Acs r | Several Fires Started by Explo-| DRIVE IN PARK Oto ave eed ear} sions and Power Plant — | woes Is Damaged. Mrs. Horton Be: ch and Eleven- Agiee to Die Together. LONDON, Aug. 25.—One of the atx Zeppelins that raided England last night reached the outskirts of Lon- don and hurled down bombs, alightiy | damaging an electric power station. |Gen, French, commander of the Home | Forces, announced this afternoon, Three men, three women and two | i . ie es children were killed by the raidere,| Mother First—Denies She |tnirty-six other persons, inciuding — ASked Him to Do Deed. eleven women and five children, were omen - SHE IS HIS FIRS 1 lwoanaea! A policeman found a well dressed The Zeppellus were violently at- Woman and her eleven-year-old son tacked by antl-aireraft guns and by ! @pparent agony as they sat on the a British aviator, who dashed in at #488 by tho Kast Drivo in Central close range, despite the Zeppelins’ Park near Sixty-fifth Street this att. | fre and turned his machine gun loose *AON, Taken to Flower Hoxpital in) upon a dirigible. The Zeppelin excaped an automobile the woman sald she! Sev was Mrs. Horton Be |by mounting high tnto the clouds, ch, forty years ‘where the pursuing acroplane was Sd of No. 441 West Twenty-cignch | Junable to follow hor because of the, Street and that her son, Theodore, heavy mists, had agreed to take bichloride of mer. AIRSHIPS DRIVEN OFF IN AT-|cury tablets with her that they both TACKS ON COAST. might end a The oMeial statement foollows: niserablye existence.” ON LONDON, KILLING EIGHT __ PRINCE EITEL FRIEDERICH. WOMAN SHOOTS AND KILLS) NATIONAL GUARD OFFICER! al Witnesses Cause the Arrest H, Adams of Atlanta, Who Is Silent on the Tragedy. National Guard of ¢ f killed to-day in front of his tent State mobilization camp near Both are tn a critical condition | “Five or six enemy airships riided | | the east and southeast coasts of Ene. | Hefore becoming unconscious Mra.) land, Two or three raiders in} Reach told the police and doctors the eastern counties and dropped | that she hus been Tvin Jover thirty bombs without causing | joy any casualties or damage. “Another ri r attempted to proach a seaport town, but Jeatreratt gu of bichloride, the doctors found, and) | was driven off to the eastward, W his mother had tak twenty-one! dropping nineteen bombs In the sea} grains, Mrs, Beach was unable to without reaching its objective. talk cohi ¥ and the boy tried to “another airship which visited the |explain to the doctors, | southeast coast also, came under a] “No, no; don't give me the milk," \noavy fire from anti-aircraft defenses |he protested, as the nurse in t {and wes compelled to unioad her car-|emorgency ward tried to give him | fo of bombs in the sea without doing] 4o antidote for the polvon, " any damage to life or property my mother all the treatment you ean | “Another raider succeeded in reach- | first, Sho didn't make me take the ing the outakirts of London, where] tablets, She was feeling so bad, she explosive and incendiary bombs were | was suff dropped, and it is regretted that cas: ed to le ualties occurred among the civilian] tablets because 1 wanted to go with population as follows mamma.” men, three women, two chil Theodore would not take any medi |jured seriously, three men, four wo- | eine until assured his mother was re men, Injured slightly, four men,|celving all 4» ble care, He could [seven women, three children not explain a note and the words on apart from husband and tryine hard “to make both ends meet.” The dore had taken fourteen g alns | ve the world, I took the | “In addition, one soldier was serl-]a pamphlet which were ‘| WASHINGTON’S | SEVERAL FIRES STARTED, AND | from the Corinthian Lodge of Pree | ously and fourteen were slightly in-|clutched in bis mother's hand Jured by broken glass. The puinphict was a le KO notice MANY NARROW ESCAPES. | Masons, On it Mrs, Beach had writ. “As far as has been ascertained up ten: to the present, some forty bombs) “What a cruel world this ts! Noth | | were dropped, Most of these fell|ing but trouble, Have our bodtes jeither on small property or in the | cremat Fopen, but an electric power station | was slightly damaged and engin ing works were somewhat dama by fire. misery." “Several amail fires occurred, all of | On another piece of paper Mrs which were promptly extinguished by Beach had written a no’ sed the London Fire Brigade, several pore “To My Brother, Latayette Hl. Huer sons being rescued from positions of ‘stel, No. oss & One Hundred and danger by firemen, Thirty-elghth Street" Anoth was | “Fire was opened on this airship, addressed to a Mrs, Gulley of No. 44) which immediately altered its course, West Twenty-elghth Street, where It is possible that tho first airship Mrs. Bach had Hyved was followed by a second raider, but oad eee God bless the few who have been Kind to us and (iod forgive the woman who has caused us all this | this cannot for the present be verl- THE WORLD TRAVEL BE REAL, ov) Anade, Pullteer (World) Bu BiG Bark How, N.Y. | (Dicketa, wens ‘Chas! fled “Some of our airmen went up in fanip lin (Continued on Second Page.) Sidase ter Adams of Atlanta ted on the statements of several militia ofticer | mont SHERIFF ORDERED TO STOP MORAN-MORRIS FIGHT Direct Violation of Law, OKLAHOMA CF so, wo both Just wants | County Att Morris-Moran to the Attorney G of the fight would be Hirect Violation of State laws, Paper Taken from Safe Deposit Vault Under the Sanet J and cast to the four winds, | the Baltimore ( original letter jtorday by the Hou possesses the Which cover the and State for the|by the Hritisy. wuthe ments in the history of the past 300 years. IN BATTLE FOR MAUREPAS ADMITTED BY THE GERMANS, —~——<4¢ = -—______ Prince Eitel Friedrich, Commanding Prussian Guards and Bavarian Reserves, Reported to Have Taken Part in the Fighting. GERMAN COUNTER DRIVE REPULSED, SAYS PARIS BERLIN, Aug. 25.—The village of Macrepas has been captured by the French, it was officially admitted this atternoon, The War Office teported the repulse of French storming atiacks between Maurepas and the Somme. British attacks between Thiepval and the Foureaux Wood broke down with heavy British losses. North of Ovillers the Germans aban- aoned demolished trenches. ————— the official report from the War KISS HE DIDN'T GET GOSTLY TO O'BOYLE He is Fined $30 for Trying to Em-| repeated attacks by the French brace One Girl and for Talking | and British were delivered simul- Harshly to Others. | ‘Thiepvai to the Somme, Retween Joseph O'Boyle of No, 463 Sixty-| Thiepyal and High Wood these third Str Brooklyn, who iv in the} attacks broke down with san- transportation business ut No. 2! guinary loss, Portions of the y, Manhattan, was fined $80) most advanced trenches north of tes Avenue Polico Court to- Ovillers, whieh had been demol- day by Magistrate on 4) ished, were given up.” charge of attempting to kiss one) LONDON, Aug. young woman and using profane 189°) qounoement waa mad uuge toward two oth He dt nied the charge and introduced a | Office is as follows: 18th Inst. after a most marked | “Yesterday evening, as on the | increase in the cnemy’'s fire, oft- taneously on the whole front from afer hard fighting on the Somme ; - d ‘front the British lines had been ad witnesses his ue vie Ne. yp | Yanced several hundred yards in the tees lily at ama OF Nor © | region near Delville woods, RACE AGIEREN: se h0e | The German trenches captured i Y Boyle's automobile ‘ ‘3 Hoth wore In O'Boyle'a autome south of ‘Thiepval extend across the (turday night when he almost i three accusers. Follow. | @:ps¢ salient for a distance of some Vile | 700 yards. Still further progress has ‘been mado in this sector by the British, PARIS, Aug. %5.—French troops Inst night consolidated the postions won In yesterday afternoon's advance north and northeast of Maurepas, In Magistrate Nuumer accepted the| Which the village itself was captured, | and repulsed a violent German attack girly’ Version of the story, which was a Hit O'ltuyle tried to careas Mise Sloe |4mainat HUM 121, sonth of the village, in after his wife went into a nearby | Seventy prisoners were taken, male. tore | a total of 350 captured on th — - ing a total red on this sector since yesterday morning, AUTO KILLS BRIDE-TO-BE. | rhe Germans nave placed on the apne line against the French between Hardee and Clery the Pitth Divi+ sion of Bavarian reserves and the First Division of the Prussian on ran ¢ ing w sidewalk argument O'Boyle at- tempted to kiss Miss Fannie Sloman, of No, 463 Sixty-third Street, accord- ing to her testimony and that of her | companions, Miss Betty Senner, No. 48 strand Avenue, and Miss Rose) Coliner of No, 161 Jefferson Avenue, Wan to Two Week Mine Ka n The woman killed by a Mmousine motor ear on Tenth Avenue near For: | Uyefirst Street last night) was tdentl- | ard division is Oedes fied to-day as Mise Katherine Dunn, | in person by Prince Eitel thirty-three years old, of No. 605 Weat| Friedrich, the second son of the Ger- Forty-first Street, Anthony Starr, a| man Emperor, and took part in the walter, who declined to give hs ad-| fighting at Maurepas, Htue Sitte cukt the omelais that he | Guillemont, where the English have and Miss Dunn we to have been | made progress, !s being defended by Foe ee eee ud partments | the Kaiser Wilhelm IL, Regiment of when killed Wuerttemberg, AWiltiean ‘The complete occupation of Maure- Aa pas brings the French and the Eng- A. Quinn! lish advanced lines on the Somme iy-eveand | within two miles of Combles, the ade West Thirdeth Stret Station ona tech: | vance on which Is greatly aided by sical aharge of homleiae |this forward movement. Maurepaa formed one of the principal support. ing points between the Somme and the highway (rom Albert to Bapaume Nenate was accepted) and also was an important strategla p with silght dif | yoge by reason of its situation on a ferences of a minor character wich | plateau dominating the region toward promise to be arranged in conference, | fo) fe “4 ——————_—_—— BI LIN ries Mae emesis, Wig Reltet Fund in Germany, N.Y), Aug entire Amorican| BERLIN, Aug, 25.—(by wireless to mail on the & inavian=Am Sayville)—The amount raised by Gere Liner United States man municipalities for relief of fame fies of soldiers has Wall, save an Overscay News Agency | 2,000,000,000 marks. The Pederal announcen to-d: Unite urn over to th enmation BIN Pa: Aug 2h Workmen's Compensation Bill 1 by the lapbous Benkmas dou, Advi, | (Fer Racing Reeults ary “will t Btaies arrived at Copenhagen on Aus ' patities, at @ later date, about gust 1 from New York. marks.