The evening world. Newspaper, September 2, 1916, Page 1

‘Wilson Notified [ BiG AMERICA ” Alien Element WEST END, LONG BRANCH, N. which was frequently plauded. of bim. Shadow Lawn. @he gun shone brightly. Senator Ollie James of Kentucky, Chairman of the Notification Com- mittee, in his address apprising the President of hia renomination made Ro effort to conceal his conviction | that the Wilson Administration is the; greatest Administration that ever was. In bis characteriatically flowery, t at the same time impressive, way | tor James reviewed President | ‘Wilson's record as an executive and, @ometimes, the President was forced to smile the vehemence and sin- geerity of the eloquent Kentuckian. Senator James viewed nothing with | @arm. He did vothing but point with | Pride. In bis peroration, he sald: | “When peace #hall epread her white | wings over a charred and bloody| World, in the quiet of the chamber of | the just historian, when the din and wear of politica: antagonism shall Wave ceascd, when tho prejudice and Beasion of partisanship shall bave Ged away, when principle shall actu- @te men and parties rather than ap- petite, when ambition shall no longer} jure men and parties to unjust ot- tack, the historian will accord to you ‘your administration a foremost) Krew in the Republic's life.” | DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS DONE MERELY ITS DUTY. The President, in accepting the gomination, said: “Boastipg is always an empty bus!- peas which pleases nobody but the Doaster, and 1 have no disposition to/ Doast of what the Democratic Party | has accomplished. It has merely dong, fte duty. It has merely fulfilled its explicit promises. “whe Republican Party was put out ef power because of failure, practical | failure and moral foilure; because tt | bad served special interests and not | the country at large; because under | the leadership of its preferred and es- tablished guides, of thos who atill make its choices, it had ‘ost touch with the thoughts and n¢ a of the Nation and was living In past ago ‘and under a fixed illusion, tye illusion of greatness.” Referring to the accomplishments of the Democratic Party during the administration, Mr, Wilson cited the following: SOME OF Trio ACHIEVEMENTS | OF THE ADMINISTRATION, | Revision of the tariff; creation of the Tariff Board; anti-trust | legislation; creation of the | Federal Trade Comm PRICE ONE CENT. NOTHIN Prosident Wilson partly read and partly spoke offhand his speech of acceptance, which becomes the keynote of the national campaign. Clrealation Ore ike ate Ven Sent SAYS WILSON, ACCEPTING RENOMINATION “I Neither Seek the Favor Nor Fear the Displeasure of That Small Which Puts Loy- alty to Any Foreign Power Before, Loyalty to the United States.” | By Samuel M. Williams. (@pecial Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) | J., Sept. 2—In front of the Gummet ‘White House, looking out over terraced lawns and wondrous gardens, the hill on One Hundred and Fifty-| thronged with thousands of visitors, Presigent Wilson this afternoon a0-/tnirg street between Walton and Ger- @epted forma! notification of bis renomination and made a notable address, ard Avenues. They finished the job| He stood on a small platform built out in front of the broad veranda, with his family behind him and leaders of the Democratic party in front Dark skies and a drizsling rato, which earlier in the day threatened ~they Sverage about twelve years to mar the ceremonies, had almost entirely disappeared by 1 o'clock, when ¢or their shelter, members of the Democratic National Committee and other guests reached | after entering it their laughter was When the gates to the lawn were thrown open at 2 o'clock stilled, for the roof and sides of the WAVY SEEKS BIDS FOR 36 HYDRO-AEROPLANES: To Be Completed in 69 Days and| to Have a Speed of 60 to 70 Miles an Hour, WASHINGTON, Sept 2.—Bids will be opened Tuesday at the Navy De-! partment for a fleet of thirty hydro- | aeroplanes for the Navy Aviation School at Pensacola, Fla. All must be delivered within sixty-nine days, | make a maximum speed of sixty to| seventy miles an hour, but with Iim- {ted endurance, as they are designed for school work only. Specifications for scouting and battle seaplanes are being prepared and bids will be advertised la ‘The performance of the giant sca- plane recently completed at Wash- ington Navy Yard, which has a carry-| ing capacity of 2,000 pounds dead} weight, I} to some extent determine | the charactoristics to be required in| the fighting and scouting aircraft, pe Estella Baas LIVE WIRE KILLS TWO WHILE CROWD WATCHES Passerby Tries to Save Lineman| Who Had Picked Up Coil and Both Fall Dead, SAG HARBOR, L. 1, Sept. 3— Richard Wells, a lineman employed v the Long Island Gas Corporation, az. | John Bloomburg! pedestrian, wer killed by a live electric light wire here to-day while a street crowd looked on, The wire broke about 5 o'clock this morning and lay sputtering on the ground until 9.15, at which time Wells arrived from Southampton to repair the break. He Is said to have tele- phoned to the power house at South- ampton to cut the current out of that wire, Presumably this was done and it is believed that the wire must have been crossed with @ similar one else- where, Wells started to coil up the wire when it seemed “dead,” but was hurled to the sidewalk, Blooming- burgh, who had been an interested onlooker, rushed to Wells and tried to free him from the coil, and the wire fell on both men, killing them. Dr, J. H. MeCort was called and pro nounced both dead, although an ef- fort was made later at the Fouthamp: ton Hoepited te pare them. TWO BOYS KILLED Books Open to All: AS ‘CAVE FALLS ANOTHER YING Tons of Earth Crush Out Lives of Youngsters at Play | in the Bronx. | PAL PROVES A_ HERO. Partly Buried Himself, He} Gives Alarm and Insists on Aid to Others First. For weeks past Pitsy Nesta, Joo! Messel, Raphael Nargi and ris broth-| er Nick, four boy pals who live in the| Bronx, have been working like little beavers digging a cave in the side of yesterday and looked forward to the times they were going to have in the cosy rendezvous. : When it started to rain just be- fore noon to-day the four youngsters i each—whooped with joy and made A few moments dugout caved in, the tons of earth) ‘ushing the life out of Patsy Nesta and Raphael Nargi, and giving Joe Mezzel a chance to show his courage despite the cuts and bruises he had sustained, The Mezzel boy, nearest the mouth of the cave when it collapsed, was buried to his neck, but he immedi- ately set up a cry for help. Edward Connelly, a park employee, answered the call, and with an old shovol atarted to dig Joe out. Don't mind me, mister,” the little fellow sobbed. "Get some help to dig out me pals. They're buried out of sight.” Connelly’s cries on receiving this in- formation brought others to the scene, among them Policeman Hollweg of the East One Hundred and Fifty- ninth Street station. He set bystand- ers to work and sent in a call for the ambulance, pulmotors and the re- serves. It didn't take long to dig Joe out, but he refused to be taken home until ho had learned the fate of his playmates. In @ very few moments a great crowd had gathered about the spo the police having all they couid do to keep back mothers who wanted to make sure their boys had not been in the oave, Firemen who had ro- sponded to the call, togethor with policemen and bystanders, soon lo- cated Nick Largl, little more than alive, He was rushed to Lebanon Hospital. The bodies of Nesta and the othe Nargi boy were found a few minutes later, Pulmotors were applied, but life was extinct, All through the try- ing ordeal Joe Mezzel stood at the entrance, trying between sobs to tell the police where the boys had been sitting. He was the last to leave the pot. —_—_—-—__—_ VILLA AND HIS MAIN BAND ON DASH FOR MUNITIONS ow Reported N&ar Northwestern Railway About 60 Miles West of Chihuahua City, CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mex. Sept. 2, —Gen Francisco Villa, with his main band, ja reported near the Mexico Northwestern Railway, “about sixty miles west of hey. It ts believed he is attempting to make his way to caches of ammunition in the Geleana Dis- trict. Gen, Trevino reports that he has executed three bandits caught rob- ing a ranch in the Lafuna Torreon District, jen. Laveaga to-day reported from tiago Papasquiado, Durango, that he @ small band of Villa jo the Aierra Del yea- two, 4 | ‘ | throughout Thessaly and Eptrus, said NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, G WILL BLOCK 8-HOUR BILL, SENATE LEADERS ASSURE WILSON © “WE ARE ALL AMERICANS FOR ATHENS UND ALES WL Anglo-French Force Lands at! Piraeus — German Liners Interned There Seized. CONSTANTINE VERY ILL. } Despatches Silent on Abdica-| tion—Leaders Clamor to Join Allies in War. —The revolution rapidly spreading LONDON, 6 in Greece 1s a Rome, wireless despatch to-day. Martial law has been proclaimed at Athens and Piraeus, the despatch said. The condition of King Constantine, who is ill, ia reported serious, The present residence of the King ‘s not given, The Foreign Office etill lacking official confirmation of the reports of his abdication. | Anglo-French troops are believed to | have been landed at Piraeus with the! intention of marching five miles/ northeast to Athens and garrisoning | the Greek capital, | No reports of an actual landing | has thus far been received, but two despatches from Athens to-day re-) ported the arrival of allied transports off Piraeus harbor, and London news- papers declared this undoubtedly meant that the allies had decided to put an end to pro-German intrigues at Athens. A despatch from Athens says that the allied warships seized four Ger- mon ners that were interned at Piraeus. After an audience lasting two hours! on Thursday with King Constantine} of Greece, which gave rive to persist- ent rumors, Premier Zaimis, accord- ing to a despatch filed at Athena yes- terday by the correspondent of the) Exchange Telegraph Company, said that Greece maintained her policy of friendly neutrality toward the En- tente powers while awaiting events. The beginning of an Italian offen- aive in Southern Albania, officially an- nounced at Rome, convinced military critics to-day that the allies’ grand offensive in the Balkans ts about to begin, The landing of troops at Pir- acus indicates the determination of the allies to eettle all problems in Greece quickly before marching north- ward gainst the Germans and Bul- garians. With Italy attacking in Albania, the allies are now exerting pressure on the central powers on six fronts. The Italian movement in Albania will force the retirement of the Bulgars from Northwestern Greece if It Is carried eastward successfully until it threatens the Bulgarian flank. The patience of the Greek leaders eager'to throw in their lot with the entente allies is said to have been exhausted, and they have revolted against the neutrality of their King| in the face of Bulgar advances tn Macedonia and other events. Formier Premier Venizelos of Greece, leader of the party which favore participation In the war with the entente allies, ie quoted in a de- spatoh to the Star from Athens as having said to friends that the ~ uulon Was becoming more and moro grave for Greece. Ventseloa | plamed those who had advance knowledge of Roumanta's intentions for not bringing about the Interven- | tion of Greece, at least eimultaneously with Rouma NEW HAVEN, Bept. 2.--John Q. Til- | gon, now at the border as Licutenant Colonel of the Socond Conectiout In- | fantry, was renominate tor Congre: eur Blatrict to-day, tour 4 Cas | FOUR GERMAN LINERS neTeRs | GREEK REVOLUTION SPREADS: ER MARTIAL LAW: ‘. GARRSON ITY PERTH AMBOY'S MAYOR TIES UP TROLLEY LINE: Has Wagons Placed on Tracks to Enforce Order Given Deffant Traction Company. Acting on the orders of Mayor Ferd Garretaon, Chief of Police Patrick J. Burke of Perth Amboy, N. J., to-day! ordered street carts and water wa, | Placed across the main tracks of th Perth Amboy trolley ‘stem, The, blocking of the tracks interrupted service between Newark and other northern New Jersey places with tho| } coast points, More than 5,000 passen. @ers along the line had to walk. | To-day's order is the aftermath of the refusal of the Public Service Cor- | poration, which operates the road, to switch its main line trolley cars to| side streets, The officials were warned and said they’ would not comply with the order of the Perth Amboy au- thoritles, So great was the crowd that collected when the road was blocked that the police reserves were called out. ener TWO SLEEPING MEN DIE WHEN TUGBOAT SINKS Members of Crew Only Ones Pier—Thieves May Be to Blame. | The tugboat Marie Olson, owned by the Kerr Towing Company, sank at the pier at the foot of Bedgwick St. Erie Basin, Brooklyn, from an unascertained cause early to-day. Charles Wenk and Nels Nelson, fire- men, were drowned in the engine room where they slept, Capt. John Wilson and two other members of the crew wore at their homes in| Brooklyn, | Thieves got aboard the boat Thurs. | day night and stole the chronometer, compass and some brass deck fittings. | Capt, Wilson suspects that tho thiev revisited the Marie Olson last night and that the visit had something to do with the sinking. The tug was raised at noon and the bodies of| Wenk and Nelson recovered, prt esi { ROBBED AND “PUT ON ICE.” | i Took His\ 1 Bartender Says Money, Then Lock: Brooklyn policemen are hunting to- day for Gustave Heller, who, tt ts ad leged, robbed John Katsc, a bartender | at No. 6801 Fourth Avenue, Bay Ridge, of $150 at the point of a revolver and then locked him tn 1 tcebox to pre- vent his giving an alarm, Heller was | employed about the saloon as a porter, Kaiser, who has been running the place in the absence of the proprietor, told the police ne was about to open the aa- loon this morning when Heller jumped from behind « stairway and, pressing @ revolver againat his body, cook the money from his pock " F locking him in| the eller ran away. Tho bar-| tender managed to batter his way out of the refrigerator and notified tho po- Hee, | HELD IN GREEK HARBOR ARE SEIZED BY ALLIES ATHENS, Sept. 2.—The allied war- ships have seized the German Levant liners Tinos, Anatolia, Seriphos and Boigalos, which were interned at Pi-| racu Gorman residents of Athens fled 1 from the city when news reached here that an allied fleet had appeared at|c! Piraeus, only flve miles from the cu ital, ‘The arrival of the warships caused 1916. | He was unpacking hie trunk in his of Renomination as Big Throng Che Applauds TO DAYS WEATHER—tow, Gooter, [*Cireutation Rooks Open to All.” | 10 PA MISS H, ALEXANDER, SOCIETY WHIP, TO W WINTHROP ALDRICH one | ! tN Wy ; 3 3 $ Miss HARRIET ALEXANDER HOTHDTODDOD Peo bee Mr. and Mra. Charles B. Alexander of No. 4 West Fifty-eighth Street announce the engagement of thelr daughter, Miss Harriet, and Winthrop W. Aldrich, son of the late United States Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of No, 721 Fitth Avenue and Providence, R. I. No date has been set for the wedding, Miss Alexander is a well known s0- clety whip, and has also taken part | in charity work for the American Am- | bulance Hospital, She in first vice president of the Junior League, and an active member of the Colony Club, | Aboard Vessel That Went Down at |She 1s the eldest of threo daughters, The family are still at their Tuxedo | Park house, | Mr. Aldrich 1s a Harvard graduate, class of 1907, and a member of the | Metropolitan, Knickerbocker, Unt- versity, Sleepy Hollow, Piping Rock and the Seawanbaka Corinthian Yacht Clubs. One of his sisters ts the wife of John D, Rockefeller jr, Senator Aldrich, who died in 1915, left an ea- tate of $5,000,000, —— PATERSON POLICE CHIEF A PRISONER IN HOME Pride in Tan Fades When He Finds Rockaway Beach Trip Puts | Him in Quarantine, | Chief of Police Bimson of Paterson, | N. J., ended a two weeks’ stay at Rockaway Beach yesterday and hur- rled home to give the natives a chance to admire his coat of tan, house at No. 145 Jersey Street, when! Chief Inspector Fitzpatrick of the Health Departinent rang the bell, “Hello! Fitz," said Chief Bimson, ‘See how brown Iam. I"—— “Just a minute, Chief,” interrupted Fitzpatrick. You'll be blue when you hear what I have to aay.” ‘ghoot!" ordered the police head, | “You disregarded our warning to| citizens to keep away from the New York beaches while the infantile paralysis epidemic vos on,” expiained the health inspector, “Now you'll have| to remain in quarantine for two| weeks.” “ALL right,” sighed Bimaon, “but tt'a| tough to be Chief of Police and locked up in your own house for two week: My tan will be all faded by that time. received in Amsterdam that Gen. Jos- toff, chief of the Bulgarian General | X amitted suicide of because delay in declaring w 4 a des great excitement in political circ ut the anilo Feouves ie ne reat crowds gathered on front at Riraeus, | Robert Fay, who excaped from the = GES PRICE ONE CENT. = + 2 — STRIKE MAY BE CALLED OFF EVEN BEFORE THE PRESIDENT SIGNS ‘RAILROAD WIEASURE Plans to Rush Bill to Wilson at the Summer White House To-Night Are Changed, and It Will Not Be- come a Law Until To-Morrow— Senate Debate Is Spirited. CONGRESS BEING HELD UP, DECLARE REPUBLICANS WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—Despite the Republican opposition to the Eight-Hour Bill in the Senate, Administration leaders this afternoon gave Positive assurance that there would be no railroad strike Monday. They lared the Senate certainly would pass the Adamson bill. Nothing can block it, they said, and so telegraphed President Wilson at Shadow Lawa before the debate in the Senate began. Final voting on the bill will begin at 6 o'clock, Consideration of the time necessary to enroll and engross the bill made it necessary to change plans for rushing it to the President at Shadow Lawn to-night. It would be impossible to get the bill to him before de | he leaves on the return trip to Washington, Consequently It {s now planned to have him affix his signature during the short stop be makes in Wash+ ington to-morrow, before leaving for Hodgenville, Ky. WHO BROKE QUT OF INL, 1S CAPTURED, thirteen remaining district Hrother- hood chairmen this afternoon. A. B Garretson, as chairman of the meet- Bomb Plotter Is Held Prisoner at Corinth, Miss—He Re- fuses to Make Statement. Ing, ruled that it 1s a law only when President Wilson has signed it. TO-NIGHT. Another meeting will be held toe night, however, after the bill passes, and it may be decided thon to send the cancellation orders to-night. Although Senate leaders practically agreed to pasa the measure adopted by the House there was spirited de- bate, The first amendment proposed to- day came from Senator Shafroth, Democrat. Ha proposed to fix Sen- ator Underwood's amendment em- powering the Interstate Commeree Commission to make wage achedules #0 that no employee would be com. pelled to work for the rate prescribed, CORINTH, Miss, Bept. 1,—Lieut. Federal penitentiary at Atlantic, Ga. a few days ago, was arrested here to- | day, The Lieutenant was convicted at New York as the leader In a bomb plot to blow up ships carrying war suppliee and munitionn to the allies, When identified here to-day he re- fused to make any statement. WHITMAN AND SEABURY TO FIGHT IN PRIMARIES, Legal Action to Void Governor's Independence League Petition Is Discontinued. KINGSTON, N. Y¥., Sept, 2.—Pro- ceedings to have the petition desig- | nating Gov, Whitman for the Inde- | pendence League nomination for Gov- | ernor declared null and vo'd because | of alleged forged signatures tn the petition were withdrawn before Su- preme Court Justice Hasbrouck to- day Both Gov, Whitman and former| Judge Samuel Seabury have agreed | to contend for that nomination in the Independence League primary elec- tlon. by moving to chunge Senator Under ‘wood's amendment no that it would he specifically stated no employee af- fected by the b'ul would be compelled by ite terms to work, that stopping of work would not constitute “delay- ing or obstructing operation of trains,” for which the amendment provides a fine of $5,000 or one year’s imprisonment. “Suppose,” sald Senator Hardiwick, “the raildoad presidents came to us and said: ‘Legisiate us increased freight or passenger rates or we will stop operating ail trains in this coun- try.” What would we do? We would not be permitted to be coerced.”* CHIEF INTEREST 18 TO AVERT STRIKE, ‘Why don't you Republiceys atop criticising and offer som, to avert this strike?” quertof sis Wisconsin, “1 think we all agree tha main question, our chief interest, ie to avert this impending calamity, Bo we shall do It in the only possible way—by legislation.” Senator Sherman, Iiinols, bitterly | denounced “rushing the bill into leg- isiation in a few hours when there should be days of deliberation.” “We are doing this under threat,” INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., dead and two injur Thomas Dorsey> rowded car here Sept as the One result a _, Despasshis ti FAD re ae ae eee tewrsey soramitted aaic| T° Prove his point, he read several mater: Joetofes d to% ‘alti cide when cornered {the Se y a} telegrams from large labor unions ef (For Raging Result. Geo Page &) 4 il , ‘iain! mamas 80 WOR Daenge At de MAY CANCEL STRIKE ORDER. Benator Shafroth opened the debate 4 1 i