The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1916, Page 1

” hiiatediacia sell PRIJVE ONC CENT. FRENCH TROOPS CAPTURE | 1,000 YARDS OF TRENCHES NORTHEAST OF VERDUN 42 Germans in Fierce Counter-Attack Are Driven Out—Defenders Take 250 Prisoners and 10 Guns—|' Battle on Somme Still Rages Around Leuze Wood. PARIS, Sept. 7.—The French last night captured the entire 1,600 yards @¢ Germen first line positions, extending from Vaux Chapitre to Chenols Wood, northeast of Verdun. The War Office announced that 250 men and ten mitrailleuses were cap- tured in this operation. ‘The statement adds that a power-°———————__——————— Gasket cs erent aon “font 3 HURT AS BUS DODGES WAGON IN FIFTH AVENUE farm, on the Somme front, was wit! out success and that the felt ‘were dispersed with heavy losses, The text of the officlal statement follows: Big Motor “Vehicle St Shunts Onto “North of the Somme the Ger- Sidewalk to Avert a mans made a powerful effort to Collision. dislodge us from Hospital Farm Their attacks were swept by our machine guns and dispersed with heavy losses. The enemy did not renew his attempts during the Two women and a man were injured to-day when a crowded Fifth Avenue | bus, bound downtown, ran onto the| | sidowalk at Elghty-sixth Street and | t. In other sectors there was | Hehe to report j crashed into the newly erected resi- “South of the Somme the Ger- | dence of W. Starr Miller, No, 1047 | mans debouched in force from the village of Horgny and made sev- eral attacks ¢ sainst our new posl- tions southwest of Belloy-en-Bant- | erre and south of Barleux, All these attacks were stopped by our curtains of fire before they were able to approach our lines. The losses whigh the enemy suffered during thése fruitiess attacks ap- Fifth Avenue Thomas Keating, the driver, told the police he turned it toward the sidewalk when he saw that a colli- | sion with a big delivery wagon, which Was crossing in front of the bus, was otherwise unavoidable, Those injured were Sarah Kohn, thirty-one years old, of No, 1461 pear to have been very great, Four | Madison Avenue, taken to the Re. hundred prisoners taken south of | ception Hospital; Lillian Siegel, the Somme y have been | twenty-nine, of No. 2030 West counted up to n Twenty-second Street, Coney Island, According to fresh information, | and Frank Penso, a broker, of No. the German troops beaten back | 1 fast One Hundred and Eleventh yesterday by our infantry in the | street, All,were riding on the top region east of Chilly belonged to | part af the bus. @ Saxon division which was trans- —$<—____ ‘iedly from the Aisne FOR ROWING AND FOOTBALL front. bs On the right bank of the Meuse Judge Campbell Will Be Oldest Student in Harvard Next Year (Verdun front) toward the end of the day yesterday after a violent artillery preparation, our troops attacked the German organiza- tions on the front between Vaux- Chapitre Wood and Chenois, The and “Won't Sit Around,” entire front tine of enemy trenches fell into our hands on a length of HUNTINGTON, W. Va, Sept. about 1,500 metres. We took about | Harvard's oldest student next year 260 prisoner$ and about ten ma- |W!!! be Judge C. G. Campbell, sixty, of this city—and he's going in for rowing and football, Judge Campbell will take the ad- vanced law course at Harvard so as to be near his son, Rolla Campbell, | third-year law student thore, chine guns. “L will not sit around esterday a Official reports indicate that the Im- portant railway town of Chaulnes, opposite the extreme southern fringe of the battle front, is now partly en- veloped by the latest French gains. North and northeast of Chaulnes in awning the French yesterday, It is announced, | stripes and smoke a Turkish pipe," captured most of the Villages of Ver- |the Judge sald to-day, “but I shat! go| mandovillers and Berny-au-Santerre. | in for athletics—rowing and football) Bouth of It, having captured Chilly | probably, | Tuesday, they pushed forward ter- day to the outskirts of Chaulnes it- for 81,000,000, self and reached the line of the It Was announced Chauines-Roye railway, here torday’ that Altes Lucking, per Sept. 7.—In successful | 20M"! for niy Ford, the ‘4 manufac fe in Chicago to Mle suit acks south of the Somme | fo. s1000 te yoru tema peat the Germans have wrested fvom the|the Chicago Tribune. Mr, Ford. asks French initial advantages wor RaracHAl HAe cen Ra COT ree Berny-en-Santerre, Deniecourt n editorial printgd om the ‘Peihun Chaulnes, it was | nounced whier is chore M on _ PHILADEL PHIA WINS, ane a Ford “on owever, ob ey | Anarchist’ ina he Botincement trom th follo' Pua inder cover of darkness the enen @Bostiaued on Girth Page) bobo a oO Aoghe | contracts which hay he ne WON'T ARBITRATE, INTERBORO HEADS TELL P. 8. BOARD De Lancey Nicoll Declares CompanyWill Never Abrogate the Individual Contracts. SHONTS GIVES SURPRISE. Says Directors Agreed Not to Send Out Agreements, but Hedley Didn’t Know. The Public Service Commission at- tempted to-day to intervene in the strike situation with the object of | bringing about quickly some kind of a mutual adjustment that would restore traMo conditions, but it met with small success. It subpoenaed doth President Shonts of the traction companies and Organizer Fitzgera’. of the union and | examined them under oath as to the causes leading up to the strike, Fitzgerald was asked in view of the fact that he had suggested and in- sisted on Inserting in the agreement | between the surface line company and its men, signed on Aug. 7, that all questions In dispute should be sub mitted to arbitration, why a strike was now in progress. Fitzgerald made a long explanation seekng to justify his disregard of tho / agreement, and charged the company with first breaking it. To President Shonts the commis sion presented the statement of Gen- eral Manager Hedley at a conference | with the men that he regarded the agreement made with the men of the surface lines as applying to subway and elevated employees, giving them the right to organize, and asked whether this policy had been car- ried out. “When it was reported to me,” re- plied Shonts, “I said that if I had been there I would have taken the same position.” “Has the question been submitted to the directors?” was asked, “The matter has never been dis- cussed.”* To Organizer Fitzgerald the Com- mission put the question whether the men would be willing to submit to and abide by whatever ruling or decision might be made by the Commission after its inquiry into the situation, Fitzgerald replied that, personally, he was willing, but that he would have to consult first with the men, and, therefore, could not give a di- rect answer. De Lancey Nicoll, Interborough speaking for the in regard to submit- ting to a decision by the Commis- sion, said: submit the question of our ini “What, right to make vidual contracts with the men? Certainly not, The Public Service Commission has no authority in the case. Besides, there is no strike on either subway elevated." The commission's inquiry devel« the fact that the ma company and employ or and signed up by a ny the subway and L lines and are about to be circulated among surface ear employees, It was this specific point which brought the erisis yesterday Union leaders declared they in *\ tended to stand on the principle that the right of collective bargaining was the most vital thing at stake for la rand that they must fight at all costs against attempts to undermine this policy Witagerald expreased the determin ation of the union w was asked the public should be mad Y question whet mbt he said, “but f am not responsible, The omployeca, ase nol responsible, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, CAR STRIKE IS SPREADIN G TO ALL CITY SURFACE LINES SEPTEMBER 7, Boy of Fourteen Who Leads eet towne THIRD AVENUE MEN AGREE TO QUIT vr a ll ru L4-YEAR-OLD BOY LEADS CHAMPION Young dees bh O One Up on Gardner at End of First | 18 Holes, (Special From, a Staff Rereesnennent| of The Evening World.) MERION CRICKET CLUB, Haver. ford, Pa. Sept. 7%.—Bobby Jones of | Atlanta, fourteen yearn of age and | every inch a golfer, fought Robert | Gardner to a etandstill in the third round for the national golf title here | to-day and finished one up on the de- | fending champion at the end of the first eighteen holes. Jones finished the round 18 strokes against Gardner's 79. The Southern “infant,” playing with the skill and confidence of a veteran, gained the whip hand on the inward trip and forced the national cham- plon to make marvellous shots to save himself on three different hol especially at thg thirteenth, whe Gardner ran down a 25-foot putt for a half, Jones had a lead of two holes at the seventeenth, but missed his drive on the home hole, which gave Ga! ner @ chance to cut down the lead A gallery of 3,000 braved the bak BOBBY JONES @uxsEnnes’ ® in SLIGHT DISORDERS Some Car Windows Broken tng sun’to follow the match, Their] by Stones—Trolley Slots interest was centred chiefly in “the s <i ah kid,” who from @ distance on the Plugged in Places, links looked no digger than his caddie, Tho disorders caused by the atrike Jones, wasting Ittle time, won the first two holes when Gardner missed putts. The champion came right back on the 427-yard third, where the Southern marvel hit into a bunker on his second shot, a mistake which cost him the hole, Gardner also cap- tured the long fourth and fifth holes, when Jones again played into trouble The champion was very brilliant on the 420-yard sixth, a tremendous cleek | ("4 hooting and jJeering and throwing shot going so true that a 10-foot putt |of garbage earned a great 3 to 5 for Jones, tene At this time Gardner was 2 up and many in the gallery were begin ning to doubt the youth's ability, but | ing after .squaring the seventh Joi won the elghth when Gardner missed were scattered and involved, up to a late hour this afternoon, no more de- struction of property than the break- ing of @ few car windows by missiles brown from roofs, some fist Jghting hetween strikers and strikebreakers and regular men who refused to quit thelr cars and trains when ordered, and vegetables In the ment districts, re were several Instances where piking of trolley slots, tie pull of vcing cob cht delays reeney brake valves and nes on tracks caused d some confusion IN TRACTION STRIKE QUICKLY CHECKED “Cireala 1916, | STRIKE 1S BROKEN, SAYS SHONTS, 9000 | MEN STICK 10 POST omen With Ample Police Protection, He Declares ‘L” and Sub- way Will Be Normal. | At 11.80 o’olock this morning Presi- | dent Theodore P. Bhonts of the Inter- borough Company made the follow- jing ment: | “The atrike is broken, Nine thou- sand men remained at work in the subway and on the elevated lines. |Those are the men who algned the individual contracts with us. About twenty of tho contract signers walked out. The others who went out are 2,000 disnatisfied trouble makers, “Service in the subway and on the |elevatea roads {8 normal now. With ample police protection, we can con- tinue giving normal service, The ser- vice on the #urface lines ts not nor- mal as yet, but it will be If we con- tinue getting the police protection we need, “Thun far it has been necessary to use about 600 of the relief men we hired for this crists, “As to the New York Railways Company (the surface lines) about 2,500 of the 3,300 men went out ‘Those men have thrown over the agreement they made on Aug. 7, which was underwritten by Mayor Mitchel and Chairman Straus of the Public Service Commiasion,” “We want nothing more to do with those men who have violated their agreement. They are out and we are improving the service on the syrface linea every hour. At 7 o'clock this morning we had 102 cars tn operation; at 8, 143 ca at 9, 167 cars, and at 10, 179, This latter figui is 25 per cent, of our normal service. “Thus far we are not using the emergency men we employed. (Mr, Shonts, in referring to these men, would not use the term ‘strikebreak- ers.) “Our aim to-day was first of all to operate our longitudinal lines and thus Ket the crowds downtown, Afterward we turned our attention to the cross- town lines. “We are going to stand by the men who stand by us through this. The Board of Directors of the New York Railways Company has voted in- creases for the men who have stuck by us, A new acale, with individual fered to these men. The in \ voted amount to $350,000 a ye CAO ar, Up | dividual contracts.” a short putt | General Manager Hedley of the| ~ On the short ninth Jones ran down |! borough informed Chief Inspec- | penstone —_—_— tor Schmittberger this afternoon (Continued on Second Page.) t the company had no complaint WARHING > ake rege ing the ee o ing to widow . opbe remeraine the) au £ the) men who served in the clvil The officials of this comy police in maintath He right parley lirectly re 8 by their axked that dete the ae of neve ean seen ne | One Hundred t 0 a month wowork ne ne ata th bd wnt $12 a month was pas na Te Carian LM Ro aK? oh if Renate, At already: ' Pl eeee Rn halt a wa ot etvil wut ut rt was ! person are restored to the roll en are mo Motormen and muArde fro by the bil eonvenionce of the ed (Continued on Second Page.) (Fer Racing Results See Page 2) - ee a a iy to 10 o'clock this morning 409 of the| 3,300 POLICE GUARDS KEEP DOWN DISORDER IN STRIK The [abestae Books Se to All, ) . md 1086, oF wre. tthe New tion Rooks Open to to All.” | 16 PAGES contracts for two years, is being of- | surface car men had signed the in. | ment in operating the “L"\and subway systems at what the a we i Te Dore Weerrer PROBABLY Brow! PRICE ons oust 24-2 ——— — — pp SUBWAY AND ‘RUN NEARLY NORMAL Bronx and Queens Also Threatened With Tie-Up—‘Strike Just gun,” Declare Union Chiefs—Vic- . tory Claimed by Interborough Of- | ficials, Who: Say Organization Is — Broken. ‘ DOUBLE PAY FOR MEN = WHO REMAIN LOYAL All union employees of the Third Avenue surface thes were ordered to get ready to strike at noon, and the strike will spread to that system before many hours elapse. It is expected that the union employees of the Union system in the Bronx and the men on the Queens lines ato will go out. While the subway and elevated services appear to be running up to normal standards and the morning rush hour crowds were handled in good shape, police and traction officials advise that all who can should leave for home early this afternoon in order to distribute the rush hour crowd over a longer period than usual. General Manager Hedley claimed this afternoon he was operating ninety-three trains in the subway at 2 o’clock, an increase of 10 per cent. over the non-rush hour require- ments, President Shonts of the Interborough said this afternoon that only 500 strikebreakers were needed to man trains in- the subway and on the “L.” The New York Railways Company will not attempt to operate the green surface cars after sundown. General Manager Hedley promises to maintain night service in the Subway and on the “L” sufficient to take care of the north and sou.h overflow from the discontinued surface systems. Organizer Fitzgerald of the street car men’s union ad- mits that the subway and “L” motormen did not strike, but he insists that 4,000 other employees of those lines went « out. On his own figures two-thirds of the employees re- mained at work, ; The green car surface lines are about 85 per cent. tied up. The cars in operation are manned by veteran em- ployees. No disorder of any consequence had been reported up to noon. Bricks, garbage and bottles were thrown at cars, but no one was injured. Subway and “L” motormen were protected by heavy wire screens. Officers of the American Federation of Labor announce that there is @ project on foot to raise $1,000,000 to help along the strike. The greatest inconvenience due to the strike was felt by persons who cgme downtown in automobiles. Fifth Aves nue and Lafayette Street were jammed with cars, and the absence of traffic policsmen on Fifth Avenue threw that. thoroughfare into traffic chaos. . Interborough officials have asked for extra protection for their power houses, " More than 1,000 strikebreakers, capable of handling ‘ subway and “L” trains, are in reserve on property owned by the Interborough. pana Not at all disc by the success of the Interborough manages yuraged ea te