The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1916, Page 1

ary ” AL ZOITION a ere, Toe PRICE ONE CENT : rion |“ Circulation Books Open to All.” | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 86 the eh me ———————eE ' nr _60-MILE GALE AND RAIN STOR The M SWEEP CITY etl — TO OAV'S WEATHER — Thunder Chemere [“Cireulation Rooks Open to All.’ | 1916, 16 PA GES PRICE ONE CENT. THREATEN STRIKE ON ALL SURFACE CARS: TO OFFSET DEFEAT ON SUBWAY AND ‘L’ FRENCH GAIN AT VERDUN AND REPEL FOUR MASSED ATTACKS SOUTH OF SOMME a German Assaults Failed to Reach Positions Which They Were Try- ing to Recapture—Violent Battle Is Still Raging. PARIS, Sept. 8.—Four attacks In dense formations were launched by the Germans south of the Somme last night between Vermandevillers and Chaulnes. None of the attacks succeeded in reaching any French positions and the French took 200 more prisoners, the War Office announced today. The Germans attacked heavily against new French positions between Berny and a point south of Chaulnes, suffering heavy losses. North of the Somme there was great artillery activity but no infantry fighting. ‘The French made further progress® on the Verdun front last A German at where the Fren made a most su cessful drive Wednesday night, was bon FROM DANUBE 10 LONDON, Sept. §.—The text of the) Br! ment to-day says “Beyond the usual artille and some local bombing fights there was nothing to report front. Two officers were brought in as p day. nd fifty isoners yester- men THE BLACK SEA joutheast of Guinchy and near} Open Great Offensive Move- Richebourg L'Avoue we raided the ” ant Te : enemy's trenches, inflicting aevere| Ment Against Germans and casualties. Bulgars in Roumania. The enemy shelled armer s Be (northeast of L ) yesterd. ove LONDON pt &—The beginnin ning.” . PARIS, Sept. &—The text of the of a great battle In Southeastern French official statement says: umania, where the Russians have “On the Somme front our artillery | taken the offensive against the Bul- activity continued in various sectors! garians and ( north of the river. “South of ‘the Somme the enemy attacked during the night the posl- tion won by us from Berny to south | of Chaulnes. only in considerable losses for him. “Between Vermandoyillers ermans, is reported in Ja Romo despatch given out by the | Wireless Pres: The ve struggle is now under way the whole front in Dobrudja be- His attacks resulted | tween the Danube and the Black Si | Fighting is expecta BaltJik, on the Black desperate near nd st about Chauines alone the Germans launched/ ten miles North of the Bulgarian no fewer than four massed attacks, | frontier. each preceded by an intense bombard-| This information, the wireless dis- we maintained |} ment, Everywhere patch says, was received in Rome our gains in their entirety, Two! from Petrograd hundred fresh prisoners have been) An undated official Bulgarian report added to the 400 counted yesterday | received here to-day ys that the in the same region.” | Bulgarian and German forces, which “On the right bank of the Meuse!are invading Eastern Roumania have (Verdun front), between Vaux-Cha-| captured the fortress of Dobrio (Baz- pitre and the Chenois Wood, we made |ardjik) and the seaports of Baltjik gome progress by means of hand-|and Kavarna and Kaliakra. grenades. A German attack on our] The occupation of Orsova Vaux-Chapitre positions falled under] tou our curtain of fire. park “The night was calm on the rest| “Our troops, the mveded in Bul- 1 Statoment cvancing on Silistria of the front.” reac 1 the line Chatalja-Aflatar “army of thy East—There was 4] Alifak-Asoalenes, as well as the two violent artillery duel on the Struma | bridgeheads of ‘Tutrak front and in the region of the Beles] “After successful tings lout Mountains and Lake Doiran, There |troops occupied Dobrie (Baxardjik), was comparative calm on the Serbian | Haltjik, Kavarna and Kallarka front. | “Our artil 08 enfilated “An enemysacroplane was brought | the trenches he enemy, who is down southwest of Lake Dotran. 1] occupying Orsove fell in flames within our lines.”* Bazardjik, known also as Dobrio, is BERLIN, Sept. 8 (via London).—}4 fortified town fifty miles southeast ‘The text of the German ollicial state-of Bucharest, The th senborte ment follows: “Western Front—North of the River mentioned are situated on an inde tation in the coast line just north of Somme considerable artillery activity |the Bulgartan border. continues. On two occasions recently It has “South of the river infantry fight- | been reported unoiffelal that the ing again started in the afternoon, | Rpumani have occupied the im- The enemy was repulsed with great | portant Hung n town of Orsov losses, West of Berny some portions |on the Danube, near the Iron Gate of trenches remain in the hands of |e town hus a population of about “On the right bank of the Meuse | 6,000. (Verdun sector) it only now becomes | PETROGRAD, Sept, § (via London) known that we lost ground in tho Rus: fighting northwest of Fort Souville on the Dvina River north of Dyinsk were an troops which have crossed the day before yesterday, A vy s Re : reciprocal artillery fire continues.”” attacked repeatedly by the Germans ee yesterd «© War Office announces, THE WORLD TRAVEL BURPAD, but succeeded in hold the capture Palltaer (Word) I poalt east of Lembe and parcel Nee Tobe ka (Conlgued om synth Page.) ELECTRICAL STORM BOMBARDS CITY; LIGHTNING STRIKES Man Hit by Bolt on West Side —Rain Like Cloudburst in Middle Section. WIND 60 MILES AN HOUR. Gale and Rain Make Ther- mometer Drop’ 14 Degrees From Almost 90, | A sixty ut of the mile gale North west brought relief to the city's thou jsands at t@n minutes of three o'clock |to-day. Tho thermometer fell nearly | thirteen degr in two or three min- Utes, from nearly 90 degrees te 77 de- grees, But with relief to those who were suffering from heat came in- | Juries to several persons and destruc- | tion of property from lightning, wind jand rain, | A veritable cloudburst fell on the Jelty at 3 o'clock in the zone of lowe | Central Park, while the lower part of |the city was yet dry though men- jaced by an ugly slate colored cloud bank in the south a southwest, with pape flying ke gloom of d advertising buts through a banners enormous dust clouds A wagon of the Heaslip Express Company was blown over as though it! were a big paper box at Fifty-frst Street and Seventh Avenue by the first flerce breath of the big wind. The “SHEE. AUTEN WHITE, DEFYING THE UNON —>— ‘ AT LAST; SHE'S WED Ramona Borden, Daughter of the Wealthy Milk Dealer, Is Now a Bride. HAS HAD STIRRING LIFE Escaped From — Sanitarium} Where She Had Been Placed During Parents’ Row, World) Cah, Sept 8 of Borden, is Los | Ramona ANGELES, den, daughter kman, Gail the millionaire m. Uttle longer —-— She Is on her honeymoon to-day with a “poor rich girl” no MR CREEP MAY J Charles D. Wiman in Gover- WN GOD FOOT FAL: ONE LIKELY 0D W. W.. Struthers and| nor’s Island Mishap. George 3. Parkes of Anderson, Ind.,| 4 Walter Wood Struthers and GERMANS STRIPPED wealthy banker and politician, to {Chale Deere Wiman, atudente tn the whom she was married here yester- | &FMy avietion sehool for civilians at | jday. ‘They left in an automobile for| Governor's Isiund, fel) with’a Curtisw ‘NAKED BY EFFEC a trip through Southern California | ana were beyond the reach of the telegraph to-day, The ceremony took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L, 8. Valk, her “OFFIREOF BIG GUNS | as Absence of Wounds Indicates That They Die From Tre- mendous Concussion. srandparents, asd the news was kept} secret su well helress did not bat th becom hours afterward wedding of the known until The riage |ilcense gave her name as Alexine Jomitting “Ramona,” a pet name} which her father bestowed upon her. Following many disputes over the Jariver was d under the wreck! LONDON, Sept. 8—Describing the! girl between Gail Borden and his wife, | until police guards at the car eects of the British bombardment of | Mrs. Helen Valk Borden, she was barns cout drag him out, badl: - cee A Sanita “ P| r ald s hin aly I+) he German poritions at Guitlemont, |Placed 10 a sanitarium Pompton Jured. ri ke, N. J That Was in 1915, when The el t tl storm cleo struck the the correspendent of Reuter's tele- |she was j§ veventeen, and had Upper part of the city before the{sram Company at the British Head-| ready nt much of her time away rumblings of thunder and the flashes | quarters in France saya from home because of the friction in of lightning were appreciable down-| phe ground to the east of the vile|{@ family. Miss Borden stayed at town, A man near the recreation pier at the foot of West One Hundred and Thirtieth Street was struck by a bolt. Reports of flag poles splin- tered and scaffoldings and cornices | blown away came from uptown to | Police Headquarters. | The storm afforded the crowd which Jis always to be found at Forty-sec- | Broadway @ numtesr ond Street and Jot thrills, |_ The Jrain blew over a street car sign and |frightened a horse which was stand- frot of th Rialto Theatr n load of plate glass be the Werner Washington Street Then the thunder clap lthe started up Seventh nue with a rush, As bh Vorty-third wagon wheels struck over went the loud of pla a at crash, crowd in had been something to the runaway u infantry charge. But just as it gat t the glass wager ty curred and there w ng for shwite me of the surkers in the excavation at Korty-third caught the horse and to: car until the drencied driver appeared The storm clouds to the south Joined those circling in from tho north and west soon after 3. velock and Ne wYork was In for its most theatrical and noisiest lighted thun wind storm which preceded the ing in hitched longing te of No. 1 Hass Company and Ave wung toward Street the curb and » glass in cam | Broadway at the neighh waiting te Happen, started he tt yoked rhood, ly for like an » the wreek of clouthurst a hasty scam- subway fit der squall of the summer | The electrical phase of the storm | was sending down blinding shaft into Kivn before the first rain fell in lower Manhattan as the west he- want ghten at twenty-five minutes to 4 o'clock The storm followed a day and night of unusual heat moisture, Even at the coolest hour of last night the thermometer was never below 10 de- grees, Until nearly dawn the air was } 100 per cent. wet m 73 di Jat 9 « the morning until ten min o'clock in the after. ’ ry climbed almos' the 90 q y 4 ut ther Bureau history was Ser 1878, when the mercury climbcc AU0 ms ville after | lage was strewn with German dead, of ft and fled in an automobile with | The corpses in many cases were stark! two women | naked, every stitch of clothing having| Her disappearance caused a national been blasted off them. A very large! sensation, and the search spread to proportion of these bodies showed no! biplane nearly 800 feet to the parade round Both were may at Governor's Island to-day. badly injured; Wiman die. Struthers, who is a broker and the son of Robert Struthers, architect of No. Wood Struthers, enty-third Stree nother is u 10 Bast h Street sther, Wiliam 47 West Sey . and Wiman, whose Eighty-six has een living with hie at No member of the famous agriculture implement manufacturing family of Moline, Il, and who is a former Yale oars both had Aere Club Neenses ae flyers They were working tu qualify military eapert licenses, Struthers has been making flights alone and | with passengers since the sanitarium for a while, but tired, man since era at the wheel and observer's seat, Wi May and Wi July | had been in the alr, Struth- Wiman tn the | fifteen min- | though They about tes, when a sharp crack, 4 ADOPT CONTRACT PLAN - ot t TWO FLYERS HURT Pledge Against “Masterand Servant” Agreement Demanded From All Traction Chiefs — Refusal Ex- pected to Bring New Strike Orders. CALL FOR HELP SENT TO LABOR FEDERATION Claiming that the existence of the local unions of the Amalgamated Union of Street and Electric Railway Employees is threatened by ac spiracy of the traction interests of Greater New York, the labor leaders in charge of the Interboorugh and New York way sirlke have decided to extend the strike to the Taira Avenue line in Manhattan aud all the trolley lines in the Bronx, Queens and Richmond. They are also endeavoring to call out the union men in the power houses. but kave been unable to reach ther Organizer Fitzgerald of th declare that they de Railways Cor Amalgamated Union and his colleagues and from the trolley car presidents a guarantee that they will not attempt to force upon thelr employees individual contracts sich ax have been signed by the They say that if the street railroad managers will give them such a guarantee they will lutorborough em Loyens then Insist that the managers make contracts with the Amalgamated Unten for the men, and If this demand ts refused the strike will be extended. eee ees * Frederick W. Whitridge, President R ILROADS SHOW BIG jof the Third Avenue line, intimated plainiy this afternoon that he thinks well the individ idew INCREASE IN PROFITS 0's. sum cwumes ew sin UO. Elbe attitude. It ts betleved Over 10,000 Net More for 48) be taken by the anton leader July 1916 Than for July of | (ustivatton for a xtrike order Whitridge, When asked by an Previous Year. World reporter what he intended to do about the unton demand “1 had no thought of applying an in- dividual agreement to the Third Ave enue lines, but It isn't such a bad dea and | might adopt it after all, Tam WASHINGTON, 5 8.-—Sixty- aeven of the largest steam railways eurned a net 1u6 of $543 per mile | during last July, an Increase of $43 a) mile July. 1916, ove! many cities. Th» only clue was that|an explosion, caused persons on the| A summary mate public to-day by! prepared to carry out the agreement signs of wounds and there is little! she had left with two women in an d and on Staten Island and!|the Interstate Co nmoerce wuderwritten by the Mayor and Mr, doubt that the men were killed by¥| auto. After four days she waa found| South Brooklyn ferryboats to look | sion #hows net revenues tota Straus, and to nam my arbitrator, But the intense concussion, Even in the! in Boston and restored to her fa | up at them. Others who were al- | 355,021, compared with § 1 ha always dealt with men as in- |dugouts with which the pI Was ‘Then it was that she gave out her| ready watching the flight insist they | July, 1915 tividuals.” warrened few men excaped the bom-| famous interview, saying: heard no report | The largest xains were made in the! Mr. Whitridge was then told by the bardment, and those who did said) “1 wanted happiness. I longed for] ‘The aeroplane, which was moving | East, reporter that the union leaders charge their nerves were destroyed by the! a mother's love I was weary of| very slowly, wavered, one side drooped | <> he was in conterene with Interborough jterrific poundings of the British! boarding schools and the pald affection and then it darted to the ground in “| THREE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK oMcials, planning action toward exe | guns," of strangers. 1 had rien t my com-| narrow spiral, constantly gaining | § terminating the unions. Mr. Whit. | PARIS, Sept. &—The ever-inereas-| mand, 1 had servants at my beck and) momentum, Struthers could be scen| vidwer wala ing violence of the bombardment now| call, but f had one to whom 1 yin progress atong more than thirty) could py ut my h miles of fighting: front in the me! “Daughters of rich people are not sector is thus described in a dis-| always happy. [haven't had a home patch today from the authorized for years, What | wanted was just respondent of La Liberte with the! ah nl a@ mother? vench army Miss Morden was tinmediately “From one end to the other of the) dubbed the “Poor Little Rich Girl," attacking front the cannonade raged) and as such has figured in the papers yesterday evening, reaching a degree many oceasi Her disappear Mf intensity hitherto without prece-/ ance led to subsequent reports of wild dent. Each day it seemed as if the! Mishts from various inatitutions, but extreme.) SiaislcposRinta chad Ses f these were borne out, ‘Then reached, but cach day the bombard. She went to a with her ent still grows in violence and fury, ™uther and flowed more French and Brith batteries *" sere Jalong the whole front nover cease t Thave ever: baoivn Bappiness. uns) pour out a deluge of thousands and|t! ! found tt here,” she said. “I ran thousands of shells of every calibre,| @¥4Y aimply to show my father that| vNover have [witnessed such a @y Wil Waa a strong as hin and be- apéctacte,’ sald an officer who had) cause 1 was terribly lonely. Som no pody sald that 1 was to blame for wat arrived at the front near Ver-| Oy te. ang mother separating mandovilie fe ence PRATAUDIRNA) Ho Wan te Tea ce of yesterday evening were surrounded | Oot cf ape avy a ook tote rl with clouds of dust smuke mabe |through which objects could he dis | tingulshed faintly, One frightful ex for a Hite, to Your Boat! the Fish Jump 1 plosion followed another, From time AKE MILLS, Wi Beso to time one saw eno pus masses of don't have to bait ‘em he b earth and material thrown up and) come arise aren ail sd ane ; | aie : ie 2 tong, | Thomas of Waukesha, Wis, 1 among it all th diem of the dead,| 12’ years old reepectively, nearly che torn to fragments. sized their boat when @ five and “When night ca the sky!one-half pound black bass jumped nto it, Pishe tretched out like one vast furn Anan ey so that ax far as one could see thers vecasione was nothing but « horigon of fire”, Jumped | > SARE TONIC FOR BA Father Jon's Medicine gives streng GOBiALAA Be BURA) Ob GLMbr AL oe yanking violently at his controls as it shot down, but he was unable to break the course of the spiral The machine struck the turf, nose) sharply down, about five hundred feet from the hangar. It tore a hole in the earth fifteen feet and then the Whole structure, wires, frame and] canvas, ¢ Forty-second Stre charge of the school, It was could pry and lft the wreck 4 the aviators Carroll of No. t, the Instructor in and many sol- fers and machinists ran to the spot fifteen they vart so Hapsed u last ip A minutes before that the two could be lifted out | pm directed the removal of Struthersand {cet Wiman, scious, man had suffered a broken hip and| relief condition was regarded as Lieut nad By omt that t surgeon, me Goodman, the called, He been both to the of whom were post hospital, con- Wie and was injured rnally; ritical, brok slashed his Bot n and e fat of Struthers's lex his face was badly r of Struthers er brother went to Governor's Island as soon as they had been notified by Capt. Kilbourne of Gen, Woods's stat of celdent. They took with them physicians n d nurses to attend both Struthers had a slight aceldent, fall- 1g twenty two weeks ago. The Hie the first serious accident in th ourse of 1,100 fights since established, Mr - >. (For Racing Requite vy ANOTHER REPORTED LOST REFUSES TO DISCUSS COR- {One of Them the Strathtay in FERENGE, ; 4 “If you show me that it is any of Which Bombs Were Placed their business, Twill answer it, But While She Was Here, privately, L was up at Sherry's on LONDON, Sept. 8 ——The British | 2@Aday, Tmet an Interborough of- Hamano Bisaintay ana’ ih rt. | Mell there and 1 had « conference nan Line steamship Tagua have been | With him, What that conference was ne about, they can assume, if they Hke, All the crew of the Strathtay was | OF Suess at; but I will not tell them.” saved, ‘Thirty-four were landed in| The New York Railways Company the first boat and the rest later, | did not make a determined effort to It is also reported that the Mritish| operate the surface lines today. hips Hazelwood and Heath About 2 er cont of the cars were » have been sunk run, At the suggest.on of Commig- fs se NT : sioner Woods, Who promised edge lone, of 4428 tons grams, and | Une’ Wil be operated this eventag was owned in Glasgow, Last yeu | ot as near full capacity as te possibile she Was engaged in transportation of under strike cond-tlans, > lias fon the “Balblake | 4 nanagement will wait until toe While at her di in New York in| Morrow afternoon before trying to | July of 1915 an empt was }» Stve a full service on all lines. It te to destroy her, fire bombs being founa | expected that many of the old mem concealed in the hold will come back under a peace offer The Hazelwood was a 8.100-ton | sent out to-day by President Shonte, }eenel owned in Middlesbrough, EO- | ofering them reinstatement without ho Heathdeno was 340 fet long, | prejudice at advanced pay, with a beam of 45 feet was built) PLEDGE ASKED OF ALL TRAG, underland in 101 4 whed by | ats the Dene Steamship Company of New- TION HEADS, aah Letters were sent to the Mahers, The Tagus was of 937 tons gross controlling the Bronx lines, and to and was operated by the Royal Mail tne presidents of the trolley systema fteam: Pagel Colanany of Queens and Staten Island, asking Here's w Shore “Cereal” Story, | them to guarantee that thelr ems LONDON, Aug. 29 (by mail).—James | ployees will not be asked to sign Rice of the Highland Light Infantry | individual contracts. married Sarah Ann Sago. Now he has ppiled for increased war allowance be-! of the birth of Tapioca Rice, ‘The union leaders do not expect # conciliatory reply frum My. “SWBite me