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ae dey hs ye 7 AL EDITION =— PRICE ONE CENT. wien oe ~ * The [*Ciroulation Books Open to All.” | a — > : NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, RISON SENTENCES FOR RIOTERS, SEPTEMBER 20, 1916 6 PA Circulation Rooks Open oA amare _ CALDER BEATS BACON IN SENATORIAL FIGHT ~ Te Beye Wester Ait ano w * + EOITION a PRICE ONE CENT POLICE PLAN TO END STRIKE VIOLENCE 101899 LEAD FOR CALDER IN. LATE RETURNS: BACON BASES HOPES ON MISSING DISTRICTS omnis Greater New York Republicans Gave 33,426 Majority for Organization Candidate. SPLIT IN PROGR IVES. Of 20,000 Votes Moose Cast Whitman Got 60 Per Cent. and Seabury 40. William M. Calder of Brooklyn has/ apparently won the Republican pri- mary nomination for United tes Senator over Robert Bacon. ‘With 908 districts, out of 6,719 still unreported, Calder tas a majority of 10,89. Tabulation of vote recelved was as follows: Calder, 180,822; Ba- con, 119,963; districts missing 908. Mr, Calder said this afternoon: "I believe I have won by st least 6,000 votes. I am profoundly grateful to my friends for thie magnificent sup- port, Iam receiving telegrams from every county chairman in every sec- tion of the State and each new tele- gram brings a message that 1 am gaining. I expect that my majority will be further increased, making me a winner by more than 10,000, barring any unexpected reversal.” Job E, Hedges, manager of the Bacon campaign, said: ‘The up-State regions from which we have still to hear were as a rule strong for Bacon I expect that complete returns will give him the nomination by 3,500 nu-) Jorit; ‘The Progressive party vote is still far from complete but from partial returns the indications are as follows Governor Whitman, Republican, won the Progressive nomination for Q@overnor away from Judge Seabury, Democrat, by a considerable majority. Out of the 46,000 enrolled Progres sive, not more than 20,000 voted. The vote divided approximately 60 per cent Republican and 40 per cent Democratic. An indication of tho Progressive vote {s shown in the contest for Dis- trict Attorney in Manhattan. James A. Delehanty, Republican candidate entered in the Progressive primaries, reoelved 3,010 votes, while Hugh Gor- don Miller, Rypecsenys only, recevied 1,088, In the vote for Supreme Court fudges in Manhattan and Bronx, George V. Mullan and John C. Clark, regular Republican selection, entered the Progressive primaries and beat Hugo Wintner, Progressive, and Richard H. Mitchell, Democrat, T) vote was: Mullan, 2322; Clark, 1991; Mitchell, 1662; Wintner, 1498, Vor- non M, Davis, who ‘s on all tickets, received 3030 Progressive votes, Republican State Chairman Tanner waid: ‘The Progressives have come back to the Republican Party far more completely than the figures indi- cate. A great number of those en- rolled, especially up-State, refused to go to the Progressive primaries, b (Continued on Fourth Page.) Se PHILADELPHIA WINS. At Philadelphia: FIRST GAME. Pittebu: . h 00000000 00 Philadelphia . 00000700x—7 —_--—-- RACING RESULTS ON PAGE 2 ENTRIES ON SPORTING PAGE ‘SEABURY PLEASED | BY HIS VOTE FOR ~— CHOICE OF MOOSE |Says He Was Opposed by Roosevelt Malignity and Perkins Pocketbook. Samuel Seabury, Democratic nomli- nee for Governor, to-day issued the following statement: } “I would be sorry to deprive Gov. ‘Whitman of any satisfaction which he can derive from a contemplation of the figures of tho Frogresst’s pri- |mary, It seems that with so small a |¥ote cast over so large an area it will |need the official count to determine who has really won, | “But should {t prove that Gov | Whitman has won, it Is a matter of | gratification to me that, alded only by | Public confidence and sustained by a handful of earnest friends, I came so ‘near to defeating a combination con- |sisting of Roosevelt malignity, Per- | kins pocketbook, Straus gratitude and the powerful State Republican ma- chine for whose efficiency polit- ical instrument the people of the State of New York have had to pay #0 dearly, “That tt portends my election I Lave no doubt. If the same percentage of who entertain s honor me with their votes I |shall carry the State by a large ma- Jority, It seenis that about 60,000 votes jeast in the Republican primary ex- pressed a determination to repudiate recognized at the outset as hopeless. "The Progressive sentiment of the State was betrayed by its generals and camp followers, but it lives and will find worthier champions to take their places,” William F. MeComba, Democratic candidate for United States Senator, sent Judge Seabury the following tel- egram “The people of the State of New York are to be congratulated upon your nomination for the high office of |Governor, It ta refreshing to know \that in you we have a man who will do away with the shameful waste nd extravagance of the present Ad- inistration at Albany and restore , efficiency and economy in the affaire of this great Stat LORD DERBY DOESN'T SEE END OF THE GREAT WAR Back From Front, He Says It Must Surely Continue Over Another Winter. LONDON, Sept. 20, wish I could | pick one of my horas aa a winner with the certainty of victory for the entente allies,” said Lord Derby, the British Under Secretary of War, on realving the Amertcan correspon- dents to-day on his return from a visit to France, where, in company with Gen, Sir Douglas Haig and Gen. Joffre, he saw the trials of the "tanks" bfore they where sent into battle against the Germans, Lord Derby continued “We now have a European army with better guns, better rifles and better ammunition than any other country in the world to-day. But I do not agree with the people who weet the war to end within six months, as it must surely continue ever the winter.” Progressive | Gov, Whitman tn @ primary contest | (’CONNELL’S PLEA. ~ ADOSTOMYSTERY ~-OF STILOW CASE Influences With an Apparent! | Political Tinge in Appeal for Pardon. | | AFTER WHITMAN NOW? A Maze of New Affidavits on| Confessions, Recantations and Reiterations, i} | | | (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ROCHESTER, Sept. 20.—What ts |the mysterious influence with a strong political tinge which ta trying | to get Clarence O'Connell out of Au- burn Prison, and who is behind this influence, which is ao powerful that it does not hesitate to go to Governor Whitman and ask for O'Connell's par- don? Is it the same influence that has persistently pushed Charles Stie- low toward the electric chair? The Evening World bas just learned that O'Connell, after serving a yea he is innocent and has applied through the usual channels to the Governor for a pardon, ‘The application was written out by O'Connell in Auburn Prison He is not only serving a seven-year term there for @ murderous assault on Lewis H. Browne committed in September, 1914, but stands accused in the confession of Erwin King, his vagabond pal for seven years, of tak- ing part in the murder of Charles Phelps and Margaret Wolcott at West Shelby, Orleans County, in March, 1915, the crime of which Stielow was convicted, It ts true that Erwin King, after being seen by District Attorney John C. Knickerbocker of Orleans County, who convicted Sticlow, has recanted | his confession that ho and O'Connell killed Mr. Phelps and Miss Wolcott, The mysterious influence In the case has not neglected King, who is held in the Jail in Albion, the county seat of Orleans County, as a “material witness,” with the use of a bathroom, ja supply of tobacco and better mc_ts than he ever ate in his life before. Strangely enough, in this tangled and fascinatingly interesting caso there stands, as against King’s recan- tation of bis confession inveiving O'Connell in the Phelps-Wolcott Mur- der, a confession signed by O'Connell involving King in the assault on Browne. And this confession, to carry the parallel of the unusual still fur- ther, absolves another man who was convicted, just as King's original con- fession implicating O'Connell at :olvés Sticlow. O'Connell Is incommunticado tn Au- burn Prison, The Evening World| correspondent went to Auburn to see him and ask him about King's con- feasion, but Warden Ratigan kept the| prisoner under cover. However, Dis- trict Attorney Knickerbocker of Or- leans County, who had nothing to do with the prosecution of O'Connell for | the ertme of which he was convicted, was committed in Cattaraugus Coun- \ty, had no difficulty in seeing O'Con- nell in Auburn Prison early this | month. Warden Ratigan opened right jup to District Attorney Knick | bocker, | It is not known at this time whether the application for a pardon for O'Connell preceded or followed Dis- trict Attorney Knickerbocker's yisit to the convict In Auburn Prison. But lit was only a few days ago when | Judge Thomas H. Dowd of Sala- manca, before whom $'Connell was (Continued «hth Page.) THF. WORLD TRAVEL BURRAU, Are visage Word) Buiding, PY Sn? Coa sian evel con sae ie ter for ele. Telephous of his sentence, has discovered that | Elkins of West Virgir was removed from a Con Mrs, Elkins, a freq 7 Sw. Mrs, Richard Elias az adopted baby Mrs, Richard Elkins, wife of the son of the late Senator Stephen adopted a war baby orphan. ..The baby y Istand Incubator to one in Atlantic City. nt Visitor to the institution, became deeply interested in the war orphan whose father had been killed in battle other died shortly after its birth, before it was born and whose 1 “I wieh to give that youngster own,” Mrs. Kikins is reported t have said. od home and bring It up as my Mrs. Elkins now gives all her spare time to the baby, not trusting his care to a nurse. BIG RUSH OF TRAVEL TO ‘RAILROAD MEN ASK ‘SEE AMERICA FIRST.” Great Congestion of Returning Tourists From the Rockies and Far West. CHICAGO, Sept, 20.—Americans are seeing America first and the Western tourist season now drawing to a close has broken all records. “The many millions spent yearly in travelling to European countries are being spent right here in our own America,” said L. M. Allen, passen- ger and traffic manager of the Rock | Island Rallway, to-day, “The tourist travel throughout the West is heavier than at any time in our history.” The great Chicago gateways have been jammed for days with returning tourists from the Rockies and far Western points and at times the crush has been so great that baggage trans fers have been delayed ene THERE MAY BE ANOTHER UNITED STATES CARDINAL Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco Is the Only American Name Considered, t. 20,—It im reported that fet will hold another con ber, when he w sistory in create several forelyn cardinals. Arch bishop Hanna of San Francisco is the only American whose name la being ‘ove considered at present Archbishop Hanna is in his fifty seventh year. He was born in Roches. | tor, N.Y. In 1915 he was appointed Archbishop of San Francis Benedict, He was appointed Com-| missioner of Immigration of Callfor- nia in 1913. | a Repor LOS ANG Howland, who claimed he was @ legnter| oiratyphotd of the Howland estate, he in for distribution after the death of Mra Hatty Green, sat at his desk in a Loe Angeles newspaper office, whee he was employed as a reporter, and drank| t night. He died shortly af- trust) ‘over the death of hin wt City, Mo. several months to have been the cause, 1 so CLEVELAND, 0., first broadside of a campaign to throw | the labor vote of the country to the! SUPPORT FOR WILSON |W. G. Lee of the Brotherhood of Trainmen Issues a Strong Ap- « peal to Aid Him, Bept. 20,.—The support of President Wilson and the Democratic party for passing the! }Owing to Para Adamaon Fight-Hour Law, was fired | to-day by officials of the four rail- road brotherhoods, A bulletin sent out by W. G. Lee, President of the Brotherhood of Rallroad Trainmen, reads: “Surely, It is the duty of not only our own members, but all persons who work for @ living to support our friends and, {f possible, defeat our enemies at the coming election, Therefore, it 1s urgently requested that the position taken by President Wilson and both branches of Con- reas be not forgotten and that all members use every honorable means to retain in office, regardiess of par- tisan beliefs, those who have proved thelr loyalty to the cauge of labor.” 14THREGT. HOMETO-DAY; TIST BACK TO-MORROW yphoid Quarantine Visitors Are Barred From Armories, ijor Gen, Daniel Appleton rced to-day that the Fourteenth M an- no! Regiment of Brooklyn, will return » by Pope | from Camp Whitman to tts armory | this afternoon. Re its The Seventy-first iment of Maffhattan, will reach armory some time ALLIES ON SOMME. LOST 500,000 MEN, BERLN ESTIMATES British Casualties Alone Were | 350,000, Declares the Over- | seas News Agency. GERMANS IN NEW DRIVE. Paris Admits They Entered, French Trench at One Point North of River. BERLIN (via wire! L. 1), Sept, 20.—Anglo- in the Somme offensive from July 1 to Sept. 15 were to-day estimated at 600,- 000 men by the Overseas News Agency, which stated that this was a conservative calculation. Of this total the British loat 350,000. [An oMeclal British report early this month sald the British casu- alties in July were 127,000. Lon- don reports a few dayn ago nald the German losses on the Somme in the ten preceding days were 40,000, At the samo rate the total German loss on that front since the allied advance began would be 320,000.) In eleven weoks of the allied of- fensive, the allied troopy have re-| sto Bayville, rench lomses conquered only 480 square miles of French territory, or only 3 per cent. of all the French and Belgian terrt- tory occupied by the Germans, ‘The German holdings tn France are eati- mated at 6,720 square miles and in Belgium at 9,280 square miles, In @ hand grenade attack on the British troops near Flers, on the Somme front, the Germans yeater- day gained some success, says the! official statement issued to-day by the Germany Army Headquarters, In the Verdun sector the Germann drove the French out of a small trench on the western slope of Dead Man’a Hill PARIS, Sept. 20.—The Germans hurled strong forces against the French lines north of the Somme last night in violent counter-attacks on the whole front from Clery to the river, Following 1s the text French Wer Office report: — "To the north of the river Somme German forces attacked our positions at Hill 76, along a Mne running from the Cleary Road to the Somme, Their ad- vance was broken by our cur- tains of fire and by the fire of cur machine-guns, The enemy found it impossible to reach our lines on the northern section, while on the southern half cer- tain German detachments which recured a footing in our advanced positions, were at once driven out by 4 vigorous counter-attack de livered by our troops. “artillery fighting of a fairly irited nature is going on in the stor of Houchavesnes, "In the Champagne District, to the East of Scutan Hill, as well an in the Vosges at a point to the Northwest of Altki attacks on the part of the enemy upon minor French posts resulted in failure.’ LONDON, Sept. 20.—Brit) of to-day’s “r 8 oops to-morrow, | south of Arras yesterday ¢ | Dyer | App commanding they units. en. Dyer reports that, In view of made several detemined cou ton, * ‘Orders for the homeward movement | 200 yards of German trenches HOWLAND HEIR A SUICIDE, |or tne troops were issued by Gen,| the oMicial atatement ismued to-dny| the brigade of} by Hritish Army Headquar ptured | mays rs. | South of the Anere the ¢ the quarantine restrictions agatnat|tacks during the night which were fever, relatives and | repulsed. |friends refrain from visiting the! A captured document signed by Jarmories when tne Fourteenth and|Gen. yon Falkenhayn white Chief of| | Beventy-frst arrive. |the German Gel Staff, dated | “In @ very short time,” saya Gen.| Aug. 24, atates: “The wastage of, tm expected the membera| guns in ‘he last few months has been| of the organizations will be permitted | considerably In excess of production bomes.” Mn to leave the armories and visit their Ammun rapidly,” fon suppiles are dwindling a WOODS GETS AID OF SWANN AS ATTACKS ON STREET CARS MENACE PASSENGERS’ LIVES More Disorders, and Police Guard for Surface Li Trains Is In nes and Elevated creased — Bricks Hurled and Shot Fired. SHONTS AGREES TO MEET MITCHE L AND STRAUS With persistent attacks, ugly in their dangers to the life and limb of passengers and crews of surface and elevated cars, continued by strik- ing car men all over the city to-da y, Police Commissioner Woods and District Attorney Swann undertook concerted measures for the swift and stern punishment of all guilty of such violence, District Attorney Swann promised that he would seek the indictment’ of every man who threw a missile which caused injury to any person om &@ public conveyance, under Section 1991 of the Penal Code. This law makes such an offense punishable by a prison sentence of from five te twenty years. STRIKE DECISION LEFT 10 GOMPERS BY LABOR CHIEFS “If Federation Head Says So There Will Be General Walk- Out,” Union Stand. Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, ts the man who will decide whether there ts to be a general sympathetic atrike tn ald of the striking traction employees of Manhattan, the Bronx and West- chester. Mr. Gompers conferred with the strike leaders to-day and will hold further conferences to-morrow. He will talk to the Citlzens' Committee which ts trying to forestall a general strike and end the traction strike and may also meet President Shonta of the Interborough, Mayor Mitchel and Os- ar Straus, Chairman of the Public Service Commission The sentiment among unton leaders outside the atreet carmen ts Jagainst a general ysmpathetic strike which would involve the breaking of contracts, the opening up of disputes between employers and employes and A great drain on the depleted treas- uries of many unions for strike ben fits, A conservative union put it to The Evening World this way this af- ternoon “Lam against a sympathetic atrike and the unions I represent feel tho way Ido, At the meeting next Fri- day when the subject 1s brought up I shall express my individual sentt- ments. Lut if Samuel Gompers ex- presses himself ay in favor of a gen- eral sympathetic strike T shall sup- port him. If Gompers gives the Word, believe New York will sea a strike that | Union leaders appear to attach con- siderable importance to a conference a Samuel Gompers and the a’ Committees of Seven, which 1 to-morrow afternoon at Lindsay [ussell, a mem- committee, at No. 165 a jon men may t have that Mr. Russell's office ts nae to that of Theodore P. Shonta, president of the Interborough, It 1 . they intimate, that the Citizens’ Committee would be able to get Mr. Gompers and Mr, Shonta to- werner, | The oases of stone throwers who did | Rot cause injury, in the opinion of the District Attorney, could best be dealt jwith by charging them with assault bes Special Sessions, where they can be tried within a week and sentenced to 4 year in the penitentiary and a $500 fine, He promised to use all his in- fluence to have the extreme penalties Imposed, WOMAN WHO BIT POLICEMAN’S EAR FINED $5. The conference was also directed to finding a means of impressing olty magistrates with the gravity of the situation involved in letting off men who hurled missiles through windows of cars crowded with passengers, many of them women and children, Magistrate Brough in Harlem Court Nned Martha Silverman, charged with stonethrowing and biting the ear of. Policeman Heiimuth tn a strike fight last Sunday, $5 and allowed her two sisters and a girl cousin, arrested at the same time, to go with suspended nentences, He fined two men who were In a crowd throwing bricks and fighting policemen in an attack on @ One Hundred and Sixteenth Street car $10 each. The men arrested after these at- tacks In nearly every instance offered realstance in which they were assisted by sympathizers, Almost invariably the prisoners have described them- selves as carmen on strike, There was evidence which indicated to the police that the rough work of the last forty-eight hours was more or leas organized and the assignments of the police were shifted to meet this situation, Commissioner Woods was eful to state, however, that he atill had confidence in the sincerity of the strike leaders who had told him they were doing their utmost to prevent disorder, even though many of their followers seemed to be getting out of control GUARD FOR SURFACE LINES IN- CREASED. Additional uniformed police were placed along the routes of the cross. town lines from Thirty-fourth to Eighth Streets, where there was the most Interference by bands of strikers and rowdies yesterday, Fifteen automobiles, each carrying & leutenant and four men in plain clothes, were added to the number swiftly patroliing the surface car car lines. Commissioner Woods declined te comment on an utterance attributed to Frank O'Shea, an Amalgamated organizer, advising strikers to use “the Buffalo plan," or general vio- lence, He said he would order an investigation, and that he would pro- coed as severely egeinst © mas whe sora —