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PANE | EDITION Coy (The “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ i NEW YO 1916, by The Press Paul te sie York World), event omen seme MOBS ATTACK CARS AS POLICE PARAD nave SS PRICE ONE CENT. RK, TUES DAY, OCTOBER 17, 1916. ¥ WEATHER—Fair and Cooler To-Night and Wednesday, a NT. A PRICE ONE © —_>—— Montemagno Describes How Politician Begged Him to Put Rival Out of Way. ROFRANO CALLED KI ‘Gunman Was Told He Gould Make the Police Commis- sioner ‘Shine Shoes.” of \ Gaetano Montemagno, who shot down Michael Gaimart March 8, 1914, to-day in the trial of Michael A. Ro- frano put all the blame for the act on Rofrano and told of a murder confer- ence in Brooklyn at which he said) Rofrano, exasperated by delays in a! ranging for the killing through his + ' Yeutenants, appeared in person and \ made Montemagno promise to end Gatmart's life. Twice between Jan, 4 and March, (1914, Montermagno sald, he went to the! home of Joseph and John Brondint where he met them, their father, An-| \) tonto, Rocco Carnivale and Frank Fen- who had been urging him in name to kill Gatmarl and) \ whom each time he had put off. “Joe Brondini sald to me,” he said,! * describing the second visit, “you are not acting honorably and properly. Every time we talk to you, you say,/ to-morrow, next day, next day to-mor-| row.’ The boss wants to know when you will do this thing. Say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ so I can telephone your answer to Rofrano to-night." | Carnivale also told Montemagno, he said, that Rofrano out of patience} with the delay. A woek later he sald he was sent for to go to the Brondini home, He met Salvator Zurica, known as “Choc- olate,” on the street and took him along, In the parlor of the Brondint | home he found Rofrano, he sald, and all the other conspirators of the pre- vious conferenees. | “Rofrano made me sit bestde him," | said Montemagno, “He called me “ROFRANO ASKED MEO KILL GAIMARI,” SLAYER SWEARS; TELLS OF MURDER CONFAB |large a& she really is as she swept ARIZONA, BIGGEST BATTLESHIP, GOES INTO COMMISSION New Queen Formally Joins the Navy and Is Taken Out for a Spin. The United States steamship Art- gona, one of the two most powerful super-dreadnought battleships in the world, was put in commiasion at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to-day and went down the East River and out to the Bay through Buttermilk Channel at 1 o'clock. The monster war machine, becauso of her graceful lines, seemed not as slowly down the stream, greeted by| acroaming whistles and sirens from| shipping. But those who looked down on her deck from the Brooklyn Bridge could see the ship for the huge floating fortress which she ta, Early this morning the giant battle- ship was dragged out of drydock by a small flect of tugs and made fast to a seawall, All her false scaffold- ing has been cleared away and the last touch of paint applied, She is ready to steam to sea and to go into immediate action should the occasion necessitate, Tho Arizona ts a sister ship of the Pennsylvania, recently commissioned, and the pair of them are the last word in naval construction, This morning the last of her crew marched aboard and stowed away their kits, At noon the officers and crew were assembled on the quarterdeck, and Capt, John D, McDonald read the orders of the Navy Department aysigning him to the command of the vessel, The ship Tommy and smiled at me and poured) was then turned over to her com- out a glass of wine and told me to! mander by the Navy Yard officials, drink tt. after which the national colors and “Tommy,” he said to me, ‘have|tne commander's pennant were Rocks and Fennimore told you @ny~| hoisted while the band played “The thing?” Star Spangled Banne! “¥en! I said, ‘they tell me you! within a few days the Arizona will want me to kill ‘the Horse,“ proceed to sea on her trial trip. Dur- “The Horse” was the nickname of} ing the trip her eng!nes will be given Michael Gaimart, a thorough tryout and the manoeu- “That is so,’ he sald to me, “WhY) yring qualities of the ship will be have not you done it. It has been) gemonstrated more than a month since you Were | gHip BUILDING FEAT AT BROOK. told. You have done nothing except | LYN NAVY YARD, to may you would decide to-morrow) put by the Navy Departunent ata or the next day.’ | saving of $1,000,000 below the estimat. “Just then Zurica and a man named 4 cost of her construction, the Arl- de Mira, friends of mine came 1M) gona was finished to the hour within Somebody said it was not well they) tne estimated time for her construc- should know all our business and tion, Her keel was tald down March woe went into another room, Joe pi Nd Brondini drew the curtains and (Continued on Fox Park) scolded me for having those fellows a around, saying Kofrano did not like THE CANDIDATES. to have them know what he was do- ing.” ets nnd Where SWEARS ROFRANO SAID: “I'LL “Day. f MAKE FOLEY A SLAVE.” pasion feat paps At hades " , nN. That do| ow baw weaves for Chicago to- “Hxcuse tt,’ I sald, ‘Now, what do} tiivow at A. M. by way of Ale you want to say to me” Rofrano| juny and Buffalo, ace began talking. He said; ‘Do this! tes. Wilson and Secreta thing and all will go we Do you) Returns at midnight Friday by way know who Tam in New York? They | of Pittsburgh, all have to do as Tsay. f shall make CHARLES EB. HUGILES—South a slave of Tom Foley when you get as . ES i apoke at Mitchell rid of this man for me, [ will see GOV, WHITMAN On special. up: you have a good job and associate) st ee tat eet with good people,’ avction<-At Groton typewriter facto “1 will look out for you. Throw the) fal him were allow ae to en you have shot Gal- . L, BENSON, Soclalist candi. gun away when you have shot Gal } mari, All you have to do is to run ants for} Fealdent, wilt speak at vasadena, Cal., to-night, up from behind him and pull the y PRANK HANLY. Prohibition candidate for Pr South Bend, In t. speaks at » to-night, 4Continued on Fourth Page.) MORE POSTION ON SOME FRONT Drive Ahead in Sailly-Saillisel, | Part of Which Was Taken Yesterday. Germans Occupy Defenses! Built. During Religious War Two Hundred Years Ago. PARIS, Oct, 17.—Another group of houses in the village of Sallly-Sail- lisel, on the Somme front, was eaptured last night by the French, | the War Office announces, A strong rman counter-attack waa repulsed, Following is the text of the French War Office statement: “North of the Somme we oceu- pied a new group of houses in Salily-Saillisel, The enemy thia morning delivered a violent coun- ter-attack and succeeded in pene- trating a portion of our front line, An immediate counter-attack en- tirely drove him out. The number of prisoners made yesterday in the course of our counter-attacks was 90, We captured two machine guns “South of the River Somme a fresh attack on our positions cast of Herny-en-Santerre was broken by our fire.” Sailly-Saillisel 1s on the Bapaume- Peronne road, three miles northeast of Combles, and has been metioned as one of the supporting points of the new defensive line to which the Germans retired on the Somme front after the loss of Combles. Sailly- Salllisel {s less than four miles from the direct railroad connection remain- ing between Bapaume and Peronne, and an advance here is aimed straight at this railroad line, Caves dug by the Huguenots during the religious wars in France two cen- turles ago are helping the Germans maintain a strong resistance to the French armies in the Province of San- terre, the southern extremity of the Anglo-French offensive. When allied artillery, at the begin- ning of the Somme assault, demon- strated the pregnability of all kinds of defensive fortifications on the sur- face of the earth, the Germans be- gan placing their reliance on caves, cellars and underground works, In the prevince of Santerre the Huguenots had constructed @ great number of caves, both for refuge and for the concealment of money ani valuables, The Germans have ata- tioned machine gun squads In these positions | EE BRITISH EX TEND OFFENSIVE NORTH Oct. 11—British troops | Somme offensive north brook last night and nches west of Se reported this afternoon. LONDON, da the entered en | Hat | Gen Hes RUDuENoT caves, Crowds Stone Trolleys in Madison “ON EAST SIDE AS POLICE PARADE IN FIFTH AVENUE Avenue and at 96th Street and) Lexington Avenue — Reserves'| Called Out—Several Arrested. Strikers and their sympathizers, taking advantage of the withdrawal of policemen for the police parade in Fifth Avenue this afternoon,| stoned cars on the East Side, between Seventy-second and Ninety-sixth Streets, assaulted conductors and injured passengers, Three arrests were made. The first outbreak of the mob occurred at Ninety-sixth Street and Lexington Avenue, where a gang of twenty strikers made a rush and boarded a southbound car, The motorman drove part of the mob off the front platform with his controller, LAUDEDUP-STATE,| BREAK PARTY LINES police motor patrols came on the scene the gang fled. The next attack occurred half an hour later, when a north-bound Mad- {yon Avenue car was stoned as it passed Seventy-second Street, Prac- tically all of the windows were broken and Walter Nichols of No. 239 East Fighty-fifth Street, the motorman, waw badly cut the head by a piece of brick. Leas than a quarter of an hour later & southbound Madison Avenue car was stoned at Seventy-seventh Street and three passengers were cut by fly-| By Samuel M. Williama, tng glass, Almost immediately after-| §pecial Staff Correspondent of The! ward a northbound Madison Avenue ening World. , | pockets rifled of his fares. In the fighting he was badly cut over the right eye. Just as one of the | “He Kept Us Out of War’) Takes Mighty Hold on Peo- | ple in Country Regions. on down Albany that thi to the German Hospital The reserves from the Bust Sixty- the Went Catskill Shor and ot through towns car was stoned at onty-aixth| ALBANY, Oct, 17,—Wilson aen-|beln® caused by the knowledge that Street, and Walter Handler of No. 261] timent is sweeping like wildfire hardware store of Jacob Soffer, East One Hundrod and Fourth Street,| through New York State Froadway, near Twenty-Aret & passenger, Was 40 badly cut about| Reports reached Judge Seabury t *. \waa broken into during the the scalp that he had to be removed|day as bis train moved. slowly night and halt @ dosen revolvers SIX DEAD, TWO MISSING IN ASTORIA FIR TREASURER AND GIRL WORKERS TRAPPED FRENCH CAPTURE MANY HURT IN CAR RIOTS BAYONNE STRIKERS ATTACK POLICE AND TRY TOBURNPLANT a Oil Workers Shout Defianee as They Reject New Pro- posal for Peace, PAY INCREASE REFUSED. | Hardware Store in Oil District Looted, but Only Revolvers Are Taken. Aftor a night marked by a renewal of rioting and another attempt to ret Ire to the of the Tidewater Ol Company, a second effort to end tho strike of Standard Oil employoes at Bayonne, N. J., failed to-day. Supt George B. Hennessey, on behalf of the company, the strikers and again turned down the demands of the men for an increase plant met a committes of in wages. Hennessey said the company ready to arbitrate any other question, but the committee refused to take up) the other matters tn dispute. A few minutes after the superin- tendent had made known the com- pany's position, the committee left the Standard O11 offices, Outside the men were joined by fellow strikers and when the result of the conference Was stated the strikers shouted do- flance, The committee ts to make its re- port to @ mass meeting of strikers in Mydosh Hall this afternoon, ‘The po lice are preparing for a possible re- sumption of violence about that time HARDWARE STORE RAIDED FOR WEAPONS. Mayor Garvin and other city off- clais are anxtous over the outcome of thix afternoon's meeting, the anxiety stolen. ‘The general belief is that the | robbery was the work of strikers. Purther proof that many of the} strikers are still armed, despite the} fact that several score revolvers and rifles were confiscated by the police week, is shown by the revolver last | — EIGHT VICTIMS CAUGHT BY FLAMES IN OFFICE OF ASTORIA FACTORY PLANT Gale Fanned Blaze Which Threat- ened Big District and Spread Along Shore—Heat Drove the Firemen Back. FIRE FIGHTERS OVERCOME BY CHEMICALS AND SMOKE, At least six persons were burned to death when fire destroyed the factory of the Oakes Manufacturing Company in the Astoria section of Long Island City this afternoon, Six bodies were taken from the ruins, Two other persons, including the treasurer and assistant treasurer of the concern are missing. For three hours after the start of¢——— tho fire Deputy Chief O'Hara led fire-|the men managed to carry out the mon in repeated attempts to reach | bodies the centre of the building, where the| Th ft" spread to the Astoria Ton~ ca eer Mills, adjoining, and one of the offices were located, to get the bodies, | buiidings of the mall was destroyed, but they were driven back by the] It also spread to great piles of dye- fumes of chemicals and burning dye| wood and mahogany, and destroyed Several streams of water were Aa wood thousands of dollars’ worth of the tes = ; valuable wood. The total loss wae finally concentrated on the spot and timated by Chief O'Hara in the aay r yee 7 neighborhood of $100,000, '§ The burned factory was at the ft foot HERE THE REAL CHEESE, of Blackwell Street in the Astoria A WHOLE SHIPLOAD OF IT section of Tong Island City. The vie- tims were in the office tn the centre . . 7 a of the destroyed building. The mise- French Liner Arrives Chock Full of | me: Brie, Camembert, Gruyere COOK, H. C., Treasurer of the com- pats pany. and Other Kinds. CHRISTMAN, FREDERICK, There'll be a smacking of Ups and | sistant Treasurer. 4 rubbing of hands when they read] KENZLE, MISS EMILY, clerk. this along Broadway, There's &) DAUPHIN, MI French che ship in port. Oul) SAUERMANN, MISS. monsieur and madame! GEERS, Miss. The French liner Virginie asslved! JOHNSON, MISS. this morning from Bordeaux, Mock) Ap unidentified young woman clerk. full of cheese, And such a famine Assistant Superintendent Harry Lang told Fire Marshal Brophy that when the fire started he rushed into the office and gave warning. The there has been on that dear old cafe line on Broadway! Monsieur would sniff at the poor Imitation of ger- Circulation Books Open to All.”’ 16 PAGES smut entenn iint nntagitni: vaise, brie, Pont I'Eveque and camem- employees at first tried to fight the OF ANCRE BROOK |\o ————___ WILSON TIDE 1S RUNNING STRONG IN MIDDLE WEST Chairman McCormick Declares CHICAGO, Oct, 17.—After spending first day of the offensive, ritish drew thelr lines » to Serre and then were driven k, t has been no fighting on re ‘ont, The Germans, holding a} position at Thiepva!, made tt | ivisable for th allies to extend | rations further north, The of Thiepyal opened the way of the front, Bele | DEFEAT OF FRENCH AND BRITISH TROOPS | CLAIMED BY BERLIN , Oct. 17.—Repulse of Brit- attacks near Guedecourt ar! (Continued on Second Page.) ish wnetor seventh and Elghty-elghth Street Sta- | State ix on the verge of a tremendous Uons were called out and made three political overturn. Wilwon has ke arrests in the crowd which made} us out of war" ts heard everywh the last.attack. Inspector Morris im-| particularly In rural reglona, uttered mediately sent an extra detail of de-|with devolt earnestness and thank tectives and policemen to the region. | fulness, Local campaigns, local issues, local, candidates are unnoticed supernumer- | artes to the central figure of Wilson, | who has become an object of admira- | tion almost worshipful In Catskill to-day political leaders reported that the farmers and villag There That He Has Little Te declarle thee yore UBanINOUy of the committes at the outact by Te- fusing to enter the ference until Poubt of Result font Melcher had left the room. Ho refused It {9 a moral more than a political battles In which police and strikers engaged during the night. The committes that waited on Supt. Hennessey consisted of one man from each of the six departments of the company, with George Moicher, 4 Bayonne newspaper man leading the strikers as spokesman. Hennessey incurred the displeasure to recognize him as a member of the thirty-six hours at Western Demo.| revolution that ts overturning the! committees. Melcher finally left and cratic Headquarters conferring with| State then Hennoew: brought the confer tional Committeeman and State}| Party lines are weakening and /ence to @ sudden end by his flat re chairmen tn regard to the progress| breaking only so far as the Prosident) tusal to grant an increase’ In wages. C. Meche a fae ee is concerned: § Dhay stil hold s'ronk| BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT TO | Democratic Nat Committee, left shi aceay ry cage SERA STRIKERS. Ghisess tor New Vork tacmee perat and Whitman Republican| mpg outcome of the conference was nc tFom the reports that came to me fomin Ato the political situation, Judge] 4 pitter disappointment to the here have not @& doubt as the! Seabury lauding iso « yro: 01 y e| result of the election,” said Chairn: as claieniice m lenis wt a end Dive strikers because they ned let it be McCormick “President Wilson's come known they would be content campaign in the Middle West ix in) dominant Isvue of the Democratic! with @ much smaller increase than ie shape, R had heard bes re | Cmpalen ve Hocratic State success! their original demands called for o ew or hat the iddle West 401 eo inal ep. " 1 Cy aA TONY fOr (ia Comallent, b, weer ee bathe Oa 7 The men went on strike when tholr I was unprepared to find the tide) . fy | demands for 20 par cont. increase for running in such volume." jday on rippers’ bills and office re-| men earning less than $3 and 20 per —_ | movale, The Governor last Mixbt) cent. increase for those earning more FINED FOR HAVING BAD JEAT.| ovis fant wining: would nave Fo. {than that a day wers refusd, Melcher | reeset tained. “I can do better than give, intimated they would be content with A record fine of $500 for having bad/ him the numex of men whom he im-| increases of 18 and 1 cont | moats and vegetables was imposed by | properly re : ald Seabury Word reached t rikers during Mawtatrats ye ee YS pias * if the day that the employees of the 4 Ker 1 removed them fr Standard Oil plant at Haywa Jand went out in sympathy with them last Health Departmen ton want Migh- week, were returning to work. Hun- ee eee earned nas of meats Yee | aden and then retuned six months ux dreds of the men returned to the Bay- the store and that In’apite of repeated | chief adviser to teach the new Com- way plant thia morning, and the off warnings, the goods had not boon re- | misste Edwin Duffy, some of the cialis expect al WE oe ‘except some whi d been sold. | rudiinonts of road building: also Cal. | “isl® @xPect allgbands back by to-/ , of wome of the goods toa vin Huron, forced to realign as Com. | Morrow , are Red hade reert ed I the ees: | missioner ‘of Agriculture and then| Early to-day about 126 of the| taurant proprietor ing convicted andimade a member of the State Fair) id fined for baying bad food, Commission, (Continued on Second Page.) bert, So would Willie Wall Street and Jimmie Broad Street when they got uptown, ut the hold of the Virgini Just stacked with gervaise, Pont I'Eveque, brie, camembert, gruyere, gorgonzola and Port du Salut, st of cheese for the gods who may be fond of the fairy fromage. Pier No. 67 on the North River is redolent with the odors of what the cafes bave been | longing for fire with their own fire department and with standpipes, but it quickly got beyond them, Lang said the office force had plenty of time to leave the building and for an hour after he got out he believed they were all safe, The factory was in @ corrugated iron structure over two hundred feet long and ninety feet wide and the office was in the centre. Adjoining ee it was the laboratory where the fire started, It spread quickly and wi UTICA MAN A SUICIDE AT SEA, REPORTS CAPTAIN een ie ita nate ead tt »vered that the girls and the and his assistant wee ved Elliot H. Seward Last Se Rail of Near | treasurer Orduna Yester- Dissing day Morning, Deputy Chief O'Hara made several attempts to lead his men into the ruing Capt. Taylor of the White Star] to search for the office force, but they {ner Orduna, just in from Liverpool,| were driven back by the fumes of reported to the company to-day that] chemicals and the dense smoke of the Elliot H. Seward of Utica, a first} dye wood. All tie houses of the neigh- cabin passenger, had committed) porhood were searched without avail suicide yesterday morning by jump-|and boats were sent out to discover ing overboard. | whether they had escaped on the No one saw Mr, Seward leap over! water front, but none of the boacmen the but ©. T. Spedding, the had seen the missing people, pur htered him near the ral:! The barrel factory of the plank At 7 o'clock looking very despondent, | clogs to the office bullding, caught When Mr ward did not appeir ‘ § ullding, caught fire at lui Lip was soarchod, | several times thing wa and in his ergo 16 Hames also spread to some small ndicate i ntended hoathouses and a barge at the dock om iver but was kept away the main buildings of the plang |A lumber yard filled with mahogany | logs and boards caught fire and creat a dense smoke that rolled along the | north shore as far as Flushing, Fumes from material stored on the lower floor | of the office building and in the barn, were stifling and temporarily disabled | several of phe firemen, the v issen ee tat Wie rom m fellow usual RACING RESULTS ON PAGE 2, ENTRIES ON SPORTING PAGE, ote iat semmanrey az