The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1916, Page 1

— —t wa < ' EDITION ———e PRICE 0 Copyright, 1916, by Co. (The NE ENT. yw York World). Che [Circulation Books Open to All.”’ The Press Publishing NEW ERL YORK, THURSDA IN MUST STATE S. SUBMARINE ASHORE; RESCUERS CANT Y, DECEMBER 14, 1916. f “Circulation Books Open to All.” | 20 PAGES TO-DAY'S WEATHER—Fair; continued cold. 7% PRICE ON E CENT. TERM S} ALLIES WILL THEN ANSWER 5 MAYOR TESTS SUBWAY JAM WITH EVENING WORLD MAN: WIL HELP RELEVE CRUSH (U.S. SUBMARINE 1-3 RUNS ON A SHOAL; SIGNALS: ALL SAFE Efforts by Mother Ship Fail to Reach Her—May Take Crew Off in Breeches Buoy. | Takes Trip Up and Down Line in “Rush Hour” to Verify Complaints. DAZED BY CROWDING. Finds Minor Improvements Possible, but New Subways Only Real Relief. By Martin Green. wor the réquest of The Evening “World, Mayor John Purroy Mitchei eased himself into and extricated Bimself from the subway rush, morn- fng and evening, yesterday because he) ciate submarine questioned on Tuesday somo state-| i naer HOR ments which were made to him at the City Hall by an Evening World| |boldt Bay, two miles north of Hur writer, The Evening World man rides! yy in the subway only in the rush hours | aii for help came the: signal telling =the morning downtown rush hour, | tne that all on board the evening uptown rush hour, and, were safe. sometimes, the evening downtown while jt ts generally believed the theatre rush hour, and the 11 P. M.'veasel escaped serlous injury, reports uptown theatre rush hour—which lat-!t4 the contrary w One ter is, perhaps, as bad as any, that could not be confirmed was to the Mayor Mitchel rides In the sub- that bits of wreckage from the way, but he doesn't have to jam him-/ 11 4 11 heon washed ashore, @eit Into a train at @ certain tlme) a1. other whip Cheyenne at noon every morning and made an attempt to reach the sub- pull himself out, marine, but gave it up after passing bone by bone and the first line of breakers. muscle by muscle, The Coast Guard crow have ar- atthe Ninety-sixth ranged to shoot a line over the vessel on at a Street as mab to take off the erew by means of a certain thne every Bi ACHES EUREKA, Cal., Dec. 14. H-3, Bogusch, The United Lieut Com- grounded in a fog early to-day on a shoal in Hum- Along with the wireles: on shore e current, Re Mayer toally night. The Mayor ry few minutes the submarine's can afford to ride air whistle was heard conveying the fe ay automobile tessage that the crew waa safe with- sist in, It was believed that with tho and he uses his} hatches closed the imprisoned men Automobile when were using their submersing equip ever he can be- ment air tanks as an i and Teaen lie boane that conditions were substantially the same as if the B-3 were submerged. The crew consists of twenty-two men, SEVEN STEAMSHIPS SUNK; ONE CARRIED MUNITIONS Nine Lives Lost When Vessel Is Sent to the Bottom After Making Rescues AMSTERDAM, Deo, 14 marines sank a Br and bis office. that respect ne is ponsible, He takes the subway when he thinks he can make time thereby and he takes his car for the same Feason, and tho average citizen may Hot believe that the Mayor of New! York puts in more hours a day of grinding and exasperating toil than any man in the country receiving ten mes his salary Anyhow, the Mayor was Ineredulous when The Evening World writer told| German sub ste bound i from New York to England with a cargo that the sub-|o¢ , 0 tons of war material, in the has reached/ english Channel, according to tele- he overflow stage, What subway rid-| Jing ho ordinarily | pndures oceurs| when the great} R~city of which he ts the minicipal-head is at work. “Come out and| * sald The Eve- grams from Berlin The despatches also state that he tween Nov, 28 and Dec. 8 German marines succ d in sinking vei laden with 17,000 tons of coal bound ingland to Brance, rae | 4. Reuter despatch from tlania reports the sinking steamer Bjor by @ torpedo, The crew Chris- of the see, ing World man, | was landed EAS |. The a Laurens Was a French Mayor Mitchel! ,, G2 inne wrona fhe or called the bet. He| was a Kian steamer of 1,590 rode downtown! tons Rushing s Another Lloyds announcement saya From the yesterday morning! “The steamer Harlington, preylown. express te in a Broadway ex- | ly Feported as having struck a mine the local . cn December 9, sank and the crew press from One| was picked up by the steamor Hare Hundred and For-| yn, which was “sunk later, Nine Pan lives: were lost." ty-fifth Strost and he rode uptown! “rhe "sinking of the British steam- last night in the frenzied rush hour] ship Ursula {5 also reported. The Harlingto: from City Hall to Ninety-sixth and Halyn were both Britivh steamers, —U: > Btreet. He closed his experience a] of 1.000 tonsa gross and the alana somewhat heartsick young executive, | 3,454 tons gross. “All I can say is that I heartily The St. Ursula, of 6,100 tons gross, iled “from Montre ei sympathize with the subway suf-|geyed from Mon a porta.” eRERT fecers,” sald the Mayor, “and I am —————— WISE, MO GREE THAT Father Joue's Medicine | ver suuldren (Continued on Eleventh Page.) | yiss' we vet onld or Se 4 PREFERS IAL AT 60 TOCARNG FOR HER GRANDCHLORE Mrs. Clara Bessenger Refuses Bail When Sentenced to Six Months. “MATTER OF PRINCIPL Says Wife Should Work to Support Babies Deserted By Her Son. Refusing absolutely to obey the order of Magistrate Miller in the Jamaica Court to-day, directing her to support her three grandchildren, whose father disappeared a year ago, Mra. Clara 8, Bessenger, sixty years old, was sentenced to six months in of $260, Scores of friends offered to put up the bond, but Mrs, Bessenger re- Jected aid and said she was willing to go to fail and stay there tn sup- port of her bellef that she should not be compelled to support the children of her son, Mrs. court several weeks ag Bessenger was taken into on the com- Mrs. plaint of her daughter-in-law, Edna B, Jones of No. 2379 Jamaica Avenue, Richmond Hill, Mrs, Jones said her husband had disappeared and jloft her with the three children, Myr- jtle, four years old; Cajvin, three, and Arthur, two, She said she was un- able to support them. The decision of the magistrate or- dering Mrs. Bessenger to support the children was appealed by Edgar 8. Hazelton, her counsel, and when Jus- tice Kelly decided the order was valid Mrs. Bessenger was calledinto court for sentence to-day, “I am not a wealthy woman,” Mrs. Bessenger said, “and all the property I have is my home at No, 169 Cedar Avenue, Richmond Hill, My daugh- ter-in-law will not work to support her children and, while I realize my son ts the one who should support them, he has disappeared and I can- not further help the children, I bave children of my own to protect, “This thing has now become a mat- ter of principle and not of sentiment with me and I am determined to go through with it, I will the whole six months, I hope over, in | Blackwell's Island I can do a little good among the women Jess fortunate than myself, and perhaps the six months I will spend there will not be 48 terrible as it seems. I will post- tively not permit one of my friends to file a bond.” Lawyer Hazleton asked for a stay of judgment pending an appeal to the Appellate Division, but Magis- trate Miller sald he thought some- thing should be done to insure the children food during the court pro- ceedings and ho would Insist that serve provided, “My mother-in-law has plenty,” Mrs. Jones said, “and in spite of her statements to the contrary, she has nothing for us. I have done what I could to help care for my children and I belleve she should be done made to share the responalbility which js her son's.” —_— oo {$10 Men’s O’coats &Suits,$5.95 The “HUB" Clothing corner, Broad- AMERICANS RUSH TODEATHAT 43, SAY INSURANCE HEADS Presidents of Companies With $20,000,000,000 Life Poli- cies Give Warning. BLAME DRINK AND DRUG. Out of 1,300,000 Applicants for Insurance Annually 100,000 Are Rejected. Men who represent twenty billions of dollars of life insurance carried by American citizens met to-day at the Hotel Astor and gave the average cltizen an entirely new Nght upon himself. The energetic persons who thus searchingly dissected the physl- Association of Life Insurance Presi- the workhouse tn default of a bond cal defects of Americans compose the, PEACE PROPOSAL j | dents, Itis thelr tenth annual session, From them came the statement that out of 1,200,000 applications for insurance each year 100,000 are rejected; that Americans consume seventy-five million pounds of drugs each year, and that the average citi- zen has increased his consumption of alcohol since 1860 from 6.4 to 19.8 gal- lons, This increase has raised the death rate among moderate drinkers 18 per cent. and among the steady drinkers 86 per cent, Arralgning ge American extrava- gance of to-day W. A. Day, presi- dent of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, Chairman of the convention, said: “We cannot longer view with {n- difference the great modern American sin of extravagance, “It used to be said that the average American home had on atmospher: of uncomplaining frugality in which the mental and moral attributes of our people were firmly knit and in- vigorat It Is no enough that we teach habits of thrift and saving by soliciting and selling fe insurance protection, but an extra and perma- nent effort might profitably be made to check the extraordinary wasteful- ness of our people Individually and collectively,” It was from E. E, Rittenhouse of the Equitable that the Presidénts got thelr pen picture of the average cit- izen of the United States “Let us look at our physical Amer- fean, our per. capita person, more closely,” said Mr. Rittenhouse, “He hurries, He has no time to waste The median age h of the Amer ican people is about forty-three years. He is trying, with the aid of new Knowledge and inye 4, to crowd the experlences of two lifetimes into one, He is having some success, but the strain is telling on him, His hair has aged and he ts getting bald, Na ture asks why hirsute protection Is needed indoors, “His teeth put up « good front, but they need attention, Lack of profes. sional care and of exercise due to the the woman be held until a bond {g| !merease in soft, unrest ing foods bag impaired the health of bot! teeth and gums. His digestive organs have been given so many new and arduc duties to which they were not trainec that they are showing s of reb lion. He is sertously ratrain| his heart, art kidneys, ner 4 and digestion as th pidly increas. ing death rate shows. “Under exertion he is short-winded, due to lack of exercise or a bad he. {His 400 muscles are virtually allgs: and weak from lack of use, designed as an erect, outd with feet and legs for servi r animal but be {not only les down by night but he! eis THREE TIMES AS MANY GUNS — | AS GERMANY, SAYS NORTHCLIFFE Peace Proposals Received With Contempt, and Allies Stand Firm as Plymouth Rock, He Declares. By Lord Northcliffe. (Written for The United Press.) (Copyright, 1916, by United Press, Copyrighted in Great Britain.) LONDON, Dec, 14.-Germany's peace proposals are due to the fact, which interned neutral correspondents in Berlin have not been allowed to indicate, that during the last few weeks grave internal dissensions have arisen, owing to the food shortage and the reign of terror. Moreover, relations have been greatly strained between the various German ang Austrian States and also with Turkey. The Prussian Government also has learned that the British Empire will, during 1917, put forth an effort equal at least to that of Germany in 1914 and, from the point of view of gune and shells, three times that of Germany at any period of the war. The proposals have been received here with contempt. We are gratified that American senses of humor and justice have seen through this bluff. Frence, Russia, Italy and little Belgium are firm as Plymouth Rock. 'WILSON FORWARDS i tente countries where it represents: the Central Powers diplomatically, and that the note delivered there was the same a4 that cabled to the United States, The Swiss Minister, Dr. Ritter, also} called on Secretary Lansing. His visit, coupled with the fact that one oth putral i# moving to support | the President In any effort to secure) ® consideraion of peace, led to the belief that some light on the attitude | of the United States toward such a general movement by neutrals was at least being sounded out nae LLOYD GEORGE TAKES SLIGHT TURN FOR WORSE: Premier's Physicians Keep Him in ‘WITHOUT COMMENT President Decides to Take No Step at This Time—May Do So Later. By Samuel M. Williams. (Special Steff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Dec, 14,—The Bed and Will Allow No United States Government will not Visitors to See Him. y effo:. to urge at thin time. make Bey ‘¢fto Hing| LONDON, Dec. 14.—The condition upon Great Britain and her allles| 5p premier ‘David Liovd George has special consideration of the peace! taken a sil¢ht turn for the worse, He proposals submitted by Germany. | suffered considerably from a severe OMictal text of the note, already | chill conts dearly In the week and ; his physiclans have ordered him to ounced by Chancellor Von Beth- announced by Chancellor Von remain tn bed a few days more, mann-Hollweg, was Ived_ from |“ Pyiends of the Premler express the BRerlin at the Department of State | hope that he Will be able to appear in the House of Commons next Tues- this morning. After decoding, 1t was| day, as planned, It way|. Mr. Bonar Law satd in the House laid before President Wilson. |to-day that the Premier's phyatctans substantially the same as the pub-| would allow no one to see him, lished text, there being only ees BRITISH WORK ON PLAN unimportant differences, confined chiefly to rearrangement of se-| TO M M AN auences of Paragraph, | ARM MERCHANTMEN Secretary of State Lansing sald Se that th was no special communi-| Announcement of Consideration of Proposal b ition accompanying the official text, rded Admiralty Is Made in House of Commons, a request that it be forw to governments oF Allied owers, UNDON, Dee. t--In the House of wh » United States represented. |, » to-day Thomas MacNama This would be done probably to-day,» 4 1 Under Secretary for the he said As announced that the Ad | whether the United States) mira iad under earnest considera- nment was preparing any ex- Uon the matter of arming merchant yeace to ac. | Shlps oft note Secretary Lansing re- ad been done, f its own on pony the > O'RYAN STARTS FOR HOME. ken Charme of Re- | | German transmission the | plied that nothing At least one of the European neu-| Y. Men on Border, train be ready has sent a despateh | Tex to hia home government asking to be| O'Ryan was hurrying pre aut to assure President Wilson | day for his departure with his atafé and \o¢ che eupport of his government in| headquarters force for Now York City CO ee ge comminn te Lae an commanding the First : © command of the tento Allies designed fluence New York militia forees them to give considerat to the Of | arter O'Ryan leaves this evening | » discuss peace, T' are First Battalion signal corps ts . 4 that some of the other neu- | already en route home, The balance) trais may follow suit of the New York units designated to re- | The German Embassy to-day had | turn home ready to leave to-ntght| | ew on the Turkish and Bulgarian Dp tatives were entirely without 1ew from home Spanish Ambassador, M at wdy ituation and | n jo. | American in two sections > - irl Weds an Ansteinn| Prince. | WASHINGTON ering A, Britton of spat way cor, Harclay Bt opp. Woolworth sits by day, Ho nover Walks who Mian, was an early caller the | Alfred Zu Hohent hilt ae Building, will gell to-day and Friday 1,200 he can ride. The arches of his feet State Department and conferred with credited to the Austro-tfingarian Em fancy grays, browns and dark mixed, in @@, Sraduaily falling becauso bis Secretary Lansing, He sald he had hussy, wor © to-day, ‘They Tain or pinch backs; all lacs, 3¢to 44, (uscles provided to hold them up| Ticcy trom Madrid that his Govern. | will resi Francisco, where uur special price to-day und Friday, baVe weakened by long disuse, Under °° th Prince H at present !@ at | $5.95 and $6.95, ‘The Hub Clothiers, exertion he finds his joints stiffened Ment “80 had received the German rn? Hungarlan Con Broadway, Corner Barclay Street.—Adyt. {reu) the same cause,’ rm fos transmission to those Bn- gulaie. tH SAFETY MUST BE SECURED BEFORE PEACE CAN BE MADE BONAR LAW TELLS COMMONS Berlin Reported to Be in Favor of a Conference at The Hague in Janu- ary—Kaiser at Home Waiting for Answer. 1,000,000 MORE TROOPS CALLED OUT BY BRITAIN WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—The Embassies of the entente allies here to-day reflected the view that Germany's peace proposals will not be rejected without examination but that the allies in reply probably will call for a statement of proposed terms, so they may not be placed in the position of unqualifiedly rejecting peace. LONDON, Dec. 14.—Andrew Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, spoke of Germany's peace proposal In the House of Commons to-day. “Something has happened of which I think ft necessary that I should say a word,” said Mr. Law. “Naturally the papers are full of the peace Proposals from Berlin. Until now no proposal has reached His Majesty’s Government. “In moving the last vote of credit,” sald Bonar Law, “Mr, Asquith used the words: ‘They (the allies) require that there shall be adequate security for the future.’ “That Is still the policy and still the determination of His Majesty's Government.” The statement was received with prolonged and general cheers. “The man who asks for peace is generally the man who has had enough,” declared Gen. Maurice, Director of Military Operations, to-day. These peace proposals should be a great encouragement to us. Chan- cellor Hollweg’s speech can be traced directly to developments on the Somme. “Independent British and French estimates show that the Germans have lost over 700,000 men since July 4, including 95,000 who were cap- tured. In addition they lost 135 heavy guns, 180 field pieces and 1,344 machine guns. “It is especially significant that the German losses were from their best fighting forces.” A despatch from Berne says the Kaiser retumed to Berlin Tuesday . evening, where he will remain until the answer of the Entente Powers to the German peace proposal is received, BERLIN PLANS CONFERENCE ON PEACE IN JANUARY Government Believes That an Exchange of Views at The Hague Would Bring About Agreement. BERLIN, Dec. 14.—Imperial German officials are convinced that the peace proposals made by Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg are based upon sound principles that eventually will lead to peace, The underlying purpose of the Central Powers is to bring together at The Hague representatives of all the belligerents, ip the hope that an un- restrained, face-to-face exchange of views as to the causes of the war and the things for which the belligerents are fighting, will result in a junda mental arrange t that will end the war, German statesmen believe that once these representatives gathered around a table and talked trankly with each other, they would not adjourn until they had evolved a pian that would make peace a certainty. The Imperial Government desires to have this informal discussion take place at The Hague in January, It is understotod the German Gov- ¢rnment will not insist that the Entente Powers agree In advance to dis REACH HER } ; | | |