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—— = VAL ‘ EDITION __PRIOR ONE CENT. |e Copyright Che Circulation Books Open to Alt,” | 1 Co. (Fh ow Tore ‘he Press Publishing were NEW YORK, WEDNESDA BERLIN BELIEVES BRITAIN WANTS PEACE; WEATHER—Snow To-Night) Slightly Warmer, AL EDITION ; Y, DECEMBER 20, 1916. es Circulation Books Open ‘to All.” | 22 ? A AG E 8 PRICE (ONE © CENT. wn CALLS LLOYD GEORGE SPEECH A BLUFF DISTRICT ATTORNEY FORCES OUESUSEFRONT X.Y. SENAL COIS.” SERVICE BOARD 10 COMPEL ~— EATING OF THE B.R. T.CARS PROPOSED. District Attorney Harry FB. Lewls @ Kings County put the matter of Prapor heating of the trolley care of Brooklyn squarely up to the Public Commission to-day, If the Public Service Commission ts really ~ Pent upon forcing the B. R. T. to heat its trolley cars In compliance with the Jaw the District Attornoy of Kings County stands ready to lend the great Power of his office to aid In the work. Oscar Straus, Chairman of the Pub- Me Service Commission, after Yestigation of the Brooklyn situation | nd a conference with other members | of the Commission, afternoon that certified copies of or-| ders served on the B. Kt. with proofs of service and evidence non-compliance on the part of B. I. Lewis Willing to C to Co-operate, but Has Not the Facilities to Gather Evidence. NEW PLA Copies of All Orders to Be Sent to Prosecutors and Police by Commission. an in-! announced this | BIGGEST AND BEST BATTLESHIPS 10 BE Will Cost Mount 16-Inch Guns Have 180,000 Horse Power, WASHINGTON, Dec, America’s giant battleships will cost $4,- | 000,000 each and will mount twelve 14+ new inch guns, naval chiefs told the House They the largest Naval Committee to will be afloat ay so far as iy known, and the most powerful, with | 180,000 horse power electric engines. Bearing out the testimony of Capt W. 8. Simms yesterday, Admiral together | Strauss declared his belief that in a ft) would the real fight the range of battle j be below 12,000 yards—within oMcerd or agents, will bo sent to the) Agiiing range of the 14-inch guns District Attorney without delay. of Kings County | In such a case, he said, the fleet with the greater number of guns, Mr, Lewis mado known his stand in) Oi. ings being equal, would be & letter | addrossed to Chairman) oe On the new buttioshipa, he Straus. While the District Attorney | iy trom 15 to 18 1-4 Inch ef Kings County ts anxlous to co- operate with the Public Ser ‘om- mission, he would take Ind ent action In cuse such co atlon was ° not forthcoming. A copy of hin letter | to Mr, Straus follows, “During, the course of the year arious complaints are occasionally mado by citizens concerning the #¢ vice of the street railroad eorpora- tlons operating in this borough under the Brooklyn Rapid Transit System: Buch compluints usually involve lations by officers and « atreet railroad corporations of orders made by your body.” “The violations by those and agents constitute im and are punishable criminally. (See Public Service Commission's Law 456). The orders, however, are made Dy you, served by your agents upon vio- officers panors tho whose duty it Is to enforce them, and the compliance with those (Continued on Second Page.) od WJURED WOMAN AND TWO AGED MEN SAVED AT FIRE) Firemen and a Special Potic Carry Three From Burning Building. Fire starting in the cellar of (he four-story building at No. 708 Avenue, Brooklyn, this aftern on paints and oils in the st: om fed Earthy, who had a hardware and paint store on the ground floor, and rapidly swept through the upper floors. George Esberger and his daughter Mra. John Stockman, esea nd fiat one flight up by the stairway Mrs. Nellie Shinuey, who lived on the second floor, was overcome by the amoke on the first landing and fell to the first Moor hallway, break- ing her left leg. She was rescued by Otto Schumann, a special policeman "The top floor flai w asoceupled by Samuel Stewart, seventy years old and Alexander Parker, sixty years old. They were overcorr by sme and found unconscious ware carried down the rear fire ine by Fire Captain Donaghy Firemen Bre and Duge. ents of such | s[eldest child, k of G.! be mounted aa against twelve 16-1nen Kune Ax examples of long and. short jrange fights in the Kuropean war, | dam auss said the enly two long “ung bottles those off the land Islands and that off the Hanke chases. The 1 fights done off the west coast of South Americ nd the (big Jutland engagement wefe at | muon closer range, whera the larger number of ans nd the atively superior firing apeed of smaller guns eral Hoard bad overruled him on the ques- tion of the relative merits of 8 and 14-inch guns) Ho accepted cision, he said, One reason given in naval circles for Strauss's intended retirement from his post as Ordna Chief, is the board's | action MUTE BOY BESS FOR HELP AS SISTER BURNS TO DEATH the de- aves for Assistance From Fire. | Escupe—He and Baby Also Injured, Mrs ah Sparage returned from her marketing to-day to find her flat at No, 4 utgers Place tn flames, her Sylvia, five and one-half burned to death, and the clothing of Ler vight-months-old baby | years old, Rachael afire us she lay in her cradle Isaac, four years old, a deat mute. was slightly burned also How the fire started only het | mute knows, He was seen a few moments before the fire was discov ered, on the fre ex. Hahing fran te motions to those in the street low. He was wavd back in | apartime breaking th: | fre w was p Move Water to Re Diverted trom Niawara, WABHINGTON, De h, — dene it @ Rives above ine Vala, tes from INUNE FORULS. $24,000,000 Each, | and | DOORS, BABES TAKE: BACK FROM TEXAS; {Lawyer Reese Geis Injunction Guardsmen Had Six Months ° Against Rule of Roger Mor- | Of Smooth Sailing on Bor- ris Apartments, |; der, Says Commander. SLAYED. IN FR |RIDE GHT LIFTS, SQUADRON A D the front entrance, Reese told Justice Greenbaum to-day, his child must | wo out through the hallway and door used to remove garbage, empty bot- tles and furnity | There are six other complex property of a Signal outfit was properly brought to the armortes. A Company sent its miniature gen- eral store to the armory at Park Ave- dables in the| nue and Thirty-fourth Strect. house, which has 106 tenants. The + te y, taking the Chambers Street elevator men refuse to take the in. |PAny taking i oy - fants in their carriages to the firat| Ferry, went directly to Its urmory floor, ‘They are carr to the second | Dean Street, Brooklyn, The men had floor and then taken out onto One Hundred and Sixtleth Street at a point where the sidewalk Is steep and motor trucks, wireless apparatus, tei- cots, chairs ndless egraph Instruments, wire, and all sorts of tools and an especially dangerous these winter | vartoty of little articles to get safely | days on the trucks. | Justice Greenbaum granted a tem-| at the armorlos dozens of men and porary injunction, giving the defend-| women camo to greet the returnin about babies and nothing was known of the anti-baby rule until Mr. Reese and his wife had been in the apart- ment two weeks PLANT WIZARD BURBANK 0 WED AGAIN AT 65 the “Busy Bees" of the wireless and wire forces, One of thelr achleyements wan to establish a news wireless ser vice with a sending and recelving radius of 220 miles At the outset the two companies had 178 men, Five were sent h on furlough and three—Master E trician Baker and Privates Webster and Winslow-—died during the service Famous lifornian Will Marry Li A re PPO te Pri . ° |) Major Walliam dalihan, com His Private Secretary To-Mor- manding ts men, suid row Afternoon, “The battalion had a service re SANTA RO! Cal, Deo, 26. markable for good behavior and Lather Burbank, famous plant wiz. | smoot sailing: WA: aio Bak pAYE S ard, in San Francisco to-morrow at.| ae under SAS NS Re ternoon, will marry Miss Hllaabeth | ere was absolutely no iarder | Waters, who has been hie private |OUr contre comman hecretany two beatae PUNMt#] “he United States mustering offi Mins Waters’ home is at Hastings, | 7." fi ae Pps ap aa Mich, Hefore coming here she was | oo! Lei wt i men am | ernploye by a New York tubtishing | connection lem In. check house turbe ipoin ope 1 iw no # 0 Hurbank wha in sixtyefive year eee ang they me aia Jom after disposing of é u e Kederal ottivers are read ME mere for them, fifty of the 200 mar the Oliphant-| New York gu " Jonson coal mine entombed by 4 gax| oack from the ‘ Major Gen jexplovion have been rescued so tx jJohn F. O'Ryan and staff of the leit ¥ 8 . | Headquarters Division are due t ailvway o Be ‘ One-Half tm Gri PEO LONDON, Dec. 90.--Fit @ men of Squadron 4, New York's r of all railway fares jen, | crack cava were expected to sCcalinued ou Second lege) CARBAGE ENTRANCE 1,000 MORE ON WAY B Com. | 's SEEN BY WIDOW OF SKEFFINGTON Effort by Lloyd George to Revolution, She Says. “GERMANY 10" WIN WAR, |Even Visiting Infants Are Sub-| Major General O’Ryan and \“Englishmen Can't Fight and jected to Indignity, Asserts | Staff, Due —To-Morrow — All of Erin's Sons Who Complainant. | Engineers Here Saturday. Would Go Are ai Front.’ Aibort Réeues a Tawyer of No. 400 ON® Hundred and seventy husky ithe: coming ciate. ower ote Linge: et A young men in olive drab, composing George a Premier of Great Britain j West Ono Hundred’ “and SIstlett | 4 eyret attalion, Signal Coarpa,| will mean revolution in Ireland and | Street, father of a four months’ oll] 04 yore National Guard, came! many will defeat the allies In + daughter, is determined abe shall not) i cuting and singing Into New Yor! war, were the tions mate a ag 4s day by 1 y Skeffing- be take c " row er me se to bate from her hom to-day after six months of service on | ety fh of the Lriah editor shot Mirough the back entrances of the! t4 yrextcun’ border. They marched | April 26 last by the British In © wer Morris Apartments, Where the | som their cara at the Erie terminal nection with the Irish uprising, M Reeses lye, behind @ guidon, tattered by the Skeffington told an Kvening Agr While dogs ride in the passenger] ginae of the sand realm, and sepa-| ‘CHRISTMAS TURKEY Dwi reporter what she thought of En elevators and come and go through | sated into groups to see that the | jland In particular and tileragtiban | problems in general, She and her sev Owen are staying o TO 35 CENTS AT RET ear-old son} the Hotel Karle, | |Wholesglers Declare 1 Declare There Is No} No. 108 Waverley P' where they | Scarcity and No Excuse for Jarrived two daye ago after “amug al Ives past the British Higher Prices. censors und even thwarting the Brit-| | The Peace Turkey for the Chrlst-|ish Consul in New York In his effort mas dinner Jy belng sold to-day In| to ha ted. Bhe had been markets at 85 cents a pound| refused a passport to come from five to six cents less than the] Amc.‘ca, she aaid, because she would | Thanksgiving bird which tried to/not promise not to discuss the war k all records but, under the light] in this country | { publicity, had to surrender at 40] Mrs, Skeffington ts @ little, frail 1 woman, with Jet black hair and piere- ing blue but sorrow and worry are written deep into the premature lines in blanched face, When she mld be no adyance aid BQ. oid cents eithe expert for th: kot ind Markets De- Foy, ine ants time to make reply Friday soldiers, Tho wives of the officers partment, "Call them peace or warlspenks of her husband her eyes fil “The situation is intolerable,” said | watted in the offers’ q Many | surness—there te noe rhere| with teara and she invariably refers Mr. Reese to the Court, “While fresh |o¢ the wives, sweethen and friends | yp. ugh on howd al. About] to his execution as bis “murder” air is necessary to all young ehtldran|o¢ the eniistted men did not. The per cent of the Christmas grade] #f have)beon:ordkred by. nix bhyal In this city, my wife is obstructed, | pegan their greetings at the Brie Ste heen disposed of at 20 and a@i}elan to rest until after Christinas, for jand dangerously so, in her efforts toltion and then trailed along to the Pere eT - T have wen through quite an ordeal properly bring up our child aemartes Hd ante | 1 hw uch work “We moved to this apartment house} phe Pirates of Penrance,! which Aiabies aUCAA AAD eenie a oR TL, rmeinthiscountry, J because there were many parks in| supplied “Hail, Hail, the Gang's All) qi fancy Northern turkey ia bemg| am ne > nettle here, Jam just the neighborhood, but what use are} toeret” to the martial world, did 1 wholesale at 31 and 2 cents al here on a viait and 1 shall go home the parks when my wife risks her} fun duty by the two companies nd. They should sil profitably [When my mission is accomplished: t life and the baby's every time #he at-| they sang the rousing march step!) 95 cents a pound: Ge Hy no one| help my country and see her triamp! temps to take her out? Dogs canttune with a will. Vor mascots the! ip ehortage as an excuse for} ‘Mdoyd George has let It'be known come and go through the front en-| boys brought r wild be jam ane aioe the sumer| he will enforce cons on vin. Tre- trance and down the elevator, but] silver rattlesnake daM tS pat . cane ee liend and ihe stand our babies can't. Even when visitors Je of the type that decorates the = tor that, He gained by putarit with babies call they must enter and] “adobe” dollars of the whbor re |by pretending to be Ireland's friend leave through the back door and the] put MORE XMAS BONUSES. Rae an he saw the Premier freight elevator.” The two companies left New York; 5 s Hache & Co. are distributing |ship in his grasp, he threw off the The Court was also informed that) June 29 and put in their service @€ ponuses to their enfployees amounting | mask and ts now hand-in-glove with the lease contained no provision] McAllen, Tex. ‘Chey were known a5 ¢o 2 per cent. of thelr annus! salary. |@argon to force Ireland to fight Brit compared with & per cent, distributed | ginty battles ones ee “Ho ia not a bit better, so far SS at Yale mia Ireland {4 concerned, than was As Sas Muck quith, only the latter was a terribly ee weak man and Lloyd George tn a noe jetrong one who will try tu sule with aoe ja n band To Give WH a) “you people in America don't | realize the true condition in Englan Employees. terribly now WILMING TO! Del Lee D The | She is fecling the the iit he no [DuPont Powder Company to-day an After January 1 there |W pte wna houneet that’ the 20 per cent. bonus Pee nalog ta reall wh t had been paying for the past] Englishmen cannot Aght }yea salaried em re will be ine] "Why, during our revolution halt lore 1 t. It waela dogen of thelr soldiers would veil O percent. lat this little child of mine, 'Up with ployces your hands!’ and treat me the same A a pet way, They ar s cowards and, i" _— if they act in hes aw they 7 min did in Ireland no wonder the (Ge PRISON mans have been winning, And they WOULD SEND T0 as | , n Germany namod have refused on the terms, and now wh THOSE WHO CORNER FOOD OF has not ment terin, e ref aby are ernie Britatn went into the war fo Kw and ali t ger Canemen eenyitent lar six monthe nor more than th wan provided BURKE AL Hote | Force Conscription Will Mean | PREMIER'S STAND BACKED BY EVERY MAN IN ENGLAND: AGE DOOR NOT BOLTED ‘Berlin, It Is Alaeriee: Must Ask Con- ference, Not in the Role of Victor | but of the Vanquished, If Negoti-. ations Are to Come. BERLIN WOULD WELCOME ACTION BY A NEUTRAL By Carl W. Ackerman. BERLIN, Dec. 20.—(United Press.) —Germany regards speeches of statesmen in England, France and Russia as a bluff to impress Berlin wit | the Entente’s determination. The Entente Governments cannot do others | wise in view of their past statem:ents—although they are really anxious now for peace. This was the -view reflected in all walks of life to-day following Premier Lloyd George's answer to the Imperial German Chancellor in j his speech of yesterday. Berlin is not pessimistic, despite this Loudow statement, added to the previous pronunciamentos from Petrograd and | Paris that the allies are determined to continue the war until their hig. | objects are attained. The general view was that these speeches are not to be taken seriously when weighed against Germany's progress ia | Roumania, Not only was this the public view, but officials coincided. One offi | clal declared that no belligerent would ever ask a neutral nation to begin negotiations—nevertheless steps by a neutral now would not be regarded as unfriendly to the Central Powers. He added that the public state of mind is not such now wnat American interference would be welcomed. a ae PRESS OF BRITAIN AND GERMANY SEE LITTLE CHANCE FOR PEACE English Writers Say Lloyd George Has Averted a Snare—In Berlin They Say the Gulf is Wide. LONDON, Dev, 20.—The press of | England stands solidly behind the | programme announced yesterday by Lioyd Geor ler Manchester Guardian, stands, In this he wea ably meconded by Mr Asquith and will be approved by the country. © * * The German Chancellor muat be both more modest and more explicit before he can em. Dect any favorable answer to bis im- vitation “Dut (he real danger tn the situa- tlon whieh his offer created was that the Allies, this country in partioulas, might be led into an abrapt and sweeping refusal, not merely of the Actual Invitation hut ef any proposms to divcuss peace terms This snare lloyd George has avoided.” The Guardian says that as the "” PRESIDENT PAYS A GALL ON SENATOR WILLIAMS, a, 2a me Believed the - Mississippl Statesman | every \den of eettioment, and the neu- | tral world cannot take exception to Was Ill and Didn't Want thie attitude.” The Guardian notes Him to Come Out. that the specoh contained no hint ef WASHINGTON, Deo, 20. -Proaident | 'h* rusbing of Germany. Wilson want to visit Senator Will-| ‘What we have had to fear mest Loyd George.” says the “has not shut the door on peace with that resound ing clang for which some of his leas In tt the prean ne balnnced supporters have been lstening, tn Insiated on the !mpossibility cepting the German Invita ae true of ac tame of Migaiaatpp! at the latter's|'? the peat," the Datly Mall, home to-day because he knew the "haa been the careless, easy going nator had some Mt ppl aftatra|CPUmiam of the Government, and fo talic about and understood be was SOM We see how much good work 1, It turned out that vr Will. | bas been done and how much more Ame was well enous to go to his, a8 been begun tn a few days by the ffice, so (he President drove him Cabinet, which knows its own mind, there, Ovcasiona on which a Pr wo fool less than ever Inclined te af. Jeni has wot |) Visit members of Con, mit that any apologies are due trom are rave Daily Sail." | [t was Just the act of a very good The Urime Minister's dramatic an.) feliow.” salt Senator Williama, “He |nouncement of the adeption ef the «1 heard | Was sick anu didn't know prinetple of univermal national servicg | sae able fo get ou) again Ho he Nas been welvomed oo all sides,” saya ame sen nie, in ia bia-hearted the Chronlele, ‘A DIL will be nece oe VL L MIME Not Dave te wens | anny wive effect to the Governs ' sen lie I) Was) iments proposals, the object of whi Very dune oc Woe d'sesidcnl, | ain sure,’ le gietbodival saybiisalion @f laber