The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1916, Page 1

( \ AL *’ EDITION = LES DARCY MORE POW ENT. 1916, by PRIC Conrners: E ONE C (The New York ‘The Press World). NEW LI ES HOLD U GERARD DISCUSSES PEACE IN BERLIN YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1916. ERFUL THAN JEFFRIES----ROBERT EDGREN For Exclusive Photographs See the Sporting Page [“Cireulation Books Open to Al | “10 PAGES Weather—FAIR TO-NIGHT AND TO-MORROW, * LANE eo EDITION f PRICE ONE OENT. a DARCY WERE TOEARN MONEY. FOR NEEDY FAMILY. BEFORE FACING BULLETS IN WAR +— AustralianComes Looking EveryInch a Fighter, and, as Robert Edgren Sizes Him Up, With Wrists and Forearms More Powerful Than WIN 8-HOUR DAY AND PAY INCREASE acento Arbitration Board’s Award, As Forecast in Evefiing World, Filed To-Day. | | | inot Apply to More Than 10 Per Cent. During the First Year. The Board of Arbitration, headed Those of Jim Jeffries. BY ROBERT EDGREN. ‘ “I didn’t leave Australia to get out of fighting,” said Les Darey as we talked over his plans when he came ashore to-day. “I intend to go to the war before very long. As soon as I have had three or four fights here O'Sullivan, my manager, and I will go to the in Canada, I suppose—and offer our services,” MRS. C. T. BARNEY nearest place we can enlist Here Les pped talking for a mo-© ment, and for the first in an Bour the smile left his face mouth became a &r time and his m straight line “I can be killed then,” he said killed” “Oh, there's small chance of going through wi ut being killed. A lot of my frien here Les waved his subject. Then by or “L would have gone a when I go 1 must leave Banker's Widow Taken from beyond want. I have five Burning Home in Almost and four sisters, One brother is old- he's crippled. ‘The next A Pie ay Bee carer isan. ite worke Cay ent Unconscious State. night as a baker. © others € ———_ little fellows. I nev got very much For the second time within two money for fighting Australia, 7 intend to get it now, in America, and then I'll give it to my family and go in years Mrs, Lillian W. Barney, widow of the banker, Charles T. Barney, harrowly escaped death in the par- by Judge Charles B. Howry, which} heard the | Switchmen's Union and thirteen big | the grievances between railroads of the country, has awarded to the switchmen a flat elght-hour | day and five cents an hour increase | jover the frerent rales of wagos. Timo and a half payment for over- time is denied and payment of all} overtime will be at | the present pro | rata, rates | The in the Federal Courts and will go into effect | Jan, 1 It affects 5,000 members of the union only not the entire body of switchmen of the country, | from 30,000 to 35,000 in all, But the | union expects a great rush for mem- bership and new members will share in the beneft award was filed to-day Les GRANDMA BERSINGER MAY DAR and In the comment thut follows the} Court ( Her Transfer Pending award, the arbitrators seem to put Decision of Writ of Habeas A modification on the Hight Hour ees Corpus. In practice the Eight Hour award} Mrs. Clira Bersinger, the Queens | means payment at the rate of nine} county grandmother in the Work- hours pay for sight hours’ actual! juice for refusing to support her work. This, coupled to the wage in-| is equivalent to a total of 1-2 per cent, increase, the railroads son's thre crease, children, probably will re main in on the Christm . over Justice Greenbaum to-de : holiday to the war, What happens after that f say. The railroads are quite satis 3 Gree Mette .echite much. difference.’ [tal burning of her hom> at No. 61] tieg, though they. do not. publiciy | 1 0 nts offhand, her re- “Then the Australian writers who| Park Avenue. In the early hours of| gamit this. When it is fully applied lease hie writ or ehsek Carne He said you left because you were afraid; this morning fames swept through! ing award will tack $250,000 a year | Tdered " u, ie to tha Tombs to fight didn't know what they were| the building, trapping Mrs. Barney t9 the payrolls of the road | pending his fina docinton, he dlkige about.” and mombers of her hout=Qold on the| phe cight-hour award wan forecast| Pd When the Court announced “They will know better.” said | UPPEr floors. ih in The Evening World ten days ago, ; Ble ni dite nasdly Darcy, softly. Rescuing parties sa gi Po-| James B. Connors and W. A. Titus, POD ee een ae a BETTER BUILT THAN TOM SHAR- | !!cemen and fireman broke through labor representatives on the Board, | ar than the Workhouse!” sh KEY FOR FIGHTING. Be sows Ane: such thelt. cacane wag [dissented on the overtime and also on | Cried: | “Picase ¢ Wend me thine Darcy doesn't look like a man who] all of them, though thelr escape was}in, increase, hee ; would fear anythin In Au in| Very. narrow } Here is the Arbitration Board's mould like very much to let you Merion son sighing with a ver Two years ago the same house) oo ont on the eight hour award: |Mave your Uberty,” sald Justice , caught fire in the daytime and Mrs. : |Greenbaum. “Bur I am in doubt petual smile smile that never “Although it has seemed wise to | " fi oe Barney was almost suffocated while }the law giv hat right. Pos- leaves his face even when, stung to . award an eight-hour day as the ‘ks his| Saving her jewel casket. ‘The fire |sibly to-morrow my decision wiil be fury by a heavy blow, he, knocks his} (008 Mts extinguished atter| standard minimum day, the over. | "DY U Opponent out. He is as powerfully | ae ene ee ae nad been done. | Whelming weight of testimony, shows | ™#de knows ooo built ax Tom Sharkey, and even het-| $#0 st ipl rg that the conditions of the vartous Two newspaper men, on thelr way re | ter bullt for fighting home trom the bioycle race, hears | Hinds of MalwaY Work are oo ateter- | SQUADRON A, HOME AGAIN 1 never saw Darcy's forearms, | home from FaOm Jent that only trial can determine just ‘ ' screams as they p the house and iT Is r t-| wrists and hands on any other fight’) couing up saw smoke and flamo at ing man, They are tremendous—a the top story windows and four terri- blacksmith’s hands, with the fore-| |, 4 maids calling for hel: | led maids for help. arms of a ship calkcr, His hands! waiter Chalaire, one of the men, wriste and f: carme are heavier and] 1+ 4 citizen to give an alarm, and, more powerful the- those of Jim) 1111, policeman Schroeder of the West Jeffries when Jeffries was in his! Tuirtioth street Station, got into the prime, His shoulders are wide and) nouge py breaking a reception room sloping, his back a rounded mass of| window when @ big iron grill was hitting muscles, his upper arms 80) round to bar access to the vestibule, chunky that they stand out in round-}" 1 the hall the rescue party found ed lumps under } vat sleeves.| srg, Barney, supported by one of her Stripped—as he stripped for the cam-| sons, James Barney, and a maid, The era—he showed a clear skin, no fat,! maid fainted and had to be carried a splendid torso. out and Into the home of Mrs, K, W. never had a hard fight,” gaid| pyra, next door. Mra, Barney was also nearly overcome, orting Page.) (Continued on Finding it impossible to reach the —_— four servants on the upper floor | by way of the winding marble stairs, firemen threw up a sixty-five foot ex- tension ladder, directed the women along a two-foot ledge and finally got them to the roof of the Byrd resl- dence. Ashel Barney, airs. Barney's other son, arrived shortly after his mother had been assisted from the house The fire is thought to have origi- nated in a fourth floor storage room, Tt burned out several rooms on the third and fourth floors, the entire top floor and went through the roof, but was prevented by the firemen from | getting into the lower part of the house, The Evening World || will not be published || Monday, Dec. 25th (Christmas Day). how far eight-hour worked without the roads and und hifts prohibitory ¢ un be} t to disturbance of CHEERED ALONG FIFTH AVE, the work of their patrons. | Officers and Men in Fine fF al “It seems to be clearly established | Condition After Stay on that, under existing conditions, and| ; probably even under conditions of| Border traffic less strenuous than the prea-| Squadron A, New York's famous ent, it will not be possible to make!cavalry command, back from fi the actual working eight-hour day!months' service on the border effective in the case of more than a up Fifth Av afternoon small percentage of the switching |; 1inS of martial music and t crews, not more than 10 per cent. dur- use of thousands who lined ing the first year sidewalk REPLY SPEND XMAS IN TOMBS TO GERM ' 'TWOBURN TO DEATH INBREWSTER HOME: TWO OTHERS DYING a Harold Powell of Seventh N. Y. Regiment and Little Miss Brewster Lose Lives, BLAZE ON PALISADES. Servant and Her Own Baby Mortally Injured by Leap- ing From Window. Harold’ Powell of the Seventh T Ament of New York, and his niece, Margaret Brewster, ten years old, were burned to death this morn- ing the home of child's mother, Dr. Margaret Brewster, on top of the Palisades, opposite Grant's Tomb, wi lestroyed by fire. | ‘The child's nurse, Mrs. Mary Smith, |Jumped from a window of the burn- Jing house with her own child, Ethel, two years old, in her arms, and both | wero fatally Injured, | Mrs, Brewster left the house early lact evening to visit friends in Man- hattan preparatory to a Christm: shopping trip to-day. She is well | known throughout Now Jersey for her | public and professional activitic When the firemen arrived the flames had encircled the entire lower floor when the lof the house and escape for those above was cut off The firemen were trying to force a way to them when Mrs. Brewster's child appeared in a | window on the third floor, She was screamin; for help, but be- fore anything could be done she apparently fainted and fell back in the flames. A few moments Mrs. Smith, came to a window on the same floor with her baby. She was sereaming hysterically as the |fire bined back of her and, after |remaining at the window for but a oment, she Jumped to the lawn he- holding tightly to her Infant. She was carried to the home of a neighbor. ater she was taken to the Englewood Hospital, where it was sald her spine was fractured and would die, No hope was held jout child. With but one line of hose on the building and bucket brigades of over a hundred men at work, the firemen were able to do little, In less than twenty minutes from the arrival of |the firemen the house, which was for the most part fr: >, collapsed, | Youne Powell, of Mrs. Brewster, returned from the Mexican border two weeks ago. He had been home of Mrs, Brewster since the death of her husband, He occupied & room on the top floor, Firemen searching the ruins came upon the body of litle Miss Brewster in the basement of the 1 use, where jit had dropped when the place lapsed. ‘The body of Mr. Powoll | was found tn the ruling of the third floor. It was still on ..i8 bed, the mattress of which had been burned \away, He apparently had been sut- focated while asleep. later the nurse, lo’ for the lrot or living tn the “While, therefore, it is ur that} Major William R. Wright, the com DAI FOR AM the eight-hour day be established, its|mander, led the way, followed by say | WAR ME ALS FOR A ERICANS {Introduction must be gradual, The/men and fifteen officers. The mem-|Preaidemt of Ambula: Commit- percentage, therefore, of the switch-| bors of the four troops, A.B, C, D, as tee and Oth rated Jing crews that will inestly Ags eral us tha man’ t Nine el by fected during the period of this award Ronaarad fine io PARIS, Dec. 23.—Gold medals have must of necessity be small. Most! sioai condition been awarded to Laurence V. Benet, crews will work ten hours or more re r President of the American Ambulance ictal i AM tho Mhiversity Club the squad- |committee; Capt. Arthur Wellusly Kip- Army Tests New Means of Field 10! Was reviewed by Gov, Whitman, jing, of the Automobile Ambulande Communication, | Mayor Mitchel, Major Gen. Leonard |Corps and Lieuts, Henry Skerrett Rog- SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec, 23.-—-| Wood, Major Gen, John F, O'Ryan,/ers and John Mochfort of the Ambu- With several members of a signal corps, | Gol, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Geor 7’ |lanco Corps. + | Col nellus Vanderbi ge W. medals /have been a ei le 0! elepho: r , eG '@ be warde: Jeach carryt- a mile of telephone wire Wickersham and at tage ae Snow, Maurice Seloise: Gearee on his back of such fine texture that) civic and military prominence. ver and Edward Bartlett Hayden, the rolls do not weigh more than a few \ chtets ounds, a new method .* 4 On reaching t at Ma medals have been awarded to n on has e n and N tye Street | lore Cast i vanigren lifferd m ation fF oS e at A i ¥ Deroode, Fred Doughty Allyn Eddy Sprini hear here. By atts the troopers were permitied to go to | James Frank, Maur units carried the soldier COM> | 45 keh i ng jert De Machiels, ‘ 5 municating system several miles heir hoine work of mustering (ff farce)’ Suu lon, over fough country can be eatablished. | gut Peis wOsTDODEd Lor a Low days, arie, Lucien ‘Som mor, 3 ‘pagh and Alfred Waddei, drivers, XMAS TREE READY, MOTHER AND FOUR BABES DIE BY GAS Husband and Father, Only Survivor Because He Wasat | Work, Finds Them Dead BELIEVED AN ACCIDENT. | Drawn Shades Greeted New-! ark Man on Return Instead | of Faces at Windows. ; ‘The appointment of Banta Claus to | call at the home of Frederick Becker of No. 259 Verona Avenue, Newerk, N. J., haw been cancelled. ‘There were six in the Becker family yesterday—father, mother and four little, girls. To-day there remains! only Becker. He js a night watch- man in @ big Nowark factory. As he neared his home this morning he looked up to a window where he had been accustomed to see tour dimpled faces, framed tn curly hair, awaiting the sight of him. The window shade was drawn, For an instant Becker stopped in his tracks, Then he ran. He will never know how ho got up the stairs to his apartment on ho second floor and threw himself against a door that was locked. He remembers hurling himself against that door again and bursting It from its hinges greeted by a flood of illumi- nating gas. Through a to be room in which there | » partially trimmed Christmas tree he staggered to another room. He remembers now, and will remem- | ber all hiv life, how still It was as he made his way into that second room. He will always associate that short, silent trip with hundreds of previous homecomings which had been the signal for laughter and Kisses and shrill eries of welcome. There isn't much more to be sald. Mrs. Hecker, Martha, aged four, and Edna, aged three, were dead in a big bed in the room. Ethel, aged seven, and Helen, aged etx, were dead on their cot at the foot of the big bed. The single gas jet in the room was partlally open. The indications Becker, a healthy, are that Mrs. happy woman, thirty-four years old, ratiring late and tired after working on the Christmas tree, turned off tho gas and accidentally turned it on again. ‘That ts why Santa Claus won't have as much work to do in Newark as he was figuring on yesterday. Home Burns Down While Vhey Bay! Christmas Gifts, | HAC ACK, N. J, Dec. 28. While Mra, George Van Victen and her two children of Teaneck wera in Hackensack this morning doing Xmas Lopping their home was destroyed by fire, They returned to find them- selves homeless. Nothing was saved. ~~ | NEW YORKER KILLED | | FLYING IN ENGLAND! | i} | H. R. Deighton Simpson, Victim of | | Accident, Found by a Harvard Stu LONDON, Dec Simpson, son of Henry W, Simpson of New York, was accidentally killed while flying in England Dee, 19, He was @ lieutenant io the Royal British Flying Corps. . [. Deighton Lieut. Simpson, until the outbreak lof the war, Wag u student at Harvard |and lived with his parents at Port Cheater, N.Y. He was prepared for Marva at Eton, wh the Prince of Wales was & pupil. He was twenty-two ye old and had seen o years’ service at the front, re- ning to England a8 an aviation in- structor two monthg aga ANY; << GERMANS MAY ASK WILSON ACT AS A MEDIATOR = WSETTLNG PEACE TERMS ——-2¢2—______ London Foreign Office Announces That Reply toCentral Powers Will Not Be Delivered Before Christ- mas; Possibly Not for Ten Days. BERLIN MAY STATE TERMS IN SECRET TO WILSON LONDON, Dec. 23.—The Foreign Office states there is hardly any Possibility that the reply to the German peace note will be dispatched before Christmas. Owing to difficulty in communication, it is even Possible that the answer will not be forwarded within ten days. The note received from President Wilson, since the German pro- Posals were first announced, is partially responsible tor the delay. The reply to President Wilson already has been considered by the British Cabinet. The impression is given that the note will not deflect the government in any way from its plans for prosecuting the war. BERLIN, Dec. 23.—American Ambassador Gerard, who has just returned from America, is being besieged to-day for any word he can say of America’s note asking that warring Powers define their Purposes in the war. He held a long conference yesterday with Foreign Secretary Zimmermann, discussing the note. Because he had just come from the President, Mr. Gerard was able to give Herr Zimmermann a clearer view of the President’s attitude. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—From the same Source, close to the highest German officials in this country, that has forecast accurately every move Germany intended making in her peace proposals, it was learned to-day that Berlin will answer President Wilson's note by giving him a confidential statement of the terms upon which the central allies are wille ing to negotiate peace. In Teutonic circles here, the President’s note is regarded as a vi for German diplomacy to such an extent it is understood Berlin’s will virtually accept Mr. reply Wilson as mediator in the peace movement, an | Office it was believed until the latest developments Germany would never be willing to delegate to him. THANKS TO WILSON BY DUTCH CITIZENS Anti-War Council Says Neutrals Support His Noble Efforts for Humanity, State Department officials expect | the allies to reply to Germany's peace Proposals before formulating an em. swer to the American note, It ts thought that aw soon as the allies ame swer Germany's proposal Berlin wilt | follow the clues they indicate ané send a response to the American communteation, VHD HAGUR, Dee. 23 Lon-| It was learned to-day that In fr: don).-The Dutch anti-war council|!™s his note the President rejected has sent the following cablogram to|@ Suggestion from other neutrals that President Wilson: it be made a joint missive, “Holland thanks you for your et-| Washington has been figuring the fort in favor of lasting peace. All| CO8t of the war and it does not en neutral nations greet your step with |leve the belligerents will be able te the greatest sympathy and support|hold out long under present conde your noble efforts in the interests of | i the whole of humanity.” ons, ~The cost already reaches } $80,000,000,000, yoann | England's war bills reach $20,000¢ SHACKLETON OFF TO RESCUE 000,000 and her 1917 bills will ada jother $10,000,000,0 ance Satle for the Antarotte to Get Mls) spent $14,000, ery = Russia, Ten Marooned Men, ‘which had entirely to munition and | Wia | : DUNEDIN, Naw Ussiand, Dee, Rs supply her army, even more, Italye Ain Brnset | Bhackietary, fhe exp ’' expenditures run into billions, Antarctic on board his auxitiacy | 28@ War bas cost Germany $12,000,- , the Aurora, in-an effort to rescue | 200,000 Austria, $10,000,000,000; ‘Tyre key, —$5,000,000,000, 000,000,000. hese figures include only actus, | cost of war, and do not touch prape lerty or business losses, and Bulgaria, tho members of his Antartic expedition marooned in or vear the Ross Harrier ‘ ‘Phero are ten men in the party which | the explorer will attempt to reach, Capt. Mackintosh and nine of the crew of the Aurora. They had only a scanty supply of | —_——_——_——_—. provisions when the Aurora b “way | Frank Jones, Senate D. in a blilezard, twenty-one months ago. | leaving them stranded, Nothing has| byee Year been heard from t} SUNDAY WORLD WANTS __/tasaay. gone tea rene Soe WORK MONDAY WONDERS+ pore'inas 11 yt "es bore ta Romig