The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1916, Page 1

PRICE ONE CENT. . (The New 4.000 SCHOOL CHLOREN | EVENING WORLD'S GUESTS » AT A CHRISTMAS “MOVE” IFEAR FOR SAFETY OF 20 ON BOARD SINKING. STEAMER pas aa No Word From the Maryland, Reported in Distress 150 Miles Off Hook —— Shout in Delight at “Snow White,” Given by Courtesy of the Strand Theatre. OY BAND RENDERS AID. ‘Adolph Lewisohn, Who Has Helped Penny Lunch Move, Addresses the “Kiddies.” Paete was @ glorious day for more 4,000 public school children, qmong them being as many ae it bool fpoastbie to collect of the crippled) Milldren of the city’s classrooms. The Fivening World provided the way) end the management of the Strand Wheatre furnished the entertainment. | President Mitchell H. Marks of the Officials of the Coast Guard service fear for the safcty of the crew of tho steamship Maryland, bound Philadelphia to London, which reported sinking at a point about 150 from was miles duo east of Sandy Hook yester- Btrend Theatro Company and Harold) gay and has not been reported since. Béd, manager, and Alfred Jones,) he Maryland's plight was male house manager, turned the theatre! known through « wireless message sent from the vessel which reached all the radio stations along the « and also al! vessels within touch last word was that her engine | was flooded. It so happened that there apparently, wireless in the immedi: ever to The Evening World, and It Is doubtful if any of the children was ‘more delighted than were these three men at the success of the occasion. Children crowded the pretty show- house from pit to dome, Little pollce- | men and policewomen took care of) om was not, any vessel equipped with © vicinity of iid. | {28 Maryland. ‘Tho nearest vessel the crowds, saw that the other “kid-| wi, tne Const Guard — cutter dies” got coats and preserved order.| Gresham, about 100 miles away to the northeast, and she | to be hunting for tho to have reached her, The coaster City of bound from Savannah to Boston due in Boston afternoon, was miles from the Maryland when th first believed to have headed toward the crippled vessel. | The Coast Guard cutter Mohawk received the Maryland's signal for help, but was 300 miles away, down the coast. Capt, Dunwoodle, in charge of the coast guard here, does not know whether the Mohawk mado a try for the Mafyland or not, The Maryland is a steamer of the whaleback type. Sho was bullt at Wyandotte, Mich, in 1890 for Great Lakes trade and engaged in fresh now belleved Maryland or And the “kiddies” laughed and cried) ft the various entanglements of the ear little princess, “Snow White,” who wee dainty Miss Margucrite Clark, the diminutive movie star, And Bow the children did shout for her nd clap their hands and cheer her, | when she conquered the wiles of the | ‘wicked queen of the film play. {t was just the kind of a ehow one would expect at Christmas time; just the kind that would most engage and entertain the thousands of boys and @izls who were the guests of ‘The Bvening World. ‘The band of Public School No. 21 wes there to lend eclat and music to the occasion and did ite very best with its brass instruments. A. J. Pugliese, principal of No, 21, was there, too, tv encourage his musicians. And when Miss Sophie Irene Loeb of The Evening World tntroducel Adolph Lewisohn to make a little talk to th. “kiddies,” Band Leader Miobeel Ryan g.t up and made music a@partofthe: ing to the man who had given The Evening World so much assistance in helping to get the y lunches for the schools. CRIPPLES BROUGHT OUT IN BIG FIFTH AVENUE BUSES, ‘The crippled children were brought the Strand in big Fifth Avenue through the courtesy of the Avenue Coach Company. When arrived at the theatre there was band to grect them with Drum Laurino, about as big aa his drumstick, at the head of it, The chief of the juvenile police was Fred Lee of Public School No, 84, At the head of the little police- women was Mollic Newdleman, In eharge of the midget guardians of Savannah, nd 0 she was bought by the Crew-Levick Ou Co, of Philadelphia for the trans- | Atlantic trade, ‘The Maryland was rebuilt at the Cramp ehipyards in Philadelphia and left that port on Dec. 23 with a miscellaneous cargo, including oll, oll cakes, iron pipe, fibre and paper, The vessel is of 2,419 | gross tony, 314 feet long and 42 feet beam, She carries a crew of about twenty men, The first distress call from the Maryland was picked up at 12.45 A.M, It sald the engine room was being | rapidly flooded and asked for im- mediate aid, The first part of the message could bo easily heard by stations hundreds of iniles away, but the last part, giving the vessel's posl- tion as latitude 39 and longitude 67, became gradually weaker until it could be caught only by the most, powerful stations. | The cause of the steamer's pltxht was not given or intimated, Tho| the peace was Harry H, Schlacht of| position she gave ts within a fow the East Side Protective Association, | mi of where fed shipping was fa all sixteen public schools were /faltnd by @ German Usloat re- represented, the children coming from | ES those schools in the vicinity of the| Four Steamers and One Bark Sank theatre, WASHINGTON, Dee, 26.—Lioyd's re Miss Winitred Gracto of tho Strand [Ports in diopaiclios tecvived today. by 6 State Department from Lon¢ paerere ia tulorteined i te of the sinking of the Norweg people iry stories before the | bark Ansegur and the Britts 7 pf Meat ta Matrar, Udnoatrn, Liangos and” Murex, | not previously reported rom other . Mentinued on Highth Page.) sources, 1016, by The Press Publishin 1d SOS call was sounded and ts |* water traffic until last summer when | #! SHIP WITH 20 ABOARD. York Wi ” WOMAN FOR WHOSE MURDER RUSBAND ON TRIAL TO-DAY. POOR GET 1,000 BASKETS FROM THE VINGENT ASTORS Christmas Bounty Distributed to the Blind, Crippled and Sick of the City. One thousand Christmas bi were given to the sick poor of New by Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Astor, through Social Service Bureau Centres of ity. Tho baskets were distributed from Astor Market, Nin ixth et und Broadway, to holders of ticket Among those who benefited were many Dlind persons, some who had to be wheeled to the market In In- valld sand others who went on er Bach basket contained two groceries, vegetables, fruit, da card of Christmas from the donors. INJURED MAN GOES INSANE HEARING EMPLOYER 1S DEAD Chauffeur of Wealthy Belgian Killed in Wreck Suffered Con- cussion of Brain, Edward O'Keefe, a chauffeur, of No, 238 West One Hundred and Twen- ty-second Street, became suddenly Insano early to-day when he learned his employ William Dierman, wealthy Belgian, had dicd as the sult of injuries received when his automobile was struck by a troliey car at Amsterdam Avenue and Ninety-sixth Strect Sunday, O'Keefo was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where it was found he was suffering from concussion of the brain, He was driving the Dierman auto- mobile when the accident occurred, Ithough he said at the time he nt his head was injured, he re- sed to go to the hospital then Dierman w & partine f John B. Kirkman of No yhitehall Street in the export business, and was re- puted to have made in the rtation of ammunition, He left an estate valued at $1,000,000 in Rrussels when the Germans entered that city, a large fortune upon Fired Times by a NEWPORT NEV ‘a, Dec, 26.-— The captain of the Itallan steamer Pietro reported to-day on arrival at Old Point that his ship was attacked by a submarine, fred m five Umes but several weeks ago in the unhu t bound from Genoa Angeles Has Its Sixth Snow tn Forty Year L 26. to-day over part of the city for the LOS ANC » Dec Snow fel! xth time in the forty years since the Wenther Rureau was established here, | It melted ost as rapidly as it fell Foothills in this sec were topped with white bes Life With Rasor. n tlashed his throat wi in the bathroom of hi n Avenue to he had sh 1s mania which e after @ morning spent et @ synagogue, NEW “YORK, TUE INSURANCE POLC FOR WHE MURDER Fred L. Small’s Trial for a New Hampshire Crime Begins To-Day. CALLED. TALESME} Crowds From Towns Rural Sections Nearby Throng | the Court House. ‘Special trom taft Correspondent of ening World.) OSSID’ N. H., Dec, 26.—Crowds jfrom small towns and rural regions of jthis section gathered at the court- house here to-day for the trial of Fred L, Smnall, a Boston real estate broker, lcharged with the murder of his wife | Arlone Curry Small. In order to give Ub eighty talesmen summoned for jury duty, most of whom are farmers, rtunity to reach here from their far-outlying the trial was homes, the beginning deferred till this afternoon, Justice |John Kivet presided prose | tion dy in charge of Attorney ( James P, Tuttle and County ter T. Hl. fo The William 8 Stevens Sma duey } Counsel are | Matthews, Sewell Abbott At 10 o'clock on the night of Sept 28 last campers on the far shore and | on the opposite shore burning. They | rowed across the Jake, tried in vain to extinguish the flames by dipping ) up buckets of water, but in an hour | nothing remained of the house save @ brick chimney. | Am{d the charred ruins in the cel- |lar of the bungalow was found the | Upper part of a woman's body. ‘The | lower part had been burned away, but @ pool of water had saved the head and torso from incineration, Tho burned cottage t Small, The partially burned re | were those of his wife, Around he | neck was a piece of clo e tightly drawn, Her skull was crushed in. Around it was wrapped a plilowcase The police said {t was plain she had been Killed before being burned, Small wus not at home. Early in the afternoon hoe had telephoned an invitation to Schoolmaster Conner to go with him that evening to Boston to attend a moving picture show. Georg Kennett, clerk of tho village hotel called at Small's house at ¥ o'clock and drove him to the station. The two men, Small and Couner, left on t 4.06 train for Boston, and spent evening at the theatre, and a went to Young’s Hotel for a bite of y were reached by a te age telling of h of Mrs, Smal the dea automobile, Smali drove LL Air | Lake Ossipee, arrivir |He ate breakfast at tt and then went to exami Later In the day he | charged with murder, | It is contended by |the trip to Boston was u there manufactured = alibi, [Conner was invited to xo for the of having a corre | purpose wi A number of su cumstances and events ar |by the State to suppo that M | mechantc the tire hours later There is lack of evidence of a mo- ‘tive, The only apparent {Small and his wire jiaxt February a re policy for $ never survived. thin, ssing ory hen start + that | ance not Lake Os pr excepting out in answer to phone. He found wide the house for bi ee & out. did not SINKING OFF SAND SDAY, DECEMBER “MAY FORM MOTIVE and} ot | Lake Ossipce saw @ small bungalow | rward | a 26, 1916. PEACE CONFERENCE AT ONCE, | GERMAN ANSWER TO WILSON rio, Circulation Books Open to AL 14 PAGES WEATHER—Fair; Probably Snow. LANE EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. | | 'Germany’s Allies-—-Austro-Hungary, | Bulgaria and Turkey—Join in | Handing Answer to Ambassador | Gerard Calling for an Immediate | Conference of the Belligerents. | BERLIN, Dec. 26 (by wireless to Sayville).—Ger- y and her allies—Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and | Turkey—to-day replied to the note of President Wilson in which he asked that the belligerent nations state the aims for which they are fighting. The formal reply was handed to United States Ambas- sador Gerard at Berlin and at the same time to the Ameri- can diplomatic representatives at the capitals of the oliver | central powers—Vienna, Sofia, Constantinople. The text of the note is as follows: “The high minded suggestion made by the Presi dent of the United States of America in order to create a basis for the establishment of lasting peace has been received and considered by the Imperial Government in the friendly spirit which was expressed in the Presi- dent’s communication, “The President points out that which he kas at heart and leaves open the choice of the roac. “To the Imperial Government the immediate ex- TEN DESTROVERS IN A HOT BATTLE: BIG ALLIED FLEET OFF THE U.S, COAST Known as Commerce Protectors, They Are Heavily Armed id Disguised, | | BOSTON, Deo. The presence | on this std of the At of | formidable ee of al —_—— was Indicated definite i Seer sp caeaps vessels are known oifictal Berlin Reports an Engagement) jerca protectors, They ure henvily in Straits of Otranto—Two Patrol Bi Sunk, armed and disguised, For obvious reasons sposttion Is not thelr exact revealod, but th s ~~ larrival recently in Amertoan waters AN (via Sa Wirole: of this newost Britiah and Ip "On the night of Dec, 22-| French Admiralties was made know? Joa" says an officlal statement, “four! from @ source that hardly can be } Austro-Hur n destroyers, on 4] mistaken, Jratd in the Otronto Stratis, sank two] These ships aro intended evidently patrol boats after artillery|to protect British and Mreneh lin jon thelr trips across the Atlantic © way back at least sx hos-/end trom the port of Hallfax, whic of greater size and | hai to tile destroyers been selected instead of New joed, evidently of the Indomlto] york, iss, blocked the way of our squad-| -__—_ows - A vioient artery cova’ en, | BOYS OF 19 ARE CALLED wan aot sire and then cavers were] TQ THE COLORS BY ITALY one recetved | two hits in the funnel; another one| Also 2,500 Factories Are Ru was hit on the superstructure, Our Day and N famine losses were one man dead, no| ? 5 | ted." Out Mur oo | ROME (via Paris), Dec. 24.—The | ADMIRAL DEWEY 79 TO-DAY. | recuing of powce in tho air has not * jaffected in the alightoat measure Secretary Dantele and Naval OM) \caly'’s military activir cers Congratulate on, The new clasa—th born tn 1898 Wash ‘On, fF ‘ral has been called to report to the col Dewey was seventy-nine years old to- | aga Jan, 1 which w onwiderably mort of t teh ranking | the while 4, ‘ run y and nig sof arms and munition @ mount BERLIN KEEPS TERMS SECRET: ~ WANTS TO MEET WISHES OF U.S. + “When the Moment Comes,” the Note | Declares, “the Imperial Govern- ment Will Be Ready With Pleas- ure to Collaborate Entirely With the U.S.,” in Avoiding All War. change of views seems the most appropriate road in order to reach the desired result. It therefore begs, in the sense of its declaration made on Dec. 12, which offered its hand for peace negotiations, to propose im- mediate meeting of delegates of the belligerent states at a neutral place. « r “Also the Imperial Government is of the opinion that the great work of prevention of future wars can | be begun only after the end of the present struggle of nations. “It will (namely the:German Government will) when this moment shall have come, be ready with pleasure to collaborate entirely with the United States at this exalted task.” \ | The answer finishes with the usual terms of interna- |tional politeness. The text, as transmitted over Sayville wireless by the official press bureau in Berlin, does not contain any peace terms. Whether this is the | entire text of the note was not made clear in the wireless despatch, pies a ‘WILSON WITHHOLDS COMMENT | TILL HE GETS OFFICIAL TEXT Regular Cabinet Meeting Suddenly Called Off— Neutrals in Europe and South America to Back the President. WASHINGTON, Deo, —-36-—-De- spatches containing the German re- ply were read by President Wilson and retary Lan: ng with the greatest Interest. Som» officials who com- pared tho reply with the President's note professed to see somo confitet vetween the German statement that the work of securing the future peace { the world should be delayed until f the present struggle, while ) opinion that ft it of harmony. ont Wilson's purpose haa re- exprosed aa making « of future wars as sottloment of the pres- an acceptance in that ine bringing forward as suggested, Germany's terms she proposes a conference, Allied statesmen have Indicated oposition to that plan, The reference to the American note in connection with the original German proposals of Deo, 12 is one which the Ameri- ean Government has taken the or it pains to avold, Whether Germany's immediate pub- eation of the reply was due to in- ternal consideration or to @ desire to disclose it before tho allies had made public elther of their two expected answers ts not known here, t admittedly that tt 1s! Holland, Spain, the Scandinavian road enough Xo allow | countries and the Pope, it was sald, ton when It comes to fing, are expected to take some ection in the near future, Dr. Paul Ritter, the Swiss Minister ©| here, will see President Wilson within a few days to discuss the peace altua- he end others were of t | Pres poated entire been for the provent @ part nt ¢ subse oma va text received at before th Germany's eo W Cabinet was Just as »4 for {te Tuesday meeting, All| tion, He called at the White House ra read the dispatch with | to-day to gather information on how erest the Swiss peace note had been recetved m text of Germany’s| in this country in order to send @ re- t before tho Cabinet | port to his Government, the Tuesday meet! was| Dr. Ritter was concerned over news- sudde: abs a few minutes| paper reports that the action of the before the pecretaries wore due at| Swiss Government was construed as the White House, ‘support for the cause of the Central OMetals are surprised that Ger-| Powers, He told Secretary Tumulty nany’s answer waa given out tn Ber-|tho action of his Government was iy reached thia country in| solely tn the Interest of peace. om | Mossngesa from individuals and or- v proposal for a confer- | ganizations in Holland and other neu- ence of delegates at a neutral place|tral European nations continued to rded in s proposal, although officials so further step arrive at the White House to-day tn large numbers, All commended the i at considered It aa having been dett-| President for hie recent note, and in- § ™ fore tin the first proffer, dicated that strong pressure was be- | als expect In some quarters the note was ling brought the Governments of DEWEN'S STERILIZED GrarE guice, | f! Wo RSS ie Phen Sl] regardd@d more as a@ revision of ‘opean norgrals to take action, wal Futen BLL, Pca ‘Soi Conn. hdr, Various oub-treasuries elsewhere, the President's proposals than as Spanish Ambassador Riane eem-