The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1917, Page 3

2S ST.LOUIS HELD UP > TOMORROW 0N : Grotesque icontion of a ; in Compliance With Ge + + man Note Not Considered. WILL NOT Cumarder = Carmania — and French Rochambeau Put ARMED. ~ $ Out for War Zone. The American Line steamship St Louis, which has been held at her Dior hete since the receipt of the Ger man note Thursday, will not sail be- fore noon to-morrow if then, P. A. 8 Franklin, President of the Interna- Honal Mercantile Marine, announced to-day after a conference with the heads of the American Line. ry Mr. Franklin return from a trip tu Washingt | Conferred with officials of the State and Navy Departments, Up to the present time, he said, compliance with the German demand for the grotesque M4 decoration of the ship with paint on © her hull and checkered flags at her masthead had not been considered. Other offictais of the company fh ly denied that there any thougt of arming the liner. They potnted out that to arm her would be to in- Vite attack, and their only a keep their vessels In regular service Between here and Liverpool, They have maintained this service since the war started, carrying no contraband and giving no excuse for interference, The decks of the American liners St. Louis, St. Paul, Philadelphia and New York were strengthened to carry guns @uring the Spanish-American War. Those who have passage on the St. Louis have taken her delay in good grace, realizing that their safety has been considered in the hesitancy of the line's officials to sail her. While the Geran note has put a quietus on neutral shipping as as actual sailings, there was no usual Bunday stillness about the piers of| vessels of belligerent countries, Ali preparing to put to sea as 3 ly as possible, Both the Cunar- ’ f, -codlche under the British flag, ‘and the French liner Rochambeau sailed, the former for Liverpool and the latter for Bordeaux. Unusual secrecy surrounded the de- parture of the Carmanta. The Cu- nara pier at the foot of West Four- teenth Street was closely guarded by detectives and no one who did not have a pass from an official of the company was admitted. There were eighteen passengers, most of them Canadian women, and the baggage of each was gone over carefully before it was placed aboard. Farewells were said out in West Street. It was 2.45 Pp. M, when the Cunarder backed out into the river. The Rochambeau did not leave un- ti1 6 P.M. Sho had 121 passengers, of whom twenty-six were Amoricans, Of those who had engaged passage on her twenty-two cancelled their reservations, The French Mner was breasted out thirty feet from the pler, and her passengers had to vse a marrow gangway to get aboard. Two persons could not get up it abreast, and as the travellers boarded ber sin- ‘The St. Paul of the American Line, which reported yesterday she would dock at 9 o'clock to-day, had not been heard from at 11 o'clock to-day, Of- ficera of the line sald they believed she was at anchor off Sandy Hook, waiting for the storm to down, The City of Lahore, from Indian Ocean ports, the Rotterdam and the Minsk, from Falmouth, entered bay to-day and anchored off Quar- antine to wait for clearer weather, ——<aeeeee GERMAN TOILERS LOSE JOBS. Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company Ample measures to protect the yard especially the battleship Mississippi, taken, recently launched, have bee BATON RO La. Standard Oll Company of Louistana has @jsmigsed all unnaturalized — German ployed its large tan armed gy ayy fe plant led Wehts to *Yocks and ship: en shipping large to Italy and Eng 'O YEARS before a building at No. 1 Cherry Street was occupied as the Presidential Mansion (during session of the First Congress) Carstairs Rye was known to those prominent in social and civic life. And today it's better than ever, Established 1783 im is to! arstairs Rye THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 65, 1917. SENATE TO BACK WON'T SAIL BEFORE, WILSON IN BREAK WITH GERMANY IStone tntredlapad Resolution \fter Submitting It to Republicans. 5A resol WASHINGTON, Feb. jon Indorsing President Wilson's ac- jtion In severing diplomatic relations he Germany was introduced tn the! Ieonate to-doy by Senator Stone, Chairman of the Foreign Relatins Committ mphasizing particularly [the President's) expressed desire maintain peace. | Republican Senate leaders, among them Lodge, Gallinger and Smoot, | were will support the President. Senator Stone requested that the resolution go over for a day under the action to-morrow. Th resolution follows: “Whereas, The President has for the reasons stated in his address de- | rules livered to the Congress tn joint ses- 3, sion on Feb. 1917, severed diplo- matic relations with the Imperial German Government by the recall of the American Ambassador at Berlin and by handing his passports to the Ambassador at Washington; and “Whereas, ‘That notwithstanding this severance of diplomatic inter- course, the President has expressed his desire to avoid confilet with the Imperial German Government; and “Whereas, The President declared in this said address that if In his judg- ment occasion should artse for further action in the premises on the paft of the Government of the United States he would submit the matter to the Congress and ask the authority of Congress to use such measures as he might deem necessary for protec- tion of American seamen and people jin prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate errands on the high seas; therefore be tt “Resolved by the Senate, That the Senate approves the action by the President as set forth in his address delivered before the joint session of the Congress as stated above,” PHILADELPHIA IN PORT; FINLAND ALSO IS SAFE American Liners Reach Liverpool Through War Zone, Ending Ru- mors ot Disaster to One, The American Tine steamships Philadelphia and Finland have ar- rived safely dt Liverpool. A cable- gram making this announcement was received to-day at the offices of the line in this city, The Philadelphia got to port at 11 o'clock last night and the Finland at 8 o'clock this morning, This sets at rest the recurrent re- ports that the Philadelphia had been sunk, which alarmed a great number of people and caused tnnumerable | messages of inquiry by telegraph, tel- ephone and in person to be made of the line officials in the last twenty- | four hours, Hoth vessels were in the so-called “danger zone" when the break with Germany occurred, The Philadelphia had been travelling with a broken crank shaft since last Thursday, MRS, BEUTINGER TELLS an Wife of Newark Jail Warden Finally Interfered, She Says at Trial of Ryman. NDWARK, N. J. Feb. 5.-/Mrs. Margaret C, Beutinger, who recently was acquitted of the charge of mur- dering her husband, whom she shot and Killed at their home in Caldwell last summer, was a witness to-day at the trial of Ernest E. Ryman, Di- rector of the County Board of Free- holders, Ryman was tndicted for an attack on Mrs, Beutinger in the county Jail while she was waiting for her second tri A who ander Simpson of Jersey City, red for the accused offictal | objec strongly to the fact thal |Ryman was a county official brought out, but was overruled. Mrs, Beutinger told of Ryman's al- laged rough drunk beside her bed. She said the wife of Wanlen MeGinnes finally took Ryman out of the room to} consulted and the Republicans) being | treatment while he sat! 8406995040 40d0800 08 rs Horwood oo Copyright by Underwood & F444 db 4 OoOoED HOHEOE eeeeeeeee OOOO RGD DED: | TLTON SUBJECT RUSH 10 OBTAIN ~—ULS.CITIZENSHIP ' Hundred Germans and Aus- trians Apply for First Pa- pers in Hour. ‘The rush of German @nd Austro-| Hungarian subjects for first naturat- ization papers this morning exceeded | all records, not excepting the sud- den demand for citizenship that fol-| lowed the Lusitania crisis, Before 10| o'clock more than one hundred sub- jects of the two Central Powers jammed the offices of the Naturaliza-| tion Bureau on the seventh floor of the Hall of Records } County Clerk William F. Schneider, under whose supervision the work of enrolling applicants for citizenship papers ts carried on, announced that his office would be kept open nights from 7 to 9. Similar steps to accom- modate future citizens will be taken at the Naturalization Bureau in the} Post-Office building, where the clert- cal force is much smaller than in the Hall of Records. There was no concealment of the| fact that the German and Austrian applicants desired citizenship to es- cape possible internment. Many of hem have been in this country for more than ten years but had never taken steps toward citizenship before, ‘There was one middle aged German, Louis Letbitz, whose application bore the statement that he had been in| America since 1898 and had never| thought seriously about naturalization until Sunday when he talked it over with his wife, also German. ©. W, Schluter, chief clerk in charge | of the County Clerk's bureau, ex- plained to Letbneitz that the taking) out of first papers would, in the event) of hostilities between this country and) the Teutonic allies, relieve the appll- cant of the necessity of going to an internment camp for allen enemie “Oh it's not that I want to escape, sald Leibettz, broke out and they sent me to camp | with my wife the American govern-| ment would seo that we were well cared for, But I want to be a citizen of a country that has been more pa- | tient than any other on the globe, I) want to show my admiration for the, United States by taking out papers) and placing myself liable to draft al the army.” ‘There was a large increase in the} |number of Russian subjects making \application, but they by no means) compared with the rush of Germans land Austrians, The normal average Inumber of the latter in a whole day} lis about fifty, In this morning’s rush| ‘Austrians exceeded Germans by about) twenty, but the crush in the offices became so great after 10 o'clock that counting was impossible, and many were told to come around tn an hour, Before 10 o'clock (the bureau opens at 9) sixty Austrians, most of whom | were from Galleid tions. In the same period forty Ge mans foreswore allegiance to Emperor William and signed the register Fifteen Russian sub, of Denmark and o made application Italians four Irishmen were among those w took the oath GUARD ORDERED READY AT A MOMENTS. NOTICE All at Scenes of Warlike Activity Armories—Plans for | | Supplies, Orders were issued to-day to all commanding officers of th New York National Guard to have their men ready to answer the wall to duty at any moment, Just what signifi- cance the order possesses could not |be learned, Major omyan | was at his office in Division He |auariees in the Municipal Builc would not admit orders of ar had been issugd beyond tl live the First and the Gen. w » cone Tenth ments, which are now guarding | York City's 180 miles of wate }and water works, The General added that as Httle as possible should | said at this time conce position of troops. At all the armortes there activity to-day, It was sald plies. of ammunition have dered and that the Commissary partment of the division hi for the immediate pure feseense supp! food, ning the dis was great | possible war was sent out to-day by filed their applica~ |n GERMAN SUBJECTS RUSHING TO BECOME AMERICAN CITIZENS — FLEET OF U. S. SUBMARINES ON THEIR WAY TO SEA OEE DETTE OS rootoors 3! 3) * one Sreseseore ? Wilson’s Note to Neutrals Urging Break With Germany WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—Following are the instructions Presi- dent Wilson has sent to our representatives in all neutral countries: You will immediately notify the Government to which you are accredited that the United States, because of the German Govern. ment’s recent announcement of its intention to renew unrestricted submarine warfare, has no choice but to follow the course laid down in fis note of April 18, 1916 (the Sussex note). It has, therefore, recalled the American Ambassador to Ber- Un and has delivered passports to the German Ambassador to the United States. Sa: so, that the President is reluctant to belleve Germany actually will carry ont her threat against neutral commerce, but if it be done, the President will ask Congress to authorize uso of the national power to protect American citizens engaged In their peace- fal and lawful errands on the seas, | The course taken 1s, in the President's view, entirely In con- | formity with the principles he enunciated in his address to the | Senate Jan. 12. (The address proposing a world league for peace.) He believes it will make for the peace of the world If other neutral powers can find It possible to take similar action. Report fully and immediately on the reception of this announce- ment and upon the suggestion as to similar action. FOR WAR SERIE covery Is Doubtful—He Surfers National Suffrage Organization From Angina Pectoris. Friends of James Buchanan (“Dia- Also Takes Steps in Aid of Defense. | mond Jim") Brady were worried to- day by the unfavorable reports which reached this city from the Hotel Shel-| burne, Atlantic City, where Mr. Brady has been ill for the last three weeks, His condition was reported as critical, the fact that heart trouble has been added to his already long list of ailments, making his recovery ex- tremely doubtful. Mr. Brady is suffering again with agina pectoris or neuralgia of the heart. He has been in poor health for several months. A call to the 95,000 members of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion to organize tn preparation for William Gunning Story, Presi- | DANGER TO CITY'S WATER SUPPLY CALLED SLIGHT Guards on Duty, and More Than One System to Draw On, Engineer Points Out. While sentries with loaded rifles are protecting the city's $177,000,000 water supply system, which daily furnishes 550,000,000 gallons to a community of Mrs. dent General of the organization. ‘The 1,500 local chapters are urged to assemble hospital supplies, classify women as to service and send to Mrs. Story the names, addresses and de- greo of efficiency of not only the members, but of other women who may wish to ald. The records sought | will disclose which occupations wom- en can fill if war is declared, such as automobile driving, (elegraphy and stenograpt The sation ralsed $149,000 within s when ald was} "arly 6,000,000 souls, Deputy Chief given to the Belgians. Engineer William W. Brush of the Mra. Story sald to-day: ; Department of Water Supply ex-! plained to-day how difficult it would] be for a crank to create trouble | “Even if one of the big water sup ply systems should be put out of dust ness," said the engineer, © “The President-General expects that the call on behalf of America will place at its disposal the greatest amount of service any group of American women has ever offered to this country | still have another, Hach system WASHINGTON, Feb, 6,—To ‘out-| Separate and independent of line a plan of definite war service by | other, If anything should happen at| women, Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt,|any of the new big dams tne eity President of the National American |could simply fall back on the Croton would] Women's Suffrage Association, to-|svatem and the private water com-| day called the executive council of | Panties. ye association consisting of 100/ ,!t became known to-day that th mbers, representing all the States, | Catskill Aqueduct has been well pro- | | te in Washington on tected since last March when a crank pM issio iams that 1g to blow up the sys of trouble with ¢ | 13. | he 4 dixcussed the move | y yesterday in Phila- sburgh. em i rmany Since th suffrage methods nh @ searchlight has played| Up despite’ the interna. | between sunset and dawn and armed | i jSuards have kept a constant vigil at ‘oasional Union announced {te Croton Dam, five miles beyond men will continue | Ossining ; | White House |, Particular attention is being give mening ¢ by the military guardians of t Lena at water to the neighborhood of n times thet! should be con-| King, where a tunnel th is \bedrock at the bottom of the Baved, os | ca Catskill water to Kensico women of the country, Reservoir east of Tarrytown ? HOSTON. "Feb, "S-Mre, Barrett | most important waft is jocated on (nl) President of the Maynuchu. [the Rockefeller estate, Here guns ure mounted, Woman's Branch of the Natton Bey iuy for American. Prepared: | truck 1s reconnottering ‘nh notified Gov, MeCall to-day that | 4nd searchiights w bus: ‘ 8 the society were registe ervice to the ®tate in tune of sreney > - English Deomatle Aut and Com-| Dead. be Paul Alfred Ru-} vor and composer, He concerning the |aituation necessary, New mobilization sald, If was f the bohm »vernor —_> Army and ry in davuary TON, Feb. 5.—Recruiting |armories, both the army and the navy during | thelr of January reached satla-| ava! Re portions, according to figures ee to-d The navy made a|Japanese Silk B men and the army Owing ¢ Pp oe YOKOHAMA, Feb, 5.The Silk Bx lee of Heef in New gone’ suspended ‘operations to-da ean © the slump in pricey occasion oliow Fab Leal, ye ing Ameen Biplomatic break. with \abN" Sw ver suuna —— - - |ting throuch to Albany by a | passengers | up State cities which | GUARD TO PROTECT BARGE CANAL AND MUNITION PLANTS Governor and O’Ryan Also Plan for Safety of Railways and Power Plants. Gov. ing for Albany blockade on the Hudson River Divi- Whitman was delayed depart this afternoon by ston of the New York Central caused by the storm. No guarantee of get- ason- able hour t Governor eluded to wait until the road ts elear Speaking of calling out the militia for guard duty in certain parts of the State, the Governor said he had is- sued the call, as Commander-in-Chict of the National Guard, in response to requests from varlous sources, These requests, all stated that pre- cautionary measures should be take not because of any fear of an organ tack on any of the utilities of and the con the city or the State, but because of the danger that cranks, inflamed the prevailing it into thelr he warfare, As a result of a conference between Gov. Whitman and Maj. Gen, O'Ryan, proparations are under way at DI vision Headquarters of the National Guard for the military protection of excitem ads to wa nent, might take individual the $20,000,000 Barge Canal, the main railroads of the State and the water power supply and electric plants of police protection It is understood that Buffalo will be one of the main concentration points of troops. Here are located immense plants which transtorm waterpower from Niag ‘alls into electricity for lighting Er "a str Another phase of the militla plans yntemplates the guarding of the ington munition company's pl Iiion, which would likely be turned over tp the ral Government in \t as well as all other manufactories whieh larly converted in of the cavalry uitered thro the State and the parked tn the To-day, 4n request, Gov, Whitman said, he placed a de- to gard the Pough- wou An emergency regiments will ugh the upper seetio field artit hilly sections ory Wi answer to a Whitman's i attention was called to despatches showing wide spread declarations on the part of iduals of German birth, or nt, #nd associations of German itizens that they are behind President Wilson no matter what ap) He said 9 is nothing surprising in the | attitude of the German societies or he resolutions they have There never has been any que the teens traction." loyalty of f ‘ rman patriotism rth ——_—__— 10,000 RED GROSS DOCTORS AND 70,000 NURSES READY farvard Professor Is Appointed to Investigate the Work in WASHINGTON, Feb 5.--The Amer jean Red Cro has avatiable in th vent of war 10,000 physicians and Ue was announced aid Cary Coolidge of n appointed a special in Europe. John I r Mass, it was volished north Red Cross { Kirst New York kaki Camp, 1 Affect the Head Shove as evening was given to! AMERICA'S STAND. (= *| GETS Blo ACCLAIM ON BRITISH FRONT General Relief 1 That It Will Have Effect of Hastening End of War. QUS STEAMSHIP OFF FLORIDA COAST Mallory Liner Alamo May Have Passed German Raider at Sea, (Spectal (o The Evening World.) TAMPA, Fila, Feb, 5.—Passengers on board the Mallory liner Alamo, which arrived here late last night, de« clare that vessel passed a mysterious stranger, running without lights, sev~ eral miles off the bar at Egmont Key. Capt. Gavitt and the chief officer reported the occurrence to Capt. Sat- terlee of the coast guard cutter Tampa to-day, but refused to talk for publication, Marines from the Tampa are stae tioned at Ballast Point, watohing the Austrian merchantman Borneo, and they report hourly to the Tampa by @® special telephone installed aboard the cutter. WITH THP PRITISH ARMIES IN THE FIELD, Feb, 56.—As news of America’s diplomatic break spread last night a ripple of applause figura- tively swept the entire army zone. Every moss throughout the front buzzed with the news. The officers and men were pleased, The general opinton wan that the moral effect of America’s diplomatic break would tm- mediately be as depressing to the Germans as encouraging to the alltes. Americans in the Canadian regi-| ments were busy handshaking and re- colving compliments, There was gay-| erywhere, America’s backing ts appreciated here though thus | fur that support {8 only moral. | ‘The army bel that other neu- will follow America's lead and| t Germany will soon find herself literally opposed to the entire world outside of her allies, The opinion ts held here that the American action will necessarily hasten the end of the war. Even if the United States joins the ranks of, tho belligerents it is not expected that Amortean troops could possibly be sent to Europe before the ond of the war which ts confidently expected to come this year \ Tho paychologic effect on Germany | of being cut off from her last big friend among the nations ts the prin- cipal ation with the British military observers who are convinced that this effect will be very great. | While there is no thought that Presl- jent Wilson's action result In any immediate miltary the news from Washington has been re- ved in the British trenches as the best tidings that shed the fighting line In # lone long time AMERICAN HELD 10 BY BRITISH WANTS TO FIGHT FOR U. S. Judge Tells Ship Ownere They Have No Right to Detain Sea- man, But Reserves Decision, James Clark, ablebodied seaman with a strong Cockney accent, told Judge Hand tn the United States District Court to-day that If he had to | do any fighting he wanted to do it for| Uncle Sam and not for England, — | Clark was produced tn court on! a habeas corpus proceeding against the owners of the Anchr Line ship Man- hattan, now used 4s 4 tri the British navy, He had % up by Capt. Lezell to pr him from ‘beating the job." | Counsel for the ship owners ac- | knowledged that he had been kept a prisoner aboard the ship and claimed that the , were within thelr rights fn holding him for ser- vice in spite of the fact that he Is a eltizen of this ntry even const stance, have re 3 h Sonhine ranges . These peel haetat Has good oranges. Order a dozen today. Sunkist Uniformly Good Oranges California Fruit Growers Exchange nsport of} n locked | nt a owners Clark took out citizenship papers Jotrht years ago. 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