The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1917, Page 4

German Guabont Set Afire by Mer! lany of the other bridges, but it 1s a. | machine cunw will be in 0 A a ‘The crew of to command the land and the interned German gunboat Geier) qnter approaches to the bases of the yesterday eet the vessel afire, accord- M rhe Work of prorectine the ing to the authorities here. The gun- | bridges from possible attacks by boat was of 1,604 tons, and was in- ' ite tadkieh un youTenaas terned shortly after the war began. | The bridges at Hight presi Bhe was built at Wilhemshaven in 1s os “ Drop lights floorings, and anchor, with powerful ele hung from the an © @ i jages of the plere were tlluminated | tric lamps, strings } —_—_—_—-— jot Mghts bordered the skeletons of : th structures, nd searchilghts | Vigilance at Structures Over! piayea intermittently, Comm ' ‘Rivers Redoubled During [| ®. ¥: Forshew of the Naval Militia, . ee A who was in charge, issued orders Storm—Police Aid. from his heodquarters aboard the onatptanaanianet {te State, at the foot of West to-day |Ninety-seventh Street Among the first n report for duty was Vincent Asto The caused a redoubilng of the blinding snowstorm vigilance | } COLD IN of the Naval militiamen and police | lensign. He od guard for » |snards on the roadways and under youre at f the bridges and was one [the structures of the East River|then relieved, He is a junior ald to | nridges, Besides the Brooklyn, Man-| Commodore Forshew, and it was be | hattan, Williamsburg and Queens. | Who formed the aero squadron of the j . |Naval Militia. He considers the sit- boro bridges, the new Hell Gate rall- | vation gerious, but when asked what » LA — | road bridge was closely watched and | pix personal plana were in case of % special police details looked after the “f have nop thought that A Harlem River bridges | far ah After his relief yesterday “Pape'sColdCompound” ’ — InstantRelief. During the helght of the storm the | hn» went from one bridge to the other guarda were relieved every thirty [inspecting the guard work .. A dose taken every two hours until Whree doses are taken will end grippe war sald minutes. Later the tour of duty Was) Members of the Columbus Volun lengthened. A special force of #eV- | teers, elder brothers of the pupils in enty-five policemen went the |the Institute of Our dy of Chris bridge roadways for day duty at %/tian Iocgrine, organized into a pre o'clock; this permitted an equal nuM-|paredness corps and uniformed by ber of naval militiamen to return to their quarters for sleep and rest, At| Mathews, U. 8. A. reported to the Sis- on the Sisters and drilled by Capt. Philip THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, F WENCK, ANSWERING CHARS, SAS RL “DAD LEESES 30xing Commissioner Denies] Having Any Financial Re- | lations With Tex Rickard. | Fred Wenck, Chairman of the State | ness stand to-day at the resumption of the Investigation of charges against him filed by Messrs. White, Powers and Pollok, The Commissioner is charged with having demanded $1,000 from the promoters before giving them a license to conduct bouts at Madison Sau Garden, Emil Fuchs, counsel for the promoters, grilled Wenck for more than an hour, when 1 recess was taken, Arked about the procedure followed all applications were submitted to easels in (his port have been cut Miss Gordon, the Commissioner's | Yer nuy a tua seers bat stenographer, She, having had some | “abanue in law office experience, was supposed to be qualified to detect irregularities, uing club Heenses, Wenck sald | 2500 SALORS OF GERMAN SHPS TOELUS LAND ' Pee! ospital, fering from (Continued From First Page) (Continued From First Page.) | Sources a sy 44 we ‘Np. bd Jusual weather to-day. The electrical | Policeman Vdward Schinidt fell at | storm broke just after the clty. ned Doma 7 the |h y ; \Third Avenue and — Seventeenth | plunged almost inio darkness. But every five years, as req The} Railway in the Bronx were running | streets, Brooklyn, and probably frac. | skies cleared auickiy. Yeates Sones 5 aptain thought this a trivi ch-jon the full schedule, but they were | tured his right wrist. caused by dense volumes of 7 nicality, but the inspector decided it| badly delayed by the automobiles) Six thousand employees of the(whicn could not rise because of was 4 matter for the Special Hoard of Inquiry. Capt. Gebauer said he would go before the board to-day confirmation could be found of a re- port that all these officers and crews were to be went to Ellis Island. Hundreds who were members of the crows of these vessels when they were tled up have left from time to time to take up their residence tn the United States, without submitting to ex- amination or paying the head tax of $4 exacted of every alien entering this country. No fewer than 100 such In- stances occurred yesterday morning from the eight Hamburg-American liners at Hoboken alone, }1,500 OF THE CREWS HAVE “ABANDONED THEIR CAUSE.” | im the lust (Wo yeurs the crews ot the nical term, have complied with previsiuns of the jaw, Lhe + - ers of the First Bat-jters tha en tame rhe ee have not, and tue sudden iner Greak ep 0 cold. the headquarters of | +s 2 ; [tera that the naval militiamen ane When she disco tae umber eeeKilig tee ucle ais (mlocr; te yee epens clogged-up nog-|(allon, aboard the Granite Btate, at policemen on duty on the exposed Wenck’s attention to them and he |uiplomatic relatiuna weru severed De= lerils and alr passages f the head,|the foot of West Ninety-seventh | portions of the Brooklyn and Man- acted, is brousht out the infor- | tween the Unsted States and Germany nesty discharge of nose running, | Street, there are 150 militiamen in re-|hattan ridges as extra guards suf- | mation In the case of the | ied to the action taken yester jeves heedache, dullness, fee| serve and an equal number is held! fered acutely from the cold accusing promoters application, he | te ureant recommendation of ¢ sore throat, eneesing, sore |at the headquarters of the Second, ‘Vie Sisters at once arranged & hot himself examined the lease and found| Witla Vedder a member of the! mess and stiffness. Battalion, in South Brooklyn, Over- | coffee service, with the Voluntecrs as alarities that he had anticipated. | crew of the Vaterlund, given leave of Don't stay stuffed-ap! Quit blowing) yhoo. and extra gioves were supplied | moxsengers. This continued — all Ing to show that Wenck had |#sence in 1914, who hus since been nee + Bele ore | to the militiamen to-day, through last night and to-day. They accepted money from other pro- | Workig as & plumbor at Lodi, toc chs or ing set ee ORs no A three-pound cannon and a | announced to-day the available funds jy5) Fuchs asked Wenck if he|the ship yesterday and exercised his Gompbund’ which costs only 26 cents| one-peund rapid fire gun guards (for the purchase of coffee, milk and over had any financial dealings with | 0d membership of the crew to obtain | at any drug store. It acts without| each end of the Brooklyn Bridge | wuxar would be Cede. by to. Aad John Reisler, otherwise known as ue Dee party was snsbeet i 5 ey would welcome contribus |‘) e whip the en Dp tastes nice, causes no income commanding the roadway ap land th ¥ it Rhatey Minest tb carey John the Barber, force the rule that no crew member | ‘venience. Be sure you get the genuime,| proache: tions at No, 118 Cherry At first Wenck sald “No,” but on|might leave and the former. sailor Don't accept something else.—Advt, Guns have not been mounted on on the relief worl had to remain on board. The others Franklin Simon s Co, Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets Clearance Sale—Tuesday * Women’s Fur Coats ana Furs Hudson Seal Coats Desirable models, reat Skunk trimmed, Heretofore $285.00 Hudson Seal Coats Kolinsky, Skunk, Taupe Fox, Ermine or Mole tr med. Herctofore $325.00 290.00 Hudson Seal Coats Several models, Skunk, Kolinsky or Mole trimmed, Heretofore $345.00 Hudson Seal Coats eee bi ; Skunk 5 uffs. cola eelofore $125.00 79.00 Hudson Seal Coats 45, 42 and 40 inch models, Skunk trimmed, Heretofore $175.00 Hudson Seal Coats 45 inches long; of all Seal or Skunk trimmed. Heretofore $245.00 225.00 125.00 175.00 285.00 Mole, Caracul or Squirrel Coats Moire Caracul Coat New semi-fitted belted model; collar and cuffs of Hudson Bay Sable. Heretofore $595.00 Scotch Mole Coat 48 inches long; collar and cuffs of Mole. Heretafore $595.00 Moire Caracul Coats New semi-fitted belted models; Taupe Fox or Skunk trimmed, Heretofore $325.00 250.00 Natural Gray Squirrel Coat 45 inches; collar, cuts 285.00 450.00 and border of Skunk. Heretofore $375.00 395.00 Fur Muffs Fur ckpiec 10.00 15.00 19.00 12.00 15.00 35.00 20.00 22.00 Natural Raccoon Black Wolf Hudson Seal 10.00 16.00 13.00 10.00 19.00 23.00 43.00 20.00 Heretofore $15.00 Heretofore $15.00 Heretofore $20.00 dyed Heretofore $20.00 Heretofore $18.00 Heretofore $20.50 Natural Nutria Heretofore $15.00 Heretofore $16.50 Heretofore $29.50 Natural Beaver Heretofore $22.50 Heretofore $32.00 Scotch Mole Heretofore $45.00 Heretofore $35.00 Natural Skunk Heretofore $20.50 Heretofore $37.50 Black Lynx Heretofore $32.50 Pur Capes and Pur Stoles Ermi Mole Capes ne trimm ’ Heretofore §175.00 Hudson 135.00 5.00 Kolinsky Stoles T d with tails 4 val Sox ole - rn Hferclo‘ore 8185.00 Hevetoon $180.00 129.00 Seal Capes 65.00 ls cond thought remembered one oc- | casion before he was Boxing Commis- sioner when he did, He explained it, In substance, like this: | “Reiser had been manager of a local fighter named Willie Beecher, who had made a bad showing in a bout at Madison Square Garden. Reisier asked me to send out some press matter alibi-ing Beecher and I did. I was to have been paid $50 for It but got only $20." were allowed to go out after they es- twblished their identity. Scrupulous care was observed in the action taken not to violate in let- ter or in spirit our neutrality toward Germany. This caution was obsurved under express orders from the Presi dent himself, who is determined not to permit any overt act to bs com | mitted by the United Stat while) the nature of our future ry fons with Germany depends upon the acts of Germany. Especial emphasis was laid upon this necessity, becaus» Ger- EBRUARY 5, | ‘STORM HOLDS UP motor trucks and the tracks, BROOKLYN TRAFFIC SUFFERS! | Third Street station in Fifth Avenue. No, 424 West Twenty-fifth Street, out his head and was sent to his | home at No, 2 Bristol Street, Brook- | lyn, 1917 oe awake, Commiasioner additional men would be ni snow removal an that he ex | to have the . crosing Broadway at | fell and was run into louis F Fortleth Stre HALF MILLION ON by an automobile, He was taken to his home at No, 2136 Vyse Avenue, The Bronx, with a badly bruised | knee, | | 2817 Becond Avenue, fell, on the | ishtnin lowed by sharp peals of | Kiehty-sixth Street Second Avenue | U6 . mega go | Hievated Station, He was taken to| thunder in the midst of a driving suey horses stalled ot ning Department were on | | Street_C SAUNT OKT A Jood Piano TIAN TTITAN ATR TTT TIAMAT TANNA MANY DELAYS. | The storm brought Its usual tnter- | ruption and ¢ in tra Me tn Brook- | lyn, the surface cars being delayed mainly by horses falling on the slip. pery tracks, and the elevated running | with such caution that trains were from five to fifteen minutes late The Utica Avenuo shuttle service to Hergen Beach, a distance of about aj quarter of a mile, was completely The price of the Waters Piano is based irre on factory cost with no agent's profit added. A Bay R » train, due here at 8.56 You cannot buy more tone or a better tone no matter what price you pay. The Waters Piano represents the very highest art of piano \ making—it is a piano you will be proud to to Coney Island, Bath Beach, Sea Gate and West End own, Three thousand commuters on the jj / Eric road had a long walk in the | izzard becauso the frogs at Crox- ton, in the Bergen cut, were filled a) with snow and the switches could not be At 8 A. M. thirty-seven trains were f VA NOS stalled two and a half miles outside itr bldoha Mieco Ai opel Pon U and the Waters-Autola player-pianos,although {oom pointe on the Norgnern Ravrow’'|12] old established and reliable and of admitted Greenwood Lake Division and the superiority, are sold at very reasonable prices and oneasy monthly payments without interest ‘clock, was forty minutes late owing to the pulling out of a draw bar at the This tled up for that time the service Trains in the cut could t out and those arriving could not get in moved main line of the Erie, Men and a few | women were compelled to walk through the snow and gale to th or extras. Send for catalogue. ferry. coy coaaents ove coroe vom | Horace Waters & Co. - Stati tee Wallach, a clerk, of No. 134 Fifth Avenue, near 18th Street 750 Melrose Avenue, The Bronx walked into a ladder in the blinding snow and hurt his head so badly that he was treated and sent home. Policeman John McKnight fell at Madison Avenue and feth Street and broke his right arm, 127 W. 42d St., near Broadway 254 W. 125th St., ngar 8th Ave. 371 E. 149th St., near 3rd Av OPEN EVENINGS | Fetherston said that at least 6 storm gave Boston a brief period of un MMMM) ‘i many based her declaration of wa William Slotkin, a cu fell at Tex Rickard's name waa then| with Portugal on the seizure of anips jbrought into the investigation. | laid up in the ports of that country. = Wenck denied having any financial] Collector Malone, who was in per- pea eee | relations with Rickard, sonal charge of ‘nany of the steps PRONE ENENONUINENOMG AE He purposely | avoided meeting Tex because of the ‘rumors of graft connected with the | Wostorner’s promotion of the Willard- Moran bout. | Wenck denled that he had ever ‘taken lunch with Rickard just before | the blg bout at the Garde | TRENCHES BRITISH TOOK | tion, I have been in consultation with representatives of the North German ction affecting the ships lying at ch Below Regular Prices Pa : ting the shins lying at Mu R | Berlin Reports Success on Somme [dees eget ty Ae Ot & specs | nt a Pal iti {tacular trip around the harbor by Pron on Failure of British Police Inspector. Thomas Myers of 7 | Night Attack, the Trafic and Harbor Diviston. S y Forty men in plain clothes accom- Hudson Seal Coats (Dyed Muskrat) | BERLIN, 5 (by wireless to| panied him, filling three launches, ——$—— ee Sayvi r troops in a coun- |ter attack yesterday recaptured from | {the British the greater portion of the! | tre nehes cast of Beaucourt, on the | Somme front, that had recently been jlost, the War Office announced to- | day. The British failed in a heavy attack north of Beaucourt in the aft- ernoon and in @ second assault at the village of Pys curred in the Gueudecourt sector, PARIS, Feb. 6A successful raid on German trenches in tho region of Barleaux, south of the Somme, was reported in to-day’s official state- ment, Several reconnoitering parties i from German lines in the sections of Chambrette, Pont-a-Mousson and Al- sace, It was stated, were repulsed | without loss. 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