The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1917, Page 3

> rr rr er eee GERMANS AT SRONT MOST CONCERNED ABOUT U.S. LINERS inna irioee News of the Break With This Country Dribbles Into Western Battle Zone. FIGHTS BY MOONLIGHT. | British Make Gains at Night) Over Frontage of Nearly | a Mile. WITH THF BRITISH ARMIES FRANCD, Feb. § (via London, F 9), (from a staff correspondent of t! Apsociated Press).—Meagre details of the breach of diplomatic relations be- tween the United States and Ger- many have just reached the German soldiers in the front line trenches, according to the statement of pris- oners taken by the British to-day, At Balllescourt Farm, north of Grandecourt, eighty men and one of- cer of the Eighty-fifth German In- fantry Regiment were captured. Most of them were from Hamburg and were formerly engaged in the shipping trade and spoke Lnglieh fluently. One of the prisoners said he had heard from his own sources that) America had broken off relations, but | that he did not know exactly what this would lead to. Another prisoner, shrugging his shoulders, said: “It makes no differ- ence now who comes into the war. We don't care. For me the wat is finished | and the sooner al! !s over the better.” Others among the prisoners asked for information regarding the great liners formerly plying between Ham- burg and the United States and now | tied up in New York. Tuey seem| _more interested in that phase than In | | any other. Tho recent night fighting in the moonlight and across the frozen snow, | in a temperature noar zero, has car- ried the British lines well forward on both sides of the Ancre in the di- rection of Miraumont, one part of the operations being the occupation of Grandcourt which was officially an- nounced last night. For some time the British have been gradually im- proving their position in the Ancre sector, but the latest and most im- | portant phase began on Saturday night when, un @ moon alm brilliant for t! lish froops # over a frontage of three-quarters of a mile, taking 200 prisoners. This was | north pf the river and sinco then the pressure has been from the south. On Tuesday night the Hritish occu- 2ST TES” THRE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, City Officials in Evening World Forum For More Light on the Riverside Contract TO STAY NEUTRAL “en $ aah To clear up the existing doubt and misunderstanding respecting the scope and effect of the Riverside improvemen! contract between the city and the New York Central Rail- road Company, The Evening World will present a series of questions to the Board of Estimate. pled a long section of a trench just west of Grandcourt and on Wednes- day patrols were sent out who re} ed that Grandcourt had been ated and that the en: toward Miraumont ing many gun positions, This to the fact th. th Britien reached # posit their gu could rake Grandcourt m thre sides. Still _preasing fo don the north, Gen, Haig's forces took Bailles- court Farm to-day after a brief re-{ sistan British staff officers pointed out the significance of these latter advances in view of the German official ° ment of T which ¢ recapture o| day. The: subsequent events are the best proof that the German statement was un truthful, Grandeourt was badly amaghed, but bits of walls still stand ing distinguish {t from some of the other villages which were completely flattened and pulverize German of provisions were found tn the | nd the British ‘Tommies dined | on German rations ne 21 track! printed with prominence. rental, annual fee or percentage of receipts Franchise Values Ignored In City-Railroad Contract For Riverside Park Front No Arrangement Made for Future Compensation for Use of 21 Miles of Added Trackage on Which N. Y. Central Profits Will Increase as Popu- lation and Business Grow—Franchise Is in Perpetuity, With No Provision for Revision of Compensatory Terms. ‘The New York Central Railroad Company possesses a franchise for 500 years for its existing line along the west side of Manhattan Island. Under the proposed contract between it and the city, the Board of Estimate for approval, there is given an unlimited franchise for the addition of two more tracks from Thirtieth Street to Spuyten Duyvil, three-fourths the length of the island—twenty-one miles of new now pending before This grant is made without provision for future compensation in the form of tixed rental, annual fee or percentage of receipts. The Manhattan Railway Company | “7 . 4 wee possesses an unlimited franchise to ¢lghty-five years, when it reverts operate elevated lines in certain| to the elty, streets of Manhattan, granted in the The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com- old days when street rights were pany sought from the city the right given away freely in perpetuity. It to build an express third track on its ently applied to the city, through |clevated lines in Fulton Street the Public Service Commission, for! Broadway and Myrtle Avenue. For the right to construct and operato all of these lines it posse alin additional express tracks in conne ted franchises. The city granted tion with its existing franchise. the franchise for additional tracka, By the terms of this contract but on terms similar to those g the Manhattan Railway not only pays 2 per cent, of Its gross ree celpts from the additional tracks, but the franchise is Hmited to the Manhattan elevated No stich conditions are imposed on jthe New York Central for its addi- tional tracks on the west side. On BONWIT TELLER &.CO. ANNOUN * THE CONTINUATION, SATURDAY, OF 7 French Seal Coats.... 6 Hudson Seal Coats (Dyed Muskrat, , 6 Trimmed Hudson Seal Coats.......... fi 10 Trimmed Hudson Seal Coats 6 Bordered Hudson Seal Coats. . (Kolinsky Border, Collar and Cuffs) The Speaally Shop oS Ongination: FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET THEIR Final Clearance of Furs Prior to the Closing of the Department for the Season The Entire Stock Is Included in This Event Without Reserve or Exception at Greatly Reduced Prices Regulan'y 85.00 48.50 Regularly 195.00 125.00 Regularly 195,00 to 225.00 145.00 Regularly 225.00 195.00 Regularly 395.00 225.00 Scarfe Muffs Regularly Regularly Natural Skunk..,... pena chee. 9.50 Nutrla..,,,, : 15.00 7.50 Mole Cape Collar, , , 39,50 22.50 Natural Raccoon..,,,, 19,50 10.00 Natural Raccoon, , Areneny oh) 14,50 Hudson Seal , 22,50 12.50 Kolinsky Cape Collar. ,,,, 59.50 25,00 | Taupe Fox 42,50 27.50 Pointed Fox,.,,..,,,,...,, 59.50 38,00 | Polnted Pox 45.00 = 28,80 Taupe Pox an 55.00 48.00 Kolinshy 65.00 Hudson Bay Blue F os anu Natural Fisher Faa Beis. Forarly 95.09 to 110.00 po. 50 Answers of reasonable length are requested and will be Readers of The Evening World are also asked to present queries which, tf considered of merit and not prompted by politics or personal prejudice, will appear in this forum. Address Riverside Editor, Evening World. QUESTION NO. 7—IS THE CITY GETTING PROPER COMPENSATION FROM THE NEW YORK CENTRAL FOR THE FRANCHISE RIGHTS GRANTED, WITH RECENT GRANTS TO OTHER COMPANIES? The grant is made without provision for future compensation in the form of fixed the contrary, its franchise is made perpetual and absolutely clinched by the city selling it the additional land needed and giving ownership deeds therefor. These grants can never be taken back nor the terms revised, But in the case of the Manhattan Elevated additional tracks the city reserves the right to recapture them and take possession on payment of actual con- | struction cost any time after the first ten years. | The Pennsylvania Railroad Com- pany sought from the city the rigat to build its tunnel and entrance into \the metropolis. An unlimited and | perpetual franchise was given in this case, but with stipulations regarding compensation. Specified payments ‘Jare made annually and these terms of compensation are to be revised jevery ten years, Similar provisions are contained in the franchise granted te the Hud- son tubes The whole tendency of the times is against granting perpetual or un- limited franchises, Where the time ts made for a very long period or in perpetuity, provision is made for continuing compensation in some form, either fixed permanently or subject to periodic revision. In the new grant to the New York | Central there is a grant in perpetuity without restriction, without continu- tion and without oppor- jon, ing compe tunity for rev MITCHEL INVITES SENATE INQUIRY IN RIVERSIDE DEAL | — | Mayor, In Letter to Mills, Says | Board of Estimate Would | Welcome It, | Mavor Mit willing there yuld be a ative investigation fof the New « Central-Weat Side tier, and believes the Board of timate will adopt that position, He aid as much yesterday in a letter to State Senator Ogden L. Mills, to ‘hom he wrote in part; Ithough the Board of Estimate i Apportionment has taken no of- | ficial action upon the suggestion, 1 wish to sa at Tam certain that an investigation would be entirely agre » to the d, and, speaking auth y for idents vklyn and t nx, who have son this subject emphatically ‘GERMAN AIRMEN DROP BOMBS NEAR DUNKIRK Western Front PARIS, Feb, %—Enemy aviators dropped bombs on French positions and ctties tn the region of Dunkirk, KDE four elvillana, the offctal ro id to-da The only fighting activ! port # y mention fd in the wtatement spulae of the Jenemy attacks o Mouse in he region of Vaux lox Palametx ee Holy One eRROMO QUININE. D. AS COMPARED BIG NORWEGIAN LINER HELO IN HOME PORT Her Departure Postponed Pending “Further Developments”—Word From the Returning Ryndam. A cablegram received to-day at the office of the Norwegian-Amertean steamship line from the home office at Christiania states that the liner Christianiafjord, which wi ox- pected in this port to-morrow is stlil at Christiania, The Christiantafjord was echeduled to leave Christiania on Jan. 31, and it is believed here that she did leave on that date but was re- called by wireless, Following is the cablegram: “Christianiafjord departure post- poned pending further developments in altuation. Will instruct you fully as soon as possible.” Agents of the Holland-Amertca Line received a wireless message at noon to-day stating that the steam- ship Ryndam, which left here with 260 passengers, twenty-two of them Americans, on Jan, 29, the same day the California sailed, would reach her dock at Hoboken next Wednesday morning. The Ryndam, which was on her way to Rotterdam by way of Fel mouth, was nearing the latter place eek yee 5 when word was received in this city, a few hours after the sinking of the | California by a German submarine had been reported, that she had turned back and was heading for New York In the message received to-day Capt. Krol of the Ryndam doo not give his position and makes no refer fence to the cause which prompted him to return to this port. ‘The com | pany officials hero figure from th length of time that will elanse before }the arrival of the Ryndam that she must have been pretty close to. the Co Mor a when the latter was tor 1s Word is expected to-day from the | White Star Mner Baltic, which left [here Jan, 29 and was due at Liver pool on Wednesday, y have tnken a southerly and 1c course | She is commanded by Capt, William inch, who Was master of the White Star liner Arabic when she was tor pedoed and sunk off the coast of Ire nd. La Touraine of the French line ar: rived at Bordeaux yesterda word was received of her ut the local office of the French Line, but her {arrival was recorded in spaper despatches, as was the arrival of the Italian liners America at Naples and Taormina | at Genche” 10,000 GERMAKS IN ITY MARKED FOR INTERNMENT m Camps Planned for and Ellis 1 War Come: Concentrati Staten rominent anda work, have been of the more t tons ider Similar arrangements worked out b other centre been preparing equally well hard job 5 bo better f them under ep “Mary of these peoplo hava been the cause of the activities of govern mental agents during the days ptalns Boy-Ed and von Papen. We were able to get enough evi- | Government | son's stggestion 2 5 AN 7 ¢ | ENGAGED TO MARRY made ere that the Lahieh ‘SWEDEN DECIDES “Ata Atetrne |Site tate INU BOAT CRISIS: Brazil Still 1 Hopeful It Won't Have to Break With Berlin. STOCKHOLM, Feb, 9.—The Swedish rejects President Wil- | that other neutral countries join with the United States in severing diplomatic relations with Germany and declares tts intention to follow the strictest neutrality so long | a8 it Is possible, Sweden's reply has been delivered to the American Min- ister, Tra Nelson Morris, by K. A. Wallenberg, the Minister of Foreign | ° | Affairs. The text of the note follows |in part: 4 ven eos ane: “The proposal, which forme the | 6434s s6d0ennoe | subject of the present correspondence, | has as its aim the shortening of tho | evils of the war, but the Government of the United States has chosen as a means of arriving at | method absolutely contrary to the | | principles which have guided the pol- {ey of the Royal Government up to| public. the present hour. “The Royal Government, supported by public opinion, confirmed by the MORE | GRACE FROM ‘BERLIN. unanimous solicitations of the coun- —_—_—_—_— try'’s representatives, intends to fol-| Extem low in the future, as in the past, @) Ne | policy of neutrality and Impartiality, PARIS, Fob. toward — oa te ceewden thie Ce to the Petit Journal says that the Ger- ‘it is not disposed to abandor 8 pol- seegini “n fey unless the vital interests of the 7°" Government has announced tha country and the dignity of the nation | srants a further delay of forty-elgh' oblige it #0 to do.” e Allowe: Barred Zone. gain neutral ports. | | Ures ay Rejects Ger Germany's original not: and Nepliies to Wilson, | States announcing the r | MONTEVIDEO, Feb. 9.—The Uru- unrestrict guayan Gévernment has replied to| that neutral ships which were on the! the German note, rejecting the princl- | way toward ports in the blockade zone! ple of submarine war, as announced | | Sora tly would be ° by Germany. The Minister of Foreign | fufficlently long, Affairs has replied to Fresident Wil- son’ note, declaring that the Uru- | e 6 to sail and must guayan Government had already pre-| shortest route out of Slowly, adhered to the principle of |“reas. On Feb. 2. thi the United States taking In hand the) Ment waked the | dofense of the rights and interests of | ships at sea in the blockade zone could ls, The Government, the reply return to port, but no despatch , recognizes the justice and lofty| mentioned al ntiments embodied in President Wil- |fet by Ger Govern. Neutrals M SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa., Feb. 9, WASHINGTON, Feb. “6 ‘A move- | ~-Official ment is under way among neutral diplomats looking to the calling of a conference of all neutral nations, to, be held anywhere outside the United States, in an effort to prevent actual Nig between Germany and this coun- "White no definite action has yet been taken the advisability of calling such a conference is known to have been discussed by “Latin: Ameri: and other neutral diplomats. It wi talked over at a meeting of the di- rectors of the Pan-American Union held yesterday. Madrid probably would be the meeting place of such @ conference if one were held, EXPECT GREAT SEA FIGHT | IF SUBMARINES FAIL American Naval Ex] Exper's Predict Germany May Stake Everything for Control of Seas. WASHINGTON, Feb y that Germany I ti val ex AND RA ¥MOND STORM Mr. and Mrs. William 0. 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