The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1917, Page 1

} EDITION -PRIOE ONE CENT Copyright, 1017, by AD 12 DE Co. (The New Yo RIVERSIDE DEAL CAUSES WA The [“ Circulation Books Open to All.”’| ‘The ens Vablishing World). NEW A MISSI YORK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1917. 18 PAGES PR = ~ PS, BOARD ORDERS INQUIR INTO RVERSIDE. CONTRACT: se Sweeping Investigation Under- taken at Whitman’s Request Arouses Mitchel. ® U.S. TO KEEP GUARD OVER BERNSTORFE MAYOR CALLED HOME, That Gov- Supporters Charge 3 AS HF STARTS HOME ernor Broke Faith by His Me venuen: | Ample Protecuon From Time The action of the Public vce| He Leaves Washington Un- til He Sails To-Morrow. i ' Commission in voting to-day to make pro: & eweeping investigation of the posed contract with the New f Flyrin of the Secret Service Contral Ralirond for west sklo im- 884 Pelice Commissioner Woods to- Peavement at the request of Gov. d*¥ completed thelr plans for guari- . ing Count von Bernstorff ond bis ener ec reperced by Mage ty of about 200, who rail on the Mitche! and the City Admini. as an a declaration four hours The Mayor la a tew days ; Scandinavian Uner Frederik VILL “overt act” which wi from Hoboken to-morrow of war with Armed guargs will protect the ret- from the it hingten until the ship puts to sea. moment leaves in The Government will take the astrict- learning the news est precautions both on land and munication with % ft! water, and Chief Flynn will direct in the Administration by telephone and | 0 Bs it was decided that a statement set-| Roides Count and Countess yon ee corth the viows : Bernstorft the party will include should be prepared | of the German Embassy; Prince Hate Hostilities be ate and! feldt-Trachenberg, yunsellor; Bare elty governments will } mportant| yon Schoen, secretary, and Dr. Ge Wrom New York there will board the ship Dr, Helurich Albert, imperial p. counsellor, and Curl win-|Heynen, former consular officer in Mexico, Count von Bernstorft and his party will leave Washington at 12.1 ‘clock to-morrow morning by special train political hearings as well as an effect} Ahrens, ‘upon the pending contract. W Governor and the Mayor been on frien: terms they tained an attitude rmed neutral- ity. Now, however are off and ruthless warfur vy each econ’ of the Cit a-|over the Pennsylvania Itullroad, Hon angrily asserted to-day that Gov, | Feaching Hoboken at about ® A. Bf Whitman was not observing unde At Fourteenth and Hudson Streois, i wad Hoboken, Chief of Police Hayes of Bennet previous , rag re"l Hoboken and forty uniformed yo- garding interferon ig si a ee yj, | ice will see the party safely into au- They charged him with Preaking Mis} ecnopites which will carry them mice along the water front to the steamer. BOARD OF ESTIMATE HEARINGS ON TO-MORROW, Public hearings of the Board of Es- Capt. Henry and fifty Secret Service men will assist Chief Hayes In keep- ing the crowd back and in shielding timate on the Riverside contract bine former Ambassador from annoy- acheduled to begin to-morrow morn-| anne ing in tho City Hall, Mayor Mitchel pe a telephoned to-day that he would be M here to preside. No order of proce- GERARD’S NEXT OVE dure has been devised, and the ings are expected to devel into confusion and, 4s one met expressed it, “a cat and dog tim At a formal meeting of the Public Service Commission to-day sioner Hayward presented the request | of the Governor, saying | “The Governor has directed me to| 2p 4 “WILL BE TO PARIS Will He Other Americans Leave Berne Next Tuesday Night. (via Paris)— and Commis Feb, BERNE bassador Gerard’ announced that he request the Public Service Commis: | beac ieee gion of this district to give to him our| Probably will leave for Paris on Tues- ‘atimates of the value of tho lands {ay evening with the immediate I and rights, which unde agroe. | DASSY Hate Be: infirm 4 a ner ment now pending proposed by the) Americans riage FOSBTTUS. Hf Board of Estimate and Apportion-|America that they were welcome to t. between the city of New York {accompany him, but must make their Pent, be’ passport other arrangements and the New York Central Railroad through the gation here, which now Company, the city of Now York ty to | T0UM) ' convey and grant to railroad, and |" Sea aU MBGd ad eaith CA tan the values of the lands and rights arin 4 which the company is to convey and > Tihs grant to the city 1 the sador ME movo that the experts of this) est ee et was cu Jommission be a Cure | telegra nd mail fa sloner Hodg on another conts vil Commissioner Hayward seconded | jany, who could on the motion, [It was unanimously !to Jeave Germany is adopted by @ full board expected The investigation will involve every} Every courtesy and ald is being ex- —__—_—_ {tended the American envoy by Swiss (Continued on Second Page.) officials, OPENS CITY AND STATE WAR’ JOKER BILL HELD UP: / AIMED AT BEACHES OWNED BY THE CITY eaten a» Year Ago by The Evening World, It Comes to Life in New Form, MILLS REPUDIATES IT. | ———_ Transfer of Land Under Water | for Forts Would Invite | Big Grab by Railway. | Simial Prom a Staff Correspondent.) | ALBANY, I After a red hot [fight in the Senate to-day the Mills bill, by Rockaway The t first exposed FIVE KILLED, SEVEN MISSING FROM LINER AFRIC, BIGGEST VICTIM OF RUTHLESSNESS White Star Lineg Registered at 12,- 000 Tons, and Formerly Steamed Between New York and Liverpool —Several Lost on Foreland. tal C Je Despatch to ‘The Evening World.) Copyright, 1917, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) LONDON, Feb. 13.—A World special despatch sing World, was tala aside at| from Plymouth says that the Afric of the White Star Line, | ®s!is freighters nave arrived in the request of Its author, Notice 48! 9 12.000.ton boat, has been sunk by a submarine. yiven hago! by Senator Mills that when he tained ¢° the facts regarding | the bill he would rewrite it so as to: persons killed and seven missing. take away Sinking Fund York City the} keneral power to give away stretches from the Commission of New of wate ont in Brooklyn and Queens | and limit to plain authorization to the | city to cede land for the fortifif’ tions desired by the Federal Govern- ment . At bill be laid aside, Wasner, Burlingame and Foley began| an attack upon the measure to which majority leader Brown added his| voice in a brief address in which he suid that the measure clearly required imitation, laid asic “It stituents "L do not want this bill sald Senator Burlingame. is of actual Interest to my con- and [ don't want it put aside, to be called up and passed dur- ing my absence. I prefer to have it ed to @ committee for a public paring.” nator Mills assured Senator Bur- me that the bill not be passed in his abse THOMPSON GOES ON RECORD AS AGAINST IT. would consent of the 8 voting in the vhenever it does Geor Thompson. tor Wagner hotly attacked the I want to enter my protest,” he ‘against the city authorities for sald Jemanding on the theory that it is a war measure the passage of a bill that has nothing at all to do with war or the question of fortifying New York City 4 would give to the Sinking Fund Commissioners the] power to sell at whatever price they deemed reasonable any of the water ront pr the counties of Kings and Queens, When T saw that » pill T asked for the perty in As not a member of| cluding the introducer, | tell what the bill! wis upon the legislative and by unanimous vote we repudiated it and the {introducer of the bill was compelled to abandon i) Senator Mills insisted that the bill had been brought to Albany by Col Abbott of the United States Army | | and that the Government considered | the cession of the i bil give to the 8 ommission the right | to wv glve away the property of under water and take from t at y Burlingame. “As to the need of this bill I am not at present satisfied,” said Senator » right to use the beach- Island?” asked Senator es (Continued on Second Page.) i } FOURLINERS HERE: CRUISERS GUARDED TWO IN WAR ZONE coecnestiisions aconia and Ascania Bring 54 Passengers Through Block- ade Without Trouble. SUBMARINE TRAPS SET Trawlers With Nets Protected Vessels — Feltria, Andania and Four Freighters Arrive. As if in organized defiance of the German four Cunard passenger steamers and four submarine blockade, the port of New York from Dritish ports within twenty-four hours, Tho Members of the crew wi:o landed to-day report five Laconia, with thirty-seven Paseougyrs | The Afric of 12,000 tons is the biggest steamer sunk since Germany's ruthless war was begun on Feb, 1 The biggest ship heretofore destroyed in the unbridled submarine warfare was the British steamer California, of 8,662 tons; the Port Ade- laide, 8,100 tons, being third largest, Local officers of the White Star Line said to-day the Afric was formerly beginning of the Senate|in passenger service between Liverpool and New York and later to Aus- storm Senator Mills asked that the! tralia, They did not know whether she was now in Admiralty service, but Instantly Senators! assumed she had been commandeered, like other large liners, for troop transport service The Afric was built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast in 18% 3 feet bro#d and 31.9 feet deep igged with four masts and twin screws 550 fect long, of 20,000 tons. She was schoone and two sets of tri-compound engines. The amer belonged to the Oceanic subsidiary company of the White Star Line. about 500 passengers, second class only LONDON, Feb. 13. Shi Steam Navigation Company, @ She had accommodations for Several persons are reported to have perished The Foreland was a steel screw vessel of 1,960 tons, registered at e had a di 9, She was placement —The Britisn steamer Foreland has been sunk. London and the property of the Shipping and Coal Company, Limited. ALL TROOPS AT BORDER Three Americans were included® among fifteen members of the crew of the steame Sasonia, sunk by @ subma Feb. 7, landed to-day. | w. | » of the Americans, | was injured, Tho 1 wood Moore and John Stefani Gen Tho survivors declare the Saxonian | was torpedoed on Wednesday (feb, 7), | anti that vessel's crew loft the sink ing ship in two boats One of these + boats was atfoat fifteen hours before | 4 being picked up, and the otver sixty oight The Saxonian’s boatswain died of wounds and four of the crew were in jured. ‘The Norwegian motor vessel West has been sunk, Lloyds Shipping Agency announced to-day. ‘The crew was landed Twenty-five mombers of tho crew 1e Br steamer Vedamore, r sunk on Feb. 8, are missing aitidavit by the ¢ made public to tain of that ve day Elghteen were Americans, fifteen of them being Filip!nos Bight Filiplncs were drowned an one died later, An American citlzer from Porto Rico ta now in the b pital with injuries sustained in sinking Edward gro, was reported as one ¢ ard, 4 Baltimore ne. drowned ae fons Explosion ia Yorkshire 1 those ' * May Be “Some Casua ” LONDON, Feb, 13.—An explosion oc- cu At @ Iounitions factory to-day in Yorkshire sual by the An official statement | British Government say that apparently no lives were lost |Some damaxe was done in the neigh borhood, It is possible, the stateme adds, that there have been some casual | tes, but at present they have not bee: reported. t A border not | home TO BE ORDERED HOME ton Gives Notice to Get Them Reads for Quick from Ltverpoo!, and the Ascania, with Jeeventeen pasaengera from London, docked to-day. was the only American on elther ship and the only passenger who would | Uncorroborated—that there were fifty | vessels anchored at the mouth of the Thames when the Ascania passed out from London on Jan, 25 and that the Ascania and two other ships were ed by three cruisers around to Liverpool, From Liverpool through the danger zone, she nad, the Ascania was con-| voyed by two cruisers and preceded | by trawlers linked together by stee! | cables from which were suspended powerful steel nets designed to trap jand disable German submarine Th | officers of the Ascania refused tol comment on Miss Anderson's story, | It 1s quite apparent, however, that the British Government is taking ox- traordinary measures to protect ship- ping in the danger zone stowards | on the Ascania and Laconia not refrain from boasting that the Vritith navy Is able to stave off the submarine menace, Petty offlcers on Laconia said there was 00 truth | in the rumor that the vessel went | away out of her course yesterday to avoid @ German submarine off Cape Cod The Laconta's escort could | consisted of Withdrawal three cruisers, two of which left her N ANTONIO, Tex., Feb, 18.—Na-|0M recelving a wireless S$ O 8 call Guard organ na on tho] the afternoon of Sunday, Feb, 4 Already destynated to go|The other erulser stood by until were to-day advised by Gen, | 88fety was agau ston ‘all officers not ac-| Besides the Laconia and the Aa- | t public property and a {can the Andanta ond the Keltria, | non louve or furlough | ch arrived last night, are tied up| be ordered to at the Cunard piers in full view of the | abeneeNant 3 sailors on the decks of the useless | Lien Gan German liners across the river, Om. | Wari Donen mant imate cialis of the Cunard tne refused to bee say whether these four Mners will are ave here together and count on the n military escort of cruisers acros Atla all ron Jeers of the Cunarders say they a y reason to believe that the | f tar ner Adriatic, which Jeft | — : | here Feb, 3 with a $10,000,000 cargo, Dinaatteted® warn) gy P od Bae eee eae at "| and the Cunarder Carmania, which ane 1 peaking In the ‘art Curzon, left on Feb. 4, carrying several mil- | lion dollars worth of mur ns and il, suid Ad-| automobiles, will reach Liverpool in ari of she) watety to-night or to-morrow submarines| Other ships arriving from English ports today were the Hermes from) London, the Storaker and Clifton from Cardiff and the Atlas from NORFOLK London, The are big freighters | 1 the units of the allied merchant which have come across in bat re guns at senor at Halifax was the au-| submarine blockade. Whorltative reyort In shipping clreles to) The mails delivered in New York| | yesterday came Liverpool ot > New Je: the Cynara ir wh Valeria, whic RENTON, N ‘ , | was Mgt days making the trip, rey Hedy Mia A Preemie The Feltria, which reached Bikes {ne last night, was formerly the Ww Brunswick john, Uranium and gtarted for ary Of Jan, 16. Bhe had to put term muda twico for coal becaus ricanes, ON AFR LAST U BOAT RESTRAINT LIFTED ICE ONE CE R BETWEEN CITY AND STATE To-Day’s Weather—FAIR; NOT 80 COLD, NT. dp reece SUBMARINES 10 GO LIMIT IN SINKING NEUTRAL SHIPS, LATEST DECRCE OF BERLIN Germany Gives Notice That “Vessels Which Enter Prohibited Areas Do So With Full Knowledge of Dangers Threatening Them and Crews.” WILSON AND CABINET PLAN TO MEET CRISIS AMSTERDAM, Feb. 13. (via London).—All periods of grace for neutral ships entering the zones announced as prohibited by Germany Misy A. M. Anderson of Brooklyn have now expired, according to a Berlin official statement received here. ‘The statement says that immunity ceased in respect to the Atlantic and on Feb. 6 and for the Mediterranea talk, She says—her statement being English Channel zones on the night of Feb. 12, for the North Sea zone n zone on Feb. 10. The statement says: “From now on, therefore, in all prohibited zones the warning which has been i: wed is in full force and shipping can no longer expect individual warning. Vessels which enter the prohibited areas do so with a full knowledge of the dangers threatening them and their crews. It is expressly stated that all news spread torpedoing of neutral ships from enemy sources about any without previous warning before the dates mentioned for the various prohibited areas, is in- correct. “The periods of grace mentioned were also in force for enemy passenger vessels because it was possible that they were carrying neutral passengers who were perhaps ignorant of the new blockade regula’ WASHINGTON FE ions.” penne ARS OVERT ACT MAY COME AT ANY TIME and Cabinet |Latest Action by Berlin Causes Apprehension, Discusses It at Meeting To-Day. WASHINGTON, Feb, 13.—While Was reiterated to-day that the Pres’ dent would not be rushed was plain that all offic that the much feared ov come at any time, This view {8 p: in the Nght of Berlin's formal an houncement that the t for all exceptions into war, © has ¢ n the camps als realized | t act might | ticulurly significant {t| American merchant ships The 1-| | preponderance of opinion among {t|) offclals who have advised the President on this polut favors having the navy furnish the guns. Any or all of these questions are expected to be decided in the nea: n= | future “I Some members of the families of officials at ved to the Austro-Hun- ss esenens ARI HUTS BERD OR Embassy have arranged to . , Pirveder i nue ¥ rs the United States w Count confront the American Government in Kernstorff. In some quarters whatever steps may be taken to meot arrangement egarded as the situation, ant in ¥ indefinite President Wilson abanc 1 his} State of rela Austria~ Hungary usual mornty game mained at work in his In th tudy of wolf and re 4 WOULD ADMIT WARSHIPS afternoon c st and he went over the situation. | Avene’ the vations now veins — QF ALLIES TO ALL PORTS fully considered are | ee . Action on Austria's situation ta | the new campaign. The new Am- | Senator Saulsbury Introduces Reso- bassador, Count Tarnowskt, still is + Jution Providing for Removal Waiting to prosent Nis credentials, | of Neutrality Bars A reply to Mex Iggestion ? for einbar food and amnvu WASHINGTON, Feb, 13.—Senator nition to the belliger Saulsbury to-day offered a resolution The prop , to throw down the trals to ou and open all Unit ve not engage Allied warships ls has not taken dot He said this “might enable this its exact status livulged, Nevertheless, it ts known the idea hi not been abandoned. Loaning guns for the arming of ' | Government, without war, to assist in preventing violations of rights to the sea by giving as ance to those at present engaged tn combaung these violations.” ’ a declaration of wa