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“LIE? CRIES MITCHEL TO ACCUSER AT EDITION oy) PRICE ONE co ENT. Copyright, 1 Co. (The New ¥ ARMED LINER O17, by The Press Publishing The “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ fa NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1917. ‘ork World), SINKS U BOAT WITH ONE SH RIVERSIDE HEARING © rio, Te-Day's Weather—FAIR. ANIL EDITION it [“Cireutation Rooks Open to All.’”’ | 14 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. OT BERLIN TOLD AMERICANS MUST BE FREED MAYOR CALLS ACOUSER LAR STOPS RIVERSIDE. HEARING 10 “G0 OUT ~ Mitchel Accepts Challenge But Scrimmage Fails to Lawyer's lake Place. CRAIG MAKES CHARGES. Declares Him Responsible for 1913 Bill Permitting Sale of Park Lands to Railroad. Hearings on the New York Central Riverside improvement in the Clty Hall to-day resulted in Mayor Mit- chel denouncing as Hes statements mad« hy Charles L. Craig, represent ing the Weat End Assoctation, after] Sporting Club bad a binding con Which Craig invited the Mayor to| tract. Another meeting witt ve held Ae | to-morrow, when the third Commis step outside in City Hall Park and settle matters there ent and @ fina) ruling announced The Mayor at In the meantime, however, Grant Was ready t Nugh Browne said he regarded tt : Z to| fehl as off. He added he was g sail PAE OY ed 20) of it, an every indication was that tt meet outside or come to blows would not be @ money-maker, Brows Charges by the West End Ass SA WERth, Ge. RELA OR tion that a grab bill in the Logisia-| George Ch Billy Miske, prefera ture of 1913, intended to give River-| bly the latter side Park property to the ratlroad,| ‘The Broadway Club claimed a prior emanated from Mr. Mitchel’s office] right to the service of McCoy through when he wax President of the Board] a verbal contract with him calling for of Aldermen, produced repeated fire-| 4 fight with Jack Dillon. John Weist- works at the jublic hearing’ before| mantel insisted McCoy should fill this the Rourd of Estimate, Answering) date before ring against Darcy Craig’a assertion, the Ma ex-| Chairman We held this contract plats binding and sald the Darcy-McCoy | fight would hava to be called off That is 4 a downright, at Fransy took the other end of the Mute He, A ¢ who states that the| argument hill came fron ffico is telling @ — ~~. ~~ Res INJURED IN SUBWAY SLIDE; READY TO GO BEFORE ANY COM- ’ PETENT TRIBUNAL. “Lam stating (he facta as they came to us," replied to Mr. Craig. “We are ready to any comy tribunal and present them. Toward the cle of the he there were more fireworks lerable discussion about After cons Thomas Roney of No. 82 Cumher- the bill the Mayor left the meeting. jand Street, a worker in the subway Returning some time later, just @fter excavation at Nostrand Avenue and @ recess had been order: i, the Mayor) Bastern Parkway, was crushed In a reopened the meeting and launched jandslide at 9 o'clock to-day. An vehement denunciation on Craig ambulance was called from St. ‘You are one of those malicious, persistent misrepresenters of fact,’ he said want to indulge in personalities,” re- torted Cralg. be pleased to repeat that) in Nostrand Avenue at high speed anywhere you like,” said | with the bell clanging. Dr. Knapp the Mayor defiantly. “This meeting had ordered John Moore, the chauf- fa now adjourned feur, to lose no time, At St. John's Afterward the Mayor said place the ambulance was struck by} hen I tell a man he snot te “You come out into the park if you| AND SETTLE IT" DARCY'S GO WITH M’COY MARCH 5, PROBABLY OFF Commissioner — Will Finally Decide the Matter at Meeting To-Morrow. 4 for Les Darcy, the Australian | champion, to make his Initial ap-| pearance in an American ring by meeting Al McCoy March 6 are off for time being. At hearing before the Boxing mission this afternoon the rival of McCoy's services pre- sented thelr cases, and Comminaion- ors Wenke and Frahey promptly dis- agreed as to whether the Broadway P | hore claimants sioner, Dwyer, is expected to be pres- KILLED IN AMBULANCE CRASH | Speeding to Hospital Worker Meets With Second Accident and Dies in Few Minutes. }| John's Hospital and while the vehicle was speeding to that Inatitution It collided with another car and Roney was buried beneath the wreckage. He died in a few minutes, The ambulunce was moving north| in east-bound motor truck driven by| the truth I usually have reasons for John Bracken of No, 642 President | it, as I have in this case, That Pol- | street, lock Bill, which was introduced with The ambulance was overturnod.| out my knowledge. was introduced at Moore and Dr. Knapp were thrown the request of the Park tment. out, Moore suffering a dislocated The minutes of the Hoard sti- right hip, Roney had many new In-| mate of April 12, 1913, show that | id Lag when ie w 6 Ue out ee the} offered @ resolution calling on the een Beneeres Corporation Counsel to instruct his | Fepreventative at atbany to oppose $3,900,000,000 NEW | the bill. That resolution was adopted and the bill was defeated,” WAR CASH FOR BRITAIN In March, 1913, when the Joker bill Pciiscnltncl appeared in the Legislature Mr. Gay- | Bee savor, Calvin Tomkins wae Amount Is Subscribed by the Dock Cominissioner and Benjamin F Public in Addition to Bank Cresson jr. was Deputy Dock Com Subscriptions missioner. . ; Mr. Craig, in pi ting @ detailed LONDON Feb, 19, ~ Sut ptions to statement concerning the bill, cited England's win t ar’ loan the Mr. Cresson as authority for the Peried for pledge which expired atatemont that the bill had originated Faturday, tot 1 least 700,000,000 in the office of Mr. Mitchel pounds" ¢ 0,000) Chancellor of Dock Commisstoner smking, in the Exchequer Honar Law announced | answer to the Mayor's assertion that tay in the House of Commons | the bill probably emanated from the Mr. law said this was the amount] Dock Department, said of new money which d been raised “] do not remember any auch bill, The amount stated docs not include —_——_—— bank subse but ply funds (Continued on Second Page.) raiwed by popular appeal FORCED INTO CAB, SAYS TAXI DRIVER enger Answering Her De- scription Picked Up Op- P. | LOST GRUGER GIL FALSF REPORTS FROM BERL DELAYED DEMAND GF WILSON IN THE YARROWDALE CASE But l a WILSON PROTESTED PAPTAIN. N Cae Ta CAPTAIN OF FRENCH SHIP RAIDS ON LONDON GIVES VIVID ACCOUNT OF BATTLE WITH SUBMARINE Berlin Was Slow to Heed} noflicial Notice, Now -+ posite Cocchi’s Shop. qr nre w Made Public. —— Cabled Last Saturday, It Is An- cane G . Saturday, reat Geyser Went Up as Under APPEARED TO BE DAZED.) nounced by the State INACTIVITY EXPLAINED. ! J p sea i ae Department, a | Boat Went Down, Says Master ather Now Is Certain Harm — - ! defenses Against Airships One : s Certain | dali: : of the Guyane, Which Arri Has Come to His Miss- | CONGRESS HOLDS BACK. | | Factor in Calling Om | viet) rrived . | ba sat | ny) ing Daughter. —— Attacks on Cities. Safely To-Day From Bordeaux : nageant se Influence of Bryanism May! | 2 n his search Independent of the; } Hes . | | GENEVA, Feb. (From a staff ‘orce Debate Which Wilso : pace to discover the whereabouts af | Force Dehite hich Ni ilson | | corrésbehdent “Gt iiae) Aumionted (AVEO LES EOC Ole, il RTE) GROEN VVs his elghteen-year-old daughter, Ruth ants to Avoid. oa Press) The Zeppelin — campaign | K VICTOR’S GUN who disappeared last Tuesday from ‘ Sere ee Norwegian and Spanish Ves-| against London has been found to be ISS IC O S) NERS her home at No. 180 Claremont Ave- WASHINGTON, Feb, 19.—-Peremp- sels From New York Are unprofitable The cessation of Ger-| greed agit * ‘ tory dc ‘or release o e He eels Are i . nue, Henry D. Cruger questioned the |tory demand for release of th v in T fer man air attacky on the British me- There is one German U boat less in the neighborhood of the Ray chauffeur who drove @ girl closely enty-two American Yurrowdale pris in To-Day's Toll. |tropolis after the latest appearance of | of Biscay through its venturing to cross the trail 7 ; " Co isc ( ere e trail o F ° resembling Miss Cruger and a man to| ners, now held In Germany, has been ee the big dirigiblen over the ity last|, a ig K toc fe trail of the French inner . o the perla jover " }CGuyane which riv tow i as ri 3 e eu the uptown otation of (he Lenox Ave- sent to the Imperial ¢ nment SHIPS, 12,435 TON dik an Gach dun Gat an deena arrived day in ballast from Bordeaux. The Ut nue subway at One Hundred and| This demund, the State Department ‘ - took her last dive, submerged for keep: q o| r e . ; Vet || ADDED TO-DAY TO TOLL |) “eumstances. but to the deliberate » Submerg eeps by a shell from the merc Twenty-Ntth Street Tuestay afternoon. | announced to was went tast |] / ji ‘ me Tl daisenitation oF. the. Carian leata y ii : i 4 Th Cos ake Oren: trac le Gee ai | Waineday, OF U BOAT RAIDERS mination hi a rman jeaders|man, Capt Louis Rousselot, commander of the Guyane, is the hero ct 3 deh Alb. Jon these attacks, as has long {hy ast ¢ i a i 5 4 Sanh Qearwural tin bactalaat bbe his latest exploit growing out of Germany thless submarine w , all tke the police report on the chauf-} It has been several times falsely r The vessels reported to-day as done in the case of Pari Rp 8 B Pe Ne pea Aided Ad td feur's statement orted m Berlin, via Amsterdam || sunk by U boats follow The correspondent, who was then | The skipper of the Frenchman is six feet tall, built in proportion i ’s stand is at - t the srisoners had been " : was info! Telint \ 1 ‘The chauffour’s stand is at One Hun-|that the Yarrow prisoners had 7m eet | Berlin, was informed trom a trust-|has twinkling gray eyes, a Vandyke beard, the rosy cheeks of one ot h dred and Twenty-seventh Street and| released, but no official word to tha oes a worthy source a few days after the t \ \ h tt p fle ye 1e ed States aima' MU a onde ‘ald, o “ t eu! c . Md y aug 1 Bo Broadway. In his earch for the girl| fect was sent to the United States | st MP ened aa final London raid, of the decision to|C9UNtrywomen and a merry laugh that is infectiou Mr, Cruger has several times used| Government. When the first report dulled CHG send no more Zeppeliny und sister He said he left Bordeaux Jan, 21¢ = the cab, without knowing that the/WAS sent it had the effect ae ee of the Schuettelang type aguinat) with the best possible sailing condi-, miles to port, the commanding a , | Porarily relieving the tension and -for zondon, | driver, who had becn cautioned by | DOTATIY Tilley ene tin acer || retell hye ia / tions prevailing, a smooth eca and a| ‘ewer ef a submarine, the police to keep silence, was the th ing of & per Including to-day's sinkings, the 2 AGAIDAL SPIER, We: gore) iain he! “Ab, ot" mused the captain, "T one who had told the story of carry.|¢mptory demand. In view of the fact | Gaiman submarine warfare wince || (arondent was tuld, would not be} ¢! sky, It waa 8 o'clock In the! wit give him a little fight.” And he ling @ man and a girl to the subway | that the false reports were sent. ob: Mah Ab) Gamultad iar abandoned entirely, They were con-| afternoon, the second day out, @n4 | ordered the ship } A Giles Sie prver © recalling 4 Fs a these ered to be of gr : ; “i vd station at about the time of Miss| Severs are recalling a warning senti) oo kee of shi 138 dered lo be of great ser e Guyane had just left the Guif of| the submersible changed its course Oar dneneaseoee by Carl Ackerman after he reach ; ps, + [ling at home guns, aerop! Guan | and headed for him, TAX! DRIVER SAYS IT WAS NOT] Paris with Ambassador Gerard, Acker total tonnage 5,000; national- fiof the British aerial defense which| Boom! COCCHI man stated that the authoritics in | ity—British, 77; other Allies, 7; [/otherwise would bo freed for servik The captain, on the bridge, Whe euund tollowed alflash and « Learning the driverh identity to- | Berlin wer ing” the announce America other neutrals, n France, but in future the attack swept the smooth With He | lee gd aeealte Fees tiie Has Ait day and questioning him, Mr. Cruger | ments which correspondents were Pee would be directed against the prov-| lass, and descried, about three | nai teil into the wa Sy learned that the cab was hired at| mitted to cable at the time the de LONDON inces instead of London. ‘The next and] f the Guyar tat LONDOD of the Guyane's starboard quart 318 Tuesday afternoon at One Hun. | mand for release was originally pro final expedition of the year, on Nov.| T AMERICAN SHIP dred and Twenty-seve nd | Posed; it way described us being just Se!* wert Lioy¢ was directed against ue m Sow | FIRS I CAPTAIN: TARES WIS BOBITION Broadway and cét nor. {Short of an ultimatum. It set forth Shipping Agenc boats. counties, tn wrdanes Ww SAFELY BY U BOATS AT THE GUYANE'S GUN. hood of the station on Lunox Avenue, |the attitude, policy and steps n E:even men eam. pro and t ed in the loss of pt, Rousselot ordered, the erew to The man who hired cab was | regarding German man property snip pomadale reported sun to Zeppelins the lifeboats and his two gunners about twenty-five years old andjand German sh interned here, and | nvecWean. lenana The 5 nina eason for the ae. |Qwners Hear From the Dochra|(cannoneers, he called them) to the dressed Ike # workman, He was not | pointed out clear! President Wilaon's re sei ee ; elsion ontinue ‘I Which Left New York After 65-millimetre gun on the after deck Cocchi, the motorcycle repairer,| policy to take no step that could be P reported sunk to: don probably is the inc strength He turned the bridge ¢ to the whose shop in Manhattan Strect was| construed ay having been taken for was the British steamer Lolo und efticiency of the air defenses of Edict of Feb, 4 chief officer and took up his position visited by Miss Cruger eariler in the | “military exigency Phe Lolo was a steol screw steamer |the city; but the effect of the raldyon| ‘The American steamship Dochra,| at the gun afternoon. The driver knows Cocchi,| Secretary Lansing said that late of ns, registered at London, |neutral opinion, in view of the first to loave this port after the! Another shot was sent after the | The man directed the chauffeur to| yesterday evening the Department re- | and the property of E. Thomas Rad- | contemplated p overtures, man submart dict of Feb. 1,|Guyane before her stern had been drive to One Hundred and Twenty-| ceived word from Berlin, presumably Mffe & ¢ also have been a fi pliaved by her owners, Barber &| pointed to the south. The German seventh Street and Manhattan Street, through the Spanish Ambassador,!) The sinking reported was that) It niny be interesting In thie con of No. 17 Hattery Place, to be! had found the range, but the gun a short block from Coccht!'s shop. On | that ae isoners “would be released of the Okement, 4,349 tons, regisiered | nection to record a bit of unwritten| safely in the Mediterranean and woll|ner's aim was bad, A shell burst a | the street, nearly opposite Coccht's sbi unt hallaved= tha leona unine at Sunderland and owned by 4J.|hisry of the war the early days|on her way to Genoa, her destination. | couple hundred feet off starboar shop, @ gir! who in every detail fitted ; on ae Ps pase oeoae gegee a : Wee' ot of the conflict, when the air raids| The Dochra sailed from here on|a@bout midships, Then the gun of the the description of the Cruger girl, neo a feed ppilshoy is ve Capt. Jacobsen of the Norwegian! were just beginning, resident Wiis Feb, 2 and no word was heard from | Guyane spoke. was standing, apuart ntly ont. and ene: ae eine ne parlenasta boyy Be IL, who with his wife and| caused to be conveyed to Kmperor|her until last Wednesday, when a| As the artillery of the three-inch frightened, She locked a though ahe| UIS8y: eee eee eationligy (mopoee| oe rr ine vent nboerd ® Gers | William’ and the German Government wireless came from her skipper, Capt, |aun reared and dashed, the men a) had been crying. would hé pra y Impos-|man submarine after the sinking of|q personal and unofficial message} Longbottom, s oll ‘the Hfeboats, which had been swt The man {imped trom the cab,|sible, Officials were more inclined to) jis yossel two weeks a arrived at «eo | Long n, saying “All is well” and ing took her by arm and rather|believe the Sunday message was a! Coper to-day. sey ean a Fe eu GE ADS | AD position of the vessal aa |ent on the Nevites Sarnes 5 Stearns roughly urged her ito the car, tell-|reply to the inquiry made several ¢ Dg bail ahah tC gle plane raids upon populous cities were| },000 miles east of Ambrose Lightship, | the effect, ready at the captain's coin taaties auteae to take tham t the lange bah 00 16 (00 Status of thelcnes, aniAN: CARIAH t0 the jooked on with disfavor by the|tt was not until to-day that news of|mand to lower them or haul them ne Ir ‘ ’ change Telegraph Company American people an! contributed|this message became public, as the | back on deck subway station, which he did | American prisoners. The captain and his family ap ely to stirring up anti-German|oWners wished no word of the vessel| The submarine was unharmed FATHER NOW CERTAIN HARM| There is little change in the gen- eight days on board the subir aarti aie e ETO ‘to be known PRS aii ducr Mice Maiyah r ves, HAS COME TO GIRL. Jeral situation. und int eof that time the U! tn view of thix wisdom of their| nimen, which fell away to etar- to confirm Mr. Cruger’s belief that |istrative leaders almed to keep Con-|« trawler. One of the ateumers, ac-|smessuge did not fall entirely on dowt| Pag cea el gal CR ne ee s daughter had come to harn o-| gress ¢ it was admitted to-da ; t aptain, w ~~ wiley si ‘8 sane pe pal come te bapa ass | einen Aula Ue ane day | cord : as loaded! ears, t views of inilitar CONTRACT FOR SHELLS “'This time we shall not fail,’ | lehat of the members of the Cruser| pings of Bryan followers und paci-|\ ae ac sudden and go violert ther| eet ne . netecien, — told the cannoneers,” said the family, Ruth Cruger took her skates| fists may break Ww Into the sut wan seve ‘am hi ama the ranlitlaact oa | American Companies to Make] captain. "Take careful aim’ and to Cocch!’s shop to be sharpened at ala yer orm and na 8 «tal rae : Ee ith eh Yt has 122 2 Big Projectile when they drew @ bead on the little after 1 o'clock in the afternoon. | cuss: e wh P h sepa aide si if ° ' submarine | myself took @ look, It is now her father's fear that she| This procedure is exactly t ney bal nitrad wae: Work resect arg at $500 Each 1 wae a beautiful het may have been attacked in the shop! President wishes to avoid at this tim be ol 6 Steamshi moe : n SN aur nena for navy projectiles he shell, | think, hit right by the rather r rowd which s the one thing that 1 Compan r an and the ep need i C ee mole had been let to Hadfelde, | below the semmanding tower often hung about the place, and that nand make h n Spanish, hay y sunk Doachoae ar malta) | , concern, were| The emegth surface of the eae she was hurried n fear that! shoule ately ask through th ah 20 re ‘ r 4 ’ “y ot Midvale Steel| Was broken and a geyser of water she would make ac n vir sf Administration leaders 1 by i went " ' par W t teel and, shet high up into the air and I er assailants, who fied her in 1} wppeal for ihe. ware SNP nt ' Pines oe ‘ ‘ pany and the Crucible} knew that our aim had been per- obeying them k n to want tr ‘ an, 24, for Ma 1 4 callie ri : : foot, Detectives were very active to-day | nq t niibo, 1 P i ; u Hadtields by the| ‘We kept right on our course. in looking up all of Cocchi's friends| 4, t The vi . ' : , i from accepting | Standing near the submarine was and business acquaintances, and es Sn Lehn Atk 1 ea oe tra $4,400 projectiles| what appeared to be a tramp pec se who frequented ; } h (warded by the Navy | steamer, She had ane funnel and two j 1 the place, went t nl eae ; ; va uta mu naller price | masts, and I knew that the crew of uined $10 from his wife in| deat ut t ! julcker delivery | (he submarine would be looked after, “to pay 4 (which he did not pay) pipes : ; Am ' r if there was any chance for them. and vanished as soon as the e pea wi he|did + er : varied the gree Amert- For ma, I was bound for New York, {or re Ameriva A f . "piercing al The |The crew left the lifeboats and ran tuat nd suggest! The De . t pa anteed delivery in re. | aft with @ great ohe cere ater t ' Phe Midvale Company | “They embraced the canneneer. and ra Ganeresa ahauin (paced Pe yelins the Crucible | jctased them in thelr enthusiasm, An « e t @ Mar A 4 ‘ n insisted upon shaking my band, and | e ar « . ll some of them iit. They ere ali et Sunde fee (Racing Entries on Page 2) yom happy. It waa a good shea” '