The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1917, Page 1

/ PINAL PRICE ONE CENT. 1917, by The ¥ The New York TORY OF LACONIA SINKING Dealers and NO PAN Boat Didn't Even Know What Vessel It ank and Made No ort to Rescue People Who Were Perishing in Open Lifeboats. NV THE LFEBOATS a ne East Side arkable stu sof the war By Floyd P. Gibbons. per cent (Copyright, 1917, by the Chicago Uribuu P a bu STOWN, 6 ivia London, Fe 28). 1 have serious duubts .. this is a real y. | am not entirely certain th is not all ® This was t nd that in a tew A promenade deck of ming me with an abundance of inutes 1 Will Wake up Lack in stateroom B19 on 4 the Cunarder Laconia and hear my cockney steward ag and sirs” that {cis a fine morniog, It is now a little over thirty hours since | stood on the slanting decks m big liner, listened to the lowering of the lifeboats, heard the hive of pe ping steam and the roar of ascending rockets as they tore lurid rents (he the black shy and cast their red glare over the roaring sea. Tam writing his within thirty m do tk here Queenstown from the « mint ip our open boat after an eve dr s and bal and ling on the oars and of ‘ ward that empty mean- ue ess horizon in search of help, But, drea tact, here it ts ve The Cunard liner Laconia, 18,000 tons nurden, carrying seventy-three mgers—imen, women and childven—of whom six were Amertean elite | —Manned by a mixed crew of 216, bound from New York to Liverpool «pio manager of a large Chambers Joaded with fcodstufis, cotton and war ma jal, was torpedoed without Street store announced to-day the ding by » German submarine fast night off the Irish coast, The vessel Pavol ten ae fa about forty minutes. Pwo American citi from Chicago and Mary 1. Hoy alked with a seaman who was in the rand daughter, | n went e dead, They were Mrs ner residents there @ Miss Elizabeth Hoy he lifeboat with ¥ their lifeless pe (United States Consul amor I have jown eve two Chic women, and he told me that he of the sinking boat at Cork reported to the embassy tn London Hoy and her daughter had escaped in a lifeboat which picked terday tha: Mrx They wer aid, by another boat, but soon died swamped p, he burted at sea) AVE WAS SAVED. 5 Harris Dm exposure. They we ST WOMAN TO L The American survivors are Mrs. FL be of Philadelph leave the Laconia; the Mev. Father War seph's Se ry, Baltimore; Arthur T. Kirby of New York, and my A former Chicago woman, now the wife of a British , Was among | Phe survivors, She is Mrs. Henry George Boston, the daughter of Granger | \,,g arwell of Lake Forest P After leaving New York, pas Wwith the lifeboats. All were supplied w Mn the twelve big lifeboats pol top : deck. rior eieahe Submarines had been a chief par e vonversat trip, but the subject had been treated lightly tions were strict! ‘ After the first explanatory drill on the driils assigned to places engers and crew had had three b lifebelts a ed over the side from the dayits of the on during the entire although all ordered pecau econd day out from New York, to 4 { rom which we sailed on Saturday, feb. 17, the “abandon ship al, five | ov" uick blasts of the whl had summoned us tw 5 OUR fifabelch abd eavy wraps (with a flask and a flashlight) and to a roll call in front of ur assigned boats on the top deck \ On Sunday we knew generally the daceen ana, thaieh we \ id not know definitely where we at least the passengers did no’ cite In tho a son, during a short chat with Capt. W, R, D. Irvine, thet hip's com r, I had mentioned that | would Wh pee Hote our p n oF an. He replied, "On, w " miling, rising inflect t meant “It Is Jolly well none of your business. & steward had told u Prior to this my ¢ ; information in night, and I used this r question to the Ca hen do we land? “J don't know,” replied Capt Ir but meu lod wa falar aetine would bo Tuesday )) The first cabin pas Bing, with the exception of t Butterfly” was dying wearily on the talks chine and ere dancing the announcement I f place Was a little gathering \ f a ha A i if ‘ a ke ’ ne blew ishing DISORDER ON Floyd PG of the Chivuyo Tribune was aboard the Laconia, on way to his post ia Le hen sh torpedord His vinid story © fest beser of that disaster da the first description by a trained writer of destruction Of @ They or any other vessel, by a U bout, As such it ranks as one of the moat ay eoaetutta sol » The Evening V gore of big gmoceLy st of stoves on side sioners Hartigan a enta since las Poultry Men ibably be from 20 wer t going to 6 statemen 49 centy a day Experts Agree Price Drop Won't Be Permanent. SOPERCENT. HERE STIL BY AN EVENNESS; rg DECLINE. | =| Adinit Boycott is Ruining Them— Conference is Asked. 1 slump tn o the « on-| forty-eight made 4 by es and the ~@ tor 49 cents a pound, and like ay at that price for a week than present be per- to. man 1 Dillon ex ent whole ops at hand pinion ta]. the nt ary OUSE BILL LIMITS ARMED NEUTRALITY; ILSON OPPONENTS CALLED COPPERHEAD FOOD TO TUMBLE COCCHI KNOWS KIDNAPPER BRNGS THILLNG OF RUTH CRUGER, SAYS WIE: THAT'S WHY HE DISAPPEARED Willing to Come Back and Tell| CHICAGO REPORTER If Promised Immunity From “Hounding.” ISWANN AIDS IN HUNT Mrs. Coechi and Woman Taken to Distric Attorney's Office Mrs machinist w One Handr Street was the tw Ruth Cruger, m days known te have ved with »poen dD the Distr Attorn r 1 tot f ‘ ' eg With Pe mach shop Va 1 ask f tid dD Att ue had M 4 1 r t 1 anot had M a M k Algonquin, Tur Apache Finland, L Jack vere ~ THE WOKELD TRAVEL BEKELE eau Another ty-seventh | WHO SENT THRILLING STORY OF LACONIA — ~ HOLLWEG'S SPEECH neko Intended to Prepare the Ge "} man Public for It, Says Berlin Despatch Pp AM RAM WANN ACTS TO CLEAR UP RUTH CRUGER MYSTERY The {Circulation Books Open to All. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, WEATHER—Snow or rain to-night. orlo, FINAL (“Circulation Books Open to All.” | 1917, 16 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. a “OTHER INSTRUMENTALS’ ASHI IFHOG Wo UNG WSN POWER coos RSOTED BY COMMIT Phinks Rover Was Fit Out in Germany SAW MANY sips SUNK Also Prohibits the Insurance of Ships Bonibe Placed in! Pasan Carrying Munitions by the War to Cow Captives, Says Risk Bureau, but Provides for | irst, Officer Fi $100,000,000 Bond Issue. t 1 t Hudsor _ : '’ MORE POWER THAN ASKED (ie raider w — “ = a BI seit rece tae iiMaNLY o WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—In sharp contrast with the action last Math Wa spayed and used lan & tof the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in reporting a biil i whip for the wi of ‘ ving the President even greater power than he asked in protecting the . ie bls! ninerce of the United States, and the lives of its citizens, the House ‘ Ree - fee ins m4) Commit n Foreign Affairs to-day agreed upon a measure in which the Hatbadnes with ber ' neory {t mportant restriction The committee struck oul f castor t 4 Rum and Wide t ition t other instrumentalities” than the arming of ships Ben ! « provision prohibitng the War Risk Bureau from insuring (a 7 : ' nitor a t rir Ke Thé Senate bill meets with the approval of the President. In it is u 1 ' { the tlinket clause conferring on him further authority to “em- instrumentalities and methods as may, in his judgment 1 discretion, seem necessary." It also provides for arming ships both fore a Jatt The Democrat managers conferred on a programme for the remaining three days of the ™ nm. Majority Leader Kern sald he was convinced every man who opy passage of the Armed Nen- trality BL would soon be labelled a “Copperhead” by the people and that passage was assured, Republican Leader Mang sald he did not think there would be an Congress, but he qualitied that with the statement that ux might, of course, hold up appropriation bills and fl aie ai seary. ; P aM live —_—_—_————— += An reported by the House Commit- i be a ‘ Phe o® the bill reads as follows od ’ mah FOUR CONSULS “The President of the United i at ne : ' -) | States is hereby authorized bi . ‘ and empowered to supply mer- hant Ips, the p ty of cite wens of the United States, and te left un f bewring register of the United ae s *, with defensive arms, and rf] no of making use of 1 - _—— ' " i against unlawful Thiel I At on In ect In- ta and that he be and is here fee, er | by authorized and empowered to ' ar : Po) formit irding Form- V aubh abipx and the eith 1 and t off th t Four p san 7 MIGHT USE THE NAVY EVEN UNDER THIS BILL i ve im ft using avy \ and \ iw t rm ‘ Wart D \ . sa 9 any others againet esa and eee |