The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1917, Page 1

Belgian Mission Gets Warm Welco RN f “Circulation Books Open to All. ‘ me rom City WEATHER-Cie eooler eOITION Books Open to Al.”| 2 WR ATT = = = = PRICE get 02" AG Tat NEW YoRK, ‘TUESDAY, AvousT 21, 1917. 14 PAGES PRIOR sees re Fos Pete re ITALIANS SWEEPING ON IN GREAT DRIVE: FRENCH AND BRITISH HOLD ALL GAINS ee BELGIAN MISSION To _ HEARSTISNAMEDFORMAYOR M'SRAN"MATTY” 400 PER CENT. PROFIT PAID PRASED NOTFINED, TEUTONS ARE BEATEN BACK RECEIVED BY CITY ’ IN QUEENS VOTERS PETITION: SUFFICIENT NAMES LACKING. Pifison Puls Ban Ban on Petition Supporters Had Circulated in His Favor. HYLAN NO DICTATOR Says He Will Not Interfere in Borough Matters—How Cam- paign Will Be Run, A petition placing William Ran- delph Hearst in nomination for Mayor was filed with the Board of Mlections this afternoon. Before the filing of this petition it looked as if Judge John F. Hylan would have « fret Tela in bis candiditey as Willa" B. Elileon announced that he would | Bet permit petitions naming him as ® candidate to be filed. ‘The Hearst petition was signed by 4 names of residents of Queens. Eighty-five per ent. of them sounded Teutonic. Ax Election Board officer explained that while the Hearst petition in its present incomplete form could not be accepted, 1,500 names being required for a Mayoralty petition, the petitioners have until midnight to- Right to obtain the required number. ‘William Randolph Hearst has not declared himself on the Mayoralty question in some time, If the full 1,600 names are filed he has until about Sept. 10 to accept or refuse. Judge Hylan demonstrated more eaution to-day in the matter of public utterances when he was sought out by interviewers who wanted to know womething about the coming cam- peign. He was vainly bombarded with questions, and to each and all he was as mute as the Sphynx. Fin- ally the Judge called in his stenog- reaphers that they might frame their questions and dictate them to the shorthand expert. One of the questions asked Judge Hylan was concerning rumors that friends of the candidate had sought out Register Edward T. O'Loughlin, seeking to have the register with- draw his independent candidacy for the Brooklyn borough presidency, The Judge was asked whether he had authorized this to be done. Here is the reply: “No, I have not interfered, nor will I interfere in any way in borough matters. Let the people settle that for themselves, I will not dictate to the people under any circumstances.” The next question was: “Who will conduct your ‘campaign?” To this came the following answer: “The Business Men's League w have charge of the en and campy headquarters will be established in every borough based on the borough autonomy idea “The business men of the ci ing become alarmed over wire ping activities of the present admin istration, have decided to take m ters in their own hands by wa the fight in behalf of all the p against an administration that for centralization, wire-tapping and its allied activitl Contests against the tickets pleked out by the Tamman organization or its annexes hive been started all five boroughs. Thomas F formerly district leader of the Twen ty-ninth, is out against John V, Me Avoy for the Supreme Court nomina tion in Manhattan “Wallle’ Fria Jeader of the Thir h Distriet deserted t the the Bronx has gation and joined ugene Me @ontinued on Second Page) tap-| ‘WILSON GIVES GLOSE STUDY TO THE COAL SITUATION Cancels Cabinet Meeting to Devote at the Polo Grounds on 6unday. They | need not even pay a fine nor listen to) His Time to Find a Man Capable of Acting as Administrator. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—President Wilson cancelled the usual Tuesday Cabinet meoting to-day to devote his attention to the coal situation. The President ts about to appoint a coal ad- ministrator, but he has not selected the man for the place. OMcials say the President feels there is no question that the price of coal is too high and 1s anxious to remedy that condition as soon as possible. He real- howeyrn =the necessity tor the et see on Ok w highly Quailtied man fur the coal administration position, ‘There were indications to-day that President Wilson was sertously con- sidering the appointment of President Harry A. Garfield of Willams Collece as coal administrator. Mr. Garfield al- ready has been named as a member of the Food Administration Commission, which will fix the prices of the 1917 wheat crop. SOUTHERNERS PROTEST AGAINST NEGRO CAMPS Gov. Manning of North Carolina and Congressional Representation Suggest That Cuba Be Used. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Gov. Man- ning of South Carolina, accompanied. by Senators Tillman and Smith and the remainder of the State delegation in Congress, protested to the War Depart- ment to-day against the encampment of negro troops in the State, ‘The Carolinians protested against the assembling of thousands of negro troops at Columbia and particularly st the encampment of several sand from Porto Rigo Porto Rican negroes, the delegation contended, were unused to the Southern view of the negro question, and should de mobilized elsewhere. Senator Tillman asked that in view of the fact that Cuba has offered the United States a training ground on the |Island that the Porto Rican troops be encamped there. THREE DEATHS ATTRIBUTED TO BITE OF A MOSQUITO ernicious Malaria Communicated From Victim—All Die From Violent Hiccoughs. RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 21.—The bite Jof one mosquito, communicating per- niclous malaria, 1s held responsible for the quick death of three members of the Skinner family here John Skinner, jr, died to-day. His mother and brother died yesterday. All died with violent h oughs /HOGS JUMP 50 CENTS MORE, Sell at $20 a Ha din Chicago Day, CHICAGO, Aug. 21 Hogs sold for $20 a hundred pounds here te-day, 50 higher than yesterday's prices. Pigs were 75 cents higher In East St, 1 lil, hogs sold at $19.85, with a pectlve top of $20 to: Pike were up, with a top of $18.50 _> ~ John W. Garrett Appointed Miniate sident 1 John W be Enyo. er Plenipotentiary ind Luxemburg - _ (For Raving Results See Page 2.) and Mir herland FOR SUNDAY GAME ele ge 1 That F ag of nefit Paid to Sacr | i Ball Bond hi Christie Mathewson and John J McGraw will not have to go to jail for staging @ regular basebal! game @ reprimand. Instead they were publicly praised by Magistrate McQuade in the Wash- ington Heights Court this morning when they were brought there to an- |ewer the charge that they had vio- lated Section No. 2146 of the Pena! Code by playing a benefit game for the beeen families of the soldiers txty-ninth. ‘hes ad baad ng | rang nrowrh the crowded 26y r. ee hs Magistrate McQuade turned to the de- fendants and sald: “Instead of being summoned here to answer a charge of this kind, Mr. McGraw and Mr. Mathewson ought to receive a public vote of the highest commendation for lending thair ser- vices gratis to this patriots cause. The motion to dismiss this case ts granted.” But there was still more cause for rejoicing on the part of fans, for one statement in the Magistrate's de- cision was as follows: “In my opinion the playing of base- ball on the first day of the week, when not amounting to a serious in- terruption of the repose and religious Mberty of the community, 1s not a violation of the section.” The prosecution was brought about by the Sabbath Society, which was represented in court by Powel Crigh ton. He wanted a change of venue on the ground that Magistrate Mc- Quade was prejudiced. Magistrate McQuade said he wasn't, however, and the trial proceeded. ‘The first thing the prosecution did was to prove that the game was played. Detective George McGovern of Inspector Ryan's staff proved it to the satisfaction of everybody. “I went to the Polo Grounds and paid 75 cents for a ticket," he sald, “Lhey gave the concert, There was band music, a glee club and some other singers. Then the regiment marched around and the game began, Just as the game was started the gates were thrown open and every- body who wanted to came in free, There was no disorder.” George L. Curtis, Assistant Cor- | poration Counsel, argued that all this | was a mere subterfuge and that what the fans really pald for and intended to pay for was the game. 3ut John Whalen, counsel for Mathewson and McGraw, managers of the Cincinnati Reds and the New | York Giants, insisted that the game was free and moved to dismiss the | charge. About 6,000 did see it with- out paying, Detective McGovern ad- mitted. Matty and McGraw did not testify, They merely sat still and Hstened and yawned, But Matty blushed when |the Magistrate complimented him, There is a movement afoot to get the Legis! to give New Yorkers baseball, ts nday The have been arly against Charles Har- unmoleste Sabbath § busy all s the gam: an it vey in Harler © agent who con- ducts this part crusade makes trip from his home in Bronxville every Bunda 1 people of Harlem they ¢ enjoy Sunday Hoe has made twelve com- | only 0. Magistrates has had tt yurage to throw who ‘the case ou McQuade 1s] BY CITY IN NEPONSIT DEAL; ~ GRAND JURY BEGINS INQUIRY Seaside Park Trans Transaction Un- | der New Probe Following Reynolds’s Testimony. Charges that stockholders of the Neponsit Realty Company reaped « Profit of 52 per cent. to 3,400 per cent Om the sale of Seaside Park to the City ee WeW York wore investigated to-day by the Grand Jury. Decision to put the matter before the Grand Jury was reached after & conference between Assistant Dis- trict Attorneys William Harman Black and Edwin P. Kilroe resulting from statements made yesterday by ¢x-Benator William H. Reynolds at & private hearing In corfieetion with the investigation of realty deals with the city. Frank Bailey, Vice President of the Title Guarantees and Trust Company, was summoned as the first witness concerning the Seaside Park deal by Messrs. Black and Kilroe, A transcript of the condemnation proceedings in connection with the Seaside Park purchase is in the hands of the Assistant District At- torneys, When Mr. Reynolds was called to testify as an expert at the hearing he swore he had no Interest in the Neponsit Realty Company, but when examined yesterday in the Dis- trict Attorney's Office and confronted with an agreement which he signed to permit the transfer of the Seaside Park parcel from a dummy to the Neponsit Realty Company he wes visibly perturbed, Mr. Reynolds then admitted that he did have @ two-fifths interest in the company. “However, I sold it to Mr. Huber before I was called in the condem- nation proceedings,” he explained A check for $43,000 and a tenth interest in the Alert Mining Com~- pany was paid to Mr. Reynolds by Mr. Batley tn return for his Interest in the Neponsit Company, he told the Investigators. A total of 248 acres of Neponsit Company holdings were bought by the city at the rate of $6,082 per acre. Proof ts held, it i# alleged, that the Neponsit Company Previously had paid the West Rock- away Land Company $3,000 per acre for 201 acres contained tn the allot ment, and had purchased 47 additional acres from the Btate at the rate of $209 per acre. When asked to produce papers showing the transfer of his interest in the Neponsit Company to Mr Batley, Mr. Reynolds replied that to his best belief they had been de stroyed by fire at Coney Island Thereupon, Messrs, Black and\Kilro called upon Mr, Batley to prodube the check involved in the transaction which shortly afterward led to the decision to have Mr, Bailey testify to-day before the Grand Jury. The fact that Mr, not explain why he had been granted $15,000 in the award made for Dreamland by the Board of Estimat: is expected to furnish a matter fi future inqury, Mr. Reynolds firr stated that he was to be given this money for his services as Presiden of the Dreamland Company, accord ing to Mr. Kilroe, When confronted with papers showing he already wa receiving a regular salary from the company, he told the investtgators hat he didn't know why the Boar lof Estimate had granted him tt $15,000. The fact that Mr. Reynolds ap (Continued on Secona rage.) Reynolds ie EQUITABLE TO MUTUALIZE; DUPONT MAKES SACRIFICE Turns Over His Majority Holdings at $2,000,000 Less Than They Cost Him. Gtockholders of the Equitable Tate Insurance Society to-day voted to ap Drove the mutualization plan adopted by the Board of Directors on July 19. At that time « plan for retiring the stock of the society and placing ft In the hands of the policyholders for all time was presented by the Mutualization Committee of the Board of Directors. A mild protest was made to-day by aie. ives of minority stock st the price they were to receive for thelr holdings. One resolution sub- stituted $6,400 for $1,600 per share which the plan provided as payment jfor minority stock. This was voted down. The main features of the plan pro- vide that Gen. Du Pont, who in 1913 Purchased the controlling interest in the soctety from J. P. Morgan, in carry- ing out his promise to co-operate in placing the policyholders in control of the stock of the society, offers them his holdings of 564 shares at approximately 42,000,000 leas than they cost him, plus interest. His offer aggregates $3,- 799,900, and includes, in addition to the control stock, aixty-three shares of minority stock at $1,500 per share. The plan s that the society in its desire to deal fairly with the owners of 436 shares of minority stock has offered & price which is believed to be conaider- ably above tho average cost to them. The price provided for the 436 shares 1s the same as will be paid to Gen. Du Pont for his sixty-three shares of minority stock, pd ES Eee NEW YORKER IN GUYNEMER AIR SQUADRON IS MISSING Oliver Chadwick Believed to Have Been Brought Down in Aerial Battle on French Front, PARIS, Aug. 21.—Oliver Chadwick of New York, a promising member of the serial squadron of Capt. George Guy- nemer, the famous French airman, has been missing since Tuesday. It ts be- Meved he was brought down in an aerial encounter Corpl Harold Willis of Boston, member of the Lafayette Squadron. whose disappearance not far from Ver- dun on Saturday has already been re- ported, 1s belleved to be @ prisoner. Chadwick won distinction at Harvard [in 1910 and 1911 as @ hockey player and |also aa @ hammer thrower and hurdler On the hockey team he was regarded jos the most brilliant goal tender at th: | University: He took an active part in| jtrack meets and was couch of the Freshman track team for one season He wae graduated tn 1911, ——-——_._ /RUSSIA TO BANISH THE TROUBLE MAKERS | Government Clothes the Ministers of War and Interior With Necessary Power. PETROGRAD, Aug. 21.—The Pro visional Government has invested the Ministries of War and Interior jointly! right to arrest persona whose y constitutes # particular dan with activ gor for the defense of the te and ta internal security and lberty ac quired by the revolution ‘Theme ministries are also given powe ail upon theae persons jo leave Rus sian territory within a fixed period and est them in case they do not do so or in case they return to Russia on (heir qQwn initiative, { WITH BIG ACCLAIM cheur Tells of Country’s Wrongs. Mayor Mitchel walked down the steps of the City Hall shortly before oon to-day and extended a hand of ‘Weloome to the Belgian War Commis- sion. As he did the volume of music gent Ub by the saluting bands was fm a grekt wave of cheers that) swept ecross the Plaza. The storm ot | volces welcoming the delegation from ® war-stricken land brought mois-| ture to the eyes of its members as they moved into the building. The oMicial reception was held in the Al- dermanio Chamber beneath a canopy! into which were woven the Belgian | colore—biack, orange and red. A war-like aspect was given to the official reception. Although the tiimed6e artved In town Inst night, left the Biltmore at 9 o'clock this morning and embarked on the police boat Patrol uptown #o that !t could formally arrive later at the Battery as 4id other representatives of for- eign countries allied with the United States. Lower BROADWAY TEEMS WITH ENTHUSIASM. Squadron A, platoons of mounted police and members of the Mayor's Committee escorted the visitors up Broadway. Major Gen. Daniel Ap- pleton was the Grand Marshal of the parade, From every building floated hundreds of Belgian fings, great and small, and the sidewalks were jammed with vociferously cheering, flag- waving men, women and children. It seemed as if business had been shut down south of City Hall. Those who witnessed the trip up Broadway declared it equalled in enthusiasm that extended the French and British Commissions. Although lower Broadway had done nobly, It was left to the City Hall Park mass of humanity to break all records for hospitality. The Belgians found the ancient building in a vir- tual state of siege, for everywhere in the bright sunshine bristled guns of three companies from the Seventh Regiment, whose olive drab made a sombre contrast to the bright tri- colored streamers surrounding the court of honor, The military picture was made complete by « big delog tion of white clad Juntor Naval and Marine Scouts. Lining the rotunda inside the City Hall was ® contingent of Boy Scouts of America, who came to attention as the Mayor and tho city’s guests ascendéd and greeted them with the following BELGICA! BELGICA! FRIEND VAN AMERICA VIVE les BELGES, LONG LIVE KING ALBERT, | HURRAH! HURRAH! HURRAH! | MAYOR DENOUNCES GERMAN) BRUTALITY. In the course of his speech of wel come Mayor Mitchel said: “@ince the day when the wanton aggression of Prussian autocracy tore Jup the Treaty of 1839 as a scrap of |paper, and hurled the first Germar regiment across the frontier of Hel- gium in flagrant violation of he neutrality, the heart of America has gone out to your country and your | people. | “We have burned with indignat! Jat the wanton and beatial attacks of the brutal German soldiery up: non-combatants, the innocent men women and children of Belgium We have abhorred and abominatod in civilized and barbarous conduct of Germany in enslaving Belgians, by carrying men and women {nto Ger many for forced labor in the eneiny’s service. And we have been inspired | | (Continued on Second Page) we Hearers Weep a3 B eep as Baron Mon-, AFTER FURIOUS BATTLES IN ALL COUNTER ATTACKS More Than 5,000 hein Captured by the French; Italian Prisoners Number 10,000; Canadians Gain Big Victory on the Lens Front. LONDON, Aug. 21.—Utter failure of the Germans in their attacks |on newiy-won British and French positions are reported to-day in de» | spatches from the battlefields. From Rome comes a report that the | Italian offensive js still in progress and that the Austrian Prisoners on | the Isonzo front now number 10,000. It is estimated that the loss in dead | and wounded is equally great, making a total of 20,000. Counter-attacks of extreme violence were made hy the Germans invant effoit to recapture positions takén fifthe Frei offensive bn Verdun front. The Paris War Office announces that the Germans were beaten back with heavy losses. The number of German prisoners now eaceeds 5,000. The German attacks were especially severe at Avocourt Wood and north of Caurieres. Attacks also were made by the Germtiits without success on the Aisne front, near Cerny and Hurtebise, BRITISH LOSS FOR WEEK mena shel hones te veces REACHES 14,243 MEN Positions near Epehy Killed and Dead of Wounds 2,873 taken by the British, The War Office announces that they were Officers and Men; Wounded and Missing. 11,370. repulsed completely. Following 1s the text of the British War Office statement: LONDON, Aus. 21.— British casual- ties reported in the week ending to-day total 14,248 officers and men. Of this number 3,878 soldiers lost their lives, Tho detatied figures follow: Killed and died of wounds $26; men, 2,648; total, 2,87 Wounded and m Officers, 845; men, 10,624; total, 11,870, Total casual- thes, 14,243, | Germans recently “Early this morning the enemy made a third attempt to regain round recently captured souths east of Epehy. Though supported by flammenwerfer, } troops were rep. attacking npletely 4 We hold all our positions of Epehy our German lines on a wide fr Officers, troops raide the neighborhood of Quentin Canal and brought back BRITISH KEEP UP Prisoners, We improved our pos tions slightly during the night North of the ” Ypres-Menin road CANADIANS AND GERMANS aT- TACK AT THE SAME MOMENT. Canadian troops around I launched another attack on the w ern environment of the French min AIR RAIDS ON GERMANS: Many Tons of Bombs Dropped at Middelkereke and Other Belgian Bases. ing city at 4.30 o'clock this morning, LONDON, Aug. 21.—Another of the| 85 the Reuter correspondent at the series of aerial raids over Belgium,|Pitish headquarters in France. The which have been made at frequent ine | Attack developed inte one of the most desperate hand-toshand jes of the tervals for some time, was carried, out on Sunday night. The following report a ihe Canadiana want ovine was made to-day by the Admiralty: — |top they saw masses of xray figures “At about midnight Aug. 19-20 the| advanc ng toward ¢ the thick Royal Naval Air Service dropped many | ha. Both sides had planned the - tons of bombs on the Middelkereke| tack at tho sane moment depot and the Brugeoise works, All| pifteen min 4 a the machines retur ened ant y."" inet Garmaie we esriy ep - stand on thie pa t trench, ‘BRITISH LABOR | FAVORS Greeny cag report from Paris sa ut pris STOCKHOLM IN CLOSE VOTE Nie: pauted hans bblad! tag lines in a ate y lay were eeueememredd | auth ty the # hat an | Majority fh Only 3,000 Out of | averag | 2,465,000 for Sending pedlhed | 5‘ fearfully cone t 1 i} Delegates. | preparation for the wk. LONDON, Aug. 21.—By a vote of 1,-/ 234,000 to 1,831,000, the Labor Party| Germans Fail in Drives | Againes | members to-day decided to participate! panis, A ey Tho vote was by card. The scant ma-| against for 3,000. y fc was ® surprise will appeal to the passports for fighting line e Labor Party {te | spe bre a who addressed | \) 4 that he had or intentionally rence any infor > the Russian | War Ont Stuckholm con ‘On the Ca mans made a Ce