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FRIDAY, -JULY 2St 1916.
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Halts Cars to Stop Bronx Riots
BRITISH MAKE
FURTHER GAIN
NEAR POZIERES
Haig
Devotes Time
to Strengthening
New Positions.
SEVERE FIGHTING,
HAND TO HAND
Germans Said To Be Mus
tering Every Resource io
Meet New Drive.
."*.? Trttrurie..}
_:. Hard hand-to-hand
_. with fluctuating fortuncs, but,
on thc whole, with gains for the Bnt
. Bf and strengthening
.von positions at Foziere?,
VOOd and at Longueval,
_ tba day along the Albert
.ath of the Somme, and
-.e Thiamont fort, the French
gained. and all along the
- front there has been violent
ry work and "feeling out" at
?;,y both side*. with little change
Bi tiah, after only a few hours
. kat night the work of
Bf out their lines beyond Po
and finally driving the Germans
an important trench which had
rte witaeteea. aaaay attacka. Dur
? . Germans, after a se
..:-...hrdmerit, succeeded in re
... utneh. The Britiah imme
coonUr attacked. and when the
... rta wete sent held a part of
, 1 were slowly fighting their
.-? t****
Hea.y Fighting Continues.
? ? | continues all along
? though apparently it ia in
0f local actions. to c!ear
. .. and not a general attempt to
... The east and r.ortheast parts
reod have been cleared,
l the village of Longueval,
bandfl four times on
? .n British haada.
. strenuous fighting. which
early in July, the ex
tijtemt an abatement of infantry
tioni en the Somme front. though
tha artHery pounding from
- Tr.e (innuns are likely to
?he first move in an effort to
. i thfl British from Pozieres be
I can bring up their
. runs end consolidate their gains.
.re to do this will be considered
?n that Germany hns
. ? ta Bttetnpt to do any
'.han hold to what she has
won as long as ahe can.
Further Advance Delay ed.
General Haig, on the other hand, ia
? me to utrength
_ positions he has won before at
I ? oa downhill into
F< apaunrie. Coreeletto, on the left, and
npuich, on the right, eommand the
load from Albert to Bapaume, along
h the British drive ia likely to
The capture of the former will
?en to nurround thc Germans who
? ! holdmg out in Thiepval.
Only the I garn.-on guards
B . um, it has been .
Troops and guns nre passing
a constant str.i.i-i t'.ward
? mme sector. Germany is be
tfl be ..training her resources
limit to prepare for the struggle
, be renewed.
. etforl to offael the French
m of men on the Somme the
?ry has been liveiy north
t.i.d in the Champnignr.
| kTfl been following up
- Bt with raids, the
.r Proaaee, being on a front
The French repuUeJ
Bt a gain.
Gaiaaaaa Msalay Anxiety.
I news received here from Hol
. i that
?xtreately anxious about
? ? . ?; Sho hns
there eoald
aad haowfl that if they
thc intlication ol ultimate de*
. plain for all to read. Thfl
G nerfl le* tor con
- i. proof
? ??? wi rthy "f BBeh confi
great question of the
,1-rmany ?
? of any fnt
feal will become domi
.'.s are making every effort
? _n ? they are Well
? ful publieitj
eal led oa te cover
. working harder
?ths. State
"fficiaia, officers, soldiers,
iani, tny one, are coming out in oaan
'? ?? - eorreapoai I ? bei n
_ froBt, aad ba*/? talhed
lag from thfl trenches.
Ii fact, reerythiag poaaihli is being
I the impression thr.t tha
il past. London thinks that the
to give this impression is far too
"HVIOJI.
Whole Second l.lne Taken.
. Thfl :a(,0 ,,f Posiarofl
nilitai ? oflcora ?ay
thc British are in eonplete
'"n of the (ierman flOCOBd liflfl
in the Somme r< s
Th<" '.'t't fof Poilerefl lasted ?
?y?-from July 14 to July ta. The,
***** wa, defended bv 200 machine
K-u.a, of which all but thirty were
Uoti_,ut4 ud _.*-_. 4, c___v?.? *
ALLIES AGAIN HOPE
FOR RUMANIAN AID
Greece. Too, It Is Believed, May
Join War.
I.ondon, July tl, EUaowad hope that :
Rasaaala an.l parhaas also Grssea, trlll
B8 '."'iucneed hy tht* Turkish defeat at
Erzingan to throw in their lot with the
Allies noon is being shown. The capt- '
BTS of the 1-if-t Turkish stronghold in I
Atmcnia and tho quick pursuit of the
l*t aten army, is a spectacular proof of
the waning power of the Central Allies
which, it is Vheved, will weigh heavily
v. ith th.se two wavering nations.
Humania is believed most likely to
aet. She hus made no secret of her
intention la come into the war at the
1 sychological moment when tho Allies
will still be grateful enough to permit
881 to share in the profits, and yet
I when thc cost to her will be as low as
j possible. To do this she cannot wait
I till the Germans are entirely beaten -
j she must g-H in while the result is still
! ir. doubt, and she can help swing the
I balance.
The fact thr.t Russia is having such
success with her drive against Austria
is also expected to have a powerful m
I fluence.
Owing to the coming dissolution of
' the Greek Parliament and the election
to follow it, no prompt action in
Athens is -rapOCtod lt will he nearly
three months before these events can
work themselves out.
KAISER BEGS PEOPLE
TO ENDURE TO END
In Open Letter Declares That
Now "All Is at Stake."
IBv Cflftfc Ui The Trlbun*.]
London, July 87. A passlonate ap
1 peal from the Kaiser to the Ger?
man peopie to stand firm in any
adversi'y ar.d a denunciation of those
who are despondent has been printed
in leading German papers. The WollT
News Agency, a semi-oflkial bureau,
distributed it.
"The battle is ra. ing, huge beyond
; all previous imagination," says the let?
ter, dated from the west front. 'Re
Ijuvenated, perfectly equipped with all
'they want, Russia'i armies again have
. broken against our buiwarks in the
' east. This has eased the situation for
! Italy. Fiance ha? experienced a regen
| eration in this war of which she hardly
believed herself capable. She has
', dragged her dilatory English ally into
Ijoining the offensive.
"The iron hurricane rages against
1 our brave Gorman men at the Sommo.
Everything is at stake. The ice cold (
j haberdashers on the Thames yearn for ;
! our holiest things. The health and lifa I
1 of our women and our children aro
j menaced. Only the depths of thi
i now are open to uh. Should we ba
; victorious there is threatening a 'war .
? after the war.' when the beat tnergies
and power of the nation, now ex- ,
d iy Ita j?y in arms, shall be ;
taxed to the utmost to meet raw force,
hatrtd and calumny.
'?What, German peopie, is your duty t
' in thifl hour? The army wants no ex- j
hortations. It has fought t-uperhu
mar.ly. It will fight until final vic
toiy. But the peopie at hon*?this la ;
. their duty lo su'Ter in sil *nce, to
bear their renunciations with dignity.
"Any man or woman who hangs his
or her head or sutfers d^.-pondency to
enter his soul is guilty no.v of treaaaa.
Every word of complaint or diseourage^,
, ment is a crime against our fathers, '
' our sons and our brothers."
BULLETS RIDDLE TWO
KAISERS' LIKENESSES
Schaefer Fired to Show Dislike
for German Songs.
If their majesties- Emperor William
' of Germany and Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria had been hanging
: last night on the walls of tho cafe at
? .?_' Wafhinpton Street. Hoboken, whero i
their flaajsatisa1 pictures hunjr, th?
.1 Powera this morninp would
be preparing for the coronation of two
i row.i I'rinciF. (ieorge Schaefer, an
hecause thc cafe's patTOBS
WBta aiBgina* German songs, riddled
I both pietorei with pistol bullets.
Tha Btraias of "I'ie Wacht am
?? flowina- oal ersr the twinffina*
tha eafo, brought Schaefer
OB tha run. He held
up hifl haadi for Biloaco.
>? Ameriean songs must be sung
. tad,
Ihe Khine continued to flow.
Schaefer draw a revolver and sent
U into the Kaiser's picture.
Some 0B8 slss in ths room took a
fancy tO the sport of pot-shottiflg r.-y
rrd seat two tnore bullet.. after
Schaefart. Three bnlleta tired into
- ,r Francis Joaaph'fl picture
brought the likeness to the tloor.
Shaefer raa-la ** hasty escape, but
found a dnrtor's services necessary.
MANY MSTAKE TRAMP
STEAMER FOR BREMEN
Vessel of Low Visibility Fools
Observers Near Hook.
Aft-- ? retmrts for two days
that the German submarine merchant?
man !'? id arrived off Sandy
Hook, somi exi lemeal waa eaaaod '*??"?
night : C8 in the Lower
Bay of a amall ressal of low visibility.
Ths craft, whieh, whsa firsl
was lying BS low in th# water it was
barely disesraibla, was tha Norwi
tranip steanur Aldetney, frcnn BoBlbay.
OOplsd with the fael
-. p Adriatic
followed cl.i-ely, caused many persons
nori , who thought ths AI
derne) waa a mbmarina, to rush to
.IU-a.
lt *.va.s not until the Alderney had
passed rrome distance into the harbor
that persons who haal caught n hazy
outline of her were convinced she was
ao aubmnri'"
WILSON NOTE
ON BLACKLIST
IS VOTE PLEA
Political Effect Here
Aim in New Demand
on Britain.
REVERSES STAND
TAKEN BY CABINET
To Counteract Hughes
"Keynote" and Ap
pease Hyphens.
[Fruin The Trlbua. Burftu 1
Washington, July 27. -With the dis
patch of a note to Great Britain from
the State Department last night, con
troversy over the Britiah blacklist
passes from the international stage to
tbe range of domestic politics.
Although the communication is ad?
dressed to Ambassador Page for deliv?
ery to the London Foreign Office, and
follows all the rules of diplomatic
usage, in reality it is a document aimed
at the thousands of voters on thii aide
of the Atlantic who between now and
November must make up their minds
ns to tho merits or demerits of the
Wilson Administration.
For one accustumed to regarding the
foreign aiTairs of a nation aa aet apart
from the designs of politicians, as
something to bo deliberated on with an
irnpartiality akin to that of the Su?
preme Court, such a charge no doubt
will como as a rude shock. But for
one who has witnessed the changes in
Washington during the last week the
conclusion is unavoidable.
Nor is the charge a new one. Sus
picion haa been raised before that in?
ternational matters, like the "apology"
foi the Lusitania attack, responsibility j
for the Sussex affair, and the whole
Mexieaa situation, were being made to
serve the exigencies of Democratic and
White House politics. Now, the Brit
Ieh blacklist has been added to this (
class.
View of Blacklist Changea.
If there is doubt In the mind of any
that political strategy rather than the
pre. ervation of American rights die- I
tated the present note to Great Britain,
let him but consider the case of the
blacklist aa it has developcd during the
last week. To appreciate it properly, he
must have in mind also the various
other complaints which our government
has pending against Knpland: The
whole question of the legality of the;
blockade, the detention of American
ships and cargoea, the seizure of
American mails, the infringement of
virtually every American eommereial
right that touches on the sea.
When the British blacklist of Ameri?
can firms accused of trading with the1
OBOmy was published, although there
WBfl a great outcry from the, individuals
affected, it was conceded by the State
Departaaeat that England was within |
her rights. There was some concern as
to the pcope of the prohihition and how
it mipht affect other American firms,
aad inquines were addressed to London
on the subject. In the meantime, every?
thing possible was done in negotia?
tions witli the Embassy to aid tho .
proscribed firma.
At the las*. Cabinet meeting Acting
Secretary Polk is understood to have
declared that any protest by the I'nited
States, if it were to have flobfltantial
weight, must be based on more facts
than were now at hand. Finally, the
triple a.ssurances of the British Am
lOT that the blacklist was an
order only to British firms, that exist
ir.g eoatraeta were not invalidated, and
that it was not aimed at neutrals,
seemed to clear away, Bfl State Iiepart
ment officiais theauelTei admittod, the
last grounds of mss understandmg.
Enter the Politician.
Then Bflddealy, almost overnight, the
situation changed. With that stealth
praetiaed by all "gum shoe gentlemen,"
tha politieian enters. It is announced
that a note is to be sent to (ircat
Britain; not a "protest" or a complaint
citing n bill of particular damagi
R note dealiag with the "principles'1 of
the eaaa generalities make SO much
better eampaign reading. We do r.ot
ask England lor redreaa, or to amend
practicea elready admittod as within
:.,r righta; ara ariah merely to .1
methiag aa a lawyer tells
thfl jury in his preliminary ad
Whal he "expeets" te |rove, but for
which he afterward forget* to bring in
thfl evidence.
Aml 7:ilally, if evidence still ia **ant
ine that the'purpose of this lateat Bpta
to Great Britain ia aaraaioBBUy politi*
M] thfl communication, although dlB*
irnt'che.l last night and received in
Jthfl afternoon. IS NOT TO BE
MADE PUBLIC UNTlL MONDAT.
Even th? Democrats, confident as they
lirt.' ?f victory this fall, hayen't for
rotten that on that day Mr. Hughes il
funnoflfld to "keynote" something about
Wilaoa polieiea. lt is u sly aad eleeei
ntroke to take some of the wind from
"i ihe "'the President's dramatic de
Maai ".. tha Capital to laaial; oa the
D.saar*j of the child labor bill, tha
blBCkliat note Ifl a ahrewd bit of BO
litical atrategy. Weak as the Ameri
can case is and for its purpose that
toutluurO ea paje 3, coluroo 4
MILITIA MUST
PAY FARE IF
MUSTERED OUT
Cost of Return Trip Is
$70?Salary $15
a Month.
HALF OF GUARD
MAY COME HOME
Close of Texas Service
Ends U. S. Expense,
Baker Rules.
National Guardsmen, who have
earned, at tho rate of $15 a month for
privates, about $20 since they have
been in the Federal service, will be
ferced to pay railroad fare approxi
mating $50 if they tako advantage of
Secretary llaker's order permitting tho
discharge of men with dependent rela
tiveg in order to return to New York
to resume the support of their fami
lifB.
Announcement was made at the head?
quarters of the Lastern Department
yesterday that a standard regulation
of the War Department providei that,
inasmuch as a Guardsman becomes a
civilian at the time he is mustered out,
anv travelling he may plan to do there
after must be at his own expense.
I'overty Holds Men.
In addition to the railroad fare from
Texas to New York the discharged
soldier will have to pay for his sleep
ir.g accommodations and his food dur?
ing the tnp, bnnging the total amount
close to $70.
In many cases, where families in
this city are practieally destitute and
dopending on the Active Service Aux-1
iliary or other similar organizations
for support, the sum is almost prohibi
tive and the breadwinner may find it
necetsary to remain with his regiment
while his relatives rely on charity.
Many letters have been received
from discharged men expressing sur?
prise that the government did not pay
their travelling expenses. It is likely
that the announcement of the nar
Department's stand will result in the
formation of a fund to bring the men
back to their families.
Half of Guard May Return.
Captain Kilbourne, of Ger.r-rai.
Wood's r-tatT. said that if the amend?
ment providing l'or the release of
every man under twenty-one in the
National Guard and tho regular army
who enlisted without the consent of
his parents or guardian. vhich whi
adopted by the Senate on Wednesday,
is passed by the Houso more than
half tho National Guard will he re?
leased.
"Ahout half the National Guard
foi,-.*-, aro undor twenty-one,"' said
("aptain Kilbourne. "In tho regular
army the number is r.ot so great.
Many of these men had their parents'
ron?ent to enlist, but if the amend?
ment is adopted a tremendous per
cen'age of the troops will be dis?
charged."
"It is always the case that In an
army the greater part of the men are
under twenty-one. This was particu
larly true in both the trmies in tho
fivil War. While twenty-one has al?
ways been the lei-ai age, I am sure
many boys under that have said they
were twonty-one in order to get into
the army "
At the Division Headnuarters of tho
Now York National Guard it was said
that the nmendment would not affeet
the Guard of this s'ate, as the conser.t
of every man's parents a>r guardian
had been received before the man was
raeraitod.
Wood to See Rooklefl.
General Wood will leave to-day for
his thrrd visit to the Plattsburg
camps, where he plans to stay ten days
or two weeks. I
A report from Major General
Contlnur.! on po?* .1 column 4
De Saulles, Yale Athlete,
Sued by Heiress Bride
WmT*VSV*?M,-rrr WB""*"'**'
MRS. JOHN" DE 5AULLES.
Noted Quartcrback, Who
Won Wife After Defeating
Rival in Polo Match in
Chili, Defendant in
Divorce Action.
Mrs. Blanca Errarurir de Saulles,
Chili's richest heiress and a niece of
a former President of the Sou'h
American country, filed a suit for di?
vorce yesterday in the Supreme Court
aR-ainst her Amorican husband, John
Longer de Saulles, once a famous Yala
?faartarback.
Oflicially there is no information
ahout the idertity of tho young woman
I or women rt is said there are two
upon whom the wife alleges "Jack" de
Saulles lavished his affection, kut one
of these corespondents, it is laid, is
a member of Ziegfeld'fl Midnight Frolie.
Mrs. de Saulles was a noted beauty
when the Yale man met her in Val
paraiso and laid claim to her affec
tions. hittiag hard the line of Latin
suitors. rich .nnd well connected young
men of tho Chilian city. who sought
COL. BUTLERS SLAYER
HELD FOR GRAND JURY
Spannell Sobs and Mumbles at
Examination.
Alpine. Tex.. July 27.- Harry I.
Spannell had a preliminarv examina?
tion here to-day on a charge of killinir.
his wife and Lieutenant Colonel M. C.
Batler, U. B. A. He was roflssarlod to
jail without bond to awsit action of
ths grand jury, which meets Septem-j
bat 11. 1
Whaa the prisoner was brought into
the court room it seemed hc was on tho
verg- of mental collapse. He paid littlfl
attention to the logal phases of the
asamiaatioa, but often raombled. "Oh.
my little girl! My little girl!" refer
riBSJ tO hifl *'rv.--year-o!d dauijhtet.
Th I sxamlaatioa was perfunetory
and caused little .-xcitemmt here, fOW
rersona in the town realizini; it was
bernj* held. _
_4 Servantless Home
If you have ever drearned of a household conducted
?o efficiently that maids aren't needed read in next
Sunday's Tribune how one woman has made brains de?
feat drudgery.
There is so much practical help in this Tribune In?
stitute feature that you can use aB much of il as you like
to liehten your own household worr.es. Kead it, by all
means. and to do that surely you must tell your news?
dealer in advance. Does he know where to reaeh you?
ilhe 3im&au 2Tritmnc
Firtt to Laet?the Truth:
Newa? Editorial*?Advertitementt.
_____NB of the Audlt R_.re-.u '?'. C* ? ;' I
the honor of marrying the daughter
of the distinguished Errazuriz family.
De Saulles's persistence won. But,
unwilling to wait the "couple of
months" which the young woman's
mother asked for a reply to de Saulles's
proposal, he anticipated their return
from Europe to Chili by following
them to Paris. Thc wedding took place
there not quite five years ago.
De Saulles, a cousin of ex-Mayor
McCIellan and of Captain Philip M.
Lydig, and nephew of John G. Heck?
scher and Mrs. Stephen van Rensselaer,
was of the class of '01 Yale. He was
captain of the varsity eleven and a
crack quarterbaek, and also shone as a
baseball player. "Jack" de Saulles had
an opportunity to enter the Americiii
diplomatic corps two years ago, but re?
jected it. Thi. honor came through his
fiier in politics tvhen he orp.anized the
College Mfli-'fl I.eague for Woodrow
Wilson in 1012. PrOflidflBt Wilson nom
inated him for Minister to I ruguay.
In refllfling *he honor de Sau.les
wrote to the Secretary of State:
deeply regret that an aaexpected turn
in my peroonal arfa-r, prevents me from
fulnlllng the an-bition of a lifetime. to
serve my country as one of its diplo
Conttnue.l on paije 3. column 6
EX-CONVICT ACCUSED
OF 9 BOMB DEATHS
Woman Identifies 'Frisco Pris?
oner as "Man on Roof."
San Francisco, July 27. Warren K. i
Billings, an ex-convict in custody here,
who the poiice believe planned the
suitcasB bomb that exploded on a
erowded downtown corner and killed
nine and wounded more than forty dur?
ing thc preparedness parade Saturday,
was identified to-day by Miss Estelle
Smith as a man she saw with a suit
,n a roof near the scene of the
explosion a few minutes before the
bomb burst. Tie poliea IBy they are
thfl leaiaer of the
gang reapon lihl. for th? outrago.
? i d;. namiti n were in cus
todv to-night aad I ?f Thomas
Hoonfly, a labor agitator, wa- ?xpeeted
hourly. It i.ey's house that
thfl poiice found, th.y said, bomb
materiall ar.d B recurd of dynamite
stolen from quarries and structures
dynam
' The District Attorney's office ad
mitted to-day that there was reason
to believe the bomb explos.on was an
attempt to "get a marching body -jf
United Railroad platfona mea who
0 balked an att>-mpt to
bring about a itraet car strike."
LIGHTNING BOLT SPLITS,
HILLING HORSE AND COW
Woman at Milking Stool Escapes
Death.
Caspar Schtiltz was milking a cow
bB his farm ut I.ivingston, N. J., yes
>.'rs. Sehalta araa livilaiiy oc- t
cupied. A horse '.-.as .tandir.g at thej
Other end of tho barn.
Sudder.lv HghtaiBg struck the ridge
pole. The bolt floemod to divide into
two forke. Obo toagae killed the
horse. the o'he-r killfld the cow which
Mrs. Sehaltfl wafl milking. The hay
:;?-.? and i<-r.ittd the barn.
Parnhaada raahed to aztiagaiah the
linmc* BBd taka the cattle out of the
bnrnlng building, while Casper res?
eued his ur.conscious wife. Mrs
Fchultz revlved in an hour, nona the
wone for her experience.
I
STRffiBivEAKER killed
IN CRASH; 2 DYING, 3 HURT
Car Hits PMar, and Three Others,
Directed by Unknown Hands,
Pile Up on Debris.
MANHATTAN TIE-UP TO-DAY,
CITY IN WEEK, IS THREAT
Ten Thousand in Battle as Climax to Dis*
order?Stones Hurt Scores, and Non-Union
Crews Are Beaten on All Lines.
The Bronx car strike already is reaping its toll of lives.
One man was killed, two were fatally injured and three others
were less dangerously hurt early this morning, when an east
bound Tremont Avenue car was derailcd and crashed into an
"L" pillar near Boston Road.
While doctors and policemen were struggling to pull the
dead and injured from the wreckage three other cars. unoccu
pied, shot down the tracks toward the shattered skeleton of
the first car. Just as the last injured man had been lifted
clear of the debris the first of the runaway cars ploughed into
the wreckage.
Cars Crash into Debris.
It was followed, at intervals of only a few seconds, by tho
second and third runaway trolleys. There was a deafening
crash as each car plunged into the tangled wreckage. Win?
dows in the neighborhood were shattered by flying timbers.
TRUCK BURIED
AT$.,OOMOOFIRE
Three Firemen Hurt When
Clock Tower Falls?
4 Alarms Rung.
At exactly midnight last night, while
every fireman north of Fifty-ninth
Street had been mshed to fight the
flaming warehour-e building of the
I'needa Storage and Warehouse Com?
pany, at Amsterdam Avenue. between
150th and 151st Streets, the clock tower
tottcred for a moment, then crashed to
the ground, burying; a hook and ladder
truck and several firemen beneath it- ,
From every direction helmeted fire?
men rushed to the rescue of their com
rades. From the smouldering mass of
bricks and splintered rafters they
pulled the unconsicouB form of William
Donnelly of Truck 37. He was taken
to Washington Heights Hospital. Both
legs had been broken and he was in-;
temally injured.
Fire Chief Charles W. Rankin, aid to
(hief Kenlon, who was in charge, wat \
found a few moments later with hts
left arm dangling uselessly. Lieuten?
ant William Early was etruck by the
flagpole. as the tower hurtled down
ward, but crawled on his hands and
knees fast enough to avoid being buried
under the burning timbers.
F.re Commissioner Adamson arrived ,
about 12 o'ciock, after the fire had been
under way for an hour, and at once
began an investigation. The fire
started in the first floor near the centre
of thc building.
The flames spread quickly to the
upper floors, and second, third and
fourth alarms were turned in. The
smoke belched forth in such thick
clouds that the firemen had to work
in relays.
Frightened by the smoke and warned
hy Dapet"" Commissioner Denman, who
came to the scene after the second
klana, tenants from the buildings in
ItOth Street, 151st Street and across
tha fltrtfet on Amiterdam Avenue were
ordered out.
A crowd af more than 2.000 persons
gathered. Police reserves from three
stations were called, and no one was
permitted within a block of the burn
ing warehou*?e.
Four firemen were hurt by flying
glasa. The heat was so intense that
wir.dow panes snapped one after an
other like the rattlo of musketry. None
of the men was seriously hurt. They
wer- Sergeant Heidelberg and Fireman
James McCarthy, of Patrol 6; Fireman
r, of Truck 34, and Firerr.a.i Philip
R.M'rle, of Hook ar.d Ladd*.*r '.?"?-.
Tha damage, it is believed, will be
trall over $1,000,000.
Albert Hnrtog, president of the ware?
house company, said that there were
ftored in tne building 750 van-loads of
furniture. Most of it wa? the property
of wealthy peoDle. he said, and -.\as
easily worth $75<i,0O0. Bernard Loth,
the owner of the property, deelared that
he had paid $300,000 for the building;
alone.
It is probabla that the building will
be almost totally destroyed. Fire Chiet
Kenlon, who was in charge, said that
"it was the toughest fire in years."
There is no high pressure in that part
of Flarlem, and the water played upon '?
the flames had to be pumped by the j
engines
The building is forty year- old. It J
was at one time a silk mill, was later
turned into a moving picture theatre
ard three years ago renovated and
made into a loft building. It ia only I
partially covered by lnsuranca.
All of the raaaway cars, it is stated
by the poiice, had been stopped a block
away from the spot where the first
one was derailed. It is assumed that
either the air brakes were faulty, or
that strikeri climbed into thc cars,
switched on the eurrent, and deliber
ately sent them tearing toward the
first wrccked car.
The Dead.
MON', V'., address unknown; itrike
breaker motorman, operating car.
Injured.
NELSOX, Charles, Mills Hotel No. 3, ,
strikebreaker motorman; seated in- I
side car. "
DUGGAN, Joseph, patrolman, West
177th Street station; on guard in
car.
DURANT, Wiliiam, patrolman, West
177th Street station; also on guard
in car.
Two unidentified men, toth strike
breakers, dying in rordham Hospi?
tal.
The death of Mrs Barbara Klein, sev
enty years old, was also due mdirectSj*
to thc strike. She collapsed while try?
ing to walk the three miles from tha
West Farms terminus of the subway ta
her home at 1S16 Edison Av.iiue, and.
died before she reached the hospital.
Sheriff Halt . All Cara.
Early last evening the rioting strik?
ers began to surge through the matu
thoroughfares of The Bronx, throwing
rocki at the cars which crept past
under the control of the green motor?
men, pulling trolley poles from tho
wires and even tirinff a few shots.
By 9 o'clock Sheritf O'Brien of the
Bronx begged thfl I'nion Railway to
avoid almost certain disaster by stop
ping al! its cars. His request was not
obeyed until midnight, when the crash
came which will cause three deathi.
By that time there had been n aeora
or more of minor injuries, and at least
a hundred arrests made in the turbu
lent ranks of the strikers.
Threats were freely made by union
leaders that a eonsiderable part of the
Manhattan lines might be tied up be.
fore night. They also declared that
they could cripple car service in tho
entire city within a week.
From di-ybreak until almost midnight
every important corner and transfer
point held its knot of struggling men;
streetcars mar.ned by itrikebreakeri
whirled infrequently by in a storm of
brick. end abuse, and thousands of
residents of The Bronx trudged many
miles afoot rather than risk their livefl
by riding in the few cars in operation.
Captain Langtry, of the Morriiama
poiice station, had fifty reserves scat
tered a'.ong Third Avenue after 5
o'clock last night, but, although they
wielded their clubs contir.uously, they
were of little avatl in preventtng tho
strikers ar.d their sympathizers from.
wrecking half a dozen cars and smash
ing the windows and pummelling tha
crews of as many more. Twelve ar?
rests were made.
First of Accident!
Attempts of tho railway company to
operate its cara with strike breakera
resulted late in the afternoon in tho
first st-nous accidents of the strike, |__
which two men -one a patrolman and.
the other a strike breaking motorman ?
were so seriously injured that thef
may die.
Paul Sirois, the motorman, wai drag
ged from his car at Westeheiter and
St. Ann's Avenue by a crowd of strik?
ers ami heaten until he waa un.ou*.