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THE WEATHER FORECAST. Rain or snow to-day, brisk to high, shifting winds; fair to-morrow. Detailed went her reports wilt be found on page 15. tin. VOL. LXXIX NO. 195. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1912. Capiright, I0H, by the Sun Printing nnd rublinhino Allocation. PRICE TWO CENTS. ,Y DEADLOCK AGAIN IN BRITISH COAL STRIKE WMi and .Scotch Owners Wouldn't nudge, but Hope of Pence Persists. 1 WORKERS ALSO OBSTINATE Srrions Mots Grow Out of Gorman V nlkmit I'uttkammer Fiercely Attacks Socialists. ftetttl ti'ifffn and Cable Detpalthet foTimSrN. IinpoN, March 13. Tlio Daily Mail quote wi unnamed mino owner, who attended yesterday's conference be- . T1 i t III. ... Iiwern rn'mivi 'insulin una me owners iwd miners, as saying that there was already something like n deadlock in I rnnumuencn of the Scotch ami VoUti magnates refusing to htidgo an inch in their attitude. The miners' representa tives were equally cmphntio in their rtfufid to give way. t)Nt)0.v, vlrt Glace Bay. March 12. Fol lowing the Joint conference of Premier Asmiith nnd meinlersof the Government with the mine owners and miners this afternoon, the outlook was regarded as more hopeful, although the official stato- Vnient which was issued was colorless. The optimist io view comes chiefly from the fact that all the mino owners. Including tho?e of South Wales and Scotland who are disinclined to make further conccs ioni. accepted the invitation to attend the conference which will reassemble j to-morrow morning. , The tremendous sales of American cAl in Europe nre causing concern in London Slnco the beginning of the i-trike on March 1 Great Britain has lout' the wile of over 190,000 tons of bunker coal which was Isiught in America. Com menting on this fact n member of the Halt i c Mercantile .Shipping Exchange, which is the bourse for the shipping in terests, said to-day: "Even more serious than tho loss of that amount of trade is the prolmbility that when tho strike is ended, the eople abroad will still buy mapian ,r,n) ,.n 1 1 .'..-I ...111 t.i.i. . l... . i . nu ...... uu, WlllClltTO nil! suffer a nermanent loss." Th" figures of the Baltic Kxchange show that 17,000 tons of American coal are going to Gibraltar, 32,onn tons to Ruenos Ayrcs, 21.000 tons to Ln Plata, :2,noo tons to llio de Janeiro, 37,ooo tons toLasI'ahnas, 11,000 tons to (ienoa, 10.MX) tons to Naples. 14,000 tons to Marseilles and 12,300 tons to Port Said. The freight rates on some of these shipments oro more than double the normal rate on British deliveries. Nearly 2,000,000 men- are now out of work because of the strikein tins countrv. I Tho funds of the miners' unions are bo ll ginning to run low and thoy will be unable ! to pay the promised ten shillings (2.50) I WAeklv llunnflt 1ft thn atfilrnva Tl, .. amount will soon have to be cut to live shillings ($1.25). One half of tho futids of tho Northumberland Union will be disbursed on March 15. Tho miners at Kllceston, in" Derbyshire, who aro' re ported to be. tired of the strike, will de mand a ballot to-morrow as to whether it shall continue for all grades of employees. The polico of Cardiff have notified the municipality that 700 families are In immediate danger of starvation. The municipality has made arrangements u feed the children immediately. The Great Northern Hallway lias now suspended 1,MB trains. Four music halls in the suburbs of London unnounce that they will close to-morrow, as tho strike has affected the attendance to such a degree that there is no profit in giving performances. I V After a session of three and a half hours tho three cornered conference Utween Premier Asquith and the com mittees representing the coal operators md the striking miners was adjourned tills ovening until to-morrow. While no statement was Issued it was said that the situation seemed to be clear ing and that there was a hopeful feeling that an agreement nettling the t-trilte would Boon be readied. 'I he Welsh and Scottish mine opera tors yielded' this afternoon so far as to join the English owners In the con ference with Premier Asquith and the i union committee, me conference, De lft Kan nt 3 o'cloolc In the office of tho Premier. I . Hit renrnfntAtlvpa nf thn mlnnra nt fo-day's conference said they had no authority to agree finally to any reduction m the demands of the Miners Federa 'ion Any such proposal will have to ie Hiibmitted to a vote of all the miners, and this will take some time. The only nay in which the strike can be ended at '.nee therefore, is by the acceptance by (I 'he operators of all the miners' demands. ii iremeiy unuseiy mat, me opera, 'or will do anything of the kind. There u possibility, however, that tho miners may return to work pending their vote u whatever compromise the conference may agrees upon. Bmu.v. March 12. The German coal mine strlko assumed a more serious uspeot 'o-day when rioting was reported from several places. Hundreds of miners joined tho strikers to-day. The tleup hi Westphalia is utmost complete. To ..icht fully 75 per cent, of tho men in the , uuhr district are out. Many of the mines 'i-day hnd to work with only one of the ordinary three shifts. 'I he most serious rioting is reported Iruni Iliimborn In the district of Dussel dorf , mob of 2,000 strikers threw "iis-iIim .md (red ruvolvera at the police ' giiiitd, five of whom wero injured. I he pollen tlien charged the rioters Hnd i' Ii rapid use of their sabres felled many i ' ' the men, The mob then broke up. 1" other places thero were similar Incl , 'I'tiii.. the non-union men being stoned the police attacked. The number of , tasii.i'iies tut h not been reported. 1 v.iis announced this afternoon that o,i owners huvo invited the miners ii.ei.t ihein In conference to-morrow. I lie situation will be gone over and the i.tn will attempt to show the men that ' Incenses In pay which they demand ' 'i-"t i,i given without plunging the '.. .ii,, nn Nothing is expected ' 'iiiirif on fourth I'noc. . IIOMit A S I licit CKKTiriOATES ii ia ta tuit vrlettd by Cortles, Macy Caj 1' IV Jctu Muck LiublUaed ISM,-.- BIG WAVE KILLS TWO And Hurts Two Others Aboard the l.lncr Itntterdam. A mighty comber pooped the Holland America liner Itotterdnm, In yester day from Itotterdnm nnd lloulogne, when she was two days out from Boulogne on March -I nnd snuffed out the lives of the lunlor chlir ..nirlnnAr Cornellun Johannes van He'est, nnd her boatswain, Johannes I.conardus Wou- ters. They were on tho nfter derk rrn.ntr. Ing the steering trlegmph when the comlier .'climbed over the stern nnd swept them forward. Tho after door of the steering engine house of steel was torn from its hinges nnd the two men were hurled through the door into tlio machinery. Vnn Itml'd Wo and nearly nil his ribs wero broken and he died within a few hours. The boatswain's back nnd nrmu'woro tirnttn nnd he died three days later, never re covering consciousness. Two others wero Inltireil. hut tint seriously. The boatswain leaves n widow and flvo children. Including twins, In tollnnd, nnd Vnn Heest .leaves n wlrlnw nnd threo children. The Anchor liner Pnlumhln. fmm Glasgow, was boarded off tho Hanks on uie nlglit of Wetlnesday, March 6. by several colossal waves, Ice laden, Hint carried awav two lirelumts unit smashed two others, ripped off vcntl- 1 n Inra nnA f1...l.l I.I , . ....... o ...,. ,,uutii-ii t.tuuit unti uroite port lights' Four stokers were hnrlnl for a tlma under coal shifted by the pitch ing anil rolling of the ship. JEWS WANT TO JOIN GUARD. New York Hebrew Ak Verlirrk to Autltorlic llattalliin. At.BA.VV. March 12. -.Jewish nlt!n. of New York citv annlied to Adit -Cun. Verbeck to-day for ermisHinu to organize a battalion to becomo affiliated with tho .National Guard. For some time there hnve l)een small comnanirs of .Iow.-i.li young men who have armed and uni- lormeil themselves out of tirlvnfA fmula. and now they desire aid from tho State. It is said that it would b mwMililn in ten days to organize a regiment com- posea or Hebrews, but that inanv of them aro withholding actual signing of an application to join the Nutlonnl Guard until it is known whether tho organiza tion win im accepted. Mrtually the same question is raised by this application as In the ra.-e of th- proposetl colored regiment, since both organizations want to join the infantry Kronen of the service nnd th Fednral Government has statetl that it would decline to uniform ami equip any addi tional inrnntxy troos in this State WILL TRY TO FREE MRS. GAGE. Brother to File Writ of Habeas Corpus In Washington Court. Washington'. March 12. II ts'pf(ib able that n writ of habeas corpus will be filed In the District Supreme Court within the next duy or two to procure the release of Jlrs. Mury H. (.nfic, who wns urrested heie and, tent to the Gov ernment Hospital for Insane charged with milking threats ngnlnst rhailes .1. Hell, (iresldent of the American Se curity and Trust Company. Mrs. (inge alleges Mr. Hell prevented her nnd her daughter from obtaining the position In society lo which the) were entitled. Wilbur A. Molt, prosecuting attorni!) of Newark, N. .1.. brother of Mrs. Gage, I arrived in this city tv-iluy and con- 1 ferred with William K. Ambrose, who has been retained to defend Mrs. Gage. , It Is believed that they will bigln habeas corpus proceedings. ANTARCTIC SHIP BACK. Mswkoh's Aurora Report landing Ex pedition Krani Golnic to the Arctic. Xpeetal Cable nupaUhtt to THE SI'S'. Houart, Tasmania, March 12. The Aurora, the little ship on which Dr. Douglas Mawson, tho Australian ex plorer, steamed out of here on Decem ber 2, 1911, on his way to the Ant arctic, returned to-day. She reports that Dr. Mawson and his party were landed at Adelle I,and. Another party was put usliore on Wilkes Land. The Aurora vainly sought to find the Clalrle coast, which was supposed to have been discovered by Durvtlle In H38. The officer In charge, of tho Au rora says It must now bo assumed that Durvllle mistook the Ice barrier, which has since disintegrated, for land. One of tlie landing parties Is under command of Dr. Mawson. It was landed January 19. The other, landed on Februnry 19, Is tinder Dr. Wilds. With Mawson's party Is l.leut. Watklns, un experienced svlator, who has a monoplane with him. Great things nre expected of the monoplane. Tho Aurora will remain here until the spring, when she will return to the Antarctic circle to pick up the two parties. Capt. Amundsen says it will be Im possible for htm to comply with the request from the United States to have Ills ship, the Frani. at the Panama ex hibition at San Francisco In 191",, ns she will be In the Arctic region at that time. CllHIHTIANIA, March 12. The budget Committee Is considering the question of establishing a professorship for Capt. Amundsen nt Christianla University. The Premier has notified the Storthing that a proposal will be introduced for an appropriation to defray the expenses of Amundsen s coming Arotlo expedition, ASKS 950,000,000 FOR ROADS. Miirtauih Introduce Hill for Statu and County Highways. Amunv, March 12. Senator Mur taugli Introduced to-day u bill agreed uuoii after consultation with Democratic State officials and prominent members of the Legislature, providing that the State Issuo un oddlllonal $.-.0,000,000 for for thn construction ami improvement ie ttlr-hu-flVIt Of this fund K'0,000,000 is set nsldo for thn Improvement or Htate High ways and $30,000,000 for county high-u-nva Ii Ix m-ovlded that thn mnnov be distributed upon tho basis of popu lation, mileage ami truni nrea. iilrl.ANIt II. II. TO 1HONTKKAI.. Hlceptri Iv. Orson Crnlrl llly 734 I'. M. Pr tlcultri.Ult Uro(lwy. 1'nooe uiu Utd.-Aa, DARKNESS AND FLOOD IN SUBWAY DITCH Edison Company Cut Off Current After Disagreement With Contractors. ANXIOUS HUNT FOR BRADY Fears for Klevatetl, Interborotifrh nnd llulldln? While Search for llim Whs Going On. Hecauso of a dispute between It and tho firndley Construction Company tho Ilrooklyn Kdison "Company yesterday aftornoon disconnected tho cables sup plying current for power nnd light In the Fourth avenue subway excavation and not only put a comptcto check to the work but, through the stopping of tho pumps, nUiwed water to come Into the excavation. Possible damage liecauso of tho stop ping of tho pumps was averted by tho llvoly action of tlio Public Service Com mission in getting the cables connected nnd the power turned on again after n stoppage of an hour and a quarter. Hut the eight hour shift of men who work from o'clock In tho afternoon to mid night had been allowed to go homo nnd there was nothing done until tho early morning shift camo on nt midnight. Because nobody could be found In Ilrooklyn who had authority to order the Edison employees to restore the current there wns a brisk hunt in Manhattan for Anthony N. Hrndy. Aft r ho had been found he quickly gave the necessary ortlors. ny the terms of their contracts with ths city the const met ion conivinles en gaged in the subway work agreo to look out In one of two ways for tho conduits. gas mains and all the other proxrty of I the clectrlo nnd gas conuiiinios thevl,f the law. by ('. N. Hovee. John C. run ncross In their excavation. The con structlon companies move or otherwise care for all the pijies nt their own ex pense or allow tho rominny owning the conduits or mains to do the work them selves, the construction company to ixiy them tho actual cost of the work plus 7'j tr cent, profit. Tile Hrndley company electrcl the latter alternative in the matter of tho elsctrlo conduits and the Edison company made tile necessary changes. It Is alleged by the contractors, and their statement is backed up by the Public Service Com mission, that die Edison company in doing this work increased tho sizo of the. con duits while thoy were at it and so pro vided for futuro increase of business. The electric company put in a bill to tho Bradloy company for $0,000. The Ilradley people contended that thoy ought not to have to pay for tho improvements which ,M.11,,',mPta?'ia!n00,,It.,0.mn,iH, ",".1" H,'?.t?1 ,h,,t .,,",, :ill""?,!t,.?,1,",.,:f- ducrd by something like $l.ooo. Tills the r.nt.. ...i- i ... .i i ; ; V. . . ' . . , two r-onej-rns came to a dead ock. ho at about :30 o clock yesterday after- noon a mo., from tno I d. son company I ZTi iii J . 7 . . . ' fcl""'ld UP a agreement on a definite hour ion a Hudson avenue ami Marled up a to.lnorrow for fl vo)p pole f he subway workers were looking A b f , , , for trouble and went out and pu led htm , (U,f(.nct! of Ml! 8rna,or a,le , Off the pole Hien the man went up the of Wld wU)r r Arl.iuilift street a bit nnd down into a manhole, , ,,, , ,,. , lf . , , ,, , . , i- . .i . , , 'both Democrats, defended ,1 go Pitnev where, according to the report made to i . . ... .. .. . , ,i 1. i I, o I ,- ii l .'from tho attc.en th.i. w.i made upon i the Public Service Commission, ho cut 1 1 1. . i . i . i - "'"" ,i ii nil. ,, . Ihlin veslerdav and to-i p.y on uecount of' the cables, and thee ght pumps on wheh ,,. , , ., ,-. , i ,1,.. l.tl-. v. i. 7t-,,i..i, . his decision in thi George Jonas case, f- r ..-i n... ..ii .1.. ii...... ....... 1 , , , , I , u , 1 I ..13 tlJIIB ill the excavation went out at the same Instant. Hie water soon overflowed the "sumps" Into which It flows and from which the pumps druw it out. Those In charge of tile work begun to fear for the safety of the elevated railroad structure jind for tho Interboroiigh subway, as well as for the safety of surrounding building, if the water wus allowed to flow into the cut undisturbed. A part of the work is fifteen feet below sea level. Word was sent to the Public Service Commission and to the police. fliird Deputy Police Commissioner Walsh, in command of Ilrooklyn, and borough Inspector Uarkins hustled to the excavation on the report that work men of the two companies were having a regular fight. This report they found to be considerably exaggerated. The two polico officials then called representa tives of tlio Publio Service Commission and the two companies Into conference, but there seemed to bu no one in the Edison Company with sufficient authority to order the cubles connected and the power turned on, Meanwhile the Public Service Com missioners in Now York were seeking In vain for an official of the Edison Com pany who had authority to do something. Finally, a little nfter 6 o'clock, Commis sioner Maltbio found Anthony N, Brady and put the mutter up to him. Mr. Brady got men to work and in an hour they had the cubles connected. Power and light wuro turned on again at 0:15 o'clock. The men who ran the pumps were on the job waiting and the pumps were started immediately. The other work had to go over until midnight, since the shift liad been allowed to go home. Secretary Whitney of the Publio Service Commission lust night characterized tho action of the Edison company as "abso lutely inexcusable," sinco the commission has in bund at the present timo some JOOO.WK) of the. Brudley company's money which is intended to protect such claims ns that presented by tno F-dlson company If the claims are proved properly. It was understood last night that the Public Service Commission at its meeting to-day will order a hearing on the question whether the electric light and power com panies of thu city shall not have somebody In authority who can be reuched in cases of emergency such us thut of yesterday. It was remarked yesterday while the commission wus having such a busy time trying to get tho Edison couiany to do something about tho flooded subway cut thut both the Ilrooklyn and the New York Edison companies have sent communica tions to the commission arguing that they can furnish power for the now subway inoro economically than the city can de velop it in separate power houses, ' "Such arbitrary conduct ns to-day's." nunurktil a member of tho commission last night, "is not likely to make t lie com mission morn anxious to put tho new sub wave within the power of nn electric com pnny tolturnijhu current off or on at its wui. J BLIND CHILD MOVES SENATE. Siiiinhlne Society Kxtilulf a Mltle Girl nnd Gets Its nil! Parsed. At.nAS'V, March 12. A blind girl snt beside Lieut. -Gov. Conwny to-day while the Senate passed a bill permitting the International Sunshine Society lo take and care for such children under tlio ago of 8 years. The present law makes no provision for sucll unfortunates nnd in New York city they aro sent to Randall's Island, whence the Sunshine Society took this child with others. Thoy nre cared for and educated by ths society. The little girl who captured tho legis lation tinder adverse circumstances, for there wns opposition to thn bill, is Ilacliel Askenas, 7 years old. Under tho caro given her by the Sunshine Society sho has learned to play n piano and to operate a typewriting machine. The society in tends to prepare her to bo a teacher of tho blind. After tho passage of the bill she went with Mrs. Cynthia West over Alden, presi dent of the National Sunshine Society, and Mrs. John D. Whieh. president of the local branch, to call on Gov. Dix and ask him to sign the bill. FRAWLEY LAW TO STAND. Gocrnor's llrslre to Slop liming Not to Re Met Till So.Mlon. Aumny. March 12. The desire of Gov. UK to have the Krnwley boxing law repealed nt this session of the Leg- Istature Is not vto be met. There wns n hearing this afternoon befoie the Senate Codes Committee on Senator Saxe's bill repealing this law. The only one who appeared In favor of i the appeal was the Hev. (). It. Miller, who declared It made New York city ; the rendezvous of the fighters of the, country and that only recently Jack! Johnson stated that he Intended to fight In New York city within a short time. , Patrick F. Conway, representing the Irish American Athletic Club, wired Clnilrmnn Stllwell that he had for- 1 warded a brief in opposition to thei repeal of the l-'rawley law. A brief was tiled favoring the repeal i iiieman unci .loHcpu ,. Arnold, ns a committee representing the West Knd Association of Manhattan. VOTE ON PITNEY TO-DAY. ficnilr llrrldrs 11 Has Heard Enough Argument on the Nomination. WAHiHNQTOif, March 12. The Senate again discussed in executive sedon to day the.nomlnati6n of Mohlon I). Pitney of New Jersey to be Associatn Justice! of the Supremo Court. It wr.s agreed thstji vote would be taken at I o'clock to-morrow" afternoou without further debate. It is believed the nomination will be confirmed, although certain labor leaders who have been about the capital-Icing to influence Senators were saying to-night that the nomination would never bo con- " ww.! about 4 "dock Senators who were in favor of """ confirmation had resolved to hold tho i continuous session until a vote haJ w, . , . and some oMw Sena((r, M1KgPHtl.a nn adjournment ti, friends cf Judge Pitney insisted there .which involved e.n injunction Ibsuol I ngr.iiiht glass blowers who had declared a Millie against l he Joua factory. I , Senator William Alden Smith of Mlchi-1 gau also defended the New Jersey jurist Senator O'Gormun of New ork attacked the legal reasoning In the Jonas case, as 1 did Senator Cummins of Iowa. Senator O'Gormati objeoted chiefly to certain expressions In decisions. The debate was at no time acrimonious. BURGLARS GET $10,000 LOOT. Set Off Automatic Alarm, Thru Unite Watchman Away. , Hurglars got Into the building at 38 U West Twenty-first street eurly on Sunday morning and curried nwny f 10, 000 worth of ostrich feathers belonging to I'okress Brothers 4 Co. after they had forced two men who had been sum moned by an automatic burglar alarm from a nearby agency down through the building nnd into the street from the tenth floor at the point of their revolvers. Cant. Faurot, the police fin ger print expert, was last night compar ing records on hand with a faint finger print that was left In blood by one of the burglars at the building. His hand had been cut. The men get Into the building through tho rear, entering through a saloon on Twentieth street, scaling a brick wall and using a lire escape ladder to a one story extension from which It was nn easy matter to climb the fire es cape to the eleventh floor of tho build ing. There they pried open an Iron shutter and got In. To get to tho ostrich feather store room of the millinery department of Pokress Brothers, where a valuable quantity of feathers was on hand, they out through the concrete floor of the eleventh story a hole large enough to ndtvlt one man and lowered them selves down. SUMMONED TO DEATH BY PHONE. Saloon Keeper Answered Call, Went Out and Was Found Dying, Some one telephoned to Vlncenzo Zummo, a saloon-keeper, nt Ills saloon, CSS Liberty avenue. Ilrooklyn, ut 10:30 o'clock last night, .unmio put the day's receipts In his pockets nnd went out, leaving his wife In charge. Half an hour later Jacob Ahrnms of fill New Jersey avenue, returning from tho theatre, saw two men running away from u man who luy on the pavement ut Vun Stolen und Miller avenues. The man on the ground wns Zuimnn. He bad been stabbed In the back and there was a bullet wound In his shoulder. He died us Abrams came up. One of the saloon keeper's assallnnts left hts umbrella behind. . Zuinmo's wife says he' had received no threatening letters recently. Illklt" the new stvllth rvrtlasMi. flliltht or P Torlo Pebbles. Upeacer'i, now TMaldcnJne. k MMMBBaWSlaii LINER STRUCK BY FREIGHTER BOW ON City of Savannah Has to Come Back After Meeting tho Navahoc. HAD ONLY A FEW PASSENGERS l!oth Vessels broken Nosed, hut Able to Get to Dock With out Help. Tho Savannah liner City of Savannah, which sailed from her plor at the foot of Spring street, North Ulver, nt 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, gtoped her way down to the liny through u fog that was as thick as pea soup, ns navigators love to remark, when she passed through tho Narrows. Capt. T. Ii. Dreyer. a veteran of the service, slowed down to nearly half speed. When ho was about four miles from the Narrows, opposlto buoy 12. the entrance to the Ambrose Channel, a black shape materialized on his starboard bow. The shape swiftly revealed Itself as I he Clyde lino freighter Nnvnhoe. Tho ships were only a little more than too feet npatt lien Capt. Dreyer saw the freighter. In another moment the Navalioo smote the City of Savannah almost square on her bow. The port bow of tho Navnhoe crumpled up ngalnt the stronger steel stem of the passenger boat and for a moment it looked to both (.'apt. Packer oV the Navahoc and Copt Dreyer as if both vessels had received deadly hurts. There were only a few .cabin passengers aboard the City of Savnnnnh and one of these, Mrs. Itoy 1j. Pendleton of Atlanta, who was standing with another woman near the rail, saw the bow of tho freighter impending and ran from the rail aft. The collision threw her to tho deck, but she wns unhurt. Most of tho other passen gers, chiefly third r!as, say that tho shock of impact wus very slight. It was different on the Navnhoe. Her skipper refused to talk, nnd the officials of the line would allow no reporters on the pier, but a pasenger, Fred Flake, a civil engineer, who decided that he would like n trip from Wilmington on the freighter, said there was n mighty shock a the Navahoc, after hitting the City of Savannah, scraped along the lattcr's broken bow, indenting her own port side in several places. The ships clung to each other for a minute or so ond.J&p2gkurutfl. phoned to tho City of Savannah's skpper to send a wireless message for a tug, then believing that his ship was in serious danger." Capt. Dreyer obliged, and also sent ii message bp, his o w n offlew1 baying that he would come to dock in the ovening. Capt Packer to get the hole in the Navalioo above thn water line set his crew to shift ing cargo to starboard. Tills listed her to port and tho water ceased to flow in. Then the freighter camo up under her own steam nnd docked more than an hour before tho City of Savannah, whose commander, naturally, with passengers to care (or, wonted to bo certain that she was in proper condition to make her pier. The City of Savannah was badly dam aged forward, iter stem being dented in and shoved back pearly ten feet. Her collision bulkhead prevented flooding of her forward hold. The freighter had hit her not exactly on the stem, but slightly to the starboard of It and there was a large and jagged rent In the starboard bow. Capt. Dreyer said: "We did not hit her. She hit us, and the accident might have been avoided. He lay across the channel nnd did not shift his helm, although I gave him two whistles, indicating that I would pass him on Uie starboard hand, lie cam-,) right on for us, not resxnding to my signals. I put tlie wheel hard to star board, but could not clear him." Te City of Savannah, from the skipper's statement, was on her proper course. It is the first mishap she has had slnco she went into commission in 1907. Sho is one of the cracks of the line. Her pas sengers decided to sleep aboard last night. They will be transferred this afternoon to the City of Columbus nnd will sail at 3 P. M. for Savannah. The City of Savannah will be taken to dry dock in Erie Basin for repairs. ha.v pnnTTT NKAn powr.nn snip in roa. The Ward I.lnn freighter Camaguey, bound for Cuba, with 400 cases of pow der aboard, came pretty near being run down by the Incoming liner Rotterdam In the thick fog yesterday afternoon. The passengers noted' that the Cama guey flew u red flag from her fore mast and when some of them were told that this meant that she carried ex plosives they felt relieved that the Hot terdam had not hit her. WICKERSHAM ACTS ON PATENTS. Attorney-General Asks Defendant If He Will Seek Kehearlng. W.tsiilNornN, March 12. In line within tlio Federal Government's intention to seek a rehearing before a full bench on the important patent case decided by the Supreme Court yesterday, Attorney-General Wiokershnm has written to the de fendant, asking whether he intends to ask for such a rehearing himself, Representative Martin Littleton of New York will Introduce a bill soon, amending the law so as to limit the restrictions patentees may plnco upon Inventions they control. lie has had a conference with Commissioner of Patents Moore. "1 determined It would bo better to await the decision," said Mr. Littleton, "and after the law had been clearly do fined to confer with the Commlrsloner. He Is to frame a measure that will meet the technical details of thu situation, "I am much In sympathy with the utti tilde of Chief Justice White as expressed hi his dlsFentlug opinion, Tlio bill will fo to tho Committee on Patents, of which am u member, and I -will endeavor to tecum Immediate consideration for it," There aro (lending before tho House Judiciary Committee a series of bills In troduced by Iteprebcntntlves Thayer and Peters of Massachusetts, and others, In tended to cover conditions. A1LANTIO COAST MM:. Till. RTANPAIIfl HAll.UAV OF TI1K SOUTH. 4 Ltd. Titlni Dally in Florida, Cuba. South. U:U A. U.i 121, 131, J0 P. U. Mil U'way.-Atf?. MISS PANKHURST CORNERED. Police Watch House at Wimbledon Until They Can Get n Search Warrant. Special Cahte Detpntch to Tus Sis. London, March li Scotland Ynrd was Informed tntc to-night that Chrls tabel Pankhurst, who Is wanted on n conspiracy chnrgo for her sharo In tho work of the Women's Social nnd Politi cal Union In causing recent window smashing, wire taking refuge nt tho res idence of n solicitor nnmed Yntcs nt Wimbledon. Word was telephoned to tho local -Insiiector nt thnt plnc to make Inquiries. Ho called nt the house and was re ceived courteously by Mr. Hnd Mrs. Ynles. They refused to say whether Miss Pankhurst was In tho house nnd would not nllow n search without a warrant. Tho police arc now watching tho house. OPERATION ON W. E. D. STOKES. Will Hate a Kidney Replaced by One From iki Animal Very Soon. William E. D. Stokes, owner of tho Ansonln, who wns tho target for tho bullets or two young women early last summer, is building up his health for an oemtion which will lie tierformed as soon ns he gets strong enough. It is planned to remove oneof,his kidneys nnd substitute tho kidney of nn nnimiil. Mr. Stokes hnd a sorlous attack of intestinal indigestion nfter the shooting nnd doesn't look like himself now. Ho has lost u great deal of weight nnd nppeni-B older. A month ago ho was advised by his doctors to go to Bermuda. Ho did. but camo back five or six days ago. Whllo in Bermuda ho had another attack of illness, but recovered. When lie reached Now York Dr. Joslali Thornley, his physi cian, consulted with Borne other doctors and It -WUS decided thnt Mr. Stokes's best chance was in having tho kidney removed. To prepare for tho operation Mr. Stokes now takes short morning walks, increas ing them gradually each day, nnd in the late afternoon ho takes another walk. INCOME TAX FINDS FAVOR. Massachusetts legislature Committee Votes to ltcport Iicsolutlon to Pass. Boston, March 12. Tho Committee. on Federal Kelatiohs to-day voted to report favorably tho resolution ratifying the income tax atnondmont to tlio Ftdoral Constitution. The vote was 0 to 2. Representative John H. Cogswell of Lynn, a progressive Republican, filed tlio report in the House this afternoon. The voto gives the measure tho largest majority it has ever received from a legislative committee sinoo its first ap-pTiVuKta-ffrl -Be-aoon Hill. EX-CHIEF CROKER OPERATED ON. Iilm towawHotet to Hospital -With' Abscess of the Throat. Edwnrd R Crokcr, former chief of tho Fire Department, was taken Inst night from tho a rand Ccntrnl Hotel, where ho has been suffering from grip, tonsllltls nnd nn abscess of the throat, to Miss Alston's sanitarium at 26 West Sixty-first street, where an operation was performed on his throat by Dr. Harry M. Archer, ponornry surgeon of the Flro Department, Dr. Arthur Craig nnd Dr. Cornelius G. Coakley. Mr. Croker was under ether for un hour und a half. It was said at the sani tarium late last night that be was ns comfortable as could be expected, al though he was Buffering considerable pain. EMMA EAMES GOGORZA ILL. Prima Donna Has Ileen Operated on for Stomach Trouble. Special Cable Impatch to Tn Sex. Paris, March 12. Emma Fames, the prima donna, Is ill at the American Hos pital after an operation for stomach trouble, Hor husband, Emilia de Gogora, tho barytono. Is In constant attendance on hor. SOCIALISTS LEAD THE POLL Their Candidate for Major Sweeps Itnr Itngton, Iowa, In Primaries. Bubunoton, Iowa, March 12. Tho Socialists have swept Burlington, land ing their candidate, Schurmann, in tlie lead for Mayor in the city primaries under Uie commission plan They also got two men on the ticket for Counoilmen. Mayor Cross was defeated by fifty-four votes by Frank Norton for place on the ballot und Councilmen Bock and Funck wero overcome by tlie opposition. Coun cilmen Canney and Scheurs got places on the ticket. U. S. WASTED $25,000,000. Senator Smoot's Estimate of the Govern ment Prlntery's Methods. Washington, March 12. Figures show ing extravaganoe and waste In the Gov ernment Printing Office wore disclosed in a speech in tho Senato to-day by Senator Smoot of Utah, presenting tho reform bill of the Printing Commission. He said the bill would save at least 1000,000 a year, largely by cutting down on useless Government publications. 9i Five million dollars, Mr. Smoot said, was a "conservative estimate of the loss Indicated in an accumulation of 10,000,000 documents stored uway at the printery." "I believe, he continued, "that tho net actual loss duo to defoctivo distribution methods has been not loss than )2S,0O0 000." The Printing Commission found the orgunlzutlon at the printery tophoavy. He cited the fact Hint a printer employed on the night shift is under a "superabund ance of supervision" by eight superiors. NEW POLICE SUMMER UNIFORMS. Illue Serge, Not Flannel, to Come In on Juno 1, General orders wont out from Com missioner Waldo last night to tho po lico force for a now style of summer uniform, which every member of tho 11,000 uniformed force must have1 by Juno 1. It Is to be u single breasted live button blouse, with a standing mili tary collar, und Is to bo mudu of blue serge Instead of blue flannel. Florin's, the ( arollnas, Atlanta, lllrmlnaham. Superior wrtlrs via .Seaboard Air Une'a clcrlrlci llghtMl Heel iraln. Inq IIS! ll'uay. Phone MU Mad.- Adr. . , If ilrtllil PRINCE TO MARRY MISS DUKE AFTER ALL - " " ' Ludovlc PignatcllI d'Aragon Sails for Europe and Fiancee Will Follow Him. WE DDI NO IN PARIS SOON Scion of Noble, Family Overcomes Imicco Man'H Objections nnd Will Go to Work. To- When, something llko two weeks ago, tho engagement of Prince Ludovio Pig n'atelll d'Aragon to Miss Mary L. Duke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin New ton Duko of Now York and Durham, N. C, was rumored a denial was author ized by Mrs. Duko. After Prlncs Pigna tnlll had sailed away for Europe yester day on tho Kronprin7, Wilhelm it was learned that close friends of his and of tlie Duko family had been Informed that thn engagement wa n now. a fact and that the marriage would take place within tho next few weeks in Europe. Irs. Duko and her daughter, accord ing to present arrangements, will sail for Europo within two weelts and Angler Duke, tho brother of Miss Duke, is ex pected to go over about tho same time. Whether B. N. Duke will go over for ths ceremony is not yet known. Tljere has been ono obstaclo to the marriage grow ing out of n question of religion, thn Princo being a Catholic and Miss Duke u Protectant; but on last Sunday-arrangements wero started hero for a special dispensation covering this question, and it is understood that when the Prince went nwuy yesterday all the arrange ments for tho wedding, so for ns they could bo mado on this side, had been perfected. Tho ceremony, it Is said, will tako pluco in Paris. Princo PignatcllI made 'his first appear ance hero in Now York in the early part of last August, when ho was discovered coming up tho bay on the Provence. He had a mustache and he gave his ngs as 33. Soon after he arrived the mut tacho disappeared nnd tho Princo began to learn English. At the time of hU arrival tho Princo said ho had come over to hunt and to travel nnd that, while h ho liad met many charming American girls and had been engaged to one, Irre concilable religious differences had pre vented a marre, and thero would 1)3 no romanoo olJWd trip. Tho family to which he belongs Is originally Italian, there being at present flvo branches of the original tree in differ- parta-of Italy. Sicily and -Strdinlnt- Tho Almanach do Gotha gives the Pig- natcllisadato at least as far back as A. D. 1102. Ono authority on European titlej says the "Arngon" in tho Prince's titlo comes not from Arngon in Spain but from Arngona in Sicily. However, the immediate family of tho Princo has passed n good portion of its time in Spain, and tho Prince says ho is a Spanish subject. The Pignatellis becamo princes of the Holy Roman Empire in the seventeenth century, when Ettoro Pignatolli, tho fourth Prince of Noja, married Giovanna d'Aragona Cortez, who had the title of Princess as hereditary from her fathor, Diego Tagliavia d'Aragona. Another Ettore, the ninth in tho lino, was a grandee ' of Spain. A Spanish authority on her aldry mentions thnt tho family in Spain is sometime culled "Phlatello y Arngon, but that its members prefer to keep the Italian selling of tho titlo. Tho father of Princo Ludovio is said to have been a very wealthy man, hav ing upward of half n million dollars a year income. He loft a large family, and though Princo Ludovio is not the eldest of tho children he got enough from tho estato to provido what In many parts of Europo would bo considered a good sized income. The Duke family is one that has ncliloved wealth and prominenco 'since tho civil war. Its two princijial members of tho older generation aro James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke. Tho former wns until lately president of the American Tobacco Company nnd for many years its guiding spirit. Recently he went to London to becomu chairman of the British-American Tobacco Company. B. N. Duke, while largely interested in the American Tobacco Company, has for tho last few years devoted his main at tention to the development of the South ern Power Company and tho Great Falls Power Company, of which he is presi dent. The Southern Power Company is absorbing many power companies in the southeastern part of the United States, building Btreot nnd intcrurbnn railways, nnd transmits its electric product ns much ns 400 miles. In addition of late years; Mr. Duko has done a groat doai in the cotton trado in China. The elder Duko told in nn interview some years ago how his father hnd come home to North Carollnn from tho war, tramping 135 miles, and how ho bought two blind mules on credit and with a Yankee half dollar he had got in oxchange for n 13 Confederate bill started grow ing tobacco on a little patch of laud noir his house. He and his boys peddled his product in winter to country merchants. When James B. was 18 his father offerod him n chance to go to college, but tho lad preferred to go into business. His father by that timo had given up farm ing and was engaged in manufuoturing tobacco in n wooden building at Dur ham, N, C, and ho gavo James II. and Benjamin N. each n sixth interest in thu property and tho profits. Then tho busi ness began to take great strides. Whon the tobacco Interests of the Dukes wero absorbed by tho American Tobacoo Com pany in 1800 tlie former owners received 17.500,000 In securities. It is said by inch who are conversant with tho inter ests of Benjamin N, Duko that he is 'to day worth about 160,000,000, Ho lias lately built a magnificent country place at Durham, N, 0., and only in thu lust two or three years he has finished a mag nificent mansion ut the southeast corner of Fifth avenue nnd Eighty-ninth street, There is evidence that whon Princo Plguatelli looked about and saw New York his words spoken on snipboard had been uttered in good faith. Ho liked ths towu and ho liked tlie life, lio was as- 1