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VOL. LXXXII. NO. 154.
NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1915. Cowrie e, lOlS. by ffte Sun PrlnMni; anH Publishing Association.
PRICE TWO CENTS.
NO SURRENDER
IN 1916, SAY
BULL MOOSE
Pnrfy Chiefs Scout a Merger
Without Adoption of
Their Principles.
SEE NO DANGER
OF A COLLAPSE
What Is to become of the Progres
le party?
This Is a problem that Is Interesting
the leaders of the two older parties
an Roll as the Hull Mooso chiefs.
Whether tho party Is allvo or dead, the
Progressive vote Is admitted to be one
if the most vital Issues In the 1916
Presidential election.
Tho question Is being discussed nil
over the country. Republicans and !
Democrats are Kivln Ihnt mini- nt lh
Democrats are saying that many of the
olea that were cast for Theodore ,
Roosevelt In tho last Presidential elec- .
tion will be cast next year for a Demo-
crat or a Republican.
The Sun, believing tha. It Is one of
th, vital political problems of the day,
has submitted three questions to some
nf the most prominent rrogressle lead
ers of the country. Tho questions fol
low; What will be the future of tho
Progressiva party and along what
lines should Its futuro activities be
directed If It Is to survive?
I'ndrr what circumstance would
an amalgamation with tho Republi
can party be possible?
If tho Progressive party Is weak
ened by desertions, will the Demo
cratic) party gain recruits from the
Progressives and for what reasons?
The consensu! nf opinion from those !
reached by The Sun Is that unlen one
of the old parties conies around to the
constructive principles of tho Progres
sive party the Hull Moose will be In
the field In 1916 with a. national ticket.
The Progressiva movement Is bound
to go on, It is believed by Its leaders,
whether or not the rank and file vote
Republican or Democratic ticket. It
is admitted by some that there will have
to be radical changes In tho Republican
policies before there will be any material
amount of desertions to that party from
the Progressive ranks. Some great
barriers have been swept away, but
others still stand.
At all evenU, tho Progressive leaders
are watching tho trend of affairs In both
rival parties for hopeful signs of a Pro-
gresslvo awakening. Some of the onln- i
ions of tho Progressive leaders follow:
nr Mii.r.s poi.m)i:.vti:ii.
U. 8. Senator from Washington.
WASiUNUTON, JHn. 31. "I am not
able at this time to answer fully the
questions which you ask .n regard to
tho Progressive party. Wliatever the
fining, i.mt r.nin.. u 11, r I.,..
rrosslve party as a separate and dls-
tlnct political party,
the Progressive
movement U bound
to go on and be one
of the chief factors
In our politics and
Government.
"In States where
the Progressive ele
ment la strong, the
organization will con
tinue In any event,
whether a separate
ticket Is put In the
field or whether Its
Influence! Is exerted
in conjunction with
the I'rvgTcsslvn Re
publicans In Itepub
i',?" prlmary elec-Coyprlht. llrrl. i
"1 can say In answer to one of your
questions, however, that there will be
no amalgamation In the sense of any
surrender of the great principles of
which tho Progressive movement and
the Progrekslve party ure Incidents.
There Is fundamentally a vital differ-
n,i litwwii lll.piMlH mill cimsrvu-
lives, or progrealves and reactiona
ries, whether In one party or the
other Progressive. Democratic or Re
publican.
"This difference will continue. It Is
the natural political division, and when
ome great concrete Issue of vital In-
terest to the people Is presented party
division will take place along this line.
"So far as the practical present situ-
atlon Is concerned the Progressive party
haa claimed all along to bo the party
of Lincoln Republicanism. It ulso fa
vors a reasonable protective tariff, It
believes that under existing conditions
an active and powerful Federal Govern-
ment Is essential. For these reanons
should there be no separate Progressive
ticket, the great bulk of those compos
ing the Progressive party would make
El
m
their light In the Republlcun party penormeu. ana in earn case 11 was nec
rather than In the Demociatlo party." 1 """y to "so chloroform as an auxlll-
I ary.
ny cii.wu.r.s sir.MNKii iiiitn, ,VJ- Ti!T8 V, Car.ter ?,f ""..IP,11!1!
1 stuff said he did not believe "twilight
ru'lrc crtndldols for dovrrnor cf .Vnssa- ' sleep" was any better than ordinary
chtitrtfs on ffte 1'rogrtDslve ticket, j aniestheticj for major operations.
Hast Wai.pot.k, Mass. .Inn 31.
"First The future of the l'r -re-nslve
party dependH lurgely upon the future
attitude of the Republican 'and Demo
cratic parties on great public questions.
If the Republican leaders misinterpret
the lesson taught by the 1312 election
nd continue their reactionary course
that biouiht into be
ing the Prog.e.iHlve
party ; If the Demo
cratic party falls
completely, no se"in
likely. Into the hands
of Southern democ
racy) which is
plainly conservative
and inlsrepresenta-
tlve of tho masses of
the people on sum
questions its the t ir
Iff busliusM and our
national d( fence. If,
In other wt-da, the
old parties ran iu si
tho
linnnriiinco m
constructive and
Copyright, vvliltnoy progresslie irg-.siu-Htudlui,
Hon, then a still fu--ther
split will come and the Progressive
movement. ouI temporarily delayed by
... - . i.nildltlons
present deplorubir. nusineis .011 i ,
will move on under 1110 1 loressivo
parly's banner, or miner me
leadership with aiirthcr name,
Cum. inn 1 "I" ''"I" lt I'ipt.
r 1
s3&T at
BURNS MEN ACQUITTED,
Jnrr Ont 14 Honrs In Case Invok
ing Iei SI. Frank.
Atuanta, Jan. 31. Dan B. Lehcm,
C. C. Tedder and Arthur Thurman, em
ployee of the W. J. Burns Detective
Agency, were to-day acquitted of
subornation of perjury In an effort to
get a new trial for Leo II. Frank, con
victed of murdering Mary Phagan. The
verdict was returned at 1 o'clock Mils
afternoon. The Jury was out fourteen
hours.
Solicitor Dorsey In arguing for con
viction allcgod that the Burns men had
been "guilty of crooked work" 1n the
Interest of Frank.
DENIED FOOD, STABS GROCER.
Itronklyn Youth Drlvrn by Sturm
tlon to Wield Knife.
Herman Bllversteln, grocer, of 1001
Herkimer street, Itrooklyn, wan In his
shop early last evening when a youth
about 14 years old entered and de
manded food. Sllversteln asked for
money, but the loy said he had no
money but must have rood. He said
he and his mother were starving.
Sllversleln refused, whereupon the boy
took tip a knife, slashed the grocer on
the arm and then ran away, SUversteln
had his wound dressed and then told
the police the boy's name was O'Donnell
and that he lived at 1000 Herkimer
street.
The police went there and found Mrs,
O'Donnell 111 from hunger. She has two
nl ,,ln Other 14 years Old.
Sh)( sa(, t,)e famll. has on ,he
verge of starvation for several weeks.
Her sotn have walked all day looking
for worl without success. Teaterday
morning there were only a few cotfee
beans In the house. Her older boy was
feverish from lack of food and left the
bouse. He had not returned up to a
late ,,our'
PRICE OF BREAD TO BE
SIX CENTS THIS WEEK
i linkers .-5113 increase is forced
j ly Flour nt ."57.75 n
i Barrel.
t.i , .. r . - .1
Statement by Hugo Fredericks, presi
dent of the Wholesale Rakers' Associa
tion, and William Stclnmotx, president
of tho Master Rakers' Association, yes
terday were to the effect that the price
of a loaf of bread now selling for C
cents will be Increased to 6 cunts within
a few days. The price of rolls will
probably also be a cent a piece In the
near future. Instead of six for S cents.
The Jumping of the price of breadstuffs
will be mado necessary owing to the
great rUo In the price of wheat.
Mr. Fredericks said that all bakers
are losing money on five cent loaves of
bread. Many of them are putting an
ounce less of flour In a loaf, he said,
and are still unable to make end
meet.
ab'e to make, as a rule, 260 to 280
Iwv.. At hru.i mjt f vtrr-t rr floor
The nrlce ot nour Ptr barrcl has ne
up from $1.25 In normal times to J7.75,
tho price paid last week. This means
I an Increase to the baker of one and
' one-fifth cents In the baking of each
) loaf.
' The bakers exnect that wheat will !
increase to j: per pusncl in tne near
future. 11 was i.a per misnei iqsi
ween.
.Mr Steliumetx said that thirty b.
1" Manhattan nnd Hrooklyn failed
week because they were compelled to
do business at a loss.
'S. V. HOFFMAN INCOMPETENT.
0 ner of S.nilO.IMMI llnlr So lit
rlnreil In e .lerse.
A comniistlon has adjudged Samuel
V Huffman, a member of an old New
York family, Incompet.-nt to carry on
his own affairs. Ills property Is esti
mate! to be worth 2, 500,000.
Tho commission which declared Mr.
Huffman Incompetent met In Morris
town, N. J., where he lives a part of
the time, and was comoosed of I)r.
' diaries W. Lynch, Dr. Henrique, Har-
twelve.
rluou I'. I.lndabury and a Juiy of
, ,'",r .nlon'h I oimin
''P,.1 v n MllP0,n.n1' . V'",1"""""
,r' nVl l'"'
vloualy spent six months th.vc. but was
"leiise.l en apparently well. Dr. P.
A. MacDonald was tho chief witness.
, ;V,r' was one of the four
... .... ,.... ,.unvu
Hoffman of the General Thenluglcd
Seminary, who left n his death In
11)03 an estate of $6,226,000. which was
distributed equ.ill) among his three
daughters and a son after the death of
Ms widow in 1311. He was born In
1S6S.
1
DANGER IN TWILIGHT SLEEP
"Anu.r.tt m IWlLluni BUlUZr.
"" . .,
Moth nt Crltlrnl Point.
Chicago, Jan. 31. A scries of experi
ments Is being conducted In the German
Ainerlcan llospltal to determine the value
of "twilight sleep" as an nniesthetlc In
other than maternity cases. Two opera
tions, both on men, have already been
It is dangerous," he said, "A patient
may come out of It at a critical point
and bo driven by pain to movements
that might have fatal results."
CARUSO'S COAT TO SUFFERER.
Tenor Sees K iilrlierlioekep Hniiifer
l.lnr nnd Dors TIiIiirs.
Knrico Caruso went out Into the snow
yesterday afternoon to seo thu string of
2,161 persons, twenty or tnem women,
which stretched from tho rear of the
Hotel Knickerbocker In West Forty
first street to Bryant Park. Some had
coats, but most had not, and the tilings
on the feet of many were but make -
11 ..I.I.... .... ul,n.u
. ..riici,,r. w, -htvered
und seemed about to collapse, from cold
and hunger, caught the tenor's eve. and
alter Caruso hud gone back to the hotel,
wnero ne iivis, no seni oui ins vuiet,
carefully nut on the wultlnir man
... ... .. ,,- .. :: ,,.
the i-ont that tho singer had worn. He
also gave 100 dimes to a police sergeant ; with their heads toward the wall fur
In charge ot the lino to distribute to thu thesv from Auerbach's room. LeBter
mint needy. Then ho called up the' Auerbach had the next room nnd his
Metropolitan Opera Houe, whemupon ' bed touched the same wall as did the
"' Slipci lllirnucii. o. tll uiri ,i iwemj-
lnen (0 B,vf SM0W at 2S cents an hour.
, ..,,,,.,,,, ,,, rr.n.1 iv,.u nm ,111 riK.n..i
the superintendent sent over tor twenty
Although thn fowl was not distributed
until 3 o'clock the linn begun to form
before 2, nnd half nn hour later there
wrro already 783 persona waiting In the
snow.
FATHER SLAYS
FOUR; SILENCER
" USED ON RIFLE
Herman Auerbach, Realty
Dealer, Kills Wife, Daugh
ters and Himself.
DUMDUM BULLETS
FIRED; SPAIiES SON
Using a repeating rifle equipped
whh a Maxim silencer and cartridges
with dumdum bullets And smokeless
powder, Herman Aunrbach, a real
estate) dealer on a large scale, killed
his wife, his two daughters and him
self some time between Saturday night
and yesterday morning. Tho quad
ruple crime was committed hi his
apartment on the seventh floor of
Klberon Hall. 385-JS6 Central Park
West, near Ninety-ninth street.
The only member of the family to
escape death was a item, Lester Auer
bach, 14 years old, a pupil In the De
Witt Clinton High School. Although
Lester's bed backed up against a wall
on the other side of which the twin
beds of Auerbtich's two daughters
were placed, and although during the
night t:ie boy's head was not more
than four feet away from his slaters'
heads, Lester did not hear any sound
to arouse a suspicion that things were
not as they should be.
A woman servant slept some dis
tance away from tho rooms occupied
by the four who were killed and she
didn't hear anything, nor did tenants
of other apartments In the house.
Money Troubles, Sny ItrUtlTei.
Relatives say that Auerbach's reason
for the slaying must have been financial,
and thej- believe Uiat he permitted his
son to live because he felt that Lemer,
being a boy, could make a place for him
self In the world better than his sisters
after the father was gone.
Auerbach until about six years ago
wss a member of the candy manufac
turing firm of D. Auerbach Hons. 818
Eleventh avenue, of which the other
members were David Auerbach, his
father, living at 200 West 112th street,
and Joseph f, Auerbach of 151 West
ICtKhty-slx.il street. Then he withdrew
from the firm, receiving n large sum in
cash for his Interest; with this he speo
ulaTt'c, lu 1 t-rtl fntrfli, uuill Iwo years ago
his holdings amounted to several hun
dred thousand dollars. Ont of his build
ings was Klberon Itall, where he lived,
which Is worth more than KOO.000.
Then a period of real eetato de
pression set In. and he had to sacrlflc
muh thnt hn nn.-nA rn npnit .
Finally his last property went when!
eighteen months ago he soh
sold Elhsron t
Itall to MeVlckar-Oalllard & Co. Blnce I the world which seems to mo the para
liters I then h had been having a hard time. 1 ... . , ' . ,
last and only last wek he made several ap- ! dlse of th" womn"' Americans think
peals to his father for financial as-i
slstance.
Anerhnrh wan if. vtm ll onri hiv-
wlfo was 31, and his two daughters were
Beatrice. 18 years old, and Daisy. 16
years 010. 110111 wero pretty and had
been carefully educated. Auerbach mar-
rled his present wife six years ago. She
'' Walre Levy. HU first wife,
wuo was niso namcu Levy, was the
momer oi me inree children. She dll
nine years ago.
Ilndlrs Found br Son,
Tlin limlleji were fm.n.i v.i.
morning by LeMer. The woman servant
Lottie Schllen. irot un at T -ari
yesterday morning nnd hod breakfast Her voUc nnn choking, sho hastily ''13 "ml ' rfort was made to launch ' meeting here to-nay to urge tne continu
ready at 8 o'clock. When the members reached for a handkerchief, and for a " n,e drifting lumber Move It In and nnco of Italian neutrality necessitated
of tho family did not appear she decided urlf moment turned away. 'V.':,"' " waM ''roken to matchwood. 10 onK om f troops to defend tho
not to arouse them, thinking they mlgnt Tllc Alexander Irvine, chairman Tie cargo below the miln deck, forced .. . b , chc,u.
want to sleep later than usual It being i1 evening, found hlm-elf repeatedly I "I' :iter. lofUil the deck from "tutrallsts Ironi 11 iiiod inauo up cnicuj
Sunday. (compelled to usk tho audience Tor "fair, aftcr house to th place whtro the of Republican.
Then at S;45 the telephone rang and Play" and for the "courtesy that might forward house had been, and tho big 1 The meeting was organized by n group
the maid answered It. It was a cousin w11 bo 11 foregone expectation from this I s'ctlon went sailing ofT by Itself and r senators nnd Deputies. Republicans
calling to make an appointin-nt with distinguished audience." ' was soon out of view to le-ward. The . . . , , , , t
Heatrlce to go skating In Ontral Park ie eased beams and boards leaped and 1 "I,U otl"irH wn" ',e" 'v"y ' , r ",c
In the evening. The maid refuvd to nnnuTCTT? A Tn nrT inn nnrt ro"'Ml "ut "f ""' ''arkentlno from both ' r against Austria gathered nt the en
wako Heatrlce. but as the cousin per- "!til.31IWV 1U Uii qlUU,UUU. sldi-s. I trance to tin. hall In which the meeting
slsted the maid consented to call Iter. 1 . ., Tl1' "'"pper find the lusty mate, w ith ,V(1H Ml lui, brushing l.sldo tho police.
This sho did, and ho answered tho "ni"" r.lrn I'riisli.n 11ml llrn.-ni the crew, attmked the uft -r deck housa ' attacked the niMitrallstH, boxing tho ears
telephone, taking a message from the Knnd (o fhlrnno A, Inlloii. ;'.' i'.."n ,!",'. Ulf,"1 vm" K.0t 0fI , ' t'nly Rruno Helmonte, lender of the
cousin for Beatrice, and then went to his, ... . the top to use. n n raft. All hiin.ls got niot.ment, and spitting In his face. Tne
room, expecting to go back to lied for C,"CA?,; Jan' 31 A Rift of 1100.000 "board and the sens launched It. ' D"u ' t crt to defend himself with nls
another nap. As he crossed the thrnihold , to establish a pension nnd benefit fund Hie next morning, the m.ito says, he . ' '
of his room he saw a piece of paper on for members of the Chicago Symphony did something that no castaway In his Th'n PrnK.i surcinir about the ncutral
the floor which had evidently been there Orchestra was announced to-day A ' memory of wrecks eyer did ; that Is as j , 'XmVd accusations that the Ger-
wiicii 11.1 wriu oui 10 answer me le e-
..i.n... t. i 1.1. ... , ,
,u,ti;. n naa tu Ills luuior a fliUlUWril-
Ing and said:
"When you wake un. phone Uncles Joe
and Leo and grandpa."
Lester didn't know what this meant,
so he decided to call his father and ask
him. He knocked on his father's door,
two doors removed from his, but there
was no answer. Conferring with the
maid, and both finding cause for worry,
they decided to open the father's door.
They found the father and mother In
their twin beds, both dead, and showing
evidence of the manner of their death.
Hour I'nsaes Rrfore Alarm,
Then the boy and maid ran to waks
the slaters to get their advice. Again
there was no answer to repeated rap-
inn, akiuii inn irifciurnru ooy openea
the door und again faced the terrible
evinencs 01 ms ruiners onmc. lie
rr;rra:
; - .;iiurKiie jiniieii in live nay or prayer. " " " ; ; ' '.'
knowing what to do or whom to call. I Scahright was damaged a llttlo over r,lsl "f H nltcn of
Finally tho boy thought of his father's n y0,r ago by heavy seas, driven byilroard.
last Instructlonn nnd he called In tills terrlllc gales, that ripped out bulkheads M'JHt "r idilpwrecked wero carried
order Ills grandfather, his uncle Joe , and carried nwuy hotels and cottage alward the Mnnzanlllo from Iter llfe
Bii.l David Ivy, Mrs. Auerbach's bro- j scarring and marring the 'ocean front I noat' 'rhf' r'""1. for, f ""rouely
ther, who lives at 10 Manhattan ave- for the entire length of the town. At n'"'-'rd and taken to a hospital at han
nue. a short distance away. I least three storms damaged the famous 1 H"0' "lu 'I'Per and his wife und
Mr. I-evy was the first to arrive and
he notified the police the Coroner and
inn iiiit;iirinut.iirr (iubjjiuli. wurnnar
Jjjlnta go. there a few minutes after
' iruon,
The Auerbach apartment is on the
i soventh floor of the nine story apart
ment house and runs from west to
east, the east end facing on Central
Park West. Auerbach and his wife oo-
iiiien iwin nr.i in mo .ruin immii in
the neM room Reatlice and Daisy had
i twin beds, placed parallel to each other.
' ... ... ,..., ...ni ,,. ....u
m:ib 111 Ills lloia.
, llotii girls wore In night apparel nnd
I .,.... .I , 1,. .i.. ,,.,111 ,.
beds of his sisters.
j appeared to he nsleep until the Coroner
saw the holes blown In their heads by
the mushroom bullets, In each case
Conffmied on Last I'age,
Kaiser Again 111;
Back in Berlin
Severe Weather in Northern
Franco Responsible for
Chill.
Special CabU teepatch to Tns flef.
London, Jan. 31. The Copenhagen
correspondent of the Dally News says a
alight Indisposition caused by the severe
weather In northern France compelled
the return of the Kaiser to nerlln to
day. His entry Into Che Ocrman capital
was kept secret and no one observed
him.
He Is suffering from a chill and It
Is understood that lie will not return to
the front until the weather Improves.
A despatch from Rotterdam to tho
Dally Hail cays:
"The Kaiser's return to Rcrlln has
been followed by great depression among
the German troops, 2,000 of whom huvo
been sent to th east front because they
openly protested against being employed
In further attacks near tho Tser.
Nevertheless, large German reenforce
ments are proceeding In the direction of
Ypres, and a huge concentration Is tak
ing place In tho Roulers and Courtral
districts."
According to a despatch from Rotter
dam the Herlln correspondent of the
Conrrtst of that city, discussing reports
that the Kaiser has been aged by the
war, says ne has seen a striking new
portrait of the Kmperor, which shows
his features to be sharp, his cheek bones
and nose prominent and his hair white!
wt the temples. Kverythlng one formerly
regarded as typical of the Kaiser's face, J
he says, lias disappeared, and he gives .
the Impression of a simple, aged officer,
staring earnestly.
The correspondent quotes a perscn
who lately has seen tho Kaiser at his
headquarters as saying:
"Hts appearance shocked me. He was
old, gTay and shrunken and was visibly
affected by circumstances. 1 saw him
at his favorite exercise of sawing wood.
It distressed me to ses him sitting and
working listlessly, now and again star
ing fixedly, lost In thought."
TO FIGHT TO EXD.
Kaiser Saya He Will Merer Give
In to Allies.
Berlin (via The Hague and Ixuidon),
Jan. 31. "We. will stay on hostile terri
tory until the enemy Is vanquished or
has collapsed." was the assertion made
by Kmperor William In personally con
ferrlnc the Iron Cross on a German sol
dlcr, says a rport printed by a Cologne
newspaper.
HISS ENGLISHWOMAN
. .... to tho northwest under bare poles. I whole world and Germany would have
IN HA IK flN WAR T1,e ,lpcl lojd "'lifted In the flight , lost all chance of safeguarding her
LfjJutlU Ull II Xlll down tho wind and the old ship began commercial. Industrial and economic In
to leak. All hands were on deck, the ' terests.
starboard watrh at the pumps nnd the "The other term sketched by Raron
11011 vvHuii triimr to jettison tn .leek . "n n.iiinii, nu.rl llio renliirnllon of
Ot'l'lllllll-Anioricnns IlltPrriIRt
1
Sjiepch of Miss Kinprston
Dr. Ewer llcr Opponent.
This country is the only country in 1
11 lfl almost the act of a barbarian fir
man to stand up and publicly argue
u-ith i.i..
About 300 men and women, most of
thi-m German-Americans, directly, con -
cluslvely and emphatically disproved
these words of Dr. Hanni .Heinz Hwers.
I tho German poet, when they hissed M
Gertrude Kingston. Kngllsh nctresi a
they hissed Ml!
llsh actresi and
heatre. Loudon.
atlng the Huto-
owner of tho Little Theat
with whom he was debating the Bute-
pean war at the park Theutie last night.
Wh.-n Miss Kingston got through stat-
.ng her ense or trying to state It as
1 best she could along with the interrun-
' lions she manifestly fought with 11 deep
' ''motion that was nothing sls.rt of anger.
iwncu J.rn. r.iitiiupin
,..,.. r-nH.io.. f.., .1,. r i...
I ,'.o' x-ww,,,.w ...v emir ui
1 rather, A. A. Sprague. founder nf
Sprague, Warner & Co., wholesale
grocers, will be donated. The fund will
be known as the Albert Arnold Spraguo
Memorial Fund.
Investment Is left to tho discretion of
the trustees of the association.
SEABRIOHT PRAYS FOR RELIEF.
"Alnlnst
RnrsiiM of Sen,"
Churches Mnkr Snppllcntlmix.
ScAtmiaiiT, N. J.. .Inn. 31. In response
tn a nroehltnfltlnil liv f;,Vn ri.re. W
I Klllott calling upon the people to "unite ,
In prayer to the Almighty tlod to send1
1 ttil speedily against the ravages nf the
fa," special supplications were offered
up In the churches to-day that Sea.
1 bright might be saved from further rav-
. . b'd. . - m ..
little summer resort ..ml nww
, community In one month. In the curly
i n:irt or I)pcmirtr 1914 another uttln
, ,
line, swept nw.iy newly constructed
bulkheads and caused hundreds of thou
sands of dollurs loss.
Appeals have been made to Congress
and the Stste to aid Seabrlght In pro-
i tectlng Itself agalint the Atlantic by the
building of bulkheads and breakwaters.
ZEPPELIN PLANS BIG RAID.
fiitiinl Cable Despatch tn Tns Hix.
Special Cable Hnpatch to Tim fUiv ; paws. Jan. SI. -A letter from a sol
Iainpon, Jan. 31. The Copenhagen er u the trenches In northern France
Lurr-C,.,li..cni .i hit. ....... irm'
i.graphH that Count Zeppelin, on board
1 .. .,.. ta, i.uki., f i.i ,i..un 1,,,.
correspondent or the Dutlu .null tele.
a new giant airship of his design, hits
left Wllhclnishuvtti to visit tho Kaiser
at his headquarter. It Is reported that
he will make another plea to be atioWtu
to make raids on Uteat Urllaln,
13 ADRIFT ON
RAFT A WEEK
FIGHT SHARKS
Two Women Among Casta
ways From Harkcntine
Ethel V. Itoynton.
HIT BY WHAT MATE
CALLS A TIDAL WAVE
Mate Charles E. Olsen of the Ameri
can barkentlno Kthel V. Iloynton, a
bronzed six footer of Viking aspect and
ancestry, got In yostcrday from Cuba by
the Ward liner Monterey with a vivid
yarn of the wreck of his ship In hurri
cane blasts and ponderous seas off the
Georgia const two weeks ago.
Tho wlfo of tho skipper, Capt CI, W.
Waldcitinr, and his niece, Gladys Lar-
rock or Iloston, wero In a ships com
pany of thirteen (ill told that drifted six
day lashed or grasping Itfo lines on a
raft and tho detached cluck house of the I
barltcntlne. Sharks s warmed around
them at times and tho moro vigorous of
the castaways for diversion batted the 1
big fellows over the snout whenover they
camo near enough to disturb the serenity
of the women.
The stalwart mate says the skipper's
niece and his wife acted as If shipwrecks
were a natural part of a sea voyage and
did not do any praying, as shipwrecked
women are siippood to do In moments
of unusual stress, rerhapn one thing
that Interfered with prayer, except of a
mental sort, was tho unremitting exer
tion of holding on and dodglruc wrcckago
and the crests ot combers.
2lr! Almost l,oes Hope.
On the morning of Xlonday, January ,
IS, a tow hours before succor came with
the steamship Mnnzanlllo. Miss (.ladjs 1
hml almost abandoned hope, and ald to ,
ine mat.-, v e never shall see Roston. ;
He laughed and. patting her on the 1
She answered his laugh with a smile and
said: "We will die with stout hearts."
She went to a hospital nt Santiago with
the rest, badly bruised and suffering
from salt water bolls, but she did not
die.
The Roynton sailed from Mobile for
Genoa on December with a full cargo
of lumber, a large part lashed on deck, stances, but they declared that such a
Off the Florida coast on January 11 , peace would be more ruinous to Oer
a heavy southeasterly gale lashed up ' many than n total defeat,
tall eaa and forced the lumber ship "The disarmament of Europe, they
to heave to under storm trysail. The contended, would mean that only the
g.ilp Increased to a hurricane, and fear- armies would bo disarmed, whllo the
Ing sho might pound out her bow In ; Rrltlsh navy would be ablo all tho tlmo
the crashing combers, the skipper 1 to rulo the seas. Great Hrltaln then
turned tall to the blast and ran miles 1 would be able to tyrannlte over the
lo'", n'llc1' Imperilled th lUes of all
hands. The women were safe from the
tumult In the nfter deck house.
The deck cargo, relieved of its lash- '
lngs. nent by the board on the morning
Of January 12. The Iloynton was then
waterlogged, her mtln deck almost
nwas.li, and lloundering In the trough
of tho waves.
lilt by lloar Wave.
:,'!v',n''rr "P-!; w,llcl' lhe niato called
a "tidal wave," but which doubtless was
n rumulntlve wave. r two or more!
1 VY" "to T ro'" ,fo.rly f,Lc"
' n, " ,vrs'"',1 and descended on the
", i.ih-i sumc 01,
' r,''1""0... I"" 'iK .alnlosH
r7 0o."rHl' ,U
I of .1.h""nr,rr, del,Ck;l
!,. At 2 M " clo,,k
"ave ""V"1 "8 a!
re uiiiini It IUIP Ull ItlTi iC)l
the next morning h
"iinosi "H oig as tne giant boarded
I "T uTe,'k al" J wI't ,h" forward house
1 ,lle '"" The men cut away the
' mal" nn(1 njlm masts nt daylight. Tho
lair jan men iiseu tiirougn
Hiet'ottom or the ship.
The ':lwl fcaped the smashing
n...u n,,., jri-ivjiu,,, n sigiiim
iiw. ,,.,1.. .i,.," ,..hi..i, i,..j .1.1.. 1 ,.
m. 11 ,,i.ii ,iiL.L-ii ,,ai.l I
in a sn:rt or the gale.
Ilnfts l.nsbed Toicetlirr.
The smaller raft felt us If It might
j-oon go to pieces and It was divided to
board the main deck. Two hours of
hard paddling with broken oars brought
the little raft to tho big one, and after
lashing the two, tho sea having gone
down somewhat, nil hnnds mndn
transfer, th.i men nsslstlnc the women.
M the end of several days the main
deck began to hrcuK up and thu cast
aways, with lifelines around them, made
1 their way back to the smaller raft. The
i u'linmn tnv ilou'n mill tl'.ri. l.iahMl nnri
the men held to lifelines,
At 10:30 lhat morning, January IS.
the Manzanlllo hove In sight. Tim mate.
' being the tiniest in tne party, Waved 1
I iu u signal of distress tho only hunting
I saed. tho International code signal It.
; u."r: v: t; jr:,"
niece lire on tnoir wa to .modiic. .Mate
, .nl!,r ,a,!rt ,l,rVXt,vt "0W C'im!
" "--
I
rlngton, Me., In IS0O, and was owned by
the A. H. Hull Steamship Company of
this city.
BIRDS MAKE NOISE LIKE WAR.
Imitate Whistling of Nhelln nnd
lliillels lu I'niiiee.
, cnntiilns the following:
1 cumulus lllr ll.uunillK
j "The starlings In this wretched coun
.... . ... 1, 1., . 1 .
j try from hearing tho whistling of shells
und bullets have learned to Imitate their
sound, so, thanks to them, wo have no
more, pence even when the Germans are
ullcnt "
Austria Urged
to Seek Peace, Is Report
Correspondent Declares Baron von Bnrian, at Recent
Conference, Predicted Defeat (Jennans Refused to
.loin Movement to End War. Informant Says.
GERMANY TO SEND 1,500.000 MUX TO FRANCE
Special Cnhle Weiroles In Tns HCN.
London, Fob. 1. The Dallj Wnll fea
tures this morning the following des
patch from Its Copenhagen correspond
ent :
"From a most trustworthy and well
Informed source In Herlln I have re-1
celved the following Information regard-.
Ing the negotiations between Raron von !
Ilurlan, the new Austrian Foreign Mln-
. . ... , .,
Ister, and the Oerman statesmen on
Raron von llurlan's recent visit to Rer-
Hi, I
"Raron von Rur.an. whose sole object '
was to save what can be saved of the I
dual monarchy, represented the sltua-
tlon ot Austria as precarious and said
that If the Ituwian advance on Rudapest
u-.. .mi .inm..,i it.. .rr-t vrv nrnlml.lv.
n fl, . Aul, d
wom" " 1,l,e nownra" 01 Austria anu.
,nurB I"h;uiiui. u.o t.mut.n.. u. nun
gary, which later woiild entail as 11 Lnmlnn t'orreiompiil Sees K I
loglcal sequence the downfall of Ger- lienor In Grrninn Cltlr.
many.
Therefore, Raron von Ilurlan urged, 1
the Russians must bo repulsed at alii'1"'nber of the staff of the Datlu l'.x-
. ,., .,,., , . . ' presa, who has been In Germany for
costs and Germany must send large re-, ,, tlpr,M facnB ,ne ri(!U of c'ptum
enforcements to Hungary to prevent the I
caiasiropne. in any case, no saia. 1
u-.u' . ...
nun uuuuuui .vm.-n.cr u wuuiu uo uoh-1
,, , .. . I
slblo for them to icslst the Russians ,
and Servians and perhaps also the Ru-
mutilans; therefore It was necessary to .
"Doubtlwis, he said, a sine qua non
ot the Allies' demands woutd be the par-
tuii disarmament of Kuropt, Including
Germany, because a peaco that was
nothing but a truce for a term of yeais .
UOuld not be acceptable to tho Allies.
"The Austrian Foreign Minister ad
vised Germany not to reject fundamen
tally the thought of peace on the grounds
of the partial disarmament of lirnpe.
"The leading German statesmen ad
mitted that Raron von Durlan's Inten
tions were excellent nnd to some extent
his nlan was lustlfled bv the elreiim
Rolglum and northern I'rance and the
recovery by Germmy of her colonies.
w"e, they said, with the exception of
,nft relinquishment to France of French
Aluacc nnd of the Polish provinces to
'"'and, no absolute litndr.mce to peace,
Kor ,he reasons alsivo stated, however.
TROOPS QUELL ROME
WAR DEMONSTRATION
Pl'OWd AtlU'!S Pni'lillllll'lltfll'V
Croup rplioldinjr
y Ni'iMrnlity.
Sptetal Cable ntipateh to Tile Sex.
Romk, Jan. 31. Rioting attending a
' ,- ,, r l.-liln.i H,n movement for
. mans wero uemnii me moemeni lor
continued neutrality and that Prince
von Ruelow had bought Its supporters.
"Friends of Austria! was one of the
cries taken up by titie crowd In derision
of tho neutrality advocates.
Troops restored order. The crowd,
however, gathered again and attempted
to march oiv tho Austrian Rmbaesy,
shouting, "Down with Austria nnd Ger
many ' Ixmg live France ! Long live
! the wnr!" Again the troops were called
in, with uxeu iviyoneis, 10 nisperse me
mnnlfestunts.
THIS FOX TROTTING DANGEROUS
Cclllnlon m I'lonr SrnilN Onr
IliiiMirr in IIomiMii1
While Otto Odor. 23, of B:i Hedford
1 avenue, Williamsburg, and hi
nvpntin, WUllamnburi?. nncl Ma wlf
n.ncinB m a hn .t 93 Grand
street early yesterday another couple
.... .
who were fox trotting swung around so
swiftly that Geler and his wife were
thrown to the floor. Cn-ier's left knee
. -.,,, ,, .. ,,.,...
cap was fractured and he was Internally
Injured, and his wife sustained a con-
cusslon of the brain. Oder was taken
to the Williamsburg Hospital.
Tho couple responsible for the trouble
fled from the Imll during the excitement
following the accident.
MANY FLEE VILLA FRANCA.
Repented Knrth Shocks Cnair Ter
ror In St, Mlrlmrls,
.Special Cable Petpatcb to Tux Kcs,
Ponta Dr.MiAtiA, thn Azores, Jan, 31,
The residents of Villa Krunoa do
Campo, on tho southern coust of the
lulnn.l nf Mt. MlnhntOlf. Iw.nlv mil.. a '
east of this city, huvo fled from the
town, fearing a repetition ot previous
destructions by earthquake.
The earth shocks, which have been
growing In Intensity In the last few
days, continue. Villa Franca Is now
almost entirely deserted.
T
Germany,
the Oerman statesmen declared that
negotiations were, hopeless and that It
thereore was iimdnpcH to take any
steps which would revx.il a deposition
for peace on tho part of Germany ami
Austria-Hungary, as It would only
weaken their co-e.
"Haron von Ilurlan thereupon ad
mitted Hint there wil no other wnv I
than to reject all Ideas of peace and
take all tho chances and all t)ie risks
' continuing war In the hope that some-
thing undreamed of might occur to suve
tnc,nprhas :l ,BrPf.,nrnl among
the Allies or some groat victory.
"The Germani ngreed that" It was I
"-'Sry" TZWr
(ronpn up to the number of a million
to Hungary. Ily spring, they said,
1.600.000 soldiers would bo sent to
AWtH am) toTvr, p(.nc(.
r rnme an a .am aumpi to crusn wic
t A TV IS rni tT? ATI?
MAN t A VUli I'LALh.
Sp'rlal Cnblr Dripatrh to Tub Sis.
London, Feb. 1. Alfred Arnold,
nnd death as a spy. hti returned to
i.oraion. 110 nc visum rranitiori-
on-the-Maln. nuesseldorf. Klberfeld.
,. . .. . ,
Ilremen, Hamburg and .Munich,
0llP , , Kll,ent m,)rC9Hns lc re-
reived was made by the appearance of
a detlnlto neaee nartv In the Industrial
lngs and the display of posters bearing
tho words. "Stop the War."
A number of persons attending 11 peace
meeting at Dilesscldorf, he says, nero
arrested and two of them were shot.
Mr. Arnold saw lurge new levlei
going to both rronts. These, he says,
were In nowise llrst line troops, hut
were mado up of jsirtly, elderly gentle
men marching alongside of boys,
The prevalent rent.ments In the coun
try Mr. Arnold found to Iw depression
and .anxiety. Mr. Arnold confirms the
statements that thero Is plenty of food
to be had, but sajs tho coarseness of
the food Is significant, nil dainties being
reserved for the hospitals.
SOCIALISTS FOR PEACE.
Grrrann lrirnnlr.nl Ion Cull for In- ' bo unaffected and that GcTmany's
ternntlnnai .Movement. commercial ambitions would be hope-
London, Fob. 1. A despatch from I lessly ended. All that Von Burian
Amsterdam, says the Tribune, the Dutch secured was German troola for th
Socialist paper, reports that the execu- . . -live
committee of tho German Social I d"":8 of Hungary.
Democratic party has adopted the fol-
IuTv'mIh Ictlliltlt,l ,
"The executlw committee considers
It desirable that every opportunity
should be taken to initiate common ac
tion In favor of peaco by the whole of
tho International Socialist league,
especially by the Soclnllst parties In tho
belligerent kingdoms."
GERMANS BLAMED
FOR RIOTS IN ITALY
Agitation in Jinny Citios Ts
Iiiu'd by Police tn
Forciiit'i'iS.
Romk, Jan. 31. The police have dis
covered that the present widespread agi
tation throughout Italy, supposed to be
due to tho scarcity of wheat and the
dcarness of bread, was fomented by Ger
man emissaries who, rrnllzlug the fnll
ule of their pro-Ck'riiiui press propa
ganda, have resorted to other methods
to avert Italy's Intervention lu tho war.
Tho riots In Sicily, the strike In Flor
ence and thu agitation In other cities.
Including Rome, were organized, tho po
lice found, by German agents, who liavo
been bribing labor leudcrs and financing
speculators to corner wheat, and coop
erating iu tho artlllcial ruling of tho
prlco of bread. Several Germans are
said to have been cnught red handed III
Sicily and arrested. Other arrests und
wholesale expulsions aro imminent.
Sensational developments are expected
as a result of the discovery of this
latest phaso of German activity, which
very probably may culminate In the
departure of Prince von Huelow, the
special Oerman Ambassador, from
Rome.
King Victor Kminanuel signed to-day
the decree drafted at yestcrduy's Cabi
net council abolishing tho customs duty
on wheat for u period of live months,
reducing by half thu railroad and
steamship tariff for the transportation
of wheat, authorizing tho Government
to requisition wheat, Hour and other
cereals hoarded for purposes of specu
lation, and If necessary to rcgulnte the
bread making nnd the sale of flour and
bread.
Unlimited power Is granted to the'
Government to enforce the decree, .No
appeal or redress of any trt la al
lowed. Attempts to start a general strike In
loreiice nave laiien, largely as n re-
suit of the prompt notion taken by the
, of the who tnr,.Iltencj ,mIwlJ,
the ngltatlou ened to take tho law Into
"r own lipids against the disturbers.
; In spite of the Government's notion
da against the disturbers.
' ,00Y(,1U7 ,n'e Suotlon in the price of
hrrad, a big meeting wns held at the
' Labor Exchange to protest against the
I present prices of tho commodity.
I After listening tn ln!!iimma.tory
. speeches by labor lenders the meeting
j adopted a resolution declaring that the
agitation would continue until the peo
ple are ablo to Impose restraints on the
upcculators which tho Government Is
unable to Imposo under tho law.
BREAD HALF WHEAT.
Austria Orders llan of llnrley mill
(Ithrr (irnlns.
Special Cable Deipatch to Tub Scs.
Vienna, via Amsterdam, Jan. 31. Tho Tokomaru .came from New Zea
The Government bus Issued an order I land with a cargo" of 97.000 carruuuuw nt
that bread shall henceforth contain pot
mom than GO per cent, of wheat or rye
flour. Tho remainder must be barley,
tiialxe, mils, rice, potatoes and other
commodities,
MORE BRITISH
VESSELS SUNK
BY SUBMARINES
Ship Carrying New Zea
land's Gifts to Belgians
Is Yictim.
TWO DESTROYED
OFF FRENCH COAST
The Tokomaru and Ikaria
Torpedoed Near Cape
d'Antifer. IRISH SEA LOSSKS
ALAHM LIVKHPOOE
Germany Starts Campaign
Against Traders, Says
Admiralty Statement.
M7MMARV OF Till! WAR JVHW3.
The announcement by tho French
.,u,i,, , ,,, v
Ministry "f Marine lhat Oerman sub-
marines sank the British stcamshlpa
Tokomuru nnd Ikurla off Havre yes
terday so iiuickly followed the sink
Int; of three British merchnntmen In
tho Irish Sea that Great Britain la
keenly alurmcd as to the safety of her
shipping in waters supposed to he safe.
The Tolcomiiru cnrrled foot, nnd cloth
ing for starving ilestltuto Belgians.
Tho London Dally .Va(I nwerls that
Ilnron von Ilurlan, speaking for Austria-Hungary,
Informed German states
men that Austria's ruin was certain
unless Germany agreed to make peace
on terms involving a partial disarma
ment of Ktirope and tho surrender at
I'"' 0"many refused on the scor,
tlin flrnrti TIHIn n'd nnt.nl nn.uni. WAilM
The French Government reportfl
that tho llrltlsh forces ncur La Bas
sco recaptured yesterday all the
trenches they Imd lost. Thero wu
heavy artillery fighting all along tho
front. New German attacks In th
Argonno were repulsed.
Tho Oerman VJir Office states that
the Ocrman forces between La Bas
see and Hethune captured some French
trcnchf.i. Kxcept for artillery duels
in Flanders no further report Is mad
of tho lighting on Saturday.
Tho Russian General Htaff empha
sizes the Importance of operations on
the long rront In Gallcla und Buko
winu. A general battlo has been be
gun, with tho Austro-German force)
attempting to take the offensive, par
ticularly In tho Valley of tho Lower
Han. Tho Germnns were repulsed In
llerco lighting west of Warsaw. Th
Russians continue their advanco In
Kast Prussia.
Of the situation In eastern Hurope
tho Oerman Wnr Office says merely
tluit Russian attacks east of Lodz, on
tho Warsaw front, were repulsed and
that there wero no Important opera
tions In Kast Prussia.
It Is reported from Berlin that th
Kaiser, suffering from a chill, has re
turned to Herlln and will remain there
until moro ngrrenble weather Justifies
his return to the front.
TWO VESSELS SUNK
OFF FRENCH COAST
.Ship Laden With nclBlan llIlef'-I
Torpedoed.
Special Cable Detpatei to Tns Bts.
PAniB, Jan. 31. The Ministry of Ma.
rlne Issued the following statement to
day with regard to the German
submarine attacks on allied shipping:
"Hitherto, by a sort of self-respect,
the German navy generally has sunk
merchant vessels of the Allies only after
taking tho crews aboard or allowing
them to savo themselves. One excep
tlon was tho torpedoing of the steam
ship Amiral Gantcaume, outside Bou
logne, laden with Belgian women and
children refugees, almost all nt wi..n
I happily, were rescued. The German
navy to-uay decided to viblato the law
of nations systematically nnd deliber
ately. Its officers havo received orders
to respect nothing In the future anil to
place themselves under tho ban of hu
manity. "Tho Rrltlsh steamships Llnd
Blanche and Ren Cruaehun havo boen
torpedoed In tho Irish Sea.
"Thus Oerman submarines on Satur
day torpedoed without previous notice
four ICngllsh merchant vessels, two near
Havre and two In tho Irish Sea.
"The whole world will rise In horror
nKlBt ,1u,ch ,act8 by a clvillxed nation.
The British steamship Tokomaru was
sunk at 10 o'clock this morning by a
torpedo fired from a Oerman submarine
seven miles northwest of Cape. d'Antl
fer, Just north of Havro. The crew was
saved by French torpedo boats. The
Rrltlsh steamship Ikaria was torpedoed
at 2 o clock this afternoon fifteen miles
west of Capo d'Antifer. She was not
sunk and was towed to Havre, escorted
by French torpedo boats.
Other accounts regardlnr tho sinking
of the Ren Cruachan say that the crew
wss notified nnd tho men wr m.
I 14MI in inn ismis.
.mutton, together with clothing valued
about U.fion ($7,500) sent by New Zea
landers to the Belgian refugees.
An naency account savs ih.if tt,. ...
I r'o'nn which occurred. abcar4 tho Su.