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;AST THE ttit '' fW H-fcain to-day't morrow: - f7. fresh . Detailed Ve reports wili 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.