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' . the sun Wednesday, December 6, i9ie. 44-' J. W.GERARD SAILS; MAYOR TALK HEARD Ani'tnmlm to flerninny for Berlin After Brief Vacation Here. Off TAMMANY MEN FOR II 131 FriniiN Sny He Won't. Quit r( I'nlcss War Ends Be fore Nominations. W i tie Milling yesterday of Ambaa la.lnr .lames W. tlerard on the Bcandl-pjMJii-AmcTlcan liner I'rederlk VII). Ii rc-tnne his lost In Ilr-.lln after n brief mention ,llls country, the report thai h? an h.io the Democratic nomination fot Major noxt ear If ho wantr It wes rtvled ly certnln .Tammany men frlf ill: to the Ainbaniador. j fjerard. In view of his diplomatic will mi,, naturally declined to dlscusj MCi a possibility, hut one of hla closa fril. eM'icsscd the opinion that th- .tn, .an-mlor would not leave his preient nt-t under any circumstances unless the up rtvlf before nominations are made. Ami this In believed to bo a remote pin iib'My Time Is no doubt, however, that Dem km!' traders iwnild be pleased to have .mliit-Mdor tlerard head the Tammany II Jet next year. He would have the (i .port of the Kedernl Administration, i' o pointed out, and he. Is Independent much lu escape the brand of being a Tn.nm.iny man. which would corral! Hit Inilcptdtnl voters, they assert One VI mi to Defeat Mltrhel, Tammany further regards Mr. tierard f-c "lie candidate who could defcit Mivor Mltrhel, If he should run on it fm.on ticket. Cntll the recent election th wigwam chiefs believed they could !n next ye.tr with a "regular." but the h'r Uepubllcan vote In the county c: ansed this viewpoint, and the name tf Satrlff Al tsmitn. senator HODeri r. W'.icner and District Attorney Kdward Snmii are not heard an frequently o l!h m much enthusiasm as they weie before November 7. Should the republicans nominate a traiuht ticket then of course Tammany ,ll feel free In selecting; dne of the -faithful" to make the race. As the sit uation Hands at present, however, a ma Jerliy of the Republican leaders appear to he In favor of fusion with Mayor Mltrhel as the candidate, while the In f -Rent Republicans In Brooklyn are making a lot of noise In favor of a m aunt ticket. Some of the leaders are booming lock Commissioner It. A.- C. Smith for the nomination. Hearst n Possible Contender. Tliere Is ropslderable gossip going the round these days that William R. Hearst has resurrected his political am bition and Is gazing with fond eyes on th Democratic Mayoralty nomination, thnje who profess to know what Is go inc on In the "Inside" do not hesitate to siy that tliould Ambassador Oerard re fuse to leave his present post for the nomination Hearst will be a strong con Under. IV.Itlclans. however, are not Inclined to take the Hearst talk seriously. They re watching the progress of the Fusion Wadeit, rtallslng that the personnel of the Tammany ticket wll! depend entirely tn the decision arrived at by the Mayor ir.J the Republican leaders on the Fu ton question. URGE KIRCHWEY FOB SING SING Prison Association Will Ask Appointment Warden. Ilia The Prison Association of New York '. an executive meeting yesterday unani mously Indorsed George W. Klrchwey for XW position of warden of Sing Sing prison. t is understood that a warden will be ppointcl at Sing Sing within a few days. Wa .lei Charles luttlgan has just re. n.ncd from Auburn nrison. Tliis Is no time for merely standing ul'1. or for Instituting at Sing Sing mere ly a humane administration," says the Pr Ananciatlon In Its action. A let tr" I om the Prison Association will be win lo-d.iy to Superintendent Carter urg lug 'he appointment of Dr. Klrchwey. The Clevelander Through Ovr-Nif ht Pullman Train To Cleveland Via S.Lm Leaves Pennsylvania Station, New York, 6.40 P. M., Newark 7.02 P. M., arrives Cleveland, Euclid Avenue, 7.17, Union Station 7.30 next morning. Pullman Parlor Smoking, Compartment, Drawing-room Sleeping Cars. Restau rant Car Service. Drawing-room Sleeping Cars to Akron, Youngstown and Niles. Companion train Buckeye Limited leaves Cleveland, Union Station, 5.15 P. M., Euclid Avenue 5.25 P. M., arrives Newark 7.45 A. M., New York 8.15 A. M. Tht St' Cmr Rut GIRL JILTS ARE FALSE SAYS PROF. C. C. SHAW Don't Believe That "I Can't Be Your Wife; I'll Be Your Friend' Talk. "When n girl sas, 'I cannot be jour wife, but I'll be your friend,' she tries to spetik the Irulli but utters a ps etio logical falsehood." derlared Prof. Charles tlrny haw, head of tho phil osophy department of the New York University, yesterday In a lecturo at the Institution, Prof, Hhaw argued that no woman could b a friend to men or to women because a friend requires h clear cut personality t.nd a disinterested outlook on life. Roth of these, he asserted, women tack. He also declared that friendships between men were passing from the earth. "Woman cannot be a friend because she Is never an Individual, for to be an individual one must stand alone," he ild. "Only those who Wand alone can come together." Prof. Hhaw said that woman was like a planet, well adapted to revolve about some centre "but not organized In such a way as to stand alone." "Unfortunately, masculine friendships are Just passing from the earth and In the course of time friends will be found only In museums, nlong with other ab original products. This melancholy sit uation Is due to the fact that modern life tends to destroy personality and a philosophic view of tho world. Man Is bound to man not by ties of friend ship, but by bonds of professionalism which are usually of a commerclil character." 15 BAY STATE CITIES VOTE ON DRY ISSUE Haverhill and Fall River Both Return Majorities for No License. Bostov. Dec. S. No license forces gal mil four new successes In the elec tions held In fifteen Ma!.achuets cities to-day. Fall Illver. Haverhill. Leo minster and Taunton shifted from the wet to tho dry column. Tho license advocates were not successful In effect ing any changes. Brockton, Salem, Cambridge and Waltham remaining no licenses. Haverhill shifted to the "dry" column after seven years of license, and Mayor Albert I Bartlett was defeated. The no license advocates changed the margin of 732 In favor of license last year Into a majority against license of 96 votes. Fall River returned a majority of 1,459 votes for no license. Mayor James H. Kay. Republican, was reelected by a plurality of 3,547 over his Democratic opponent. The vote on the liquor license question was: Yes. 6,900; no, 8,359. Last year the vote was: les, ., ; no, .... New uedrord reelected cnaries o. isu- ley as Mayor and voted for license, the mnlorltv nf 3.239 last year being cut, however, to 496. The license vote: Yes, J 7,105:. no, 6,609. Last year: es, 7.7.6; no, 4,53". Leominster went back into tne no license column by a margin of 334 votes. The dry forces recaptured tho city by a vote or 1,648 to 1.31&. Holyoke voted license by the reduced majority of 498. The license vote stood : Yes, 4.381 J no, 3,883. The vote In 1915 was: Yes, 4,377 ; no, 3.721. Springfield gave a reduced majority for license, the vote being 6.49S In favor and 5,756 opposed. In n warm contest for the repeal of the present city charter and the substitution of the "Federal" charter plan, the voters decided strongly to retain the present charter. Taunton went Into tho dry column after sixteen 'years of the licensed sale of liquor. The margin of victory for the no license forces was 178. ns com pared with the license victory of last year of Z 8. St. Alphonsas Alnronl to Sleet. The next regular meeting of the Alumni Association of St. Alphonsus's School of Brooklyn, wlll.be held in tho Redemptorlst Auditorium, Fifty-ninth street and Sixth avenue, Brooklyn, on Tuesday evening, December 12, at S o'clock. Otto traiM to Cleveland Tb Peantylvanit UmtUi at 11.04 A. M.i The PitUburgber 1.00 P. M.S Cleveland, Cincinnati and Chicago Expreaa at iM P. M.; Padlo Expraat 9J0O P. M.; Exprea 1.00 A. M. 'PhoM "Madim Squirt 7000." Pennsylvania Railroad , The Standard Railroad of the World TWICE ESCAPE PERIL IN WAR ZONE SEAS Gloucester Fishermen Who Sailed Small Schooner to Norway. Back. HAD A THRILLING TRIP First Seized by British War ship, Then Stopped by Ger man U-Boat. A happy Frenchman, Lon Chlasson Gloucester fisherman several years but not an American citizen, arrived yester day In the steerage of the Norwgelan America liner Uergenifjord with three other hardy men of Gloucester, who are natives of America, and was taken from the vessel to Kills Island. He was re leased several hours later and told why he was gleeful. Chlasson was one of a small crew under Cant. John Ronla that sailed the little schooner Kthel Mildred out of Brooklyn on September 27 through stormy seas to the port of Aarkrahaven. Norway, to her purchasers there. Kvery man got a bonus and passage home, and he deserved It said. the French fisherman Being bound from a neutral port to n neutral port Capt. Bonla did not give much thought to the probability of being held up by German submarines. Ills only cargo, taken partly as ballast, was thirty-five tons of coal, which brought a tall nricc at the end of the trip. His confidence In the protection of his flag got a Jolt when the schooner was about 400 miles west or Htornoway, ncouanu. when a British auxiliary cruiser stopped him and ordered him Into Stornoway for examination. Two British officers were put aboard to sec that he went as directed. Two days later a German submarine bobbed up out of the sea and the skip per had another Jolt, but not nearly so bad as that which paralysed the Brit ish officers. They dodged below deck and pleaded for a place to hide In. The skipper said the hold, which was full of coal, was about the only spot aboard that might furnish security, but he doubted It. Leon Chlasson was more troubled than the officers, for he knew that the Germans would take him oft to prison as an able bodied French sailor. Other members of the ship's company won dered If the Germans would regard them as part of the crew of a British vessel masquerading under the Ameri can flag and send her to the bottom after shooting all hands. The German commander of the submarine U-56 said he would board the Ethel Mildred. Just then a Swedish steamship from Iceland for a Swedish port with a cargo of fish hove In sight, and the U-boat ut terly forgot the American fisherman and headed for the Swede. The Ethel Mildred, urged by the fear ful Britons, went on. Later at Storno way. the Frenrhmun learned that the U-boat crew was hungry and had taken a ion or nsn rrom the Swedish steam ship and allowed her to go on. She also was Intercepted by a British cruiser and escorted into Stornoway. LIFE SENTENCE FOR SWINDLES. Jnde to Impose Fall Sentence on Fourth Offender. Convicted by a Jury before County Judge Dike In Brooklyn last night of oh talnlng money under false pretences, Charles Ackron will be sentenced Monday to life Imprisonment as n fourth of fender. When the verdict was an nounced, Ackron shouted that he was "no swindler" and collapsed. Witnesses testified that Ackron Induced them to buy phonographs for 160, which he assured them were worth 1200. The Instruments generally broke down the following day. An expert from a well known phonograph concern showed the Jury the difference between Ackron's brand of phonograph and the real variety John Clos, for forty years on the de tective force of Jersey City, told how he had arrested Ackron In Chicago thirty- six years ago for conspiracy. James L. Vallely, retired member of the New York police force, related hla arrests of the convicted man In 1895 and 1910. MRS.BEUTINGERIN COLLAPSE AT TRIAL In Sobs She Tells of Cruelties That Led to Killing of Husband. CASE TO THE JURY TO-DAY Court Admits Evidence of In fluences That Brought About a Reunion. "Marry me this Christmas week, Mar garet, and we'll have a tree for the kids. Uo It for the sake of the children, i promise not to drink again or abuse you. I'm a reformed man, Margaret." With pleas such as these, Chrlstof duced from $1.1 a ton to between 17 and Beuttnger's widow testified yesterday all g R ton. her trla,t In Newark for his murder, did The arrangement with the coal deal he Induce her, at holiday time last year, j Crs Is the result of an Investigation of to forget the ten years of abuso which ' the price of coal by dealers In the eon had forced her to divorce him, and wed gested sections of the city by Ionard ., , 4,uv,i ,.), -i ,.!. M. Wallsteln, Commissioner of Accounts, him again. In a Fobbing rush of words iv.iiiim mA . ih. in. she described how he had followed her to the houso where slie had taken refuge In VnnO. r. n .t Y- ar - - .1 li r tn brlnr the cn,rtr, Kn spend Christmas with him. At last we did,' she said, "at a House IIC limi 111 illUUIII .CIIIUI). uuh H" married couple, friends of mine, to be there, for I didn't think It would be right .. ..... I t . . 1. .1 I .. ......... ............ . . i , T trrt n to go unprotected As the little ones played with their presents he renewed his urging, and got the Mother Superior of the St. Clare school at Mount Hope. Westchester. where- Mrs. Hcutlnger had placed the children, to support him In the conten- tlon that. In her helpless condition. It was better for her to ac:ept his prom ises and be his wife again. Influences of Reanlnn. This evidence was Introduced to con trovert the State's stand that, since she had remarried him, Mrs. IJeutlnger could not have suffered so terribly at her hus band's hands. Robert II. McCarter, her attorney, won a point In getting this and other testimony along the same" line be fore the Jury. Prosecutor Newman fought him tooth and nail until Judge Martin made It clear. In what was al most a charge, even If It wasn't directed at the Jury, that he was going to glvj the defence every chance to show the In fluences brought to bear to make her go back to her husband. The first struggle was over Mrs. Heutlnger's story of how the Mother Ku- Verlor advised her to "do her duty" and marry Chrlstof Hcutlnger again. Tne second came over the introduction or a postcard from lleutlnger to his wife's mother. Just before the divorce, saying that "Margaret should not have a penny from him for the children unless she lived with him." The third was over two letters written by the parents of lleutlnger from their home In Swltxer- land. Parents' Letters Are Pathetic. Curiously pathetic are these letters the translations of which they were written In German were allowed by the Judge to stand In the evidence. In solemn, old fashioned phrases the old people tell their wayward son how he Is breaking their hearts with his sinful life and his cruelty to tils wire ana cnuaren. I da not like to go among people lest they ask about you. My heart aches for those poor children; how could you leave them to lead your own wild life?" writes the mother. These letters, with his proml'e to re form, were nlaced In Mrs. Heutlnger hands by her husband as part of his camnalen to win her bark. The little prisoner spent nearly inn whole day on the stand. The State rented at 10:15. Walter 3. Ilrandley counsel for the defence, opened for that side, and then Mrs. Heutlnger tooK tne chair and, for the second time In two months, told the lone tale of cruelty and sordid suffering, the story of the ten years during which, the girl Just out of a convent was araggea miner uhu jon about the world. Collapses In Arms of Cnard She was less composed than when she told the story the first time, and at the end of the morning session sue xaiiiy cnllHii.sed In the arms of tne court giiaru Miss Mary Kelly, anil was carrieu m' the stairs to her room. In the afternoon Mrs. lleutlnger io;o of tho abuse that followed the becond mrirrlazo and how she shot her husband the morning of July it last. .nr. aic- r-urter hrourht out the fact that n Heutlnger fell his head struck tne nacK nf the chair by the bed. Tins cvmenuy was meant to meet tho attempt or tne State to prove, by tho blood on tho chair, that the man was shot sitting neaceably In It. Mr. Mccarter aiso pam uuo iiceu m the criticism that "Mrs. Heutlnger might have locked the door against her hus- tiand." Questioned by the lawyer, sito said thtt she was "arram to iock me door," that she had learned that locks were no bar to nis great strcngin anu would only infuriate him. A' Dramatic Entrance. Fate of tho lawyers played an effec tive card for the defence In brlngliK Caslmer Napoleon Ouertln. one of the witnesses, to the courtroom ni tno psy chological moment. Mrs. Hcutlnger hart Just finished telling how, at i ball In Man a. her husmuut nrnggeu uer irom the hall by her neck becatife he, was angered nt finding her dancing with i man who hart prcrerreii marges iigain-i him for misconduct in nis oiiiro in Quartermaster, and how ns he dragged her along thrnugn tno crown 01 uanrcr they met a secret wervlce man her bus. band knew, At that Instant Mr. Ouertln came In and sat down near the witness stand. "Is this the man?" asited .Mr. .Mc Carter. Mrs. Heutlnger hair rose irom ner seat, then fell back. "It Is." she nn- nwered. "though I naven i seen mm since that night, eight years ngo." Later, on the stiinii, tne secret service man affirmed the wife's story of Heut Inger's assault on her at the dance. The case pronaniy.wiii no in ine nan'i of the 'Jury this afternoon. The live children sat through the long hours nf the .evidence yesterday, nut tne moiner In her w tnesH clinir apparenny count not trust herself to look at them. LINER BEROENSFJ0RD HERE. Passenaer Tells of nix Kiplnaloo In . Harbor of Archangel, 1 According to a passenger by the Nor wegian-America steutnshlp Hergensfjord. In yesterday from llergen by way of Kirkwall, a big explosion In the harbor of Archangel early In November de. stroyed several munition laden vessels. It was saia tnai spies wnrsiug among the crews nf some of the destroyed ships were responsible for their destruction. Among tne nergensijoro. s passengers were Col. Andre Knlpasohnlkoff. head of the First Siberian flying column nf tho Husslan Sanitary t orps. nero to my automobiles ; Klena tlerhardt. clrriuan soprano, who has been singing before the Herman l-.mpress in iieriin nun mo Herman soldiers on the Western front and who will go on concert tour here, Henry I'ettlt nt Brooklyn, who brlnKH 1,000,000 pounds nt beet sugar seed needed by farmers In the West. SMALL CONSUMERS TO GET COAL CHEAP Twenty - five Firms Agree to Sell 100 rtntnd Lots or Less at $7 to $8 a Ton. MAYOR'S PLAN SUCCEEDS Commissioner Wnllstcin He ports on Bucket, Bag and Scuttle Buying. Mayor Mltchel announced last night that through the cooperation of twenty five large dealers In New York city the price of coal for those who purchase, by the bucket, bag or scuttle haa bfen re- sttgatlon of the Mayor and was com pleted yesterday. Commissioner Wallsteln reported last night that he has had agents visit the rongested districts where coal Is sold by tne Ducket, bag or scuttle and dlscov- .... .l . , j . "f'ML0" ,,ifrn",.n ti, " tSn T." '"i10 ,,S " wnlln ItienA nr im nr. Inic were re- While these prices are lower than those which prevailed before November IS." said the Commissioner In his report, "it seems to me they are still too high and without Justification In view of the current prices at which the small dealer can secure his supply. Dealers Agree n I.otrer I'rlee. "Accordingly I have taken up with mot of the larger dealers In the city the question of what" they ran and will do now to nsslst in reducing the present price to small consumers. As u result 1 am able to report that twenty-five deal ers have agreed to supply nut coal In mall quantities to consumers at a ton rate of 17 to 18, or 18 to 20 cents per n pounds, 35 to 40 cents per 100 pounds, :r, to :s cents per bushel meas ure of 70 pounds, or 1J to 14 cents per half bushel of 33 pounds." In order to secure the coal at these rates the consumer must supply his own eceptacle and call at the various yard' for his supply; Dealers will not be sup- illed nt these prices and a c ose watch 1 will be kept to see that only consumers derive the benefit of tho reduction. Trrentr-nvr Firm on Mat. The names and locations of the tweu-lwltt ty-five dealers who have agreed to re- duce the price to the small consumers on a basis of 100 pounds are as follows:' Thomas Stokes & Sons. 636 West Th r- tlcth street. 35 cents. , llaaren-Dartt Coal Company. Inc.. 5.-,2 Wet Twenty-fourth street. 35 and 40 cents. I Thedford-Ellz Coal Comnanv. 615 West Fifty-seventh street. 40 cenm. He- livery places at Fifty-seventh street and. .North Hlver, Sixty-fourth street anil West Knd avenue. Ulchtv-nrth street and Broadway. Ninety-sixth street and West Knd avenue and Ninety-seventh street ana rsorlri Illver. O. H. Perry & Son. Nineteenth street and East River, 40 cents. Scranton and Wyoming Coal Com pany. Inc.. Thirtieth street and East Hlver, 40 cents. , Hubert Gordon A- Son. Inc.. Thlrtv. seventh street and East Illver, 40 rents. I'euvery place at 134th street and North River. S. Trimmer Son. Inc.. 135tlt street and Harlem River. 40 cents. Meycr-Dencker-Sinram Comnanv. 9tn ' Fifth strrct. 40 cents. Delivery places at Hfth street and East River and 109lh street and Eait River. Webcr-Hurke-I.ange Coal Company. West Ninety-sixth street and North Illver. 40 cent". Cnrdlnir & Salzman, 135th street and Harlem River, 40 cents. John H. Conabeer. 137th street and Madison avenue, 411 cents. Delivery places at 2397 Eighth nvenue and 137th street nnd Madison avenue. A. J. Forman Coal Company. Inc., 1753 Avenue A. 40 cents. Thomas Ward Coal Company, Seventy ninth street nnd North Hlver, 40 rents. Delivery place nt 217 West Eighty second street. Owen & Co., Forty-ninth street and East River. 40 cents. Jeremiah Skldmore's Sons, 9 East Broadway Today, an Exhibition and Sale of $30,000 Worth Men's Shirts Offered at prices which are absolutely the lowest in New York City for shirts of the very highest order. OEPRESENTED in this imposing Christmas exhibition and sale are shirts developed in the choicest silks and cotton fabrics from the leading mills of America, Japan, England, Scotland and France, in a far greater variety of weaves than has ever before been presented. Cotton Shirts $1.20 $1.50 $2 $2.50 $3 and $3.50 Silk Shirts $3.95 $4.95 $5.95 $7.50 $8.50 Stiff-cuff, pleated-front models and negligee shirts, with stiff or soft cuffs, are equally represented at each price. Also An Exhibition and Sale of Men's Fine Silk Cravats at 39c 59c 69c $1 $1.35 Scarfa from at least twenty leading European and American neckwear manufacturers, in a wonderful variety of weaves and exquisite color com binations. The most important event of its kind ever planned. Forty-fourth street. 40 canta. Dallrary place at Thirty-fifth, street and First avenue. It. Henderson Co., 179 Seventh ave nue, 40 rents. O. W. Thcdford Coal Company, Fifty fourth street and North Hlver. .in and 40 cents. Delivery place at 430-436 YUst Forty-first street. U. Flshmann, 145-7 Cloerck street. 40 rents. Delivery places at 14G-7 Ooerck street and 101 Hroomo street V. O. Kemn. 700-2-4 urcenwicn street and 348 Hudson streot, 40 cents. Deliv ery places at 790 Ureenwlcn street ann 348 Hudson street. llradley-Mahoney Co., Inc., 216th street and Harlem Illver, 40 cents. M. U Mini Company, ltlder avenue and Kast 138th street. 40 cents. Hunko ft Meyer, 448 Hast 110th street, IA rntft John Dobbins, Madison avenue and' Hast 135th street, 3S cents. Henry Hencken. 639 Wcat Twenty eighth street. 40 cents. Small & Costello, Fifty-first street and North Hlver, 40 cents. lllalsdell Tellaof Snneese. Walter Hlalsdell. formerly head of the Curtis Hlalsdell Coal Company, spent a long time with Assistant District Attor ney Markewlch yesterday. Mr. MarKe wlch Is In charge of the District Attor ney's Investigation Into allegations that certain coal dealers combined Illegally to ralso the price of coal. According to Mr. Markewlch. Mr. Hlalsdell was doing a business two years ago of 1.500,000 tons of coal. Com petition was so strong that he nnay sold out to Hums uros. ior ovi.v. This price was pld for all his equip ment, Including his twelvo yards, 350 i.nr... i-.n iniMta 14 steam shovels, 14 mil h'arren. 8 auto trucks. &c. In the list of assetn sold for this price men tioned by Mr. Markewlch nothing was k.-iI.i shout the value nf good will. Two coal dealers who say they were ruined by price cuttlnr of rivals, backed by big concerns, gave to newspaper men yesterday an outllno of the stories they will tell Mr. Markewlch or tho Grand .It I Fi nn, nt ih.m mid that hla rival put the price of coal 50 cents lower than he ,.i.i ,....iMv u it. Customers began to fall off. and finally an agent of the rival visited him and suggested a r.m of his business. The value of the equip ment was ugrced upon, anci men the question of good will. The rival refuse,! to pay anything for that, but the sale was consummated, and Immedi ately the rival put up the price of coal, so that tho purchsscrs had to pay for the price cutting war. The other dealer, by much the same methods, was forced to sell out for $20,000. 160 NAVY YARD WORKERS QUIT. Officials Fesr Absence Will Delay Battleship Construction. After a conference yesterday morn ing In the navy yard 110 riveters and fifty caulkers and chlppers decided to 1 qull work f0r the day. Whether they be on tho Job this morning Is a f worry to tno yaTti officials, " 1 ... .. . - . a their absence '" ,nc ronirui;n.. Mexico. wa" "Piaincii at tno jam umi u ; Department lues tno scam m wages for mechanics at tin beginning of each year, ir tnero is an increase In the pay hy outside concerns or men In he trades of thoso employed ny tne uovernment an equuaim- aujuauucui made to conform with the salaries of the former. I "We are always leery of these me- I chanlcs," said an officer yesterday. "Re cently there has been, an increase In wages of mechanics of the trades of I the men who took a holiday to-day. If ' they had considered before they quit . they would have realized that their re I quests would have been granted shortly. 1 As It Is, they will be." DANCE TO AID BELGIANS. Affair at Illltmnre December : Has .Sanction of King;. An entertainment, dance and supper will be given December 20 at the Hilt more by the American Aid for Homeless Helglan Children. The affair has the sanction of Albert. King of the Helglan;, nnd Is under the auspices of Cardinal Gibbons of Haiti more, Emmanuel Haventth, Helglan Mln Ister to the United States, nnd other Hel glan officials. Mrs. Victor Horta, organizer of the work In the United States nnd head of the committee arranging the dance, said hundreds of thouaanclH of Helglan or phans have only America to depend upo'i for help. Tickets may be obtained from Mrs. Horta at the Illltmore. CARRANZA TROOPS POLICE CHIHUAHUA Villa's Administration a Bclgn of TciTor ; Killed Eight Cit izens, tO Chinese. Chihuahua Citt, Mexico, Dec. 8. This city to-day Is being policed by troops of the de facto Government. Houses are being searched for looted goods. Vllla'a administration here was a reign of terror. Municipal rresiaeni Holguln and eight prominent cltliens were executed. About forty Chlnameu were slain. Constitutionalist cavalry is In pur suit of Villa's bandits, whose exact whereabouts Is unknown. Klght Americans, called "white Chinamen," by Villa, were hiding In the city, and escaped harm. Gen. Trevlno narrowly escaped death at Hprrasltas, when a bullet passed through' his hat. Gen. Murgula Is In command here. Mend Word of Safety. V.u Vaso, Texas,, Dec S, Foreigners who were In Chihuahua city at the time Villa entered were telegraphing relatives hero to-day of their safety. Charted lilmendorf, the American re ported killed, Is safe, according to a message received from him here to-day. ills daughter. Mrs. M. I". Ujrncs. re ported captured by Villa, Is In Arizona ana was not taken by the band t. It was reported hero to-day that It waa the daughter of Jose Hovio, an Italian, whom Villa carried away. Mortlz Huettcr, a foreigner who was In Chihuahua city at the time of the at tack, telegraphed friends he waa safe and that the foreign wholesale store of which he Is msnaer was undamaged, Messages from Chihuahua city to-day nnnounco the killing of Umellano Kn- rlquez, uncle of former Oov. Ignaclo L-n- rlquez. In response to a message by the State Department In behalf of the German Kmbassy at Washington Gen. Trevlno pun an answer from Chihuahua city to night saying that Carlos Ketclsen, the German Vice-Consul there, and other German residents, over whom apprehen slon has been felt, were safe and well In Chihuahua. l'rlvate messages from Chihuahua have been received here establishing that Chinese were the only foreigners mur dered by the Villa bandits during their occupation of the city. FILIBUSTER EXPOSED. Case of Cartridges, Shipped In DIs- Knlar, Ilreaks on Vera Cms Wharf. Mexico Citv. Deo. D. Ono million cartridges for the Mexican Government, said to have been shipped from New York by way of Vera Cruz, reached hero to-day. According to Information from Vera Cruz the cartridges were shipped In disguised packages, and tho brvaklng of a sling, which scattered the cartridges over tho wharf, exposed thf shipment. It waa furuier reportexl that the American Consul at Vera Cruz, W, W. Canada, Instituted an Investigation nf tho matter, ami the unloading nf the steamer was delayed temporarily. This was alluded to by lien. Agullar, the For eign Minister, In n speech to the dele gates at the Constitutional Congress, In secret session, as "an embarra!slnE In cident at n crltlclal period." GERMAN CONSUL KIDNAPPED. Taken by Vllltstas, I.anslngt Be llevra llerlln May Ask nedress. Washington, Dec. .. Secretary Lan sing has notified Count von Hernstorfr. the German Ambassador, of a report re ceived concerning the kidnapping nf Arnold Vogel. tho honorary German Consul nt Collma, Mexico. Tho State Depattment expresses a willingness to do what It can to obtain further facts. Efforts will bo made to prevent com plications between Germany and the I'nlted States resulting from the activi ties of Vllllstas. The teport received by Mr. Lansing, which Is regarded as reliable. Indicates that Vogel has been carried oft by Vlllls tas or bandits for the purpose of obtain ing a ransom. Vogel Is understood to be comparatively wealthy. Count von Hernstorff probably will communicate at once with his Govern mcnt and nwalt directions from the Foreign Ofllce. Germany 1s always ready to Insist to the limit upon protection of Its nationals In nil parts of the world and it is anticipated here that Herllu will look to the I'nlted States to obtain redress for the Indignity offered to the German Consul. at 34th Street Country Wide Christmas Cheer etn be best promoted by scndlt a . few drntrn hottletofTod old . Carried by your fvo-to dealer BRITISH TO REFUSE COAL TO U.S. SHIPS They Won't Gunrnntcc Fuel Unless "Allied Interests Arc Benefited." Washington, Dec. 5. Curtailment of coaling privileges nt Hrltish ports If' threatening far reaching effects on American shipping, und whllo repre sentations have been made b Great Hrltaln by the Stato Department It li realized here that It may bo difficult to ecuro any alleviation of the constantly tightening restrictions lmpocd by the British authorities. Olllclnls point out that the right to coal nt foreign ports Is based almost entirely on International comity and that treaty p'.cdqes In tho present Instance arc not of n nature to make the case entirely clear. Great Britain's Inability to Guarantee .bunker coal to any vessel not utilizing It "In such a way that Hrltish or allien in terests are benefited" waH announced to day In a statement by tne Hrltish Em bassy In' the form of a memorandum drawn up In London. The announcement Is the first public expression, otllclals say, of a policy which has In fact been In operation for some time and which has brought forth pro tests by this country In several cases. Many American ships have been refused coal, It Is declared, and consequently held up for from threo days to a week, with a tesultlng heavy loss to their owners. The general effect of thta policy, offi cials believe, will bo seriously to embar rasH nil Independent American trade with non-allied countries. It Is declared that trado between this countiy nnd tho Philippine", for Instance, can 1 con ducted only under the greatest dinirul- tle, as Great Hrltaln owtm most nt ma coaling statlona along the way. Trade to South America 1 cxpcctcn to no crl wiled aim because most of the coal ing facilities In harbors there arc owned by the Hrltish. The German suhmanne rimpaigtw are believed here to be largely nponlble for the new ruling, their Inroads on world shlppins Inftucncln-; the Allies to conserve their vessels anil lucl. Not only Is there n j-tiortage of ship for tha carrying trade, it is said, but a dealre to hold ns few vessels an possible In carrying coal to various stations about the world. OniclalH expect Great Hrltaln to de fend the new restriction n she de fended the bincktlM. on the ground that It Is purely internal legislation. Whit the cases of Individual ships have been taken up with the Hrltlfli Foreign Office, tho jleflnlte. statement of policy con tained In to-day's embassy announce ment had not been officially prennte-J to the Stnto Department and In conse quence there Iinx been no decision on the question of malting Kener.il protest. 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