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VOLUME 68.
M'MUEIl
RICHMOND, VA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1915.?TWELVE PAGES
pa?bto KK? CLOUDY
PRICE, 2 CENTS
ALDERMEN CALL ON
GOODE TO RESIGN
Adopt Substitute Resolution Rep
rimanding Cliff Weil for
Indiscreet Conduct.
MODIFY BLANKET INDICTMENT
Alderman Puller Disclaims Re
sponsibility for Interview in
Afternoon Newspaper.
Holding that the nnfltr.gr of the police
Investigating committee that Police
Commissioner Cliff Well had been
guilty of Indiscreet conduct (loop not
warrant the Council In asking for his
resignation, the Board of Aldeimen
last night adopted an amended resolu
tion censuring and reprimanding him
for hiB ln?lisoreot conduct. The reso
lution was passed by ?i vote of S to 4,
A companion resolution, reported by
the committee, charged Police Com
missioner R. N. (loode with malfeas
ance and misfeasance in oflioe, and
recommended that the Council ask for
his resignation. This resolution was
approved hv a viva voce vote. The
call for the nays brought out a single
dissenting volc<\ whose ownership
could not he determined.
SrnSTITI TK ItKSOI.l TIO\
IIKTRIMAMIS WEIIj
As reported by the committee, the
resolution bearing on the case of Com
missioner Well recommended his resig
nation. Alderman Workman offered
as a substitute a resolution which, af
ter repeating the preamble of the ord
inal paper, concluded as follows:
"Whereas, while the report of the
said committee show? indiscretion on
the part of Police Commissioner Cliff
Well, it falls to charge any malfeas
ance or misfeasance in olflce on his
part;
"Now, therefore, be it resolved by the
Council of tho city of Richmond, tho
Common Council concurring ?
"That the Council of the city of
Richmond deems the action of Police
Commissioner Cliff Weil indiscreet and
prejudicial to the host Interest of the
Police Department, but does not eon
wider it sufTlcient cause to call for his
resignation.
"Be it resolved further, That the said
Police Commissioner C"!iff Well he, and
he hereby is. censured and reprimanded
for such indiscreet conduct."
(iHIM)l IMIOHSKS
WOKKMAN RKSOI.TTIOX
Mr. Workman, in offering tho sub
stitute, . xpresscd the belief that the
investigating committee had made a
grave mistake in failing to mitigate
the punishment in the case of Mr. Weil
After consulting the City Attorney
about the possible effect of the adop
tion of the original resolution, he said,
he was convinced that the Council
would commit a blunder If. in tho ab
sence of a charge of malfeasance or
misfeasance, it called for Mr. Well's
resigna t ion.
Chairman Harton II. Grundy, of the
polt'-o investigating committee, fruvc
his heart> Indorsement to the amended
resolution offered by Alderman Work
man. He was entirely in sympathy, he.
said, with letting Commissioner Weil
off with a reprimand.
Alderman Melton opposed the amend
ed resolution, and declared his inten
tion of standing by the committee's
recommendation. Mr. Melton was. like
Mr. Grundy, a member of the commit
tee. Alderman Mitchell made a heated
speech against the adoption of the
Workman amendment. To do so, he
said, would he to nullify the work of
the committee, which reviewed evi
dence at first linnd and spent long
evenings in weighing the testimony.
He urged the hodv to stand by the
committee report and vote down any
amendment.
FUROl'SSON VOTED
IXDEH MISAPPHEnE\SIO\
Alderman Puller produced a letter
from Councilman Fergusson. a member
of the committee who signed the re
port, stating that he voted to ask for
Mr. Well's resignation under a mis
apprehension. and that he was con
vinced the punishment recommended
for Commissioner Weil was too severe.
Alderman Workman and Councilman
English, both members of the commit
tee. had refused to sign the report.
Chairman Grundy had signed the ro
pprt, hut had voted against the Weil
resolution. It was clear. Alderman
Puller pointed out. that four of the
seven members of the committee, or a
majority, were opposed to calling foi
Mr. Weil's resignation?a circumstance
which should be considered by the
Hoard.
Alderman Christian spoke briefly in
favor of adopting the committee recom
mendation. It was strange, ho thought,
that the discovery that the Weil reso
lution did not represent the will of a
majority of the committee should be
discovered at the eleventh hour, after
11 contrary report had been reported
which bore the signature of five mem
bers of the committee.
VOTE ON RESOLUTION*
CE.\}(ltRIXr. WEIL
The amended resolution was placed
on its passage, and was carried by a
vote of 8 to 4. The members voted as
follows:
Ayes ? Aldermen Oilman, Grundy,
Cunst. Nelson, Powers, Puller, llork
man and Adams?8.
Noes?Aldermen Christian, Melton,
Mitchell and Paul?4.
The committee's recommendation that
the Council ask for the resignation < f
Commissioner Goode was rend and
idopted without debate. No recorded
rote was taken.
Tho Roard referred to the Roard of
Police Commissioners the recommenda
tions of the committee that the force
bo increased in number to make possi
ble the introduction of the throe
platoon system; that the Police Roard
promulgate a rule providing for the
dismissal of officers convicted tne
jec.ond time on the charge of drunken
ness, apd that a rule be adopted for
bidding police, officers or detect hres
(Continued' on Fourth rage.).
President Rescues
Luckless Autoists
Extends Timely Aid to Party
Whose Car Capsized on
Embankment.
[Special to The Times-D'npatch.]
WINDSOR. August 9.?President Wil
son to-day added to his laurels as a
rescuer of luckless automobilists by
extending timely aid to a party of
motorists whose car had capsized on
an embankment of a mountain road
near Windsor. None of the party,)
which included <_*. ('. .Ittdd, Miss ti. A.
Swasey and Mrs. Emma Hathaway, o'
Norwich. Vt., was badly hurt, but the
President ordered, his Secret Service
m?*n to rush them to the neare.-'t hotel,
and he was greatly relieved to flTd
that thev had escaped serious injury.
The President espied the overturned
car as he iras finishing a brief after
noon ride in AscutnevviUe Road Both
he and Dr. Grayson climbed down the
i embankment, and found that one of
the party had been pinned under the
' machine, and that the women were
sufferinc from nervous shock.
None of them realized the Identity of
1 their rescuer. After sending the women
I to Windsor, th?- President directed his
! car to a carauo, where he personally
ordered a wrecking ear to ko to the
rescue of the machine. This is the third
time President Wilson has been of ser
vice to Mranded motorists on his pres
j ent vacation.
j The President worked In his study
to-nlcht upr.n a sheaf of reports from
the State Department. He is casting
aside all routine and concentratlni: his
i mind on the larger problems before
lilin.
Although he has received detailed
reports upon such matters as the Fed
eral Inquiry into the Eastland disaster,
he is postponing all action upon them
until his return to Washington
GERMANS AGAIN ACCUSED
Itelglnn* t'hnrice Violation* of Interna
tional I.orr.
PARIS. August !<.?A report of 'he
Belgian committee investigating viola
tions of International law issued to
day hv the Belgian location here alleges
'violations by the Germans of article
52 of the fourth Hague convention.
Examples cited cover alleged German
'attempts by offorlnn high wages and
finally by force to compel Belgian clvil
; lans to work in arsenals on railways
used for military purposes and in wire
factories. The report gives details of
alleced violations at Duttre. Mallnes
and Swevedhcm. It quotes the text of
'an order declared to have be'en signed
by Lieutenant-General Count von West
arf. the German commander at Ghent,
dated June 30. as follows:
"The attitude of certain factories
which, under the pretext of patriotism,
j relying on The Hawtie convention, re
fuse to worlt for the German army
proves that among tho population there
is nn inelir.ation to raise difficulties for
the ndmlnlstratlon of the German army.
! In this eotinection I inform you that I
will suppress such maneuvers by all
means in my power."
HEIR TO $1,000,000 ESTATE
Michael Whrliin, llnliokrn Tninnt Of
flcrr, nfonniM Suddenly WMlthy.
{Special to The Times-Dispatch. ]
HOBOKKN', N J. .Vncust r?.?Michael
Whelan, a truaat officer, who has I.eon
living at the American Hotel, on River
Street, in unpretentious style, will
probably change his quarters in the
near future. He has just received in
formation from Australia that a for
tune of not less than $1,000,000 awaits
him. Whelan had a brother, Patrick,
in Kalgoorlie, Australia, engaged In
the hrewory business, and owner of
considerable real estate.
A week ago Mlcha-el received a
cablegram from a firm of lawyers
located in the town where his brother
resided, stating that he had died and
made hint sole heir and executor of his
estate. This Included two large brew
eries and numerous parcels of real
estate. Whelan is on a vacation. He
is about thirty-five years of ago.
PRINTERS PRAISE WILSON
Itrwulutlonn Adopted nt Annual Con
vention of 1. T. V.
LOS ANGELES, CAL, August 9.?
Resolutions praising President Wil
son's course In handling foreign com
plications were adopted to-day at the
annual convention of the. International
Typographical Union.
W. A. Snyder, vice-president of the
general committee on arrangements,
said the gross earnings of the mem
bers of the union during the year end
ing May .11, 1015. were $61,155,295, an
' increase of 5104,493 over the previous
year.
KAISER'S PIANIST ARRESTED
i
Mnrln Jnnotn, Wrll-Knowu Artint, De
ported From Tilbury.
LONDON', August 9.?Maria Cecilia
Natalie Janota, court pianist, to Em
peror William, was arrested in London
to-day and deported from Tilbury.
Maria Janota holds membership in
many academies of art in Italy, Great
Britain and Germany. She edited Lady
Tennyson's songs and translated Cho
pin's works.
INCREASE IN MEAT PRICES
Supply in liondon Market Full* From
to "0,702 Ton*.
LONDON, August 9.?Great increases
in the meat prices are disclosed in the
report of Lhe superintendent of the
London Central Market, Issued to
night. It shows the supply of meats
of all kinds ifor July, 191R, at the mar
ket totaled 29,702 tons, as compared
?with 3R.833 tona in July, 3 914. Tho
price of fresh beof incroased 43 per
cent, while that of frozen beef in
creased 74 per cent. Fresh mutton In
creased 13 per cont and frozen mutton
50 per cont.
: DELAY IN STARTING
| CHICHESTER TRIAL
Chairman Oliver, of Legislative
Committee, Fails to Reach
Fredericksburg.
EXPECTED TO BEGIN TO-DAY
Presence of Well-Known Public
Men Shows Wide Political
Significance of Inquiry.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)
FREDERICKSBURG. VA , August 9.
?Somowh?M between Fairfax and
Fredericksbtirs:, Walter T.'ins:il Oliver,
in his motor car. is struggling with
obstacles that prevented him from
reaching here to-day in time to pro
Hid" at the inaugural session of the
committee c>f the House of Delegates
1 investigating the charges of corrup
tion in oflice made against Judge R.
I H. L. Chichester, of the Fifteenth Judi
cial Circuit. The committer was
scheduled to assemble at noon in the
courthouse. All of the members ex
cept the chairman had arrived at that
hour After w.-iitini; three hours for!
j Mr. Oliver, and receiving no informa
tion as to liis whereabouts, Subchair
man John W. Stephenson took the
! chair, called the body to order, in ac
1 cordance with the schedule, th'-n or
i dered an adjournment ur:t!! lft o . lock
| to-rnorrow. Kfforts to locate Chairman
Oliver by telephone and telegraph were
j unavailing. He left Fairfax at 3
I o'clock in the morning. His motor car
i probably is mired in some isolated sec
i tion of Trince William County, the
! ronds in that county being notorious
I ly bad.
lASSKHHMMi or rnilMlTTUR
<;iu:.\t i.\ i)i:i,Avno
i The failure of Chairman Walter
Tansill Oliver to arrive delayed the
i assembline of the special committee
of the House of Delegates, appointed
bv Speaker iidwin P. <'ox to investigate
the charges of D< legate Samuel P.
Powell, of Spotsylvania '"ounty, against
Judge R H. L. Chichester, of the Fif
teenth Judicial <"!rcuit.
The hour fixed for the opening of
the inquiry was noon. All of the in
vestigators except the chairman were
! "n time Delegate E. V. Parley was
first on the scene, arriving Sunday
night. Delegates John W. Stephenson.
A. B. Commlns and I. E Spntig put in
their appearance early to-day. Accom
panying Mr. Stephenson was Thomas C.
Oweti, court stenographer, who will
make a stenographic record of the
proceedings, Colonel fj:-MV*New-house,
sergeant-at-arms of the House or Dele
gates. is attending the committee in
his official capacity, and the members
of the investigating body are served
also hv Tom Morgan, one of the House
pages, from Charlotte County.
COMMITTEE Ql'A RTnilKD
AT FHI'.nr.ltIC KSIIt ltf; HOTEL,
The committee is quartered at the
Princess Anne Hotel, where the Chl
??hesU-r fot? es have also established
headquarters. Delegate Powell, who
has been here since last Saturday, has
his headquarters at the home of C. W,
Jones, a business man. one of his sup
porters.
The presence <-f well-known public
men from distant parts of the State
bespi.iks the wj?li political >igritlcanco
attached to tJie inquiry.
I will be content with nothing short
of complete vindication," Judge Chi
chester said to-day.
"If I have to summon all the people
Mr. Powell wants as witnesses." said
I'olonel N'owhouse, "the Lord only
knows how many months we will be
here. He is already asking for wit
nesses living in Richmond. Norfolk and
other cities "
"I can't see how we can possibly get
away earlier thnn some time in Sep
tember," was Mr. Powell's estimate of
the time he will need to present the
evidence he has assembled.
"What Mr. Powell expects to prove
from the records he is asking all the
court clerks in this circuit to pro
duce, is a mystery," was the continent
of A. B. Yates, the veteran clerk of
the court here Mr. Yates referred to
the request for the records in the chan
(Continued on Fifth Page.)
E
Prince George Grand Jury Be
gins Sweeping Investigation
Into Lawlessness.
STRIKING CHARGE BY JUDGE
West Urges "Clean-Up" of Town.
Magistrate Is Charged
With Bribery. .
' Bv a S'aff Correspondent.)
PRINCE f"i KORGE COURTHOUSE, !
\ A., ^.upust f>.? Beginning the most J
swecpintj in vestigation ever under
taken in the criminal annals of Vir
ginia, a special srrand jury in the Cir
cuit C ourt of Prince Georare County
this afternoon found four indictments
In connection with the bribery and
Kraft revelations at Hopewell, the site
of ihe hlji I>u Pont powrtor plant.
The probe will lie resumed on Friday j
inornlnp. The m*n against whom j
"true bills" wr>r'- found are:
i 111am St. I'a ul I'ullinm, n magis- i
trate of Bland District, who until re
cently presided over the Police Court
at Hopewell. He !s charged with ae
ci-ptinn bribes.
John Porter, form?r lieutenant of
police, deposed last Tuesday, charge/1
with offering bribes to orher officers. ' ?
H. . I'ollard, former pollrrnian,
charged with accepting a bribe to
[ "protect" a poolroom.
| Tony Becessl, cabaret proprietor. '
who acted as interpreter in the Police
Court, chnrered with bribery.
n iil,l.\M OM.V UXE
XOT VET ARRESTED
Of the four men against whom pre- j
i eentments were made, Pulliam is the
i only one who has not be?n arrested, i
. The other three are out on bail. The '
magistrate formerly lived in South i
Richmond, and is widely known in j
Prince George.
The grand jury was able to make
? only a fair start to-day, and at 7
o'clock to-night Judge .lesse I-". West
adjourned court until Friday, in order
to give the prosecuting officers suf
| ficient time to prepare additional ln
1 diotments and pather further incrim
inating evidence materially affecting
i the Hopewell situation, which is now
available.
The charges against W. D. Hender
! son. chief of the Hopewell town police
until his removal by Judge West last
| Tuesday, together with his associates,
were not reached by the grand jury
to-day. No attempt was made by the
body before its adjournment to go into
: anything but the bribery and graft
revelations, and this feature of condi
tions at Hopewell will be completed on
Friday, after which the other forms of
lawlessness will be taken up.
ATTOK .\ E V -G E.\ E Tt A I, l>OI,I.AHI)
I.N COI RT A 1,1. DAY
Commonwealth's Attorney Timothy
Rives and (J?-or>re E. Wise, of Rich
mond, who is assisting in the prosecu
tion, will at once begin the work of
preparing more than 100 indictments,
j charging bribery, gambling, liquor sell
j ing, operating disorderly houses, and
I other illegal acts. It is believed that
before the grand jury completes its j
work, there will be more than 1.10 in- j
dictments returned. Attorney-General I
John Garland I'ollard was in court all !
j day.
Judge West's charge to the grand
jury immediately after court convened
was in many respects one of the most
striking utterances ever delivered
from the bench. The court went fur
ther than Judges usually do in out
lining conditions which require inves
! ligation. He told the jurors that if |
| the situation was anything ilke it hnd
been represented to him. that the law
lessness at Hopewell constituted a
"cancer on the body politic." He did
not mince words in referring to the
conduct of the former police force, nor
did he f.'iil to tell the grand Jury what
is expected of them.
"Yon are acinic not only for Bland
District" tin which Hopewell is lo
! cated), "but for >our county and your
I State as well,' Judge West told the !
j grand jury. "The eyes of Prince j
(Continued on Second Page.) 1
Richmond's Dollar Day 7 o-morrow
7he Last Word
On the unprecedented offerings of Richmond merchants will be
printed
7o-morrow, August 11 th the very morning
of Richmond's Dollar Day
In the Advertising Columns of
7 he 7 imes-Dispatch
The latest news is always the most interesting and profitable, as
some of the most striking bargains will he announced last.
Shop in THE TIMES-DISPATCH before you do in the stores.
You'll be astounded at some of the exclusive announcements.
The Shopper's Money-Saving Day
Definite Policy
Towards Mexico
Is Agreed Upon
Program to Be Formally ''
Fiatified When Pan
American Conference
Is Resumed.
WASHINGTON, August 0.?Power?!
of North ami South America already j
have agreed on a defln'te pisn for'
dealing with the Mexican problem, and'
.? Jic.n the Par.-American conference is i
resumed in New York on Wednesday '
tho program will Ik- formally ratified
This information came to-day from
Secretary Lansing. He would not dis*- <
cuss details, but said lie was decidedly)
encouraged.
The confidence of officials here that!
the conferees, representing the United i
States. Brazil. Argentina. Chile. Bolivia,)
Guatemala and Uruguay, will be nblei
to shape a course likely to restore con
stitutional government in Mexico is due;
to the fact that all are aeroefl that'
most of the people of the revolution-'
torn republic are thorouchly sick of]
war. and will promptly join in a Pan-;
American movement to dean house, j
A large section of the country and a
vast majority of tJie people have not
been involved in the fighting which j
followed the overthrow of Huorta. It
has been reported to President Wilson
that only fear of reprisals by the mili
tary chieftains has kept the people in
subjection.
I)i:tkiimi\ki) to pkksi;\t
SITUATION TO A I.I# KLKMFA'TS
Reaching their conclusion on these i
reports, the Pan-American conferees
are understood to have determined to
present the situation to all of the ele
ments in Mexico, appealing directly
not only to Carranza, Villa and Zapata.j
but to the Governors of states, all mill-;
tary leaders with considerable follow-1
ings and other influential men, to come
together for a conference, at which a
substantial provisional government
might be framed.
A government ao set up would have
the support of the United States and
other American republics. Officials
here believe it \rould be able to sup
press promptly any dissatisfied groups
which might attempt to continue civil
Strife.
There has been talk of joint armed
intervention by the powers represented
in llie conference to quiet any leader
who insists on remaining in the field
with military forces. Some of the con
ferees. however, are said to believe
that the moral Influence of the powers
behind the conference, together with a
strict embargo against shipment of
war munitions to any one in Mexico
except the recognized government,
would quickly accomplish the desired
result.
SECRETARY I.ANSIXG
TAI.KS OPTIMISTICAM.Y
Secretary Lansing talked optimisti
cally to-day about the situation. "When
the conference adjourned here last Fri
day," lie paid, "it had reachcd the point
where a very definite policy with re
gard to the solution of the Mexican
problem had been agreed upon. The.
conference was adjourned because I
wished to consult President Wilson re
garding this agreement. I have con
sulted him through correspondence, and
we are now ready to resume delibera
tions and to proceed with tJie working
out of the details based upon the origi
nal agreement."
Administration officials were some
what perturbed over official announce
ment that the Guatemalan minister to
Mexico, Mr. Ortega, had been ordered
from Mexico by Carranza and reports
that friction between Carranza and
Senor Cardosa. Rrazlllan minister to
Mexico, and for many months the diplo
matic agent there of the United States,
had preceded the latter's determina
tion to leave Mexico at this time. Car-1
dosa is coming to the United States
to confer with Mr. da Oatna, P.iazilian
(Continued on Second Page.) !
British Recapture
Trenches in Belgium
Tlltt Teutonic nlllot continue
v Ihflr operation*
nunliwi the llunninn<t In .NurthtrcMt
Itiinnlii and in I'olnnrlt nti oni;ai;c
nicnt to drive the rrmnlnlnc Iltm
niniin from Knnt (inlioia linn hrcun;
tlip IlritiMli imvf recaptured trenches
in IlelKium, taken front them re
cently. nml linve captured TOO vnrda
of ndditlonni terrain llirrri French
nlrnieti Itnve bombarded Sanr
brueckcn, In Rhenish Prussia; the
Itnilnnn mid AiiMrlnnn *1111 nrc In
henvy comlint on the monntninM, in
the vnliey* and on the plninn in the
Aiintro-ttnlinn battle grounds.
These, If brief, nrc the Intent de
velopments of the vrnr. nn made
public tiirouKh the variouw tvar
chancelleries.
Prnjin, the eastern suburb of
WnrHittT, linn been cupturcd. The
railroad from Hnrnmv to I.uhlln lias
been crossed between IvntiKorod
nnil (iarwolln. HettTceit the Vistula
and tiie lint; and along the Vleprz
the Hussions still nrc falling back.
The l?nj; of prlnoncrN nt Wnr?nw
nn* small, Derllu declaring that
ouly a few thousand were taken.
.Nor ban the number captnred lij
Archduke Joseph Kerdinnnd been
Inriie, Vlcitnn asserting merely that
the number of men captured by hint
"lin* bii-n Increased to S.flflO.''
S. J. L. DIRECTORS PROVIDE
$300,000,000 MORTGAGE
Directors Adopt Comprehensive Fi
nn ncial Program Proposed by
S. Dories Warfleld.
j MEANS ENLARGED SYSTEM
| To Consolidate With Carolina, At
lantic and Western?Two Extra
Seaports for Road?Of Far-Reach*
inpc Effect in South.
[Special to The Times-Dispatch.]
BALTIMORE, MP., August 9.?A
special meeting of the directors of tho
?Seaboard Air I.ine Hail way was held
| in Baltimore to-day to take nctlon upon
j a comprehensive financial plan worked
1 "'it anrl proposed by the chairman of
the board. S. Davics Warfleld. As a
result, it is stated that the tinancial
structure of the railroad will he so
remodeled as to enable It to secure the
best financial results in the sale of its
securities, and the Seaboard and its
tributaries welded into a compact, en
larged a nrl improved system. In addi
tion to the working out of the plan.
Mr. Warrield has negotiated the sale
and exchange of S22.S03.000 bonds, thus
carrying his plans into practical and
Immediate, cffcct.
-Mr. Warflold's program, which was
adopted hy the directors, is far-reach
ing In its results. It Includes the addi
tion to the system by consolidation of
considerable new mileage, chief! main
line, adding two additional seaports,
and secures as a result a second track
over an important part of tho system.
The plan simplifies the financial side
and will permit the fullest development
of tho property. The new company
win execute a mortgage authorizing
an Issue of $300,000,000 bonds, of which
there will now be Issued $25,013,000
series "A." $2.7r.0,O00 of which will be
retained in the treasury.
OFF11' IA I. STAT I" M10 XT
BY CHAIRMAN WARFIFLD
Announcement of these plans is made
in a statement issued after tho direc
tors' meeting by Chairman S. Da vies
Warfield, as follows:
"The financial requirements of the
Seaboard Air Line for the present and
future have been provided for?
"First. By creating a physical rail
ro id structure in the enlarged Sea
board system, far-reaching in its bene
fits to the South and to the railroad,
and. as a result, greater economies in
operations;
"Second. A mortgage thereon secur
ing bonds issuable in series, which
may be of varying maturities, and in
terest and redemption rates, providing
a security meeting investors' require-:
ments, arid insuring to the railroad the
best results under changing financial
conditions; and.
"Third. By the sale of bonds under
the new mortgage for the purposes
hereinafter mentioned, of great im
portance to the welfare of tho railroad
anil of the holders of its securities.
"The Seaboard Air Kino Itailway
will he consolidated with the Carolina.
Atlantic and Western Railway under
the corporate name of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway Compnny. The
Carolina, Atlantic and Western Rail
way is a recent consolidation of the
North and South Carolina; Charleston
Northern, and South Carolina Western
Railroads, operating a total of -116
miles. The Carolina. Atlantic and
Western Railway recently acquired
the Georgetown and Western Railroad,
operating from Lanes to Georgetown,
S. C.. and from Andrews to the Pee
Pee River, S. C., a distance of seventy
miles. The Charleston Northern Rail
way Is the line recently completed
connecting the North and South Caro
lina Railroad with the city of Charles
ton, giving tho Seaboard Air Line en
trance into Charleston, and now be
coming a part of the main lino of tho
consolidated system. The new term
~~ jLCon>Su?<V ?3 Third PasejT
ALLIES AT HOQGE ?
GAIN TRENCHES ON
1,200-YARD FRONT
Success in West Tempora
rily Diverts Attention
From East.
FRENCH REPORTS FIERCE
ARTILLERY ENGAGEMENT.
Austro - German Armies Make
Fresh Progress Against
Russians.
OCCTTY PRAOA, NEAR WARSAW
Brings to Climax First Phase of Drive
Eastward From Polish
Capital.
i
; LONDON, August 9.?While the Aus
| tro-Gorman armies made fresh prog
ress against the Russians to-day. the
j conflict in the west swung in favor of
I the allies. Sir John French reported
i that, in a fierce artillery engagement,
! the British and French captured
j trenches at Hooge along a front of
i 1,200 yards.
The occupation of Praga, reported
I by Merlin, brings to a climax the first
phase of the German drive eastward
from Warsaw. Praga is essentially a
part of the capital, with great railway
stations on the roads running to Petro
grad and Moscow. Few details havo
been received of the final Russian stand
at Praga, hut indications are that
withdrawal becamc imperative, to es
cape from the German lines gradually
drawing together in the rear.
Warsaw now is the apex of a vast
letter V, the arms of which are the
River Narew on the north and the
Vistula on the south. The Germ-n
lines spread along these rivers are con
tracting gradually, as the armies In the
north and those in the south approach
each other. The strip of territory
across which the Rr.psians may with
draw to safer positions now is hardly
more than thirty miles acros ?.
STEADY IIA >1MER1NG
AT KOV.VO AND LOMZA
Besides this enveloping movement,
immediately cast of Warsaw, Berlin
reports a steady hammering at th?
grei.t Russian fortresses of Kovno and
Lomza, whose chief significance Is their
proximity to tho linos of railway com
munication to Petrograd. Novogeor
gievsk is the only place west of War
saw at which a Russian garrison re
mains, and its fall seems imminent.
The attitude of the Poles towards
the new German regime is arousing
deep interest, for the occupation of
Warsaw unites for the first time three
branches of the Poles heretofore di
vided among Russia, Germany and
Austria. Under the. Russian regime.
Poland has been a hotbed of disorder,
and it remains to bo seen whether con
trol of this occupied territory will be
as difficult a problem for Germany as
it has been for Russia.
Berlin's official report characterized
the operations arouml Hooge as "a
battle." hut Sir John French's later
report shows them to have been an
other trench fight, preceded by a severe
artillery exchange.
The allies' success there has served
to divert public attention temporarily
from the magnitude of the German
sweep in tho east, hut operations in
the west still lack general significance.
The commander of another British
puhmartne, whose name has not yet
been disclosed, was reported to-day to
have distinguished himself by sinking
the Turkish battleship Kheyr-ed-Dln
Barbarossa.
NO RBI'ORT OF GERMANY'S
BI MORED PEACE PROPOSALS
LONDON', August 9.?The British
government has received no official re
port of Germany's rumored peace pro
posals to Russia.
Otlicial circles neither affirm nor
deny the report, holding that if true,
the proposal probably is in such a ten
tative form that it would not be in
cumbent on Russia formally to com
municate it to the allies.
I.O.ST TRENCHES AT IIOOGE
RECAPTURED HV BRITISH
LONDON, August 9.?Sir John French
reported to-day that the lost trenches
at Hooge, east of Ypres, Belgium, had
been retaken by the British, and that
they had ad Winced on a front of 1.200
yards.
The field marshal's report says:
"This morning, after a successful
artillery bombardment, in which the
French on our left co-operated effec
tively, w.> attacked the trenches at
Houge raptured by the enemy on July
These were all retaken, and. fol
lowing up this success, we made further
progress north and west of Hooge, ex
tending the front of the trenches cap
tured to 1,200 yards.
"The captures leported amounted to
three otlicei s and 124 men of other
ranks and two machine guns."
ITALIAN TROOPS ItEADY
TO GO TO FIGHTING '/.ONE
NF.W YORK. August 0.? Italy will
send 650.000 fresh troops to either
France or the Dardanelles within tho
next three weeks, according to Captain
Victor del Franctis, of the Italian army,
who arrived to-day on the steamer
Dura d'Aosta.
"There were .100,000 troops in Turin
when I lt'ft." s.i'id Captain del Franctis.
"and 150,000 more in Taranto, the naval
base. .Between 1.10 and 200 large trans
ports were ready to convey the troops
to where they ar-% most needed."
The captain will purchase leather
goods for the Italian army.
GERMANS REPORT-NEW GAINS
IN PURSUIT OF RI SSIANS
' [Special Cable to The Times-Dispatch.]
| LONDON'. August .9.?The Germans
report new gains to-day in their pur
suit o? tho KusaUiu retreating Xrorj>