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PERTH AMBOY EVENING NEWS.
LAST
EDITION
VOLUME XXXV. No. 219.
PERTH ΛΜΒΟΥ, Ν. J., THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1915.
TWELVE PAGES—TWO CENTS.
ENGINEERS GIVE DATA ON
. MUNICIPAL LIGHT PLANT AT
BOARD OF TRADE HEARING
Runyon Shows Plant Can be Op
erated at an Expense ot
$39,213 to the City.
s
PROFIT WILL BE $22,382
Estimate Submitted by Albert
Buys for Board of Trade
Was $44,393.33, In
cluding Fixed Charges.
According to the report submitted
by Frederick O. Runyon at the Board
of Trade mass meeting in the city
hall, last night, the proposed munici
pal lighting plant can be operated at
an expense of $39,2 Γ3.7 5, and the
approximate Income will be $61,596,
making a profit for the city of
$22,382. This report was submitted
in contrast to an estimate compiled
for the Board of Trade by Albert
Buys, who had estimated the operat
ing expenses, including fixed charges,
at $44,393.33. The estimates of the
city's engineers and the engineer re
tained by the Board of Trade differed
at many points, the discrepancies
making it practically impossible to
draw a direct comparison as to the
cost of operation based on the gener
al estimates of the two engineers.
The council chamber of the hall
was only partially filled when John
Pfelffer, president of the Board of
Trade, called the meeting to order
and asked for the nomination of a
chairman. Mr. Pfelffer declined to
serve upon nomination, as did C. W.
Barnekov and G. F. Reynolds. J. K.
Bryan was then made chairman and
Hugh Lynch secretary.
Following the reading of Engineer
Buys' report, as printed in Tuesday's
issue of the EVENING NEWS, Mr.
Pfelffer asked for a report of operat
ing expenses as estimated for the
city by Runyon &. Carey. Mr. Run
yon, representing that firm, stated
that he was not at liberty to speak
for the Board of Aldermen, but later,
upon the suggestion of Alderman
. William Wilson, he submitted his
A report of Air.
Buys, Secretary Lynch stated that
the estimate of the Board of Trade's
engineer had been "checked up by
other engineers of the city, who had
declared that the report was very
conservative. We are all agreed,"
said Mr. Lynch, ''that the plant can
be built at a cost very close to that
figured by Mr. Buys and the fact
that his estimated cost of construc
tion is in the neighborhood of the
bids received by the Board of Alder
men would seem to indicate that he
knows his business and that his esti
mate of the operating expenses
would be practically correct."
Here Mr. Lynoh submitted figures
to show the cost of electric power as
furnished by the Public Service
company would not justify the erec
tion and maintenance of a city con
trolled lighting plant. He stated
.that power for 320 600-candlepower
nitrogen lamps and fifty 100-candle
power Tungsten lamps can be bought
from the Public Service company at
$26,710.72, including the city's pro
portion of white way lighting. If
the city takes over the white ways,
according to Mr. Lynch's figures.
$2,394.75 should be added; $2,877.86
was submitted as the cost for public
building lighting, fire alarm power,
etc. For thirty-nine additional 100
candlepower Tungsten lamps Mr.
Lynch added $1,200, making an ap
proximate cost for lighting from the
Public Service company of $33,182.
33, as compased with $44,393.33, the
cost of operation of a municipal
plant as estimated by " the Board of
Trade's engineer. Prom this amount
Mr. Lynch deducted $3,000 as the
probable returns from commercial
lighting, giving $41,393.33 as the
estimated cost of operation.
Alderman P. William Hilker, who
has fathered the municipal lighting
proposition, Introduced W. R. Hay
nie, who he stated was an expert in
the construction of oil engines, hav
ing had fifteen years experience in
this country and abroad.
Mr. Haynie stated that the report
of Mr. Buys was correct to some
extent, but he took exception to a
number of the items as estimated by
Mr. Buys. The latter, he said, had
estimated on the generation of 250
K\V on one unit, whereas the city's
engineers had made provisions for
the generation of 250 KW., the dif
ference offering a field for a big in
crease in the income from commer
cial lighting as compared with that
assumed by Mr. Buys. He pointed
out that Mr. Buys had estimated the
cost of construction at $160,078.72,
whereas the maximum cost, as glean
ed from the bids received by the city
would be $120,000. The fees con
tracted for engineering and superin
tendence he said were at the rate of
five per cent., and not at the rate of
ten per cent.
Fuel oil can be purchased for the
- plant at less than three cents a gal
lon, instead of four cents, according
to Mr. Haynie, who also declared
that the depreciation rate of seven
per cent, was excessive. He said
that he had never heard of a fly
wheel in a plant of this kind break
ing,· and that Mr. Buys' item of $100
for insurance was unnecessary, since
insurance for fly wheels was not
deemed necessary in other plants.
. He cited many instances, both in the
t'nited States and abroard, where
he declared municipal lighting
plants had proved to be a avnrce of
proSt, and he closed by making the |
assertion that "It can be done in ,
Perth Ainboy." j
(Continued on page 4.)
Perth Amboy Also Interested
in Other Cases Today and
Local Cops Before Jurors.
The April grand jury thiB morn
ing began a probe to place the re
sponsibility for the poisoning of five
children, one fatally, when they ate
portions of a rat-kllling powder
called "Kilrato," whioh was found
on the city dump at the end of Penn
street. Rose Bednar, five years old,
of Myrtle street, one of those eating
the poison, died April 15 after she
had eaten some of the powder to
gether with half an apple.
Detective Sergeant Long, of the
local police, is in New Brunswick to
testify in the case. He co-operated
with the prosecutor in gathering data
after County Physician Carroll had
referred the case to the prosecutor
and intimated that the party throw
ing the boxes of "Kilrato" on the
dump were guilty of criminal negli
gence.
The stomach of the poisoned girl
was removed, together with certain
intestines, which were sent to the
prosecutor's office, who, it was said,
would have them chemically anal
yzed. Rutgers College refused to
submit them to a chemical analysis
and it Is not known whether an anal
yzation was made by order of the
prosecutor at any other institution.
At the prosecutor's office this morn
ing no information could be gained
on this point. It was said that
whether the themical examination of
the stomach had been made could
not be given out until after the case
had been considered by the grand
jury.
It is declared that a local firm
having a supply of the "Kilrato" on
their shelves, and unable to sell it,
had it dumped on the garbage pile in
Penn street. However, the police
learned that Anton Shumbe^^u^as
employed to cover up
pile after eachas
ηπ·σ*'ΐΓ~οΐΓ"ιΐβ same and believe he
did so after the "Kilrato" was
dumped, but that the residents in
the vicinity dug up the boxes and
took them home.
The police learned that the "Kil
rato" was dumped some weeks be
fore the poisoning occurred, and be
lieve that the powder eaten was from
cans taken from the homes of resi
dents who had carried it from the
dump.
Patrolmen Muska and Chris Han
sen are also before the grand jury
on other local cases today. One of
these is that in which Peter Nelson,
a painter of upper Smith street, is
accused of assaulting his father and
mother while drunk. The young
man was recently committed to the
county jail for a term and released
on the application of his father.
When the man Indulges too freely it
unbalances his mind and he is un
controllable. Though his father de
sired his release from jail, it 1s de
clared that he wants an indictment
hanging over his head so that if
Nelson should get on a "spree" and
become violent again swift justice
may be dealt out to him. Xelson had
been sent to the State Hospital for
the Insane at Trenton several times.
Grand Jury in Session.
Special to the EVEX1NO NEWS.
New Brunswick, April 29.—The
grand jujy is in session at the court
house here today. There is a large
number of witnesses on hand and in
readiness to testify. Among the
principal cases scheduled to be heard
is a Spotswood accident, that in
which Harold Phair ran down a bi
cyclist at South River and the poi
soning of children with rat poison,
found on a dump in Perth Amboy.
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TO HEAD FISHERIES BUREAU
Special h y United Press Wire.
Trenton, April 29:—Governor
Fielder today reappointed Charles R.
Bacon, of Camden county, as chief of
the State Bureau of Shell Fisheries.
Mr. Bacon's present term expires on
Saturday. The new appointment will
hold only until July 1 next, when the
Bureau of Shell Fisheries and all the
oyster commissions of the state will
be merged into the new State De
partment of Shell Fisheries. The
new department will be managed by
a board of eight members, four
Democrats and four Republicans, the
nominations for which will be sent
to the senate next Monday by Gover
nor Fielder when the legislature
convenes in special sessions. This
board will have the naming of a chief
of the department whose salary will
be $2,600, who must be a practical
oysterman and give his entire time
to the work. Mr. Bacon's present
salary is $1,800.
SPECIAL—Liquid Veneer, 50c bottle
at 39c. Kelly & McAlindeu Co., 74
Smith St. 16542—4-29-lt.*
Call a taxi, 46. C. Jolinson.
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MAYOR STANDS BÏ
HIS STATEMENT
Firm on Figures Given in
Statement When He Vetoed
Park Resolution on Monday.
ANSWERS JOHN J. CLARK
Mr. Garretson Says He Did Not
Quote Indebtedness in His
Statement Monday Night.
Despite the action of the Board of
Aldermen Monday night in ordering
the purchase of the former Merritt
tract and statements since made by
Democratic aldermen, Mayor Ferd
Garretson repeated today that in his
judgment the purchase should not be
made at this time. In reply to
Alderman John J, Clark's statement
on city finances, made yesterday, Mr.
Garretson said he stood behind hia
statement rendered to the council
Monday night. He declared that the
statement had been prepared with
care and the figures in it had been
verified. The executive stated that
it was not his intention of creating
any false impression concerning the
city's financial condition, but to en
deavor to show the situation with
reference to the amount of bonds to
be issued this year.
Mr. Garretson says he did not
quote the indebtedness of the city in
his statement Monday night. He de
clared that the point he wished to
convey was that bonds to the aggre
gate amount of more than half a
million dollars would have to be
issued this year and he doubted that
the city would find ready buyere for
so large an amount. Whether or not
street Improvement bonds to the
amount of $125,000 and sewer con
struction bonds to the amount of
$30,000 had been added to the city's
indebtedness last year or would be
added this year, mattered little in
the argument he presented. He was
in favor of keeping the bonded in
debtedness down and allow a good
margin between the debt and the
limit prescribed by law well enough,
but the point he wished to convey at
this particular time was that bonds
for so many things, which aggregat
ed so much money, would have to be
issued. He doubted that bonds
would be easily disposed of after the
half million mark had been reached,
and he concluded that it would be
unwise, if not unsafe, to add to the
amount further with U^^urchase of
the the
state laws, as quoted by Mr. Clark to
be about $900,000, Mayor Garretson
said he doubted that the bond mar
ket would allow the limit to be
reached. On the other hand he
maintained the city should proceed
carefully with the issuing of bonds,
(Continued on page 4.)
SUNDAY SCHOOLS ϊ Ο
PARADE! JUNE 5
There Will be a Continuation of
the Pageant This Year, First
Since the 1913 Event.
There will be a continuation o£
the annual Sunday school parade
custom this year, despite its being
abandoned last year following four
previous successful pageants in 1910,
1911, 1912 and 1913, according to
present indications. A concerted
effort is being ruade by influential
men of several Sunday schools to re
establish the yearly demonstration
of Sunday school pupils in a large
parade through the principal streets.
Those who are working for the re
viving of the custom are pleased
with the prospects and hope to ar
range for one of the old, genuine
Sunday .school parade processions
that formerly evoked so much enthu
siasm and delight among the mem
bers of the Sunday schools of the
city. The event will likely be set
for June 5, as it is planned to hold
it before the public school term ends
for the summer vacation.
There was no parade last year for
the first time since the custom was
inaugurated in 1910, atfer such year
ly demonstrations had been started
by the Sunday schools of many of the
larger cities of the country.
There were more than 2,000
marchers in the parade held June 14,
1913, and more than 10,000 witness
ed the big demonstration. Last year,
however, the enthusiasm of some of
the Sunday schools had waned, and
the Union Sunday School Parade
Committee, after discussing the ad
visability of holding the customary
pageant, decided to cancel it for
1914.
This year, however, renewed en
thusiasm has been awakened and
pupils from nearly every Sunday
school have already begun to eagerly
anticipate the revival of the custom,
which was inaugurated here through
the efforts of Ira J. Bacon, of 124
Rector street.
Members working for the return
of the custom believe that it gives
a certain inspiration to the children
who have always taken great pride
in the selection of costumes, the
decorating and making of floats, and
shown keen Interest in the competi
tion for the distinction of having the
most prettily embellished float, the
cleverest allegorical representation,
sr the most unique costumes. They
ïlso believe that the parade always
iemonstratee the big membership of
the different Sunday schools, and
their far-reaching effect in the cause ι
jf righteousness.
The first definite move toward this |
smd wM on the part of the Simpson
on page- 4.)
BOMB IS THROWN
INTO NEW YORK
POLITICS TODAY
'
Go!. Roosevelt Ends Testimony
at Barnes Libel Suit Shortly
After 12 O'clock.
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
T. R. Says He Did Not Know
Name of Donators Until the
Other Day.
MURPHY'S NAME SPOKEN
Tennessee Coal and Iron Case
Brought Into Former Presi
dent's Testimony This A. M.
Special by United Free» Wire.
Syracuse, N. T.. April 29;—A
bomb was thrown Into New York and
possibly national politics today in
the Barnes-Roosevelt libel trial. A
proposal by Governor Whitman ior
an alliance of New York Progressives
and Progressive Republicans to rid
the state of machine government was
the coup sprung by the Roosevelt
side. The colonel said he read the
letter written last fall when Whit
man was district attorney, and re
lied on it in attacking Barnes during
the 1914 primaries, althoygh neither
Barnes nor Murphy are specifically
mentioned in the letter.
Roosevelt's testimony was con
cluded at 12:15. It was the eighth
day he had been on the stand and
when excused he had been under ex
amination for thirty-eight hours and
fifteen minutes. Before springing
the Whitman letter the colonel gave a
'dramatic recital of how he approved
acquisition by the steel trust of the
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company to
stop the 1907 panic. He also told
how he had prosecuted big corpoia
tions despite contributions to presi
dential campagn funds. The Wht
man letter was written February 14,
1914, to Charles H. Duell, Jr., of
New York, and was shown to Roose
velt last May upon his return from
(fjftUlh _ America .
by
r^jstlce Andrews read :
"In line with our last talk I be
lieve the time is ripe for an alliance
of progressve Republicans and mem
bers of the Progressive party as well
as all good citizens sharing their
opinion to rid the state of the kind
of party control which in my opinion
(Continued on page 4.)
INSPECTION TO GET
WATERFRONT PARK
Park Committee of Aldermen
to View Prospective Sites
Some Time This Week.
Inspection of water front property
by the special park committee of the
Board of Aldermen Is scheduled to
be made this week. The aldermen
will view prospective park sites along
the water front and endeavor to de
cide whether the city should have a
water front park at this time and, if
so, which tract of land should be
recommended for purchase. Among
the sites already mentioned for park
purposes are included the Wonder
land Beach property, the Hayes land,
the former emery mill land and the
Johnson property.
It appears likely that the proposed
inspection will be made today or to
morrow afternoon so that report can
be laid before the aldermen at their
committee meeting tomorrow night.
Belief has been expressed that the
committee is going to pick a site for
a park in the southern section of the
city and make recommendations ac
cordingly to the Board of Aldermen.
In announcing today that an inspec
tion trip would be made this week,
Alderman John J. Clark of the com
mittee, stated that no water front
site had been settled upon and it
could not be deflnitely Iearned
whetlier a water front site would be
decided upon at this time çr action
would be deferred.
The park committee has a number
of petitions and other information in
its hands. These will be given con
sideration when the relative merits
of all the tracts^n view are taken up
for de«ision.
RECORD SESSION IN
GITÏ POLICE COURT
Cases of Interesting Nature to
Many Cause Overflow at
Court Room Last Night.
MRS. MACFARLANE HELD
Grand Jury to Investigate
Charges Against Mother of
Seventeen Children.
Between 400 and 500 persons
crowded the little court room at po
lice headquarters, filled the lobby
and crowded about the doors
when three cases of unusual
interest were heard by Recorder
Plckersgill last night. On complaint
of George S. Walker, editor of a lo
cal weekly, William J. Doyle and
Arthur Schroeder, members of the
Central Labor Union, were placed
under J200 bail each to await the
action of the grand jury on a charge
of assault and battery. Ida MacFar
lane, of Paterson street, wife ο*
Douglas MacFarlane, and Mrs. Kath
erine Rango, of South Amboy, were
locked up in default of bonds for
the grand jury, the former for de
serting an infant and the latter for
alleged larceny. Samuel Borak, of
Smith street, was convicted on a
technical disorderly charge and sen
tence was suspended.
George S. Walker testified that
Doyle ran into him in Emil Bohn
sack's saloon in Smith street Satur
day night and then asked Walker
what he had run into him for, and
then struck Walker. Walker said j
he tried to protect himself and there
was a tussle between him and Doyle.
He said that Schroeder then jumped j
on his back, and was pulled from 1
him by a young man. He said that
he and Doyle went to the floor in a
clinch, with Doyle on top. Walker
acknowledged that he and the Cen
tral Labor Union men were not on
the best of terms following certain
articles appearing in his paper. Ar
thur L. Borland, an employe of Wal
ker, testified that he had struck
Schroeder two or three times in try
ing to get him away from Walker,
after seeing both Doyle and I
Schroeder On Walker. Thomas j
Brown, representing the Central La-1
bor Union men, did not present any ι
testimony as he said that technically
It would be improper in the record
er's court on the assault charge, but
explained that Walker started the
quarrel by
itÊ^^Mormed the recorder that he
only wanted protection from being
! attacked for anything he had in his
paper as he was willing to answer in
court for statements he printed.
At the next case Douglas MacFar
lane appeared as complainant
against his wife, Ida MacFarlane,
(Continued on page 2.)
PROCLAMATION ON
SPECIAL SESSION
Session Providing for New Act
for Special Election Upon
Constitutional Amendments.
Special to the EVENING NEWS.
Trenton, April 29.—Governor
Fielder today issued a proclamation
calling the legislature to convene
in special session next Monday at
noon to pass a new act providing for j
a special session ext Monday at noon I
to pass a new act providing for a
special election upon tlie constitu
tional amendments. The proclama- '
tion is based upon the opinion of
the attorney general that grave
doubt exists as to whether a valid
election can be held under the act
already passed by the legislature.
Governor Fielder said he had re
quested the attorney genertl to draw
a new bill and that special care
would be taken to guard against
further errors.
Te proclamation is as follows:
"Whereas certain proposed amend
ment to the constitution of this state
have been agreed to by two succes
sive legislatives and should be sub
mitted to the people at a special
election, and whereas, as at the last
session of the legislature a bill was
passed providing for such special
election, which bill is known as
chapter three hundred and eightyflve
of the laws of one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen and the attor
ney general having advised the secre
tary of state that grave doubt exists
as to whether a valid election can be
held thereunder and that said act
appears to be practically unworka
ble and that an attempt to act under
it would give rise to uncertainty and
opportunities for litigation, and
whereas in my opinions public neces
sity requires the convening of the
legislature in special session to cor
rect such (îpfects bv proper leglsla
;ion under which the expreesed pur
pose of two successive legislatures j
nay not be defeated at which spe- j
•ial session no other subjects need ;
>e considered; therefore. I, James F.
fielder, governor of the state of New
Tersey, by virtue of the powers vest
id in me by the constitution do con
rene the legislature of this state,
îereby requiring the senate and the
nembers of the general assembly to,
neet. In their respective chambers at j
he State House in the city of Tren- j
.09. on Monday, the third day of;
May, instant, at 12 o'clock noon.
if it's H win g machines or expert:
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GERMAN SYMPATHIZERS SET
EIRE ID CANADIAN BRIDGES
IN VANCOUVER, IS CHARGE
ALUES ROUI TURKS '
«1 DARDANELLES
British Aviators Aid in Opera
tions on Land Against Otto
man Troops, is Report.
Special bp United Preia Wire.
Athens, April 29:—Turkish regu-|
lare have been defeated with heavy i
losses and an entire Turkish bat-1
talion has been captured in a battle '
between Turks and the British land
ing party which took possession of
the coast from the Gulf of Souvli,
twenty-five miles from Sedd-el-Bahr,
on the Gallipoli peninsula. Advices'
reaching here say the battle com
menced early yesterday and lasted
until long after nightfall. The Brit
ish were assisted in landing opera
tions by warships.
Details of the operations of the al
lies along the Gallipoli peninsula
show the British forces are holding
the European and French Asia side.
They are advancing slowly in paral
lel lines. The British established a
main base on the shore of the Aegean
sea and have entrenched a frontal
line across the peninsula.
British aviators who have recon
noitered are understood to have re
ported the presence in front of their
line of some 80,000 Turkish troops
of all branches heavily supplied with
artillery. It is reported that the
Turkish forces on both sides of the
Dardanelles are commanded by Ger
man officers of high rank.
To March on Forte.
London, Aprii 29.—The allips have
aow stretched the lines of their landing
columns entirely across the Gallipoli
peninsula preparatory to an advance
on the Turkish fortifications which line
the European side of the Dardanelles
straits. They are established from a
point northeast of Eski Hisarilk. which
is about frotu the tip of the
«kl* to
f 'A· war ofllee report wtsfat» em-bUns
! this informs Hon aleo says that the r.i
lies have driven off the Turks at Sari
Balr and are continuing their advance.
A Berlin dispatch states that Hall!
Bey, former president of the Turkish
parliament, who is now in Berlin, re
ceived a telegram from Constantinople
stating that 8,000 French and British
soldiers had been driven to the sea and
that 1,200 had been captured by the
Turks as a result of the attempt of the
allies to laud forces to attack the Dar
danelies fortifications.
Another Berlin telegram states thai a
well authenticated report has reached
the German capital that the left wing
of the allies' landing force on the Gall!
poll peninsula, which General Llmon
von Sanders, the German commander
of the Turkish forces, had reported as
holding out. bas now surrendered to the
Turks. Still another, sent by wireless
from Constantinople, declares that Gen
eral Limon von Sanders has announced
that the center and right wing of the
allies have been completely defeated
and that there is hope that the left
wing also is beaten.
SUFFRAGE WORKERS SPEAK
ON STREET HERE TODAY
Enroute to the board meeting of
the New Jersey Woman's Suffrage
Association to be held in Atlantic
City tomorrow, a party of prominent
suffrage workers of the state stopped
this afternoon in Perth Amboy at llie
corner of Smith and High streets,
where Mrs. E. F. Feichert, of Plain
field, president of the State Associa- ]
tion, and Mrs. F. H. Colvin, of East ι
Orange, made short addresses con
cerning the work that is being pro
mulgated by the state association.
The automobile trip was started
this morning from Paterson at 8
o'clock, visiting Passaic, East Or
ange, Newark, Elizabeth and Metuch
en before arriving at this city. The j
party consisted of Mrs. Feichert,
Mrs. Colvin, Miss Florence Halsey, |
of Midland Park, and Dr. Mary G.
Cumings, of Paterson, president of |
the Paterson branch.
AGREEMENT BETWEEN ITALY
ANO FRANCE AS TO WARj
Special by United Pi-ess Wire.
Rome, April 2 9 :—Rumors that an I
agreement has been reached between j
Italy and France continue to circu
late in Rome. The Italian ambassa
dor to France held another extended
conference with the king and pre-1
mier and afterward announced he ι
would return to Paris tomorrow 1
The foreign office refuses to comment
on the visit or say whether he car- i
ries any documents for the French
government. The only official an-,
aouncement is that Italy has been in
conference with both the triple In
tente and Germany EKd Austria, in
m effort to determine just what her
future prospects are. The govern
ment has decided on the territorial
expansion necessary for a ifreater
Italy and they take such steps as are
necessary to carry out that expansion
whether that means participation in
the war or not.
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Granville and Connaught Spans,
British Columbia, Fired, Caus
ing Great Damage, Report.
1 SPAN SAVED BY WIND
Demonstrations Following
Slaughtering of Canadians
Brought Action by
Government Officials.
Special bp United Press Wire.
Vancouver, B. C., April 29:—Ger
man sympathizers are alleged to
have fired the Granville and Con
naught bridges, main arteries of
railroad traffic southward, today.
The great Connaught bridge will be
a total loss. The wind is unfavora
ble for the destruction of the Gran
ville structure and it will probably
be saved. Together the bridges cost
over $41,000,000. The incendiarism
followed closely the Canadian gov
ernment decision to intern in deten
tion camp all citizens of countries at
war with allies. Officials believe
Germans are responsible for setting
the fire.
Following recent slaughter of
Canadians in the allies army fighting
in Belgium, the Vancouver Germans
held a big celebratitra at Point Grey,
a suburb town, Tuesday night. This
determined the government to send
all alien enemies into detention until
after the war.
Efforts to deport penniless aliens
to the State of Washington failed
owing to watchfulness of the United
States immigration officials.
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SERMANS RUSH FRESH TF
Special bp United Press
Paris, April
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have brought up numerous guns,
staking them on the strength of their
massed infantry and are constantly
shelling the entire allied front. In
consequence gains can be counted in
feet and even inches rather than In *
yards.
The Germane are constantly re
ceiving fresh troops and It is be
lieved here that they have by no
means abandoned their plans to hack
a way through to the sea. But in
the early fighting they have exhaust
ed their reserve supply of munition
and are saving what they have on
hand while more is being brought
up from the reserve basis. The al
lies are taking advantage of this and
are feeling the lines out at every
point for a possible weak spot.
Dying. Begs One More Shot.
Special by United Press Wire.
Headquarters of the British Army,
Northern France, April 28, via Lon
don, April 29. Here is a true story
of the battlefield. A surgeon foucd
a British soldier dying after an un
successful German charge. He had
a bullet wound in his head, but re
fused to be made comfortable.
"For God's sake doctor grre me
one more shot at them. Pleast don't
fuss with me until I have one more
chance,'' he urged. The bullet had
completely blinded him and he in
sisted on knowing the range and di
rection. Told 600 yards he demand
ed that the doctors fix the sierht and
hold him up. He fired and fell back,
and In a few minutes he was dead.
Assaults Fail, Berlin Says.
Special by L'ruled Preaa Wire.
Berlin, via wireless to Sayville,
L. I., April 29:—The official German
»ar office statement today declared
that all of the allied assaults against
the German position north of Ypres,
and on the west bank of the Yser
.'anal, have failed. It Is also claina·
that the number of the enemy's 'SP
oon captured have been increased
:o 83.
Allies Wreck Zeppelin.
Specie! fry t'niifd Preaa TFire.
Paris, April 2S:—The war office
today issued a statement announcing
the destruction of a German Zeppe
lin. The statement says the Zeppe
lin. which attempted a raid on Dun
kirk a few weeks ago, was wrecked
by fire from anti-aircraft guns post
ed there. The crippled ship was
able to get away but information
showed it is now stranded near
Bruges.
Sent to State Hospital.
After having been adjudged in
sane rnnntaiit R/vnngV! thirty-six
. cars oW" of 605 Claries street, was
a ken to the State Hospital for tie
Insane today by City Marshal Des
mond.
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