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ESTABLISHED 1832.__S_ NEWARK, N. J., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1915. —24 PAGES. WEATHER: W^lo”oaiaw^wpBDT,«aywSi.M"** ]
MARKET FIGHT
WILLBEABIG
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Ji Mayor Raymond Has Called Re
publican Aldermen to a Con
ference on Subject.
LABOR AND MANY OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS IN FAVOR
Democrats Solid for Improve
ment That Would Aid
Unemployed.
At tonight's meeftng of the Com
mon Council it may be decided for
Home time to come whether Newark
bhall have a new Centre Market.
Mayor Raymond bas vetoed the reso
lution awarding the contract to the
Essex Construction Company, and the
» veto will be placed before the aider
men. That the session will be a warm
•me is shown by the attitude of the
majority and minority members.
Whether the veto is overruled or
sustained warm arguments and per
sonal remarks are expected to fly
Lhick and fast. It is not at all un
likely that definite action may not be
reached at tonight'a session.
Mayor Raymond and Alderman E.
Garfield Gifford have called a con
ference of Republican aldermen for
1:30 o'clock to finally settle the atti
tude of the Republicans. The Demo
crats will also have a caucus previous
to the meeting.
The Democrats have twenty solid
( votes in favor of the market plan,
lit the event that two Republicans
awing with the Democrats the work
will go on in spite of the veto.
Want Market and Work.
During the past three days the
battle has been growing warmer. The
forces for and against the proposi
tion have been enlarged and the labor
• leaders of the city and county have
recruited many hundred infiuential
i citizens to carry on the campaign for
the new market. They want work
for the unemployed and they favor a
more suitable market building.
The German-Amerlcaii Central
Vereln Is the latest organization to
nuster forces for the market proposi
tion tonight. Letters telling the Re
publican aldermen that every Ger
man in Newark demands the market
have been snt bg the organization
to the twel Replblican aldermen.
Ail day ing labor loaders have
waited on the Republican aldermen.
They have shown the attitude of the
labor vfljtf and demand that the
popular jgntiment of the people be
carried out.
* Petitions favoring the market are
pourifig in from all sides. The pres
sure on the Republican forces is grow
ing stronger. Ward petitions have
been circulated favoring the market
and presented to the various alder
men.
Both parties have been battling,
and tonight’s affray will be the final
plunge into victory or defeat. The
outcome will be lively, and from all
reports the council chamber will be
well crowded with those Interested in
the proposition.
j ciiiion .npimm i rmviM'ii,
• 4 feature of the campaign to ob
tain signatures against the market is
the part a number of women is j
taking in it. This feature is being
severely criticised, as is the motive
behind it.
“Since when has womankind
changed its views on cleanliness, love
of neatness and structural beauty?"
is being asked. “Can it be possible
that women prefer the present un
* sightly market building to a struc
ture attractive in appearance, abso
lutely sanitary and pleasing in every
respect? Do women prefer untidy
conditions that must continue in the
present market because of lack of fa
cilities, to a condition of immaculate
attractiveness that would follow the
construction of a building up to date
in every desirable respect?
“To all these questions the answer
should be that women, by nature,
favor tho new market, yet many are
being engaged in obtaining signa
tures to petitions against it. They
are being unduly Influenced in this
matter, but the hundreds of women
who do their own marketing ara
enthusiastic in favor of the proposed
change. Those who oppose iL do jjot
personally patronize the market, and
seldom, if ever, visit it. Only special
interests are against the new market
plan."
It is said that the mayor w-iil send
a message to the council asking that
the name of August Soffel for auditor
be tatken from the cable and acted
, upon.
—
Supreme Court Hands Down
Decision on Roseville Trust
Man’s Appeal.
TRENTON, March 6.—The Supreme
Court today, in a per curiam opinion,
affirmed the conviction of William C.
Armstrong for conspiracy to defraud
the defunct Roseville Trust Company,
of Newark.
Armstrong was sentenced by Judge
.Martin to one year in the peniten
tiary.
The court, In its opinion, said:
"This was-an indictment for a con
spiracy to defraud a bank. We have
examined with care the ruling upon
'X evidence with respect to which error
J is assigned or ground for reversal
specified, without discovering any er
ror injurious to the plaintiff In error.
“In establishing a conspiracy sin
gle bits of evidence standing alone
are lacking in complete legal justifi
cation until connected with or ex
plained by other testimony. The fact
that testimony is adduced seriatim
and not en bloc exposes such Isolated
pieces of evidence to attack that are
seen to be without merit when the
case 1» considered as a whole. Thus
considered, we have found no error
that should lead to a reversal.
"Considerable point is made1 of the
„ circumstance that is thus set forth
in the certificate of the trial court:
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AWHITESLAVER
Federal Authorities Await Out
come of Autopsy on Cook
Girl, Suicide.
PROLONGED EXAMINATION
WARRANTED, CORONER SAYS
Mayo Admits Duplicity and
Defends Character of Self
Slain Girl.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 5.—
Coroner Ell Mix, investigating the
circumstances surrounding the suicide
of Lillian May Cook, the eighteen
year-old Brooklyn stenographer
whose body wae found in West Rock
Park here yesterday, said today that,
as the result of a report made to
him by his physicians, he believed
there were "sufficient indications to
warrant prolonging the examination
beyond the mere tracing of the course
of the bullet and establishing the
cause of death."
The coroner said that he expected
to receive a complete report from the
physicians who performed an au
topsy upon the body of the young
woman later in the day.
Federal authorities, occording to
Samuel J.. Reid, assistant United
States district attorney in Brooklyn
arc also watching the case. If
It is shown that Miss Cook was
taken front Brooklyn to New Haven
in violation of the Mann white slave
act Mr. Reid declared that he will
prosecute.
"We are seeking information," Mr.
Reid saiu, “and shall act at once if
anything that comes to us justifies
prosecution "
Miss Cook's employer, Virglnius J.
Mayo, ^ho, as bead of the Mayo Ra
diator Company, resided here with his
wife, supported in a house in Brook
lyn, a woman who formerly occupied
tho position held by Miss Cook at
the time of her death, announced to
day that he was "through with the
caex;.” He said that in offering a re
ward for information concerning the
whereabouts of Miss Cook he had
been prompted by a desire to aid her
family.
"I am no angel," said Mayo when
the body of the Cook girl was found
yesterday. “I do not pose as one. I
have made my mistakes. It would be
foolish of me to deny them, because
they are known to many living here;
but let me say that there was never a
better girl living than Miss Cook.
There was absolutely nothing about
crur relations that could be ques
tioned, and any rumors of that kind
that the absence of the girl has given
rise to are a terrtble Injustice to per."
Captain James H. Donnelly;, of the
New Haven police, who Img investi
gated the carte for a week, rafiTlast
night that there was no reason to
doubt Mayo's story. Friends of the
girl say that she had continually
talked a bout suicide during the twelve
months that she had been in New
Haven. Their *belief is that she was
despondent because her father, who
had been sexton of a Brooklyn church,
was’out of work, and her mother and
seven brothers and sisters were hav
ing a hard time.
Miss Cook’s friends advance various
reasons for her threats of suicide.
One is that she suffered from fre
quent severe headaches, which a local
physician told her had been caused
by a fall which had Injured her heed
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Jurist, However, Refers Their
Cases to the Juvenile
Court.
Six boys—four of them under six
teen years of age—stood in the prison
er's dock in Judge Martin's court
yesterday afternoon while the clerk
read a half-dozen indictments for
breaking, entering, larceny and re
ceiving.
"How do you plead?” asked .the
clerk.
The smallest of the sextet, a lad
of thirteen, who could barely see the
judge, stood on his toes, looked ovei
the rail and asked, "What's that?"
The boy next to htm turned a pity
ing glance on his pal—ae though to
®ay, “Shut up, Johnnie; don’t show
that you don’t know anything." Two
of the other boys looked at each other
in perplexity, then one got courage
and said in a weak voice:
“Unguilty."
Another spoke up, "Non vult.”
Then the others followed: “Me. too;"
“Some here;” “Same for me” and
“The same ns Choily.”
Judge Martin ignored the pleas. Te
take them meant to disgrace the boys,
to put a big black mark against their
reputation® when they grow' up, so
the Judge acted as though they hadn’t
retracted the not guilty pleas they
entered when arrested and the record
stood “Not guilty."
“If you are allowed to plead ‘non
vult’ to these charges here," said the
court, “you’re names are blackened as
long as you live; you have a ’record;’
you're classed as a criminal. I won't
take your pleas and I’ll have these in
dictments nolle pressed and then refer
your cases to the Juvenile Court.”
The records of the Juvenile Court
are not made public and can never be
seen by outsiders. The offense is not
called u crime in that court, but a
youthful indiscretion, so that the four
boy® under sixteen will have no rec
ords against them in after-life.
The indictments against the “gang”
were for the theft of block-tin pips
from vacant saloons, laundry from
laundry wagons, fruit and vegetables
and other goods from wagons, articles
from stores and houses and other
offenses in different parts of the city
during January and February. The
two boys over sixteen, George Ridge
and Peter Moran, had their pleas ac
cepted and will be sentenced next
Monday by Judge Martin.
Ridge i® tw enty and Moran Is sev
enteen.
Two Hundred Compressed Air
Employes and Twenty Team
sters Co Out.
JOB WOULD HAVE BEEN
FINISHED IN FOUR MONTHS
Bulkhead Under Canal Made
Secure Before the Men
Quit.
Two hundred compressed air work
ers and twenty teamsters employed
by Booth & Flinn, Inc., of New York,
on contract No. 7 of the Passaic Val
ley trunk sewer, went on strike to
day for more pay.
The job has been under way about
two years and would have been com
pleted within four months hut for
the strike. At present the men are
building a bulkhead under the canal
at Ogden avenue, and before quitting
work made everything secure, so
their representatives said.
According to President William H.
Wedlake, of the International Com
pressed Air and Foundation Union,
and Business Agent Edward Gurney,
of the local union, the men on this
job have been working tinder a spe
cial agreement at a material reduc
tion from the usual scale.
In New York city all members of
the union get $4.50 per day of eight
hours, but to give the Urm a chance
to compete with other bidders on the
; sewer work a special agreement was
made by which miners would get
i $3.60 per day, their helpers $2 70 and
the muckers $2.50 per day of eight
1 hours.
This scale was paid until January
28 last. On January 27 the men on
the job gave a complimentary dinner
.to their superintendent, Leroy Tail
man, in honor of his promotion to bo
superintendent of a bigger job in
Brooklyn. The following day, just
before leaving the city and as his
last official act, Mr. Tailman cut the
wages of the muckers, of whom about
100 were on the Job, from $2.50 to
$2.25 per day.
Negotiations for the restoration of
the cut have been under way sines
until yesterday, when a strike was
ordered. Now the men demand $4 a
day for miners, $3.G0 for miners’ help
ers and $3 for muckers.
Members of Local 47S of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Teamsters
also quit the Job. They have had a
lot of quibbling over the terms of
their agreement, and say they have
i been compelled to accept $13 a week,
i instead of the Beale price, $13.50. They
> now demand that only union team
I filers be employed at the scale price.
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WOULD DESTROY
_ j
Health Officer Chandler Rec
ommends Course to Mayor
in Special R6port.
—
Health Officer David D. Chandler
today recommended to Mayor Ray
mond In lieu of transferring the
furniture from the old almshouse to
Ivy Hill, that the same be destroyed
as soon as possible for sanitary rea
sons. The linens, etc., he said, could
be saved. In his report he states
that the officials of the almshouse
are not to blame for the vermin In
the furniture, but on the contrary
praises them for the manner in
which the place is so thoroughly
cleaned.
A conference between the mayor
and officials of the Building Trades
Council was held yesterday in the
former’s office. At that time Joseph
M. Byrne, a local labor leader, told
the mayor that he was informed
that the place was overrun with
vermin. As soon as this information
was communicated to him he asked
the Board of Health for a thorough
investigation.
Three inspectors were sent to the
old almshouse and a thorough in
vestigation made. Every bed was
examined and a separate report
sent to the mayor.
Even the linens, which the report
says, are the only articles now In
use at the almshouse which could
be sent to the new quarters would
have to be boiled before the trans
fer.
Mr. Chandler's report in full fol •
lows:
Praise for Almshouse Officials.
As requested by you, the follow
ing Is my report of an inspection
made by Inspectors Cahill, Mulligan
and Devine, on the advisability of
removing furnishings of the City
Almshouse.
About the only furnishings which
could be removed with any safety
from a sanitary slanilpoint would
be the linens, such as tablecloths,
towellngs. bedsheets, pillow-cases,
bedspreads and blankets, which
would require a thorough boiling for
one hour in a 5 per cent, solution of
carbolic acid.
The other furnishings in the din
ing-rooms and dormitories, which
consist mostly of tables, chairs and
beds, are old and antiquated, and
are all more or less infested with
vermin.
The tables in the dining-rooms are
made of plain pine boards, and, while
scrubbed and cleaned to a snowy
whiteness, are, nevertheless, infested
with vermin such as water bugs or
cockroaches and their larvae. This
is also true of the chairs and benches
In those rooms.
Vermin I* Everywhere.
The chairs and tables in the dormi
tories are infested mostly with bed
bugs and their larvae. There are
three hundred beds, of which one
hundred have wooden frames to sup
port the wire mesh or springs, one
hundred and fifty are pipe iron and
fifty are wrought or solid iron. Of
the three different kinds these last
fifty are the most sanitary, but there
is every evidence of vermin and their
larvae In these frames, as well as the
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SCENE AT THE GOLDEN HORN
—Copyright by Underwood A Underwood.
The picture shows freighters, ferries and ocean liners on the Golden Horn . narrow inlet of the Bosphorus, near
Constantinople, toward which the allied fleet Is trying to hammer Its way through the Dardanelles.
TUG GOES DOWN
IN RIVER; CREW
«TO BOAT
Vessel Sunk Near Clay Street
Bridge—Men Have Nar
row Escapes.
Five members q{ the crew of the
tug boat Virginia: Jackson had a
narrow escape from drowning last
evening, when the tug struck a sub
merged log in the Passaic river,
south of the Clay street bridge, be
tween the Newark and East Newark
shore. The vessel sank In fourteen
feet of water. Today the tug, with a
hole stove in her side, lies almost
submerged in the river and a diver
Is at work adjusting cables about the
sunken craft so that she may be
raised and pumped, out.
It was due to their haste in get
ting to the top deck and casting off
the rowboat th^t the men owe their
escape, as the tug settled rapidly and
soon sank until the water reached
the middle of the pilothouse windows.
The names of the crew were given
by Captain Edward Begley, one of
the members of the company owning
the tug, as follows: James J. Absley, i
captain; John Schermerhorn, engi- |
neer; William Barclay, fireman, of |
Jersey City; John Sexie. steward, and |
John Hardy, deck hand, of this city.
In describing the accident, Captain |
Apsley said:
“We had been waiting upon the j
dredge boat Toledo, which is at work i
dredging out the channel of the river I
to a depth of twenty feet, and had |
Just passed a raft of logs, when we I
struck something. It seemed to be a |
submerged log, which stove in a I
plank. This caused a leak and we
immediately began to sink. Our men
ran to the top of the boat and got oft
the rowboat in time for us to get
ashore without even being thrown
into the river.”
Captain Begley, who is president of
the Newark and New York Towing
Transportation Company, which owns
the tugs Virginia Jackson, Edward
Begley and Henry E. Peck, said:
“Fortunately for us, the wrecking
boat Commonwealth, owned by the
Merritt & Chapman, Derrick and
Wrecking Co., of New York, was
within a few feet of the spot, where
the tug went down, having been here
since Tuesday, engaged in putting in
a spud for the dredge Toledo. This
fact will mean the saving to our
concern of about t75 for towing
charges.
“Our tug was on the edge of the
(Continued on Page 9, Column 3.)
W. J. Kearns Files Appeal
in Seton Hall Tax Case
With U. S. Supreme Court
Special to the Evening Star.
WASHINGTON, March 5.—William
J. Kearne, of Newark, was admitted
to practice in the United States Su
preme Court yesterday. The action
was taken In order to permit him to
take up his appeal to the Supreme
Court as counsel lri the Seton Hall
College tax appeal case. Immediately
after being admitted to the Supreme
Court, Mr. Kearns filed his appeal.
Mr. Kearns was warmly greeted by
Justice Mahlon Pitney, an old New
Jersey acquaintance. Former Repre
sentative Yerkee, of Kentucky, made
the motion to have Mr. Kearne per
mitted to practice.
You’re Invited to T.uneh
At Terminal Lunchroom. 9Park Place;
never closed; near Proctor’.**; baking on
premise*; moderate prices Advertisement,
a
Conscience Money !
for Stolen Rides
Remits Twenty-five Cents to
Public Service to Be Square
With Fellowmen.
The Public Service Railway Com
pany has recefved tweffty-flve cents
in sliver from an anonymous letter
writer to pay for five trolley rides,
which were “gained dishonestly." |
The writer of the letter says the rides j
worked on his mind. The letter was
postmarked Camden and was un- i
signed. The letter follows in full, just i
as it was received, free from punctu- I
ation marks and with other irregu
larities:
"Inclosed you will find twenty-five
cents tins is for five ride® on your
trolley cars which I took without
paying, this happened some time ago
but still it is fresh in my mind and I
really thought I would have to settle
up, the reason for this is I have hit
the trail and not wanting anything to
hinder I must fix up with my fellow
man anything which I had gotten
dishonestly this seemed to bear on my
mind very much so I thought I had
better fix up now than wait until
later on as it seemed to get harder
to do: I dont want you to think I
am a religious crank but I am a sin
cere seeker after a true religious ex
perience which only can be gotten by
having a real honest desire to be right
with God and man hoping you will
receive this in the spirit in which it
was sent and also hoping if you are
not a Christian to think it over and
become one as that seems to be a
Christian’s duty to spread the good
news of salvation what it has done
for one that really wants a pure heart
and a sincere desire to make Heaven
their future home I now close hoping
this will be received in good will and
not jokingly from a brother that is
seeking for higher things and God :
bless you."
Earthquake Causes
New Panic in Italy
By the Associated Free*.
FLORENCE, via Rome, March 5.—
A slight earthquake shock lasting
four seconds, which was felt in Tus
cany and other sections in the central
part of Italy at 7:56 o’clock last night,
caused no fatalities and only slight
material damage, according to re
ports received here from various
points where the earth tremor was
observed. A panic was caused among
the people in the districts where the
shock was felt, as 11 was feared it
might presage a repetition of the re
cent disaster in the Abruzzl district.
The fact that the tremor was ac
companied by subterranean rumb
lings has given rise to the belief that
It was of volcanic origin.
Reports from Tuscany and a por- !
tion of the Emilia region say the
shock was felt everywhere In those
sections with more or less severity.
At Pisa the first shock was follow** i
soon afterwards by another, both
were undulatory from the north to
I he south and were attended by un
derground rumblings. Many of the
residents of the city rushed to the
celebrated cathedral fearing the ef- i
feet of the shock upon the leaning
tower.
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Bacon Resigns as Assislanl
U. S. Attorney; Lynch and j
Bodine Move Up a Step'
Special to the Evening Star.
TRENTON, March 5.—United States
District Attorney J. Warren Davis
has accepted the resignation of Firstj
Assistant United State® Attorney
Walter H. Bacon. Charles F. Lynch,
of Paterson, has been promoted to
the position of first assistant to the
United States district attorney.
Joseph L. Bodine. of Trenton, ha®
been appointed assistant United
States attorney, in place of Mr. Lynch.
Mr. Lynch and Mr. Bodine are Pento
**rats and Mr. Bacon Is a Republican.
T I
But Works Board Says Educa
tion Board Should Co Fifty
Fifty on Cost.
Following an appeal made by the
principals of the public schools for
noiseless pavements about the various
institutions, a conference between the
Board of Works, the Board of Educa
tion and the principals of the schools
will be held in the near future. At
yesterday's meeting of the Board of
Works a delegation of the heads of
the schools appeared and pleaded with
the board to eliminate all noisy pave
ments surrounding schools, as the
health of the children attending the
institutions is impaired and their
progress in their studies very slow.
Claude L. West, principal of the
Newton Street School, and Elmer K.
Sexton, assistant superintendent of
city schools, headed the delegation
and placed the existing conditions be
fore the boat4
"Mr. Commissioners, in schools sur
rounded by noisy pavements, we are
forced to stop all work as wagons go
by the school,’' said Mr. West. "You
can imagine the loss of time by such
waits and the pupil: in these schools
do not receive a fair show. The
health of the children is impaired as
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rells President of Boston Na
tionals That Regulars Should
Practice as They Preach.
President James A. Gilmore, of the
Federal League, today sent a per
sonal telegram to James Gaffney,
president of the Boston Nationals, in
reply to a message sent by the owner
5f the Braves in connection with Bill
Tames, his star pitcher. James has a
contract with the Boston Nationals
mailing for tw o more years of service,
Out he has grown dissatisfied with
the terms of the contract and de
manded a new one. Manager George
Stallings and the owners of the club
refused to accede to his demands,
with the result that James got into
communication with the Fedesal
League officials, and It was reported
that he would be signed by the Chi
cago Feds.
When Mr. Gaffney learned of the
report he sent a telegram to Charles
B. Weeghman, president of the Chl
feds. informing him that James was
jnder contract with the Boston Na
tionals.
President James A. Gilmore made
the following reply to that dispatch
today:
'James A. Gilmore:
"Our policy is still unchanged re
garding players under binding con
tracts, such as you say James has
with you. It is about time that your
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Allied Warships
Will Not Bombard
Constantinople
Turks Will Evacuate if Fleet
Forces Dardanelles. Says
British Official.
I
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
I'nlted Pre»» Correspondent.
LONDON, March a.—Constantino
ple will not be bombarded. The old
Turks have sent word to England
that once the allied fleet shatters its
way through the Dardanelles they
will flee to Asia to save Islam's
capital from destruction. This sums
the statement made today by a high
official of the British government.
For the present at least he insisted
that his name be not used.
"The Old Turks parti is over
whelmed at the show of England's
naval strength." he toid me. "The
battering in of the outer forts of
the Dardanelles astounded the Tur
kish leaders. They want to make a
show of resistance at the remaining
foils to save their faces before the
Turkish people; but above all things
they have sent word they want to
preserve the Turkish mosques from
devastation by shells from the Chris
tians.”
From other sources I learned to
day that the government is confident
that once the allied fleet passes the
Dardanelles narrows the Islamic
Turks will flee from Stamboul. The
Ottoman capital will be surrendered
to the English-French fleet. Accord
ing to rumors prevalent here the
Russians will !>e permitted to take
the position of Peru, suburb of Con
stantinople. but the Dardanelles will
be declared neutral forever.
AWAlflVEBY
BRITAIN TO LIMIT
SUBMARINE WAR
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Germans' Views on Concessions
to Neutrals Now Before
i British Cabinet.
! WASHINGTON. March 5.-Presi
dent Wilson today assumed personal
direction of the entire foreign situa
tion. With Congress off his hands he
prepared to direct ail negotiations
growing out of the country's attitude
of strict neutrality. While it was ex
plained by -lgh officials that there
would be no haste in pushing plans,
it was expected that within a very
short time many of the questions
now regarded as threatening woula
be amicably disposed of.
Advices reaching the White House
and state department from England
and France show that the widespreao
denunciation in the United States of
the allies' open declaration that they
were prepared to violate their agree
ments with the neutral nations has
already had its effect. Both London
and Paris are adopting a more con
ciliatory attitude.
While insisting that they must be
permitted to "starve Germany out.”
the offlc als there are now said to bo
considering the establishment of a
strict blockade aiorig the lines called
for by international law. If they do
so. there will be no objection from
the United States. But the President
and his advisers have fully decided
that there will be no changing of the
rules of the game, and that this gov
ernment will insist that all of its ex
isting treaties of every kind are bind
ing and no mere scrap of paper.'
The British reply to American sug
gestions that both Germany and her
enemies make concessions to the neu
tral nations is being prepared in
London. Until it reaches here the ad
ministration must mark time. But,
according to Ambassador Page, it
should be transmitted not later than
the first of next week. When it
reaches here the President w 11 have a
definite position for hi** future nego
tiations with all of the belligerents.
BERLIN (via Amsterdam). March
5.—“The decision now rests with Eng
land. Germany has shown her good
faith and desire to protect the inter
ests of neutrals. If England wants to
do the same let her act at once and
accept the suggestions made by the
United States It is needless to say
that we do not expect her to do so.
England is once more on trial before
the world. We trust to the fall
minds of Americans and other neu
trals to bring in a just verdict.”
In the foregoing words a high of
ficial of the German government to
day predicted the failure of the Amer
icon government to effect a com
promise between England and Ger
many, through modifications of the
former's "bread war” and the latter's
submarine campaign. He then cited
the statement made in the British
Parliament yesterday by Foreign
Secretary Gray as forecasting the at
titude to be taken by England, say
ing:
"Sir Edward Grey served notice on
neutral nations in that statement that
England would not listen to the
United States or any other nation un- !
less It joined Great Britain in its war
fare against Germany. Is it possible
for Americans to misunderstand Brit
ish motives? We do not think so."
Three Hotel Guests Missing
in $450,000 Minneapolis Fire
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 5.—
Three guests at the Astoria and
Frederick, two small hotels on Hen
nepin street, damaged by fire today,
are missing. Another suffered prob
able fatal burns and several women
were carried to tl\e street by firemen
In time to prevent them being In
jured. The loss was placed at 1459<u,0.
British Admiralty Con
firms Destruction of Two
German Submersible&
TURKS' FLEET HAY GIVE
BATTLE TO RUSSIANS
Allied Warships Continue
tack on Dardanelles, but Re» v
ports Are Confusing.
AUSTRIANS EVACUATE
CZERNOWITZ. IS REPORT
1.000 French Soldiers Slain in
Attack on Germans, Says
Berlin.
--
The Russian Black sea Beet !•
steaming toward the Bosphorus, eay*
a dispatch from Rome today. Xt is
reported that the Russian fleet has
passed Burgas, Bulgaria. Burgaa it
situated ot. ;■ western shore of the
Black sea, near the eastern extreme?:]
ity of the Balkans. It is seventy-el*
miles north of A.drianople.
Should the Russian fleet attack the
Bosphorus, it presumably would have
to deal with the Turkish fleet, which
is supposed to be in that region, and j
the most powerful member of whid> 1
is the cruiser Sultan Selim, formerly ]
the German cruiser Goeben.
The Bosphorus is about eighteen!
miles long and from one-half to on* j
and one-half miles wide. It is de- I
fended with modern fortification* j
which guard the approach to Con- j
stantinople. at the western > ~
Two Submeriaes
The Britieh admiralty
day reporta of the sinking of
German submarines, the U-S, which ]
the French admiralty previously an- ]
rounced had been destroyed iff a I
torpedo boat, and an unidentified «ub* 1
mtTKible. rammed by the collier Thtnr- J
dis. Survivors of the U-9 were landed]
at Dover today. I
Aitnough tne assault of the alile#J
fleet on the Dardanelles la continuiuii ]
there is such confusion of reporjaM
tnat It >e impossible to gain a dura
idea of wiia* trss-been a-rnmpTIritl/Wjn
The Turkish authorities admit that]
some damage has been done to tbd J
cuter forts, but state that the de- 1
fetuses on which main reliance 1*1
placed are still intact. From British!
sourcee it is reported that the allied I
fleet has penetrated well into tbsl
straits and that the Inner fortifies- 1
tions have been damaged badly. |
Three important Betties. I
On land important battles are i» 1
progress in the Champagne region of I
France, in Northern Poland and in!
Galicia. A dispatch from Bucharest I
this afternoon declares that the]
Austrians have evacuated Caemo-1
witz, the capital of Bukowina. ]
The official German report of today ]
says the French left more than 1,00ft]
dead before a German entanglement,*
as a result of one of several attack*]
along the western from yesterday.
The capitam of the American I
steamer Gulflight, on arriving at ]
Weser, Germany. Is reported by A]
Berlin newspaper to have said that I
he witnessed the destruction of twfl]
steamers by a German submarine. o |
The first reports of definite effect*!
on American trade of Great Britain*!
retaliatory police against Germany]
come from Bremen. It Is said thsi]
several American vessels which haft-]
been talking on cargoes of German ]
goods, particularly dyestuffs, un-]
loaded these cargoes, and will returS ]
to the United States in ballast. |
Hi the rutted Pirn. I
LONDON. March 5—The Russian!
Black Sea fleet, composed of six bat*!
tleships. two protected cruisers and si
number of smaller vessels, is steam-1
ing down the east coast of Turkey to!
attack Constantinople, through the I
Bosphorus. according to Roma!
dispatches this afternoon. I
The Russian squadron was sighted!
off Burgas, Bulgaria, steaming south!
toward the Bosphorus. At tbat time!
She was within 126 nautical miles fl
the Bosphorus and about 140 miles!
from the Ottoman capital. 1
The admiralty refused to oonfimel
the report. It is known, howotrn, I
that the Russian Black Sea squ&drtj I
has been on the offensive and seggfCj
ing for the Turkish fleet. The Turll I
ish fleet, which withdrew mysterious I
ly from the Dardanelles, Is beltev4S41
to be steaming through the Boa-a
phorus to meet the unexpected attack!
upon Constantinople from the eta 1
French Fire 1b Accurate. (
In the Russian Black Sea squadron
there are three 13,800-ton battleships I
carrying 12-inch guns, the levstad,!
the Pantelimon and the Ioann!
Zlatoust
In addition to these the
Trill Sviatitelia, an old
the Oeorgi Pohledonosets I
Rostilav are reported to be
in the attempt to
nople before the
its way through the
The French squadron
Turkish forts near Bulair
Gulf of Sarasos have deiied
cipal forts, the Rome advlo
The aviators signalled the ri
th“ French gunners so accurate
scarcely any ammunition was
The Turkish garrison lost heavily
the bombardment.
A flotilla of small boats,
panying the french squadron, j
tempting to send ashore
party to sieze the Con:
railway.
By the A•• Belated Fraas.
LONDON. March 5, 1:04 p.
German submarines have been
in British waters, according
official announcement given <ntt
London today. The text of the
ment is as follows:
•The secretary of the
makes the following ann
The 8. S. Thordle has now bowl:
amined in drydock and inJuriMjS
keel and her propeller confirm the
denco of Captain Ben and
tCanttoueit as Page f.