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VOL. XXVIII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1915. 901 UROWN IN RIVER I oI in ChICAGO EXCURSION STEAMER to SINKS AT ITS DOCK 4 MANY THROWN INTO SEA w in hiv loaded With 2,500 assengers se Je4 Steamer Eastland Attempts to Be- ro gin Trip But Slowly Lists and w( Turns Over in Five Minutes- al< River Filled With Bodies. th The bodies of 901 persons, drown- s ed when the steamship Eastland cap sized Saturday at its wharf in the sc Chicago river, had been recovered m Sunday night after forty hours of ai searching by divers. of The total derd was put at approxi- to mately one thousand by Coroner tu Hoffman of Chicago. whose reports cu indicated that possibly one hundred bodies were held in the mud of the dr river by the superstructure of the th boat. While only 1,002 of the 2,408 ch passengers of the Eastland have reg- th istered as saved, it was thought that 'ir about 475 survivers, including the ch crew of seventy-two, had failed to re port. sp The Eastland lies on her side with tw .divers still floundering through her pe interior and burrowing under her in exi a death search, while Chicago, appal of led, is just beginning to grasp the significance of one of the greatest of as marine disasters. So While the grieving thousands who ful lost relatixes walked .through the wb morgue in the Second regiment ar- Ro mory gazing into the faces of the Sit dead, Chicago citizens and city, State ] and federal officials turned 'their at- I of tention to investigations of the catas- bet trophe and the work of providing re- sw lief for those left destitute. dri While no families were made ma wholly dependent by tho disaster, it wa was said many victums had been ray working only half time or less in re- fro cent months. Several merf who made thr this report, in -asking tor aid, were cal asked why they. started on the excur sion while in poor financial circum- ed, stances. on They replied that an organization hu of employees gave the picnic and that wit experience had taught them it was rie best to buy tickets, if they desired wa preferment for work. They said the pie company had nothing to do with this condition or the management of the the excursion, but that members of the for employees' organization found pur- the chase of tickets for the annual lake hoi trip almost compulsory. the Various theories as to what caused bod the Eastland to turn over were dis- f104 cussed. The four considered most E probable were: wa That the boat was overloaded; that tak she was not properly ballasted; that i a tag that made fast to warp the me Eastland from the docks started pull- wel ing too soon; that congestion of pas- the sengers rushing to the port side at- agc tracted by some passing sensation I tipped the steamer over.. fro Electric company officials said that ces not more than one-third of the vic- say tims were employees, the others be- the ing members of employees' families I or friends. tiol Stories by witnesses and survivors the cleared many details of the catastro- the phe. All the Eastland's 'passengers, wh except two or three hundred who sel -clung to the starboard rail or climb- the ed out the starboard portholes, were thr thrown into the river, crushed into to the slimy mud of the bottom or im- the prisoned between decks. Listing of the boat was noticed, bilq some said, fifteen minutes before she the 'turned over. Capt. Pederson said five Ont minutes. When full realization came hod the slow list had become an over- the turn. Men, girls, women and chil- awa -dren, deck gear and furniture slid . into the water in a conglomerate ing ass. the Beginning late Saturday night, a ve line began passing through the or- str4 mory. They came all through the ed night and all day Sunday. Identifica tions were made with rapidity and her unidentified bodies Sunday night had tW4 dwindled to less than one hundred. wal Tension and repression were ere shown in the Identification line, fat) Those who walked in it had given up spr hope and with clenched hands, steel ed themselves for the sight they hac sought but dreaded. As fast as iden- the tifications were made the bodies were chi turned over to undertakers and car- leg ried to lines of hearses drawn ur sod~ alongside the armory. T Ministers said more people attend ed church Sunday than for many as Sundays past. Chicago turned tc a prayer and thought. The preachers am nearly all asked congregations to shi join in prayers for the bereaved. sta With the details of the catastrophe fro summed up people shuddered that a me thousand people would go to theix onJ deaths with hundreds of persons pow- to erless to aid standing within a stone's fou throw-that that great mass coulc drown in a narrow -river twenty fee; i from the dock. sid The Eastland and four othex stil steamers had been chartered for th( hIol picnic occasion. Under misty skie- ')ut seven thousand men, women and hl children went to the Clark stree dock early Saturday to fill five large ies lake steamers with holiday mirth ir 31a a trip to Michigan City. The steam. da er Eastland was the first to be load. ->us ed. S Rain began to fall as the whar! So superintendents lifted the gang tals planks from the Eastland, declaring me that the government limit of twenty- loo five hundred passengers had beer. Col reached.- a The passengers swarmed to the left ] side of the ship as the other steamers at drew up the river toward the wharf thC A tug was hitched to the Eastland. '"a1 ropes were ordered cast off and the bie steamer engines began to hum. The tw~ Eastland had not budged, however. int Instead, the heavily laden shig wavered sidewise. leaning first to- nu ward, the river bank. The lurch was h so startling that passengers joined tw the large concourse already on the mi river side of the decks. The ship never heeled back. It he turned slowly but steadily toward its meh left side. Children clutched the skirts th of their mothers and sisters to keep 'T' from falling. Water began to enter 'i1 lower port holes and the hawsers ea tore out the piles to which the vesse - was tied. t Screams from passengers attracted the attention of fellow excursionists on the dock awaiting the next steam er. Wharf men and picnickers soor ' lined the edge of the embankment tr reaching out helplessly toward the t, wovering steamer. I For nearly five minutes the ship be turned befre it finally dived under tr: e swift current of the river. Dur g the listing of the vessel liweboats, airs and other loose appurtenances t the decks slipped down the slop g floors, crushing the passengers ward the rising waters. Then there was a plunge with a ,h of air escaping from the hold, .ngled with crying of children and rieks of women and the ship was the bottom of the river, causing ndreds of living creatures to the ter. Many sank entangled with cloth , and bundles and did not rise, but ,P geds, coming to the surface, red floating chairs and other ob ,ts. Persons on shore threw out pes and dragged in those who uld hold the lifelines. Employees of commission firms ng the river threw crates, chicken )ps and other floatable objects into a water, but most of these were ept away by the current. Boats put out, tugs rushed to the me, with shieking whistles and Lny men jumped into the river to i the drowning. With thousands spectators ready to aid and the arf within grasp hundreds went death despite every effort at res One mother grasped her two chil m in her arms as she slipped from steamer into the water. One Id was torn fro mher, but she and other were saved. Fathers were wned after aiding their wives and .ldren to safety. Dne man was seen to clip to a ke in the side of the wharf while a women and three .ildren step upon his body to safety. He fell iausted into the river as the last one of the five reached the pier. [nstances of heroism were almost numerous as the number of per Ls on the scene. Boats as soon as I took rescued passengers to the arf or -to the steamer Theodore Dsevelt, which was tied up oppo the Eastland. n an hour the water was cleared excursionists. Those who had not n taken to land had sunk or were rling down the river toward the inage canal locks at Lockport, Itt., ny miles away. The locks were ised to stop the current and ar gements were made to take bodies m the river along its course ough the southwest part of Chi shortly after the water was clear city firemen and workmen were the exposed side of the Eastland's 1, cutting through its steel plates h gas flames. Divers were hur i into underwater suits. A tug ; moored as a bridge between the r and the capsized ship. Ls the divers gained entrance to hull, the scene of distress moved the time being from the river to extemporized morgues. Ware ses of wholesale companies along river were thrown open and es were placed in rows on the )rs. cores of persons rescued from the :er were injured and these were en to the Iroquois hospital, built memory of the six hundred wo- 1 : and children and a few men who -e burned and crushed to death in 1 Iroquois theatre several years 1 fforts to resuscitate those taken m the river were generally unsuc sful. Only two or three were thus ed. It was tlso said that many of injured would die. he whole city was in ~consterna i ofer the catastrophe. Word of accident spread rapidly and to i thousands already at or near the1 a.rf other thousands added them-1 res. The Clark street bridge near wharf swas crowded until it eatened to collapse. Streets had be cleared by the police to allow passage of ambulances. lusiness men sent their automo s and motor trucks to help aid injured and carry away the dead. Swarehouse soon was filled with] ies and other dead were taken to Second regiment armory. a mile Vhile those on land were dispos of the dead, injured and rescued,j divers in the heart of the sunken se sent up an almost constant ~am of corpses from the submerg decks. irst, it was a gaily dressed girl in teens who had been caught be- 1 en a pile of chairs and a cabin .1. Next it was a slight boy, gath from the lifeless arms of a fond er, who had clung to his off ing, even in death. Men followed an old woman, who lgone aboard the ship to watch youthful pleasure of her grand dren, or a little girl with bare i and bootees, with gay ribbons den against lace of her holiday thrill passed through the crowd word came from the steamer that irl baby had been found alive ong the hundreds of dead in the p. She was found in a starboard eroom, where she had been held n the water by a chair that jam d against the berth. The baby y half awakened as it was carried the land. Its mother could not be 'wo women were found alive in ther stateroom in a protruding of the Eastland. There were three hundred persons in the d when these persons were taken alive and the explorers of the k said that all were dead. ork of tagging the bodies of the d and placing them in accessible ces for identification proceeded all and night. Reports from vari temporary morgues gave a total 770 bodies, but tabulation became, confusing that it was decided to' e all bodies to the Second regi nt armory. so that those who were king for lost friends and relatives Ld view all the victims in one dentification was slow and scenes the morgues were as affecting as se at the river when the steamer sized. Mothers fell across the rs of children whom they had sent ay a few hours before on what was ended to be a day of pleasure. Men had to summon all the stoical alities they possessed to retain ir composure as they passed be een rows of corpses, looking for ssing children or wives. Yet amidst all the horror and artacre officers of various depart *nts attended to the disposition of dead and iniured, tracing of the ssing, inquiry into the cause of the aster. and Precautions against dis e from sunken bodies and the car :ng of corpses by the river towards canal locks. British Apology to Norway. Great Britain has apologized to rway for the violation of her neut lity by the seizure of a German ~amer within the three-mile limit. was stated that the admiralty had en reauested to respect the neu Llity of Norway in the future. NOTE TO lERMAN1 STRONG REPLY MADE IN LAI EST REPRESENTATION FOR FREEHOM Of SEES Germany Having Admitted Megalit; of Her Acts Can Hardly Defenw Them Against a Neutral-Unite4 States and Germany Stand To gether to Keep Seas Open. Following is the official text of th< latest American note to Germany re garding submarine warfare, whicl was delivered to the foreign office a1 Berlin Friday by Ambassador Ger ard: The Secretary of State to Ambas sador Gerard-(Telogram): Department of State, Washington July 21, 1915.-You are instructed to deliver textually the following note to the minister of foreign af fairs: The note of the Imporial Germar government dated the eighth of July 1915, has received the careful con sideration of the government of th( United States and it regrets to be bliged to say that it has found il very unsatisfatcory, because it fails to meet the real differences betweer the two governments and indicates o way in which the accepted prin iples of law and humanity may be pplied in the grave matter in con roversy, but proposes, on the con rary, arrangements for a partial sus ension of those principles which vir tually set them aside. The government of the United 5tates notes with satisfaction that be Imperial German government recognizes without reservation the alidity of the principles insisted on h the several communications which his government had addressed to the mperial German government with egard to its announcement of a war one and the use of submarines gainst merchantmen on the high eas-the principle that the high eas are free, that the character and argo of a merchantman must first e ascertained before she can law ully be seized or destroyed, and that he lives of non-combatants may in io case be put in jeopardy unless the essel resists or seeks to escape after eing summoned to submit to exami ation; for a belligerent act of re aliation is per se an act beyond the aw, and the defence of an act as re aliatory is an admission that it is legal. The government of the United ;tates is, however, keenly disap inted to find that the Imperial Ger an government regards itself as in arge degree exempt from the obli-a on to observe these principles even rhere neutral vessals are concerned. >y what it believes the policy and >ractice of the government of Great 3ritain to be in the present war with -egard to neutral commerce. The mperial German government will eadily understand that the govern nent of the United States can not tscuss the policy of Great Britain with regard to neutral trade except with that government itself, and that t must regard the conduct of other ellgerent governments as irrelevant o any discussion with the Imperial erman government of what this overnment regards as grave and un ustifiable violations of the rights of tmercan citizens by German naval ommanders. Illegal and inhuman acts, however ustifiable they may oo thought to be gainst an enemy who is believed to cave acted In contravention of law nd humanity, are manifestly inde ensible when they deprive neutrals f their acknowledged rights, partic larly when they violate the right to ife Itself. If a belligerent can not etaliate against an enemy without njuring the lives of neutrals, as well s5 their property, humanity, as well s5 justice and a due regard for the ignity of neutral powers, should dic ate that the practice be discontinu If persisted in it would in such cir ~umstances constitute an unpardon Lble offence against the sovereignty f the neutral nation affected. The overment of the United States is lot unmindful of the extraordinary enditions created by this war or of ;he radical alterations of circum ances and method of attack pro luced by the use of instrumentalities f naval warfare which the nations f the world can not have had in ew when the existing rules of in ernational law were formulated, and .t is ready to make every reasonable llowance -for those novel and unex ected aspects of war at sea; but it an not consent to abate any essen :ial or fundamental rights of its peo le because of a mere alteration of ircumstances. The rights of neu :rals in time of war are based upon principles, but upon expediency, and he principles are immutable. It is :he duty and obligation of belliger nts to find a way to adapt the new circumstances to them. The events of the past two months cave clearly indicated that it is pos. ,ible and practicable to conduct such ~ubmarine operations as have char eterized the activity of the Imperial (ran navy within the so-called ar . . one in substantial accordl with the accepted practices of regulated varfare. The whole world has look d with interest and increasing satis raction at the demonstration of thai ossibility by German naval com cnandrs. It is manifestly possible, herefore, to lift the whole practice f submarine attack above the criti ism which it has aroused and re nove the chief cause of offence. In view of the admission of illeg ality made by the Imperial govern nent when it pleaded the right of re taliation in defence of its acts, and n view of the manifest possibility 01 onforming to the established rules f naval warfare, the government o1 the United States can not believe thai the Imperial government will longe refrain from disavowing the wantot (-t of its naval commander in sink ng the Lusitania, or from offerinI reparation for the American lives lost, so far as reparation can b< made for a needless destruction o! uman life by an illegal act. The government of the Unitec States, while not indifferent to the friendly spirit in which it is made can not accept the suggestion of th( mperial government, that certair ssls he distinguished and agreed upon which shall he free on the seas now illegally proscribed. The very actreement would. by im plicatior.. subject other vessels to il lega a-hes andl would be a cur 5,000 STORM OIL PLANT; ONE KILLED; 50 INJURE] Serious Rioting-Police Fire Int Crowd Which Advances Despite Shots Over Their Heads. Serious rioting occurred earl Wednesday around the plant of th Standard Oil company of New Jerse3 at Bayonne, where a strike is in prc gress. A mob encountered the guard there and in the fighting three of th rioters were wounded by pistol shotc It was stated that the guards dii not fire until the mob attacked ther with sticks and stones and had fire a number of shots. Then the guard responded with a round from thei revolvers and the crowd dispersed A dozen firemen with hose went t the plant to fight rioters with wate should there be more attacks. Before the attack on the police disorderly crowd gathered at th house of Fire Company No. 4 of th Bayonne department, and smashe windows in the building. The fir chief said he knew no, reason for th attack except that the fire house wa city property and the city was guard ing the Standard Oil plant. Later fighting was resumed arouni the Standard Oil plant and assume< serious proportions. The Bayonni chief of police said about five thou sand men were engaged in the attacl and that one rioter was killed. Fift: persons were taken to the Bayonn hospital suffering from injuries. Thi injured included both rioters and po lice. There were no additions to thi strikers' ranks Wednesday. The mei employed at the Tidewater Oil com pany's plant, which adjoins thi Standard, were expected by the strik. ers to join them. Instead, all hand. went to work. The sight of the Tide water starting up for the day seemed to anger the crowd which had gath ered, and it was then that the attacl on the Standard plant started. No one went in or out of th4 Standard plant Wednesday. Som< engineers and firemen remained o duty to guard against fire and seven ty-five deputy sheriffs and one hun dred special policemen furnished b3 Bayonne, were stationed in the build ings. Several of the police stationed out side were mounted and they bore th( brunt of the riot. They drove th( rioters back and most of them werE hit with stones and pieces of slag and shots also were fired at them. The police at first fired a volle3 over the heads of the crowd. It halt ed the attack only a moment, and then the order was given to fir( again, but this time to aim low. Th( police believe many bullets found hu man marks, but that the injured werE carried away. FINAL WORD TO BERLIN IS CONTAINED IN NOTI Officials are Watching for its Recep. tion by German Gover ment and People. The United States government, be fore determining the next step in its general diplomatic policy, will for a brief period await indications froin official quarters in Berlin as to the reception of the new note warning Germany that the loss of Americax lives through further violation o: neutral rights would be regarded as "unfriendly." Everywhere in official quarters It was pointed out that this document speaks -the final word on how thi United States government would re gard further transgression of 'ts rights. .The general trend of et ment was that the repetition of s' .1 a disaster as befell the Lusitania -would mean the convening of con gress by President Wilson for consid eration of the action to be taken. In event that the -status quo I: maintained, however, and there are indications through official or unof ficial channels that German subma rines in future will conform to the rules of internationl law in saving the lives of Americans on unresist ing merchantmen, President Wilson will take up very soon the situatiol that has arisen with Great Britait over interferences with Americar commerce by the allies. tailment and therefore an abandon meat of the principles for which thi! government contends, and which ix time of calmer counsels every natiox would concede as of course. The government of the United States and the Imperial German gov. enent are contending for the sam' great object, have long stood to gether in urging the very principles upon which the government of the United State'; now so solemnly in sists. They are both contending for the freedom of the seas. The govern. ment of the United States wiill con tinue to contend for that freedom fromt whatever quarter violated, with out compromise and at any cost. 11 invites the practical co-operation o0 the Imperial government at this tim< when co-operation may accomplisl most, and this great common objeci be most strikiagly and effectivel: achieved. The Imperial German governmen expresses that L.ope that this objeci may be in some measure accomplish ed even before the present war ends It can be. The government of thi United States not only feels obligei to insist on it. by whomsoever vio lated or ignored, in the protection o1 its own citizens, but is also deepl: interested in seeing it made practi cable between the belligerents them selves, and holds itself ready at an: time to act as the common frient who may be privileged to suggest way. In the meantime the very valut which this government sets upon the long and unbroken friendship be tween the people and government o the United States and the people an' government of the German natio: impels it to press very solemnly upo: the Imperial German government thi necessity for a scrupulous observane of neutral rights in this critical mat ter. Friendship itself prompts it to sa: to the imperial government that rep: etition b~y the commanders of Ger man naval vessels of acts in contra vention of those rights must be ra garded by the government of th< TUited States. when they affee American citizens, as deliberately un friendly. Lansing. Town Almost Destroyed. The Russian towns near Windal were almost totally destroyed by th Russians in their retreat from th Germans. according to a Berlin new dinptch. TEUTONIC ARMY CHECKED BY OUTER WARSAW FO o Capture of Lublin and Chehn I road Only a Question of Time, Says Vienna. y The war situation on Friday e summarized as follows by the A r, ciated Press: The outlying defenses of Wai s appear to have checked for the t e the impetuous Teutonic drive on - Polish capital. Driven back on the fortres4 Ivangorod, southeast of the city, Russian line still is maintaine< s that point, so far as latest off r reports show. ' It is wavering along the cur r front extending northwest around city, Berlin claims, but has not been broken. e From the fortress of Nowo G gievsk along the line of the Narel the north, the Russians are batt a desperately against the surging man tide. 3 oTo the southeast the great ar - of Mackensen still are engaged inighty drive for the strategic Lul I Chelm railroad. Official and un cial accounts agree that the figh there is desperate and that the i has not been decided. On nearly all the other fronts Russians, while fighting hard, falling back. Dispatches to Berlin newspa) declare capture of Lublin and Ch is only a question of a brief time, praise the bravery of the Russian sistance in the fact of lack of am: nition. The struggle of the Italians Gorizia continues. Rome's claim! advances are denied by Vienna. Thep have been few recent opi tions along the fronts in France Belgium. It is reported in Rome that Tui German forces have been landed Tripoli. No decisive actions on the west front were reported to-day. The ( mans tried to win back some of ground they had lost near Metze but they were driven back, the P statement says. The new American note on sub: rine warfare was delivered by J bassador Gerard to the German eign office this afternoon. SULLIVAN GIVES UP JOB AS DOMINICAN MINS Senate Committee Sustains Char and Wilson Accepts Resignation. James M. Sullivan, American n ister to the Dominican republic, tendered his resignation to Presid Wilson and it has been accepted, cording to a Washington dispa Friday. Mr. Sullivan's resignatioi the consequence of an investigati conducted for the state departm by Senator -Phelm, of California, i the minister's fitness for his off The findings were unfavorable to Sullivan. Senator Phelan's report has b at the state department and bef President Wilson several weeks. S after it was received it became knc he had been asked to resign. Mr. Sullivan's brief term as mi: ter in the island republic was tended by charges and cour charges as to his conduct. Wal -W. Vick, collector of customs for United States at the island, resig because, it was stated, he had work under unsatisfactory conditi brought about by Amister Sulli' 'Senator Phelan took testimony the Dominican republ'c and in United States at which witne! charged that Secretary Bryan in pointing Sullivan, had been consul by financiers associated with San M. Jarvis of New Yo'-k, who con1 the Banco National at Santo Dot go City, which was seeking depc of customs dues collected by United States. Other witnesses gave testimony show that the minister was interes in securing contracts there for ot Americans. Former Gov. Fort, New Jersey, and other* witnesses tified that Sullivan was "big-heari good-natured and honest." The report, which Secretary I sing announced Friday, would not made public until next week, is derstood to sustain many of charges against Sullivan. COAL MINERS OF WALES READY TO RESUME WO -Representatives Submit Proposals .Delegates Who Are Expected to Vote Favorably. Government representatives, n owners and miners reached an agi ment at Cardiff, Wales. Tuest which, it is believed, will end great South Wales coal strike. wI since last Thursday has menaced navy's fuel supply. Tho agren is subject to ratification by the n ers. The terms arrived at -gran substantial increase and involve< cessions which strike leaders consi as tantamount to an admission nearly all the miners' claims. The chief cause for the miners' rest was what they considered excessive profits mine owner a making in the sale of their coal war prices-profits in which t were not sharing. They also det resented enforced arbitration, as thorized by the application of Munitions Act to coal miners. Tho it is now a law, this measure was actually invoked against the min and no mention is made of its fut scope in the proposed settlement. The hopeful turn of affairs been received with a sigh of relief over Great Britain, for the humi 1tion of the public that a strike shc have taken place at such a time keen. This humiliation was refle< in the press. and there was grow talk of the government takingc the mines. The agreemtnt provi that neither side shall be penali -for the dispute. -Sumnter Man Dies Suddenly. Rlobert Haynesworth, of Sun president of the National Bank. . in Birmingham. Ala., Friday m< ing the union station from h failure. Mothers' Pension Law. e Wisconsin has adopted a pen e for mothers. The first child s fifteen dollars and ten dollars n is given fore ach additin1 child RS WAR STORES RUSHED RTS, tail- GREAT FLEET OF TRADE SIHP5 FILL VLADIVOSTOK s MAY SAVE RUSSIAN ARM -saw ime, the Great Britain, France and the United of States are Rushing Supplies Need. the ed by the Czar's Legions-Big I at icial Gangs of Laborers Build Docks With Feverish Haste. ring the Twenty thousand American freight yet cars and forty American locomotives are due in Vladivostok, Manchuria, eor- from the United States within two v to months to relieve the congestion of ling supplies *destined for the Russian :ler- armies at the front. The army corps on the German nies Austrian battle line need guns, rifles, A a and ammunition; Vladivostok will flin- supply them. They need armored offi- cars, many hundreds of them, and ting Vladivostok will give them these. sue They need dynamite; they need pig lead and pig copper; they need cot the ton to be made into clothing; they are need food-and Vladivostok hopes to see to it that they get it all. pers The guns and rifles .and ammuni but tion are arriving from Japan and the re- United States by the steamer load. re- The armored motor cars are coming mu- by the hundreds from the United for States. They are being made at De 3 of troit and Cleveland and other points, and they are going out there mostly ra- by way of Seattle on vessels which and sail direct to Vladivostok. So also is the lead, copper, and dynamite. ko- As for the cotton, it is coming out in from New York via Panama in such vast quantities that more than any ;ern thing else it has caused this terrific ser- congestion -of supplies which has the forced Russia to place rush orders ral, for locomotives and cars to get them ris off to the front. It is piled high or the hills back of the city waiting for ma- its turn to be forwarded to Moscow Lm- and other cities to be manufactured for- into blankets and uniforms for the soldiers. From Great Britain have come guns for the navy. They arrive by steamer and then they are shipped by railroad to the Black Sea to be mounted on the warships Russia is building. From France has come ammuni ge tion. From the Unitel States have come several nine-inch guns-also to find their place on Russian warships in the Black Sea. And, above all, is coming barbed wire from America uin- an amazing quantity of it-to protect has the trenches of the Russian armies. .ent Ships bringing these vast supplies ac- are arriving in such numbers and tch with such rapidity that they can not i 1s be accommodated at the docks. Plans tOn, of permanent enlargement of the port .ent has been temporarily put aside in nto favor of provisional enlargement. ce. Huge gangs of men are building r. pontoon piers and transshipping their een cargo to lighters, but a shortage of re lighters has retarded even that means oon of discharging. So the Russians are own building more lighters. Vladivostok, they believe, is to save the day for the Russian armies, a-and every possible human effort is ater made to forward these precious sup ker plies to their destination at the front. te The feverish activity at the water the front is duplicated elsewhere in this togreat port, which, while peaceful in ositself, is the very incarnation of war. ,on Every month new armies are sent in away to the West. For five hundred temiles to the north of the fortress of teVladivostok proper extends a series ses of fortified places. d All these, when not used as prisons ufor German prisoners of war, serve Iras drill grounds for Russian recruits. n-The reservists come in from all points sits in the eastern part of the empire and iswithin six months are turned into the soldiers. - Then they are hurried off to across Siberia. ted The mushroom war growth of hrVladivostok as a port of commerce. her together with the extra occupation of ofs looking after detained civilians and Lethe interests of the prisoners of war, has given the Ameuican consulate angreat prominence and responsibility be as well as work. un the GiERARD DELIVERS NOTE TO GIERMAN GlOVERNMENT RK American Ambassador Visits Foreign Office at One O'Clock to Friday. Berlin, via London, Friday: The new American note to Germany was delivered to the foreign office by Am Lin bassador Gerard at ene o'clock Fri ~eday afternoon. ree- Washington: With the delivery by teAmbassador Gerard to the foreign thel office in Berlin of the new Ameri tcan note warning Germany that the ~tloss of American lives through fur etther violations of neutral rights tawould be regarded as "unfriendly,'' ton- the United States rests its case for de- the present at least. der If the note meets with a friendly ofreception and there appears no inten ution on the part of Germany to fur the ther violate neutral rights on the .he high seas, the president shortly will ere take up the situation that has arisen heyt with Great Britain over interference ~pwith American commerce by the al a-lies. the A note virtually is ready now to be ghe dispatched to Great Britain again ugh protesting against deviations from in ntternational law in the operations of ers' the order in council against com uemerce with Germany. . hall Germans Seize American Ship. la- The U. S. bark Dunsyre has been uld seized by the Germans. according to was a Berlin dispatch relayed through ~ted London Friday, and taken into Swine ing dunde. The records show no Amern ver can ship by that name, but there is a ides Canadian schooner, which sailed ized from San Francisco for Sweden on April 17. Eten. ' Release Steamers. lied Great Britain Friday released the rn- steamers Florida, Danish, and Skog eart land. Norwegian. which have been detained for about a week. S' Steamer Detained. siion : The steamer Lousiana, a Danish gets i boat, has been detained Friday by iore ;British naval authorities and has beean toured into Kirkwall. NAVAL OFFICERS WORRIED , AT FIRES ON WARSHIPS Several Fires on Board Different Ves sels Causes Marked. Uneasiness. Although Secretary of the Navy Daniels has announced that he had no reason to believe that the large number of fires aboard American war vessels recentiy were caused by spies or incendiaries, there is a general feeling of uneasiness among naval officers who are unwilling to believe that the blazes were of accidental origin. This uneasiness was increased greatly when. reports were received informally that fires were discovered on the dreadnought New York and the destroyer Warrington. at the Brooklyn navy yard. A fire in the forward bunker of the collier Vulcan at Portsmouth Wednesday destroy ed one thousand tons of coal. Secre tary Daniels will order an investi gation of the causes that led to these fires. While there is a general disposi tion to discount such contentions; many naval officers appear to be of the opinion that the great number of naturalized foreigners serving in the American navy may be a cause of serious trouble, before the European war is ended. Officers fear that some of the sail ors of German birth may become ob sessed with a belief that this country should prohibit the exportation of munitions to such an extent that hey may become unbalanced and attempt to destroy the vessels to which they are attached. MILITIA HELD READY FOR BAYONNE STRIKERS Governor Waits for Outbreak of Law lessness Before Ordering Soldiers Out. The authorities of 'New Jersey were busy Friday trying to keep or der at the Standard Oil plant in Bay onne without calling out the militia. At the same time it was stated that if the strike situation became worse he millitia could be called out into srevice at an hour's notice. Adjutant-General Wilbur F. Sad ler, who visited the scenes of the riot ing Thursday when two strikers were shot and killed and several others wounded, afterwards told the sheriff, Eugene Kinkead, that if the rioting was resumed state troops would be needed. General Sadler was expect ed to make afurther investigation and to report to Gov. Fielder. Gov. Fielder, who left his home in Seagirt to be near the scene of the trouble, was in New York awaiting word from General Sadler and the sheriff which would determine wheth er troops were needed. Sheriff Kinkead, who asked the governor to send troops to Bayonne, had two hundred and fifty deputies guarding the oil plant all night and searchlights mountid on the roofs of the buildings swept the walls of the plant and streets nearby. There was no disorder but the sheriff was con vinced that he could not, with the force.at his disposal, control the sit uation. ATTACK ON TIlE ORDUJNA. hAS NOT BEEN PROVED State Department Reluctant to Act on Partisan Testimony at Hand. No progress has been made in the investigation of the case of the Brit ish liner Orduna, at which the Ger man submarine is alleged to have fired a torpedo without warning. No evidence has been received to estab lish beyond doubt that the torpedo was fired, and until this is available it was said in official quarters at Washington the case probably would not be pressed. None of the American passengers on the Orduna were awake at the time of the attack, and the state de partment, it is understood, is reluc tant to act on what might be con strued as partisan testimony, such as the statements of the officers and crew of a British vessel. As yet no report has been asked from Ambassa dor Gerard at Berlin because a prima facie case has not been established. GjERMANS CAPTUJRE 66,790 Russians Remove Official Archives From Baltic Seaport. Berlin reports Wednesday that the Vossiselle Zeitung estimates that us the official headquarters reports as a basis the number of Russian prison ers'taken since the beginning of the new offensive is 175 officers and 66, 70 men. According to dispatches reaching Berlin, all of the official archives in Riga, the Russian Baltic port now threatened by the Germans. together with the moneys of state banks and court records, were taken to Petro grad Monday. Government officials have been advised to be ready to de part. Tt is said more than ten thou sand inhabitants of the city fled last week. BERNSTORFF OPTIMISTIC Thinks Note Will Bring Reply From German Government. Count Bernstorff, the German am bassador, went to the state depart ment at Washington Friday for his official copy of the new American note to Germany, although he pre viosly had received an unofficial outline of its contents. The ambassador has had no com munication with his foreign office on its view of the note, but his personal view is that the communication will bring a reply, although one may not be made for more than a month. His personal view is that the situation is still left open for amicable adjust ment. Credit Due American Ambassador. Berlin Wednesday says arrange ments have been made between Rus sia and Germany to exchange dis abled prisoners. Credit is due .Tames W. Gerard, the American ambassa [ar. NINE CENTS COTTONR PROMINENT GINNER PREDICTS MUCH SMALLER CROP HAS TOURED THE SOUTH Says 1913 Crop Will be Considerably Below Government Figures-Esti mates Cotton Stored at 2,751,000 Bales-Thinks Government Should Take Some Action. The 1915 cotton crop will be the shortest in the last decade-consid erably under the government esti mate made last June-according to Veigh Cockrum, -if Memphis, presi dent and general manager of the Na tional Cotton Ginners' association, who arrived in Atlanta Thursday. Mr. Cockrum spoke after he had completed a tour of virtually every cotton state in the South where there have been held in the last ten days state meetings of the cotton ginners. 3 He said he based his prediction on the low estimate for this year's crop on the confidential report received by the national association from the se,' enteen thousand ginners in the South ern States, and gave these significazit reasons why the country may Iook-for one of the shortest crops in the'his tory of the South's chief product: First-The uncertainty of the international situation arsing from the embargo placed on cottjn by the British government and the American. government's subsequent demands for a removal of the em bargo or a modification of the Brit - ish order in council. Second-the dawn of a new era in farming in the South out of the growth of the gospel of diversin cation which he said has taken a Arm grip on the planters. Third-A reduction i the yield per acre, owing to the climati conditions which have- prevailed over the cotton belt since the- gov ernment's June estimate was sent out from Washington. After a survey of the general cot ton crop . conditions of practically every cotton-growing state, Mr. Cockrum said the following compos ite report would give an idea of the crop as it is in its state of production to-day: The Texas acreage will be greatly cut by the floods and the drouth which- preceded the heavy rains; in Alabama the condition is fair; Ar kansas, the yield is good, but the acreage cut; Oklahoma, the acreage will be off considerably; the Missis sippi Delta section, fair; Louisiana, normal; Tenhessee, light crop, and South Carolina, fair. The condition of the crop in Geor gia, Mr. Cockrum said, he could not speak of, having failed to receive re ports from the state's ginners. He - said, however, should cool weather continue long the crop would be seri ously menaced. He declared the 1915 crop, tAn all conditions Into consideration as they are to-day, will sell for about nine cents. He assigned the reason for the low price to the surplus on hand from last year's crop and the uncertainty of business counditions In the next twelve months. There are 2,751,000 bales of cot ton In warehouses in various parts of the South, Mr. Cockram said, being held because of the impossibility of the exportation of the product abroad to neutral ports, on account of the British embargo order. "This surplus of last year's crop," he explained, "will, of course, make our crop for this year, in the aggre gate, considerably higher than we es timated some months ago. It is a serious situation the country is fac ing, and especially the South, when we are for'ced to hold this product here until another nation sees fit to permit us to send It to the foreign markets. "The United States government ap pears in a dilemma as to what to do at this moinent with Great Britain on this embargo question. In my opin ion, it is either go to war and run the - - risk of being able to hold our own or sit still and take the medicine as It is now being offered us. It is my per sonal ' pinion that the United States should demand its right of freedom of the seas for its international ship ping." Mr. Cockrum represents 17,461 ginners in the South, who operate twenty-seven thousand gins, about four thousand of which are controll ed by linseed oil companies, the re mander being run along independent lines. ITALY WANTS TO EXTEND. WAR TO INCLUDE TURKS Relations are Becoming Daily More and More Strained-- Hos tilities Soon. Diplomatic relations between Italy and Tlurkey, already strained, are be oming more tense, according to a ispatch from Rome to Paris Friday. because of the reported refusal of the Turkish authorities to permit talian subjects to leave the Ottoman mpire. It is believed that a decla ration of war by Italy in the near future is highly probably. Reports from Cairo that a Turk sh-German expedition has landed on talian territory in Tripoli has arous d the ire of the Italian press.. Rome also has heard that a large number of Italian reservists have been detained at Smyrna onsthe pr-e' tense that passenger traffic has been stopped because of the port being losed, while other Italians are simi larly detained at various points In. Asia Minor, Syria and Arabia. Although Italy is at war with Aus tria there has been no declaration of hostilities against either Germany or Turkey, the allies of Italy's antagon ist. It has been the belief in diplo matic circles that each side is wait ing for the other to take the initia tive and thus assume the responsi bility for extending the scope of the conflict. Submarines Take Week's Vacation. During the seven days ending Thursday not a British ship was tor pedoed by a German submarine. One thousand three hundred and twenty sailings were reported. This is the first week of the war that British shiping has escaped scot free