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-THE BR00K1YN DAILY EAGLE Aim BUN. pare TONIGHT PRBM tnswt Complete report LAST EDITION. NEW YORI SATURDAY. AUGUST 14, 1915. 16 PAGES.

THREE CENTS LOW HOME RULE BILL WILL PROBABLY PASS JOHN W. HARPER DIES 1. L. ST. JOHN DIES BLISS CO.

IS HALED DEADLOCK IN WAR, EAST AND WEST, One of Four Brothers Who TO COURT FOR NOISE FROM INJURY IH 'GYM' Created Great Publishing House. Biddeford, August 14 John r. Harper of New York, last sur-vor of the Harper Brothers, book id magazine publishers, died today at LIKELY TO BE BROKEN VERY SOON; NEW ALLIED OFFENSIVES EXPECTED Some Delegates Think It Better Residents Near Fifty-third St, Autopsy to Determine Cause Than Any Other Plant Want It Declared of Well-Known Man's BRITISH GAIN FOOTHOLD Eagle Man in Paris Cables SPERRY IN CRASH: PARALYSIS FOLLOWED NAME WRONG IN COMPLAINT. PESSIMISTS ARE IN DOUBT. iere were four Harper Brothers, they all became well known as Event of Great Significance to Entente Powers Are About to Transpire Says Fate of Constantinople Hangs on a Hair.

Break in Turkish Morale Expected Bulgaria's Entrance Into War on Side of Allies, Predicted Her Army in Splendid Condition. Special Cable to The. Enle, from a Slaff Correspondent.) Bftftt Bureau. 113 Hue Cambon. Paris, August 14 At no time during Ignlllcance for tho Allies hung In the mill nee, Kast and West.

In spite of the loss of Warsaw, at 10 time has the outlook of the Allies iffered greater promise, In view of rapltl developments which may cul- riling of I he a ppiiren reaten Petrograd. This may cause tremendous shift In the entire mili tary situation. British forces wera openly regarded here as holding them- lves In reserve for a German ofien-ve In the West after Warsaw. This offensive has scarcely had time develop. The London Times of yes- terday, under tho heading "New Ger- Offenslve Toward Russian Capi frankly discusses the changed slt- which began to unfold with a desperate German bombardment of the fortress of Kovno with heavy siege As soon an the Intended operation! of the Gorman army for the Immedl- future became so apparent as to be Judged with reasonable certainty.

It in not unlikely, according to expert opinion in Paris, that the long-awalied allied offensive in the West may be undertaken. Nothing definite Is yet known, but It is evident that the war has begun to shift Its course, and with the Germans pushing toward Petrograd and the Allies pushing toward Constantinople, the deadlock shortly The expected break In the Turkish morale Is due to the torpedoing of the battleship Kheyer-ed-DIn Barba-rossa and the Bulgarian menace. From personal knowledge gained during a recent visit to the Dardanelles I am able to state that while the spirit of the Turkish army Is Indomitable In Its confidence, the fate of Constantinople hangs on a hair. Slight reverses induce immediate waves of which easily swell to serious proportions. Bulgarian Aid for Allies Depends on Igarlan aid, I can say absolutely statements made to me by slavoff, the Bulgarian Premier, it be derived through halfway ures.

It can be purchased by the Quadruple Entente only by the ise of the definite cession of dis puted Macedonia. This was the original position of Bulgaria as stated by the Premier In the first American ntervlew printed In The Eagle. This must be final before Bulgaria declares war. The apparent reluc tance of Servla to cede any territory has already been Indicated In an official statement issued in Paris on Wednesday. Bulgarian Intervention on behalf of the Allies Is regarded as a possibility.

The Turks bitterly fear a Bulgarian My personal Inspection of many units of the Bulgarian army convinces me that her fighting force will stand comparison today with the best armies of Europe. It Is physically fit, efficient in equipment, and strong In SP'rlt HENRY SUYDAM. 5 KILLED ON IRISH MAIL Train Wrecked at Stowe Tunnel in England. London, August 14 Five killed and a score Injured when the second section of the Irish Mall train on the Northwestern Railroad Brooklrn Apsrlmenl ON GALLIPOLI HEIGHTS NETHERLANDS PACIFISTS IN NEW MOVE FOR PEACE Hague, August 14 (via Loti p.m.)- The Netherlands i TURKS LOSE HEAVILY IN TRANSCAUCASIA GERMANS HOLD ON TO S. BARK BALMAHA August 14 (via Lf The Jalmaha, which was brought i fortnight ago, having on bo.

bales of cotton from New gel. Tho ease is complicated with eiteumstancoH which may lead isiilm nil-; the Bass of llalniaha id prize, although her cargo of cc i is not contraband, the ease is similar to that of lerlcan -steamer Daela In that i -I i'l'-m British icrican registry after tho outbreak ned her cargo already bad passed I lie ownership ui tne itussiaa Of owners of tfyt mj enemy cargo aboard an enemy ship, BRITISH STEAMERANDSMACK SUNK BY SUBMARINES ulon, August 14, 12:08 p.m. DEATH STROKE IN SURF Mrs. Phelan, 70 Years Old, Faints While Bathing. (Special to The Eagle.) Rockaway Beach, August hree sons and one daughter survive after havli tli a.

fainting spell wh: been seized i bathing In removed to pltal and th l', kaway r.euoh lies that death was near. Mrs. social matters here. Funeral services were held In the Church or shew as buried in Calvary Cemetery. PHILIPBAR UNDER BOND Brooklyn Man Ordered by Court to Support Wife.

Special to The Eagle. Elizabeth, N. August --W11- liam P. Phillpbar of Brooklyn, son of the Rev. Charles I'hilipbar, pastor of a German Evangelical Church, was placed under bonds here today by Judge Mahon, to support his wife and 1-month-old baby, cnaries i nnipnar, a Brooklyn lawyer, who acted as counsel for his brother during the court proceedings, furnished the bonds re- who is only 2 old, for babv.

She said that sb to Brooklyn with the cl husband's father, but sh when she pleaded will The l'bilipbars were married on October 22, 1913, at Elizabeth, by the Rev. Or. Phillpbar, father of the bridegroom. Before her marriage Mrs. Phillpbar was Miss Lillian E.

Craig. MYSTERY IN BOY'S HERTS. Lad Found in Bed With Deep Gash In Head. No explanation has yet been made of how Peter Illowitz, 4 years old. of 460 Stone avenue, received a uee; gash in the head whleh caused hi removal Thursday night to St.

Mary' Hospital In a serious condition. Th lad Is Improved now and It Is ex The child night, in an lying on a mother, Maty Thursday condition, l. by noon, telling her he as H'dnr. i blcchns from. a deep HIS FLIGHT DELAYED Aviator Runs Into Dock When Plane Fails to Rise From Water.

HAD ABSENGER WITH HIM. his proposed ten-hour flight $5,000 CurtlSS Marine Flying Trophy. Mr. Sperry the foot from Wallabout Bay. compuanied by any passt flight, in which he pass the Cast Klver lo I he erty and, returning, all in the Navy Yard mam a he I up toward the closed in.

but although tin- chine. If repairs can be made today, Mr. Sperry will tomorrow fly in his ma- hangar at Amitvviile, 'on the Cmn South Bay, and will make his flight for Curti trophy iroiti mat point. time next week. 1IUTI1I It PLEADS FOR SON.

He Is in Prison Hospital iifTcrlng from Typhoid too While her son, William, 19 years old, was suffering from typhoid fever in the hospital on Blackwell's Island, where he had been sent two months Mrs. William Heillg of 27!) Wyckoff avenue pleaseded with Magistrate Hood, today, iii the New Jersey avenu, I live Tin magistrate, how hospital, ai FATHER SAYS SHE'S WAYWARD. Who Eloped with Alleged Hell for Amelia Ahearn, 19 years id run away with Michael i 30 Seventieth street with bigamy and perjury, raigned in the Fifth Avenue Court to- charge of me, a brought by her father, Michael Ahearn Istrate Nash remanded the young girl till Tuesday for sentence. BYING FROM SNAKE BITE. Brooklyn Man Bitten by Copperhead Neur Hartford.

to The Eagle.) rtford, August 14 No is held out for the recovery ilas Marlolis of Brooklyn, who ing from a bite of a copperhead ems Tuesday on Talcott 1 hand in which and Mariolis has WARNS STREET WAR DEBATERS. Manhattan Magistrate Suspends Sen- tenec on Brooklyn Offender. Magistrate Corrigan gave notice in Tombs Court today that the "Park ow Debating Society," which meets daily to discuss the war, must disband nt oittzens from going about their business. The remarks of the Magi: lowed the suspen: ion pb Newnerger, us, an Austri; Third avenue, New Brighton, Leonard M. Gobs, 34, a German.

454 Woodward avenue, Brooklyn, i were cnargea wnn uisurneriy Gl'ILTY OF WHITE SLAVERY. Alexander Dlckoff Will Bo Sentenced Monday. County Judge Robert H. Roy or Monday will sentence Alexander Oick-off, 19 years old, of 46 Varet street, who was convicted last night of a charge of white slavery made against him by Rebecca Gevandter, 17 years old, of 218 Boerum street. The maximum sentence for the offense is twenty years in Sing Ming, ine jury in riving at it CLAFLIN MANSION LEASED.

Lessee to Occup High Class Apart the Clailln Horace B. Clailln, the big dry pont street, to Jean Bazerque for ft' years. It Is a five-story brownstoi building, BO by 75 feet, and contali eighteen bathrooms. It has been conducted as a ve; high class apartment hotel, one the best In Brooklyn. The new less, epalrs Can Re Mude Aviulor Will Go to Anillyvllle Today and Fly From There.

imaged Hie right elcvalion rudder Lawrence Sperry's Cuitiss I'lying In the Brooklyn Navy Yard has It necessary for the Brooklyn s. for the present publishers. They came of an old imes Harper, was a farmer and acher, who lived at Newtown, L. I. lie father of the four Harper boys as a Jack-of-all-trades, who worked 5 and down Long Island.

The Harper Brothers dlsnlaved a natural aptitude for the publishing business, and raised "The House of Harper" to a position of enviable pre- ninenee in tne publishing world. Their first notable achievement about through the publication sheets nf the novels wer brought into script hurried which they over all their tereepled ami the mam tne presses. This iny achievements ir red a signal success One of the Harpers became Mayor Know KoihiiiK" ticket, and Droved iter hifl election he, mo: hoc MEXICAN OUTLAWS GONE General Funston Reports That Band Has Been Dispersed, Washington, August 14 Ge unston reported to the War De lent today that after a confei 'ith Governor Ferguson it was ai nat no more troops were needi this time. General Funston added thai no I he raiders who crossed the him I'l OH ll' Ml I they were Joined by about twenty- believes the band has now been President Wilson today telegraphed to Governor Ferguson of Texas, who asked for more Federal troops, that Major General Fl was in charge of the border situ and that more troops would be se Major General Funston requested them. CARRANZA OUSTS MAYOR Dismisses Official Who Permit ted Anti-Foreign Trouble.

Washlngt Carranza si 14 General Mayor of Vera Cruz froi permitting the recent demonstration which aro henslon of the American Government. UfficUil notification of General Carran-sta's action reached here today. The Pan-American appeal to all Mexican leaders and factions to re- ore peace will be given out tonight the State Department. Then will follow a period of dossI- bly ten days or two weeks of waiting us importance to Mexico, determine if the country its leaders men canahlc of restoring her sovereignty and constitutional government without out- Brief, and couched in terms of riendsliip and helpfulness, the ap-eal contains nullum; whleh Urn I'ao-mcrioan conferees believe, patriotic eclcd to reassure them of the d'isin- SHOT AT BY STRANGER Mysterious Man Held for Felonious Assault. rust as Benjamin Smith of 96 'the avenue opened the door of house this morning to leave for rk, a man confronted him, and, id point-blank at him.

One of bullets struck some metal In ith's clothes, and his sudden leap de caused another shot to miss n. Smith yelled for help, and heard by Policeman Waters of Bedford avenue station, as the ukl-be assassin fled. A'aters pursued him along Wythe nue and across McCarren Park, fired two shots over his head. Lorlmer street after a strug- and Briggs a ,1 In the polli station Smith ldenti- plaint of felonious assault against him. The prisoner said he was Joseph Panice, 36 years old, of 308 Wt questions as to why he tried loot Smith, and the latter said id never seen him before.

The Drlsoner was arraigned in the Manhattan avenue court, where Mag- Ing. HEARS OF TOBPEDOING. The nship riving at New York today from Go-enburg, reported being stopped by British cruiser on the way home and told of the torpedoing of an American steamship and several Nor wegian vessels by a German subnia- ne in latitude 67 longitude 12. The date of the torpedoing and the ime of the American ship were not given by the British cruiser. It is be- ship Leelanaw, which was torpedoed in British authorities June 16, and taken prize court.

The vessel was allowed She li there for New York HUGE TORTOISE ON BEACH. Freeporters See Dead Specimen Five Feet in Diameter. (Special to The Eagle.) Freeport, L. August 14 A flappers ex the tide. I the hare has 1 Error Causes Its Dismissal, but Com plainants Say They'll Be Back With New BIU.

Nearly one hundred men and women hose homes are in the vicinity of the W. Bliss Company's plant, at the ifth avenue court today making for-ml complaint against the company nd asking that the Fifty-third street plant he adjudged a pulili, complaint was disn and shnii cted a W. I not of II 'ore agist rale Xash dir dismissal several persons got dries on record. They charged that the corporalion was so operating works as to create a public nuisai and ihoivl'oro bringing it within scope of Section 1530 of the 1'enal Law under which the maintenance of a nuls- rbidden. ug and short of the charge the company has play th the nerves of the res was stated that the coi stant Jarring of machinery not on made sleep next lo mil, that it made the houses dangerous live In.

Undeterred by the magistrate's a )n, some of the complainants sa that they would institute another a tion along similar lines, supported by number of affidavits. In summoning the corporation to William G. Sutherland, a sales-an. of 125 Fiftv-fifth street, took the itiativ. He accused it of "wilfully and unlawfully" violating tne provi- of 1530.

Says Houses Shako and Sleep Is Im- was alleged that the constant vibration of the machinery, on every day save Sunday, caused nouses to shake, pictures to fall from the walls and even disturbed chandeliers, while it effectually killed sleep. It was as-seriod that neighbor had petitioned the company to abate the so-called Joseph John of 151 Fifty-seventh street filed a corroborating affidavit. He stated that the noise and Jarring had been prevalent during the last month, particularly at bed-time, and that the loading of metal on freight ighborhood's troubles. This petl-, vent a met .1 I that the health of his family had been impaired by it all. chant, of 47 Fifty-seventh street, complained that chandeliers and gas fixtures had been shaken loose and pic- Ftftv-seventh street, ioined with the others.

His story was that, although the noise was unbearable and the jarring such as to render Bay Ridge Among other items mentioned in complaint it was stated that ceil ings had shown cracks since the Bliss plant increased the volume of its business. It is also said that sorr the householders are moving out. Lawyer Suggests Germans Are Behind Edward T. Horwil handled the, case for ntlmated that there tinge to the complaint, but Magistrate Haw ran nis eyes over tne names lbs nn.i did and Sutherland. j- the iihsi.

company to court, stating that he nan personally investigated ist ilia as alleged. lie I Ix-ii made point that the complaint hold water since there wt corporation as the W. The company ii on Monday issued by 1th, to which depart- Board of Ilea Worst wrote, slating I I mo had hoop nine coal. The Board of Health found ground lor complaint on Hie noise, and neither did Building perintendent P. J.

Carlin. The nav Ridge folk left court. daring that they would pursue the a injunction. ALDER SEES FUSION BLOCKED. G.

O. P. Conference Unwilling to Con cede More to Moose. William M. Calder, former Repre sentative, who has been handling the Republican conferences with the Bull forces on fusion, out nas been unsuccessful in his efforts to ge third-termers to nibhie on a county judgeship and surrender their aspira for Register on a rusion slate called a conference of some of th other Republican leaders yesterday tt Brook no ommissionrr Jacob Brenner.

Michael la, Calder. supreme court justice ste any further concessions to the Bull THREE BODIES FOUND IN SOUND. One Man Is Supposed to Have Jumped Hire Long Island Sound, harbors, yesterday, off Connecticut identification. That at New London It thought to be J. 10.

Clifford, dence unknown, who Is said to have Jumped off a Sound steamer Thursday night. Tne oniy riue to itienuty is fountain pen with the initials Th hndv found off New Haven probably mat oi i probably it of a TYPHOID CASES. re lyphoid eases have been i the Norwegian Hospital ritirr. say the other thlrtj AH cases are prcgresslni Hurt Bat In Fall on Dumbbell ut Bedford Y. M.

C. A. Was Western Union Official. Melvyn L. St.

John, 47 years old, id a Mason, a member of Queen City Lodge, F. i at his home, last night, received at the i Bedford Branch Join. us Western Union, performed by Wuest, as the exact lesion could not be sta all hough symptoms of paralysis character bad suim i i Jury, which was receive by falling upon a dumb Joseph B. Weig slcian, of Manhattan, a the Post-Graduate llosp hattan, said today that it ha a form of paralysis. could not say whether the I fractured in fall, formed pressing on the ner M.

D. St John, a broth dead man, said that his bn been feeling run down for sc and thought he would take some else. He went to tne mnaslui the Bedford branch and took light calisthenics and gymnastics, ids appetite improving and bis strength re sponding Very favorably. Two weeks ago he slipped and fell. He struck his back but came home, thinking that few hours reNt wuiiul fix him Last Friday he called in Dr.

Weighart, who told him to go home and to bed at once. Paralysis began in his feet. suited in loss of power in neck, throat, Mr. St. John had lived In Brooklyn for the last fifteen years and had been employed by the Western Union Tele-cranh Comnanv in this city.

Pre viously he lived in Buffalo. He was born in Pennsylvania. BOOM FOR McROBERTS His Friends in Albany Start Crusade for Him. (Special to The Eagle. Albany, August 14 William J.

Mc- Roberts, former Bull Moose blyman from the Ninth District, Brooklyn, left nere Brooklyn early this morning renomination boom trailing behind i The Ooopi was laim, lied I bo Capital City last night by some of his former associates among the up-Stato Assemblymen. eks vacation at Fast Northfleld ith his family and motored at place to Albany yesterday, put-o; up at I he I In nipton Hotel I'm the night. During the evening he dropped In at the mul i 'onvciilion I his call 1 either. He made what his friends think here two years ago as a Republican-Progressive fusion Assemblyman. Cast years he was refused the Republican Indorsement and the consequence was ii it Is declared, has taught the Republicans of the district a lessen, and ffers of a Bull Moose fusion uiib ili Cohorts as the candidate quite so flippantly this time.

FIANCEE CHARGES THEFT Says Man Postponed Elopment and Stole Trousseau. ectetl of having stolen the au of his fiancee, Frances Slee, horn he had arranged to elope, Meyer, 2 years old, a composi-10 represented himself as a pri-etective, was held today in for examination Monday, igistrate Krotel in Yorkville Miss Slee lives with her parents Amsterdam avenue, Manhat-had been planned that the elope last Saturday. Meyer Miss Slee's home, helped her pack a suit case with effects valued al $300. and went with her to the Grand Central Station. Meyer decided to 1 1 nl and the suit iheck.

Last Thursday Miss Slee re- agalnst fate." taken from the cheek She notified the police. Yesterday Mey- I asked her to meet him last night i in the Hotel Man-. suitcase filled witl is person, the police re pawn tickets and WONT CALL PEACE TALK Cardinal Gibbons Denies That He'll Summon Church Dignitaries. (Special Southampton, Cardinal Gibbor port that he wt The Eagle.) today denied the ference of all bishops all neutral nines. night from the home of MThe rectory of the Church of the Sacred Yesterday, when Bishop was seen and asked about the report of the proposed peace conference of bishops and rarninals, he h.

could not sneak without gion. Bishop O'Connell said Cardinal morning for Spring Lake, N. Eminence will speak in the church tomorrow morning, at o'clock, (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, 9ugust 14 There are indications today that the Constitutional Convention will perfect and pass the Low home rule bill, in a form that will be at least half way acceptable conservative home rulers. More than a dozen amendments have been offered and some of them, the rulers declare, add materially attractiveness of the Low proposal from the view point of thi These are the ones designed decidedly the power of the Legislature i interfere with local affairs, and simplify and shorten the the amendment in Its original form provides for the making of new charters. Pessimists in the convention, however, were prone to take an opposite iriew of the situation.

These declared that the proposal was "being talked to These, however, were in the minority and many of the men wh represent such ardent home rule or ganizattons as the Citizens Union, tin Municipal Government Association and the Mayor's conference, said pri vately they saw some chance of a per- home rule article that would at I advancement in the movement to free municipalities from eternal legislative, tnkering In their local af- The debate on home rule was con- today, although less than sixty Of It.lt delegates IV I'M sctll I 1 participate and listen to the discus- Among the amendments offered discussed which home rulers say will help "make the article worth while" were two offered by Kepubhcan Majority Floor Leader George W. Wickersham. would limit specifically the kind of charter amendments which cities in Its Dresent form savs that all cha amendments changing the frame be submitted to the Legislature was argued that such a provision be called a change in the framework be subject to legislative annulment. To meet this criticism, Mr. Wickersham proposed that the definition of amend- 'i cllfimn'il from "I hm.o IToel im: the framework of government" to rs or method of selection or removal elective officers." This it was conceded would limit materially tne classes or amendment upon which the Legislature must pass hat was declared by home rulers to Improve the measure from the stand point of cities proposed to limit more the kind of inl iij h.l'.e the power of III, .1 yi In.

I I'roiiosod Chimin's to Home luile 15111 Reported. yen proposed changes to the rule Din reportea tiy tne cui ilttee were offered at the close i session yesterday afternoo A mom: then) w-n id. i mm mil menaments oy ue legates vvicue hum. Marshall. I I oy l.n oln, Green, E.

N. Smith and Senator rt i nor Min.t posed only minor changes, Imt iho oi Smith an, ii'in-i' i.rm- lmall ini.niiinti minii i Wagner would proninit ansniuton the nasaee of snecial cltv laws annlv ing to less than all the cities of a given Isiature may regulate and tlx tht the oilier than wholly con other civil dlvisioi ty, city, town, viuage or otner civil division thereon; and may make provision for the protection, welfare and safety of all such persons and persons employed by a city or by a county wholly contained within a city." He would grant home rule by providing as follows: "The Board of Aldermen or other similar legislative body of each city, moject to tne approval oi me Mayor md also of the Board of Estimate and App mm ei 1 1 smo'ar e. i Board Of Estlm u- A ti, power to alter ana amena rne existing or any future city charter, including one adopted hereunder by city electors, and shall have all other powers, sublec.t. onlv to the exnress limitations mi i he of a county or counties, if any. whollv shall be submitted to the electors of the city for adoption by the affirma tive vote of a majority of the electors voting thereon." E.

N. Smith's proposal followed closely the scheme of the Low amend- MACHINISTS WIN HERE Dobler Die Casting Co. Grants 8-Hour Day. Word reached the headquarters of inlernational Association of Ma- Castlng Company, located on Smith Ninth streets, Brooklyn, had ted to an eight-hour day for their Efforts to settle the strike at I vln Machine Company's plant. I Varick streets, proved i vailing today.

A conference between orge Garvin, the president of the urnunn, ana a representative strikers failed to bring about.