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ROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE PARTLY CIOTOT TOVIOHT AND ON 8UNDAT; FRESH BOUTHWBST WfNDS. Complete report page 14 ASSOCTATEr PRBS3 COMPLETE STOCK MARKET LAST EDITION. Volume T5 No. 127 NEW YORK CITY, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1915. 24 PAGES.

THREE CENTS LUSITANIA DEATH LIST 1364; SURVIVORS 703; A. G. VANDERBILT AND OTHER AMERICANS LOST; U. S. MAY SEVER RELATIONS WITH GERMANY TTTT? BREAK LIST OF SURVIVORS DIPLOMATIC Four Brooklyn and Queens Men Among Survivors; Others Missing Out of nine Brooklyn and Queens residents known to have been aboard the Lusitania, four were definitely reported this afternoon to have been saved.

The four are: CLINTON BERNARD, 34 Herriman avenue, Jamaica, L. I. ROBERT EWART, 1351 Broadway. JAMES J. LEARY, 404 Eighth avenue.

WALLACE B. PHILLIPS, 29 Lefferts place. WITH GERMANY IS A Berlin Government Is Doing Its Utmost to Force It. PSIBLTI Only 51 Americans Out of 1S8 on Board Rescued Slender Hope Held Out That Fishing Boats May Have Picked Up More Justus Miles Forman, Charles Klein, Elbert Hubbard and Charles Frohman Among the Missing Rescue Ships Return British Government Denies Lusitania Was Armed Captain Turner at His Post When Ship Sank; Saved Later Harrowing Scenes at Queenstown. The following other Brooklynites are yet to be accounted for: Henry H.

Meyers, or Herman A. Myers, Central avenue (W. G. E. Meyers saved).

Miss Mary Rooney, maid at 255 Henry street (a Miss Loney saved). Thomas Flaherty, 251 Court street. May Locksters, 50 Nevins street (Harriet Judson, Y. W. C.

Hannah Cunnis, 252 Gates avenue (maid of Dr. J. Richard Kevin). 1 1 Hubbard, Justus Miles Forman, the 4 BROOKLYNITES fli 5 ERBILT LOST, Names Not on List of Survivors of Lost Liner. ELBERT HUBBARD, TOO Among the saloon passengers who sailed from this port on the Lusitania and whose names do not appear in the first official list of survivors cabled here today were Alfred G.

Vanderbilt, Charles Klein, the playwright; Charles Frohman. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Hubbard, Herbert Stuart Stone, son of Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press, and Justus Miles Forman, the well-known author, who lives in New York City.

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was the second surviving son of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, from whom he inherited about $70,000,000. He married Miss Elsie French, daughter of Francis Ormond French. Her mother, Mrs. Ellen French, was the daughter of the late Amos Tuck. Mrs.

Alfred G. Vanderbilt afterward obtained a dlvarce. In 1911 he married Mrs. Margaret Emerson McKIm, divorced wife of Dr. Smith Holiins McKIm.

Mr. Vanderbilt was well known In Horse Show circles, and he was one of the most expert men in the world at tooling a coach. He was a noted exhibitor at the Horse Show, and was president of the National Horse Show Association. He was the owner of the famous horses Hamlet and Hertes, which were second in the Interna tional Horse Show at Olympia In 1912. Recently he presented sixty horses to the British government to be used for war purposes.

Justus Miles Forman Was a Well Known Author. Justus Miles Forman, the author, was very well known in the literary world. He was the author of "The Island of Enchantment," "Buchanan's Wife." "The Unknown Lady" "and "Jason." among other volumes. He recently became known as a playwright and his play, "The Hyphen," is now at the Knickerbocker Theater. It had been taken as an anti-German piece.

His sympathy for the Allies was well known. Mr. Forman developed a taste for travel abroad and frequently went to England and to Paris. He had a strong partiality for the East. His works were as familiar in England as in America.

Everybody who has ever read "The Message to Garcia" will remember it. It was written by Elbert Hubbard, who first attracted attention to his Alfred G. Vanderbilt. writings when he wrote for his maga zine "The Philistine," under the pen name of "Fra Elbertus." lacVure His name was for many years identified with East Aurora, N. where he lived, and from which 1 FROHMAN ALSO FEAR OF FRIEND FIGURES TELL GRIM STORY OF LUSITANIA'S SINKING On board Lusitania 2,087 Prbable sun-Ivors 703 Number of persons lost 1,364 Survivors at Queenstown 640 Survivors at Kinsale 11 Reported on rescue ship 62 Americans on board 188 First cabin 106 Second cabin 65 Steerage 17 Americans rescued 51 Americans lost 137 London, May 8 At least 1,300 persons lost their lives, the British Admiralty estimates, when the Cunard Line steamship Lusitania was torpedoed yesterday afternoon off Old Head Kinsale, on the Irish coast.

The following statement was given out by the Admiralty this afternoon: "The Press Bureau is informed by the Admiralty that no more reports regarding the Lusitania have been received, and that the number of survivors already given may be regarded as approximately correct. "Inquiries are being made along the coast, but there is little hope of news of further survivors." An Admiralty statement given out In London shortly before 6 o'clock this morning placed the number of Lusitania survivors at 658. At 1:50 P. M. there was received in London a report from Ireland to the effect that 45 more survivors had been brought into Queenstown.

If these 45 persons were not included Iri the total of 658, announced by the Admiralty, the total cf recorded survivors up to the present time is therefore 703. The best available information sets forth that the Lusitania had on board 1,251 passengers and a crew of 816. This gives a total of 2,067 souls on board the liner when she was torpedoed. The known survivors being 703, the list of dead would consequently reach the total of 1.365. Of those who were saved, 640 were Ianaea at queenstown ana eleven at Kinsale, while fifty-two others aro reported to be aboard a steamer.

All but one or tne rescue fleet of torpedo boats, tugs and trawlers which went out from Queenstown have reported. There is a slen der hope that fishing boats may have rescued a few more. In addition to the living brought The following Is the list of survivors of the wrecked Lusitania, corrected up to 2 p.m today. The names were received from the offices of the Cunard Line In Manhattan, and from cable dispatches to Washington and to private Individuals: A S. Abramowitz.

Mrs. Henry Adams (England). N. N. Allen (New York).

Alono Antela (San Carlo). Julian du Ayala. James Arlein (Sydney). Mrs. A.

E. Adams. William McMillan Adams. John Allen. Pearl Andrews.

Joseph Austin. Lady Allan (Montreal). Mrs. James Adams. Miss Joan Adams.

X. N. Alles. P. Busweil (New York).

Mrs. Brammer. Miss E. Brammer. Mrs.

E. J. Brammer. Dan T. Brown.

John J. Balba (passenger list gives Baba). Brock. Margaret Ballatine. C.

P. Bernard (Jamaica, L. Oliver Bernard (London). H. Edgar Birmingham (not on passenger list).

James Bohan (Toronto). Frederick Bottomley (not on passenger list). Charles W. Bowring (New York). Nicholas Boyle.

Miss Josephine Brandell (New York). Mrs. Bretherton. J. H.

Brooks (New York). W. G. Burgess (New York). Mrs.

Burnslde (New York). A. J. Bylngton (London). Michael G.

Byrne (New York). Edward Barrie. Mrs. Thomas Bromlie. Harold Dennis Mr.

and Mrs. H. B. Byrce (Syracuse). Mrs.

James A. Beattle. Mary Bird (stewardess). Josephine Brandell. Miss Dorothy Bralthwate (Montreal).

Mrs. Booth and infant. J. J. Battersby (Stockport).

Mrs. Thomas Brownlle. Frank Bahoa. George J. Batley.

i Charles W. Bowring. Miss May Barrett. M. Cairps (not on passenger list).

Owen Cannon (not on passenger list). Guy Chambers. J. H. Charles (Toronto).

Miss Doris Charles (Toronto). A. Clark (Toronto). Patrick Cliff (passenger list gives Horace Clift). H.

G. Colebrook (Toronto). Edwin M. Collls. Miss Dorothy Conner (New York).

Ernest Cowper (Toronto). Cyrus Crosley. Mrs. Cyrus Crosley. A.

B. Cross. Andrew Cockburn (second en glneer). Mrs. W.

Campbell. Guy R. Cockburn. Robert Chisholm (steward). Michael Cusheon.

C. S. Crabb. R. Colebrook.

Lieutenant H. F. Cammell. Mrs. Arthur Candlish.

Agnes Crosble. Anna and Mena Campbell. Mrs. Davey Clamp. Ernest Colloper.

Norman Copthall. Rev. Cowley Clark (London). A. R.

Clarke (Toronto). H. M. Daly (not given on passenger list). Emily Davis (passenger list gives Miss Annie Davis).

Woodward Walter Dawson. Miss Dorothy Dodd. Mrs. Dohcrty (and infant). Elizabeth A.

Duckworth. George Duguid. Robert Dyer. David Dalrymple. Mrs.

Dewhurst. Rev. and Mrs. H. L.

Dwyer. Mrs. Mary Delaney. Stewart Duncan. Peter Durwell (may be Budwell).

Robert Dohan. Dymlngton. Eva Dolphin. John Ellis. T.

J. M. Evans (not on passenger list). Robert J. Ewart (Brooklyn).

Mrs. A. W. Elliot. William Eagan.

Vincents Egana. John Ferereszewlch (not on passenger list). Edward Fernandy (not on passenger list). Mrs. S.

M. Fish. Miss Marion Fish. John Freeman. Carl Elmer Foss.

H. R. Frost. Sydney Fouzel (steward). Francis Franklin.

Margaret Faulds. Robert Farrow. Dr. Howard L. Fisher.

Mrs. Geanle Fyfe. A. L. Fisher.

R. Gardner. F. .1. Gauntlett (New York).

Herbert Ghiberdot. O. H. Grab (not on passenger list). Rev.

H. L. Gwyer. Mrs. H.

L. Gwyer. R. V. Grey.

M. Griffiths. John Gatlay. William Gardner. Michaer Granahan.

Mrs. Samuel George. Peter Grill. J. P.

Grey. C. E. Gilhooley and child. Cyril Gunstead.

Oscar F. Grabb (New York). O. H. Hammond, Xew York.

Miss E. Hardy. C. C. Hardwick, New York.

Cornelius Harrlman (not on pas senger list). D. C. Harris. Huntley Henderson.

Violet Henderson. (Continued on Pace Eagle Bureau, 1 808 Fourteenth Street. Washington, May 8 The National Administration, horror-stricken and dismayed at the tragedy of the Luei--tania. Is bending every effort today In attempt to quell what It well recognizes as the rising storm of resentment throughout the United States against Germany. The Justification for such a feeling of nation-wide abhorrence the President and his advisers do not fall to realize.

The possible effect of It is what they dread. At least until all the facts are in, until Germany has made her statement which she must and until the portent of the whole grim business has become clear and settled, the Administration will expect and even pray that the American people will show forbearance and restraint even If It takes a superhuman effort to do so. President Gives Object Lesson In Calmness; Goes Golfing. It was an object lesson In calmness that President Wilson set to his fellow citizens this morning when he left the White House early to motor and play golf. There was nothing for him to do in an official way concerning the Lusitania disaster; it will probably be days before the Government can act formally.

But there was in the mind of the President a deep feeling that he should show, even by this simple act, that in the midst of an admittedly perilous situation he is keeping his head cool and his mind clear, and expects the people of the country to do the same. The President and his advisers are eorely worried. Remaining neutral In the world war has become a task of gigantic proportions, but they are the more determined to accomplish it, provided It can be done with honor and justice to this country. The severing of diplomatic relations with Germany is rapidly assuming the form of a distinct possibility, not because of any loss of patience or coolness on the part of the American Administration, bnt because It Is recognized that Germany Is rapidly making It Impossible to conduct such relations. Whether the severing of each relations would necessarily Involve war with Germany is a farther look into the future, yet an attempt to visualize even that Is being made.

President Not to Be Forced Into Action. Until the Administration can see its course clearly and until it can measure with reasonable accuracy the temper of the American people, there will be a marking of time. The President will be hurried into no action. It will surprise no one here if he Issues a proclamation to his fellow citizens counseling calmness, provided the events of the next few days Indicate such a wave of resentment as is now admittedly feared by officials of the Government. No officer of the Government, high or low, will express for publication his real opinion of the Lusltanla tragedy.

Privately many of them do not hesitate to tell of their feeling of horror and indignation. Germany is looked upon as a nation run amuck, as an outlaw. The words "Piracy" and "Massacre" are on many lips. That ahe is making a deliberate attempt to embroil the United States in the great conflict is sincerely believed by many persons. Germany Ready to Bisk War with TJ.

8. to Keep Munitions from Allies. The general view In Administration circles Is that Germany has determined at all costs to prevent the shipment of munitions of war from the United States to the Allies, even if in doing 00 ahe brings on actual conflict with this country. It is pointed out that Germany would have little to lose by the entrance of this country Into hostilities, for the participation of the United States would be unlikely to affect the result in Europe one way or the other. Germany, however, sees great damage to her prospects if shipment! of munitions continue in ever growing quantities.

That damage to Her, from a strictly practical standpoint, Is figured to be greater than anything this country would or might do as a belligerent. If it could bo known to a certainty that the severing of diplomatic relations with Germany would not be followed by war, there is a strong belief In Washington that the Administration would adopt such a course. This plan would involve serving notice upon Germany that she is an international outlaw, with whom this country will have no further relations. But it is clearly realized that such a position assumed by this country might very likely be but a preliminary step to war itself. There is grave doubt that diplomatic non-intercourse would end the matter.

Anonymous Warning Letter Sent to White House a Fortnight Ago. The Administration is finding rapidly increasing difficulty In maintaining a patient attitude toward the German Embassy In this country. From the jrary first, the pro-German propaganda author, or Charles Klein, the playwright. Of the Americans aboard, 106 were in the first cabin, sixty-five in the second and seventeen In the steerage. The heavy loss of life among the first cabin passengers is believed to have been due to calmness and self-possession they displayed in face of danger.

Most of them were at luncheon when the steamer received her death blow and declined to Join the rush for the boats and lifebelts. They believed the Cunarder would remain afloat until assistance could arrive. A considerable proportion of those at Queenstown are members of the crew, Including Captain Turner with the first and second officers. All tha other officers are believed to have per. Ished.

No Panic, and Ship's Crew Acted Promptly. There is no evidence, however, that the time-honored rule of the sea, "women and children first," was violated. At least one of the survivors, a Toronto newspaper man, gives evidence that there was no panic among the crew and that the sailors acted promptly In getting the passengers into the ship's boats. Apparently every precaution had been taken against a surprise attack by a submarine. Lookouts were on the alert constantly as the giant steamship speeded toward the Irish Coast.

Difficulty wis experienced In launching the boats because of the heavy list of the Lusitania almost immediately after she was torpedoed. Several of the frail craft evidently capsized as they were launched or soon afterward. Many of the passengers owed their rescue to lifebelts vhich kept them afloal until they were plclecj up by boats. Among this number was Lady Mackworth, daughter of David A. Thomas, the Welsh "coal king," and Julian de Ayala, Cuban Consul General at Liverpool.

Investigation has failed to reveal that the steamer was given warning of tha proposed attack by the submarine, which appears to have been lurking off the Irish coast, bent upon destroy- ing the largest and fastest ship engaged in transatlantic traffic. Four Torpedoes Fired at Lusitania. Two Found Mark. The lookouts sighted the periscope of a submarine a thousand yards away, and the next instant they saw the trail .1,. iwrecKiige.

mtiwiui mc uutr at once turned toward shore. Four i torpedoes, apparently, were fired at the' were removed to Cork and Queens- town hospitals. A long line of Btretcfcar BROOKLYN MAN RESCUED; SENDS WORD TO PARENTS Wallace B. Phillips which has had its root there has been a source of irritation to this country. It has been regarded as a proceeding quite beyond the ordinary functions of a foreign embassy.

Just how intimately the embassy is connected with the anonymous warnings which were sent to passengers sailing on the Lusitania is not known, of course. But this much is a fact: A fortnight ago such an anonymous letter was sent to the White House, and it created there a feeling of annoyance and Indignation. Since the sinking of the Lusitania this incident has assumed something of a sinister aspect. Extra Session a Possibility. The few members of Congress who remain in Washington are freely discussing the possibility of an extra session of the Sixty-fourth Congress.

It can be said that the President has nothing of that kind in contemplation at the present time. It would only be a last resort, when relations with Germany became so deeply Involved as to make It necessary for the President to have the help of Congress in determining the future course of this country. Diplomatic relations with Germany might cease without the calling of Congress, but anything beyond that would demand the presence of the legislative branch. Whether there will be a special session of the Cabinet to consider the Lusitania incident is not announced. Secretary Bryan said this morning he did not know whether the President would summon the cabinet.

Meanwhile, however, Cabinet officers who planned out of town trips have canceled them. Secretary Garrison is not going to Tennessee, as he expected, and Secretary Redfleld has called off a clambake which he was giving at Bryant's Point today and at which all the members of the Cabinet were to be guests. In non-Administration circles of the United States Senate, highly versed in international law and practice, the opinion is expressed that "this latest outrage" will not blow over in the public mind "as the Administration appears to hope will be the case in the Falaba and Gulflight occurrences." Senator Terms Loss of Lusitania Murder of Most Brutal Sort." From the standpoint of international law, it was explained, the destruction of the Lusitania was not as significant to the United States as the destruction of the Gulflight a week ago. From the viewpoint of humanity, however, the sinking of the Lusitania with the loss of hundreds of innocent lives was described by this member of the Senate as "murder of the most brutal sort." "In the first place," said this authority, "The Hague Tribunal provides that even the mail of neutrals when carried on a ship of a belligerent nation shall be free from seizure or destruction, and must be forwarded to its destination by the nation which may capture the ship bearing It. "Again, neutrals on board a captured ship of a belligerent nation shall be free from seizure or detention as prisoners.

How much the more then, concluded this authority, "should the lives of neutrals be held sacred Common humanity ordains that helpless non-combatants," he declared, "whether of neutral or belligerent affiliation, and especially women and children, should be given a reasonable chance for their lives, even though not actually saved by the attacking craft." Administration Blamed For Delay In Fnlnbn, Gushing and Gnlfiglit Cases. Criticism of the most deep and feeling nature was expressed in these quarters against the Administration (Continued on Page 3.) 5 Cables from Phillips, Ewart, Leary and Bernard Tell of Safety. There were nine residents of Brooklyn and Queens on the Lusitania, according to a rigid Investigation of the ship's passenger list, made last night and today by The Eagle. Four have been reported safe, and there is no news of the missing five. The names are in the table above.

"Safe. Uninjured. Wallace Phillips." The foregoing cablegram was received this morning shortly after 9 o'clock at the home of Henry W. Phillips, 29 Lefferts place, and brought Intense relief to the whole Phillips household. It was from the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry W. Phillips, one of the best known business men of Broklyn, who is also widely known in England and all through Europe. A night of agony was spent by the Phillips family, for it was known that Wallace was likely to be included among those lost on the Lusitania. He had sailed for England last Saturday with a light heart and not a serious thought of any danger.

How Wallace managed to get a cablegram off so promptly is a. mystery to his family, in view of the brief despatches that have come through. He was abroad on business connected with the Hotchkiss Gun Company, with which he is connected, and also for the Pyrene Company, of which concern he is the London representative. Mr. Phillips has spent the greater part of the past ten years traveling through Europe doing business with the governments and private business establishments.

He is as well known in capitals of Europe as in Brooklyn. His mother is a prominent member of the Daughters of the Revolution, a regent of the Alice Adams Chapter of this organization, and a member of the Colonial Club. His father, Henry W. Phillips. 6aid to The Eagle today.

"A big party of us went over to Manhattan to see Wallace off last Saturday, his mother, his aunt, Miss Banta, myself and several others being there. It so happened that we had not spen the advertisement of the German Embassy, warning Americans not to travel in British ships. But we incidentally discussed the possibility of danger and had talked some of it the night before. "Wallace was not concerned about possible danger. Neither he nor any of us thought that the Germans would dare resort to such fiendish methods as to torpedo a great passenger ship.

Wallace's business associates were there on the dock, and he spent much of his time talking with them. "Wallace had Just returned from (Continued on Page 2.) "A PREMEDITATED CRIME" SAYSAMSTERDAMTELECRAF Amsterdam (via London), May 8 "The torpedoing of the Lusitania," says the Telegraaf, in an editorial, was a deliberate stage reproduction of the Titanic disaster. It was a. nre- meditated crime against a passenger snip, on wnicn were non-combatants: it Is no longer outrageous; it has become fiendish. "Does there still exist something like conscience among the neutrals? The neutral powers remained silent when Belgian neutrality was trampled upon, wnen me uermans carried out practices profaning international law and when submarine assassins took their first victims.

Will they now look on Inactively? Only the spontaneous innt nrotest of the entire civilized world, from which Germany has sep arated nerseu, can oe an answer to the latest provocation." A MISSING ashore, the bodies of forty-five whoj.eft by a torpedo as it flashed on If; of injuries or were drowned have course. Then came a terrific crash as' place his many publications and the Dee" tnB products of the Roycroft Shop were more are at Kinsale, and It has been followed almost immediately by an-dlstrlbuted. reported that an armed trawler ae-lother which littered the decks with' u-nj at Onucnalnn'TI rive hnatll hla picked up 100 others. xotcd New Yorkers Not on List of Charles Frohmnn Was a Prominent Theatrical Manager. i Charles Frohman had been looked upon for many years as one of the! leading, if not the leading, producer and manager of plays in America.

iBorn in Sandusky, In 1860, he I came to New York at the age of 12! and became night clerks in the office of the New York Daily Graphic. At with his brother. Daniel, he en- jtered the advertising field as a mem- 1 ber of the Graphic's stnff and at night he acted as ticket seller in Hooley's Sr'ritiMh- olayD.meU3PaCv- I aV'court "and 'Voral Jinn 1 streets, Brooklyn. Hero Charles Froh- i man got his first business acquaint- i ance with the show business. I In 1877 he accepted the manage ment of the Chicago Comedy Company I (Continued on Page 3.) 1 I TVmqp Saved Lusitania, but only two of them found 1,1 The work of compiling a list of their mark.

progressing slowly be- The loss of life caused by the tor- tnoae 'I cause of the indescribable confusion pedoes themselves and the explosions Queenstown, but apparently few 'they caused must have been terribly! firBt cabin passengers are among the heavy. The tragic freight of bodies survivors. The Vnlted States Consul UUcn to Queenstown bears evldenc. of at that port can account for only fifty- the havoc wrought. Many of thos.

Americans saved out of 188 who taken ashore were seriously Dno were aboard. His roll does not in- and more than a score died after they elude tha names of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Charlea Frohman, Elbert.