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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01
4 SERIES of Accidents.

pinN lUuuStIN VI lIl' I UfSdpttht cities,
Norfolk, Portsmouth and Newport News.
But the recent record of the Merchants
and Miners company has been a subject
OF much comment In view OF "a series OF
serious accidents.
The steamer Nantucket. which rammed
the Monroe Friday morning. got afire and
sank after turning turtle in basin at
Baltimore on September 8. 1911. She was
hoated and repaired.
The Berkshire burned and sank In
twenty-one feet of water off Lookout Cove,
October 20, 1911.
The Ontario was burned of the Rhode
Island coast between Block Island and
Montauk Point, and the passengers had
10 be landed upon the beach on April 5,
1912.
The Cretan was damaged in a COLI
sion with the clyde liner Ontario on April
81. 1912
The Merr,mac was rammed at Jackson
vile, Fla. on November 20, 1913 by the
Clyde liner Carib
The ESSEX was In collision with the
barge Bangor on Coney Island, " v, on
December ). 1912.
The new steamer Suwanee was DANA ged
by fire at Savannah. Ga. ON February
20, 1918, and on March 10, 1912 the
steamer Persian caught fire while in dry
dock for repairs at Philadelphia.
The exact location OF the Monroe's ac-
cident was established by Inspector Tap
ley to-day rs twenty -four miles southwest
OF Winter Quarter lirhtshp about 80
O'Clock yes erddy morning.
The Monroe. II has been satisfactorily
shown, met light fog intermt,ently while
passing out OF the capcs and stopped
frequently when the fog surrounded the
snip, TNt Monroe WAS equipped with an
automatic time whistle and this was blown
at Intervals OF one minute during the fog
When the thick fog wrapped the YES
Sol Winter iph h.
information j. that the Monroe stopped
and after blowing the fog horn every min
ute gave two blasts, 10 which the Nan
tucker responded
The Monroe then repeated the two
blasts twice and before the last blast
had died away the prov Of the Nam
tucket was crashing it's way into the Mon
roe's starpoard side ut an angle of about
torty-nN" degrees. As soon as Nantucket
back away the Monroe careened and in
ten minutes sank in fifteen fathoms OF
water.
boarded the Nantucket yesterday while
the vessel was off Old Point Comfort on
her way To Norfolk and the investiga ton
was begun at once.
The Nantucket left this morning for
Newport News TO discharge the remainder
Of her cargo. A survey of her damage
was begun to-day by underwriters who
Will have to finish their work before the
extent of the injury to the ship is made
public
Most of the survivors were so far re-
covered from their terrible experiences to-
day that they were planning to start for
nome. some have already gone. few
DE still in the hospital Two are in a
very serious condition. They are Mrs r.
J. Woods of Norfolk. who was en- route
to New York to attend her husbands
funeral, and Miss Hilda Thackeray. the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01
.FIREMEN OVERCOME
BY TOBACCO FUMES
Thirty Revived by PulmOtOrs
at smoky Blaze in East
Goth Street.
SEVERAL GET BAD FALLS
Tenement Houses Threatened
by stubborn Fire in Cigar
Factories.
,EVERAL GET BAD FALLS

Tobacco smoke keeled over thirty fire.
men yostaiday afternoon. They toppled
DO rapidly that seven pulmotors, each
operated by four men. were kept busy
reviving them. Chief kenlon's men
fought the fire. which was In n four
story brick building at 2is and 214 East
Nne,y ninth street. near Third avenue.
for four hours.
Tire smoke OF a Havana perfecto may
be d,lishtful. but when thousands OF
pounds Of The best tobacco. smouldering
in basement, belches forth the fumes
are about the most perilous thing that
Fire chief Kenlon cares to tackle.
It was not ive minutes after Patrol
man Oswaido Of the East 10th street
station turned in an alarm that the Are
men were encountering the pillows OF to-
llcco funes The moment Acting Bat
talon cher Rudy. who had been
scorched and weakened in fighting the
blaze of the plano factory early In the
morning. reached the spot he sent In
second md third alarm. Then he hur-
ricd into the midst OF the smoke and was
lost TO sight.
At THAI momen; the men OF engine
No. 80 were tacklng the blaze from the
front. while engine company No. a., hav-
ing run \ line OF hose through the tene-
ment house at 2l0. was pouring water
on the blaze from the rear The fire
was in the basement. which, with the
second floor, was occupied BY s. Levy
& Co, and also in the first floor used
By tho Interstate Tobacco Company.
The other floors were occupied by Louis
T.. Weiss d Co. All the firms are makers
of cigars.
nexl~~sl Nleh pulu,osnr
When the iiremen In the rear turned
their hose on the fire, the smoke was
driven to the front OF the building and
three or four men were overcome. Their
comrades dragged them TO a saloon at
Third avenue and Ninety-n.nth street
where a pulmotOr from Nth street and
second avenue. n station OF the Consol!-
dated Gas Company, revived them
Battalion Chief Rudy, working close
to the door OF the building, was caught
In a cloud OF smoke. He fell down
stair leading TO the basement and struck
his head. He was carried to the fresh
AIR. where oxygen was used to revive him.
He was sent home.
By that time Chief kenlon was on the
ground and he assumed charge OF the
work. lie directed the fireInen 10 get all
families out OF the tenements at 2l0 ana
2ls East Ninety-n!nth street. He sent
more men TO the rear and soon had twelve
engine companies and the crews of nve
trucks tackling the smoky blaze.
Each time the smoke burst out four or
five tremen toppled over. Philip Mcguire
OF Engine Company ~ fell into the cellar
and received "A fractul. OF the knee.
The fire started shortly after 4 o'clock
and within half an hour at least fifteen
men were laid out on the sidewalk or in
shops near by. The call for pumotors
was sent TO the Consolidated Gas Com
pany and to the Edison company. Seven
pulmotor crews responded and they were
kept so busy for a time that they did
not get the names OF all the men they
revived.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01

ON the negro attendants equal II not
greater praise Is bestowed for their forti-
tudc and unsclnsh daring
TO "a correspondent of THE SrN presi-
dent VI. II. Walker of the old Dominion
Company. who arrived in Norfolk this
t-orniny, said.
"bUnt forget our colorcd folks on
every hand we heard to-day nothing but
praise for their bravery. Several of our
deck stewards went TO the bottom OF the
ocean because they dared to give up their
lie pr.scrvers to passengers In instances
where they saw not chance of securing
others for themselves.
I'VE are proud of these fellows and of
our women too The women behaved like
men and the men like heroes. Every one
~ our boys and girls will be taken care
Of. Every one can have IA berth In the
crew of the liner that takes the place of
the Monroe. We will hold their Jobs
open for them. Many Of them have been
In our service for many years We in
tend to hold on to them. We want just
such employees"
There lies against the steamship Mon.
roe of the old Dominion Zine only one
Indictment She came from the shipyards
to the company eleven years ago and
made n bad record for seaworthlncss be-
fore she WAS placed permanently in com
mission. She was built "tophcavy'
soon after SHE was nut into service
there was an enforced withdrawal OF the
vessel. Alterations were made before she
completed - round trip. From her hurri-
cane deck there was removed an observa-
ton pavilion. Her mainmast also was
taken down. She started as two
master
These changes were made TO give a
better balance below the water line. She
became through necessity 4 zone stlcker."
After the alterations the Monroe was
regarded rs "A thoroughly seaworthy craft
mud had eleven H.. b.rI ~
accident.
The big wrecklng tug l. j. Merritt is
patrolling the sea where the Monroe went
down. The Merritt was sent out by the
Old Dominion company. Nigh, and day
she Will watch Tor the bodies of the
drowned passengers and crew of the Mon
roc. Her nominal duty is to salvage all
wreckage that may iloat upon the sea,
but her primary purpose IL to recover the
bodies OF thirty -uiue OF the passengers
aud crew. Il WA oe recalled that two OF
the forty zone deaths occurred after the
victims had been picked up.
At the Offices o. the Merchants and
Miners Trnnspn'tut on Company the same
unwillngness - 'a'N was preserved to-
day as was marked las; night T. G..
Lohr. the Norfolk agent of the company
told the new papcr correspondents that
the silence was continued In obedience
to orders received last night from the
Department OF Commerce.
This statement was discredited by off,
clas Of the Old Dominion company as
well as by the officials of the Federal
Government TN Norfolk
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01
DAY TO TRY TEMPERS
AND RUBBER BOOTS
Dummy Fog, Heavy Rain. Gale
and High Temperature
Make Ii Worst Ever.
INLAND STATES GET STORM
Wires Down to Westward and
observation-disclosures
Almost SnOwlcss.

one Of the most unpleasant DAYS ever
Matched by any expiring January came to
close last night with promise OF mora
seasondhle and cooler air to-day The
range OF temperature was between sc and
SO degrees. Half a gale out OF the east
and northeast drove heavy showers slant
!ngly under umbrellas in the morning and
early afternoon.
Between ra!nfalls the air was gummy
with fog that AT times measured up to the
worst OF an unusually foggy month. The
entire dripping and gushing from sky
spigots measured close to an inch before
the wind shifted 10 tho west last night
and sent the mists SQUIRTING seward
This Is how We happened TO miss another
visitation:
Surm!sing that a storm, a low OF con-
siderable intensity that was central over
eastern ohio and western Virginia yester-
day morning might sweep with its swirl
ing periphery this coast and that OF neigh
boring States to the east and south OF us
the national iorecasters sent out north.
east storm warning applying to the
coastal regions from Hatteras to East
port At o'clock last night they revised
their prophecy and ordered the storm
signals that had been hoisted taken down.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
C0RBETT SAYS CARPENTER
 PROVED HE'S BOXING STAR
Whether Frenchman Is Better Than Gunboat Smith Still Matter
 Of Doubt

wise, Carpenter proved thai he is close to cham pionship class. At twenty years of age one who can give such splendid account of himself would seem to have a brilliant future in the ring.
 When Carpentier held Joe Jean nette to a close decision in fifteen rounds several months ago the pre- vailing opinion here, despite glowing reports of Georges masterIy battle from the other side was that the bout was Tram ed' to allow J eannette to, get a piece of change and at the same time bolster Carpenters reputation. Jeannette, told. us, however, when he came back home that Carpentier was. a mighty good fighter. Joe's opinion was discounted, though, by the fact that he was supposed to have been. one of the parties to the s'set up." La ter events would lead us to believe that Carpenter is every bit as good have been sent over here in the past year would indicate.
 While it may have been overanxiety that made the Gunboat throw away what appeared a winning chance there lis no denying the bout belonged to time of it's abrupt finish. Carpen- tier had made-especiaII so to Amer icans-a surprisingly good fight of it and his cleverness had the Gunboat at, a tremendous 0lSaQNa4IaSS IIA0 first three or four rounds. And that he. also carries a punch was made ev. ident by the blow that sent Smith to the floor in the fourth round-the oc- casion when the hme-keeper and zoth- CTS have since asserted he was down for the count of thirteen. A letter from a friend present at the mill tells me that Smith had a narrow escape from a, s'knock-out'' and that only the frien dly gong announcing the end of the round saved his bacon. That, Of course, is only my friends opinion and should be taken for what it is worth Smith certainly gave no signs in the succeeding rounds of distress from the punch
 American boxers contemplating trips abroad in tiae future will do well to brush up their boxing skill. more in foreign rings than at home. Which is. everything considered. as it should be.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
BAKER AND COBB
 REMIER STARTERS OF YOUNGER LEAGUE


 Chicago. July 25-'' Home Run Bak- er,- Philadelphia, has pounded his way into a, tie for the batting leadership of the American league. According to averages published here Baker and. Cobb of Detroit are setting the pace at g. rate of 342. In the first five also are Jackson, Cleveland, .329, and E. Col Hns, Philadelphia, .327.
 j Philadelphia, with 263 and Washing ton with 250. lead in club batting. Ed die Collins has. tied lMaisel of New York in stolen bases with g. In games won and lost, the best regular pitchers ap4 pear to be Leonard, Boston, with IS and g.; Bender, PhiIadelphia, and 9. and Plank, Philadelphia, 10 and 3. Grant. of New York, tops the Ma tional League race with S42.. Next comes Becker Philadelphia, .326; Dai- ton, Brooklyn, .s21; Byron. Phfladel- phia, ,315; Meyers, New York, .31O.
 Brooklyn is ahead in club batting with .266 and New York next with .265. Herzog, Cincinnati. leads in stolen bases with 35. Mathewson, New York, with IT and 4; Vaughn. Chica-. go, with n and 4 and Dowak, St. Louis, with and 4. hold pitching hon Kritchell. Toronto, with .s54, leads in the International. Baltimore and Providence lead the clubs with .271 CcCA a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
AND WELDING BEAT
 CANADA TEAM

Lake Forest. III, July 26-T-le Aus traIasian lawn tennis doubles tnAEa, composed of Norman E. Broolses ana Anthony F. Wilding, defeated the Ca nadians, Robert B. Powell ana B. F. Schwengers, here yesterday in the most decisive fashion by 6-4, 6-S. 6-4. The match was in the preltmi- nary round for the Davis Cup,
 The victory will match the Austrsll- asians against the German team at Pittsburgh next week. As in the sin gles on Thursday, the CRnuclzs were completely outclassed. They never had the slightest chance with the men from down under" Both Bnoolres and Wilding thrilled the crowd with their service and their methods uE volleying.
 Now and again when the tide took Brookes he would introduce asIew of his break-back service shots, and the Western tennis experts marvelled at the speed and the accuracy with which he sent the sphere driving over the net Still, with all that, there were a few around who thought that Brookes lacked steam now and again, and that he was not so very spr5 on his legs when it came to chasing the ball
 With Wiling 1t was totally differ ent for it appeared as if he could play for the full twenty-four hours with out rest.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
KRANZLEIN QUITS
 GERMANY TO REST

Berlin. July 25.-Dr. Alvin c. Kranz- lein, the American trainer in cflief pf the German Olympic Games orsaniEa- ton. has sailed for Aulerica- on the Vaterland with his wife and family
 CIrcumstantial reports are in eireu- Aation that MT. Kranzlein, although he entered Into a three years contract with the Germans, is dtsgruntIed and will not come back
 Both he and the Olympic managers. deny this, but it Is admitted that his leave Of absence is indefinite
 Dr. Kranzlein said that he had ey- cry reason to be eatished with his first years experience in Germany.
 They have material in plenty said pr. Kranzleins "and are thor- oughly enthusiastic in spirit. both of which go far to make mp for lack of the traditions which have long pre- vailed in the United States and Eng land I<think that Germany will have 3. very well balanced team when 1916 comes around
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
GIANTS ARE
 BACK AFTER
 ROUGH TRIP

The Giants returned last evening from the toughest trip they have had over the western circuit in several seasons. The club is two and a half games ahead of the fighting Cubs. It has been a costly trip,l and McGraw s men have slipped somewhat while they have been away.
 When the Giants went on the road tFex vlal in front. They started the western invasion with five straight defeats, although they have picked up in the past week, and wound up the trip with five consec- 11tfTe victories The Giants won nine and lost seven games on the trip.
 Manager John A1cGraw got in yes tendaz few hoglfs ahead of his squad
 wye did better than break even" maid the Giants manager. %and if we keep up that stride we can hold our lead We are glad to get back, and l mink that on our home grounds the club will get under way against Pitts hurgh and increase their lead to a substantial margin before we have hard series with the Cubs beginning on August f
 ~Iiu admit that we played some pretty had ball since going away but some Of the teams we have been up against have been playing worse The boys. however, are hitting again, and I have no fear tbat we will more than hold our own-g
 The Giants will be home until Aug 1s Tn the meantime they will rlay series with Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and Boston The hard test for the club will come on Tuesday, Aug. 4, when the Cubs, u1a- der Hank OrDay, Will mako desper- ate bid for the league honOrs
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25

 or RING BATTLES

 18sS-Frankie Neil bantamveig champion from 1903 to 1905s born in San Franetsco Neil, Irish-A raerIcan and a born lighter in every inch of his five feet five and a half inches, began scrapping in the ring at the age Of sev- enteen. After several victories by the knockout route, he was defeated by clever little Eddie Eanlon. Tn 1901. after he had put nearly a dozen good boys to sleep, She tackled Eddie again. with the same result In 1902 he got a draw with Hanion in IS rounds at Oakland, but little later was de- feated by Harry Forbes. then bantam champion. On August Is, 1909. hs fought Forbes again in San Francisco knocking him out in the second Eo15isi and winning the bantamWeight title The following year he gave Forbes a return match in Chicago, and put him away in the 3rd chapter In 19oA he lost to Jem BeWlSer in London and in 1906 he was knocked put b5- Owen Moran and lost to Harry Baker and Atten
 1sa5=Jack Fitzgerald, middle weight boxer, born in Grand Junction Ia
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
VETERAN JACK POWELL
 DRAWS HIS RELEASE

Los Angeles, July 25-After 20 years of active baseball life, the majority of which were spent in the Big Brush Pitcher Jack Powell is a free agent, having been released by the Venice club. Jacks discharge was the first discharge he has received in his long d1anond career. Officially, Powell was released to keep Venice, within the .20-men limit. This was necessary because the return to the game of Frank Decanniere. who had been on the suspended list. Powell came here from Louisville in exchange for Catcher sterrett and Inhelder O'Rourke.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
HOWE BAKER HITTING 300
 FOR EVANSVILLE, IND. CLUB
Umpire Keenan Makes Additional Charges Against Manager Boultes
 Of Bridgeport
Additional

Connie Mack and the Philadelphia Athletics are in bad with the PhiIa- deiphia newspapers. The baseball people objected to several newspapers which provided bulletin boards giving details of the home games. It was claimed that this custom hurt the at tendance. Reporters on these papers had their passes taken away. The Baseball Writerss association has talk eh the matter up and unless it is ad- justed in a satisfactory manner, some thing will drop on the arrogant mag
 Manager Boultes pulled the best catch of the season during the first inning at Newheld yesterday. With Smith on second and two down, Will Hams raised a. high foul near the for the spot and when he saw the ball was bound for the other side of the fence he leaned across the wire bar Tier and took the sphere with one hand. The crowd cIeered the old hoy then.
 Another bit of good fielding was shown by Ira Ha11man in the seventh when the Bridgeport right fielder got under Robinson's liner after long run.
 The victory in doubles of t4ae Aug traIasian tennis team over the Cana dian players yesterday was no great surprise It was predicted that Brookes and WiIding would be su- perior to anybody Canada could pro- duce. Many are also predicting that Brookes and sWi1ding will beat the Americans in doubles but whether they can defeat Mclaughlin and Williams in singles is another story.
 j
 Watson M. Washburn, a Brooklawn club player. gave Williams of the Da- wis cup team a, great battle in the Longwood tennis tournament at Bos- ton yesterday. It took 50 games to decide three sets but Washburn tired in the fourth set and williams won easily Mclaughlin beatS Burdy, an other Californian, in straight sets
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
KEN NEOY DEFEATS ROBERT; MATCHED
 WITH CARPENTER

Paris, July 25@Tom Kennedy, the American heavyweight, last night knocked out Max Robert, the French amateur, in the fifth round Tn each of the first four rounds he sent Rob- erts down for the count of eight, and in the fifth round knocked him down four times.
 A fight between Kennedy and Georges Carpenter for a purse of S20,0o0 is being arranged for the end of August at San Sebastian, Spain.
 Kennedy is one of Dan Morgan's $ troupe of boxers who train at Capt Bond s in Stratford He was with the rest of the squad in Stratford until he sailed for Paris a short time ago. Ken nedy is well known in this city and the news of his victory will beN well received.
 Secretary Bryan's peace treaties with Argentine, Brazil and Chilli were signed.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
DEVORE AND DECKER
 FOLLOW EACH OTHER
 AROUND BIG LEAGUES

Josh Devore is now with the Boston nTatfonaIs-a club that is being sud. denly ripped to pieces and reconstruct ed by Gs Stallings. By landing in Bos- tom .Toah completes a strange series of nandHrdnss. which exactly parallel those of Beals Becker-a. set of coin csdencea, possibly hardly equaled. During last three seasons BeolSer start ing at Boston went to New York, thence to Cincinnati and finally to. FhiEade1phsas where he is now located. Devore, starting at New York, went to Cinefnna1i, thence to Philadelphia. and finally to Boston, so that these two outaelders in their travels have per- formed in exactly the same way set of cities, and no othersl
 TspFenty-fFve marines left the Brook lyn navy yard for service Nin Ganto Domingo and Hayti
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-25
MILAN HAS SIGN ON OUR
 BOYS AGAIN
(By Wagner.1

The last time Sam Mclean beat Bridgeport we thought it happened be- cause the Bolts were sorry for the poor old gent. But the mean cuss was up. to mischief again yesterday and he led Waterbury to s to 1 victory over the Bolts On GcI4ean's last visit here he had Lee Fohl as catcher. and it was pointed out that this made the oldest battery in the league. Lew Wendell was behind the platter for Waterbury yesterday, however, so the old age stuff cannot be used as an alfloi.
 Lefty Gervais pitched poorly for Brideeport. Of course Bridgeport.s fielding was bad. five errors being the most the club has made in 9, long time. But Gervafs had a great habit of a1- lowing hits when they would do the
 most harm. The southpaw helped the cause somewhat by making a double and single, off McLean's benders.
 Manager Jake, BouItes played won derfu1 ball for our boys. His fielding was irnnense and at the bat he contrt- buted two sacrifices and a single, Hall. man and Tferney also made good catches and the former collected two singles
 AS a fair sample of what the Bolts were doing, witness the fifth session when Waterbury scored three Mo Lean singled but was forced at second by Foran. The latter stole second and was held at third on Robinson's single. Tferney muffed WendeI1's fly after a hard run, Foran scoring. Smith forced Wendell at second. Williams singled, counting Robinson and Smith took third. The delayed steal was tried and Smith scored when Crook dropped Ems throw.
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