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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
AUSTRIA AND
ITALY NEARER
OPEN BREAK
Italian Govt Reported to
Have Ordered Germans
from Country.
MILITARY ACTIVITY BY
AUSTRIANS AT BORDER
Berlin Admits Russians Pen
etrated German Soil in North
ern East Prussia.

lnoficial reports indicate that the
relations between Italy and Austria
are becoming more unsettled. A.
Paris dispatch says that Germans II
resorts In the italian Riviera have
been notified to leave the country at
once The status of the negotiations
between the Italian government and
Prince Won Bueiow, on behalf OF Aus
tria and Germany is now in doubt
the assertion having been made that
Emperor Francis Joseph has viz
tually broken them on.
According to special dispatches
reaching London from Rome. the
Austrians are displaying great mill
tary activity in the Trentino district
near the Italian frontier. It is said
rapidly.
The renewal Of heavy fighting or
both the western and eastern fronts
during the last fortnight apparentlr
is being followed by another Iull
Today's official reports speak OF no
important engagements Russian
forces continue their efforts to throw
back the Germans IN Norfhern
Poland, but the German war office
announces that all these attacks have
been repulsed.
Germans to Ketaliate.
The statement shows. noyFepef
that the Russians succeeded in pexe-
trating German soil once more, str1lr
ing In at the northern end OF Easi
Prussia. The Russians are accused
of burning and piilaging viIlaeee
The German government announces
Its intention of retaliating BY de-
stroying three Russian villages FOR
every German village burned.
Although fighting Is ztil1 under WAY
IN Belgium. Champagne and -
Argonne, the French and German
statements indicate that the sctivltz'
| yesterday was limited princzp4lly Il
TO have made further progress a1onsr
| the User.
A London newspaper publishes q
Copenhagen dispatch, stating tha-
Emperor william has arrived AZ t1ns
German army headquarters near Ixlle
for a council OF war with the kfnxe
of Saxony and Wurttembrrg and
others. The emperor is said to have
conferred already with the German
crown prince. This is the first war
for a long period concerning the
crown prince, whose whereabouts has
been unknown in this country.
A Vienna dispatch concerninE
Przemysl is a disagreement with
Petrograd message yesterday to the
effect that the Galician fortress
would fall within few days. It Il
said that the Russian attacks ars
made only at rare intervals and that
the Austrian defenders have little to
do. According to an unconarmed re-
port reaching London the outer forts
Of Przemysl have fallen before the
Russians.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
BIG PROFIT
IS SHOWN IN
WATER DEPT.
Annual Report Places Net In
come for Year 1914 at
$14s,s33.o3.
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY
BRINGS THE RESULTS
Republicans Had Left a Deficit
on SuFrendering Control
Jan. 1, 1918.

The successful manner in which the
city water department has been con-
Quoted by the Board of Works dur
ing the past year is shown by the
fact that the net profits for the pc
riod amount to $14S,SS3.0S. A report
setting forth these figures was sub
rnitted to the board today by Chief
Accountant David Holmes. The earn
ings of the past twelve months, IN
spite of a large increase in operating
expense, shows an increase in net
profits of s49, ,651.03 over the previous
year.
The report discloses many astound-
ing facts. brought about in the de-
partment since the reorganization uil-
der Mayor Haussling and Demo
cratic majority. In the first place
the legacy of a deficit OF 1874, ,o31.SA
left to the Democratic board by the
Republicans in 1918 has been wiped
from the books, and in lieu Of a
deficit there Is shown a big increase
both in revenue and net earnings.
Credit to DIR. Kraemer.
When the Democrats took charge
Of the department, DR.. Charles #
Kraemer was placed directly in
charge. He ousted many Republi-
cans and in their places put book
keepers and men high up in the finan-
cial world As a result. after one
year the deficit was reduced from
1914 ,031.S4 to $2S3 ,345.34. The surplus
revenue at the end of the first year
was $37,1S1.70.
So that the taxpayers could derive
the benefit of careful, business-like
administration, the board in Decem-
ber reduced the rate from Los to 81
fat.
The total gross revenue for the past
year totaled 1886, ,33347. This is an
increase of SS4, ,483.54 over the pre-
vious year.
Running Expenses Tail to Halt Gain.
On the other hand the cost of rum
ming the department has increased
The operating expenses for the past
twelve months were $42I275.17 This
sum is $1s,06S.75 over the previous
year.
An analysis OF the report shows
that the increase is caused by the
additional sums placed aside for f1-
ture use. This portion of the cost
was burdened by an additional s10,-
900 this year. 1t was deemed wise to
my aside this sum owing to the cost
of the recent court action over the
water diversion suits.
The statement of earnings and ex-
penditures for the year ending De-
cember 81, 1914, is as follows:
Net sales of water. ...... 81, S5S, ,795 81
Miscellaneous operating
income ........-.......... 1887 %
Total operating reve-
nue. .....................s1 81 1856, 1888 n
Deduct
Operating expenses. 427,275 Ii
Balance .......-......... 39S9,05S 81
Add
Miscellaneous rents, in
terest and non-operat-
ing revenues .......... 5,156 50
Gross corporate income. $s44,215 1:
Deduct
Sinking fund
payments ...s255, ,225 90
Interest o n.
funded debt. 540,157 o9 795,Ss2 0s
Net earnings for the year $143,S5S 0:
The water department has beer
steadily increasing for the past two
years. Following the reorganization
5Dr. Kraemer remained as chairman
for one year and then became pres
4dent of the board. Commissioner
Continued on Page 4. Column 81
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
By the United Press.

LONDON, March is.-Special Rome
dispatches to a number Of London
newspapers reported today that the
Austrians are making great military
preparations in the Trentino district
near the italian frontier.
Large forces of Russian prisoners
have been sent into the Trentino dis
trict. the dispatches asserted. They
are now engaged in clearing the
mountain roads OF snow and disginE
entrenchments.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
Sudan Captured
from British!
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, March is Cby wireless 10
SayviIle, N. Y.}-A German merchant
who recently has returned FROM
Egypt, is authority for the declare
tion that the whole OF the Sudan. III
cluding Khartum. and also parts Of
Nubia, are in possession OF the
Dervisfes. The statements OF this
traveller are published in the yas
sische Zeitung He describes also All
engagement near Fashoda last De.
cember, in which General Hawley, of
the British army. ana numher of
other officers. together with almost
a.eoe zneas lost thssE axaBs .--.---..<.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
UNITED STATES APPEALS
TO JAPANESE TO ADHERE
TO TREATY OBLIGATIONS

Learned Officially Government Has Asked Mkado Respect
chinas IntegryU. s. Representations independent of
Protests by Powers, White House DecIarescrave Men,
for American Nation Seen in Far East Developments
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, March is 6 8. m.)--
The correspondent at Athens Of
the Havas Agency in q dis
patch dated March II says
the naval operations OF the allies 4
Smyrna, Asiatic Turkey, have been
temporarily suspended, ana the Turks
are profiting by this respite to re-
pair the damage to their batteries
and forts. They are pursuing the
same course also at the Dardaneile
and on either shore of the Sea o.
Marmora.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, March IS, sos a. nl.-Ger-
mans stopping at resorts in the
Italian Riviera have been privately
notified by the authorities TO leave
italian territory Immediately. says
dispatch from Nice to the Hava>
agency.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
Fair Weather Near End,
Declares PrOgnOsticator

The fair weather will continue to-
night and into tomorrow, but the
wind which is now in the north,
probably will become shifting tomor-
row and with this change cloudiness
will develop. At noon today the tenn
perature was 80, a rise of fifteen de-
tsees from the low mark of the night,
and there was a nine-mile north wind.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18

Friday--Finest Butter 35c; Fresh Eggs
sbc: Msracaibo Coffee lee; Kingan HAMS
| Isc: Boston Chip Candy 2sc; BIZ lbs Head
Rice 2scl Aaron Ward & ops--Adyertise-
'Hent.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, March IS d2:45 p MI
The outer forts of Przemysl. toward
which q part of the Austrian arrnv
has been struggling in an effort u
bring about the relief of the besieged
garrison have at last fallen before
the Russians, according to unoffici4l
reports reaching London.
Although confirmation is quite lack
ing, British newspapers this morning
apparently are eager TO regard the
report as not improbable. They refe
to the fact that the news dispatches
received from Petrograd yesterday
said the surrender Of this stronghold
was but matter of few days.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18

Tonight--Sapirssefn Piano Recital
Recital Hall, s2S Broad. RESERVED Seats, 81
ADVERTISEMENT --------
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18
Historic EIberon Casino
Is Destroyed by a Fire
special to the Evening Star.

ELBERoN. March 1s.--Fire caused
by q. lighted cigarette stub of a work
man probably destroyed what was
left of the historic Elberon Casino
yesterday and was communicated to
the roof of the Garfield cottage near
by.
The Casino, which was being de-
molished, was destroyed. but the fire
on the roof of the cottage was quick
Iy extinguished. The properties are
owned by former United States Sena-
tor James Smith. jr.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18

Az Ludlow 4 squier' s--s-Inch side Cutting
Flatnose Plyers: $50 kind, Sscs--Adyertiao-
nenL - ..-..-------
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18

Table Glassware Sold Rf Retail.
A. T. Schiichting, 2ss Market St.--Adysf-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-18

Net earnings for the year s143,S33 03
The water department has been
steadily increasing for the past two
years Following the reorganization
! DIR. Kraemer remained as chairman
for one year and then became pres
adent of the board. Commissioner
Continued on Page 4, Column s.)
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-08-27

Senator Cummns says that he has been simply
flooded with letters and kilograms commencing his
cent statement approving national Prohibition. THE
sentiment is favorable Prohibition all over the coun-
try" nc says.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-08-27
What Else Can You Expect?

La Sale county reports the second largest aims
house population in the state, with an expenditure of
$4,000 in pauper claims each year But what can
you expect of county that ranks among the banner
saloon counties of the state?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-08-27
A Question and Its Answer

to get the money spent for beer and whisky nobodv
else will get it. 1t is assumed that if a man does not
spend dollar for booze he will throw that dollar
into botomless pit instead of using it to purchase
other commodity"
Every knows that this assumption OF the
liquor dealers is sheer fallacy The liquor business
employs lever men in proportion to the capital in
vested than any other line of business and if the
S2oooooo,ooo spent for liquor in the United States
every year diverted into other channels of trade
this country would enter upon era of prosperity
tar beyond anything that it has yet experienced
he editor of the Galesburg Labor News puts the
problem IN nut shell when he says:
When the people quit spending two billion dollars
year for less than nothing, then they will have
money to spend for necessities and there will be Jobs
for everybody making things worth while.
The men responsible for starved and neglected
families, brutalized men, outraged women-the brew
ers, distiers and others engaged in the liquor bust
ness, not at all for the unemployed except as it
affects their power to buy booze.
1t is about time the intelligent workers were
using their think tanks little bit in their own inter
ests and hitting the of this evil 1t is the booze
business that putting not only out of work but
out of homes, of bread of clothing out hope
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1915-08-27
Cllicag go, III.

To the Editor of The Issue:
Dear Sr-I will appreciate comprehensive reply to
oloWing In the eliminate the saloon please tell
through the paper what fields of shall
thousands of aloon-owners and of thousands of bar
tenders turn?
We know that all fields of industry are over-crowded
resulting in keen competition lack OF opportunity
livelihood Is it apparent that capital and
will be the bearers of the burden? Yours very truly.
HERMAN FOREL.
While the liquor question is primarily moral
question it is quite natural that workmen of whom
presume correspondent is one, should be con-
cerned to know the effects OF Prohibition upon the
labor market just the farmer and manufacturer are
interested to know the effects of the tariff or any
other governmental policy upon the price OF their
commodities.
It is quite natural also that the liquor dealers
should exaggerate the importance of their business
the workman and endeavor to make him believe that
the abolition of it would be calamity to the labor
ing class. However, who has studied the
problem carefully will agree with the liquor dealers.
The truth is tens of thousands of saoonkeepers
and bartenders in the thousands of towns, cities and
counties of the United States that have voted dry
and be remembered that Is per cent of the United
States is now dry terrtory-have already been
thrown out of employment and the labor market has
been very slightly disturbed as not to cause any
comment whatever. This one statement is the COM
pete refutaton of the claim of the liquor dealers.
In those communities that have already voted out
the saloon what has become of the saloon men? A
few of them have moved to wet territory and con-
tinued in the liquor business, but investigation shows
that the great majority of them have found better
jobs and that, too, without crowdng anybody else
out.
This entire argument" of the liquorites, as Mr.
Sickle, union labor authority has pointed out "is
based upon the theory that if the liquor dealers fail
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-06
THE ICE PLANT AMENDMENT WILL. WORK BUT THE CITY MUST OPERATE UNDER
 THE NATURAL ICE PROVISION OF TT

ME LONG DELAYED bill for municipal plant con 1 tains few words which any value to Bridgeport These Section of the those in which the city is to contract for the which may sell or distribute in Bridgeport and the immediately adjacent thereto.
 The right to purchase ice is the sole language of the
 which be construed giving the city powers deal in natural ice
 Since Bridgeport is in New England, and New England in the north temperate where process of nare 1t that ice plant able beneficial scale, should be able to deal Manufactured cannot be competition natural product
 h operating under this bill, which perhaps enable some already existing artificial ice plant loaded the city, it will be best that city proceed under the brief language referred includes the right it. sufficient enable the city to deal in natural ice
 The investment in beginning will not be It would consist of suitable storage ent for delivery For the present the purchased and not be taken from lakes ponds which of the city But this objection could be easily by the suitable water. at figure
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-06
SIMON soNN NEMANN

To those familiar with German Journalism the name of Simon-Son- nemann is associated with the Frank furter Zeitung, in many respects the know that Herr Sinaon-Sonnemann is not HHerT'' at all, but Frau. The proprietor and guiding spirit of the famous journal, which, although pub lished in Frankfurt, has also a Berlin edition and is read by the conserva- tive classes in all parts of the empirei inherited the property from her fa,th- er and has since conducted it with great success. Frau SimOn-SonMe- mann is said to have been the pioneer in the t.campaign of hate"A agai nst England. From the first days of the war she has caused her editorial writers to hur1 anathemas upon .perfidious Albion and her persist ent campaign was soon reflected by all the newspapers of the empire with the exception of Vorwarts and few other socialist journals. Frau Simon Sonnernann has a son in the army, and another son assists her in direct ing the affairs Of her newspaper. The famous woman publisher is said to have originated the phrase, "God punish Eng1and!'' whicn Is now on the lips of millions of Germans, and is embIazoned on buttons, badges and brooches worn by practically all the women of the empire. Frau Simon Sonnemann lives in Berlin, where she maintains magnificent establish ment. which was long a favorite so- ciaI rendezvous of army officers. The "campaign of hate inaugurated by the fair publisher of the F-rankfurter Zeitung inspired Ernest Lissauer to write '@The Hymn of Hate'' which has now become a .Teuton battle anthem Frau Simon-Sonnemann is now near ing sixty, and is about of the same age as the famous newspaper Of which she is the owner. The Zeitung has been the organ of German indus trialists, rather than of the military party. and it has long been the lead ing commercial journal of the em- rire
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-06
John T. McCutcheon, Famous Cartoonist, Is
 45 Years Old Today

or all the cartoonists who ply their gentle art on this side of the well known Atlantic ocean, perhaps the most widely and favorab1y known is John T. dcCntcheon, of the Chicago Tribune Like so many other middle western geniuses, MT. McCutcheon was born in Indiana. It was forty five years ago today, May 6, 1870, that she started life in Tfppecanoe county, spending his youth on a Hoosier farm Agriculture did not appeal to him, ,however, and while still in short trousers he began study ing art. He advanced so rapidly that at the age of nineteen he landed a. job on the art staff of the Chicago Record Later he went over to the RecordzHera1d and afterward to the Tribune For nearly a score of years he has held place among the fore most newspaper cartoonists of the world. Mr. McCutcheon Is chronic globe-trotter and has had many ura- usual and thrilling experiences. He was a. member of the party of Amer ican war correspo who invaded BelgiIlrn soon after the outbreak of hostilities. and, with Irwin s. Cobb and several others, served time in German jail, but finally escaped to Holland In 1898 MT. McCutcheon made a tour around the world in the dispatch boat McCulloch, and he was an eyewitness of the battle of Manila Bay The Chicago cartoonIst was Tn Africa during Col Roosevelt's hunt ing trip. and recorded his Impressions of that distinguished Nimrod in a volume, 'sT. R. in Cartoons He made a balIoon ascension at Nairobi, and from a safe height gazed down upon the wild beasts of the Jungle. Besides having a ringside seat at Dewey's victory over the naughty Don MT. McCutcheon has had experience of warfare in the Philippines, the Transvaa1, and, latter1y, in Europe. In many of his gIobe-trotting expedi- lions the cartoonist has traveled with that other celebrated Hoosier, George Ade, and as a result of this associa- ton has illustrated many of MT. Ade's books. As an artist McCutcheon has a style that is strictly his own. McCutcheon cartoon may be rec ognized at a considerable distance, and may be approached with the cer-4 tainty that it contains the 'makings'
 of a laugh.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-06
NEW HAVEN BOND
 BILL IS PASSED

Hartford. May 6.-The senate yester- day without debate passed the amend ment to the charter of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad which permits that company to issue $87, ,O00, ,O00 in bonds in addition to those already outstanding with the permis- sion of the public service commission
 The bill was explained at some length by Senator Lucius E. Whiton of New London, chairman of the rail- road committee. The bill gives the road authority to issue bonds up to d sum equal tot ts capital stock and in excess of that up to a sum equal to twice it's capital stock with pernissioz. of the public utilities commission. The bf1 strips from the road many of the privileges contained in the charter Of the Consolidated Railway company. which it obtained by merging with that company and puts it almost en- tirely under the control of the public utilities commission. One clause in the bill repeaIs the provision in the roads charter that a majority of the directors must be from Connecticut and substitutes a provision that at least two thirds of the directors must be residents Of the. states in which it is incorporated which at present are 777'+ three, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-06
STILL AFTER THE VETERANS.

EVIDENTLY authorities have not abandoned their
 IT. political friends by giving them places the displacement of veteran but capable bers of police and fire departments.
 plan bring out the pension bill without any right appeal they 60 old and served g years.
 Ordinarily would be much objection to the oms felt that the commissioners would be little likely 0 me fit for duty.
 present conditions usual standards fail The deliberately the police department by adding half hundred men, by threat per attempted obtain the of of the most competent persons the police force for their To appeal equivalent to authorizing their The city budget will be burdened with the in crease that follow retirement competent others to take their places
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-06
WOULD ABOLISH CONTRACTLABOR
 IN OUR PRISON
Labor Committee Reports Measure Opposed By
 Prison Board.

Hartford, May 6.-The committee on labor reported to the House yesterday a bill providing for the abolition of the contract labor system at the state prison and at all jails and other penal institutions in Connecticut after the existing contracts have expired. The committees favorable report on this measure came as a surprise, for it was vigorously opposed by the State Prison Board at the public hearing held upon it. It would call for a complete re- organization of the penal institutions of the state.
 The bill provides that the inmates be employed in healthfuI and useful in the buildings or grounds of the in- stitutions, but may be carried out in such places and under such conditions and regulations as may be approved by the officers. And that the occupa-7 tion of the inmates, as far as practd- cable, shall be chosen to yield service, material, equipment, furniture or sup plies required by the state or depart ments, counties, towns, cities, bor- oughs, schoI districts or public fnstitu- tions when such can be supplied at the market price
 The bill further provides that the convicts and inmates be credited with wages up to 25 cents per day, which may be paid to the family or depend ents, or retained until the discharge of the convict. and then be paid in full penalty of S2oo for violation of the act is provided.