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New-York tribune., 1915-02-21

A silly little notion that the Euro
pean war would prevent Monte Carlo
from presenting grand oper- was q
sponsible for a vale of tears yesterday
on board the Italian steamship Duca
dAosta. which sailed away from these
shores with Caruso, the beloved tenor.
Enrico Caruso has often said that he
never did anything against his will.
His departure yesterday was an excep-
tion to that rule, and never again he
said would he tie up with -Iny orgsni-
cation for performances which ne did
not care to give.
Enrico. smiling and with an outward
show of merriment, went abroad the
Duca d'Aosta yesterday long ahead of
Of her time for departure. He swung
his cane. tilted his hat to one side, as
sumed a Chuck Connors pose and
laughed aloud just TO make his friends
believe that he was happy. 1t was a
fine performance. His acting was su-
perb until the last act when, and IN
the entrance of Signor Scott, his grand
good friend and countryman, Caruso
threw art to the four winds and wept
as if his heart would break.
Scotti Weeps His Adieu.
1t was a dramatic parting. Scott
forced his way through crowd of
about two hundred persons on the boat
deck and with burst of emotion cried:
"Mio caro-, Enrico" The barytone
threw his arms around the robust
tenor, kissed him on one cheek and
then on the other, and CarusO returned
the greeting.
Antonio" said Caruso intensely, 81
should not be going away to-day.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
EXPRESS WRECKED;
FOUR MEN HURT
Fast Train on Reading
Jumps Track-Steel Cars
Prevent Loss of Life.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Hopewell, y. j.. Feb. 20.-That the
train was made up of steel cars prob
ably prey ented loss Of life when
crowded New Philadelphia ex-
press of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad. after striking deraiiing
switch at Hopewell. jumped the track
and ploughed along the roadway for
100 feet. Four men were injured out
The train. which had left New York
al 3 o'clock. when it reached Hopeweil
was travelling at fifty miles an hour.
The engineer. Harry Stem. evidently
did not see the derailing switch, ior'
without slackening up, the locomotive
struck, and, without turning over, con
tinued along the roadway, dragging the
first three cars from the rails.
The smoker, the first car IN tne
train and a coach following fell partly
over on their sides and ploughed
through the roadbed. scattering the
road ballast until the car was buried
up 20 the windows.
One hundred passengers IN the t"9
cars that left the rails were tosseu
about and fell 20 the lower side as
the coaches careened, but most OF
them escaped harm.
An investigation made By the local
authorities and the railroad offielais
showed that only four passengers hau
been slightly injured. The only dam
age 70 the train was the tearing OF the
cars from the trucks and the ripping
of of several hand rails. All expressed
amazement that the cars withstood the
terrific strain TO which they had been
subjected. and all were unanimous IN
their opinion that it was only the steer
cars that prevented many OF the pas
sengers from being killed or malmea'
The injured were Harry SchwsttL'
of o3t5 Bolton Street, Philadelphia
william Gallagher. of 5,532 Delaney
street. Philadelphia; b. 5. Egan, OF
Norristown, Penn, and lgnstz Swartz,
of Passaie. All received minor bruises
and after being treated were sole 10
continue. ,or
Traffic on the road was ued up ior
several hours.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
Friends Speed Tenor on Journey to Monte Carlo
Photographer Snaps Singer as He Bhthey
Turns Crank of Motion Picture Machine.

Never will it happen again that leave
my good friends and go away alone
There was an abundance of emo
tional folk on the boat deck, and the
scene affected them also. Handker-
chiefs were used freely, but disappeared
into handbags when Scotti and Caruso
gave the cue by putting theirs away.
A woman and a young man relieved
the sorrowful situation somewhat by
walking up to Caruso and offering him
a small piece Of cardboard and pencil.
"Ah. hal" he said, you are another
fellow that wants the sketch. What
shall il be-"
81 would like you to make picture
of yourself as you think you are to-
day." explained the young man. 81 am
from a newspaper, and we would rather
use your sketch than Il photograph
81 think | am very happy to-day" re-
marked Caruso as he drew few bold
lines on the cardboard. "You will see
how happy am. See!"
Caruso Artistically Sad.
pencil transformed the mild counte-
nance into a sad Caruso, and there
after he patterned the sketches after
the one he had just drawn.
Scotti now began to smile. He had
become reconciled to the departure Of
his old friend, and soon everybody was
making merry. The omnipresent NOV
ing picture man had come along by this
time, and the tenor became intensely
interested in the film camera. Enrico
was asked to pose for it, but he said
he thought it would be more fun to
turn the crank, and offered to make
moving pictures of the moving picture
man. He examined the machine, and
the ground out about a hundred feet
Continued on page 4. column 2
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
Germans Kind to Grew
Whose Ship They Sank

Cherbourg via Paris). Feb. 2o.--The
story of the sinking OF the French
steamer Vile de Lille by a German
submarine of the Barfeur lighthouse,
east OF Cherbourg, was told last night
by the boatswain OF the vessel which
was sent to the bottom on Tuesday.
The submarine which sank them, he
said, was the U-i6, which pursued the
Vile de Lille some distance and
moneuvred in such a way as TO prevent
its escape. Then the Germans hoisted
the signal "Stop or we FIRE on you"
after which the steamer stopped and
the submarine came alongside.
II will give you ten minutes 20
leave the ship" said the German com-
mander, according 20 the boatswain'a
story. The crew complied with the
order and took to the boats. pulling
toward Baraeur.
Meanwhile two men from the sub
marine went aboard the stesIner and
placed two bombs, one in the'csptain's 3
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
German Submarine, Without Warning,
Sinks British Vessel Taking Pilot Off
Welsh Coast-FOur Men Killed.
ANXIETY FELT FOR PHILADELPHIA
American Steamship Due in the Mersey This Morn.
ng-AnnOunCement of British Reprisals Tx
pected at Once ---AnOther Boat Missing.
BY Cab,e to The Tribune.l

London Feb 2OA sank British vessel at IL
m right path Of the big transatlantic liners which MAKE
Liverpool The victim the steamship Camoank o oard
o9o tons which was Wales, few miles
of Linas point, without warning
The of the Cambank killed and
drowned while getting into boat
The remainder the twenty number saved The
her Liverpool pilot when she was
by the submarine and torpedoed
This not the first time submarine has been these
waters but the last them the of the ships when
opportunity leave the vessels before sinking he
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
FORBES ROBERTSON WINS
English Actor and Miss Adams
Stage Favorites of Yale.

New Haven. Feb. 20 Yale seniors,
in their annual class vote, to-day Sc
lected Forbes Robertson as their favor
ite actor and Msude Adams as their
fsvorite actress. Former classes picked
Edward H. Sothern and Miss Adams.
She was selected by 70 votes TO only 26
for Julia Msrlovc and 20 for Elsie
Ferguson. No motion picture favorite
received votes, and comic opera stars
got only scant recognition.
Robertson easily led with 81 votes,
Sothern was second with 25, George
Arliss third with Il, and Robert Man
tell and William Gillette fourth and
fifth. respectively. each with II.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
RECIPES SURROUND WILL
Man Writes Disposal OF Estate
on Pare of Order Book.
In, T,lxraph 70 The Tribune.

Paterson, n. j., Feb. 20.-Torn from
the middle of a grocers order book, on
the surrounding pages of which were
recipes for picked cabbage, chill sauce
and catsup, the will of William F.
ODell. who died on February at his
home, 16l Grant Avenue, Totowa Bor-
ough. was offered for probate in the
Office of Surrogate Frederic Beggs this
morning
Il directed that eli the teststor's
nroperty be sold and that the money
inns obtained be devoted to the educa-
tion of his daughter Elsie, eleven years
old. until she shall have reached her
naioritV
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST
DIES; CORONER ACTS
Autopsy Ordered in Death OF
Engineer - Quit Doctors
Two Years Ago.

Earle Wheeler, forty-nine years old,
an electrical engineer, died yesterday
81 G his home. 1o7 West iosth street
Ne had been paralytic for three
wears. but, owing TO his Christian SCI
ence beliefs, had not had physician
for two years. coroner ei'e"s'''''
ordered an autopsy. ,,o NJ.
After death DR.. Jones, OF liz West
,,o.h Street. was called. but he refused
10 issue certificate -.
Mrs May Wheeler. the widow, said
sba wss married to Wheeler four years
s,r;.kcn az The greater part OF his saw
;ngs had gone to doctors. He then be-
raHe interested in Christian science
The last practitioner to visit her nus.
hand. so the widow says, was niper,
Warner, a former actor VINO '''e -
the White Rats Club
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
QUAKE HITS BAY STATE
Shocks Are Felt in Towns
Along the Merrimac River.

Lawrence, Mass, Feb. 20.-Esrth
tremors were reported from various
places in the Merrimsc Valley tonight.
The disturbance was felt distinctly in
Andovcr, North Andover and South
Lawrence, but was not noticed in North
Lawrence, on the other side of the Mer-
rimae River. Hsverhill also cXpe-
rienced a slight earthquake. No severe
damag' was reported.
Small earthquakes nave not been un-
common in this section, where geolo-
gisis have noted fault in the earth 3
crust,
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
Second Norwegian Steamer
Sunk by Mine; Crew Saved

Nakskov, Denmark (via London =,
Feb. 20.-The Norwegian steamer
Bjarko struck a mine at a. m. to-day
and sank. Her crew was saved.
This is the second disaster to Nor
wegian vessels since the German
blockade took effect. The Bjsrko,
which was 1913 feet long and 286 tons
gross, was laden with coal She was
on her way from Leith to Nakskov.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
Ten WOrld-Fa famous Nine.
Du Barry Panels on
Love" Lost to City.
DUVEEN BROTHERS
AGAIN PURCHASERS
ST 100000 Mentioned as Price
of Pictures for Which Banker
Built Special Room.

Art loving Americans will be startled
this morning ito learn that j. 7.
Morgan he's parted with the famous
Mime Du Barry Fragonard collection Of
paintings, hung in the Fragonard room
at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art,
which thousands have viewed with
pleasure during the last year, These
ten panels, with four others belonging
to the set. have been sold to the Du-
veen Brothers. who recently bought the
Morgan s4,OOOOOO collection of Chinese
porcelairs.
No definite sum was named by Henry
Duveen yesterday when he made the
CURED the Frsgonard pictures. II was
learned from another source that the
collection is easily worth between
81 ,00r 900 and Sl,50O,O0o.
"As a matter Of fact" said The Trib-
une's informant, "these pictures are so
important that almost any value might
be ,iaced on them and none would dis
pute it,"
When these pictures, which constituted
the last important work Of this gifted
artist, came into the possession of the
late j. Pierpont Morgan, about 1902,
he exhibited them in the Guildhall, in
London, where they caused a great ar
tistic sensation. They we're afterward
installed in his London residence, at
Princes Gate.
Room Designed for Them.
In order to give the gems worthy
setting MIR. Morgan had special room
designed for their reception. ms
work was intrusted TO the Duveen
Brothers. and when at his death his
collections we're removed to the Met
ropolitan Museum here the entire room
itself was carefully detached and placed
at the disposal of the museum authori-
ties, thus rendering it possible to repro
duce practically the same effect which
the paintings had in Princes Gate.
The history of this remarkable series
Of pictures, called the Romance OF
Love and Youth" is one full of in
terest. Their author was the brilliant
lean Honor Fragonard, pupil and le-
qitimate successor Of Boucher and the
last of the great French decorative
painters of the eighteenth century.
Born at Grasse, near Cannes, in 1I32,
he early exchanged the life OF law
clerk for that of the arts, and after at
tending the atelier of Boucher came
under the influence and teaching Of
Chardin.
When. during the Terror, Fragonard
Aed from Paris in 1889, at the close oil
his brilliant career there, he is said to
have taken with him the wonderful
paintings which he had begun in lI'2
for the Pavilion of Louveciennes, which
Louis XIV was building for Nine. Du
Barry. from the designs OF LedouX.
For some reason these were never
placed in position, but remained on the
artists hands. For what it is worth
gossip has the story that Nine. Du
Barry, being annoyed with the subject
of one of the panels (that depicting
the heroine mourning her abandonment
Continued on page 8. column
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21

, One of the rescued sailors OF the
Cambank told in Liverpool this evening
the experience Of that vessel. He said
that she was bound from Huelya 10
Liverpool with a cargo Of copper, and
before she could get up speed after
taking aboard a pilot Off Angolsey the
crew had seen the periscope Of sub
marine about 200 yards away. The
Cambank tried TO turn and run, but
the torpedo struck her amidships. and
in a minute the vessel was ablaze and
smothered in smoke.
There was absolutely no attempt to
give a warning 20 let the crew have a
chance to escape. the sailor said, and
they barely managed 20 launch boat
and get away from the steamers side
before she sank. Some members of the
crew were only half dressed, and all
were nearly exhausted when rescued.
One man, he said, was lost when trying
TO jump from the steamers deck into
the lifebost, and the third engineer
and two lremen were killed by the eH-
plosion of the torpedo and several
members of the crew were injured by
splinters.
Much anxiety prevailed among Amer
leans mere tonight when the news of
the disaster to the Cambank was an
nounced Amlwch Bay Wishes the
northern coast of Anglesey, in the di-
rect course of liners plying between
New York and Liverpool. The Ameri-
can liner Philadelphia is due 10 arrive
in Liverpool at . a. m. OF Sunday.
While the more optimistic believe that
the American liner is not in danger
during the cover of darkness, others
believe il is even more risky for n
vessel to be in waters near Liverpool
after nightfall than before.
Fears Felt for the Membland.
Fears are felt for the steamer Mem
on Monday and has not since been
heard Of. The MemblaDd was pur-
chased recently by McDuf & Co.. OF
Glasgow, from firm in West Hartle
pool.
An announcement regarding BrltlSh
reprisals on Germany is expected to
come without delay, now that Germany
has actually begun her submarine cam
paign. What those reprisals will be
has already been told in these dis
patches, but England. in consideration
of the neutrals, has delayed putting
them into effect until the last minute.
there even being hope among a few
optimists that the German war zone
announcement was only a bluff. But
with the news OF the torpedoing OF the
Cambanl the last shred OF doubt has
vanished of Germany's intentions 10
destroy without warning all merchant
shipping in British waters, while the
torpedoing of the Norwegian steamer
Belridge in the Channel shows that
Germany has no idea Of sparing neu
trails.
The Admiralty announced tonight
that an official examination Of the
pieces Of metal found on the Belridge
after she WIS struck has proved be-
yond doubt that they are pieces Of q
discharged torpedo.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
fRY Cahlc 70 The Tnhun,.

London, Feb. 2l.--"The Daily Chron-
icle" reports that two German subma-
rines were observed six miles OF
Lowestoft, Suffolk, this evening by a
mine sweeper. A British destroyer
was quickly on the scene and fred. but
with unknown effect.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21

rt oe,pA viAATIANTic COAST LINE
p,iy fine operating through trains DAY
10 'i Florida East Coast Points l2iS b""|'
--AdYt.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21
WEATHER

FAIR TO-DAY. PARTLY Co'p'
TOMORROW.
Yesterdays Temperatures;
High. 81; Low, 81.
Full report on Page =. Fsri L.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21

Athens. Feb. 2O.--It is reported here
that the Anglo-French feet destroyed
Turkish forts on the Asiatic side OF
the Dardanelles during the lombard
rent this morning. The forts on the
European side subsequently were at
tackled and are still firing.
A powder magazine on the Asiatic
side of the DardanelIes exploded dur
ing the bombardment. The forts re-
piled ir a lively manner 20 the fih Of
the garshi2s but without success.
New-York tribune., 1915-02-21

Continued on page 4. column 2
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-06-07
Old Champion Holds
Metropolitan Golf Title

Outplaying her opponent in all de-
partments of the game, Miss Lillian
B. Hyde, of the South Shore Field
club, easily retained her grip on the
title by defeating Mrs. Joseph E.
Davis, of Piping Rock, up and 8 to
play in the decisive round of the
Women's Metropolitan Golf associa-
ton championship tournament at the
Sleepy Hollow Country club, Long
Island.
This makes the fourth time that
Miss Hyde has won the Metropolitan,
and unless someone with a game a
great deal better than anything
shown comes along, it will probably
be quite while before the Long Is
land girls supremacy in her district
will be placed in jeopardy.
Miss Hyde's best shots were made
in the early stages of the match
and nothing better was seen than her
beautiful at the first. A long drive
and full iron left her a putt of
scarcely two feet, which she made for
3. This hole is 1888 yards long and
was none too easy because of the
adverse wind. For the first four
holes, Miss Hyde never gave her op-
ponent a chance. The champion won
the second in 4 and the next in s.,
Mrs. Davis over-approaching. A up
the hill to the fourth was entirely
too much for the Piping Rock woman
This made Mrs. Davis 4 down. She
halved the short fifth and won the
next when Miss Hyde topped her
drive into rouble.
After Miss Hyde won the seventh,
she halved the next two, so that the
champion turned for home up, going
out in 43 to her opponents At.
Miss Tyde's driving was faulty
coming back, but even so, she easily
held the other, who made frequent
mistakes, besides failing to get any
thing like normal distance through
the faraway. Miss Hyde won the
tenth easily 10 to 7; halved the next,
but lost the twelfth, which she at
tempted to play safely. Miss Hyde
also messed up the short thirteenth,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-06-07
NEWEST
FIGHTING MACHINE
(By Associated Press. J

WASHINGTON, D. c., June THE
thirty-ninth battleship built for the
American navy since 1892 will take
the water June 10 next when the
super dreadnought Arizona slips from
the ways at the New York Navy Yard.
Compared to the first American battle
ship, the Indiana, launched in 1898,
the Arizona will be nearly twice as
long, half again as wide and of three
times as great displacement. Against
the Indiana's four 13-inch guns and
eight 8-inch, the Arizona will carry
twelve 14-inch and twenty-five 5-inch
rifles, the same armament as her sis
ter ship, the Pennsylvania, recently
launched at Newport News.
In addition to the great size of the
new ships main battery, the guns are
of forty-fve calibre as against the 80
calibre of the Indianas' thirteen-inch
guns, identical with those aboard the
famous old Oregon, which played
their part in the battle of Santiago.
With the fourteens of the Arizona in
her turrets, the Oregon could have
halted any one of the fleeing Spanish
ships almost without leaving her sta
ton. The Arizona's guns have range,
even at the low elevation of American
navy mountings, of fifteen miles or
more against eight or nine miles for
the old thirteens.
The Arizona will be the fourth bat
tleship built by the United States in
it's own navy yard at New York. The
others were the Connecticut, the
dreadnaught Florida and the super
dreadnaught New York, at present one
of the largest, swiftest and most pow
erful of American fighting craft.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-06-07
SESSION OF MOOT COURT
IS RICH IN RESULTS
MEMBERS OF LOCAL BAR ENTER
PLEAS OF GUILTY.

With Deputy Court Clerk Sam Heys
presiding as judge of the courthouse
moot court, the session" this morn
ing was replete with interest and rich
in results for the thirsty lawyers COM
prising that body Solicitor General
Williams, who has previously boosted
of his well-flled smokehouse on his
farm, was caught red-handed in the
act of buying wagon load of "sow
bosom" at Poole's, and paid the pen
alty-coca-cola's for the party Of
thirty onlookers. Judge Harper was
fined for having brought an automo-
bile, while Deputy Sheriff Lucas Har-
vey, who came in adorned in a pair Of
pink socks, paid 50 for enough cigars
to go round.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-06-07
PRICE Of FOOD
INCREASES 48 PER-
CENT IN LONDON
(By Associated Press.

LONDON, June There is no halt
in the advance in the cost of living in
England. The index figures in the
London Statist show that the averag
increase in prices of food-stuffs since
the beginning of the war is 40 per
cent This represents an increase of
about billion dollars in the sum ex-
pended for food since August /. The
disconcerting thing about these figures
to the English student of statistics IS
that the greater part of the profit from
higher prices will accrue to farmers
in foreign countries, where as hun
dred years ago, during the Napoleantc
wars, practically the whole of the ad-
vantage of the high prices then cur
rent was reaped by British farmers
and landowners.
In normal times a great rise in
prices checks consumption, but so far
as England is concerned the present
advance has failed to do this, the en-
ormous war expenditure having
brought additional income to the
industrial classes, with the result that
the purchasing power of the mass of
people has increased more than suffi-
GENTLY to provide for the advance in
the cost of living. Consequently there
has been no reduction in consumption
In fact, the consumption of food in
recent months has shown expansion
rather than contraction.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-06-07
Uncle Sam To Launch
Big Superdreadnaught

Against the New York's displacement
of $4,000 tons, however, the Arizona
will displace 81, 400 tons, and will
measure 600 feet in length and 81 feet
inches in width. She will mount
twelve 14-inch guns to the ten las
carried by the Texas and they will be
carried three to turret as aboard the
Pennsylvania.
Immediately upon the launching of
the Arizona the keel of the navy de-
partment's greatest experiment in
naval construction, the electrically
driven superdreadnaught California,
will be laid at the New York yard.
She will be nearly a thousand tons
heavier than the Arizona although
carrying the same equipment and ar.
rangement of guns; but is expected to
develop greater speed than the 81
knots desired of the Arizona.
Comparing the most recent govern
ment built battle-ship to the first turn
ed out, navy officials point to the fact
that although the Arizona has twelve
guns to the Connecticut's four and dis
places 15,400 tons more water, being
nearly twice as large, she will carry
only 915 men as against the 1,013
needed to handle the smaller ship
This is due to the improvement in
mechanical appliances for battleship5
in the last decade and also to the fact
that oil has been substituted for coal
as fuel, decreasing the necessary fire.
room force, and that only two sizes of
guns compose her armament against
the four sizes aboard the Connecticut
The result is a reduction in ammuni-
ton handling forces.
The Arizona will be sponsored by
Miss Esther Ross of Preston, Arizona,
nominated by Governor Hunt of Ari-
IONA. AS she looks in the water i'm
mediately after the launching, the
ship will have cost the government
$7425,OOO. An even greater sum will
go for her guns and armor and other
equipment and when she goes into