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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
Warmest July 81 on Rec
ord PrOstrates 301-Mer-
curry Reaches SO.
TO-DAY WILL BE
FAIR AND COOLER
Price of Ice To Be Increased,
Dealers Tell Hotels and
Restaurants.

Three deaths and more than thirty
prostrations were caused in New York
by the heat yesterday. The official
records of the Weather Bureau showed
maximum Of 90 degrees. That was
at o'clock. It was the hottest day of
the season and the hottest July 81 on
record.
From 2 o'clock in the afternoon until
nearly 7 o'clock in the evening the
mercury varied little more than a de-
gree from the mark it had set With
darkness and hint of showers In the
breeze that freshened out of the south
west it dropped to SIS degrees at s
o'clock. Fair and cooler is the fore
cast for to-day. 1t was So at l o'clock,
90 at 2, 81 at 4. 80 at 5, 80 at and
So at S.
The humidity got down to SO at 1
o'clock after starting at 81 five hours
earlier. but all day the sun shone dimly
through the steaming atmosphere on
the pavements. The misty glare seemed
to permeate and drench with the very
shadows. 1t was wilted, detected
throng that poured into the tunnels of
the elevated and subways at the end of
the day.
1t was not the heat wave that has
been devastating the Middle West that
hit New York, the weather man said.
This one New York had all to itself,
though its sphere of influence extended
far upstate to Syracuse, which started
the day at 8 O'Clock with a temperature
of 81, and fa- into New Jersey.
Icemen making their rounds of the
restaurants, hotels and other large
consumers while the mercury was soar
ing, cheerfully announced that ice had
gone up. To such customers the rate
jumped from seventeen to twenty cents
a hundred. There was the added warn
ing that unless a contract was signed
it might be even higher before the end
power to these arguments, and il is
said many contracts were signed at the
new rates. A report that correspond
increase might be made TO household
ers was not verified.
Two died in Brooklyn from the heat.
They were Samuel Keeling, of 80 Fleet
Place. and William Lucas, OF 20l
Spring Street Brooklyn had nine
prostrations. In Long Island City
George Natto, of 7 South Avenue,
Corona, was blinded by the heat and
fell beneath train. He was killed.
Two cases Of heat prostration were re-
ported from Queens.
The suicide of Mrs. Annie Gross, Of
PA Hamilton Street, New Brunswick,
is believed to have been caused by the
heat. She was seventy-two years old.
Her body was found hanging from a
rafter in the garnet Of her home.
Robert Hayes, of 500 South Tenth
Street. Newark, was overcome by the
heat while working in a carriage fac
tory in Newark and died Two were
taken to hospitals in Newark.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
Convoy Along Coast
Requested for U-Llner

Washington, July 3l.-Treasury Off
Gals have been asked by the owners
of the German merchant submarine
Deutschland 70 have the Navy De-
partment provide convoy for the
submarine, so long as 1t is within
the three-mile liIait along the Atlantic
Coast. Although the request has not
been brought officially to the atten-
ton of the Navy Department, II was
indicated there this afternoon that II
would be refused.
The impression prevails in official
circles that the purpose Of the re-
quest is to enable the submarine to
cruise within the three-mile limit
without fear of attack by British
patrol boats until the Deutschland's
commander may think it safe TO sub
merge and start for the open sea.
Officials of the State Department
this afternoon expressed themselves as
frankly puzzled by the renewed re-
quest for convoy down the bay,
which request has already been re-
fused.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
Hear British AeroplaneS
Will Attack Deutschland
Ten Airmen with Specially Devised Bombs Ready Rise
from Warshp Decks the Moment U-Boat Sails
Brooklyn Navy Officers Say

meath the surface OF the sea she might
descend.
Each acroplane, il is understood at
the navy yard. has been equipped with
magazine OF newly devised bombs,
capable of exploding against a moving
object located beneath the surface OF
the sea. As soon as the Deutschland
is sighted she will be bombarded with
these newly invented weapons. The
usual type of bomb used in aeroplane
attacks, officers believe, would be alto
gether useless II hurled against the
Deutschland.
The presence Of the aircraft on the
decks Of the British greyhounds. and
the determination of their pilots to CO.
operate with the cruisers IN their pur-
pose of intercepting the Deutschland's
voyage, brings up a question of inter
national law which has never before
been debated, officers say. II is this:
Is the three-mile limit which Amer
lea draws about her shores as a safety
zone for the protection of one bell
ligerant nations ships against those
Of another likewise n protection against
aircraft encroachment? In other words,
must the aircraft observe the three
mile rule, which so far has applied
only to ships that sail the sea, or can
they fly more closely in for observa-
ton?
Authorities at the navy yard last
night would not hazard an answer to
the question.
American officers believe that, grant
ing the Deutschland sails at night, the
aircraft can pursue her out to sea and
locate her the day following. The
British government, it is known, has
striven to maintain the closest secrecy
regarding the presence of the aero
planes on the cruisers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01

doubts as to their liability in the
present instance. At the meeting held
yesterday afternoon, however, II was
unanimously decided TO waive the
technicalty and make good all losses
without dispute.
Plate window glass is quoted at
wholesale about 30 cents square foot.
IL will cost insurance companies near
ly so cents foot - replace breakagcs,
including labor. This price is about 80
per cent more than it would have been
six months ago, as the cost OF plate
glass increased greatly at that time be-
cause Of foreign expectation.
Firms Who Stand Loss.
The firms who must stand the bulk
Of the losses are the New York Plate
Glass Insurance Company, Lloyds
Plate Glass Insurance Company the
Fidelity and Casualty Company, the
Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Com
pany and the New Jersey Fidelity &
Plate Glass Insurance Co.
Major A. White. president OF the
New York Plate Glass Insurance Com
pany. was reported to have quietly
bought up most of the plate glass on
the market Sunday by telephonlng
various jobbers at their homes. Ac-
cording 10 members OF the Plate Glass
Exchange, Mr.. White denied this. lie
refused 70 see any reporters yester-
day. claiming that he had been mis-
quoted the day before.
Dealers in plate glass reported a
fair supply on hand in the CITY, oue
not enough TO meet the present, state
Of affairs. IL would be two weeks pc
fore all windows could be repaired.
The area most severely racked was
west of Broadway south OF Fulto'I
Street. In this territory there was
not one building which did not nave az
least some breakage, with as many as
100 windows broken in skyscraper OIL
flee buildings. .Lo
Insnectors noted that most OF the
breakages occurred in store,1rohIs,
where the glass was set in the old
fashioned wooden setting. me newer
clamp setting seemed to nave lareu
better. L-ro ,ro.
lection. which relies to a great eHteI.
on indow-frontage, was coinpletels
demoralized yesterday. Inc hoiIneS
Electric Protective Company repot'eI
500 cases of burglar alarms put oqI ..
commission by Conclusion or lalilns
glass, and the Metropolitan Elect iao
Protective Company added another 7o0
cases TO this quota.
As far as could be learned, the com
nIicated mechanism Of the great saIe
denosit vaults on the lower isiahd "e'e
unframed by the jolt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
SAYS PLOT CAUSED
JERSEY EXPLOSION
Continued from page 1

cation had convinced him that the fire
Started on two boxcars and that the
blaze continued some time before the
barge took FIRE.
When asked as to the right OF the
munition laden barge TO be moored 70
the pier during the night in apparent
violation of the regulations compelling
barges with high explosives to move
out into the open water, he replied MS
company had broken no laws and
charged that others were trying to
shift the blame.
"Sure of Ground"
az. Is not only in poker games that
you pass the buck he sad; NO one
knows that better than the Lehigh
Valley. ....;
1--WE have made our investigation.
We are sure Of our ground. we nave
violated no rule Of the Interstate Com
mercc Commission, no ordinance OF
Jersey City and no law of New Jersey.
~ am not guilty Of any sins OF COM
miseion or omission. 1t is a wrong
and an outrage TO make me spend my
money to defend myself against this
ridiculous charge. Why don't they go
ont and arrest st. Bartholomew
az will not even say Barge "a was
moored at the north pier IN the lie,
high Valley yards when the hre began
Prosecutor Hears New Story.
The prosecutors Office heard yester-
day an entirely new story OF the trst
explosion. 1t had been accepted as
certain that regardless of whether the
FIRE originated on Barge "a, it was the
explos sion of the large quantity, OF
ammunition on board a barge, when
snread destruction and shook the eartn
for miles around.
This is not true, according 70 the IN
formant of Prosecutor Hudspeth, VINO
declared that 1T was another Large
which has not previously figured IN the
accounts Of the disaster, That plew up;
"My office has been informed sald
Mr.. Hudspeth. that after the hre start
ed on the pier the Lehigh valley tug
Geneva started toward Black Tom 10
get Barge "a away from It's peril
| berth. On the way down II piekea up
| NJ the Jersey Central dock barge
,,,;,hou. fags. 10 indicate il carried high
explosives. Later developments showed
It's cargo was Of this nature.
Middle Barge Blew Up.
ARRIVING at the north pier OF the
reb;gb wards on Black Tom, the tug
| took Barge "a in tow, with the other
barge between the tug and Barge "a.
They had barely left the pier when me
middle barge blew up and sank. ms M
was the explosion at 2:Os. Inc shelIs
and shrapnel on Barge "a exploded :. IN
termittently while the barge drilled
slowly toward the Jersey Central pier
and there stranded. .fa,;or
In what confusion this information
leaves the investigation is shown ny
The statement from Lehigh valley OF.
Scial, that Barge "a is not stranded az
The Jersey Central pier, but that i,'
wreckage is lying at the north pier IN
tbe Lehigh Valley yards, where II was
rnoored all throughout the connasra-
ION The Lehigh Valley version makes
No mention OF a mysterious Seeon !
barge. The Bureau Of Explosives; :. ..
Church Street, investigating IN oehali
ri the Interstate Commerce Comnils,
on Johnson, owner of Barge "a:
Al the conference yesterday IN rose
eutor Hudspeth's Office were Mayor
Max u. Pagan Of Jersey City. CORPORA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
KUO-MING-TANGS RIOT
AND LOOT HANkOW
Radicals Want Larger Share in
Chinese Reorganization.

Picking, July 31.-In a revolutionary
outbreak in Hankow last night a large
district was burned and looted. Many
natives were killed and some Russian
women injured before foreign yolun-
teers checked the uprising.
The revolutionary attempt was di-
rected BY the leaders of the Kuo-ming-
tang, the radical evolutionary party
Of China, against the military gov
ernor, Tuchan Wang. The rioters
started from the Japanese concession.
The demonstration apparently was
planned 10 brighten the Peking gov
eminent into granting the Kuo-ming-
tang a larger recognition in the re-
organization of the government at the
meeting of Parliament, which begins to-
morrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
NOW MILK JOINS
THE WAR BRIDES
Continued from page 1

only the price Of cream. and the Mu,
al-McDermott Company has conhnea
its advance to bottled pints; Inc Lo-
Gust Farms Company has taken no ae-
ton yet, although rise IN prices ~
being considered seriously.
Every single item used IN our ous-
mess" said Mr. Halsey IN explaining
the general upward trend, has gone
up. Bottles have increased from Oh 10
20 cents q gross. and that alone woula
have amounted 10 another soO'VOV III
wear. Wrapping paper has gone up
from 1-2 cents TO cents, whiie pags,
paper shoppers and other items nave
gone up from 20 TO 40 per cent =,
Mr.. Halsey explained that part OF
this is due to the war, while par. Is
due to the general increase IN prices
in almost every commodity. FARMERS
must be paid more than a year ago,
for, with butter and cheese high, they
will sell to the creameries, where tnere
is not the demand for such careful
handling of milk. unless they get more
money from the companies that handle
milk. Ola.
Farms, Inc, told of the increased Priee.
Of bottles since the German supply. OF
glass has been cut off, and added that
employees were now paid more, due TO
the formation Of union and the adop-
ton of union scale wages.
prices have gon. up so much, ne
said. that it seems II WOO Id be only
a matter Of time till quarts must b
raised, too"
Ice Cost q Factor, Also.
Glover Farms has also felt the
larger prices demanded by the farm
ers. and the effect Of the var In
various departments.
Firms that have not yet advanced
their prices may be forced 20 do so by
the recent increase in the cost OF ice,
one of the absolute necessities in hand
ling milk.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01

married. He suspected tina. Pinkerton
was running his marital happiness, be
alleges, and was wrecking his home.
Pink" he said one night 20 the de-
PENDANT, there is something wrong
here" Pinkerton made denial. ard ac-
cording to Lapp, left Seattle that night:
81 have followed him across the United
States for thelast year and half
said Lapp, land the chase has cost me
several thousand dollars"
Pinkerton denies the charge made BY
his former friend.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
SAYS OLD FRIEND
STOLE HIS WIFE
Seattle Husband Sues a New
York BUYER.

After a chase Of a year and half,
which began in Seattle, Karl S. Lapp,
of that city, is suing John G. Pinkerton,
buyer for a department store, in New
York, his former close friend and fell
low lodge member, for $4,000 for the
alienation of the affections of Mrs.
Madlyn Lapp. In his action filed in the
Supreme Court here. Lapp alleges that
Pinkerton enticed his wife from him
with costly gifts. r,
The Lapps were married in Seattle
in 1918. They have daughter, born III
1914. For two years Lapp and Pinker-
ton had been friends. There came
change soon after the plaintiff was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
OVEREXERTION AT GAME
OF BALL FATAL TO BOY
Lad Found Dead at Home by
Ambulance Surgeon.

Eight-year-old Robert Marian of35
st. Nicholas avenue, Williamsb burg,
died yesterday from exhaustion follow
ing a game of base ball. The boy was
in lot near his home and when an
exciting game was furnished he went
home and lay down. His mother
found him unconscious.
When an ambulance surgeon arrived
from the German Hospital he pro-
nounced the boy dead.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
CANADA LENDS u. S.
A NICE COOL WAVE
But Weather Man Says We've
Had No Summer Yet.

Washington, July 31.-A Canadian
high area pressure, bringing down
cool, dry air from the Canadian North
west, swept along the whole northern
United States to-day and afforded some
relief from the heat wave, which has
been the worst in fifteen years. Rough
IL, the new high pressure area brought
a drop in temperature everywhere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
Insurance Men to Waive
Technicalities and Pay
Their 100000 Loss.
LOWER MANHATTAN
SUFFERED MOST
Shortage of Window Plates Will
Delay Replacing of All Panes
for Several Days.

While attempts to estimate the dam
age in plate glass in Greater New York
as result of the Black Tom explosion
cannot be considered more than guess
work, officials of various insurance
companies place their maximum loss
at 100000. This sum takes no account
of uninsured glass, the value of which
is even more conjectural.
All breakages, insured and unin-
sured, of plain glass and plate glass.
in New York and in New Jersey might
total about 100000, said insurance of
ficials.
Five CT the largest plate glass insur-
ance companies handling the bulk Of the
risks in the damaged areas. reported
in the neighborhood of five hundred
claims apiece late yesterday afternoon,
with additional claims constantly being
receiver over telephones. Fifteen other
concerns who write glass insurance
averaged about one hundred claims
apiece. This totals 1000 claims in all,
and it was agreed that $50 was a fair
settlement claim. The loss to date,
then, on the basis of this reckoning
would be 100000. BY the end of the
week, when all claims are in, the COM
panies figure they will be out Of pocket
to the extent of more than a quarter
of million dollars.
Disaster Makes Record.
At a meeting of the Plate Glass In
surance Exchange Of New York, held
at Liberty Street yesterday after
noon, members of the various COM
panies discussed the disaster, which
they characterized as unparalleled in
the annals of their business.
+. NJ. Gridley, secretary of the ex-
change, which is a central organization
supported by all the insurance COM
panies, said after the meeting; 1--WE
have received only a portion of our
claims, and of those received only a
portion have been investigated. You
must understand that there are lin
tied number % inspectors employed by
the companies sufficient TO take care
of the ordinary quota of claims. With
n situation ike the present, however,
they are quiz. Incapable OF coping.
The number Of inspectors now employ
ed could hardly handle all the claims
received in a week. working overtime.
So it will be at least that long before
matters are sufficiently adjusted TO
give us an accurate idea of the true
extent of the damage"
There is a clause in the standard
plate glass policy to the effect that
the company is not liable for "any loss
or damage resulting directly or in
directly from fire, whether on the
premists insured or elsewhere. Under
this clause officials expressed some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01

tied up at Black Tom at 10 o'clock Sat
urday night instead of being taken out
into the harbor. State and Federal laws
saw that an ammunition barge or boat
NAV not be loaded at night. If the
loading is not completed at dusk the
barge must be taken out into the open
water and the loading resumed in day
light"
Barge "a had 1925 boxes of ammuni-
ton for cannon and explosive prolec-
tiles said TO have been taken from
eleven cars at the Jersey Central pier.
Loading was finished at 2:30 Saturday
afternoon and the barge then was
towed to the Lehigh Valley yards on
Black Tom, it is charged.
Fire continued 10 shoulder all day
yesterday in buildings, freight cars and
piers on Black Tom. II was said that
il would be days before an accurate
estimate of the dead and of the ffnsn-
cial loss could be made.
Woman's Head Discovered.
A woman's head, with the flesh al
most entirely torn away from the
bones, was discovered yesterday by
children playing a mile from the scene
of the explosion. The body was not
to be seen. For a mile on each side
of the peninsula searchers continued
to pick up fragments of clothing. Evil
dence pointed TO a much larger death
list than the number of known missing
would indicate.
There was no means of identifying
the head, but the police think il may
have been that of Mrs. Freda Wilson,
wife OF Captain Wilson, OF Barge No.
.. owned by the Lorraine TransPorta-
ton Company, which sunk near Ellis
Island.
A blue serge coat was also found
bearing the label of the Bell Shop, "a
to 230 Canal Street, Manhattan, and
the name Of J. L. Ryan.
The authorities were surprised yes.
terday that the destruction and loss o.
life were not many times as great when
they heard that nearly 1000 cars
loaded with ammunition were about
400 feet away from Black Tom. F.
s. Howell, engineer in charge OF con-
struction at Ellis Island. said he had
seen the cars in the Jersey Contra!
yards.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01

north of line drawn due west from
New York.
Below this line its effects were felt
in some districts with change of u
few degrees.
Weather Bureau officials said to-day
that while the great central sections
of the country had the hottest period
since 1901, the Atlantic seaboard hard
~ had been touched by real summer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-01
|Barricade Removed and
Everything Ready for
Departure.
EXPECT BREMEN AS
SISTER BOAT SAILS
Nan Who Sunk LuSitania Said
To Be in the Crew of the
Deutschland.
IL r,,.lr.rn . m. rnbunel

baltimore. July Silt is more def
,,,elv stated than heretofore that the
deutschland has had her last bretahling
.rell in this port and that if no seri-
as mishap is experienced. she Will be
sore before Wednesday morning.
Tomorrow is the date set for sail
;,r This information came from a
member Of the Deutschland crew who
lade a friend goodby this afternoon.
well. YOU won't see the policemen
eating around the pier any more after
tomorrow" he told his friend.
Activities at the pier of the subms-
rine seem 70 bear him out. The bar
reade is no more. The most formid-
,ble Of the lighters which surrounded
ler was removed to-day, and all the
afternoon the Deutschland's DIESEL
urbines were spinning. All men went
sboard at sunset.
say Bremen Is Day Overdue.
simultaneously with this information
there came o report, indirectly from
the Eastern Forwarding Company's Of
siee that the Bremen would arrive at
rractically the same time the Deutsch-
land made resdy to depart. II is posi-
lively known that the Bremen left
Germany seventeen days ago. She is
therefore a day overdue.
"She will not come in the Chesa-
psake." an official at the pier volun-
~Whv." he was asked, because it
vas found TO be trap instead OF a
strategic advantage
Possibly" he replied.
sHow about Boston, then; will she
80 there?
Possibly"
One Of the Allied cruisers guarding
the Cspes peeped in from the very
edge OF the three mile limit this morn
inF. but hastily withdrew. The United
States destroyers were Immediately on
he. trail.
no Protection Asked"
Paul G. L. Hilken, president of the
forwarding company. to-day denied
tlaf ne or MS company AoN oSACN fAS-
lection for the U-boat.
ridiculous" he said. Eve need no
protection. The report is Absurd and
there was no basis for it."
On the contrary, the State Depart
nent affrms, according 70 reports re-
eeiyed here, that Captain Koenig re-
quested protection from the revenue
cutter Apache. The Apache will &C
company the Deutschland part Of the
way to keep back the parade % pleas
ure craft and other boats which might
seriously handicap the trip. The gov
eminent will be within its rights in so
doing. it is said, in the same way as
when il exercises itself in clearing
sorgested courses during yacht races.
There was a report current tonight
that a member Of the submarines
crew. who wears an iron cross, was
the man who fired the torpedo which
nnk the Lusitania. When an effort