Fall River Globe from Fall River, Massachusetts • 1

WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY LOCAL KEWS SERVED OP WHEN IT IS NEWS LARGEST GUARANTEED CIRCULATION IN FALL RIVER AND VICINITY VOL LXII NO 86 FALL RIVER MASS SATURDAY AUGUST 5 1916 PRICE TWO CENTS FR ESTATE VALUED SIR ERNEST OWN PICTURES OF HIS EXPERIENCES IN THE ANARCTIC GOTHAM STREET CAR STRIKE UNDER WAY EARLY TODAY BY DIVIDENDS OF LOCAL MILLS High Quarterly Rate of 2744 Plus Per Cent Due Large- i ly to Extra Cash Paid to Stockholders' Over 2000000 People Who Daily Use the Lines Affected by the Conditions Which Also Involved 6600 Conduc tors and Motormen Large Financial and Business Institutions Conveyed Employes to Work in Automobiles While Many of the Help Occupied Rooms for the Night Near the Subway or Elevated Lines to Get An Early Start Minor Disorders Attended the Dec- laration of Strike and Some Arrests Were Made But No One Injured During Night Conflicting Claims Made Today as to the Growth pf the Strike 4 CH St l' I TV fu Jr Yi Vt3i r'' I I ''v i NVe" NEW YORK Aug 5 Although strikes were in effect today on nearly every surface line in Manhattan Queens and the Bronx many persons were unaware that between 2000 and 2500 of the 6600 motormen and conductors involved had quit With professional strikebreakers and loyal employes in the places of the strikers officials of the New York Railways company and the New York and Queens County railways said at 10 a that almost normal schedules were being maintained on their lines At the request of company officials Police Commissioner Woods assigned a policeman to1 every car affected by the strike and with the exception of a ffew minor demonstrations there was no disorder Claims of the union and the companies conflicted the companies as- serting that less than 500 men had struck while labor leaders declared the strike affected 80 per cent of the 6600 employes Fully 2300000 people daily use the lines The cars were late in getting away from 'their respective bams which led to the belief during the early hours of the that a serious tieup had been" effected by the strike The elevated and subway lines which were not affected by the strike vote were thronged by persons who were unable to use the surface lines Threat has been made that the strike eventually would be extended to those systems XJpjw HNTfiRCTlC ICE PACK- Lower SHIP LYWG ON HER SIDE IN ICE 0 These two pictures were made by Shackleton himself during his present antarctic expedition They show a scene In the great southern lee pack and his vessel almost on her beam ends in the Ice According to a message received at Buenos Aires Argentina Shackleton has reached the ice fields in his effort to rescue the twenty-two men left on Elephant island last April when his expedition returned from the south polar zone The relief party left Punta Arenas July 12 on the schooner Emma which was to be towed as far south as possible by a Chilean government steamer after hich it was the Intention of the explorer to continue his search for his men London reports that the Chilean steamer Yelcho has arrived at Ushala Patagonia In a damaged condition after towing the schooner Emma of the Shackleton expedition 240 miles south of Cape Horn The Emma continued her voyage toward Elephant island after the Yelcho left her Hearing Has Been Set for Sept 8th in Contest Over the Will of Late New Bedford Rector NEW BEDFORD Aug A contest of the will of the late Hormlsdas Des-laurlers pastor of St Anthony's church in this city has been instituted In the probate court by and sisters of the Catholic clergyman who will attempt to show that he had held property valued at more than $1000000 at tne time of his death Father Des-lauriers owned large blocks of New Bedford mill stocks It Is said and held considerable real estate At one time he was said to be worth $200000 and some north end residents 'who claimed to have some knowledge of his personal property say that they would not be surprised if the inventory showed his property to be worth nearer $300000 It Is anticipated that testimony of a startling nature will be presented when the hearing is held September 8 on the probate of the will this date being set at a session of the probate court held in this city yesterday Two brothers of Father Deslauriers Achilles Deslauriers of North Attleboro and Nelson Deslauriers of New Bedford were prepared to testify in behalf of the contestants of the will had the case come to trial yesterday morning Arthur Phillips of Fall River the attorney who represents the contestants of the will stated yesterday one reason for action on the part of the priest's relatives His statement suggested that there are other reasons but he would not divulge them That one Exilda Noel used undue influence over the priest Is the reason made tiublic Exilda Noel is about 35 years of age and was housekeeper for Father Deslauriers for nearly 20 years The Deslauriers will case was called yesterday but a continuance was asked and granted to September 8 when probate session again comes Hp at Taunton A mysterious letter which Father Deslauriers Is-supposed to have written will figure conspicuously In the testimony which promtses to be given at the trial at that time An attempt will be made to show that Father Deslauriers left at least $100000 and the fact that the administrators of 'the will have made an attempt to avoid the filing of an Inventory will be investigated into when witnesses are called It is understood that under the inheritance tax law the filing of an Inventory cannot be avoided It was also stated that an uncle who visited the priest a short time ago learned In a talk with him that Fr Deslauriers was worth at least $100-000 They cannot understand they (Continued on Pag Throe) FIRE IN THE A small fire which originated from unknown causes In the packing room on the third floor of the Algonquin Printing company early last evening resulted in considerable damage to stock etc on the floors below owing to the fact that the sprinkler heads were melted and much water flooded the packing room and found Its way to the lower floors The damage has not been estimated but it is thought that It will be heavy owing to the amount of water which flowed from the sprinkler The fire damage was trifling The blase was discovered by John Settle a watchman while making his rounds through the nlant He hastened and sHindett box 215 'the private box at the plant and considerable apparatus rushed to the scene Upon reaching the po king room the firemen found that was well under controL The ff had been working for some I cates and the smoldering name ''v'nwnc(i out by the deluge of water Before the sDrinklers could be shut oft much water made Its way to the lower floors and practically all the damage resulted from water Officer Sheahan investigated the Are for the policebut-wae unable to learn he origin -of the flames Watchman Settle was at a loss to account for the A yt none of the officials are able to estimate the damage DANISH PAPERS OF WEST INDIES LONDON Aug Some of Ihe Danish conservative papers have opened a violent attack upon the government over the treaty with the United Statea for the aale of the Danish West Indies according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company The National Tidende aays The mill dividend statement for the third quarter of the mill year as furnished by Haffards Co 64 Bedford street shows an average rate of 2744 plus per cent paid on a capitalization of $30035000 The high rate dividend is due to several extra cash dividends declared during tho quarter the 30 per cent dividend of the Union Manufacturing Company being particularly responsible although excellent business conditions have served to aid other corporations to resume their usual quarterly rates The cloth market at this time is unusually strong with a g5od inquiry for all styles and prices very firm The quarter now underway the fourth is progressing favorablv The total amount in dividends declared by the corporations in the list is $708425 This is $388750 in excess or within $20000 of being double the amount paid the second quarter of the year when the total was $409675 The average rate of dividend on the capital represented and computed is 2744 plus per cent while the average rate iast quarter was 1408 plus per cent This total and average are the largest for any Quarter since the fourth quarter of 1913 when the total was $1028675- and the average rate was '361 per cent Included In that quarter was the 50 per tent extra dividend paid by the Union Manufacturing Company a 20 per cent dividend paid by the Luther instead of its regular 11 per cent and a 414 per cent dividend paid by the Sagamore instead of Its annual two per cent These extra dividends amounted to a total of $694925 and without them the total for the quarter would have been only $333925 The last previous Quarter to have a total of dividends made up without extras equal to the amount of the present quarter is was the first quartsr of 1911 The total then was $443860 declared on a total capitalisation of $27805000 The average rate In that quartsr 160 plus per cent Some extra dividends are In the present quarter's big showing notably a 30 per cent cash dividend paid by the Union mills and representing a distribution of $360000 There was also an extra dividend of three per cent by the Sagamore the usual rate being two per cent The extra of the Sagamore amounted to $36000 so that the Union and the Sagamore actually paid in about $400000 In extra dividends for the quarter or an amoujit practically equal to the entire amount paid ry all th mills the preceding quarter One mill that has not paid in the previous quarter declared a d'vldend (Continued on Page Three) CREW SAVED ATSEACONNET The Albert Stone Struck Rock and An Explosion Quickly Followed Fish- Life Saying Work The sea going tug Albert Stone bound from New Bedford for New York struck rock off Warren Point Seaconnet yesterday afternoon and settled to the extent that the water reachcr her boilers in a very few minutes and she blew up being a total loss Her master and crew of 16 men made their estape from the vessel but a ery few minutes before the explo-aioh occurrd and before she sunk beneath the waves The captan andfcrew came ashore at Seaconnet and at last reports were still there trying to get Into communication with the ship owners and awaiting transportation to New York The end of the big tug was spectacular to say the -least and several Fall River men including Thomas Taylor the secretary of the Loom asso-c at ion Philip Borden former city engineer and Fred McLane were among those who stood on the shore witnessed the explosion and the complete destruction of the boat -Following the landing of the crew an effort was made to gain some Information from the captain about he tug but neither he or the members of the crew would declare themselves In any particular It is understood that the Stone had come through the Gape Cod canal where she bad dropped two or three barges At the Massachusetts bay end of the canal there la very deep water but such conditions do not exist at the Buzzards bay end There are ledges and dangerous reefs at this end particularly in the vicinity of Warren Point It is Judged that the Stone was about a mile east of the Point when attention was first attracted to her The Kali River party happened to glance In the direction Of the water and saw big tug steaming towards the south Suddenly it seemed as though the tug was disappearing and the local men rivlted their attention upon her In a very few minutes they observed that (Continued on Page wo) £1916 BY RMERtCRH pi eess FROM PhO TOi -BY 31 ClfffCJT suncuueron BOSTON Aug The full bench Of the state suoreme court will be called upon to determine the merits of the suit for recovery of $102000000 from former directors of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad for alleged Improper expenditures between 1904 and 1909 Judge Crosby it was announced today has referred back to the full bench the bill answers demurrers and special pleadings In the suit which was brought by trustees of the will of Olea Bull Vaughn and other minority stockholders of the road The plaintiffs contend) that the directors made vast expenditures unwisely and without authority in the purchase of steam and electric railway lines and steamshin enterprises in an effort to effect a monopoly of transportation in New England The suit was before the full court two years ago when It wfas decided the minority stockholders cduld not maintain the bill until It was shown that the present directors had refused to bring proceedings against their predecessors Since then the plaintiffs by various amended declarations and processes claim they have overcome the obstacles pointed out the court and are now entitled to go forward because of the hostll pttitude of the present board of directors The corporation and individual defendants have answered by contending that the plaintiffs are still without right to proceed LITTLE CHANGE IN THE PLAGUE NEW YORK -Aug 5 L'ttle change In the epidemic of infantile paralys was shown in the dally bulletin of the health department lwucd today Dur Ing the 24 hours ending at 10 a there were 41 deaths and 168 new case in the city Since the inception the epidemic June there have been 1066 deaths and lit? cases' OUR BIG PRICE SALE of Mens and Youths Suits opened Friday See 4 Big Bargain Windows McGuire 209-213 South Main Street adv -IV SHACKLETON FAILS IN ANTARCTIC LONDON Aug Lieut Sir Ernest Shackleton has again tailed to rescue the main body of his Aitartic expedition left on Elephant Island says the Daily Chronicle and has returned to Falkland islands Sir Ernest returned on beard the steamer Emma says a Reuter dispatch from Port Stanley The feh'p was forced back by heavy gales and Ice and it was found impossl-le to get near Elephant island througr the pack-ice The ship was battered the engines were injured and the Emma was obliged to proceed under sail Sir Ernest the correspondent adds recognizes that it is useless to attempt to force a passage with a 1 ght ship and he is waiting for the steamer Discovery to come from England Sir Ernest Shackleton has made two attempts to rescue the main body of his expedition compi3ins 22 men which was left on Elephant island when Shackleton and five of his men started out in search of last April Sir Ernest arrived in Stanley Falkland I islands with five members of his party on May 31 The Uruguayan government offered the steamer Institutopeoca for relief work and Sir Ernest left Mcntevldeo on June 8 for Elephant island The explorer returned to Po-l Stanley on June 25 He Immediately proceeded to organize another relief exped'tlon and sailed from Port Arenas Chile on July 13 on board the steamer Emma The last report of the expedition was received from Buenos Aire on July 26 and said that the Emma had reached the Ice fields of the Antarctic regions Elephant Island is one of the South Shetland group and for the greater part of the year is ocv-red with snow However the island has an abundance of seals and sea fowl No word has been received from the marooned men since Shackleton return-id from the Antarctic fest May: 4 REGAL SHOES 2 Broken Lots at Our Street Widening Price -Sale McGuire 209-213 South Malft Street dv- WITH OPERATORS CHICAGO Aug 5 Gilllek general euperintendent of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul raalway announced today the settl-ment of differences between the of the road and a grievance committee of the 2200 telegraphers whereby the telegrapher were granted a flat Increase In salary of S3 a month effective Aug TWO BODIES RECOVERED CLEVELAND O- Aug Bodiea of two workmen bur'ed in the explosion in the water works tunnel here a week ago Monday night were recovered by rescue parties today There are seven more bodies in the tunnel 4 4i 4 ways Company asserted that only a small percentage of their employes had voted to quit work and sought the protection of the police for the others The officials said that 90 per cent of the men were willing to work and that police protection the surface car lines could be operated The police commissioner promised to put a policeman on every car At 9 this morning officials of he New York Railways Company raid that service on all their lines was This was apparent for on only a few lines was any delay In the operation of cars noticed Many workers on the way to their places of employment were unaware that a strike was In progress Reports received by police Inspector Max Schmittberger during the forenoon showed that 698 of the 1291 cars operated normally bv the New York Railways Companv were in service that the Third Avenue lines In the Bronx were operating 109 cars out of 252 but In Manhattan only 73 out of 605 In Queens the report said 83 cars out of 171 cars were In operation About fifty cases' of Intimidation and other disorderly acts were reported to police headquarters including a dtm-onstration at one of the New York Railways car barns which called police reserves there The threatening attitude of the strikers and their sympathizers frightened a number of loval crews Into running their cars to the barns There were few arrests WAY FOR DETROIT DETROIT Mich Aug Search was being vigorously prosecuted early today In countv surrounding De troit for the five automobile bandits who armed with rifles nad automatic pistols yesterday afternoon held up th motor pay car of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company and made off wltlr between 333 000 and $34J)00 afteij shooting andsllghtlv wounding one man One of jthe robbers lost his hat and revolver both of which are now in the possession of the police THE MENS AND YOUTHS SUITS at Our Street Widening Trice Sale are aultable for Fall and Winter wear See 4 Big Window Showinga McGuire 209-213 South Main Street adr tomorrow afternoon from the church at Ottar Creek Preparations were made by many of the large financial and business institutions in the lower part of the city to convey their employes from their homes to their offices and stores in automobiles and omnibuses and many of the employes occupied rooms for the night near subway lines in order to reach their work on time The street railway lines Involved Include the New York Railways Company the Second Avenue line Third Avenue Railway Company and two lines In the Bronx The strike to enforce a demand for recognition of the union and increased wages began to take effect on the main lines of the New York Railways Company as early as 10 last night whenThe first meeting of conductors and motormen voted to quit work One thousand men took a similar vote at A meeting early this morning Employes of the Second Avenue line who had presented no demands to the company struck in sympathy Two hundred employes of the surface lines in Queens borough voted to quit early today The Brooklyn lines are not Involved Some minor disorders attended the declaration of the strikes in Manhattan and a few arrests were made of strikers who attempted interfere with thq operation of cars So far as known no one was injured during the night-- The officials of the New York Rail USED TO KILL BAR HARBOR Me Aug heavy1) flatiron believed to have been ueed as the weapon with ahich Mrs Emm Turnbull of Otter Creek was slain I was discovered today In the woods pear the spot where the body was found last night The flatiron belonged to Mrs Turn-bull and It Is apparent that she was attacked in her home during the absence of her children her body and 'the weapon being taken to the thick bushes about 200 yards distant after her head had been crushed In No clue to the identity of the mur-derere ha been dlscoveted but acting on the theory that an insane person committed the deed a posse of armed men guarded the homes in the lUtle village throughout the night while every precaution waa taken to prevent the eacape of any suspicious acting characters to the mainland Every automobile passing through the town was held up and guards were stationed at the beet landings Tbe funeral of Mrs Turnbull wUl be held AFFECTS STAFF BOSTON Aug 5 Physicians at the Massachusetts General Hospital were engaged today in an effort to prevent the further spread of what the superintendent Dr Frederick A Washburn described as small of diptheria among resident doctors and nurses It was said at the hospital that no patients had contracted the disease and that the of refusing to admit new patients until the danger of further contagion was considered over had not been decided Twenty-seven nurses two house doctors and an ambulance driver were found to he suffering from diphtheria have ben removed to the contagious departments of other hospitals Cultures have been taken of all employes and patients and it was expected that examinations today would determine whether there were additional cases Later it was announced that for the present no patients will be admitted to the hoslptal except in an emergency No new cases had developed today and the cultures of those not already segregated were found to be negative it was stated AT PAYING THE LONDON Aug The city of Brussels has refused to pay the fine of five million marks lmpoeed by the Germane in conaeauenc of the demonstration which occurred at the Belgian capital on July 2L the national fete day says a dispatch from The Hague to the Exchange Telegraph Company A serious criaia la expected body but the Danish government would have risked suen a On the other hand Politiken savs that under the present war conditions the islands might become a danger to Danish neutrality.