Mmn jr Vi TFTNANCIAL EDITION irel JJrti . iEMiger iHliimKuiuuiDn jjjiiJWJiiiy mmn NIGHT EXTRA VOL. H-NO. 289 Jtimnn NIGHT EXTRA i "353s Rer 5rT 1 1 mMi'Uv Bui " lOi I SLAVS CAPTURE 366,000 OF FOE IN GALICIA RUSH Teuton Qounter - Attacks Check Eussian March on Lemberg ITALIANS NEARING GOAL War Moves on All Fronts Outlined for Quick Reading 1 Russian front The Russian ..fWnnco on Lemberg hns been tem porarily checked by von Bothmcr's fierco counter - attacks. Pctrograd, however, ndvicos state that theso have been repulsed. 2 Italian front General Ca norna's force3 arc steadily makinpf headway east and southeast of Go rizia. Italian advance guards are reported to bo only 11 miles from Trieste 3. West front Beaten back by the' heavy French assault on both banks of the Somme, the Germans havo made no counter-attack against tho newly conquered French posi tions. Violent nrtlllerying, espe cially near Maurepas and Bclloy-en-Santerre, where the French ad vanced yesterday. Berlin admits certain Allied progress, but claims regaining some ground. 4. Balkan front Allies from Sa lonica base arc prosecuting drive to regain Serbia along 100-milo front. PETROGRAD, Aug. 17. The capture of nearly $000 additional Austro-Germans, Including 198 officers, was announced today by tho Russian War Office. This brings tho total number of Germans and Austro-Hungarlans captured 4n tho Russian drlvo since Juno 4 up to HG.108 offlcors and men. Of this total 7955 are officers. Moreover, Brussllofi's rmy captured recently 36 guns and 14,000 shells. Artillery and rlflo duels are continued along tho front, tho, official report stati;3, ind It also nnnounccs tho repulse of counter-attacks. . Kemmcrn. west of Riga, has been bom barded by n Zeppelin. General von Bothmcr's Austro-German y which retreated' from the Strlpa River Is miking a strong stand north of tho Dniester between tho Zlota Llpa and the JJaraJowka Rivers, and furious fighting Is jn progress in that district. The Austro-Oerman counter-attacks, cou pled with Intense artillery fire, brought about a temporary check of tho Russian ad Tance In that region, but It Is believed that the- drive will soon bo In full swing again The fighting lino north of the Dniester lies on both sides of tho Gallclan town of Horozanka, which had been destroyedby artillery flro. At the ends of tho Gallclan battlo line the Russians continue their steady progress,' notably west of tho upper Sereth and on the line stretching south from tho Dniester to the lower ranges of the Carpathians. In the Carpathians tho Russians have captured more dominating heights and are fighting hard to get control of Jnblonltza Pass, known as tho key to the Carpathians. The appointment of General Nicholas IUissky to command tho northern group of armies facing von Hlndcnburg Is believed here to be tho prelude to great activity In ' Poland. Military critics expect the Rus lans to launch a strong offensive from the Baltic to the PInsk district. BERLIN, Aug. 17. German troops have tepulsed Russlun attacks at many points on k the eastern front and cantured the Starao- bczyna Hilt In tho Carpathians, It was of- Sclally announced this afternoon. Near Toustobaby and Konozanl, Russian attacks ere fruitless. In tho region of Batkow ind Harburzew. Russian night attacks Uo were repulsed. ITALIAN VANGUARD SAID TO BE ONLY ELEVEN MILES FROM ITS TRIESTE GOAL ROME. Aug. 17. A dispatch from Udlne, the Italian base. jsays that the advance guard of tho Italians I Only about eleven miles from Trieste. E- While tho Aus.tro-Hungarlans are at- taddng at many points alone the front to I create a diversion, tho steady progress of the I uauans east of Gorlzla continues, with the ivy guns slowly but steadily blasting a ? jr through the mountain dfn nf h teutons. The Strongly bUllt trenches nn th f7arsn plateau, southeast of Gorlzla, .are falling IT tha handa 0I th8 Italians one by one. f The battlo In that district never ceases day or night. When tho infantry Is not attack , "ir the artillery Is hnmi.gr.iin. The report that Germans are being sent taii,. . "" ueans are neing sent Jtho?,?h .e of thla "ctor s credited here, kct... ,. ,,ual ueciaration or war exists tirv i? ,y and Germany, Austrla-Hun-ry Is In n rtor.... i...ii .. , ItaK " Bettln more serious dally. The tora tnr drJV'nB toward in two dlrec- eastt;rJ?im Tr este ne 'rce cutting directly 'atth. h a"a'nt the high positions that lie v w basa 91 the Iatrla peninsula and the Continued on I'ate Four. Colamn Two THE WEATHER FORECAST For PhVnJli1.t J ..... r s emit.. v" " "'" ""'' ueJ- forth winds, becoming variable. J!. I.KNGTU OF DAV. B 13 a.m. I Moon rUea . . . .8:52 p.m. U.33 p.m. 1 Moon souths . ,8Mt a.m. i "" MU CHESTNUT STREET. jkt ,. "" t ""?": - Bii.w " iyJt nun iji.utu.Ks . -' water W -. -v vli, , nuu Kr A. 1A i ..-w . 4 40 p.m. "" It a oi. 1 Low water II Ji p m. JTEMrEIUTUitE AT EACH UOUK. 91 lOlillTHfJ rrar3t 4Tg ISi 85p65t 1 TAKE SALOONS OUT OF POLITICS ORDER TO SEASHORE POLICE Director Sooy, of Atlantic City, Threat ens Licenses ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 17. Director of rubllo Safety Sooy, who has piado threats to revoke the licenses of three of the largest cafes on tho Boardwalk, admitted today that It was n movototako shoro saloons out of politics. Ability to deliver votes has long hecn an Important consideration In tho license game hero. "Some peoplo who hold licenses seem to think they can bo as far aa they llko with the law and then have everything squared by going to somo politician," Director Sooy said. "I think It Is tlmo to convince some of them that that sort of thing will not work any longer In Atlantic City. My theory Is that a llcenso holder hero enters Into a contract with tho city. If ho doesn't nbldo by tho terms of his contract, wo'll havo to tako his license away from him " TENDERLOIN RAID MAY BE REPEATED IF MAYOR DALLIES Gibboney Said to Be Collect ing Evidence on Situation DIVES IN FULL BLAST Record of Mayor's "Work" in Ridding City of Vice A RECORD of Mayor Smith's "work" toward cleaning up the vice situation: Monday Mayor directed Director Wilson to issue orders to all police men to sever affiliations with politi cal clubs. Tuesday Mayor's action: Noth ing. Director Wilson emasculates Mayor's order regarding political clubs by announcing that ward clubs were social clubs, and, therefore, it was not necessary for rjolicemen to resign from them. Wednesday Mayor's action: Not nt his office. Today Mayor's action: Not at his office Other officials absent from their offices, while vice again reigns in Philadelphia, are: William Wilson, Director of Public Safety, motoring to Niagara Falls: James Robinson, Suerjntendent of Police, "somewhere in the country"; District Attorney Samuel P. Rotan, enjoying tho piny breezes of Maine. Tho rcpoit wns current today that D. Claronco GIbbonoy, head of tho Law nnd Order Society, who engineered tho July 15 raid, had a corps of Investigators out get ting evidenco against disorderly houses and gambling dens In preparation for another Incursion Into tho vlco district In .case Mayor Smith falls to keep his promise to "clean up" tho city. Gibboney refused to deny or confirm the report. Asked If ho w.ib preparing for an other raid ho said, evasively: "Wo nro always on tho Job ; we nro con stantly on tho lookout for violators of the law." The attltudo of the administration In the vice situation Is regarded by tho police as the greatest grand Btand play ever perpe trated by any city administration. REGARDED AS JOKE. Habitues of tho Tonderloln look upon tho situation as a Joke. They are becoming bolder each day, and are returning to their old haunts. A number of disorderly houses are said to havo been reopened, and gam blers are returning to town. A notorious resori Known as ino -iiouse of Oil Paintings," on North Eleventh street, near Green, Is going full blast. The place Is one of a number which were not dis turbed In the recent raid. While tho raid was going on the proprietress was enter taining a party of friends at a dinner In a Chestnut street restaurant. At the "House of Oil ralntlngs" today the Information was given out that she was In Atlantic City. It was staled, however, that the house waa open as usual. TENDERLOIN BUSY. The Tenderloin has become nearly as active as It was prior to the big raid. Fool rooms are thronged with joung men, who mako side bets on games, and disorderly women are seen on Race, Vine, Winter and Noble streets. Gamblers, filckpockets, scouts and dopesters can be Been hanging around their usuat corpers. In political circles' everybody Is laughing at the Mayor's "Job at cleaning up Phila delphia." Today a politician dubbed the 'Mayor's method as "tho absent treatment." It was supposeu mai uirecior wuson leu last Tuesday for Niagara Falls, but it be. came known today that ho did not leave his farm In Ambler until yesterday. Process servers from the District At torney's office were still searching today for "Joe" Perrotte, who Is accused of hav- Continued on 1'ate lire, Column Two i Youth Held on Charge of Selling Heroin Frank Fetrone, 19 years old. of 728 Annln street, was held under $500 ball for court by Magistrate Stevenson, sitting In the absence of United States Commissioner Long, In the Federal Building today. Petrone was charged with passing heroin. He was allowed to sign his own bond. Fetrone was arrested last Thursday at Juniper and Chestnut streets for passing heroin to anower man, accaruing to uepuiy Internal Revenue Agent Joseph McDevltt The defendant said he had been a drug user for four years and had learned the habit from bad companions. It cost him 7 a week to keep supplied In the drug, he sald.- --; Prepare Pier for Bremen NEW LONDON, Conn., Aug 17 With 100 workmen striving for a big bonus, it U expected that the warehouse being built by the Kastern Forwarding Company on the State pier hero will be completed today The T - Scott Company l$ holding tugs a readia-H for t-a Bremta, KRUSEN PLACES SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN QUARANTINE Health Director Requests Closing in Effort to Check Plague WIDENS PROTECTION RING Infantile Paralysis Since Midnight Now cases in Philadelphia.... 2 Deaths in Philadelphia 1 New cases in New York 121 Deaths in Now York 32 New cases in Pennsylvania. ... 8 New cases in New Jersey 61 A rigid ring of regulations to prevent mass movements of children was formulated today by tho health officials nnd police In an effort to check tho spread of Infantllo pnralysli In tho city. All Sunday schools will bo closed begin ning next Sunday, following n request Is sued at noon by Director Kruson, of tho Department of Public Health and Chari ties. Alt block pnrtlcs, street carnivals, porch parties nnd liny and automobile rldci connected with such gatherings nro pro hibited after Saturday night In an order Issued by Superintendent of Tollco Robin son nt tho request of Director Kruson. At tho snmo tlmo a warning to pnronts to keep children oft boats and cars wns Issued by Dr. J. lt. Campbell, chief of tho Stnto medi cal Inspectors In Philadelphia. Many Boy Scout troops oluntarlly hnvo postponed mootlngs for nn Indefinite period. DIRECTOR KUUSEN'S REQUEST. Director Kruscn's request, which Is nil drcsscd to nil pastors of churches nnd su perintendents of Sunday schools, reads as follow : In view of tho fact thnt cases of Infantllo paralysis aro being reported dally, you nro requested to nt once closo all churches and Sunday Bchools to children under 10 years of ago until further notice. This Is dono In order to provent tho extension of this disease. Mny wo havo your hearty co-operation? Street and porch parties already planned for tonight, tomorrow night and Saturday night will bo permitted providing they nro glcn In no block where n caso of tho dls easo Is present. Four deaths and only two now cases re ported since midnight glvo rise to tho hope that tho epidemic Is on tho wano nnd that tho specter of Infantile paralysis will dis appear. Tho number of deaths today prob ably would havo been below normal were It not for tho record-breaking number of now case3 yesterday, health odlclals pointed out. THE DAY'S DEATH ROLL. Tho deaths: ANoni.o nn rnANCisco. 22 month? oia, 1333 South 1 licks street. CONRAD KASrAH. 0 mcuths old. C12 Tusculum street. ' THOMAS TASQUALLA. SI months old. 170T South 11th Htreet. GLADYS SIfAnr. 17 months old. 251 Kat Sharpnark street. Tho two additional case3 of tho plague today aro Philip Zlmbardo, 11 months old, 1108 Halls treet, and Tony VltanelU. 2 years old, 2830 North Twenty-first street. Tho record now Is 232 cases and C2 dc.iths. The rnsqualla baby died after being brought to this city from Lennl, Dolawnro County, over the Pennsylvania Railroad Au gust 10. At that tlmo It was sick, but pa ralysis did not develop until later. Thl3 caso was used by Doctor Campbell as an example of the danger nttcndlng taking children on trips. Doctor Campbell today sent 15 Inspectors to Chester to examine boats and trains arriving In that city. A scattering of the epidemic Into tho suburbs was noticeable tpday, a death oc curring In Ablngton township nnd a new case, that of thrco-ycar-oU Bessie Siskin, of 779 Kalghn avenue, appearing In Camden. SIX-TEAIt-OLD DIES. The suburban death was that of George Eyre, 6-year-old son of J. Eyre, of Edge Illll road, one mile west of Cresmont. The house Is on tho western limits of Ablngton township, bordering on the fashionable Old York road section. The case was diagnosed Continued on lnie I'lte, Column Two HARMONY THE KEYWORD IN HIBERNIAN CONVENTION Present Officers of the Order Re-elected at Today's Session POTTSVILT.E, Pa,, Aug. 17 Harmony continues In the deliberations of the Ancient Order of Hibernians sitting In this city In Us, fiftieth annual convention. At the sea. slon this morning the present o dicers of the A. O. II. were re-elected. They are: Presi dent, P, A. Kllgallen, of Pittsburgh; vice president, James Campion, of Schuylkill County; State secretary, John O'Dea, Phil adelphia, and State treasurer, John O'Boyle, of- "Wilkes-Barre. Men Sued for Broken Aeroplane The Houghton Flying Machine Company, a North Dakota corporation, with an olllco at H2i Larchwood avenue, began suit in the, Municipal Court today against Harvey yf, Kays and JIaldeman on Figyelraessy, of 51H Baltimore avenue, for damages to the plaintiff's flying machine. It Is set forth by the Boughton Company that on August 6, of this year, at the aviation grounds of tho navy yard, at League Is land, when von FIgyelmessy attempted to operate a scout biplane, owned by the two defendants, he collided with the Boughton machine, wrecking It to the extent of $1009. Camden Man Accused of Assault Frank Clayton was sent to prison in Camden today by Recorder Stackhousa In default of $305 ball after he had been held for court on an assault charge preferred by Mrs. Edna Laird. hU sister-in-law, of 1736 Broadway She testified that he had come lo- her home last night, after his brutal treatment had forced his wife and children to come to her home, audi there ha bad re. Seated, bis treatment. pnrLAD33LPiriA, Thursday, august it, ioig. . w -i tisvT. . . , ROAD IIEADS,T0 SEE WILSON Philadelphia's three representa tives in the conference between President Wilson nnd the heads of the country's largest railways will be Samuel Ren, president of tho Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at the top; Aprnew T. Dice, presi dent of tho Philadelphia and Read ing Railway Company, in tho cen ter, and Daniel Willard, president of tho Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Company, below. RELIEVE CAR HIT GIRL FOUND NEAR ROADSIDE Motormnn Thought He Struck Dog; Discovered Umbrella in Fender Victim May Die Miss Maud Pagdln, 22 years old. who was found lying unconscious from a double fracture of the skull ana other Injuries beside the car tracks In Ogontz road, near Washington lane, last night, Is believed by the police to have been struck by a Willow Grove car. But they have not been able to nnswer the question why, If she was struck by a car, motormen passed the spot for nearly two hours without seeing her, and she was finally discovered because she lay directly In tho light from, a car. Henry Jones, motorman of the Willow Grove car, went to the Dranchtown police station after Miss Pagdln had been sent to tho Oermantown Hospital tfnd told how he had found an umbrella In the fender of tho car when he reached the end of the line. He said that he had ' felt his car bump, but thought he had struck a dog which had been running along the side of the car at that point. He had not stopped, he said, to Investigate. He was released after he had given the statement. The con ductor of the car was not questioned, nor was his name obtained by the police. He has not been arretted. Dr. C. F, Andrew, who Is attending Miss Pagdln at the hospital, said today that her skull was broken in two places, her collar bone was fractured and she was bruised and out n many places about the body. He said her Injuries showed she might have been struck by a street car and knocked off the track. Her condition Improved this morning, the physician said, but she still is In a critical condition. .Miss Pagdln ls'the daughter of Mrs.' Eliza beth Pagdln, a widow, who lives at the northeast corner of Washington lane and Limekiln pike. Plttvllle. She is a sister of William Pagdln, former tenor soloist In Holy Trinity Church, Nineteenth and Walnut streets, who Is now at his summer home at Spring Lake. N. J. Mother of Ten Dies at Age of 106 QLENS FALLS. N Y, Aut 17 Mrs Mary Sage died In her home In Darrows vllle, near here, last night, at the age of 10 She was the mother of ten children, ve ot jr-qm, are llvi-fe ' j W AC J QUiiNEWS ST. LOUIS lstG., 0 0 0 0 0 10 2 0 03 ATHLETICS. .. 002000010 1 i Tlauk and Severold; Dlish nnd Haley. AMERICAN LEAGUE DETROIT, 1st g..-.,0 0 112 0 WASHINGTON.... O O 3 O O O jlt Dauss and Spcnccrj Harper BUSH BEATS PLANK IN FIRST GAME' ATHLETICS r h o a c Witt.so 10 1-10 Wa'.3h,r 2 13 0 0 Strunk.cf 0 2 3 0 1 Schang.lf 1110 0 Lajoic,2b 0 13 4 0 Mclnnis.lb 0 0 10 '1 0 McElwec,3b ; 0 0 2 3 0 Haley, c .... o 0 6 1 0 Bush, p 0 2 12 0 Totals A 7 30 15 1 ' " SARATOGA RACING RESULTS I rirsfc race, selling, ?500 added, 5 1-2 furlongs Tellcidad, 124, F. T. Buxton, 11 to D, 4 to 5, 2 to 5, won; Onwn, 113, Hayncs, 3 to 1, even, 3 to 5, second; Solvcig, 118, Carioll, 8 to 1, 3 to 1, 8 to 5, third. Time, 1.08. RAILWAY MEN HEAR WILSON PROPOSAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. The fiist of the 640 members of the railroad brotherhoods, general committee began filing into the cast entiancc of the Whito House nt 2:d5 o'clock 'this afternoon. A largo crowd witnessed their arrival. Although A. 33. Gnrretson, of tho subcommittee, hnd n copy of tho Piesidout'a proposal 10 lined in length written ou Whito House stationery hy tho President himself iiono of tho general committee had lend it. Lee, Carter and Stone, o the subcommittee, had duplicates. It was' not discussed, it wao declared, at the meeting of the general committee nt tho Bijou The ntre, which lasted from 1 o'clock uutil 2. "The 1'icsidcut Jiimbelf is to picscnt it," said Lcc. 7fi,000 TEUTONS KILLED BY RUSSIANS SINCE JULY 7 GtONHVA, Aiifr, 17. It H learned finm n confidential kouico that tho Austro Hungailau losses slnco tho beginning of tho Husslau offensive on July 7 aro: Killed, 7G.000; wounded, 321,000; missing, 300,710. MARRIED MEN MOST EAGER TO ENLIST WITH GUARD Married men seem to be tlio most desirous of enlisting in tho National Guard, ac cording to Major Charles S. Hess of the First Infantry, who Is In chargo ot the Union Leaguo recruiting station today. Five men applied for enlistment this morning and threo of them were rejected because they weie married. Moio than a dozen married men applied for enlistment yesterday. D GRAIN EMBARGO CONTINUES; BIG SUPPLY ON HAND T.io emb.ugo on train for export through Philadelphia la still in force, the Penn sylvania ruilioud has (.nnounced. The railioad's elevator at Glrard Tolnt Is full and there are from .00 U 300 cais waiting to be unloaded. Because ot tho accumulation an embargo lias bein placed on all grain shipments through Locust Point terminals In Baltimore of the Baltimore and Ohio Ralhoad, covering shipments on boat lines or rallioads, Irrespective o: oilgln, consigned, reconslgncd or to be reconslgned for ex. pott. It Is said that 15,000,000 bushels ate stored In tho Locust Point elevators with out tonnage available foi Its removal. AMBASSADOR PAGE CALLS ON SECRETARY LANSING WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Accompanied by his secretary, who carried a heavy volume of ofliclal papers, "Walter II. Page, American Ambassador to Great Britain, today paid a lengthy visit to Secretary of State Lansing, at which all of the contro versles now pending between Great Britain and this Government were discussed. Mr. Page Is understood to have given Mr. Lansing a complete report on the British view of the blacklist and malls protests made by this Government. BREAD PRICES NOT TO CHANGE HERE, SAY BAKERS The questlpn of 6 or 10 cent bread will be settled by September 1, according to bakers In this city. At two of the city's largest bakeries It was said last night the present scale of prices would be maintained, Louis J, Kolb, president of the Kolb Baking Company, also declared that no Increase in the retail price Js con templated, although he said the high cost of materials was reducing tha proflts'of the bakers. At the Bakers' Association. 1228 North Tenth street, it was said that the increase In price of the 6-cent loaf to 6 cents would be Insufficient to meet the increased cost of materials and that the 10-cent loaf would be adopted next month, U-BOATS SINK NORSE SHIPS AMSTERDAM, Aug. 17. The Norwegian bark Respite and the schooner Frewald havo been sunk in tic North Sea by a Gprman submarine. The crews were landed today. KAISER VISITS POLISH CAPITAL GENEVA, Aug. 1. The Kaiser has gone to Warsaw and it is believed that a proclamation announcing" Polish autonomy will shortly be Issued there. ( GERMAN SHIP REPORTED TORPEDOED COPENHAGEN. Aug. 17. Maritime advices report that the German steamship Weser has been torpedoed and sunk. (There are two German steamships named the Wester. One is of 1023 tons and the other ot 181 tons. The destroyed vessel probably was sunk In the Baltic by a British submarine ) TWO MORE ITALIAN SHIPS SUNK BY SUBMARINES LONDON. Aug. IT. The Italian ships Iva and Giusepps Patriarca, av been., sunk by. fiubnuurluea, saxs- ft. d-vpatdb. to Llcid'a today. ConwanT, HIS. t ma Pnua Lmon Ooururs 8 5 7 1 and Henry, ST. LOUIS r h o a c Stiolten, If 0 0 10 0 Miller, rf o 1 0 o SIslcr, lb 1 2 13 0 1 I'ratt,2b 1 0 2 1 o Marsans, cf 0 12 0 0 Scvcrcid.c 0 2 5 2 0 Austin, 3b 0 113 1 Lavan.ss 0 0 3 7 3 Plank.p , 0 2 0 0 0 Totals '.... 3 S 28 13 5 PBICU- OWE OEKT RAILWAY HEADS HEED SUMMONS TO SEE WILSON Presidents Are Called in New Effort to Avert Strike MANAGERS PROVOKE NATION'S EXECUTIVE Brotherhood Leaders "Sea Chance Now for Early Comiiromise CONFERENCES ARRANGED Facts in Railway Tangle Faced Tolay by President PRESIDENT WILSON calls prea- idents of great railroad systems to Washington for u confetence. Employes' committee of six hun dred will hear outline of tho Presi dent's plan of settlement this after noon. Railway managers submit fur ther facts nnd figures in opposition to demands of employes. Tho threatened strike, involving 400,000 men, millions in money ana the entire United States hinges largely upon two points: A.N EIGHT-HOUR DA.Y Managers say "good railroading cannot be done under nn arbitrary eight-hour schedule." Employes promised to. "speed up" so 10 hours' work will bo dono in eight - u OVERTIME Pay and a half. Managers want to arbitrate 'this. Men say, "needed to enforce cight-working-hours schedule." By ROBERT J. BENDER WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Events in th most dramatic Industrial conflict tho coun try has seen In many years moved swiftly today. . Afternoon found President Wilson In hit library completing a proposal ho was to make this afternoon to C40 representatives of tho railway brotherhoods, while the presidents of tho country's largest railroads wero hurrying to Washington nt his re quest to hear tho same proposat tomorrovc aftornoon. , ' ' It becamo known that the President, In calling by telegraph today for the rail road presidents, did not consider he had yet appealed to tho "ultimate authority." That the President Is prepared to gp be yond tho railroad presidents and, perhaps, liejond tho employes' general committee of C40, wns Indicated by Judge W. L. Cham bers, of tho United Stntes Board of Media tion and Conciliation, following a long ses sion with the President. In which the exact proposal to be made to the 010 waa out lined. Chambers left the President draft ing tho final text of his proposal. TllE "ULTIMATE AUTHORITY." Whom the President has In mind as "ultU mate authority" this Is Chambers's ex pressioncould not be learned. One theory Is that the President purposes to put th final responsibility for refusal by the rall rondi to accept his suggestions, on the In terests that cwn the railroads as distinct from tho railroad presidents. Whom he could name ns final authority In the case of the employes, under the same circum stances, could not be said. A request for a referendum by the employes on his proposal was suggested. Judge Chambers refused any enlightenment. At the White House efforts to obtain an outllno of the President's proposal were un availing, but the uttempt revealed the fact the managers and the employes' subcom mittee had asked that all thflr discussions with the President be kept absolutely secret. This was to be true of the President's meet ing this afternoon with the big general com mittee In the East Room of the Whit House. PRESIDENT'S SUMMON& The President summoned to Washington all presidents of the railroads Involved in the wage nnd labor hours' dispute with th big four brotherhoods. Ha requests they come to Washington at once. By this telegram the President admits for' the first time that he considers the situation so serious that the commute of railway managers now In this city can not settle It. The telegram was sent to Daniel WUlard, of the Baltimore and Ohio, chairman of the Railway Presidents' As sociation The Jelegram reads: v DUcuMlon of the matter Involved la the threatened railway etrlke h reached a point wliV.li makes It lilsbly detlrable that I ehouhl pernonttUy con fer with you at the earlleit yomlble moment, and with the prenUlenti of any of the railroads affected who may be immediately acceetlble. Hope you can make It rouTenleut to come to Wanblnston at once. WOOUKOW WIHON. WIU-VRD RESPONDS. After the telegram had been sent the President got into touch with President WUlard on the long-distance phone and It Is reported Mhat WUlard agreed to con here immediately. Other railroad presidents who now are In New York are expected to accompany him. As soon aa they reach here a conference will be arranged In tbt yyhlte House. Acceptances from the railway presidents began arriving t the White Houstt rly thla afternoon, P D Underwood, of th Brie , A. it Smith, of tha New- York Cm. tral. William Trutcdale, Ivaka wanna j Howard KUtytt New Haven, and Him HoKten. t" B and Q ware tha ftnrf w y.1'0 tht they would come at otvze Twelve or mor will leav New XrX -i 4 o'otock thla nftumoon. In addition, to the jpre-idu-t fciytaME $M
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