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lllreis Am
Rip Algonquin wa sunk last Wedncs-
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letote of "rm4 neutrality" In which
wwrnment was nlaced bv .tho I'resl-
OMInues, although It npparently has
i' or its object to prevent what hap
I when the Laconla. Aluonnuln. the
of Memphis, the .Illinois and tho Vigil-
i were sunx.
at the President, as his next step.
call Congrcffi In extra session even
ore .Its scheduled meeting date, April
was deemed likely, although the pre
Grant Mew was that he would have
flssomble iho 16th. then Inform them
: a state1 of war had existed, rlnce March
1,'anC ask rial war measures.
"." MAY OALfc ON NAVY
.The navy may be called upon to take n
rous hand, searching out ana acstroy-
submarlnes. Dut any call for an 'imy
ubtedty will await full authorization
Congress undr a declaration or .vur
Jtha President studied dispatches from
road up to an early hour thli niormnK
was up early to receive any runner ir-
li orta on the threo latest ruthless sinking
R'om Consul Frost, Queenstown, and Consul
VMieral Skinner at London. "
The messages at hand left hut little hop
that no American Ihes had been sacrificed.
', The report of men "missing" seined to
" Win? the doleful conviction that they had
jrtshed when the German U-boats carried
'ut their ruthless orders.
' ?i Stnklnc of the three vessels, the lamest
..'American haul yet made, was attended by
F?i.. . . .1... 1..-.IA-.1 -v.- ,j.HiKia.
$wrvumsinuii:a umi jusimeu mu wiuiuuiia-
,vrauon conviction mai uomiuny was kuihk
j'the limit In her ruthlessness and that this
..nation could hope for no favorable excep
" tlons.
S,W Ttu ilranltn (he net that the United States
Vi to hearer a call to arms today, there Is un-
. pulH( a1m In WftihlnirlAn tint nnlv nmnni!
Slclals, but among the people of the cap-
. " Annarontlv Washington, throuall ever-re-
fWrrlng experience with International
.hocks. Is no longer susceptible to emotion.
sWjfTnere is no war spirit in eviuence ami me
s vxirae announcing me hiiikimk ui mc mvr
u.Amrlrn ym1 fallen to HtKtlirb the theR-
i.iX'lfa-goers and pedestrians who thronged the
JiT-tfrects last night
l$j$v SENATORS BELLIGEKUNT
t iiSf tft.1.. n a, arnnrm a n toft In TVflsh.
6',' . MMrton. but those who are here, and who
fi'KWould discuss the situation, were inclined
,Hf,fc be warlike in their utterances,
fctrefc-'i "The sinking of these American vessels
KiWlth their attendant lois of American llvet
W Cumber, of North Dakota, member of the
Lsirs Benito Forelsm Relations Committee.
gq "War has been thrust upon us," raid
TV nator Allien l'o.nuexier, 01 wusningion,
U Wnt ItiAfA I tilt iia ti'BV ill flsfll ivlttl
K&j. war and that Is to make war. affcfessively
C. -. J t.m 1 , I Al ' a . -..
vua wun grim aeierzninaiiuii liuui me wry
wonKress snouiu uo caueu in e.irn ne-
fimlw mm .i.aaU ' i-ntrl UAnitn IIT1 1 1 1 (1 rv
K ',; MUil ill'AV nrcr,, caiu osuuvui n iiiiuiii
&tfcK- Borah, of Idaho.
H' "This means war, nothing else. T have
gfcfSBO doubt what tho American response will
!.i? m If V..111 ha n iinHfl ocnnnLA " unlri
w r ,b ni. wt . uiiihu .vw..s. uu.u
& "Tlae situation hardly could be more
g4x nous, saiu senator iiokc mun, oi ueor-
A -
" If the sinking of Ujcso threo American
ATMsem is not an oerr act. l uo not Know
sKwhat you would call It," said Senator John
Ki3 'MF TtAtr m i0 f nan A Villa At (a
pth "This Is a very serious matter and not
fmue for free discussion now," said Senator
feMAtlee Pomerene, of Ohio, member of the
QBenate Foreign Relations Committee.
z. "It there can bo an overt act this Is cer-
i'V-talnly one," said Senator Duncan U.
Va.IUIU, vi '"".
cargo of oil from Tamplco. Her commander
was CAptaln Hereon. Huge American
flags wero painted on hoth sides of her
bow and stern and h6r name was painted In
white In huge letters olong her sides.
Discharged from the Government service
'upon her arrl-.nl at tho league Island
Navy Yard. Just before Christmas. 1914,
tho City of Memphis loaded a 'cargo of
cotton nnd started for Germany. She was
the second American vessel to take n cargo
of this kind to Germany, after tho outbreak
of the war Captain llorum was rebuked
by the German authorities, because lie sailed
the Memphis up the l'.lver Wes'cr, which
was mined.
Tho City of Memphis was under fire from
the guns of the Allied cruisers while loading
a cargo of llcgrlce at Scala Nuomi, Tuikey.
The Memphis had been chartered by the
AtocAiidrews-Korbes Company, of Cimdeti,
N. .I lo bring the cargo of llcurlco here.
The cargo Imd been loaded and the .Meinplili
wan proceeding out of the Gulf of Scal.t
Nuova when llrltlsh and Trench cruisers,
which were lying some distance away, be
gun shelling the Turkish troops on shore
llurstlrig ihells from the war cssels flew
oer the City of Memphis, striking shore so
pIoko to her that somo of the debris was
hurled upon tho decks of tho vessel.
For three days Captain lionim nnd his
crew were subjected to this flic Turhlsh
batteries on shore began to answer th
lire of tho Allied Meet, mid many limes
their shells fell Into tho water close b thu
city or Memphis.
Captain llorum brought the body of Wal
ter M. Geddes. n former I'hlladelphlnn. who
committed suicide In Smyrna after being
badly beaten by Turklh soldiers. Mr Ged
des was In charge of a llcorlco plantation
there when a raiding party stationed In that
vicinity visited his plantation and beat
him senseless. He recovered, hut his In
juries prejed Upon his mind and he com.
mltted suicide some time Inter in n Smyrna
hotel.
The City of Memphis docked here on that
occasion on .March 10, 101G Huge Ameri
can flags were also painted on her sides
nnd the name City of Memphis stood out
In bold relict from her sides. c.tsll dis.
tlngulshlng her.
pw , .jpibiijjMM im
H M &tWVR& Wf4T WT.? "T tf MLllllMaai,-'J'rMy'ya.t J fc JWT'J
vnm
Charle O, Lafrd. .Chief Engineer P. I.
Percy, Assistant Engineer Kred Pvllle, M.
J. Dlcrlan, third officers W. U, Thompson,
It. J. Donohuo ami T. J, Welsh, Wireless
operator, nnod eight other Americans, ten
Spaniards and Danes, one Swede, one Itus.
slnn nnd one Chilian.
"City of Memphis stopped by submarine
February 4 off Scllly Islands. Failure to
use wireless this time wns due to experience
of former occasion, Induclnc belief that ship
might be passed If wireless not stnrted.
"Survlvois will assemble Queenstown.
pending Instructions from 'owners. Ocean
Steamship Company, 335 North Illver, New
York." i
Doctrinal Debate
Stirs Conference
MEMPHIS MADE TEN
H VOYAGES TO WAR ZONE
fA'. NEW YORK, March 19. Forty-eight
Wfsmtn who were Americans by birth or by
Eklilaaturalliatlon and nine others, several of
H'TWhom were believed to be naturalized
Americans, comprised the crew of the
tSi, American, freight steamship City of Mem-
Sfe' Bills, reported from London as having
TO en sunk by shell fire. The vessel Itself.
k Tmiueu at jbuu.uuu. nnu weatnereu sareiy
f" Many adventures In European waters on
lMrevloU3 voyages slnco the war began.
" Owned by the Ocean Steamship Com-
jS'rany, commonly known as the Savannah
Line, the City of Memphis, of D2j2 tons
f gross, sailed rrom rew York January 23
' carrying 9633 bales of cotton valued at
'100.000. This she delivered at Havre.
..France, and was on her way home In
,v paimst wnen sunK.
ftUi Her caotatn was I.. T Ttnnim nf 'n,.
&' illr Vo mhava 1.a .na I.A... e a.-.i
f parents. Tlpr nthpr nlllrciN wopa nil Amol-
'jyn-btrn except one.
rfv fcrty-flve men, of whom twenty-one wero
TA ArtlPrtrflnR ItlMllllIni, Pflnt.ln t rt,i.it
'ton. Two of the twenty-one were' natural-
S.i"" Bn one had first papers.
M.111' y'gllancla was built In 1890 for the
,ijiiew York and Cuba Mall Steamship Com
MnV
'any. better known
Line.
tfr,r. tpwh'.j, Lciict niuwn U.K ihb ndra
'f-Until Shortlv after tho niitliro.ik f th nr
fSlhtitlt was engaged In passenger and freight
lrc tTAdft hetWPPn tills nnrt rnha Qn.l Mavlm.
itiIn 191 she was sold" to entratro In the
vSTeotton-carrylng trade from the United
KM states to German ports. In March. 1915,
-a.klf ... 4k. .- , .....
fwiw w. iio way u uremeii, ana was
sv Belied by a British cruiser and taken Into
JAKlrkwall.
SA The Vlgllahcla registered 4115 tons cross.
WBlie was 320 feet long, forty-five feet of
earn and was built at Chester. Pa.
IC Tne Illinois was a tank steamship owned
Mfcy the Texas Comnanv. of VnrV sh
,C? Balled from Port Arthur. Te Fohnisrv 17
F for London. Marine records do not chronl-
BiBhe was 300 feet long, fifty-two feet beam
plllS. Her master was Captain Iversen.
TWO TORPEDOED SHIPS
PHILADELPHIA VISITORS
gv'Two it the threo American ships reported
ana oy uerman submarines have visited
SM port of Phlladelnhla. One nf thpm th
?UamBhlp City of Memphis, called here on
Weeveral occasions, once under charter of
uniiea otates Government, when she
! Brought 300 marines from Mexlrn. fntt....
:,Qljr the trouble In Tamplco.
Cy Tho Steamahln Tlllnniw n rni.nH .
tefcy the Texas Oil Company, camo to this
'ort In. September of last year with a
22 Missing on Three
Torpedoed U. S. Ships
Cnnllnned from I'age One
down In a few minutes with the Slurs and
Stripes flying.
Tho Vlgilancia cnrrled a general cargo
from New York for H.it re
The Illinois, a tank steamship, was bound
from London to New York In ballast.
British newspapers toda ask the ques
tion: "What will President Wilson do now?"
Kngllsh editors contend that the Germans
cannot defend the sinking of the empty
ships bound,away from England c'xeept on
the ground they were Molatlng tho pre
scriptions of Germany's declaration of ruth
less "U-boat" warfare.
WASHINGTON. March 19.
Consul Frost at Queenstown cabled the
State Department today that while thirty
three survivors of the sunken American
steamship City of Memphis do not Include
Captain Boruni, four other Americans and
four non-Americans, Indications are that
.
MRS. BKRTHA S. GRUENBERG
Sho hns been appointed executive
.secretary of the Equal Franchise
Society of Philadelphia, succeeding
Miss Caroline Katzenstein. She
ia the wife of Fred V. Grucnbertr,
director of the Bureau of Municipal
Research.
they are safe aboard some merchant or
Admiralty vessel.
Frost's meshage. undated, but manifestly
sent csterday, said. i
Thlrty-lhrec surtltor.s City of Memphis
do not Include Captain L T. llorum and
four other Americans and four pon-Amei-Icans.
but Indications are that these men
aro safo on board some met chant or Ad
miralty tessel which has no wheless.
"Captain's boat did not sepaiatc trom
others until 1 a m today and was picked
up empty at 10 a m Weather meantime
remnlnlng moderate.
"Vessel cleared Cardiff 18th In ballast
with forty-eight persons, Including twenty
nine Americans At 3 55. 17th. submarine
fired warning shot from three miles on
stnrboard quarter.
"Vessel was stopped Submarine ap
proaching to one mile fired once inoic. frag
ments striking vessel, ship then only being
able to read submailne signal to abandon
ship. Instantly captain replied by long
blast whistle signifying comprehension, then
gave four short blasts signal to crew to take
boats Immediately, which was done In fltc
minutes about 4 15 No Injuries.
"Submarine then came up, lulled cap
tnln's boat, fired eight bhots, sinking tessel
about 4.40 p. in apparent time. Cnntersa
tion with captain s boat at present unknown
"Weather heaty, southwest swell; mod
crate southwest breeze, sky sunnily
Weather lmproted during night.
"First otllcor's boat picked up by Admit
alty ship 3 '43 a. in today Chief engi
neer's boat C 30 a. m. today by same tes
sel, landed Queenstown 4-30 p. m. without
accident.
"City of Memphis carried wireless, but
did not us-e same Can led no gun. No at
tempt to resist or escape
"When captain Is located he may hate
further etldcnce
"Surt Ivors here included First Officer
Ciintlntiril from l'ne flue
criticism and the belief that the Ilibto is
hut a collection of allegories and myths
were attacked, as were the "poisonous half
truths nnd the woeful effect upon young
ministers," all of which. It wns dechued.
arc present in the seminal len. Jewish pro
fessors of Hebrew should be supplanted by
Methodist ministers, It was added.
The criticism was unfortunate, declared
the Rev. Doctor P.ukln. who denied tch
charge that the tetnliiniles were "nests of
heretical teachings "
"Wo bcllete that we are lltlng In 1917."
ho said. "I do not sec nny reason for cen
sure of this couise of study. There Is no
poison In It. Wo of Philadelphia are In nn
ultra-conscrtatlto belt, In which we take
ourseltea too seriously. 1 do not want tho
conference to go on record ns opposing n
coutse of study which meets tilth the np
piotal of Methodism of othre sections of
tho countr "
An appeal to the conference to go back
to the tendings of John Wesley was
"spiked" by the speaker, who, amid many
denials of his statements, declared that
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there were utteraneee In Weelty'i eermana
that could hot apply today. '
"Take the sermon on The Cauiie and Cure
of Earthquakes,' " he said. "It Is neither
good science nqr good theology."
dcorge Wharton Pepper, prominent Epis
copal layman, delivered an address on Bel
gian relief and outlined a plan whereby
"ration clubs" In Methodist churches could
help feed Belgian children.
"One dollar a month for six months will
kep one Belgian child snnnl1'"' 'f'th food
during that-period," said Mr. 1'eppei.
The conference toted iiniiiinuuo.y to form
clubs In the various churches nnd instruc
tions were given by Bishop Henderson to
the'Wnliteri' to W the' 'wer'k ' lmmfcl
ately upon returnlnf to their cnarges.
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"Just as surely as we are living we 'will
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take the moral equivalent of war In bearing
some of these burdens. This country Is to
be the last great nation to be drawn Into
war, If that happens. I pray that we will
not. I hope that' this form of atonement
relief of suffering will be BUftlclent. We
are so prosperous that we are likely to for-
A vote of confidence In President-Wilson
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of King Christian, was Issued here bJct
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tlon that the Interests of tho Isln. 0nvl-
hrnt Iib nprvorl with i, ..' ""u, Woul
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March 8, 1917
"Those K'io heard Ossip Gabrilowitsch play
Chopin at the Academy yesterday evidently felt that
the music more nearly resembled a service of prayer
in a temple than the conventional pattern of a con
ceit . . . responding to all that is sensitive and
subtle and poignant in the utterance of musical sound.
"There has not been a more completely satisfac
tory piano recital in the Academy in the experience
of the present reviewer. It was all music . . .
that deftly applied the tonal pigment in sweeping
strokes, as soft -as they were siuceping.
"The ascending scales outpoured proved that, de
spite a physical lazv, fluidity can run uphill. The
instrument ceased to be an instrument of percussion
and merciless, hailstone articulation. Not once dur
ing the afternoon did there come from the lower
octaves of the piano that leonine yammer of resent
ment that means the piano has been punished, to a
white heat of madness, where sounds are indistin
guishable for mere noise."
The above praise was given without premeditation by
the Ledger critic and refers to the piano Cabrilo
witsch uses, .
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PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAILWAY COMPANY
PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
READING TERMINAL
TO ALL EMPLOYES IN TRAIN SERVICE:
March 17, 1917.
The action of the Brotherhood leaders in calling a strike at this time justifies an
appeal to you to consider two vital issues.
FIRST: The Supreme Court of the United States has now before it for deter
mmation the questions of constitutionality and meaning of the "Adamson Act " If the
law is held to be constitutional, the railroad employes subject to its provisions will receive
the increased payments accruing under its terms from the first day of January, 1917. '
If the law is held to be unconstitutional, ths whole question of your wages can at any
time be re-opened between you and our Management and between the Brotherhoods
and all the Railroads. Under these circumstances, can any citizen or body of citizens
justify taking the law into their own hands and saying in effect: "We 'will have what
we want regardless of the Supreme Court of the United States?" Do you think that
public opinion-the final Court in such matters, which no man or body of men is strong
enough to defy-will approve a course of action which, if followed uniformly by other
WW4W"' T,WUi" j " very xuunaauons oi law, order and free government?
SECOND: The delicate international situation justifies the assertion that there
has never been a time in the history of our Country when it was of such vital im- ,'
portance to the .Nation to have all Railroads efficiently operated to their maximum
capacity National Defense is the most vital issue before the Country today and
preparations for defense will practically be halted if the Railroads are paralyzed by a ;
strike. How can any patriotic citizen justify to his own conscience or to his fellow- '
citizens a course of conduct that may well be fraught with gravest peril to the Country. ' ,
The Government and our fellow-citizens have a right to expect that all those engaged '
in the operation of our Railroads will, at this critical time. ,n.nnfl,0fQ ... ,w
extent to help -prepare the Country for any eventuality. I confidently hope that you will
see that the National Defense overshadows a wage controversy, that it ia imperatively
necessary for all to support the Government in rushing all pxtteZS
that every Reading man will do his duty as a loyal American in helping to maintain
every branch of our service. . b
j X' tHf f0"' a?Pe?' to ll as "Plyes nd felIow.citi2ens,to co-operate with the
Management . keepnig our Railroad working to its maximum capacity and to leave the
lunreme CourTS 1" "a" to you by the decSon of the
fZZS?? and '"terfering with our
" " "" "" "" Ul OTwumg preparatibn for National Defense.
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