I 4 . "i EVENING UEDGBB-PHILADBLPHIA, THUBSDAY, SlSl'TBMBJSB 20, 191T 1 1 VH?.-t ATTACCANO E5PL0DMD0 UNA MA Tentativo degli Austriaci per Irrompcre sulle Posi zioni Italiane aTl W- iff k- m nOMA, JO Settembre, La letta In cul gll auitrlacl ancora l ftecanlscono tutl'aHoplano dl Balmliz con J operant, ill poter rlconaulftare le poil $ afonl penlute In quel eettore t qulndl aver ,"ht probabltlta' dl acacclare gll Itallanl da "'Sjjjjironte Ban Oabrlele e econalurare la , "Mtnoccla che ora Impende sul San Daniel. AT ontlnuo' lerl ftenxa Interfusion e col X Ml I 111 ill I ltillnl ..-.-..t..l t- ll fllllla m.ai.i IIOVIIMII IICBAIMI fVt -..- totakcl. Neglt altrl punt I della front glulia vl fu ttna pauoa nella battaclla eeeendo all itallanl prlnclpalmente Impegnatl a raffor re le nuoe poslxlonl. a costrulre strade e a. tratportare materlale e cannon). le nergU e la rapidlta' con cul lo truppe dl Cadorna conducono quest operaxlonl, ct fan no prexatlre un nuovo e poderoxo nt tacco au tutta la llnea. Una notevole attlvlta' ebbe luogo nel Trentlno ove gll Itallanl moxtrarono dl ener eempre prontl dl rlcetere ell austriaci quando a queetl enlBe la voglla dl ten tare una huova offenilva In quell, reclone. Ecca II teto del rnpporto del general qadorna pubbllcato lerl eer dal MInlstero della auerra: SuK'altoplano dl Balnslzza nttacchl nemlcl ennero prontamente reeplntl. Domenlca scoria gll austrlacl fecero acopplare una grnnde mlna dl fronte alle Bostre poJzluni tuate nulla llnea del tno.iu Ce.ielo. Martini, I'lceoW e I.agra uq1. La lellania e la prontew i del dlfctuorl resero vano II tentnt . J del nemlcl. lerl In alcune tezlonl della fronte trentlna no! allarmammo II nemlco lnfllj Eendogll perdlte c dannegglando I euol lavorl dl dlfena per mezxo delle noxtrs pattuglle dl rlcognlzlone e del fuoco con centrato della nostra art'gllcrla In dlre ' I lone dl Canano. nella Val Surana, una delle nontre pattuglle rluacl' a aplngerxl oltro le llnee dl dlfesa degll autxrlacl cat turando circa 200 prlglonlcrl. Dalla fronte russo-rumena contlnuano a Ktungere ottlme notlxle. La rlorganlxxa ilone delle forze moncovlte e' gla' In como dl attuaxlone e eta producendo rliultatl molto Hoddhfacentl. La rlpresft delle at tlvlta' mllltarl da parte delle truppe rue, 1 loro reeintl vlttorle nel dtntornl dl Itlga ed II terrltorlo da esiil rlconqulstato, ha lm penilerlto serlamente II comando tedetco che orA eta prendendo dlBpolzlonl per 1'lnvlo dl rlnforxl xul puntl rlmaall efornltl quando un numero Ingente dl 'ruppe ne fu tolto per mandarlo sulle A) il Olulle ed opporle nll'aanzata -lttoriosa degll Itallanl. 81 crede, pero', che tall rlnforxl non glun geranno In tempo da permettcro al tederfchl dl Intraprendere una no a offenalvu contro la Itunslft polche' l'lnerno, che In quelle reglonl prlnclpla al prlml dl Ottobre, appor tera' grandl ostacoll alle comunlcazlonl trdesche oe quexte enlero estese plu' oltre I soldatl del Kaiser el xono xplntl gla' per 150 mlglla dalla loro frontlera e al opragglungere dell'lnverno anche le comu Tilcazlonl per mare verranno tagllate polche" 11 Mar Baltlco sara' completamente ghlac clato. Intanto pare die anche ('Argentina U dtsposta a scendere In llzxa a flanco degll alleatl contro la prepotenxa teutonlca. In segulto alle rUelaxlonl fatte dal Segre tarlo degll Affarl Internl amcrlcano, che dlmostrano come I'ambasclatoro tedesco a Buenoa Aires aesse conslgllato al suo governo dl aftondare tutte le na'vi argentine "senza lasclare alcuna traccla," ed In segulto alia sommossa scopplata nella capltale argentlna che rlsulto' con la ecac clata dell'ambuclarore della Germanla c con la'dlstruxlone dl molta proprleta' ap " partenenle a tedeschl, II Senato si e rlunto lerl e cor! un oto dl 23 ad 1 ha dlchlflra'o dl otr Interrompere le relazlonl con i Germanla, CLEVELAND'S TRANSIT FIGHT WON VICTORY WHICH HOLDS LESSON FOR PHILADELPHIA Five-Cent Fare, Universal Transfers, Called Impossible for Philadelphia, Are 66 2-3 Per Cent Higher Than Ohio City's Tariffs - WHAT CLEVELAND WON IN 10 YEARS TOM JOHNSON sacrificed his life and his fortune in a ten-year battle to win real transit facilities for Cleveland. When he began, Cleveland had a population far under half a million; now it is estimated at 800,000. Five years ago the municipal authorities were confronted with an almost impos sible slum prob.om; now the housing question is almost entirely solved. A real "fight to the death" has given Cleveland "three-cent faro with uni versal transfers, unrivaled day service and excellent rush-hour service, in well-ventilated cars, running on as good n roadbed as can be found in any city of the country and operated by the highest paid, best-treated trainmen in the world. In nctual dollars it has saved carfares of approximtely $4,000,000 a year, or the interest on $80,000,000." & GERMANY ACCEPTS PART OF POPE'S PEACE PLAN Reply to Vatican Mostly Favor able, Is Report Present Aus tria's Answer Today nOME. Sept. :o Germany has announced acceptance cf the KTeater part of the peace proposal ad vanced by Pope Benedict, In her leply to the Vatican, according to apparently relia ble Information today. AMSTnilDAM. Sept. JO. Austria's reply to Pope Benedict does not contain "anytnew or astcnlnhlng peace proposals ' according to the Allgemelne Zel tung forecast pub, shod today In Vlnna. Clfpatches quoted the newspaper as an nouncing the reply to the note would be formally presented to the papal nuncio at Vienna today and would be made public Baturd ty. COASTWISE TRADE BILL RESTRICTS FOREIGN SHIPS NEWTON D. BAKER fv Permission to Operate Between Amer ican War Will Be for War Period Only By a Staff Coneipondenl WASHINGTON. Sept :0 Instead of ghlnjc vessels of foreign registry unre stricted authority to engage In American coastwise trade, as proposed by the Ad ministration, the bill which Is to be reported favorably to the House tomorrow by the t, Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee will restrict the time of such operation to the period of the war and three months ' thereafter. - To prevent Canadian transcontinental llnea making good on their boasts that they would soon carry all Alaskan business across Canada by diverting It from Seattle, "Wash., to Prince Rupert, B. C, the com mittee has Incorporated a specific provision that foretgn-bullt vessels shall not enrage In Alaskan business. At the meetlnr of the Merchant Marine Committee today, at which an agreement waa reached on the bill, consideration was given by the committee to the action taken by the Philadelphia Maritime Exchange w)th reference to this legislation. The Exchange Indorsed the plan with provision that "vessels of foreign registry be only permitted to engage In the coast wise trade when operated under a special license, such license to be valid for only one peclflc voyage." By NEWTON D. BAKER Secretary of War Printed bj Fpeclal arrangement with Hearst's Magazine. IT WOULD be golnj- far nflcld to give a complete and dotailed account of the many ramifications of Cleveland's traction history. Headers aro doubtless familiar with the broad outlines of that ten-year struggle; how Tom Johnson came back In 1300 to take up his permanent residenro in Cleveland and to devoto the remainder of his life to the btttcimcnt of municipal conditions, how he campaigned and won tho ofllec of Mayor on n platform pledglnf uncompromlslng opposition to any franchise renewal which provided for a higher rate of carfare than three cents, hew he was elected ami re-elected three times on the same Issue, how as everj tick of the clock brought the railway franchises one after another to their expiration, the company offered six, then seven, and finally eight tickets for a quarter, how evon a President of tho United States was drawn Into the fight to give his in dorsement to ono of the company's mayor alty candidates, how with victory at last within reach the people turned Johnson out of o(llc spent in health and vigor, wrecked in fortune, but undaunted still in spirit, and how on the ashes of his defeat his associates, with Judge Hobert "W. Taylcr, drafted a settlement that embodies most of the sa lient principles for which Mayor Johnson stood nnd which gives Cleveland carriders transpoitation at cost, the municipality con trol of service nnd upkeep of property, and the cotipany management and operation of the lines for a fixed ter, l on an agreed valuation of the system. AU these are more or less familiar chapter of the Cleveland traction con troversy. They represent the steady unfolding of tne Johnson theory of street-railr-d -on rol, though in the end the Taler ordinance (which is the name the pla "oej by In Cleveland) contained In Mr. Johnson's view such vital defects that befeve his death, when the ordinance was up for ratification at a refeiendum election, he opposed its upproval because it provided a capitalization that still contained $8, ",00.000 of water, too high a maximum rate of fare, nnd cumbersome arbitration n athinery for the settlement of disputes. The people, however, approved the Tnyler ordinance, and on March 1, 1910, It went Into effect. Before reviewing Its operation for the last six years let me sketch its chain of provisions. Maximum Fare Is Four Cents The city controls and specifies service through the medium of the City Council and the lattw'a technical adviser, tho street railroad commissioner, the company runs the road on fixed allowances for operation and maintenance, employs and dlscliarg's officers, operatives, clerks, etc, expends revenues, subject to the super lskin of city authorities, and stockholders receive a guaranteed and fixed roturn of ( per cent. Cost of transportation includes legltlmato operating expenses, main tenance, renswal nnd depreciation charges. Interest and taxes. There are ten possiblo rattn of fare, ranging from the maximum, four cents cash fare or seven tickets for tuenty-flve cents and one cent for n transfer, to the minimum, flat two cents cash frre. The prevailing rate of fare Is determined by a barometer reserve called the li.torest fund, which contained $500,000 In tho beginning, and which always reveals the net balance after all costs of operation, etc., are met. When tho fund shows an amount over $700,000 tho faro is reduced to the next lower rate, when It goes below $300,000 the fate Is raised to the next higher rate, the intention ct the ordinance being that It shall stay approximately at $500,000. The Initial rate of fare was three cents nnd one cent for a transfer; this was lowered to flat three cents fare on June 1, 1911, but was restored to the initial rate in September, 1914. Differences between tho company and tho city which cannot be adjusted amicably are settled by arbitration. As for municipal ownership, the city reserves the right cither to purchase the property upon six months' notice, or after January 1, 1918, to designate a purchaser, the purchase price to be the ordinance valtje plus authorized future additions to the property. If the purchase is made before the expiration of tho grant a 10 per cent bonus is added to the ordinance alue, less bonds and floating debt, which the city assumes. The company's franchise expires May 1, 1934, but the city has a continuing option to renew it for a longer period upon tho same terms as In the original grant. The foregoing are the chief points of the settlement ordinance. The valuation fixed by Judge Tavler In the final negotiations was a little more than $24,000,000 separated as follows. Stock, $14,675,000; bonds, $8,128,000, and floating Indebtedness, $1,288,000. This valuation was about $10,000,000 less than the lowest figure placed upon the pioperty by the companj, on the other hand, It was about $8,000,000 higher than the city contended It should be. For, according to Mayor Johnson, the company was allowed $3,(100,000 for its unexpired franchises, $2,600,000 for special overhead charges and $1,800,01)0 for pavement the first of which should not have been allowed because it took no note of franchises operated at a loss; tho second Item added a special overhead to the rgular overhead contained in the valuation schedules and was therefore a gratuitous addition, and the third pavement should not have been allowed because it really constituted the company's license fee to the city for the use of its streets No one has over successfully refuted the soundness of Mayor Johnson's objections, and yet It must be noted that even with the settle ment valuation In excess of the physical wortli of tho property, the companj's tockholders only got flftv -five for their stock in tho reorganization that followed. And of equal importance is the fact that Cleveland with three cent fare and uni versal transfers still manages to do it under the burden of an Interest charge of a half-million dollars annually on the wnter that still remains In the capitalization. What the Tayler Ordinance Accomplished That brings us directly to the concrete results of operation under the Tayler ordinance. We may as well epitomize the situation right at the beginning: Three-cent fare with universal transfers, unrivaled day service and excellent rush-hour service, in well-ventilated and well-lighted cars, run ning on as good a roadbed as can be found in any city of the country and operated by the highest-paid, best-treated trainmen in the world, is an actual, persistent reality on exhibition twenty-four hours a day In the city of Cleveland, which has a population, including its environs, of 800,000 inhabitants. Service has been constantly Improved both during; the day and in the morning and evening- rush hours. Throughout the day only about 600 cars are needed to operate the lines, but at night traffic checks show that more than thrco times that number are needed and tho company operates upward of 1600 cars between 4 and 6 o'clock p, m. It has been said on good authority that there Is not a city In the country that operates three times as many cars during the peak period aa nro operated the remainder of the day. The explanation Is simple In Cleveland profits are limited to 6 per cent, and the aim Is to secure the "best transportation at cost" at all hours; elsewhere, profits aro unlimited and the aim Is to nurse tho system along during tho day, and, using substantially the same number of cars, make a "haul" In receipts In the morning and evening; by crowding equipment to capacity. No better rolling stock will be found anywhere In the country. Hundreds of largo center-entrance motor cars and trailers have been purchased In the last thrco years, the purchases being tho largest In American railway annals for a similar period of time. Trailers were bought bocauso rush-hour equipment waa only needed for two or three hours a day. Trailers cost $300 apleco. Instead of $6000, the cost of a good motor car; consequently, they reduce tho money tied up and drawing Interest twenty-ono out of twenty-four hours, whllo doing the work more efficiently than two motor cars, for it Is easier to operate a train of two cars through crowded streets at night than two motor cars separately. Plans for tho future call for the purchase of 160 to 200 cars annually. Nor have the roadbed, equipment or overhead construction been allowed to run down. Tho two chief falsehoods about the Cleveland traction situation that residents aro frequently called upon to refutes regard servlco and upkeep. The former has been discussed. As for the latter, all that need bo said Is that during the first three years of operation, March, 1910, to March, 1913, there was spent tho sum of $4,200,000 for maintenance and depreciation. During tho same period the the average physical valuo of the system. Including cars, track and power facilities, was $17,600,000 In other words, In three years, nearly 25 per cent of the ontlre value of the road was spent to rehabilitate and keep the system In a high standard of repair, and this out of current earnings. If this policy Is adhered to in the future, the system will be renewed out of earnings at a rate that will substantially replaco In twelve years. When one considers that the lowest life placed upon a street railway property by experts Is fifteen years, Cleveland's rato of replace ment appears extravagant under five-cent fare and Impossible with three-cent fare. Nevertheless "thero is such an animal," and Cleveland Is keeping her street car system In unrivaled condition under three-cent fare. Save $4,000,000 a Year in Carfares And now what about the nctual dollars and cents saved' In tho six years and more that have elapsed since the ordinance went into effect, a saving in car fares of approximately $25,000,000, or about $4,000,000 annually, has been realired for tho car riders. That this has meant a substantial paving to ovcrjbody, espe cially tho poorer classes, goes without saying. The average family of five, for example, has saved about $40 a year. But permit me to make a more significant, If somewhat fanciful, comparison. Tour million dollars Is 5 per cent annually on $80,000,000. If Tom Johnson, instead of dedicating his talents and efforts to the street railroad problem, had continued to devote them to tho accumulation of a huge fortune, nnd at his death had left $80,000,000 to the city with a direction that It be rpent for beneficent municipal undertakings, ho would l.avo been hailed as ono of the greatest of modern benefactors. Monuments and memorial halls and bronze tablets would have been dedicated to the perpetuation of his memory, for his bequest would have added ostly to the facilities of the city. But Tom John son did homcthing better than leave money. He taught the people of Cleveland how to rrake $80,000,000 for themselves, how by Jolnlne hands and reclaiming their own domain the public streets they could earn tho right to all the fruits that resulted therefrom. And Ly teaching them how to do It in tractions ho blazed the way for similar collective efforts in the field of other municipal utilities. Undoubtedly one of the most wholesome results of three-cent fares has been Its effect upon the housing problem. A high rate of fare for a long distance abso lutely compels the poorer classes to live within the zone of cheap fare This has been one of the chief reasons elsewhero for congested tenement districts. Cleveland scaicely knows what the tenement-house pioblem is, and ns jenis go by the possibility of the problem becomes more and more remote. Three-cent fare is doing It by making It possible to live eight or nine miles from the center of popu lation, and to ride twenty miles across town for a single fare. Make it possible for people to live out In tho open away from the stress and turmoil and crowding of shop, fuctory and business districts by furnishing cheap carfare, and tho tenement house problem will solve Itself Tho company is a cenerous employer. The rate of wages for motormen and conductors la thirty-one to thirty-four cents an hour and the averago for tho sys tem about thlrtv -three cents an hour, or about four cents higher thnn the aveiage rato In tho United States, whether for unionized systems or not This liberality of compensaation to operating emplojes is characteristic of the compensation to all other employes, both salaried and wage earning. What, then, is the secret of Cleveland's pronounced success with three cent fare" Tho answer lies at tho surface and is the same as may be given for the success of any sound and enterprising business. First, reduction from five-cent to tlirce-cnt faro has resulted In a heavy stimulation In the number of car riders. Tills, together with the Increase of "short-haul" traffic, has been so tremendous as to materially cut down tho losses duo to fare reductions. Secondly, and this supplies the rest of tho explanation, tho property has been operated on a valuation approximating its real value and without possibility of speculative profits. ARGENTINA ON BRINK OF BREAK WITH BERLIN Lower House Expected to Ratify Senate's Overwhelming Vote Today By CHARLES P. STEWART Spscfol Caite Brrvlee of the Vnittd Pren and Jiventna Ltiotr. BUENOS AlltnS, Sept. 20. Whether Argentina will break with Ger many depends In largo measure on the ote of the House of Hcprcsentatlvea today. The overwhelming Senate vote for a diplomatic rupture was expected to be reflected In the decision of the Lower House. Buenos Aires received the news of the Senate's 23-to-l decision In favor of sever anao of relations with Germany In excited demonstrations. The city authorities, ap prised of the vote, promptly stationed all re serves In the downtown streets so that dis order was virtually eliminated Tho gen eral public's Interest In the situation was attested by great crowds on all downtown streets until a late hour last night, and a Jam of excitedly curious which assembled early today. There was no doubt that the Administra tion was profoundly astonished by the almost unanimous vote In tho Senate for a break with Germany. President Irigoyen and his advisors havo steadily Insisted on full neutrality The 23-to-l vote may upset their calculations, particularly It anything ",k!vih?t Tnai?fty 1 attained In of thd Lower HoUse. in some circles today It waa nnlri.. fV that President Irigoye has TlnfttJ to override even the decision of both ? by exercise of his veto agalns t&P Tension in tho city was ggravatSV'. Dy imminence of a general strike on anT.' gentlno railways, " irTHE ROYAL Thm Electric Cleaner ef Yoa. Dream Realixed YounOn Termi YouCanAffora Fhone for ClrcnUr. Filbert 41 Judson C. Burns Sales Co 1025 Walnut St. Save Gas Bend for circular describing the fin. .. ur as rsnto top. It's a mean.!!.? llOUOm View Shnoln. m-. Patented and sutranttod ij W. H. PEARCE & CO. 41 South Second Street Bll Pbon Lombard 4U! Solitaire Diamond Rings A solitaire is most fashion able when set in platinum and the mounting paved with small diamonds. Shown in our stock is a beautiful engagement ring, containing a large diamond in an octagonal setting, with three small diamonds on cither side $425. S. Kind & Sons, 1110 Chestnut St. DIAMOND MERCHANTS JEWELERS SILVERSMITHS These days when "Efficiency" is the watchword ol the builders of automobiles it is significant that approximately C0 of all cars selling over $1,000 are "Sixes." At but slightly more than the price of a four, you can buy tho OAKLAND "Sensible Six" a smoother-running car than the four, more even power (valve-ln-hed motor) light In Height yet sturdily built; et proven economy of upkeep. $01,5 f. o. b. Ponttae, Mich. H. P. BAKER MOTOR CO. 918 North Broad Street Vsl5r IIIIIIHIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHHffl! I r City Hall Appointments Citv appointments today include John Grcgs, Jr. 4736 Large street, draftsman, Bureau of burvcys, $1200: Hannah L. Spike, 104 North Fifty-eighth street, stenog rapher. Bureau of Survcjs, J840, and Dr. Alma M Hlnsman, 208 Rochelie nvenue, clinical assistant phvsleian, Bureau of Charities, $000 The Steinway 70 Draftees Leave West Chester WKST qHEBTErt, Bept. 20. Seventy , young men from West Chester exemption Istrlcts No. t, left here today for Camp Meade, and were given a royal goodby at the train by at least S000 people. Pre Tlorj'y the men made a street parade, hedel by' a. band and the members of the lf,daj C A. R. Post. The men, most of them from West Chester, wera given a farewell breakfast early today at the Turks' Head Inn where they were bidden goodby by purges J. Paul MacElree and many prominent cltlxans. In tho party wera cvtral negroes and a number of Italian nnd Oreolcs, alt tho latter naturallted etjsens. Ten p?JacobeanDiningRoomSaite M JUre Bristol for Camp Meade BRISTOL. Pa-, Bept SO. Elghty-lht tin In the Krst call of those drafted from District Mo. 1. which Include all of lower flueta CoiHity, left, here today for Camp ItMuM. Tfctf wtf hundred of friBs 64-inch Buffet, China Closet, Extension Table, Serving Table, Arm Chair, 5 Chain; Upholstered in Genuine Brown Spanish Leather $115 No other product of American art or indus try is priced so low as the Stcinway piano. The margin of profit in a Stcinway sale is smaller than that of any other piano; the measure of value to the buyer is greater than that of any other in strument. If the differ ence in the price could be used for expressing the difference in qual ity, the figures on every Stcinway price tag would be doubled. Up rights, at 3550 in mahog any cases; grands in ma hogany, 9825 upward. MMIHIll MMMMWMMBIMBM Edison Lv Diamond D i s c Recreates music. No talk ing machine tone; but an absolute recreation of the original muilc even to the most elusive overtone. No sound doors; no needles to buy or put on; diamond point always perfect. N.Stetson&C? 1111 Chestnut St 81 Philadelphia rprMnUUTe of STRINWAY A SONS Th Surfing Piano Make it easy to get the figure facts of your business HOW do October sales compare with those of last October? In Total Volume in Gross Profits in Net Profits in Sales Expense in New Business ? A hundred and one questions like these, relating to every phase of your business,, come up ah the time. Can you always get reliable, comprehensive answers as quickly as you want them ? You can with the Comptometer. The reason? 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