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[tí -ir ir -ar ig .jL...m2z tt ir it ir x ag il,

«hui, but own the appearance of r

¡-¡stance lo (¡ermany. He wants

to appear clearly tha" ('erniai

struck like an adder eve«! as he wi

«¦'...Idling her v.; thai -!

betrayed a trusting friend. 'In« m

fore, he rcfu««« to com«.y America.«hips, tint I-ecau.-i' he is not for«.«.arncd of real «lauerer, l.ul heraus

¦ cmvoy would evidence dittrnstad he must, not appear distrustful.

In short. .«lr Y.'ii.son .-ii/ii« t.« bafraid that some historian »ill sa* i

whs th.* United States, end not Geimany, who eras the amgteaaoT.American officia.« frankly ii<lniitt««

to-day their realization of the facthat so far Ul« 6«blockade hi «* d ihcm eu»against United States shipping !>:hold ngour ships in port than again*Hi -ti i i g Thi-- rondwas free!) d, musí prevail s

far a? the «-.Tort« of tl gOV«tMwert concerned.

If our slim.« want to ri«-k reliance or

arms which the ship owner.« t),<-m«¦olvi-n place on board and on the pro¬tection offered bj tist Hiit««h fleet iithe formation of lanes this govern-ment will r.ot (ii.vi-nt.

Actually Is SubmittingThose were hol.l word«» which tho

President spoke to Germany, that trs

would not submit to her illegal block¬ade or accept the condition of <'ii«

ship a week, painted ni, nhitablue. But so lon^r a« our ghips stajin port the United States is submittingto it.

Officer« of this government andSenators anud Representatives in Con«ftl IS display great Uneas »..«-.«

barras.«* n .eut when the) ar« que«tinned on this point, but they admitthe fact. We haft llCi|II;««i« «I.as the facts go, in th« sGrman block-ad»-The initial success of the submarin"

campaign, the destruction of tonnageat a rale which will very nearly ap¬

proach the mark set bv the ('rrmanexperts, one million tons a month, hasnot sarprised experts in ths Navy !>..partment. They do not believe it can

be maintain« d and they are intensely

I anxioui to know in what degree th.*[submarine flotilla ñas Buffered.

Bui they po n4 out. »\it!i solemnity intheir «perch, tliut the imn! »ssas of tl

«»¿i ij;ii i| no certaini it»ie thai the campaign

!.ot now deemedble. J'i thi- there is a tremendous

or the United State- to pre¬pare.

It ru.v In a WOOM IkToic there i» anydecision as to the attitude of this gov-

:t toward Gsrmaoy'i ally, Au*-hîungàr'y, ally «ven in the policy

of unri m ,1 Miliniúiin«' frightful-The State Department haj re-

I note 'iiiiiouncing herntention of giving to her unbniarinecommanders th« same orders that Ger¬man*, has riven.The ri retain .of state, acting by

direct o 11 «¦ President, has declinedthe « intenta of tb< not« public,

although il .» au open laTatrst in the de¬partment that th« -».ote practically

the German threat in pomemanni !; government is conducting.in informal disCUSSloil »vit h the Au«-

gOVI rnn,' in m tue hope that pome

kin«! of an understanding may bethl ¡.'iteît hope of

t'oun'. Tamowskl, tlir AustrianAmbsi ador désignât«)«waits hopefullythe result, bat the hops appears to beall on hi» t-iue.

BALTIC IS DAY OVERDUEON TRIP TO LIVERPOOL

White Star Line l*nea«y Over Ship4arr»ing Americans

Failure of the giant White Star linerii reach Mvei*pool, where r-hc i»

mol r r,a!i B <iay 01 <¦ I,I*.i. Causedjri itsrday among the

line'« n preMMitativc.. lure. The Baltic,i. ,1 -, '-¦ s York on January 30

MY*nt***-s)3 MM«asj*ra, Isdsdlngt\»o Aiiuiieaiis. Her caigo esssisU ofmunitions and general merchandise.Man) other linos have passed

throngs th« danger zone safely. Th*renen liner La Tourainc arrived at;

Bourdeaux, and «he < « Itie, of the WhiteStar Line, anil the American Iran »portliner Mmnehaha ha»'p been reported

|j Liverpool. The French linerEspasju« arrived here yesteiduy morn-

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Fifty pieces.Sterling Silver.Louis XVin design.with open-work border

and chased centers

Consisting of a magniñ«cent «centerpiece forfruit and Rowers. A «pair of five-branch candela¬bra. A set of four candlesticks. A set of charm¬ing compotes of different sizes. A beautiful tea

¦et with «tray. An «after-dinner coffee set. Twopairs of «covered vegetable dishes and several meat

platters. A water pitcher. ¡Salt cellars and pepperboxes. An ornamental urn for llower.s. Vases,sandwich trays and other serving di.shea.

We purchased the service at a large discountthrough ;i happening which comes perhaps once in25 years. The circumstance racist, of course, remainconfidential for the protection of all concerned.

l.ut this may be saidA dupliciilc set, cut from the same dies, has

been on sale in one of the half dozen leading jewelrystores of the country, in open stock, which, if pur¬chased complete, would have sold, so far a.s we can

ascertain, for at least $7,500.We asked «the owner of the dies what he would

reproduce the set far now and he replied: "To sellat*9,:>00/

So. it is l privilege to be able to offer the ser¬

vie tl a unit 50 pieces for a price so remarkableas «$4,700. Those who arc assembling services pieceby piece will especially appreciate the opportunity.

It is only because the price is so low that we

offer the service in its entirety, and not in singlepieces, .as is the usual custom.

The service is now on exhibition in the JewelryStore, where it forms g part of a distinguished «Saleof sterling silver tablewares now in progress.

All who are interest« d arc invited to inspectand examine it if their convenience.

«JOHN WANAMAKER''Jtrwelry Store Entrance.T«r^th Street.

GERMANY DEFIES IWILSON TO WAR,VIEW OF ENGLISH"Overt Act" He Barred Al¬ready Has Occurred,

London Believes_

CALIFORNIA HELDAS JUSTIFICATION

Torpedoed Without Warn¬ing and Sunk in 9 Min¬

utes.41 Lives Lost

I'., ». > || ,*'r ft '

Lonon, Feb. 8. The r.ews of the tor¬

pedoing of the California, whose puh-lication the censor b now permitting.loaves little doubt «m the minds of

hnen that Germany ha? flungback in ¡'resident Wilaon'a face hisBaal warning. On all «ides it is takenfor granted here that the overt act hasbeen committed. Aboard the vessel,but fortunately saved, was at least one

American citizen, John A. Lee, of Mont-gomery, Ala.

< oniplete report* .«how that the Cal*ifornia was torpedoed ut | o'clock on

Wednesday morning olT the Irish coastand sank in 'J minutes, with the loss<»1 forty-one lives. The stricken shipwas able to send out S. 0, B, call.« andhelp arrived promptly. Nevertheless,four persons were kill«'«! by the cx-

plosion and thirry-sevpn were drowned.'Ih.rteen «,( BBS dead were passengerssix women, five children and two men.

Ship's Death List

The death list, based on the passen-per list and that of th». known sur-

vivors follows:SECOND CABIN

Aldersen, I, W. Vssesirvsr, B. C.Alderson. Master W. ('. Vancouver,

| B 4'.

Gillies, Neil, (¡lasgo»».Kidd, Mrs. ,L. Calgary. Alberta.

10'DonsslI, Mrs. Mary C Philadelphia.OTlonneJl, Misi Mary. Philadelphia.O'Donntll, Masler .lames. PhiladelphiaRoberts, .Miss Madge. Toronto, tint.Smith, Mr»-. A.. Calgary, Alberta.Smith, Miss Kdna (four .»ears old),

< nlgary, Alberta.TillP.Il (LASS

Korbes, Miss Annie, Toronto.Little, Mr«. Margaret, »21 Brook Ave¬

nue, Nssr York Cits,Little, Master John, 5IÍ Brook Avenue,

\i m York City.The news of the sinking of the Cali¬

fornia reached London »esterday aftetnoon before the survivors had yet ar- jrive«! on land, but publication was notpermitted until to-day.No unusual incident attended the

.crime. According to the passengers'.Morir«. the ship was proceeding:through a calm aca is good weatherWednesday morning when a sudden,U-rrific stock hurled the passengersBad rrew in all directions. A few rno-

ment- later a tremeiuious explosionteemed to lift the rhip out of the«rater. Seven minutes later she sank.

Two Submarine* Seen

All the survivors agree that no

Warning »vas given, »vhile the sailorssay that a submarine whs sein on

either aide of the vessel and that SB-«ape was impossible. The explosioninlled three sailors and four «aasen-'gars, while twenty-eight sailor« and'thirteen passengers reported as miss¬ing are now given up as lost.

Fortunately the lifeboat drill hadbeen practiced and each pa»senger hadbeen assigned to a particular lifeboat!ConseqnenUy there was a complete ab-jsence of panic, the passengers taking!in their own boats as soon as the orders»vere given and all keeping their hea»lssplendidly. A few of the less activepa.-si tigers fell into the water, but so

far as is know all these were rescued.Despite the coolness of the passen¬

gers and the seamanship of the crtw,th« successful launching of the boatswas made impossible by the shortnessof the time between torpedoing of thevessel and her disappearance beneaththe waves, which did not permit wait¬ing until the ship had lost headway.U hile the boats were being lowered

Irom the sloping decks the Californiaeontinned to bsov« forward, lurchinglike a drunk«n man, and the roar ofthe water ruahing through the gaping»vound in her side eonld M heard aboveth« shouts of officers and men. In a

number of cases it was necessary f«»ithe passengers to jump into thl 'in..'sttet they »vere in the water; and inone case a boat with its apportionedload was swamped and sank, many of

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Hest ball and aggregate score, for prizes.Between the putting matches.and during the at'ter-

noon_fxhibitiiois of DRIVING will be given by nation¬ally known Instructor! in golf who are giving lesKons here.Lesson«! may t)o booked BOW, I o be taken at any time up1«» ¡May.

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the occupants being sweDt under the I

»hip before the other boats could g«vehelp.Some of the lifeboats in the after

part of the »hip »v«re actually in the»vater when released from the davits,»o rapidly did the ship settle by thestern. A considerable number of thecrew jumped from their stations intothe seo and s»vam to the bow. It was

extremely fortunate that the weatherwas calm an«! the sea t'lassy; otherwiseit would probably have been impossibleto latinea i <..iig'.v boat.According to the reports received by

the American Embassy from some cfthe survivors, there was only one sub¬marine, which, however, fired two tor¬pedoes, one of which missed by a feyyards, the other hitting the Californiasquare in the port quart« r.

It was the captain who discernedauspicious oil bubbles on the surfaceof the water three hundred yards dis¬tal I lie instantly divined that a sub-,marine «»as there and ordered the gun-B«i tn lire. Befóte this could be donethe ship was torpedoed. The track ot

the torpedoes and the perseope of thesui.anarine could be seen, but no warn¬

ing »va« given, and the submarine d'dnot speak the boata after the survivor.«v. ere in the water.

Captain Henderson and th« otherofficer« remained aboard the Californiauntil the .-h:p went down. Among theofficers missing are Chief F.iiginee»*Smith, Engineer Cunningham andThird "flic-ir Simpson. Surgeon Algoeand Assistant I'urser Eiulie.

Succor SurvivorsTh« townspeople name of port omit-

ted) who crowded the quays carriedblankets, dothing and food, and were

eager to be of some assistance to theinrvivors when they were brought

re. Aside from tho-e injured, fewof the survivor' needed much help, butsome were thinly clad and gladly SC«

'¦ gifts of clothing. Naval andmilitary Bed «ro^s contingent« werepresent to care for the injured, »»howere removed lo hospitals.

Alfred S. Knox, a lawyer, one of the«arriving pa tensers, described tlie»»hole episode as follows:"When the ship .va- itTOCk she was

lifted out "f the »vater momentarily,but quickly thereafter began Ki settledown at the stem. I went belc Ifetched life belts, which I distributed.When I jumped into my lifeboat, thetop dei-k »vas almost flush wit!) the MS."Our boat picker! a few persons on;

of the water, while three or four!bodies lay floating about in the sea.1Sear SS wa« anotivr hoat half full of

,11 r with one man lying dead in thobottom of it."The CSSe of Mr-». Margaret Little,'

wh<) WSS taking her four children to1Seotlain!, was particularly patheticThree of the children, now boin^ at-tended by l!ed Cross nur»es, wereaved. But the mother and ope child

«Tere lost Another passenger, Mis.Mary O'Monncl), with two children, isalso miai ng,The body Sf Pur»er Betherington

has been recovered, but that of Sur-1geon W. ft. Alhoe an«J of Assistai;'

r Ladle are :till missing. Cap¬tain Henderson remained St his postuntil the ship founderi'd.

Wesley F-tost. United ¡States Consul,ha- i-l'.t B provisional report lo Wash-in!»'»-, bul bai not yet taken all the1affidavits necessary.

BRITAIN HAS NEWU-BOAT DESTROYER

« '».¡111,1« il Iriim ii.-iR«. I

recently sunk show that in one case a«submarine Operating in the war zone

employed a steamer which it had seizeda» a place of temporary reuige fortrews of other Vessels attacked andsunk.The lurviven whs teld sf this pro-,

Cedar« were from the Norwegian sailIng vessel Soanelv and th« Pumarr Turno. The captain and twentj

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riinr of the crew of the Turino were

landed. Her Ural aoainaot and three ofher Bramen won killed.

Held I'risoner-t Two I)a> »

The crews of both n «.««.*!«. the eur«v¡\ ors r« ¡ale, «.«, ere on board M uiiiuuii« «1Italian Steamer for two days, i" ha*German submarine operating here used

vessel, «which it had aimedand provided ..* ith a crew of six men,

U a ship to «stand by and receive thecrews of sunken «hips.After the crews of the Som/elv and

Turino had been on board the Italianfor two «lays they were transferred to

il,«* British steamer I'enmount, whichwas or.], nd to 'ake them to port. TheGermans else transferred from the sub¬marine to th.- Penmeunl CaptainSmaiies, oí the iteamer Hpllinside, whohad been taken on board the submarineas a prisoner when his vessel was sunk.His crew of twenty-two wer«* left in

open boats, he reported, and are stillmissing.The intent:«)" «>f the submarine was

to -ink the Italian vessel bet'oiv return¬

ing to Germany, according to survivor..

Four Senmen l'cri *hTwo member-, of «lie crew of the

British vessel Dauntless were killedwhile tii" captain was seriously won: d«f-il. when sin* was torpe,loe,1 by a 1'boat. a. ni'ling to u («port from thellava.« News Agency to-day. Six of the'went', -tu. ¡vois were picked up andlanded, but two of then died, and theother four lad ta he rushed to a hoapjtal. The other members of the ereware «till missing. The Dauntless ha.ledfrom Newcastle ami was ¦ vassal of2,167 tans

Lloyds announces thai the Britishiteamer Vedamore has been mnh andt Vu» t her crew has been landed. 1 h<>Védamete lafl Bal imare for Liverpoolon Januarj 24, Bhe was ¦ compara«lively lar(»i; vessel, 451 feel lout,' and of4,123The British steamships Baxonian and

Boync Castle have both been imcording to Lloyds, The Baxonian waa« «Milker, _hnli left New Orlaaaa .lami-ary 16 for ('ueenstown. Tue BoyiMl'iistle «was a snull »teainer of 24.*i ions

uro .. Ti.c branch trawler Yvonne, theRussian schooner Bangpuhti» and the.«'«*.«¦«i h steamship Varis, "'.' 96 toas,were amone the neutral victims of the«Isy. The Variz was last reported on

her departure from Savannah on Janu-ai. i.". for Bali¡ngborg.

California Sinking BringsTragedy to Homes Here

John ¡VI. Laittle, of I he Bronx, Heartbroken at Loss of Wileand Baby.Woman on Way lo Join Wounded

Soldier-Husband Meets Death

What the destruction of the Californiameans in human grief was impressedupon the official.s and clerks in the offi¬ces of the Anchor Line yesterday whenJohn M. Little, a Scotch machinist, liv¬ing at 545 Brook Avenue, The Bronx,entered tC inquire regarding the fate ofhis wife and four children, steeragepassenger.". Little i« a slight, spareman. He approached the de«k modest¬ly, nlmost diffidently. The latest cable,he was told, reported his »vife and one

child missing- the others had beensaved."But my wife an<J iis'oy." he pleaded.

"Can't you give me a word of hope?"No one had the heart to reply. Tears

Welled from Little's eyes. There was a

halt in the activity of the office, eyeswere lowered, but no one spoke.

Little squared his shoulders with aneffort and walked away, the tears srillstreaming do»»n his face.

More Tragedle»« Hev«*aledLittle's family consisted of Margaret,

hi« »vife* two young daughter», Mar-garet arid Mary, and two imallAndrew ¡¡m! John. The two daughtersand on.' IOB were ISVsdThree saeseagera in tlie second

reported missing are Mrs. A. .»in.th andlier daughter, Edna, four year»s old, and.Mrs. J. Kidd, all oí Calgary, Alberta.Mrs, Kuld was on her way to Knglandto be with her husband, who is hover¬ing between life and deatn in a Britishhospital, having been wounded in light¬ing on the Fr.-nch front. Mrs. Smithand her daughter were to visit friendsin Scotland.A Scottish family still less fortunate

thSS the Littles was comprised of Mrs.Mary C. O'Donnell, her two son-, Cor¬nelius, thirteen, and James, nine, andher daughter. Mary-, seven, all »econdcabin passengers hailing rrom Philadel¬phia. Only Cornoliuh is listed mnongthe survivors.Mrs. O'Donnell had lived in Phila¬

delphia for eighteen >ears and all her1children wer.' bom there, but a.i sheSnd iier husband, who il »aid to have

"d her -some years ago, »vere'British Bubj|sctSi th« shildrea cannotb» liaised a» AmerisMS, Bhs ami onher »»ay to join relstlve« is Beatland.1

White Plain« Nurse SavedThe Aldcraon family, of Vancouver,

wa« another to suffer grievously in theios« «i the father, J. W. Aid« r«on, andthe son, \V. C. Aldcrson. The motherwa« save«!. They »vere BOCOnd caninsassengern,Among tip* second cabin inrvivèM

il Muh hSM Mait.'i, -i fmUtt old, whonpleyed as a nurse in the home

of Mrs. C. I!. Dewiag, of White Plain«.MiSS Martin, »vho i-; a Priush »ubjecT,isms to this count i y three year« agofrom Glasgow. The news that herfather was BBfiSOSll ill induced herto return to Scotland. Siic had bookedpassage on the Philadelphia but can¬celled this in favor of the California'hat she might travel with m friend.She has an aunt, Miss Podio, who ¡h ariurae at the St. Regis Hotel.Alexander Morton, another --crond

cabin »urvivor. registered from Detroit,il a Britiih imbject, who »v«« employed

¦. a shipbuilding concern in Detroiti' , a« lesrnes yosterdsy that he hadpromlaed hi« sweetheart in Scotlandthat he would go '«» Knrlund sn#enlistm th«' iiinn f he uoul'I marry him.

Mr«, ("unie McKinley, n!«o among!the aurvi»or«, ws» return,ng to her.home in (»lasgow aftar »¡siting a si»-:¡1er in Bridgeport, Conn Miss Jesii« 1Ftobertaon, booked from Buif«l«>, i« .Reettlsh ntir«e, who had been employedin that, city for three year«. Mi».-, Mar.mie Sinclair, Hated from r.o«ton, is anative of l.eith. Scotland, who had been jemployed ss a nurse in thai country. I

LINER ST. LOUISSEEKS GUNNERS

Ten Naval Rifles Shippedto New York from Bos¬

ton and Norfolk

INTENDED FOR USEOF MERCHANT SHIPS

American Line OfficialsSay They Have Not Decid¬ed About Arming Vessels

I 0 :_.': o1*«'1: of the AmericanLine have not yet decided to arm theSt Louis and the St, Paul, now heldhere, they soon will be in a position to

platm a formidable armament on board,with a capable crew for each pun,should they so wish. Ten naval riflesof «j and 1.1 inch calibre are on their

way to New York from the navy yardsat Boston and Norfolk, and ex-naval'gunner« ara being taught by the line

to s«-rvi i: guns. A naval constructorfrom the Min y yard examined the ves-

sel. praavmablj to make recommenda¬tions concerning the niountii.«. of guns.

F. A. H. i-.i.nklir,, president of the

International Mercantile Marine, re-'.' ed | ;.tars ..«aterday, but.sued nenl saying that tiie date

.'« r the ¿_iIî:. tr of the St. Louis had not.b< en .;« cided upon. No sacks of mailhare ___u removed from the ship, andthe crew has bran held on board with-joui being pad off.New« of the ihipwent .«f guns from i

Boston and Norfolk led to Ihe report Ithat all te:, were to be installed on 'he1st. Louis, h proceeding which wouldreader her ¦ mon powerful war ves¬

sel than many light cruisers and g'jn-boat« in 'i;c navy. The (run« probably«re to be made available foe the St.

and other vessels that may «wishto mount them.

Tv.ii guas have been considered!ample protect gainsl submarines Ieven for British ihips, and those en-'

taring *.«¦'. V"i!« have contented them-selves with ¦ single gun mounted aft, jwhich has been accept.'.I by PresidentWilson as an armament for defence!only. The mmor that ten guns, sev-

eral of them six-inch In «-aiibre, wer«'

on then way to the St. Louis, stimu-late«! the original report tu such di-

«.us thai many were convincedthat the liner was to b come an aii>.l-lary cru:-' r in case of war.

¦ic-i a com IS has not beenled upon appeared to he evident!

from the announcement that skilledcivilian p..- wanted by thelinn, H" the 81 Louis -hould become:an auxiliary eruiser her guns wouldbe ... i- by i.aval | in 'Tews. Duringthe >pn'i.-ii Wai I. was an auxiliarycruiser and mounted four gune.-o-

French Liner Here,Left Usual Pathto Dodge U-Boats

The Espagne, of the French I.inc, ar- ¡nved yesterday, with wall 8i*-*d cabins;ami steerage, after making a el«

route to avoid U boats or raider«. The

passengers sa« ne hostile voseel, andthey IS d thai the ocean appeared de-

lerted of all -hips, h..th naval and

merchantAmolli-- the arrival- was Kllio* Cow-

din, of Tuxedo, who for two yean w-a;

attached t«> the American dying esea-.. m 1 _¦ t «.m the French fron«. Re-

Mr. Cowdfn has been employed'i British government inspecting

British aeroplanes as they arrived on

the front Bi« months ago In« devel-«ipi'd hear! trouble, and since 'hat date

h , remained on terra Arma under his

do tor's orders. jOther passengers who returned said

tha' many Americans al present tight-'Ing m the Foreign Legion had ask<-«l

p, rmii ¡on to rel irn to America andwith the United States should

«rar be declared. Il is understood that

the Americans will be gladly trans-

ferrcd to the American army shouldthe oecaalon '.rise. Other passengerst.i arrive included Ramon Poinatowski,the Rus-ian banker.

U. S. Is Refusing Convoysto Avoid "Unfriendly Act"

Washington, Fab, B. ConraytngAmerican vessels through the ¿one in

Germany has declared she willlinV every ship on sijrht. withoutit'ir.ird tor law at humanity, would be '

SI* -nr.fr'.« ?-«. y ;«ct." according to thebelief of the State Ctepartment Tinswas the mail reaaoC <oi- refusing a

convoy to the Bt Louis, it wa» re-

vealcd to-day, and »Ol that the NavyDepartment ha«l no faeilitMa,The government is Still working on

the hypothesis that «iermany Is en¬

tirely friendly to the I'nited States,and that therefore any expression or

exhibition of distrust would throw theburden for la'er developments on theAmerican government.

SHIPS SAILING FROMU. S. FOR WAR ZONE

/¦ 'n'luii iiifi tkipt sailed *./**_-'.idny from Amerinni ports fortht u ni' zone :

From New York For

Saaatéjk 11 >ut( h i RotterdamAthanasios |("r.) .Pirreus

From Hall imore

Arena (Nor.) .ChristianiaFrom Fort Fad«Upeerne ( Br.).. Kt¡¡opean port

from CharlestonHatumet (Br.) Foreign port

From Fort land. .Me.Krenioiiia (Br.).Leith

From Newport New«Santa Theresa (Br.)

«¿ueenstownLargo Law (Br.) «Southampton¦A-eot (Br.) .SouthamptonRuahin«.- (Hr.) .Lomlon

Irom finir SadMl. Tex.Hyaiinthus (Br.)

N'orlhern r'roiuh ports-itttlionie (Nor.)

II«i' r«\ via ['ensacólaFrom P.ri Arthur, Tex.¦àtatê* (Br.).Dartmouth

From Norfolk

NonlUp (han.).(¡cimaBonlerii (Br.)-Quceitatown

twn¦'¦iinuU» (Br.).Avo-ftnuuth

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passed hotels, stall 'liaa-lor», i;nt:ii:al L>iriinUgeof sunshine, and ii*» «jiiitis.. «onvtiiient tram »«nu.,.».lantii* City i» liu; ppys ¡ireai irint.r ci.i ßpripte) retortwithin three hours of NspO Yuri; (itif.

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Pennsylvania RailroadThe Steel Car Knute

German EngineerTells of Crippling

Ships in Port Here

Parts of Cylinders Pounded withSledges, Others Thrown

Overboard

What purported to be the detail« ofthe destruction of machinery on theGenssS liners in Hoboken were givenyesterday by sn assistant engineer ofone of the North (¡crman Lloyd «hip*-He told a friend that the deatructionof th« mechanism of the lö,0G0-tonGeorge Washington began, to hi» per,-onal knowledge, at midnight of Janu¬ary 3!. ten hours after the Orinansubmarine note became public in thiscity.

Orders to render the engines uselesscame from Bremen that night. Be de-«'lare<J, and reluctantly the men of ths« ngine room assembled at midnight ¡'rn!rarried out their mission of destruc-ten.The story was told to a fellow ersfl

man employed on a Norwegian steam

.-hip SSW in this port."lie told me," said the Nor»»egian

iast night, "that he wept when he «awtin* destruction of the engines. He*aid that certain parts of the eglinsjSrav. err pounded «rich »ledge« until theyracKert, and while sledge gun».'«, weie atwork others were engage«! in removingesseptisl part« and dropping them overtlu id«*. Ha said he could only tilli.bout the <¡eorge Washington, on whichh« was at the time, but 1 «ajan ta«same orders were earned out on everyijerman »hip in port."

Restore Shore Privilegesto German Ship Crews

Boston, Feb. «.-Full ahore privi¬leges were allowed to-day to the cre-As

of six ijerman steamers tied up here,v. ho previously had been ordered con¬

fined to their »hips. Immigration in¬spectors were withdrawn from specialguard. Immigration CommissionerHenry J. Skotflngton »aid the officershad agreed to report immediately anyinfractions of the immigration lawsand that it was not considered neces-lary al r,lf,*"<'nt to curtail the privi¬lege* of the men.

Newport News, Va.. Feb. 8. tin or¬iels from Washington, ImmigrationInspector Morton to-day removed theraardl recently placed on board «heGerman steamer Arcadia and theAustrian steamer Budapest. «rat*«hound in the Newport News Harbor.Inspector Morion «aid he was in-strutted to maintain only a generalgnard over the crews of the two

steamers now, in order to see thstthey do not leave their ships andenter this country.

Seattle. Wash., Feb. 8.-Member« ofthl crews of the Hamburg-Americanfreight steamer .Saxonia and the Ger¬man sailing ship Steinbek, arreste!for alleged violation of the immigra¬tion lawa. were released to-day, byT'ler of Secretary of Labor Wilson,ind returned to their «rSSSSls at Lag!'Harbor, near Seattle. Before being

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STANDARD OIL^TAINKEÄ SAñ

O.mpania Arrivm at A/orc- l!a>uiiniflaut («iKirtied

New.» «ral received bj the Standard«.il Company in Bayona« of the »afiarrival in the Asen sf 'he tanker< ..nipania, which «ailed fe| the »»r

son« before Genaany' nen tea crd»r«*aa issued. The espíala as« notified by«rireless while at a«« te mass for th«AssiSS us quickly ai DO ibis and thereawait further orders.

Robert Allen, MS el Mr. and Mn\\ iliiam II. Alisa, ol Bayonse. h »

member of the Campari¦ .. W, hauntbeen sent on the trip lbs companyfor experience.

Identitication car,!.. I;¡to :he i,P99 foreign employes of the

>'... »lard Oil Company here, and they;ir«> now compelled to p doe« them itthi jfate.s before !" B| Arrr-'t

»re »topping all *'¦ "

pete- alao and are searchlag their cos*

tents.

Keep Manifests Secret(iflicials of the Custom rloSN »!»'¦*»

\e-i-rday that herea**': no UlUifSMof any vessel railing i be mai«publie This arder, esssslai fas ax posaible th« I jarssaslj

ps «ailing from ti I Ml atSpSto Kuropean ports, 'he pre»»

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Final Closing Priceson Remaining Winter Styles-

Day and Evening GownsFormerly to $175.at $35 & *65

Rich Fur-trimmed WrapsFormerly to $495*.at $145 to $195

of cloihart o | rt .- of cloin

rur-trimmed àuits .*%+*

Formerly to $175.at *35, $45, *65

Furs of Superb QualityFur Coats: *350.*55O-$850Formerly $595 to $1700. Of Moire Caracul, Broad¬

tail, Hudson Seal and Moletkin.

Fur Coats: *95-*195-*295Formerly $195 to $575. Of Hudson Seal, Caracul

and Mole.

$195 to $325 Kolinaky Stolet-at $75, $95, $-* j