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GIRL AVIATOR ARRIVES IN FLIGHT FROM CHICAGO To-day’s Weather-PROBABLY FAIR CITY EXTRA The Evening World CITY EXTRA Circulation Books Open to All PRICE ONE CENT. Copyright 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. 14 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. TUG BLOWS UP IN RIVER, 4 DEAD Allies Chase Bulgars Beyond Monastir RUTH LAW’S DARING FLIGHT FROM CHICAGO TO NEW YORK MAKES HER AN AIR CHAMPION Surpasses in Obsolete Machine Non-Stop Cross-Country Feat of Carlstrom. 100-MILE CLIP AT END. Forced to Land at Hornell, N.Y., After Travelling 590 Miles of Journey. Ruth Law, the young woman aviator, flying a small military biplane of obsolete pattern, reached Governor’s Island this morning at 9.38 o’clock, completing the third stretch of her air journey from Chicago which started at 8.25 o’clock (New York time) yesterday morning. She started form Binghamton this morning at 7.20 o’clock. Miss Law made an entirely new mark for non-stop cross-country flights and yesterday wiped out the recent record of Victor Carlstrom, for American non-stop flights, made when he was attempting the same feat the young woman tried, but with apparatus 100 per cent better than hers. Before Miss Law’s machine was sighted at Governor’s Island, coming out of the haze over Jersey City, she was reported but once after she left Binghamton, when she passed over Port Jervis, 127 miles from Binghamton, at 8.40 o’clock. Miss Law made the 217 miles from Binghamton to Governor’s Island in 2 hours and 18 minutes. MOST DRAMATIC FLYING FEAT IN COUNTRY’S HISTORY. The Erie Railroad mileage from Binghamton to Pavonia ferry, Jersey City is 215 miles and it is two miles more to Governor’s Island. The successful landing of Miss Law on Governor’s Island ended the most dramatic flying feat this country has seen. The young woman, who is twenty-eight years old, had not before been known as a practical aviator, but was regarded a “stunt” performer, dropping from vast heights in parachutes, looping the loop and spiralling in aeroplanes for the movies, like her spectacular brother, Rodman. She has, indeed, been spoken of in disparaging comparison with him as “Little Sister to the Nut.” But she graduated into full fledged [[2nd column]] CRUCIAL MOMENT IN RAILROAD FIGHT COMES THIS WEEK Railroad Managers Leave for Washington to Face Newlands Committee. Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific accompanied a group of Eastern railroad managers who went to Washington at midnight last night to attend the hearings of the Newlands commission which begin to-day. Shortly before he left the Hotel Gotham he received a reporter for The Evening World. Asked if he expected any definite results from the investigations to be made by the commission he said: "I cannot say or foresee what will be the result of this inquiry. All I can say and wish to say is this - the more light we have on railroad matters the better for all concerned. It is not my understanding that the Adamson bill will be discussed at these hearings in any shape or form. I do not understand that the inquiry has any connection with the Adamson bill." Asked if he had heard the railroad chiefs intended to take advantage of the presence of the road Presidents in Washington to open the way for a resumption of the conferences with the railway managers he replied: "It is my personal belief that nothing like that will happen. All of the railroad Presidents will not be there, and it is not likely that they would ask for a conference when they know that some are absent." MAY NOT DISCUSS ADAMSON LAW AT ALL. It is the opinion of Judge Lovett and other road Presidents that the Newlands commission will not permit any reference to the Adamson bill so long as the matter is in the hands of the courts. None deny, however, that the Washington situation, quite apart from the Newlands hearings, is heavy with possibilities and that, in spite of the court proceedings, the Eight-Hour-Day Bill may suddenly become as important [[3rd column]] TOWN OF ROSCOE LOOTED AFTER 15 BUILDING BURN Merchants Stand Guard All Night Over the Smoking Ruins. LOSS PUT AT $150,000. Guests at Two Hotels Flee in Night Clothes - Several New Yorkers Injured. (Special to The Evening World.) ROSCOE, N. Y., Nov 20. - Merchants of this village armed with shotguns stood guard all night over the smoking ruins of the business section which was destroyed by fire yesterday. While building after building caught fire and the residents of the town fought to save them, a half dozen thieves pillaged stores and residences, and their work was not discovered until after the fire was under control. Fifteen buildings were burned with a loss of $150,000. The origin of the fire, which started at two o'clock yesterday morning in B. A. Fuhrer's bowling alley, has not been determined and an investigation will be made. Fanned by a brisk wind the flames spread rapidly from the bowling alley to Sipple Brothers' market. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sipple were trapped in their apartment over the store. They jumped to the street, and while Sipple escaped with slight bruises both Mrs. Sipple's ankles were fractured. Sipple spread the alarm but the one company in the local fire department soon found itself helpless and a call for aid was sent to Liberty and Livingston Manor. In the meantime the fire had spread to a hardware store, the Faubel Hotel, where guests were driven to the street in their night clothes, the Vorhees department store and Albee Brothers' jewelry store. The arrival of the firemen from other towns checked the blaze for a time, but the water in the small town reservoir failed at a critical time and for several minutes the firemen were forced to stand by while the fire gained headway. Before the water pressure was again strong enough other buildings were destroyed, among them the First National Bank, The Beaver-Kill Hotel, the Criterion Theatre, Bennett Brothers' drug store, Butler's five and ten cent store, Porter's barber shop, Wood's livery, Heller's warehouse and the residence of James Fitzgerald. Three hundred men working in lines [[4th column]] BULGARS IN PERIL OF AN ALLIED TRAP, GIVE UP MONASTIR Hampered by Mud in Their Flight Toward Prilep 24 Miles Away. FIGHT IN CERNA BEND. Bulgarians Claim Repulse of Allies on This Sector of Macedonia. LONDON. Nov. 20. - With rain and sleet interfering with full resumption of operations along the Somme, it was the Balkans that furnished most of the battle news to-day. Additional advices served to increase the significance of Gen. Serrail's victory in the taking of Monastir. It is believed here that the German-Bulgarian forces will not be able to make complete escape from the encircling vise of the allied flanking movement. Desperate fighting is proceeding as the allies strive to close in still further on the retreating Teutons and Bulgars. Roads churned into mud from snow and rain will, it is believed. make it impossible for the Teutonic forces to proceed with sufficient haste in their retreat to accomplish a complete withdrawal of forces and equipment. It appears that far from being content with mere occupation of the city, the allied forces are still thrusting forward in their drive. Prilep, to which city the enemy is withdrawing, is about twenty-four miles to the north. The way is for the most part across level ground, with very few natural defensive features. The allied occupancy of positions along the Cerna River bend gives them a fulcrum for their lever to force clearance of the plain. Military critics here to-day agreed that capture of Monastir is of great importance. diplomatically most of the credit it given to the Serbians for the victory. It was their splendid fighting along the Cerna bend which compelled the enemy to abandon their southern defenses, enabling advance due north of the French and Russian troops. Ejected from their own country a year ago by Field Marshal von Mackensen's tremendous drive, forced to flee in disorder, their regiments scattered, their equipment - what little there was - for the most part abandoned, the Serbians have been transformed in months into a formidable army with thew arms and equipment and the splendid tutorship of French [[5th column]] Woman Flyer Who breaks Record of U.S. in Cross Country Flight [[image spans 5th and 6th columns - picture of Ruth Law]] [[caption]]RUTH LAW © POWER'S ENGRAVING CO.[[/caption]] TEUTON DIPLOMATS ORDERED FROM GREECE Despatch From Athens Says French Admiral Has Set Wednesday as the Date. LONDON, Nov. 20. - An Athens despatch to the Exchange Telegraph Company says the German, Austro-Hungarian, Bulgarian and Turkish Ministers to Greece have been informed by Vice Admiral Du Fournet, commander of the Allied fleet, that they must depart from Greece by Wednesday. BRITISH WAR WIDOWS AS WIVES OF CANADIANS Plan to Have Women Emigrate So Employment Ranks May Be Open to Men Returning From War. CHICAGO, Nov. 20. - Thousands of British war widows and their children are to be transported to Canada with the expectation that many of the women will be married to Canadian farmers, according to plans [[6th column]] [[image - Ruth Law in her airplane]] [[caption]]IN HER AEROPLANE.[[/caption]] CONGRESSMAN WILL GO TO CAPITAL IN AIRPLANE. Blakely Will Fly From His Home in Pennsylvania to City of Washington. PHILADELPHIA, No. 20. - A. J. Macy was called to the telephone in his Chicago office Saturday. "Hello!" came a voice. "This is Congressman-elect Bleakley of Franklin Pa. I want you to bring me an airplane. No! no! not a taxi - an airplane. I want to go from my native State to Washington." In this way the newly elected Congressman from Venango County de- [[7th column]] PASTOR URGES MEN TO QUIT U.S. ARMY AND ATTACKS FUNSTON Dr. Goodchild Says American Government Does Not Deserve Defense. "We have at Washington a Government that feels no responsibility for its citizens. When young men of my congregation, now at the border, return, I shall ask them to get out of the army, because I would not fight for a Government that would not protect me." This was one of the things Dr. Frank M. Goodchild, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, Amsterdam Avenue and Ninety-second Street, [[8th column]] CRAFT SINKS IN EAST RIVR; TWO BODIES NOT RECOVERED FIFTH VICTIM REPORTED DYIN Four Men Injured When Rambler Goes Down Following Accident. Victims May Have Been Carried to Bottom of the River. FORCE OF THE BLAST FELT ON OTHER BOAT Two men were killed outright, two are believed to have drowned and four others were injured, one probably fatally, when the Rambler of the Russell Towing Company of Long Island City, blew and sank at her pier in the East River at the foot of Commercial St. Williamsburg, early to-day. The dead are: Capt. Eugene Casey of No. 1048 Putnam Ave., Brooklyn. Andrew Pitts, engineer, thirty-four, of No. 1165 Manhattan St. Williamsburg. Frederick Zaane and Frank Esterbrook, deckhands, known to been on the tug, are missing. Boatmen in the vicinity say that the doubtedly went down with the tug and were drowned. The injured are: Jacob Geisler, deckand, of No. Diamond Street, Williamsburg. tained a fracture of the skull an ternal injuries and was taken Greenpoint Hospital in a dying dition. Capt. William Miller of the bat William H. Brown, which alongside the Rambler, was kn down by the explosion, cut abou head and body, taken to Greer Hospital. Ludwig Osmond, deckhand, o 103 Third Street, Brooklyn, on an stoneboat, sustained internal inju removed to Eastern District Hos Thomas Gregory, forty years No. 556 Greenwich Street, Manha deckhand on the William Brow ternal injuries; remove to G point Hospital. The Rambler was anchored in midst of a number of boats when explosion occurred. The tug sank a few minutes the explosion, the report of which heard clear across the East About a foot of the smokestack is visible above the water. The rounding boats were damaged mo less by the explosion.
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