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THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1917
NEW YORKERS STAND IN LINE FOR HOURS WAITING TO JOIN N
SENATE'S ACTION GIVES IMPETUS TO RECRUITING HERE
Enrollment To-Day Throughout the City Expected to Break All Records.
BANDS TO AID WORK.
Patriotic Young Women Enlist for Duty - One is a "First-Class Cook."
The Senate's overwhelming vote for war against Germany gave a decided impetus to recruiting throughout Greater New York to-day. The naval men in charge of the various enlistment stations said they were sure that by nightfall all previous records would be broken.
In some instances the stations were hampered by lack of sufficient navy surgeons to examine applicants. At the chief recruiting station in Brooklyn, No. 115 Flatbush Avenue, there was only one surgeon on duty, and before 10 o'clock thirty young men were waiting their turn to go before [[?]], but the doctor had been able to [[enlist?]] only twelve of them.
There were seventy-three applicants at this station yesterday, of whom thirty-four were passed and fourteen actually enlisted in the service and started on their way to the training school at Newport, R. I. Most of these men were from Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and Jamaica, and nearly all gave their business as clerks.
Chief Gunner's Mate Shields, in charge of the station at Borough Hall, arranged to-day for the services of the bands of St. John's [[?]] Asylum and the Sacred Heart Catholic Church to aid in drumming up recruits during the remainder of the week.
Four rapid fire gunner [[bystations?]] were opened this afternoon by the Naval Training Association and Mason Peters which are expected to boom recruiting for the Naval Militia. In each station six-pounders, three-ponders, and a one-pounder and colt automatics were shown in actual operation- except that there was no firing- by a detail of a corporal and three men from the Naval Militia. The Association hopes soon to open a station uptown where actual firing practice can be had.
The new stations are at No. 49 Wall Street, the Hotel Biltmore, the Hotel Theresa, One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street and Seventh Avenue, and aboard the despatch boat Wasp, moored at Ninety-sixth Street North River. It is expected that any one interested in rapid fire gunnery will apply to the Naval Training Association at No. 26 Cortlandt Street for physical examination. If he qualifies he will be enrolled in the organization to be called the Sea Scouts.
The total of the enlistments in New York yesterday was forty-three, with twnety-five in Boston and twenty in Newark. The Marine Corps enlistment reached eight in Manhattan.
Lieut. Commander Grady, in charge of the Eastern Recruiting Division to-day established recruiting tents on the upper and lower levels of the Grand Central Terminal.
Although there has been a marked increase in recruiting in the last two days, Capt. Kenneth M. Bennett, in charge of Naval Publicity Headquarters at No. 318 West Thirty-ninth Street, said to-day New York was behind other cities in the work and that unless volunteers go out seeking recruits, the city will not be able to supply its required quota of 2,000 by April 20.
The five recruiting parties sent out from a battleship have been highly successful, enlisting fifty men, who has already been sent to the Newport Training School.
A number of women applied to-day a the station at No. 225 West Forty-second Street for naval enlistment. Miss Bessie Clemmons of No. 131 Washington Street, the Bronx, offered her services as wireless operator; Miss Anna King of No. 4035 Park Avenue, Brooklyn, applied as typist; Miss Mae Coyle of Lexington Street, Corona. L. I., said she was a first class cook, and Mrs. A. B. Ratten of...

Ruth Law to Volunteer for Flying Corps, Hopes to Go to the Front; Barred in France
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MORAINE-SAULNIER, LATEST MILITARY MONOPLANE in which RUTH LAW FLEW OVER PARIS...

Just Back From Paris, Where They Are Prejudiced Against Women Flyers in the Army, She Demands a Chance Here- Brings Pictures of Wonderful Machine That Skims Along at 150 Miles an Hour.

By Nixola Greeley-Smith.
"Why, of course, I'm going to volunteer for the flying corps," said Ruth Law. "I think I'd better offer my services through Gen. Leonard Wood, don't you? He was so cordial to me when I alighted on Governor's Island from Chicago."
In from Spain on the Alphonso XII., Miss Ruth Law, holder of the American record for long-distance flight, gave her first thought to the service she might render her country.
"I want to go to the front if there is a front," Miss Law confided in the double-cream contralto voice which is her greatest charm. "I'm tired of doing nothing. And in Paris, you know, that's all they will let a woman do- just nothing. Of course, she can nurse the wounded, but I'm no good at that. And do you think they would let me fly over Paris or go to the front? I should say not."

BAN ON WOMEN IN FRANCE COULDN'T BAN HER

"OF course I DID fly over Paris because I had made up by mind to do it. But I had to go as a passenger and really to be sneaked into the air without permission. I don't know what would have happened if Moraine, the aeroplane manufacturer, who took me up, hadn't been so popular with his Government. You see, he made the new Moraine-Saulnier monoplane that goes 150 miles an hour. It's the fastest thing int he air, as the best previous speed was 138 miles. On the trip from Chicago to New York I averaged 103 miles an hour in what they called  an obsolete machine. 
"I don't care what names they called it," Miss Law added, loyally, "if I have to fly for my country before I get the machine I've ordered in France I'd rather sit out in front of that good old Chicago to New York omnibus and be a target than try any of the other darned old machines in this country, I can tell you! Maybe you'd better not put that in. They'll all get mad at me for saying it. Still, it's the truth. So let it go!"
As Ruth law talked- to the public she will be Ruth Law always, though actually she is the wife of Charles Oliver, her manager, and an aviator himself- I could not help noticing that her sojourn in Paris, where she was feted as queen of the air, had left its stamp upon her. When we met before, after her descent at Governor's Island, she wore a blue serge skirt, buttoned over three suits of silk, leather and wool, in which the Chicago-New York flight was made. Yesterday her heavy yellow hair was crowned by a charming French picture hat of brown straw, and her round, yet slender body, was inclosed in an unmistakable Parisian blouse of pale rose crepe made with a peplum. The hands which guided the frail flagship that made her admiral of the air and kept it going on nerve after the gasoline gave out, were covered with rings. Gold bangles tinkled on her wrists. But the fresh, charming simplicity of a debutante just in from a game of tennis was unchanged.

saddle. That is the way they do in Paris, you know.  You see row after row of planes and men fully accoutred behind them.
"Why, to-day it wouldn't be possible for the German airstrips to get anywhere near Paris. As soon as a Zep appears the French planes rise into the air like a swarm of bees. I saw the Zep that had been destroyed in Compiegne. The pieces were selling for $100 or $150 each, otherwise I should ha brought one back with me. Paris thinks Zeps are the best joke of the war. You know a sort of fire siren is sent out to warn Parisians of a Zeppelin attack and inhabitants are supposed to take to the cellars. Instead they have Zeppelin parties in the street. Every-body rushes out to see the Zephs. I did myself.
"The spirit of the French is wonderful," Miss Law continued. "But they simply won't let women do anything over there except nurse, I'm glad I'm back in this country where I can get a chance to be active. What's the use of being a flyer if you're going to be told you can't help your country because you are a woman? The French won't let their women flyers go to the front, you know, or do anything else that counts."
 "They put their objections on a high plane," I observed.
 "I'd rather they'd put me on a biplane than a high plane," observed Miss Law with flippant emphasis. "You see it's all very well to say women musn't fly because they are the mothers of this race, but flying is the best thing I do, almost the only thing except drive a car. What right haas a government to deprive me offering my best to my country? And understand me, I want to get to the front!
BACK IN NEW YORK TO SERVE HER COUNTRY
 "Women flyers could do a lot of good, of course, just by teaching flying, but I don't want to be an aviation professor. I seek activity, danger, accomplishment!
You see I don't care for many of the things that women are supposed to love.  I don't give a darn for clothes!  I landed in New York with two suit cases, all my worldly goods!
"When we went abroad we went to London first, then to Paris.  I left my trunks in London and asked that they be forwarded later.  They were forwarded, but they never reached me.  A submarine got them, I think.

AUSTRIA ON VERGE OF BREAK WITH U.S., IS VIENNA VIEW

But Rumor of Emperor's Peace Proposal Persists-Special Honor to Penfield.

VIENNA, April 5.-It appears certain that Austria-Hungary will sever diplomatic relations with the United States if Congress declares that a state of war exists between America and Germany.
The Government has placed a special car at the disposal of United States Ambassador Penfield, who will probably leave Vienna on April 7.  Before leaving, Ambassador Penfield will be received by Emperor Charles.  The Ambassador will travel by way of Switzerland, and the Swiss Government has arranged for a special car to meet him at the frontier.
WASHINGTON, April 5.-Secretary Lansing said to-day that Ambassador Penfield would leave Vienna to-morrow, probably going by way of Switzerland to Spain as did Ambassador Gerard, and coming home by way of Cuba.
The Austrian situation still remains uncertain, with a preponderant opinion here that German influence will force the dual monarchy to share Germany's relationship with the United States.
Any hope that officials here had that Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey might become a strong enough influence within the Central Alliance to force a withdrawal of the submarine warfare or a more conciliatory attitude toward peace has been much shaken recently by a fuller realization of Germany's influence in those countries.  Nevertheless it is realized that all three of them are more moderate than Germany and that as the military and economic situation develops further against them their opposition will become more marked.
AMSTERDAM, via London, April 5.-A Berlin dispatch to the Koelnische Zeitung says that the rumors of a new peace offer by the Central Powers, which have arisen following the meeting of Emperor William and Emperor Charles and Count Czernin's statement, are incorrect.  The despatch says, however, that the principle, repeatedly officially stated, of the readiness of the Central Powers to enter negotiations for "an honorable peace" is unchanged.
LONDON, April 5.-All the preliminary feelers which were noted prior to Germany's previous peace proposal were discernible in news seeping out of Germany via Holland, Denmark and Switzerland to-day.  The only directly contradictory version was via Copenhagen, which quoted the Buda-Pest newspaper Pester Lloyd as declaring it had learned the Hamburg conference between the Kaiser, Emperor Carl and German and Austrian Army chiefs, "would not result in peace propos-"

BAND FROM FORT CALLS RECRUITS TO ARMY SERVICE 

"Five Hundred Enlistments a Day," New Slogan-Applicants Increasing.

If you see a band of seventy-two pieces in the field uniform of the United States playing in parks or squares throughout the city to-day, its the crack brass and string band from Fort Slocum under the leadership of S. Petterson.  Uncle Sam's put a punch, a musical punch, into this campaign for recruits for the army, and from to-day on the slogan for all recruiting officers in the New York district is "500 enlistments every twenty-four hours."
The band began its concert campaign at 10.30 o'clock to-day at Battery Park, twenty minutes after it left the boat from Fort Slocum.  While it was playing national airs recruiting officers passed handbills through the crowd.  From the Battery the band went to Madison Square Park, thence to Bryant Park.
"All citizens owe certain personal duties to the State," read the handbills, "whether it be the country of their adoption or the country of their birth.  What is requisite to enable you to fulfil these duties and render your Government the best service?
"You can render your Government your best service by preparation and training.  The best training you can get is in the regular army.  War now exists in Europe, Asia and Africa and at our very doors.  It is the duty of the millionaire's son, of the merchant's son, of the farmer's son, to qualify himself to defend his country.  Do so now."
There was a noticeable increase of applicants and inquirers at all of the army recruiting stations this morning, following the published descriptions of the scenes yesterday in the United States Senate.  The big rush is expected to-morrow when the entire country will definitely know that war is an official fact.
There does not seem to be any lack of interest in the army recruiting in spite of the fact that it has not made such rapid progress as the navy recruiting.
One woman called up the west side headquarters at Forty-second Street and Sixth Avenue this morning.  She gave her name as [[?Miss?]]

BIG GERMAN FORCE IN FINAL STAND AT ST. QUENTIN LINE

French Advance Guard Reaches Trenches and Find Them Strongly Occupied.

PARIS, April 5.-"French troops made reconnaissance of the ground north of Gauchy and Moy during the night as far as the German lines, which they found occupied in force," declared to-day's official statement describing the closing in on St. Quentin.
Artillery fighting is in progress over the front between Laffaux and Margival.  A German attack northwest of Rheims was repulsed.
[Moy and Gauchy are within less than two miles of St. Quentin, to the south.  Moy was occupied in force by the French yesterday, according to last night's statement.  Margival and Laffaux are villages situated about a mile apart and lying southwest of Anizy le Chateau, at about two and three miles distance, respectively.]
The statement follows:
"Between the Somme and the Oise the enemy undertook no counter action against the new front which we occupied yesterday.  During the night our reconnoitring parties advanced north of Gauchy and north of Moy as far as the enemy lines, which they found to be occupied strongly.
"Intermittent cannonading occurred east and west of the Somme yesterday and last evening.  The fire of our batteries checked quickly a counter attack which was under preparation by the Germans on the front between Laffaux and Margival.  Artillery fighting continues in this sector.
"Northwest of Rheims the Germans made an attack without success on our lines between Sapigneul and the Godat Farm.  Some German detachments were able to gain a footing in our advanced position, but were driven out at once by a counter attack.
"In Alsace we caught under our fire and dispersed a group of Germans in the region of Ammertzweiler.  Elsewhere the night was calm."

HAIG'S FORCES CAPTURE TWO MORE TOWNS CLOSE TO HINDENBURG LINE

LONDON, April 5.--Capture of the villages of Ronssoy and Basse Boulogne, with twenty-two German prisoners, was reported as to-day's progress of the British forward movement on the western front by Field Marshal Haig.
To the east and northeast of Metzen-Couture the British commander-in-chief reported continued progress "despite considerable resistance," his troops having reached the western and southwestern edges of the woods of Gonzeaucourt and Havrincourt. Sixty prisoners were taken.
"The enemy was caught on his own wire entanglements at Ronssoy and Basseboulogne, suffering heavily," the statment said.
[Ronsscy is about three and one-half miles northeast of Roisel, on the road to Le Catelet, and is about three and one-half miles distant from what is supposed to be the Hindenburg defense line, running from Cambral to St. Quentin.]

FRENCH LOSE HEAVILY IN BATTLE AT RHEIMS

BERLIN, April 5 (via. London).--"We inflicted sanguinary defeat on French forces near Rheims, capturing 800 prisoners," declared to-day's official statement.

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FRANCE TO GIVE U.S. THE USE OF PORT BREST

First War Measure Based on American Entrance Introduced in Chamber.

PARIS. April 5.--The first war measure to be taken in connection with the expected entrance of the United States into the war was introduced in the Chamber of Deputies to-day. It provides for an agreement with the United States, if necessary, for the use of the port of Brest by American naval forces.
Formal salutation to America now entering the war was read in a declaration by Premier Ribot in opening the Chamber of Deputies to-day.
"We all have the feeling that something great, surpassing the proportions of a political event, has just been accomplished," said Premier Ribot. "Entrance into the war with us of the most pacific democracy in the world is a historic fact without equal."
Extraordinary scenes of enthusiasm followed the mention of the United States. The American Ambassador William G. Sharp, was in the Diplomatie gallery. The deputies turned toward him and the demonstration continued. The Ambassador stood up and bowed, and the cheering was rebounded in intensity.
Premier Ribot continued his address, but almost every phrase was interrupted by applause. Mr. Sharp was again obliged to rise and acknowledge an ovation when the Premier said:
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