28 May 1915
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1915
Page
1
Chaotic Tenderloin night scene as cabarets shut down amid police actions. Restaurateurs and officials clash over licenses while Thomas Mealy leads efforts to bar cabaret performers. Vendors, arrests, and crowd reactions color a late night cleanup drive.
The steamship Potsdam sailing from New York last week bound for Rotterdam was detained by order of the administration in the Downe. An appeal to the American Consul General FP Skinner urged expedited departure or landing in England, with onward shipment to Rotterdam on the next mail boat from Tilbury.
A Niagara River ferry named Nawars Frontier between Hafele and Fort Erie Canada lost steering gear on May 27 leaving sixty aboard frightened amid a damaged vessel. Passengers including women fainted as life preservers were readied and a tug from International assisted near Devil's Half Acre.
Mae Anne Morgan defends the Strand Roof at Garden from closure rumors backed by Mrs. W. K. Vendet and Mira Elisabeth Marbury. She claims the roof was clean and safe, denies reports by investigators, and says the club will reopen in the fall. She blames critics and uplift groups for pressure to close. Commissioner Bell denies intent to force closure.
About forty miners were trapped after a gas explosion at the Fuel Company mine on May Street in Nanaimo British Columbia. Rescue efforts recovered several bodies and then continued to search for others believed still inside as officials assessed the situation and awaited further word on the fate of the missing workers.
British ships in the Dardanelles area report another turbo of action with Italian and British forces crossing French air units. The torpedoed vessel Seddul Bahr was sunk by a German submarine, with most officers and crew saved. The Majestic, once the navy’s oldest battleship, went down after a German sub attack, with about 700 aboard and 480 saved. Dispatches detail rescue efforts, the sinking of Triumph, and shifting Allied strategy in the Dardanelles while Italian forces push toward Trieste and Monfalcone amid Tyrol and Carinthian front actions.
A stray incident yesterday at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on Avenue A and Twenty-fourth Street ended with a gas tank explosion after cats tampered with an electrical device. Two men were unhurt as windows shattered and woodwork damaged, drawing police to the scene where only two kittens survived. A bomb-threated building across Twenty-fourth Street received aid from officers as investigators secured the area.
A Federal Grand Jury indicted Salomon & Co. and several associates on charges of conspiracy to violate U.S. neutrality. Harry Salomon, a German army lieutenant, heads the plot with co defendants Rosenberg Karman and Newman. The case cites shipments of contraband rubber via Italian ports to Germany, with operations believed to span hundreds of thousands of dollars and involve a Greenpoint rubber plant. The report notes ongoing wartime prosecutions and details alleged concealment methods aboard ships.
Theodore Roosevelt fell from a saddle at Sagamore Hill on Monday and fractured a left tibia in the accident. Doctors say he is “all safe” though irked by the mishap and the manner of the injury, not the horse.
Liverpool reports the Nebraskan arrived with captain Greene insisting no submarine was seen and a German torpedo likely struck the American cargo ship off Fastnet Rock. Crew members corroborate the torpedo theory, noting a heavy blast, rapid flooding, and a need to abandon ship.
The steamship Princess Iene of 6000 tons, launched for the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, blew up off Sheerness. From 250 to 400 lives lost. many crewmen and shipyard workers among the dead or missing. Debris rained over Wigmore, nine miles away as rescuers and witnesses described a vertical blast and a black and white smoke plume.
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