. FIRST ESTIMATE. Jones the Lowt nN Greater--Survive Being Hurried to Motels and ' For Treatment May $--The bellet pre Cuynand offices carly this dead in the Lusitania would eveatually oa the fact that 14 hours since the sinking of the arrival of the news and that practically all of had had plenty of time to and be 'heard from. As 700 hed been landed at , 500 at Queenstown and v 100 at Kinsale, this would ve nearly a thousand still to be ae ore First Officer's Statement It was impossible early this morn jing to obtain. a reliable estimate of ithe number of persons saved from {the Lusitania. The following cabls message received at midnight, from the company's -offices In Liverpool 'contained the only suthoritative in'or mation which the officials of the ne had received. "Queenstown wires: First Officer Jones thinks about 6500 {to 600 were saved. This includes passengers and crew and is the only |estimate we are able to, make. the meantime we are going through ithe hotels and lodging houses to-night 'and will wire tomdérrow the fullest possible list. Meanwhile the injured and dead are taking all our attention." This message was sent from Liver pool at 917 pm. When the attention {of the Cunard officials was called to ithe fact that they had previously re |ported 300 landed at Clonakilty and that the London Times had received a despatch from Cork saying that 70, M1 been landed st Clonakilty, they replied: "This estimate by first offi {cer Jones is the only authoritative one we have been able to get. The {statement that 300 had been landed |at Clonakilty was merely a report which had been getit to our offices {ln Queenstown. We have no infor mation as to its accuracy and we know 'nothing about the report from Cork ithat 700 were landed at Clonakilty Tomorrow we hope to have definite {information but until that comes wa {can make no estimate of the number ; Another cable message tim led 945 pm. at Liverpool, sald: "Queenstown wires as follows: The |tug Stormcock landed 150 passengers . are Rev. Carfton Morris, lecturer in to the Admiralty from Queenstown reporting that between 500 and 600 GREAT EXCITENENT IN CANADIAN CITIES Over One Hundred Pastengers From Ontario on the Terpedesd Liner Toronto, May $---Not so much ex-| citement has Leon peen in 'Canadian cities galnee war, was declared as | yesterday afteraooh when the sinking {tined in the Lowapaper offices. The that the giant liner had been torpedoed was met with incredulity, which quickly gave way to grave fears for the aafety of her passengers. The Canadian pas- pengers of whom about 118 were from Ontario were principally from Toron to and Mentreal. Among them were the following: Mrs. Dr, G. Sterling | Ryerson and daughter, Laura, are {mother and daughter of the late Cap- | aly Ryersca, who was killed ia the recent battle of Ypres. Mrs-Ryerson 'and her daughter made the voyage | to join lLdieut-Col. Dr, G. Sterling commissioner of the Can- adian Red Cross, who is In England. | Leonard McMurray was making the trip in the interests of the Gutta Per cha Rubber , On Their Wedding Trip Mr. Frank Rogers, m manager for the Robert Simpson Company, was married to Miss Agnes | Hill, daughter of W. J. Hill, regis- trar for West York, on Thursday last, | pnd sailed on the Lusitania on his | wedding trip. Mr. Walter Rumble is! p buyer for the John Macdonald Coe. | and 'was going to the Old Country for | the firm. Mrs. Josephine Plank is | the widow of the late Mortimer W. | Plank." W. R. Crooks, a buyer for | Murray-Kay, Limited, was en route for | London to purchase dress goods and | Bilks. Mr. A. R. Clarke, president of | the A. R. Clarke Co. Toronto, was | bound for London on a brief business | trip, and expected to be back in the | pity by the end of the month. Miss Catherine Kaye is 16 years of age and was returning to her parents in Lon- don, England. W. K. Keeble, the Lon- don representative of McKim, Limit- ed, advertising agents, had been in Toronto on a two months' visit with his brother. Mr. R. R. Lockhart was going over on a business trip in the interests of wholesale clothing. Mrs. H. Lohden and her 11-year-old daugh- ter, were on a visit to relatives in South Hacknéy, London, England. i After War Relics | Mr. Percy Rog:~s, the assistant | manager of the Canadian National | Exhibition, sailed to England with the expectation of going from there to the battlefields of France and Bel glum to make a collection of German war materials and machines for this i exhibition. James Kerr and his' wife .were bound for Kilmarnock, Scotland, to see his father, who has been ill of late. Wil liam Dale was on leave, and was on his way to visit his brothers and sis- ters, who reside at Castle Dawson, Ireland. George Scott was returning home to live. He was bound for Bel- fast to visit his parents, and his in- tention was to remain at home, as his father owns a factory in Belfast. | Two of the faculty of Trinity Col lege were on the Lusitania. They i divinity, and Prof. O. Wordsworth, in classics. The latter is English, had been on the faculty Ivinity for one. year, single, about!2s years of age, and was returning to for a vacation. Miss Words- il fl 1 h ji fad i 7 f it : 4 fi ! g j : ; is : | ! E : £ | i i k | i is : IH il § ~ if i 3 HE A A tr AA A DREADFUL SIGHT SAYS THE STEWARD Lem a Ourviver Says ip Bank In Fifteen Minuten First Soy London, May 8~--The first story by Burvivor came from a abip's steward who was among 160 landed. by the tug Btormoock at Queenstown. Many women were in this party. The stew- ard sald: "The passengers were at lunch when a stbmaripe came up and 'fired two torpedoes which struck the Lusitania on the starboard side, one forward and the other in the en- gine room. They caused terrific ex- plosions. Captain Turner immediate- ly ordered the boats out. The ship began to list badly immediately. Ten boats were put into the water and between 400 and 500 passengers en- tered them. The boat in which I was - the land with three other 'boats and we were picked up shortly after 4 o'clock by the Stormcock. I fear that few of the officers were 'saved. They-acted bravely. There 'was only fifteen minutes from the time the ship was struck until she doundered, going down bow foremost. It was a dreadful sight." ney Lusitania's Cargo / The of the Lusitania was valued at $760,000 and fully covered by insurance. It contained various munitions of war and other supplies for the allies including 189 3 of "military goods," valued at $62,221 and 1271 cases of ammunition ap- praised at $47,624, both consigned to Liverpool and 4,200 cases of cart ridges and ammunition valued at $162,400 consigned to London. Other items and their value were: Precious stones, $13,350; sheet brass, $49,665; furs, $119,220; leather, $47.000; cop per, $20,995; geese, $33,334; bacon, $1,602; copper goods, $21,000, and dry goods, $19,086. The Lasitania's listed as follows: First-class .....cccovivenres Second-class ..... Third class Crew .... passengers were 20 599 861 816 Total 2,067 There were 184 Americans on board the Lusitania. The other pas- sengers included 961 British, 27 Rus- sians, 6 Persians, 6 French and § Greek and 2 Mexicans. Sunk Without Warning Liverpool, May 8--8. J. Liston, gen- eral manager of the Cunard Steam- ship Company at Liverpool, gave the following statement last night: "We have received information that the Lusitania was torpedoed at 2.33 o'clock today when ten miles south of Old Kinsale Head. Just previously the Lusitania had sent out a wireless call, 'Come at once, we have begun to Hst' That was the last heard from her. It is apparent that the Lusitania was sunk without any warning" . Could Accommodate 2,606 New York, May 8--Life boats and rafts carried by the Lusitanis were said to accommodate 2,605, the Cuzard Line stated. She had 22 life boats with a capacity of 52 to 69 each, twenty collapsible boats, with a capac- itp of 49 each, twelve rafts with a capacity of 24 each, an two rafts with 8 capacity of 43 each. Subs Were Waiting London, May 8--Kinsale is a town ou the southern coast of Ireland, 13 miles south-jouthwest of Cork. It is Anonymous Warning New York, May steamer Lusitania sailed last sed to prominent persons who 'had taken passage on the ship, them that the vessel would be tor- i R OFF THE IRISH COAST "MONTREAL NURSES © ON TRANSYLVANIA Bteamer Baila' From New York ir aké of Lusltanle-=Twe!ve | Pascengers Left Culp Ss ! New York, May &--Dering tic Ger man submarine blockade, deapits th disaster to the Lusitania, tha Anche: Liner Transylvania, leased by the Ounard Line, sailed last ovenlng for Liverpool. Tho Transylvania, which is a new steamer, got under way at § o'cloak, Of her total! cf 879 passen- gers, twelve cancelled pessage ho The Uner carmes 117 fret cabin res Sengers, 810 second cabin end 46 third, Har crew numbers £85, a grand total! of 1414. "I have no fears o submarines." sald Commander Join Black, as the Transylvania prepared to get under way. "I won't fly the the British fag up all the way acrcss I think I'ma good emough seaman to Among those on beard were a num- ber of Canadians. Twenty-thrse nurs es from the Royal Victoria Hospital of Montreal, were among the passen- gers. Montreal up on the long distance phone when the disaster to the Lusi tania became known and asked for instructions whether or not to sail. They were told to follow their own Judgment and all decided to go. The sailing. London si Jarred London, May 8---It is also apparent that the sink!ng of the giant Cupard- er has jarred the British capital as severely as any incident of the war Fear that all the horrors of the Titanic disaster are again to be re- counted with fresh coloring lent by the tragic glint of war time events. seemed to still the crowds that pack- ed the corridors of all the leading hotels until long after midnight. Awe stricken watchers hovered about the sources of official information grasp- ing eagerly at wild rumors and authentic bits of information alike. Lusitania Described The Lusitania - was one of the largest of transatlantic liners, as well-as one of the speediest. She was built in Glasgow in 1906. She was 785 feet ong, 88 feet beam gnd 60 feet deep. Her gross tonnage was 82,500 and her net tonnage 9,145. She Company," Ltd., of Liverpool. Her Captain was W. T. Turner. She cost about $7,504,000 to build. The Lusi were built under British subsidy for the purpose of wresting from Ger Jantic. Atlantio passenger service was Great Britain's final challenge tp German overseas supremacy. : Hubbard Was Jocular New York, May 8--Elbert Hubbard, just before he saiied on the Lusitania, sald, laughingly: = "Speaking from a strictly personal . viewpoint, 1 would not mind if they did sink the ship. it might be a good thing for me. I about the only way I could succeed in my ambition to get into the hall of fame. I'd be a real hero and go right to the bottom." standing in front of a Park Row tin board today when the mews the torpedoing of the Lusitania posted. With a wild * threw his hat in the air, and in the German version of an kicking him in the face and ribs. | What Will Uncle 8am Do? , 50 anonymous telegrams addres- sed "for cause of the sinking of the Lusitania | American fiag either, but will have | oulmancuvreany German submatine." | chise WOUIL be transferred to. Hart. | Several of the nurses called | passengers were all depressed upon | was owned by the Cunard Steamship | tania and her sister, the Mauretania, | many the speed record rcross the At- | Their entry into thé trans- | | THE SPORT REVIEW | Nine senior leagues are enrolled under the banner of the Terouto Amateur Baseball Association. The annual tournament of the Do- minion Trap Shooting Association will be held June, 8, 9, 10, and 11 on the Rockcliffe Ranges at Ottawa. Over $1,500 in prizes will be given. O'Hara is evidently set on making a base-runming record. He is down to one hundred and sixty-seven pounds, lighter than he has heen far some seasons, and now leads the To- | ronto team in stolen bases. Chicago fans are getting a lot of | good baseball this season. They have a team leading the Federal, one se- cond in the National, and third in the! | American. i It is not likely that Ottawa will] have a team in the O. A. L. A. senior! series this year. They have the ma- | terial but the ether clubs in the vici- | nity are slow in organizing so those | behind thé game in Ottawa have de- | | cided to stay out for the year. ! | 'There are rumors that the Newark | International Baseball League fran- ai | | ford, Connecticut, leaving the Feder- | {al League a clear field. In the past | { the International League games at | Newark have averaged from seven to ten thousand every Sunday, and the | magnates depended on Sunday ball! to pay their bills. With the Feder- { als as a rival attraction the main sup- | port of the team has been wiped | away and the outlook for the Inter- {national League is very dublous. | "This talk about the Interprovin- | cial Rugby Association abandoning | rugby this fall because of the war is jall rot at this moment," remarked | Joseph Wright of the Toronto Argon- { auts. "The matter has not even been | discussed. Who knows when this {war will end? It may end in a | month or six weeks. Of course there | are many of our own men and their opponents on the firing line, and a | few of them will not come back, but | | where will the benefit come in in ab- | { andoning the game now? My idea| | is to go ahead with what material is| available. Even if the war goes on, | | the game should not stop, for the training on a rugby field is of great] | value to a fighting man. Let them | | play rugby, and get big and strong | for the call to arms that will come | #f the great struggle is not ended byy | fall. Rugby will toughen them and | brighten them for the battlefield. | | Time enough to talk about quitting | rugby when disaster is upen us, not | when we are fighting a winning| | ight." DOING BEST TO FORCE WAR. {fiermany Appears to be Desirous of Ialy's lntervemion, Rome, May 8.--The diplomatic | situation here seems unchanged, but an regulation after another is being issued, showing that war prepara- [some of them up in a home that will | sea: {tions are being carried out continu- | ally, | neutrality by Italy, said to-day: { "It almost seems as though Ger. | many does it on purpose. Every time { ! public opinion seemed to be settling would drown with her and that's | down and excitement to have spent | | itself, Germany does some irregular {act which acts as a spark to set the fire going again. "The bombardment of undefended towns in England 'aroused a feeling of igtense indignation. The sending of every neutral ship to the bottom, is a prod to public resentmnet. As- phyxiating gas came when the people war. "Our wonder here is that she could deliberately rouse the antagonism of the whole world without obtaining any corresponding advantage Ger- Second Battalion Casualties. Ottawa, ualties in the Second Battalion: ville. -------- Your prescriptions will be careful- ly filled it taken to Gibson's Drug Store. A man suspects he is a fool at '30, knows he is at 40; and reforms at 50. Modesty and wealth are 'a handsome couple but seldom seen together. Were expressing their weariness of | many must be drunk with self glory." | | sure death to venture. { The British soldier appreciates the | May 8.--Additional cas-| Wounded, Pte. Percy Cline, Earl- i ton; William Alfred Fellows, Quebes, | with any trophy except for a good | on the left of the Senate, presided Guy Lindsay, White Lake; George/sum. A regular ¢learing house for| over by Emile Combes, and the Un- D. Acton, Brockville; James Carey, them has been established, and hun-| ion Republican group decided yester- Picton; 'Clement Carl Clarke, Belle-| dreds are being sent to England for day to take action toward this end. NEW YORK RIPPER TERROR. In Letter to Victim's Mother, Fiend Makes Another Threat. New "ork, May &--The letter- writing murderer who killed five- year.old Elenore Cohen and four- year-old 'Charlie Murray has written to the Murray boy's mother, telling | her that he will commit another mur {der when the present excitement over her child's death subsides. The let- ter was received yesterday at the time the victim's body was about to be buried. Mrs. Murray read ome paragraph and collapsed. The mis- isive was taken to the police head- {quarters to be examined for finger prints. The murder of the little boy who was killed by knife wounds the night | of May 3rd, was preceded by a simi- lar threat -ontained in a letter ad- dressed to Mrs. Cohen, the incther of ithe little giri who was killed March y 29th, Both children, the police "be lieve, were killed by the same per. son. Both met their death in hall ways near their homes. Both lived i on First avenue, near Seventeenth | street, the girl on Third avenue, a few blocks further up-town, BERLIN DISAPPOINTED, Karly Reperts of Colossal Victory | Over Russians Diminishing. Rotterdam, May 8---Ever since Monday extraordinary rumors of co- | tessal. victory over the Russians in! Galicia have been currént in Bertin | and all public buildings have been | lavishly decorated in honor of the victory, the detftils of which no one knows in the absence of official news It was weported three hundred thou- sand Russians had been taken pris- oners and even the most modest ru-! mors claimed 150,000, Then, when everyone was asking for the source | of the statements thege appeared big posters supposing to come from | Wolff's bureau amnouncing the tre- ! mendous victory and confirming the | | huge numbers of prisoners taken. Everyone went mad with joy and | for two days' festivities went On not. | witkstanding that the reported num- | ber of prisoners gradually decreased. According to the .Vossische Zeitung | it now appears that the whole thing | was a hoax, and proceedings are said | to have been commenced against the | perpetrators for daring to besmirch | the fair name of Wolff's bureau. TO ADOPT WAR BABIES, Suffragette Union Will Take Care of Fifty. London, May 8.--The Daily Chron- icle says that while politicians and social reformers are inquiring into the matter of war babies, the Wo- | man's Social and Political Union is taking action." Mrs. Pankhurst told a Daity Chronicle representative yes. terday: "We mean to adopt fifty war ba. bies and to take care of them until {they are grown up enough to earn | their own living. The only cases to {be dealt with will be those in which {it is impossible for the mother and | child to be together, | *¥t is not necessary to know how | many war babies there will be," said | Mrs. Pankhurst. We know there { will be many, and we want to bring {serve as & model to other social | workers. The "WSP.U. | tor will reside in the house. The ex- { periment will be limited to girls. HELMETS RARE TROPHIES. { | British Soldiers Find Pemand Far ! Exceeds Supply. | General Headquarters of the Bri- | tish Army, France, May 8.--German | Lelmets, notwithstanding the thous- {ands of Germans who have been kill- | ed, wounded and captured, ave still | rare trophies at the British front. There are two chief reasons for this. | 'The first is that the Germans of | late have been wearing| caps, the ! second that the dead and wounded {between the lines, on whom most of the helmets are to be found, are in no man's land, where it is almest fact that these helmets are bringing | fancy prices in Paris, London, and New York, and hé is loath to part isale to dealers amd others. ! No, Cordelia, the knife one gir! gives {anothet will nof cut friendship -- and ithe odds are it won't even cut melted i butter. |" Be rude to none. Rudeness harms Eiot the humblest, 'but injures him whe jexhibits it. cout of bicycle pe | gases: with gases and do any sense exonerate Germany for hav + Children's | $ A high personage of the Foreign | Home will be looked after by a staff | prizes. The projected law awards to Office, who is in favor of a policy of | of efficient nurses, and a woman doc- | the Treasury all products of marl- - rms nL Wor SAYS LONDON PAPER British Cannot Be Expected to Moet Enemy Under a Handi- London, May 8.--~The Cabinet is now considering the question wheth- er the Allies should employ poison gases against the Germans, accord- ing' to the Daily Chronicle, which editorially argues that "It is clear from all the eyidence that the Ger- | man asphywiating gases possess ser- fous military importance, and the en- { emy will continue to use them, pro: bably en a growing scale, whenever conditions are favorable. A new and formidable weapon has been introdu- ced into warfare. And, much as we regret its introduction and censor the gross breach of international ite by which it was introduced, nei- {in the same neighborhood; the boy | ther regret nor censor will win bat: tles. "Unless our troops are to feel that the fight an unfair battle, with one ! hand tied behind their backs--and { that is the feeling which, if justified, might destroy all the morals of even the. bravest soldiers--we must fight > withthe must arm least possible delay. 'W {our front with equipment at least as deadly as the German gas equipment, and if possible deadlier. This is not a matter to sland "Irguing abouts Posing pros and cons, whether in Parliament or elsewhere. In justice 10 our own seldiers we need to act and act promptly; and at the same time there ought to be as rapid a dge- velopment as possible for defensive _ measures, not merely for the wear- ing of respirators, but for the spray- ing of alcohol, ammonia and other chemical agents, "Every humane person must de- plore that warfare has entered on this new phase, but we cannot pre- vent its being entered on; all we can do is to see that our men are mot put at a relative disadvantage by it. If normal weather returns, with the! normal preponderance of southwest winds, the enemy may come to be sorry for their own barbarous Inno- But the fact that the Allies are compelled to copy it will net In | vation, ing introduced it, nor take the crime | of having introduced it, out of the category of those things for which an account must be duly exacted af | the end of the war," MAY LOSE PRIZE MONEY. APA. AE Re 0 | RR French Marine Minister Proposes to Abolish Old System. _ Paris, May 8.---Abalition of the old system of awarding to the crews lof French warships the proceeds from ships captured in time of war is proposed in a note issued by the | Minister of Marine. The note foi- lows: "The Government, acting upon the initiative of M. Augagneur (the mi | nister of marine), proposed the fol | lowing changes in the law regulating | the disposition of ships captured at | "President legislation awards to the captors the products of all sea | time prizes, as it is the country alone | | which bears all the expenses of war | besides paying all indemnity for | which are effected irregularly or without sufficient cause. "Nevertheless, the projected law allows one-third of the products as a | prize, not to the captors, but to an | institution caring for 'marine invalids j thus providing a special fund for all { who have been wounded in the ser; : | vice of the country since the opening | { of 'hostilities, creating a common | fund from which officers and men {and their familiés will receive bene- | fits." | 4 TO SIT THROUGHOUT WAR | Decision of Two Strong Groups In French Senate. Paris, May 8.--As the result of a discussion whether Parliament | should continue in session through- | ont the period of the war, the group They came to the conclusion that a { permanent session 'was necessary to | assure uninterrupted collaboration | with the Government, and will re- | guest Promier Viviand to present their views to-day. {| If you want Drugs in a hurry, j yoone 230, Gibson's Drug Store: Bh + «da ie «2 SA5.00 assem i» 13.00 3 SORE