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Whitman Aids Hylan to Fight "Grab" Bills He Will Veto All Tam-j many Measures Disap? proved by Mayor Balks Plan to Go Over His Head Attempts to Raise Gas Rates and Carfares Fail as Session Ends [Staff Correspondence] ALBANY, April 13.- In its closing moments to-day the Legislature was electrified by the news front the execu? tive chamber that Governor Whitman had decide,! not to sign any of the bills affecting New York City until Mayor Hylan hail a chance to study them. These bills, most of them salary grab bills and pension measures, were "kissed through" the Legislature' by Senator Robert F. Wagner, Assembly? man Charles Donohuc and other Tam? many leaders over the Mayor's protests. Those which the Mayor charact.ericdz as consisting of a wholesale raid upon the city treasury were so drafted that they would not go to the Mayor for his veto or approval. The Governor intends to send all these bills affecting New York City which would not go to the Mayor ordi? narily with ? message that, whatever I the Mayor disapproves of will be vetoed ! by the Governor. This does not please Tammany, which is at odds with the Mayor because of the latter's espousal of the Hearst gubernatorial boom. But it is possible that Tammany may try to cajole the i Mayor into approving the bills which he urged the Republican legislative leaders, over the Tammany leaders' heads, not to pass. Mayor Hylan Criticised The Mayor was criticised to-day by Senator Albert Ottinger during the de? bate which preceded the passage of the Brown bill creating a commission to study the municipal ownership prob? lem. This commission is to report back to a legislative committee, of which Senator George A. Argcisinger, of Mon? roe, is chairman. Senator Wagner ob? jected to the bill, which carries an ap? propriation of $5,000. "Yes," said Senator Ottinger, "Sena? tor Wagner and Mayor Hylan are op? posed to a study of the question. On this they are united, although they- are apart on other matters. We have seen wh^t Mayor Hylan is doing with the municipality's docks. These docks are being leased to the friends of our sainted Mayor." The Democrats did not rise to the Mayor's defence. "The municipal ownership question," said Senator Brown, "is becoming one of the great issues of the state, and it must be settled on the right side, It affects all. of our fiftvr.seven cities, and only by study can an intelligent ap? praisal of the question be reached." An attempt to jam through three im partant pieces of legislation in the last hour of the Senate almost ended in a row, with the Democrats threatening to carry on a filibuster for days, if neces-1 sary. The filibuster threat came when Sen- ; ator Ottinger for the third time during I the day tried to pass the Ottinger-Ellen bogen bill repealing the Donnelly anti? trust law. The threat was effective. Wicks Gas Bill Dies Senator George F. Thompson, of Ni? agara Falls, balked the other two at? tempts. One concerns the Wicks bill giving the Public Service Commission? ers the right to fix the rate of gas. It constituted a repeal of the 80-cent gas law. The bill was in Senator Thompson's Public Service Commission Committee. He refused to report it j out. E!on R. Brown, majority leader ?f the Senate, had a rule passed per- j mitting Wicks to move the discharge of the committee. Thompson secured ! enough votes to defeat the motion and the plan was abandoned. The other measure was the Pratt bill giving Public Service Commissions the right to raise the fare on streetcar lines, subways and "L" roads to 6 cents during the war, regardless of any ex? isting 5-cent fare contracts entered ; into between the cities and the trac? tion companies. The Sage power bill nermitting the state to dispose of the surplus waters of the Barge Canal to private companies was passed by both houses, as was Senator Thompson's bill merging the ' three big power companies at Niagara Falls and his bill establishing a com? mission to study fhe entire question of water power and formulate a state policy with respect to it. Both houses passed the direct tax bill, appropriating about thirteen mill? ion dollars for sinking fund and inter? est charges. In the Senate when word was re? ceived that Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson's bill permitting any one to kill a cat caught hunting birds had been passed by the Assembly, a live cat with a ?-tufted bird tied to its neck was presented to hirn. In the Assembly the usual higli jink? were dispensed with, and the custom? ary throwing around of files was made impossible by the removal of the files before the session started to-day. To amuse the Assemblymen a band played in the gallery, and in a corner near the Speaker's desk was installed a piano, around which members gathered and tried to sing. Before th'* Assembly closed Than - deus C. Sweet, Speaker of the House, made a patriotic address, which was interrupted continuously by cheers. He said that the predominating feat- ; k ure of the Legislature was passage of ? measures to aid civilization's fight ; " against Germany. To date the Governor has signed . about ?0O bills, and there are 800 yet : awaiting executive approval or veto. Bridegroom Arrested, Deserter From Army I'-.vight Fltamer, private of the 104th Field Artillery, at Camp Wa lsworL'i, ' Hpartanbuig, was arrest?*?] last night. and turned over to military authorities. He is charged with being .a deserter. Reamer wax found at 447 West Fifty aeventh Street with his wife of a fr-w day?, who had been Miss Helen Young, a telephone operator at the Hotel KndT COtt. They were married-on March 10. R/?amer is thirty-three year-, old, and is the ?on of the head of the no ft 06 brokerage firm of Reamer, Turner & Co., 1J4 ?Water Street. His horn?: in if, Montclair. S. J. The young man enlisted at he be? ginning of the v/ar. He obtained a leave of absence about March 1, carne to New York and was married. He denied any intention of Inserting , and offered w. hi? excuse the fact that h? heftd just besn mttrr?e? and 'hut con ??deration for bis wi/?a,k?-pt him from rejoining hi? command'?* Legislature Adjourns With Non-Performance Record Only Few Important Bills Passed During Three and a Half Months' Session?Appropriations Amounting to $82,000,000 Made to Run the State [Staff Correspondence] ALBANY, April 13.?The 141st ses? sion of the Legislature adjourned sine die fit 7 o'clock to-night after having accomplished less than any other ses? sion in recent years. This is the unanimous opinion of all concerned. Upward of 1,000 bills wero passed, and every one of them, with a single exception, were amendments to existing laws or what parliamentarians term corrective 'legislation. The ex? ception was Senator George F. Thomp? son's measure creating a commission to study water power development and to recommend a policy to be followed by the state in utilizing the vast resources of its surplus waters. This bill was passed to-day. Only a few important measures were sent to the Governor, but bills of equal, and in some instances of greater, im? portance were smothered in committee or buried in the- graveyards of both houses to save the feelings of the legis? lators. Tho most striking example of this was in the case of the prohibition legislation. The bulk of the bills passed, in fact all save a mere handful, were purely local laws. The rule of the Legislature was to avoid action on all topics of a controversial character wherever possible. And the rule was scrupulously followed. Cost Taxpayers $500,000 The Legislature has been in session three and a half months at a cost of more than $500,000 to the taxpayers. In the Assembly 1,301 bills were intro? duced, while the Senate trailed close behind with 1,274. Of all these only one which was passed without a light was the Walters-Adler bill creating the machinery to enable women to vote. The most important measure intro? duced, from the Democratic viewpoint, was the Wagner-Hearst-Hylan munic? ipal ownership bill. While it was pending the political agents of William Randolph Hearst were out stirring up sentiment throughout the state in its favor, and incidentally in favor of Mr. Hearst's boom for Governor. What? ever chance the bill had-even of con? sideration in the early days of the ses? sion was killed by upstate Democrats who are united in their opposition tc Hearst for any state office. And the propaganda conducted by the upstate Democrats, ably aided by the secrel support of Tammany Hall, put the quietus on municipal ownership foi this session, and incidentally on th? Hearst gubernatorial boom, at leasi the Democrats here hope so. Nor were the Republicans backwarc in playing politics. Their big show revolved round the efforts of Elon R Brown, majority leader of the Senate and other anti-Whit man leaders in the Legislature to end Whitman's political career. With this in view they roused the farmers to a fever pitch of indigna? tion against the Governor, but their sucoess was short-lived, for Governor Whitman quickly granted all the de? mands of the farmers. The anti-Whit? man Readers, however, still have at their disposal the- Brown legislative investigating committee, which stirred up the farmers, and the programme is to have it sit during the spring and summer and create more anti-Whitman sentiment. To-day an additional $5,000 for its expenses was appropriated by the Legislature. Inspired by The Tribune The most important bills passed, gauging importance by interest dis? played in them, were the so-called war measures. Two of these -Senator George A. Slater's bill creating a cen? sorship over all textbooks in the public schools to prevent the spread of Ger? man propaganda and un-American ideas, and Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson's bill legislating out of ex? istence the German-American Alliance of New York State -were inspired by expos?s in The Tribune. Other war measures passed were As? semblyman Schuyler M. Meyer's Ameri? canization bills, which makes it com? pulsory for illiterate native born arid non-English speaking minors between the ages'of sixteen and twenty-one to learn to rca/1, write and speak English and to have a fundamental knowledge of civics; the 'bill of Assemblyman William C. Amos, requiring all teachers in public schools to be citizezns; the bills of Senator Robert F. Wagner, des signating Benjamin B. Odell State Ice Controller, and the measure fixing a margin of profit, on all necessities of life; Senator Robinson's anti-loafer bill; Senator Sage's anti-sabotage bill; Senator Slater's bill compelling stu? dents between sixteen and nineteen to undergo military training, and the Slater bill providing for a systematized patriotic instruction in the public schools. In the same category might be in cluded.the bills relieving contractors engaged in public work from respon? sibility for the performance of con? tracts made prior to the entrance of this country into war. There were three such measures. Ten Per Cent Salary Increase Another war measure increased sal? aries of all state civil employes re? ceiving less than $1,500 annually 10 per cent. Still another was an appropria? tion of $1,000,000 for the repair of state highways used by army motor trucks. Two important waterpower bills were passed under emergency'messages from the Governor certifying them as neces? sary to the successful prosecution of the war. Other important pieces of legislation acted upon favorably were the Martin bill repealing the township school law and the Wicks bill exempting agri? cultural organizations from conspiracy prosecutions under the Donnelly anti? trust law. Hulbert Declares He'll Not Be Goat In Pier Lease Case Dock Commissioner Not in Good Humor After Con? ference With Mayor Dock Commissioner Murray Hulbert was summoned to the Mayor's office yesterday for a conference in regard to the lease of Pier 69, North River, to the Hudson Dock and Terminal Cor? poration, at a rental of $25,000 a year, which was approved by the Sinking Fund Commission in the face of an offer of $30,000 by the present lessee,' the Bristol City Line. Commissioner Hulbert was with the Mayor an hour and a half. Earlier in the day, papers were served on Commissioner Hulbert, in the taxpayer's action brought by the Bristol Line, restraining the city au? thorities from consummating the lease. The temporary injunction granted will he argued Tuesday in the Supreme Court. When the Dock Commissioner left the Mayor's office he was not in a happy mood. Asked if he had anything lo say about the conference, he re? plied: "Not a damn word. The place to try this is in the courts. I'll show these people something. They are not go? ing to make a goat out of me." The commissioner did not stop to explain just what he meant. Mayor Mylan would say nothing about the conference. He intimated that some? thing might be expected to happen in the matter Monday. Grover Whalen, the Mayor's secretary, was questioned later. "What did Commissioner Hulbert mean when he said that they couldn't make a goat out of him?" Mr. Whalen was asked. "Did he mean the Mayor or did he mean the Bristol Line peo? ple?" "I don't know hat he meant," said Mr. Whalen. "You will have to wait lo hear what he says in court Tues? day. He will have a lot to say Tues? day." Before his conference with the Mayor the Dock Commissioner saicl that he was glad the case was to be taken into open court, where he could present his side. He was satisfied the public would see the situation in a new light, ho said. "1 know nothing about the Hudson corporation," he said. "That is a mat? ter for tnc Controller and the Mayor's Sinking Fund Committee to investigare. I never knew a Mr. McGoey (a Queens politician) was in any way connected with it. I do know the Hudson Com? pany ottered to pay a full year's rent-U in advance, which is more than th". present lessee is doing. I know the Mayor expects to receive $30,000 a year for the pier, and I "believe the Hud? son Company will pay it." The lease was approved Thursday by the Sinking Fund Commission at a rental of $25,000 on recommendation of lh?! Dock Commissioner. I'rocess server? from the office of Platt & Field, counsel for the Bristol City Line, had difficulty yesterday in finding any 'one connected with the ?Hudson corporation upon whom to wor/c the papera in the taxpayer's ac? tion. They were trying to fin?! Will? iam H. Anthony, a clerk, who was said to live somewhere on Fourteenth Street, arid who appeared on the. cer? tificate of Incorporation a? a director of th* recently organized terminal cor? poration. It developed yesterday that Tresi dent Alfred E. Smith of the Board of Aldermen introduced a resolution at a m'eeting of the Sinking Fund Commis? sion on January 17 which might hav# prevented the peculiar situation which has developed in regard to the Pier 69 lease. Mr. Smith proposed that in au- j thorizing dock leases a statement be j required showing the special reason for exempting the lease from competitive bidding. On motion of Controller Craig this resolution was referred to the Dock ; Commissioner, but nothing ha3 been heard of it since. Arms Output Adequate, Says Cal. McRoherts Continued from page 1 care of orders which could not be filled by private manufacturers. Leather equipment to the value of $50,000,000 hrts been contracted for and most of it has been delivered. Total contracts entered into during the last year by the ordnance bu? reau exceed $3,000,000,000. "We have progressed to a point," said Colonel McRoberts, "where the maximum requirements for war can be stated in relation to the material re? sources of the country, and it can be definitely stated that there is and will be no scarcity of material. We will have abundance for every known need I i of the war. The only clement for con : cern is the question of time and trans? portation. There has been much criti? cism and there have naturally been de | lay:*, and disappointments, but the great energy that ;s being applied to our needs is inevitably rolling up into ! a great volume materials with which I to fight, and I am firmly convinced that before many months go by we will i find our ships dropping into the sea ! at a rate never before equalled in the I world." U-Boat To Be Beaten. Says Harding j The prediction that the normal bal I anee of Allied and neutral shipping I will be restored and the submarine i warfare of Germany completely over? come by the middle of 1919 if ship I production proceeds at its present rate , was made by Senator Harding. From j the beginning of the war to January 1, ! 1918, he said, neutral and Allied ship? ping had sustained a loss, due to the submarine campaign, o* 18,000,000 deadweight tons. Approximately 14, 000,000 tons have been renlaeed, he said, so that a net loss of approximate? ly 4.000,000 tons has been sustained. j "If the submarine warfare continues with the same degree of destruction and production of ships in Britain and the United States continues according to expectations, the U-boat will be overcome in little over a year. We have begun a shipping programme whicb is going to place the Stars and Stripes eminently on the paths of ocean traffic throughout the world. In spite of discouragements and disap? pointments and utter unpreparedness, we are achieving to-day really marvel? lous results, although infinitely less than we had wished and vastly less than American assumption of superhu? man capacity believed was possible. "As late as .January, 1916, there were only eighty-one American steamships in the transatlantic trade. In 1917, with tho world aflame, we increased our Huronean tonnage about 200,000 dond-woignt tgns. To-day, under flu: driving necessities of flu* hour, we have 2,762.000 dead-weight tons in the European trade and war service. Much of this is ?lue to reestablished ship? building industry on our shores In? spired by tho enterprise of ?ho Nor wegian and the need of t/ie Britifih. "Most of our new tonnage comes from forcign ships under construction and commandeered. About 000,000 tonn ac? crued in the seizure of the vessels of Germany and Austria. Close to 500,000: tons we're taken from the Dutch under u righteous provision of international law and 100,000 tons of neutral vessels are under charter. In the first year of cur war 1,750,000 tons of ships were j completed and put into service. The first three months of this year steel vessels of 450,000 tons dead weight were commissioned. This month we shall add 150.000 tons more, and there will be mounting figures for steel ves? sel production in Mav, Juno and July until we reach 250,000 tons for each of August and September. "Thereafter the increase in produc? tion will mount more rapidlv until the estimated figures go lo 350,000 tons for ; ! each of November and December, or a! total of 2,225,000 tons for the remainder [ of this year." i Senator Owen, after suggesting that] the statue of Frederick the Great which adorns the fa?ade of the War College j in Washington be "quietly and on no account ostentatiously" dropped intO( the Potomac, advocated the employment I of "every available psychological force" to break down Germany's world ; wide system of propaganda." ? m ??' Law Department Staff Is Angered By Hylan Letter Mayor Hylan has written more let I ters to the members of his "kitchen j cabinet" in the city administration in I regard to weeding out the deadwood ] and dispensing with as many positions as possible than have been given out j at the Mayor's office for public con I sumption. It is understood that.these private letters to his commissioners i have been specific and mandatory in tone, and have been highly resented by j some of the heads of departments and i employes. It was learned yesterday that the Mayor wrote such a letter on March 27 to Corporation Counsel William P. Burr. It caused considerable resent? ment among the members of the Law Department staff. The charge has been made that the Mayor is "playing poli? tics" and trying to put friends in the Law Department to build up a political machine. The Law Department being j one'of the most important of the city j departments could he made an effective political machine. It has been used to ! advance the political ambitions of I mavors under previous administrations. "Many of your assistants arc of the j | old school and do not believe in hur ? rying," the Mayor wrote to Mr. Burr. ! "I wish you would get rid of those I just as fast as possible who will not : ! bo on duty at 0 o'clock, and who delay 1 in getting out their work. "The work of the Corporation Coun- ? i sel's office must be speeded up, and I ? think that the sooner you get new men j in your office all along the line, the ! j better it will be for all concerned. I , ! know you are endeavoring to do the j | best you can, and if you ask for the I l resignations of a few men that are ! credited with a pull and hold their jobs through many administrations, you will be rendering great, service to the people of the city. I do not care ; who is behind men in your office, and j I do not care what their great legal reputation may be. There are many men who are anxious to secure these ; positions, who will perform better work than is being performed." The Mayor urged the Corporation Counsel to give this matter his imme diate attention, as he said he was not I "very much impressed with some of ! the assistants under you that have I been in the office some time." -* Democrats Plan To Beat Whitman Chairman Edward S. Harris of the \ Democratic State Committee yesterday at the National Democratic Club, in ' Fifth Avenue, held a conference with ! the executive committee of the state I committee, the main topic of discus- i sion being, "How Can Wo Beat Whit man?" I Seventeen of the twenty-one women j members of the executive committee attended the conference arid contrib- ? uted eloquence to the end in view. One I dozen speeches were made by the wom ! en. Chairman Harris and Jerry Con ?nor, of the men present, made mere | j suggestions. Finally two committees ; I were appointed, one to plan for a state- i I wide enrolment of the women voters i | on May 18 and to prepare a statement ? i setting forth the reasons why women ' j voters should enroll with the Derno i crats and the other a committee on ! publicity. The enrolment committee includes Mrs. Ethel Stebbins, of New York; Mrs. Blanche Welzmillcr, of The Bronx; Miss Sara McPike, of Yonkcrs; Miss Beulah Bailey, of Troy; Mrs. Fred E. Kennedy, of Binghamton; Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York, and William W. Farley, former State Ex? cise Commissioner. Republicans United in California, Says Hays SAN FRANCISCO, April 13.--Will H. ? Hays, chairman of the Republican Na tional Committee, announced to-day ? th-t factions in the party in California, which attracted national attention in ' the Presidential election of 1916, when : Woodrow Wilson carried the state, had disappeared. Raymond Benjamin, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee,; called upon Mr. Hays. So did Percy V. '?? i Long, who said he could properly be ? . designated a Republican, although still | '. holding the office of chairman of tho i ! Progressive State Central Committee, , and W. II. Crocker, national committee man from California, who wa? found in j ? the conservative wing of tho party in 1910. A Nevada delegation, including Whit man Symms, chairman of the State Re- ; publican Executive Committee; Q. H. ? Simmons, a former Progressive leader lin tho state, and Colonel H. B. Maxon. i former national committecmnn from i I Nevada, also called upon Mr. Hays "to! j assure him that we arc with, him," they said. Scathing denunciation of the Indus- ? trial Workers of the World, a plea for ! i unified action and industrial peace at j home, and the declaration of tho Re- ' 1 publican party for peace by victory j I only and not by compromise bargain- j ? ing, were included in an address here I i to-nie;ht by Mr. Hays at a banquet ten- I | dered him by leaders of his party. The banquet was the culmination of his efforts to conciliate and harmonize tho, factions in California of the Re ; publican party. j "Tho loyalty of tho Republican party has always been and always will be measured only by the possibilities," Mr. Hays said. "The Republican party first stands for doing everything in our power to win the war now; second, for peace by victory and never a peace by compromise bargaining; third, for preparation in a sane manner to solve tho immeasurable problems of recon? struction and sail the chartless seas that, come after the war. All this for ii purpose fur greater than party suc? cess?-all that, no harm shall come to the Republic." MacBrideHints At Graft in Health Board Civil Service Head Says Two Officials Are Ac? cused in Affidavits Welfare Workers Ask Open Hearing May Be Scheme to Put Braves on City Payroll, They Declare James E. MacBride, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, yesterday took the defensive in the war over t?ie Mayor's plan to "reorganize." the Board of Health. He dropped the excuse of "economy" and, replying to those who insist that the child hygieno and other bureaus be undisturbed, declared that graft had been uncovered and was being investigated at the commission's star chamber sessions. According to Mr. MacBride, who was high in the service of William Ran? dolph Hearst before he received his present position as a reward for run? ning Mr. Hylan's publicity campaign last fall, ho has affidavits charging two of the seven bureau heads, whose resignations Mayor Hylan instructed Health Commissioner Amstcr to se? cure, with graft. Who the two are, or who makes the charges, Mr. MacBride declined to state. Two Officials Accused These tyo bureau chiefs, Mr. MacBride further states, are, in his opinion, re? sponsible for what he describes as propaganda by "dollar hungry, fake re? formers," to hold them in their places. I He further accuses them of advising j other bureau heads to retire while they havc a chance to. They do this, he j says, in an effort to cripple the depart | ment. Mr. MacBride adds that it was never the intention to dispense with the work of the child hygiene and other im? portant bureaus which have given New York City the lowest death rate of any big city in the world. Mr. MacBride made this declaration after a meeting of representatives of practically every welfare and social service body in the city, held in the rooms of the Bar Association, had de? manded that the Mayor and the star chamber inquisition which has been in progress before Mr. MacBride for a ! week. This meeting selected a com- i mittee of twenty-one representative men and women to call upon Mayor Hylan and demand that the investiga? tion be open to the public. This committee, of which Dr. Lee ! K. Frankel is the chairman, includes ; in its membership Miss Rose Schnei derman. Dr. Ira S. Wile, Frank H. Mann, Miss Lillian D. Wald, Dr. Herman M. Biggs. Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. J. B. Minor, Miss Mary H. Combs, Mrs. John B. Andrews, J. B. Boyle, Ernest B?hm, Ralph Waldo, Charles Neergard. i Dr, Walter B. James, Dr. L. Emmet j Holt, Dr. Lewinski Corin, Dr. Roger Dennett, Samuel Rainowitch, Miss Mar- ! garet Thompson and Mrs. John Fran- , eis Yawger. Members of this committee, when ' their attention was called to MacBride's graft charges, declared that if there ; was any graft in the department they wanted it shown up as badly as even j Mr. Hylan might, but that until graft | was shown they would be forced to believe that the proceedings are but i part of a Tammany-Hearst scheme to j make room for the faithful on the city payrolls. McBride's Statement In his statement, Mr. McBride said: "The names of two directors of bu? reaus in the Health Department are given in affidavits in possession of the Civil Service Commission, and let me add that, according to my information, they are the directors most active in the propoganda work which has for its purpose the stifling of this inquiry. "They are the ones who are whisper ing to other directors that those who ; are eligible to retire should do so at once, and then advancing the sugges- j tion that if the inquiry is not stopped ! the department will be crippled by the ! los3 of its best men. Hints at Prosecution "They are the ones who are inspiring newspaper stories that this inquiry will result in an injury to the health of; little children. How preposterous! However, it is not beyond the pale of] possibility that it will bring to some j persons that injury of health which | comes from confinement in our penal ? institutions, for if these charges are verified they will be forwarded at once ] to the District Attorney. "No honest employe of the Health Department has anything to fear. No | citizen need have the slightest fear that any proper activity of the Health ! Department will be interfered with in j any way. When this investigation is j over we will go on looking after our; children and our sick just as in the j past." Doubts Graft Charges "This is the first time anything .has j been said about graft," said Miss Lilian D, Wald, head of the Henry Street Set tlement. "It is commonly understood | that Mayor Hylan ordered Health Com-1 irtissioner Amster to remove the heads of the bureaus without any explana? tion. I don't believe graft had any-j thing to do with it." Dr. Lee K. Frankel, who heads the | committee of protest, declared that if! there were graft charges this made it all the more necessary to have the pro- ? ceedings before McBride made public. "That's just what we want to know,"! he said. "We aren't trying to protect] anybody. All we are asking is pub? licity for the hearings, which concern a! department in which everybody is vital-! I y interested." Star Chamber Opposed Mrs. Marion B. Cothron, one of the women especially interested in the Bu? reau of Child Hygiene under Dr. S. Josephine Baker, likewise declared last night that the fight whs over the ques? tion of publicity for the hearings. "We object to these underground political methods," she said. "There may be conditions in the Health De? partment which need investigation, and if there are wo are the first to insist on the truth, and standing by the truth. We want no star chamber pro? ceedings in this day and generation. It sounds like going buck to the days of Van Dyck and Tweed." The Eastern Medical Society Friday night passed resolutions protesting ngainst the abolition of the bureaus of the Health Department an they now exist, and copies of the resolutions were sent to the Mayor, AI Fourteenth Street West of Fifth Avenue These ?Offerings Mean Economy foi-ToTiT Savings Represented Below Because of These Special Prie.. 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Upholstered back and mattress finest materia^ obtainable?spring and chain rust' proof?covered in khaki or gray denim with attrac? tive colored stripes?khaki and red, khaki and green, gray and blue.Special 17.50 Iron Stands?Collapsible brown, green or gray Special 4.97.. 5.97 Awnings? 4.50. 6.44. 7.44. 9.97 Pillows. 2.24-? 2.97 NEW LIGHT-WEIGHT WINDOW DRAPERIES Ai OTHING is more important than window drap l y enes in creating an atmosphere of restful, cool loveliness in the summer home, and problems of sunlight become easy and pleasant to solve when one may choose, as here, from unlimited assortments of every conceivable variety of lightweight window draperies that appeal to decorative tastes while con forming to standards of economy. Special Purchase of 5,000 Yds. Curtain Nets 36 to ?O inches wide-every imaginable design-Filet, Mcx:?n, Brussels, Cluny and Bries Bis and numerous detached figure effects-also plain Nets. 9npt:al n Another Lot?value .48 to .58 .37 0?r?ea-^ret?nne'/""?]ne<?fa- N*" C?"*'" Sfcrtar-1?? ePombfned-et0nne 8nd S"Iln -Jored bo.?ered designs about 40 styles....Special 35 value-^ . 15 _ ., " i New Curtain Voiles?PI?? ?r Reversible Terry Cloth Dra- with- H- s- borders-some with peries?Rich verdure, scenic colored?tripes and tapestry effects- for kn't- values .48 an 1 .55. .38 Mondad and Ssd^T"^ Su?f?*< Cfrteinia*-?**% *. .5*/ i ors?double width .87 MORNING SPECIALS?Monday and Tuesday, Until 1 P. M. To prevent dealers buying, quantities re stricted. No Mail or Telephone Orders. $23.75 & $24.50 Women's Serge Suits.1 7.50, Navy, Rookie, tan and black?smart \ models, belted or with ruffles- braid bound?sizes 36 to 44. WOMEN'S SUITS?SECOND FLOOB. $4.97 Silk Blouses.3.90 White or flesh creoe de chine; also I white Jap silk?tailored models. ?LOUSES?SECOND FLOOR 92 ct. Voile Blouses.77! Plaids or stripes, neat combina tion?tailored models?white collar and cuffs. BLOUSES? SECOND FLOOR. 94 ct. Envelope Chemises.7i? Yoke of lace and emb'y medallions. ML'SLIN UNDBRWEAR? SECOND FLOUR. 43 ct. Women's Cotton Vests.30 Shaped?low neck?sleeveless; neat? ly finished at neck and arms. KNIT UNDERWEAR?MAIN FLOOR. $1.47 Long Crepe Kimonos.1 .i?i? Floral' patterns in It. blue, Copen? hagen, gray and lavender?elastic belt models - pretty collars. HOUSE DRESSES?SECOND FLOOR. 58 ct. Rompers and Creepers.38; Percale and chambray plain or checks and stripes- sizes to 6 yrs. INFANTS' DEl'T.? SECOND FLOOR. $4.96 Boys' Spring Coats.3.05 Cheviots, worsteds and velours -in -checks, plaids and mixtures - vari? ous belted styles?8 to 8 yrs. BOYS' CLOTHINO-THIRD FLOOR. $6.87 Boys' Spring Suits.."?.OO Cheviots and cassimercs; neat mixt? ures and checks- gray, tan and brown semi-Norfolk models?8 to 17 yrs. IU>YS' CLOTHING?THIRD FLOOR. New Cream Madras Curtains.. .1.17 Perfect value, $1.67; neat designs with double borders; slight imper? fections. LACE CURTAINS?BASEMENT. 28 to 38 ct. New Cretonnes.J8 36-inch Oriental, floral and chintz patterns. UPHOLSTERY?BASEMENT. $9.50 Imported Grass Rugs.0.74 9x12 ft. -Grecian, scroll and novelty design borders; red, green, blue and tan. RIGS?THERD FLOOR. $1.30 Bleached Sheetings.07 21/l2 yards, on?* of the best makes. MUSLINS?BASEMENT. $4.98 Marseilles Spreads.3.25 I Satin finish; pretty designs; full size. SPREADS?BASEMENT. 97 ct. Shepherd Checks.7-t 54-inch; part wool; medium and large checks; black and white. DRESS GOODS?MAIN FLOOB. $1.28 Crepe Georgettes.?>4 Double width; assortment of light and dark colors; also black and white. VEILINGS -MAIN TLOOR. 33 ct. Pink Batistes.23 38-inch; used extensively for Sum? mer underwear, negligees, etc. Less than wholesale price to-dav. WASH DRESS FABRICS?BASEMENT. 38 ct. Woven Madras.?7 32-inch; assortment of neat stripes for men's, boys' and women's wenr. WASH DUKSS FARRK'S BASEMENT. $1.25 Crepe de Chines.J?7 40-inch; variety of street and even 1 ing colors. I SILKS -MAIN FLOOR. $1.35, Men's Pajamas .I .OOl 30 ct. White Voiles.23 Neut colored stripes on white-col- | 36-inch, and Swisses, in atrinca and larless-all sizes. , dots; for dresses, blouses, etc. MEN'S FUrtNiaillNOS -MAIN FLOOR. ! WHITE HOODS MAIN FLOOR. f Clock Signs Denote Morning Specials. Look totf the Clock?! Look for the Clocks! Dainty Undermuslins for Children Sheer Cross-Barred Muslin Bloomers Have elastic at knee and wa?tf^ come in sizes from 6 to 16 years . .jP Pink Batiste or White Sateen Bloomers Both of excellent material tni well made?6 and 8 years.& 10 to 18 years.?*? Billie Birke Pajamas Fine batiste adds to the ?*?*?? ness of this style of "^?fr silk embroidery, with la? ?jj?Sj, bon finish, or shirrinf **>w ~ ored stitching and ribbon - ?g tows?6 to 8 years."*"* Pretty Princess Slip* Are of nainsook the >'?*MthV*fi? lace or embroidery, *'?"? ruffles at bottom to match? j* 6 to 16 years Special.*??" Drawers of Muti**^ With hemstitched and tuek?j ^ sizes 14 to 16 >'*?"' ; trimming of embroidery? j? 1 to 12 years... .' Petticoats With ruffles of ?smbroM?1* *** ?erting or rows of lace? __ , A 6 to 16 years. \_j?l