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Unless your clothes fit, j
you're about as comfortable j
as a fish; out of water.
Here we have fit down to
a science. As easy to slip
into your own individual size
as into one of our "four con?
venient corners."
A rough finished tweed or
cheviot, perhaps?out of the
ordinary.
All alzoe
* " Composite " Derbies.
Built on the law of averages.
A composite of all that's
becoming to the majority of
men.
UgM welrM' flexltol?,
Brighten up with a new
Easter scarf.
Rich ?edfrrn In rifw ?Ilk fonr-ln-hanAs.
Low shoes. Plain toes are
plainly smart! The wing
tip effects, too !
?RtglBterol Tra '.?nark.
Rogers Peet Company
Broadway Broadway
tt 13th St. "Four at 34th St.
Convenient
Broadway Corners" Fifth Ave.
lt Warren at 41st St.
Circus Ticket Deal
Costs Speculator $10
Curb?tone? Broker ?* Arrested
After District Attorney's Of?
fice Starts Inquiry
Complaints that ?peculators were
Trapl?iji i " '?'' profita handling
ticket? to the Ringling Bros, and Bar?
num & Bailey circus 1ti Madison
Squaro Gardon were investigated yes?
terday by Assistant District Attorney
Kilroe, with the result that Samuel
Gipps, of f"'1"1 Prospect Avenue, The
Bronx, and Abe Berkowitz, of 126 West
Forty-first Street, wore arrested,
charged with violating the city ordi?
nance regulating the sale of amuse?
ment 1 ' Gipps was fired $10 by
Magistrate Ten Eyck in the Tombs
Court. Berkowitz's case was continued
until Tuesti
The complainants, Edward F. Rob?
erts, of rhe Associated Press: C. P.
Conway, of 1-'.C' Broadway, and Edward
Vi. Thompson, cf Stapleton, S. I., told
Mr. Kiln e that at the box office in
they were told that all
n sold. They said they
were informed in the lobby that if they
went to Ahe Madison Hotel, 21 East
Twenty-seventh Street, diagonally
across Madison Avenue, they would bo
accommodated. There, thoy said, ?1
tickets were selling for $3, and $1.50
tickets
Mr. K ? tified Police Inspector
Bolan and I etectivea Conway and
Lev.r.s n ade the arrests. Berkowitz
was selling in the street around the
Garden. Gippa was located in the
hotel.
Hoppe Puts Up ?2,500
MILWAUKEE, April 16.--A deposit
of $2,500 was made to-day by a repre?
sentative of Willie Hoppe, world's
champion b ? yer, to guarantee
?match of ..: '? ? pc ints at 18.2 billiards
with either Welker Cochran or Jake
Bcoaefer. .< match is to be played
in .New York or Chicago in October.
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ARMORY
Drug Addicts
Run Cars, Says
Dr. Copeland
Commissioner Asserts He
Also Found That Many
Drivers of Taxicabs Are
Victims of Narcotics
Will Report on Danger
Will Lay Before Prison Of?
ficials Case Where Con?
vict Got Supply in Cell
The drive to break up the Illicit traf?
fic in drugs here has brought to light
the fact that drug addicts aro being
employed by various transportation
companies, railways and traction lines,
Commissioner of Health Copeland an?
nounced yesterday.
While Doctor Copeland declined to
discuss the prevalence of addiction in
such occupations, it was learned that
in the ranks of addicts aro railway sig?
nalmen, engineers and street and sub?
way car conductors. It -was said that
few motormen who are addicts have
come to the Health Department's at?
tention.
Another phase of the situation Is the
fact that large numbers of chauffeurs
employed by various taxlcab companies
here are said to be drug addicts.
Commissioner Copeland said that if
he found tho employment of addicts
in such work was a "public menace"
and might in any way lend to "serious
accidents" he felt it would be his duty
to communicate such facts to the em?
ployers.
Statistic? Being Prepared
Dr. Copeland revealed this phase of
tho drug situation in a statement yes?
terday announcing that his department
was preparing statistics on drug ad?
dicts in industry in an effort to find
what effect, if any, drug addiction had
on tho number of industrial accidents.
The statistics, it is understood, will
reveal whether tho increasing number
of wagon, automobile and vehicular ac?
cidents are duo to the fact that many
drivers an? addicts.
Commissioner Copelnnd nlso an
nounccd that ho proposod calling the
attention of tho Prison Commission to
information which has reached his de?
partment on tho smuggling of narcotic
dra:-: into penal institutions through?
out the state.
"It i currently reported that nar?
co; es aro being smuggled to drug nd
dicts who are prisoners in state penal
institutions and to victims who are in
hospitals," sai?l the Commissioner.
"To-day a specific case of this type
?came to our attention. Wo have the
story of a drug addict who four years
ago shot and killed his mother, for,
which he was sent to Sing Sing for a j
term of ten years. He served about
four years of this term and then was
pardoned.
Shot Mother to Get Drugs
"He says he was n drus addict when
ho entered the prison.'' ft had been in
a quarrel -with his mother to get,
mon< y for drugs that he had shot her.
He said he was an addict when he left
prison, an<l he is one to-day. He tells |
us h?- got the drug during his stay j
in pri n.
The failure of the State Narcotic
Commission to begin operations here
is hampering the crusade, it was said
lay. The commission is without
funds, and, in view of this. Commis?
sioner Copeland has provided Deputy
Commissioner Whitney, in charge of
the New York Citv district, office space
and necessary clerical help in the
Health Department Building, at 149
Centre Street. Commissioner Whitney
telephoned from Albany yesterday that
he would take charge of his office to?
day. In this connection Dr. Copeland
said:
"Wo nre facing a situation where a
strong hand is needed. The state com?
mission has regulatory powers, strong
enough to curb the drug evil here. We
want its help. I hope it will begin
work at once."
The Health Department yesterday
made known that. ",437 persons have
applied at the drug clinic, 145 Worth
Street, since it opened last week.
New Taxi-Meter Prints
Fare on a Paper Slip
Driver's Number Also Is Shown
on Tiny Receipt Handed
to Each Passenger
The Black and White Taxi Company,
it was learned yesterday, is trying out
an innvoation in taxi-meters. The new
meter may properly bo called a "cash
register," for whon tho trip is com?
pleted the passenger receives a paper
slip from the chauffeur, on which is
printed tho amount of tho fare and
the number of the driver.
According to W. Tsundy Cole, presi?
dent of tho company, only one of these
new meters is being experimented with
at present, and it will be impossible
for at least thirty days to ascertain
whether it will prove successful.
Mr. Cole said that by means of the
printed slip tho honesty of tho chauf?
feur is insured, and if anything is
lost in the cab it is possible to identify
it by means of the number.
Boy Slayer Sentenced
W.-ir Record of Youth Serves to
Mitigate Punishment
Henry George Gumbo, seventeen
years old, who pleaded guilty to killing
William J. Urennan, night watchman
at 6 Church Street, where Gumbo was
, employed as an elevator boy, was sen
t?-nce?l to Kirnira Reformatory yester?
day by Justice Davis in the Criminal
. Term of tin- Supreme Court. Urennan,
..a March !.. last, saw Gumbo stealing
a piece of soap from the supply nta
' lion, and because he interfered Gumbo
' beat him to death with a hammer.
Ah Gumbo had had a good record
?ral served in the. navy before his dis
, charge last December. Justice Davis
permitted hirn to plead guilty to man
! ?laughter. His maximum term will be
j twenty years, which on good behavior
I may be reduced to thirteen years.
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Protograph Credit Given
A photograph of iilshop David H.
i,r-or, recently published by Tho
Tribune, was th? product of the otudlo
?f I'hch Brothers, prfjtographerB, at
670 Fifth Avenue, Inadvertently due
jredit was not given to the Pach
j studios for the picture, whieb, had been
' copyrighted .. m~?.
High and Low Hobnob as
Clinic Doles Out Drugs
What manner of people are those |
who are flocking into the municipal '
drug addict clinic day after day?;
Human derelicts, a good many people
suppose. And human derelicts thero ,
are among them?men and women who !
would be bad, drug or no drug. But
they are greatly in tho minority.
There is the clear-eyed, clear-skinned !
; girl encountered every day in subways
and elevated trains, in offices and
shops.
There are the mechanic, the chauf
feur, the waiter and the student.
There are few so repulsive as to
cause one to shrink from contact. In :
a crowd 80 per cent would pass without j
comment. ?
To sit and watch the stream as it '
j flows on, oblivious of everything but '
: the attainment of relief throueh drugs,
is to study a strange chapter in the
book of lire. Its characters are pup?
pets who have become the slaves of
circumstances, heredity or environ?
ment.
A Woman of Forty?and Hopeless
First comes the woman who never
had a chance. She has neither recol?
lection nor imagination, for at thirteen
sho was seized by white slavers and
for twenty-fivo years has known no I
other life than that of Chinatown. I
First it was opium and later heroin.
She has taken thirteen cures?in vain.
Four or fivo years ago helping hands
were stretched out to take her away
from Chinatown. But she refused to
be moved. At forty it was too late to
begin all over again. She walks into
tho clinic in semi-Oriental garb, with
her feet encased in Chinese shoes.
In her wake comes a little girl with
dabs of rouge on her cheeks and heav?
ily penciled eyes. Very young, very j
ignorant. She works in a factory and
has a mother and one little brother.
She tells her story succintly in two
words?bad company.
Knitting placidly beside a vicious- ?
looking man is a school teacher. They
meet on the common ground of their
craving for drugs. She is remarkably
well dressed and there are no traces of
nervousness about her. Illness first
and then tho nervous strain of her
work sent her under.
A Derelict?Old Too Soon
The mnn beside her is one of the
derelicts. Ho hns the high cheek
bones, the low, receding forehead, the,
negligible jawbone of the weak and
the sub-normal. Ho is a laborer when
he is anything. Usually ho is down
and out. Ho hns a wife and children.
Tho feebleness of old ago has already
descended on him, although ho has
just reached his forties.
Thero is the lug, flamboyantly
dressed woman of middle age?a hand?
some, dashing type, with cultured voice
and average intelligence. For three
years thi? maternal instinct kept her
away from drugs. Although she had
taken them for years, befon? and after
her baby was born, sho rigidly for?
swore them. She confesses that sh<?
has no longer tho ?trength to resist
them.
Tho colored woman nearby is in
great distress. Her eyes an? dilated '.
with the intensity of her craving. Sho
is married, but hns no children. An
illness three years apo was the direct
cause of her becoming addicted to
drugs.
Hope for the Strong-Willed
The printer of twenty-one who stum?
bles across the room is putting up a
stiff fight. He has succeeded in re?
ducing himself from thirty-five to
fourteen grains of morphine. It's hard
work, but he has education and vision.
There's hope for him yet. He started
to take morphine through association. I
The good looking manicurist has the |
failine of Mother Eve. She was curi?
ous aDout drugs. That was several
Pigeon Messenger
?C* P^
Of Lost Battalion
Home With D. S. C. !
Tiny Hero Among Group i
Returning From War Ser?
vice With Gallant Rec?
ord; Praised by Pershing
A descendant of the first reporter?
the one that came back to the Ark
with a twig from Mount Ararat-?
arrived here yesterday from France,
after valiant service on the West
front, as a first class passenger on
the transport Ohioan. His namo is
Cher Ami. Long after hi3 feathered
frame has gone to dust his memory
will live in the pages of American
history as the pigeon that brought
back to headquarters tho plight of
Col. Whittlesey's "lost battalion" in
tho Argonne.
This bird, which was an elusive
target for German machine guns is
an exceedingly thin creature; a homer,
blue slate and white in color, hatched
in Pittsburgh and taken abroad by
Captain John I?. Carney, a newspaper
man in command of Company No. 1.
Cher Ami was' one of nine birds
taken with the Lost Battalion and
came through to headquarters at a
time when his message was of su?
premo importance. Throughout his
service on the West front Cher Ami
made twelve flights and was finally
discharged when a fragment of shell
carried away a part of his right leg.
This mishap, which entitled the winged
messenger to a wound stripe and
brought about a recommendation for
the D. S. C. by Major General E. E.
Russell, occurred during a flight from
years ago. Now she wishes with her
whole heart and soul that she hadn't
played fast and loose with fire. She
says she wants to be cured, and then
she walks over to her hairdressing '
friend and giggles about it.
The hairdresser cannot ba more than
twenty?pretty as a picture and nicely
dressed. She, too, was C/urious. And ;
now sho is enslaved.
"Lend me a dime. I haven't a cent," ;
pipes a youth in his teens. The pupils '
of his eyes are like pinpricks. He is
obviously under the influence of mor
hine. Born under wa-m Italian skies,
is teeth shatter and he shakes as if \
with ague when he comes in out of the .
rain. He learned to take drugs through '.
his street friends in New York. He j
didn't know anything about them while ?
he lived in Italy.
Too Proud to Be Qaestloned
Choosing to loave without the drug ?
rather than undergo an examination,
an elderly woman who has been taking
morphine for eighteen ycar3, walks out ;
of the clinic. Sho is well dressed and '
rather distinguished looking, but is
obviously in a state of nervous ex- <
citement.
A man with a head like that of Lord '
Byron confesses to being n machinist j
with a mother to support. He has been |
snuffing heroin for two years and he I
says it all began with "bad company." '
The Broadway bello got morphine
from her doctor after an operation. It i
soon became a habit. She walks in, a ;
trifle wild-eyed and self-assertive. She :
wants immediate attention and she is
goin^r to have it. A pert young thing ;
she is, who says she would like to be ?
cured but hasn't the least intention of '.
trying to help herself.
Next in line is the conductorette, a \
ill. Sho takes morphine to relieve j
quiet, dark-eyed girl who has been very ?
pain and she makes herself believe j
that she can stop any time. Always j
sho tells herself: "Just this once
and it will be the last." But it never j
is the la--t. She lends some money to I
a gray-haired man as she goes out.
Like Father, f.ike Son
This man is obviously one of the ?
pathetic casos. Ho has a large family. ;
nut he hasn't a job. An expression of
inanity seems habitual to him. His
father took drugs before him. And
he has taken them ever since he was
quite young. He is now old and
pathetic in his helplessness.
Then, by way of contrast, there is
the vigorous young man at the best
time of his life. But his mind is run?
ning to seed nnd his body is going
to pieces, all for the sako of the heroin
which has become moro necessary to
him than meat and drink. He is an
orphan and doesn't even remember his
mother. Kan the streets and was a ;
wild youngster. Thought it was
"smart." to take dope. He doesn't now.
With his tools on his shoulder, the
carpenter hurries in to tho clinic on
his way homo from work. He is a
decent looking workman, Intelligent
and straight eyod, But ho has tho in?
veterate craving and is afraid of los?
ing his job If it is not satisfied. He
has taken euros and ho feels ashamed
but "what's tho use?" he asks.
A Part of His Boutin?
Smartly rigged up in uniform and
leather loggings tho chauffour makea
his appearance and asks for his dose.
He turns up at. tho clinic as regularly
as the clock revolves. It was associ?
ation that started him on the down?
ward path, too. Can't lay off work long
enough to get cured, for he has a fam?
ily.
There is tho man who has been np
and down again oftonor than he can
count. He has taken the cures and
thought that ho would never go back,
until he saw some of his old pals
"loaf away" for a dose. That was
enough. Habit was the first law of his
life and down ho went again.
So the never-ending stream goes on,
with all its burden of sadness and sor
didness.
the front lines to Rembrandt with an
important message.
On tho way the bird came within
the radius of a burst of shrapnel.
Sergeant Cockier, in charge of the
army dovecote, saw Cher Ami come
in and noticed that he fell over when
he alighted. Cher Ami was weak from
loss of blood, but he brought the mes?
sage, the cipher being held fast to
the stump of its leg.
Cher Ami's work was done. His fame
had spread about the army, and later,
when on a tour of inspection, General
Pershing asked to seo the. creature
and stroked its head. The commander
in chief gave orders that the little
pigeon from Pittsburgh be well cared
for and sent to Washington on its
arrival in America.
Other warriors of tho bird kingdom
were President Wilson, which lost an
eye in flight over tho battlefields,
and Poilu, which was released from
a tank during the thickest of the
fighting at St. Mihiel. The men in the
tank observed a German ammunition
train and sent its position in a mes?
sage attached to the leg of little Poilu.
The bird arrived in quick time and
the artillery made a wreck of the
ammunition train.
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