"THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS $4-22 H-?2 $5-22 $6-22 $7-22 & $822 IF you have been paying $10 to $12 for fine shoes, a trial will convince you that for style,comfort and service W.L.Douglas $7 and $8 shoes are equally as good and will give excellent satisfaction. The actual value is determined and the retail price fixed at the factory before W.L.Douglas name and the retail price is stamped on the bottom. The stamped price isW.L. Douglas personal guarantee that the shoes are always worth the price paid for them. The retail pricesarethesameeverywhere. They cost no more in San Francisco than they do in New York Stamping the price on every pair ot shoes as a protection against high prices and unreasonable profits is only one example of the constant en? deavor of W.LDougias to protect his customers. The quality of W. L. Douglas product is guaranteed by more than 40 years experience in making fine shoes. The smart styles are the leaders in the fashion centers of America. They are made in a well-equipped factory at Brockton, Mass., by the highest paid, skilled shoemakers under the direction and supervision of experienced men, all working with an honest determination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy. BOYS' SHOES Beat in the World ?3.00 ?3.50 ?4.00 For ?ili? by 106 W. !.. Douptas store* and orer 0000 W L. Poujflss dealers,or can be ordered direct front factor?? hv mail, Parcel Post Chartres prepaid. Write fur III b?. t rat tdt at ?log shon lug hon to order by mall President XX. I,. Honda* Shoe Co.. ','10 Spark St., Itrorkton, Mass. CAUTION Before you buy be aure W. L. Douglas name and the retail price ia stamped on the bottom and the inside top facing. If the stamped price haa been mutilated, BEWARE OF FRAUD 9.1 M 7 ? 1352 1495 ? !>S4 ?1452 ?2202 - - ? >????..n. h M. W. L. Douglas Stores in Greater New York: Nassau Street. ? ? 2779 Third Ave.,bet. 146th <5c 147th St9 ??-?-" -???-??--- ?- ?. Broadwuy, cor. 8th St. ! 347 Eighth Avenue. ? 250 West 125th Street. BROOKLYN. 421 Fulton Strict, cor. Pearl. ? 70(5 Broadway, near Thornton St ? 1307 Broadway, cor. (?ates Avenue ? 47?S Fifth Avenue,cor. 1 lth Street Broadway, near 14th. Broadway, cor. 36th St. Broadway (Times Sq.) Third Avenue. Third Avenue. Third Av., cor. 120th St. Stores marked with a -fe carry complete lines of IV. L. ? 859 Manhattan Avenue. 1779 1*i 11?, i 11 Avenue. .IKKSK.Y CITY- IS Newark Avenue. ?ROBOREN- -120 Washington Street. ?UNION HILL 270 Bergenline Ave. . ' -A-NKWAKK 831 Broad Street. . ?PATERSON 192 Market Street. . ?TRENTON 29 Last State Street. Douglas Shoes for Women General Strike at Limerick Stops All Industries of City Copyright, 1919, N'~?v York Tribune Inr.) LIMERICK, April 16.--Limerick has original notions on the subject of strikes. Never before has a city vol untarily abandoned every form of gov? ernment in order to ventilate its griev? ances. There have been no fireworks nor outward excitement of any de? scription. Passivity is the watchword. All shops are shut and offices closed and only a few private vehicles are running. For the last two nights the city has depended on candles for il? lumination. G OME right in, broihers, light the calumet and smoke up ! I am glad to know that my fellow guildsmen of the National Associa? tion of Merchant Tailors are plan? ning concertedly to advertise their technique to the Well - Dressed Men of America, just as I have advertised almost singly to the Well-Dressed Men of New York. Too long lias Custom Tailoring hidden its light under a bushel, while clothing made-by-the bushel has put more art into its pictures than into its product. Quantity-cut clothing has its place, but it must always stay in second place, Armv And Navy Uniforms Of Slashing Srvank vLivilian,/\rmy And NavyToilor Broadway at 39*-hSt 2? Years On This Corner The people arc? uncertain whether it is Sunday or a holiday. They just loll against, the shop windows or stroll aimlessly about the streets. All this is a protest against the new military regulations, compelling the inhabitants to obtain permits for leav? ing or entering the town, and follows a proclamation of martial law, which was the result of the recent troubles. Possibly the extent of the popular re? sponse has surprised even the origin? ators of the scheme. Punctually at the stated time the whole life of the city stopped. The bakers even ceased to bake and the dairymen to deliver milk, while the saloons refrained from opening their doors, anil a stranger in the city was unable to purchase a single cigarette. Hotel guests have fared the worst and have been experiencing the sensations of semi-starvation. A restaurant meal in England's severest period of rationing would have been a feast com? pared with the luncheon offered the guests of the city's biggest hotel to? day. Perhaps the strikers also began to feel hunger this afternoon, for ?lueues were forming outside the shops. A peculiarity of this strike lies in the fact that it seems ultimate? ly to injure only the strikers them? selves. If directed against the mili? tary, it does not affect them, because their supplies arrive, with the usual regularity. Nevertheless, apart from the natural inconvenience, the strikers ? seem to be enjoying the sensation and are particularly pleased with the opportunity of seeing ih?? beginning of the transatlantic ?light. How long the strike will last if problematical, but the strikers pos? sess a wonderful organization. ?-a Epidemic in Australia Keeps All Ships in Por MELBOURNE, April IB.- The Com monwealth government has decided t? prohibit the movement of all shippinj from Australian ports in consequenc? of the severity ?if the influenza epi i demie in Australia and New Zealand. xo _ BY THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN 52 share.-* of the common stock of THE WOLF SAFETY LAMP COMPANY OF AMERICA and other property, of BROOKLYN Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, Francis P. Garvan, Alien Property Cus? todian, will offer for sale, at public sale, to the highest bidder, at the office of the company, at DeKalb-Avenue and Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., at 3:00 o'clock P. M., on the first day of May, 1919, 52 shares of the common stock, par value $100 each, out of 100 shares issued and outstanding, of Wolf Safety Lamp Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of New York, and Letters Patent of the United States, as set out in the Order of Sale. Full description of, And inform?.?on concerning the property to be ?old, the term? and condition? of ??le, nnd the order thereof, may be obtained by application to JOSEPH F. GUFFEY, Director, Bureau of Sale?, 1 10 Weit 42nd Street, New York City. FRANCIS P. GARVAN, Alien Property Custodian. Tax Valuation On Real Estate Due for Boost Advance of $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 in City Total for 1920 Is Pre dieted by Tax Experts Reflects High Earnings Even Old Buildings Are To Be Included in the (?en oral Plan for an Increase The general and sharp increase In real estate rentals ami sales during the I last few months is interpreted by ex ports as presaging an increased as? sessed valuation by the Department of! Paxes mid Assessments of from $200,- \ 000,000 to .$.'100,(100,(100 for 1020, and giving a tax base, including personal? property, of close to $'.),000,000,000. The increase in valuation may be looked upon by the owners and land- | lords as a penalty for raising renta, but i t the Department of Taxes and Assess- I monts yesterday it was said the in crease would be due to natural causes, i following seven or eight rather "lean" i years in real estate experience. "The buoyancy of the real estate | market, duo to better earnings, war? rants the prediction that the increase in assessed valuation of ordinary real estate will reach $200,000,000 in the greater city," said John J. Halleran, who served as Tax Commissioner on both the Gaynor and Mitchol boards. Slack in Building Taken Up "Until last year it looked as if New York City was about 20 per cent, over? built," he continued. "Owners were losing money every year. With the shut-down for the last four years in building, due to the high cost of labor am! building materials, the expected thing happened. Gradually the 'slack' was taken up, so to-day real estate is very active, owners and landlords are receiving increased rentals, and it is speaking within bounds to say that the city is underbuilt. This will re? sult in building up the undeveloped sections of Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx. "While I don't see just where it is coming from, still it looks as if the in? crease in assessed valuations for next year would reach at least $200,000,000. Tins is about what it should be. in nor? mal times, in view of the fact that the city increases in population about 200,000 a year. The high cost of build? ing construction tends to depress rather than increase the market value of undeveloped lots, but as soon as the cost of materials and labor lets down a little I look to see great activity in building all over the outlying sections, especially where the new subway lines have reached." Increased Rentals Reported The Tax Commissioners a few day3 ago had all the deputy commissioners in conference, and the deputies all re? ported increased rentals. As a result it is understood assessed land values will be. increased where there is proof, afforded by recent sales, that the raise is warranted, and also that the depu? ties will increase assessments on buildings, on the ground that they are earning handsomely and that they cannot be replaced for anything like the present valuations. This is where the owners and land? lords are likely to protest, as it is an unwritten law in the tax office that the assessed valuation of an old build? ing cannot be raised. . Probably the answer of the assessors will be that the land assessment cannot well be raised owing to the cost of new con? struction, but that on account of the r?ntala the entire property is worth more, and that if the increased value cannot be reflected in the land it should go on the building. Nineteen hundred and eleven was the last "big year" of increase in realty valuations. Tho Gaynor board increased assessed valuations for I'.Ul in the round sum of $800,000.000. This was practicable because valuations were on a basis of about GO or 70 per cent, and Mayor Gaynor directed tin? hoard to assess realty according to law at its true market value. Sinco then the annual increases have run all the way from $-10,000,000 to $100,000, 000 a year for ordinary real estate. Present Rents Called Merely Fair to Owners Real estate operators asserted yes tenlay that present rentals merely gavo property owners an adequate re? turn on their investment for the first time in years and speculative building would not be encouraged until the cost of labor and materials decreased. Labor men declared that wages must ' not cr;mc down; if necessary, they must i go up to meet increased rents. Inves ? tigators said that real estate specula j tors were seeking to mako up in one ; fat year the losses of ten lean ones. j Reports of rising rents came from j every side. "Rents are not too high," said an ! official of one of tho largest title and i trust companies in New York. "They I are not high enough. For years real ? estate owners havo conducted their i properties at a loss. There was not | the demand for space, and they re ! ceived no ade?iuate return on their in ? vestments. Now rents are approach? ing a point where they can meet the cost of operation, pay the interest on ? their mortgages und make 5 per cent I on their money. Not many are mak I ing 5 per cent as yet. The real estate ; men have been doing business on a basis of profit of 2 and 3 per cent. j The whole matter is ono of supply and 1 demand, and cannot be met or solved by legislation. This company is ready , to finance a building the owner of i which needs it for a specific purpose, ' but not to finance speculative building, i as the cost of lab?..* and materials are ; so high such structures will not pay. , Wages have got to come dov.il. When they do, and costs of materials de i ere?,.?-.', building will be stimulated and j the demand met. We are getting a real estate market, and agitation of this question is going to knock that in the head. I uni told there is plc?ity of space if it is looked for." Against I^ower Wage? Edward I. Hannah, president of the Central Federated Union and a mem? ber of the Mayor's Rent-Profiteering Committee, said thero could and would be no reduction of wages. "Tho very men reduction of whose wages ia asked," he said, "arc those who arc Buffering from the increase of rents. They cannot meet these rents and live on whnt they are getting now. There is nothing so dear* to a man as a bom?; for his familr. When you interfere with that it is worise than extortion ia food or unjythiiuc else. IX Xaod, i? high people may be able to cut down ; on consumption, but a man with a family must have shelter for it. "If rents continue to be raised he is affected vitally and discontent will be created which will drive them no one knows where. It may be neces? sary for every workman in the state to go on strike for increased wages to meet conditions." Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, secretary of the Reconstruction Commission of New York, under whose direction a canvass of the rent situation is being made, declared the speculative builder and k-aseo were the persons to be checked. "Real estate investors," .she said, "should not assume that they may make up for ten bad years in one good year, yet some of the increases re? ported are as high as f>0 per cent." Several hundred complaints were re? ceived yesterday bv the Reconstruc? tion Commission. One man wrote that his npartment, formerly renting for $65, now coat $00, A llnrlom tenant wrote her rent had been raised from ' $31 to $:i3 in October nnd would bo raised again to $4(3 Mas' 10. Sin? said the apartment was in had repair, and the lessee told tenants to make the repairs thomselves. Occupants of a building in Tho Bronx wrote they had been raised a total of $12 each since January 1. A soldier, who served nineteen mouths in France, wrote the day he was dis charged his rent had been raised from $16.50 to $10, and since had been in? creased to $20. The rooms, he said, had not been painted for four years and the agent declined to make repairs as he wished to get rid of the tenant?;. This man has a wife and six children and no money to move. Bills Aimed at Rent Profiteers Are Rushed By Bronx Committee Statt Correspond? nen ALBANY, April 16. A definite leg? islative programme for relieving New York City tenants, suffering from rent profiteering, was mapped out before Senato and Assembly leaders to-day by a committee of Bronx County offi? cials. The committee was appointed by The Bronx County Democratic County Committee, and comprised Register Polak, Municipal Court Jus? tice Harry Roblitzek, County Clerk Joseph M. Callahan, former Demo? cratic leader of the Assembly, nnd Mrs. Harry Arthur, Democratic leader of the Third Assembly District. The bills tho passage of which they particularly urged are: Assemblyman McKire's bill requir ?T g a notice of twenty days to be given by landlords to tenants before a raise of rent would become effec? tive. Assemblyman Fertig's bill extend- . ing from fivo to ten days the notice j that must be given before "hold i over" proceedings are commenced to oust tenants. Mr. Fertig's bill to repeal Chapter 303 of the laws of 191H, which act required all leases in the City of New York to be in writing. Senator Schaekno's bill, which would give municipal justices power to give n stay to tenants of not more than twenty days when dis? possess warrants are issued, pro? vided the tenant deposits in court the rent for the period of the stay at the rate charged the month previ? ous. A bill was introduced by Senator Abels at the request of the com? mittee to permit tenants to answer orally in dispossess proceedings, thus removing the burden now cast upon them of having an attorney prepare a written answer. Philadelphia Brewers Will Be Prosecuted Special Correspondence PHILADELPHIA, April l confer? ence with officers at the Navy Depart? ment to discuss the disposition of the destroyer force which will lie assigned in duty mi trie route i?> b?3 followed by the naval seaplanes on their proposed flight across the Atlantic Ocean next month. It was understood that two separate plans were considered, one should the route be via the Azores, and tin? other should the planes be sent direct to Ire? land from Nefoundland. Several high officers are known strongly to favor the direct route. Navy Flying Boats to Get Real Test To-day: . New Propeller Tried Assembling the NC-4, last of the navy's three giant flying boats, was commenced at the- Rockaway Navai Air Station yesterday. It is expecte?] I the craft w-11 be ready for her first trial flight some time next week. While the stormy weather precluded j flying tests with the NC-2, the mechan- ; j ical staff of the transatlantic section worked hard all day putting the fin- I 1 ishing touches on trie N?-3. The lat- I ? ter probably will make her first flight ! ' to-day in company with her sister, the 1 NC-2. It was learned yesterday that a new , type of propeller is to be tried out on the NC-2. Should this device prove , as successful as is anticipated, it will be used on all three of the navy's Hy? ing Boats in their flight across the Atlantic next month. The propeller is the invention of Dr. Charles M. Olmstead, of Buffalo. Ac i cording to naval officials its efficiency is 85 per cent, as against 60 per cent for the usual types of propellers. Its chief characteristic is the very thick ? hub and short blades. ' _ The new propeller was placed on the NC-2 for one of the short flights last Monday. Naval officers declared them , selves satisfied with the result. ?light of Major Wood Delayed by Squalls I IMER1CK, April 10 (.By The As I sociated Presa). While the weather hen? is fine, reports from the west coa t of Ireland, over which Major Wood will have to fly on his trip , from Kastehureh. on the Thames, to prepare for his .attempt to cross the Atlantic, are discouraging. High I winds, with ram squalls, are prevail i mg and all hope of his arrival to : day has been abandone,1 Every train is bringing additions : to the small army of newspaper cor ; respondents, photographers and mov '. iug picture men here. Coles Hill for Roosevelt Memorial Passes Assembly ALBANY. April ltl. The Coles bill to empower the Roosevelt Memorial Association to condemn lands in Oys , ter Bay which may be considered neces ? sary for a memorial park, passed the ' A^'omhly to-day without opposition. Secretary Wilson Calls State Conference on Jobs Governors Asked to Assist iit Forming Employment Bureaus New York Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON. April 16.?Secretary I of Labor Wilson to-day sent a roQUcal to the Governors of all states to sena 1 representatives to a conference on em?? ployment to be held from April 23 to 2,"> in Washington with him and John B. Dinsmore, Director General of th? United States Employment Servie?. The conference will consider a na? tional legislative programme for the creation of a permanent national em? ployment service in cooperation with slates and municipalities. " Th?? purpose of the conferen?.?,* said the Secretary's letter to the Gov? prnors, "will be to define and estab? lish the most effective form of rrla I tionship between national and ?t?te 'employment activities, and in general agreement bringing out a definite ob ?ectivo toward which all may work to? tin? end that a thorough and compre? hensiva? public employment service may be permanently established." Heroes Out in Cold Compelled to Sleep in Bark Yard of W. C. C. S. Billet Ten heroes of the Belgian army, part of a group of 108 here for the Victory loan, have been crowded out into the back yard of their billet at 35 West Twenty-fifth Str.a-t. The l>;u'k yard is the best hospitality tin? War Camp Community Service can afford them. They are of the machine gun i'orps, and ?hag tin? machine gun of the Belgian army. They are ten stout and loyal Belgian police dogs. is not more characteristic of the metropolis than Arnheim's Tailoring for the New York men. The showing of Spring suitings is now in full bloom. The variety is practically unlimited. The styles exact. Satisfaction above question. Suits $30 to $60. TWO STORES BROADWAY & NINTH STREET 30 EAST 42D STREET ' ; p. s In this world the (/real feat is defeating defeat. Srnljriins axioms. The Compliment Paid the Hot Spot Chalmers I by other Makers ?|: ?^1 O successful has been the public response to the || l^J ^ot Spot nature of the Chalmers and so readily %\ v^.-J' and consistently has this device made good that , '-X\ imitations are now beginning to appear on other cars. ij "Yes, we too have a Hot Spot device on our car," is a comment to be heard daily in other motor | |j establishments. ?I There are two vital weaknesses in the imitations. b|! First, the I-lot Spot is not efficient without the Ram's |Il horn. Second, the Ram's-horn is not a device that :;.>i|| can be "fitted to" any motor. The motor must be I! designed to fit the Ram's-horn. It is the proper co-ordination of all three?the ; ijj Hot Spot the Ram's-horn and the Cylinder block? ,--||| that has made Chalmers one of the few great cars1 of ? HI the world. s'lj It is always a compliment to be imitated. None "Ml greater can be paid. But you will be full of compli ? ments for the present day Chalmers after you've I turned the thousand-mile mark in one. Chalmers Motor Car Company New York Branch, 1808 Broadway Corner 59th St., New York City Phone Circle 5550 OPEN EVENINGS