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Held in Plot
To Smuggle ?b
$10,000 Gems
Salesman, Back from Eu?
rope, Concealed 14 Dia?
monds in Fountain Pens,
Tooth Paste and Pockets
Inspector Ruins Plan
Recognizes Man Fined for
Trying to Send Dental
Rubber to Germany
John W. Roberts, a customs in?
spector, -watched Joseph Newman, a
salesman, while his baggage was being
inspected on the pier in South Brook?
lyn, Tuesday, and then told him he
would have to return aboard the
Stavangerf jord to be- searched. Four?
teen flawless cut diamonds valued ap?
proximately at $10,000 were found,
some in his pocket, some in his foun?
tain pens and some in his tube of tooth
paste. His baggage was held and he
v.iii appear to-day before Thomas E.
Rush, Surveyor of the Port, for a
hearing.
The customs inspector recognized
Newman as the man who was impli?
cated in a smuggling deal two months
before the United States entered the
war, when he attempted to send dental
rubber to Germany in false-bottomed |
trunks and a false-sided victrola, for ?
which he was fined $500.
The inspector'i? suspicions were
?roused when a woman asked Newman |
i? he had a fountain pen and he said j
no. Roberts had noticed he had three ?
of them in his pocket. Then while i
inspectors were going over Newman's
trunks, which were filled with furs J
und valuable goods, Newman casually i
removed a tube of tooth paste, and, as j
if by accident, dropped it to the floor. |
Newman had so much goods it was de- ?
cided to hold his baggage for further i
inspection. At the same time Roberts
picked up the tube of tooth paste and
decided to search Newman. A spiral
platinum dinner ring from which two
stones had been removed and a 7%
carat stone set in a ring attached to a
gold watch chain were found in his
clothing.
None of these had been declared.
Newman said he had bought the big
diamond ring here and had had it re?
set in Europe.
Then Roberts squeezed the large tube
of tooth paste and the two diamonds
from the platinum ring oozed forth.
Each was 1-& karats. Roberts asked
Newman to lend him one of his foun?
tain pens to write down his discoveries.
Newman said they either were broke or
had no ink in them. Promising to get
ink for them, Roberts got one of the
fountain pens and shook it. It rattled.
The pen was a self-filler. Roberts
broko it in two, and seven diamonds of
3.42 karats each rolled out. The next
pen he investigated had ink in it, but
after he had poured the fluid out and
probed the base of the pen with a hat
pin, he found a wad of cotton wool and
four inky diamonds of about the same
eize as the others. The third pen was
empty.
C. B. Richard Co., importers and cx
Rorters, of 29 Broadway, whose agent
ewman said he was, admitted he was
in their employ and had been doing
busines in Germany for the last six
months. They disclaimed any responsi?
bility for Newman's diamond enter?
prises. "Newman," an official said, "is
merely a salesman for this firm. That
is," he corrected himself, "he was a
salesman for this firm."
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Farmers and Labor Clash
Over Daylight Repeal
Tillers Allege Law Means Big
Loss tp Them; Working-men
Oppose Betts Bill
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, Feb. 18.?Agriculturists
and representatives of labor clashed
this afternoon at the hearing on the
Betts bill to repeal the daylight sav?
ing law. The former declared that
food production will be curtailed and
that pricej of milk and other farm
products would reach new high levels
if the law is continued this summer.
The labor men insisted that if they
were robbed of the extra hour of
recreation the prevailing industrial
?mrest will increase.
George Early, representing the five
dry dock and (shipyards associations of
New York, declared that daylight sav?
ing has added to the comfort of the
workers, decreased accidents, reduced
production losses and contributed bet?
ter health to workingmen.
James P. Holland, president of the
State Federation of Labor, declared
that the best way to cut down living
costs was to remove the middlemen.
Mrs. Lillian Sire, New York tenement
worker, mado a plea for the poor of
New York's East Side in asking that
the extra hour of daylight be con?
tinued.
W. A. Furguson, secretary of the
New York Daylight Saving Association,
argued that daylight saving had saved
more than $40,000,000 each summer in
light and gas Lilis.
Albert H. Manning, representing the
Dairymen's League, asserted that the
farmers during the two years the ?c**.
was effective have lost $6,000,000 a
year through curtailment of produc?
tion. He Baid daylight saving sub?
tracts an hour from the farmers'
working days.
S. L. Strivings, president of the
Farm Bureau Association of New York
State, and others representing farmers'
organizations insisted that the daylight
t-aving law was a detriment to agri?
culturist? in general. Representatives
Ct various cities and of the state con?
ference of mayors opposed the bill.
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Hub Symphony Players
Ask for $100,000 Raise
Plea Refused, They Take Steps
to Join the Musicians*
lin ion
BOSTON, Feb. 18.- Players of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra have made
a Joint request for increased wages
and have taken steps toward joining
the Musicians' Union. The wage re?
quest, involving an annual advance of
Approximately $100,000, has been re
-1 used.
Judge Frederick P. Cabot, chairman
of the hoard of trustees of the orches?
tra, said to-day that the question of
union membership was not an issue
between players -ind management, al?
though recognition of a union had been
re-fused because union leaders snid
they would claim the right to say who
should play with the orchestra and
under what conditions.
Judge Cabot said the number who
joined in the request for increased
wages was "large," possibly as many
as eighty. He told the players that no
funda were available to meet their re?
nnest.
"Settlement en an individual basis
will be made in some cases with mod
crate increases," Judge Cabot said.
Benny Kauff Is Held
In Auto Theft Case
Baseball Player Says Mistake
Has Been Made and He
Will Explain Later
Benny Kauff, who when not playing
in the outfield for the New York
Giants, has been until recently en?
gaged in the automobile accessory
business at 185 Columbus Avenue, was
held in $2,000 bail in the West Side
court yesterday on suspicion of grand
larceny in connection with the theft
of an automobile from James F. Bren?
nen, of 788 West End Avenue.
Kauff, who was arrested on Tuesday
by Detectives Owens and Horan, of
the Automobile Squad, was not ar?
raigned beforo Magistrate Noble, for
Brennan refused to sign a complaint
against him, saying there was no evi?
dence to indicate the baseball player
had had anything to do with the theft.
After bail had been fixed the case
was then adjourned until Friday.
The prisoner seemed to take the
whole affair in the light of a joke. He
grinned broadly when he appeared in
court yesterday and said a mistake had
been made, which he would explain at
the proper time in court. Further than
that he would not comment upon the
affair.
Brennan's car was found by the de?
tectives in the possession of Jacqyjs
Engel, 64 West 125th Street, an auto
broker, who told the police Kauff had
sold it to him. The ball player said
when arrested, according to the detec?
tives, he had obtained the machine in
a legitimate business transaction.
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Telephone Official
Denies Operators
Are Out on Strike
Girls at Cortlandt Exchange,
However, Insist Fifty Quit
' When New Employees Got
More Money Than Others
Denial of published reports that a
strike of fifty telephone operators at
the Cortlandt exchange, 15 Dey Street,;
yesterday morning threatened to para?
lyze the lines dependent on the ex?
change, was made last night by J. S.
McCulloh, vice-pr?sident of* the New
York Telephone Company.
Mr. McCullqh admitted that about
twenty-five of the telephone girls em?
ployed on the "B" board of the ex?
change?the board controlling incom?
ing calls?had approached Manager
Charles P. Rablin and expressed a de?
sire to discusB grievances with him,
particularly one involving wages. The
girls, Mr. McCulloh said, did not quit
tneir posts, but took advantage of the
regular relief hour, when they are
superceded by other operators, to ask
for a conference with Mr. Rablin.
According to Mr. McCulloh, the chief
question raised was that of advancing
the salaries of experienced operators
at a more rapid rate than those of be?
ginners. Mr. Rablin requested the !
girls to take the matter up with the
higher officials of the company through
their regular council committee, pro?
vided for in the plan for employees'
representation introduced recently by
the company.
"We deplore very much this talk of
strike at this moment when the tele?
phone service is battling against heavy
odds to get back to normal," said Mr.
McCulloh. "To talk of strike at this
moment is to invite a serious situation
which may lead to disaster. I wish to
deny most emphatically this report of
a strike."
Contrary to the assertions of the
company, however, several telephone
girls employed at the Cortlandt Street
exchange asserted that there was a tem?
porary walk-out and that fifty girls
had quit. The girls declared that they
struck because green operators have
recently been granted a $3 weekly wage
increase, while older employees re?
ceived an increase of only $1 a week.
One girl, who said she had been with
the company thirteen years, asserted
that she and other employee? of her
standing were getting a wage of $21
per week, while noyices are being put
on at a salary of $15 a week.
"We do not criticize the amount of
the raise g'ven to the new girls," she
said, "but we ask that we be raised
proportionately. We would not want
to go on strike and inconvenience the.
public, but we feel that the sooner the
public knows the situation the better
for us and for the public." The girls
admitted that they returned to work on
request of the management.
Investigation among telephone op?
erators yesterday revealed that the. em?
ployees maintain no outside organiza?
tion and that no efforts to organize
the telephone workers have taken place
since the visit of Miss Julia Connor,
organizer #? the Boston telephone op?
erators, to this city last Bummer.
Four Convicted Slayers
Reprieved by Governor
Men Awaiting Chair for Bronx
Murder Given Respite
Until April 26
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, Feb. 18.?Governor Smith
to-day granted a respite to the four
young men condemned to death in the
electric chair at Sing Sing next week
for the murder of Otto Fiola, a ticket
agent of the Bronx. The execution has
been put off until the week of April 26.
This is the third respite. The con?
demned men are James P. ("alias Bull")
Cassidy, Charles F. McLaughlin, Joseph
Usefof and Joseph Milano.
At a hearing to-day before the Gov?
ernor for executive clemency, Albert
Cohn, Assistant District Attorney of
the Bronx, declared the Court of Ap?
peal had decided unanimously that
Fiola was killed by a shot fired by
Milano and he contended that for that
reason Milano should go to the chair
without delay. He said if the Governor
desired to extend executive clemency
to the others he could do so on his own
responsibility.
! Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes
Seeks Seat in Congress
CHICAGO, Feb. 18?Mrs. Rose Pas
j tor Stokes, brought here from New
?York to answer a charge of "advocating
I overthrow of the United States gov
i ernment by force or other unlawful
' means," to-day announced her candi
j dacy for Congress to succeed Repre
i sentative F. H. ha Guardia, Republican,
j of the 14th New York District.
Mrs. Stokes, former Socialist and
j now a member of the Communist party,
? was indicted on January 23 with 166
j other communists and radicals. She
; is at large on bond pending appeal
; from a sentence to serve ten years in
a Federal prison for obstructing the
draft. ' - - ?
The seat coveted by Mrs. Stokes is
; now vacant. Representativo La Guardia
having resigned after his election to
: the Presidency of the New York Board
of Aldermen.
Grosvenor B. Clarkson Resign?
I WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.?Grosvenor
R. Clarkson, director of the Council of
National Defence, has resigned, ef?
fective March 31. Mr. Clarkson also
was director of the advisory commis?
sion and in immediate charge of the
council's, ticld machiuery throughout
the war.
Hylan Namtes
Snow Removal
Board of 11
Fire Chief ' Kenlon Heads
Committee That Will As?
sist in the Task of Open?
ing the City to Traffic
Plan for Future Storms
Officiale Will Draft Cam?
paign to Prevent Another
Such Period of Paralysis
Mayor Hylan appointed a committee
of eleven yesterday to take up the
burden of clearing the streets of snow
and formulate a plan which will enable
the city to weather severe storms with
less inconvenience. Street Cleaning
Commissioner MacStay is a member of
the committee and Fire Chief Kenlon
is its chairman. There is n consulting
engineer for each of the three major
boroughs.
Besides Chief Kenlon and the Street
Cleaning Commissioner, the members
of the snow removal board are Police
Inspector Thorn, Nelson P. Lewis, chief
engineer of the Board of Estimate;
John P. Leo, of the Board of Standards
and Appeals; Merritt N. Smith, of the
Water Department; Edward Byrne, of
the Department of Plant and Struct?
ures; Health Commissioner Copeland
and John P. Binzen, Philip Farley and
Amos SchaefFer, consulting engineers j
in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, '?
respectively.
The Mayor discarded the pick and i
shovel with which he has been helping
to clear the streets nearly every day!
since the blizzard of two weeks ago in
order to reorganize the department.:
He summoned the heads o.f practically
all the departments and announced his
new plan and the fact that the fire
chief would have charge of the task.
In announcing his decision to up- ;
point a board of snow removal, the
Mayor gave out the following state- j
ment:
"Owing to the recent unprecedented >
fall of snow in this city, which on ac?
count of the accompanying extreme |
cold, soon became huge bank3 of !
frozen snow and ice, almost impossible j
of removal by ordinary means, the
health and business of our citizens |
were seriously jeopardized.
"Many factors contributed to inter- j
fere with the prompt removal of snow j
and ice accumulations.
"The men who held snow contracts !
with the city failed to perform their
part of the agreement, and the streets i
which should have been cleaned within j
a reasonable time were 1ft for days I
with snow piled monutain high.
"The traction lines failed and neg
lected to clean their car streets, which !
they are under ebligations to keep i
clean at all times. Cars left standing, j
often in the middle of streets, impeded
both snow removal and traffic.
"The Street Cleaning Department, on
account of the most acute shortage, of
men, was able to secure only a small
fraction of the snow removal gangs
which have always been available for
this work heretofore. Owing to the
prevailing high wages in private em?
ploy, it was difficult to induce laboring
forces to accept temporary city work.
"The situation was unprecedented
because of the continuousness of the
snowfall, the extreme cold creating
banks of ice, and the lack of manual
labor for immediate service. We were
therefore obliged to resort to unusual
methods.
"All vehicular traffic, pleasure and
commercial, except vehicles carrying
necessaries of life, newspapers and the
like, was ordered suspended for sev?
eral days. All engaged in the trans?
portation business were asked to offer
their trucks and men to the city in the
emergency. Householders ' were urged
to set themselves immediately to the
task of cleaning their sidewalks and
gutters, piling the snow in a way to
facilitate the work of the snow re?
moval crews.
"With the combined efforts of the
Street Cleaning, Fire, Police, Water
and Plant and Structures departments
and the offices of the borough presi?
dents, the icy streets and huge snow
banks were immediately attacked.
This whole-hearted cooperation has
shown very good results, and we may
soon ?xpect the return of all our streets
to normal condition.
"Notwithstanding the possibility of
a repetition in the future of all the
adverse factors which existed in the
present snowstorm, I feel that, by
closer cooperation of all departments
which can aid in snow removal, any
| similar situation of excessive snowfall
can be successfully handled.
; "In order that we may have the best
thought on thi^g subject of snow re?
moval for the present and future I
have asked the heads of the several de?
partments to recommend men of practi?
cal experience in each of their depart?
ments. These gentlemen I have ap?
pointed as a committee to confer and
investigate the problem of snow re?
moval and work out a plan along mod?
ern lines to handle unprecedented situ?
ations such as we are just passing
through."
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Weather Report
! Sun ris??a. .. 0 :47 a.m.?Sun seta..., G :34 p.m.
j Moon ris<w.. C :41 a.m.|Moon seta.. D :41 p.m.
Local For?fca*t.?Fair and ?Milder to-day ;
I to-morrow l'air; moderate northwest winds.
Local Official Record.?The following of?
ficial r?K!ortl shown temperatures ?luring the
last twenty-four hours, in comparison with
the corresponding date of lost year :
1920. 1919.1 1920. 1919.
321 3 p. m. 4 fi 37
28| 6 p. m. 40 33
28? 9 p. m. 39
35(10 p. m. 89
3 a. m.
0 a. m.
9 a. m.
3G
Highest, 49 degrees (at 2:15 p. m.)
est, 34 (at 8 a. m.) ; average, 42
same date last year, 32.
28
low
average
S a. m...
Humidity
50 | 1 p. m.... 48 | 8 p. rn.... 68
Barometer Readings
8 a. m. .29.83 | 1 p. m. .29.78 | 8 p. m. .29.73
General Weather Conditions
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.?Pressure is low
generally east of the Mississippi, especially
in Atlantic coast districts, with three cen?
ters of minimum prmsure, one off the east
Florida coast, a second over the Carolinas
] anil e. third over southeastern Pennsylvania.
Other centers of low pressure are located
norr.h of Lake Superior and in the Canadian
i ?orthwtMt.
The precipitation of the last twenty-four
hours has tieen uniformly light, except over
Florida and along the Gulf coast, where fair?
ly htiavy rains have fallen. The tempera?
tures were above the seasonal average west
of the Mississippi, also in Atlantic coast
states north of Virginia.
? Generally fair weather is indicated in
| nearly all parts of the country east of the
Mississippi during the next foriy-eight hours.
j The temperature will rise in the Ohio Valley
I and the lake region and it will be colder in
j New England and the middle Atlantic states.
Forecasts for Special Districts.?Eastern
New York and southern New England?
Fair and colder to-day ; to-morrow fair.
Western Pennsylvania.?Partly clouily to?
day and to-morrow ; slowly rising tempera?
ture.
W?tern New York?Fair and continued
?Mid to-day : to-morrow fair, rising tempera?
ture.
Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and New
i Jersey?Partly eloudj and cold? to-day j to
| morrow fair.
3 Dead, 32 Missing in
$200,000 Hotel Fire
Inquiry Ordered Over Alleged
Lack of Escapes in Provi?
dence Hostelry
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 18.?With three
dead and thirty-two others missing in
a fire of unknown origin in the Lor?
raine Hotel, which caused $200,000 dam?
age here to-day, investigations wero
under way to-night to determine
whf-ther a grand jury investigation
would be ordered.
The police and Coroner's office wero
Inquiring into the causo of the fire
and an alleged lack of fire es?
capes and a failure of properly to
warn guests when tho blaze was
discovered. Although only three bodies
were found in the ruins police
feel that others must be there, be?
cause only seventy-four, including tho
three dead, have been accounted for of
the 106 gueste registered.
Samuel Warwick, of Harrisvillc, was
so seriously injured in jumping from
a window that he died in a hospital,
he bodies of E. F. Fobert, a war veteran
of Boston, and Lewis B. Kunz, of Cen
terdale, were found in the ruins. Fobert
was on his way to Boston to continue
his studies in vocational training, hav?
ing just obtained an artificial hand to
replace the one he lost in France.
The fire started in an inside room
and spread to an elevator shaft, virtu?
ally sweeping the two upper floors. It
was thought at first that additional
bodies would bo found in tho wreckage,
but when an investigation failed to
reveal any it was believed all the guests
would be accounted for in neighboring
hotels and rooming houses, where they
took refuge.
Harkness in Coma
Few Hours Before
Death, Says Doctor
Physician Who Recommend?
ed Serum Tells of Patient
Mumbling Deliriously;
Saw No Signing of Papers
Much of the so-called mystery sur?
rounding the death of Harry S. Hark?
ness, wealthy sportsman, whose $25,
000,000 estate is now being fought for
by Mrs. Kennett Cowan, his first, wife,
was dispelled yesterday by Dr. Charles
V. Paterno.
Dr. Paterno is the owner of the
apartment house at 270 Park Avenue,
where the Harknesses lived, and was
the person who brought the physician
with the ?erurn to the aid o? Mr. Hark?
ness shortly before his death. Dr.
Paterno recalled the incidents on the
afternoon of January 23, 1919, the day
Harkness died, as follows:
"I was having luncheon in a restau?
rant, which is in the same building
with the Harkness apartment, when I
saw through the window several oxy?
gen tanks being removed from a taxi
eab and taken into the place. After
inquiries I learned that Mr. llarkness
was ill and went to his rooms. Harry
and 1 had always been on friendly
terms, as a landlord and tenant might
? be, and I was very anxious to help
him.
; "It was about 2:30 p. m. He was un?
conscious at the time and was mum?
bling deliriously. I told Dr. Joseph
i A. O'Conor, the attending physician,
| that I knew of a doctor who was suc
j cessful with an anti-pneumonia serum,
' and that if there were no objections
i I would summon him and bear the ex
! pense. A short consultation followed
| with Dr. Samuel W. Lambert and Mr:-.
I Harkness, and it was agreed that noth?
ing should be left undone that would
i hold oi*? a ray of hope.
| "I thereupon called on Dr. Arnold J.
I Gelarie, of 472 West End Avenue. Dr.
| Gelarie was formerly associated with
? the Rockefeller Institute, where he did
| research work in diphtheria and pneu
i monia.
"When he arrived preparations were.
i immediately made for injecting the
serum. The room was.dark and I was
j asked to hold a candle near one of the
i patient's arms while the doctors found
. a convenient vein. It was all done
! with the approval of Mrs. Harkness
j and all the physicians present. There
were no Christian Science practition
: ers there when 1 first went up to the
j apartment, but I found additional peo
pie there when I returned with Dr.
I Gelarie. I don't recall any papers
j being signed all the time I was pres
i ent."
Dr. Gelarie stated that Harkness was
? in a moribund condition when he ar
i rived at about 4 p. m.
Dr. William R. Williams, of 67 West
i Eighty-fifth Street, one of the consult
, ing doctors called into the case, said
! that he was with Mr. Harkness at about
j 8 or 9 o'clock on the morning of Janu
I ary 23 and left shortly before noon.
i He faid that Mr. Harkness was con
; scious. He said he saw no papers
'. being signed.
It is expected that the complaint of
Mrs. Cowan upon which she will base
I her cla:;n for the estate will be filed
i to-morrow.
I Husband, Heroic in War,
Called Cruel by Wife
Major Lambart Game Home In?
toxicated (Before Jan. 16),
Charge in Separation Suit
A good husband may make a good sol
] dier, yet in the opinion of Mrs. Joseph
? ine Teller Lambart, known on the stage
: as Josephine Drake, this does not nec
! essarily work the other way about. In
! her own case Major Ernest Oliver Gar
! van Lambart, an actor, who was in the
; British army, won decorations for valor
j in battle, but Mrs. Lambart does not
think he is entitled to any medals as a
! husband.
Mrs. Lambart was in the Supreme
| Court, yesterday to prosecute her suit
j for separation. She complained that at
j various times (all before January 16)
| her husband came home intoxicated.
i One act of cruelty charged against
I Lambart was that he called his wife a
"bleached blonde," when her hair is nat
j urally blond.
Mrs. Lambart quoted her husband as
saying: "Sex means nothing to me. J
j would beat a man. I can kill you." On
: another occasion, according to the wife,
Major Lambart said he would have
killed her but for the fact that there
? were painters in their home at the time.
! Navy Stores Receive
Big Vegetable Supply
j 2,000,000 Pounds of Canned
Goods Arrives for Dis?
tribution Here
A shipment of 2,000,000 pounds of
j ennned vegetables arrived here yester?
day from the 'navy warehouses at
j Hampton Roads for distribution
j through the navy food stations here.
? As swiftly as possible new food sta?
tions will be opened throughout the
city.
Mrs. Louis Re.ed Welzmiller, Deputy
Commissioner of Public Markets, yes?
terday issued a fair price list for fish
to guide housewives in their Lenten
shopping. It follows:
Cod steak. 25 cents a pound; market
cod, 15 cents; haddock, 15; flounders,
! 15; halibut, 35; sea bass. 25; ??melt.*,
I ?0 to 30. crab flake, ?1.1Q; scallops,
75; king mackerel, 25.
JOHN WAN?M?KEE
Broadway at Ninth. New York_Formerly A. T. STEWART & CO._Store hours-p to ,
New Goods and Passing Opportunities
Good morning!
This is February 19 !
The weather today will
probably be fair.
What a
wonderful blessing
it is to have something to do every
day and to be of use to yourself or
some other person.
To live through the days in aim
lessness, which is one of the com?
monest things in some circles in
every city, tending to nervous?
ness, indigestion, ill-temper, waste
of time and great unhappiness, not
knowing what to do, almost al?
ways ends in nothing or in some?
thing not worth doing.
Let some one help you to mas?
ter your perplexities and rescue
you from the perils of mental
idleness and help you to turn to
account your unappropriated
hours.
There are almost five thousand
happy people at work here every
day, preparing to meet people
and to serve them with things
they are inquiring after and take
home with satisfaction; if other?
wise, we should be thankful to
know the reason why.
(Signed)
February 19, 1920.
Thirtieth American
Composers Concert
In the Auditorium
today at 2:30
Compositions of
HOWARD D. McKINNEY
Director of Music
Rutgers College
The Composer at organ
and piano
ASSISTING ARTISTS
Cora Remington.soprano
Helen Besler.soprano
Pauline Jennings.soprano
Alice MoncrielT.contralto
Ernest S. De Wald.bass
First Gallery, New Bldg.
Time for white
dress cottons
Novelty voiles and crepes, love?
ly organdies in striped and fig?
ured effects, dainty ?plain organ?
die and batiste quite appropriate
for dress and underwear pur?
poses and novelty domestic voiles
?n a variety of stripes, checks,
plaids and figures.
Rich, beautiful wash satins,
fancy skirtings, piques, madras,
dimities.
Plain white organdies, 50c to
$2.50 yard.
Fancy novelty voiles, 65c to
$2.50 yard.
Plain voiles, 58c to $2 yard.
Fine lingerie batiste, 50c to
$1.25 yard.
Imported novelties, $2 to $3.75
yarn".
Longclothsand nainsook, $2.50
to $fi.50 for 10-yard piece.
Main floor, Old Building.
Japanese
jute rugs
The only good assortment, we
arc told, that is to be found in
New Yoik
HALL RUNNERS
2 ft. 6 in. x 9 ft.$10.50
2 ft. 6 in x 12 ft.$14.00
3 ft. x 9 ft.$12.50
3 ft. x 12 ft.$16.75
ROOM SIZES
6 ft. x 9 ft.$34.13
9 ft. x 12 ft.$49.00
9 ft. x 12 ft.$65.50
They are remarkably ex
act copies of Samarkand or
Chinese rugs, In most of
them the rug? is cut around
the design, giving an em?
bossed effect.
Third Gallery, New Building.
For
Washington's
Birthday
Everything that must be
Red, White and Blue.
Jack Homer Pies ? of
tri-colored crepe paper,
trimmed with cherries_12
prizes in each ; $9 and $10.
Noise Makers ? bells, horns
and squeaks, all camouflaged in
patriotic dress of red, white and
blue, 10c, 15c and 20c.
For Nut? and Candies?shield
shaped paper cups, 60c doz. ;
also baskets, 15c and 25c each!
Drums?that hold candy. In
stiff paper of red, white and blue
trimmed with gold, 35c, 40c.
Eighth Gallery, New Bldg.
ale o? r
PW3
has only EIGHT (8) days to run
It offers New York's largest collection of ALL GOOD furniture at 10
to 33 per cent, savings. Furniture with all the essentials of service?for every
room?for any size or style of home.
If you are planning to avail yourself of the Sale's great opportunities, do
it as early as you can. The days grow busier as the Sale nears its end.
Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Galleries, New Building.
Backless
corset
(The PARISIENNE)
With dresses cut extreme?
ly low in back it often has
been a problem to know
what to do with a corset?
because most corsets extend
a little above the waist line.
This clever designer made
a corset cut low in back to
the waist line with a clever
piece of elastic taping from
the front down the sides and
fastening in back at the
waist?thus holding the cor?
set in place and holding in
the flesh at the sides?yet
not covering the back.
The Corset Shop has a
good assortment of these
new and carefully thought
out evening corsets. They
are made of the most ex?
quisite materials obtainable
? as an evening corset
should be made?and elabo
, rately trimmed with laces.
One is made of beautiful satin
striped silk tricotine trimmed
with bands of lace at the top and
flounces of deep lace finishing
the lower edge; $50.
Another charming' soft silk
corset is merely finished with a
lace band around the top; $40.
Striped suedeine is used for
another model at $28.
One made of fine pink striped
coutil, $22.50.
Third floor, Old Building.
Women9 8
French kidskin
gloves
Every woman who really cares
wants a pair (maybe more) o?
kidskin gloves to complete hei
costume, be it a Spring or Win?
ter outfit.
We have some really iim
French kidskin gloves at th<
moderate price of $3.50.
They are two-clasp over-sean
sewn with self stitching and ma;
be had in white, tan, gray am
black. Complete line of sizes.
j Main floor, Old Building.
Milanese
Jersey Silk
petticoats
Unusually lustr?os
Made in charming new ways.
In' all sorts of lovely Spjing
shades, as well as practical dark
colorings.
One vivid green has a clever
navy blue piping and is trimmed
with navy blue buttons.
A clever tailored model has a ?
deep hem slashed on either ?fide.
Both sides are finished with at
tractive dangling ornaments of
silk. '
Some are trimmed with seal
loped flouncings edged with knife i
pleatirigs of narrow satin ribbon.
Beneath the scallops a dash of !
contrasting color shows.
Too much cannot be said of i
the exquisite colorings of these ?
petticoats?or of the softness !
and beautiful quality of the silk, j
$11.75 to $18.75.
Third floor, Old Building.
Just received
200
Beaded Bags
from Paris
Because we ordered them
months ago we are able to
present them at these low
prices?
$16?$20?$25
Typical of
Paris in color
and design ?
they are ex?
ceptional bags
at these prices'.
Bag illus
lustrated i s
simple and ef?
fective in de?
sign, being
composed o f
solid dots of one tone on a back?
ground of a lighter tone or a
contrasting color.
Other bags have conventional
and floral designs.
Drawstring models ; and metal
or imitation shell frames.
Even the silk linings say
"Paris."
'Main floor, Old Building.
Imported socks
for children
More than 1,300 pairs
cotton socks from England
White with colored stripes in
gay colors, blue, green, pink, j
. lavender, yellow and brown, also !
black.
Darker socks are made by us- i
ing any of these colors as back- :
ground, with white stripes.
Fancy tops, lavender, green i
and yellow are used on white i
socks.
An unusual combination is j
that of champagne color, used as
foundation, with old rose or !
green stripes.
60c to 95c, according to sizes, \
which are 5 to 9Va.
Main floor, Old Building.
For Miss 14 to 20
Attractive frock
moderate prices
The low waistline, the
modified bouffant, and short
sleeves ? all new Parisian
ideas?are introduced in the
taffeta frock which is illus?
trated. The taffeta is a shim?
mering-, crisp quality?and
price of the frocks is onlv
$55.'
In chocolate brown, eoperi or
navy blue.
Another charming taffeta
frock, with similar bodice bu:
with harem skirt trimmed wife
wee pleatinps of the silk, is
$52.50. In soft satin $59.50.
Specializing at $37J50
Deep puffings of the crepe
de chine are used to give the
effect of a short peplura at?
tached to the very becoming
basque.
Wide tucks give an effective
finish to the five-eighths length
sleeves?tucks are also repeat**!
in the skirt, at aliout the knee?.
In navy blue, brown, black.
white, and gray?RENEE in
tured gray at her Opening it
Paris a few days ago.
Many other new models ?t
silk frocks at $2<).50 to $165.
Second floor, Old Building.
Men's sweaters
?down
Sizes arc broken
$4.75 each for 16-*
sweaters that were $6 to
$8.50.
$7.75 each for 6?
sweaters that were $10 to
$15.
All wool and worsted.
Coat shaker-knit and pull?
over models. Oxford, gray,
maroon, navy blue and tan.
In the Sport Shop.
Burlington Arcade floor,
New Building.
125 Fur-collar
Overcoats reduced
20 with seal collars
00 with nutria collars
$135 and $150 grades
45 with otter collars
Fine coats, $175 grade
[,$85
} $115
34 to 42.
Close-out by a manufacturer from whom we buy our regular stocks Grades
determined by comparison with coats of our own. Good rough cheviot overcoatings,
in dark brown and gray heather effects. Double-breasted. Shawl collar Belted
decks, rine investment.
Men's $54 to $70 Suits are $43.50
neve?bsesVfa?o?d !?f ? ?? ^^ SU?tS; I0?* medium wei*ht> the sound style?g
never loset, favoi?and seldom loses any of its price because of the demand for it
Burlington Arcade floor, New Buildi?*