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Liquor Worth
1200,000 Seized
in Raid Here
Revenue Agents Cart Away
1.281 Cases of Kentucky
Whisky? French Wines and
Scotch at 91 Avenue B
Five Men Under Arrest
Orders Over Phone Bring
Reply From Oncers That
Manhattan Is Drying Up
The largest seizure of liquor stocks
made by government agents here to
date was reported yesterday by Reve?
nue Agents William Lord and Dajiiel
Mangin, who have been busy the last
two days gathering in the supply held
by Arthur Kraus in the building at 91
Avenue B. Lord and Mangin have
?farted 1,284 cases of genuine liquor to
the government warehouse at t'i First
Avenue. The seizure, if placed on the
market at current prices, would net
$200,000. Fine old Kentucky whiski.?.?,
fcnder seal, French wines and cordials,
some '.are old Scotch and a case or two
of cocktail bitters were confiscated.
The officers arrested Jerome. Krause '
an?! Edward Morris, of the firm of
Krause & Morris, of 230 West 107th
Street, alleged owners of the stock, and
Charles Kurtzmaa, who told the agents
that he was a friend of the tirm when
the agents stopped him as he was leav?
ing the building yesterday with some
books and other memoranda tinder his
arm. Each was held by S. M. Hitch?
cock, United States Commissioner, in
$500 bail for violation of the Volstead
act.
Albert White and Geo.vge Scott, both
negroes, who had attempted to remove ?
forty-nine cases of the liquor from the i
building, were arrested, by the agents I
after they had failed to produce a per- )
mit. They also were held in 9500 bail i
tach. The revenue agents say that
while they were cleaning out the place
many orders for liquor came over the
t??lephone, but ?rey advised all in
??uirers that Manhattan was slowly dry?
ing up.
Benson Labertz, forty-three years
old, of 73 Johnson Street, Brooklyn,
was held yesterday by Magistrate Will
iam A. Sweetser, of the Harlem court,
in $1,000 bail on the charge of at?
tempted extortion, mude by John Grif?
fin, saloonkeeper, of 1579 Second Ave?
nue. Griffin asserts that Labertz rep?
resented himself as a revenue agent,
nnd entered his saloon, accompanied by
l'eter J. Cravin, a watchman, residing
at 47 Johnson Street, and demanded
$200 as "hush" money.
GrilTin argued the proposal and mean?
time sent for a policeman. Patrolman i
John Dowd, of the East. Eighty-eighth
Street station, responded, and placed
both Labertz and Cravin under arrest.
The Police Department in Brooklyn as?
sorts that Labertz has been an internal
revenue agnnt for the last five months.
James S. Shevlin, supervising agent
for prohibition enforcement in this
district, said yesterday that Labertz is
not a revenue agent and that he had
never heard of the man.
$20,000 Worth of Liquor
Taken in Elizabeth Raid
36 Prohibition Enforcement
Agents Find Whisky in Only
8 of 25 Places They Vidled
Thirty-six prohibition enforcement
.-.gents from Newark and Philadelphia,
armed with a search warrant, made
a raid in Elizabeth, N. J.. yesterday
and confiscated $20,000 worth of liquor.
The raiders assembled outside the city
i.nd then swooped down upon it in a
dozen squads.
Although precautions bad been taken
to keep their intention secret, warning
had been given of the approaching raid
and in only eight of the twenty-five
places which their wai-rants authorized
them to search did the raiders find I
liquor.
At these places summonses were
served upon the proprietors for their
?.ppearance before a United States
commissioner. Summonses were served
al the Hotel Burkeley, 221 Broad j
Street; at 959 Elizabeth Avenue; on
Ewald Brocker, SOI Elizabeth Avenue;
Louis KloeiTier. 349 Elizabeth Avenue;
Mrs. William Palis, 14 West Scott
Place; < arroll & Heinz, 1226 East
Broad Street; Charles Heran, 5 Broad
Street, and J. J. Bergen, 809 Elizabeth
Avenue.
George Demo, enforcement agent at
Newark, got word several days ago
that huge, quantities of liquor were
stored in Elizabeth. After investigat
ing the report he arranged for the raid
with J. G. S. Loneakcr, enforcement
agent at Philadelphia.
A dozen revenue agents made a
search and seizure raid in Pas?-aic,
backing a moving van up to two hotels
on Main Avenue nnd taking away
twenty-live eases of liquor. The places
raided were the Hygenia Hotel and the
Park Hotel. The former is conducted
by Otto Kessel and the latter by Mi?
chael H eu man.
Main Avenue is the principal thor?
oughfare of the city and the crowd
witching the proceedings became so
dense and so noisy that the police re
acrves were called to maintain order.
-,-o
Soldiers Beat and Rob
Host; Get 3 to 15 Years
Indeterminate sentences ranging from
three to fifteen years were imposed in
the County Court at Somerset, K. J.,
yesterday upon Harry Leon and Wil?
liam T. RosselH, soldiers of the regular
army, who were convicted of assault?
ing and robbing Henry S. Wright, of
Liberty Corners. N. J., after Wright
had befriended them.
Leon and Rosselli were members of
?rmy units at West Point. On ?the day
af the June commencement exercises
at West Point, Wright, it was testified,
.was driving in his motor car near
Somerville when he came upon Leon,
Kosselli and two other soldiers. He
invited them to rido nnd nfterward
look them to Duke's Farm and paid
for their dinner.
Be then started back to West Point
frith his guests. He had proceeded
fnly ? short distance, he said, when
?the me? attacked him. They beat him
Vto Insensibility, it way charged, and
furled him out of the car after they
ad nobbed him. Leaving Wright oil
ie road, the soldiers drove away in
their host's machine.
Leon, who has a record of service
with tho British army in Egypt, was
sentenced to from live to fifteen years.
Kosselli was sentenced to from three
to fifteen years.
The others involved in the hold-up
charge have not been apprehended.
Partners Held in Silk Fraud
Hyman Abesbaum, who said he lived
at 1981 Lafayette Street, Brooklyn, and
Morria Glasman, who gave 50 East
100th Street as his addles:-, partners in
a silk factory, were held for the {?rand
jury yesterday in Jefferson Market
police court on a charge ?,i receivin?^
$7,000 w?>nh of ?ilk stolen from Nathan
Scb!essel,*of gJM Hopkinson Avenue.
JSrooklyn.
J
I New York Still Harbors
f Well-Known King in Exile
Though His Palaces and Pretzels Are Gone,
Followers of John Barleycorn May
Find Him Even Up to Dawn
By Heywood Broun 1
The king is not dead. They have
torn down his palaces and carted away
the mirrors and the pretzels and the
pictures of the dryads, but he is with
Us in lis i le. Anybody who keeps regu?
lar hours should have no difficulty
whatever in getting a drink, but we had
been told that night life in New York
was gone. We investit) <ed and found
the report inaccurate Naturally, we
want it understood that our interest
in the matter was purely professional.
Baptist ministers and reporters can?
not afford to be finicky. Probably our
feelings were harassed just as much
as those of Dr. John Roach Straton,
when he recently went upon a similar
mission. Perhaps more, because we
knew the city when it had it, and night
life is plainly cut in two, though
it still wiggles.
Up to date we lfave had only one
evening to devote to our work, and
between the hours of 1 a. m. and 3 we
managed to discover two restaurants
where it was possible to procure drinks
at least as late as dawn. It should
suffice to say that one of these is be?
low Thirty-fourth Street and the othei
above Forty-second Street. The lattei
is more interesting, since it makes
something of a ceremony of service.
We knew nobody in the place, f
man at the door surveyed us carefullj
before ne unchained the door ant
there was a second scrutiny when w.
asked the head waiter if we could ge
in. No answer was given, but finall;
another man came and tapped us o:
the shoulder and motioned for us t
follow. We stood up, wonderitij
whether we were to be blindfolded, bu
the proprietor missed that touch. Th
guide opened a door which led into
long, dark passage. We followed hir
closely for some time, thinking tha
perhaps we were headed for the three
mile limit, but finally he stopped an
took something from a panel in th
wall. Before he gave it to us he sait
"Ten dollars!"
When we got back to the table w
looked at the bottle and it seemed t
be a quart of whisky. The man wit
us said that it was. He was oblige
to drink furtively, for whenevef he pi
the bottle down a waiter hurried u
and threw a napkin over it. Muc
dancing seemed to be going on, but \\
haven't the least idea whether or m
it was immoral.
Most of the dancers seemed to t
performing painstakingly. The drin!
ing seemed much the same. Curious
enough, the difficulties of drinking ha*
not added to its attractiveness. In tl
old days a person could approach a sta
of hilarity drink by drink. He cou
say that everything which happem
was an accident. Temptation, then, w:
a gentle tug which took one in a toe
a time. Under the present system it
a plunge. Only a man of exceptional
strong character can say to himse
"I'm going to sit down now and drii
a pint of whisky," and then contra
for the whole lot at once.
For a time we thought that perha
our lack of interest in night life w
because of the strangeness of the si
toundings. Accordingly, we went eai
the next night to Joel's, in Forty-fii
Street, to see if things would seem t
same as they did years aso before a
of us had heard of Volstead. Th
did not. Changes in the. setting wc
few. The big room still carries t
pictures of Mrs. George Cabot Loci
and Mrs. Stanley Mortimer and a set
of others who to the best of our kno?
edge and belief were at no tin
patrons of the place. The side wall
the right still boasts "Joel's steaks ?
the talk of New York." Perhaps
isn't true any more. Since that s
went up there has been a war ant
movement for a league of nations f
Babe Ruth has made forty-one ho
runs. Still, we can't say that we
member very much being said ab
them one way or the other, even in
,-.1,1 Hoi.a
The menu rtill advertises just, below
chile eon carne "Real Joel's 'Poly
generic Theorj of Life' ?G cents." In j
nil the years wo attended Joel's we
never got around to reading that
hook, but in the old days the chil'?
con clime was cheaper (han the "Poly
generic Theory of I,il'"' Now th" ;
chile cost more, while theories of
life remain as cheap as ever. Wn]
understand that the book con founds
the Darwinian theory, but in order'
to appreciate it fully we would have
had to go all through "The Origin of
Species." Accordingly, we reached an
early determination to let Joel and
Darwin light it out between them?
selves.
The old familiar postcards which
used to be on every table are gane.
"Joel's," so the ancient caption ran,
"is the home of artists, actors and
newspaper men the most lovable folk
in the world." Joel loved them, but
not enough to blind him to their
weaknesses. The left wall bore the
sign "To avoid mistakes patrons will
kindly pay for refreshments after each
service." This still endures, as does
Joel's message to actors on the road
who are invited to "Send your money
to me and I will keep it foi- you."
With so much about tne room which
was familiar we still found that an in?
tangible something had gone. Some?
thing ranging, perhaps, from 2.7T> per
cent upward. There were two of us,
but we could not get up so much as a
mild argument or even agree very vio
I lently about anything. It seemed to us
j that he talked less keenly than he did
j ten or twelve years ago in that very
room. And vet it would be unfair to
suppose that in the old days folk came
to Joel's primarily to drink. There
was Harry Lang, for instance, which is
not his name, who would sit up until -1
or 5 every morning and order sarsapa
rilia every time. He had reason to be
timorous about alcohol. His system of
temperance in everything but hours
find conversation failed him finally, but
it was not his fault. About. 5 o'clock
one morning he said, as doggedly as
ever, "Bring me another bottle tit
sarsaparilla." It would have been his
twenty-fifth, but the waiter answered
"I'm sorry, Mr. Lang, but you've just
had the last bottle of sarsaparilla.'
"I've done my best," said Lang dole
fully. "Bring me a highball." Anc
after that evening nobody no, not
even his employer- saw him again fol
;>. week.
Most of New York's drinking to-daj
is not convivial. Liquor goes to lonelj
men in hotel rooms. The proprietoi
of one of New York's best knowi
restaurants was informed lit" othe:
day that a trusted employee was : mug
gling whisky throughout his estab
j lishment. The proprietor discharge:
I him but first he mentioned with regre
his lack of loyalty. "I don't see hov
i you could have forgotten that you wen
? with me seventeen years," he said
"That's true," replied the bootleggei
' "but in the last six months-?I hav
made more money than I did in th
whole seventeen years."
Broadway is filled with gossip abou
the fortunes which have been recentl.
acquired in the liquor traffic. Wl.ethe
I the rumors have any foundation in f'ac
! or not we do not know but Broadwa
believes that there ?jre some revenu
officers who are profiting prodigiousl;
One man told us a story of bavin
been sent to an illicit dealer to gi
brandy.
"How much do you want?" ask.?
the dealer.
"Two cases," replied the man.
"I can't fill that just yet," explain?
the dealer. "You see I'm a revenu
officer, and I know a place where thei
are twelve cases. When I get ordei
for the whole lot I'll go and confu
cate it."
Another revenue man, according
the story, for which we do not voue
is said to take orders to deliver liquo
and upon collecting for it at the poii
of destination confiscate the lot a?
drive away again.
All this is rumor, tale and innuend
but it seems fair to say that Jol
Barleycorn is no exception to the Sc
vation Army's well known logan, '
man may be down, but he's never oui
Bedtime Stories
Boomer Makes a Good Guess
By Thornton W. Burgess
Who from hi* h.xrm*. doth run away
May never run another day.
?Boomer the Nighthawk.
- ?
"Well, I never!" exclaimed Boomer'
! the Nighthawk, as he caught sight of !
1 that half-grown Rabbit down on the .
! Green Meadows. "Now, who is that and !
?where did he come from? It must be,
he came from the Old Briar-patch, of
course! There is no other place near
enough for him to have come from.
And that must mean that that little
scamp belongs to Peter Rabbit! I
haven't heard thai Peter and Mrs.
Peter have a new family, but that must
be the fact and they have managed to
j keep it a secret, and that little scamp
. down there is one of them. I do be?
lieve he is running away."
And right thm Boomer remembered
Reddy Fox hiding over in the tall grass
on the edge of the big patch of sweet
clover. "Gracious!" exclaimed Boomer.
"That young scamp ought to turn right
around and scamper back home as fast
as his legs will take. him. Outside the
Old Briar-patch is no place for him.
If Reddy Fox sees him he'll never have
a ?ehance to run away again. I believe
that red-coated rascal knows Peter's
secret. If he does, It explains what he
is hiding over there for. He knows that
in every family there is bound to be
one or two more bold or heedless than
the rest. He is hiding over there on
fhr chance that one of. Peter's young?
sters will get tired of staying in the Old
Briar-patch and will venture out on
the Green Meadows, just as this foolish
little chap is doing, to look for new
patches of sweet clover.
"I wouldn't be surprised if he hides
there every night. He knows he would
have small chance of catching one of
them close to the Old Briar-patch, and
so the old sinner is simply waiting,
sure that sooner or later one of them
will run right into his mouth. Well,
that youngster isn't headed toward
Reddy at present, so I guess I don't
need to do anything about it. It is
none of my business, anyway. Still.
I would hate to see anything dreadful
happen to one of Peter Rabbit's chil?
dren. 1*11 keep an eye on him."
Of course, it was the willful young
Rabbit who thought he knew all there
was to know, whom Bo.omer saw. You
remember, he had started out to find
that distant big patch of sweet clover.
But he didn't know just where it was,
and it happened that ho headed in quite
another direction. For a short distance
he ran as fast as his legs would take
him, for he wanted to get away from
lie discovered thai he didn't know
where the dear Old Briar-put cl?
iva*, lie iras lost.
the Old Briar-patch before he was
missed. But running in tall grass was
a "cry different matter from running
along the nice little paths m the dear
Old Briar-patch, and before long he had
to stop to rest.
When he had rested he started on,
but soon had to rest airain. This time
he sat up to look around. But he
couldn't look around! No, sir, he
cvH'ldn't look around. You see, he had
got in tatl grass, and even when he
stretched as high as he could he
couldn't see over it. Right then he pot
his first, dreadful fright. He discov?
ered that he didn't know where the
dear Old Briar-patch was. He was lost:
Then he did just what most lost
folks do, the most foolish tiling they
can do--he began to run. And because
he couldn't see where he was heading
for he began to run in circles. At last
he lay down, too tired to run another
step, and big tears rolled down his
cheeks, for he was a badly frightened
little Rabbit. He was lost, utterly lost!
And all the time he was only a little
way from he dear, safe Old Briar
patch.
(Copyright, 1920, by T. W. Bur-jpss)
The next story "Boomer Gives a
Great Fright."
End of Liquor
Wholesaler in
U. S. Is Hinted
FJ i in i mi! inn of Dealers in
Quantity Is Suggested to
Simplify the Work of
Prohibition Enforcement
Kramer Assails Tactics
More Operating INow Than
Before Volstead Act;
Number Being Reduced
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (By The As?
sociated Press).?Elimination by the
government of the wholesale liquor
dealer as a means of simplifying pro?
hibition enforcement appeared, a possi?
bility to-night, with the announcement
by Prohibition Commissioner Kramer
that the issue of wholesale permits in
the future would be "rigidly re?
stricted."
Mr. Kramer"*dcclnred that the whole?
sale traffic pr#senti'd the greatest prob?
lem with which enforcement officials
were confronted. Wholesale dealer?,
he asserted, resorted to subterfuges
which perplexed government agents
and which made the dry law difficult
to enforce. This phase of prohibition j
enforcement was said to hnve developed I
consideration by officials of the Inter?
nal Revenue Bureau of a plan by which
the quantity dealer would be driven
out of business and the liquor transfer
made direct from bonded warehouse to
retailer or consumer.
Although no decision has been'
reached, and probably none will be im?
mediately, the approaching period
when wholesale licenses are reissued
for the next calendar year is expected
to bring the question "to a head. Ap?
plications for wholesale licenses must,
be in the hands of Federal officials by
October 1, giving the government the
three months prior to January 1 in
which to investigate the responsibility
of the applicant.
Will Cut Number of Licenses
Officials said that regardless of the
bureau's decision with respect to elimi?
nation of the wholesalers, the num?
ber of licenses issued for the ensuing
year would be smaller. In event the
government permits the wholesalers to
continue in business, it was said, a
policy of investigating the record of
the applicant "and all of his affairs"
would be employed.
Treasury records reveal that more.
wholesale licenses are in existence now
than immediately prior to the effective
date of the Volstead act. Commis?
sioner Kramer said that while the
wholesalers were being watched closely
drastic action had been necessary in
certain localities.
\'o licenses have been issued in Chi?
cago for wholesale trade in the last
six weeks. Mr. Kramer said. Other
officials reported that similar checks
had been placed on the number of
wholesale dealers elsewhere. Mr.
Kramer's visit to the New York dis?
trict early this week was said to have
resulted in a tightening of restriction?
there.
More Men Sent to Maryland
The situation in Baltimore resulting
from the ruling of Attorney General
Armstrong that no Maryland slate or
Baltimore m inicipal official could aid
in dry law enforcement work has com?
eo!!? ?1 the transfer of additional Fcd
iral agents to the Maryland district.
Mr, Kramer said that enforcement
work would be pushed everywhere re?
gardless of local cooperation.
Wholesalers and "plain bootleggers,"
it was asserted by prohibition enforce?
ment officials, have combined to com?
plicate the enforcement of the law in
Baltimore, and the conditions there
have entered largely into the develop?
ment of a program to abolish the
wholesale license.
. As another step toward strict en?
forcement officials were said to be
drafting regulations defining the status
of Federal enforcement officers, and
liso to be inquiring into state law pro?
visions to determine what duties the
local authorities could be required to
assume in upholding Federal laws.
These questions probably will be put
up to Attorney General Palmer, and it
is understood that officials of the In?
ternal Revenue Bureau and members
of Commissioner Kramer's staff soon
will confer with representatives of the
Department of Justice and the Treas?
ury Department.
Police Can .irrest Dry Laic
Offenders. Says Frier son
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
BALTIMORE, Aug. 6. -Policemen
have full authority to make .arrests for
violation of the Volstead prohibition
law, Solicitor Genera! Frierson, of the
Department of Justice, said today,
commenting upon the opinion of Attor?
ney General Armstrong that the Haiti
more police do not have the power to
make arrests under the enforcement
law.
While city police may make arrests,
the prosecution for violation of the
Volstead law must be conducted in
Federal courts, Frierson declared. He
said confusion over the law in Mary?
land may have arisen from this fact.
Members of the Baltimore police de?
partment will arrest violators of (he
Volstead .act when the violation is com?
mitted "in the view of an officer" under
terms of a general order to the depart?
ment made public by Commissioner
Gaither this afternoon.
The order prohibits the arrest by a
state officer when the crime is not com?
mitted in his view.
Mrs. Charles M. Relyea
(iets Divorce Decree
Illustrator's Meeting With Veiled
\\ oman at (?rant! Central
Wrecks Home
A decree (if absolute divorce was
granted yesterday to Mrs. Eloisc Rel?
yea, of Rochelle Park, New Rochelle,
front Charles M. Relyea, the. illustrator,
by Supreme Court Justice Seeger, at
White Plains. Alimony was fixed at
$25 a week.
Joseph Klaw. son of Marc Klaw, the
?theatrical manager, and son-in-law of
Mrs. Relyea, testified that on July 4 a
detective called him by telephone to a
hotel in New York. In company with
James Whittendale, he testified that he
saw a signature, "('. M. Reiley and
wife, Philadelphia," on a hotel register.
The couple were assigned to room li'l'J.
Klaw testified that he recognized the
handwriting as that of R. lyea.
John Ranyon, a detective, testified
that he began to shadow Relyea last
May. On July 4, he said, he saw Rel?
yea meet a veiled woman at the Grand
Central Station, and followed them to
the hote!, where Relyea, he testified.
registered as C. M. Reiley and wife, of
Philadelphia. The detective said the
couple went into rr-om f>32 and locked
the door.
The Relyeas were married in Sche
tndy County in 1892, By the terms
of the decree, she retains the use of
the N-'?w- Rochelle house.
Relyea liver- in a studio at 2447 Mor
ri Avenue, the Bronx,
?Fight Opens on -?rilhert
Finding in Gns Kale Case
Defendants File Exceptions lo
Decision Tliat 80-Cent Price
Is Confiscatory
Exceptions to the findings of A. S.
Gilbert, special master, that the 80
cent gas law is conliscntory nnd un
conslitutional, were filed yesterday in
(he United States District Court by
the defendants in the ease of ?ho New
York nnd Queens Gns Company ngainst
Attorney General Charles l?. ?Newton,
District Attorney Denis O'Leary, of
Queens, and Lewis N'ixon, of the Pub?
lic Service Commission.
Mr. Gilbert holds that during the
twelve months ended December 31,
1019, and for the first five months of
1920 thooporating revenue-? of the
company were instifficienl lo pay thi
expense of gas manufacture rind dis?
tribution and to provide -i reasonable
return on the valuation of the com?
pany's properly.
The defendants assert that Mr. Gil?
bert, in selecting the years 191?, 1919
nnd the first five months of 1920 as the
basis upon which to reckon costs in
the manufacture and distribution of
gas necessarily had to include in his
estimates the abnormal prices prevail?
ing during this period, which are de?
clared "unusual and unprecedented."
In normal years, the defendants assert,
th?' company has been able to earn
large revenues.
'Brewer Asks High
Court to Ex?
Dry Act Decision
[Newark Man, in Petition for
Reconsideration of Rul?
ing, Says Tribunal Failed I
to Pisclose its Reasons
? ?-'
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.?William D.
Guthrie and Elihu Root, counsel for
: Christian Feigenspan, a brewer, of
Newark, N. J., to-day filed with the
United States Supreme Court a peti?
tion for a reconsideration of the
court's decision, June 7, sustaining the
validity of the Eighteenth Amendment
'? and parts of the Volstead enforcement
act.
The petition contended thai the
! Eighteenth Amendment was designed
; to deal exclusively with intoxicating
? liquors. Mr. Feigenspan, in his orig
: inal suit, sought to prove that beer oi
j 2.75 per cent alcoholic content was not
, intoxicating.
The latest petition points out Un?
importance and magnitude of the con?
stitutional questions involved tind de?
clares that so far as the petitioner has
i been able to ascertain "there is no
! record of any important modern case
involving such vital questions being
| disposed of by a court of final resort
without explaining its conclusions."
The brief continued :
Tends to Invite Criticism
"Not only is it quite unprecedented
i in the history of this court for it thus
i to dispose without opinion ot great
constitutional questions, but, as em?
phasized by Mr. Justice McKenna in
his dissenting opinion, it is difficult to
I measure the force of the conclusions
i stated by the court or the deductions
: properly to be drawn from them.
' Furthermore, the conclusions do not
completely answer questions actually
. involved in the litigation and sub?
mitted for decision.
"As stated by the learned Chief Jus
j tice in his concurring opinion, the
? court was deciding a case of great mag
? n'itude and passing upon 'an amend?
ment to the Constitution of the United
?States dealing with the power.-; and
? duties of national and state govern?
ments and intimately concerning the
welfare of the people.'"
? The petition declared that the mean
I ing and effect of such an amendment
! were necessarily the "subject ot discus
I sion and concern in the forum of pub
; lie opinion, and the failure of the court
? to assign any reasons for its decision
; has tended naturally to invite criticism
| and create much public dissatisfac
: tion."
Asks That Reasons Be Given
"It seems, therefore," the petition
\ continued, "that it is not irrelevant or
improper to urge, in support of a plea
' for a rehearing, that public opinion has
i dcubted and challenged the fitness of
1 summarily deciding ;kk1 disposing of a
: great constitutional controversy, in?
volving vast property interests and
long established legitimate industriel
; and intimately concerning the welfare
of the whole people, without disclosing
the reasons for such disposition."
New Line to England in Sept,
Service From Providence To Be
Confined to Freight
A new steamship line operating be- :
tween Providence, R. I., and Manchester
and Liverpool is to be established in
September by D. T. Gilmartin & c ,
77 Broad Street, this city. Four ships
are to be allocated to the firm by thi
Shipping Board. They are vessels of
the lake type and their tonnage will i
between 4,000 and ?1,500.
The service, which is to be fort?
nightly, will be confined to freight ex?
clusively, and will be the only regular
transatlantic line operating out ol
Providence to England. The Providenct ;
office of the company will be in charge
of D. T. Gilmartin jr.
Weather Report
Sun rises. . . 4 :57 a.m.:Sun seta . . 7:06 p.m. j
Moon rises. 11 :14 p.m. Moon sets.12:52 p.m I
Note.- Tin?? above figures aro standard i
limo ami not Now York St at?; timo.
f.onil Forecast.?Portly cloudy to-day
1 and to-morrow; probably occasional show
: era; nol much chango in temperature; gen
'. tlo south winds.
Local OfneinI Record.?The following of
I'.clal record shows temperatures during Iho
lasl twenty-four Jiours. in comparison with
the corresponding date of last year;
1920. 101 il I?120. 1919.
Barometer Hemlines
30.19 1 !>. ei . 11,0. ! 7 \ p. m.. 30.11
General Weather Condition?
WASHINGTON, Auk. ': Air pressure Is |
high off the .Ml..r.v..? coast and ow-i the
northern Rocky Mountain region and it Is
relatively low In the region of the Great :
Lakes, the Mississippi Valley and along the
.s,?i?t hern border.
There bine been local ram-? w?hin the ?
last twenty-four hours In the Atlantic and
Ciulf states and wldelj seatti red showers in
ili'? great central valleys and the upper
lake region, l'air weather prevailed in Fa:
Western dist ricts.
The temperature remains near the nur
mal i; nerally over the United States, i-i
cept In the Far Northwe.-n and the Pacific
states, where readings are i bnve normal
The outlook i.i for considerable cloudi?
ness and shosvers over practically all dis?
tricts east of the Mississippi River during
iho n"\t forty-eight hours
No Important temperature changos am
Indicated for the eastern half of the coun?
try ?luring Saturday and Sunday.
Oistriet Forecasts.? Eastern New York.
Southern New England, Eastern Pennsyl?
vania, Now Jersey, Delaware and Maryland
--Partly cloudy to-day nrnt to-morrow
probably occasional showers; not much
i ha nge In t? mperal un
Northern Nev, England Partly cloudy
to day and to-morrow; local showers, not
much cluing.? in temperature.
Western Pennsylvania and Western New
York?Local thunder Bhawem probablj to?
day and ?? morrow; not much change in
Police Puzzled
Over Death ?f
Traveling Man
?C7
Found Ufriconscious, With
Skull Fractured, in Room
of Hotcf in Jamaica, L? I.;
Was Senseless ?H Hours
Ha?! Reported Auto Stolen
Machine Found abandoned;
Time and Piaot Where He
Was injured is Mystery
The police of Jamaica were trying to
determine last night just how Louis
Purchase, forty-eight yearn old, a trav?
eling salesman, received injuries which
caused bis death late yesterday after?
noon at Mary Immaculate Hospital,
Jamaica.
When brought to the hospital Ptir
chase was unconscious. He was suf
fering from a fracturad skull, a deep
laceration of the sculp and an ai?rasi?n
over the left eye. No one has been
able to sat' when he '.sas injured, or in
what manner.
Late Thursday afternoon Purchase
reported to the police that his automo?
bile had been stolen from in front of
an office building in Fulton Street. He
gave a description of the machine and
left the police station. A short time
later he engaged a room in a hotel at
388 Fulton Street, Jamaica. According
to the hotel management he had a gash
over his eye when he entered the hotel.
but otherwise his appearance would
not have attracted attention. He i?p
peared to be perfectly calm.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Pur?
chase's room was entered by a bellboy
With a pass key. Purchase, in hi?
night clothes, was lying acro7-s the bed
unconscious. He had not left the room
since being assigned to it Thursday
afternoon, and apparently had beer,
unconscjous about eighteen hour.-'.
Detectives are trying to learn where
Purchase ?.vent between the time he
repotted the theft of his automobile
and the time he made his appearance
;?t. the hole!. The police said last
m.'.ii; that they had been told that Pur
i hnse had been 3een to fnll after enter?
ing the hotel. The report was not con
firmed.
The hotel clerk who war? on duty
when Purchase registered insisted last
night that the salesman sustained bis
injuries before arriving at the hotel.
Just as Purchase di'*ti yesterday after?
noon the police locatetl his machine.
It had been abandoned.
Purchase lived in n fashionable
boarding house. The Tower, on Church
Street, near St, Ann's Avenue. Rich?
mond Hill. It is under the. manage
ill' nt of his sister. She was unable to
throw any light, on the mystery sur?
rounding h?r brother's death.
Repatriation to Begin Soon
First of War Prisoners to Leave
Siberia Augusl I ?"?>
Plans for ths repatriaticn of nearly
3i>,000 former soldiers of the Central
I'".'..!-.-;, held as war prisoners in Si?
beria, were announced last night by
the Siberian War Prisoners' Fund in
New York.
Allied governments, with the? eo
operation of several American relief
organizations, have arranged for a ship
to leave Hamburg for Vladivostok Au?
gust 15, to return the first contingent
of prisoners, it was said.
Arrangements for repatriating all the
prisoners, are. being marie under the
direction of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, who
investigated the matter ai the request
of the council of the League of Na?
tions. Nearly 750,000 prisoners origi?
nally wore sent into Siberia, but of this
number less than 35,000 remain.
In addition to prisoners in Siberia
scattered bands of Germans and Aus
tro-Hungarians still are held in the
Caucasus and Turkestan.
Rev. Dr. Shelton Held Here as
Fugitive on Larcenv Charge
The Rev. Dr. Richard S. Shelton,
forty-two years old, colored, who says
he is both a minister and physician,
was arraigned before Magistrat" Brown
in the Gates Avenue Court, Brooklyn,
yesterday as a fugitive from justice.
He was remanded to the Raymond
Street jail for thirty days, pending ex?
tradition to Newark, on a charge of
grand larceny.
Mrs. Ada Griffin, of -120 Clayton
Street, Newark, testified that Shelton
paid her a professional visit July 24
:ind that he and $107 vanished at the
same time. While he denied taking the
money Mrs. Griffin said that he later
sent her two checks for ?HO each.
(Jar Smashes Truck;
Policeman Injured.
Hundred in Panic
Driver Said to Have Turne??
Heavy Vehicle Into Track
in Path of Trolley and
Is Placed Under Arrest
A patrolman was seriously injur????
three others were slightly hurt an??
100 passengers, the majority of th?m
women, were thrown into a pane tt <;
o'clock ins? evening, when ? rjortl
Third Aven ic trolley car plunged into
an autom'ob :? " Street
Cries o? the women pass g ?
heard at the East 104th .-;7 r?.'t star?.
and ?i squad of reserves were s?nt ou;
The jammed trolley car and motor
; truck were soon surrounded by ?crowd
I that blocked both sides of Third Av?.
? nue.
Edward Schmidt, thirty-seven, th?
| injured patrolman, was riding on ?he
i front platform oft,the trolley car. The
. motor truck, driven by Henry Swiinaju
! of 418 Oak Street. New Haven, ?u
| headed in the same direction a? -h?
ear, but when near II ;?;-, Street. is?st .
: mann, who had been using the rieht
; side of the roadwav, ste,?reri h;i car
; into the track of the surface iin^ tne
: police- say The car wat upon it before
Thomas Pi? rce, ,f 102 Si venth '?.
\ Brooklyn the motorman, co?;!d eh?;'?'
; his power. The body of -'"." tr<jck w?a
forced froi issis and tele
the front vestibule of the streetca
Schmidt, who is attached to the East
, 104th Street station, was taken to the?
j Harlem Hospital. He suffered a frac
| ture of the rte-ht leg and numerous
? bruises. The three oth?rs injured re
! fused treatment.
Swimann was arrested on a charge of
? reckless driving.
-.
Court Inspects Abused Horse
Magistrate Corrigan, who presided
yesterday in Essex Market polies
court, adjourned court to Second Ave
nue to examine a horse which Samu?
Kablan, of 33G East Eighteenth Street!
was accuser! of drivir.?; when it was
painfully crippled. After seeing the
son's on the animal Magistrate Corri
? gan fined Kablan ?25 nnd persuaded
representatives of Smith Bros., milk
| dealers, who owned it. to have the
oeast shot.
ALREADY there is evidence that the majority of the shippers
* along the New York Central Lines realize the extent to which
they can be helpful in relieving- the present equipment shortage.
By loading cars to full capacity, and by being prompt in loading
and unloading them, every shipper can aid materially. Two tons
added to the average car load and a daily saving of one hour per car
in loading and unloading would be equivalent to adding 300,000 cars
to the country's available supply. Every shipper can thus contribute
toward this substantial result.
The New York Central Lines meanwhile are putting all their
strength behind their part of the problem. Every available means is
being employed to speed up movement.
Under war pressure, only temporary repairs could be given to
cars and locomotives. Consequently a greater number than ever
before are forced now into the repair shops. Furthermore, the new
equipment purchased during the war was wholly inadequate and
left all the roads far behind the normal growth of the country.
It is only because the New York Central Lines, looking forward
to future requirements, assumed financial burdens in the past, that
they are now able to move so large a volume of traffic, as evidenced
by the increase of \7':'/o in passenger traffic and 11% in loaded freight
cars handled during the first six months of 1920 over the correspond?
ing months of last year.
During the period 1914 to 1919, the New York Central Lines
purchased 925 locomotives, 473 passenger cars and 5-4,408 freight
cars at an aggregate cost of $128,717,930.
Today this equipment would cost $245,378,150, an increase of
$116,660,220 over the original investment.
Immediately following the termination of Federal control, the
New York Central Lines placed orders for 196 locomotives, 265
passenger cars and 3744 freight cars, at a total cost of $49,543,035.
In addition, the rebuilding of 1000 coal cars at a cost of $2,283,300
is under way. This additional equipment will be available for
service this fall.
Even the sum of over $180,500,000, expended by the New York
Central Lines for new equipment since 1914, large as it is, represents
only a fraction of the financing required to enable the railroads to
catch up with the growth of the country.
THE NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES
BIG FOUR - LAKE ERIE S-WESTERN - MICHIGAN CENTRAL
BOSTON & ALBANY - TOLEDO & OHIO CENTRAL- PITTSBURGH &IAKE ERIE
NEW YORK CENTRAL- AND-SUBSIDIARY LINEg'