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Open Shop 1$
Proclaimed in
Clothing Trade
Recognition of Union Is
Withdrawn in New York
I and Boston by Manu?
facturers' Associations
65,000 Affected Here
Nation-Wide Lock-Out In?
volving 150.000 Fore
east by Labor Chiefs
1 The long quarrel tetwecn employ?es
and employers .in the clothing trades
eame to a definite declaration of war
yesterday.
Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers' of
America received ? letter from the
Clothing Manufacturers' Association
of v.-v. Y rk. withdrawing recognition
of the Amalgamated, repudiating the
impartial chairman anil proclaiming
what is regarded as the open shop in
the industry.
The notion of the employers will af?
fect 65,000 workers in the clothing in?
dustry in this city. A similar step by
the Clothing Manufacturers' Associa?
tion of Boston ?.vas taken yesterday.
The ac ion of manufacturers in New
York and Boston were interpreted by
spokesmen for the union, which num?
bers more than 1.50,000 members
throughout the United States, as the
beginning of a bitter conflict which will
probably express itself in a nation?
wide lockout and an effort on the part
of the employers to break the Amal
?'.. .ated. It was ?aid that the pres?
ent moment for such a tight has been
ehosen by the manufacturers because
if the slack condition in the industry,
mo-e than 40,000 workers being out
of employment in this city alone.
Wholesale Discharges
The beginning of the Struggle in
this city was indicated yesterday when
it was learned that the firm of Heidel?
berg ii WollT, Bleecker Street and
Broadway, had discharged most of its
>00 employees, retaining only such as
were willing to work under the new
:onditions laid down by the manufac?
turers, namely, the introduction of
piece work, reduction in wages and
the restoration of the right cf the
manufacturers to hire and discharge
employees r.t will. Union men were
picketing the plant all day yesterday,
In its letter to Mr. Hillman, signed
by William Bandler, president of the
Manufacturers' Association, the asso?
ciation announced that "in view of the
union's refusal to accept the proposa!
af the manufacturers contained in the
resolution of_ the market committee of
I December 2. it is no longer possible to
recognize the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers' Union as representing and
acting in the interest of the workers
n the New York clothing market."
The association also declared that
'the manufacturers will attempt in
ivery way possible to obtain business
in! give employment to their workers
jpon a basis that will insure good
?rages and make competition with other
markets possible."
"The impartial chairman," the man?
ufacturers announce'!, "has ceased to
function and is without authority to
ipeak in behalf of the local market."
Public Won't Buy
Mr. Bandler aserted that the public j
uas justly refused to buy clothing at'
?rar prices, that prices of manufactured '
itocks have been slaughtered and manu
Ifacturera have taken enormous losses.
\*o investigation is needed of these |
facts, he asserted, nor of the self-evi?
':.??. condition that clothing must bei
produced at reduced prices this season
;o meet the public's demand.
Mr. Hillman, prior to the receipt of
the association's ierter, forwarded the
following communication to the mam -
facturer?, setting forth the position of
the un in, the Fetter being addn - I
;o Irving Crane, secretary of the man?
ufacturers' associa ion. It folloi :
"On December '2 n:?r organization
addressed a letter to the Clothing
Manufacturer.-* Association in reply to
pour ?ultimatum.
I "Our position as then defined ha?
low been ra-ifisd by a referendum of
mr 65,000 members in mass meeting.
The letter is now official as the reply
?of our organization.
"We believe that this ia no time
to scrap all of t'r.p machinery of gov
2rr.ment for the industry which ha3
?worked so successfully for ten year3
m other markets and until now in
creator New York.
"We believe that to accede to your
ultimatum means not only a return to
the old status of helplessness of the
?vorkera, but also a confession that
government in industry is impossible.
Wi do not believe a resort to chaos is
I h< only way i ut.
"We still stand, as set forth in our
? . on tin- impartial chairman's sug?
gestion of 'a joint committee to be
appointed and charged with the duty
i f ?-.see: tiiii? ?ng existing conditions, de
termining the extent to which produc?
tion can be incn ased and the means
. bj which these ends may be secured.'
"We still hope that you will see
the groat harm which must result to
the industry from your course of ne
A. before, we stand ready for
negotiation and speedy adjudication of
all problems of the industry "
l'ut? 'Marne on Employer?
Commenting on the employers'^ ac?
tion in withdrawing recognition of the
! union, brenking off all negotiations anil (
scrapping the adjudication machinery j
in the industry, Mr. Hillman said last
, night :
"By scrapping the machinery of the ,
impartial chairman the manufacturers |
show that they preparing for immedi- |
ate action and that they don't want;
1 the machinery of the impartial chair- ?
tni.n tc interfere. The employers ar>*
?clearing the decks for action. If they
\ want to force a lockout they will have j
to assume-full capacity for such a I
; step."
Concerning the situation in Boston i
Mr. Hillman said that the agreement
between the union and the manufactur- |
ers in that city will not expire before
June, 1921."That agreement provides for
; arbitration of all differences," said Mr.
Human. "If there is a break in Boston
it is duo to the action of tho employ*
i ers." ^__
School Bids
Raised 60%
By Hettrickl
(Continuad from pise ons)
$8,970. Two accommodation bids were
for $9,2S0 and $9,520.
"Let us see what happened on the
cut stone job for Public School'No, 43,"
said Mr. Untermycr to Eisenbcrg,
Q. Ho boosted the figure of $2,503 to j
$4,233. didn't he? A. Yoj, sir.
Q, And the figure of $3,767.50 he
boosted to what? A. $4,980,
Q. The figure $3,987 he boosted to
how much? A. $5,150.
Q. The figure $3,987 he boosted to
to how much? A, $4,925.
Q. And the first figure of $4,405 to
how much? A. $4,705.
Q. Then he put in the accommoda?
tion bid ? A. Yes, sir.
Q. For what amount? A. $.5.200.
Q. What ?.vas the purpose of always I
putting in the accommodation figure. I
at the biggest amount to the Board j
of Education?was it in order to make i
them believe the other figures were j
comparatively, low? A. Yes, sir, I
think so.
Q.?The result of the manipulation of j
these bids was to give that job to
whom, to which member? A.?-To mem?
ber 19. Sens.
Q.?At. $4,283, wasn't it? A.?Yes,
sir.
Q.?And he had offered to do it for
how much? A.?Two thousand, five
hundred and eighty-three dollars.
From the three sheets at hand Mr.
Untermycr showed, through Eisenberg,
that bids on three or four other con?
tracts for schoolhouse work want
through the same raising process,
costing the city thousands o? extra
dollars.
Sand Monopoly
It was testified that the linn of
Henry Steers, Inc., of 17 Battery Place,
practically has a monopoly on the i
wholesale production of commercial '
sand mixtures for construction work. :
Henry Steers, the president of the firm, \
said that the company dug ils hand i
from leased pits at Huntington llar- j
bor, L. I., and towed It to dealers hero
on its own scows.
He admitted that the only competi?
tion he had was from the Marlborough
Sand and Gravel Company and the '
Goodwin & Gallagher Company. The
Marlborough company, it developed,
was a subsidiary of the Fuller Con- :
struetion Company, which used nearly
all of the product of its infant sand
company. The Goodwin <C- Gallaghei
firm, said Steers, only furnish'-,i about
30 per cent of tiie sand mixture! con?
sumed by the industry. Steers im ited
he had more competition, but couldn't
make crear how.
His iirm produces about 2,000 cubic
yards of sand a day. He declared it
cost his company about $1.45 a cubic
yard to dig it and get it to the dealers
her.-. The firm gets, he said, from j
$2.50 to $3 a cubic yard for it.
"Isn't it an anomalous situation," '
asked Untermyer, ''with so much sand
iroi nd on Long Island end elsewhere
that there arc r,o other companies ban- :
dling it? Why are there not more men I
in the business?"
Steers replied that it costs u lot of i
money to get started in tho sand busi?
ness.
From Martin D. Wandeil, vice-presi?
dent of the New York Trap Rock Cor?
poration, it wan learned that his firm
is the sole company in the trap rock
business. The companv is capitalized
| at from $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 and has :
four quarries on the upper Hudson.
In the early part of his testimony
i Mr. Wijidell had said that his company ,
sells both to dealers and builders di?
rectly. It later developed that he had
i made an agreement with the Sand and
Gravel Dealers' Hoard of Trade to give
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Fif,!) Avenu-, 34th and 33dStreets, New York
Nation Warned
Of Fuel Waste
By Engineers
Saving of 100 Million Ions
and $500.000.000 An?
nually Seen if Conserva?
tion Policy Is Enforced
Mechanical Men Meet
3,000 Delegates Assemble
Here in Convention:
Clevelunder Elected Head
A plea for coal conservation backed up
by an assertion that 100,000.000 tons of
fuel and $.r)00,000,000 could be saved
every year by a cooperative campaign
against waste and by tc.ted engineer?
ing methods was the outstanding fea?
ture of the opening sessions yesterday
of the forty-first annual meeting of
the American Society of Mechanical i
Engineers in the Engineering Societies]
Building, 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, j
Leading engineers, economists and edu-1
cators who have made an exhaustive j
study of heat and power problems]
sounded a warning against the waste |
which they asserted is causing a ma-,
tcrial falling off of America's fuel '
supply.
At tho evening meeting in the audi?
torium the presidential address was
delivered by Fred J. Miller, retiring]
president of the society, after which i
Edwin S. Carman, who becomes prosi-l
dent to-day, was introduced. At the]
same session honorary memberships j
were conferred upon Lord William Weir, I
of Glasgow, Scotland; the Hon. Sir
Charles Algernon Parsons, of London; j
Commandatore Pio Perronc, Genoa,!
Italy; Pear Admiral R. S. Griffin, U. S.
N.? Captain Robert W. Hunt, Chicago,
and Dr. Samuel M. Vauclain, Phila?
delphia.
3,000 Attend Convention
Of the 3,000 engineers, educators and
economists who are attending and tak?
ing active part in tho meetings, 2,1J00
are delegates to the convention, and
while most of these are from various
parts -of the Uniteu States, foreign
countries too are represented.
Professor L. P. Breckenridge, of
Yale, presided at the meeting to dis
cuss fuel in the afternoon. This was
j held in the auditorium. In addition to
| Professor Breckenridge the speakers
: were David Moffat Myers, a New York
consulting engineer; O. P. Hood, of
j the I'r.'ted States Bureau of Mines,
Washington ; Chester G, Gilbert, con
aulting engineer of Cambridge, Mass.,
i rind Joseph E. Pogue, industrial econ?
omist and engineer, New York.
It was Mr. Myers sho startled the
meeting by saying that up to 100,
000,000 tons of coal could be saved
every year by the adoption in the
United States of well known and well
tried methods of fuel conservation and
, that this saving would be in addition
1 to a similar reduction in the consump
? tion of other fuels.
Mr. Myers was connected with the
I fuel engineering section of the United
States Fue! Administration and he
said that the prevention of waste was
' merely a matter of applying engineer
j ing principles.
What Saving Would Mean
"Based upon only 75,000,000 tons, the
i money saving would be $-150,000,000 a
i year, or enough to pay nearly one-half
j the interest, of our national war debt,"
i he said. "The transportation of coal
I would be relieved to an extent equiva?
lent to 1,500,000 fifty-ton carloads a
year, or 50 per cent more than the coal
carrying capacity of the Pennsylvania
Railroad lines east of Pittsburgh. The
significance of this will be realized
when it is stated that the chief diffi?
culty in obtaining coal to-day is due to
lack of transportation facilities.
"The services of 75,000 miners would
be conserved, so that the same force
would be able to handle the natural in?
crease in mining production. The addi?
tional labor connected with the loading,
transportation, unloading and firing of
1,500,000 lesH cars of coal a year would
be eliminated. The railroad equipment
and train Crews relieved from coal
haulage would be of great service in
the handling of other freight.
"The saving of coal in the United
States would equal England's deficiency
of 70,000,000 tons annunily in her pro?
gram of coal exportation. Such con?
servation would reduce the cost of
manufactured goods. Practically noth?
ing is manufactured without oor.l, so
that everything in the cost of living
would be. beneficially affected by this
program.
"Fuel conservation would add ma?
terially to the life of our coal de?
posits and the supply of other fuels.
A common-sense engineering program
of fuel conservation would save over
four dollars per capita for every man,
woman and child in the. United States.
Oil Supply Vanishing Fast
( "There is a huge waste of fuel in
this country. There is not an indus?
trial plant in tho country where 10
to 30 per cent saving of f-.-.el might
not be effected by common-sense en?
gineering."
Mr. Myers explained this statement
and told how savings might be accom?
plished, and then said:
"Our natural gas is practically gone,
Our oil supply is vanishing rapidly,
an'd con! is tho next fuel on the list.
them the whole of his product. There ?
are about fifteen sand and gravel deal?
ers in the whole of the greater city, it
was testified.
Contract Put in Evidence
Because of this agreement with Wan
dell, Mr. Untermyer asserted, the sand
and gravel dealers compelled all build?
ers to purchase trap rock from them
at the price they demanded.
The contract was offered in evidence.
lne arrangement was mode, paid Wan
dell, after numerous conferences with
Engvne Clark, secretary of the Sand
and Gravel Board of Trade, and other
members of the organization who met
Wandell in his office at various times
from May to September of this year.
Wandell said his firm produced about
i,000,000 cubic yards of trap rock a year
and that about 500.000 of this goes to
New York City. He tried to show that
he had competition from the Joseph
Tino Company and the Marlborough
film, but later admitted that they only
produced about 20,000 yards of trap
rock Q year.
Tho minutes of the sand and gra^l
organization showed that on July 7 of
this year some arrangement had been
made whereby the Trap Poc!; Corpora?
tion raised the price of its products 10
cents a cubic yard for lVa-inch stone
and 25 cents for- 1%-inch ?'torre.
The offices of the Sand and Grave]
Hoard of Trade are said to be .at 405
Lexington Avion:,'. The board i?? said
to ha'-" interlocking relations with the
sand committee of the Contractors
Protective Association.
Offer of Books Retracted
i a this connection, Thomas I''. Mc?
Laughlin, secretary of the association
confirmed the minutes of the organiza?
tion wherein it was stated that a sand
contractor named Lanigan had pro?
tested against the action of the Yankee
Contracting Company in digging sand
from its own banks on Long Island and
selling it to New York dealers in com?
petition with members of the associa?
tion who had contracted to get it from
the Cow Bay sand dealers.
Wright D. Goss, president or the Em?
pire Brick Company, yesterday's first
witness, had agreed to loan the com?
mittee all the books of his company to
enable the investigators to arrive at
the cost of brick production. Yester?
day he permitted accountants of the
committee to see only a few of the con?
cern's boles.
"We'll take what you'll give us," re?
marked Mr. Untermyer, "and will sub
pcena the rest."
Tire difficulty in getting at certain
of the witnesses was graphically de?
tailed by Joseph A. Sheridan, a procesa
server. Brick factories along the Hud?
son, he said, recently greeted him with
a barrage of their products. He had
gone to serve a man named Mayonne
at Athens, X. Y., after having served
sono others.
"They received me v-m'5' nicely," h<
said, "with bricks."
"Von say that they threw bricks at
"Yes, sir."
" I lid any of them hit you
"'!"? ey didn't get a chance. I ran ton
fast."
"You were after Mayonne, then?"
"Yes, sir, and I haven't served hirr
yet. I don't mind, but it looks like a
tough job."
The hearings will be continued to?
day."
Anthracite will be the first to disap
pear. It is time to consider how the ;
government can assist in the conserva- i
tion of 'coal and oil."
Professor Breckenridge also warned
of waste. His estimate of the reserve ?
coal and lignite supply of the World
in billions of tons follows: United
States. 3,527; China, 1,500; Great Brit- -
ain, 180; Germany, 164; Canada, 100;
Japan. 50; Austria-Hungary, 30;
France, 25; Belgium, 20, and Chile, 2.:
Professor Breckenridge also urged
the development of waterpoiver and
electrification. ,
President Miller in his address ar- j
gued that the engineer must increase
thX effectiveness of labor "not by driv- ?
ing or oppression, but by the applica?
tion of brains in industrial organiza-?
tion and the management of men as j
well as materials." i
The now officers are: Edwin S. Car- i
man, who, until last June was presi- :
dent of the Cleveland Engineering So
ciety, president; Leon Pratt Alford,
John Lyle Harington, Robert B. Wolf, i
vice-presidents; Louis C. Nordmeyer. I
Henry McCoy Noris, Carl C. Thomas, ;
managers, and William H. Wiley,
treasurer.
Malbone Street Wreck
Victim Awarded $30,000
-1??
Young Woman's Lower Limbs
Paralvzed as Result of Crash;
Father Wins $9,500
A jury in the Kings County Supreme
Court yesterday gave Parie Pastellani, :
twenty years old, of 2764 Herring!
Street, Brooklyn, who was injured in j
the Malbone Street Wreck November 1, |
1918, a verdict of $30,000 in her suit j
for $100,000 damages against the New!
York Consolidated Railroad Company. '
The case was tried before Supreme
Court Justice Kapper.
The young woman was wheeled into I
the courtroom in an invalid's chair.!
She testified tho accident had resulted ;
in paralyzing her lower limbs and that j
she was only able to use ctutches with j
difficulty. Her father, Victor Pastel?
lani, was awarded $9,500 in his $25,000
suit for loss of services.
Madrid Fears Outbreak
Of Discontented Workers
MADRID, Dec. 7.?The unrest among!
the workers in Spanish industrial i
centers is occupying the attention of !
the Cabinet, which to-day announced an ;
improvement in the situation. The ?
strictest precautions have been taken i
to prevent disorders, which it is feared !
mny be caused by the extremists.
Many building trades workers in j
Madrid, disobeying their leaders, have
left work and arc trying to coerce oth- i
ers into striking. A majority of the |
workers in every trade, however, ap- ]
pear disinclined to join in a general
strike. All the public services arc j
normal to-day, but some difficulty is ex- \
perienced in Retting sufficient bread.
No Toddies for Coolidge
Otherwise Harvard Dinner Will
Suggest Colonial Times
Special nttpatCh to The Tribune
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 7. -Gov?
ernor Coolidge, President Lowell and
members of the Harvard Memorial So?
ciety will sit down to an old-fashioned !
Colonial dinner on Friday night, when !
the bicentennial of Massachusetts Hall |
is celebrated at Harvard.
Scalloped oysters, Boston baked
beans. Virginia sugar cured ham, :
boiled potatoes, pumpkin pie, suet pud- '
ding with hard sauce and crackers and I
cheese will be served, the purpose of j
the memorial society being to dupli?
cate as nearly as possible a dinner in
the Colonial days when Massachusetts ?
Hall was presented to the college by
the state. Times have changed, how?
ever, and the society will have to be
content with sweet cider instead of hot
toddies consumed in the days of Presi?
dent Leverett.
Concrete Floor (iocs Down:
Kills One, Injures Eight
NAUGATUCK, Conn., Dec. 7.?One
man was killed and i'ight injured here |
late to-day when, a concrete floor gave ]
way in a new Y. M. C. A. building be- I
Ing erected in Churcn Street. A num- !
her of workmen employed by the Title- i
Water Construction Company, con?
tractors for the buil.iing, were struck!
by the falling concrete while at work !
in the basement. Tire dead man was !
identified as Thomas Fitzgerald, a car-I
pouter of Wslerbury.
Pure Linen Handkerchiefs
? from
Switzerland, Ireland, Armenia and Spain
?o, A dainty handkerchief tucked in the comer ot ?
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y~~T^ -when it bears with it the inimitable charm of exquisite
?Ji?S?a? hand work!
No more lovely bits ot hand embroidery, hemstitching',
dainty lace edging and lace trimming were ever seen than those
which McCutcheon's have brought together in their truly
remarkable assortment of Pure Linen Handkerchiefs.
Women's ? Men's
Irish, embroidered on fine Linen, To the particular man no gift is
over 50 styles 75c. ! quite so pleasing as that of Pure
Linen Handkerchiefs with the
Madeira, hand-embroidered and persona! charm of a distinctive
Lace trimmed $1.00
initial or monogram.
, . , . . ... , ,. Initial, on Pure Linen hemstitched
Irish, Armenian, Madeira and Lace j Handkerchiefs, $9.00, 12.00, 15.00.
edged, $1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 2.00, 2.50 18.00 and 24.00 dozen
Appenzell, hand-embroidered- Phin ^f?^H^ $4>50, 6-00' 9-00'
Hl 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 24.00 a dozen
made in Appenzell, the famous and up.
Swiss embroidery centre. 65c. to Cords and Tapes $9 00> lQ00 15 00
$25.00 each. 18.00, 24.00 and up.
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Fifth Avenue, 34th and 33d Streets
Jury Disagrees
In Backer Case;
Out Eight Hours
Judge Rosalsky, Dismissing
the 12 Men at 1 A.M., Tells
Foreman Further Delib?
erations Would Be Useless
Makes No Other Comment
Court in Charge Held That
Law Grants Witness Right
to Change His Testimony
The jury in the triul in General Ses?
sions of George S. Hacker, millionaire
builder, charged with perjury before
the Lockwood legislative committee,
reported at 1 o'clock this morning to
Judge Rosalsky that it had failed to
agree. A few minutes later the jury
was discharged.
News of the jury'i failure to agr?e
was conveyed to Judge Rosalsky in a
note from the foreman. Later, when
the jurors were culled before the
jud-re, he remarked that they had de
liberated for eight hours, and that, if:
they were unable to arrive at a verdict |
in that time, it would be, in his opin?
ion, useless to continue the delibera?
tions longer.
At 9:15 the jury filed into court and
asked Judge Rosalsky to have the I
stenographer read Hacker's testimony ?
relative to the conversations he had '
in April with the two men to whom he ;
said he delivered the $25,000 strike !
bribe given him by Levy to settle labor i
trouble. After hi;; direct testimony
was read them, they asked for the j
cross-examination. They returned to |
the jury room at 9:30.
Judge Rosalsky'3 Charfe
The jury retired at 5 o'clock. In
his charge to the jurors Judge Otto A.
Rosalsky directed the jurors not to
consider in reaching their decision who
?3 to be affected or hurt by the verdict, i
He ruled that the Lockwood investiga
tion had been properly authorized and !
testimoney before it under oath was
as solemn as that before a court of
justice. Whatever personal opinions
they had regarding the investi-ration
they must not let them interfere with
their decision, he charged.
He charged the jurors to inqui?-e !
what Hacker had done with the $15,000 I
installment of the money given him
by Ephraim Levy to end a strike on ?
Levy's building, directing them to ac- i
quit the defendant, though his fir^t '
testimony before the Lockwood com
rr.ittee that he won it at a racetrack
was untrue, if it was found that his ;
subsequent testimony, that he gave tho
money to two persons whose names he
did not know, had not been disproved
at this trial.
Judge Rosalsky explained that under
the law a person rniuht testify falsely
if he repented afterward on the same
occasion and then gave true testimony.
The law had been made in the inter?
ests of obtaining the truth, he said.
Circumstantial Evidence
There was no direct evidence pro?
duced by the people to show that the
defendant did give the $15,000 to two
men whose names he knew, said Judge
RoBalsky. The prosecution made its
case upon circumstantial evidence, and'
this the judge said might bo consid- .
ered as good quality evidence as direct,1
for it had so been held by e. higher,
tribunal.
Roads Must Wait for Pay
Houston Rules Rail Lines Shall
Await Final Aiulit
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.?The Ian- ;
guage of the transportation act makes ;
plain the intent of Congress that set- j
tlement on account of the six months' !
guaranty to the railroads is to be made
only after a final audit and certificate
from the Interstate Commerce Com- |
mission, Secretary Houston says in a '
statement filed to-day in the District '
of Columbia Supreme Court. The
statement is an answer to the manda
MUS proceedings brought by the Grand I
Trunk Western Railroad company to i
compel the payment of $500,000.
The Comptroller of the Treasury has
ruled that partial payments of the '
: i
guaranty cannot be made and the case
is a test one to determine whether the
railroads shall have to wait until a ?
final audit before being able to draw ?
any portion of the ?400,000,000 author?
ized by Congress for the operating ex- ;
penses for the first six months after .
the return of the carriers to private
control.
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Mrs. MaeSwiney Leaves
New York in Happy Mood
"Heart Full of Love for City,"
She Says on Departure
for Washington
Mrs. Muriel MaeSwiney waa accorded
another series of impromptu receptions
incident to her departure yesterday
afternoon for Washington, where she
will testify to-J arrow or Friday before
the unofficial committee investigating
conditions in Ireland. A call on Arch?
bishop Patrick J. Hayes in the forenoon
and a luncheon with Eamon de
Valera, "President" of the Irish Re?
public, brought plaudits whenever the
Widow of the late Lord Mayor of Cork
stepped into view. At the Pennsylvania
terminal hundreds of persons who
shouldered one another to get a
glimpse of Mrs. MacSiney as she
passed through the iron gate anil
down stairs to the Congressional
Limited, cheered her. Scores of
others, pasi,...gers on tie same train,
crowded the coach and vestibules near?
est to Mrs. ITacSwiney's drawing room,
or peered through the windows of the
conch.
On the train with Mrs. MaeSwiney
were Frank P. Walsh, Father Timothy
J. Shanley, De Valera and his secre?
tary, Harry Boland; Miss Mary Mae?
Swiney, sister-in-l..w of the widow,
and Dudley Field Malone, wh?, along
with several Catholic clergy, comprised
her escort to the station.
Mrs. MaeSwiney told reporters that
she was leaving New York "with a
heart full of love for your wonderful
city and its people."
"Four days . mong you," she said,
"have made me feel that you are my
friends and that I am not a stranger.
The cordial reception accorded myself
and my sistei has appealed to me
strongly, because 1 feel that it is not
a tribute to us personally but to the
great cause of Irish freedom."
She said she would pass the week?
end with another sister-in-law, Madame
Margaret MaeSwiney, at a convent in
Ashville, N. C, and would return to
New York City next week.
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