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Tariff Framers
Asked to Guard
American Films
Senators Informed German
Invasion Has Had Share
in Qosinc Numerous The?
aters and Studios Here
(??O Per Cent Duty Asked
Fear Expressed Cheap Pro?
duction Abroad Menaces
$250,000,000 Industry
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.?-The Ameri?
ca pwpl? ?pen^ *Tom $750,000,000 to
il 000,000.000 a year to see motion pic
tyre ghowe, the Senate Finance Com?
mittee ?as told t,*>-day in the course of !
jjr?uisents for and against a Me? tar?
if*- on foreign-made pictures. The in
TfHTr.er.t ia the industry totals about
?050,000,000, and employment is given
'?' about 250,000 persons.
Faul M. Turner, oi New York, speak?
ing for the Actors' Kquity Association,
ed that the idea that everybody
B-MCted with the industry "made bi?:
' ?.loney" was erroneous, that 9t> per cent i
at those engaged in making films re- ;
?ived only a "living wage."
Mr Turner and John Emerson, speak
??>?? 'or hims? r D. W. Griffith, :
?Zea a duty on imported films of from
m (, h* per - alorem, in place
... jo per cen? in the Pordney bill, j
vS1(i the industrj was in bad ;
-attpe, with ? os a r: ? i it large
? mber of *"-e 18,000 motion picture ',
theaters in the country closed.
Cheap Production Abroad
Declaring that only a high tarin' \
.,00(j between the industry and ex- j
??rmination. Mr. Turner said that at I
?v?s time fifty-four German-made pic- ?
tures were being exhib? ed in this
country and that four or five of these ;
had yielded t: ? exhibitors $2,500,000.
American producersi cannot competo
with the Germans, he said, adding that
pictures which c< st >00 to
iSOO.OCO to " luce in this country
-julii be made in Germany for
StO.OOO to $12.000.
Saul F. Rogers, of New York, speak
tof for the > -' onal A isociatioi of Mo?
tion Picture Industries, opposed the
doty in the Fordney bill, urging tha*
fee present n I iree cents .' foot :
be retained. V\c said that only a few .
foreign films depicting great ;
spectacles had been successful in th;s .
country. American producers, he tes?*'- :
Bed, ?p< rt fill r pro?
ductions. He fear? r duty
than that r. ed would brins
retaliatory leg ion abroad an?!
damage the
Ar. attack was made on the Ea II
Kodak Company. Mr. R gers, I':??
K. Coudert. cour e Pathe Ex?
change,
charged tl ...
a monopoly of the "i
vould be able 1
r;r*ure il ports were shut
nut. They (
20 per cent a
fihn propos? 1 in the For
Other Items Discussed
An in
ment the Eas
(nth repi I the 'dim i
laboratories were asl( d. II ?*
that ?''- r 1
posed tl
ported films the Eas
bough*. ?"'. era I iboral ?ries a
to keep the othi rs in line.
It was es c f
the laborator ? - entei ed into : rit?
i? aeree;r - * I last S
use only
Daniel R. F< rb? s, r? resentii
Seneca Came
the Egstn
tsmtrolle of I
tion of roll i - s.
Senate tarif!
hearings to-day on sundrii
Fordnt-;, rd arguments in
of increased protection for hard rub?
ber product - ? iantles,
church stal ... - and many
American I eard
testimony for ai i against increased
?Sties ?- ?
?
Policeman Gets 3 to 10
Year Term on S10 Bribe
Wife Faints as Medal of Honor
Man in Traffic Squad ?-*?
Sentenc-ed
After he convicted of ac?
cepting a S10 bribe, John F. Carroll,
for thirteen years a member of ?he
Police Department, a medal of honor
man attached to Traffic .Squad D. was
wntei-r- ng. yesterday by
Justice ?ro]
In Brooklyn. When Carroll '.vus told
that his .?1 be from three
to ten years the patrolman's wife
fainted in the courtroom.
Carroil, on traffic duty at Broadway
wid La fa j e tte A v e n ue, s ! o ppe d -J o h ri
H. Hunter, a salesman of - \ Vei
Avenue, on June L0 ta t, charge
of driving on the wrong side of the
street. When Hunter was unable to
produce his driver's license an addi?
tional charge was made against him.
??was i to the Traffic Court
When he raffic < lourt
Hunter 5aid he was met outside by
Carroil, who otfered t
?or no. The money was paid an
*fr lean t his was not on
the Traffic Court The
char-res against the policeman fol?
lowed.
"Do rustico < ropsey
asked th< - oliceman yestei
^Not now," said Carroll.
. .'"'eU, you may be able -
)*i\. 1 uon'( K; ow? ,, ,,.,.,: j
?jropsey. -Wp ,;.;.-, have policem?
>*Jung or '. our recoi
too good."
Charwoman's Error Mars
One Family's Christmas
Shift of Numbers on Hospital
^ott? Causes Mourning in
Wrong Hou<sehold
A charwoman, wielding a broom in
we ward of a Brooklyn hospital.
coiled utterly the Yuletide joy of
?>anip? ( rowd , a pa*nter w;.
?? West Tenth .Street. In attempting
?> ?et the ward to rights in record tim ?
\nrte days before Christmas this
?weeper accidentally knock?-! tl ?
S"? from two adjoining beds. Two
??ours later Crowder was inform?
inff ?''''' who waa -n lho hospital
?uirer.n?? from minor injuri
m ?n automobile accident, was, dead.
J he painter hurried to the hospital,
?a ?it0 bf! toId Uli' hodv nad bc'en taken
?? u mor^e- Grief stricken, he
?oujiht oui an undertaking establish?
ment and turned over ail thi arj
taker* for tke iunerai t0 the under?
let the funeral one of the daui
?? t-ne man supposed to bo
?ne last !,...
ana. swoone?
"?Knt be a fath? *. her?.
-??* v!it the hospital it was learned
"e charwoman in
?r8 had swit? ed them. Jim's fathei
b?yd Cted t0 ''ea'' pital almost
Looted Russia's A|t Treasures
Appearing at Bargain Sales
MOSCOW, Dec. 27.?The new eco- j
nomic policy permitting free trade
within Russia has brought from their
hiding places a large number o? paint?
ings, some attributed to famous artists.
Among those are works by William Ho-1
garth, Jean Baptiste Greuze, Christian
Dietrich, Rosa di Tivoli and others, the
Italian and Dutch predominating.
The prices these work? arc bringing
are ridiculously small, if they are genu?
ine. A portrait of a woman attributed
to Greuze was sold to a foreign buyer
for ?250. It was originally owned by
the Countess Sollohub, who -was
stripped of her wealth and estate in the
Povroskaya district and imprisoned by
the Bolsheviki. !^he sold it for a small
sum to buy food.
Fainting? by well known Russian ar?
tists in some cases sell for the price
of a pair of shoes. A Shiskin land?
scape, placed in a second-hand store
by its owner, brought $4.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In this city nas been offered with?
in recent months a number of
paintings alleged formerly to have been
art, treasures held in Russia, The Asso?
ciated Press reported yesterday. Offi?
ciais connected with the museum's de?
partment of painting said that paint?
ings offered so fnr had been inferior
work? of obscure artists and none had
been purchased.
The picture*' were offered not
through ?art firms of ?standing, but
through individu?is in this city ?uni
elsewhere who had remarkable tales
to till of how the "masterpieces" tind
come into their possesion.
Art. connoisseurs, however, were
hopeful that, with freo trade no longer
banned in Russia, more genuine mas?
terpieces and fewer fakes would make
their appearance, on this side of the
Atlantic.
Genuine works of art have bobbed
up from time to time in various parts
of the world since the Russian revolu?
tion, when their owners, once members
of the nobility, were forced by poverty
to sell them. For the greater part,
though, the aristocrats were forced to
flee so hastily that about the only
valuables they could carry with them
were precious stones.
Red Reforms
Pave Way for
at
Trade in U. S.
(Continu??! frem pan? on??*)
sidered a triumph for the work of the
relief administration, which negotiated
the arrangement.
Red Envoys to Visit London
LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 28.
Declaring that evidence accumu?
lates of the British government's
desire to open relations with
Russia. "The London Times" con?
firms the report of December 20 that
Premier Lloyd George has suggested
a five-power conference, which repre?
sentatives of Russia and Germany
would be. invited to attend, early in
January. It says, however, that the
conference will not meet until the end
of February, at which time, it is ex?
pected. M. Tchitcherin, the Russian
Soviel Foreign Minister, and M. Litvin
off will have visited London and by
?sv.ors to certain questions will
repared the way for the presence
: representatives at the con
which is to be the successor
of the abortive Prinkipo conference of
:
agreed, the newspaper says, that
before international trade can be re?
opened with Russia the following con
must be established: First,
recognition of private property, which
involves liability for past debts and.
;.t of private enterprise to seek i
rid retain what it earns; second. |
the existence of such legal systems as
will enforce contracts, and, third.]
financial and currency conditions which |
will ?give reasonable security to trad- i
Pranks Land 2 Women
In Observation Ward;
One Accuses Other of Mental j
Trouble; Climale Blamed, j
Ambulance Called, Both
Take Ride
Delia Farrell, a woman of
Idle age. expensively gowned, and
Delia Farley, who gave her age I
tl irty-seven and said she was Mrs.!
Farrell's guardian, were sent to Belle-1
1 vue Hospital psychopathic ward last
t by Dr. Sutton, of New York l?os- j
?i, after he had sought them for |
in an hour in an ambulance
I by the younger woman. The
: peculiar behavior of the pair at Sixth !
Avenue and Tw? il " Street attracted I
a i rowd.
Patrolman Muldoon, on duty at the
:-. told Dr. Sutton that he had
?i Miss Farley as to why she
'. an ambulance and had been
rmed that Mrs. Farrell needed
I tal care. Mrs, Farrell, the patrol
lignantly denied tha: any
ir except, the climate. She
Farley had "presumed too
much" and that when the ambulance
cam? was to "pack it back home."
Mi 3. Farrell then walked down Sixth
Vvenue, the patrolman said, Miss Far
remaining long enough to inform
m her friend was a "very
j wealthy woman and in need of treat
it for nervousness." Miss Farley
gave her address as. the Broadway Cen
Hotel. She said she had been
j caring for Mrs. Farrell there.
The ambulance had hardly arrived at
the hospital before it was again sum
, moned. This time Dr. Sutton found
the two women surrounded by a crowd
some distance down Sixth Avenue.
When Dr. Sutton asked who called the
ambulance Miss Farley said she had.
Mrs, Farrell was irresponsible, she
!. and ought to be taken to a
hospital.
After questioning the pair for more
: than ten minutes Dr. Sutton decided to
i them both to Bellevue for ob
ation. They laujjhed heartily when
? rdered into the ambulance, each in
ing that the whole affair was a
hug?- joke on the other.
At the Broadway Central Hotel it
was said last night the two women
registered there several days ago and
had been asked yesterday to vacate
their room .
-.
Ryan Sued for $634,363
On Stutz Stock Deal
Mrs. Burden and Mrs. Walsh
Demand Damages for Al?
leged Conversion
Mrs. Florence S. Burden, wife of T.
Townsend Burden, and Mrs. Eudora F.
Wal recently brought suit
against Allan A. Ryan & Company,
stock broker?, to recover on some
ares of Stutz motor stock which they
tied over to Mr. Ryan's firm at a
trying to corner the
irket on Stutz shares, filed their com?
plaints yesterday, demanding $323,141
$306,222 respectively. Besides Mr.
'cyan and his partner, Kenneth R.
ward, the defendants in the suit are
\ vin Untermyer and the Guaranty
Trust Company, trustees under an
agreement made with the Ryan firm in
December, 1920, for the benefit of the
creditors.
Mrs. Burden says in her complaint,
which is similar to that of Mrs. Walsh,
. she was the owner of 300 shares
the Stutz stock. She alleges that
Ryan firm urged her to transfer
her shares to them, promising to settle
her indebtedness of $170,000 with her
brokers and at the same time holding
out a higher price than then quoted on
the market. Mrs. Burden transferred,
her stock and later bought 300 addi
: tional shares. The price of the Stutz
stock. skyrocketed to $700 a share.
Wuh the large dividends that were
al t i time Mrs. Burden said she
ime entitled to -100 additional
. which she says gave her a
ling oi 1 000 shares.
instead of giving her credit for the
? 1,000 shares, Mra. Burden alleges, a
lit ciaim was made against her, as if
the shares had not been paid for, her
stock being converted by Allan A. Ryan
& Co. for their own use.
Big Shake-Up
In Enforcement
System Begun
IContinurd from pan? an.)
about the most, harmonious as well as 1
colierent working arrangement between i
state officials and those charged With
the Federal enforcement, 1 respectfully
suggest that you, as the chief execu-j
five law officer of your state, call a !
conference of the prosecuting attor- I
neys of the several counties of your |
state for the purpose of discussing
plans to bring about the object desired.
Ill so doing 1 would he pleased to have
you invite the Unite?! States attorneys
located in your state to attend in order
that they too may co-operate with you
and all become better acquainted and
become more familiar with the i pec
tive duties devolving upon each of us.
"I suggest the advisability, if it is in
accord with your judgment that such a
conference be held, that it be called as
early in the New Year as your duties
will permit. In thi ement of this
most necessary objective 1 am quite
confident I c;ui depend upon yen and
the law pros; citing branches of the
sever:.! counties of your state, and I
personally assure you that the Depart?
ment of Justice and all of its agencies
will cheerfully contr ite to ; ? i
tont that their assistance may be re?
quired or requested. 1 shall be glad
to hear from you."
[New Ferryboat Added
To Staten Island Servir?
Veterans and City Officials Join
in Ceremony as President
Roose\e]l Make? Firs! Trip
Members of Quentin Roosevelt Poi t,
10 Veterans! of Foreign War?, and the i
Barbara Frictchie Post, Women's Aux?
iliary of the American Legion, headed
by the Police Band, marched from City
Hall to the Battery yesterday to raise
the national and city flags on the new
Staten Island ferryboat President
Rooseveit. which made her first trip.
Mayor Hylan and other city officials
rode to the Battery in automobiles and
took part in the ceremonies. The
.Mayor, Commissioner Grover A. Whal
en of the Department^ of Plan:, and
Structures, who ha i largi of the
ferry service, and other city officials
and guests took the maiden trip on the
new boat to Si. George and return.
Major Joseph I accavajo headed the
Quentin Roosevell Posl delegation, and
Mrs. Julia Wheelock, commander of the
Barbara Frietchie Post, led the wom?
en's; delegation. The paraders wore
their uniforms and in the line were
seed the army khaki, the navy blue and
the uniforms of the Red Cross nurses.
The exercises took place aboard the
boat at the Whitehall slip before the
start on the trip a? ross the Bay. A
general inspection of *, he new craft
was made in midstream. Three hun?
dred Staten Islanders welcomed the
new boat at the St. George slip and
rushed aboard for the return trip.
Other craft in the Bay greeted the
President Roosevelt wit blowing
of whistles. Later in the day the new
boat made her first regular trip in the
Staten, Island service at 6 o'clock.
-?-____?_
Church History Society
Elects First Jew Member
! -
Rabbi T. Newman Admitted;
W. N. Schwarze Named
President for 1922
For the first time s?nce'its organi
? zation fifteen years ago the American
Society of Church History yesterday at
its annual meeting at Union Theologi?
cal Seminary elected into its member?
ship a Jew. He is Rabbi I. Newman, of
?Temple Israel, Ninety-sixth Street and
Central Park West, known in religious
circles as a deep student of research
and the influence of Judaism on Chris?
tianity.
Ephraim Emerton, professor emeri?
tus of church history in Harvard Uni
I versity, the retiring president of the
society, in his address to the forty
members in attendance, brought out
?harply the importance of treating
i church history as a part of the world's
?history. He urged that investigations
i pertaining to the subject should be
i made with greater candor and upon the
i samo basis as the analysis of other
| histories are made. The critical process
| is not applied to the study of church
': history as it ought to be, he said. Ho
1 advocated that the same methods of
study that characterize research in
? ether historical fields should be adopt
, ed generally by church historians.
William Nathaniel Schwarze, of the
: Moravian College and Theological
I Seminary, Bethlehem. Pa., was elected
; president of the society for the coming
year. James Coffin Stout, of the Bibli
! cal Seminary of New York, was re
I elected vice-president; Professor Fred
I crick William Loetscher, of Princeton
'. Theological Seminary, was re-elected
secretary and Frofessor Robert Has
j tings Nichols, of Auburn Theological
j Seminary, was choien treasurer.
-.
Trusty Becomes Fugitive
Negro Disappears From Prison
Where He Washed Dishes
Joseph. Kamp, a negro trusty at West
I Side court prison, West Fifty-fourth
: Street, smashed a lock last night on
the door opening from the jail kitchen
jinto the rear yard, dashed across the
?yard, mounted the rear wall and dis
| appeared. His escape was discovered
| soon after supper. A general alarm
was sent out for him.
Kamp had served four months of a
| six-months' sentence imposed by Mag?
istrate Charles \V. Simms on a disord?
erly conduct chbrge. He was se.
to Blackwell1 ! d, bul a month ago
i was transferred to the West Side jail
I to werk as a dii bwa bi r.
j Kamp is thirty-five yean old and
lived at To Cherry Street.
Farm Deal With
Roads Charged
By La Follette
-j
Senator Says Agricultural
Leaders Agreed to Drop
Move to Repeal Guaran?
ty Sertion of Kail Law
Conferred in Washington
Plan to Restore State Con?
trol of Rates Declared to
H;ne Been Abandoned
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.- Charges
were made by Senator La Follette, of
Wisconsin, in a formal statement,
issued to-day, that representatives of
the railroads and of the coal, steel and
lumber interests nt a "secret" meeting
held in Washington, December 9, at?
tempted to obtain from farm organiza-?
turn leaders, and did obtain from some
such leader?--, adherence to an agree?
ment not to push legislation to repeal
the commonly called guaranty Bection
of the transportation act or to restore
state control of state rates.
The Wisconsin Senator made his
charges in elaborating on his assertion
"that a plan is now afoot to perpetuate
the fundamental provisions of the
transportation act, embodied in Section
l.VA (the guaranty section, of which A
portion expires next March 1), and to
render permanent the intolerance con?
ditions which have mad?; the trans?
portation system for the past two years
an instrument for the exploitation of
the American people."
In substantiation of h is charger, Mr.
ha Follette made public what he de?
scribed as a brt^l* report of the action
of the conference of December "J. which
he branded as a conspiracy "to betray
not only the farmers but the consum?
ing and the producing millions of the
nation." This report was made, public
by the Senator without an explanation
of its source.
"This conference," says the state
ment, "was participated in by the spe?
cial committee representing the rail?
way executives, of which W. W. Atter
bury, of the Pennsylvania Railrohd:
was chairman. It was held at the
Racquet Club, in Washington, on De?
cember 9, 1921. There had been a prff
vi?)us conference in New York on '.^vv
tember 21, of which J. R. Howard was
made chairman. Those present at th<
Racquet Club meeting were Mr. After
bury, Howard Elliott, of the Northmen
Pacific; W. J. Harahan, of the Chesa
peake & Ohio; W. B. Storny, of th?
Atchison, and R. S. Binkert, who is as
sistant to the chairman of the As?
sociation of Railway Executives, Nev
. ? -
"The iron and steel industries wert
represented by J. A. Campbell, of th<
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
of Youngstown, Ohio, and Ci E. Be
ment, of Lansing, Mich., reprlesentinj
the Novo Engine Company.
"Railway supply organizations wer?
represented by A. B. Johnson, presi
: ' of the Railway Business Associa
tion, of Philadelphia, and Frank W
?s'oxon, secretary ot the same associa
tion. Lumber interests were repre
sentcd by Charles Hill, of the Southen
Pine and Sah--. Corporation, of Ne\
York; A. B. Hammond, of the Hani
inond Lumber Company, of San Fran
cisco, and J. H, Browne, of the Pacifi
Lumber Company, New* York City.
"Construction companies were reprc
- d by R. C. Marshall, Munse
Building, Washington, D. C, and E. 1
Trigg, of Philadelphia.
"The National Industrial Traffi
was represented by W. 1
(handler. Boston, Mas-., and J. 1
Beck, Chicago.
"The National Association of Mam
1 facturers were represented by J. I
Ei irj. of Wa ?hington, D. C.
"The agricultural interests were re*
resented by J. R. Howard, Cray Silve
: H. C. McKenzie, of New Vori:; Ralp
Snyder, of Kansas, and O. E, Bradfut
of Chicago. They were all of ti
American Farm Bureau Federation, ti?
las;, three named being members of ?1
legislative committee. The agricu
tural interests were also represente
by VV. 1. Drummond, president of tr
International Farm Congress, and I
T. C. Atkeson, of the National Grang
"Mr. Atterbury state? tl il ''r," rai
roads desired the help of the inter?s
represented in securing further waj
reductions and in opposing the ameni
ments pending in Congress proposir
repeal of Section 15 A. After a coi
siderable discussion, the agricultur
representatives not being disposed
, , ose the amendments absolutely, a
1 journment was taken for lunch \vi
j the understanding that representativ
of the earners and of the agricultur
U. S. Cancellation of Allied
Debt Urged by Justice Clarke
CLEVELAND, Dec, 27, - That, the
war loans made by the united State.*
to the Allies Bhould be "promptly and
wholly canceled" was urged by .?n?
tico John II. Clarke, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, in an ad?
dress at the weekly noonday luncheon
oi. the Cleveland Chamber of Com
merce to-day.
After saying that the loans
gated about $9,500,000,000, and with
interest now amounted t<? ?11,000,000,
000, Justice <!;iiki- said he would con?
sider the proposal t*? cancel them,
tirst. us a matter of friendship for and
justice to th?. nations which risked all
with us nn?l sacrificed much more than
we did in support of the great, com?
mon cause, and, second, on the ba i? of
cold, practical business policy.
?Quoting many figures, he asserted
that our losses of men were less than
one to fifty lo ' bj he Allies and that
the Allies' 1 ?:?? " . i n if We
hould i anc -i I h loans, would be four
i ?mes as g) eal : ; our?
Justici I ;. id the debl these
countries owe the United States " a
tg bui'd 'and that it would be
an immedia ' ? ' n ulanl to the bu
?if the world if the debt were canceled
at once.
Reasons for cancellation of ! le debt,
he said, included our own? obligation
? i tie1 ? . .11 countries wit h v\ tiicl
nj tociated in the war for the
: n ? er thej "? ide red in t he
cause of humanity long before we en?
tered the struggle; th< great debt they
had alreadj incurred; the immense loss
of I if? i of thi European countries
lintaining a war that
? venl ml:: became our war as v.ell a
. finally, its probable immedi?
ate incentive to revival of world trade
and its consequent good eif'.-ct upon
our own industrial life.
interests would talk the matter out..
After lunch, Mr. Howard reported that
the agricultural representatives were
prepared to agre?: that Section 15 A
should net be amended, except for thi
removal of the proviso in Paragraph 3
relating to the percentage of return f< r
two years following Mardi I, LQ-O,
which expires by statutory limitation!
in March next.
"It, was left, with a committee com
posed of Mr. Emery, Mr. Atkeson and
Mr. Silver to rewrite the Capper bill,
one of the measures proposing rei ul
of Sect ion 15 A "
Senator La Follette declared that in
brief the alleged proposal of the rail
roads was Chat the farmers aba-ndo
t heir fight for lower ra tes in ? ?
for repeal of one clause of Section
15 A. which he added, would exn ?
automatically next March 1.
Rail Income in Class I
? Short $131.347,000
increase Over 1920 Set at
$584,004.000 i Return on
Investment Is 3 Per Cent
Spend Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.?Net income of
Class I American railroads for 1921
will be approximately $561,665,221, ac?
cording to rigieres issued lasl night by
the Bureau of Rail va; ' ?-. - and
Statistics. This $584,00-1 0
; han 1920. But Sla npso
chief of the bureau, figures net income
: still falls $131,347,000 hi rl f meet- .
i nig the fixed charges of the can
To put it another way. ! le
nting income for t!.:-: year yields a
I return of about 3 per cent on the tenta
live valuation of $1 i,\ 00,000,000 mad?*
by the Interstate < - mmerce Co
I sion to bas?- rales upon in July, 1920,
', This " per cent may be measured ,
against the 6 por cent return
templated by the trau portation act.
["he retu m an oni; one-half -.-. .,: the
i law1 alio' -. but at that the shov
i far better than si mi of the gloi my
! pictures painted by the ; si
? ing the recent wage controversy.
. i deficit of the roads for 1920 was
$715,351,000, ??? hile foi 1! 21 it will be
about $131,347,000, . o Mr. Tl ompson's
computations show. Fhis is about the
most ? ncouraging view I ? progro -
of i he railways back I
, :- o far presented,
F xi -i charges of I he railwa;
year amount to $693,012,37 I, thi ?
reau's figures show. The tables show
the roads slashed $1,257,909,000 off.
their operating expen cs this year
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16-Word 'Will' Disposes
Particularly of Watch
One of the briefest "wills" ever re?
corded i- the Surrogates' Court was
that of William W. Rivers, which was
filed yesterday, it re i?:
"Watch to Howard Mame and Clare
to act as administrators without, bond.
Last will and testament."
The document of sixteen words bore
I the names of two witnesses, one of them
a nurse.
| Mr. Rivers died December ' last at
< 424 West. 119th Street, and he made his
? ? ' the same clay, ["he name of How
; ard Rivers, of Hillyard, Wash., appears
in the petition for probate, but I
i tionship to the testator is not stated.
Th? other names probably refer ?o Mrs.
' Mamie J. River:-, widow, and William
i ('hire Rivers, o,r Hillyar*d. Mr. Rivers
also left a daughter, Mrs, Emma Rivers
McManus, of Olympia, Wash., who is not
mentioned.
While he left an estate the value of
? which was stated formally to be "more
than $10,000," Mr. Rivers died intesta ?
with regard to all of his property with
the exception of the timepiece.
INepIiew and Nieces
Of Miss Southmayd:
Begin Will Contest
Charge She Was Mentally Un
sound and Under Influence
When She LeftS2.625.000
to Hospitals and Churches
Following the examination of wit
' ? i the v. ?11 of Miss Pi:.. i' .
Southmayd, who b queathed $2,625.000
pit?is and cl urche . objecl
? probate <>f the document were
filed in the Surrogates' Court yester?
day by a nephew and three nieces .of
the testatrix. Misa Southmayd, who
died March 31 at 13 West Forty-seventh
Street, was a sister of the late Cnarles
F. Southmayd, a lawyer, at one time
a partner of Joseph H. Choate and
William M. H va:-; .
The contestants arc Samuel D.
Southmayd, Julia V. Southmayd, Meta
A. Soul ; - i md Mary < ). S. M :eki :
*' i-i i ?I ? In nge, ?.. ?:. They charge
?time ? d ith Miss
Southmayd lacked testameatary capac?
ity, that she was infiuenci d
bution of 1 ind 1 hat the
wit nessed, a i r< -
i 1 *.' law.
The nephew an i niece 3 who i ing
the contesl recen d i fa ily heir?
looms a', i pi ??? onal "? ct ? ,': ?m their
aunt, who explained in her wi
her brother had made ample provision
for t hi m in his that during
her l?:'"' me she 1 provided
for tl
Besid :.' under at?
tack, Mis ioutl layd e: ecuted two
codicil '? i : ? be
qu iathed to Allen W. E? arl s,
Wil ! Evart '.* i*
? ??? ?
: i d $30 000, Mi Evart - ? ;
few York LiJ t ce and Ti ust
?? . :::- executors.
beq
Row? is i grateful re
? ?? ? ' kind
'...." To Grace Church
Roos? i al, S*. Luke's Hospital
ork Eospital shi bequeathed
. ; ' 0 000 ea? , to six other insti
: to thirteen, other:
luthmayd left t'u
residue of her estate to Gra< Church
Children's Aid .' :ie ;. Roosevelt Hos
pital, St. Luke's Hosp cal and New Yorl
i i o - pital.
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Austria May Borrow on
Her Gobelin Tapestries
Allies (-?rani Permission to I si
Assets for $3,000,000 Credit
Pending Loan
VIENNA, Dec. 27. The Austria
requ ed : he Reparation
i ii ion to authorize it to obtain ;
provisional ad\ ai cc of ?3,010
.; ci rtain a 'set* pending an ar
rangement to ?s? ue a loan. The c ?m
, lied that it is ready t
agree to the use by Austria of he
in tapestries and eventually othe
? ? '
r : ' t for '.* i.ich pom
urs will be continu? d after th
I New Year by the Austrian Minister i
London, who explained Austria's situ-e
tion to Premier Lloyd George, Decem
??her 23, principally with the regard i
* ii question of credits.
"Good
to the
Drop"
Sold Only in Sealed Tin Cans
Convenient to Open and Use
Taft Urges Three
Reforms to Speed
Up Courts' Work
Chief Justice Fells Chicago
Bar Judicial Force Needs
increase ami Procedure
Requires Simplification
CHICAGO, Dec, 27. Expanding
activities of .the Federal courts may
swamp them, "and delay is a denial of
? ; ce," Chief Justice William Howard
Taft, of the united States Supreme
-aid to-night in an address he- '
fi r< the Chicago i>a'- Association. He
u ged three reforms, which he outlined
as follows:
"hirst, an increase in the judicial
force in the trial Federal courts, and
an organization and effective distribu
t on of the. force by the Council of
Judges.
"Second, simplicity of procedure in
the trial Federal courts.
"Third, a reduction in the obligatory
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and
an increase in the field of its discre?
tionary jurisdiction by certiorari
"There ia no field of governmental
action so important to the people as
our courts." he said. "Theje is nothing
in thosi i lurts so essential to the
doing of justice as the prdmpt dispatch
of business and the elimination from
procedure of such roijuiretnents as will
defeat the ends of justice through
ti chnicality and delay.
"While the bar and the bench are
really much less responsible for delays
ai lega! procedure than the public is
likely to think, the very fact that they
are popularly supposed to be r<
ble should make us act with energy to
justify the existent-" of our prof? -
and the maintenance of courts.
"Examination of the statistics of
| cases brought and tried and pi ? ?
: conferences with judges leave no doubt,
; that an increase of the. judges of first
, instance in the Federal system is ab
1 soiutody necessary."
I he Chief Justice to-day was pressed
into service by a crowd of children to
i ?ledicate a new skating rink near his
hotel. He will depart to-morrow for
Cincinnati.
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Belgian Prince May Wed
Princess Yolanda of Italy
Report of Enizaiiement of Duke
of Brabant Credited
in Brussels
BRUSSELS, Dec. 27 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).? Reports of the engage
; ment of the Duke of Brabant.
| son of King Albert, to Princess Yo?
landa, eldest daughter of King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy, have gained con?
siderable circulation. ignorance of
t eir reported engagement was pro
I to-day in royal circles, but other
persons prominent in Belgian society
i expressed belief that the report was
; not without foundation.
Stillman Asks Daughter
To Dine With Him To-day
Two Son? Also Invited, but Not
Guy; Anne May Bring I p
Reconciliation Topic
Attorneys for Jarnos A. Sit
banker, and h the finane
divorce proceedings placed little er? -
dence in the i i1 on reports
I in the last few <i ?
learned last r
|. .. ... admitted 1 I " '- ' '
man. who p ' mas with
mother and bi her l
. ?50 Fifth Avenue, had b
ii-k<".i to tak' d nner to-day with l>< ?
er. Her bi ?od Ale: -
ander a] o we It was e
? - '
r admitted tha*?
an?
week fr ? i? ? - ool in Paris, m .
bring u;i I ? of a rec
?f opi offi rs. Miss Still
said thai - anxious. : ?
ble to ? ,r??? i an oui come.
Jame P. Brennen, principal ai
?ho tninks ."
Stillman's idea "b? tiful Chi
night that he
been in commu * ica1 * the 1
?
0 r. ly ]
All indications yesterday wore
.
an c ise come ou
Earn i
cou;
Hand-Sewn Gloves
?>x English
Tan Cape
For Men$3_.50Women$2.85
4l>4 Fifth Av. New York 253 Broadway
ii'iaion ? 145 Tremont Street
l.uiulon?R9 Kegent Street
PHIL?DELPH?A
HOLIDAY EXCURSION
MONDAY
JAN. 2d
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AT SAKS TO-DAY
qA SALE of MEN'S
Reduced to
"OROGUE cut, semi-brogue and
**-* conservative lasts, providing
ample selection whether a man
needs a shoe strictly for business
or for semi-dress. Each is very
skilfully made and will retain its
graceful lines as long as it is of
service. The leathers:
Genuine Cordovan, Calfskin, Norwegian
and Scotch Grain in tan and black
Fifth Floor
B
aks&(to|m!U?
roadway
at 34th Street
igh Shoes and Oxfords II
?all taken from our regular stock and
The first Dual Valve Pierce-Arrow
trucks are just a year old. They are
a continual source of profit and satis?
faction to their owners.
ELLIS
KKWaHI
Tit** TO?
HARROLDS
NEW TOKK
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