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THE SUN, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1915.
FINDS CAPITAL GETS
LESS THAN LABOR
Civic IVdrnilion Committee
nis Wtiircs Take Two
tliinls of Kuniinjrs.
six i aisTs aim: hbpi-tei)
i N ijiivi! I'lvlc Koilerntlou mm-
ric- illvllnn "f the people's
ir ii .1 preliminary report mmlo
ct rilay. find Hint capital In-
r
tr
t
,,f fc. iv.iiu four tinip" n much !
, f i' pi utur' of l:i'ior fin does Inlmr
l e vi only half it iniirli. The
r n ttre wan appointed to InvrMliinto
i t rpe.it' il statement Hint labor
, vck " miiui'x only Is l,or cent, of
t; pr. ilnoi
Tho ii mlu'M of tlu committee nre V.
j I ,,pp of Wuterbiiry, t'oiin. ; l'rof. Jolin
t. i ru of ('"luinola t'nlvcrMty, anil
th. I!pv John A. Ityan of St. Paul's
Seminary, St, l'aul, Minn. Tliey havo
reached their conclusions after nn.ilyss
Ins renous flRtiri's on manufacturing,
mine and quarried, tho Interstate Com
merce Commission's flRUres on steam
railroads ami express compnnlto and the
financial statement of tho American
TeJephono and Telesrnph Company.
Krcm the and other souroei the.
committee concludes that In Renernl
lifter miscellaneous expense and tho
cost of materials or supplies nro de
ducted two-thirds of the net enrnlnss
go to wano earners and one-third noes
to capital. Out of this third the capi
talist must provide tor depreciation.
Cover I.nbors of 10,000,000.
Tie statistics consulted cover tho
labors of more than 2D per cent, of the
gainfully employed, or 10,000,000 waso
earners. It excludes the farm laborers,
of whom there were 6,143,799 In 1910,
nd C.OfiO.OOO farmers who are both
capitalist and lahorcrs. Statistics re
garding them are lacking.
The committee takes the stand that
the valuo of each worker is the differ
ence between tho prosa value of his
product and the cost of materials, not
the Rross value alone. Thus It says the
worker's value In 1899 was 11,025, the
difference between the pross value of his
product, $2,420, and $1,335, the cost, not
$2,420. This difference the report calls
added value, or the amount of new
wealth produced per wane earner.
From this added value. It continues,
the manufacturer must pay taxes, rulvor
tlslnc. rents, royalties, Insurance, travel-
llr.K agents, Ac, onl his payroll before
he can flsure on his share. Deducting
ruch expenses, there was In 1899 a fund
ef J8S9 per employee to be divided. Of
this, $590, or 66.4 per cent went to labor
nd $299, or 33. C per cent to capital.
The report finds that the census re
turns of 1S!9 and 1904 show not only
that wanes are IncreamnB but that they
are larger In proportion to the total to
be divided between capital and labor.
Hence tho census figures show that capi
tal'' profits are decreasing, botf In the
OKRregnte and allowing for depreciation.
II Ik Ineresie In ATrratrc XVmge.
Comparing the census reports for tho
Inst sixty years and allowing for change
i methods of taking It, the committee
cii ludos that the average annual wage
r manufacturing Industries has In
creased from $247 to $518 In sixty years
nr. I the normal rate or Interest has dc
i' i 'ImmI one-fourth. Tho wage Increase,
they llnd, was especially large from
1S09 to 1909, nnd still continues.
In speaking of the Ford profit sharing
plan, the report says It has made big
rroflts seem criminal unless accompanied
by high wages, but the extension of the
eamp pay schedules to other Industries
would mean widespread bankruptcy, be
cause of tho small average profit margin.
The report refutes the Soo.allst Con
gressional Handbook, which quotes gen
eral average figures for 200,000 or
800,000 factories, and asks, 'How does
Henry Ford pay such big wages out of
such returns as this?" The report re
marks that the prosperity of tho Ford
business or any other successful business
does not prove all other businesses to be
similarly profitable.
In conclusion, the report says that If
IB the future an Increased output per
worker should result from betterments
In the application of capital or labor or
both to Industry, experience seems to
how that the worker would secure tho
Biajor part of such Increase.
&?0R BIO JEWISH CONFERENCE.
tlamantan Ifebrewa Oppose Plan
to Limit Delegates to 1BO.
At a meeting of the Federation of
Rumanian Jews held yesterday In the
annattan Lyceum In Sixth street
ft was decided to oddoro the nronosal
of the American Jewish Committee to
now a conference limited to 150 dele
gates to consider Jewish affairs In con
nection with the war. The Rumanians
want the conference to be a great mass
meeting,
Former Assemblyman Solomon Suf
frln, chairman, said a conference limited
to a few delegates would not be demo
cratic and that the only way for the
Jews of the world to settle tholr status
Is to speak now In America In such
numbers as to carry weight.
It also was decided to establish on
the loner East Side a social centre for
Rumanian Jews, of whom there are
3C.000 In this city. The centre will have
n Institute to fit men for naturaliza
tion It Is proposed to urge Rumanian
Jews to contribute 5 cents each a week
to found It.
A report was read oivthe Home for
Convalescents, established by the feder
ation In what was formerly the Forest
rastle at firandvlew on the Hudson.
There are ten acres of land nnd the
nvestment was $100,000. OfTlccrs elected
yestirday were: President, Julius Weiss ;
directors. Joseph V. Segal, Samuel Gold
Mein, Mrs Hetty Weiss, Miss Hope
Markowitz, Solomon Dlament nnd Dr.
Th "p S. Ilereano,
VAITER CALLED $6,000 THIEF.
Arresteil at Prima; I vnnln Station
na llerki ley Itoliber,
F.M on Jones, a colored waiter In the
r's'.i jr mt at the Pennsylvania Hull
roHfi -.i.ition. was arrested yesterday
m i' by Detective Ilurgess anil
('' iimi i of the Second branch, charged
wi , . n , ng stolen Jewelry worth more
thar J nun from orntpants of the Mer
it i Fifth avenue
Tno . , n.f loser wns Mr.. W. A. Mmery,
f' n wiiom n diamond brooch and pin.
lied at $I,10ii, was stolen nn May
2k Jones was working as doorman
of the apartments.
Tin following day James Colrn, a
t.pirr.. was arrested after lie had tried
' awn the ftobn articles. He Is now
aa tini! trial. Jones wa caught III
tiu name wny.
PASTORS TO DISCUSS LAW.
Tin on Church Property . moult
llneNtlona Proposed.
F vo queMlonH of legislative policy will
be, lie ii xcd this morning at ft meeting
'n tin. ni-HMiilily hall of the Metropolitan
Life HiiiMing, which l.iiOd in.nlKterH
'" r iu Ited to at'end,
T ii,,, propoiH to church prop
in abolish State aid to ileimnilna
'Ifinn ichools, to abolish moving pictures
ecnsorshlp, to restrict sufl.;igii tn thoio
able to read nnd write and to repeal
iitl. gambling legislation,
SOUTH DISCOUNTS RULING
ON GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
State Leaders Say U. S. Supreme Court's Action Will
Have Small Influence on Political Situation
North Carolina to Fight for Its Law.
The decision of the United States
Supremo Court holding unconstltti- '
tlonnl the grandfather cl.mso In tho
constitution of Oklahoma may give the
voting power to thousands of negroes I
formerly disfranchised In n number of j
Kouthern States. Tim Sun through
Its correspondents, has obtained tl'ej
vIpwh of those best qualified to speak j
regarding what the result will bp nnd
what. If nny, efforts will lie made to'
meet tho now situation creaUd. j
Here are the opinions from various;
States affected by tho law:
TO FIGHT AT RALEIGH.
North Carolina Democrat nlleve
Their I.iif Good,
lUl.KMit. N. C. June 27. Democratic
leaders at tho State capital In advance
of tho text of Chief Justice White's
opinion In the Oklahoma and Maryland
cages, which destroyed the suffrage dc-
vlco known as tho grandfather clause,
declare complete wllllngne" to defend
North Carolina's amendment before the
Federal Supreme Court. Assuming that
tho court upset this clause because
the amendments perpetuate discrimina
tions against the negro, Democrats who
are to undertake the defence of thn
clause maintain tho substantiality of dif
ference between the destroyed amend
ments nnd North Carolina's.
North Carolina set her deadline
against tho colored people January 1,
1S67. Tho North Carolina amendment,
passed August 2, 1900, provides as a
requisite for uffrage that tho elector
must be able to read nnd write any sec
tion of the Constitution of the State In
the English lnngungv. Hut If such elec
tor could vote nnywhere In the United
Stntes prior to January 1, 1S67, or If he
bo tho lineal descendant of ny elector
who could vote prior to that date he may
register and vote without meeting the
literacy test until December 1, 1908.
Under that provision more than 80,000
blacks laid down their right to vote
and It Is asserted that they gave up their
rights eo readily nnd unresistingly that
thore Is no public record of a dis
franchised negro offering to register
after the North Carolina amendment
with Its grandfather clause went Into
offeot
It Is admitted here that If North Caro
lina's amendment Is destroyed nnd the
negro again votes the State will go
overwhelmingly Republican In 1916.
The Republicans In 1906 fltrongly
urir?d an extension of the grandfather
clause as a further protection to the
whites. Attorney-General Hlckett led
the fight against longer Immunity fo'
the whites. E. I.. Travis, chnlrmnn of
the State Tax Commission, Is persuaded
thnt the act can be triumphantly de
fended. He opposed the extension of
tho grandfather clause, nerause of the
State's refusal to perpetuate a dltlnc
tlnn between the two voting elements he
believes the North Carolina amendment
Is safe.
Republicans assert that they will seek
no reopening of the polls to the mass of
blacks. From a white party of 40.000
and 80.000 blacks In 1900 the Republi
cans 'mve grown to 115,000 whites nnd
now have one Representative In Con
gress. The constitutional amendment
gave the new Republican party Its life.
BEATEN IN MARYLAND.
Grnmlfnttier Tlntine Never Popnlnr
at Polls.
Hai.timohk, June 27. The decision
declaring unconstitutional the grand
father clause will not affect the vote
of either party In Mnrylnnd, as the law
applies only to small municipalities in
various parts of the State and not to
the State at large, Severn! attempts
were made to disfranchise negroen by
Incorporating the clause In the Constitu
tion, but the amendments wero defeated
at the polls.
Annnpolls, Elllcott City. Elkton nnd
several other small cities In which the
negro vote cut a figure thereupon ob
tained by leglslitlve enactment laws
which made the grandfather clause
applicable to municipal ele-tlons only,
hoping thereby to cvado the constitu
tional objections.
At the first attempt to enforce this
law the registrars were threatened with
damage suits and In Elllcott City none
would consent to serve. In Annapolis
the registrars did not heslMte to en
force the law nnd negroes were turned
away.
NASHVILLE LOOTING
CASE ARGUED TO-DAY
Receivership for City Finances
Owing to Stolen Hooks
Is Asked Also.
N'ARitvtf.LE, Tenn., June 27 The first
nrgument In court over the Nashville
municipal scandal will come to-morrow
In chancery, when the City Commis
sioners of Nashville will moe to dis
solve the Injunction that restrained
them two weeks ago from summartly
dlsmlsslng Comptroller Miles Hums from
duty nfter Major Howse had, at a meet
ing of the Commissioners, held Rums
tesponslble for the safe keeping of clty
books that were missing.
Since the attempttd dismissal of
Rums, the results In the affair In
clude the Indictment of Rurns, Finance
Commissioner I.yle Andrew. and Assist
ant City Treasurer J. R West, Jr, on
charges of theft nf public rtcords and
destroying books and public record. to
the Injury of other . the fll.ng of a bill
to put the city financial uff.ilrs In the
h'inds of n receiver, tho arrest of Treas
urer C. A. Myers on the, charge of mis
appropriating $I7,ii00 of the cltys In
teiest money, and a wholesale theft of
the city cash and revenue books.
Comptroller Ruins apsertid that he
win not responsible for the lo.. of the
booltM and so reported. Previously In
his Injunction suit ho chaigud that An
drews and West had looted the city
tio'i-iiiry and that was why tho booh
wero Holen West has since be en
sought, but In bellevid to Ii" In Australia
Hums bays that In hlrect contracts
the city has been robbed of more th in
$100,noo and he Hpeclllcally ohargeR that
tho Mayor had a large amount of city
money ev.nnded to boost his prlvito
Inter sts. So alarming have been Hurns's
cluiiges that In addition to the receiver
ship movement In court, there are efforts
being made to ticall all of the head
otlli'lals of the city
Wltih the find books found mlslng and 1
i many others hIoImi, It I" regarded ns
; doubtful If the los nf the city can ever
I be correctly ascertained
! Following tho Injunction suit titgu
'tnent to-morrow will be the receivership
, for the city finances The recall will b
next In order, some little period being
1 necessary to obtain the required sig
natures of 1,800 citizens for that move-1
mnt. 1
Republican leaders In the State en
tered suit In the United States District
Court ngnlnst the registrars. The late
Judge Morris decided the act to be In
violation of the Fifteenth Amendment
nnd held the rcglstpirs liable. An np
peal was taken to the Supreme Court
1'endlng this appeal no further at
tempt was made to disfranchise the
negroes, and the law has since been a
dead letter. At the samo tlmo It has
had the effect In Frederick and some
other cltlrs of frightening a number
of the Mucks, who were nfrald to
register.
Other measures were employed to
ketp the negroes from the polls In cer
tain counties. An act known as the
Wilson billot law, and which contains
ii literacy test, applies to five counties
In the State.
Still nnother law, the "naturalization
act," ns It Is called, which requires
every voter leaving the State for a
period to make oath that he Intends to
return In n certain time, disfranchises
many negraw who go outsldo tho State
to work. The white man whoso work Is
at home Is not often enmeshed In the
law.
MISSISSIPPI IS SAFE.
Tax I.nvr Said to np KfTrctlvr as
(Irnnilfnther Clause.
Jackson, Miss., June 27 The de
cision of the United States Supreme
Court In the Oklahoma and Maryland
election cases will not affect Mississippi,
her Constitution builders having steered
clmr of nil such breakers ns the
"grandfather clause." basing the right
of suffrage on what Is known as an
"educational qualification." nnd which
years ago stood the assaults of Senator
Hoar of Massachusetts and others.
Section 241 of the Constitution of
Mississippi reads:
"Every male Inhabitant of this State,
except Idiots, Insane persons nnd Indi
ans not taxed, who Is a citizen of the
United States, 21 years old nnd upward,
who has resided In the Stato two years
nnd one year In the election district
or In tho Incorporated city or town In
which he offers to vote and who Is
duly registered ns provided In this ar
ticle nnd who has never been convicted
of bribery, burglar-, theft, arson, ob
taining money or goods under false pre
tences, perjury, forgery, embezzlement
or bigamy and who has paid on or be
fore the first day of February of the
year In which he shall offer to vote nil
taxes which may have been legally re
quired of him and which he hns had an
opportunity of paying according to law
for the two preceding years and who
shall produce to the officers holding the
election satisfactory evidence that he
has paid said taxes. In declared to be a
nullified elector."
This section cuts out thousands of
voters Just such voters ns the "grand
father clause-' was designed to catch.
The Ignorant and the vicious element
will not pay their taxes for two years
prior to the election.
The Supreme Court of the United
Stntes In Williams vs. Mississippi held
thnt this section does not violate the
Constitution of the 1'nlteJ States. In
the same case It was held that Missis
sippi's poll tnx of $2 on all male In
habitants Is valid.
WEST VA. NOT AFFECTED.
Itepnlillean Have Prevented
Ciraiidfntlier Clnuae Psiasitr,
WltRKMSco, W Va.. June 27, Tho
United States Supreme Court's recent
decision on the so-called "grandfather
clause" will have no political effect In
West Virginia, generally regarded as
Southern State. While there always has
been more or less of a sontlment toward
the enactment of a similar law In the
State, yet over since tho separation
from the Old Dominion the Republicans
either havo been In power or have been
strong enough in the State Legislature
to prevent the passure of such a
measure.
In 1912. when It appeared that tho
Democrats had bright prospects for
carrying the Statp, an almost srucccnsful
attempt was made at having the clauv;
written Into tho platform, At the sub
sequent legislative session an attempt
was made to nave n Jim Crow car
law enacted, but this too failed by a
small majority.
Only about half a dozen counties In
the entire Stato have what ore consld
ered largo colored vctcs. Strangely
enough, these are among the largest
counties ns well. Their strength In the
Legislature has been sufficient to pre
vent the passage of the laws mentioned.
I WILL FIGHT FOR AUTO
i FINES CITIES COLLECT
Woodbury, Contending Money
Is State's, to Start Action
Ajyninst Buffalo.
Ai.bant, June 27. The city of Buffalo
will be made the defendant tn nn nctlon
Instituted by Attorney-General Wood
bury to recover for the State the fines
and penalties received by the city for
violations of the motor vehicle law dur
ing the last five years. The suit If
successful will be followed by similar
actions against a large number of other
cltleB, besides towns and villages, which
have refused to turn over autcmobllo
fine to the Stato Trensurer a pro
vided by the Callan motor vehicle law.
The suit Is for $60,000, although tho
exact sum retained by tho city of lluf
faln Is not known, The Attorney
General has been Informed that one Item
of $11,000 alone has been retained by
the city.
Complaint has been mado that many
municipalities have found It a source of
gre'it profit to Impose upon visiting mo
torists tine and petviltles for merely
nomlnal violations and to ue the money
to collected for local purposes,
Tho Ruffulo autlvrltles contend that
their local charter penults the reten
tion of the flues nnd penalties. The
Attorne-Clencrnl takes the contrary
view. .
The action will determine once and for
all whether or not the State roads are
to benellt from the operation of the
Callnn motor vehicle law.
F.levHtor Operator llnrt,
Gnston Glttens. 419 Went Fifty-third
stteet, who Is employed ns an elevator
operator In thn Wllbraham npartments
at Thirtieth street and Fifth avenue,
w:ik seven ly Injured yesterday after
noon when ho was caught between the
door of the car anil tho floor He was
taken to HelU'Vim Hospital, wheiv It
w;i snld lie probably will die
GLEN ISLAND
WILL BE OPENED THIS WEEK I
LESS WAR DISTRESS,
COMMISSION FINDS
HocUefpllor FonndiHion fiots
Jfppnrt of Hotter Condi
tions In Europe.
GERMAN ATP F01J POLAND
The war relief commission, sent by
the Rockefeller Foundation to stricken
Europe, last November to make a first
hand study of conditions ns to the time,
plnoe nnd means of rendering aid most
efftctlvely, hns completed Its survey of
conditions as they affect non-combatants
In nil the countries at war except Italy
and Turkey, which are to bo visited at
nn early dnte.
The foundation Issued yesterday a
Mntemelit ns to Its great relief work,
accomplished through tho commission,
In which It said that tho outstanding
feature of tho situation among tho non
combatants In Europe to-day Is that
"the more highly organized communities
aro finding it 'poss'iblo to allovlato acuto
distress among their peoples."
"At tho outsut of the war and duo to
Its sudden development," tho statement
gois on, "there was a severe dislocation
of economic life throughout tho world,
not alone In tho belllgorent countries.
A readjustment has now be!ii effecud
and tho populations have becomo meas
urably udaptod to wur conditions. Thus,
oven countries ilko llelglum aro now
nblo to help themselves to a degrto Im
possible six months ago, though Hel
glum Is atiU wholly dependent on the
Commission for Relief In llolglum lor
tho Importation of food supplies and
would again bo confronted by famltio If
Importation were stopped.
Suffering nnd want are still acute
In Serbia, Russian Poland and In parts
of Gallci.i. Serbia and Montenegro nro
still In tho throes of typhus and eub
stantl.il economic or social recuperation
Is Impossible at present."
Personnel of Commission.
The original members of the founda
tion's war relief commission were Wlck
llffo Rose, director-general of tho Inter
national Health Commission, chairman,
Ernest P. Hlcknell, secretary of tho
American Red Cros-s Society, and Henry
James, Jr.. manager of tho RockuMlcr
Institute. Eliot Wadsworth of Hoiton
became a member of the commission In
March and Jeremiah Smith, Jr.. Ill June.
Tho foundation cooperated with tho
Uolglan'RolIof Committee of New York
beforo waiting for Its own committee) to
report and spent a little more than $1,
000.000 In providing the greater part of
five full cargoes of supplies for lielgian
relief. Its commission opened un olllco
In Rotterdam. Holland, for receiving.
sorting nnd shipping clothing sent to tho
llulglnn Rellof Committee, nnd later tho
foundation organized several thousand
Delglan women Into seHlnt, camps In
Holland, whero they wero re'ugees. Ill
which undertaking $90,000 was expended.
Tho foundation also appropriated
$20,000 a year for the pnment of
stipends to scientific profesAor-i of liel
gian universities for whom laboratory
facilities have been provided In England,
Messrs. Rose, Hlcknell and Jam?.
mado a tour of inspection through north
ern Franco between tho firing lino and
tint Relglau border, which resulted In
Immediate relief for tho communities of
l'umay nnd (Jlvet, whero cxtremo suffer
ing was found.
Panda for llnaultnl.
The foundation provided fund with
which a military hospital at Complrgue
in olmrge of Dr. Alexis Carrel of tln-
Rockefeller Itutltiitrt for Medical Re
search might be fully equipped with Hp
p.'iratus and also eupultcd w.th techni
cians, Meisrs. Jamis ami Hlcknell found
great destitution In Serbia, which v.'iih
overshadowed, however, by uu epidemic
of typhus. Tho people were threatened i
also with epldemlori of typhoid nnd
cholera. The foundation took tho mat-1
tnr up with tho Red Cross, and the Ser
bian Jovernment Invited tho presence of
uu American sanitary commission,
wilicu jb uouer wiw i-uurMf oi ur. jurnuru
1. Strong, profnsior of tropical disease."
at Harvard, The foundation provided
$sr.,000 of the $12i,000 expended for
equipment nnd maintenance of the sanl
tnry commission.
Messrs. Hlcknell and Wadsworth were
unable to find an available grain supply
In Denmark, Sweden, Russia anil
Rumania for shipment to Poland, but
this sltuotlon has now been taken caro
of, as the German Government recently
advised the commission that, having
completed nn Inventory of Its food sup
plies, Germany found lUelf In a posi
tion to assume entire responsibility for
tho relief of that part of Roland under
Its control.
Tho was relief commission of the
Rockefeller Foundation has established
headquarters in Switzerland, from which
It will keep track of condition In the
war area.
nHlnftTaB
OVER JULY 4
Niagara Falls
Wt Shore R. R.
$1225
New York Central
Tickets on sale July 2nd (for
6,00 p.m. train and later); July
3rd, and morning trains of July
4th. Returning until July 6th.
Adirondack and Green
Mts. 1000 Islands
Very Low Round Trip
Farei. July 2nd and 3rd. Re
turning until July 6th.
Chautauqua $12.75 via
West Shore R. R. $13.35
via New York Central.
Going July 5th and Aug. 2nd.
Return limit, Aug. 3rd and
31st, respectively.
Special Fare Bulletin
rlvlr.c lull particulars of tlolldoy Kicurilnnt,
muy lip uUulnml ot lifii Vurk Cn.dal (ickri
uent nr oilitr'sn Travel llurfau, (irnj
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Brooklyn 'Phone, 167 Main
LOCKOUT IN CHICAGO
MAKES 250,000 IDLE
Con trar tors flpgin to Tic I'p
9700.000,000 Capital In
Fiirlit on Unions.
sinr iroitsEs from city
ClttPAfio, June 2?. With the shipment
of twelvo carloads of horses to pasture
In Wisconsin began to-dny n construc
tion tleup In Chicago which stops nil
orgnnlred contractors and material
manufacturers from operating until the
unions now on strike submit their grlev
nnce to arbitration. The emploers
say that no lss than $700,000,000 p.ipl
tal and 200.000 mechanic of all sort
In addition to the r.n.nfto now out of em
ployment will be Involved.
Roth side. are preparing for a bitter
struggle and say It will be a. light to a
finish. Tho employer say the shut
down I to retaliate against the strikers,
who refused to submit to arbitra
tion the difference with thn contractor.,
nnd that tho tleup will bo complete nil
over the city nnd suburbs within a
week.
Officials of the Carpenters District
Council said to-night that beforo the
war I much older thn striker. prob
ably would appeal to the officials of
the International union for help to com
bat tho lockout edict. Such nn appeal
probably would bring the executive coun
cil of the American Federation nf Labor
Into the trouble, with the ultimate re
till that the labor union all over the
country would b called upon to support,
morally and financially, the Chicago
union men.
The flrt shipment of horse out of thn
city pending nn adjustment of the
trouble wa mad" by team owners and
material men whoe plant. hnve al
ready been closed down.
Thl throws several thoumd team
ster. out of work. Many mill and ma
terial plants will not reopen to-morrow
Other plant will cloe from day
to day a th" mill owners complete con
tract. already under way. All pending
work will be flnl'hed
With the shutdown of nil lumber
vards, stone, llmo and cement work,
brick yard, sash, door nnd Mini mill.
ami an otner sources of building con
struction upplles. more than 200.000
men will be Idle. Deprived of material,
the Independent contractor who hiv
lened Individual agreement with the
carpenter nt 70 cent an hour will be
unable to continue work nnd the 10.000
of the lfi.000 carpenter back at work
also will bo forced Into the rank. of tho
Idle, It I said.
The shutdown order I directed not
only ngi!nt the carpenter but ngalnt
the heet mt.il worker, pnlnter., Iron
worker, lathers and other trade on
strike. The employers say they are de
termined to carry on the preent war
fare ngalnst what they term "Intoler
able abuses of un!onlm" nnd to force
the acceptance by the union of a uni
form form of nrreement for th" entire
building trade Industry.
Itnfcher llnnga Himself.
Adolph Sommers. i7, a butcher,
a cloth line to the knob of hi
room iloor at 302 Convent avenue, yes
tenbiv nfternonn, threw the other end
of the repe through the trnnom and
stepped Into the hall, placed hi head
in a nooo which ho had formed. He
wa deail wren his wife, Mrs. I.llllnn i who lived a-. 137 Attorney sireei. jton
Sommers, and hi damrhter, Mls Jean- , hsttan. Isrnel Kessler, the man who set
ette, returned after a short walk. Som- I the fire, pleaded guilty nnd was sen
trier had been discouraged by continued fenced to not more than thirteen and n
U henlth. I ha'f years.
ItKAI. KSTATE AT AUCTION.
TO INTELLIGENT MEN
You know, after 7 years of hard times, real estate now is at the bottom.
You know that prosperity is just ahead.
NOW is the time to buy
You have seen the wonderful growth of the Bronx.
Its growth is now 85,000 people per annum.
YOU KNOW IF YOU CAN BUY LOTS FOR
$50 TO $350 EACH
directly on the line of that growth
Not in the outskirts, but here in town
Within seven minutes' walk of a new apartment house district
Within six minutes by trolley of Simpson St. Subway Station
Within a few blocks of a station of the Lexington Ave. route
YOU CANNOT MAKE A MISTAKE
YOU MUST MAKE MONEY
Your own common
STORMY WEATHER OF
people from seeing the lots. It only takes a few dollars to buy a lot, as 10
can remain on Mortgage. People who have a little money and the nerve
to buy will get the benefit. Our orders are to sell; we will do it if we
have to give them away. You will never get
EXAMINE THE LOTS TO-DAY tV.k AUCTION SALE OF
579 LOTS
of the Estate of B radish Johnson, Inc.,
On Clnson Pt. Rd., Randall Ave. iEaterly extension of 149th St.), Ludlow Ave.
(Easterly extension of 163rd .S'f.i, White Plains Rd., and adjacent avenues
and streets, to be
SOLD AT PUBLIC AUCTION
No matter what price they bring
TUES. & WED., JUNE 29th & 30th, at 10:30 A. M.
at the Exchange Salesroom, 14 Vesey Street, N. Y, City
4 U o
SAVINGS BANKS BOOKS TAKEN AS DEPOSITS ON PURCHASES OF LOTS
TO IU-ACII PROPUKTY
Take Subway, Rionx Park Train to Simpson Mreot M.itiou, thence WtMcliister Avenue trolley car
liown Claion Point Avenue to property.
For maps, apply to
J. Clarence Davics. Moth St. & .ul Ave.
. Joseph P. Day, 31 Nassau St.. . V. City.
INCENDIARIES USED
OIL FRANKFURTERS
Inaenious Means Employed by
Firebiijrs Sliown in Adam
son's Tleport.
MANY CASKS DF.TKCT lil)
Many case of the detection of In
genious Incendiary crimes nro related
In the annual report of Fire Commis
sioner Adamon, which will be Issued to
morrow. Formerly tho arson report of the Fire
Department ha contained only statis
tics concerning the number of arrests,
conviction nnd other data, but this year
several linuual crime ntn made public
ns well.
The total number of convictions for
aisou In ID! I was 37, as sgalnt fl in
1D13. Tho reduction Is accounted for
by the fact that many professional fire
bugs who opornted In the city had been
convicted previously and the number of
Incendiary crimes materially reduced.
As the result of a fire In n dry goods
and dressmaking store nt 449 Irving
avenue, lltooklyn, on September 1C,
ll14, Mrs. Theresa Huber, proprietor of
tho store, was sent to Auburn prison for
an Intennedlato term of not more than
five years, and her seventeen-year-old
daughter, Mary, was committed to the
lledford reformatory.
One of the feature of the fire was the
use of kerosene oil sausages to spread
the. blaze. Mrs, 1 tuber Instructed her
daughter to put the snusnge bladders
filled with tho Inflammable oil In a card
board box with trailers attached, The
tiring plant with fuse lighted was placed
under the counter of the store about 10
o'clock, and the attention of a passing
policeman was attracted by the flames
two hours later. As the sausage had
not Ignited and ivnttered the blazing
ol!$jthroughout the room, he was able to
extinguish the blaze and discover tho
sausages
Mrs. Huber nsserted that an Intruder
had laid the plant, but later, when her
desperate financial condition was shown,
both sho and her daughter confessed that
they hnd i.et the fire to get $3 500 In
surance. j As the result of n fire In a. butcher
I shop at iSTi Seventh nvnue, nrooklyn,
thst endnngerert the lives of several flre
I men Giuseppe Jlalmonde, the proprietor,
wa sent to Sing Sing for not more than
ten years Five separate fires, eight
bladder skins containing turpentine a
tlmo fuse, trailers and the use of ether
' are romt of the featuros of Ralmondo's
Mpz When th firemen charged In'o
j the burning shop they were caught be
I tween two fire,
tl,l i The hiring of a professional firebug To
bed- mako a successful fire In a dry goods
store at but Jerome street, urooKiyn,
on January 17, 1918. resulted In a sen
tence of not more thnn twenty years
Imprisonment In Sing Sing for Hyman
Stehr, one of the partners In tho store.
IlKAl. 1TATK AT AITTION.
sense will tell you this
SATURDAY & SUNDAY has kept
SHOWS HOW STATE
SWELLS CITY'S TAX
Wallstein Makes lleport on
Pari of Hmljret Made Man
datory at. Albany.
Ill A YY COUNTY TIUHPEN
A report showing how much of this
city's iinnual tax budget Is dlscretlon
nry nnd bow much Is forced upon tho
city by mandatory laws from Albnny
was nent to Mayor Mltchel yesterday
by CommlsNloner of Account. Wall
Meln. It Is the first complete ntiolysln
1 ver made for this purpose. It covers
every Item In the I'.lir. budget.
The amount of the budget or lax
levy I $19VJ8!i.7Sfi, From till Mr.
Wallstein excludes $fi..94 1.473, which
represents appropriations obligatory
under the Charter for debt service and
deficiencies! In tho collection of taxes.
Tho remainder, $133,045,313. Is the tax
levy budget which the Commissioner
has nnnlyied.
Ho llnds that 28 per rent, of this
nmoiint Ih mandatory under Albany
legislation, 37 per rent. In either man
datory or pnrtly so nnd 83 per cent, la
entirely discretionary with tho city's
budget makers, who are the Hoard of
Hstlmato nnd the Aldermen.
Tho burden Imposed by the legisla
ture 011 the city Is e-peclally heavy ns
regards county government. Of the
$7,033, 71(1 appropriated for county gov
ernment for this year Cl per cent wns
absolutely mandatory, tho Commis
sioner finds. The county salary roll of
1 tl. which must be met by taxa
tion, I nearly 7! per cent, mandatory,
Tim report siiowH that the Legislature
hns left the city government without
nny power, however, over the payiolls
of these comity offices :
In New York county. Commissioner
of Records. Commissioner of Records
for tho Surrogate's Court, Commis
sioner of dinars and Surrogates oltlce.
liionx, Commissioner of Jurors and Rub
lie Administrator. Kings, Commissioner
of Juiois and Surro?ate's oflice; Queens,
Public Administrator, Richmond, Com
mlsloner of Jurors, and In nil counties
the Supreme Court.
"The foregoing." says Mr. Wnllsteln,
"Is based on the very narrow definition
of niunilntory appropriation ns those
which the budget makers have no power
to Increase or decrease, either because
the exact ifmount Is trxed by law or be
cause the power of fixation Is conferred
upon officers other thnn the budget
makers.
"The conclusion reached nro based on
n study of the State Constitution, the
City Chnrter, the consolidated laws, tho
consolidation net of iy.2, the Codes of
Civil and Criminal Procedure anl a mass
of Isolnted statutes, all as they affect
the annual cost of conducting the city
government. On doubtful legal uue.s
tlonn conclusions are based on opinion
obtained from the Corporation Counsel.
"The purpose of the analysis Is two
fold It will uncpiestlonnbly be of as
slstnnei) to the legislative commltteo
which Is i-oon to make a study of the
finances of this city. In addition, as
supplemented by a study which will soon
be completed of the legislation enacted
In 1911, It will be of assistance to tho
makers of next year's budget In that It
will show Just which of the various de
p.artnientnl and county requests for up
proprlatlon must under the law be
granted by the budget makers."
KKAI. KSTATK AT AITTION.
an opportunity
like this again.
Influence
Women have more Influ
ence on purchases by men
than vice versa. Perhaps one
reason is that most of a man's
time is taken up earning
money.
Consider how much influ
ence your wife has in the
matter of your wearing ap
parel and how little you nave
as to hers.
Mr.W. Hooper of Rogers,
PcetCompany recentlysald:
"Nowadays it is recognized
that women do more buy
ing than men. liven In a
man's store women do much
of the buying. They buy
almost all the underwear f or
the men and a good many
of bis neckties. They do not
buy a man's suits, but they
arc very apt to be with him
when he buys a suit. When
a man has a woman with
him, tho clerk should sell to
the woman."
Increasingly, manufactur
ers are profiting by the in
fluence of women, obtained
through Butterick publica
tions. BUTTERICK
"I." Tie Wr-l.a Dinner Table.
A railroad dislodged by a train
on the Urndty elevated in Williams
burg, when- the road ' b"lng third
Hacked, fell Oilrty-flvc feet to the side
walk In fnt of 7'i Hrnadwny e.tor
day afterr,n and then bounced through
the plate f iass window of a restaut afTt,
showerlr. four diners with glass. The
tie nurrff.vly missed n man and hi wife
nnd tl.fo .blldrcn on the s'dewa'k,
foeUJorld Field
Safety First
Vbu can not be prop.
rry insured unless
vou are safely injured
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