The sun. [volume], March 01, 1917, Page 4, Image 4

About The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920

Image provided by: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation

                
THE SUN, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1917.
LINER'S REGISTRY .
UNKNOWN TO U-BOAT
Xnconla Survivors Hay It Was
Lenrnert Only After
Torprdolnjr.
LAST MIXI'TE i)V HOYS
Ffttlier Sargent Tolls Thrilling
Story of Pitiful Deaths
in Boat.
fperltl CMt Dfptttk to Tar. Sc-
1.vdon, Feb. 51. Survivors of the
torpedoed I-aconla who have arrived In
london osree completely that the crew
of tho mibmarlne had not the lli?htet
vestljre of Information ai to what w.n
the nationality of the ves-.iel they tank.
It mlsht have been nn American ahlp
they had sunk without warning for all
the Germans 'knew. Until they que
tloned the survivors huddled In the life
boats they knew only that It was a Ug
liner.
Two American', survivors of the
horror, visited the American Embassy
to-day and related their experiences.
They repeated the pitiful details of tho
deaths of Mrs- Hoy and her daughter
u4 their, burial In the sea.
See Derlaratloa of War.
As the full horror and atrocity of the
lAconla tragedy becomes known there Is
n Increasing belief that the United
States will declare war Immediately on
Germany, (tumors flew about the -city
late this afternoon, at leant one news
paper receiving a direct cable from the
United States raying- that the United
States would so to war at any minute.
There Is a strong demand for closer
cooperation between England and the
United states to prevent Information
retarding sailings of ahlpa fyettln to
any or to submarine commanders in,
the Atlantic
It Is pointed out that American news
papers published recently the full man
ifests of 'vessels entering the restricted
son. British officials declare thla in
formation undoubtedly proves highly
Tgluable to the enemy and if possible
It should be kept secret.
Among the eight persons who sue
hi, iiu nuv. n-v.-
cumbed
, TV1.. VnT Trffev ; I real and personal property the Tax Is
landed at Bantry. was Tom Coffey ot partment "ha8 been able to give the city
Baltimore a member of the crew of the ( J , b, ,ncreaM of ,sji352iSo4
Cunard liner. It Is not certain that. K.., ,,,
Coffey was an American citizen, one re-
port saying he was never naturalized In
the United States.
The Itnv. F. Dunstan Sargent of Gren
ada, who administered the last rites o!
the Itoman catholic cnurcn to seven
persons who perished, told the following
story or tne aeaw oi jirs. jaa.rj noj u,
Miss Elizabeth noy ot utucago ana .
Cedrlo I. (vatt of London
"Mrs. Hoy died in the anna of her
daughter. Her body slipped off Into the
aea out of her daughter's weakened arms.
The heartbroken daughter succumbed a
few minutes aftreward and her body fell
over the side of the boat as we were
tossed by the huge waves.
In Icy water- up to her knees for two
hours, the daughter all the time bravely
supported her aged mother, uttering
words ot encouragement to her. From
the start both were violently seasick,
which, coupled with the cold and ex
posure, gradually wore down their cour
age. They were brave women.
Boat Filled With Water.
"The first to die tn our boat was W.
Irvine Itoblnson of Toronto. After his
Li7i,i7iZU . th. ... .
body had been consigned to the sea we
tossed about for an hour, getting more E. V .
and more water until the gunwales were Department, individuals, estates and cor
nlmost level with the sea. Then Mr. Porations are to pay personal Uxes on
Jvatt, who was not physically strong. ProP'rt',y?u'1,t, ... a
succumbed In the arms of Wi fiancee 1 " ,3' 1 ' ",,,,T '.M
who was close beside him, trying In vain Purfd- Ire9,' T "j l' "Ld,
to keen him warm bv throwlmr her yesterday that collections of personal
wealth "of haTr abcS? hU neck ' 8 I during 19 16 represented the largest
Even after he died she refused to 1 Percentage of th .levy s Inca confollda
give him up. and although the addl-.tlon- lJ e b,,r, ' ' e JljJ
tlonal weight mad. the situation more ( Pr A8 5jf ,C" ' C
dancerous for us all. we yielded to her deplte th" fa" that ,h ,ncr"Jsf ln the
pitiful pleading and allowed her to keep "seM.m?"LlaAeyear amounteJ t0 more
the bwly. It was taken aboard the res-' th5" 'r1:0?0-000-, , , ,
cuing patrol, from which It was burled. SPec,a' 'nchlses and real estate of
The burial aboard the patrol, at which forl',0.raV?J enn , "r y $15 000.000 'of
( omclated, was a solemn and memor- the S9.000,000 total gain In the value of
able ceremony a" uabl property. Though franchises
"The Hoys were the next to pass away '""cased assessment
after Mr. (vatt. Then a fireman died, , .e"'e,,r va'V l "Win advanced
and later two others of the crew who by '36,2U,V,3, m?.k "-r''L"' f
were too thinly clad to resist exposure ' aurn Properties $41.67.4S. and the as
Altogether. we were in the boat ten awessment of real estate of corporations
hours. We were rescued In the middle, '"" lUg-u" ,B ,0tal M'
of the rnornln.-" souiment of $222,61 i.OOu.
ANOTHER AMERICAN LOST
William Kra, l.nrnnla Victim, Was
One, Mays Canard I.lnr.
William Eva, who was lost when the
steamship I.aconla was torpedoed off the
Irish coast Sunday nltrht. wax an Ameri
can citizen, according to an announce-1 ,lot entirely one of recessions. Especially
ment by Canard Line officials last night, nround the Grand Central station values
He was 74 years old and lived In Call- nav,! Kn0 "P bY leaps and bounds. In
fornla, where he was Interested In ' Brooklyn, The Hronx, Queens and Illch
mlnlng. Ho served in the civil war as a nioni1 substantial Increases are recorded,
marine on the Union side. It was ald J,r- Purd expressed the opinion that
Until to-day It had been supposed that ' values had ahUt reached the lowest
Mrs. Mary K. Hoy and her daughter 1 toM' and ,hat on account of the near
Miss Kllzaheth Hoy nfrhlcago were the' 1 completion of the great ubway system
only lctlms amotxr the Iiconla's pas i
sengers who were AmerW-ati citizens "
Eva called on an emereencv ,,a.,,
Icsued by tho Hrltlsh Consul here, and
It had been assumed that lie was a
Uritlsh subject. He applied for the
emergency passport from the Hrltlsh I
Consul, after nn American passport on'
which he had travelled to Kneland a I
3xar nsn nan neen cancelled bv tht, t
titate Department at Washington be -1
rause ho was unable to furnish the rv.f
jiartme
nent with a birth certltlcato. '
Officials of the Cunaid Line said thevl, " ?rec MOunt Union. Pa., was
had learned that Eva was born In Kmr- ',rfwht Mrday to the home of 'his
a . ... " -" ulufV M Uu Marl IjinHri- nl 1 fa 1 QlKt
jana out wiai no was brought t this I I ".V Brooklyn
country by his parents whn lie. was! ... ,:V00?lyn: . M .
4 years old and that his father became a1 t. Aft ,r. hvl"B bec" "a-luated from St.
.in hfnr. .h . - .... a . Francis's College, Brooklyn. Mr. Landry
TEACHERS MUST BE CITIZENS.
Board of Kdu. utli.ii Vote, to Adupt
11
.-"- "".
The Board of Education at Its mett-1
lng yesterday vou-d to adopt the rtcout-1
memlation of tho commute.) on by-laws
and legislation that every person apply.
Ing.for a llcenso to tach must present '
evidence to show that lit? la a, citizen of i
the United Htaten. An exception was '
inada lu tho caxu nf a teacher nf innilem !
languages, In which raue the applicant.
If not n citizen, ahall be rt'tulrid to Ueutcr Melbourne correspondent, intl
present ivlduncc that he has made legal mated to a delegation which called on
declaration of Intention tu becomo u ' nn that the Importation of American
citizen, J apples would probably be prohibited.
Fearing that Brownsville wax not to . Tnft deputation visited the Premier
get Its Just fcharu of the S7.2H.273 ap. j with regard to the restrictions on the
proprlation recommended for new school uzport of apples, and the Premier prom
buildings, alK-iatmns and hltes, four t0 ' hl utmost to assist crops,
members voted against tho adoption of J
the reportH of the commute. on cle- Flora Zn lie lie tu Appear.
5!f L"!?.rf .'i0'.'1''.' m vocational and In-1 Klora Zabelle (Mrs. Raymond Hitch.
iws Tim e I .r , Wll'',lfl,ck wl" tnporarlly lake the place
Star Znr, iwi ,eiiai ".iWfr" 1' IU, rneer, wlii fell and broke
-5,U'ur.farf"er-H-. '-F rUm. . I- Uitrop. h,.r arm on the stage at the Llhertv
joim uitn.ii ami .rs. ttena JJaru-
berger.
President William G. Wllleox an,
pounced a sptclal meeting of the board
for next Wwltirtday to dimim the pen-
Won hill and tho genera e lurntlun bill.
tatrott TtiruA:h wm
AUSTRIA TO REPLY I
TO WILSON TO-DAY
Adopts German Vimw of No
Turning Bach in U-Boat
War.
Special Cable Dupatch. to tat Sex tht
Lortion Tlmit.
AM8TIRD.VM, Feb. il. The Xl'ttr
Z'Uung saya that the answer to tha
Amtro-Hunrcarlan Oovernment to the
lTnltd Mtate In regard to submarlnu
warfare wilt be handed to the American
Ambassador, Mr. Penriidd, probably to
morrow, It la understood that the re
ply adopts the German view and lays
clearly that for the Central Power!
there can be no turning bick.
Washinotow, Feb. 2. It has been
officially established that the American
Milliner uhnAtin. f.vwit.t .f T .n rat -. a nn.
! sunk by an AiiKtro-IIuntrarlan subma
' rlne. Tli l.'-fcoat showed no marks of
Mentlrlcatlon, and It now in assumed
that she, must have been Herman or pos
sibly Turkish.
Ambassador I'enfleld. at Vienna cabled
,thla report' to-day. In response to lu
uuirles from Secretary limine.
TAX RATE FOR 1917
SAME AS LAST YEAR
Report Shown Decrease of
868,538,470 in Manhattan
Realty Values.
Startling figures which carry out the
estimates of depreciation In Manhattan
real (state during the last few years
were reported yesterday by the Tax De
partment, which says Its estimate of
loss during tho year from October 1,
191S, to October 1, 191, Is $6s.S33.470.
tht decrease, but only sufficiently to
give the entire city a net Increase in Its
real estate values of $1,713,171. This Is
the smallest Increase In the history of
the greater city and It means that only
$171, 817 Is added to the borrowing ca
pacity of the city.
These aro the outstanding facts In &
report, which shows that by holding
rigidly to the tentative assessments an.
.t, . K.U
. .... , Drobab, b aDi,roxlmata.y
tho same as last year, which Is deslrtd
by practically all city authorities. Last
year there was a $13,000,000 dlrectSL.it
tax. the like of which has not to be ac
counted for this year, but almoat an
eqUa amount will have to be provided
to take care or budget Increases and in
creased debt service.
It Is reported that to obtain an In
crease in the assessment of ordinary
real estate of even as much as $1,718,
000 the Tax Department officials had to
adopt a procedure under which they re
jected many thousands ot applications
for reductions in the assessments of
ordinary real estate. The old assess
ment fixer was discouraged from the
start and lawyers and brokers who have
madeA practice of -getting through
thousand ot claims for reductions which
they handled on a percentage basis
found business very bad at the Tax De
partment this year. But real estate was
not the only taxable property on which
original assessments were rigidly-upheld.
8 wearing off personal assessments has
met with comparatively little success.
with the result that $:,62,165 has been
added to the total of which taxes will tw
... M , , TlI
.... l I , - . .
values was largely south of Fourteenth
street, In neighborhoods which have been
going back for Beveral years. In most
parts of the borough Tax Department
figures show values to be lower than
they have been since the boom twelve
jears ago. Some few propertlen are as
sessed now for as little as 20 per cent.
nf their highest valueo. But the story Is
aml t,,iCame nl '"e benefits of the zoning
laws even the most depressed tactions
would t,oon start on an upward course.
DEACON LANDEY'S BODY HERE.
v,c,,n ,-n It null Wreck
W onld llu Keen Mrdnlned In Jane
bfrjy of the ltev Frincta Landry.
;6.Vear8 M on8 n twenty persons '
K""'u lu",,lla ln. I'enwj ivanla Hall-
began h! theological studies at Loretto,
Pa. He recently was ordained a Mib
deacon and was to be rait".-! to
tile priestly orders ln June. Solemn
rPf"Jirm mam will be chanted to-morrow
morning In the Church of Our Lady of
.Mercy on ehermerhorn street.
MAY BAB U. S. APPLES.
Anstrnllan Premier So Inllmnte to
Aid Home Cro.
Los pon. Feb 2, William Mori Is
Hughe, the Australian Premier, says
Theatre Tuesday nvnt whiln
the principal feminine role In "Have a
Heart." Miss Dresser's physicians' de-
,.l.,rh thht th ulll ,. .it.l.. tr. 1.
hospital In Hire or four days, but will
. .,. i,r,,. .., i ...u" . ,.. '
"?fore " "cr p!aco 1,1 tho
HOUSE REVENUE BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
All Amendments Dropped as
Republicans Fight Meas
ure Bitterly.
' STRICT PARTY VOTE CAST
La Folletec for First Time in
Years Backed by
0. 0. P.
Washington, March 1. The Demo
cratic revenue bill designed to ralx
$J5O,00O.O0il by i.pee!al taxes and bond
l5SUe4 pasted the Senate at 15 :22
o'clock this morning by a vote of 47
to 32 on a strict pirty vote.
Prior to the final vot. a motion
to recommit, with Instruction. to report
out a protective tariff bill, was lost by
a vote of 28 to 51, several Progressive
Republicans otlng with the Democrats.
The final vote came after the Senate
had consumed more than four hours In
rollcall votes on more than thirty pro
posed amendments, nil of which were
voted down by majorities ranging from
10 to 15 votes.
The bill as passed Is the bill as It
came from the House, Senate committee
amendments having1 been sacrificed by
the Democrats to avoid the possibility
of tleing the measure up ln a confer
ence between the two houes. The bill
will not go back to the House and will
become law when tlgned by the (Resi
dent. Immediately after th vote Senator
Stone moved to adjourn until 12:30
o'clock, so as to clear the legislative
situation for consideration of the armed
neutrality bill.'
Senator Penrose countered with a mo
tion to adjourn to 10:30 to-morrow
morning and when that had been voted
down another by Senator La Follette
was beaten. Then a motion to adjourn
until i::s5 A. M. was carried by a
vote of 0 to 9
The voting on the amendments liegan
promptly at S o'clock and the first to
be killed were eleven proposed by Sen
ator La Follette to eliminate the bond
Issue provision tn the bill and substitute
ln Its place higher Income and Inherit-,
ance tax rates. They were beaten by
consistent party majorities.
The twenty-first roll call came on Sen
ator Weeks's substitute for the entire
tevenue bill proposing an issue of twenty
year serial bonds, redeemable one-twentieth
each year, and to draw Interest at
the rate of 3V& per cent, and to be lsaurd
for $7i7,045,469. This amendment waa
lost by a vote of 08 to 15. Many Re
publican Sen'ators voted against It, in
cluding all of the Progressives and some
of the conservatives like Penrose, Hard
ing, Curtis and Townsend.
Early ln the afternoon the Fnance
Committee under direction of Senator
Simmons Jettisoned all of the amend
ments put In by the Senate caucus and
reported out. Including those limiting the
munitions tax to expire six months after
the proclamation that the war in Europe
had closed and the limitations of the
excess profits tax.
The amendments to clear up the am
biguity of the House bill language In re
gard to Invested capital which The
Sc.v pointed out and which led to a
cArrectlon were also cast overboard and
the bill put through with all Its infirmi
ties and crudities as it came from the
hands of the House.
Ofie of the important features of the
bill sacrificed to avoid the uncertainties
of a conference was the authorization of
a refunding scheme for the $83,000,000
Spanish-American war bonds, which ma
ture next August. These are not pro
vided for in the bill. The surrender of
Senate amendments also cuts the limit
of the authorization of the Issue of
Treasury notes from $500,000,000 to
$200,000,000.
The Senate also voted out of the bill
the Underwood amendment changing the
tax on oleomargarine, 50 to 21. The
dairy farmers were too many and too
powerful for the advocates of artificial
butter. Senator Underwood made an Im
passioned appeal for his offering.
NEWS PRINT MEN
SUBMIT COST DATA
Ask Federal Trade Commisiion
to Fix Price Insnring
a Profit.
Wash:nv,to:v, Feb. IS. News print
paper manufacturers who have proposed
to the Federal Trade Commlslon that It
fix prices for their product submitted to
the commission to-day the cost figures
for their mills and asked that the price
allowed permit them still to do buslnnw
a; a profit- Present costs, they declared,
would mount during the year because of
the scarcity of wood and advancing labor
prices.
P. T. Dodge, head of the International
Paper Company, said his concern at pres.
ent was making news print at a far le-w
profit thin on other grades of paper. He
Insisted that last year's rise In news
print prices was due to Increasing cost
and to an unusual demand. One of his
mills, he said, was selling paper now on
contract at a price actually less than the
coft of production.
For years, he explained, paper mills
had made little money, and projects for
tho future were not bright because for
efts were disappearing.
Mr. Dodge declared the International
Paper Company had no watered stock
and that failure to pay dividends was
due to the fact the company had made
no money.
The manufacturers will be heard again
to-monow. Paper Jobbers will appear
Friday before the commission to giv
their views as to fair and equitable
pr.ces. The commission. It is undemtood,
has come to no decision whether it wilt
set a maximum prioe for all mills or fix
a sliding scale permitting mills with
higher coats to charge higher price for
tl.etr output.
Harry llnlfe Issue Denial.
Harry Balfe, president of Aurtin.
Nichols & Co., Issued a statement last
n'ght declaring that John W. Brown,
who was listed as general Falcs man
ager of the company In the names of
members of committees handling the
movement to elect n buslnesi man as
Mayor, docs not hold that position with
the, concern. Mr. Balfe's statement was
accompanied hy a letter from Mr. Brown,
In which ho states that tho use of the
firm's name in the movement was un
authorized, and that hlH Interest "is en
tirely personal."
rlH Harvard Men Get Degree.
Camdridoe Mass., Feb. 28. Eighty
eight Harvard BtudenU who finished
their college work at mid year received
desrrees to-day, One was George C,
Caner of Philadelphia, tackle on the
football team and captain of tho tennis
team. Caner Is going to France aa an
ambulance driver.
FINLAND SPED WITH
'OLD GLORY' AGLOW
American Liner, In Yesterday,
Shot Through U-Boat Zone
Like Meteor.
XO SUBMARINE SIGHTED
Passenger Service With Eng
land Will Be Continued
by British Lines.
If any lurking Oerman submarine
commander saw through his periscope
the Finland rushing through the night ho
could not have helped knowing her na
tionality. The Stars and Stripes were
painted on her sides and the design was
Illuminated : the ensign flew over her
taffrall, picked out vividly by a search
light focussed upon it.
She flashed through the barred zone
like a meteor, as her skipper, Capt. J. B.
IIIU, desired. ' He wanted the hidden
Germans afloat clearly to realize he was
commanding a Tankee liner and that his
only protection was the flag of Yankee
land. The feeling of the passengers,
chiefly American citizens, was one of ap
prehension. They had been drilled ln the use of
lifebelts and assigned to lifeboats In
case a Oerman submarine should smite
the ship. The periscope peepers may
have ceen ,the Finland, but nobody
aboard her was aware of It, and she
cleared the danger area without' misad
venture, all passengers deciding there
after that they were entitled to take off
their clothes and sleep the slumber of
the gunless, unprotected. They described
th voyage upon the liner's arrival here
yesterday from Liverpool.
Worse Than the Trenches.
Among the Finland's cabin voj'agers
were several who had been ln the
trenche of France and heard German
sh-lls h'sslng overhead. They had more
qualms on the American liner than they
had In the theatre of war. where they
had felt comparatively safe, and they
did not hesitate to call attention to the
contrast.
Col. Frederick Hale. United States
Senator-elect from Maine, who has been
ln France noting how the British and
French armies are fighting, a!d he be
lieved the war would end within a year.
He had talks with Premier Brland and
Premier Ltoyd George and both told him
they hoped the United Stats would en
ter the war.
Col. Hale said It was the desire of
Lloyd George that America should play
a prominent part in the peace negotia
tions that would follow the victory of
the Entente Allies, of which Lloyd
George seemed assured.
The Colonel was with Premier Brland
Just after Ambassador von Berndtorff
received his passports, and the Premier
was elated over the incident and hoped
that the .ooMlerj of Uncle Sam would be
in the trenches with the soldlrrs of
France. i'ol. Hale himself said even a
small contingent of Americans in France
would be morally worth an army to the
Gallic warriors, as the soldiers of Lafay
ette at Yorktown were to the Continental
army.
Col. Hale was under fire on the Brit
ish front at Ypres. The motor car ln
which he was riding with British of
ficers was stalled and shells fell withjn
forty yards of htm. As a non-combatant
he naturally was glad when the car got
under way again.
Optimism of the Soldier.
He noted that the British and French
soldiers were unusually optimistic and
cheerful, and that they had absolute
faith in the triumph of their armies.
Col. Hale also had talks with Lord
Northellffe. Mr. Asqulth. Mr. Balfour
i and Lord Bryce, all of whom declared
that America could be of Immense as
, slstance financially in the conflict, and
tnat even a lew Tanxee soldiers s-nt
to the front would be of inestimable
value to the cause of the Entente Al
lies. Frank H. Slmonds, editor of the
Tribune, also a passenger by the Fin
land, was Inclined to believe that It
would be quite a year before tho Ger
mans were defeated. He was two months
on the French and British fronts and
was under fire at Verdun, where his
French admirers were giving a vaude-
J ville performance ln his honor in an
Improvised theatre. The German gun
' ners got the range of the playhouse and
I caused the curtain to be rung down. On
' another occasion, while he was at lunch
eon with Gen, Jaboc, they had fragments
of German shells for dessert and moved
to a pleasanter place for coffee.
Although It svas the Impression of
several passengers of the Finland that
there would be no more sailings of pas-
One of our whimsical
friends recently remarked
that he was going to take
out burglar insurance to
cover his new "Scotch
Mist" overcoat "the most
valuable overcoat he'd ever
owned."
Of course, he meant "val
uable" from the point of
service.
"Scotch Mists" are real
ly not expensive consider
ing how they are Spring
overcoat and raincoat com
bined. 'ReglattjTtd TrodmarJc
Rogers Peet Company
Broadway
t 13th St
Broadway
at 34 th St
"Tha
Pour
Broadway Corners" Fifth Are.
atWarrca at 41st St
senger carrying steamships between this
port nnd England after the departure
of the Finland. ofHclaU of the Cunard
and White Star lines said positively that
the passenger service would be con
tinued. They announced that the White
Star liner Baltic was on her way here,
that the Cunard er CarraanU had sailed
recently and that other vessels also
would tail reg-u-dless of the German
submarine menace.
I
ItefUKee Serbian Uiy.
Miss Elizabeth Shelley of Selma, Ala.,
brought ln a blue eyed, curly haired four-
ear-old Serbian boy. whom she found ln
a Serbian village that had been destroyed
hy the Bulgarians. She was working as
a Ited Cross nurse when she discovered
the youngster playing near the body ot
his mother. He was the only living crea
ture left In the village, and Miss Shelley
adopted him. He had to go to EUls Isl
and and tearfully parted from his foster
mother, who will have no trouble getting
him back to-day.
Miss Shelley was greeted by her broth
er, Capt. James I'.. Shelley of the Six
teenth United States Cavalry, who came
up from the Mexican border to take care
of her. The little boy, whose original
surname Is not known, has the Christian
name of Bogo, which In Serbian, Mlsa
Shelley said, means "l.ove of God." The
boy's surname Is Shelley now,
Ur Henry van Dyke, former American
Minister to Holland, was not aboard the
Finland, although he had been listed.
It u said that he had gone to Spain
ami would return to the United States
with Mr. Gerard, former American Am
bassador to Germany,
Other pasdengers by the Finland were
Lady Richard Wellesley, whose husband
was killed In France : Wlnslow S. Pierce.
MIsh Goldle Collins, an Australian
nrtriss. who Is here to marry Beaumont
Akxander. also a native Australian;
James F. Egan and Robert Wilson.
Mr Pleice, who is counsel for the re
organization committee of the Wabash
Railroad, said that "no single incident
since our civil war had so heightened our
prestige In Europe as the severance of
diplomatic relations with Germany." and
that American participation surely would
shorten the war.
Keeping Up With Uncle
The commerce of the United States is growing at a phe
nomenal rate.
Tonnage on the New York Central Lines has increased 76
in the past ten years.
About $50,000,000 worth of new equipment was added last
year to take care of the increased freight and passenger traffic.
$600,000,000 has been expended since 1901 for permanent improvements on the
New York Central Lines
"America's Greatest Railway System"
We must look ahead, plan ahead and build accordingly, to be able to meet
the demands of commerce for increased service and facilities.
This the railroad cannot do from earnings alone. New capital is required which
will come only as the public sees to it that rates, legislation, taxation and wage
demands are fair, insuring a reasonable and permanent return on tho investment.
I L. II X
P. &3S
WILSON PREPARED
TO OPERATETRAINS
Answer to Threat of "Big
Four." Snys Close Friend
in House.
WxsHlNOToy, FeU. 21. Any attempt
on the part of the "Big Four" to carry
Into effect the thrett Implied In their re
cent communication to the railway broth
erhoods to take "aggressive action" un
less the Supreme Court of the United
States handed down a decision on the
eight hour law hy March 5 will be met
by drastic action on the part of Presi
dent Wilson and Congress, according to
one of the, President's closest friends in
the House.
The gathering here to-morrow of the
four railway brotherhood chiefs Is viewed
with marked Interest In circles which
have been close to the legislative efforts
of the President Moreover, the threat
of the brotherhoods, as exposed In THE
SfN Monday morning, has aroused the
deepest resentment among their erstwhile
friends ln the Administration rank, and
any "overt act" probably will be met by
ffulck and aggressive action.
"The next attempt the brotherhoods
make to tie up the railroads of the coun
try will result ln the President operat
ing the trains through Government
agencies," said a member of the House
Interstate Commerce Committee to-day.
The brotherhoods by tlielr course aro
rapidly alienating the support they for
merly commanded through the country.
"1 should not be surprised If the
brotherhood heads would be Invited into
a conference with representatives of the
railroads while here this time, with a
view to taking up again the offer made
by the brotherhoods ln Philadelphia, to
turn the entire matter over to the Presi
kwwwwwwwm www. h h m wm
r Ihe 7d6tic Service
dent for settlement I have been ljn
to understand that the railroad officials
are willing to resume negotiations."
Senator Newiands e.ald: "The situa
tion regarding the railway strike is o
serious one. Whatever may be the ac
tion of the Supreme Court, legislation Is
necessary If the highways of the country
are to be kept open and commerce la to
be unimpeded. Contentions will continue
to exist b. tween the railways and their
employes as to hours, wages and condi
tions of labor
"There is no re.uon why we should
not n u uilze mm. tribunal for the set-tlem-rt-
. railway disputes. It Is all the
nio e , j r 'fa: t in v'ew of the interna
tin' i nl vi t'eruln It is that it Is
tne mt xit t.io I'iKw ay companies, to
nh ,i-.i a , die intrusted the most Impor
tant highways nf the country, to keep
th'n open mil unimpeded.
"I believe, therefore, that we should
suspend the right of strike, but that this
right should not be suspended until wo
have organized a fair tribunal for the
purpose of hearing the participants ln
tho contention and settling the dispute.
Th legislation recommended by the
President covers this ground, and it
seems to mo that It Is the highest pa
trlot.c duty of i'ongre-rt to see that the
legislation is enacted. ele we are likely
to have at the same time both an Inter
national anil a domestic crisis."
While Senator Newiands would not
admit as much, t is felt that there is no
chance for the railroad bills now.
'BIG FOUR" DEFIANT.
1 tiolntr to tVitshlnztnn to
right
Last Hoar BlftJsj
, Chiefs of the "Big Four" railroad
brotherhoods will establish headquarters
ln Washington to-night to defend their
I organizations against two assaults which
, they expect within the week. Their
first purposu Is to tight against any ef
fort of Congress to Jam through ln It
last hours the bills which have been
! Introduced by Representative William
C. Adamson ami Senator Newiands pro
viding for compulsory Investigation tn
all railroad disputes and for the seizure
by the Government of the roads for
emergency purposes.
Little prospect appears of the passage
www www m bv h a
UANX a New
Yorker never
fully appreciates the
service until, arriving
late at night in the
Pennsylvania Station
on an incoming train,
he finds, as if waiting
especially for him, an
outgoing
Tvfih
odvenue
"Bus
i
ot the measures, although they rur,
been reported out ot committee. It h
expected that Congress will devote the
rest ot its session to discussion of Um
President's proposat for armed neutral,
lty. Opportunity exists, however, tn
the hasty adoption of the bllU whttj
are framed ln pursuance of the Prr!.
dent's railroad programme.
Sam
j If I