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THE SUN, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1919.
LUSK REVEALS NEW
I. W. W. PROPAGANDA
Magazines Urged Riots and
Decisive Blood Battles to
End Capitalism.
BAND INJUNCTION DELAY
I
Woman Teacher in Kansas
Seeks Radical Literature for
Her Wealthy Pupils.
Row the sntl-capttallstic and revolu
tionary doctrines of the I. W. W. may
be Inculcated In the minds of school
children was Indicated In a letter, taken
In the raid on I. W. W. headquarters
and read Into the record of the Lush:
Legislative Committee yesterday.
A teacher in a private school In Sallna,
Kan., asked that some of the L W. W.
literature be sent to her, so she might
present It to her boys, most of whom
came from "caDltallstlc homes."
"Tha phonographic Wilson" Is the way J
tne president or the united states is
referred to In an article In a Finnish
radical paper with a Jaw breaking name,
which being translated means "Class
Strug-Vie." The article Is a bitter attack
on the American form of government.
' The following paragraph la taken from
the same magaslne :
"And thus a rioting mob Is the one
and only possible means for organising
a fight In the everyday as well as In
these last open and decisive blood bat
tles between the capitalists and the
working classes. The above mentioned
are Illustrations of the pure morals of
the working classes. To hell with the
teaching of peaceful revolution! The
bloody seizure of power by the working
classes Is the only possible way. Be
j cause as long as our enemies are able
to raise even one sword a bloodless fight
is a day dream."
Sarcasm Is levelled at the activities of
the authorities who are trying to sup
press radical propaganda in an article
In the organ of the Workers Defence
Union. Referring to the raid on the
Russian People's House In March an
article said :
"The New York public had their jaded
appetites whetted the next morning by
the news that a Bolshevik resolution
1 had been nipped in the bud by the
, prompt and courageous action of the
famous bomb squad led by the redoubt
able Geegan."
Causing? Expense to Taxpayers.
Apparently the I. W. W. have found
new way to separate the monled claed
from some of their wealth. In a
pamphlet describing their tactics appears
this:
"The Interference of the Government
Is answered by open violation of Its or
der, by going to Jail In masses, thereby
rauslng expanse to the taxpayers, that
Is. the owning class."
Nothing appeared in these directions
about eating as much as possible while
In Jail so as to make the burden of the
taxpayer still greater.
Ono L W. W. In Brooklyn boasted In
a letter that he had affiliated himself
with the Left Wing Socialists In an at
tempt to lead them Into the I. W. W.
camp.
In one of the magazine articles It was
revealed that Berkman, probably Alex
ander, the anarchist, was spending his
time to good advantage in Atlanta,
teaching English to one Mike Makarendo,
convicted of seditious utterances.
Under the title of "What May Hap
pen Next Summer" an article in the
; Class St-mogU' said there were signs of
revolt on a large scale In Canada and
Mexico and there was not a single
I country on earth "which could . boast
that her workers were not moving."
The name signed to the letter from
Sallna, Kan.. was "Grace Qanarle
Plank" (Mrs. R. L. Plank). The letter
1 was addressed to I. W. W. headquarters
, In this city and read :
"Will you please send me some lit-
I erature suitable to use in an attempt
to set your Ideas and principles pre-
' menUS to a group of boys of high school
age? I teach in a private school where
I have no restrictions. It Is my desire
to let the boys get direct Information
about the radical movements through
cut the country before their prejudices
become too strong. Please do not select
things that are so venomous as to an
tagonize at the outset. It goes with
out saying that in a private school the
boys come mostly from capitalistic
I homes. (Jive them a chance to
know why they are so much hated by
your group before you strike them for
Imperaltsm Rnlea Her.
I The article that savagely attacked
this Government started:
' "When the phonographic Wilson re
turned from Europe he stated In his
speech that the European diplomats
want American democracy In Europe.
Why Just In the real American way?"
many may have thought. Because here
In this country the capitalistic bureau
cracy and their tools still have, in the
nam of Justice and patriotism, an im
perialistic power to rule. For Instance,
here members of the working classes
may be doomed to death without any
reason whatsoever.
The article continued In this strain
enumerating alleged outrages on lib
erty and ended :
"Here the members of the proletariat
may be treated indiscriminately, clubbed,
blackjacked, shot, hanged, tarred and
feathered and transported In secret
trains to secret servitude. And what Is
more, If one happened to be bora under
the rule of another kingdom or empire.
to be deported from the country. No
wonder that the European diplomats de
sire Just such real American democ
racy." Another article In the same magaslne
contained this :
"In order to overthrow the rule of the
tyrants we must use weapons of the
most modern invention, as It would be
ridiculous to try to destroy a first-class
battleship with a row boat"
After adjournment of the hearings
until Thursday an executive session was
, held to map out the work for the future.
No Intimation of what the committee
had In mind was given, however. Sena
tor Lusk said they had nothing before
the committee that In any way connect
ed the radical movement with the sea
men's strike. He understood, he said,
that Andrew Furuseth, Its leader, was a
loyal American citizen.
Uxtterxarer Rebukes Probers.
The Rand School authorities made
public the following, whlrh tbey said
bad been wired from White Sulphur
Ajprfflga by Samuel Untermyer, their
counsel, snd sent by messenger In the
form of a letter addressed to Archibald
K. Stevenson, assistant counsel of the
Lusk committee :
"It appears from the concluding para
graph In an article In The 8i-n of yes
terday. Just received here, thst, not
withstanding the direction of thu court
to counsel In the pending action of the
Jeop)e of the State of New York vs. the
American Socialist Society (the owner
of the Rand School Of Social Science) to
refrain from discussing the Issues In
volved In said case, you are persisting
In publishing garbled, prejudicial state
ments. "If you think that you or the chair
man of the iAisk nrvestlgatlng commit
tee 01 the Attorney-General of the State
of Nsw York can successfully conceal
your Identity In these outpourings, which
I shall Insist constitute repeated con
tempts of court, you are mistaken. Tou
are hereby notified that these facts will
be called to the attention of the court
at or before the trial of said case."
Representatives of the Attorney-Gen-ral's
office attempted yesterday to get
Justice McAvoy to vacate his order pre
venting the Lusk Committee from using
the books taken In the Rand School raid
pending the arguments on the applica
tion for the writ of prohibition. He
will make his ruling to-day. The argu
ment on ths writ will be Tuesday.
Rand Connsel Asks Details.
In their answer to the complaint of
the Attorney-Oeneral In the suit for the
vacation of the charter of the Rand
School counsel for that organisation yes
terday eald that for thirteen years the
school had done a lawful educational
work, that the conviction of the school
Cor selling Scott Noarlng's pamphlet was
contrary to the weight of evidence, that
their books had been unlawfully seised
and were being Illegally held. A bill
of particulars Is demanded, containing
a complete Inventory of the books and
papers taken and a statement of ths
exact language objected to.
A protest against the action of the
Attorney-General In seeking to put the
Rand School out of business was made
by the National Civil Liberties Bureau
last night, and, signed by .Stanley Bow
mar, John A Fitch, J. A H. Hopkins,
Paul U. Kellogg, the Rev. J. Howard
Meltah, Walter Llupman. Allen Mc-
Curdy, George Foster Peabody, Don
SelU and Walter Weyl. It said In
part:
"The undersigned, who are not mem
bers of the Socialist party, wish to pro
test In all earner mess against the
Attorney-General's attempts to suppress
this school. If Its teachings are un
sound the surest way to demons! rate
that 'fact Is to permit them to bo heard
and observed. The people of New York
are capable of making up their own
minds about them. The real danger
of the situation, however, lies in the
Immeasurable harm which such coercion
of minority opinion does to the processes
of orderly discussion of public affairs.
"If this precedent be established no
opinion which Is displeasing to Govern
ment officials can surely be safe from
suppression and criticism will Inevitably
be driven underground. How far this
departs from traditional American lib
erty Is only too plain. Ths Attorney
General has started upon a road the
end of which no one can see. It is
Imperatively necessary that all liberal
Americans rally to support of the Rand
School In its effort lawfully to resist his
course."
FIFTY CENT HAIRCUT
ASKED BY BARBERS
Journeymen, Though Making
$35 to $80 WTeekly, Demand
Still More.
The fifty cent haircut Is marching on
suffering Manhattan from the north and
west- It Jumps rivers as spryly as the
seventeen year locust, and on land ad
vances as surely as the army worm.
In New- Jersey It has got ns far as Bay
onne. The only way to beat it Is to
let nature take Its course and look like
Mr. Bryan or to lessen the frequency
of the poll tax by ordering the full half
dollar's worth In the shape of the all
over summer clip.
A quarter of a dollar was long the
standard price. The war boosted It to
thtrty-flve and the end of the war to
forty cents. The Journeymen barbers
don't care how high it goes, but must
get more pay out of the hosaes. The
bosses, fearing that there is a line be
yond which the public will stay at home
and. Inverting a saucepan over Its head,
cut Its own hair, fear the fifty cent rate,
but the union barbers are demanding it
so they may get more In commissions.
In New York the union rnte has been
$15 a week and fifty per cent of the
receipts above 125. The demand is fur
120-122 a week and fifty per cent, of
the receipts above $32. To enable the
bosses to get their share and at the
snme time Increase the employee's rev
enue, the union barbers have ordained
that the charges to the customer be In
creased as follows : Haircut, from 40 to
50 cents; massage, from 40 to 45 cents;
plain shampoo, from 40 to 45 cents: oil
shampoo from 50 to 65 cents ; singe, from
40 to 45 cents; tonic, from 15 to 20
centa
A member of the executive commit
tee of the union said that barbers have
been earning from $35 to ISO a week
and that $55 was not unusual. In some
of the bis hotels the average was 70
a week, while a barber of average skill
and popularity In a fair neighborhood
made $35. They want more to keep up
with the cost of living.
The barber shop proprietors are mak
ing a show of resisting the demand
Therefore, a strike Is working Its way
southward. Many shops between 207 th
and 135th streets were closed yester
day. Next week the strike zone will be
extended to Fifty-ninth street. Then It
will spread to the Battery and probably
to the islands of the sea unless' the
bosses surrender.
News that Hayonne had jumped the
price of haircuts to fifty cents, effective
to-day, reached New York yesterday and
heartened the strikers. But even Hay
ono will combine a hair cut and i
shave for 60 cents, of which concession
there is no sign In this city. Although
the progressive popularity of home shav
ing with the safety razor has produced
a good deal of acute melancholia in the
barbcrlng profession, apparently no bar
ber has as yet thought of reducing ths
price of a professional shave to keep
the trade.
BIGGER PRODUCTION URGED.
National Association of Manufac.
turers Appeals to Labor.
The National Association of Manufac
turers adopted resolutions yesterday ap
peeling to labor to increase production
and asking the cooperation of legisla
tive, church and other public bodies to
i counteract an apparent decision of labor
to curtail I reduction on the theory that
by doing less work they will provide
mor ! work for others.
This attitude of labor has grown out
of belief, the resolution states that tho
manufacturers of the country are mainly
' responsible for the high prices now ob
taining. This view Is declared to be
false and unjustifiable. Increased pro
duction Is urged as the most effective
means of bringing down war debt taxa
tion ana of restoring the former prloe
level
BOSTON CAR STRIKE
WAITS ON ARBITER
Trustees of Elevated" Refuse
to Accept Acting Mayor
F. J. W. Ford.
NOT NAMED BY C00L1DGE
Transportation hy Trucks Is
Feature Rain Drenches
Travelling Public.
Boston, July 18. Representatives of
the striking carmen and the trustees of
the Boston Elevated Railway Company
were unable to reach an agreement to
day upon a third member of a local ar
bitration board to settle their controversy.
The officers of the carmen's union Is
sued a statement to-night to the effect
that Acting Mayor Francis J. W. Ford
would be acceptable aa the neutral
member of the board, but as he had not
been named by Gov. Coolldge the trus
tees would not awree to his serving. The
trustees Insist that the third member
must be named by the Governor.
Union officials spent many hours of
the day going over the names of twenty
men who were proposed by Qov. Cool
ldge, but would not accept any of the
number. In their statement the union
officials reviewed the history of the
dispute, including the reference of their
grievances to the Federal War Labor
Board and the calling of the strike
when three weeks had passed without
the board announcing an award.
Hoped to Avert Strike.
They said that they called the union
meeting Wednesday night at which final
strike action was taken "with the ex
pectation and hope that a strike could
be averted." With reference to acting
Mayor Ford the statement said:
"This committee does not know Mr.
Ford except as a public official of the
city of Boston, which city Is very
largely Interested In the matter of fares
for the patrons of this company."
The statement added that the trustees
and the union were agreed upon H. Ware
Barnum, general counsel for the elevated
company, and James H. Varey, counsel
for the carmen, as two members of a
board of arbitration. For the neutral
member, the statement continued, "we
can very well agree that the best man
would be a Boston man, and we have
therefore suggested to the Governor and
the trustees that we would accept the
man who is the present Chief Executive
of the city in the absence of the Mayor."
The union officers added that they
wanted the people "to have the earliest
resumption of street car service" and
that they had done everything; in their
power to prevent the strike.
Crnsb In the Streets.
A stranger In the city, unaware that a
street car strike was In progress, would
have marvelled at the appearance of the
streets to-day. Probably he would have
Inquired what kind of celebration aad
brought Into tJoston the throngs which
Jammed the downtown thoroughfares
and particularly the arteries of pedes
trian travel from the railroad stations tu
the heart of the city.
Although thousands of workers com
mute daily by train In normal times,
their numbers were swollen to-day by
tens of thousands who are in the habit
of getting from home to office, store
or factory by surface, subway and ele
vated lines. Extra trains In the rush
hours heliied to care for the crowds
somewhat more expeditiously then on
the first day of the strike; but the con
gestion In the north and south stations
was tremendous.
The sidewalk crush was made still
worse by the addition of . large numbers
of people who ordinarily come up town
from the stations In the tunnels. Every
few minutes the massed lines came to a
standstill to wait for a crossing to clear.
The number of motor vehicles In the
elty never has been closely estimated.
Dut the outpouring to-day was a reve
lation. Passenger ears of every de.
Scriptlon appeared, many of them of an
cient vintage. But It was most emphat
ically the day of the motor truck. Fitted
with chairs, settees and in at least one
Instance with pews obtained from an
abandoned church, they chuKged noisily
through the city with capacity loads of
people whose homes are far from rail
road stations.
Hundreds of these trucks were used
by manufacturing and mercantile estab
lishments to carry their employees to
and from work without charge. Hun
dreds of others produced better than
war time profits or their owners by
running as "buBes" over regular routes,
with charges in many instances con
siderably above even the recently es
tablished ten cent street car fare.
Canarbt by Showers.
Heavy showers lata In the day caught
the crowds unawares. Unprotected from
the downpour. SHU In filmy gowns
suited to the sulrry weather and men
In suits of crash and mohair sat help
less, huddled together on top of hiwre.
trucks and were soaked to the skin.
The narrow streets were so filled with
vehicles that rapid progress was im
possible and the discomfort was pro
longed. James W. Jackson, one of the trustees.
said to-night that the strike could not
be settled until a board of arbitration
made an award, an the trustees were not
In a position to make any compromise
oner to the union.
"We have no money with which to
raise the men's pay," he said. "If this
Is done It will be a matter between the
board of arbitration which makes an
award and the public.
"No effort will be made to operate the
oars with non-union workers. It would
not be safe to attempt It."
STRIKE TQ.STOP ALL
RHODE ISLAND CARS
Compromise Fails; Workers
to Walk Out To-day.
I'sovmsNCK, R I., July II Em
ployees of the Rhode Island electrlo
railway company, numbering more than
J.S00 will quit work at midnight, fol
lowing a conference between the trolley
company receivers and officials of the
union, which lasted throughout ths day.
It was announced to-night that all at
tempts at compromise had failed and
that the strike would go Into effect In
accordance with the vote of the union
taken last night.
The receivers announced that should
the men strike their barns would be
locked and no attempt made to operate
the cars on any part of the system,
which covers not only Providence but
all Rhode Island.
Tho strike follows the demands of
the employees for a maximum wage of
75 cents an hour. They are now get
ting 48 cents. Their appeal Is before
the War Labor Board, but the man were
unwilling to await the decision of that
body, which announced that It could not
take action at once.
STATEN FERRY MEN
STRIKE SUDDENLY
Continued from Firgt Page.
HUGO EXTOLS SHOE
MEN'S PART IN WAR
Secretary of State Adds That
Conflict Left Nation More
Altruistic.
OFFICERS GROWLING
OYER DISCOMFORT
19H DOLLAR WORTH 40C,
Dealers at Style Shoe Show
Say Prices Will Continue
to Soar.
CARS IDLE AS COAL DWINDLES.
mands were met. The two organisation
leaders stated that the majbrlty of the
ferry employees were non-union men,
and offered to find crews for the boats
unless the strike was called off.
Commissioner Delaney finally took the
ferry, which was manned by a police
crew, to Statsn Island for a further con
ference, and after talking for an hour
and fifteen minutes to a group of men
at St. George, Issued a statement to the
effect that the men had agreed to go
back to work.
The men, however, qualified their
capitulation. They agreed to work until
Monday, when a delegation of Staten
Island business men will go to the City
Hall and present their demands to the
Mayor, and if they are refused by him
the men will again strike and fight to a
finish.
The Board of Estimate at its meeting
late yesterday afternoon approved the
recommendation of the Committee on
Salaries and Grades Increasing, the sal
aries of the marine workers In the em
ploy of the city to meet the scale fixed
by the United States Wage Adjustment
Board of March 7. This will make the
pay of these employees the same as that
of other marine employees in the harbor
and Includes not only those on the ferry
boats, but also those on the boats of ths
Charities Department, the Department
of Correction and the Health Depart
ment. The increase amounts to a total
of about $70,000 a year.
The rYst serious disorder which has
characterized the marine workers strike
took place yesterday, when seventy-f?ve
strikers or their sympathizers stormed
the employment agency of Harry Morn
stein at 347 Bowery, drove 250 applicants
for jobs into the street and wrecked the
premises.
Police Guard Withdrawn.
Mornsteln, who conducts an employ
ment agency at the Bowery address, had
let the place for the day to Bergoff
Brothers and Waddell, who let It be
known that they were placing strike
breakers on some of the ships lying in
the harbor. A patrolman had been sta
tioned on the sidewalk during the morn
ing, but shortly before noon he was sent
to investigate a reported burglary In St.
Mark's plaos. Almost immediately after
his departure the attack took place.
Policemen on nearby posts rushed to
the scene of the disturbance, but so well
had the attacking party carried out their
plans that the melee was over and the
participants on both sides out of sight
before the police arrived. So far as
could be learned there were no injuries
sufficiently serlouB to require hospital
treatment, but a number of men ap
peared later In the day at the head
quarters of the Seaman's Union, 52
South street, with bandaged heads and
arms.
It wan learned vesterday also that the
Department of justice is taking an
active Interest In the local strike situ
ation and that a number of agents who
speak Spanish have been mingling wltn
the strikers along South street for sev
eral davs in the hope of picking up a
clue to" 'tho whereabouts of certain
leaders In the I. W. W. shipping strike at
Buenos Ayres last month.
Several of the Buenos Ayres L W. W.
leaders have disappeared and are be
lieved to hove come to the United
States. The Department of Justice In
tends to prevent their using the disturb
ances here as a means of carrying on
their propaganda among the less Intelli
gent classes of labor.
Union leaders strongly resent the sug
gestion that t W. W. Influences have
anything to do with their organisation,
which is affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, and one of them
said yesterday that they would bo glad
to teBtlfy before the Lusk committee to
their knowledge of 1. W. W. methods
among seafaring men. So far no sub
poenas have been served on them.
Kmbarajo on Coastwise Frslstbt.
Despite guarded assertions made by
members of the American Steamship
Assoclotlon that many coastwise steam
ships have not been interfered with due
to their crews never having been union
ized, the United Stales Railroad Ad
ministration yesterday placed an em
bargo on freight destined to the ports
of New York, Boston. Norfolk, New Or
leans and Galveston, where the bills of
lading show that any part of the route
In by sea. According to the statement
of an official of the Railroad Adminis
tration the action was taken at the re
quest of the steamship Interests, In or
der to protect them from loss occasioned
by the strike. The embargo at present
does not Include transatlantic shipments.
According to union officials the dally
The part of the shoe dealer In win
ning the war was extolled last night
by Francis M. Hugo, Secretary of State,
In an address at the semi-annual shoe
style show In the Bush Terminal Sales
Building West Forty-second street Sec
retary Hugo spoke by Invitation of ths
New Tork Shoe Retailers' Association.
"Napoleon said that an army travels
on Its stomach, but an army nowadays
requires good footgear to travel on,"
said the Secretary of State. "In supply
ing our Government with good shoes for
our soldiers at a reasonable price, the
shoe dealers performed a patriotlo ser
vloe second to that of no other depart
ment" Ho said that If prices went up
he was sure that it was not the fault
of the dealer, but of the generally un
settled conditions.
"I believe that a dollar to-day Is worth
no more than about forty cents of four
years ago," he said.
Secretary Hugo expressed an optimis
tic view for the future, and expressed
the opinion thath we are a far better
people to-day than before the war. "We
are more altruistic, more generous, more
open hearted," ho said.
The persons who attended the exhibit
were told that the dealers were not re
sponsible for the lncrased cost, but that
the curtailment of the Importation of
raw hides during the war was a large
contributing factor. They were assured,
as on the night of the opening of the
exhibit that prices must needs continue
to soar until there la a great change in
conditions.
After the addresses the audience was
shown a (Teat variety of shoe styles on
riving models.
GARRULOUS SLAYER
IS SUDDENLY MUM
O'Brien, Under Close Guard,
Reads and Smokes.
For the first time since his arrest Ed
ward O'Brien, confessed slayer of Gardi
ner C. Hull, kept the peace In his cell
at Freehold, N. J., yesterday. He was
remarkably quiet throughoat the day,
marling and smoking, and refused to
alter his sudden taciturnity even when
he was chlded point blank with "bluf
fing" his attempt at suicide of Thurs
day. The boy has been transferred to the
witness room of the Jail, which is iso
lated from the other cells. He is con
stantly under the eye of a guard locked
In with him. The only relief In the
monotony Is the change of guards.
Warden Michael yullk Is expecting
the arrival of extraction papers to-day
and will be delighted to get rid of his
prisoner. He ha: t enlod O'Brien the
pmilcgc accorded other prisoners of
exercising In the corridors, savin? that
he offered the boy the same treatment as
tho rest but he had abused it O'Brien's
fellow prisoners have made a Joke of
the boy's attempt at hanging, and as he
was being removed to his new quarters
catcalled after him that he was a "bluf
fer." When the accusation was put to
O'Brien he merely kept on reading and
remarked that he was through talk ng.
He had promised his mother, who visited
him Thursday, that ho would keu his
b' ortfulneis under trim.
Seven Hundred Forced to
Come Home Second Cabin
and Steerage.
MANY WOUNDED ARRIVE
Casualties on One Transport
Entrain at Hoboken for
Camp Merritt.
PATIENT SHOOTS HERSELF.
airs. Mary J. Kralckl Is Victim of
N'ervone Breakdown.
Mrs. Mary J. Kralckl, S4, of 110 West
Seventy-ninth street, who had been ill
for several weeks from a nervous break
down, was found dead In her bedroom
yesterday afternoon from a revolver
shot In the heart. The body whs discov
ered by a dressmaker who was working
in the house. Mrs. Kralckl had started
to write a note, and on a torn sheet of
paper beside her were found written the
words, "Dear boy, good-by." No name
was signed.
Mrs. Kralckl was taken for a motor
drive yesterday morning through Cen
tral Park and remarked on her return
that she felt very much depressed by the
turn of the weather. The dressmaker,
Anna Oasterle, said Mrs. Kralckl ex
hibited considerable nervousness while
the new garment was being tried on
and Anally excused herself on the pre
text that sho must prepare for dinner.
Several minutes later the dressmaker
heard the revolver discharged In the
bedroom. Charles A. Kralckl was noti
fied of his wife's death at his offices, 43
Kxehange place, and collapsed.
Beside Mrs. Kralckl's body were found
photographs of her husband and her
daughter, who Is 8 years old.
Dealer Tells Congressmen of
1'liKUt Caused by Argiutal,
Washington, July 18 Coal cars I loss to tho shipping Interests of this
I piling up everywhere awaiting repairs I port Is In excess of $5,000,000 a day.
while the country faces a fuel shortage i with an additional loss of $3,000,000 at
land the Railroad Administration and I other 1 Atlantic ports. They declared
he car owners argue over the damages , their estimate was based on the amount
were pictured to the House Rules Com- ' which the ships now Idle would earn If
mlttee to-day by George H. Oushlng.
managing director of the American
I Wholesale Coal Association.
The committee was considering Con
gressional Investigation of the possibil
ity of a coal shortage this winter.
Meanwhile Senator Frellnghuvsen
they were In operation.
All the factions concerned in tho
strike declare that the next move is up
to the United States Shipping Board.
The American Steamship Azsoclatlon,
which blames the Shipping Board fo
the trouble, has gone on record as
RAYNHAM CALLED BACK HOME.
iniicrnilal
Ocean Filer Will
ti
lend Plane to Enxrland on ship.
St. John's, N. F, July 18. Capt.
Frederick P. Raynham, the British avi
ator whose Martlnsyde biplane was
wrecked twice In two months when try
ing to start a transatlantic flight, has
received orders to abandon further at
tempts and return to England, he an
nounced tu-ntght.
Raynham and his navigator, Conrad
H. Blddlecnmb, directed to-day the crat
ing of their plane and both expect to
leave with It on the steamship Grampian.
Their mechanics will return with them.
i l..- ... th. ....... t th union
be running en normal ...... -- ..... . ..
! III. .1 UUl III) III' II l i I tllAL I.
I (New, Jersey) Introduced In the Senate agreeing to the terms which the board
a resolution for Investigation. has offered the men. while the strikers
arf awaiting new overtures from the
Ottawa Car strike Settled. i Government organisation.
n. . ., ,. - ,,,, I There la no truth In the reports that
L.lIL-Li-'iJ., ! 6lruC ' the strike may spread to the Great
, . ... m...mm m mm .....n. imo hiiki iiimn , anu
the cars will
. coiiceanif !! Kir iiui pmuil nio'.c mt-j
ki... will call out the longshoremen and
Shipyard H.re.a Opened. olhlr harbor workel.,. Thuy that
A special division to handle applicants I l.OOo.OOO of these wcrkers are willing
for shipyard Jobs was opened yesterday to com to the assistance of the striking
oy tne rtesmpioyment isursau, 505 Pearl setmen and nremen.
street, In answer to calls for help from I
several shipbuilding plants near the city. Fifth Division Due To-day.
V .. . . .kl.....J i. . I
than III a wee 1 t was id h I The first of the Fifth Division, Regular
" WM Army unlU that fought In the Frapelle.
'AIDA' FOR STRICKEN ITALIANS
Great Performance of Opera Will
Be Given at Sbeepshead Bar.
Fortune Gallo, impresario of the San
Carlo Opera Company, and Andres de
Segurola of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, associate managers, announced
yesterday a performance of "Aid a" in
the open air on Sunday evening, August
10, at the Sheepshead Bay Speedway,
under the patronage of the Italian Con
sul General in New York, Comm Romolo
Trittonl, for the benefit of the sufferers
of the recent earthquake In the Florence
districts of Italy.
It Is expected that It will be one of the
greatest performances of "Alda" ever
glvon since It was first performed at
Cairo, Egypt, on December 24, 1871. Tho
cast will include stars from the Metro
politan, Chicago and San Carlo Opera
oompanles.
There will be an orchestra of 200 mu
sicians, a stage bund of 75 pieces, a
chorus of 300 and a ballet of 100. The
stage ensemble In the triumphal scene of
tho second act will total 2.000 people,
horses, elephants, camels and oxen.
The transport Northern Pacific which
finished yesterday her first round Jlrip
from France since she grounded on New
Tear's Day oft Fire Island, has first
oabln accommodation for 178 persons
only, and that Is why 700 officers who
arrived In second cabin and steerage
growled their way across the Atlantic.
Much of It was good-natured growling,
exoept when Mans were repeatedly
served for breakfast, -Sven the privates
do not lake to beans as a seafaring lux
ury. It was said that soma of the officers
who had been offered second class pas
sage on the Leviathan, which sailed
from Brest before the Northern Pacific,
protested to headquarters and were or
dered to take whatever was offered them,
so they reulctantly boarded 'he Northern
pacific. Humors came that about sou
protesting officea still on the other Bids
would be disciplined for Insubordination.
Hospital Train Leaves for Camp.
The first hospital train from Hoboken
since the wounded and ill have been
landed there left for Camp Merritt yes
terday afternoon with 285 soldiers and
sailors who arrived by the Northern Pa
cific They are ths first patients to
land here since the closing of the Green
hut Hospital at Sixth avenue and
Eighteenth street Capt. Charles Col
lins supervised the transfer of the men,
all litter cases, from the transport to the
train of bed cars and day coaches,
which was In chargs of Major Harry
Kerns, assisted by a corps of Red Gross
nurses.
The Kaiserln August Victoria was
forced to anchor In a thick fog off Rock
away Beach nearly twenty-four hours,
within actual sight of port, and did not
make dock until yesterday afternoon.
Creeping through the murk, she took all
the morning to finish the job. She car
ried thirteen general prisoners. Including
one who Is sentenced to fifty years for
killing his major at the battle front.
One of the prisoners did not show up
at rollcall yesterday and the whole
ship's company made an unavailing
search for him. His offence was im
personating an officer, and It was sus
pected that he might try the trick again
In his effort to get away, so all officers,
more than 400, Including 288 casuals
who had been taking special courses In
French colleges, were held up at the
gangway and forced to Identify them
selves. The missing man was not
found.
830,000,000 In Supplies Left.
The troops were In command of Col.
Charles J. Symmonds, who has been for
the last seventeen months In charge of
the Service of Supply at Orevres, France.
He said he had left behind $860,000,000
worth of supplies, enough to last, had
tho war continued, up to two weeks ago.
Col. Symmonds, a veteran cavalryman
who fought In the Spanish-American
and tho Philippine wars, lost a son,
Capt. Robert Symmonds, who was mor
tally wounded In the Argonne. His
adjutant. First Lieut. A. R. Jones, Is
also a veteran who served with him In
the other wars.
There were eight Colonels aboard th
Kaiserln, including Col. Charles C.
Pierce, formerly an army chaplain, but
now of the Quartermaster Corps, and
head of the Registration of Graves Ser
vice. He Is going to Washington to
talk with officials of the War Depart
ment on future phases of the mortuary
work. He said It was improbable that
any large number of the bodies of
Americans buried In Europe would be
brought back. Private Frederick C
Fisher of Col. Pierce's command, died
of pneumonia on the trip. His body was
embalmed and brought to port for trans
fer to the home of lus father and
mother in Chicago.
Mothrr-ln-Law Comes Tee,
Mothers-in-law are serious Insltutions
in France, not to be lightly treated by
tho humorists of the local papers. That
is what Sergeant Joseph C. Johnson of
the 33rd Engineers and llattiesburg,
Miss., found out when he married Cecilia
Gullmlneau, daughter of Mrs. Clara Gull
mlnoau of Vllleranche-sur-cher, where
the sergeant was stationed several
months. Mrs. Gullmineau said she could
not think of letting Cecilia go to Hnttles
burg, a thriving little town, without her
mama, so the sergeant told her to come
along. He says she Is a very fine mother-in-law.
She Is the second to come from
France with a doughboy and his bride.
The sergeant and Mile. Cecilia were mar
ried by an American chaplain. They
arrived last night with sixty-nine other
war brides sbroad the transport Man
churia. Georgette. Jeanne Brand of Nantes
eume as the wifo of Lieut. James L Ttl
lery of Scotland Neck. N. C. She is the
daughter of the Baroness Vlocola de
Chartler of Portugal, and she and her
husband met while she was working for
the Red Cross In Franco.
Six telephone girls returned by the
Manchuria with commendations from the
French for sticking to their switchboards
during the air raids on Paris and at
other points where bombs failed to
terrify them.
tleth and Sixty-first Infantry complete ;
Headquarters and Medical detachment.
Company D and detachment of Company
H. 419th Telegraph Battalion ; Headquar
ters Ninth Infantry brigade ; Fifth Train
Headquarters ; two casual companies ;
five nurse detachments and ninety-eight
casual officers
America. New Tork, July 13 Sixth
Infantry complete ; Headquarters de
tachment 117th Military Polios battalion,
2(ld and 254th Companies; Fifth Divi
sion veterinary section ; Headquarters
Tenth Infantry brigade; Fourteenth
Machine Gun battalion ; 8alvure Squads,
Seventeenth and Twenty-third ; 7d
Bakery company ; Army Ambulance Ser
vice section 180 ; six casual companies,
seven convalescent detachments and
eighteen officers.
Agamemnon, New Tork, July 23
With Twentieth Field Artillery; Fifth
Ammunition train ; Sanitary Train and
Supply Train ; Thirteenth and Fifteenth
Machine Gun battalions ; Fifth Division
Headquarters; Headquarters troop and
Fifth Field Artillery Brigade Head
quarters; Fifteenth Transportation com
pany ; 180th and S3d Service Park
units; three casual companies and fifty
four officers. Major-Gen. H. El Bay,
commanding Fifth Division, Is on board.
Sierra, New Tork, July 18 With
Medical, Headquarters and Ordnance de
tachment, Supply, Headquarters and F
companies 810th Pioneer Infantry; Head
quarters and Companies Q and H. 818th
Pioneer Infantry; Sections 8, 7, 9 to 12,
807th Repair unit ; Base Hospital 88 ;
Company H, Second Pioneer Infantry ;
one casual company and thirty-five officers.
Landing. Mo.: John C Duncan, White
side, Mo.
Privates Almon BL Spragus, Catawha.
wrla Thnmii V. AHrier. rinnvlll III. :
Orvai Wllooxson, Marietta. Okhv ; Wads
H. Jenkins, unanao, una. ; Meroen
Kendall, Wolfboro, N. H. Walter Pot
ter, Dayton, Tenn.
AQUTTANIA IS DUE TO-NIGHT.
Major-Gen. nler. Air Chief, Is
Anion Fas
NINETEEN GET D. S. CROSSES.
Among: Them Is Major W. R. H.
Morris of Gennantoven. Pa.
WABHTNnTOM. Jlllv IS The fnllnnrlnr
awards of Distinguished Service Crosses
were announced to-day:
Major William H. H. Morris. German
own, Pa.
Cants. IJIburn ft DavMnon .Tnckann
Ky. : Joseoh M. Rlmnson Run Antnnln
Tex. : Zoda M. Lumley, Kampsvllle, Til :
Lleuts. Herman C. McNulty. Hunting
ton, W. Vs.; Herbert J. Jones (de
ceased), Dresden, Tenn.; Frank J.
Fisher (deceased), Kansas City, Mo.
sergeants Mnrquls L Dlllsrd. Lsddo
nla. Mo. : Ernest. J fnartier Tn,
City, N. D. ; Holly Mldklff, Chicago.
uorporals Guy K. Davis (deceased),
Bedford, Ind. ; Harry M. Ward, Gregory
The Cunarder Aoultanla. from South
ampton and Brest, reported yesterday
that she expected to arrive at Ambrose
Channel at 5 o'clock this afternoon and
might dock In tho early evening, pro
vided she was not held up by fog. which
has been bothering Incoming navigators
for ths last several days.
Among the Aqultanla'a voyagers are
Major-Gen. George Owen Squler, chief
of the Amsrloan air ssrvkm ; Klla Wheel
er Wilcox, who was very III when she
boarded the liner ; Benedict C rowel I. As
sistant Secretary of War; Sir George
l'erley, High Commissioner of Canada,
nnd Lady Perley, Dr. Thomas A. Le
Breton, Argentina Ambassador to Wash
ington, and Burr H. McGowan. The
Aqultanla brings several thousand
American troops.
12 T&o'iuanxLmVjt
HIGH GRADE SHOES
AT BARGAIN PRICES
855 Pairs of Low Shoes
Were S8.00 A $9.00
Now $6.85
Dark Russat A
Black
Cordovan
Russet Cordovan Low Shoes
$9.00
Value $11 A $12, all sisst
White Buckskin Low Shoes
$8.50 Value $10.00
White Canvas Outing Shoes
$1.35 to $3.50
AMTSEMEVr..
AMUSEMENTS.
AMERICA'S MUM THEATRES AND HITS UNDER THE DIRECTION OK
I.EE St i. i. SnUBFRT.
WINTER GARDEN "Stf
inter i.arden'
reatet
BET BILL IN NEW YORK.
A Am T Thiwtn.JustW.ofB'way. Kvs.VlO.
1in 31. MllnP, To-dy Wed. 2 10.
MATINEE TO-DAY i;:; $2.00
With ED WTNN UN) OTHERS.
Went 44th St. Brysnt.tll.
Mat. To-day V30. Kvga. - '
BROADHURST THEATRE
SEE IT
AND YOU CANT GO VfRONO.-ffM. H'orW.
THE CRIMSON ALIBI
HERK IS THE THRILLER OF
THRILLERS
G&mim&SmWt.
BOOTH tfth.W. ofH'way Kvs.SrSO.
""""Mats. To-day ; Wed. 2:H.
ihf9et1?r'01e
S3
SjjlJTlie best
In Town
MAXIM! ELLIOTT'S
SOta, nr. B'way. Kvi 8:30
Main. To-day it Wed. 2 Mi
Rachel Crotberi' Bis i
VANDERBILT "" Kv, ro.
Ll Mats. To-day A Wed. 3 .10.
Rsrr3u?&&, A LITTLE JOURNEY
With i ml Kelehtley and Klhel Dane.
BIGGEST COMEDY HIT
IN NEW YORK
SMS 1 1 Packed tv the door
tn f at every performance.
FIVE MILLION
coineitv nf lh 'Turn
Right' school, ouly with
inea. -
"Drlsht
to the
new
-N. Y. Tlni.
I V D I A Theatre. 42d St. Svs. 8:20
L I Kit MAT. TO-DAY 2:20
CUIIRTDT 44th. w of B'way Eva 8:15
WMwaea.li Mats. TimIji A We
Mala. To-day A Wad. arts.
ID A MtnKI.I
ROMEO"
FIELDS LKAUL'U OF REALTIES
J
Tb ttraBon'n Vn i ion n Sucreis
OHN FERGUSON
NOW ClllinN W.4Uts. Ht. Ev. 8 .10 Mite
At the
To-day A Wed . 2 :30
gfl T SJ J- W. 42d St. Eves. 8:20.
BS S IllWk
Mat- To-day A Hat. 2:30
hl . fi I A I mm. 'l
To-day 2 Ml. Times
HUDSON SC.t
LOUIS MANN
ri, I nuu Mats. To-day A Wed. 2:30.
July has no terrors for this play!
It out thrills all thrillers!
"AT 9:45"
Has i punch like Dempsey's!
Own
Davis'
New
VI J otl ram
EAST "WEST
mmmJm? AV BAINTCSL.
w ASTOR - ar; wtp y sat.
rENTRAL THEATRE, B'way at 47th St.
pSDCalTC Have you told your boy and
nnunij ..lr Bhl) tho ou-i,t to fcnowr
"OPEN YOUR EYES"
To menacing aortal evlla and sex perpleil
tlea. Children under 10 not admitted. Con.
num. u- (Inc. Sun.) II to II. Prepared under
supervision of U. S. Public Health Scrvtcn.
FADETTES LADIES' ORCHESTRA.
FOUR TRANSPORTS ON
THEIR WAY TO U. S.
Major-Gen. Ely Is Aboard the
Agamemnon.
Wakhinutun, July 18. Eipeeted
transport arrivals anounced to-day
were :
AquUanla, New York, July 10 fllx-
FEEDING 4,000,000 CHILDREN.
piece workers are earning 1136 a week.
Riveters get so centa an hour snd up.
The Submarine Doat Corporation will
send new men to school for two to four
weeks with psy to learn the trade.
St. Mlhlel and Argonne offensives, are
expected home to-day. A committee
headed by LJ.eut.-Col. Herbert Parsons
and Major Philip 3. McCook will go
down the bay to welcome the soldiers.
Anitrluin M. II, I s, ,, i, i, n Knrope
lloiies to Contlnae.
By the Anociated Prett.
Pakis, July 17 (delayed). Kour mil
lion children in Europe are being fed
under the auspices of the American relief
administration. This work will probably
be continued through private charity
under American direction, even after the
conclusion of the. work of the American
Food Administration In Europe.
Enough supplies are now available to
continue operations for several montha
and experts who csme to Europe with
Herbert Hoover, chairman of the Inter
allied Supreme Food Council, believe they
will be able to obtain sufficient funds
from private sources to keep up the feed
ing of children as long as the necessity
exlsta
SIX SHIPS TO SAIL,
i Tha Shlppuig Board aaka on bshalf oC
' the Unltfd Utatea Uovurnmant for enough
i uiDerlencetl men to mi.n lh,i steamships
'VvWl ARROW," WESTERN K1N.1"
'and "WliST HOBANANT." loading at Nor
! folk, Virginia, with milking cattle en4
railroad mn promiaxd by thia Clovci SSaAaJ
for Immediate dallvtr to the French re
! ernmenl. and the .feinihlua "WEST AH
VADA " "WBST HuMHRE" and KST
QUBCKRE," no watting at New York to
I proceed to Norfolk for the ama purpose.
Dnlsn r non-union men will be accepted.
; This La a goveramental ahlpnient pure and
i etmple ami thf honor of the USllsd States
i ia involved In keeping Ita commitments to
the French Oovernmenl for Immediate
ehlpnunt Apply at the Shipping Beard
' Hea Service Bureau. Klatlron Building,
1 Norfolk; 74 Washington .St.. New Tom, or
I any other Shipping Board Sea Service
I Bureau on the Atlantic ( oaat. Omcera
! will tie paid ten par cent, over existing
raloa Tho acala of pay for tha crew IS I
Carpenter, 1100 n month; Boatswain. HO .00;
Uuurtermaeter, 187 50 Able .s. aman, IH.OO;
; Ordlnury Seaman 160 00; DerJt Engineer,
ll6.00. Pumpman, tut. 00; Water-tender,
1190 00; Storekeeper. 110 00; Fireman.
Ill,, vo ; wiper aiiu -u,i,aw, . .iv.wv, ..tow
ard tilt 00- Chief Cook, 111" 00; Second
Cook and Baker, 1100 00, Third Cook.
t70 00; Meatman, 170 00. and Meaaboy.
Its. 00. Tha cattle are suffering in cars
at Norfolk and muat be movuJ at once is
pite of existing conditions, and the Buffer
ing among the children nf France cannot
be relleied until these consignments arrive.
The Shipping Board faela that owing
to rhe scope nf the work and the nature
of the cargo It la the duty of seajueo to
volunteer for this service.
NEW YORK'S LKADING THEATRES
NEW AMSTERDAM 4VI5
$2.
matinee: tooav
NO SEAT OVER
-ON THE COOL ROOF-a
A3 OOOO AS THC-A-Olll3-
7IFGFFI n 9-wk revue.
ilCUrCLIJ MIDNIGHT FROLIC
t2i(ceDtFonow
LIBERTY T.h8tr'' WstAd8l. Ev.8:15
-Jr. Matinee Wed. A Sat 3 18.
rur. mwiintt m uat sue TO z
LIGHTNIN
GAIETY g ay at St.iMats.Today
unit. I I Eves, at 8 TO. JWed at 4"o
Biiiii-i,iii.ua.i at ct esiFJi
3 WISE FOOLS
CRITERION.? w 4th Ht Kv to
""""Mats. Today Wed. 2:30
C0RT t! TMbsJe at 8.30.
I Mma. Today A Wed at a 30
FAMISH oi l in (O. Bio HIT.
in ine uin nay & "ureams of 3"
i
ML m&Blt&P
Hifirv tUbl1. 'hea .124 W A tdSt Ev
' H IV AlAtK Tl1s.J AV T...
LA LA LUCILLE
A .No
Muilral
Farce
i.l mil I 8:20 Mata Today A Wnl 2 j
Cllarle. Dillingham k Uteet niuMcal rnr-ieriv
SHE'S A GOOD FELLOW
KnieksrhaekSf It ay. ;i8th St. Eva s n.
RTU Hill COOI KIt BY ICED 4IH
"MONTH John Cist's ISfuelcal Comedy
Geo.
M.
Twice Dally 3 :40-8 .40.
D. W. GRIFFITH HXr
TLtUw.'7BROKEN BLOSSOMS
MONDAY0 JULY 21 PM2"
THE FALL
OF BABYLON
,TKrra"d Acted Prologue and
Uiterenereed with aniembli num"
51. R" ,,'d,n "THA 'd her SSSU
of llvlus dancers. Flrit entertain
ment of Its kind tn AmerlcA.
B.S.M055'
YANRtE D00DIF
IN .BERLIN
OBEXNW1CH VILLAdE THEATRB.
Directly at Christopher et. (Broadway) subwa.
Evenings t:45. Matinee Saturda. I-4aT
DHiRraMwviii. urns m
STEEPLECHASE
OONKY IB!....
OPEN FOR THE SEASON
PALISADES V' PARK
?&P"mrVr SURF BATHING A'O W
I l 1 1 1 I t LAYTON
In "A Sporting chance'
Mrs. Sltlucy Drew c.tnicdr
It Hull OHCHESTHA.
Tom MoiltE 1ST
'The City of Comrades."
HoloUt. Cuineriy
RIAI.YO ORCHESTRA.
Vtl.l MUI A. B'way A 47. Twice Daily. Pop
PELK-A-BOO. All summer allow.! Price,
HOTELS AND RESTAUHANTS.
jjjl Strait mm Ftirtt Afwn
ORANGE & BLACK INN
41 West 4Pth St.
"The Home of Real rood."
OPEN SUNDAY MUHTl.
Try our Home Made Lilnner. 11.00. 4. 1 p. aL
PEO WOFMNtiTON TEA GARDENS, I and 1 WEST FORTY-SEVENTH ST
SPECIAL COLD DINNER 75c.
Branch of PEW WOM INI. TON'S t OF FEE HOI SE
Lt'NCU TEA DINNER
tilsDetaSfD
a at at PICKPOKO
in "Hill ApMNOB'S Ho?"
Soloists, Cornodv.
I It AN POUCH KM f R 4
HOTEL AND REST A I' RANTS.
5 EAST 40TH ST.
For Wholesome Fare and
Honast Worth.
I.
DEW DROP INN
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IHnner. 1:30 to g. tte.i
wrltu Chicken or Slaaa.
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