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JEWELLER OFFERS
PLANT TO STRIKERS
wniincr to Turn Over tons:
Established Industry on
Simplo Note.
ins ntorosAL is refused
Mad With Bolshevism," Says
August Goldsmith, in Busi
ness Forty Years.
If August Goldsmith, head .of the iew
( Irr flrm of Ooldsmlth. Stern & Co., SJ
Oold Btreet. confronted with a, etrlk or
100 Jewellers, polishers, toolmakers and
otier workmen, offered the discontented
workmen an opportunity which hitherto
iu existed solely In fiction to sell out
to the employees and turn tho business
over to their care and met refusal.
Mr. Goldsmith regards his proposal and
tho unwillingness of the workers to take
It tip as conclusive that the cry of labor
to take over Industry Is empty shoutlnp.
lie firm has been established for many
Tears and Is one of the leaders In the
Jewelry business, turnlne out many varie
ties of foods.
"These union men are mad with Bol
iSevlsm." eald Mr. Goldsmith yesterday.
The men who struck were fretting $25
to (IS for a forty-four hour week, with
extra pay for overtime, which often
brought them $145 a week. In July wc
panted a 20 per cent, wage Increase.
Bat they were not satisfied.
1 made this proposition : I would sell
h them the tools, dies and machinery nt
Ueir Hyprttiocu BbbciJniB uicii
totes and a mortgage for a third of the
price. I would assume all debts and lia
bilities and would give them a bill of
tale. I also said I (would, come In and
manage the place for them for six
months at no salary, after which I would
retire and agree not to reenter the Jew
elry trade to compete with them. I
told them my profit was 10 per cent, and
that If they thought they could make the
business as successful I would be en
tirely willing to let them 50 ahead.
They were nonplussed and refused."
Mr. Goldsmith has conducted an open
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rtiop In his forty years In the business,
ana regards Jewelry making as an art
and xnot ns n trade which hould ba In
vaded by unions. Many of his older
crffftsmen will not Join the unions, be
cause they love their art. he said. Mr.
Goldsmith Is faced with the necessity of
granting still higher wages at a time
when the firm's orders for the season
have been' booked, and the prices to the
retailers cannot now be advanced. He
believes he has made a practical test of
the sincerity of labor's Intdhtlon to !
the Industries.
CIVIC CLUBS URGE
REFORM IN SCHOOLS
Welfare of Children Object
of Joint Movement.
Representatives from the leading civic
organizations In the cltymet yesterday
afternoon In tho City Club. SB West
Forty-fourth street, for tho discussion
of questions relating to the welfare of
the children In the public schols.
The object of gathering the represen
tatives of the different societies was to
pool their experiences and advlco that
the efTort In behalf of better methods
of educating the 800,000 school children
might bo more concentrated. Papers
were road by members o'f the different
societies outlining their work.
A publicity campaign was urged to
show the people that Improvements were
needed In Ihe programme of, education
and that the Jurisdiction of funds ought
to be placed In tho hands of tho school
authorities Instead of those of the Board
of Estimate and Apportionment
Lionel Sutro presided and representa
tives from the following organizations
were present: The Charity Organiza
tion. Greenwich House, New Tork Asso
ciation for Improving tho Condition of
the-Poor, People's Institute, Educational
Alliance, Women's City Club, Public Ed
ucation Association, Council of Jewish
Women and "the Federation of Child
Study. ,Dr. Gustavo Straubonmuller,
associate superintendent of schools, was
present and said he felt out of placo be
cause no one violently criticised the
school board.
Another meeting will be held In the
roms of the City Club a week from
Monday for consideration of the budget
GnataTe Ador to Yield Offlce.
Bern. Sept 20. Gustavo Ador has
made known, his decision to resign from
tho Federal Council. He Is president of
the council and chief of the "Department
of the .Interior.
WARNS WOMEN OF
NEW FOOD SWINDLE
Day Says Grafters Collect in
Advance on Promised
City Deliveries.
ARMY CHICKEN POPULAR
Fresh Eggs Scarce and Rolling
"Stores Will Bo Put in
, Operation.
Jonathan C. Day, Commissioner of
Markets. Issued a statement yesterday
warning the publto to be on Its guard
against a new form of swindle that has
originated since the city ttiauguarated
Its sales of army food.
Fakers, armed with fdrged credentials
In the shape, of printed cards, have
swindled housewives by alleging that
they represent tho food administration,
Commissioner Day says, and collect In
advance for food supplies that they
promise will be delivered by the city,
The city has made no arrangements
for packing or distributing the food It
is selling at less than market prices.
The prices are fixed on a cash and carry
basis with Just enough overhead to pay
for hauling from the army supply depots
to the schools tr.d butcher shojis In
which the food Is sold.
The sale of army chicken yesterday
reached a record of $73,000. Chicken
has proved the most popular seller on
the city's bill. At 18 cents a pound
It allows E cents profit to tho distributor
and means a saving of from 15 to 20
cents over the price demanded by the
retailers.
Mora Chicken Markets.
Adttlonal markets that will dispense
roasting chickens for the city were an-
uounccu ycnieruay. iney are: o. liey-
mn sis Ninth nVAniiM r TIn.1 .1
1688 Third avenue; J. Self, 31 West
Twenty-eighth street; A. Davis, 153
."""i oriiein nireei; inom urotners,
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jftankltn Simon a Co.
A Store of Individual Shops
Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets
Exhibit cUheiv cAlost Recent
French Importations
Gowns
Suits
Wraps
Negligees
Coats
Wraps
WHICH-PROVE THAT PARIS IS ONCE MORE
GAy, DARING, VIVACIOUS AND SUMPTUOUS
HE care-free spirit of old has returned to Paris.
These new imports reflect it. Sometimes it
is conspicuous as in the splendor and luxury
of wraps; sometimes unobtrusive as in the quaintness
and charm of frocks. But it is there, and it is irresist
ible. There is a new note too, subtle, but well
defined an understanding and appreciation of the
taste of American women.
zCadekine
et zJxCadeleine .
were the first of the new
French creators to catch the
new Americanized spirit
and interpret it with dash
of color and fcrace of
drapery.
Qallot
Soeurs
are still cherished for their
ideals of beauty Who but
Callot would dip lace in
silver, or fashion embroid
eries with the fineness of
gossamer tapestries I
OTHER FRENCH CREATORS "WHOSE MODELS
ARE REPRESENTED IN THIS EXHIBITION ARE:
S
Brandt Chanel .
Poiret Aviotty
"Prenet . , Jenny
Ijanvin ' Cara
Qoupy s "Martial et Arm and
Bernard
i
Agnes
Patou
'Roande
Boue Soeurs
COPIES AND ( ADAPTATIONS OF THESE MODELS
WILL BE MADE IN OUR OWN FIFTH AVENUE
WORKROOMS AT MODERATE PRICES.
:oi East sanssbrlJff read Mlehal A
Company, 588 Tenth avenue, and Wag
ner Brothers, J421 Jerome avenue.
Commissioner Day said he had heard
that a poultry house had furnished cer
tain stores with chicken to rotali at 34
cents to compete with the city. If this
Is true, the Commissioner said, the pur
pose of the city In launching Its food
project has been gained. The object
sought Is the reduction of high food
prices.
In, commenting on the egg situation
Dr. Day said he had made a tour of the
butter and egg markets yesterday look
ing for fresh eggs and had failed to
find one. All the eggs he examined were
from cold storage. He plans to take a
fall out of the egg profiteers with the
rolling' stores that will peddlo perishable
foodstuffs on the city streets beginning
Monday or Tuesday,
Earars on City Motor Trucks.
Eggs will sell at 52 and 54 cents a
dozen from the travelling markets that
the city will operate on mo.tor trucks.
The price In the stores Is 5 cents
and up.
To-morrow the city will sell army and
navy shoes In the Municipal Building.
The sale Is for city employees, but the
public Is Invited.
Arthur Williams, head .of the fair
price committee, announced yesterday
mat several complaints- had been re
ceived from Brooklyn that meat and gro
cery dealers are charging more than
fair prices for their goods. These 'com
plaints will be Investigated and If profit
eering Is discovered the dealers will be
warned to cut their profits.
The next meeting pf the wholesale
meat dealers' ' committee on fair prices,
of which Oscar Strauss Is chairman, will
be held In Mr. Williams's offlep In tho
Edison Building, Fifteenth street and
Irving place, on Tuesday ,or Wednes
day. 2ft22 RENT CASES
SETTLED IN WEEK
University Avenue Tenants
Tell of Profiteer Raid.
The Mayor's Committee on - Rent
Profiteering settled 2,022 caeos last
week, In each caso obtaining for the
tenants either a reduction In rent or a
more equitable lease.
The most unusual case that Nathan
Htrsch, chairman of the committee, has
yet heard of was presented yesterday by
the tenants of 1400 University avenue,
Tho Bronx. After receiving letters from
agents of the building that they were
"authorized to offer leases for the en
suing year" at 36 to $12 Increase per
month on each apartment, two run who
said they represented the new owners
of the property, Frank Oppenhelmer and
II, M, Fischer, Informed the tenants
they must pay their rent for September,
1920, before they could get their leases.
Also they said a charge of 81 per
month would be made for each tele
phone extension and, If the price of coal
next winter goes to $15 a ton, they must
pay an additional Increase of $6 a
month.
There Is a winter's supply of coal In
the cellar now, the tenants Bay. Sep
tember 15 was set as the date for pay
ment of the September, 1920, rent. One
of the tenants who signed a lease for
another apartment In the same house
was Informed that he would have to pay
$10 a month more for the new quarters,
as the new owners had decided to -raise
the price. When he refused the "For
Itont" sign was hung on his door.
Subpoenas were lBsued summoning the
agents and pwners to appear before the
committee last Friday. They failed to
appear and now they have been sum
moned to be at tho Bronx Borough Hall
for a special hearing Tuesday night.
ELEVEN LARGE SHIPS
DEPART WITH 4,300
Heaviest Traffic From New
York Since War Began.
New Tork harbor came into Its own
again yesterday'afternoon when moro out
going passenger ships cleared and sailed
than at any tlmo since August, 1914,
Headed by the Adriatic, which sailed
for Southamptch with 2.225 passengers,
eleven large steamships departed for Eu
ropean and Central and South American
ports. La Touralne sailed for Havre
with 990 passengers, the Oscar II. for
Copenhagen with 645 passengers and the
Montevideo for Spain with 300 passen
gers. Other ships sailing with large pas
senger lists were the Mexico, the Wa
couta, tho Brazos, the Caracas, .the Muna
mar, the Buenos Aires and the Gen.
Qorgas. In all moro than 4,500 voyag
ers left the port.
On the Adrlatlo were Dr. S. Komatsu
of the Kioto Imperial University of Ja
pan, Mme, George Melendez, wife of the
President of San Salvador: Q. E. Tripp,
president of the General Electrlo Com
pany; Hear Admiral W. It It Suther
land, U. S. N. : Cass Canfleld of Newport.
Percy J. Payne, Jr., Jerome Preston of
Southampton. Stanley Mortimer, Jr., and
It 3t Whltehouse of New Tork.
DOCTOR ACCUSED OF
SELLING MORPHINE
Former, Member bf Army
Medical Corps Is Charged.
i
Dr. Daniel J, Hoyt, formerly a mem
ber of the Army Medical Corps, was
charged before United States Commis
sioner Hitchcock yesterday with selling
forty-eeven grains of morphine to a pa
tient without the written consent of the
internal revenue Inspector, as required
by the Harrison law. He was held In
$1,500 ball for further examination.
About a year ago, while Dr. Hoyt was
In the army, Federal agents raided his
offices and It Is said obtained evidence
that several of his assistants had been
distributing drugs In violation of the
Federal statute. His office Is now at
Fifth avenue and 124th street.
FRANKLIN SIMON & CO
Women s and Misses' Suit Shops Announce 1
The Newest Autumn Suit Silhouette
Paris Proves Alain That Custom cannot Stale the Infinite
Variety of the Silhouette and Presents the
Suit WITH THE BoUffarit-Front
GLOVES: a lady to
HER FINGER TIPS, IF
A TAILORED LADY
. wears the Biarritz pull-on
gloves or the strap-at-the-wrist
models, in white, ivory, bei&e,
fcrey, tan, or brown fclace kid of
soft pliable quality, with Paris
point or embroidered backs.
mm
GLOVE SHOP
Main Floor
2.75 to 4.50
Small furs; and a
little fur goes
a lon& way toward the smart
ness of the tailored costume if it
is one of the new one or two
skin scarfs, or the cape or choker
collar; in sable, mink, fisher,
skunk, stone marten, squirrel,
Hudson seal, fox, or Australian
opossum.
SSI 42.50 to 695.00
Silk, stockings, it
is a wise suit
that knows its own accessories,
and the ri&ht stockings with the
ri&ht suit are important: pluin,
open-work or hand-emb'd clox,
' or open-work insteps; in black'
brown, navy blue, or-.&rey;
also the new chestnut shade.
1.50 to 6.95
N architecture, most ancient of
the arts, it is the silhouette that
counts a minaret, a spire, the
fine point of a Gothic arch outlined
against the sky. And all other arts
follow sculpture, painting, dress.
Through the symmetry the rhythm
of outline the beholder is pleased or
repelled, and most subtle of all is the
application of this art to the silhouette
of dress. The silhouette is the archi
tecture of fashion, and the architect
of fashion is France. And Paris has
evolved as her newest suit silhouette the
Bouffant -.Front, but with her infinite
variety sponsors many others. The
Franklin Simon Suit Shops have them
all, including three-piece suits of fur
trimmed chiffbnyelvet, costume suits
of silk duvetyn, demi-tailored suits of
rich velours and strictly tailored suits
of tricotine. In silhouette they are:
HATS: STMPLE
WITH THE KIND OF
SIMPLICITY
only Paris or nature can copy.
The Breta&naise Beret is a
prominent model, and there are
also close fitting turbans and
broud brimmed hats to suit the
individual type of suit and the
individual occasion. Ostrich is
in favor for trimmings, so are
ribbon bows, and jeweled pins
fashioned to represent stilettos
or arrows.
FRENCH
MILLINERY
SHOP
Fourth Floor
18.00 to 75.00
BOUFFANT-FRONT
STRAIGHT LINE
REDINGOTE
GODET
HOSIERY SHOP
Main Floor
45.00 to 650.00
WOMEN'S SUIT SHOP-Balcony Floor
MISSES' SUIT SHOP Second Floor-
SO
CA chain is as strong as its weakest
link, a Tailored Toilette is as
good as its smallest
accessory
franklin Simon a do.
A Store of Individual Shops Fifth, Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets
Shoes : there is no,
putting your best
foot forward as
both are correctly shod if with
the tailored suit the proper
boots, Oxfords, or pumps are
selected. Brown is the leading
color, but black or fcrey are
also fcood. Hifch laced boots of
all brown kidskin or brown
with, contrasting buckskin tops
are smart, so are walking Ox
fords of mahogany Russia calf,
French or military heels are
worn, according to the style of
the shoe, costume and occasion
sh6e shop
Third Floor
8.50 to 18.50
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