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New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
BAKER ACCUSED
OF EXTORTION
Union Delegate, Police Say. W'.s
Arrested While Counting
"Plant" Bills.

In the arrest of Samuel Duket, OF
1926 East Tooth ST.. baker. last night
the police believe they have the prime
mover in the trouble many East Side
bakers have experienced in the last rev
months. There have been assaults and
robberies, bread destroyed with kero-
sene. and customers molested, at vari-
Gus bakeries. all of which have been
credited to labor troubles.
Duket. according to the detectives, is
"A delegate of the Bakers and Confec-
TONERS Union No. 305. He was ar
rested on a charge of eytorting Sl,0OO
from David l.. Messing, a baker, at rs
Lewis st.
Messing complained to Captain Cray,
of the Detective Bureau, several Gays
ago that Duket had threatened his me-
and the lives Of his employees IN the
two bakeries he runs at Beekman 81.
and IT'S Second av.. unless he paid nln
81 900 on Purim. the Jewish feast day.
and $40 week for year.
Messing promised TO pay and plant
was arranged by the detectives to catch
Duket when he called for the money
at 1 Beekman st. last night. lie was
arrested while he Was counting inc
81 ,OO0 in 500 bills as he was leaving
the bakery. The detectives said he ex-
claimed: "I'p- done for" when they
arrested him. acknowledging his guilt.
According to the police Duket has been
arrested before on q charge Of assault
and robbery.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
LOCKOUT CLOSES
ESQ TAILOR SHOPS
Manufacturers and Middlemen
Fight and Make 10000
TailOrS Idle.

The first strike as far as can be
learned of an association Of contrac-
tors or "middlemen," who contract for
making up garments for the manu-
facturers and pay their own tailors,
began yesterday, when the Children's
Contractors Association declared q
general lockout against the manufact-
urers, closing 25O shops throughout
the city and making 10000 tailors
idle.
The lockout was declared to force
the manufacturers to withdraw re-
duction in prices which they put into
effect some days ago for the making
up of the garments, and is therefore
virtually a strike. The contractors
say they have no quarrel with the
tailors and the locked out workers
look on the situation in the same light.
Most of the latter belong to the Chill
dren's Jacket Makers and Knee Pants
Makers unions.
There was a general strike, the con-
tractors say, some time ago, which was
settled by the contractors increasing
the wages. Now, they say, after the
increase has gone into effect the manu-
facturers are reducing the prices to
be paid to the contractors 10 and 20
cents a garment.
A representative of the contractors
association said yesterday that in the
present condition of the trade it would
be out of the question to accept the
reduction, especially as the contrac-
tors have already increased the wages
Of their tailors, who are now idle.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS
MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS.

Psymsster R Z. wEsTLAKE. additional duty
Monterey.
Passed Assistant PaJmsster T. T. BAILENGER
Assistant Psymaster II. HAUsER detschcd Monsd
mock snd Monterey. 10 Wilmington
Assistant Psmaster A. H. EDDINS. detacned VII
ninston. tO Helena
Famaster Clerk T. s BARNEY. appointed 10
Carpenter d. HYBURG. detached Saratoga. n
Monterey
Psymaster Clerk Z. X. LITTLEFIELD. sppoiu'ed
70 Saratoga
MOVEMENTS.
ARRIVED.
Nov. 9s-Burao. Q; MsnIsuilio; Culgos and CT.
sar. az Norfolk a Jenkins. al Annapolis: Nanshan.
al san Diego. Vulcan. ct Beirut. Annapolis. a.
san frsncisco.
Nov 2s-Bsrry. at Annoy: Yankton a. New Yofk
yard: Dixie. al Hampton Roads.
Nov. 25.-Buralo from Acapulco for ManyAnillo
Nov 2s-Buralo. from Msnzsnillo for Mazs,lsn
Culsos from Hampton Roads 70, Norfolk. Po-
from Corin,0 for Acapulco: Jason from Devoo-
port, England for Narsilies: ProtsuA from Ports
mouth. y H., for Hampton Roads: Annapolis
from Mare Island for san Francisco Abany
from san Diego for San Francisco: West virginia
from NszAlsn for La Par.
Nov 2e--Ammen Fsnning and Jarvis from An
napoiis for Hampton Roads. Nsnshsn. from San
Diego: Dixie. from Tansier Sound for Hampton
CoIss Proteus VIII leave Hampton Road. .bou,
he 10Th prorimo for nasal station. Olongapo.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
FINDS DERELICT "MINE"
OFF FIRE ISLAND COAST
British Skipper First Feared 1t Was Made in Germany,
but Binoculars Reveal What May Be u. S. Sea
Bomb in Ocean Lane

While inbound from London yester-
cay Captain Davies, master of the
british steamship Etonian. observed
off the coast of Fire Island an object
which he considered serious menace
to navigation. 1t was a mine, he said,
but observation through his binoculars
failed to disclose the mark Made in
Germany There was no hallmark on
the fearful bit of fotsam even to
suggest British manufacture, but it is
thought that somewhere below the sur
face the bobbing mine" bore the
stamp of Uncle Sam.
As the war has been under way for
some time the skipper thought that
the object Of his observation might
have been a relic of the Teutons' con-
tributions TO the North Sea. but the
general drift from that neighborhood
would carry a mine down along the
way of Cuba and Key West. At any
rate, christopher Columbus fetched up
near Santo Domingo when he started
out for the Indies, and that island is
not so far from Cuba.
There were doubtful ones on the
Etonian as well as credulous skip
per. and these men O. the sea were
positive that the masters find was
whistling buoy that got away from its
moorings off the Long Island coast.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
POTASH POISONING FATAL
Woman Dies After Taking 1t in
Mistake for EPSON Salts.

Mrs. Florence Rivinac, thirty-eight
wears old. wife Of r. +. Rivinac, con-
tractor, died last night in the Rivinac
suite. in the Whitestone apartments,
oO9 West l27th ST., from potash poison
ing.
On Sunday afternoon Mrs. Rivinac
took potash in powdered form from a
medicine cabinet by mistake for Epson
salts. DR.. Robert +. Chapman. Of 12l
West 120th St. who prescribed for the
woman early Sunday afternoon, added
Epson salts to other medicines. AT 3
p' m. on Sunday Mrs. Rivinae. ae-
cording TO the story gwen the police
took the first Of the stuff thought to be
the salts. At o'clock she was very
i'll. and at midnight DR.. Chapman called
again and resorted to heroic measures
20 aid the woman, without avail. -,
she had been i'll only few days with
nm ordinary ailment when DR.. Chap
man was called in.
The funeral will be in Pembroke, Me-.
vbre the family lived prior to two
years ago, when they came to this ei'y'
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
UNIFORM RATE
FOR REDTCOUNTS
Reserve Board Virtually
Decides On 5112 and 6
Per Cent.

Washington. Nov. 30.-On application
Of reserve banks the Federal Reserve
Board to-day took up the question Of
lowering the rediscount rate. which in
several districts is held to be so high
that the banks are doing practically no
business.
II was virtually decided that the rate
for the entire country should be uni
form at 5i1 per cent for thirty-day ma
turtles and 6 per cent for longer
maturities. This would put other re-
serve banks on the same footing as
those in Boston, New York and Phila-
delphia.
II is probable that lower rate will
be approved for Dallas and Richmond.
A reduction of the rate for Atlanta,
Kansas City and st. Louis is also un-
der consideration. No decision was
reached, and a call was sent out for
additional information. Definite action
will probably be taken tomorrow, but
no announcement will be made by the
board. Changes in redscount rates
will be announced hereafter by the re-
serve banks themselves.
A readjustment of the rediscount
rates has been made necessary by the
competition of some of the larger nier.-
Der banks, which have gone into the
market for commercial paper at rates
considerably lower than those fixed by
the Federal Reserve Board for the re-
serve banks. This situation was ex-
pected by the board, which fixed the
rate at a high figure with view to
encouraging rediseounting only to a
moderate degree until the system had
been established and the banks had
adjusted themselves to II.
The aggregate OF discounts for the
twelve banks last week was reported by
the board to be less than S8,000,000.
II is not probable that any change in
the rates for the New York Reserve
Bank and those of other financial CEN
tres in the East or Middle West will
be authorized, as conditions have been
fairly satisfactory in these districts.
As result of conference between
the Federal Reserve Board and Chair
man Glass Of the House Currency Com
mittee, administration leaders in Con-
gress will drop the pending bill to
amend the Aldrich-Vreeland law to per-
nit the national banks to use 100 per
cent of commercial paper, instead Of
80 per cent, as a basis in the issue of
emergency currency.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
WANTS CONKLING
AS "ANTI" EXHIBIT
With Him as Sample of Man,
Women Would Win Vote,
Saws Mrs. Nathan.

Alfred r. Conkling. ex-Assemblyman
and snti-suffragist, who debated with
Mrs. Norman der. Whitehouse and
Mrs. Frederick Nathan at the suffrage
shop, 663 Fifth av., last Tuesday, got
some hot shot yesterday from Mrs.
Nathan, who presided at the regular
afternoon meeting at the shop.
III Mr.. Conkling," said Mrs. Nathan,
"would only keep right on speaking
against the enfranchlsement of my sex
If he would let me take him around
and show him to audiences as an anti
suffrage exhibit wouldn't be neces.
sary for us TO talk any more. He would
win the vote for us without our taking
any more trouble.
"A number of women have said to
me since .hat debate: What insulting
things Mr. Conkling said about our
sexl' Well, il certainly is Illuminating
20 see what kind of a man men elect to
the Legislature.
The Rev. J. Howard Melish, of Brook
lyn, and Mrs. P. e.. Grant ethel Watts
Mumfordl were the speakers at yester-
DAVIS meeting. Mrs. Grant declared
that men could not possibly legislate
Justly for women, because they could
lot understand the psychology Of the
opposite sex: :,
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw and Mr.. Me-
lish spoke at a suffrage meeting yes
terday at the Cort Theatre under the
auspices of the Empire State Campaign
Committee. The meetings, 1t is an
nounced, will be held weekly, until the
vote Is won
The speakers at the Equal Franchise
Society's meeting on Monday will be
Dr. Henry Moskowitz and Miss Helen
Todd
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01

Some of them thought they heard
the buoy whistling "It's Long. Long
Way to Tipperary," but others were
positive il was God Save the King,
and this strengthened the rumor that
the copper menace TO navigation mad
gone adrift from come of the exotic
warships of a friendly nation that
nave been cruising of late in these
waters.
After looking through his glass for
some three minutes at the "mine"
which foated two ship lengths away
from the Etonian the skipper said that
il had five triggers. The boatswain's
mate took look and swore it was one
of those double back action. hammer
less perpetual motion bellbuoys, in
vented by a chap in Sunderland some
twenty years ago.
Sorne of the men of the waterfront
thought the Etonian's discovery might
be a real German mine, freed by some
German traveller on a neutral liner,
in the hope that it might disable
British wsrship, as there were no Ger
man warcraft in these waters.
As the object lies in the path OF
ocean steamships, about six miles
southwest of Fire Island, the derelict
destroyer Seneca may be sent out to
retrieve il to-day.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
DEATH GRAFT PENALTY
Chinese Officials Executed
Soldiers Kill Opium Smokers.

Peking. Oct 27.-Wang Chih-hsing,
ex-Prefect of Shuntienfu, the metro
politan district in which Peking is SIT
uated, has been executed py shoo,Ihs
because OF bribery and corruption
for selling Offices under him and ac-
eeptine asquee1e." Wang Chih-hsing
held the military rank of lieutenant
general.
The case has caused great excite
ciaIlv because General Wang was a
personal friend of Yuan Shih-ksi. 1t is
reported that the President sent an
emissary to the family OF the general
informing them of his regret at having
10 fulfil the law to stamp out corrup-
tion and of his intention to provide
for the maintenance of the family.
Many minor officials also have been
executed for dishonesty. and opium
smokers continue 20 go 1t the hands
Of the soldiers.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
Plans Special Committee
to Deal with Problem
of Unemployed.
OUTLOOK GRAVE, SAY
SETTLEMENT HEADS
Entirely Unusual Feature Is
Number of Middle Class
Men Out of Work.

II is likely that within week com
mittee appointed by Mayor Mitchell
will be in active charge of the unem'
ployment problem which looms so large
in the city's outlook for the winter.
The large number of men out oi
work through economic conditions due
70 the war in Europe and other causes
includes not only thousands OF day
laborers but as many again clerks
stenographers, keepers of small shops
statesmen and the like. These BRING
about a special problem. and the COM
mittee will give particular attention to
their needs.
,,orad have been manual workers, and
to these the city could afford some re-
lief in the way of Shovelling snow,
saving wood or other hard physical
tasks. But such employment VIII not
furnish work for CLERKS or statesmen,
They are not able to stand the physlcal
hardship.
Henry Bruere. City Chamberlain
who regards the unemployment situa-
tion as one mot unlikely to become the
chief concern of patriotic New Workers
during the year 1915" held long con,
ference with the Mayor at the City Hall
Yesterday. Together they mapped out
.he committees personnel.
Bruere Submits Plan.
Mr.. Bruere had already submitted to
the Mayor his recommendations. lie
considers unemployment fully as much
a factor in the city's economic life as
ia disease.
In September a committee of author
tiles on public relief, headed by Otto
T. Barnard, asked the City Chamber
lain to write out his ideas. He did so
and the result of his conclusions was
published in The Tribune on Novem-
Der 16. Briefly. Mr.. Bruere said that
while the problem of unemployment
was considered in this country as a
"by-product Of economic maladjust-
ment. allevisted only by makeshifts,'
Il should really be deemed a problem
to be dealt with permanently. not as
problem of relief or one calling for
philanthropic action, but as business
proposition with which the ablest men
OF tNe CITY SnOulQ De COuCtTHGO.
The programme which Mr.. Bruere
sponsored bore four principal sub
divisions. These we're:
Collecting facts regarding the extent and char
acter o. unemployment In New York City and
obtaining additional facts IN respect thereto.
Bringing about intelligent consideration BY in
dustries and business establishments of means
Of preventing ripdic unemployment
Norking out system of labor exchanges.
city. state and federal. on the basis o. begin
nings made IN the state and city and the in
vestisstions Of the Federal Industrial Relations
Commission.
Organizing promptly special emergency &c
tivites where necessity appears 10 care for those
who unemployed owing 10 no condition
heretofore stated. but 70 an extraordinary de-
preston brough. about by exceptional causes.
such as. for example. the present war.
The committee to be appointed will
be drawn from such agencies as city,
state and federal departments, public
societies and civic organizations, and
manufacturing, banking, railroad and
labor interests. Subcommittee will
be appointed, and the whole committee
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
WIFE ASKS MORE MONEY
Beat Husbands Divorce Suit
and Now Seeks Separation.

Mrs. Gary ]. Williams, whose hus-
band. Frank Williams, is the son OF a
wealthy contractor. made application
Yesterday TO the Supreme Court for
$3.50 additional counsel fees in her suit
for separation. Williams. who sued his
wife for divorce and lost the case, op-
posed the motion on the ground that
about $4,000 has already been paid, ex-
pressing the belief that some of the
money he paid his wife as alimony has
been given out by her as counsel fees.
He said that as an employe OF his
father he receives 81 so day and that
his father has had to pay his alimony
Mrs. Williams alleged that her hus,,
band assaulted her, bet ne submitted
a letter from her, dated on the day OF
the alleged assault, in which she said:
This is 70 say goodby. Thank you
and your people for all you have done
for the children and myself; but this
is for good. Don't call me up or try
20 see me. This is final. Nothing but
good and sweet wishes for your tut
ure."
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
ARMY.
Prom The Tribune Bureau J

Washington, Nov. 80.
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HENRY D. SNYDER. medical oorps' upom nn. stis .,s
IN United states from Vera Cruz TO proper s'&-
10, ton 70, WILLIAM LAssITER. from ~ 70 "a
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centiv promoted. announced; . ,nurN .,d MAJ
Tgsuy T,su, Col GEORGE Ii X IRNlN snd "~'
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s,on STty at Galveston IN eonnecton VII" is'''
base al Vera Cruz % Ip,TfoS TfsSlsh %hen service, no
Mao, reoaired at Gsston 70 Psradep5ni1i De
c.oi YFREDrRICK W. VAN DUN asoo, 20 "St Srss
ION for temporary duty as ASsis's"' "''
ixENzrE W WALKER from duty ssu.ai as A.
Cspt, c1,.r,,rmaster. United stans ~
sistant CO.. 10 Galveston for temporary duty -
.sSi,,ant depo, auartsrmsster ,,u..l corn. upon
Mai ELBERT T.. PERsoNs' ,,on MT Vera Cruz. 70
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vpon a,s for consultation Nth surg.en sene', ~
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s new WILLIAM RaRDE;SS; "a SY'P Division. r,sun.
on completion Of duty ,nsteo. sso - ''
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san s4adWhs risi 4 ROBERTS. ID Cav. take station
a; P,?,,SRsnSoScN PGnSnoN JOHNSTON. il,h Cav. 70 For
oe'etn"i iisnd and report % MAJOR General Leon-
erlio'u vns.d =. side-de camp OIL his STAT.
sru mrII,N N CABELL retired from duty
',pnh 'p,,h Kan pnssde 20 Washington 'or temporary
si,ty IN ofnce surgeon s,nsran, %. g., ,.o,.
FlI.i Lieut. RusStL sSt aoon ,iprsoa leave q absence
TO TO n, ..,is BgfoxHAM WARD. from seth To is,h
, lnI =, ,b..no,: Capt. MURRAY BALDWIN. 3lst
49, ,s,,,eI recruiting Officer one month from
December IS: Fret i4eut KELLEY ". LENNON.
rosS, art one month from December 10: Firs,
Iieut, WILLIAM = ROSE and RObEkT y.
CAMPBELL. coast art. four months, with per-
mission 10 vsit South America: first Lieut. ED
uIpD ~ TARBrTTON Both Inf. and Second
Lieut. FREDERICK GALBRAIrH. lith Cav. one
month.
Ensign C. 81 DoIJ.N. to naval hospital. wash.
Easisn G b AsHE. detached sscrsmnto: to
Ensisn p. ]. sEAR1Es. detached Psducsh: to
Sacramento
Ensign ". D. KIIDUrr. ds,sehsd Mousshan: to
Ea.i@ T. n. McLuNG. detached rersin': to
Carpenter : G GIRApEr. detached receiving sh,p
a, Philadelphia 20 Illinois. ,
Ensign G. A. LOCKWOOD. detached Nchiesn
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New-York tribune., 1914-12-01

Market which the women OF New forS
conducted at the Grand Central Palace
the last week in October netted So.ooo
and the Pavlowa benefit at the Metro
politan Opera House last TUESDAY
$4,000. The entire fund of the Red
Cross is now 1887, 108 81. Ihe
New York "Staats-Zeitung' forwarded
$50 80. The Pavlowa check was accom-
panied by a letter from the dancer
asking that the Russian share OF the
benefit money be sent by cable directly
20 the Czarina, to be expended as she
saw ft among the wounded of the Rus
sian army.
The Red Cross sent $4,000 By cable
TO Constantinople for the relief OF the
earthquake victims in kopia.
The Dollar Christmas Fund for
Homeless Belgians, which Henry Clews
is collecting, amounted TO S20.372'
Among the contributors were readers
of "The Daily Sentinel" Grand juno
ton. Col. $500; Cleveland Twist Drill
Company. s135; st. Augustine's School,
Raleigh. y. c., $50; Royal Indemnity
Company, New York. Sill; Mrs. j.
Dwight. Wyoming. Ohio. 800; Miss
Mary Ludington, $50, and ]. j. Halo
way, Bridgeport, Conn, $50.
The Jewish Keller Fund amounted 70
S2S, ,09S So. "The Jewish Daily News
forwarded s1.059; Trenton local COM
mittee. 1894; Little Rock, Ark, Sl23;
st. Louis. $3.50; Memphis. $3.50:
Brownsville. n. Y, s10s; Braddock,
Penn, S6S. and Tupper Lake, \. Y, $50
The Prince of Wales's fund amount
ed to s76,3el 68. Andrew Carnegie
gave $500 through the st. Andrews So
ciety. and Warwick, Mitchell, Peat &
Co.. $4,000. Other contributors were
Andrew Baxter, 500; "The Pawtucket
Evening Times" SD so, and Auxiliary
No. l, 1887 SO.
DR.. Harvey W. Wiley has sent de-
scription of pure food baby boxes to
Mrs. Lindor Bates for the instruction
of persons who wish to contribute TO
the saving of 100000 babies now starv-
ing in Belgium. Mrs. Bates is chairman
Of the women's section of the Ameri-
can Commission for Relief in Belgium
and has enlisted the help of 100000
American women.
The pure food baby box should weigh
about thirty pounds when packed and
should contain an assortment Of pre-
pared baby foods. The boxes should
be marked with a white band to dis
tinguish them from the blue boxes for
invalids and red for adults.
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
BIRD BUYS NEWSPAPERS
Boston Advertiser" and Rec
ord" Change Ownership.

Boston, Nov. 30.-Charles Sumner
Bird, Progressive candidate for Gov
crnor in 1912 and 1913. announced to-
night that he had purchased "The Bos-
ton Daily Advertiser" and "The Boston
Evening Record" His son, Francis W.
Bird. Of New York. will be publisher
and George d. Dutton, of New York,
treasurer.
Mr.. Bird stated that he would take
no active part in the conduct or man
sgement Of either paper.
at is our aim" he said in q state
ment, "to maintain il both papers an
honorable tradition and TO establish a
name for liberal and independent jour
nalism that shall hold Itself free from
alliance with any party. any group. any
special interest
New-York tribune., 1914-12-01
TAXI MEN ARRESTED
Police Say Independents Were
Shut Out at Hotel.

Louis Capria, a chauffeur for the
Seaman Company, and Adamo
Macagnia, a chauffeur for the Yellow
Taxicab Company, were arraigned yes
terday before Magistrate Barlow
Capria for obstructing a public cab
stand and Macagnia for running a taxi
cab without a license. They we're ar.
rested by Patrolman Cahill at the ADD
st. entrance of the Hotel Manhattan.
Cahil said he saw Capria hold the
head of the taxi line at the hotel, shut
ting out independent chauffeurs behind
him and allowing Yellow Taxicab Com
pany machines to go in front OF him.
Magistrate Barlow adjourned the case
until tomorrow, when the Corporation
Counsel will be represented