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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17

"Somc OF those who pay assessments
are out Of work themselves ] know some
Of them. Youll say that I haven't o.
Tered any remedy for unemployment
What can the city do hut the work II
has to doT'
one by ono they arose and told him.
Darwin ]. Mosernle went into his rea-
sons FOR thinking that 900. 600 men are out
of work. Mr. Prcndcrgast did not con-
code the validity of the figures. John
Martin said that every one should re-
solve that for the next s.N weeks no man,
woman or child In the city should 20
hungry. Commissioner Of Charities Kings
bury, backed by the city administrations
should help to attend to that, said Mr.
Martin,
lie ala not suggcat how, and Mr. Prem
dergast pointed out that the administra-
ton had twice come to Mr.. knEsbury's
aid in this matter OF caring for the hungry
and homeless The Comptroller added that
so far the Municipal Lodging House had
not had all its beds full any night
Some one said this lccause the men
were turned away after seven days
John y. Andrews, secretary Of the
American Association for Labor Legisla-
ton, and Robert s. Bl1kerd, secretary OF
ne CITY Club spoke before the Comptrol-
Ter was heard,
MIR. Andrews told what England and
some American cities had done to alleviate
unemployment. and Mr., 3inkord said that
the city might properly programme public
works for ten years ahead. authorizing
them AS conditions warranted.
Some Of those present were Douglas
Mathewson, President Of The Bronx
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
Carpenters Plan Assessment TO Help
Idle Union Men.

Owing to the unusual number of un'
employed members, Carpenters Union
No. sOs will meet next Saturday TO vote
on proposition that members who are
working pay weekly assessments to aid
the unemployed. II is proposed that
members earning s25 n week he taxed
rs cents a week. those earning $40 a
week 80 cents, and those earning s1b q
week 20 cents a week.
For number OF years the union has
had fund for unemployed members but
so many are now idle, II 10 said, that
additional relief must be found
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
bryan Refuses to Discuss sullivan
Inquiry by Phclan.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.-Secretary
Bryan dismissed tonight the Santo Do
mngo affair with a wave OF tho hand
and said that he had not one word in
comment upon the inquiry being con-
Quoted In New York by Senator-elcct
Phelan into the fitness OF James NJ. sui
Ivan, as American Minister to Santo Do
mingo.
There is nothing to be said as far as
] am concerned" said the Secretary Of
state. raising his hand and slowly but
firmly shaking his head. You know that
] have already acknowledged writing a
letter to Walter w. Wick, who was re-
ceiver OF customs at Santo Domingo. in
which ] made some mention of his finding
places for worthy Democrats That's all
| have to say on the matter"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
GIRL STARVING IN STREET.
wouIdn't Ask for Help, and Assist
ance May He Too Late.

Pride which prevented her from ask-
ing help from friends or charitable in
stitutone may cost the life OF Miss Edith
Goldberg. a. OF 400 East Fourth street
who was found unconscious at Fifth ave-
nue and Ninety-elghth street late last
night. Physicians at Mount Sinai Hospi-
tai. whittier she was taken, said that she
was starving to death.
During a period OF consciousness the
girl told tho doctors she Lad not eaten
in many days. having lost her place M
a seamstrcss because of the duh times
She came 10 this city from Brockton,
Mass, three months ago.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
URGES WORK ON PIERS FOR IDLE
Dock Commissioner Smith Asks for
sI,14I,5OO Appropriation.

Dock Commissioner Smith has asked
the Board OF Estimate &c appropriate
Sl,l41.50O for improvements in his de-
partmeat upon which. he says. large
number OF skilled waterfront workmen
who are now jobless could he employed
In "A short time.
OF the requested sum, si7S,000 Is for
pier extensions, $4,000 for new piers
M the foot OF Twenty-uinth and Thir-
ti.th streets. Brooklyn, and s49,5OO for
granite pavements along the waterfront
OF lower Manhattan on the west side.
In a letter to the Mayor Commissioner
Smith says: THE Secretary OF War on
March granted n much needed extension
OF the picrhead line between Gansevoort
street and the Battery. The work has
been pushed forward rapidly. The list Of
extensions submitted in this request would
carry out to the new line all of the re-
naming city owned piers, The additional
wharfage space, which will result from
the extensions. Is badly needed"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
Byrne's davtt.
The affidavit says in part:


Timothy J. Sullivan told me that he
had come TO Santo Domingo 20 handle
the contracts for building railroads and
highways and other public improvements
for the Dominican Government. that he
had come there at the request OF his
cousin, Minister Sullivan. and definite ar.
rangements had been made before he left
his home In Springfield, Mass; that the
deal for his employment had been put
through by Minister Sullivan. and that
James \. Mcclure. from New York State,
was to be the contractor for this work
81 told sullivan that could not see how
they could hope or expect to carry through
any such scheme. in view OF the fact
that once the public works were opened
up there would be many contracting con-
Germs bidding for the business. Sullivan
said that the competition would not make
any difference for the reason that no
money could become available for this
work without the approval Of Minister
sullivan. and that the approval OF the
American Minister would not be given to
the expenditure Of any money for Domini-
can public improvements unless Mcclure
was to get the work.
"TimOthy J.. sullivan said that his
cousin, the Minister, was TO receive per-
centage Of the profits from the contracts
thrown 10 Mcclure, and that he tTimothy
sullivan was in santo Domingo 20 see
that the Minister. TO quote Sullivan's owa
expression. got his bit.'
~ then said that II seemed TO me that
aside from being very unfair and unjust
to the Dominican people II was very
dangerous matter for him to get mixed
up in, as 1 believed Tim Sullivan was
a sort of a plant tool Of the Minister'S
He then told me that there would be no
difficulty in carrying the business
through, as the Minister and Samuel NJ.
Jarvis. head OF the National Bank Of
Santo Domingo--the concern that nad
worked up this scheme and was to finance
twas solid with Secretary Bryan.
There has been some question as TO
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
Guests Of Hotel de Gink Serve Them
selves with NuIIiEsn stew.

Jon Daviss tincrants, who have taken
possession of the Hotel de Gink Mt 70
Centre street, prepared their first meal
of Muligan stew yesterday in II shed
they have put up In a lot across the
way which + owned by the city
For several hours early In tho day the
hohoes lugged to the lot tables chairs
dishes and kitchen utensils that had
been contributed by proprletors of two
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17

But speaking about the rest OF the
show. Gilbert Lawrence A. Riley and
Sullivan Alfred J. Doyle started months
ago to grind out the words and music.
and as result the Crescents yesterday
gave pos. lively. and mean every
doggasted word. fellers. doggone me II
I don't, the best show they've ever eased
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17

George w. Aiger, Alexander NJ. Bing. John
~ Crimmins. Raymond v. IngersolL Paui
Kennaday, Shepard A. Morgan. Thomas NJ.
Mulry James Bronson Reynolds cyrus Il.
Sulzberger and Miss Lillian ID. Wald.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
Mrs. swift Hurt by Fail.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1s.-Mrs. Gustayul r.
Swift. Jr.. is At her home. 1851 Astor
street. to-day. recovering from injurie,
received In a fall on the icy pavement
near the Swift residence. Mrs. Swift
sustained n broken nose, but u is said
that with the healing OF the bruise here
would be no marring OF her features.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
Many women of society studying TO
Re War Nurses.

The popularity OF a special course in
nursing started two weeks ago at the
Central Branch OF the Young Womens
Christian Association, East Fifteenth
street. lends proof to the rumor that many
Young women OF society are preparing
themselves to nurse soldiers in Europe.
An official at the Y. w. G.. a. said yes
terdgy that 80 many Of them have Joined
the course that apparently they do not
intend TO give up their annual trip abroad
this summer.
Among the young women who are taxi
ing the eleven weeks work, putting in
from three 10 six hours a day, are Miss
Esther Cleveland, daughter OF the former
President; Miss Elizabeth Grler Hibben,
daughter OF the President OF Princeton
University, and Miss Barbara Armour. all
Of whom have come from Princeton to
attend the classes The New York stu
dents include Mrs. De Lancey Nicoll and
her daughter. Josephine. Miss Nancy Cole
man and Mrs. Guy Van Amringe. Mrs,
Nicoli and her daughter will devote
spring and summer to nursing GONZALES
cents in the great field hospitals around
London.
other students will join Mrs. Beatrice
Lockwood. a graduate Of the Y w, G. A.
nursing class OF last fall, who In now
I'm one ~ the French chateau hos
pitfalls owned by an American. The
proficiency or these women in French
and German will make them especially
valuable. said Miss Lucy NJ, Whcnman,
educational secretary Of the Y. w. G. a.
More have, applied for this course than
we can accommodate" said Miss When
man Those who do tho work can be-
come only trained attendants to serve
IN second line hospitals, They study ban
daging. cooking for convalescents and
the first aid Miss Louise Henderson is in
charge OF the ffty-fvc pupils
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
Asks for Relief for Employers.

And now n Anal suggestion along the
same line. The Mayor has appointed
citizens committee to consider unem-
ployment. Can you not prevail upon him
To appoint a citizens committee to con-
slider the question OF relieving employers
from oppression? The two problems are
closely related. being largely the cause
Of unemployment. and probably the best
plan would be for your committee to be
charged with the consideration Of both
OF them" A postscript TO the letter says:
Let me cite one specific case, GER
tain binding IN this city which for many
years thrivcd with industry Is now lying
die because Of Violations filed against 1t.
II the city department will remove these
violations and will agree that the build
ing will not hereafter be interfered with
| will agree to put a minimum OF twenty
Ave men TO work in that buillng imme-
diately and keep them employed until
MAY /. After that date the presumption
Is that there will be steady employment
for much larger number OF men in
that building"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
Savears Bryan Tried to
Cover Up "Nasb Mess
James Byne in Affidavit Charges Minister Sullivan
With Plotting to Exploit Santo Domingo for
His Personal Profit.


The manifest desire OF Secretary Bryan
TO keep the records OF the State Depart
ment clean with reference to charges OF
misconduct against Jams Mark Sullivan,
Minister to Santo Domingo. came out yes
terday in the testimony OF James L.
Byrne before President Wilson's invests
gator, James ID. Phelan.
Mr.. Byrne. who lives at 90 Huntington
avenue. Boston. Mass, Ia at the head OF
large contracting business and has had
several private contracts In Santo
Domingo. While there he became con-
WINGED OF Minister Sulllvan's unfitness and
believed that Sullivan was in a con-
spiracy TO exploit the country.
At the instlgation OF Congressman
Peters upon his return to the States Mr.
Byrne told the story OF this very nasty
mess In Ssnto Domingo to Secretary Of
State Bryan
II saw Bryan and told him the whole
story" Mr. Byrne testified.
Were you not satisfied with his re-
ception OF lt?'' inquired Mr.. Phelan.
81 was perfectly satisfied until I had
finished Then Secretary Bryan said to
me, Now, Mr.. Byrne. | wish you would
write out what you have said and leave
IL here'-Bryan did not take his eyes of
me when h, said thls-'or perhaps you
would not care TO do that
Il told him I would gladly write out
what l had said. Then Secretary Bryan
said: I don't think 1t will be necessary
to do that
His Impression OF bryan.
81 gathered from that that he did not
want to have what had told him in the
records of the State Department
"The Secretary OF state should either
| have taken some note OF what I said
20 him or he should have had me prose.
cuted. No man should be allowed 20
walk Into the office OF the Secretary oi
state and say what I did about an Amer
lean Minister and he permitted to waIk
out free.
II urged Secretary Bryan to clear up
this matter right there at home and then
the investigation could have been made
10 the credit OF the Amrican Government
and would not have placed me in this
position"
The substance OF what Mr. Byrne told
/ Secretary Bryan was before Commi ssioneI
I Phelau yesterday in an affidavit from Mr.
Byrne who added to the affidavit in his
testimony. lie was the only witness yes
terday.
Mr.. Byrne's affidavit was made on In
formation given 10 him by Timothy J
Sullivan a Springfield. Mass. coal dealer
who told Mr.. Byrne that he Tim Sulli
van) was i'm Santo Domingo to help jim
get his bit" The Jim" referred to I,
Minister James NJ. Sullivan. Timothy Sui
| livan's cousin.
The name OF James X. Mcclure. forme'
Mayor OF Syracuse. who was indicted II
Whitmans highway graft inquiry for IL
legally soliciting a campaign contribution
from a corporation. was linked with jim
and Tim Sullivan in Mr.. Byrnes AFFIDAVIT
1 The contracts the Sullivans expected {,
get were for highway construction.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
CRESCENT CLUB MINSTRELS
GORGEOUS AND GLITTERING
Old Oakley Wood, the Pioneer of Burnt Cork James A.
Dunn, Ed Butler and All of Them in Fact,
Pluck Fresh Laurels

The Hon. Jimmie A. Dunno is not only
the most deviishly fascinating clerk of a
municipal court in all Brooklyn but, so
he boosted openly yesterday. he has
fought through three campaigns-the
Spanish American war and as depositor
in two Brooklyn banks.
Wherefore he feared himself not yes
terday, but walked right out on top or
the Brooklyn Academy of Music stage and
acted up throughout the matinee per-
Torrance of the Crescent Athletic CLUBS
annual minstrel musical comedy explo-
sion and. still unafraid. he did II all over
lagain last night But back of the sacri-
Ace he was making to Art was pretty
note OF sentiment
The same sentimental reason, which
will be outlined later also prompted eN-
Cap'n Edmund W. Butler OF the cornell
4, othall team to black up and sing songs
with the whole family and the neighbors
looking and listening. Facing rival foot
ballsters at Cornell and jumping at the
chests of the baseball and basketball
rivals of the Crescents have brought Capn
Eds nerves IN TO the point where, like
jimmie he fears nothing. 80 he sang
As for interlocutor w. j. Darby NC
CahilI and Endnrsn George Hewlett
know not either fear or shame. Finally
when one comes 20 the endman that COM
pleted the quartet of bones and tambos'
the same being Old Oakley Wood. tle
en- nent stcamshipper, one arrives AZ the
continental reason which prompted the
6, feed artists already named and sew
era crates Of others to elevate the drama
again yesterday.
Oakley woods Farewell.
It was Old Oakley Woods last appear
ance on any stage. and so the other
cutups of the Cresccnts decided that no
matter how their home folks opposed their
taking IN n stage career they were hil
going down in dramatic history az mem
hers Of the company in which Old Oakley
Wood appeared. For many, many yeats.
perhaps even longer than that, Old Oakley
Wood has been an annual Crescent MIN
strel star.
Yesterday AT afternoon and night per
, formances he said. or sang. sentimentally,
ooh, tn doctah told me tblng zum ina!
/ he'd have to scold me- JUS becuz IN
/ hours An keep" Boon, zing. boom !
/ But that isn't the reason Old Mister
Wood is leaving the American drama
/ nat He Is merely making way Tor
/ younger men. that's all.
Born in Canarsie IN an earlier date IN
our history Old Oakley Wood. the SUBJ
ject of our sketch. first appeared as an
/ emotional songster and elocutionist with
! Chris:y's Minstrels AZ Mitchell's Olympic,
J 40 Broadway. the very theatre that BIZ
/ Seymour Of the Frohman offices wrote
/ 50 entertainlngly about yesterday. One
night he didn't show up for the per-
J formance II seems that at Gen. Win
field SCOTS hrst call for volunteers In
/ the Mexican war Old Oakley Wood
But let hygones he byEnoes. IT'S enough
] -, nal1ap Moods
sayso last night was positively, fellers
and / mean every doggasted word say
felers. doggone me II / don't. his last
performance.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17
PLEADS FOR HELP
FOR EMPLOYERS, TOO

In a letter recently addressed to Ebert
II. Gary chairman OF the Mayors com
m!ttee on unemployment. II. II. Johnston
president OF the Automobile Dealers Asso.
citation, says; "One OF the principal
causes Of the unemployment OF labor Ia
the warfare which the city departments
have been waglng upon employers "
labor.
with its right hand the city admins
tration Is trying to make work for the
unemployed, while with its left hand II Is
closing up industrial establishments ard
Is forcing labor out of employment"
Property used for industrial purposes
has been subjected to a bombardment
which in economic effect is no less disas-
trous than the bombardment OF the cities
IN the war zone OF Europe" adds Mr..
Johnston. He says the order OF city
department to a property owner ito tear
down his establishment and rebuild II ac-
cording to the within OF that department ls
in no degree less harmful than II the
building were to be demolished by n she !
from a hostile cannon" The letter fur
Their says:
MANY employers OF labor who other
wise would be expanding their business
and Increasing their payrolls have found
IL necessary to spend every dollar OF their
surplus in the various uneconomc ways
dictated BY the city departments. Other
employers whose business has not been
flourishing have regarded the unnecessary
burdens put upon them by the city de-
partments as the last straw and have
simply closed up their establishments
until such times as administrative sanity
takes the place Of regulative mania.
says Employers Are Quitting city.
still other employers are transferring
their activities to other cities and States
H.. F..NI IA. 4
build their establishments TO meet the
departmental requirements Of to-day, to-
morrow there will be new and conflictinl
requirements and production must agar
be interrupted"
MIR. johnson asserts that n great dea
of unemployment results from city order,
requiring changes in buildings that were
approved by previous administrations
Such buildings, he says. must be rebuilt OF
closed. These violations" he says. Otter
cause suspension OF business and discharge
OF labor.
Those in our industry. for example,
| the letter continues, will never forge
| the oil separator scandal Of last summer
| one Of the city departments endeavore'
| to force about 2,200 establishments q
buy and install certain patented devic,
called an oil separator We appealed =
| the Board OF Aldermen for relief am
/ showed them through the testimony o
experts of national reputation. that tn
devices were worthless. We showed then
| further that many Of the 2.2OO establish
ments concerned would have 70 so out o
! business II this expenditure were insisted
upon. The Board Of Aldermen by vot
OF so to ] repealed The department regu
/ lation requiring the purchase OF this de
vice. The Mayor vetoed the action of tn
! Aldermen.
This Is but one example or the war
| fare against business Almost every In
dustry in the city can furnish parallel ex
! amples
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17

over the footlights In their long. te.p.t.
chorean. Evolutionary and choral c,fc,-
Success?--even to the audience 4,
the matinee the entire James A. Dunno
family were in the seventh row ,,tt,
and, with the expenses thus assured |,
poured all the Brooklyn mothers apJ
sisters and cousins and aunts OF tho
actors that could he wedged uncomforta
bly, onto the Academy floor. whop =,
one looked heavenward. one saw balcopi..
and boxes a-fiutter with beribboned <,dd,.,
and mothers and nurses, all of hon
almost az nervous and excited as the a..
tors making up backstaRe
The venerable manager OF the troups
made a speech--he was n prom how ,
England at the same time Old Oakley
Wood broke into the business-ard tho
curtain arose upon the gotgeousnass o,
burnt cork the white and the sc,rlo,
satins and all the glories Of minstrel
first pat. Take a look:
Interloe utor-w. }. Mccain
, Ends
Oakley Wood: George 1lev .c.
End song-"Ths 5;iS' ,..... Georeo H i.'E''W
Bgilsaa-'The Little Gray Home in the '''
End sons-;ive only one idss ABB Abou; ,be "on'
Girls and That's TO Love EN-
Bqlla9--.Ths Mermaid's soas BY seo Fss"
End sopT@rhat. why coig@Sas E Hsaj r
BSiiad"The song Of scnss '' GSSrEs nlSS.
End song" Bum Bldde de -um Bum.
go Ihats u $500. ....... Dakler Wood
Words OF the opening and closing ,ho -'.,r
written BY Lawrence a. Riley Musi. by
Alfred J. Doyle.
H Andrews, Edmund + Mu,ho.ana.
i f. chris,oneL GI scrywesc.
Back OF these was black coud
of Chorlsteis. OF course. 50 many hat
there's no room to list all
George II. Gartlan had the stage al
, 10 himself with n new "pianologue' act
quite as professionally" finishcd IN ever,
way as the delightfully."- adept singing
and dancing and merry quips OF oakley
+ Wood maser Of minstrelsy, were.
Everybody went to THE Island Of Wa,i.
Watr' then TO see n stranded movie corn.
pBny try to make King TdWhfdo (Geors,
w Head, Jr) laugh. The king hadr,
laughed for twenty long years and he
dared EN- to do II. As the movie boy,
/ and girls were to be shot at sunrise
/ IL they didn't make him lduRh the,
/ up and did 1t in the end. Here they
/ are:
Tavhiao, King OF wati-watl. Geo. W Head !.
FL E. TIL. Kings Guard | $$ as;
7 Va ] y Erase.
Malachi Doian, Manager Of the Movie ~.
Charles Icliari
/ Bill. the Camera Man. also the Lion Tanner
| George Hewlett
/ Berkeley. tho Lion ..,,., .Mirabeau {. Towns
1 Iona Ford. a one Cylinder Flivver
John r. Kcllv. j..
I Linn Obscene. Always Speedy. Jas A. Dunn.
: Sam sideways, a Matinee Favorite
! Or Frank Mo--''
! Himself.............. e X Fre'we'
]
| all went over to the clubhouse where.
: But that part is private stuff And mo-
sides at this hour of midnight, it's JUS,
/ getting under way.