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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-11
ASSEMBLY BALKS AT
new YORK'S HOBBIES
Bill to Let City Officials Go to
College Is Committed
for Hearing.

ALBANY. Feb 1O.--Democratic Leader
Smith Of the Assembly made such a pro-
test to-day about the bill Of Assembly
man Fertig. permitting employees OF the
New York city government to attend
the City College to take special courses.
that the measure was recommitted for n
hearing In the course of his argument
Mr.. Smith charged that the city IL
spending a million dollars a year for
hobbies"
This money s spent all the way
from the city plan commission 10 the
Hotel dc G!nk." said MIR Smith.
Another bill recommitted for n hear
ing was that Of Asscmblyman Tallett
requiring the reading OF the Bible in
schools.
The hill providing for a reorganiza-
ton OF the state Conservation Comms-
Sion and the resolution giving the pub
lie Service investigating committee an
additional $1,000 have been reported
favorably to the Assembly. The appro-
priation already has passed the Senate.
Senator ogden l.. Mills introduced a
BIN providing for the creation OF de-
partment of markets in New York city.
Recently the state Department Of Foods
and Markets reported that through a
systematic organization Of the distribu-
ton and sale Of foodstuffs In New York
city about s2O0.OOo,o 900 could he saved
annually.
Under the Mills bill tho Board OF Es-
innate is permitted to establish the de-
partment OF markets and the Mayor has
authority to name a commissioner.
Assemblyman Kincaid of Onondaga in
PRODUCED a bill abolishing the state De
partment OF Foods and Markets.
Reorgn nization OF the Agricultural
Department is provided for in bill by
Assemblyman John Knight Of Wyoming,
reducing the salary Of the commissioner,
CalvirJ. Huson. from $4,000 TO $4,000 a
year.
The Assembly passed the Hon bill
permitting the Police or Fire Commits
sione- to order n rehearing OF certain
charges on which policemen and fire.
men we're dismissed within Ave years.
\ bill designed 10 prevent poor work
ing people in New York city from being
evicted was introduced to-day by Assem-
hlyinan John l., LaFrenz OF Kings.
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MISSOURI PACIFIC SLATE.
Nominations for Directors by the
Proxy Committee.

The slate OF new directors to be pre-
scented by the Missouri Pacific proxy
committee formed for action at the an
nual meeting on March ., though not yet
definitely decided upon in all particulars,
Is understood to contain the following
nominations;
AZ members Of the board from New
York Alexander j. Hcmphill, Nicholas
f. Brady, Cornelius Vanderbilt, New
comb Carleton, president of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and Robert
Winsor of Kidder, Peabody & Co
AZ members Of the board from st.
Louis: Edward II, Faust Of the An
heuser-Busch Brewing Company, Festus
J, Wade, president Of the Mercantile
Trust Company, and one other.
Official announcement OF the ticket is
expected soon. Present directors who
will continue on the board II the proxy
committee ticket is successful include
il u understood, Edgar l.. Malslon. L.
d, Adams, Edwin q, Merrill, r. Lam
caster Williams, y. r. Bush and Finley
j. Shepard.
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STRAUS GIVES VIEWS
ON MINIMUM WAGE
Speaks at Banquet Attended
by 200 Out Of Town Dry
Goods Merchants.

About 500 out 10 town dry goods mer-
chants here for the annual meeting Of
the National Retail Dry Goods Associa-
ton attended banquet last evening
at the Knickerbocker Hotel and llstenea
to a debate on the minimum wage
Rome O. Brown OF Minneapolis pre-
scented the negative side OF the ques-
tion and Norman Hapgood spoke In It's
favor. Previous TO the debate. IN which
the negative side seemed to evoke the
greatest applause. Percy s. Straus Of
r. II. Macy n co. made few re-
marks about the minimum wage and
other matters OF Importance to dry
goods merchants.
with minimum wage law said
Mr.. Straus, "one of two things will
occur, either the employers will give
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being

those who CHANGED to he near. In ex-
PLANTATION Commissioner FetherstOu said
yesterday:
at has been simply question OF
money As with other city departments,
money is voted for this department in
the fall to carry 1t through the follow
ing year In the fail OF 1918, before
the advent OF the present administration,
no money was voted or requested for
covers for the ashcarts. So when the
Commissioner was appointed TO his post
there was no money at his disposal
for this new equipment"
In March THE Sun pointed out again
the need for remedy. and Commissioner
Fetherston devised his new cover He
had the plan but not the money, and
the only way he could get tho money
WAS to wait until the fall and ash for
Il as part OF this years budget He
needed only about 100000 and wanted
to get as many OF the covers installed
as he could. So saving money in other
ways. he was able TO have sevVnty-hve
of the new covers made at cost OF
about 500 each.
BY the end Of the year he had enough
available money to advertise for 400
more OF the covers, and he got a lower
price because OF the larger order. He
bought the canvas and metal parts and
bad hts own men install them on the
carts The contract was given late In
December ny that time his request for
$40. 900 for new covers had been granted
by the Aldermen. but Il was against the
law for him TO ask In 1914 for hds on
articles 70 he paid for out OF the money
granted for 1915. go he had 10 wait
until January OF this year to advertise
for more bids But the 400 covers
were made and have already been de-
livered and the departments men are
putting them on carts at stable a,
Avenue and Seventeenth street, at the
rate Of about FIVE a day.
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MAYOR Mitchell

writing to Robert Olyphant,
President of the Hospital
Association, which includes AZ
voluntary hospitals, says:
Your appeal for contribu-
tons should meet with a gen.
erous response, and | hope that
the calls for help from abroad
will not make generous citizens
forget the equally pressing, but
perhaps not so spectacular,
needs Of our own people"
Unemployment has impov-
erished hundreds who ordi-
narily would pay for hospital
care. Will you make it pos
sible for the hospitals to re-
ceive them?
81 cares for IA convalescent / day
So cares for an acute case day
SIS gives week in hospital bed
500 can heal four sufferers.
Please send check to
Iharirs ianier, Treas, 90 Cedar ST.,
or Mrs, James Speyer, iO5s rim Ave,
Treasurer Woman's Auxiliary
HOSPITAL SATURDAY, ASSOCIATION
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65 CANADIANS DIE IN CAMP.
Report of serious Epidemic Mt Sal.
i-bury Plain Denied.

LONDON. Feb 1o.-Reports that there
had been many deaths from disease in
the Canadian camp at Salisbury Plain
caused the War office to issue a state
ment to-day announcing that only sixty
five Canadians have died in the camp
and that the total loss from meningitis
has been twenty-four men out OF forty
cases.
Publications here had asserted that
out or 10000 men In the Canadian camp
500 had died, that an entire battalion
was suffering from meningitis and that
20 per cent. OF the horses had mud fever.
II had been inferred that the meningitis
arose from camp conditions. but tho
War office says the disease was brought
from Canada.
II IL stated that only 10 per cent NJ
the Canadian horses are sick and no,
all OF these have mud fever
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Early IN January bids we're requested
for a contract for 500 more covers and
the contract was let on January "a.
1t called for delivery as they were made,
and there was "A limit of sixty days for
filling the order. II Is thought that the
contractor will begin to deliver the
covers In lots of fifty or more within a
week or two. and they will he Installed
as quickly az possible The Commits
sioncr is considering whether his own
mon can put the new covers on the carts
as quickly and cheaply as others could
do a. IL he decides that the manu-
facturer can insure greater speed he
will let the contract to him. SO, with
the seventy-fve covers got last summer,
tho 400 in the process OF being installed
and the 500 which will be delivered be-
fore March 81. most OF the ashcarts will
he covered The Department uses 775
carts in Manhattan. 500 In Brooklyn and
200 in The Bronx.
The Commissioner does not say that
tho new covers are the best that can be
made, hut he says they are the best
that can he made cheapy. The modern
idea In dustless collection OF ashes. he
says. will he shown when he begins 20
operate in the model district" on july 1.
for which the city has appropriated
$3.50. 900
The district has its centre nj Stable 4,
Seventeenth street and Avenue g.. Here
the Commissioner plans To use motor
ashcarts with special dustless features.
The cover that Is now being installed
Is made Of heavy canvas and metal II
has rounded top. with curtains on the
side and at the back. The parts are all
to be kept closed when the cart is in
transit and only one of them IL, to be
opened when taking on ashes The front
T. always closed. 50 the wind Is kept
from the ashes on three sides all the
time and on four sides except when
ashes are being thrown into the cart.
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ASKS FOR FULL CREW REPEAL
New Jersey Chamber Of Commerce
Irges II as Economy.

The New Jersey state Chamber of
Commerce has sent out a circular letter
to citizens of the State urging them
to communicate with their Senators and
Asscmblymen I'm support Of the bills
now I'm the state Legislature repeating
the full crew law passed two years ago
and giving the Board OF Public Utility
Commissioners the powers necessary to
protect the safety Of the public
The Chamber Of Commences letter
says that the full crew law cost the
railroads approximately $500 o00 for the
first years operation and urges It's re-
peal as a matter of economy, expressing
the belief that the public would be better
served by putting this money each year
into the elimination OF grade crossings,
Improvement Of equipment and the in
stallation of additional safety devices
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U. S. WOMAN TREATED AS SPY
Envoy whitiock Obtains Release
of Mrs. Bowling.

Special CdJie Despotch TO THE ST.
LoNpoN, Feb. l0.--The Daily Ntws
publishes a narrative OF the experiences
OF Mrs. Bowling, an American woman
who has made her home In Brussels
for some years. Shit arrivtd at Folk,.
stone to-day
Mrs. Bowling says that although her
passport set forth that she was an
American the Germans were possessed
Of the idea that she was a British spy
They took her to guardroom, searched
her and would have kept her prisoner.
she says. had 1t not been for the good
offices Of Minister Whltlock. He made
such strong representations 10 the GER
man commander that after a night IN
cell she was escorted to her home by a
file of German soldiers, received her
passports and was allowed to depart
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MEDICAL MEN OPPOSE BILL.
Measure would End Compulsory
Vaccination In schools.

ALBANY, Feb lO-Medical men from
all parts of the State to-day opposed
the passage OF the Jones' Tallett bill
for compulsory vaccination Of school
children only when there is an epidemic
OF smallpox In the locality of the school.
The present law provides that children
must be Vaccinatcd before they can be
admitted to a public school. The .
posed law applies to all schools.
parochial and public
state Health Commissioner Hermann
NJ Biggs and other officials favored the
measure. J. \. Loystcr OF Ma n
county drew the bill after a research
which he started to make after the
death Of his only son, caused by vac
c!nation, He saws he has absolute proof
that vaccination caused the death Of
twenty-cight boys and girls In the rural
districts of the state, and believes many
more died in the cities.
Those opposing the bill were Dr
Lewis X. Neff. chairman Of the legs-
lative committee Of the state Medical
Society, from New York Dr Jay SCham-
berg, member OF tho PENNSYLVANIA
state commission investigating vacciul-
ton Or Abraham jacob Dr. Franklin
C. Cram, Buffalo, and Dr, VII m
Cruikshank, representing the Kings
County Medical Society
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COMPROMISE IN HOUSE
LATEST SHIP BILL PLAN

mond. who passed through Pittshurg to-
day. made some pertinent remarks rela-
tive 70 business conditions. He said
This country has had its fun share
Of theorist as President. blame the
present hard times on the tariff. The
European war has nothing to do with
II. Conditions are worse now than for
many years and until this condition IL
recognized by the present Government
there is no light In sight
"rhe ship purchase bill. there is no
doubt. would bring the United states
into war We have enough trouble on
our hands now and the problem of the
unemployed is the one which the Gov
eminent should solve first
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CHARGES PRESIDENT
FORCED RATE RAISE
Rep. Good Also Says Wilson
Has Knocked Bryan Into
"COckcd Hat"
ATTACK CAUSES UPROAR

wAsHtNGroS. Feb to.--Charges that
President Wilson used his influence
with the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion to obtain the per cent increase
in freight rates recently granted to the
Eastern trunk lines were made in the
House to-day by Repro entative Good
OF Iowa. Republican, during consid-
Grafton of the sundry civil appropria-
ton bill. Mr. Good also read into the
record the famous letter written ny
MIR Wilson in 1907 to Adrian H. 10
line, then president of the Missouri,
Kansas and TcNa, road. asking II some
"dignfied and effective means could not
be found OF knocking Mr.. Bryan into
a cooked hat"
The charges caused an uproar and
many Democrats defended the Presi-
dent and Secretary Bryan. characteriz-
Ing the charges as loose and un-
founded"
The discussion was started by an
amendment to the bill offered by Mr..
Gillett OF Massachusetts striking out
the appropriation Of $4,000. 900 for con-
tinuing the work Of making a physical
valuation OF the railroads
81 want {, congratulate the President
on one Of the greatest real accomplish
ments in the minds OF many people, OF
this Administration Mr. Good said
THE President has found dgnihed
and effective way OF knocking Mr..
Bryan into cooked hat. Never again
will Mr. Bryan 20 into the States OF
Iowa and Nebraska where he formerly
held sway. and say that the Demo-
cratic party intended to reduce freight
rates
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SUFFRAGE FLAG NOT NEUTRAL
German Policeman Nearly Arrests
Morgentbnu's Niece.

hi. automobile bearing streamers
advertising the ball which the Women's
Political Union will give at the Grand
Central Palace on February l6 and vita
two suffrage banners tgreen, purple and
whlte) stuck in its radiator was stopped
at Thrty-fourth street and Broadway
yesterday by traffic policeman who
had German accent. In the car were
Miss Brashears, it's owner Misses Mil
dred Taylor, Elizabeth Freeman and
Miss Agnes Morgcnthau. niece OF the
Ambassador to Turkey.
You're all under arrest" said the
policeman. ITS against the law to fly
a foreign flag in this country unless you
ny the American flag above IT,"
Miss Elizabeth FREEMAN, whose visl;
to England and its jnils have given her
pronounced English accent, tried to
convince the policeman. but It took four
young women, orators all. fifteen min.
utes of united effort TO avoid the arrest
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Who spoke at the National Retail
Dry Goods Association.

better and more efficient service. thus
paying themselves for the increased
wage, or the larger payroll viii be- a
dead loss and We shall have to ask the
consumer To pay the difference in in
creased prices.
II do not wish 20 he understood as
opposing "A minimum wage. | merely
counsel caution and ask YOU TO remem-
Der that all such legislation is still very
young and in the experimental stage.
We cannot tell at present whether the
results will be beneficial to any Of the
parties concerned"
Miss Anne Morgan, who has fire.
qucntly expressed desire to make the
life Of department store girls as easy as
possible. sat AT the dais table with the
other guests OF honor. other guest 5
were Marcus VI Marks and Mrs. Marks.
r. T.. Eastman, S. II. Halle, Pau! kel-
logg Alfred b. Kock, Walter Lippmann.
William w LOOMS, Il. II. Namm,
George ~. O'Connor Mrs Sarah $,
Ohleeheimer, +. Colhurn Pnkham, Miss
Virginia Potter and Mrs. Percy s.
Straus.
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MURTHA GIRL IS SET FREE.
Her seven Year Term susprndcd-
VIII he Married soon.

Marguerite Murtha, the fourteeu-year-
old girl, who few weeks ago was sent
to reformatory for seven years on
petition OF the Brooklyn :. T.. G. G, was
set free yesterday. Samuel jacobson
said he would marry her
Philip jacobson, the boys father. has
given his consent. ami the marriage will
probably take place at the home OF Mrs.
John Robert Gregg, 90 West Eighty
NTH street where Marguerite went yes
terday when she was set free
Marguerite was gathered into her
mothers arms yesterday afternoon at
the Sloane Maternity Hospital She
declared that she wanted to marry
Jacobson right away, but preferred to
remain with her mother until the baby
was born
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THE SEAGOERS.

Arrivals yesterday by the Cunarder
Orduna from Liverpool
Charles y Bullen. II W Dyke
Mr. and Mrs Charles II ID Littlcjohn
n Burr n +. Pierpont
r W Cullycr DR. and Mrs T, r
Mrs T. H. Cummings, 81 Johnston.
Mr. and Mrs, II q. w J. Valentine,
Gushing.
by the Italian liner America from the
Mediterranean
Frnesto Nathan. Lieut. Domenico CHR
The Rev. Peter Ma Kamakita Nohara.
gennls Vito Cutastin
Sailing by the United Fruit steamship
Sixaola for Caribbean ports:/
MIR and Mrs. II, W Prof and Mrs J. j
Rell Halsey
Mr. and Mrs II G. Mr. and Mrs H. n
Dow sheldon.
Mr. and Mrs. W H. Mr. and Mrs G. r.
Field. Jr Sinclair.
Mr. and Mrs, }, n. MI and Mrs E, II
Duncan. SprAgue.
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RESIDENCE LEFT TO HER CATS.
Miss wharton's Fine House to he
Home and Hospital for Them.

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 10-The old
Wharton residence at Wyomssing. near
Reading, Pa. will become home and
hospital Nor the pet cats owned by
Miss Susan Flshbourn Wharton, who
died there last week
Miss Wharton's will provides that the
home she occupied shall be maintained
for the net cats until they have all
passed away. II disposes OF an estate
valued at $4,000.
Miss Wharton was a reat-grand-
child Of the first Governor of Pennstyl-
vania.
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The Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage will officially lift it's voice in
protest against the suffrage records OF
Senator Root and Senator OGorman in
a political rally at Cooper Union the
evening of February 22. both Senators
have been invited 10 attend and among
the speakers win he Mrs, o. II. +. Rel
mont Mis- Ine4 Millhollahd Bolssey ain,
Miss Alice Paul chairman of the Con
gresslonal Union; Charles Edward Rus
sell and Herman A. Metz.
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SEES WAR IN SHIP BILL.
Hammond Says Also 4. =. Has Mad
PIrTsBURG. Feb lO.-John Hays Ham

There was great deal OF walking
out" on Secretary OF the Treasury Will
lam O. McAdoo when az the last speaker
at the dinner of the Economic club at
the Hotel Aston last night he began to
read dry statistics In defence of Gov
eminent owned marchant marine.
But one big burst of applause greeted
him when he said the assertion that
the Government intends TO buy informed
ships is merely an assertion put forth
to scare the American people
The Government does not have to
buy interned ships" said the Secretary.
There are ships in British ship yards
which were partly constructed when the
war began and which could be finished
In ninety days. And In American ship
yards vessels can be turned out In ten
months. For $4,000, 900 We can procure
ZOO 600 tons of steam shipping"
After speaking of the Government =
establishment OF the war in urance de-
partment and the work the department
has accomplished Mr.. McAdoo told Of a
conference of business men in Wash
ington shortly after the war began at
which the dangers that bcset our for
eign commerce were discussed
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Sure Columbia win Have Eleven.

LeNering Tyson, executive secretary Of
the Alumni Federation of Columbia Uni
Nerslly, said Yesterday that there WAS
every indication Of that generally Ia
booed topic. football. receiving added
support when the graduates gather after
the carnival of sports that has been
arranged for them Er'day "Those in
tlmately connected with the alumni sit
uation.' he said, feel that Columbia viii
play fun intercollegiate schedule on
the gridlron in the fall"
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Continued from First Page.

Democratic caucus. bat the niovenio7;
failed because he could not command
the support Of the six other insurgents.
Even II the ship purchase bill should
be pushed through the House there is
scarcely time left In which Ia pass It
and an extra session is believed TO he
inevitable.
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40 you realize, gentlemen" he
continued. that the whole of our
foreign commerce to-day is dependent
on foreign flag--wth the except ion
of about 10 per cent? About 10 per
cent Of our shipments are In British
bottoms and about 90 per cent is pro-
tected by the scandinavian flag.
Now, suppose anything happens TO
EnRland's command Of the sea sup
pose the submarine blockade which has
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Representative Mondell. Republican,
Jumped into the fray.
IL think it is probably true said he,
that il is impossible TO prove that the
President in any way Influenced that
action Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. The very regrettable feature
OF the situation. however. is that the
President in this case is unlike Cesar :
wife. He is not above suspicion.
with Executive influence so apparent
that all the world may know. | refuse
20 believe that the Interstate Commerce
Commission is any more immune from
the influence OF the White House than
are the honorable gentlemen who are my
colleagues here and the gentlemen who
represent the States OF the Union over
at the other end OF the Capitol Never
In all the history OF the republic have
We seen anything Ike IT,"
The Gllett amendment was defeated
by vote OF - ayes to SO noes. Repre-
sentative Levy OF New York offered an
amendment reducing the a. preparation
from 100000 to Sl,000.00O. with the
provision that the valuation work should
be completed within four years, but
this was also voted down.
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LINCOLN REVISED

We have always held the
opinion in this business that.
you can't fool any Of the
people any Of the time with
out ultimately paying for it
with compound interest.
And we just wish to add,
that between the signing Of a
contract with us and the
completion Of the building,
there is not a hve-minute
period when the Owners in
terests are not uppermost in
our minds and our methods.
THOMPSON-STARRETT
COMPANY
Building Construction