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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
BELLICERENT TENAFLY
WOMAN PLEDGES PEACE
Mrs. Warden SurrenderS to the
Police, but May Sell Property.

Tenafy, n. j., May 11.-After elud-
ing arrest since last Saturday even
ing, Mrs. Julia Warden alighted from
a taxicab in front of Borough Hall at
b:1O this afternoon and tripped into
the little court room where Recorder
r. s. Vaughan had been waiting pa
tiently since o'clock.
Mrs. Warden whipped Howard S.
Mott, q bank expert, in public last
Saturday when he insisted on having
road cut through TO his residence
grounds, which Mrs. Warden says
would encroach on her property.
When a policeman was sent with q
warrant for her arrest Saturday night,
IL was said she was suffering from
nervous prostration and could not be
moved.
The same excuse was given Monday
evening, and last evening an officer
was told that she had gone away Mon
day night.
Early this afternoon Recorder
Vaughan received a telephone mes
sage that Mrs. Warden and her coun-
sci would arrive on the & o'clock train.
Chief of Police Mclaughlin was at the
train, but Mrs. Warden did not APP
pear. She had left the train at Engle-
wood, it developed, and hired an auto
mobile TO drive over TO Tenafy. "She
just dreaded being arrested" said her
lawyer.
Recorder Vaughan held her under
5000 bond to keep the peace.
Mrs. Warden promised she would
give Mr.. Mott no further trouble, but
before signing the bond she limited
that she might sell her $4,000 prop
ertV.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
OLD BILL IS GOING AWAY
Hears Chambers Street Is To Lose
Citv's Last Horse Car.

Old Bill, the horse that has plodded
back and forth the length OF Chambers
and Madison Streets, fair days and FOUL
wear in and year out for decade, ~
going away. After December l next,
his occupation gone, he will retire from
public life TO the quiet Of the country,
where the jangle of the little street
car that he has dragged for years Will
haunt him only as q memory. Many
times he has been threatened with dis
missal, but it was only yesterday that
the Public Service Commission an
nounced that it had definitely decided
20 do away with the horse cars.
Bill and his partners long ago took
their last stand on the Chambers
Street-Madison Street and Avenue e
lines. From every city in the country,
except New York, they had gradually
departed as the electric trolley grew in
popularity. Soon the only place TO see
the chariots they have pulled so long
will be in the exhibit of Municipal His
tory in the Metropolitan Museum.
Seventy new type car bodies for use
on the two downtown lines have been
ordered by the New York Railways
Company, according 20 q report sent by
Arthur G. Peacock TO the commission.
Whether the visible horsepower fur
nished by Bill and his cronies will be
replaced by gasoline motor or stor-
age battery has not yet been decided.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
SUES FILM co. FOR 100000
Richard Barry Alleges Scenario Was
Illegally Appropriated.

Justice Hotchkiss reserved decision
yesterday on the application of Rich
ard Barry, author, for an injunction to
restrain the Mutual Film Corporation
from the further production Of "The
Secret Of the Submarine" without con-
tract with him. Barry also demands
100000 profits.
Barry said ne wrote the plot OF TIE
movie" play, taking his idea from a
suggestion by Thomas A. Edison. lie
said he submitted the plot TO Russell
L. Smith, at the time scenario editor of
the Equitable Motion Picture Corpora
ton. Smith notified Barry that his
play had not been accepted, but failed
to return the scenario sketch. Then,
Barry said, he learned that the Mutual
Corporation and the American Film
Company were TO produce a picture
play called 1.-THE Secret of the Sub
marine" Barry insisted that this was
his story.
Smith, one of the defendants, adj
mitted that he had used Barry's story,
for which he received 81 900, but that
he did so under agreement with the
author, who will receive his share Of
the proceeds as soon as Smith and
Barry can reach an agreement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
DOWNTOWN DISTRICT
IN APPALLING STATE
Report Tells of Many Deaths in
"Wall Streets Backyard"

The annual report of the Bowling
Green Neighborhood Association, which
will be published in a few days, will
contain some surprising statistics con-
corning "Wall Streets backyard" the
district bounded by Broadway, Nesey
Street, the Hudson and the Battery. In
this neighborhood. where half a cen
fury ago the house built in Revolution
airy days were condemned as unfit for
habitation, the infant mortality Is more
than 30 per cent greater than IN the
city at large; there is an appalling
number of deaths each year from tu-
berculosis and there is no provision for
clean recreation.
Sixty per cent of the population OF
the district is foreign born, 80 per cent
of foreign born parentage, and there is
general inability on the part of the
people to- understand their own
wretched condition.
In cooperation with the Police De
partment, the Tenement House Com
mission and the. Health Department,
the association has undertaken a sys-
tematic cleanup Of the district. and
hopes. with contributions from business
men Of the financial district, TO accom-
plish much good work.
The directors Of the Bowling Green
Neighborhood Association are Freder-
lck w. Allen, John +. Berwind, Philip
Boyer, George w. Burleigh, A. o.
Choate. Grenville T. Emmett, Lewis b.
Franklin. John K. Hall, G. Herman Kin
nicutt, Alfred +. Marling, Thomas s.
McLare. Ray Morris. Alonzo Potter,
John T. Pratt, Joseph l.. Seligman,
James sheldon. Joseph r. Swan. DR..
Philip Van Ingen and DR.. John B.
Walker
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
MURDER so COPS RESPOND
Entire Platoon Rakes Fleeing Auto
with Reyolvers-l Jailed.

Fifty policemen fledout of the Madi-
son Street Station at midnight just as
a woman poked her head out Of win
dow at 149 Madison Street.
Murder" she shouted.
Fifty policemen started on the run.
From the door of the house two men
darted. One jumped into chugging
automobile and darted up the avenue.
Out came fifty revolyers and fifty cries
of stop" were followed by fifty shots
fired into the air. Then fifty bluecoats
chased the automobile. Laboring for
breath at the second block the fifty
perspiring patrolmen fired last volley
as Detectives Riley, Behan and Nor
risey halted the machine.
Robert L. Hunter, of 54S Tenth, Ave
nue., was arrested on a charge OF burg
larry. 1t was found ne worked for David
Stencer, a tailor in Fairyiew, \. j. The
woman whose cries brought the police
was Mrs. Stencer. The other man, she
says, was her husband. He disappeared.
The Stencers have been separated,
Mrs. Stencer told the police, and she
says her husband probably called to
kidnap her four children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
HID BASEBALL BAT
IN HIS TROUSER LEG
British Soldiers Concealed
Weapon" Puzzles Judge Hylan.

John Mcpherson, British soldier,
was taken before Judge Hylan. in
Brooklyn, yesterday, for carrying a
baseball bat in his trouser leg. Two
weeks ago Mcpherson, who gave his
address as 439 Forty-third Street
Brooklyn, was brought before the same
court for carrying burglars tools. He
promised to sail the following day for
Egypt, so Judge Hylan dismissed the
charge against him.
But McPherSn did not sail. he got
in with pleasant friends instead. and
became possessed of the bat. Through
his attorney he asked that the charge
against him be dismissed on the ground
that baseball bat was not dangerous
weapon.
when ordinarily carried it's the
companion OF good sport" said Dis
trict Attorney Harry Lewis, and Judge
Hylan was inclined 20 agree with him.
Mcpherson was held for examination.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
MADAME x" TO BE SHOWN
Sargent Picture and elijah" at
Metropolitan.

John s. Sargent's full length por-
trait of Madame X" painted by him
in 1884, is the feature Of the recent
accessions TO the collection Of paint
ings at the Metropolitan Museum Of
Art. The picture, which will be
placed on exhibition in a short time,
is that of a French lady Of remark
able profile, who stands resting one
hand on a table, and who wears a
decollete black gown.
elijah in the Fiery Chariot" by
William Blake, is a picture that is
shown, this month, in the Room of
Recent Accessions.
Among the recent purchases of the
museum is a fine Chinese rug of Ming
design.
on the evening Of Thursday. May 25,
from 9 to IL o'clock. there swill be
a reception rendered by the trustees
Of the museum and the Local Bienial
BOARD Of the General Federation Of
Women's Clubs 20 the members of the
convention, 20 be held in New York
City. Nav % 10 June l.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
Iron and Bronze Workers
Quit - May Call Out
All Allied Unions.
HUDSON BRICKMAKING
INDUSTRY TIED UP
Three Tug Lines Resume Bust
ness To.day-Returned Cloak
makers Help Fellows Fight.

A general strike may be called among
all unionized laborers in the building
trades to make certain the success oil
the 5000 members Of the Architectural
Iron Workers and Bronze Erectors
Union, who went on a strike yesterday
Already thousands Of other me-
chanics are thrown out Of work by the
strike Of the iron workers, and the
building industry Is practically para
lyzed throughout the city.
The 5000 who quit yesterday made
all the metal used in the interiors OF
buildings. Dependent on this material
are cement workers, plasterers. brick
layers and, in o measure, the car
penters.
Louis D. Plat, secretary Of the
union, last night warned of the gen
eral strike. He said:
SHOULD il be necessary for the sue
cess OF our strike, we will ask the other
trades to take action in support Of on
fight"
Union Won't Settle.
The call for the strike of the iror
and bronze workers contained this ad
Duration:
"Let every fla and hammer and
wheel remain silent, and may the ours,
Of our little children fall on the heads
of those who dare to betray us!"
Secretary Platt said that the unior
had already received requests for set
Element from some employers, but he
added that no agreements would hC
made until all or most of the employ
ers had yielded. The men demand an
eight-hour day, 50 weekly increase
time and half for overtime and double
time for Sunday.
Anticipating a long siege, Joseph Z
McGlory and John A. Johnson. presi'
dent and vice-president of the Interns'
tional Bridge Workers Union, with
which the strikers are affiliated. have
taken an active part in the strike
They have headquarters at the Hotel
Continental.
Brick Making Tied Up.
Outside of New York City unionized
labor also made itself felt, tying up
the entire brick making industry in
the Hudson River district. The strike
spread over night up and down both
Sides Of the Hudson. From Newburgh
TO Poughkeepsie every yard, save two
was closed by the workers. In these
two the employers agreed to the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
BIG FLYER FALLS,
J WEN MISSING
Hydro Aeroplane with s
Passengers Plunges
Into Potomac.

Washington, May 1.-THE big hydro
aeroplane with which J. c. MacCauley
recently established several new cross
country records was wrecked near
Mount Vernon to-day, with a probable
loss of two lives and serious injuries
to MacCauley and two other persons
aboard. The craft plunged 100 feet
into the Potomac, making three revo-
lutions in its descent and collapsing as
it struck the water.
Loss Of a propeller IS believed to
have been responsible for the accident,
although neither MacCauley, who was
plotting, nor his mechancian. Philip
Utter, who were picked up from the
water unconscious. was able tonight to
tell exactly what happened.
The plane was en- route from Wash
ington to Newport News, and was trav-
cling at a high rate Of speed. Mac
cauley, Utter and Mayo Dudley, a
Washington newspaper man, the third
man rescued from the wreckage, were
badly bruised and suffered from shock,
but all are expected to recover. Charles
A Good, of Elyria, Ohio, a student avl-
ator, and Louis Krantz. a mechanician,
the two other passengers, were missing
when the tug John Miller came to the
rescue. 1t is believed they we're
drowned.
Tho plane belonged TO the Atlantic
Coast aeronautical station at Newport
News, in which MacCauley is an in
structor. Its wings measured 1914 feet,
and it was built to carry seven persons.
IL was said TO be the largest heavier
than air flyer ever constructed on this
side of the Atlantic, and was of type
for which the Russian government Is
| said TO have |laced several orders.
The accident occurred at Bryan
| Point, seventeen miles below Washing
/ ton. at 8 o'clock this morning.
a government tug towed the wrecked
/ craft 20 Fort Washington.
The machine on Monday completed a
round trip from Newport News 10 Bal
/ timore with five men aboard, establish
/ ing several records. Shortly after the
return to Newport News il was decided
/ TO make return trip to Washington
| the same afternoon. On the trip on
! CINE trouble developed. causing the
/ boat TO alight near Mount Vernon and
make the remainder of the trip on The
surface of the water. Repairs were
made and the return trip to Newport
News was begun this morning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
vi. E. DELEGATES
STAND BY PRESS
Oppose Bill Giving Post
master General Power
to Close Mails.

Saratoga, n. Y. May II. The Rev.
DR.. George Elliott, Of Michigan,
brought the delegates 10 the Methodist
General Conference to their feet to-
day to support a resolution aimed
against a bill fathered by Repre-
sentative Fitzgerald, Of Brooklyn,
which purposes to exclude such publica-
tons as "Tle Menace" an anti-Catho-
lie paper, from the mails. The bill
gives the Postmaster General the right
TO take such action. The resolution
declared:
Eve deem it unwise to authorize any
one executive officer to decide whether
an editor or publisher is criminally
scurrilous," said the resolution. ave
fear that such law will endanger our
liberties by sbridging the freedom Of
the press"
The resolution was passed and sent
TO Speaker Clark, Of the House of Rep
resentatives.
The Rev. Edwin A. Schell, Of Iowa,
offered a resolution congratulsting
thirty Democratic Representatives who
voted against giving independence to
the Philippines while the islands still
need American care. II was voted down
without considering its merits. Many
delegates declare that no resolutions
with even implied criticism Of Presi-
dent Wilson will be permitted at this
time.
A lay delegate proposed resolution
approving Senator Bsnkhead's bill to
prohibit any form of liquor advertise
ments in the mails and secured Its
adoption. Ex-Governor Hanly of In
diana obtained reconsideration of this
action, and the resolution was sent 70
the temperance and good morals com
mittee.
DR.. Wedderspoon's resolution approx
ing a national divorce law, ito meet the
problem made evident by the fact that
one in every ten couples married were
afterward divorced" went TO the same
committee, with negro delegate
anti-lynching resolution, which recitec
tNaL lNeIe Udu pttu ninety -S4bhb - mn
ings of negroes last year.
II. p Coates startled the conference
with a resolution providing that South
America be given bishop. who woulC
live there, and that no longer SHOULD
southern republics be used as place
10 try out bishops or to penalize then
for inefiiciency.
Clarence True Wilson, Of the Meth
odist Temperance Society tried e
change the rule that requires a two
thirds vote for the election of
Bishop, 80 that majority vote woulC
be sufficient. but his proposition wa
shelved.
Wayne c. Williams. of the Colorado
Industrial Commission, Is seeking con
/ ference approval Of the World Peace
Court plan formulated at the recen
Biltmore conference in New York.
For twelve years an effort has beer
made by labor unions to get the Meth
odist Book Concern, the Church's pub
fishing house in New York, TO accep
the principle Of giving the prefer
ence to union labor" The PUBLISHING
agents have not agreed. and livell
contest will be brought on in thu
conference to compel them TO do so
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
WINDOWS ACCUSE
J HABERDASHERS
Tribune's Investigation
Obtains Evidence-One
Admits Charges.

Lucien J. Freud, doing business "a
Hickey's at 729 Sixth Avenue, was enc
Of two enterprising haberdashers who
came before Chief Magistrate NcAdoo
yesterday for the alleged misrepre-
sentation of window values. The other
wes Emanuel N. Kalsh. who runs a
mems furnishing store az 1894 Broad.
way. The Tribune's Bureau Of Invesd.
cations had been the agency TO start
the actions and the magistrate ad.
iourned the cases TO allow the sttor-
neys to submit briefs.
The snag which Freud struck in his
mercantile career was the advertising
Of "pure silk shirts valued at So for
s2.49." The garments, experts testified,
we're only part silk and the rest cot
ton. Freud was represented yesterday
by Bennett f. Siegelman and the case
was adjourned until Tuesday. Noses K.
Ryttenberg, Of the Commercial Frauds
Bureau OF the District Attorneys
Office, is cooperating with the Whole
sale Men r uInloNlAB RooDNtestyli anu
Harry W. Neuberger, its counsel, in
the prosecution.
Kalish is also being prosecuted BY
the association. The evidence developed
alleged that his window values did not
correspond with the actual values Of
the goods he offered for sale. In the
Kalish complaint it IS recited that there
were advertised in the window Of his
store "s6 and 81 heavy crepe de chine
shirts for s2.s5" and "sl.50 0lus six
and linen union suits for 70 cents
Kalish was defended yesterday By
Nathan D. Levy and Patrick j. Ne
Mahon, Of Rector Street.
Kalish. through his attorneys, con-
coded practically all the points which
the testimony was designed 70 cover.
He acknowledged that photographs
taken of his store windows, 70 prove
that false values were advertised, wee
authentic. He admitted that the prices
ON the window tags were misleading.
The case was adjourned until next
Thursday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
COURT MARTIAL FOR OFFICER
Lieut.. Higgins. n. y. n. G, Charged
with Disobedlence and characterization.

Lieutenant Thaddeus Higgins, Com
pany f, seth Infantry, \. y. \. G.' Will
be tried by court martial on charges OF
disobedience Of orders and OF prefer
ring baseiess charges against his com
handing officer, Colonel Louis D. Con-
ley. H..
that Lieutenant Higgins failed TO obey
orders 10 prepare company records on
the annual inspection and muster,
When IL became known that Colonel
Conley had formulated charges Of neg
iect against Higgins, the latter it Is al
legged. drew up counter-charges against
the colonel. After investigation at the
headquarters Of General Dyer, com
,nander Of the First Brigade. Of which
the 69th Infantry is part, the lieuteh-
ants charges were proved groundless.
Lieutenant Higgins served IN the
Spanish War as first sergeant IN the
- Usi.ed States Volunteer Infantry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
Another Dog Goes Prospecting
In Abandoned Jersey Mine
Arlington Recalling Rescued Terriers Biting Gratitude
Hesates to Haul His Successor Out-Letters Pour in
Suggesting Means of Saving Animal

lost in another 3o0-foot shaft. SO the
town is facing the same old problem
again. with the prospect of being
chewed up by the dog If rescued.
Riepe is trying to find a solution
from letters which have poured into
his office.
letter signed "E. BARLEY. 629
Ninety-second Street, New York." adj
vises the chief to get a big packing
case, equip it with drop lid. lower it
baited with meat and pull the dog up
when he steps into it.
Mining Engineer. Hotel Bolton,
Harrisburg, Penn" suggests n rabbit
trap, baited with steak. John Rooney,
145 West Ninety-sixth Street, wrote:
Get a crab net"
In monograph on the subject MRS.
w. A. W" OF New York City, reviews
the psychological plight OF the dog
and concludes: Nov, Mr. Chief. won't
you please try TO save this little dog !
Pick out one of the kind hearted men
of your force and tell him to see il
through"
Chief OF Police Riepe could not see
through this at all, since the "Mr.
Chief" is the chief and the police force
too.
Sympathy" Of New York, writes:
kill the dog. 1t is the best way, and
it is quick and humane"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
Tells Red Cross Members
Land Must Prepare for
War Sure to Come.
WOMEN'S DUTIES
AS GREAT AS MEMS
Work In Increasing Medical
Facilities Called as Important
as Shouldering Gun.

Elihu Root warned the country yes
terday of "the war that is certain to
come" He spoke at a meeting OF the
New York County Chapter of the
American Red Cross in the home Of
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. 80.
"If you do your duty toward the
Red Cross" said Mr.. Root to the 900
women present. you not only will
help yourselves by doing something,
but you will be doing as great SER
vice TO your country in the war that
is certain to come as the men who
shoulder the rifles"
After showing how the Red Cross
has grown to be the greatest channel
through which the American people
can put their charitable inclinations
INTO action. Mr.. Root continued:
Citizens Must Awake"
1--WE have had rather a rude awak-
enlng during the last two years. No
one who has studied the condition
Of the world to-day can fail 70 see
that the people of the United States
must turn about and change their re-
lations toward the government. Few
indeed are there to-day who say,
What can do for my countryT
This Republic cannot continue TO
live unless its people are willing TO
give service-not merely willingness
to be shot but 10 change their whole
attitude toward the government and
the underlying principles of liberty.
This is probably the first call you
women here have had % do something
for the country that has given you
comfort and safety. IL is awakening
you from the lethargy Of case and
peace into doing something. This work
is something which will make your
country's force effective when il is
called on to protect your liberty.
Medical Force Essential
Several possible results of the war
make IL highly probable that this coun-
try would have to take its choice in a
very few years of defending its lib
erty or becoming subservient With
good medical force you double the
force OF an army. A mere aggrega-
ton Of surgeons cannot do that. II
is n matter Of administration. This
cannot be attained without careful
training"
Dr. George T. Stewart. head of the
Bellevue Hospital Red Cross Unit.
said the Red Cross would be called on
TO make the Army Medical Corps an
efficient body in case Of emergency.
He declared the corps consisted Of
five officers 70 each 1000 men in the
army, while the ratio should be at
least ten to a 1000.
Seward Prosser. chairman Of the
Citizens Committee Of the New York
County Chapter, said the meeting was
the opening gun Of campaign TO en-
roll 100000 Red Cross members.
Robert w. de Forest. chairman OF
the chapter. announced that more
than s2,OO0,000 had been raised by
the Red Cross since the war began.
OF this S7l1,OO0 passed through the
New York County Committees treas
urer. He announced this women's
committee for the membership cam
paign:
mont Tiffany, Mrs. Leonard Wood
Miss Ammo Morgan, Miss Rsth Nor
gan, Miss Katherine Burnett, Miss
Luisita A. Leland. Miss Belle
Gurnee, Miss Marion Pauling Murdoch
Miss Ruth Draper, Mrs. Paul Dana
Miss Mary Parsons, Miss Anna c. Max
well, Mrs. A. NJ. Coales and Mrs
Sidney Borg.