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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
Hope to Meet Demands of
Farmers, Four Compa-
MES Say.
INCREASED COST
DUE TO IGNORANCE
Customers Break Bottles and
Waste Product, Housewives
League Is Told.

Danger of a milk shortage in the fall
probably will be averted, representa-
tIves of four big milk companies said
yesterday after meeting at the head
quarters of the National Housewives
League, 25 West Forty-fifth Street,
where they conferred with a committee
of its members.
The dealers said Strike" by up
state farmers was unlikely. as a higher
Price would be paid for milk from the
farms if the increase asked for could
he met by the city distributors. Seven
ty-five per cent of the milk used in the
city comes from within the state.
Burden on Dealers.
milk dealers, in raising the quality
Of their products, are confronted with
difficult problems" declared George W.
Alger. of the Sheffield Farms-Slawson-
Decker Company. "The milk business
is one of the most responsible in New
York. and the burden falls almost en-
tirely upon the dealer. Profits are
small and dealers are now facing 40
Der cent loss due to carelessness Of
housewives who break bottles or fail
TO return them. Our supply must be
renewed four times year, and recent
~ the cost of freight, bottles. milk
cans. caps and paper has increased"
Customers ignorance of how to care
for milk. resulting in many unjustl-
|, fable complaints that it is delivered
sour, was a cause of great expense to
the companies, the dealers pointed out.
Bottle breakagc was also an important
item, they said.
The conference was called to enable
the Housewives League to get the
dealers point of view on the rise in
price. The league was represented by
Mrs. Julian Heath. president; Mrs. Egg
bert Chamberlain, treasurer, and Mrs.
Louis A. Williams. 1t has more than
five thousand members in the city.
Mr.. Alger, l.. L. Campbell, of the
Clover Farms Company; William j.
Cdrley, of the Locust Farms Company.
and Samuel Grill, Of Borden's Con-
Gensed Milk Company, were the dealers
present.
In a few days the league will ask
Gairymen and farmers to conference.
George Hildebrand. secretary of the
! State Department of Foods and Mar
kets, said yesterday that dealers take
advantage Of the perishable nature of
milk to dictate prices to farmers and
/ consumers.
"No matter how little the farmer re-
ocives, the consumer pays the same
price in winter and summer" he said.
81 here can be no question about the
real grievance of dairy farmers. They
are not making hired mems wages at
producing milk. The perishable nature
: Of milk and the inability of farmers to
combine will enable dealers TO enjoy
their monopoly until an open market
ls established in the city"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
NEW STIELOW CRIME
STORY IS TOLD
Continued from page 1

was procured was learned yesterday.
| He begged food from a Mrs. Charles
| Voorhees,, of Friendship, near Olean,
/ n. Y. and in a conversation said some
/ thing about having squared himself
with an old man ard his housekeeper
who owed him money. ~.
Mrs. Voorhees, had read OF the SITE
| low case and communicated with Mrs
! Humiston. The letter was one OF the
| documents on which the reprieve OF
| Stielow was granted. Afterward Mrs
Uumiston visited Mrs. Voorhees,
home. and a suit King had worn was
| dug nm in a tramps' rendezvous IN the
ro;ghborhood. Mrs. Voorhees, yester-
! dav identified King in the jail IN Littie
Valley as the man who had begged 1000
/ from her. -,
II is understood Mrs. Voorhees, Will
sue for the $4,000 reward paid by the
Orleans County officials to the de-
tectives who ARRESTED Stelow
Had Only Broomstick.
King declared in his second confes-
sion made Yesterday before Detective
Thomas O'Grady, of Buffalo, and Guy D
| Caswell. Justice of the peace IN Kan
dolph. that he carried no weapon aslde
from broomstick and that O'Conneil
who instigated the crime, did the snoot-
ing. He said he met O'ConneH III
Medina.
"O'Connell asked me if wanted 70
make some easy money" said King.
said was with him. O'Connell TOOK me
out where he had horse and buggy
We drove out into the country.
after a while we stopped before a
barn. recognized the place. We
could see Phelps reading inside the
house"
King said they raped on the door
and that as Phelps appeared, he King
struck the old man on the head WIN
the broomstick, knocking him down ana
stunning him. The housekeeper came
into the room and on seeing the BODY
of Phelps fed She was shot as she
reached the door.
Says Three Shots Were Fired.
King charged that Phelps, on reviv-
ing. was shot three times as he lay on
the floor. He said O'Connell fred all
the shots.
Stuart NJ. Kohn, counsel for the Mu-
tual Welfare League, promised action
Yesterday against George W. Newton
the Buffalo detective who procured a
confession OF tnt CIillS liOih ~ ~ -
Kohn said he would seek an indict--
ment against Newton on charge OF
perjury.
Mr.. Kohn, Mrs. Humiston and others
who have investigated the case assert
that Stielow signed document with
out having the slightest conception OF
it's contents. They say Stielow was
persuaded 10 make his mark on the
aror,;ea that no would he released TO
20 home TO his wife, who was i'll.
Mythical Case Worked Up.
Suspecting that the confession from
Stielow and from Nelson Green, ac-
cused with him, had been obtained in
an improper manner, Mrs. Humiston,
with the aid of a detective agency,
worked UP a mythical case on which
they employed Newton. The results of
effort to trap Newton were related IN
the court Of Justice George w. Cole,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12

the principle Of arbitration as Chair
man Stevens understood. The teie-
gram dissented from Chairman Stew
ens's Interpretation of President Whit
ridges attitude on the subject, describ-
ing it as erroneous and an expansion
of what President Whitridge had actu-
ally had said before the commission.
The record itself, Mr.. Cook said, IN
the letter to Chairman Straus, APP
peared to be as susceptible Of the In
depreciation that the arbitration prom
ised was only for the trouble then
existing as that it was to be extended
to all future disputes with the men.
Charges of assault against three Of
the striking car men were changed to
dsorderly conduc. yesterday in the
Hunters Point police court. The men
were fined by Magistrate Kochendorfer
and told to go back to work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
BOYS POLICE CALL
ONLY WOKE NEICHBOR
They Had Hoped Some Day to
Trap Burglar, but Failed.

For weeks Henry Gresh and his
brother George, living at 2S7 Governor
Street, Paterson, have cherished police
whistles, confident that some day
burglar would come and they would be
the heroes of the hour. Yesterday
morning at 2 o'clock their sister Marie,
two years old, became i'll. Their par
ents feared it was infantile paralysis
and told the boys to go out and blow
their whistles.
Henry and George followed instruc-
tons. The neighborhood was aroused.
To the boys intense disappointment
nc regiment of bluecoats appeared, but
a neighbor came and called an ambu-
lance 1t was found that Marie's i'll
ness was not serious.
Henry and George still want to try
those whistles on burglar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12

of Buffalo, and also to Governor Whit
man when the plea was made Tor
reprieve for Stielow.
Mrs. Humiston posed as wealthy
woman whose niece was about TO marry
man named Wallace. He, Newton
was informed, was being blackmailed
by a James Wells. Newton was en-
gagged to shadow Wells and to learn If
he had any confederates. Wallace and
Wells were in reality the agency's
operatives.
1t was alleged that Newton at once
!, began turning in false reports OF the
work he was doing on the case, repre-
senting "Wells" as one of the worst
crooks he had ever encountered, and
asserting that he had large gang
working with him.
Called to Lawyers Office.
After he had free rein for several
days he was called to the Office of
Kohn, the attorney says. and there
asked if his reports were true. He was
then charged with having obtained
the Stielow confession improperly, and
is said to have admitted "bulldozing"
Stielow.
Thomas Mott Osborne and Spencer
Miller, deputy warden of Sing Sing,
took to Stielow the news that another
man had confessed the crime of which
he had been convicted.
1t seemed some time before the
stolid, illiterate German grasped the
meaning of what was told him. Then
a smile came over his face.
well, that's great for the wife and
kids" he finally said 81 thought
they'd find who did it before it was
too late"
at may be month or two yet before
YOU are set free" Warden Osborne
told the prisoner.
Can Stand Another Month.
al guess | can staLd that" Stielow
replied. "I've been in prison nearly a
wear now. Another month won't hurt"
Beyond this, Stielow had little to
say. Except that tears of JOY came
into his eyes, he took the good news
with scarcely any demonstration.
The state will have TO show cause on
August %, in Rochester, why new
trial should not be granted Stielow.
John c. Knickerbocker, the District
Attorney who prosecuted Stielow, may
then move that the case be nolle
prossed. if an order for rcw trial is
granted.
AS Kings story also exonerates Nell
son Green, he, too, may be liberated.
Green pleaded guilty TO second degree
murder and received life sentence at
Elmira. He pleaded TO the less seri-
GUS crime, it is asserted, to save him
self from the death sentence given Site
low.
Conference on Monday.
A conference of those who have in
terested themselves on Stielow's behalf
will be held at 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing in Mr.. Kohn's Office, so Maiden
Lane. Mrs. Humiston, who has Kings
confession in her possession; David A.
White. Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain
and Mr.. Kohn will take part in the con-
ference.
King was held for the grand jury
Yesterday in Little Valley in connec-
ton with the Brown case, but will be
turned over 10 the Orleans County au-
thorities for prosecution on the muir
der charge as soon as the request is
made.
Governor Whitman, who declined to
interfere in behalf of Stielow when
appeal was made to him. would not
comment yesterday on the King con-
fession.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
LIVE WIRE STUNS
BOYS AND RESCUER
All Three Burned and in Serious
Condition.

While trying to break up birds
nest on a telegraph pole along the New
York e. Harlem River Railroad yester-
day two nine-year-old boys of South
High Street, Mount Vernon-Harold
Higgins and Wallace Mandry-touched
and were caught by an electric feed
wire.
Their screams attracted Louis Kupel-
meyer, of Mount Vernon, a passer-
by. He was severely burned when he
seized the boys. but managed TO tear
them loose, and all three fell to the
g,rund. They were all taken TO a hos
pjtal in a serious condition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
Savers Chief in Court
Says 5000 Victims Were
Lured Away.
AUTO RIDES TO CONEY
AND CABARET PARTIES
Indictment Expected OF One
Official Now at Police
Headquarters.

More than 5000 school girls Of poor
parentage have been enticed into evil
associations in New York City in the
last ten years, according to Yushe Bot
win, the confessed king of the white
slave trust" who continued his revela-
tons yesterday of the workings OF tho
trust" He told Assistant District At
torney Smith. in charge OF the police
graft investigation, that many Of the
girls were only sixteen years old.
Selection Of the victims. Botwin said,
was left to men who would loiter about
the schoolhouses for that purpose. The
first step was a Irritation with gifts or
choice candy; then invitations to an
automobile ride TO Coney Island or Far
Rockaway. Invitations to Broadways
dance resorts, dinners and cabarets,
Botwin said, followed in rapid success
sion.
Shipped Out OF Town.
The next step in most cases was
quick deportation TO Philadelphia,
Newark or Paterson until the search
for them was dropped. On their re-
turn t. New York they were accom-
panied by agents OF Botwin or
Mortchc Goldberg and other large
operators in the traffic. who supplied
them with cards bearing the names OF
their bosses and their "countersigns."
Botwin said his consisted OF the letters
&C. D." and az. NJ" Botwin added
that those of Sam Kirsch. his closest
competitor, were ~. D." and IS. A."
! Police activities in the traffic since the
raids of August, 1912, were described by
Botwin. He mentioned the name Of a
detective who was then assigned 70
| Harlem to undo the work OF Honest
Dan Costigan by assuring the landlords
of the premises that the raids were
"only fash in the PAN and would not
last. The name of this lieutenant. MT.
Smith says, keeps cropping up through
out every phase Of the investigation.
ale took part in regular conferences
with Mortche Goldberg before ms
fight to Buenos Avres and also with
Botwin regarding the movements Oh
Costigan," said Mr.. Smith.
Two Women Arrested.
| Confederation of charges against
Sam Kirsch was furnished yesterday
bv Herman Gruber and his wife, Rose.
who kept a house at 2s4 Mulberry
Street. They charge that they paid
$500 to the police for the privilege OF
reopening the resort in 1914 and lslo'
and $50 a month for protection there
after. They we're caught Mt sunrise
Yesterday as they were about TO take
a train for Vermont. They SAID
member of the trusts fraternal organ
ization gave them 500 on Wednesday
to quit New York;
Judge Rosalsky held Mrs. Gruber and
Raw Wasserman, also Of 2S4 Mulberry
Street. in $1,000 bail as material wit
nesses. Gruber was released on MS
agreement to make a statement to-day.
The Grubers have daughter thirteen
vcars old and a boy Of eight. They
lived AZ ll9 St. Marks Place. Ihey
we're turned over TO the Gerry Society.
zone more Indictment will be re-
.,rnsd next week." said Mr.. Smith.
and several indictments against
roliccmen for bribery and extortion
wiil come later" Mr.. Smith intimated
hat one Of these would be against an
official in Police Headquarters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
for the raise than il they settled the
demands voluntarily.
Pressure from Rank and File.

for the raise than il they settled the
demands voluntarily.
Pressure from Rank and File.
On the other hand, the railroad en-
ployes who are members of the four
brotherhoods have been urged to vote
for a strike for six months past as the
only way to get what they are asking
for. Now they have given their rep
resentatives the authority to call n
strike.
The brotherhood chiefs cannot back
down and take less than the men ask
without facing the music" from their
brotherhood members. But if arbitra-
tion is forced upon them they will have
an excuse to offer TO their several or
CARNATIONS.
On this basis it appeared last night
that the men would refuse to consent
20 arbitration and would order a strike
on all the roads at some future date,
probably a week or two hence. The
railroad managers would be notified
that the strike had been ordered. and
then II would be up to the mediation
board, presuming that it fails to &C
complish either mediation or arbitra-
ton, to ask the President TO intervene
and use the moral susasion of his Office
to bring about arbitration. Whether
the brotherhoods would consent even
if that stage is reached is problem
atical
1t was reported from Washington
yesterday that r. T. Frazier, repre-
senting non-union employees in five
states in the South, failed TO get an APP
pointment with the President to urge
him 10 force arbitration
Washington. Aug. 11.-President
Wilson decided tonight TO give up a
weekend cruise he had planned on the
Mayfower because. White House of
fc:els said, he was anxious TO keep in
close touch with the negotiations in
New York for averting a general rail
read strike.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
Discharged by Companies
for Strike Activity,
They Say.
UNION OFFICIALS
TO INVESTIGATE
Labor Leaders Declare They'll
UniOnize Elevated and Sub
way Next Week.

William B. Fitzgerald, chief organ
izer for the Amalgamated Association
OF Street and Electric Railway En-
ployes Of America, announced last
night that meetings of the men on ali
the subway and elevated lines Of
Greater New York will be held early
next week for the purpose Of COM
pleting their organization and becom-
ing a part of the association.
Before we are through with our
work here every surface line, the sub
way and every elevated line will be
thoroughly organized" said Fitzger-
aid.
Committees from the Second and
Third Avenue railway employees. and
from the green car line. were IN con-
ference with the organizer yesterday,
framing the demands which will be sub
mitted next week to the heads of the
street railways. These demand not
only ask wage increases to 30 and 80
cents an hour for the men, but seek a
betterment of conditions, particularly
through a Encouragement of working
hours. Wages heretofore have ranged
from 25 to 20 cents an hour.
On Duty Long Hours.
Under present schedules it is as
serted by the car men that they fire.
quently have to be on duty from twelve
to seventeen hours a day, although
they may get only eight hours Of actual
work.
twenty-five of the street railway
men visited Organizer Fitzgerald yes
terday to complain that since going
back to work they had been dismissed
on one pretext or another, the real rea-
son being that they were active in the
recent strike. Fifteen of the men had
been employees of the New York Rail-
ways Company.
The men were told that each case
would be investigated separately and
that if it was found they were dis
charged without cause, other than
their activity in the strike. demand
would promptly be made for their re-
insts tement. Union officials were re-
luctant TO believe that the street rail-
way companies were deliberately
violating the clause in their agree
ment with the men which pledges the
companies to take back without pref
udice all who participated in the
strike. 1t was said in union head
quarters at the Continental Hotel that
the trouble probably would be adjusted
without difficulty
Alfred A. Cook, counsel for the
Third Avenue Railroad Company, in a
letter sent yesterday to Oscar S.
Straus. chairman of the Public Service
Commission. challenged the statement
that Frederick w. Whitridge, presi-
dent OF the company. had been re-
sponsible for the widespread strike be-
cause of his failure to arbitrate with
the men as he agreed before the COM
mission in 1913.
His Statement Expanded.
Mr.. Cook inclosed a copy of tele-
gram sent by President Whitridge to
Frank W. Stevens, then chairman of
the Public Service Commission, to
show that the railway president pos
sibly did not bind himself so closely to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
NEW OWNER RAZING
THE DEWEY THEATRE
Amusement House Once Prop
erty of big Tim" Sullivan.

The Dewey Theatre, in East Four
teenth Street, is being torn down. The
property recently was bought by Solo
mon Schinasi at a foreclosure sale
from the heirs of "Big Tim" Sullivan.
The site is being cleared to save taxes
and carrying charges while Mr.. Schl-
nasi is seeking a buyer.
The original building on the site was
Grace Chapel. Twenty years ago the
chapel was vacated and the building
remodelled into an amusement place
called Volks Garten. In 1898 it was
altered again and opened by big Tim"
Sullivan and George Kraus as the
Dewey Theatre.
William Fox took over the property
several years ago and turned it into a
motion picture house. Later it was
used by J. P. Adler for his Yiddish per-
formances.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
FRENCH Army OFFICERS
HERE TO BUY SUPPLIES
Commissions Members Reach
New York on the Chicago.

The French liner Chicago arrived
here yesterday from Bordeaux with
ninety-nine cabin and nineteen steer
age passengers, after passage Of thir-
teen days.
Among the passengers were Captain
Maurice Nolett, Lieutenant Adrian La
gastebois and Charles de Kermenguy,
of the French Purchasing Commission,
who are here to arrange for munitions
and supplies for the army for 1917 and
1913
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
WOMAN HELPS KILL
TEN.FOOT SHARK
Maneater Caught Near Rock
away Bell Buoy.

Fishing off the Rockaway bell buoy
yesterday, Harry Sampson and George
Adams, foremen of the Morse Iron
Works and Dry Dock Company, of
South Brooklyn, caught a ten-foot
shark. The fish, which weighed 300
pounds. was exhibited last night at the
iron works at the foot of Fifty-seventh
Street.
Mrs. Sampson was one of the fishing
party in the motor boat Annie p, and
Joined in the fight 10 kill the shark.
Once il got away. but bit again
and was landed after half an hours
struggle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
CARRANZA AID BURIED
Sub-Secretary of State Amador Had
Lived on Border

Mexico City, Aug. 1.-THE funeral
was held to-day of Juan Amador, sub
Secretary of Foreign Relations, who
died yesterd-y. General Carranza and
members o. Il, diplomatic corps at
tended the services.
The loss of Senior Amador will be
keenly felt by the CGrranza govern
ment in its foreign negotiations, espe,,
cially those now pending. He had lived
on the United States border. and had
an excellent knowledge OF the condi-
tions involved IN the border difhcultless,
both from a legal and physical stand
point. Much of the negotiations with
the United States had been intrusted
10 his hands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12
Do people believe
YOUR advertisements?

Your good customers do certainly. But how
about the thousands of present outsiders whose
patronage means the growth Of your business?
Their only knowledge of you the impression gained by
reading your announcements
The SPACE used features good merchandise 1t is truthful
You think it will pay you, and it should.
R,t the advertisement OF store which
he has patronized os-ouwardy least much similar to
vor own Is the going believe ADVERTISEMENT
The space on side of be taken by Buy direct
fake which nimates that immodest
roer and shoppers profit by purchasing from
them Wholesalers What the effect OF this on the confidence
which should be to advertslngf
Tbars one newspaper New York which deserves and delivers the
con6dene Of its reads-Th New York Tribune. That confidence
has been gained protecting The Tribune readers from loss through
paper The Tbunes MoneyBk Guarantee
nne dav on page) them absolute satisfaction
in all purchases of Tribune advertised merchandise.
the hundred thousand families
who read The absolutely advertisement
in
Happy Tribune reader confidence work his
sales forge S
Al u 300Ol
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-12

HIS statement Expanded.
Mr.. Cook inclosed a copy Of tele-
gram sent by President Whitridge to
Frank W. Stevens, then chairman of
the Public Service Commission, to
show that the railway president pos
sibly did not bind himself so closely to
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-11
AUTO SPEED ATTRACTION

NEW YORK. September follow "a
wrong was the autoiSt who once re-
marked that most folks arc dra
10 automobile speedway races by tn
hope Of seeing someone killed"
1t is the thrills il generates: IT,.
science ii calls into play or tho pleas
ure il affords that usually draw
crowds 20 athletic contests. But lour
distance speedway racing is tho ~
so-callcd sport that is almost dcvo'
Of sensations: il is q contest whoi.
the spirit Of contest seems almost t.
tally absent: - spectacle that prnNoh
no rca! excitement after the FIRST t.
minutes. II becomes monotoun'
thing 10 watch long before The end II,
hc"u reached
.Aud yc; year after year. Thousand
Of persons attend those Spccdw:t-
races. True tn" major portion OF c,c.
vrlvd witnesses such races for ia
jirSt aud last time II comes to sc
Tlirt ""'r hc sccu--:,nd IL never como
back. us Mace ia taken the next yea
~ another "on"-hmt -no-,norc" crowd
':ui there rrc 'r'p"aicrs," some person.
- 80 hr"' 'c,;' after year to SOC III.
f'""i '"nI"nN - their races uEains
. ''''r--'i' i"NinSt death.