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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Switchman Admits Cost
Will Rise on S-HOur Day

Witnesses for the switchmen in the
arbitration proceedings at the Chamber
OF Commerce between. the switchmen's
union and thirteen railroads finished
their testimony yesterday and the first
witness for the railroads took the
stand.
In closing the swltchmen's case S.
T.. Heberling submitted several docu-
ments. among them the final report or
the United States Commission on In
dustrial Relations. which were objected
to by Horace Baker. for the railroads,
on the ground that general conditions
do not figure in the present cOntro-
versy. The board allowed their pres
entation. however, with the under
standing that the members would take
them under Amusement.
Daniel G.. Smith, an employe of the
Rock Island Railroad at Chicago, one
of the last witnesses called by the
switchmen. testified that he believed
that the eight-hour day could not be
applied to all classes of switching in
his yard without material increase in
cost. of service. He said he believed,
however, that a plan. could be worked
out by which the change could be ef-
fected without additional cost to the
railroad, except the higher wages paid
10 the men.
When asked upon what he based his
belief that an eight-hour day would
add to mans efficiency, Mr. Smith
replied: upon what ! have read"
"Can you recall any authors you have
read upon the subject" Professor Jere-
miah jerks. a neutral arbitrator. asked.
Mr.. Smith paused a moment.
well" he said. there's Mr. Ford
and President Wilson. They said it.,
and have read it in other places"
W. II. O'keefe, assistant general SUI
perintendent of the Michigan Central
Railroad. was the railroads first wit
ness. He said that construction work
trains could not be run satisfactorily
on an eight-hour basis, and that in
dustrial work would also suffer under
such an arrangement. In Detroit,
where industries. according to Mr..
O'Keefs. have increased $50 per cen.
in the last four years. an eight-hour
Gay would necessitate a change of
laws. city ordinance prohibits en-
gines being run on city streets between
6 p. m. and a. m, and all industries
located on such tracks must be served
in that time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
FORECLOSURE SALES.

SUPREME COURT, COUNTY OF NEW
Y6RK NEW YORK DisPENSARY:
Plaintiff. against LAURA LEHMAN ana
others. Defendants ...t..-
i.re and sale. duly made and entered III
the above-entitled action and bearing date
the third day Of November lvie, l. IN.
the referee IN said Judgment
named. will sell at public auction ~ the
Exchange Salesroom: No 1919 Nessg
Street. In the Borough OF Manhattan, tl'y
OF New York. on the 18th day OF Deeemner.
1916. at II o'clock noon on thst DAY, oy
Joseph Day ; AgS,omssr ' he .SIs and
therein described as follows ALL tina,
certain lot. piece or parcel OF land, with
the buildings and improvements thereon
twelfth Ward Of the Borough OF Manhat-
ian. CITY OF New York. and which 10
bounded and described as follows; BEGIN.
MING at a point on me sSutnery s,ue o'
tant 1--WE hundred and three feet, nine
inches westerly from the corner formed
by the intersection ~ the westerly Inc
OF Fifth Avenue with the southerly side
az one hundred and thirty-third Street;
running thence eastwardly and along me
said southerly side Of one hundred ano
thirty-third Street eighteen feet. mae
inches; thence souihwsrdly and parallel
Win Fifth Avenue nlnety-nine feet eleven
inches TO the centre line OF the block be
tween one hundred and thirty-second sno
one hundred and thirty-third streets;
thence westwardly and parallel with one
hundred and thirty-third Street eighteen
feet nine inches, and thence northwardly,
and again parallel with Fifth Avenue. ami
mart OF the distance through a party wall.
ninety. nine feet. eleven inches. 10 the point
or place OF beginning, 49,
JOSEPH II. TRUEsDALE. Referee
FREDERIC de +. FOSTER, Attorney for
Plaintiff. ~ Wall street, Borough OF
Manhattan. City OF New York,
The following is diagram Of the prop.
erty to be sold its street number 10 ~
West i33rd street
cTpL-ET
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Strikes May Be Forbidden

"As to wages and hours OF labor, it
is very evident that under present con-
dtions the only ultimate method of
settling a difficulty between railroad
and its employees is a resort TO force.
And the question is whether a nation
pretending to some degree Of civiliza-
ton, which has eliminated the doctrine
of force from application TO contro-
versies between man and man and
which furnishes judicial tribunals for
the settlement OF those controversies
and which is now and has been for
years endeavoring internationally TO
secure system under which the ma
tions of the earth will create similar
tribunals for the adjustment Of inter
national disputes without resort to
force-whether such a civilized nation
can be content 10 perpetuate the ex-
isting condition of things.
This is subject of profound
thought. II will require the best and
the most humane consideration Of COM
munities and states and o. the nation
itself.
ut would seem TO be our highest duty
TO meet this condition. and by eliciting
the best thought not only OF the cor
porations affected, not only Of the
thinkers and economists Of the coun-
try, but of the men themselves en-
ployed by those corporations, to create
some system under which a resort 20
force, the most barbaric and brutal of
processes, can be avoided for the set
Element OF disputes between great en-
ployers and vast bodies Of employees"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
p. c. INQUIRIES
INTO CAR SERVICE
Order Lines to Run All
TrolIeys, Labor Man
Suggests to Straus

The Public Service Commission has
called upon the companies operating
surface cars in New York 10 explain
why they are not maintaining normal
service. Oscar S. Straus, its chairman,
announced yesterday before a meeting
ut which answers OF some OF the com
panies to the request for information
were considered.
Mr.. Straus also said IL was proposed
to seek an amendment to the Public
Service Commission law to make the
commissions orders to corporations
more readily effective. As the law
stands, all orders are subject to re-
view by the courts. This means. II Is
declared, a delay of two or more years
where a corporation may decide 20
fight
81 am told" added Mr. Straus, that
the law as drafted contained provisions
making the commissions orders more
readily enforceable. Representations
will be made to the next session OF the
Legislature for their establishment in
the existing law"
Mr.. Straus was interested in the
assertion OF p. j. 0'Brien, vice-presi'
dent Of the Amslgamated Association
Of Street Railway Employees Of Amer
lea, at the Labor Forum Sunday even.
ing, that "Straus could end this strive
in twenty-four hours il ne chose 10
act"
IL would like to know how" he said
"To begin with, there is no strike on
the Il or the subway. On the surface
lines the companies are running cars
They are not up to normal. but they
are running cars. The companies not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Many Injured-Wreckage
Hurled Far in
GreenpOint
LOW WATER IN BOILER
BLAMED FOR ACCIDENT
Captain Meets Death in
Third Day on New
Command

Four men were killed and many in
jured early yesterday when the boiler
of the big tugboat Rambler blew up as
the tug was approaching the CONNER
cial Street pier in Greenpoint. The eX-
plosion was attributed to low water in
the boiler, and it sank what was left oil
the tug and hurled fragments more
than two hundred feet.
The dead are:
EUGENE CASEY. captain. twenty-eight
years old, of POS Putnam Avenue.
ANDREW PITTS. engineer. thirty-two years
old Of ll45 Manhattan Avenue.
FREDERICK ZANNE. fireman.
FRANK ESTERBROok. deckhand
The injured are:
William Wilbur. fifty years old. captain
stone boat William II. Brown. fracture OF
the skull. COMMISSIONS about the body and
internal injuries Greenpoint Hospital
Jacob GcisslcT. forty-seven years old. OF
IS Diamond Street. deckhsnd fracture
Of the skull and internal injuries:
Thomas Gregory, forty years old, of 900
Greenwich street Manhattan; Commissions
about the head face and body; Greenpoint
Hospital.
Ludwig Osmond. Gfty-ive years old. cap
tain Of a gravel boat. Of 1913 Third street ;
Commissions about the head and face; East
ern District Hospital
Others were hurt, but declined treat
ment.
The Rambler was owned by the Rus
sell Towing Company, of Long Islam
City. and only last Saturday Captain
Casey had been promoted to her from
one OF the coYpany's smaller tugs
She was backing in to haul out a
stone barge when the explosion oc-
Cured. one Of the fragments Of the
boiler was carried about seventy feet
and crashed through a wooden crate
inclosing an automobile awaiting ship
ment to the Russian government. Sew
eral other fragments broke windows III
the Chelsea Jute Mills, nearly block
away. and greatly alarmed the women
employees.
The badly mutilated bodies of the
captain and engineer were picked az
in Newtown Creek. after the tugs hui
sank. carrying down the fireman and
deckhand. Late i'm the afternoon a
wrecking tug began to raise the Ram
bler's hull for investigation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Court Writs, Based on Die
tum Labor Is Property,
To Be Disregarded
DISOBEY JUDGES.
THE REPORT URGES
Let Consequences BE
What They May"-Blame
Interests for Decisions

Baltimore. Nov. 20. The organized
labor forces Of the country to-day
svowcd extreme hostility to the writ
% Injunction rs means OF stopping
strike First, resolution was
adoptcd unanimously at the morning
session Of The convention Of the Amer
can Federation Of Labor urging or
ganized labor everywhere 70 make the
Injunction question "the paramount
issue IN all Of their future political
activities"
A more radical step was taken al
tie afternoon session when the com
mittee on the executive councils re-
mort took up that featureiof the report
dealing with the decision o. the Mas
,achusctts Supreme Court classifying
labor as property. The committee
submitted and the convention unani-
mously adopted a recommendation
ethat any injunction dealing with the
relationship Of employer and employe.
and based on the dictum that labor is
property. be disregarded. let the con-
sequences be what they may
Judges Must BE DisObeyed'
The committees report follows:
1T seems 10 be settled purpose of
interests antagonistic 10 the freedom
Of men and women who labor 20 per
suade and ihen use the judiciary and
misconstrue constitutional guarantees,
and thereby nullify legislative enact
ments, as 10 leave but one remedy;
and we therefore recommend that any
injunctions dealing with the relation
ship of employer and employe and
based on The dictum Labor is prop
erty' be wholly and absolutely regard
ed rs usurpation and dlsregarded, let
the consequences be what they may.
"Such decisions as the one rendered
by the Supreme Court Of the State OF
Massachusetts have their roots in
class interests. IL is usurpation and
tyranny. Freedom came 20 man be-
cause he believed that resistance TO
tyranny is obedience TO God. As II
came so il must be maintained. Kings
could be and were disobeyed and some
times deposed. In cases Of this kind
Judges must be disobeyed and should
he impeached."
The executive councils report, the
adoption of which the committee rec
commended, the convention concurring,
dealt at length with the Massachusetts
case, attacking the courts and saying
there seemed 10 be no remedy. The
council asked 10 be empowered to con-
tinue its aid TO the Massachusetts State
Federation in the fight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
HILLQUIT ASKS RECOUNT
Want. All Void. Protested and Blank
Ballots Examined

Morris HilIquit, Socialist candidate
for Congress in the 10th District, wh'
was defeated BY Isaac siegel, the he-
nub,ican. by sos. pe,itioned JUSTICE
weel. in the Supreme Court yesterday
for maudnmus directing the CounV
posrd Of Canvassers to open the sealed
rschsges containing the protested Void
and blank ballots in this district ana
..,..,,.ass them. Bernard NJ. Rosen-
Mat through George Gordon Battle
hi. counsel. interviewed as party 10
Ibis petition. Roscnbla't ran 200 votes
behind Siegel. III elm
ee,,,-seven varieties Of fraud were per
netyated in the handling Of the. ballot
~ ,bis o,strict. lie has even brough'
,ho matter 20 the attention Of the DIS
-, Attorney. naming election on
- watchcrs and outsiders. lie
chsrves collision between the Demo
cratic and Republican inspectors III
Sieeers favor.
siecel. en- the other hand, contends
,bat Tho whole agitation is simply a
confirmation Of the riotous drive" or
he district, engineered by the Social
i.ts throughout the campaign, and ths'
Il has for its real object the election
of a Socialist two years hence.
There is no question" he insisted
chat | was elected by more than fov
votes and that recount Will add 70
nv plurality. Hillquit and his Social
isl colleagues and followers crowded
certain polling places on Election pay
20 disturbing the inspectors and othet1
with their objections and interference
that if mistakes were made they we.e
certainly not IN my favor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
Expert Railway Heads
Will Now See President

Now that the chiefs OF the big
Four" brotherhoods have been closeted
with President Wilson once more, rail-
way executives in this city are await
ing a conference between Mr.. Wilson
and the railway officials. This, il is
strongly believed here, is almost GER
tain, as the big -Four" leaders have,
by their call on the President yester-
day evening. opened the way to further
discussion OF the Adamson eight-hour
law.
Should the conference be called
there will be a distinguished group OF
railroad presidents in Washington to
participate in il. All day yesterday
there was an exodus from New York
City OF railroad heads who make up
the Railway Executives Advisory Com.
mittee. which meets in Washington
this morning. and which will look after
railway interests during the investiga-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
COULD NOT PICK HIS JAIL
"yag" Wanted SnL" Winter Home, but
Must Work at BlackwelPs

It's not so easy to get into jail as
one might think-at least, not into the
particular Jail one has set ones heart
on. II you don't believe it, ask Henry
Bennett, Of Croton, n. Y. For the
next three months his address VIII
be Blackwell's lsland-and that isn't
where Henry wanted to go, az all.
Bennett appeared yesterday IN the
Yonkers City Court, told attendants he
was homeless and would like to be
sent to Jail for two months as a
vagrant. Judge Beall accommodated
him with a sentence TO the state farm.
But that didn't suit Bennett. Prison
ers have 70 work at the state farm
So he persuaded Judge Beall to sus-
pend the sentence.
An hour later Bennett was back
again, asking for three months JAN
term.
"Tell the Judge to make it White
Plans jail, please" he whispered CON
fdentially to an attendant. They don't
have to work at White Plains.
Judge Beall changed IL to Black
weil's Island. where prisoners have TO
earn their meals, and Benefits pleas
to be set free again were VAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
BURNS POEMS AT 1925
Many Bidders at Sale of II. V. Jones's
Rare Book Collection

The opening session yesterday OF the
sale at the Anderson Galleries of rare
books from the library Of II. Y. Jones,
publisher Of Tine minneapolis Jour
nal" attracted large throng OF bid
ders and buyers. There was keen com
petition in the bidding for the Robert
Ainsiie COPY of Burns's Poems. Chief
~ in the Scottish Dialect" This copy,
which was given by Burns to his old
friend Ainslee, contains forty nota-
lions in the handwriting of the poet.
The volume was knocked down TO D..
r. Drake. Inc. for 1925. The same
buyer gave $500 for the original letter
written by Charles Dickens in reply
20 the attack which appeared in THE
Morning Chronicle" in 1888.
A first edition Of lreland's "The Life
OF Napoleon Bonaparte," in four vol
umes, illustrated by Cruikshank, was
sold 10 Charles Scribner's Sons for
$500. Gabriel Weis gave $500 for
Byron's original manuscript of ITO Tom
Moore" five verses Of four lines each,
signed BY"
Mr.. Weis also gave $3.50 for the com
plete manuscript of Mark Twain's Civil
War story. "A Curious Experience"
with the note: This is the story
which the brigadier general told me, as
nearly as ] can recall (sic) it." The
original manuscript of "The Natural
ist," BY William Combe. with the orig
inal water color drawings by Theodore
Lane. went TO Henry Malkan for $40,
and W. NJ. Hill gave $40 for an ASSOC
citation copy Of THE Life of Wesley"
by Coleridge.
A choice fifteen century manuscript,
Book OF Hours" was sold for S725 to
George d. Smith. who gave S425 for
three dispatches written by General
Grant TO commanders regarding the
closing actions Of the Civil War.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
ACKR0N, CALLED
TO TRIAL, ABSENT
Lawyer Pleads Illness OF
"VictrOla" Dealer-COurt
Will Investigate

Charles +. Ackron. under Indictment
by the Brooklyn Grand Jury for mis-
representing the photographs which ne
sold from private house at 2o@
Stuyvesant Avenue. Brooklyn. failed to
appear in Kings County Court when
his case was CALLED yesterday morning
Instead his attorney presented doeu-
ment bearing the signature Of Brook
Ign physician which stated that Ack
ron was too i'll to be present in court
Paralysis, from which he has suffered
for several years. was given as his lie
ness.
On examining the paper, Assistant
District Attorney Thomas p Peters
discovered that it bore several diner
ent dates and that there was no venue
OH the document. The attention OF
Judge Norman S. Dixie was called to the
fact that Ackron's case had been set
hack several times at the defendants
request. and that il was at his own sug-
gestion that the case was slated for
Yesterday His non-appearance mad
caused Inconvenience and expense 10
witnesses. four Of whom had come
from Camden, \. j.. the prosecutor de-
clared.
Judge Dixie ordered that an ohlcer or
musician visit Ackron at his home
and report as TO his condition, again
putting off the case indefinitely until
such a report be made.
At the time the Investigators from
The Tribune Bureau called on Ackron
TO inspect his fourishing business in
"Victrolas. 5000 size, $50 with records"
he remarked that his paralytic stroke
interfered with his speech somewhat,
but did not affect his ability to sell
talking machines.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
TO ENLARGE HOTEL MALPIN
Company Will Build Wing on West
Thirty fourth Street

The Greeley Square Hotel Company
owner Of the Hotel McAlpin, plans TO
add a wing 10 the hotel, to be con
structed on the sites at 46 and 4s West
Thirty-fourth Street. The property is
assessed Mt $4,000.
Application was made to the Su"
preme Court yesterday by the trustees
Of the estate OF David II. McAlpin for
permission to enter into lease with
the hotel company for term oil
twenty-one years, and renewals. Two
old.fashioned four-story buildings now
stand on the lots. These bring N
rental of S10,f79 a year, while the
carrying expenses Of the properly u
Sc less than that sum. The buildings
are valued at $4,000.
The McAlpin estate bought the prop
ertv in 1910 to sell to the hotel com
pany. Ii has been agreed by the
parties at interest that the hotel COM
pany is to pay TO the McAlpin estate
500, 900 a year while the extension II
being built and $4,000 year after
occupaLcy. r,-
Justice Philbin appointed FredsricS
W. Steele, as referee, to consider the
application.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
RAILWAY CHIEFS
ASK WILSON'S AID
Continued from page

dicament than they were when they
came TO Washington the middle OF last
August, with strike votes In their pocS-
cts. They feel that they will have lost
prestige. as well as public sympathy,
and that there will be nothing left ior
them 10 do, il they do not get suosti-
tute law for the Adamson law, but or
der a strike.
And if the Adamson law is upheld,
but the court fails TO include in its
opinion an Interpretation continuing
the mileage basis of pay unchanged,
they will have TO fight with the rail-
roads TO get this.
Discounts Strike Talk
Judge Adamson was waiting in the
White House when the four presidents
emerged He seemed to resent the fact
that the railroads are attacking his
law. When asked about Congress leg
isating on wages, he remarked:
well, il might be good thing to
fix the salaries of some of these rail-
road executives and their high-priced
lawyers who come down here to attack
the law"
these Injunction suits" he said,
"are simply strike suits Last sum-
mer the railroads offered to grant an
eight-hour day if they got an increase
in freight rates. In my opinion they
brought these suits for no other pun
pose than TO make Congress give them
Increased rates through the |. c. C."
As to the possibility Of a railroad
strike the judge said:
81 don't take any stock in this strike
talk. | don't believe the men will
strike. II they did they would lose
whatever public sympathy they have,
and would not have any support at all"
Railways To Be Heard First
Earlier in the day, when the New
lands Commission started, Judge Adam
son had said that he thought the Amer
lean people were proud of the railway
system of the country and would not
see il thrown down. phe occasion Of
his remark was an argument by Alfred
p. Thorn, counsel 10 the Railway Execu-
tive Advisory Committee, who desired
the railroads TO be the last to be heard
by the commission.
as it not fact" asked Senator Cum
Minis, that the railroads fear that If
they propose a plan it will Immediately
cause opposition ,"
Mr.. Thorn said il was so, but Senator
Cummins insisted the commission would
not take that view and the railroads
were ordered to appear first on Thurs
day. Mr.. Thorn said the roads did not
wish TO appear as plaintiffs, but as part
OF the public ready TO promote the best
development of the subject.
In spite of the meeting of the COM
mission, William G. Lee, president of
the trainmen; W. s. Carter, of the
firemen; Warren 5. Stone, of the en-
gineers. and L. +. Sheppard, of the CON
ductors. were preparing to quit Wash
ington for perhaps a month. They will
address the American Federation of
Labor at Baltimore tomorrow, and
then, Mr.. Lee said. would probably go
to Kansas City 10 watch the Santa Fe
and Union Pacific injunction suits
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
MRS. R. REID WINS IN,
s7a Month Also Gnatsa ! =.
Against Mural Ark

An introductory decree Of A..
in favor Of Mrs. Elizabeth REID = :.
West lolst Street, wife Of ~
Reid. a mural and portrsit -. -
was signed yesterday By Jusa.
thur r. Tompkins in the g..
Court, at Nyaek, N. Y. The -,
did not contest the action.
A. the time Of their nsrnss,. l
1907, Mrs. Reid had been the usS., ~
two Of the PAINTERS best vsrh, !,
Portrait Sketch" and "yiolsts.-
She testified yesterday ,hst Asr 4.
bands income was between S2o.t&s :.
10000 a yesr. Justice Tompti,, 4
lowed $3.50 a month alinony AL A
custody OF the twin soma, Robert ~
jr., and Edwin d. Reid, who ar, q.
wears old
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-21
SURROGATES' NOTICES

IN PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF HON.
John +. Cohalan, a Surrogate OF the
County OF New York. notice In hereby
given 20 all persons having claims against
Geotg" Ley Pearce Butler. sometimes
known as George Ley Pearce Vernon. late
u the County of New York. deceased. ~
present the SAM. with vouchers thereof 20
the subscriber, al his place OF trsnsactlng
business al the once OF his attorney. Will
lam H. Bl,nly@r No 10 Wall Street. IN the
city OF New York. on or before she NTH
day Of April next
Dated. New York. the srd day of octo-
RAFAEL n. GOWN. Executor.
WILLIAM n. BLyMYER.
Attorney for Executor.
~ Wall Street. Borough OF Manhattan.