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New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
100 EDISON WORKERS STRIKE
Inventor Believes Difficulty with La
borcrs viii Soon BE Settled.

Orange. n. j.. Feb. 25.-About one
hundred men, mostly laborers, at the
Edison Silver Lake phenol plant went
on strike this morning. The plant has
been closed TO make repairs, the man
agement said, and when these have
been completed the demands OF the
men for more pay will be taken up:
There was no trouble at the plant all
day. Police were on guard.
William H. Meadowcroft. Thomas A.
Edison's secretary. said this afternoon
that Mr.. Edison had taken charge Of
the situation and that it was hoped a
settlement might be effected soon with
out difficulty. The Edison industries
are not unionized, and this is the first
strike in many years.
The firm had been paying 2lis cents
an hour TO unskilled foreigners and %
cents 10 the native born. Yesterday a
uniform wage Of % cents was offered.
The night shift declined, asking for 80
cents an hour and time and half Tor
Sundays and holidays.
The men are said TO feel that the
work in the acid making plant is dan
gerCus and destructive TO their cloth
ing. They declare the increase they
ask is reasonable. The plant. the first
OF ten such plants started by Mr.. Edi-
son as soon as the supply of phenol
was shut Off by the war. has been
working day and night. Mr.. Edison
takes particular delight in his accom-
plishment in supplying much of the
American trade with such a necessity
on short notice. Recently he said he
regarded his work with much pleasure.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
ROOMS @ AUTHORS
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
a., A,berton's Study of Feminine Criminal Psychology
Basil Kings The Side of the Angels Another
Story of an Expatriate.

the doctor, after having vainly coun.
selled him to "tarry the Lords leisure.
The physician. being young and moG-
ern. does not believe IN the Lord
neither does he believe in angels lie
will set things right in this world with
his own idcalism and money and the
tale is Off, with all its complications,
disasters and final adjustments.
Mr.. King is a best-seller whose pop
ularity is easily understood. He feels
deeply and sincerely. he believes that
he has a mission that he must teach
faith through fiction and he certainly
can tell a story. Involved IL is; . Ger
tainly runs away from that logic Of
life Of which there is so little in its
conduct in the average; unforeseen re-
suits spring from carefully laid plans,
much unhappiness ensues. but then, ac-
cording 70 Uncle Sim, who Is New
Englander Of the old stamp, suffering
is good for peoples characters and
souls. the true way to their higher
selves.
The book is not a preachment. On
the contrary. it is thoroughly readable
popular fiction seeking TO draw anew
from life the lesson which the past
generation of materialism denied, and
to which current religious reawaken-
ings are seeking 10 return.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
ART JOLTS BUSINESS
TO TUNE OF 81, $3.50
Commercial Jury Surprises
Painter by Upholding Claim.

Twelve good men and true-all bust
ness men-who composed the jury IN
the City Court before Judge Heller
have changed the old order OF things
from the time when the primordlal
artist who scraped pictures on stone
with a flint starved 20 death. Up TO
yesterday If you viii believe Green
wch Village the artistic clan has
been under the rougn thumb OF com
mercialism. And IT was hard Jolt
for business when even her own discl-
pies turned against her.
Robert j. Wldhack, Of ia East
Thirteenth Street, who draws humor-
Gus pictures of automobiles and auto
mobilists. was the plaintiff. lie sued
the Cheltenham Advertising Agency
for 81 1870 in payment for pictures he
drew for the agency when they sent
him TO Detroit on "A obJect-
we-want-good- pictures commission. Inc
agency admitted the pictures were
good but could not grasp Mr.. Wild
hacks argument contained IN Dill
for $1,000.
Neither could Mr.. Wildhack grasp
the argument Of unappreciauve busI-
ness when $500 vas offered TO HIM.
Consequently. the jurors yesterday
heard learned discussion on the value
of an artists services and after sew
ersl minutes returned a verdict Tor
the plaintiff, awarding him the full
amount asked for in his suit, Sl,3SO.
Mr.. Wildhack was represented by John
X McGOvern.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
THE BLACK EAGLE MYSTERY.

THE BLACK EAGLE MYSTERY. by Geraldine
Homer illustrated by Frederic Don steele.
i2mo ID 5o9 d. Appleton Co.
Miss Morgen;hau, the hello sleuth
of the "The Girl at Central" re-
appears IN Miss Bonner's new detective
story. She is married now-she eX-
plains all that IL is necessary TO know
for those who have not read the Carller
book-but when her services are called
for she returns TO the switchboard and
does her share in the unravelllng of
the Black Eagle mystery. IL appears
nj first 10 be a case Of suiclde-a
br. ker caught in a Wall Street opera
tion has jumped from the seventeenth
story of his Office building Then a
suspicion Of foul play springs up, and
the chase is on. Miss Bonner does
not bother about the psychology of
criminals-she deals with crime, ITS
commission and detection, and,
certainly, there is a new complication
Of the plot in each chapter as the
telling of the story passes from one
investigator 20 the other. II Is all
very. very complicated, and plausible,
II strange, when the case IS cleared up.
II should be .dded that there is a
woman i'm it, though that is more or
less n matter Jf course. Miss Bonner
gives us full measure, heaped up and
running over, Of mystery, confusing
and crossing clews. ingenuity and
criminal daring and blunderinG.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
BROOKLYN DWELLINGS SOLD
Ready Buyers Found for Houses In
Various Sections.

Various SeCtiOn-.
Henry Piersoh & Son sold 875 Pros
pect Place, near Washington ay..
frame building. 25xl3l, for Andrew
Hanrahan; also plot, 4Ox7O' in Ashland
Place. for L. L. Chapman and George
II Story.
B.J. sforza sold for Clara Giard the
plot. 7sxiO0. on the south side Of 4A'n
St, 175 feet east Of 18th az.
John ]. Meenan sold eight lots in
3sth ST.. 100 feet west of ith ay5 Tor
Simon J. Harding to the Greater New
York Ice Company, which will erect
.-s-. story ice plant on the property.
Friday g. Lehman sold S97 and ssi
Hancock ,t, near Howard ay, a two
family framS dwelling, with stable, 4es
100, to Henry c. Karutz; % Lidert st.
near Broadway, brick dwelling, 70
Gustav Gauer; 462 and 36i Hancock ~.
near Lewis av.. two six family steam
heated apartment houses. 55xlO0, for
Joseph De Ronde 10 a client, for IN
vestment, and ga Halsey St, near
Patehen av.. brick two family dwell
ing, for the Marmur Holding Corpora
tion to a client for occupancy.
Tutino & Cerny sold for Michael
MartoccIo 10 the March Realty Com
pany for improvement a plot, 50xl0,,
Oh the south side OF 10th ST., 225 feet
east of 5th av.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
JOHN BOGARDIS.

JOHN ROCARbUs 4 Novel By George Agnsw
Chambcrlain Illustrated hy W r Benda II
no. %. SiA Tie Century Company.
This is the most satisfactory Of the
three novels Mr.. Chamberlain has writ
ten thus far. Il is episodical 1t con-
sists mainly of three sentimental ad-
ventures encountered by the hero, a
rolling stone serving his apprentice
ship TO life, but the episodes them
selves are interesting ventures into the
realms of the emotional. There Is also
sort of prelude episodical again
which the love of a child forms for a
moment the first of the slender. easily
snapped bonds which at intervals bind
this remarkably detached wanderer 10
his kind. HIS relations with his father
are intermittent Most of the time he
seems TO give him no thought at all. u
is only when they meet on his returns
from his wanderings that he explores
that very human parents amiable mem
tality and lovable weaknesses.
Mr. Chamberlain writes by preference
of the eXpatriate. His own career has
furnished him with the material. 50
here we have young American edu-
Gated abroad with the purpose Of SUI
ceedng his father as professor OF ko-
nance languages at one of our uni
versities. His first impressions +
womanhood are. therefore, Of the Latin
peoples. The youth is bewildered by
the freedom allowed the young girl IN
the country of his birth. Wherefore
his first experience Of her, in the irst
of these episodes. is the best ~ the
book. II is an idyl Of summer, farm
forest and lake. of the complete trust
Of American parents IN their daugn-
ters and the young men they meet a
capital romantic il Of plein air writ
ing withal. But below the surface there
l.. already in this young girl that driy-
ing power which is SAID 10 be the real
secret Of the financial prowess OF so
many American men.
Follow more wanderings and the cpl
sode of the missionary's daughter ~
San Francisco the single code girl;
And still more wandering by land and
sea. John Bogardus learns that he can
write. New York at last, and the ing
nsh actress who has no cOde-an cpl
sode Of passion. At last the war.
What would our novelists do without
it2 Boqardus writes a burning screed,
THE New CrucifXion." and he stops
rolling. The university which he had
deserted claims him as lecturer
There is much good material IN the
book-Mr. Chamberlain is advancing
but as yet he has no firm grip on lie
as the material for fiction. The coun-
try idyl in these pages stands out by
its many merits as an episode. 30
gardus's leave-taking Of his class IN
French is q bit Of genuine humor, but
the story lacks progressing continuity
as a whole.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
Business Spaces on East
and West Sides Rented

Carstein e. Linnekin have leased
space at 22l Fourth av. to William {.
Horn, Bro. & Co.; at 3l5 Fourth av. TO
Jacob Epstein; half the third floor az
s74 Broadway to Thomas S. Dolan; half
a floor at 10 East 23d st. TO kallmaan
Canter; Offices at 456 Fourth av. TO 5.
Hirsch Co. and the Woonsocket Knit
ting Company; an Office at 2i-26 East
2ist 81. 20 the Community Realty Cor
poration; space at 303 Fifth av. TO
Peter Rosenbloom & Son, and a suite
of Offices in the new Brokaw Building
TO the New Y rk Representing Com
pany.
Shaw G. Co. have leased the store al
II West l25th st. TO James J. Rourk.
Cammann, Voorhees, & Floyd have
leased the building l66 Front ST. to
Carl Vogt's Sons, and, in conjunction
with Douglas Robihso-., Charles ).
Brown Company. the ground floor at
s3-S5 Wall 81. TO Bowerman Brothers.
Charles b. Walker has leased loft
in 206 Centre st. 10 the United spring
Works; space in llS Walker ST. to B..
Goldfarb & Co., I'D space in l2i Bax-
ter 81. to the Mutual Battery Com
pany.
Goodale, Perry & Dwight have leased
the building lll5 Broadwa for long
term OF years TO huylers.
Amcs & Co. have leased loft IN %
West 3lst st. to Morris Z Rosenield,
nauufac urers.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
Plays and Players
of the Film World

Marguerite Snow will be a busy little
girl on Monday night, and II the driver
of her automobile IL careful IN round
ing corners or one wheel she may get
hack home with no part of her anatomy
missing. For Miss Snow will make a
hving trip 10 FIVE Loew theatres IN one
night, hitherto uninterrupted feat. Al
$3.50 she will mako her bow at the
Lincoln, Broadway and Sixty-sixth
Street Exactly thirty minutes later
she will be at the Greeley, Sixth Ave
nue. and Thirtieth Street. Her next
stop will be forty-fiye minutes later at
the Palace, East New York. Then VIII
come the DeKalb, DeKalb Avenue
and Broadway, Brooklyn, fifteen min
utes later. Her final stop will be at
1880 o'clock at the Fulton, Fulton and
Nostrand avenues. She will cover more
than twenty miles. Her chauffeur Will
carry two extra wheels and life insur-
ance. Miss Snow will bid farewell to
her family and friends at s:l5 O'Clock
on Monday evening.
Suppose you looked like Mary Pick
ford and everybody thought that you
were the famous star and IT grew
wearisome and you grew peeved every
time somebody remarked on the resem
blance? What would you doE Betty
Lawson. whose real name Is Helen
Elizabeth Lawson and who halls from
Boston. is the Pickford double. She
thinks that she has solved the problem
Of disassociating her physical self from
that of Miss Pickford.
81 shall not change my looks" she
explained yesterday. Neither shall !
alter my lamblike disposition. But |
shall change the looks Of the next per-
son who tells me how much Miss Pick
ford resembles me, or ! her. Not that
| am not complimented by the likeness,
for think Miss Pickford lovely, but
want to make reputation for myself
and not through the medium Of being
somebody else's double
Miss Lawson is exceptionally pretty
and unusually clever much so that
Joe Brandt, general manager Of Uni
versal. has entered into negotiation
with her. with a view 10 work l.. either
Red Feather or Bluebird films.
While on the subject of the ubiqul-
tous Brandt. it Will be of interest to
call attention TO the Office bulletins he
issues frequently. Here is the latest,
rushed from his throbbing typewrIting
machine yesterday:
please note that Nina Jeifries has
changed her name 10 Margaret May
burn"
Nina Jefries was Nina Cunard
SISTER of Grace until noon Thursday.
By noon Friday she had changed her
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
POLICE DEPARTMENT.

Dismissed and Awarded Pension 10 take erect
y d m Feb 2jl-M- IT. Healy. &. O. Sqtad
on bis own application. a. 500. Appointed Aus
Promoted 10 sergeant. transferred sad assigned /.
70 take eject p M. fe5 -il-1io Nik.y - a. 10
li7th: II. II Ja.an. ~ 10 li'tn, Ni"lsm wei
stsnhome. l47th to l63d. !. T. Afchopoh' Is b. j.
Transfers and Assignments 10 take effect 5
n m Teh 2sl-Lts James walsh. lilth o. l4tth :.
Robert Howe li7th 10 l59th. Bicycle sst Francis
j. Putz. 275ih TO 1884. Motorcycle ftlmn J. u.
BedeL ll3d 70 b B II Squad. as messenger:
IN tske eject > m.. Feb 20. Piimn. Charles
Roe.~G M 10 an as station h~ise attendant.
Us '1nds,,, i / sharIey. g2d 10 Trsric b Henry
Schachne 36ih 90 10Th } J. Hart. Traffic Is 10 IGN
and i + shaw Goth. 20 trainns school laf
dave. from , m. Feb. - Slfsis. * L. Na.t'
sd TO es q Tac , sea H''s ~ .l,s D,is". .chdo lo
nom Commands indicated f0r days from d ui..
ff0 >o NJ ln 4 is,ss @. T. Ma,.. i I is,5. s@i,a
lsfh, - 4 Taylor. g. % - To training sinool
lom commands indicated GOT da's ffo,9 nm :. M
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meyer. 2i5th; T. p Ryan hua-e; ~ G, = 1iA'il
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Trsf A. T. !. Carney. Ifh. e. NJ D. ''"'oS'
Aslqnm,nt, Discontinued -Ptlmn. A Li1enosTser
and J. NJ Monaghan, an. a. st4il'h h'D'e a.
''L1s leaves Of" Of Absence lsithoai payl-.Ptmn. =
Fn9e.an. Ism. ! day. from 2 NJ ~ fee III
kohler. -4d. day. rom p n-' 'r,r -
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Lsusan. slst. 4 day. ffom m. feo -
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Relieved from suspea,on-Ptmn. p Drum. li3f
% take elect 40 a m, fsn. -.
sgspsndsd tsithout pay l-Ptimn- L. Drum. 1896
90 take effect so a fct. q
Amendment So much ~ paragraph 2 %. e6a
series 1915 a. rrlstes 10 ffimn J 2. walsh. l1ih.
- amended 1. geaa. W J. Hs1ItIlann. l-lA-
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
TWILIGHT.

TWILIGHT ny frank Danny. l-lno. 10. st'
U1dl Mead a Co.
il is likely that Mrs. Franksu's new
story viii arouse a lively controversy
in England whose echoes may be heard
here. II seems 20 hint so unmlstakably
at the tragedy Of a woman writer IN
real life a decade or so ago that ques-
tion of the propricty Of the autnor's s
use of il is certain TO be raised. What
ever the admixture of fiction, the meas
ure of fact is too great 10 be ignored.
A clever book il is, with It's bewllder-
ing mingling Of the halluclnatlons of
morphia with normal vision. A woman
author, seriously i'll, rents a lonely
house in the country, where she seeks TO
regain her health. The tenant before
her, she learns on her arrival, had been
another English woman author, Amer
ican-born, now dead, after disgraceful
suit for divorce, IN which she, the lnno-
cent one, had been broken IN body and
mind by the malignancy OF her guilty
husbands defence. The new occupant
knows the story, of course, up 20 that
episode; beyond that, nothing except
the fact Of the woman's sudden death
year later. What happened during that
last year is revealed 10 her, under the
influence of morphine, by the dead
womans spirit, by the physician who
attended her, and who now attends her
successor, and by package of letters
and a diary.
Literary pose-that is the first i'm
preston given by both; an attempt to
turn a supreme experience into copy"
Then the strange tale begins to unfold
itself, with its vista Of ultimate happi-
ness and its Illustration by blackmail
and a worthy mans unreasonable sense
of rectitude. The physicians part in
this final episode is the strangest Of
all. II adds the supreme touch of un-
canniness 10 story whose extraordi-
nary material is handled with unfailing
daytoritV
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
SUPPORT CROMWELL BILL
Law and Order Union Advocates Re
forms in Chauffeur Licensing.

The Law and Order Union, of Is
William Street, has announced itself
as supporting Senator CromwelFs bili
placing the licensing Of motor vehicle
drivers in the hands OF the Police Com
missioner The bill provides that the
issuance of licenses shall be subject
to approval by the chief magistrate and
an expert chauffeur, TO be appointed
by the Mayor as an examiner.
II also provides that each applicant
for a license shall be examined by this
expert, and no license shall be issued
unless the applicant is of good moral
character and of sober and temperate
habits as ascertained by proper investi-
cation. The Police Commissioner IS
given authority to revoke the license
at his discretion without notice.
In a letter favoring this bill, Dwight
Braman, president of the Law and Or
der Union, states there were 22,54O ac-
cidents and $50 fatalities from automo-
biles in New York streets in 1915.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
SPRING ACADEMIC
ENDANGERED BY WAR
Only 10 Active Members Left in
Paris to Award Distinctions.

Especial Core spOndence TO The Tribune
Paris. Feb. l2.-The Academic, which
had so much difficulty in carrying on
its work last year, is finding the task
even more difficult this year. The work,
though it affects to give rise TO good
deal of rather mediocre humor, is real
ly very important for the literary and
artistic life of France, and those who
pretend 20 be the most disdainful are
generally the proudest when they are
recognized by the Academic.
In ordinary times the work of classi-
fcation Of works and the distribution
Of prizes is divided among several COM
mittecs, but in order TO create the COM
mittees IL Is necessary 10 have full
Academic. This year seven members
are dead, and four of the newly elected
members have not been officially re-
ceived, and therefore cannot take part
in the sittings Five, NM. Poincare.
Deschanel, de Freycinet. Ribot and
Denys Cochin, are too busy with the
affairs Of the nation TO sit with the
Academic, and five others, Monsignor
Duchesne and NM. Anatole France,
Pierre Lott, Aicard and Rostand, are
away from Paris.
This leaves only nineteen members
TO do all the work, and II is too much
for them. II is not acceptable 10 re-
ceive the new members in time of war
with all the pomp that the ceremony
demands. while it is against the tradi-
tions of the Academic 10 receive them
in petit comite" And there is equal
objection to permitting them to come
In and take part in the work without
having been officially installed.
The discussion, that has become
rather liyeIy. seems likely to end in
nothing being done and the situation
getting worse. instead OF better.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
Sweeney Drew Engineers
Attention from Block,
Coroner May Report.
CURTIS DISREGARDED
3 WARNING SIGNALS
Two Investigations Close with
Evidence That Third Person
Rode as Deadhead.

New Haven, Conn. Feb 25.-Both the
coroner's and Interstate Commerce
Commissions Investigations into the
Milford wreck closed to-day. Sew
eral witnesses gave Coroner Mix
corroborative evidence that w. y. Cur
tis. engineer of the accommodation. dis
regarded three signals before ne blew
his whistle, sounding u danger warning
less than 800 feet from the place where
his train struck the Connectieu. River
express.
Heads of departments of the New
Haven Railroad testified to the success
full operation of their signal system,
to the previous excellent railroad repu-
tation of Curtis and to the remark
able part which Harry Sweeney, the
third man in the engine cab, played
the morning Of the wreck.
Sweeney, according TO the story told
by General Manager Bardo of the rail
road to-day, lived i'm Stamford, which
was also the home of Engineer Curtis.
He was employed by the railroad as a
4,
gave up his job at 8 o'clock on the
morning of the accident. How his
dead body came to be in the wreck
can only be traced by inference.
IL is believed that Curtis gave hlm
deadhead ride TO New Haven from
Stamford, and, two hours later, was
taking him back. That Sweeney S
presence in ..e cab diverted CurtlS's
Ia for /.
running past three signals Is likely
to be the statement IN the coroner S
report. Bardo declared that Sweeney 5
presence in the cab was agafst the
rules of the road.
To-day witness, whom Coroner MIX
will not name, testified that he stood
at the beginning of the Nooomont
block, saw the precautionary signal set
against the accommodation tram, ana
vet saw Curtis disregard it, rJnning
forty-fve miles an hour. There was a
third man in the cab in citizen s
clothes. he said.
4 jolt was given 10 the theory that
Curtis might have tainted by George
Clark. of Indian River, who stated that
the engineer blew his whistle 200 feet
before reaching the express.
The final session OF the Interstate
Commerce Commission was largely de
voted to investigating the railroads
signal system Mr.. Bardo said thous-
and tests had been made in which red
flags had been displayed IN front OF
engineers, and in every case the trains
had been stopped, none being disre-
garded. c. II. Morrison, head Of the
signal system Of the railroad, stated
that in the last eighteen months there
have been 7,l32,s6O train movements
There has been one signal failure 20
each $4,000 movements and one false
cl ar" 10 each 891 .607 movements. max
ing the efficiency Of the signals 99-s
per cent.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS;
MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS

Chief Boatswain II " ANDERSON. detached naval
station. CaUte. o. Brooklyn
Boatswaia T. H. BlERCE. detached Brooklyn 10
naval station. tAvte
MOVEMENTS.
ARRIVED.
Feb. 23-Arethusa. Guacauayabo Bay; Cesar at
Trpoh. Africa.
Feb 1i-Derrer a. Balboa. Eagle A. Boston
Neurus a. Honolulu. ff.mcfheus al TburOn.
SAILED.
Feb IS Annapolis la Psz To- san Diego. Are,husa.
Guantanamo Tor Guarauayaho Baf.
Feh 2i-Ches'eF M0nroyis for Porto Grande, tape
Verde Island. tnnyugham. Delaware Bfcaka aier
for Newport Essle Portsmouth. y H.. for Bos-
tom. Jupiter Guantanamo f0r Port au- Prince .
Tronlefbeus san Francisco for nuuruu. Teuncs-
see Pore au- Prince for Hampton Roads. wash
ingf0n New York yard for Boston.
FIsg ~ commander II cruiser squadTcn Auantic
ne.l raisfeueL Tennessee ~ Do-Dhin.
New-York tribune., 1916-02-26
MISS MORGAN DEFENCE ENVOY
Late Financier's Daughter To BE Dele
gate to Mayors Conference.

st. Louis, Feb. 25.-Miss Anne Nor
gan, daughter OF the late J. Pierpont
Morgan, will be delegate to the con-
ference of mayors on national pre-
paredness, which will begin here on
March 3.
William B. Brewster, secretary OF the
committee of mayors, left here to-day
FOR New Orleans, Memphis. Atlanta,
Birmingham and Montgomery TO arouse
interest in the approaching conference.