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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
Upton Men Striving
For Assignments
To Training School
Interest Tense Over Who
Shall Be Chosen for OFF,
GERS Courses

CAMP UPTON, Long Island, Dec.
28.-There is tense interest among the
men in the ranks at this cantonment
as 70 who the $50 privates, corporals
and sergeants will be who are due for
assignment to the officers training
school that is to be inaugurated here
on July ).
The school will be part of the third
series of training camps, but unlike
the others, its graduates will be eligi-
bic only for the grade of second lieu
tenant. At Plattsburg the students re-
ceived 500 a month, and several
majors and two lieutenant colonies
were commissioned from its graduates.
In addition to the men of this d.
vision, there will also be assigned to
the school 237 civilians, who are either
graduates or undergraduates of Har-
ward. Cornell, Connecticut Agricultural,
Boston Tech, New York Military and
Massachusetts, Agricultural colleges,
all of whom have had military train
heads Of these institutions.
The civilians who are to enter the
school will enlist in the regular army
for the period of the war, and if any
Of them fails TO receive a commission,
by reason of failure TO graduate, he
will have to serve as a private in the
regular army. At the conclusion Of
the course the men who belong in
vat % IL.
aud the students who came from civil
life will be assigned to the various
regiments here.
of the school: Commanding officer,
Lieutenant Colonel William B. Nc
Caskey; senior instructor, Captain J.
U: Adler; assistant senior instructor
OF infantry. Captain William Bennett;
assistant senior instructor of field ar
tillery. Captain r.. +. Bateson; adju-
tant, Captain Strack; assistant adiu-
tant, Lieutenant Henry r. st. Cyr: mess
officer, Captain c. E. Miller; assistant
mess officer, Lieutenant Hoover; in
fantry instructors, Captains +. r.
Schell, Milton Bowman, John Olyphant,
T. V. Burdell, W. II. Draper, jr.. II. W.
Lemkuhl, IL. r. Shurtlieff. c. s. Will
Jams, c. NJ. Harrington. p. p. Goold.
r. F. Riggs, c. II. Briscoe, r. G.. Baker,
K. II. Ferriss, r. o. Cheney, Lieutenant
Frank Egan and Second Lieutenant C.
f. Roddy.
Field artillery instructors: Captains
A. II. Gordon, G. f. Plimpton and II. f.
Reed.
Signal Corps instructor, Captain H.
II. Lawson; engineers instructor, Cap.
tain c. A. Plumley; foreign instructor.
Lieutenant Henri Poire, OF the French
army.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
Last Draft Quota
Won't Go to Camp
Before February IS
New Order Places Remain
ing 10 Per Cent in De-
ferred List

The first draft is officially over.
Men who were selected to Gil the last
10 per cent Of this city's contribution
TO the National Army will not be sent
10 camp before February Is, according
to orders received here yesterday from
Provost Marshal General Crowder. and
they will therefore have the advantages
of being classified under the new ques-
tionnare system.
Technical experts and registrants
highly skilled in certain lines Of work.
however, may be called very shortly
the new orders state. This ruling al
fects all men on the draft list, having
no special reference TO the deferred
quota Of the first draft. The War De-
partment. it is said, expects to get in
formation from the questionnaires
which will enable il to fill demands
from General Pershing and elsewhere
for men Of special training from time
10 time.
Major +. S. Hutchinson, chief OF the
Federal Draft Bureau of this state. in
transmitting the instructions regarding
deferred quota registrants, said: THE
result of this decision will be that we
will be able to give the benefit of the
new classification system 10 all men
whose order numbers are so late as to
place them in the deferred percentage
of the present call" This means that
such men will 60 to camp when the
next call comes only if they are placed
in Glass /, provided Class ! is large
enough to fill the early quota.
In statement to the legal advisory
boards of the state, Major Hutchinson
charges that many registrants in fill
ing out their questionnaires arc max
ing "a large number of claims wholly
without foundation" Continuing. the
major says: "Inasmuch as under the
selective service regulations local
boards are obliged to pass upon each
claim made by the registrant, this
practice greatly increases the heavy
burden of the boards. Legal advisory
boards have an opportunity TO reduce
this unnecessary work to a minimum.
They should remember that they are
acting as the governments representa-
tiyes in assisting registrants. and that
the relation is not that of attorney
and client. Registrants should be per-
mltteu 10 MAKE any IeBlllnhte cialm,
but should be discouraged from claim
ing deferment of classification on prob
lematical or frivolous grounds
Women Lawyers Volunteer
Henry W. Taft, chairman Of the
Legal Advisory Board. of this city, an
nounced yesterday that ten women
lawyers had volunteered their services
for work on local law boards. Mrs. r.
W. Wambald, of 90 East Ninetieth
Street, has been assigned TO Local
Board 81, at 81 East l25th Street, and
Miss Ida Primhof, of l22 Rivington
Street. TO Local Board 1873, at 2ll East
Seventy-ninth Street. The other eight
arr retained on an emergency list.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29

as the drug traffic decreasing, as
asserted here by government officials
and others?" asked the counsel OF the
Whitney legislative drug investigating
committee yesterday of dapper little
man who had taken the stand under the
name Of Joe Peake. ex-jockey, ex-addict
and now a Federal government narcotic
inspector.
Reverse the English said Peake
"They mean so per cent increase, not
decrease.
give been back from Memphis, where
I helped clean up just three days.
don't know much Of what has hap
pened here recently, but do know that
asst night ! telephoned a place up in
Sixty-ninth Street and told them |
wanted ten ounces of stun ana
pourd of sugar They said: All right,
send around a man we know tomorrow
and get it. Stuff is heroln and sugar
is gum opium. We probably VIII get
those people tomorrow.
"And over in Jersey to-day anybody
can get all the morphine needles he
reeds"
When Peake was called to the stand
his taste in oyercoats and the cut ana
pattern of his cap, combined with q
cock sparrow manner and an air OF
knowing a lot about the frailty OF HUI
man nature, prepared the audience IN
the council chamber of City Hall for
his admission that he had been
Jockey once.
Cured in New York
There was but little surprise. also
when he admitted that he had been an
addict. but he won attention when he
announced that he had been cured by
an cover the top and fade away treat
ment" administered at the Polytechnic
HOSPITAL several months ago at the IN
stance of Internal Revenue officials, and
he held it throughout thirty-minute
survey Of the drug situation.
He shattered many preconceived no
tons concerning the narcotic evil based
on the testimony previously given the
committee BY addicts and experts IN
law, medicine, psychology and social
science.
NO drug ever gives you pleasant
cream, ne SdlO, dHu NHcH YOU sNat
il makes you sick-like cigarettes"
Another remark was: "A drunkard-
an alcoholic addict-is worse than a
drug addict. If mans a gentleman
before he starts taking dope he is al
ways a gentleman. Souses end in the
gutter"
And he wound UP with this:
"All doctors should be compelled to
treat addicts. Then let's have ALSO
lutte prohibition for drugs, the same
as for liquor. But before we apply pro-
hibition give the doctors chance 70
cure up the addicts."
Il started in early" said Peake. MY
first Whit OF dope was in jockeys
dressing room. 10 was Berney's ca
tarrh cure. The boys got it at rs cents
bottle. and We snutfed II up through
a little rubber tube.
After that | got classy began
hitting the pipe. Then got tired
carrying a pipe and little brass lamp
around the country. So ! began on
morphine"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
u. S. Motor Train
Ends Trip From
Detroit to Sea
Covers 600 Miles at Aver
age Rate of SO Miles
a Day
[.SpociaL Correspondencpl

BALTIMORE, Dec. 28.-Nith the ar
rival here to-day Of train Of three-ton
army motor trucks from Detroit carry
ing sixty tons of spare parts for SINH
lar trucks there was completed the first
part Of a great overland movement
from the automobile factories Of the
Central States to the sesboard for ship
ment TO France.
There were twenty-nine trucks in the
train arriving to-day. Tomorrow Cap
tain Bennett Bronson, who was in
charge of the test trip, will return TO
Detroit 70 bring a score or two more
machines.
When the trucks lined up at City
Hall this afternoon officers and men
said they were glad the journey was
ended. They had completed a 500
mile trip. The three officers and four
score members of Uncle Sans fighting
forces had brought them over the roads
from Detroit. through temperatures as
low as degrees below zero, in rain
and in snow, which in one case forced
them TO shovel a path through drifts
almost as high as the trucks them
selves.
The test Of the carrying qualities of
the trucks has proved satisfactory. In
every way they proved themselves de-
cidedly worth while, according 10 Cap
tain +. b. Butchers, of the Engineers,
and II. c. Osterman, civilian represen-
tatiye of the Highway Transport Com
mission Of the Council of National
Defence, who travelled with the column
as observers.
The trucks left Detroit on December
Il. and. allowing for three days and
half during which they did not travel,
they made an average of about fifty
miles a day, which is considered quite
satisfactory.
Captain Butchers left for Washing
ton Immediately to report on the trip.
He said that it demonstrated this coun-
try could move its automobile trucks
to the seabosrd for shipment If the
railroads were congested, and could
carry freight on those trucks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
McAdoo to Eliminate
All Unnecessary
Passenger Trains

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9s.-SlaShing
reductions in passenger trains, where
there is competition between roads, VIII
be one of the first steps in increasing
the efficiency of the railroads by d.
rector General McAdoo. While no def
mite action has been considered and
will not be until Mr. McAdoo has had
an opportunity 10 go over the situation
with the operating heads. IL was made
rather clear that where two passenger
trains leave one city for another on
competing lines at about the same
time one Of them will be eliminated.
There is no desire TO discourage pas
senger traffic, and there will be no
copying Of the British system in that
respect. No one will need passport
20 travel.
Mr.. McAdoo believes that travelling
promotes business and is good thing
for the country. Nevertheless. he does
not propose to give the passenger
travelling either on business or pleas
ure much more Of choice as 10 routes
than he will give the freight shipper.
One long train Of passenger coaches
can be hauled with as little dis
turbancc Of traffic conditions on n
road as a short one, and one long one,
IL can be safely predicted, will succeed
not two short ones, but in many in
stances three or four short ones, whore
there are competing lines.
Mr.. McAdCo emphasized to-day, as
was brought out in The Tribune this
morning, that he proposed no imme-
date policy of chopping of heads. For
the present there will be no disturb
ance Of railroad officials. no matter
how fancy their salaries may seem 20
some Later. many high priced Off
eials whose services will no longer be
required, may be relieved OF their
duties. This applies principally. how
ever. 10 men whose chief value to the
railroads was not operating ability. but
the ability TO obtain liberal credits,
which will no longer be needed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
Baker First Official
To Ride on u. S. Road
Secretary of War Bound for
New York Boards Train
He Communicated
lStdf Correspondence

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.-Seeretary
Of War Baker, VINO, acting for the
President. took over the railroads Of
the country to-day. was the first Cabl-
net Official TO ride on any o. the newly
government controlled carriers.
Secretary Baker left here az / O'Clock
to-day Tor New York 20 be presen. a.
the annual dinner Of the Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity, of which he formerly
was president.
The visit to New York, (: was stated
at the War Secretary's Office to-day,
was arranged before even the Secretary
knew that he was 10 be the instrumen.
through which the railroads OF the
country were 20 DC placed under gov
eminent control.
Frederick Keppel, one OF Secretary
Bakers assistants. declared that his
chief paid full fare for his passage TO
New York, despite the part he played
in taking over the railroad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
Former Drug Addict Tells Of
lover Top and Fadeaway" Cure
Jockey Peake Now in Revenue Service Declares No Dope
Fiend Ever Had Dreams He Was Millionaire
Calls Drink Habit Worse

ever try anything else?' asked At
torney Corbin. of the committee.
Everything" replied Peake. There
isn't anything in the line of dope !
haven't sampled. / began in 1901. Since
then, up to last July, | have been a
happy duster,' 'hootch shooter =
coke sniffer.' | have even eaten bella
donna plasters. As for drinking, have
used wood alcohol"
"And how did it make you feel 81
went on Mr.. Corbin. ever dream,
dream Of having a million dollars, for
Instance?"
"A million dollars" said Peake. 81
never even dreamed Of having a dime.
All dope ever hopes to do is to feeI
normal, and the first time he takes it
] mean those that get the habit from
others-he gets sick. It's like cigarette
smoking"
Peake declared that he was switched
on TO morphine through treatment
given him after he was thrown by a
horse. lie underwent the treatment for
some time, he said, and then one day
in the jockey room he stretched and
yawned Another jockey saw him.
Jaw he said, "'you are a hophead,
too. Here, take my needle and take a
shot
"And," P,ake went on, 81 took the
needle, and for years after that | took
from five TO fifteen grains a day."
Coming down to the subject of
cure, Peake declared he tried 10 cure
himself, but failed. All addicts, he as
serted, wanted to be cured. That was
another idea created by previous testi-
mony which he demolished. They
want TO be cured as much as anybody
afflicted by any other kind of disease
wants to be cured" he said.
"And so last April" he continued,
"Mr. Keefe, of the Internal Revenue
Service, asked me if | didn't want a
chance. Sure said. So | became a
narcotic Inspector. Last July Mr.. Keefe
sent me to certain doctor here. tie
said he would take charge of my case
if Mr.. Keefe wanted him TO. | had cut
down to five grains Of morphine a day
then.
"The doctor said that was not enough,
and when ! went TO the Polytechnic Hes
pital he gave me more. | felt fine,
going out and playing pool every day
and going back to get shot and TO
eat or 20 sleep.
Over the Top
Finally. on a Monday last October
the doctor said, Joe. tomorrow you're
going over the top"
What did he mean by that" inter
rupted the committee attorney.
THE final jolt" replied Peake. 81
don't know what it was, but ! call il
the fade-away. / just faded away and
when ! came to ! was fine and all right.
Have you been back on the drug
since"
"Not at ALL was the answer.
Senator Whitney adjourned the com
mittee subject 20 call in about two
weeks. after receiving report from a
committee of the American Medical
Association urging the Medical Society
OF the County of New York 20 make
public the findings Of its narcotic conf
mittee. and 70 take steps 20 procure
action on the part Of medical practi-
TONERS in concerted movement to
abate the Illicit drug evil and check
quack cures.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
News in Brief

Joseph v. Pugh and Charles Z. Grey wers
sentenced 20 serve one year each IN tns g.
eral prison at Atlanta by Federal ptstnss
Court Judge Hand They were found suns
OF having used the mails 70 defraud IN coz.
nection with the selling OF stock IN INV
GraRdluud Motors Company.
Supreme Court Justice Mullan denied tne
application OF Leon Samson for an ORDER o..
recting the trustees of Columbia UniYersW
10 reinstate him a. a member OF the unoe..
graduate body. Samson was expelled ire"
the university following a public address ..
delivered in which he attacked PFes'den'
Wilson.
Vincent Phillips, fourteen, OF IS Fairses
Avenue, Silver Lake Heights, staten island
and George Coulter. fourteen. OF 5s Fsiryie-
Avenue. were badly hurt while eoasunt
down Silver Lake Hill. The lads were rioins
on A patent steering coaster. The storms
gear failed 20 work and they crashed in,o
telegraph pole at the foot Of the hill b"''
are in Staten Island Hospital
Fire did $4,000 damage 10 the bnilcint
az 1888 Pearl Street. occupied by the Ne"
York Consolidated Drug Company.
The twelfth annual meeting OF the AMER,
can Society OF Church History viii Dc nes
at the Union Theological Seminary. broso'
way and 10th Street, on Monday.
NEWARK. n. JOHN Ernest Bach esie.
brated his i03d birthday by receiving visitors
and friends At his home. So Mapc. Avenue
all day. lie has no living descendants.
The will Of Mrs. Sarah ". Stiassny. She
committed suicide ~ her home. 20 IVES
Ninety-eighth Street. has been admitted
probate b. Surrogate Cohalan. The instn-
ment disposes Of an estate valued al ir0.
Sl00. 900 TO S2J0,000. most OF which goes "
Richard Epstein a nephew. Other RELATIVES
threatened contest at one time.
The New York Bible Society announces
that IL had presented 100000 Tes'amene "
men in the army or navy and that a seeoes
lot Of 100. 900 soon would be ready for ais-
tribution Each volume contains niessak0
from Colonel Roosevelt and General Persnins'
DR. Edward r. Brush. Republican osnd,..
date. has been officially declared Mayo. .,
Mount Vernon by the Mestchester bosrd
Supervisors. The present Mayor. Edwin '"
Fiske, claimed election. but the soldier W.
changed the result and seated Or. BRUSH T"
seven votes.
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS. N. J.-tiEn
families were rendered homeless oy -
which destroyed five frame buildings,
loss IS estimated at 100000. The hre o'f'''
five hours.
NEWARK. y. John H. Vsnderesn
ffty-three, OF 4s9 Warren Street. eommn''
uieide by shooting himself he lesso
widow aud i've children. According 70 y.
widow, he often had declared there NJ
suicide faint In his family. and sooner ~
later he would have 10 DO - others " W
family had done.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
Speed Coal Shipping,
Is Garheld's Plea
"Put a War Punch Into Car
Movements" His APP
peal Reads

WASHINGTON. Dec. %. Appeals
TO railroads, shippers and consignees
70 speed up the transportation and
unloading of coal cars were sent out
to-day BY the Fuel Administration
through the State Fuel Administra-
tors.
put war punch into car move
ments,' was urged on all persons
handling coal cars. They were asked
to work nights. Sundays and holidays
if necessary, but TO leave no cars
unloaded at the close of the day. II
was suggested that a gain of 10 per
cent might be accomplished in car
handling by following the administra-
TONS instructions.
Fuel Administrator Garfield to-day
telegraphed the Mayor of Altoona,
Penn, that nc would be liable to prose
cution if he interferred with the ad-
ministratior's handling Of the coal
situation by Selling fuel for the use
of Tyrone, Penn. At the same time.
William Potter, the Pennsylvania Fuel
Administrator, gave orders to relieve
the acute shortage at Altoona.
Authority to divert and redlstribute
coal in New England to meet the emer-
gency there was conferred to-day by
the fuel administration on James J.
Storrow, the New England Fuel Ad-
ministrator.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
What, Again? Court Asks
As Schneider Takes Oath

"What, AGAIN." asked Justice New
burger, of the Supreme Court, when
County Clerk William +. Schneider sp
peared before him yesterday 70 Dc
sworn in for another term. Mr. scnseI.
der holds the record for tenure OF tna1
Office. His third term OF four yes"
begins Tuesday.
Administration may come ana al.
ministrations may so, but yours keeps
right on" added Justice Newburger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
Fire in New Garbage Plant
Incendiaries Suspected in
100000 Blaze

Fire Of unknown origin did 100000
damage 10 the million dollar garbage
disposal plant at Lake Island. Staten
Island. yesterday afternoon. A rigid
investigation has been ordered By both
the Police and Fire departments, as
the opposition 10 the location OF the
plant has been so keen on Staten ISL
and that there is strong belief among
the officials that the fire may have
been caused by incendaries.
II took the combined fire forces of
the northern shore of the island more
than two hours TO subdue the flames.
Large quantities OF fat and oil in the
plant proved fine fuel for the flames
and made the task Of the fremen
doubly difficult
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
What Is Going On To-day

Frre admission - the Am-fira1 Museum Ct Natural
Hi.tp~J. tie Mefw9uiifsI Museum % AT the
NeE York Geological psrk. Van Cortland Park
Museum t.l- American Museum O, safety .nI
o.. Acgarum
Pou'lrJ sloE. Madison square Garden.
Last day q TIE soldiers ard sailors Chiifreu's
Christmas Carnival. Grand Central Palace.
Meeting q Tie American Association o. Teacher,
YORK. 10 A. M
Needing q the w0nen's Press Club q Neg York
Waldorf Astoria. ?. N.
Entertainment under the auspices " tie Little
Mg,llrfs' s0cisty for little mothers o. thu East
SIDE Webster HAl. . .. =.
DinleF % the Istsrrpegste henof1h Assocl 4il0n.
Dunsslul. Columbia tu.versify. . 20 . M
Bal under tie ausVlCes 81 the Zionist Council q
Greater Nes N0fs 6sth R~g mfut Armoy. Ter
inEon Avenue aid TFen'l -ffih strr-t ? M
Lecture ~ In Judah l.. Msglea ou Tie Jewish
Psopie-A Spiritual iofcr." hsforc this AInefi-
can Jewish Journalists. 1oaYsf Union. .. n.
Public address b. TncmAs huisou "DenpcrssJ
ard kducAiioa." 81 Last Llshu fourth sIsst.
slR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-29
Travelling Public Sees
No Difference on Day
u. S. Takes the Roads

After all. what happened when his
toric epoch started off at IL noon yes
,erday, and some 100000 miles of rail-
ways changed hands and $4,000 ,OOO,-
900 investment was turned over 10 a
new steward?
Trains ran yesterday as usual. The
same cars and engines. the same tram
men. the same stations, the same tick
cts and the same price thereof were
there as ever. Trains that had
been chronically late were just as
late as ever. The porter was as he
always has been. and the fagman an
nounced stations as indistinctly as
aforetime. Lower berths were just as
scarce as they always are for the late
conner. and the Pullman conductor had
the traditional overlooked berth IN his
sleeve for the right man.
No part OF the railway, animate or
inanimate, seemed 20 know that II had a
new master and that the average man
was "A component part of the boss. lie
found his journey just as commonplace
and Just as comfortable or uncomfort-
able as usual.
There wasn't a single phase of the
great event that movie camera man
could put on the iln'
In fact, the average man was dlsap-
pointed with himself. He couldn't super
induce any thrills. Three years OF
whopping big events have left him with
out any exciting reaction TO the latest
big event. The best he could do with
himself in the presence Of the most
momentous action ever taken by the
government with respect TO private in
terests, was to yawn as he settled down
in the plush seat and took up his paper
remarking. YEARLY: well, ] see the
government took over me railways to-
day"
Tomorrow he may orient himself
enough TO realize that he now has a
chance to abuse the government instead
of the railways. He has been doing
tn. latter for long time. That will
be about all the difference the change
will mean 10 him.