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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
No Paralysis Epidemic
This Year, Says Report
Only II Cases Found. Against
1900 Last Year

No epidemic Of infantle paralysis
will terrorize New York this year, ac-
cording to a statement issued by the
Department of Health yesterday. Only
seventy-seven cases have been reported
to the officials since January /, whereas
in the first seven months Of 1916 1900
cases were on record.
Less than one-third Of the possible
poliomyelitis cases this year were real
cases of the disease. Commissioner
Emerson says physicians are more
closely watching for the appearance of
the disease than ever before. They re-
port every suspicion, no matter how
slight, which makes it unlikely that any
considerable number of cases will
escape detection and supervision.
Most Of the cases reported under the
name Of infantile paralysis this year
were meningitis. The department is in
sisting that every suspected case be
cared for at a hospital unless perfect
isolation can be secured at home.
Last week the city had the lowest
death rate of any week in its history,
Commissioner Emerson said. The death
rate among babies less than one year
old in the period from January / to
date was IS for each 1000 births, and
the rate for the same period last year
was SO. Ten years ago the death rate
! for babies was double that number.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Heavy Thunderstorm
With Wind and RAIN
Sweeps City; dead
Staten Island Resorts Suffer;
$4,000 Damage at
Perth Amboy

The heaviest thunderstorm OF the
season swept over New York CITY iaS'
evening. While little actual damage
- nronertv was caused on Manhattan
Staten Island and suburban dis,ric's
oueered heavily from the combined
effects of lightning, wind and RAIN
For more than an hour the city was
dazzled by an electric display 'na'
flashed and blazed over the housetops.
Rain fell so heavily that awnings were
seaten down and streets were noooea
from gutter to gutter.
A. least one death was caused oy
the storm. William Kiley. address I'M
known who was fishing from motor
boat off Edgewater, n. j., when the
rain noured down over the Hudson
The craft was battered by the vino
and shipped much water. Kiley became
frightened, and, though his companion
william Grover, of e6 Spring street,
told him to sit still, stood up topped
overheard and was drowned. Inc oouS
has not been recovered.
The storm played particular havoc
with Staten Island. Washouts occurred
on all trolley lines. practically Tying
ND the whole transportation service
from 7 to 9 p. m. In many commu",
tiles electric light wires were ourheu
ont bv the lightning, and half OF the
Borough of Richmond went to bed last
night by candle and kerosene light.
Al Midland and South Beach more
than a hundred tents, where famiiieS
were spending the summer, were
knocked fat by the wind, and their in
bahitants driven, drenched, in search
of shelter.
Harry Alpers, fourteen years old, OF
900 Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn, was
swept from the pier at the foot Oh
Tvsen Street, New Brighton, by the
force of the gale and was dragged from
the water, unconscious, by Patrolman
Schleith.
About Perth Amboy, n. j., the storm
did more than $4,000 damage. The
steeple of the Old First Baptist Church,
recently sold to the Jewish Congrega-
ton. Bnei Zion, was hit by lightning
and destroyed.
Hastings -on-Hudson also suffered
heavily. Trees were blown down. cleo
trio light wires burned out, and deep
gullies washed in many of the roads.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Inside Alarms Aid Firemer
HELPED to Save Workers in 18
Plants in Year, Says Adamson

All the occupants Of eighteen factory
buildings which are equipped with in
terror fire alarms. and in which fires &C
Cured between March, 1916, and March,
1917, reached the street in safety, ac-
cording to a report yesterday by Fire
Commissioner Adamson. In most of
these cases the occupants were in the
street before the engines arrived. The
interior alarms facilitated sending
alarms to the Fire Department.
Commissioner Adamson said that on
October "a, 1916. lighted match fell
into a can of waste at the bottom Of an
elevator shaft in a building at 209-2i5
West Thirty-eighth Street. A workman
on the second floor used the interior
alarm system. which sounded in every
part Of the building. All persons were
in the street before the department ar
rived. The fire was extinguished by
the house brigade.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Mitchell to Renew
Acquaintance at
Plattsburg Camp
Will Visit Quarters Wednesday;
New Song Makes Hit
With Students
fBy Telegraph 10 The Trlbunel

Plattsburg, July 14.-Students OF
other years will greet a comrade next
Wednesday when Mayor Mitchell Will
inspect the camp and renew old asso-
Citations. With the Mayor will come
Captain Shut and General Rupp, OF
the Russian army, to gain ideas for the
establishment of a similar camp in
Russia. Captain Bjarustadt, of the
United States Army General staff, Will
accompany the party for the purpose
of making a study of methods here for
use in future American training camps
A new song made its appearance IN
camp to-day and tonight is being
PLAYED in all hotels and restaurants.
With the time of departure close at
hand the sentiment appeals to the men
and it bids fair to be adopted as a
marching song.
The words, by Rita Gould, are as fol-
lows:
Send me away with a smile. little girl;
Brush the tears from eyes brown.
It's all for the best. and I'm off with the rest
OF boys from my own home town.
Il may be forever that we part, little girl;
IL may be for only while;
And if fight dear, we must. in our Maker
we trust
So send me away with smile.
Lacking only forty men TO be at full
war strength the entire LIST Field Artll-
lery Regiment of the National Guard,
which includes four batteries from
New York, is under canvas tonight.
Thousands of spectators from the
town visited the encampment to-day
and listened to stories of the border
from men who, until six months ago,
were seeing service in Texas.
Eighteen men were discharged from
the camp to-day. among them being
eight New Workers. They are j. F..
Schneider, R. H. Richter, T. R. Ruben
stein, Everett w. King. j. S. Curtin,
F. S. Male and Harold W. Weber. The
last named was discharged so that he
might be assigned to the Signal Corps
at Monmouth Park, n. j. The others
were discharged for personal and off,
cial reasons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Anderson Galleries
J Opens New Home in Fall

The Arion clubhouse, at Park Ave
nue. and Fifty-ninth Street, recently
leased for long term of years by the
Anderson Galleries. Inc, from George
Ehret, owner of the property, is being
renovated and will be ready for occu-
pancy in November, according to a
statement issued yesterday by the An
derson company.
On the ground floor of the building
will be the Offices of the Anderson Gal
leries and the exhibition rooms for
rare books and autographs. One large
and several small galleries will be on
the second floor. The catalogue de-
partment will occupy basement floor.
In the subcellar will be vaults for art
objects
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Wife He Wed to Avoid
War Cuts His Throat
Says Husband Is Stacker, and
She Hopes He Will
Die
lBy TELEGRAPH % The Tribunsl

Chicago, July 14.-Because he mar
RED her to escape going to war, accord
ing to the story she told the police,
Mrs. Marie letters to-day beat her hus-
band, Conrad letters, on the head with
a hammer and cut his throat with a
razor while he slept. LETTERS is in the
West Suburban Hospital in a critical
condition.
81 wanted to kill him." said Mrs. JEFF
fers. "He's a Stacker. He married me
in April to escape going to war. I'll
not be sorry if he dies.
eve have been quarrelling ever since
we were married, We quarrelled be-
fore we went to bed Friday night. Both
Of us woke up about 5 o'clock and the
quarrel started again. He abused me
and threatened me, and drove me al
most mad. waited until he fell asleep
and then ! did It,"
According to marriage license records
the LETTERS were married April 3. 1t
was about this time that the rush Of
slackers for licenses was at its height
at the City Hall.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Model City Planned
To House Worke,. !,
Staten Island pl.s.
Community Kitchen, Do,,,;.
ries and All Improvem.r. w.
Included in Plan,

Some novel ideas in the bo,.,
industrial workers are to bs -: "
in a colony to be erected a. s W.
Island for the employees o, N. >, ..'''
600 disposal plant being bull, ~
Metropolitan By-Products Co. We
Whenever a housewife is too ,;..,
zoo busy TO get dinner for her ,.. Z"
and family she can appeas. thai,
tites at a big community ki,,.. 'pp''
she can send her husband a, W
the children for steaming ho, :. v
The meals will be sold at N. I.'
possible cost.
Usually in such colony ,iu,,.
have a hard time finding eon,,,..''
quarters. At the Staten Island 49,
there will be big dormitorv ).
commodate the single men.
The colony will be built By h.w
mar Lumber Company under corS;,;
prescribed by the Metropolis, 3
Products Company. The lumSs, y
pany has bought a tract of for,S ~. sos'
Of wooded land several hundred s 80
cast OF the new garbage plant 'sa
George c. Demeritt, treasure,
Weymar Lumber Company. said VI =. n
dav the colony would be v.,'. st
model city. The first group az haS,
ingg to be put Up will comprise w. go
FIVE fve-room cottages, eauipnsS 49, ~.
running water, electric Lights -, ~
heat, bath and modern toilet f,,s NJ
The Metropolitan By-Produe,. &c c.a
parry announced yesterday that w..
Henry W; KEEL and Controller I,V ~
Nolte of st. Louis visited the sart,s
such a plant built in St. Louis. ="
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Jews Celebrate Founding
of Zionist Movement

One thousand Jews passed resolu-
tons favoring the Basic programme of
Zionism at an observance of the thir-
teenth anniversary of the death of the
Zionist leader, Theodore Herzl, last
night at Cooper Union. The observ-
arce is an annual occasion conducted
by the Zionist Council of Greater New
York.
The Basic programme was drawn I'D
nineteen years ago at a Zionist con-
gress in Basic, Switzerland. by DR..
Herzl, who called the congress, and il
appeals for a home for Jews in Pales-
tine. New recruits are drawn TO the
movement at the Herzl anniversary
meetings. Morris Rothenberg, head of
the council, was chairman last night.
ard the speakers were DR.. Shmaria
Levine, former member of the Russian
numa and a member of the Interna-
tional Zionist Actions Committee; DR.
S. NJ. Melamed, vice-chairman of the
council; Judge Julian w. Mack. of Chi
cago, and Louis Lipsky, executive chair
man of the American Zionist Fedora
ton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
2 Held in $4,000 Robbery
Doorman at Rubenstein Home
and Brother Arrested

Charles Loebler, of 500 West 171st
Street. was arrested yesterday by de-
tectives of the Fourth Branch Bureau
charged with completely in the robbery
Of Mrs, Harry Rubenstein, who lay
bound and gagged in her apartment,
1876 West Seventy-ninth Street. last
Tuesday, while burglars stole $4,000
worth of jewelry.
Leobler when taken at his home, de-
MED that he knew anything about the
robbery. He has served as a doorman
in the Rubenstein apartment house for
several months.
William Loebler, his brother, was ar
rested in Asbury Park yesterday at the
request of New York detectives and
held for investigation. The police say
that there was letter from Charles in
his pocket, warning him TO say nothing
if the police questioned him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
No Japanese Troops
Will Go to Russia
Mikado to Build Six Destroy
ers to Aid in War on
GERMANY

Toxic, June 20 (by maiD.-Answer-
ing a question at a meeting Of the
Diet. Viscount Motono characterized as
untrue the report that Japan intended
to despatch troops TO Russia. He de-
clared that the rumor was pure in
vention, and that the government had
received no such proposal or request
from any Of the Allies.
Admiral Kato, Navy Minister. reply
ing to another question, said the dis
patch Of the japanese squadron to the
Mediterranean had been decided on
partly owing 20 the necessity OF pro-
tecting the japanese steamers, OF which
there are about sixty plying there at
present, and partly owing TO the re-
quest Of the British government
Owing to Japan's increased partici-
patton in TING naval war against Ger
many, the Navy Department will ask
credit OF $4,000, 900 for the immediate
construction Of six deStroycrs. They
will be 81 500 tons each and will be
built before April, 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Berkman Indicted
In Mooney Case
Grand Jury Charges Murder
in Connection with Bomb
Explosion

San Francisco, July 14.-Alexandcr
Berkman, anarchist, was indicted by
the county grand jury here last night
for murder in connection with bomb
explosion here last July which claimed
ten lives, it became known to-day.
Berkman is alleged to have taken part
in the conspiracy, which the state
charges eliminated in the explosion.
Mrs. Rena Mooney is on trial here for
one of the bomb murders, and her hus-
band, Thomas j. Mooney, and Warren
X. Billings are under sentence of death
and life Imprisonment. respectively, for
murder growing out Of the explosion.
Berkman,' who is now serving a term
of two years in the Federal prison, at
Atlanta, for conspiracy to defeat the
draft law, with the aid of Emma Gold
man, also sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment, published an anarchist
paper called "The Blast" in San Fran
cisco about the time of the explosion.
District Attorney Charles NJ. Fickert
said efforts will be made to bring Berk-
man here for trial before the expira-
ton Of his sentence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
International Officers of
Various Unions to
Decide
$500 Have Quit Work
Question of Calling Out Jer-
sey Workers To Be De-
cided Monday

The Marine Trades Council yesttr-
day put over to Monday the question
of calling strikes in several New Jer-
sey ship plants to enforce the demands
of the men for an increase OF htty
cents a day. At the same time the
nroposition that strikes be called IN all
plants controlled by the interests op.r-
ating yards from which the workers
have walked out or are on strike was
referred to international officers OF the
various unions.
In this move is contained the menace
of a nationwide strike, for the propo-
sition is directly aimed at the William
H. Todd interests, which control the
Robbins Dry Dock and Repair Com
pany, in Brooklyn. and other plants as
far west as Seattle. Indirectly, IL IS
aimed at the National Metal Trades
Association. which has been backing
the firms whose men are now out. 10
the extent of providing men to take
the places of some of the strikers
Situation Serious, Says Hunter
Henry c. Hunter, the local attorney
and secretary for the Metal Trades AS
ISOLATION, has been the spokesman for
the shipbuilders who have refused TO
grant the demands of the men, and has
directed their part of the fight. lie
was not in his Office yesterday, but was
quoted as saying that the situation
has become serious. Up to this time
he has maintained that the matter
would be easily disposed of by the
firms interested. :,
Rowland b. Mahany, the Federal
mediator who has been trying for a
year to adjust the relations between
the shipbuilders and their employees
and put in the last week endeavor'ng
to bring the two together, was In
Washington yesterday conferring with
the department :,
While here, Mr.. Mshany intimated
that a Federal investigation might be
necessary to develop the truth or
falsity of charges that some of the
larger firms were coercing smaller
firms not to deal with their men.
Questions Hunters Statement
He also asserted that no question of
union recognition was involved in the
dispute and challenged the accuracy Of
a statement credited to Mr.. Hunter
that the employers had always been
willing to meet their own men to dis
cuss wages and conditions Of employ
ment.
About $500 men are on strike in
fourteen yards and shops in this sec
ton. About $500 have received lie
increase without striking. OF the
men on strike large numbers have gone
to other places where shipbuilders are
in demand.
International officers of the various
unions in New York yesterday refused
to discuss the situation for publica.
ton beyond saying that it would end
only when the demands Of the men are
granted.
as it true that it is planned to carry
the strike into other New Jersey ports
and Connecticut" one of these wa.
asked yesterday.
"Ihe strike may extend as far as
Seattle" WAS the answer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Exiles Sleep on Beds for
First Time Since Driven
from Bisbee
u. S. in Charge Of Men
Will Return Home Only on
Condition That Troops
Accompany Them

Columbus, n. NJ, July l4.-Ihe
United States is host tonight to AT
zona's deported |. W. W. miners, mill
men and merchants who are encampeu
on the desert half way between Co.
lumbus and the Mexican border.
A small city of canvas has sprung
ND on the site Of the Mexican refuge
camps established by General Pershing'
and LAO men are sleeping on beds TO-
night for the first time since Wednes-
day when they were deported from
Bisbee. They came here early to-day
under escort of United States cavalry.
All afternoon the men have been
working in a blistering sun setting up
tents, digging pits for field kitchens
and hauling firewood.
Rations Issued TO the Men
Government rations were issued 70
the men for supper, consisting OF
canned beef canned tomatoes ana
bread. Tomorrow at breakfast they
will receive a ration of coffee, the hrst
they have had since leaving Blsoee.
shall. was in charge of the work OF
establishing the camp and organizing
the refugees into a regiment, composed
of battaliOns and companies.
The men are beginning TO consider
when they will be returned to Bisbee,
where some have families, homes or
business affairs. They are almost uni
versally agreed that they will be ready
to return to Bisbee when accompanied
by United States soldiers, and not be-
fore.
Army officers are ignorant as to what
the next move will be, and say they
have orders only to feed and care for
the wants of the men. The eXiles are
not being treated as prisoners, but are
being guarded by soldiers with side
arms, and no one is permitted to enter
the camp without pass.
The men believe the President will
order them sent back to their homes,
but there is no information in camp
upon which to base this supposition.
The men continue to complain about
having money and valuables taken from
them at Bisbee, but are unable TO give
names of any one who robbed them.
They also allege their wives were not
being permitted to draw money from
tHe DlsDtt OdHhSS Uub tulS IepOIb was
not confirmed.
Quietly Obey Orders
After the exiles had completed estab-
fishing camp they all went to the big
water tank in the camp and bathed
their blistered feet, washed their
clothes and then slept in the shade Of
the wedge tents. They obey orders
without comment and seem to have &C
eepted their lot for the present.
When the unshaved and unwashed
crowd marched up to the refuge camp
this afternoon they presented one Of
the strangest sights Columbus has
seen since Villas Mexican bandits
dashed into the town, on March 9, 1916
Many were without hats and wore
soiled handkerchiefs on their heads to
keep off the hot sun. Others limped
from blistered feet, while old men and
the physically unfit had difficulty in
marching the mile to the camp from
the railroad. One man tainted after
reaching the camp, and the hospital
tent was crowded with minor cases
during the afternoon, though no serious
illness has been discovered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
Fifth of Men Dropped
At Madison Barracks

Watertown, N. Y, July 14.-About 20
per cent of the men at the Madison
Barracks training camp for reserve of
fcers have been dropped for physical
disabilities and military inaptitude. OF
the remaining 1000 men at the camp
only 1000 will receive commissions, in
the opinion of Colonel W. R. Sample.
The physical tests are very rigid.
Some of the men are dropped, it is
stated, for the reason that they are
too young in appearance to secure
proper discipline from enlisted men.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
American Miners
Drive Foreigners
From Lead Belt
Herd 700 Laborers on
Trains Leaving St. Fran
co.'s County, Missouri

Flat River, Mo-, July 14.--About 700
foreign-born laborers were forced out
of the St. FRANCOIS County lead belt
to-day by American born miners, who
insisted that all the foreigners must
leave.
The Americans, armed with shotguns
and carrying American flags, rushed
the foreigners to the railway station
every time train came in. The Amer
leans fired into the air as they herded
the foreigners to the trains No one
has been seriously hurt Officials Of
the Western Federation of Miners said
the demonstrations were caused by
strangers sent into the district by the
|. w. w.
News that Missouri Guardsmen were
on the way to Flat River from St.
Louis did not become public until a
train bringing st. Louis newspapers
arrived a few minutes after 6 o'clock.
Members of the mob then discussed
whether the Guardsmen would attack
the American-born miners, who in
sisted that they were justified in ex-
polling the foreigners.
The refugees are puzzled and appar-
emily do not comprehend what it is
all about.
The Americans endeavored to get
miners of Bonnie Terre, Mo-, to organ
ize similarly and make the movement
against foreigners general. Tonight,
however, there was nothing to indicate
that workmen at Bonnie Terre were in
sympathy with the Flat River mall
contents.
Representative foreigners said they
had had no intimation of any i'll feel
ing against them and that they would
not have worked if they had considered
their presence in the mines was unde-
sirable. The trouble is attributed gen.
orally to the influx of foreigners who
have been attracted here by the higher
wages.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
2 Die Trying to Save Child
Father, Boarder and Girl Per.
ish in Tenement Fire

William Hoffman and Michael Clark
were burned TO death early yesterday
morning in vain effort TO rescue
Horman's ten-year-old daughter
Marion from flames which swept
through a FIVE story tenement at "a
Amsterdam Avenue. The Hoffmans
lived on the top floor. Clark boarded
with them. Mrs. Hoffman made her
escape after arousing the men and
bidding them bring Marion with them.
Mrs. Mary Lee, Of 1875 West End
Avenue, ran through the building
arousing the tenants. The fire started
under the 5tairs on the ground floor.
The Fire Marshal started an inysst!ga-
ton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
!. w. w. viii Be
Charged With Treason
If They Burn Crops

San Francisco. July 14.-"Any COM
bined effort by Industrial Workers Of
the World to destroy crops will amount
to conspiracy to commit treason" Cas-
per a. 0rnbaum. Assistant United
States District Attorney, said after ap-
peals for Federal aid to halt an al
legged ]. W. W. conspiracy TO destroy
crops had been received from Yolo,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-15
2 Drown in River Collision
Thrown Into Water When
LIGHTER Hits Standard Oil Boat

The steam lighter Valvoline, owned
by the Hudson River Lighterage Com,
psny, hit the Delivery, a Standard On
motorboat, yesterday afternoon in the
East River off Newtown Creek. Inc
five men on the Delivery were hung
into the water.
Harry A. Grace, of IA Front Street:
Long Island City, a superintendent OF
the Standard Oil Company, ana
George Weston, of 1855 First Street,
Long Island City, a foreman, were
drowned. The other three clutched
lines which were thrown from the deck
of the lighter and were hauled to
safety