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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Sailors Here Find
No Saloon Welcomes

Although none wore an albatross
pendant, the modern mariners from the
Brooklyn navy yard had fellow feel
ing last night for that ancient ancestor
who handled his crossbow SO reck-
lessly. The lights on Fulton Street, on
Washington Street and on Sands Street
twinkled the old invitation; May wine
signs were Haunted in their very faces;
the aroma OF hops and sawdust drifted
through the swinging doors. But there
was not drop to drink.
The civilian whose very advent
caused the luncheon counter man TO
count the herring, might put down his
nickel and drink his fill. but at sight
OF a pancake hat and blue blouse the
bartender withdrew into his she'll.
Sorry, nothing doing"
And the sailor was left with dry and
gaping mouth to consider the informa-
ton. By inquiry he discovered that
he could buy root beer, or ginger ale,
or sarsaparilla. but so long as he wore
his nations uniform he could not buy
a regular drink.
II. Snowden Marshall, United States
Attorney, had received notice earlier
in the day that the law prohibiting the
sale of intoxicants to members Of the
military forces of the country while IN
uniform. was already in effect and that
sailors were included.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Officials Contradict
BiUy's Theory That
Sin Causes Disease

Billy Sundays assertion in his ser
mon Wednesday night that diseases are
the result Of sin met with adverse crit
icism and contradiction yesterday by
Commissioner Haven Emerson and DIR.
Charles F. Bolduan. OF the Health De-
partment.
You've got TO carry your baby to the
grave this summer, perhaps, because
some cuss sinned and set the germs fly
ing around" was one of Sundays state
ments.
81, would be far from consoling 10 a
mother who has just lost child from
infantile paralysis" said Or. Bolduan'
director OF the Bureau OF Public Heath
Education. "to be told that the childs
death and her grief are due TO sin on
the part OF the child, its parents or
some one else"
lie declared that Sundays assertion
was based on medieval beliefs which
had long checked medical progress.
ANY statement that disease is due
to sin shows medieval conception OF
the mature Of diseases and how they
are spread" DR.. Bolduan added.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Leginska Names
Martha Hedman
In Divorce Suit
Pianiste, Suing Husband. Roy
Emerson Whittern, Com
poser. Accuses Actress

Miss Martha Hedman, leading woman
in THE Boomerang" and creator OF a
half dozen other roles. had new part
assigned to her yesterday BY Mrs.
Ethel Whittern, the pianiste. better
known by her stage name Of Nine. Lee
ginska, who named the actress in a d.
vorce suit brought against Roy Emer-
son Whittern.
Besides Miss Hedman, Nine. Le-
ginska alleges that several other wom-
en- have been guilty OF misconduct with
her husband. She does not identify
these BY name, however. Whittern. who
is a composer of international reputa-
ton, is living at present at 1899 Dear
born Street. Chicago, and will be
served by publication in his wife's suit.
The composer il we'll known in Lon
don. Berlin and Vienna, and has been
associated with Josef Hoffman, and
Leopold Godowsky. He is a native Of
Ohio. His wife is English. and Miss
Hedman Is a Scandinavian.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whittern were married
in 1907. and have one son, Cedric VII
lers Whittern, nine years old. Mrs.
Whittern made her first professional
appearance in England when only six
years old.
Miss Hedman likewise entered her
profession early. She was playing
Shaksspearian parts in Sweden when
only seventeen years old. She came to
this country several years ago. and has
since acted with John Drew, John
Mason and Sir George Alexander.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
To-day's Programme in
The Sunday Revival

II a. m to y. m.-Ten-cent luncheon
for business women. Brick Presbyterian
Church, Fifth Avenue and Thirty-sev-
cnth Street. Meetings every hall hour
from Il 80 until -.
- noon-Open air and shop meetings at
% Twelfth Avenue and fifty-hfth
Street. 90 Twelfth Street. between
Ninth and Tenth Avenues. CD Broome
Street between Centre and Lafayette
Streets, 90 Waring Hat Company.
Yonkers, 90 American Linoleum Com
pany. Staten Island. 90 Proctor q
Gamble Manufacturing Company. Stat
en- Island. ca j. b King 4 Co, Stat
on Island. and 90 Methodist Book
Concern. 80 Fifth Avenue.
IL noon to p. m.-Business mems meet
ing, John Street Methodist Church. "A
John Street.
~ 80 p. m.-Meeting for employees of COL
gate & Co. Jersey City.
IL noon and / :45 p. m.--Meeting for
Morris High School girls, Forest Ave-
nue. Congregational Church, at East
166th Street. The Bronx.
%. m.--Service in the Tabernacle. Broad
way and l6sth Street. Sermon by
Billy Sunday.
3 p. m.-Biblc study class, Tabernacle
choir platform.
3 y. m.-Miss Florence Kinney. of the
Sunday party. will speak at the Wash
ington Square Home for Friendless
Girls. . Vest Eighth Street.
$3.50 p. m.-Boys' and girls meeting.
West Farms Reformed Church. Fair
mount Place and Prospect Avenue, The
Bronx.
: 80 y. Service in the Tabernacle.
Sermon by Billy Sunday.
S p. m.--School teachers meeting. in Ho-
boken.
5 u. m.-Biblc study class. Broadway
Baptist Church. at l0ith Street.
s p. m.-Bible study class. Alexander
Avenue Baptist Church. at East l4lst
Street, The Bronx.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Reapportionment Faulty
Six Bronx Blocks Left Without
Aldermanic Representation

Since the bill providing for new
reapportionment Of the Aldermanic dis
tric.s throughout the city, passed By
the last Legislature, reached Mayor
Mitchell for his approval or veto j. has
been discovered that six city blocks in
The Bronx arc left entirely without
representation. Should the bill be ap-
proved IL would mean that several
thousand citizens Of The Bronx would
have no vote for aldermen az the next
election. The DISTINGUISHED blocks are
in the goth and 35th Aldermanic dis
trictr, three in each district.
It is believed the Mayor will be COM
pelled 20 veto the bill. Several reap
por,ionment bills have met the same
fate during recent years because OF
eleventh hour complications. The Al
dermanic district is now used as unit
for district leadership in the city by
the political parties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Army Rigidly
Enforces Rule
Against Liquor
Prescriptions Laid Down by
War Department Obeyed
to Letter

Washington, May 24.-Reports reach
ing the War Department indicate that
prohibition against the sale Of liquor
about military camps or to enlisted men
and officers in uniform, as laid down
in the War Army act. is being observed
rgidly. Even hotels and restaurants
have refused to serve liquor to guests
Of army officers wearing the uniform
on the ground that such a sale would
be to the officer and would make the
management liable TO a fine of not
more than $1,000 or not more than one
year in prison, or both, which the act
provides as penalty for violation.
The law forbids not only sale, but
even possession of liquor Of any kind
at military camps or clubs. A bill
applying similar restrictions TO the
navy is pending.
The prohibition section Of the War
Army bill provides:
That no person. corporation. part
nership or association shall sell, sup
ply, or have in his or it's possession
any intoxicating or spirituous liquor.
at any military station, cantonment
camp. fort, post. officers or enlisted
mems club, which is being used at the
time for military purposes under this
act.
at shall be unlawful TO sell any in
toXicating liquor, including beer. ale
or wine. to any officer or member Of
the military forces while in uniform.
except as herein provided"
The Secretary of War is empowered
to make regulations permitting the
sale and use Of intoxicating liquors for
medical purposes"
To cover any situation which may
develop. "the President Of the United
States is authorized 70 make such reg
, ulations governing the prohibition of
alcoholic liquors in or near military
camps and to officers and enlisted men
of the army as he may from time to
time deem necessary or advisable"
The President has established no
rules as yet under this author.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Want
Tenants to Share
Coal Increase
Harlem and Upper West
Side to Face Heavier
Rent Charges

Residents of the upper west and
upper east sides as we'll as those IN
many parts of Harlem face not only
higher rents this year, but also greater
discomforts. The scarcity of coal and
labor. owners Of apartments say, are
responsible for their demands for IN
creased rents. In many cases protests
on the part of tenants were met by a
prompt reduction or reversion to the
original rent.
That. it is thought, led to the other
measure which some landlords are
adopting to protect themselves against
a possible coal shortage. They are
simply going to give the tenant lease
in which the landlord is released IRON,
responsibility for furnishing neat ana
hot water unless such failure eNtehSs
over period of more than forty-eisn1
hours. when 10 per cent OF the per ulein
rent is to be deducted IN considera''o"
OF the lack of heat and not water.
There is another somewhat compleA
cause to be inserted in some leases
which apparently admits the landior1
TO partnership with the coal man and
permits the tenant to pay the PIPER
This clause is:
Further. il is mutually understood ana
agreed 10 that the rent herein specimen 70
nredicated upon the landlords ability 70 oo-
Tain coal at a price not exceeding 20 per
cont over the April, 1917, quotations OF so.oy
a ion for pea coal, S6.75 a ton for egg ana
broken coal. and 81 ton for stove ana nut
col and in the event that the Landlord 10
No, able TO buy coal except at price IN eh-
COS thereof. the tenant agrees TO pay TO the
landlord during such PERIOD OF tiihe a. ~,
price of coal is in excess OF the any
Stimulated above. his proportionate snare %
said excess amount which amount - W oe
calculated as follows: ,-..,;a,
The excess cost is to be fixed by deduetins
the amount which coal would cost AT us hish-
o., point las above specfed) from ,ne
amount actually paid out for eacn moh.h,y
neriod when steam is on and dividing saiu
excess cost equally between the tenants escn
rnonth which amount is then to be addeu
o. the monthly rent then next due De
deen,ed rent and be collectable as such;
The Upper Manhattan Property own
ers, Association and certain Washing
ton Heights agents, including CharieS
s Kohler, the Knapp & WATSON CO..
Mcdowell & Mcmahon, Norman Denzer,
tbe Nehring Co.. Nehring Bros. and
G. V. Schmidt, Jr., have adopted the
new form of lease.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25

than ANYTHING else. He is firmly con-
WINGED that another life waits LOT nun
beyond the chair, and he seems ANXIOUS
20 begin on it. w.,
The last day OF Arthur Warren
Yates life began at yesterda!
morning. After breakfast, he was re,
moved TO the cell at the further emu
of the death house, where the con
demned man always spends the few last
hours Of his existence. A little later
he had his hair trimmed for the cleo
trode. and was shaved and bathed.
He spent most of the day reading q
volume of Keats's poems. His Bloie
and two books on philosophy lay close
at hand. From his cell he could hear
tho drone Of the current in the room
nj the end of the corridor where the
oyocutioner was testing the chair. Even
this did not shake his absolute calm.
"He is the most amazing man ] ever
saw" Fred Dorner, the principal keep
er. said. ~
Has His Last Meal
Al 6 last night Waite had his last
meal-eggs. toast, tea and MIX ne
ate as eagerly as though ne expected
20 put in hard days work on inc
morrow.
Robert billiard, the actor. was one
Of those who came 10 Osslning 10 see
Waite die. Others were Or. lh0mas
Webster Edgar. OF New York; Nllliam
II. Lake. Of Columbia University; L. r.
Lansing. Henry {. Fleming ana d
Ward Toilette, former Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Of New York County
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Mayor Vetoes Bill
For "Rockaway City,
Believes Separate Covernneat
Plan Would Not Conserve
New York's Interests

Mayor Mitchell yesterday vetoed ne
legislative bill 10 incorporate 9 psHl@
OF the Borough Of Queens undef us
name of Rockaway City and 10 pfss,la'
separate local government u o.
memorandum disappearing the ssi'
ure the Mayor said:
1T is with regret that ! ieei GOV
strained to disapprove this bill, ma
much as / indicated to the propesss'
of this measure that would va
my objection 10 the separation :
Rockaway from the City OF Ne. len
provided that an entirely satlsise'M;
financial adjustment could be easa =
between the proposed new city ana =
City of New York. From the argus.
and facts submitted to me, ] an -
WINGED that it has been imposslee
provide. under this bill, for fins'.s
adjustment that would conserve y
fundamental interests Of the CIV
New York"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
News in Brief

Robert Bacon. Samuel Gompers. Congress
man Isaac Siegel. George Gordon Battle and
: Stanwood Menken will be among the
sneaker, a. a patriotic denomination under
the auspices OF the Harlem branch OF the
National Security League a. the New Star
Casino. Park Avenue and 10th Street. on
May 50.
The body OF four-year-old William Dema-
rest, of Paterson. ". j.. missing since Tues
day. was recovered from a reserve water
tank at the Bamford silk Mill there. The
child had fallen through hole in the roof
over the tank.
Rescued By policemen from a crowd an
gered By a TRADE launched against conscrip-
ton and Congress. Meyer ID. Grubard and
George Nesin were held in 81 900 bail by
Magistrate Worries. in the Williamsburg
court.
Frank Olson, Of jamestown. y. Y. has
been appointed superintendent OF industries
A. Sing Sing Prison. an office which pays q
salary larger than that OF the warden.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Order
Frees Officials
In Wiretap Case
Kingsbury and Hotchkiss
Acquitted at Direction
of Justice Kelby

John A. Kingsbury, Commissioner Of
Charities, and William II. Hotchkiss.
who was counsel to the Strong inves-
tigating committee, were acquitted OF
illegal wire tapping yesterday at the
direction of Justice Kelby, in the Su-
preme Court in Brooklyn.
The justice held that the police had
right TO tap wires TO get evidence.
His charge TO the jury was in response
10 a motion made by Martin W. Little
ton. counsel for the defence, at the end
Of the prosecutions case.
When the verdict had been returned
in accordance with mis- instructions,
Justice Kelby handed down memo
randum, in which he said that the po-
lice had the legal right to tap the
telephone wires of persons suspected
of crime, or the wires of innocent per
sons against whom there was not even
a suspicion if their wires were being
used by criminals. or suspected Grim
inals.
He said that the evidence showed
that Mr.. kingsbury and Mr.. Hotchkiss
reported to the Police Commissioner
that they suspected that certain crimes
had been committed or were being
committed by persons who were being
examined or had been examined by the
Strong committee. There was nothing
in the evidence, he said, to show that
the suspicious were not formed in good
faith.
at is what | expected said Mayor
Mitchell, when he heard of the outcome
of the case. "Of course we knew the
men were innocent; we knew how and
why the indictments were procured and
we knew this was the only possible
result"
Other charges of similar nature are
pending against Mr.. kingsbury and
Mr. Hotchkiss. Harry +. Lewis, Dis
trict Attorney of Kings County. init
mated yesterday that these would be
dismissed.
The two defendants were indicted on
the charge OF illegally tapping the tel
ephone of Dean Potter during last
years charities investigation. The in
dictments were weapons in fight be-
tween Commiss ioner Kingsbury and the
Rev. Father William B. Farrell and
others. The cause of the fight was
the Charities Commissioners effort 10
haze children who were public charges
placed in private families. Father
Farrel's party opposed the idea.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25

and see Il church steeple three blocks
away?
Express Train Like Worm
Some people say Jesus Christ
didn't know anything about the wire
less telegraph, electric light and sub
marinesl The poor fools. God made
the sun Of fire to warm the universe.
An express train speeding along on the
face Of the earth looks like a worm
crawling along to Him. Do you think
he's going to get excited over tiny
speck we call an electric Light"
81 hold that creation bespeaks a Gre
ator-a design. Designer. If evolu-
ton is used TO describe progress, !
agree with the word; if it is meant TO
signify development from one organ
ism to another, I'm against 1t. | don't
believe grass and flowers grew by
chemical force any more than book
on botany grew by chemical force.
Show me one instance when lower
form of life has developed into high
err? You can't do 1t.
"In a museum at Cairo there are ami
mails and flowers preserved. They
grew and lived over 1000 years ago;
yet there are the same animals and
flowers growing in the same place to-
day. Not changed whit. If you pre-
fer THE Origin of Species 10 Genesis
you're an infidel. Give evolution full
swing. and you'll have the worlds peni-
tentiaries. insane asylums and hospi-
tails OVERLOOKING as they never did,
He wound up with who's Who in
Christendom," mentioning famous as
tronomers, painters. poets and invent
ors, and concluding with statesmen
like Roosevelt, Bryan, Wilson and
Hughes"
The largest single delegation that
has visited the Tabernacle since the
campaign began was present yesterday.
when 1000 members OF the domestic
science department Of the Brooklyn
Union Gas Company heard Mr.. Sunday
There were 10000 present, and 5O2 hit
the trail"
The condition Of Mrs. Sunday, con-
valescing after an operation IN the
Audubon Sanitarium. was said TO be
consistently favorable
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Study the Insects
Before Criticising
God, Says Billy
Evangelist Entertains Audi
ence with Revelations of
Wonders of Nature

How can black COW eat green grass
and give white milk? No more unan-
swerable question ever was propounded
by nom Christians to believers in the
divine origin of the Bible, according TO
Billy Sunday.
The interrogation, hurled by the
evangelist at an audience of more than
$4,000 persons in the Tabernacle last
night, was only one Of the Nuts for
Skeptics to Crack" served UP from the
pine board pulpit with vehemence and
defiance. How many eyes has fly?
How many legs? These were other
posers which made the big audience
scratch its head and help advance the
declaration that of the best Of the
worlds literature should be drawn on
they couldn't produce book that
would touch the hem of the Bible"
Study up on insects. You don Z
know a fly has 5000 eyes, the butterfly
74,S00, the silkworm moth $4,000 and
wings that vibrate $4,000 times a sec
ond," said Sunday. "Well, then. don't
find fault with Gods word when you
don't know bears about a fly"
The strains of six bands filled the
Tabernacle before Sunday began "serv-
ing up his nuts" Two musical groups
came with a delegation of 1000 Erie
Railroad employees. Others came with
an army of Salvationists. The New
York Edison Company, the Packard
Motor Company and the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company sent delega-
tlons.
Receive Sallies with Applause
They received Sundays sales with
applause and encouraged his defence
of the divinity Of the Scriptures. the
superiority of the Christian creed and
the literal truth of the Bible. At the
conclusion of the service 1,133 con-
verts went forward.
THE burden of proof that the Bible
is not Gods word, but that of man, is
on the unbeliever," began Sunday, "but
III ask him "A few questions. What ma
ton ever crumbled TO dust that was
guided by Christian principles? What
man or woman ever become loathsome
who was inspired by the Bible? If
the Bible was man made, with the
progress of the world we should be
able TO make a better, one now. But if
We culled the best OF the worlds lit
erature We should not be able to make
n book fl to touch the hem Of the gar
ment of the Bible.
people say they don't believe the
Bible because they don't understand it..
Most of them are too darned lazy TO
read il. Anyway, do you believe only
that which you can understand? Do
you understand how black COW can
eat green grass and give white milk.
Do you understand how fly can see
with 5000 eyes. each of which has 1000
prisms, and how professor can take
one OF those prisms, look through il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
BY BRICG,

Nothing stood more in the way OF
medical progress than the old notion
that disease was n punishment infict-
cd by the Divinity for sins committed
By men,"
"Io say that sickness is due to sin
is going rather further than | am
ready to CO." said Commissioner Emer-
son. "The causes of disease can be
called sin only if the sin is igno.
rance, to which. with bad habits OF
living, much sickness is due"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
DIR. Waite Dies in Chair;
Nerve Shattered at End
Letter Left by Waite
Puzzles Prison Heads

on May 10. Arthur Warren waite
gave a sealed envelope TO Or. Amos
q. Squires. the prison physician;
with instructions that IT be opened
only after his death. This IS what
il contained:
Call us with morning faces;
eager TO labor. eager to be happy.
Stevenson.
Prison officials say that "alte
before his death correspondeed with
a spiritualist in New YORK City'
Their only explanation of the quo
tation is that it may be a key to
identify him in his communica-
tions which he hopes 20 send back
from the spirit world
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
To Test Citizenship Cases

San Francisco, May 24.-Federal or
ders refusing citizenship 10 German
aliens will be tested in the United
States Supreme Court through the case
of Alfred Hertz, director OF the San
Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
Hertz, for thirteen years director OF
the orchestra of the Metropolitan OPP
era House in New York, to-day made
formal application here for final citi-
zenship. His attorneys announced they
would present arguments for the pur-
pose of completing record TO be taken
TO the highest court.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
What Is Going on TOBY

rr.. admiration 20 the American Nuse1s, y -
raj History. New YORK biological ~ 4
Cotlsndt Para Museum. ADsrisan
safety and the AQUARIUM ola -
Aston .. n u,s<, ~
MEETING OF the lo~a New iorksr.
30 .. IA. -. 4 =
Patriotic Celebration. under the ssp.~ III
Gresnsich Village Improvement soeir''
square. : 50 =. m. - "a
Meeting Of The Allied Board o. rs'r ~ c..
payers Association. Hans htI. ""
u,.,ins q, ,bs sosie,s q Chesaicsl Indgsr =,
FORD Hall. 50 Fact Fort, srst s'rssL ss.sssv
Rs,iew. parade and reception q the :. s;as
Cora 81 Cadets ard tls Hoo r.sZ. ~
for the bench, Of tho Amsfrsn hsn Nv"
Majestic. $50 r. m. usuGnD
Mes,ins n ths patric,ie Serv,>s League.
Hal Columbia IniWniy. esenhis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
B. & M. Cuts Train Serr'ss
Economies Effected to Mse
Wartime Conditions

Boston, May 24;--The B0 50 ~
Maine Railroad will reduce J. "
senger train service BY 20 per esa I'D
Ginning June 90, and will ehee, =: ~.
Economies Of operation 10 mees :.
zinc conditions, according 10 -
nouncement made to-day. ., .sss
THE reduction in service WIZ ~
sverv division Of the system eSeer, ~
White Mountain division. Comms.. ..
trains, however, will virtually F"
changed, il is said.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-25
Coney Island Boats to
Resume Service Sunday

Boat service to Coney Island will be
resumed on Sunday The boats of the
Iron Steamboat Company will maintain
n regular daily and Sunday schedule
between West l29th Street and Pier /.
North River. and Steeplechase Park
Pier. at Coney Island.
The Grand Republic, under the same
company's management. will make a
special trip up the Hudson on Decora-
ton Day and again on Sunday. June 3.
Regular service TO Rockaway Beach
will begin on Sunday, July /.