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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
8Oth Birthday Finds
Dynamite Johnny Fl
Gun-Runner Drinks "Confuson
to Kaiser at McAlpin
Celebration

Eighty years old, but dom go
pilot yet, an as ready for ssr'' "
the rest Of the bhoys. Here's s'''''
sion to the Kaiser's menu
And Dynamite Johnny" 0Brisr' "
buster and as daring a mariner q :"
ran a blockade. drained bis r''
called for another cigar and posed y
a picture of "the youngest oe'''
marian in America or anywhere 81
Thus it was yesterday that DYE
mite Johnny" who is known sS'
Captain Unafraid," or, more f0fn.'.
Captain John O'Brien, celeors'so
birthday IN one Of the giidsd a'. "
the Hotel McAlpin, while the ~
we're kept busy transferring srss,s
from the many South American w
lies he has helped set up. ,.,.>s.
The whole "shindy,' JACK e.ls.si,,.
chad been arranged for" BY ~
captains exploits with the dlss 's !,
laden yacht Rambler, which ne ~ ~,
Cuban revolutionists IN the h,s si.,l
of their revolt against Spanish 80 n.
his subsequent adventures IN M
muda, the Dauntless, the Ieursc.
the Commodore, all Of whien,
with the munitions Of reyolu.'. -, 7
piloted through Spanish danger ~"
TO Cuba. -, /. ts
Fifty guests" who knew n,m ,,-l.
dynamite days" listened 70 nls ..,.s
niscences and ministered to MS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Wilson Endorses
Maryland Suffrage
Says He Hopes Amendment
Will Pass the
Legislature


Baltimore, April 90 President Will
son has become an ally" Of the Mary
land suffragists in their tight for the
passage OF the Presidential suffrage
amendment at the coming special ses-
sion of the Legislature.
The announcement came IN letteI
to-day TO Mrs. Donald Hooker. presi-
dent of the Just Government League,
from Secretary Tumulty, who said he
had "been instructed by the President
10 write you that he hopes with all nis
heart that the suffrage bill will pass.
The letter is a reply to TIE efforts
made by Mrs. Hooker and otner local
suffragists, representing the Maryland
Woman Suffrage patty, to induce the
President to follow the example he set
when he wrote TO the President OF the
State Senate of Tennessee urging the
passage Of a similar measure as
"moral obligation"
Washington, April 20.-The Federal
woman suffrage constitutional amend
ment as a war measure was urged to-
day before the Senate Suffrage Com
mittee by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
president of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, and other
leaders of the movement.
Mrs. Gait argued that the defeat OF
suffrage in several states in recent
elections was definitely traceable 10
foreign votes. directed by INSCRIPTIONS
native born" The duty of Congress,
she urged, was TO prevent such things
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
In Irons, Flees Prison Van
Speeder, on Way to Court for
Sentence, Escapes

Harold Roth, his wrists double-ironed,
lcaped from a prison van yesterday
morning at Fourth Street and Minetta
Lane and vanished into the maze Of
Greenwich Village before the armed
guard at the rear of the van knew
What was wrong.
The prisoner was on his way from
Jefferson Market prison to the Traffic
Court, where he was to be sentenced
for Speeding. He was the only prisoner
destined for that court, and as the
others filed the van TO capacity he was
permitted TO ride beside the driver
after two pairs of handouts had been
locked on his wrists.
Magistrate House, before whom he
was convicted OF Wednesday, had re-
manded Roth TO Jail before sentencing
him to try to ascertain the reason for
his evident desire 10 be sentenced at
once. The magistrate had begun TO
put inquiries to him concerning his
past when Roth interrupted, saying:
please sentence me now and have it
over with"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Sundays Second Plea Leads
1000 Down Sawdust Trail
To-day's Programme in the Sunday Revival

1890 Meeng the W. j. Sloane warehouse
William Asher, director OF extension " WIZ
.,
D. mservice in with by Billy sunday
Mssrace SAKE director OF p
study, in Tabernacle
Tabernacle with sermon oy DIZZY
Billy Sundays Northern Avenue telephone 81 N
Los-2SSO. >,
Chairman Of the executive committee the William A. Sunday Erdngcs-
Association w. Speers 81 South Mountain AVe o
clair, NJ j.; telephone, MontcIau-I4I
broadway and 16Sh Street tcphone A"o"o
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
His German Name
Brings Starvation;
Faints in Court
Youth of 20, Unable to Get
Work, Is Assisted by
Justice Lehman
By BRIGGS

Unable to obtain employment be-
cause OF his German name, although
he is an American, and starved to the
point of exhaustion, Herman Ergen-
Finger, twenty years old, collapsed yes
terday in crowded courtroom of the
Supreme Court.
For three days the young man had
eaten little, and Thursday not morsel
of food passed his lips. In his weak
ened condition Ergenzinger went into
the courtroom where Justice Lehman
was sitting to rest. When he felt a
little stronger he arose to leave. He
toppled over with a groan, his head
striking bench.
Justice Lehman threw aside his silk
robe and hurried to the side Of the
stricken man. "Get a doctor!" he or
dered. The court attendants also
quickly brought some sandwiches and
hot milk from the lunch counter.
When the young man had regained
some of his strength, Justice Lehman,
by gentle questioning, induced him to
tell his story.
"The doctor says you really were
starving" said the justice, "and don't
think any one here doubts it. but
cannot well understand just how an
able-bodied young man can starve in
this city with workmen in great de-
mand, as they are at present"
81 have been out of work several
weeks" Ergenzinger explained weakly.
al can get nc, employment, and | feel
that my name is the cause. / am
American born. and my parents were
both born in this country, but my name
is German, so people won't give me
any work. For three days I had little
to eat. Yesterday | had nothing to
cat, and | came into the courtroom to
sit down and rest, where it was warm.
I had no idea | was so faint. ! was
too proud to beg"
Ergenzinger produced two letters Of
from former employ
ers. Besides relieving his immediate
needs with money, Justice Lehman had
Ergenzinger taken to his chambers,
where he gave him letter to a friend,
with the request that q job be given
the American young man with the Ger
man name.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21

This is, in part, the sermon Sunday
preached last night:
Imagine what would have been tho
feelings of the people Of Jerusalem
if Jesus had failed, as it had been
prophesied He would, to arise after
three days. think they would have
draped their pulpits in mourning and
nailed a black cross over the door Of
hope if the three days came and went
away and Jesus was still in the tom D..
But at the end of the third day, as
He said He would. He arose from the
grave and walked forth from the
grave a supreme conqueror from the
dark domain of death, and He lives
forever with the saints and reigns. and
am not worshipping q dead Jew IN
the tomb of Joseph of Aramathea, but
a living. reigning Christ, who sits at
the right hand of God, from whence
He will come to judge the living and
the dead. The hour is come.
II don't intend to confne my re-
marks to the historical facts, benefi-
cial as it would be, but ! 'would like
to draw a few lessons.
First, the hour is come to realize
that the church is not the end. The
church is the means to the end, and
if you think when you come into the
church that that is the end. God have
mercy on you and the church if you
are in it, You are not in the church
to keep a little space seventeen inches
square warm. but that church * in
the community and you are in that
church to make this community a bet
ter community. and overthrow the sin
that is in it. And if you do not, the
church is a fat failure.
"The hour is come; come for some
thing else. II has come for plainacss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Broker Saved from Mob
Mills Tore Down Flag, PATROL
man Asserts

John X. Mills, of 219 West Eighty
first Street, was held in $1,000 bail
yesterday in the West Side court for
further examination on charge OF
Decorating the flag. Patrolman Ber-
ger, who rescued him from an angry
crowd in Columbus Circle, said that the
broker had attempted to pull down one
of the recruiting tents erected there
by "The New York American"
A crowd hustled him away, the pa
trolman said, but he returned few
minutes later with hammer he had
bought from a chauffeur for 90 cents
and ripped down the recruiting placard
and the flag. Berger said that he had
TO fight his way through the throng
TO get at his prisoner.
Mills's eyes were blackened and his
face WAS bruised He asked for an ad-
journment to get counsel. He IS a
commission broker on the curb and at
A Broad Street. where he has booth.
His associates were at a loss 10 ac-
count for his alleged conduct, as they
had regarded him as ultra-patriotie.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21

The Joints of the Tin Woodman Will
never creak again. "The Red Mill
may crumble and rust away in the land
of forgotten things, for it has swung
"Kid Conner" aloft on its whirlng
vanes for the last time. "Chin Chin
and "The Old Town" have passed for
ever, and there is less laughter to-day
in a world that needs clean foolish
happiness. David Craig Montgomery
"Dave," the short half of Montgomery
and Stone-is dead.
His body lies in Chicago hospital,
where he had been i'll for more than
month. His soul has passed to. the
place set aside for those who have
made the world merrier in their lives
and a little sadder in their deaths. A
million hearts that sorrow for the
laughter he once brought to them IS
the legacy left by Dave Montgomery.
There will be dirges sung in his
memory, but other music will sound IN
the minds of those who have watched
the sturdy, active little figure across
the footlights' glare.
at was the good ship Cuspidor that
sailed for Baffin's Bay" There was
Russian General whose name was
nuropatkin; he had such awful whis-
kers that he never wore napkin.
"Good-a-bye, John, I'm a goin' away"
and Travel, travel little star" with
its wailing, long drawn "barber-shop"
chords-these are some of the requiems
that men and women are singing softly
for Dave Montgomery to-day.
Fourteen years ago Montgomery and
Stone finished their climb from medi-
cine to minstrel shows, from vaudeville
to pantomime, and came with "The
Wizard of Or" to New York, Stone as
the Scarecrow. "the little fellow" as
the Tin Woodman. Since then they
have been masters of the art of laugh.
making. artists in the spreading Of
clean mirth TO thousands upon thou
sands of children and parents who
became children again while they
watched and listened.
1t was as the Tin Woodman that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Italian Shoots Woman
Who Refuses to Elope
Spurned Lover Then Fatally
Wounds Himself with
Razor and Gun

Louis Pagano, twelve years old,
seized a patrolman by the arm last
night in East 1s3d Street.
Quick" he painted. my mother is
murdered"
The pstrolman glanced at the boy
and saw that blood was dripping from
a cash in his left hand.
Never mind that" cried Louis.
Hurry"
He led the patrolman to his home
at 461 East ls3d Street. His mother,
Mary, lay unconscious, shot through
the right eye and slashed across the
breast and face. Beside her sprawled
her brother-in-law, Gsetano Giordano,
Of 1859 Third Avenue. His throat was
cut and there was a bullet wound just
above his heart. Nearby lay a re-
volver and a razor.
Louis said that most Of the after
noon and early evening Giordano had
spent pleading with his mother 10
elope with him. She ordered him TO
leave the house.
At that, the boy said, Giordano drew
the blade Of his razor across the wom-
ans face, in true Sicilian style, crying:
This is the last time I'll ask you. I'm
going TO do away with you and my
self"
Louis said that he darted from his
place of concealment to protect his
mother, but was cut on the hand and
thrown aside. He said that Giordano
struck his mother down with a slash
ing blow with the razor and fired five
shots at her, only one taking effect.
Then he drew the razor across his own
throat As Louis ran down the stairs
he heard another shot.
Giordano and Mrs. Pagano were taken
10 Fordham Hospital. Their wounds
are believed to be mortal. Giordano is
charged with felonious assault and at
tempted suicide.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21

have had its effect in cutting down the
number of converts. On the first night,
in his appeal. Mr. Sunday asked only
that those who we're anxious TO 1--we
Christian lives shake his hand and tell
him so. Last nights plea was looked
upon as a request for those who fol
lowed him to agree to become workers
in some church.
As the marshals, who were thrown
about the rostrum, sent the everin-
creasing stream Of converts through
narrow lane before Billy Sunday, he
leaned forward and shook their hands,
whispered words of advice into their
ears, in the voice made husky by the
exertions of the evening, and kept the
throngs moving in accordance with the
programme.
ma" Sunday occupied her accustomed
place near him, smiling encouragement
TO the converts, but paying more atten-
ton to her husband, whose health is her
especial care. When the last Of the
|, 500 had been led to the centre section
now looked upon as trail hitters' cor
ner-the evangelist closed down the lit
tie trap door, resumed his place upon
the platform and offered up a brief
prayer for all the people Of New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Many Shipper,
Oppose Railvs,
Rate Incres..,
Commerce Commis.io, !.
Asked to Investiss,.
Proposed Raise
Called Tax on Indp.A
Price Boosting by Manu..
turers and Middlem.s
Is Feared
Called Tax on Indu,b.

Washington, April 2O.-Rs,,.....
tives OF shippers from ali av.s
country to-day gave the I,...
Commerce Commission their v;s..
garding the commissions tent,t-.
der permitting the railroads !, =
freight rate increases of Is M, -
effective June 1. Many Of tse -.
ers favored an advance Of som. =.
provided the railroads could prev,
necessary. Some advocated An ;-
date increase in rates on the s,.-.,
that II would be cheaper to IA,
increase than to suffer losse. n.
through lack Of transportation can.
ment, and others opposed sny ups,.
change, saying that no need for i !.
listed. The primary purpose Of 4
days hearing was to bring out for 4.
benefit of the commission shIp,,r
opinions regarding any general iuv,s
cation that may be held before a,
decision on the rate increase is rss,.,l
Western Hearings ASKED
A representative Of the West c,,r
Lumber Manufaeturers' Associates !.
sisted that there was no, emerr,,s
justifying the roads to increase IA.
rates, and asked that hearings BE- h.
in Oregon and Washington so the sr.
dealers could have an opportunity \
be heard. Not more equipment }.
more efficient operation OF TIA. M
in use was needed, he declared I'll
National Association of Paving Bro
Manufacturers asked that their prol,e
be eliminated from the proposed 70,
eral increase. The National Lesxu. u
Commission Merchants suggested la
any new rates adopted should be ten.
porary, while the National Grangs sr,
on record as opposed to any incre1u
Spokesman Of the Houston lIn)
Chamber of Commerce asked thst Ter
ritory affected in the Shreveport me-
case be eliminated if the eomminIv
should decide to grant the Is per ur
increase to the roads. They chsnsu.
lied the proposed increase as . n
upon industry. They also asked that
assurances be given that the msnufae:-
urers and middlemen would not hocsI
the prices of commodities from 50 10 \
per cent il rate increases were allowed
Southern Rates Now High
On behalf Of the Memphis Merthsrh
Association it was stated that the rate
in Southern territory now were hst
but that the organization would NJ
oppose an increase if the roads ecss
prove their need.
Frank Lyon, representing xvsn
groups of shippers, said in his orin'i
some railroads needed more reysrs
while others did not, and that there Va
no need of permitting increases q
roads to which they were not essents
The whole matter, this witness assert
ed, was one of broad general public r,l-
icy which should be settled By Co..
gress and not by the commission.
Representatives of several conre''
cial and shippers associations rsssst
ed a complete investigation befo' ~
action was taken.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Many Sermons Are Too Pretty,
Says Billy, Declaring Hour Has Come

Of speech on the part Of the preacher
If you have anything to antagonlze
out with it; specify sins and sinners.
You can always count on decent
public to right wrong. and any pub
lie that won't right wrong is a good
one TO get out Of.
"Too much of the preaching Of to-
day is too nice, too pretty, too dainty;
it does not kill Too many sermons
are Just given for literary excellence
Of the production. They get a new
adjective or noun or pronoun-- you
cannot be saved by grammar A
little bit of grammar is all right, but
don't be big fool and sit around and
criticise because the preacher gets a
word wrong. If you do that your head
is filled with buck oysters and saw
dust, if that is all you can see in it.
Truth Will Convict
81 repeat that anybody who is de-
cent, or wants to be decent, will ad-
mire you when you preach the truth,
although you riddle them when you do
It. The hour is come, my friend. The
hour is come TO believe in revival.
Some people do not believe in revi-
walls; neither does the devil, so you
are like your daddy.
81 am in favor of everything the
devil is against, and ! am against
everything the devil is in favor Of
the dance, the booze, the brewery, my
friends who have cards in their
homes. | am against everything that
the devil is in favor Of, and ! favor
everything the devil is against, no
matter what it is.
"If you know which side the devil
is on. put me down on the other side
any time. If you haven't got religion
enough to believe in revivals, get
down on your knees and pray until
you get it, or get out of the church! -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Pleads for Hammer'ss''
Referee Asks Oscars w
charge from Bankruptcy

A recommendation has been n, os,.
Stanley W. Dexter. referee, tns hs,b.
Hammerstein be discharged ile" 0s.sf
ruptcy on the ground ns' Al ~
couldn't be expected 70 90 soe;s
things he does and keep his oxs ONE. =
too. The specifications ss .ax ces
were filed by odette lie fon.es ~ w.
dert. an actress. who alleged ,.s .s n
Hammerstein did not keep p'sS
Mr.. Dexter held thststns .,srssry
bankrupt had done what was 8 ss Il. "
for men OF varied interests = ssfIe,s
had attorneys to supervise ?, d, .,ss j.
activities and bookkeepsrs |" sess =
accounts for each Of them. an, "
the accounts were in Lon . l.,s,. ssi -
been lost when Mr.: STsss.rs
elected from the Victoria NJ ssr
Always. the referee ssla' - josf
merstein had paid his b'lls W
he was able TO do i ana ,sssss
Reasonable precautions 20
correctness Of his accounts
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Strike Ends; Fish to Drop
Gloucester Men Sail To-day,
After Being Out Ten Weeks

Boston, April 20.-The Boston branch
Of the New England Coast Fishermen's
Union ratified to-day a compromise
reached yesterday by the Gloucester
branch and owners Of vessels to return
TO work after a strike of ten weeks.
Union officers announced that the big
fleet would quit Gloucester tomorrow,
expecting to bring in bountiful catch
to relieve the fish shortage and help
put down prices, which have advanced
to new records in this city.
The State Committee on Public
Safety appealed to the strikers and
owners to adjust their differences as
patriotic duty. The settlement pro-
vides that there shall be no more
strikes during the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21

seat in the middle of the house and all
but ran down the middle aisle toward
Sunday, who had lifted up the trap
door in his platform and was standing
on the steps in a little opening that
was constructed for just the purpose
to which he was putting it.
"I'm ready, Billy" said the man.
"I'm coming to you"
Sunday squeezed his hand whispered
something into his ear. 1t was only
moment later that all four aisles were
filed with men and women, who were
eager to follow. AS on the previous
night, the centre section of seats were
cleared and trail hitters were escorted
to them, where, after few minutes
chat with ministers of the churches for
which they expressed preference, their
names and addresses were taken and
they departed. In each case, however,
an appointment for a future talk be-
tween convert and worker was made.
Pledge More Exacting
The pledge exacted of trail hitters
last night was somewhat more exacting
than the broad one of Thursday, and
il was thought that this change might
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
House Warns Mail Truck
Drivers to Curb Speed

Magistrate House warned mail truck
drivers yesterday in the Traffic Court
that he did not consider them immune
from arrest and punishment for reck-
less driving. Russell Burns, who drove
a mail autotruck into wagon at Canal
Street and the Bowery on April ID was
fined So.
Decent people have a strong feeling
against the horrifying operation of
these trucks, which travel through the
streets like modern juggernauts," said
Magistrate House. "The drivers are
not connected with the United States
government, and private contractors
have no more rights than other in
dividuals. The drivers have a mistaken
idea about their rights"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Bernhard Is Improving
Receives Message from Queen
Mother of England

Sarah Bernhardt's condition, al
though still regarded as serious, showed
improvement yesterday. NINE Bern
hardt is steadily improving" was the
bulletin issued yesterday morning at
Mount Sinai Hospital.
The night bulletin stated that there
was no change. During the day she
received messages from Alexandra,
Queen Mother of England, Ambassador
Jussersnd, Edmond Rostand, Lillian
Russell and many others.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-21
Pictures on Cell Wall
Hide Prisoners Way Out

Mount Holly. \. j., April 20.-Gia-
como Iraca, convicted OF the murder
Of Henry Z. Rider, has for weeks
begged newspaper and magazine pict-
ures from his guards. They humored
his whim, and the walls of his cell
were plastered with the pictures he
cut out.
This morning there was a gaping
hole in his mural decorations. Iraca
was gone. In his weeks Of imprison.
ment he had scraped his way through
TIE brick cell wall 20 the corridor with
an iron spoon. screening his operations
with the pictures he pasted up. He
was reesptured on his way TO Phila-
delphia.