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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Negro Murderer
Of Schoolgirl
Burned at Stake
5000 See Memphis Lynch.
ing; Alleged Accom-
plice Freed

Memphis, May 22.-Before almost
three thousand persons Ell Persons.
negro murderer of Antoinette Rappal,
vas burned at the stake near the scene
of the crime at 9 o'clock to-day, after
being tortured The body was mutt
lated
Two negroes implicated in Persons's
dying statement were captured by a
posse of citizens few hours later. One
was released, and the other, deaf
mute, was ordered detained tempo
rarily, but in all likelihood he also will
be released tomorrow. Reputable
citizens vouched for the negroes and
verified their assertions that they were
not in the vicinity of the crime.
Mrs. Rappal. mother of the murdered
girl, identified Persons, and in a short
speech TO the mob urged it to burn the
negro. declaring she wished him to
suffer all the fortunes he dealt TO his
victim. She refused, however, TO apply
when he was tied 10 the stake.
Persons was taken prisoner by the
posse at Potts Camp, Miss. and brought
10 this county. News of his capture
drew hundreds of wagons and automo-
biles crowded with people to the Macon
road bridge, where the lynching took
place. Throughout the night all roads
leading TO the state line had been pa
trolled 20 prevent any possible organ
ized effort TO rescue the negro.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Convention Is
Ireland's Chance,
Says Plunkett
Publicist Calls Gathering
of Factions First Really
Hopeful Sign

London, May 22-Sir Horace Plum
kett, the Irish publcist. who, without
identifying himself with either of the
political parties, has been a constant
worker for Irish betterment, expressed
TO The Associated Press to-day his
opinion that the convention proposed
by the government for the settlement
of the Irish problem will be accepted
by Irishmen as the first really hopeful
beginning of the end of that question.
at has taken many generations to
convince the English people that they
cannot govern Ireland" said Sir Hor-
ace, "but only few months to learn
that they cannot form a system of self
government for that country. Now
that these lessons have been learned, |
do not think it will take many weeks
or even days for lrishmen to realize
the great opportunity which has fallen
to them or the responsibility which it
involves. and as far as can gauge the
spirit underlying the somewhat con-
fused state of Irish thought caused by
the Kaleidoscope changes in British
policy. the convention will be accepted
as the first really hopeful beginning OF
the end Of the IRISH question. There
will be an overwhelming desire to make
II succeed.
at must. however. be remembered
that the more earnest the desire the
more thorough will be the work Of the
convention. and the longer IL sits be-
hind its closed doors the better will
be the prospect OF the final solution
Of what perhaps has been the most
battling problem in the worlds poll
ties. Mr.. Lloyd George may already be
congratulated"
THE Manchester Guardian" consid-
ers the Irish convention "the biggest
and most serious undertaking to which
Ireland has set her hand for genera
tons and one which must be prescott
ed with the vigor and insistence pro-
portionate 10 its moment" "The
Guardian" thinks the best hope for the
experiment is that the English parties
mean to stand aloof.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Aid Says Swami
Refused to Accuse
Judge Delehanty
Declined to Consider Sub
ornation of Perjury Charge,
.Tompkins Testihes

An indictment for subornation Of
perjury against Judge James A. Dele
hanty, formerly Of General Sessions,
was urged on District Attorney Swami
last January by Professor Leslie j.
Tompkins, of the New York University
Law School, now On assistant of the
District Attorney. Professor Tompkins
volunteered this testimony while WIT
ness yesterday for Mr.. Swami at the
latter's trial on charges brought by the
City Club and being heard before Com
missioner lngrsham.
"What did Mr.. Swami say asked
Chase Mcllen, of counsel for the City
Club.
"He said he wouldn't think Of IT for
minute" replied Professor Tompkns.
The witness said he based his belief
that Judge Delehanty ought to have
been indicted on what he had learned
from LAWYERS familiar with the labor
cases which Judge Delehanty, as As
sistant District Attorney under Charles
A. Perkins, had prepared for trial, and
also from what ne had read IN the
newspapers.
81 was surprisec that Judge Dele
hanty should bring charges agains'
District Attorney Swami. | don't thlnb
they should ever have been brought
and | resented it that = man OF Dele,
hanty's type should have been elevated
70 the bench" SAID Professor Temp
kins.
$50 you would have judge who had
been on the bench year indicted be-
cause he presumed to make charges
against District Attorney Swami"
asked Commissioner lngraham.
"Not at all. | believed that Judge
Delehanty had been unethical in respect
to these labor cases and | believe II
now" replied the witness.
Judge Swami had appointed Mr.
Delehanty to his staff just before Gov
ernor Whitman appointed him to the
General Sessions bench" said Professor
Tompkins. "As a Judge he was in a
position more than any other man on
the bench 20 cooperate with the Dis
trict Attorney to expedite business. In
nv opinion, by his bringing these
charges, he did just the opposite
thing"
$50 that" interrupted Mr.. Mellen
without knowing anything specific
against Judge Delehanty, you recon-
mended that man who stands high be-
fore the bench and bar of this county
be indicted?"
That's your statement. not mine,
snapped Professor Tompkins. 81 never
said Ne stood high Personally don't
think he does"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Lost Their Congress Hall
After Hotel Man Got T lis Glasses
ochner and His END the War" Movement Ousted from
Holland House When Rivers Became Able to Read
the Papers-New Quarters Found

: was a headline proclaiming "Paclfists
Prepare for Holland House Meet"
Mr.. Rivers rubbed his eyes. He
looked again. This time he threw the
paper on the floor and rushed to the
Office. There he confirmed the news.
The pacifists had engaged Suite 81 and
also the gold ballroom. "The First
American Conference for Democracy"
was TO be a huge success. Delegates
were coming from all parts of the
country.
"Not if | know it," murmured Mr..
Rivers.
He called Mr.. Lochner into his office:
Just what was said is not matter OF
record. But Mr.. Lochner was i'll in bed
yesterday, it was announced at his new
headquarters, now in the Hotel Earle.
The business end of arranging for
the conference was being conducted
yesterday at hurriedly obtained offices
in 2S9 Fifth Avenue. Several stenog-
raphers were busy there writing to the
prospective delegates that the assembly
place had been changed. but that the
big mass meeting at Madison Square
Garden on the night of May 81 would
be held as per schedule.
That has been made certain by a CON
tract. Five hundred out of town dele
gates are expected and ten thousand
persons are to be provided for.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
To-day's Programme in
The Sunday Revival

II a. m. 70 . p. m.-Tcn-cent luncheon
for business women. John Street Meth
odist Church. ~ John Street. Meetings
every half hour from II 80 until 40.
II a. m. TO 2 D. m.--Luncheon and meet
inRs for business women, Madison
Souarc Presbyterian Church. Madison
Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street.
~ noon-Open air and shop meetings A.
Harvard Steam Laundry. 5S3 Eleventh
Avenue: Eleventh Avenue and Forty.
third Street: Eleventh Avenue ana
Fifty-sixth Street: Fifteenth street, be-
tween Ninth and Tenth Avenues
Charlton and Washington Sreeu
Hermann. Aukam & Co. Staten ISL
and Staten Island Shipbuilding Com
pany: Port Richmond Shpbuilding
Company. Staten Island. and Alex. A.
Smith & Sons Company. fonkcrs.
1890 p. m.-Meeting for employees Of the
Champion Laundry, 356 West Fifty
fifth Street.
2 u. m.-Seryice in the Tabernacle. Broad
way and lssth Street. Sermon by Billy
Sunday.
s:30 D. m.-Meeting for bushes, women.
Brick Presbyterian Church. Fifth Ave
nue. and Thirty-seyenth Street
3 p. m.-Bible study class. on the Taber-
nscle choir platform.
3 p. m.-Meeting for girl pupils of the
Wsdleigh High School annexes. West
End Presbyterian Church. Amsterdam
Avenue and i05th Street.
8 80 p. m.-Boys' and girls meetings at
Beck Memorial Church. $50 Fast ls0th
Street, The Bronx; Woodstock Presby-
terrain Church. Prospect Avenue and
East l65th Street, The Bronx.
1880 o. m.-Service in the tabernacle.
Sermon by Billy Sunday.
D. m.-Bible study class, Woodstock
Presbyterian Church.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23

When Louis y. Lochner and his staf
of pacifists who had been organizing
"the First American Conference for
Democracy and Terms of Peace" sud
denly found themselves on Fifth Ave-
nue., after having been ousted from
Suite 81 OF the Holland House, Monday
night. they lamented bitterly that
John c. Rivers. the hotel manager, had
found his spectacles.
For more than ten days the pacitist
organization, backed by the Emergency
Peace Federation. had been placarding
the country with the news that the
conference was TO be held at the Hol-
land House, beginning next Wednes-
cay.
Literature and letter heads an
nounced that the headquarters Of the
"end-the-war" movement were located
in the Fifth Avenue hosiery.
But Mr.. Rivers didn't know about it..
His spectacles had been sent to the re-
pair shop and he couldn't read the
newspapers.
These facts developed yesterday.
On Monday Mr.. Rivers's spectacles
came back from the repair shop. Then
he began TO catch up with the news of
the day.
Almost the first thing that he saw
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Atlanta to Begin
Rebuilding Ruins
Within a Week
Plans Reconstruction Work
While Wreckage Is
Still Hot

Atlanta, May 22.-With relief work
under way and $4,000 subscribed for
immediate aid to sufferers from yes
terday's s3,5OO,0OO fire, plans were
made tonight to begin rebuilding the
burned section through northeastern
Atlanta within a week.
Electric lnemen went through the
devastated district to-day, cutting
away wires that might cndanger lives,
while the streetcar company began to
clear it's wires, and city wagons TO
move the rubbish from the streets.
Relief organizations were busy UNI
tangling the human maze. All during
the day families which had become sep
arated were brought together through
the aid of workers of the Red cross,
and their furniture was hauled away
from vacant lots and from sidewalks
around the fire lines.
Preparations had been made TO feed
5000 homeless. No more than that are
believed to need immediate relief. The
relief forces were so quickly organized
that the homeless were fed promptly
last night. and to-day meals awaited
them at the Auditorium Armory.
A hailstorm and heavy rain In the
afternoon caught much of the house.
hold effects still unsheltered and added
many thousands of dollars to the
losses.
The flames destroyed 1858 build,
ings, according to calculations of rea
estate and insurance men. Most of the
structures were residences, but seVera
apartment houses, churches and retai
stores were burned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
State Crop Acreage
Increased One.third
8,7O1,964 Acres Sowed u
Food Staples, Census
Shows

Farmers of New York State are g.
ing their "bit" to the best Oh nv.
ability against heavy odds. Iney =.
bending every effort to ineresss -,
nations food supply, and; osss 80
shortage of labor and seed, nsvs ~
SOL. 1854 acres under cultivation. Al.
This statement is contained ~ ~
preliminary report of the agrieu'y w.;
census undertaken BY the Ne~ 4,
State Food Supply Comriiss''' ~
Patriotic Agricultural Service ..,r
census has been conducted BY n.
farm bureau agents, specialisu VI -
State College Of Agriculture -
teachers in public schools. xw
The total area of land plsnws
crops is practically the same s
eight years ago. but there are I'd
no. 900 fewer acres Of grass. ~,
expected that the potato acreac
wear will be 3s2,S40, or 71,is
acres than in 1916. Allowing loo ~
els to an acre this will mean 4. ~,
crease over last year OF I,fzs'iVv sssr
els. Il is believed that the
acreage will show an increase !"
per cent over last year. ,..ss
The total acreage OF fruits, .si,,
potatoes. cabbage and other veke n
is one-third greater than u sr.
1909. There Is a falling OF IA ~,
because 10000 acres OF passure
now been turned into gardens. .,tr
crs. however. have 763,ooi TONS "
left over from last year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Bartlett to Search
Arctic Region for
Macmillan arty

Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who has
been travelling the polar regions for
many years on scientific expeditions,
will leave for his favorite haunts with
in a month or so in search of the
Croker Land expedition under the
command OF Donald B. Macmillan,
which has been exploring the Arctic
since 1918. Captain Bartlett will leave
St. Johns, Newfoundland, on July 5 in
the Neptune, of the Newfoundland seal i
ing fleet. He expects TO return TO civil
lization with all the members OF Mr.
MacMillan's party in about two months.
The Neptune, which is peculiarly
adapted for Arctic navigation, has been
chartered by the committee Of the
American Museum Of Natural History,
in charge OF the Croker Land expedi-
ton. The rental IS $4,000 a month.
An effort will be made 10 raise part OF
this money by popular subscription.
There are six scientists OF the Mac
MILAN party still In the Far North.
The latest news from the party reached
New York City about two years ago
Mr.. Macmillan and his associates were
at that time in the best of health. Be-
sides Mr.. Macmillan, the party consists
Of DR.. Elmer Ekblaw, of Illinois; Cap
tain George c. Conner, +. d. Hovey, DR.
J. Harrison Hunt and J. c. Small.
The Neptune will be the third ship 10
search for Mcmillan. The other YES.
sells were the George B. Cluett, which
returned after an Intellectual attempt
and the Denmark, which has not been
heard of since last summer, when she
was sighted in Melville Bay. The Nep-
tune is square-rigger of 465 tons
with ll0-horsepower. She was built in
1873 Of British oak sheathed with iron
bark and greenheart. The greenheart
sheath is four inches in thickness over
four inches of oak and an inside lining
OF three inches. The space between the
inner and outer layers and the timblrs
of the ship is packed with rock salt.
The bow also is reinforced by a heavy
sheathing OF iron plates and is packed
with deadwood. The Neptune is 100
feet in length and 20 feet beam.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Raise in Fares
Frowned Upon
By Aldermen
Want Thorough Public In
vestigation of Street
Railway Conditions

The Board Of Aldermen went on rec
ord yesterday as opposed to the author
ization by the Public Service Commits
sion of any increase of fares on the
surface lines.
Frank l. Bowling, president Of the
board. offered "A resolution protesting
against any increase until all the COM
panies had been thoroughly investl-
gated and all the facts in connection
with them made public. The resolution
passed by heavy majority. Nearly
every alderman during the discussion
attacked New York's transportation
companies The general complaint was
that a ride on any Of the lines under
present service conditions was hardly
worth a nickel.
President Downing pointed out in his
resolution that the increase IN fares
and transfer charges was asked only
for the surface lines, which are usec
principally for short distances, while
the subway and elevated lines. the con
struction of which cost many time:
more than the surface roads, would
carry passengers for long distances for
the regulation five-cent fare.
Bowling Fights Increase
In a long speech President Bowling
told the aldermen that the annual re-
ports of the operating companies
showed that Of the five-cent fares col
lected. seven of every ten passengers
did not receive transfers. and that OF
the New York City Railway lines only
80 per cent of all passengers for the
year ended July last received trans
fers. and only 2S per cent of passengers
received transfers last March. On the
Third Avenue line. he said, only II pei
cent OF all passengers received trans
fers for the year ended July last, anC
in March only Is per cent asked fol-
transfers.
"The bankruptcy which they declare
is threatening" said President Bowling
possibly refers 10 the payment of divi
bends on stock and bonds of these hold
ing corporations and on the leases o.
the various street railway lines in
Guided within the system. II woulC
certainly seem that before any author
ity is given these surface railroad line!
10 increase fares or charges for trans
fers that a thorough investigation O
the bond and stock issues of not only
the holding companies. but of the vari
Gus lines making up these several sys
tens, should be made by the Publ,
Service Commission"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Tarnow Reaches Holland
Austria's Envoy Says Visit to
u. S. Was Enjoyable

Rotterdam, May Count Tarnow-
ski Won Tarnow. whose Enthusiastically
10 Washington ended before it began,
has arrived here after an uneventful
voyage from the United States. He will
leave for Vienna on special train to-
morrow morning. At the same time
his fellow passenger, Admiral Paul Won
Hintze. dismissed German Minister TO
Picking. will entrain for Berlin.
No submarines were sighted by the
liner on which the German and Aus
trian diplomats travelled Count Tar
nowski declared that his visit TO the
United States had been most enjoyable.
Meme OF the party had any complaints
TO make IN regard 10 the examination
Of he ship by the British authorities
at Halifax. A prominent Austrian from
Chicago described the attitude Of the
British Officials as most courteous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Helmets Save Firemen

A ceiling fell on Captain Owen Daily
and other members of Fire Patrol 2
yesterday while they were spreading
tarpaulins on the second floor of a
burning building at ASP Broadway.
Their helmets saved them from injury.
The fire started about noon on the
third floor, occupied by Charles s.
Nathan, manufacturer Of Office furni-
ture. After fremen thought it was ex-
tingulshed it broke out again on the
fifth floor. Three alarms were sent in.
Surface cars were tied up on Broadway
from Houston Street to the Battery.
One hundred girls employed in the
building escaped. Damage was about
$4,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
News in Brief

The Rev. DR.. Howard Chandler Robbins.
rector of the Church of the Incarnation. has
been elected dean If the Cathedral Of st.
John the Divine.
During the last twelve months death has
claimed the mother. sister and brother OF
George Schech. sixty-eight. a retired baker.
He committed suicide yesterday in his home
37i Wallabout Street. Brooklyn. using a re-
volver he carried in the Franco russian
War.
Twenty-six Greenwich Village clubs will
parade on Saturday night 20 arouse the in
terest Of the VILLAGERS" in the Liberty Loan
and recruiting.
All Spanish American War veterans in the
Police Department will be excused from duty
on Sunday TO attend memorial services.
Ernest Durham. fourteen and colored. has
been sent 10 the New York Reformatory for
three months for having caused the death o.
a classnate by stabbing him in the side with
a chisel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
Fruit Vegetable F anime
Ended, Says Repo"

Washington. May 22.-High Pm
for fruits and vegetables eAnns .ssy
defended Oh the ground OF ~
shortage. in the opinion OF ths -
culture Department, which annVs ss .
to-day that shipment ngrres ~
shortage only in old potatoes
strawberries. ..iss<
Shipments of new potatoes. o s',sy
tomatoes. cabbage. lettuce ana ~
during the last week, SAID 20. ., =
nouncement, were at least eSss srs
those of a year ago. when price, 4
much lower. Twice as many ous.rls
new potatoes and tomatoes ana -
seven times as much lettuce - -
the corresponding week isst ~.
handled from the producing nssv =
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
FusionL Leaders Named;
Will Ask Mitchell to Run
Fusion Committee
Slate for City Ticket

The fentotiyo slate Of the Fusion
Committee of $50 includes the re-
nomination Of most Of the principal
cify officials. The slate not0 stands !:
For Mayor John Purroy Mitchell.
For Controller William A. Prender-
CAST.
For President Of the Board of Alder
men Robert Adamson.
For Borough President Of Brooklyn
Lewis II. Pounds.
For Borough President Of The Bronx
Douglas Mathewson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-23
What Is Going on To-Day

Free admission 10 the American Museum Of Naiu
raj History. metropolitan Museum u Ar Ne.
York Geological Park Van ,orilAndt PAfk
Museum. American Museum Of Safety and the
aquarium.
Meeting Of the Playground and Recreation Asso-
citation. Waldorf Astoria. p. m
Meeting ~ the Board ~ Education. hall ~ the
y m.
Meeting =, the Medoo I<ssl Society Of New York
wAldcrf Astoria D. u.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
READY FOR A
REFERENDUM
Electrical Workers Provoked at Treat
ment Received by Legislature and
Propose Radical Remedy.

Resentment at the lack of con-
sideration for their lives and limbs
given by the present Legislature is
being expressed in promises by cleo
trical workers all over the state to
refer to the people the measure
passed by the present Legislature
granting five years extension of time
for complying with the safety rules
for overhead construction passed by
the 1913 Legislature, which had al
ready allowed five years for the nee
essary changes. The law requires
proper spacing of wires on power
transmission poles to allow linemen
to work with less danger than at
present, and is safety measure of
the utmost importance to those work
ers.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
NORTHDAkOTAIS
AGAINST WAR
Senate Joins in Stand for Peace
Then Changes, and Re-
considers Action

BISMARCK, N. D.--A big stir
stir was created in the senate when
the house passed an anti-war resolu-
ton and sent it over to the senate
for concurrence. The senate passed
it and then repented and reconsidered
the vote and sent the resolution to the
committee on Judiciary. In the re-
consideration all league members
voted not to reconsider.
The resolution after protesting
against war goes on to state that in
case war becomes inevitable, to seize
al the property useful and necessary
70 the government in carrying on the
war, to be used during the war with
out compensation and to be surrend-
cred after the war to the owners, such
property to include factories, ship
yards, munition plants, armor plate
mills -four mills, arms factories, sup
plies and equipment, cloth factories
and such other property and money
as the government may require, to
the end that all our citizens, regard
less of social position, or economic
advantage, shall contribute equally to
ne COMMON need.