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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
WOMEN HE TRIES TO ROB
BATTER IL" PICKP0CKET
Passers-by Arrive Just in Time to Save
Him from Plucky Stenographers

Him from Plucky Stenographers
When a pickpocket at the Myrtle
Avenue station of the Brooklyn ele-
waited attempted to relieve stalwart
Miss Clarice Gunseth, of Is Goodwin
Place, Queens, of her Iurse last night
he made his first mistake. His second
and more grievous error was to hit
the young woman. Immediately there
after he began TO choke TO death.
Miss Gunseth is nineteen and strong.
Miss Adeline McGregor, her companion
and a fellow stenographer in the Will
bur Mercantile Exchange. at 229 Broad
way. is eighteen and equally brawny.
''He has my purse" screamed Miss
Gunseth, clutching the culprit.
"The horrid thing" Miss McGregor
sym pathized. Then the pickpocket nit
her friend. Miss Gunseth forgot her
purse and gave herself up TO throttling
her assailant. Her companion grabbed
the man from behind and tried to dis
locate his vertebre. The thief's face
had grown black by the time men on
the platform tore him away.
When detectives arrived they ar
rested Morris Bauman. OF SO Varet
Street They say he confessed 10 the
robbery. He hugged the detectives all
the way TO the Seventh Branch Bureau.
for his accusers walked just behind
him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31

a book on animal land. His ideas con-
tinued to expand, and his mother
sought to catch up with them again IN
the following December.
She got him: A toy camel for $50, q
toy lion for s15, goose for $780, q
bear for 1915, another donkey for 50,
a lamb for $3.50 and duck for 81.
In the course of time August, his
birthday month, came around and
found John Jacob disconsolate amid
the ruins of his donkeys and his lions
ami his camels. There was gift
pie for twenty guests. which cost slS,
and John Jacob got five rollomobiles at
SIS, three bears on wheels for S12,
five hoops for $40, seesaw for IS, a
soap bubble blower for 81, and a magic
fishpond and athletic slides for $40.
For few days he was almost as
happy as the urchins few blocks
east, who blew soap bubbles from a
clay pipe and had contractors saw
horse for a seeSaW.
One reason why John Jacob had to
exercise caution in his teetering is evil
dent from his tailor's bills. One of
them probably arrived about the time
he did. 1t was for a dress costing
s123.50, which was bought in June,
1912, two months before John Jacob
could protest A month later job lot
of clothes was bought for s102, and
before John Jacob knew whether he
was wearing blue bow under his chin
or pink one, his clothes had cost
S7S6.
Before he was five months old win
nm z
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
WOOLWORTH TO
BUILD STORE ON
FIFTH AVENUE
Five and Ten Cent Bazaar To Be
Opposite New York Public
Library

BY 1918 the two bored looking lions
that guard the New York Pubic
Library will be wearing a still more
scornful and supercilious expression
for they will be staring across the
hustle of Fifth Avenue, into the hve
and ten cent glories Of Woolwortn
store.
For the dime and nickel king is
going to invade Fifth Avenue, and has
chosen its busiest spot for his entry
the F. w. Woolworth Company leased
Yesterday the property at 463-469 Fifth
Avenue, directly opposite the library
and at East Fortieth Street. Inc
lease will run for forty years, and the
total rental will be S4,500.OOO.
NJ. e. i. Hess, who represented tne
Woolworth company in the deal, saio
Yesterday that it was the intention OF
their principal to erect a SIX STORY
building. The upper floors Will be used
for offices, the lower for a "hve ana
ten cent store de luxe
Men we'll versed in real estate values,
while marvelling at Woo lworth's temer-
ity in bringing one of his stores INTO
the exclusive shopping centre OF the
city. said, nevertheless, that they be-
lieved it would prove to be the most
valuable OF his long chain.
"Forty-second Street and Fifth Ave
nue. is the hub of the city's traffic one
explained. at is not only the wealthy
who will pass his store daily. Com
muters who use the Grand Central sta
ton and those who travel by the
Steinway tube will be attracted to the
store. and when the Hudson tubes are
brought north TO Forty-second Street
and Sixth Avenue even more possible
BUYERS will pass it each day."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
GIRL AT HONOLULU SAYS
SHE'S DOROTHY ARNOLD
Declared She Was Long-SOught
New Yorker. SteWardess Saws

Honolulu. Jan. 30.-A girl who had
called herself Dawn Moore and Dorothy
Arnold and who was arrested when she
arrived here from Hilo. three days ago,
on the steamer Great Northern and
held for investigation, was released to-
day and Immediately filed a libel of
$4,000 against the steamship company.
According TO the stewardess of the
steamer, the girl declared that she
was the Dorothy Arnold who dissp-
peared from New York. She was taken.
She said, 10 Shanghai by a married
man.
The police, however. said that there
was no resemblance between the girl
and the descriptions they have of sne
missing Dorothy Arnold. The girl her
self refuses 70 discuss the matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
BRITISH WOULD
LET WOMEN VOTE
IF 80 YEARS OLD
Report of Committee on Elec-
toral Reform Disappoints
Suffragists

London, Jan. 3O.-The report of the
Committee on Electoral Reform, issued
tonight, confirms the main features
of the forecasts published regarding
votes for women. II Will dlsappoint
the suffragists, as no definite agree
ment has been reached.
BY majority of the committee 1t
was decided that some measure OF wom-
an suffrage should be conferred. The
majority also were Of the opinion that
II Parliament passed such a measure
the franchise should be given 20 wom-
en- already entitled to vote at municipal
elections, but that such women should
NOT vote in Parliamentary elections
until they attained specified age
which the majority of the committee
thought should be between thirty ana
thirty-fve years.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, speaking Tor
the Woman's Suffrage Federation, SAID
she considered the report most unsst-
isfactory, adding:
"Women mature il anything earlier
than men. According TO the census a
majority of won en- between twenty and
twenty-fve years of age are earning
tbeir living. To exclude them from
tbe franchise is most unjust. We
want complete adult suffrage for both
men and women
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
MOTHER ACCUSED
OF KILLING SON
Finding of Paterson Boy
of Four in August Led
to Ripper" Scare

Mrs. Sarah Goldstein was arrested
yesterday in Paterson to plead to an
indictment charging her with the mur-
der of her four-year-old son, Max,
whose death on August ID last caused a
ripper" scare in the New Jersey city.
Prosecutor Dunn, who conducted the
investigation resulting in her arrest,
refused to divulge any of the evidence
against her.
"The case against her is complete" |"
he said. 81 can only say that a bit
OF bloodstained cloth was an impor-
tant clew"
Max, the Little Boy Blue" of the
neighborhood, was found with his
throat cut and his abdomen slashed at
the foot of the cellar stairs in his home
at 2l Hamburg Avenue. Beside him lay
a tin box, containing five marbles.
He had been missing for more than
tyenty-four hours, and the cellar of
the house had been visited by several
persons in the meantime. The theory
was then expressed by the police that
the boy had been held prisoner and
killed at leisure.
His mother appeared to be distracted
by grief. Her husband, Isidor, was a
victim of tuberculosis and had lost his
job in silk mill. Besides the funeral
expenses and the doctors bill for Isl
dor, somewhere she had to find the
money to keep life in her and their
two other children. Soon, also, there
would be 6 baby.
The child was born three months
ago, and went to the Passaic County
jail last night with Mrs. Goldstein.
In fact, her whole family went.
When Patrolman Thomas Jewett en-
tered the house at 101 North Third
Street, where they are now living,
lsidor dragged himself from his bed
on learning of his mission.
"You can't have her." he cried.
There is the baby and also the little
boy and the little girl. What shall we
do? ! am worthless"
Isidor and his little son and daugh-
ter trailed mournfully after the patrol
man and his prisoner. They sought in
vain to stay in the Jail. The baby could
stay, said the warden; in fact, it would
have TO. But there was no place for
Isidor or the other children. 1t was a
still more mournful pilgrimage that
they made back to the house on North
Third Street.
Nathan Rabinowitz, who announced
that he would appear as counsel for
Mrs. Goldstein. was instrumental in
raising a fund of 5000, which was of
fered last summer as a reward for the
arrest of the ripper"
John F. Webster, a plumber, whose
Goldsteins were living at the time OF
the murder, was arrested soon after it,
A neighbor said that she had seen him
coming. white-faced and nervous, from
the cellar, where the body was found
less than an hour later.
He cleared himself Of any suspicion
of guilt. but is still held. It was said
last night, under $4,000 bail, as a
material witness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
STEEL INCREASES
EXTRA DIVIDEND
Earnings for Quarter OF
SfO5, 1868, ,347 Far Above
Past Records

The United States Steel Corporation
broke all records during the last quar-
ter of 1916 by reporting yesterday net
earnings of $1o5,s6s,347. These were
larger than the previous high water
mark. established in the third quarter
of 1916, by s2O,151 ,2so, and were in ex-
cess of the full years net revenue for
1914, 1911, 1908 and 1904.
An extra dividend of ~ per cent
was declared on the common stock by
the directors at their quarterly meet
ing yesterday, in addition to the regu-
lar disbursement of IL per cent. For
the previous two quarters the extra
distribution amounted to l per cent.
The regular quarterly payment OF Ia
per cent on the preferred stock was
also declared.
Wall Street, in view of the exception
al showing of the Steel Corporation
last year, had hoped for larger distri-
button TO the junior shareholders. One
explanation offered for the conservat-
ism of the directors was that it was
their purpose to use surplus earnings
in retiring underlying bond issues.
The net earnings by months last
quarter we're: October, $35,177 ,3s2; No
vember, s36,44S,543; December, s34,-
347,4l1. Each month exceeded the pre-
vious high monthly record Of 30,420,-
1853 reached last September. In this
connection, however, it is recalled that
monthly earnings in the third quarter
of 1916 were on an ascending scale,
whereas December fell below the No
vember total.
The Steel Corporation last year
earned a surplus Of $246,412,31s for
the s5Os,3O2,500 common stock. This
is equal to s4S.5o share on that issue.
In 1915 s.e6 per cent was earned, and
in 1914 there was a deficit of $16,971,-
9s4 after paying the common dividend.
The most ever earned on the junior
shares prior to 1916 was 1928 per cent,
in 1910.
After all charges. including common
dividends. are paid there is final sur
plus for 1915 of 1901 1885, ,74s, based on
the figures in the four quarterly re-
ports. This means that in addition 70
paying common stock holders S875 a
share, there was added to the surplus
account approximately $40 a share.
Total net earnings for 1915, after
charging of the interest On the
bonds of subsidiary companies, were
1898, $685. ,0s6. This was more than
double the previous high record Of
Continued on page 3, column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
GERMANY TO DEMAND
INDEMNITY AND LANDS

Berlin. Jan. 30.--Count
Friedrich Won Westarp. the
Conservative leader in the
Reichstag. in a speech de-
Iivered in Dresden said the
rejection by the Entente
Powers Of the peace propos-
ais Of the Central Powers
had cancelled the terms of
the Central Powers for a
future peace.
Further sacrifices now
impending" said Count Won
Westarp. will call for quite
a different standard of in
IDENTITIES and resolutions.
For the protection of Ger
many there must De terH-
torial extensions east and
west and also in Belgium
for the covering of Ger
many's flank, especially with
a view to a future war with
England"
Above all. Count Won
Westarp said. Germany must
have war indemnities. Other
wise her soldiers would re-
turn home to meet tax bills
6vefold heavier than before
the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
John J. AStor, f, Needs
$75.27 a Day to Live
Mrs Dick Sets Childs Expenses at $4,000
Toys, Including Lions and Bubble Blow
ers, Required with Pillows at $50 Each

John Jacob Astor, four years old. has
been spending s75.27 a day.
That is what it has cost Mrs. Will
lam X. Dick, his mother, and widow
of Colonel John Jacob Astor, to keep
him clothed, fed and supplied with toys,
according to the complete accounting
Of her guardianship, which she filed
yesterday in the Surrogates' Court.
This accounting extends from Novem-
Der 13, 1912, to December 81. 1915.
The total cost of keeping the child
during that period was $S6,034.21.
His mother received from the estate
in that time s6O,36OO7 for his mainte-
nance.
Besides the taxes and other infantile
expenses which were listed in the ac-
counting she filed last April, when she
sought to convince the court that a
small boy just had to have more than
$4,000 a year, Mrs. Dick goes into de-
tails concerning clothes and toys in
the new accounting.
John Jacobs clothes cost $5,790, and
as he grew older he put away the toys
of his babyhood and demanded some
thing more mature and more expen-
sive. So in December, 1913, he got a
speaking book" fifteen disks for a
music box, three "roly-polies" and two
boxes of horns and balls.
Arrives at Go-Cart Stage
By the following June he had got to
the go-cart stage, which meant $50
more, and he also had to have pail,
a sand scoop and other beach toys, a
Mother Goose, donkey, railway and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
Germany HintsAnswer
Will Urge Wilson
to New Move
DOOMED TO FAIL,
LONDON BELIEVES
Allies Ready ito the Last
Button" for Spring
Onslaught

Washington, Jan. 30.-The Ger
man Embassy received information
to-day that the Berlin government
would issue a reply to President
Wilson's peace address to the Sen
ate, copy of which was handed to
the Foreign Office by the American
Embassy. Officials of the embassy
disclaimed any knowledge of the
tenor of the reply or the form in
which it would be delivered.
The coming of the communication
is awaited with great interest in all
quarters here, and there is much
speculation over the possibility OF
its furnishing the basis for another
peace move by the President.
A dispatch from Berlin to-day
said that Germany already had sent
to Washington an acknowledgment
of the receipt of the Presidents
speech. The Foreign Office, said
this message, was considering a
reply.
London, Jan. 31.-The German
according to a Rotter-
dam dispatch, intimate that Ger
many will acknowledge President
Wilson's speech in such a way as to
encourage the President to continue
his efforts in favor of peace.
According to the dispatch, Count
Won Bernstorff has been instructed
to say that Germany is ready to
formulate peace terms if asked to
do so by the Allies and if there is a
possibility Of peace negotiations be-
ing successfully undertaken. The
dispatch adds that Austria has sent
a similar communication to the Aus
trian Charge d'Affaires at Wash
ington and that it is believed Bull
garia will follow the example Of the
Teutonic powers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
GIRL LEAPS TO HER DEATH
UNDER TRAIN IN SUBWAY
Father at Morgue Identifies Body as
His Daughters

Men and women waiting for train
on the southbound platform of the l4sth
Street Lenox Avenue subway station
last night noticed the slim girl who
strobe impatiently back and forth. She
seemed unable TO keep still. they re-
membered afterward. but when a train
roared into the station most Of them
forgot her. Motorman Guy Freeland
and a few others saw her dive under
the wheels Of the foremost car.
It was some time before the body
could be removed. When il was finally
extricated it was taken to the morgue.
Her personal effects induced the police
TO call up Abraham Silverblatt. of 1855
Washington Avenue. The Bronx. At the
morgue he identified the body as that
of Rebecca, his daughter. She was
twenty-four years old and lived with
her parents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
SUFFRAGISTS IN WAR PLOT
Remarkable Conspiracy Causes Ar
ras, Of Three British Women and Man

London, Jan. 31.-"Three suffragettes
and a man, a conscientious obJector 70
military service, were arrested IueS,
day on a remarkable conspiracy charge
saws "The Daily Mail" to-day Inc
man and two OF the women were ar
rested at Derby and the third woman
a. Southampton. All OF them VIII De
srraigned to-day at DERBY ana tnelt
trial probably will attract the widest
public attention"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
RAIDER PATROL
OFF NEW YORK
British Admiralty Ad-
mits Warships Are
Guarding Liner Lane

The patrol of fast British cruisers
in the North Atlantic has converged be-
yond the three-mile limit outside OF
New York, British Admiralty official
said yesterday. This official stated that
he had received a wireless message
from the commander Of the feet at
Halifax informing him that the feet
would be off New York yesterday.
This maneuvre, the officer explained,
was an answer to his request, sent
Monday night to the feet, to protect
shipping lanes from any hostile subma-
rine or raider.
al don't know whether the raider
is off New York, and my request for
protection was only precautionary
measure, to allay fears of ocean trav-
eliers leaving this port that any dam
ger existed beyond the three-mils
limit" the officer said.
False Reports Alarm Many
MANY transatlantic voyagers have
become alarmed by various newspaper
accounts that submarines and raiders
are waiting especially for their ship,
on account of various interviews with
incoming captains.
"A captain will report that he saw
a vessel with one funne and two masts
on the horizon, immedis tefy altered his
course. and went at all possible speed
in the opposite direction. This descrip-
tion will fit nearly any tramp steamer,
and naturally means nothing. Another
captain probably will report that he,
too. saw a vessel on the horizon, and
Immediately altered his course and es-
capped by good luck"
"These two captains believe that two
raiders are present. when both are
honest merchantmen. The accounts
doubtless make interesting reading, but
in reality serve no purpose, other than
to alarm timd passengers. 1t is for
this reason that the squ adron will pa
troll particularly the routes converging
at New York"
Warships of Saniy Hook
Great interest was manifested along
the waterfront yesterday when reports
of the British squadron's presence
three miles outside Sandy Hook were
published. This is the first time since
the beginning of the war that the
British Admiralty has allowed the
whereabouts of any of Great Britain's
feet 20 be made known.
When asked if the squadron's pres
ence off New York did not simply mean
that it was on patrol duty between
Halifax and Bermuda, the Admiralty
officer replied: "No; this maneuvre is
different. II means that the squadron
will be little distance outside the neu-
tralty limit, keeping especial guard
over the shipping lanes entering the
port of New York"
The fact that portion of the British
fleet is watching New York, is an eff
fectual contradiction of the report that
the raider was sunk by the British
cruiser Glasgow 1870 miles off Para on
January 81, which never received Of
fetal confirmation.
Among the fast British cruisers
known to be hunting the raider are the
Essex, Suffolk, Glasgow, Lancaster, Ed
inburgh Castle, Cumberland and Drama,
but il is not known whether all of these
vessels are watching New York or not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
THE 'STAATS' USED TO TELL
BRITISH SOLDIER OF SUIT
Wife Here Seeks Divorce-Court Des-
ignates German-American Paper

George Herbert Gedge, who left New
York to join the British army, will not
know that Mrs. Adele Gedge is suing
him for divorce until he reads the
New Yorker Stats Zeitung."
This favorite newspaper Of Tommy
Atkins was yesterday designated by the
Supreme court to publish the summons,
.hus serving Gedge by publication, per-
sonal service being impossible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31

LOW RATE TICKETS WEST 4 SOUTH
WEST. Beautiful Mountain Scenery via
Chesapeake & Ohio R'vsy. 1928 Broadway.
-Advt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
Great Offensive Inevitable

Whatever he may say, there is no
expectation here that it will prevent
or delay the spring battles.
The grand spring offensive is now
considered inevitable-in fact. it IS
more likely that there will be two. The
Allies are ready "to the last button"
for the first time since the war began.
II is believed here, too. that however
desperate Germany's straits, she is far
from a state of economic exhaustion
which would mean the abandonment of
military operations or even prevent
their being launched on large scale.
Il is possible that Germany may not
have food to last till the next harvest.
though London has heard reports along
this line tco often to take new ones at
their face value. But it is certain that
exhaustion will not come for months
yet.
1t is also certain that Germany is not
prepared TO make peace now on terms
which would be acceptable to the Al
lies, and it is thought likely that she
hopes to show such force at arms as to
Continued on page 3. column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31
Allied Armies Ready
for Signal to Strike
Ry ARTHUR s. DRAPER
By ARTHUR S. DRAPEI
IBy Cable to Tho Tribune

London. Jan. 30.-Some fresh attempt
to inspire his own people with spirit to
meet the sacrifices Of the coming spring
holocaust. and also to counteract the
effect on neutral opinion Of the Entente
reply to President Wilson. is expected
from the Kaiser as a sequel to his
birthday gathering of statesmen and
generals at headquarters.
Foreign Minister Zimmerman has re-
Gently made two hurried trips to the
Kaiser's quarters, and is believed to be
putting she declaration, whatever its
form may be, into shape for publica-
ton. From Denmark and Sweden also
come reports of indications that the
Kaiser is preparing another peace mes
sage TO the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-31

overcast to-day. followed by rain
tonight and tomorrow. Colder
tomorrow. Moderate, varia-
winds, becoming fresh
Fuii Report on Page T2
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Continued on page 8. column
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Continued on page 8. column s
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1917-08-03
FARMERS STATE CONVEN.
TON.

Arrangements are rapidly being
completed for the fifteenth annual
Farmers and Farm Women s
State Convention, which will be
held at the State College Of Agri-
culture and Engineering, Tuesday
August 28th and continuing until
Thursday noon, August 3Oth. It
is expected that not less than l.
OoO farmers and farm women will
attend the convention this year,
The attendance last year was more
than 700.
The convention, always a source
OF inspiration and instruction and
attended by earnest men and wo
men from all sections of the state
will this year be more Of work