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New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
Starts Chain Letter
To Swell Thrift Loan
Editor Mails 5000 Cards,
With Appeal to Pass
Them Along

Roy +. Soule, editor Of "The Hard
ware Age" has invoked the aid Of an
"endless chain" letter 90 help in the
raising Of New York City's SlOO,OOC,OOO
quota Of the nations thrift loan, FRED
erick W. Allen, Director Of War Saw
ings for New York, announced yester-
Cay.
To each Of 1000 men and women IN
the greater city Mr.. Soule has sent a
thrift card with 25-cent war saVlngS
stamp attached as a Christmas GIT
With each card is letter from MI
Soule, which reads:
used rightly, this chain letter Ga'l
be made mighty link Of loyalty. IN
closed is n government thrift card WIN
the first stamp in place. Buy the stamps,
to FIJI il out for yourself. firm and
right in your conviction that TINS enalh
letter will grow to be Of powerful use
10 Uncle Sam.
"Then 20 to the postofiice. Buy ten
25-cent thrift stamps and ask ior Ten
thrift cards. Put one stamp on each
card and fill out the blanks with the
names of ten Of your friends. Write
them each a letter like this on your
own stationery. Send your lists OF
names to the War Savings Committee
in this city"
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
Halifax Calls for
Anti-Pneun,onia Serum,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Urgent calls
for anti-pneumonia serum and diph-
liberia antitoxin came to the American
Red Cross headquarters tonight from
relief workers at Halifax. The Public
Health Service arranged to supply suf-
ticient anti-toxin for 500 patients, and
long distance telephone calls to the
four laboratories in the country which
make anti-pneumonia serum brought
assurances that large part of the
1000 units wanted would be on the way
north before morning.
John +. Moors. in charge of the Red
Cross work at Halifax, reported to-day
that general medical and others needs
had been so fully supplied that further
contributions 81 supplies and contin-
gents of d0fx's and nurses should
await specify fequests. Mr.. Moors's
report, dated yesterday, was addressed
to W. Frank Persons, director general
of civilian relief.
Two express carloads of clothing and
shoes, Including 500 oyercoats. will be
shipped to Halifax from New York to-
morrow. To meet the demand for glass
20 replace the shattered windows Of
the town Mr.. Persons to-day ordered
five carloads Of glsss-two at Bangor,
two at Augusta and one at Gardner,
Me-, to be started for Halifax az once.
In addition 1896 cases of glass we're
shipped from Boston to-day by the
Massachusetts, Public Safety Commit
tee. which expects to send 200 more
cases Tuesday on steamer that will
carry 25.OOO Red Cross blankets.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10

the best means of saving duplication
, and confusion, cities anxious TO help
should telegraph Colonel B. 5. Low.
Await reply from Colonel Low before
shipping what you have telegraphed Is
ready" the committee asked.
Another train with twenty-five physi-
clans, seventy nurses and supplies from
Massachusetts, and Maine arrived to-
day. It brought an equipment for a
50O-bed hospital. The 100 blankets
and $50 hospital cots sent by the State
of Maine were greatly needed.
The first Massachusetts, unit to ar
rive has occupied what was once the
mansion of the British general in COM
mand Of the forces here as a hospital,
with sixty-five beds. Sir Robert l..
Borden, the Premier of Canada, visited
the hospital to-day and declared it a
triumph of organizing ability.
The steamer Calvin Austin, due from
Boston tomorrow with supplies, will
be held at her pier for few days as
a home for relief workers.
To-day John F. Moors, director of the
Red Cross relief work in Halifax. wired
TO W. Frank Persons, director general
of civilian relief for the American Red
Cross, at Washington, the following:
I'VE have been in touch to-day with
the Premier. Governor Grant, Mayor
Martin. Justice Harris and many public
spirited citizens. They are deeply
moved by the generosity Of the Ameri-
can people.
"A relief committee with sub-com-
mittees is now being organized. The
people in Halifax are very much
pleased that we have taken this method
Of getting hold of the problem.
The number of dead and severely
wounded is not known definitely. But
II is determined, after consultation.
that ! suggest that immediate medical
and other needs are now so well sup
piled by your generosity and other
wise that further contributions of re-
lief supplies, doctors and nurses shoIld
wait specific requests from here You
may safely send window glass"
Little progress was made to-day in
restoring traffic and extending the
water and electric lighting systems.
Tonight the weather was clear and
the temperature had dropped TO a
point that caused the slush and mud
TO freeze solidly over the ruins and
to make the work of excavation and
exploration exceedingly difficult.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
Southerners Sure
Jury Will Acquit
Means of Murder
rStnf Correspondencel

y
CONCORD, y. c., Dec. with the
trial of CASTOR r. Means for the MUIR
der of Mrs. Maude A. King entering
upon its third week the battery OF
counsel defending him to-day were pre-
pairing the long, exhaustive speeches
which custom inAicts upon juries try
ing criminal cases in this state.
Each of the nine lawyers appearing
for the defence will review the case
from as many angles, and their decla-
nations are expected to occupy the
court for two entire days. The prose-
cution probably will content itself with
n comparatively brief summation of
the evidence adduced but the possibil-
ity of the case going to the jury before
Friday is conceded generally to be re-
mote.
The cross-examination of Means is
expected to end tomorrow. Exactly
how many witnesses remain TO be called
by the defence is not known, but at
least dozen, including handwriting
experts and business associates of the
accused man, are expected to testify.
Mrs. Maizie Melvin, sister of Mrs. King,
il has been announced, also will take
the stand in the defence of Means. who.
she maintains, is not only innocent of
her sisters death. but guiltless Of any
impropriety in his administration of
her financial affairs.
Castor Means spent the day in his cell
going over his papers with members Of
his family and counsel He is confident
that the end of this week will find him
a free man. His confidence is shared
by townsfolk of Concord and through
out Cabarrus County. The possibility
of his conviction is not considered
seriously.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
Relief Steamer, With
$500, 900 Cargo, Leaves
Boston for Halifax

BOSTON. Dec 9.-Three hundred
thousand dollars worth Of foodstufTs,
clothing. bedding and other supplies
for the relief Of the thousands made
destitute hv the Halifax catastrophe
was aboard one Of the fastest steamers
in the New England cOsstwise service
when she backed out Of her dock here
to-day and started on what the officers
expected 20 be a record run 10 the
Nova Scotia capital
with good weather il is hoped that
she may reach the end Of her journey
by tomorrow night or at the latest
Tuesday morning. BY that time the
ssachusetts- Halifax relief commit
tee expects TO have another steamer
ready to start with another big cargo
Of similar supplies.
For hours volunteers worked hand in
hand with steyedorcs and longshore-
men, loading barrels, boxes and bun
dies of every conceivable shape and
description on the vessel which sailed
to-day. A steady line of automobiles
trucks, taxicabs and other vehicles
streamed to the wharf almost up to
the very moment Of sailing and de-
posted their loads, while hundreds
came afoot or by trolley with their
contributions. The cargo also included
clothing and other articles which had
been collected by the Red Cross.
The steamer was in charge of Ed
mund Billings. Collector of the Port
Of Boston, with Captain Eugene f.
ODonnell, a supervising inspector of
steamships IN command. The vessel
was provided by the United States
Shipping Board, by whom she has just
been chartered for use as a training
ship for seamen.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
Legislature to
Itemize Its Bills
Leaders Yield to Whitman
and Give Details in APP
preparation Estimates
TSpecinL Correspondence

ALBANY, Dec. o.-For the first time
in the history of New York State the
appropriations requested for next year
by the Senate and Assembly, in state
ments furnished to the State Controller
by the clerks of both houses, have been
itemizod. These requests were the last
in the appropriation bills to be put in
the itemized column.
Last wear the Governors budget con-
tanned an itemization Of the legislative
annropriations, but the Legislature re-
fused 20 pass them in this form, sub
stituting lump sums, although all state
departments and institutions and even
the courts had itemized their appro-
priations, in accordance with the plan
of Governor Whitman.
When the Legislature passed the ap-
preparation bills with the legislative
demands, amounting to nearly hall a
million dollars unitemized, Governor
Whitman vetoed them. The Legisla'
ture Immediately passed these appro-
pr;ations over his veto. All the Repub-
iican and Democratic members OF the
Assembly voted TO pass the unltemized
appropriations over the veto. In the
senate all the Democratic Senators
and all the Republican Senator's but
three voted for them.
The amounts that the Governor last
wear tried in vain 10 get itemized in
cluded s2e5 900 compensation for ON
Gers and employees of the legislature
s125 600 for the legislative contingent
fund. $4,000 for the Senate contingent
fund, and $4,000 for the Assembly
contingent fund.
Last week. at conference in Cover
nor Whitman's office, the legislative
leaders agreed to itemiZe the spproprl-
ations for the next year. Az the con.
ference were Speaker I. {. Sweet, OF
the Assembly, and Senator Henry VI.
Sage, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee and the clerks of the Legs
lativo Budget Commission.
Il was only after q long discussion
that the agreement was reached 70
itemize The Legislatures requests. As
submitted TO the Controller they were (:
senate. s3lO,i29 as against 1902 $50
snent at the last session; Assembly,
S46o 900, as against S46l,6SS spent last
session.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
Urges College Men
To Study, Not Enlist
Commissioner Claxton De-
clares Two Scientists Are
Worth 10000 Soldiers

College undergraduates were urged
to finish their courses, in order that
they might give skilled war service, in
stead Of enisting, in an address de-
livered at Morris High School, in The
Bronx, yesterday, by p. p. ClaXton'
United States Commissioner OF Eduea-
tion.
Two good scientists in the labora-
tory discovering things arc better than
10000 men at the 'front.'" he said. The
universities Of the warring nations arc
cmpty. The world will be left praeti-
cally without higher education.
1T will remain for US to supply. this.
We have a system. the elemental, the
high school and the college, and to-
dav. in spite OF tho war, the first two
arc increasing in membership. The col,
leres and universities have lost small
percentage, and | urge upon college
men 70 remain at their studies instead
Of enlistinC. There will be time Tor
them TO help their country
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10

thousand persons have been killed,
thousands have been injured, and in
nearly all cases the families in the de-
vastated areas have been left destitute
and penniless. The stricken district
was occupied almost exclusively by the
people Of the industrial and poorer
classes.
"For the present and immediate fut-
ure shelter and maintenance are being
found for them in public buildings ana
private homes, but the season of the
year renders it imperative that i'm
mediate steps shall be taken 20 begin
the work of reconstruction. For this
purpose we estimate that between S2O,-
COO.0 900 and $50, 5000 will be required,
and in the names of these stricken COM
munities we send out this message of
appeal 10 the general public of Canada
for immediate help.
ave have confidence that the citizens
of our own city and province will not
fail us IN the hour Of our distress, and
we arc sustained by an equally conf
dent hope that our appeal 20 the other
parts of the Dominion will meet with a
prompt and generous response, so that
it will be found that these sorely af-
ficted people shall be provided with
dwellings, clothing and food.
"The numerous dead are beyond our
help.
at will be of great assistance 10 US
If. when offers of goods or building
materials are made, descriptions and
quantities should be mentioned, so that
supplies OF all kinds may come for
ward as required.
"The Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax,
will act as treasurer Of the relief fund.
(Signed) P. F. MARTIN.
Mayor Of Halifax.
az. F. WILLIAMS, Mayor OF Dart
mouth"
American and Canadian cities which
have planned to ship supplies here
were requested to-day 20 wire rea-
sonaoly sccurate description OF ma
terials offered before shipments are
made.
All Of the railroads connecting with
and running into Halifax have been
requested 10 expedite shipments, and
committees sending relief supplies are
asked 10 placard all cars;
Halifax Relief-Rush."
Under the plan adopted as offering
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
Mystery in Shooting
Of Dancers Chauffeur
Driver for Maurice and Wal
ton Critically Wounded
at Winter Garden

Patrick Torpcy, Of 5ls East Eighty
sixth Street, chauffeur Tor Maurice and
Walton, dancers, who were appearing
at the Winter Garden, was shot last
night, and probably fatally wounded
near the stage entrance 20 the thea
tire at Seventh Avenue and Fiftieth
Street. he was taken 10 the Polyelinic
Hospital. where it was said his eondi'
ton was critical.
According to Patrolman Kelly OF me
West Forty-seycnth Street station, the
chauffeur was 10 the stage door talk,
ing with the doorman, when he heard
his automobile horn sounded. he
was shot as he hurried toward ms
machine. Torpey said he had no idea
who fred the shot. A .3s-caliore re-
yolver was found in the street.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
News in Brief

MoNTCLAIR. N. J.-High school girls
have offered 10 do housework, care Ter chill
dren and read 20 invalds In order 10 raise
the $4,000 they have pledged for war work.
4 service fag bearing 200 stars was un-
furled az the Church of ST. Angela Merci
Morris Avenue and l63d Street. Tho YronA.
after it had been blessed by Father Charles
II. McAuifrc.
Sixty-fye thousand dollars is being raised
by the American Seaman's Friend Society.
IS Wall Street. 10 provide a social and re-
l.gious centre FOR thousands Of sailors fre-
quenting the Panama Canal Zone The fund
has the approval OF the United States gov
ernment
Joseph Feins.ein.of o95 Hart Street
Brooklyn, managed 10 avoid running down
with his automobile two men who Jumped
of car at Broadway and South Eighth
Street Brooklyn. but he hit ard probably
fatally hurt William Noryice, Of 259 That
ford Street, Brooklyn.
The Society OF American Officers has bee.i
formed 10 take in reserve officers. The So
ciety Is purely patriotic one" says an an
nouneement. IL charges an entrance fee Of
50. dues Of 81 year and so cents more for
the little bronze button which serves as an
Identification tag
Daniel A. Ross died while lnecling iu
prayer beside his wife in the Church Of the
Ascension. in West 10Th Street. lie was "A
carpenter. sixty-nine years old. and lived at
100 West i02d Street.
HEMPSTEAD. L. david Surat. a mill,
wagon driver. was flung fifty feet and Killed
by an electric train at the Nassau boulevard
crossing OF the Hampstead branch OF the
Long Island Railroad. His wagon was de-
but his horse WAS unhurt.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10

from our mad flight and followed us.
We made for the woods and were a
mile inland. / should judge, when The
explosives let go. Our gunner was
struck by a flying fragment Of steel
and fell mortally wounded.
"The wireless operator. who, with
the gunner, had outdistanced the rest
of us. was next Lit by piece of steel.
He fell beside his shipmate. Another
man was struck by bits of metal, but
his injuries were superficial
According TO information obtained
by government insp ctors. there were
forty tons Of r y r in the forward
hold Of the ship and $40 tons in the
holds aft. in addition the cargo in
cluded a large quantity OF shells and
ammunition OF Narions kinds.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
That Number on Eugene F.
Moran, Capsized in Storm,
Owner Declares
20 Others Are Missing
Coast Guards Unable to Lo.
cate Towboat and Three
Barges From This Port

ATLANTIC CITY, Dec. 9.-Fourteen
men lost their lives when the seagolng
tug, Eugene +. Moran foundered in a
gale. off here yesterday, instead OF
eleven, as was at first believed, ac-
cording 10 the vessels owner, Eugene
+. Moran. Of New York. Mr.. Moran
said to-day the tug had a crew OF that
number when she left New York, and,
as far as he knows, all we're drowned
Only five bodies have been recovered.
Coast guards from here TO Sandy
Hook are seeking three New YORK
barges and a tug, carrying twenty men
in all, which are believed to have gone
to the bottom in the gale which sank
tho Eugene F. Moran. Word OF the
supposed loss of the tug and barges
reached the coast guard station over
the government wires to-day.
death on the Eugene T. Moran had sur
vived a successful attack by U-boat
"A little more than a year ago. Cap
tain Riley, Chief Steward Crane and
two of the deckhands were aboard the
Stephsno when that vessel was tor
pedoed by the U-53 in its commerce
raid off Nantucket Shoals. They were
rescued by United States destroyers.
Tug Sank Rapidly
The tug either struck submerged
wreck or the sand bar off North Caro-
lima Avenue, investigation to-day
showed. How Captain Riley braved
the dangers of shoal water in the teeth
of a hurricane to rescue two barges
that had broken their tow lines was
told by the four deckhands saved from
the barges in tow of the Moran.
The hawser to the barges snapped
in the high seas, and the barges started
drifting toward shore rapidly. Cap
tain Riley maneuvred the tug TO land
ward of the runaways, and was able
10 get another line in place. Hardly
had this been fastened when it snapped
again, and the barges were driven to-
ward the buoy marking shallow water.
The deck hands saY the tug followed
them in, then stopped dead and went
down rapidly. No time was given the
crew TO launch a lifeboat, so quickly
did the tug founder. Cork jackets had
been donned, however, as was proved
by their presence on the five bodies
washed on the beach.
Mr.. Moran, who is president of the
Moran Towing and Transportation
Company. owners of the tug, to-day
made public the crews complement.
He said the Moran, valued at Sl80,000,
is probably total loss. The barges
are beached and appear unframed.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10

and If she blew up the shock would
razc another part Of Halifax.
People Ordered TO Flee
As his mind grasped the situation
the captain got into action. II took but
a moment TO order one messenger TO
direct hundreds Of others about the
streets, warning the people TO flee 20
the open. They took heed, and fed as
if from an invading foe, not knowing CT
stopping TO ask why.
Ii took but a few seconds more TOR
Captain Harrison TO reach the blazing
shin. He cut the steel hawsers and set
her adrift, but he went with her.
The fire was easily accessible, end,
attaching a reel Of hose, he played a
stream on the blaze and soon mad 1t un-
der control.
The present position Of the Picton,
living helpless on the Dartmouth shore,
would indicate that Captain Harrison
opencd the sea cocks and let in flood
Of water 70 prevent an explosion be-
low. Regarding this, however, he de-
clined 10 make any statement, ana
would not. in fact, discuss the Incl
dent at all. The Picton may be saved.
Watching Crew Killed by Shells
AS the explosion on the Mont Blanc
took place some time after the fire
started on her decks, the crew of the
Picton lined up on the deck watching
the blaze. Fragments Of she'll shot
across the harbor. killing and mangling
all but a few of those aboard.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
Drop of 20 Degrees by
Noon Is Predicted by
Weather Bureau
Whole Country
Feels the Cold
Firm, Of Blizzard Sweep
ing Over the State
Strikes City

New York City is in the grip OF the
first cold wave Of the winter. ne teH-
perature may approach zero, II the pre-
diction Of the official forecaSter comes
true. At noon yesterday, Win the InCl 4,
curry a fraction above ~, TINS onlci9i
bulletin came from the WhitehaH
Building: r., On
"Cold wave Temperature VIII ian -
degrees in the next twcnty-iour houIS'
High northwest winds =.
The sudden drop IN temperature is
mining the whole country. Blsmarch,
~ n showed the lowest mark OF lS
degrees below zero, registered IN the
lset twcnty-four hours. Minneapolis
eTnerienced zero. followed closely by
Harrisburg. Penn. with : degrees ana
pittSburcb and Chicago with degrees:
a blizzard is sweeping across all oI
Nortborn New York State, ana lts
fringe appeared in this city al MO
night. when snow began 20 tall. ~.
RuHalo tho wind attained velocity OF
seventy miles an hour, pillng up an
extra six feet Of water IN Buffalo RIVER
and seventeen inches OF snow ieH'
naraIvzipg streetcar service and delay
inc steam trains nine and ten hours.
More than a foot of snow has fallen
in Watertown. A ffty-mile gale -
blowinr. Railroad service, freight and
passenger. is interrupted and country
roads are impossible. Western trains
coming into New York City by the
northern route were from six to twelve
hours late last night as result OF
the storm.
Saturdays snow. hail and rain storm
covered the city with 3 river Of slush'
All the resources OF the Street Clean
ing Department were marshalled 10
clear this layer away, but compara-
lively little progress had been maze
when the cold snap began TO turn the
mixture into ice. Informal Slldlng
parties, spontaneously gotten up, were
the order Of the day even yesterday
and the task Of making city streets
non-skid will be even greater to-day.
AssATEAGUE. Va. Dec. 9.-The tug
John G.. Chandler arrived at ASA
teague Harbor and reported her tow Of
three barces sunk ten miles southwest
Of Backfsh Bank. All three crews were
saved. The tug Albatross lost new
barge, but saved the crew.
DETROIT. Dec. 9.-The blizzard con-
tinued on Lake St. Clair and the De
troit River to-day. and with the rapid
formation Of ice had tonight brought
lake traffic to a standstill.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 9.-Thrce lives
were lost, several homes destroyed by
persons thawing out pipes, man and a
woman overcome by gas fumes in their
home. four men are IN hospitals with
frozen hands or feet and one man was
seriously injured by strcetcar as the
result Of the worst blizzard IN years
here.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
Emma Goldman Barred
By Bronx Casino Owner

Alfred Furst, proprietor OF the Nc
Kinley Square Casino. The Bronx, yes
terday refused 20 permit Emma Gold
man. anarchist leader. 20 hold a meet
ing on his premises. In explaining his
stand he said.
81 have been in the United States
FOR thirty years. have been a citi-
zen FOR twenty-five years, have six
children, all born here. and ] am too
good an American citizen 20 allow the
Goldman crowd 20 use my place to
preach their doctrines
Nearly 400 persons had gathered TO
hear Miss Goldman speak.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
American Ship Grounds in
Gale; CreuU Reported Safe

CHATHAM, y. B., Dec. 9.-The Amer
Jean steamship Codorousch struck on
Escuminac Point during the night and
will probably be a total loss. The crew
is safe.
The vessel. which was bound from
the Great Lakes for an American port,
was wrecked during d heavy northeast
crly snowstorm. She registered l,sOO
tons
New-York tribune., 1917-12-10
''Munition Ship
Ahre; Goodby,"
Operator Wired

HALIFAX, Dec. 9-The Halifax
Herald" was informed to-day by Ca
madam government railway officials that
a message came over the wires a
minute before the explosion occurred.
Il was from Vincent P. Coleman, the
operator at Richmond station, directly
overlooking the scene Of the collision
and read:
"A munition ship is on fire and is
making for pier S. Goodby.'
Coleman's charred body was found
that night. Had he chosen TO desert
his post he might have saved his life.