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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19

Dr. Henry A. Stimson, seventy-three
years old, sky. pilot Of she Old West,
frontiersman and Indian fighter with
the late Buffalo Bill. has resigned as
pastor of the Manhattan Congrega-
tional Church, which he founded TWEEN
tv-one years ago. The task, he says,
requires younger man.
I'VE are on the eve of a new world
as a result Of the great war across the
waters" said DR.. Stimson. THAT con-
fict will alter all human thought and
action. Racially. commercially and re-
beiously the world will be changed.
Religious thought will take new
courses. Old traditions will be for
gotten.
"Thc churches are not preparing as
they should, ard they must prepare II
they are 20 live. | am no longer
boy. This church must have YOUTH
strength and health 20 lead It, a
younger man, who can carry on the
fight amid the changing conditions
must FIJI my shoes.
DR.. Stimson said that the church
mus. get closer to the human interests
Of the community it served.
Social Service the Watchword
Social service ne said, must be
the watchword. In this church we have
dancing classes. domestic science
classes and kindergartens. II is an
open forum for the discussion of polit-
ical. economic and moral, as well as
religious. questions. The church must
keep abreast with the changes that are
coming or be left behind"
DR.. Stimson will retire May /. on
the completion of his forty-eighth year
as a minister. A New Yorker by birth
and a plainsmsn by adoption. DR.. slim
sons experiences took him INTO the
West during the rough days of the
SOS and '70s. He was an Indian fighter,
defending settlements ard wagon
trains, and an Indian missionary, car
rying the palefsce Gospel into the wig
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19

charitable organizations outside the
county or city which they particularly
benefit shall not be exempted from tax
alton.
The thirty-four tax commission bills
presented in the Assembly to-day by
Assemblyman Franklin ". Judson, OF
Monroe County. besides being intended
to increase revenues, are aimed also at
favoritism and politics in the assess
ment and collection of taxes. Per
sons familiar with the subject OF tax
alton as II ia presented to the Legislat-
ure this year; the most diligent search
ing after new sources and the apparent
efforts being made 10 prevent leakage,
see behind il all a move TO placate OBJ
iections on the part of New York City
10 any direct tax that will be levied.
The city pays 70 per cent Of direct tax
alton and the general idea is TO scatter
indirect taxation over the entire state
and thus relieve New York.
Economy to Gust Board
That is one of the primary purposes
Of one bill introduced to-day, legislat-
ing out of Office as members Of the
State Board Of Equalization which APP
portions state assessments among the
counties. the Lieutenant GoYerner, sec
rotary of State. Speaker of the Assem-
bly. State Controller, State Treasurer,
Attorney General and State Engineer
and giving equalization powers solely to
the Tax Commission. The equalization,
il has been charged, has been controlled
by up-staters, and New York City got a
raw deal.
Another amendment classes corpora
tons two ways and increases their or
ganization tax, making the minimum
$40 instead of So. This amendment
clarifies the tax law under which a gen
eral franchise tax is levied on corpora
ton capital stock Fifteen per cent of
the corporations in the state pay no
tax and 40 per cent less than $l2. This
capital stock provision is broadened,
and the state is given extensive powers
10 examine records and punish corpora
tons failing to pay their tax.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
DR.. StimSon, 73, Resigns;
Asks for Younger Pastor
Preacher Indian Fighter and Buffalo Bills Friend Warns
His Manhattan Church to Prepare for New Era
After War and Get Closer to Community

wan. lie saw the advancing tide of
civilization wipe out three frontiers
and rode the Kansas plains with Colo
mel William T. Cody.
After the Civil War, during which
he was a member of local militia com
pany, DR.. Stimson went to st. Louis
and started to cross to the Coast on
horseback. lie fell in with a crew OF
adventures, and after surviving Indian
raids and a cholera epidemic, reached
a body of United States soldiers in
Western Kansas. DR.. Stimson returned
and completed his education, which had
been begun at Yale. He was gradual
ed from AndCver Seminary in 1869.
Acts as Missionary
His first charge as minister was
in Minneapolis, then a frontier village.
From there he went into the Red River
country rs an Indian missionary, ana
later accompanied surveying crews who
charted the Northern Pacific Railroad
through the mountains to the Pacific.
DR.. Stirson was pastor Of church
in st. Louis in 1889, when Oklahoma
was thrown OPEN 20 settlement. He
Joined the rush and established Con-
gregntional missionary centres through
out the territory.
In 1899 DR.. Stimson returned 10 New
York as pastor of the Broadway Tab
ernscle. He regigned in 1896. intend
ing to leave New York. In June of that
year, however. he presided at a meet
ing in a hall at Eighty-third Street
and Broadway. from which has grown
the Manhattan Church, one of the best
known Congregational units in the
United States.
The lively interest ia public affairs
which DR.. Stimson says the church
must embrace long has been feature
of the sermons at ths Manhattan edi-
fee DR. Stimson. who is an uncle Of
Henry l.. Stimson, former Secretary OF
War. has criticised the War Depart
inert for its long term Of army enlist
ment. Suffragists he has classified
with the |. W. w.
DR.. Stimson has made no plans to
follow his retirement. He retains
membership in several church boards.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
TWICE ARRESTED
AS THIEF, BLAMES
MOVIES INFLUENCE
Baltimore Man Thinks Manhat
tan Youth Get Detective
Notions from Screen

Jacob Blaustein, jr., of Baltimore, re-
leased on Wednesday by Magistrate
Murphy in the West Side Court on a
charge of grand larceny, preferred by
an errand boy, was rearrested yester-
day and again released on the same
charge brought by another boy.
II was a case of mistaken identity,
says the magistrate. In the first in
stance, Thomas Sumerville. an errand
boy for L. P. Holander & Co., de-
clared that Blaustein was the man VINO,
on January 6, had asked SumeUille 10
deliver s message for him while. he
held the boys package. When the boy
returned, man and package had disap-
peared.
Yesterday Detective Ford, of the I'd
Branch. arrested Blaustein. This time
Harry Brumberg, Of 30 Walton Street,
The Bronx, errand boy for j. NJ. Gid
ding & Co., declared that Blausteln was
the man who, on December 4, had asked
him 10 deliver a message while he held
the boys package, valued at S92. Again
man and package disappeared.
Blaustein, IN both cases had IN
court character witnesses. among them
his father. Jacob Baustein, who is
president of the American Oil Company,
of Baltimore. He showed letters from
the Hotel McAlpin, where he is stop
ping, and had little difficulty in proving
that he had not until January II been
in New York since ne was a child.
"The New York Police Department is
great institution" said Blausteln
when he was leaving the Yorkville
Court yesterday after Magistrate
Brough had discharged him, but these
bows seem to want to be detectives.
hear them no animosity. They prob
ably get the notion from dime novels
and the movies
Blaustein's father and the other char
scter witnesses from Baltimore declare,
however. they are going TO remain at
the McAlpin until they can escort young
Blaustein safely back to Maryland.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
state Tax Board Joins in
Effort to Stop State
Revenue Leaks
a BILLS DRAFTED;
MORE UNDER WAY
One Measure to Bar Future
Exemption of Religious
and Charity Bodies

- sat Correspondent o. The Inoduti
albany. Jan. 1S.-The State Tax Com
ten contributed to-day toward the
o., thst is being made by the admin
,.,,.,ion this year 20 save at the spigot
veil As the bung and keep the barrel
:, ,,ste resources filled for necessary
lands. The thirty-four bills spon-
- bv the commission and intro
,...s to-day are. however, only part of
\, tax experts plan 10 increase the
....,s indirect revenues and prevent
,.,ssre some of the most important
~ssures are yet to appear.
IN, Of these, now being drafted, IS
.,,irned TO repeal the present exemp-
~, franchise taxation of manufsctur-
- corporations employing 40 per cent
- their capital within the state. 1t is
,v,seted 70 increase the states reve-
,os bv several million dollars. An
,,h,, is su old amendment dressed up
/, less Objectionable attire and intend
q 10 prevent future exemption from
AVIATION Of property OF philanthropic,
,.Heious and charitable corporations
sp,side Of the county or city which
hey particularly benefit.
Exemptions a Public Scandal
The exemptions which have piled
min this state" the commission holds,
s,- s,public scandal. Senator Slater,
- Westchester. IS chairman Of the
,a-nittee directed TO investigate this
.sbieet. The State Tax Commission
viii cooperate with his committee.
Orlv 4 few Of the proposed amend
ufnts relating 70 exemptions have been
Introduced. namely; repeal Of the eX-
srption Of real estate of purely social
o,gsnizations. savings bank deposits
~ more than $4,000; property Of minis
-srs srd priests unless residents OF the
-ate. and corporations engaged IN
oesan commerce unless exclusively so
engaged
Senator Slater is also chairman Of
committee appointed by the state tax
conference a. Rochester last week.
The reCorm enOaUOOS OF THIS DOog re-
,sroing the property Of philanthropic,
religious and charitable corporations
viii undoubtedly bring an amendment
before the Legislature that viii arouse
rsssntful opposition, especially upon
he part Of religious corporations. The
committee found that some counties,
Ike Westchester, are overburdened by
s8eh exemptions. For instance, 1t re-
-orted. in White Plains about As per
,s1t. almost 100000 out Of total
assessed property valuation Of $751;
$4,000. was exempted under the pres
en- laws.
New Measure Less Radical
70 svoid some Of the expected oppo-
suor the amendment suggested by the
safe tax conference is less radical
than iormer measures Of the same kind
sg.is,sd in past sessions. II has been
ssne.i5asd by lawson Purdy, Francis
Linde Setson. Senator Ogden Mills,
Meier Steiubrink and others, and pro-
vdes that property hereafter acquired
BY such philanthropic, religious and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
Literacy Test Opposed
by Hebrew Congregations

Baltimore. Jan. 1S.-The twenty-tfth
biennial council of the Union of Amer
lean Hebrew Congregations adjourned
to-day after selecting Boston as the
meeting place two years hence and the
adoption Of many resolutions.
The most important of these opposed
the literacy test for immigrants, but
approved it for naturalization; in
dorsed a pension system for superan-
nuated rabbis, and urged generous con-
tributions for the Hebrew Union Col
lege at Cincinnati and other Union
projects.
A resolution providing that the con-
vention take action to secure religious
services for Jews in the United States
army and navy was referred TO the
executive committee with power TO act.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
Nine Commissioners En-
tcrtained at 80-Cent
Luncheon
DIET SQUAD STILL
GAINS IN CALORIES
They Live Royalty" Says
Lewis, Thinking of the
City'S' Charges

1t cost License Commissioner Bell so
cents to play host at luncheon yester-
day to nine fellow commissioners at
the Rockies Roost. 81 never got off so
easy before, nor had better food" said
Mr.. Bell.
Spaghetti with cheese, picked beets,
cinnamon rolls with butter, and tea
were served, and all the diet samplers
called for second helpings, which gave
them 1880 calories instead of the al
lotted 800.
Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk weighed in
all the guests, and announced that
Cabot Ward, Commissioner Of Parks.
was the squad lightweight, with only
1870 pounds, while Collin II. Woodward,
Commissioner of Taxes. was just 100
pounds heavier. The weighing in came
as a surprise, and several of the more
corpulent gave Apologies, such as
Had | known about this ! would have
worn thinner clothing" before step
ping on the scales.
With the box Of cigars which was
passed after the meal, leaflets on
What IL Costs to Smoke Tobacco
were handed out. Besides telling the
commissioners that 81 200,OOO,O0O went
up in smoke yearly, there was also the
warning that one cigar may contain
enough nicotine 20 kill man If the
entire quantity be taken internally.
Burdette G.. Lewis, Commissioner Of
Correction. said he thought the rock
les lived royalty on their % cents
day.
al have only IN cents a day to feed
each OF the five thousand prisoners
under my care he explained. I'VE
give them ten ounces or beef daily, but
there are always some complaints. The
whole trouble seems 20 be that people
won't each such meal as we had to
day. They don't like macaroni and
cheese. or beets. They seem unaccus-
toned 20 simple, sensible eating"
DR.. Fisk told the visitors that they
were not trying TO show that the high
cost Of living could be forced down
by living on 20 cents a day. What We
are trying to demonstrate he assert
ed. as that for that sum one can get
food which will nourish and keep his
body in good working condition.
As a parting gift he handed out pam
phlets on "a Sensible Diet for the Az
erage Man and Woman" to Commits
sioner Bells guests VI. Wall
stein. Commissioner OF Accounts;
DR.. Henry Moskowitz. president of the
Municipal Service Commission; Com
missioner Lewis, John J. Murphy, Ten
ement House Commissioner; Commits
sioner Ward, Commissioner Woodward.
V. J. Hahn, Tax Commissioner; r. v.
Ingersol. Park Commissioner. Brook
lyn, and William Williams, Commits
sioner of the Department of Water
Supply.
AT dinner last night every rookie
wore a smile, for corned beef and cab
bage was the principal dish.
The menu for the day was:
BREAKFAST
Fried Hominy and Syrup
Rolls and Butter
Coffee
$50 calories cost, cents.
LUNCH
Spaghetti and Cheese
Picked Beets
Cinnamon Rolls with Butter
Tea
q65 Galleries cost, cents.
DINNER
Corncd Beef and Cabbage
Carrots
Graham Bread and Butter
Mock Cherry Pie
Tea
200 Galleries cost, 70 cents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
RESENTING ORDER,
OLD CLERK SHOOTS
YOUNG SUPERIOR
Vanderbilt Family Cemetery
Superintendent Reluctantly
Admits Wounding

For twenty years Simon Van Vlack,
a clerk in the Morsvian Cemetery at
New Dorp, Staten Island, bent over his
accurate and immaculate books in Sc
rene consciousness that he stood high
in the favor of the Vanderbilt family
and virtually was custodian Of the fam
lily vaults.
Five years ago his brother-ln.la",
Allen Hope. a mere boy, "only thirty
two years old" was transferred from
his position as caretaker of the Van
derbilt homestead at New Dorp TO the
superintendency Of the cemetery. The
old clerks serenity was shal&n.
Yesterday afternoon the young super
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
WILSON EXPECTED TO VETO
NEW IMMIGRATION BILL

Effort to Pass Literacy Test Meas
ure, Despite Opposition, Planned
Washington, Jan. 18.-President Will
son to-day denied applications for a
public hearing on the immigration bill
recently passed. II is expected that he
will veto the measure because of its
literacy test provision, which led him
to veto a similar measure previously.
An effort will be made to pass the
hill over his veto.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
GINGER JAR BRINGS $3.50
G.. J. Altman Pays $3.50 for Another
k'ang-hsi Specimen

A blue and white ginger jar having a
brilliant blue ground in the cracking
ice" pattern, sprinkled with plum bios
SONS. brought $3.50 yesterday at the
sale at the American Art Galleries Of
the Edison Bradley collection. e.. j.
Altman was the purchaser. He also
gave $3.50 for a similar jar ground in
the hawthorn pattern" Both are OF
the K'ang-hsi period.
The total OF the session was A,76S.
The sale continues to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-19
Battle on at Santa Ysabel

FL Paso, Tex, Jan 1S.-Fighting is
in progress between rebel and govern
ment troops near Santa Ysabel, about
IS miles west of Chihuahua City, ac-
cording TO a report brought by pas
scngers from the south who arrived in
Juarez tonight
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
TODAY'S WAR SUMMARY

While developments from the new Ger
man naval campaign are pending military
operations are on a small scale and com
mand only limited interest
Signs Of probable important happening
on the Franco Belgian front are not
wanting The artillery activity seems to
be growing appreciably all along the line,
notably on the British front in northern
France. German airplanes have been do
ing considerable scouting work in this
section
In the Somme region the artillery also
is notably busy and raiding operations OF
more than ordinary Importance are indi
Gated by the official statement On the
Russian, Rumanian and Macedonian fronts
there have been comparatively few happen
ings OF importance. The German war office
reports no changes in any of these areas
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
PRECAUTIONS TO
GUARD NEW YORK
Extraordinary Military Measures Are
Being Taken to Safeguard City's
Approaches

NEW YORK, Feb. PRECAUTIONS
to safeguard the approaches to New
York harbor against any eventuality
were put in force tonight at all army
reservations extending from the Mar
rows to Atlantic highlands it was
learned authoritatively
At Fort Hamilton and Fort Wads-
worth the two Notifications command
ing the narrowast passage leading into
the upper bay extra guards were said
to have been detailed to the most i'm
port3nt batteries while additional SEN
tlnals have been posted in the woods
and along the water front for some
distance from the forts. Similar pre-
cautions have been taken, it was said
at Fort Hancock Sandy Hook and also
at Fort Totten at Willett S Point in
the Sound.
Asked tonight what Interpretation
could be placed upon this move by the
military authorities, Maj Gen. Leon
ard wood, commander of the depart
ment Of the east, sa;d:-
- No instructions of that character
have been issued from this depart
ment. 1t may be, however, that addi-
tional precautions have been taken by
some of the commanding officers at
the harbor' S fortifcations.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
BILL PROVIDES FOR
AGENT COUNTY TAX
Senator Eddy Introduces Measure to
Pay Indebtedness on Account of
Newfane Jail Repairs.


Senator Hermon +. Eddy of Brattl6-
boro has introduced into the state senate
a bill to levy tax of four cents on the
dollar of the grand list of the towns in
Windham county for the year 1917, for
the purpose of paying the Indebtedness
of the county, with interest, incurred by
repairing and improving the jail at New
fame two years ago. The improvements
included new cells, heating, lighting,
ventilating and providing sterilizing
plants and an additional water supply.
The bill has been referred to special
committee of the senators from Wind
ham county.
A tax of four cents on the dollar of
the grand list of 1916 would raise
SS,763.44, and it is thought the grand
list for the present year will not vary
much from what it was last year. The
debt remaining on account of the Jail
repairs and improvements is about S.
600
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02

their use to convey troops and NUM-
tions. These include statements By
eve witnesses. The British hospital
ships Britannia and Aquitania are
named in these documents as among
those which had carried TROOPS.
Official circles point out that Ger
many has precedents for her action
citing the capture and sale by the
British Of a German hospital ship
which was cruising in the hope of
picking up survivors after a naval
engagement III the North sea and an
announcement by Russia that she
would not respect Turkish or Bulgar-
ian hospital ships in the Back sea.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
RECEIVERSHIP
FOR FURNITURE co.
Goods of Concern Which Did Business
in Brattleboro Sold by Auction
Two Members Arrested.

MANY residents Of Brattleboro viii
be interested in the news that comes
today bv way of the Chamber of Com
merce of Lebanon, \. H., that the
United Furniture Co. of Boston went
into a receivership Jan. u and all of
the goods owned by the concern were
sold by auction Jan. %.
Two members of the firm, Israel
Arnold and Louis Lidman, have been
arrested and charged with several
counts of larceny and their trials have
begun.
This is the same concern that had
many customers here early last year and
their methods of conducting business
resulted in the arrest and conviction of
NJ Hirsh who was one of their agents,
on a charge of lottery. He appealed
supreme court.
The company was accustomed to so
licit business upon payment of n small
sum each week, and il was claimed by
the state in the trial that promises were
made, as inducements to join the
Club, - that frequently valuable
pieces of furniture were given away
after only two or three weekly pay
ments had been made and that in any
event an article of furniture would be
received of the full value of all pay
ments made.
The state claimed that there was a
drawing weekly in Boston to
determine which member of the club
should receive the weekly present and
that this drawing constituted a lottery.
Hirsh claimed that presents were made
10 members of the club weekly who
had been most active in booming the
membership.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
OTHER WEST INDIES
SHOULD BE ACQUIRED
Action by the United States Is Urged
by the National Chamber of
Commerce.

Washington, Feb Acquisition
by the United States of other West
Indies III addition to the Danish Is
lands was recommended to the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United States
by a committee on foreign relations at
the annual meeting here today on the
ground of security to American and
Latin American commerce. Purchase
Of the Danish Islands, the committee
declared, eliminates one possibility
of our being drawn into European po-
litical difficulties
The committee also recommends
establishm mt of an American com
mercial museum in Paris to help de-
velop trade with France and the nego,
tiation by the government of CONNER
cial treaties containing the ''most ia
vornd nation clause Referring 10
trade agreements between European
allies after the war, the committee OBJ
served that it will take our best
business brains to safeguard our in
tcrests.
I'm view of certain present phases
of the Pacific ocean question, it is ex
pedient, said the report, ''to request
the chamber to submit to its members
a referendum on the question of
whether it should urge upon our state
department early and aggressive ac-
tiOn in an effort to make and establish
naturalization treaties with all other
nations of the world.
Charles H. Sheriff. of New York,
chairman of the committee, in present
ing the report, said President vii.
son s peace moves had delivered the
United States from the appearance of
wishing the war to continue for the
sake of American prosperity.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-02
GERMANY SENDS AFFIDAVITS.
Seeks to Justify Her Intent to Sink
Hospital Ships.

BERLIN, Feb. 2-The mcmoran-
dun of the German government hand
ed to the American and other embas-
sizes en- Monday, giving notification
that hospital ships had been barred
from their privileges in the waters
south of Great Britain, was accom-
panied by 23 afidavits and statements
intended to establish the presence Of
armament on board hospital ships and