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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Bronze Door at "33"
Brings Only $1,000
$25O,OOO of Furnishings in Old
Gambling House Sell
for $4,000

The auctoneer's hammer knows no
sentiment. A gorgeously hand-carycd
bronze door, said to have been wrought
in the fifteenth century, portal with
traditions and royal lineage, brought
only $1,000 yesterday afternoon when
II was sold at auction at 30 West
Thrty-third Street, once noted gam
bling house. The sale Of the entire
furnishings of the house said to have
cost $3.50, O0O-was concluded last night.
But $4,000 was realized.
Gottfred Walbaum. the owney Of the
door and the keeper Of the once famous
gambling place, declared that he paid
$4,000 for the possession. Despite the
glamour that has surrounded the door,
the first bidder boldly offered 500 for
il. There were many other pieces to
be sold, so the bidding had 10 be rapid.
In five minutes the portal, which once
adorned the wine cellar Of the Dog"'s
Palace in Venice, and which was sought
even yesterday by a representative Of
the Prince Of Monaco, whose chief in
como il derived from Mont Carlo, had
new owner.
The successful bidder gave his name
as a. Iust, but refused TO comment on
his purchase. Later q friend Of his
said that the mans real name was
George D. Leary. OF 1853 Fifth Avenue.
end that he had bought the door for his
summer place at Southampton. The
purchaser later admitted that his name
was Leary and not /ust.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Swami Follows Up
More Park Checks
Seeks History of S45,20O
Made Payable to In
dicted Ex-senator

District Attorney Swami, who is in
vestigatinc the city's purchase of Sea-
side Park, Rockaway. renewed his eff
forts yesterday to trace two checks, for
$4,000 and for $4,000. made payable 10
cx-State Senator william H. Reynolds
by Frank Bailey, vice-president Of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company.
The money was part Of $4,000 which
four stockholders of the Ncponslt
Realty Company received after the city
had paid Sl.25O.OOO with interest for
the land, 1t Is SAID.
Mr. Bailey. 10 whom the Cancelled
checks should have returned, told As
s,stant District Attorneys Rlack and
kilroe Yesterday that he could not ind
trem or the vouchers for them. All
the other checks wanted in the trans
action, have been produced by Bailey
except these two. One OF the checks
tfor $4,000, which Bailey produced
carly In the investigation, resulted IN
the indictment of Mr.. Reynolds for per
jury.
The missing checks were never de-
rositcd by Mr.. Reynolds. as was the
case with the other checks which were
accounted for. The District Attorney
saws he has an idea that these checks
may have been Endorsed over by Rcyn-
olds TO other persons.
The prosecutor had no better luck
in tracing a check for $3.50 which was
issued by the Neponsit Company 20
William II. Grsvs, vIce-prcsldent, for
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Romance of Crime
Ended by Bullet
Two Weeks a Bridegroom
Elk Convict, Arrested
Again, Kills Himself

The shot with which Charles Jericho
ended his life Tuesday evening, when
detectives discovered him with stolen
goods in a Brooklyn rawnshop, rang
down the curtain or a melodrama Of
New York.
The action began more than six years
ago. Then Charles Jericho, an expert
thief. who had stolen once too often,
bade farewell TO the girl whom his bet
ter nature had won for him. Charley
was going TO Sing Sing, and the girl
pledged her faith IN his promises Of
reform with the assurance that she
would wait for him.
The girl worked ~ a mjlliner's shop
for SIX years, and the two were mar
rod as soon as Jericho left Sing Sing.
The bridegroom also had worked in a
shop for six years, bat that had been
a task assigned to him. while, as his
bride told him soon after the ccre-
monv. il had taken all her resolution
&C. keep her plcGge and her job.
There was a man, she told HIM, who
was Jealous of both and had offered
her comfort and q home to give up
Jericho. She added that Jcricno's life
was in danger rom this man.
Only TWO weeas elapsed before the
scantv savings OF the mIl..ner's as
sistant and the dole the state gives IT'S
charges on their release went for bread
,rd hu+tpr. two weeks in winch the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Draft Plotser to
Wed Miss Parker

Charles Francis Phillips and Eleanor
Wilson Parker. Columbia students, who
were arrested after the publication of
an antl-regi pamphlet, got a
license 70 marry yesterday. Phillips
was arrested with owen Cattell. found
guilty of conspiracy, lost his citizen
ship and vas sentenced TO pay fine Of
$500 and serve one day in jail. Miss
Parker was acquitted.
She was a student in Barnard Col
lege and Phillips in the School of
journalism when they met. Each held
Office in the Columbia Socialist Study
Club, was on the staff Of challenge"
and was active in the Collegiate Anti
Nilitarism League.
They expect to be married one week
from tomorrow and went out to find
their future home last night. Their
parents are said 70 oppose the mar
rage. Il will be civil ceremony.
Phillips is twenty-five years old and
lives at % Christopher Street. The
young woman lives with her grand
mother at 34S West Twenty-third Street
and works in bank at Sea Cliff, L. |.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Perkins Defends
His Food Record
Tells Senator Brown Latter
Has Guarded Middle
mems Interests

George w. Perkins replied yesterday
to statements made by Senator Elon
r. Brown in connection with the fight
to prevent the confirmation of Mr.. Per-
kins as head of the State Food Com
mission.
From start to finish, Mr.. Perkins
says. he has been with Governor Whit
man and Herbert Hoover in the fight
for food control during the war. On
the other hand, he asserts, Brown has
stood for inaction and delay.
The Perkins response to Brown was
in the form of an open letter in reply
20 that of the Senator as published yes
terday.
you reveal" his letter tells the sem
ator, "a tender solicitude for the mid
dleman. have no quarrel with honest,
efficient middlemen. My quarrel is
with the gambler. the speculator, the
hoarder; with inefficient, ANTICIPATED
methods. and with the states utter neg
lect for many years to perform its
proper function in helping producer,
distributor and consumer alike.
Comparing his own record on war
emergency measures with that of Sem
ator Brown, Mr.. Perkins calls attention
to Browns endeavors while trying to de-
las food legislation at ALBANY 20 press
TO passage the bill TO lengthen the
hours of work for women and children
in factories.
you did this" Mr.. Perkins says,
under the guise of a war necessity,
and your bill would have become a law
had not Governor Whitman vetoed it,"
Mr.. Perkins also refers to the decla
ration Brown made when the confirma-
ton of Perkins as State Food Con-
troller was before the State Senate last
week, that a principal objection was
the unftness of making the organizer
of the Harvester Trust head of the
State Food Commission.
You say" his letter goes on. "that
! stand charged in the Harvester COM
pany with oppressive tactics. The Su-
preme Court of Missouri said:
ION the whole the evidence shows
that the international Harvester Com
pany has not used its powers to OPP
press or injure the farmers who are its
customers"
With reference TO what Senator
Brown characterized az "Mr. Perkins's
wild proposals" for the purchase and
sale of food by the state. the letter
adds
you visited Ottawa and Washing
ton and made a study Of what England
and France were doing. You must have
a patriotic attempt to be Of service to
the people"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Court Defines Free Speech

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. In in
structing prospective jurors in the trial
here to-day of Daniel O'Connell, an at
torney, and six other men charged with
conspiracy to hamper enforcement Of
the selective drat. law. Judge William
c. Van Fleet. OF the United States Dis
trict Court. defined free speech.
mo man." he said. has a right 20
carry the liberty OF free speech to a
point which interferes with the due
execution of the law. where his oppo-
sition is no, an honest one and is ac-
tuated wholly By the intention of eX-
pressing his views Sometimes indivld-
uals will give expression 20 views which
may have an effect upon the execution
Of the laws But If they are honestly
and conscientiously expressed, IL is,
under our Constitution, the liberty Of
free speech.
NO man has a right to advise his
ne!ghbo- or the public 20 obstruct the
execution Of the law. That Is beyond
the liberty OF free speech"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14

WASHINGTON, Sept 13.-Probao!y
the mos. tragic result OF Secretary
Danicls's ban upon the acceptance Of
favcrs by the navy from the Navy
League. which incurred his displeaS-
urc. was disclosed here to-day.
No longer will old salts seeking to
rcfo;n the navy 20 serve their country
be enabled TO obtain from the Navy
League. ire, of charge. the services Of
q tattoo artist TO tattoo skirts ard
other drapcrics upon the nude female
figures hitherto tattooed upon their
persons and thereby make themselves
acccp,able to Mr. Daniels as recruits.
The Navy League, laboring under The
Official ban, has been compelled -
close down its tattoo parlors, one of
which was located in St. Louis. dis
Miss its tattoo artists and leave the
old salts t. make themselves less
shocking to Mr.. Dauiels's scrsibilitics
At their own expense or forego restora-
ton to the navy at their country's
call.
When the navy began to prepare for
war special effort was made to re-
cra:t cx-scryice men, those who had
wears of service anoat and who could
train and command the raw young &c
cruits locking 20 the cOIors. Great
success attended this recruiting until
the cx-scrvice men who were tattooed
with nude female iigures bumped 10
against Daniels order barring ;h"m
from restoration 10 the navy.
Navy League a Rescue
Then the Navy League came 20 Their
rescue and established in St. Louis and
other cities near recruiting hcadquar-
tcrs shops where an expert artist was
available to tattoo anything from a
hula hula skirt to paul Poirct' crca-
tion on any tattoocd undraped figure
which presented Itself The Navy
League paid the bills, and scores Of
former sailors, after such changes
were made. presented themselves again
for service and were accepted.
All went well with the graceless old
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
News in Brief

Workmen unear,hrd skeleton on the site
Of Henry Phippss new mansion at Great
Neck, Long Island Several nails which
we're found indicate a coffin. but local history
records 10 cemetery in the vicinity
The American Committee for Armenian
and syrian Relief has learned that the desti-
tute m Western Asia number 100000. Of
whom 900 are orphans. Disbursements
TO september ] aggregate 1926, i20.6o.
Roland $ Morris. newly appointed Am
bassador TO Japan. will be the guest Of honor
a: luncheon 10 be given at the Hotel Aston
on Wednesday.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Tobacco Fund,
organized by more than $500 employees OF
the road. will keep every former employe
now in the government service supplied with
tobacco
The Amaigamated Clothing Workers OF
America have opened a bureau at lj5 Clinton
street 10 aid the government in eliminating
sweatshop methods from the manufacture Of
uniforms.
The steamer Highlander will make the last
regular trip OF the season to Bear Mountain
on Sunday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
University Accepts
Mayos' $l,G5O,34
Minnesota Institution lakes
Over Foundation Given by
Two Doctors

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. -. The board
n regents Of the University OF ANNE
sofia TO-DAY ratified by unanimous vote
the permancnt agreement maHlng ln'
Wovo Foundation At Rochester the an
soIi,+o uropertv of the university 10 be
- ncrpetually for higher medical
education. research and investigations
Securities totalling Sl65o,@l3, repre-
scnting the fortunes Of Drs. William >,
ar1 Charles II. Mayo, were turned
over to the university. -,
"Wc turn over TO the regents the
bulk Of our savings Of generation ~
AN outright gift said DR.. William ):
Navo. who is member Of the board OF
regents. but who did not vote on the
proposal THE money came from the
pcople and we feel it should return to
The paopIe- continuing fund that
shall serve this state for generations
Fznanses Of the foundation will be
raid by the Drs Mayo until fund Of
g. 600 600 has accumulated. mere
after the income from the fund will
maintain IT,, regents explained. IN"
foundation has been affiliated with the
university for two years, which was
agreed upon as a trial period. Under
the final agreement the headquarters Of
the foundation can be moved from
Rochester 10 any other point IN The
state after twenty-eiGht years.
Ten FER cent Of the yearly income
will be expended outside the state and
another 10 per cent used to investigate
cpidemics inside and outside the state.
II was announced that one OF the
Mayos would go TO France with re-
crults next year and that they would
take turns there until the end of the
NJ
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
7 Seized in Raid
On Directory Firm
Clever Swindles Charged
to Brooklyn Publishers,
Who Made 100000

In a raid By detectives Of the Sixth
Branch Bureau, Brooklyn, yesterday
morning seven men in a Brooklyn pub
fishing house were arrested. The po-
lice charge they are a gang of clever
swindlers, whose profits in three years
were between 100000 and $35O,OOO.
According to Acting Captain Cough
lin, of the Sixth Branch, the seven men
were connected with the Brooklyn Di-
rectory. publishers, at 361 Jay Street.
Their populations were carried on. Act
ing Captain Coughlin stated, AZ the
expense Of many of the most promi-
nent business men of Brooklyn. as we'll
as small tradespeople in Brownsville
and Williamsburg
The men under arrest said they were
Emory Hartzig. lfty-fve; Clifford
Danielson, forty; Lincoln Danielson,
thirty-six; Thomas Young, thirty;
William Young, thirty-three; Edward
Stephens, thirty, and Vincent Burton,
thirty. All were arrested as they
reported for work except William
Young, the Manhattan representative
Of the concern, who was taken into
custody at his Office, 221 West liver
tieth Street.
Hartzig was credited by the police
with being the leader of the gan z,
which purchased a thoroughly esti-
mable company three years ago. They
continued TO conduct the company
business and published some direc-
tories. But they also, the police say.
took subscriptions for advertising for
various directories which were never
published.
Another scheme practised by the men
under arrest. according to the police,
was 70 get the head Of concern to
sign a subscription blank for some le-
gitimate directory. A small payment
down was taken and then. according 70
the police, collectors would return, in
some cases as many as six times, and
arrange TO see a different member OF
the firm each time. The man ap-
preached would see the name of the head
Of the business signed to the blank, as
sumo that i was ali right and make the
payment requested
The police give credit 70 the National
Association Of Directory Publishers
and tho Advertising Club of New York
for Investigations which led to yester-
days raid.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Lieut.. Henry S. Thorne to Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Douglas Bacon,
Of Bath, Me. have announced the en-
eacement Of their daughter, Miss Belle
Bacon, to Lieutenant Henry Sanford
Thorne. L. S. y. R., son Of DR.. Victor
Corse Thorne. Of 1923 Fifth Avenue.
Lieutenant Thorne is attached to the
aviation section Of the Naval Reserve.
lie is . grandson OF the late Professor
Samuel s. Sanford OF Yale, and a great
grandson Of. the late Henry Sanford,
who was president of the Adams Ex-
press Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Warning by Wire Started
King Death Inquiry

Mrs King. after dining at the Waldorf
early in the evening, returned TO the
Park Avenue house to meet guests m
vitcd 20 celebration in honor of the
departing year.
Ii was n gay party, and Means was
its life. His vivacity increased after
his wife and Mrs. King, fatiGued, re
tired for the night The other men
and four women renamed. ~ was
then. according TO the accounts, Means
arose, champagne glass IN hand' 10
give the usual toast His guests were
astoundcd when he proposed;
ITO the kaiser!'
Several Of the guests demurred and
refused TO drink the toast One of the
women even offered substitute
Down with the Kaiser and up with the
President
Means used various pretcNts to get
Mrs. King and her sister, Mrs. Maize
Melvin. away from Chicago, according
10 documentary evidence found yeSler-
day.
This attitude. it is said. was most ap-
parent at the time when Mrs. king was
known 20 have announced that she was
about 20 rcmarry.
Search Is Begun Tor france
Search for the man she named was
begun Yesterday by the authorities
here. Until last Tuesday, according TO
a lawyer interested in the case, this
man. who has q foreign name, lived in
this city.
From checks found. it is shown that
q number of persons were getting regu-
lar monthly allowances from Mrs. King.
From some Of these pensioners, 1t is
said. came insulting letters 10 Means
when paymcnts did not arrive on time.
Manuscripts I'm possession of Mr. Dool-
ing showed, according to the Assistant
District Attorney, that the writer's had
more than a mere business hold on Mrs.
King.
In an exchange of kilograms yester-
day with State Solicitor Hayden Glenn
ent of North Carolina, District Attor.
rey Swami declared the papers seized
here showed the looting OF the King
estate and the financial distress of both
Mrs. King and Means.
The motive for the crime was either
to cover the fact of the looting of the
estate" said Judge Swami in a state
ment. cor of getting the balance of the
greater part of it,
mean lidlNlal NNlA E'ilN N''H
shown. according TO Mr. Dooling, in a
nervous breakdown AS a result last
spring. This was after there had been
heavy speculative losses,
Detectives Aid Means
First signs that Means had engaged
detectives and lawyers TO take care OF
his side Of the case here came TO light
yesterday. Mr.. Doolng stated that a
private detective agency was working
for Means mere.
Alton Means and Henry Dietsch will
appear before the grand jury again
on Monday. when a large number OF
other witnesses will also be called.
Yesterday Alton Means. after leaving
the grand jury chambers. made anxious
inquiry as TO whether the authorities
could listen in" on telephone calls or
obtain from the telegraph companies
messages sent from here
A. a contrast TO the financial straits
Of Means and the loss of Mrs. Kings
estate. II was learned Yesterday that It
cost $4,000 to furnish McanS's apart
ment on Park Avenue, while Mrs.
Kings rooms. more deliberately deco
rated, entailed even greater expense.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14

Services rendered" Greve got $4,000
ia all for special services" but he has
sworn that he doesn't remember what
the nature of the services were or what
he did with the money. He says his
check vouchers for that period have all
been destroyed.
William $. Cogswell, of 40 Nassau
Street, chairman of the condemnation
commission that awarded the Ncponsit
Company S5,032 an acre for the land
in 1912, was asked yesterday by Mr..
Kilroe to explain how the commission
reached that figure. Mr. KIlroe said
Mr.. Cogswell told him that il was "none
o. his business" and that nobody had a
right to question the honesty Of his
conduct. Mr.. Kilroe served Mr.. Cogs-
well with grand jury subpoena and
also subpGnaed his private bank ac-
counts and check records. Mr. Cogs-
well signed a waiver Of immunity. He
will be witness to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Free Camouflage for Old Iars
Dodging Tattoo Ban Is Lost
Aid of Navy League Cover Figures Drowned On BY
Daniels Suspended and Shel-Back Recruits Must
Pay for Their Redecorations Themselves

salts until last month, when Secretary
Daniels became involved i'm a dispute
with the Navy League and forbade navy
men TO accept any iavors from the or
gauiZatiou. Rcgretfu,ly the league
closed It's tattoo parlors.
Secretary Daniels to-day confirmed
the report that prospective recruits
tattooed with undrapcd figures had been
barred from the navy, but expressed
ignorance Of the Navy Leagues tattoo
ing activities 70 circUmveat his order.
"A man with nude women tattooed on
his body is not the sort OF man the
navy wants" he said we want no
such visible evidences Of lack Of moral
stamina I'm the navy"
Secretary Daniels's Constructions for
recruiting officers" require applications
for enlistment Of all men who are tat
tooed with the designs selected by old
sea dogs 20 be submitted 10 the Navy
Department before applicants are en-
rolled in the service.
What Daniels Bars
So that no mistake may he made. the
instructions sent by Secretary Daniels
list tattoo designs that are taboo. Here
is the list:
Shoulders tattoocd with birds, ami
mails and grotesque figures. butterflies
and stars. butterflies on any part Of the
body, eagle and globe. &C. 4. G.. az.
s. ~" ". :. A." u. $. VI. c." pig
tattooed on foot 1T was explained that
in oldcn times il was believed by sail
ors that if they had a pig tattooed on
the foot they would never die from
drowning; men VINO nave Manila.
7. j." or any foreign port tat,oocd on
their persons; sailors head, eagle and
shield, crossed guns, apprentice knot
or any tattoo mark characteristic Of
either branch Of the military service;
tombstone and weeping willow, In
Memory Of Mother" COR father; star
or other marks; tattooing below waist;
obscene tattOoing.
Naval officials said no action had been
taken against tattoocd men in the navy,
nor did they know whether any was
planned. One officer did recall a case
where a ships doctor objected 70 the
tattoocd figure Of woman in Ewes
Eden garb on a sailor patient and
demonstrated The sailor remedied it
at the first port by having fling cloth
ing tattoocd on the figure Since then
the men on shipboard have not tried to
reform the practice Of tattoOinG.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
Saratoga Lake Hotel Burn Cd

SARATOGA. y, Y. Sept l3- Rose
ben Inn. widely known summer hotel
st Saratoga Lake, was burned early TO,
day, with a loss Of $4,000. There We're
no guests in the hotel. but Ransom
Cook. the proprietor. and several EN-
ployes had narrow escapes. The build
ing dated back to Revolutionary times
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-14
2,OOOPeach Pickers Needed

BUFFALO. Sept. 49, A call was is
sued to-day by the United States en-
rIoymrnt Office here for 1000 workers
for ten days, beginning September 20,
TO save the peach crop of Western
New York The cop Is the largest in
years. Farmers say that without add
t.onal help the bulk of it Will rot on
the trees.