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BARS RIVERSIDE DRIVE
TO GERMAN TENANTS
Order Expected to Put Enemy Aliens
Out of Buildings That Give Views
OF Harbor-NIay Seize All Binocu-
lars.

Wealthy subjects of the Kaiser
now living in apartments or private
residences in Riverside Drive, New
York, or occupying apartments In
streets further from the river, from
the windows of which the river and
harbor are visible, will probably be
ordered to vacate their homes within
the next week. Whether or not the
order will make all of Riverside
Drive a barred zone has not been de-
cided. There is every reason for say
ing, however, that practically all OF
the Drive south of Grants Tomb will
val anchorages in the North River
are off Seventy-ninth, Ninety-s1Xth,
and 10th Streets, and Germans
whose apartments look out upon
those stretches of water will probab-
y be the first to move.
Another matter intended to make
more effective the regulation of enc
my movements which is under con-
sideration calls for the finger-print-
ing OF every male German subject in
New York of and above the age or
fourteen. If this proposal is approV-
I'd the work of taking the finger
prints of more than 10000 Ger
mans will be intrusted to the Police
bureau of Identification. 1t is ex-
pected that the Police Department
will have charge of registering enc
my aliens, and that every German
will be called upon to give COM
plete history Of himself from the
lime he arrived in this country until
nc present time, as well as certain
lata regarding his business and
Jther activities in Germany or else
- here before coming to New York.
After the registration is completed
he man will receive a registration
lard bearing his photograph, which
sill serve as a passport to zones 9TH
T than those along the waterfront
II in the vicinity of military and
naval posts, and munition plants.
1t can also be stated that the Fed
eral authorities have under consid-
9ration an order which will move
,nemy aliens who have business of
ices in high buildings overlooking
: he harbor or rivers to buildings from
which such views are not available.
There are hundreds of Germans oc-
cupying such Offices at present. Some
of these buildings border the water
.ront, whine others are many blocks
inland. 1t was pointed out Thursday
hat a German occupying an office on
any of the upper floors of the Wool
worth, the Singer, the Metropolitan
Tower, or other high Office buildings
could keep track of everything that
goes On in the busiest parts of the
liver and the upper harbor, provided
ne supplied himself with a pair OF
GOOD binoculars. 1t was rumored
Thursday that enemy aliens would be
.orbidden to have distance glasses in
heir possession.
The police began Thursday the
work of notifying Germans doils
business along the waterfront south
Of Twenty-third Street, to arrange
Tor Immediately vacating their off
ces, stores, saloons, warehouses, or
homes. Every German doing bust-
less on the riverfront between Twen-
:y-third Street and the Battery re-
:eived orders Thursday, and was in
.ormed that he had about seventy
-wo hours in which to comply with
he Governments instructions.
The office of United States Marshal
Thomas D. Mccarthy, in the Federal
Building, was visited Thursday, as it
las been every day since the Presi'
dent promulgated the new regula-
lions. by scores of German subjects
anxious to learn whether or not they
could not be excepted from the rule.
4 German-American who has an Of
fee In the Whitehall Building wanted
20 know, for instance, if he could
keep in his employ two German sub
.jects. The Office of this man offers
one of the best views of the harbor
% be had in the city.
You can keep them in your en-
oloy if you wish,'' replied Marshal
Mccarthy, but you will have to en-
oloy them in some other part of the
city. They will not be permitted to
remain at work in the Whitehall
Building OF in any other of the barr
I'd zones.
Another who called represented a
private detective agency. He said the
lgency had German among it's en-
,loyes who is helping guard a manu-
facturing plant in the Newtown Sec
ion of Brooklyn. This plant has
Government contracts. He was told
20 replace the German with bona
ide loyal American and to do it
Immediately.
While the Federal and city officials
we're busy completing their plans for
he enforcement of the Presidential
equations, Secret Service agents
we're busy In all parts of the city
md in New Jersey rounding up Ger
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