New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-21
Zones Around Armories
Would Bar Ordinary Activ-
tiles, Says Marshal
Investigation of
Applicants Begins
Throng of Germans Tx
pccted in Federal Build
ing To-day


Southern District Of New York whicn
includes Manhattan Island, will have 10
hold a government permit II ne wishes
20 move freely about this city during
the war
Thomas d. Mccarthy. United states
Marshal for this district, made TINS
clear in a statement issued yesterday
Tho overlapping armory zones from
which aliens are barred. Marshal NC
Csrthy stated, include so large poI-
ton of the city as TO curtail severely
~. ordinary activities Of unnaturalized
Germans. Hence arrangements nave
been made TO receive applications iroi"
all enemy aliens for permits to pass
through restricted areas.
This announcement will precipitate
rush for permits by thousands OF ahens
~ Manhattan. Marshal Mccarthy eA
neets AT least 10000 applicants IL
means that law-abiding Germans VIII
have tho liberty of the city and VIII DC
ncrmitted 10 follow the ordinary actiVl,
lies of metropolitan life. That wou,9
have been impossible under the oiu
ruling, which provided for the grah,'ns
Of permits only to those VINO IiVeu %
worked in the barred zone, and lghore9
the fact that ordinary travel around
the city is virtually Impossible without
cutting into one of the restricted area;
Marshal Mccarthy further stated
that aliens would be excluded from GER
tain danger points," which VIII be an
nounced later. He calls on all aliens
70 he Hthe guarantor for the conduct
and behavior of every other alien en-
emy." and warns that "any action oil
susnicious nature or character upon the
mart of any alien enemy may cause the
revocation OF the extension OF PRIV
ilcges."
twenty-five deputy marshals will TO-
dav begin the investigation of applica-
tions for permits by more than three
thousand alien enemies who have reg
istered to date under the old rcgula,
ticns. More than five hundred applied
Yesterday at the marshaPs ofhce, when
was omen from 9 in the morning until
shortly before 8 last night. II the m
vestigations by Marshal McCarthys
deputies reveal activities OF sus-
picious nature, the applicants guilty
probably will be interned, II is SAID.
L
Marshal Mccarthy yesterday, every
lien enemy will have to have permit
SfPhe wants to be able TO move about
freely, Notwithstanding that he neither
lives nor works in the barred zones.
Why, you can scarcely walk from one
block to another without hitting for
hidden zone. We want TO be as lenient
rs we can with the thousands of law
abiding Germans here, and the way for
them TO insure self-protection is the
immediate filing of applications for
permits"
\ The last day for tire filing Of appli-
cations is June /. The time, however,
probably will be extended. since the
decision TO grant permits 20 all alien
enemies will bring thousands Of addi-
tional Germans to the marshaPs Of
fee. Alien enemies, confined through
illness in their homes or in hospitals,
may file applications for permits from
their sick beds if they cali in a notary
and attest TO the accuracy of their
statements. The necessary blanks will
be sent upon request 10 such aliens
from the marshal's Office.
Yesterday was the busiest Sunday
the marshal's Office has had in years.
There was a long line waiting TO file
Applications NNen inc OulCt III inc Itu-
cIal Building opened at nine. Some of
them came alone and others brought
interpreters. A few were accompanied
by their daughters, who filled out the
application blanks. Rooms adjoining
the marshal's Office were utilized, and
into these the applicants swarmed.
They made a nervous, fidgety. uncer-
tain company, who chartered excitedly
in German. The word "intcrnierungs
Lsger'-not a beer. but German for
"interment csmp"-few back and forth
across the writing tables. and il was
evident that many of the Germans look
for their ultimate internment as the
war progresses. One young man asked
in German:
"What will become of us if the war
keeps up? / have lost my job already.
Maybe there will be others. II so we
ought 20 be interned for our own safe
~ and protection" And there were
few cultural grunts of approval.
A youag man in National Guard uni
form asked Chief Deputy Marshal Jo-
seph 7. McDonough for an application
blank.
"Wo wohnen Sie?" came back Nc
Donough. and the youth grinned. He
us IN the list Regiment and wanted
20 know If he had TO have permit to
pass through the restricted zone
around his armory.
"You needn't worry" McDonough
told him. walk around the block and
forget IT,"