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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Governors Inspect
N. Y. Waterways
Cooperate With Bi-State
Commission to Improve
the Harbor

Governor Whitman and Governor
Edge Of New Jersey accompanied the
New York-New Jersey Port and Har-
Dor Development Commission on trip
investigating the waterways Of New
York yesterday. The joint commission
and its guests were entertained aboard
Commissioner Arthur CurtIss James's
Yacht Alicia, which left the Battery at
$3.50 a. m. They spent the whole day
studying the waterways.
This was one Of the first steps in
what members Of the commission
called "the new partnership between
the states Of New York and New Jer-
sey." The commission will act in an
advisory capacity, studying the needs
of the harbor and recommending def
mite projects to the legislatures of
both states. 1t will help TO establish
q joint control Of the waters between
New York and New Jersey, which will
do away with all litigation and ques-
tions of jurisdiction between the
states and enable the Federal govern
ment to cooperate in the development.
Although plans for the complete de-
velopment Of the ports and harbors
will take years to carry out. the COM
mission will begin Immediately an in
tensive study of various problems
brought up by tho war. 1t will make
efforts at once to solve the lighterage
problem, the need for more warehouses,
and will make recommendation for
the intensive Use Of ports during the
war. 1t is already planning an add
ticnal tunnel from New York to New
Jersey, which will help to relieve the
congestion IN transportation.
The commission made an observation
tour through the Bush Terminal sys-
TEN, which was conducted by r. G..
Simonds, vice-president of the Bush
Terminal Company. The yacht then
circled Staten Island, giving the party
an opportunity TO look over Staten ISL
and Sound and Newark Bay before
rounding Manhattan Island and taking
up the problems in the Hudson, Harlem
and East rivers.
The commission Is to be congratu-
lated on the way it has taken hold Of
the work." said Governor Whitman.
Although big proposition, which will
take years to complete, it is a perfect
ly feasible undertaking, and is of in
tercst to the whole country, both COM
mercially and as an efficient centre
for government transportation during
the war"
Governor Edge expressed gratifca-
ton at the partnership of>the New
York and New Jersey boards, which arc
acting as unit and have appointed
Major General George W. Goethals
chief consulting engineer.
Although New Jersey has had COM
paratively little TO do with the growth
of the harbor thus FAR" Governor EDGE
said, by cooperating with New York
and enlistirg the aid of the Federal
government we believe we cnn develop
a national institution here"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Premier Borden Puts
Suffrage in Platform
Equal Rights Will Prevail if
Canada Returns Him
To Power

VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. l9.-ln
the event Of Premier Borden's return
TO power 1t is his intention to confer
the franchise upon women generally
and to make important amendments TO
the naturalization act, relieving wom-
en- from discrimination rs compared
with men.
In a letter TO Mrs. ]. U. Perry, OF
Vancouver, the Premier says:
an case ! am returned TO power
81 is my purpose TO place upon the
statute book a measure granting the
franchise TO all women Of British birth
and comforting upon women Of foreign
birth the right 70 seek and obtain nat
ursliLAtion on their own behalf, so
that they may thus become endowed
with the same privilege after suitable
residence in this country and perhaps
after suitable educational tests. Tho
same measure should provide that a
woman Of British citizenship should
not lose that citizenship upon her mar
rage. sxes2t with hsE own consent"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Ship Nearly Capsizes
AS Gale Shifts Cargo

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. 10
After avoiding submarines on long
passage Of sixteen days from Huelva,
Spain. the Dutch freighter Pluto ar
rived here to-day, badly battered by
storm. She came into the harbor with
O. list OF about Is degrees to port, and,
according TO the crew, nearly went over
on her beam ends during northwest
ern gale on Monday night.
The vessel carried about 1900 tons
OF copper ore, which proved 70 be an
almost manageable cargo in the
weather she encountered on Monday.
Seas piled up on her forward deck, and
for nearly three hours she was able 10
make little mors than steerage way.
Just before the gale had blown itself
out the Pluto was caught in the trough
Of the sea and her cargo shifted 10 port.
Throughout the remainder Of her 500
mile run 70 this harbor she carried her
Is degree list, despite the fact that the
crew tried 10 get some of the ore over
TO the stAIboard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Woman Slain; Soldier Held
Private at Fort Slocum Is
Charged With Murder

NEW BRITAIN, Conn, Sept. l9.-
william J. Wise, private in the
Quartermaster's Corps at Fort Slocum,
is under guard in hospital here
CT arged with the murder of Mrs. Anna
Tobin, twenty-five years old, who was
found dead in Pearl Street with her
throat slashed. Wise was found lying
on the ground a short distance away
with deep wound in his throat.
He said he and Mrs. Tob!n were at
tackled by man who drew his lWise's)
razor razor from MS pocket sk inflicted i. the
convinced that John L. Tobin, the
woman's husband, knew nothing Of the
tragedy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Tune of 'Tipperary' Bailey Collapses
Stolen, She Says From Land Inquiry
Health Of Trust Company
Official Undermined by
Grand Jury Grilling

Frank Bailey, vice-president OF the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company,
who has been one of the most impor-
tant witnesses in the grand jury in
vestigation OF the city's purchases Of
land from William H. Reynolds, the
Neponsit Realty Company and Realty
Associates, is suffering from nervous
breakdown. According to Clark l.. Jor-
dan, his attorney, he is recuperating at
Hot Springs, Va, where he will remain
for several weeks. Mr.. Jordan said the
strain Of being questioned by the
grand jury almost constantly for four
weeks had undermined Mr.. Bailey's
health.
Joseph Huber, the Brooklyn brewer
one of five men who were to share
$4,000 equally from the city's money
paid for Seaside Park. at Rockaway,
told Assistant District Attorney Kill
roe yesterday that lie Lad never seen
two checks which had been made out
b. the Title Guarantee and Trust
Company 20 Huber and Reynolds joint
ly for $4,000 and $4,000. These
checks were turned in and cashed, but
the vouchers have never been pro-
duced. If Mr.. Huber's testimony is
correct, forgery mas probably been
committed, as his name appeared on
the back of the checks.
The District Attorney is also trying
20 get an explanation for the 5000
an acre which the condemnation COM
mission awarded the Neponsit Com
pany in 1912 for the park land. Clar-
enco l.. Edwards, one of the commits
sicners, now justice of the Court of
Special Sessions, says the land was
worth $4,000 an acre and that the extra
1872 was awarded 20 bring the total up
20 sl,250,000, the second option esti-
mate.
The investigation will be postponed
indefinitely 70 allow a resumption of
the Ruth Cruger case and Police De-
partment investigation, which WAS or
dered by Governor Whitman last July.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Man Hangs Himself
Over Piper Murder
Suicide Reawakens Interest in
Death of Rutgers Col
lepe Student

NEW BRUNSWICK, n. j., Sept. 10
Interest in the murder last February OF
John V. Piper, the Rutgers College stu
dent, was reawakened to-day by the
suicide Of John Gibson, seventy years
old. The body of Gibson was found
hanging from beam in the attic OF his
home. In one Of the pockets Of his
coat was a letter, in which he stated
that he feared he might be implicated
in the murder, because the revolver
with which the crime is thought to have
been committed was found in the yard
of his home.
DR.. W. j. Condor, an officer in the
United States Medical Reserve Corps,
Is now awaiting trial for the murder OF
Piper. He was arrested at Fort Ogle-
thorpe, Ca, in June, few days after
the body of the murdered college stu
dent had been found.
The murder Of the young college man
has been one of the most absorbing
mysteries the police of this city have
ever been called on to solve. The alb
sence Of any motive baiiled detectives
from the very start.
Some time during the night Of Feb
ruary IL he was murdered. His WIFE
reported his disappearance the follow.
ing morning. Late in June the body OF
the missing man was found along a
road twelve miles from this city.
On the evidence OF a negro, who
claimed 70 have seen the body OF the
murdered man in the cellar OF Or. Con-
dnn,s homo the doctor was indicted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Plans for ST., 100000 Garage,
Biggest in the City, Filed

The largest garage and factory build
ing in the greater city will be in l32d
Street, west OF Broadway. It's area
Square Garden. 1t will be 400 By 425
By 1910 feet. 1t will be erected for
the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, of
which Richard ". Meade is president
The construction will be OF reinforced
concrete and brick. The plans were
filed yesterday by James c. Mcclure 4
Co., architects. The cost is estimated
at Sl.00o.000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Ossining Fights Spooning
Appoints Woman to Police
Force as Protective Officer"

OSSINING, y. Y, Sept. ls.-Spooners
beware or the policewoman will get
YOU. The trustees Of the town ap-
pointed Mrs. Daniel o'Shes, OF s27
East lSoth Street, New York City, to
the police force to-day. The main part
Of her duties will be a crusade against
spooning, according 10 the resolution
adopted by the trustees in creating the
post.
Mrs. O'Shea has been doing proba-
ton work IN New York. Her official
designation will be protective Off
GER" and she will be under the juris-
diction of James Tompkins. chief of
police,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Regiment Has Newspaper
Aoueduct Guards to Publish
Happenings on 95-Mile Front

The lst Provisional Regiment, Ne"
York Guard, which is doing duty on \
e5-mile front along the Aqueduct, IS
to have a newspaper all Its own Inc
Sr.t issue will come from the press
Saturday.
In the announcement OF the new
papcr. Colonel John b. Rose says 1t
will be utilized largely to keep the
men OF his widely scattered regiment
in touch with each other.
The paper has an editorial staff and
correspondents located at all the prln-
cipal villages on the line of the Aque-
duct
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
5000, 900 Cartridge
Primers Defective
Inspector at Frankford Arse.
nal Tells House Committee
New Formula Is Needed

WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.-Hearings
were closed to-day by the special House
committee investigating the manufac.-
urs Of defective cartridges at the
Frsnkford Arsenal.
Major J. E. Monroe. chief inspector
OF the plant, told the committee that
100000 primers had been condemned
since the defect first was discovered,
and that with q new formula manu-
facture Of primer. would be resumed as
soon as additional drvhouss facilities
were completed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
News in Brief

supreme Court Justice COT and Al u'
traordinary grand jury to-day will begin ne
investigation ordered by Governor Whi'nin
into the murder Of Ruth Cruger and TIE cor
duet Of the police In the case.
The will Of the late Stephen Duncan Pnh.
gle, offered FOR probate u tho surrOsae
Court. bequesths $4,000 to the Civil ha,
pital Of Bayonne, France. Mr.. Prinsl. iis'
in France on July IS.
Joseph A. Buda, one Of the members o.
the alleged fake diploma factory" "" ~
dicted, charged with forgery and grad az
ceny. lie failed 70 appear for exAm'haH''
and bis bail Of $1,000 was forfeited.
New York City has been sued for SZ'sV''''
ten-years' gas bill. by the Northern un'''
Gas Company, OF The Bronx.
Safe arrival Of Public Service conn'
sioner Henry W Hodge. who IS now n''''
on the staff of General Pershins, IN s''n''
il reported.
The Iliador Picture Corporation
East Forty-second Street. has sought ..
junction to proven; Iiadgr. the mons, ~.
appearing in a motion picture 70 Dc
Is Tyranny Of the komanois with i''''''
Rutgers College began ia l5ls' SsAi
a total enrolment Of as Students y
cen. below normal
Michael Friedsarn. president OF y. -
& CO.. mas been appointed Ne" io'A -.
representative OF the rational food ''D
istrat.on.
Roland s. Morri.. recently appointed ~ ~.
bassador 20 Japan. was rendered IN, -.
hy a number Of friends. He leaves Tor IT,
post shortly.
Colonel Roosevelt will be ore OF the ~ -,
era AZ the meeting q the NanohS'
League to be held in Chicago next
day.
Lieutenant Denham Parent, u > -. ,iss
ed New York two years ago ~ S.I.s h
he was a civilian, employed As p,reei
Robe, Cooper, OF Buffalo. L!eutsnsh' seeer-
Is again visitor 20 the ei9. I,,,,r W.
panied by Able seaman Robert 'oS.,,,op.
Ter and servant have exchanged p0'"'
The Business Mems NAuona .,s sskA
League ha, issued a call for funds w. .,scts.
10 purchase ammunition for tsIssl ,Asss
OF the Home Defence League: soseA
be sent 10 the secretary. ss Wss~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Returns From l, JAP
Districts for Mayor

The following tables show the
mayoralty vote by Assembly districts
for the greater city. with 318 election
districts missing:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Talk of
City Hall

Apparently it is true Of soap-o'H
sedition that neither is it sedition de-
galIy) nor does it issue from soap
boyes Still, everyone understands to
what the phrase has reference IL Is
only grand juries and officers OIL 'ne
law who would welcome a more exac'
definition. Judge John f. Mcintyre, IN
General Sessions, for example, wouid
like to call il unlawful assembly ana
proceed against it by indictment trial
and jail sentence. while District Attor-
ney Edward Swami, his predecessor on
the bench, wishes it defined as disor-
derby conduct, to be dealt with by city
MAGISTRATES.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
magistra

There has been a serious faiiing out
over the matter between the judge and
the District Attorney, with the grand
Jury caught between them. The sug-
gestion that politics is at fault is some
what discountenanced at the start by
the fact that Judge Mcintyre and Mr..
Swami are both members Of Tammany
Hall, and, therefore, not interested, at
least openly, in discrediting one an
other. On the other hand, it has been
pointed out that the judge is not run
ming for reelection, which would rem
der him less sensitive to the votes Of
the seditious minded than the District
Attorney and more anxious to smite
the Friends of Irish Freedom hip and
thigh for their disloyal and incendiary
sentiments.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20

But If the District Attorney had been
seeking, for political reasons, to check
mate the judges drive on soap-oox
sedition, it seems probable he would
have put in charge of the matter TOR
his office an assistant other than John
McKim Minton, jr., an Independent
Democrat, whom he inherited from the
Whitman regime. 1t was Mr.. Minton
who told Judge Mcintyre that he, the
Judge, had not taken the trouble TO
look up the law when he charged tho
grand jury to find indictments against
the strcet-corner orators, and that II
was all a matter TO be dealt with by
the magistrates. The judges ire Is
directed more against Mr.. Mlnton than
Mr.. Swami.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20

Richmond

Seventeen election districts missing o.
OF forty-eight
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
Brooklyn

Thirty-nins election districts missing out
of 264.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20

The Judge himself did strange
thing, il he really expected indIct..
ments, in appointing as foreman OF
the grand jury his old friend, Alex
ander Konta. Mr.. Konta, Hungarian
by birth, has a record for pro-German
utterance beginning with the outbreak
OF the war in 1914 and lasting until
shortly before the United States en-
tered the conflict. He was friend Of
Won Papen, and when Captain Hans
Tauscher, the husband of Nine. Gadski,
was arrested in conectinon with the
Welland Canal conspiracy, Konta wen:
on the captains bail bond. konta's
own loyalty as an American citizen
has not been impugned, but the ques..
ton has been raised whether man OF
his previously pronounced sympathies
could be expected 70 cooperate with any
great enthusiasm against the Friends
of Irish Freedom.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20

In the District Attorneys Office il Is
believed that as matter of policy, TO
say nothing of the law, the wiser course
would be TO let the magistrates send
the seditious orators TO the workhouse
under circumstances in which they
would find il very difficult to pose as
martyrs. But, then, Mr.. Swami, before
he became a judge and later District
Attorney, was civil lawyer, in quiet
practice. He was a friend of settle
ments out OF court and hostile to noise
and the use of big weapons on small
fry. IL seems not improbable that when
the subject OF court procedure is raised
he and Judge Mcintyre speak different
languages.
In any case, he has been put in an
embarrassing light. However justified
his attitude toward soapbox sedition
may be, it will be said OF him that, in
line with the whole Tammany cam
paign, he is seeking 20 consolidate in
his support the pro- German and anti
British vote. And he knows, as every
one else must, that the man who gets
that vote must do it in secret If he does
not wish 10 lose double the strength ne
gains.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20

So far the result of the proceedings
before the grand jury has been pre-
sentiment, signed by konta, which the
District Attorney has variously de-
scribed as a "cable message 20 Berlin
and as bullets in the backs or our
boys in the trenches" He sought to
suppress it, but Mr.. konta secured its
publication. As a matter Of fact, II sup
ports the District Attorneys attitude IN
regretting the paucity of law applicable
to soapbox sedition, while severely con-
demning the offence. IL recommends,
as Mr.. Minton has, that the subject De
dealt with in the magistrates courts
under the head of disorderly conduct.
The whole thing appears 10 be con.
flict not of political ambitions, nor OF
international sympathIes, but OF tenn
peraments. Judge Mcintyre has been
trained in the criminal courts, and IN
the course of long and famous career
as a trial lawyer he has handled a
great many sensational cases. he IS
noted for heated invectiye and grandll-
oauence. His fault has never been that
of understatement. He has never
shrunk from me!odramatic effects.
Ii is said of him in this instance that
in his righteous wrath against street
corner disloyalty he has overstated 70
the grand jury the legal case against it
and that the dilemma in which the au-
thortes find themselves is his fault.
And he Is criticised, too, for wanting
in the first place to dignity the offence
Of soapbox sedition with the elaborate
court procedure against it which he
contemplated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-20
The Bronx

Total ........5.903 13,437 10
l3l election districts missing out Of Isl.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-09-20

sisted by Mrs. C. S. Sparkes, also
gave a coffee Wednesday. The pro-
ceeds were turned over to the Con-
gregational church.
LITTLE MISS SUSAN SPRAGUE
celebrated herssecond birthday Thurs
day afternoon September thirteenth
at the home of her grandparents in
Duluth, where she. and her parents
are spending few weeks. Several
children from the nighborhood were
invited to the birthday party. and all
enjoyed themselves in the greatest de-
gree, Susan Amelia, as much as the
otherss Thel41Eas birthday cake and
candles and everything that goes to
akesa~seally truly birthday.
MRS. R. E. HANSEN WAS HOST
ess to the j. F. F. Club, which reor-
ganized and rejuvenated Saturday
evening. This year the ladies are de-
voting their attention to knitting.
MRS. F. S. PARKER, ASSISTED
by Mrs. Cecil Sparkes, entertained the
Young Ladies' Society of the Congre-
gational church Wednesday afternoon
of this week.
A-~*
MR.. AND MRS. GUY E. MICKEY
entertained Informally at a dinner
party Wednesday evening for mum.
Der of friends.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-09-20

ONE SPOONFUL buckthorn bark,
glycerine, etc.. as mixed in Adler-i-ka
benefited her INSTANTLY. Because
Adler-i-ka Pushes the ENTIRE ali
mentary tract it relieves ANY CASE
constipation, sour stomach or gas and
prevents appendicitis. It has QUICK
EST action of anything we ever sold.
adv O. w. Dowswell, Druggist.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-09-20
woman's side of it. Anyway it has
an enviahle renItafion

woman's side Of it. Anyway it has
an enviable reputation.
sFriday-Lillian Gish, the most
sweetly pathetic actress on the movie
stage. Her feature this time is ''The
Children Pay" Those who1haye seen
her know what q pleasure she is and
those who have not, should really find
out.
Saturday-"The Railroad Raiders
are past and gone, everything is
wrecked and rebuilt, Helen Holmes is
near-murdered, near-shot,. near-lost a
thousand times and. i finally : amid
cheers and sobs, yes, Iamean it, is
eternally rescued by the hero and
they marry. There we will. leave them;
no movie can depict married life as is
is. And now the manager is trying
something new, that ought to be a
success. This week he has Baby Os-
borne, the wee actress that the crowds
flock to see, playing in merry Sun
shine" If this little lady is appre-
ciated there will be more coming. In
addition, Mr.. Dubeau is going to run
Pathe's Weekly.
Sunday-"The Mysterious Mr.. Till
ler", as interpreted in Rupert Julian's
own style. He is supported by Ruth
Clifford and the two Of them would
make a success of anything. The
story is one of the secret service and
will attract those especially who are
fond of the mysterious. It is a Blue
pird
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-09-20

George Ingram of Moose Jaw, Can
ada arrived Monday to join his daugh-
ter Miss Hildred and Miss Ada Will
cox, who have been spending the sum-
mer at the homes of relatives. We'd
.hesday morning the party went to
Minneapolis where they will visit at
the home of Gefdon Ingram for few
days before retumal ito Moose Jaw.