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 Beginning at point on the sanitary sewer In the center Of the alley second east of and parallel to Slxty-second street and the center of the alley between lots 2 and s, in Jacob Schmidts subdi- vision: thence westward along the center of said alley to a point 20 feet east of the western terminus of said alley.
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 Beginning at a point on the sanitary sewer in Sixty-first street and the center of the alley first north of and parallel with Third avenue, south; thence west ward along the center of said alley to the line between the lots fronting the Georgia Road at distance of 260 feet east of Sixtieth street
 Said sewers drain the territory or area bounded as follows:
 Beginning at the south line Of Third avenue (formerly Second avenue) and the alley first west of and parallel to Sixty firth Place (formerly Edmond streeO; thence southward along the east line of said alley and the northeast line of Sixty fifth street to the southeast line of Sec ond avenue, south formerly Underwood avenue): thence northeasterly along said southeast line to the southwest line of Sixty-sixth street; thence southeasterly along said southwest line to a point 75.6 fleet southeast of Fourth avenue, south formerly High avenue); thence south- westward parallel to Fourth avenue. south Gormerly High ayenue). to the north line of lot 3. block 20, Woodlawn Heights subdivision; thence eastward along the north line of said lot 3, to the northeast corner of same; thence south ward along the east line of lots 1, subdivision, to the south line of Ken-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Price Fixing Is All Right Say the Farmers; but 1t Mus

Of tho conference" the Farmers told
Tribune correspondent, "was not to pro-
test against the governments action IN
fixing the price of wheat too low, but to
support the government in a programme
of fixing reasonable prices on all the neces-
saries of life, to the end that the war for
liberty should not work injustice, and that
no man should use patriotism as cloak
for profits extracted from nation in the
agony of great conflict We say
tc the profteers: Government price fix-
ing is all right. Come on In, the water
is fine. We do not ask to fix the price
of what you are selling us according to
the price we fix on what we sell you. We
ask YOU to sell to US according to the
price you have fixed on what we sell to
vou.' If the price Of wheat is to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

apparent holding back, therefore, is the
question of price fixing in general. The
most marked symptom of dissatisfaction
with the governments policy, of course, is
that voiced by the two days meeting of
the National Non-Partisan League, at St
Paul. This essentially farmers and grain
growers body, having sent farmer to
Congress and another to the gubernatorial
chair in North Dakota, appears to be
leading a movement comparable to the
Populist movement Of the '90s, directed
IN general toward all profteering through
its protest against the price fixed for
wheat. Wheat was s3.06 bushel when
the new price of 1920 was named, the
farmers point out
But what is sauce for the goose should
be sauce for the gander. "The purpose
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

farmers wheat, but It can't prevent 1t from
going up in smoke"
"The Northwestern Miller" character
izing the price of 81 for the 1918 crop an
economic crime" says the government
made it ostensibly to encourage wheat
production, but really to placate the agri-
cultural vote, adding:
"a 50 a bushel, it is highly probable that
the wheat crop for 1918 will exceed billion
bushels Should the war end before it is
harvested, which is certain, the most reliable
authorities believing that it cannot last more
than six months longer, the price of wheat
everywhere. except in the United States, will
rapidly decline, and it is probable that in
England, for instance, it will be somewhere
near 60 cents.
This will leave the United States alone
paying at the rate of 50 bushe for wheat"
The real question opened by the farmers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

TINE wheat situation in the Northwest
and the meeting Of the National
Non-Partisan League at st. Paul
have served 70 bring the matter Of price
fixing into serious question from all sides,
ludging from press comment.
The discussion started with reports that
tanners were holding back their wheat Tor
higher prices and was followed by the most
contradictory statements regarding the
wheat and -four situation in Minnesota
mills. Farmers, thinking the price OF
wheat should be around SO instead of $500,
we're said TO be refusing to market their
grain. Elevators were reported shutting
Gown for lack Of grain TO grind. Flour
was seized" in New York City by the
rood Administration to avert flour
famine" Agents of the Germans were re-
ported behind the North Dakota dissatis-
faction, and even from the Pacific coast
aiscontent over the price of wheat made
Itself heard.
The entire situation is not yet wholly
tear, but press reports agree on certain
SetS Farmers are slow to market THIS
years crop, but the reasons for their hold
ing back vary. With some, frank dissatis-
action with the 1920 price and the hope
VI higher prices were plausible reasons for
u0ldma back grain. With many others,
nvWeyer, the shortage was clearly due to
ne fact that the farmers are taking ad-
vantage Of favorable weather to put IN a
Jumper crop for next year. In other cases
.afmers sure of a good wheat price were
marketing other grains while high prices
aeid, fearing a lowering of prices through
'afther government action. With reports
" y mills shutting down discredited, further
usAt on the wheat situation is given by
Statement from the New York Produce
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

be fixed. then we ask the government to
90 down the line and fix the price on all
the necessaries of life"
Support of this attack on price fixing
in general as a government policy IS TO
be found both among those who think
the government ought to let price fixing
alone and those who think 1t should go
the limit. Among the latter, OF course,
the league stands foremost.
But oddly enough support for a more
radical extension of price fixing also comes
from the United States Chamber of Com
MERGE at Washington, which last week sub
mitted a referendum to the business men
of the country on the matter OF the gov
eminent controlling the prices paid by the
consumer for all necessities Of life during
the period of the war, exactly the thing
the League farmers demand.
A dispatch to The Tribune said:
after going very thoroughly into this
subject the National Chamber Price Control
Committee has recommended that authority
TO control prices should extend 10 all artlcIes
which have Importance in basic industries
es we'll as in war and which enter into the
necessaries Of everyday life; that authority
TO control prices should be extended 10 raw
materials and finished products; that au-
thority 10 control prices should extend to
the prices the public pays as we'll as those
paid by the government; that authority to
control prices should be administered by
small executive board appointed by the
President"
And even more striking than the ref
erendum is the added statement Of the
Chamber of Commerce that it has already
gone on record through a referendum vote
of its members, committing it to the prin-
ciple. that there should not be a profit in
terest in war. AS if to echo this idea,
Herbert Hoover, speaking before a con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

Exchange showing that the visible supply
of wheat on hand in this country this year
is extremely small compared with that Of
last year, and hence any failure of farmers
to market in regular volume this autumn
would promptly tend to lower already de-
pIeted reserves in elevators and mills.
Considerable anger was expressed by the
press and others over the farmers demand
that they should have a higher price for
their wheat and were otherwise holding
back at critical time. The government
contented itself with pointing out an ex-
pert's estimates that 1920 wheat gives the
farmer a net profit of S1.4l. THE New
York World" characterized the situation
as THE Western wheat hold-up," and said
that il should not be overlooked that
Gin all legislation thus far the farmer has
been highly favored In the matter of wheat
the price fixed by Congress and the Food
Administration is double the figure which
growers before the war regarded as ideal,
but which they rarely obtained. Although
every other producer who is able TO command
such increased prices has fallen under sus-
pcion, the farmer has the pam sSheHeh Vi
law for his 100 per cent advance.
unless the country is ready to admit that
farmers and planters have peculiar
privilege TO engage in eXtortlon and retain
all the proceeds, the threatened Western
wheat hod.up should engage the most
serious attention of Congress.
"The New Haven Register" saw the
farmer as dictator" stating:
To-day the farmer is protected more than
any other class. He is the dictator and
knows it, and what is more he exercises
this power in a manner which disregards
all the principles of square dealing. Inc
farmer of Kansas, Dakota and Nebraska has
grudge which he is proceeding TO satisfy
as best he can. The Topeka State journal
received q letter from a Kansas farmer IN
which it was written:
"'Ths government may commander the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

levy of 100000 men is forecast by the
War Department as part Of its programme
Of 1900 900 men under arms by next sum-
mer. Hence the remaining 100000 draft
cligibles will be presently examined, and
evidence indicates that aliens will soon be
brought into military service of some sort.
Meantime, moratoriums for fighting men
receive favorable consideration at Wash
ington. where the soldiers insurance bill
is all but law. Incidentally, it is announced
that 1,O74,146 volunteers were under arms
for this country on September 8.
Supplies, from leggings to cannon, begin
to figure in the military news. Woollen
puttees will replace the old cotton leg
gings. Tobacco may be included as part
of the soldier ration. "Goulash cannon
for meals in the field will be made equally
with thousands of regular battery units
The faulty ammunition probe reveals
official negligence and obsolete methods IN
our ammunition plants, while in the House
stir is created over the price Of million
rifles: $50 for us, S27 for England. In
the air, many accidents and rapid progress.
A new biplane goes up $4,000 feet to an
American record, while our planes keep
up with the Liberty Motor, behind which
Colonel Roosevelt is the first civilian to
ride Italian aviators come to demonstrate
planes Of great sizes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

vention of business men at Atlantic City
under the auspices of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, said that unless
American business men forgot profits and
drove out the profiteers, they would see
socialism triumphant and chaos like that
in Russia"
While these two radical wings favor
universal price fixing so that war may
work no injustice through INSCRIPTIONS
profteers, there are those who insist that
the government will drop the price fixing
business like hot cake one Of these days.
Chief among these is James A. Patten,
wheat operator on the Chicago Board Of
Trade, whose prediction should carry some
weight despite the obvious profit to him
should the government remove the price
ban. Besides suggesting a big loss to the
government on its 81 wheat price should
the war end next year, Mr.. Patten defends
the old scheme Of things.
1.-THE New York Sun" Is also inclined to
smile at the governments Price Fixing
Victories" citing on one hand the farm
ers' plant at the wheat price, and on the
other the master bakers view. Says "The
Sum:
THE 1000 master bakers who have as
sembled in Chicago 20 hold their annual con
vention protest, declare and asseverate that
the fixing of the wheat price at $500, 'un-
dreamed Of few years ago. not only boosts
the price OF -four TO sl2 barrel but places
the consumer at the mercy OF the farmer
At least il makes cheap bread impossible.
Further, 1t is alleged, the farmer is re-
fusing 20 harvest potatoes and other crops
unless an exorbitant minimum price be pro
claimed for them. He may yet learn his
lesson when they begin TO rot in the ground 2
1t looks as if the good old law OF supply
and demand might soon come into its own
again. In the meantime, what has become OF
that horrible criminal, the middlemanF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Food and Fuel

WHILE our soldiers prepare for bat
w tie the public battles with the food
and fuel problem. Led by the National
Non-Partisan League, farm and labor
radicals meeting at St. Paul demand that
if wheat is controlled so must the prices
Of other necessaries of life be taken in
hand. An echo of this radical outburst
comes from Atlantic City, where Herbert
Hoover tells the business men Of the ma
ton in convention assembled that unless
nrofteering is done away with chaos and
socialism will appear in our midst. Draw
ing a parallel between what caused the
Russian revolution and conditions here, ne
predicts victory in the war for the side
with the most food. Meantime food con-
troll stalks down upon meat, sugar, canned
goods. produce and bread. While bumper
crops of beans and potatoes are reported,
75.cent butter is predicted and milk JOINS
the ranks of soaring commodities. On the
ether hand, the coal dictator stops coal
leak to Canada and directors for twelve
states are named. At the same time soft
coal. it is announced, will be seized at the
mines to supply many small dealers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Labor

THE region of domestic disturbance also
/ extends to labor this week. Shipbuild-
ing and shipping activities in the entire
country have been threatened by strikes.
The strike of thousands of men in naval
construction work on the Pacific Coast
causes President Wilson to name COM
mission of five to investigate the labor
situation in the Far West. Ships are held
up in New York by the longshoremen
strike, and over 10000 men may be called
out if threats materialize. However,
bright side to the labor situation is not
lacking. A seven weeks strike at Spring
field. H., is settled, following
patriotic appeal by the Governor and
Intervention by concilatory agents.
Business men in convention at At
lantic City urge the payment Of maxi
mum prices for war labor as necessary
steps. President Wilson agrees to a union
cf six hundred thousand government en-
uloyes-a new departure-and also ap-
nroves the sending Of labor mission OF
fifty men to Russia. Chicago reports
favor the drafting of hoboes, and Miss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Russia

n Russia the political sky clears favor
ably for the Allies. A republic is an
bounced by Kerensky and his fellows to
check plans to revive the monarchy. From
blaze Of sedition the Korniloff affair
SINNERS down as the rebellious patriot sur
snders and awaits court martial. How
EVER, public sentiment is against severe
punishment. Even the Cossacks now back
tie Premier, while the Bolsheviki lose
power somewhat Kerensky, steering a
middle course, appears successful in unit
Ing the radicals and conservatives, holding
the new republic together under council
afye until more properly delegated power
can be given those in command. The
fourth Duma may be dissolved. Hand IN
hand with the political recuperation OF the
democracy appears new vigor in the army:
General Alexieff as chief of staff, and
everywhere signs of returning discipline
and willingness to fight. Indeed, repre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

mysterious action of torpedo that mar
rowly misses a big liner. The U-boat scare
off Nantucket proves unfounded. A thrill
ing story Of eight U-boat sinkings is re-
leased by the British. Looking ahead, the
Allies canvass neutral shipping and plan
naval conference in Paris for October,
while England launches her first fabri-
Gated steel ship and the United States all
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

but finishes arming all boats. Camoufage,
conveys, speed. and armed crews so far APP
lear to be the best U-boat antidotes. Mean
time Japan appears likely to aid by divert
ing ships to the Atlantic, while she stops
the sale of ships to foreigners and en-
larges her docks. Yale also strikes at the
submarine by adding naval courses to her
curriculum.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

FACE, al! but barred from Allies
discussions, continues the bur-
den of the German song this
week, though discordantly.
From a mass of contradictory
..isnce that the Teutons are busily put
.,s their heads together, few striking
ATS stand out. The long-delayed Ger
an reply to the Pope, forecast as prob
N. acceptance, still fingers. Belgium is
,.;,y handled about among the rival peace
,,3.vsr groups, some papers even ex-
,-ssing willingness to give up Albert's
.Tssted kingdom. Hindenburg and Will
are two names much in German head
v,,s On the one hand, Mr.. Wilson is
.,uri .the most honest of Germans enc
-;ss" on the other, Hindenburg says the
President has united the Geaman people
rors strongly. Berlin says England Of
;.,.d peace. The censor suddenly allows
A, press 10 discuss terms to its hearts
,,rtent. Austria-Hungary, now ready to
,.,ept mo annexations and no indemni-
t.s now backs the Prussians to the last.
C.rmsn staff officers say Germany needs
,lasting peace; and the seventh German
var loan is being foated partly on the
strength Of Mr.. Wilson's indictment of the
gobsnzollerns. Never has Germany spent
u,h volube week over the question OF
~ace-cloudy as the real situation re-
mains to outsiders.
To all this the Allies remain unbendlng.
A visit of the Bulgarian Minister to Swe-
den to the American Legation at Stock
holm causes a ripple Of conjecture, but
otherwise the Allied peace front is unruf-
FED. In France Painleve demands Alsace
and reparation as minimum terms, mean
while Investigating the spy activities OF
Deputy Tunnel. From Italy comes word
that the Pope is through for the present.
Britain stands frm, suspicious and deter
mined not to be lured by any cunning
German peace kites. But the Stockholm
idea still lives, and the National Party
gains strength rapidly. As for the United
States-"Company, 'tention. Forward,
March"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Suffrage

THE suffrage cause fuctuates, but will
l. not down. Seven members of the
Senate suffrage committee agree to report
the amendment favorably. Six more won
en- are held at Washington, but another,
sentenced for thirty days, revolts from her
sisters and is released. In Indiana the
suffrage law is held void. In Canada Pre-
mier Borden promises suffrage in case he
is returned to office, while the House ap-
proves the ballot for the kin Of soldiers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Sedition and Loyalty

-HE drive against disloyalty centres on
L the pro-German press. Most nota-
lie is the indictment and holding on bond
Of five editors Of "The Philadelphia Tage-
blatt"-two for treason and three under
the espionage act. The exposure Of Mr..
Hearst's papers threaten to become per-
manent "The Masses" loses an attempt
TO regain mail privileges, and Tom Wat
son is hailed TO Washington following his
editorial appearance in a new magazine,
"The Watson Guard" Mayor Thompson
of Chicago is also shown TO back semi
seditious paper, "The Chicago Republi-
can" "The New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung
on the other hand, resents slurs on It's 10y
atty and asks a clean bill Of health from
the Federal authorities. Finally, the gov
crnment, through a new amendment to
the trading with the enemy" bill, pro-
poses censorship for all foreign language
publications in this country, and by more
stringent ruling strikes at their dissent
nation by express and freight.
The paciist we have always with US.
Scott Nearing is slated to head the Peo-
pies Council in a campaign for 100000
members. Police break up pacifist meet
ing at Hartford, Conn, and the American
Union Against Militarism strikes a gov
eminent snag when it appeals to conscien-
tious directors to mobilize. CASTOR b.
Means, held in connection with the death
of Mrs. Maude A. King, is found to
have intimate knowledge Of our munitions
plants. Even soldiers travelling East are
wounded by shots fired through railway
car windows by unknown persons. On the
ether hand, patriotism appears in an ag-
gressive role. Delegates from twenty
German-American organizations urge the
characterization of Germany and loyalty
to this country, while Swedes in New
York City pledge their allegiance anew.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
The War-on Land

WHILE diplomats jockey for peace posi-
w tion, actual military operations are
more potential than actual. A striking re-
vival of Russian military strength appears
coincident with improved political condi-
tons. On a forty-mile front the Russians
drive back the Germans in places as much
as seven miles near Riga, retaking several
towns. On the Italian front recent gains
are held amid heavy fighting, and ad-
vances are made on the Bainsizza Plateau.
The French near Monastir and the Turks
near GAIA also stir. On the western front
another impending British smash is fore
cast by blasts of drumfre, while the
French give and take at Verdun. Under
Pershing the American contingent un'
limbers its artillery and is frequently
bombed. Action before winter is pos
sibility.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23

IN the field of finance the balance sheet
l. for our first year Of the war appears
with staggering totals. Eighteen billions
is the bill, which is % per cent Of the total
war outlay in three years Of all the other
telligerents-though most Of it will be
spent in this country. Meantime, other
emergency measures are polished of at
Washington for final approval. The Senate
passes the S11 1000, 0000 900 credit bill and
sends it to conference.-the greatest single
finance measure in history. All the "wil-
full twelve" Senator'S voted for it. Seven
billions will go for bonds, two for savings
certificates and two for temporary GER
tificates Of Indebtedness. Meantime, the
House passes the s7,OOO,0OO,0O0 deficiency
kill, largely for military apparatus and
equipment for two million soldiers. Equal
Insurance for men and officers also passes
the House. The second Liberty Loan cam
paign is ready, silver breaks twenty-five
year record by passing 81, and Japan,
following our example, puts an embargo
en- the export Of gold.