New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-12

resolution take the usual course; that
it would come up before the board next
Tuesday and probably would be adopt
cd then.
Meanwhile. the Brooklyn Neighbor-
hood Association, comprising settle
ment and church organization workers
of that borough, met yesterday after
noon at the United Neichborhood Guild
House, in the navy yard section, and
appointed a committee to act with the
committee of the New York sssocia-
ton in pressing for action on the part
Of the New York City authorities.
Realizing that Dr. Moskowitz, with
the rest of the Mitchell administration,
will go out of Office in three weeks, IT
was decided that the committee headed
by Miss Rosa Manning, settlement
worker, should also 90 before Mayor
elect Hylan. This committee, 1t was
said Yesterday at the University Settle
ment, Rivington and Eidridge Streets,
is now formulating a statement of
conditions embodying the following
points:
That thousands of people able and
willing 10 pay reasonable prices for
coal have been unable TO get fuel and
have been living in unhested quarters
since the present cold wave began.
Others have obtained coal, but only in
small quantities. fifty or sixty
pound bag each, at prices varying from
70 cents to 81, or a pailful, costing a
quarter.
Death Toll Increased
That diseases due to undernourish-
ment and cold living quarters are
spreading, the Department Of Health
having reported thirty-four deaths
from pneumonia yesterday, while
Henry Street House workers declared
that the calls on its nursing service
during the last nine months had ex-
ceeded b. $1,000 the calls made upon
it during the whole of last year.
That food and fuel dealers were
openly dsregarding the regulations of
the food and fuel administrations OF
the United States government, and
charging all they could extort.
Arthur Williams, Federal food ad
ministrator for New York, now has in
hand more than 900 complaints of over
charging it was declared at the Uni
versity House meeting. Several set
Element workers, as well as the Health
Department, reported that numerous
complaints against coal dealers had
been referred to Reeve Schley, the fuel
administrator for New York City.
In no case, Il was asserted, had
there been any decisive action. and
IL was decided 10 appeal 20 the city TO
institute relief measures without re-
gard 70 the Hoover or Garfield or
CARNATIONS.
Red Tape Hampers Work
rb.rlog
Jewish Educational Society of Brooklyn,
produced letter received from the
Hoover board at Washington, dealing
with the method of procedure on COM
plants Of food overcharges This let
ter, signed By Richard Whitney, OF
the states administration division of
the United States food administration.
said in part:
"A complaint is made that a certain
grocer Is overcharging for sugar. for
instance. Mr.. Williams will send
representative TO the grocer or 60 him
self and inform the grocer Of the COM
plant. II the man acknowledges that
he has been overcharging he might be
brought into line By merely having the
instance pointed out 10 him. II he de-
MES IL and the complaint is we'll found
90 II might be necessary TO get aft
davits from the people making the com
plant in order to verify the charge.
"These having been procured, another
visit 70 the grocer might break down
MS protest, and in this way ne might
be brought into line. Ii he still CON
;nues to deny the charge it might be
necessary 70 send legal representa-
tive into his store and have his books
examined, and If it came TO the last
resort proceedings might have TO be in
stituted against him from Washington"
with 500 complaints in New York
City alone 70 handle" said Dr. Bern
heimer. "it would take years By that
method 10 bring relief"
Or. Bernheimer reported tha. IN the
Williamsburg and Est New Yorx $50