The sun., 1918-07-16
JOHN DOWD FAILS
TO END THE WAR
Obtuse Government Officials
Even Subject Him to I'M
pudent Questioning.
WANTED TO SEE WILSON
Boys Would Be Out Of
Trenches Tomorrow il He Had
Talked With President.

John Dowd got back to New York
last night, which was much sooner thar
John Dowd expected to get back to
New York, and so because John Dowd
got back to New York much earlier
than John Dowd expected to get back
to New York the war will not be ended
by Wednesday, that Is tomorrow.
John Dowd spends six weeks OF each
early summer In New York. He spends
large part OF them in a furnished
room, which he rents each year at 30s
West Twenty-ninth street John Dowd
is now In his fifth week Of this years
fling at the metropolis. He is 10. hale.
husky. extreme In his ideas" his land
lady said last night. and pays 81 each
week for his furnished room.
John Dowds hand trembled nervously
Sunday afternoon as he turned the key
in the lock to the door of his furnished
room and took the landlady into his con-
f1dence:
"Sssssh "a finger to his lips) The
war-there will be no war after Wednes-
day, that is. IL can get to the Pres-
dent"
beyond that John Dowd declined, quite
positively and firmly, to take the land.
lady in his confidence. Instead he get
out for tho Pennsylvania Station, from
| whence trains go to Washington.
| John Calls the White House.
John Dowd hurried nervously into the
| Union Station in Baltimore at 4 o'clock
Yesterday morning When he asked to
be connected with tho White House the
| dropping lids OF the telephone operator
| opened wide and the eyes behind them
| looked John Dowd over very. very care
| fully. To question or two John Dowd
responded he could not be interrupted
since he had an important peace mes
sage to convey to the President.
John Dowd appeared very much pu,
| out when he was told II was not the
! Presidents rule to be awake at 4 o'clock
in the morning. even though he had APP
, proved the saving daylight plan.
| So John Dowd bombarded the tele
graph booth and got off at once a tele
gram directed to the President impor-
tuning Mr.. Wilson to halt hostil!ties
, John Dowd's message said that peace
| could be declared, the war stopped h
Wednesday and the railroads turned
| back TO their stockholders if--IF-only
the President. being the boss of this
war for democracy. would only agree &c
drop down TO the Union Station In Wash.
lngton and there meet John Dowd.
| From the telegraph booth John Dowd
hurried into the Baltimore station
masters Office and sought to engage g
| special train. since the ordinary Govern.
mep train service WAS so outrageously
slow. and since he had an important en-,
gagement with the President. The sta
ton master didn't quite understand
| whether the President was to carry hi
handkerchief in his left hand so thai
John Dowd would recognize the Presi'
dent.
Mr.. Dowd in scclusion.
BY that time. however. army intelli.
gence officers had arrived and for a time
John Dowd was put to a close question.
ing at the central district police station
in Baltimore. Apparently the question.
ing ended happily for John Dowd. Fo,
John Dowd arrived. weary and some
| what d!shevelled, last evening at hi
furnished room in West Twenty-nintf
street. The landlady met him as h,
went up the stairs. and to her Johr
Dowd confded merely the single bit o,
Information that the war would not bs
ended tomorrow.
An hour later a Sun reporter dropped
in at the roomng house and the kindly
and pound ever so long and loud ant
hard on the door to John Dowds 50
week room. But John Dowd answered
not nor gave the slightest sign that h,
was within.
But the landlady said that John DOVE
has said that he comes to New Yorl
each year from Florida, where she say,
he said he owned orange groves. Sh
said that when his six weeks in New
York were UP John Dowd went for
month to Saratoga, and after that 70
another month at the seashore and thel
| back to Florida. She said also tina
John Dowd apparently has an income
that John Dowd gets very many letter,
and kilograms, and. oh. yes. that he
statement that John Dowd's ideas ar,
extreme was based upon the fact tina
John Dowd had said that the cost O.
living in New York was inordinately
and eXasperatinely cheap.