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New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Commission Urges
4 Vehicle Tunnel
Under the Hudson
Legislature Report Says
Tube Would Pay for It.
self in 20 Years

In its eighth report, which has been
filed with the Legislature at Albany,
the New York State Bridge and Tunnel
Commission recommends legislation
providing for the immediate coNstruc-
ton OF a tunnel for vehicular traffic be-
meath the Hudson River, to be built by
a commission serving without compen-
sation. The commission estimates that
the tunnel would pay for itself in twen-
and facilitate freight traffic in general.
It would run from Canal Street. Man
haitian. to Twelfth Street. Jersey City.
General Goethals has advised the
commission that construction of such q
sub river highway would cost not more
than $12 100000 and would be complete
in three years Land damage and pur-
chase of easements and rights OF way
the commission figures at 100000
more. making New York's share or the
expense $6.300,000.
for taxation TO meet that states share
of the expense and has appointed a
commission with power to proceed.
Governor Edge has promised to call a
special session of the Legislature to
enact any necessary laws if New York
will take similar measures
1t is recommended that New York
State lend its credit to the project by
issuing bonds. Calculations based OIL
the present traffic across the river
show that the tunnel would have an
annual traffic each way of at least
1,300,0 900 vehicles. 1t is purposed to
charge toll of so cents a vehicle,
which is less by cents than the aver
age ferry charge, and this, the COM
mission points out, would provide earn
inrS of S415 900 the first wear.
The commission estimates that the
traffic would increase at ahe rate Of at
least per cent year, which is less
than the annual increase in ferry traffic
and so in twenty years would pay up
the bond issue completely and provide
net surplus of $1,5O0,O0 at the end
of another twenty years. The interest
on such fund, it is pointed out. would
be sufficient to maintain and operate
the tunnel. making it practically free
highway forty years after its compile
ton.
Coal. milk, market truck and various
kinds of goods would enter and leave
New York much more freely, it is
pointed out, as the tunnel would be in
operation regardless Of ice or weather.
Lighters are not employed after
nightfall, it is said, while the tunnel
could be used all night long and. in
fact, would accommodate freight traffic
more readily late at night and in the
early morning than through the day.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Nassau Farmers
Ready to Welcome
Women Workers
Mrs. Straight, Mrs. Rumsey
and Mrs. Pratt Call
Mineola Meeting

MINEOLA, Long Island, March IT,
The reception which Nassau County
farmers accorded Mrs. Willard d.
Straight, Mrs. Charles C. Rumsey and
Mrs. Herbert l.. Pratt at a meeting here
to-day indicates that feminine farm
hands may appear in considerable num-
bers this year in Long Island fields.
The meeting was called by the three
women to suggest the substitution of
feminine farm labor for that of the
boys who tried farm work last year
without attaining the success that had
been expected
Samuel Burt, who has farm near
Westbury, said that he could use twen-
ty husky young women who weren't
afraid Of work, and several other farm
ers appeared to favor the project, al
though they said that they wanted to
consider the matter longe, before sub
scribing for any girls. Places already
had been found FOR forty women farm
hands, so that sixty at least viii start
work in Nassau County.
Mrs. Thomas S. Burgess, head of the
movement in the state; ]. G.. Curtis,
Of the Westchester Farm Bureau; II.
J: Evans, of the Nassau County Farm
Bureau, and Elwood V. Titus, president
of that organization, spoke in favor of
the project. 1t had been tried upstate
with success. Mrs. Burgess said.
The women wear overalls, and those
in each section are quartered in some
centrally situated building over which
a matron presides. They are taken to
and from their work by automobile and
get So day, furnishing their own
breakfasts, but eating dinner and sup
per at the farms where they are en-
ployed. Last year, it was said. many
college girls devoted their vacations to
farm work for patriotic reasons.
The farmers listened with close at
tention and asked numerous questions
which showed that they were deeply
interested.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Hopes to Break Sons Will

RIVERHEAD, Long Island. March II.
to break the will of William
Purdy Shannon, broker and sportsman,
Of New York, who was accidentally
killed in October, 1916, while shooting
in Great South Bay, will be made on
March 25 before Surrogate Selah B.
Strong by the dead mans father, Will
lam p. Shannon.
The son made no mention of his
father in the will, which disposed of
an estate said to be worth more than
100000. The son is said to have OBJ
jected to his fathers second marriage.
When the will was offered for PROBATE
counsel for the elder Shannon asked
that commission be appointed to take
testimony. The Surrogate refused and
admitted the VIII to probate An ap-
peal was taken, and the Appellate Di-
vision directed that the case be heard
by jury.
William Purdy Shannon was a grand
son of Mrs. Charles P. Lehman, known
during her career in New York as Nine.
Kestell. She died in 1878, leaving a
fortune Of several millions. His mother
left her share of the estate to him.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Draft Legislation
To Be Pressed
In Congress Now
Reorganization and War
Finance Bills Also to
Occupy Lawmakers
Wilson MayT axe Hand
President Expected to Instruct
Leaders on Conscrip-
ton Law
Wilson May AXE Hand

WASHINGTON, March II. Army
draft legislation, renewal of the contro-
vcrsy over government reorganization
and the Administration bill for war
finance corporation will occupy most OF
this week at the Capitol
Bills affecting operation Of the Sc
lectivc draft law are pending before
both Senate and House, with much
pressure for immediate action, because
of their effect on the new draft. The
Senate bill changing the basis of quotas
from state population to the number of
men in Glass 1 is on the House calen-
dar, with it's opponents insisting upon
substitute which would base quotas
upon total registration and liability to
service.
1t is understood President Wilson
may call some Of the House leaders
into conference in an effort to adjust
their differences. Senate Military Com
sidcration of the War Department bill
subjecting to regulation youths reach
ing twenty-one years since June 5, 1917.
The war finance corporation bill,
upon which the House tomorrow re-
sumes debate, is expected to pass
within q few days and be sent to con-
ference. The army legislation is sched-
uled TO follow.
Consideration of the Overman bill,
giving the President blanket reorgan-
ization powers, will be resumed to-mor-
row by the Senate Judiciary Committee
under a decision to keep it constantly
before the committee until disposed Of.
Administration forces apparently are in
control by small margin, and they
plan to bring the bill before the Sen
ate, where the military committees bill
for war cabinet and munitions
director probably will be offered as
C,bctitutoS
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Sufragists Urge
Investigation Into
Arrest of Pickets
TSDeciul C0rYcspondenceI

PITTSBURGH, March 17.-Following
a vivid description of the Outrageous
treatment of suffrage pickets at the
hands OF The District of Columbia po-
lice" by Mrs. Howard Gould, of New
York, and Miss Maud Younger, of Los
Angeles, the latter one of those arrest
ed last fall, 500 members of the Ale
gheny County branch of the National
Woman's party at a suffrage rally in
the Pitt Theatre this afternoon adopt
ed resolutions urging Congress to in
vestigate the "laWlessness" of the Dis
trict officials who prosecuted the pick
cts and to demand from Senators Knox
and penrosc, of Penns ylvania, their af-
iirmatvc votes on the Federal suffrage
amendment.
The resolutions were adopted unani-
mously, and copies were telegraphcd to
the leaders OF both houses of Congress
Immediately after the meeting.
Miss Alice Paul, of Washington, ma
tional leader. in brief address said
that the cnfranchisement of the WON
en- of America depended practically
upon the women OF Pennsylvania, as
Senator's Knox and Pcnrose were the
only two influential Senator's who APP
pcarcd to be standing out against the
bill.
Mrs. Gould said size was in sympa-
thy with John Spargo's plan of giving
full protection to the negro in the cx-
ercisc of his political rights and she
assailcd Southern statesmen who re-
fused their assistance in passing the
suffrage amendment through fear of
the votes of negro women
In her address, punctuated with
amusing anecdotes, Miss Younger told
Of adventures of the little band of
pckcts who assaled the gates of the
White House beginning in 1917.
She characterized the arrest of the
pickets as farce and denounced the
officials Of the workhouse as inhuman.
cone of the women, who was sew
enty years old, was thrown into a cell
with such force that she was rendered
unconscious, and VIC thought she was
dead Miss Younger said. "Ihe au-
thoritios imposed all sorts of indigni-
ties They compelled ,he piclcta to
clean out the negroes quarters, scrub
the ncgrcsses' floors and dc other
things to which no white woman pris-
oner should be subjected.'
Miss Mary Bakewell. of PITTSBURGH
introduced the speakers, and j. A. II
Hopkins, Of New Jersey, gave a short
1lUrocS
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Shots Fired When
Priest Dehes Election

ELGIN, Ill.,, March 17.-After several
shots had been fired and door Of ST.:
Mary's Roman Catholic Church had
been broken down, the Rev. j. j. Nc
Cam. for nineteen years rector of the
parish, was arrested here this morning
as he stood in his vestments at the
altar. George McCann, a brother Of the
priest, also was arrested. Both were
locked in the county Jail, but later re-
leased.
Bishop P J. Muldoon had issued an
order removing Father McCann as in
competent, and the order not being
obeyed, an injunction was obtained:
Last night a force of constables and
police was thrown around the church
This morning it was found that
Father Mccain was inside the editice.
About 7 o'clock George McCann ap-
pcared. got past Constable S. Lorenz
and entered the church. Lorenz tried
to follow and the shots were fired. No
one was hit
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Rejected by Army, Boy Risks
Life in War on Trench Fever
Leopold Strauss Not Wanted Fighter, Volunteers Under
Banner of Science to Conquer Disease Endangering
Soldiers and Now He Is a Hero

T (temperature) went to 100 and I felt
miserable. Next morning, after sleep
less night, it was 90 and | was taken
away from the inn, put in an ambu-
lance and taken to a hospital. | was
tucked in a nice, soft white bed be-
tween regular sheets and Immediately
began to get better. They took in
numerable blood counts and tests. also
heart pressures and X-rayed my chest,
back and left side.
II was treated like a lord. Nearly
all the boys came up and it was moth
ing unusual to have five or six in the
room at one time. Captain Goodman
was promoted to major and he paid a
number Of visits. Even the Y. NJ. c. A.
workers came UP and Il regular army
of nurses the first day
"They praised me entirely too much; !;
for all the praising l should have been
at least three times as IL as I was.
wasn't actually ill-just felt mser-
able; every muscle and few bones
core--tender, they call it. This fever
cats the tissue away. Am up now for
the second time, and sure feel great.
You ought to see how stout Pm get
ting.
Saved by Hot Water Bottle
"Im clad in the British hospital suit,
three shades lighter than Hague blue,
with white shirt and bright red neck
tie, woollen socks and slippers. It's 50
blame cold you have to sit on a hot
water bottle to keep warm. | believe
they will permit me to go to our
Christmas dinner, but Pm not dis
charged from the hospital yet. This
is some room-lads (Tommies) playing
checkers, cards, writing, reading, and
one old gent manipulating Vlctrola
records from 1902 to 1913.
"The sisters (nurses) treat me dandy
always, seeing to it that | have a hot
water bottle in bed. If I didn't | be
lieve the captain would have found his
experiment frozen one morning. You
see this is hotel which was only used
in summer, and, therefore, has no
heating facilities, although Prick do
mated some coal and some of the boys
blessed him both ways-the German
prisoners were taken away and they
had to shovel it,"
Three others volunteered with Strauss
for the experiment. Besides Willis,
they were "MacCoon" and Spring.
When the quartette was examined at
the P. U. O. (trcnch fevcr) farm, how-
ever, it was found that MacCoon and
Spring had temperatures above normal
and they were rejected. Strauss and
Willis then settled down to await the
arrival of some vigorous "P. y. o.
cases having the necessary adjuncts.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18

While American troops were taking
over front line trenches, repulsing raids
and engaging in them, winning war
crosses in the exaltaticn Of battle,
Leopold Strauss, who was turned down
three times by both fighting branches
Of the service, was engaged in a little
unsung exploit of his own. Leopold's
father, Benjamin Strauss, Of 56 West
112th Street, made some of the details
Of it public Yesterday after receiving
cable assurances that his son was go
ing to be 4 live hero instead of dead
Cne.
When finally convinced that neither
him, the young man Joined the Pres
byterian Hospital unit and went to
France. To-day his name in that>unit
ranks with the names of the men who
rlsked their lives in the unheroic board
shacks with yellow fcver-carrying mos
Qultoes and enabled science TO conquer
that disease. If laboratory experiments
on which experts are now at work in
France are successful Leopold Strauss
may have done the same for trench
fever.
Pave Way for Prevention
Whether scientists subdue that war
time plague or not young Strauss and
one companion, Willis by name, gave
them good start by establishing the
method of its spread and paved the
way Tor preventing measures that will
save hundreds and perhaps thousands
OF lighters from misery and death
The disease itself. although described d
oy Strauss as tissue eating" does not
inspire the panic that spread with
yellow jack, and, thanks to modern
sanitation. its ravages partly are con-
trolled. However, it is a constant dam
ger on the West front. frequently is
fatal and long has been dealt with
by medical force which labored un-
oer the disadvantage of ignorance as
to the method Of infection.
But If the risk undertaken by the
two young men of the hospital unit
appears somewhat less grave than that
praved Dy the men who chose the
stegomyla fasclata as roommate. the
actual adventure was even more loath-
some and repugnant to clean-livine
youth: For nearly four weeks Strauss
and Willis submitted daily to having
infected lice placed on their forearms
At the end of that period Strauss came
down with trench fever.
Attacked by Fever
Il felt pains in my legs and back.
he wrote to his father, "but though,
1t was imagined. Then one night NV
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
N. j. Representative Dies

BOONTON, N. j., March 17.--John
Henry Capstick, Representative from
the 9TH New Jersey District, died at his
home in Montville, about two miles
from here. early to-day. He had been
i'll for about year, and was reported
on the road to recovery when he was
stricken.
Mr.. Capstick was born in Lawrence,
Mass, September q 1856. He had lived
in Montville for about forty years, and
was head of large textile manufactur-
ing and dyeing concern. He was lden-
titled with several financial institutions
in New jersey, and had been president
Of the State Board of Health from lsOS
to 1914, when he resigned to run on the
Republican ticket for member OF Con-
gress from the 5th District. de was
elected and in 1916 was reelected, DE
is survived by widow.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Dynamite Plotter Confesses
Police Get Details of Attack
on Lord Atholstan

MONTREAL, March 17.-Joscph A..
Tremblay, one of ten men accused of
an attempt on the life of Lord Athol
stan, publisher of "The Montreal Star"
and the destruction by dynamite of the
Atholstan residence at Cartiervlle last
summer, pleaded guilty yesterday and
made a confession duplicating nine
other French Canadians arrested with
field, who committed suicide few dnvs
after the explosion at the Atholstau
residence, presumably to evadc i'm
pending arrest.
Trcmblay said in his confession that
after placing the dynamite between
two pillars of the house he had a
change Of heart and threw the cx-
plosive some distance away The re-
sultant explosion only partly wrecked
the building, and no one was injured.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Food Tests Help Families

Those twenty-five patriotic boys who
formed the food scouts and were the
subjects of dietary experiments have
ended their demonstration with an
average gain in weight of one pound
seven ounces.
During the ten weeks that they par
took of nutritional lunches under the
auspices of the Peoples institute, the
Post Graduate Hospital and the New
York School Lunch Committee there
were no contagious diseases among the
food scouts. Nor was there illness of
any kind. excepting colds and sore
threats, which lasted, at the longest,
three days.
The health aid food habits of their
families, it is said, have benefited by
the eXparimcnt
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Department of Agriculture
Appoints Advisory Council

WASHINGTON, March 17.-William
F. Pratt, of Batavia, is the New York
State representative on an advisory
committee of representatives of pro-
ducers Of farm products and livestock
announced to-day by the Department of
Agriculture. the members, who were
selected with reference not only to the
larger agricultural interests. but also
for geographical considerations, will CO.
operate with the Secretary of Agricult-
ure and the food administration in an
advisory capacity.
The first meeting of the committee
will be held here March %
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18

newspaper man, widely known as "Sam
Davis" died at his home here TO-DAY
Mr.. Davis was one of the brillisn,
writer's who made the journals at Wv
ginia City, Carson City and Reno
famous during the bonanza days of the
Comstock Lode.
Mr.. Davis came here in 1875 and for
more than three decades figured prom.
nently in the newspaper history of
Nevada. Previously he had been EN-.
ployed upon papers in Chicago, Omaha
and San Francisco.
He was born at Branford, Conn.
April 4, 1850. He is survived by two
daughters. One of his brothers, Rob.
ert Davis, is editor, in chief of the
Munsey publications in New York.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
John w. Butler
Devoted a. Years of His Life
to Missions in Mexico

PROVIDENCE, March 1.-THE Rev.
John W. Butler, D. d., head of the
Board of Foreign Missions of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Mex
leo and widely known as an author and
preacher, died in Mexico City yester-
day.
He devoted nearly forty-four years
to uninterrupted missionary work in
Mexico and was probably the best
known American in that republic at the
time Of his death His wide acouaint
ance with government officials of the
various regimes and his extensive phil
anthropic work won for him national
recognition.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Calls Lawyer; Ends Life
Woman Found Dead by Attor.
new She Had Summoned

Mrs. Catherine B. Webb, seventy
four years old, of SO St Marks Place,
Brooklyn, asked her lawyer, Philip
Manning. of Al Court Street, to call on
her yesterday to talk over legal bust
ness. When he arrived he found her
hanging from the door of her room
With a towel knotted about her throat.
A letter which she left said she feared
she was going blind.
An ambulance was called from the
Brooklyn Hospital and DR.. George W.
Tong, medical examiner, of Brooklyn,
pronounced the woman dead. A son Of
the woman lives in Jamaica. Her hus
band, veteran of the Civil War, died
about twenty years ago.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Man Stops in Street to
Adjust Garter; Killed by Auto

While adjusting his garter when
crossing East 10th Street, near First
Avenue. yesterday afternoon Joseph
Morland, twenty years old, of 333 East
10th Street, was struck by an auto
mobile. He died shortly afterward in
the Harlem Hospital. Charles Sang
nigi, the driver of the car, is under ar
rest on a technical charge of homicide.
Sangnigi was employed by Thomas j.
Davis, of 232 East 12lst Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Government of Australian
State Defeated ON Test Vote

MELBOURNE, Australia, Saturday,
March 16.-The government of the
Commonwealth of Victoria was defeat
cd to-day by vote of 90 to 21, on a
osion of the opposition protesting
against reduction of war bonuses for
railway men. The result was accepted
as vote of no confidence. and the
Governor was advised to dissolve Par
lament
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Shamrocks at Exhibition

Lilies and shamrocks shared honors
at the international Flower Show at
the Grand Central Palace Yesterday
and were admired by the largest crowd
that has witnessed the exhibit since it
opened last Thursday. Easter lilies,
artstically arranged, were the centre
OF the throng. The Gala lilies we're
especially large and profusc the com
petton among the growers being very
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Cyclone Wrecks Town

BRISBANE. Australia Saturday,
March 16.-Most of the houses in In
install have been demolished by a
cyclone. There were many casualties.
A dispatch from Melbourne last week
said great damage had been done in
several towns in North Queensland by
a cyclone.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Henry Parkes Wright,
Ex-Dean of ale, Dies
Was Soldier, Author and for
Several Years Leading
Educator

NEW HAVEN, March 17.-Henry
Parkes Wright, former dean of Yale,
died at his home here tonight.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-18
Samuel P. Davis

Made Nevada Journals Fa-
nous in the Bonanza Days
-. CARSON CITY, New, March IT,
Samuel T. Davis, poet, humorist and
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Bonuses to Workrnen
Rejected by House

WASHINGTON, June 19.-The House
to-day went on record as opposing pay
ment of bonuses to workmen for e%-
traordinary services in producing war
materials by voting down, EOS to 81.
Senate amendment to the naval appro-
priation bill, permitting such payments.
The proposal now goes back to con-
ference.
The vote was taken after Chairman
Padgett, Of the naval affairs committee,
read kilograms from officials of labor
unions in Portsmouth and Norfolk. Va.
IN which they declared that if the Sen
ate amendment was approved there
would be walk-out in shops where
important war work was in progress.
Mr.. Padgett opposed the Senate
amendment, though he said the tele-
grams were tantamount 90 threat
and that his regard for union labor
had diminished somewhat since their
receipt.
The. awarding Of prizes for workmen
in shipyards. particularly to riveters,
Representative Heating, IF Colorado,
said, has aided in bringing opposition
from the unions.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-20
Professor Beard Balls
Out Stangeland
Dismissed Columbia Faculty
Member Provides $1,000
Capt. Lindgren Held

Captain Gustave Ranger Lindgrin,
Of the Swedish Army, and Professor
Charles Emil Stangeland. formerly of
the American diplomatic service, who
were arrested ten days ago charged
with violating the trading with
the enemy law, were arraigned before
United States Commissioner Hitchcock
yesterday. The chief witnesses against
the men were Martin D. Durkin and
Charles V. Palmer, Customs Intelli-
gence officers, who made the arrests.
Part of the charges against the two
men are based on the allegation that
Captain -Lindgrn, who was about to
return to Sweden, was to take mes
sages from Professor Stangeland to his
wife.
Evidence was introduced to show that
Captain Lindgrin also had been given
messages to Ellen Key. Representa-
tives Of the Swedish Consul Generals
Office entered protest in the inter-
est of Captain Lindgrin. The Swedish
officer was returned to the Tombs.
Professor Stangeland was released in
$4,000 bail furnished by Professor
Charles A. Beard. who resigned re-
Gently from the faculty of Columbia
University. D.