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The sun., 1918-07-27
NEARING AGITATES
POSTWAR REFORMS
Pleads for "Decent Recon-
struction" and Mems Right
to Work for Themselves.

Since the last great change in the
affairs Of the world. which came with
the end of the Russian revolution, the
chief attention Of the ruling classes In
all of the countries has been centred on
preserving their own positions by sup
pressing facts from their own people and
preventing peace" declared Dr. Scott
Nearing In lecture on Economic
Citizenship" at the Rand School OF So
cid Science last night
THE people OF Europe are asking
themselves What after Soon we In
this country will awake from our dreams
and cease deceiving ourselves, and being
deceived. and ask What next?" he con-
tinued. I'VE want q decent reconstruc-
ton after the war, The British Govern
ment has a Ministry OF Reconstruction
and a Minister Of Reconstruction, but II
you study reconstruction in America you
are called a pro-German.
I'VE have here In America q society
called the Sons OF the Revolution. but
We have no fathers or mothers of the
revolution. There IS decentralization in
everything but the thinking of the
masses Everything will be interna-
tionalized after the war. but in the
meantime the working classes will be
told TO stay at home and mind their
own business, just the same as the Rus
sian arlstocracy said to the peasants
Remain In the dark
When we tried to talk to the Govern
ment about such things as workingmen's
compensation funds before the war they
always said they had no money. but
when the war came along they found
the necessary money TO have the war.
When they tell us after this they have
no money We will laugh in their faces.
At that time we will control the right
to work-to work for ourselves. not for
others We. the people. Will decide for
ourselves.
THE Declaration of Independence says
you have the right to tear up tho Gov
eminent and throw It away. Read the
Declaration OF Independence; it's very
revolutionary document. They say they
are going to hang Tom Mooney. / am
told he was framed but that is part of
the penalty you have to pay for the right
to agitate for economic citizenship.
These things always have to be won
that way
I'VE are willing TO be suspected,
trailed and badgered by public officials,
as we are badgered. Some OF us are
already In jail because we want this
after the war change made properly"
The sun., 1918-07-27
CHARTER FOR NAVY CLUB.
Organization Enterta;ns PETIT,
Omcers and Enlisted Men,

Justice Finch In the Supreme Court
yesterday approved the articles Of In
corporation Of the Manhattan Navy
Club. The organization has maintained
quarters at 500 Fifth avenue. between
Forty-second and Forty-third streets
for the entertainment OF petty officers
and enlisted men of the navy.
The incorporators are Emma A. Ham
ilton. 100 East Sixty-ffth street Emily
Fowler. CTS Park avenue; Alice Mckay
Kelly. 975 Park avenue George NJ Bod
man, s35 Madison avenue; William $.
Seamans, Jr., 100 Broadway; ]. Digby
Maitland, 80 East Thirty-eighth street :;
Herbert l.. Satterlee. 81 East Thirty
sixth street; Beekman Winthrop. West
bury. L, L.. Arthur A. Fowler. so Church
street; Sylvanus l.. Schoonmaker, 239
Madison avenue, and John +. Archbold,
26 Broadway.
Mr.. Satterlee. who presented the Pc
tition for Incorporation, explained that
the club would have a broader scope for
its work II charter were granted.
The sun., 1918-07-27
ENDS LIFE A MARTYR
! TO OLD Sd DEGREE
Farrell, Unjustly Accused of
Killing Girl Years Ago,
Suicide by Gas.
LIVED LONG AS RECLUSE
Told He Must Work or Be Ar
rested After Aunt, His
Only Friend, Dies.

Frank Farrell, whose trial for murder
twenty-five years ago supplied sensa-
tional disclosures of police methods,
killed himself by inhaling gas yesterday
at his home, 317 East Thirty-seventh
street, a tenement house where he had
lived since boyhood.
In May. 1896. Mary Cunningham.
tweive-year-old girl living in the same
house, was found strangled to death.
Farrell bore a good reputation and there
was nothing to connect him with the
crime except the fact that his family
and the girls had long been on visiting
terms. However. the police considered
that they must arrest somebody and
bounced on Farrell as the only likely
man.
Attempt to Convict.
Two years passed before he finally
regained his freedom. After his first
arrest he was discharged almost ut once
for lack of evidence, but within ten days
was back again in the Tombs. the police
in the meantime having been at eiao
rate pains to fasten the crime upon him.
The police set out to fasten the coils
on Farrell after ascertaining that he
was a simple hearted youth with strong
religious leanings.
They built miniature altar in the
room where Mary Cunningham had been
murdered, set candles upon 1t and hung
tho room in Grape. They arrayed on
table the clothing that the dead girl
had worn. Then they brought Farrell
into the place and put him through the
third degree" while one policeman
mumbled prayers in a corner and an
other, concealed behind the wall hang
ings, moaned family at carefully judged
intervals. A statement was obtained
from Farrell, and at his trial an attempt
was made to introduce II In evidence.
Statement Thrown out.
But II was thrown out promptly by
Justice Con-, who presided. and the case
against Farrell fell to pieces WI on his
aunt testified that the statement had
been obtained from him while he was
nearly frantic with terror and after he
had been brutally handled by his inter-
roEators. She had contrived to secrete
herself in an adjoining room, and her
account of what she had beard and seen
convinced both Justice Con- and Assist
ant District Attorney Stephen O'Hare,
had signed the paper only because he
feared for his life. The Jury disagreed
and the indictment was dismissed.
Farrell returned to his home con-
WINGED that the police would continue to
persecute lin. and since then has lived
in retirement with the aunt who was his
principal witness at his trial. She died
three weeks ago.
All desire to live seems to nave left
Farrell when a policeman called at his
home just before July l and told him
that he would have to get work or go to
iail. His aunt's death had left him alone
in the world and he knew no trade. On
Wednesday another policeman came and
told him that II he was not at work by
yesterday he would be arrested.
4 friend learned of his situation and
persuaded another friend to offer him
employment But when he went yester-
day to escort Farrell to work he found
him dead in bed with a gas tube between
his lips.
The sun., 1918-07-27
JAPANESE VISIT AERO PLANT
Toku&awn Inspects at Elizabeth
as Hughes Arrives.

The Japanese Red Cross mission,
which is on its way TO France headed
by Prince Tokugawa, paid a visit TO the
Standard Aircraft Company's plant at
Elizabeth. n. J., yesterday. THE local
plant is financed by Matsui Bros. Jap
anese importers. OF 6j Broadway, New
York city" said President MIngle, and
the Japanese desired to look over the
property"
While the mission was touring the
plant. Charles f. Hughes, investigator
for the President OF the Aircraft Indus
try: Attorney General Gregory. with
Meier Steinbr!nk and three stenogra-
piers. arrived and began closed session
with the executives of the company.
The sun., 1918-07-27
REFORMS. BUT TRAIL
OF PRISON FOLLOWS
Man Believed Suicide Had
Made Good.

A mans coat and pearl fedora hat
vera found on tho ro,dwov =, ,,.
w >''
brooklyn brlose the morning or July
s by policeman. In a pocket OF the
coat was this note.
g, ha.o o, ., a..
nave eo''e u 'he Close OF useless
life. ! am not afraid to die, God will
forgive me. because He knows bou, 7
,ovo ,cooa -.
nave 'u"e'eu' am no" employed
with the American Pulley Company.
PHILADELPHIA. William Brumlev knows
and understands nv case
"D 7. w.nru
The police made inquiries, dragged
The sun., 1918-07-27
JUMPS TO DEATH WITH BABY.
Scores See Woman and Child
Killed.

Scores OF persons In Eldridge street
Yesterday saw Mrs Jennie Friedman,
IS. of Newark, clasp her baby son. Will
lam. months old. in her arms and
jump from the roof OF the three story
building at 11S Eldridge street.
The bodies struck the sidewalk, and
both the mother and child were instantly
killed.
Many women in the street crowd
tainted Dr. Friedmont from Gouver-
neur Hospital saw at a glance that Mrs.
Friedman and her child did not require
his attention. and began administering
to the unconscious women.
Mrs. F'riedman's husband is a manu-
facturer In Newark. His wife was visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Isidor Schacter. who
lives on the third floor OF the house
from which the woman jumped. Mrs.
Schacter's husband has dry goods es-
adjustment In the same building. The
sister said that Mrs Friedman and her
child had both been in Ill health.
She had arranged to call on a special
ist yesterday. Just before the time ar
rived to make the visit to the doctor the
woman went to the roof. climbed a
coping ten feet high and jumped.
The sun., 1918-07-27
STAGE COPPERESSES
WARN" NEW STATION
Theatrical Unit ShotDs Police
How to Serue Ices.

The efficacy OF ice cream as a house
warmer was ecstatically demonstrated
by the women's Police Reserves. The
atrical Unit. throughout the late after
noon and early evening yesterday when
the blue clad and brass--or Is It gold?-
buttoned semi-pro copperesses recruited
from the stage thoroughly house warmed
their new station house. in the New
York Theatre Building, in Broadway
between Forty-fourth and Forty-ffth
streets.
Marcus Loew and Nicholas Schenck
told Capt. Edythe Totten and her stage
girl copperesses some time ago that they
might have. quite rent free. the big
green room on the ground floor of the
New York Theatre, a group of rooms to
the rear and the large music room one
flight up as a headquarters and recruit
ing station. Consequently after rugs
and pictures and plants and all the
other didoes which one might expect In
a lady coppers' station house had been
installed Capt. Totten. Lieut. Beulah
Poynter and their reserves moved vat
after vat of ice cream, fourteen coolies
OF cake. several bowls of totally In
nocuous grapejuice punch and other
trimmings into the green room yesterday
and invited everybody to fall In.
Police Inspector John +. Dwyer. Capt.
Charley Mckinney of the not nearly so
ornate rival station house In West
Forty-seventh street, Coils. Avery Nc
Dougall and Morris Joseph Of the Police
Reserves and several hundred men and
women OF the stage came in early to
warm up on ice cream and fixin's and
found the going so good that they stayed
until the dinners awaiting them around
their own home circles had grown hope
lessly cold.
There was a programme of singing,
other music and dancing, in which the
Misses Henrietta Byron, Baby" Dor
othy Lull. Lucille La Verne. Harriet
Buck OF the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, Mazda Cragin and other talented
folk distinguished themselves.
The sun., 1918-07-27
DIES DRIVING AUTOMOBILE.
T. H. willshaw Alone in His Car
When Stricken.

Thomas IL W!llshaw died from heart
failure yesterday while driving his tour
Ing car along Fingerboard road at Fort
Wadsworth, Staten Island, He was alone
in the machine at the time. He was on
his way home. A chauffeur in another
machine noticed the Wlllshaw car slowly
zlgzagging from side TO side. The chauf-
feur thought the driver was asleep, and.
getting out. grasped the wheel and shut
OF the power. He then discovered that
Mr.. Willshaw was dead
Mr. Willshaw was 80 years old and A
contractor. At one time he was chief
OF the Edgewater Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, Excise Commissioner of South
field and president OF the mems club of
ST. Johns Episcopal Church OF Clifton.
one Of the leading churches OF Staten
Island He also was a member OF the
Elks.
The sun., 1918-07-27

Forty-four persons were served yes
terday with orders 10 appear before the
various local courts after ten Health
Department inspectors had visited 2O2
places in the five boroughs where soda
water is sold and had inspected the
glasses used. DIR. Royal s. Copeland.
Health Commissioner. ordered the cru
Sade after conference with Major
charles A. Smith. attached to the stan
~ the Surgeon-G General OF the army.
The inspection, which Is intended to see
nat proper methods are used TO cleanse
/. asses. will take two weeks.
The sun., 1918-07-27

Two hundred members of the crew Of
the Australian warship Orentes. now in
New York harbor. will attend services
at Trinity Church Sunday morning as
the guests of the Committee OF Women
of the Church Chaplain II. II. Coles
OF the Australian navy will deliver the
sermon. At the afternoon services
Bishop Burch will confirm twenty-eight
members of the warship's crew. The
Rev. William 4. Manning. now serving
visitors.
The sun., 1918-07-27
Atlantic Highlands Going "Drx.-

Sandy Hook and part of Atlantic
Highlands will go dry" under an order
issued yesterday by United States his
trict Attorney Lynch. All unincorno-
rated seashore resorts within five miles
of military training camp are placed
under the ban. There are soldiers I'm
training on the Hook, in and near the
Fort Hancock district. District Attor-
ney Lynch has notified Marshal Bolsh
weller that all licensed saloons within
the area affected must close immedl-
ately. The military authorities will CO.
operate In enforcing the order.
The sun., 1918-07-27
MUST EXPLAIN TOMB POSTER.
Outdoor PaperhsnEer Summoned
to Account for Activities.

Jacob Myers. a bill poster employed
by the A. f. Richardson Printing Com
pany, 81 Lafayette street. has been in
vited TO attend a session in District At
torney Swann's office this morning and
explain some OF his recent activities.
The District Attorneys interest in
Mr. Myers centres around the report
that the enterprising bill poster is the
man who has been plastering the walls
OF public buildings and private resi-
dences with the war posters issued by
the Overseas Recruiting Committee of
the Y. NJ. c. A.
Myers. II is said. acted on his own
authority, independent OF his employers
or the Y. NJ. C. A., when he stuck pos
tiers on Grants Tomb, Mrs. Helen Gould
Shepard's home, the Public library
and other conspicuous places.
The sun., 1918-07-27
FARNOL SUES PUBLISHERS
Says McCIures Paid for Only Two
OF Three Novels Taken,

The Mcclure Publications. IT,. wa
sued for St.s66 by Jeffrey Far. re
writer. in the Supreme Court here ''
terday
Farnol asserts that his contra
vided for the sale Of America 20
rights TO his three novels. Tho an"
teur Gentleman" "Rrltanc, a." ~"''
and The Definite object" t'r - '''
$3.50 and $1,000 respcrtivel' -. ''f.
he was paid for the first two roun. y"
not for the third.
The sun., 1918-07-27

The American Relief Legion. of which
Mrs. oliver Cromwell Field. late of the
American Defence Society. Is president
has opened its new offices in 512 Fifth
avenue. About one hundred members
are already enrolled for the purpose OF
combating the German language press
and other papers that are not 100 per
cent. American. The offices were do
mated by William ziegler. Jr. There are
no salaried offlcerA
The sun., 1918-07-27
v0LoDARSKY, PHILADELPHIA.
Minister Was Cloth
ing Worker There.

NJ. Volodarsky, Bolshevik Minister Of
the Press. who was asssssinated In
Petrograd June 20. was Moses Goldstein
$50 North Third street, Philadelphia, il
developed yesterday. lie was a member
of the clothing workers union in Phila-
delphia before he left for Russia
As a boy Goldstein was a prisoner in
Siberia for eighteen months, escaping to
America with his father. He was then
suspected of being revolutionist. He
was murdered while on his way to speak
at workingmen's meeting in the out
skirts of Petrograd.
Three days later, II IL reported, Volo-
darsky was buried with special honors
by the Bolsheviki.
The sun., 1918-07-27
MARINES NEED Statesmen,
Will Give SIS Monthly in Addi-
ton to Private's Pay.

The Marine Corps asked yesterday for
LIMITED number of men TO serve as
statesmen in the post exchange branches
at Paris Island, S. G. The men will be
paid SIS n month in addition to their
regular pay as prlvates. Four refer
ences are required.
The United States Public Service re.
serves at 20 East Twenty second street
want four boiler makers for marine pur-
poses, three coopersmiths. one hull
craftsman, ten machlnists, five ship At
tiers and three wiremen for marine work.
They are 10 be sent to the Isthmus of
Panama. Men not in Glasses / and 2
are eligible.
The sun., 1918-07-27
"soIace Hour" for soldier Dead.

The service OF 'isolace hour" or an
hour devoted to prayer for men who
have fallen In battle, has been inaugu-
rated Mt the Church OF Our Lady OF
Solace, at Coney Island. and will be
maintained until the war Is over. The
service is held every evening at 8 o'clock.
The sun., 1918-07-27
Bobby Equips Himself.
His One Big Mistake.

Then Bobby made the mistake, late
Thursday night, of selecting Broadway
and Forty-second street as corner on
which to debark from a taxicab. That
was the corner which Detective Sergeant
Ford happened to be grazing at the mo-
ment. Copper Ford and Bobby struck
up a conversation. in the course OF which
Bobby blithely told the detective all
about his heartrending experiences at
Wipers and all points east
Il saw some rackets myself finally
remarked Policeman Ford, who served a
long stretch as a soldier in our Regular
Army (which l don't believe you ever
did, youngster." he added brutally.
Come along, kid, and let's talk your
war record over with real folks"
The British Recruiting Mission once II
had looked Bobby's record" over, said
Bobby's adventures were wholly I'M
known to history. And next the State
Guard reached out for Bobby and
claimed him as a deserter and took him
back to Whitehall to watch the mules
pass by forever.
The sun., 1918-07-27
The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For eastern New York-Fair -.
day; local showers tonight or "a.
morrow; gentle to moderate sonth
winds.
For New Jersey. fair to-day, loca, ,A.
ers at night or tomorrow; llttls cham.
winds ''u'hefly
For northern New England, fair ,o.a,.
Iocai showers at night on to-morrn,,
sentle to moderate south winds WV
For southern New England. fair to..,.
partly cloudy morrow; gentle 10 mi
crate southerly winds "''u'
For western New York, partly eIor,r
DAY. probably showers in north ana nv. Nv.
portions, somewhat cooler near tha 49,
fair omorrow. ''Aes'
WASHINGTON, July 2s-Show,r, -.
,nued locally In the lake region, the INN,
mississippi and Ohio valleys tho sv
Atlantic and east Gulf States and tho ~,
IRENE Northwest. including tho nor,h ~ ~
cine States. Elsewhere the weatbcr s
fair, except In southeast Texas, wb.ss
day '''"s fr''
II is much warmer In the Northwrs,
temperatures remain generally high eI,.
There will be showers Saturday #, -.
ohio Valley. Tennessee. North CaroIins
ana tho lower lake region, followed ia
generally fair weather Sunday Thers r.V,
be showers Saturday night or SUNDAY T.,
the middle Atlantic States and New En-,
land. In the upper lake region. tho es.,
QUIZ states, Georgia and South Caroins
day and Sunday. 'u''
Temperature changes will not be OF i'm.
portance. '''
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temperature.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.

MINIATURE ALMANAC
United states Coast and Geodedic Surypy-
Standard Time.
sun nses. ..b47 M Sun sets ..si7PM
Moon rises. .....l0:l5 p NJ
HIGH WATER THIS DAY.
SANDY Hook II 10 A NJ Gov. Island.li NAN
Hell Gate......1 20 Pm
LOW WATER THIS DAY.
SANDY Hook. os NJ Gov. Island. .s.eAM
He'll Gato......7 :02
Note-The foregoing table has been corr.c,ss
10 conform TO the new artificial time"
The sun., 1918-07-27

highest temperature. so, at tPM
Lowest temperature, 81, at 6 A. NJ
average temperature, ~.
observations yesterday at United Stat,
weather Bureau stations showing a,mo,
pheric conditions in the variou. cities:
The sun., 1918-07-27
BIG MOONEY PLEA TO WILSON
Huge a. F.. l.. Delegation VIII See
President Monday.

Representatives OF 100000 members
of the American Federation OF Labor
will be in Washington Monday for an
audience with the President. through
which they hope to obtain a stay OF ex-
ecution of Thomas J. Mooney. the Call.
fornia labor leader.
New York's delesation will leave by
special train at midnight tonight. A
Mooney mass meeting will be held at
Carnegie Hall Tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock. Similar meetings will be held
in towns and cities throughout the
country.
Dudley Field Malone will be the chief
speaker at Carnegie Hall and w Bourke
Cochran in Washington. Arthur Hen
dfrson. the British labor leader. has
sent a communication TO this country
allying the British abor party with the
American Federation to save Mooney.
The sun., 1918-07-27

WAsHINGroS, July 26.-Felix Frank
furter. chairman OF the War Labor Poll.
cies Board. to-day telegraphed to Gov.
Stephens of California a denial that
while acting as secretary of President
Wilson's Mediation Commission he ex-
pressed an opinion that Thomas ].
Mooney was guilty of the San Francisco
preparedness day bomb plot for which
Mooney now is under death sentence.
The telegram was sent because in an
affidavit filed with Gov. Stephens by Dis
trict Attorney Fickert Frankfurter was
said to have expressed to Fickert be-
lief of Moneys guilt.
The sun., 1918-07-27
LOCAL WEATHER REPORTS

The temperature In this city yss.srd,,
as recorded by the official thermomete- I,
shown In the annexed table:
The sun., 1918-07-27
SEEKS WOUNDS, ONLY.
HIS FEELINGS HURT.
Bobby Bradley Decorates Him
self With Insignia, Hence
His Arrest.

Bobby Bradley. who is all Of 20 years
old and is product of Mississippi, de-
cided few days ago that the surest way
to climb to high estate in the best linn
CUISINE circles nowadays was TO wear a
uniform and be wounded. But Bobby's
fervent ambition to be mutilated did not
go to the length Of suffering pain. and
besides he found small opportunity to be
all slashed up, inasmuch as he was a
member Of the Second Provisional Regi-
ment. New York State Guard, stationed
in Whitehall. n. Y.
The only way Bobby could get into
violent action around whitehall was TO
stop a passing canal boat mule and
tickle its hindquarters. a proceeding
which might at best merely list him
among the missing. Wherefore. after
giving deep thought to lifes problems.
Bobby packed a bankroll amounting to
$40 and came to Manhattan.
Bobby Equips Himself.
Once in the big town Bobby peeled one
green buck Off the bankroll and bought
himself some attractive service ribbons
and next invested in a gold V which,
when sewed to the coatsleeve, indicated
that Bobby had been wounded in the
big fuss in France. Also he stripped the
State Guard insignia off his uniform and
rechristened himself Private Robert
Bradley Of the Second Royal Canadian
Engineers, wounded at Wipers."
Immediately Bobby began to find long
cigars decorating his features Lovely
ladies Of Manhattan were proud to give
him a lift in their super-sixteens. He
was choked with gifts of real food from
admiring Manhattanites. He lolled amid
clouds of cushions and wished heartily
that Mississippi could see him now.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1918-07-16
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Scrap Book
TELL VINTAGE OF STAMPS
Lines on George Wsshinston's Collar
Button Are the Marks Which
Reveal Their Exact Age.

When next you obtain an ordinary
three-cent stamp, take a magnifying
glass and examine the little round
button at the center of the collar
which Is at the neck Of George Wash.
ington In the portrait. II the button
contains fiv0 vertical lines, the stamp
Is the one you have been accustomed
scouts magazine. But If the button
contains, instead. first vertical line !;
second, a vertical line; third, a
dot between two dashes; fourth,
vertical line, and fifth Cat the
very right, two dots--if you find
this combination then you have n
stamp which was made by a process
which the bureau Of engraving and
printing at Washington has recently
adopted.
IL there are five vertical lines, the
stamp was made from q steel plate
into which the design was cut or etch-
ed by an engrayer with his tools
the method by which our country's
stamps have been printed ever since
It began to produce the labels more
than 10 years ago. But If the verti.
cal lines are broken in the manner
described, then you will know that
the stamp was printed from a zinc
plate to which photographs have been
transferred.
The first process, still employed in
the making of our adheslves except
those of the new three-cent denomina.
ton, is known as recess printing. The
second is called surface printing or
(because of the use of an Offset press)
offset printing.