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New-York tribune., 1918-02-26
Miss Hughes To Be
College Farm Girl
Special Correspondence1

BOSTON. Feb. 25-Miss Catherine
Hughes. daughter of Charles f..
Hughes, of New York. and Miss Ruth
Addoms and Isabel Bassett, both of
Brooklyn, N. Y, are among the students
accepted in the first draft in the "back
to the farQ," movement at Wellesley
College. The students will have their
own farm, financed by the college cor
Ioraton, and will till the soil in over
alls and jumpers in old New England
style.
Professor Margaret c. Ferguson, Of
the faculty. who viii supervise the girl
farmers, plans to call the students to
the garden tract on June II. The fol-
lowing girls VIII serve the first month:
Catherine Hughes, New York; Ruth
Addoms, Isabel Bassett, both of Brook
lyn; Christine Dickson, OF Pittsburgh,
Helen Blake. Montclair, n. j.; Agnes
Lange. of West Falls Church. Va; Eu-
genie Sachs, of Cincinnati; Olga Sny-
der. of Port Allegheny, Penn, and Bess
Whitmarsh, of TeXarkana. Tex
While the girls till the soil three
others will act as housekeepers. They
are Dorothy Greene, of Charlottesville,
Ind; Mona Matthews, of Ludington,
Mich, and Alice Wharton. of Ridge
wood, n. J.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26
Six More Deaths
BY Gas Poisoning Is
Days Toll in City
Health Department Plans
Educational Campaign to
Reduce Accidents

Accidental gas poisoning caused
six moro deaths in Manhattan yester-
day, making the number of such cases
crease Of more than 100 over last years
record. One of yesterdays victims
died from coal gas.
DR.. Charles Norris, city medical cx-
death rate would be greatly minimized
if the people would use more precau-
tions in not leaving lighted jets in
unoccupied rooms. Flame tests of pipes
should be frequently made. and now
that the weather is mildcr the windows
kept open.
Realizing that the escape of illumin-
ating gas is q great menace to the
health Of the city. the Department OF
Health is preparing for an educational
campaign that Will teach the Ieoplc
the hazards of carclessncss with gas
1t is known that small quantities OF IL
Eliminating gas act as a chronic poison
and cause thousands of cases of ane-
mia and more serious ailmants in the
city yearly.
The following persons died ycster-
day:
Carl Thimn, one year old son of Mrs.
Jennie Thimn, who was herself re-
moved to the Flower Hospital, suffer
ing from the poison. 1t is likely that
the mother, who is twenty-five years
old, will recover The two were found
unconscious in their home at 1909
First Avenue.
George Boluis. seven died in Belle
vuc, where he was removed on Sunday,
with his mother from their home at
5O2 West Sixteenth Street. His brother
and sister were dead when found on
Sunday.
Rose Coyle, twenty, of 1895 Lcxing-
ton Avenue, was found dead at her
home from the effects of coal gas.
Charles Duschues, cf l4S West 123d
Street. and Augusta Biavhi, of 21i
Blocker Street, were the other vic
tins of the day. They died in their
homes from the deadly fumcs.~
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26
Food Board Foresees
Canned Food Famine
Railroad Administration Is
Asked to Facilitate Ship
ment of Tin Plate
IStof Co1.resp0ndeuce |

WASHINGTON, Feb 25.-Unless the
railroad administration takes imme-
diatc steps to move tin plate to the
can factories in the East, Il famine in
canned food products is inevitable, OF
fcias Of the food administration ad-
mitted to-day. There is already an
absolute famine Of tin cans, with little
prospect of early relief. Just as dur
ing the coal crisis there were thou
sands Of tons of coal in the mines
while people were freezing in their
homes and industries were paralyZed
so to-day the material for countless
millions of tin cans lies in warehouses
Of the tin plate factories, while the can
factories are practically Idle and the
packers are confronted with ruin.
Both manufacturers OF cans and the
food Gamers insist that 1t Is merely a
question of transporting tin plate from
Pittsburgh, where most of it is made,
to the can factories in the East.
1t is reliably stated here that there
are more than 2o,00o,o00 boxes of tin
plate at Pittsburgh ready for shipment.
Every available square foot OF storage
space has been filled with this tin
plate. However, with no cars avail
able many of the tin plate factories
are running half time and others have
shut down altogether.
In Baltimore alone there are seven
large factories making tin cans exclu-
sively for the food canning producers
None of these is running on full time
and several have been compelled to
close altogether for lack OF tin plate.
General Pershing cabled to Washing
ton short time ago. it is said. for
75.O0o,oOo cans of vegetables for the
use of the men in France. Less than
100000 have been secured thus far
by the War Department. One large
food establishment which was called
upon by the War Department to fur
nish 15,000.000 cans of food at once has
not been able to supply a single can.
detailed survey of the tin plate
transportation situation was submitted
to-day by the transportation division
of the food administration to Director
General of Railroads McAdoo, with q
recommendation for immediate action.
Emergency measures win be essential,
1T was stated at the food administra-
ton, to handle the matter as efficiently
as is necessary.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26
Campaign Fund Evidence
To Grand jury March 1S

District Attorney Swami said last
night that he would be ready March 18
to go before a special grand jury with
evidence against at least five persons
connected with the collection and dis
bursement of the Mitchel-Fusion cam
paign fund. Who the prospective de-
PENDANTS are Mr.. Swami refused to say
1t is believed that the charge will be
u blanket Indictment for conspiracy to
corrupt the electorate.
The grand jury that Will digest the
evidence has been ordered by Justice
Gof. sitting in the criminal term of
the Supreme Court. Justice Gotf will
charge the grand jurors on their duties
to the commonwealth in respect to the
campaign fund and any other matters
that may properly be considered by
that body in connection with the city
election. Assistant District Attorneys
BLACK, Kilroe and Banton will have
charge OF the presentation of the evil
uence.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26

adjourn for much needed food being
reached after committee including
the Rev. Mr. Stelzle and Mr.. Colvin
had been appointed to give out a report
Of tie proceedings.
"The conference" said Mr.. Colvin,
completed the National Dry Fedora
tion tentatively formed in Pittsburgh
sonre time ago, and this is now pre-
pairing programme to be submitted
Saloon League and the w. c. T. Z.
These two organizations have been
asked to name committees Of three
each to work with like committee
from the federation"
Mr.. Colvin added that John Spargo,
the ex-Socialist who has been active
in forming new party to be known
as the National Party, had addressed
the conference.
"Will the conference join the Ma
tional party?" he was asked.
NO, it will not. The Prohibition
party will continue to be as it has been
in the past This meeting today was
simply to so organize the workers that
there will be no overlapping and un-
necessary duplication of work. For ex-
ample, we will have a common litera-
ture"
After his bclated dinner Mr.. Bryan
left for Albany, where he will speak to-
day. Later he will go 20 Syracuse,
Rochester and Toronto.
He told reporters on his arrival that
there vas no political significance in
his attending a dinner william R.
Hearst recently gave at Palm Beach
81 was passing through" he said,
"and was asked to attend. There were
thirty persons present, including your
Mayor Hylan, but | heard no politics
discuSsed :,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26

formed in Pittsburgh some months ago,
was expected to include the two former
organizations in its membership. The
representatives, of these, however, in
sisted on maintaining their separate or
CARNATIONS.
The conference, which D. Leigh Col
win, its secretary, said had been called
at the suggestion of Mr.. Bryan, went
into session shortly after o'clock,
with the Rev. Charles L. Ste'zle, Of
the Federal Council of Churches. in
were the Rev. DR.. Howard II. Russell,
rational president Of the Anti-Saloon
League; Edwin c. Dinwiddie and
Wayne 3. Wheeler, general counsel for
the organization; Mrs. Annie A. Cor
don, national president Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union; Mrs.
Lama Howe Yost, president Of the
West Virginia W. G. T. T.; Mrs.
Frances Beecham, of Kentucky; Charles
Scanlan of Pittsburgh, of the Board Of
Temperance of the Presbyterian
cago, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the Prohibition party; the
Rev. Samuel Il. Batten, of the Northern
Baptist Union; +. ". Howenthal, ma
tional director of the Sons of Temper
ance, and ID. Leigh Colvin. of the In
tcrcollegiate Prohibition Association.
1t was in session an hour before Mr.
Bryan arrived TO present his reasons
why one great organization should be
formed to direct the work of making
the nation bone dry.
The debate that followed, as de-
scribed by a New York member cf the
conference, was "a friendly fight and
resulted in the confercnce forming tho
National Dry Federation. the decision
to appoint a coordination meeting and
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26

tics in minute than ! know in an
hour I'm going to see them ALL"
Mr. Hays said that he had reached no
decision with reference to a campaign
committee, an executive committee or
an advisory committee of the national
committees; that his mind was abso-
lutely open on the matter, and that he
would leave all such matters as COM
mlttee organization until after he had
seen every one. He asked the news
paper men about the natural location
of the headquarters of the national
committee. and was unanimously as
surcd that New York was the proper
place
One of Chairman Hays's callers last
evening was Mrs Rosalic Loew Whit
ney. who after her interview went to
Washington with Miss Mary Garrett
Hay to resume the campaign for getting
enough Senators in line to pass the
Susan b. Anthony suffrage amendment
Among we'll known Republicans at the
Union League Club last night were ex-
Governor Odcll of New York and ex-
Governor Franklin Murphy of New
Jersey
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26

the Woman Suffrage party, was so
pleased with the final showing of the
women voters that she packed up her
bag and went straight down to Wash
lngton to tell the story to certain hest
tating anti-suffrage Senators. She
didn't want anybody else down there
to let those doubtful persons get the
wrong idea about it. Her figures prove
that onethird of the women who were
eligible for the registration came out,
and she is going to remind critics Of
how the newspapers always print
streamers and boxes and editorials
every day for week reminding the
men Of how important it is for them
lG go and register, but nobody did that
tor the women. Many women, Miss
Hay said, did not know anything about
the registration until they read the
evening papers on Saturday-by that
time it had reached the front page
and they kept calling her up at her
home all the evening. asking where
they should 60 to register.
Miss Paul Takes a Hand
At the same time that Miss Hay, &C
companied by Mrs. Rosali Loew Whit
rey, was hustling down to Washington,
Miss Alice Paul, chairman Of the Ma
llCnul w oman party, came up mere 10
stir up things on the Federal suffrage
amendment. The difference in the two
.g1oups of suffragists just now is that
Miss Paul still has hopes of getting
Senator Wadsworth's vote, and Miss
Hay has not.
Miss Paul has started campaign
among the county committees of the
Republican party in New York State to
get them to appeal to Senator Wads-
worth in behalf of the amendment.
She points out that since the Repub-
,ican National Committee indorsed the
Federal amendment in st. Louis, it Is
w to the state committeeman to see
that their representative in Washing
ton lives up to the party platform.
Mrs. Adele Blauvelt and Miss Elsie
Hill are going through the state now
on this mission. They saw Senator
Wadsworth himself in Rochester on
Saturday, and put it up TO him, but
without apparent results.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26
Bryan Fails i'm
Effort to Unite
Foes of Liquor
National Societies Insist
Upon Retaining Their
Individuality

William Jennings Bryan went with
out his dinner last night in an effort
ut the Hotel Chatham to unite the tenn
perance societies of the country into a
federation for the passage Of the Fed
eral prohibition amendment and the
wartime prohibition bill now before
Congress. The best he could do. how
ever. was to obtain an agreement for
the formation of committee of nine
to work out some scheme whereby the
AIMS of three bodies may be CO.
ordinated
This committe viii be made up of
three members each from the National
Anti-Saloon League, the Woman's
CHRISTIAN Temperance Union and the
National Dry Federation. The latter
organization, made UP of 90 societies
and church committees. tentatively
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26
Suffragists Find Consolation
In Male Registration Data
One-fourh of the Women Went to Polls Last Week and
Only One-sixh of the Men Went in 1914 They
Find-and So They're Jublant

Suffragists felt whole lot better
yesterday about the showing of the
women voters at last weeks registra-
ton for the special election in four
Congressional districts. They dug up
a lot of records about the registration
of men in similar elections, and their
statisticians got busy figuring out the
relative improvement of the women
over the men, so that by afternoon
they were feeling very proud of the
woman voter
MISS Rose Young, director Of the
Leslie Bureau of Suffrage Education,
figured it out that one-fourth of the
women registered on Friday and Satur-
day, and that only one-sixth of the
men voters in the same districts came
out for q special election.
I'm 1914 the men Of New York State
voted on the question of a state con-
sttutlon The total registration Of
men voters in the City of New York
at that time was 667,609. Of these only
lO3,40l voted. or about 16 per cent.
Again, look at the deadly parallel of
the mems vote in two Congressional
districts where the women registered
last week-75,528 men were registered
and only 12,o47 voted at the special
election in 1914. For the two other
Congressional districts there were Co.
4i4 men registered and only 1924
voted.
Women Took More Interest
Special elections, therefore, NAV be
conceded to command less than one
sixth of the attention Of men that gen
eral elections command, whereas, as
proven by last Saturdays figures, they
command one-fourth of the attention
OF women voters. Moreover, men do
not labor under the DISADVANTAGE of
having the registration date set within
three or four days Of the day they
had to 90 out and register, not to
mention the added disadvantage of a
violent snowstorm and only a day and
half in which to register. instead of
the whole week allowed to men,"
Miss Mary Garrett Hay. "Boss" OF
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26
Capt. Falconer Reinstated

Police Captain John l.. Falconer,
formerly of the Sheepshead Bay police
station, who has been under suspen-
sion for his alleged connection with a
wire tapping scheme to obtain evidence
in a divorce proceeding, was tried be
fore First Deputy Commissioner Leach.
it was learned yesterday. He was
fined five days pay and ordered re-
instatcd. He will resume command of
his old precinct.
Captain Falconer was said to have
introduced man to the management
of the Hotel Biltmorc as a Secret Ser
vice officer, knowing it to be untrue
at the time The evidence against him
was presented to the grand jury. but
no indictment was found. His police
trial with its findings followed.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26
News in Brief

Max Kintsch, of l22 Cannon Street, who
was arrested last Thursday after the motor
truck he was driving ran down and killed
Harry B. Katzman at Sixth Avenue and
Seventeenth Street. exonerated by
Magistrate McGeehan. in the jefferson Mar
ket court
The Traffic Court collected $6,2l6 in fines
during January Eighteen of the III vio
lators OF traffic regulations arragned were
sent to prison without the alternative of q
fine, and sixty-five were committed for fail
ing to pay fines. The city gets S5.873
of the money received from fines, most of
the offences against city ordinances
The remainder goes to the state.
The police reserves of the West Sixty
eighth Street police precinct formerly the
Home Defence League) have issued an in
vitation for male residents of the section
bounded by Fifty-nnth Street. Eighty
Street Central Park West and Riverside
Drive 20 become members of the organiza-
ton.
OF Captain Godfred L. Garden. division
commander of the United States Coast
Guard has been designated TO enter the
United States Military Academy at West
than any of his eghty-nne competitors His
grandfather officer in the 125th
New York Infantry in the Civil War and
his great-grandfathers were soldiers.
The $500 girl students at the julia Rich
man High School have begun campaign to
get new building for the school. They
have sent a long telegram to Mayor Hylan,
at Palm Beach, asking his aid in their eff
forts.
YONkERS, N. Y.-Some fired three
shots through the open window of Mrs. Fan
ME Ambrose's bedroom in her home at 16l
Willow Street. One fattened against the
wall. a second broke a water pitcher The
third happened to hit an alarm clock, setting
1t to ringing. Then Mrs. Ambrose awoke
The police made an investigation, but could
find no trace of the person who fired the
shots.
NEWARK. n. J.-In Il speech before
5000 workmen employed at the PORT New
ark Terminal plant of the Submarine Boat
Corporation. Colonel l. Thord Gray, of the
llth northumberland Fusiliers. British
Army. predicted the war would last twenty
months more.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-26
House and Senate Agree
On Webb Foreign Trade Bill

WASHINGTON, Feb 25.-Differences
between the House and Senate onathe
Webb bill, to permit American eX-
Dorters to combine for foreign trade,
have been Strengthened out and the
bill soon will go TO President Wilson
for his approval.
He recommended its passage as
war measure.
Evening star., 1918-11-24
MRS. PAGE HELPS LONDON
VISITORS TO GET ABOUT

LONDON. November 23.-Among the
little known social accomplishments
of Mrs. Page, the wife of the late
American ambassador, is an intimate
acquaintance with the geography. of
London almost sufficient to enable
her to pass the phone knowledge
of-London" test imposed upon would
be drivers of taxicabs by the Scot
land Yard authorities.
Inquirers at the information bu-
reau of the Eagle Hut, in the
Strand, where she spent many hours
each week. found Mrs. Page an adept
at answering the thousand and one
questions on London and it's ways
put by American and overseas troops
generally. Her English co-workers
at the hut cannot say enough about
the kindly tactfulness and lovable
ways of the ambassadors wife, whose
wide acquaintance of the affairs of
the great world and her understand
ing of the many-sided psychology of
the Americans, Canadian, AuAralians.
British and French who wandered
into the bureau all day long with
questions that wanted answers was
only equaled by her invariable mod
esty and self-effacement.
Evening star., 1918-11-24
TURKEY NEEDS ADVISERS.
Premier Suggests That Allies Loan
Some Trained Administrators.

LONDON. November 22.-An inter-
view had by a British correspondent at
Constantinople with Tewfik Pasha, the
Turkish premier. is printed by this
mornings newspapers. In it the pre-
mier said he wished to work in spirit
Of peace and conciliation.
I'VE have some capable men," he
added. but they have always been kept
out Of Office. A solution of our difficult
ties would be to ask the entente powers
to lend US some trained administrators
and advisers
The correspondent says the present
cabinet probably is temporary One. It
does not include any marked person
ality.
Evening star., 1918-11-24
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Evening star., 1918-11-24
Appeals to Red Cross.

Disappointed in his chance to fight
in France, after having had a taste
of many lesser adventures, Frost
found that he was more anxious than
ever before to find his long-lost sister.
He laid the matter before the Red
Cross officers, and they got in touch
with the branches in Foxcroft and
other towns where the brother and
sister had lived as children before
being adopted by different families
1t was in 1886 that Frost, then only
nine years old. was taken to the Pa
cific coast, where he has lived ever
since. For many years he was a
"cowpuncher." Often he has tried, in
vain, to get in touch with the sister,
and he has desired to do what he
could for her comfort,
The fact that she had married baf-
fed his efforts to locate her, because
he did not know her new name. But
this did not battle the Red Cross work
ers. They learned that Mrs. Lena
Mayhem of Foxcroft was indeed the
little sister who cried upon his neck
when he started off for the west, that
seemed so full of mystery to him and
so full of danger to her
Evening star., 1918-11-24
Brings Him Fine Gift.

'"The Red Cross surely has brought
me fine Christmas gift" said Frost
The sister, as reports show, is in
bad health, and on that account may
find all the greater joy in looking at
this big, healthy soldier brother of
hers. She may well be glad that the
war ended in time to keep him out of
the fray. 1t is sure thing that if he
had ever gone over the top it would
have been a sad day for the Hun who
got in his way.
Evening star., 1918-11-24
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Evening star., 1918-11-24
RED CROSS TO UNITE
SOLDIER AND SISTER
Private Frost, From Pacific, to See
Her in Maine After Thirty
Two Years.

Special Correspondents Of The Star.
CAMP MEADE, November 23-
Separated for thirty-two years. a
brother and sister will meet in little
village in Maine at Christmas as a
result of the tireless effort of the
home service department of the Amer
lean Red Cross. The brother is Private
George L. Frost, Company A, SD In
fantry, a California regiment, that
stopped here on it's way to France and
then did not get any farther, held
back at first by influenza and then by
the armistice