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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11

ating the enormous organization of which 1 am
writing.
The invaluable service which the navy is per-
forming is almost entirely police work The navy
furnishes guns and men to work them on each ship
that goes and it conveys the ships providing every
possible protection against attacks by the enemy in
transit. In addition the navy furnishes officers
and crews to navigate the ships whenever it is
found impracticable to man the ships with civil
ians; but this is the case with comparatively few
ships of the great number Transporting troops or
supplies.
Navy Makes Good the Grew Shortage.
Certain of the former transatlantic liners taken
over by the United States are manned and operated
exclusively transports by the navy, and as the
shortage of seafaring men for civilian crews be-
comes more acute the navy supplies crews from the
commissioned and enlisted personnel, hurriedly
gathered and trained. Great credit is due the navy
for the manner in which it has met this emergency,
but only about one-tenth of the actual transport
work is done by the navy Under naval regula-
tions which are strictly enforced it requires more
than double the number of officers and men to navi-
gate ship which can be satisfactorily run by a
civilian mercantile crew. Naturally Uncle Sam
prefers civilian crews when he can get them which
is not always
One of the dominant ideas in connection with the
whole problem is that the carrying of passengers
and freight is, purely commercial function, and
the soldier, on his way to France, is neither more
nor less than passenger. 1t is not a military or
naval function, though it must necessarily be done
under military or naval supervision.
Moreover, neither the army nor the navy had the
facilities for transporting this army. Great fscil
ties, however, were already in existence, and so
soon as this dominant idea was clearly recognized
the army transport service set about the task of
coordination.
The first step was to organize complete staff of
officers and men to direct and supervise the work
This staff has grown with the work until it now
comprises, at the port of New York alone, several
hundred officers and several thousand men.
Next had to be considered the securing of all the
shipping that could be made available. As to what
has been done in that line only general statements
can be made. The authorities chary of giving
out statistics for publication.
Writing loosely, it may be stated that hundreds
of ships are now engaged in carrying these passen
gers and their equipment. There must have been
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
Congress Party Leaves
In Hearst Hired Train

WASHINGTON, July AT the last
moment, Congress, which has al
ways observed the national holiday
in the past by adjourning for the day,
failed to do so. Unanimous consent is
necessary, and the objections Of Rep
resentative Helm, Of Kentucky, pre-
vented it. AS a result many Congress
men who might have been in the party
Champ Clark could not go.
Those who got away tonight went in
six Pullmans that had been reserved by
the Hearst agents. There was little, IL
any, excitement connected with their
departure, the majority driving to the
Union Station in taxicabs and quietly
slipping aboard the train.
Among those observed at the train,
just before its departure, were Sen
ators Ashurst, Bankhead Shafrott,
Reed, King and Curtis and Representa-
tives Cooper, Of Wiscinsin; Rainey
of Illinois; Nicely. of West Virginia !;
Rouse, of Kentucky; Rubey and Dick
enson, of Missouri; Raker, of Cali
fornia; Shellenberger, of Nebraska /;
Taylor, Of Colorado; Dillon, Of South
Dakota; Wingo, Of Arkansas; Goodwin,
Of North Carolina; Oliver, Of Alabama,
and zihlmcn, of Maryland.
Speaker Clark will leave immediately
following adjournment Of Congress at
noon tomorrow to join the Hearst
party. Representatives Mansfield, Of
Tennessee; SteSgall and Gray. OF Ala
bama; Wilson, of Texas: Focht, of
i Pennsylvania, and Senator Calder will
, also 20,
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
B 'Banmerman's Arsenal" Seized
After He Offers Guns to u. S.
Aged Military Merchants Caretaker Arrested and He Is
Denounced as Prohteer for Proposal to Sell
Cannon at Cut Rate

There is rocky islet in the Hud-
son just below West Point whose biz
arre castellated structures and art-
fetal lagoon, with bridges and watch
towers, have made it familiar sight
to all the thousands that travel by
land or water up and down that valley
thoroughfare. Bannerman's Island,
it is called through the length and
breadth of the land because Of the
great sign that placards it: "Banner-
mans Arsenal"
1t is where Francis Bannerman, Of
sol Broadway, a dealer in military
goods of all kinds and whose name and
wares are known throughout Latin
America at least, has for years stored
guns, ammunition and similar goods
against call from some revolutions
ary junta that knew where it could get
the worth Of its money Now armed
guards pace to and fro on Banner
mans Island" and the aged munition
dealer and his wife, in the words Of a
letter that is inscribed in "Thc Con-
gressional Record "Live like Bel
gians under Prussian rule"
in the Congress Record because
the patient but oft repeated "Why ?''
which Mr.. Bannerman directed at the
War Department, the Navy DEPARTING INT
and the Department of Justice brought
no answer and Senator James w
Wadsworth decided to add his voice to
the plantive cry.
Caretaker Seized as "Spy'
scout patrol boat landed an armed
guard on the island. which broke, en-
tered and plundered at the point OF
levelled pistols; why an aged alien
caretaker, whose case had been spe-
citically taken up with the Attorney
, General by Mr.. Bannerman, was seized
with pomp and circumstances as a
"spy"; why the tant of suspicion had
been spread abroad concerning MIR.
Bannerman; WHY he has had to lead a
St Helena existence i'll his quarters on
the island; why he was not permitted
to fulfil contracts entered into with
home guards and similar bodies, and
above all. why he was accused by Rep
House Of "the boldest piece of effron-
terry that had ever come to his atten-
ton"
1t is Repres Borland's charge
Of protiteering at the expense of the
government, charge that gained con.
siderable publicity through newspape,
accounts Of the Representative speech
that rankles deepest with Mr.. Banner
man. That is what impelled him te
write letter in his own defence which
/ Senator Wadsworth made part of ths
! Congressional Record in his reference
to the affair in the Senate on Saturday
Gives Proof of Loyalty
81 am man nearly seventy years oil
age" the island prisoner wrote "Since
last July have been in very feeble
health owing to a surgical operation
which left wound in my body which
j is still open. All my life I have triee
to be loyal citizen of these UniteG
! States. The motto of my family i.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
Bishop of Oxford
Is Coming to u. S.

LONDON, July Replying 10 a
question in the House of Commons to.
day. Lord Robert Cecil. Minister Of
Blockade and Parliamentary Under
Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that
q permit had been granted to the Right
Rev. Charles Gore, Bishop of Oxford
since 1911. to visit the United States.
The Bishop Of Oxford, together with
number OF other British public men
and churchmen. We're invited last Jan.
vary to visit the United States and
make a speaking tour OF the princinal
cities, under the auspices of the Na.
tional Committee on the Churches and
the Moral Aims of the war. The com
nittee, at the time of sending the in.
vitation, announced that its purpose in
seeking TO bring to America prominent
Britishers, including ex-Premier As
quith,. Niscount Bryce, Viscount GREY
and Arthur Henderson. was to pro
mote unity. between America and her
European Allies during the war, and
10 prepare public opinion for the
league OF nations after the war
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
French and Bride
Are Reconciled as
Ultirnatu1n Ends
"Come Back by 10 or 1t Is
All Over" lie Said, and
She Appeared
Especial Dispatch TO The Yribuus) }


BOSTON, July 3.--After Edward
Tuck French, member OF the wealthy
New York and Newport family, had
hunted all day for his missing bride,
the New Hampshire telephone girl
whom he married six days ago, and who
ran away yesterday because, as she
ssit. her husband kept her virtually a
prisoner during their "honeymoon," Civ
ing her only bread and crackers and
milk to eat, the girl appeared here
again late tonight as suddenly as sh ,
had disappeared from the Fall River
hotel
She went directly to her husbands
apartment IN the Copley Plaza Hotel.
They embraced warmly. and announced
that their differences were due to g.
misunderstanding, which likely would
never occur again.
Girl Objected to Diet
The bride. who was Miss Lillian NJ.
Harrington, the daughter of Mrs. Will
lam F. Harrington, of Lakeport, N H.,
and who was known as "Totte" at her
home in Manchester, N. H., is credited
with saying that she had "animal
crackers" to eat during the period the
two were together at the Mohican
Hotel, in Fall River from which she
fled following a visit from the French
family lawyer.
French remained here quietly dur
ing the day while the search for his
missing bride was going on. He de-
clared he loved her and was confident
she would come back to him. And
later he insisted that he would 90 to
Manchester, N. H., find her home, and
sit on her doorstep" until she came.
Met His Ultimatum
But as the day wore on and nothing
was heard from the girl French grew
more and more anxious. And when the
news came early tonight that his wife
had been found in town a few miles
from boston, French grew angry and
declared he would give her until lC
O'Clock tonight to return and then
start divorce proceedings.
It's shame the way she left me,
that I've been married is this" and he
showed his marriage certificate.
The girl met French it is said, while
VISITING girl friend at Cambridge She
had an acquaintance at the Harvard
Military School and the girls met this
young man and Mr.. French. The girls
alleged story follows:
"We all went to the Boston to the
Georgian for dinner. Mr.. French
seemed to like me and soon told me
ne intended to marry me. He spoke
of his family, but he said he'd be for
given, like his sister. Julia, when she
married Jack Geraghty'
Engagement Is Brief
The couple got a suspension of the
fve-day marriage law the next day apc
were married by the Few George Nat
tress, of the Church of the Advent
The couple whisked to New Haven ane
New York and back to the Monicar
Hotel at Fall River.
During the five days at the hote
! had animal crackers and milk ane
an occasiona! sandwich" the girl is
credited with saying. He locked r,e
in my room in New Haven also ane
was very jealous when we travelled
| telling me not to look at other mem
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
Montclair Postpones
Anti-Hearst Action

MONTCLA1R, N. J. July S.~-The
City Commissioners postponed action
tonight on The proposed ordinance to
make it unlawful to offer for sale
William Randolph HeaYst's New York
American or Evening Journal" Al
though the ordinance was not passed,
as members Of the Montclair battalion
had hoped and urged at the meeting
of the commissioners, Mayor Louis +.
Dodd made it clear that the question
was left open and that should necessity
arise could be taken up again at any
time.
The ordinance had been drafted in
accordance with wide powers given by
the state Legislature to enact ordi-
nances necessary to preserve law and
order in time OF war. It's proponents
argued that the necessity for such an
ordinance was upon the city, tmat the
selling of Hearst papers had brought
public burning OF the sheets in many
communities by vigilante committees,
and that the influx OF "huskies" to sell
the papers where newsdealers refused
to handle them was constant menace
to law and order.
Mayor Dodd declared the commits
sioness were acting upon legal advice
in taking the action they did and that
in the opinion Of their advisers the
situation was not yet so critical as to
make the ordinance necessary. In the
next breath he warned the members
of the battalion present that their
duty lay in suppressing any violence
that might occur in connection with
the sale of newspapers>or in any other
connection.
"In the meantime" he said. when
the matter had been tabled. 81 feel
sure that no Montclair citizen will be
seen with a newspaper in his possess
sion, the loyalty of which has been
Que stoned"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
Henry A. Wise Wood
Declines to Aid in
Hearst JunketeerinR

Henry A. Wise Wood, vice-president
of the Aero Club of America. chairman
of the Conference Committee on Ma
tional Defence and president OF the
Patriotic Education Society, declined
yesterday to act on the Hearst commit
tee Of welcome designated to receive
the Washington visitors who have ac-
cepted the invitation Of Mr.. Hearst to
be his guests in this city to-day. Mr..
Wood. who is in Gloucester, Mass. for
the summer, was reached by the Hearst
representatives. through a letter sent
several days ago.
His declination to serve was immed-
ately wired to the Hearst representa-
tives. The telegram is as follows:
Replying to your letter of the %,
I am forced to refuse the invitation Of
The New York American and "The
Evening Journal to act upon their
committee of welcome on July 4. Al
though the Hearst papers are among
my largest customers, | cannot permit
them to use my name in Endorsement
OF their war policy, which | believe to
be helpful to the enemy and disloyal
to the cause for' which we fight"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
Bureaus Say They Are Not
Receiving Much Patronage
From Employers
Many Sent Out of. City
Fewer Applicants Yesterday
Indicate Men are Being
Provided Places

The line Of applicants before the
Federal employment bureaus in greater
New York shortened yesterday. There
was decrease Of at least one fourth
in the number Of men who had been
called to register under the compul-
sorry work act, according to the en-
ployment officials.
Federal employment agents estimat-
ed they interviewed about 1900 men
during the day in all the registration
stations Of greater New York. They
said the government clerks had ham
died about 10000 during each of the
first two days after the law went into
effect.
The men Of fsdraft age hocked yester-
day to the main employment bureau, in
% East Twenty-second Street. They
were mostly hotel and restaurant en-
ployes, department store clerks and of.
fee assistants.
The United States Employment Ser
vice here sent out 1,84l men Tuesday
to war jobs in this state, Maryland,
Virginia, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The railroad fare In most cases was
ment furnished railroad passes to 62s
men, who we're sent to Virginia to
labor for Uncle Sam building powder
mills and quartermasters' depots.
Many of the men who were offered
positions out of town yesterday OBJ
jected to leaving New York City until
after the Fourth of July. They said
they wanted to celebrate independence
Day with their friends here.
Henry D. Sayer, Federal Employment
Director for New York State, said the
Federal bureaus were not receiving as
much patronage from business men in
New York City as he had hoped for.
He said business firms ought to give
chance to show that it could do as we'll
as, if not better than, the private
agencies about the city.
The Rev. Dr.. Williams Ellis Williams,
forty-nine years old, an alleged spirit
ualist healer, of 80 West Fifty-e ghth
Street. was held in $500 bail in the
Yorkville court by Magistrate Nc
Geehan on q charge OF practising
medicine without license. His as
sistant, DR.. Isadore Hirtz, forty-seven
years old, of 81 West Ninety-second
Street, was held in $500 bail fo- trial
under the anti-loating act. The two
arrests were made on information fur
nished by Detective Mary A. Sullivan,
of Deputy Commissioner O'Grady's
squad. She visited DR.. Williams 5
office and posed as an out-of-town
visitor seeking cure.
Eleven men, charged with violating
the compulsory employment act, were
arraigned before Magistrate Blau in
the Morrisania court yesterday. Five
were discharged, five held for trial and
the eleventh for further investigation.
Nine men were arrested by detectives
late Tuesday night on charges of loaf
ing. All were within draft age, and
all admitted they had no jobs.
The Federal employment bureaus will
be closed to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
Belgian Sugar Ration
Is 500, 600 Pounds

a sugar rationing certificate was is-
sued to the Belgian Relief Commission
by the Federal Food Board yesterday,
permitting the commission to purchase
100000 pounds for shipment to Bel
GUM. This is the largest individual
application for sugar granted by the
sugar division Of the board.
Thousands Of applications for Ger.
tifcates, ranging from 100 pounds to
100000. poured into the board by the
thousands yesterday. Two thousand
persons visited the board, while addi.
tlonal hundreds OF appeals for certih-
Gates came by mail end wire.
The office of the board will be closed
to-day, but the distribution of certif
Gates will be resumed on Friday
Reports from the East Side received
BY the board indicate that hundreds
OF Srocers and other keepers of food
stores have acceded to Chairman Nit.
chelPs request by closing their shops
at o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
House Indicates 1t
Is I'm No Hurry to
AXE Over Wires
Committee Would Limit
u. S. Control to Pc
riod Of War

WASHINGTON, July 3.-Although
/ the House Interstate Commerce Com
mjttee late to-day ordered a favorable
report on resolution authorizing, if
the President deems necessary, govern
ment control of telegraph, telephone,
cable and radio systems :. s war meas
ure, Congressional leaders continues d
tonight to make plans looking to a
recess of both Houses through July
and part of August. They expected to
dispose Of pending appropriation meas
ures late this week or early next week,
and to recess Immediately afterward.
Chairman Sims, OF the House COM
mittee. announced lie would submit a
report on the telegraph resolution at
brief holiday session tomorrow and
would endeavor to bring It before the
House as early as possible. Despite
this, however, leaders said final action
or the resolution would go over until
after the recess unless President viii
son asked for its adoption before that
time.
Compensation Provided
posal the House committee adopted as
a substitute for the Aswell resolution
which was approved by the President
one proposed by Representative San
ders, of Louisiana. This is similar to
the resolution under which control OF
the railroads was taken over, with 6
provision providing for Gust compen.
sation" to be paid the companies for
use of their wires.
AS originally offered, the Sanders
resolution provided for relnquishins
government control one year after the
war ends, but in spite of protests from
1t to provide for control only for the
duration of the war.
The resolution as amended follows:
''T hat the President in time of war
is authorized and empowered to su-
perYise or take possession and as
sumo control of any telegraph, tele-
phone, marine cable Or radio system
or systems or any part thereof, and
to operate the same in such manner
as may be needful or desirable for
the duration OF the war, which su-
pervision, possession, control or op-
GRAFTON shall not extend beyond the
date OF the proc clamation by the Pres
idept OF the exchange Of ratifications
of treaty OF peace. provided that
just compensation shall be made for
such supervision, possession, control
or operation"
4 special convention of the Order Of
Railway Telegraphers has been callec
TO open here July 8, at which the telee
raphers Will determine their position
toward handling commercial busnes:
in the event Of q strike on the Westerf
! Union lines.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04

For God and country we uphold our
banner To be practically accused OF
treason by the officials Of the govern
nent at this time in the evening OF
my lite, to find many of my former
nelghbors and associates looking as
kance at me and to know that my name
mas been associated in the minds Of
thousands with one Of the worst crimes
that man can be guilty of, has been
cross to me which it seems at times
would be impossible for me to bear"
Mr.. Bannerman relates n few Incl
dents to show how little of disloyal-
! ISL he is and how he has strivcn to up-
hold his banner. He took sides in the
war before the United States did, and
in the days of Kitchener and the first
advance on Paris offered to the British
leader his entire stock in trade with
out charge. British law made it i'm
American citizen.
Outfits Regiment for $4,000
After German cruisers shelled Har-
tlepoole Mr. Bannerman, describing
himself as "a native of Scotland resi-
dent in New York. expended $4,000
IN outilttlng regiment OF vol
unteers Of London, in addition
to gift of 1000 rifles, and succeeded
~ 'loEiHS Viz SIlC accepted OV hlnG =
! George before the givers identity as
an American citizen was discovered.
Prior to the declaration of war by the
United States and while its ships were
tied up because of ferocious undersea
piracy, Mr. Bannerman offered to arm
the St. Louis. OF the American Line,
at his own expense.
Tie sold cartridges to the government
at a 5o per cent discount, and he Of
"a i'll, L. T., y J
Tor SIX years at considerable expense,
at price $500 less apiece than Cuba
was willing to pay for them, providing
the United States did not want them.
1t was these naval guns which were
responsible for the attack of Repre-
sentative Borland. who asserted thai
Hr. bannern1an wanted $4,000 each
for them.
Letters which Senator Wsdsworth
produced before the Senate shove d
! that Mr. Bennerman asked S. 5000 apiece
Tor the eighteen unmounted guns and
S!,oo0 apiece for twelve which he had
placed on mounts that alone would now
be worth $4,000 each.
Wanted to Give Gun to Z. s.
One of the guns Mr. Bannerman did
not wish to sell to the government; he
wanted to give it to his country. and in
addition send to the war Denartment m TIM
check for $4,000 to mount the piece
on a modern field carriage Corre-
spondence concerning this offer Sena-
tor Wadsworth had also.
The guns are six-inch rifles. which were
discarded by the navy in 1912, although
MI, Bannerman protested when they
were offered for sale that they ought
not to be thrown away, but should be
turned over to the army for use on
land-precisely the purpose for which
they are now intended
"The Congressional Record" vindi.
Gates Mr.. Zimmerman, but it is not read
to any great extent by most of those
who peer from car window at the son
tries pacing "Banne~man's Island" and
are dimly reminded by the sight thai
! "Old Bannerman' is under suspicion.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-04
South Orange Fights
Hearst Newspapers
BY Poster Campaign

SOUTH ORANGE, N. j., July 3.-Fol-
lowing meeting of the Township Com
mittee last night a printer was busily
engaged to-day turning out copies of
q resolution adopted with only one dis
serting vote, which are to be posted
throughout the township as soon as
they come off the press. The resolu-
tion, which repeats in effect one passed
by the committee on June 4, in It's
preamble, follows:
Whereas the Township Commit
tee on June passed a resolution to
the effect that in the opinion of the
committee during the continuance of
the war the sale of German language
and so-called Hearst newspapers
should be discontinued in the town
ship unless they change their policy;
"And whereas it is deemed wise
that greater publicity be given to the
resolution;
"Now, be it resolved, that copies
Of said resolution be printed and
posted throughout the township, and,
further, that copies be mailed to all
newsdealers in the township"
1t was said tonight that the notices
should be out by the end of the week.