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New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Shoes and Ships
And Sealing Wax

Wounded Canadian soldiers bore the
Eodies of the Kaiser. Won Hindenbure
and the Crown Prince to their final
rest in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday
For the last week Clevelanders had
been hurling bascballs. three for a
quarter, against these august forms to
help fill their city's war chest.
Funeral ceremonies were held on the
State House lawn. There were nc
mourners and flowers were omitted.
W. J. Goor, Sing Sing prisoner. is
feeling much relieved in mind. The
others day the local draft board of the
district in which Goor lived, in New
York sent to this village to locate him
The board had found forwarding ad-
dress as 1854 Hunter Street, and failed
to recognize that as the prison.
Goor had visions for q time Of being
arrested as Stacker. The warden
wrote across the face of his question
are, however, "unavoidably detained
IN Sing Sing prison." Then Goor
hreathed much easier.
Recently Verne NJ Bowie, superin-
tcndent of the local United States As
say Office, came into possession of a
rather good looking counterfeit ten
Goliar golo piece. Experts Oh the once,
or subjecting the coin to careful ex-
animation, discovered to their surprise
that it was made of platinum. The
counterfeiter apparently did not know
that platinum at the present sells for
FIVE times more than gold. To disguise
the platinum in the coin the maker had
touched it up with gilt.
How those Socialists hang together!
Here is an excerpt from a Washington
dispatch, giving the secretly distributed
opinions of the minority Socialists of
Austria:
GAS much as we wish to settle our
account with the imperial government
(Which is now considered as having
provoked the war;, in the same way
VIC wish to settle our account with their
Socialist accomplces." And who do
you suppose they are going to first
knock on the head -Schcidemann, FL
bert and Ellenbogen. Culprits, three.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Protests AgainM Action Elk
pected From Northern
Members of Congress
Garment Workers.
Factories Exempted
Good Weather May Bring
Relief From Fuelless
Mondays Altogether
[Stuf Correspondencc]

tCtuU SOf' CoiIVtNtO'tN'J
WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Fucl Adj
ministrator Garfield to-day lifted the
Monday closing order in the Southern
States. Improved weather and trans
advanced by the fuel administration as
the reason for the action. If weather
continues favorable, DR.. Garfield says,
the restrictions will be lifted every
where and next Monday will be the
last hcatless day.
The states now permitted TO do bust
ness as usual on Monday are North
Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana.
Buildings housing workers who are
members Of the International Ladies
Garment Workers-in whatever states
located-are also exempted.
While the warmer climate of the
South may completely justify immc-
diate modification of the Garfield order
there, it is anticipated that the action
of the Fuel Administrator will be the
subject of some bitter partisan COM
ment in Congress within the next few
days.
Manufacturers in the Northern States
have been protesting against the heat
less Mondays ever since they were or
dered. Thousands of letters have been
received by Representatives and Sena-
tors from the manufacturing districts
of this section. 1t is pointed out that
Northern members will be therefore
compelled to voice their disapproval of
the Garfield action of to-day in order
to keep their records "stralght back
homo -
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Food Dealers Both
Raise and Lower
Prices Set by u. S.
Variance Blamed on Errors
in Administrations
System
By BRIGGS

Food retailers in New York, both
big and little, yesterday demonstrated
their complete independence of the
food administrations price fxers by
both underselling and overselling the
recommended prices at will
That this variance in prices was not
due to profiteering was indicated by
the fact that the actual charges of the
grocers were as often below those rec
commended in the official list as over
them. The grocers themselvs accepted
this wide difference of opinion as to
prices between the "Fedral price fixers"
and the retailers as another evidence
of the error of the present system of
operation by the food administration.
canvass of stores in Brooklyn and
Manhattan showed that bread. milk,
eggs, sugar, prunes and raisins were
being sold at prices above those fixed
by the food administrators. But such
staples as butter, -four, cheese, lima
beans. kidney beans, rice and potatoes
are being sold below the official price.
Officials of the food administration
said last night that the present system
of arriving at fair prices, though show
ing improvement steadily, was far from
satisfactory, and it was suggested that
change might be made, which, how
ever, would not bar cooperation be-
tween the food sellers and the govern
ment administrators. For one thing, it
was said, wholesalers would be re-
quired to quote closer figures in sub
hitting the prices on which the fair"
list is based.
Fair charges for staple foods are now
established about in this wise: The
wholesalers, whose overhead and other
costs are known approximately to the
government agents, are called Upon to
the retailers. These are averaged, a
fair margin is added for the retailer,
and the resultant figures are denom-
mated fair" for the consumer.
EooA Dx:ao Co.,,naEiSonr Eohr..a.ux
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
More Po,uer Granted
To State Administrators

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield to-day gave state
fuel administrators full authority not
only to divert fuel to supply emergency
needs, but further to withhold coal.
This authorization to state administra-
tors was accompanied by general di
rections granting large discretionary
power, but at the same time impress
ing the Importance of supplying fuel
without interruption to necessary war
industries.
State administrators are authorized,
wherever necessary, to extend their
organizations in such way as will
adequately and promptly furnish such
information as may be needed to make
effective the new system. They are
advised to appoint an advisory COM
mlttee of three men familiar with the
coal business of their state, and to
arrange working plan with the state
Council of Defence or similar agancy
Under this system of cooperation the
state administrator will be able to in
form himself as to what consumers OF
areas can best stand a reduction in
current supply With the least harm te
the situation as whole
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
All-Whale Luncheon Opens u p
New Vistas in Food Economy
'Whaleless Day. Called Possibility Now by Twenty
Guests of Henry Fairfield Osborn Who Demonstrates
What Can Be Done With Mammal Meat

Eventually may come the "whaleless
day." Just because every day is now
"whaleless" to the average American
there is no reason to believe-take it
from Henry Fairfield Osborn, presi-
dent of the American Museum of
Natural History-that it always will be.
To show how worthy is the candidacy
of the whale for representation on the
American dining table, DR.. Osborn yes
terday invited twenty representative
New Workers to a whale luncheon in
the dining room of the museum, at
Seventy-seventh Street and Central
Park West.
lhe responsive appetites of the
guests form the basis for the predic-
ton with which this story begins. For
while the exact number of whales or
percentage of whale which graced the
Doard is not known. it is fact that
the dlners asked for more.
All Whale Dishes
!, Ihe repast was arranged by DR.. Os-
~ oHoW tnaC Whale meat offers
soiutlon of the problem of the strait
ened meat supply Of the nation and
IS an acceptable substitute for costly
cuts OF beef, lamb and pork. To prove
ms point, Dr. Osborn arranged with
the Victoria Whaling Company, of Vic
toria, 3: C., and several days ago sec
tlons OF hump-back whale began to
arrive in this city. They were turned
over to the chef at Delmonico's, with
an injunction to serve it for twenty
IN the most varied and palatable form
Hors d'@uvre of whale, whale SOUP
and planked whale steak ACCORDINGLY
featured the menu of yesterday. which
was "Hooverized" to the nth power.
The chef explained the dishes by no
means exhausted the possibilities Of
the worlds greatest mammal. He could
have provided, in addition, whale stew
pot roast of whale. curricd whale on
toast, whale en- casserole and the in
evltable whale croquettes.
Or. Osborn assured the diners that
whale was extremely satisfying and
nourishing, the "co-efficient Of digest H.
bility of the protein" being no less
than 9S.3 per cent, equal to that Of
the best cuts of beef and higher than
that OF lamb. He declared that 49,,
100000 pounds Of finest whale meat"
from more than thousand whales
taken annually by whalers operating
from the Pacific Coast, are now used
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
PQcifiists Plan
Big Convention
Here Feb. rs
Continued from page

154 East Fifty-fourth Street, and Bry-
ant Hall, Sixth Avenue, near Fortysec-
ond Street. The avowed purposes of
the conference are ito elect and in
struct delegates to an interAllied So
cialist conference in London" to
ments in this country" and to "speed
the end of the war" President Will
sons recent statement of Americas
war aims will be utilized as the basis
for peace clamor, and prominence will
be given to Bolshevik doctrines, in
Guiding the slogan mo forcible annex
ations, no punitive indemnities and free
development of all nationalities."
The "call' for the New York confer.
ence states:
'The time has come for the liberal and
radical forces of the United States to
follow the lead of similar movements in
Russia. Great Britain and Austria and
agree upon common programme, This
conference should be cpoch-makinG. An
inter-Allied congress of representatives of
the labor and Socialist movements has
been called by the British labor conference
to meet late in February. The congress
is called for the purpose of formulating
the demands of the workers in the en-
tentc countries with reference to peace
terms and social and economic reconstruc-
tion after the war. The members of the
organizing committee believe that Amer
ica should be fully represented at this
epoch-making conference.
The "Clamor" for Peace
The reasons why the pacifists believe
that "the desire for peace is now be-
coming articulate in all the warning
countries" arc thus summarizes:
"The recent strikes in Austria and
Germany, amounting almost to re-
volt against continuing the war.
"The unrest Of the British labor ele
ment.
"The Bolsheviki's outspokcn desire
for peace.
"The restivencss of the prolctariat
in Italy, due chiefly to the growth of
pacifst organizations.
"The utter helplessness Of most Of
the Balkan states"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Plant Bulb Shipment
On Dutch Liner Beine
Analysed for Poison,

Experts from the Department of Ag-
riculture, assisted by government
chemists. will start to-day an examina-
tion of several thousand crates of plant
bulbs that are now sealed in the hold
of the Holland America liner Nieuw
Amsterdam, tied up in her dock at
Hoboken.
The process, it is said, will be slow
and careful. as the government is de-
termined that Germany snail not by
the aid Of such plants introduce within
the boundaries of the United States a
poison pollen that might destroy the
crops of the country.
Several months ago the California
State Council of Defence announced
that Germany had attempted to ship
into the country a vast quantity Of poi
son pollen designed to blight the wheat
crop in California and other states and
that two litres of the poison had al
ready been received and contiscated.
This information was sent broadcast
to all ports of the United States and
special care has been taken to examine
every form Of dead leaf or plant life
|
Even if this warning had not been
sent out, representatives of the De-
partment of Agriculture would have
had to pass upon the bulb consignment
of the Nieuw Amsterdam before it
would be permitted to enter the coun-
try.
1t is doubtful if every one of the
hundreds of thousands of bulbs will
be individually examined, but the ex-
perts will give microscopic attention to
the greater part of each crate. If there
is anything suggesting disease to plant
life in the bulbs themselves or in any
of the soil that clings to them, the en-
tire cargo will be incinerated.
The bulb cargo, which was about all
that Holland could send over in the
hold Of the Nieuw Amsterdam, is under
seal and is said to have been guaran-
teed by the Netherlands government as
being legitimate and healthy crop
taken from the fields of Holland.
1t was said yesterday that other
means of getting poison pollen into the
country are reckoned with, and every
precaution has been taken to prevent
any soil, dust or seeds from leaving
the ship in baggage or on the person Of
| travellers
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Governor Whitman in Town
for knights of Columbus Ball

Governor Whitman and Mrs Whit
man were at the St. Regis last night,
the Governor coming to town to attend
the annual bail of the knights o.
Columbus, held last night, and to con-
fer with local Republican leaders TO-
day. George w. Aldridge, of Rochester,
has an appointment with the Govern or
this forenoon. The Governor expects
to make an address before the Ma
tional Security League at its meeting
in Chicago on February 81, and on the
following night he will speak at a
Washington anniversary dinner in Pc.
oria, III.
His first inquiry on reaching town
last night was about Colonel Roose-
veit's condition. He said that solic.-
tude concerning the Colonel was wide
spread throughout the state. The Gov
ernor will be in town two or three days
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09

Rnown IN this country. Europe is af-
hicted with a number of cereal dis
eases or hostile organisms that are un-
known to America, but that are quite
capable of introduction here. In Aus
tria, for example, the specialists say,
the nenatodes, species of small worm,
closely allied to vinegar worms, have
been very destructive of crops, and a
Teutonic offensive against the Ameri-
of introducing this worm into Amer
ica.
AS to the use of poisonous chemicals
bility or the germinability of plant
life, scientists say that this is not
feasible except in very limited way.
The method of attack would be through
the contamination of the chemicals
used by American farmers as insecti-
cides or fungicides in treating their
seed stock. 1t would be possible to in
troduce into these antiseptic solutions
poisons which might destroy the life
of the seed. If these solutions were
obtained from a few central sources the
different concerns supply these washes
that here again the danger would be
localized.
The chances are that if any passenger
on the Nieuw Amsterdam is carrying
the agencies of an insidlous disease at
tack on America it. would be in the
form OF the microbe of some human or
animal disease. The Germans have
been accused of thus introducing chol-
era into Rumania, and the possibili-
ties of the wholesale destruction of
armies by the introduction of rapidly
infectious diseases with high percent
age of mortality has often been dis
cusscd.
Through a cultural process the num-
ber of germs that might he carried in
a minute receptacle could be so rapidlv
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Garfield May Order
Skip Stops for Trollevs

WASdlNGION, Feb. 8.-The fuel aG-
mlnlstration is considering, in co0pera-
ton with street railway and public util.
tiles officials, the Inauguration of skip
stop schedules on urban and inter
urban electric railroads as a coal con-
servation measure. The plan was OUT
lined as follows by the fuel admins
tration officials:
Ihe regular passenger storpine
places for electric railways shall be
spaced SO as not to exceed eight pc;
mile in urban districts and six per mile
in suburban districts. On interurba,,
lines the regular passenger stoppinu
places shall not exceed four per mile
Where safety stops are necessary they
shall be combined when practicable e
with the passenger stops.
Points in Favor of Plan
"Some of the points made in favo,
of the order are:
"Three times as much power is re-
quired to make an electric car sto, ard
start as to run block.
There are approximately fifty mill
ion car stops made in the United State
each day The skip-stop schedule
would eliminate one-third of these
1he elimination of six billion stops p
year. together with the regulation OF
car heating, will bring a fuel SAVING
Of not less than 100000 tons of coal
a year, which will meet the fuel needs
CT 100000 average families.
"The reduction of car stops. it mas
been stated, will. in large measure
serve to relieve the congestion oS tho
overloaded street railway systems OF
the country and will enable better and
quicker service TO the individual
Under the present conditions of opera.
ton the number of stopping places fo,
electric cars in urban districts is often
fourteen or more per mile, and in su.
burban districts and on interurbar
lines is often correspondingly exces.
sive.
"Students of street railway operation
woh favor the skip-stop order argue
also that by reason of the coal trans
rortation shortage, there would be ia,
less inconvenience to the public, anc
less interference with general business
through reducing the number of cleo
trio railway stopping places than
through curtailing service.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Exemption Is Denied
For Coal Mine Workers

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-The War
Department has declined to exempt
coal miners from the draft, according
to an announcement made by DR.. Harry
A. Garfield to-day. The fuel admins
tration some weeks ago urged that
miners be exempted from military SER
vices on account of the great impor-
tance of fuel production and the short-
age of labor n the mines. The recon-
mendation was further supported by
reminder that the War Department, IN
an analogous case, had exempted ship
yard workers at the request of Chair
man Edward n. Hurley, of the Ship
ring Board.
According to figures supplied by the
fuel administration. about 10000 min
ers have been drafted thus rar.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Merchants Urged
To Speed Up Coal
Deliveries Here

Decided weather Improvement
throughout the Eastern section Of the
United States having failed to amelo-
rate fuel scarcity in New York City
and those parts of New York State and
New England that are dependent for
coal on this port. State Fuel Admins
traitor Albert H. Wiggin yesterday ad-
dressed letters to the Chamber of Com
merce and the Merchants Association,
outlining the absolute needs of i'm
proved facilities for handling coal here
Mr. Wiggin addressed letters to E.
H. Outerbridge, president of the Cham
Der of Commerce, and William FeMowes
Morgan, president of the Merchants
Association, in which he outlined the
vital and immediate needs of the city
in expanding port and storage facili-
ties. Otherwise, he pointed out, any
cold spell might at any time bring
about a recurrence of the fuel famine
which this winter has brought on suf-
fering and discomfort to millions and
partial suspension of business.
Mr.. Wiggin in his letter points out
four main difficulties with the coal
situation which improved weather con-
ditions cannot remedy:
"Insufficient unloading facilities at
the docks.
"Inadequate storage facilities in
Manhattan and Brooklyn.
"lnsutficient supply Of tugs, many of
which have been Communicated by the
Federal government.
"Insufficient coal carrying barges to
bring coal from docks to Manhattan.
(Note.-This has not been an i'm
portant defect this year because of
the small quantity of coal, but with a
normal supply of coal will become a
great factor)
THE Port of New York winter re-
quirements are more than 100000 tons
every day, including Sundays and holi
days, made up approximately in the
following manner:
"For Greater New York, $4,000 tons
anthracite
"Fcr Greater New York, $4,000 tons
bituminous.
Daily bunkering of ships (increas-
ing), $4,000 tons.
New England, Long Island and
coastwise business supplied from this
port, both anthracite and bituminous,
$4,000 to $4,000 tons"
Mr.. Wiggin calls attention to the fact
that many barges have been COM
mandeered by the government and have
been sunk this winter; that new barges
have not been built, and that the stor
age facilities in Manhattan cannot ac-
commodate more than four or five days'
coal supply. He requests the Chamber
of Deputies and the Merchants Asso-
citation to give these matters their
consideration; to consult experts and
engineers, with view of finding the
proper solution to the problem and ap-
plying the remedy.
From the Office of the union, 81 Union
Square, bulletin was issued stating
that about 10000 men and wo,ro, ;n
New York City We're affected by this
order, and stating that Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, and Benjamin Schles-
niger, president of the Garment Work
ters' Union had presented to DR.. Gar
field the depiorable condition of the
workers, who were bereft of part of
their earnings by the industrial suspen-
sion. The bulletin stated that these
workers were dependent on snort sea-
son. Labor officials were asked why
the season could not be changed by a
few days. but no explanation was
Forthcoming.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09

multiplied that, with the means of dis
tribution that would be at hand once a
carrier Of the malignant microbes was
at large, the possibilities of destruc-
tion of life among food and transport
animals, as we'll as among humans, is
terrifying.
In this connection, the experts say.
however, that the danger to the food
supply through the use of poisons or
destructive forms Of minute animal life
is more through the poisoning or spoil
ing of food cargoes en- route to Eu-
rope. Poison enough might be intro
duced into one cargo of wheat to kill or
impair the health of thousands.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09

Some grocers require the purchase
OF one pound of cereals with every five
pounds of white -four, under the Vic
tory, bread regulation.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
u. S. Experts Admit
Germans Could Ruin
Crops With Poison
staff C0yresD0ndence1

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8-Horrific pos
sibilitics are admitted by botanical
pathologists to exist in the suspicion
that passengers on the Neuw Amster-
Dam, which arrived at an Atlantic port
on Wednesday, were carrying contain
ers of vegetable or animal disease.
rhe possibility that crop destruction
night be wrought on large scale by
means of poisonous pollen wos declared
"a be practically nil, because there Is
40 possibility of utilizing such a metn-
od of attacking plant life except IN
such narrowly restricted manner as
not to be worth the effort.
If the German scientists have con-
ceived plan of utilizing their knowl-
edge of plant disease to strike at the
production of food in America it would
doubtless take the form of introducing
some cereal disease of a germ nature,
such as the familiar black rust. which
has been known to convert the promise
OF bountiful wheat crop into a GER
tainty of total loss within few days
Rust, however, is Indigenous to Amer
ica, and needs only the favorable kind
of environment in respect to the
weather prevailing when the cereal
plant is at a certain stage, to make it
break out III any season, and no i'm
portatlon of spores from Germany
would contribute to the scope of this
pest.
Nav Irtrnduce New Wor,r
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09

good standing and were permitted to
leave the ship with their baggage. All
aliens of the steerage were passed by
the intelligence men at II a. m. yestcr
day, but it was too late to trans fer
them and their baggage to Ellis Island.
They will be taken to the island thus
morning on barge.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
Spy Caught on
Dutch Liner;
2z Detained

Continued from page l
New-York tribune., 1918-02-09
May Introduce New Worm

May Introduce New Worm
The possibility of serious damage
lies in the introduction of the spores
or other life forms of insect or fungi
that are capable of injuring or destroy
ing plant life and that are still un