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New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Tired of Pink Teas
On a $4,000 Salary

Edward A. Morce, former assistan,.
secretary to the States Charities Aid
Association and author of the "horce
Pamphlets" that figured in the Strong
Commissions investigation OF charity
institutions in this city, WAS questone0
yesterday about money he received troH
the Fusion Public Welfare Committee
IN connection with the campaign to re,
elect Mayor Mitchell Mr.. Moree tco
Assistant District Attorney kilroe tns'
ms publicity organization, the Press
Service Company, got S5,165. Of wn'e"
he and his staff TOOK sl.l0o for theH
personal service during the campaign
Mr.. Moree said he was formerly
newspaper man and recently was o..
rector of the Atlantic Division OF tns
Red Cross at salary of $4,000 yea
and travelling expenses during s 'ns
Sloo, 900 900 campaign Mr.. kilroe tol0
hlm that he had received Anonymous
information that Moree's Resignation
from that organization was asked fo,
absolutely false" Mr.. Moree o.
clared. II was dissatisfied with u,
way the Red Cross was being manage
on questions of centralization, ana
am proud to state that after my resls'
nation they followed out every SUE
gestion ! made as to organizations ANY
besides, grew tired of chasing aroun1
to pink teas with society ladies 81"
wanted to get out and do IA real niaa
work h..
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Murder
Victim Identified
Counterfeiters May Have
Slain Him, Say Police;
Saloon Man Sought

The hand that protruded from q Milo
OF rubbish IN the cellar of 216 Thomp-
son Street and led detectives THURSDAY
night to the discovery of the BODY con.
cealed therein established the identity
OF that body yesterday. Fngerprints
taken from the hand and compared
with records in Headquarters showed
that the body had once been Joscph
Volpe, an Italian barber. of PIP Third
Avenue, who had been arrested last
June for having a revolver.
W what happened between Vo|pe's
~: .d.1:scharge from custody and the dis
covery of his body in the cellar of the
deserted building, the police are igno-
rant. All they know is that an anonv-
nous letter, addressed to "The Can-
taln' McDougal Street Station" led
them to the cellar and the discovery of
the body They also believe that Volu ue Oa
at one time frequented the Cafe Req
glo, which until few weeks AGO was
Street. ''o'''pson
detectives say that they believe the
DarDer received the stab wound that
caused caused his death because some one
fe feared what he might tell, or else be-
cause ne had already told.
oerta'n counterfeiters recently can't
urea by Federal agents are known to
nate ~ ;e ,, oeen visitors at the Cafe Reggie.
~ ~ IS possible that Volpe "squealed" to
the Secret Service and thereby wrote
out his own death warrant
-, The Cafe Reggie is now deserted
me appearance of the room it occun;ed
indicates II that it was vacated in haste
detectives a, Yesterday picked up the first
clew as to what had become of its
proprietor when a woman who said sho
was marie Maraschino, of 234 Thomp-
son Street, came to the building.
-, She told the police that she WAS
Christiano's friend and that, on Janu9
aary 10. he had sent her the cafe KEYS
by messenger boy and had told her to
lock up. the place until she should hear
from him again. ''0"'
Later the police learned that volpe
.e!t ms nome on January l3 and never
returned to it. Detectives are looking
for Christiano. "'"e
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Arctic Grip Still Holds T Harbor,
Underwood Exploration Reveals
Erie Railroad Head Clad in urs, Drives Through Ice Foes
and Finds Batterng of Tugs by Ice Most Serious
transportation Feature

Frank H. Underwood. president Of
the Erie Railroad, went on an Arctic
exploration trip around New York har-
Dor yesterday, scouting for iccbergs,
exploring frozen fjcrds and in general
surveying polar conditions from Kill
Won kull to the aurora borealis re-
glons of The Bronx and Queens. The
trip was made in the A. j. Stone, q
lowiy tug with a steel nose that de-
lights in butttng against iccbergs,
smashing through solid ferry slips and
thrashing cight-foot cakes of ice
Dressed in furs. Mr.. Underwood, ac-
companied by other railroad men,
found that no report made by Deputy
Marine superintendent W. b. Pollock
OF ice conditions in New York harbor
had been ovcrdrawn in the least
Find Conditions Very Bad
The A. J. Stone took Mr.. Underwood
around the lower harbor where the
drifting ice was thick and heavy. The
boat went along the frozai slips of
the Bush Terminal, up Newyown Greek,
where almost every slip is jammed and
up both the East and North rivers.
Bowery Bay, near Whitestone, Long
Island, was found to be in especially
bad shape. Mr. Underwood said that
the drift ice was particularly trouble
some during flow tide. The ice, be said.
was pretty we'll broken up. but in large
chunks that made harbor navigation
difficult.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Government Urged
BY Workers to Take
Over Coal Mines
Union Holds Out Right to
Make Collective Bar
gains, However
By BRIGGS

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 25.-After ex.
pelling Industrial Workers Of the
World from membership in the organi
zatlon. if there are any, the United
Mine Workers to-day went on record
as favoring the taking over of the coal
mines by the government on condition
the union men had the right TO make
collective bargains. They asked no
SPECIAL privileges in the operation OF
the selective draft, opposed conscrip-
,'on OF labor and adopted war reso-
luton declaring the coal diggers to
De IN full accord with President Will
son S announcement to make the world
safe TOR democracy and demanding the
unrestricted right of working men
ana women to organize and deal col
lectIvely with their employers"
The war resolution said:
"A great process of readustment is
taxing place in human affairs. In this
crlsls the American people are rally-
ing with unbounded enthusiasm to the
support OF the government in tie great
struggle to free humanity from the
blghting and sinister influences of
autocratic despotism.
j., Deprived of the right to organize
'ney stand helpless before the power
OF the industrial overlords. In recent
decision against the United Mine Work.
ers OF America the Supreme Court has
decreed that under conditions that can
ana may be created by any and all EN-
pioyers of labor the right to O. ganize
and act collectively shall be denied to
the employc.
This astounding decision. so out of
Keeping with the progressive thought
OF OF the times and the principles of de-
mocracy, strikes at great fundamental
and inherent right.
I'VE insist that this right must not
be abridged by any Governmental
agency and that American labor he
guaranteed the same Unrestricted right
to organize and deal collectively with
the employers Of labor as has been
guaranteed to the workers by tie GOV
ernments of our allies in France and
Great Britain"
The declaration on government own
crship Of the mines stated that the
vast majority of the miners are in
favor of it on condition the workers be
guaranteed democratic operation. with
the Tree and unrestricted right to or
ganize, to maintain their organization
and to collectively bargain with the
government The resolution stated the
miners were opposed to the kind of
government ownership that operates
the pOstofflce Department.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26

MIR. underwood's unfavorablc impress
sions of the ice conditions were furthc,
corroborated by Mr.. Pollock, who rc-
ported that ninety tugs twenty -four
railroad and sixty-six privately owned
were LAID up for repairs as the result
Of ploughing through foes. Mr.. Pol
lock said this represented about 25 pcr
cent Of the total towing power in The
harbor. There had never been so many
disabled harbor craft in the history
OF the port, he said. and this break
down constitutes the most serious phase
OF the harbor transportation problem
There Is little improvement, he said. In
ice conditions
What the Shortage Means
As result of tug shortage. Mr.. Pol
lock reported, freight is not being de
l'vered from Jersey railroad terminals
as last as man-powcr and barge facil-
ties otherwise would make it possib.c
to transport it. He declares, moreover,
that many warehouses in Manhattan
and the other boroughs arc not being
loaded as last as they are unloadcd for
consumption because the tugs have
broken down
Nevertheless, sixteen ocean Gamers
were bunkered with total of 9.2a1
tons of coal yesterday, leaving only
forty steamers to be coalcd in New
York Harbor Three days ago there
were more than 100 vessels awaiting
to be bunkercd here.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
New Sugar Profteer
Loses Excess Profit
Board Orders Him to Turn
Over $186.94; Sentence Of
Others Lightened

Proiiteering in new sugar has begun.
Only this week the Federal Food Board
set the price Of the new crop at ITO a
hundredweight. Yesterday (. Ginsberg,
retailer, of 40 Eighth Avenue, was
found guilty Of selling nineteen bags
of new granulated at S12 hundred
weight and 105 pounds Of new cube
sugar at S13 a hundrcdweght, and in
addition 900 pounds of sugar on Jan
uary 10 and 1S at 81. hundredweight.
After five hours examination Gins
berg admitted his offence and turned
over to the board his S1S691 excess
profit
Charles p. Robinson. counsel for the
board. has been asked to prepare rec
ommendation for the Washington au-
thoritics Gnsbcrs had no Wholesale
license.
Instead Of granting the Harlem Sugar
Company rehcaring of the case which
resulted in it's losing its license, the
food board after hearing new cvi-
dencc, which, "if it had been brought
resulted in a decision entirely different
from the one then made" reduced the
sentence to suspension Of the license
for one month. The renewal takes cf-
feet February II.
Hyman Dworks. 292 Second Street,
whose license was suspended for three
months ending March /, has offered TO
make restitution of overcharges on
sugar and the board has lightened the
penalty, allowing him to reopen his
business on February l.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
1858 Landed Here,
Despite Foe, in 1917
Passenger Carriers Made
1,O26 Trips to This Port,
Defying Blockade

Notwithstanding the persistent sub.
marine campaign. Allied and neutral
ships landed here 1857 passengers in
1917. They We're brought to tins port
in ,025 trips. showing that passenger
carriers have managed TO run the sub
marine blockade to this port that num-
ber of times.
According to figures prepared by
William {. Moore. landing agent at
Ellis Island, the total number of saloon
passengers arriving here in 1917 was
l'leo; second cabin, - $40, and steer
age, "A 1888.
The American Line led all others in
the number of ship arrivals and in sa.
loon Passengers, the figures being IS
ana 1853, respectively
In ten sallings the Transatlantic
ltaliana (ltalian Linc) brought over
the record number Of ste. rage passen-
gers, 6,659. The French Line in forty
sa,llngs brought over 4.ii4 second
cabin travellers, the largest list in this
department for the year
The biggest South American passen-
ger business was done by the Lampors
Holt Line. which brought to this por.
IN nineteen sallings / ,09l saloon 9-l
second class and 2,5i7 steerage passen-
gers.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Boston Has 3 Days Supply;
No Relief Seen; Storrow
Here to Meet A. II. Smith

BOSTON, Jan. 25.-This city had
only three days supply of coal tonight
The fuel administration said similar
condition prevailed elsewhere in New
England, with no immediate prospect
of relief.
From Newport, Providence, Fall
River, Worcester and various indus
trial centres appeals poured in upon
James j. Storrow, Fuel Administrator
Tor New England, to find coal enough
to keep the home fires burning. If the
situation grows worse, as it may in the
event of storm or further drop in
temperature, it will be necessary, ac-
cording to the fuel administration, to
cut off fuel from many Office buildings.
Mr.. Storrow left for New York late
to-day to confer with A. H. Smith, AS
sistant Director General of Railroads,
to see if something could not be done
to speed up work between the colieries
and tidewater.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Schley Gives Out List of Industries
Exempted From Monday Closing

Reeve B. Schley, county Fuel Admin
lstrator. last night gave out the follow
ing list which shows the various in
dustries and businesses that are ex-
empt from DR.. Garield's closing order
as we'll as those from which certain
differentiations are made:
i Industries for producing and transport
ing. exempt.
2-Warchouses. firms and corporations per-
mitted to use storehouses to receive
freight and may operate freight ele-
Vators.
Manufacturers of duck for tents and
equpage for the government exempt
Manufacturers OF IL 4-10 and heavier
duck for the government, exempt.
5-Schools. exempt.
Manufacturers of print paper. exempt
Plumbers permitted to take of emer-
Gency work for the preservation Of the
health of community.
S-Cannerics permitted TO operate to pre-
vent loss of goods in process. Must not
start new work
o--Manufac turers of farm machinery neces-
ssary for spring orders. exempt.
l0--Newsdealer exempt TO distribute news
papers.
11-Tobacco manufacturers may finish stock
in process which would become useless
otherwise.
Manufacturers of fire brick. exempt
13-Manufacturers of optical glass, exempt
li-Optometrists and eye specialists. exempt.
Lice harvesting. exempt
16-Laundries. exempt
17-Blacksmith shops, exempt
1S-Offices of the Fairgrounds and Recrea-
ton Association Of America, exempt
19-Manufacturers Of aeroplanes and parts.
exempt
20 Manufacturers Of necessary medical
supplies and Surgical instruments. en-
empt.
21--Manufacturers of sixteen to thirty ounce
meltons. exempt.
o2-Spongcrs and shrinkers Of meltons, cx-
empt.
90
-
yarns for weaving into sixteen and thirty
ounce meltons, exempt.
Cd Manufacturers of necessary equipment
for mining exempt.
25-Drydocks exempt,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Mrs. Hu1niston's
Mystery Exploded
Excited Police Find That
Asphyxiated Girl Was
Not Murdered

For stretch of twenty-four unhappy
hours, which came to an anti-climaS
last night, Mrs. Grace Humiston. who
leads the Morality League Of America
IN its assaults on vice, had the Dis
tricts Attorneys Office, the Second
Branch Detective Bureau and her own
special Investigators breathing hard
while they played with all the compo-
nent elements of high class murdc
mystery.
Last night the fog lifted and the
mystery frizzled out. At Z o'clock Dis
tr1ct Attorney Swami rang down a slow
final curtain on Mrs. Humiston' newest
case. Here's what happened:
Dorothy Margolin, twenty-one, was
adjoining the cloak and suit establish
ment of Gershel Brothers, 1876 Madison
Avenue. where she worked. Poisonous
tunes came from a gas heater in the
room. A case of asphyxiation, DR.. Nam
mack, assistant medical examiner. de-
cided. On Thursday the girl was 5uried
Mrs. Humiston's telephone tangled
Wednesday afternoon. A voice over the
wire: "Glrl carried out of building in
broad daylight" "And I remember"
said Mrs. Humiston, that a girl threw
OH cPiiePtl III Ill LnaC same building
last week"
Mrs. Humiston scented murder. Late
Thursday afternoon she conferred with
District Attorney Swami, who remem-
bered the Ruth Cruger case and ordered
the Second Branch to investigate.
Well exhume the Margolin bodv
Tomorrow" said Mr.. Swami. Then he
turned the case over to an assistant.
John f. Joyce.
Mr.. Joyce spent the afternoon exam
ming witnesses from the Gershel fac
tory. BY S o'clock Mr.. Joyce was not
SO So sure he had a mystery. BY 7 o'clock
Mr.. Swami was ready to admit he had
been chasing bubbles. "A false alarm :"
he h., said drilIy. 1--WE will not exhume
the body unless the girls mother asks
US to do so. can find no reason whv
she should. The only basis for any
suspicion on our part was what Mrs
Humiston told u.s.
When Mrs. Humiston was acquainted
with the days developments she talked
OF white slavers. who hunt with noison
gas and of the inefficiency of the Po-
lice Department. VIC
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Garfield Helps City
Solve Coal Problem
Overtime to Make Up
Holiday Monday s Loss
Is Vetoed by Garfield

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. -- The fuc
administration to-day issued an order
against speeding up or working over.
time to make up for the loss of pro
ductlon entailed through the closing
down OF industries on the series OF
holiday Mondays, The new Garfield
order reads:
Any increase of the working time
on other days of the week by indus
trial establishments for the purpose
of making up the lost time brought
about by the Fuel Administrators
order prohibiting work on Mondays
Will be considered by the United
States Fuel Administrator as an eva
sion of that order and a violation of
its spirit"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Committee of IA
Watches Shake-Up
Its Agents Are at Work
to Check Revival of
Vice Here

The Committee of Fourteen. which,
since its organization in 1905, to fight
the Raincs law hotel evil, has COM
bated vice in New York, is closely
watching the situation created by
changes in the Police Department, but
no statement Of its findings will be
Forthcoming until some action is de-
clded upon, Frederick L. Within, ex-
ecutivc secretary, said yesterday.
"Thcrc is not" said he. "a thing that
can be said at this time. 1t is, of
course, no secret that the socictys
agents are at work. They always are.
Beyond that there is not a thing to
be said"
1t was learned. however. from other
sources, that the reports of these
agents for weeks past have shown a
decided breaking down in the morale
OF the Police Department and a con-
sequent increase in activity Of the
VICIOUS clements in the community,
which has been accentuatcd by the dis
missal of Commissioner Bugher.
The first evidence came after election.
when word went out that the Tammany
victory meant a "wide open town" and
the underworld generally began to look
for resumption Of "thc good old
days" This feeling was checked some
what by the declaration Of Mayor
ilylan that he would not permit the
lid to be taken off, but the check was
only temporary. One element con-
trlbutlng to the situation was uncer-
ta'nty on the part Of the police as to
who would succeed Commissioner
Woods and what his policy would be.
The appointment Of Mr. Bugher, it
IS now said, served to rcassurc the men
that the Woods policy Of law enforce
mcnt would be followed if the new
commissioner had his way. The older
men in the department, survivors Of
the days when "thc system" was all
supreme, were less sure Of this. Rumors
soon after Rugher's selection that all
was not we'll and that Mayor Hylan
was consulting with subordinates and
d'ctating even minor appointments
which. in the way known only to
policemen, became current in the de-
partmcnt long before they became mat
tors Of public knowledge tended to
show the wisdom Of the older men.
The reports Of the committees agents
show. it is said, that the entire situa-
ton was abnormal owing to the pres
cncc of large numbers of soldiers and
sailors, all or nearly all we'll supplied
with money. The police, as a rule, it
is reported, where the offence was
not tlagrant, showed a tendency to look
the other way.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
What Is Going On To-day

Free admission to the American Af,iseum q,
Na,ursl ''islory Meiropo'an Museum of Art
Ne" York Geological Park. Van Cortandt rara
Museum. American Museum of Safely and The
Motor Boat SHOW Grand Central Palace
'hilI Labor Day exercises in synagoglcs, churches
schools and universities. ~
Meeting Of the Carrier Engineering Corporation
,,l'.no 'iora ArNlpin e.l day: dinncr : p. m
LuHGeon .,n" s' 20 IN" Woncns City Club Hotel Nc
Luncheon OF tho New York Life 1,nJcc,,,tcrs
Hotel McAlpin l23o y. IN ''''''
Luncheon of tho Daughters OF Michigan OF Nov,
York, Hotel MrApin. 1880 p m " N0''
Address 10y Captain A. +. Smouds. William IT
skasxs and tie Rev. George T. Van dc aS waIer ,.
On Varied Aspects Of the War" At luncheon
of the Republican Cub of tho city Of No"
york. clubhouse. "a West Tortieth Street. ~ .3o
Address by George trccl chairman OF thc Com
ini'tec On rubiic Information and others a,
me'ilng Of the National Committee OF Patriotic
Address by judge Bert j. Humphrey Mrs. Don E.
Hell ana Others ON "Iatrioilsm'' at meeting
oi the Womans Press Club. Waldorf Asloria
Lecture by Montravilc Wood on Wireless revs-
rap'y and Other Wonders OF Science misc
hail Academy Of Music. Brooklyn, , go '"us'' M
Address by J. Henry Scattergocd on ''Rcconstr,l,.
9 l NaS, MTFN IN Tr1ncs Friends, Meeting House
Dinner Of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
.d,;lc.. H1ns, no'1I Nc \. AstGr, p m. '''
reiiy and Environment" before the In,versltv
Forum University Settlement House. ls4 EIdrids.
street, u. III.
Enicranment for soldiers and sailors in the c.tv
Yong Meas Christian Association, SIS W.st
Fiiiy seventh Street. p. IN.
Lecture by the Rev. Dr. Charles r. Aked on
David Lnyd Gcorse-,hc Man and Ills Nj
son ne Tribute OF Friend before the League
Tor Political tducaton. Carnegie Hall III 4 m
f.nter anment of tho Gramerry Neghborhorj A..
so'iation bath Regiment Armoy. SIS D. IN
Lecture by Professor h. Iellcw on ''Dycsturs
SIS T. III. " ''
Lecture by George J.. Enselhardt. on ''Dl1icl.no
oi INC Mormons: Report Of the Museum TX :.
room academy of Music. Brooklyn. $ is n m
Meeting and dinner of the National Institute .,
Arts aud letters University club Fifth Avonrs
and tuly fourth Street. evening " ~
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26

-o-Manuf acturng plants operated by hydro
electric power may continue to operate.
but must only sufficient fuel to keep
- their plants from freezing.
operated by burning waste fuel
only. such shavings and sawdust, may
operate to an extent sufficient to pro-
duce waste required to keep their plants
from freezing.
shops, permitted to be open on
Mondays to the extent they usually open
on holidays
" Street railways may operate to the ex-
tent necessary for the purpose of trans
porting employees to and from plants
which are exempt
3O-Manufacturers of thread and cotton
yarns for manufacture of cotton duck
who have contracts for such duck as well
as finishing plants engaged in dyeing
these ducks, exempt.
5l-Stores selling surgical instruments and
optical glass may be open to the extent
-, necessary to sell such goods only
= Wholesale food Dealers exempt Retail
food dealers permitted to keep open until
noon and must then close excepting for
the receiving Of food merchandise from
the wholesalers.
3o-Garages may operate elevators for in
coming and outgoing cars.
54--American Red Cross, exempt
3o-Drug stores may remain open for the
purpose of selling medical and drug sup
plies and food supplies only.
'o-Shipbuilding plants. aeroplane compa-
"ts~ huu rndnuI acturerS OF explosives,
exempt. Sub-contractors must not op-
crate before receiving specific exemption
by applying to the Secretary of War or
the Secretary of the Navy or the resident
director of the Emergency Fleet Corpo-
ration, upon whose recommendation the
Fuel Administrator at Washington will
issue exemption.
1-Government arsenals. exempt
Using wood waste for fuel or
companies furnishing wood waste as flu u
for domestic purposes, permitted to op-
= crate to supply such domestic purposes
9-Satoons not exempt from this order
V-Hotels and restaurants may not serve
intoxicating drinks with meals on Mon
days.
bars in cafes. hotels and clubs must be
closed on Mondays
Turkish baths and candy stores are
New-York tribune., 1918-01-26
Mrs. Hearst to Put sCinder'
Plan Up to Coal Dealers

Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, chair
man of Mayor Hylan's Committee of
Women on National Defence. announced
yesterday that the first official step of
the committee toward q solution of the
fuel problem would be taken to-day at
a conference of the committee and
local coal dealers at the committee S
headquarters, SO East Forty-second
Street.
At this conference the coal men will
consider the practcability of the "cin-
der-saving" plan of the committee, as
we'll as the question of better coal dis
tribution facilities for New York City.
Mrs. Henry Zuckerman, chairman of
Mrs. Hearst's fuel committee, advocates
the burning of cinders as q fuel con-
servation measure.
Mrs. Mary McKelvey was appointed
chairman Of the Bronx subcommittee
Yesterday