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New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Estimate Board Bars
Astor Business Block
Reverses Action of Standards
and Appeals Board, but Its
Authority Is Disputed

The recent decision of the Board Of
Standards and Appeals permitting
Baron Astor to erect seven-story
business block on the Astor property
on Madison Avenue, between Thirty
fifth and Thirty-sixth Streets, was re-
versed yesterday by the Board of Esti-
mate. 1t is a question, however, as
ter was referred to the Corporation
Counsel to determine which board has
power over the zoning system Of the
city.
j. P. Morgan and other residents
represented in the Murray Hill ,Asso-
citation have fought the proposition to
lift the residential restriction on the
Astor block for more than a year and
have won every time until the decision
of the Board of Appeals. The Board
of Estimate, through it's Committee on
City Plan, previously denied the Astor
petition.
When the matter came up yesterday
before the Board of Estimate, Borough
President Bowling, who is chairman of
the Committee on City Plan, which
again reported against the Astor petit
tion, declared that the question as to
which board had final jurisdiction over
the zonng system should be settled
once and for all. Henry w. Taft,
COuHSSl 4OE DdIOII ABDUL, Soh toiit's u
that, according to the zoning law, the
action of the Board of Estimate would
not in any way afftct the action of the
Board of Standards and Appeals. The
Board of Estimate disagreed with the
lawyer, approved the report of the
committee and referred the matter to
the Corporation Counsel.
The New York Central Railroad and
the Merchants Refrigerating Company
failed in an attempt to get the Board
Of Estimate to modify former resolu-
road to build spur track in Tenth
Avenue to connect the cold storage
warehouse of the company with the
main tracks of the road. The board
had required that 81 for each car moved
over the spur should be paid to the
city, in addition to any and all taxes.
Representatives of the refrigerating
company declared that the railroad
would not build the spur on such a
basis, contending that the car basis
payment was excessive. The board re-
fused to modify the rental terms.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
To Fight Bankers Will
Relatives of r. B. Van Cort-
landt File Notice of Contest

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, May 4.-Rel-
atives Of the late Robert B. Van Cort-
landt, the retired banker, who left his
entire estate, amounting to between
$500,000 and 100000, to Columbia Uni
versity, intend to contest the will and
seek to have it set aside.
The will was offered for probate to-
day by the trustees of Columbia. At
torneys for Mr.. Van Cortlandt's rela-
tives filed a notice of their intention
to contest, and Surrogate William A.
Sawyer appointed the executors named
in the will as temporary administra1
tors. pending the outcome of the action.
Mr.. Van Cortlandt committed suicide
by shooting, in his country home at
Bedford, Westminster County. He left
a brother, Augustus, and a sister. who
is married and lives in London, Eng
land. Neither received anything in
the will.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Rothenberg Freed to
See Mother Buried

"Big Morris" Rothenberg, who has
been in the Tombs for month charge
with the murder of Harry Cohen, alias
Harry the Yot," on April l. was taken
to The Bronx yesterday for the funeral
of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Rothenberg
The signing of necessary papers
caused so much delay that the relatives
gave up hope that Rothenberg would be
permitted to attend. The coffin was
being borne from the house when the
automobile bearing Rothenberg and
his guards came to the door, Rothen-
berg leaped from the car and almost
threw himself on the coffin. His sis
ter, Rose Rothenberg, became hysteri-
cal and many Of the mourners were
overcome.
Permission was granted for the in
dicted man to accompany the process
sion to Mount Hebron Cemetery, in
Queens.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Whitman Pleads
For Bond Buying
Without Stint
twenty-five Thousand Hear
Final Speeches at the
b-Treasury

Nearly twenty-five thousand persons
crowded close to the steps of the Sub
Treasury Building at noon yesterday
to hear the final words spoken of
Americas need for money without
stint to carry on it's expanded war ac-
tivities.
Governor Whitman, who was the
principal speaker, said: Cali over ou1
land to-day in every town, in every
village and every city, from Maine to
California, from Minnesota to the
Gulf, there are gatherings, not as
large as this, but like this, of our fell
low citizens.
"They will show that great, united
people, one hundred million strong,
are ready to give not only the things
which are more precious than money
their sons and their brothers--but are
ready to give of their treasure, which,
in the hands of our government, may
be used far the defence of the world"
'This is not q rich mans war;" de-
clared Oscar S. Straus. "It is the same
war that was fought by the minute men
and the embattled farmers of Lexing-
ton and Concord. The response which
is being made through the land by
the rich and poor, by the people at
large, of all classes and all creeds, is
being watched in Berlin as an index
of the spirit Of our people. The Lib
erty campaign, should it lead only
to subscription barely covering the
amount the government calls for, would
be interpreted by the Kaiser and his
cohorts that Americans love their dol
lars more than they do their liberties.
Therefore, let the answer be a tremen-
dous oversubscription, so that the Kai-
ser may read the message that Ameri-
cans have untold billions more to lend.
zone final word In few years from
now it will be disgrace to any Amer
lean home if it does not possess one or
both of two papers-either an honor
able discharge from the army or navy
or series of Liberty bends"
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said that
America has not yet begun to fight.
And he added that we want no Ameri-
can boy to return safely to his native
land until the foot of Prussianism is
removed from the neck of Belgium.
Nine. Schumann-Heink sang the ma
ational anthem and Miss Cecil Arden
sang "God Save the King"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
State Control
Of Liquor Favored
In British Isles
Cost of Trade in England,
Scotland and Ireland
Over ST. O0O,0OO,OOO
May Be$5, 600, 900, 900
Committee Says Sale Should
Be Made on Basis of
Pre-War Profits

LONDON, May 8. - The English,
Scotch and Irish committees appointed
to investigate the purchase and control
by the state Of the liquor traffic have
reported in favor Of the scheme. The
cost is estimated at more than S2,000,-
100000, but less than $4,000, 100000.
The. Scottish and Irish committees
favor the inclusion of wholesalers in
the plan and also making the purchase
of the stocks of liquor a separate
transaction from that of the other
assets, thus solving the difficulty con-
cerning the imitation Of whiskey prices
which has taken place since the war
by application Of the principle of the
excess profits duty.
Says Stock Is Working Capital
The English committee, dealing with
. smaller liquor businesss declares the
bulk Of the stock may be regarded as
working capital required to earn a
profit, and that their value should be
included in the sum arrived at by
capitalizing the net profits of the con-
Germs owing them. This committee
maintains that the trade should be
bought out on the basis of the profit
it was capable Of earning before the
war.
In regard to the form of payment,
the English committee points out that
at the time when the states obliga-
tions come to be discharged the condi-
tions of the money market are likely
to be very different from those before
the war and the general standard of
capital values substantially lower. AS
the extent Of depreciation cannot be
predicted at this time. the committee
recommends that the sum arrived at
should be written down to the stand
ard of capital values prevailing when
the purchase transaction comes to be
completed, and that special government
guaranteed stock should be issued at
a price enabling it to command in the
market cash equivalent to the sum so
adjusted.
Approve Pre-War Profit Basis
The Scottish and Irish committees
favor the same principle of purchase,
on the basis of prewar profits. All
three committees agree as to the in
terest which must be included in the
scheme. All include the export trade
as subject to acquisition, and all pro-
pose to exclude Allied trade, such as
a major portion of the hotels, clubs,
railroad refreshment rooms, theatre
bars, passenger vessels and dining
cars.
The cost of the purchase of the
brcweries, distilleries and public
houses, with the means of supply, is
estimated at s1,75O, 100000 in Eng
and and Wales and 305,0OO,OOO in
Scotland. The Irish committee sup
plies only certain data for an estimate.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Bond Made Into Shoddy
1t All Happened at the Tex
tile Exhibit

Talking politics yesterday at the Tex
tile Exposition in the Grand Central
Palace, John Eagan, Tammany leader
of the 18th Assembly District, laid his
overcoat on platform to give greater
freedom to his arms.
When he had finished his argument,
the overcoat was gone. There was q
$l00 Liberty bond in the pocket After
some inquiries, Mr.. Eagan recovered
both overcoat and bond but not in q
state of general utility.
The platform upon which he had laid
the garment was traveller which
conveyed cloth scraps to a shoddy ma
chine. 1t had conveyed Mr.. Eagan's
overcoat and bond thither. They made
about five pounds of shoddy which Mr..
Eagan took home in q bag.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Phillips Must
Report by Noon or
Face 20-Year Term
Conscientious Objector Has
Few Hours i'm Which to Es-
cape Odium of Deserter

Charles Francis Phillips, the con-
scientious objector who disappeared
just before he was recertified
Wednesday for service in the army, will
be formally classed as deserter at
noon to-day, if before that hour he
has not reported to Local Board 129
for transfer to Fort Slocum.
Phillips was reported Thursday to
be headed for Mexico, but some draft
officials were confident last hight he
would be on hand to-day to avoid the
risk of twenty-year prison term.
The belief that no matter what
Phillips's intended destination was, he
will be among those to answer "here"
at the roll call of Draft Board 129 this
morning is based on information re-
ceived by army authorities that the
youth had little money when he de-
parted. The border is also said to be
too we'll guarded for him to escape into
Mexico by the land route, while it was
declared to be impossible for him to
have obtained passport for the trip
by sea. 1t was disclosed, however, that
the young man mad not been kept under
surveillance at any time after his dis
charge from Camp Upton March be-
cause he had served day in Jail for
having conspired to violate the con-
scription law.
Records of Draft Board 129, which
sits at the American Museum of
Natural History, revealed Yesterday
that to get Phillips back into the
army after his discharge, which was
characterized as an error on the part
of the Camp Upton mastering officer
it was necessary to invoke the power
of the Secretary Of War, under Section
4 of the draft regulations, to send
felons into service at his discretion.
Phillips, under orders of the War
Department, was placed in Glass 5-H
the division embracing felons, in con-
formity with the ruling of the Camp
Upton mastering officer. Then on
Wednesday Local Board 1923 was or
dered to send Phillips back to camp
under the provision empowering the
Secretary of War to select even Grim
inals for service.
Phillips thus retains, the classifica-
tion he assumed as an admitted felor
to win exemption, the Upton authori-
ties are not charged with an error, and
what is in effect a special rule has
been set up to prevent other draft
evaders from seeking sentences fol
draft violations, and then claiming ex.
emption under the Phillips precedent
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Boston Newspaper Man
Wins Spingarn Medal

PROVIDENCE, May 3.-William
Stanley Braithwaite, of Cambridge,
literary critic for "The Boston Evening
Transcript" and known as a poet
throughout the country, was awarded
ernor R. L. Beeckman made the pres
entation at exercises held at the First
Baptist Church.
The medal is the fourth to be award
ed, and the donor is Major Joel E. Spin
garn. of New York, chairman of the
board of directors of the National AS
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People. 1t is given each year to
the man or woman of African descent
OF American citizenship who shall have
made M the highest achievement during
waited or honorable endeavor.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

standards of life, for conditions of
work which do not carelessly destroy
the health of workers, and for pay
which makes independent self-respect-
ing life possible for the family. The
hazards of peace need safeguarding as
do the risks of war"
Miss Lathrop called attention to
conditions of child life and home life
which her bureau is investigating, say
ing, in part:
"The family is a unit and it can
only flourish as unit. If mothers go
out to work, leaving young babies,
these babies die at twice the rate of
those whose mothers are able to stay
at home and take care of them. Older
children get into mischief without a
mother at home. There can be no toll
Grafton of wage scales for men that
compel women to help earn money to
support young children"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Held ON Conspiracy Charge
Youth and Notary Accused of
Making False Affidavit

Henry L. S. Allison, nineteen years
old, of 447 Gold Street, Brooklyn, and
Frank D'Ambrosia, a notary public,
were held yesterday in the United
States District Court, Brooklyn,
charged with conspiracy to obtain AL
lison's admission to the United States
Military Academy at West Point un-
der false pretences.
In his application for appointment
Allison said that he was a graduate
of Manual Training School, Brooklyn,
and had spent year each in the Uni
versity of Virginia and Polytechnic
Institute, Brooklyn. The prosecution
alleges that he never attended any of
those institutions.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Girls Gets Loan Honor Flag
Julia Richman Students Hon
ored for Work in Drive

Thirty-fve hundred girls Of the
Julia Richman High School invaded the
7th Regiment Armory yesterday and
transformed it into a spring garden
The occasion was a combined May
party and Liberty Loan celebration.
Commissioners of Education Yeska
and Ryan and Superintendent John L.
Tildsley were guests of honor. Mr.
Yeska presented the girls with an
honor flag in recognition of the Lib
erty Loan work Of the girls, who have
raised S2,006,350 in 10000 subscrip-
tions. He promised that the Board of
Education would do all in it's power to
get them new building. At present
the $500 are dispersed among seven
buildings.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
War Leads to Economies
Tenement House Commission
Says Rents Have Not Increased

Frank Mann, Tenement House Com
missioner, yesterday said there were
many changes in living conditions in
New York. He found on investigation
that there was a tendency for families
TO economize more and more on space.
Those who formerly used seven and
eight rooms were living in one or two
rooms less.
The larger apartments, Mr.. Mann
said, were being divided into smaller
ones, and in addition there was a
steady increase in the number of
people occupying furnished rooms or
boarding in apartments. Rents, ac-
cording to Mr.. Mann, despite the popu-
lar belief to the contrary, have not
risen materially.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Bone Drys Turned Down
In District of Columbia

WASHINGTON, May 3.-The House
Committee on Postoffices to-day turned
down a proposition to make the Dis
trict of Columbia "bone dry" Rep
resentative Randall, of California, told
the committee that Congress has been
attacked because the district alone is
exempted from the provision Of the
law against shipment of liquor into
dry territory. The committee voted
adversely on Mr.. Randal's bill to in
clude the .District of Columbia in the
"bone dry" Law.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
American Student Flier
Killed; Another Injured

SAN DIEGO, Cal, May 3-Flyine
Cadet Nicholas Healy was instantly
killed, and Cadet O'Hanley sustained q
broken ankle as a result of an air.
plane accident late to-day at La Jolla
near here
According to reports from La Jolla
the airplane fell in a spinning-nose
after the cadets had made a forced
landing for some unknown reason and
started up again. O'Hanleys home is
in Garden CITY Long Island
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Fire Record

"A. NJ.
II $50 Beekman ST. Charles schachne; slight.
p. NJ.
12 2:3o-eos fremont av. owner unknown: slight
l:45-l30 West 18th st owner unknown: slight.
2:30-Pter 10. North River: lighter: Old Domin
ion Steamship Co. $500.
2;40-Pier l6. North River; bulkhead; unknown
trifing.
2:5o-lo6 West l1sth st. Mime. Pauline: trilins.
6:15-Pier SO. North River: steamship: Cunare
Line; trihing.
6:35--1009 East l67th st. The Bronx: Samuel Pen
per: trifing.
6:5t-s10 East 22d st.: George Scheigeo; trifing
6:5o-60 Orchard st. i: Annie Silverback; trifins
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
Saturday, May q, 1918
PRICES YOU SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT PAY


OIA1OES are still our main You should
more than 21a cents pound for old No l. New Yo4l
stock. There stands in Washington Market and III
The Bronx where to cents being charged but con
to the agreement with the Federal Food Board Many dealer
are selling at the stipulated price and the farmers shp
at lower prices but the is not consuming sh6
New potatoes of another story They worth
cents pound AS each of has eighteen pounds of
to eat the next four weeks better be about tit be
embarrassing business if behind the schedule and are
obliged do double duty at the lasor potatoes an un
monty satisfying food.
Fresh Vegetables
Most foods getting plentiful and cheaper One eyc
ton is cabbage to cents pound retail The old cabba
and the cabbage therefore something luxury
Tomatoes from Florida poor condition. and both good
and inferior grades bringing high wholesale and
cents pound in the downtown markets.
Strawberries and lettuce have gone up little owing light
shipments. The Caronas and California furnishing the
stock Strawberries Is to % quart wholesale and
rs to IS cents in downtown market stores.
Onions, and old potatoes asparagus and string beans
are the most abundant vegetables The coming
from Jersey and is 25 to 35 cents bunch.
There moderate supplies only cabbage eggp
PEPPERS celery lettuce cucumbers old the punched
vegetables from New Orleans
Chickens
There is nothing to be hoped from the chicken situation
The farmer has the habit of not killing them and hard
break especially the spring. so much else
The hens scratch for themselves they are ayr
why kill them? The price still 38 to 40 cents pound
tor foW and 32 to 35 for roosters and they not
much cheaper.
AS for meats they say has poor week in the mar
ket and this is as should be- for while meatless days
to back asked easv' on meats
beef The fresh available are largely medium and com
mon grades because the taking the choice
at contract prices to send to the boys the pond Th
need the best meat we have for their kind of work. and good
news to know they getting it. If meat eat veal
1t IS cheap and good, and the soldiers can't use it.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

stitute Consumers Clubs
There lessons be learned we'll money to be
by helping to build consumers club We have of these
units ordering nearly 5000 points week. and feel that
branch out and handle products addition to eggs
butter and beans"
New Products Handled by the
Consumers Clubs
We have no right to think of potatoes by pounds
we should think of Of them in bushels for have soooo
bags for $345 These old No York potatoes which
are our first responsibility but they good quality and will
De devered TO you IN this amount only at less than
pound
The retail dealers supposed to sell them for 2 cents
we could not sell them for less than cents if performed
the retailers service of weighing wrapping the small pack
age are the costs you pay for service not for food
Inc other Items added to The Tribune Institute marketing
list are these:
Sun Maid raisns in pound cartons for 12 (ho
sale price lo2 cens fancy seeded rasns in 25pound lots
II cents pound The Federal Food Board quotes IA to M
cents as the proper price for IS of fancy seeded a
mated lhs shows saving of from to 81 pound
Prunes
we can buy large hirty to forty to the pound
TOR 1872 cents, and will sell them to YOU for l6 cents d
pound lots The Federal Food Board suggested price
grade IS ~ cents pound saving the club plan cents
"ole oolar (four thrift stamps the 25pound package
But II you are content with smaller prune that is just
as good sxty or seventy to the poun furnish th
cents pound merely because of the size of the prune
+ On the seventy to eighty size the approved M
OF the market prices quoted 1t only shows the saving
possible oy cooperative buying and what costs to weigh
up and deliver small package
Dairy Products
lhe price for canded eggs suitable for watergassing
cents 1t is hard to buy canded eggs any price this ~
son. but fresh Western rsts ncanded are bringing cent
dozen Inc second selection eggs canded which y0
would get with the frss in the higher price
can supply Tor 81 cents but of course you order IN M
twelvedozen unit.
The butter has up. 1t is so cents pound but this
fancy quaty paseurzed and printed and would cost 81
or more, according to the Food Board rating r
- IELEPHONE the Club Service Station. MORNIN(SiLD
1884 900, S1l5 for assistance forming club to
your order and don't forget that you should buy bus
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04
COOPERATIVE BUYING

THE public has right to know the real facts about It's
purchases This is the foundation rock which Cooper
tive buying is founded and is the slogan of The Tribune In
stitute Consumers Clubs.
There are lessons to be learned we'll money to be
by helping to build consumers club We 1914 of these
units no ordering nearly 5000 points week. that
can branch out and handle products addition "eg
butter and beans
New-York tribune., 1918-05-04

.(7his oolsamn wiu appear on Saturdays)
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-12-13
THE BOLSHEVIK DANGER

The withdrawal Of Philip Schcidc-
mann from the cabinet Of Berlin indi-
Gates the. slow but sure process by
which the extreme elements in Germany
are getting tho upper hand. scheide-
mann Was the leader Of tho German
Socialists who supported the war. and
were generally classed among the mod
crates Of the party. He has been over
thrown. doubtless. because his views
have not been extreme enough to suit
the Bolshevik clements. Disturbing re-
ports continue to come Of the activities
OF I.icbknccht. who aims at the estab-
lishmen, Of republic in which the
property owning classes will be denied
recognition. The German revolution is
proceeding rapidly along lines parallel
to the Russian revolution. The first
Russian cabinet was composed Of mod
crate liberals. and il power had g." re-
manned in its hands Russia would. I'M
doubtcdly. have been spared the mad
orgies OF anarchy and bloodshed which
has cost SO many lives during the past
year. The modcrates are now losing
control Of Germany
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-12-13
. HON. LUTHER WOLFE

Among the DISTINGUISHED visitors to
the city during the past week has been
Hon. Luther Wolfe. of Jackson County.
one Of the Republican candidates for
the nomination for the speakcrship of
the House Of Delegates. Mr.. Wolfe is
an able attorney and has had consider
able legislative experience. He is per-
sonally popular with the members of
the Legislature and is. undoubtedly.
well qualified for the speakership. Mr..
Wolfe lives in the Fourth Congressional
district which district has the unique
record of having sent a solid Rcpubli-
can delegation to the Legislature. With
the support Of the district he will be a
formidable contender for the nominal
ton.
Mr.. Wolfc's record in the Legislature
has been an admirable one. He has
been a consistent advocate OF liberal
and progressive measures. and if nomi-
mated and elected to the speakership.
will. undoubtedly render very salts
factory service.