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New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Freight Congestion
Decreased One-Half
Regional Director Smith Re-
ports Improvement for
New York Port

SiZ weeks of Federal control Of the
railroads have resulted in such com.
plete clearing OF freigll. congestion
throughout the Atlantic scaboard cen.
orally, and at the port of New York
speclncaily, that even with the tre-
mendous shipments of war materials
to be handled the freight business is
expected to be OF normal basis within
few weeks.
This was indicated in a statement
made public yesterday from the ofScs
OF A. Il. Smith, regional director of III.
Eastern railroads, along with statistics
showing the number of cars standing
Oh sidings filled with domestic freight
useless for all practical railroad pur.
poses. r.
When the roads passed into Federal
control on January l there were 1855
cars OF domestic freight standing on
wheels in New York. This car con-
gestion, representing a temporary loss
of at least 140 full trains OF cars, was
given as the chief cause of the freight
congestion and car shortage which con-
tributed to the coal famine.
Yesterdays fortnightly check.uu Of
cars showed that the number thus held
up had been reduced to 3.247-a redue-
ton OF 1879, or "a per cent improve
1nent since Secretary McAdoo took OVER
the operation OF the roads for the gov
ernment
The improvement in the Port Of New
York is described as greater than q.
any other point in the country. Since
the New York problems was the most
serious when the roads were taken over,
the improvement here is accepted By
railroad men as indicating that the
most serious obstacle in the way Of
freight movement has been removed.
While the export freight movement
has not been quite as rapid, largely
due to shortage of ships, the percent
age of reduction of cars tied up with
oversea shipments is great. The 24,9H
cars thus held on January 1 has beer
reduced to 1891, releasing 1901 for
new business and showing an improve
! ment Of 90 per cent.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Bennett Declares
War on Whitman
And Farm Council
Former Senator Criticises
Governors Appointments
to New Positions

Former State Senator William NJ.
Bennett yesterday began a determined
attack upon Governor Whitman, the
new State Council of the Department
Of Farms and Markets and the Cover
nor's appointments to membership in
this body. He also wrote to Henry NJ.
Sage, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, asking that the Senate, be-
fore it confirm these appointments,
allow persons opposed to them to have
a hearing
The state council is, according to Mr..
Bennett, "a good illustration of the
confusion and nefficiency that have been
brought about in the state government
by Governor Whitman"
"The law now Provides" he contin-
ued, chat what was formerly the De-
partmcnt of Agriculture and the De-
partment of Foods and Markets shall
be administered by large and cumber-
some board. consisting Of one commits
sioner at large, the Commissioner of
Public Markets oe New York City, and
one member from each Of the nine
judicial districts of the state. Of course,
it is apparent that since these men
live in all corners and parts of the
state, it would be impos sible to get
them together for any concerted action.
Instead of having at the head Of this
department one man who knows his
business, it is now to be govYned by
town meeting"
Concerning the personnel Of the
council itself, Mr. Bennett finds no
fault with John Mitchell, who has been
named Commissioner at Large. He be-
lieves Mr.. Mitchell has every quality
for this post, except that of time.
He is already overburdened," he con-
tinues, 'by being chairman of the State
Industrial Commission and by being
chairman of the Food Commission and
by being the local United States Food
Administrator, any one of which posi-
tions is mans size job, if properly
administered"
The man appointed from New York
City is Herbert L. Pratt, ice-president
of the Standard Oil Company In COM
menting upon him Mr.. Bennett saws:
II do not think that the farmers and
consumers of the state will look with
favor on any attempt to turn the gov
ernment over to the Standard Oil
crowd.
"With regard to the other nine mem
bers whose names have been sent into
the Senate by Governor Whitman. only
one of them-Charles A. Wietins, Of
Cobleskill, n. Y.-can by any stretch
of the imagination be called a farmer,
and he is appointed to serve only dur
ing the one-year term. In Mr.. Wet
lng's case, he also is on another COM
mlsson-to wit, the Food Commission.
This custom of appointing man to
two or more positions seems to be fash
ionable with Goyernor Whitman, as it
IS rumored that some Of his appointees
hold down five or six Jobs, all payine
good salaries"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Farmer and Consumer at
Disadvantage, Former Com
missioner Asserts
Fears Corner in Eggs
Every Food Ruling Issued, He
Insists, D;scriminates
for Dealers

John j. Dillon. former State Commits.
sionev OF Markets, declared yesterday
that the Federal food admin stration's
order prohibiting the killing OF hens
and pullets before the end of April was
measure that would work out solely
Tor the benefit of the great packing in
terests. The State Department Of Mar
kets also came in for criticism for not
enforcing the rule requiring the mark
ing OF cold storage eggs. and the former
commissioner deiied either the state
authorities or the aids of Mr.. Hoover
10 show single order. regulation or
ruling promulgated by them which did
not favor the dealers. to the disad-
vantage of both consumers and pro-
Gucers.
Vast quantities of eggs were bought
Up iast spring by the packers at "a to
30 ~, cents Dozen said Mr.. Dillon.
mile was Commissioner issued an
order that eggs from storage should be
marked storage eggs The govern
ment's suggested price for cold stor-
@ge eggs is 40 cents a dozen. But after
went out of Office the state Depart
'nent OF Markets stopped enforcing the
rule. -'s9 '''N
storage Eggs as Fresh
The result is that cold storage eggs
"ave been sold regularly in New York
as fresh eggs for IS cents dozen.
IN the last ten weeks the packers
gave cleaned out their great stocks thus
at 100 per cent profit, while the sellers
OF real fresh eCgS--rhe farmers. whose
iced costs Sd a hundred pounds have
9een forced to cut prices.
now mere IS where the anti-poultrv
Nlllng order comes IN. The farmers.
unable TO make money on eggs in com
petition with the packers eggs mas
queradlng as fresh, began to kill their
mems. The Federal food administration.
through It's poultry division, headed by
George Prlebe, a dealer in Chicago.
then ordered that killing be stopped
until next May.
April is the month during which
packers buy eggs in vast quantities for
storage. by that time the farmers will
nave large stocks. and prices will be
lower Then next faIl--if allowed to do
so--the packers viii putt up the prices
aSaln' and cold storage eggs viii go on
the market once more as strictly fresh
Corner in Poultry
And that isn't all The packers
either own or control all the dressed
poultry IN storage. The order stopping
the slaughter Of poultry kills the mar
ket for fresh poultrN and kills off com
petitlon, leaving the packers free
field.
This free field will give them the
cshance OF cleaning out great stocks Of
irozen poultry. Meantime the farmers
stocks Of salable fowl will be increas-
ing, and by the time the packers want
10 1u their storage houses again the
market VIII ne glutted and they can
he fact is. every ruling so far is
sued by the food administration has
been for the benefit of the dealers, the
SPECIALISTS who patriotically have vol
unteered to do their Bit as heads Of
divisions or advisers to the various
agencies formed by the government
oStenslbly for the protection Of the
consumer and the producer''
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Sufragists Lack
But Z Votes in Senate
Look to Governors for Favor
able Appointments to Pass
Federal Amendment
Staff Corresp0n0encel


WASHINGTON, Feb. II. The pas
sage Of the Federal suffrage amend
ment is assured if Governors Philipp
of Wisconsin and Edge of New JERSEY
appoint Favorable" men to fill the va
cancies made by the deaths of Senators
Husting and Hughes, the National
Woman's Party announced tonight.
The latest poll of the Senate by Ma
tional Woman's Party workers Shows
that two more Senators must pledge
themselves to vote "yes" before the
suffrage amendment will be absolutely
safe, the Woman's Party organization
asserts.
The suffragists arc so sure that
these governors will add two more
votes to the majority the Republicans
are rolling up for suffrage that plans
are already under way for the ratifica-
ton campaign. At the meeting of the
executive committee of the National
Woman's Party at the national head
quarters yesterday it was decided to
have conference of all the officers in
Washington to discuss the problem of
ratlilcation. Calls to the conference
Will be sent out the day that the date
OF the vote in the Senate is announced.
"While Governor Edge and Governor
Phlhpp can insure the passage of the
amendment" said Alice Paul, chairman
OF the Woman's Party, "the amend
ment can easily pass even if they ap-
point 'antis. The Republicans have
already pledged four-tifths of their
votes. When the party in power Sc
cures the necessary two thirds of the
Democratic vote suffrage will be on its
way to ratification. We have left it
for our friends in the Senate to set
the date Of the vote whenever they are
sure the measure will pass. They tell
us it will probably be very soon"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
College Girls Give Play
To Aid Palestine Fund

The Hadassah Society. the women's
zionlst organization, gave a play, Hat
lkvah," in the Republic Theatre last
night. for the benefit of toe Palestine
Restoration Fund, the frst\of series
OF such entertainments to be given for
this purpose in New York. "Hatikvah. y
which means Hope" was written bv
Jacob j. Abt, of Chicago, and has been
several times acted in Western cities
1t is symbolic of lsrael's past and fu-
turc, a future to which, according to
the play, Israel is still blind. 1t was
acted by students Of Barnard and
Hunter colleges, under the direction
of Miss Ida Zeitln.
The play was preceded by a panto-
mime, Israel" danced by Bathsheba
Askowith. to music by A. w. Binder,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Justice Brandeis's Brother
To Make Food yrc,,;x,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Investica-
ton of complaints that extortionate
prices are being charged for mill feeds
IN certain Western states has been in
trusted by the food administration "a
Al1red brandeis. brother of the Asso.
ciate Justice Of the Supreme Court
Mr. Brandeis will leave Tuesday fo-
oklahoma to begin his inquiry in CO.
operation with state administrations
ana the inspectors in the emn]ov of
milling committees, ~
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Forto Rico to Conserve Food
campaign to Obtain PLEDGES
From 10000 Families

oAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Feb. IA
'ood pledge campaign to last one week
vas opened to-day. In this period it is
@0ped 20 obtain food-saving pledges
rom 10000 families. one-balf Tho
total number in the island ''''
Albert L. Lee, the Porto R;can E,ooa
AomlnIstrator has received cable-
gram from Herbert c. Hoover, the Food
3aminlstrator at Washington. savins,.
. flease convey to the peonle Of
fofto Rico my appreciation Of the hioh
spirit OF patriotism they are manifest.
ing IN the campaign and OF their co.
operatlon IN the work that is going to
neip nrIng this war to successful CON
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Bread for Religious Rites
Exempted From War Order
[Staf Correspondence1

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. - Breads
used in the observance of religious
rites are exempted by the food admin
istratlon from its regulations requir-
ing the use OF wheat flour substitutes
IN the manufacture of bread and rolls.
lhls Will remove any uneasiness. the
1000 administration states, that NAV
have existed regarding the use of bread
or waters at communion services and
the use of matzoth by Orthodox Jews
during their Passover festival, March n
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Butter From Potatoes
British Food Ministry An.
nounces Recipe

LONDON, Jan. 80 (By maiD An ex-
oellent potato butter" has been pro-
duced which can be made by any house
hold for 10 cents pound, the Ministry
Of Food announces after experiment.
ing.
Following is the recipe: Peel the
potatoes and boil or steam till they
TALL to pieces; rub through sieve into
a warm basin. To every fourteen
ounces of mashed potato add two
ounces of butter or margarine and one
teaspoonful Of salt. Stir with the back
OF wooden spoon till the whole is
quite smooth.
1t is claimed this butter will keen
Tor considerable time if wrapped in
grease proof paper.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18

One of the best little entertainers
who ever exchanged a line of poetic
conversation for line of practical
credit in The Blue Billygoat, up Green
wich Village way, used to depend for a
cure-fire hand (probably still does. for
even Art has a habit Of playing safe at
meal times) on poem called '"Where
Is Bohemia?'
1t wasn't all question, this poem.
Only in the first seventeen verses were
rapt listeners led to believe that the
1'avors the cabbage is Intangible. un-
fndable, always just around the next
corner. The poet, it seemed. had the
low-down on Bohemia right along.
After q while he would take the gen
eral public into his confidence. Bo-
hemia, he would finally proceed to de-
mCnstrate, was wherever two or more
genuine Bohemians hung their hats on
adjoining pegs.
| Why, there's a Bohemia in Brooklyn!
Ycssjr-~not only one Brooklyn Bohe-
MIG but two Of 'cm!
This important, not to say amazing
tact came to light yesterday. 1t would
be delicious secret still for certain
if Eugene V. Brewster hadn't decided
it was about time to garner a modicum
of publicity for cotere No. l Of Brook
lyn. Then, while he was garnering it,
up popped coterie the second.
Be it known that since last fall there
has flourished & Brooklyn Society Of
Artists. Mr.. Brewster and Nicholas
Macsoud and Harry Roseland, painters
all. were the organizers and before
they had finished their researches they
had scraped up no less than seventy
five artists resident in the Borough of
The Bourge
Later on MIR. Brewster conceived the
notion of doing something for the
literat. the musicianly, the motion
picturely and other Brooklynites of
talent. What had been the living room
in his home at $40 Washington Ave
nue., which is exactly six miles from
Washington Square, became occasion
ally salon. He worked out a mail
ing list that Ny. I1am-wcll, that some
people might we'll be willing to pay
literally for. Invitations went out at
wholesale.
Bohemia Nearer Home
Up to that time some Brooklyn art
lists had been in the habit of slipping
up to "thc village" after attending to
their marketing in downtown Manhat-
tan. Gradually as the Bohemia nearer
home took shape, their rubbers and
umbrellas and deprecated MANILA bags
began to disappear from the hatracks
around the Arch.
For a while Mr.. Brewsters Bohemia
was the only thing of its kind in Brook
lyn. But by and by he and Hamilton
Easter Field, also a leader in the
Brooklyn Society Of Artists, had a
falling out over matters pertaining to
art. and there arose the prospect of a
rival Happyland.
Mr. Field went so far as to admit
yesterday, even while the Brewster set
was hearing Edwin Markham refuse to
recite "The Man With the Hoe" be-
cause it bored him stiff, that his invi-
tatons had been mailed and that he
expected monthly, beginning March 8,
to put on series of shndigs that
would give Washington Avenue, Brook
lyn, a greater measure of shade than it
has enjoyed since the building specu-
lators cut down the trees.
To Offset competition Mr. Brewster
has led the way into print. Turning
his own set into definite organiza-
ton, called LA Bohemc," he added the
newspapers to his list and incosed
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18
Cost Of Food Shows
Big Increase in London

., LONDON. Feb. 17.-The Board of
Trades Labor Gazette" gives the in
crease IN the cost of food since July,
1914, as follows:
Eggs, 245 per cent; fish, 21s; sugar.
ls9; mutton, frozen. 1876 to 1863; beef,
frozen, 1lO to 1877; bacon, Jap; butter,
Jos; tea, 93: cheese, 92; margarine. 81;
bread, 54; flour, 80; potatoes, SO; Brit
lsh beef, 101; British mutton, 95.
Under the order placing unused lands
under cultivation, 10000 new plots of
ground have been put under the plough
during the last week,
New-York tribune., 1918-02-18

Senator Lockwood. "Senator Browns
bill would enable the unpatriotic prof
lteers of this country to use these very
women for their own selfish purposes,
regardlessly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-10
PETROLEUM WON WORLD
WAR, SAYS LORD cURZ0N
Council at London Is Told Outcome
Was Victory of Automobile
Over Railways.

LONDON. December 9-The war
against Germany was won ION a wave
of petroleum." and Germany's defeat
was largely due to her belief that
possession of the European coal fields
insured victory, while she failed to
realize the motive power which the
entente powers could extract from
petroleum.
This statement was made by Lord
CurZon, Earl of kedelston. and in
dorsed by other speakers at 4 ban
quet in honor of the interallied Pc
troleum council, at which Lord Curzon
presided. Senator Berenger of France
pronounced the fortunate outcome "a
victory of automobiles over railways"
Lord Curzon revealed for the first
time the straits in which the allied
nations found themselves in the win
ter of 1916. when a lack of petroleum
actually curtailed the operations of
the British navy. while German SUBJ
marines continued to sink tank
steamers at an alarming rate. There
came change, however, when the
scheme of carrying oil in the double
bottoms of all vessels SO provided,
and 100000 tons of oil were so trans
ported.
Lord Curzon accorded high praise to
the interalIied council, which succeed
ed in procuring for the allied nations
100000 tons of petroleum, and to
the loyalty and fine spirit of Ameri-
can and Dutch oil companies and other
great petroleum producers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-10
ASKED TO SEND ITS NOTES
TO THE ALLIED NATIONS
Berlin and Vienna Informed by
State Department as to Issues
Not for the U. S. Solely.

Notes were sent to Berlin and Wen
ma by the State Department yesterday
advising the German and Austrian
governments that the United States
desires to receive no further commu-
nications from them which should
properly be addressed to all the al
lied nations.
a note of similar purport previously
had been dispatched to the German
government as the result of requests
that the armistice terms be modified.
1t was explained at the department
that the notes sent yesterday through
the Swiss and Swedish legations re-
suited particularly from a communi-
cation from the national council of
Lemberg regarding boundary lines,
and also by notes from Austria and
Germany which bore no evidence of
having been similarly communicated
to the governments associated with
the United States. The note from the
national council of Lemberg indicated
that the state of Lemberg desires to
establish itself as an independent
community and said the activities of
the Ukranians and the Poles were re-
garded by the people of Lemberg with
suspicion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-10
AMERICAN HEADS FORCE
GUARDING SIBERIAN COAL
Col. Loring's Vigilance and y. ..
Policy Win Favor-Miners
Get Increased Pay.
BY PAUL r. WRIGHT.

BY PAUL II. WRIGHIs
Cablegram to The Evening star anu
Chicago Daily News. Copyright 1918
SUCHAN, Siberia, December loe-
layed).-I am the first correspondent
to enter these secluded valleys, where
the allied soldiers. under the American
Col Loring, guard the coal supplies Oh
vladivostock and eastern Siberia,
This is a strategic point. and shows
the best working Of the American pol
icy. The wave Of bolshevism passed
without fighting. The old manager
is back and the former miners are
getting out coal, being paid Increased
wages.
The Americans are liked by both
classes Of natives. and those inclined
to be dfsorderly have learned les
son. All are laboring IN harmony
now, though vigilance is yet de-
manded. ..
Much of the success of the amer
cans is due to the diplomacy or Col.
Robinson, chief of staff, VINO acco!n-
panied the allied troops here, show,ns
the fairness Of the allied intentions.
In these wild mountains there IS mas-
nificent hunting and fishing. with ths
worlds biggest tigers, while pear anu
boar are also found. The place is
one of the most difficult to reach IN
Siberia. The men in the expeoltlon
are in good condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-10

SESSIONS DEC. II
Peace Delegates Expected to
Agree on General Lines
for Treaty.
Cnblegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.

Cablegram to The Evening Star and
Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1918.
PARIS, France, December 9.-The in
terallied conference for the peace pre-
liminaries Will probably open at the
ministry of foreign affairs December
II. The names of the English and
American delegates have been an
nounced. Those for Italy will be For
eign Minister Sonnino and Premier
Orlando. Who will represent France
is still uncertain.
TIL preliminary conference will be
technical and will relate to the gen.
eral lines which the peace treaty will
ed and signed regular life can be re-
sumed in all the nations concerned,
while experts continue to work out
the details which, when accepted,
will constitute the final treaty.
It is estimated that the preliminary
interallied conference will finish it's
work about January Is, when the plen-
airy session of the peace prelimina-
ries will begin. Unless unexpected
difficulties are encountered it is hoped
that the final treaty will be signed
by the end of April.
The procedure of the interallied
conference will probably be the same
as that of the interallied council in
versailles-namely, France. Italy.
England and the United States will
sit permanently. hearing the minor
allies in turn on questions particular
Iy concerning them a hearing will
also be accorded the Czecho-S1ovaks,
the Poles and Jugo-Slavs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-10
CHURCHILL FAVORS LEAGUE.
BUT UPdOLDS NAVAL RIGHTS

Mr.. Churchill writes.
IF that defense is neglected. weak
ened or fettered." he continues. I'VE
shall be in continual danger Of sub
jugation or starvation. We should be
forced to live in continued anxiety.
If that naval defense were overpow-
cred or outmatched by any other navy
or probably by combination Of ma
vies we should hold. not merely our
possessions, but our lives and liber-
ties only by sufferance.
I'VE are sincere advocates Of a
league of nations. Every influence
Britain can bring to bear will be
used to make such league a power
full reality. This fine conception Of
President Wilson has been warmly
welcomed by British democracies all
over the world. We shall strive
faithfully and Loyalty to carry it into
being and keep it in active benefit
and existence. But we must state
quite frankly that q league of ma
lions cannot be for US a substitute
for the British navy in any period
that we can foreSee."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-10

LONDON. December 9. via Mon
trea1-Great Britain will use all her
influence to make the league Of ma
tons powerful reality. but she can
not regard it as a substitute for her
own navy in any measurable period
of time. Winston Spencer Churchill,
the minister Of munitions, declares in
an article contributed to the Glasgow
Sunday Post. .
In his article. which treats of Brit
ish naval supremacy. in application
of his recent address on the subject.
Mr.. Churchill speaks Of Great Brit
aims unique position among the ma
tfons of the world.
Our safety from invasion. our
daily bread. every means whereby we
maintain our existence as an indie
pendent people; our unity as an en-
pire or federation of commemorative
and dependencies-au these float from
hour to hour upon our naval defense"