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New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
increase of $3.50 Cases Is
Due to Delayed Reports,
Copeland Asserts
official Records
Called Inaccurate
Greatest Trouble Is Now
Found in Tenements,
Commissioner Says

An increase of $500 new influenza
cases reported TO the Department OF
Health yesterday, constituting a new
nigh record for the epidemic here, Is
.,ue, according to Heath Commissioner
tsopeland, to physicians filing reports
of cases which hive been accommodating
for days and weeks. This, he main
,ains. is only another indication that
he epidemic is waning here Up to
his time many doctors have been too
busy to file daily reports.
This proves. that the daily records OF
thc epidemic in the Health Department
re inaccurate as guide to the prog
ress of the disease, according to Or.
Copeland.
In an ecort to get in all belated re-
ports from doctors. the Health Depart
rnent will ask tha Police Department
% have patrolmen visit physicians Of
ices and warn them THAT their cpl
iemic reports are overdue. Failure to
ceport cases promptly is mlsde-
raeanor under The sanitary code.
"The decline OF the epidemic is
missioner Copeland says. "Our great
ost trouble is now confined to the tene-
nent sections. and there our emergen-
cy relief workers are doing wonders
The Academy OF Medicine has been
requested by DR. Copeland to furnish
volunteer physicians for medical relief.
Complaints that many business
houses arc beginning to ignore the
liked hours for opening ana closing
are reaching the health officials The
hours fixed by the department mu be
rieidly observed, DR.. Copeland says.
There has been q drop in the NUM-
or ssr rsusng of Sg~pa 5o rnsb afA1ss bsa landlords
Manhatran's new influenza case7 yes
;erday numbered 2,176; The Bronx,
G46, Brooklyn 1855 Queens, 307, and
RichmontA G73. Manhattan reported
93 influenza deaths; The Bro, Y. IS;
Brooklyn, 165; Queens. Al, and Rich
rnond, II. This showed total NOR
;aiity of iG1. ten fewer than reported
Tuesday.
Manhattan reported 430 new pneu-
i! onia cases; The Bronx, g. Brooklyn,
r he total, So, was an increase Of lac
over the previous day. The pneumonia
deaths numbered 800, Il decrease Of
eight cases below tuesdays figures.
Manhattan reported $50; The Bronx,
70; Brooklyn, 115; Queens, Is. and
Richmond, IA.
The call for preventive vaccine is
Increasing. The method of inocuiation
consists of two hypodermic injections
iorty-eight hours apart. DR.. Cope land
says those treated notice very little III
effect. The vaccine has been supplied
many large concerns.
The Board of Health yesterday EN-
lowered Commissioner Copeland to
ct on the question of closing theatres
md dance halls in Richmond.
Crowded hospital conditions III
Queens will be met by emergency ar
engagements in vacant buildings and
lance halls.
Frank Hedley, president and
general manager of the lnterborough
Rapid Transit Company, said yesterday
that falling off in travel on all sur.
lace, elevated and subway lines o]
100000 day has been noted since the
.Didemic began.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Hoboken Crime Swept,
Says Former Mayor
Vigilance Committee Needed,
Police Useless, Says
Gonzales

The organization of vigilance COM
mittee, or protective league OF citizens,
is the only thing that will restore law
and order in Hobokcn, George Con
zales, formed Mayor of the city, said
yesterday in statement addressed to
the citizens.
"As the police apparently have no
intention of stopping the series of out
RACES that are terrorizing the city
said Mr.. Gonzales. "the only thing left
to do is to organize protective league
of citizens.
"Gambling dens arc given free rein
in the city. Women who are a menace
to the safety of the city are allowed to
prowl around. There is no limit to
what may be done in Hoboken, pro-
viding the crook makes it his or her
business to get in right
"Therc are at this time number OF
gangsters in Hoboken who would be q
disgrace to any town I'M the wild and
wooly West In fact. shooting is more
common in Hoboken than it has ever
been in my experience in the city.
"Some few weeks ago stated there
would be a murder in Hoboken it con-
ditions were not altered. There was,
and conditions are even worse now than
thew were then"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Is More Butcher
Prohteers p ay
Fines to Red Cross
III Have Been Penalized
Since Friday for Over
charging Patrons
r eth Is Convicted
Demanded Separate Hearing,
but Proved He Sold Lamb
Chops for so Cents

The Federal Food Board continued
its campaign against profiteerlng butch
ers yesterday by ordering twenty-five
more of the 234 accused to contribute
amounts ranging from $25 to $500 to
the American Red Cross, to refund all
recorded overcharges and to display
signs attosting TO the violations IN
their shops.
A total Of III butchers have been
penaliacd since the hearings began, on
Friday. Only four cases OF alleger
proiiteering have been dismissed.
Louis Keith, 728 Eighth Avenue, one
OF the butchers who declined to accept
the voluntary penalty on Friday, pre-
ferring a separate hearing, was ad-
Judged guilty of ovcrcharging IN sell
ing rib chops of lamb, which cost G6
cents & pound, for SO cents. In add
ton. it was shown that Reith was
selling to other retailers, although he
is not d licensed wholesaler.
Samuel A. Berger. of the boards
legal staff. warned Roith to cease this
practice at once and ordered him to
contribute to the, Red Cross OF close
his shop for two Weeks. Rcith agreed
to make the contribution.
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Markand. 1868
Flatbush Avenue, proved to be the ilrst
acknowledged protiteer to escape With
out being asked to contribute to the
Red Gross. She declared that she was
running the establishment in the alb
sence Of her son, who enlisted In the
Naval Reserve. She agreed to post a
sign in hcr store admitting over
charges.
The following butchers were penal
Manhattan = Morris Fischel, 1860
Amsterdam Avenues George Glcntz
palace Market). 1909 Amsterdam Ave
nue.; Violence Market, Inc, 1874 AM
sterdam Avenue; Girsbourger Broth
ers washington Heights Market), 5@7
West 1A5th Street; Joseph Treu (Mans-
field Market), 1926 Broadway; Herman
Levy popular Price Market), 1887
Amsterdam Avenue; Louis Reith, 72s
Eighth Avenue; Bella Ozrath (Sagi-
l'ilipsberg Judgement Market, 1916
Amsterdam Avenue; Sigmund Braun,
1890 Amsterdam Avenue; G. Blum,
1856 Amsterdam Avenue Morris
Schi.d, 2OS7 Amsterdam Avenue; A. G.
Kahn. 2O94 Amsterdam Avenue; Davis
Nirsch & Son, 37e9 Broadway; S. Ma
sachin & Son, liol Second Avenue;
George Nettcr. 1l5 Ninth Avenue;
Solomon Meyer, 125th Street and
Broadway; Simon Schwartz (Sterling
MarkeO. 3l95 broadway; A. Rudolph
Binder, 1902 Amsterdam Avenue; Max
Brown, 625 Amsterdam Avenue:
Blonx-Herman Apmann, 2S5 Willis
Avenue; J. Julick, 545 Brook Avenue;
Peter Doersan, 521 Brook Avenue, and
Adolph Felt, 591 Westchester Avenue.
Brookly lyn-Adolph Buttncr, S34 Flat
bush Avenue. and Charles kaminski,
9d2 FlatbuSh Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24

ters. that Costieans plight was due TO
his having at some time investigated
the activities Of the Police Lieuten-
ants Association. of which Enrght was
the president. Inspector Costigan then
and since has maintained that at no
time had he been called upon to con-
duct an investigation involving Mr..
Enrigh5.
For six years Cost:gan has lkld the
most precarious post in the Police De-
partment and one peculiarly his own.
He has been the manifestation of the
force Of honesty in the department.
When Herman Rosenthal was shot
dead. just off Broadway, Lieutenant
Costlgan, like Lieutenant Becker, was
the head of a "strong arm" squad Of
the Police Department. The murder
sent tie latter 10 the death house in
Sing Sing. 1t placed Lieutenant Costi-
gan IN prominent position and fixed
upon him the name Honest Dan"
Unique Figure in Department
As the man who was not afraid to
tell grand jurors or any one else in
authority the truth about conditions.
Honest Dan Costgan became a
unique figure. More and more he
came to be intrusted with lntra-d DEPART
ment detective matters.
Tollce Commissioner Woods found
him most valuable. District Attorney
Swami sought mis- services. rs lad Gov
ernor Whitman when he was District
Attorney.
Most complaints against policemen
were investigated by Costlean. Most
unexpected gambling raids were con.
Quoted under his leadership. Not in
frequently mon'hs after Costisan's men
had loaded patrol wagons with Illicit
furniture and departed there came s.
department investigation Of the con-
dtions.
In many instances the arrest. indict.
ment and conviction of policemen fol-
lowed. In 1916 Costigan was the Dis
trict Attorneys r:Hht-hand man in his
white slave" investigation and pro.
duced an underworld "broker' whose
revelations implicated policemen as
we'll as professional crooks.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Hearst Papers Are
CondemnedbyYonkers
Christian EndeQvorers

YONKERS. n. Y. Oct. 23..--The
Christian Endeavor Society of West
minister Presbyterian Church in this
city has adopted resolutions condemn
ing Hearst and German newspapers,
declaring its approval of similar res.
olutons adopted by a Brooklyn Chris
tian Endeavor society The resolutions
follow:
eve, the members of the Westmin-
ster Christian Endeavor Society of
Yonhers, N. Y, most heartily indorse
the resolution passed by the Christian
Endeavor Society of the Borough Park
Congregational Church OF BROOKLYN.
"Whereas, The New York American
and Evening Journal owned by Will
iam Randolph Hearst, cultivate and
foster unpatriotism; and,
"Whereas. Newspapers and other
publications printed in German arc not
conducive to the successful prosecu-
tion of the war by this country; there
fore be it
"Resolved, That this society condemns
the said New York American and
Evening Journal and all newspapers
and other publications printed in Ger
man. and requests that its members re-
frain from the purchase or reading of
them and use every lawful means to
discourage the sale Of them"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Orange and Lemon
Dealers Under Probe
For Proffeering

Arthur Williams, Food Administrator
for Now York City, viii begin an in
vestigation to-day into the almost pro
hibtive cost of oranges and lemons
which seemed to follow on the heels
of the Department of Health's notice
on Monday that both these fruits are
valuable in combating and suppressing
Influenza Two fruit dealers doing an
extensive business were subppnaed by
the boards investigators last night, and
must appear before Mr.. Williams TO-
day to explain, if possible, their charge
of 20 crnts N a siNge orangr.
Mr.. Williams took Action after Frank
Schwartz, head of the boards COM
nlaint department, gathered statistics
on the orange market. These showed
that 10 cents for the average orange
The number of oranges in crate
varies from 100 to 32t. The price per
crate to retailers is from S14.5O to
$3.50. Mr.. Schwartz computed that
the retailer pays about eight cents for
an orange. Mr.. Williams discovered
that the average charge was from IS
to 20 cents
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Costigan, Reduced, Refuses
To Quit Police Under Fire
Friends of Honest Dan
Sure Effort Will Be Made
to Discredit Former Head
of Vice Squad as Inspector
of the First District-Look
for His Reduction to
Captaincy

Inspector "Honest Dan" Costigan is
not going to quit under fire. Despite
! his removal as head of the vice squad,
post which. he held for fifteen years,
he will not resign. Costigan has been
unpopular with the powers that be
before. He is going to do now as nc
has done in the past when similar
situations arose. He is going to sit
tight and wait for the next move from
Headquarters.
Those who have followed the drive
on Inspector Cortigan, inaugurated
shortly after Commissioner Enright
assumed office, are confident that the
next move will be to attempt to dis
credit Costigan in the First Inspection
District (his new assignment) in or
der to justify his reduction to the
rank of captain.
For months policemen Of all ranks
hav. said that Costigan was doomed.
When Commissioner Enright found
himself baked in the effort to get
rid Of Costigan, through the opposi-
began what Costigan's friends say
were a series of petty humiliations
for Costigan and the hindering of his
work by reducing the efficiency OF
his staff by transfers.
Removes His Clothes Closet
The GROWING personal humiliation
for Costigan came several weeks ago.
Commiss oner Enright entered his Of
flee and after looking about for q
second asked for what a closet in a
corner was used. When told that the
inspector and his men kept their
clothes in the closet the Commissioner
ordered it taken Away. Since then
the inspectors clothes have hung on
the wall. while every member of the
department. including the patrolmen,
are provided with a clothes locker.
Some months ago Inspector Costigan
was eummoned to Washing Oh for a
conference with the War Department
regarding vice conditions around the
army cantonmcnts and how best TO
handle tlle evil At the request Of
the government he made application for
leave Of absence to get the work
started. and despite the fact that other
members Ct the department have been
granted such leaves and that Costigan's
application wss indolsed by the War
/ Department, Commissioned Enright re-
fused to grant 1t.
Costigan's Position Hard to Fill
At that time IL was stated publicly,
without contradiction from Headquar-
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Books Given Pupils
May Garry Germs
School Principal Finds "Made
in Germany" on Gifts
to ChiIdren

OYSTER BAY, Oct 2s.-What B. E.
Whitaker. principal of the public
school here, believes to be German
plot came to light to-day when it was
discovered that pamphlets which were
distributed among the children Of the
school recently bore the stamp, "Made
IN Germany"
These books contained blank payes
which if rubbed with a finger tip would
show pictures of President Wilson and
Colonel Roosevelt.
81 have sent these books to New
York City for analysis" said Mr..
Whitaker, and explained that the chill
dren to bring out the pictures rubbed
their fingers over the pages of the
BOOK and naturally put their fingers
INTO the!r mouths afterward
The man who distributed the books
has disappeared
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Woman Twice Convicted
Two Hotel Thefts Laid at Door
Of Mary Liptac

Mary Liptac twice was convicted Of
grand larceny yesterday in Judge Null
queens part of General Sessions, al
though at both trials Felix Badrian,
who already had been convicted of the
thefts, testified that she had nothing
10 do with either. The prosecution
charged that she Liptac woman, no
tel chambermaid, discovered in which
rooms jewels We're and informed Bad
rian.
The Liptac woman was found guilty
Of stealing a watch and chain from
Nine. Louise Paliakoff, at the Hotel
San Remo in June, and then another
Jury found her guilty as an accompicc
IN the theft OF $50 900 worth of jewelry
from Mrs. Harriet Pullman Carolan at
the Hotel st. Regis last December.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Five Bolsheviki
Guilty, One Freed
Of Attacking u. S,
Defendants Receive Verdict
With Smiles, Laughter
and Congratulations
BY BRIGGS

Five of the young Bolshevists. who
have been on trial before Judge Henry
u. Clayton in the United States Dis
trict Court here, were last night pro-
nounced guilty on all four counts of
the indictments brought against them
under the espionage act.
The offence of the defendants con-
sisted in writing, printing and circu-
iatlng leafet entitled "The Hypoc-
rlsy of the United States and Her
Allies" in which the intervention of
American and Allied troops IN Russia
was denounced, A sixth defendant
Gabriel Prober, was acquitted on the
ground that insufficient evidence had
been produced to connect him with the
conspiracy through which the leafet
was put into circulation.
Jacob Abrams, Hyman Lachowskv
Samuel Llppman, Hyman Rosansky and
Mollle Steiner, the young feminist radi.
cal, whose arguments with the court at
tracted so much attention on Tuesday
were the quintet convicted. Sentence
will be imposed ir the Federal Buildino
at 1O:30 o'clock tomorrow morning
Under the terms of the espionage act
each may receive an aggregate sentence
OF eighty years III prison, together with
a $4,000 fine, twenty years and SO. .ooC
fine on each count.
In reaching its decision the iurv
consumed only about an hour and :
quarter. Judge Clayton concluded :
most exhaustive charge shortly after
b O'Clock. AT exactly 6:2O the twelve
men. filed in with their verdict.
The defendants received the news al
their conviction in a mood almost ian
tastically gay. Throughout the pro.
ceedings they have had scant hone n
acquittal, and instead of being cas-,
down by the confirmation of their
1ears, they smiled and laughed and ex
changed "congratuatory" handshake,
before being taken back to the Tombs
!, The entire day was taken up witt
the argument of the opposing counsel
Attorney Harry Weipberger. for tb,
defence, laid stress on the fact that
SINCE Congress has never officially de-
ciared war upon the Bolshevik govern
ment, the defendants we're within thej,
rights in criticising the dispatch O.
'ao[i 5'roops to Russia. He also dwelt a
length upon the alleged brutality O.
the police to Jacob Schwartz. a sew
enth defandant, who died in iai.
Assistant United States Attorney s
l.. Miller declared the defendants he,
encouraged resistance to the Unite,
states and its government.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Childs Cuts Charge
On Bread and Butter
Extra Impost Of Five Cents on
Public Discontinued Pend
ing Investigation

The management of the Childs res
taurants, which announced sternly sew
eral days ago that hereafter the pub
lie would have to pay cents for the
bread and butter served with meals.
announced through Arthur Williams.
Food Administrator, yesterday, that the
public wouldn't have TO do any such
thing.
Following conference with William
Chlds, president of the corporation.
Mr.. Williams said:
Mr.. Childs has authorized the Food
Board to announce that acting at the
suggestion of the food administration
he has directed the withdrawing of the
bread and butter charge of cents
from his menus, pending the compile
tion Of the inquiries that the food ad.
mlnistration is making into the books
Of the company"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
What Is Going On To-day

LIGHTLEss NIGHT.
ZEE ShrAs4THS s4SHNa5 Or sTAaF DAHFr P5IGT 5ToE.s
Xnsraan s nt9y Ms.,,m mstaoPe,,sH II sIi
Business show siaty~ntn;h regiment KIN ms rmnlS Agnaruin
Last day for German alien women to seciire Del,
Luncheon Of the Rotary Club o, New York. Boe,
1,ncbe5d McAlptn' of l2;ls rs 2; 2.1 N. x.-,,
ssns ana chiJdrsn n Sa Hotel McApin 1918 p m
sociation Waldorf Astoria 3 p m. A''1'''s as
lyn Civic Club. Isl Roiasel stre, H'; hFooH sIs
$50 ,. m. ''''
PUBLIC LECTURES OF THE BOARD oT,
EDUCATION. SIS P NJ.
MANHATTAN.
TIE IfsnS Rs ni~n q saHss Rnssa E Barnes Washington
The Healthy Human Body Theron w K,,mar
A.: d.. fuoAc School 3. tiudson ana Grove
The TRANSPORTATION Problems OF New York .
saa Street a'sa'5 aa Ultra "A Avsnus School a. Forty
'Impressionism. Frances lit 70 the World,
s Ss'S" Street s 4sd Y Sisa.l rp,s g.
America n Cd in ,l the VA Hamilton Holt. Pubn
es fSs"0 ws s. can aas s3s nss, Fssd, "a
.aiender ~ Public School 81. Hester and Nor
Protecting Army Camps Against conrassrs.io, q.
rMt1ap ouin A Bates Public School e5 s25 Wes
Public School II. Fory soronth s:reet res, 's
our Children and Their Music Mrs. Mary Greg
osy Murray. Labor Temple fourteenth Street
and second Avenue ''e0'
'D,sraei and the Political Novel. Professor ] Fl
Carter Troop. PHI D.. Y. W. II. A. p Yves,
THE BRONX.
John Kdskin." Dr. John H. Randall Morris
u, High school. lasth Street and Boston Road
Inc battle OF the Mane." Rufus A Vance
Public school 50. Castle Hill and BlacSroch
Peter the Grea;" Arthur D. Reese pub,,r
School SO: Lons.ood Avenue and Beck Street
l.sfayette National Park" Or. Henri 4 Rose
Pub1o School 53. l6Sth Street nd Tsii.r Aren,ia
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Influenza Situation
Continues to Improve
In u. S. Army Camps

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-Contin-
red improvement in the influenza sit
nation in army camps aud in a number
of states was shown by reports re-
ceved to-day by the surgeon general
of the army and the Public Health
Service. New cases in army camps
otaled only 2,733, with 327 deaths
The disease now is epidemic at only
three camps Lewis, Washington; Nc
Clellan, Alabama, ard Kearny, Cali
>ornia.
States where the number of new
cases reported shows a decrease in
ciude Connecticut, Delaware, New Jer-
aey, Indiana, Maryland. Missouri, Ne
vuda, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Ten
eessee and Wisconsin. For the coun~
~ at large The peak Of the epidemic
apparcn.ly has been reached
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24

ITHACA, N. Y, Oct. 23.-Profcssor
Cony Sturgis, of Cornell University,
l., c. Bement, organizer of the Un-
conditional Surrender Club in Ithaca,
and Sharpe e. Kelsey, newsdealers,
to- day began to- take an active part
i'll the fight to bar Hearst newspapers.
Thoroughly aroused by what they
term Hearsts un-Amerlcanism, they
volunteered to aid in circulating the
petition to the Board of Aldermen
asking that Hearst publications be
barred from Ithaca.
t. Wells. Of the War Vocational School,
who began to obtain signatures Mon
day, had additional petitions printed
and the volunteers plunged INTO the
work with vim, declaring they
wanted to "rid Ithaca Of the talnt Of
Hearstism' as soon as possible
Il never read Hearst newspapers"
said Mr.. Bement. but knowledge |
have obtained from persons who have
studied the articles printed in them,
has convinced me that they ehould be
barred from Ithaca"
Ross w. Kellogg, secretary of the
Board of Commerce. was induced to
take hand in reventing Hearst "op-
preston tactics" from being used on
newsdealers in Ithaca Professor Stur-
gis informed Mr. Kellogg that Sharpe
& Kelsey had tried to drop Hearst
papers and had been told by Frank
Mayors, wholesale distributor Of New
York newspape 5, that if they did so
they could not get other New York
papers.
Mr.. KELLOGG informed Mr.. Mayors
that Ithaca would not stand for such
tactics. Shortly afterward a Hearst
.reprcsenN was advised by Mr..
were charging that Hearst pubica-
tions we're unpatriotic. The Hearst
mans refutation of the charge was
the assertion: "Tf Hearst is unpa-
triotic so are 100000 other persons
1,.hn road his ,,
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Ban Garbage Plant

The Flatbush Chamber of Commerce
announced last night that if Mayor
IIylan did not heed its protest against
the threatened reopening of the Bar
ren Island garbage reduction plant il
would start a taxpayers suit
John j. Snyder, president of the or.
eaniZation, Joseph \. Neif and Oliver
Holt, hearing that work was going on
to tit the plant for reopening, paid
Barren Island a visit yesterday and
found 100 men at work getting the
plant in readiness for opening in thirty
days.
Last night letter of protest was
ent 10 Mavor Hylan. pointing out that
orough President Riegelmann had
romised that the plant would never
reopen,
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
Slabs Socialist Speaker
Heckler at Meeting Jumps
on Wagon with Knife

Isidor Corn, Of 21O South Ninth
Street. 'ho was discussing rentals from
a carttail last night at Socialist meet
ing at Madison and Gouverneur streets,
provoked several hecklers among his
audience. One Of them, after shouting
several questions, leapcd upon the
truck, whipped out knife and stabbed
Corn in the abdomen.
The heckler fed, and Isidor Weltman
of 345 Madison Street, got a slight cut
from the knife as he brushed past him
The man is said to have run under
some steps near by, snatched off a wig
and sauntered off
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
O'Leary Has Influenza

Jeremiah A. O'Leary. attorney, edi-
tor and Sim Fein aeitator, who was
on trial in the Fedora District Court
charged with conspiring to violate the
espionage act. was taken to Bellevue
Hospital Yesterday from the Tombs
suffering from Spanish influenza His
condition is not regarded as serious
and Judge Cushman has put the trial
sn the calendar for next Tuesday.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-24
80 Influenza Sufferers \
From Holland Quarantined

New York's batch of home grown in
fuenza cases were added to yesterday
by thirty three cases from Holland
who arrived on the Holland-Americap
liner Nieum Amsterdam. None of
those stricken was allowed to land
and in addition relatives and cabin
mates of the sick were kept quaran-
liner were Hollanders bound for the
Dutch East Indies.