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The sun., 1918-11-24
PROVES U. S. WRONG !
ON PIER CONGESTION
Marine Editor Shows Tonnage
Here Has Decreased Since
= War Began.
AT SMALLEST THIS YEAR
Value Grew Because Of High
Prices-Warns Politics Is
Behind Ship Shift.

Further evidence that the Federal
Government has been mlsinformed as
regards, congestion" at this port was
supplied yesterday by Alexander r.
Smith. editor OF the Marine Ners.
Complaints about "congastion" and
erroneous statements that New York's
wharfage and terminal facilities are and
have been SO far behind the peeds of the
time that traffic should be diverted to
other Atlantic ports are said to have
swayed' the Government TO a determine
ton to remove steamships engaged In
the Southern and Gulf trade from New
York to Philadelphia. While steamship
men generally discredit this report II is
nevertheless true that the Government
has not been pleased with the attitude
displayed by the Hylan administration
toward port needs and toward practical
improvements.
Tonnage Has steadily Fallen.
Mr. Smith, an authority on port mat
tiers. calls attention to the fact that the
tonnage Of vessels entering and leaving
the port OF New York has decreased
steadily since 1915, with a slight ex-
: ception for the year 1915. Apropos OF
the talk about congestion" Mr. Smith
pointed out yesterday that interesting
and hitherto unpublished Governmental
statistical data quito controverts the
congestion" theory.
:, 'Our foreign commerce." said Mt.
Smith, "lias so greatly increased in
value during the war that the general
Impression seems to exist that II has
also increased in bulk. The opposite
would seem to be the case. II has In
Creased in value unquestionably. but as
j less tonnage has taken care OF II II
must have decreased in bulk. That Is to
say. our foreign commerce has nearly
doubled in value during the past four
years-reaily II doubled between 1915
and 1s17-whiie the tonnage engaged in
its carriage has decreased"
The following table relating to the
tonnage OF ships entering and leaving
the port reveals the decrease in bulk OF
foreign commerce. a fact which In itself
would seem to dsprove the congestion"
49,
The sun., 1918-11-24
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Service OF thanksgiving Of the liberated
os not Of b midde Europe Cathedral
Thirty third anniversary Of tho conse-
Grafton o: me Church Of St, Peter. BAR
cay and Church streets, IL A. NJ
Louis Kaufman Anspacher will speak on
D,ama pS az s SOFA, Force IN Demos;
Lecture by Prof George w Bovine on
Socialism and Religion before the secu.
ar Society, l5l West l25th street. S:I5
sIephene Lausanne will address the Free
Synagogue Forum on France and the
PeacG Terms SO West sISty-eighth street,
Christening. OF the 5000 ton transport,
The Lsme' an NsEarMy; n g. lso P NJ
Alexander Trachtenberg, Public Library,
rs East lGo,h street, ii A. NJ
Theta Phi Alpha meeting, waldorf-A.-
street and Amsterdam aveihle' 5 +. NJ. WV"
Annu3i meeting 81 the open, Forum Ma
spraguc on The Social Problem OF Re-
coIstruction'" Cooper Union. s p. NJ,
BoSTd Isl wesfi Eighty sixth " street, ~St,@' 5
aMetropolltan Museum OF Art. lectures,
$50 =, NJ; story Hour" Anna C Chand.
Ter, +. N. The Moun;ings Of a Japanese
sword" Francis Stewart Kershaw, 4P. N.
BTpoblyn. 80 L. NJ
Address by nr. Thomas Travis and pic
ture OF The BOYS At the Firing Lane"
West Side Y. NJ {. A., 4P NJ
Address by DR.. Charles II Lsvermore
on The Conditions OF Permanent Victory"
Ia rian Church. +. NJ.
Reception in honor OF Admiral Usher
az tn, residence O. Mr.. and Mrs Eugene
V Brewster, 3i0 Washington avenue.
Brooklyn, 10 II r. NJ.
NictCry peace festival and pageant for
the hereht OF the American Fund Tor
french wounded, h'ppodromr y p ~
Address by Oswald Willard on "Ameri-
can Journalism" East Fifteenth street;
L. NJ.
Presentation OF the War Departments
educational aim, Eft: 10 Fight" Sc .wyn
Theatre. r NJ
Rec ansecrption OF font and altar % Oh
St. lohn.s Chanel. Nar!ck street. at 81.
Luke's Chapel, Trinity Parish, II A. NJ
Dinner TO be given by the Peoples Relief
Committee, Central Opera House. Six,y.
seventh street and Third avenue, TP. II.
The sun., 1918-11-24
The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER.

Eastern New York, fair to-day; to-
morrow fair. warmer; moderate to
fresh west winds.
Northern New England, generally fair
to-day and tomorrow; slightly warmer
tomorrow; moderate west winds.
Southern New England. fair to-day; to-
morrow fair; slightly warmer moderate to
New Jersey, fair to-day and tomorrow;
slightly warmer tomorrow moderate west
Western New York. fair to-day; to-mor-
row fair; warmer In southeast portion
WASHINGTON, Nov 2s--Therc has
been a general and decided fall in pressure
In the lake region. the upper Mississippi
Valley and the West, with general rains
due to we'll Defined "a disturbanees over
southern Nevada and OF the north PACING
coast. There Is another moderate disturb
with little movement mo TD e and rains continued
In the south Atlantic and east Gulf states,
Louisiana and southern Texas. Snow also
and locally In the plains States, the upper
Mississippi Valley. the interior OF New
York and northern New England. Cold
north Rocky Mountain region. the plains.
the Gulf States and the Missouri Valley,
and 1t has extended in more moderate
and the south Atlantic States. Elsewhere
the temperature changed but little. with
the exception OF rain sunday In the east
Gulf States, South Carolina. Georgia and
Florida fair weather will prevail Sunday
and probably Monday east of the Missis-
sippi River, although there are some In
dications of unsettled weather by Monday
in the lower Mississippi and lower Ohio
valleys. 1t will be warmer Sunday In the
Ohio Valley and the lake region and on
Monday In the Atlantic States. storm
warnings are displayed on the Pacinc
coast.
Observations at United States weather
Rurean ststiona taken at p NJ Yesterday,
The sun., 1918-11-24

Largest Tonnage before War.

These figures reveal conditions exist
Ing In the four years preceding the war
and In the four years of the war, be.
cause the fiscal year ended June 80,
1914, obviously before there was any
suggestion OF war. 1t will be seen that
the largest tonnage ever entered at or
cleared from this port In any single
year was in the year ended June so,
1914. and strangely, the smallest tonnage
entering and leaving this port in the pa a
eight years was that for the present
year-the year that ended on June so,
1918. year, too. IN which the value OF
our Imports and exports was nearly
double that of 1914.
The point about all OF this" said
Mr.. Smith, lis that the city OF New
York. or for that matter the port of
New York. did not have any less wharf
age facilities during the period of the
w3r than II had Immediately preceding
the war, Our wharfage facilities were
efficient, apparently, to accommodate
the larger tonnage in the four years pre-
cedlng the war therefore they must
have sufticed for the lesser tonnage dur
ing the period OF the war; unless, in
Decd. some disturbing influence reduced
its efficiency
The reason We shall have TO look for,
! fear. In the animus that animated
Claude Kitch!n, chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee, to put the
burden OF the war revenue taxes upon
the North. II looks as IL political con-
H!derltlons and not considerations OF
economy commerce or shipping, were
anlmating the Federal Government In
Its unjustifiable diversion OF any part of
tho foreign commerce from the port OF
Ncw York.
bat manifestly the goose that lays
tae golden eggs cannot be strangled II II
York is 10 be deliberately robbed OF its
commerce Il will be robbed of everything.
Confidently II we lose our commerce we
lose everything. And to the extent that
we are robbed OF any part OF II our pop
u.ation. wealth, industries are all Sc
riously injured"
Mr.. Smith denounced the reported In
ten,ion If the Federal Government 10 re-
move the Southern and Gulf steamship
Enes from this port.
The purpose" he said, as not 10 ben
eft The nation but 10 benefit other ports
81 the expense of New York. with the
railroads and with shipping under the
cc,trol of the Federal Government and
possessing the power to divert New
; 3rkS commerce away from II we see
ths Federal Government exercising that
power TO New Yorks material and last
ing injury. There Is need therefore for
the patriotic work of THE SUN and for
similar work on the part OF all other
New York newspapers. on the part OF
numerical organizations. on the part of
The people, and most Of all OH the mart
Of the city government.
The sun., 1918-11-24
Urges United Protest.

. IL the press, the commercial orgnni-
cations, the city government and the
people cvircc sufficient spirit OF opposi-
tion and OF unity In preventing the de-
E;ruction OF the port OF New York by
means Of parcclling its commerce out
among other ports the Federal Govern
mert will quickly desst. Hitherto Il has
H"unted on the chronic apathy in COM
murc.al and maritime matters at this
port, But we must get together. unite
and fight. THE SUN deserves great
thanks for splendid work in seeking TO
cave New York's commerce, the very
heart OF the city's prosperity and we'll
seins"
The Board OF Estimate gave brief
and sluggish consideration to port i'm
provement yesterday when II took up
Comptroller Cralgs plan to improve the
West Side OF Manhattan by building a
s'x track tunnel under the Riverside
Drive marginal way from Flfty-ninth
street south 10 about Canal street, and
b. roofing over the New York Central
tlaehs from Flfty-nlnth street north
The sun., 1918-11-24

Mrs. Eris =. Winston, whose husband
Is well known as tennis player, was
injured while riding TO the hounds at
Westbury. l.. l., Thursday. In taking
Off for sim jump Mrs Winston's
hunter fell through a blind to his knees
and the rider was thrown from the
saddle As the horse was struggling TO
its feet Mrs. Winston was kicked be-
meath the shoulder. The severe bruise
which resulted will keep her from the
hunting field for several weeks.
Mrs. Winston IL the daughter OF Mrs
Fl. v II, Kennedy of Hampstead and Is
well known as q dog fancler. Her
pomernuIans have won many blue rib
Hoas NJ Long Island shove
The sun., 1918-11-24
sTEEPLECHAsE FOR THIEF.
Mounted Policeman Takes Stone
Walls and Arrests Fugitive.

John II. Lee Of 40 West 142d street
left his automobile standing beside the
curb at Tenth avenue and Fifty-fifth
street yesterday to enter store. As
he closed the door he turned and saw n
man seat himself In the car and star.
the engine. Lee gave chase and at Fiji
ty-sixth street the man made a flying
leap TO the pavement and ran to A
garage which Is being built on Fifty
sixth street between Ninth and Tenth
avenues.
Mounted Policeman Mullln. who had
Joined in the pursuit, jumped his horse
over several four foot walls and can
tured the fugitive, who described himself
as Anthony La Gumina, 1s West Tooth
street, Magistrate Ten Eyck. in the
West Side court, held him in $500 bail
to await the action OF the Grand Jury.
The sun., 1918-11-24
TWO WRECK CASES SETTLED.
Father Collects $1,000 and q
Brother Allowed $500.

Surrogate Ketcham approved yester-
day settlements in two actions brought
against the New York Consolidated Rail-
road Company by relatives of victims OF
the Brighton line disaster of Novem-
Der /.
The Surrogate allowed Louis K!rch-
hoff, the father Of Miss Clara Kirch-
hoff. 35. of SIT East Fifteenth street,
Brooklyn. to accept $4,000 for his daugh-
ters death. John NJ. Mills of 6S2 Argyle
road, Brooklyn. brother of Mrs. Emily
NJ. Coady. IS years old, agreed to accept
$500 for her death.
The sun., 1918-11-24
GRIP HAS SLIGHT GAIN HERE.
Pneumonia Also shows Increase rs
Deaths Decrease.

A slight increase In influenza and
pneumonia cases was shown in yester-
days reports by the Department Of
Health. There were 49, cases ~ in
fiuenza yesterday. six more than during
the preceding twenty-four hours. Fifty
Ave pneumonia cases were reported,
nine more than on Friday. Deaths from
influenza reported totalled 80. as against
40 the day before. There were as pneu-
monia deaths. an Increase OF one
Yesterdays Influenza and pneumonia
cnses by bOrouRhs were;
The sun., 1918-11-24
CARS CUP LEFT TO HER SON.
Mrs. Howard Thompson wills
French Decoration TO His Brother.

a cup given to her husband by the late
Car Nicholas Romanoff of Russia is
hequeathed TO her son, Howard Thomp-
son. Jr., 1t was learned yesterday, by the
will of Mrs. Louise Thompson OF Os-
shining. which has Just been filed.
She was the widow OF Howard Thomp-
son, one time Associated Press corre-
spondent at Paris and at Petrograd.
Mrs. Thompson and her daughter were
killed by an automobile In the armistice
celebration. She leaves Howard $500,
and to her other son, Jerome. $500 and
the medal of the Legion of Honor given
to his father by the French Government.
The estate is valued at upward of
$4,000
The sun., 1918-11-24
Levi. Plan. II. II. It. wreck .rob.

District Attorney Lewis of BROOKLYN
announced last night that he would Law
evidence concerning the b. Il. T. wreck
or November l before the Kings county
Grand Jury to-day. This action is in
dependent of Mayor Hylan's John Doe
investigation, which will be resumed
Tuesday.
The sun., 1918-11-24
MARQUIS HELD HERE
IN OIL STOCK FRAUD
Investors in Tuxpam Company
Fleeced of ST, 100000,
Is Charge.
SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE
Shareholder Who Got Evil
dence Held Up in Mexico
by Trick, He Says.

Louis Roumagnac, a distinguished
looking man OF so years. who ia said
to be a marquis OF France. was held
in $4,000 bail yesterday by United
States Commissioner Samuel II. Hitch
cock charged with conspiring to use the
malls to def-aud. The Tuxpam star
Oil Corporation. OF which he was pros
ident. Is alleged to have swindled in
vestors OF 100000 in the booming
market for low priced S.osxs that has
been a phase OF the country's prosperity
In war times.
Roumagnac was arrested in tho CT
fees of his company. which occupied
many extensively furnished rooms on
the seventh floor Of the Singer Building.
John r. Bryant, a director, was arrested
at the same time. Charles A. rellale
former treasurer. was arrested In his
apartment at 1o5 West Seventy second
street. Henry Kalb, a broker. who is
alleged to have sold 100000 of the
100000 shares OF the oil COMPANY
that were marketed, was arrested In
his office at 81 Wall street. Bryant
was held In $1,000 bail and Kalb in
$4,000 bail. Dellale was released IN
the custody Of his lawyer. Charles e.
Thorne Of Liberty street.
Postal Omcers Make Arrest.
Howard Mayhem and o. b. William
son Post Office inspectors, made the ar
rests Inspector Williamson said that
other arrests would follow. The COM
plaint names other officers OF the COM
pany.
1t is alleged the stock of the company
was sold through advertisements which
pictured the Tuxpam Star OIL Corpora
ton as hourishing concern OF untold
possibilities and actual assets OF large
value in the form of producing oil wells
at Tuxpam, near Tampico. Mexico. Cir
culars distributed by q stock broker as
serted that the company was receiving
$25 900 a month from its wells.
Laurence II. Amman, Assistant United
States Attorney, in requesting the Com
missioner to Ak bail for Roumagnac in
a large sum. declared that the company's
advertising matter contained pictures OF
properties owned by the Standard Oh
and other companies.
Information upon which the complaint
was based was obtained by Ernest J.
SchabelitZ, stockholder, who became
suspicious and got an assignment from
a Wall street detective agency to make
an investigation In Mexico. Schabelitz.
Swiss. said that he found that the
claims of the Tuxpam company In re-
gard to Its properties were grossly ex-
aggerated. When he tried to leave Mex
leo at Tampico he said that he was I'M
able to get his passport vised and was
threatened with arrest as a German spy
He alleges that while he was being
detained two men representing the Tux
pam company tried to buy properties
that would tend to give substance to the
representations made In the circulars
which were being issued from Offices at
New Yerk. Chicago, Philadelphia and
Baltimore.
The sun., 1918-11-24
Pelham Hay stan to Give Ball.

The enlisted personnel OF the dLsburs-
ing Office at the Pelham Bay Naval
Training station will hold "blDl ti-
umplant" " the Hotel .\gior On tho
night OF December IL.
The sun., 1918-11-24

The second table refers to the great
growth. in order. from 1911 to 1918 in
elusive, in value of foreign commerce. an
increase obviously due to the wars de-
fnand and the high prices caused by the
The sun., 1918-11-24
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.


MINIATURE ALMANAC-
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
STANDARD Time,
Sun rises.s:5s A NJ sun sets......i:34 p NJ
Noon sets..... Ii SEP NJ
HIGH WATER THIS DAY.
Sandy Hook |. :o4 A VI Gov Island. /. rs A NJ
He'll Gate. .....2 rs NJ
Low WATER THIS DAY.
Sandy Hook. ,6:i7 A M Gov. Isl and C :02 A
Hell Gate, .....e:l9 NJ
The sun., 1918-11-24
FREE CONCERTS TONIGHT.

Solos and duets BY the Mlsses Grace and
Clara Carroll. Public School l0i, 1lIth
street west Of Lexington avenue. Public
Forum,
organ recital by w. A. Goldsworthv,
Washington Irving High School 40 Irving
place, NJ a:30 =, VI.
BRONX,
organ recital 10y wenEel A. RRpoc..
NH@r'a iNih StSa9l 'tGiH street and Bos-
ton 'yNJ, ', 4. N.
The sun., 1918-11-24
ARRIyAL.s-sATvRDAY, Nov. %.

ADMINISTRATION Nov. %.
So Rocham beau. Bordeaux. Nov. 10.
IS BenlodI, London. Nov. 3.
S. Gansfiord. Nuevitas. Nov. l6.
IS l.. j. Drake, San Francisco Oct. 20.
SIS Western Queen. Almera Nov. 3.
IS Leopod H., Rotterdam, Nov. I.
S. Ida. La PalliCe, Oct. 20.
IS William Van Drel Rotterdam. Oct, %.
SIS Turbinla, Rotterdam. Oct. %.
S. British star. Manchester. Nov T.
IS Advance, Colon, Nov. IL.
Sc Mlrlts, London, Nov. O.
SIS Belg!C, Liverpool. Nov. 6.
IS Elizabeth Maerak. Suevitas. Nov. 6.
IS Hector, Amsterdam, Oct. ~.
So British Earl. swansea, Nov 8.
IS TsuruSa Maru. Havana. Nov. 10.
Sc Rosenberg. Antilla. Nov. Is.
SIS Eastern Sun, Gibraltar. Nov. :.
s. Juneau. Cristobal
So New York City (B.). Avonmouth.
IS COlombier tBelg). Rotterdam.
So Princess Anne. Norfolk to the Old
Dominion steamship Company, with pas
sengers and merchandise.
sAILINGs-sATuRDAY Nov %.
SIS Bsrian. for Kingston.
SIS Matura for Trinidad.
SIS Socony, for Boston.
So OCmulgee, for New Orleans
IS ii Mar, for Galveston.
The sun., 1918-11-24

The National League for woman's
Service expects to serve nearly 1000
turkey dinners to uniformed men. At
the Harvard Club unit, Seventh avenue
and Thirty-third street, 400 free dinners
will be served between l and 3 =. NJ.
contributed by the Harvard Club: 200
free dinners W'l be given at the Harlem
Home Club, 10 Manhattan avenue; a
similar number at II East Forty-frst
street and sixty more at Mrs. Cope
lands tea room, IS East Forty-third
street. Mt 1890 p. ". They are contrib
uted by Mrs. Frederic CORTLAND Pen
field. Mrs. John Markle and Mrs. John
Gilchrist. Twenty-Five cent dinners will
be served at Grace Church, 90 Fourth
avenue. 257 Madison avenue and the
Negro Soldiers and Sailors Club, 23sS
Seventh avenue.
A victory peace celebration will be
held at the Navy Club. 500 Fifth avenue.
Thanksgiving Day. when free turkey
dinners will be served to sailors and
marines. 1t Is expected that 1000
guests will be present, and contributions
ot cooked turkeys are solicited.
The sun., 1918-11-24
LOCAL WEATHER RECORDS

Highest temperature, Al, at c:l5 i. NJ.
Lowest temperature, SO, at 1880 =. VI.
Average temperature, 81.
The sun., 1918-11-24
SOLDIERS TO ENJOY
THANKSGIVING HERE
Lafayette Battalion Will De
Hostess to 100 Chateau
Thierry Heroes.
TEN DANCES PLANNED
National League of Woman's
Service to Serve Turkey
Dinners to 1000.

One hundred American marines who
aided In checking the German advance
upon Paris at Chateau Thierry will be
guests OF the Lafayette Battalion at the
Hotel Aston Thursday at Thanksgiving
dinner and supper. Fifty French sailors
from the Marseillaise have been invited.
and there will be an entertainment at
which some OF the best known profess
sional people in the city will appear.
Under the direction OF Police Inspector
Dryer the women OF the Lafayette Bat
talon. which Is commanded by Major
Adelaide McConne%. are on daily call at
their headquarters at the Hotel Majestic,
driving sick and wounded soldiers from
transports to base hospitals in and about
the city. As soon as the men are better
they are taken for motor spins through
Central Park and TO various places of
amusement The women OF the Lafay-
cite Battalion are also on ambulance
duty at the French Hospital and trans
port convalescent men from that institu-
ton to the Eiseman cottage at Rock
away.
Dinners for Soldiers.
Preparations for the reception OF SOL
diers and sailors In New York city on
Thanksgiving Day are rapidly being
completed by officials OF the War Camp
Community Service. which will provide
Thanksgiving dinner for every man In
uniform here Thursday. Service men ar
riving ut the railroad terminals and fer
ries will be met by members of the Fly
ing Squadron OF the War Camp, who
will wear armbands as means OF identi-
fication. The visitors will be directed to
the nearest canteen or club. where they
will receive their dinners. One THOUSAND
Boy Scouts and students of the College
OF the City of New York have volun-
teered for the work.
Thanksgiving services will be held at
each OF the fifty-one units Of the War
Camp at IL o'clock. 1t 10 estimated that
$4,000 dinners will be served at noon.
Entertainments will occupy the after
noon. There will be n football game for
the service championship of Greater New
York between teams from Camp Mills
and the Brooklyn navy yard at the sta
dunn OF New York University at 3 40
o'clock. Vaudeville performances for
men In uniform will also be given in
New York and Brooklyn. Sightseeing
automobile tours will be features during
the forenoon.
There will be at least ten dances for
uniformed men in the evening. The
largest will be at the Seventy-first Regi-
ment Armory at Park avenue and Thir-
ty-fourth street. There will be others at
Unit 81. I West Ninth street: Unit "a.
26l Madison avenue; Unit 8. IL East
Forty-first street: Unit s. 2 West Sixty
fourth street; the Soldiers and Sailors
Club. Broadway and Seventy-sixth
street; Y. NJ. II. A. 975 st. Nicholas
avenue; the Riverside Community
House. Riverside Park and Ninety-sev-
enth street, and Unit 20. West Fifty
third street
The sun., 1918-11-24

SAILED FOR NEW YORK;
SIS Paragon. from Philadelphia, Nov. 30
IS Dancy, from Boston. Nov. %.
IS Minnesota, from Boston Nov. %
Sc Jung showed. from Baltimore Nov Is
IS Triton. from Baltimore. Nov %