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New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Four Stock Brokers
Accused of Larcenv
Charge Is Obtaining Money
From Customers and Not
Making Deliveries

AS the result Of an investigation just
completed by Assistant District Attor-
ney Brogan. in charge of the Bureau
of Frauds at the District Attorneys
office, warrants have been issued for
the arrest of four stock brokers on
charges Of grand laceny The men are
accused of obtaining money from Gus
toners for the purchase of stocks and
then failing to make deliveries.
The investigation was prompted by
the activity Of certain stock brokers
in attempting to exchange questionable
war industrial stocks for Liberty bonds.
IN conjunction with his investigation
Mr. Brogan announced that a deter
mined effort would be made to prevent
persons during this Liberty bond cam
paign from subscribing to large
amounts Of bonds with no intention
of taking up their subscriptions. He
cited one case of a clerk, earning S15
week, who subscribed for $4,000
bond and then disappeared.
letter was sent by the District At
torney's office to the governors Of the
Stock Exchange suggesting that Stock
Exchange houses contine their adver-
tising during the coming three weeks
to promoting the Liberty Loan. At the
same time i suggests that trading in
Liberty bonds be DISCOURAGED
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
SO More Soldiers at
Camp Dix Die From
InHuenza-Pneurooniio

CAMP DIX, N. J., Sept 28.-Hosptal
records to-day show that sixty-nine
soldiers succumbed to the influenza
pneumonia epidemic at Camp Dix dur
ing the last twenty four hours, increas-
ing the total of victims here to 1926. A
hopeful sign is that a smaller percent
age of those stricken with influenza to-
day are developing serious symptoms.
There are now $3.50 cases of the NAL
ady in camp, S99 new cases being re-
ported to-day and 89 pneumonia cases.
Among soldiers from nearby states
whose deaths are reported to-day are
John W. Lawett, Newark Peter Petros
Newark; Meade Morris, Elizabeth;
John Jucek, Trenton; James j. Clark,
Elizabeth; Charles O'Donnell, Boon
Vile, N. Y. James Carroll, Galena,
Md; Robert Waldo. Wyalusing, Penn;
James |. Campbell, Atlantic City; John
J. Leary, Chester Penn; Anthony
Bessito, Rochester, N. Y; Ralph Lyles,
Monrovia, Md; Carlo B. Boette, Hobo
ken; Charles Henry, Worcester, Mass;
George Henry, Camden; Eugene Burke,
Jersey City; William J. Walder, Union
Hill; Morris Sinlowitz, Philadelphia;
Corporal Fred W. Petzinger, Irvington,
and John Mernor, Trenton
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

| 600 year apartments on Riverside
Drive and Park Avenue, as we'll as the
residents of $40 to $15 month "holes"
on the East Side.
There are scores Of storage and fur
niture moving companies in greater
New York that have not taken new
order for two weeks past. Samuel Orr,
legal adviser and officer Of the Ten
ants League, states that the moving
deadlock and the increase in rentals
stampeded the tenants Of the city into
joining the league as desperate means
of self-protection. He said the mem
bership had passed the 100000 mark
and that it included men paying from
$4,000 to $4,000 year for apartments.
Mr. Orr said that in certain congested
sections Of the city landlords had in
creased their rents two and three
times in succession. Rent, he said, had
gone up from $3 to $15 on moderate
price apartments.
Mr.. Orr was speaking principally for
the worklngmen, the principal sufferers
from increased rental and increased and
dlillcult moving operations. From the
other end of the social and economic
ladder l.. b. Gilman, president of
Fease & Elliman, real estate firm, re-
ported that there was a bigger moving
operation under way this year than he
had ever known. He said there was a
UNIFORM increase in rentals of from 10
to Is per cent, due to higher operat-
ing expenses and higher prices of coal.
Mr. Gilman said there was q vast
amount of subletting of apartments,
familles with long leases moving into
hotels or out of the city or into small
er, less expensive apartments.
Listen to the Moving Man
William A. Meikleham, treasurer of
the Manhattan Storage and Warehouse
Company, said that monthly storage
charges had advanced from $6 van
lead occupying 500 cubic feet to 81 in
ilreproof warehouses, and from 81 and
SIS vanload to IS and S6 in ware
fouses that were not freproof. He
said that. for the first time since his
company was founded in 1888, there
had been an advance made in storage
rates of 81 month.
And topping the almost insurmount-
able difficulties, tenants, unable to get
their household goods moved from one
APARTMENT into another find them
selves paying double rent Their de-
posits on future homes are already in
the pockets of their prospective land
lords, and they have to pay for their
old quarters just the same.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Milkmen's New Demands
No Sunday Delivery and 80
Per Cent Wage Increase

A 80 per cent increase in wages, a
six-day working week, eliminating Sun
day deliveries and daylight work are
among the demands Incorporated in a
new working agreement which milk
wagon drivers will submit to their en-
ployers, according to Henry Katz, bust
ness agent of Local 5S4 of the Milk
Wagon Drivers Union.
The present agreement under which
the drivers are working will expire No
vember l, and an attempt will be made
to have the new schedule become eff
fcctive then. The new agreement also
will include provisions for double de-
livery on Saturday to give housewives
an opportunity to get their Sunday
supply of milk without hardship.
Should the employers refuse to meet
their demands no strike will be de-
clared, Mr.. Katz said, but the govern
ment will be asked to arbitrate the
matter
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Moving Day This Year Is What
General Sherman Said of War
October | Has Really Been Here Two Weeks Already,
Tenants Assert, Shortage of Rents and Vans
Causing High Carnival of Misery

October 1.-The moving day Of Amer
ica-nlways dawns with tho groan OF
100000 tenants; always staggers un-
der a mountainous load Of furniture
bedclothes, rugs, baby carriages, bird
cages and Bedlam, and goes out by
lantern light with a whole population
worn to the brink Of nervous exhaus-
ton. There are more cuss words In
open circulation on October / than all
the other 364 days Of the year put TO-
gcther.
Year before last, when two years of
European war had sluiced out of this
country few army corps of foreign
laborers. moving day was a terror.
Last year, when our army had started
to claim all young men with the phys
ical constitutions Of piano movers,
October / was chaos Of misery. This
year it has pledged itself to be first
class model of Hades-an impressio ION
istic copy of C. civilian rout before
q German grand attack.
Only this year this ancient high fes-
tival Of misery will not be fenced with
in twelve or even twenty-four hours.
1t Will be spread over several days of
continuous calamity. In fact, October
l began week or two ago, and it
will continue for two or three weeks.
Figures Tell the Tale
This year moving day season is and
will be emblazoned with whole clus-
ter of innovations of adversely. These
may be enumerated as follows:
Moving expenses from 80 to 100 per
cent higher than ever In the history
Of New York City.
Moving process 500 to 1000 per cent
slower and more difficult than ever.
Storage charges 81 to 81 per month
higher than ever
Rentals from 10 to so per cent higher
than ever.
Landlords, 10 to so per cent more
hard hearted than ever.
Tenants, 5000 per cent more irritable
and profane than ever in the history OF
the city.
Tenants wives and children, inno-
cent victims of war conditions, in
fnitely more miserable and uncomfort-
able than ever before in the history OF
the city.
Rich and Poor Both Hit
These conditions hit rich and poor
alike-the occupants of $4,000 to $10,-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Arrested as Tax Stacker"
Fifth Avenue Broker Said to
Have Dodged Income Tax

Seymour L. Rau. q member Of The
brokerage firm Of ". =. GRAY r. q
50l Fifth Avenue, was arrested ester
day on the charge of being an oircoro
tax Stacker" He was held in s5eoo
bail by United States Commissions,
Hitchcock on the complaint Of William
4. Edwards, Collector Of Internal Psr.
enue. The arrest marks the star, of
a campaign against Income tax delin.
quents.
Rau is charged with faHare % file
income tax returns for the years 1914
II, inclusive. If he is convicted tho
maximum penalty he VIII face is one
year in prison or $1,000 fine. or both
At the arraignment Rau pleaded ig-
norance Of the income tax law saviro
that he had heard of the governmen,
corporation tax law, but he never knew
that 1t applied to indivdua Rau's
income was said to be more taan si0-
Goo above the amount exempted bv
law.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

oughs as follows: Manhattan, Iii;
The Bronx. IS; Brooklyn, 1923; Queens,
5, and Richmond, 19. All but nine
were civilians, Manhattan having two
soldier victims, Brooklyn four and
Richmond 8. Of the twelve deaths,
two we're in Manhattan, six in Brook
lyn, one in Queens and three in Rich
mond,
Fifty-one new cases of pneumonia
and thirty-two deaths from it were
reported. OF the death total, ten
cases were reported to have resulted
from influenza infection. Half of
these deaths were in Brooklyn, while
Manhattan had two and The Bronx
three.
Commissioner Copeland yesterday
advised all persons to spend their Sun
day out of doors, as the Weather Blu
reau had assured hi mthere would be
plenty of sunlight. He said the sun
light killed all influenza germs, and
walking in it to-day would nip in the
bud all lncipient infection.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Governor Whitman Sells
Pledges of $3,737,500 at
Delaney Street
Auction Block
Labor Unions
Contribute
Mothers of Soldiers, in House
toulouse Canvass, Oobtain
Subscriptions of $1,0o0,00o

Organized effort in behalf OF the
fourth Liberty Loan brought $4.737,b0O
in subscriptions on the East Side yes
terday, the total being made known
when Governor Whitman, speaking in
front of the Bank Of the United States,
II Delaney Street, challenged, "Who's
going to bid million ?"
The response came from B. X. Mar
Gus, vicc-president of the Bank of the
United States, and his Ibid" was
equallcd few minutes later by rep
resentative Of the Board of Education,
who spoke for the East Side school
children. The Amalgamated Clothing
Workers added 100000 and the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers an
equal amount The Children's Cloth
ing Union had $272,500 pledged, and
other trades, including the pushcart
men, who came forward with 5000,
followed until the total was $3,737 900.
The other million came from the
soldiers mothers of the East Side and
was not made as "bid" at the Gov
crnors auction block. Three hundred
strong they paraded the district yes
terday, carrying banners with such
inscriptions as: 1--WE Gave Our Boys;
the Least You Con Do Is to Lend Your
Money to Your Country" Than, in &
house to house canvass, they raisec
the million.
A thousand speakers were out on the
East Side drumming up cash for the
loan, but The climax Of the day was the
visit of Governor Whitman, who spoke
not only at the Delaney Street rally
but also st Eutgars Square, Hamilton
Fish Park, Tompkins Square, Tenth
Street and Second Avenue and Stuyves-
ant High School.
Other speakers at the auction meet
ing" in Delaney Street were B. K.
Marcus, chairman of the East Side d-
vision of the Liberty Loan Committee; {;
Samuel c. Lampert, Nathan Ottinger,
Max Phillips, Max Weinstein and Cap
tain [ z Ratner
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Columbia Military
Camp Opens Tuesday
Ella borate Ceremonies to Mark
induction of Students
Into Training Corps

Columbia University will be formally
opened as a military institution on
Tuesday next. Elaborate ceremonies
have been arranged to mark the Undue
tion Of the thousands of registered
students into the Students Army
Training Corps.
The entire body o" student soldiers
will assmble on South Field at 10 a. m
and headed by navy band will march
to 10th Street, where they will line
up, facing the entrance to the library,
Waiting the students there will be the
president Of the university, Nicholas
Murray Butler, and Colonel John p.
Finley, y. S. A., commanding officer of
the Students Army Training Corps.
The students will take the oath of
allegiance to the flag in unison and
then Colonel Finley will read messages
to them from President Wilson, Gen
eral Peyton c. March and Benedict
Crowell, Acting Secretary of War
AN instruction corps, numbering
sixty officers, has been detailed to
serve under Colonel Finley. Among
their number are Major Herbert c.
Earnshaw, Captain Wilbur L. Dove,
Captain Benedict L. Leerburger and
First Lieutenant William II. McLaugh-
lin.
Men who have failed to secure ad-
MISSION to the Students Training
Corps because of their failure to meet
educational requirements, will be ad-
mitted to a special course of training
in war mathematics which is to be in
augurated at the university Immediate
ly. Applicants are advised to register
Immediately as the course is to be
limited in order to make the instruc-
tlon as individual as possible. The
class will be in charge of William L.
breckenridge, of Stuyvesant High
School
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
For Buying Liberty Bonds Are Hammenng the Hun To-day-Ba

who are not IN good health. as we'll as
the very young and the elderly, should
be protected from being chilled or wet
$50 far as practicable avoid crowds
in subway cars, at mass meetings, the
atres, moving picture shows or other
gatherings even at the expense of d
little loss of time or convenience.
zone should avoid overeatng, es-
peciallv if, after doing so. one may
be exposed to cold, chill or rain Proper
selection of food and exercise in the
open air, particularly walking, are help.
full in making ones power of resistance
20 disease stronger.
"Dry sweeping on the platforms of
subways and elevated stations, in fac
tories, stores, as we'll as other public
places. and the shaking of rugs in pub
lie places are dangerous.
"So far as possible avoid becoming
fatigued.
cones hands should be washed be-
fore eating. Patronze only such res
taurants as are clean.
Care of the Sick
"Those who feel i'll and whose symp-
toms suggest an attack of influenza
pneumonia or other infectious disease
should promptly go to bed. This pre-
cauuOn alone Will frequently shorten
the attack and prevent dangerous COM
phcations.
"A person suffering from these dis
eases should have a separate room, If
possible, and should sleep alone
"A sick person should cough, sneeze
or spit into a handkerchief, or, better
still, into small piece of gau2e or
cheesecloth. Such gau2e or cheese
cloth should be burned Handkerchiefs,
pillow cases, bed sheets, bed covers and
gowns should be disinfected by boil
ing. If for any reason boiling is not
practicable such linen, which may con-
tain the infectious discharges from the
nose, mouth. throat and lungs, should
be disinfected by soaking in a 5 per
cent carboic solution for at least two
hours.
"All visitors should be kept out Of
the room occupied by the sick person.
"All dishes, glasses and other uten-
sils used by a sick person should be
used exclusively by that person and
should not be used by any other indi
vidual until they are washed in boiling
water.
'Nn all cases physician should be
called in, and no patent medicines or
general prescriptions which are adver-
tised should be employed One never
knows at the beginning which case will
turn out to be mild one and which a
very serious one"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Rules for Preventing and Treating
Influenza Issued by DR.. Copeland

DR.. Royal S. Copeland, Commissioner
Of Health, because of the growing
seriousness of the Spanish influenza
epidemic. yesterday issued elaborate
rules for the public to observe to avoid
catching or spreading the disease, and
for the care Of those who have been
infected
DR.. Copeland's statement follows:
Influenza and pneumonia are nfec-
tious diseases which are caused by GER
tain germs. The germs are carried in
the matter which is spit, sneezed or
coughed up by sick persons, or some
times by persons who while carrying
the disease germs in their mouth and
throat, show no sign of illness.
These germs, even if they get into
the nose, mouth and throat, are usually
unable to break through and attack q
person who is in good health.
IF person is not in good health he
ls usually unable to resist the attack
of the germs and they break through
some weak point and attack the body.
''In order to be able to resist the at
tacks of the germs which cause infiu-
enza, pneumonia and other infectious
diseases, we must carefully follow these
ms Structions:
Rules for Prevention
"Avoid contact with matter which is
spit, sneezed or coughed up. Persons
who feel that they must do so should
spit. sneeze or cough into a handker-
chief
DO not use cup, spoon, knife, fork
or dishes which have been used by
others, unless they are first thoroughly
washed in boiling water. This applies
to the home as we'll as the public
restaurant and soda water fountain,
Zone should avoid placing into the
mouth pipes, cigar holders, pencils OF
toys which have been used by others.
"Avoid placing the lips against the
mouthplece of telephone. particularly
public telephone In the case of chill
dren kissing should be avoided
DO not use a towel, napkin or other
kinds of table or bed linen which have
been used by another person unless
they have been boiled or otherwise dis
infected.
"Keep the home, as we'll as the of
fee and workroom, we'll ventilated All
cars, halls and other places where
numbers of persons assemble should
be freely ventilated. Particularly those
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
New Names on Sheriff's
Jury Because of War

New name sappear on the rosters Of
the three panels of the Sheriff's jury
for the coming year, the appointments
by Sheriff Knott 70 be effective on
Tuesday. Membership on the three
panels is much sought after. and the
changes from year to year are few. the
45O members usually serving for many
years. Vacancies have occurred lately
through some of the jurymen joining
the colors, the most recent of these
being George F. Baker. jr.
Some of the new men appointed by
Sheriff Knott are Finley j. Shepard,
Laury Goelet, Conde Mast. Charles E.
Knoblauch, Edward E. Dickinson and
BENJAMIN Mordecai.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Influenza Delays Start of
Students Army Training

BOSTON, Sept. 2S.-Henry B. Endi-
ccott, chairman of the Emergency Pub
nc Health Committee. was notified by
the war Department to-day that, on
account of the influenza epidemic, the
enrolment of men for the Students
Army Training Corps had been post
poned until October 10.
Mr. Endicott Immediately requested
Massachusetts schools and colleges at
which units are to be established to
postpone all academic work until that
date. Many Of the colleges had planned
to Open October |
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Another Ship Is Launched

NEWARK, Sept 2s.-Another steel
ship. the eleventh built in the yard,
was launched this afternoon at the
Submarine Boat Corporations plant on
Newark Bany. She is the Onekama.
Miss Charlotte v Melton, daughter OF
the superintendent of the ways on
which the ship was constructed,
christened the Onekama.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Entertain English Bishop

The Right Reverend Henry Russell
Wakefield, Bishop of Birmingham,
England, who is on his way to make q
speaking tour in Canada, was the guest
last night of the National Committee
en- the Churches and the Moral Aims
of the War at a dinner at the Yale
Club. The Rev. Nehemiah Boynton.
now an army chaplain, presided.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Professor Charles M. Stearns

NEW LONDON, Conn, Sept. 28.-
Professor Charles M. Stearns, formerly
member of the Dartmouth College
faculty, lately engaged in Y M. C. A.
work at the local naval base, died at
the naval hospital here today from
pneumonia. following an attack of
Spanish influenza,
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Twenty Deaths at Camden

CAMDEN, n. j., Sept. 2s.-More than
three thousand cases of Spanish in
fiuenza have developed here within the
last twentyfour hours, leading phv-
sicians report. Entire families of eight
ten and twelve persons are confined 10
bed. Twenty deaths were reported to-
daV
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
British Lose 24,929 Men

LONDON, Sept. British army
casualties for the week ending to-day
as announced by the War Office, follow
Ofiicers killed or died of wounds
432; men, 1886
Officers wounded or missing, so4:
men, 1887.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
Situation Not Alarming

DR.. Copeland added that the gem
eral situation was not alarming. but
that number of physicians had neg
lected to observe the new regulations
OF the department requiring cases of
influenza to be reported. This, he said,
prevented him from getting all the
facts as to the real condition of health
IN the city.
Doctors who neglected to comply
with the regulations, Commissioner
Copeland stated. undoubtedly feared
that the houses of their patients would
be placarded, as in cases of smallpox
or scarlet fever. DR.. Copeland said that
no such stringent measures were con-
templated. and that modified form
OF quarantine, to keep members of the
family from direct contact with the
victim, would be enforced
Pul ,ic Service Chairman Hubbell last
night said that DR.. Copelands letter
had not reached him yet, but that it
would be taken under consideration
monday morning, when the commission
meets.
Up TO the People
80 far as crowding is concerned,
there IS only one way to prevent that,
and that IS to stop people from trav-
cling he said. "The service of the
lnterborough is improving greatly wee k
by week, but it is very difficult to pre-
vent crowds at the rush hours.
j am determined to do everything in
my power to aid Commissioner Cope
land IN this emergency. | Will ask the
transportation companies to install
some system of airing their cars when
not in use and will request that they
use germicides in sprays or some other
way, to combat the spread of the dis
ease.
. But the public can do great deal to
protect itself in this matter in two
ways. If people who can will keep out
OF the subways and elevated trains for
the next three or four days, experience
on the Continent having shown the
epidemic to wane in that period. and
use less crowded cars and trains, il
vii be of the greatest assistance.
Use Direct Routes
In addition, people can lessen the
crowded condition by avoiding the
shuttle as far as possible and going
20 their destinations by direct route
even If it requires the Inconvenience
of walking a few blocks
The 355 new influenza cases reported
yesterday were divided among the bor-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-29

Pearl Fader. 9N3 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, who IS accused of obtaining con-
trlbuuons IN the name Of St Johns Hos.
pltai and keeping the money. has been held
IN the Gates Avenue police court, Brookvn.
i9r l examination en- charge of yaerancy
She IS said 20 have admitted "naakInpn ss
much as SIS q day
The Public Service Commission has ascar.
tanned that OF 66.S64 ra road trains
operated III the state in august S27 ner
cent reached their terminals on lime The
average delay fer each tram ,lat was late
was 25.S minutes
Walter Jennings president of the Ma
tlonal Fuel Gas Company and a director OF
the Standard OIL Company Of New Jersey.
has been elected chairman eff the New York
County Chapter of the American Red Cross
to succeed Robert W. De Forest.
Employees Of the Pubic sersice coruis.
sion have organized for the Liberty Loan
campaign.
I'm Mr. Lindman, don't sheot me-" said
man who climbed In Mrs Margaret Board
man S window. g13 Wyc1of Avenue Brook
yn STAY right there or ! will" replied
Mrs. Bcardman. level nr pair OF shears
She held him At the pout off the shears until
the police arrived. lie was John Lndman
VINO lives in the same house
A service flag whose stars outline the fig.
ures III .n1u' nas been hoisted at the City
Hall in Jersey City 1t was announced hat
while the flag was in the making 5000 more
residents OF the city had joined the military
forces OF the United States
A stick Of dynamite. wrapped in copy
Of New Y orA newspaper. was found on a
large freiehter just completed by the
Standard snipbu ding Corporation. at
shooter island. lne snip is p be turned
over to the government next week.