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New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
500 Mothers Added
TOT Unconditional
Surrender Club
New York Being Canvassed
by Women Working
Through Districts

Mothers Of soldiers now at the front
are .rallying to the support of the Un-
conditional Surrender Club by hun
dreds and thousands. 1t was estimated
at the clubs headquarters. l9 West
Iorty- fourth Street, yesterday, that at
least 500 mothers had enrolled as mem
bers during the day.
typical of letters accompanying the
tnro ment pledges of the mothers was
that of Mrs. Mary E izabeth Tydeman,
who has several sons in France. Mrs.
Iydelnan wrote:
1--WE mothers do not want peace until!
the Kaiser and his sons are no more.
We do not want our sons good work
spoiled by the German machines
treacherous peace. am only one
mother who loves her sons fighting in
FianGers's fields better than her own
life, but victory with the sword only
is my prayer"
The work of thoroughly canvassine
New York was begun in earnest yester-
day. Teams of women have divided the
city into districts and are at work
day and night. In one restaurant alone
yesterday more than 100 pledge cards
were signed.
Scores of volunteers reported at
headquarters yesterday. More are
needed. however, and any one who has
even part of the day at his or her dis
posal is urged to lend hand.
A unit of the Unconditional Sur
render Club was formed in Summit,
N. j., yesterday. It started with 1000
members.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Drama
Nora Bayes Seen at the
Broadhurst in New
Musical Show
By Haywood Broun

Nora Bayes, who used to give shows
all by herself, appeared in more pre-
tentious entertainment. at the Broad
hurst Theatre last night when 8
musical comedy version of Hoyt's" Con-
tented Woman" was presented under
the title OF Ladies First There are
uls.,nct linus 20 what MISS bayes can
10 anu ner performance last night Was
u mixture vi kOou ana pau. rev play
ets can sing popular music as she
does. Her voice IS perlec.ly placed
auu her sense OF rhythm except. .Onal.
H. is not voice Distinguished IN quail
lty, but That IS less linpUrtanL lhav-er
III thc renuering OF popular ballads.
but ike Fannle brlce, MASS DayeS iUse5
most OF her eMecLiveness wnen she
ceases to sing. Sne was able to MAKE
indifferent lyrlcs amusing when she
sang t"em iast night, but she could
not do so we'll wnen she spoke qulps
OF tne same character. CuklOuSly
enough, the unuOuDveu sense o. nunlOr-
Gus Values whlcn Miss bayes Possesses
when she sings Is almost iacKlng wnen
she acvs. Without rhy thm she IS un-
inspired.
Fortunately, there were plenty Of
songs tor the star last night and while
none of them seemed destined to die
whistling death, What a Girl Can
10" Spanish" Me and You" and one
or two others gave MISS bayes an op-
portunity to appear TO advantage. One
cailed Kaiser Bnl" ought no. to re-
man in the repertoire. 1t seems to
us promising candidate for the bad
taste prlze, in spite of the unu ua4ly
severe competition for that trophy this
season. he song recounts how Kaiser
Bill sat down to feast composed of
Belgian. French, I.alian and English
delcacies which he gobbled up only to
fall prey to severe indigestion when
he tackled the u. S. A. The imagery
of the song is not of the happiest a. ad
the attitude of swank hardly forg "
able. Anybody who thinks that the
war is being fought by America alone
would do well to look now and again
at the British casualty lists.
Hoyt's falce has nos served to pro-
vide good book for the Nora Bayes
show. Perhaps that is partly due to
the situation in which ali New Workers.
find themselves. A town which has a
Hylan is not in position to be snooty
about a woman running for Mayor.
Irving Fisher gives Miss Bayes good
singing support, and William Kent, who
is good dancer and moderately
amusing comedian, was rapturously APP
plaudcd for his effort in both fields.
His hit was emphatic. The other
is small negro child who appears
IN encore to a song called "What a
Man Can Do" Here, too. sense of
rhythm was unmistakable.
The book is by Harry b. Smith, and
A. Baldwin Sloane wrote the music.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Opera
Creditable Performance of
MADAM Butterfly" Given
at Park Theatre

The Society of American Singers
gave an altogether creditab'e per
formance of Madam Butterfly last
night at the Park Theatre. The title
part was taken by Miss Maggie Teyte,
who. despite slight sophistication,
acted with charm and pathos, and sang
the music with skill. Her duet with
Mr.. Harold at the close of the first act
brought forth storm of applause. The
Pinkcrton of Orville Harold added an
other proof that the American tenor
has at last arrived in the position whicn
was always his by nature and is now
his by art. His is a beautiful voice,
used with exquisite taste and sense of
phrase. His English diction is ex-
traordinarily clear. his age presence
excellent his bearing as''c
Miss Viola Robertson was excellent
as Suzuki, max ng of the character a
vital figure. and Morton Adkins was a
lifelike Sharpless. The orchestra,
under Mr.. Heger ans direction, played
admirably, and the minor singers and
the chorus performed their parts we'll
After "The Tales of Hoffman," "Ma-
dam Butterfly" is the best thing the
Soc'etvs of American Singers has ac-
complished.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Mayor Would Deny
Increase to Teachers
Get Other Jobs if Dissatis-
fed,," He Suggests as
an Answer

Mayor Hylan, at a final hearing yes
terday on the proposed budget. sug-
gested that teachers in the public
schools who are dissatisfied with their
salaries can quit the service and find
'other employment.
The Mayor offered this advice to the
teachers when DR.. William H. Allen,
director of the Institute for Public Ser
vice, requested the Board Of Estimate
to appoint a committee to confer with
representatives of the teachers regard
ing the desired salary increase.
This sort of thing will have to be
cut out. When l was boy working on
a farm | asked the farmer for more
pay, as thought was worth it. The
farmer said that if thought SO | could
go somewhere else and get it. And
did And that's what the dissatisfied
hors ought to do-go and get other
jobs"
.orough President Riegelmann Of
Brooklyn said: "If you'd stuck to the
farm you might have been a good
farmer now"
More criticisms of the budget, which
is $4,000 0O0 larger than Iast years,
were made yesterday. The main objec-
tions were launched at the creation of
new and needless positions paying in
the neighborhood of 500 week, aud
the increases in salaries of Tammany
henchmen already receiving $4,000 to
$4,000 annually, and who will receiv,
from $500 to $4,000 more because of
the generosity Of the Hylan administra-
ton.
Leonard M. Wai'stein on behalf of
the Citizens Union, protested against
The cu.s maze - Do4ouen tres.ueAc
Riegclmann for the maintenance of
Brooklyn's highways. He called the
attention of Mr.. Riegelmann to the
numerous war industries in Brooklyn,
whose presence there, he maintained
in proper repair.
Despite the protests, the budget Of
s248, ,10S,4S7 will go through in it's
present form, it is reported at the
City Hall.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Complete Equality
For British Women
Is Predicted Here
Bill Permitting the Fair Sex
to Sit in Pa. lament
Delights Sufragists

The victory Wednesday in the Eng
fish House of Commons of the bill per-
mitting women to sit in Parliament was
hailed by New York suffragists yester-
day as the beginning of the final move
ment to give English women complete
freedom and equality with che men of
the empire. q
"Office holding was inevitable for the
women of England" said Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, president of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation and of the international
Women's Suffrage Association, "af-
ter they had been given the fran
chise. The passing of this resolu-
triumphant victory for our English sis-
ters Suffragists never have so much
wanted to hold Office as to select Off
cials. and when the privilege comes as
freely as the House of Commons has
moved to bring it, women have cause to
be glad the world over.
1.-The good feeling of English states
men and men voters is remarkable, con-
sidering their antagonism few years
ago, and apparently. they now are try
ing to make up for their past errors
by giving the women even more Jnan
thev have asked for"
The agitation caused by the inability
of women to sit in Parliament began
last April. when three duchesses three
marchionesses, twenty-eight countesses,
eleven viscountesses and thirty three
baronesses petitioned the House Of
Lords to pass q clause in the reform
bill permitting peeresses to vote This
is privilege which peers do not enjoy.
This class of citizens, considered the
highest in England, is disfranchised,
but compensation is afforded by the
right to voice opinions in the House of
Lords. Wives and widows Of peers suf-
fer the same disability without the ac-
companying compensation. They can
not vote, and there is no "House Of La
dies" for them to sit in.
The petition of titled women to be
allowed to vote at general elections
was shelveds 1t was followed in August
by a petition from Lady Rhonnda to
be allowed to sit in the House of Lords
Lady Rhonnda, widow of Great Brit
aims former Food Dictator, was plain
her husband had died then, she would
have profited by the limited granting
of suffrage to women. tor which she
had fought so hard and which is en-
joyed by her cook and her chamber
maid. But on January 1. 1916, Mr.
Thomas was made peer-became Lord
Rhonnda--and Lady Rhonnda lost her
vote
Her petition was denied at the time
but if the bill just passed by the House
of Commons masses the House Of Lords
and becomes effective she will realize
her hope.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Police Will Force
Meat Profteers
To Publish Guilt
Fifteen More Butchers Con-
victed of Overcharging
Patrons for Cuts

profiteering in meats in this city
was sruck another blow by the Federal
Food Board yesterday, when fifteen
more of the 234 accused butchers ac-
cepted voluntary penalties in order to
escape the temporary closing of their
shops. The hearings on the charges
were brief, as most of the butchers
admitted their guilt when confronted
by their own books and the testimony
of the boards inspectors.
Mrs. Minnie Maybaum. 1927 Amster-
dam Avenue, owner Of the Flower Mar
ket was the only proved profiteer to
escape without being sked to contri-
butte to the American Red Cross. The
donations ordered from the others
ranged from $25 t, s100 All must dis
play signs in their windows attest;ns
to their profteering and announcing
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25

in. vette Guilbert Pleases
in Series of Songs
of Outlaws

Nine. Yvette Guilbert gave her OPEN
ing recital of the season yesterday
afternoon at Maxine E!liott's Theatre,
appearing in a new programme. en-
titled "Chansons Rouges." The songs
were all related to the outlaws in
France and America, and none of them
had appeared recently on any of Nine.
Guilbert's programme. The great dis
euse appeared IN the first part of the
programme ad in the red shirt and
soft hat of the frontiersman. Sne gave
three American songs, two of wnicn.
"I Love That Man." a negro song, and
Billy Gashode's Jesse James," showed
that humanity and rough poetry are
still aiive, or were only few decades
ago, in American popular balads.
Nine. Guilbert gave them with spirit
which showed tnat her art transcends
the bonds of race. Sp.endid.y given.
too, were Aristide Bruant's "En prs-
on" "Freres ct sAurs" and Lem
Marche," while Nine. Guilbert showed
that she can write songs as well rs
s.nS them in "Materlnitas Dolorosa,"
for which Gustave Ferran wrote the
music.
Mr.. Alfred Megerlin, who is concert
master of Phi. harmonic Orchestra, ap-
peared yesterday afternoon in Aeolian
Hall in violin recital in which he dis
p.ayed qualities that give hm distinc-
tion as solo volinist.
He opened his programme with the
Bach minor Sonata unaccompanied,
work which tests the violinlst's grasp
of the difficulties of his instrument and
his power over it as a medium of ex-
preston. He played the Sonata with
dignity. accuracy of phrasng and in
tonaticn. and a fine sense Of the bal
ance Of 500 and accompanying voices.
While his rendition fell little short
of exhausting the beauty of Bach's
music, II was a scholarly and thorough
ly enjoyable one. His tone. while not
large. is ALWAYS pleasing in quality and
he plays with fine shadiag and a grace
full f1uencv.
The rest of his programme consisted
of numbers OF more romantic co'or-
the Merdels chm Concerto. tie Intro
duction and Rondo Capriccioso of Saint
See and Gypsy Dances of Sarasate-
his playing reaching its greatest beauty
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25

that refunds to ali credit customers
will be made on demand. The police
will co6cerate with the board in max
ing certain that these signs are con-
spicuously displayed.
Samuel A. Berger. of the boards
legal staff, who conducted yesterdays
hearings, agreed to pcstponement for
further consideration in thu case
against David Steigewald, 1884 Third
Avenue. Stiegewald appeared befors
Mr. Berger in the uniform of petty
officer Of the navy. He is attached to
the Comm ssary Department in Brook
lyn.
Steigewald testified that he woul6
have been forced into bankruptcy If
he had accented the margins fixed by
the Food Board. He added that he
wou d have lost 10 cents a pound OF
lamb If he had not charged from two tc
five cents more than the Food Boards
al owance. He claimed that since he
entered the Naval Reserve, in the early
part Of last summer, his shop has lost
$1,000. He was forced to sell 81 200 IN
Liberty bonds to make up the deicit.
he said
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Plays and Players

To make way for the new play by
Edward Knoblock in which Frances
Starr is to come to the Belasco, Dad
dies" will be transferred to he Ly-
ceum TIL. on Monday, November 4.
"Tiger! Tiger" the new play, will open
the following week.
The play with which Robert B. Man
tell will open his repertory season at
the Forty fourth Street Theatre will be
"Richelieu." a popular scale Of prices
will. prevail during Mr.. Marlell's en-
gagemcnt.
Robert Edcson will play the lead
ing role in "The Long DAN" the new
play by Robert Mcars Mackay and Vic
tor Mapes, which will open early next
month.
Chairman e. F. Albee, of the Theatr-
cal Allied Interests. announced thai the
total of verified sales of bonds turned
into headquarters by the theatres of
New York reached $4l,154,65O
When the horses which we're for
merly used in tn. chariot race scene
of ben Hur" we're sold at pubic auc-
tion yesterday eight of them were pur-
chased by the Hippodrome AMI will be
used in their Chateau Thierry scene
in which the same treadmill affect has
been installed,
James Leavitt he's been added to the
cast Of "Threc Wise Fools.' the new
Winchell Smith and John l.. Go den pro
duction which vii open next Thursday
at the Criterion Theatre.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Labor Board to Hear
Conductorettes' Case
National Body Will Decide If
Cleveland Women Must
Leave Cars

CLEVELAND Ohio Oct. 24.-Several
hundred women conductors fighting to
hold their jobs on Cleveland street cars
will get hearing before the National
War Labor Board at Washington, and
may not be required to give up their
positions November l.
Five weeks ago representatives of
the Department of Labor. acting as
referees in controversy between the
Cleveland Railway Company and the
Garments Union over the .oyment
of women, decided the shortage of man
power here did not compe. the emp oy
ment of women as conductors and or
derod their removal on November l.
Miss Florence Allen, attorney for the
women, appealed to the National War
Labor Board, and to day received a
telegram from William H. Taft, joint
chairman, to fe a comp aint IN legal
form, and the board viii consider the
question of jurisdiction and merits.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Hartigan Gives Figures

Joseph Hartigan, chief of the foreign
language division of the Liberty Loan
committee. IN a statement issued yes
terday, SAID that the division had Sc
cured direct subscriptions amounting
to $20,Oo0,O00 Indirect subscriptions,
certified to by the various foreign
language committees that acted under
the supervision of Mr.. Hartigan, totalled
Sl5,oO0,oO0. Mr.. Hartigan said final re-
turns would increase the direct total
by s5,000."00 and the indirect subscrin-
tion total oy $1O,O00,COO.
The foreign language division had
directly under it's supervision, through
out the Second Federal Reserve Dis
litct, thlriy-one committees represent
SIX y-ona nat Qualities. One of
these, the Latn-Amercan committee.
covers q OF Sou.h America.
THE attitude of Americans of Ger
man extraction in this country was
noteworthy said Mr.. Hartigan. ~
venture the prediction that when ali
the returns are in it will be found
less than 5 per cent of the German
born in this country have not bought
bonds. Certainly this is so in The
Second Federal Reserve District.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Save Rags and Junk
For War Reclamation
Baruch Appeals to American
Housewives to Aid in the
Work of Collection

WASHINGTON, Oct 24.-Bernard M.
Baruch, chairman of the War Indus
;res Board to-day appealed to all
Americans and particularly to house
wives to save verything-paper, rags,
scraps of all kinds.
To the end of securing an adequate
method of collection of the waste ma
rerials the War Prison Labor and Ma
.ional Waste Rec amation Section of
me War Industries Board. with Hugh
Frayne in charge, has been organized
and working plan for every organized
community has been formulated which
sakes care of the org imitation, col'ec-
ton, disposal and the prices to be re-
ceived on all waste materials.
Materials desired at the present
time are paper cotton and woclen rags,
steel, copper, brass, zinc, rubber, TN,
leather. lead, tin foil, etc. Ch ldren
nave been appealed to to gather paper
and cotton rags, and every family TO
loin in the movement to help the local
reclamation council take up the work.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Kin Here Ignorant Of
Gould Divorce Suit
No Confirmation to Paris Re-
port of Action Against
Actress-Wife

Both George Taylor, New York rep
resentative of Frank J. Gould, and
George Gould. Mr.. Goud's brother,
said yesterday they had no information
of a divorce action which Frank j.
Gould was reported in an afternoon
paper to have brought in Paris.
Mrs. Gou d was formerly Miss Edith
Kelly, an actress. She and her hus-
band have been living apart for sew
nral months.
Frank Gould, since his second mar
rlage in 1910 has made his home in
France, although he has said he would
never give up his American citizenship.
he liked to live in France, he said,
upon his last visit to this country, so
he "cou'd raise artichokes without gov
ernment interference.
Mrs Helen Margaret Kelly Gould,
his first wife, obtained a divorce in
1909. Custody o; their two daughters,
the Misses Helen and Dorothy Goud d,
was allowed to the father for seven
months year, but for several years
the children have made their home
with their aunt. Mrs. Finley J. Shep-
ard, formerly Miss Helen Gould.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Feeding Soldiers Is Job After
Woman's Heart, Says Worker
Miss Van der Slice Tells Query Club There's Nothing Like
eanteen Work Over There, Especially When You See
What Good Old Eggnog Means to Thirsty Poi1u

Filling that bottomless Dit, the stom-
ach of the A. E. F., is to Miss Isabel
van der Slice. an American canteen
worker. the most satisfying job wom-
an was ever given to do.
ut may sound primal" she con.
fessed yesterday to the members Of
the Query Club. woman's luncheon
organization. "but it's about as real
as any work that .can be done for our
lighting men in France. They never
get enough to eat-bless their good
o.d Yankee appetites!- simply
pouring chocolate, coffee end soup into
these ever-gaping caverns Is task we
women can do that makes us glad we
are women"
A real concern for the apparent hun.
ger of American soldiers was expert
enced by canteen workers in the first
rtages of the work with the A 4. F.,
Miss Van der Slice said. but it soon
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25

IN the Andante Of the Concerto, 70
which he gave a reading that. in re-
pose and fine expressiveness, left little
to be desired The last movement
while given with finish, lacked a little
in brilliancy in the rapid passage work
at the c.osc. The Gypsy Dances were
played with fine spirit
Mr.. Meeerlin's performance is free
from mannerism or affectation. He
does not seek merely to disp ay brill
fancy of technique, though his equip
ment in that respect was adequate to
the by no means small demands of his
programme yesterday, but he plays
with sincere musicianship of which
there is never likely to be too much
and which should insure him warm
welcome from discriminating lovers of
.oln playing.
He WIS umirahly accompanied bv
Nicolai Schneer, who acquitted himself
we'll in the difficult task of rendering
upon the piano accomplishments orig
inally designed for orchestra.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25

became understood that an American
so der would always eat, and that the
canteens' job was merely to "approxi-
their appetites and let it 60 at
that"
The work of canteener does not
stop at soldiers, however, according to
Miss Van der S ice. One runs the
gamut from poilus to pigs she said,
through the intermediate stages Of
feeding German prisoners and French
soldier culprits. A solitary and much
priced pig is attached to many can
teens to eat UP the refuse.
The American eggnog has been in
troduceo to French soldiers with such
success that Miss Van der Slice became
known as the "Eggnog Lady" she said.
though the poius made French drink
Of it by mixing it with champagne.
They like 1t SO we'll they even mix
it with tea and smack their lips over
the drink that they say has made
America famous!" she said.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Paris Requests Numerous
Y. w. G.. A. Hostesses' Houses

Requests for recreation centres for
French girls. hostess houses for Ameri
can and Allied women and for Signal
Corps girls throughout France are
pouring into Y. ". y. a. he--u4 uArte- >.
The Hotel Petrograd. the woman's
hotel in Paris which was opened by the
Y. w. C. A., has proved to be made
quate to meet the demands upon 1T as
the centre for Allied and American
women in France, and cables are com
ing every dav asking for funds for
further hostess houses.
Women are being turned away daily
from the Petrograd and f50 names are
on the waiting list for winter quarters.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Mrs. Wylde's Platform'Dry
Candidate for Senate Favors
Prohibition Amendment

Mrs. Catherine Peck Wylde, of Man
hasset, Long Island, candidate for the
state Senate, took the prohibition bull
by the horns yesterday, when she de-
clared in a campaign speech that she
was unreservedly for t ratification
OF the pro, ibtion amendment.
In recent elections several of the
Democratic sections of the district have
voted agair st the dry i.sue, and Mrs.
Wylde's temperance stand caused mucn
comment IN Nassau and Suffolk coun-
ties
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
New Jersey Woman First
On Staff at White House

Veteran employees in the executive
offices at the White House assert that
Miss Lillian Arath O'Neil, of JERSEY
City, is the first woman to hold 81 rosi-
tion there. Miss O'Neil is secretary to
Joseph P. Tumu ty, President viii on's
secretary. She was formerly secretary
to Major Charles H. Higgins, con-
structing engineer. in New York.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
King Thanks Hoover

WASHINGTON. Oct. 2l.-Herbers
Hoover chairman of the Belgian Re
lief Commission. received cabIegran.
from King Albert TO-DAY on he oc~a-
s on of the fourth anniversary of tho
foundation of The comm ssion, thank
ing him for saving the Belgian nation
from starvation.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
JAMES RYDER

James Ryder, q descendant of Barent
Juriansen, who came from iceland to
New Amsterdam prior to 1868, died
from Brlghts disease yesterday at his
home. "a Hartman Avenue, Jamaica.
Queens. He was the owner of land
which had belonged to his family for
$50 years. He was eighty eight years
old. He is survived by his widow, a
sister and two brothers. one of whom
is nnety-two years old and the other
eighty