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The sun., 1918-08-01
EVERY FIFTH DAY
OFF FOR FIREMEN
Old Rule Of One Day in Ten
Revoked by Chief
KenlOn.
CHECK ON RESERVATIONS
Salary Increases Also Have
Good Effect on Work of
Department.

On page 1 OF yesterdays instalment OF
that ~thriIling serial, Fire Department.
City Of New York-Special Orders"
was a paragraph which had the effect Of
an elixir on every man in the depart
ment
1t means that the fremen. beginning
to-day. will have every fifth day to
spend with their families instead Of
every tenth day, which has been their
harsh portion since June !.
Together with the increase IN salaries
which begins to-day for all the firemen
below the first grade. and with the as
surance that the salaries of the first
grade men will be raised on January 1,
this order means that a distressing con-
dition which seriously threatened the
efficiency of the department Is ended
and that New York's fire fighters are
happier than they have been in a long,
long time.
The order. every line of whose techni-
calities is luminous to a fireman, is as
follows:
~. Paragraph III. Special Order No
"a. dated May %, 1918, in so far as II
applies to regular leaves of absence. is
hereby revoker and Section 153, Rules
! and Regulations, 1912, Ia hereby tenn
porarily suspended In lieu thereof all
members of the uniformed force shall be
granted a twenty-four hour regular leave
| every fifth day. to take effect from A
NJ. August I, 1918.
by order Of the Fire Commissioner
JOHN KENYON,
Chief Of Department"
The sun., 1918-08-01
PAGE THE REDSKINS,
BEAR HUNT is ON!
Wolf Shooting Also Is Good
on Long Island.

Could the band OF red skinned folk
who hooked Manhattan Island a few
hundred years ago for a price which
now would scarcely carry them past the
fish course In one of the big tepees along
the great white trail--could they have
dropped In on the old town yesterday
they might have run across an incident
or two that would have gone far to
convince them that the town hasn't
changed SO much since the day they
took the short end Of a subsequently
much discussed bargain.
All that would have been necessary
was for the ancient tribe to have
dropped in at the Arsenal in Central
Park at o'clock in the morning. The
telephone bell tinkled loudly and Lieut..
Millhausen sasped and turned out the
reserves for the first bear hunt that has
taken place on the Manhattan preserves
In many long year. And the cops took
along an extra supply OF ammunition to
make certain they wouldn't run short.
But the chase ended quickly, for the
cops found Niger. the pet baby bear OF
the park menagerie. in a clump of trees,
calmly wigglng his ears and sticking
out his paw playfully. Keeper Joe Cum
ningham took Niger by one ear. boxed
the other, and led the truant back to
his cage.
Tho same kind Of excitement started
Coney Islands cops out little later in
the day. only this time it was "a big
dos" they were seeking at the request
of island residents whose chicken coops
were being raided. Mrs. Joseph Mocha
OF 2Sl2 Neptune avenue saw the dog
first. and nearly collapsed an hour later
when the police ran him down beneath
bungalow built on the sand and shot
him. The dog" was full grown wolf
whose owner had kept himself in the
background. The police think the wolf
escaped from one OF the islands numcr.
| Gus miniature menageries. A dozen per.
sons whose hen houses were entered by
the wolf appealed to the police after
Mrs Nicchia's call started the chase.
And then, just to show that tie from.
tier had not been pushed so far from
| the old Manhattan trails, a big spider
up and bit Carl Mau. Jr,. son OF former
Mayor Mau of Verona, n. j.. while tn,
one time Mayors son was delivering
mail The ankle swelled so quickly thai
the letter carrier had to quit work ant
| have the wound cauterized.
The sun., 1918-08-01
SING SING VISITORS
RUFFLE OSSININC
Boisterous Gongsters Bring
Beer on Sunday Trips.

Sing Sings attaches and people living
near the institution were greatly rufied
yesterday over the practice OF letting
boisterous baseball gangs visit the
prison on the Sabbath.
With women workers barred out and
visits OF orderly persons discouraged.
dissatisfaction over the privileges ac-
corded New York gangs has been in
creasing OF late. The climax was
reached last Sunday when. attendants
say, 1870 gangsters and ex-convicts of
the Coffee Handlers OF Manhattan
rode to the prison In three big automo-
bile trucks bearing six barrels of beer.
Tho village authorities took notice OF
the beer and the racket.
Some OF the gang belonged to the
notorious Hudson Dusters'N OF Man
haitian and, prison employees say, were
intoxicated and carried bottles. OF
whiskey when admitted at the south
gate.
The customary precaution Of search
ing visitors for contraband was dis
pensed with. Guards say they therefore
could not prevent these gunner from
smuggling liquor drugs. weapons or any
other contraband In 10 the prisoners II
the visitors chose to slip 1t through. The
excursionists, who left shouting. sing
ing and cat calling, were described by
the village authorities as "the most
disreputable bunch that ever visited the
prison"
When Warden william Meyer was
sought for statement II was ex-
planned at the prison Office that he was
out Of town. J. w. Evers. his first as
sistant, was said to be too busy to
talk"
The sun., 1918-08-01
VETERAN TO MAKE POWDER.
Man who Served Three Years at
Front Joins Du Points.

With seventeen scars on his body
made by bullets and shrapnel during the
two enlstments he served with the
Canadian Highlanders In France before
he was finally discharged because he
was sufferer from shell shock. A. c.
Curtis OF Montreal, Canada. still con-
slders himself worth dozen Germans
Although he cannot resume operations
at the front he Is going to do all he
can to help reduce the kaisers forces
by making powder at the Du Pont
Powder Works. Haskell. y. ].
He is recovering from an attack OF
shell shock in the Paterson General Hos.
pital and expects to be at work in few
days He served almost four years
with the Canadian forces and highly
prizes a three years general service
medal twelve months Canadian ser.
vice badge and a Mons medal
He has no family to join because his
father was killed on March 10 of this
year his mother died when she Learned
the news; two brothers wcrc killed ir
action in 1915, and his sister Is serving
as nurse in Canadian Base Hospita
No. 8. Boulogne. France.
The sun., 1918-08-01
Gave Blood for College Mate.

Vine II. Smith, Assistant United States
District Attorney in Brooklyn, returned
from his vacation yesterday and did not
deny the report that during his stay in
Montclair y. j.. he volunteered the
TRANSMISSION of twenty-five ounces OF his
blood TO save the life of a Harvard col
lege mate who had undergone an opera :
ton for appendicitis. The name OF the
convalescent was rot disclosed, but II
was ascertained that he is "A professor
of law in one of the universities In
the East
The sun., 1918-08-01
BRITONS TO TELL OF WAR.
Lord DunmOre and Louis Tracy
VIII speak mt High school.

Louis Tracy. member of the British
war commission, author of the Wings
of the Morning" and the Earl of Dun
more will be the principal speakers to-
night in the Washington Irving High
School at the annual celebration OF the
Gramercy Neighborhood Association.
Mr. Tracy. who is we'll known in
America through his thrilling stories. is
expected to outline the interesting tactics
adopted by the British.
Lord Dunmore is in this country re-
covering from wounds. He is a Colonel
and has been serving with the British
since the beginning OF the war and has
been cited three times for gallantry in
action In 1917 he received the Distin-
guished Service order. Besides his cx-
perience In the trenches Lord Dunmore
has served as a stan officer. and so
brings to the United States a more conf
prehensive view of the fight than one
who has remained continuously in the
field.
The sun., 1918-08-01

rushed In. The girl reached for q
drawer and grabbed something.
Look out" shouted McGann to Di-
vanni, she's got a gun" Carney at
that moment seemed TO be unarmed.
Divanni dived to the girl and wrenched
from her hand at % calibre revolver
fully loaded. Gaffney In one bound was
through the back window and on the fire
escape.
Some Of the police who figured in the
episode think he had no weapon, and
that all the shooting that took place was
done by the police themselves. Others
swear that he fred from the fire escape
landing. and kept on firing as he
dropped. Certainly a bullet almost
clipped the forehead OF the policeman on
the roof. who was himself leaning over
and emptying his revolver at the figure
descending the side OF the house through
the rainy darkness.
Gaffney scorned the stairs OF the fire
escape He simply dropped from landing
to landing. At the ground floor he
jumped through window of an Italian
family. To the excited Italians he ex-
plained that somebody was auarrelling
with his family out in 18th street and
that he couldn't 60 into the street with
nothing on but underclothes. So the
hIhldplt lthlldHS BdNc MN a pan Va VIZ
trousers and older shoes.
His Course Mystery.
wha& became Of Gaffney after that is
what Inspector Cray wants to find out
One story is that he reappeared in the
back yard and scaled fences until h, was
out OF sight. Another Is that he reached
1lSth street through the basement OF
the tenement where his rendezvous had
been interrupted. or through the base
ment CT the house next door. Any way
Gaffney got ciea naway, leaving lot oil
policemen feeling rather foolish.
Suspecting he might have scurred
into Morningside Park they ransacket
all It's corners in vain.
Meanwhile Catherine Coyle, who
laughed and had nothing to say. and the
barber, Mascal, and his wife wer'
locked up on charge of aiding ant
harboring an escaped prisoner.
Outside a saloon at Ninth avenue ant
11Sth street stood an automobile. I
! looked like the one in which. as thu
police had heard, Gaffney rode to thu
tenement house where lived the Mascals
In the saloon the police arrested 9
chauffeur, Edward Malloy. who said h,
was employed by the New York Office o.
the British Ministry OF Munitions Johr
Clinton and Daniel lyman. husband o.
Gafrney's sister. in whose home the con
Wet was already finding refuge.
Every house in that Harlem distric
was being watched by the police las
night. General and special alarms wer
screaming over the police wires. A new
description of Gaffney as he may look ii
! the clothes which his sister says she lie
him have was posted everywhere. TIL
police are being assisted. at a distapc
out OF range Of possible bullets, by tn
same Harlemites who stood at their win
dows in their nighties early yesterda.
morning and saw the great duel betweel
Vincent Gaffney in his underwear an,
| the brave but discombobulated police.
The sun., 1918-08-01
The Sun Calendar
THE WEATHER,

For eastern New York partly cioplv
to-day; tomorrow fair and warmer.
moderate north winds, becoming south.
east tomorrow.
For New Jersey. partly cloudy ,os,-
fair tomorrow; warmer In the in,srta.'
moderate north winds becoming south.s.;
tomorrow. Hs'
For northern New England. partly cl,,s.
o-day: probably local showers fair ~.
morrow; warmer In New HampshIre ,.
Vermont moderate northeast to no,,S
winds becoming variable
For southern New England pa,r,
cloudy to-day; fair morrow, warmer u
the interior; moderate north to east vlna,
For western New York, fair and war;.
to-day and tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, July St.-Tbcr. q,
moderate disturbance of tho Ar,,,
coast that resulted in continuance =,
rains in the Atlantic and east Gulf s,,,o,
coast from North Carolina to MassRcb"
sets. In the lake region. the cent,
valleys, the plains states and tn" KotS
Mountain region pressure has fallen w,,,
,he centre OF disturbance over North "a.
kota, 0u; the weather was fair exrss,
in southern Texas. where there wer, Ink,
local showers West OF the Rocky Mo-"
tains pressure remains low and there wa,
| light local thunder showers In the plateaY
region.
Low Temperatures for the seaso, "a,
tinue east OF the Mississippi River h,, I.
! the West they were high with a furth.,
rise In the plains States
Showers will continue THURSDAY An.
OF Georgia and Alabama. but elsovh...
east Of tho Mississippi River fair wears,
will prevail with higher tempera lures M,
VIII reach the Atlantic coast on Frday
The sun., 1918-08-01
BOYS SWINDLERs SENTENCED
Two of Trio who Got 5000 Sent
TO Sing Sing.

Two OF the three men convicted Of
swindling Michael Wadowltz. a bus boy
at a hotel In West Forty-frst street,
of $4,000, December 81, were sentenced
to Sing Sing prison by Judge Mulqueen
In General Sessions yesterday.
Paul Drenka of Is East i24th street.
who pleaded guilty to receiving part of
the stolen money, got four years and
three months. Elizi Erbst. convicted
OF grand larceny in the first degree. got
from Ave to ten years. The sentencing
OF John Krauchauch OF 104 East 10sth
street. also implicated in the swlndle,
was deferred until Friday.
The money taken was drawn from a
bank by WadowitZ when the trio showed
him mysterious hox which they told
him would double whatever sum was
put inside II. He had received the money
from the I.ehigh Valley Railroad in set
! Element of a damage suit brought as a
| result OF an accident In which one of his
| legs was crushed.
The sun., 1918-08-01
WILL FIGHT $1.25 GAS.
Publis Service Com mission 20 Con.
4 test Hughes Ruling.

The Public Service Commission and
the city. through Corporation Counsel
Burr. will fight any attempt of the
Brooklyn Borough Gas Company to put
into effect a rate OF s125 for gas. based
on the opinion OF Charles +. Hughes
that the present rate was confiscatory.
William l.. Ransom. counsel for the
commission, said yesterday that while
Mr. Hughes, as referee, found that the
so cent law was clearly confscatory as
applied to the Brooklyn Borough. he did
not find that the ?5 cent rate was con-
fiscatory under any fair average condi-
ton. He did not find any facts or indi-
cate any opinion warranting the an
nouncement of the company's counsel
that the company would put into effect
a sl.25 rate.
On the contrary. Mr. Hughes found
that under the abnormal and highly ad-
verse conditions of 1917 the 95 cent
rate yielded the company Ala per cent
on the full value OF its property. How
ever counsel for the company alleges
that the referee undervalued the assets
of the company.
1t is probable that the commission will
institute proceeding to review the
evidence as to the value OF the property
with a view TO fixing a rate.
The sun., 1918-08-01
STORM DELAYS COMMUTERS.
Long Island Railroad Forced to
Use Steam Locomotives,

Broken insulators blown out fuses and
short circuits caused by the storm early
yesterday put the electric service on the
North Shore Division OF the Long Island
Railroad completely out OF business The
first steam locomotives that have made
their appearance on this division In a
number of years were pressed into service
In order to get the commuters to Man
haitian from Whitestone and Port " ash
ington and intermediate stations.
The trouble started at 5 o'clock and
II was IL o'clock before the electric SER
vice was resumed. Steam locomotives
could not be sent out in time to handle
the morning crowds on schedule and
station agents were notified to warn
passengers to use some other means of
getting to work II they were In a hurry.
The steam trains carried passengers
to Woodside and from that point an
electric shuttle service was maintained
to Manhattan and Long Island City.
The sun., 1918-08-01
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Exhibition of insignia and dev,eex m
United states military and naval unIfo-ms
American Sumismatlc Society museum,
l55th street near Broadway, +. NJ.
Dance auspices War Camp Community
Service. II East Forty-frst street, 5 7 ~
Opening of Contra Park officers house
Camp Mills, Long Island. $3.50 p. NJ.
Review Of 700 Y. NJ. e. A. overseas sprrs-
tsries by commandant United states MN.
tary Academy at West Point. Rost !eavo
West Forty-second street A. NJ.
Patriotic meeting. roof Washington II.
wing High School. p. NJ.
Lecture, "SeX--EConomic Structure o!
Society" by Waiter j. Randolph, :3g Leno,
avenue, $3.50 p. NJ.
Opening Of new II" subway system
Luncheon to Brig. Gen. W. A. VIII ~
British Canadian recruiting mission. N.r.
Carlton. 1880 p. NJ.
Luncheon, Flatbush Chamber Of com
merce. e2lO Church avenue. Brook y
1880 p. NJ
British Canadian night at City Cc1es.
stadium.
Anniversary mass for late Jere Cohar,
Church Of the Blessed Sacrament. Severn.
nrst street and Broadway. II A. NJ
The sun., 1918-08-01

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street' ,s-,h .,roo, Ei.,. W SiI '' i.,'
street, 18TH street, l6Sth s,r,,, lr"
street. lslst street. Dyo!tmAn srrr", -''
Ign street 10th street 29is' S.''',
Lenox avennc maven nm, s,rs,.
llsth street, l25th street lSsjh street,
lf5th street.
ihe lhterpor"ugh-'haF us i".4 '',e
%" one 'n'hs IN ''.,
S S'S' 'ne poEe'h'"e't I" '"'
~ '"at ", US t'hPlpl' eS ~ n.s
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o., ,.,.' 80 u"N VIZ" '',e ..,,.
ZION tba, had ~, n,' $500 -" ,,,,, f ,r.
In,srhoro,'ot 'D' w ~, i i,,vssn
bren,hs I'LL ,,t't,,'' t',. , came
ont that NE 7 70 r. T., Con ,r, .,.,,c'
and "a ,ni,bt,. doror, ,or,nary
For which reason tho reIe1r,,.nr 4.
begins al tho As,nr to-r.,-,, ,,.l .o".
tinues at tho Eor,y-sc,ona stra., 3,as.
onal station at "a viii mari, '., 81.
cessful openine of tho n,w f..>. g'rH
avenue subway. The Irtcrhnr..gr ~
offered Jobs az trainnon To co0 s'l' mr.
men, anticipating that the station mon
would be ordered into essential ... )
tries soon, thus giving them 81 'n. ..
job that would be proof aCainst ACTON
by the War Industries Board
clusion reached Yesterday WdH '.N'
station men would not accept . '''''
fer, but would volunteer for cT"'i'
service II the company actual fn'
The sun., 1918-08-01
NEW JESUIT HEAD NAMED.
Father Rockwell Appointed Pro-
vinciaI of New York Diocese.

The Rev. Joseph II. Rockwell was
named yesterday as Provincial OF the
Society Of Jesus for the Maryland-New
York province to succeed the Very Rev.
Anthony ]. Mas, who is now at Ford
ham University. Father Mas had oc-
cupied the position for six years.
Father Rockwell was born at Boston.
November 10. 1862. He pursued his
classical studies at Frederick, Md. and
was ordained to the priesthood by
Cardinal Satolli. Apostolic Delegate to
the United States. After a number OF
interesting assignments he was trans
ferred to St. Francis Xavier's College,
where he was rector for two years
Thence he went to Brooklyn College
During the last five years he has been
president OF that institution.
Father Rockwell will have his official
residence at St. Francis Navier's Col
lege, 80 West Sixteenth street.
The sun., 1918-08-01
N. J. TROLLEY TRANSFER l CT.
Increased Revenue of es5O,OO6 n
Year for Company Predicted.

Trolley passengers on the Public Ser
vice Railway Company lines in New
Jersey began paying a one cent charge
for initial transfers Just after midnight
this morning. 1t IL said that the COM
pany's revenue will he increased $780,
900 year by this means, but the rail-
way officials say they do not expect an
increase of half that amount.
The company applied for higher trolley
fares and the State Public Utilities
Board granted permission to charge a
cent for transfers. Second transfers will
be issued without extra cost
The sun., 1918-08-01
SHERIFF AIDS WIDOW.
Gets Extension for Woman with
Two sons Mt Front.

One OF those blanket lawsuits in which
Thomas B. Hidden. trustee of the will of
Henrietta Webb, sought to get possession
of the property at 2SS2 Bailey avenue,
The Bronx. caught in its net Mrs. Agnes
Mahoney, a widow whose two oldest sons
are in the army in France.
The writ from the Supreme Court di-
reCted all the tenants to vaCate by July
%. All of them did excepting Mrs. Ma
honey The allotments from the boys
had not arrived and II was not con-
venient for the widow TO move.
The matter was brought to the atten-
ton of James i. Donnelly, Sheriff OF
Bronx county, who made up his official
mind. that the courts could walt little
for a woman who had sent her support
ing sons to the front, and he procured an
extension until August 3. that the widow
might have time to meet the new condi-
ton.
The sun., 1918-08-01
AUTOMOBILES INJURE TWO.
Roy of IL and Girl of Run
Down I'm street.

Patrick Kilgallon. IL years of age. of
2152 Eighth avenue, was struck by an
automobile yesterday while playing In
front of his home. He was taken to the
Harlem Hospital with serious injuries.
and John Rohrey OF 201 West 135th
street. who drove the machine, was held
In $4,000 bail for examination In the
Washington Heights court on August S.
Anna Frawley, 3, OF ?502 West li6th
street. was taken to the Harlem Hospital
yesterday after being struck by an au-
tomobile at 1i5th street and Eighth ave-
nue.. William Blackert of 1899 Amster-
dam avenue. who drove the automobile
was held ~ $1,000 bail for cvamins
ton in the Washington Heights court
August 2.
The sun., 1918-08-01
REICHELT CASE POSTPONED
Hearing on Espionage Charge to
BE Held Next Week.

The hearing Of Bruno ReiChel' patent,
lawyer, who was arrested Saturday ~
a charge Of violating the espionage act
following the capture of Freder.oH W
Bischon and William Heinemar. alleged
bomb plotters. was postponed YESTERDAY
by United States District Attorney
Charles j.. Lynch until next week
Rischoff and IIeineman were arrested
after, it was alleged. they had lighted
bomb near the plants OF Gould &
Eberhardt. machinists, and the keypo"
Engineering Company, manufactures n
fuses.
The three men were arraignei Ac.ore
United States Commissioner let"'H
Bischof and Ieineman pleaded gI,.f
to committing sabotage. Rechelt nle al d
not guilty to violating the espionage 'Ci
through circulating German propaganda
among American workmen
The sun., 1918-08-01
FAKE NEGRO HERO INJURED.
Falls In Cell After Being Con.
Vtctcd on Larceny Charge.

After he had pleaded guilty to a charge
OF petty larceny in the County Court in
Brooklyn yesterday Robert Davis. n
negro. alleged to have posed as Sergeant
Henry Johnson of Albany. the negro
soldier recently cited for conspicuous
bravery In France. fell unconscious in
his cell, causing cerebral hemorrhage
The petty larceny charge was lodged
against Davis because he obtained $3.50
in a collection taken up after he de-
scribed his Experiences going over the
top TO a negro church audience.
The sun., 1918-08-01
Temperatures. veloc.
MINIATURE ALMANAC

MINIATURE ALMANAC
United States Coast and Geodetlc Surrey
Standard Time
sun rises. so A NJ Sun sets s.i.PN
Moon rises. 4 90 M
HIGH WATER THIS DAY
Sandy Hook 1891 AN Gov. Island SAN
He'll Gate. 6 :05 AN
Low WATER THIS DAY
sandy Hook. 9:E NJ Gov. Island 10 - An
He'll Gate. IL :3s A NJ
Note-The foregoing table has been corrected
TO conform TO the new art ificial time
The sun., 1918-08-01
WATCH YOUR STEP;
SUBWAY H READY
At. 8A5 Tonight Entire Sys-
tenn Begins Operating on
New Schedule.
GOVERNOR TO BE PRESENT
Official Party Will Make First
Trip, Dine and Hear
Speeches.

Any unsuspecting person who gets
on northbound express In the sub
way at Brooklyn Bridge after s4o
o'clock tonight with the expectation
OF landing ultimately at Van Cortlandt
Park will be Jared into a full realiza-
ton of the fact that New Yorks UNDER
surface transportation facilities have
been doubled, for he will land In that
portion OF The Bronx that stands be-
tween the upstate vote and the city's
Democratic majority. For this is the
night when the hrst train will be run
over the n" system. and the city will
start to use both the East and West Side
subways.
In this big traction improvement the
chief thing for the wayfarlng person to
remember is that below Forty-second
street all traffic on the West Side will
come south and go north by way OF the
new Seventh avenue leg of the III" and
all traffic north and south from the Lex
! ington avenue or East side, branch, will
use the old route.
! Shortly after s 80 o'clock toni ght Gov.
| Whitman, VI yor Hylah. the Public Ser
vice Commissioners. 1nterborough OFF,
; Gals and many state and city notables
will meet on the meZzanine of the new
Grand Central station. which is a dag
onal connecting link between the old
tracks south OF the point and the new
Lexington avenue line, and will take a
special train at s:45. This train will
take the official party south to the Bat
terry, around the Battery loop into the
new Seventh avenue line and thence
north to the new connection at Times
| Square.