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New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
u. S. Official Confers
With Truckmen Here

Commissioner James S. Harlan, rep
resentMg the Director General of Rail
roads, held conference yesterday
morning at the Waldorf-Astoria with
representatives of the Independent
Truckmen, an organization of small
truckmen and teamsters, and members
Of large concerns. The conference was
called at the instance of the organ
ization, whose members feared the Gre
alton of a monopoly in their business
"''ao~ the new Federal system Of
delivery"
At the conference the commiss soner
assured the delegates of the organiza-
tion that their interests would not suf-
fer. and the large concerns gave SINH
lar assurance. The suggestion of Louis
Weinbergcr, counsel of the organiza-
ton, that truckmen registered uncer
the new system be formed into "per
units" was favorably received by the
commissioner and taken under advise
ment.
Another conference will be called by
the commissioner next week.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Indignation Grouus
In Arizona Against
Hearst Publications

TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 16.-Public in
dignation against Hearst newspapers is
steadily spreading from New Mexico
throughout this state. "The Arizona
Daily STAR" of this city, predicts that
even if the Hearst lawyers succeed in
enjoining the New Mexico State Coun-
ci of Defence from trying further to
drive Hearst publications from that
state, the citizens of New Mexico will
continue to reject Hearst products.
The Star" expressed the opinion
adopted some of its neighbor's notions
on patriotism. "The Stars" editorial
follows
William Randolph Hearst, owner Of
a dozen publications, friend of Bolo
tacha, IS seeking to vindicate himself
IN the eyes of the people of New Mex
lco. lie is asking for an injunction to
prevent the neighboring common
wealth's Council of Defence from exer-
cising its functions.
New Mexico appears to be in dead
earnest. The people of that state, as
represented by the Council Of Defence,
are all-American, and by that we mean
they are for all of Americas allies and
everything that our war with Germany
stands for. In New Mexico, Hearst
and Hearst publications are under the
ban. They are not wanted, and Hearst
is making every possible effort to get
back into the good graces of the people.
The State Council of Defence
advieed against the reading of Hearst's
newspapers and periodicals. It's advice
was largely followed.
when the sales of Examiners and
other Hearst publications began to fall
in the State of New Mexico, William
Randolph wanted to know why. He
found out, and now he is trying to tie
the hands of the New Mexico Council
Of Defence. We will predict that,
whether or not Hearst's attorneys Sc
cure the injunction, the people Of New
Mexico will continue to hate Hearst's
newspapers"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
F e ar of Epidemic
From Spanish Grip
Secuted by Officials
DR.. Copeland Tells Public
1t Should Follow Simple
Rules of Health

Dr.. Royal s. Copeland. Commissioner
of Health, said yesterday that about
two dozen cases of influenza have been
discovered on ships that have arrived
in this port from Europe in the last
four weeks. Whether they are typical
Ct the disease that has scourgcd Eu-
rope will be determined only when bac-
THEOLOGICAL analyses of cultures from
the patients are completed, the Com
missioner added.
I'VE have not felt and do not feel
any anxiety about what people call
Spanish Influenza" DR.. Copeland said,
"and we considered it so unimportant
that it did not seem necessary to make
public discussion of the situation.
But we have taken all necessary pre-
cautionary measures"
The department has expected that
sooner or later influenza, which had
been so prevalent in several European
countries, would appear in this city,
and the Bureau of Preventable Dis
cases, with its so physicians and 200
nurses, is following up all definite and
suspicious cases.
Patients who have recovered will be
isolated Tor the time being. and those
who came in contact with them will be
instructed to comply with the follow
ing list of injunctions prepared by DR..
l.. |. Harris, director Of the bureau,
for the guidance of the public:
J.. Don't use common or roller
towel in the home, work place or the
Washroom of hotels, restaurants and
other public places.
2. Don't use common drinking cup,
glass, spoon or fork.
3. Avoid contact with persons who
sneeze or cough if you must be affec-
tionate, don't kiss them on the mouth.
4. Don't expectorate in public places.
An anti-sptting campaign is in full
swing now, in which Commissioner En-
rights men are cooperating with the
members of the sanitary squad.
S. Burn or boil bed and personal
linen of persons suffering from the So
called common cold"
s. See that your home and work place
are sufficiently ventilated
Z. Avoid dust from dry sweeping
The Commissioner urged the public
10 obey these hygicnic commandments
and invited the cooperation of practis-
ihB physicians III HOtlIylnS promptly
the department of any cases that may
come under their observation.
While diagnosis has shown that the
eleven passengers who were removed
from the Norwegian steamer Bergens-
fjord to the Norwegian Hospital in
Brooklyn are suffering from pneumo-
MIA, it is believed that they had been
originally afflicted with influenza, but
through failure to take sufficient rest
and neglect of the illness in its first
stage it had taken more serious form.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Owner of Croatian
Paper Involved in
Raid by u. S. Agents

A long trail of investigation and un-
dcrground work came to a climax yes
terday in the swift descent of Depart
ment of Justice agents upon the Offices
of Frank Zotti, proprietor of the Croa-
lished at 81 Park Row All of the
Coatian editors papers, both official
and private. were seized.
Meanwhile two of Zotti's employees
are being held as Federal prisoners.
One of these, an Austrian subject
named MILO Troak, who claims Chicago
as his home. and who has been travel
ling ostensibly as a subscription agent
for "Narodni List" was arrested Thurs
day at Akron, Ohio, charged with
spreading disloyal propaganda. Yester-
day he was taken to Cleveland and rec
commended for prompt internment
The other Zotti henchman being de-
tained by the government was taken
from his desk in Zotti's Office Wednes-
day afternoon. His name is Arthur
Sacher, and the charge against him is
that he has been striving to. persuade
men in the Italian contingent at Camp
Dix to desert the service of the United
States.
1t is the belief Of the Department
Of Justice that the two prisoners ars
part of group Of obstructionists
whose object is to undermine the 10y
country and impede American particl-
patton in the war. In particular it is
said that enlistments for the Czecho
Slovak force was being opposed.
In the case of the clerk, Secher, di-
rect complaints have been made by
some of the drafted men at Camp DIX.
They assert that through letters ano
through an agent whom he dispatched
to the camp he brought pressure to
bear on the Italians there. urging them
to quit the service into which they had
been inducted. AS an inducement it is
said that he offered to provide desert
ers with civilian clothes and money il
they would take advantage Of their
furloughs to call at his home, at 43O
Sixty-hrst Street, Brooklyn.
Sacher is behcment in his denial of
these charges, and Zotti likewise SCOTS
at them.
For long time, it appears. Zotti,
through his newspaper. has been at
swords points with a number of Jugo-
Slav and Czecho-Slavic leaders. He
has accused them of manipulation and
wholesale grating. Now, he declares,
they are capitalizing the rise of the
Czecho-Slav army to put money into
their own pockets. This attitude, he
says. he has denounced wherever he
has seen it.
Such tactics" he said. az will al
ways denounce and do my best to up
roet. But to say on that account that
| am trying to injure TIE cause of the
Allies is to misrepresent. am hear,
and soul with America and with the
Allies. am loyal American. 1t is
only the grafters that oppose. When
the Department of Justice has beer
through my papers think it will be
assured of this fact have nothing
to fear from this Investigations"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Fewer Trains.
Worse Jams
On Sideways
Only Twelve Expresses an
Hour Run During the
Rush Period

The troubles of the "H" subway sys-
tenn centre in that section of the East
Side branch from the downtown bust
ness district to Grand Central Station.
This is due to the fact that the traffic
on that line is apparently nearly as
heavy as ever and that the service has
been cut because G) half has been d-
verted to the West Side line and (2)
the promised service has not material
ized
Tribune reporters yesterday made
survey of that stretch of the "H" sys-
tenn and found that the East Side
branch was operating during the rush
hours only few more than one-half
the number of local and express trains
which the Interborough officials said
would be operated regularly when the
"H" system was opened.
only twelve express trains are being
run each hour during the rush period.
as compared to twenty-five expresses
which the officials estimated would be
necessary to handle the traffic. This is
reduction of ten express trains during
the rush period, or enough, at the rate
OF 1000 passengers to each train of ten
cars, to carry 10000 persons
Local trains are being operated at the
rate OF twelve an hour, or eight trains
less an hour than the number which
the officials said would be ADEQUATE to
handle the homegoing crowds
AltOgether there ia a total of %uyo,4,,
1our expresses and locals run uptown
on the East Side branch during the
rush hour. This is about 40 per cent
fewer trains than were to have been
run, and about 10000 persons an hour
are thus squeezed into trains where
there is little room for them.
reporters for The Tribune stationed
at theN Nsrand Central Station last night
counted the uptown trains. The result
showed even fewer trains and more
crowdlng than on Tuesday night, when
similar count was made.
Between the twelve expresses count
ed from $40 to $40, which includes
the height of the rush period in the
traffic from Brooklyn through the East
Side of Manhattan to The Bronx. there
was little regularity. A train that left
at 5:45 was jammed so full the guards
could hardly get the doors closed. This
| NSA"y, oiu tuC CTdln stopped
about one minute after it was full be-
tore the doors could be closed, so the
motorman could receive the signal to
go ahead. Many people who could not
wedge in remained on the platform
and formed the nucleus of a crowd
which struggled to get into the next
train.
An interval Of eleven minutes ELAPSED
before the next express arrived 1t
had been filled at the Brooklyn Bridge
and Fourteenth Street stations and Of
fered accomm odations for only the
more vigorous members of the waiting
throng, who used their elbows and
knees to get in. Another delay re-
suited from the crowding. The next
train arrived four minutes later. Then
there was an interval of eleven min
utes. After that the intervals varied,
the average being five minutes.
The express service last night. in
stead of showing a steady improve
ment since Tuesday. appeared to be
worse. for there were three fewer ex-
press trains during the rush hour than
on Tuesday night. On the other hand.
there were two more local trains.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Woman Killed by Train

LYNBROOK, l.. l.. Aug. 16.-Mrs. Eva
White, of 81 Jewell Street, Brooklyn
was killed and five other persons III
jured tonight when the Patchogue ex.
press hit an automobile which had been
trapped at the Broadway crossing, ihs
police say, by the lowering of the gates;
Bernard White, owner and driver a
the car, his five year-old son, BernfFd
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis McGloin, and tts'
son Thomas, five years old. saved them
selves by plunging from the automcbs
as the train loomed close. -,
According to the police, HercH
Grimes, a negro, was acting as sob,
stitute gateman at the crossing ana
became flustered at the approach Of no
train, of which, he said, he had receVsa
no warning from the Atlantic AvenS'
gateman. At sight of the express coz,
ing swiftly around n curve he lowers
the gates, it is said, apparently ia
getting that the automobile slresa'
was on the tracks
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Three Children Fall From
Fire Escapes; Two Killed

rails from West Side fire escapes
N'i1ed 1s three children last night.
lhe mother of William Schmeicr.
Two years old, put him on the kitchen
gre escape at 526 West Forty-nnth
otreet while she started supper Will
,am a rolled off and fell four stories to
'ne court yard. He was dead when
"n ambulance surgeon arrived.
MALTA Bats. four years old, who had
oeen put to bed on mattress on the
IRE escape of her home on the fifth
moor of 3 West Sixty-third Street. fell
to the yard and was killed. Ida
Graham, eleven years old, slipped
through the we'll of the fire escape Of
her home at $40 Seventh Avenue and
fell three stories. Her skull was fract-
ured and she died later in Bellevue
Hospital
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Dyer Answers Charges

Frederick M. Dyer, one of twenty
nine men indicted in Boston as con
stituting the fish trust, said yesterday
that the Bay State Fishing Company.
Of Massachusetts,, of which he is presi-
dent, is not monopoly. His company
believes in fair competition, he said,
and encourages it. Mr.. Dyer is a
banker and broker with Offices at "a
Broad Street.
Among those named in the indict-
mcnt with Mr.. Dyer are Galen L. Stone,
Of Hayden. Stone e. Co., bankers and
brokers, Of New York; Frederick c..
Dumaine, of Boston, treasurer Of sew
eral large manufacturing corporations.
and Arthur Wainwright, Of Milton, d.
rector 81 the Bay State Fishing Com
tAAV-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Shoes and Ships
And Sealing Wax

MUSINGS OF OMAR KARJAM.
Think of our JOY. beloved. should we
pass
Into the cars where battles mass on
mass,
And find Shonts' placards from the
windows gone.
How gratefully we'd watch the empty
glass!
The manufacture of whiskey is
Taboo" mourns "L. A. T." But" he
adds, 1--WE will always have Rhine
whine coming across from Germany"
shattered another record. A card
mailed from ST. Cloud, Fla, on Feb
ruary ID, 1917, has just been received
by Judge Charles Wilber. of Pine
Plains, near Pawling, N. Y.
The Duchess County authorities
have been asked to make j. NJ. Hughes
stop writing to his wife. The man,
who has been estranged from his
spouse for several years, was arrested
once before, charged with mailing her
threatening letters, and released on his
promise that he would annoy her no
further. Now, Mrs. Hughes says, the
missives are sentimental instead of
threatening, but she wants the county
officials to make him stop, just the
same.
The Police Department bulletin re-
echoes history in its account of the
sad case of Walter Raleigh (shield No.
$780, who got into difficulties for
smoking on duty.
Battalion Chief Bernardo f. Car
lock addressed members of Defender
Hose Company at their quarters on
Boston Post Road. near Dyer Avenue,
The Bronx, yesterday on the necessity
of responding promptly to alarms,
whereupon the fire laddies rose as one
man and roared forth the question:
"What's the use of hustling when we
got no hose?"
His eloquence sunk without warning,
the battalion chief also sank into a
chair Later he promised to get equip
ment for the organization, the last
organization of volunteer frehghters
III the city.
It's all matter of comparison, &C
!
ist, who told the following as proof at
recent meeting of the Salmagundi
/ Club:
Shraprel shrieked all about Bombs
dropped from the sky, and every so
often a big German shell burst over
head. Suddenly one Yank burst into a
| fit OF laughter.
'S' matter, Buddy?' his mate asked,
I fearing that he had suddenly gone in
! sane.
81 was just thinkin', BILL replied the
other. between chuckles. "of the runt
that held me up one night in Memphis
with 90 calibre revolver"
The subject of comparisons also calls
TO mind the statement of a Park Row
managing editor who asserts that the
best story he ever read concerned an
East Side eviction and was written by
a reporter who had just been fired. .
! In moment Of merriment we built
a feeble jest on those who came to
scotf and remained to pray, and att1ib-
uted the quotation to the Bible. 1t
wasn't carelessness-th is an old
stall. We were gol darned certain, and
despite the unanimous testimony of
four correspondents and Mr.. Bartlett,
we aren't any more than just convinced
even now.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Brooklyn Police
Stations Condemned

Several Brooklyn police stations we're
condemned as unfit in a report submit
ted to the State Prison Commission
yesterday by Commissioner John s.
Kennedy. He described them as Gun
sanitary. inadequate and utterly unfit
ted for the purpose for which they are
used"
Among the stations to which Com
missioner Kennedy calls particular at-
tention are the 98th Precinct. 148 Yer
non Avenue; the 18th Precinct, at 377
Fifth Avenue, and the 82d Precinct. at
35 Snyder Street. The station houses
Of the 72d and 74th precincts we're
commended by tho Commissioner.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Dealers Agree on Economy
In Use Of Passenger Cars

WASHINGTON, Aug 16 -Automo-
bile dealers meeting with the War In
dustries Board to-day were told that
no definite order curtailing motor car
production has yet been issued. The
dealers agreed, however. to assist in
devising ways and means to stop the
unnecessary use of passenger cars n.
view of the war requirements for steel
and rubber.
The board renewed it's suggestion to
manufacturers that they Gndcavor to
secure 100 per cent war work for their
plants by January I.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17

country and upon the minds of Ameri-
can citizens not foreign born against
supporting France in her demands that
no peace be made except as outlined by
Premier Ribot. In other words, Mr..
Hearst in the 'Deutsches Journal was
opposing the approval by the American
people Of the only possible terms upon
which peace can come, and he was max
ing the opposition two months after
this country had declared war on Ger
many"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Police Arrest Two With A''
Of Emergency Periseor'

Suspecting that deals not ihs0r n" nj
real estate were made IN tns an c.,s
estate office of Morris Relcn' ssv,.ssr sv
Street. Brooklyn. Police Lieussps ps.
Walsh and Inspectors koeinie a',s a'r,s;.ecs
tornin invented sort OF pe..ssts,.
from couple Of mirrors cary ,svest;
day morning and watched
through skylight- Rsiss
Then they entered and arres'eT nss eT,ssrs
and Samuel Rosenthal. 9S2 cs. c,,,rd,
Parkway. Brooklyn, who, they chsft s
we're dealing cards FOR money. ". 'tSst
with operating a gambling hous; oa,;os ID
were held for further examinsN
the Bridge Plaza police cour"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Negro Shot by Police Who
Break Up Street Dice Game

In fight between two policemen
and n number Of negroes alleged to
have been playing dice yesterday mt
Fifth Avenue and 122d Street, George
J. Jones, colored. 24g7 Seventh Ave
npe. was shot in the mouth by Patrol.
man Michael Hanrahan, Of the West
18th Street station Hanrahan SAYS
Jones pointed revolver at him and
re fred in sclf-defence. Jones was
taken to the Harlem Hospital. lie is
charged with felonious assault.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Two Killed by Explosion
When Loading 6-Tnch She'll

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16--Two men
were killed and one was seriously in
jured in an explosion to-day at the St.
Juliens Greek naval magazine, near
Norfolk They were loading six inch
shell with "Explosive D."
Those killed were r. P Nicholas.
ordnance man, first class, and E. F..
Holland. ordnance man. third class
{. c. Holcomb, ordnance man. third
class, who was injured. will recover, a
later report to the Navy Department
said.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Better Subway Service
Demanded by Mayor
How Subway Falls
Short of Promises

The number of express and local
trains Which Interborough officials
SAID aOould be ,un each hour during
the rush periods on the East Side
branch of the H-system, compared
with the number of trains no1U be-
ing actually ratm, is as folloavs::
Promised by Interborough
EApIeS6eS AA
Locals ~
Total A2
Counted by Tribune reporters Tuesday
night
A1ApIcSSeS 10
1OIdI 20
Counted by Tribune reporters last
night
EHPreSSeS ....... IL
LoCalS ...-........ IL
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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-07-06
HOSPITAL SHIP SuBMiRINED.
OVER 200 ABOARD CANADIAN
VESSEL TURNED ADRIFT.
Only "a Landed SD Far-VesseI of
ff,f23 Tons Carried No Wounded at
Time of Sinking.

London, July IA Teuton subma-
rine sank the British hospital ship
Llandowery Castle, 116 miles south
west OF Fastnet, on June 81, the Brit
ish admiralty announced today.
About 1880 o'clock on June 81,
116 miles southwest Of Fastnet, the
hospital ship, Llandowery Castle, was
torpedoed by an enemy submarine
and sank in about ten minutes. She
was homeward bound from Canada
and therefore there were no sick or
wounded of 164 officers and men, and
she carried so Canadian army physi-
clans and IA female nurses.
"Of this total of 25S only one boat,
containing "a survivors. has so far
reached port. Search is still being
made and there is a bare possibility
that. others may yet be found.
"It is to be noted that in this, as
indeed in al lother instances, the Ger
man submarine had a perfect right
to stop and search the hospital ship
under The Hague convention. but she
preferred to torpedo the Llandowery
Castle"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-07-06
HOLLAND CoURT|Ne DANGER.
SAID TO BE SENDING POTATOES
no GERMANY.
III Netherlands Government Persists
In Such Action America and Great
Britain Will Act.

Washington, July 1.--Oficial an
nouncement from the Hague that the
Netherlands government has agreed
to export potatoes from the new crop
In equal quantities to the belligerent
nations brought the disclosure today
OF the fact that the Uned States gov
ernment has information of Hollands S
intention to export $4,000 tons of po-
tatoes to Germany.
Officials here believe that in ex-
pressing a willingness to export pota-
toes to each of the belligerents Hol-
land is undertaking to disguise her in
tention of supplying large quantities
of much needed food to Germany
alone. Shipments to Germany already
are under way, according to cable ad-
vices, the movement following closely
upon the announcement in Germany
of the reduction of the potatoes from
seven to three pounds weekly.
TO furnish Germany anything like
$4,000 tons of potatoes, Holland. it
was said today, not only would be vio-
lating an agreement with Great Britain
to supply that country and Germany
each with 5000 tons of potatoes year
~. but also probably would be imper
Hing her food agreement with the
United States. This it was said, might
result in drastic retaliatory action.