Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-03-05
Berlin FinanCiers Are Found
to Have Been in Control of
Whole Industrial Spheres in
America,
B0CHE SHACKLES TO BE
STRUCK OFF FOR GOOD
Women of New York City Are
Working Hard to Make
Good in Jobs Formerly Held
Entirely By Men,

SPECIAL consSsposnEnes TO MORNING JOURNAL
New York, March ITO free from
| foreign domination all American en-
| terprise in the fields that formerly
were held in Teuton tolls, may be
one of the best results of the world
war, according to leaders in many
lines of business here, who are today
eagerly watching the work OF the
| Alien Property custodian in taking
over the vast holdings here of ruling
| financial residents Of Germany. Under
the practised probe of Francis +.
Garvan who is directing the investi-
CATION bureau of this great govern
| ment activity, it is being revealed
that Berlin capital had grasped and
held whole industrial spheres all over
this country, even before the war,
and was rapidly squeezing out all
American competition by the brute
force of the funds behind its COM
nercial conquests. With Uncle Sam
empowered to hold all property own
ed by residents of Germany, and ono
of the keenest prosecutors this city
ever knew on the trail of any eva
sions of such ownership, New York
ers are now convinced that before
the war is over a new era of free act
ivity will be opened to the business
men of this country, with these Boche
shackles struck off from them.
Fuel Forecast.
Still shivering from the fuel fam-
inc of the last lap Of winter the peo-
pie of this town are just beginning
to plan for a coal and wood supply
for next fall that will make the next
cold season more bearable than, the
past heatless horror. Already house
holders by the thousand are beseig-
ing their dealers to file cash coal or
ders that will fill their bins at any
time during the next nine months,
while the landlords of hundreds OF
chilly skyscrapers are plotting for fuel
delivery long before they usually lay
in their next seasons supply Since
the fuel dictators are drawing up
minute regulations for allowing ad-
vance deliveries to everyone herea-
bouts, 1t seems certain that New
Workers must exert every energy
from now on until the first frosts OF
fall to secure any basis for heat
through the next indoor season.
Women Working.
With thousands of women working
hard to fill their new jobs as car
conductors, messengers, elevator op-
orators, chauffeurs, and ticket sellers,
the streets of Greater New York have
now become filled with this feminine
feature of war-winning at home. that
has never before been so sharply
impressed upon the crowds here.
While the tens of thousands of girls
who have donned overalls to take
over mems work inside almost every
local plant are noticed by the casual
crowd, their sisters in the public ser
vice are meeting the eyes of everyone
wherever it turns. Although this
street show of patriotic feminism has
gone on only a few weeks the peo-
pie here are already surprised when
the appearance of a male worker is
these lines become rarity.
Tavern Trusts,
Following the adding of the Wal
dorf-Astora to the huge hotel chain
gers of the largest hostelries here are
beginning TO predict that tavern
trusts will in future become the rule
instead of the exception in their bus
mess. Already several other crowds
of capitalists are conformity operating
strings of the big hotels, with large
savings effected by the consequent
combination of food supply and SER
vice force. Just as the theatrical field
is run by several enormous enter
prises that feed the theatres Of the
whole country, the hotel hosts believe
that eventually almost every hotel
throughout the land must be controll-
ed by similar operating interests that
are now entering this promising pas
,ture.
Offering omens from birds. breezes.
sticks. stones and starlghts, a bum
per crop of spring prophets is now
busy throughout this town. From
promising the earliest open season on
record to threatening the latest win
ter grip in history, the upredictions
OF this group of guessers range. as
they prove to everyone who will list
en- the infallibility Of their calcula
tons AS the songs Of these spring
soothsayers are about fifty-fifty on
weather optimism and pessimism, IL
seems sad that about half of them
must call the turn and be encouraged
to prophesy next year.