davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
800 Are Caught
In Police Raids
On the East Side
Smith Directs a General
Roundup of Wartime
Lawbreakers
Many Slackers in Net
Hotel, Turkish Baths and
Even Crowds on Streets
Are Combed Over
Many Slackers in Net

A raid aimed at all classes of ws,-
time lawbreakers was made by Ass;..
tant District Attorney James E. Smith
or the East Side yesterday. The Ass;s
tant District Attorney and his nol;o.
crusaders were after any one tbev
could get-slackers. violators Of n.
liquor law or those maintaining dis.
Observation-Disclosures. dozen places.
including one hotel and two Turkish
baths, were invaded, and street crowd.
were combed over.
lhe raid began at l o'clock in ths
morning and ended at 6. During this
period about 800 persons were cauobt
IN the net. and Of this number 25o
were subp9naed to the District Attor.
ney's Office for this morning. Twentr.
five, including woman. 4 hotel No
prletor and & hotel clerk. were bald
IN $500 bail each as material VIII
nesses. "''-
Raid Confined to East Side
The raid was confined to places on
the East Side; the Tenderloin was no.
moiested. Nevertheless, the now time
honored raid targets. the chop suer
houses of the district invaded
were among the places raided
Most of these were located in De De-.
lancey Street. Second Avenue. Third
Avenue and East Fourteenth Street
The hotel raided was in East Thir.
teenth Street.
:nr: omlth Was accompanied on the
rad by Acting Police Inspector Robin
son, Acting Captain Donovan. twenty.
live detectives from the First Inspec
tlon District and some Of Inspector
Costlgan's men. Frederick Whitinc
secretary of the Committee of -Four
teen, was in the party.
One hundred and nineteen men be-
tween the ages OF eighteen and fftv
were pounded up as loafers or sus-
pectedr slackers. The raids on the
turkish bath establishments resulted
III 800 persons being routed out of
PED PED IN one place and ninety-four Of
these were taken to the police station
when they were unable 10 produce
registration cards
Whiskey Found in Hotel
In one instance when a crowd col
lected about the raiding party Mr..
smith ordered it combed over by his
men. In the hotel raided whiskey in
Jugs and bottles was found, the police
ueeiare' dl.Hough the proprietor had
no liquor license. AS the detectives
entered one room in the hotel a man
jumped out of the window. A Young
woman In the room said the man was
the hotel clerk, and the clerk. ques.
toned later, admitted this. the police
say. Numerous places frequented BY
men without homes or employment
Were searched
I'VE We're after all classes Of war.
time lawbreakers." Mr.. Smith said.
when asked as to the scope and pur-
pose of the raid. 1--WE didn't miss any
class of them in the roundup"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Thirteen Indictments
In Month for Fraud

Thirteen indictments have been re-
turned in the last month against per-
sons accused of comitting commercial
frauds, according to Frcas Brown Sny-
der, of the National Association of
Credit Men, with Offices at 81 Park
Row.
"Onc-fourth OF the annual losses
caused by bad debts. amounting to
So2, 100000 yearly. is due to dishonest
business men, whose vocation is to OBJ
tain goods on credit for which thew
never intend to pay" said Mr.. Snyder.
"lf credit men would investigate the
antecedents Of persons sending in new.
unsolicited orders. one-half the fraud
ulent cases would be eliminated," he
declared.
According to Mr.. synder-there are
enough fences" s"-stores which dispose
of goods obtained fraudulently on
credit in New York City to make a
good-sized town. In one section of the
city, he said, so per cent OF the stores
are "fenccs."
Beware" said Mr.. Snyder, "of the
average sacrifice sale and fly by night
tradesmen. Fully 80 per cent of these
sales are conducted by crooks. When
there is Il decrease in the number of
bad debt accounts. the high cost of
living will be lowered"
Mr.. Snyder declared that every
crooked concern has a list of "easy
credit men" from whom it is not diff
cult to obtain merchandise. at is tho
patriotic duty of every honest credit
man." he said, "to wage war on the
crooked business man. We owe it to
the public, to the honorable dealers
and to ourselves to reduce the fraudu-
lent cases which have increased as a
result of the war;
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Shoes and Ships
And Sealing Wax
Jersey Reyisited


Let poets, if they please, sing the pleasure
and the ease
OF Shaking off the shackles" when the
winter breaks and fees.
Those who wish to also may praise the
weekly holiday,
When one leaves his work and country ward
on Sunday takes his way
But we longed for forests cool and deep and
went abroad to try it;
They resolved into the spindling shade OF
one tree.
And far from peace and quiet, there we
ate our picnic diet.
try.
Tho country may afford songs of birdlets
on the sward.
But the only voice we listened to was made
by Henry Ford
And the sunshine gold and warm, may for
some folks hold charm
But know it started blisters on our
visage and each arm.
10 do the subject justice. we would have to
turn to Latin,
Our anathemas would even make Hun
flee.
Henceforth our wealth we'll fattcn, for
we'll stay in old Manhattan.
Though there's nothing like Sunday in the
country.
It's fine to lie and dream when the leaves
MI agcam
And to eat beneath a wide blue sky beside
babbling stream,
But the ants all entered into our humble
luncheon tin
And mosquitoes made a record driving rivets
in our skin.
We're hoarse with cussing rural life, and
clumsy lays,
And our rhymes nothing less than sheer
cffrontry
But we lift our voice in praise that the
week has six days
And they re nothing like a Sunday in the
country.
Yes. we'll peel and itch and limp for a
week (deleted) smp
For there's nothing like Sunday in the
country.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
EN- Injured When
Broadway Trolley
Rams Stalled Car

The usual Sunday peris beset
humble travellers in the vicinity of
New York yesterday. Those that went
aloot were hit by automobiles; those
that travelled in trolley cars fell vic
TINS to collision and panic and the
venturesome bicyclist was the prey of
his own speed. Airplanes and auto
mobiles were reasonably safe. so far
as their occupants were concerned.
Ten persons were injured when a
broadway car rammed a stalled Ham
burg Avenue car at the entrance to the
tunnel at the New York end Of the
Williamsburg Bridge. After resolving
medical attention they went home.
While crossing Fifth Avenue at
10Th Street yesterday. Anton Hook,
Third Avenue, was struck by an auto
mobile, owned and operated by James
Franklin, a negro ship caulker, whose
address is West 137th Street. Hook
was taken to Harlem HOSPITAL with
fractured skull and internal injuries
and IS expected to die. He was iden-
tlfled by an enemy alien registration
card in his pocket. The driver was
locked up on a charge of felonious as
sault.
A fuse blow out on a crowded De
kalb Avenue car at Franklin Avenue
and Bergen Street, Brooklyn, causing
a panic III which a dozen people were
hurt making their way to the street
Five were treated by an ambulance
surgeon.
An automobile driven By Benjamin
Shurack, of 1864 Fulton Street, Brook
lyn, knocked down Frank Trotter, nine
years old, of 7S5 Malbone Street.
Brooklyn, at Albany and East New
York avenues. The boys head was
cut and he was taken to Kings County
Hospital.
Charles Molkenkin, of 400 Balm
bridge Street, Brooklyn, swerved his
automobile suddenly at Cooper Street
and Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, to AVOID
running over boy on a bicycle and
knocked down Patrolman James IT,
Power and three children who were
watching Red Cross scouts hold up
motorists. None of the four was badly
hurt.
During the races at the Newark
Velodrome yesterday afternoon Louis
Sattler, twenty-five years old, OF oio
East Eighty-second Street, one OF the
participants, was thrown from his bl-
cycle and badly hurt. The accident fol-
lowed collision with another rider.
Sattler was removed to the City Hos
pital
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Lanky Bob's' Widow Tells How
Ex-Champion Died a Christian

Theatregoers of New York remember
Mrs. Robert F'itzsimmons. widow of the
pugilist, as clever French actress.
who shared in the. vicissitudes of stage
and private life with "Lanky Bob"
They would not have recognized her
last night as she told large gathering
at Corrigan Hall, 157th Street and
Broadway, of her conservation to a
life Of religious cndeavor and welfare
work for others.
Mrs. Fitzsimmons incidentally told
Of the conversion of "Lanky Bob" him
self, which occurred in dramatic fash
ion two months before his death. She
spoke under the auspices of the c. T.
Evcrson Bible campaign, and made
known that she is to-day the founder
and superintendent of no less than
four institutions for unfortunate
women. founding children and old and
lndigent persons.
"Bob and I had met with bad days.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20

more than that now--is all rubbish.
It's part of campaign of mud singing
intended TO divert the public from the
real issues. There was no conspiracy
it was nothing more or less than
spontaneous public opinion that re
suited in the ordinance barring the
Hearst papers.
non. but of the whole country, is
back of us in our fight to exclude the
pro o-German press. Hearst may have
millions to carry on his fight, but we
have received offers of unlimited
financial support from private citizens
to combat him.
prominent men, of both Mount
Vernon and New York, have voluntarily
communicated with me, telling me that
| could call on them to any extent to
back the legal battle which starts to-
carte blanche as far as money goes,
and itAas been suggested that counsel
in addition to j. Henry Esser, Cor
poration Counsel, be engaged to oppose
the formidable battery of attorneys
working for Hearst.
Many Approve Stand
"Contrary to the statement printed
in The New York American | have
received. by mail or otherwise, not a
single adverse criticism of the action
OF the Aldermen in passing the barring
ordinance last Tuesday, and know Of
no Alderman who has received any,
thing but commentator. Hundreds Of
letters and kilograms have poured in
on me from all over the country. and
all of them are lavish in their praise
of our stand.
Owe arc determined to keep out the
German papers, whether printed in
German or in English. We will try to
carry out the popular will by ordi-
nance, and | believe we can do so with
out violating the constitution. We
have not talked of using the Summit,
n. j., plan of ncwsdealers' agreements
not to handle the papers, but we may
u.s."
Hearing To Be Held To-day
The hearing tomorrow morning fol-
lows the obtaining of temporary in
junction by the Star Publishing Com
pany, publishers of the Hearst papers,
and the publishers of four German
language newspapers OF Manhattan.
Mayor Brush: Corporation Counsel
Esser and the Aldermen. with Chief
OF Police Winfield. are cited TO show
be made permanent
gstion Of officials ard citizens will 20
ing. and voice til, sentments M l"e "sid wth
regard to the ord :-"nce. The hearing
is scheduled to taxs place ir Part T,
Supreme Court, at O'Clock. The in
junction was signed justice Green
baum
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
z Belgian Police Dogs
Lost in Kennel Fire

HEMPSTEAD, Long Island. May l9.-
Seven Belgian police dogs. among them
FLAX. who had done his Bit in the
trenches and was known to all lovers of
the breed as one of its most perfect
specimens, were burned to death early
this morning when the Meadow Brook
Kennels, owned by Mrs. Leo Wanner. of
Meadow Brook, Long Island. caught
fire.
Mrs Wanner said to-day that she be-
lievad the fire was of incendiary origin.
Many OF her dogs were turned over to
the government recently, and she thinks
that her kennels were destroyed to pre-
won't her future activities in this direc-
tion.
tilax. one of the greatest of police
dogs, had served with TIE French as a
searcher for wounded men. He was
wounded in action and sent back to this
country. He was said to be worth more
than $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
What Is Going On To-day

WHEA1TESS DAY
RED CROSS FUND DRIVE.
WAR SAVING STAAii' DRIVE
Free admission to the American Museum OF Natural
History. Van Cortlandt Park Museum American
Museum of Safety and the Aquarium
Milk and Dairy Iarm Exposition. Grand Central
National Better Homes Exposition. Grand Central
Palace.
Board meeting of the Minerva Club of New York
Waldorf Astoria. 10 = NJ
Meeting Of the Drama Comedy Club OF Now York
Meeting Of the Government Club of Now York
Hotel Aston. 80 y.
Convention oil the National Association of Manu-
facturers, Waldorf Astoria. p. m.
Meeting Of the Government Club Of New York,
Hotel Astor 2:3O p.
Meeting of the American Medico Pharmaceutical
League. Hotel Astor. p.
Meeting OF the Real Estate OuIers' Protective As
sociation Of the City of New York. Hotel Ma
iestic. Sis D.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
it, continued DR.. Taylor. and we are
all out TO win the war"
Calls President Allies Leader

all out to win the war"
Calls President Allies Leader
In the general prayer Dr. Taylor re-
ferred 10 the President as the leader
Of the Allied forces. May the Lord
bless the President of the United
States and let him lead the forces of
the Allies to victory" he prayed
The Presidents proclamation ap-
pealing for funds for the second Red
Cross drive 1or S100,000,000 was also
read during the services.
AT the conclusion of the services
the President and his party entered au
tomobiles. A big crowd. in which
there were hundreds of American,
British, French and Italian soldiers
and sailors, cheered Justify. Then the
party went to Colonel Houses home, on
East F;fty-third Street.
After dinner the President slipped
out the Thirty third Street entrance
Tor walk alone. but was followed by
Secret Service men before he had gone
far. He walked through Thirty third
Street to Sixth Avenue and turned
south, going down to Twenty third
Street. He cut through Twenty
Street to Madison Avenue and walked
up to Thirty fourth Street and back to
the hotel.
The President and his party boarded
the train for Washington at 1925.
Rolfe Boiling. Mrs. Wilson's brother,
accompanied them.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-20
Hurls Kin to Street,
Jumps After Him
Brooklyn Man, Grieving for
Wife, and Brother-in-Law
Fatally Hurt

Crazed from long grieving over 'hc
death of his wife, William Mcnamara
thirty-five years old. of 1876 Dean
Street, Brooklyn, hurled his seventeen
year-old brother-i in-law, William heal
ney, from the rear window of his thlfs
floor apartment late last night an
then leaped from the front winoo"
himself
Both will probably die. They wefT ,
taken to the Holy Family hosp,as.,
where. it is said. each is suffering iron'
a fractured skull and internal injury
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
PR0-GERMAN PROPAGANDA
Government Looking Into Spreading
or False Reports in Noun
thin Section.
lsneeial to The Times pispatch.l

Especial to The Times DspatCh.J
WINCHESTER. VA. May ll.-Fed-
cral secret service agents are reported
10 be working i'm tho mountains of
the western section Of Frederick Coun-
" IN the expectation of experimenting
certain persons of -Gcrman pro-
clivitics who have sought to obstruct
ana discourage young men subject to
call under the selectivc draft 1t was
reported hat the government had re-
fused To pay the war risk claim of
Private l.eith. who died OF pneumonia
while here, and also that men vii,
had volunteered for special duty had
been assigned to other and more ardu-
Gus work. The local exemption board
branded both tales as the work of pro-
Germans. Il number Of whom are known
to be under surveillance.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
SOLDIERS SPIN YARNS
WHILE SHELLS BURST
Take Hun Artillery Attentions
Merely as Part of Days
Work at Front.
Y. NJ. c. a. MANS NARRATIVE
Tells of Great Opportunity for Ser
vice 10 Fighting Forces Up Close
TO Trcncllcs-NiCn hpprc;iatiNc of
Creature Comforts.
by REV. HENRY L. SMITH.
.tAttachcd to the \. VI, {. \. Corps with
the American Army In Frnncc.l
l1n,crnatlcnnl News nurcnu.l

international News Rurcaui
AS ain IN PARIS. cu route from the
temporary field when ! occupied u bit
over three weeks TO the rest camp
where the troops TO which ! ann at
tachcd have already started for = long
or period. | want ia write something
about these last few DAYS. / cannot
give the whole story for Wc are ai
war with a desperate ara powerful
and rcsourcofuI enemy, and We mus.
not let them know any more than they
already know through their elaborate
spy system. Eut | think can safely
write some things that VIII be Of in
terest, and Of no military value % our
foes. things that have been doing
in connection with the movements of
tho allied armies
Some time ago II was decided That
when the division with which have
been working WAS transferred Should
so with them. SO this entire Wool. has
been n time CT unusual activity Hmd
strain. II was not long before Our foes
discovered that some such thing rs
this was afoot, and began taking the
steps which they deemed necessary 10
obstruct our movements. All known
points OF entraining and many cross
roads and main roads were subjected
TO continuous bombardmcrt.
To transfer thousands Of men. horses,
wagons and supplies under such con
ditions was no little job. and the Y.
NJ. c. A. felt that il had q duty to
render whatever assistance il could
The secretaries. therefore. 'vere sent 10
various points OF cntrainmcut 10 serve
hot coffee and free apples 20 the men
rs they bearded their trains some of
them worked continuously FOR two o.
three days. with scarcely any sic =. ynd
not too much in the way Of nour'%h-
rcnt. Here, for example. MAS my
program.
Friday morning, after an exciting
ride from tho very firing lines She
night before. and a late retiring to he'd
under conditions that sent hundreds in
the town to their cellars for ;hc night,
] went to the Y NJ. G. y. warehouse
turned in my account Of sales and
stock on hand CS.Oo0 frames WORTH
and then pitched in TO help with the
transfer Of goods from the warehouse
10 the frcigh, cars. 1t was heavy aul
rough work. but enjoyed it thorough
ly, as did tho lunch OF boiled eggs
and bread and jam which four of us
hastily prepared in the yard. under q
shed. The afternoon was occupied iii
the same way. with intervals Of sarVlnG
behind an !mproviscd counter which
was literally patronized by the sol
dierS who were i'll town.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
LIEUTENANT COLLINS
DESCRIBES FRENCH CTS"
Little Mobile Gun deferred 20 rs
"Sn,ior OF Ernncc"-An Inter
cNtinE Relic
ESPECIAL to Tho Tlmcs-Dispatch.l

tSrccial To Tho Times DISPATCH
LEXINGTON. VA. May II.-Licutcn-
ant Charles j. Collins. of Tampa Fla.
Il graduate Of tho Virginia Military In
Htituic class of 1916. aud now with the
American forces in France, has sont
30 the Museum of War Relics at the in
stitution vase hammered out of an
empty brass shell. Tho museum is In
the institute library. In a letter to
Miss Nellie Gibbs. the librarian. Lieu
tenant Collins, says:
The shell was fired In ono OF tho
Sariors of France the sevcnty-fve-
milimctcr gun. very similar TO our
threc-inch gun in const-uction-that
wonderful little instrument that never
will be forgotten so long as French
man lives TO tell it's story.
During the dark days OF the war
when the Germans were so steadily adj
vancinG and making havoc as thoy came
with their new and surprisingly large
CALDER guns the French had but one
type OF gun in any quantity with which
TO face them--the little Scvcnty-hvc-
and in that they placed their trust.
Their faith was we'll founded. For
days these guns. hurriedly rushed to
every part Of the front. spat and lit
orally hurled n wall of lead and fire
upon the enemy. 1t was the principle
steadily falling water. The accuracy.
but principally the extreme rapidity, of
the fire of the sevcnty-five began TO
tell, and Paris WIS saved from the Ger
man hordcs
Thus through its baptism of fire the
Scvcnty-fvc was chriStencd The
Savior of France" and do YOU wonder
that the French, ever people of warm
sympathy. speak OF ii in rcvcrcntlal
tones and that a tear is sometimes seen
10 Glisten at the mere mention Of its
name.
The vase was hammered out by
French poilu during short rests be-
tween his arduous duties in the front
line trenches. 1t delivered its blow
against the enemy before undergoing
transformation. Thus. though now so
unwarlike in appearance and deport
mcn;. you will see the vase is worthy
and we'll qualified to stand among the
other proud relics to which l have the
pleasure of assigning it,"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12


lnent 1t with some works OF fiction
from his own libra-,.
gift of a photograph to Camp 1
mas been made by Private Thomas S.
fr'c' anu other members OF Company
l. lhrcc Hundred and Nineteenth In
iahtry. The building is now plcnti-
muily equipped for musical entertain
mcnt, Tor there is a grafonola, piano,
piayc" piano and music box. over 100
piano rolls anu about 1000 photograph
records
secretary Paul Fitzgerald. OF Camp 3.
lne Youngest of the Is. e. workers, Las
inc distinction of having four brothers
IN the service, two OF them I'm France.
me family lives at Lima. Ohio, but
Edward. the first to leave, was en-
ploycd at Dayton, and was the first
man to answer the call to the colors
from that city when war was declared.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
Two Deaths in Same Family.

Especial to The Times Dispatch
WINCHESTER VA, May ll-rwo
deaths within twenty-four hours was
the sad and unusual experience Of Mrs
Z. kempcr Moulden, OF Brucetown.
Tier husband died OF typhoid fever in
Memorial Hospital here. and while ar
engagements were being made for his
funeral the widow received news Of
the death of her sister. Mrs. Garfield
taceE. in the City Hospital. Martins
burg, w. Va.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
BoCHE MACHINES APPEAR
AND HOT CNEEEE Is DINCuEI

After half-hour rest before dinner
at the CroiX dor. l felt ready for
the nights work, which was this: 10
drive about five or six miles down the
railroad to one OF the cntrainins points
and take charge of the coffee serving
had two men with me. one OF whom
had been up the night before and in
tended 10 sleep III the car. and there
was another man already on the
ground who also had been up for
thirty-six hoHrs already, but who
proved TO be the only one equal to the
strain Of another night. DisposinG OF
our goods as quickly as possible where
we could hand them TO the men as
they passed. we started in to serve the
coffee But we had hardly begun when
the familiar hum OF "Bochc" machines
IN the starry sky above us sent the
major hurrying 10 our shack 10 COM
mand the fire out at once. There being
no water handy splash went the coffee.
and the 7ieed- was done. Then for an
hour we were kept busy tcllius men
who strollcd up that there was moth
ing doing" and tho major did not want
men TO gather in groups They must
keep scattered.
But At last. about O'Clock we
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
FIND MANGANESE ORE
city Officials OF butte, Mont, Discover
They Have Been Paving Streets
with II.
iRy Associated Prcss.l

BUTTE. MONT, May 11.-City Of
ncials and residents OF Butte have dis
covered that they havo been paving
their streets with manganese ore,
worth about S32 n ton. Now this ques-
ton arises:
Shall the city rip up its streets and
sell the ore. use the proceeds to con-
struct new streets. and keep the
proft?"
n few years ago this manganese rock
was considered worthless. But the
war has changed everything. The de-
mand for manganese for making i'm
PIGMENTS OF warfare constantly has
bee growing heavier
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-05-12
Homemade Automobile Suppl;cs.

WINSTON SALEM. y. c. May IL
The Auto-INnot Machine Company has
been incorporated with authorized
capital Of 100000. Roclli,rsham
County parties are the incorporators
It is proposed TO manufacture not only
supplies but various other
kinds OF machinery