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New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

enough to make the venture an un-
qualified success.
One member of the committee said
yesterday:
"This proposal to reproduce section
OF the first and second line trenches
and No Mans Land in New York is
not born of frivolity. There was never
a more serious undertaking. 1t will
bring the war, with it's grimmest aspect,
to the very doors of the people Of this
country who have not yet begun to
realize they are at war.
ut is very we'll for US to read of
the hardships suffered by our soldiers.
But there is no comparison between
actually experiencing such rigors Of
war and reading of them. That is our
purpose, and l believe it will succeed.
There is not father. mother, sister.
brother, sweetheart or any relative Of
any man now carrying a rifle on the
other side of the ocean who isn't deeplv
concerned with his welfare, If we can
show them how he is enduring discom-
forts for their defence, they will be a
great deal more eager to deny them
selves non-essentials and buy Liberty
Bonds with their money, that thev NAV
make his lot less difficult"
While none of the details to follow
the completion of the trenches have
been perfected yet, it is reasonable to
n,elieve' this committee member said,
that sham battles will be staged. with
night attacks carried out under star
shells as feature of the exhibit.
The trench plans have been COM
pleted by French engineers, and Andre
Iardleu, High Commissioner of France
N =, the United States, through whom
france offered to reproduce the
tfenches and provide trophies and
trench paraphernalia, is cooperating
with the Liberty Loan Committee to
make a success of the venture.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Hate for England
Crops Out Once at
St. Patrick's Dinner

Just once the feud between Ireland
and England cropped out last night at
the 134th anniversary dinner of the
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick at the Ho-
tel Astor, and the speaker who referred
to it declared that the entrance of the
United States into the war at Britain s
side had obscured the quarrel in his
mind He was the Rev. John Cava-
naugh, president of Notre Dame Uni
versity, in Indiana. and until he had
qualified his remarks he had his audi
ence gasping.
"T hate England" said ne, coolly. 81
hate English Prussianism as much as
day l rejoiced at every dispatch that
told of British setback. But all that
is changed now, because this country
is with England"
Applause broke out all over the room
as he finished.
Justice Victor J. Dowling, of the
Supreme Court, president of the So
cety, presided at the dinner, and an
nounccd that the organization had con-
tributed $4,000 for war purposes,
which would be divided among the
Young Mems Hebrew Association, the
Young Mems Christian Association and
the Knights Of Columbus.
Among the other speakers were Jo-
sephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy,
and Senator James Hamilton Lewis. of
Illinois.
Senator Lewis called to mind what
he declared was the pressing problem
or to-morrow-the fate that would
befall the foreign policy of the United
States in the day when the nations sat
down at the council table to remake
the policies of the world. In it's rela-
tlon to foreign nations, he pointed out.
the United States had made but two
hard and fast rules of conduct-the
Monroe Doctrine, which was directed
toward Europe, and the Asiatc cxclu-
sion act, directed toward Asia.
Both of them had brought this coun-
try to the verge of war in the past, he
declared, and now in entering the
world affray the United States had
made them part and parcel of the great
bundle of problems that would be
opened when the nations discussed
peace terms He expressed the opin-
ion, however, that the council table
Of nations was a much better place
to discuss those policies than the bat
tlcfield, and asserted that if the United
States had evaded war with Germany
1t would nevertheless have had to fight
sooner or later for the Monroe Doc
trine or the Asiatc exclusion act
"Will not the European nations that
have cooperatcd with us demand that
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Accident at Cathedral
Causes Stir Before
Parade Starts
Bomb Scare Due
To Falling Stone
Stampede Costs Represen-
tative Smith a Broken
Wrist !

If Roderick Kennedy's ST. Patrick's
Day parade had started up Fifth Ave-
nue. from Forty-third Street on sched-
ule yesterday afternoon the thick of it
certainly would have found itself pass
ing st. Patrick's Cathedral at most
inauspicious moment-and more GER
tainly than that, Congressman Thomas
F. Smith would not be having the "list
of injurce' - himself.
At 2:30 in the afternoon, when the
parade should have been in motion for
a good half hour, but with one delay
and another wasn't even marshalled in
the side streets, the Representative was
seized with the notion that the whole
cathedral was about to collapse into
the avenue. The policemen, who Sec
end before had been standing in neat
row along the curb below the review
ing stand, had suddenly broken ranks
man for himself. There had been a
crash that sounded like an explosion
from inside the cathedral and a pre-
liminary shower of rock onto the pave
ment. Some one with loud and NOV
and even the police had taken up the
cry, THE whole spires coming down."
Smiths Wrist Broken
So Representative Smith, being in
front of the reviewing stand and a fair
target for any and all things from
above, put his hand on the rail and
ho or
clear out to the sidewalk he would
have landed right side up. AS it was
he struck the corner of one of the
steps and rolled down to the sidewalk,
breaking his right wrist
A half dozen others-not to be iden-
titled in the rush, for by unanimous
consent reporters present decided it
would be better to see where the
policemen were going than to stand
around taking names-followed Smiths
example. Most of them also got
tangled up with the steps and reached
the sidewalk on all fours, but none
suffered worse hurts than bruises.
The flight of the police was thing
of the moment. Before the first of
them had reached the west side of the
avenue he was policeman again instead
Of fugitive, and was shouting "Get
back" as loudly as if the crowd wasn't
diISduy PiSSoAlS De1SA eAC CuiAoiiiS AAAS
in it's anxiety to be away from there.
Immediately after the rush from the
cathedral there was a rush back to it..
There still was that "explosion" to be
explained, and dynamiter or two,
maybe, to be caught red-handed.
James Sherlock, acting fire chief of
the third division, was inside the cathe-
dral with the first of the police. Two
hundred feet above him he saw a patch
of blues sky, where there should have
been only gray granite. Then he
climbed into the organ loft, directly be-
low the twin holes in roof and hanging
ceiling, and learned the cause of the
big crash before the shower. That had
been hundred-pound lump of granite
dropping into the organ loft.
Chief Sherlock went still higher then
and made himself sure there hadn't
been any bombing High up on the
north spire a block which had been
part of the Gothic ornamentation was
missing. Wind and weather, and pos
sbly the strain which recent gales have
put on the halyards holding the big
cathedral flag in suspension between
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
O-Boafs TO Blame for
Shortage Of Shan7rocks
I'm America This Yeoy

Inc kalser's devils Of the deep-the
o-ooats--are to blame for the few
shamrocks to be seen here this wear
Usually, at this season, there are thou.
sands of packages containing fern hom
Snamrocks s,i1 and clay, at the postoffice'
Ihese are gifts, in many cases, from
the clerks in the Dublin postoffico 70
the clerks here. Many of tho lattor
Jews, IN return send to Dublin gifts
OF Motzaths. But the shamrocks to-
gether with thousands of green boxes.
lled with green cord; green envelones'
green handkerchiefs and green sus-
few. are
All because. of the U-boat.
Loyalty was the keynote of the
fourth annual reunion of the ShamroclS
Society of New York City, held vester.
day in Columbus Garden. Sixth Avc.
nue. and Eighth Street. Resolutions
aihrmlng the patriotism of Americans
of Irish descent and pledging unswerv-
ing devotion to the nations aims. esne-
orally IN its foreign policy, were adopt-
ea. ca Dr: 9. Romanus Kenny, Luke J.
flnh, OF the irish Federation of Amer
lea, and John j. Sheahan were tho
speakers. '"e
More than 800 persons attended the
sixth annual dinner of the st. PatrcI's
Society OF Queens last night at the
Fillmore. James J. Conway was toast
master. The speakers were Thomas I
Shurchill, former president of the
Board of Education; Senator James !
Walker, William P. Oliver, Assistant
District Attorney A. r. Rorke and
United States Marshal Thomas M. Me-
Carthy.
Previous to parade by it's TWENTY
one divisions the Ancient Order of
Hibernians of Hudson County yester-
day IN Jersey City presented an ambu
lance to the Jersey City chaptcr Of tho
Red Cross, the Rev. r. j. Hurley, Hiber-
nian county chaplain, making the speech
of presentation. There were $500 in
tho parade. Last night the marchers
attended solemn vcspers in St. Mi
chacPs Church. Bishop John j. O'Con-
nor, Of the Newark diocese, was pres
cnt.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

the spires. had alone been responsible,
he decided
Mayor Hylan, who had motorea up
town to review the parade, missed all
the excitement. He was being enter
tanned in the residence of Cardinal
Farley when the block fell, and he and
his host did' not take tneir places in
the stand until order had been COM
pletely restored.
In the parade itself five thousand
men and women marched-the latter
occupying place in line for the first
time since New York got into the ST..
Patrck's Day parade habit. Grand
Marshal Roderick Kennedy had ex-
pected a turnout 10000 strong, but a
brave showing the marchers made as
it was.
To prove their loyalty to America
every marcher wore or carried the
Stars and Stripes, and there were big
standards innumerable waving along
side the green, orange and white colors
which symbolized an Ireland united
and free. In line were girls by the
score who displayed the sign of the
Sim Fein in their headdresses, but if
there was note of pro-Germanism
anywhere Gas Tim Healy has limited
there would be) it was not where the
eye could catch 1T.
Grand Marshal Charles F. Connolly
and his mounted aids made fine show
at TIE head of the parade, and even
when the skirl of the pipes directly be-
hind them made their horses dance
they stayed put. Behind the pipers
were two automobiles, carrying John
Dewey, of New York; Luke Dillon, of
Philadelphia; DR.. Robert McCargan,
and Captain Mulloy, a Civil War vet
eran.
Following them came boys from the
Christian Brothers schools, for the
most part dressed in kits, which are
held to be, like the bagpipe, as much
Irish as Scotch-if not more so.
Friendly Sons of st. Patrick were
most numerous in the line. Repre-
sentatives from twenty-six Friendly
Son branches were there, along with
twenty-five bands, fourteen divisions of
A. O. H. societies, and twenty-three or
carnations of the Kings County Asso-
citation. State Gaelic League, Philo-
Celtic League, the Cumann Nam Blan.
Inc, and the Bunker Hill and Wolf
Tone clubs.
Conspicuous by their absence were
the celebrated Goth Regiment, now in
golden harp. The places of the regi-
mental boys were filled by thousands
Of women relatives of the men fighting
.'"over there" while thel banner Of
green and gold" was replaced by the
trl-color of green and orange, with a
white CENTRE symbolizing the unifica-
tion of green and orange.
Despite the absence of the popular
regiment, current remarks indicated
that it was dearer to memory than if
actually present.
A striking feature of the parade was
the Boy Scouts of Sacred Heart Roman
Catholic Church, clad in plaid kilties
closely resembling those affected by
uniformed Caledonian organizations.
Father Power rector Of the church.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Trench Reproduction in Loan Drive
To Show Grim Realities of War

There will be nothing Of the toy
about the No Mans Land soon to be
dropped upon the centre of New York
City by the Liberty Loan Committee in
its effort to stimulate interest in its
third campaign to raise funds with
which to win the war.
All the grim features which go to
identify the trenches with the greatest
conflict Of all time will be reproduced
to the most minute detail, so that dad,
mother and Sister Susie may know just
exactly what Brother Toms emotions
are as he wades knee deep in mud,
mounts the firing step of his trench
and peers out over the desolation of
No Mans Land before going cover the
top"
1t is hoped by the committee that it's
request for a site in Central Park upon
which to put through this project will
be granted by the Committee on City
Planning when that body meets Tues
day. The city already has appropriated
$25,00O to defray any cost of restora-
tion after the exhibit closes.
The reason Central Park is pre-
ferred Is because of it's central loca-
tion in relation. to the entire greater
city. 1t is desired to bring the trenches
as close to the poor as to the wealthy,
not only because of the splendid spirit
they have displayed in supporting
loans of the past, but because they are
counted upon to prove themselves a
potent factor in this campaign.
What opposition has arisen to the
project has been entirely nullified by
the appreciation from every section of
the city, and it is believed all an
tagonism will have been dispelled soon
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
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the adverse report was made h, ),
foreman she took the result v;.s ~
greater calm than she had show" "'M "a
any. time during the trial. sra ~ =
marked contrast to her demeanor ~. ~
counsel was arguing the case Tasl Tasa
she sat with her head bowed :, iaea asu
arms and wept bitterly when denor,,aa..i, ~, a.,
by counsel for the state. 'S"seo
Judge Hill held that Mrs u;...u
was untitled for labor on the rSSs nuS,
works of Fulton County, and tbat psss u.
should be confined in the woman. am sn' y
partment of the state penitenti.r, '. '.
Milledgeville. '''' ~
Cook After New Trial
1t was announced to-day that q.
hearing on the motion for new t,. %I
for Cook had been continued mt; ;l
March %, it having been postponsa s
from to-day because the trial Of M
Hirsch was not completed in tima IA
hear counsel. ~ :"
Mrs. Hirsch and Cook were indict.a
last February Ia for attempted bIaet.
mail of the Mayor after the latter hsd
gone before a special grand Jury and
related details of what was ALLEGED IA
have transpired at his private business
Office February 6. when Mrs. HirtS
called on him, and Cook later appeared
at the Office door. Later, the Mayor
claimed, the man and woman had IN.
dertaken TO extort money from him.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

in charge of the boy contingent, said
the plaid worn by the Scot had been
loaned to the Highland brother Celt
by the Irish centuries ago, and that the
uniform worn by his boys merely indi-
Gated that they had simply revived an
ancient color custom of the irish race.
The Irish Volunteers and numerous
Scout organizations, equipped with
rifles, lent semi-military air to the
no ,-ade
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Their School Age
Stops at Twelve

One of the most serious effects of
the long hours for children, and second
only to the harm done to their physical
development, is the loss Of education.
So long as they are in the mill, they
cannot be in school. The average cot
ton mill child stops school at the age
Of twelve, and many of them earlier.
To be sure the mills build schoolhouses
and provide night schools. But can
you imagine a boy of twelve going to
night school after having been in q
cotton mill eleven hours during the
day? Can you imagine how much he
would learn if he did go to school after
eleven hours of work? The illiteracy
tables for the different states tell the
story. Seven Southern states contain
over 80 per cent of the native born
white illiterates in this entire country
Louisiana. which has the highest rate
Of illiteracy of all the states, has 1913
per cent Of her children between ten
and thirteen at work. South Carolina
which allows 451 per centsof her chill
dren in the same age group to work,
shows an illiteracy percentage of 25.7.
The parallel between child labor and
illiteracy carries too clear moral to
need any pointing.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Grewsome History
OF Children in Mines

Mining, 1t is we'll known. heads the
accident rate list among industries. In
1917 there were 1895 fatalities in the
coal mines of the United States; the
causes included slate falls, live wires
gas, blasting, car accidents, etc. If
ever there was an occupation which
young boys should be forbidden to
enter, it would seem to be coal min
ing Under the Federal law they
would have been kept out Of the mines
until they were sixteen. Yet eight Of
the largest mining states still permit
the employment Of children fourteen
years of age in the coal mines. Prac-
tically every state has it's own grew
some history Of accidents, to which the
boys employed are equally If not more
liable than growing men.
In the terrible Cherry mine disaster
in Illinois among the first of the dead
bodies brought to the surface after
the explosion we're those of boys undes
sixteen years of age, and from the evil
dence it seemed more than probable
that 800 lives were lost because of
the carelessness of one boy 1t has
long been established that in all
dangerous occupations children are
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Night Work in
Glass Factories

Another example of the kind of work
the Federal Child Labor Law was de-
signed to prevent is night work in
glass factories. Night work accompa-
MED by heat and physical strain is a
severe tax on young boys, and many Of
them show their reaction to it by
dropping out during the summer
months.
During the time the Federal law was
in effect all BOYS under sixteen were
kept off the night shift, but now that
its provisions no longer hold good
this feature of the trade will prove a
distinct menace in the states which
have no prohibition of night work for
children.
West Virginia is one of the largest
glass manufacturing states. and also
lacks any regulation of hours. The re-
suit Of this work is shown in the
mortality figures for the industry,
which report that the average age for
death among the glass bottle blowers
is extraordinarily early-between forty
one and forty-two years. 1t is a sig
nifcant fact that tuberculosis and
pneumonia cause the death Of a ma
jority of the workers, young and old.
The United States report on child
labor in the glass industry pointed to
the fact that "the physical severity of
this (the boy's) work is one of the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16

there is evidence that the law is not
enforced too strictly. Children of ff-
teen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve and
eleven years of age have been found
working on the night shift in the cot
ton mills Of this state.
One mother, telling the investigator
about her sixteen -year-old boy who had
done night work for three years, said ::
"Johnnie, he's been a-tryin' to git off
that job for goin' on a year, but seems
like they can't give him nothin' else to
do. He lows that night work has jes'
about ruint him, and sometimes he can't
hardly see ncthin'"
The same Investigator tells the story
of the experience that a new night
manager had in coming into q mill
which employed number aof children
on the night shift He disliked the work
from the beginning, saying that when
he thought of his own children he could
hardly bear to look at these. Soon after
his arrival he received instructions to
"push the children up" He refused
point blank, on the ground that "twelve
hours night work for children is hid
eous, anyhow" Shortly after that the
young man was discharged.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Child Slavery
In Cotton Mills

Picture for yourself the life Of the
average cotton mill child of twelve or
thirteen, working on an eleven-hou
schedule. He begins work at in the
morning and stops at at night, having
had one hour at noon. He may not be
working every moment of the eleven
hours-few children could-but he Is
in the mill all that time, except in a
few cases. For part of the year he be-
gins work in the dark and stops in the
dark. He begins work three hours be-
fore the tired business man gets to his
Office, and he ends work one hour later
Some children-even some of the
very young ones-start their work just
when that business man finishes his.
In Georgia night work Is legal for chill
dren fourteen and one-half years old:
in Mississippi boys as young as four
teen are allowed by law to work in the
cotton mills at night; and in North
Carolina, although the law prohibits
night work for children under sixteen,
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
New Way To Be Sought by Which Nation Can
Protect Lives of Youngest Citizens-Have
Grewsome History in Many States

most important aspects Of the ques-
tion of the employment of children In
the glass factory The severity Of
shop boys work is a compound Of many
factors-the physical strain Of the
work itself, the heat of the room IN
which they work, possible dust and
fumes"
"In many Of the older furnaces, the
mould boy must either squat upon the
ground in an awkward. cramped posi-.
tion or, standing. must stoop con-
stantly to his work. In all establish.
ments the heat is particularly con-
spicuous factor in his work He must
necessarily be close to the mould, and.
for speed of working, the mould placed
near the furnace"
While the mould boy suffers from his
cramped position. the "snapping.up
boy" is forced to endure terrific heat
and the hardship of looking into the
bright, glaring light of the glory hole.
Besides this. he has constant arm move
ment. some bending and must con-
stantly be in motion. The heat in the
/ establishments varies from So to 100
degrees, and Immediately in front Of
the glory hole it runs as high as 40
degrees.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-16
Meanwhile Children
Go Back to the Mills

But while that way is being found
and until all the business Of passing
new law has been gone through, the
children who were taken out Of indus
try last September by the national law
may return to their former occupations.
Those children are all under sixteen
years of age and In the most critical
period of their lives. Unless they hap
pen to live in one of the states which
prohibit young children from going into
mines and factories and mills and can
neries, they will be allowed to leave
school, where many of them were for
the first time getting real education;
they will be taken out Of the fresh air,
where many of them we're for the first
time playing without thought of the
factory whistle, and in few days or
weeks or months from now a great ma
jority of them will be back in the
mines, or in the close, dusty air of the
cotton mills, or in the blasting heat of
the glass factories
Unless. that is, the grown people of
America who know what child labor
means and care about the future of
America do something to prevent it,
and do it now.
Taking the canning industry for ex-
ample, the season for which is Just now
opening. Before the Federal law was
passed 1t was one of the industries en-