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New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
What Is Going On To-day

ONE MEAL WHEATLESS
Convention OF the Independent Order Birth Abrs-
ham. New Star Casino. 10 a. m.
Convention Of Jewish Organizations. auditorium.
Washington Irving High School. 10 a m
Sermon by the Rev. DIR. Stephen s. Wise 90
What Shall We Give Our Children before
tie Free Synagogue, Carnegie Hall 10: so m
Memorial Day services Of the New York Camp
Of Confederate Veterans. Mount Hope Cemetery.
afternoon.
Memorial parade. review and service Of tho New
YORK Letter Carriers Association Fifth Ave-
nue.. from Forty fifth Strest to Seventy sixth
Street. to Temple Beth-El. 9 p. m.
OF Man.. Beethoven Hall. 2lo East Fifth Street.
afternoon.
Addresses by United States Senator william "
Calder. Commissioner of Charities Bird s. Coler
and others at anniversary celebration Of shs
Avenue. Brooklyn. . 30 y.
Dedication Of the seabury Marvel House. 50 Ess
Twenty fifth Street. D.
Memorial services Of tho Dcfcndam Association
OF the I'D Regiment Engineers, \. 6. y. T..
Church of the Holy Rood. Fort Washington
Avenue and l7ath Street, p. m.
IN War Time. Young Mems Christian Assods-
tion. B West l25th Street D. IN.
Concert for the benefit Of the Roman cathciie
Orphan Asylum. Hippodrome. s y. N
Address by Professor Roy w Foley on 'Tns
Young Mems Christian Association and Our
Boys al patriotic rally. Bethany Presbyterian
Church. Wills Avenue and 18th Street, y N.
Life before the Brooklyn Civic Forum. Public
School S4. Glenmore and Stone avenues, Brook
iyn. 5. p.
Address by DR.. Thomas Travis on with The
Soldiers Oh the Firing Line IN Flanders. Para
Avenue Church. Park Avenue and Eighty sixth
Street. s %
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Red Cross Fund
Tops Its Goal of
500, 900, 900
Continued from page l

succoring wounded but in sheltering
and saving women and children in all
countries stricken by war, is beyond
all computation. From the moment
OF the massacre of Serbia its work
has grown like the mustard seed un-
til it is now one of the humane in
stitutions in the world. In now ex-
tending its operations to cover new
responsibilities which will fall upon
it through the active participation of
the American army in the war, wish
it all possible success. l am sure
that the resources of mercy and Een-
erosity will prove inexhaustible.
Il am, my dear Ambassador. yours
sincerely, D. LLOYD GEORGE"
Much elation was expressed at the
spirit evinced by the workers in the
final hours of the drive, no longer
being satisfied with securing the al
lotted amount, but now determined to
get $30,000,000 Or bust" Funds turned
IN yesterday, particularly from the
boroughs, seemed to encourage the new
limit. The Bronx now reports a total
OF $15O,O0O, Brooklyn shows total of
$997,686, Richmond has realized so far
$25O,OOO.
Colonel Thompson, of the corpora
tions division, turned in an additional
sum of $3300O0 for his division. The
house-to house committee reported ex-
ira gifts totaling $4,000, while Louis
Wiley, chairman of the newspaper d.
vision, forwarded to Red Gross head
qaurters a check for $1,496.25. Six
Federal departments in New York re-
ported subscriptions totaling Sl6,000
representing 10000 Federal employees
Gifts from divers sources continued
to pour into the mercy chest all day
The Master Plumbers Association sent
IN a check for $4,000, while the New
York Newspaper Web Pressmen are
giving $4,000.
I The eSaboard National Bank an.
nounces a gift of $40. 900, and a $780,
600 contribution is reported from the
National Bank of Commerce, though
made some days ago. Mrs. C. Yada
VINO was in charge of collecting funds
from her Japanese countrymen. for
warded almost $4,000. Samuel C.
Lamport made public a gift of twelve
amDulances and motor truck, which
ne Is turning over to the Red Gross
ana MISS Florence B. Vibber, school
teacher, has turned over to the Red
Cross to be sold an ancient watch
made in Paris in 1890. A handsome
sum was realized, too, from the sale OF
superfine vegetables at the Ritz Carl
ton, bunch of asparagus being bought
Dy Colonel F. c. Henderson for $3.50
Two carnations sold for $50, and three
posters by Harrison Fisher were sold
IN the Ritz dining room for $500 and
5000, respectively.
Canvassers collected large sums from
the crowds that witnessed the military
drill on the Sheep Meadow in Central
Park in the afternoon, hundreds of dol
lars being also realized at the large
meeting in front of st. PauPs Chapel
where Justice Clarence ]. Shearn made
an address.
Walter Stabler, of the house-to-house
committee, said that permission haG
been obtained from the Police Depart.
ment to canvass to-day. Mrs. Joseph
r. Swan, the vice-chairman of this com
m1ttee, said that, in view of this per.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

Women who enrolled yesterday as
members Of political organizations
were. in some instances, frankly puz-
zled by the whole performance. In
some instances they were not.
A former "Lady of the White House,"
Mrs. Mary Harrison Mckee, of 4s West
Seventy-second Street. who kept house
for her father, Benjamin Harrison,
when he was President, enrolled in
q temporary wooden structure at Sew
enty-third Street and Central Park
West
Mrs. Anne F. Curry, eighty-six years
old, mother of John F. Curry, Commis-
sioner of Records for the Surrogate's
Court, claims the record for being the
oldest woman in the Democratic party.
She enrolled at 70 Amsterdam Avenue,
escorted to the polls by Fred F. Straub,
Deputy Commissioner of Taxes.
Knows Just What To Do
There was the young women wear
ing. among other things, a green tam O.
shanter and a purportful air, who
strobe into the enrolment place at 1e1
Columbus Avenue, clasping double
armful of pamphleted advice for wom
en- voters.
"I'm equipped to avoid the male
snicker." she said, cycling the grinning
clerk and depositing the documents
upon the desk. eve must be educated
to vote intelligently."
The ambitious young woman gave
her name to the clerk. She was Miss
Fannie Hurst, short story writer, in
tent upon her privilege to vote.
At the Tenth Assembly District, 80
Sixth Avenue, Mrs. Tessie Russo, %
Sixth Avenue, signed her name by the
aid of the clerks guiding hand. She
could talk no English and write no
Italian, but when it came to going on
record for her party, she knew where
she wanted to place the cross. Her
husband, Sebastian, who has won a
medal for keeping Fifth Avenue clean,
looked proudly on, although he admit
ted that he had nothing to do with
Mrs. Russo's political convictions.
Miss Nettie Sposta, 10 Spring street,
a young Italian teacher in Public
School 100, declared, at the polling
station, Spring and Lafayette Streets,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26

mission, probably fifty thousand women
in the garb of Red Cross nurses would
comb the streets to-day.
Among the interesting events calcu-
lated to quicken the drive to-day is a
great mass meeting of Poles at Park
Avenue and Thirty fourth Street dur
ing the evening. Ignace Jan Paderew-
ski. the famed pianist, will preside, and
an address will be made by Captain
Thomas C. seddon, # the British army.
There will be concert tonight at
Temple Israel, 26 West Hath Street.
Cantor Maisels will sing and addresses
will be made by several rabbis. The
collection of art objects and paintings
that have been on view at the Ritz
Carlton will be on sale tomorrow night.
King Albert's message said:
II would not fail to take the oppor-
tunity afforded me by the second appeal
for funds in favor of the American Red
Cross to express to you all my peoples
gratitude for the splendid generosity
displayed by the American nation tow
ard the army and civil population of
Belgium.
Both the material help given and
the friendship of your great nation will
always be remembered. 1 am glad TO
say how useful the work done by
Colonel Bicknel], Major Van Schaick
and the Commission for Relief in Bel
gium has already been and to pay a
tribute to their valuable and efficient
activity.
"The relationship between our peo-
pies, cemented in this time of suffer
ing, will strengthen confidence, sym
pathy and good will and increase the
devotion of every citizen of the Allied
countries to the sacred cause of liberty
and justice"
The President said in his reply:
Your majesty's message has been
read with deep pleasure and appre-
citation, and | beg to assure you that
nothing that the American Red Gross
or the body of my fellow citizens have
done has been done more truly from
the heart than the aid, all too little
which they have been able to render
the gallant and suffering people of Bel
GUM. We feel our common dependence
with them upon the full vindication of
the cause of freedom
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Cropsey Opens Way
To Enter Race
For Governor
Virtually Presents Platform
Hearers Believe He
Will Run On

SYRACUSE, May 25.-Supreme Court
Justice James C. Cropsey, OF Brooklyn,
tonight laid the foundation of his an
ticipated gubernatorial boom, when
speaking before the Syracuse Credit
Mems Association. He hurled veiled
attacks against the present state gov
crnment, and pledged for full partici-
patton by the women in partisan poll
tics in order to stimulate the male
voters from their lethargy He asked
for a state executive with a moral
as we'll as a physical spine, and judges
who can give judicial instead of "hand
made" decisions because of personal
interest.
While the attack was we'll camou-
flaged, the Brooklyn jurist's audience
needed no explanation, for Judge Crop
seysey virtually presented the so-called
planks of probable platform. He
came out in bitter denunciation of all
things German and put himself square
ly on platform of patriotic appeal.
government and called no names, he
hayed the entire scheme of politics
where leaders and political machines
control the will of the electorate
through its willingness to follow and
accept the wcrd of others.
Accompanied Judge Cropsey
John T. McGovern, one of Brooklyns
most alert politicians, who played
prominent part in the last municipal
campaign, came here with Judge Crop
sey. So did Senator A. W. Burlingame,
Of the 9Th District. While neither did
any active campaigning while here, the
probable significance of their visit was
manifest.
During his speech Judge Cropsey
outlined what full citizenship means
and what remedies are needed in the
government of to-day.
"We need people more interested in
the country than they are now, and I
the male population to it's civic duty"
he said.
"As good as the government may
be, it can be made better, and l be
lieve it will be when the women do it.
We need executives who can stand
on their own feet and have a moral
as we'll as a physical spine. We need
executives who can think for them
selves and then act.
Independent Legislators Needed
1--WE need legislators who should not
be considering their personal interests
and who will not give their votes be-
cause some political parsonage directs
them to.
1--WE need judges, too, in all the
courts of the state, who will first be
men and then lawyers. We need judges
who will not see how little work they
can do or how much vacation they can
take. We need judges who can give
judicial decisions and not hand made
ones.
II believe that only through political
parties can the country be governed
But we need the best political parties
We need leaders who think first of the
country, then of their party, and lastly
of themselves"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
National Figures
Put Red Cross Fund
Far "Oper the Top''

WASHINGTON, May 25.-With sub
scr'ptions to the American Red Cross
second war mercy fund now estimated
at more than the minimum quota of
Slo0,O00,000, workers in the campaign
rested tonight in preparation for a
strenuous closing day Monday. Off
Gals expect big outpouring of dollars
at the finish, and expressed confidence
tonight that the fund would be heavily
oversubscribed.
A message from King Albert of Bel
gium to President Wilson, thanking the
nation for its aid to his stricken peo-
pie, and another from General Pershing
commencing the Red Cross work in
France, were received, and were ex-
pected to give impetus to the war fund
drive.
General Pershing said:
Our people may we'll be proud Of
the record of the Red Cross. The won
derful story can hardly be told in
W: words: G 1t could best be told by the
widows and orphans of our gallant AL
lies and by the mutilated soldiers to
whom 1t has ministered. In giving
prompt and efficient relief the Red
Cross has won the eternal gratitude of
millions of people. The armies of
france, from commanders down. testf-
fy. to the great good it has accom-
Pllshed. With our rapidly increasing
forces IN France, the care of our own
men now becomes the most important
object of our solicitude. In this great
work the Red Cross is Indispensable. y
Headquarters of the Red Cross here
were flooded to-day with messages
from over the country giving subscrip-
tions for districts, cities and counties,
and it was impossible to tabulate ali
returns: Those counted showed that
S97 ,o21 ,80S had been raised, but it has
estimated that many millions in addi-
tion had been subscribed.
The figures for the fourteen divi-
sions, as announced to-day, follow:
y, Atlantic, INCLUDING greater New York,
s2,oo1,775; Lake, ss,566, Ats; Mountain
$1,S87,550; New England, s6,457 900;
Northern, $2,3e2, 900; Northwestern,
50, 574,723; Pacific, s4,139,51s; Pennsyl-
yania, $6,067,055 Potomac, Sc. .OO4,9 1924;
Southern, $3,511,O47; Southwestern.
S10,625,419; foreign, 100000.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Women Aliens Must
Supply Photographs
Must Also Submit to Finger
Printing When Register.
ing With Police

When enemy alien women present
themselves at the police stations be-
tween June II and 26 for registration
they will be required to furnish five
photographs of themselves with the
hair pulled back and be forced to SUBJ
nit to finger printing.
These regulations were made known
yesterday, when the local Federal au-
thorities received their instructions
from Attorney General Gregory regard
ing the registration of women. In his
expression of policy, which is con-
tanned in 2O0-page pamphlet, the At
torney General carefully identifies
those who will be required to register.
All women of German birth or wom-
en- of any other nationality who are
married to unnaturalized Germans are
required to register. If a woman of
American birth has married a German
not naturalized she is an enemy alien
and must live up to the provisions Of
the extended espionage act and regis
ter. or she will be arrested immedi-
ately.
In cities of more than 5000 popula-
tion the registration will be done by
the police, with the cooperation Of
patriotic women's organizations.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Money Offered
To Convict Moonev
"Objector" Awaiting Stacker
Sentence CLANS He Declined
Bribe of S17On0

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.-Nicholas
II. Treanor declared to-day on the wit
ness stand of the United States Dis-
trlct Court here that he had been Of
Tered SIT 900 to testify falsely against
lnomas j: Mooney, now under sentence
of death for murder in connection Win
the preparedness parade bomb explo-
sion here in 1915. Treanor was await
ing sentence on charge of having re-
fused to submit himself to physical ex-
animation for the selective draft.
Treanor was sentenced to one wear
in the county jail after he had testified
that he was a conscientious obiector.
In the course of his testimony he made
this statement:
II was offered $4,000 to testify
against Mooney and attempt to swear
his life away. I refused and testified
for Mooney" He named an Assistant
District Attorney.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Half of All
Women Voters
Here Enroll
Continued from page 1

to benefit the community, they must
exert their influence in party ma
chinery.
PARTY Women" Prepare
The other class were the "party
women" wives and sisters and friends
of politicians, who have been building
up their party organizations for sew
eral months. preparatory to the fall
campaign.
With the exception of the East Side,
where the enrolment was light in part
owing to the Jewish holiday, all dis
tricts of the city responded with equal
enthusiasm. On Morningside Heights,
around Columbia University the college
girls and school teachers swamped the
registration officials, who were unpre-
pared for so large showing. Fortu-
natcly, the women had brought camp
chairs and knitting, and made merry
event of it.
In the crowded districts the Demo
cratic captains had corps of women
out early to hold babies and stand
guard over market baskets while the
housewives registered.
Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, wife of the
Governor, enrolled at flower store at
the list. Governor Whitman's official
residence is the Hotel ST. Regis.
Although the election officials diplo-
matically suggested that women over
thirty need not tell their exact age,
Mrs. Whitman scorned this device and
boldly declared herself to be thirty
six"
She was accompanied to the polling
place by Governor Whitman, who
grinned broadly when his wife said she
had enrolled as Republican.
That's one vote I'm sure Of" said he.
When ! went out / stopped every
woman met" said the Governors
wife, "and asked her if she had reg
istered."
Miss Hay Republican
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman Of
the Woman Suffrage Party, who has
kept her political sympathies a dark
secret ever since woman suffrage was
granted, admitted yesterday that she
had enrolled with the Republican
party. Miss Hay was the first woman
TO enroll in her own district, which is
the I'd Election District of the 9th As
sembly District
Miss Hay added that "just because I
enroll with the Republicans this time
doesn't commit me to anything. I'm
great believer in the scratched ballot"
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, president
Ct the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, and DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw, its honorary president,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Traction Workers
Urge Women to
Oppose Hylan
Union Men Say Mayor Re-.
fused to Hear Them On
6Cent Fare Question

Appealing to the members n r
their wives, daughters and womss
Trends" to enroll, John A. Ph.l,r
president Of the Brotherhood Of rn,.~
borough Rapid Transit Cornpanv ~
pIloyes, declared that the w. -
shooio prepare 20 cast their vote. -
Election Day for candidates for nr,,.-
Office who will not turn down .s
workingmen with kaiserism. but =:
US an opportunity to be heard.
Mr.. Phelan' said he had in mind s..
treatment representatives Of hi.
ganization and the Brotherhood !,
New York Railways Company EMPLOYS.
received from Mayor Hylan when ~.
sought an audience with him recsr,,.
to discuss the proposed six-cent far.
The Mayor kept the two deleeat;o,.
waiting for hours and then dism;,..s
tnem without hearing. A s;n,;Is- w
peal was sent to the members NJ Il. 81.
brotherhood of New York P.;i,,se sne
company Employees by T. NJ. Fazatsriyns
It's president. The appeals were SOY;
Dy the organization presidents. Aeu
In the 1nterborough Brotherhooa
letter, President PheIan said: '0'o
You instructed your officers ws...
ago 10 endeavor to obtain an ;n+..
view with Mayor Eylan so that .s, thav
might place before his honor ths;y
nope OF adequate wages through a s;r.
cent fare. After considerable corrs. r,s-
spondence and delay, your Committee
with the Mayor for IL o'clock nnnr ns,aens .a
the 23d inst. "oo'' On
We proceeded to the Mayor's oAs..
and, after waiting three and III hss
hours, were ushered into the Mavor,.
room. A moment or two after H.
Mayor entered and asked if we want.s
10 taik about the six-cent fare. a.
your president, told the Mayor We al
lie said, you may talk to me ahor,
anything else but the six-cent fors,
and he withdrew. That ended our eor.
ference" ~'h-
President Fazakerly described sim
liar experience with the Mayor ~
April Is. ~ Oh
I'VE were told to wait in the eorr;.
dor tor about ten minutes" said Faz.
akerly. AFTER two hours the Mavor
came out, asked who we were. decl;nsd
to discuss the merits of the case or r.
hear what we had to say, and ahrunt,
ly dismissed us. 1t is evident thai
political influence is necessary in or.
der that the merits of a case NAV +.
considered by those in authority.
Let all of the mothers. wives. sis-
ters and the women friends of the
Brotherhood of New York RAILWAYS
Company Employees take this opportu-
nifty to enroll in the primaries and nre.
pare to take an active part in the M.
lltical campaigns from now on to make
their influence felt toward the choos.
ing Of public officials who will give the
railroad men of this city fair deal y
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Former Lady Of White / House
Registers as a Voter Here
Mrs Mary Harrison Mckee Enrolls-Some of the Women
Are Puzzled by Ballot, While Others Fill
Blank Without Trouble

that there were too few Mrs. Russos.
"1'm going to make all the mothers of
my pupils vote before the day is over"
she said.
'I'm going to make a house toulouse
canvass and tell them just what it
means to them"
Wanted to Take 1t Home
One of the women who will know
better next time is Mrs. Laura Rose
bault, of / West Sixty-seventh Street,
who tucked the card carefully into her
pocketbook and started toward the
door.
"This way, madam" the clerk called
after her, nodding toward the canvas
inclosure.
ooh, I'm going to take it home and
let my husband show me how" she eX
planned.
After the clerk had brought her to
understand that this was not the usual
thing she emerged triumphant, having
placed the cross in the proper place
without her husbands aid, and declar-
ing that she would know better next
time"
In the public school at 124 East
Fifty-first Street two women district
leaders stuck to the job all day. They
were Mrs. Bayard Dominick, jr, Repub-
lican, and Mrs. John Smith. Democrat.
They were disappointed that Mrs John
D. Rockefeller had not enrolled. but
found consolation in the visit of Miss
Elsie Ferguson, who declared she took
politics very seriously.
Enrolment Is High
The proportion of women enrolling
in this district was very high, ninety
Two having enrolled at o'clock. The
number of men voting in the last pri-
maries was two hundred.
In the garage at Amsterdam Avenue
ana Seventy-fifth Street woman cleo
ton clerk, Miss Beatrice Cassell. wof
the admiration of the man who was
working for the other party with her,
Arno R. Domeycr.
For nine years I've been inspector
OF elections,' said Mr.. Domeyer, "and
ivc i1! never seen the equal for speed of
Miss Cassell."
When I've been inspector for nine
years ~ be Congresswoman," re-
+orted Miss Cassell.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Clinton Prison Inmates
Glue $500 to Red Cross

: piALISbuRG, pa N. Y, May 25.-Five
to the Red Cross fund by the inmates -
Clinton Prison. Eighty per cent of thu he
prison population of 1900 men snb-
scribed to the fund, the subscrint;ons
be'ng taken from money on deposit to
snelr credit with the prison clerk or
from their daily earnings.
Inc move to contribute to the fund
came from the men, and the drive was
conducted entirely by them.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
New Shipyard Sites Picked

WASHINGTON, May 25.-sites for
five government yards for building
concrete ships have been recommended
b BY engineering experts of the Shipping
Board. The selections are understood
to be Wilmington, N. c., and Jackson
Vile, Fla, on the Atlantic coast: Mo-
bile, Ala, on the Gulf coast, and San
Francisco and San Diego, Cal, on the
Pacific coast
The board has not acted on the rec
concentrations.
The yard at San Francisco, privately
owned. already is in operation. Il
built the Faith, the experimental con-
crete ship now undergoing test tripa.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-26
Girl, Is, Behind in
Studies, Ends Her Life
Leaves Dinner Table and Fires
Bullet Through
Her Head


Jane Paris, fifteen years old. a first
year pupil in Manual Training
the dinner table in her home at 579
Fulton Street, Brooklyn. A postal
card lay on the table in the next room.
that her father, Salvatore, could not
fail to see when he went in to get his
evening paper.
1t had come yesterday morning and
betrayed the fact that Jane had been
absent from school for two days and
was behind in her studies. ii don't
care for dessert" said the girl, and
went into the next room. The sound
Of shot summoned the family to her
side. She had fired bullet from a re-
yolver through her head and was dead
Her father told the police he had no
idea where she got the weapon.