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New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Two Men Shot in
Hold-Up For Gafney'
Robbers Escape After Invad-
ing Restaurant, but Get
No Monev

Four armed men leaped from an au-
tomobile last night and. entering a
cafe at Tenth Avenue and Twenty
fourth Street, commanded the patrons
Of the place to throw up their hands,
the men saying, 1--WE want funds for
Gatfney"
A free-for-all fight followed. during
which two men were shot. They are
Henry Bors,' q laborer. of 211 Tenth
Avenue, who is in Bellevue Hospital
with his skull fractured by a bullet
and James Bormell, an engineer. of 213
Tenth Avenue, who was shot through
the right side of the neck, the bullet
grazing the flesh.
AS the shots we're fired most of the
patrons leaped for shelter, hid behind
tables and rushed for the doors. Neigh
bors blew police whistles, and the four
holdup men backed out to the autom.
bile which was left with its motor run
nlng and started north on Tenth Ave
nue.. The car got away by turning into
l"enty-slxth Street. The robbers got
no money.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Yard and Terminal Fac;l.
ties Inadequate, General
Manager Says
Higher Pay Demanded
Fully 500 More Men Needed
to Handle Situation Properly
Frank Hedley Asserts

Frank Hedlev, vice president A..
general manager of the Interborou.,
Rapid Transit Company, appeared h.
fore the Public Service Comm;s,;..
yesterday and explained, from tho cor
pany's point of view, why the serv;,,
on the new East and West Side srh
ways had not been kept up to schedul,
Mr.. Hedley explained that the prr
cipal difficulties were encountered !,
handling the intricate signal system
inadequate yard and terminal facis.,
and the inability of the companv !,
secure adequate help. The witness said
however, that the company had sus
cient motormen and was ready to NJ,
their new cars in operation faster tbs,
the city could complete the subway,
He said the company would have :,
pay its men more money and that 4ts,
city and the taxpayers would bsvs :.
pay the bills"
Mr.. Hedley asserted that every eHor
had been made to maintain maY;mu,
schedule under existing physical cond.
tlons on the new lines. All RrooLir.
trains had to go by way OF the Levin,
ION avenue route, he said, because n
connection had yet been provided a,
the West Side line. Prior to Auons, =
al trans were made up Of ten GOV,
put this had been varied since ths, ,,
he said that the service was hstt,, fsr
yesterday than on anv dav s;nc. r',N. ~.
opening of the new system ma .s.. H..
one-third of the service was msda '1'. -.
OF five. six and eight-car trains y,
was quite sure that the subway sitns
ton was improving daily ''''''
Asked in regard 10 tba sbor.,
employees, Mr.. Hedley said lu' tba 'ass ss',.y sl
required fully 500 more men 10 Sss,sl Sss'n
w see SITUATION properly They wsrc
nee ueeaeo IN most all departments eycen,
thal OF the general managers in which
s,1oie sno were sufficient, he said About
t4J t;o,, ~omen have been employed as
uvnt o.IMe' agents and choppers since An.
gust L. he declared. Asked when h.
ttHpeCee9 - the HI system would be uu
10 70 schedule, he replied that it depsu5
ca soieiy upon the company's ability (.
secure men. and likewise the nransr
working of the intricate signal svs.sn rsvss
winch he said had given tronbIe 1ISr" ds;lr
Comm lssioner Whitney asked 4,
"i.less nlis TO submit at the next heanrg
a. Scneuule CT the service yesterds,,
Gnu 1hat actually performed, as CON-
farnG f',rn;u, WIN SIX weeks ago, and also 10
,un"ish list of employees in the ser.
! periods. ~ -ilOnm
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Eight cot Snake Is ''Monarch
OF All He Surveys at Coney
Reptile lerrorizes Seaside Walk and Holds Undisputed
Sway Over Island Until Lassoed by Policeman
Who Lands 1t in Station Locker

Where he came from or where he
was going, nobody has yet found out
He was sauntering along Seaside Walk
at Coney Island yesterday with few
thousand other resort patrons. But
he happened to be snake, and that
made him conspicuous. even on a street
that is used to seeing all sorts of odd
things go by.
None of the crowd on the walk had
anything to fear from snakes. 1t wasn',
that. AS one stout gentleman ex-
planned afterwards. when they found
him dangling like a ripe bunch of ba-
nanas from fruiterer's awning. he
seemed such moody snake, and ap-
parently wanted to take in the sights
on his own. SO people scrambled onto
tables and Skinned up lampposts and
let him have his way.
In a few minutes the snake had cor
nered the freedom Of the island, and
could have hunted hot dogs or ridden
on a scenic road, or had his wide smile
done on a tintype. or visited the snake
show on the Bowery and viewed
friends from the outside looking in.
But as he wiggled his lively eight feet
of coils along the deserted pavement
along came Patrolman John Toffey, of
the Consy Island force.
Toffey and the snake both stopped
looked each other in the eyes and then
began to circle warily. Presently Tof-
fey cut an awning rope and made a
moose of it. "Stick up your head
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
1nvades Women's Home
Says He Sought to Rescue
Wife Held as Inmate

man got into the Inwood House
IN institution to which women ar.
committed. early yesterday morning
inmates discovered him on the second
hoor Of the building, at Dyckman
street and River Road They screamed.
Miss Mary A. Dillon, assistant super
intendent Of the institution, came run
ming with revolver
When policeman arrived the in
tr1der vas covering on the floor while
Aiss Dillon pointed the revolver at him
and score Of young women stood
about in their nightXowns. The pris-
oner said he Was Charles Pons. Of 319
West Fiftieth Street He told Mavjs.
trate Corrigan, in Warrington Heights
police court, that Mrs. Pons was an
inmate of the place. ~ was Just try
Ing to take my wife out before Joined
the army" he raid. Magistrate Cor
rigan suspended sentence upon him.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Married by Agreement
Ceremony L Never Performed
Plaintiff in Alienation
Suit Admits

Mrs. Evelyn Vaine Won Pustau filed
yesterday in the Supreme Court the
bill of particulars demanded by her
father-in-law. Carl Won Pustau, COM
mission merchant. whom she is suing
for S5o,ooo for the alleged aienatiol
Of the affections of her husband, Will
lam NJ. Won Pustau.
Mrs. Won Pustau charged that the
elder Won Pustau caused her husband
to leave her. He asked her to give
particulars as TO her marriage to hi
son. The reply of Mrs. Won Pustsp
shows that, while there were four mar
rlages by agreement, there was no
ceremonial marriage. she said.
Il first became the wife of William
NJ. Won Pustau in New York City 10
March, 1913. became the wife OF VIII
lam Nj. Won Pustau in San Francisco
Cal, in August, 1913; IN Yokohama
Japan, in October. 1913, and in Hong
kong, China, in October. 1918. wher
and when such agreement was reneVea
from time 10 time. The marriage o.
any such marriages were not perfornse,s
by any minister or Official she sale
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16

buddy. and look what you're going to
get" he invited earnestly.
VIII Rogers could have done no bet.
ter. The cast missed by a margin of
feet. but the snake saw the moose fall
and dlvcd for 1T. The officer jerked
suddenly and discovered that he had a
particularly husky. able bodied snake
attached to SIX feet of lead rope
Toffey turned and started to drag
his captive to the station, blushng be-
tore plaudits of an admiring crowd.
linen, suddenly, he turned very pale.
The snake had decided not to wait to
be dragged. He was ready to 20 to
the police station, or any other place,
as long as Officer Toffey led the way.
And he went in a hurry.
From the point where the reptile was
apprehended to the police station it
was full third of mile. Toffey
beat the snake to the captains desk
by a scant margin of inches, and he
declared afterward that he felt needle
Ike teeth nipping at his heels all of
the way. The snake was travelling so
iast that he ran into an open locker.
just as the breathless officer jumped
aside. Somebody slammed the door.
and few minutes later Toffev was
searching the island for the proprietor
of the energetic serpent. At 8 late
hour the snake was still the officers
property.
Almost everybody thought he was a
rattler," said the policeman. "But he
wasn't. He was a whip snake"
Totfey last night was trying to de-
wise way to get the snake out of his
locker
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Burleson Orders
Phone Systems to
Limit Extensions
Names Investigators t
Help Unity Systems in
Same Localities

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Postmaste ter
General Burleson to-day issued an
order to all telephone companies to
confine extensions and betterments to
meet war requirements and vital COM
mercial needs and to proceed as ex-
peditiously as possible with plans for
consolidating and unifying telephone
plants, where the onsolidation is de-
sired by the public.
In cases in which two telephone sys-
TENS are operating in the same area
the order directs the companies to CO.
operate in making extensions and bet
terments, that unitication and elimina-
ton of waste in money, man-power and
materials may be brought about, "in
an orderly way and with due regard
to the rights of the owners of the
properties and the convenience Of the
public"
The order is not intended. it was
stated, to direct any action or policy
would result in damage or injury to
e''NiA ouo'iCoo VI PAOPSlty, anu WIcIC
such injury would result. by compli-
ance with the orders, the companies
are directed to bring the subject to
the attention of the department for
further instructions.
Mr. Burlcson announced the appoint
ment of Nathan O. Kingsbury, vice
president of the American Telegraph
and Telephone Company, and George
W. Robinson, president of the Tri i-State
I Telegraph and Telephone Company. to
investigate and carry on negotiations
for the unihcation and construction
Of the various telephone companies OPP
Grating in the same communities.
Mr. Burcson also appointed two com
mittecs, composed of postal officials,
to study the purchase of supplies for
telegraph and telephone systems and
to investigate whether it would be
practicable to divide the country into
telephone and telegraph districts sim
liar in number and territory with the
railway mail inspectors divisions.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
West New York Officials
Doubt Woman Was
Murdered
No Trace of Violence
Further Inquiry Ordered in
Finding of Human Form
Wrapped in Paper

The body of Mrs. Christina Quar-
rell, thirty five years old, of 235 Twelfth
Street, West New York, n j., was
found early yesterday morning partly
concealed in high weeds which cover
the vacant lot directly in the rear of
$50 Monroe Place, West New York. 1t
was bound with twine and wrapped in
heavy brown paper She had been dead
several days.
Mrs. QUARREL was identified by her
husband, George QUARREL, by a ring
and key. He told the police he had not
seen his wife since last Saturday and
had been searching for her ever since
Erastus B. Carpenter, former
Councilman of West New York, who
lives at 229 West Seventeenth Street,
West New York. discovered the body
early yesterday. He left home to get
his morning paper and walked through
the lot. He takes the same route each
a few feet of where the body lay hid
den, he stopped, attracted by an odor.
Seeing nothing, however, ne went on.
Finds Body in Lot
Yesterday morning the odor was
few minutes search disclosed the
bundle.
He called passing milkman and
the two investigated. Tearing the
heavy tan wrapping paper, they saw
the black cloth of a woman's coat and
notified the police.
Charles Darke, an undertaken of
West New York, took charge of the
body. He took it to the Hudson County
morgue, in Hoboken. County Physician
Daily, who made preliminary autopsy
last night, announced that there was
nothing on the body to indicate that
the woman had met death by violence.
He will analyze for traces of poison.
QUARREL was among the many per-
sons who visited the Darke under
taking establishment in the belief the
woman was long missing relative or
friend.
The police took QUARREL and John
O'Neill, brother of the dead woman,
to the police station. They emphatical-
ly denied all knowledge of the cause of
Mrs. Quarrells death QUARREL at first
refused to give his name and address,
saying:
''She has brought disgrace enough on
me already. Am l now to be charged
with Killing her z!
Neighbors Also Examined
Neighbors in the house where the
Quarrells lived said the couple had
been on friendly terms. A woman who
resides on the same floor said she had
noticed Mrs. QUARREL under the influ-
ence of liquor several times.
A theory advanced by the police is
that the woman might have been drink
ing IN nearby saloon and died sud
denly, and that her companions. be-
coming frightened. had wrapped tn.
body and placed it in the lot.
QUARREL is employed in meat
packing establishment near JERSEY
City.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Lewis Again Links
Hearst and Whitman

Fresh charges of afiliation with Will
lam Randolph Hearst were made
against Governor Whitman yesterday
by Attorney General Merton E. Lewis.
SO close was the association existing
at one time between the executive and
the editor, according to Mr.. Lewis.
ssaseaaI Hearst maintained an agent at AL
bany the greater part Of 1915 and 1917.
IN order to make known his wishes at
the Capitol.
Mr. Lewis asserted that Hearst's in
fiuence with the Governor has been a
matter of common knowledge among
legislators and state officials ever since
the first election Of Governor Whitman.
Much of Mr.. Lewiss attack on the
Governor was based on the latter's
action in vetoing the so-called Oswego
water power bill. The Governor. he
said. had actually helped in the prem
GRAFTON of the bill and then, because
of Hearst's objection to it on the
ground that it did not provide for
municipal ownership, he turned about
and vetoed it,
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Viereck Is Expelled
From New York A..C.
His Letter Of Resignation Is
Ignored by the Board
of Governors

The board of governors of the New
York Athletic Club recently notified
George Sylvester Viereck that thew
had suspended him, pending an inves-
tigation of the charge that he was
in sympathy with the cause of Ger
many. Viereck was told to appear be-
lore the board August Ia to defend
himself.
When the board met Wednesday
nlght Vlereck did not appear. although
he is staying at the Hotel Savoy. near
by. He sent a letter, however, in
which he offered his resignation from
the club. The governors decided to
ignore the letter and voted unanimous
ly to e%pel him. Viereck recently ad
mltted to Federal officials that he had
ernment for propaganda work in the
United States. He could not be
reached last night.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Fuel Cooperation Planned
ALI County Administrators of
State at Conference

SiXty-two fuel administrators. repre-
senting all the counties of the State
Of New York, met in the Chamber of
Commerce yesterday in order TO effect
closer cooperation in carrying out
the government regulations.
Deios w. Cooke. State Fuel Admin
,strator, who had just returned from
Washington, where he had been in
conference with National Fuel Admin
istra'or Earheld, explained to the Wis
itors the problems they will be called
upon to deal with, and suggested how
they might solve them. Questions re,
latlng to the transportation, storage
and delivery of coal to dealers wrrc
thrashed out and plans adopted to as
sure the most speedy and direct transit
from mine TO consumer.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
More Industries
To Suffer as Coal
Crisis Grows Acute
Government to Further Cur
tail Supply of By-Produc-
ton Fuel to Factories

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-Shortage
of by-producton coal, essential to steel
production, including the smokeless
variety essential to the navy, has
reached such alarming proportions, it
was learned to-day, that the govern
ment may have to curtail socalled
lesser essential industries more dras-
tically than contemplated when the fuel
need of war industries first made re-
strictions on consumption necessary.
The fuel administration is now TAX
ing, wherever it can be found, every
ton of this grade of coal from those
industries which may use other grades,
including steam coal, just as we'll. With
preaching the $4,000, ,00O-ton mark for
the rest of the year, and many blast
furnaces threatened with shutdown
through lack of by-product coal, the
fuel administration and War Industry
Board are joining forces, not only to
stop private boarding, but to develop
additional coal fields. The railroad ad
ministration is being urged to author
ize track extensions to new fields.
U. S. to Finance Lines
The Youngstown (Ohio) Sheet and
Tube Corporation is ready to develop
a by-product coal field near it's plant
and is awaiting permission of Director
General McAdoo to build an eight-mile
siding necessary to open it, and plans
are under consideration for govern
ment financing of other such projects.
The shortage Of coal at steel mills
ard blast furnaces is so acute, officials
Of the War Industries Board said to-
day, that steel capacity is being reduced
month, and six blast furnaces will in
all probability have to shut down.
In the Illinois district, one mill is
losing more than 10000 tons of steel
{. month, and in the Ohio district 100
coke ovens at steel plant are idle
because there is no coal on hand.
High Record in July
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. Is. - Ship
rents of anthracite in July attained
a high record and with two exceptions
were the largest ever reported in any
cne month.
Figures issued by the anthracite
bureau of information to-day show
shipments of 7,O84,775 gross tons for
the month, against 6,S67,669 tons in
June and 6,724,252 tons in July last
year, indicating increases of 217,106
end 360,523 tons, respectively.
The two occasions when the July
shipments were exceeded were in March
of this year, when 7,276,277 tons were
hauled and in October, 1917, when the
tonnage reached 7,110,950.
For the first four months of the cur
rent Goa year the shipments have
amounted to 27,208,073 tons, compared
with 26 ,283, 113 tons for the correspond
inc npriOd in 1917
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Food Inspector Fined SIS
Charge of Extortion Changed
to Disorderly Conduct

John d. Conklin, Ill West l5'a
Street, an inspector in the employ o.
the State Food Board, was fined ~
yesterday in Washington Heights lou''
following his arraignment before ASs
istrate CorriSan on charge OF eS'0'
ton. The food inspector was accuse
by Tobias Buckbinder, who conducts /.
dairy at l,l03 Washington Avenue;
demanding money on threat 10 .ts. e,t
his store for week if it was not ios.a
coming. Buckbinder claimed to 10"
given Conklin so cents. s.
Magistrate Corrigan directed tina. ~
charge against Conklin. who ael's.
the statements Of Buckbnder.r r,.s
changed to disorderly conduct. ''''
he imposed the fine. .,,r
Abe Drucker, another food lnspc.rS, nspc.rS.
Grraigned at the same time with .uI, sts
lin, was discharged by the msg's"''
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Woman Who Cheered
Kaiser Proves Sane
Brooklyn Magistrate Delays SEN
tence, but Hints at 'Island''
Banishment

Amelia Fleming. of 146 Meserole
Street, Brooklyn, who imperilled her
physical safety and ner reputation for
sanity by shouting "Hurrah for the
Kaiser." in motion picture house.
was reported sane yesterday when ar
raigned before Magistrate Short in the
Bridge Plaza police court, Brooklyn.
"Do you like the Rhne?" demanded
the magistrate.
v.n1,l, ~ love y" replied the prisoner fer
81 find you guilty" said the magis-
trate. "and remand you for two days,
after which, unless further investiga-
tion makes me change my mind, l shall
send you to an island where you can
see river every day, but it won't be
the Rhine"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Jury Disagrees in Case
Against Tombs "Trustv'

After being out for more than four
hours yesterday afternoon, the jury
which tried John Callahan, the Tombs
"trusty." who was charged with aiding
Vincent Gnffncy's escape from the pris-
en- on June ~, was unable to agree
Judge Mott discharged the jury when
Norman f. Peters, foreman, announced
that there WAS no likelihood of an
agreement.
Owen w. Bohan, the Assistant Dis
trict Attorney, said he would try the
case against Callahan again.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Sugar Board to Exercise
Options ON Cuban Crop

The international Sugar Committee
of the United States food administra-
tion announced yesterday its decision
to exercise two options on Cuban sugar.
which it held under a contract made
with Cuban planters last fall. One
option is on 100000 tons Of sugar and
the other on anything that may remain
of the l9l7l9lS crop.
The committee already had exercised
options on 100000 tons of the Cuban
crop and yesterdays decision will make
the United States purchases of Cuban
sugar this year reach 100000 tons.
The sugar will be bought at price of
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Sees Her Daughter and
Boy Rescuer Drowned
Mother Helpless on Beach as
Girl, II, and Youth. 10,
Lose Lives at BRIGHTON

Hilda Fisher, seventeen years old
screamed for help yesterday while
swimming. off Manor Road, West
ibrlghton, Staten Island. Charles Col.
pert, sixteen years old, at whose home
IN West Brighton the girl was visiting
swan to her assistance.
lie was exhausted when he reach d
her and was unable TO bring her back
and unwilling TO abandon her. Botr
were drowned. Mrs. Anna Fisher. IN,
girls mother. saw the struggling pair
but could not summon assistance in
time to save them. Her home is at az
Webster Avenue, Jersey City.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Girl Drives Auto, Boy Killed

NEW ROCHELLE, Aug. 15.-John
Weiner, r., six years DID, was killed
to-day when hit by an automobile
driven by ELLEN Cary, fifteen years old,
daughter OF Arthur c. Cary, jr, vice
president Of the American Bank Note
Company. Witnesses said that thc
boy suddenly dartcd from behind an
other car
She drove to the police station and
was arrested. Her father furnished
bail in $4,000 Her companion in the
car was Pauline Bower, of Holland
Parkway. An inquest will be held to-
morrow.
Mr.. Cary lives at Forest Heights.
:hls city. The victim lived at PIG
North Street.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Raise Price of Sunday Papers

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15.-An-
nouncements were made to-day by the
five leading Philadelphia morning news
papers that, beginning August 18, the
price of their Sunday editions would
be advanced from to Z cents in this
city and Camden, n. j. Elsewhere the
price will be cents. Increased cost
Of production and distribution, the an
nouncements said, ncccssitated the
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Strike Ties Up St. John

ST. JOHN, N. b., Aug l5.~-Membcrs
Of the street railway and allied unions
struck today and the city is without
tram service. A shutdown of the com
panys plant, which supplies industrial
plants, also street and house electric
lighting, Is threatened. The gas ser-
vice has been cut Off and newspapers
are being set by hand. The men struck
on question Of back pay.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
Elevator Operator Killed

John Graham, eighteen years old,
operator of an elevator in the slaugh
terhouse of Joseph Stern g. Sons, GIG
west Fortieth Street. stuck his head
out of the car yesterday while it was
ascending and was killed. His head
MT the second floor. He lived at 531
Eleventh Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-16
What Is Going On To-day

ONE NEAL NIlcArLESS.
WAX SAVINGS STAMP DRIVE. -
CAMPAIGN FOR BED CROSS
NURSES TN
YOUNG MEMS CnHlSTlAN ASScoNpsxggs
CAMPAIGN FOR ON ERSEAS "'''k
Free admission 10 the American Mnasse,cess
Natural History. Ne" Nork r, Ans'
Park, Van Corilandt Park MuseuaI,,, aI,,,,srlsr
lean Museum OF Safety and the 'Ns q
Public band concert. under the auspsss 49, :
Columbia University. univsrs'V
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