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New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Sweet Aims to Thwart
1nsurgent Republicans
Threatens to Recess Assembly
Without Passing the
Welfare Bills
Staff Correspondence


ALBANY, April 12.-The Assembly
will recess April 10, and unless the
Senate adopts the resolution setting
that date as the time for final adjourn
ment, will mark time from then on.
This is the threat made to-day by
Speaker Sweet to the insurgent Repub-
lican-Democratic coalition of the Sem
ate, which has blocked the final ad-
journment resolution
The Republican insurgents and
Democrats of the Senate have decided
to put off adjournment until April 26.
to give the Assembly a chance to act
on health insurance, minimum wage
and other progressive legislation
passed by the Senate. Speaker Sweet
insists that these bills will be sent to
the Rules Committee and that the AS
sembly Republicans are bound by q
caucus until Tuesday not to support
any motion to discharge the committee.
The Speaker is confident the same de-
cision will be reached at the next cau-
Gus. The committee, which is under the
control Of Speaker Sweet. viii undoubt
edly Kill these bills if possible,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
8 at Tbirty-fourth Street were

stairs at Tbirty-fourth Street were
used.
The most noteworthy portion Of the
rark Avenue improvement is the erec-
ton of the steel viaduct> extending
from Fortieth to Forty-second Street.
ms vladuct, which will bring into
service the hitherto unused roadway
surrounding the Grand Central Ter
mlnal Building, involved the setting UP
OF SIX steel girders, each weighing from
sixty to seventy-dve tons, which will
serve as its main supports.
Congestion so Per Cent Less
The new roadway to be brought into
usage with the opening of the viaduct
leads to high level roadway on the
west side of the terminal building.
thlrty-hve feet in width, which is in
reality an upper story of Vanderbilt
avenue.
On the east side of the building
there is similar roadway, varying
from forty to sixty feet in width. but
tnls being a private right of way.
II Will be closed to the public tenn
porarily until negotiations for its use
are terminated
=, 1t is estimated that with the new
thoroughfare used to its full capacity
there will be q so per cent lesseninr
OF trafic congestion on both Fifth and
Madison avenues between Madison
Square and Fifty-seventh Street. It
is expected, too, that traffic congestion
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
S2,5Ol,15O Improvement
Project Completed and
so Years of Patchwork
4 o III e to an End
Congestion Is Eliminated
Park Avenue Traffic Tie.Ups
Will Be Lessened so Per
Cent Under New Plans

Announcement was made yesterday
ing that Fourth Avenue, with it's con-
tinuing street, Park Avenue, is to be
opened at noon on Wednesday as a
through and uninterrupted thorough
fare from Astor Place to the Harlem
River. So, fifty years of patchwork
improvements, including the opening
closing and relocation of various
streets, come to an end.
Since 1869, when the first Grand Cen
trail Station became reality and the
city closed Park Avenue to the public
from Forty-second to Forty-ffth
Street, there have been scores of prof.
ects for Improving" the avenue.
Various cross streets north and south
of Forty y-second Street have been sue
cessively opened and closed.
Plans Cover Fifteen Years
A little more than fifteen years ago
agitation was first started for under
taking a general reconstruction of Park
Avenue, which is the continuation of
Fourth Avenue. Work along these
lines-the rebuilding of the highway
from Thirty-second to Forty-ffth
Street-was actually begun fifteen
months ago.
In place of the blank wall at Thirty
fourth Street there is now a vehicular
roadway twenty-five feet in width aid
sidewalk for pedestrians, fifteen feet
in width, which connects lower Fourth
Avenue with the remainder of that
thoroughfare and with Thirty-fourth
Street.
Under the old conditions, too, Thirty
third Street was partially closed. so
that vehicles and Pedestrians were com
PEELED to go through Thirty-second
Street to get into the irst-mentioned
street west Of Fourth Avenue. A like
"trip had to be made 10 get on to Parl
Are7ua nlOno the sidewalk. unless ths
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Plane Dealers Plan
Selling Campaigns
Retailers Will Have Seven Dis
tributing Companies Through
out the Country


Seven distributing companies have
been organized in various parts of the
country for the purpose of selling
aeroplanes by retail. The companies
are incorporated by the Curtiss Cor
poration.
With the establishment of these
companies, vigorous campaign has
been inaugurated for the sale of aero
planes for commercial purposes. The
first showroom to open will be the
Curtiss Eastern Airplane Company, at
Philadelphia. G. S. Ireland, former
army aviator, is president and general
manager Of this concern. The Ameri-
ca Trans-Oceanlc Company will be
the distributing agent in this city and
Florida.
The other concerns are: the Cur
tiss Southwest Airplane Company, at
Tulsa, Okla; the Curtiss Northwest
Airplane Company, at Minneapolis, the
Curtiss Aircraft Company, at Atlantic
City, and the Curtiss- Humphreys Air
plane Company, at Denver.
The America Trans-Oceanic Com
pany is headed by Rodman Wanamaker.
1t has double hangers at Port Wash
ington, and will conduct school there.
1t will also engage in carrying pas
sengers shortly by inaugurating an
air line between New York and
Atlantic City.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

Albany to-day. "1 think he simply
talked his head off and thcp looked
around to find some one on whom he
could put the blame. I don't believe
he was ever offered a bribe. In fact
he told me he did not know of any
slush fund in Albany or any attempt
to bribe any member of the Senate.
He told me- that there had been a
suggestion that he might get support
in campaign which would make him
Governor"
Il don't know what there is to
Burke's statement quoting Thompson
on the opposition of the Syracuse
that he believed the Syracuse organi-
zaton would not be with him. feel
certain that his conclusion was drawn
nearly right"
ITO my knowledge there never has
been any action taken by the Syracuse
Republicans on Thompsons candidacy
for anything. However, 1 have an idea
that II any action were taken it would
not be in his favor"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Objects TO Woman's V;s;,s

Mrs. Margaret Wright, Of 211 n...
street, Brooklyn, was sent to Re,i.sh
Vost;5, VVospl;ai ps: yesterday morning from
The complainant in the case was uSion.
Davis, Christian Science praet;tissyae tHiSyae
having offices in the Aeolian BuilS;sclI
West Forty-second Street. 'u'ng'
.;.scs According r, to Davis, Mrs Wright o.,.
sisted in going to his Office and anasa PSF
ing him. He declared it had ""hhoy-
necessary twice before for him to hssl bssa
~ conduct. S0'uer-
- Mrs: rs. Davis; in her own behalf, swo,.
going to Davis's Office, but said dhas'sss shs sss
SO because he had promised to mssss u.a
her and that because of his prom;s.y nSs.y
she had divorced her husband in isses isIs
Mrs. Davis is about thirtv.s;sass.. ss.
years old. She has two children ''sas sss
custody of whom was awarded bas s.s
when she secured her divorce. Ae'
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

said, will in the first instance be sent
these men. II, however, they should
decline to accept these, formal sub
penaes will be issued for them"
Most of the other men whose names
have thus far figured in the case
stayed out of the limelight yesterday
Early in the morning Mr.. Shonts
stopped at the office of Mr.. Quacken-
bush and asked if minutes of the
Thompson testimony had been received.
Mr.. Quackenbush told him they had
not. The Interborough president then
went into conference with his attor-
ney. Thereafter he was not see again.
Mr.. Quackenbush said he believed
Mr. Shonts had gone for weekend
motor trip, into the country, but that
he himself would have no idea how
to reach him. The subject of his con-
ference with Mr. Shonts the lawyer
refused to GO into. He likewise de-
clined to say whether or not Mr..
Shonts would voluntarily appear be-
fore the Senate committee.
"Mr. Shonts himself" said he. "is
the only proper person to answer that
question"
Asserts l. r. It's Innocence
For his own part, Mr.. Quackenbush
expressed himself as entirely ready
to answer any invitation the Senate
might see fit to send him. In a gen
eral way he denied any improper con-
duct on the part of the l. L. T. in
connection with the seven cent fare
agitation.
"But it is impossible to discuss the
situation intelligently," he insisted
until we have seen copies of the
official minutes"
Like Mr. Shonts, John B. Stanchfield
was not visible yesterday. His office
declared that he has been absent, i'll,
for two weeks. His residential tec-
phone did not answer.
Ex-Governor Whitman was also a
difficult man to locate. Even Sergeant
at-Arms Hotaling got him only as the
result of telephone call from Mr..
Whitman himself, after the latter had
learned that the man from Albany had
been vainly searching for him for sew
eral hours.
Whitman Issues Statement
Ex-Governor Whitman, in declining
to discuss the case further before ap-
pearing at Albany, issued a statement,
saying:
"Anything further that needs to be
said OH the matter will be said before
the Legislature.
"Some tell me George (Senator
Thompson) has had an ambition to be
Governor for long time. Maybe he
still has it.
There was no discussion between
Senator Thompson and me of a $780,
600 campaign fund. never heard of
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Trolley Line May Quit

Intin ations from S. w. Huff. presi.
dent Of the Yonkers Railway Company
that tho trolley service from the Yon
kers city line to Hastings on Hudson
might be abandoned as result of tbe
agitation against fare increase inst.
tuted BY the board Of trustees Of that
village have been received by Thomas
). GOODWIN, president of the board.
Efforts viii be made, it was said yea
terday, to have the National Conduit
ana Cable Company, which has a bio
pan, IN Hastings on Hudson, operate
the line. 1t is believed that companv
could operate the limo ut profit on a
two-cent fare basis. "' @
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Neto YOrkers Named
By Thompson Get
Albany Fluctuations

Ex-Governor Charles S. Whitman
and Charles G. NJ Thomas, treasurer OF
the Consolidated Gas Company, will
both appear before the Senate Judiciary
Committee at Albany when the inves-
tigation into Senator George +. Thomp-
sons 100000 "doughbag" charges is
resumed tomorrow.
Mr.. Thomas was subp9naed at the
Consolidated Gas Company's offices,
13O East Fifteenth Street, by Charles
X. Hotaling, sergeant-at-arms of the
Senate, soon afternoon yesterday. Mr.
Whitman received the "invtaton" of
the committee at the Hotel st. Regis
later in the afternoon. He had pre-
viously, however, wired the committee
expressing his desire to appear be-
fore it.
All the other traction men, finan-
ciers and lawyers definitely mentioned
by Senator Thompson in his testimony
concerning the Carson Martin bill to
increase New York City carfares will
also be summoned before the Albany
nvestigators before the hearing is
concluded. This announcement was
Hiaue ny senator "A. W. burllngame, Jr.,
chairman Of the committee, at his
Brooklyn Offices, S91 Fulton Street,
yesterday.
Morgan May Be 'fnvited'
The list includes Theodore P Shonts
president of the Interborough Rapid
Transit, which has long been leading
the agitation in favor of 7-cent
fare; Nicholas F. Brady, leading B. r.
J.. stakeholder; James L. Quackenbush.
chief counsel for the Interborough, and,
II his health permits, John r. Stanch-
field, attorney. There is also strong
possibility, it was intimated yesterday,
that j. P. Morgan-re referred to simply
as "Morgan' by Senator Thompson
Friday in connection with the campaign
fund which the latter alleges was to
have followed his support Of the Car
SON Martin measure-will also be called
~ the Judiciary Committee.
"Ir,.ifDtin~s' Snrh.or u,+1i-.u.-..
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Navy Bonuses Speeded Up

In order that discharged sailors
may get their $50 bonus money with
as little inconvenience as possible, a
navy paymaster has been added to the
staff Of the office ct 1895 Broadway.
Already an average Of 1000 is being
paid each day, and sailors are now
given currency instead Of checks.
This office also is furnishing trans
p1rtation home for many stranded
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

on Forty second Street will h. .n.;
eliminated. W snt'fely
The total cost of the street on.,,s
has been set at s2,5Ol,15O. tn hspsning
share amounts to $1,220.oo e.'ys
the New York Central to (, s"a' sas, OF
and the New York Railways vs.ua,Iso, su,
pays the remainder, sI5o 006 0sseem
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
No Bribe offered
Thompson, Belief
Of Senator Walters

SYRACUSE, N. T., April 12.-"1 do
not believe Senator Thompson was ever
offered bribe," declared Statc' Senator
j. Henry Walters on his reinrn fro,o
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-11-06
Local Gleanings
Farm with Fordson,-adv

Farm with Fordson.-adv.
Mrs. G. w. Jenson left Monday To
spend the winter at Pasadena, Cal.
DR.. and Mrs. T. w. Ashley visited
in the Twin Cities yesterday and to-
day.
Milton Rions Of Owatonna, Mimi,
visited over Sunday at the home of
Mrs. E. Gevers.
Harold Watson, who is teaching at
Prescott, visited over Sunday with
friends in the city.
Mrs. A. L. johnson of st. Paul visit
ed over Sunday at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Finn.
Miss Pearl Currier went to Milwau-
kee yesterday to attend the state
teachers convention.
Piano Tuning and Repairing. Sat-
isfaction Guaranteed-Geo. III. Searle
With C. F. Winter, the Jeweler.
One of the Eau Claire players, nam
ed Winters, had the misfortune to
break leg. in last Fridays game here.
Mrs. j. E. Pulver left Tuesday eve
ming for Detroit, Mich, where she was
called on account of the serious illness
Of her mother.
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Saturday Dinner.

| Saturday Dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Ewing enter
tanned a few friends at dinner Satur
day in compliment to Mrs. Theodore
Struck and Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Williams
Normal School Seniors Entertained
Miss Matte Mcmillan, class adviser
for the Seniors, entertained the mem
bers of the class in an informal party
held in the Normal building Saturday
evening.
Woman's League
Mrs. G. j. Stratton, Mrs. William
Segerstrom and Mrs. Glen Junkman
will entertain the Woman's League
Monday evening, November tenth, at
the home of Mrs. Stratton.
Farewell Luncheon
Mrs. A. L.. Ewing entertained few
ladies at one o'clock luncheon as a
farewell to Mrs. Mamie Farnsworth,
who expects to leave soon for an in
defnate stay at the home Of her
daughter, Mrs. Oscar Anderson, in
Duluth, MINI.
y . q
Special Meeting, 0. E. S., Nov. 10.
A special meeting of Kinnickinnic
Chapter No. 80, O. E. S., will be held
Thursday evening, Nov. J3. at o'clock
in honor of Sister Sarah Sanderson
This is social gathering and a good
attendance is expected.
y
A Birthday Surprise Party
A birthday surprise party was given
last Thursday evening for Miss Rose
Meyer at her home in Mann Valley
The evening was spent in games and
stunts with cards, and singing and
dancing. Miss Meyer was presented
with many beautiful gifts.
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Social Items

Monday Evening Dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Hagestad enter
tanned at dinner Monday evening.
Priscilla Art Circle
The Priscilla Art Circle met with
Mrs. Walter Sutherland yesterday af-
ternoon.
Duck Dinner
Senator and Mrs. Geo. B. Skogmo
entertained at wild-duck dinner Mon
day evening.
Clerks Give Surprise Party
The Allard store employees gave a
pleasant surprise party for Mr.. and
Mrs. Allard last evening.
i i
Six-thirty Dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Armstrong en-
tertained tableful of friends at $50
dinner last Thursday evening.
Turkey Dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hannah enter
tanned a number of relatives and
friends at a turkey dinner Sunday.
Halloween Party
Misses Irma Wenzel and Clara
Thompson entertained at a Halloween
party last Thursday evening at the
T. T. Thompson home.
Supper Thursday Evening"
Professor and Mrs. Lloyd Goble en-
tertained a few guests at supper last
Thursday evening in compliment to
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Williams.
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Do all your work with Fordson.-
adv.
Atty. VIM. Foley of Milwaukee is
here on a visit to his parents.
e. n. Wiger, ]. H. Grimm and G. w.
Jenson went to Bay City duck hunting
today.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-11-06

A full line of Wrist Watches at
Heidbrink's Jewelry Store.-adv.
Mrs. w. H. Stearns of Racine IS 4
guest at the Pierce-Johnson home.
Mrs. Ada Miller underwent surgi-
cal operation in st. Paul hospital
Tuesday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-11-06
CAR LOAD OF BOX APPLES

Just received at Equity Elevator &
Warehouse Co. Choice Goods. $500
per box. Johnathans, Roman Beaut
les and Rubies.-adv.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-11-06
Speaking OF the Clothes
You See I'm a Crowd

DO you ever study the various types of clothes
worn by the streets, crowd game any,
where! DO you notice the different styles and grades
ship? Invariably the who is ared good
orable impression whether you know not
The man who quality clothes in good
style isqucky distinguished something diff
erent about himsomehing
you to lnqure Where do your cohes?'
in this class would cheerfy reply they
Imperial Valley press., 1919-09-26
KETTkER BILL !.
REPORTED OUT .
!. !. !. TODAY, BELIEF

The Kettner bill will be reported
out oethe Arid Lands committee today,
according to word reaching this city.
1t is anticipated that the bill will be
reported favorable.
Up to late hour this afternoon no
direct word had been received from
Washington relative to any action tax
en-.
Yesterdays Los Angeles Times car
ried an exclusive dispatch telling OF a
new bill supposed to have been intro
duced. 1t read in part as follows:
Congressman Hayden yesterday in
troduced a new bill on the same Sub
ject. lie attempts to prevent violent
booming of now arid lands on the
strength that they will get water by
provisions of this bill by requiring
the Secretary of the Interior to fix
the acreage to be irrigated in ad-
vance,
His bill provides that the United
States Treasury, may finance the mca-
sure by taking bonds of the district
and issuing notes, certificates of in
debtedness or bonds of the United
States to provide funds for the enter
prise. He also seeks to limit to 160
acres any water right under the new
district. Provision also is made that the
Secretary of the Interior shall require
the new lands to provide funds for
storage, reservoirs on the Colorado
River, above Laguna dam; and last, but
not least, it provides that any conncc-
tion with Laguna dam must be in~ac-
cordance with contract drawn by the
Interior Department and signed by the
Imperial Valley water users vast year.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-09-26

SUMMONS
In the Superior Court of the State of
California in and for the County of
Imperial.
I. ]. REYNOLDS,
Plaintiff.
VS..
ALONZO REYNOLDS,
.,. Defendant.
The People of the State of Califor-
MIA Send Greeting to Alonzo Reyonlds,
Defendant.
You are Hereby Directed to Appear
and answer the complaint in an ac-
ton entitled as above, brought against
YOU in the Superior Court Of the Coun-
ty of Imperial, State of California,
within ten days after the service on
YOU of this Summons-if served within
this County; or within thirty days if
served elsewhere.
And YOU are hereby notified that
unless you appear and answer as above
required, the said Plaintiff will take
Judgment for any money or damages
demanded in the complaint, as arising
upon contract, or she will apply to the
Court for any relief demanded in the
complaint. 1,
Given under my hand and the seal Of
the Superior Court of the County OF
\ Imperial, State of California, this l4th
day Of November, 1918.
! M. S. COOK, Clerk.
yRvE! WILSON, Deputy Clerk
JAS. w. (LASSFORD,
J Attorney for Plaintiff.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-09-26
KENYON BILL
PROGRESSING

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Hcar-
ings before the Senate committee on
the Kenyon bill show the packers have
no defense to offer.
1.-The Kenyon bill to regulate the
meat packers is one ofthe chief mea-
sures now before Congress, which IS
designed to reduce the cost Of living
said DR.. Lewis H. Haney, director of
the buraeu of research and publicity of
the Southern Wholesale Grocers' asso-
citation today. "The bill is now before
the Senate Committee on Agriculture
near future. The packers are making
and is bound to be reported out in the
desperate effort to flood the commit
tee with witnesses from all over the
country, but from my observation of
the hearings, they are not making
much progress.
"Thus far the witnesses brought in
by the packers are Of two sorts; one
group comes in and says that because
railway service is poor, therefore they
do not believe in licensing the meat
packers. Of course this line of argu-
ment makes little impression, because
everyone knows that the railways arc
now actually operated by the govern
ment, while the Kenyon bill proposes
that the meat packers should only be
regulated, as our railways have al
ways been regulated, even in their
days of efficiency before the war,
"The witnesses of the second group,
who are mostly cattle feeders, also
fail to talk to the point. Their state
ment is that some banker or cattle
loan association man has told them
that times look bad on account of the
threatened government regulation, and
that he fears that he will not be able
to finance them until the Kenyon bill
is killed. 1t is obvious to my mind that
such witnesses are either deceived, or
are undly influenced by their depen-
dence upon bankers and cattle loan
associations which are controlled by
the packers-perhaps both.
"When all the witnesse who can be
induced to go to Washington to de-
fend the packers have appeared, the
Federal Trade commissions experts
will sum up the case; also it is ex-
ipected that the great body of farmers
of the country who are opposed to the
meat packers monopoly will be heard
Dr. Haney concluded by stating that
"the fact that the packers have a
monopoly control over the prices of
meats, cheese, hides, and other food
products has not been successfully de-
nied." un~I
Imperial Valley press., 1919-09-26
TWO THOUSAND Z. :.
CHECK TIMBER
FIRES IN NORTH
(By Associated Press,

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26.-For-
estry officials announce that they
have checked three timber and brush
fires which have devasted more than
one hundred and sixty thousands acres
in the Angeles National Forest. Two
thousand men are fighting the flames.
Mr.. E. Pope was seriously burned
when pocketed by the flames.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-09-26
(Ry Associated Press)

SAN JOSE, Sept. 26-California
State Redwood Park is in danger of
destruction by fire. from the west.
State Forester Homansi from Sacra-
mento, authorized the hiring of men
and the purchase Of supplies out Of
state funds to fight the flames. Mr..
Homans said he expected to control
the fire by night.
Sargent VIII insure it."-Adv.
Gee Law ewia huxc f0r caah
Imperial Valley press., 1919-09-26
JOHNSON STARTS '''. .'.
FOR COAST AND -
RESUME TRADE
(Bv Associated Press)

(Bv Associated Press) y
WASHINGTON, Sept. Ex-senator
Johnson has announced that he will
leave tomorrow for San Francisco to
resume his campaign against the
unreserved ratification of the treaty.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-09-26

"Ssrxent Wilt uaaure lt."-Adv.
Miracle Motor Gas tablets add Is
to 40 per cent to your mileage.
See Jay Lewis is reliable.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-09-26

See Jay Lewis buys for cash.