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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

NOUS and known for miles around as
tbs haunts Of certain cron!es. Among
the most famous Of these we're the
old Ten Eyck Tavern, the Bates Street
Coffee House and Cliffs, or The Old
Yellow Tavern
The CID Bates Street Coffee House
was one Of the show places Of tho
city N the old days Distinguished
visitors were always taken there for
bird supper and to meet the bows.
There we're also other smaller coffee
houses il Detroit in the old days, and
each was frequented by its own par
ticular clique
But the coffee house, as an Inst
tuition, had its own distinct place In
the Detroit CT the past.
VIII it regain that place tn De
troit O. the future?
prohibition has placed its taboo OF
the saloon. but, It seems, nothing can
interfere WIKI the coffee house.
at may be that some great mind
VIA discover q newer and more modern
substitute for the saloon as time goes
on. But, as history shows, j, met the
requirements of meeting place where
men in all walks of life could fas
companionship once so why not
again? In modern times the army can
teen huts have approached the idea OF
the coffee house. Men were entirely
satisfied With them. and enjoyed tia
doughnuts and coffee.
strictly speaking. Detroit does not
possess any coffee houses at the pres
ent time. except for few in certain
foreiga quarter whore men gather TO
talk politics; but places such as Ten
Eyck Tavern and tire Bates Street COT
fee House do not exist. IN the future.
however, poor old history may repea,
herself again. and local celebrities Of
years to como may seek inspiration
In new and improved coffee housas.~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

rooms and vicious cabarets Is now at
tempting to come back with the aid OF
coffee houses, according to the police.
"Thus far The coffee houses have sp-
peared in foreign districts, and for
eigners have been the owners They
have the appearance Of being respect
able places, where coffee IS slipped BY
men and women. There IS 10 enter
tainment, and seldom IS anything other
than coffee served. Usually there is
noted an overabundance OF mattresses,
mostly young and good looking. Men
walters ere not employed. and the pat
ronage o. women coffee drinkers is not
encouraged in these places, the police
assert
prosecutor Stanton believes that
many mysteries Of missing girls VII be
cleared Up when the coffee house evil
has been wiped out"
Shades of Addison and Steele,
How has the mighty coffee house
fallen from its estate in England
Of century ago! And even our
own American coffee houses have
changed, as can be Judged from this
picture given Us by Marjorie Elaine
Porter, IN The Detroit Sunday
/ News,
During the English occupation.
whenever the Indians gave the British
officers a few minutes breathing space,
the redcoats would gather az little
place Of refreshment in the village,
called the Fleur de Lis. Here mine
host, a genial Canadian known as Mas
ter Francois, and his dark eyed daugh-
ter, Babette, waited upon the officers
Of old Fort Pontcha rtrain.
GAS for the purely American coffee
house in old Detroit, in time it became
q very popular institution There were
aeveral of them that were actually IA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
The grand opening ,cas Il
signal for croaods to form

cles for sale were installed in Just
nine days. Captain JafPrey Peter
son, working under the direction Of
Colonel Carson, was chiefly respon-
sible for the celebrity and efficiency
Of the arrangements.
1t was not known, on the night Of
September 25, whether or not the
swift and eFectual preparations
We're to be rewarded with the pub
lies patronage.
Captain Peterson worked until s
o'clock in the morning Of the open
ing day, wheeling a hand truck,
carrying goods from the motor
trucks outside into the store. He
said that his handling the truck had
the same effect on his men as has
the shouldering Of regulation pack
by an officer on long march. No
body has the courage to let up then,
he said. He took u short nap when
the sun was just beginning to break
through and he slept for three hours
on pile of army blankets. He
was awakened, he said, by the kind
Of noise which comes from stadiums
at football games. 1t was rumbling
and rising. He looked out Of the
window and saw a crowd which the
reporters agreed was made up of
10000 persons who wanted to buy
army things and wanted to buy
them badly.
The captain climbed out on a
small balcony on the second floor
and attempted to address the poten-
tial customers lie told the people
that the place didn't open until
. in the afternoon; that it was semi
permanent affair and the best stuff
hadn't arrived yet, and that the
people were blocking the traffic and
cumming up the business of the
neighborhood. About 1000 went
away, but the remainder chung close
TO the place where goods were to be
sold at from 20 to so per cent be-
low the regular market prices. The
customers were allowed in at the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Ye Old Coffee House. Replacing the Saloon Becoming

and low cabaret In the underworld
OF Cleveland and other cities. Ac-
cording to Police Prosecutor Ed
ward Stanton, young girls are held
practically as slaves In these re-
sorts, and are bought and sold by
the proprietors-
"These girls are placed In coffee
houses" says Mr.. Stanton, accord
ing to that newspaper, Gin the guise
Of mattresses, but are compelled TO
lead immoral lives, dividing profits
With the owner Of the coffee house
to which they are assigned"
Quoting further from "The St.
Paul Pioneer Press" we learn that
"a well dressed, extensively jewelled
woman, labelled by tho police OF Clcve-
land and Detroit queen OF tho coffee
house vice trust has been arrested in
the effort 20 break tho vice ring now
operating In coffee houses which have
sprung up In districts where tho for
elgn population h heaviest. Many for
ner saloons haze been made over into
coffee houses.
"Prosccutor Stanton accuses the vice
ring Of buying, selling and exchanging
young girls, forcing them to live I'M
morally in coffee houses.
"Many coffee houses In Cleveland
have been closed by tho police within
the last two weeka Others are being
watched, and wherever young girls are
employed as Mattresses girls and own
era are questioned
"A girl taken from a coffee house
owned by MIRA, Sophia Podor testified
that coffee house owner had sold her
10 the Fodors for 81. Mrs. Fodor and
her husband were arrested.
"The old vice ring which used 70
operate in largo cities through ths mo
dunn Of hQuox resorts. salocnA wins
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Uncle Sam Sets
Upfor
IN Nineteenth
Street -- Does
a Furnishing
Business

"HE United States Army
may be trihe slow in
J. getting started, being like
other ponderous and pow
stul bodies that way, but when 1t
aoes commence moving it travels
~;th speed and effect They found
N. out tn France, at St. Nazaire
md other places, where the natives
vsuid wake up in the morning and
md some Of their best vacant lots
.overed with warehouses. They
,ound that out also In New York,
vhere the city awoke one morning
to find one Of the few of its huge
empty buildings filed with a large
retail store, with the old United
States Army Is proprietor and man
sger.
Most people were searching the
CITY unsuccessfully for two rooms
or one in which TO deposit them
selves and their goods about the
time that Colonel J. N. Carson,
zone supply officer, was scanning
building interiors for a place to
Start a store. He managed TO find
eleven vacant floors at % West
Nineteenth Street, with about
10000 square feet in all, when
hundreds were putting their goods
IN storage and taking rooms at
hotels because of their inability to
end apartments. Colonel Carson
Is as proud Of his house-hunting as
he is about any other single phase
Of the project which he has 50 sue
:essfully launched.
The wars sudden end had left
mountains Of socks, underwear,
srctics, blankets, gloves, leggings
and overalls with nobody TO wear
EN-. While the majority of the
100000 fighting men were melt
ing away into the mutt life these
huge stores Of drygoods and cloth
ing remained in the gloomy depths
Of some warehouse, a nations liza
bility.
War Department officials cogi-
lated, as War Department officials
do, at length and with great atten-
ton to detail on the best way to
dispose Of this material. They
finally determined to establish q
huge retail store, government
owned and run, in the central com
munity Of each Of the thirteen army
supply zones.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Gas Masks, Too

The assortment of goods is by no
means restricted to drygoods. Gas
masks, used, 81 each; goggles at rs
cents, fiagstaffs, shovels and tools
are also on sale in heaping quanti-
ties and at extremely low prices.
Foodstuffs viii be placed on sale
next week, varied assortment OF
canned goods being the first series
of articles offered.
In building up $4,000, 00o-a-
year business in nine days the So
cial side Of the enterprise was over
looked. But now band IS in the
making, with several musicians who
once played in competition with the
music Of angry artillery already
competing for places. A women's rest
room is being installed, while the
restaurant privilege has Just been
given to man who promises to
keep the prices down TO readable
minimum.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
The crocd perfectly orderly, but the keep morning.
slogan is use full all the same

Island was being boarded up for
the winter, leaving a large staff Of
cashiers and other girls jobless.
Captain Peterson corralled thirty
tive Of these women and installed
toen as cashiers and queens of
each counter, to which eight sales
e.ost OF them with hands cal
loused and gnarled with year or
more of a doughboy's york, were
detailed. They were taught the
triplicate checking system in one
day, given some training as sales
men on another and were primed
for their work when the first rush
Of patronage flooded the place. One
husky youth was assigned to each
counter to wrap the bundles.
To facilitate the passage Of the
stream of customers through the
store system Of one-way aisles
and stairways was worked out, with
men, most or them former NJ. r. 8
in France, acting as traffic cops.
Two Of the four stairways were
opened only to those climbing up
after bargains, while two others were
set aside for the weary, bundle
laden shoppers homeward bound.
Newspapers, packages and UNI
brellas must be checked at the door
on entering the store. They are re-
turned when the customer departs.
No bundle may be carried out IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

store were consumed In the or
ganization Of the various depart
ments, the designation of functions
for each, the selection Of the per-
sonnet, the erection Of counters and
storerooms and the modelling Of
the necessary furniture and fire
prevention equipment.
Colonel Carson and Captain Pc
terson determined to use some of
the army's released man power in
the running of the store. They
applied to Major Warren Bigelow,
in charge of the Unemployment Bn-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

reau for Soldiers, Sailors and Ma
r;nes, and obtained the services Of
over 100 wearers of the Victory
buttons, more thap one-third wear
ing the silver kind. Three hundred
were assigned to salesmen's jobs,
seventy to the mail order depart
ment, fifty to the financial depart
ment and fifty to the executive
Offices. The remainder were detailed
TO perform laborers', porters' and
policing functions
About the time Of the opening Of
the store, Luna Park at Coney
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Vast Stock Of
War Supplies
Helps Solve
the III. G.. of [.
Problem { or
New York

ing the middle of the day, but tow
ard evening male workers take
advantage Of the opportunity to cut
the cost of living.
The transportation from the army
storehouses to the sales depot is in
the hands and vehicles of the Motor
Transport Corps. Up to o'clock
on the evening before the store was
thrown open to the public not a
single article had been delivered.
AT that hour q fleet of motor
trucks laden until their springs
creaked moved quietly into West
Nineteenth Street Within an hour.
fifty were lined Up along the curb
ing in the neighborhood Of the store.
while powerful muscles were strain
ing to empty the trucks to make
room for more.
A postal sub-station has been
established in the building as part
Of the mail order department. This
division is thriving beyond all ex-
pectations. People living in
greater New York must make their
purchases personally, but residents
Of the other sections Of this zone.
which includes New York State
south of Schenectady, New Jersey
and Connecticut, may order by
mail. Orders are being executed in
single day.
To assure every householder an
opportunity of obtaining some of
the goods, quantities to each Gus
toner are limited. Four pairs o.
socks, which range il price from 81
cents pair for heavy woollen ones
to 5 cents pair for those Of r.
claimed cotton, are the most which
may be purchased by one customer.
Blankets are limited to two to a
customer. The price of these varies
from two for 81 to SIS each. the
latter being new woollen coverings.
No more than three suits of under
wear may be taken away BY single
customer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Nine Doys' Wonder

The determination was reached
IN the small dates Of September,
but the real order to go ahead and
set up a selling organization was
not forthcoming until September s.
The plans were perfected, the build
ing whipped into retail store
shape, the selling, checking, packing,
financial, policing and other organ
aations were moulded and the arti-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

THE coffee house TO take the
place Of the saloon, and If so,
is It to fall heir to the vices
that put the liquor parlor Oh
he toboggsn.
Tbs suggestion that men may
ave convlvial gatherings around
as Mocha and Java as in days of
''se u not new one, but 1t is with
something OF shock that those
'aesllsts who had hoped to revive
'0runs for the discussion of art and
AeFature and economics find many
u our existing coffee houses falling
$40 aisrepute because OF gambling
sad immortality.
mere in New York It was only a
.e* weeks ago that Police Inspector
""aafn +. Boettler and his men
sS'eped down on coffee houses on
As lower East Side whero "stuss"
. n were in operation. In the
'4's'an and Rurnanian coffee
Aes along Grand and Houston
-. and St Marks Place gam
ING has long been an institution,
s-S Toe police pay their occasional
SSeeta to the proprietors.
ous in sorne Of the industrial
4'fss 0. the Middle West we
a that another vice Is finding
saslssr In the coffee house. now that
20 saloon has passed, or II passing.
ito htstory. " ''''''''
Out Wes,
-, 1as g. Paul pionecr-Press'' de.
80 saat thu coffee house hal
IN IL place Of ths saloon dive
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

less It has been stamped by the
wrapper. A bull-necked youth at
the only exit examines every pack
age carried away.
Captain Peterson has organized q
secret service system to detect
shopfifters and dealers attempting
TO obtain stocks for reselling. One
man was observed in the act Of
tanning TWO pairs of socks into his
pocket, but when he was appre.
hended it was found that his own
socks were worn to shreds and were
cutting his feet. He was released
at the order Of Captain Peterson
and when he reached the sidewalk
he found the two pairs Of socks in
his pocket, duly stamped. Some
doughboy had stood treat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19

rate Of 500 at time, but even with
this precaution against congestion
1t was only the strong man who
could exercise any kind Of choice
IN selecting his articles.
The store really Is a nine days
wonder, when its receipts, person
mel and appointments are consid-
cred. It does an average daily bust
ness of SOL 900, catering to 5000
customers in less than eight hours.
Few retail stores do a yearly bust
ness of 100000, which Is the per
annum income rate Of the govern
ment's venture to date.
Organization
The first eight days following the
receipt Of the order to establish the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-10-19
Good for Three Nonti,s

The store will be continued IT
operation for three months at
least, according TO Captain Peter
son. He based this estimate on the
amount Of goods held by the gov
eminent here and the daily sales at
the store. In single day an aver
age of 5000 pairs of socks, 1000
suits Of underwear, 1000 towels
and 1000 blankets are sold.
Women are in evidence chiefly dur
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
VOCATIONAL DIRECTOR HERE

Ralph A. Jones. state director of
vocational education, arrived here
today to visit the school of mines
and investigate the possibilities OF
the part time school act in Cold
field. Vocational education, de-
signed to fit high school students
for immediate employment after
leaving school, is now gaining a firm
hold in Nevada, as is the part-tfme
school act. The latter provides
that in school districts where 10
or more boys and girls between the
ages of IA and IS r employed they
shall attend a part-time school or
class not less. than four hours a
week during the regular school
months.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
JUVENILE GOLFERS
TO COMPETE AT
DEL MONTE

DEL MONTE, Cal, Sept. 1S.-
The state juvenile golf tournament
to be held here at Thanksgiving
time, November 81. %, 20 and 30,
will be the first regular champion
ship event for boys and girls ever
held in California.
The tournament will be a meet
ing of youngsters under the age Of
Is years who are barred by the
California Golf association from par
ticipating in the regular champion
ship. The number of very young
golfers has heel greatly increased
by the laying out of municipal
courses by many cities OF the
state.
Beginners will be encouraged to
make their entries in this event.
There will be a championship flight
of eight over Is holes and there
will be flights of eight over Is
holes at handicap for the other
players who qualify. Suitable troph-
les will be set up for both the boys
and girls.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
SEXTUPLE LAUNCHING
PLANNED AT OAKLAND

OAKLAND, Cal, Sept. 23.-SeX-
tuple launching, setting a new
worlds record. is planned by the
Moore Shipbuilding company of
Oakland for October IL when three
big tankers and a like number of
f~reighters are to be shunted into
the waters of Oakland's inner har-
Dor across the bay from San Fran
cisco.
The vessels have an aggregate
tonnage of $4,000, the tankers, City
of Reno Salina and Sapulpa, being
of 1000 tons each and the freight
ers, Jalapa, Moselle and Jaelow, of
9400 tons each.
Two of the ships will be started
on their way to the sea by Presi-
dent Wilson and Secretary of War
Baker who, according to plans, will
press electric buttons in Washing
ton, starting the launchings here.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
AMERICANS NOT "sKITERs"

SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 10
THE Americans were not 'skiters.' ;
said Charles E. w. Bean, the Aus
tralian official war correspondent
after a luncheon given to him by
the New South Wales Institute of
Journalists. Mr.. Bean prior to
the war was a Sydney newspaper
man: "Skiting" in the Australian
vernacular is hosting. perhaps the
nearest approach to its meaning, in
American slang, being "four-flush-
ing" II have never yet heard an
American say that America won the
war, but I have read it," he went
on. America did not win the war.
There is no doubt of that. America
helped to finish it,"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
OF THE
INTERNATIONAL"
BURIED IN LILLE

LILLE, Sept. 1S.-The tragic
death of Adolphe Degeyter, the
of the "Internationale,"
who passed away here during the
German occupation has just become
known to the city. D~egeyter, a
man of strong character and a Ia
borious workingman, had written
several songs which he and his
brother-in-law used to sing. He
made no p%retension to being a must
clan but took great pleasure in
playing the bugle. 1t was on this
instrument that he played the ia
nous air which he wrote to the
words of Eugene Potter's hymn and
the first time he sang it was to
some of his comrades in a cabaret
here.
Then his wife died. His brother
went to Paris and passed himself
of as the author of the famous air.
The two misfortunes worked dis
%astrously on Degeyter's mind. He
began to drink heavily and con-
ceived for all music a dislike SO
fstrong that he would leave a cafe
if n one began to sing or play
some musical instrument.
Then the Germans came. Doggy
ter suffered acutely from having to
work for them on the town water
supply. When the typhus epidemic
spread he was ordered to report at
the military hospital and one day he
failed to present himself. The
issued a warrant
for his arrest. In the evening he
hanged himself.
He is buried in the cemetery near
the hill here where a little wooden
cross with the name "Adolphe De-
geyter' marks the grave of the
author of the "Internationale."
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
IDEALISM vs. FACTS

In his speech to the people of Montana delivered in Bill
ings, President Wilson said:
Thousands of our gallant youth lie buried in
France, and buried for what? For the redemption
of America? America was not directly attacked. For
the salvation of America? America was not immedi-
ately in danger"
For Mr.. Wilson to assert that America was not directly
attacked" and that "America was not Immediately in danger,
comments the New York Sun, will amaze those whose memories
extend into the dark days which preceded April ., 1917 III
Mr.. Wilson's memory was better than it now appears to be he
would recall that on February 26, 1917, he delivered in person
a message to the congress in which he said:
Since it has unhappiy proved impossible to
safeguard rights by diplomatic means against the
unwarranted infringements they are suffering at the
hands of Germany there may be no recourse but to
armed neutrality, which we shall know how to main
tain, and for which there is abundant American prece-
dent
Thus in February of 1917 our neutral rights were suffering
'unwarranted i~nfringements," according to President Wilson.
On April 2, 1917, the president appeared again before the
congress to deliver his war message, in the course of which ne
said:
american ships have been sunk, American lives
have been taken, in ways which it has stirred us very
deeply to learn of.
"There is one choice we cannot make, we are in
capable of making; we will not choose the path OF
submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our
nation and our people to be violated.
with a profound sense of the solemn and even
tragical character of the step | am taking and OF the
grave responsibilities which it involves, but in I'M
hesitating obedience to what l deem my constitutional
duty, advise that the congress declare the recent
course of the Imperial German government to be In
fact nothing less than war against the government
and people of the United States.
The preamble of the war resolution adopted by the
congress and approved by the president on April q, 1917, de-
c,ares that:
whereas the Imperial German government has
committed repeated acts Of war against the govern
ment and people of the United States of America"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
UNITED STATES CIVIL
SERVICE EXAMINATIONS

The United States. civil service
commission again announces an ex-
animation for the position of clerk
in the post office in Goldfield.
There has been difficulty in Sc
curing a sufficient number of ap-
plicants for this position and there
fore all qualified persons are urged
to enter the examination.
Application blanks and further in
formation may be obtained from the
local secretary of the board of civil
service examiners at the post office
in Goldfield.