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New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
Swindler Gets $2,1OO by
Using British Consulate
Telephones to Bank for $500
and Meets Messenger
at Door

The police and attaches at the Brit
ish Consulate admitted yesterday that
the Consuls Office had been used last
Wednesday by a swindler who got
about S2,100 from messenger from
the banking firm of C. B. Richard e.
Co., Broadway. The messenger, Je-
rome Meyer, a recent Harvard grad
uate, was taking $500 from the bankers
to the office of the British Consul Cen
eral at "A Whitehall Street in response
to telephone request
man met him at the door of the
Consulate, asked him his business and
on learning it, figured out the exchange
rate and took the money inside, saying
he would be out in minute with 81 800
in cash and check for the rest. Mover
waited.
He waited so long that a clerk no.
tlced him and asked his business.
Meyer informed him, too, and the clerk,
who knew nothing of any such trans
action, started an inquiry which showed
that the man who had taken the money
had no connection with the Consulate
and was not to be found there
AS the confidence game was played on
what is technically British soil, de-
tectlves assigned to the Consulate are
working on the case, as we'll as those
of the Police Department..
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
Hylan Answers Attack
I'm ''Caelic Americana
Mayor Denies Charge He Has
Sympathy y With Aims of
Iria!l People

The editorial attack in last weeks
"Galic American' Oh Mayor Hylan
caused the Mayor to write yesterday
the following -e.ter to John Dewey,
editor Of TIE paper:
My attention has been called to an
editorial in your paper os September
13, in which / an picked out for per-
sonal abuse as a nonsynpathizer with
the hopes and aspirations Of the Irish
PEOPLE.
Nothing could be more silly and
nothing could be uttered or published
that would be more completely opposed
to the truth.
You have put petty and unwar-
ranted misconstruction upon an Off
clal courtesy properly shown BY me
as a representative Of this cosmopoli-
tan city to the Prince Of Wales, and
your state Of mind concerning the Brit
ish government is no excuse for it.
My sympathies with Ireland are
FULLY as deep and as great as yours
The fact that have not made my llv-
ing exploiting it is not necessarily a
test OF my sincerity"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
Shoe Dealers Late
Customer q Rnndit

customer entered the shoe store
OF Samuel Statulo, 59l Vanderbilt Ave
nue., Brooklyn, just before II o'clock
last night and asked to be shown some
shoes. While Statulo was kneeling be-
fore him trying on par three other
men came in and lcveiled automatic
pistols at the proprietor. Then the
rcus &C, toner drew blackjack and tapped
Statute on the head
Whsn Statulo revived the light in
the store had been put out The rob
bers had gone. SO Statula discovered
had the 5000 he hand in his pockets.
He told The police OF the Grand Ave
nue. station his troubles Detective
Casey has learned thai the men left
the shop III a large touring car, and
Is inclined to think that they may be
the same gang that robbed the Liberty
bond store on Fulton Street Saturday
II ~nt
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
President of the Sheffield
Farms Company, Witness
at Milk Hearing, Says
He Is Victim of Abuse
Tells Concerns Plight
Critics Unjustly Accuse
Him of Taking Lives of
Children, He Testifies

Lotion Horton, president of the Shelf
held Farms Company broke down yes
terday while testifying at the Fair
Price Milk Committees hearing. held
at the office of the Board of Health
HIS tears began to flow when he was
asked by Health Commissioner Cope
land whether he believed that the re-
sstr'ctlons placed on pasteurization had
increased infant mortality.
Mr Horton said no" and after his
weeping had subsided continued. win
ing his eyes with hie handkerchief.
Il have been the victim of pernicious
newspaper and socialistic and Bolshe-
vlH issues he said. "They accuse me
OF fraud and of being a thief and
say l take the lives of children.
have thirteen plants on the verre Of
being closed.
DRIVERS now get $40 week. and
the trend is toward larger salaries and
less work. When the public refuses
70 pay because we ask enough to meet
operating expenses, say it is wrong"
william Levy. general manager of
the Levy Dairy Company, of Nineteenth
Street and Avenue B, testified that his
company makes a profit of ~ cents a
quart On its bottled ras1eurized milk.
he SAID that it cost the firm 912 cents
a quart to handle this milk, and that
1T was sold to groceries and delicates-
sen stores for 16 cents. The profit on
other grades of milk however, he said
were much less, no profit, he asserted
being made on 10-cent bulk milk and
very little on the 1l-cent quality. He
declared that the farmer got ~ cents
a quart.
Patrick Fox. vice-president of the
bofaen i"r+d de Ear Farm Products Company. as
Sc serted under examination by DR.. Cope
land that the milk distributors of The
city are not making any profit on their
milk. He said that his company twice
during the year had been compelled 10
borrow money TO meet operating ex-
pense$ lie pointed out that 100000
pounds of milk purchased by his com
pany IN June and 4400O.0o0 last No
vember had been distributed at an
ave erage loss of % cents a hundred
pounds.
- William Burgess, president Of the
standard Dairy Company. another wit
ness, SAID he believed there would be a
shortage of milk this winter. The ccm-
mlttee viii NEE. again next Monday.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
Kicks Wife, Then Shoots
Her Dead at Hospital
Woman's Threat to Expose
Theft of Negro Soldier Given
as Cause of TRAGEDY

Private Samuel Williams, a negro,
who is said to have been absent with
out leave from Camp Mills for the las.
seven days, kicked his wife, Beulah,
during an argument yesterday, accord
ing to the police.
Then, it is said, he calmed down and
took her to Harlem Hospital to have
docter determine whether he had
hurt her. While waiting in the recep-
ton room, the subject recently de-
bated came up again. There was a
quarrel, terminated by a pistol shot,
and Mrs. Williams dropped with a
bullet from an army automatic through
her head. She died instantly.
Williams was detained until the ar
rival Of detectives. According to them.
the negro stole 800 from William H.
Van Alstyne, a "Y" worker at Camp
Mills. and it was Mrs. Wlliams's
threat to expose him that brought
about the quarrel that ended her life
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
Child Heads Home
Now She Is Ill and Help Is
Necessary

"Ellen Raynor," although only tnir-
teen years of age when her mother di =, 4.
two years ago, became the "little
mother of the family, her father and
two younger children. The father fell
i'll about two months ago and Ellen.
now fifteen, went out to work in q
factry.
The father is in a hospital with ex-
cellent prospects of recovery, but
Ellen's health has broken from lack Of
proper food.
The facts came to the notice Of the
st. Vincent de Paul Society, A Court
Square, Brooklyn, recently and the
society has taken charge of the home
and asks contributions to maintain the
family until normal conditions are re
established. Probably S15O will be re-
quired for this purpose.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16

during the night theatre rush hours
He said he would look into the matter
tie added that many women emploves
mad been taken off because of law
torbidding their employment between
III o'clock at night and 6 o'clock in the
morning.
Following is the text of Receiver
Hedges $ statements:
My possibilities in the surface
car problem in Manhattan began March
20 last when | was appointed receiver
eral Court.
with conditions before that I had
nothing to do. =
MY duties and problems are with ex-
'st.ng facts and the present.
How can the people be adequately
served by the roads under my control,
consistent With existing conditions and
faculties and funds at my disposal and
receipts present and prospective' This
Is tne simple emphatic question.
.yor Hylan thinks in the past,
laiss IN the present; substitutes abuse
.oT remedies, words for facts, leaving
'Ae future TO itself and apparently try
iNg to establish an abb for an, thing
about
BY no act or suggestion, since the
recelvership, has he given the slightest
practical help or official aid toward
sowing the desperately serious prob
lens affecting the comfort and inter-
ests o: the trave ling public.
Possibly he Is distracted in pre-
pairing political martyrdom.
Possibly his Office holding appoint
ees on the executive comm ttee of the
alleged vgilantes distract him from
the facts
Possibly he can only express him
set IN terms OF criticism for all who
differ from him in fact, judgment or
law
The Mayor seems to be proceeding
according to q schedule adopted some
time since. not to be varied from by
tac's, conditions or events.
He seems 10 have committed to
memory certain phrases which, from
daily use. have dulled his hearing to
actualities.
He assumes that citizens of limited
means are Of limited intelligence He
errs in this.
The people want the cars to run
SAFE Y. efficiently. as cheaply as may be
consistent with sound. eQuta BILE busi-
ness principles.
The Mayor should know that to
stimulate q fictitious controversy, pos
ing himself as the centre of a con
spiracy. fools no one.
What are the facts and how can
they be met? is the question:
The people and the Mayor know why
some of the cars will temporarily stop
running next Saturday and why others
may later
The Mayor knows an paying no
rentals. that taxes and interest are
eTeatly in arrears. and tha. fares col
lecsed do not pa. operating exuenses.
The Mayor knows cars cannot be
run. labor paid or supplies purchased
without sufficient funds. and that these
funds can only come from fares.
competent engineers have invests
gated conditions and duly certified them
to the court. On this action has been
taken.
The Mayor knows that the action
taken was demanded by the conditions.
He is merely trying to fool the peo-
pie
The public rightly thinks it is time
to get down to business"
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
Would Take Year and a Half

voa nr' hedley said 1t would require
10 or r; and a half to build the extension
" y, INES Square.
70 ne Commission asked Mr. Hedley
tor improve the service on the LeNing-
"" Avenue surface line, principally
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
X. of C.. to Give Metz
Statue of Lafayette
Equestrian Monument To Be
Made Partly From Bronze of
Captured German Cannon

An equestrian statue of Lafayette
moulded partly from the bronze of
captured German cannon will be pre-
sented to the city of Metz by the
knights of Columbus, it was announced
yesterday. Marshal Foch has been in
vited to unveil the statue, which will
be erected on the site formerly occu-
pied by a statue of the ex-Kaiser. The
unveiling will take place next year on
Lafayette Day, September s, and hun
dreds of Knights of Columbus officials
will be present.
The statue will represent Lafayette
leaving Metz in 1775 to join the Ameri-
can colonists. 1t will have four bas
relief designs, whose themes will be
Marshal Foch in August, LIS, Presi-
dent Wilson reading the declaration of
war against Germany, General Per-
shng at Lafayette's tomb and the dis
covery of America by Columbus
DR.. Marcel knecht, of the French
mission to the United States, is com
plcting the French arrangements for
the statue.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
Soldier on Recruit Duty
Shoots and Kills Himself

Sergeant Ernest w Gooch, Company
B. 3a9th Infantry. shot and killed him
self last night in a room he mad been
occupying tor four weeks at 1879 East
Eighteenth Street. For that length of
time he had been assigned to the re-
cruiting Office at Fourteenth Street and
Third Avenue. Two sealed letters ad-
dressed to his company commander
were found. The soldiers home is be-
leved 10 be in Indiana.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16

on July 80 last has been officially
hhomologated at 10000 feet by the Aero
CLUB OF America. This establishes
new official American altitude record
The Paragraphs carried by Rohlfs in
the flight were submitted to the Bu-
rcau Of Standards in Washington. and
after exhaustive tests and deductions
made for temperature corrections. the
official record of 3O3O9 feet was noted
Rohlfs beat this mark unofficiallv on
Saturday when he ascended to $4,000
feet to temperature of al degrees
below zero
New-York tribune., 1919-09-16
RoMfs's L. S. Height
Record Of 80, 900 Feet
Officially Approred

The altitude record made by holland
Rohlfs, chief test pilot Of the Curtiss
Company, in Curtiss Wasp triplane
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
TEN YEARS IN
PENITENTIARY
Woman kidnapper Serves Part Of
Time and is Released on Pc
tition Of Prison In
spector.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service1
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 25.-Mrs.
Helen Boyle, kidnapper Of Willie"
Whitla, Sharon, Pa, today was releas-
ed from the state penitentiary here
after serving ten years of her twenty
five year sentence. She returned i'm
mediately to her home in Chicago.
Mrs. Boyle and her husband, James
Boyle were convicted Of kidnapping
willie" Whitla, seven year old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James P Whitla, March,
1909. The day after $4,000 ransom
had been paid the boy was found in a
Cleveland apartment house. The
Boyles were arrested and $4,000 of
the money found in Mrs. Boyles' pos
session.
Boyle was sentenced to life imprison-
ment, and his wife to twenty-five years.
Mrs. Boyle was released on petition
of prison inspectors.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
Irish Statement

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
DUBLIN, June 25.-The Irish
hierarchy, meeting at Maynooth yes
terday issued the following state
ment:
1.-THE existing government can not
last. The evils of military rules are
exhibited at our doors. The people
are not permitted to rule them
selves. 1t is a rule Of the sword,
provoking disorder and chronic re-
bellion. For mere trifles men are
cast into jail under savage SEN
fences. In the interests of peace
and order the aggressive domination
of England should cease. Ireland Is
fully entitled to a government Of her
own choice. Now is the time for
doing justice to Ireland"
The bishops expressed gratitude
for the sympathy of the American
congress.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
Troop Train Wrecked.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Serv1ce.I
OMAHA, Neb., June 25--A troop
train carrying 1873 soldiers for The
Preside, San Francisco, was wrecked
at Schuyler, Neb, near here this
morning, when the engine blew up.
Engineer Michael Norris, of Omaha
was seriously scalded. Three baggage
cars left the track, but all the coaches
remained on the rails. Aside from a
shaking up the soldiers were none the
worse for their experience. The train
proceeded westward after an hours
delay.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
Stock Market Nctes.

NEW YORK, June 25-The stock
market opened irregular U. S. Steel
opened at LOG, off Il; Corn Products
1914, up II; Bethlehem B at sc. up "a;
United Cigars 165, off "; Baldwin
1888, up II; Mexican Petroleum at
$50, off n. and United States Rub
Ter at 1913, up Is,
United States Steel sold at 1868 at
noon after a morning high at l071s;
Anaconda TAX after high at 1885;
Baldwin was off N at 1884 and In
ternational Nickel was off n at S2%.
Stocks sold off when call money
loaned as high as Is percent but came
back shortly before the close; in fact,
the market gave a most impressive
demonstration, the whole list acting
well.
United States Steel closed at 1868,
up %; Baldwin at 1929 off Is; Cen
trail Leather 1929, off "; Studebaker
at 1oo2a4, up "; United States Rub
Der at 127, off *; General Motors
2S1a, off 1%, and Mexican Petroleum
at 121A.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
DaIlv Stock Letter.

NEW YORK, June 25-The New
York Evening Sun financial review
today says:
Copper shares absorbed most of the
initiative displayed in today's stock
market, although Mercantile Marine
common and preferred were strong,
particularly the common, which
crossed 81. Trading was on a consid-
erably lighter scale than tors long
time and indications pointed to the
beginning Of quiet period, which not
a few market observers expect to see
through most of the summer perhaps.
The rapid advance in call loan
rates in the last hour due to increas-
ing calling Of loans by the banks,
made little impression on stock
prices in general although here and
there room traders were impelled to
sell.
For the first time since April,
transactions fell short Of the million
share mark.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
Ask Russian information.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
/ WASHINGTON, June 25.-Favor-
| able report on Senator Hiram John
|sons resolution asking the admins
|tration for information on the Rus
| sian military policy was ordered to-
|day by the senate foreign relations
committee.
The committee amended the reso-
Hutton to provide that the president
INSTEAD of the secretary Of the state
land the secretary Of war, shall, if
mot incompatible with public inter
Test, inform the senate why American
troops We're sent into Siberia and
|why they are being kept there.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
GRADUATES
AT ILLINOIS
Jewett Fulton, Of keokuk, and Young
People of Hancock County Get
University De-
greeS.

William Jewett Fulton became q
bachelor of science in chemistry at the
commencement of Illinois university
this week.
At the same time, Miss Elizabeth
Belle Smith, of Carthage was given
the degree Of bachelor of arts, and
Milton Talmon Hunt, Of Warsaw, took
the degree of bachelor of science in
accountancy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
To BE Greeted by Aircraft.
United Press Leased Wire Service.l

| united fTeSS LcdScu WIN SCi '1SS'l
NEW YORK, June 25.-Scores of
aircraft, chiefly blinps and hydro
planes, will greet Lieutenant Com
mander Read, Commander Towers
and the members Of the INC air
fleet" when they arrive off Ambrose
channel Thursday afternoon on the
transport Zeppelin.
Naval air stations at Far Rockaway,
Montau, Cape May and vicinity today
received orders from the department
to meet the transport as far out at
sea as possible.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
CITY NEWS.

Country butter. quality guaran-
teed. Ed. DeYoung. Fifth.palsan.
Ice cream lawn social at the
Summitville Christian church Friday
eS ening, June ~.
Picnic packages plates, nap.
kins and ! paper table cloth--an Tor
Zoe at Wilkinson's Drug store.
All hats at half price and less.
Children's hats 800 at Miss Kings,
S22 Main street.
--Puchechetuck Enc. No. Z, /. o. o.
F. meets every first and third Thurs.
day. John Eisenhuth, Fin. Scribe,
Miss Helen Sargent Is spending
four weeks vacation with friends and
relatives in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Classified advertising must be
paid for in advance. Telephone or
ders are accepted at the risk of the
patron,
Mrs. VIII Thomas Apologize has
gone to Old Monroe Mo-, to spend
the summer with her mother. Mrs,
Apologize.
Bathing caps. all this years
models, of strong live rubber at Will
kinson's Drug store.
The body of Mrs. George Deck
who died yesterday, will be taken to
Bonaparte tonight. The funeral
services will be held there tomor-
row.
ALI hats at half price and less.
Children's hats s1.00 at Miss Kings,
S22 Main street.
Kodak films developed every day
at Wilkinson's Drug store. Leave
them or mail them, either way gets
quick results.
-Keokuk camp M. W. A.. No. 622.
will hold its regular meeting tonight
at Woodman hall. All members are
requested to be present.
Albert A. Northrup, of high rank
with Stone and Webster, is visiting
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. T. r.
Board, the parents of Mrs. Northrup.
before going to important work in
South America.
Built by P. D. Kennedy-the
stamp Of honest cement work. Esti-
mates furnished on all kinds OF ce-
ment work Write 1907 Palean or
call Red 1861.
Subscribers to The Gate City
should notify the business office If
their paper is not delivered promptly.
All complaints should reach this Of
uC6 DSlOTb o " ClOCh NiiO buoAhSSS
office closes at that hour.
--Woodson Huiskamp arrived at
home this morning from Phillips
academy, Andover, Mass. He sue
cessfully passed the examinations
for entrance to either Harvard or
Yale.
Mrs. Labon Sargent has received
word from her son, Harold J. Sar-
gent, that he had arrived at Camp
Mills. He was in the 18th U. 8.
cavalry, troop M, and has served in
France year and half.
Paper plates and paper napkins,
six each in sanitary package with
paper table cloth for 10c at Wilsin-
sons Drug store.
Patrons Of the classified columns
sending advertisements in over the
phone must arrange to send payment
for same on day the notice is to ap-
pear, as all classified advertising is
on strictly cash basis.
--Nauvoo Rustler: Mayor Ed. LOT
ton of the dam city of Keokuk was
pleasant caller last Wednesday.
Ed. is an old friend of ours and we
are always pleased to see him. He
has made an excellent mayor OF
Keokuk, always endeavoring to boost
his home city, and he's made good.
Miss Margery Moss, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. J. AL
bert Kiedaisch, has returned to her
home in Poplar Bluff, Mo. The Kied-
aisch children. LYDIA Frances and
Jack, accompanied her for visit
with their grandmother.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
REGISTRATION
FOR BIG CAMP
Preparations are Being Completed for
the Joyous Collection Of Two
Thousand Hancock County
Giria
WILL START IN A WEEK
Official Details are Now Completed,
and Township Committees arc
Hard at Work Enrolling
Girls.
WILL START IN A WEEK

1t is only week until the opening
Of the camp for Hancock county girls
which will be maintained through
the month of July at the very fine
Riverview club above Hamilton.
where Monticello bay joins Lake
Keokuk.
There will be a crowd Of girls
there for the whole month. with
every pleasure to be found in the
most famous summer resorts.
There are more than two thousand
girls of association age in the county.
and every township is now organized
and making it's final plans for regis
tration at the camp. From three to
six girls from each Of the twenty
five townships only may enter each
week, according to the population of
the township.
Miss Elida Hosford, local chair
man for Hamilton, is being assisted
by the Hamilton Commercial club,
and all details are being planned for
the comfort of the campers.
Registration Is Proceeding.
The official folders and application
blanks are now in the hands Of the
township chairmen and that COM
mittee is now busy. registering their
girls. Many will enter for the full
month, taking the full course of
training as community workers.
Campers who arrive at Hamilton
by rail will receive free transporta-
ton to and from the Lakeview club
house.
Saturdays will be visitors days at
the camp, and this promises to be
very popular, since those who can
not enter for full week will enjoy
the full privileges of the camp on
Saturdays. A. S. Mason, resident
chef and club manager, is making
ARRANGEMENTS for the feeding of the
campers and Saturday guests.
Miss Margaret Wray. will be the
general secretary and Bible teacher
for the big Hancock county Y. w.
C. A. training camp at Hamilton dur
ing July.
Miss Wray was selected by the
central field committee for this work
by reason of her wide experience in
camp and general association work.
She will have general charge of the
program and will conduct the Bible
classes.
In the morning classes, the Bible
will be taught as a general literary
production, and at the campfire will
be taught as an out-of-door book,
considering its events and charac,
ters.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-25
Simpson and Kelly Win.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
PERSHING STADIUM, PARIS,
June 25.-Robert Simpson and Fred
Kelly won their heats in the no.
meter high hurdles trials of the inter
allied championships this afternoon
w. B. Ames, another American, was
second in the third heat.