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New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The Other Side
Of the Story

In order to carry these 100000 peop]e
day over lines originally built to carry
0ut third of the number the Inter
borough has been compelled to spend enor-
nous sums OF money on equipment, on ad-
ditionai power plant installations. on
iengthening out platforms at nearly every
station, and in many other ways, includ-
ing that transportation anomaly, the Forty
second Street shuttle"
Furthermore, the five-cent fare of the
time when 100000 people daily were being
carried is worth but about two or two and
half cents in purchasing power now.
~ no city in the country U think / am
safe in making this assertion) can mas.
senger ride so many miles, If he chooses
for single fare, as on the Transportation
lines of New York City. The money in the
traction business is in the short riders and
very large proportion Of the elevated and
subway patrons are long riders.
These are some Of the elements of tho
proportion that nobody seems able to work
out No one has ever been able to solve
70 the satisfaction Of everybody, the value
cf the unknown quantity; the @ Of the
equation.
There are, however, few points tba.
stand out distinctly and must be recognized.
~ We can believe what Mr.. shonts SAYS.
the patrons Of these lines must give more
money for the privilege of "sardinirgv
themselycs into their cars, or the companies
be represents will surely follow the foot.
steps OF the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and
lake on y new manager in the person Of
receiver And IL we can believe what
Mayor Hylan and other members Of the
Board OF Estimate say, the city will surely
Fake over and operate thu lines IL Mr.,
bhcnts abandons his contracts In either
sase Y means an increase In fare, for
+ neither receiver rof municipal manager
Wi pc able 10 dodge the Issue.
z nut so far ~ any Improvement In scr.
81 xa<e 0F In riding conditions IL congerned
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
By Richard Hoadley 7'ingley

vt SEEMS like paradoxical state that
b the traction lines serving the most
densey populated section OF the
United States should be unable to earn
a living.
The paradox is still further accentuatcd
when account is taken of the fact that the
patrons of these lines arc daily compelled
to ride under conditions of "high density
compression" to which human beings never
should be subjected. "Straphangers" is
the name that used to be applied to the
unfortunate riders on the surface the ele-
waited and the subway lines Of New York.
The name is longer applicable, since,
during the rush" hours at least, one cannot
get near enough to a strap to hang to it;
indeed, straps have almost ceased to be a
necessity, for, in the density of compress
sion, one needs no other support than that
afforded by the other unfortunates who
surround him.
Mr. Shonts further adds to the difficulty
when he states, he has recently stated
in his Subway Sum- that the subway lines
were designed at the start to carry 4OO.-
600 passengers Il day. and that now (this
was before the "H" system was put into
operation last summer) they are carrying
100000 people daily. This increase in
business having been brought about with
cut materially increasing the mileage. the
question naturally presents ITSELF "If the
subways could make money (and they did
by carrying 100000 people a day, why can
not they now live while carrying 100000
people day."
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

1t is safe to say that there is not mem
Der of the American Railways Association,
nor an officer or manager OF any privately
owned traction company In the United
States, that indorscs the principle Of pub
lie ownership Of utilities properties. Any
one OF these men. il asked, could, no doubt,
point out to you tho most cogent reasons
why such properties should not be owned
and operated by the public. They could and
would give you reasons based on theoreti-
cal and economic grounds that would be
all-convncng. They could 20 back and
quote from the early authorities on politi-
cal economy, Adam Smith and others. and
could prove to you by the principles laid
down by them that, for political reasons if
for no other, the public ownership of utili-
ties properties could not succeed They
could quote to you from the practical ex-
perfences of something more than 200 public
utilities properties municipality owned
and operated, and could prove to YOU by
exact facts and figures that these arc all
failures.
Notwithstanding all this at recon.
meeting of the American Railways Assocja-
ton, at which upward of five hundred
members were present, resolutions were
introduced and passed recommending that
traction managers throughout the country
"lend all possible aid in the promotion
of legislation necessary by public author
ity to bring about public ownership of all
electric railway lines" and to "arrange for
such terms of payment could conveniently
accord with the financial limitations of
present state laws" 1t was pointed out
by one of the members that cost of opera
tion has prevented practically all electric
railway lines from earning on their in
vestment, this condition being accentuated
by the fact that traction lines are accorded
the least amount of public sympathy "Thc
remedy for these conditions is public own
ership," said Richard McCulloch, prcsi-
dent of the United Railways Of St. Louis.
"under present conditions local franchises
are valucess"
1t has taken several years to bring about
this change of heart in the traction men;
several years of intensive struggle in an
effort to live under the old conditions
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The Jews
To-day

The Jews are mt one and the same time
more and less happily circumstanced in
1915 than in 1878 More happily in that the
world has in part, because of the war and
the things for which the war was fought,
reached higher levels of international prin-
ciple and practice than those which gov
etned the Bismarck dominated procedure Of
1878. More happily because the dominant
powers of 1918 are not the Germanic nations
which, because of the nimbus Of the 1871
triumph, were still in the ascendant in 1878,
but the two English speaking common
which have brought to triumphant close
mans supreme struggle for freedom.
Less happily. on the other hand, are Jews
eircumstanced to-day because Russia, land
rather than hofne OF half of the worlds
Jewry Of yesterday, is gone for time in
any event, and because Of It's temporary
IL must not he petmanent-decine, the great
Je#fy Of Russia is broken UP into n
series of Jewish fragments which find IL
impossible to speak with one voice. Less
tbs worlds unrest II that Eastern Europe
which includes nearly two thirds Of the
Jewish people, 80 that IL ~ tragedy upon
tragedy for the Jew that they whose homes
and benrths were efienest seourged by the
rayages OF German~ Russian alternations Of
victory and defeat still find themselves 81
the centre of storm zone which an in
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

for trolley ride ten years ago il certain.
ly is rot so now; and herein lies the
seat Of the trouble with the fractions.
1t is easier, hoyever. to point out the
trouble than the remedy; but the remedy
must certainly be found much as you and
! would dislike to dig down into our pOck-
cts for that extra cent, or two, or three.
The experience, however, of some Of the
lines that have been given permission to
increase the fare is not reassuring. On
short hauls {and it is in short hauls that
the money is made in transportation it
has been found that former riders now
But this condition can never happen in
New York.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

justly by the Jew. II 50 happens-and the
happening Is far from fottutous--that
Jewish claims have long been identical with
and shtieipatiVe Of Allied aims md afe
therefore wholly eohfotmhble 10 the puf.
poses Or The peace conference, Thus, lhn
hrst of the iHayiiehle demands of the Jow,
submitted to the conference Is 30 domnnd
Ut MI, bat merely the insistaneo thal rs the
Jew IL dealt with and aa he has long farod
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The Jews
and the League

In truth. 1t had been thought by some Of
those with whom it fell to my lot to dcai
among the representatives Of the govern
inehts Of England France and America that
clause In the constitution Of tic league
would so stlpuata against discriminatory
statute and practice on religious and rneiai
grounds ns TO insure the unalternble aqua1-
~ Of statns, political, civil, religious, Of
Jews IN all lands TINT seek asmjttance With
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
order Out
of Chaos

AS far as l could gather from the gene raj
temper Of the peace conference and learn
from It's leading personalities. English.
French and American, there Is general
resolve to do what III the conference lies
to bring order out Of the Jewish chaos. and,
better yet, Ia make IL possible for Jews
everywhere and under all circumstances 10
recorder jewish affairs,
There ~ nothing millennia IN the temper
Of tho conference which moves to deal
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
1zzle: How to Haul the United States for Nicke

little relief can be expected from any
quarter. So long as Manhattan Island con-
tinues to be SO much longer than it is wide.
and so long as New York people all insist
upon travelling in the same direction at the
same time, there is only one way by which
the intolcrable riding conditions can be i'm
proved and that is by building duplicate,
parallel lines of both elevated and subway
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
"IiE Jewish question is bound in one
b way or another to come before tho

"YIiE Jewish question is bound in one
way or another TO come before tho
peace conference. not in one way
or another, but in all ways. II it be
true that the Jewish question is a moral
barometer, then the conference cannot de-
Gently evadc the responsibility of meeting
and solving those interviewer questions
which together are involved in the Jewish
status.
The peace conference of 1919 will differ
from the peace conference of 1878 in that
no such dazzlingly gifted Jew as was Dis
raeli is dominant in its counsels--though
Disraeli's service to his people was one of
good will rather than of achievement. Self
revering Jews such as the writer hold it to
be the happiest augury that the attitude of
the peace conference to the Jew will be de-
termined not by the power of any outstand-
ing Jewish personality but by the moral
necessities alike of the Jewish problem and
the professed purposes of the conference
itself.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

the companies operated, and could not be
lightly altered
The sun., 1919-03-15

CHURCH or THE TRANSPORTATION.
Services; Z. 9. ., 1880 A. NJ Il X s'P II
Sunday: Preacher. Morning Or Jerks.
Evening. Nrv. ". " Davis. Daily al Nooni'
pr ICuks
The sun., 1919-03-15
DIED.

cALHOUS.-Mabel. on March ~. Services
THE FUNERAL CHURCH" Broadway
and slxty-sixth street Drank e. Camp
belrs), Saturday. p. VI.
CLONIN.-On Wednesday. March IL, at her
residence, ass Sherman street, Long
Island city. Agnes l.. beloved wife Of
James L. Cionln.
Funsrsl services Saturday. March Is, at
10 A. NJ. at Church Of Our Lady of
Mount Carmel. Newtown avenue and
Crescent street. Astoria, where q SOL
emn requiem mass will be offered for
tho repose OF her soul. Her friends
asked to remember her in their
prayers.
vices THE FUNERAL CHURCH."
Broadway and slxty.sixt street Drank
E. Campbell'sl, Saturday. 10 A. NJ.
FINLEY.-William. on March ~. Services
Sunday, IL A. NJ. THE FUNERAL
CHURCH" Broadway and Sixty sixth
street Drank e. campbelrs).
LINNfNGTON.-At Short Hills, N. j.,
March 49, 1919, Margaret Anne. widow
OF Stephen Henry LinninRton and
daughter OF the late John and Eliza
beth Wood Jones IN the seventy-nfth
year OF her age.
Funeral private.
RoBISsoN.-William Andrew, on March
II. ~ Lawrencovllle. y. j.
Funeral services March ~ at r.. NJ at
the Kennedy House. Lawrencevllle.
Interment at Harrisburg, Pa. March
-. Kindly omit flowers.
The sun., 1919-03-15
FRANCE HoNoRs q. s. WOMEN.
Deeorates Six for Stamping Out
Typhoid Epidemic.

The French Government has decorated
six women OF the American women's
Hospital at Luzancy, France. for their
work IN stamping out typhoid epidemic
at Infancy and In the vicinity OF Cha
teau Thierry. A canlegram carrying the
announcement was received yesterday at
the headquarters OF the hospital, 637
Madison avenue. The decorations were
conferred upon DR.. VI. Louise Hurrell.
Rochester. N. Y, chief physician; Miss
E. Pauline Whitaker. Lancaster, Pa
Miss Lillian Pettensill and Mrs Lenoir
Lehman, Philadelphia: DR.. Cora +. Al
len. Heron Lake, MINI, and DR. Eva
Reid San Francisco.
Miss Whitaker and Miss Pettengill are
nurses. Mrs Lehman Is a chauffeur and
interpreter. and Dire. Allen and Reid are
attached to French hospitals. The cpl
demic occurred last fall.
The sun., 1919-03-15
SUNDAY SERVICES
IN CITY CHURCHES
Sermons by Well Known Pas
tors Tomorrow Cover Wide
Range Of Subjects.

ST JAMES. NJ. p. CHURCH, Madison at
i26th street--Dr. Chester c. Marshall. pas:
TOR: viii speak at II A. N, on our World
ming will be Emotion"
CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS. Fitth
VeNpe at Forty,eishth street ~ AZ IL
on KNOWING sSs K'T oo Mr. GGSFH'y w sp'MsE
Or. NJ ]. Macf@od viii speak on what
We Owe to Europe"
FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
..ProsperityS viii be the Rev. DR.. Edgar
Whitaker Works subject Mt p NJ. Dr.
Work will also preach at IL A. NJ.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Or Harry Emerson Fosd,sk will preach l
George Alexander will preach.
CHURCH OF THE DIVINE PATERNITY.
Central Park at seventy-sixth street.-The
Rev. Frederic W. Perkins of Lynn, Mass.
Will preach at II A. N.
FREE SYNAGOGUE, Carnegie Hail
AZ the services at lo;4S A. NJ. DR.; Wise
How Meet Them" '' ~
SEARS PHILOSOPHY. Criterion The
atre Broadway at Forty-fourth street
The Angel Back of Us"
CHURCH OF THE BELOVED DISCI-
PIE, Madison avenue at Eighty ninth
street.-The rector will preach at II A NJ.
address at p. NJ.
FORT WASHINGTON PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH. Broadway at 124th street.-The
Rev. Daniel Hoffman Martin will preach
at IL A. NJ. on The Call of the Cross
and At 1915 r. NJ. on Tho New Job for
the Church"
FIRST CHURCH OF DIVINE SCIENCE,
waldorf. Astoria-The subject of DR.. Muir
rays talk Is "Gravitation and Levttation."
MRS. MARY CHAPLIN, Hotel Commo-
dore-At IL A. NJ. "Temperamental-what
Is the Temper of Your Metal7" Mr.. Hol-
land will play.
EVANGELIST STEVENS, Brooklyn Acad-
envy OF Music-"ChrIstlsn Science Versus
the Bible" Is the topic IN a lecture at Z.
NJ. Musical programme begins at 7:45.
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH, Amster-
dam avenue at Ninety-second street-At IL
A. NJ. Twelve Gates to Heaven; sP. NJ,
st Patrick and tho Irish Question of To-
day"
NEW CHURCH (swEDENBoRGIAN)
East Thirty nth street.-The Rev. Julian K
Smyth, pastor. At II A. NJ, Human Ma
ture Tested at Three Vital Points"
OLD JOHN STREET CHURCH The
Rev. DR.. S'tockdale viii give the l o'clock
Lenten address on Man and Master"
ANNA C. NoLLE. 222 West soventy-sec.
ond street-At $3.50 p. NJ. why Be
AfraId?"
The sun., 1919-03-15

CENTRAL PREsBYrERIAN CHURCH.,
Madison Ave. and b1th St.
Wilton Merle-Snith, I'D. Pastor
10 a. M.-Men's Bible Glass.
REV, ROBERT RUSSELL WICkS, ID. ID.
OF Holyoke, Mass,
will preach at II A N. and $50 PM
The sun., 1919-03-15
NOTES OF THE SOCIAL WORLD.

Mrs. Lewis r. Woodruff. II East
Sixty-elghth street, gave reception
with music yesterday afternoon, her
guests including the young people who
were in the cast of "Hooray for the
Grls' last November Excerpts from a
new musical comedy, the book by Mrs.
Woodruff and the music by Miss Annelu
Burns and Miss Madeleine Sheppard,
we're heard. Mrs. Herbert l.. Satter-
lee was Mt the tea table. Mr. and Mrs.
Woodruff will leave to-day for Santa
Barbara, Cal, to remain several months.
Mrs. Lewis Butler Preston and her
sieter-i law, Miss Alice Preston. have
returned to New York from France,
where they were for some months in war
relief work.
The marriage OF Miss Helen Thorn
dixie, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alden A.
Thorndike, to Lieut.. Donald Sage
Mackey, U. s. A., of this city. will take
place March 20 in the home Of the
brides parents, in Boston.
Mrs. Ebert II. Gary. s56 Fifth avenue,
will give dinner this evening.
A lecture by Capt. Paul Perigord OF
the French Mission. entitled ION the
Frontier OF Freedom" will be delivered
this afternoon In Delmonicos assembly
room at the invitation OF the National
Special Aid Society, among whose off,
GERS are Mrs. John E Alexandra. Mrs.
Philip A. 8. Franklin, Mrs. James Rob-
ert Mckee and Mrs. John L. Griffiths.
tea will be given at 1874 East Sew
entieth street on the afternoon OF March
20 by the managers Of the East Side
House Music School. among whom are
Mrs. Sturgis Coffin, Mrs John Carsten-
sen. Mrs. William Ayrault Hazard, Mrs.
Arthur F. Rees, Mrs. Cas- Gilbert, Mrs.
Francis s. Smithers, Mrs. Adolph Open
hymn and Mrs John Ames Mitchell.
dance under auspices OF the Anne
Brown Alumn@ will be given in the main
ballroom OF the Ritz-Carlton on the
night OF April 90.
The sun., 1919-03-15
JOHN j. GETTINGs.

John J. Ceilings. supervisor of trans
portation on the central division OF the
Public Service Railway Company, died
In hospital in Elizabeth, n. j.. yester-
day from cerebro-splnal meningitis. Get
tings, who had direct charge of the fast
traction line between Newark and Tren-
ton. was born in Brooklyn forty-four
years ago.
His first employment was with the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit as carman.
Later he rose to be chief inspector at the
Manhattan terminal of the Brooklyn
Bridge. In 1908 he became connected
with the Public Service Railway Com
pany. and in 1906 took control Of the
central division.
Two days ago, shortly after the out
break Of the trolley strike he became Ill
and was removed to the hospital. His
wife and his mother survive him. He
was a Mason, being a member of Marsh
Lodge in Brooklyn. and also belonged to
the Elks
The sun., 1919-03-15
MAINE ADvENTURER DIES.
Charles A. Hartman Fought
Against sitting Bulls Indians.

RocKLANp, Me, March I4.---An ad-
venturous career was ended to-day
with tho death OF Charles A. Hartman.
aged 60. When a youth he ran
away from home to enlist IN tho navy.
in which he served for nine years. His
activities included service as Texas
ranger, as member OF the Mounted
Police in Montana and as deputy
United states Marshal In Kansas. RE
fought against the Indians and was
wounded in the battle In which Sitting
Bull was killed
In 1881 Hartman won the national
championship as long distance pedes-
trian, walking $40 miles and 240 yards
In six day race in Chicago.
Returning to Maine he took up evan
gelical work and also was active in
the leadership of several strikes. He
is survived by a wife and Ave children
The sun., 1919-03-15
FOR CARUso's ANNIVERSARY.
SILK Flag TO BE Given to Tenor for
His Ala in War Work.

The city will have an official hand in
the celebration OF Enrico Caruso's twen-
ty-ffth anniversary OF his singing career
at the Metropolitan Opera House March
22 In the presentation of a silk flag by
Commissioner Enright as testimonial
of his work during the war.
Other members of the presentation
committee are Philip Berolzheimer. City
Chamberlain Francis ID. Gallatin. Com
missioner of Parks, and Capt. William
W. Brainard of the police reserves, Of
which the tenor is also a member Mr..
Caruso appeared at a number OF public
entertainments in the interest Of various
war causes
The sun., 1919-03-15
BOSTON GIRL TO BE MARRIED.
Miss slater Engaged to DR.. John
Murphy of Baltimore.
Special pespatch to THE srx.

Boston. March 14.--Miss Ray Slater.
younger daughter of Mrs. Mabel Hunt
Slater OF Boston. Washington and New
York. will be married to Or. John MUIR
ply Of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Bal
timore. News of the engagement reached
here to-day ahead of the formal an
nounoement. which Is 20 be made b.
Mrs. Slater next Monday. The day for
the wedding has not yet been decided
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Bence. par
ents Of Mrs. Louis K. Liggett, celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary in the
Liggett home in Chestnut Hill on Thurs
day evening.
The sun., 1919-03-15
MRS. AGNES 1. CLoNIN.

The funeral OF Mrs. Agnes I. Clonin.
wife Of James E. Clonin of 4ss Sherman
street, Long Island City, Will be held at
'hurch OF Our Lady OF Mount Car
astoria, to-day. when solemn re-
Gu-.n mass will be celebrated. She was
born in Manhattan IN 1863, moving to
Astoria when child. Her husband was
one of the organizers of the Queens
Chamber OF Commerce and she assisted
him In his civic work and Was prominent
in many charitable organizations. She
has been active In the Red Cross, in
Mount Carmel parish and in supporting
st. Johns Hospital, Long Island City.
Besides her husband she leaves brother,
Peter S. Donnelly, and two sisters, Mrs.
Robert Brown and Miss Sarah Donnel!y
all of Long Island City.
The sun., 1919-03-15
BILLY SUNDAY AFTER MIAMI.
Evangelist Plans to Hold Revival
There Next Winter.

MIAMI. Fla, March 14.-willlam sun
day, the evangelist who is holding n
series of meetings at the Hotel Alcazar
at ST Augustine. is contemplating a re-
vlval in Miami next winter.
Mrs. Sunday arrived here this morn
ing to look over the ground and was
guest of the Rotary Club at its weekly
luncheon.
Frank c. Hatch of New York is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Hanan.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Gair of
Brooklyn and Mrs Preston Kenyon, Mrs.
A. c. Bartlett and Mr.. and Mrs. A. C.
Goodrich of New York have arrived at
the Breakers.
Mrs. B. @. Earle of New York was
hostess at a dinner party given for
Mrs Walter Welsh at the Hotel Urmey.
J. II. Parker and Charles H. Kenny
OF East Orange caught a forty-five
pound barracuda this afternoon.
The sun., 1919-03-15

Judge Pryor was elected to tho bench
and In the consolidation OF courts lie be-
came n supreme Court Justice. serving
until 1899, when he retired at the aga
OF 20 years He was not yet ready to
leave his life OF activity, however, and
for several years after he practised law
Judge Pryor was always chivalrous in
his treatment of women litigants. Law
yers often picked him as Justice before
whom divorce cases would get the kind
Hest hearing. Toward the gentler sex
he exhibited an almost reverential ten
derness. He had no sympathy with the
custom of concealing facts in cases of
wealthy divorce litlgants. ONCE when
he was sitting as referee n lawyer said
Your Honor, there are reporters pres
ent. We would request you to have
them excluded from the hearing"
Not So" said Judge Pryor. II am
now sitting as a court. and 1 am going
10 hold open court"
Thrashed n Man When 81.
Judge Pryor retained his interest in
dfe almost until the last. When DR..
osler's remarks about men being old at
40 were taken up and discussed every
where he said:
Some men at so are really younger,
that is. more efficient. than others at
so. 1t Is obvious therefore that In his
prescription of the so-called old mem
DR.. osler talks simple nonsense"
At 81 Judge Pryor thrased with his
umbrella young man who Intentionally
rammed him in entering an elevated
train, which the elder man was leaving.
To administer the punishment he had
to follow the offender into the car. and
when the guard interfered he gave the
order:
Go back to your place on the plat
form and hold this train two minutes
for me"
The guard obeyed. Not until Judge
Pryor had Welded his umbrella repeat
eddy on the offenders head and shout
ders, tucked the weapon under his arm,
glanced at his watch and stalked out,
did the conductor ring the bell to start
tho train.
Judge Pryor could not tolerate any
thing that savored of hyphenism. Many
years ago. as a Supreme Court Justice.
he rejected the application OF a Hun
gar'an social club for Incorporation. ex-
planning:
When a man leaves his native land
his love for II becomes merely a senti-
ment. When he has declared his inten-
ton to become citizen he must realize
that 1t is to this country he owes his
duty in peace and in war"
II was said that Judge Pryor had a
strain of Indian blood. HIS appearance
was as picturesque as his career. His
hair. which he wore long. was raven
black until a few years ago, and his
cut of features and swarthy. skin might
have suggested an Indian brave.
Judge Pryor was married when he
was 90 years old. His wife died seven
years ago. She was well known for her
writings and philanthropic work.