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The sun., 1919-08-23
FIRE ENGINES SCARE
BRONX zoo NATIVES
Noise Of Sirens and Odor of
Tar Causes Near Panic.

The menagerie In the Bronx Zoolog-
ical Gardens was the centre OF great
excitement yesterday afternoon when two
fire engines and some other appara tus in
vaded the park to douse q smoking pot
OF tar which was being used to repair
the walk between the antelope house and
the mammal cage. The snorting en-
gines and screaming sirens set the ami
mails on edge. They protested at the
invasion OF their quiet with great varia-
ton OF tone and accent.
In the turmoil the antelopes barked
their shins on their cage and got wilder
than ever. The wolves for once in their
confinement had a real reason for howl
ing and went to It earnestly. Birds
futtered and screamed all oyer the
place. John Twoomey, the head keeper,
who had sent In the alarm. was occu-
pied the rest of the day soothing his
pets. The larger creatures, including
the polar bears and the rhinoceri, sniff
ftng the burning tar and believing they
were being gased. took refuge In their
dens and would not come out for hours.
The sun., 1919-08-23
COPS FIND BAN ON
MEETING TO AID PAY.
First Meeting of Benevolent
Association Outside of Head
quarters Called Off.
NEED OF RELIEF SHOWN
Men Frown on Union or Strike
Talk, but Demand More
Salary.

The frst meeting the Patrolmen's
Benevolent Association over has tried
to hold outside OF Police Head
quarters was mysterlously called
of last night. Hundreds OF po-
licemen. responding to the call for a dis
cussion Of ways and means to obtain
relief from the pay scale which rapidly
is becoming intolerable. gathered outside
Of the hall but were unable to get In
touch with Joseph b, Moran or other
officers Of the association.
Though none OF them questions the
loyalty of their own officers. many asser-
tons were made that pressure had been
brought to bear to call the meeting of.
1t is reported that the authorities at
headquarters are looking with great dis
favor on the agitation of the ordinary
patrolman for more pay. Commissioner
Enright is reported to favor increases In
the coming budget for only those grades
above patrolman.
Talk of strike or a police union was
without exception frowned down by
every group Of policemen with whom a
reporter for THE SUN talked. But
a maximum of $3.50 a year and facing
increased cost OF uniform. which alone
amounts to almost $3.50 a year. insist
unless something is done and done
quickly for their relief. the morale of
the force will be shot to pieces.
There isn't any real cop talking
union or strike" said one man who has
been on the force for seventeen years.
But even men who've been in the bust
ness as long as I have can't stand it.
We can't get living for ourselves, much
less for our families nowadays"
designations have averaged five n
day for almost two months and eligible
lists are practically exhausted.
There's not a man here" said one
patrolrhan last night. "who hasn't seen
and again and throw their shields on
the desk. In many cases the captains
have pleaded with them to reconsider
and have even gone so far as to put
them on sick leave to give them few
days to think II over. In the mean
while, OF course. the work falls on the
rest of US, and lot of us are getting
so we don't much care what happens"
All OF the men are dissatisfied with the
reported proposal to give them a raise
OF $3.50 year.
III won pay tne RAISE III rent 1 IL
have TO meet the LIST of October" said
one man.
Most of the men seemed to feel that
either a salary of $4,000 year or an
arrangement whereby the city shall take
over all uniform costs would meet the
situation. 1t was stated that the force
is already 600 men short and that there
is no opportunity to bring 1t up to the
authorized strength OF 10000 when day
iaborers can earn more than the police
man can with shorter hours. All Of the
men say they don't want to quit the job.
They are policemen at heart and will
stand for a lot of tough conditions, such
as long hours, emergency duty of the
most trying sort. and even petty exac-
lions to which they say they are sub
jected. They insist, however. that they
cannot do this unless they get enough
money to relieve them of worry for
themselves and their families.
The sun., 1919-08-23
DAYLIGHT SAVERS
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN
Marcus M. Marks and National
Association to Seek Local
Action.
N. Y. ALDERMEN TO ACT
Effort Will Be Made to Retain
Advantage of Summer
Time in Cities.
N. Y. ALDERMEN TO ACT

with the 1920 Presidential campaign
and various other uncertainties. national
and international. coming on, Marcus NJ.
Marks and his National Daylight Saving
Association are out with a proposition
destined to confound the Western farm
ers and possibly some Incorporated
lighting interests
The N. d. s. A decided yesterday at
a meeting held at 200 Fifth avenue to
start campaign to accomplish by local
action, through boards of aldermen.
State Legislatures, &C., what President
Wilson has been unable to do with his
veto against a recalcitrant Congress.
President Robert l.. Moran of the New
York Board OF Aldermen assured Mr.
Marks that Greater New York will GER
tainly turn the clock forward next May,
the board having already by unanimous
vote expressed itself in favor of daylight
saving. The Pittsburg Chamber of Com
merce yesterday wired Mr.. Marks that
1t had recommended the Pittsburg
Council to enact a daylight saving law,
and that "the same will be done at once
and adjoining cities in Pennsylvania will
follow suit" Mr.. Marks declared that
the principal cities and towns of the
East will all have similar laws before
the time comes to turn the clock for
ward
Ninety per cent. of the people of this
country are for daylight saving" he
said. They are not going to let a ma
5ority of Congress override their desire
1t wasn't a majority OF Congress, either
One hundred of the members weren't in
their seats when the vote was taken.
I'm not blaming them. but II they had
been doing their duty we'd have won
But we can win by local action"
Wont that cause considerable con-
fusion with train schedules and the
telegraph and no on7' reporters wanted
to know. III the cities turned the clock
forward and the rural communities
didn't. man travelling from upstate
never would know where he was at
He'd be doing acrobatic stunts back and
forth on the clock dial all day long"
But Mr.. Marks said all that could be
arranged perfectly we'll III the cities
and towns adopt the hours advance the
rural districts and the train schedules
will have to conform" he said. Maybe
parts OF the West will refuse to turn the
clocks forward, but very well. The East
and the West have different time any
way.
THE association will recommend that
the clocks be turned forward one month
later than they were last spring. namely,
the last Sunday In April instead of the
last Sunday in March and that they be
turned back again the last Sunday IN
September instead OF the last Sunday In
October. That will give a fve month
period covering the months when the
main saving is effected.
president Wilson in his two veto mes
sa ges expressed admirably the advan.
tages OF daylight saving And we shall!
save this blessing for the people by local
action, for the people are for It,"
The sun., 1919-08-23
DUMAREST MUST PAY
$50 WEEK ALIMONY
Wfe's Divorce Case Strong,
Asserts Justice.

Rene G. Dumarest. who has been twice
sued for separation without success by
his wife, Mrs Rose q. Dumarest Of AT
East Nineteenth street. Brooklyn. was
ordered yesterday by Justice Cropsey in
the Supreme Court, to pay $3.50 a week
alimony and $1,000 counsel fees pending
an action for divorce brought by Mrs
Dumarest. In her papers. the plaintiff
names Miss Emma Rath of 1915 Avenue
X. as correspondent. Two boarders in
the Rath homo allege they saw Mr.. Dunn
Arrest and Miss Rath together on numer-
Gus occasions. Mr.. Dumarest is now In
South America on business trip.
In directing alimony. Justice Cropsey
said: while the defendant and the CO.
respondent deny the acts charged. a
strong case IL made out for tho plaintiff,
and there is no denial from the defend
ant or correspondent of their presence In
correspondents room on numerous occa-
sions for long periods OF time. nor that
the defendant has taken trips with the
correspondent and bought her clothing
and jewelry."
The sun., 1919-08-23
Filler LANDS. RISES
FROM NEWARK ROOF
Army Man First to Do Feat in
AUiafion's History.

Edwin e. Ballough OF Newark, who
was formerly In the Army Air Service,
landed an alrplane on top of a building
Yesterday at the Quartermaster's Depot
In Newark. and then took of from the
roof successfully. This is the first time
In the history of aviation that such a
feat has been accomplished. although a
French aviator once succeeded In land
Ing on building in Paris. The French
man, however, was unable to take or
from the roof as Ballough did.
Ballough had as a passenger in his
machine Chris NJ. Wagner. Newark
newspaper photographer, and after taxi
Ing pictures OF the depot and the ship
yards of the Submarine Boat Corpora
ton, the aviator did stunts for the
amusement OF the crowd below. He
came down to a very low level, and
swooped In and out among the boats,
several times getting close enough to
touch them. Balloush said afterward
that the idea of landing on the roof of
one Of the depot warehouses came to
him suddenly and he determined to
try II.
He picked out a warehouse es7 feet
long and so feet wide. with a peaked
roof. inclining slightly downward on
either side of the peak. The machine
spiralled down to low level and
Strengthened out Just above the roof It
then landed successfully straddling the
peak. the greatest danger being the pos
sibility that the machine would go over
the edge Of the roof sidewise. Ballough
stopped the plane about ninety feet from
the end of the warehouse, and after
resting there some minutes started his
motor and took on without a great
deal of trouble, although after leaving
the roof the plane came down 30 low
that 1t almost grazed the water OF the
ship canal.
The sun., 1919-08-23
HIS WELCOME HOME
SIS BOOST IN RENT
Landlord Tackled on $40 More
for Change in Room.

Lieut.. Charles L. Stanhope OF the
transport service in testimony yesterday
before the Mayors Committee on Rent
Profiteering said that when he landed on
February "a. so i'll he had to be taken
to a hospital in White Plains, his well
come home greeting was a notice from
his landlord boosting the rent SIS. When
he was discharged from the hospital, al
though still weak from illness, he found
apartment hunting too much OF an I'M
dertaking and ended by renting another
room from the same landlord. He testi-
fled that the landlord assessed him $40
extra for this room.
Lieut.. Stanhope is an Australian by
birth. but under the naturalization law
respecting foreigners in the fighting SER
vice has become a citizen. Members of
the committee promised TO bring the
landlord TO court for violation of the
soldiers and sailors relief act
The sun., 1919-08-23
ARRESTED ON CHARGE
OF STEALING A WIFE
Buyer Held After 100000
Alienation Action.

Sued for 100000 damages for the
alleged alienation Of the affections of
another mans wife. John NJ Peck was
arrested yesterday at his office at AZ
West Thirty-fourth street by Deputy
Sheriff Eisensteln and taken before
Sheriff Knott who released him on bail
Of $4,000. which Peck furnished.
Pecks arrest came as the elimination
Of the suit instituted against him some
time ago by Joseph N. Billings, a curb
broker. In December, 1911, Billings APP
pealed to the newspapers to assist him
In locating his wife, Regina Feeney Bill
ings. He said that she had disappeared
from his home at 1865 st. Johns place,
brooklyn. In September of the same
year. leaving him and their three chill
dren.
Billings alleges that he ultimately
found her with Peck living at IA Butler
place, Brooklyn, in 1916. He ascertained,
he alleges, that Peck had purchased Mrs
Billings fine home and other property
In the Borough Of Queens, presented her
with an automobile as we'll as a half
Interest In the business of Peck & Co.,
resident buyers for several large West
ern business houses. He further alleges
that Peck is the father Of a child born
to the couple in February Of this year
while they were living under> the as
sumed name Of Mr.. and Mrs. Feeney.
Blllings's move in causing the arrest Of
Peck, he states, was due to his having
heard the buyer contemplated leaving
the Jurisdiction of the court Justice
Kapper Of the Kings County Supreme
Court issued the order Of arrest. upon
which Peck was taken into custody. Dep
uty Sheriff Eisenstein said that Mrs.
Billings was in Peck's office when he
made the arrest.
The sun., 1919-08-23
DUJAT, FREED, WILL
"START LIFE ANEW"
Friends Greet Former County
Clerk of Queens.

After having served nine months of
thirty?five months sentence for big
amy, Alexander Dujat former County
Clerk OF Queens. was released from
Sing Sing prison yesterday upon recon-
mendation of the Board of Parole
James Butler, Deputy Water Commits
sioner of Queens and other old neigh
bors, met him at the Grand Central
Terminal, together with a representative
of the District Attorneys office, who
told Dujst It would be necessary for him
to furnish ball on a perjury indictment
Dujat and the welcoming party went to
the Queens county Court House in Long
Island City. where bonds were given by
Christian Bermel OF Corona.
II expect to return to Corona. but my
plans are uncertain at present." said
Dujat 1T will be necessary for me to
start life over again and l am going to
DO II wit Ia stout heart"
The sun., 1919-08-23
HYsTERIA HALTs HEARING.
Nurse Unable TO Answer in Case of
Death of baby From scaIda.

Katherine Mon. the nurse who is ac-
cused OF leaving a baby, years old, in
bathtub where II was scalded to
death. was SO hysterical at the Bath
Beach Hospital that she could not be
arraigned in court yesterday The po-
lice are endeavoring TO establish whether
the nurse wilfully caused the chiId's
death, or whether the infant, left alone
In the tub. turned on the boiling water.
Miss Mon was employed at the horse
OF Michael J. Kilmartin. 81 South Beach
1880 street. According to the story she
told before being taken to the hospital
she had left the child for few minutes
and returned TO find the tub overlooking
with hot water and the child dead from
Its burnS
The sun., 1919-08-23
FARRELL SPONSORS
NEW TRADE SCHOOL
Will Train Students for Ser
Uice in Export Line.

James A. Farrell. president OF the
United States Steel Corporation. has
started an endowment fund for the
School OF Foreign Service at Georgetown
University, Washington, d. c., heading
the list with 100000. He has invited
other members OF the National Foreign
Trade Council, OF which he is chairman,
to give the movement substantial sup
port. The school is to offer training in
foreign languages, economic and COM
mercial studies, law. political science
and shipping The faculty will consist
OF twenty men.
1t is pointed out that the school has
unusual advantages because OF Its prox-
unity to the Congressional Library. the
Department OF Commerce. the Federal
Trade Commission, the Pan-American
Union and tho Chamber OF Commerce OF
the United States, The endowment is
to be 100000.
The sun., 1919-08-23
BOOM IN FUEL OIL
CREATES PROBLEM
Fire Department Advisory
Board Drafting Ordinance.

A boom in the fuel oil business caused
by the cost and uncertain delivery OF
coal has given rise to a new problem
which the advisory board of the Fire
Department Is trying to settle. Capt.
John p. Leo. chairman of the board.
after consultation with engineers, has
drafted set OF regulations to cover
the installation OF oil burning equip
ment and regulating the storage of fuel
oils.
1t was discovered few weeks ago that
applications for installing oil burners
were pouring In from industrial estab-
lishments and from consumers. Be-
cause OF the public danger OF improp-
erly regulated oil reservoirs and equip
ment n public hearing has been ordered
by the advisory board which will be
held on the ninth floor OF the Municipal
Building on September 8 at 10 A. NJ.
The sun., 1919-08-23
THREE MORE TAKEN
IN EXPRESS THEFT
Prisoners Are Implicated in
Holdup of Wagon.

Three arrests were made yesteI day
in the $21.000 American Railway Ex-
press robbery by Detective Captain John
Duane and Detectives John A. Hughes
and Charles A. Hooker In a raid on a
furnished room in East Sixtieth street.
The two arrested fret were Thomas
Hughes of 44i West Thirty-third street
and David Morn, %, 1850 Second ave-
nue.. They were leaving the house as
the detectives arrived. They we're taken
inside and the party sat down to await
the arrival OF the third suspect He
appeared shortly and proved to be Wal
ter Greene, %, who had rented the
room. The trio was taken TO Police
Headquarters, where a formal charge
OF robbery was made. The stolen mer-
chantlise was recovered on Thursday.
The sun., 1919-08-23
AERO MAKES RECORD
FOR SUSTAINED TRIP
Buffalo Man Flies to MineoIa
in $50 Minutes.

A record of approximately two miles
a minute in a 440 mile flight from
Buffalo to Mineola was made yesterday
by ]. ID. Hill. pilot aviator OF Buffalo,
who made the trip as a pathfinder for
the Toronto-New York air race, which
will take place Monday. The American
Flying Club announced that the flight
breaks all previous records for runs OF
a similar nature, although it has not
been recorded officially. Pilot Hill made
the trip in four hours and ten minutes
Fourteen civilian planes will compete
In Mondays race in addition to the
thirty-four Government machines, which
are not allowed TO share In the prize
money. Major-Gen. Charles T. Menoher,
chief OF the Army Air Service. will start
the contestants from Roosevelt Field
The sun., 1919-08-23
COURT TO DECIDE IF
BEER CARRIES KICK
Magistrate Will Test BeUer-
age, He Announces.

Magistrate Tobias announced in Essex
Market court yesterday that he con-
siders himself able to decide whether
beer is intoxicating. He made the state
ment at the hearing OF Moe Reiner. a
waiter. who was charged by Detective
Harry Hepner with selling him a bottle
of lager beer for IL cents in a restaurant
N Sheriff street. The detective testified
he had found the beer Intoxicating.
Francis Gilbert. attorney for the de-
PENDANT and also representing the Pabst
Brewing Company. made strong repre-
sensations TO the court that the beer
was war quality and had little or no
kick. The court then said he would be
the Judge of the intoxicating quality OF
the product. and because similar cases
were pending granted an adjournment
until September 8.
The sun., 1919-08-23
WELTS ON CHILD
IMPRISON FATHER
Man May SerUe Three Years
for Cruelty to Son.

After photographs showing the welts
inflicted on Richard Birge, 9. with har-
ness straps had been introduced as a.
dence before Judge William H Wad-
hams in General Sessions yesterday,
Charles r. Birge 81. a chaucfeur's helper.
OF 1872 West 124th street, father of the
boy. was sentenced for six months to
three years.
Agents for the Children's Society
made the investigation on which the
charges OF child beating were based.
II was learned that the boy was Birge's
son by his first marriage. His second
wife, who has a child . years old. APP
peared in court to make plea for
clemency. Birge pleaded guilty to an
assault on his son on August 3.
The sun., 1919-08-23
BEAT UP COP; FIVE YEARS.
Also Took Victims watch in SUBJ
way Station.

Anthony Gialorenzo found himself
without friends when he was tried in
General Sessions for biacktackin9 and
robbing cop and yesterday was aen-
fenced by Judge Charles C. Mott to from
hve to ten years In Sing Sing. The DO
Ice obtained confessions from Joseph
Ryan and Stephen Scavetta, said to have
been Gialorenzo's accomplices. and both
are awaiting sentence. Their Testimony
was responsible for Glalorenzos convic-
ton.
The attack was committed on Patrol
man Dominick f. Bligh OF the West
Twenueth street station while he was
r,olng nome In uniform from the Grand
Central subway station. The robhers
took his money. watch and chain,
The sun., 1919-08-23
welfare workers Escape Trial.

on evidence that restitution has been
made Magistrate Mancuso dismissed in
West Farms court yesterday the charges
against Edward Asfozadous, 22. of 23O7
Tiebout avenue. The Bronx. a welfare
organization secretary who was arrested
for the alleged appropriation OF $500
from soldiers Mt Fort Schuyler. The
complainants said they had no desire to
press the case.
The sun., 1919-08-23
Major Garrison Decorated.

Major Harvey Garrison. who went
overseas with the First Battalion of the
1920 Engineers. was decorated yesterday
at the Custom House with medal for
thirty years OF service in the New York
National Guard. The medal was pinned
on by Byron r. Newton. Collector of the
Port. Major Garrison has been thirty
three years in the customs service and
is now connected with the liquidation
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-06
SUNKIST VALE
BOOSTERS HERE

15spondido boosters, here in, 4forcc,
today distributeda the following pam
phlet, extending greetings to the
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-06
A FINE HIGH Way
SYSTEM PLANNED
TO SPAN VALLEY.
New Bond Issue Soon; Re-
cent Bond Issue Voted;
Millions to Be Spent

While the completion Of the San
Diego & Arizona railway gives In
perial valley. Traditional means of
transportation, the enterprising re 3i-
dents do not intend to stop there.
They have planned a network of paw
ed highways that will permit truck
almost every ranch to the shipping
depots.
Plans for the paving are we'll under
way and all that remains for starting
the work is selection of the type of
paving designed to give the best serv-
ice, according to Fred S. Lack, of
BraWley, chairman of the county
highways commission. The Valley
people last spring voted S1,250,000 for
paved highways and soon after the
first of the year will be asked to
vote an additional 81 100000. Chair
man Lack intends to soon take a trip
through the San Joaquin valley to in
spect the various pavements in use
and also will go to Sacramento"to con-
fer with the engineers and officials OF
the state highway commission.
The present plans call for l48 miles
of paved roads that practically Will
be accessible to every leading ranch
in the Valley, according to Chairman
Lack. 1t is proposed to connect Nj
land and Calipatria with BraWley, to
pave the main highway from Brawley
by way of Imperial to FL Centre and
/ from FL Centre by way of Heher to
Calexico. Laterals will run from El
Centre to Holtville and, when the ST.
100000 is voted, 1t is proposed to con
tinue the paving from Holtville to the
Colorado river at Yuma and other
laterals in various parts of the county
are planned to be built
Riverside county has built a good
highway to the Imperial county line
at Mecca and the state highway com
mission has undertaken to continue
the paving from Mecca by way OF
Westmorland to Brawley. The mair
highway to San Diego is paved from
FL Centre to the foot of the Mountain
Springs grade.
Imperial valleys highway trans
portation heretofore has depended OF
dirt roads, which in summer are flood
ed bv means of water turned on from
fthe irrigation ditcbes When these
are paved crops can be moved by
means of trucks to the market center'
in record time
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-06
TiiIRTEEN-YEAR- OLD GIRI.
is SWIMMING SENSATION
(By Associated Pressl

HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 6.-The
sensation of the recent mid Pacific
fall swimming meet here was 13-year-
old Ruth Scuddor, of the Honolulu
OutTgger Canoe Club, who won the
50-yard breast-stroke omen, defeating
Frances Cowells Schroth, of San Fran
cisco, the all-round Pacific coast cham
pion.
Miss Scuddor, who is tall for her
age and rangv in build, set q new
Hawaiian record for the distance, 46:2
The old record, held by Blanche Fer
nandez, was 40 seconds flat. The new
swimming star came within OPP sec
onds of the worlds record for the dis
tance.
dad" Center, of the Outrieger club
trained the girl for the meet, and he
says she obeyed his instructions tc
the letter.