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New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
''Pershing's Own" Happy
First Division Troops Reach
Camp Dix for Discharge
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Special Correspondence
CAMP DIX, N. j.. Sept. 23.-As
hilariously happy as tho first casuals
to arrive from overseas, New Jersey
and New York heroes Of the list Divi-
sion reached Camp Dix tonight for
discharge. They came in on long troop
train from Camp Meade, and their trip
through the towns en- route, accus-
toned as were the residents to the
sight of passing troops, is described as
a vcritable triumph. No |roops that
have reached Camp Dix for demobiliza-
ton have been more supremely de-
lighted at the prospect of getting home
than are these soldiers who have seen
the longest term of service in Europe.
Although the trains were late in
reaching camp, numerous friends were
here to greet the veterans, who in
clude many of the famous composite
regiment, known as "Pershing's Own"
Many of the men probably will be on
their way home by tomorrow after
noon.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Grandparents Fighting
Over Children's Custody
One Branch of Family Charges
Other Abandoned Two of
the Youngsters

Two sets of grandparents appeared
before Surrogate Noble, of Queens, in
Jamaica yesterday, with rival peti-
tions for the guardianship of Raymond,
Joseph and Edward Longworth. The
children, who are orphans, are eight,
six and two years old, respectively.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Longworth, of
1S Hickory Street Richmond Hill, have
custody of the children They allege
that Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Markland, of
ll2 Thedford Avenue, abandoned two
of the children and refused to care
for their own daughter, mother Of the
youngsters, during her last illness.
The Marklands deny these charges.
Surrogate Noble ordered that the
Longworth's take or send the children
to the Markland home each Saturday at
10 a, m. and leave them there till p.
m, pending his decision in the matter
of PEI mancpt guardianship, to be rem
dered October 2l. There is no ques-
tlon of an estate involved.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Belgian Girls Reject
Life With Stepfather
Custody Of Protective Associa-
tiOn Preferred to Home Life
or DenOrtatiOn

Threatened with deportation on one
side and life with their stepfathcr on
the other, Angel Boussemaere. seven
teen years old, and her sixteen-year-old
sister, Lucie Boussemaere, both re-
Gently arrived from Belgium, in the
Supreme Court yesterday chose the
New York Probation and Protective
Association as their temporary GUS
todian.
The two girls were before Justice
Lehman on writ of habeas corpus
obtained by their mother, who is now
Mrs. Max Preisser, having married a
second time. They lived with their
mother and stepfather at Huguenot
Park, Staten Island, whore Mr.. Preisser
conducts the Belgian Inn. Two Ameri-
cans who met the girls on the steam
ship coming from Europe became in
terested in the sisters. They learned,
they said, that the lives of Angel and
Lucie were not as free from tempta-
tiou as they should be. The Belgian
girls said they were compelled by their
stepfathcr to drink beer with strange
men at the inn. Also they objected to
Mr.. Preisscr because they believed he
was German Acting on this, the
protective association took the girls in
charge.
Mrs. Preisscr then brought the
habeas corpus proceedings. Her atti-
tudc was that unless her daughters
consented to live with her they should
be deportcd.
The girls decided to remain under
the protection of the probation asso-
citation. 1t is expected that they will
rejoin their mother if the latter carries
out her expressed intention to live
apart from her husband
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Wagnerian Soprano
Elected for Defence
OF German Opera
Mime. Agon Invades Meeting
ofAmericanLegion,C Called
to Block Star Opera Co.,
and Leaves by Request

Members Of tho New York County
Committee Of the American Legion,
which met at the Amsterdam Opera
House, In West Forty fourth Street,
last night to consider ways and means
Of preventing the production Of Ger
man opera here, had the magnitude Of
their task forcibly demonstrated to
them.
Several of them said afterward that
the difficult feat that last nights con-
tact with Nine. Thabrig Agon showed d
it to be, the cause Of the Legion against
German song was pretty groggy al
ready.
Nine. Agon is a member of the Star
Opera Company, which plans to pre-
sent Wagnerian opera at the Lexington
Opera House. She was not bidden to
last nights meeting, but she went. No
one asked her to make q speech, but
she did.
Says She Sang for Soldiers
She broke in upon deliberations to
announce that she wished TO protest
against this opposition to German
music. Shit said she was a thorough
American and that her people had lived
in Kentucky for three generations
She herself, she said, had sung 200
times for wounded soldiers.
Harold Schwab, chairman of the
meeting, interrupted her to ask what
post she represented. To this Nine
Agon replied that she didn't represent
any post, but was an American citizen
and a member of the Star Opera Com
pany, Of which 90 per cent Of the mem
bcrs were Americans.
81 am ashamed" she said, ''to be-
lieve you to be representatives Of
Americanism and hear you oppose the
production Of Wagnerian Opera"
Suggestions that the woman leave
became peremptory before she took her
departure, after remarking: at is
shamful Of you to order an Anne rican
woman from a meeting Of this kind"
Later, in discussing her election in
an ante room, Nine. Agon said that she
had had two brothers and two cousins
IN the war, and had done what she
could to bring victory to America. She
the conflict, but had returned to this
country at the suggestion of Mrs
Gerard, wife of the ambassador.
While she was talking, Schwab pur-
sued her to the ante room and broke
in upon her conversation to ask:
IF you can't sing in English, why
don't you go back to Germany?"
eff you are as afraid as you seem of
German music" the woman retorted
you must be very frightened of Ger
many. If the Legion is going to re-
move all Gcrmanic traces from our
land, why doesn't it start by eliminat-
ing from our language the 5000 words
Of German ancestry"
Resolutions adopted by the county
committee last night pledged the Le-
gion to "employ every peaceful means
with in it's power" to prevent the pre-
with its power" to prevent the pro
duction of German opera here
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Seth Bullock, Friend
OF Roosevelt, Dead

DEADWOOD, S. D., Sept. 23.-soth
Bullock, lifelong friend of the late
Theodore Roosevelt, died at his home
here this morning after an illness OF
several weeks. He was a pioneer of
the Black Hills and was sixty-two
years old
Seth Bullock was born in Sandwich
Canada, just across the river from
Detroit. He went West just as soon
as he was able to ride horse. In
South Dakota he WAS miner, prospec-
tor, peace officer and cattleman.
When he became Sheriff of Dead
wood he proceeded to clean up the
town: One night, it is related of him
he himself arrested thirty-seven "bau
men by beating each one into nsen-
sibility with the butt of his gun. Three
of the men escaped and hid in an old
mine not far from Deadwood Bullock
went to the mine and smoked them out
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
ENGAGEMENTS

bLlCKMAN-BARKIN-.Mr. and Mrs. fam
uel Barkn, Of 459 West 14ist st. New
York, announce the engagement Of their
daughter. Lydia E. to Manuel Blckman,
son Of Mrs. Sophia hickman, OF Brook
lyn, N. Y.
BROWN-CREEVEY - Mrs. E. Frederick
Birmingham announces the engagement
of her niece, Miss Frances Adele Creevey
TO Mr.. Robert Glassell Brown Of Los
Angeles. Cal :
CROSSMAN-BERLINGE and Mrs
Berhnger announces the engagement Of
their daughter. Ruth to Mr. Joseph NJ
Grossman, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Grossman.
GROSSMAN-MALLAM and Mrs.
s: Mallamudt announce the engagement
Of their daughter. Sara, to Mr. Daniel
Grossman, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Grossman. -
Cru BER-LIVANT- A. Livant, of 244
Roebling St. Brooklyn, announces the en-
eaRement Of his daughter, Dr.. Cussie Lii
want, to DR.. Jacob Gruber. son Of Mrs c.
Gruber, of Manhattan.
HARRIS - PATZOWSkY Nine Sophie
Iraubman Patzowsky, of the Metropolitan
Opera announces the engagement of her
daughter, Miss Eleanore Traubman Pat
zowsky, to Mortimer J. Harris, of this
city Reception at the St. Regis Hotel,
Oct. II, from to .. NJ. The marriage
will take place in December =
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Battle of Bronx
In LandIOrd-Tenant
War Won by Police
Committee Tries to
Hold Meeting, but Fails,
Even With Reserves Aid:
Strike in Long Island City

The Mayors Committee on Rent
Profiteering Journeyed to The Bronx
last night, where several thousand
aggrieved landlords and wrathful ten
ants besieged it, each eager to tell of
the others crimes.
The meeting, originally scheduled for
Borough Hall, had to be shifted to
the auditorium in Morris High School
because Of the crowd. There Cornelius
O'Brien, chairman, opened the pro-
ceedings.
The reserves-all of 'em-from the
Morrisania station were called out to
pacify the meeting. Chairman O'Brien
wasn't able to. His pleas that the
gathering proceed in an orderly fash
ion were disregarded. One irate ten
ant cut short his chairmanly remarks
by soaking him in the stomach with
his fist.
When the meeting was called to order
all the tenants and landlords demanded
to be heard at once. When the chair
refused to recognize them all at the
same time they fell to arguing with
each other. When the noise became
too great for any argument to be heard
they fell to walloping their neighbors,
and these neighbors retaliated.
Tenants who discovered their land
lord in the throng straightaway fell
on him with cries of war and thanks
giving. Those VINO couldn't find him
hit any one who looked as though he
might be landlord.
The advent of the reserves caused
the battle to pause, and it was decided
to call off the general meeting and
hear individual cases in the classrooms
OF the school. Little progress was
ma de in this direction, however. for
those within the classroom shouted,
and those without who wanted to get
in shouted louder Eventually the
meeting was called off, and with the
assistance of the police the tumult and
the shouting died and the landlords
and their tenants departed.
While alarms were enlivening The
Bronx. less violent war on landlords
had been declared in Long Island CITY.
where eighty-tive families living at $50,
1862, 164 and 40 Mott Avenue were
would be raised Sc a month. The
families then met and decided to strike
They will lay their complaint before
Captain Charles S. Goldsmith, Of the
Mayors committee, tonight
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Aldermen Purpose
To Put Limit ON
Moving Day Rates
Resolution by Moran Fixes
Definite Charge for All
Services by Vehicles and
Helpers; Rush for Oct. /

A resolution to limit me rates
charged for moving household goods
In New York City was introduced yes
terday before the Board Of Aldermen.
and October / may see strict watch
kept on the profiteering moving man.
Because of conflicts with present la
Dor contracts the resolution was sent
to committee for revision, but it will
be reported out next Tuesday, and it
Is planned to have it rushed through
before the new month arrives, with it's
general exodus.
Robert l.. Moran, President of the
board. stood sponsor for the measure
which aims to establish a maximum
charge for certain types OF vehicles,
for special jobs and for helpers
Householders lucky enough to have
place to move to will in nc case have
to pay more than $3.50 al hour for s.
vehicle to convey their effects And no
laggaro cart will pass muster, either, if
the measure is enacted, for a certain
rate OF speed must be maintaincd
Speed of Vehicles Regulated
Horse drawn vehicles, for example,
must travel at least three miles an
hour and motor-driven ones at least
eight. A one-horse wagon. having an
inside surface Of at least forty square
feet, may be hired for $l75 an hour.
For two or more horses, the owner
will be allowed to charge no more than
$3.50 an hour. He must have at least
seventy square feet of room.
Where motor van is used smaller
one, with seventy square feet, would
command $3.50 an hour. One with
ninety square feet or more would legal
ly be hired out for $3.50 an hour.
A Charge for each worker must be
added to the cost of the van. For the
services of each man in addition to
the driver, fifty cents an hour may be
charged. but the number of men en-
gagged on any one job is not to exceed
four, including the driver. except when
especially agreed upon by the person
hiring the vehicle
Pianos are given painstaking con-
sideration IN the resolution. Where
the instrument is carried on the same
cart with ether furniture, no more than
$3.50 additional may be tackled on the
blll. here 1t rides on private van
1t is handled like taxicab passenger,
with the fare SO for the first three
miles or less. and fifty cents for each
additional half mle.
For carrying pianos UP or down one
flight or more of stairs, fifty cents
may be charged for each flight. When
an elevator is used the charge may
be 81 additional. and where the piano
must be hoisted with tackle and rig
glng 50 charge is permitted.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Daylight Saving Resolution
Aldermen To Be Asked to Turn
City Clocks Back

Robert F. Moran, president of the
Board of Aldermen, submitted a reso
luton providing for the continuation
of the daylight savings plan to the
board yesterday. This resolution pro-
vides that throughout the city clocks
be set back one hour at a. m. on the
last Sunday in April and remain one
hour slow until the last Sunday in Sep
tember. 1t is probable that it will be
reported out of committee for action
by the board next Tuesday.
81 believe the great ma ority of the
citizens of New York want the extra
hour Of daylight" said Mr.. Moran, land
am confident that the Board Of Alder
men will provide it for us here
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Big Teuton Ship
Line Won't Resume,
Director Declares
North German Lloyd Has
Only Few Small Vessels
Left of Its Once Great
Fleet, Says Won Helmolt

Charles Won Helmolt, resident di-
rector Of the North German Lloyd
Line, who succeeded the late Gustav
Schwab in the management Of the
lines business in America, arrived here
yesterday on the Holland American
liner Nieuw Amsterdam after short
visit to Germany. Mr.. Won Helmolt,
who had become an American citizen
during his stay Of nearly ten years in
this country, went to Germany to dis
cuss with the German directors the
possibilities of resumption of the
North German Lloyd's service.
He found little to encourage him, he
said, as the company had only few
more than thousand tons each.
"Thcse vessels" he said, "are the
only ones on the sea that are flying
the companys flag, and they are used
like ferries between Bremen and
Scandinavian ports.'
Another traveller on the Nieuw
Amsterdam was the Rev. J. II. Jowett,
former pastor of the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, who comes here
to visit his former congregation and
TO deliver three sermons from the
pulpit he left over year ago.
Also on the vessel came DR.. William
H. Tolman, of this city, who spent
fourteen months in France as "Y" di-
rector for Bordeaux and vicinity. I'm
der his wing, he said, were 5000 Coolie
laborers in the service of the Allied
armies, and he found them we'll be-
haved and loyal workers.
cone morning." he said, "a trainload
of wounded American soldiers came in
on their way to New York and l found
that hundreds of those Coolies had
surrounded the wounded Americans
and gave to them all the cigarettes in
their possession. On another occa-
sion train bearing American wound
ed was stopped by congestion of traf-
fic in the open country and the Coolies
volunteered to carry water for the
soldiers from a supply a mile and a
half away"
Included among the 900 passengers
on the vessel was the first complete
theatrical company to reach this coun-
try since 1914. The English players
have come here for long stay and
will present "The Luck of the Navy"
which had a long run in London.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Character, Strength and Integrity
By DR.. BERTHOLD A. BAER.

Near the City Of Neenah in the State of Wscon-
sln on point of land separating the Fox River from
Lake Winnebago, stood old giant elm, commonly
called "the Old council tree"
1t was under its spreading branches that the
chefs OF every tribe gathered to hold their council
war and later, made treaties with the white men,
tradition tells us that treaties made under "the
Old council tree held to be nviolate never being
broken and the huge old elm became known thru the
great Northwest as emblem of cla,octer strenQth
and integrity
J was reminded of this story when recently was
1mmtro4uce0 m 70 Mrs. A after funeral service at
Inc funera Church. Broadway at seth Street
l nave known Mr. Campbell the founder-pro-
prleor OF this institution for more than TWENTY-FIVE
yeals--pease do not ask me how old am" she added
smilingly
i have seen his place grow from a small jnstitn-
ton on IWenty-thlrd Street. from where my grand
mo}her was buried to the splendid ediIce at Broadway
and o6th Street from where my dear mother was car
rled to ler last resting place.
And when my call shall come. | too shall be
buried from Campbels Funeral Church-and have
oeen careful enough to mention this in nv last will"
How similar are the old council tree and Frank
+. Campbell. thought. Both have DEVELOPED from
small SEED INTO large, powerful factor'
For no institution viii endure without them. no
lholVloual VIII stand the test Of man and time unless
ne possesses them, and family will trust their dear
departed from generation to generation to enc man
unless ne is like the old eln an emblem of character
strength and Integrity.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
GEORGE c. EDWARDS

BRIDGEPONT, CONN, Sept. 29. -
George {. Edwards, seventy three
years old. vice president of the Inter
national Silver Company and founder
of the Bridgeport Chain Company,
died here to-day.
Mr.. Edwards was born in Watertown,
Conn, June %, 1916
He was educated in the public
schools and at the Watertown Acad-
emy. in 1880 he became secretary and
treasurer of the Holmes & Grieps
Manufacturing Company, then making
brass and German silver in New York.
In 1850 he organized the Bridgeport
Chain Company.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Roberts Estate S2,652,06I


Miss Mary NJ. Roberts, daughter of
the late Marshall O. Roberts. steam
ship and mine owner, left an estate
appraised yesterday for transfer tax
purposes at S2.652,96l The following
institutions received $430,S2s each un-
der the will of Miss Roberts: Ladies'
Christian Union, American Female
Guardian Society, Young Mems Chris
tan Association, Rest for Conva-
lescents and the Hampton Institute.
The Young Women's Christian Asso-
citation received S447 ,724, the Presbytc-
rian Home for Aged Women, So 900;
the Presbyterian Church, $4,000, and
he Presbyterian Hospital, $4,000.
Miss Roberts owned stocks and bonds
valued at Sl,7S0,S99, including S504,1O0
worth of Liberty bonds She had
$4,000 in cash in bank.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Miss Katherine Baker
Dies at Lake Saranac
Held CorporaI's Rank in French
Army for Her Work
in the War

WILDWOOD, ~ j., Sept. 23.-Miss
Katherine Baker, who held corporals
rank in the French army during her
Red Cross work overseas, died to-day
at Lake Saranac, n. Y. She was the
daughter of former Representative J
Thompson Baker. She is survived by
her father, mother and three sisters,
Mrs Herbert Crane and the Misses
Frances w. and Mary H. Baker, all of
Wildwood.
Prior to her enlistment she was a
member of the local Board of Educa-
tion and inaugurated many innovations
that are still in use. Recently the
municipality presented her with a GER
tiicate of appreciation and the women
and children gave her medal.
She will be buried at Lake Saranac
Wednesday. The family was at her
bedside when she died.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
MRS. MARY ELLIS IEDD

GREENWICH, Conn, Sept. 23.-Mrs.
Mary Ellis Judd, wife of Dr. Edward
N. Judd, dentist here died early this
morning. She was sixty-three years
old. She was born in Greenwich, the
daughter of the late Mr and Mrs.
Bush Knapp. one Of the oldest families
Of the town. She leaves four sons.
The sons are Chandler and Prescott,
both with the Lackawanna Railroad;
Edward, who was withr the lst Divi-
sion in France, and Roger, who was at
tached to the 259th Aero Squadron
abroad
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Mrs. Tartoue Gets Divorce
Wife of Artist Charged Him
With Cruelty
Special Correspondence

Spec1dl COrrespondcncc
BELFAST, Me, Sept. 23.-An abso-
Lutte divorce on the grounds of cruel
and abusive treatment was granted in
the Waldo County supreme court to-day
to Alma Dodworth Tartoue, wife of the
wcll-known French portrait painter.
Mrs. Tartoue charged her husband
with cruelty in refusing to support her
or allow her any of his large income
from his paintings, although she gave
him every possible assistance
The suit was not contested. It was
brought in the Maine court because
the Dodworths have q summer home
there.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
OBITUARY NOTES

MRS. LOUISE A. DEMONET PROVOST.
fifty-one, who was born in Brooklyn, died
Sunday at her home. at Glen Loch, Penn.
She n teacher and missionary worker
in Alaska. She lcnvcs her husband the
Rev. Dr. Jules l.. Provost three sons and
her mother. Mrs. Anna Demonet, Of Flush
ing
e. J. PLUMP. seventy three. OF All
Stuyvesant Avenue Brooklyn, died Monday
after seven years. illness He had been a
member Of the New York Produce Exchange
since 1887 He leaves a wife. son and
two daughters. Intcrment will be IN Green
wood Cemetery.
JAMES s. MORAN q Brooklyn under
taker. died Sunday at his home, II Congress
Street. He leaves wife. three SONS and q
daughter. The funeral will be held to-day.
FRED SPRAGUE, veteran of the Civil
War and a retired highway employe of
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
Queens, died Monday at s5 Maple Str.

Queens. died -Monday AT e5 Mspls e. !.
WoodhaYeu- osfe<t
EUGENE WILHELM, Asty-.br..
Monday at his home. on Onderdonk oed
Kidgewood. Queens. He was connectss en q ae y.
a drydock company. He leaves rs. WIN
three daughters Funeral services ThuTsd.anNd .nd
GEORGE J. CARTER, hfty-four
ing press salesman. died Sunday as p,in,- IN.
Carroll Street. Brooklyn he leaves ~. -
son and two daughters. viz
WILLIAM Il. PACKER. Yorty-s;r H.,
Sunday at 2930 Bainbridge Street. BrookIusSa I.sa
lie had been employed by well ,ra.h n,
Manhattan jewelier.
GEORGE r. ARMSTRONG. ffty-e,y,, .
bookbinder. died Saturday at his nom. ,.s
Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn. He Leave. . -. -
five sons and -FOUR daughters
ARTHUR J. STORM died Monday s,.sx
brief illness. he was born here In 1878. and
the Shccpshead Bay district. TIE body y,a a'
sent to Detroit yesterday for burial.
ROBERT MARSHALL. fifty-six d,.s
Tuesdny at his home. 2041 Fifth Av.nns
He was q clothing designer. He leaves i.
daughter Services will be held at The ~
neral Church tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
WILLIAM B. GIBSON

WINSTED, Conn, Sept 23-William
BENEDICT Gibson, who was ten wears
old when the first steamer crossed the
Atlantic, died last evening in the house
IN which he was born at Southfeld,
Mass, nearby village, 100 wears
7 months and 13 days old Acold. con-
tracted ten days ago, was the cause Of
His father died at the age of ninety.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
CLEMENT S. POFF

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. Sept. %
Clement S. PoF, superintendent of the
plaster department OF the johnson G.
johnson factory here, died to-day, after
old. He had been connected with the
johnson COMPANY for thirty wears.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
MRS. AMELIA EDGERTON

MIDDLETOWN, Conn, Sept. 23.-
Mrs. Amelia Edgerton, widow of Fran
els d. Edgerton, died here yesterday
She was born in New Orleans, on Nav
27, 1871: She is survived by two sons
Frank c. Edgerton, of New York CITY
and John w. Edgerton, secretary of the
faculty of the Yale Law School.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-24
W. II. LOCKWOOD

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 23.-wiIl-
lam H. Lockwood a captain in the Civil
War and reDuted to be the first electro
typer IN Connecticut, died at his home
here tonight, at the age of eighty-one,
He organized the firm of W. II. Lock
wood & Sons in 1857. His wife and two
sons survive