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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

with the Lord Mayor regarding to stu
alton, serious consideration is being
given to the question whether a more
drastic policy should not be adopted"
Strike picbets have intimated to the
owners of two of the big shipbuilding
plats that they will not be allowed to
visit their works without permit from
the strikers committee
There have been several highway
robderies in the fashionable suburbs of
the city.
GLASGOW, Feb. 1. The city was
comparatively quiet this forenoon, in
striking contrast to the incidents of
the strike situation yesterday. A grave
reminder Of the doings of yesterday
soldiers, who were patrolling the rail
way bridges and vulnerable points in
various parts of the city. The soldiers
were attired in full service uniform,
wore steel helmets, and carried guns
with fixed bayonets.
Streets Almost Normal
Except for many broken windows the
streets of Glasgow to-day wore a
normal aspect. The street cars were
running as usual, and only fifteen cars
were unllC 1Or service.
Councillor Shipwell, chairman of the
strike committee, who was arrested
this morning. is consderd to be one Of
the extremists. He is tailor by trade
Bail for his release has been refeused,
and he is being held on charges of in
citing to riot.
LONDON. Feb 1.-There was no i'm
provement in the strike situation in
the United Kingdom to-day. If any
thing, there seemed to be o probability
of the trouble spreading, although the
intervention of the military at Glas-
gov was considered likely to dampen
the ardor oc the elements inclined to
resort to rioting.
The ship repairers on the Thames
side, who have been out during the
week without strike pay, have now been
promised fifteen shillings a man weekly
by their unions. Therefore, the posi-
bility of shortness of funds ending
the strike has disappeared.
The Belfast strike committee, having
tied up the city, Is turning its
attention to attempts to extend the
strike to the rest of Ireland, while the
example of Glasgow is being followed
by the shipyard workers on the north
east coast and along the Bristol Chan
mel. They are demanding a forty hour
week.
The meeting of the representatives
of twenty-four trades union, which was
originally called to meet at London to
discuss the working Of forty-seven
hour week, will now be occupied in
debating whittier a demand for forty
hour week shall be made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Staten Islanders
Organize to Fight
For Subway Line
Now Takes Longer to Go
From Harlem to Totem
vile Than to Philadelphia,
Committee Members Say

Citizens of Richmond Borough are
organized for the campaign which they
hope will bring them a subway sys-
blinking them with Manhattan.
"a subway to and through Staten
Island" is the slogan adopted on Fri
day night at meeting of the Staten
Island Subway Committee, represent
ing every section of the island Of
ficers were elected and plans perfected
which provide for strenuous fight
until their objects are attained. The
officers are:
Louis l.. Tribus, president; Dr. Louis
A. Dreyfus, president; William
Worth Mills, secretary; Louis Kauf-
mann, recording secretary, and C. B.
Dullea, treasurer.
Posters bearing the new slogan are
to be printed and placed throughout
Staten Island, on the ferry boats and
on the New York side of the Munich
pal Ferry. Various speakers declared
that, through all the year Of municipal
improvement in other boroughs of the
greater city, the residents of Staten
island had been neglected.
Helped Build Other Tubes
1t was pointed out that the taxnavers
of Richmond had contributed more than
S3,oo0Oo0 toward the completion of the
subway systems in other boroughs.
The Municipal Ferry came in for
bitter criticism. DR.. Dreyfus who also
IS president of the State Island Civic
League, said of this service:
we have been complaining that the
ooats did not run on schedule, but this
mas now been remedied by the dock
commissioner. Being unable to make
the WORKOUT boats run to schedule. he
mas made the schedule run to the
beats. The boats made the trip be-
tween st. George and the Battery in
nineteen minutes thirteen years ago
when the service began. The new run
hins time' officially announced, is
twenty-nine minutes.'
+ Stuart l.. Ritz, Of Tottenville, told
the members it was possible to get to
Philadelphia from upper Manhattan
quicker than it is to make the trim
from Harlem to Tottenvlle
To Invite Officials to Try 1t
Members Of the Board of Estimate
are to be invited to visit Staten Island
travelling on the trollcys and steam
INES, and not in motor cars, as city
officials usually do.
II am convinced" said William G
wilcox, former presiden of the Board
OF Education, that if we can get them
to make the trip they will realize what
we are up against and will be with us
TO man."
j.. G. Meary, representing the Stand
ard Shipbuilding Corporation of Shoot
committee his company was beartilv
IN favor OF the subway and was will
ing to cooperate in any plan to obtain
better transportation. Because of the
inadequate service Of ;he Municipal
Terry. nc said, his company expends
$5o0,00O year to transport workers
from Brooklyn and Manhattan to and
rom the yards.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
u. S. Sends BritQns Cheese

Since the war started more American
cheese has been shipped to Great Bri-
tain in one year than in any previous
five years. The British are great
cheese eaters. 1t is highly nutritious
food and the idea that it is not easily
digested has long ago been exploded
People's Home Journal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Returned Soldiers
Offered State Aid
To Become Farmers

ALBANY, Feb. Commissioner of
Agriculture Charles S. Wilson and the
Farm Service Bureau are receiving the
active aid and cooperation Of more
than 5000 rural school teachers in
the campaign Of the Department of
Agriculture to develop New York's
agricultural resources. A part of this
work in charge Of the Farm Service
Bureau consists of furnishing through
agricultural experts reliable and ac-
curate advise TO returning soldiers who
may desire to take up farming.
an carrying on this work." said
Commissioner Wilson, "the policy of
the Division of Agriculture is that
applicants who have not had necessary
farm training ought not to be encour-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

A company for the manufacture and
Importation for faicnces and porcelains
has recently been organized in HcIging-
lors, IL Is the first Of It's kind in
Finland
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Strikers ira Belfast
Debate adoption OF
More Drastic Policy

BELFAST, Feb. 1.-The strike siua-
ton here is assuming an uglier phase
refusal Of the employers to consult
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Fuel Price Control
By Garfield Ends;
Decrease Expected
Mild Weather and Light De-
mand May Cause Drop;
Curtailment Begins as
the Supplies Pile Higher

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-The Fuel
Administration discontinued to-day all
price control and much of the super
vision over distribution of coal, coke,
oil and natural gas. under an order
signed by Administrator Garfield. With
the passing Of control over fuel most
of the activities of the Fuel Admins-
tration ceased. The administration,
however, under the Lever act, cannot
disband until peace has been declared.
Some coal men said to-day that ces-
sation of control over prices on coal
and the unusually mild winter would
tend to lower prices. Others predicted
little change.
READING, Penn, Feb. Goal price
are likely to fall in the near future,
consignees Of large quantities of fuel
said to-day after survey Of the an
are being stored at the yards of the
Reading Company, there being little de-
mand.
There is reported to be a glut of pea
coal all over this section, and dealers
are not buying. All are said to be try
ing to unload as fast as possible before
the winter ends and the bottom drops
out Of prices. There is no car shortage
at the mines, but the latter are not
busy. Half a dozen independent coal
companies in the Schuylkill field have
closed their collieries for periods of
one to six days
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
irish Firemen Get Raise

Firemer on Irish railroads have Sc
cured bonus Of 500 a week Bati-
more Amerlean.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

WILKESBARRE. Penn. Feb. l.
Anthracite operators are preparing to
curtail coal production. Their plans
have not reached definite shape as vet,
but 1t is announced BIZ several that
the collicIes VIII probably operate on
three-d day week basis within a
short time. For the present the col
heries VIII continue OF Il full time
sasis but just as soon as the operators
can work out their plans with the
sales department, the retrenchment
order VIII 20 into effect For next
week, al least. ther will be no change
IN the schedule.
SCRANTON. Penn, Feb. Follow
ing the shutting down 0 Tuesday Of the
big mines Of the Jermyn Coal Com
pany, ut Oldforge, Penn, came the an
nouncement to-day that practically all
Of the anthracite mines in this sec
tion Of Pennsylvania will 70 on half
time on Monday.
This condition. it is stated, will con-
iinuc for at least four months. II is
duo 10 the mild weather. congestion
in freight service and excess Of coal
on hand at all distributing points,
With the demand the lightest in a
score Of years.
In the Lackawanna and Wyoming
valleys more than 10000 mine work
err are affected
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
Social Revolt
Is Seen Behind
British Strike

Continued from page l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02
First CurtaiIment in Years

HAZLETON, Penn, Feb. For the
first time in two years curtailmep4 was
ordered to-day at anthracite coal mines
of the Lehigh field. This action was
taken because Of stagnaton of the
trade, due principally to the mild win
ter weather. The upper Lehigh and
Hazlebrook collieries of the j. S.
"entz Company and the Beaverbrook
operations Of the c. NJ. Dodson Com
pany We're idle The Lehigh Valley
Coal Company has put some of its
mines on a seven-hou rday and sus-
pended work at washeries. Storage Of
anthracite ha@ begun.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-02

ROC KlSLAND, H., Feb. 1.-Instcad
OF coal dropping to-day, it advanced
IN Illinois. Dealers here announced
that Franklin County coal was ad
yanced 20 cents ton at the mine, eff
fective to-day, and that other grades
would soar ny the middle Of the
month. The dealers themselves an
nounced an advance Of Is cents ton
on the coal which they have on hand.
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
HOUSE RESTAURANT PRICES

Down one flight of highly polished
marble steps guarded by highly or
namented bronze raiiinss members Of
the House of Representatives descend
from their chamber to their restau-
rant. or by elevator il they prefer
that easier though slower method OF
transit. 1t is an attractive place. that
restaurant. heavily pillared and
arched, its thick walls pierced by win
dows through which the Capitol
grounds where the Marine Band plays
sweetly may be giimpsed as one rel
ishes ones simple Congressional vic
tuals.
There in former and wicked days
some members sloried and drank deep
until they knew not where they were
at. drawn to such lamentable ways,
no doubt. by the resemblance OF their
surroundings to the temples Of Per-
sepolis. where Jamshyd gloried In
such unbecoming conduct. II young
Omar reports truthfully.
Attractive in all things except the
II. c. Of L.. which has impudently
penetrated even to the cloistered
shades where members refresh them
selves between speeches which ring
ingly damn, threaten and promise to
reduce the overwide spread between
the cost and price of those delicacies
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
"SNOW BIRDS" OPENED UNDER WAR
TIME STRESS SWELL PROFIT OF
GOOD MINES TO BIG FIGURES

theory to disregard the costs and get
the production. II fixed the price OF
coal on a basis which would permit
the operation of the most Inaccessible
and inefficient mines, with the natural
result that a very large number OF
so-called "snow-bird" mines were
opened up. which did not add ma
terially to the nations supply, but
did take men and coal cans away
from the more efficient mines.
A.'snow-bird" mine, in the Lam
guage OF the trade, is opened to take
advantage Of the high prices OF =
crisis, and disappears from operation
as soon as conditions are nornIsl. A
large number OF ''snow-bird' mines
were opened during the great coal
strikes OF 1901 and 1875. and have ever
since contributed 20 the difficulties Of
arranging waGe-sCsles and coal prices
for the industry as a whole.
The immediate effect OF this policy
was TO give the favorsbly-situated.
low-cost mines profits ranging as
high as 1000 per cent or 1900 per cent.
according 20 the corporation tax re-
ports. The coal miners saw this and
determined TO get their share OF the
''swag" which Was being eXtorted
from the public. This was the moy-
ing consideration. declares one who
was in close touch with the miners
in the 1917 negotiations.
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15

statesmen must consume. fuel TO
feed the fires of oratory.
Only Representative King. Of ILL.,
nois. openly rebelled and Carried re-
bellion to the floor of the House,
One day he ordered in the restaurant
for the replenishment of exhausted
nature a portion of corned beef and
cabbage and one chicken and lettuce
sandwich: a lunch. surely. for COM
bined poet and practical politician.
as we'll composed as an opera. as
varied as vaudeville. as sustaining
as a lamp post: a dashed fine lunch
with no nonsense about it.
But the price? Corned- beef and
cabbage, SO cents: chicken and let
tuce sandwich, IS cents! Did the
honorable gentleman from GaIesbure
eat his order? He did mot. His
agony Of hunger was tackled and
downed by his rage at the price. He
took his savory service plates and
carried them to a conveniently
neighboring drug store. at 2o1 Sec
ond street southeast, no further, and
had their contents carefully weighed
on an apothe0ry's scale: yea, even
to ounces. drams, grains. Then
from q nearby dealer in like goods
he learned the going prices, and
later. assisted by q well equipped
accountant, soon had the truth. The
materials Of the corned beef and
cabbage portion cost sos cents, of
the sandwich 4.5S cents. His further
computations, after allowing the
restaurant 100 per cent charge for
cost of serving. showed that on the
corned beef and cabbage the net
profit was 212 per cent, on the sand
wich. $50 per cent. What q spread
was there,
Mr.. King offered q few impas-
stoned remarks In the House on this
audacious breaking in and entering
by cynical old II. c. Of L. on the
very premises OF gentlemen sworn
to drive him thence with lashings OF
eioduence. Representative Sears at
once moved that the corned beef and
fixings be referred to the steering
committees on both sides of the
House to be digested, as It were, into
q report on how about II.
A pretty pass, indeed! Four hum
dred and thirty-flve statesmen, each
with . different sure shot cure for
what ails us, themselves suffering
outrageously from the same trouble:
their own Jeans stripped to the but
tons for the wherewithal merely to
sustain life. The tragedy, or comedy,
rs you like II. of the whole matter
10 that the House restaurant Is not
q privately owned concern; It Is
owned and managed by the House,
and Speaker Gillett is ex oficio its
maitre d'hotsl.
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15

All the clements which make for
efficiency IN coal mining operation
and for consequent dissatisfaction
and unrest among the miners have
greatly increased during the war.
The situation might have been
largely avoided IL the administration
had adopted as its policy the pooling
plan suggested by William b. Colver.
chairman of the Federal Trade Com
mission. This provided that the fuel
administration should assume gen
eraI supervision of all the mines in
the country and pool the entire pro-
ducrfon distributing the profits in
proportion TO production. and thus
eQuaIiEing the enormous differences
betweenN the high-cost and low-cost
mines. The scheme further provided
for concentrating production in the
most accessible mines, and closing
down those mines which were vast
ing man-power and car supply for
the sake of a very small. addition to
the nations output.
The pooling would have had the re-
suit of regularizing employment in all
opera ting mines and increasing the
efficiency Of our relatively deficient
supply OF coal cars.
Instead Of adopting this policy.
however, the administration adopted
its exact antithesis on the wartime
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
BY the Rev. Charles steIsIe.

During a recent evangelistic cam
paign the entire New Testament
was read in public in a single day
beginning at ( a. m. and continuing
until 10 p. m.
1t required forty-eight readers in
relays of from twenty to thirty
minutes each. No doubt hundreds of
people heard more of the Bible read
on that day than during all the rest
Of their lives.
This was a good thing to do, but
there's better way to read the
Bible-for most OF us.
1t required about 1,600 years to
write the Bible, and the sixty six
books which it contains consist Of
history, poetry. prophecy, law and
several other kinds of literature.
For whatever else the Bible is. it
should be regarded as literature,
which means that il should be read
and especially studied like any other
book, or collection of books.
Aside from reading the Bible for
purely devotional purposes. when II
is read. in brief sections-and usual
ly. for this purpose. the briefer the
passage read, the better-the Bible
should be read in it's chronological
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
Suggested Daylight Saving.

1t is claimed that the first person
to suggest the idea of daylight saw
ing was Benjamin Franklin when
he was Minister to France. In 1884
franklin. in a letter published in a
Paris paper. outlined a plan by
which the city of Paris might save
fully s2.ooo.oe0 a year in actual cost
Of candles for light by putting the
clocks ahead one hour. so as TO get
an hour more of daylight and an
hour less of artificial light. At that
time the people of Paris kept late
hours and also arose late in the
morning. His letter. entitled An
Economical Project" was in a
humorous vein and excited consid-
cradle COMMENT but nothing ap-
parently came of it.-Rochester
Post-Express.
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
Such Is Life
As 1t Is Seen
By o. B. JOYFUL

/, Cleveland Chamber Of Commerce L.
brary never has had a call from its
members for the r, bic. There is no
Bible upon its shelves.
They're too busy rea dins check
books, lcdgers. cost books. efficiency
charts and the ticker TO find spare
moments for the Bible.
man. Now Mars. Venus and the other
occupants Of the sky will behave
themselves.
The cop who thus guards the Cold
en- Gate" is Copper Gates.
New York preacher warns his nock
of sinners and saints that there Il no
coal strike in hades. and no lockouts
Of firemen.
Dr. Blue believes wood chopping il
far superior to golf as the ideal out
door exercise.
Arthur Ardensult, ls years old. Los
Angeles, Cal. was convicted Of steal
ing q dictionary. This youthful thirst
for knowledge IL going to bring some
lad to the point OF swiping q spelling
book and 'rithmetic.
When family. possessed Of an or
dinary allotment OF common sense.
and spends a little less. but not 80
with nation IN debt. II works iess
ana spends more
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
STUDY THE BIBLE AS
YOU READ IT"

! order-tbat is. the portions written
first should be read first.
Perhaps you would read the his
torical section first. then the books
Of the prophets who lived during
that particular period. then the
psalms or other devotional books.
Sometimes you would select merely
a chapter in certain OF the prophets
or the psalms.
In this way you would get a COM
pletely connected picture of what
happened at a certain period in his
tory, and naturally, IT would make
the entire study far more interest
most of us employ in our study OF
the Bible.
1t would be a most fascinating
thing to make the chronological
chart covering the entire period OF
Bible history. laying 1t out in Sec
tions and marking down the various
great events and the years in which
they happened. and locating on this
chart the books Of the Bible, the
prophets and kings who lived dur
ing each OF these periods, and the
names of the most important rulers
who reigned in related or nearby
countries at the same time that the
Israelitish rulers lived.
This may seem like a hard thing
to do, but a good Bible dictionary
costing only about a dollar. will
help immensely, and the dates given
at the top of each page OF the aver
age Bible will be of great value.
You will count this method the
best piece Of Bible study you ever
attempted. After you have done il.
and you hear my part of the Bible
read. you will at once have the
whole background OF the Scripture
passage in mind. and II will mean
very much more to you.
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
JUST IN FUN

He who leaves the question of his
liberty to chance or hazard or TO
the manipulation of his neishbors
deserves to lose IL. As in the affairs
of love. this Is a case where every
eye should negotiate for itself.-w.
E. Gladstone.
Funny how some fellows get gen
erous when they are drunk" Yes,
and others get tight" Cornell
Widow.
Abse7ce diminishes little passions
and increases great ones, as. the
wind eNtiuguisnes candle and fans
a tire.-La Rochefoucauld.
Hszel-"The first time George pro-
posed i didn't accept him." Helen
Il know II. dear. You weren't there. I"
Express.
II is a wise policy which sharp
ems the weapon ere it casts the
gauntlet.-Bulwer Lytton.
II WISH we lived in the country
where there isn't a million ways to
spend every nickel one gets"
T WISH 1 could be President of
the United States"
Il WISH ] were q college pro-
fessor with no Congress to bother
me. and no politicians to heckle
me-"
Il WISH Willie wouldn't bring
all the boys of the neighborhood
into the house every evening"
II WISH willie would stay at
home more snd quit running round
with that oornAr gano.-
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
A LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR
BY John Kendrick Bangs.
A STRONG ARGUMENT.

SlNONe hpUO "ENIs
Copyright, 1873. by The Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicste)
He said he could not well believe in
things he could not see;
wondered II he'd seen the winds
that blow persistently.
I wondered IL he'd seen the scent that
glorifies the rose.
I wondered IL he'd seen the chill that
breeds the winter SHOWS.
I asked him IL he'd ever seen the face
Of Socrates.
I asked him II he'd ever glimpsed the
solar mysteries
put 1t squarely to hirp II he'd seen
George Washington.
And Hamilton, ard Lincoln, General
Grant and Jefferson.
And all that Doubter answered, as
/, he turned away from me,
Was just the simple little phrase. 20
5 T.u-douh1o Tt' s, s-
The Washington herald., 1919-11-15
Old Holland House Sold.

Another OF New York's older ho-
tells is soon.to yield to the city,
pressing demand for business space.
This Is the pnrport Of the announce.
ment made yeterday concerning the
sale of the Holland House. at the
southwest, corner Of Fifth avenue
and Thirtieth street. The Holland
House Company. of which DR.. Guy
Whiting of Washington. d. c.. is
president, figures in the announce
ment as the seller of the property.
The company has owned the hotel
since its erection in l1sss.-From the
New York Sun.