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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

horse, and, being Intercepted as
to how he did it said: 7 thinks to N.Y.
self what would I do was I horse
and l did
Il believe in a policy of recognizing
that the other fellow has q limit and
Of staying until his limit is reached.
A policy of having no limit whatever
that one is not willing to go inside the
law. A policy of no hunting for trou-
bic but never running from any.
Il believe in applying to politics the
Biblical proposition against putting
new wine in old bottles, namely a re-
ognition that the old political methods
OF manipulation and barter are not
applicable to a moral movement: a
policy of planting a movement unon
fundamental moral principles and re-
fusing utterly to make any sort Of
compromise.
i long ago recognized the fact that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

when the houses were vacated a,
cupants could not be found IA
them as private residences. Cons.
quently they were rented to nave
who wanted them for shops or a. ~.
nished room houses. That caused ,..I
property to decline in value. Cond;t;.s
went from bad to worse. Finally a.
property value level had dropped 80 N
40 per cent. Y
when the estate of the late Cen...,I
Buttertield was sold at auction
Of his houses, for example. wa, s.,sI
for $17,300. This was assessed at 60.
600. This was four story and b,..
ment brick house on lot 25xloo IA,
Five years prior to the auction NIL
same house had been on our hal.
for sale at $4,000. Five other hons
on the south side of West Twelw|
street Of similar dimensions were All
for $16,500 each. Every one OF +h..
at these figures went at about 95 NJ,
cent less than the assessed vain. 49,
80 per cent less than the ori,inlI
| value.
"A change for the better began wh.l
tho Peoples Institute appointed a ...]
rotary for Greenwich Village actiul
ties. was informed that their vo,l
was being financed by some of the d.
partment stores, which feared to 81
the district destroyed as a residenHa
quarter. This would have compelh,
the department stores to move also.
Mr.. Benedict asked me to ap|
Finally we issued a little booklet A.
scrlblng places of interest in the vi,
iage. 1t was illustrated and containe3
pictures of the Colonial houses. III.
booklet was entitled How Would Ycu
Like to Open One of These Doors IN
Greenwich Village!'
"This booklet aroused interest amors
homeseekers, but usually one look 4,
the unimproved interiors of the house.
discouraged them, no matter how ke.,
they were about the picturesque quail
ties of the places shown them.
"One day in Gramercy Park noticed
very attractive rcmodelled house. h
made up my mind that the Washingtn
Square section was adaptable FOR thsI
sort Of improvement.
after several preliminary expsrt
ments which were successful took
over house at 124 Waverley Plau
This was dilapidated and had bee,
rented as a rooming house at $1,000 q
year. BY spending about $1,000 In,
creased the rental from 81 900 to SATIN
year. There is another house III
Washington Square that for a tim.l
was renting for $1,4O0 year. By
spending $4,000 the owner has irI
increased the rental to $4,000 a year,
Built of shabby red brick, with shut.
ters hanging by one hinge, with ss.l
cient, ill-tempered plumbing, there wsl|
little to attract tenants to the unlrI
proved houses. But painters st.I
plumbers and bricklayers worked
magic. The way those changes are msts|
IS another story, but the fact that thyl
are made is one of the reasons that TIL
Greenwich Village of poets in garrett
and peasants Gtalian) in tenements 81
disappearing. The Seventh Avenue e.
tension is the other reason.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
William H. Anderson superintendent of tho New York
Anti-Saloon League

"the boss Of the liquor end Of the Re-
publican party Of the state" and sued
Anderson. A new stenographer in An
derson's office put the obnoxious ap-
pellation after Mr.. Barnes's name on
the outside Of an envelope and the en-
velope promptly found its way to Mr..
Barnes's office in Albany. Nothing
came Of the suit, because the postal
law says that no ono shall Knowingly"
address letter like that. The case
was lost sight Of In Mr.. Barncs's suit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
REENWICH VILLAGE has been
rent unhappy worldly and
torn by the opening to traffic

~ REENWICH VILLAGE has been
rent unhappy wordD and
3 torn by the opening to traffic
of the Seventh Avenue extern
sion, the first direct thoroughfare to
penetrate this residential backwater
longitudinally. A subway kiosk has
sprouted in Sheridan Square and rents
are climbing.
Italian tenement dwellers and garnet
infesting Bohemians-to escape high
rcnts-have started on a hegira that
may not stop this side of West Hobo
ken. Already Tiny Tim, who used to
sell soul candies in volunteer fireman
makeup, has gone to New Jersey. But
Tim and his wife have made their pile
and own home and everything. Their
case is not symptomatic; merely inter-
esting.
The artistic ones chortled too loudly
from their Washington Square garrets
and hall bedrooms about the simplicity
of existence in the vicinity of the fur
therest south end of the Fifth Avenue
bus line. A swarm of creatures who
held jobs began to besiege the real
estate office of Vincent Pope, in Wash
ington Square South. Then rents be-
gan to mount and houses were remod-
elled. In word, Washington Square
became fashionable, or almost fash
ionable. Right this very minute E. II.
Sothern and his wife, Julia Marlowe,
are seeking a permanent home on the
Square.
Then those free wild villagers began
to emigrate. Those first ones who
crossed Sixth Avenue and settled in
Sheridan Square were bold lot indeed.
But were they so bold as will be the
intrepid explorers who first reach
Abingdon Square, where their ideas on
anything from the influence of arti-
chokes on art to eroticism in litera-
ture may be expounded from what is
now drab-and dust covered public
bandstand?
"Polly's," with its bare board tables
and benches along its green basement
walls, regular food and cost system
and the Greenwich Village Theatre came
and justified their being. But around
them sprouted and fourished patches
of weird tea rooms, some of which
were amusing and others just plain
silly.
Don Dickerman's Pirate Den, across
tho square from Poly's, was prosper
upper floors were occupied by an as
sortment of queer places calculated to
open the purses Of jaded thrill chas-
ers from Waterloo, Iowa, and Wash
ington Heights All about wero Signs
Of the Vermilion Hound, and Pink
Parrots. even to one bromide place
called The Camouf1age.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
And Now Greenwich Village Becomes Plain New 70
The Seventh Avenue Exten-
siOn's Invasion of
Bohemia

| But all that is old stuff. There is
no policeman in front of Don Dicker-
mans Pirate Den now. The doors are
falling in. Some wag with first-hand
knowledge of coolies, doubtless, has
painted on the face of the adjoining
vacant buildings; "Blue Ointment Ter
race"
But there is a far more weighty
reason for the unoccupied state of the
cubicles above the Pirate Den than
any policeman, however fat. The rea-
son is an economic one. An architect
who realizes that Greenwich Viii
lage is undergoing metamorphosis, has
taken a long Tease on the crumbIinp
building. He is planning to remodel
1T into modern, and therefore high
priced, apartments. And why not :?
The future occupants will be less than
ten minutes by the tube from Wall
Street, and about the same distance
measured by the clock from Times
Square.
Miss E. B. Dunlap, who may have
settled in the Village because of
artistic hopes, or possibly they were
literary aspirations, but who has re-
manned as a real estate dealer in the
firm of Dunlap & Lloyd, says the tea
rooms have gone for good. Her office
is on Sheridan Square, facing that tiny
triangular plot Of iron-fenced grass
that is known to the Park Department
as Christopher Street Park.
~ have three people on my lists now
who are looking for places in which
to open tea rooms" said Miss Dunlap
II have nothing to offer them, and l
shan't have. Rents are prohibitive for
those places. The only reason so many
of them have hung on is the absurdly
low rents that have been charged for
the queer places they occupied Now
they are beginning to go. Where do
they go from here?"
Then Miss Dunlap said something
about Harlem to the Jersey City
Pier" but became more explicit and
fixed dead line along Seventh Avenue.
"Most of the old ones who wish to stay
or the new ones will settle on the west
ern side of Seventh Avenue"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

I about tho effect Of alcohol unon +hs
human system. The local Women's
Christian Temperance Union in Car
linville offered prizes for the best
essay and the best examination on
the textbooks used in the school. and
Anderson won all the prizes in sight.
After finishing the public school course
Anderson went to Blackburn College.
In the same village. Later he grad
uated in law at Ann Arbor, Mich
AS president Of the Epworth League
Of the Springfield district Of the Meth
odist Church the young lawyer went
to state convention of Epworthians
and heard Howard II. Russell, founder
Of the Anti-Saloon League, give the
first exposition Of the league, then
new thing in Illinois. DR.. Russell
quoted an Ohio farmer on the SUCCESS
full work Of the newly organized league
in the Buckeye State, who said: "If
this thing keeps going It will knock
hell out Of politics."
The idea stuck in tho mind Of tho
young lawyer, and soon thereafter he
made up his mind to make temperance
reform his lifework. First, he was
state superintendent Of the Illinois
league. He drafted and built the or
ganization that passed the Illinois
local option law. under which between
900 and 1000 townships voted dry in a
single day.
Then he went to Maryland as state
superintendent, after serving q year in
subordinate capacity in this state.
After experimenting the league work
in Maryland for seven years Andcr-
son on January 1, 1914, came to New
York with a programme and a policy
fully outlined.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
The New
Bohemia

Already a number have sprouted up
in the block bounded by Grove,
Blocker, Barrow and Bedford streets.
That is the nucleus of the new b.
hemia. There are plenty of garrets in
that region. The houses are old, and
bathroQms-the higher the fewer But
that region also is scheduled for reno
walton, if the renting agents are to be
believed.
In New York italian quarter" has
always been connotative term for
cheap rents, and Washington Square
to the Italians Of New York Is lust
as much Garibaldi Square. The Ital-
ians no less than the Bohemians are
being dispossessed from the promising
sites in the village.
Twenty Italian families have been
ordered out of the tenement house at
the corner of Jones and Fourth
streets, two blocks east of the new
Seventh Avenue cheap rent dead line.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

a movement that depends upon publi,
sentiment is essentially publicly
proposition.
Il believe reform agency shca:
have sense of news values and sors
faculty for thinking up and pulling Of
stunts that are news.
Il believe that while the polticisnl
have to win because they need TIL
loaves and fishes, a moral movemen!
does not have to win any particular
fight. All a moral movement has IL
DO is to show intelligent aggression
IN the right direction.
There is an advantage in having
a constituency that is used to beins
whipped and that understands The
philosophy of losing battles in ordss
to win wars.
FINALLY, I believe in a policy q
never being caught out with foli
when it is raining soup"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

against Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
Next Mr.. Anderson took the trail
after Speaker Sweet, whose com
position Of the Assembly Excise Com
mittee from year TO year was such that
dry bill could not got out of COM
mittee. Anderson carried The war
against the Speaker to Oswego County
the homo Of Mr.. Sweet. Thereafter the
Assembly Committee on Excise found
way to report out dry bills. This
year Speaker Sweet lent a hand IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Unreasonable Police

Then came the police with perfectly
unreasonable commands and closed
many of these places. A fat bluecoat
who thought class consciousness meant
prohibition was placed in front of Don
Dickerman's and barred out patrons
with real money to spend for ginger
ale at 40 cents glass and nothing
extra for atmosphere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Panic of
Owners

These loft buildings got as far as
West Broadway in the village and as
far as Washington Square East. Then
the property owners became alarmed
and began to give up hope of trying
to preserve the section. Many owners
left their private residences to move
uptown, usually into a Riverside Drive
apartment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
The Rents Dramatic Rise and
the Tea Rooms
Fall

building a few feet beyond that 100
foot line They gained the boon they
sought, but the men who persuaded the
villagers to put the permission in
writing will tell the metropolitan dis
trict and the world that there is small
chance Of business encroaching on the
residential portions Of the village.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
ders0n-the Man Who Beat John Barleyc0


propensity for slam-bang, two-handed
fighting that has kept his opponents
nervous. He is on top to-day because
he fought his way to the top, like a
heavyweight prizefghter.
Anything but dull time. If there
is nothing doing, start something!" is
one Of his notices. lived up to.
What is the explanation of your
picturesque vocabulary and your use
of slang?" asked a Tribune representa-
tive.
There Is not any," said Anderson.
II do not intend to use slang.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

Then, instead of IS and Sc a room he
can demand-and get-S15 and $25
& room, and the tenement house in
spector can scratch the building off
his list.
On the south side of Grove Street.
just East of Seventh Avenue, the Ital-
ian tenement dwellers have been or
dered to move. They have been paying
$50 to $40 a month. The owner has
discovered or realized that his property
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

Most Of them have found quarters
west Of Seventh Avenue. The vacant
tenement is to be remodelled When
the transformation is complete and
Two bathrooms have been made to grow
where none grew before, when there is
an open fireplace and white tiling and
gas ranges and expensive iceboxes
have blossomed in the drab kitchens
of the former occupants, the owner
can say to himself, pretty soft"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

the village either. The Corn Exchange
Bank is establishing branch at Grove
and Fourth streets, facing Seventh
Avenue. The rear of the lot on which
its> building is being erected ex-
tended beyond the business zone that
extends 100 feet each way from the
centre of Seventh Avenue through the
village. The bank had to gain permits
sion from every property owner in the
block before j could extend its
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

can be converted into what the real
estate men know as high class studio
apartments" These are to rent for
SIS to $500 a month. The owner calls
it a good investment and most likely
the people who occupy these studio
apartments will pay their rent more
cheerfully than they ever did in any
uptown long hall apartment with dark
bedrooms.
Business men are not overlooking
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
wv WILLIAM n. AMBER SON.
NV State Superintendent Of the
Anti-Saloon League, in tho

A(N/ Stdt6 superintendent or the
Anti-Saloon League, in the
five years and Ave months
that he has been fighting the liquor in
terests in the Empire State has so sue
cessfully and relentlessly battled with
the "wets" that his name Is as familiar
to the reader Of newspapers as that of
the Governor, or either Of the United
States Senator'S, or the leading movie
actor, or the highest paid ballplayer.
The liquor men at one and the sauna
time detest and fear him. He never
has asked for quarter from them. Year
after year he has taken drubbing, and
year after year he came back for more
until 1919, when he snapped places
with the hosts Of John Barleycorn.
Now he fights the "wets" from the In
side of the breastworks. The "wets"
are on the outside.
He had scarcely got started in his
thts Stdtc Delore ne stood the
men on their heads, fguratively
~3Speaking, by having introduced at AL
bany bill requiring that all packages
containing alcoholic liquor for beverage
purposes with 2 per cent or more Of
alcoholic content should be labelled
with a skull and crossbones and RI.
scientific statement: "This preparation
contains alcohol, which is habit
forming, irritant, narcotic poison"
The bill did not become a law. An
,sxson did not. expect that i. would.
What he wanted was Advertising, and
Re got It, The liquor men ravcd about
that roughneck, Anderson" and by
the time they were done the tall West
ernsr was one of the best advertised
temperance agitators In the United
States.
Fought An
The Way
From that time until the present
hour Anderson has demonstrated q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
PrOhibifiOnisf
At Ten

All 1 want Is to say things 80 they
get across The only purpose 1 have
is to pack the most meaning into the
smallest compass, SO that 1t will stick,
and also so that the average man will
not need an Interpreter or a diction-
airy In order to understand it. do try
to behave myself, for I have been SOL
emily adm onished by some good breth-
rem Of the highbrow sort, who thought
was talking below the dignity OF a
great reform movement. Now, l do
not object to dignity provided it does
not get in the way, but results are the
acid test Of any policy. would rather
have lop-eared, splay-footed, flea
bitten mule and a dump cart that
'would deliver the goods than a pneu-
matte tired benzine buggy that would
cough and die on the first hill. ] never
had much time to use language for the
purpose of concealing thought"
William Hamilton Anderson was
born in the village Of Carlinville. ILL.,.
on August 8, 1874, Of Scotch-Irish an
cestry. His father Is a country law
yer, with love for the soil and poll
tics. His Methodist mother raised her
boy a teetotalcr, and he became a rad
ical prohibitionjst at the ago of ten
when no read In the public school
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01

A"0t uepeHOS, the Diff
dent Young Man replied. whats the
story?"
III you've got to use the mama
there's no story. If you'll keep the
name out-see here. There's Ger.
tain kind Of thing happens every day.
when it gets into the papers most
always they give the name Of the
girl-only the girl. Understand
"Of course. But that's old stuff. ,
Unless there's new feature to it
something unusual"-
The clerks eyes were flashing.
There isn't any new feature. and
1t isn't unusual, and it is old stuff"
he interrupted, land that's why YOU
ought to print it, and write in your
story that it isn't unusual. Maybe
that would help make 1t unusual"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
On the
War Path

William Barnes, tho Republican
leader, didn't like the statement
fathsred by Anderson shat Barnes was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
Fought An
The Way

From that time until the present
hour Anderson has demonstrated q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-01
By Harry Godfrey

by Harry Godfrey
OYoU ever" the hotel clerk
asked, print an article
without using names?"
"That DEFENDS" the Diff
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-04-19
ALASKA SHOULD SEEK CAPITAL;
 NOT DISCOURAGE
Manager of Large Fisheries Concern Says Money Is Needed to Develop Alas
 ka'S Resources.

The only thing that could prevent the development of Alaska would be hostile attitude on the part of the people of the Territory toward capi- tai, said E. L. Boswell, manager of the Wilson Fisheries Company, which owns the Alaska Herring and Sar- dine Companys packing business To- cated at Little Port Walter, the J. L. Smiley and Company at Ketchikan and the Apex Packing Company at Anacortes, Washington.
 "Alaska's resources have only just been scratched on the surface," said MT Boswell land they offer unlim- ited opportunities, but their real de- velopment can come only through the employment of great capital, the sort of capital that only wants a fair return and stable conditions to become available in quantities need ed. This capital, which passed from under the eye of the investor, is where conditions are unsettled and uncertain.
 "The capitalists of the country are taking more interest in their employ ees than ever before. They are pro. viding for their health and comfort, introducing bonus systems for faith. full service and the profit sharing plan.
 "There is no demand on the part of those who work short seasons, dur. ing that time of year when weather conditions are all favorable, in the canneries, for an eight-hour day, and to introduce it at this time would be almost confiscatory to our business in Alaska, and very disheartening to those who are endeavoring to get capital for investment here"
 Expects To Invest More
 The Wilson Fisheries Company ex poets to invest more money in Alas ka, gradually extending their opera tions here It is especially interested in the Scotch cured and canned her ring. though it is also canning sal mon at both it's Little Port Walter and Ketchikan plants.
 The Wilson Fisheries Company pur chased the interests of Capt. A. w Thomas at Little Port Walter in the Fall of 1917 This company intro duced the Scotch system in caring for herring in Alaska. It also was the pioneer in the canning of herring Capt. Thomas is now interested 1T herring fishing and packing out al the Westward.
 The Alaska herring people are in terested in the proposal to get { $3 a barrel tariff on herring.
 Mir Boswell is at the Gastineau Ho tel, and will remain in Juneau fol several days. This is his first triI here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-04-19
NOTICE.

The Grocery Department of Gold stein's Emporium will be open this
 evening with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables from the steamer Alaska.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-04-19
Statement of the Ownership, Man.
 agement, Circulation, Etc., Re s quired by the Act of August "A,

Statement of the Ownership, Man agement, Circulation, Etc, Re- s quired by the Act of August "A, 1912.
 of Alaska Daily Empire, published 1aily except Sunday, at Juneau, Alaska, for April 1, 1919. Editor, John w. Troy; city editor, Sidney D.. Charles; business managers, John w.. Troy and R. J. McChesney; publish CT, John W. Troy Owners: elf a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not corpora tion, give names and addresses of individual owners.) Empire Printing Company; stockholders. John w. Troy, 159 shares; J. w. Bell. 20 hares; E. c. Troy, 1 share. Known oondholders, mortgages, and other ,ecurity holders, holding 1 per cent IT more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: Qf here are none, so state.) None. Average number of copies of each ssue of this publication sold or dis ributed, through the mails or oth- ,rwise, to paid subscribers during he six months preceding the date hown above. (This information is equired from daily newspapers on y) 2,459.
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