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New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Police Hospital Planned

Police Commissioner Enright has
undertaken to build S5,00O,OOO hos
pital for policemen and their families
He expects to start campaign within
the next two weeks to raise the money
The Commissioner announced his
plan last night at dinner at the Wal
dorf-Astoria Hotel given in honor of
Mrs. Ellen A. O'Grady, Fifth Deputy
Police Commissioner, in charge Of the
welfare bureau. Mr.. Enrght said the
hospital. besides caring for policemen
and their families, should hold out
IL helping hand TO persons who other
wise might not receive hospital atten-
ton Asked whether the hospital
would ba q Colonel Roosevelt memorial
Mr.. Enright said 1t would be good
idea.
Mrs. O'Grady congratulated her help
ers on their. accomplishments Of last
year, notably the decrease in juvenile
delin1uencv
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Goodwin Left No Will
Amount of Actors Estate Is Nos
Determined

Leo r. Brilles, for several years ~
torney for Nat c. Goodwin, said yesssl.s
day that so far as he knew the ac.of
made no will. "Throughout the ums
was retained as his counsel he nest. sss
mentioned having made Will ''
Brilles said. ..ts
The extent of Mr.. Goodwin's es's's
il problematic. Although he receive"
large SALARY on the stage and ssso =. =
screen star, his employment ~ ~. ~
eent wears had been irregular on tes
other hand, he was known as ms,
who lived we'll, II was understood
amone~ his friends that he had s,s e.
estate N California of considerae.1a
value and also that he was lnteresass s
in some Western mining propef'ls.s,,,
IL he retained these interests .l.
likely will constitute the greater pe''
OF his estate.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Socialists Get Passports

Algesnon Lee. Socialist alderman,
and James Oneal. an editor Of "The
New York Cel.,' resolved passports from
thu State Department yesterday and ex-
pcct 70 sail within Two or three days
70 attend the international socinlist
nnd Labor Congress in Derne, ;switzer-
Lard. The passports wcrc granren
wlthin a few hours after President
Wilson'S. cabled authorization had
reached tha State Department.
The third delegate, Mr.. Lee said last
night, probably will he John M. Work,
Of Chicago and Iowa, member Of the
Socialist party national executive com
mittec. The dclegateb we're selected by
referendum Of the committee. James
II. ManreY, for many years president of
tho Pennsylvnnia State Federation OF
Labor, who was selected 81 the third
delegate, found he would be unable to
attend and did rot apply for n pass
port, Mr.. Work was his alternate.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Egg rice Reaches
Pre- War Figure;
Butter Also Drops
Turning Back by Govern
ment of Communicated
Stores Is Expected to Re-
suit i'm Further Slump

Eggs are selling at pre-war prices on
the wholesale market to-day, the re-
suit of a drop Of five cents a dozen
yesterday, making a total decline of
10 cents q dozen in the last four days
When the market closed last night eggs
were selling at AZ cents wholesale, and
conscientious retailers should be ask
ing under SO cents by tomorrow. The
AZ cent quotation is similar to that Of
January, 1917, before the United States
entered the war And according to food
market experts, the egg prices have by
no means reached their lowest level.
While butter prices hovered around
474S cents yesterday, showing drop
of one cent from Saturday, sharp
decline to-day would NOT surprise deal
ers. When the government turns back
the huge stores of butter it comman-
deered in November, the supply will
exceed the tagging demand.
Loss to Dealers Predicted
Butter merchants will lose thousands
of dollars when this government held
supply is turned back to them, accord
ing to J. D. Mahr, president Of the New
York Mercantile Exchange Sixty per
cent of all the butter in cold storage,
he said, was taken over\by the govern
ment when the price was about6 go cents
pound. The sudden end of the war
leaves the government with no outlet
being turned back to merchants, al
though the market is almost 25 cents
lower than when the butter was COM
mandeered
eff merchants sell at the present
price," said Mr.. Mahr, who is serving
his eleventh term as head of the ex-
change, "they will subject themselves
to great losses. They can either hold
this butter unit! higher price is
reached or sell it now and add to the
already Increased supply over de-
mand.'
The butter being sold now. Mr..
Mahr said. is bringing less than the
cost of production. He characterized
butter at it's present price. under
existent conditions, as zone Of the best
bargains available.''
Mr.. Mahr declared increased unem-
ployment means lower prices. Since
early in January he said, the falling
off in consumption demand has been
easily IelC IN the 1000 business. Butter
has fallen off $15 tub. or 25 cents
a pound:
Weather Affects Egg Market
Continued mild weather will mean
lower priced eggs, Mr.. Mahr said
Climatic conditions and not market
manipulations. according to Mr.. Mahr,
regulate the price of eggs.
Beef and pork prices IN Washington
Market yesterday showed more effect
of the downward trend, while lamb
and veal registered the firmness at
tendant on increased consumption.
The following comparison of prices
charged by George Alexander and Sons
on Thursday and yesterday brings this
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
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WAL OFARRELL, has, he says, dis
covered ex-President Taft's secret
for losing weight.
at is no mystery where that 100
pounds or so went" says O'Farrell.
THE Judge has been travelling
whole lot lately and has had to live
on McAdoo's dollar meals"
IOHN PATRICK FRANCIS. the vet
u eran ground keeper OF the Forty
second Street Country Club. opines
that some cne has played a mean
trick on the New York soldiers now
in France.
".Just think" said he. waving his
nand up and down Broadway. what
this place looked ike when the. boys
went away! There were trenches
everywhere, wire entanglements,
every few moments boom under
ground would remind one that some
one had touched off another shot.
Now look at the street! Not a ditch
anywhere. 1t looks pretty, but twill
never look like home to the boys"
GPEAkING at a dinner at the Plaza
- Hotel, Lieutenant Colonel Latham
f. Reed. Of the 165th Infantry, for
merly the 69tn. told the following
about Father Duffy, the regiments
chaplain:
Father Duffy was in thc habit Of
riding around in OLIVIER One day,
for a change, he decided 10 try a
horse. returning to mess after a
twenty-mile drive. the reverend gen
tleman looked Bit out of sorts. One
Of the officers asked him whether he
liked horseback riding.
"Shure," replied Father Duffy in his
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Sailor Saves Girls
AT Fire, Climbing g
Along Phone Wires
Home From l9 Months Sea
Duty, He Carries Two
Young Women to Safety
Over Per ilous Route

There was an explosion yesterday
morning in the workshop of the Stand
ard Comb Manufacturing Company, on
the fourth floor of 377 Fourth Avenue.
Partitions we're levelled, sheets of vivid
fame shot through the factory and
every window was shattered fragments
Of the heavy plate glass being blown
clear across Fourth Avenue. One en-
ployc was killed and two others in
jured
William J. Meycrriecks, Of 966 Gates
Avenue, Brooklyn, sailor home after
nineteen months at sea, was one Of
those passing the building when the
detonation and the shower of glass
came Hc looked up Flames were
licking from the windows. At rear
window were two girls, screaming hys-
terically
At the sailors elbow was the FIRE
escape OF the building adjoining, at 378
Fourth Avenue. He swung himself up
and climbed to the platform opposite
the window where The girls were
shrieking. The gap between the build
ings was too wide to jump 1t was
spanned bv a cable Of dozen OF fif-
teen telephone wires.
Meyerriecks swung out on the cable
and hauled himself across, hand over
hand. He clasped the arms Of one Of
the girls, ida Erenburg, eighteen years
old. Of 72 East Nincty-ninth Street,
about his neck and started back the
way he came, while the crowd below
cheered.
When Meyerriecks got back to the
building he had started from q fire.
man, Otto zischka, of Hook and Ladde r
"a, was waiting for him and relieved
him Of his passenger. Then the sailor
swung across again and rescued the
other girl the same way. She. was Elsie
Distell, of 205 East l2Oth Street.
Most of the other twenty employees
I had got out by the elevator and stair
way, where Milton Alkan, of 14O Urban
! Street, Mount Vernon, member of the
firm, stood until the last was out, d-
recthg their escape. The force of the
explosion had hurled Michael Levine
a bookkeeper, against the wall and
stunned him. He was found burned
to death where he had fallen His
Brooklyn.
Alkan was severely burned about the
head and shoulders while he stood at
his post. Agnes Butcher, of 5O7 West
Fifty-frst Street, one of those he
helped to safety, also was burned.
Both were taken to Bellevue Hospital
Employees told the police that the sol
dering on celluloid combs was done in
the workshop where the explosion oc-
CURED. The damage was estimated at
$4,000.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Salvation Army to Open
Hotels for Fighters
New Victoria, in 47th Street.
First Property To Be
Purchased

With the flow Of troops westward,
the Salvation Army has decided to
operate several hotels for fighting men
in New York. These hostleries will be
not only for the returned soldiers, but
also for the relatives who come to this
great port of debarkation to welcome
them. The Salvation Army hopes to
give the same kind Of service here that
won for itself a lasting name as
friend of the American boys in France
Initial steps were taken yesterday
when the Salvation Army directors in
this city purchased through William
A. White & Sons the new Victoria Hotel
property, at 155 West Forty seventh
Street. as the frst hosiery to be oper-
ated by this philanthropic organization
for the occupancy Of American soldiers
The building, nine stories high and
containing many rooms, will be reno
waited, altered and spruced up, and in
hurry, too, so as to be of service to
the men who are returning in ever in
creasing numbers as soon as possible.
The hotel will be operated without aim
for profit.
1t is the opinion of Che Salvation
Army that the men have given great
service to the country, and that their
condition should not be commercialized,
The rooms will be rented at the lowest
possible figure. The best accommoda-
tions will not cost more than SO a
night for two persons, and the lowest
price is placed at $1.25 a night for a
single room. The hotel could not be self
sustaining if lower rates were to be
charged, since it's operation will cost
$144,000 a year.
The building is valued on the citys
tax books at s625,0OO. The Longacre
Realty Company, owner of the hotel, has
made the statement that the property
and the furnishing of the building cost
$750,000 What the Salvation Army
paid is not known. If it can be made
self sustaining the property will carry
itself through the period of emergency
when it will be offered for resale. If the
property can be resold at profit so
much the better, but it is the aim of
the army to let the realty go at about
the figure which it cost.
The Victoria Hotel covers site 12O
feet wide in Forty-seventh Street and
100 feet deep, between Sixth Avenue
and Broadway The Mordecai- Potter
syndicate erected the building some ten
years ago. 1t was purchased in 1910
by the Longacre Realty Company and
for several years it has been operated
by the Victoria Hotel Company.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Oldtirllers Back
ToPay a Tribute
To Jerry McAuley
They Come From Far and
Wide to Help Celebrate
37th Anniversary of the
Founding of His Mission

The McAuley Gremorne Mission,
founded by Jerry McAuley in the hey
day Of the Tenderloin, held it's thirty
seventh anniversary celebration in its
new building, 216 West Thirty-ffth
Street, last night.
Jerry, river pirate, graduate Of Sing
Sing, and stalwart man Of God in his
later life. founded the mission in West
Thirty Street originally. He
has been dead thirty five years, yet his
name and the work he did live after
him. Those who gathered to celebrate
the anniversary last night proved that.
"Od- timers" and recent converts.
including a minister from Phladel-
phia, a former faro dealer from Tampa
and many men and women who had
known prison life all over the country,
told how the plain, unvarnished re-
ligion of Jesus Christ had changed
their lives at some visit to the Gre
morne Mission.
One sweet-faced old woman, aged but
with voice void of tremor, related
little of her life in the days when
she lived at 1875 Thirty-second Street,
next to the onc-time Cremorne dance
hall. 't
~ served the devil for forty years"
she said, "and every week, sick or we'll,
drunk or sober, / managed to get down
to the Shadow Dance on Wednesday
nights at the Cremorne. When Jerry
McAuley was converted and opened a
mission in Thirty-second Street hated
him, for his lighted sign showed up
the wickedness coming IN and out Of
my place. But in the hall where I
used to dance l found peace, and for
~ as many years AS | was wicked
l have led Christian life"
.An OLD man was on his feet almost
at once.
II knew Jerry McAuley, too," he
said. "We used to get in rowboats
together, bore holes up through dock
floors into sugar barrels and drain
of the thieving ways we had before
he came to Christ and followed him. "
Scores were present last night who
never knew Jerry McAuley, but felt
the influence of his work
One young man got up and said,
quietly:
81 have been to Sing Sing three
times. The last time l went up Judge
Malone adjudged me a habitual Grim
ina and fourth time would mean a
/ life sentence. But 7 have been out
four years and ] own prosperous
store. God knows where I would be
tonight if it we're not for Jerry Nc
Auley and Jerry McAuley's religion" "
mo man has been lower than IL
said another convert, holding out II
bunch of keys. ~, too, have beer
in states prison three times But
these are the keys to a store on Broad
way, where I am a watchman. I found
Christ and my first honest job through
the Cremornc Mission
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Influenza Decreases

A marked decrease in influenza and
pneumonia in all parts Of the city dur
ing the last two days was Indicated by
Health Department reports yesterday
Compared with Saturdays figures the
diseases decreased about 100 per cent
on Sunday and Monday. There also
WAS marked falling off in the number
Of deaths.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
Nixon Enters New Office
State Superintendent of Public
Works Is Qualified

New York, to-day qualified and begans
his duties as State Superintendent Of
Public Works, which position gives
him, in conjunction with the Canal
Board, control over the states cana!
system. He appointed Edward S. Gleas
son, of Rossville, l.. l., as his secres
tary He said he had not yet decides
who would be his first deputy. Theirs
are more than three hundred appsieas
tions from Tammany men for the Joos,
which pays $4,000 year.
Michael j. Walsh, of Yonkers, tns
Democratic leader of Westchestes
County. took the oath of Office. as ssa's
Tax Commissioner, succeeding formsx
Senator Ralph Thomas.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04
$I,4l5 Found, Is Returned

Mrs. Bertha Redfeldt returned bag
containing $3.50 in Liberty bonds.
sl065 in War Savings Stamps and
other valuable securities TO its owner,
Miss Gertrude SCHNEIDER. last night.
within an hour after her discovery os
IT'S loss. The bag chad been left on a
bench in Central Park. Mrs. Redfeldt
picked it up and reported her find at
once to Lieutenant McNeill OF the East
104th Street station.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

I IEUTENANT j. RUSSELL JOHN
~ STONE, OF Daytop,' Ohio, who
served in the Field Artillery Replace
ment Depot at Camp Jackson, S. c.,
tells this one on Major Paul V. Nc
Mutt without, however, vouching for
its authenticity:
"Whle MAJOR McNutt was i'll COM
mand OF one OF the replacement regi-
ments last autumn private got per-
mission of the regimental adjutant to
put his plea for a furlough before the
commander. The Major heard the
man and then snapped out the orders:
"'About face! Forward, march.
"And the man obeyed so promptly
and so we'll that week afterward
the Major got message from New
York reading, why don't you give me
Halt?'"
rTHEoDoRE P. sHoNTs, traction
i head and editor Of the Subway
Sun, sat at the speakers table at the
recent Sphinx Club dinner. When the
toast to the President of the United
States was called for he lifted brim-
ming glass Of water and remarked to
a neighbor how appropriate it was to
drink q national toast in the great
national drink"
Great, yes chorused q group Of
advertising men at nearby table ::
"but powerful hard to stick to-"
Whereupon each measured out large
''stick" of Scotch for his water, and
the papier machc Sphinx at Mr..
Shonts's left hand winked a kindly
electric eye in ther direction.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The garage and stable of John R. Hageman,
president of the Metropolitan Life Company.
at Orienta Point, near Mamaroneck. N. Y.
sick in bed in his home. adjoining the build
lngs Tons of water was poured on the house
to save it from the Aames
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Charles Bruckner. of the Health Depart
ment, has started a campaign against men
who spit on the decks of ferryboats Three men
arrested were sent to jail for day by
Magistrate Groehl in the Washington
Heights police court.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

A reward of $4,000 was offered by Gov
ernor Holcomb of Connecticut for the capture
watchman. who prevented 3 raid on Man
chester silk mill warehouse Thursday night
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The Washington Market price on
butter yesterday was 81 cents pound,
and on eggs go cents a dozen On
Thursday butter was 5s cents and eggs
were So.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Sheriff Nessger, of White Plains. announced
he had recovered $4,000 worth of silverware
and other articles stolen recently from ten
bungalows in the Lake Mohegan summer
colony.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

he tr,tl ~ Professor Seass Nearing and
the American Socialists Society, charged
with conspiracy to viciate the espionage
ac,. waa set Tor tomorrow hs Judge Mayer
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Frank Riaolo, of ISL Classon Avenue.
Brooklyn, was exonerated of any completely
in the murder of Joseph Holbach and wife in
their South Ozone Park saloon.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The National Service Commission o. H.,
Presbyterian Church has uvred prtshyte
rsans- To make a SPECIAL aftcr-waY offer,ns
next Sunday. Roosevelt Memorial Day. whics
will be devoted TO the fresbytsrsan ouots
ct sl.;aoeoo of the lntcFsAurch Imergenc,
Campaign.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

woman still unidentified lesped from the
roof of an apartment house at 511 West
l3oth Street yesterday and was killed Her
pocketbook contained seven pennies and a
list of rooms for rent
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Federal Judge julius NJ MaseY yes.e,.
dsV postpeaa6 the tris, Al htherl i'su
Fricke on an Indictment charg ns treason
untl ta~mceiow,
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The international Custom Cutters. A..
socation will start its convention and ex.
hbtion of mems clothing this morning a,
the Hotel Commodore.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The new Syrian National Leavue wss
sent cable message To President Wilson
urging upon him the claims of Syria to un.
divided independence
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The safe of H Gottlieb G. Sons, grocers,
28+ Court Street, BROOKLYN was blown open
and robbed of $500 in Liberty bonds Sunday
night.
Nurses of the Columbus Hospital. 229 East
Nineteenth Street, kept eighty-seven patients
small blaze between the ceiling and roof of
the nurses quarters.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Seventy-five camoufeurs of the 40th En-.
gineers are at Camp Upton for discharge.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

inimitable way, "but I do think that
Ford makes the best horse"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Now that the Board of Alderman has
changed the name of Hamburg Avenue
Brooklyn, to Wilson Avenue the signs or
the b. K. T. trolley cars are being repainted
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The King of Italy has conferred upon
Otto H. Kahn the Order of the Crown of
Italy for his services TO the Allied cause.
Last summer Mr.. Kahn received from the
French Government the Order of Knight
hood of the Legion of Honor.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Clara D. Noyes. acting director of the
nursing department of the American Red
Gross. will speak this morning at the home
hygiene conference of the Atlantic Division
at the home of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, 4Sl
Madison Avenue
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Conditions in the High School Of Conn
MERGE. which the Public Education Asso-
citation reported to be highly unsanitarv
WIN be discussed by representatives of
the association headquarters, West Fortv.
eighthssStreet. ~
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

Subscriptions obtained this year by the
BANKERS and Brokers Auxiliary of the
United Hospital Fund amount to S34 6as
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

William M. Lawrence, who was assistan,
secretary and chief clerk of the Board n,
Estimate and Apportionment for eleven
years, has been appointed secretary to the
State Superintendent of Elections He lef,
the Board of Estimate and Apportionmeni
a month ago.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-04

The widow Of William D., Travis has pre-
sented a collection of Civil War relics gath
cred by the late artist and correspondent
70 the Valley Forge Museum of American
History, at Valley Forge. Penn.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-29
ROSY FOR
 MORT LINDSEY

Connecticut bowling fans feel con fdent that Mort Lindsey's mark of 1888. made in the all-events at Toledo this week, will remain unscathed and that by tonight he will be crowned the American Bowling Congress champion for the 1919 season. Pre- stunning that this be the case, Lind sey's bankroll will be swelled by sev- eral hundred dollars and he will re- ,ceive a diamond studded medal which goes to the winners in the various events. Lindsey's performances this w proved the outstanding feature of the bowling season and furnished much food for gossip along the alleys here yesterday.
 Although Lindsey's work complete ly outshone everybody in the tOurna- ment, he is not the only local entry to cut into the prize money. The vet eran Charley Johnson, who waged a glorious comeback after being idle for two years, is assured of drawing down a check for his score of 1793 in the a1l-events while he and Palmer will figure in the doubles prize list It is worthy of note that Palmer and Johnson beat out Lindsey and Porto in this event, although the latter will NOO' is expected to grab 8 few dollars for his mark of 174+ in the al1-events.
 A compilation of averages furnishes some interesting dope. Lindsey topped the field with an average of 214. His best score, 267, was made in the five-man event on Wednesday night while his low score, TIT, came in the doubles. Charley Johnson f1n- ished second best with an excellent average of 199. He rolled 245 for his high score and his poorest figure was 161. Joe Porto came third with 193 while Palmer and Sullivan followed in order. Palmers sensational come back following his cratic work in the five-man event proved one of the salient features of the final days play. Sullivan rolled no better than was to be expected, being low-score man for the second time in as many years. Al Johnson, who managed the team, competed in the singles and doubles merely as a matter of form. Here are the averages: