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sale cheap. Apply to G. T. Cunning
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The sun., 1919-01-17
ARMY CAMOUFLEURS
COMING ON COENTOER
Noted NeW York Artists in
Section NoW at Sea.

New Workers. whose tendencies run to-
ward art and the friends and families
OF artists recruited here for the Camou-
fiage Section of the American Expedi-
tionary Forces are awaiting with inter-
est the arrival in Hoboken on Sunday
OF the Goentoer, which sailed from Brest
January S.
The Goentoer in addition to bringing
across the seas various units has on
board Headquarters and First Battalion
Headquarters and Companies A, b,
and X Fcrtieth Engineers.
The Fortieth Engineers is the Csmou-
fiage Section of the A. Il. F., and has
done notable work since its arrival in
France early In January. 1918. The
commanding officer is Major Evarts
Tracy. architect, OF this city.
Among the captains are Aymar EN-
bury, architect. and Homer Saint eau
painter. and Sherry Fry. sculptor. are
among the leutenants.
Harry Thrasher, sculptor. who wac
Il lieutenant. and Sergeant Herter, the
son OF the decorator. were both killed.
and Capt. Root was wounded.
In addition 10 the Fortieth Engineers
the Goentoer Is bringing to New York,
the War Department announces. Battery
+. Fifth Regiment, Coast Artillery. and
Casual COMPANY 41s. both routed to
Camp Meade; 102nd Trench Mortar Bat
terry. Twenty-seventh New York Ma
tional Guard Division. to Camp Upton.
The ship also carries ono officer and
forty-four men as casuals for Camp
Custer nineteen officers and fifty-seven
men. Camp Upton scattered, twenty Of
fcers and twenty-one men. and for the
Regular Army 335 men.
The sun., 1919-01-17
SET $3.50 FOR SUICIDE
IN GRAND CENTRAL
Man, 80, Shoots Himself in
CroWd-Had7 Cents Left.

slightly built man about so, well
dressed in blue serge suit. stopped IN
the crowd on tho main floor OF the Grand
central Terminal yesterday afternoon
and drew out his watch. comparing II
carefully with the clock over the infor-
nation bureau. 1t was exactly 30
We'll. folks. SO long" he said jocu-
larly. I've had a good time in this
world. I've no kick coming Good by"
AS he raised thin. white hand which
held revolver John ]. Cronin, a special
policeman. started for the man on the
run. But the officer was too late and
after report and a fash the young man
dropped to the marble floor. Many
women near by commenced screaming
When DR.. Mcleod arrived with AN am
bulance from the Emergency Hospital
the man was dead Patrolman Ford
took the body TO the East Fifty-first
street station, where In a pocket was
found the following letter. without ad-
dress, salutation or signature:
II am going TO die at $3.50 have
had H.100 and l have had a good time.
I have been all over the world and all
over the South and I have Just cents
on me. j h&ve another month to live.
came froH Chicago. Who I an or
what l am Ia nobody's concern"
Seven cents were In his waistcoat
pocket. Physicians said the young man
gave unmistakable evidence OF tubercu-
losis. and his reference To having a
month to live Is believed to have re-
ferred 10 the ravages of the disease
The dead man, who was about Ave fee,
three inches tall aud weighed ,o5
pounds, carried leather music roll
which contained music from q dealer IN
Brooklyn.
The sun., 1919-01-17
OLD JOBS FAIL TO
APPEAL TO FIGHTERS
Employment Official Tells Dry
Goods Men They Must Help
Solve Problem.

Americas soldiers and sailors return
ing from France do not want their old
jobs back. Instead. the education they
received in the army or the navy Is d.
rect!ng them into new fields, with a de-
sire for better Job than the one they
left and better conditions than they en-
joyed before they went 10 war, accord
Ing to Dr. George W. Kirchwey. assistant
Federal director for New York State OF
the United States Employment Bureaus.
who spoke yesterday at the final session
Of the National Wholesale Dry Goods
Association convention in the Waldorf
Astoria.
DR.. kirchwey said there is no menace
OF vast unemployment in this State, be-
cause manufacturers have shown a sur
prising ability to shift their plants back
from war to peace basis. and because
the Government had sensIhly declined to
abrocate contracts all at once
"One element which must be cons,d-
cred" DR.. Kirchwey said. lis the fact
that the returning soldier is not display
ing as great keenness to go back to his
old Job as was expected. In fact he has
not been showing a keen wish TO re.
into any kind of Job.
one enthusiastic economist told me
the great passion of the returning soldier
Is to get out of uniform and into his old
Job again. have not found this to be so.
"One man. manager OF great de-
partment store IN this city, told me
something about this matter. He sail
his firm had more than 700 men in the
service and was ready and willing to
take every one back. But he also said
he would be surprised II one-third of
them applied
asked how he arrived at this conclu-
sion and he said he gained his expe-
rience from our scrap with Mexico In
that brief affair. he said. he had sixty
men. whose wages were paid all the tim,
they were away. Twenty came back.
The rest sought places elsewhere.
I'VE must face the fact that the war
has quite as distinctly affected the
minds OF the men In It as II has affected
the minds OF those at home. There Is a
tendency for these men to seek a better
and different kind OF work from that
they were engaged In before they went
after their educational experiences in
war. to go back to what before the war
was entirely satisfactory to them.
This glad hand and warm welcome to
the boys who made the sacrifice is all
right for time. but they have the right
to something better than the privilege
OF walking the streets to look for Jobs.
Some have been resenttul at the kind OF
work offered them. They and all who
need employment must be cared for In
some way. Men like you can do much
to solve this problem"
The sun., 1919-01-17
ARTIILERYMEN LAND TO-DAY.
Connecticut Omcials to Join in
Welcome to seth Regiment.

The Fifty-sixth Artillery corps which
is to arrive In port to-day ON board the
hattleship South Dakota, Is made UP al
most entirely of men from Fairfield
county. Connecticut and officials OF that
State will join the Mayors Committee
Of Welcome in greeting the twenty
three officers and l,5l7 men OF the or
ganiZation.
Mayor Sunderland of panbury and a
committee from the Danbury War Blu
resu will go down the bay on board the
police boat Patrol as guests of the
city, A number of parents of the SOL
diers will accompany the welcoming
committee. The South Dakota will dock
on the south side OF Pier 3. Hoboken,
and the men will entra!n Immediately
for Camp Merritt for sanitary inspection
before being sent to the camps from
which they originated.
The sun., 1919-01-17

since the eighty cent decision has IL
earned per cent on its property de-
voted to the public use on the contrary.
there is an aggregate deficiency of at
least Sl2,00O.000. According to Robert
r. Livingston, director OF publicity. tho
company has been able to pay its divi-
dends partly from other revenues than
those derived from the gas business and
partly from past earnings on the COM
pany other investments heretofore with
held from distribution to its stockhold-
ers."
In the past fiscal year. says the COM
plant. the company fell shy by 22.74
cents a thousand cubic feet Of earning 6
per cent, and the present daily loss at
this rate Is SI4.264.53. II contends that
manufacturing and distribution cost
has increased greatly since the former
suit was dismissed and will increase
Substantially this year Meanwhile the
value of money has so deprecated that
not even per cent. would be a reason
able return.
The company holds that the Public
Service Commission has no power TO per-
nit 1t to Increase the price OF gas above
eighty cents n thousand feet and that
should the company increase its rate II
would be unable to collect the money.
Mr.. Livingston said the action had
been started with the greatest reluctance.
Assuming that the court will allow US
the increase we seek" he said. the effect
upon the gas bills OF the great ma ority
OF consumers will be negligible--iess
than one cent a day. The average gas
bill In New York city Is about s2S a
year. An Increase of % per cent. would
therefore affect the average bill about 81
a year. or two cents a day. Compared
with the increase In the prices paid for
other necessities due to the war 1t is
very small"
The sun., 1919-01-17
NEW YORK DRAFTEES
BACK FROM FRANCE.
Belgic Brings 3,188 Troops,
Mostly Members Of 10th
Regiment.

The White Star liner Belgic, British
transport utilized by Uncle Satin. arrived
yesterday from Rrest with 3,lss troops
mostly OF the Forty-ninth Infantry
made up of drafted men chiefly from
this State. The Forty-ninth was sta
toned back OF the lines as replace
ment unit and a large part OF It's men
saw service with other commands.
Two of the casual companies in by
the Beleic are made up Of men who were
In the Seventy-seventh and Twenty-sev-
enth divisions and many were wounded
Private Earl Ross, 25. of Inrett. Pa.
died at sea of pneumonia and the trans
port stopped while he was buried with
of Chicago. who ilaa been seriously Ill
Of bronchitis. was convalescent when the
transport Cooked
Homer A. Rodeheaver, evangelist and
trombonist who has been working for
the Y. NJ. c. A. four months in France.
got back with a high opinion OF the
religious spirit OF the doughboys. He
said he had been at the Nerdun. Toul
and Argonne fronts. He undertook to
give the boys II long distance trombone
rendition OF Brighten the Corner
Where You Are" while 1850 feet up in
an airplane. The music was indistin-
guishable from that height ana he came
down to 500 and was heard and cheered.
Mr.. Rodeheaver said he had conducted
a service of prayer and song at the
ire at Nerdun just before the Twenty
sixth Division went into action. The men
sang fervently and prayed. Some who
had known Billy Sunday on this eide
asked about him and wanted TO know
when he was coming over. On the eve
OF the battle, Mr.. Rodeheaver said. he
met several boys who wanted a priest
so they might make confession. He
got one In a hurry. He attended a
gathering OF Catholics one evening and
Was introduced by a Sergeant O'Ne!ll
After he had spoken all the Professionals
present joined the Holy Name Society
Mr.. Rodeheaver will Join Billy sunday
1t Richmond. where the latter began a
series OF meetings last week
Four infantrymen who were police
men in this city when America entered
the war returned by the Belgc. They
are John Martens, formerly OF the Thir-
teenth precinct; James Dunn, William
Ralfo and Charles Garrison formerly
OF the Twenty precinct
The British Ministry OF Shipping an
nounced yesterday that nine British
steamships had been assigned To the Use
OF the United States to bring Anne rican
troops home. They are the Caronia.
Adriatic, Minnekahda. Celtic, Canopic,
Saxonia. Pannonia. Cedric and Orca,
and they will sail from Brest within the
next two weeks. In February the three
biggest British liners, the olympic. Maui
retania and Aquitania- will bring Amer
lean troops home.
Tho Swedish American line announced
yesterday that their steamship Stock
holm would sail from Gothenburg to-
morrow. after taking on passengers, and
would stop at Brest and embark about
1900 American troops She also will be
utilized later as troop carrier.
The sun., 1919-01-17
CONSOLIDATED GAS co. SUES
TO SET ASIDE so CENT RATE
Asks Injunction in Federal Court and Seeks Increase OF
% Per Cent.-Cites Supreme Court Memo
randum as Justification.

Contending that its net income for the
year ended October 81 was less than
one-fourth of 1 per cent. on the value Of
It's investment the Consolidated Gas
Company started suit In the United
states District Court yesterday to have
the 80 cent gas law OF 1906 adjudged in
valid on the ground that IL Is uhconsti-
tutional and conflscatory. II asks that
Attorney-General Newton. District At
torney Swami md the Public Service
commission be enjoined permanently
from enforcing the law.
The so cent rate was fixed by the
State Legislature after an investigation
managed by Charles i. Hughes. The
company fought 1t for three years. In
1903 the United States Supreme Court
upheld the law. but recognized that the
company should receive a return OF at
least per cent ard said In a memo
randum written by Justice Peckham
"As 1t may possibly be that practical
experience of the effect of the acts BIZ
actual operation under them might pre-
vent the complainant from obtaining a
rair and just return upon it's property
used In Its business OF supplying gas,
the complainant IN that event ought to
have the opportunity OF again pres ,nting
Its case to the court"
1t Is this invitation which the Consol-
dated is accepting now. Its complaint
says that the gross operating revenues
rom gas business In the year ended
october 81 were $l5.764.28S.1l. the ex-
Denses were Sl5.665. 046.46 ard the net
income was only $s9.24l65. This repre-
sents a return OF 6 per cent upon a
principal sum OF only $l,654.027, while
the present value OF the company's m
restment In the gas business. the com
plant says. is not less than s69,697. 700
The company says that at no time
The sun., 1919-01-17
FAMILY WANTS HER BACK.
Josephine Arena, 10. IL Sought
yninIy by Parents.

II Josephine Arena, who up to De-
cember 81 lived with her mother and
father, younger sister and six brothers
knew that the whole family wanted her
back. perhaps Josephine would recon-
slider and come back. says the Arena
family. I'm addition" says Josephine's
oldest brother. mother Is worrying her
self sick"
SO the Arena family. VINO live in
1s48 Pltkin avenue, Brooklyn, and who
up to the day Josephine disappeared
worked in the American Tobacco Com
rany at 5l3 West Twenty-second street
are following every clue furnished by
Josephine's companions. Josephine col
lected half a weeks pay and asked her
mother for new clothes and II il pre-
sumed from these facts man has
lured Josephine from her home.
Josephine ID Is, weighs about one
hundred and twelve pounds, has dark
blue eyes and wore blue serge dress
the day she disappeared. Over this she
had long dark blue coat with a
pointed collar. Her shoes and stockings
were tan colored.
The sun., 1919-01-17
$S,50O,OO0 OF FOOD
SENT TO NEAR EAST
Two Ships With Navy Crews
Take Relief to .ArmcnianS
and Syrians.

The stea msllips Mercurius and West
ern Belle with s3.5O0.o0o worth of food =
stuffs and medical supplies for the re
her of the distressed populations OF Ar
menia, Syria and Turkey. sailed yester-
day for ConstantInople.
They will have a friendly race acrog.
the Atlantic to add to the glory OF the
Navy Department. which furnishes the
commanders and crews 20 both vessels
The Western Belle is skippered by In
sign Wayland and the man at the holm,
OF the Mercurlus 10 Capt Caleb l.. Nor
ris- 1t is the nl...den Atlantic trip u
the Western Belle. which recently cane
10 this port by way of the Panama C.as
from tho yards OF the Columbia River
Shipbuilding Company.
The cargo OF the Nercurius. besides
vast quantities OF evaporated and coa-
densed milk. matted milk. cereals, cosoo,
evaporated vegetab les. butter. larn,
cheese, jam, tea and coffee, comprises
ambulances. light touring cars. mota.-
cycles. tractors. gasoline. kerosene. bed
clothing. towels and big consigNW, ".
OF "delousng machines" 10 combat 40
coolies OF Asia Minor The Vest
Belle carries only -four. more than ,|s't
thousand tons. the cost OF which, 90
elusive OF freight and other char-cs.
WAS sl.46l, 900.
The supplies are sent without charge
for freight through the cooperate p
the War, Navy and State departr1r :
md the United States Food Admin e'~'-
ton by tho Committee for the Relief ~
the Near East, OF which Or. james l..
Barton is the chairman and cleveland
II. Dodge the treasurer. and the l"'0t
Distribution Committee Of the Amer!' An
Fund for Jewish Sufferers. OF which
Felix NJ. Warburg is the chairman.
Another relief ship, the Pensacola, Will
sail next week with other supplies valued
at nearly two million dollars.
The sun., 1919-01-17
HOT WATER WON, STRIKE ENDS
Tenement House DwelIers Settle
Strike Over Rent.

The rent strike by jewellers in the six
story tenement house at 12l-123 East
109th street. who were ordered dlspos-
sessed by Justice IIoyer in the Sixth
Municipal Court last Tuesday because
they refused to pay rent until they were
provided with hot water, was settled
yesterday
An agreement was signei at the offices
OF Harry Fleischer. 1862 Madison ave-
nue.. attorney for Philip and Charles
Wunsh. the lessees, In which the latter
agreed not 10 raise rents prior TO April
30. 1919. 1t also was provided in the
agreement that Harry Stone. one OF the
tenants. be installed as janitor and that
he should zee to II that there was
sufficient supply OF hot water. The ten
ants reserved the right to discharge the
janitor and replace him by another ten
ant
All the evicted families may return TO
their apartments after paying their rent.
The sun., 1919-01-17
MILK CONFEREES
UNABLE TO AGREE
Distributors Believed to Have
Made Slight Gain as Re-
ceipts Increase.

The FINAL meeting yesterday OF milk
producers and distributors with Robert
E. Downing as chairman to settle the
milk strike reached no settlement and
! resembled more than anything else
theosophist convention.
The astute representatives OF the milk
distributors Issuing from a fru!tless con-
ference that lasted from 3 o'clock TO I
o'clock obeyed Gov. Smiths injunction
TO settle their differences by laying an
admonitory finger upon their lips and
uttering a magic "Sh-h-h-h!"
R. d. Cooper. president OF the Dairy
, mems League. and his cohort OF honest
farmers. st,ll belligerent but weary.
stined their yawns and whispered:
"Ah-sh -sh- sh -
And Chairman Bowling, Gov. Smiths
chief conciliator. plainly out of temper,
was just getting ready to say "sh' him
self when some one asked him how
optimistic he was and he said
I'm as optimistic as ever"
He closed the elevator door with a
bang and went home. There will be
another Anal" session to-day at . p. NJ.
The Department Of Health yesterday
reported the milk supply was SO per
, cent normal. The total distribution wa
1.5o1.s65 quarts. an increase OF 32.s2l
over Wednesday Mr.. Nathans. repre-
senting the Milk Conference Board. de-
clined to state from what sources the
| supply Is being increased. He expressed
great satisfaction with the days figures.
1T will be IS per cent normal to-
, morrow" he said.
The extreme quiet about the head
quarters OF the Dairymen's League last
I night gave rise TO the report that the
advantage Is beginning to swing toward
the distributors Mr.. bowling was In
clined to believe that to-day's conference
may mark the beginning OF a settlement,
Gov. Smith took personal hand In
the strike yesterday by asking the State
Department Of Farms and Markets for
a report on the situation. Power Is
vested in the department, he said TO
investigate and report to the Legisla-
ture plan for securing an ample supply
Of milk In some quarters this move
was interpreted as the opening shot In
the fight to alter the personnel OF the
Farms and Markets Council His letter
also said:
I'm view OF the acute situation now
existing in regard TO the supplying OF
milk within the state. request that YOU
will advise me M your earliest conven-
ience what investigation YOU have made
in this regard and the results and details
thereof: and also advise me when you
propose 20 report to the Legislature in
this matter"
Gov. Edge of Neg Jersey was asked
yesterday by a delegation OF dairymen
TO Issue a special message to the Legis-
lature Monday asking for the appoint
ment of legislative committee TO act
in cooperation with the New York con-
ference committee In an effort to settle
the strike
The sun., 1919-01-17
DEATH HOUSE FOR WOMEN.
Special Quarters for sIaycrs Pro-
vided in Sing Sing.

lighthouse for women Il was
learned from Sing Sing yesterday has
Just been completed and. as prison at
tendants expressed It. Is ready for
business" 1t is In the old lighthouse
which adjoins the new condemned
chamber where male murdercrs are
kept. William Meyer. warden, has had
two cells in the old lighthouse parti-
toned of. One will be maintained to
receive any woman who may he con-
victed OF murder and the other Is be-
Ing ripped out and the space will be
used as matron's quarters
This Is the hrst time provision has
ever been made within Sing Sings walls
to care for a woman, The first female
slayer Mrs. Madeline Ferola. was
quartered In the old fashioned princl-
pa! keepers residence on the hill across
tho street from the prison II cost the
state 5000 a month to keep her there
with three shifts Of attendants for sew
eral months until Gov, Whitman com
muted her death sentence.
The sun., 1919-01-17
WAR ON KHAKI PANHANDLERs.
British Here Go After Takers With
wild Tales.

British authorities here are waging
campaign against discharged Canadian
and British soldiers who endeavor to
panhandle citizens by means of stories
Of heroic deeds and hard luck, so Lieut.
Col. y. @. Thwaites. British Assistant
Provost Marshal, with offices at ~
whitehall street, told Magistrate Sims
In the Tombs court yesterday. when he
appeared against John Smith. formerly
In the Canadian army. who was ar
raigned on petty larceny charge.
Smith was discharged and court ON
GERS made up a purse to send him and
his wife to their home in Philadelphia.
Smith had appeared yesterday at the
British and Canadian Patriotic Fund Of
fices and became abusive when money
was refused him.
The sun., 1919-01-17
Threats Against Life.

THE threats and attempts upon her
I'e which have been made OF late are
rot merely OF recent date They go back
20 times prior 70 their arrival IN this
county in 1906 There have been many
occasions not only at Westbury but at
other sections III this and other States,
where the authorities have had to in
torvene to protect her.
In Narragausett Pier. in the sum
,ner of 1908. they rented a villa near
the Casino. which they occupied under
tile name OF Count and Countess De
J,oches. which was one OF the favorite
titles that his Majesty had conferred
upon himself and his wife. At that time
lebaudy became dangerously violent
End made threats not only against his
family but the police.
Sixteen members OF the Grand Jury
notored to the Lodge late yesterday. az
Ter examining DR.. Cleghorn, Or. How
rrd Phipps DR.. Paul Ferris. Constable
Plant Harry Greenfield. a Mineola
chauffeur. who drove Jacques Lebaudy
10 the Lodge on the night OF the murder,
and Mark Rosenfeld. the messenger boy
Who accompanied him.
The Jurors took Mark along yestsr-