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The sun., 1919-04-04
DERELICTS CHEERED
BY BOURKE COCHRAN
Only Happiness Is in Honest
Labor, He Tells Bowery
Outcasts.
DOES NOT LIE IN WEALTH
Says Finest Gentleman He
Ever Met Was goldman
at $1.60 q Day.

The big oak doors of the Bowery
Mission closed on the two worst derelicts
in all the fotsam Of the lower East
Side last night. When Saturday and
BLACK Tim" had shambled into a couple
OF chairs in the back of the damned hall.
DIR. Hallimond, in charge Of the mission.
said that would be all: the place was
overcrowded as 1t was with the. wrecks
of men who came to hear w. Bourke
Cochran talk. But Bourke Cochran was
a half hour late. and Black Tim nudged
his bearded companion.
Let's get the hellouta here, Saturday.
they Amt no show
"Sit tight. Tim" whispered Saturday,
"the old boy'n come. Sure I remember
him when he hadn't 10 cents in his
pocket. he was a kid then, just come
over from the old country"
Some one up on the platform started
singing, nothing much OF song. moth
ing much OF a voice, and Saturday and
his wretched friend swallowed In dirty
brown overcoat started doing. When
Arson c. Baker finished his song there
was more silence. and then he was asked
to sing an Irish tune.
20, but the melody was an old one Of
Tom Moore's The Young May Moon."
typically Irish, and Black Tim lifted his
head. He horned his ear and leaned
forward to catch each note of the simple
song. and when It was ended Saturday
leoned over to him.
whats got you. Tim. weep
drunk?" The other poked his eyes with
a red handkerchief and blew his nose.
III \
was the husky reply. "Cripes. It was
like the old woman singing that same
song when I"
Then Cochran strobe into the hall and
the Mission cheered him. He said it was
the most interesting audience he ever
talked to.
Happiness is success Success is
happiness" he said, land you can never
attain that success without the aid OF
God. Happiness and success do snot lie
in wealth. Do you know where there Is
a place without smiles Not in prison.
1 have sat with prisoners before the ex-
ecution. and they are cheerful Not in
the hospitals. These people find 1t easy
to smile.
mo, the one place where there is no
sign of Joy Is in the safe deposit vault.
There is no sight more melancholy than
a millionaire face to face with his cou-
pons. Happiness comes with the alb
sorption OF all your faculties in some
form Of fruitful. honest labor.
THE trouble is that men who should
work on the farm want to be sailors
and coal drivers want to be lawyers.
My men, I have as wide an acquaint-j
ance as any man--it extends from the
prisoner to the Pontiff himself-and the
finest gentleman I have met in all my
experience was a coal man who earned
$3.50 day Every man has something
he can do with his hands and his head,
and II is his duty to his Creator TO,
make use of them" .
The sun., 1919-04-04

said yesterday that he never had heard
OF the petition before.
Bids were advertised for again ten
days ago and they were opened yes
terday in Commissioner MacStay's Of
nee. With the exception of a bid
made by Nicholas r. Long. now n
sub-contractor on four dumps, who
offered TO pay the city s437.45 for the
privilege Of working the dumps. all the
bids asked that the city pay the con-
tractor money.
Vaccarelli and John Fiola asked 40
per cent up to $4,000 or what It had
cost the city to run the dumps during
January and Santangeio asked 1850.
There was one bid which on it's face
offered to pay the city $1,000 for the
privilege, but as soon as 1t was read
the bidder explained that he had made
a mistake and that he wanted $1,000
from the city. So all the bids with the
exception OF Longs, were declared in
formal and thrown out. 1t was evil
dent the other bidders had not ex-
peeted Longs offer.
Will Investigate Long.
Commissioner Macstay was asked IL
did not seem that there was an eff
" pnB TIE city 10 the point OF
view that only by paying money could
II get the work done, but he refused to
commit himself. Long insisted that
he could pay his bid to the city and
make large profit from his sub-con-
tracts and the sale OF rags. bottles
and bones. The Commissioner said he
would look into the mans business cir
cumstances and see IL he probably can
carry out Ids contract IL it is awarded
to him.
Commissioner MacStay was frankly
nonplusss6 by the situation which has
confronted him in awarding these
contracts. He admitted that there
was undoubtedly some strong coopera-
ton between Marrone and vaccarelli,
but said that Marrone had always been
able to do the work better than any one
else. and for that reason he would like
TO award the contract to him IL his bid
had made 1t possible.
My desire Is to save money for the
city and to get the work DONE" he said
Both are important. I suppose It is
natural that Marrone should make the
best alliance he can with labor. so that
he can get the most out of his men. He
has been very successful when he has
had the contract There Is not ms much
money to be made nowadays from pick
Ing Of course. but 1t seems that the city
should get something for the work. as
there have always been large profits
In It, Long must have thought he could
make money. or he would not have made
this bid"
The sun., 1919-04-04
ENJOYS NAP WITHIN
Is INCHES OF DEATH
Orphans See Sleeper Rescued
From Window Ledge.

Children playing in the dormitory on
the fifth floor of the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum at o'clock yesterday after
noon CHANGED to look out of the window
toward the courtyard seventy feet be-
low. They were aston!shed to see a
man sound asleep on the eighteen inch
ledge beneath the window. Realizing
the danger OF calling out to awaken him
the youngsters ran to the superintendent
of the building, who in turn called In
Sergeant Kelleher and Patrolman Carl
of the West 125th street station.
The lower half of the window was
barred to keep children from falling
out and the police figured that the
sleeper must have entered unnoticed
climbed over the grating through the
upper half of the window, lowered him
self to the coping and then stretched
out for n nap.
The policemen sent for two pieces of
rope and tied slip knots in the end Of
each. Then cautiously they lowered the
nooses through the window and, using
their nightsticks they slipped one moose
around the mans neck and the other
about his heels. BY this time his snores
had aroused the asylum and every win
dow opening on the courtyard was
filled with eager young faces.
Sergeant Kelleher and his fellow po-
liceman gave two tremendous yanks,
which raised the body of the sleeper half
way up the bars. With another pull
they had him over the top and safe In
side. He found his feet quickly and
rubbing his eyes, looked about in be-
wilderment. After a time he managed
to say he was James O'Connor 3S, a
laborer, living at 303 West 13sth street
But he couldn't remember entering the
asylum and climbing out the window to
take nap on the ledge below. he said
James was taken to the night court to
be arraigned on a charge Of intoxication
The sun., 1919-04-04
FALL KILLS TWO U. S. AIRMEN.
Lieut.-COl. Dickman and Major
Butts Drop 200 Feet,

AMERIcUs. Ca. April 3.-Lieut. Col
Frederick w. Dickman, commanding
officer at Souther Field near here. and
Major John w. Butts, executive officer,
were killed to-day in the fall of an
airplane in which they were making a
flight Col. Dickman was the son
of Major-Gen. Dickman, commanding
the Third American Army Of the Ex-
peditionary Forces.
The two officers had been up for the
customary afternoon flight and had
made the last turn Of the field .prepara-
tory to descending when their engine
suddenly stopped and the plane came
crashing down In a tail spin from a
height Of 200 feet Both officers were
graduates Of West Point, Dicknan in
the class of 1906 and Butts in 1914.
Major Butts's home was Cisco, Tex.
The sun., 1919-04-04
ANTI-JAPANEsE BILL DELAYED
California Legislature Unwilling
to Embarrass. President.

SACRAMENTO, April 3.-The Rules
Committee of the Senate presented a
report to-day recommending that Sena-
tor Inmanie request to introduce a bill
prohibiting japanese from leasing agri-
cultural lands in California be denied
because It was deemed inadvisable."
Inman charged that the committee was
trying to throttle. legislation.
An effort was made to get Inman to
consent to a delay until the Legislature
could cable President Wilson and ask
him II the proposed legislation would
"enbarrass the American delegation at
the Peace Conference"
The sun., 1919-04-04
BLAMES BRAKES FOR
MALBONE ST. WRECK
MOtOrman on Trial for Man.
slaughter Says They Failed
to Check Train.

Anthony e. Lewis. motorman of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit elevated train
which was wrecked in the Malbone
street tunnel November / with a loss OF
ninety lives, testified yesterday in his
trial in the Supreme Court at Mineola
that he did everything In his power to
stop the train before 1t crashed against
the sides OF the tunnel.
II made the stops at Franklin avenue
Dean street and Park Place." said
Lewis. Then started down grade to-
ward the Consumers station and ex-
pected to receive three bells to stop
there.s None was rung and kept
straight ahead and entered the grade. I
shut of the power and started to coast
The train jumped ahead 30 fast that I
put on the air, but the brakes would not
hold. Then 1 applied the emergency
brake and that would not hold either, 30
reversed my power. The next thing I
knew we were crashing into the wall OF
the tunnel"
Several times in the course OF. his tes-
timony Lewis who is being tried on an
indictment charging granddaughter. broke
down and wept. He said he was made
weak and dizzy from the shock of the
wreck and still suffers from dizzy spells
and doesn't know what he is saying
half the time. He told OF his experience
as a motorman. asserting that he had
driven trains almost every day during
the month OF September and October,
and that before going on the line he
received three hours instruction in the
equipment of a train and then had six
days with an instruction motorman. He
admitted, however. that he never had
run a train over the Brighton Beach line
before the day of the accident.
Lewis was followed on the stand by
Charles J. Southland, an engineer.
Southland testified that the wreck prob
ably was caused by a defective brake.
He said in reply to a question on cross
examination that he testified against
railroads more often than he testified
for them.
The sun., 1919-04-04
Holy Name Service for Police.

The Holy Name Society OF the Police
Department, with 1878 members. will
attend communion Sunday morning in
st. Patricks Cathedral on the occasion
OF Passion Sunday. The mass will be
conducted by the Rev. John ]. Coogan,
Catholic chaplain o: the department.
Archbishop Hayes will be present with
Archbishop John Bonzano, Papal Dele
gate at Washington. After the service
the members will march to the Hotel
Commodore. where breakfast will be
served.
The sun., 1919-04-04
Woman Leaps From al" to Death.

Margaret Smith. 35, Of IL Bank street.
jumped from the elevated platform at
Columbus avenue and Ninety-ninth street
yesterd. She walked some distance
along the southbound tracks and then
climbed the railing, leaping seventy-five
feet into the street. Her body narrowly
missed several persons standing in front
of a restaurant at sos Columbus avenue.
On the way to Knickerbocker Hospital.
where she died shortly after. she said
that she was tired Of living.
The sun., 1919-04-04
War Bonds Oner stu Open.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Subscription
to the 5000. 100000 issue of per cent
one year bonds offered by the War
Finance Corporation will not be closed
before the end of this week. although
the offering was oversubscribed on the
first day. The various subscriptions
will be accepted on allotment basis.
The sun., 1919-04-04
To Reduce Cotton Planting.

COLUMBIA, s. C., April 3.-Reduction
amounting to 31.os per cent. in the
acreage to be planted to cotton this year
in the South had been pledged, accord
ing to report of the State organiza-
ton, made to-day to a convention or
nearly 1000 South Carolina planters.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

premier Clemenceau has never been
more lucid or stronger than in these dec
larations, which will have a considerable
effect'
Jean Longuet and Pierre Renaudel
are reported to have been hobnobbing
with the Germans at Berne, and "L'Hu-
manite,' which voices their opinions,
says:
"The people Of France will be astounded
to learn that the chief of their government
has used language such as it reads in this
interview. No doubt it is we'll known that
an alarmist campaign has been decided
upon and is being organized to warm up
Jlngo ardor, which was getting tepid, as
we'll as NJ. Clemenceau popularity, which
is getting cooler. But is it possible that a
Premier the very day after a victorious
war could contribute himself by his evident
exaggerations to trouble public opinion ?"
The American press is practically
unanimous in its accord with Clemenceau
and it's sympathy with France. The
Tribune says:
"Other nations may do as they please
dpouC leaNlng tnemSelNeS WeapOnleSS IN q
world whose peace armor will be the paper
stuff of The Hague, but France will take
no chances. She knows what Germany did
in 1870. She knows what Germany did in
1914 For century or two the Germans
have sung about the Watch on the, Rhine
but France has been compelled to maintain
the watch. From the time of Caesar to that
of the late Kaiser the Teuton has con-
sidered the Rhine as something to cross.
With Russia no longer an ally, France,
until other nations are willing to help guar
antee peace, deems she has no option but
to stand to her defence.
Strange, indeed, is it that French spokcs-
men are compelled to reiterate an argument
which the dullest apprehension should be
able to fashion for itself"
Under the caption "Shall We Forsake
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
Responsibilities

" hatever the voices say which are
now being raised in praise and pessim-
ism here and in Europe, there is no
doubt that the President has come to
Paris and accepted world leadership;
"and since" writes Mr.. Simonds-
the voice OF America is so powerful in
the conference, powerful for good rather
than for evil in the main, | do not quite
see how we are to escape some part of the
new responsibilities that this world would
have us undertake.
"ln word, in my judgment what is de-
veloping in Paris is q totally different re-
lation of America to the world. The Ger
man, i'll a real sense, abolished the Atlantic
when he called to Europe to fight him.
and neither he nor we, for that matter,
can change the fact that our day of isola-
tion is passing"
According to President Wilson HIM
self, in an address delivered Thursday
to a delegation from the French Associ-
alton for a Society of Nations, one of
the great results Of the war and of the
subsequent deliberations is that "there
has already been created force which
is not only very great but very formi-
dable, q force which can be rapidly mo-
bilized, force which is very effective
when modified, namely, the moral force
of the world.' And he goes on to say
zone advantage in seeing one another
and talking with one another is to find
that after all, we all think the same way.
1--WE may try to put the result of the
thing into different forms, but we start
with the same principles.
81 have often been thought of as a man
more interested in principles than in prac-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
Unpleasantness

But while the Presidents POPULARITY
with the people remains as great as ever.
and the crowds still line the streets Of
Paris to see him, Mr.. Smith doubts if he
IS as popular among his brother states
men az formerly. "This," writes "The
Globes" correspondent, 'is his own
fault" For
when the President arrived in Europe
ne charmed most of those he met; he was
sclf-eHacing, modest, pleasant, eager for
the advice and counsel Of others, and made
sn excellent Impression But one Of the
fundamental traits of his character is
lack Of power Of conciliation also he is
unable TO disguise his dislike for persons
ungracious in victory.
at il an open secret in Paris that
most unpleasant scene rnarred one session
Of the conference when President Wilson
clashcd with Premier Hughes over the ques-
ton of New Guinea. The President won.
as usual, but mis- evident i'll humor after
ward offended the men Who had supported
him in actual disagreement. while Premier
Hughes is stjn disgruntied"
"At the moment,D writes William
Allen White, in "The New York World"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
The Kaiser w ent IMAM.
mOusly.
IT WAS the Kaisers intention IN =,

I I WAS the Kaiser's intention IN Il
the last to remain with his troops
according to Professor LAM, who bas
been treating the ex>Emperor for in.
fiuenza and has given an account of b;s
visit to Amerongen to the Amsterdam
"Handelsblad" Wilhelm only gave uo
when by the revolutionary movement
among the troops in Belgium and on tho
Rhine he was shut off from GERMANY
says the "Handelsblad," and continues
with the following account of wby he
sought refuge in Holland:
"If, Notwithstanding these Circumstance,
the Kaiser had remained with the trooDs
the Entente, by increasing the starvation
blockade, would have been able to force b;s
eXtradtion from the German people, which
would have caused them such heavy dis.
grace. Second, the Kaiser could have
given himself up to one of the enemy sen-
erals, but that would have been a disgrace
for an unbeaten supreme command and for
an unconquered German army. Third. he
might have assembled all his forces for ona
last attack, in order to die gloriously. but
as the armistice, for which the army and the
people longed was imminent, the Kaiser
could not reconcile it with his conscience
to sacrifice uselessly the life of single
German soldier. Fourth, he could have
collected body Of trusty troops to march
on Berlin to insure loyalty to his house
by the sword. This, however, would have
unclaimed civil war
"In face Of this difficult problem. the
Kaiser decided to follow, as he always had
done, as constitutional monarch, both dur
ing peace and during war, the advice of his
responsible counselors. These in this case
were the Field Marshal (Hindenburg). the
Quartermaster General (Groner), and the
representatives, of the Department of For
eign Affairs. Their advice was unanimous
that he should go to Holland
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

into practice. Large discourse is NJ.
sible on the principles, but large d;so.r p0S'
is necessary on the matter of ,a.,:'. @ise
them" 'ng
1t becomes increasingly clear th..
the large discourse" has been ton ,aa ,aa'
for cordiality throughout, and daS~:s
Mr.. Wilson's assurance that "aftar N
we all think the same way" there ta s'
resulted certain "con1ict hatm. '
strong minds" to use another Of ts ~
Presidents phrases "Mr. Wilson
known to be thin skinned and sens;t;,.s
says Frederick Moore in THE New w.,
Tribune" and
the conflict Of strong minds at N.
table has several times caused him 70 ~
his temper. The delegates from the Rr;.;s'
Islands have made it point to get .,.s
with him amicably. The Italians ev;dosas
feel that they are at the mercy q. ~
British. The colonials and the French h.
ever, have been extremely frank. while a..
Japanese have not as yet come into ser;.n'
controversy with the President"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
From The San Francisco Bulletin

of Honor and editor in chief of the
Paris "Figaro," views with dread, and
voices the sentiment of the doubters
when he says:
"President Wilson'S position in our de-
mocracy is shat Of magnificent sovereign,
and it is extremely perious One has heard
of no man in contemporary days who pos
sesses more authority and more power
Popularity has given him what divine right
did not always confer on hereditary mon
archs. On the other hand, by the process
of reaction his responsibility is greater
than that Of any absolute prince.
"1f Wilson succeeds in organizing the
world according to his dreams, his glory will
dominate the heights of glories But it
must be frankly said that if he fails he will
plunge the world into a chaos of which
Russian Bolshevism is but poor image,
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16
He Has Troubles of His Own

"the net result Of President Wilson's
European visit is the temperance of
the international consciousness of those
who wish to end war forever" And
Savoyard, in "The Columbia State"
adds:
President Wilson bluntly told England,
France and the rest Of the world that un-
less there is a league of nations the treaty
that is to be made as settlement of the
world war will prove "a scrap of paper, or
words of that import, and England, France
and the rest of the world, except few
Americans, believe him and are rallying to
him the world never before rallied to
one man."
Yet this very power and popularity
Alfred Capus, of the French Academy,
famous playwright, officer of the Legion
New-York tribune., 1919-02-16

France?" "The Boston Evening Tran
script" says:
"This arrogant attitude on the part of
Germany ignores German defeat, and as
sumes German victory. Can any one fancy
that M. Clemenceau, Marshal Foch or any
other patriotic Frenchman can overlook
this fact? And as between Germany, hiding
behind the fourteen points and Mr.. Ian
sing, and France, sturdiy maintaining her
victory and ours, and demanding only the
right to serve as an effective bulwark
against German aggression, which way does
President Wilson suppose that American
sympathy will go? Is it conceivable that
America will sanction the desertion of
France in such an emergency?"
"The Providence Journal" is heart and
soul behind the French, declaring:
Against the danger of revived military
activity by Germany and her unfair in
dustrial advantage in competition with raw
aged France the Entente must be on it's
guard. Every possible means must be
taken to repress German aggression on the
battlefield, and at the same time the Ger
man government must be forced to give up
either the machinery stolen from France or
an equivalent in Germansmachinery
There is no surprise in the French
anxiety to "The Boston Daily Globe"
which calls attention to the ruin of
northern France and the malice of the
former German ruling class, and OBJ
serves:
"Thc peace conference finds France in
hard position. To all appearances Germany
is beaten. Militariy there is no doubt of
1t. But the anxiety betrayed by Premier
Clemenccau over the future and General
Foch's visions of German army of
100000 men seem to belle that certainty
President Wilson's assurance to the French
Chamber of Deputies that America would
stand by in case of future need, warmly
as it was received, has not wholly allayed