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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Writes Note to Mother
Then Leaps From Bridge

man believed to have been William
SWyllner, jr.. of 1924 North Twenty 18th
Street, Philadelphia. leaped off the
promenade on the Brooklyn side of
Manhattan Bridge yesterday. Poised
on the rail he stood for a moment, tax
ing on his army raincoat and hat, and
1hen plunged 1870 feet into Adams
street. his body rolling upon freight
yard track, where it was found by
workmen alarmed by the shrieks Of
pedestrians who saw the leap.
Masonic membership card of Green
point Lodge, No 43, was found in the
mans pockets, with watch, fountain
Pen and sos in cash. Four letters
also were found addressed to his faith
er and mother at 1924 North Twenty
NTH Street, Philadelphia, and to his
SISTERS, Mildred and Clara. One read;
Dearest Mother: God knows | love
you That is why | cannot leave YOU
without these few words Some day
we will understand. What is to be
VIII be-. Mother. you taught me that,
so believe in it, and some dav YOU
Will understand why a troublous end
was to be for me. am going to die
and II | had sin calling for such pun.
lshment I'd tell you here, but | have
not. So live and be happy with the
knowledge that when you read this
VIII understand and know YOU will nm
derstand also. Collect nv insurance.
ray Clara $500 | owe her. and Mile
S25o Give everything | own that Bud
can use and wants to have, because he
Is married and ever loved and helped
= lara. Two better souls never lived.
From Willie"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

THE feminist movement has leaped
l. another hurdle. New York's first
barber shop for women will open at
the Hotel Majestic tomorrow. 1t is
all Greenwich Villages fault.
The bobbed hair of the villagers has
reused a pang of envy in the breast Of
many visitor from the less Bohemian
chimes across the Hudson. The Males
tic shop, which will be under the man.
agement of Nine. Blanche Tredeaux,
intends to assuage this pang, at the
cost of IS per assuage.
n speech yesterday accepting the
Il honorary title of Mayor of Oliver
Street, James Morano, of the Down
town Tammany Club, pledged himself
as a friend in need to the neighbour
hood He said he would pay the fines
of young men in trouble; provide hos
pital quarters for the injured and new
homes for the evicted in the struggle
with rent profteers. He is even pre-
pared to become godfather to an army
of babies, he asserted. The Mayor"
will appoint his cabinet tomorrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Stage Hands
Aiding Actors,
Stop 3 Shows
Continued from page /

ISOLATION in the last ten days have
proved this beyond a doubt. The in
tlmidation, browbeating, threatening
and coercion of actors, the public
threats that no member of the associa
ton would ever appear on any stage
with any actor at present living up to
his contract, the extraordinary third
degree methods employed to intimidate
actors from fulfilling engagements for
which they were under contract, the
countless impositions on personal
right, comfort and safety, prove to us
beyond all doubt that no actors life
or career in the theatre would be pos
slblc If he refused to ally himself with
and be dictated to by the Actors Equity
Association.
rms condition we believe would be
the death of the theatre, and we must
oppose this to the last.
You also assure us that if we enter
into agreement with the Actors Equity
Association there would be no possibii-
lty of a concerted and general viola
tlon of individual contracts in the
future. The present strike, in dire
gard Of existing contracts, makes it
difficult to agree with you in this. We
feel that so long as the Actors Equity
Association is the dictator of the in
INV ou'i actOi Ine general VlOlatlOn OF
contracts is always a grave POSSIBLE
,.ty. possibility that none of us is
financially able to face
We realize that this step may mean
a severance of relations between US
and our stage crews and mus cians. We
regret this deeply, yet there is con-
ISOLATION in the fact that our fight is
your fight, and that if we succeed in
SAVING the theatre from being throt-
tied it will be guarantee of long
future employment for your people"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Reserve Bank Profit
81 Per Cent i'm 1919
Report for First Six Months
Shows Huge Increase Over
Previous Records

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16-Net earn
i1 of the Federal Reserve banks TO-.
the first six months of 1919 have been
at the rate of 90 per cent on an aver.
age pald-in capital of sS1 1888 900. com
pared with $50 per cent for the same
period last year and 9S per cent in
Total earnings were SAG, 69o.577 and
Iotal current expenses S9.O61 7d6
mere was available for dividends and
surplus $3' ,oS4,3l9, of which S2,453 ,e26
was expended in dividends, s3'512'45O
carried to profit and loss account and
sol .6l8,2A3 used as surplus. The total
Surplus SUI nds Of the banks now aggregates
SO ,os6,s1s, which is about 40 per cent
OF the subscribed capital, the New York
bank having II per cent surplus Kan
sas City 90 per cent and the remainder
below so per cent.
Bills, largely war paper, discounted
TOR member banks accounted for so per
cent OF the record showing in EARNINGS
as compared with SO per cent last wear
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
'Sleepy' Detective Wins
Plea TO Suspect Results in Re.
turn of Stolen Money

A burglar, laundering in the dark,
overturned chair early yesterday in
the home of Louis Ramberger, in Sea
Breeze Avenue, Coney Island Ram
berger was awakened and fired at the
burglar, who escaped. Shortly after
ward two detectives found Maurice
Starbuck, young clerk. standing in
front of his home near the Ramberger
bungalow. One of the detectives said:
I'VE have been up all night and want
to go to bed. You return the stuff and
everything will be all right"
Starbuck, it is said, agreed, and CON
Quoted the detectives. Hammindinger
and Murphy, to a covered pit in the
backyard, in which diamond pin val
ued at $500 and S22 in money were
found.
Starbuck was then arrested, but
pleaded not guilty in the Coney Island
police court, and was held under 81 900
for examination Tomorrow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Firemen's Paper
Ordered Stopped
By Mayor Hylan
Department Rules
Is Explanation Offered;
Men Say Officials Fear
Its Use in Wage Battle

THE Fireman. official organ OF the
Uniformed Fircmcn's Association Of
New York, has been ordered suppre ssed
by Mayor Hylan.
According to Fire Commissioner
Thomas J. brennan, the Mayor holds
that the publication of this organ by
the iiremen is in violation of depart
ment rules. The fire fighters them
selves, however. attribute the action to
the fear Of the city authorities that
the paper would be used to obtain more
money for the fremen and to attack
those officials who oppose them
The publication, bi-monthiy. wa
conducted for three and a half months
by a private individual. but was taken
over by the frcmen's organization on
July 20, to assist them in improving
the status Of their 300 members.
On August l a circular was issued
by department heads calling attention
to Section 739 of the rules forbddng
hremen from engaging in any outside
activities
The association. however. went
ahead with its first issue Saturday
week ago. Last Thursday the organ
ization leaders, including Albert Gum
ness. presidents; Anton Holbrock. vice
president; William Anderson, socrc
tary, and Charles Nixon, treasurer
were summoned before Commissioner
brennan and told that they must give
up the publication or be brought up on
charges and dismissed from the
service
brennan, the association leaders say
pointed out that the rules particularly
prohibit the solicitation of advertise
ments. The hremen contended that
they had paid solicitors to do this
work and that, under any circum-
stances. It was restriction of their
personal liberty to prevent them from
putting in their leisure time as they
wished
Personal liberties or no personal
liberties brennan is reported to have
SAID, the Mayor holds you are violst-
ing the rules and wants it stopped
The only rights firemen have arc the
rights under the rules, whether they
take away your constituti onal rights
or not. Our orders come first"
Acting Chief of the Fire Department
Joseph Martin declared yesterday that
he saw nothing Objectionable in the
publlcat' on and saw no reason whv the
men shouldn't be permitted to run it..
He said he hadn't heard OF It's beng
suppressed and that he had received
the Commissioner. He certainly would
have heard about it. he asserted if any
such action had been taken.
Officials of the tiremen's assoc alton
however, say that Martin was present
at the conference with brennan. and
were puzzled at his denial Of Anowl-
edge Of the matter
meeting of the association viii be
held at its headquarters, in the World
Building, on Tuesday, when Tho posi-
blllty of having the American Fedora
ton of Labor, with which they are a.
filiated, defend their rights will be d.
cussed. A renewal Of the fight fer at
increase of $3.50 year for all grades
of firemen will also be taken up
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Oil Workers Get Increase
Standard of New Jersey and
Tidewater Put Tn Scale

A bonus of 10 per cent has been
granted to all the employees OF the
Standard Oil Company of New JERSEY
excepting those on salary, it was an
,nounoed yesterday from the company's
headquarters in Bayonne The ruling
applleS TO men and women paid on a
time basis and not Ito those with a
fixed income
More than 10000 workers-abou4
$500 in Bayonne, 1000 in JERSEY CITY
and $500 in Rahway-will be affected
by the increase, which will continue in
force until the cost of living is mate
rally decreased
The Underwater Oil Company also an
nounced similar increase. effective
until January l, 1920, or until such
time as reduction iAnoted in the cost
of living. The increase, which viii
benefit 600 employees. will be based
OH tie n.oathl.- wage Or Tie recipient.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Students Garment, knotted
and Twisted Like Rome.
Recovered While Drede.
ing for Girls Body
Grand Jury to Decide
Prosecutor Admits Evidence
Gathered So Far Is Not
Sufficient for Indictment
.Spncinl Correapondence

Special Correspondence
ITHACA. N. Y, Aug. 16.-Donald
Fether, twenty-one years old, Cornell
county Jail in Ithaca tonight after a
hearing in the Justice Court at Jack
sonville. held without bail to await the
action of the grand jury on charge
Of having murdered Miss Hazel GRANGE,
eighteen years old. Fether escorted
the girl to a dance at the Glenwood
Hotel on the night of July 10 and later
for canoe trip on Cayuga Lake, the
last time she was seen alive.
Fether was held principally, if not
entirely, because of the introduction
in evidence of a pair of trousers he
wore on the night the girl met her
death. The trousers were brought to
the surface of the lake while search
was being made for the girls body
off the trousers in order to better swim
about to find the girl after the canoe
upset.
May Have Grappled Body
Leonard Bloom and William Leonard,
professional grapplers, and Edward
GRANGE. father Of the girl, testified
courtroom were in the same condition
as when dragged to the surface of the
lake Bloom and Leonard. who laid
claim to 80 years experience as Crap
piers, said that the load that was
caught on their hooks at the bottom
of the lake and that they started to
pull to the surface was a body.
The load, they said, remained on the
hooks for the greater part of the haul
to the surface, but about forty or fifty
feet below the surface the load gave
way and the trousers alone remained
when they pulled the load into the
boa.
The three witnesses testified that
the trousers were double knotted. but
that one Of the knots was loosened be-
fore the trousers could be dragged
into the boat.
Testifies as to Character
The girls mother, who also was a
witness. testified to her daughters
character. Mrs. Raymond Hoarc, an
other witness, said she heard cries for
help coming from the lake. Bert 7.
Baker also testified that he heard
woman's cry for help the night the
girl disappeared.
At the close of the testimony Attor-
neys A. W. Feinberg and Peter r. Nc
Allister. for Fether, moved for dis
missal on. the ground that no crime had
been established and that Fcther had
not been shown to have committed a
crime
District Attorney Adams admitted
that sufficient evidence to secure a con-
viction or even an indictment had not
been shown, but that enough evidence
was produced to hold Fethor for the
grand jury. The court supported him.
Fether declined to make any state
ment in court. saying his case was in
his lawyers hands
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Fined for Netting Trout
N. Y. Physician and Yonkers
Man Pay Heavy Penalties

, ALBANY, Aug. 16.-Dr. Kenneth w
Buell., New York physician. and Ed
ward Bowe, Of Yonkers, were fined in
Hooslck, N. Y. day before yesterda
Tor netting trout. The pair we're cap
tured while casting their net at mid
night IN one of the best trout streams
IN Washington County.
- Conservation Commis on Inspector
Lassius A. Johnston, assisted by John
>. McNamara, made the arrest after
ooth men had tried to escape and we're
matted by revolver shot, According to
Johnston, DR.. Buell. sprang into the
stream "hen surprised and started to
swim to the other side The shot made
MIN turn back
"hen arraigned before William Port
man, Justice of the Peace at Hoosick
eoth men pleaded guilty. Buell. was
nned $3.50 and Bowe. s5l IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
More Unions Prepare
TO Strike for Added Paw

A general strike of machinists in
this city and vicinity is contemplated
by the International Association of
Machlnists, it was announced yester-
day by +. j. Deerirg, business agent
of District No. 49,.
The strike would involve 10000 men.
5000 Of whom, Mr.. Deering said. are
already on strike at the plants of the
Kelly Press and American Typefoun-
ders' Company, Jersey City; the
Pierce Accounting and Machine Com
pany, New York; the Kar Engine
Company, New York; the Potter
Machine Tool Company, 1870 Park
Avenue; the American Typefound-
ing, Company, New York. the Cen
eral Optical Company. Mount Vernon;
the w Ess Manufacturing Company,
New York, and many other shops. The
strikers demand 80 cents an hour for
machinists, go cents for tooImakers
o4 cents for helpers, IS cents for spe-
cialists and minimum wage of az
cents an hour for women.
Preparations FOR strike were be-
gun yesterday by the United Street
Cleaners Protective Association of
brooklyn, Branch 5. at Empire Hall.
Ten Eyck and Lorimer streets. when
the members voted UNANIMOUSLY to af-
tiliate with the American Federation of
Labor. The New York members of
the union, it was said, are also con-
templating utilization.
More than 10000 girl employees of
paper box factories in New York and
brooklyn completed preparations for
strike
Similar PREPARATIONS were completed
by 5000 chandelier and art lamp work
efs at a meeting at 175 East Broad
way. They will demand 44-honr
week. 20 per cent increase in WAGES
six legal holidays a year, closed shon
and time and half for overtime
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Golnpers Sails for Home
To-day on Wilson's Shin

PARIS, Aug 16.-Sanuel Gompers
president Of the American Federation Of
Labor who has been attending the
Labor Congress at Amsterdam and has
been spending a few days in this CITY.
VIII sail from Brest tomorrow for
America on board the steamer George
Washinston. He is going home in re-
Spouse to urgent cablegrams callino
upon him to cut short his visit to F,u.
rope.
In speaking with The Associated Press
to-day Mr.: Gompers said he regretted
the necessity Of breaking a number of
engagements and the impossibility Of
continuing his study of the European
situation, adding:
but matters at home are more
urgent and | want to get back as soon
as possible TO help all I can in the soh1-
ton of problems which arc uppcrmost
there"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

p.r,,o. Special Correspondence,
PADUCAH. Ky, Aug. 16.-The army
aviator killed here last night in an ex-
hibition flight at the Paducah Country
CLUB has been identified as Lieutenant
lanes Stewart, of New York City.
Lieutenant Stewart was the son If
James E. Stewart, of 600 West iaSth
Street. He was twenty-one wears old
and enlisted in 1917 as cadet flier
He was commissioned at Brooks Field
Texas, last year. Stewart and S. Reed
Campbell, reporter on Memphis
newspaper. were fatally injured when
the aiyp!ane in which they were Aging
fell while in a side-slip 1900 feet
above the ground
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
MoMerAsphyriated
Trying to SAGE Baby
Bodies OF Both Found in
Room, Filled With Gas
From Water Heater

The bodies of Mrs. Henrietta Adel-
niger and her two-and- a. half-months
ora oapy dolores were found yesterday
a1ternoon IN the kitchen of their home,
Death was due to asphyxiation, ac.
cordlng to Dr.. Adams, of the Swedish
Hospital, who said gas water heater
on which the baby's bath had been
heating had exhausted the oxygen and
generated deadly carbon monoxide. An
parently Mrs. Adelfnger had realized
mat something was wrong, for her
body lay with the baby in its arms, as
though she had started for the kitchen
door and had been overcome.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Former State Official
Named in Bank Failure
Warrant Issued for Ex-Insur.
ance Commissioner i'm
North Penn Closinu

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. ia war
rant was sworn out by the District
Attorneys Office late to-day for the ar
rest of Charles A. Amber, former In
surance Commissioner of Penns yvania.
charging him with conspiracy and
malfeasance in office in connection
with the failure of the North Penn
fa which closed its doors on July
10 with an apparent shortage of ST.
144, 000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Vote on Daylight Repeal
Veto Scheduled on Tuesday

:, WASHlNGTON, Aug. 16.-Repub-
i1can Leader Mondell announced to-
Jay 'he House would vote next. Tues
s 10y o" the passage of the daylight
veto. Proponents of the reneal wbi,o
IN majority. are doubtful wbctb t's
they can obtain the two-third maioritv
necessary to override the veto.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Neao York Tribune
Wash j,,rfnn p,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Comment-
ing tonight on Central News djsDatch
from Paris, in which Samuel Gompers
pres ident of the American Federation
or Labor, was quoted as reiteratinr his
opposition to the naturalization of
railroads, Glenn E. Plumb, author Of
the plumb plan" for railroad control,
u cannot believe that Mr.. Gompers
would be against the naturalization
of railroads. Although I don't know
his attitude on the general question Of
nalization, it is a fact that he ac-
cepted the honorary pres dency of the
Plumb League, and it is reasonable to
believe his association with the league
gives assurance that he agrees with the
objects Of the organization"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

boat captain, whose home was at 5o7 West
Street
Frederick Lauckhart, who served a term
in Elmira Rcformatory, has been convct ed
in the Kings County Court of having stolen
diamonds and other articles valued at 5000
from the home of Miss Helen Alderman,
l05 Park Place, Brooklyn.
Jennie Crocctto, aged SIX. Of Al Spring
Street, killed by motor truck. Tho
driver Joseph Gentle of 279 Liberty Street.
Brooklyn. was arrested homicide charge.
Boy Scouts throughout the country have
been requested to join the search for Edgar
q. Olive, Jr., whose father. former police
man, was wounded in battle in France last
on farm somewhere in the West He is
fourteen years old, though he looks seven
teen. and is left handed
Fl. Nj. Wertenstein, of ga Tiffany Street.
The Bronx. reported to the police that his
nephew. Milton Sverman. aged fourteen
lett home Monday to go West and become
ieet tall, weighs ninety-fve pounds, and has
blue eyes and brown hair.
Joseph Chirmontc, fourteen. OF 2l9 Grand
Avenue. Brooklyn. recently released from
INC Catholic Protectory. was remanded for
trial in the Chldrens Court as leader of n
group of boys who robbed a dozen stores
in Coney Island.
Iillie Clanks, two years old, of 2o22 Lex
ington Avenue, run over by a truck at.
IL? East 10th Street. She had been pl:s%-
ing beneath the truck. Her skull was frsct :
ured. She was taken to Harlem Hospital.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Iinoco, in Flight for
Life, Reaches Jamaica
Fugitive President of Costa RIGA
Says Several Attempts Were
Made at Assassination

klNGSTON. Jamaica, Aug. l6 (By
The Associated Prcss). Federico Tin
oco. who recently abandoned the Presi-
dency of Costa RIGA and fled the coun-
try, arrived here to-day on board the
steamer Iacapa, en- route to Europe
He said several attempts had heon
made to assassinate him and that bis
brother Jose, Minister of War. was
shot in the back of the head the night
before the President left and died
later
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Seven of One Family Killed

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 10 Seven
members Of the John Trainor familg.
of Cleveland, father, mother, TOUR
sons and daughter. and woman rela-
tive OF the Trainor's, were instantly
killed this evening when a New York
Central passenger train struck their
automobile at a grade crossing near
West Springfield, Penn, while the
party was returning home from Erie.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Briefs

Irwin Gorfuch of 81 Fort Greene Place
Brooklyn, and two chaufeurs were injured
in n collision of touring car and a taxi
cab at Fort Hamilton Avenue and Tortieth
Street, Brooklyn.
The man killed by a Ninth Avenue elevated
train at the Christopher Street station was
identified Joseph Fisher. aged forty, a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

PARIS, Aug 15.-Seven persons were
Killed and fifty-fo injured in COL
nslon Friday between an express train
and troop train. The express train
IN the accident was that running from
Paris to Nancy and Strasbourg.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
The Rise and Fall Of Eggs
cas- E E G c S

1ospilsd tren the reports Of associated vareouse
Based On the average holdings Of the years
1907 to 1916 inclusive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

boat captain, whose home was at 507 West
Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17
Federal Reserve Banks

"AoHlNGION Aug in
~ eo"oeo TO decline during the
ne statement of conditions on August y hh
1oHows approximately that of weol -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-08-17

Jennie Crocctto aged siA Of Il Spring
Street, was killed by motor truck Tho
driver, Joseph Gentle. of 279 Liberty Stree,
Brooklyn. was arrested on homicide charge
Putnam patriot., 1919-12-19

Eastford Library
Magazines subscribed for for the
Putnam patriot., 1919-12-19
Quick Sales and Small Profits"
Eastford
Cash Store
EAsTFORD SIX CORNERS
BLOW, YE WINDS, BLOW"

Trade-winds show which way pat
rcnage blows and business grows. Ad-
vertising-publicity-in The Patriot
is one way in which prospective GUS
toners get wind of the various bar
gains and thereby save dollars
through common sense. This Is not
sheets-in-the-w wind efervescence,
neither is it hot air nor superheated
oxygen; but hard, undeniable, cold
fact. Were it otherwise the affiiction
would be nauseating gas on the stom-
ach. for which, together with other
well-known purposes, some unserupu,-
ious dealers, contrary to law, heaitn
and order, sell large Quantities OF
"Jakey," otherwise labeled Jamaica
Ginger. This seductive carminative,,
however, finds no place on, beneatn
or behind the shelves Of the Eastfora
Cash Store, the spacious little Depart,
ment Store that has recently opened
with such flattering prospects and IN
heard-of success. 1t is "a little 1urtn-
er up the street, bat little higher IN !,
quality and little lower in price,
Here may be found pleasing assoft
ment of