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New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Street on the Broadway subway It
seemed impossible that this should
have remained more or less a secret.
Such it was.
Our O,Cn To,cn

The only person in New York who
has never climbed the Woolworrn
tower, made pilgrimage to the
Statue Of Liberty, visited the Met
ropolitan Museum, inspected the
cross sections of foreign life in
the city or toured Chinatown is
the average New Yorker. IF yuu
are really serious about learning
the location Of the Flatiron Build
ing ask the man from Des Moines
who has been here for i single visit.
He will know. The leather worker
from The Bronx won't.
Thus the Broadway subway,
spacious as to equipment and swift
Of service, remained mystery
buried underground, and thousands
Of those who rode buses as far as
Washington Square and walked
thence to lower New York along
Broadway did so blissfully unaware
that a score Of feet beneath them
the B. R. 7. ran rumbling four and
five car trains up and down Broad
way, with an increase IN business
that was setimated only at 25 per
cent.
This lack of rudimentary informa-
tion on the part Of the average New
Yorker is confined to no submerged
tenth. 1t was a newspaper editor
who walked from Washington
Square to Park Row. unmindful of
the Broadway subway; and it was a
cafe proprietor on Broadway who
guessed it wouldn't make any diff
ference if the subway closed down.
since the elevated would continue to
run," although it is public informa-
ton that these systems are indis-
solubly linked.
With the subways as dark as the
inside of a COW" and the 81" tracks
silent. the art Of pedestrianism was
revivitied. There were those who
walked because they couldn't ride
and those who walked in the spirit
Of adventure. The advantage was
with the pedestrian, for while he was
still part of the show he saw more
Of it than the downtown clerk cooped
in motor truck like nothing so
much as chicken being taken to
market, or those who rode atop
streetcars in a taunting rain. In
the matter Of time, too, the walker
was not at great disadvantage
J 1t required more than two hours to
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Nerc York Legs

After many years Of strap-hang~
ing, waiting in line for theatre
tickets, lunching standing up and
kindred diurnal habits that tend to
strengthen the leg, it can be said
without fear Of successful contra
diction that the average New Yorker
can stand up longer ard more pa
tiently than any other citizen on the
face of the earth. Thus, if so
minded, he becomes an excellent and
durable pedestrian. If the millen-
mum arrives it might be said that
he is not inadequately equipped to
project passenger strike.
Not only is the good nature Of
the average New Yorker im-
pervious to assault, and MS knows
edge of his city surprisingly slim,
but the basic principles that UNDER
lie any especial inconvenience ars
almost devoid of interest TO him.
Inquiry as to the justice Of tbs
train workers strike led to ad-
missions of ignorance or parrot like
utterances that were buffeted hither
and yon. What did it matter that
the Interborough strike was the
sixth of series that began in De-
troit and travelled to Cleveland,
Boston, Chicago, Brooklyn, and
finally New York? What Of the
economic principles involved and ths
national effect upon labor and capi.
tai? What if the market slumped,
or the Interborough. already skirt
ing the banks of bankruptcy, was
forced TO put up S5.00O,00O more an
nually for wages? What if the in.
terest couldn't be paid on $780,
100000 worth Of bonds for the dual
subway system? What is the dual
subway system?
The average New Yorker should
| be annoyed,
1t was enough that there was q
strike and that he must get down
town. In time the strike would blow
over-strikes always did-and in
the interim no inconvenience could
fracture his smile. If It could his
smile would have been permanently
disabled long ago.
Come on now, Bronx Park Sfs
Let's go."
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

tions. There are many more than
a million workers in lower New
York, but the remainder arrive by
automobile or surface cars or are
carried by rail or ferry from New
Jersey, Long Island and Brooklyn.
In round figures 100000 Of the
100000 in Manhattan and The
Bronx we're the good-humored vic
TINS of the strike.
AS if to test that impenetrable
complacency which is the New York
er's, a steady drizzle fell most of
the day. Mayor Hylan, Public Ser
vice Commissioner Nixon and the
strikers and their employers gath
cred for powwows in rooms that
were dry and rooms that were
roomy, but out Of doors, in g putter-
ing, sloshy rain that laid pneumonia
and lesser ills under foot, New York
marched to and from work, and
laughed about it.
Not only, were a million workers
subjected to the physical discomforts
of a railway tie-up-they were
straightway made the victims of a
guerilla warfare fought with the
weapons of dollars and cents. 1t
was battle peculiar to and typical
of New York. The public chauffeur
was on one side, the public on the
other.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
that toiled down town and up ar
rived on roof.

that toiled down town and up ar
rived on a roof.
By common consent the Green Car
roofs were voted the most popular.
! They were easier Of access. The
metal bars protecting the surface of
car windows-ordinarily preventing
the pedestrian from breaking in or
the passenger from jumping out
were so many rungs Of a precarious
ladder up which the undaunted New
Yorker climbed until he sat on
wet, slippery roof, far more salts
fled and at home than he would
have been in a royal coach-and-fo
There is apt to be too little incon-
venience about royal turnout.
Motor cars, 1ivvers, buses, sur
face cars, steamboats,, ferries and
the Broadway subway combined to
bat for the Interborcugh in this
momentous inning Of metropolitan
IKE. ana IN Cne case OF the Broad
way subway or the B. r. 7. there
was exposed an additional char
acteristic of the average New
Yorker. He didn't know there was
Broadway subway. To be sure,
this branch Of the B. R. T. system
has been in operation less than two
years and that is almost too short
time for the average New Yorker
10 be expected to establish in his
mind a given fact about his city.
But since it was extensively adver-
tised in fourteen metropolitan news
papers that citizen hurled from
his orbit by the strike might travel
from Fifty-seventh to Whitehall
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

~
Y transit strike. Maybe a
few who rode to work in
the boss's limousine or who were given
taxi fare and rode on truck have
pleasant memory Of 1t, but to the ma
jority the rain and the lack of things
to get home on accounted for q rough
time.
But Dennis Fogsrty had fine time
and he didn't ride in limousine
with flowers or knock down a couple
Of dollars on taxi fare.
Dennis had a busy time, Just like
all the other motormen on the Third
Avenue cars, which weren't strike
bound, but which went almost that
slow. He didn't report for duty until
about in the afternoon, so he saw
very little of the morning rush. When
he drove down to the Postoffice he
found that between Ave and six hun
dred persons-mostly girls-were
waiting to rush his car. Park Row
was a flowing carpet Of people, be-
cause most Of the firms had released
thsir smplozsA An hour ~ kwo sszliss
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

fi11<A VI a lldllOld4 university
"a United States Univer-
n sity-is reviving again.
largely through the INSIST
ence Of United States Senator
Thomas Sterling, of South Dakota.
that such an institution be estab-
lished in the capital city. Tie uni
versity would be a postgraduate
school solely and would bring to-
gether the heads Of the various stats
universities at specified periods.
Few people there are, perhaps.
who know there is standing COM
mittee of the United States Senats
called the Committee on the Univer-
sity Of the United States. That ii
is comparatively unimportant one
is evidenced by the fact that the
chairman of this committee is al
ways member Of the minority
party in the Senate. W. P. Dilling-
ham, Republican Senator from Ver-
mont, was the chairman in the last
Congress. In the present Congress
the chairman will be a Democratic
Senator.
The idea of national university
was conceived in the mind of George
Washington, and it may be due more
to this fact that the idea has been
preserved to the American people
through Senate committee than to
any practical interest in the mat
ter. But the interest is assuming a
new significance in these times OF
advanced learning and educational
evolution. That great national
postgraduate school for the recep-
tlon Of state university graduates
Will De established sooner or later IS
the prediction of such supporters Of
the movement as Senator Sterling.
The Senator sees in the idea
means OF training diplomats, foreign
emlssaries and public men. Men
who have desired to enter the con-
sular or allied service have felt
themselves at a disadvantage be-
cause there was no school or depart
ment where they could obtain the
necessary training. The Senator
says the location of such college is
the capital would also offer the stu.
dents unlimited opportunity of meet
ing men high in public life from
every country in the world.
Senator Sterling hopes that some
thing will be done in the present
Congress toward realizing this ideal.
but so far the project has not ad-
vanced to the point where any esti-
mate of the amount Of money re-
CURED or selection of q site has
been made.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Vut Of Orbit

'" the 2,l50.000 passengers car
'"a oy the overhead and under
''0und systems the majority are
''0-way fares, meaning that they
sS'ei forth and back. Thus mill
~ New Workers were thrown out
~ saeir orbit last Monday. That
~ larger part-estimated to be
s1''iiths--of a this million travels
s' entire distance down town is
..0Sed by the Interborough traffic
's' which show that during the
nours the express trains are
- nsaAiiy loaded or unloaded at the
as and Cortlandt Street sta
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took in 1857 in the course of two
days, and he is in favor Of forever
abandoning the meter. Ten blocks
for 81 was the average tariff i'm
posed by the motor guerilla.
The good news carried to the out
lying districts, and there was a rush
Of privately owned cars from New
Jersey, Long Island, The Bronx and
sBrooklyn, the last already schooled
in the art of commercializing
strike. Trucks with cross seats of
boxes or lumber, plus the standing
room and the spaces on the radiator
and the running boards, which were
promptly preempted, carried as
many as threescore grinning New
Workers pressed into a bad bargain
and knowing it, yet determined to
extract the last bit of adventure out
of an unexpected situation. These
motor guerillas, augmented by the
privately owned cars that carried
owners and friends up and down
the far reaches of Manhattan, made
Of the streets now a bedlam or
again Donnybrook, and provided
the police traffic department with
what Lieutenant Ahearn defines as
"the gosh-busiest day I ever put In
in my lifesS
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
There's Fun
In Life
Still

travel from the Postofice to 155th
Street via a surface car, and over
the same distance the pedestrian
finished a close second.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
} Strike Can Drive Away the New York Smile
Stop Subway
And H. -
But
By Louis Lee Arms

By Louis Lee Arms
TT is usually conceded that
nowhere on the face of the
= earth are crowds so good
humored as in New York City.
Whether it be $4,000 persons
,,orrning the doors of Madison
sruare Garden, 10000 billowing
dcgn the long runways of the Polo
cnpunds, 10000 at motor race
m uolice field day at Sheepshead
Speedway, 25o,o0o or a blistering
Sunday at Coney Island, a half
million magnetized by a Fifth Ave
nee parade, or Z million hurrying
and scurrying through the narrow
lanes of lower New York because
,t a subway and elevated railway
te-up, no single characteristic of
New York gathering is so much in
evidence as its aggressive good
nature and complacency.
Possibly there is something funda-
mental in this. Observers agree
that the fact Of having permanent
residence in New York lays one
suen to Inconvenience and annoy
snce not met with elsewhere in the
United States. Nowhere does one
ride so swiftly, yet nowhere is it
necessary to ride so far. Nowhere
ire there such superb theatres and
rroductions. and nowhere are they
20 difficult to reach. Inconvenience
IS everywhere, hence all inconveni-
:nce is relative.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Roofs Too

Surface cars were loaded within
and without They crept up Broad
way and the adjacent avenues seeth-
ing internally and crowded to
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
Frong.'

Wrong.
Now the stage Is fairly set for
the public that was damned. Last
Sunday and Monday the employees of
The Interborough Rapid Transit
Company went on strike, and ap-
proximately one million New York
! ers we're forced TO walk to office.
shop or factory or discover some
new avenue or method of approach.
In view Of this masterpiece Of in
] convenience thrust under the nose
Of the biped New Yorker, and con-
sdering his total unpreparedness
Tor the blow-he is always unpre-
pared-it might be assumed that
he was irrtated Wrong! The New
Yorker arrived at his Office with
triumphant grin. He had thwarted
the conspiracy to keep him from his
office; he, as the human sponge
that sops up annoyance, had baffled
the lords Of the strike and the lords
that were struck; he had enjoyed on
the whole not unpleasant advent
ure!
They say when New York's 9th
Division marched through France,
following the armistice, and en-
oarked for the United States-in
advance Of their turn, some said
there was jauntiness of step and
an arrogance of tongue to them
hat got the other fellows goat. 1t
! vas probably no more than a man
hesitation OF that cheerfulness
which comes to him who has long
Attled with inconvenience in the
greater city; that incorrigible spirit
] aat is SO we'll developed by the
'Ls' and the subways.
Az o'clock Monday morning
one might have walked on the tops
m automobiles from Central Park
70 Iwenty-third Street along Fifth
Avenue as one traffic officer put
H. While the biggest jam-not un-
IKE log jam in the Michigan riv-
sn-was on Fifth Avenue, there
S@ Incompatible confusion on
suk, Madison, Sixth, Seventh and
Eighth avenues and Broadway.
lVerything that boasted wheels was
PUT into commission, and always
nom for one more" was the "stand-
ug order of the day.
i IN estimating the number of per
"ns who come down town daily
q nom the upper reaches Of Manhat-
/ ~n the average traffic Of the sub
4 'ay and the elevated trains may
4 " used as a basis. The subways
arFy 100000 passengers every
aay while the az" trains account
.'f 100000. The traffic rs sub
''c' to fiuctuation--the day Of the
's'ade of the 9th Division on Fifth
avenue the subways carried 2,000,-
WV passengers--but the averages
~ approximately the figures
stated.
Vut Of Orbit
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

capacity
assume that the history of would
the electric railway of fraction million
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24

"A NOST people are trying to for
get the citys late rapid
v \ transit strike. Maybe a
New-York tribune., 1919-08-24
For u National University

.ALK of a national university
"a United States Univer-
n sity-is reviving again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Leather
Government to auction
of Surplus Holdings
of Leather

What is believed will be the first
leather auction in the United States
will be held when the government dis
poses of it's stock of russell strap and
harness leather now in the Philadel-
phia warehouses of the Quartermas-
ter's Department. Auction is the
method Of disposition chosen by the
government as best because of the
fact that great publicity is attached,
and every person interested has an
equal chance to buy the leather Of
fered. Tanners consider that they will
be benefited by the government sell
ing this leather in that it will not be
held as q menace over the market.
The auction will be widely advertised
in foreign countries as well as here
and the terms of the sale will be an
nounced when the publicity campaign
is completed.
Bids will be opened tomorrow at
Washington by Captain George c.
Bosom, jr., for 100000 pairs of russell
shoes for army service. Early deliv-
cry is essential and rate of delivery
will be considered in making awards.
The government has requested that
proposed deliveries be detailed by
weeks in bids. A contract for $4,000
pairs of these shoes was recently made
at $4.991a. The harness war service
committee will meet with Major Byron
and others in Washington tomorrow
to discuss methods to be adopted for
the disposal of surplus harness stocks
of the War Department.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Rubber
Replacement Orders Are
Keeping Factories
Busy

Replacement orders from dealers
and jobbers throughout the country
are keeping the tire factories busy.
Stocks that have been accumulated by
the manufacturers in anticipation of
an early demand are now moving
freely. 1t is said that sales have been
exceptionally heavy in the West, one
manufacturing company reporting that
1T could have disposed Of the entire
stock OF one brand in that territory.
California, with it's vast number Of
cars that saw service during the en-
tire winter, is said to be a rich field
now for the tire dealers.
Tire makers expect to do a record
business this year. While they have
been only passively interested In tho
local crude rubber market, recently
rubber dealers anticipate their becom-
ing more active buyers as the autom o.
bile touring season advances, and when
motor vehicle manufacturers announce
next years probable production. Dur
ing the last week prices Of plantation
rubber developed stronger tone in
the Far East and in the New York
market, though buying continued to be
comparatively light. Arrivals here re-
Gently are said TO be slightly under
those Of April.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
English Shoemakers
After Export Business
Syndicate TO Handle Product of
Various Factories Is
Planned

Shoe manufacturers in England are
perfecting plans for a big drive for
foreign business. They are making eff
forts, it is said, to establish syndicates
to work collectively in developing ex-
port trade, and manufacturers are
making preparations to fit themselves
for this business by increasing the
production at their factories to a scale
greatly exceeding that existing before
the war.
At present the English manufacturers
are finding it difficult to secure ma
terial for fine grade footwear, particu-
larly upper feathers, though it is
known in the trade here that British
interests have immense quantities of
better grade leather, hides and skins
in warehouses in New York and else
where ready for shipment abroad just
as soon as Great Britain removes its
embargo on the importation of high
grade leather next July. Meantime
the chrome leather producers in Great
Britain are doing their best to increase
their outputs.
Standard shoes will replace wartime
boots in England when government
controlled production of shoes ceases
at the end of June, according to re-
ports reaching this country. Boots will
then be made to definite specifications
it is said, and the shoddy stuff retailed
before the war will be eliminated per-
manently. 1t is not believed that this
will affect manufacturers Of high grade
footwear.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Jewelry
JeWeIFy
Clock Manufacturers Are
S,vamped With Orders;
Exports Large

Heavy orders from foreign coun-
tries, combined with an unusually
large domestic demand, have swamped
many of the clock manufacturers with
business, and caused them to advance
prices. One large concern last week
raised prices on all its models per
cent, while another manufacturer added
5 per cent to the selling price Of one
important make of clock.
The makers of alarm clocks have
been besieged with orders, both do
mestic and foreign, for the past few
months. Inquiries have been received
from many European countries. Eng
lish concerns are reported to be plac-
ing big orders for American clocks,
one manufacturer last week closing an
order with a company in England for a
large number Of alarm clocks to be
shipped abroad at the rate of 5000 a
week. Another large company here
has been receiving weekly orders from
its English agent. South American
business which formerly went mostly
to German firms is now finding it's way
onto the books Of American concerns.
Clock manufacturers have been han
dicapped in keeping up with orders
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Women's Wear Trade Grows
Many New Firms Enter Business
Owing to Larger Demand

At least hundred, and possibly
more, new firms have entered the
women's apparel-manufacturin indus
try within the last six months in this
market and reports from other cities
indicate the same condition in other
apparel-manufacturing centres. The
entire trade is experiencing period
of expansion, owing to the unprece-
denied demand for all kinds of wom-
ems apparel.
I'VE are in the midst of a most
prosperous season." said David Moses
sohn, executive director Of the Asso-
clated Dress Industries of America
yesterday, "and still great business
lies ahead of the industry. The lul]
il buying during the period of the
resulted in depleted wardrobes all
the country and millions Of WON
-, co-day are replenishing their stocks
OF clothing. The consumers are seek
ing the best class of merchandise, and
this in turn is having a marked effect
on the retailers, who are placing
larger orders with wholesalers than
for many years past"
The growth of the industry, accord.
ing to Mr.. Mosessohn, is directly af.
fectlng the growth of the organization
he represents. Many of the applica-
tons for membership in the associa-
ton are from firms who have just en-.
tered the ress-manufacturing bust
ness, he said
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-11
Jobbers Distribute
Woollens Piecemeal
Scarcity of Fabrics Curtails
Clothing Manufacturers
Business

Jobbers of woollen goods have been
almost cleaned out of spring materials
and even the slight current demand
exceeds the supply. Custom tailors,
ladies' tailcrs and small manufacture
ers of apparel, who buy from the job
bers, are finding it difficult to obtain
goods for their immediate needs. Some
OF the jobbers, who are receiving ship
ments of fall goods from the mills, are
turning these over to the customers
Tor Immediate use. Several tailors
are reported to have taken over pieces
OF thirteen-ounce worsted cloth, which
they will make up into skeleton lined
summer suits.
Few samples Of fall woollen goods
have been received from the mills and
lobbers are showing fewer lines than
usual at this time Of the year. They
have followed the lead of the mills and
are allotting goods, instead of accepting
orders for all their customers wish to
purchase. In many cases the jobbers
are giving customers only half instead
OF full pieces Of goods, which run
from fifty to eighty yards to the piece
cutting the pieces entails extra ex-
pense, but the jobbers say they are
forced to do it in order to spread their
short stocks over as wide clientele as
possible.
Jobbers report that they have received
many inquiries for goods from export
concerns, but are unable to accept or
ders because of the scarcity of fabrics.