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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
MELLEN RECoNCILED?
Rumor That Ex-Railroad President is
to Make Up With Wife.

STOCKBRIDGE. Mass, March ID
Large numbers of workmcn began yes
terday 10 repair Council GROVE the
home Of Charles ). Mellen. and special
attention which IS given to apartments
formerly occupied by Mrs. Mellen has
caused persistent rumors that 4 recon
Citation has been affected between the
ostranged couple Milton b. Warner,
counsel for Mrs Mellen in her hlls-
bands s recent suit for separation. re.
fused tonight TO discuss the rumor eX
eept to admit there might be some
thing to it.
Mrs Mellen 5 appeal from the deci-
sion of probate court in her husband :
favor and suit for divorce against Mr.
Mellon are now pending. 1t is claimed
| the proceedings may be nullifed
through question which has been raised
as regards Mr.. Afellen : residence
which il is claimed is in New Haven
and that court actions should have been
heard from there rather than in
Berkshire county Mr. Afellcn is said
/ TO be in New York
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
Those Bull Run Telephones.

Mr.. Pealle and neighbors tried to get
a surprise on Mrs. Peake Thursday, the
9th of March, it teing her Goth birth
day, but by accident she heard it men
toned by few words ON line of eight
which put her wise.-Bull Run item.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
WHEAT INQUIRY TO WAIT.
Calder Resolution Affecting Belgians
Not in Order.


WASHINGTON, March l5.-Chair-
man Gore (Okla.) announced yesterday
that the senate agriculture committee
would not investigate charges made be-
fore Chief Magistrate McAdoo in New
York that bad wheat was sold to the
Belgian relief commission and after be-
ing milled was sent into Belgium. where
it caused the deaths Of thousand per
sons.
4 resolution by Senator Calder
IN. W providing for such an inquiry
was adopted by The senate, but rs the
committee was not authorized to SIT
after congress adjourned, and no pro
vision was made for meeting the OK
penses of investigation. the auditor fol
the senate has ruled that the committee
had no authority to make the inquiry
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
CLIPPINGS
With Now a Comment and Then
Only a Caption.

The fellow who jumps on ski
A flippant young fellow is hi;
He fiips thru the air
Without caution or care
But if he should slip-Hullv Gil
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
Jnnst 9 Bit Tart.

Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tart viii have
her son Turner operated on Tuesday.
Elmer Tart and family were quests
CT Miss Frances Bryant Sunday.
Mrs Macklemorc and Miss Vivian
BRYANT are with Mrs. Elmer Tart this
week
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tart and
daughter were Sunday visitors at
Clate Skaters.
Miss Velma Tart spent Thursday at
the home Of her father, Elmer Tart
-Fairview items.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
Progressive Banking.

The bank of Hoberg has been supply
ing its patrons with graphophonc music
as they come into the financial institu-
ton of Hoberg to transact their husi-
ness.-lIoberg news.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

Man has $1,000 taken from pocket
in subway-News headline.
4 man who has 1000 to carry should
observe safety first and carry it in
his wife 5 stocking.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
Especially Perfect 36s.

Lots of men who hate arithmetic are
crazy about other figures.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

WANTED-Win pay FIVE cents :
pound for clean rags for wiping ma
chinery. No old pants aceepted-Bai
ton Monitor
After saving up our pants
We find we We lost another chance.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

OF course you are not lazy
If you were YOU d rue it.
But wouldn't you enjoy your work
If you didn t have to do it!
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

FOR SALE-COnnccticut river onion
and tobacco farm, located on road from
Mortified to Millers Fails, Mass, for
merly owned by Frank E. Aldrich Der
tina L. Aldrich, Executrix, Mortified,
Mass. 5-l9+
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
Artists in Boston and elsewhere have

Artists in Boston and elsewhere have
made disconraging remarks about
he Venus Of Milo. They say she is too
massive. her waist too large, her hips
Dat OF proportion ard so on, which re-
minds us that Aunt Sarah. after look
ing at statue Of Apollo Belvedere
remarked: = have seen Apollo and
your uncle Henry Give me your
uncle Henry.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

MARRIED in Philadelphia, Casper T.
Gideon to Anna, nurse to his former
wife during her illness, after a long
and tedions courtship of .nine DAYS
From a Vt. Phoenix of 1887.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

How 10 lac happy though married
forget il.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
Dear Clippings

Deaf Clippings:
Hope you have not missed the news
that the national committee OF Bap-
list laynen are to have an egg week
commencing March l6.
I.Ivf Id
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

Love may be blind but don t 90
home with a blonde hair on yonr vest if
your wife is 4 brunette
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
LOST

LOST or strayed from Elm ST..
brown long cared hound white on feet
and breast, spayed female. Plain strap
collar y. +. airing. 1l-13@
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
Business Property For Sale

Fine Main street business property for sale
on basis of per cent net. Zen thousand
cash, balance time at 5 per cent Good
chance to make money and steady income For
interview address Business Property" care Of
Reformer, Brattleboro 5.tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
The Spring Upheaval.

Mr.. and Mrs. McGowan are moving
her fathers this week-Phelps Villages
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

For the land s sake-use Bowker S
Fertilizers. They enrich the earth and
those who till il.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

FOR SALE-Win sell for cash or
good security four-cylinder Cadillac
touring car, in best condition, with
practically new tires, also has slip COW
ers. Cadillac, Box Alb, Brattlcboro, VT
500 If
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15
THE PROOF or THE PUDDING

is in the eating. Ask for our annuity
booklet, The Verdict, giving the expe-
riencc of some Of our annuitants. Ma
tional Life Ins. Co. of Vt. Mutual
EARLE S. KINsLEY, General Agent,
Rutland, VT.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-03-15

EGUS FUR HAICHING from thor-
oughbred White heavy
winter layers Pullcts from Tom Bar
row strain. cockerel from Regal strain.
Are producing IS per cent of eggs.
$3.50 per setting. Guy Taft. West
DummerSton. 3-14
The sun., 1919-08-07
LUSTGARTEN IN WAR
TOGS GETS 4 YEARS
discharge and Wound Stripes
Fail to Sope Him.

Appearing at the bar in the uniform
of corporal In the United States Army
and wearing in addition the red dis
charge stripe signifying an honorable
discharge. two gold service chevrons and
wound stripe. William Lustgarten, for
merly president of the defunct Tax Lien
Company, found guilty last week by
jury OF grand larceny in the first degree,
was sentenced yesterday by Judge Grain
In General Sessions to from four to eight
years imprisonment in Sing Sing.
Lustgarten after he heard sentence
imposed had to be assisted back to the
Tombs. plea for clemency made in
his behalf by his counsel. Isador Wasser-
vogel, was denied by the court. Mr.
Wasservogel intimated that the men who
are now prosecuting Lustgarten made
more money out Of the Tax Lien failure
than he did.
Judge Grain told the defendant that
while he had honorably served In the
United States Army in France that harry
could rebound to his credit because. In
the courts opinion. he entered the army
after fleeing from its Jurisdiction under
an assumed name for the purpose OF con-
ceaiing his whereabouts
Though under Indictment also in con-
nection with the 100000 crash of the
Tax Lien Company. the specific charge
resulting in Lustgarten's conviction was
preferred by Robert Schalkenbach, a
printer, of ais Fulton street, who al
legged that he lost sec. 900 through pool
which Lustgarten told him was to be in
vested IN East Side real estate. but
which was shown at the trial to have
been deposited to Lustgarten's checking
account and used subsequently to meet
other obligations.
The sun., 1919-08-07
RARITAN ARSENAL
VICTIMS NOW TEN
Bodies of Seven Haue Been
Taken From Blast Wreckage.

The names of ten men are included in
the list of those missing at the Raritan
Arsenal since the explosion Monday.
The list was given out yesterday by
Lieut.. L. r. Jeffords. the post adjutant.
They are all civilian employees. Seven
bodies have been recovered from the
ruins of the powder magazine and
freigh car. Three of them have been
identified as ]. Besary, 1872 New street,
New Brunswick; George S. Turk. 272
Oak street. Perth Amboy. and L. S.
Clair, Steelton.
The other missing men are listed as
William Dougherty. Pa Somerset street
A Durham. 1876 Seaman street; p AIMS
tides, 80 Church street; E. Bedard, so
Jersey avenue, oil of New Brunswick
Lawrence Schaefer. 219 Augusta street,
South Amboy; Alex Bergoforowski, Main
street, Sayreville. and NJ. Zranesk. Cath
crime street, Sayreville.
According to Coroner William F.
Harding. Dougherty. Durham and
Schaefer have been identified as dead
although their names were not on the
list given out by Lieut.. Jeffords.
A board of five officers headed by
Major-Gen. c. c. Williams chief OF ord
explosion. No statement will be issued
IL was announced, until the investiga-
tlon has been finished. Mayors of cities
In the vicinity of the arsenal took steps
yesterday to protest to the War Depart
ment against the storage of large guam
titles of explosives there.
The sun., 1919-08-07
BROADWAY CROWD
TRIES TOLYNCH RED
Police SaUe Man Ching Out
Handbills.

Downtown Broadway became very
much agitated yesterday noon. when
man who gave his name as Herbert A.
Thorpe Of Jersey City took up a position
on the curb near Fulton street and began
handing out printed handbills containing
revoluuouist propaganda. Thorpe made
no attempt at speechmaking. but the ma
ture of the matter contained in the
dodgers collected a crowd OF almost 1000
persons, some of whom insisted on a
lynching.
A patrolman from the Old Slip station
hurriedly pushed in to the rescue.
You don't know how close you are
to first class hanging" he remarked.
He took Thorpe to the station, fol-
lowed by a hooting crowd. and a dozen
men offered to swear out warrants. The
dodgers bore Thorpes signature and con-
cluded with a quotation from Herbert
Spencer on the mutabillty OF govern
ment. The rest of the sheet was a ques-
tionnaire. of which some of the samples
were these:
who started the diabolicai war Just
ended? The German Government.
WHO were too criminally stupid to
prevent It? The allied Governments.
who caused the loss of millions of
lives? Governments.
WHO send men and women to iail for
merely trying to educate their fellow
creatures2 Governments.
Who are causing the high cost of
living? Governments.
Who denies the working man the
knowledge and means to control the
number of his children? The United
States Government.
WHO are so foolish as to create and
support Governments? The people. Is
it not about time people woke up to the
above facts and did little something
toward reducing and ultimately elimi-
mating Governments?'
The sun., 1919-08-07
SUSPICIOUS POSTAL
PACKAGE A BOMB
Eagan Finds Shell Filled With
Z Black Powder, Wrapped
in Tin.
CAP AND FUSE READY
Action to Prevent Sale of
Empty Hand Grenades
May Be Taken.

Inspector Owen Eagan Of the Bureau
OF Combustibles brought the suspicious
package found by n clerk in the Penn
syivania post ONCE Tuesday afternoon
70 his desk in the Municipal Building
and dlssected 1t yesterday. finding that
1. contained a long tubular bomb filled
with black powder.
The explosive charge was wrapped In
TIN and jacketed in what looked like q
large calibre shot gun shell. although
seen a shot gun shell Of that size. The
metal base OF the shell bears no calibre
identification and is stamped Paris"
How the bomb was intended to be
exploded Inspector Eagan was not sure.
The percussion cap was intact and would
function with blow. From the end
of the bomb protruded a short piece
OF powder fuse ready to be lighted.
Inside the tin wrapping, which In
spector Eagan had cut open, six tubular
metal slugs, each about an inch long
lay end to end and Joined by the fuse
According to the inspector, these slugs
were loaded with aluminium or magne-
SUM powder so that each slug would
explode in the air.
The package was unaddressed when
found Nm the post office. and 50 far
as can be learned the post office officials
do not know whence 1t came.
Putting the bomb back in a drawer
Inspector Eagan rummaged among 9
litter of various explosive devices, some
dangerous and some not dangerous, and
drew out a hand grenade such as was
used by the A. E. F. in France only on
this one the firing pin had been re-
moved and a length of powder fuse in
serted through the neck and the re-
naming space blocked with cloth.
Were finding these things all ovei
the city. People buy the hand grenade
for souvenir. Drug stores, novelty
stores, any number of stores are selling
the empty hand grenades-about 81
cents apiece. That's all right; but right
there In that empty hand grenade you've
for a bomb. All you've got to do l:
NIL 1t with powder'--he took the fuss
from the one in his hand and emptied g
bit of the contents on a piece of paper
This one is filed with giant powder
But what's to hinder any one from put
ting in more violent explosive?
at makes the handiest little bomb
No one would ever notice that thing IL
your pocket. The fuse burns in abou
two seconds. All you've got to do l:
press a lighted cigar or cigarette to 1
and let 'er CO."
u Patrick ]. Gillespie, supervising In
spector of the Fire Prevention Bureau
said yesterday he was going to speal
TO DIR. William +. Doyle, chief OF thu
bureau, about having some action taker
to prevent the sale of empty hand gre
nades. He said that something ought t.
be done about them; that they wer'
ready made bombs.
Two hand grenades have been fount
loose in the city this week. one loade'
and one unloaded.
The sun., 1919-08-07
DRUGS SEIZED HERE
co TO WASHINGTON
$500, 900 in Narcotics for
Army and Navy Hospitals.

shipment Of narcotic drugs valued
at 100000, including heroin. cocaine
morphine and opium. all OF Il stun seized
In recent raids here by Federal agents
against 'bootleggers'' and other Illegal
trafilckers. was sent yesterday from the
ONCE of Major Daniel L. Porter, internal
revenue agent at the Custom House, to
the Commissioners of Internal Revenue
In Washington.
This consignment will be diverted to
army and navy hospitals for medicinal
use. The drugs are in original unbroken
packages. The New York office still has
about 500 ounces Of condscated narcotics
In broken packages, most of which, be-
cause 1t has been adulterated. is deemed
unsafe for use and will be burned.
Among the stun going to Washington
is one haul" of 1000 ounces Of opium
taken July from Joe Miller. who smug-
gled 1t here from Montreal, bringing It
across from Canada by automobile. He
was followed, however, by revenue
agents who were sent on information
that resulted in his capture as he en-
tered New York on a New York Central
train. Miller has since been convicted
and sentenced.
Another supply of drugs worth $4,000
was taken in the raid made some weeks
ago on the German-American Medical
Institute at Tampa, Fla. by agents -un-
der Ralph II. Oyler, chief of the mar
cotic division Of the New York Internal
Revenue Office. The seizure of this
cache Of narcotics was effected follow
ing the arrest here of r c. Hammers
at the American Express office on
Broadway, where Mr.. Oyler trapped
Hammers as he was In the act of con-
summating a deal for another $4,000
worth of drugs. Hammers's trial re-
Gently resulted in his conviction.
Mr.. Oyler declared yesterday that
more drugs have been confiscated in the
last half year than in any previous six
months period. The Internal revenue
Office In this city, he said, was the means
of supplying Government hospitals dur.
ing the war with more than 100000
worth of drugs which, had been seized in
raids.
The sun., 1919-08-07
The neLU
silhouette
for Autumn suits


is like a chapter from
"Godey's Ladies' Book" e.
The Women's Suit Sa-
Ions have just received this
new and unexpected model
that predicts-all in a rush
of revolutionary lines
what our silhouettes are to
be like this Autumn.
Very slender of waist
and bouffant of skirt is
this model. The coat flares
into busy little ruff1es after
it has been nipped in Sc
verely at the waist. And
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
narrow bands of fur and
pompons of fur at the
waistline front and back.
This is the silhouette our
grandmothers wore with such
grace. They had not, however,
the sophisticated tight under
skirt that invariably appears
under the tunic of the skirt.
Second floor, Old Building.
The sun., 1919-08-07
BROADWAY HOLDUP
MEN GET S561 Cash
Rob Cashier of Evenings Re-
ceipts at Century Cocoa
nut Grove. n

Five men armed with revolyers
stopped three employees OF Reinsenweo-
er's restaurant at Sixty-first street and
Broadway shortly after o'clock yes
terday morning and relieved them of the
evenings receipts from the Cocoanut
Grove on the roof of the Century Thea
ire The robbers obtained 1851.
splro Mavromatis of 321 West Four
teenth street, cashier at the restaurant,
left the Century Theatre building after
the last patron of the roof garden had
departed and started toward the main
Reisenweber establishment in Fifty
eighth street Just below Columbus Cir
Gle. He was accompanied by Emil Krell.
s77 Fox street, The Bronx, steward.
and Miss May Haran, 1441 Third ave-
nue.. the cigar and cigarette vender. AS
the trio turned into Broadway from
Sixty-frst street three men who had
been Longing in a doorway suddenly
produced revolvers and commanded
Mavromatis to hand over his leather
bag containing the evenings receipts.
Krell offered resistance and was
promptly felled by blow from one OF
the men. At the same instant two
other men Joined the party from be-
hind, snatched the cashiers bag and all
five Jumped into a closed automobile
which was waiting in Sixty-first street
and made off toward Central Park.
The thing was done SO quickly that
none OF the three victims was able to
offer clear descriptions of the men or OF
the car in which they made their es-
cape, though the three believe that they
would recognize their first assailants.
Frank Koch, a waiter employed al
I0atS tn
| Miss Haran's cry for help. He blew a
police whistle which brought two police
| men, but the car was out of sight ever
| before Koch arrived
At Reisenweber's 1t was said yester-
| day that the robbers were evidently IA
miliar with the nightly routine Of the
cashier and his assistants. The man
| agement of the restaurant were con-
graduating themselves. however. thai
the attack on their employees had MOI
taken place the previous night, when the
receipts were about three times the
amount which the robbers secured yes
terday.
| A detail of ten men from the Fourth
Branch Detective Bureau. under Capt
Thomas Walsh. began a search for the
car and its occupants. They made one
arrest late yesterday of man they
| think drove the car
The prisoner gave his name as Charles
| Cohen, 65 East Ninety-eighth street
According 10 the police his story is thai
he was hired late Tuesday night by
three men, who told him that they
would give him $40 for special job
After the holdup had taken place one
of the robbers sat next to Cohen, III
says, and jabbed a revolver into hi
side every time n policeman came IL
sight. The men ordered him to crosi
the park and drive them to Seventy
first street and First avenue, where they
paid him and disappeared.
Cohen was arrested in a garage a.
1O4th street and Third avenue, where
he Is employed. He is not charged
with participation in the robbery itself
The sun., 1919-08-07
42D ST. MANHOLES y
BLOWN HIGH IN AIR
Flames From GasoIene FolloW
Man Breaks Leg.

The accumulation of gasolene In the
sewer beneath Forty-second street, be-
tween Second and Third avenues, caused
an explosion yesterday which boosted
manhole covers along its course ten to
twenty feet in the air. with flames leap
ing through the openings.
One of the covers under the Third ave-
nue. elevated station made n direct hit
in the centre of the overhead structure,
smashing through two ties. The boom
ing of the explosion and the flames
caused a good deal of excitement along
the street, and In the midst of it Hugh
Roberts, 81. OF Corona, alighted from a
crosstown car and plunged down one of
the holes One of his legs was broken.
He was taken home.
The flying iron covers came to earth
without hitting any one. and in a short
time firemen had smothered the flames.
The Enoke was dense before their work
was finished.
The sun., 1919-08-07
POLICE NOT FORMING
UNION, OFFICIALS SAY
Commissioner Enright Denies
Truth Of Widespread Report.

Gsnerai denials were made yesterday
by Mayor Hyian. Commissioner Richard
70. EnriEht. Chief Inspector John Daily
and others connected with the Police
Department Of q report that the SER
geants and patrolmen were organising
themselves into union to be affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor.
end the first aim Of which would be to
get an increase in pay. The report
emanated originally from Louis Fri
digger, counsel for the Amalgamated Car
mems Union, who said the organisation
was very well perfected in Manhattan
and The Bronx and partly In Brooklyn"
The Mayor. hearing OF this, expressed
sceptioism and then called up Commits
sioner Enright. The Commissioner de-
MED the story. saying he had investi-
gated II and found no foundation to It.
A similar statement came from the Chief
Inspector. and Joseph J. O'Rsiliy. editor
lof The Chtef and social secretary for the
Patrolmens Benevolent Association, said
there was no truth in Il.
II know" he said. that number Of
the patrolmen who formerly belonged to
trades In which they keep up their union
membership have sympathy for the
Brooklyn strikers and would like to see
the Police Department unionized. but
they constitute only a minority of the
9.302 patroirnen and the 766 sergeants---
how large. can't say. But 1 know that
their leading officials haven't suggested
any such organization. Their president.
Patroman Joseph p. Moran. is away on
his vacation.
such a step might be suggested at
the next meeting OF the association on
| August 12, but no man could predict
that. SO far It hasn't happened. Prob
III IT.. A
the police have been working with the
unionized firemen in obtaining wage in
J creases, and they are now combined
| with the present drive of city employees
| for general raise. that of the patrol
men going up to $500 a year"
The sun., 1919-08-07
Girl Falls Five stories.

Mary White. 10. a stenographer en-
ployed by the Argus Smelling Com
pany. a. West Thirty-fourth street, was
getting out OF the elevator at the COM
pany offices on the fourth floor yester-
day when the car suddenly started up,
catching one heel The girl pitched
forward and then slid into the empty
shaft. falling to the basement. She was
removed to New York Hospital in a
serious condition from internal injuries
and fractures OF the limbs. The oper-
ator, George Matteson, los Ditmas
street, Brooklyn, was held In $1,000 bail
for examination tomorrow. The girls
home Is in 800 East Thirty-third street.