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New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Stills Start Up
To Beat DRY. Day.
But u. 5. Is Active

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. Means of
enforcing prohibition after July 1 are
under consideration by officials of
the Department OF Justice and the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, but steps to
create a special enforcement agency
will not be taken until Congress has
had time to. act on pending legislation
giving this function to the Revenue
Bureau.
This bureau now has about 500
agents who could be assigned to
liquor violation detection, including
800 now engaged in running down IL
licit liquor distillers. Officials believe.
however, that this force would have
to be enlarged by several times eff
fectually to enforce nationwide pro-
hibition. The Department of Justice
also stands ready TO assign many Of
its secret agents TO prohibition en-
forcement if this is deemed neces~
sary.
Even with an augmented govern
ment for devoting its entire efforts
to preventing manufacture and sale
of liquor, however, officials declare the
bulk of enforcement work would fall
on state and local police authorities
Federal agents would not attempt to
cover the country thoroughly, but
would operate only in those districts
whore the local officers seemed unable
or unwilling to enforce the law prop
erly.
officials say that the fact that the
prohibition measure is federal act
might be interpreted in some states,
which never have had a referendum
on prohibition, IS throwing the bur-
den of enforcement on federal of
ficers. For this reason and because
of the expected feeling in some COM
munities that prohibition is not sup
ported by local popular opinion, gov
ernment officials believe that some
federal agency must exercise q meas
ure Of supervision over the law enforce
ment.
Those officials who have given spe-
cial study to prospective problems
growing ont of prohibition anticipate
that in the early part of the prohibi-
tion period more violations viii be az
tempted through the selling of liquor
made before prohibition became cf-
fective than through the clandestinc
manufacture of whiskey. Bootlecging
must be dealt with mainly by local
authorities. and federal agents prob
ably will devote proportionately more
attention to "moonshining," in the de-
tecting of which the internal revenue
agents already are trained.
Revenue agents say there ALREADY
are indications of preparations for ap-
proach of the dry era among those
who propose to manufacture LIQUOR
illegally after July /. Not only in
the Southern mountains, the principal
operating regions of moonshineYs. but
in large cities of the East and Middle
West, small stills have been found
recently. Owners of some of these are
said TO have admitted their intention
of putting them in operation after
prohibition becomes effective.
The advent of prohibition, officials
say, will not repeal revenue laws an
plying taxes on sp;r:..s nor nullify cx-
: listing provisions for fines and impris-
oonment as penalties for illicitly manu-
featuring liquor.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Europe Viii Be Dry
In Fe,U Years, Predicts
Ex-Governor Whitman

Ex-Governor Charles S. Whitman,
who says that he is too busy with
law to give more than casual attention
to politics, ventured the prediction yes
terday that, improbable as it may ap-
pear just at present, Europe within
a comparatively few years will prohibit
the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
beverages.
at sounded like crazy prediction
two years ago to say that the United
States would soon be dry, but dry it will
be after July l. Europe will follow
suit. although it will take the leading
nations there little longer to come
around to il. The compelling thing
that will make Europe dry will be eco
homie in its resistless current" said
said the former Governor. "The Ger
mans years ago worked out to nicetv
experiments demonstrating that LIQUOR
drinker is less efficient industrially
than total abstainer.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Owners Say Wages
Of Marine Workers
Are Already Too Big
Only One Admits 8.Hour
Day Feasible; High Pay
of Boatmen Quoted; En-
gineer Cot SIO2 i'm Week

AT the session of the War Labor
Board yesterday at the City Hall,
where an c.fort is being made to adj
just the grievances Of marine workers,
the testimony of boat owners and rep
resentatives of corporations operating
boats in the harbor was taken With
one exception, the witnesses were
agreed that the marine workers are
overpaid and that an adoption of the
eight hour day demanded would be
wellnigh impossible.
Henry l.. De SAUCES, marine supe1in-
tendcnt of the Long Island Railroad,
said the men of his company were ann
lous to go on an cight-hour basis. He
declared this was feasible so far as
his company was concerned and said it
could be done without employment Of
an extra force.
representatives. of other railroads
declared an cght-hour day was i'm
practicable. p. L. Hollis, marine super
lntcndent of tho Central Railroad of
New Jersey, testified that at least 90
per cent oil the men employed by his
company preferred the system Of long
and short shifts.
Figures on the wages paid marine
workers were quoted by boat owners
Captain Samuel G.. Fcrnell said one OF
bis captains received S369.85 and three
meals day. Robert C.. Anderson said
that marine hosting engineers were
paid Sl02 a week, with SO for overtime
lie said boat owners have no way of
knowing whether man works fifteen
minutes or two hours overtime. Mr.
Anderson also said overtime to tugboat
captains was very serious matter lie
cited one captain who received S161
extra for overtime and named others
who, during months of rush work, re-
ceived as high as $3.50 a month extra.
Ole G. Olsen, of 43O I'iftieth Street
Brooklyn, and Joseph J. Adsley, man
ager for eleven years of the New York
Towboat Company, told the board
their boats were never employed more
than GO per cent of the time Mr.
Olsen said lie had one boat that never
turned propeller for four months, and
he declared all of his boats averaged
at least thirty days Of idlcness each
year.
The board was asked to remembe,
that IN recent years accidents in the
harbor had increased to such an eytcn,
that some underwriters refused &c
place repair insurance on boats. He
SAID the insurance on workmeN's com.
pensation had increased 40 per cent
since 1914.
A statement was issued yesterday b,
employees of the municipal ferries
denying they had gone on strike only
because of sympathy. They set fort
a number of grievances for which they
say they struck.
The hearing is to be resumed TODAY
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Growing 1dleness
Rouses Bridgeport
10 Check Danger
City Authorities Move to
Stamp Out Bolshevism
and Find Employment
for Thousands of Men
By BRIGGS

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Jan. 22.-ln-
creasing unemployment in this city be-
cause Of the cessation of war activi-
ties is affording an opportunity to
cranks, radicals and Bolsheviki to at
tempt to win the lately prosperous
mechanics to their side. These would
be demagogues arc not letting the
opportunity escape. Samuel Lavit, .us-
ness agent and strike leader of the
Machinists' Union, is under summons
to explain in court his distribution
of pamphlet entitled won. a War;
Lost, a job" which praises the "re-
construction" methods Of the Russian
Reds.
'lf Sovets are good enough in Rus
sla, country far less industrially
developed than the United States," he
SAID, there is every reason to be-
lleve they would work out we'll in
Bridgeport"
Union men with green checks" in
dicating a temporary "lay- off" who call
at Lavit's Office are ADVISED by him
to consider the project OF forming
organizations like the Russian Sovets.
Forms Ten New Commandments"
In support of his doctrines Lavit
puts forward what he describes as
"ten new commandments" They fol-
low:
"The germs of Sovietism have blown
across the Atlantic.
"lnemployment and poverty arc the
fruits of bourgeois democracy.
We helped to establish democracy
in Europe-shall we starve in Bridge
port?
"Our children must be fed; we want
work.
Forty -four -hour-week is partial
solution to unemployment
Low wages, high cost of living
and the Spanish influenza are triplets
"Act before your stomach is chafing
against your spine.
Let none have cake but let all have
bread
"Industrially we worked 10 win the
war.
"Won, a War; Lost, Job"
Critical Period Until June
The critical period in Bridgeport
is expected to extend from the present,
when hundreds of men are being laid
off daily and the total number of
unemployed in the city is about $4,000,
to next June, when some of the manu-
facturers hope to see the citys indus
tries completely upon peace basis and
running full time.
Municipal authorities are seeking
a method of tiding over. this perilous
five months. 1t has been suggested
to the Municipal Welcome Committee
that the funds raised for brass bands,
bunting and public meetings be di-
verified to the organization of an en-
ployment service. The unemployed
themselves, under the leadership of
David Clydesdake, former member
of the British Labor Party. and others
are agitating for q programme of
public works upon large scale to
provide for the unemployed.
tits a great deal better" said City
/ Clerk A. II. Robinson, in support of
the employment service project, "to
get a man a JOB than to have a big
time and give soldiers hand-out
think it would be more practical
way of welcoming the men. it seems
to me to be the best possible welcome
for the boys coming back"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Laws Sought to Preuent
Another Brighton Wrech


ALBANY, Jan. 22.-Lcgislation tend
ing to prevent accidents on subway or
elevated lines of New York City SINH
lar to the recent Brighton Reach
catastrophe will be sought at the pres
ent legislative session by railroad
brotherhood men.
One hundred and fifty representa-
tives of the brotherhoods Of engineers
and hremen and cnginemen. who arc
holding a conference here this week,
called on Governor Smith this after
noon to pay their respects and to ask
for his approval of the proposed meas
ure, which among other things will
make more rigid the qualifications for
subway and elevated motormen The
Governor said he would do everything
in his power to assist the railroad men
IN their efforts to lessen the danger
Of railroad accidents.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Death House Barber, Freed,
First Visits Scene OF Crime
Henry Dorsch, Who Shaved Toughest of ALI Boards
Marvels at Subway, Fries Telephone, Sees
Broadway's Lights, and Yearns for the Farm

Professor Lombroso and those dctec
tves Of fiction who have declared that
a murderer is impclled by q fascination
Of his crime nave been justified by
Henry Dorsch. He was released from
Sing Sing prison Monday after serv
ing twenty years Of life sentence i'm
posed for the killing Of his wife. Annie
He is lifty-four years old
For sixteen of his twenty years in
the prison Dorsch served as the death
house barber and shaved some Of the
toughest boards in existence. He shaved
men like "Gyp the Blood" and Lefty
Louie Condemned men are permitted
to be shaved twice a week, and in the
days before there were safety razors
guards stood on either side of the chair
while Henry worked to prevent the
occupant cheating the law by suicide.
But Henry shaved scores and scores,
men like Police Lieutenant Charles
Becker and DR.. Arthur Warren Waite,
and never had any accidents. He gave
them their last shaves. too, whcn in
addition TO their faces, he scrapcd bald
patches on their heads to allow for the
proper application Of the electrodes of
the death chair.
Sees Auto First Time
Henry was on an upper floor of one
of the prison buildings. Looking down
the hill toward the railroad station he
saw an automobile for the first time in
solitary confinement was abolished as a
punishment and motion pictures be-
came daily treat for the convicts.
Thereafter, instead of sending recall
citrant to the "ccolcr" he was denied
the privilege Of seeing the cowboy
movie" thriller when his days work
was finished.
Dorsch left all this behind Monday
afternoon when he started from Sing
Sing for New York, clad in a brown
ovcrcoat and black cheviot suit that
for lack of huckram stiffening was as
limp as lifer's spirit. With the
death house barber was Colonel Nichol,
Of thc Volunteers Of America Prison
Welfare League, in whose care Henry
had been paroled.
Arriving in New York, Henry srent
the night with Colonel Nichol. aNS taH
next day received volumes Of advice
and other things more substantial and
easier to take. Then he left Colonel
Nichol and started for the home of his
sister, Mrs Caroline Trauth. the wife
of Henry Trauth, bologna manufact-
urer. They live at 10 Chestnut Street,
Brooklyn.
Studies Surroundings
At noon yesterday Colonel Nichol
telenhoned to Mrs. Trauth's to inquire
after Henry and learned that the man
had not visited his relatives. Shortly
after that Henry mounted the front
steps of the little house.
When the ydoor was opened by his
white haired sister Henry said
"Hello, is this Mrs. Trauth %
His sister shook hands with HIM and
inquired: .
Henry?"
Then to another sister, Miss Bar
bara Dorsch, who was cnvelopcd IN the
steam of the kitchen soup pots, Mrs,
Trauth called:
"Babette, Brother Heinrich is here
Miss Dorsch, who had not seen her
brother since that December day IN
1899 when he started for Sing Sing,
came into the Trauth dining room and
after wiping wet hand on her apron
clasped that Of her brother.
"You look we'll, Heinrich.' she said
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

and they will not advance the city's
right to operate the property itself"
The holding company's report for
the year ending December 81 showed a
total income of $4.A02,l75. compared
with S6,95o,s66 for the preceding year
After expenses, taxes and interest
charges of $2,677,261, there was a net
income of S724,91A, equivalent to S1.5s
q share on the S4o,7Ao,5oO preferred
stock, compared with 55 cents a share
earned in 1877. The balance sheet
showed current assets of $2,O65, 1893,
against current liabilities of Sl,570,-
934. N'
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Dies on Wife's Grave

A. N. Brown, fifty years old, shot and
killed himself yesterday on the grave
IN Evcrgreens Cemetery, Queens, where
his wife had been buried five years ago
He lived at 94S Steinway Avenue. As
toria, and recently had lost his lob a,
the Astoria Veneer Company's plant
which was compelled to close. Several
Liberty bond receipts werc found in
his DOcEets
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Asks Marshall to Sneak

The Lawyers Club expects Vice
President Marshall to accept its invita-
ton to luncheon to be given by the
club at 115 Broadway Saturday. Other
guests at the luncheon will be William
b. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, and
Senator James Hamilton Lewis. Labor
problems and the legal obligations of
the government will be discussed.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
German Munition Depot
Near Brussels Blown I'm

BRUSSELS, Jan. GA former Ger
man munitions depot at Quatrecht,
southeast of Ghent, exploded o-dwy
and the populace fed in all directions,
according to the newspapers.
it has not yet been learned whether
there werc any casualties. Communi-
cation with the town is interrupted.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Sittenbcrg Leaves Sing Sing

OSSINING. Jan. 22.-Leo Sittcnberq
alias James Rcgan, who, in an effort tr
clear Elizabeth kaksa recently swore
he killed Mrs. Helen Hammel in New
York, was moved from Sing Sing Prison
10 Dannemora to-day. Ninetecn other
convicts were sent TO Danncmora.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
hfl|lalH|E;P!:!!lTY
h|I lsshl4|R|I| -. 8 )RlEE5

Suit for $i25,ooo. tho largest sum named
IN IN any of the actions growing out of the
Maibone. Street tunnel wreck. has been
started in Brooklyn against the New York
Consolidated Railroad Company for the
death Of Thomas f. Gfeathcr His is one
OF the two deaths referred to in the man
slaughter indictments against BROOKLYN Rapid
Transit officials.
PatroIman. William }. sascr has obtained
verdict OF 5000 against the New YORK.
when Madison Avenue car hit him while
he was stationed at school crossing.
Two hundred coal handlers of the c. H.
Reynolds Company in Brooklyn are on strike
for more pay. If they get it, the company
says, there will have to be an increase of a
dollar ton for coal.
Teresa Donate. cashier of the bootback
stand in the Equitable Building. has been
missing from her home at l3O Baxter Street
since January ID. She is eighteen years old.
Mrs. Frederick Schmidt OF Trenton n. j.,
has started action for divorce asserting tina.
her husband made her sleep in the barn five
nights.
The American Christian Literature Society
for Moslcms will meet at Marble Collegiatc
Church, Fifth Avenue and Twenty-ninth
Street, at $3.50 p. m. to-day.
A memorial service for Colonel Roosevelt
will be held at 3 p. M, January 80. at the
Collegiate Church of st. Nicholas, Fifth
Avenue and Forty eighth Street, of which
he was q member.
John II. Martin. five years old thrust his
face into the plume of steam from tea
kettle in his home at 60 Beadle Street,
Brooklyn. laughing at his improvsed fog.
Half an hour later he was dead from suf-
location by steam.
An attorney in "A case in the White Plains
Supreme Court declared the opposing counsel.
Joseph w. Middlebrook. to be dead and has
received from Mr. Middlebrook letter Of
protest concluding: "Will you, therefore,
take appropriate steps TO correct what seems
OF the time and place Of my demise 2
The United States Marinc Corps wants
fifty competent male stenographers at $11o
a month. The recruiting station is at "a
East Twenty third Street
Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church. Bush
wick Avenue. Brooklyn will have special SER
vices this evening commcmoratnH its seven
tcth anniversary and the twenty fifth ami
Re-. John Williams
or $4,000. constituting his frat rovaltics
on tbs song. when You Come Back. =
George NJ. Cohan has given $1,000 to the
Stage Womcn's War Relief and $1,000 each
to the Lambs and the Friars, for soldiers
entertainment.
man who vautcd the railing in the
Bedford Avenue police station BROOKLYN
shouting. that the money in HIS shoes was
running his feet. is in Kings County Hospital
e.aid he was John Slingcrland. Of 30o Bedford
Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
Mayor Protests to
Garrison on Use of
Wooden Cars Ly b. X. T

Protesting against the use of
wooden cars in the Chambers Street
subway as grave pablic menace, .
Mayor aylan yesterday sent letter
to Lindley NJ. Garrison, receiver Of the
b. X. T., asking that steel side door
cars be used in their stead.
"The headway of trains in the early
part of the rush in the morning and at
night should be shortened so that there
vii be less overcrowding," he added
Much time is lost at stations dis
charging passengers from these over
crowded cars and crowding passengers
INTO other already overcrowded cars
blocking the whole system"
The Mayor also urged the erection
of guard rails on the platform of the
Chambers Street station, and all other
stations, to prevent people from being
pushed off the platform to the tracks
The letter suggested that more trains
be operated on the Williamsburg and
Brooklyn bridges. In this connection
the following table, showing the number
OF elevated cars crossing these bridges
daily was jnclosed
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23
williamsburg Bridge

Ao'"' Cl,oSS
Although Mayor Hylan didn't say
whether these figures we're for an hour.
day, week or month, inquiry at
his Office brought the reply that they
were based on daily traffic
The Mayors table shows 100000 ele-
vated cars crossing both the Brooklyn
and williamsburg bridges daily" AS
a rule, the B. r. T. run tive-car trains.
taking one-minute headway across
the bridge fer each train, LAO trains
would pass over each bridge from
Brooklyn to Manhattan in twenty-four
hours, and like number from Man
haitian to Brooklyn in the same length
of time, totalling 5.76O trains, or 28,SOo
cars over both bridges daily.
The average car-carrying capacity of
the B. R. 7. is seventy PASSENGERS. On
a one minute headway, with 2S,800 cars
passing over the bridges. 2.O16,000 pas
sengers would be carried from and to
brooklyn daily and s100,sOO collected
in fares.
The Mayors figures, supposedly for
a day. would make this total even
higher. In the 100000 cars crossing
the two bridges, there would be, on the
seventy to a car basis, $4,000 pas
5engers carried. The fares then would
amount to 1881 800.
"And still,' one of the men around
the City Hall remarked. when he ar
rived at these figures, "the B. r. T. was
forced into bankruptcy'
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

The American Christian Literature Society
for Mosems will meet at Marble Collegiate
Church. Fifth Avenue and Twenty-ninth
Street, at 8 80 p m to-day.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

memorial service for Colonel Roosevelt
will be held at 3 p. M, January 80. at the
Collegiate Church of ST. Nicholas, Fifth
Avenue and Forty-eighth Street, of which
he was q member.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

Mrs Frederick Schmidt, OF Trenton, N j.,
has started action for divorce. asserting tina.
her husband made her sleep in the barn five
nights.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

a man who vaultcd the railing in the
Bedford Avenue police station, Brooklyn,
shouting. that the money in HIS shoes was
running his feet is in Kings County Hospital
raid he was John slingcrland, Of 30o Bedford
Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

John II. Martin five years old, thrust his
face into the plume of steam from tea
kettle in his home at 60 Beadle Street,
Brooklyn. laughing at his nprovsed fog.
Half an hour later he was dead from suf-
location by steam.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

or $1,000 constituting his frat ROYALTIES
the song. "When You Come Back. =
George NJ. Cohan has given $1,000 to The
Stage Womcns War Relief and $1,000 each
to the Lambs and the Friars for soldiers
entertainment.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

Teresa Donate cashier of the bootblacl
stand in the Equitable Building. has beer
missing from her home at 1870 Baxter Street
since January Ia. She is eighteen years old
New-York tribune., 1919-01-23

Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church Bush
wick Avenue. Brooklyn. will have special SER
vices this evening commcmoratinH its seven
ticth anniversary and the twenty fifth ami
vcrsary Of the ordination Of its rector. the
Rcy. John Williams
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-05-03
LEGISLATURE ENDS
IMPORTANT SESSION

word of it, nor one comma" Rep
resentative Dunn, in support Of
Pennington, said, We intend to
send you back TO your constituents
responsible for this unspeakable
outrage at the last moment.
The bill carrying appropriation
for the Fairbanks Agricultural Col
lege and School of Mines was de-
feated in the house, Dunn, Pen
nington and Nordale supporting it
20 the last
The bill carrying the territorial
road appropriation was reduced
from four to three hundred thou
sand dollars, and each division will
be allotted $4,000 for road build
ing purposes, instead of 100000 as
heretofore
At the moment of adjournment.
when the membes of the senate had
descended to the balcony Of the
house, Representative Pennington,
in few words, expressed the keen
est disappointment over the failure
Of the senate TO pass the eight-hour
law He denounced those who op-
posed it in the strongest terms and
said that civic bodies refusing to
pass such constructive legislation
were responsible for the growing
menace of Bolshevism in America.
Among the bills passed were the
general appropriation bill and a bill
for local self-government, whereby
Nenana will have an advisory board
of seven members.
The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-05-03
GERMANY TO GET
ALLIED TERMS
MAY SEVENTH

VERSAILLES, May Sit was
indicated today that the Allied
peace terms will be given to Ger
many, officially, on May eth.
The German delegates to the
peace convention almost equal in
number the delegates of the Allied
nations combined.
Time seems to hang very heavily
on the hands of the German dele
CATION and their staff, which in
cludes many girl stenographers, and
they all show an inclination -
wander away beyond the limits Of
their reservation and 60 to Paris TO
see the sights, but the authorities
are keeping them strictly within the
allotted bounds. Most Of the dele
gates are passing the time away
playing cards or billiards, while
some loaf around aimlessly.