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New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
Starting Signal Given
Exactly at 6 O'clock

Exactly at o'clock, New York
time, Commander John H. Towers,
admiral of Americas transatlan-
tic aerial fleet, signalled for the
start. All three seaplanes were
waiting at their appointed stations
on the waters of Trepassey Bay
near the mother ship Prairie, and,
catching the signal. started their en-
gines ana "taxied" down the bay.
The NC-3, flagship of the fleet,
under command of Towers, rose
from the water at 6:06, New York
time. One minute later she was
followed by the NC-4, under Lieu
tenant Commander A. c. Read.
The NC-1, under Lieutenant Com
mander P. n. L. Bellinger, went into
the air at 6:09 o'clock.
For few minutes the three sea-
planes maneuvred for position.
When the actual flight began the
three aircraft were in the form of "a
triangle, with the NC-3 at tho apex.
the NC-4 on the right wing and the
NC-1 on the left wing.
The take-off by the seaplanes was
described by airmen here as one OF
the most beautiful ever seen. al
though the wind was hardly strong
enough. AS the planes made final
circle over the harbor the crews of
the three American war vessels
cheered the departing airmen wild
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
Flight g Bulletins

WASHINGTON, May II $3.50 m)Progress of the American
transatlantic seapane pushing beyond the halfway point their
Azores the following flashes eayed
The Navy Department tonight:
The message NC4 intercepted by the Naval Radio Station
at Bar Harbor, Me-. read:
Cape No. 10 about 4:50 Greenwich
passed ii. about 515 Now nearly No .12
Thought had lost me-
Harbor intercepted the following the
Cape Race station to the NC-4:
man See
following from the NC3
Answer. Have for you
Bar Harpor intercepted 34 from NC1 to NC
"Answer.'
Two this intercepted from NC3 NC
Have message for you"
NC3 three minutes later NC-1 follows
Two later this repeated
At 151 NC-1 sgnalled to Destroyer No. II:
the velocity direction of
in miles per hour and true Degrees
At so NC-1 said
Received. Thanks"
to
'Makes VS. 1 tell if you near" sxsIsgs
The NC radioed MsEiMx
That makes fifteen miles and 800 degree true @NAA
At SO NC-1 signaled back to the Destroyer 4@
Received O. K. Finished'
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
All Three Navy PLANES Nearing the Azores:
Half Way Point Passed In Seven Hou
Wilson's Message Is
CabIed From, Paris

DAR1S, May 16.-President Wilson's
message to be read at the ap-
preaching session of Congress will
make approximately 5000 words. 1t
is being sent to Washington tonight.
The message deals entirely with
domestic questions. Some space in
it is devoted to woman suffrage.
it is devoted to woman suffrage. APP
propriations and taxations also are
dealt with. The message is some
what longer than had been expected.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
Last Woman Transit Employe
May Be Out in Month;
New wForbidding Work
at Night Given as Cause
Protest Meeting Called
Victims of Change Blame
sUplifters' and Reformers
and Even the Suffragettes

Exit the conductorette, the woman
subway guard, the woman ticket chop
per and the woman ticket seller. They
have been legislated out of existence,
Officials of the city's transportation
lines are considering, it was reported
yesterday, the ousting of 1000 or 5000
women in their employ whose duties
require them to work at night. This
would mean that the conductorettc
and the woman subway guard, who
were called upon during the war to
take the places of men, are to be re-
placed by men.
AS start, the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company yesterday dismissed
272 conductorettes and women ticket
agents. The women complained that
they we're dismissed without warning,
with no advance wages and with
personal investment in uniforms which
cost them each SIS. They called a
protest meeting for next Monday night
at Salvation Army headquarters, 253
Washington Street, Brooklyn.
New Law Causes Action
The cause of the company's action
was decision that they could not
operate under provisiona of the new
Lockwood -Caulfeld law which extends
to transportation lines, and the state
labor laws prohibiting women from
working between the hours of 10 p. m.
and C.. m.
Transit officials say that because
Of the shift system, requiring their en-
ployes to work partly at night. and
partly by day, they will be unable to
retain the women.
Helen Mccormick, an Assistant Dis
trict Attorney of Queens, when she
heard of the dismissal OF the women,
declared it was not the purpose of the
new law to get the women ousted, but
to protect them against night work. She
said it was the intention to force the
transit lines to revise their shift sched-
ule SO that the women would have only
day hours.
An official of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company said that 1000 more
women employed on the company's sub
way, elevated and surface lines will be
dismissed, but that they will be let out
gradually.
No Action by Interborough
At the office of the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company it was said
yesterday that no action had yet been
taken as to the disposition of it's wom-
en- employees. 1t was learned from some
of the women employees, however, that
the question had been submitted to all
the employees, men and women, for a
decision. The proposal was said to
have been made that if the employees
would vote in favor of an eight-hour
shift instead Of a twelve-hour shift the
women might be retained and kept at
day work. The men were reported to
have voted against this plan, on the
ground that they need the pay of a
twelve-hour shift
The Interborough women employees
on its subway and subsidiary lines
number about 700.
eve can't evade the new law, and so
the women must CO." said an officia Of
the B. r. T. at is impossible for any
transportation line to operate with a
CO17 timed IN mr. RIO ooa,oa,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
Navy Gives Up
Diriggible 2 C-5
As Total Loss
Destroyers' Search Of Seas
Fails to Disclose ANY
Trace of Airship That
Gale Tore From Harbor

Special Correspondence
ST. JOHNS, N. f., May 16.-The big
naval dirigible C-5, which was swept
away to sea by a sudden gust of the
treacherous west wind yesterday, is
total loss somewhere at sea.
All classes in this city voiced re-
gret to-day at the loss of the dirigible.
Hope was entertained throughout the
night and day that the destroyer Ed
wards might secure the runaway, and
when news was received that the Brit
ish steamship War Nipigon had sighted
the airship it was believed that her
recovery was but matter of few
hours.
From early morning inquiries were
being made as to where the machine
had been salvaged, for rumors were
anoat that it was IN tow of the de-
stroyer.
By noon, however, it was known that
these reports were baseless, and when
at 3 o'clock the destroyer was seen
returning without the dirigible aboard,
the record breaking blimp was given up
for total loss.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17

WASHINGTON, May Ill mTwo radios direct from the
by the Bar Harbor
picked o'clock this NC1 calling
the destroyer Thatcher Station No. approximately 500 miles from
Trepassey Bay.
The the Navy Department Harbo said
"At 1910 heard the NCl sending 450meter wireess
lengthy say: Passed 414' Signals very weak"
what the figures "414 Latitude, long
pointed
The message
cat 1926 heard the NC4 telegraph Cape Race British
station: Am receiving interference ahead again.
The third
cat 1927 heard the NC-1 call No 9 Answer"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17

TRIANGULAR TRACK MEET. Columbia,
Dartmouth Pennsylvania. South Field
2:30 r. NJ, to -day.--Advt.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17

WASHINGTON May D. m.-The transatlantic
the miles
Trepassey, a o'clock tonight leading.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17

PETIT TKJANON INN
Or l.. 1. Nofer Parkway
LAke HoakonkemA--A0W OPEN.-AdvA
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17
Sea Shows No Trace

The crew of the destroyer reported
having made an exhaustive search
through the night They visited the
spot where the War Nipigon reported
having seen the debated envelope, and
secured the immediate locality Find
ing no trace of the wreckage, the de-
stroyer turned back at 10 o'clock this
morning and laid her course for this
port.
Her officers say they believe the War
Nipigon mistook an iceberg for the air
ship. They said they did the same thing
and were quite confident they had
located the missing airship until at
Continued Oh rn ne folIl.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-17

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arr. MERCHANDISE ADvER
T1sED IN THE TRIBUNE
is GUARANTEED
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

FREEDOM OF THE TAXlS

THE purpose of the ordinance which
l. City Solicitor Connolly has drawn is
to break up the taXicab monopoly. Ger
tain taxicab companies profess to have
the exclusive right to occupy certain
stands and they drive off every taNicab
and every private automobile that tres
passes" on their preserves.
The cab stands are arranged by the
city for the convenience Of the public.
Mr.. Connelly's ordinance would open
every stand to every taXicab, whether
operated by a company or by an indi-
vidual owner. Its passage would increase
the convenience Of the public.
1t is proposed also to require every
operator of motorcar for hire to secure
certificate Of public convenience, not
with the purpose of restricting the num-
Der of such operators, but to prevent the
operation of cars by untrustWorthy per-
sons. Then if the Department of Public
Safety makes recommendation that the
certificate granted to an operator whose
conduct has been detrimental to public
safety or to public decency be rescinded
the Public Service Commission will give
the man hearing and act on the evil
dence. The necessity for such q regula
tion is understood by every one familiar
with existing conditions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
NERVE IN NoRRlSToWN

T1HE motormen and conductors of the
= Norristown division of the Reading
Transit Company think they know better
how to operate street-car line than
their employers. They are said to be
seriously considering proposition of the
company that they take over the Norris
town lines and operate them. The COM
pany is willing to surrender its control
and to give the men bonus of $4,000
if they will assume responsibility for the
operation.
The company has found itself in the
same state as that which confronted the
Public Service Railway Company in New
Jersey when it raised the fares. The
Norristown fare was raised to eight cents
year ago and business has been falling
off ever since. The men think that the
lines can be operated at profit for q
five-cent fare. The company seems to be
willing to let the men try it. Their will
ingness is increased by the prospect OF
a heavy tax levied by the borough to re
pair the streets over which the cars run
The company's franchise requires that i
keep the streets in proper condition.
There may be men operating the Nor
ristown cars. who have the executiv,
ability and the nerve to tackle the prob
lem which has stumped men supposed t,
know all about operating street cars
The people in many communities woulc
like to see the experiment made.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
BLATHER AND BUNcoMBE

TNHE Senate is one-half of the treaty
: making power of one of the twenty
or more nations that drafted the peace
treaty.
1t is attempting to rewrite the treaty
\ to suit itself, regardless of the views of
the other half of the treaty-making
power
1t may make as many changes or reser-
vations as it pleases, but if they do not
please the President its work will amount
to nothing. The treaty cannot be ratified
by the United States without the concur
renee Of both the President and the
Senate.
The Senate knows this, and has known
it from the beginning. 1t knows, too,
that when its committee on foreign rela-
tions adopts such foolish proposition as
that contained in the Reed resolution no
one is expected to take it seriously.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25

been wearing old clothes for year or
two, and our stock of apparel fit to be
seen is getting low.
If it can be made fashionable to appear
in patches then a lot of us can get
through the winter without going into
debt. The Chicago Old Clothes Club sug-
gests way out. If the idea becomes
popular we are likely to have a fedora
ton of clubs with national convention
at Atlantic City, with prizes offered to
the man wearing the most artistically
repaired garments. Then the repairers
who can mend moth hole so that no
one can tell where il was will come into
their own.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
Give Him a Match!

DREATHES there a man with soul so deao
Il who claims that he has seldom SAID
"11ave you a match?" There may be those l,s
Who've always matches in their ciotnes'
And never pull this little line
But this is drawing system me-
And don't appeal to me. l ike
That comradeship of Pat and Mike,
That free and easy point of view
That gives a match and takes one 700
without the thought that matches cost
Two cents box. Count that aay los'
whose sunset finds no matches given
vor tbev NAV mean new friendships riven.
King Richard bid high for morse,
Poor Dick was sore in need, of course
Rut don't decry the harmless guy
who never seems TO think TO buy
His matches; for this careless iau' ,d
whose match requests oft make you i,'au'
NJ. i,st nroduce the match you neeo
To To- save your life, like Richards steed' ed -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
Federal Employees Who Do Not Strike,
When Roosevelt Appointed
Neero-The Handshake Of
George w. Coles

y ECENr strikes have caused widespread
~ discussion Of labor unions WIZ it has
been figured out by economists that the
striker generally loses, although strikes also
seriously affect capital and sometimes under
mine the employing institution new condl-
tions have arisen in the labor world which
have aroused more direct interest in what
the organized workman is doing, with the
result that public sentiment is beginning to
determine the success or 'aiGrc of strike
undertakings. Many men who have given
careful thought to the labor situation con-
tend that organizations of workmen should
be incorporated and made responsible for
what is done just as corporations of en-
ploycrs with property are amenablc TO law
full restraint There are others who in
weigh against the organization of men and
women employed in the public service, and
point has been given to their argument by
recent proceedings with respect to police
men in Boston, where the force struck, and
in Washington. where those who had Joined
the American Federation Labor are said to
have thrown up their charters. While all
this discussion is going on, it is worth not
ing that some labor organizations do ncor-
poratc, like the Journeymen Bricklayers
Union Of Philadelphia, aud that others are
disincliued to strike, believing they can work
for their own betterment without the use of
that drastic weapon. OF the latter class of
organizations is the Federal Employees Union,
No. %. of Philadelphia, an association of
federal oaicchoders affiliated with the Amcri-
can Federation of Labor Its membership
is made up Of men and women employed in
the Custom House. the Mint, the immigra
tion service, the Department of Justice and
various other brapches of the United States
service iu Philadelphia. According TO the
secretary of this union its constitution for
bids strikes against the government sym
pathetic strikes to support such movements.
Moreover, it is said Of this union that it is
endeavoring to solve its problems which in
clude better working conditions, "subject TO
proper limitations and in sane and patriotic
manner"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
TOO BUSY FOR FASHIONS

IF QUEENS like Elizabeth of Belgium
set the fashions women would have to
worry less about following them The
queen, who designs her own gowns, was
asked what she thought of the trend of
fashions.
"They change so often | can't keep
track of them," said she with a laugh.
AWhat are they?"
This was not pose. The queen has
been too busy with other matters to
trouble herself with the length or the
width of her skirt or with the prevailing
style of trimmings, whether they be frills
or lace or fur. She has worn what she
thinks is becoming and let the fashions
go hang.
But then she is a queen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
Answers to Yesterdays ouIz

Answers TO Yesterday's QUIZ
1. General Yudenitch, the anti Bolshevik
commander, won a notable victory
during the world war by the capture
of Erzerum from the Turks.
Q. George Washington received rudimen-
tary education at Fredericksburg, Va.
school in 1747, he instructed him
self in mathematics and surveying.
8. Letvia is another name for Lithuania,
which formerly formed part of the
Russian empire. 1t has coast line
on the Baltic sea. wilma and Koyno
are among the principal cities.
4. A caret is mark, small inverted "v,'
placed below line to show a place
of omission.
8. Etiquette originally meant a ticket or
card and referled to the ancient GUS
tom of delivering a card of directions
and regulations to be observed by all
those who attended court.
6. Franklin X. Lane, secretary of the
interior, has been serving as chair
man of the labor conferences in Wash.
ington.
Z. distinguishing feature of American
battleships is the basket mast.
s. Santos, Brazil, is the great coffee mort
of South America.
8. William Caxton who died in 149f IL
called the Father of English Printing
TO- A marsupial is an animal of the class
Of mammals which carry their Young
10 a pouch.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

QUIZ
/. Can the United States Senate nego-
tiate treaty with foreign power?
2. What is the correct pronunciation of
Boz" the pen name assumed by
Charles Dickens?
8. What is nostalgia?
4. What is the origin of the word scala
wag?
5. The British are now building the largest
airship in the world. How does it's
length compare with that of the larg-
est steamship?
@. Who were the two Italian generalissimos
in the war?
z. In what battle did Thomas J. Jackson
win his title of "Stonawall"?
8. To what political party does Senator
Reed belong?
0. OF what country is the mother of King
Alfonso a native?
10. What people are chiefly responsible for
the use of the arch in architecture?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
Our Strange Experience

sometbinq very odd must have happened
10 the Spruce street cars yesterday morning
We were sallyirg up Seventeenth IN our
,,suoI honeful vein, when We saw car go
bv along Spruce. We gnashed our teeth'
oSnectine 70 have to wait fifteen minutes for
az nort one. When we got half way up
the block we saw another one trnnule past
the crossing Amazement was ours anu we
clenched our fists, expecting wait OF at
least twenty minutes WIN sau anu ue
;oo+od mace we reached the corner, and saw
. snectacle that we will never forget to the
JoT of our last and most rapid OF all tran
sits All down Spruce street, as lar as our
COS could hurl their beam, was hne Stal-
uort caravan of cars-perhaps Twelve or
them rumbling peacefully along were we
seeing visions? We boarded one, expecting
- Fpd II mere mirage No, it was real,
and carried us bravely to Sixth street. We
did not have the strength, our heart was
thumping so, to ask the conductor "nat had
hannened. Never inquire too closely into
miracles
sors the once illustrious George Creel, re-
sor.;ng to n course of mind training which
Lo has taken up with his customary en-
thusiasm: ,-.,-
.rt went deep into life, far down beneath
oil surface emotions. and bedded It's roots in
The yery centers of individual being
In the right hand trouser pocket, prob
ably.
ceorgiona. our own bookworm, is rollick
inc about in her little cardboard box just as
though we weren't going away Heartless'
we call it.
william Rose Benet, who is unquestion-
ohl,, the hest poet born in this country ON
| Feb February 2, 1886, is in town today. Bill
is also beyond peradventure the best poet
who ever lived at the Frankford Arsenal,
which he did, successfully from iooo TO
| 1894
Our friend Mrs. Andrew McGill was pres.
| ident of woman's club in California that
was very eager to get Mark Twain to ad
drass them She wrote 10 Mark inviting
| him and Offering huge sums FOR g lecture
i bat Mark was an old man and reMifd 4
/ .vlsp 10 far for him TO So " hefeopop asrs
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-25
THE CULPRIT
MY GRANDFATHER related this to me,
lN1 And forgot it for score of years,
Until today, 1 pass it on to you:


Until today, pass it on to you:
A lovely woman had her portrait drawn,
And liking it--as well as she might--she
caused
golden frame to be constructed for it,
OF curious work. and wonderful design,
And very costly. And certain man
OF her acquaintance, whom she looked upon
IndiffcrentIy, stole the lovely thing,
GAY, frame and ALL and carried it away.
Yet, though she knew the thief, she said
no word.
But smiled little to herself.
And then sho had a greater artist paint again
A lovelier picture of her lovely face,
And placed it in another golden frame.
There came another man, and this was one
On whom she looked with more than pass
ing favor;
But he was impecunious, and he
Stole the rich frame but let the portrait
lie.
Whereat she ragged and called upon the law,
And had the culprit taken, tried and hanged
-Cleveland Plain Dealer.