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New-York tribune., 1919-02-06
Assembly Told
HyIan Switched
On Realty Bill
His Views Now Coincide
With Those Of Hearst,
Il. E. Bowling Points Out
Also Tells of Warming
Editor Told. Him Not to
Have seeselberg Measure
Presented in Legislature
.SfnG Conrn ns.,o..ezea

Staf Correspondence
ALBANY, Feb. 5.-Further testi.
nony that William Randolph Hearst
whose chief political adviser, L. J
O'Reilly, holds $4,000 q year Job un-
der Mayor Hylan, dictates the policies
Of the New York City government was
furnished to-day at the hearing before
the Assembly Cities Committee.
The latest bit of testimony was Of
fered by Robert E. Bowling in the pres
ence of nearly a hundred real estate
operators Of New York City. All had
come here to urge the passage Of AS
semblyman Henry A. Seeselberg's bill
limiting the tax ON real estate to 2 per
cent of the assessed value, and pro-
viding for a general income tax Of one
quarter of l per cent.
Mayor Hylan was originally for the
bill. Suddenly he reversed his posi-
ton. His views now coincide with Mr..
Hearst's.
civilian Randolph Hearst, who is a
member Of the committee appointed by
Mayor Hylan to devise a scheme for
raising revenues, warned me against
having the Seeselberg bill presented to
the Legislature" said Mr.. Bowling.
But | ask you to pass the bill and
send it down to the Mayor and sec
whether he has the nerve to veto it,
he continued amid cheers of the New
York property owners.
Debt Limit Exceeded, He Says
Mr. Dowling told the legislators that
the city had exceeded its constitu..
tional debt limit He said the funded
assessed valuation of the city's realty
than the 10 per cent which the con-
stltutlon permits,
He said the violation of the state
constitution had been made possible
by "arbitrary and criminal boosting of
real estate values in New York City
for the purpose of taxation" This
had been done under othe administa-
tions, he added.
He again aroused applaused when
he said he told Mayor Hylan, "some
little time ago" that if any Mayor
again tried to boost real estate assess
ments the realty men of the city
would do their best to have him re-
moved.
Mr.. Bowling said that last week he
was offered, property assessed at
S1,150.0Q0 for S40O.oOO He mentioned
this, he said, to illustrate how the
arbitrary boosting of realty values by
municipal tax collectors worked out.
The safes of financial institutions
are filled with mortgages on New York
City property on which they cannot
collect. he said, and banks are renew
ing mortgages only at greatly reduced
figures.
Next Trip Not Peaceful
eff the banks tried to collect" Mr..
Bowling continued, "they would be
compelled to foreclose. If you don't
do something to correct the situation
you will not see peaceful delegation
coming here to urge a square deal in
restrained language, but you will have
furious mob marching on the Capitol
to make clamorous demand for
justice"
Mr.. Bowling said that unless the
city's power of taxation was curtailed
there would be no limit to it's ex-
rand tureS
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06

list of subscribers and members Of the
American Truth Society, which con-
tanned many German names, and the
witness was turned over to the de%snce
for examination. Colonel Fielder asked
that OLeary be allowed to examine
Mrs. Kelly, and the request was
granted.
In answer to his questions the wit
ness told OF the workings Of the Ameri-
can Truth Society. She said the
pamphlets ard circulars were sent all
over the country and most Of the ac-
tivities of the organization were con-
fined to holding meetings. Mrs. Kelly
said O'Leary knew nothing of the
money coming in and that he did not
even look at the face of the checks
when he signed them.
Before the former stenographer left
the stand she said in answer to a ques-
ton, she never had entered the names
Of members on the books unless they
signed application cards saying that
they were American citizens
The trial will be/continued to-day.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06
Wet Bill Asks for
a Per Cent Beer.
10 Per Cent Wine
Staff Correspondence

Staff Correspondence
ALBANY, Feb. 5.-Labor leaders,
legislators. and others VINO do not be-
lleve that New York should be turned
into desert have completed q rough
draft Of a light wine and beer bill
which viii be introduced next week.
Inc blll defines an intoxicating bev-
erage as "any beer or ale containing
not more than per cent alcohol and
any VINE containing not more than 10
per cent alcohol" A further provi-
SION provides that not more than one
pint of wine shall be sold to an adult
IN any twenty-four hours, and that he
shall not consume more than one pint
OF wine during that period.
Charles d. Donohue, minority
leader of the Assembly, said there
might De some slight changes in the
Dill before its introduction.
It's hackers declare that the bill
will be introduced in the Assembly by
q Republican and in the Senate by a
Democrat, and predict its passage.
The publication in The Tribune of
the plans of the Anti-Saloon League
TO have the Legislature define as an
intoxicating beverage any LIQUID con-
tanning more than one-half of one per
cent alcohol, unless it was so highly
medicated as to render the concoction
unfit for drinking purposes. was fol-
lowed by statements by Republican
legislative leaders here that the whole
subject should be left for the next
Legislatures
The "wets," and especially officials
Of the State Federation Of Labor will
oppose any such move, and threaten
10 appeal to the Governor to call an
extra session if the Legislature ad-
lourns without acting on the proposed
light. wine and beer bill.
The vets" regard the proposed bill
Of the Anti-Saloon League as card
in their favor Some Of their leaders,
including William II, Hirst, counsel
to the New York State Association Of
Brewers. were here to-day comforting
with legislators. The "wets" say that
patent medicine manufacturers who
had hoped to reap fortunes in this state
through the sale of patent "ncdi-
cines," composed Of water and sugar
and pleasanttasting herbs and plenty
Of alcohol. will join their ranks
a series Of bills defining an intoxi-
eating beverage as any compound con
tanning more than 10 per cent of
alcohol, repeating the local option law
and abolishing the state Excise De-
partment were introduced in the AS
sembly to-day by Clarence f. Walsh,
Of Albany
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06
Gerinlany's Supreme
Effort Last Year
Fold in Figures
S'Rifle Strength at Start
OF Spring Overcome in
Midsummer and Quickly
Crushed in the Autumn

WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-The story
OF Germany's supreme effort for mill
tary victory in the spring of 1918. of
American intervention on the Western
front and of the ultimate crushing de-
1eat Of the enemy and the apparent an
Inhalation of nearly one-half of his
lighting force was graphically told in
figures made public to-day by the War
Department.
They dealt with the "rihe strength"
OF the Allies and the German forces on
the Western front in monthly periods,
from April to November l. and were
prepared by the intelligence division of
the general staff Of the American army
in France.
;, By rifle strength was meant the
number OF men standing in the trench
ready to go over with the bayonet."
When Germany struck her great blow
last spring she had million and a
half men so classified, against an Allied
total OF million and quarter. By
June ! the Germans had reached their
Leak with 1,G39,00 rifles, but despite
the terrific pressure they were exerting
against the Allied lines, American aid
was overcoming the handicap and
finally it made possible the counter
blow delivered in July.
Iha Allied strength in June was
l,496,O0O. Shortly afterward the Allies
reached total of ,547, 900, composed
Of 77s,0OO French, 5000 British and
2540OO Americans. Americas contrj1
button had risen from $4,000 in April.
On July l Germany's power had begun
TO wane, and for the first time she was
dehnltely inferior in rife strength, with
l,4i2O0O, compared to 1,556,O 900 for the
Allies.
Up to September the Allied strength
continued TO gain despite the desperate
counter-attack which was being driven
forward all along the line. In mid =
Octooer the American strength had
risen to an estimated force of 100000
On September the Allied line vas at
lts greatest strength, with 1852 600
rifles against Germany's / ,339. 900
W nile the Allies had shrunk in rifles
TO l'4ooooo on November /, Germany's
last nope was gone, as she faced that
army with only 100000 bayonets.
IN rough way, the American rifle
strehgth has represented about 20 per
cent OF the total American force in
france continuously. This accounts for
the TACT that with total of more than
two miUfbn men in France on Noven,-
Der II the rife strength in Octobnr
vas. estimated at around $50, 900 men.
a similar situation was shown in staff
reports as to the total Allied strength,
reckoned as "ration strength" which
was continuously greater than that of
the German army throughout the sprinr
and summer last year.
A table prepared by General Per-
shing's staff showing the comparative
rife strength of the opposing armies
from April 1 to November 1, 1918, fol-
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06

the men who enlisted for the war only,
and 20 per cent. of the men who since
the beginning Of the war had enlisted
for the regular four year period.
Admiral Blue said that in addition
orders has been given in the last few
days to discharge 10000 men of the
reserve and those enlisted for the war
who are now performing shore duties
and also all men of these classes at
training camps and trade schools who
desire their release.
Commanding officers of ships and
stations have been directed, Admiral
Blue said, to give preference in max
ing releases TO men with dependent
families and men desiring to COM
plete their education.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06
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Thursday evening. February I3. has been
set aside IA authors night" at the Civic
Club, Among the speakers will be John
Reed. Floyd Dell, Mary Vida Clark and
Mary Caroline Davies.
Owing TO the lcsanncd appropriations of
the city for the Museum of Natural His
tory. the directors OF the museum yesterday
announced that 1t would be open to the
public from 10 to 4 o'clock week days. in
stead of from To Il, now is the custom
The Republican Club OF New York will
sold memorial service in honor Of Thco-
dore Roosevelt mt the clubhouse Sd West
fortieth Street. nezt Sunday afternoon
Charles n. Hughes viii deliver the memorial
address
Major Edward II. Snyder, OF the Old
Gunrd, announced the rcsignation Of Cap
Tain and Adjutnnt a. J.. Vredenburgh, who
had served in that capacity for eleven
years. Iis win be succeeded by WiIIinm
a. Uamer
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06
Wages for Prisoners Asked
Sing Sing Warden Urges Visit
ing Reformers to Back Plea

OSSINING, n. Y, Feb. 5.-Fifty per
sons interested in prison reform, who
made pilgrimage to Sing Sing to-
aqy, were asked by Warden William
Meyer to help get wages for prison
ers. The pilgrimage closed three
day conference of members of the Ma
tional Committee on Prisons and
Prison Labor at the New York resi-
oence OF Adolph Lewisohn.
he prisoners are doing splendid
work on the building of the new
prison at Sing Sing" said Warden
Meyer: II believe the new prisons at
sing Sing and Wingdale should be
pullt by prison labor. also believe
the state should pay the prisoners
what it would have to pay for con-
tractors labor. SO long as "a
warden | am going to fight to pay the
prisoners their just dues for their
labor. | want you visitors to urge the
oners"
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06
Navy Frees Large
Part of Personnel
Who Served i'm War

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Rear Admir-
al victor Blue, Chief of the Bureau If
Navigation, wrote Chairman padnott
Oh the House Naval Committee TO-DAY
ehat the Navy Department had direct
60 10 cate the release of 40 per cent
OF the naval reserves, 40 per cent Of
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06
$l3,0OO,O00 Is
A SIX ed of CITY
BY Contractors
Damage Claims of Concerns
on Subway Work Placed
Before Controller Craig

Subway contractors have placed be-
fore Controller Craig claims for dam
ages amounting to about $13 100000.
The Controller made compromise
settlement with both the Intcrconti-
mental Construction Corporation and
the Degnon Contracting Company,
whose respective claims for damages
were in each instance slightly over
$1,000 900, for about S325, 900 in each
case.
Controller Craig was attacked by the
Public Service Commission FIR making
these settlements. Commissioner Travis
II. Whitney, asserting that there had
been an entirely unwarranted degree of
privacy about the adjustments, and as
sertlng that, in the judgment of the
commission. the city had been q loser
to the extent OF 100000 in the case Of
the 1ntercontinental Company, whose
damages the engineers of the Public
Service Commission figured at about
$4,000.
Controller Craig stoutly asserted. in
answer to this charge, that there had
been no secrecy about the settlement,
and that the adjustment bad been
reached after the fullest investigation.
Other contractors are seeking an ad-
JuatHieHC OF thelr clalmS. 1T Is under
stood the Controller has told all OF
them he viii not be hurried in the mat.
ter of examining the various items, and
that every dollar Of damages claimed
Will have to be proved before the city
pays.
:. At the Office OF the Public Service
Commission this halt in the settlement
Of the damage claims is attributed to
the letter which Commissioner Travis
II. Whitney sent to the Governor.
blaming the Controller for not CO.
operating with the commission in the
adjustment OF the damage claims.
awaiting disposition BY the Controller
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06

The Cadillac can be noth-
in$ but the wonderful
automobile it is because
the Parts arc what zheyezzgS
New-York tribune., 1919-02-06
Hays 70 Speak ON Roosevelt

viii II. Hays, chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, will
leave to-day for indianapolis, where
he will be the Roosevelt memorial"
speaker ut the joint session of the
Indiana legislative bodies. From there
he will 70 to Pittsburgh for the Lin
coin Day dinner Of the Amcricus Club
The Washington herald., 1919-06-17
19 STEEL SHIPS
ARE SOLD BY us.

Nineteen steel steamships have been
sold to New York purchasers for 81
S21.1aO. Chairman Hurley, of the
United States Shipping Board. an
nounced yesterday. Names of the
purchasers. which include several big
Shipping concerns. will be announced
later.
Tbe ships were built by the govern
meat during the war. and will be
turned over Immediately to their new
owners.
The sale is the biggest ever made
for immediate delivery. Profits to-
talinG millions will be collected by
the government on the sales, since
all of the ships were built for less
than the price for which they were
sold. The building prices were Sis
and S19S per ton. The sale priC es were
s-lO and S22J per ton.
The total deadweight tonnage of the
ships sold was 12S.4I2 tons. The ves-
sells range from $50 deadweight tons
up to $500 deadweight tons. One ship
of 500 deadweiSht tonnage, which
brought S22j per ton. was sold for
S'''4''V'l' W. SHipo- -ohc VI I''-'t totS
and the other - 20 tons-each brought
more than A.OOO.OH
Terms Of the sale will not be an
nounced for several days. All the
ships were purchased by American op-
orators and will fly the American flag.
Twelve of the vessels were of the So
called fabricated type.
Announcement of this sale brings
the total tonnage of ships sold by
the board up to 60, ,O45 deadweight
tons. All sales made by the board
now aggregate Sj1. .SJ6.62O.
The Washington herald., 1919-06-17
"BONE DRY" DISTRICT
SHOWS so PER CENT
INCREASE In CRIMES
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.
into account serious felonies-only
such crimes as reach police courts.
IL Sebring.s prediction comes true,
there will be one arrest this year
for every eleven persons In the city.
There Is no doubt in the minds OF
those who are about the courts that
1919 will be a banner year as far as
police court offenses are concerned
During 1917. the last, wet" year,
police courts turned into the District
treasury Sle5. s.. So far this year
there has been turned in slA.e59. "a
in fines and forfeited collateral. Re-
ceipts for 1918. the first dry" year.
were even larger than in 1917. Sebring
turning in S2l7.45S.12
1t has long been the opinion of
those at the courthouse that the
drier the city became the more
cases awaiting trial. This has al
ready been proved to be the case.
Shortly after the city went dry"
there was a slight decrease in
such offenses as wife beating. as
saults and threat cases; but it
was not long before such crimes
increased.
Today. gun 'toters." wife beat
ers. whisky runners. petty thieves.
violators of the Reed amendment
and similar offenders keep the
courts buster than they have ever
been, with no prospect of let-up.
The Washington herald., 1919-06-17
New NationnILSA Young Mans
Fancy

New NatioanI~A Young Mans
Fancy"
1t requires more than the normally
elastic and induIgent mind to follow
the labyrinthine trails Of "A Young
Mans Fancy" through all its convo-
lutions. This particular young man
as tagged and specified in fantastic
comedy" which was produced by
George Tyler's stock company at the
New National last evening-was not
at all the kind Of young man whose
fancy in the springtime turns TO ro-
nance Not at all. He was a cubist
poet. or something OF that sort, who
apostrophized wax figures in shop
windows, and wrote verses and
dreamed dreams about them.
II is as difficult. to express a WELL
rounded. even-tempered opinion about
"A Young Mans Fancy" In Its pres
ent form as it is to pick up mercury.
We say in its present form ad-
visedly, for it Is inconeeivable that
this form can long survive the test
OF first performance.
Whatever idea may be behind this
play of fantasy and dreams, II Is clear
that 1t can be projected over the foot
lights In less than twelve scenes and
considerably less than the present
amount of poiutless dialogue and inn
possible action. Even fantasy must
create an illusion of life. either as II
Is or as II should be. There are pas
sages in "a Young Mans Fancy
which do not blend into the scheme
of things. as the playwright apparent
ly has mapped them out; which are
niN 49, I,l
logical conclusion. The result Is a
, trt1e bewildering, to say the least.
John T. Mcintyre is the playwright
and "A Young Mans Fancy il his
first attempt at stage writing, so far
as a fallible memory can be trusted.
The rewriting of the play should be
the immediate task before him. Doubt
less the central idea will then emerge
with some degree of clarity and def1-
nlteness- In its present stage the play
has almost the touch of burlesque
of the Pygmalion and Galatea theme.
Alfred Lunt in the central role
of Pickering, the young poet with
weakness for wax figures in
shop windows. did character
istic piece of work. He has a
distinguished style, fluent and sure.
Lynn Fontanne made further ad-
ditions to her ranks of admirers
in Washington by her characteri-
zation of Mary Darling Furlong.
who had the blood of an old Vir-
ginia family in her, but wasn't
afraid to work for a living. or
even to let wax figure "sculptors''
model her. She made a charming.
delightful character of role
which at all times kept the audi
ence guessing. The balance of the
The Washington herald., 1919-06-17

affected by catarrh and it may be
the beginning of more serious trouble
Next, III the morning before taking
your usual smoke. walk up three
flights of stairs at a regular pace,
then stop. If you find that you are
out of breath. your heart heat is
forced, trembling or irregular, you
may be victim of functional or or
ganic heart trouble. II you feel that
you must smoke, chew or snuff TO
quiet your nerves. you are a slave TO
the tobacco habit and are positively
poisoning yourself with the deadly
drug. nicotine. In either case you
have just two alternatives-keep on
with the self-poiSoning process ire
spective of the dangers and suffer
the consequences: or give up the hab-
it and escape the dangers. You can
overcome the craving and stop the
habit i'm a very short time by using
the following inexpensive formula: Go
to any drug store and ask for Nicotol
tablets. take one tablet after each
meal, and in a comparatively short
time you will have no desire for to-
bacco, the craving will have left you.
With the nicotine poisoning out of
your system, your general health will
quickly improve.
Nicotol tablets are sold in this city under an
iron clad. money-back, gurantee by the People,
Drug Sores and all other up-tc-dat druggists.-
Adv
The Washington herald., 1919-06-17
D,C.EMPLOYES'
ROW NEAR END
Agree to Let Conciliator
Adjust Differences with
Commissioners.

Differences between the City
Employees Union and the District
Commissioners probably will be
settled before the week ends.
President John II. Hurley. of the
Union, said last night that the
employees would agree~to any de-
cision made by Rowland B. Ma
haney. appointed by Secretary of
Labor William B. Wilson to me-
diate between the Union and the
Commissioners.
Mr.. Mahaney, commissioner on
cOnciliation of the Labor Depart
ment, announced last night that a
conference will be held during the
latter part of the week in which
the Commissioners, a committee of
the Union, and himself would
thresh out the contesting points.
We will accept Commissioner Ma
haney's decision, whatever il may
be- declared Resident Hurley.
Commissioner Mahaney is busy ex-
amininG documents given him yes
terday by President Hurley explain
ing the unions stand against the COM
missioners. Included among the papers
Is brief of the case written by
Frank G. Hogan, counsel for the
union.
Commissioner Mahaney Is one Of
the most experienced mediators of
the Labor Department Nearly a
year ago he was instrumental in
bringing about an amicable settle
ment in row between the District
employees and the commissioned
The Washington herald., 1919-06-17
rent BOOSTERS
CALLED ROBBERS
Central Labor Union Pro-
tests Action Planned
By Landlords

Sixty thousand workmen OF WASH
ington. through the Central Labor
Union. last night raised g vigorous
protest against the 70 per cent In
crease in rents planned by the Real
Estate Dealers Association Of the Dis
trict.
3 Following several addresses. In
which landlords were denounced as
plain robbers" the labor body at
meeting in Musicians Hall, zoos Il
street, resolved to appeal to Congress
and the District Commissioners for
protection.
A resolution will be presented today
to the District committees in Congress
and to the Commissioners describing
the proposed action of the real estate
dealers as IAN outrageous and unJus-
titled increase" and the virtual "con-
fiscation OF the Congressional appro-
priation providing $40 bonus for gov
ernment employees"
In the resolution. presented by John
B. Dickman. former president Of CO.
lumbia typographical Union. 1t Is
urged that the Salisbury act be ex-
The Washington herald., 1919-06-17
Doctor Tells Hon. to Detect
Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Try These SIMPLE TESTS

New York: Doctor Connor, former
ly of Johns Hopkins Hospital, SAYS:
Many men who smoke, chew or snufr
incessantly and who are seemingly
healthy are suffering from progressive
organic ailments. Thousands of them
would never have been afflicted had
II not been for the use of tobacco, and
thousands would soon get well If they
would only stop the use of tobacco.
The chief habit-forming principle of
tobacco is nicotine, deadly poison
which when absorbed by the system
slowly affects the nerves. membrame
tissues and vital organs of the body
The harmful effect of tobacco varies
and depends on circumstances. One
will be afflicted with general debility,
others with Catarrh of the throat, in
digestion. constipation. extreme nerv-
BUSINESS. sleeplessness. loss Of MEM
ory. lack of will power. mental con-
fusion, etc. Others may suffer from
heart disease, bronchial trouble. hard
ening OF the arteries. tuberculosis,
blindness or even cancer or the COM
mon affliCtion known as tobacco
heart. II you use tobacco IN any
form you can easily detect the harm
full effects by making the follow ing
simple tests: Read aloud one full
page from a book. If in the course
of reading your voice becomes muf-
fled. hoarse and indistinct and you
must frequently clear your throat,
the chances are that your throat is