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New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Mary Garrett Hay Goes
To St. Louis Convention
Will Take Prominent Part in
National Council of Women
Voters

Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman of
the New York City Woman Suffrage
party, departed for ST. Louis yester-
day. She is chairman of local ar
rangcments for the convention of the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association, Hotel Statlcr, March "a
to 20. Miss Hay will take a promin-
ent part. in the councils. of women
-yoters, wh ose gatherings, from all over
the United States will be a feature of
the convention. Before she departed
Miss Hay said:
Il believe this convention will be a
Landmark in the history of the woman
movement in this country. Not only
will every state in the. Union send its
quota of women epresentativcs, but
for the first time thefwomen voters of
twenty-four states will meet in a great
conference to unite for action.
Ear reaching plans to bring about
the enfranchisement of the American
women will be made, a standard of
legislation for the benefit of women
and children will be decided upon, this
to be used in the various states by
women as AN incentive to pushe meas
ures for the welfare of these two
classes of citizens, and important
steps will be taken toward work for
the unifcation of laws throughout the
country. A great ssterhood of Ameri-
can women will be formed"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Law Narrow, Says Judge
In Sunday Movie Suit
Public Good Sense Ovcrcomes
Odd Statutes, He Says, Then
Reserves Decision

Justice Hotchkiss, after remarking
that the presentation of moving pict-
ures on Sundays meant that "the good
sense of the public overcomes the mar
rowness of the law" reserved decision
yesterday, in the case of the Emar
Amusement Company for an Injunction
against the Corner Amusement Com
pany. The defendant owns the Stand
ard Theatre at Broadway and Nincti
eth Street and has a contract under
which the Emar Company uses the
house on Sunday for moving picture S
upon payment of $3.50 for each Sun
day The Corner Company notified
the plaintiff that the contract must
end on March 90. The suit resulted.
The defendant argued that it could
not be compelled to carry out the CON
tract to rent the theatre to the Emar
company for Sundays for two wears
because The presentation of MOVING
pictures on the Sabbath was in viola
ton of the laws of the state and the
charter of the CITY.
II | were holding special term up
IN Allegheny County," Justice iotch-
klss commented, "I might be compelled d
to hold that a funeral with a brass
band was a show"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
40 Specialists Make
Plans for Red Cross
Will Attend Preliminary Con.
ference to Prepare Programme
for Geneva Meeting

PARIS, March 10 (By The Associated
Press ).-More than forty snecialists
each the foremost in his field, are ex-
pected here for the preliminary con-
ference on April / which will prepare
the programme for the congress of all
Red Cross societies to be held in Gene
va thirty days after peace is declared,
The work will deal with the organi
zatlon of an International council and
bureau of hygiene, which will strive
TOR the prevention of epidemic diseases.
such as tuberculosis, and the perfec-
tlon of measures for child welfare.
Tie general aim of the congress NAV
be compared with that of the league Of
nations, as it seeks to devise a pro
cedure by which all peoples may CO.
operate for the promotion of the health
and happiness of one another.
The American delegates will include
Dr.. William II. Welch, professor of
pathology at Johns Hopkins University,
haltlmore; DR.. Simon Flexner, director
OF laboratories of the Rockefeller In
stltute for Medical Research New
York; DR.. Hermann M. Briggs, New
York State Health Commissioner; DR..
Edward r. Baldwin, specialist in lung
and throat diseases, saranac Lake
~ Y; Professor Thcobold Smith, of
the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
hesearch; DR.. Wickliffe Rose, director
general of the International Health
commission; DR.. Livingston Farrand.
Or. Garvin, DR.. William P. Lucas and
Or. Richard P. Strong, representing
the American Red Cross; General
Crimmin Colonel +. f Russell. and
Lieutenant Colonel Lindsay Williams.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Says Baby Died After
Exposure at Nursery
Witness at Trial Of Two Women
Asserts He Saw Child
Shivering i'm Yard

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, March 10
Charles II. Warner, superintendent of
the Westchester County Chidren's So
ciety, whose investigation led to the
Indictment of Annie Murphy and
Bridget O'Flaherty of the Yonker's
Day Nursery for mansaughtcr. in the
second degree was witness toe dav at
the trial Of Miss Murphy, who is
charged with being responsible for the
death of Vincent Hammer.
. Nh, Warner said, on complaints re
ceived from the Bronx County chill
dren's Society, he called at the nurs-
cry on October 26, found the house
without heat and many Of the chill
dren "horribly emaciated."
Harry Cook, Mr.. Warmers assistant,
SAID that he had seen one of the chill
yard clad only in thin pair of
rompers and crying with the cold.
Eight days later" he said, 81 saw the
poor little fellow lying dead in an un-
dertaking establishment. They told
me he died from pneumonia"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Miss Amy Hutton ENGAGED

Mrs. John Hutton. of 116 East Sixty
third Street and Tyrngham, Mass, has
announced the engagement of her
daughter, Miss Amy Glare Hutton, to
Captain Selden Day Burchenal, U. S. A..
51st Aero Squadron. Miss Hutton made
her debut several years ago, and is an
active worker in the Red Cross and
other rehef organizations. Captain
Burchena1, who recently returned from
duty overseas, is a son of Mrs. Charles
II. Burchenal, of 2790 Broadway. The
wedding, for which no date has as yet
been set, will be quiet affair on ac-
count of the recent death of Miss
Hutton's sister, Mrs. Thomas F
Plunkett, of Pitts6eld, Mass.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Jamaica Jews Say
Poles Are Wagingg g
Trade War on Them
kehillah Hears That Suffer-
ing and Distress Are Re-
suit; New Priest Accused
of Fomenting Trouble

Jewish residents of Jamaica charged
yesterday that trade war has been in
stituted against them by the Poles of
the community, causing great suffer
ing and economic distress.
The situation was brought to the at
tention of the Kehillah Of New York
City by a committee of the South Side
Business Association Of Jamaica, and
was made public by William Lieber-
mann, counsel for the Kehillah, yester-
day.
Mr. Liebermann says that since the
institution of the trade war by the
Poles the receipts of Jewish store
keepers have dwindled from $500 and
$500 week to $100 and $50 Some
butchers, unable to dispose of their
usual amounts Of meat, have been ar
rested and fined for having spoiled
meat in their shops.
The Jewish inhabitants, Of which
there are about one hundred families
in a community of 1000 Poles, repre-
sent that their troubles are due to the
activities of the Kew. Stanislaus Rysia~
kiewicz, Polish priest in charge of
st. Joseph Church, who came to the
place about six months ago.
Afhdavlts supporting many of these
charges are in the possession of the
kehillah, states Mr.. Liebermann, which
has taken the matter up with the local
authorities and written a letter to the
Vicar-General of the Diocese.
The Rev. Mr.. Rysiakiewicz, aske d
about the charges, said:
"Some time ago the Polish store
keepers came to me and asked that |
advise the members of the church to
patronize their shops instead of those
of Jews They told me that all the
business was in the hands Of the Jew
sh dealers and that the Poles ought
to patronize their countrymen.
thought their request was reasonable
and | appealed to my parishioners and
the Poles of the community to do So"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Mrs. Inch Admitted to Bail
Question of Third Trial of Ex-
tortiOn Charge Still Unsettled

Mrs. Betty Inch, as to whose guilt
of the charge of attempted extortion
two jurics have disagreed, was adj
mitted to bail yesterday in $4,000 by
Judge Vernon M. Davis in the Grim
1nal Branch Of the Sunremc Court,
mer bail l,.pending the second trial was
:. When Assistant District Attorney
Lhllny announced he would agree to
10000 bail counsel for Mrs. Inch
promptly signified concurrence and
stated they were ready to proceed
WIN new trial at once. Judge Davis
matter of another trial for the pres
ent, In the office OF the District
Attorney IT was said no decision had
,peen rnnch4d as TO whether there will
,b& ¬hexs tria1s nse'
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20

East; Twanty-f Street, was the only
place not crowdedSt capacity The
men' have to pass throughsa a delousing
processsln- this. place, and civilians are
required to work out their lodging and
meals the next day. Few soldiers have
stopped there, although theyssare not
required. to: work for their meals like
the civilians = ae
John Ca@la han; of the, Hadley Misl
sion, showed $ the Mission hall filled
with sleeping men. I'VE can't turn
them out" he said, "and so we let
them sleep on the chairs. We have
the fifty beds in the dormitory filled,
and we have the basement fullys occu-
sp1esd pied with men sleeping on the floor
all of whom We'll give breakfast
in the morning"
.. The records for this place show
also that in February 5000 men were
sheltered; during the same month in
1918 only 1,700 had to be cared for,
During the first part of this month
Zoo meals have been served to the
idle men, and the little employment
bureau of the mission is working over
time.
Lodging Houses Also Taxed
Missions of the section have ar
"iSeHleHtS WIN Cne ten, fl1teen and
twenty cent lodging houses for housing
men, but they assert even these ar
rangements arc difficult to maintain
now. With the increase in the uncm-
pioyed who are virtually destitute, the
number of shiftless characters has in
creased ,and they are overcrowding the
cheap lodging places. Occasionally
men come to the missions because the
lodging houses are full
The. Salvation Army is cooperating
with the mission, and when the rush
begins at night beds are obtained by
the mission superintendent by tele-
phone. They use up all the available
spaces and then allot the mission halls
and extra rooms to the limit imposed
by the fire regulations.
s.. The number of discharged service
men in the missions has not reached
"a high figure, the workers say, but
they anticipate that if. the condition
is not checked soon the former sol.
.dicrs and sailors will join the daily
throng that asks for shelter and food.
Only two discharged sailors were list
ed in the Hadley Mission last night.
and none were in the BoWerv Mission
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Former Examiners Alleges
Executive Incapacity and
Inefficie1,cy of Employees.
Huge Cost, Poor Service
T. Il. Dawley, -Jr., Writes to
Secretary Glass Concern
ing Conditions He Found
Ncsp York Tribune
WASHINGTON Bureau

WASHINGTON, March 19.--Gross in
efficiency of employees, wastage of
money and official dishonesty are
charged against the Bureau of War
Risk Insurance in a letter sent to-day
10 Secretary of the Treasury Glass by
Thomas Robinson Dawley, jr., formerly
an editorial writer on "The Providence
Journal," who recently was connected
With the bureau. "The Pension Bureau
handles forty times as many cases as
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance at
one-twentieth the cost, as will be
shown when the new Congress meets
and an investigation of the War Risk
Bureau will be ordered" Mr.. Dawley
says.
Mr. Dawley came to the War Risk
Bureau in October as examiner of
claims. His services were, sdisconL
tinued February %, he says, because
Il proved too efficient for the bureau"
Sees Executive Incapacity
His letter to Secretary Glass follows,
in part: ~.
"During my short tenure of Office
never have seen such a display of ex-
ecusive incapacity, either at home or
abroad, in a business and professional
career extending over many years. Ex-
SINNERS, stenographers, messengers,
vent about the building holding con
yersations whenever and wherever they
pleased. Stenographers employed at
relatively high salaries, in some in
stances mere school girls and boys, in
other Instances matured women, as
signed to take dictation from me, in
some instances were unable to read
their own stenographic notes, and some
did not understand the rudiments of
punctuation.
''Young men employed as examiners
in some instances turned their work
over to their stenographers while they
absented themselves from the building,
the specific instance of one being called
to my attention who made weekly trips
to Baltimore.
Complaints Go Unheeded
There was no supervision of either
the examiners or the stenographers.
and my various complaints because of
the inefficiency of the service which /
was obliged to depend upon went un-
needed. Further than that, upon ad-
dressing memorandum to II. c. Hou-
Than, chief of the division, with the
view of getting better service, an un-
instifiable attempt was made to find
iauM with one of my casess stina' Is wss
abused i'll cowardly and uncaled
for manner.
at the suggestion of Congressman
Campbell, of Kansas, attempted to
bring these matters to the attention OF
the director of the bureau. Colonel
Henry D. Lindsey, whereupon, two
days later, was notified that MY ser
vices had been discontinued, to take
effect at the close of business on Feb
ruary 2S, 1918" ~
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Relief Drive Endes Tonight
Brooklyn Jewish War Fund
Campaign Big Success

The campaign of the Brooklyn Jew
ish War Relief Committee, which has
been in progress for two weeks, ends
tonight with a big rally at the Unity
Club, Brooklyn. The final results of
the campaign, however, will not, be
known for some weeks, as there arc
thousands of pledges on which the col
lections will not be received for some
time.
The drive for funds has grown
steadily during the past few days.
Yesterday was the greatest day of the
campaign.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
S,Uaf'm Of Idle Men Jams
Missions ON East Side
,Unskilled Workers, Dsch arged From War Plants,
ss. Flock to New York City in Search of Jobs
Lodging Houses Also Are Crowded to Capacitx,


Hundreds of unemployed were found
last night crowding into the East Side
rescue missions asking for jobs, cloth
ing, shelter and food. Since the large
war plants have discharged veritable
armies of laborers and unskilled work
ers the ranks of idle men haye in
creased so rapidly that their numbers
have taxed the capacity of the city.
The missions have placed all their
available space at the disposal of the
unemployed men who come for work
they have increased their accommoda-
tions, in some cases, as high as tenfold.
The Hadley Rescue Mission, at 293
Bowery, has sheltered 5000 men dur
ing the first eighteen days Of March.
During the same period last year their
records, show shelter ,was given to
1,l00 men. Their . average fore last
year was 800 men a month; this year
1T has totalled as high as 5000 some
months. ~. '.x 80
Bowery Mission Enlarged
The Bowery Mission, a few blocks
south, has increased its capacity from
a normal rate Of 200 men a night to a
maximum of 400. Last night there
Wv
employed; seeking for places to sleep
and places to work.
The Holy Name Mission, at $40 Bow
cry has doubled its capacity since
last year. Father William j. Rafter
said last night, eve find men who
worked in the large industrial plants,
and especially the munitions factories
in New York, form the majority of
those who are out of. work. They
have come here from places as far as
Wilmington, from points in New Jer-
sey and along the Delaware River. New
York is clearing house for the unem-
ployed. They have come here in great
numbers from the plants in Connecti-
cut, around Bridgeport. These are the
men that areso out Of work.
We find them clothes and provide
meals for them, and places to sleep.
There are very few soldiers among
them. Last week we had about five
discharged. army men who asked for
jobs. They are mostly good, solid,
hard working men who are unable to
help themselves and we must do what
we can ferathem."
The Municipal Lodging House. at 432
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Opera
CarusO and Matzenauer
In s.Samson ef Dalilan

Enrico Caruso and Margarete Mat
zenauer, both in splendid voice, sang
the title parts in Samson ct Dalila"
last night at the Metropolitan Opera
House, and the Temple of Dagon fell
on the heads of the Philistines. while
IN the AUDIENCE Philistines and anti
Phllistines alike rejoiced
Samson" with Caruso appeals to
every taste, and the huge audience and
its enthusiasm bore eloquent testimony
to this fact.
Giuseppe De Luca succeeded M.
Iouzenou as the High Priest, and if he
!acSed physical height sang the music
with authority Jose Mardones was
admirable as the Old Hebrew, as was
raolo Ananian as Abimclech. Mr..
Monteaux conducted.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
British Steamer 1'roja Lost;
ALI OH Board Are Saved

EASTPORT, Me, March 19-Thc
British steamer Troja, which grounded
on Old Proprietor Ledge, southeast of
Grand Manan, N. b., yesterday, was
abandoned late to-day. All on board
were saved. The crew of twenty eight
men were taken off early in the day.
and Captain John Cainc left the ship
several hours later.
The Troja, registering ,653 tons, was
bound from Louisburg, C. B., for St.
John, n. B., with $3.50 tons of coal.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Orchestra TO Give Concert
Al Metropolitan Museum

A special concert for the entertain
ment Of visitors 70 the Metropolitan
Museum of Art will be given next Sat
urday night by courtesy of Michael
Friedsam, president of B. Altman
& Co. An orchestra of sixty pieces
will play in the main hall from 8 to
1880 O'Clock.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
To Be Bride of War Veteran

Announcement has been made of the
engagement OF Miss -ean Harris,
daughter CT. Nr. and Mrs. w. W. Harris,
Of Lowerre Summit, Yonkers, to Her
bert G. Paul, of 214 Prospect Place.
Brooklyn, who recently returned from
service in foreign waters. on board the
submarine chaser No 351.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Wedding Set for June

Miss Eanier Comfy, daughter of
Major and Mrs: Garrard Comfy, will
be married to Lieutepant John Murray
Mitchell Late in June in st. Mary's
Church, EGxedo Park. The engage
nnent was announced early in the
winter.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Jersey Man 10 Wed Illinois Cir

Mrs. Charles A. Grswold, of Evans
ton, ILL.,. has announced the engage
meAt OF her daughter, Miss Helen
Louise Grlswold, to James w. Saunders,
Of Montclair, N. j.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Plays and Players

Luck in Pawn" new comedy by
eighth Street Theatre on Monday
night. With Mabel Taliaferro in the
cast are ROLAND Young, Robert c..
Fisher, Ann Worthington, Robert Ash
ford and Florence Short.
Maeterlinck's "a Burgomaster of
Belgium" will open at the Belmont
Theatre on Monday evening.
Tonight will mark the hundredth
performance of John Cort's musical
comedy Listen Lester" at the Knick-
erbocker Theatre.
Al Jolson, fully recovered from an
the cast of "Sinbad" at the Forty
fourth Street Theatre. The closing
date of this attraction is announced
for Saturday night, March %.
The run of Redemption" will be
interrupted on April 5 to permit John
Barrymore to appear in Sam Benefits s
new play, "The Jest" but Mr. Barry
more will be seen in it again next
season
Blanche Bates, David Higgins, Grace
Nealy and Isabelle Lowe will appear
in the special performance of "The
Golden Fleece" at the Broadhurst
Theatre next Sunday night for the
benefit of the Actors Fund.
The giving of special matinee per-
formance of "The Woman in Room 13"
for soldiers at the Booth Theatre next
Monday afternoon has obliged Be-
atrce Herford to postpone her next
matinee Of monologues to Monday,
March 81.
There will be special Victory Day
matinees next Tuesday of Somebody's
Sweetheart" at the Central Theatre,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20

Maeterlinck's "a Burgomaster of
Belgium" will open at the Belmont
Theatre on Monday evening.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20

Tonight will mark the hundredth
performance of John Cort's musical
comedy Listen Lester" at the Knick-
erbocker Theatre.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20

EAST Is West" with Fay Basntar.
reaches its hundredth performances at
the Astor Theatre tonight
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
OPERA

Tonight s, Triple Bul Legend TompIo Dancer.
Shanewls. Ponsee. Easton. l'raslhu: Althouse
Kingston. Chalmers, DAngelo. Cond. Moranzoni.
Fri at s. Thals Farrar. Howard Diaz White-
hill. Ananian. Cond. Monteux
Sat. at 2l5. Amore del tire Re. NTuzo Mar.ineui.
Didur. Chalmers. Bada. Cond Moranzoni.
Sat. at 3. Caruso jubilee Genl Adm So 90
Sun Eve Concert. soc to 81 Elman violnist
Marsh Contr iiackctt Ten. Orch. Cond. Hagcman
= NeAt Mon, Slj. ohsron: ionsclc. Gentle; Mar
We'd. Mat. al atsl to $6) Faust. Farrar. Del
supos, Bo"erd; Mar.inen. Rothicr Werrenrath
Cond.. Montcus
: wed. at 3 ~ Riuolettc Barriertos Braslau ::
IIackeit De Luca sogiroa Rossi Cond Moranzon
Thurs. at SIS Marta Barricnos Homer Ca
ruso Didur, Malatesta. Cond.. Rodanzky
HARpMAN I1ANO USED
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20

Aaron Hoffman. co-author %
Friendly Enemies and author Of
Nothing But Lies" has completed
new comedy drama entitled Welcome
Stranger"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20

"Some Time" at the Casino Theatre
and Tumble In" at the Selxyn
New-York tribune., 1919-03-20

There will be special Victory Day
matinees next Tuesday of Somebody s
Sweetheart" at the Central Theatre,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-21
REMOVE WARS SCARS
France Has Already Rebuilt
$4,000 Houses.
Much Of Railroad and Canal 9ystsSne
Have Been Put Into
Shape Again.

Capt. Andre Tardieu, member Of the
French Peace commission, has given
interesting figures on the reconstruc-
ton work accomplished since the armi-
stice. Sixty thousand Of the $4,000
houses wrecked by shell-fre have been
rebuilt; 2,016 kllometers of the 3,246
kilometers Of railway destroyed have
been repaired and 700 Of the 1875 Kill
ometers Of canals rendered useless are
again In commission. OF the 1,l6O
plants destroyed, $50 have been re-
paired.
Equally remarkable progress Is be-
ing made In restoring to cultivation
in the devastated regions the vast
areas which the end of the war left
with their rich surface soil plowed I'M
der by artillery, sown with dangerous
unexploded shells and cut up by trench
es and thousands Of miles of rusting
barbed wire. The devastated area en-
braced 100000 acres. OF this ap-
proximately 100000 acres have been
returned to the farmers and 100000
acres are ready for seed. More than
5000 miles Of barbed wire have been
d~isentangled and carried away 10 the
operation.
Commissioner Tardieu added that a
country which had lost nearly 2,OO0,-
900 workers, killed or incapacitated
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-21

.For FIVE a practically no new
clothing has got into the y.
these people; practically none nas
hsen manufactured. and old STOCKS
aro exhausted. The rags n rem.
nants which remain are Simply hot
suficient protection during Inc "ln'ei
"ConditIons are especially bad In
Poland. where the cold ont are
yorv severe, where the fuel shortage
-, r,lere L,vUO,UUU or more
refugees must pass the winter IN HILL
sv. makeshlft dwellings.
"The American relief administrator
Euronean chlldren's fund is co-operat-
inc with various organizations to the
limit of its resources in order 10 pIo-
lido IN some measure clothing for chill
AVON who must leave their homes 10
90 % the relief kitchens. More than
I 100000 children in Poland VIII Dc
given a meal a day at these Kitchens
for the next seven months.
However, our work is limited 10
meeting the requirements OF the cnil-
dren of eight and under. / earnestly
hone that the Lutheran committee VIII
he able to help largely in meeting the
needs of others in want.
Old Clothing Not Sufficient.
"If old clothing can be obtained
quickly of course it IAN be useo TO
great advantage, but we have decldea
as far as the children are concerned
that this immediate need cannot De
met by old clothing nor can we Walt
for a clothing drive to bring results
We have consequently purchased new
cloth and shoes and we suggest that
any of your surplus funds could be
used In this way.
ut is our conviction-voiced more
than once by Mr.. Hoover-that Keller
work in Europe must know neither