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The New York herald., 1920-01-17
City Will Act to
Keep Staten Island
TroHeys Running
Corporation Counsel Will Apply for
an Injunction or the Appoint
ment of a Receiver.

The Board of Estimate yesterday di-
rected the Corporation Counsel to take
immediate steps to avert the idiscon-
tinuance of service on the Staten Island
trolley lines, which the officials OF the
Midland Railroad Company announced
would go into effect at midnight to-
morrow. George p. Nicholson. Assis-
tant Corporation Counsel. and other
members. of the legal department, were
working last night to formulate plans
to meet the requirements of the Board OF
Estimate. Corporation Counsel Burr said
that the city either would apply for
temporary injunction restraining the COM
pary from disseminating service or re-
quest the appointment of a receiver il the
company was insolvent.
One of those steps will be taken
today and in either case, it was said.
the result would be that the lines
would continue operation. at least tenn
porarily, until the matter had been settled
in the courts.
When the matter came before the
Board OF Estimate yesterday Controller
Craig pointed out that the company
was a debtor to the city in a large
amount for paving between the TRACKS
and the city as a creditor could re-
quest the appointment of a receiver.
Commissioner Grover A. Whalen. of the
Department of Plant and Structures. in
formed the Board OF Estimate that IN the
event that operation of the lines was dis
continued he was ready to put from fifty
to one hundred jitney buses in service over
the lines Of the company. The Board gave
the Commissioner permission TO operate
bus line until March 81. in order to meet
any emergency that might arise IL the
company succeeded in stopping service.
Some weeks ago the company applied TO
the Public Service Commission to be al
lowed to charge a seven cent fare. and.
after public hearing, Commissioner
Lewis Nixon appointed a committee OF
citizens residing on the island to investi-
gate tho financial condition of the com
pany and report to the Board of Esti-
mate. The committee reported last week
that the company was losing money and
had been doing so on operation for some
years, and would discontinue operation un-
less some relief was given. The Board re-
fused to grant the application for in
creased fares and referred the matter 10
the Corporation Counsel Formal notice
was posted in all the trolley cars Thurs
day night that service would be discon-
tinued at midnight Sunday.
There is n division of sentiment on staten
Island Some residents think the COM
pany is making money on five cent fare, 3,
more would rather pay seven cents than
walk, and others favor proposal to have
the city take over the lines.
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
PHYSICIAN KILLS HIMSELF
AFTER R0MP WITH SON

DR.. Frank Lawrence Cochrane. forty
three years old, Of No. 7i2 St Johns place.
Brooklyn. shot and killed himself yester-
day in his home by firing bullet through
the roof Of his mouth. He was found by
his wife. who heard the shot, lying in the
bath room.
DR.. Cochrane was well known in Brook
lyn. where he prsctised for the last twen-
ty-five years. He belonged to many
clubs. II was said that he killed himself
beca use of worries over the interest due
on a mortgage on his Louise. He was
educated at the Boys High School, Brook
iyn. and completed his course at Cornell.
He was a graduate of the College of Ply
sicians and Surgeons, from which he
was graduated in 1900.
Mrs. Cochrane told the police that short
ly after breakfast yesterday her husband
romped with his five-year-old son, James.
He then went TO his office. left the com
bination OF his safe and the key to his safe
deposit vault on his dresser, wrote a
check to his wife for all the money he
had in the bank and then made his way
to the bath room, where he killed himself.
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
Say Girls Sight
Is Restored by
Sacred Relic
Miracle Believed To Have Been Per
formed at Novena in
st. AIMS Church.

According to the Rev. John II. South
wick, assistant pastor of st. AIMS Ro-
man Catholic Church, Twelfth street, near
Fourth avenue, a miracle was enacted
before his eyes at twenty minutes past
noon yesterday.
When Rita Cusack, five years old, OF
Brooklyn, went into the church with her
mother leading her, her eyes were crossed
and she was partly blinded. When she
came out of the church, a half hour later
here eyes were straight and she said she
could see everything
According to Father Southwick, the
change was due to the faith of the child
and the application of first one eye and
then the other on the relic belonging to
the church, which is said to be a bone OF
st. Ann.
AS soon as the mother looked into the
eyes of her child and discovered they
were straight the woman became hys.
terical and priests assisted her to the
rear of the church. When she became
quieter they led her and the child down
the steps and started them on the way to
Brooklyn. Mrs. Cusack wrung the hands
OIL Fdtner SOuthWlck and promised &c
come back today and give him all the
facts of her child's affliction and cure
also her street address.
Asked If he believed the child was cured
instantly, Father Southwick said ~ Ger.
tainly do. because / saw the miracle my.
self"
1T was the first day of New Year no.
vena to st. Ann, and the bone will be ex-
posed for veneration every day until
January %.
There will be masses at seven and eigh,
o'clock for the intentions of all who send
petitions to Father Southwick; prayers
and instructions at noon, followed by ap-
plication OF the relic, and a service each
evening with a sermon and the applica-
tion of the relic. The missioner is the
Rev. Charles p. ONeill
Last evening fourteen hundred persons
went forward and had the relic applied.
Most of them kissed 10.
Familiar hymns were played on the
organ az the great line, four abreast, filed
slowly toward the altar. The novena is
being conducted by the clergy of the
church, of which the Rev. DIR. William ].
Sinnot is pastor.
Five years ago a confraternity Of st.
Ann was formed under the direction Of
Father Southwick. The annual novena is
in July, and by next July the
priests expect the confratrnity to have A
OF 100.0 900.
The New York herald., 1920-01-17

Chilian mine sweepers for use along the
Chilian coast The sweepers are at present
in Harwich, England.
In the group of financiers who arrived
were three Ministers and two former Min
listers of Finance. All the delegates from
the South American republics were selected
because of their special fitness for the
work and the high positions they held in
the South American world. Accompanying
DIR. Sallaberry. Of the Argentine Republic,
were Alexandra BunGe, technical adviser
Of the Argentine delegation Pedro Pala-
clio, secretary to DR.. Sallaberry; DR.. Ri
cardo Aldao, prominent lawyer OF Buenos
Ayres; Fernando Saguier. Luis Zuber-
ruhler. Jacob Waisman and Eduardo
OcaEtos.
The Panama delegates declared that
Panama's first sugar crop would approx
mate 100000 900 pounds with larger crops
next year.
At the head OF the Peruvian delegation
was Fernando c. Fuchs, Minister of Fl.
nance of Peru With him were Ricardo
Bullen, president of one of the largest
banks in Lima, and Pedro pavallos Lis
son, prominent merchant. Sehor F'uch:
said that closer relations with the United
States would be sought by his government
There was a pressing need for ships in
his country, he said.
Ricardo Vecino, Minister of Finance OF
Uruguay, was accompanied by Sehoi
Florncio Aragon y Etcha, a Senator OF his
= country.
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
MI. Maeterlinck
Receives Tributes
atLuncheon Here

EAsesnnoti Hrese luncheon yesterday
In honor Maurice Maeterlinck. Meeting
Informally at the Hotel Astor. admirers
Of the visiting poet. many of them con-
temporary men OF letters, told the Belgian
OF the things they loved in him and his
work. More than half dozen languages
would have been represented had each per-
SON chosen to speak In his own tongue.
The luncheon was arranged by a COM
mittee consisting of Henry w. Taft, Mrs
Robert Erskine Ely, Mrs. Ralph Shain-
wald, Merle st. Croix Wright and A. A
Anderson. Robert Erskine Ely presided
Merle St Croix Wright was the first
speaker. Mr.. Wright translated his lee
ture from the French to the English.
There are those who have looked, upon
Maeterlinck as burglar of the zodiac, as
a. sort Of cosmic housebreaker. but that Is
hardly true" said Mr.. Wright. "The field
Of which he writes is his own house, and
not something apart, just as it belongs to
all of u.s."
A. A. Anderson spoke Of his persona
regard for Maeterlinck, saying that he
was approachable, and that he was child.
like in his sympathies. Mile. Marguerite
Clement said that the Belgian had taught
the French people "the inexplicable logic
Of obscureness.' and that he expressed
the sentiment of the few in the language
OF all. DIR. Yamei Kin, gifted Chinese
woman said
II had never seen the poet before to-
day, but l have seen many faces, and
the spirituality of this gentlemans face
approaches more nearly that of our old
Chinese philosophers than any face have
seen. 1t suggests gentleness of spirit
and o. knowledge of the infinite"
John Drinkwater, English poet. said
there were in Maeterlinck the qualities
which appealed to a man at any age. and
that his concrete images supplied the
needs of every age. other speakers were
HamIin Garland. d. G.. Mukerji. Dr. j. j
Walsh. DR.. Bobert Underwood Johnson
Norman Hapgood. Edgar Russell. Edwin
Markham and Edward Bjorkman.
Mr. Maeterlinck responded briefly IN
French. expressing his admiration for the
American soldier and his good feeling for
America. In the morning he delivered his
lecture on Some New Intmations of the
Immortality of the Soul" at Carnegie
Hall. under the auspices Of the League for
Political Education. He now is lecturing
In French,
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
Will Confer with
& nadianS on
Rockefeller Gifts
George E. Vincent Talks of Policy of
Foundation in Administering
S5,oOO,ooO Fund.

George f. Vincent, president of the
Rockefeller Foundation. authorized yester.
day the following statement concerning
the participation by Canadian institutions
in a portion of the recent 500, 900, 900 Christ.
mas gift bestowed by John d. Rookie.
feller:--
Many inquiries are reaching the offices
of the Rockefeller Foundation with respect
to the policy to pe adopted in connection
with the aid to Canadian medical edu-
cation which has been provided by Mr.
Rockefellers recent gift.
Reports have gained currency to the
effect that the Foundation will formally
appoint n Canadian commission to act ir
behalf OF the Board. While no meeting
of the Trustees of the Foundation has beer
held and no definite decisions have beer
reached. certain lines of policy may bt
confidently predicted. The Foundation is
not likely to appoint in any formal oil
official way special committee for ad
ministering the gift to Canada.
1T is true that no programme for CO.
operation in Canada will be adopted By
the Foundation until after conference with
q large number of prominent Canadians
representing all the significant institu-
tional and geographical interests In the
Dominion.
'"The officers have solicited from mum.
ber OF Canadians suggestions as to persons
with whom Conferences should be held
Nothing further has been done and above
all no appointments to an official COM
mission have been made or are likely to
be made
When the largo donation was made pub.
lic,> on Christmas morning, DR.. Vincent
said
'In order to carry out Mr.. Rockefellers s
suggestion concerning Canadian medical
schools the Trustees OF the Foundation
will be asked by the officers to set aside
approximately 100000 for the improve
ment and development Of the leading medi-
cal schools OF the Dominion. From this
sum appropriations will be made by the
Foundation TO medical schools on con-
dition that they raise additional funds
from other sources. 1t Is hoped that
IS .OOo. 600 thus employed by the Foundation
at this time will give distinct impetus
to the development Of medical education
in Canada -
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
DR.. PERCY STlCKNEY GRANT
SERIOUSLY ILL AT HIS HOME

The Rev. DR.. Percy stlekney Grant.
rector of the Church of the Ascension,
about whom n controversy has ragged
growing out of his linking the Soviet ark
with the Mayflower. is seriously i'll with
a sinus infection at his home. No. West
Tenth street. 1t will be week or more
before DR. Grant can leave his bed.
Bishop Charles Sumner Burch, who re-
ceived "A report of the vestry of the
Church of the Ascension after an investi-
cation had been made into DR.. Grants
remarks about the deported Bolshevists
and his action in regard TO the Fifth ave-
nue. parade on Christmas. has decided to
make no statement about the case at
present. II was said yesterday at the
Bishops office.
The Rev. DR. Gustav a. Cartensen. rec
tor of the Holyrood Episcopal Church.
who has been one of DIR. Grants chief
critics, said that the trial of DIR. Grant on
ecclesiastical grounds would be avoided
if possible.
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
LONG ISLAND TOWN
IS AWAKENED FOR
BURGLAR BATTLE
Fusillade of Shots for Robbers
at Bellport, Who Escape,
One Being Wounded.
ESPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD

ESPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD
BELLPORT, L. L., Friday.--One robber
was wounded in fusillade of shots ex-
changed between five men and scores OF
residents early this morning when the
safe of the Post Office here was blown
open for the fourth time in eight years
and looted OF about 5000 in cash and
stamps. The robbers escaped in a high
powered automobile.
Tools, a soft green hat and fingerprnts
left by the safe robbers furnish additional
clues. The police investigation shows that
the men arranged the details of the rob-
berry with great care. An automobile,
with a chauffeur and with the engine run
ming, was standing in front of the Post
Office while lookout was posted out
side the building. He gave the alarm
when Constables Thomas Valentine ana
his son. Thomas, Jr., approached the
Post Office.
The high explosive charge used by the
robbers blew the safe door across the Of
flee and imbedded il into the wall. The
front of the building was demolished. and
windows in the vicinity were shattered.
Miss Helen Rabbit, niece of Mrs. Charles
e. Osborne, whose home is opposite the
Post Office, saw the robbers drive UP to
the Post Office and enter the building She
notified the police.
Before they arrived, however. the blast
went off. The man on watch saw the
Valentines and called to his three COM
panions inside the building. when all the
robbers ran for their automobile.
Constable Valentine and his son opened
fire when they saw the men escaping. O1e
of the safe blowers cried I'm hit" and
dropped his tools. which consisted OF
sledge hammer two crow bars and
searchlight. The others helped him into
the automobile. which Sped off
The constabes were Joined by that time
by partly clothed residents of the village,
and as the automobile raced away the
robbers fired at their pursuers, but no one
was hit
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
BOOSTS COST OF A SING SING
DEATH FROM $3.50 TO $3.50

SING SING. N. Y, Friday.-owing to
the high cost OF living. John Hubert, who
manipuates the switch connected with
the Sing Sing electric chair, has boosted
the high cost Of killing, IL was learned to-
day.
Hubert has increased the fee he de-
mands from $3.50 to $3.50 per capita. Tie
has sent bill to the Prison Department
for $3.50 for putting to death vincenzo Es-
posito. Of Schenectady, on the night OF
January last The bill has not yet been
paid.
The state engaged his services in 1911
and the foe was fixed at $50 per murderer.
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
Expected Fight
Breaks Out in
Estimate Board

The expected happened at the meeting
of the Board of Estimate yesterday wher
the first wrangle between the new Re-
publican members and the old members oc-
CURED. 1t was three cornered tilt be-
tween Henry III. Curran. Borough Presi-
dent of Manhattan; Controller Craig and
Mayor Hylan.
Mr.. Curran asked where he could see the
resolution OF the meeting of December q
last, appropriating 100000 for the con
struction of the new Court House, and tn,
copy of the report accompanying the reso-
luton. He said that he went to the office
Of the secretary of the board. who told hin
that he did not have IL. but that it was in
the Controllers office.
"As near as I can ascertain, apparently
money was appropriated for this purpose
without ever piece of paper to show how
and where il was voted" said the Borough
President.
Every matter to which you refer is a
matter of record" said the Controller.
Where is the record?" asked Mr.. Cur.
ran.
"In the Controllers office" Mr.. Crais
replied.
who has seen it?" asked the Borough
President.
Apparently everybody except YOU" the
Controller replied
well. I want to see the report and the
resolution and think Il would be a good
idea to let the public know where these
papers are so they may be seen II neces-
sary," said Mr.. Curran.
'The public knows all about 1t. Don't
be an obstructionist." said Mayor Hylan.
Edward Riegelmann, Borough President
of Brooklyn. put an end to the contro-
versy for the time being by raising the
point OF order that the Board was on roll
call and discussion was out OF order. The
Mayor so ruled. Mr.. Curran, however, re
verted to the subject when the regular
calendar had been cleared. He asked tn.
Controller when he could see the records
Mr.. Craig said he could see them any time
he wanted to come to his office.
Make il one-thirty o'clock today" sug.
gested the Borough President.
You know that's the time the Controller
goes out to get bite" responded Mr..
Craig.
"As a matter OF fact" said Mr. Curran,
II don't believe they're in the Controller S
office"
The Controller made no response.
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
MILITARY TRAINING
NATIONAL NEED,
LEGION DECLARES
Delegation Appeals to Con.
greSS for Radical Changes
in Present System.
Herald Bureau,
No. 1,5O2 ii Street. n. W.,
Washington, ID. c.. Friday.

The American Legion went on record
today in favor of policy Of universe
military training in hearing before the
House Committee on Military Affairs
Former Representative Thomas w. Miller
Of Delaware. chairman of the National
Legislative Committee of the Legion
headed a delegation which presented
resolutions for universal training adopted
by the convention of the American Legion
In presenting the resolutions Mr.. Miller
asserted that failure to adopt such policy
was to indorse unpreparedness and that
this was national folly" He urged the
continuance of training camps, the estab-
lishment of separate air service. the re-
ducuon of the regular army to the '1ow-
est numbers necessary" and that the
general staff be '1iberalized" by adding
citizen officers, and that "all dead wood
be eliminated"
Weary OF Unpreparedness.
The members of the American Legior
are deeply impressed with the folly OF
Mr.. Miller, from the results Of which they
suffered while in France. They believe
that this country should adopt policy
of universal military training for it,
young men, as the only fair. democratic
and adequate system of defenceN
Having been through it themselves
they think it is only fair and proper tha
the generations which come after then
should share such duties and benefits
also. They believe that in this way the
country can maintain for it's defence e
citizens army which will be adequate FOL
any national emergency.
They are strictly opposed to militar.
ism or to the fostering of any military
caste. They believe that the regular
army should be reduced to the lowest
numbers necessary for our foreign garri.
sons and other necessary professional
duty; that our general staff should bt
liberalized by an admixture of competent
citizen officers and that all such officers
should be subjected to severe tests Of
fitness which would eliminate all deaG
wood.
Want Citizen Officers.
'.rhey believe that this citizens army
should be trained. so far as possible, by
citizen officers and its units localized ir
the territory from which they come, bu
that it must be trained solely as a ma
. tional army under the authority of the
national government for use only in tim'
of war, and that the men must not bt
used to fill up the regular army.
THAT this training shall be taken b.
the youth Of the nation in their eighteenth
nineteenth and twentieth years and shall
be for period Of not less than four ant
not more than six months during the frs
year, TO be followed by a two weeks
training period each year for two years.
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
F FRANC|S N MILAN
LOSES HIS $4,000
VIOLIN; LEFT IN CAB
Musicians Brother Forgets
StradivariuS-Police on Look
out for Instrument.

The police and the detective bureaus In
all five boroughs of the city are on the
alert for the appearance of Stradivarius
the property OF Francis Mcmillan, the
noted violinst, which was left in taxi
cab last night by Samuel Mcmillan, his
brother The violin is valued by Mr.. Nc
MILAN a s2(OOO. and is regarded as an
exceptionally fine example of the famous
violin makers work.
No charge of theft has been made. The
violin is simply reported lost and the Nc
Millans are hoping against hope that the
chauffeur of the machine found the in
strument before he picked up another fare
Yesterday Francis MCMILLAN intrusted
the violin to the care of his brother Sam
ueL asking him to take it home with him
last evening. Shortly after ten o'clock last
night Samuel Mcmillan left his office al
No. % West Forty-second street, the head
quarters of the New Symphony Orchestra.
and engaged a taXicab to take him to his
home. at No. $40 West 124th street. Ar
rivng there, he paid the driver and hur-
riedly entered the house, for the moment
forgetting the violin.
He says not more than minute could
possibly have elapsed when he suddenly
thought of the instrument and ran back to
the street The taxi in which he had rid
den home had disappeared.
He hailed another taxibac which hap
pened to be passing through the street
and then began a series of dashes through
the neighborhood in hopes of coming upon
the other vehicle. The taXicab in which
he rode home was one of the Twentieth
Century company's vehicles, engaged al
the entrance to the KnickerboclSer Hotel
After three uarters of an hour spent ir
fruitleess search he drove to the West
One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street
police station where he reported his loss
At late hour no report of the missing
violin had been made at the headquarters
Of the Twentieth Century Company. L
was explained there that the drivers al
own their own machines and work row
ing system all over the city. The fac
that Mr.. Mcmillan engaged his taxi il
front of the Knickerbocker did not neces
sarily mean that the driver regularly
stood there, it was said. Neither did 1
imply that he would return there las
night or for week. The drivers, it wa:
said, were virtually thir own bosses ane
worked wherever they pleased.
1t was said that the driver would un
doubtedly turn in the violin if he fount
it but that there was great danger o.
another passenger finding the instrumen
and taking it with him whenNhe left
taxicab. The lost Stradivarius was n ote(
for its remarkable purity Of tone.
The New York herald., 1920-01-17
PERSONNEL CHANGES IN
JEFFERSON MARKET COURT

a reorganization Of the personnel of the
jefferson Market Court was effected yes
terday. According to the announcement
from the office OF Chief Magistrate Will
lam McAdoo the changes were brought
about because of many complaints from
attorneys and others having business in
the court of the conduct of the court at
tendants.
Many clerks, captains and attendants
we're transferred to other courts. and sew
eral attendants were promoted to cap-
taincies and we're retained at jefferson
Market. The new captains are James Hop
kins of the Chief Magistrates office
Michael Tierney. OF the sixth District
Charles Schaeffer. Second District: Morris
Maangelo. Eighth District and Leopold
Lippman, Tenth District. The jefferson
Market Court Is in the Second District.