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New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
Three Long Island
Trains Are s'Lost''
For Hours i'm Storm
Broken Wires Cause 1000
Passengers To Be HeldUp;
Other Lines Crippled;
Coal Shipments Delayed

| Trains were stalled and delayed yes
terday by the after effects of the storm
on Long Island, in New Jersey and
upstate. Three Long Island trains,
two Of them bound from Greenport to
New York and one from New York to
Central Islip, were missing for hours
and rescue trains had to be dispatched
from this city. There were said to be
1000 passengers on the three stalled
trains.
The Greenport Express, which was
due in New York at $3.50 p. m. Satur-
day, did not get in until late yesterday
afternoon. The other two were "lost"
all night and turned up about noon
yesterday. The delay was due to the
broken wires caused by the storm
rather than to snow on the lines. Even
last night the Long Island Railroad
had no wires east of Sayville and
Ronkonkoma. A "wire train" is to be
sent out early this morning to repair
the damage.
Another 1000 passengers, bound for
Lakewood and Atlantic City, spent Sat-
urday night at Red Bank or returned to
New York. Some of them had to spend
the night in cars at Red Bank, as the
housing facilities Of the community
were unequal to the demand for shelter
New Jersey, where the block occurred,
had been cleared Saturday soon after
the storm stopped, but the gales which
followed filled the cuts again. A train
from New York was stalled and another
sent to its assistance was derailed. An
attempt to get the stalled train through
| by way of Branchport was unsuccess-
full, and it finally limped into Red Bank
late Saturday evening. Later nains
Saturday did not attempt to go beyond
Red Bank
DANBURY, Conn, March THE
tion to the passenger service since yes
terday's blizzard and there has been no
movement of coal through here since
Friday, although hundreds of loaded
cars are on sidings of the Central
New England Railroad west of here.
Passenger trains were running tonight,
although on tardy schedules.
The Danbury and Bethel Street Rail-
way remains tied up, its rails being
frozen over. The company used the last
of it's coal supply Friday and will be
unable to resume service unless coal
arrives.
CANAAN, Conn, March THE first
train from Hartford on the Central
New England Railroad was stalled to-
night at East Canaan after successfully
opening the storm bound line through
Winsted. The train crew was put to
work digging out the rails and it was
hoped to be able to continue toward
New York State points. Passengers
walked to Canaan after the tie-up. No
other trains moved on the road to-day.
The Berkshire division of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
was open tonight with trains running
between one and two hours late.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
Man Shot at Dance;
Girls Join i'm Chase
That Ends i'm Arrest
Brooklyn Contractor, With
Both Lungs Pierced, Iden-
titles Prisoner at Hos
pital; Revenge Is Theory

While watching the dancing couples
in Somer's Hall, Rockaway Avenue/and
Fulton Street, Brooklyn, last night,
Elmer Burke twenty-nine, contractor,
Of 829 Monroe Street, felt hand de-
scend heavily on his shoulder and
looked around to see man thrusting
the muzzle of revolver at his chest.
Before he could defend himself the
bark of the pistol punctuated the or
chestra's fox trot strains. Burke
crumpled and the gunman darted out
the door and down the stairs.
Detective Thomas Aulbach, of In
spector McDonald's staff, who was in
the hall, had to fight his way through
the crowd of hysterical women and
panic-stricken men to gain the stair
way. Outside he was met by Patrolman
Govern, of the Ralph Avenue station,
and they gave chase up Rockaway Ave-
nue., firing as they ran. Girls in flimsy
evening dresses and hatless youths
Joined the pursuit.
In vacant lot, seven blocks away,
Aulbach found John Parisein, thirty
two, of $40 Metropolitan Avenue, Brook
lyn, and arrested him. Parisein had no
gun when taken.
Burke was removed to Bushwick Hos
pital, where the surgeons say he has
no chance to recover. The bullet
pierced both lungs and emerged
through Burke's back. The doctors ex-
pressed surprise that he had not been
killed instantly.
After being booked at the Ralph Ave
nue. station on a charge of felonious
assault Parsein was taken to the hos.
pital and confronted with the victim
Burke identified Parisein as the man
Just as Detective Harrington was
about to leave the hospital with his
prisoner Burke's mother and brother
United States sailor. wearing tive
wound stripes, arrived there. Earring
ton and an intern with difficulty re.
strained the sailor from attacking
Parisein.
"1f my brother dies he'll get hist
he exclaimed.
The police say Parisein received q
black. eye during fight in billiard
hall week ago, and had sworn ven.
geance on the man who hit him. Burke
had no part in this brawl, according
to Detective harrington. but the theory
is that Parisein mistook him for his
foe. Parisein denied the shooting.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
Staten Island
Grand Jurors
ToQuiz Craig
Continued from page one

the grilling of Craig. Hirshf,eld and
Van Name.
At last Fridays meeting of the grand
jury several officials Of the Midland
company were questioned. They were
A. H. Rand, vice-president and general
manager; Edward Phillip, treasurer,
and Bertram Eadie, general counsel.
1t is understood they submitted figures
purporting to substantiate the COM
pany's contention that it cannot oper-
ate at a profit for less than a 7-cent
fare.
Armed with these figures the grand
jurors are expected to-day to demand
that the city officials explain why they
persist in withholding consent to an
ment on the island is seemingly all in
favoS of it, as against the uncertain
and hazardous privilege of committing
In the Hylan- Whalen busses.
The shutdown OF the Richmond Light
and Power plant at West New Brighton
Saturday night was ascribed by the
company to flooded engine room and
pumps that would not work. There was
an unverifed rumor that a strike of
machinists was responsible. The COM
pany has two other plants, but they
have been out of commission for sew
eral months.
People Afraid to Go Out
Whatever the reason, there was no
doubt that the island was very dark
and entirely without modern transpor-
tation all Saturday night. Few of the
stores are equipped with gas and most
folks hesitated about venturing forth
on unlighted streets, anyway, having
in mind the crime wave which occa-
sionally waves on Staten Island when
bandits, bored at eluding Mayor Hylan's
cops in the buster boroughs, seek relief
in the suburbs.
Many merchants do the bulk Of their
weeks business on Saturday nights, so
they are somewhat aroused.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
Three Vessels.
Hit by Storms,
Call for Help
Shipping Board Steamer
Springs Leak Near Nam
cketShoals, Abandoned;
Is Sought by DESTROYER

Three steamships. hard hit by storms
sent out radios for help yesterday
One was in trouble OFF Nantucket, an
other off Halifax and another about
three hundred miles southwest Of
Queenstown, Ireland.
The first call for help came from the
wooden steamship Guilford, a $780,
ton vessel of the United States Ship
ping Board, laden with coal and bound
from Norfolk for Boston. She sprana
a leak Saturday night, and sent out
radios for assistance early yesterday
morning, giving her position as fifteen
Shoals Lightship.
The Pocahontas, formerly the old
North German Lloyd liner Princess
Irene, bound from this port to Ant
werp, responded to the call, and at g
a. m. took aboard the master and
thlrty-eight of the crew of the Gull
ford. Four officers, who were left on
board the Guilford for q few hours to
hold her in control, were later trans
fierred to the Pocahontas. The rescu-
ing vessel then transferred the Gull
which took them to Newport. R. i
The Pocahontas then proceeded on her
course to Antwerp.
The Atlantic Transport liner Mesaba
and the Moro Castle of the Ward Line
also went to the aid of the Guilford
After the latter was abandoned the
Coast Guard cutter Acushnet was sent
out to tow the waterlogged craft out
OF the east-bound lanes and beach her
on the nearest shoal. The Acushnet
reported late last night she was unable
TO find tho (y.1iyford
The steamship Lake Ellithorpe, Of
the United States Shipping Board
bound from Fowey, England, to this
port, reported by radio to Halifax yes
rerday that she had lost her propeller
and was being swept by a seventy
mile gale toward Sable Island The At
lantic Transport freighter Maine re-
ported by radio yesterday that she
had lost her rudder and was laborine
heavily in gale about 800 miles south.
west Of Queenstown. The steamship
Carrigan Head responded to the calf
1t is believed the crew Of the Maine
had rigged jury rudder, as a Later
radio was received from the Maine that
she was in no immediate danger.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
Sheffield Reports
Storm, Cut City Milk
Supply rs Per Cent

The freakish late winter weather of
Friday night and Saturday caused
many families to go without milk yes
terday. Trains due Saturday night
were halted by the snow and ice. The
storm cut the milk supply Of the Bronx
approximately Is per cent.
1t was said yesterday at the Offices
of the Sheffield Company, 186th Street
and Webster Avenue, the Bronx, that
none Of the Grade A quality was de-
livered to any part of the borough yes
terday. 1t was reported that approx
mately 75 per cent Of the Sheffield de-
liveries were made through New York
City. The other companies delivered
in about the same proportion. Two
milk trains Of the Borden company en-
route to New York from up state were
blocked by the storm.
l. Elkin Nathans, secretary of the
York Milk Conference, in a statement
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
Drifts Bury Trains on
Ne,o England Roads;
Traffic at StandstiLl

BOSTON, March Effects of the
successive rain, hail and snow of yes
terday were felt to disastrous extent
by the railroads Of New England to-
day. The situation was at its worst
in Maine and New Hampshire, where
traffic was tied up more seriously than
at any previous time this winter.
The Boston & Maine and Maine
Central railroads were unable to get
a single train through on their lines
in Maine.
In central and northern New Hamp-
shire traffic was at standstill. Sew
eral trains were stalled in drifts. A
great mass of snow on one of the
peaks of the White Mountains slid
down and buried the Maine Central
tracks forty feet deep.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08

issued yesterday, took issue with Gov
ernor Smith, who made u, plea for
state control Of milk at q meeting Of
the Community Councils held last Fri
day.
"The New York State Grange, rep
resenting 128,000 farmers" said Mr.
Nathans, chad its master, w. N. Giles,
voice protest against the taking over
Of the milk control by the state. The
Governor contends that milk should
not be classed with other foods, as It
is an absolute essential and should,
therefore. be regulated by the state.
This is no justification. All foods are
essential. So is raiment. Yet it ia
only step from the control Of milk
to the control Of all foods, clothing,
shoes, medicine, ice, fuel and even
housing"
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
DRY" Opponent Is Out
For Vermont Governor
Z: ". Agan, Credited With
uefeating Prohibition l8
Years Ago. Enters Race
Special pisnntcb to rh. r.h.

special Dispatch to The Tribune
BURLINGTON. VT, March TN a
telegram to The Vermont Tribune" of
ludlow, received tonight, Frank W.
asan' OF that city, announces his candi-
aascy lor the Governorship of Vermont.
ngan agar ran for Lieutenant Governor in
ttool, with Percival w. Clement at the
neaa, When they turned the state from
ps0hioltlon to local option, and while
.su .s mas not announced his platform he
sseys tnat recent events have induced
rim Nm 10 consent to become a candidate,
az ne was urged some time ago to enter
.hs. .hs race, but declined. 1t is assumed
s.N.,, sna. recent events means the heavy
" sss vote which swept over Vermont
Al lne last election.
while Clement and Agan were not
,a ..ecseo eighteen years ago, they were
susponsiole for the referendum being
s;uomitsed s;an to the people on the ques-
s:. .oa OF license, and when it was sub
I.s.ed a.d prohibition was abolished.
Cyan. ccssn. like Clement, the present
governor, has never swerved from his
sii...aae si..ae on local option. There are
se.-eaoy three candidates in the field,
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
Storm Isolates Prison
Westchester Inmates Cut Road
Through Snow to Outer World

The Westchester County Penitenti-
ary, at Elmsford, one of the most mod
ern and comfortable penal institutions
In the state, was cut of by Saturdays q
lan,. the warden, set his charges to
work making snowplow. When the
unwieldly contrivance was finished scv-
eral teams were hitched to 1t, and
with one prisoner at the reins and
others perched on the plow to give it
weight the task Of clearing a road to
the outer world began.
The men worked with a will, for on
their efforts their own welfare de-
pended, as the penitentiary w&s, vir-
tually without coal. Eight carloads Of
fuel which had been ordered were lost
in the storm and supply had been
bought in Elsmford, but before it could
be delivered the road had to be p!owed.
The indications last night were the
coal could get through to-day.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08

with graphing hooks. but was unable
to resch the hole. He ordered patrol
wagon rushed to the Tamaqua Yacht
Club on Emmons Avenue, Sheepshead
Bay, where Q row boat WAS obtained.
This was pushed out across the Ice by
Mulhill and Wilson until it broke
through.
The men scrambled into the craft
and forced it out TO the hole, nesr
the center Of the pond. There they
rrappled all afternoon and eventually
found the body.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08

Curtia E. Morsy, Mayor Of Newport;
James Hartness. Of Springfield, and
Fred Babbitt, Of Bellows Falls. me
last named has long been Z local on
tion man, but has not announced Ma
present platform There 10 no doubt
that the. liquor question will be the
leading issue with Agan.
Agan is wooden manufacturer. ana
his first real entrance into boitins
was eighteen years ago, when he wss
a strong campaigner in the hottest no.
litical fight in Vermont's history. he
is now in California and expects to re-
turn at once to take up the fight.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
Hearing on Colby Monday
Senate Committee Said to Have
important Evidence

WASHINGTON, March 6.-The At
ness of Bainbridge Colby to be Secrs-
tary Of State will be discussed again
by the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee Monday. Evidence Of an i'm
portant nature, members said to-day,
will be heard in connection with GER
tain questions raised at previous ses-
sions of the committee.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
Princes Trip POSTPONED

LONDON, March THE sailing of
the Prince of Wales on.his trip to Aus
tralia, which was set for Tuesday, has
been postponed for week. The post
ponement was because of an outbreak
of influenza on board the battleship
Renown, on which the prince is to make
the voyage. The Renown has been
placed under quarantine at Portsmouth.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08

il said to abhor handouts, to say moth
ing Of chains.
Another rumor, coming by way Of .
man who Is said to have friend who
had an uncle who once placed a bet
for "Nicky," is to the effect that the
fugitive will give himself up just ,s
soon as Mayor Hylan has had the slush
removed from Lafayette, Centre, Frank
lin and other streets adjacent to the
Tombs.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-08
" OHIO, BY THUNDER I"

General Garfield once wagered
that he could tell a mans
native State by the food he
ordered. It was Z o'clock in
the morning.
"Iam and eggs!' ordered one
man. "Ohio, by thunder!" exc
claimed the General. ~Only
an Ohioan would order ham
and eggs att O'Clock in the
morning.
But that was before the adj
vent of the CF1ILDS restau-
rants
Whore men from evesy State
eedse dsi5eious ham ana eggs
ss every Assr g the Day aaA
nisht.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-12-16
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
(By J. E. Jones'
Efforts to Cheek Immigration

There Is an agreement in Washing. ton that immigration must be checked Ole Hanson, the @shero of Seattle told a Congressional committee, upon his return from Europe, that "every- body from everywhere in Europe wants to come to the United States MT. Hanson's statement was broad enough to be called large, but it un- doubtedly expressed the situation in its true aspect.
 Senators and Representatives have bills all prepared to drop into the leg islative hopper the minute the grind ing begins. The Bureau of Immigra- tion of the L@partment of Labor will recommend to Congress that all immi- grafton, except of persons who come of compelling necessity" be suspend ed for period of at least a year.
 The American Federation of Labor is insistent on speedy legislation, on the ground that an influx of cheap la- bor will further upset our industrial relations. While this is an important phase of the situation, still the more imperative element-as one hears it talked in Washington-conee the further strain that promiscuous immi- grafton is placing on our Americani- zation work, and the ideal of "Ameri- ca for Americans"
 Extremists are proposing that inn migration be stopped entirely. There is no danger of this being done. But it does seem certain that the bars will be closed down tighter than they ever have been before.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-12-16
Ancient Christmas Custom.

Many quaint customs are observed at Christmas time in various English country parishes. In that of Cumnor, in Berkshire. of which the living is a vicarage and the church a beautiful specimen of an old English parochial edifice, all who pay tithes repair, af- ter evening service on Christmas day. to the vicarage where the vicar is held in duty bound, by usage cen turies old. to regale them with four bushels of malt brewed into ale or beer, two bushels of wheat baked into bread, and half hundred weight of cheese. Any remnants of this feast are distributed among the poor of the parish after morning prayer the next day.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-12-16
ONE OF THE MAIN FEATURES

A the weld before lone viii ha canning it's fruits and vegetables American style if the present rate of progress keeps up For nine years housewives of Arkansas have been re- celving from the county home demon stration agents instruction in the same methods of canning that Ameri- can specialists are now being asked to take foreign countries.
 Canning is one of the main features of the work of the county home dem onstration agents in Arkansas. These women are employees of the Agricul- tural Extension Division of the Uni versity of Arkansas working in CO., operation with the Federal Govern ment. Since the time that Extension Work has been introduced into this state the home demonstration agent has been giving this same service that foreign countries are now so eager to receive.
 Last year France asked the United States Department of Agriculture to loan some of it's canning specialists to teach the French the purely Ameri- can art of home canning. The results of the work of those specialists were so gratifying that the group was asked to return again this year and give further instructions They went and everywhere in France their work was attended with gratifying results.
 Hearing of the methods of preserv- ing fruits and vegetables that were being taught the French, the Director General of the little Duchy of Luxenl- burg, asked if the American experts could be loaned to Luxemburg when they were through with their work in France. The first two weeks of Sep tember found Americans teaching in LuXenlburg, showing how to can and dry garden products and how to can meat and fish.
 From Luxenburg the American demonstrators went to Holland, where they gave a series of lectures at Am sterdam and other cities. Later at the request of the British Department of Agriculture, the canning specialists went to England and gave demonstra- tions before the English Institute workers. One of the group of Ameri- can canning specialists is now in Dem mark and another in Egypt. Wher- ever the American canning methods are taught, the r esponse and appre- citation is most gratifying.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-12-16
.*'Hs@-eSs~ ART AND SCIENCE IN TOYS
Haythings for the Riddles Necessary
 to the Proper Conduct of 2 Their Society.

VXHILE the making of toys is an
 w art that is probably practically as old as the world itself, it has been only within recent years that science has bothered itself about them. Less than half a century ago they were re garded merely as playthings-amus ing diversions for children that were by no means necessary to their we'll being. Today, however. science insists that there is a well-defined philosophy underlying the use of toys; that they are the tools with which the little ones ply their trade; the paraphernalia nee. essary to the proper conduct of their society; that dolls, for example, are lpore to them than the associates that help to entertain them in that they aid them in the attainment of their mental growth by stimulating the natural emotions which must be ex- perienced in later life
 Whether this theory of the scientists Is correct or not. the fact remains that children have always had the play things requisite for their limitations of the domestic life and business affairs of older people that they have always required their elders to provide them with such inventions. and that when they could not obtain these toys ny any other means they themselves have sought and found objects that might be made to suit their purposes Even the somnolent middle Ages did not put an end to their pastimes. The toys in which they found diversion may have been more simple, but, as they met the demands of nature, they played their allotted part in the scheme of human development.-Publi Opinion
The Carlisle independent., 1920-12-16
Traditions of Christmas Festival.

Traditions of Christmas Festival.
 In the records Of every nation we find traditions of the Christmas festi- val. traditions which have been hand ed down from generation to genera tion in oft-told tales which thrilled the hearts of the listeners with al ternate fear and delight Sir Walter Scott tells us that they who are born upon Christmas or Good Friday will see spirits, and will have the power of commanding them. He also adds that the Spaniards imputed the down cast looks of their monarch, Philip n, to the disagreeable visions to which this privilege subjected him.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-12-16
erino Smiles of cladnees,

It Is not so much the thought of re- ceiving the customary holiday gifts which most pleases the fancy, but rather that pleasure the heart derives from dwelling upon joyful surprises 1t may bestow upon others. To bring smile of gladness upon another's face is, indeed, boon more precious than . Christmas gift, and the Joy of bestowing can never be eQualed by tho receiving.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-12-16
Importance of Gas

The annual production of artificial gas for fuel and light today is about eight hundred billion cubic feet, the gas travelling through 70,000,0o0 miles of mains, or nearly enough to encircle the equator three times, serving a pop ulation of nearly 55,000,000. While gas for lighting dates back nearly 100 years, it has been standard of de- mestic fuel, particularly in the cities, for less than 10 years. Gas compa- nies have had difficulties recently due to the exceptionally high costs of coal labor and materials entering into pro- duction of the product.