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New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Experts to Discuss
Merits of Electric
And Steam Power
Leaders in Rail Transporta-
ton to Champion Rela-
tive Advantages of Two
Types of Locomotives

Leaders in the development Of Amer
ican rail transportation will be the CEN
trail figures in a forum to be held in
this city October % at which, for the
first. time, it is announced by the
American Society OF Mechanical En-
gineers, the relative merits of steam
and electric locomotives will be pub
licly championed on representative
scale by the nations engineering skill
This gathering will be the first Of
a series Of five joint meetings ar
ranged by the railroad section of the
American Society OF Mechanical En-
gineers and the metropolitan section of
the American institute of Electrical En-
gineers. These meetings will mark a
resumption of activity suspended dur
ing the war, when the nations en-
gineering talent was diverted to bat
tleheld, laboratory and other channels
of service.
Postwar problems affecting industry
transportation, education, scientific
progress and the relations between
capital and labor will be discussed.
Representatives of leading universi-
ties and technical schools, including
Columbia. Harvard, Yale, Cornell.
Pennsylvania, Brooklyn Polytechnic
and Stevens Institute, will take part.
The leading railroad systems will be
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

,,sanS nsanaer scale Otherwise 1t had the
osual operate Accomplishments.
nunureas of military persons of OK.
a;.vo s'u rank rushed about Picking trjp-
ping over their swords Tho ,nnp ~
umaoie Ma LANG, of Tsinanfu' sent n
brigade Of his division arajnst bis
enemy at Iehchow. The latter worthy
near'nS OF 1t, sent q Friendly letter
s.,s os.S 70 General Ma advising him earn
es.1s 70 go back or he would fight.
1enerai Ma went back
war Has Its Humor
General Hsu, commander !, chios an
"hat they called the west front do1od
Ston,ortaol t in the train which was his
while the enemy hitched
locomotive to his train facing to-
~aru inc enemy lines. General Hsu
"aose % %nu gave orders to move for
w. "' w. Inc Train chugged placidly into
Cn, Imp OF inc enemy commander.
srai ~vne,h ~ va. General WI gave Cen
erai hsn tea and cigarettes and coun-
sel 10 send word to his division to
suirenGer' General Hsu did, and not
ohis o'o the division surrender but
ons ofiEaue promptly joined the other
a'uv' , truly war hath its humor. as
"eli as peace, in republican China.
" tne war, then. one writes with
am'aoie indulgence, but not so of one
-. % ''s major consequences. That is
.ne severe setback To Jananese designs
ana ambitions in China; a temporary
Se'oack only, possibly, buta severe
one, nevertheless. The structure that
Japan had taken years and spent
nearly S2o0,000,0 900 to build up in China
mas been sent topping. 1t was the pro
Japanese government that was over
thrown. 1t is the pro-Japanese mill
tary men and civil officials who are
now in hiding.
More important even is the blow
desit japanese prestige in China, the
alsastrous loss of face" For this
anu party army that was so igno-
mlniously defeated. that ran at the
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Germany Is Arnling,
Not Disarming, Say
Reports to aris
Survey Shows More War Ma
terial Is Now Being Manu-
featured Than Ever Be-
fore; Krupp Force Larger

LONDON, Oct. a.-Circumstantial
reports received by the Allied govern
ments to the effect that German dis-
armament is proceeding slowly but
surely under the supervision of the AL
lied Control Commission are being
treated here with absolute skepticism
says the correspondent of the Morn
ing Post in a dispatch from Paris.
Statements are printed that $4,000
guns have already been DESTROYED and
that the remaining 5000 or so are be-
ing got rid of at the rate of about
1000 a week, so that Germany should
be practically without artillery by the
end of next month. We are also Off
ciallv informed that nearly 1900 900
shells have been destroyed, together
with some 5000 machine guns and a
very large quantity of cartridges for
rifles.
The belief is widespread here that thu
Germans are once more pulling the
wool over the eyes" of the Allied Con
troll Commission in this matter of gun
destruction, as they are known often
to have done in regard to the farcical
plebescites that have taken place, and
other matters.
Statements are printed here that not
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

firing Of tho Arst shot, that was out
maneuvercd In all the basic elements
or military science by \ raw diyision
commander from an islsnd province
that army was Of Japanese making.
1T was raised by money provided by
Japan. 1t was armed, munitioned and
equipped from Japanese srsenals. It's
crack divisions were trained by Japa-
nese officers, officially appointed from
okyo and accredited to the Chinese
as military advisers. The club that
mas waved 80 terrifyingly over China,
'he club made in Japan" has proved
s'uIed. Inc great Japanese military
machine has been shown UP and by
the pacitists and despised coolies. The
very rlcksha coolies chuckle with the
irony of it.
In the aftermath there has been
even nicer irony. There is enough
evidence to remove all reasonab bic
doubt that the Japanese materially as
sisted the Anfu party, which has been
Its tool while in control of the govern
ment. Not only was Japanese money
supplied to the Anfuites with which to
make the struggle, but japanese off
GERS were seen at staff headouarters
during the battle.
And now, as climax, nine Of the ten
former military chiefs and Cabinet min
listers who have been overthrown and
whose arrest has been ordered have
fed to the Japanese Legation here in
Peking. They are evading arrest under
the protection of the Japanese Minis
ter.
Now. too much must not be made of
TINS: 1t has always been the practice
OF legations here to give asylum to
polltlcal offenders in time of internal
strife, but there has generally been
tween the personnel of the refugees
and the nationality of the legation.
Refuge has been given out of personal
considerations
The Japanese have for years denied
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

represented at the first meeting, when
the general topic will be Relative Ad-
vantages of the Modern Steam ard
Electric Locomotive
lhe merits Of the modern steam ard
electlc locomotive long have been ar
gued IN railroad circles and. it is ex-
piained by engineers, have been matters
OF opinion. The October meeting will
De opened by Frank J Sprague. a pio-
neer IN the field of electric traction.
Iwo papers will be presented from TIE
standpoint of the steam locomotive
One will be by John E. MuhlfeId. Of
New York, who has made life study
of this means Of transportation. The
electric locomotive will be championed
by A Fl. Armstrong. of the Cenera,
Electric Company. and F. II. Shepard.
OF the Westinghouse Company.
The steam point of view will be dis
cussed by ". L. Bean. assistant gen
eral mechanical superintendent of tbs
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad; A. W Gibbs. chief mechan-
ical engineer of the Pennsylvania Sys-
tenn; f. H. Hardin. chief engineer oF
the motive power of the New York
Central, and William F. Kissel, me-
chanical engineer OF the Pennsylvania
The discussion from the electric side
"iil W Shdieu III Dy \. H. quinn, cnle1
electrical engineer OF the Norfolk &
Western Railway Company; A l..
Ralston, mechanical superintendent of
the New York. New Haven Hartford.
R. Beuwkes and f. B. Katie, chief en-
gineer Of electric traction, New York
Central.
The discussion will be closed by
George Gibbs, chief engineer of electric
traction of the Pennsylvania System.
who will give the results of his expe-
rience as consulting engineer for rail
road lines in this country and OF his
study of conditions abroad
All the meetings will be held in the
Engineering Societies Building, % West
Thirtv-ninfh Streot
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
only Is Germany not really disarming,
0ut 10 actually manufacturing more war
material than before the war began.
Iha Krunn Wnrka nk Eaaan which

0ut Is actually manufacturing more war
material than before the war began.
The Krupp Works at Essen, which
employed $4,000 men in 1914, il now
employing $4,000, and made use Of close
on s,o00, 900 tons Of iron ore in the first
nal1 OF 1920, as compared with 4.610
Tons Tons In the corresponding period of
tS1s, and the firm is again turning out
lz-inch and other large caliber guns, as
wei! as 77mm. of the 1919 model
what for? Frenchmen are asking,
seeing that the export Of war ma
terial by Germany is forbidden under
the Versailles Treaty. Although off
cial circles are silent on the question.
at present the conviction generally
held here is that the Germans are
merely destroying or handing over for
destruction old and wornout material.
and replacing it with new of more
modern patterns
According to Liberte, the Entente
powers are taking steps to compel Ger
many to hand over two commercial
4irlgible balloons, the Nordstern and
Bodensee, constructed since the armis-
tice, to replace two war Zeppelins will
fully destroyed in Germany during the
last year. The treaty stipulated for
Nv coi cHuei VI HI IeIHldn NIL t2ry
alrshlps, but between the armistice and
the date when the treaty came into
force seven war Zeppelins were de-
stroyed by members of the German
army. One of the two Zeppelins in
question 1t is proposed to hand over to
England and the other to France.
Negotiations are still going on in re-
gard to the non-obseryance Of treaty
stipulations forbidding her to resume
the manufacture of aircraft until the
expiration CT six months after the
treaty came into operation, the object
being to enable the Allies to enter all
factories and check the material to be
handed over
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Sons of Nippon
Come ON Dark
Days in China
Japanese Suffer Setback as
Result of Civil War That
Ragged as Midsummer
Madness in the Capital
Pro.Tokio Regime Upset
Structure Set Up After Many
Years at Cost of Over 200
Millions Is Overthrown
By Nathaniel PETER

PEKlNG. China, Sept. 10.~Dark DAYS
are upon the sons of Nippon in China
In the full pomp and glory of its strut
ting across eastern Asia Japan has
come cropper in Peking g-ths city
Of Peking already strewn with the
wreckage of many another conqucro,
through the centuries.
We have had civil war in Pekinp
and environs, civil war la Chinois
II is. as war not 20 be taken with
too much seriousness. 1t was little
more than the usual midsummer mad
ness to which all who know their
China well resign themselves with the
first hot days of June. 1t varied from
previous summer internecine differ
ences only. in that 1T was on n little
New-York tribune., 1920-10-10

that II was in exchange for their
brihss that tho Chinese wsrs selling
Chinese rcsources to Japanese exploit.
ers. And now, when that government
Ia overthrown for It's misdaeds and uo-
lice are searching for its lcaders with
warrants for their arrest and punish
ment, they run with one accord TO the
Japanese Legation for refuge It may
be coincidence, but 1t is coincidence
eloquent In Its damnation.
or the future 1t is idle to speculate.
Too much hope cannot be placed on
what has just passed, Japanese infu
ence Is far from eradicated. It's roots
are too deeply implanted in the Chi
nese political structure. 1t has been
based on mere than the personality
Of a few corrupt officials now ban
ished. 1t has been made possible by
the whole corruption that underlies ali
government in China and has underlain
it for centuries.
Conditions will repeat themselves,
for under the system they are inevita
BILE. And when the supremacy of the
politlcai group now in power is chal-
lenged by domestic rivals, it, too, will
go outside for support, and under pres-
ent circumstances it can 90 only to ia
pan. The warmest partisan of China
will not deny that Japanese pene-
tration is as much to be blamed on the
Chinese who commit treason for bribes
as on the japanese who suborn treaso
with bribery.
The Far East is not so simple as it
is generally pictured. 1t is not entirely
case of a helpless and pure Chinese
heroine and dark and sinister Japa-
nese villain.
But potent lesson has been given,
nevertheless. The most cynical and
brazen Chinese mandarin has been
shown that he cannot graft with too
much impunity; certainly that he can
not betray his country too openly. He
Will 40 so, undoubtedly, but he will do
so with greater crcum spection.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
Wants Sales Tax
for Soldier Bonus
Representative Mott Proposes Plan to
Provide One and a Half Billion
Dollars.
fsp,cia, Despatch to the Herald.)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Wednesday,
The imposition OF a victory" tax on sales
which would realize 81. 1000, 900 in ten
months, to be used to give bonus OF
5000 to each American soldier who served
in the world war, was proposed today by
Representative Mott, Republican. OF New
York. Mr.. Mott would have the govern
ment issue certificates of indebtedness TO
the soldiers at once. and then retire these
certificates as the proposed sales tax
brings the money into the treasury.
Leaders in both parties frankly eX-
pressed opposition to the proposal. Mr..
Mott realizes that it may arouse opposi-
ton. but nevertheless he intends TO obtain
early action if possible.
"A tax / propose is so small I do not
think it would fall heavily on any one"
said Mr.. Mott. Il have suggested sales
tax of half OF one per cent on all pur-
chases. According to estimates. il would
take only about ten months for such a
tax to produce revenues which would
meet the entire cost of the bonus, after
which the tax could be dropped.
"I would call it a victory tax and
when its purpose was well understood, it
seems TO me ii would not be unpopular.
The great difficulty with other bonus
plans suggested to Congress IS that they
proposed to spend a large amount for the
soldiers, but suggest no method of meet
ing the cost hope that ultimately this
bonus may be provided for"
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
Freight Handlers
Strike in Boston

BOSTON, wednesday.-Fre trans-
portation through local rail and water
terminals Of the Boston and Maine and
Boston and Albany railroads was stopped
today. and an embargo on shipments was
declared by each road, as a result OF a
strike by union freight handlers. The en-
barge on the Boston and Maine affects all
shipments; the Boston and Albany order
excludes less than carload shipments.
ABOUT twelve hundred men walked out
Tho freight handlers at the New York
New Haven and Hartford Railroad term
inals did not join the strike today, but It
was said they might do SO by tomorrow
The men on all three roads are involved
in demands now pending before the Rail-
road Administration for a wage increase.
and the strike was declared In an attempt
to hasten the decision.
Dock freight handlers abandoned their
trucks at East Boston Terminal OF the
Boston and Albany road yesterday, and
will be without work in
day or two II the strike continues. The
unions. IL was understood,
voted to clear up all work in their hands
when the strike started. but TO refuse to
handle freight customarily cared for by the
striking men.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
REVIEWS ATTACK ON
80 CENT GAS LAW
Nixon Counsel Charges Brook
lyn Company Misrepresented
Its Financial Condition.
ALSO MANAGERIAL STATUS
Substantial Price Raise Indicated Pro-
vided Law Is Upset as
Confiscatory.

Judges Henry c. Ward. julius NJ Mayer
and John c. Knox. sitting in the Fedora,
District Court, heard argument YESTERDAY
in the suit of the Brooklyn Union Gas
Company for an injunction to restrain
Public Service Commissioner Nixon, At
torney General Newton and District At
torney Lewis, Of Kings County, from en-
forcing the Eighty Cent Gas law. The
plaintiff company asserts the law is un-
constitutional and confiscatory. The ap-
plication of the Kings County Lighting
Company for an order restraining State
and city officials from attempting TO en-
force the Eighty Cent Gas law was dis
missed by Justice Samuel Greenbaum in
the Supreme Court Tuesday.
At the hearing in the Federal Court
yesterday, w. n. Dykman. counsel for
the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, said
that the corporation was losing 81 900 q
day at the eighty cent rate. 1t is under
stood that the company will advance the
rate TO Sl.D a thousand cubic feet If
the injunction ia obtained.
In answer to Colonel Dykmans argu-
ment that the eighty cent law is confis-
catory, Ely Neumann, of counsel for
commissioner Nixon asserted that the
company's officials had stripped income
reports and had padded the expense ac-
count. and that the plaintiff company Is
not efficiently and economically managed
as stated in the complaint.
Mr.. Neumann called attention to alleged
discrepancies in statements as TO the COM
pany's income for 1918, contained in three
affidavits submitted on the motion. The
company's income for 1918 was variously
given as s1,0oi.00o. ss25. 900 and $70i 600. Tho
complaint placed the company's capitaliza-
ton at s5i.0Oo000 in one place. Mr. Neu-
mann said, and in another S5.0o0,oO0 In
1895, when the Brooklyn Union Gas Com
pany was formed by merger. he said. the
assets OF the combination were inflated 10
SIS 10000 by adding a book value OF
$l250o,O10 for good will. franchise, &c, TO
the tangible assets, which were worth
s125oo,0C0.
In view OF the fact that the Brooklyn
Union Gas Company was furnishing gas
OF less than twenty-five candle power, the
minimum prescribed by the 1906 gas law.
and charged eighty cents a thousand
cubic feet for it, the company did not
come into court with clean hands, Mr.
Neumann asserted. especially since JUS
tice Greenbaum. in his ruling in the Kings
County Lighting Companys case had
made n point OF the company's failure 10
observe the law which it sought to avoid.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
Asks States Aid
in Recruit Drive
Baker Calls on Governors for Co
operation in Campaign to Swell
Ranks Of Army.

WASHINGTON. y. c., Wednesday,
Secretary of War Baker has addressed a
letter TO the Governor of each state re-
duesting his official cooperation in the
recruiting drive to be inaugu-
rated by the war Department and which
will be intensified during the week Of Feb
ruary p to %, which is 20 be made national
enlistment week. The Governors we're
asked 70 issue proclamation calling the at
tention of their citizens TO the Importance
OF the advantages offered in the new
''citizen army and TO otherwise assist in
the effort TO bring the army up to the full
authorized strength.
Army officials said today q minimum Of
Is. 600 new enlstments would be required
before March 81 in order TO obtain the best
results from the training OF the reorgan-
ICED army.
The national campaign. ii was said has
been organized on a scale even more am
bilious than the wartime Liberty Loan
drives. Not only the loan organization Of
the Treasury, the postmasters and patri-
otic civilian societies will be used but also
the clergy.
Each unit in the new army has been as
signed TO a specific locality from which It
will draw all its enlisted personnel. the
purpose being TO create local interest.
Regiments assigned TO each locality all
ready have started special recruiting
parties throughout their districts.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
Aviation Laws by
States Opposed

Three army officers and one ace who
appeared before the New York State
Aviation Commission. appointed by Cow
ernor Smith to study aviation in It's re-
Iation to State government. took a strong
stand against the adoption by the states
in advance of action by the federal gov
ernment of any regulatory aviation laws.
They endorsed the action of the Governor
in appointing the commission for the rea-
son that such action as 1t takes is likely
to have q beneficial effect on Congress.
In the absence of Colonel Jefferson de
Mont Thompson, chairman, Henry h..
Herts presided. Other members OF the
present were Alan II. Hawley
and Augustus Post, the secretary. The
officers were Colonel Oscar w. Westover,
Army Air Service, Washington: Colonel
Thurman II. Bane, chief OF the engineer
ing division of the Air Service, and
Lieutenant Colonel Horace NJ. Hickam,
Washington. The ace was Reed u.
Lands. of Chicago.
American manufacturers Of aircraft are
falling behind in the development of new
~ pes in competition with European manu-
facturers, according to Professor d. b.
Steinman, OF the Aeronautical Society OF
the College Of the City of New York. in an
address delivered at a meeting OF that so
ciety last night.
Professor Steinman announced that the
French government has presented Ger
man aiIplano motor n French airplane
motor. a special type of airplane propeller
and French airplane to the society for
experimental purposes
William Morrison. president Of the club.
Was chairman OF 9. symposium on aviation
that followed the proras-sors lecture. mem
bers OF the club VINO have had actual fly
ng experience in the war zone being the
principal speakers.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
Mrs. Gwathmey Gets
80 Days to Move

Mrs. Isabelle c. Gwathmey temporarily
frustrated the efforts of her father-in-
law. Archibald B. Gwathmey. retired
cotton broker, to evict her from her apart
ments at No. 40 West Seventy-second
street, which he owns. when Justice
in the Fifth Municipal Court.
refused TO order her dispos-
sessed.
The notice served upon Mrs. Gwathmey.
which followed her estrangement from
Archibald Il. Gwathmey, Jr., son of tho
broker. had not been communicated in
accordance with the law in Justice Ellen
bogen's opinion. Mrs. Gwathmey had
been sent note by registered mail. ask
ing her to quit the apartment.
That the processes OF law might be
observed. Mr.. Gwathmey has served per-
sonal notice upon his daughter-in-law.
2 skiing her to vacate by February Fl.
This allows her thirty days to move, as
tho statute provides.
Last week Mrs. Gwathmey lost her ap-
peal to the Appellate Division to enjoin
her father-in-law from cutting off her
gas. light and telephone service. Mr.
Gwathmey and his son. husband OF the
defendant, live on the third floor of the
Seventy-second street house.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
WAR DEPARTMENT INQUIRlNG
INTO POWHATAN'S MISHAP

WASHINGTON. d. c., Wednesday.-In-
vestigation of the cause Of the disabling
Of the army transport Powhatan at sea
i. beinr made by an official Board sitting
az New York. In announcing this today
the War Department said reports regard
ing Bolshevik activity by members of the
transports crew or others on board had
thus far been proved without foundatioh'
Eron, Information available here IL APP
nears that in "a heavy. gale portion oil
the coal bunker bulkhead was carried
.way, allowing about seventy-five tons
81 coal TO shift. The fuel choked the
pumps. and they could not keep up with
A leakage through n clogged ash eJector'
IN spite of the rapidly rising water in the
6reroorn. n was said all OF the firemen
remained on duty until specifically Or
dered out by the chief engineer when the
water was shoulder high.