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New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
City Wins Right to Appeal
Ruling On Railway Fares
Fight Against Increase for
Westchester Road Goes to
Court of Appeals

The Appellate Division yesterday
granted permission to the city of New
York to anueal from its order directing
the Public Service Commission to re-
consider ar application OF the New
York. Westchester G. Boston Railway
for an increase Of fare. The action Will
be taken to the Court of Appeals.
The New York, Westchester & Bos-
ton Railway applied to the Public
Service Commission for an increase in
fare from cents to cents within the
city limits. The commission announced
that it had no authority to grant the
increase. The railway company then
appealed to the Appellate Division for
an order directing the Public Service
Commission to reconsider its applica-
ton Argument was made by the petit
TONER that the company was an inter
state raj road and that the Public
Service Commission had authority 70
consider tie application for the in
creased fare as it applied within the
city limits.
Corporation Counsel John P. O'Brien
continuing the fight started by his
predecessor, william P. Burr, now Su-
preme Court Justice, opposed the move
Of the railway company and invoked
the existing contract between the city
and the railway as his chief argument
against the desired increase If. fare.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Courts Power to Pass On
Murphy Case Upheld
Justice Wagner Can Decide Mo-
ton for Dismissal in Alleged
Tax Fraud Charuese

The Appellate Division unanimo ously
decided yesterday that the justice sit
ting in Special Term, Part |, of the Su-
preme Court, had authority to entertain
the motion of Charles F. Murphy, Tam
many leader, and others indicted with
him to dismiss the indictments.
The application for the dismissal of
the pending charges was presented to
Justice Wagner on September 13. The
justice has withheld his decision await
ing the outcome of an application by
William Rand, special deputy attorney
general, to the Appellate Division, to
restrain Justice Wagner from render
ing a decision. Mr. Rand contended
that only the extra ordinary term of the
Supreme Court, presided over by JUS
tice Weeks, with whom the indictments
were filed, had jurisdiction.
Justice Laughlin, in the unanimous
opinion of the Appellate Division, said
that as the extraordinary term of the
Supreme Court was not in session when
the Murphy motion was made, Justice
Wagner sitting in the motion part Of
the Supreme Court had jurisdiction to
pass on the motion to dismiss. Justice
Wagner will now render his decision.
Charles F. Murphy, James E. Smith,
Assistant District Attorney, and others
were indicted on a charge that they had
conspired to defraud the government
out of an excess profits tax due from a
company in which the Tammany leader
was interested.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Mulian Calls for Briefs
In Rent Cases by Monday
Supreme Court Justice Surprises
Lawyers Who Had Expected
to Make Arguments

Supreme Court Justice George V.
Mullan yesterday directed attorneys in
terested in several rent cases which
are on the calendar of the Supreme
Court to submit briefs before 4 o'clock
Monday afternoon. This announcement
came as q surprise to the lawyers
gathered in Part l.. 1t had been ex
pected that Justice Mullan would hear
arguments in the case of William
Brandt & Co. against number of ten
ants in the siX-stcry apartment house
at Audubon Avenue and 10th Street.
This is one Of the cases involving the
new rent laws. The plaintiff is seeking
to regain possession of his premises
under the terms of the contracted
leases. This company has also an &C
ton in the Federal courts where the
constitutionality of the new rent laws
is being contested.
In the Federal courts yesterday it
was learned that the argument on this
case had been set for Thursday next.
The attorneys present in the Supreme
Court yesterday requested time to sub
nit briefs after listening to the argu-
ments in the Federal court.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Housewives May Force
Sugar Down to 10 Gents
Crocers and Refiners See Drop
i'm a Week Due TO
Frugal Ruyir1o

Grocers said yesterday that sugar
was likely to drop to 10 cents pound
retail within a week or ten days Both
the grocers and the rchners are in
clined to attribute the decrease in su-
gar prices to the frugality of the
housewife who buys in small quanti-
ties when the price is high. The Amer
lean Sugar Refining Company and 9TH
ers said this custom was largely re-
sponsible for the surplus of sugar they
had on hand. Prices we're cut to get
rid of the surplus.
Butter and cheese have been coming
into the market in gradually increasing
quantities, with the result that the
prices of these commodities have fallen
also. Butter which brought Go cents
pound last week is selling for 50
cents. Dealers ascribe the decline to
various caeses, including the weather.
importations from Denmark, Holland
and Argentina, and, most potent Of ALL
the closing of milk condensine
plants and the diversion of milk for
merly bought by them to the cream.
cries. The milk condensers CLOSED
their plants for lack of orders. There
is said to be surplus of 10000. .ooC
cases of condensed milk on the market
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
''America First Policy
Narrow, Says Vanderlip
Impossible for U. S. to Progress
With Rest of World Man
gZed, He Declares

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass, Oct. Is
The need for an enlightened and
broad visioned citizenship, which
would look on the progress of civiliza-
! ton in the large instead of being con-
cerned only with domestic conditions,
was stressed by Frank A. Vanderlip, of
New York, in the Founders Day ad-
dress at Mount Holyoke College to-
day.
until the interruption caused by
said, millions of people will be on
the verge of starvation. This has
great signi icance, as economic causes
are among the chief causes, Of war;
economic pressure has furnished the
reason for most revolutions.
"While the economic pressure re-
sulting from a disorganization of
world trade will fall with far greater
severity on some peoples than on
others, l believe that the countries of
the world to-day are so closely inter
related that none can escape disagree
able consequences while any consider
able part of the world is undergoing
life and death struggle with unfavor-
able economic conditions. If ever
there was a country prepared to is>.
4'te ltSelI ana 1--we TO itself alone, that
country is the United States But
it seems to me impossible that the
United States would go forward il
much of the rest of the world was
being mangled by economic maladjust
ment.
"A policy of Little America or, as
those who advocate it prefer to call
it, America first sounds like pa
triotic policy. 1t may have its roots
IN fine sentiment of love for our
country. But l believe it is short
sighted policy and one that lacks a
fine vision of the FUTURE"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
William Adams Robinson,
Criminal Lawyer, Dies
Was Stricken With Hemorrhage
While Arguing Case in the
Supreme Court

William Adams Robinson, one Of the
most widely known criminal lawyers
in Brooklyn, died yesterday Of paraly-
sis ir the Methodist Episcopal Hospital
in that borough. He was stricken with
a cerebral hemorrhage while arguing
a case before Justice Callaghan in the
Supreme Court He was pleading in
behalf of the four sons of Dominick
Salamone, who were arrested for al
legged thefts from Salamone's truck
barns of goods valued at sl5o00o.
Justice Caliaghan interrupted his
argument to ask a question, and while
nausing to frarle a reply Mr.. Robinson
suddenly threw up his hands and fell
ace downward on the floor. He was
taken to the hospital, where he died
shorty afterw ard.
Mr.. Robinson was fifty years old.
He was born N the Bath Beach sec
ton Of Brooklyn, the son of William
E. and Helen A. Robinson. He was
widely known as newspaper man,
writing under te pen name of "Riche-
lieu" and for three consecutive terms
was membe, of Congress from
Brooklyn, where ne attracted much at
tention by his bitter attacks upon
England.
Mr. Robinson attended Poly Prep in
Brooklyn, and at the age Of sixteen
studied law in the Offices of Stephen
B. Nash. attorney for Trinity Church
and Columbia He was admitted to the
bar in Brooklyn at the age of twenty
one, and soon attained considerable
fame as pleader of criminal cases in
the higher courts.
In 1905 Mr.. Robinson was a candi-
date on the Municipal Ownership
ticket for justice of the Munich pal
Court. and again in 1907. He is sur
vived by his wife. who was Miss Ida
L. MacMeekin, of Brooklyn, three
daughters and a SON
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Obituary
COLONEL WILLIAM HEMsTREET

COLONEL WILLIAM HEMSTREET
Colonel William Hemstreet. eighty
seven years old, veteran of the Civil
War and for thirty-five years official
stenographer in the County Court in
Brooklyn, died yesterday in His home,
1892 Bergen Street, Brooklyn. Flu
neral arrangements await the arrival
Of his son. Assistant District Attorney
Ralph E. Hemstreet who is on his way
from Canada
Colonel Hemstreet was born in
Oneida County, N. Y, where he was a
school teacher during the early years
OF his life. When the Civil War broke
out he was confidential stenographer II
Of Ex-Governor Banks, president of the
Illinois Railroad.
Colonel Hemstreet served through
out the war and was mustered out
with the rank of brevet colonel con-
ferred upon him for distinguished and
brave conduct during action. After
the war he returned to Brooklyn where
he resumed his former occupation of
court stenographer. He retired in
1914.
He is survived by two sons and two
daughters
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Gold Hero Stars Placed
On Halls at Princeton
Rooms Occupied by Students
Who Made Supreme Sacrifice
in War Are Marked

PRINCETON, N. j., Oct. 15.-Ihe So
ciety of the Claw. an organization COM
posed of prominent men of the class OF
81 to commemorate the lives Of
Princeton men who made the supreme
sacrifice in the late war, has placed
gold stars on the walls outside the
rooms which they occupied as under
graduates of Princeton.
The stars, which measure, inches
from tip to tip, are stamped with the
name and class of the student to whom
they are dedicated. Every dormitorA
has at least three stars, and Holder
He'll, although comparatively new new
hall. tops the list with fifteen. Little
Brown. Witherspoon, Edwards, Blair
Dodge and seventy-nine halls have
about twelve each. Famous athletes O.
lrs war days whose names have beer
| moulded are Hoby Baber, Arthur
, Bluenthal, John Prentiss Poe il. an'
Sam Reid.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Metropolitan Art
Exhibition Will
Close Next Month
Museums Effects Being Re-
arranged as Pieces Lent
Observation-Disclosures:
Morgan Relief Is Planned

The fftieth anniversary exhibition
at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art is
gradually fading away and the pieces
lent for the summer will all be re-
turned by November j. In this transi-
tion many of the museums effects are
being rearranged.
Among the display recently put on
view, one of the most interesting
from the students point of view is a
collection of rubbings from Han tomb
stones in Room Hill. where Japanese
prints were shown. These rubbings
are from Chinese funeral chapels of
Hiao Chan, from before 129 A. D., and
Of WI Liang, about $50 A. D. The
figures represent little stories of every
day life and homely tales and legends.
A stone tablet of the Han period said
to have stood in the Ching Ping Hsien,
Province of Shantung, is also to be
seen in the same room.
In the main entrance hall of the
museum, work is under way on one of
the four large pillars preparatory to
the placing OF large memorial relief
of j. Pierpont Morgan, which will be
presented to the museum by its pres
ent board of directors. Paul Manship
has had the commission for this work
1t viii be placed on the pillar in a few
weeks.
Another addition to the museum,
which is being placed. is pediment
relief from the old Madison Square
Church. This has been presented to
the museum by Miss Flora Isham and
is being placed at the south end of the
library.
Changes have been made in the
Japanese Armor Hall. The collection
has been augmented with pieces rep
resentative of early Japanese history.
Swords, stirrups, saddles and breast
plates taken from tombs and burial
mounds represent the period of from
1900 to 2,O0O years ago.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Compers Sued for $25, 900
Former Labor Editor Charges
Plot to Iniure Reputation

From The Tribunes Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct spiracy
to injure his reputation and prevent
him from advocating the candidacy of
Senator Harding is charged in a suit
for $4,000 damages filed here to-day
against Samuel Gompers, president of
TIE American Federation OF Labor, and
three ot tis associates by P. j. Ryan,
former editor Of The Plate Printer, q
la Dor publication.
Rvan's attorney said the suit is the
result of an interview printed here in
which Ryan was quoted as saying that
Gompers could not deliver the votes Of
organized labor to Governor Cox. Ryan,
who is vice president Of the Harding
Democratic Club of Was irgton,
charges that Gomnors and his 'co-c"n-
s,irstors" cOdcavor"d 70 hrinr bout
his expulsion from the Plate Printers
Union as a result OF his political ac-
tivities in behalf Of Senator Harding.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
DEATHS

BARKER-On Friday morning October
IS 1870 Julia A Barker; in the $50 Ssd
abeth b Chamberlin and daughter Of
the late James w. Barker. Funeral SER
vices TO be held at her late residence, 80
North Broadway. White Plains \. Y,
at o'clock, Saturday afternoon, October
Is, 1920.
CANDA-Ferdnand E, on October "A, at
18th year. Funeral services Will be held
at Church of st. Vincent de Paul. Esd ST.
near Sixth av., on Saturday. October IL.
at II o'clock a. m. Interment private.
CLEI AND-Blanche wife of Robert r.
Cleland. Wednesday, October -. Flu
neral service North Presbyterian Church.
Saturday. 1880 p. m. Interment at
Woodiawn.
1920. Joseph cliforrd. beloved son Of Of
the late John and Bridget Clifford (nee
Murphy), formerly of 10th st. and Ave
nue. 3. Funeral from his late residence,
16o Chestnut St. Brooklyn. on Saturday,
0ctober lG, at $50 a m; thence to the
cid ave. and Fulton ST., where solemn
mass of requiem will be offered for the
repose of his soul at 10 a. m. Inter
ment Calvary Cemetery.
COLEMAN-On October II, Bridget be-
loved Wife of Patrick Coleman (nee
keatng). and sister of the late Patrick
Ireland. Funeral from her late resi-
dence, 134 West 109th st, Saturday. Oc-
tobcr IL, g. 9Osa. M. thence to the As
crHsion NhCrch, 4u'tn st. near Broad
way. where requiem mass Will be Of
fsred for the rcpose of her soul. Inter
Inent Calvary.
CORCORAN--suddenly October 10. Pat
rick j.. son of the late Patrick and
Bridget Corcoran, native of Killetoher
County Cavan Ireland and brother Of
Mrs Patrick Reilly. Ellen Corcoran
Mrs. Margaret Cameron and Mrs John
McGevna. Funeral from his late resi-
dence, 1872 Meirose av., Bronx. on sat
urday morning, October l6; requiem
mass at 10 a IN. in st. Peter and Paul's
Church, l59th st. and St. AIMS av.
Darlington October il. 1920, Albert
a. in his Slst year Funeral services
Saturday. at his late residence Smiths
town Branch. n. Y. at p. m.
DAWSON Thursday, October "A. at her
residence .424 West 144th Street t.illa.
daughter of the late Thomas J. and
Mary a Oakley DAVIS. Services private.
DNkES--At Flushing n Y, on THURSDAY.
October a. 1920, Joseph beloved has
nd of Mary A. Phillips Dykes IN the
slst year Of his age. Relatives and
friends are respectfully invited to at
tend the funeral services at his late
residence, 312 Sanford av. on Sunday,
October II, at $3.50 p. m.
FAY-On October 49, Loretta Fay. be-
loved daughter of Catherine and the
late Martin Fay Funeral on Saturda.
from her late residence. s95 stanhope
St BROOKLYN. p. m. Interment Cal
vary Cemetery. Relatives and friends
invited to attend.
FLANNELLY-Rev. Joseph F.. pastor of
42d St, died suddenly. Thursday, October
"A. Solemn mass Of requiem at the
Church of the Holy Cross Monday at
p. N. Automobile cortege. Interment
St Peters Cemetery, New Brighton,
staten Island.
GRiH tM-Aiarion. City Mortuary. Sat
uTday. II a. NJ. Auspices Actors Fund.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Convict to Sec Mother Buried

OSSINING, N. Y, Oct l5.-Peter J..
O'Brien, who has two years more to
serve at Sing Sing for assault, will
leave the prison handcafed to 4 keeper
tomorrow to attend funeral services
for his mother. at 1852 East lo2d Street.
New York. Last week when it was evil
dent that Mrs. O'Brien had not long
to live the prisoner was taken hand
cufTed to her bedside to bid her fare
we'll. Warden Lewis K. Lawes before
starting for the convention Of the
American Prison Congress in Column
bus, Ohio, issued orders that if Mrs.
O'Brien died in his absence her son
was to 60 to the fUAseaAs
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Error Made in Address

In story of raid on q coffee
house, N which one man was shot by
revenue agents who alleged they had
purchased opium n the place The
Tribune on October 3 gave the address
If the raded premises as Is Wash
ington Street The raid was in reality
made at Is West Street The Wash
ngton Street address was occupied at
hat time by an American tea room
conducted by Glover e. Cooler, who
since have removed TO 70 Greenwich
Street, and which in no way was i'm
plicated a-.f
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
League Conference Proposes
World Educational Bureau

MILAN, Italy. Oct. 15.-Proposals for
the establishment Of an international
bureau for education on the sane lines
rs tbs international labor bureau were
adopted at n penary session Of the
conference Of League Of Nations So
cicties here Yesterday. This organiza-
tion would be called Ahe International
Educational Bureau.
The conference also adopted r motion
in favor of the inclusion in the cur
ricula of All education institutions,
from primary schools to universities,
of LESSONS IN the principles q the
foundation of the League of Nations
and the duty Of citizens toward it.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Mrs. Comley New Club Head
Port Chester Woman Honorcd
nv State Federation

UTICA, N. Y, Oct 15.-Mrs. Walter
S. Comley, of Port Chester was elected
president of the New York State FeF
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs at the ballot
ing which began yesterday and was
concluded last night. Her opponent was
Mrs. F. f. Bates, of Ithaca. The an
nouncement was made at today's ses-
sion Mrs. Comley has been first vice
president.
Mrs. Howard P. Clarke, president of
the Catholic Women's Club of this city,
wished to have the record of The pro-
ceedings EXPLICITLY state that the ac-
ton taken yesterday by the federation
in favor of birth control was not ap-
proved by the Catholic women's clubs
affiliated with the federation.
The convention, which has Seen ore
Of the most important ever held in the
state, closed this afternoon.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Viscount Melville, ",
To We'd Barber's Aid
Baron Duneira, Member of An
cient Scottish Family, Has
Been Married Twice

LONDON, Oct. 15.-Announcement is
made that Charles Saunders Dundas,
sixth Viscount Melville, will soon marry
Miss Margaret Todd. an assistant in a
barber shop at Edinburgh, says The
Times. This will be the third marriage
of the viscount, who is seventy-seven
years old.
Viscount Melville, Baron Duneira, be-
longs to the ancient Scottish family of
Dundas of Arniston, which itself is q
branch of the Dundas of Dundas' fam
lily. His seat is at Melville Castle
Lasswade, Edinburgh.
He was born in 1S43, and succeeded
his brother, the fifth viscount of Mel
vile, in 1904, while he was serving as
consul general at Christiania. Previous
to that time he had been consol at
Santos, Brazil, at Teneriffe, Canary ISL
ands and consul general at Hamburg
He retained his post at Christiania for
two years after he succeeded to the
title
He was married first to Grace Selma
Marion, daughter of William Scully, in
1872. She died twenty eight years later
In 1891 he married Mary, daughter of
George Hamilton, NJ. d., of Falkirk
N. B.
Seven children were born to him, and
there are numerous grandchi ldren.
Henry Dundas, a distinguished states
man OF his time, was created first Wis
count Melville in 1902. He had filed
high official position in the British gov
ernment under William Pitt and later
was made Lord Advocate of Scotland
Other holders of the title served with
distinction in the army and navy. The
second viscount was a general in the
Royal Archers of Scotland. The third
viscount was n general, while the fourth
was a storekeeper general of the navy
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Ponzi Held No Robber, but
Investors Are Called Usurers

BOSTON, Oct. 15.-Charles Ponzi,
was declared insolvent to-day by James
y. Olmstead, referee in bankruptcy:
In a report submitted to the Fedora.
District Court the referee found that
Ponzi had no partners
"Wh;le Mr.. Ponzi is not to be classed
in the same category with ropper
and BURGLAR" the decision said, "he
was undoubtedly clever manipulation.
Who took advantage Of the credulity of
the investing public, which in this in
stance is the usurer The investors
Who no lent their money for return
of the principal and so per cent in
terest would seem themselves to be
ruiltv of usury if such existed"
New-York tribune., 1920-10-16
Festal Chickens Costly
Man Fined S5 for Keeping l25
Birds i'm Flat

Sleepless neighbors yesterday caused
the arrest of Solomon Saltzman, a
butcher at SO Seventh Street, who was
arraigned in Essex Market Court on a
charge of violating the sanitary code,
in that he had made home for 125
chickens in his fat above the shop.
A delegation of families from the
house told Magistrate Sweetser that
the be6lam of cacl;es and crows each
day with the dawn made sleep impossi-
BILE, and the court fined the butcher So.
Saltzman's excuse was that he had been
keeping the chickens to provide a feast
for guests at an East Side wedding set
for to-day