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New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
New Ferryboat Added
To Staten Island Service
Veterans and City Officials Join
in Ceremony as President
Roosevelt Makes First Trim

Members Of Quentin Roosevelt Post,
10: Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the
Barbara Frictchic Post, Women's Aux
iliary of the American Legion, headed
by the Police Band, marched from City
Hall to the Battery yesterday to raise
the national and city flags on the new
Staten Island ferryboat President
Roosevelt, which made her first trip.
Mayor Hylan and other city officials
rode to the Battery in automobiles and
took part in the ceremonies. The
en- of the Department. of Plant and
ferry service, and other city officials
and guests took the maiden trip on the
new boat to st. George and return.
Major Joseph Caccavajo headed the
Quentin Roosevelt Post delegation, and
Mrs. julia Wheelock. commander of the
Barbara Frietchie Post led the wom-
EMS. delegation. The paraders wore
thein uniforms and in the line were
seen the army khaki, the navy blue and
tine uniforms of the Red Cross nurses.
The exercises took place aboard the
boat at the Whitehall slip before the
start on the trip across the Bay. 4
general inspection Of the new craft
was made in midstream. Three hun
dred Staten Islanders welcomed the
new boat at the ST. George slip and
rushed aboard for the return trip.
Other craft in the Bay greeted the
President Roosevelt with the blowing
of whistles. Later in the day the new
beat made her first regular trip IN the
Staten Island service at b o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Ryan Sued for S634,363
On Stutz Stock Deal
Mrs. Burden and Mrs. Walsh
Demand Damages for AL
legged Conversion

Mrs. Florence S. Burden, wife of 7.
Townsend Burden, and Mrs Eudora T.
Walsh. who recently brought suit
against Allan A.. Ryan G. Company,
stock brokers, TO recover on some
shares of Stutz motor stock which they
turned over to Mr.. Ryan's firm at a
time when he was trying to corner the
market on Stutz shares, filed their COM
plants yesterday demanding $328.1
and $206,222 respectively. Besides Mr..
Ryan and his partner, Kenneth r.
Howard, the defendants in the suit are
Alvin Untermyer and the Guaranty
Trust Company, trustees under an
agreement made with the Ryan firm in
December, 1920, for the benefit of the
firms creditors.
Mrs. Burden says III her complaint,
which is similar to that of Mrs. Walsh,
that she was the owner of 800 shares
Of the Stutz stock She alleges that
the Ryan firm urged her to transfer
her shares to them, promising to settle
her Indebtedness of $4,000 with her
brokers and at the same time holding
out a higher price than then quoted on
the market Mrs. Burden transferred
her stock and later bought 800 addi-
tional shares. The price of the Stutz
stock skyrocketea to S700 share.
With the large dividends that were
paid at the time Mrs. Burden said she
became entitled TO 400 additional
shares, which she says gave her a
holding or 1000 shares.
Instead OF giving her credit for the
1000 shares, Mrs. Burden alleges, a
debit claim was made against her, as if
tho shares had not been paid for, her
stock being converted by Allan A. Ryan
& Co. for their own use.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Church History Society
Elects First Jew Member
Rabbi I. Newman Admitted ;
W. n. Schwarze Named
President for 1922

For the first time sinceS its organi-
zation fifteen years ago the American
Society of Church History yesterday at
its annual meeting at Union Theologi-
cal Seminary elected into it's member
ship a jew He is Rabbi I. Newman, of
Temple Israel Ninety-sisth Street and
Central Park West, known in religious
circles as a deep student of research
and the influence of Judaism on Chris
tianity.
Ephraim Emerton, professor emeri-
tus of church history in Harvard Uni
versity, the retiring president of the
society, in his address to the forty
members in attendance, brought out
sharply the importance of treating
church history as a part of the worlds
history. He urged that Investigations
pertaining to the subject should be
made with greater candor and upon the
same basis as the analysis of other
histories are made. The critical process
il not applied to the study of church
history as it ought to be, he said. He
advocated that the same methods of
study that characterize research in
other historical fields should be adopt
ed generally by church historians.
William Nathaniel Schwarze, of the
Moravian College and Theological
Seminary, Bethlehem Pa, was elected
president of the society for the coming
year. James Coffin Stout, of the Bibl-
cal Seminary Of New York, was re-
elected president; Professor Fred
erick William Loetscher, of Princeton
Theological Seminary, was reelected
secretary and Professor Robert Has
tings Nichols. of Auburn Theological
Seminary, was chosen treasurer.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Policeman Gets 3 to 10
Year Term on SO Bribe
Wife Faints as Medal of Honor
Man in Traffic Squad Is
Sentenced

After he had been convicted of ac
cepting a $40 bribe. John F. Carroll,
for thirteen years d member of the
Police Department. a medal Of honor
man attached to Traffic Squad D, was
sentenced to Sing Sing. yesterday by
Justice Cropsey in the Supreme Court
IN Brooklyn. When Carroll was told
that his sentence would be from three
70 ten years the patrolman's wife
tainted in the courtroom
Carroll, on traffic duty at Broadway
ana Lafayette Avenue, stopped John
n. Hunter, q salesman of 25A Vernon
avenue, on June 10 last, on a charge
OF driving on the wrong side of the
street. When Hunter was unable to
produce his drivers license an addi-
uonal charge was made against him.
ne was summoned to the Traffic Court
;, When he reached the Traffic Court
nunter SAID he was met outside by
sarroll, who offered to settle the case
aor slO. The money was paid and Hun
t ssr learned that his case was not on
me Traffic Court calendar. The
1snarges against the policeman fol-
DO you drink" Justice Cropsey
asAed 0, the policeman yesterday.
Not now," said Carroll
well, you may be able to get it in
5ah. | don't know replied Justice
.ropsey, I'VE can't have policemen
taking bribes. Your record is none
too good"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Franks Land 2 Women
I'm Observation Ward
One Accuses Other of Mental
Trouble; Climate Blamed,
Ambulance Called. Both
Take Ride

Mrs. Della Farrell, d woman OF
middle age, extensively gowned, and
Miss Della Farley, who gave her age
Farrell's guardian. were sent to Belle
vue Hospital psychopathic ward last
night by Dr. Sutton, of New York Hos
pital, after he had sought them for
more than an hour in an ambulance
called b. the younger woman. The
peculiar behavior Of the pair at Sixth
Avenue and Twentieth Street attracted
d crowd.
Patrolman Muldoon, on duty at the
corner, told DIR. Sutton that he had
questioned Miss Farley as to why she
REQUIRED an ambulance and had been
informed that Mrs. Farrell needed
hospital care. Mrs Farrell, the patrol
man said, Indignantly denied that any
thing allied her except the climate. She
said Miss Farley had presumed too
much" and that when the ambulance
came he was to pack it back home
Mrs. Farrell then walked down Sixth
Avenue, the patroiman said, Miss Far
ley remaining long enough to inform
him that her friend was a very
wealthy woman and in need of treat
ment for nervousness" Miss Farley
gave her address as the Broadway Cen
trail Hotel. She said she had been
caring for Mrs. Farrell there
The ambulance had hardly arrived at
the hospital before it was again sum-
moned. This time DR.. Sutton found
the two women surrounded by a crowd
some distance down Sixth Avenue
When DIR. Sutton asked who called the
ambulance Miss Farley said she had
Mrs. Farrell was irresponsible, she
said, and ought to be taken to a
hospital.
After questioning the pair for more
than ten minutes DR.. Sutton decided to
send them both to Bellevue for OBJ
servation. They LAUGHED heartily when
ordered into the ambulance, each in
sisting that the whole affair was q
huge joke on the other.
At the Broadway Central Hotel il
was said last night the two women
registered there several days ago and
had been asked yesterday to vacate
their rooms.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Rail Income in Glass l
Short SI3I,347,OOO
Increase Ouer 1920 Set at
84,OO4, 600; Return on
Investment Is 3 Per Cent
Specidl Dispatch to The Tribune

Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.-Net income of
Class l American railroads for 1921
will be approximately 1851 ,665, ,221, ac-
cordng to figures issued last night by
the Bureau Of Railway News and
Statistics. This is 1854 ,004000 better
than 1920. But Slason THOMPSON,
chief of the bureau, figures net income
still fails Sl31,347,000 short Of meet
ing the fixed charges of the carriers.
To put it another way, the net oper-
ating income for this year yields d
return of about 3 per cent on the ter ta-
tive valuation of $4,000, 100000 made
by the Interstate Commerce Comnis-
sion to base rates upon in July, 1920.
This 3 per cent may be measured
against the 6 per cent return con-
templated by the transportation act.
The returns are only one half what the
law allows, but at that the showing is
far better than some of the gloomy
pictures painted by the executives dur
lng the recent wage controversy.
The deficit of the roads for 1920 was
S715,351 600, while for 1921 it will be
about S131, BAT 600, so Mr.. Thomps
computations show. This is about the
most encouraging view of the progress
of the railways back toward normalcy
so far presented.
Fixed charges of the railways this
year amount to S693 ,012.379. the bu-
reau's figures show. The tables show
the roads slashed S1,257 800 000 of,
their operating expenses this year.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Nephew and Nieces
Of Miss Soutl1mayd
Begin viii Contest
She Was Mentally Un-
sound and Under Influence
When She Left$2, ,625. 900
TO Hospitals and Churches

Following the examination of wit
nesses to the Will of Miss Emily f.
Southmayd, who bequeathed s., ,625 900
to hospitals and churches. objections
to the probate of the document were
filed in the Surrogates' Court yester-
day by nephew and three nieces of
The testatrix. Miss Southmayd, who
died March 81 at 13 West Forty-seventh
Street, was q sister of the late Charles
F. Southmayd, lawyer, at one time
partner Of Joseph H. Choate and
William NJ. Evarts.
The contestants are Samuel D.
Southmayd, Julia Y. Southmayd, Meta
A. Southmayd and Mary O. S. Meekcr,
all of East Orange, N. J. They charge
that at the time of her death Miss
SOuthmayd lacked testamentary capac-
ity. that she was influenced in the
distribution of her estate and that the
viii was not properly witnessed as re-
quired by law.
The nephew and neces who bring
the contest received some family heir
looms and personal effects from their
aunt, who explained in her will that
for them in his will and that during
her lifetime she had literally provided
for them
Besides the will that is under at
tack Miss Southmayd executed two
codicils. In ore of these she be-
queathed to Allen W Evarts, son OF
the late William NJ Evarts. her
brothers law library, her pew in Grace
Church and $50, 900 Mr.. Evarts and
the New York Life Insurance and Trust
Company are appointed as executors.
Miss Southmayd left minor bequests to
several cousins and bequeathed $40 ,000
to William Y. Rowe, "as grateful re-
membrance for his many acts Of kind
ness to her brother" To Grace Church.
Roosevelt Hospital. St. Luke's Hospital
and New York Hospital she bequeathcd
100000 each, to six other institutions
$4,000 each and to thirteen others
$1,000 each. Miss Southmayd left the
residue of her estate to Grace Church,
Children's Aid Society, Roosevelt Hos
pital, St Luke's Hospital and New York
HOSDital
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Taft Urges Three
Reforms to Speed
Up Courts Work
Chief Justice Tells Chicago
Bar Judicial Force Needs
Increase and Procedure
Requires Siinplification

CHICAGO, Dec. IT. Expanding
activities of the Federal courts may
swamp them, "and delay is denial Of
Justice" Chief Justice William Howard
Taft, of the United States Supreme
Court, said tonight in an address be-
fore the Chicago Bar Association. He
urged three reforms, which he outlined
as follows:
First, an increase in the judicial
force in the trial Federal courts, and
an organization and effective distribu-
ton Of the force by the Council Of
Judges.
Second, simplicity of procedure in
the trial Federal courts.
Third, reduction in the obligatory
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and
an increase in the field Of its dscre-
tonary jurisdiction by certiorari."
There is no field of governmental
action SO important 20 the people as
our courts" he said "There is nothing
in those courts so essential to the
doing Of justice as the prompt dispatch
Of business and the elimination from
procedure of such requirements as will
defeat the ends Of justice through
technicality and delay.
"While the bar and the bench are
really much less responsible for delays
in legal procedure than the public is
likely to think, the very fact that they
are popularity supposed to be response
Bile should make us act with energy to
Justify the existence Of our profession
and the maintenance of courts.
Examination of the statistics Of
cases brought and tried and personal
conferences with judges leave no doubt
that an increase of the judges of first
instance in the Federal system is alb
solutely necessary"
The Chief Justice to-day was pressed
into service by crowd of children to
dedicate a new skating rink near his
hotel. He will depart tomorrow for
Cincinnati.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Looted Russia's Art Treasures
Appearing at Bargain Sales

MOSCOW, Dec. 27.-The new eco
nomic policy permitting free trade
within Russia has brought from their
hiding places large number OF paint
ings, some attributed to famous artists.
Among these are works by William Ho-
garth, Jean Baptistc Greuzc, Christian
Dietrich, Rosa di Tivoli and others. the
Italian and Dutch predominating.
The prices these works are bringing
arc ridiculously small, If they are genu-
inc. portrait of woman attributed
to Greuze was sold to foreign buyer
for $3.50. 1t was originally owned by
the Countess Sollohub, who was
stripped of her wealth and estate in the
Povroskaya district and imprisoned by
the Bolsheviki. She sold it for a small
sum to buy food.
Paintings by we'll known Russian ar
lists in some cases sell for the price
of pair of shoes. A Shiskin land
scape, placed in secondhand store
by its owner, brought 81.
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
in this city has been offered with
In recent months number of
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Lharwoman's Error Mars
One Family's Christmas
ohlit of Numbers on Hospital
Lots Iauses Mourning in
Wrong Household

charwoman, welding broom in
sae ward of Brooklyn hospital
1apoiled utterly the Yuletde joy Of
sames Crowder, Il painter, who lives
vn west Tenth Street. In attempting
~ - set the ward to rights in record time
snree days before Christmas this
sseeper accidentally knocked the num-
ls from two adjoining beds. Two
aours later Crowder was informed that
sas a,s iather, who was in the hospital
H. ;Snanering from minor injuries sustained
!" ar an automobile accident, was dead.
Inc painter hurried to the hospital,
~ t"y 70 De told the body had been taken
the morgue. Grief stricken, he
rsasns out an undertaking establish
mens and turned over all the arrange
,as msnts for the funeral to the under
a, the funeral one Of the daughters
on 0ne man supposed to be dead took
s,s NV Iast look at the shrouded figure
~; n;o s%ooned- The man in the casket
asnt be father, bus he wasn't hers.
thser at the hospital it was learned
has- hoe enaTweman in replacing the num-
i'.s mad switched them. Jim's father
ANY day. '''s '0'p''A' "'N'Os' :
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28

interests would talk the matter out.
After lunch, Mr.. Howard reported that
the agricultural representatives were
prepared to agree that Section Is A
should net be amended, except for the
removal of the proviso in Paragraph 3
relating 20 the percentage of return for
two years following March /, 1920,
in March next.
at was left with a committee com
posed of Mr.. Emery, Mr.. Atkeson and
Mr.. Silver to rewrite the Capper bill,
one of the measures proposing rer al
of Section Is A."
Senator La Toilette declared that in
brief the alleged proposal of the rail
roads was that the farmers abandon
their fight for lower rates in return
for repeal of one clause of Section
10 A, which he added. would expire
automatically next March l..
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28

paintings alleged formerly to have been
art treasures held in Russia, The Asso-
cisted Press reported yeste rday. OFF
cials connected with the museum's de-
partment of painting said that paint
ings offered so far had been inferior
works of obscure artists and none had
been purchased.
The pictures were offered not
through art firms of standing, but
through individuals in this city and
elsewhere who had remarkable tales
to tell of how the masterpieces" had
come into their possession.
Art connoisseurs, however, were
hopeful that. with free trade no longer
banned in Russia, more genuine mas
terpieces and fewer fakes would make
their appearance on this side of the
Atlantic.
Genuine works OF art have bobbed
up from time to time in various parts
of the world since the Russian revolu-
tion, when their owners, once members
Of the nobility, were forced by poverty
to sell them. For the greater part,
though, the aristocrats were forced to
fee so hastily that about the only
valuables they could carry with them
we're precious stones.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
u. S. Cancellation of Allied
Debt Urged by Justice Clarke

CLEVELAND, Dec. 27.-That the
war loans made by the United States
to the Allies should be promptly and
wholly Cancelled" was urged by jus
tce John Fl. Clarke, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, in an ad-
dress at the weekly monday luncheon
Oh the Cleveland Chamber Of Com
mcrce to-day
After saying that the loans aggro-
gated about $4,000, 900, 900, and with
interest now amounted to 1900 900
900, Justice Clarke said he would con-
slider the proposal to cancel them
hrst. as matter of friendship for and
justice to the nations which risked all
with US and sacrificed much more than
we did in support of the great, COM
mon cause, and, second, on the basis Of
cold, practical business policy.
Quoting many figures, he asserted
that our losses of men were less than
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Austria May Borrow ON
Her Gobelin Tapestries
Allies Gran; Permission to Use
Assets for f3 100000 Credit
Pending Loan

VIENNA, Dec. 27-The Austrian gov
ernment has requested the Reparations
Commission to authorize it to obtain a
provisional advance Of e3,0O0,O00, by
using certain assets pending an ar
rangement to issue loan. The com
mission has replied that it is ready to
agree to the use by Austria of her
Gobelin tapestries and eventually other
assets.
This is the object for which pour
parIeurs will be continued after the
New Year by the Austrian Minister in
London, who explained Austria's situa-
tion to Premier Lloyd George, Decem-
Ter %, principally with the regard to
the question of Credits
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28

one to fifty lost by the Allies and that
the Allies loss in money. even ii we
should cancel the loans. would be four
times as great as ours
Justice Clarke said the debt these
countries owe the United States "is a
crushing burden" and that it would be
an immediate stimulant to the business
of tho world il the debt were Cancelled
at cnce.
Reasons for cancellation Of the debt,
he said, included our own. obligation
10 the several countries with which
we were associated in the war for the
great service they rendered in the
cause of humanity long before we en-
tered the struggles the great debt they
had already incurred the immense loss
of life each Of the European countries
sustained IN maintaining war that
eventually became our war as we'll as
theirs, and finally, its probable immedi-
ate incentive to revival of world trade
and its consequent good effect upon
our own industrial life
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Red ENJOYS to Visit London


Red ENJOYS to Visit London
LONDON, Wednesday, Dec. 2s.--
Declaring that evidence accumu-
lates OF the British governments
desire to open relations with
Russia, THE London Times" con-
firms the report of December 20 that
Premier Lloyd George has suggested
tive-power conference, which repre-
sentatives of Russia and Germany
would be invited to attend, early in
January. it says, however, that the
conference will not meet until the end
of February, at which time it is cx-
pected. NJ. Tchitcherin the Russian
Soviet Foreign Minister, and NJ. Litvin-
off will nave visited London and by
their answers to certain questions will
have prepared the way for the presence
of Soviet representatives at the con-
ference, which is TO be the successor
of the abortive Prinkipo conference of
1919.
1t is agreed, the newspaper says, that
before international trade can be re-
opened with Russia the following con-
ditions must be established: First,
recognition of private property, which
involves liability for past debts and
the right of private enterprise to seek
profit and retain what it earns; second.
the existence of slch legal systems as
will enforce contracts, and, third.
financial and currency conditions which
Will give reasonable security to trad
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Trusty Becomes Fugitive
Negro Disappears From Prison
Where He Washed Dishes

Joseph Kamp, negro trusty at West
S, Slde court prison, West Fifty fourth
the door opening from the jail kitchen
into the rear yard, dashed across the
yard, mounted the rear wall and dis
appeared. His escape was discovered
soon after supper. A general alarm
was sent out for him.
Kamp had served four months of a
months sentence imposed by Mag
istrate Charles w. Simms on disord-
erly conduct charge. He was sent first
to Blackwell's Island. but month ago
was transferred TO the West Side Jail
to wcrk as dishwasher.
kamp is thirty-hve years old and
lived at 75a Cherry Street.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Belgian Prince May Wed
Princess Yolanda of Italy
Report of Engagement of Duke
of Brabant Credited
i'm Brussels

BRUSSELS. Dec. 27 (By The Asso-
ciated Fressl.-Reports OF the engage
ment OF the Duke of Brabant, eldest
son of King Albert. to Princess Yo-
landa, eldest daughter of King Victor
Emmanuel OF Italy, have gained con-
5 siderable circulation. ignorance of
their reported engagement was pro-
fessed to-day in royal circles. but other
persons prominent in Belgian society
expressed belief that the report was
rot without foundation.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-28
Red Reforms
Pave Way for
Trade i'm L. S,

Continued from page ons)
sidered triumph for the work of the |
relief administration, which negotiated
the arrangement.
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