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The New York herald., 1921-07-08
WORK BEGUN ON NEW
NORTH RIVER PIERS
Wreckers Tackle Nos. | and
2, the Oldest in the
City.

Murray Hubert. Commissioner of
loose a board Of Pier |. North River.
lose a board of iPer J. North River.
That business marked the beginning OF
the city's programme for the improve
ment of the North River waterfront.
Piers l and 2, at the Battery, the oldest
in the city and intimately connected
with the city's history. will be demol-
ished at once TO make way for new and
larger piers with modern facilities.
1t was from Pier that Robert Full
ton first steamed his Clermont up the
Hudson, out of which grew the con-
troversy between New York and New
Jersey over the right of Fulton 10 a
monopoly on steam propulsion. resulting
In the decision of Chief Justice Marshall
d.ssolving the monopoly and declaring
that the Federal Government had sole
jurisdiction over navigable waters. The
city sold Pier / in 1S4S to Commodore
Vanderbilt. who conveyed his rights to
the Camden and Amboy Railroad, later
absorbed by the Pennsylvania, from
which the city recently regained title to
the property.
When these piers have been removed
the Dock Department will widen the
shore street to conform with its width
above Rector street and the new piers
will be built New piers next will re-
place Nos. 3, 4 and o.
The Sinking Fund Commission author
lied yesterday the condemnation of .ille
to Pier 80, North River. near Canal
street. and the city will vest title Au-
gust /.
The first of si1 new piers for that
vicinity will 20 on that site. That pier
will be 1000 feet long and 200 feet wide
and be equipped with two story steel
shed. upon .l.e top of which will be an
airplane landing field. That pier will
not be leased but viii be held by the
city to be used exclusively for the ham
ding of foodstuffs.
The next rier OF that group will be
just north Of Pier 32, and will serve as
protection for the roof of the new
vehicular tunnel. At It's outer end 1t
ventilating shaft for the tunnel 1t will
be of the same dimensions.
More than a score of chambers OF
commerce and other civic and CONNER
cial bodies within The port district met
yesterday and formed an advisory coun-
ell to the Port Authority Commissioners
to aid them In the study of port needs
and the formulation OF a recommenda-
ton to the Legislatures of New York
and New Jersey for a comprehensive
port development plan. The recommen-
dation must be ready by January i.
1922.
+. II. Outerbridge, chairman of the
Port Authority Board, outlined the
studies that have been made and the
tentative suggestions that have occurred
to The board for facilitation of the move
ment of freight from docks. Former
Gov. Alfred l.. Smith urged the civic
bodies to marshal public sentiment suffi-
ciently to force through the Legislatures
whatever plan is agreed upon.
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
|BELFRY LIGHT STILL SHINES,
|BUT1FIGHT'CITY'S FEAR ENDS
New Jersey Folks Who Saw in Weird Glmmer Il
Portent of Judgment Day Are Relieved to Learn
1t Is Only Reflection From Passing Trains.

Such of the residents OF Jersey City
as are addicted to the habit of expecting
the end of the world at any old time
had weight taken off their minds yes
teray when 1t developed that weird red
light which had flickered from the bell
fry of st. Joseph's Catholic Chruch in
that city on four successive nights was
traceabIe to natural causes and was not
portent Of judgment day.
1t appeared first last Sunday Just
after evening devotions in the church and
attracted little attention then because it
was assumed to be part of the lighting
of the building and probably devotional
in character. Then when 1t reappeared
on Monday night some alarmist who had
seen 1t Sunday night as well stood look
ing at it until a small crowd had gath
cred about him, when he announced his
opinion that punishment from on high
was about to descend on a city so wicked
as to have been the scene of the Demp-
sey-C Carpenter fight. Most of the people
who heard him laugher at this, but few
wagged their heads. Then one of those
who took the light seriously suggested
to the scoffers that they call at tho
church rectory and inquire whether there
was a real light in the belfry or not.
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
CONVENTION in
SYRACUSE sept. e
First Official State Gather
ing of Kind to Be Held in
Last Nine Years.
JUDGE Is TO BE NAMED
Up-Staters Have 8O8 Dele
gates Against Only 381
in New York City.
KINGS LEADS WITH 148
Talk at State Committee Is
for Wadsworth and Calder
for Chairmen.
JUDGE IS TO BE NAMED
KINGS LEADS WITH 148

( The Republican State Committee
yesterday issued a call for State
convention to nominate candidate for
Associate Judge of the Court of Ap-
peals. to be held in Syracuse at noon
ON Thursday, September %. The COM
mittee will recommend to the con-
vention that United States Senator
James w. Wadsworth, Jr.. be chosen
as temporary chairman. 1t is probable
that Senator William M. Calder will
be chosen as permanent chairman. A
set of principles, or platform, will
be adopted and all the machinery Of
the old time conventions will be set
up at this the first official State con-
vention since 1912.
The meeting of the State committee,
which took place at the National Re-
publican Club, lasted less than ten min
utes. Later there was some informal
discussion as to who the candidate
might be. A rather general impression
prevailed that the wishes of the Court
OF Appeals might be sought, in which
Syracuse, sitting on the court as an
extra member by designation, probably
would be recommended. In spite Of
this, however, there was a feeling that
the election of Justice Andrews as a
member Of the Court Of Appeals would
give Syracuse too heavy a representa-
.tion in that tribunal Chief Judge
Frank H. Hiscock and Associate Judge
John w. Hogan hail from that city.
The hall tentatively selected for the
convention is the Arena. 1t is possible.
however, that the Keith Opera House,
which Is nearer the centre of the city.
may be substituted. Chairman George
A. Glynn received that authority.
Delegates to the convention will be
chosen at the primaries on September
13. They will number 1,189 under the
rule that each Assembly district shall
have two delegates and one additional
for each 1900 votes, or major fraction.
cast for the last Republican candidate
for Governor. Upstate will have an
overwhelming control. having sos dele
gates to 381 for New York city. The
latter are divided by counties: New
York, 1886: Kings, 14S: Bronx. As {;
Queens Al; Richmond. IL.
The number of delegates from other
counties will be as follows:
The New York herald., 1921-07-08

Upon inquiry the sexton denied
brusquely there was any light about the
building of which he lacked information.
and was invited promptly TO come out
on the street and take look. He looked.
and after turning several shades had a
couple of policemen accompany him
while he went to the top of the bell
tower and made thorough examination.
There was no light there and nothing
which by any possibility could be used
to light a light.
BY the next night some one had
thought of the expedient of sitting -four
on the steps leading up to the belfry.
but this developed nothing either. And
by Wednesday night the light still flick
cred intermittently where 1t had been
visible for the three nights preceding,
and a crowd that had grown too big for
comfort had possession Of the street.
But the phenomenon was solved yes
terday and now the wonder is off. A
man who Is in the engineering depart
ment of the Hudson tubes system wrote
to Jersey City Police Headquarters ex-
planning that he had seen the crowd
about the church the night before and
was amazed that people could be so
worked up over the reflections of lights
cast by trains running in deep cut
near the church.
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
PINNED BY ELEVATOR,
DIRECTS OWN RELEASE
Iron Beams Cut Before Nor
rissey Is Freed.

For nearly an hour yesterday after
noon John Morrissey, employed in the
foreign department of the American
Express Company at 719 Washington
street directed the work OF firemen
who sought to release him after he
had been pinned between a jammed
elevator and the walls OF the shaft.
He was rescued finally and taken to
st. vincent's Hospital with probable
internal injuries.
AS soon as Morrissey's predicament
was discovered. Hook and Ladder
Company was called from its
station in Charles street. Morrissey
told the flremen two heavy hon beams
would have to be cut before he could
be moved and Rescue Squad l was
called from Spring and Hudson streets.
Morrissey gave directions for cutting
two three inch holes through wall
and for centring the flames of acety-
lene torches against the beams.
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
N. Y. LEGION PICKS VISITORS.

Officials of the New York State
branch of the American Legion yester-
day IN the Hall OF Records selected six
members to represent the state on the
Legion's Official visit 10 France, which
is scheduled TO start on August 8. Those
selected were De Lancy Kountze. David
NJ. Goodrich Bernard NJ. Flood Robert
L. Bacon. DR.. Herbert Shipman. chap
lain of the Twenty Division. and
william Kennedy of the Sixty-ninth
Regiment.
The trip will last six weeks and will
include visits 10 the battIefields. the
birthplace of Marshal Foch and the
village of Flrey, where statue to the
American soldier dead will be dedicated
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
MERCHANT HELD IN THEFT.
Bernstcin Accused I'm $4,000 SILK
Stocking Loss.

Philip Bernstein. a Passaic merchant.
was held in 100000 by Magistrate
Mancuso in Jefferson Market court yes
terday for arraignment Saturday on a
charge of grand larceny connected with
the theft on March 10 last of truck
loaded with $4,000 worth of silk stock
ings at Nineteenth street and Eighth
avenue. The truck was the property of
the Petre Trucking Company and the
stockings were consigned from manu-
facturers here to buyers in New Jersey.
Detectives Hayden, Hastings and Kill
roy of Police Headquarters said they
recovered stockings valued at $4,000
following Bernstein's arrest. They told
the court they had learned that Bern
stein had at one time been under $io.-
900 bonds In New Jersey on a charge of
receiving stolen goods and that he had
jumped his bail
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
DETAINED CHEW AS QUEER. {"
Washington Police Tell of His
strange Conduct.

The defence in the court-nartiar of
Capt. Beverly Grayson Chew. on trial
at Governors Island for alleged for
geries and other offences, Is expected to
conclude the introduction of testimony
at to-day's session Yesterday wit
nesses for the captain testified to his
irrational conduct. Washington police
men said that when they went to ar
rest his wife. Mrs. Marjorie II Chew.
for the alleged theft of furs from the
Army and Navy Club. the captain acted
20 strangely that they took him into
custody. without warrant. for observa-
ton.
The defense offered testimony to
prove its main contention--that while
Capt Chew is guilty OF the offences
charged, his experiences In France had
been such as TO render him irresponsible
for his conduct IN October. 1920.
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
MOTOR TRUCK RUNS AWAY.
Load of beams Is Hurled through
shop window.

An automobile truck owned by the F'rie-
stedt Underpnning Company OF 526 West
i22d street. and driven by Joseph MAN.
dcll OF i12S Second avenue. was stand
ing in Nassau street above Maiden
lane yesterday when the blocks under
its rear wheels gave way and 1t backed
down the steep grade. striking the curb
street.
Six sixty foot wooden beams. with
which the truck was loaded. were dis
lodged by the impact and crashed
hi oueh Inc front of the store. smash
ing ecorcs or straw hats and narrowly
missing pedestrians who were passing.
No one was injured.
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
VIOLET RAYS USED
TO CURE SUNDURN
Broad Street Hospital Staff
Finds New Treatment
Gives Relief.
OPERATION DESCRIBED
DR.. J. Barker Savage, Su-
perintendent, a Patient
in Own Hospital.
RAYS PROVIDE ANTIDOTE
Ncutralize Acid Reaction From
Sun and Destroy Harm
full Bacteria.
RAYS PROVIDE ANTIDOTE

Staff physicians of the Broad Street
Hospital are using the ultra violet
ray as an antidote and palliative in
acute cases of sunburn, and have been
obtaining excellent results. Complete
relief and a practical cure of the most
intensely burned tissues usually follow
from one to three successive applica-
tions of the rays. Because of the loca-
ton of the hospital. at the southern
end of Broad street, close to South
Ferry and to the Battery steamboat
landings, the hospital receives many
cases of sunburn.
DR.. j. Barker Savage, superintendent
Of the hospital and president of the
State Hospital Association, chances
through no deliberate purpose of his
own, to be in position to testify to
the efficacy of the new treatment.
About ten days ago DR.. Savage went
down to Long Beach, and after dip
in the surf he lounged on the sand
long and luxuriously. He was after a
coat of tan, but what he got was a
coat of fire.
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
Rigid
Censorship /!

The careful way that
all Business Opportu-
nifty advertisements are
investigated creates
unusual confidence in
these small want ads
in The New York
Herald and worth
while results to adver-
tisers.
Every Business Or
portunity advertiser
must submit three ref
erences Zone from a
bank) before they can
place their ads in
TIE NEW YORK HERALD
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
FkEy APPOINTMENT DENIED.

Albert D. Lasker. chairman OF the
United States Shipping Board. denied
yesterday report from San Francisco
that the position of director of opera
tlons OF the board had been accepted by
A. j. Frey -of San Francisco. Mr..
Lasker said no one had been offered the
position vet.
The New York herald., 1921-07-08
Treatment Described.

Treatment Described.
BY the time Or. Savage returned to
the city he was in agony. SO frightfully
was he scorched that the muscles of his
arms. hands and legs were cramped
and useless and both pulse and temper
ature were abnormal He was carried
into his own hospital on a stretcher, and
at the suggestion of one of the members
Of his staff he underwent the new violet
ray treatment, which was described by
DR.. Savage yesterday.
Towels soaked in bicarbonate of soda
first are applied to the burned parts and
are permitted to remain in place one or
two minutes. The purpose of this is TO
absorb the oily substances from the
scorched cuticle and to cause an aka
line reaction on the surface of the skin.
as one of the immediate affects Of all
severe burns is pronounced acid reac-
tion of the cuticle.
The patient then is stretched upon a
cot at a distance of about three and a
half feet below the violet ray lamp in a
room provided for that purpose. 4e
basls once more in what looks like a
brilliantly searching, undiluted sunlight
To the lay mind it would seem that this
therapeutic agent is an application of
the Hahnemann principle of like cures
like" 1t would appear strange that.
having been already blisteringly par
boiled by the suns merciless rays.
science should prescribe a dose of arti-
ficial sunlight as the specific.
An Alkaline Antidotc.
But This is not a case of "Similia
simlibus curantur' at all. As DIR.
Savage explains X. while the effects
Of the suns rays are acid. those of the
ultra violet rays are alkaline. To use
a simple illustration. the violet ray in
its soothing and curative influence upon
skin tortured by violent heat is like
the effective application OF the proper
antidote in a case OF poisoning. The
treatment also is based upon new
conception OF the nature of burns.
which regards them as infected wounds
caused by exposure TO heat. The violet
ray not only soothes and provides the
alkaline antidote. but il also destroys
all harmful bacteria and accelerates
healing OF the injured tissues.
In DR.. Savage's case. which was re-
garded as an extremely severe one, he
basked beneath the violet rays for
twenty minutes. The beneficial effects.
he said. were immediate. After the
first treatment the tensed muscles re-
laxed. the pain was greatly alleviated
and he regalncd the use of his limbs.
Tho scorched cuticle no longer caused
agony 1t was as though 1t had been
subjected to some soothing lotion. On
two successive days he underwent the
same experience--three treatments in
all of about twenty minutes duration
each He was back at his desk in the
hospital last Monday and since then
has been attending to his duties as
usual
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
Two Firms Make Cuts
In Collar Prices
New Reductions Bring Prices
Below Those Made Early
This Month

Mems starched collars, which until
recently failed to Join other articles
of apparel in the price drop, are show
ing considerable acceeration in get
ting nearer to the prc-war levels. Fol-
lowing cuts from $2.10 to $1.90 dozen
by Cluett, Peabody & Co.. George P.
Ide & Co and the United Shirt and Col
lar Company early this month Corhss,
Coon & Co. yesterday announced Il
wholesale price of SLAB a dozen and
Earl G. Wilson dropped to $1.75 a
dozen.
At $40 a dozen Wholesale retailb
ers sold the collars at 25 cents each
At $3.50 a dozen many retailers re-
duced the price to the consumer to 20
cents apiece, thus cutting their profit
as we'll. In announcing the cut to s. As
q dozen wholesale Corliss, Coon & Co.
gave the impression that retailers will
turn them over to consumers at Is
cents each.
The collar situation has been "up in
the air." according to several retail
ers, for almost d year. At the nigh
prices consumers cut down materially
on purchases Retail associations for
some months have been pressing the
collar makers for lower prices. At re-
tail a variety of prices have obtained
some dealers cutting under others in
Offering collars as "leaders' With the
present wholesale scale the situation
is still unstabilized, say the retailers,
although the trend toward lower
prices IS hailed with some satisfaction
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
Manufacturers Believe Mer-
chants Turn Away Business
Because of Inability to
Supply Customers Wants

Manufacturers in widely diversified
lines are of the opinion that retailers
in general have carried the hesitant
buying policy so far that they are
badly undcrstocked, and as result are
losing sales because Of their inability
to supply the wants of their customers.
The retailers on their side admit
that their stocks are low, but they feel
that they are entirely adequate at the
present time. Until conditions become
more normal they are not likely to
carry normal stocks as they were
known in the days before violent price
fluctuations and great scarcity or sur
cording to leading opinion in the re-
tail field.
One of the results of the retailers
attempting to do business on smaller
stocks than he normally carried has
been the elimination of many in-be-
tween sizes aud qualities. In many
retail departments price zones, have
been established, and it is the buyers
duty to purchase merchandise that can
be retailed probably for a certain
price. If manufacturer advances a
price ever so slightly it is likely to
get out of range of this special price
zone, and so is dropped from the re-
tailer's line.
In some cases the dropping of odd
sizes and qualities has been welcomed
by the manufacturers, as it reduces
their manufacturing expense. On the
other hand, the smaller stock carried
by the retailer also means smaller
volume of business for the manufac-
turer for the time being.
Soma n,anufo ctrrorc howovar iresct
that assortments are not kept up by
retailers, even where some elimination
of the in-between sizes and qualities
has taken place. In line with this
argument is the repeated assertions of
some retailers that it is better at pres
ent to lose q few customers from
understanding than to take a mer-
chandise loss through overstocking.
Particularly among small retailers
understanding, it is said, is due not so
much to we'll defined plan on the
part of the merchant as to his finan-
cal inability to carry large stocks of
goods at present
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
To Advertise States
Transportation Routes
Civic Organizations Gather to
Prepare Comprehen-
sive Program

Representatives of leading civic or
CARNATIONS throughout the State OF
New York met yesterday afternoon al
the Manhattan Club, New York City
under the leadership of the Hudson
Valley Federated Chamber of Com
merce, to organize a campaign to ad-
vertise to the nation the transportation
facilities of the Empire State.
1t was the opinion of those present
that the Barge Canal, the Hudson River
and port advantages OF the metropolis
were not as well recognized as they
should be, with the result that various
other transportation routes. such as
the proposed St. Lawrence Canal, were
being given undue prominence to the
disadvantage of the routes Of New York
State
1t was decided to hold a general con-
ference in Albany next month, inviting
representatives of civic organizations
from all sections of the state and
transportation companies in the com
monwealth to discuss ways and means
for giving proper publicity to New
York routes. One proposal was to plan
an excursion through the state for
shippers and legislators. to show the
rail and water routes between the lakes
and the seaboard through the Empire
State.
John D. Dunlop, of Nyack, chairman
Of the Hudson Valley Federated Cham
Der of Commerce Transportation Com
mlttee, was named chairman of a COM
mlttee to arrange for the suggested
conference.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
usiness Ne VS.
Primary Market Factors Say
Retailers Are UnderstOcked
Prosperity Dependent
On " Gather, NesO Tie,o

The controlling factor determin-'
ing the prospects Of prosperity not
only for this country but the entire
world is the weather, according to
the latest business bulletin issued
by the Cleveland Trust Company. In
reviewing the effect of the weather
on crops the bank says that the
weather in Europe has been adverse.
In this country it has cut down the
cotton crop, but has augmented the
corn crop. The prospects for wheat
and other grains are still good.
"The Importance Of these diverse
conditions" says the bank, "is great
In recent years careful studies
have accumulated a large body of
evidence tending to show that the
recurrence of periods of prosperity
and depression is closely dependent
on the combinations Of weather con-
ditions affecting large portions of
the earth's area, and resulting in
SURPRISES or deficiencies of the
worlds harvests."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-17
Corn Prices SAG
To New Low Level :
Wheat Is Weaker
Gossip of Export Bust
ness in Latter Fails to
Prevent Decline i'm Nerv-
GUS Trading; Oats Drop

CHICAGO, Aug. 16.-Material de-
clnes in the value of wheat took place
to-day, largely owing to stock market
depression and to spectacular breaks in
the price of corn and oats. Wheat
closed nervous 2 to &c net lower, with
September $122 to s1.22h and Deem
Der $1.23h to $1.23%. Corn lost q
to &c and oats q to 1%c. In pro-
visions the outcome was unchanged to
35c lower.
Dearth of buying orders in the wheat
pit made the market unusually sensi-
tive to the influence of the stock mar
ket, and the declines which began soon
after trading opened were speedily
emphasized through the bearish action
OF corn and oats, all deliveries of the
feed grains touching the lowest prices
yet this season, with the September de-
livery OF oats commanding less than at
any time since 1912. Increased hedg-
ing pressure and liquidation on the
part OF holders was the rule in corn
whereas big stocks in sight left the
oats market little support. Early indi-
cations of a lack of export business
counted also against the bulls in wheat
On the other hand. announcement lust
before the close that more than two
million bushels of wheat had beer
taken for Europe failed to bring about
much of a rally
Offerings of corn to arrive increased
simultaneously with q falling off in de.
mand from the seaboard Oats closed
at the bottom point Of the session. Ac.
tive spreading between September and
Decem Der was under way at the widest
differences so far.
Provisions sagged with grain and
hogs, Notwithstanding that the stock of
lard mere showed 100000 pounds de
crease in the last two weeks.