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The New York herald., 1921-02-18
PHILADELPHIA BROKER
HELD AS BOND FENCE
Stolen Securities Alleged to
HaUe Been Found.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1T--Accused OF
being a fence for stolen Liberty bonds
composing part of the loot of more
than twenty recent bank robberies
throughout the United States. Thomas
j. Gallen. a Philadelphia broker. was
held under $1,000 bail for court by
Howard M. Long. United States Com
missioner. at a hearing here to-day.
Gallen Is charged with conspiracy TO
defraud the Government.
Evidence was introduced at the hear
ing by secret service agents tending to
show that bonds alleged to have been
stolen were found in Gailen's possession
with a quantity OF War Savings Stamps
from which the numbers had been
erased by means Of chemicals.
Two employees of Gallen's firm. Gal
len & Co, also were held. Hugh j. Nc
Hugh, arrested on the same charge Is
said to have admitted having washed
numbers from registered War Savings
Stamps. +. r. Fulton was arrested to-
day on a charge OF having disposed or
the stolen bonds.
Bonds alleged to have been stolen
from banks at Hot Springs. s. G.;
Landisville, Pa, and Elverston. Pa,
were mentioned particularly by agents
Investigating the case. who testified that
they traced them to Gallen's Office.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
MISCELLANEOUS LEASES.

Jacob Rubin & Son leased. through
the Brown Wheelock Company. the four
story building at 81 avenue b. adjoin-
ing the northeast corner of Fourth
street, for ten years.
Douglas Gibbons & Co. rented for
S. Osgood Pell & Co. $500 square feet
on the sixth floor in Is and Il West
Forty-fourth street to q well known
organization for executive offices.
Lewis H. May Company leased in IL
West Twentylseventh street the ninth
floor to Samuel Kurlan Company; also
a loft in l2o West Thirty-fira street to
SOL c. Tractenberg.
Adams x Co. leased the store and
basement In 26 East 125th street. con-
tanning $500 feet, to the National Dol
lar Stores, Inc.
NJ. & l.. Hess Inc, leased offices in
the Emmett Arcade Building. at 624
Madison avenue, southwest corner OF
Fifty-ninth street. TO the Prudential In
surance Company of America.
NJ. Rosenthal Company leased to Louis
Geiger fifth floor in 157 to l6l West
Twenty-ninth street to Jandof Com
many. tenth and eleventh floors in 43O
TO i4O West Fifty-fifth street, at an ag-
gregate rental Of about s230.000; to j.
Weiss the fourth floor at L East Twen-
ty-eighth street.
Henry Brady leased the rear portion
of the top floor in LAG to 100 West
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
COALITION LIKELY IN SPAIN

MADRID, Feb. 17.-EL Sol, which is
agitating the probable formation of a
Coalition Government in Spain as soon
as the Cortes IS constituted. says Pre-
mier Dato has confessed that a single
party will be unable to deal with all the
important questions affecting Spain.
which is suffering, the same as are all
other nations. in the process of trans
formation.
Prom whichever side We look" says
the sol. ''all circumstances point to the
formation of a strong Coalition Gov
eInment. IN which no one will be able
to suspect party leanings and which
will deal with all problems from the
national standpoint
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
ASKS BRITISH BANKS
TOLEND TO EUROPE
Lloyd George Says Credits to
Weak Nations is Only
Hope for Trade.
Ru The Assooiatea rrcss.

LONDON, Feb. 17.-The Prime Minister,
night, made an earnest appeal to the
banks to take fair share in the risks
of granting credits to the impoverished
European countries, and in this way aid
In the development Of trade.
He argued that trade was equally bad
in all countries. hence one must suppose
that the governments were equally had
In every country and that trade would
never revive until all countries were
ruled by an anti-waste league.
1--WE have never had a great period OF
unemployment with less distress" said
Mr. Lloyd George, because heretofore
there had been no state provision OF
any kind, while to-day twelve millions
OF people are insured for 1s shillings
weekly against unemployment More
over. by huge efforts the country has
spent forty millions in providing for
unemployed former service men"
Reviewing the Governments remedial
measures the Prime Minister continued :
"You will never solve the problem until
the workers come In friendly TO con-
slider what is best IN the interests of in
dustry This country depends more on
export than any country in the world.
II international trade fails don't care
what you do by legislation or admins
tration, you wifi have nothing but star
walton and ruin"
The Premier declared that the work
ers must be prepared to share their work
with less fortunate men. lie spoke very
strongly in reproaching the building
trade for hampering the entrance ol
former service men. The stagnation OF
the purchasing power of central Europe
he said, was in consequence of the war
The whole difficulty was the establish
ment Of credits. Everybody wanted the
Government to assume the whole risk
but that was unfair because il was q
risk of the taxpayer.
The Government had failed TO induce
the banks to take any share I'm these
abnormal risks and now he appealed tC
the banks to do so. 1t was in the III
terest OF the country's trade, and that
was as much to the interest of the banks
rs to any other class. They were the
only people who could really help, and
if they did so he believed 1t would be
possible To get a start.
The Premier emphasized the battling
nature of the Austrian problem owing
TO the breaking up of the industrial and
commercial machinery throughout the
continent, and also alluded to the i'm
moderate outburst of nationalism in al
countries saying:
1--WE have ii here. in France. in Amer
ca--a sort OF feeling that you must
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
DEED DATED IN 1853
is FILED IN QUEENS
ShoDs Title to kew and For
est Hills Land.

What experts at the Queens County
Clerks office at jamaica declared TO
be the oldest original deed in existence
for property in that county was offered
for record yesterday. The deed bears
the date OF March %, 1853 and it was
made by David Springsteen to his son,
Casparus Springsteen. and transferred
twenty-six acres of land in the south
western part of the old town of New
town, now the Second ward of Queens.
The consideration named IN the deed
was love and affection. together with
eS5 Of the lawful money Of the province
Of New York. Attached TO the deed
was q receipt bearing the date of March
49, 1853 acknowledging the payment OF
the G5.
The deed was filed for record at this
time In order to complete the chain OF
title to a plot in what is now Kew
Gardens. The twenty-six acres trans
ferred by the deed are part OF the Kew
Gardens and Forest Hills section, on
which many handsome residences are
built, and the value Of the land alone
Is worth many hundreds of thousands
of dollars The deed was found among
the possessions of descendants of the
SprinRsteen family.
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Thirty-fourth street TO Samuel Birn-
hardt. and the first loft in l35 West
Thirty-third street to Mrs. Ida Glass.
Ames &. Co. rented the third floor In
1870 West Thirty-fourth street TO NJ l..
kesner & David Robertson. representing
the Daven-O Furniture Company; also
second loft in 1856 West Thirty-fourth
street 10 j. p. Glasser & Co. and offices
in 81 East Twenty y-ninth street to Bah
cock usina Corporation.
Douglas L. Gilman & Co.. Inc, and
Brown. Wheelock & Co leased Of
fices in 9 Rector street to Arthur l..
Livermore; $500 square feet in AZ
Broadway TO III. L. Manderville d Co.,
and to the Ostrander & Eschleman Com
pany space in West Forty-seyenth
street.
City Realty Corporation the American
Surety Company offices in the old Man
haitian Hotel. at Forty-second street and
Madison avenue
Worthington Whitehouse, Inc. leased
for the estate of Mrs Franklin X. Bart
lett the 81 foot dwelling at 6l East
Ninety-first street to Julius G.. Lay
also unfurnished apartments in 993
Park avenue to II. Pendleton Rogers,
in 1049 Park avenue to Mrs. Eleanor
Farquharson, in 19 East Fifty-seventh
otittt " <hiSS Nttitt difhiHs anu 10 ~
West Fifty-eighth street to Frederick a.
Cruger and William "A. Slater.
Huberth & Huberth leased the four
story dwelling at 1926 West Fifty-eighth
street to Mrs. Mary Sheehy
William A White d Sons leased to
Crane & MacMahon part of the tenth
floor of the building ON the block front
on Moore street. between Water and
Pearl streets.
Frederick Fox & Co. Inc. leased Of
fees in 1868 Broadway TO George +.
Etenne. and with y. A. Berwin & Co.,
in 103 Park avenue, TO Kiddie & Co.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
DANGER IN TARIFF REPRIsALs
Argcptina's Ex-Envoy 10 u.
Comments on Fordney Bill.

Bl;ENos AIRES, Feb, Recommending
ON the passage of the Fordney bill in
The United States Senate, DR.. Romula
Naon. former Argentine Ambassador TO
the United States. informed La Ndctoh
that he did not favor reprisals on the
part OF Argentina If the measure be-
came effective.
"In commercial relations between two
countries a system Of tariff reprisals IS
most dangerous" he said. ''You know
where they begin, but not where they
will end 1t is an exceedingly danger
Gus policy"
The New York herald., 1921-02-18

build wall all around and never hand
a cup 10 your neighbor. People forget
that countries are interdependent. Love
your neighbors' is not only sound Chris
tianity but good business
This was greeted with Laborite
cheers and shouts of Come over here y
Mr.. Lloyd George concluded with the
statement: Central Europe will be
paralyzed until it begins TO feel little
more neighborly, and il is the business
OF this country TO lead the way again
in this international task"
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
RELIEF FUND NOW $4,o42,7o1.
Drive for s5,OOO.OOO In State to
End Next Tuesday.

The child feeding fund of the Euro
pean Relief Council stood yesterday al
2,7O1.S5 The sum of $4,000 900 is
sought from New York State. and the
campaign will run until next Tuesday
ending in this city with performance
Of Carmen" at the Metropolitan Opera
House.
Archbishop Hayes prepared an appeal
to all the Catholic churches of the do
cese. which will be read Sunday, asking
for contributions to the fund.
A. C. Bedford, chairman of the indus
trial committee of the council. reported
s451.500.79 contributed by trade and pro-
fessional groups since December 20.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
BRONX TRANSACTIONS.

William J. Daniel sold 10 the HeHlty
Managers. Inc. Frank Begrisch presi-
dent. the block front of twelve lots on
the north side of 17eth street. between
Jerome and Walton avenues. with 'front.'
ages of 200 feet on l79th street and loO
feet on each avenue. Yesterday Byrne
& Bowman announced the sale Tor Mr:
Begrisch's company 90 Mr.. Daniel Oh
the two five story apartments at the
southwest corner of Creston and Burn
side avenues. valued at s350.0oo.
Charles A. Laumeister sold the two
family frame house at 2oi7 Chatterton
avenue.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
ITALY's REVENUES JUMP.

ROME, Feb. 1.-THE Treasury bal
ance has risen from 100,000,000 lire
January / to 50O.000.000 after paying
1, 200 000. 900 interest on the public debt
says the Popolo Romano. Receipts from
direct taxation from July to January
exceeded those OF 1919 by 1000, 100000.
while savings bank deposits February II
showed $4,000, 900 lire increase COM
pared with January 81.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
BROOKLYN DEALS REPORTED.

Bulkley e. Horton Company sold al
Sever;y-sixth street. two family dwell
ing. 20x100, for Mrs. Annie NJ. Malone.
Il. r. Newman sold the three story
dwelling at S3i Union street for DR.
Victor a. Robertson.
Edward y. Kegel sold vacant plot
sI6x147. on the north side of Prospect
avenue. 9s.5 feet east Of Eighth avenue
TO the Mount & Robertson Company
Inc. which plans 10 improve soon.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
Big Bldg. Operation ror T.. 7. City.

As a result of sale closed by Joseph
p Day for the Crimmins estate, in
volving thirteen lots, on the south side
of Steinway avenue near Wilson ave-
nue., Long Island City, large building
operation will soon be started. This
property has been held by the family
Of the seller for many years. Allen
Swenson was associate broker.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
IN THE AUCTION ROOM.
ia yESEY STREET.
~. I.aa,,i, u nav

East 4oiI, 81, 23s and 240. :. i6j " I'd
ay. 3S 4xgS9 two 4 story brick tenements.
Exchange Holding Co vs. kamack, Heath q
Warmnn. Inc, ct al Herman Gottlieb, atty =;
Harold s Budner. ref; due, S6,32S.sI taxes,
&c. S6s2 60; subject 10 first mtg OF ss'oooi
withdrawn.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
BRITAIN TO nUY AFRICAN wool

CAPE Town, Union of South Africa.
Feb. lit is officially announced that
the imperial Government has Offered to
purchase 100000 bales of last seasons
wool. and IL is stated that investiga-
tions are proceeding with a view TO the
disposal OF the new crop.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
Two Downtown Buildings Sold.
Negotiated Chambers street Deal

The Cruilxshank Company was the
broker in the sale Of the old five story
building at 81 to IL Chambers street.
northwest corner OF Elm street. for
many years the home OF the American
News Company to the Martin b. Brown
Printing and Binding Company. which
has occupied IL for several years. The
buyers do considerable printing work
for New York city. They are said to
nave paid in the nelghborhood OF 1880
900 for the property. In the naiue OF the
Elm-Duane Corporation.
The building fronts 74.9 feet on Cham
bers street and has q similar frontage
on Rcade street. with a depth Of 151
ieet on Elm street. II adjoins the home
OF the Emigrant Industrial Savings
Bank and is opposite the Hall of Rec
osds and the New York county court
house.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
Plans Fifth Ave. Zone Building

The Dehon Estate leased TO a client
Of r. & G.. Pfom the two four story
buildings at and West Thirty-second
street. 50xt00. for twenty-one years.
rhe tenant plans to erect a six story
building on the site.
The New York herald., 1921-02-18
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The New York herald., 1921-02-18
Estate Sells Third Avenue Corner.

George c. Pointer Company, Inc. sold
for the estate OF Jacob Wertheim 1873
end 1856 East Seventy-ninth street and
1890 to 1898 Third avenue. forming tho
northwest corner. 90xt1o, improved with
six four story buildings, containing seven
stores. The property was held at $780,
900. and was bought by @ client OF
William J. Spielberger. Louis B. Brod-
sky was attorney for the purchasers.
The New York herald., 1921-06-26

the Hoosier and his paraphernalia off the
premises. 1t was grand day.
To avoid an unpleasant anti-climax we
might as we'll go and admit that eventu-
ally the Babe did get single. 1t wasn't
much of single, either Not scratch nit.
but long way from being a lusty wallop
of the customary Bambino brand.
There were other offerings of the auto
maton which no stretch of the imagination
could convert into a regular hit The Babe
whitfield vigorously and perspired freely.
Still he did get the single.
The experts considered 1t a great triumph
for the automatic pitcher They shook hands
with the inventor, slapped him on the back
and told HIM he was some boy. Mr.. Blair
smiled broadly and confessed that he was
glad to be alive He knew that he had
plotted his curves on the chart according to
the proper mathematics and that the tech
nical details We're arranged as they should
be. But you never tell about machinery
until it actually starts to grind out the An
ished product.
Mr.. Blair is a baseball fan with a me-
chanical turn of mind. During the last few
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of servants or to call on servants and learn
the lay of it; then they furnish plan to
the burglar and frequently serve him as
lookout while he is perpetrating the burglary.
That's a phase of the art that has come up
since the war.
"I believe the crime wave that some Of
our notable policemen say doesn't exist at
least here in New York, is due to the after
results of the war and to the same cause
is due the number of women who figure
either as principals accessories The boys
come back feeling no desire to work in the
old ways and that the world owes them a
living and more. They are encouraged in
this by the admiration Of women who tell
them the nation and their fellow citizens
have been more than Indifferent. Then the
men plan holdup or forgery and the
women think they are justified. They are SO
strong in this belief that they will go to the
length Of jeopardzing their own freedom by
helping their heroes It's a matter of false
sentiment and false reasoning.
when a woman goes on her own in
crime her motive in most cases Is her own
cupidity. She wants to dress well, she
wants money to spend. In their simplest
form these ideas lead to shoplifting In all
cases where kleptomana does not explain
the thefts by women from shops the women
thieves began to pilfer not from necessity
but cupidity 1t was so easy to get piece
of silk, feather, even a slken undergar-
ment by just walking away with II that the
woman who started usually ended by trying
to steal her whole wardrobe.
"In this connection let me say that shop
lifting as a crime is on the increase. Pro-
prietors and managers of great stores are
always on guard against II, but occasionally
they feel that IL has been scotched and they
may draw breath of relief. Then they re-
lax their vigilance and at that moment up
shoplifting starts again and spreads like an
epidemic.
Women as scouts for crooked gambling
games are increasing also, but they are a.
different class from the shoplifting set. They
are more or less connected with the shady
class and II they have never been thieves
themselves they are sympathetic toward
thieves.
"The badger game and it's subsequent
Matchmaking features Is naturally enough
the true province Of the depraved woman,
the woman of the inherited criminal instinct.
1t isn't made as public as II should he and
TOO often the perpetrator gets off scot free,
but it is being practised widely in this town
I know Of efforts being made to round up
gang of blackmaiers the chief of which is
suspected 10 be a woman. She has n group
of women in her employ. II Is said. whose
methods are too unpleasant to speak of
publicly.
"Failure of the courts to adequately pun
ish woman criminals is what Is in the way
of true reform. Nowadays II is nothing new
to find women committing crimes of all
sorts and when they found out they
will lay what they have done 10 their male
associates, who have assured them that even
IL caught they (the women) will not have to
suffer. In the face of the present big in
crease of woman criminals 1 still say that
The New York herald., 1921-06-26

they do not tend naturally to crime and that
in most instances. under the correct indi-
viidual training or even in the proper nsti
tutions the majority of these women can be
reformed.
Its easier to convince a woman of the
futility of crime than a. man. This is due
to the fact that crime does not come to her
by nature, and to some men it does
ITO Judge by facts women have a fear Of
mixing up in bank robberies, in forgeries or
any crime in connection with big money in
terests They used to appear frequently In
train robberies, going on board as passen-
gers and locating for their pals money and
jewels. but this kind of female crime is al
most obsolete now.
THE United States mail rather than ex-
press trains is their field. Since so many
vauables are transported now by rural free
delivery women riflers of mail bags and
packages are frequent.
II believe thoroughly in woman Jurors
and with anything like a general use Of
them there will be a great falling off Of
woman crimes. Since II is possible to re-
form these women, there is a real gain when
one of them gets a reasonable sentence. I
have a woman i'm mind who has served three
terms in penltentiary. When she came out
the last time she announced that she was
done with crooked things forever, and she
has made her word good. 1 have kept track
of her and know that she is leading an hon
est, straightforward life.
X have known personally but one thor
The New York herald., 1921-06-26

maulings by batters to the complete salts
faction of thousands of enthusiastic citizens.
He noted the gradual decline of the mounds
men and the rising ranks of the batting
order. And. curiously enough for a mere
spectator, Mr.. Blairs sympathies went out
10 the finging end of the argument.
Back in his laboratory. or his workshop,
or wherever 1t is that inventors gather their
brains for intensive perambulations Mr..
Blair puzzled for weeks over the tangled sit
uation. Something had to be done TO save
the overworked pitchers. Day after day
they struggled out in the hot sun. When
they weren't actually in the box performing
any feat the catcher could think up and
spell out his finger tips the manager
would have them warming up for an emer-
gency or passing oot hot ones for batting
practice. 1t was all wrong but one can't
revolutionize an entire system in a minute.
even in laboratory
Finally the big idea came-not in flash,
but slowly cog by cog.
Mr.. Blairs original intentions were to
perfect a device that would relieve the
pitcher of attending morning batting prac-
The New York herald., 1921-06-26

useful he would Oe to the team and New
York in general il he would retire to the
bench Take him QUIT" they yell and take
a positive pleasure in watching the victim
squirm.
But the world is gradually becoming ac-
customed to automatic existence. An
automatic restaurant has no difficulty in
crowding its doors until not another soul can
squeeze into the place. Yet when the plan
was originally projected there were any
number of persons who insisted that the
human equation of the patron and the wait
ress could not be ignored. They gave the
automatic establishments three months to
take care of the people who would come out
OF curiosity. and then, they said. the trade
would drift back to the regular places. But
things didn't happen that way. Wherever
people in sufficient numbers gather to eat
there is always an automat.
The self-starter for automobiles had scorn-
ers in the early days. "Why lose the fun of
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
The Mysterious Potto

I HE potto of West Africa is an animal
life little known to most persons be-
cause It is so seldom found in menag-
cries. but biologists studied the animal two
hundred wears ago
The Dutch navigator Bosnian. who dis
covered and described il. did not fully under
stand the significance OF his discovery. for
he wrote that the potto hath nothing very
particular hut his odious uglness." Yet few
animals have such unusual characteristics
and there are many that are more ugly A
relative OF the lemur. it differs from that
lively animal in its extreme suggishness
The feet show the potto 10 be a tree dweller:
they have an opposable thumb and hind toe
and when the animal is grasping branch
the fingers and toes are applied to the
underside of Il.
The first finger is extremely short. mere
stump. and has no nail. Still stranger is
the fact that the spnes of the neck vertc-
bra project beneath the skin TO form
series of conical swellings that serve no
apparent purpose. Like its quaint cousin.
the loris the potto IS nocturnal in its habits
and spends the day in sleep Even in that
IL Is eccentric for. choosing a vertical
branch. Il grasps It with all four feet drawn
together and then thrusts its head down
between it's arms so that it forms only an
lnconSplCuouS knop on inc DranChs lneTe-
by. doubtless, il escapes the prying eyes Of
rowing carnivores.
Tho potto has near relative. the angwan-
tibo which is also a dweller in West
African forests II is a little less ugly than
the potto, and the neck. spines are less
developed. but the first finger Is even more
degenerate as is also the TAIL which is a
mere stump. biologists know more OF the
anatomy Of these strange animals than OF
their habits; for but few persons have ever
seen specimen in its native wilds. All
that have been sent out TO civilization have
been taken by nativeA