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The New York herald., 1921-01-19
WOMAN LOST 4 DAYS,
GUEST IN HOTEL HERE
Mrs. Berentsen, Under OWn
Name, Missed by Cops.

Mrs. Richard y. Berentsen. wife OF
tho sales manager OF the Alexander
Smith a. Sons Carpet Company of Yon-
kers, who disappeared last Saturday
from her home In Mount Vernon. was
found yesterday In the Hotel Lucerne.
20f West Seventy-ninth street where
she had been registered under her own
name since Sunday. Although the police
have been searching for her and her
picture has been published in several
newspapers. Mrs. Berentsen walked
freely about the hotel and ate her meals
In the public dining room. She was IL
nally found by a detective Of the Bureau
oi Missing Persons
The clerk of the Lucerne told the de-
tectives and Mr.. Berentsen. who went
there for his wife yesterday afternoon.
that Mrs. Berentsen reached the hotel
late Sunday afternoon. She explained to
him she was going TO spend several days
iu New York shopping The hotel man
agement also said she had been receive
ing mail through a downtown address.
Mr. Berentsen learned later that when
Mrs. Berentsen left her home she rode
in an automobile owned by Pelham
woman 10 the Harlem station In Mount
Vernon and came to New York. She
stayed Saturday night in the Hotel
Netherlands. going to the Luccrne the
next day
"Shc told me- said Mr.. Berentsen.
that she had started out to see our
two Young sons, who arc with my sister
IN Cambridge. Mass. and that was the
reason she ran away from home. | had
only recently brought her home from 81
sanitarium IN Stamford where she had
been under treatment for two years for
a nervous breakdown"
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
LIONESS LOSES HER TOOTH
ONL Y AFTERLUST PROTEST
Queenie, Prospect Parks Temperamental Pet, Bound
and Gagged for Dental Operation-Shows No
Gratitude as Movies Record Her Distress

Queenie. Prospect Parks most i'll tenn
pered lioness. had tooth pulled yester-
day afternoon, but instead Of being
grateful to DR.. j. l.. Gillespie. the
Brooklyn Park Department veterinary.
Queene let it be knowni that she hoped
she never would look upon DR.. Gillespie's s
face again. Although her roarings and
carvings on after everything was all
over were held by Johnny OBrien, the
zoos head keeper, TO be reprehensible.
he said Queenies conduct during the
time DR.. Gillespie actually was at work
was beyond reproach.
Queenie was presented TO the Prospect
Park zoo two years ago by the children
of the borough. Although the other
lionesses there each weigh $50 pounds.
Queenie tips the scales at an even 100
pounds less. Johnny O'3rien attributes
the fact that she has never gained
weight to her irritable disposition. For
several weeks her i'll humor has been so
pronounced that DR.. Gillespie decided it
must be due to an abscessed tooth.
Queenie's saber like tusk on the left side
of her lower jaw was found to be dead
and extraction was decided upon.
The lioness was placed yesterday in a
small open cage. Acting under OBrien's
skilful direction, assistant keepers
slipped a moose about her body and
another about her throat Unwittingly
she aided the performance by rolling
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
SHIP BOARD VESSELS
LOSE $4,000 A TRIP
Comptroller Shows Net Loss
of S13,900,000 on 600
Voyages.

Col. Eugene H Abadie. the first gem
eraI comptroller of the United States
Shipping Board, gave testimony before
the Walsh Congressional investigating
committee yesterday which showed that
maintenance of an American merchant
marine is, in some of its ramifications.
an expensive luxury.
Col. Abadie presented to the commit
tee charts prepal by him exhibiting
the estimated earnings and expenses of
Shipping Board vessels covering various
trade routes. His figures, prepared on
a basis of approximately 900 voyages
during the period between March /,
1920. and September !, 1920, indicated
a net loss to the Government OF more
than SlS900.000. Computations made
upon 272 trips over the North Atlantic
route alone indicated an estimated loss
of $3,176.576. .
The witness explained to the commit
tee that these figures showing losses
were arrived at after deducting from
earnings all fixed charges, such as In
terest, insurance, depreciation and main
tenance, as well as operating costs, al
though it is n fact that some of these
charges including insurance, interest
and depreciation, are habitually carried
by the Government Itself, thus suggest
ing fictitious profit.
Col. Abadie testified that the voyage
accounts drive" instituted by him to
force ship operators to straighten out
their much belated accounts with the
Shipping Board had brought into the
treasury S120.000,000 and that OF that
sum $93,0O0,0 900 was collected from the
,rfxr /, 70 ha MI nf
concerns to which vessels had been al
located by the board.
There was foreshadowed for to-day,
when Col. Abadie continues his exam
ination, a sharp conflict between his
testimony and that given some months
ago by Martin ]. Gillen. who was special
assistant to Judge Payne and Admiral
Benson when they were chairmen of the
Shipping Board. Mr.. Gillens testimony
was to the effect that while the voyage
accounts drive" was under way he came
to New York and in one day retrieved
for the Government 100000 900 from
ship operators by the simple process OF
going to the local banks in this city
and requiring them to show their books,
thus disclosing what amounts of Gov
ernment money were in the hands OF
the ship operators.
When Col. Abadie had this testimony
called to his attention he smiled and
remarked: Yes. ! read that testimony.
It was the biggest joke OF all 1t looked
to me like bit of advertising" The
witness was diverted TO other themes.
but he will have an opportunity when
the hearing is resumed this morning
TO explain just what he meant.
Others who were examined yesterday
were Byron c. Baker, district comp
troller for the board at Boston. and
Jay G. Wilcox. who was deputy comp
troller and auditor of the Shipping
Board down to October. 1919.
The New York herald., 1921-01-19

upon her back as she clawed and biz
savagey at the ropes. Another moose
was passed about her neck, and then her
her cage and the ropes made fast. She
could barely move her head, when the
end of the cage was drawn upward and
DR.. Gillespie approached. forceps in
hand
The lioness snapped viciously at the
veterinarian, but the rope about her
throat was tightened and she gradually
stopped struggling and lay motionless
while her tooth was drawn and the
cavity disinfected. Then Keeper o Brien
gave the signal to loosen the ropes.
by her tail and the end door dropped
into place from above TO the accompani-
ment of the clicking of a battery of
motion picture cameras.
For nearly two minutes the lioness
remained motionless, her eyes half
closed. scarcely able TO breathe because
of the pressure upon her throat from the
rope. Gradually she revived and filed
her lungs with air, painting as though
from great physical exerton. Her de-
iant roars, feeble at first. soon rever-
berated through the lion house, and the
four other lions joined In the chorus.
But, despite the din, not one of the
twenty-five alligators who were huddled
in a heap a dozen feet from Queenie' s
cage even batted an eyelid. They have
been sleeping soundly for the last five
months, Johnny OBrien says.
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
WORST PRISON. IN
STATE ON ISLAND
Old WOrkhouSe, Now Used as
Hospital on Blackwells
Disgrace to City

ALBANY, Jan. 1s.-Correction Hospital
on Blackwells Island, which formerly was
known as the Workhouse. is described
as zone of the worst prisons in the State
and a disgrace to the city of New York. "
in a report that has just been submitted
to the State Prison Commission by John
s. Kennedy. Leon G. Weinstock and
Henry Solomon. special committee that
has been investigating conditions In
penal institutions of the State. Condi-
tions in the institution are both unsani-
tary and unhealthy. the committee
states. Drug addicts who appeal TO the
courts. to place them in hospitals where
they may be cured of their afiiiction are
crowded into cells with persons who
have been convicted OF crimes, and
others who are suffering from highly
contagious diseases.
"This institution" the committees re-
port says, although designated by law
as a hospital is in reality the hospital
to which all females convicted of crime
and retained for confinement in the city
are sent, the terms of confinement run
ming from five days up to three years,
the maximum penitentiary sentence 1t
is true that there is a finely equipped
hospital connected with the institution.
as is necessary in all such prisons, but
Il is but an adjunct and not the main
function of the place"
The population of Correction Hospital
Is both black and white, the committee
says. and includes both feeble iminded
and psychopathic cases. aside from suf-
ferers from tuberculosis. drug addiction
and other dread diseases. Seventy-five
per cent OF the inmates are women oe-
tween IS and 80 years of age.
"The bulk of the population is confined
in the old cell house built in 1852. which
contains 104 cells, occupied by popula-
ton of 139," the report continues. One
cell on the peniteptiary pier had four
self-committed drug addicts under treat
ment another had three infectious cases
isolated in each of three cells and three
drug addicts In each OF two cells. In
eight cells there was a doubling up cf
self-committed drug addicts, infectious
cases and tuberculosis cases.
Because of a lack of matrons the
prisoners are locked in their cells for
fourteen hours day from 4 80 in the
afternoon until 6 80 in the morning. The
cells have the poorest sanitary facilities
of any prison in the State, buckets.
which were tabooed some time ago. still
being used.
"There is no school or any evidence Of
training which would be conducive to en-
courage these women to lead n better
life when released. a correctional and
educational programme would. If proper
lv carried out, secure results well worth
while"
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
BEN FRANKLIN STEPS
IN AS SMOOT TALKS
Senator Urges Thrift i'm L. s.
Expenses by Budget Sys-
tenn at Dinner.
NO HOPE FOR BIG TAX CUT
Burr Mcintosh as Reincarna-
ton of Poor Richard, Quotes
His Sayings.

An explanation OF the fiscal and ad-
ministrative benefits aimed at by the
budget bill and a plea to the public to
realize the need for economies both
public and private. We're made last night
by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, Repub-
lican member of the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee, in an address at the
budget day dinner" given by the Aldine
Club in its club rooms, 200 Fifth avenue.
Benjamin Franklin himself. in gray
cloak. knee breeches and ruffled shirt
impersonated by Burr Mcintosh, also
appeared at the dinner and amused the
80 guests by his pithy comments on
present day extravagancee.
John T. Pratt, chairman of, the Ma
tional Budget Committee. presided, and
Paul NJ. Warburg, Samuel McCune Lind
say. Stanley II. Howe. r. Fulton Cutting
and others were at the speakers table.
Senator Smoot asserted that the gem
eral accounting office which the budget
bill purposes to set up as an agency with
no responsibilities whatever to the execu-
tive branch of the Government and thus
providing means whereby any Con-
gress committee may obtain complete
and unbiased information relative to the
activities of each Government agency.
promises to remedy the greatest defect
in the present system of appropriatlng
Congress must eventually equip it
self with some agency" declared Sena-
tor Smoot, ito keep itself constantly IN.
formed regarding the activities of all
branches of the public service. When
this agency has been provided, when ac-
counting systems have been standardized
and when responsibility has been fixed
upon the President for the submission of
financial programme we shall then
have a firm foundation for intelligent
and constructive appropriation legisla-
tion by Congress"
After pointing out many Of the eX-
.ravagant expenditures made during the
war, Senator Smoot reminded his hear
ers that the public must not expect n
great lessening of its burden of taxation
in spite of the most thorough reorganiza-
fion OF the Federal departments.
Congress to-day hears great cry
for the institution OF n national budget
In order TO reduce government expedi-
lures he concluded. but that cry is
no louder than the demand heard on all
sides for the soldiers bonus. which would
increase government expenditures many
times more than they could be reduced
by the most effective budget system that
cNIld be designed"
A telegram indorsing the work of the
National Budget Committee in inculcat-
ing thrift was received from Gov. Miller.
Benjamin Franklin ironically gave
thanks that the profteers have been
driven out of the country "They have
left the country" he said land that's
all they left us.
To-day is life insurance day" in the
National Thrift Week programme. In
the afternoon and evening hundreds of
officials and representatives of insurance
companies will speak at y. VI. C. A.
buildings, schools and factories. urging
the wisdom of safeguarding families by
insuring lives
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
SELF-DENIAL DAY
AT WOMEN'S CLUBS
Will Eat Bread and Cocoa, but
Pay for Regular Luncheons.

Cocoa and bread which are considered
. substantial meal by the 100000 starv-
ing children OF Europe. will be served
to-day at some of the exclusive women y
clubs. The regular luncheon price. rang
ing from IS cents 20 81 and $f.50. will be
charged for 25 cents worth OF nourlsh-
ment the difference TO go to the $685.
600 600 European Relief Council fund.
At the Colony Club the monday menu
will consist of chocolate and rolls. and at
the Women's City Club the board of d.
rcctors will encourage club members TO
partake OF this simple diet by ordering
IL themselves. a regular menu will be
provided for those who do not enter into
the spirit OF the day OF self-denial. as
Herbert Hoover. chairman Of the coun-
ell, has named Il. The Women'S Uni
versity Club will serve a slim meal at
the usual price. and the Cosmopolitan
Club and the Junior League Lunchroom
also will offer seR-denial luncheons.
The day Of self-denial. which Is under
the direction OF Mrs Willard Straight.
chairman Of the Emergency Committee
OF women's Organizations OF the Bor-
Ough of Manhattan. will be further OBJ
served by the installation of truck hut
service. Ten OF these so-called Hoover
iife saving stations viii be in charge Of
the women's committee. From noon un-
t.l o'clock there will be special attrac-
tions Mt the Sub-Treasury and the Public
Library. The American Red Cross Can
teen Service will be on hand TO take all
donations Henry Curran President OF
Manhattan Borough. will open the pro-
gramme at the Treasury.
The Womcn's City club will have a
hut Mt City Hall Park in charge of Mrs.
John Blair The League OF Women
Voters has taken ono at Broadway and
Seventy-second street. where Miss Sally
Peters viii be In charge. The Junior
League. with Mrs. Vanderbilt Webb ia
cnarge, will he stationed Al Sixth avenue.
opposite Bryant Park Other groups
represented arc tho Bryn Mawr Club.
Mrs. Edward Loomis director. al Madi-
son Square Park Red Cross Emergency
Canteen Service. Mrs. John Ellsworth d.
rector Thirty-fourth street and Seventh
avenue: Overseas League Red Cross.
Miss Alice Sherer director. Broadway
and Murray street; Y. VI. G. A.. Mrs.
Robert Mead director. at Union Square
Park. and a second hut IN charge Of Mrs.
Fdgerton Parsons for the League OF
Women Voters, at Columbus Circis
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
snow wouId Re Relief.

While DR. Flynn refuses 10 view the
srcat reduction G employment pes
sirnistically. his suborlinates who man
age the State Labor Departments EN-
ployment bureaus in this city do not
share his optimism. no use the repre-
sentative's own words. some OF them
are praying for snow" A heavy snow
fall, they feel. would relieve the pressure
on the bureaus for a period and thereby
tide over the uncertain period between
now and the advent OF spring. The
heads OF the various bureaus have COM
piled a list of several thousand men who
have manifested their willingness 60
shovel snow ~ necessary. No difficulty
is being encountered i'm obtaining volun-
teers for this work. DR.. Flynn says.
since they will receive sixty-ive cents an
hour during the day hours and ninety
hvc cents an hour for night work and
overtime.
Leaders Of the textile industries re-
ported 20 Dr. Flynn early in December
that there were upward OF $4,000 work
ers In the industry out Of work. Recent
reports from the same leaders indicate
tho industry rapidly IL resuming normal
The automobile industry OF the State ex-
pected to resume normal operations on
January I, but a set OF conditions over
which the heads Of the industry had no
control mas pTtFtnNtu AhtUl iEpii ~ N'-
ing. Several OF the lesser industries
that are suffering most from the period
OF depression are dependent entirely on
the automobile business. and as soon as
Il shows signs OF life there will be re-
sumption OF activity all along the line.
The greatest sufferers In the present
depression. according TO Dr. Flynn, are
the unslSilled laborers and the one trade
men. There is virtually nothing the un-
skilled man can do at the present time
except shovel snow, and there has been
none Of that go far. The one trade men
are but one step removed from the un-
skilled and must accept unskllled work
IN Il Is possible 10 obtain such until such
time as their trade booms. Directors OF
the state and Federal 'lahor departments
have found that these men cannot fill
clerical positions. which but n small per-
ccntage have agreed 20 accept II they
ian be found for them.
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
Naval Orders
ipccol Despatch TO THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washiuutou ~. Inn (

These naval orders have been made public
Lieutenant Commander Paul NJ. Bates, to
connection fitting out L. S. s. Wood and on
board when commissioned: Lieutenant Com
mander James u. Bobbitt, TO Second Ad-
vance Base Force. u s. Marines. San Diego
Cal; Lieutenant-C Commander Carleton r.
Bryant TO course instruction proving ground
Indian Head; Lieut.. Max Cohen, 70 marine
barracks. Paris Island, $. c.: Capt Joseph
x. Detrees, to naval gun factory washing
tom Lieut. John q. Farrell, to naval air
station. Hampton Roads: Lieut.. Francis G.
Herzog, TO course instruction Naval Medical
School, Washington: Capt. Walter NJ. Hunt
TO command u. s. Tacoma; Capt. Edward
s.. Jackson, to home and wait orders; Capt
Edgar II. Larimer. 10 navy Inspector OF ord
nance, In charge torpedo station, Alexandria.
Val Lieut.. Kneffer McGinnis, TO naval air
station, Rockaway Beach; Capt. William S.
Miller. TO command Y. s. 8. Camden. Lieut..
Alva a. Shadday. 10 duty naval hospital.
Great Lakes; Lieutenant Commander Her
man A. Spanagel George W. Wolf and Eli
mer i. Woodside. 10 course instruction. prov
Ing ground. Indian Head; Lieut.. Thomas e.
Nylly. 90 I, :. 8. Huron Lieutenant ON
mandeT Carroll NJ. Hall. TO T. s. s. Charles
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
UNITED TRUCK a. EQUIPMENT COM
PANI. INCORPORATED.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING.
Notice is hereby given that the annual
meeting of the stockholders of United Truck
and Equipment Company, Incorporated. will
be held at the office OF the company. on the
eleventh floor OF No. "a Broad street, In the
Borough OF Manhattan, City. County and
state OF New York, the 1st day of Feb
runry 1921. at o'clock In the afternoon.
for the purpose of electing directors for the
ensuing year and for the transaction OF such
other business as may properly come before
said meeting.
Tho polls will remain open for one hour.
The transfer books win be closed from
January 22d 10 February ist. inclusive.
Dated January 18th, 1921.
IT. NJ PLEUNT,, Secretary
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
rIrCTIoNs Am MEETINGS.

9TH January, 1921.
To the stockholders OF the billiard Hotel
Co..
meeting of the stockholders OF tho Hiillard
Hotel Company will be held on tho 3rd
ninetecnth. 1921, at the principal office OF
the company In the Vanderbilt Hotel 3Ith
strcet and Park Avenue, New York city at
ton o'clock, A. NJ. for the purpose Of elect
ing five Directors to serve until tho next
annual meeting of the Company, or until
their successors are elected, and two Inspoc-
tors OF Election to serve nj the next annual
meeting and for the transaction OF such
other business as may properly como before
said meeting.
The polls Win remain open from 10 A. NJ
20 1880 A.. NJ.
@. H. GRAY. Secretary.
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
ESTATES APpRAIsEn

LAEAlMLE, Reach (January i3 19iO1
erossestate Sii2.0S0: not estate, St0O,OT3,
Whole estate to her husband, Carl
Laemmlc.
ENRICH, Samuel W. april is, 1ofpl, gross
estate, Sl35G4l; net estate. S3s .O04 Tho
decedent owed his broker about 500 600
entire estate.
BLOOM, David February f2. 1920, gross
estate. S321,3Is; net estate. &275,sis. His
are the beneficiaries.
HEANE, Ida N. (June 2a, 1920, at goutl,
Windsor, Comm, gross estate, So, 900;
dsushters. and a Erandchiid are me leg
nfce-
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
SHOT Fatal no BABY.

Micheina Fiorito. years old died
yesterday In tho Stamford (Conn.) hos
pital Of injuries received Monday when
her slx-year-old brother. Antonio. shot
her through the forehead with n re-
volver. The shooting occurred In the
home Of the children's parents at North
Mianus. where the boy Is said 70 have
pried open a desk and found the
weapon.
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
MORE DRUNKS ARRESTED
IN 1920 THAN IN 1919
But the Total Is 5,8I3,
Against 1882 in 1917.

A yearly comparison OF arrests for
intoxication, as arraigned in the Magis-
trates' courts In this city from January
/, 1917, until January /. 1921. was made
public yesterday by Chief Magistrate
McAdoo. In 1917 there were 14.1S2 ar
rests: in 1918. 1884 arrests; in 1919
5,657 rrests. and i'm 1920. the first year
of nationwide prohibition. 5,S13 arrests.
The record by months in the city for
1920 shows:
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
INTERIOR RECEIPTS.
SEABOARD CLEARANCES
s. ISSUE IS ovERsUBsCRIBED.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1s.--Allotment Of
$310,6S6,500 of subscriptions for the 8 a
and So per cent. Treasury certificates
Of Indebtedness was announced tonight
by Secretary Houston. Subscriptions for
the two series totalled $5SS. .596.500. The
amount offered was about $3.50, 900, 900.
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
CHICAGO PRICES.


Greece was the heaviest buyer In yes
terday's cash wheat market for export
and purchased 1,500.0 900 bushels. Other
Continental countries bought 100000
bushels. making the days total about
100000 bushels. Reports from Chi
cago declared that the amount sold to
Greece was as much as 100000 bushels.
but the futures market did not indicate
opinion that the figures announced here
were nearer correct Sales OF corn to
foreign interests were estimated at about
$4,000 bushels. Fifty thousand were
reported here, $50, 900 in Chicago and
ness was thought to be mainly filling of
old orders by Eastern exporters. Rye
sales to Europe totalled about 10000
bushels. Domestic business continues
quiet. The flour trade did a routine
business, but was hampered by the
feverish tone of the wheat market.
NEW YORK PRICES.
NHEAT-No. 2 red and No. hard 81. OF
CORN-No. yellow. s77sc.; No. . mixed.
STSsc. c. l. (. n. y. 10 days shipment.
OATS-No. white quoted at 5slsc. No. .
white. 5I1c.; No. 3 white, 56l4c; No.
ordinary clipped white. 561sD5IMc.. all ele-
vator.
RYE-Market easy. No. Western. s1.eolA
f. o. b. and $1.s5ls C. /. {. y. Y.
BARLEY-Martet easy. Feeding, s4Q9oc. !;
mailing, a6m$1. .06 c. i. f. N. Y.
Neutrality-suspicious. easy. Sound mill
ing. $255 asked a 100 lbs.
HAX-Market barely steady. No. ], S1.T0
1S0 No. ., 81 $1.60q1.I0; No. 3, $1.45qf .55; /;
shipping, 81 25@S135
sTRAw-Marltet dull. No. ] rye. $17@1s