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The New York herald., 1921-10-23
A T the New York symN>ny Or
~ chestra's first Sunday concert

A T the New York symEbny Or
~ chestra's first sunda3 concert
Of the season this afternoon in
Aeolian Hall a new symphonic poem.
THE Hill Of Dreams" by Louis Gruen-
berg. will be played for the first time.
The composition won the Flagler prize
of $1,000. the judges in the contest
being John Alden Carpenter. Leopold
tokowski. George w. Chadwick.
Franz Kneisel and Walter Damrosch.
The other numbers on the pro-
gramme are Andante con variazioni,
Beethoven, from string quartet in A.
opus 1s. No. 5, and Symphony in d
minor, Cesar Franck.
Josef Stransky opens the eightieth
season of the Philharmonic Society on
Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall with
the first appearance of the orchestra In
its new personnel Scipione Guidi Is the
concertmaster The strings include con-
siderable number of National Symphony
men, while the Philharmonic OF last
year has contributed most Of the wind
instruments. The first programme.
which will be repeated on Friday after
noon. comprises the Fifth symphony OF
Beethoven. Daniel Gregory Mason's
Prelude and Fugue for Piano and Or
chestra, given for the first time at these
concerts. in which the orchestra will be
assisted by John Powell. pianist; Rach-
rnaninov's symphonic poem. The Isle
of the Dead" and the prelude to THE
Mastersingers." Mr.. Rachmaninov has
revised the score OF his poem, curtail-
ing the length OF the composition and
supplying n new ending.
With sixty-eight New York and
Brooklyn concerts included In its sched-
uie for the season. the Philharmonic
reports the largest subscription In the
history OF the society.
The first OF the popular priced Sunday
evening concerts AT the Hippodrome will
take place tonight, with O programme
given by Giuseppe De Luca. barytone
Mishel Piastro. violinist. and Miss
Minna EImsn, soprano. Miss Gilman
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
Dear Me" and Romance
At Uptown Theatres

Dear Me" is the comedy with songs
In which Miss Grace LaRue and Hale
Hamilton. who wrote 1t with Winchell
Smith, will appear at the Riviera Thea
tre the week starting tomorrow. John
Golden. It's producer, has utilized the
same everyday elements in several other
successes, notably 'Lightnin' " and 1.-THE
First Year.:
Under the direction Of Lee Shubert
Miss Doris Keane In Romance" will
appear at the Bronx Opera Hause next
week. Ivan Sampson and A. E. Anson
head the supporting company. She re-
vived Edward Sheldon's play successfully
last season at the Playhouse.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

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The New York herald., 1921-10-23
MISS CARTL BENSEI
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AEOLiAN HALL.

that each should receive one private
half hour lesson weekly for the school
year.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
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The New York herald., 1921-10-23

Major Joseph Carmoreau Hattie. U.
s. A., and Mrs. Hattie, who were mar
ried in Washington, d. c., on October
IL. have arrived in New York and are
at the Hotel Astor for a few days be-
fore going to Canada. wkere they will
spend the remainder of their HONEYMOON
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

Mime. Emmy Dcstlnn, soprano. having
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bigelow Ken
nard of the Hotel LIE Marquis, this city,
have announced the engagement of their
daughter, Miss Marie Wentworth Ken
nard. to Mr.. Grant Maxwell Lyons. son
of Col. and Mrs. U. G. Lyons OF 270
West End avenue Miss Kennard is
granddaughter of the late Judge Asa
Wentworth Tenney, and is graduate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
An Economic Crisis Hangs Over Bolshevik
Soviet Newspapers Now Admit
Severest Crisis of Red Regime

In the Donetz district the output of coal
has been only S5 per cent of the pro-
gram. In the Moscow mining district,
too, the production has decreased.
"To make the calamity complete,
there are the droughts following upon
an almost snowless winter. The Volga
territory is under the menace of fam
ire, owing to poor harv' On the
other hand, in some parts, for instance
in the western portion of the Ukraine,
the outlook is good.
"The prospects of realizing the har-
vest by means of the tax in kind, as
we'll as by free purchase, are never
theless fairly satisfactory 1t is ex-
pected to establish a 100000 000-pooc
grain reserve, which would make 1t pos
sible to put industry on q firm footing.
With this end in view it WILL of course,
be necessary to strain the government
and the cooperative apparatus to the
utmost. as was suggested by Lenine
ait must. of course, be borne in mind
that no war is going on at present, the
Red army is being demobilized and Will
shortly have been reduced to one-half
of its former strength. The idea OF
Intervention in the Far East does not
seem to meet with the approval of the
powers, which are up to their ears
in troubles of their own which, IN
spite of all their efforts, they are un-
ohio ~ overcome
Nevertheless, everything points to
the fact that Soviet Russia, notwith-
standing the great difficulties she has
to face in the present period of transit
ton, is slowly yet steadily advancing
on the road to restitution of her
economic life"
A congress of food supply officials
of all Russia called by Lenine to work
out plan of averting the worst effects
of the threatened famine and to devise
means for collecting the available
foodstuffs has just closed at Moscow
Most of the speakers were pessimistic,
according to the Moscow Bolshevik
newspapers. 1t was shown that, be-
cause of the disorganized state of
transportation, grain would rot in the
fields in the productive regions, while
the cities would have to be put on short
rations unless food could be imported
from abroad
The disorganization of the railway
traffic has become worse, despite eff
forts of the Soviet government to allie
viate it.
Little or none of the locomotive and
other railway equipment ordered from
abroad has yet arrived. The made
quate supply of workable rolling stock
depleted by. the necessity Of fmlAlling
peace treaties which Soviet Russia
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
Fusion Candidates Platform
Will Include Five Big Problems
Transit, Housing, Schools Finance and City Charter
Designated by Borough President, and
He Points TO His Record

nominated on the Republican ticket
for President OF the Borough of Man
haitian, to fiji the unexprcd term.
covering the two years OF 1920 and
1921, of Borough President Frank l.
bowling, who had died in Septcna ber,
1919. On a straight Republican ticket.
without the aid of fusion OF other II
dorsements, ne carried the borough Of
Manhattan by majority Of 5000 votes.
political feat without precedent in
the history Of the borough He re-
signed his position as city magistrate
and is now serving as President of the
Borough of Manhattan.
AS President of the Borough of Man
haitian Mr.. Curran has served for the
las. eighteen months as one Of the
Republican minority in the Board OF
Estimate and Apportionment He has
also been the only Republican head of
a department in the present city adj
ministration.
Mr.. Curran has been a consistent OPP
ponent of Mayor Hylan and mis- Tam
many associates. He opposed the build
ing of the courthouse at this time OF
sponsored the tax exemption ordi
nance, which was finally approved.
after hard fight, in both the Board of
Estimate and Appointment and the
Enhr
last, the date that the Curran tax ex
cmption ordinance became effective,
plans for slO0,o00,0O0 worth of new
homes have been fled in the FIVE
boroughs Mr.. Curran originated a
plan for greater financial independence
for the public schools that has met ap-
prevail in educational circles through
cut the city. He opposed the scheme
of Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig
for 20 per cent fat salary in
crease for city employees last fall as
being unfair to the low-paid man. His
attitude on this matter was largely re
sponsible for the Mayors fip-fop on
the question.
He stopped the plan of Mayor Hy-
lan's memorial committee to erect a
marble monument in Madison Square,
at a cost of $4,000 as a war memo
rial to those who had made Liberty
Loan speeches during the war, on the
ground that this money might better
be spent to help soldiers who are dis
abled or out Of jobs.
His department will cost the taxpay-
ers $500, 900 less in 1921 than in 1920,
based on the 1920 rate of expenditure
This saving was accomplished without
the discharge of an employee or the re-
duction of single salary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
Outlines the Issues Of the Municipal Campaign
saved City 100000 in Year
As Head of Manhattan Borough
Feat Accomplished Without Discharging Man or
Reducing Salary; Explains S'Cobweb''
Plan TO Solve transportation

hub of wheel---that is lower Manhat-
tan--with spokes radisting in every
direction from the hub and ending in
the air
"There is no rim to this wheel; 1t is
only hub and spokes.
Here is city plan that is fatal,
on it's face, to any comfortable trans
portation of our citizens If you would
go from the Bronx to Brooklyn you
must begin at the outer end Of that
spoke in the Bronx, go down into the
hub in lower Manhattan and, then, out
another spoke until you land in the
air again somewhere in Brooklyn.
'The same is true if you 60 from
Brooklyn to Queens--you must go
through lower Manhattan.
Z. "What we need is rim to that
wheel--a belt line between the rim and
the hub, so that people going from
Brooklyn to Queens may go directly
over crosstown line instead of having
to struggle through the congested hub
of the wheel in lower Manhattan. The
same holds true between Queens and
the Bronx. The same holds true be-
tween Brooklyn and Richmond.
"Instead of transportation picture
that looks like the hub and spokes OF
gwheel without any rim, we should
have q cobweb design. In cobweh
YOU will find that the spider, wisely
enough, provides rim and interior
rims, or laterals or belt lines, In add
ton to the strands that compose the
hub and the spokes, and that is sensl-
BILE plan. built by sensible insect Tor
business purposes
Mr.. Curran is equally emphatic
about the freight problem in transpor-
tation, and he pointed out that every
phase of activity of the citizens is
based upon the freight transit sltua'
ton. Connected with this problem, he
said. is the marketing of supplies and
foodstufrs, vital to all the city.
On the transit question generally Mr
Curran declared that he was five-cen'
fare advocate and firm believer and
supporter in the question of home rule
Bound up with this problem, however
is the general subject Of city planning
he said. and expressed his views briefly
as follows:
"The thing that makes the situation
80 bad is the futile fancy we have fol
doing our work as far away as pos
sible from where we live. This is not
our fault as individuals, nor that Of
our forefsthers 1t is the fault OF
| lack of government leadership that has
| allowed business and manufacturing tt
nile I'D in the lower part of the lslanc
of Manhattan.
GAS soon as the ground itself was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
US. Relief Bureau Feeds
$4,000 Russian Students
g, 264 in Warsaw Alone Given
One Meal Daily for Half
Cent

WARSAW, July Is (by maiD FIT
the. main educational. centers of War
saw, Iemberg, Cracow, Lublin, Posen
and Wilma are being fes done meal a
day by the American Relief Admins
tration of the European Children's
Fund this summer Warsaw has five
kitchens devoted to serving food to
1894 students. the other towsn hav-
ing smaller numbers.
The Polish Ministry of Approvisa-
ton has been assisting in this work,
having furnished the American relief
workers with. 10000 pounds of pota-
toes at so cents below market price.
Government authorities of Posen made
an out and out gift of 10000 pounds
of potaties to be used locally in the
student feeding.
The students beneftting by this spe-
cial provision of the A. r. A. are all
over seventeen years cid, the students
paying the nominal price Of ten marks
meal TO assist in covering the rents,
service and supplementary foodstuffs
purchased locally. At the present rate
of exchange ten marks is about one
half OF an American cent in value.
In addition TO this task the A. r. A.
is feeding more than 100000 children
in Poland up to the age of seventeen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07

position from Mayor Gaynor, Of an
aldermanic committee to Investigate
the administration Of the Police De-
partment, and as chairman of that
committee conducted a thorough in
vestigation lasting a year, and result
ing in many Recommendation Cor the
better handling of the department.
Most of these recommendations were
adopted by Police Commissioner
Woods. The Curran committee, as it
was called, was the first to recomme nd
an increase of the frst-year patrol
mans pay from $500 to $1,000 year.
Mr.. Curran became majority leader
of the 1914-'15 Board of Aldermen,
which came to be known as "the best
Board of Aldermen New York ever
had" 1t was under his leadership that
this board enacted sound building
code, previous attempts having re-
large expenditure of the city's money
without legislative result. The board
also codifed the city ordinances; did
away with many old fashioned perqui-
licensing of fruit stands and perform
ing of marriages for a consideration
in the old marriage chapel of the City
Hall, and accomplished many other
improvements. The work of the board
was so we'll done that very liSy&e legis-
lot %ol
of the substantial work of the 1914
rs board has been overturned.
During his six years work in the
Board of Aldermen Mr.. Curran acted
from time to time as president of the
board and as Mayor of the city, and had
much to do with the work of the Board
of Estimate. In 1916 Mr.. Curran was
nominated for the presidency of the
ling, to fill the unexpired term OF
George McAneny, resigned. He was
defeated by Mr.. Bowling, receiving
1000 votes to the lattcr's 100000
which was considered very close run
in view of Mr.. Dowling's strength and
the absorption of public interest in the
Presidential campaign of that year
Mayor Mitchell appointed him city
magistrate in 1917.
When the war began he left his po-
sition as city magistrate to enroll in
The first Plattsburg camp. He was
commissioned major and assigned tc
the 77th Division. Major Curran saw
active service overseas with the di.
vision on the yesle River and in the
Argonne Forest. In December, afte,
the armistice he was taken sick anc
was invalided home in April, 1919.
Almost Immediately upon resuminf
his duties as city magistrate he wa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07

eminent has got to be the rider here,
and the rider has got to lead the horse
back in the right direction. We have
got to help people to work near their
homes and to live near their work and
to play near their homes as we'll"
The interview took place in the sit
ting room Of Mr.. Curran's home in the
apartment house at 81 West Eleventh
Street. Some small boys were playing
nall on the street below, and theiA
shouts echoed up in the wake of q
harsh note from q passing automobile
"There is another of our problems"
he said, providing Fairgrounds for
our children. This street is heavy
automobile thoroughfare, and during
the day heavy trucks pass through it.
Every moment the children are play
ing on it they are in danger
"And then there are the schools We
are far behind in the construction of
schools. We have never caught up. If
we had an even distribution of people
among the five boroughs we should
still be behind. We need more schools,
and we need to put those we have into
better repair"
On the subject of housing Mr.. Cur
ran intimated that he would continue
along the lines that are developing so
successfully as result Of the measure
he succeeded in getting passed by the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07

seventh Mayor Of the greater city.
They seem to be prophetic figures"
Mr. Curran was born in New York
City in 1877, was graduated from Yale
in 1898, from the New York Law School,
in 1901 and practiced law and did news
paper work until 1911, when he became
member of the Board of Aldermen
to fill an unexpired term. He was
elected Alderman in 1911, 1913 and
1915. In 1912 he was made chairman
of the Finance Committee of the board,
which carries with it membership in
the Sinking Fund Commission, and
made an enviable record for thorough
examination of the city's financial
matters and limitation of special
revenue bond issues to actual needs.
After the Rosenthal murder, in the
summer of 1912, he secured the ap-
pointment, in the face of bitter OPP
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
The photographs show Lenine addressing crowd of hiss
adherents in Moscow Trosky reviewing company of
Boshevk troops These the latest pictures of the Red
leaders

curate data of the decrease in in
dustry in comparison with pre-war
times The 1920 production, he said,
of iron ore was pa per cent of pre-
war; salt, IT per cent; coal, 20 per
cent; pig iron, 2ls per cent; other raw
iron, 2 to per cent. cotton manufac-
lures, 5 to 6 per cent; linen thead, rs
per cent; matches, 10 per cent sugar,
per cent, and tobacco, 5 per cent.
Therefore" said Brukanotf, "home.
manufactures will in no way be suf-
ficient for goods exchanged with the
peasants. From abroad must be i'm
ported at least eighty to- ninety mil
lions of gold ruhles worth of goods,
but under present circumstances this
is impossible"
Halatof, one of the actual directors
of supply, said the government would
be lucky to get from all sources 3Oo,-
100000 pools and. therefore, either for
eign imports or decreased rationing
would be necessary.
Complicating both the food and
transport crises is the. extremely
serious fuel shortage. causing on one
hand curtailment Of rail traffic and, ON
the ether, the closing down of fac
tories. BY imports from abroad the
government is endeavoring to get coal
to operate the factories, but while the
Third Internationale was approving the
English strike the strike was delay
ing shipments of coal to Petrograd for
this parposs. -..-..---. 49,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07

revenue because most travellers are
governme emit officials and very seldom
are travelling private persons. To
travel one must get q pocket full of
permits, unless she desires to take his
chances with the mobs riding on the
tops of trains carrying bags of food
to the cities. Practically no one pays
fares, but the government has just
instituted new tariff by which it
hopes to charge for tickets, in Bolshe-
vik rublcs, about 1000 times the fares
prevailing in 1917.
The Railway Commissariat budget
calls for the expenditure of 34S 900 000,-
900 rubles for 1921 and shows no ex-
pected revenue To transport suf-
ficient food to the cities is one prob
lem; to produce in factories sufficient
articles to barter with the peasants for
grain is another. This latter task il
admittedly difficult. The government
estimates called for manufacture of
tradeahle articles to the value of 1907
100000 of pools (each thirty-six
pounds) of grain. Speakers before the
food supply conference at Moscow ex-
pressed the opinion, Bolshevik news
papers themselves say, that the govern
n.ent would be lucky to get by this
means half ef that estimate.
Iron Output of Russia Three
Per Cent of Pre-War Figures
Brukanoif. speaking at the con-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07

all occupied by one, two, three or four
stories, the horizontal pressure caused
the business buildings to erupt into
the air in the shape of the skyscrapers
that are so familiar to US. It was only
five years ago that we adopted an ordi-
nance to correct the overgrowth of this
congestion, but now we must 20 furth-
er. We must establish business and
factories in the other boroughs. That
involves passenger transit. freight
transit, dock development and the whole
scope of intelligent city planning.
~ believe this should be the prin-
cipal task of the next Board of Esti-
mate. The present board has had
neither the ability nor the vision to
have anything to do with it. Too long
we have striven, in our transit and
housing efforts, to stay aboard horse
galloping in the wrong direction. Gov
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07

Board of Aldermen and the Board of
Estimate by his vigorous advocacy. The
solution of the problem caused By the
shortage of homes has received the
utmost attention from him next t., mis-
duties as President of the Borough
of Manhattan during The past year. AMI
he preferred to stand on that record.
The chaos into which the finances
of the city have fallen during the past
four years should have special atscn.
ton, he declared, and added that it
would be gone over thoroughly in the
platform that will be drawn up before
the primaries are held. This is one Of
the most imposing problems of the
city, he said, and he deferred detailed
discussion Of it until the platform is
framed.
Throughout the interview Mr.. Cur
ran spoke with the earnestness. Of con-
viction. He has studied all the prob
lens carefully, believes he has evol 7cd
the general plan on which solution
can be developed, and is sure Of HIM
self. Of the possibility of his success
at the next election he is convinced
He expressed his emphatic belief that
he would be successful in confident but
not boastful terms.
"This is the seventh time have
been candidate for elective office,
he said, "and if elected will be the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07
Large Crowds Obserye
Bombsrdmcnt of Clouds

Large crowds of the more optimistic
were out on Blackheath and Hamp
stead Heath last week to watch the
bombardment of the clouds by anti
aircraft guns. Hundreds of tons of
high explosives were sent up, in the
form of bombs and rockets. but the
sky remained clear and cloudless as
it had been before the firing began
Most of the former service men. par
ticularly those who had fought in the
first Battle of the Somme, were sSep-
teal, calling attention to the fact Ia.
severe spell Of dry weather along
the battle front had not been affected
by the terrific bombardment CT mat
offensive.
An aviator who few over London in
an attempt literally to blast moisture