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New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

for the seventh son, coffin provided
and grave dug. Over the mound
flowers were spread and a tombstone
erected. 1t bore the name of Samuel
Collins.
The young man, however, turned his
eyes toward the United States. He
settled in stroudsburg, developed a
pronounced taste for art and finally
became great collector. He overcame
his jinx long enough to amass sub
stantial fortune, and his Judgment as
an art critic and connoisseur was held
in high esteem. He erected the Shir-
ley Inn at Stroudsburg, built a man.
sion, covered an estate with rare flow-
ers and surrounded himself with every
comfort.
Soon, however, misfortune overlook
him. Through gambling and specula-
tion. he met with serious financial re-
verses and his fortune dwindled away.
His sorrows we're increased by the sui
eide of his fourteen-year-ol daughter.
His wife, already in declining health,
grew worse. She Is now in q sani-
tarium at Haddonfield, N. J.
It is not known just when Collins
came to Newark. Four years ago he
attempted suicide by swallowing ITO
grains of sulphonal ut New York
hotel. He recovered at Bellevue.
He was identified as the former art
connoisseur yesterday by Frederick
Kerr Of the Kerr Art Store, Newark.
Mr.. Kerr and another former friend
arranged for the body to be sent to
Stroudsburg and placed beside that Of
his dAughteN
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Once Rich Morgan Art Agent,
Barely Escapes Pauper's Grave

Samuel Collins, seventy-hve years
old, died in Newark City Hospital
after being removed there from his
dingy furnished room. His worldly pos
sessions, so far as the hospital authori-
ties could determine, consisted of 81
cents and d pair Of gold cuff links.
Preparations were being made yester-
day to give him burial at potter's field,
when it WAS learned that the dead man
was Samuel Collins, the art connoisscur
and agent, who had once served in this
capacity for the late ]. Pierpont Nor
gan.
1t was learned also that there is at
Stroudsburg, Pa, a handsome mauso-
leum, which he built ten years ago for
himself and the members Of his family.
His body will be sent there, it was
said yesterday. Had "a onetime friend
Of the connoisseur's not appeared Mt
the last minute, the unhappy fate that
had pursued Samuel Collins throughout
his life would have followed him to his
grave.
Misfortune .clung TO the heels Of
Collins from childhood. He was born
in England, the seventh son of q man
who believed strongly in local super
stition attaching misfortune to sev-
cnth child. His father, convinced that
the bad luck, which seemed to follow
Samuel, would wreck his household,
made his son an outcast and sternly
demanded that the family consider him
ss one dead. A funeral" WAS arranged
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
BRAND Cabinet
Leans Toward
Policy of Force
Danger of Rupture Between
France and Germany Is
Declared Still to Exist
In Spite of Millerand
Poincare influence Felt
Loucheur Outspoken for
Militant Action to En-
force Terms of Treaty
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable to The Tribune


Copyright. 1921, New York Tribune Inc
PARIS, Jan. 18. - All danger Of
trouble between France and Germany
does not appear to have been disposed
OF by the elevation of BRAND to the
French premiership. BRAND encoun-
tered such powerful movement favor
ing strong attitude toward Germany
during his political negotiations that
he was forced to take this pressure
into account in forming his Cabinet
Some of his own ministers, particu-
larly Louis Loucheur, are now making
declarations savoring strongly Of the
Poincare policy Of force. Loucheur
even anticipates the day when the
Allies will have to take control of
Germany.
Although BRAND normally was Sc
lected to carry out the moderate policy
Of President Millerand, aiming at a
reasonable reparation agreement with
Germany, he has been compelled by
the force of political opinion to hold
another long conference with France q
ex-President, Poincar6.
BRAND Leans Toward Poincare
1t is rumored that BRAND is now
more in sympathy with Poincare in
some matters than he is with Millerand
and that the two statesmen might
have worked together in the same Cabi-
net if it had not been for Millerand,
The President, who believes that Poin-
cares strong policy is danger to
France and Europe, refused at any
price to call Poincare to the premier
ship.
Yelled attacks on President Millerand
have begun to appear in the press.
Newspapers which had been inclined
previously to support the President,
such as Eclair and Action Francaise,
are now criticizing him.
Loucheur, who year ago, with
Clemenceau, was chiefly responsible
for the reparations clauses of the
Treaty of Versailles, now sits in the
BRAND Cabinet as Minister Of Liber-
ated Regions. His declarations to-day
are highly significant. He said:
"We have discussed enough. Ger
many must pay 1t is for France, GER
tain of her right, to give them formal
notice that she has decided to do
everything necessary to make them
pay"
Loucheur says it would be q great
fault to have Germany pay her debt
with manufactured articles, for in this
way French industry would suffer.
"The only positive solution which
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New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Husband Finds Mrs. Berentsen
In Hotel by Trailing Letter
Mt Vernon Woman, Missing Since Saturday, Located
at the Lucernc After Directing That Missive
Bearing Check Be Sent to General Delivery

the Netherland and went to the I.u-
cerne.
Monday night, Mr.. Berentsen said, he
received letter from his wife asking
him to send check in care of General
Delivery. Mr.. Berentsen Immediately
notified Detective Newton Curtis, OF
Mount Vernon. Curtis advised him to
comply with his wife's request and
then go to the postoffice and watch. Mr.
berentsen went to the postoffice to-day
with Detective Curtis, he said, and
notified postoffice inspectors Of his
plans.
Bellboy Obtains Letter
At about o'clock this afternoon the
bellboy from the Hotel Lucerne came
in and got the letter for Mrs. Berent-
sen and Mr.. Berentsen and the detec-
tive followed him.
y was very much surprised that the
hotel management had not notified me
my wife was there" said Mr.. Berent-
sen, "but was told that nobody in the
hotel had read anything about the
police Of thre, states looking for her
in my automobile. She is in nervous
state, and am going to have physi-
clan examine her.
II had only recently brought hel
from DR.. Givens's sanitarium at STAN
ford, where she had been treated fol
two years for a nervous breakdown
She hadn't seen our boys for two years
but ! told her she was in no condition
to see them SO soon"
1t was reported tonight that Mrs
Berentsen may be sent back to the sani
tarium for further treatment, as it is
feared she may try again to escape.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
spec.a, Dispatch to rhs tribune


MOUNT VERNON, Jan. 49, Mrs
Richard B. Berentsen, who disappeared
from her home at 239 Primrose Avenue
here last Saturday, was found this af-
ternoon by her husband and detective
in the Hotel Lucerne, POI West Severity
ninth Street, New York Her where.
abouts became known after Mr.. Berent.
sen had trailed letter he sent tc
her "in care of general delivery, New
York Postoftice."
The letter contained q check, for
which Mrs. Berentsen had asked in
a letter she wrote to her husband Mon
day night and in which she also re.
Quested him to address his reply to the
postolhce. The letter was called for
by bellboy from the Hotel Lucerne
the detective.
Started OF for Cambridge
: Mr.. Berensten said tonight that
his wife, who had returned home from
a sanitarium only short time ago and
who was very nervous, left home Sat
urday night with the intention of go.
young sons, who are living with Mr.
Be entsen's sister there
She walked to the estate of the late
James Bailey, where she asked a mo.
torist to take her to the Harlem Rail-
road station at Mount Vernon. She
there boarded train to New York and
went to the Hotel Netherland. She
stayed there all night, but could not
pay her bill the next morning, accord
ing to Mr.. Berentsen. She pledged her
watch as security for the bill and left
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Cabinet Job Is
Only Half Done
AS Parleys End
Five Places Are Virtually
Settled as Harding Pre-.
pares to Depart on Vaca-
tion Tomorrow Night
Two in Treasury Race
Choice Lies Between Mel
lon and Dawes; Four in
Line for Commerce Post
From a staff Correspondent

From, a StuT Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, Jan. 18.--President-
elect Warren G.. Harding leaves his
front porch at midnight Thursday for
a vacation in Florida with his Cabinet
only half formed. His foreign policy,
however, is as complete as circum-
stances warrant. The meeting of
minds here is history, and it is known
that Mr.. Harding's attitude toward a
society Of nations remains precisely
what it was when he spoke here as the
Republican nominee on August %.
Charles E. Hughes is going to be
Secretary of State. Harry M. Daugh-
erty will be Attorney General. Henry
M. Wallace will be Secretary of Agri-
culture. Fvrmer Senator John w.
Weeks probably will be Secretary of
War, and Will II. Hays is the most
likely individual under consideration
for Postmaster General. The remain
der OF the Cabinet is in every sense
Of the word slate, with everything
the remaining Offices will be shifted
and reshifted many times before the
President-elect reaches q definite and
appointing frame of mind.
Aims to Fulfill Pledge
There are several reasons now for
believing that Mr.. Hardngs last act
as private citizen before entering
the White House will be to announce
the names of his official family, Those
men, he declared during the campaign,
would be the most capable he could
find. It is sincere desire to fulfill
that promise, it is believed, that i'm
pels Mr.. Harding to resist the i'm
portunites Of political creditors and
start off OH his Indian River house
boat vacation with his mind open re-
garding half of these appointments.
There remain but two strong con-
tenders for the Office of Secretary of
the Treasury, which carries with it
the distribution of the most valuable
patronage, Charles g. Dawes, of Chi
cago, and Andrew w. Mellon, Of Pitts
burgh, are the candidates. Both are
bankers. Mr.. Dawes made an excellent
record as brigadier general during
the war, and for that reason his ap-
pointment appeals strongly to Mr..
Harding. But Mr.. Dawes also has
powerful enemies in the United States
Senate who are understood to have
agreed to fight his confirmation in case
ht is named.
MIR. Mellon wasn't in France during
the war, but his candidacy is backed by
the leading Republicans of Pennsyl-
vania, and his confirmation would not
be opposed by the Senate, tremen-
dously important consideration at this
time. 1t was said here to-day by the
person In position to know that no.
body was opposing Mr.. Mellon.
If Mr.. Mellon should win out there
is reason to believe that it would be
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New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Brooklyn Men
AT Albany Unite
In BRIT. Fight
Legislators Form Alliance to
Prosecute the Inquiry to
Show Whether the Road
Is Acting in Good Faith
Service Board Assailed
Both Sides in Traction Bat
tie Eagerly Await Word
From Miller on Situation
From a STAFF corresoondept

ALBANY, Jan. 18.-Determined THAI
no stone shall be left unturned in the
effort to discover whether the discon-
tlnuatlon by the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
SIT Company of q number of its lines
has been made in good faith, the
Brooklyn members of the Legislature
to-day formed an alliance to prosecute
this inquiry.
The action followed on the heels of
the introduction last night by Senator
William T. Simpson, Republican, of
Brooklyn, of resolution calling upon
the New York City Public Service
Commission to investigate the underly-
ing causes for the closing down of the
South Park Slope and other Brooklyn
Rapid Transit lines. 1t was charged
that the Public Service Commission
had declined to furnish information to
cltizens requesting data on this score.
Want End of Receivership
Party lines have been obliterated in
the desire of the Brooklyn legislators
to seek thorough investigation of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit and, incident
ally, to terminate what Senator Alvah
W. Burlingame jr., Republican. of
Brooklyn, characterzes as "friendly
receivership." Senator Burlingame
said to-day he will do everything in his
power to bring this about.
The meeting of the Brooklyn legis-
lators took place shortly before the
opening of to-day's session. 1t resulted
in the creation of an informal steering
committee comprising the Brooklyn
members.
Senator Simpson was appointed chair
man of the committee and Assembly
man James G.. Monroe, also "a Republi-
can, secretary.
The committee will meet again next
Monday evening to consider furth er
action.
Await Word From Miller
The fight for increased fare legisla-
tion promises to be one of the big is
sues of this session. Both sides are al
ready lined up, and they are anxiously
awaiting some word from Governor Mil
ler on the transit situation and re-
organization of the Public Service
commissions.
1t is doubtful whether the Governor
will touch upon the fare question in
his message, which, it is expected, will
be submitted to the Legislature within
the next week or two.
Asse semblyman Edmund B. jerks. Re-
publican, of B1oome, who is handling
the increased fare bill, announced to-
day that he would seek q conference
with Governor Miller before completing
the drafting of his traction bills.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Father Held as Wife's
Slayer Shielded by Son
Special DiSptLtch TO This Tribune

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 1s.-Albert Troy,
nine years old, tried for twelve hours
to-day to convince the police that he
and not his father had killed the boys
mother, Mrs. Marie Troy, twenty eight,
who was shot dead at midnight Iass
night. She was i'll in bed at the time
Of the shooting.
The boys father, Walter c. Troy, a
former. special policeman for the Penn
sylvania Railroad, when arrested in
connection with the crime denied he
was guilty and contended chat Albert
had shot his mother accidentally. All
day the boy. hoping to bring the re-
sponsibility on his own shoulders. told
the police that he had fired the shot.
but late tonight he broke down and
admitted that he had not.
Mrs. Emma Condor, mother of Wal
ter Troy, told the police that her son
had had revolver In his possession
last night and that she had heard him
threaten hia wife.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Mexican Dam Breaks:
Is Killed, 20 Injured
Rumors That Rebels Wrecked
Structure Are Current. but
Lack Proof
Specia. Cable 10 The Trfbua,

MEXICO CITY, Jan. lS.-Eighteen
persons were killed and twenty-six were
injured to-day, when the Xotol Dam,
two miles above the town of Pachuca,
burst, flooding the valley to depth ci
several feet. ss<~
Rumors are current that the burst
ing of the dam was the work of rebels,
but these cannot be confirmed here. Tao
mining companies are leading in tho
rescue and relief work in the stricken
area.
Pachuca. capital of the State Of
Hidalgo. lies fifty-five miles northeast
Of Mexico City. In that vicinity ars
rich silver mines. The town lies at
an altitude OF about $500 feet. It is
one Of the oldest mining towns in
Mexico. The electrical power of Mex
ico City is obtained from the impcund =
Ing dam at Pachuca. The town has q
population ot about 10000.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Baroness de Korwin Sues
For Divorce i'm Chicago
Daughter of Late Otto Young,
Millionaire Merchant, Charges
NOhIemau Deserted Her

CHICAGO, Jan. 18.--Baroness Cecilie
Young dc Korwin, daughter Of the late
Otto Young, pioneer millionaire mcr-
~hant, to-day filed suit for divorce ir
the Superior Court against her hus-
band, Baron Joseph dc Korwin. The
baroness charges that her husband de-.
serted her in Paris eight years ago.
Baron de Korwn, who was captain
in the Austrian army when the war
broke out, last month applied for a
court order requesting the custody of
his cight-year-old son, whom, he
claimed, he had not seen since 1914.
The principals in the case gained at
tention In 1913, when Federal authori-
ties investigated the Young eytate, said
TO have been $25,0000o0, with the in
tention Of eonfscating IL under the
alien property act The baroness, how
ever, was exempted on the ground thEt
she had separated from her husband ut
the beginning Of the war.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

world that comprises this snail pre-
cinct. People in the neighborhood
could not believe the news when they
heard it last night.
The station house is at 434 West
Thirty Street, and was built in
1870. Hereafter the territory of the
23d Precinct will be covered by the
police of the West Thirtieth Street sta
ton, commanded by Captain Joseph A.
Howard, who was transferred there fol-
lowing the indictment few days ago OF
Captain William A. Bailey.
Held Crime Record
Captain Howard had been in COM
mand of the West Thirty-seventh
Street house for several years. The
men of his old command will be at
tached hereafter to the Thirtieth Street
house.
The old Thirty seventh Street house
had the reputation Of having housed
more murderers. men accused of felo-
nious assaults and other crimes of vio-
lence than any other station in the city
At one time policeman attached to
this precinct took his life in his hands
every time he went out on q tour Of
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New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Will Request
Indictment of Another
Police Captain To-day
Hells Kitchen Station Closed
In Widespread Police Shakeup
Orders Issued Without Warning or Explanation
Also Abolish 18th Inspection District and
Make Many Other Changes

Another widespread shake-up gripped
the Police Department yesterday. Sew
eral inspectors were transferred, dis
tricts altered and one precinct station
and one inspection district abolished.
AT midnight last night the Twenty
second Precinct police station closed
its doors for the last time. The clos
ing came as distinct shock to the old
timers in the neighborhood, only few
Of whom had heard that the historic
station house was to be abolished In
and about West Thirty Street,
which takes in section of the city
that once was notorious as Hell's
Kitchen, the old building that housed
the "bulls" had won a certain affection
even in the hearts Of those furtive
persons in whom antagonsm toward
the police was inherent.
The announcement Of the abolition
Of the West Thirty-seventh Street sta
tion came from headquarters, and it
came without warning to the little
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Gold Nips New York as
Mercury Hits Z Above
BAYS Highest, Is Degrees, Hud-
son Frozen at Tarrytown;
Slightly Warmer To-day

ssw YORK shivered in temperature
re. ranged from 10 1s degrees above
~, throughout the day. The lowest
AaI. was reached at a. m. At $
- ". ne thermometer showed 8 de-
ire nipping gales that swept the five
sosongns Monday subsidized Yesterday.
ne temperature alone was enough
- .on'iace every one that the belated
f.sf fnssf season had arrived at last.
s.s .eI.yt>wn spread the news 10 the
rs rs mat the Hudson River was
sss.ssh ss. over at that point, and that the
ssay 70 Nysck had been saspended.
.;lts ns Weather Bureau predicted last
~ that the mercury would rive q
ysilsng. ~ ''"''1"'s "'hdS pre-
~ iorkers vino gqueezed their way
&C., s9oway ears yesterday morning
kis'ned bitterly og the lack Of heat
= sas trains. Some Of these Droterrs
= ssgnsa JaMw y. Walker. secretxrv
Z III sas Pubiic ssrviee Comn.ission' III
sns transit Companies we're IN.
a. ofasfs to maintain teupsrature In
- ~. sfa'ns ranging from AZ 10 e5 de-.
ss. ssss.. he said tnst inspectors y1uId
s,ssfstiEase TO-DAY. ''s~" ""N'
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Police Baked by Ciantess

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. ls.-Malinds
Ogden, weight $50 pounds, scored q
clean beat over Lieutenant Archie Holt
amateur wrestling star Of the Rich
mQnd police force. when the officer tried
to arrest her single handed for alleged
traffic in drugs.
= A hurry cali brought him reinforce
ments, and the prisoner Was walked to
the city Jail, only to create further en-
barrassment. She wouldn't fit the cell
doors, so she sat outside until released
on bail.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Knife and Pistol Flash
In Socialist Congress
Former New York Newspaper
Man Is Storm Center of Riot
GUS Scene Lastinu 35 Minutes

LEGHORN, Jan. 18.-Vincenzo Va
crca, Socialist Deputy from Sicily,
who was in the United States seven
years ago as a lecturer and writer on
New York and Boston newspapers. was
the center Of tumultouons scene in
the Socialist Congress to-day.
"You wish revolution with the
knife" said Vacirca, looking toward
Signor Bombacci, the head Of the ex-
tremists, who sat in box, ard draw
ing a penknfe from his vest pocket.
II wish revolution by the revolver u
retorted Bombacci, as he pulled a re-
volvcr from his pocket and pointed it
at Vacirca.
T. Tho incident threw tho entire con.
grcss into chaos, the demonstration
lasting thjrty-Ave minutes.
NAssAU--TAKE "FLORIDA SPECIAL
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Pa. r. r. Orders
Five Day Week
Or Big Lay Off
Unless E cry Employee
Agrees to the Shorter
Schedule 20 Per Cent of
Workers Will Lose Jobs
Officials Also Are Hit
Company Directs Reduction
of so Per Cent in the
Personnel of Its Staff
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18. - Unless
every one Of the employees of the
Pennsylvania Railroad system agrees
to lay off one day each week q 20 per
cent reduction will be made in the
working force of the entire system.
Train crews that heretofore have
been operating what is known as a
single train in the future will double
up; that is, one crew will do the work
that two crews have DONE
The official personnel of the system
will be reduced so per cent.
These three orders have gone out
over the Pennsylvania system.
To-day saw the beginning Of CEN
sus being taken of employees in this
district, who are asked to volunteer to
lay Off one day a week Trainmen,
telegraphers, yardmen, clerks, roadmen,
freight handlers and every class of
worker on the entire system will be
asked to sign an agreement saying that
he or she is willing to lay off one day a
week until such time as the railroad
company sees fit to restore all en-
ployees to full time.
Reduction Ordered Immediately
While there is no actual demand that
employees agree to accept the reduc-
ton in time, It is made known in the
circular that unless they do they must
face the alternative of q 20 per cent
reduction in the working forces of the
entire system, this reduction to be put
into operation Immediately. So far as
could be learned here to-day, the rail-
road company places no time limit on
the period the new order of things is to
remain in effect.
Hundreds of train and yard crews
are employed in the various big rail-
road terminals in this district The
doubling up of the work for the crews
will reduce the number of trainmen
now employed nearly one-half. For
several months q steady reduction in
the number of train employees has
been under way. Under the new order
several hundred additional men will
be thrown out of employment here.
The rule will apply to the entire
system, according to word received
here.
Many Officials Must Go
Probably the most drastic rule being
put into force by the Pennsylvania
company is the reduction of the off,
cial personnel of the system to so per
cent of its present number This re-
duction, according to present plans, it
is said, will run the gamut from highly
placed officials down to those occupying e
positions as private secretaries to
higher officers.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Vienna Relief CASH Stolen

yIEsNA, jan. Is.~~Ofices Of the
American Qnakeys' Society, which haa
been engaged in relief work, were en-
tered recently by burglars and one mil
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

"a ~ Osgcs Heip7 wAeawsks workers
1Ss5ssasssss 1Ss5sMsss assS res1 Ins Tribune. VfonG
Sr biAse II through any ~ sys Th4
q Il 1' = sns ~ AGsztsy--AAvf.
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19
Many Officials Must Go

WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. IS. APP
proximately $500 employees on the
Southern Grand Division Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, which has it's head
quarters here. will be laid off as a
result of general order for 20 per
cent reduction in the working force, it
was announced tonight
New-York tribune., 1921-01-19

NAssAU--TAKE "FIORIDA SPECIAL"
70 Miami Semi -wreky satIinBg. Atlantic
Cexss Line ". u. Once. 12As H'wAy---Adv.