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The New York herald., 1922-03-26
CITY ENDS CUT RATE
TICKETS ON FERRY
Nickel Cash Fare for All on
Staten Island Boats AT
ter April 80.

Notices announcing the abolition on
April 80 OF Communication rates on muni-
cipal ferry lines to Staten Island were
posted yesterday in terminals and boats
by order of Grover A. Whalen. Commits
sioner of Plant OF Structures. The or
der read:
"The discrimination in favor OF GER
tain classes in passenger rates on the
Staten Island municipal ferry will be
eliminated effective April 80. 1922.
Thereafter. all passengers will pay the
same fare. The Communication rate al
lowed passengers from one railroad line
cost the city $4,000 in 1921. While 49,
g5o,127 passengers paid the cent fare.
is77756 paid only two and one-sixth
cents causing loss Of $53,159 in ferry
revenues. and It cost s16,577 in wages
to collect these commutation tickets.
This was an unfair discrimination
against 80 per cent. OF the passengers
and in favor OF 10 per cent. of the
traffic. No tickets Of any sort will be
accepted for passage on the ferry after
April 80. 1922. On and after May all
lassengers WILL pay cash fare. This will
enable the department to make receipts
meet cost OF operation and mainte-
nance"
Mr.. Whalen explained that the agree
ment with the Staten Island Rapid
Transit Railway for the rates and the
operation of the ferries expired in 1906,
but that the issuance of communication
tickets continued. He said that for
while the inequality was offset by sale
of transfers to surface lines in Man
haitian, on the basis of two cents for
ferries and three cents for car fare, but
this practice was terminated by the Fed
eral Court in 1920. The practice COM
muters have of selling or giving away
their Communication tickets. Mr.. Whalen
said, Is in part responsible for the de-
cision to abolish communication rates
altogether.
I'm view of all the, facts" he said,
the department has cancelled the ar
rangement with the Staten Island Rapid
Transit Railway for the issuance OF
commutation, fifty-fifty and school
tickets good on the ferry
Commuters from New Dorp, Great
Kills. Annadale. Huguenot Park.
Princes Bay. Pleasant Plains. Rich
mond Valley and Tottenville are af-
fected by the order. These number
5000 IN winter and 1900 In summer
and loss of the ferry communication privi-
lege will cost $3.50 or more month
to each.
Groups OF citizens gathered around
the notices posted in the ferry houses
and OH the boats yesterday and said
unpleasant things about Mr. Whalen
Herman Ritz. chairman of the Totem
vile branch of the Staten Island Civic
League. promised to take the matter
up at the next meeting on April s. a
request will be sent to Mayor Hylan 70
rescind the order.
The ferry Communication rate has OBJ
tained for more than thirty years and
dates back to the time when the Balt!-
more and Ohio Railroad operated the
ferry. When the city took It over it
agreed to continue the arrangement,
the railroad paying 2I5 cents toward
each communication ticket issued by the
ferry.
The New York herald., 1922-03-26
CALLS ON WIFE, FINDS
SHE'S. WED ANOTHER
Husbands Confer and She Is
Held as Rigar,ist.

Jonas ]. Brotman, -. salesman. OF
~ Fast 101st street, who has not seen
his wife in two years, called at the home
~ his motherin-law the otlier day to
inquire how she was getting along. No
body was home, but ncignbors told
Brotman his wife was getting along all
right. She had married another man,
'harles Pollack. 30. OF 1905 Avenue l..
Brooklyn. they said. Brotman com
muuicated with PollaclS. who caused the
arrest Of his wife on a charge OF sus-
plciou Of bgamy. Magistrate Max s.
Levine in West Side court yesterday
held the woman in $1,000 bail for ex-
animation on Tuesday.
The defendant, formerly Pauline Sui
tan Of 43 West Hath street, Is said 10
have married Brotman in Chattanooga.
Tenn, July Is. 1917 She and Pollack.
according to the complaint, were mar
ried in Greenwich Conn, March 16 OF
this wear.
The New York herald., 1922-03-26
WAR TRIBUTE TO WOMEN
SUPPORTED BY LEGION
Mrs. J. S. Phillips Represents
Organization.

The American Legion has appoin tee
Ms J. S. Phillips Of the New York
state and county organizations. to join
the patriotic and war relief societies ir
the American Women's War Memorial
Committee. The committee, which has
headquarters at the McAlpin is trying
To interest Congress in providing a me-
mortal for American women war mar
tyrs and suitable tribute TO other
women who did war service or work al
home or overseas.
Active in the work are Adjt Gen. r.
W Elton. representing the Veterans OF
Foreign Wars; Mrs. ]. Cheever Good
win of the American War Mothers
Mrs Topp. Gold Star Mothers; Miss
Barnett. Jewish Welfare Board Mrs.
Bloom, Daughters of America; Miss
Florence Nelson, War Camp Community
Service. Col Meta Boardman, the
Women's Courier. and Adjt Elizabeth j.
McDcrmott Of katherine Irwin Post.
24a American Legion
The New York herald., 1922-03-26
MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL
AIDED 10000 FAMILIES
10000 Dispensary Cases
Treated in 1921.

Figures which show the far reaching
work of the institution have Just been
issued by Mount Sinai Hospital. Last
year 10000 dispensary cases were treat
cd and 9.S00 patients cared for. The
work Of the institution reach $4,000
families.
Mount Sinais yearly consumption OF
common staples reaches the following
average figures: $40 barrels OF milk.
i3is tons OF butter AZ tons OF rice.
5000 loaves of bread
One-half a million yards OF gauze are
used yearly for bandages. If stretched
across Manhattan Island this gauze
would cover distance Of nineteen
miles
The New York herald., 1922-03-26
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No. 6--Blueher Oxfords sof paten,
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AL solid leather, low walk.
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leather S6.75
The New York herald., 1922-06-12
EVENTS TO-DAY.

National Association OF Sheet Music Deal.
ers. convention. Hotel McAlpin. 10 A. n.
Conference TO discuss 1.-THE Prison as an
Educational Problem room 222. Teachers
College. Columbia University, n A. NJ.
Five Hundred Club of Brooklyn luncheon
and cards. Hotel shelburne. Brighton Beach.
l r. NJ.
Pierre Jay will speak on Financing For
eign Trade American Manufacturers' Ex-
port Association. luncheon. National Repub-
lican Club. 81 West Fortieth street. IL 80
+. NJ.
New York Federation of Churches. report
and election Of delegates. chapel Of the
First Presbyterian Church, Fifth avenue and
Eleventh street, p NJ.
Clason Military Academy. commencement
exercises, Clason Point. The Bronx, p. NJ.
United Real Estate Owners Association.
meeting, Hotel Astor, S:15 p. NJ.
Manhattan College, theater party. George
M Cohan Theater. S:15 p. NJ.
Presbyterian Union. annual missionary din
ner. Hotel Astor. 80 r. M.
Meyer Padve will speak on "The American
Revolution Educational Alliance. 1917 East
Broadway, p M. sr E
New York College of Dentistry. commence
rnent exercises. Carnegie Hall, p. NJ.
alumni dinner. Hotel Commodore. 6 r. NJ.
an American flag TO Public School 80, Bath
gate avenue and East 1s2d street. The
Bronx, +. NJ
4. Packer Collegiate Institute. commencement.
exercises, Brooklyn, $3.50 p, M.
Assyrian Conference, meeting. Waldorf
Astoria, r. NJ.
Merchants Ladies' Garment Association,
dinner, Hotel Commodore. +. M.
Friendly Sons of St Patrick Glee Club.
dinner, Hotel Astor, 8 p. M.
Home for Aged Hebrews. meeting. Hotel
Pennsylvania, p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-06-12
Stage Revivals.
A Wonderful Cast In "Hamlet''
Brought to Mind.

TO The New YORK HERALD: The
Players Club Is TO be sincerely congrat-
ulated for the action it has taken in
starting a series of revivals of the Eng
lish stage classics. The tradition bound
may scoff at the production OF THE
Rivals" and sigh for the days and the
actors that were. While, in certain in
stances, the present revival is not alto
gether perfect, 1t is. however. most
praiseworthy effort. No part Is badly
done. and it can only be hoped that the
distinguished organization of actors re-
sponsible for this revival will feel JUS
titled in continuing the work it has so
praiseworthily started.
OF late years we have had all too few
star cast revivals of the works of Sher-
idan. of Knowles and of the other Eng
lish dramatists of a century or more
ago, not to mention those Of Shake
speare, whereas 1t is only little over
twenty years ago these were quite COM
mon There comes to nina just about the
close of the nineteenth century a note
worthy revival of 1.-THE Rivals" with
William H. Crane as Str anthony Abso-
prop; Joseph Jefferson, of course, as
Bob Acres; Julia Marlowe as Lydia
Lcn0tMsh, and Nat Goodwin as Sh.
Lnctus O'Trioger. About the same
time we had all star cast Shakespearean
revivals. There also comes to mind
that of Romeo and Juliet" with Maude
Adams as Juliet, featured William
FavefsAam as Romeo, and James K.
Hackett as MercnHo, and who calls to
mind the witty saying of Charles Lamb.
wasn't It, when he remarked that
shakespeare was forced to kill Mercu-
ito in the third act to keep him from
stealing the play from Romeo and
JuHett
May I encroach on your space still
further to recall what believe IL gen
orally acknowledged to be the greatest
performance of Hamlet" ever given
in this country In the matter Of an all
star cast--the famous Wallack testi-
monial in May. 1888? Although child
at the time how we'll do recall it (!
The cast:
The New York herald., 1922-06-12
Nathan Hale on Broadway.

If statues could speak 1t is prob
able that the bronze Nathan Hale
would say that it is glad II has a
new position. 1t has left the old
stand at the southeast corner Of the
City Hall and is on Broadway-or
as close to Broadway as 1t could go
without getting on the sidewalk
opposite Murray street.
Where Nathan stood nothing very
inspiring came within the zone OF
his vision. Through years and years
he was compelled to stare straight at
the dreary old post Office building.
For four years he has seen the MEM
bers of the noisiest Board of Esti
mate on record walk past him on
their way to the brawling.
A little while ago the metal Nathan
Hale was subjected to the agonies
which small boy undergoes when
the stork brings a little brother. Mr..
MACMoNNIEs, who sculped Nathan
long years ago, added new name to
his list of children when Civic Vir-
tue was put up in City Hall Park
less than stones throw from Hale.
The brawn of the new brother must
have surprised the slender Nathan.
The names that people called the
new brother-''moron' and trough
guy"-must have shocked him,
Now Nathan Is far from Civic Vir-
tue and so placed that he cannot see
him or the old post Office or the
Mayor. He has good view OF the
Broadway throngs. Let's hope he
will be happy.
The New York herald., 1922-06-12

The annual report of the Fire Depart
ment, obtained yesterday, reveals that
there were 1880 fires in the five bor-
oughs in 1921, and that the loss amounted
to $4,000. sos. 1t was the worst annual
fire record in municipal history, as in the
country at large, for that matter. and 1t
was due. in part, at least, to business
depression and failures which inspired
arson to collect insurance
The first Ave months of the present
year indicate that 1899 will be more dis
astrous than 1921. as already there have
been nearly 5000 fires in the entire city.
and if this ratio is maintained there
would be more than 10000 fires for the
whole year, with property loss of prob
ably s25. 200. 900
1t is a situation frankly discouragine
to the fire insurance companies. who
see their profits shot to pieces and the
red ink side of their ledgers full of
alarming entries. Arson is rampant and
in some trades has increased by 800 per
cent. There were more than twice as
many fires in the cloak and suit trade
In 1921, while paper box factories. fur,
storage lofts and factories and tobacco
factories burned numerously and most
expensively - to the underwriters. The
records show that fire losses of January
to June this yea- are 40 per cent
heavier than they were In January to
June, 1921.
Here Is the condensed fire record Of
New York city, with the figures divided
by boroughs. as it will soon be given out
by Fire Commissioner Drennan:
The New York herald., 1922-06-12
Playwright Managers.

The French Society CT Dramatic
Authors is discussing question of
acute interest to all persons inter-
ested in the theater. Under French
law enacted many years ago, desig-
mated as Article II, managers Of
theaters were forbidden to produce
any play written by themselves, their
kinsfolk, their employees or stock
holders in their respective theater
enterprises.
This enactment was found TO be
altogether too sweeping. In the first
place, il was regarded as an attack
on the freedom of labor. Other grave
objections to 1t were raised. 1t was
pointed out that had Article II been
in force in the seventeenth century
MoLrfRE would not have been per-
mitted to produce his works in his
own theater. lie Temps remarks that
he would have been compelled to
submit these masterpieces ito the
naughty and jealous actors who de-
tested him" He would not have
been able to create those roles that
to this day are impressed in their
presentation with the Moliere tradi-
tion. DUMAS the father was the
manager OF theater. Under Article
II he would be prohibited from pro-
ducing the plays Of DUMAS the son.
This criticism and good many
more were massed against the OBJ
jectionable article with such effect
that II was modified, remodified and
frsY1y ignored. With II there also
went into the discard law prohibit
ing q manager from controlling more
than one theater.
Many managers became play
wrights. Many playwrights and many
actors became managers. But now
q iss asserted that .heaters produce
hardly any plays except those written
The New York herald., 1922-06-12
$50, 200, sos New Y York's L 92l Fire Loss
Report Shows Year Worst Record, With Arson
Growing and Outlook for Still Greater Total.

of the Atlantic Ocean. the powerful
salt water high pressure mains serv-
ing the department nightly.
In the whole record of New York
fires it Is Noticeable that 14.5s1 were
confined to the starting point. that .456
were confined to the building in which
they originated. but that 313 fires were
bad, breaking away to other buildings.
The worst time for fires in New York
is in the middle or the day. between
noon and 6 p. NJ. Another busy period
for firemen is between 6 p. NJ. and
midnight These twelve hours from
noon to midnight contained II, 500 fires
last year. There were only few more
than 1000 In the whole city between
midnight and s A. M. and only 5000
between s A. NJ. and noon.
avery sort of structure was afire.
There were, to mention a few instances.
2S fires In asylums and homes, 43 in
churches. 80 In clubhouses. 2.121 in dwell
ings. 519 in factories. 1913 in factory
loft buildings. is in hospitals. 20 In
public buildings. 20 in public schools,
179 In ships, SO in hotels. Al in theaters,
AZ in motion picture theaters. SPAS IN
tenements and 800 in railroad stations
and cars. 1t took a lot of water to
extinguish the thousands of bazes. a
total. indeed. of more than 5000. 900
gallons. of which 65.0O00OO were salt.
The New York herald., 1922-06-12
The Red Mans Tragedy.
A Civilization Alien to HIS Lie Took
the Land From Him

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Reader"
who gives his opinion of THE Noble
Red Man" forgets that some of the
United States Indian Commissioners
were incompetent or worse. The Sioux
Indians. accustomed to live in the
climate of North and South Dakota,
were sent down in the sand dunes Of
Arizona with one weeks rations and
told to farm IN sand dunes OF 100
there died 14S before their wants could
be relieved We made treaties with
them only to break the treaties as soon
as we wanted more room.
Our greatest Indian Generals. Custer.
Crook and many others confessed that
the Indians were In the right.
Reader" says that the Indian bands
would sweep down on the prairie
schooners and unless the travellers could
protect themselves they would be wiped
out. 1t was the Indians country why
shouldn't they wipe out any one who
was trying to take 1t away from them?
Take the case Of the Black Hills, for
instance The Government made an
agreement with the Indians that no
whites would ever go in there. Some
prospectors got in and discovered gold.
Immediately there was a rush In there
to stake claims. The Indians could not
keep the prospectors out. Did the Gov
ernment help the Indians? No. The
Indians are the real Americans, why
should not they be given some consider
alton? r. v.M
NFw York. June 10.
The New York herald., 1922-06-12
Daily Calendar
THE WEATHER.

For Eastern New York-Fair to-day,
moderate temperature tomorrow fair
and warmer fresh westerly winds
For New Jersey-Fair and cooler to-
day; Tomorrow fair, with rising tenn
perature, fresh westerly winds.
For Northern New England Fair to-
day and Tomorrow; rising temperature
Tomorrow. fresh westerly winds.
For Southern New England-Fair to-
DAY, moderate temperature tomorrow
fair and warmer. fresh westerly winds.
For Western New York--Fair to-day
and Tomorrow: warmer tomorrow,
fresh westerly winds.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE disturb
ance central last night north Of the
Great Lakes moved eastward increased
considerably In intensity and No-night
ITS centcr was over the st. Lawrence
Valley This disturbance has been at
tended by squalls at the middle Atlantic
and New England coasts and by showers
and thunderstorms in the middle Allan
tic and New England States the region
or the Great Lakes and the Ohio and the
lower Mississippi valleys.
Heavy local rains fell In portions of
New England and New York. The high
est temperatures reported from east
crn states to-day were as follows: AS
pury Park, "a; Baltimore, 92, and WASH
ington. 81 In the southwestern States
the highest temperatures reported were
lo2 at Ell Paso. Tex. and 9s at Phoenix,
Ariz.
The outlook Is for generally fair
weather tomorrow and Tuesday
throughout the Atlantic and Gulf States.
Tennessee, the Ohio Valley and the lower
lake region. The temperature will be
somewhat lower Tomorrow in the mid
die Atlantic States and southern New
England.
!, observations at United States Weather
Bureau gfatiOus al u M
The New York herald., 1922-06-12
The West Revisited.
w. +. Hooker Finds Little Left Of
Wyoming in the '7Os.

To~THE New YORK HERALD: 1t may
be Interesting TO your readers who have
been reading about some of the pioneer
plainsmen and mountaineers. including
George w. Stokes, A. B. Ostrander, Ellis
Taylor Peirce ("Bear TracksD. Clark
B. Stocking and others, to know -hfi.
John Hunton. who in the days of tf-rS-
portation by OK power was very prom
inent in the then wild West as a bull
train magnate. is living to-day on the
site of famous old Fort Laramie at the
confluence of the North Platte and Lar
annie rivers. in Wyoming. I worked for
him as a bullwhacker for two seasons
on Government contracts 1S74-75),
driving a unit of seven yoke of oxen
and two wagons. lead and trail, hauling
termasters at Forts Laramie and Fet-
terman; also food for the Indians at
Red Cloud agency on White Clay River.
this latter contract, however. being
filed by Charles Clay, for whom i also
worked a part Of the season of 1875 ;
also for Pratt and Farrs on the Sidney
trail Into the Indian country. t
Last fall, after an absence of nearly
fifty years, / visited Mr.. Hunton, ana
together we went in an automobile to
the site of n log house he built on La
Parel Creek, near Fort Fetterman, as
winter quarters also the site of a dug
out I built in company with Nicholas
Huber on La Bonte Creek. and in which
we lived the winter of 1S74-75. That
country. now we'll settled, was at the
time mentioned wilderness OF wild
animals, Including bear. bobcats, beaver.
deer. antelope. wolves. gray or timber.
&C., which we hunted.
Mr.. Diltz. who owns the ranch where
my cabin stood gave me the rusted lock
OF a rifle / left there in the spring of
1875.
When Mr.. Hunton and 7 visited La
Bonte Creek we found the two door
posts-forked small logs--that l cut In
the creek bottom In the fall OF 1874 ;
also many of rhe cobblestones used In
the chimney were still scattered about.
Now, I'm 1922. modern city, Doug
las. Is located only twelve miles from
this spot which was in my time vast
wilderness.
may Dt iuttItStihb w h''c N'"'
within five or six reds of my cabin site
a couple of old beaver--a ma" and n
"pa"--last year taught their young how
to build a dam of small sticks. Beaver
are well protected by law In Wyoming,
l discovered, and some of the creeks are
alive with them.
About all that is left OF Fort Laramie
that was important in the '7os is the
officers quarters. made famous by Gen.
erai Charles King as "Bedlam" In one
of his novels. and the old powder maga-
zine Of stone. The former is COW
stable and the last named chicken
coop
Little is left at Fort Fetterman,
where in the early '70s ! used to pay
81 for a drink of whisky. 50 for a
pair of buckskin trousers and $40 for
sombrero at the sutler store. The
The New York herald., 1922-06-12

by union labor as group in New
York, in Illinois. in other States and
communities
Non-partisan humbug, Non-partf
san political movements are not pos
sible in State and national politics
Either groups of voters act with or
for distinctly defined political party
already in the field or they go into
political business for themselves.
II will be so with the farmers II
they create a national non-partisan
political party, as it was with the
farmers when they created a non
partisan party in North Dakota. 1t
will be so with the commercial and
business classes North and South If
they swing together in party.
Then we may have bloc govern
ment here as the people have in vir-
tually every country in Europe. 1t
will be in America a very ineffective
government. For country like this
with it's vast variety of industrial in
terests and human elements it may
become a very dangerous kind of
government. But no matter what
kind Of government it Is the labor
unions in such a government would
never climb upon the backs Of the
American farmers. The agricultural
bloc is the master even now.
SAM GoMrERs knows all this. When,
therefore, his American Federation
of Labor, personally conducted by
him through the long years, edges so
close to the formation of national
political party with the usual State
and local parties under 1t getting
down to the brass tacks of party or
ganization, what does it signify? Is
it the passing of GoMPERs before the
oncoming rush of the younger spirits,
the less experienced of his associates.
fred with political ambition and
thirsting for political adventure,
where the older and wiser head has
been intent upon and satisfied with
bringing home the bacon?