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The New York herald., 1922-12-22
BURGLAR ALARM IS
PATENTED GAS GUM
Policeman Injured by War
Experts InDention.

The burglar alarm that Patrolman
Henry ]. McArdle Of the West Thirtieth
street station reported Wednesday night
had exploded and injured him as he
entered the fur store Of Kaufman Panitch
& Company at 10S West Twenty-fifth
street was a patented machine. There
are more than 1900 In use in Greater
New York. it was learned yesterday by
police In an investigation OF the expio-
sion.
The p. A. B.-Alarm Company. manu-
facturer Of the article. said the con-
trivance is filled with sulphur. arsenate
ana saltpeter and when set off by the
opening OF door or window gives off
a thick cloud OF gas resembling weak
tear gas. After a demonstration Tues
day before the State Board OF Health
the alarm was approved
The burglar gun was invented by Jo-
seph Menchen. Jr., formerly technical
to the Trench Warfare Research
department, Minister of Munitions of
War in the British War office. Mr..
Menchen said the gun contained no
chlorides and was harmless beyond
causing nausea and tears and filling the
lc ON with yellow smoke gas for several
hours.
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
COAL BIDS SENT TO CITY
GIVE NO HINT OF FAMINE
Board of Purchase Gets Ten
ders for Supplies.

Bids for supplying coal to various city
departments from January l to March
81. 1923, were received yesterday by the
Board Of Purchase. Though the quo
tations reflected market conditions. the
number of competitive bids received for
furnishing large quantities Of anthracite
and bituminous, by no means suggested
a famine The coal Is to be delivered to
Bellevue and allied hospitals and to the
city departments OF Correction, Health,
Plant and Structures. Street Cleaning,
Water Supply. Gas and Electricity, Pub
lie Welfare, Parks, Police and Fire.
Bids for coal laid down at various
points In Manhattan included the fol-
lowing:
Penn Fuel Company--No l buck
wheat, $50 tons at $9.75; No. buck
wheat. 2.0S0 tons. at s6.s7; No. buck
wheat $50 tons, at $3.50; pea coal, 63I
tons, at s12.25 domestic sizes, where no
substitutes will be allowed, Sc tons, at
s1425.
"A c. Gibson--Mixed coal, No. 3
buckwheat and soft, 5000 tons, at $7.1l.
wyoming Valley Coal Company-No
buckwheat, $50 tons, at SlO.3s;' No z
buckwheat, 2.030 tons. at sS.9S; No. 3
buckwheat, $50 tons. at s7.9S soft coal.
run of mine, 71S tons. at SEAS mixed.
5000 tons, at S10.23; screened soft
coal. $500 tons. at 1884
". II. Youngnan & Co.---No. buck
wheat. 5000 tons, at s6.70; No Buck
wheat, $50 tons. at $3.50; mixed coal,
1900 tons. at sS.1O."
Other bids were for truck deliveries
TO points in the other boroughs and
Also for barge delivery
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
SAYS $3.50 COAL COST
ONLY $3.50 AT THE MINE
Dealers Testimony EUoked in
Douglas Barnes Case.

Joseph ]. Weinhandler, formerly sec
retary and treasurer of the Douglas
Barnes Corporation. coal dealers. of 67s
Fifth avenue. will go on the stand tor
day in General Sessions to testify
against his former partner. Douglas
Barnes. who Is being tried on a charge
of grand larceny in the first degree
The indictment against Barnes alleges
that on August 16, 1920, he got $500
from the National Bank OF Commerce
account of the Compton des Consom-
mateurs de Brai ct Produits Industrials,
French coal dealers. as payment for
1000 tons of anthracite nut when what
was shipped to the French concern was
No. buckwheat.
William r. Coyle of Weston, 'Dodson
& Co.. coal dealers, testified yesterday
that buclkwheat at the time was selling
at the mines for $3.50 to $3.50 = ton, al
though the French concernAis alleged
to have paid s2s.50 ton.
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
JAIL FACES DRIVER
MINUS NEW LICENSE
Arrest of Motorists Without
1928 Plates Scheduled to
Start on January 1.
NO EXTENSION PROBABLE
Bureau Hopelessly Behind and
Vehicle Owners Must Pay
for Heedlessness.

Wholesale arrests Of drivers OF motor
vehicles in New York city who attempt
to operate private automobiles, taxicabs
or trucks without 1923 license plates
were predicted yesterday by Deputy
Director John r. Mcneil, in charge OF
Tax Commission orders were sent from
the Office of the commission in Albany
yesterday to arrest any one who at
tempts to operate an automobile on or
after January 1 without a new license
plate.
In anticipation of a rush for licenses
Director McNeill has opened six branch
offices in New York city. Extra en-
ployees have been engaged. but the
rush has failed TO materialize and busi-
ness. both at the main office and at the
bureaus, virtually has been at 81 stand
still.
1T is almost impossible to visualize
the situation" Deputy McNeill said yes
terday. "All classes Of motor vehicle
drivers have been criminally slow in
applying for new licenses and even II
the rush We're to begin tomorrow II
would be physically impossible for us
TO attend to every one. There apparently
has been a widespread belief that the
time for obtaining new license plates
would be extended, but this is positively
not the case. We shall begin making
arrests on New Years morning and the
driver Of any car found upon the streets
without a 1928 license plate will find
himself in trouble.
1T is impossible to give any figures,
h,,t ba ,oYrohar Of ua1U Iicancaa isSiIed
Is negligible. 1t is far below the recorc
for last year at this time"
The formal statement issued by the
commission said: '"The 1922 registra-
! tions of all motor vehicles In New York
State will expire on December 81. This
is the final notice given to the police
officials by the Tax Commission. Bert
Lord, director of the Motor Vehicle
Bureau, points out that the department
has been issuing licenses for more than
month, but the public has been very
slow in responding"
According TO estimates at the Albany
office only about one-twentieth as many
licenses for next year have been issued
as was the case on the corresponding
date last year The figures in New York
city are said to make a worse showing
than this. II is Mr. Lords belief that
the impression has been general that
an eleventh hour extension OF time will
be granted. as was sometimes the GUS
tom in past years Nothing of the sort
is contemplated. he says. There was no
such extension last year. Mr.. Lord
points out
Both the Police Department and the
Sheriffs office will be aked to aid the
State officials January l in the contem-
plated crusade against motor ears
operating under 1922 licenses. 1t is un-
likely that summonses will be served
upon drivers and the present plan Is
actually to place them under arrest
wherever found.
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
TAFFY TAKES NINE LIVES
BELONGING TO SHIPS CAT
Poet of Bermuda Liner Goes Into Metlical Spasnls
Over the Tragedy and Skipper Puts
Him in Irons.

doing his trick OH the bridge and dis
covered some British taffy. He started
to eat 1t and had trouble, his claws and
teeth getting so badly entangled in
the mess that he is supposed TO have
succumbed to the herculean task OF
unchaining himself.
Anyhow, when the skipper reached
the room Cap was dead and still taffy
bound. He was properly buried at
sea. The ships poet one Of several OH
the F'urness- Bermuda liners. offered
this to the sorrowing skipper as solace
Cap. mascot OF our gallant ship,
Gave up his nine ghosts on this trip
Because his tooth was, supersweet,
And no longer may we greet
Our ship catboat OF the Neeti
The poet was put In chains.
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
VICE HUNTERS SUING
ON BRIDGEPORT BILL
Burns Assignee Wants $4,2O6
Balance for Cleanup

Supreme Court Justice Tompkins be-
gan hearing testimony at White Plains
yesterday in suit brought by Randall
". Borough. as assignee of the William
]. Burns International Detective Agency,
to recover s4.206.SS balance due the
agency, 1t alleged, for services In clean
ing up Bridgeport Conn, of vice and
gambling conditions in 1920. John
Stanley, formerly president OF the Police
Commission, and Clifford Wilson, for
merly Mayor OF Bridgeport named as
defendants, are alleged to have prom
ised to become personally responsible
If the city failed to make good on the
bill. The complaint says the total
charged the city was s35,S62.21.
The defense is that the detective
agency was overpaid. AllGa o. Myers,
detective connected with the Burns
agency, swore that the agency at one
time had as many as seventy-flve de-
tectives IN Bridgeport and that several
were even arrested so as to fool those
they were after.
The trial will be continued
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
COST OF LIVING STILL
58.4 p. &. ABOVE 1914
Slight Increase Noted Be-
tUeen Oct. IS and Nov. IS.

The cost Of living among wage earners'
families in the United States on Novem-
ber 10, 1922. was 5s.4 per cent. higher
than in July. 1914. according to the re-
suits of investigation just completed by
the National Industrial Conference
Board. An increase Of 1.5 points. or
eight-tenths of per cent. occurred
between October 10 and November 10,
1922. brought about by continued in
creases in food. clothing and coal prices
and higher rents. The average cost of
sundries and Of gas and electricity de-
creased.
Between July, 1920, when the peak
OF the rise in the cost OF living since
1914 was reached. and November 1922,
the cost OF living dropped 46.1 points. or
22.5 per cent
The New York herald., 1922-12-22

Poseidon aid his mate. Amphitrite,
who still may DE on the job of looking
after deep sea happenings. might have
summoned the Nine MUSES. the other
night to celebrate Cap. mouser and mas
cot Of the Furness-B Bermuda liner Fort
Hamilton. in yesterday from Bermuda,
in nine mortuary spasns, one for each
feline life.
Cap was two years with the liner
and Bermuda seagoers knew him as
lover of sweets and often tempted his
palate.
On Wednesday night Cap was left
alone in the room OF the ships skipper,
capt. Albert r. t'rancis. while he was
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
FIGHT 40 MILE SPEED
OF TAXfS ON BROADWAY
Labor Council Seeks to Re-
yoke Licenses.

William It. Kehoe, secretary Of the
Central Trades and Labor Council. an
nounced at meeting in Beethoven Hall
last night that the council will seek to
have the licenses of several taxi cab
companies revoked because of reckless
driving by their chauffeurs He has
evidence, he said. that the cabs of GER
tain companies have been driven at
thlrty-five and forty miles an hour on
Broadway,
The Board Of Estimate has agreed
to sit as committee of the whole to
hear this evidence.
The New York herald., 1922-12-22

Books IN Fine Bindings
Beaumont and Fletcher's Com.
plete Dramatic Works---with en-
graved portraits. Beautiful
Moxon edition, IL volumes.
Three-quarters polished English
calf binding, richly fooled backs.
London, Edward Moxon, 1s43.
$50.
Prescott's Complete Works--
with hand-colored frontispieces.
Aztec edition, limited to $50
sets. 90 volumes. Three-quarters
crushed green morocco binding,
gilt tooled backs with inlays.
5000.
Walt Whitman's Complete
Works--finely illustrated. Pau
menck edition, limited to 900
sets. Ten volumes. Full crushed
morocco bindings with gilt toolcd
sides and backs. S175.
Fiction
Yezad, A Romance of the Un-
known--by, George Babcock. a
romance which expounds a new
and very compelling philosophy
through the lips Of an aviator
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
CHILD DIES OF BURNS.
Brother and sister I'm Room Too
Scared to Scream.

The dress OF Catherine Rocket. 8. OF
109 Montgomery street, Jersey City,
caught fire yesterday while she was
playing with matches and while her
mother and father were away. HeI
brotl er. 6. and her sister. s. were play
ing .r tile same room. but when they
saw the little girl enveloped in flames
they were too shocked to cry or call
for help. Two firemen who were pass
ing put out the flames. but the child died
two hours later In City Hospital. The
other children were not burned.
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
A U @ U A T RI E M
.Girandoles
For the Christmas Table

The glitter Of old crystals
adds to the Christmas table
some of the gayety Of old
time festivals. Au Quatrieme
suggests a pair Of its crystal
girandoles as Christmas
gift.
Old French CirandoIes
Bronze base and branches,
three tiers Of crystal chains
and rosettes, amethyst and
crystal pendants alternating,
5 candles each, $500 the pair.
Painted wooden urns, crys-
tai rosettes and fiat cut pen
dants; wired for three lights
each, $3.50 the pair.
Brass bases, chains of crys-
tai beads, 18 large fiat crystal
pendants on each, $575 the pr.
Single girandole, four large
cut crystal pendants, base is
blue and white Wedgewood
urn, $50.
Some with glass bases
and branches
For two candles each, with
Fourth FIoo
The New York herald., 1922-12-22

two very large oval cut pen
dants, $3.50 the pair.
Pair large pressed glass
candelabra for two candles
each, crystal drops. vase be-
tween the lights for flowers,
$125 the pair.
Pair Of Waterford giran-
doles from the Stannus collec-
ton, date about 1890, 8
candles each, $3.50 illus
trated).
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
LOADED COAL BARGE SINKS.

The barge Mary Munks. loaded with
soft coal was seen drifting partly sub
merged in the East River Off Lawrence
Point yesterday. Marine police were
notified. but before they had chance
20 eaten the barge II sank off sunl<sn
Meadows Light.
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
Footstools
Christmas Gift BOOKS
bring peace to tired but happy hearts

scientist, including much about
the life hereafter. So.
The Cats Paw-a mystery
story by Natalie Sumner Lincoln,
author of "The Red Seap, "The
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This is the most battling mystery
of all, starting with a murder.
The crime is finally unrsvelled.
$1.75.
Disenchantment - by G. l..
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History
A Short History of the World
by II. G.. Wells, which paints
like novel the romance of hu-
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Autobiography
The Letters of Franklin X.
Lane--edited by the Anne VIM
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Of one who died in public service
and whose position in the war
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The Story Of Varied Life
an autobiography by w. s.
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friend of humanity, who built
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in America. $5.
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The New York herald., 1922-12-22

The Facts About Capt Kidd's Treasare
Including en- authentic deposition made In
Boston in 1919. told IN Ths New York Herald
next Sunday. Ask your ncwsdenlcr TO re-
sa~v3n copy ncw.--icu
The New York herald., 1922-12-22

ssssss%%': '..:sss:s .sssss ss, for q
the fire Belmaison is showing collection of chairs of
all types-some of them big luxurious English club
chairs the head of the house. others bright cOored
comfortable chairs that Enthusiastically feminine
Wing chair and white toi de Jouy, $3.50
XIV. chair red leather fooled in god $780,
chair covered in mulberry danask walnut Frame $3.50
chair, covered in glazed chintz, S163.
chair, covered in and white brocade $140
Normandy red Powered glazed chntz $96
tub chair, covered in brown denim, $3.50.
red red white painted frame,
$3.50.
chair covered in yellow lowered glazed chn s45
Buckingham chair, blue Parma satin, s120.
Wing chair blue damask, $500.
Slipper arm chair, old satin, $100.
chair cushion, striped silk 800
Charles chair, covered in red faile, 1926
Footstools
ded old and
fringe, 500
Empire footstool, birch, walnut finished, $2o
Obong Anne ootstoof covered old brocade,
gdd ootstool with old Aubuson
XVI oblong walnut STOOL with old
Fourth Gallery, New Building
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
REPRODUCTION FURNITURE

Wing chairs, covered in glazed
chntz, copy of an old pattern, in
red, black on cream ground,
$3.50. Queen Anne footstooi.
covered in old brocade, $50.
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
From the Writings of tho Founder
The Writer Remembers
Quite Well Charles Dickens

reception in Philadelphia at Concert Hall, Chestnut
above Twelfth, many years ago. !.
He came in late and stayed long after reading
part of "The Old Curiosity Shop and other pieces and
then shook the hands of all who were presented to hm
We could hardly forgive him for his American Notes.
but he was sorry for them afterwards and it was tne
fault of snobs who were near him and misrepresented
America.
Let us forget what do not like and remember
him for Little Ners' sake and for this verse at
tributed to him:
"The tmid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need,
The kindly in sriefs dark hour,
That proves a friend indeed;
The plea for mercy, softly breathed,
When justice threatens high;
he Of a contrite heart
These things die
Christmas time is good time to forget old differ
ences and prove it by something you can easily say or
do Don't think it over too long Just DO something
that puts things right. ~
: '''''.'' %M~@
The New York herald., 1922-12-22

Fourth Floor, Old Building
The New York herald., 1922-12-22
Fireside Chairs
and Footstools

Every room in the house
-living-room, library or
bedroom-is pleasanter for
a comfortable arm chair by
Evening star., 1922-12-01
row will abandon Poland, the grea
crimes Of Frederick II may be re

row will abandon Poland. the great
crimes Of Frederick II may be re-
commenced.
Then will come the day to assail
the young states born of the splitting
up of Austria Hungary. 1t matters
little If Germany is demobilized so
long as the military framework ex-
lists for the calling up of troops.
Young Germany is training under
the camouf1age OF police work and
sport. There may not either be guns
or rifles in the barracks. but there is
legion hidden away and in Russia.
Germany's present plan is to let
Europe forget more completely still
what happened latterly and to let
! Turkey and Russia ripen meanwhile
agitate in the Balkans. Threaten here
and bribe there. Then one day sud
denly she will precipitate a coup de
theater such as she is wont to do. and.
supported by reconstructed Turkey
and by an unaccountable Russia. she
Will announce to the rest OF Europe:
And now let US talk"
Why should they overturn their re-
public. republic which has but
served to allow the empire to be for
gotten. and which is Of no depth? One
cannot take unto ones self a republic
as one might violate a little neighbor-
ing state. More than one shot IRON a
cannon Is required. There must be
long adaptation to the republican id ca
and the reasoned consent of a whole
people and Of generations. That phe-
nomenon has not yet been seen in
Germany All one detects is expedi-
ency Should that situation change,
who would rejoice more than France
Does Germany intend recommenc-
ing?
l do not write this word without
weighing it. Yet it is only too OBJ
vious that Germany in 1922 wishes
to recommence the war. You don I
believe that over here in the United
States. That is because you behold
Germany deprived Of her arms. her
claws cut. But claws grow again.
And arms can be made slowly and
slowly. Germany will not recon-
! mence the war tomorrow or the next
day. But q day will come when Eu-
rope. going from concession to con-
cession. will have granted all. All
the articles OF the treaty of Versailles
will have been tacitly or openly abro-
gated. Our commissions OF control
will control no longer. We shall look
for new and fantastic groupings and
alliances. and Europe, undermined.
will lend her last cent to Turkey and
to Russia-she has advanced enough
already to Germany. That day may
well not pass by without our once
again hearing the roar Of cannon.
l have given you Germany as she
is today.
would now like to give you
France.
Here is her military strength: A
navy diminished as much by war
losses as by the interruption of work
Evening star., 1922-12-01

| in her arsenals.
A definite position of inferiority as
result Of that same conference at
washington which gave Great Brit
am ana the United States the hegem-
ony or those two seas which happened
TO interest them particularly-and
that despite the fact that we possess
6o,00O.OOO living across the seas in
the French colonies.
An army reduced to the strict min
imum. A war budget which is. in
1922. thirty-one milliards of francs
less than that of 1918, when it totaled
thirty-six milliards. Compare the
budget of 1922 with that of 1913. We
note an increase in expenditure of
266 per cent, which is inferior to the
general increase in the cost of living.
reckoned at 300 per cent. Which is
tantamount to saying that the France
Of 1922 spends less on her army than
the France of 1913. This year we
spent 4.9O0. 100000 francs on the army
and navy this sum including the
temporary and extraordinary expenses
connected with the execution of the
peace treaty and moneys spent on the
gendarnerie). Let us compare the
budgets of the various countries for
these two years. 1913 and 1929:
France. increase of 266 per cent
United States. increase of $40 per cent
Italy increase of 372 per cent
..IHCTcdSe OI 00S per cent
Japan increase of 332 per cent
Great Britain. increase of PA per cent
Must Rely ON Herself.
Finally. in June last. the duration
OF compulsory military service was
reduced from three years to eighteen
| months. Do our American friends
| still insist that we trouble the peace
of the world? Do they still believe
| that we are capable of wishing war
today as they obstinately believed in
! 1914 that we We're incapable of fight
| ing? Perhaps France still has SOL
dierS. The world can scarcely re-
proach her for having had them in
! 1914. without those French soldiers
| there would have been under heaven
| today but one vast German enterprise
France still possesses soldiers today
| because she has no faith in Germany.
| Germany has violated all her engage
| ments. gone back upon her own sig
| nature. She was guilty of the most
has never admitted her error Her
| The war has changed nothing in her
| France concludes. accordingly, that
| she must distrust her.
The United States refused to ratify
! the defensive agreement written into
article 10 of the pact of the league of
nations 1t refused to ratify the
military guaranee of June 28 1919.
! Neither has the Anglo-French accord
4 come to fruition. France is more iso-
lated than in 1914 She no longer has
Russia. She can only rely upon her
! self. and that is what she is doing.
To conclude, France keeps her foot