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The evening world., 1922-07-31
BLOCKADE BY SEA J.
NOW W|NFULL SWING
FOR NEW YORK CITY
Five Submarine ChaSerS In
stead of Two to Cover
9 All Hooch Routes.
GOT 900 VETS IN YEAR.
But Only 6S Convictions
Seized About S2,OOO,OOO
Wort. of Liquor.

A complete naval blockade OF New
York was undertaken to-day with a
greatly augmented Prohibition fleet.
There are five submarine chascrs en-
The job now instead Of only two. and
two more speedy motor boats have
been recruited.
Each of the subchasers IS armed
with a one-pound gun, and the fleet
is being strategically modified to
cover every approach to the city. One
will cruise near City Island. another
or Rockaway. a third between AM
brose Light and Fire Island. fourth
In Jamaica Bay. and the fifth around
Quarantine.
With the addition of two speed
boats 1t WIN be possible to keep a
pair OF them ready for instant call
from the Battery.
This augmented equipment is much
more efficient than 1t sounds. Boot
legSers have no comfort in the
thought of landing liquor at remote
parts OF Long Island and trucking II
into the city for they say that the
avaricIous. They say that after the
first constable has held up a truck
and made his collection he telephones
to q colleague in the next town and
another tribute has to be paid. SO
that when the load has been brought
into the city It has cost the bootleg
ger more than he can sell it for.
The customs officials issued a report
to-day showing the results of their
work for a year. It indicates that by
far the greater number of arrests
made have been in Prohibition cases.
The total number OF prisoners taken
was 716-and more than 600 were In
liquor cases. There were only IS
convictions.
The customs people seized about
$4,000, 900 worth of liquor. including
rs barrels and 121. .9O2 bottles. They
also seized $50 pounds of crude opium,
n cans of smoking opium, so pounds
of cocaine, SO pounds of morphine,
pounds OF heroin, S6S birds OF para
disc, 459 aigrettes. 60 diamond rings,
10 diamond ornaments of other sorts,
81 Chinese stowaways, Italian stow
aways, and 12S revolvers. taken from
smugglers. And they collected $50. 900
in duties on forced declarations.
The evening world., 1922-07-31
BOMBS AND MINES
SKATER CARS IN
BUFFALO STRIKE
Squad" Said to Be
Operating for Street
Car Employees.

BUFFALO. N. Y, July Sin.
creasing magnitude of the bomb and
mine explosions along the lines of the
international Railway Company re-
suited to-day in the assignment of De-
tective Chief Zimmerman and a detail
OF his force to run down tho terror
squad" alleged to be operating in
sympathy with the striking carmen.
Explosions under car wheels were
frequent in all parts of the city last
night. but most of them were caused
by railroad torpedoes and did Lo dam
age. In one instance, however, the
police believe. gun cotton or nitro
glycerine was used. That was at
West Ferry and Baynes Street on the
route of a West Avenue car early to-
day. The blast shattered car windows
and aroused sleepers within radius
of block Of the scene. The car crew
was stunned.
Robert Cashion Of Philadelphia,
conductor of an Elmwood car that
ran into a mine yesterday, was cut
about the legs when the force Of the
explosion tore up the floor boards OF
the car vestibule.
An east side car on the Fillmore
Line was fired upon shortly after
midnight by five men in an automo-
bile. the police reported. Three bull
lets were imbedded in the body of the
car Just below the vestibule window
where the motorman stood. The at
tackers Ned after firing one volley
and the policeman on the trolley
chr WAS unable to nurSue them.
The evening world., 1922-07-31
WRECK TAXICABS
4. IN PHILADELPHIA
IN CUT RATE WAR
Drivers Butt and Smash
Cars in Battle for Caba-
= ret Trade.

PHILADELPHIA, July a1.-
Police to-day arrested fifteen
chauffeurs to break up a taxicab
war, in which forty-eight cars
had been smashed and battered in
b struggle by three rival COM
panies for the cabaret trade at
Broad Street and Fairmounb
Avenue.
The encounters, which began
early wednesday morning, made
ihe streets a battle-ground. on
which taxi drivers butted,
smashed and otherwise fought
their way through the ranks Of
rival machines, whll0 thousands
OF spectators applauded and traf-
40 was jammed on three streets.
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Resisting Arrest Harry B0h11d De Valera Ad Is Sh
CaSeuX Had Sold Some Good Scotch
To the EIvigeS, Whose Place Was
Raided, and He has More of Ii!
Tells Commissioner Hrshfield, Who Making an In
quiry He has Delivered Lots of 1t at the Municipal
Building-POlice Officials Deny They Had Warrant.

The investigation which Commis+
sioner of Accounts David Hirshficld
is making into the legality of the ac-
ton of the police in raiding the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Morris ElviSc at No.
72S West End Avenue on June % last
to-day developed some interesting
testimony as to the current quota
tions on good Scotch whiskey.
, John r. CascuN, who keeps an inn
at Greenwich, Conn, and who has
studio uptown where he designs tap
estry, was called to the stand to testify
concerning the liquor which the police
seized in Mr.. Elvige's apartment. Gas.
cuX admitte dthat he had sold on the
day of the raid two cases of Scotch
to Mr.. Elvige at $1O5 case and was
very persistent in informing the Com
missioner that the liquor was real
Scotch whiskey. He said that he per-
sonally didn't deliver the whiskey but
had his chauffeur take it to the apart
ment while he remained in his auto
mobile in front of the house. After
while, he said, he became anxious be-
cause the chauffeur didn't return and
went to the apartment where he dis
covered that the polio had raided the
place.
While he was in the room. accord
ing to his testimony a policeman
poured some of the liquor into the
palm of his hand and after rubbing
It around n bit, smelled it, and pro-
nounced it to be Scotch whiskey.
81 assured them CascuX said,
THAT it was not only Scotch, but
good Scotch and asked them to sam
pie it so we got some glasses and all
of the policemen took q good drink"
And what was the effect" asked
the Commissioner.
why" replied The witness, "the
officers flushed up bit and felt lit
tie nervous and one of them perspired
considerably and mopped his brow
with his handkerchief"
Commissioner Hirshfield then asked
CascuX whether he had any more of
the good liquor at his place in Green
wich.
Sure" he replied, "I've got
some
"And do you sell it?"
mo" he said. 81 won't answer
that question"
"And have you any of it at your
studio?"
Eyes, I've got some there"
"Well." the Commissioner said,
You'd be able to make lot of
money if you sold it,"
NO." returned Cascux, there's no
profit in it. The bootleggers are max
ing all of the profit out of it,"
Commissioner Hirshfield then ven
tured to say that if he was making
presents of good scotch he might
bring some down to the Municipal
Building.
Cascux assured him that he had
brought quite a bit to the Municipal
Building aud never had any trouble
and that he would be glad to let the
Commissioner have some. I'm not
a hypocrite," he said.
Police Inspector James S. Bolan
and Deputy Inspector James f. Troy
testified that they had made the raid
without warrant on information, but
denied that they had been rough in
their treatment of Mr.. and Mrs. Ell
vige. There will be further hearing
next Monday.
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BOLAND IS SHOT
RESISTING ARREST;
EXPECTED TO DIE
Wounded in Abdomen III
Hotel by Free State
Squad.
HERE WITH DE VALERA
Was Secretary to the Repub-
lican Chief and Dali
Representative.

BELFAST, July 81 ASSOCIATED
Press) Harry Boland, formerly rep
resentative OF tho Dali Eireann in the
United States, Is In a critical condi-
ton in a Dublin hospital, says a Dub
lin message to-day, as n result of
wounds received in attempting TO
evade capture by National Army
troops.
Boland, tho despatch says, was
wounded at Skerries, a fishing town
north of Dublin.
Boland and a friend were spending
the weekend at the Grand Hotel, in
Skerries. This morning at O'Clock
troops surrounded the hostelry and
entered Boland's room to arrest him
In resisting arrest Boland drew a re-
volver and. during the scuffle that
followed he was shot in the abdomen.
Boland's companion also was ar
rested. The incident caused a great
commotion in the hotel, which was
crowded with visitors.
National Army trops. operating on
the West Meath CaVan border, to-day
captured ten Republican insurgents,
whose leader. Harry Killeavey. in
charge of West Meath Republicans, is
alleged to have issued the recent or
der that all men in uniform should
be shot on sight. Among his COM
panions, according to the message
received in Belfast, were some of the
prisoners who dramatically escaped
from the Dundalk Prison last week.
Harry Boland was one of the young
men who founded the Sim Fein
movement in Ireland. He first came
into prominence during the disorders
attending the Easter Rebellion in 1915.
He was elected from Roscommon to
the first Irish National Parliament
and was secretary of the Sim Fein
organization up to the signing of the
treaty with Great Britain. Boland
elected to stick with De Valera in the
fight ,-gainst the Free State element.
In June, 1919, Boland shipped as a
fireman on a British vessel and landed
at Philadelphia. De Valera had been
in the United States since March Of
that year. Boland Joined him and
acted as his secretary. He was u bet
ter talker than De Valera and vigor-
GUS and extreme In his utterances. AT
one time he was the subject of a
State Department inquiry because OF
his public advocacy OF an Irish VEN
delta against English people In this
country.
Mr.. Boland remained after De
Valera's return In the early part of
1921 and acted as the Republican
Presidents representative here until
August of last year, when, after the
signing of the truce, Boland was
called to Ireland to take part in the
meeting OF the Dali Eireann, OF which
he was a member. He returned in the
fall, however. in connection with
Irish loan and other affairs, but went
back to Ireland last December, after
the signing OF the Anglo-Irish treaty
and spoke and worked against that
pact in tho Dali.
Mr.. Boland supported De Valera 8
unsuccessful effort for re- election and
has stood with him since in his op-
position to the Provisional Govern
ment in Ireland. His whereabouts
had been mystery since the outbreafi
of hostilities between the National
Army forces and tho irregulars, but
early thu -ronth he was reported with
an Irregular force In Wicklow.
The evening world., 1922-07-31
DIES IN GANG WAR
FROM SHOT |NBACK
IN CONEY CROWDS
Women Scream as Assassin
Fires - Another Seriously
Wounded at BenSOnhurSt.

In the midst of hundreds of men
and women leaving cabarets and other
resorts at Surf Avenue and Seaside
Walk, Coney Island at 1.15 a. NJ. to-
day, Herbert Selig, twenty -one. Il
former pugilist living at No. 351
Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, was shot
through the right lung by man who
pressed revolver to his back and
fired. Selig died on the way to the
hospital and three men charged with
the killing were arrested.
Mystery surrounds tho shooting.
but police investigating the case are
convinced It was the result of Il gang
war. Selig was sentenced to twenty
years in Sing Sing by Judge Humph-
reys in Queens on Jan. 8. last. on
convection of charge of assault and
robbery following n hold-up Of a
restaurant in Queens and tho rob-
berry OF s55 from patrons. lie was
out on appeal and had gone to Coney
Island for the night.
Detective Thomas Burns, OF Inspec-
tor Underhill's staff. off duty, caused
the arrest Of tho three prisoners. He
was in the crowds Issuing from a
cabaret at the corner when the shoot
ing occurred. He charges no saw a
man drop a .38-callbre revolver and
he took him in custody. Other po-
licemen grabbed two other men said
to have been with him.
The shooting created intense eI-
element, women screaming and men
scampering for cover. Police de-
clared that tho only thing that saved
some persons In the crowd from be-
ing struck by a bullet was the fact
that the slayer pressed his revolver
to the back of his victim.
DR.. Wax was summoned from
Coney Island Hospital and hurried
with Sclig 10 that institution. The
man died in the ambulance.
Tho prisoner arrested by Detective
Burns described himself as Stephen
Connors of No. 1882 Putnam Avenue.
Brooklyn, and those who were taken
with him said they were Frank Dowd
of No. 10S Baltic Street and Patrick
Mahoney of No. s14 Cortelyou Road,
both Brooklyn. They were taken to
Headquarters and placed in the line
up preparatory to being arraigncd in
tho Coney Island Court on charges of
murder. All three deny connection
with the crime, explaining they were
bystanders.
Nothing was found in the dead
mans pockets but gold watch and
a ticket for the Irving Baths at
Coney Island. Later he was identified
as Selig. He was said to have been
employed by tho United States
Trucking Corporation.
About the same time Walter Rob-
ertson. twenty-nine, living with his
wife at the foot OF Bay 5Oth Street.
Bensonhurst. was shot four times in
the abdomen. The police say no ac-
cuses his friend, Martin Gleason,
twenty-three. who lives nearby. Glea-
son denies II. II is believed Robertson
will die, The police have not learned
the cause OF the shooting.
The evening world., 1922-07-31
GIRLS B,ATHB AT MIDNIGHT IN
THE MOONLIGHT WITHOUT SUITS.

LAKE HoPATCoNG, N. j., July 81.
Nude girls bathing at midnight in the
moonlight are apparently Objectionable
10 some persons. who, It Is said. have
to the police. a few nights
ago residents near Nolan's Point said
they heard the shouts of bathers, and
on investigation found bathing several
young women who had apparently for
gotten bathing suits.
The evening world., 1922-07-31

Neither the railroad executives nor
the railway employees will be able to
say that the settlement Is what they
would have made 1t If lhtt to them
selves in a prolonged fight. But the
Intervention of the President has
been on the theory that the Ameri.
can people will not permit the dis
putants to have u fight to d finish.
And the same is true of the coal
controversy. Operators are ndamont
in their viewpoint, miners represcn-
tatives are stubbornly refusing 10
concede an inch, but they will both
have to change tactics before tho
end of this week, when they are
brought faco TO face with the Chief
Executive in the White House and
are asked In the name of the Ameri-
can people to accept compromise.
Neither miners nor operators will
voluntarily make concessions. They
will not even give in by processes of
persuasion In conference with the
peaceful elements in their own ranks
and both labor and operators re-
spectively are being urged from with
in to make a settlement. But when
the President Of the United States
takes tho initiative again he is ex-
pected this time to get compliance
from both operators and miners.
There were many unfortunate
phases 20 the last effort at peace
which emanated from the White
House. For one thing, the operators
wanted moro timo to fight; they be-
lieved that II tho Government would
furnish troops 10 protect strike break
ers, the non-union production would
soon reach n point where il would
scare the union men into submission.
AS for tho union leaders, they were
confident that later on they would
get better terms of settlement.
The war of exhaustion has gone on
two weeks since Mr.. Harding pro-
posed arbitration. Figures just issued
by the United States Geological Sur
vey show that non-union production
since the operators were invited to
resume operations has not been suffi-
cient to warrant the Nation in feeling
comfortable about fuel supply next
winter.
The figures are by no means salts
factory 10 the Administration here,
no matter how indicative they might
be 10 tho operators OF a gradual in
crease in production. The operators
blame the rail strike and say lack OF
cars is hindering production. for coal
isn't mined when cars are not avail
able on which 10 load. But Govern
ment information contradictS that as
sertion. Enough coal hasn't been
mined and not enough men are at
work 10 insure an adequate supply
In the face OF those facts the Gov
ernment will try again 10 mediate IN
the dispute. Further conferences be-
tween the heads of operators and
unions are inevitable by the end of
this week There is feeling OF the
utmost confidence that this time a
new compromise can be launched and
that II viii be accepted.
Il would have required very little
The evening world., 1922-07-31
TRAFFIC RESUMED"
ON PLANET OF MARS
AFTER BIG BLIZZARD

YOUNGSTOWN. O.. July 81.
Mars was recovering to-day
from the worst snowstorm OF the
season.
T. G. Beede, Youngstown as
tronomer and perfector of giant
telescope lenses, announced his
observation OF the Martian biz
gard on July II had been con-
firmed by the observatory at Flag
staff, AriZ.
THE storm has abated by
now" Beede said, land / think II
will be ssfs TO say that trsnio
has been resumed. ."
The evening world., 1922-07-31
MORE MEN At WORG IN PENNSYL-
NANIA COAL MINES.

In production were reported to-day from
nve mines In Washington County, where
coal is being hoisted under protection Of
national guardsmen. The Wilson mine
At Cokeburg Junction also reported
larger force st work than last week.
The evening world., 1922-07-31
HARDING TO END COAL STRIKE
BY FORCE Of PUBLIC OPINION.
SAME AS WITH RAILROADS
Industrial Peace in Sight-Detais OF Rail Com
promise, President Is Sure, Will Cause
Miners and Operators to Make Concessions;
If Not Voluntarily, Then Under Pressure.

NAShNGION July 81 ASSOCIATED Harding
said to-day by personal advisers h, received
assurances from Chairman Cur of the Hallway Execu
tcs Vice President Arbury Railroad and b. NJ
Jewell head OF the striking hOpmn they would
support his proposals for immediate the strike
The evening world., 1922-07-31
By David Lawrence.
lspooiaI oorrospOndect Of The everlnn World.


WASHINGTON Copyrigh-The rail strike settlement first
and then the coal problem
And he has feeling
Is disclosed tho details revealed opaor
will find themselves compelled opinion make con-
cessions others viewpoint bring peace
The evening world., 1922-07-31
% KILLED, 1S HURT
IN HERRIN MASSACRE
states Attorney Denies Casualties
Were More Than 20.

were More Thun 40.
MARION. ILL.,, July 81 ASSOCIATED
Press) An official check-up made by
States Attorney Delos Duty showed
twenty non-union men killed. three
union men killed and eighteen union
and non-union mer wounded in the
Herrin shooting. Mr.. Duty said to- day.
"The assertion that the casualties
were more than seventy is untrue" he
added.
The evening world., 1922-07-31
THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU.

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1000. Check room for baggage and parcels
spoA day and night. Money orders and
New-York tribune., 1922-12-10

"DArnunzio understands neither faith nor
love- "Immoralty Of D'Annunzio consid'
cred" ut consists in miscOnstruing the
moral law" "In falsifying life" "In present.
ing half truths "His presentation Of live
unworthy and false His voluptuousness IS
artificial" "DAnnunzio fails TO understand
women" "He misses the spiritual His
novels are works OF temperament "He has
no real conception OF life" but he Is the
foremost novelist Of modern Italy
As a Readers Digest OF modern Italian
fiction Joseph Spencer Kennard's book may
at one time have served its purpose. It's
rsclessness to-day. apart from its intrinsic
value as q work OF criticism may be judged
by the fact that there is no mention OF
Tirandelo, Oriani, Rovetta, Corradini, Lue-
coli and Panzni. and OF course the writer's
who have come forward since Mr. kennsrd
wrote are also absent. As these include
Papini. Tozzi, Puccini Sofiici and Ada Negfi
among others the lacunR in this volume
dated 1922 on It's title page are somewhat
alarming.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-10
FogazzaroandOth
By Ernest Boyd

usual elements the apparent trivialty OF the
ofrense, the generous support OF enlightened
prelates, the act Of submission, and then the
underhand intrigues which break the spirit
Of most Of the victims. The Saint and
Leila" were the end OF his career which had
been one OF distinction and success. The
elerieals and anti-clericals fell upon him SIM
uItaneously and he died with sense OF fall
ure. though eonsoled By the last saeramcnts
and the Bible, the Divine Comedy and The
Imitation Of Christ"
THERE is little OF interest to the literary
II critic in this bulky book. That all this
muddlcd thought should end so dramatically
strikes one as one Of those little ironies such
AZ befall earnest believers in the Declaration
OF independence when they are jailed for in
appropriately protesting their enthusiasm for
that historical document His theological
blunders were more costly but no more un-
natural than the errors Of an II. G. Wells
writing history or a St. John Eryine trying to
get Irish politics correctly in novel. His
aesthetic notions were primitive, for almost
everything he wrote was to illustrate thesis,
beginning with his first important novel,
"Maombra," wherein we are invited to con
template the struggle between passion and
duty. The hero and heroine are perpetually
on the brink Of being human, but they never
succumb TO their innumerablc embraces,
kisses and ecstasics As Croce once said very
wittly: "They are two machines provided
with safety valves" The spring OF duty is
released invariably at the indispensable
moment In "Piccolo Monde moderno' a
somewhat similar situation Is presented in
the person Of Picro Maironi. whose amorous
temperament is equaled only by his piety.
whcrcupon there cnsues the customary series
Of scenes in which the lovers hover on the
brink Of iniquity. Religion. love and politics
are the themes upon which Fogazzaro wrote
his variations, but each one is a vague imita-
tion, substitute for reality. II he has a
place in Italian literature it is because he
wrote we'll and often revealed in unexpected
places the qualities Of the poet that was in
him when he first appeared, the qualities he
increasingly obscured in theses and pseudo
philosophical ideas, which undoubtedly made
his reputation until they ultimately unmadc
him by leading him into the devious paths
Of Modernism.