The New York herald., 1922-01-13
Investors Deny Existence Of
Ship Called the Phyllis
Wheatley.
STOCK SELLING ASSAILED
Harlem Negro Has Had Tenn
pestuous Career; Has Many
Friends and Foes.

MARCUS GarVey Is In trouble again.
He was arrested yesterday by Deputy
United States Marshal Bartnek on
warrant charging him with wrong
fully using the malls in his desire to
sell stock in the Black Star Steamship
Line and add to the already enormous
membership in his two principal land
organizations-the Universal Negro
Improvement Association and the
African Communities League. These
two organizations are said to have
100000 members.
Garvey. unquestionably the most
picturesque negro organizer in New
York, is president Of the Black Star
Line, president Of the Negro Factories
Organization, editor of the Negro
World and provisional President of
Africa, title won in Liberty Hall,
West 13Sth street, August, 1920, while
the Universal Negro Improvement
Association was in convention there.
In addition Garvey is the mortal
enemy Of Cyril v. Briggs, paramount
chief Of the African Blood Brother
hood and editor Of the Crusader Mdod-
cine. Last August Briggs instituted
libel proceedings against Garvey for
charging in the columns Of the Negro
World, that Briggs was a white man.
Garvey's current tribulations are the
outcropping Of charges that there is no
such steamship as the Phyllis Wheatley.
which. according to dissatisfied COM
plainants, has been advertised since last
March az q unit Of the Black Star Line
and due to sail to Garvey's ideal negro
colony in Liberia. Furthermore 1t is
charged by negroes that they invested
money in the Universal Negro Improve
ment Association and in the African
Communities League and failed to get
back the benefits they understood Gar
vey to be guaranteeing.
Hires Taxi When Arrested.
The deputy marshal, accompanied by
o. b. Williamson. Post Office inspector.
found Garvey In his well equipped apart
and arrested him. He was the personi-
fication Of dignity. Wrapping his huge
fur ulster about him. he summoned a
taxicab and with Bartnek and William
son rode to the offices OF United States
Commissioner Hitchcock, where he was
held in $4,000 bail for hearing next
Thursday.
Before his alleged resort to the mails
in his efforts to sell stock, Garvey held
a series of meetings in Liberty Hall.
Having sown enthusiasm. the postal
agents say, he set out to reap subscrip-
tions. He organized band Of seventy
five pieces and this musical organiza-
tion. magnificent in new uniforms. was
stationed aboard the steamship Shady
side. chartered by Garvey to make excur-
sions up and down the Hudson. Pros
pective passengers aboard Black Star
liners were carried on these excursions
and Garvey's popularity scared despite
the insinuations of his enemies.
Yesterday, after a bonding company
posted the required s2.5Oo. Garvey went
to the Black Star Line Offices, Sc West
135th street. swinging his gold headed
cane and holding his head high. He
refused to discuss his latest trouble,
but II was evident that he wasn't wor-
ried.
Garvey is big man physically and a
recognized negro leader Last July his
wife Amy sued for an annulment OF
marriage and 1t developed that he was
supposed to get $4,000 salary for be-
ing Provisional President of Africa and
$4,000 as president of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association.
Black star Lines Troubles.
The Black Star Line has always been
in more or less trouble. First one OF
its ships. the Yarmouth. was stopped
as IL was getting under way for Cuba
loaded with alcoholic liquor. Then va
rious calls were made for more financial
backing. Adrian Richardson, the negro
master of the Kanawah. sued the line
the skipper for $4,000. charging that
the Kanawah, once III. II. Rogers's pri-
vate yacht. was mishandled by Rich
ardson because the latter permitted
the crew ito gamble in a kind OF gam
bling game known as craps" TO quote
the Garvey affidavit Richardson said
that there was no managing the ship
with Garvey aboard, as the latter want
ed to be purser, master, engineer, stew
ard, president and owner all in one
And once Garvey avoided suit for libel
about TO be brought by Edwin Kilroe,
Assistant District Attorney. by retract-
ing charges he had made in his Negro
World. In addition Marcus Garvey has
been shot at and missed at least once.
The negro who fired the shot committed