New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1917, Page 10

RATERNAL NEWS officers of St. Elmo lodge, K. » Will be installed Wednesday jng by Walter Gould, district ty grand master. They are as ] ncellor fin, e Chancellor—Charles Boyington plate—Allen Ptolomy. ster of Work—F. E, Mase. eper or Records and Seal—W. E. Tt. jster of Finance—Thomas Spence. ster of Exchequer—George orex. ster at Arms—Charles Witkin. er Guard—James Hattings. ter Guard—A. C. Siderofsky. er the meeting the degrce team be drilled by Lieutenant Hat- “Thursday evening St. Elmo team will bowl Clan Douglas in aternal Carpet Bowls league. Commander — Frank Thusnelda Lodgc. jusnelda lodge, No. 1, 0. D. H. S, neet at 2:30 tomorrow atternoon hall at 187 Arch str Consia- busin of importance uled for discussion. Joint Installation, the presence of , the joint installation of the e of Rev. W. A. Harty Branch, IL. and the Ladies’ Auxiliary eld yesterday afternoon in Elec- all. The exercises were in @ of the county presidents, Wii- fowd of Windsor Locks and M pm Tomlins of Hartford. Prior B installation ceremonies, Rev. W. arty branch held o meeting in ercial hall, the members later ring to tho Electric hall. hen the installation had been letéd/ President Ralph Mulconry charge of the exercises and i upon State President John F. yw of ithis city for remarks. s who addressed the gathering Rev. Patrick aly, Rev. J. Leo an, Rev. John E. Fay and Vice dent Armitage of Fast Hartford. cgl numbers were given by Al- andy of New York, who greatiy ed with his Scotch and Irish im- nations; Miss Kathleen Walsh, lew Callahan, George Campbell, 'Coffey, Miss Anna Egenton, Miss je Dorsey and Miss McCann of Jol. Frank Clynes was the ac- nist. P. J. Egan contributed a C. W. B. L. Catholic Women’s Benevolent Sn will meet Wednesday evening ‘oclock in St. Mary’s school hall. postponed social will be held and bers are urged to attend. Temple, Pythian Sisters. e bi-weekly meeting of the above will be held this evening in ic hall and will be called at 8 The semi-annual election of will be held, and a full at- nce is desired. Reports will be from committees, and all de- B work pertaining to the closing e previous term will be attended he installation' of officers will be | on January 22. Chapter, No. 21, O. E. S. rtha Chapter, No. 21, O. E. 8, install officers at the regular ng, on Thursday evening. Sup- ill be served at 6:30, £ Unity Rebekah Lodge. aity Rebekah lodge, No. 54, will tomorrow evening. D. D. G. M. ox and staff will install officers. ex' will precede the meeting. ‘Washington Camp. shington Camp, No. 8, P. O. S. b will meet Friday evening, .in or Mechanic's hall, 77 Main street. initiation and all members are r.lud to be present, Daughters of Scotia. (pdy Wallace Lodge will hold a lar meeting on Wednesday eve- at 34 Church street. The in- degree will be worked on two idates. A social hour with ping and refreshments will follow meeting. Britain Council No. 8, O. U. A. ‘the regular meeting Thursday Councilor Sleath will make his appointments. There are candi- §s for the first degree. The car- | committes will meet and dis- 'y uniting with the D. of L. to the carnival. The degree team ben invited to Plainville the P steenth. Hundred Men’s Soclety. _he Hundred Men's soclety “Svea’ ' hold its monthly meeting in Vega , tonigkt. Lexington Lodge, I. O. O. F. fembers of Lexington lodge, No. 0, O. F., will be pleased to learn John Miller, the newly installed le grand, has reappointed the e members of the lodge orchestra ; proved such a success last term. hough the music has long been a ure of the meetings of this lodge only within the last year, through efforts of George Keller, the ffier, that it reached such a point Wpericction as it is at present. y the reappointment the lodge inues to be one of few lodges hav- an orchesira to furnish music 21l of its regular meetings, and members look forward to many byable mectings during this term. t tho meeting Thursday evening initiatory degree will be rehearsed Ir the direction of R. B. Crocker, degrec master. [¥onight the carpet bowling team play the team representing the 0. S. of A, at the fraternal bowl- rink and all the carpet bowlers of lo@ge are urged to be present. 1 A { Turners Elect Officers. 1 Klambt, retiring tarner in- or of the New Britain Turner ty, was yesterday presented with NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, fANUARY 8, 1917 Severe Carpat ate and county | pls and over 300 members of the | is | HUT CONSTRUCTED OF SKIS Probably nowhere in the great war is the ingenuity of the fighters in winter’ more severely tested than in the Carpathians, where weather con- ditions are extremely severe at this *time of the year. The Carpathians are notorious for their gales and heavy snows, with low temperatures, often going below zero. The roads are few and far between, and the paths over the mountains are virtually im- passable at this season. The soldiers hian Weather Calls Out : Soldiers’ Ingenuity; Make Hut of Skis IN CARPATHIANS of the battling armies are hard put to it for shelter and utilize every means of protection when not fight- ing. The body of Austrian soldiers shown in the picture have construct- ed a shelter or hut with their skis as a framework. a handsome smoking set in apprecia- tion of his services in,the past. Al- though officers were elected yesterday no successor to Mr. Klambt was named. The newly elected officers are: President—Frank Rady. First vice president—Arthur Guen- ther. Second Yung. Recording secretary—Willlam Hu- ber. Treasurer—Herman Lumpp. Collector—R. G. Zimmerman. First Instructor—FPaul Gruenewald. Second instructor—John Henzel. Executive committee—Harry Mor- ton and Richard Vogel. Member of gymnastlc Charles Miller. Trustees re-elected—Paul and Richard Vogel. Hall agent—George Froeba. Theatrical manager—Richard Vo- gel. stdge manager—Joseph Lynch. Representatives to the United Ger- man Society—Charies Miller, Paul Leupold and Richard Vogel. Auditorium ‘tommittee — Joseph Lynch and Joseph Rogen. vice president—Richard council— Leupold' Tabs Joint Installation. County Director Thomas Quinlan of Bristol, assisted by County #®irector William J. Sullivan of this clty, will install the new officers of the Y, M. T, A, & B, and St. Mary's, Ladies Tem- perance societies at T. A, B. hall ‘Wednesday evening. Following the installation an entertainment will be held and refreshments will be served. Dancing will conclude the evening's program. LAWSON CAUSES UPROAR AT PROBE (Continued from First Page) ber of occasions, under picious circumstances since I have been in Newark, I have Teceived telephone calls from New York from a man calling himself Curtis and al- leging himself to be a banker or broker. In each case he undertook to give meoe tips of various sorts of what was happening not only in the financial and industrial world but on one occasion called me up on the various sus- telephone to tell me that he had good i reason to believe that Dorothy Arnold was at an Orange, N. J., hotel. ing the Standard Oil strike he called up almost daily, giving what purport- ed to be inside information and also vredicting future developments. “I made considerable inquiry could never identify or locate Curtis. ‘but Mr. Tumulty Raps Wood. Rep. Campbell asked Mr. Tumulty if he knew that Mr. Wood asked for an executive session to make | his statement bringing in Mr. Tumulty’s name last week. “I wish vou wouldn't a thing- about Mr. Wood,” replied Mr. Tumulty heatedly.” I would be ashamed to be a party to any thing that would blemish the reputation of a public man on a mere letter writ- ten by a man named Curtis. If were guilty of such a thing I would not -be fit to hold thé smallest public office.” Mr. Lenroot, republican asked Sec- retary Tumulty how the president sk me any- ' sent the peace note to Secretary Lan- sing. Mr, Tumulty said it wa®prans- mitted in a sealed envelope by private messenger. “Do you know,” asked Representa- tive Chiperfield, “that Alfred H. Cur- tis was president of the National bank of North America with which Charles Dur- ' T ‘W Morse and others were associated. “I do not,” said Mr. Tumulty, The committee at that point decided to supoena Alfred H. Curtis, “You are well acquainted with Ber- nard Baruch?' resumed Mr. Chiper- fleld. “Yes sir.” “When did you last see him “At the Gridiron dinner in Wash- ington, Dec. 9" “Did you come closély with him there? “I sat about five seats away from him and exchanged greetings with him.” “Did you have with him?” “None at all.” in contact any conversation Tull Investigation Invited. Mr. Chiperfield then said there were, things not mentioned in Mr. Tumulty’s letter about which he wished to ques- tion him. “Go as far as you like,” said Mr Tumulty. “Do you know J, B. Reagan, pro- prietor of the Knickerbocker hotel in New York ” “I do not.” Asked if he ever had any business transactions with W. B. Hibbs & company, Washington brokers, or had ever frequented their place of busi- ness, Mr Tumulty said he had been there once. “Before Mr. Gerard returned to Germany recently,” said Tumulty, “he wanted to buy some bonds and wanted to know a man whom I could recom- mend. I introduced Mr. Gerard to Mr. Hibbs. “When was that, in reference when the peace note was sent?” “Some time before ” : In answer to further questioning by Representative Chiperfield Mr. Tu- multy said that he did not know the date of the peace note nor when it was transmitted to Secretary Lansing and then was excused. Secretary Lansing on Stand. Secretary Lansing was called next. “Possibly I had better start,” said Secretary Lansing, “by stating that I assume that confidential communica- tions between the president and my- self are not a part of the inquiry. I can give you a physical history of the note. The draft of the note was received by me from the White House at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. “I called -Mr. Polk, counsellor for the department, and Mr. Woolsey, law adviser attached to my office, and dis- cussed the three forms in which the note had to be prepared and sent { forth. I then handed it to Mr. Wool~ sey, enjoining him to the strictest secrecy, so that he might take it to the three confidential stenographers. There it was to be prepared and de- livered to Mr. Salmon, chief of the in- dex bureau. \ “The index clerk,” continued . the ' secretary,” was to encipher the note, and said that it would take so long to cipher the three notes that he would have to have an assistant. I, directed that he engage his most con- fidential man for the work. He did so, was given the copies and the two men locked themselves in the room. They . were given the copies at 8 o’clock, and at 2:30 Tuesday morning (December 19) the notes were enci- phered, delivered to the telegraph |room and sent. “On Tuesday afternoon I discussed with the president the time when the note shoyld be made public. The | reason for secrecy was the courtesy | due to the nations who were to re- ceive the note that it might not be | | published here before they recelved it. We decided it would take at least two days for it to reach Austria and Rumania and we decided it should be made public on Thursday morning. Tuesday evening, about 6 o'clock, a copy of the note was handed to Mr. ‘James, chief of the information bu- to | knew the note was in the hands of the reau. He at once took it up with the printing office. It was read by one man and then sent to th® print- ing office.” “At about 11 o’clock I received the ! newspaper correspondents and told | them I would have an important com- munication at 5 o’clock to be released the next morning. I told them in confidence, as I was afraid its con- | tents might come back from Europe | in garbled form. Further, I thought it courteous not to make it public until it had been received by the | countries to which it was addressed. | I told them it did not contain any proposal of peace nor offer of media- tion. “That evening at my house Am- bassador Willard, of Spain, told me he had been advised of the contents of | the note by the president and we dis- cussed the advisability of him ad- dressing Spain on the subject. The next morning the note was made pub- lic in the press” No Knowledge of Leak. ‘““Have you any information as to leak of the note about 11 o’clock on Wednesday?” asked Rep. Campbell. “Not to my knowledge,” said Mr. Lansing. “I’s been suggested here.that rep- resentatives of two newspapers may have sent out information at that time.” “I have seen references to it in the newspapers.” ‘“Has anything been done at the state department to show whether there is any foundation for that?” “Nothing at all. I think it would be easy to find out.” Mr. Lansing said that on the morn- ing of the conference with the news- | paper men three other men were | present waiting to see him but that he did not know they were in the | room until after he had talked to the newspaper men. | “Who were these men?” asked Rep. Lenroot. » “Mr. A. E. Snowden of New York; E. R. Gaylor, civil engineer of the | navy, and Dr. N. T. McLean, of the navy,” said Mr. Lansing. “The two ' naval officers were about to proceed | to Haiti.” “It is not likely that they would sdy anything about your statement?” suggested Rep. Bennet. “Very improbable.” “Mr. Bennet recalled that Secretary | Lansing had stated he never specu- | lated and added: “For that reason isn’t it possible that you gave little thought to the effect some statement ' made by you might have on the stocy market."” “I never gave it a thought” said the secretary. “ItL never entered my mind I was entirely anxious to pre- serve the courtesy due to foreign na- | tions in the matter.” ‘“Was Mr. Snowden connected with the Natianal Manufacturers’ Associa- tion ?” “I think so.” “Did it occur to you that he might make use of the information?"” “I didn’t know he was there.” Gave No Hint of Note's Purpose. Questioned further about his can- ference with the newspapermen, Sec- retary Lansing said: “My statements regarding the note were entirely negative. I = said nothing whatever about a request for terms having been made. I gave no details. I stated that at 5 o’clock they would be able to get an important communication sent to belligerent gov- ernments. I said that it was not a praposal of peace or an offer of medi- ation. Then I explained the reason I wished them to preserve confidence, I printer and wanted to guard against any more rumors that might get out.” Representative Chipperfleld asked Secretary Lansing about his two state- ments explaining the note after it had been made public. ‘“Were these state- ments made entirely on your own Billings Sells Tryon Hall, His Palace and Show Place Tryon Hall on upper Riverside drive and Fort Washington avenue, New York city, one of the finest houses in the United States, has been sold by its owner C. K. G. Billings, capitalist and sportsman, to a prominent New Yorker, whose name has not been made public. Built on the site of Fort Tryon of Revolutionary fame, at a cost of about $2,000,000, the Billings house has for. years been one of the show places on Manhattan Island. It is virtually a country estate in the city, being surrounded by spacious grounds beautifully laid out and commanding unusually wide views of river and hill scenery. The site of old Fort Tryon, which is the highest point of land on Manhattan Island, was orig- inally purchased by Mr. Billings as a site for a large stable for his famous trotting horses. At the opening of the stables, which was celebrated with a dinner clared with emphasis,” that is way be- yond the scope of this investigation.” Democrats of the committee ob- jected that such a line of questioning was improper and the chair ruled that the secretary need not answer, Lawson Causes Uproar. Thomas W. Lawson followed Mr. Lansing. Told by Chairman Henry that he might “proceed in his own way for the present,” Mr. Lawson asked if he were to be stopped at any point. Mr, Henry said that would de- | pend upon whether he confined him- self to the subject before mittee. “My name is Thomas W. Lawson,” he said. “My home is Boston. My occupation, you might say, is that of a farmer.” The crowd ‘burst into a roar of laughter and Lawson hastened to ex- plain. “I don’t say I am a farmer to be facetious,” he said. “In a way I also am connected with financial matters.”” “I will give testimony,” he said, “regarding the damnable condition which has existed for two years, for the purpose of finding remedy for conditons which caused hundreds of thousands of persons to be driven to enormous losses.” Lawson flew into a rage after he had proceeded for half an hour when interrupted by Representative Chip- erfleld. He declared he proposed to the com- G. BILLINGS AND HOU S TRYON HALL” attended by prominent road drivers and ' horsemen, Mr. Billings an- nounced his intention of erecting a tower to mark the site of the old fort and a small lodge. As the work advanced the owher saw the possi- | bilities of a home there and made several additional purchases of land. When the lodge was completed the mansion known as Tryon Hall was started. The house, which is in Louis XIV. style of architecture, was sev- eral years in building and has had several additions made to it. Mr. Billings also owns a large property at the foot of Dyckman street on the Hudson, which he uses as a landing for his vacht. He has an extensive estate, known as Farns- worth, near Oyster Bay and Piping Rock, comprising about forty-five acres on the James river in Virginia, of the American people through stook gamblers.” Lawson Calls Names. He said he knew who was respon- sible for the leak ana reiterate§ he was convinced the committee did not want an investigation. = He reviewed recent trip to Washington. R 1 came to Washington,” said he, *to @id in an honest investigation only to have hell lambasted out of me as soon as congress convened. Promptly when the senate met, a leather- lunged, sewer-mouthed old blather- skite: i \ The chairman stopped Lawson thers and then followed a row between Lawson and . Representative Chiper- field, which was unintelligible even to the official stenographer. Chairman Henry rapped for order and Lawson roared: “I don't propose to be bull I wilk not be intimidatea Declines to Give Names. Finally, after more wrangling, by a vote of the committee, all of Lawson’s heated speech was struck from the record. The chairman then began to question him. “You stated that there was a leak. ‘Will you give the committee the name of the person who carried the leak to Wall street from Washington?” Lawson replied that the only way he could give the identity of the bear- er of'the leak was to violate a con=§ fidence and he could not do so, ! “Do you know any names manded Chairman Henry. “Not in a legal sense.” “Do you know of any sense 2" “I know there was a leak,” Law- son returned, “and knowing there was a leak I must have some informa- tion.” ] Asked if he refused to answer the question Lawson avoided a direct answer. i “Do you know any persons who! # profited on the day of the leak?” “T probably do,” Lawson said. , probably profited myself.” He ded| clined to say how much. { By a process of elimination Chalr-i Man Henry drew from the witness! that he knew of no one at the Whita House connected with a leak. Askedy if he knew of any leak in the secre- tary of state’s office, Mr. Lawson said “I have no information regarding } any one in the state departments which I would give in public. I would ¥ give it to the chairman. But you! don’t need any more information § { than you have to warrant an investi- § gation, g “I cannot give the comniittea® names in a court knowledge way having been principals to the tram. saction,” said Lawson. “I would glves names that were given to me by people I consider responsible but won’t at this time.” “Will you give them to me?” asked the chairman. 18 { “No I will not give them at all un<'§ less it is ahsolutely necessary.” ( “The chair requests you now to give me the names,” continued Mg. Henry. “I started out with the determina~ ;' tion and I say again that I will not blunder up your record with names to furnish headlines for the newspa- dozed e | in any 1, where all of his breeding horses are ! kept. He has another summer home at Lake Geneva, Wis, and a place at Colorado Springs. ——— say all he had to say regardless of consequences. “What's the penalty?” he shouted, “and I'H take it in advance.” The committee room was in an up- roar, and Representative Henry threatened to clear it and hold the proceedings in executive session. Shakes Finger at Chiperfield. Lawson gesticulated, shook his fin- ger in Representative Chiperfield’s | face and loudly declared that he, as {an American citizen, would see to it that he got his rights, Jerry South, clerk, pulled Mr. Law- son back into his chair, until order could be restored. Lawson, pacing up and down.before the committee, declared that all he had sald in the public press regard- ing the leak' he believed to be true. “I repeat it all now,” he declared. “It is one of the commonest things in Wall street, advance information from Washington about government affairs, affairs of such importance that they frequently affect the coun- try’s securities. I mean also leaks from the supreme court, advance in- formation on decisions, advance infor- mation on important senate matters, action of congressional committee, cabinet affairs and advance informa- tion direct from the White House it- self.”” From that he led into charges of a “premediated, deliberately figured out, deliberately worked out robbery pers.” “Then you flatly decline.” “Yes I decline to furnish nd%e given to me by others, not now.” | At this point the committee took; a recess until 2 o’clock. Just before the afternoon sessio began the rules committee issued suté poenas for F. M. Lockwood, Ne York stock broker and Alfred Hi Curtis, former president of the na# tional bank of North America. i 3 FAIR TONIGHT AND TUESDAY | ’Not Much Change in Temperature, Weather Man Says. B New Haven, Jan. 8:—For New Ha- & ven and vicinity: Generally fair tos night and Tuesday. e For Connedticut: Probably fair tos night and Tuesday, not much chan in temperature; strong southwest ai west winds. 3 Weather conditions:—A disturbancss which is central over Ontarjo is cau ing cloudy weather, with light sno and high winds in the lake regiol Another disturbance central oy North Dakota is causing weather in the northern d tween the Rocky Mountains and Mississippi river. 3 Pleasant weather prevails generals ly in the southern and eastern dig- tricts. Moderate temperatvres cons tinue in all districts east of the Rocky ' nmountains. The lowest temperature reported this morning was twelve des38 grees below zero at White River, On: tario. 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