New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 22, 1917, Page 10

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1917. RESIDENT FIXES TENNIS STARS TO CO MPETE IN CHAMPIONSHIP SOFT COAL PRICE nounces $2 Per Ton at Mine 5 for Government and Public —_— 'Washington, Aus. 22.—President on issued a sweeping order last jight’ fixing the base price of bitum- ous coal in all of the big producing stricts at approximately $2 a ton, 1 a ton under the schedule agreed jpon at a recent conference of coal iperators with the coal production bminittee of the Council of National Pefense, Secretary Lane of the erior department, and Commissioner ort of the Iederal Trade commis- jon. in- At this conference a price of $3 a n had been fixed 1 at the mouth of the mine for special sizes, with a re- Buction of 50 cents a ton on govern- ent contracts. The conference de- bision was repudiated in the war and havy departments. v The president, in his order, did not 8.60 for bituminous and erentiate between the government pd the consuming public, but, ap- ently, named one price fot all. This entirely in keeping with his address July 12, when he said that in all ntial commodities there should be | single .price. Text of Price Fixing Order. The president’s statement is as fol- ‘White House, Washington, Aug. 21, 1917. | © The following scale of prices is _prescribed for bituminous coal at the mine in the several coal-pro- | ducing districts. It is provisional [ only. It is subject to reconsider- ‘dtion when the whole method: of dministering the fuel supplies of L] country shall have been sat- fafactorily organized and put into operation. Subsequent measures will have as their object a fair isnd equitable control of the dis- ‘tribution of the supply and of the prices, not only at the mines but in the hands of the middle en and the retailers. The prices provisionally fixed ' here are fixed by my authority | under the provisions of the re- . ‘eent act of congress regarding | &dministration of the food supply ‘of the country, which also con- frred upon the executive control g the fuel supply. They are ed upon the actual cost of production and are deemed to be not only fair and just but liberal ['ms well. Under them the indus- ‘try should nowhere lack ‘stimu- ‘WOODROW WILSON. President Has Full Power. dent Wilson has full powers to orce the prices he fixes under the d control law, and the tenor of order made it evident that he in- ended to do so to the fullest extent inless an obvious flaw were brought to attention. He said that, in his pinion, ‘the prices he quoted, after ful investigation of the findings of roduction cost by the Federal Trade Pommission, should be helpful to timulation of the industry. There was a feeling that the Presi- nt's schedule of prices would come something of a shock to the coal ndustry, and it was considered here an indication that he would take hoon a much more decisive step to blace the coal supply of the country gnder federal control. Some of the ators have been obtaining prices y in excess of those named by president, and it is said that, be- suse of the action anticipated, few fiad clung to the conference .agree- nt. _‘Jobbers and middlemen also, accord- to reports which have reached here been obtaining what some be- 4 to be extortionate profits for ir part in the distribution of coal. action taken tonight seemed to certain that the end of such otices was in sight. * A sliding scale of prices was fixed by the President for mines in various lo- alities and all bituminous ccal is to be supplied under his ruling, on the ears. The lowest price he names for ooal as it comes from the mouth of the mines is $1.90 a ton, or $1.10 be- jow the ‘“universal’ price suggested at the recent conference attended by e operators. The highest price is [§3.25 = ton in the State of Washinaton jwhere mining s conducted under great difficulties. "~ For prepared sizes the rates range trom $2.15 a ton to $3.50, striking an average which is also abo(ut $1 under nference agreement. mf\.:othe President’s order did not state definitely whether the price scale was meant to affect existing contracts, there was some confusionat first as to Ihe interpretation to be placed on it. But a study of the act showed that Section 25 expressly provided that the price fixing authorized was not to apt- Iy to existing contra ¥ UPHOLDS SUNDAY BAL Nashville, Tenn., Aug. junction against Sunday baséball games in Nashvilie, sought by the \state attorney-general on orders from Bov. Rye, was refused yesterday by Bpecial Judge R. E. Blake in the Cir- cuit Court here. A temporary injunc- fon had been refused by Judge | Fhomas E. Matthews of the Circuit Gourt after he visited the ball park pne Sunday and concluded the game was not @ public nuisance as was charged n in- i RKREPRISENTS CATHO Harttord, Aug 22-——Mrs. Charles A, Jackson of Witerbury was appoint- ed a member of the oxecutive com- mittee of the woman the Connecticut Council tee here vesterday. ucational committee as she is gov- ernor of the Catholic Alumnae Asso- clatien of thig state. In her new ca- pacity she will represent the Catholic women of the state. LIC WOMEN. committe of of Defense at a meeting of the woman's commit- Mrs. Jackson will probably be made a member of the ed; R. Lindley Murray of California and John R. Strachan, the Pacific coast star, hold the positions of vantage in the upper division of the draw for the national patriotic singles'lawn tennis tournament which will be held in Forest Hills, N. Y. while R. Norris Willlame- 2d and S. Howard Vashell stand opposed to them as the repre- sentatives of the east in the bottom half. The opening match begin Mon- day, Aug. 20, on the turf of the West Side 'Tennis club. As the championship tile is not at stake, George T. Adee, president of the United States National Lawn Ten- nis association and referee of the tournament, ruléd that the draw of the sixty-four contestants be scattered. GAMES ON LONG ISLAND TENNIS COURTS arriving in the finals. This was to insure the ranking men As the list is arranged, Murray appears to have a clean way to the final round in the top half. He may possibly meet Strachan in the semi-final round. Williams is regarded as having a hard road to travel to get into the final in the lower half. The cham- pion, who has been!at Plattsburs, may he toppled over by Irving C. Wright. Voshell is primed ta win the tournament if the weather holds good and the courts are fast. Two entire rounds will be played next Monday to ‘allow or delay for rain. In the picture No. 1 is R. Norris Williams, No. 2 Robert Lindley Murray, No. 3 S. Howard Voshell and No. 4 John R. Strachan. NEW FREIGHT YARD - LARGEST IN N, E. “New Haven” to Build Classitica- tion Station at Montowese (Special to the Herald) New York, Aug. 22.—The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company ,has started work on a new { freight for points on the east end of the system, power and crews were changed at Midway. With the gradual development of the system and of other lines, notably the Central New England route via the Poughkeepsie Bridge, the handling of freight became more complex and difficult. Yards and terminals were built or enlarged as the demands of individual sections or centers grew. The purpose of such vards and terminals, however, is handle primarily the business local to their location, that is, traffic' which s destined to or which originates at the point where the yard is located. Avalanche in 1915. ‘With the enormous and unprece- dented increase in business that de- veloped in the latter part of 191G, there was a proportionate increase in classification yard at Montowese, or Cedar Hill ag it is generally called, near New Haven. The construction of this yard is considered by railroad || officials as one of the most important undertakings of the New Haven in its program -to enlarge the capacity of the road. ‘When completed, which will be along in the Spring of 1918, the Mon- towese Yard will be the largest most complete in New England and in comparison with the character and volume of business handled, it will rank with the great railroad yards of the country. The plans for the new yard have been drawn with the idea of increas- ing and improving the service of the New Haven Railroad so that it will fully meet all the demands of the traveling public and the commercial interests. The road will be able to handlp the peak load at all times without delay or congestion, for pres- ent terminals and main line tracks will be materially relieved of much of their present burden. The new classification yard is to be located near New Haven because of the relative importance of that city to the whole New Haven system. It is similar to the hub of a wheel. Impor- tant lines radiate from New Haven to New York; to the west over the Poughkeepsie Bridge route; to Wa- terbury and Winsted; via the Canal Line to Holyoke, Northampton and other points; to Hartford and Spring- field; via the Air Line to Middletown, Willimantic and peoints in the north- east; and over the low grades of the Shore Line to New London, Provi- dence and Boston, and otker points in Rhode Island and eastern Massachu- setts. No More Overcrowding. The essential purpose of this huge classification yard will be to receive trains from all routes made up of cars for all destinations. In the yard the cars will be sorted out and made up into trains for their proper destin- ation. All trains will leave the yard in station order for all the Iimportant destinations, many of them being straight made up trains for each of the more important commerclal cen- ters. Such classification In a single wrd equipped to handle such a huge < will overcome the overcrowding of terminals and yards at the gate- ways and other points, which is the main cause of restriction and delay in the movement of freight on the New Haven. The New Haven originally was a road with two main arteries, one ex- tending from New York to Boston and the other from New York to Springfield. For the handling of and | the burdéh thrown upon these local yards and terminals. Before this in- crease in business developed, the New Haven had lying idle a large percen- tage of its freight car and locomo- tive equipment that had been put in thorough repair. At that time had anyone predicted a 10 or 20 per cent. increase in business, both business men and railroad officials would have been extremely doubtful. But the New Haven would have been ready and could have handled easily such an increase. But the expansion, when it came, was extraordinary. In, many places in New England business was more than doukled. Terminals and yards had to be enlarged in. quick order. But even Such measures did not keep pace with the growth in business and the demand for railway facilities. As a result yards and ter- minals became overcrowded, trains ‘were held up at the gateways, which in turn became congested, and em- bargoes had to be resorted to. It soon became apparent to the i New Haven officials that revolution- ary methods of handling freight in New England had to be evolved. The Montowese Yard is the result. In- stead of crowding local terminals and vards, and instead of delaying cars at the gateways and enforcing embar- goes, trains will be sent into Monto- wese Yard from all directions where the cars will be classified and sorted and sent out in trains to the gate- ways, if westbound, and to the local vards and terminals if consigned to New England points. The Montowese yard will be of the hump type. There will be two dis- tinct sections, one for eastbound and northbound trafficc and the other for south and westbound traffic. Each section will have three clusters of tracks. The first cluster will be the receiving yard into which arriving trains pull in. The tracks in the receiving cluster will practically elim- inate the standing of freight trains in the cuts and on the main line, both east and west of the New Haven sta- tion. It will also prevent delay to frelght trains at other points in the vicinity of New Haven. The next cluster is known as the classification yard. There will be about 25 tracks in the east and northbound cluster and 16 in the west and southbound cluster. They will be short tracks into which cars will be delivered by cutting them off at the hump at the apex of this yard and letting them drop into the various tracks by grav- ity. Each track in these two classi- fication clusters will represent a single classification. The third cluster is what is known as the departure yard. After being classified the cars are switched into this yard from the classification clus- ter, are made up into trains, cabooses attached, inspection made, outbound record of car numbers and seals itaken. An engine is attached to the train and the train and engine crew can then take the train away prompt- ly. 16 Stall Roundhouse. The receiving and departure yards wil] be a big step for the New Haven in complying with the intentions of the Adamson Eight Hour Law. De- lays will Qe practically eliminated at terminals, either arriving or depart- ing. In connection with the train vard, increaség will be made in the tracks at the engine terminal. A 16- stall roundhouse will be built. Included in the plans for the new | yard is a large merchandise transfer that will hold three or four hundred cars. Here will be centralized the transferring of less than carload freight. At present this is done at various points where the facilities are inadequate and the amount of freight considerably less, resulting in delay as well as two or three handlings. Under the new arrangement prompt- ness and one handling will be pos- sible. Motor trucks and trailers will be used on the platforms to facilitate the transfer of freight from one car to another. A distinctive feature of the plans for the new yard is the separation of grades at Alr Line Junction, a point that has heretofore been a bad one for delaying trains.’ The westbound Shore Line passenger trains will be carried overhead all the tracks. The | freight will pass underneath in the middle. The northbound passenger line will pass underneath and around the east side of the yard. Under this arrangement through passenger and through freight trains will not cross;, each other at any point at or in the ) vicinity of New Haven. In a similar manner, the freight tracks leaving the Shore Line east of the Junction will be separated from the grade of the westbound passenger track. Shore Line - trains will also cross over the grade of the Air Line and northbound passenger line to Springfield and Hartford and | also over the freighi track on which the freight trains from New York and the Poughkeepsie Bridge route enter the vard. The New Haven road, in anticipa- tion of the needed improvement at New Haven, purchased nearly all the property required some time ago. At the present time five steam shovels | are in operation and it is hoped to have a few of the tracks of the first cluster completed within three months This will immediately largely aid the men working on freight trains. Tt will give them an opportunity to pull in off the main line, leave their trains on yard tracks, and go to their homes, thereby avoid- ing long and serious delays. At the present time they are often required to remain on their trains on the main tracks at and in the vicinity of New Haven walting for passenger trains to got out of the way or the removal of whatever the difficulty might be. This improvement bheing under- taken by the New Haven railroad will have a vital effect upon the effi- cfency of the service of the company and is consequently being pushed as rapidly as possible. It was under- taken pursuant to the program adopt- ed with the commencement of in- creasing traffic in New England. It will mean the enlargement of the ca- pacity of the road and the improve- ment of the service of the company so that it will fully meet all of the de- mands of the traveling public and of the business interests. Buy an Indiana truck.—advt. “SANDWICH .BRIGADE” TO RESCUE ‘ WHEN COMMISSARY SLIPS COG 500D CHEER FOR SOLDIER BOYS IN CAMP Just for a little while the commis- sary department falled in an eastern camp, and these state soldiers were threatened not with starvation, but with temporary deprivation. Soclety GRUHER SENTENGED TO ATLANTA PRISON Draft Graiter Creates Scene When Judge Imposes Penalty New York, Aug. 22.—After four hburs' deliberation the jury in the Court of Federal District Judge Mar- tin T. Manton returned a verdict of guilty yesterday afternoon against Kalman Gruher, a maker of dental goods, who was charged with con- spiring with two members of Local Exempption Board 99. at Rivington and Lewis streets, to sell exemptions Judge Manton pronounced the maximum sentence of two years in Atlanta Prison, the same sentence which on the preceding day he had imposed on Dr. 8. J. Bern- feld and Louis I. Cherey, the two members of the exemption board who pleaded guilty. As the jury returned its verdict of guilty, Gruher, a little stout man, past middle age, who had been in great agitation throughout the trial, began to weep, and his wife and daughter, who sat at the rear of the court, sobbed aloyd. The foreman of the jury,added that the jury recommend- ed ¥niency, and at this Gruher looked up and stared eagerly at Judge Man- ton. Assistant United States District Attorney Knox, who trled the case, told Judge Manton that he had no objection to leniency in this particular case, and Isidoré E. Schlesinger made a plea in his behalf.- Gruher put his hands forward toward the judge in a supplicating gesture, and was about to speak when he was checked. “The jury has done its duty,” Judge Manton said, ‘“and nothing remains for me but to impose the penalty prescribed by law. All cases in which men are convicted of crime call for more or less pity, but in the present instance, I cannot permit myself to be influenced by the fact that the defendant has a wife and severa] children.. He has been de- fended by able counsel and has re- ceived consideration at the hands of the court, district attorney and jury. Cannot Extend Clemency. “At a time when the United States from military service. | government is enlisting its loyal sons to risk their lives on the field of battle this defendant has been found guilty of an attempt to defeat the objects of the government in forming an army. He has been found guilty of conspir- ing with two men who were prostitu- ting their honor in positions of trust conferred upon by the government. “The other two conspirators had sufficient frankness to confess their guilt and take their punishment, but this defendant, has elected to deny his guilt and go to trial. The jury has returned a verdict of guilty, and 1 cannot see how this court can right- fully extend clemency. It is ordered that Kalman Gruher be imprisoned for two years at Atlanta.” Gruber would not allow himself to be restrained. He jumped to his feet, tears streaming down his face, to plead for mercy, while his wife shrieked at the top of her voice. She and two younger children were gscort- ed to an ante-room while Gruher con- tinued his plea. “Don’t send me to prison, your honor,” he said, “I never: thought of doing anything wrong. My wife and children have no means, and I don't know what will become of them if you send me to jail. women heard of it and organized a “sandwich brigade!’ to supply the men with food and. drink. These, soldiers in particular appreciated the *“grub” because they had just been relieved after twenty-four hours' guard duty. American citizen and I implore the court not to deprive me of my citizen- ship. Put.me in the army or navy, |and let me prove my loyalty, but do not disgrace my family. For God's sake, Judge, don’t send me to prison. I never meant to do any wrong, and I have been punished enough. “You are only adding to the suffer- ing of your family by acting in this manner,” said Jodge Manton. ‘“You must ablde by the judgment of the court. Sentence has been passed on you and you must submit to it.” Before he was led from the court- room, Gruher, still weeping, profusely kissed several of his men friends and bade them bood-bye. His wife was still too overcome to be allowed to see him, and the prisoner was taken to the Tombs. Judge Manton allowed him & week in which to arrange his affairs before beginning to serve his sentence., Mr. Schlesinger said an ap- peal would be taken at once, one of the grounds to be the allegation that the prosecution improperly brought to the attention of the jury the fact that Kalman,had been convicted once betore, on that occasion for practicing dentistry without a license. MEETING OF BOARD OF FINANCE. There will probably be a special meeting of the board of finance and taxation called the latter part of this week. Two important matters will be taken up. The board must raise $16,000 to pay for the new crossing that is going to be installed at Lake street, and the matter of buying the Boyle property at the corner of Main and Elm streets will be discussed. 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