Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, February 6, 1920, Page 1

L —=— VOL. LXI—NO. 33 V. EDWARDS GIVES PROMIITION A HOMER After Secretary Daniels Had Con- Edwards Announced He Would —r— Appearing Unexpectedly; cluded His Address, Mr. [ Carry the Prohibition Question to the San Francisco Convention—Declared the Issue Must be Decided by the People Next November — Super-Power at Washington to Impose Its Will Upon Us in the Direction of Our Habits, Qur Manners, Our Tastes | and Local Customs—Governor Smith, of New York, in a Telegram Conveyed His Belief That Federal Prohibi- tion as Imposed Upon the American People is “a Restric- tion to Personal Liberty Which Russia in Her Darkest Days Never Dreamed of.” on and | New York, Feb. 5—Prohi i out scandal or fraud or graft.” Protests the Right of Any out to a successful conclusion, Wwith- | the iSima-Damiels controversdy were £ injected tonight into the te; Qi":“"l"']DAMELs TEL‘LS OF WILSON'S r given I r S. Cum- given here (0 e R o@atie| PLAN TO OVERCOME U-BOATS| O oie A e o e Sweak.| New York, Feb. 5—President Wil- o housand invitations had|Son was given credit here tonight by e ed 1o the banquet, which|Secretary Daniels, speaking at the : by prominent demo-| democratic club ' dinner to National -om 16 of the country.|Chairman Homer S. Cummings, for having seen the necessity of shutting issue was brought | edings) by Governors| New Jersey and Smith| York and was greeted with mingied feelings by the din-| Governor Edwards was not on! list of speakers and was| on unexpectedly after Daniels had conciuded his ad-| in the evening the executive had been given | ikine ovation when he entered| dirins hall 2nd there was an|marine peril if you let them out and greater demonstration when hejthen have to devote yourselves to ‘r‘hasing them all over the ocean.” ds declared that a| «The barrage finally built across d .emerged from thejyn North Sea,” MW Daniels said, issue of state rights and|.wag the American navy's answer to iberty.” He asserted that| ho president’s counsel. It was pro- must be decided by the]posed .by. Admiral Farle (chief —of Nov . “If the fed-|orgnance) in April, 1917, approved by eral zovernment”. he continued, "ma¥i ygqmiral Benson and Admiral Mayo, shvert the doctrines of e righis, | o the general board, by the secre- and without a commission or mandate | ¥ 0% SERETR OERL OF SHE SIET from the people. enter upon ouri g ¥ T MR SIC Kt mew con- firesides apd ‘into our homes with the g ltive naval measure of effective- pureaucratic system of office holders ! and overlordship, the theory of our ional government and ally ident to home rule and local ernment are destroved. Un- stem the indestrucible urion of indestructible states ~be=| comes a myth and we have the nec- essiry alternative of a great super- power at Washington. imposing its! upon us in the direction of ourj our mannpers, our tastes and local customs, nothing until is| our Jeft of the independent state of ourj fathers but .the name. this situation is a politi-1 ge and [ purpose to carry| )f San Francisco regardles man or set of men may| think, so as to bring about' atement of the doctrine; and popular local home, unon which our fathers found- government.” “Smith’s contribution to n issue was contined in telegram expressing his regret that sicgness prevented him being pres- | ent. In his telegram the New York; executive said: “Do not forget the time honored democratic doctrine that the govern-; ment is most effective which governs | the . This precept of democratic | as in faith he recent has been greviousiy and wilfully sinned against, there was imposed upon 100.000,000 | when, in the name of democracy, free peovle without asking their di- e consent, a r their personal liberty w ia in her palmiest days never dreamed of.” The name of Admiral Sims was In- 3 le. the lusion of Sec- Daniel's address. The secre- dwelt upon the great service per- formed by the orth Sea mine par- raze in putting an end to the Ger- mag inci- Wilson and, ent sfHmarine menace, g i American Mr. Riehle. Edwards as the speaker “Secretary Daniels spoke of the =reat barrage laid across the orth 1 have just received a_memo- randum which shows that the only| American officer who opposed. the| laving of that barrage was Admiral im: The mentlon of the admiral’s name <. the signal for considera his- and booing from various parts the dining hall. the ‘prominent democrats seated at the sneaker's les B. Alexander. vice »sident of the National Democratic Assistant Secretary of the Navy D. Roosevelt: Mrs. Elizabeth h an of the Women’s Bu- of the Democratic national com- and National Committeeman F. Hudspeth, New Jersey. sing CUMMINGS PLACES BLAME FOR EVERYTHING ON REPUBLICANS New York, Feb. 5.—Democratic leadership in the senate has stood for unqualified ratification of the treaty of peace, Hemer S. Cummings, chair- mhan of the gemocratic national com- mittee, declared in an address to- | night at the testimonial dinner given | him by the National Democratic “lub. When that “became impossi- ble,” he added, “it has stood for such ervations as would preserve the t of the document and make its re-submission unnecessar; “If republican leadership,” he con- tinued, “blind to overwhelming nec- | essity for an honorable and speedy peace, drives this issue ultimately in- to the arema of politics, the demeo- cratic party will unfalteringly take up the gauge of battie. Upon that issue we shall have the support of the moral and spiritual forces of the nation.” Ailuding te the committee of 171 appointed by Chairman Hays of the repubiican national committee, Chairman Cummings said if the com- mittee ever meets, “it will be neces- egary to call out the militia to pre- cerve order” He characterized as “the most mel legislative history. “As for holding the Wilson admin- istration to an account for its stew- ardship,” Chairman Cumings said. *“ninety-two investigations set on foot at enormous cost Have produced nothing that was worth the expendi- ture of a dollar. except te demon- ptrate that this war has been fought | the 66th congress choly failure in | be made in my absence,” he ks German submarines off the seas as the only effective method of combal-k ting them before naval staffs “om either side of the water,” moved to that end. “You must shut up the hornets in their nest,” the president was quoted | by Mr. Daniels as having said in a quarterdeck .speech to officers of the battieship Pennsylvania, eariy in the war, “for yoy can never end the sub- ness-in the whole war. It was' a factor hoth in destroying the morale of the German navy and in its dead- destruction of submarines. President Wilson had also pointed out -before naval' staffs had reached that conclusion, Mr. Daniels said, “that the only way to most surely safeguard merchant ships was to send them in convoys protected by armed ships.” The secretary attacked the record of congress since 1918, when “dishon- est appeal to hyphenated politics en-- abled the republicans to elect a ma- jority of this congress” and declared him- { leg- nominate a great leader who self a platferm of constructive ation.” Mr. Daniels said he believed that a league of nations such as that; pro- posed in the treaty would enable the world to maintain peace without competitive naval building, but that without' such a league, American duty w: ‘as plain as a pike staff.” He quoted President Wilson's state- ment in 1916 that the navy should be “incomparably the most adequate navy in the world” and added that none of the present American build- ing programme would be delayed or abandoned. g Reviewing the history of the mer- i | chant marine through “forty years of republican neglect and indiffer- ence,” the naval secretary declared it was not until President Wilson's first inauguration, when a shipping bill was introduced -in 1914 by Rep- resentative Alexander, now secretary of commerce, that a ‘“constructive measure,to give America a merchant marine with administrative backing” | had been presented. i “This new i dy again “Un the people register their high resolve ! never again to let America be depen- | dent upon foreign hottoms, this re-! publican congress will start the mer- chant marine’ down the toboggan slide out of which Woodrow Wilson pulled it against republican opposi- tion and hostility.” TO ATTEND RED CROSS COUNCIL AT GENEVA New York, Feb. 5.—Henry P. Davi- son, chairman of the League of Red Cross Societies, recently organized at Paris, and four other American dele- gates sailed from here on the steam- ship Mauretaania today to attend the | first meeting of the meneral council of the league at Genevap, Switzerland, on March 2. The other delegates were Eliot Wadsworth of Boston, ‘Willough- by G. Walling of Chigcago, Otis H. Cutler, and Mrs. William K. Draper of New York. Nearly all European and South American countries, except the Cen- tral Powers, will- be represented hy delegates. Problems of child wel- fare, tuberculosis and public health Jin_general will be discussed. Mr. Davison, a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company, asked to be excused from discussing the in- ternational financial situation on the ground that if he’ said what was in his mind “it would be too strong to print.” “I am sure that history will id, when asked whether he had any solution for the present chaotic condition of for. eign exchange, HOUSE BEGINS WORK ON THE AGRICULTURAL BILL ‘Washington, Fb. 5.—The house be- gan work today on the :agricultural appropriation biil, carrying a total of $30,540,034, without agréement as to how much time would be set aside for debate. There were indications, how- ever, that this would run for a couple of days more, as a motion to fix seven hours as the top mark was defeated. b i erchant marine is in ! received or deposited Wilson Approves Sale Of German Ships Sale Contracts Keep the Ships Under American Flag and and Subject to Needs of the Army. Washington, Feb. 5. President Wilson has approved the sale of the thirty former German passenger ves- sels, for waich the shipping board re- cently received bids, and negotia- tions for the sales will proceed, Chairman Payne of the board an- nounced. tonight. > mect objections of the war de- partment, which recently proiested against the sale of certain of the lin- ers as peeded in its transport re- serve, Mr. Payne said a clause would be inserted in the sale contracts spe- cifically and emphatically keep.nz the vessels under (> Americun fag and subject to the needs of the army in case of a national emergency. None of the bids whaich the poard received for the tniciy liners in 1 sponse to its proposiu made in De cember have been eita”r accept:d or in re- rejected, the chairmaa said. In order, ver, that the nt mighti n the fairest Zor ibe fleel, it was decided to dispos. of ‘he vessels by public sale and the fol- lowing resolution was passed unani- mously by tie board tod: “Resolved, that the sh 1 vision be and is hereby authorized sell ‘all ex-German passenger ship; subjeet to the approval of the board as to each ship. All operators of shipping board vessels and other shipping compan- ies will be invited to come to Wash- ington the middle of next week, the chairman stated, and the sale of the vessels will be conducted on the principle of an auegion. No one in- terested will be permitted to purchase the whole. fleet of thirty ships, Mr. Payne said, but if a sufficient price is offered for all the vessels allocat- ed to one line, as the newly estab- lished South, American service or the proposed lines to Hamburg, a block| sale will be made. Among the bids which have been received for the ships, the chairman said there was .one of $28,000,000 for the whole fleet from the Internation- al Mercantile Marine and one from the same corporation of $4,000,000 for | the giant liner Leviathan alone. FINANCES FEATURE IN TRIAL OF NEWBERRY CASE 1 ] 1 “already Grand Rapids, Mich.,, Feb. 5—Dol- ‘g}:r e bflck_-f‘“‘:}‘i,‘m";‘;22,;“3 lars formed the main topic of the| characterized as certain to defeat the | Newberry .election conspirdcy trial | republican party next November, tas| tod4y. Beginning = with Allan K. it is certain that the democrats will! Moore, a defendant who pleaded “no have the wisdom to go forward and!contest” the . testimony related to money said to have been expended,! ang checked| against and to cash kept in deposit vaults in Detroit, or handed out in the Grand Rapids offic from which the western Michigan campaign was directed. Bank officials were on the stand to identify deposit slips, ledger entries and voucher checks and guardians of the master key of a Detroit safety deposit vault told of visits to that institution by certain défendants. been handled in the campaign. This ondensed Teiegrams Only one arrest has been made in Orange, N. J,, since prohibition went into effect. Pope Benedict has decided to toid A comsistory’ during Lent, probably about March 1. War department announced half of the 80060 American forces in Siberia ‘were withdrawn. . Stae department' was notified of the murder of three American relief workers in Syria. Former Bronx Assemblyman Was Remanded to Jail Un- til February 11 For Sen- tence. New York, Feb. 5—Benjamin Git- low, former Bronx assemblyman, was found guilty of criminal anarchy by a jury in the criminal branch of the state supreme court here: this after- noon. The jury was out 22 hours. Gitlow was remanded to jail until February 1i for sentence. The law provides a maximum penalty of from five to ten years in state prison, He was indicted: with James Larkin, Irish labor agitator. Clarence S. Darrow of Chigago, Git- low’s cousel, indicated that.an appeal would be asked, taking exception to many of the ‘“comments of the court™ to the jury during the charge. Dar- row objected particularly to some of tte definitions of Justice Weeks, i cluding those of the words ° cate”, “proletariat”, “bourgeisie” man- ifesto” and ‘“exprgpriate” which re- curred throughout the triai. Gitlow was arrested in,k a raid on Communist quarters here last Novem- ber., He was charged with crimin- anarchy in connection with reproduc National place a complete ticket in the state of Washington next fall. Non-Partisan league will Racing stables burned at Long Branch, N. J.. were valued at $500,000 by Camp vail authorities. Mississippi senate - without a dis- senting vote ratified the women fed- eral prohibition amendment. According to the London Daily Sketch, ‘H. Roberts, the Britisk food minister, has resigned. Two South African officers London for Cape Town in a African government airplane. left South Brazilian government promulgated the law recently enacted, authorizing the isue of a loan of 8,700,000 pounds sterling. The last five months the total debt | city annou the steam packet Iveagh. which left Liverpool Monday night for Dundalk, has shown a decrease of about $930.-|tion of the Communist party mani- 000,00 and the floating debt about|festo in the Revolutionary Age, $730.000,000. > an extremist newspaper with which e he was connected. It has been definitely learned that| In a two hours charge to the jury,| Justice Weeks stated that evidence had been produced to show that Git- | circulation by The prosecution reckoned tonight | that it had 'shown thus far in the| case that more than $200,000 had is safe. low paid for the printing of the is- sue of the paper and that the de The inter-allied plebiscite commis- |fense had conceded that Gitlow wi sion took over all the administration [responsible for the publication. Tae services in Teschin, Silesia, Ieb- |test must come whether or not the| ruary 3. manifesto came under the criminai e anarchy. statute in that it advocated Captain Prudence and a crew of 54! overthrow of the government force, | men have left Havre for Newcastle, | violence or other unlawful means, he | Iing., to take over the former German |said, adding that the words in the steamship Cassel. manifesto must be read “wita their =2 ordinary meaning. Efforts to keep intact the fortune of Gitlow, who is 29 years old, said| former 'Emperor William are con-|he was a clothing cutter until he be- demned in a longz editorial by the|came manager of the Revolutionary Berlin Vorwaerts. Age last June. A French landlord convicted of {TO FINANCE TRANSFER raising rents to an ‘“abusive rate” OF MERCHANT MARINE Washington. Fe — Investment funds of the American people must be | drawn upon to finance the transfer of the government-owned merecantile ma- rine to private ownership, Campbell, former admiralty lawyer of - } the Shipping Board, said today before January failures, as reported, to-!ihe senate commerce committes, Funds talled 511, the smallest number in 231y hanks and other commercial chan- years, with liabilities also the small- | nels will not be sufficient, he said, and est f‘ur the same period. for that reason he advocated legis- lation to give ship mortgages and was sentenced to spend one month in jail and pay a fine. Thomas Thompson, former mayor | of New Bedford, and known as “thel man in the overalls" died after an! illness of four years. The stockholders of the Boston & Mg Stockholders of the Boston &!honds issued against them higher Maine railroad will be c standing as liens against seagoin consider the purchase off $10,000,000| veomoi® & sl worth of new rolling stoc he legislation I have prepared at| the instance of Former Chairman Hur- iley. of the board,” said Mr. Campbell. “will make ship morigages. liens on j vessels pripr to a number of charges now classed ahead of it, and will give 3 : il a quick method of foreclosure against London Evening Standard an- vessels. If we want to have the ships nounced - the British government had|gq to a permanent class of new small taken steps to reduce paper money in!gperato omething like this must be 20,000,000 pounds. adopted = The 1200 freight handlers of the the strike off for six days.| A e s The German tank steamers Hera and Wotan have been apportioned to EARL BURGESS, MOTION ‘rance and crews have left for Scot- | PICTURE AGTOR, KILLED | land, where the vessels have been — 1ying” Los Angeles, Calif. Feb. 5—-Barl - Burgess, a motion picture actor, was! General Denkine, former anti-bol- |killed here today when he 700 | shevik leader in southwestern Rus-|feet from aii airplane on which he wa si landed at the Buigarian port of ! pe Varna on Monday with a few of hisidy. officers. Burgess was flying with Lieutenant Walter Hawki an sviator., The ac- | Archbishop Del Rio. primate of the|tor was io cast off A dummy from the | Catholic church in Mexico, has issued | plane, In attempting this he fell. The rforming in the making of a e not discover their mistake until they was compared with the $3,7 Judge Sessions has ruled was the limit of campaign expenses allowed by law for the 1918 senatorial cam- paign. The defense has indicated it that the statutes refer solely to a| candidate’s personal contributions of expenditures. Moore testified that he had receiv- ed or hunaled approXimately $3,500 i his work as a field agent in tho campaign. The testimony of a Grand]| bank cashier gave the total deposits in the account of Char es Floyd, in charge of Grand Rapids headquarters, as $11,280. - Detroit bankers testfied that $5.083 was de- posited in the account of “Paul H.{ King, chairman,” and that the ac-| count of the “Truman H. Newberry | Senatorial Commuitée showed total | deposits of § MARSHAL OF BEUMONT, TEXAS, IS MISSING New York, Feb. 5—Search was be- | gun by the police here today for Ed- ward Best, sheriff and eity marshal| of Beaumont, Texas, who is believed by his son to have met with foul play, The son, L. D. Best, told the police that his father had left home on Oc- tober 12 Jast with $5.000 to discus with lawyers in New York claims by another man to land that he had bought in Louisiana. He checked out at a hotel here December 7 and has not been heard from since, | i Ra AID FOR RECONSTRUCTION WORK AT CONSTANTINOPLE | Wellesley, Mass., Feb. 5—The war service committee of Wellesley Col- lege announced today that the col- lege would support for a scond year a unit of five grandates who are en- gaged in relief and reconstruction work at Constantinople. In addition the committe cabled $2,000 for im- mediate relief. WAR SERVICE @OND FOR SOLDIER FOR EVERY DAY Washington, Feb. 5—very man serving in the war will get a world war. service bond, worth one dollar for every day of service and bearing interest at 4 34 per cent under a bill introduced today by Representative ‘Osborne republican, California. The 0 which ! will combat this point on' the ground| | the root of Irish troubles Measures to prevent under absorp- jtion of German properties through | foreign ‘capital are provided in a bill ;now before the Prussian national | council. went to remove the supposed dum- my fro mtelephone wires where it had alighted. Burgess was a professional “stunt” man and had been employed in motion e .. |picture work for ten years. Federal, state and railroad facili- ties may be emploved co-operatively in® Connecticut to furnish vocational training to employes of the New Haven road. MEXICO DELAYS RELEASE OF AMERICAN AVIATORS Douglas, Ariz., Feb. 5.—The release M Danger of an attack on Constanti- | Of Lieutenants L. M. Wolfe and G nople by the Young Turks red army, | Usher, who alighted Monday as reported in dispatches from Lon-|miles south of Nacozari, S don, is not regarded as = serious by |probably will be delayed for army officers. | days, according to information ing here today. Complete det Asquith of Eng-|revealed by the investigation of Iy way to get at|tary and civil -offi to allow | 13 Mex similar to | Carranz {ital must be received |ators can #e releas. valued | return to the hord> seized af a_ North|time the two lient by order of|the Hotel De ssistant federal | — | GARRISON OF BRUSSELS STAGED DEMONSTRATION | Paris, Feb. 5—A Brussels despatch to Vingtieme Siecle says that last! {ight soldiers of Brussels garrigon or- Former Premier land declared the onl mili- have been sent order of Prasident from the cap- Ireland seif-government, the Dominions. refore tae s or allowed Four carloads of whickey at $600,000 were o In the mean- ants are guests at ri. Senator Reed of Missouri, discuss- ing defects in the proposed league of nations, said the people were begin- ning to find out that ‘“somebody switched the -cards.” {'zanized a demonstration against the| I ;. el N lirregularity in the rime of service and Mrs. Edith = Morgan, wife of Wil-|tn."440d furnished them. The soid- lam Forbes Morgan, a broken, with her two daughters, 14 and 10, lost their lves in a fire In the Morgan house in New York. liers formed a procession and march- ed through the streets. DR. WILHELM MAYER f RETURNING TO BERLIN | Paris, Feb_ 5—Dr. Mayer, German Denmark, Holland and Austria de- clare their permanent neutrality and demand the same conditions as those laid down by Switzerland in joining | charge d'acaires at Paris will leave the league of nations, Berlin for Paris this evening. He has| i | received formal instructions to ac- Gas leaking from a street main!cept the allied note demanding e: overcame six lodgers in a North End house in Boston. Police officers res- cued five men and a voung woman who were found unconscious in their beds. | tradition of persons accuser of war crimes, says a despatch from the {German capital by way of Basle, RETREAT OF RUMANIAN TROOPS HAS BEEN ORDERED London, Feb. 5—The Rumanian | legation here announced today that the Bucharest government has order- exd the retreat of the Rumanian troops of occupation in Hungary to the fron- «{ier fixed by the peace conference. LIST OF GERMANS WANTED SENT BY COURIER TO BERLIN Paris, Feb. 5—(Havas)—The official Sir Henry Drayton, finance minister of Canada, denied reports that an ‘ex- port tax of $10 a ton was to be im- posed by the Canadian government on newsprint paper destined for the United States. Linden Lodge. a part of the Brat.| tleboro (Vt) retreat, a private insti- tution for nervous patients, was burned to the ground with the loss of | 420 000. The building was the oldest i Brattieboro, built in 1772, 1 issue would be limited to $1,500,000,- 000. VON LERSNER NO BACKED BANK OF ENGLAND TO * OPEN IN BUDAPEST Paris, Feb. A despatch received here from Budapest savs a braneh of the Bank of England will open here soon. .The despatch adds that a con- sortium of Bnglish banks is negotia- ting for the purchase of the Hungar- ian railroads and the establishment of ship yard works on the Danube. BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT Berlin, Fem. 5—The German gov- ernmgnt disapproves of the attitude of Baron Kurt Von Lersner in his refusal to transmit the list of Ger- mans demanded for extradition to his government, it was declared today by %ist of the Germans demanded for extradition was' sent to Berlin by courier of the ministry of foreign af- fai who left yesterday for the Ger- mert capital. BILL TO GIVE SERVICE § b MEN PRIORITY OF LAND Seven soldiers and seven civilians were arrested in connection with an attempted theft of five army motor trucks containing $250,000 worth of army supplies in a raid on:the River- dale Storage warehouses, New York.' Sale of the former German passen- . 3 . ger liners seized at the Out’baak of ‘Washington, Feb. 5.—A joint- reso- a formal denial that the church wil|camera men and director thought the participate in the presidential cam-|falling body was the dummy and | paign. continued photographing. They did| | characterized as Island. Boston, Mass., Feb. 5—New Eng- land was battling tonight with the worst blizzard in years. More than a foot of snow had fallen since early morning L3 weather bureau of this ed, “No relief in sight by morning.”. Sleet in southern New England and. snow in the novthein regions was the bureau’s repori A wind that reached a veloc of 72 miles an hour at some points along the coast buried the tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, the Boston and Albany and the Boston and Maine railroad: causing an_abandonment of tr: scheduled. The New Haven road wus/| hardest hit, but a communication was! maintathed with New Yo trains made local stops. and Albany did not suffe Boston tonight was p of its suburbs, although railway companies pal all day to keep the i.a stores and schools clos employes in the state oifices were lowed to go home earlier than Boston traffic police squad ag relieved from duty late this after- noon and pungs and sleighs took care of the police department's ambulance service. it Little damage by high tides was reported, although heavy seas pound- ed the sea walls all day. Practicaily all shipping., which had been warn-!| the work: put Into the nearest New [Dngland ports before the blizzard reached its height. The Fall River Line, operat- ing between New Yosk and Boston by way of Fall River announced that no boats would run tonight. The blizzard was unusually severe in the Cape section. Many passenger trains were stalled and from several points eame reports -of passengers | sleeping - in “stations or in'- public buildings that wre placed - at . their convenience. Plymouth - was isolated tonight. Two trains which were stalled in a deep snow-filled cui one .mile north of here blocked both tracks. A doz- en passengers were confined in the trains, one of which suffereq slight damage from . a . rear-end collision earlier in the day. Both trains were reported covered by snow. tonight. The collision occurred when an en- gine was dispatched to the aid of a train which left for Boston at 10.15 this morning. only to be stalled in the cut.” So completely was the train covered by snow that the engineer of the “helper” did not see it and crash- ed into it, damaging the rear .car and shaking up the passengers. Late to- day a relief train was sent out on the | southbound track to bring back the passengers. It, too, was stalled in the cut. There was little prospect of rescue tonight. It was estimated tonight that twenty trains were stalled in New| England, most of them in the vicinity of Boston. One, stalled near Tpswich on the Boston and Maine railroad, was reported to have 150 passengers aboard. i HIGHEST TIDE EVER 5 Y IN NEW YORK HARBOR New York, Feb. 5.—Huge waves rolled up by a fifty mik gale were | still sweeping the north Atlantic coast tonight while cities and towns| along the shore were trying with in different success to dig themselves < | streets. i made for ed oyt of the storm yesterday, had !, IARD 1N VEARS More Than a Foot of Snow Has Fallen at Boston—At Soms Points Along the Coast Velocity of Wind Was 72 Mi.le.s an Hour — New Haven Road Was Hard Hit, Causing Abandonment of Train Schedules—Mountainous Seas Are Battering the Atlantic Coast—Highest Tides Ever Recorded in New York Harbor Caused Floods Along the Hudson and Harlem Rivers—Damage Done to Rqom and Summer Homes Along the New Jersey and Long Isl- ‘and Coasts is Estimated at Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars—Steamer Maine of the New England Steamship Company Was Driven Ashore cn the North End of Long River was higher than Shrewsbury damage ever before and additional was feared. Serious damage was done at Rock- away Beach, where two modern sum- mer hotels, thirty bungalows, a forty suite apartment house, bath houses and dozens of small structures were washed into the sea. Several bathing pavilions were swept away al Coney Island and the first floor of the big Shelburne Hotel at Brighton Beach was flooded. Traffic in the snow filled streets in New York dwindled to fifteep per cent. of normal. The street cleaning department asked an emergency ap- propriation of $150,060 to clean the An urgent appeal was workers and it was said 14.000 would be hired if they could be d | found but that only 3,000 were avail- men to form shovel- 10 motor plows are being able. Lacking ling gangs, iused to ciear the main arteries of travel. The health department has stamped the accumylation of snow as a menace in the influenza epidem- ic, WEATHER BUREAU REPORTS NO RELIEF IN SIGHT Washington, ieb. 5.—Relief for the middle and north AtlantiC states from the ince sley and Wednes now storms, was not raging in sight forecast ther Liieau for the ei:ire ¥ *d north of Viygra I Drisg! ill contin > tc- morrow night, a.™as for the weath- er berond that time forecaste would ake no prediction in view of the unusual nature and extraordi- nary magnitude of the storm. High winds may be expected all along the seaboard * tomorrow. Observers at the weather - bureau ton‘ght, were irying to find the cen- ter of The sform area. The low peint in barometer readings was reported from Atlantic City but severe storms on either side of that city were be- lieved to indicate that the disturb- ance was dividing, but not decreas- ing in intensity, as is usual when a division occurs. DAMAGE DONE ALONG THE NEW JERSEY COAST Atlantic City. N. J.,, Feb. 5—Driven by a gale which has continued fo1 two days, high tides swept the soyths ern ew Jersey coast, causing heawy damage between this city ;;nd g Delaware Capes, The wind today was still high, but had shifted to | ghe northwest. and unless there is ' am= ze 18 Longport about 250 feet of the 2 wall which cost $200,000 Swas wre§kedl Watar poured through and several houses were bat- tered down by the breakers. The greater portion of the Ventnor City, Longport and Margate City boardwalks were washed away while a section of the boardwalk in this city between Vermont and Rhode Island Avenues was wrecked. The Absecon and Longport boule- vards, connecting “Atlantic City with the mainland, were under several feet of water. 'In the uptown see- tion of this city basements and streets were flooded .and many res- dents were driven from their homes Boats and trucks were used to com- other change no further dama; expected. At out of the deepest snow drifts of vears. Damage doné by the sea to! resorts and summer homes along the | New Jersey and Long Islang coasts| was estimated at hundreds of thous- | ands of dollars. Shipping remained at anchor or| moved ‘with the utmost caution. Ini the land-locked waterways. around | New York huge ice floes menaced | navigation. The steamer Maine of | the New England Steamship Com- | pany was driven ashore on the north | end of Long Island and four other ! Sound liners were reported creeping | along through fields of ice. The Maine, which carries five pastengers and a crew of seventy, was reported in no immediate danger tug ! has been sent Cold, snow, ice and high geas have | made it almost impossible % frans- port coal from the tidewater reser- | voir at Perth Amboy to New York and the city faces a fuel famine which will force all its transporta- tien lines to suspend. operations un- less the weather moderates swiftly. While mountainous seas were bat- tering the coast, the highest tide ever recorded in New York harbor caused ong the Hudson and Harlem Flooded ferry houses on the rork and New Jersey sides of udson hampered still further transportation lines already strug- gling with deep snow. Water from the Frie terminal dripped into the Hudson tubes at Jersey City. - At the headquarters of the reglonal director of railroads, freight condi- tions resuiting from the storm were “difficult but dangerous” Tt was asserteq had been no blockade but that traff was moving slowly. The worst con- | ditions were said to be hefween New London and Boston on the New Ha- ven road, aboti Port Jervis on .the Erie and in the big New York Cen- tral vards at ‘West Albany and De Witt. Through trains from all direc- tions were running hours. late. Seabright, long a target for the waves, suffered more_than any of the other northern New Jersey coast re- sorts. It was estimated that the high tide and heavy seas had done $250.-] 000 damage to bulkheads, streets and residences there.- A Arecently com- the war was fores on the shipping | lutio¥ giving honorably discharged Foreign Minister Muller to M. De Marcilly the 'Freénch Charge D’Af- faires here. L3 :uw';-r-r P . hoard by the operation of the nation- | service men a preference right in ob- al prohibition law, Chairman Payne | taining lands under'the homestead -act is understood to have told Bresident ' was passed today by the senate. Tt Wilson. Zoes now to the president. . pleted bulkhead saved the main resi- dence part of the town. The railorad tracks between Seabright and High- Iands were flooded to a depth of two feet: and trafic was ‘suspended. - The jal 438,000 ba vey them to places of safety. The highest water in vears caused considerable damage at Ocean City, N, J. Several fishing piers were dam- aged and a number of houses close ta the beach in South Ocean City were wrecked. The city was cut off from railroad service most of the day. About twenty feet of the boardwalk at Cape May was wrecked and the beach boulevard was partly ruined. ps at the Delaware Capes were hard hit by the storm. Rep Lewes, Del. id several ves S going aground and the others ‘being badly damaged. The schooner C Whittemore, 'Haiti for Camden, J and the vacht Priscilla parted all lines and_went aground on a bar. The Priscilla had a hole stove in her star- board bow above the water Hne. BRITISH TO CEASE THE IMPORTATION OF COTTON —The situation cre- ion of the cottonim- importations is un- London, Feb. ated by the. des porters to cease precedented in the history' of the Lancashire trade but although ‘it is admitted to be serious, it is asserted that there is no cause for anxiety. According to the figures printed here the stocks of American cotton total 766,5: es, while an addition- s are on the sea. Aside from these stocks the spinners are said to hoid considerable quantities, probably enough to keep the mills going for two or three weeks. Sir Charles Macaga, former presi- dent of the Master ‘Cotton Spinners’ ociation in an interview in the Mail says the problem is very importation is stopped for ‘a considerable time, the cofton must also cease,” he asserts. “The govern- ment ought to move energetically.” The Mail quotes T. V. Cook, former president of the Liverpool Cotton As- sociation as saying that the stock of Americay cotton on hand would car- ry on trade for a considerable time, He cited the re-exportation of Amer- fcan_cotton to America at a profit to the ‘shipper on this side as showing ‘that the Liverpool market today is the cheapest in the world, and point. ed out that aithough the low ex- pressing is against the importer it favors exporters of finished goods which - undersell the American pro- duct in its own market.