The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1907, Page 6

pease 7 Sea, would tie-up the steamship Ties > s0mie Meaaiships is pata proportionately 4 -—pe-pald. for wart done on Sundays and be allowed Wo work “witha #ibetitite STRIKE LIKELY TOTIE UP ALL TRAVEL BY SEA ~“Marine- Engineers Will At- '. tempt to Enforce Demand __ for Betfer Bay and Food. THOUSANDS AFFECTED. THE EVENING WORLD. THIS FISH, HE THINKS HE'S THe WHOLE AQuaRiun!! ; Subsistence Proy ided on -Ocean-Going Tuys 4 Cause ~of Dissatisfaction. James J. Water, business manager of Consolidated Association No. 33, Ma- wine Engineers, to-day refused tu com- ment on the report, printed exclusively im The World. that unless the demards of his organization on thé steamenty and tug companies ‘were granted a Great murine atrike would be precip!- tated by Oct. 1 Without desying the feport Mr. Waters said that the asso- members, wan adje to settle ite griev- Ances with no publicity, and that any fepresentations would be made direct te the steamship companies, and not | through the newspapers. j SHRIMP —n. (Ger. schrum to shrink, to hecome cram; @ool) The crangon vulga small crustaceous animal allied to the lobster and crawfish. ¢ ¢ © Im the United-States it ts chiefly used an bait. —Standard Dictionary. ‘The demands, it is said, will be fora ten per cent. increase of wages, shorter hours and better food. The food item oes not apply to ocean liners, whore } the engineers eat at cabin passenger ‘the food is sald to be unsatisfactory. _ Seale Effective Oct. 1. { ‘eBopted at the Philadelphia oconven- tion and approved by the National tabie, tut applies to the tugs, where |ahrimp on Wednesday, just after T. Harahan, a mass meoting of pro- OFF TYBEE ISLAND. Ga.. Aug. 10 — Acting upon the rumor that Stuyve- ant Fish hed called B. H. Harriman a Mr Fish polished off the features of James | ter another the leading dele- made estrone speeches in th hrimp lanxuage, protesting in the name hrimpdom against the indignity had been put upon their race. As chairman stated so feelingiyt “No Shrimp Ever Looked Like &. H.” “Mr. Harriman may iook like a shrimp, but no shrimp ever looked Ike Mr. Herriman, or ever will, We pro- pose to Ko on record against the injus- thee that has been done through Mr. Fish's hasty and intemperate choice of words.” The convention was preparing to pass test was held here to-day by shrimps {resolutions when @ wireless reached here representing the entire Atlantic sea- | board. J. Henry Prawn, of Pablo | Beach Fla., was elected chairman, 7 from Mr. Fish. In which he stated that he had been misquoted. He had not called Mr. Harriman a shrimp. He had Prostient and Afvisory Board and |Georme W. Crayfish. of Ocean Grove, | called him « skunk, Aras bo Aba nee bnesecrenent tt Intn effect Oct. 1 Pat ts the offlces of the steamship com- panies it was said to-day that they had had uo offclal notification of the tm- * panding strike. Henry L. Joyos, Secre- tary of the National Board of Steam- ahlp Navigation, the organisation of the ‘ Atiantio coast Mnes, said to-day that while he had not been notified for the board, be understood that demands would be made to each company by ‘their employoes. In this case, he sald, the members of the board would have te consider the demands and try to Sdjust the grievances. Hs ‘said. that there might be actual grievances’ which Would have to be considered, A strike such as was hinted at, he @n the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and ‘would be world-wide in its effects. The marine engineers say that they eve not had an advange in seven years, end that @ third assistant engineer on dees than a New York street-sweeper. What They Demand. Briefly some of the demands oon- tal. 1 in the clreular letter are: That in terminal ports the working @ay shall be from § A. M. to 6 P. M., swith an hour for dinner; overtime shall holidays, except on sailing days or in ports .of eall. Overtime shall be paid for ‘a> work done when off watch ex- wept necessary for the safety of a te9- al, No member of the-assoctation will for s man discharged for observing ‘these rules, Overtime ohall be paid for at a rate of 60 cents an hour. ‘The statement is made that many steamships go out of New York short handed, which makes it necessary for engineers to be on duty from fourteen to twenty hours a day. Anothe ‘complaint is that the food served to the engineers’ force gf niany steamships is not Mt to eat Complaint t¢ mede that on many coasters and tramp steamers the cap tains make a profit at the expense of the stomachs of the engineers’ crew. Jt is generally understood that whers make sn allowance ef t cent @ day for each man, it is ef no un- ommon occurrence for the captain to wpend perhaps one-half or a little mom for food and put the rest of it in bic pocket, Fed On Eight Centa a Day. Was notorious among seafaring men that on some ocean-golng tugs the ally expenditure for food for the men avernged something like elght cents. If the men did not lke it they could wet out. After fighting for years the local as- poctation has got the Government 10 Amake some little supervision. Recently @ law or regulation went into effect that no engineer should work more than thirteen hours out of twenty- four. The engineers say thie regulation fe violated every time a” steamship Joayes the port. Compisint, they say, ts useless. On coast steamers nd ocean liners of the smaller type there aro in the enginecring department chief and three eaaistant engineers. The amsistant engineers divide watches, During the last seven yoara assiat: ant engineers of the third and lower Grades have redeived $00 to $80 a montn The New Wage Scale. ‘The highest increase asked for in the about 14 per cenf. for chief enginears. The increase for third en- \winvers 1s or ¥ per cent., the Saverage increase per ateame: being @bout 10 ver cent. In vessels of cho rst class, of the type of the New fork and Bt Louis "of the American the present monthly pay of the chist ‘enxineer $100 month. ‘Th hew scale calls for §20) a month, The pew scale for the assistant engineers iw; Benior frat assistant. $125: exeou- five and juntor first assistants, $15, and three junior engineers at $0 a month, The enmwneers ataft also gE under the new rule on this class of Yeasol, -thrée “ollers, and ax Water’ tende in cla steamships, of the Havana, Castle and’ Saratoga Glas, the vav of the chief engineer | $3 raised from $10 to 518 a month, | God asvisianta ‘proportionately. | cla © City ‘ot Adanta and Calle fornia ouse-the incroase (sr the chist | @nginesr ta from $140 to F145" tt" month, D. stea: ips of thk’ Adinir: Admiral Schley and Advances | chigl enginede {rom $125 to $130 | 4nd constwire tow | boats, chief wn 5 BUCO! | many | him THIEVES LOOT SUMMER VILLA OF THOUSANDS Clean Home of Mrs. Edward; Van Ingen at Southamp- | ton of Valuables. (Spectal to The Erening Werl4.) SOUTHAMPTON, L. I., Aus, 3.—The summer villa of Mra. Edward Van Ingen was entered by burglars jast night. The house @as rifed from oel- lar to garret and several thousand aoi- | lars’ worth of plunder taken eway by | the thieves, The greater: part_of ihe! loot consisted of silverware and bric- a-beac. The burgiars went about their work polsclensly, and the accursoy with which they Iboated the valuables in the house has led to the deiief., i that | they were familiar with the nremipes The robbers must ticle of some kind to carry away the stuff, but they went about the theft eo quietly that nome of the servants | Qiscovered the robbery until they came! downstairs in the morning. In the dining-room it was found that the drawers of the sideboard.had been removed and carried off with thetr oo! tents—$2,00 worth of stlverware. Bvery place where silver was stored seemed to have been known to the visitors, fer not an ertlole of value was overlooked. The shelyep and tadles were alvo cleared of briv-a-brec and several valuable patnt- ings were taken from the walls. The hurgiare did not oonfine their eae plundering to the lower floor, but ransacked the bedrooms, taking watch- x, Jewelry and money. the same character in the vieinity of Southampton lately, which have ited the Jooa! constabulary atmoat to the verge of action Mrs. Van Ingen’s town, house ie at Forty-fourth street and Madison ave- nue. She is the widow of Edward Van er, who died two «& momber of the Yale and Republican Clubs. University, NO PAY, NO PAVING, ASPHALT CO. SAYS, Brooklyn. Alcatras Co. Will Cease Work Unless City Settles Up. Phe Brooklyn-Alcatras Asphalt Com- to-day sent a-letter to Borough President Coler, of Brooklyn, notifying that the company ts going to ceases work on the paving of Atlantic eyenue from Henry street to Flatbush avenue owing to the non-payment by the city of ite bIN of $20,044. The company eald that {f the bil! te unpaid by Bept. B-{t will consider the elty qutlty of breach of contract and Proceed along that line. The asphalt People state thet they could get no more money to continue the work, as the banks and ttle companies gave them, acant encouragement on learning Gieians Repudiate E, H. Harriman _ And Resent the Insults of One Fish | ATTACK OY Just A BUNCH O SHRINPS THATS ait!!! BRavol SAY: Some MoRE! RE SOAKED MEN! ; ‘The meeting adjvurne! after sending la messaxa of condolence to the skunks, nd the visitors returned home-in high pirite. A Protest from Skunkvitte. RACQUETTE LAKE, N. Y., Aur. 0. j—Prominent and influential skunks of }thta. community are «reatly exercised over the report that 8. Fish has com- pared E. H. Harriman to @ skunk Action probably will be taken by the Polecat League of North America. DYOUSBURG. Ky., Aus. 90.—Leadine |doodlebucs of West Kentucky and Tan- |nessos, the home of the doodlebug tam- fly in this country, are preparing to aend a warning to Stuyvesant Fish, threatening him with a libel suit !f he dares to call BH. Herriman a doodie- GIRL BR. T. AGENT TRAPS BURGLARS I HER OF Locks Pair in Cage and Sends for Police on Special “L” Train. While two purgtars Aincutsed as tn- spectors of the B. R. T threatened her with death and worked hard at the wire cage of the ticket office In bien she had Imprisoned them after they had attempted te make off with her cas! early to-day, Mins Kate Murpliy. eta- tion agent at the Myrtle avenue station of the Broadway, Willlamaburg, ele- vated ratiroad calmly listened to their ravings and kept her eyes fixed on the tracks, waiting for the relief she had sent for to arrive The girl, alone in her office, was ap- proached “by two men wearing !n- Spector's caps. i “Watra come. She_-oaah,"' ap for nounced the taller of the two. There was #200 in the cash elevated tickets and drawer Deaides 2,006 refused to surrender the money or tiok- me. “All right, we'll call again,” sald the jman who had spoken beforo, jana aaa Ridgewood train rolled into the station the two boarded It. A short time after- ward Miss Murphy's sister, wuerite, called with the agent's lunch, The plucky girl saw 4 chance to nab the Ten she was convinced were thieves “Marguerite, you get on a train-and go to the Broadway ferry as fast an! you can. Toll them burglars are trying to get the money from this oft, Then Miss Murphy aac down to) walt to thelr promise. In a few rrinutes ae Feniied: chief says you're q TART Bounced SUE Murphy ghowed them where it was inyt ited them to help th solv en. Vine Mice! ‘wore busy at the cash drawer x 70M | Rockaway tickets, Miss Murphy did not! have had a ve | like the looks of her two visitors and | traj LONG ISLAND ROAD RAISES Operators, Station Agents and Station Emptoyes to Re- ceive Higher Pay. Superintendent James MoCrea, of the t Island Tallroad. annbunced to-day t the company tad granted an in- mage In Wages to all ether employes and teleg The announcement follows & series of between Mr. McCrea and a nting the men affect- Operators on Loni Island to handle commercial messas is the third advance In wages the pany has made Silpped out to the plattorm: and | locked ths door on the outside When the thi aw they were ped they thr °. the xirl ja uni ‘them at once remembered that the iad locked, and decided to take ©. meantime a spectal car was Tushed to her ald from the Broad ” ferry station. On it wi oman Weeks end half a dozen ra! men. | They got there Just as the impris- men bad succeeded in work the wirewore in the front of the ‘eitlce, | “When arrested they were found to }armed with pistois and knives. Rave thelr umes. ta John Stwrentyrorne:: Noo ie Breoklyn, and James Bytne, twenty. of No, 286 High street. Byrnes saya was a motorman. Both wore held trial in the Ewen street court by Mag. listrate Naumer, 3! Two dollars a lars? How long doe What He sree time worth? a day? Three dol- s it take you to do the week’s washing? A whole day? Now, if you c that would enable ee half a day, you ould find a soap to do it in wo buy that. soap, wouldn’t you? There is such Its name is a soay 5 P.& G. Naphtia Soap. Itsells for 5 cents « cake. If the price were 10 cents, it would pay you to use it. It does better work, with cold (or lukewarm) water, thie reason: For than ordinary Jaundry soaps do with boiling water—does it in half the time and with half the effort. P. & G. Naphtha Soap is for sale in almost every grocery in this city, 9 ay li was a city Job, The company con- eluded by saying that this waa not the only job that the city wae in ar- rears on and that tt would have to Grop i else, gtr The price is 5 cents a cake, PROCTER & GAMBLE. Pactoriens Port Ivory, Staten Inland, N. Y, FRIDAY. 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