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‘would have swamped us with demands. As fact as we brought the relief Money in it would have to go out again, and we had to give it up, I am very sorry to say. “Now, about the causes which provoked the failure. the present tariff laws were not the principal causes of the crash, although the tariff logisiation had {te influence on the general situation. simply a case where the Clafiin business was too big for the capital invested. Beyond that I cannot say just now. made up the direct causes will be made apparent. “I can add thet we shall save all of the stores under the head of the United Dry Goods Company. It would be unfair to give the standings of the various individual stores in the aggregate of the faflure. PLENTY OF MONEY AND CHEAP MONEY. “Te there a shortage of money due to a business depression which pre- vented the raising of the money necessary?” was asked. “No there is plenty of money and cheap monoy, fs the situation where people are without the confidence sufficient to guaran- It was @ case of getting it all or not at all. tee the raising of the money. We could not get ft, that was all.” The financier gave it as his opinion that another receiver will be added to the two already appointed. Plans are working out for the throwing of the twenty-eight stores involved in the failure into the hands of the receivers. extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific in most of the leading cities of the country. With the H. B. Claflin Company, founded in 1843 and for Gfty years the leading house in the world, behind them, they have been Considered the merchandise bulwarks of their reapective communities. ‘The 3,000 banks scattered through the country which hold paper issucd by the department stores and endorsed by the H. B. Claflin Company will Be asked to deposit all the notes with a committee which is to work in con- Juaction with the receivers in this city. working in harmony will seek to take care of the notes in such @ way that all the twenty-eight businesses can be kept in operation. | Many of the dry goods stores which have been unable to meet the notes Beld by the H. B. Clafiin Company and the banks are located out in the Enormous crops are being harvested or are un- Wheat and corn country. I must oay that Tt was When the echodules a: too; it fen't that. It These stores This committee and the receivers THE EVENING WORLD cleus about which grew first, in 1901, the Associated Merchants’ Company, & Connecticut corporation with §17,- | 260,000 capital, which included many) stores in which Mr. Claflin had a controlling interest, as well as the H. B. Ciaflin Company in a holding concern. The Associated Merchants’ Company worked into practical op-| eration a combination of his whole- sale and manufacturing interests with retail storea, eliminating the Jobbers’ percentage. Mr. Claflin owned outright and controlled a number of other stores, and in May, 1909, there was incorpo- rated in Delaware the United Dry Goods Company with a capital of $51,000,000. Into this company were thrown the Associated Merchants Company and @ number of other, stores, some of which were acquired from Mr. Claflin himself, The Asso- ciated Merchants had operated within & radius of an overnight trip from New York. The United Dry Goods Company was interested in etores clear across the continent. Until last year it paid 8 per cent, divi- donde and then only dropped to seven per cent. with the public ex- planation that the failure to rent the old McCreery Building tn Twenty. | third atrest was cutting down the AND DIRECTORS OF THE BIG COMBINATION, The following are the directora of der way. To close these stores on the verge of a great boom would be eul- efdal. MR. CLAPLIN ISSUES A STATEMENT. Mr, Claflin issued the following statement at noon to-day: “The unprecedented shifting of trade centres in New York Das caused great loss to y interests. Tn tho case of the H. B, Clafiia Company the uptown movement of business has sorlously curtailed our wholesale profits and has compelled us to rely malaly on the profits from financing retail stores throughout the country, Their rapidly extending Iness has occasioncd large capital requirements, which we have not been able to meet. A has therefore become necessary pending a readjast- ment of the affairs of the compan: A plan of reorganizati -the H. B, Claflin Company will soon be presented which we hope will prove acceptable both to creditors and stockholders. “The Associated Merchants Company and the United Dry Goods Companies are not themselves borrowers of money. They are in exceedingly strong financial condition and the success of their retafl stores is assured.” This is a remarkable failure of a mercantile concern, inasmuch as the ereditors are largely bankers and not merchants or manufacturers. For the purpose of conserving the assets and looking after the interests of the creditors there was formed to-lay “The Claflin Endorsement Committee,” ‘which has the following members: James F. Alexander, President National Bank of Commerce; Lewis L. Clarke, President American Exchange National Bank; Seward Prosser, E. A. Hamill, President Corn Exchange Bank of Chicago; Stockton, President O14 Colony Trust Company, Boston; C. W. Folds of Chicago and Festus J. Wade, President Merchants’ Trust Company of St. laute. @n behalf of the committees, James ®. Alexander, the chairman, issued the following statement this after- “The H. B. Claflin Company dis- counted with banks in New York and gold through note brokers to banks throughout America a large amount of paper executed by corporations doing business tn various cities. None ef these corporations other than the H. B. Claflin Company had « store fm the Borough of Manhattan. “The committee fe formed for the Durpose of protecting the interests of the various banks holding the paper by the H. B. Claflin Com- hoped that if the holders i: § situation will be very much im- committee will exert } i a } { if E As creditors will be duly ad- itt THe R RECEIVERSHIP WAS EACHED IN COURT. proceeding was the opening of the United i filed. Judge Hand appointed Joseph B. Martindale of the Chemical Na- tional Bank and Frederick A. Juillard of No. 70 Worth street ag receivers of the concern. The receivers gave bonds of $600,000 each. Immediately papers were filed which threw into bankruptcy the De- fender Manufacturing Company, « $260,000 concern connected with the H. B. Clafitn Company and engaged in the manufacture of underwear. The same receivers were appointed ‘With bonds of $50,000 each. Mr, Eames in bis equity suit as- serted that the H. B. Claflin Company bas outstanding obligations to the @mount of several million dollars, which are now due and is further in- Gebted for merchandise sold. It has ®@ considerable floating indebtedness Row past due, has not on band suf- ficient moneys to meet its obligations and will not have sufficient funds under existing financial conditions to enable it to meet its immediately ma- turing obligations. Mr, Eames, in addition, asserted that the Clafin Company’‘s creditors are pressing their claims for pay- ment, and as suits and executions are threatened selsure by sheriffs or other Uke officers and forced sales of prop- erty will compel the defendant com- pany to close business. Such actions on the part of the creditors, Mr. Eames said, will cause irreparable in- Jury and loss to the insolvent com- pany, damage to the plaintiff and other creditors. He therefore asked the Court to appoint receivers to con- tinue the business. The H. B. Claflin Company and the Clafin family fortune were the n Acker, Merrall & Condit EST. Company 1820 It is not only convenient but profitable to buy at our stores. RIPE OLIVES—A.M. &C. California. 27 oz. tins MILK—Swiss Condensed—Extra rich in cream... .tin SALMON—A.M. &C. Ig. steaks, Ig. tin .24, small tin \—-Reomona Ceylon—For serving hot or iced... Ib. eNGER, R_ALE. of or SARSAPARILLA— 47 12 1S) 14) 25 the H. H, Claflin Company of New Jersey, which is capitalized at $9,000,- 000; John Claflin, Prosident; Louis Stewart, Vice-President; George EB, Armutrong, Secretary; Dexter W. Force, Treasurer; directors, Mr. Clat- Mn, J. C. Eames, Mr. Force, Mr. Arm- | trong, Stewart W. Fames and Mr. Stewart. The following are the directors of | the Associated Merchants Company: Mr, Ciaflin, President; Moses Ely, Secretary; Louls Stewart, Treasurer directors, Mr. Claflin, L. Stewart, | Howland Davis, George F. Crane, Woodbury Langdon, John A. Stewart, Arthur L. Shipman, Basil W. Rowe. The late Alexander EK, Orr was a Jamon McCreery stores, the O'Neill- Adama store, C. G. Gunthers Sons, Stewart & Co. of Baltimore, the J. N, Adam Company of Buffalo and Habne & Co. of Newark. Mr. Clafiln ts the president of the United Dry Goods Company, Louis Stewart is vice-president and treas- urer, and George F. Crane is a di- rector, The list of officers does not appear in the Corporation Directory. ‘This company took over all of the As- sociated Merchants’ holdings and} added to them complete ownership of Hahne & Co. of Newark, the Pow. ers Mercantile Company of Minneap- polls, the William Hengerer Company of Buffalo and the Stewart Goods Company of Louisville, The Lord & Taylor bouss was bought in July, 1910. John Clafim is president and di- rector of the H. B, Clafin Company, Associated Dry Goods Company and the United bry Goods Company. MR. CLAFLIN RESIGNS FROM FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. Jobn Claflin resigned last January from the directorate of all the finan- cial institu in which be was in- terested. plained that his dry | goods interests were so diversified as | to uire all his time and also that interests compelled bis frequent at in the; American Exchange National Bai York Life Insurance and Trust Com pany and the United States Company. Alte age he bad resolution ita action, January 16 Mr. Claf_in bas not asa director of any baok or trust company in this city. At about the time Mr, Claflin re- signed from the directorates of va- rious banks the semi-annual etate- ment of H. B, Claflin & Co. was issued. It showed a decrease in net earnings of 940 in the six montos | ending Dec. 31, 1913, and a decrease | in net earnings for the twelve montha | of 1918 of $21,844. The eurplus showed a loss equal to the decrease in net earnings. NEW METHODS USED AND NEW MEN IN CONTROL, The methods of doing business of the H. B, Ciaf'in Company hi en revolutioniied within thi at few yeara and the dry goods and cotton goods trades have been buzzing with | gossip about the old house. While Jonn Clamin was direct control of the firm the course of business pur- ued adhered closely to old fashioned and conservative lines that had come down from the days of the infancy of the concer: As Mr. Clafiin's interests became diversified he paid less and 1 at- tention to H. B, Claflin & Co. New od was injected into the man- ment and new systems were adopted. For many yeara it had been the custom of H. B. Claflin & Co. and the H filn Company to allow Ite sal to handle their own custome! Irrespective of where the customer's business was located, These customers coming to New York to buy did not do business with the H. B. Claflin Company. They did | business with Mr. so-and-so, one of | the case may be ‘atores of the Claflin Company: BEDFORD COMPANY, klyn, Y. 3ACON & an nk oer ony HE ASNER - KNO’ aoops COMPANY, Nashv' "te, Tenae M. J. CONNELL COMPANY, Butte, Mon, JOSLIN DRY GOODS COMPANY, | Denver, Col. COMPANY, Cincin- THE BAIR nati, O. KLINE BROS., Altoona, Pa, LORD & GAGE, Reading, Pa. LYON DRY GOoOoDs omer | Toledo, Ohio, GEORGE W. M'ALPIN Company, | Cincinnati, Onto. M'CREERY & CO., Pittsburgh, Pa. MONTGOMERY - SAIR, Montgom- 1 ery, A STORE CO. Tacoma, ROOT DRY GOODS CoO, Hauto, Ind. SPRING DRY GOODS CO., Grand Rapids, Mich, hades Ha HOUSE COMPANY, Spok- B. Wotrr & CO., Augusta, Ga. BATTERMAN CO,, Brooklyn, t Waar, RETTEW & CLAY, Nor- THOMAS O. WATKINS, LTD.,, Hamilton, Ontario, HENNESSY COMPANY, Butte, COPPER CITY COMMERCIAL COMPANY, Anaconda, Mont. MDOUGALL & SOUTHWICK ES’ Terre ane, Hi, | COMPANY, Seattle, Was! ih. JONES STORE COMPANY, Kan- sas Cit MEAAARUS BROTHERS, Wilkes- THE HIGBEE COMPANY, Cleve- land, 0. MERCHANT'S PROTECTIVE AS- SOCIATION GETS BUSY. At a meeting of the Merchants’ Protective Aasociation immediately after the announcement to-day of the) appointment of a receiver for the Claflin Company, a committee of five Was appointed to decide on the mem- bere of a committen of twelve to *|represent the merchandise trade in the receivership proceedings, The prime object of this committee to be appointed, however, will be to co- operate with the recolvers for the) involved company in an effort to) prevent ita absolute destruction and that of Ita sidiary companies, The receivers issuued the following statement thie afternoon “The duties of the receivers, from cur point of view, are to conserve the| assots of the concern whose affairs Girector. have been placed in their charge, and i to use every effort to maka the bext ‘The Associated Merchants Con: | jogsibio adjustment, reorganization, | trolled H. B. Claflin Company, the settien or sale of the property, as} “This birt Hg is one of great magni- tude, and it will be some time before the receivera will be able to obtain the necessary duta which will enable them to make a comprehensive state- ment. J. B, MARTINDALE. FREDERIC A, JUILLIARD.” The Coumittee of Five announced thix afternoon the appointmont of nine of the Committee of Twelve which will handle the affairs of the commercial creditors of the H. B. Claflin Company. The remaining three will be selected to-morrow, Following are the nine chosen: William A. Marble, President of the Merchants’ Association; W. De For- est Haynes, of Lawrence & Co.; Will- jam E. McKenney, President of the Merchants’ Protective Association; Frederick W. Wakefield, of Chene: Bros.; Edmund Wright, of Frederic Victor & Achelis; Samuel C. Lummia, Secretary of the Eastern Millinery Association; Edwain H. Baker, of West, Baker & Co.; Frederick M. McDuffie, Treasurer of the York Manufacturing Co. of Boston, and C. Morton Whitman, of Clarence, Whit- man & Co. These nine representatives of the Mercantile creditors conferred this afternoon with the committee of banking creditors. The two com- mittees will work in harmony. No estimate has been made of the com- mercial Habilities of the H. B. Claflin Company. The first ancillary receivers to be appointed were named by Judge (hat- field in the United States Court in Charles A. Brooklyn this afternoon. Decker was mi ford Compan ing business at No. 1055 Broadway, Brooklyn. Clinton L. Rossiter was apnolnted recelver of H: Batterman | & Co, the only other H. B. concern in Greater New York. This house ts located in Broadway, between Flushing and Graham avenues, Brook- yn, Each of the roceivers furnished ®& bond of $100,000, MONTGOMERY, Ala. June 25.— The Montgomery Fair, a corporation amMilated with t H. B. Claflin Company interests, and the largest department atore in Middle Alabama, fled voluntarly bankruptcy pro- ceedings in the Federal Court here this afternoon. It was announced that Harry Danztger, general man- ager, and Leon Ashley, treasurer, of the concern, will ‘be appointed re- ceivers, and that the store will con- tinue business under the receivership until the Claflin difficulties have been adjusted, ania HEARING TO-MORROW FOR TAXICAB ORDINANCE Meeting Will Discuss Amendment Which Proposes to Put All Cabs on an Even Basis. The General Welfare Committee of the Board of Aldermen of which Al- derman Bush is Chairman will hold & meeting to-morrow to discuss the Proposed amendment to the Taxicab Ordinance by the terms of which every hack hauling passengers for hire la to be made @ public hack, sub- Ject to the regulations of the ordi- nance, President Barnard of the | the Claflin salesmen. New blood, new methods and “efficiency” standards changed this ae well as many other customs of long standing, Customers coming to York to buy were turmed over Ry ‘salesmen covering the “zone” in which the oc cated, Old | commod. conditions dropped out. force changed rapidly, To-day there ie little in the personnel or business | @ ways of the H. B. Clafin Company R remind one of the old order of When the old employees went great number of the old customers went too. A new credit system wen | adopted, as well ar of the dry-goode trade ft. netee ominously to each other as ¢! noted | the changes, To-day they are yeaying | loudly: Zhe told you so," ‘The following te @ list of eubsidiary | Mason-Beaman Taxicab Company and others opposed to the ordinance will be heard as well as License Com- missioner Bell and those who favor it. The object of the amendment is to put all the taxicabs in the city on an even ba: The Yellow Taxicab Com- Pany under the pretense of running ‘private livery,” han been defying the law and purposes to continue to o by a@ subterfuge which has been Famed to fool the Board of Al- P nandnant will be introduced Roard next Tuesday. It | hoped it will be passed before sum- |mer adjournment dy of Drowned Sailor F. The body of a United States tatlor, |in whose pocket was an identification check marked "@6 U. 8. 8. Colorado, was found Heating, {RAS "eet "beeu oh obs are ’ SESSED AS, JUNE 26, 1014, 4000 FEDERALS “AULLEDBY REBELS. AT T ZACATECAS Villa’s Army Fights F Fights Four Days, Scaling Hill After Hill, to Capture Stronghold. HIS OWN LOSS 500 DEAD. Rebels Take Twelve Cannon, 6,000 Rifles and Nine Mili- tary Trains. j ZACATECAS, Mex., June 26—The! flerceat fighting on both sides and unusually high loss of life ts both Federal and Conatitutionalists, ended Jast night in the capture of Zacatecas by Gen, Villa's forces, It required four days of battle to take the Fed eral stronghold of Central Mexico. The Federals under Gen. Medina Barron defended their positions stub- bornly. But they finally were over- forces of Gen. Villa and| The Constitutionalint soldiers scalled hill after bill and mountain after mountain, killing and wounding thousands of Federals and suffering heavy lonses themselves. So far it has been impossible to obtain an accurate estimate of losses on both sides. The heaps of dead on the mountain sides and in the city | bore testimony of the ferocity of the fighting. Gen. Villa estimates th Federal deal at 4,000 and the wounded at 2,000. He estimates bis own losses at 500 killed. and 800 wounded. Gen. Villa was in the van of the severely wounded. Our artillery operated splendidly. The Fed- ‘ein ne OA every fort, the last re. aittals ‘accompany Barron in his retreat toward Aguas Calientes, ners re ‘s believed, the forces of erta are preparing for anoidier | diastits struggle. It is re- \ported, without confirmation, that the Federais under Gen. Jose Refugio Velasco have evacuated San Luis Pe- hurrying toward Aguas where Gen. Joaquin Maas said to be mobilizing his According to statements by Con- stitutionalist officials, Villa ordered a goneral assault on Zacatecas Tuesday Morning, and 19,000 rebels responded to the call. All day long the battle raged before the Constitutionalists stormed the heights of Sierra Le Bufa, tho strategic point in the city’s defense. There had been planted the principal artillery of the garrison, and it was these guns which had hurled back, shattered, the attack de- livered ten ago by Gen. Panofil Natera and the Arrieta brothers, a |WILSON IS PLEASED AT VILLA’S SUCCESS; HOPEFUL OF PEACE. WASHINGTON, June 25.—After a conference with Secretary Bryan, President Wilean authorized the tatement to-day that the outlook in he Mexican situation was more Promising than it had ever been be- fore. Administration officials made no effort to conceal their pleasure over the reports of the taking of Zacate- cas by Gen. Villa. It was admitted that, in the view of the Administra- tion, the victory at Zacatecas in- creases the importance of Villa in the Constitutionaliat cause. Confidence that Constitutionalist representatives will work with the Huerta delegates was expressed by officials close to the President. It was iMtimated that the influence of Villa was expected to have an im- portant part in the decision of that question, A report was current to-day that Herbert J. Brown of Washington had been sent to Mexico by President | Wilson to confer with Gen, Carranza, but there was no official confirma- tion. —_—_~. attacking party. Five members of his staff, accompanying him, were wounded. The number of Constitu- tionalist officers killed or wounded was unusually great. Gen. Trinidad Rodriguez, one of the best of Villa's brigade commanders, was shot through the throat and is not pected to live. The Constitutionalists in many cases had to advance on hands and knees, as thone below on the ateep.inclines passed the rifles from hand to haad. Theso feats were accompanied under heavy machine gun fire. Nothing seemed to lessen the determination of Villa's troops, though the Federals had thrown up trenches and redoubts on all sides. Hill sides afforded no cover for the attacking troops. The cordon of defense gradually narrowed until the last hilis on the outskirts of the city fell into the hands of Villa's men. Gen. Villa gave the following ac- count of the batth “after four a’ hard attacks to-day was the decisive one The enemy, numbering 14,000, com- manded by Medina Barron and other gener: were defeated completely by my forces, which were aided effectively by Gen. N: tera's men. Up to this moment we have five thousand prisoners, twelve cannon, nine trains, two carloads of rife ammunition and cannon shel nd nearly rix thou- and mauser rifles and a large quantity of provisions and other munition of war. “The enemy, who escaped, went io the direction of Aguas Call- entes, after dynamiting the poat- office, the State Treasurer's of- fice and the stamp revenue buildings. The explosions killed many of our men and destroyed part of tht city. The dead of the enemy number about 4,000 and 2,000 wounded. “On our part we cannot tell the losses of the battle, which lasted for five consecutive da: but I think there are not more than 600 dead and 800 wounded, Among the latter are Gens. Her- rera and Rodrigues, who were CANDY is Sweets in la various dccas! . Ask at the Special for Thursde epaha a | see stored The Season for Sunda; lay Lawn Parties, Evening Social ch an Indispensable factor at these events, we f: a good time to call attention to the fact that we can je quantities to meet the requirements SIEGEL AND VOGEL GET CHANGE OF VENUE. . |Accused Merchants to be Tried in} Geneseo, Livingston County, Probably in October. Following arguments before Su- Preme Court Justice Blanchard in his chambers at noon to-day it was an- nounced that Henry Siegel and Frank Vogel of the defunct Siege! companies will be tried in Livingston County. | Geneseo, about twenty miles from Rochester, is the county seat. A change of venue was granted the two accused men on the plea of their counsel, John B. Stanchfield, some time ago by Justice Blanchard. To-day District-Attorney Whitman and Mr. Stanchfleld appeared befor the Justice for arguments over the se. lection of a scene for the trial. Mr. Stanchfield argued in favor of shifting the trial to Steuben County, but declared afterward his only rea- son was because it was a larger county than Livingston. The Dis- trict-Attorney, since it was decreed the trial could not be held in New York, was in favor of the place Gnally selected. No date for the trial has been set. This will be determined ‘|later, although it will be some time in October, according to the District- Attorney. Siogel and Vogel were indicted on fourteen separate counts relow ing the crash of their mercantile an banking establishments early this year, the charges Including nd larceny, fraud relating to bills of credit and violation of the banking law in accepting deposits after know- ing the store bank was insolvent. Oo a Ex-Champion Heavyweight Dead. RED BANK, N. J., June 2.—James Kelly, better known as “‘Austraffan Kelly," heavyweight champion of Aus- tralia in 187, died of dropay last night at hia home in Frenau, near here, aged ninety-two years old. He ts credited with fighting the longest battle on record, 101 rounds, which took six and one-half hours in Australia, and won the decision, School Picnics, tivals has arrived. yor it supply our th LOFT Store nearest you. Special for Friday HOCOLATE COVERED MARMA- DE The meet delicious Frult Jel lies, Lames, wherry berry flaverat covered our famous Ch Chocolat: ND BE Speciai for Friday ‘A box of eweets that Walnute tee . rend op vat AR ie 147 NASSAU STREET . : Set. 0 Pot 128th STREET 2PM, Day, ‘Clow 11 23 Chonea TH hw THIRD Av. ct dee te, | tories of the AD ACRES OF FIRE PUT MANY IN PERIL IN SALEM, MASS. Flames Sweep Through City, Causing $1,000,000 Loss— Twenty Reported Missing. SALEM, Mass, June 25.—Fire that broke out in the Korn Leather Com- pany’s factory this afternoon burned over an area of forty acres in the leather manufacturing district and at 4 o'clock was still spreading. The los« was then estimated at $1,000,000, There were many narrow escapes from the several manufacturing es- tablishments destroyed and a child is believed to have been burned to death. There were no other known fatalities, although twenty girls were reported to have been trapped in the Korn factory. Three hundred operatives were in the factory when the fire broke out and many of them barely escaped death in the rush to safety. Charles Lee received Probably fatal injuries {n jumping from a third-story win- dow, A stiff wind and low water pres- sure aided the spread of the fire. The local fire department was unable to cope with the flames and aid was called from Boston, Lynn and other cities. called out to the aid of the police in handling the thousands who flocked to the scene, The fire followed a terrific explosion in the Korn factory. A high north west wind drove the sparks and em- bers over the southern section of the elty and many buildings caught fire. An hour after outbreak of the fire the Korn factory and th Marr Leather Comy and the Dane Machine Company, the rear of Boston street, ruins and the big four-stor building of the Carr Leather Compar on Pope's Court, the Keefe Leather Company's three-story building and many houses on the east side of Bos- ton street had been destroyed. The smoke was so dense and the |heat so great that the fire fighters could not approach within 300 yards of the blazing structures, The building of the Way Leather Company and four other leather fac- torles, several small business houses and twenty-five homes were burned All the bulldings on the west side ot Boston street, from Putnam those on were burned flat and a south to Essex street, Highland of buildings on Boston street were destroyed. to avenue, Saturday, Eighth Avenue At 140th St, Just os good as Mustard can be. Try it and know what ounces cents Four companies of militia were’ DEPARTMEN'Y 51. 0KES. INC. Announce the Opening of Their Third Establishment THE 181st St. Department Store Near St. Nicholas Avenue’. Wrenn apeseegenuey agen arects L SALES A Chain of Stores Worth Knowing Amsterdam Ay. At 162nd St SECOND TAXI STRIKE: »;: WILL NOT BE CALLED Men Assured That Unbiased Man- ager Will Be Appointed to Suc- ceed Holsworth, The threatened taxicab strike, which would have been the second in @ week experienced by the Mason- Seaman Transportation Company, which took over the Yellow Taxica® Company, will not be called. The men of the Yellow company who had demanded the reinstatement of Gene eral Manager Percy Holsworth who resigned to end the strike started against him Monday by the Mason- Seaman drivers, were assured that Mr. Holsworth had left voluntarily and would take another position, They were assured tov that his sug. cessor would be an unbiased Inde. * pendent man not connected with the Magon-Seaman concern prior to the combination and one who would ac- cord to them the same treatment he dealt out to the Mason-Seaman men. These assurances were given by Treasurer Rockwell, formor president of the Yellow company, and had the endorsement of President William HH. Barnard. ee The committee which met the offi- clals reported back to the men who were waiting In the meeting room on , the third floor of the garage building | at Forty-ninth street and Eighth aye. nue, and although a few favored atrike the vote against it was over: whelming. > TWO NATIONS WILL PROTECT MEXICAN. , MINING PROPERTIES, WASHINGTON, June 25,.—An agree- ment has been made between the United States and Great Britain*to Protect mining properties in Mexico similar to that made to protect. the ofl interests, Fi ee ey Can Wed Relatives by Maret PARIS, June 2.—The French Senate 7** to-day adopted without debate a Dill allowing brothers-in-law and alstere- ined oual of ROYAL 5 beans and peas—the most nutritious vegetable known. 1O0¢ Se With tomato sauce Small Can Cooked--ready te serve ae, Lentils are a highly nutritious vegetaile ~—palatable, with « distinct flavees + to ry. The measure previs n passed in the Chamber = LENTILS June 27 18lst Street Near St. Nicholas Ay, CORSET HOSPITAL SING, REPAIR SG AND. T MODRRA "333 Fifth Ave... a On June 34, 1914, Y. beloved husband O'Reliiy (nee R: Ruff, County Limeriek. 1 Funeral takes pla dence, 1114 M Saturday 9 A. Mf Grace Church, w | be offered for th 0.204. M ence, Friday morning at thence to the Churah ef the Heart. West Sist where. Fequiem mass Will Be efte: ‘tee ae Dees of her soul, ©