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_ 106,121,437 POUNDS OF MEAT ~ BIGGEST RESERVE IN STORAGE; SPEGULATORS RAISE PRICES —$_ _ —but then @ surplus of 44,678,639 pounds is nothing to grin at, consid-~ ering that there {s coming into the town every day thousands upon thou- sands of packages that have been de- layed tn transit. Butter {s #0 plentl- Federal Investigators Find Pub-! lic Is Paying 3 to 6 Cents a Pound Too Much, » HUGE EXCESS IN SUPPLY. ful for consumption that local dealers THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1917, doubted Wednesday whether ft could “Sweetness and Smiles Have Never Won Anything For Women Save Compliments, and Compliments Are Insulting,’’ Says Yvette Guilbert to Suffragists ARREST OF TWO IN ROBERTS CASE Coroner Prepares to Act After Private Inquiry in Girl Model’s Murder. (Special from of The Evening World. PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 11-——District Attorney Rotan to-day continued th EXPECTED TO-DAY Staff Correspondent | —— ") caught his hand tn the door of | taxicab the night before. As Elwood Powell, chauffeur of taxicab, Insists he opened the door the cab for Lewis and denies ¥ Lewis injured his hand in the manner he described, District Attorney Roten and Capt, Tate say their contention that the injuries were caused by Miss Roberta's teeth is greatly strengths * ened, In contradiction of this, seya!* eral persons who saw Lewis between the time the murder was committed” and his suicide, have said there were no noticeable marks on his hands, “Champagne Charlie” Kaier talked for the first timo to-day. “I was in Grace Roberts's apart~ ment only once,” he said. “I saw hee last in November, when I gave her hat she saw in @ store window admired. “When I am assured by the Disa trict Attorney that I am not nm any longer in the murder investiga * tion, I'm going home and tell my inquiry into the death of Maste Col- | troubles to a bartender. I will leave this town and find solace in the ma- hogany. I am going Saturday or Sunday, !f the District Attorney ap- proves. I came here to have a happy Christmas and New Year's, It's beam @ happy time—not, “I think Grace was killed win ag bert, Known as Grace Roberts, the pretty model who was murdered tn) her apartment in the Wilton. Half) a dozen persons who knew Miss Rob- erts will be questioned. The results of yesterday's inquiry, which oon- tinued far into the night, served to bring the ortme still closer to Bernard ‘W. Lewis of Pitteburgh, who com- mitted suicide as the police were all be assimilated day by day. In spite of the sudden flooding of the market butter Jumped up half a cent on the exchanges yesterday, and at the close of the day was selling prao- tieally at @ cent more than the day before. ‘The sudden fumps in butter receipts 1s due to the embargo being lifted by Western roads, As soon as the first Packers and Wholesalers Hid- ing Beef, Lamb and Pork to Create “Shortage.” ey |row in her apartments. Lewis have taken that ring I gave her, OF it may have slipped from ber finger and been lost 8 the apartment, I hover supported her, but I have given her presents often. I never heard of “ M spite of the recent rise tn foot- Stuffs and the threat to keep up the Rikh cost of living, the warchouses f the country are bulging with frozen Lewis before. I never saw her after Beet, cured beef, pork, lamb and mut- ton, and, with the exception of exss, Mortage cannot be given as an ex- Ouse for high prices, The latest United Btates Govern- it report covering inspected ware- ol of the country up to and in- @tuding Jan. 1 shows that there feats stored away in 197 warehouses the biggest reserve supply in twenty ‘Phis total for beef, pork and Iamb Pxboeds by 2,000,000 pounds the total Btofage holdings up to Jan. 1, 1916. Basing their claims on the Phenomenal reserve, the food investi- et anywhere from 3 to 6 cents below the present high prices, made neces- by recent wholesale advances. BEING CONCEALED. ‘These are the facts on meats, com- Pilea by Government investigators in the following table: MiaTS iN WARFHOUSES, "The production and storing away of meat went on at such a gait that more warehouses had to be built last year, It required only 152 warehouses to hold the storage supply up to Jan- wary, 1916, but from that on more ‘were added, and at the first of the prevent year exactly 197 warehouses are being used—and they are jamrhed. Frozen beef alone jumped 155,217,113 pounds over the report for January, 1916; cured beef, 88,613,967 pounds over January, 1916; all porks about a mil- Mon and a half pounds, and lamb and mutton about the same number of pounds. Butter has been more plentiful in otorage than the present report shows WEAKNESS . AFTER GRIPPE Proof that Vinol Restores Strength Quickly. The grippe left me in a weak, nervous, gun-down condition. 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Are 706,121,487 pounds of all kinds of bove @atore declare all kinds of meats @hould bo selling to the housewives heavy recelps came in the wholesale price dropped, but the speculators shot {t up again for eome reason, and that In spite of the fact that Harry Dowie, President of the Butter and Egg Fxchange, informed The Eve- ping World yesterday that thore would be no excuse for keeping butter at @ high pitch, since it was coming into town plentifully, EVENING WORLD PUBLICITY) SAVES CITY $10,000,000, “The Government's figures for but- ter” eaid P. Q. Foy, New York State market expert, “show a drop of elght | per cent. under the 1916 report, but that hardly justifies a boost of thirty per cent. in the selling price, espect- pary HOW THE NATION'S MEATS ARE ally when fresh supplies are coming in #0 plentifully after long delays in transit, The meat figures speak for themselves. They are the best argu- | ment that can be presented to tho public, ‘The more the publfo ts in- ‘The Evening World p: | it has done in the past, people will riso up to th | @ponsibility In the matter, ts facts, as 6 more the ir own re- 0, os une bag ef | “Every man ts entitled to a good Pounds on reat : | profit on hig investment, even in the Fromn Beet... 120, ry Eereptoqpeet things necessary to existence, but tt . 2,448, | may be qui med, and with gravity. whether a country is justified in piling 805,40 st tga | UP food supplies, holding it back from 277,618,900 | t8 own ple in order to sell It em cheaper, but still more profitably, be- cause sold in quantities to countries ; 20,745,040 A Bee eds tress reel 528 a3 the water, I have no doubt but that a large part of this extrs ordinary, almost startling, storag supply of meats 19 being held for other countr | “But the also a big part of ft not inten export. Anyhow, It's the business the public. If’ the| | housewife ts disposed to pay big prices |for foodstuffs when foodstuffs are | plentiful, she when packers Jand make her jae tn produc should not complain @ short- I to say |now, too, that the last anti-high coatt jcampatgn in ‘The Evening la Jeaved the New York public ner-ly $10,000,000, ‘That 1s a very small sav- ing in @ city of this etze, but {t shows what can be done by dlaseminating information.” HOW NECESSARIES OF LIFE HAVE JUMPED IN PRICE. Lard, which went up 6 and 7 cents in the ‘last three months, appears to have been plentiful enough for $0,- We | acco: ble figures jot Uncle Sam. That amount was on hand on Jan. 1, carefully packed in a |hundred or more warehouses. How much do you think was there in | January, 19167 Only | which shows an iner of this year Cheese is 3: last yea holdings was ‘only 14 per cent. bel last year, At the present time tu 3,634 pounds in storag 6 last year there were 28,5: 870 pounds. Apples fell off but the price went up 100 per cent, Juccording to the experts. Tho pres: jent storage supply is 261 barrels At this time last year the storage | supply was 4,812,889 barrels, | ‘The Government reports indicate a genulne shortage in eges very shortly Tho consumption in December was 1,192,618 cases. At the present time there are only 874,790 onsen ip 261 warehouses, against 1,507,721 if 1916 Fresh receipts are only 10,000 cases a week. There are about 80,000 cases consumed in New York in a weak This means that 70,000 cases are being taken out of storage every week for | thin city alone The extraordinary advance tn pota- |toes 1a blamed on th , Jealers clalm beck in the h § vasts of having 3 |sushels on hand and refused $1.75 bushel yesterd “THE WORLDS BEST” One whiff of the aroma from a steaming cup and your whole being*thrills with the d lesire to get at it and consume it, it is so tantalizingly appetizing and delicious. Austin, Nichols & C's Roasted and Packed by the Largest Importing, Manufac- turing, Wholesale Grocery Concern in the World. Guaranteed to please you perfectly or you can take it back and get your money. Order from your Grocer—Insist on ‘‘SSUNBEAM”” t from her | “Be brutal—be more brutal—be formed on its food supplies, the more | to the women of the United States who are man, I call it. | “It is woman’ her ideal of world,” Mme, Guilbert continued. “And she oan never impose It until she hae the vote, until she Bits in parliament with man. “What 1s @ nation? Is it composed of men only? Are there not women in {t, mothers who make the nation |which men by thelr acts of violence |destroy? Why should not the makers of citizens exert thelr conserving in- fluence in politics? I shall urge the women of tho United States to call upon thelr sisters throughout the | world, to send delegations to Wash- ington to ask your President to tm- mortalize himself In history by free- ing the women of this great nation and #0 bring freedom nearer to all the women in the world, What ts your Statue of Liberty but a farce, when one citizen of America ts free, another shackled tn te greatest of all slavertes, perpetual political mi- nority? SHOULD BE EMANCIPATED FROM | NEED OF PLEASING. The quick breath of indignation fluttered the full throat of the most famous feminist of France, Her apricot colored hair lay flat and un- curleg about her milk white fuoe. Maturity had brought to this great artist emancipation from the great est of all woman’ vertes, the slav- cry of pleasing. Thore she was, Yvette Gutlbert, frankly, uncompromisingly middie aged, uncurled, unrouged, un- smiling—for men to take or leave! for the sake of her great art. Not 4 gesture, not @ ruffle, not an Infleo- tion of voice, @ twist of iip, or quick of eye suggested the eternal coquette, | ‘Hesldes telling the ladies of the |Congregational Union that they | should insist upon the passage of the Federal amendment with brutality, with the ananswerabdle logic of great! masses of & world crusade of women drawn frora the four oorners of the earth, I sang to them @ song which is a prayer of women to men,” Mine. | quilbert told me, “In this prayer women ask to be released from the necessity of pleasing the eye of man duty to Impose ik to be respected as ors, daughters, for , their characters, Women are humili- ated by the demand that they please the eye and the senses of man. “The age of Sultans has passed, and the new Scheherazade will tell a thousand and one tales of the glory and the freedom of woman, SHB will order the Sultan away to be beheaded, | “phe slavery of woman” Mme, | Guilbert oontinued, “is economic, What woman who t= capable of earning her own bread does not lead an honest life? A few monsters, per- haps.” Mme. Guilbert shrugged her white, capactous @houlders, “But after all they are subjects for the physician, We should pity them.” “But woman's depencence te not of 4 “Love Is But an Incident of Life, There Are Many Things More Important,” Says Mme. Guilbert, “Such as Work, Art and Nature—With the Coming Freedom of Woman It Is Going to Be the New Scheherazade Who Will Order the Sultan Away to Be Beheaded!”’ By Nixola Greeley-Smith, most brutal!” gaye Yvette Guflbert seeking the vote. “Sweetness and smiles have never won anything for women save compliments, and compliments are insulting.” Mme. Guilbert made these remarks yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the Con- gressional Union for Woman Suffrage, which ehe had been invited to address, By brutality the matchless singer of the songs of old and new France does not mean a brutality of the body blen entendu. brain—she has always been opposed to violence, “I deplored the violence of the English Suffra- gettes,” Mme. Guilbert told me in her suite et the Hotel Knickerbocker last night. source of man. Let not woman, the symbol of mater. nity, undertake to compete with him. has demonstrated his genius for it in this terrible war, the bankruptcy of No, she counsels a brutality of the “Violence is the re For violence is his specialty. He ——_ _______ the dollar only,” I reminded Mme. Guilbert. “Many women who are economically free surrender their in- dependence at the call of their emo- tions. They abdicate in favor of their love.” “We are getting away from that,” Mme. Guilbert replied with firmness, “More and more mothers will teach thelr daughters that love ts but an Incident of life, that there are many things more {mportant,”” “You may preach that as much as ‘ou like,” I expostulated, “but no woman believes tt until it ts too late. No vital woman has any real interest, any real curtosity, except of the emotions until she is forty years old. Sooner or later an intelligent woman does achieve an emancipation of the brain and of the heart. She seldom surrenders elther of these citadols to love after she Is thirty, Still another emancipation Is necessary—the eman- cipation of the senses, Only age can bring that. No, it fs love, not money, that enslaves woman.” “An!” exclaimed Mme Guilbert with a calmness, a detachment, which I could not help associating with the emancipation of time to which I had alluded. “That te atavism. That is her mother speaking in her, But wiser generations, future mothers, will not have such feelings, They will teach thelr daughters the folly of believing that love ts the principal alm of existence, | THINGS SHE REGARDS AS MORE IMPORTANT THAN LOVE. “There are many things in Ufe more !mportant than love.” “What things In life are more Important than love?" | inquired curiously. “Work,” sald Yvette Quilbert emphatically, “Art,” eald Yvette Quilbert dramatically, “Nature,” sald Yvette Guilbert dogmatically, “My work has never been un- faithful to me, My art has never deceived me; never abandoned me. Nature has always present- ed to me her constant, her eternal beauty. Spring comes, summer flowers, autumn ripens, eternally, Let woman find her inspiration in the changeless wonders of life, What is man compared with them?” I did not venture to reply because I did not know, Only I felt as all young women feel, I think, that tt te strange no one ever discovers the wonderfulness of work until he gots into the forties, Before that if intellect tells him that he must not worship a graven image in the shape of an- other human being, it rejects with equal emphasis tha idealization of the machinery of life, For love i» the god |in the machine of work, and only the! of Barbo Compound, and % os, bankrupts of the emotions deny the god and worship the machine Suddenly I realized that I shoud not quarrel with the wisdom of my elders. “Perhaps I shall come to agree with Bt ne you after @ fow yeare” & eald pitiatingly to Madame Guilbert. “As yet Ido not. The things In life that seem to mo to give it an excuse, It has no reason, are art, love and beauty, uty 1s unveiled to beauty. “Ah, beauty, what ts tt? Who knows?" Madame Guilbert answered, “For mo, at least, 50 per cent. of what men call beauty does not extat. Do you know I really admire your redskins and yet other people find them hideous, ‘The other day I saw an Indian with blue eyes on Broadway, and !t seemed to me he waa one of the handsomest men I have evor looked at"— I confessed to Madame Guilbert a similar admiration for the Red Man, ax I have seen him in Wild West | shows, “But why should we discuss beauty?" Yvette Guilbert inquired h visthle distaste, “What women |need more than anything else ts to ;be emancipated from pleasing. We |should be superbly brutal ourselves, ‘LIGENSE BUREAU GRAFT | GHARGES TO BE PRESSED ses to Be Presented to Magistrate at Once for Action, the Mayor Announces, Mayor Mitchel announced to-day that as the result of a conference with District Attorney fwann the cases of six former employees of the Idcense Department who are accused of grafting will be at onoe presented to a Magiatrate for action. The May- or aid that the District Attorney and the Commissioner of Accounts were co-operating ia the prosesution of these cases, Tt Is nearly @ year since nine em- ployees of the IAcense Department were accused In the charge. Three of the cases were presented In Kings | County and two indictments followed The remaining #Ix awaited prosenta- tlon In New York County where these | offenses are alleged to have been committed A controversy arose concerning thir reasons why the New York County |cases had not been prosecuted. ‘The Mayor, at the close of an Inter- change of letters between offictals on the subject, sought a personal con ference with the District Attorney, They met at the Bar Association last night and the agreement to proceed before a Magistrate was reached. iii SR Hg CRUCIBLE STEEL HEAD DIES, Chartes ©. Weeks With Pneumonta, PITTSBURGH, Cyrus Ramsey, Cructble Steel Company fled in ® hospital here early to-day after an flness of #tx weeks from |pneumonta, aged fifty-four years, Ramsey Had Been m1 Jan. 11,—Charles President of the of America, Mr, Ramany wes born in Allegheny City, and when @ young man entered the employ of the Park Steel Company | oo at apher. remained with the | company until it Crucible organization, whe taken into the Keneral office Adinintatrative capacity, He r lidly and seven years ago was president ae ACTRESS TELLS SECRET, A well Known actress gives the forlow- ing recipe for eray hairt To half pint | ot add 1 ox, Bay Rum, @ amall box wyo tne, Any druggist oan pat thie you can mix It at home at very lite! | cost, Full directions for making and us | Will @radually derken streaked, ir, and make it soft and will not color the soalp, qveeey, 406 Goes not rub >: | QNE EGG MUST GO LONG WAY, | | that nothing at present oan bo sald about to arrest him in Atiantio City. Capt. Tate sent a detective to Cleveland to-day to investigate the story of RB. G, Brown, @ travelling | salesman, who declares he was in tho! vicinity of the Wilton on the night the murder was committed. Brown said he saw a man jump from the window of the apartment house, Ho declared this man in no way resem- bled the plotures of Lewis, Capt. Tate dos not expect Brown oan throw any additional light on the mystery. It wan stated that the independent investigation inaugurated by Coroner Knight might result in the arrest of two persons late to-day. The plan is lucky I had a WHEN YOU WAKE UP DRINK GLASS OF HOT WATER ns Wash the poleons and toxins from eyatem before putting more food Into stomach, Says Inelde-bathing makes ahy I phoned her, at 2 o'clock Thursday, Dec, 28. alibl wood ls expected to follow, learned, because Mpe.” SECOND HELPINGS BANE OF DIET TEST; MEALS MAY BECUT Police Commissioner, Yale Professor and Millionaire In- vited to 7-Cent Luncheon, week were teachers, who spent Thursday afte: noon and evening, lived, in perfect condition, the nails mant the time the police charge Lewis com. Pollen Commtastoner Arthur Woods, Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale Untver- sity and Harold A. Lye, millionatre President of the Life Extension Instt- tute, were invited to-day to be guests of the 2%-cent-a-day diet test with the twelve probationary policemen, who have been its exporimentai sub- Jects since Monday. This was the menu arranged for the luncheon de luxe at @ oost of 7 cents a person: Split pea soup with croutons (60 cnlortes). Raisin bread with butter (400 calories). Tea with milk and sugar (100 calories), Miss Marian F. Walker, dietitian, and her colleagues have been much exercisod in mind regarding the de- aire of the “rookies” for second help- ings, Such helpings not only run the number of calories up higher than the number eclentifically needed for complete nourishment, but they afd to the cost per meal, @o that the actual cont of food consumed is greater than the appropriation per person, In orler to maintain an average for the week Miss Walker has had to do some very close figuring and ft 1s likely that before the end of the week meals may be a wee bit skimpy for the appetities of the young stu- dent policemen, though sufficient for their actual physical needa To- night's dinner representa an expendi- ture of twelve cents @ man and will be as follows: Newest W Broadcloth Velour, Ducetyn, Montagnacs, With or Without Fur Trimmings, Reduced to Bolivia, Roast Beet Heart Stuffed ts and Onionm Suede Velour, Whole W 4, with Hutter, ‘Corn Starch Pudding, with Mik, Velour de Laine, Plush, Broadcloth, With or Without Fur Trimmings, Reduced to meal, buttered toast and coffee, Dr, Fisk issued @ statement to-day in which he said that the institute is not going to reduce the cost of the meals, although it {8 evident that some of the men are being overted. Ho said that If there fe any reduotion in the substantial food the mone: saved will be spent on luxuries, suc as onlads, frutta. &o, _— ee | Berliners Told Mach May Have One Between Now and Jan, #1, First Showing LONDON, Jan, 1L-—The Hertin mun otpality, Reuters Amsterdam oor 15.00 respondent, has announced that note ¢ withstanding the unfavorable conditions of production, it will be possible for every citisen in Hertin to have one omg etwoon January 12 and January 81, but & 4 Georgette crepe, taffeta f ding the eupply of ogm after to take one man in custody as « ma- torial witness and the second arrest The Coroner has never believed Lewis the municrer, His detectives have worked alone, Because he has accused the police of “inexcusable bungling,” relations between his of- fice and the Detective Bureau have been strained. It is known he would Uke to “step in and clean up” at the expense of Capt. Tate, But he to-day refused to tell what his men have “the time is not Among the sccre of more of per- sons examined by District Attorney Rotan in the second inquiry of the the Misses Ethel and Mabel Kyle, the Germantown school Deo, 28, in the company of Lewis, After escorting them home, Lewls re-entered the tax- texb, which he later left in the vicinity of the Wilton, where Grace Roberts Theo Misses Kyle wali that on Thursday night Lewis's hands were cured and highly polished. On the following night, or @ few hours after mitted the murder, the sisters were agait with him. Then, they testified, one of Lewis's hands wae badly cut up. 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