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mow a THE EVENING WwW FRIDAY, APARTMENT HOUSE OWNERS IMPERIL LIVES TO SAVE COAL Se isiae when Who Qovervnnee ee ee ee Oe pramees fo serene vr oteet lowe vet pet ow & Ce CRETE te the Gererement A OE meh me a8 the hee oF eerie 00 fap are” OW | ee ee “oor wen tee oe oe Te ike calea exmmenen of A in wy harnent ~ eee ab came ole hie ae piemet 4 eegeetad ie hewtent ts tay on rr pd A gy Bagh toronto 008 AMON EOE WE Oe tebe geod pete eeteed perertegs ar evanan. Ft of them, Rank tnand, wane «ven ervey tr me i evens previews fgwree = feterr@ area hawt pmee wil nn pale and ow irartet @ne telling with new fnroow Wrester General af the Hatewete! | oo td He Mahton, conning WOO tesanee weepges ‘trates etharencn eR Ramepanermen Hone ae Py A We mont = anicaria, Ten 18 608 Oe (a Plaons Wn of (ha (one OM cattmant of lwherians peaeenger 7 a0 i them, end 1, fr one, Om Tee eqeioment 4 emong (ne tre wing (6 tana wine wherever 0 te Cope fanen fader WY some at ihe (ooeane 1 sen 40 (he meet gd fativoada with headquarters tm CW tramentewws feommalbiiy sa ht)" tne hinges, Mile seo nd Hreition entatte, wOAt aae H°h TS | waa aamaunend (hat it wowld eiien partite of pointes fe tne anive wre. |e both obesrvation pot fet partie of weiiton in Vine antien were. | Obie, fete he mt na edeminiatration ot thie Winnwagei' nn Ubicag ne 1 ame your co-nperation ty and TAGE am nomen Wi be aontad aa eet ont my hand more frmiy cx.tne resco tl non eee, 8, CORPORAL KILLED shall G0, further than to say that we BY A GERMAN SHELL ereat enterpriqn will be run with « Twe Enlisted Men Slain by a nai@em of expense 464 & masiioum fh ebediate pervicn.” Bomb Dropped Prom German Airship. Laaisiation to be asked on Congress WITH THO AMERICAN ARMY IN immediately after the feoens, be- widen defining the fiscal reiationanip FRANCH, Deo, 26 (By the Ansootated Prese).—-A corporal of American en- of the pian, will provide for trans. ferring to Uncle Ham's payroll the gineers was killed and one private wae wounded Christmas Eve when a 1,000,009 of more ratiroad workers, tor creating & wage adjustment Hoard of German sheli dropped near a party of American engineors working in Directors, and probably for the oré- vention of strikes, it was stated to- trenches on @ section of the French front, The engineers for several day. CONGRESS MAY THRESH OUT )COMPENGATION QUESTION. Congress, it is said, will freely dis-| weeks had been working along the | cuss the Government's decision to| front with veteran French engineers for purposes of instruction, During « recent moonlight night compensate the railroads on a basis of the maximum earnings of the past German aviators dropped bombs near a certain town and two American three years instead of the pre-war verted. privates, who were In a camp in a wood, were killed. The German air- men flew low and dropped their bombs accurately, Under orders received from Gen- eral Headquarters, divisional com- manders of the American forces have lawued orders suspending temporar- ily Paris leave for all oMecers and men. No explanation was given. INVADERS OF ITALY ait ve wits whew and” Financial geniuses who were elected Presidents of railroads for their mon _ getting and money handling powers will be useless now that Government eomtrol makes the roads’ credit per- fect, Many of these men will either step out of the ratiroad game for the duration of the war or become “‘dol- lar-a-year” men for the Government Other officials made unnecessary by ‘Government control jater will drop ‘out or be transferred to other work. ee gee and division oMoers of Am- roads during 1916 received $ia00.080 in pay checks, a little more f the total of all s' salaries paid dur- Wonderful Examples Taken to Vi- enna, Budapest and Berlin— Private Galleries Looted. (WASHINGTON, Dec, 28.—Despatoher from Rome, received to-day, describe emoval of art works by the in- 8 of Italy. it has been established," vaya the despatches, “that the enemy has trans- ported to Vienna, Budapest and Berlin whatever could be removed from pri- vate and pubile buildings and chufches. “The equestrian atatue of Victor tration und the Govern. |2™manuel. which stood in the public ment unification plan because office |#auere of Udin ‘have been reduced by calls to|the Italians reapected the monument of Iready. If additional | Emperor Maximilian at Cormons, not- ~ santhed Ore needed. women will be |withstanding the fact that this particu- 7 o Te |jar monument had been erected as a Tease men for duty with the colors, provocation and challenke to Italy. 5 be pp ened “All the sumptuous villas of the Ven- ‘TRANSFER OF RAILROADS otian noblemen have been pillaged and | DOESN'T CAUSE A RIPPLE the wonderful artistic collections tran: ‘Business at Headquarters in This ported to Austria, Villa Soderini, near Mervesa, containing @ fresco by Tiepolo, City Goes Right Along Under the Existing Organization. has been destroyed, ‘Tho temple that Canova erected at Possagno is badly damaged, Fortunately the Italian au- thorities had @laced in safety alt ‘Transition from private to Govern- control at noon to-day did not ite @ noticeable ripple tn local rail- headquarters. Business contin as usual, Presidents went right oh giving orders and subordinates pursued thelr work regardless of having Uncle Sam for the new boss tn Washington. ‘The seoeret instructions were that per per mn per year, idente Mind 000. Four re poreel te reonive 478,000 ‘each, Gthers $50,000 cach, ‘and the re: on a scale down, Several millions tied up in expen- sive national railroad advertising | 4 and other millions spent e individual roads in merchan- themselves to the public will mes ipped off when the Direotor Gen- te isnot ikely, \ nol ely ay ea large num-~- of clerks will put out of reorganization ot {he terminal CHICAGO, Dec. 28,.--Several persons are reported to have been killed in an explosion of a blast furnace in the plant of the Inland 1 Company at Indiana Harbor, Ind., to-day, Tho plant caught fire and Is threatoned with destruction, Ambulances from neighboring cities were rushed to Indiana Harbor. T° deserve the confidence and esteem of a community is a worthy aim in business as well as in affairs of state. QWe trust that Keliners’ efforts for the t twenty-five years have added to the sum total of comfort Foe ay cag len $275 You are cordially invited to see the 25 rooms completely furnished on display here. They are interesting and instructive. REMOVE GREAT ART WORKS’ {of railroads would check their ef- has disappeared, while | -|SHPPERS IN RUSH :) TO RELIEVE TIE-UP |, OF FREIGHT HERE Little Change in Pederal Meth ods, Wowevet——Thenmande A Cars ON Wathed, Inapertors tornted deme of tm provement (day i6 Ge trmane Merttata around Maw Torn, tatherwing fon yeotarday \n The Hrenten of (he "eorres werk ender: by (he tntarstate Commerce Comminnton, Mew Yorks Pubiie mer vies Comalaton ent New sere Poviio UUules Oc mmiadton te revere the con gaation. Private a ippern, 1 fear of pana. | tie and pullioity, are beginaing wo whiond thelr care, but the United | Malee Government ia att! the prince. Pal contrition to the blockade of the | metropolis Little if any change ts reported in Federal shipping mathed: and its thourands of #talied care. Comminsioner Harlan wilt come to | New York v-morrow tor « conterence | with Commissioners Whitney of New York and Donges of New Jersey to continue their drastic clearing out bad | ratiroad yarda They will be joined by operating oMcals of rowde enter. ing New York who are now practi-| cally in Government service, and ali | will work together, “Informal reports this morning | from \nepectors in the yarda,” eaid| Comminsioner Whitney, “are to tho| effect that things are moving faster | along the lines in New Jersey and on the New York side. A general) Acceleration t# noticeable, Cong tion in the terminals in not #o tight a8 at the beginning of the week. “Consignees are unloading cars now instead of letting them stand for many days on the tracks. We have sent out a large number of notices to individuals and also com- municated by telephone with those whom we could reach to take away their goods at once or present good reasons why.” Asked whether the fact that the Government had taken over contro! forts, Commissioner Whitney replied: “On the contrary, it will assist us. gd Geecinaite tine is expected work princi throu termtate. “Commeroe Com of its organized staff. The service | of these experts jn railroad affairs will be of great help. Rallroad head- building “Th between State’ regulatory commis. | sions and the Interstate Commerce Commission, as exemplified in this Joint committee of three commis- sions at work on the New York) freight congestion, Instead of the Federal and State Commissions be- assistance to the Director General in conducting railroad operations,” DANISH COUNT ANXIOUS TO HELP FIGHT GERMANY quarters will be in the commission | with death following. in Washington, | js close co-operation Row | aay admitted that such complaints buildings “have U, S 8. ENGINEERS WHO FOUGHT AT CAMBRAI cocccocese seen SOEEEN ENC MPEAP AREER REET ETE THe The above Hines on the British front in Fronce | after the Britien victory LAD ON LANDLORDS WHO HOLD UP HEAT Apartments Cold With Coal tt jniitce in Cellars, Is Charge— | eet s: Steam 10 Hours a Day. said. "If any onl and will yake every ef Ho far we kr wo bave f ailed Mclain of the Real & intlon of New York Stat tate There le soon to be an election use dwellers are for United Mates Benater to fii th o nupply them with ade Hueting. The nent ae reaches fn must be taken by _—_--— —_ - | f here f, the Demne +f, . . areemer Foreign Office at Copenhagen An-! Paris Also Rep Heavy Shelling | ne Pa. Georae ¥ t " nounces the Sinking of Mer- in Lorraine—(uiet the | | eamers. ‘rit t | | im I Fror omy. el to him, | 6—Thirty Norw VARA A —Artillery ehtiog | PRIRBOS,—THEODORE FRIERUS, where aved to een | continued during the night the Ver pera at Campi the sinking of five Norweaian gun front near urieres Wood. where] cnuncs, Bre tate Anwo by ac: |the Germa wie an unsiceesaful at-| gay, 12 neoe. enid that |cording to a by the tack on Wednesday he ar ‘Omes re KITCHARD.—On Deo. 28, 1917, the ved no complaint from | Norwegian Foreign Offer and forward: | porta here aloo was heavy ohelting al” ‘ pocuuse of Inability to ed by the Copenhagen cor A eA sata was heavy shelling 10) gee, MUG PRITCHARD, Fuel and ¢ arrying ‘That some apartment house owners b oA a ot Now York City aro capitalizing | coul fuel conservation orders to the extent | Suluines of imperilling the lives of tenants is) Manhattan's the charge made to Health Depart. | $2) ,{00% [ene ment and Fuel Administration officials | 5,000 instead here. Specifically, it is alleged, that | Will lwve some owners, In order to save fuel) Federal Schley wer over |that many tenants have contracted ae |eolds which developed into pueumonia, Harlem River 6,000 tons in @ Department of Health oMicials to- | sundown Ii have been received, Some of them fu Mr. have been substantiated. Fuel Ad- | ment houses « two tons a da ministration officials declared that) 25, reserve such @ condition {s unwarranted. |hy is unabl: They asserted that they have been | stretching the Ing set aside, they can and will be of |able to meet every pressing need for rae WH Divert That this condition of disregard | of the health and comfort of apart- ment house dwellers is not general was shown by an WASHING Investigation of | was conferred burned to death to-day in his house in Glenbrook, a suburb, and his wife, Jane te'tn @ critical condition’ trom burn received while trying rescue him. An oil heater upset and caused the fire, Alken was eighiy-two en invalid. ‘and Apartments — cor heat conditions in apartment houses ministration on Jamon J. Storrow, the | Gen . ’ Ni land Fuel Admi , en fete in upper Manhattan to-day. But the) Ne™ Daslend Fusl Administrator ‘oe. Haare Ge ‘What fic it hold Uppy ? rf ~., | Investigation did disclose that there ti Private’s Life Will Do Until I Fit] ar6 many apartment houses to-day for us? What do you Myself for Something without heat, while sumicient coal to ’ wish the New Year ” moet existing requirements are tn Ys : Better,” He Says, the cellars, It also was disclosed ie to bring? In To- AN ATLANTIC PORT, Dec, 29,—|that in some apartinent houses in- FD N THE STATI , oe. at Morrow's Ad. we Count Bevo Bent Holstein, a member |ferior grades of coal that will not é OFF foto ° of ote ot tbe mort Adlatinguished fam-| produce ateam in being used. Wise MiB Of He ly will open the box. jes of Denmark, come to er < eat 19 ‘i United States eager to entist to tint SOME OWNERS MAKE HONEST Ss me TR BRS 18] See if our wishes ry FFORTS TO GIVE HEAT. ‘comers. AM oS against Germany. Ho arrived here to- ’ aay are not urs, day on @ Scandinavian steamship. This rule applied to apartments x ore yours. ‘The Count for e number of years was | bringing a rental of $720 year and vid Pacah 42% engaged in the diplomatic service of |lens, Many apartment house opera- (Continued from First Pag NY for Your New Year Party his country, having been attached to) tors are making conscientious efforts ——- | 14 ’ Gn Danish Laspsion in Paris, Stock-|to supply all necessary heat tn thelr] Wilson’s war aims and urgent plea Pty +3 vg biel ea apainai Gu houses and are succceding. This ap-|that Britain make entirely clear to the| oni tude tay fe an Pa Chocolates wolendt vee * Sriety. tor, tomet | wan: fiat rman A ; ; ar a because I want to help France,” pny 4 plies particularly to the large, high-} world (hat eho is not fighting a war| jmare & We Tm au aby Tie Staal at o en comole o lor rearrtse Your Tidion aT 19 Count Holstein, He said he ts thirty- | Tade apartment houses. of conquest was the message deliv. | ‘rate Ges, a Lf t bid fix yoara of age, unmarried, and has | Fucl Admintatration and Health | (red 00 Aric Wunterson © “vores “Bg m t §*| | HIGH-GRADE MOTTO VERSE CANDY—r ae no preference as to which branch of |Department officials sald that com-|'"‘yn9' convention late this afternoon | liar tomy to Aad ea ab 5 ot || ore FIVE-POUND BOX. ot ovr Wien Grade Pa moe the eervice he should enter “as long aa | plainta which they have received indl-| adopted practically unanimously the|{.,.8 Reet cA) ‘ baad 4 vented in w variety which is the dell § 44 | Lean hetp,” he declared, cate, however, that thero is @ con-|Laborite war aims, which in effect Hsing. 4 Ta gf Kone Mottoes and “on Packane 0 ot fe Serine Count Holstein carried letters of tn-| stantly crowing number of apartment | Pledee adherence to the principles | seaboard Tie A Ks o% + * ly supply &f verses, ail ready for rour ow et troduction from Dr. Maurice F. Egan,|neuse owners who are taking adyan- | *mnounced by President Wilson, Sabon Ay be p Be joy fi the American Minister to Denmark, to fuel gituatt vammninapiian Be RT it ABLE REDUCTIONS ON TRINKET James W. Gerard, formerly the Ameri. | ‘8° of the fuel situation Ten-Day Reces Sh au ty" CONTE AE Thea han tcomals Inne 1 can Ambassador to Germany, and sey. | AP Indication of the widesproad Aureed On, | ie” iB + ty hep cor ne foe a Mare ftes"are || CAMD ACCOMPANY WHEN YOU eral high Governmental officers, nature of this “fuel conservation] pprROGRAD, Dec. 28.—The dele.|} oy wy . an with Bh ice erent, wen PRESENT IT AS A NEW YEAR “Une 1h enough to be flited for | scheme was shown in @ resolution! gates of tho Central Powers to tho|t oy wh ty Yor "t Wiese nthe ye - GIET PACKAGE—GOLD BEAL AS something better, a pri lite will| recently adopted by the New York| peace conference at Brest-Litov i” Nw Ih ov een, oe fer Iakew! ) | mult me, add the Count. Bullding Managers’ Association, {t [have agreed to a ten-day How HAD + ak) TP meri ot k-acnd me ceesaereee ° . the peace negotiations, which will be! so YON Fay ed to m t very m be P\ THREE YEARS FOR DWIGGINS Be Mat nc it wie enld (ocdags ane Peeree gee SRE SERS iOS ya HG ably t ||| Ths toe vate new vee AOE "lis being generally complied with, — {*| ‘ It provides that steam heat |America Must Save the Hntente, bal 000 a | j Sersediag fy ‘ersons tm Bale of) i011 be started up in apartment Says And ONAL F Liberty & \e houses at 6 A, M. and shall be ZURICH, Switzerland, Dee. 2%—-Count d our deliek Elmer Dwigsins, former New York tinued until 10 A. M, F Jullus Andrasay, ex-Promier of Mun | mn, tr representative of the Bankers Lite In-| continued unit MA. M. From Jiary, writing on the peace question, 40 Army © atl surance Company of Des Moines, Ia.,| 10 A: Me until 4 P. M, no heat teak weal were | | pleaded guilty before Judge Hand in| Will be supplied. It will be re~ holo, Bituation ‘fungae |, BALTIMORE pgp la “gnpsetiony Meio pox arena pe the Fed Court to-day to two indict-| sumed at 4 P. M, and continued and the ai |tyenime of the thirty army motor trucks Pe menta charging him with using the| until 10 P. Ma when fires will be | Powers now wlvo will gain Supremacy | which ett Detrol ee Se | tat "iy ereatt ais $], maila to defraud. He was sentenced to| “banked.” This'means ten hours’ | "jt is no longer poxsitie for Au power, about three weeks ago, to be A rr serve three years in tho Federal prison| feat in twenty-four, to give Us the finishing stroke, hipped to France, finished the trip with TiLn CHOCOLpTE COVERED Maas] | MAR BONDPOIEE™ GotEEE] at Atlanta, MAY EXPLAIN HIGH PR |muat save the Bnten thelr arrival here to-day, The missing RASCHINO CHERKIES—Dig, Hed, fils fnal is he , alls the selling of Liberty Loan BYA-) Ick Was, wrecked by @ railroad train| [} Rive, Luxctous French Cherries, each oad Se, ver further his operations In LENCE OF PNEUMONIA, lwewe Hours of Street Plehting ty hilo. Journey through Bastern | P| submeraed in get lid ad exninit, Drie that Ht] “It the conditions dencribed are at ‘und the “Alleghany, Mountains in| J] and Shea c ect ae ee vougne ue ebakiodity wepoures $108 06 trom cor jail common, 1 Would, in my opin. | ‘TOKIO, Deo. 28.—Two hours of strogt | Hennayivania, wae sora Pe ae | Pounp nox “49¢ pe m beget, Be ibe tO nd through A him |ion, furnish an explanation for the | fighting pre a in iter of the | pre Lom. | 6 disap- , Holshevik forces in Harbin to Chin | peal rand was catigh high prevalence of pneumonia and | ding to a Fors wee enna | few days ater tr Montgortty nie’ ® other reapleatary diseases here’ et the despa eter | me a tt Is Mayor AKSORTED HARD . 00 Holshovikt | : $ porary in n - ieneee prosent time,” Dr. Charioa Bolduan, | T™ npwthevikt) Argument over the temp : CANDING — The finest AGUS HAVRE Us Sernen fo Death! Director of the Bureau of Public} ynaee en wre Magy (Junction granted by spe: Reerreeant of lene laste 1D, Co » |Health Education of the Departmen fied the i would ‘be no f her trouble, | sumth Gavegan, restraining Mayor Ing eweets ln the world, STAMFORD, Conn, Doo, %—Henry “okt (i v te) Sohn F. Stevens, head of the Aimer. | Mitchel and other members, of | the on tha meer H. Alken, a@ retired policeman, wa |°f, Health, sald to-duy mailer misdon te Russie Hoard of Battmate and Apportionment id “During the past few week a con- siderable number of complaints rex colved by the Health Department des |T scribed just such conditions. Kxcept in a few Instances, however, HO | naif million ton plained of | were ive now at \ found mufficlently. Well heated when | [ena "warehous re fiom Vlad ae further t da urgent officers commanding the forces that bullt the raliway | inom fought the enemy with bare Nets During the German counter Engineers dropped their tools and some of BLAME FOR DEATHS = |” After a conference to-day between | ct tinge a put CLOSING | stock QUOTATIONS. ' Po 102 Weet 924 ot,, Pri k, du « miners | besa epegenerase 28, ot 6.50 PM. At the request of « off work for the Chrixtinag| Wi set chanwe trom orervnm close number of hie friends, there will be « 500 tons and Queens 9,000 | 4™ instead of 11,000 tons, ne Fuel Commissioner Hall of the Bronx Eeamission, |bills, have so greatly reduced tho| said to-day that tie arrival of 4,800) 4 which will tenderrhim the assistance | amount of #team heat in thelr houses ons of Coal, hrough! by six barkos relief in the coal shortage “AIL hospitals, Hall continued. A to divert and redistribute coal in New {England to meet the emergency there ander Bolsheviic contrat ee | Mereving’s en wa Hepdpped. & De LL ~ cna te Koaarvars bet Wace | Vrom “Corer Vere w SaWrmerT OR tre Mecoeterr , ne toodng © eonates Vv AM ate Comm he mane Vf Wiewmnd 404 Re ntemale at nemnpe lend nenena le heme pemetiod ragitty Kewtving «9 the Cammmmittene on \nuedt made an Wedneaday (het Mattar the needa of man in conten ry wide hed oeen fl “wih On ae) indicate the twation her \mprrredt in the nat tow dave { shipments of sappiion hin eovaing (4 Waker, Wed teen on the |wer for some time j Comat day eatte (aed hemwen that en Peraving’« foope are well equiped And armed Mal Gen, Wiliam Wriaht and Mas Cen, BH town Orehie, cantenmen feniphean and ied coments 44 there!” both Co etal ch ete echt eee ener ee rene eee The unit had been detached from | for © he main boty and the Germans surrounded them, tut they fought thetr way out Their bravery was bighly commended by Field Marshal Hal The above js « Britiah oficial phow 5130 NORWEGIANS LOST ALTA REET EE OD OAAA RED ERED EDEL EDD mE RE EEE Wieeoneta Cet Dieterattr, 1 All potte tack mot aroun . th poe to detent Mstoyalty tm the ‘CROWN PRINCE KEEPS UP |the Bachanke Telegraph ¢ bear th years pastor ot the Alexam@er The steamers sunk There te thing Administrator Reeve | tone: Start of 728 tone: Magun. of of to report.” saya to- epresentatives of the | iit? tons. the Neirdpol, of 3.809 tons. | 4, ation from the War and Spr was an- ow wilt de nei at hie 28. John yesterday in connection with the killing of Hermann Jakopalen | tn a remote part of San Gabriel Canyon, tay identified, according to the She fs oMce, the mysterious “H nun woma , ed the apecial service im the et Avenue P and 6th o'clock. supply will be at least | Al\\s4 amore this week's quota Bronx will have! jm | 500 tons; Brookiyn | Am Toterna tional ‘used of has given temporary nortan of 4 om than yards There were Nt the Bronx ast night, schools and public n provided with “Apart » to oblain ure now ab y Special Candy Attractions For New SMear He's our 1916 Hope Chest. 1 to Relleve New Dec. 2&%.—Authority to-day by the Fuel Ad- Rekns ost to-day, de itat fh upon the. proposed eto the Fifth Avenue the orld ws irremnitin pal! in erin we. 4 Imponaidio c which was to have ae nh begun to-day before Justice Plat i 64c pe Gectated aj gek ins the Supreme Court waa de sia a Cc of suppiten from Amor af unt Jane 4, with the consent of adivort ok d eh On tho deny |Ahee Mae AA iis colleagues when the includes the container be carefully guarded.” | case was called. 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