The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1918, Page 5

\ Generous New Yorkers Send your contributions to the @are of The Evening World. nutritious lunches. No money 4s made in any way. Boerything ts furnished at cost, No child ie pauperized. Money to Aid in Education of Children of Poor Is Again Coming In, Thousands of children hava heen saved through the Penny School Lunch for which funds have been contributed by the publio to The Evening World. The New York| Behool Launch Committee was the, agency that carried on the work. Any child who did not have the money to secure the lunch was pro- vided with ald by the Principal and in such a manner as not to pauperize iby Poor child by the other children kndwing of the arrangement, ‘This policy has been observed since the Penny Lunch plan was adopted. In 1916, 1,176,000 portions of food were nerved—exclusive of HBrooklyn—as 4 result of the Penny Lunch System. Last year tho portions were nearly doubled in number, The contributions given to this fuad also made it possible to give a mnid- morning service of milk and crackers to the crippled and anaemic children, so that after several months spent in the mic class the children were sufficiently well nourished to return to their own classes. During the school term September, $, to June, 1917, the committee from ‘The Evening World Mund served 10,496 quarts of milk, 6,549 half pint portions of hot cocoa and 1,500 pounds of crack- erm The Evening World tn addition as- sisted in the continuation of the noon day hot cooked I imately 10,000 nh, registering in Public Schools Nos. 9 and 160. Latters of thanks have been rec eived from the Principa! f these ae hools. “Cripple and an es in the echools of the boroughs revelved milk and crackers during the year, as fol- lows: aieue tta TONE, Manha' ta. ae, ~ ee 8! #0, oe & Ys. bff ytain Bide, n BL a i 8 4 Annes. The following contributions have heen recelved ; louls J, Selznick \ Knitting Club of P. Weigh) Hilzabeth L, Bowaurt George A. Carde Mra, 8. Aronetam. George Hi, Grimm Were +25 6$100 Hight Ladies (H. Weinstein ¥ Anna C. Milliken, Total Army Deserter on ‘Tr! Bleyele I A man whore life rirl'e red eweater stoo Metntype in General charged with mi J. Stivers, nineteon, old Twenty-second Rew coman. may hang upon @ wbfore Justice Engineers. On the night of May 2%, It | chagged, he shot and fatally wounded Hicycle Policeman Samuel Cunningham who Wes trying to arrest hint Betore Cunningham to whisper that had a girl in the he wore 1 he tnanaged the against hin portant Witnoss -—--—> BIG MILLS FACE CLOSING. Coat Shortage in New aces Work on Uni Aid The Evening World’s '- Penny Lunches in Schools ~ esenmasasmcnsnamnscnmeteat "How to Send Money Contributions | To Evening World School Lunch Fund Every contribution received, no matter how small, will make It possible for undernourished school children to receive wholesome, Boery case investigated by school authorities, eons to approal- | “School Children’s Lunoh Fund,” OSCAR, IN SORROW; TALKS OF LEAVING WALDORE-ASTORIA At 9% o'clock this morning Tachirky entered his office. Mr. There he will remain until long after mid- night to-night, acéording to his neual Practice. his name “Chirky" if you wish, but if you want the whole world to know whom you moan call him Oscar of the Waldort- Astoria. As he began opening and sorting a pile of letters addressed to the manager of the hotel ho said to an Evening World reporter: “T auppose this is the last lot of| these letters T will open.” He has been the actual manager of Pronounon mind, When the change was made I lid not hear of it until after it had been announced to the newspapers. But that is all right. It is every man’s privilege to sell his property when he sees fit Some do {t one way and some another,” he added, with a significant smile in his bright eyes. fer the last twenty-five vears, and do my work until my contract expires on| May 1 next at “And then!" w “It is too early to say what then. answered. “I ha ture,” ‘ Touching the history of his connec-| tion with the Waldorf-Astoria, Oscar said that as soon ground was! broken for the building of the dorf he had appiled to Mr. Boldt sr,|/ for @ place with him thore. "he co's catering department and knew cally all the York,” he said, Boldt asked me for ref to him seven puges of So when Mr.| ence I sent} 1 was his right-hand man | This hotel hung on my he as it did on Mr. Boldt's. the New England textile mills A shortage is imminent. according to 1 erams from the onal Association o Woollen Manufacturers and the onal Associat H would Closing of thousands of ariny, ) xrama asked navy colllers at ¢ eapatohed to New England » - > Print Paper Hearing On Before Trade Ce WASHINGTON na wfacturers and repre American Newsna Weichman 1 William oars a watchman, of > 08 iret Avenue was found dead 16 ina ) at No. 485 1 rN ba supih b \ er was on floor beste _ Why Stay Fat? _You Can Reduce The answer of tat people te it were my own March 14, if yesterday, und so many offers that | vu dase over thelr numbe nd variety.” GOV. EDGE URGES QUICK full of them all day thew 1 e me okt to-day, m the Pennsylvania, but ¢ quest, the hollday will be passed over to speed the production of fuel. SEA VIE HAS STAR CHAMBER TRIAL Coler Refuses Public Hearing to Dircetor Buck of Tubercu- refused to make public a says he bad to buy and conmult an says the ¢ not © | ambuis 600. visitors e No plans for the fu-|the | | charges “I was then in charge of Delmont: | {it Willian M New leading persons in|of the from 189 home weap filled | Mo |uothing prevents, | shail ceicbrate the ‘Towenty-ffth anniversary of the open. vg of the Wald and 2 shal) have |!” do jt all by myself, for Tam the)! nly person now » who has boe It is remarkable.” he went « what friends | have, My house w THE EVENING WORLD, | JOHN MITCHEL, 48 YEARS OLD TO-DAY, hd ari AYLANSEESODELL JOHN MITCHELL John Mitchell, Chairman of the Fed- 1 Food Hoard and of the State Indy years i Comminsion, is forty-elght el W FARMS HEAD 5 Hospital. isioner © Charities ¢ er r had te e charge ‘arms on Jan, a sult Mr occullst ridors of the ar pin 409 emp! wae res: n er af had bee OBITUARY NOTES. Cha. Tamvst Abra ACTION ON TUNNEL PLAN Rented M " to Speed Up ure So That Building May Begin. TRENTON, No, Feb. @ ating with Gov. Whi New York to get immediate New York Legtalatu ba a traft Siow 1» the prope ludson River between New Jersey w York | ew Jeraey executive has called Hon of Gey, Whitman to the t t nt New Jer ‘ indo wi ste «pe ! v Commisaio! ate with c ~ York City, 0 r into any contracts and pay ta expenses of building the r which, it han been estimated ty Engineer Gorthals, can he co nied 0 ha \ fo be pravatied re ve action in ander tha: might get down to ture. Gee, theyre good! Post TOASTIES PEOUDDDO 2 HTS to-day ing of the} Charge four is to the ¢ t night at b6400ObO Oooo DDO>0oD0HO OH + House, 205 East 67th Street, by Sale of Hotel a Surprise to Him | misnion an: mponan= —To Celebrate 25th Anni- | "Gov. Whitman, Oscars. strays, sate] versary March 14, Alone, | Se*retary lof the “American. Federation J bor will be ¢ - — Mite siege for Unit districts of hia year, at his re- the hotel since the departure of Man- st Ee ase Baa Ciena agor Hilliard, nearly ten years ago.|on staten Islai.!, Sea View Farina in-| Now, through « change of ownership, |cludes Sea View Hospital, one of the Walton H, Marshall of the Motel|larcest tuberculosis institutions in the Vanderbilt is to fill that position for | worl. doth of these hostelries. There wero five apecifications of the “Yes,” sald Oscar, “the sale was a|Charee @gainet Mr. Buck. Tho first ts complete surprise to me, as it was to |"! ho c rmlttod interns to be on the rest of the world. Six or poven| (it) pinout Naim wees ago I heard rumors of a change | 4. cause on Jan. 23." in ownership, but, was told there was|the first charge Mrs Buck says there nothing in ft, and dismissed It from my|was a shortage of uniforms. Interns treat pauents in civilian | victim that he was | Buek of clothes Charge thr hospital are that buildings are in a dilapidated Asked what he was going to do, Mr. | cond! and that Mr. F swapped | Tschirky satd: “Why, Tam going to sit| one auiomobiie for anothe right here at my desk from sixtesn to} Charge five is that Mr, Buck was eighteen hours a day, as T have done |Norant of an pow de Farms oe Compt ness is the President of the wiv of Newark, ulmut with signatures of the best known | ith J area fit r men in this country, | would give! William Wi 18 Bradford anything if I could get hold of those) Avenue, Plush erent OR eae ny 6 if I could get hold of those) Avenue, Fl ome nt of Halas sheets now. From the duy the hotel! tnd later wi nt of Plant opened until the death of Mi, Boldt | and aay TOSAVEN.Y. CITY FROM ICE FAMINE | Quick Action in Cutting and Storing Winter Crop Is Nece: } i} ary. o@ | { Alarmed by the prospect of am fee famine in New York next summer, | Mayor Hylan arranged for @ confer- ence to-day with former Gov. Benja- min B, Odell of Newburg-on-the- Hudson, who Is investigating Ice con- ditions, with a view of having the city quickly harvest a supply for dis- tribution to the people when warm weather comas, | The Mayor's thought is that the city's water reservoirs furnish fine |fleids of ice for cutting, particularly |the Ashokan Reservoir in the Cat- |sk!Il Mountains, the Croton Lakes | |ond the smailer Long Island res-| ervoira of the old Brooklyn wator | system. Houses for storage and labor for A dinner will be given tn cutting are both lacking in the pro- hw honor to-night at the Central Overa| yosed city enterprise, Sugmestions were mado to the Mayor that these might be overcome, It was urged diers from certain campa to help tho harvest was also discussed. No new law Is needed for the city to embark in the ico business, The only procedure necessary f for the te Food Commission to authorise the municipality, on application, to engage in the buying and selling of foe as a necessary of lite AN UNEXPECTED HARDSHIP IM- POSED BY WAR. World war has caused many jstrange economic conditions and cut off unexpectedly the supply of many commodities, but none of its sudden slashes 1s more surprising or moro oritical than this threatened ico View Farms | fa: tine. the imagination was stretched to extreme, no one commodity would seem #0 impossible of short- ‘ago as ice, after the coldest winter jthat the oldest inhabitant remembers, the with the Hudson frozen from source ‘Phe second is |t0 Mouth for many weeks, and every Ruck was “oft duty without prop-|]ake apd stream of the Northern In answet to| States covered with thick sheets. In former years, when the metropo- lis suffered from scanty crops or fell to monopoly attempts at | boosting prices, the cause always al- | leged was the weather—balmy Janu- |ary days in Maine when the pussy willow buds sprouted and upper | reaches of the Hudson River were Jopen and clear. But this year there has been no lack of freezing tem- perature; in fact too much of it, But war regards neither weather nor city needs, All the ammonia | | upply in the country ts required to | make munitions, and lithe or none | will be left for the making of artin- cial tee. Without ammonia ice can- | not be manufactured. | DEFICIT OF 2,500,000 TONS AL.-! READY INDICATED, ‘To avoid past uncertainttes of win- |ter weather and risk of insufficient | New York turned gradually | NDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1918, that the tce ld be cut immedi. | ely, while cold weather lasts, and piled up on the bank. ‘Then shed | coverings could be built later. The chances securing services of eol- Cipal source of supply and reversing Committee to make prompt inquiry, |tho natural foo erops—are counted [cities and those adjoint completely the trade conditions of * reserves 1 ever | still dep 5 ten years ago. Now, with ice mak-|STATE MAY BEGIN ACTION TO he he Arenal Guta cal nge friosieaiy on the ing plants unable to operate for the NIGHT IN ALBANY Hudson, ke and Ad- | filled with what they need. cum summer, this is what confronts the} They in turn called in foriner Gov. ndack jake with ie,| To the Legisiatere to-night @ena- Metropolis: Renjamin Ff. t h Harvest: | tor Wagner will outline variows plans Rewer Tons. ~ | the-iudson and asked him to ” id basis | from whieh t be made selection he cote of joe for the Ico Kine of New York for f me ting on supple- | for immedia jon, Among them summer ... 000 | beneft of the people, Without . | men ar ‘ ipply This ¢ Last year's artifiol without title and without specifle au-| means that oniy ent. of The State itself te harvest, Last are cee “i thority of law, but with knowledge |New York vided for. | store and sell natural ice through hat romebody must agt p ni " t ole ply (30 per oent.). 1,200,000 jan emermeney, Mr, Odell ts 17 g| in ware at nee Ie Northen threre Natural ice already har- the resources of this Industry ave) t Ader 1 and tal ile cold weather saan’ for aw ane 1,500,000 | the etty. aivnen the Senate mocts to- | Wa od Taote Deficit in supply per night in Alt Senators Brown and |ers (ha at cent.) veseses 800,000. | Wagner will have a report from htm lammania. I municieal Wo sommes” Not until last week was the serious: | of actual con: ona and What must be] nition , tary ness of the situation realized. Sen-| done by the Siate to Sout where ator Robert F. Wagnor, learning the} Maing no longer ships ico to New| ity exinrs ataral tea, facts, called attention to the necesalty| York. That business was abandoned | out! immer ts 5 for quick action to save tho city’s| years ago favor of the upper; ing masses from great suffering when hot| reaches of Hudson River, These] Now York js the only Northern elty weather comes, The Senate delegated| too furnished less and less of the|threstened with rious famine hee Wagner, Democratio leader, and|city’s supply as the manufactured |canse sie hos placed most reliance Republican icader, a epecial! product increased, until now they—!on artificial production Mp-State B. Altman & Cn. Thirty Thousand Yards of Desirable Dress Silks will be placed on sule to-morrow (Tuesday) at phenomenal price reductions These silks wil! be arranged in lengths variously suitable for dresses, blouses, coats, linings and trimmings. The offering includes Black Silks, White Silks, Sports Silks, Printed Foulards, Plain Silks and Printed Chiffons. TheFancy Needlework Dep't on the Fourth Floor is displaying a new importation of Philippine Hand-embroidered Chaiseslongue Covers, Pillow Covers, Dresser Scarfs and Pincushion Covers, beautifully worked in most artistic designs. These pieces may be purchased singly or in matched sets, as desired. A Special Tuesday and Wednesday Sale in This Department will comprise Imported Lingerie Pillow Slips in a variety of designs and sizes, specially priced at . eer Other Special Sales - for to-morrow will offer: z Down-filled Pillows 4 with colored French sat ‘all Women’s Early Spring Hats vi with color French sateen, specia! A r . some priced as follows: ° ‘ (Third Floor); White and Size 12xl6inches » .« 2 « «© Colored Cotton Dress Fabrics; Size 14x18 inches » 6 see and Sterling Silver Tableware. Fifth Avenwe-Madison Avenue, New Pork 50c., 75c., at 85c, at $1.15 1 tee, making that its prin @ Neglected @ | Colds bring | | Pneumonia { WR ‘CASCARA QUININE Pom? ‘The old family remedy — ir pte hi Myon Geye. Money bac! Pes 3 At Any Drug More BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists tefund money if it fails. 25c Oe Let Cuticura Soap Keep Your Face Fresh and Young LINCOLN’S Soe GETTYSBURG SPEECH 1918 World Almanac War Information Edition) Twenty-Five Cents By Mail 36c oo,