The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1918, Page 1

‘If It Happens In New York It’s In The Evening World’’ (TI “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publisning New York Md), NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1918, 24 PA f “Circulation Books Open to All.” WEATHER—Probably cloudy to-night and Saturday. % TS. GES PRICE TWO CEN BRITAIN WARNS AGAINST KAISER NEW ‘BONE-DRY’ LAW MEANS. HIGHER PRICES ALL AROUND, IS PREDICTION IN THIS CITY hy Be) alee aren Fifty Thousand Will Thrown Out of Work and 10,000 Stores Empty. HOTEL RATES TO GO UP. Various Industries Will Feel Change—Drys Predict Greater Benefits. New York City awoke to-day to the the Prohibition law signed and to go fact tho by the President yesterd into effect June 30, 1919, is about the hardest financial and industrial blow that has ever landed on this com- munity Standing against temporary financial loss is the contention the immediate or and industrial of the prohibl ultimate re- tion advocates that the sult will be beneficial; that the im- mense sums now squandered for beer and liquors will be diverted into channels which will speedily over- come the apparent disadvantas throw floods of money into other lines of business, promote savings reduce debts and make more economi- her plane bank deposits generally for cal administration and @ hig of life If the constitutionality of the me he drys are right cleaner, ‘as- ure is upheld, and | ft in the prognostication that )ro- hibition is to endure, New York will not only be deprived of immense revenues from excise taxes which were devoted to educational and pen- sion purposes, but property valued at over $50,000,000-—perhaps close to $100,000,000--will be practically wiped out, something lke 50,000 men will be thrown out of employment, 10,000 store rooms will become vacant, taxes will mount to figures that are afraid to think about and there will be a material advance in pr’ of commodities which have been sold in places where the profits on beer and liquors carried a heavy percentage of the expenses, Hotel rates, already high, will go up, and rents also, because the burden property owners es of increased taxes will fall on real estate, From the best information obtain- able to-day it is safe to say that 90 per cent. of New York's 7,000 saloons will close, The rest, together with hotel restaurant barrooms, will be turned into soft drink emporiums, Probably many new restaurants will be opened to take the places of those which will be closed because they cannot pay their expenses without sales of alco- holic beverag New York's 41 breweries, rep’ ing an investment of about $15, will be rendered useless. They ploy about 5,000 men. Thousands and thousands of men, porters, cooks, waiters and cash- fers will be turned adrift New York will be, of course, more eeriously affected than any other city and ente ,000, om- ber- About 20 per cent. of the brewery industry of the country is located here, New York is also a great dis: tributing centre for whiskey nd wines. The real estate devoted to this branch of the liquor industry is warehouse property, which can readily be devoted to other uses, The industrial effect extends ve- (Continued on Ninth Page.) CITY TO LOSE $8,000,000 ANNUALLY ON LICENSES; $2,600,000 THIS YEA Pensions Are Paid From Money De- rived From Saloons—Refunds to Be Made July 14. Prohibition will mean a@ loss of about $2,600,000 in revenue to the City of New York between July 1j next and the following Oct. 1. All BILLION IS PARED FROM WAR TAXES. LEVIED FOR 1919 pia no a Tobacco and Non-Alcoholic | Beverage Schedule Cut— May Lower Amusements. Levies | WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 aggregating & billion dollars were cut from the special miscellaneous tax schedules of the War Revenue Bill] to-day by the Senate Finance Com. | mittee, in accordance with its decision to make the 1919 levy about $6,000, 000,000. Reductions adopted included feat- ures of the beverag and tobacco schedules. No change ‘was made in the alcoholic beverage rates, but the House tax of 30 per cent. on near bee: Bg RR rrr errr PARIS PLANS GREAT WELCOME TO WILSON WILSON 10 MEET GREAT RECEPTION IN FRENCH CAPITAL Ovation for President to Fol- low Fetes to British and Belgian Royalty. PARIS, Nov. 22. Wilson is expected to arrive in Paris about Dee, 12, according to information here to-day for the n Presi- Plans are being m entertainment of the Americ: dent as well as the Allied rulers who will visit Paris in November and De- cember, ‘The visits will begin at the end of this thonth with the arrival of King George and Queen Mary of Great Britain. King Albert and Queen ¥ beth of Belgium will come on liquor licenses begin on the latter) way cut to 15 per cent. and that on! Dec. 5, to be followed by President date, The above figure is about one- third of the annual amount received! cent. by the city as its share of liquor! license money, the total being about $8,000,000, and other licensees will receive refunds, Saloonkeepers The number of liquor licenses taken| 1 was about 6,677 in the | five boroughs, Of this number 3,453 were issued in Manhattan and 1,642 in Brooklyn, Liquor licenses in the five boroughs range from $1,500 a year to $600, ac- cording to population, The highest license used to be $1,200, On that basis the city received 50 per cent.| and the State 50 per cent. When the! Brown amendment to the Raines Law| became effective, however, the State did not give the city 50 per cent. of the difference between the $1,200 and| $1,500, The cutting off of the State excise revenue will prove a blow to the pen- sion funds of the police and fire de- partments and of the teachers, It was from the $8,000,000 that the city paid its share of these various annuities. pits lst HENRY FORD T0 EDIT NEWSPAPER OF OWN Turns Detroit Auto Factory Man- agement Over to His Son Edsel, STROIT, Nov. ~Henry Ford to- day announced his retirement from ac- tive participation in the mangement of Ford Motor Company, of the Ford company 18 to be taken over by his son out last Oct. Complete | interests the the control In se $25 Men's Overccats & Suits, $14) |. The *Hub" Clothing Corner, Rroad- way, corner Barclay Street, opp. Woo | worth Building, will sell’ to-day | Saturday, 1125 & Young ’ Suits & Ove acka, (ancy browns, gree ny Military M to 44. Our | on those retailing far from 5 to 8 Mr. Ford said he intended to under- take the publication of a national weekly newspaper dividing his ‘time betw the publication and his tor | industry. H. W. Roland, of the Detroit Nows, | said to be slated for an important po- sition on Ford's newspaper, gave out the following statement, quoting Ford; | ‘"T am very much interested in the | future not only of my own country, but of the whole world,”’ said Mr. Ford, “And I have definite ideas and ideals that I believe are practical for the good of all, and intend giving them to the public without having them bled, | distorted or misrepresented. 1 nd also getting out a paper that will be of interest to the whole family," FE, G, Pipp, formerly editor of t ‘| |troit News, will be editor of the new |Ford paper _ ‘special price & $17.95. Ope Hub Syetaie ay and Baturday, 914.95 jaturday night till 10, Th Bway, cor, Barclay 8 other soft drinks: from 20 to 10 per reduce r cent. red nt. The committee voted to rates on tobacco to about 40 over the present law, as comp with increases of 50 to 75 per ¢ provided in the louse bill. The new rates approved on cigars were $1.50 on those weighing under three pounds per 1,000, $4 per 1,000 on those re- tailing for five cents; $5.40 per 1,000 cents; $9 on those retailing for from 8 to 15 cents; $12 on those retailing for between 15 and 20 cents, and $15 on those retailing for over 20 cents On cigarettes weighing less than three pounds per 1,000 a rate of $2.90, qn increase of 40 per cent. over ex- isting law, was made. On cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per 1,000 the rate made $7.20, a 50 per cent, increase over the present law a 50 per cent. cut from the House bill, Rates ranging from 13 to 18 cents, instead of 26 cents, as in the House measure were fixed for tobacco and snuff, Reduction in the rates of amuse- ment admissions and club dues also were tentatively approved, but an- nouncement of the details withheld, A decision on the question of fixin 1920 taxes was postponed because of Republican opposition. HOBOKEN WOMAN CASHIER HELD AS TRANSPORT SPY Emmy Weidenhoffer, Born in Ger- many, Had Unusual Crypto- gram Code. and Miss Emmy Weldenhoffer, who has been employed as cashier at Meyers Hotel, Hoboken, and lived at No, 640 Fillmore Place, West York, wa arrested to-day by agent joned at the Enemy Alien Bureau > WORLD KESTACRANT, Pulitzer (World) We suggest that jou give the resta the lew conditions, # trial, Open oe ou hh Sata of sour patronage, —Aar, Wilson, Popular demonstrations will mark the visits of the President and the rulers of Great Britain aad Belgium who also will entertained at series of fetes and official functivos which will take the form of militery and civic celebrations of the Ailes’ success In t war. It is understood that President Wilson will occupy a private .nansion in the residential section of the cap: ital. No plans for his entertainment have been announced except that he be a will be given a reception on his ar-| 7 rival by Municipal Council. commemorative medal will be pre sented to the President at the rs tion, The arrival of the President ts ex- pected to be coincident with the sumption of the activities of the In ter-Allied Conference. The ne Congress then will begin to take def- inite form. ——ie—- WILSON WILL VISIT ARMY WHILE ABROAD; SAILS ON DEC. 4 President May Sit for Month as Peace Delegate and Then Leave Chair WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 for President Wilson’, are rapidly maturing. The President is expected to sail from New York on the liner Agamemnon (formerly the German liner Kaiser Wilhelm IT.) on I 4 and to arrive in England on Dec. 9 will visit the battle- fields and American troops before his return. Before his departure is expected to make a of bis plans: Plans trip abroad the President more detailed statement This state- |by Perry M, Armstrong, Chief Assistant,| ment probably will be made to a and ered interned as a d. rous| joint session of the Congress on Dec Jenemy alien 3, on which occasion the President fhe was born in Bremen, Germany,| ig likely to reply to th tacks that in 1888, and came to the United States) have b ma 1pon his trip and in 19 She is suspected of having ‘ ts orwarded information to Germany re- upon hie demands for "'tresdee of the garding. the sailing of American soldiers | 9°44 and a League of Nations, te Pra Her place of employment! The personnel of the ‘American was within a block of the transport| Peace Mission is still undecided, but piers. |it was said at the White House that A telegraph code and an unusual! former President Taft is not being cryptogram code, which experts, have| considered. The names of Herbert had diMeulty in deciphering, were found| Hoover, Food Administrator, and in her possession, She is known to have| i h “ been communicating with Gustav Lubi- Bernard M. Baruch, a of the War nus, a German Consul in a South Ameri- | !2dustries Board, are being prom can city, according to Armetrons |nently mentioned. Whether the | Miss Weidenhoffer has a brother in| President act as a delegate is the German Army. She is temporarily | undetermined at the Florence Crittenton Home on| It is suggested to-day that he East ist Street will be an tual though not a pe delegate, and of the ¢ to manent embarrassment tion participat avold the fofan rougo and (Continued co QUICKLY DEVELOP into grip’ or umonta if nexlects Father John's Medicine has had 60 wurcess for colds. —Advt, PERSHING AND GIRLISH DUCHESS "ON BALCONY OF PALACE WATCH | AMERICANS ENTER LUXEMBURG columns of Dusty Khaki Re-| ¢ | lief to Little Duchy After | ¢ | Years of Occupation. SAW GERMANS DEPART. Little Marie Adelaide, Clad in Simple Silk Dress, Stands | by Side of Yankee General. Thursday, Nov. 21 With LUXEMBURG, (by Pershing, the American Commander- her side, youthful 4 Duchess of Luxemburg Associated Press) Gen in-Chief, at the from the balcony of her palace watched ‘he | American troops march into her capl- tal to-day. Twenty-four hours previously the| | Queen had seen the long columns of sray-clad German soldiers depart fo their own country after the occupa! tion of her duchy for more than four! & 4, | years, ° The American Army of Occupation.) > - | under . Dickman, to-night controls { . | every road, city and village in Luxem- @@-@-¢49 burg. The Be strative in some cases“upon the ar rival of Allied forces, but it was possible to doubt the sincerity of by the residents GRAND DUCHESS OF LUXEM- | BURG. Igians were pre-demon pani "S. WHITMAN ASKS TO INSPECT | cae eae none om) BALLOTS GLASSED AS VOID bers of her cabinet expressed gratifi given | cation that Americans had come to| Order Directed Against County] take the place of those whom they| Clerk and Election Officia' | had been forced to tolerate so many years. Popular approval was ex Is Returnable Monday. | pressed in a great demonstration! On motion of Herbelt R. Limbu when the people sighted ¢ Per-! atsorney for Gov. Whitn a widhe shing and again when the dusty col umn of American soldiers moyed through the streets. Prior to the entry of the troops Gen. was Is#ued tn the Supreme Court to-day by Justice Gave on the application | of the Governar, to inxpect the ballots Pershing in a proclamation assured | °°" m1 in the sealed envelopes wh: the public. that the American Army|%'@ protested or classed ax vold or fective gnd directing the County Cler« would remain only long a8 was of and election oMcials to show cause wh necessary and while it was in 1uxom- | these envelopes alould not be ¢ ened for burg would conduct itself in conform-| inspectior Icha’ ORaak. fa: ACURA ity with the civil law, ‘The proclama-} y morning before Judge Philbin, tion was distributed among the troops| ‘This order wa ked for his tine $ well as among the population, because General Klection La The 4 Duchess had taken up| makes it form candidate to her temporary residence in the Grand| Make his n for such Informa- Ducal Palace in Luxemburg in order! Ue" 7 twenty deys after electio | Similar act « been taken in all of to be present when her capital was| (mi te x oceupled by friendly forces. It was|” gianna there that Brig. Gen, Frank U. Parker was received when he called to assure U S NAVY DOUBLE PRE-WAR | her of the attitude of the advancing|~* ©* | forces, The Grand Duchess is al STRENGTH BY JULY 1920 slightly-bullt little woman and, at ’ tired in a simple silk dress, sho ap-| a | peared even younger than her Admiral Tay Tells House Com- years, She listened to Gen, Parker mittee Country Will Have carefully and assured him she had 7 ' ' no doubt of the and helpful 700 Ships Then | intentions of t She re WASHI ‘ON, Nov 2—By July peatedly exp ratitude. | 499, the Ame Na will have Afterward she | Quekemeye C more than twice of ships Lie Seu ‘ r t had before the outbr bt a It was explained to € Admiral Taylor, Chief Naval Con Duchess that the greater part of struction, told the House Naval Affairs | Ame > would march around) Gommittee to-da | elty and that only smail part 7 7 eet BRS, catragne tewras This ts exclusive of abou wooden ‘Ment with the plans and said sho| Submarine chasers the navy e |would be very ¢! to meet Gen,| pects to sell to other Governments or to] Pershing. put out of commission |ALL-RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT is. ose oe Rha ta Ns | : now 100 of these in commission and 40 | more will be added in the next eighteen | FORMED AT EKATERINODAP |:::1:0,msiins tiie sounsry | Me Bis f arly equal t ff Britair | avy in Wwi6, Ad General Staff of \ ‘ . | Is Included and Sa 2 | Foreign Mir Hl | COPENHAGEN Aa Peete Beauty | Russian Government, composed of t PAL : Miniral Riait oth, raten 18) Margaret Wilson, da ‘ 1 jhas been formed at bk 4 et pee Bede ‘4 to ! |the object of reestablishing neatre Wear yi 7 | federated principle, according to coded AM be r Amer « vices from Kiley. Former Fore: in eres Fee , oo the Mate box r Bazonof{ is ign Minister of the the audience arose and stood at atten- ¢w Government, WILLIAM STILL EMPEROR AND PLANNING NEW COUP, BRITISH VIEW OF KAISER \High Government Official Declares if Hohenzollern Had Abdicated U.S. Would Have Been Notified, and Warns He Plans Return. LONDON, Nov. 22 (Associated Press).—The Daily Mail attributes to “a high official of the British Government” the statement that “Will- iam Hohenzollern is still German Emperor and King of Prussia as far 4$ the British Government is informed, and apparently is waiting for some- thing to turn up. “The Berlin Government,” the official added, according to the Daily Mail, “has not made any vommunication to the Allies or the United States notifying us of his abdication. We think it almost certain that if the abdication occurred notitication would have been sent, at least to the United States. “No abdication document bearing ® a tho Kaiser's signature is in existence! @ynasty who recently have left as far as the outside world knows rmany are William Hohengol- nothing but the perfunctory state-| ern, the former Emperor, and his ment of Prince Maximilian in which eldest son, Frederick William, the 1 the words “Thron versigbt.’| former Crown Prince. Both are tion of the throne,| in Holland. There have been con- ‘abdankung’ mean-| acting reports regarding. the former German Empress, who h ous meaning renunc and not the word ing abdication ‘Wilhelm — therefore undoubtedly] been in poor health some time, still regards the throne as his, and| gut the probabilities point to her the world must contemplate the| not having left German territor: probability that be expects to re-| ane former Emperor has five turn other sons—Ritel Frederick, Ada!- bert, August William, Oscar and Joachim, His one daughter, Vie- toria Louise, married the Duke of Brunswick in 1913, A recent de- spatch reported the abdication of the Duke. The former Emperors only brother, Prince Henry of Pruasia, fled from Kiel hurriedly | at the time of the naval mutiny, “While Holland cannot doubt that the Allies do not relish her affording him asylum, there has not besa yet any Joint effort of the Assoc Governments to extradite him," William Hohenzollern is spending of his time in bed in his retreat at Amerongen Castle because of the ines with which was suddenly stricken recer according to the mont ding to the! put in not known to have quit Amsterdam correspondent o in Garth ecli: hace atelcaveee Daily Express, Two oMcers take| aie children among the former turns in reading novels and news- rulers grandchildren.) rato him. AMSTERDAM, Nov, 22.—The for- attended service in the chapol mer Kaiser is believed to be con- the castle the day previous to the | stantly in communication with Ger- inning of the ck, which WAS/many, It is reported that a wire- form of a severe chill, It is adds the correspondent, 3 has proved to be in in the less station has been erected on top of Count von Bentinck’s castle and that German airplanes frequently fly over the estate, dropping messages. Two hundred bags of gold and sil- that the fluenza |GREATEST PANIC ON BERLIN KOURSE IN THREE YEARS. ver German coins, each weighing 100 The greatest panic on the Perlin| pounds, have arrived in Holland for Sourse in three years occurred| the former Kaiser, it was reported Thursday when It was reported thut| here to-day. The bags were brought the Extremists in several rman | across the frontier in sealed wagons. coast.towns had usurped the pow Whey are believed to have been de- f the local authorities, according to | od in @ small bank in Southern an Exchan legraph despatch Nand | from Copenhagen LONDON, Nov (British A tmir- Anoth Copenhagen despatch says ty Wireless).—Some of the Duteh that a of the Emg vs | newspapers have been dealing of late lisgevaonad ah Kk aoearoand of} with the presence of the former the different German free states in- | Kaiser d Crown Prince in the 1g them to a ce in the| Netherlands The Telegraf and Ghar ins & rlin on Noy,| Some other journals would expel weording to a Wolff Bureau de-| them, Others take a more :nodecata ch from Berlin | at the same time admitting that ' - ght bring Holland into diftie ‘ 1 neasui The Nieuws Van Den Tag, a very ve f the Emr ‘ nderate paper, says: “For the prese and > an understand t, periaps, there is no danger of a 1 t k ft plot on our soil against ‘Germany ede Administration and the free w democracy among the entourage tate jof the ex-Kaiser and the ex-Crown AMSTERDAM, N 2A e| Prince, but who can say when this t it nzolle lynast Jan might not be realized if our v i e near futu sts’ do not depart speedily? Hig. n ' fort despateh to| tory teaches that Kings in exile lke Rowterdain ara Their des-|to selzo a favorable opportunity n, it adds, is not yet kuown, ‘re-enact their former role, (So fay as known, the only would not prove a menace members, of the Hohenzollera Allies alone,”