The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1919, Page 1

PRICE TWO OENTS. TAFT URGES DEMOCRATS Coprright, 1019, by TO COMPROMISE ON TREATY; LODGE WANTS FRENGH PACT cheatin ’ President Attacked by Brande- gee for Not Sending Con- vention to Senate. DEBATE GROWS BITTER. Hitchcock Tells Republicans They Merely Hope to Dis- credit Wilson. reservations the Peace Treaty which might be acceptable to both sides, has opened | correspondence on the subject with prominent Democratic Senators. Sen- ator Hitcheock of Nebraska, one of the leading spokesmen for the Ad- ministration in the Senate fight, re- cetved a letter Friday trom Mr. Taft. While the news of this peace effort was making the rounds of the Sen- ate, a new fight was started against the President. Senator Lodge, after Senator Brandegee, Republican, Con- necticut, had attacked Mr. Wilson Ychemently for not submitting the special convention with France, of- tered @ resolution requesting the President to submit the treaty to the Senate “if not incompatible with pub- Ne interests." Senator Robinson, Ar- kansas, objected and the move was ‘rocked. The attack on the Presi- Gent, however, was continued. ‘The former President's communica- tion to the Nébraska Senator was not made public, but it was understood to be of the same general tenor as those sent to the Republicans—sug- gestions for agreement upon treaty reservations or interpretations to facilitate ratification. Senator Hitemeock and other Ad- ministration Senators declared to- day, however, that, for the present at least, they would continue their efforte for ratification without reservations. Expressing confidence that there was no question but that the treaty would be ratified, they said the fight now centred on the resolution accompanying ratification in which would be embodied any reservations or interpretations. Contending that Senate rules re- quired a vote on each article of the treaty, the Administration leaders eaid they believed they had the votcs to defeat amendments to any section, 4s a simple majority only would be required. Conceding that etrength might de- velop to compel acceptance of a rati- fication resolution with qualifying clauses, the Administration Senators said they had not yet been advised by President Wilson whether he would be disposed to accept any in- terpretations. It was said, however, that the Administration would oppose to the last any qualifying clauses which would require renegotiation of the treaty, Senator Lodge offered the resolu- tion demanding the copy of the special convention with — Fraaec after a sharp debate, during which Ktepublican spokesmen declared that the terms of the treaty required that (Continued on Second Page.) pabiicel ice aenastate ee TAKE BELL-ANS BEFORE MEALS see how fine Good Digestion makes Ady . ahi to} OL BLOWUP FIRES BAYONNE HOUSES: MANY ARE INJURED bas Warehouses and Tank Cars { Destroyed at Loss of | $300,000. Three warehouses of the Texas Oi! Company bordering, on the Kill van Kull at the foot of First Street, Bay- onne, N. J., and thousands of gal- tons of o11 and oi! products were de- stroyed to-day by a fire which fol- jJowed a mysterious explosion at 7.13 A, M, and was not under control un- tl LL. 9'clock. Two Nmployees were badly injured by jumping from the roofs of one- story warehouses, two severely burned in ofl soaked clothing and one fireman burt by parts of an ex- ploding tank. The. property loss in oil, railroad cars and buildings is estimated at $300,000, ‘The plant covers several acres at the corner of First Street and Avenue A. The first explosion, heard all over the lower part of the city, occurred in the building known as the filling room. Nearby there were ten tank-cars, each tank holding 60,000 gallons of oil, An engine crew of the Jersey Central Railroad led by Engineer Frank Henry pulled seven of these cars out of the danger zone, but the oil in the others caught fire and they went up with detonations that were heard for miles. Ten freight cars loaded with case- goods also were destroyed. ‘The westerly wind kept the flames away from three immense stationary tanks in the yards, tut the three buildings, packing room, wax room and asphalt house, were doomed from the start, Fire Chief Davis of Bayonne, early on the scene, sent in a genera! alarm, and except for the assistance of Standard Oil Company tugs and their crews, Bayonne fought one of the most threatening fires in many yoars without help. That no lives were lost—it is assumed that there was nobody in the packing house when the fire started—is due to the fact that 1,000 employees begin their day’s work at 8 o'clock, The storage warehouses are one- story buildings 100 fect long and 40 feet wide, Each contained 15,000 gal- }icns of oil, The filling room, where }the fire originated, is a smaller buijld- | ing. RSS OCR TBs THIS VAGRANT WORTH $4,000 Sent to Workhouse and Must Pay His EXxpensen There, With more than $4,000 to his credit in various banks, Washington Hunt, jsixty-nine years old, of No. 76 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, was convieted to- day as a vagrant despite his blindness, Magistrate McCloskey sentenced the prisoner to 30 days in the workhouse |and issued instructions to the Warden the money of Hunt to defray pense of keeping him during his term. inane Wier heal, ftom, the DRLD ne Bosctel for To-iday, eda aie ha, 101 Rolled Fresh Beet Foneue with Solute f . Tease Fable Pa (ie'Nee Tok Welle TAFT IN TREAT The OFFERED CITY FOR BELT LINE—BUT pana al But City Is to Fill in the Bay Off Battery for Four Miles, |TALK OF BIGGER PORT. Donors Propose Six Tracks and Overhead Traffic Way NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 24, | Around Manhattan. Two hundred business m:a of New York City to-day offered to give to. the city: A six-track pelt line to run all around Manhattan Island and to cost | at least $260,000,000. A street to be built over the belt line road at no cost to the city. miles of new land that would enhance the valuation of the city immensely. To enhance the value of Staten Island by ten times its present value. All at no money cost to the city, The city's return will come im in- crgased taxables and added com- mercial prestige. The official offer goes to Mayor Hylan late this afternoon through the Rotary Club at a meeting of which organization at the Hotel McAlpin to-day the project was sponsored. T. Kennard Thomson, a consulting engineer, No, 50 Church Street, te the actual gift bearer for the 200 men who have decided to help the city out for a slight concession that will not cost the city money or credit. But Mr. Thompson, through the Ro= tary Club, offers conditions on the city granting permission to the men associated with Mr. Thomson to fill in the bay off the Battery for a dis- tance of four miles out from the Present lines to a point that will bring the new Battery as close to the Staten Island shore as it is to New Jersey now, All plans for the project have been made and were on exhibition at the Rotary Chub meeting. They will en- able the maintenance of an airplane landing station, plenty of room for 1,000 feet docks and enable New York to have a free port with greater fa- cilities than all the free ports of the world combined. Those back of the project will take their returns from the land which is to be reclaimed and they wilt oper- ate the Belt Line road or allow the city to operate it as is seen fit if the plan is accepted. According to the plana, the belt line will run around the city and not inter- fere with any of the present streets: It will be cut through the middle of blocks, and in addition to providing a rail line, will give a thorough traffic course around Manhattan overhead for vehicles. Mr. Thomson, who drew oe plans, declared that for the present he could not divulge the names of the men engaged in the project with him He vouched for their being substantial and of ample means to carry it through, according to plan and schedule, He has Leen working on the plans for weeks, and now all are ready for the inspection of the city authorities, After the plans reach Mayor Hylan the next move will be up to the city. Mr. Thomson ‘was a consulting en- gineer on the Barge Canal. The list of big engineering projects he has been associated with in this city in- cludes the Singer Building, Govern- To add to the city, four square}, 19 x 19. COL, HARTZ TRACING BOMBER’S ROUTE FOR LIEUT. SCOTT, ONE OF HIS ASSISTANTS, 2 FOUR-DAY LINERS TO BE BUILT HERE; BIGGEST IN WORLD U. S. Shipping Board Plans Giant Ocean Vessels to Carry 3,000 Passengers. WAGHINGTON, July %.—Two gi- gantic ocean liners, larger than any ‘ships now afloat and designed to cross the Atlantic in four days, are to be built by the Shipping Board. They ‘will be 1,000 feet long and of thirty knots speed and will be equipped for use as commerce destroyers im the event of war. Announcement was made to-day by the Board that plans for the ships bad been completed and that work on them would be started in the near future, It is proposed to pro- vide a special terminal for them at) Fort Pond Boy, Long Island, and it may be that two similar liners will be constructed later, ‘The ships, which are to be bullt un- der the supervision of the Navy De- partment, will be 50 feet longer than the famous Leviathan, now the largest ship afloat, and will have a sroes tonnage of 65,000. Their draft will be 35 feet, depth 74 feet, beam 102 feet and accommodations will be Provided for 1,000 saloon passengers, 800 second cabin passengers and 1,200 steerage passengers, The crew will number 1,000 officers and men and the ships will be of the ofl-burning type with a cruising radtus of 7,000 miles, which will en- able them to complete a round trip on the Atlantic without loading fuel overseas, They will be driven by four propellers on which will be thrown the strength of 110,000 horse. power, Construction of a terminal at Fort Pond Bay, Montauk Point, will rep: sent a large outlay, but the board's Announcement said a great natural depth harbor was provided there and that in addition the location would ment Assay Building, Mutual Life, Commercial Cable and United States Bapreme reduce the voyage to Plymouth, Eng- Wel by 3a 118 miles, the distance being as compared with 2,006 males ten New York City. — pa Col. Hartz, in Martin Bomber, Arrives From Washington, and Leaves for Augusta, Me. Lieut. Col. R. 8, Hartz of the Army Air Service and two pilots and tw: mechanics reached Hazelhurst Field, L. I, in an army bombing plane at 12.45 P. M. their 8,000-mile trip about the rim of the United States. They arrived two hours and forty-five minutes after their departure from Bolling Field, near Washington, and rose again at a Uttle before 3 o'clock to continue their trip to Augusta, Me., the day's ob- Jective. While at Hazelhurst Field Col. Hartz telephoned to Augusta to get accurate information as to the condition of tho Janding field there, It was explained at Hazelhurst Ield that the comparatively slow time made by the bomber was due to the tact that Col, Hartz went out of his way to circle over every city which he sighted, be- ginning with Washington, He was over lower New York at noon for sev= eral minutes, The flight is the longest ever at- | tempted by the army air service and | will carry the machine through 31 States, over 95 cities and cover long stretches of the Atlantic, Pacific and Guit coasts as well as the Canadian Border. Col, Hartz was accompanied by re- serve pilots, Lieuts, Ernest BE. Har- mon and Lotha A. Smith and mechanics Sergt, John Harding jr. and Master Electrician Jeremiah To- bias. The big machine rose from Bolling Field, Circled the White House in low filght, then beaded away on its course, The general line to be followed will carry the machine in order to Cleve- to-day on the first leg of land, O.; Duluth, Minn; Seattle, Wasb.; San Diego, Cal.; San An- tonio, Tex.; Miami, Fla., and back to Washington. Tho actual measured distance of the route is 7,805 miles. ‘The machine used is a two-engine craft known as the U. 8. Martin bomber, MAGISTRATE ! OUSE Hn Breakdown Keeps Him Awa, From the Trame Court, ‘Magistrate Frederick B, “House col- Street, early to-day and his place in the Traffe Court was taken by Magis- trate Mancuso, It is believed Magistrate House will be unable to return to his duties before his vacation starts, Aug 3 lapsed at his home, No. 413 West 146th | FULL INQUIRY PROMISED House Committee Will Go to Bot- tom of Post Office Complaints, Chairman Says. WASHINGTON, July 24.—A complete investigation of Postmaster General Bur- leson's official conduct of office will be held by the House Committee on Ex- penditures In the Post Office Depart- ment, Chairman Zihiman said to-day. “We have determined on this in- vestigation because of the many com- plaints aga\nst the postal service,” Mr. Zihiman said. ‘It will be postponed until after the House recess planned for August. The Postmaster General will be called to defend his administra- tion.” SRIGHTON LINE TO RUN UP BROADWAY BY MARCH Delaney Says Montague Street Tunnel Will Be Finished About Same Time. In an address to the Flatbush Cham- ber of Commerce Construction Commis- sioner Delaney announced that the operation of traing through the Brighton Beach extenaion to upper Broadway, Manhattan, and thence to Queens Bor- ough could be expeeted before March 1, He expects the route through the Mon- tague Street tunnel to be finished about the mame time. i Speaking of the Nostrand Avenue ex- tension, Commissioner Delaney said the under surface excavation work on the section between Eastern Parkway and CAurch Avenue should be finished by the middie of August. It is expected the Eastern Parkway line will be ready for operation by next spring. —— SUNDAY GOLF BAN SPREADS. Big Springfield, Ya » Clab Ordered to St ay. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 24.—San- day golf on the course of the Country Club of Springfield has been ordered to cease by the town authorities of West Springfield where the club course Is located. The club is probably the largest in Western Massachusetts, | The club officers have promised to co- between the seleetmen and chief of police, No specific complaints against | Sunday golf have been received, it is “Circulation Books Open to All.’ 20 PAGES INTO BURLESON’S OFFICE; as TN PLEA TO DEMOCRAT: U.S. COURT RULES 2.75 BEER UNLAWF | Army Flyer Here in First | Leg of Trip $200 P00,000 GIF Of 8,000 Miles Around the Rim of U.'S. SALE OF 2.70 BEER IS “INTOXICATING U. §. DISTRICT COURT Justice Chatfield, in Test Case, Di cides Mild Malt .Brew | Under War-Time Prohibition posed by Congress. United States Judge Thomas case brought by the Government against Martin Schmauder, of Haven, Conn, charged with selling peer in violation of the War Prohibition Law, held here toxday. tha! 2.75.per cent. beer is of-the known as intoxicating liquor and as such cannot be sold legally. at New Haven in the place of Edwin S. Thomas of Coniiécticut, in the case brought against Schmi who was charged with selling beer after July 4, in violation of the Jullfe Chatfield r Time Prohibition Act. necticut. that the information against hin It was ore beer alleged to have been sold was intoxicating, BULGARS ATTACK FRENCH; TROOPS RUSHED 10 SOFIA French Regiment Arrives at Capital to Disarm Whole Garrison There. GENEVA, July 4.—As the Fesult of an attack on French soldiers by Bul- garians, a French rogiment bas a rived at Sofa, the Bulgarian capital, to disarm the local garrison, according lo the Roumanian Bureau at Berne. PARIS, July 24.—A French regiment was attacked by Bulgarians as the regi- ment was landing at Lom Palanka, on the Danube, twenty-two miles southeast of Vidin, a few days ago, according to 4 despatch from Belgrade to-dayr A lively fusillade ensued, lasting three hours. ‘Three Freich soldiers were killed. END OF SHIP STRIKE NEAR, REPORT AFTER CONFERENCE Unions Allow Crews to Take Cattle to France—Sails With Non- Union Men, There were rumors this afternoon, but nothing tangible that the striking seamen and their employees are on the eve of a settlement of their dif. ferences. The mombers of the American Steamship Association are hearing the reports of sub-committees in their rooms at the Whitehall Building, while the strike teaders and their at- torneys are at the Continental Hotel in an attitude of expectant waiting One ship cleared port this morning with @ non-union crew, the Morro Cas- tle, of the Ward Line getting away de- spite the pickets, Sha is the only ship cleared since the strike got well under way. The mrikers have agreed to furnish volunteer crews to move 4,600 milch cows overseas, Three ships are now at Bayonne and three at Newport News awaiting crews, Some 200 walters employed on the four boats of the Hudson Navigation Com- pany went on an unauthorised strike this morning for a $15 a month tn- crease, The men were ordered to re- operate in carrying out the order which |turn to work by D. B. Grange, of the was Issued to-day after a conference|Cooks and Stewards’ Union and he Pleged President H. F. Morse ‘that the union would supply enough waiters to man the boats In case the strikers 4! aos reture, " a Schmauder demurred to the indictment on the 1. Chatfield, of Brooklyn, in a of two test cases brought in Co did not specify that the suppo “Under the faternal revenue os and all standards by which ‘ could have viewed the matter, dite beer described in the present mation (2.75 per cont. beer) the class (nown as lquor, and as such, Its sale was hibited,” says the opinion, Judge Chatfeld overrules tha murrer id holds that Sc! must plead to the indictment, _ Schmauder was defended by Hamilton and it was indicated possibly he might plead guilty ¥. effort to bring the case to the U States Supreme Court as possible. The Schmauder case one af the two cases, the other bein that of Stophem A. Minery, in white the Liqner Dealers’ Association \of Connecticut sought rulings on §& constitutionality of the war time § hibition act and the right to sell per cent, beer. In the Minery Judge Chatfield Tuesday held the to be constitutional, DISCUSSES OBJECTION 275 18 NOT INTOXICAT! Justice Chatfeld’s decision in part: “The information does not the word ‘intoxicating’ and the fendant sees by this demurrer (@ obtain @ ruling that no crime ean be committed by the sale of @ malt product containing alcohol and being of the general class which has and ‘s sold over the bar in sal as beer, but which ie that sort’, beer now manufactured by the ers since the restriction upon use of grain. and which does npg contain @o much as 3.75 per comt, of alcohol, “It was argued in support of te” demurrer that such beer was net in fact intoxicating for the reason that before @ person could obtain a sufi. cient quantity of alcohol to intem® jeate he would have to drink to an extent as to make him ill o exceed the canacity of consu at one time. Whether ini could be produced by taking the in @mall quantities over » period of time, or whether individuals might be intoxicated” one quantity, while others would be affected by the same @ cannot be ascertained ff formation ner from the “Tt |s apparent that there) ing in this record from” en 4 i yt