The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1919, Page 3

i MLK TRIST OR THE BABIES? - PROBLEM WOMEN VOTERS CAN DECIDE THIS FALL Children of New York ‘De- prived of Their Food by Milk Trust Greed. THEY GET WHAT'S LEFT! Fluid Milk Is Put Into By- products at High Profit —Make It an Issue! By Sophie Irene Loeb. Do you realize what the milk con- dition is doing to our children? Do you know that the death rate of children bas gone up and is attribu- ted by the Health Commissioner di- rectly to the inability of parents to get enough milk? Do you realize that, besides, we are constantly eaving on the use of milk in our homes for cooking purposes, to ‘ay nothing of milk for children, be- cause of the high prices? Do you know that the cost of but- ter and cheese and ail the other dairy Products that we are using every day js regulated in accordance with the ebet of milk? Do you know that the new co: tracts made between the Milk Trusts and the Dairymen’s League for our fluid milk are made on the market Price of butter and cheese? Do you know that as long as milk {a as high as it ts butter and cheese end other dairy products will re- main up in proportion? Do you know that the only reason for this alarming and growing state Of affairs is because of the greed of Milk Trusts? A PERTINENT QUERY ECHOED BY ALL MOTHERS. Do you know why? Here are the tacts: New York is the largest dairy pro- ducing State in the United States, &nd the price of milk is the highest. WHY? \ Fifty-five per cent. of the milk in this State is withheld from us as fluid milk, and is made into con- densed and evaporated milk, butter and cheese and other by-products. FOOD RETAILERS © ARE WORRIED OVER ARMY SURPLUS Prices Are Down in Many Shops, but the Keepers’ Views Are Divergent. As the time approaches when the consumers of New York will get an opportunity to purchase some of the surplus army meats, the dealers are showing some signs of restlessness. A trip last Saturday ugh the chain stores and markets the pop- ulous neighborhoods resulted in find- ing dealer® holding different views. Some of the large markets expressed hope that these surplus foods would increase the consumption of foods generally, and, as he expressed it, “This conservation business has gone too far.” Another said: “Those foods should be sold to Europe, as it is not fair to sell them here.” ‘The Govern- ment, he said, should not try to ruin 4 class of mon that pay taxes and bought Liberty bonds, Another large dealer in Harlem gave his opinion as follows: \“This will not interfere with our business. Most of this Government food will go to hotels and restaurants, and not into the family trad When asked it he noticed how the families in Newark responded, he remarked: “The New York housekeepers will not buy food to store abead. They will only buy small quantities as they need it. You see,” he continued, “rents are so high that they have very little money left to store away food with.” The general trend of prices was downward, except of butter, steaks ‘There is no possible check in the| and chops. The ordinary roast meats law, anywhere in the State, whereby you are assured of a sufficient amount of fluid milk at a low price. The Milk Trusts do what they please | with it. They please to make enor- mous profits, Therefore they take nearly all of the milk and instead of selling it to us in our homes, in fresh milk state, turn it into tinned milk, butter and cheese and other by-products, which are sent out of the State and to Burope, and even as far as China. Bo free and easy has it*been for the Milk ‘Trusts to develop these enormous by-product factories in this State, that—to give you an idea how far it has gone—one company is to- day putting up in tins ay much milk &s Supplies the entire City of New York in fluid milk, Instead of our getting all the milk we ought to have at the lowest pos- sible price, for our home use and our children, and then the “surplus,” or what is left over, put into tin ‘cans and these other by-products, the op- posite condition prevails, That is, the big milk corporations figure on their tinned milk and by- products first, and then what is left over, we get. There fas been no way up to the present time to stop this condition, The result has been that with the constant demand of European mar- kets and other places outside of New| York State for tinned milk and these by-products, these milk people have turned their attention to these profit- able markets and are fast “making hay while the sun shines.” That is, they are developing these foreign markets and the tinned milk industry by leaps and bounds. For example, the United States sent out for ning months (latest figur for this year) over 500,000,000 pounds @f condensed milk, the largest por- tion of which went trom this State. ‘Why have we not had cheaper milk with all this outcry of the past few years? Because every committee and com- mission that hay been delegated to investigate the milk question has only looked into the fluid milk end of it, where of course they could not cope with the corporations in finding any new figures by which the price could be reduced. ELECT LEGISLATORS PLEDGED TO PROTECT CHILDREN’S FOOD. WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? Laws must be made that will com- pel the big profits of the by-products to be considered in connection with the fluid milk. That is, profits in milk must be wpread over the entire industry, and a fair return allowed, just the same as in the gas business, ‘The by-products of the gas business are taken into consideration and taken off the price we pay for gas. There 1s no more reason why the profits of the milk industry, which Is not be settled in the same way, The companies must be content with selling fluid milk at a low price and letting the larger profits of the by-products equalize it,” ‘How can this be done? ‘Women are voters to-day as well as men. n have in the past elected. legislators on certain platforms x im the fall—all of the Assemblyiiouw ‘Let us uso our votes to elect only t as necessary to life as gas, can- | o |all the milk corporations @ fair re-| Boores of legislators are to bé electe”| those men who will see to it and Priced milk service. pledge themselves to wecure a low-| court cases state: | stand ‘Let us demand a strict law that will and demand e's youl oroduation oe ne sovetia ae thatthe poorevt man and chucks were offered at 2 to 4cents lower than last week. Lamb and veal led in the decline, Legs of spring lamb sold at 20 @ 35 cents, only the finest bringing the higher price, while the chuck and breast cuts sold at from 20428 cents, accordi: location of the shops. In some of the markets the prices were (at to 44a 45c on strip bacon, while some of the uptown markets were cha: 50c a pound on strips and 65a 60c a | ated Fen, Sees. osher meats were much cheaper than last week and very little nals for t class of meat on account of the abstinence of the Jewish consum- ers from red meats during the nine days’ fast. Hebrew housewives bought their fricassee fowls cheaper on Friday and Saturday than for sev- eral months; the finest fat hens were retailed at 38¢ and some dealers sold them at 36a37c per round, Veal was generally cheap. A large quantity of Canadian veal was on the market and the price of the skins is so high that the veal carcass does not cost the dealer much over 20c a pound, although with the skin on these veals bring 30c @ pound. Cereals and canned goris of all descriptions have been slow of most cereals and canned goods ai selling at a little over half what the game brands cost @ year ago, but very little selling. Vegetables of all/kinds were gene! ally sold reasonably low, but the quality, while fresh, was not what could be called fancy. Heads of Long Island cabbage weighing § to 8 pounds were selling at 10 a 16c a head, and the smaller sizes sold at 6 a 8c, Good potatoes sold at 6 a 6c, but the a age grades sold at 3 @ 4c a pound, Onions are much lower, only finest white and yellow bringing 7 a 8¢., while red onions sold for about 5 a 6¢ @ pound, Cantaloupes were quite plentiful and cheap; the fancy Callfornia sell- ing up to 15 a 20c, but the North Caro. lina and Maryland melons did not bring more than 8 a 10¢, and some small ones as low as 5 @ 7 each, Housewives can look for lower prices on fresh killed poultry, A straight car of this season's roastin, chickens came on the market on Sa urday and sold at 38 a 40c, but will be lower, ‘There are nearly 3,000,000 pounds of roasting chickens in the hands of the Government that will be thrown on the market in @ few days, 80. the housewife is assured of more and cheaper roasting chicken in the immediate future. Now is the time for preserving, and some of the small fruits will soon be out of the market. Housewives will have less difficulty in getting sugar than a few weeks ago. Fancy Elberta peaches wjll only last about two weeks more, but other varieties will be _availabl ‘shall leave in tin cans or other by products until the ehildren of thi State shall have all the fluid milk they need at the lowest possible price, It is a very simple matter to give turn on all the milk they buy and manufacture in this State, but they must be made to give us all tho fluid milk we need first, and then allowed to use the real surplus in the protit= able by-products, The highest courts have held that whenever a business becomes so clothed with public use, such as milk, it may be and should be regulated as to_ price The sum and substance of all the “No man shall in th toll for @ comm in ne- gateway of commerce! LA | |Princes and Counts May Be- come Naturalized and Be Just Plain Misters. Cable despatches to-day from Per- lin report that several of the formcr richest American heiresses who mai ried German, Austrian and Hun- garian noblemen are “dead broke,” and for the first time in their lives able to understand the pinch of pov- erty. Most of them may soon return to American eager to cast aside titles, be known by good old American names, or do anything else that may be required of them to get a little ready cash from their estates, They will be permitted, it is under- stood, to repatriate themselves, tax- ing with them to America their impe- cunious princes, counts and whatnot, | COUNTESS COLLOREDO-MANNSFELD., at least some of whom are said to’ be willing to discard title and become plain “Mister” by naturalization, thus recovering for their wives the wealth held by the Alien Property Custodian, The Countess Lassie Szechen| formerly Gladys Vanderbilt, and t Countess Anton Sigray, former Har- viet Daly of Butie, sister-in-law of Ambassador Gerard, are living mod- estly in Switzerland and are said to have little or nothing. The Countess Colloredo-Mannsfeld, who Was the beautiful Nora Iselin of New York, is said to have gone into trade and to like it, The Princess Braganza, formerly Anita Stewart of New York, ts in Switzerland waiting for relief, Other well-known Americans who married titles are living in smali colonies on borrowed money, among whom are mentioned the Princess Birstern, remembered as Bert) Emma Lewis of New Orleans: fred Matuschka, for- merly Bila Walker of Detroit, and the beautiful Nancy Leishman of Pittwburgh, who married Duke Karl of Croy, NIXON REFUSES TO REOPEN 2-CENT TRANSFER HEARING But Will Hear Corporation Coun- sel's Argument Relative to 33 Transfer Points, Public Service Commissioner Nixon refused this afternoon to reopen the hearing which pieceded his order allow- ing the New York Railways Company to charge two cents for transfers. The ap- plication for a rehearing was made by Corporation Counsel William P. Burr, who appeared in person with assistants and a cartioad of books and documents. Mr. Burr said he was prepared show that the law Is specific in regulat- ing the street railways to charge only @ Single fare for a ride, irrespective of whether the ride includes a transfer or not, The last Public Service Commis- sion, he said, recognized and upheld | that law. Mr. Nixon sald he had all the statis- | ties necessary before him when he is- sued the transfer order, but he added | that he would hear whatever Mr. Burr | had to say relative to the thirty-three transfer points, about which an issue had been raise i Tl lesser lawyer! _———— SEARCHED EUROPE 5 YEARS FOR GIRL SHE FINDS HERE Brooklyn Women Accuses Divorced | Husband of Keeping 14- Year-Old From Her, After three trips to London during five-year search for her fourteen-year old daughter, Julienne Marion, held there by her divorced husband, Mrs, | Marion Briggs Dickerson, of No, 32 West 58th Street, Brooklyn, found her in| Quogue, L. I, according to testimony | given to-day in the Brooklyn Supreme Court before Justice Kapper, Mrs. Dickerson, in her writ accuses “her former husband, Louls Swift Taint of keeping the girl away from her con- trary to agreement made in 1900, Mrs. Dickerson said Tainter is a wealthy metal dealer, living now chief. ly In London, and that she made three trips through submarine infested seas and had obtained passports and tickots for a fourth trip when friends told her they had sven her daughter in Quogue, & at the Cooper House. — } | BRIDGE “L” TRAFFIC TIED UP, Motor Trow Rrooklym Span Stalls Trains 47 Mi \. All elevated traM™, ofthe Brooklyn Bridge was tled up this morning for 47 minutes, due the stalling a Brighton train at the first slip of the water span on the way to Brooklyn. The stalling Was due to motor trouble and all passengers bound for Manhaitan Were tranaferred to the surface linas. } Another train from Manhattan pushed the derelet aro, ‘he bildse atior its bed left e-UD aan eased vais lasting tl? | | day that the Federal G: GRAND JURY TAKES UP CHICAGO RACE RIOTS Judge Declares Anarchy Exists in City and‘a Few Hangings Are Needed. CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—After the calm- est night in the “black belt" for more than a week, the work was begun to- day of selecting a Grand Jury, before whieh will come the cases of white men and negroes who are accused of participation im the recent race riots. The Coroner has fixed the number of dead at thirty-three and the City Health Commissioner has found that 306 persons injured in the riots were treated in hoxpitals, He expressed the opinion, however, that perhaps 400 or more who were injured in the riots never reported at hospitals, In impanelling the Grand Jury, Judge Robert E. Crowe, in the Crim Court, declared that a state of anarch exists in the city and that a few hang- jings would have a salutary effect on hoodlun He called for’ the indict- | ‘every man who violates the law, regardless of his color.” | PELHAM BAY PROBLEM UP AGAIN TO-MORROW Mayor Calls Special Meeting of Sinking Fund Commission to Discuss Future of Station, Mayor Hylan meeting of the Sinking Fund C mis~ sion at 10 A. M. to-morrow in an affort to reach some agreenient with the Navy Department regarding the future | of has called a spectal| | Pelham Bay Naval Training Station. the President Robert L, Mor Board of Alderman and a m the Sinking Fund Commission, rnments offer tire $9,000.00 plant ov of to turn the to the city tr load a burd upon the city Moran pointed out that the contract tween the City and the Federal ( ernment calls for the restoration of the park property to its original condition. Park Commissioner Hennessy of the he large buildings at am Bay aval Station, which # red to the city, would have to razed, Moran says, because of a provision’ in the charter against the maintenance of any buildings other than fire houses on park property. Despite this contention Health Com missioner Royal 8. Copeland is endeav- oring to obtain the hospital building at the station for the use of drug addicts. Falls Strike Up English LONDON, Aug. 4.—A strike of the branches of the Associa Engir involving d this morning entirely to ti Southwestern Railway. Thé sup, Intendent of the Southwestern stated to-day that the majority of the steam tralne had. left Waterloo Station. and that the vnlive slesivic service was operating, of one Loco- men, up motive fall the ¢00 « UST lt AUG CITY LOSES PLEA FOR STAY IN 80 CENT GAS HEARING Judge Manton Believes Corporation ank Jacob, white, to-day confessed | tion Counsel Willlam P. Burr for a he set fire to several ‘negro houses yea- | stay in the 80-cent gas hearing until terday, adding a dozen new blazes to| such time as the cit sAvitia out & those which on Saturday destroyed | *UCh time ag the city could suc ow nearly 100 houses in the stockyards dis- | Writ of ceritoral, When Judge Man- t and which were thought to have/ton heard argument on the applica- been set elther by negroes or labor |tion he o inion that the => —_—_ city epresented. -| Robinson and four Italians were injure | One Newre Shot Counsel Can Protect People as District Attorney’s Representative. Federal Judge Martin T, Manton to- day denied the application of Corpora- Judge Manton in his decision, declare again that the city 1s entitled to repr sentation, but that he believes the rights of the people can be safeguarded through the Corporation Counsel, even if he appears for the District Attorney and not as Corporation Counsel. Judge Manton refers to the allega- it cost more than cent Kas rate says Fudge, Manton, it upon the city, If he were to gr a@ stay, to put up many millions of d e- guard the right of the pany : ecaeamaet KILLED IN PRISON MUTINY. Down and Five Om ers Wounded, HARTFORD, Conn, Aug. 4.—Lewis Brown, a negro convict, was shot and killed during a mutiny in the shirt shop of the State Prison at Wethers- field to-day, Another negro, Elroy the brunt rely handled. and three guards who bo of the fighting were First The First nt Band, com- posed of two officers and seventy- six men, the pride of the A. B. F., ar- rived yesterday aboard the transport Santa Clara, which docked in the morning at Army Base Pier No, 2 in Brooklyn, She brought back 1,625 officers and men, including the Sth Machine Gun Battalion of 24 officers and 706 mi Laurens America WASH! ald Hudson, formerly a the ist Pursuit Group of Ub lien Nobles, Beggared By War, — ‘ May Discard. Titles, Return and Regain Fortunes STARS OF STAGE B. RT. EMPLOYEES PRESENT DEMANDS; THREATEN STRIKE Recognition of Union, Men Declare, Is Main Point Upon Which They Insist. Demands amounting to an ultima- tum, calling for an answer not later than to-morrow night at 6 o'clock, were presented to the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company this morning by committee of the employees. Both ‘sides are preparing for a strike and company officials said police protec- tion would be asked on Wednesday. The men's demands are in four articles, as follows: 1—Reinstatement of all em- ployees heretofore discharged for union activities, 2—Recognition of the union to which the employees belong. %-An increase of wages for all employees—75 cents an hour for all trainmen, and a similar and proportionate increase for all others employed in different cap- acities. This applies to women employees as well as the men. 4—An eight-hour day. A postscript, besides setting a time limit for the reply, declared that “Ar- ticle 2 is our principal deman and this postscript, since it makes the de- mand for recognition of the union 9) special issue, is taken to indicat that # strike Is likely. Receiver Garrison in previous dis- putes, while yielding on some points, has steadfastly refused to treat with the men at @ union. And nothing has occurred to indicate @ change of at- titude on his part. The einployees’ committee was re- ceived by the President and other of- ficiala of the company, Mr. Garrison being in the White Mountains, Mr. Garrison was reached’ by tele- and wired that he would take » first train home and would be able to handle the situation in the nin rn Sinea of the International Ex- ecutive Committee of the employees’ organization, the Amal ted As- sociation of Street and Electric Rail- way Employees of America, accom- panied the committee to offices of the B, R. T. but did not enter the con- ference room. He is the adviser of the men in this controversy. The men were met by W. 8. Men- den, assistant general manager, who had been delegated for that purpose at an earlier meeting of company offl- cials. ‘The members of the men’s comimit- tee were Edward Smith, Chairman, of No. 101 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn; Thomas Fallon, Edward McGovern, James Martin, Raymond Dhuy, George Bub, ner Finn, Max Dru- bin, Max Brodie and Edward Meyers. When the conference was over the committee reported to Sh who said I think Receiver Garrison is dodg- ing the issue, Unless he agrees to recognize the union by 6 o'clock to- morrow night a strike is inevitable.” The committee has power to cal) @ strike, Shea said he believed the union would have public sentiment with it in the event of the strike, and said that promises made last March, when 4 strike was averted, had not been kept. if @ strike is called this time, he sald, it will go into effect Wednes- day morning. Chairman Smith said the same thing, and added that he was “speaking for 6,600 employees of the B. R. T." was said that the threat of a last March had been averted st in part by the attitude of the employees, who feared they would lose the valuable benefits that come with seniority can Expeditionary Forces in France tas been omployed by Bolivia to or- ise and ivetruct @ flying corps in The union leaders say the number of young men in the service hay in- Traffic. Blocked in Fifth Ave- nue by Crowds at Service for Impresario. tame a) OUR AT FUNERAL AFTER SH ~ | OF HAMIMERSTEN) THEY FHT Scott Hayes and Wife | Wild Animals Loose on Rescue é me cK ‘ Bs Ship. ‘The funeral of Oscar Hammerstein to-day was one of the most wonder- ful ever seen in New York. For sev- eral blocks in the vicinity of Temple Emanv-El, Fifth Avenue, w Jam of humanity which kept the police reserves busy. The synagogue was crowded to its capacity while the avenue was lined with limousines, Services were held at 11 o'clock ‘when the body arrived from Camp: bell's Funeral Chapel, where thou- sands had viewed it during the earli¢r hours, Men and women of all classes were in the throng at chapel, All branches of the th rical profession were represented from the star to the scrub-woman. There were well known favorites of the legitimate stage, vaudeville and the screen, The casket was covered with a pall of purple asters and the chapel filled with the rarest of floral offerings. Tt would be almost Impossible to namé the donors, but here and there cards ague idea of the Variety of the friendship which was paying its last tribute. All the theatrical World was represented in flowers. Services at the Temple were con- ducted by Rabbi Joseph Silverman, and John McCormack paid eloquent tribute to his dead friend in song. Mr. McCormack had requested that he be permitted to thus voice his ea- teem of the man who introduced him to America, From the Campbell Chapel the body was accompanied only by the immediate family and the honorary pallbearers, Of the former thete were Mra. Os- car Hammerstein, the widow, Mra, Stella Keating, Mrs. Rosie Tostocan, Mr, and Mrs, Arthur Hammerstein, Mrs, William Hammerstein and two sona, and the deceased's two sisters, Mis, Rosenberg and Mrs. Anna Oben- dort. ‘The bonorary pall bearers included Lee Shubert, A. L. Erlanger, Mark Klaw, David Belasco, George M. Co- han, Al Woods, William A. Brady, A. J, Shubert, Morris Gest, Percy Will- jams, Lyle Andrews, Henry Rosen- berg and Lony Haskell, During the service taps were sound- ed on the roof of the Rialto, the site of Mr. Hammerstein's old Victoria. The interment was at Woodlawn, MeCormack sang “The Mystery of Life” and “The Lost Chord.” . Homer E. Williams was the organist. Hammerstein, Rabbi Silver said, f-made man who to do the jov over again, He had a personality, which sometimes appeared to be a Aual personality, all his own. He was dominated by two ideas—to wrest success from life and to give to life the best that was in him, The impresario, the man said, was @ person of indomitable will. Ho never was unduly elated by success or cast down by failure. Money meant nothing to him except as the means through whieh to realize his ideals, “He was intensely democratic,” said the preacher; “he loved human- ity, he had made a place for himself in the life of this great city, and New York will miss him.” ‘The funeral services for Prof, Rich- ard eee took’ place at the Camp- bell Chapel while those of his friend Hammerstein were being conducted Temple Bmanu: Prot, Epstein died on Friday night at the Lenox Hoepls tal. He was once a professor at the Academy of Music of Vienna and taught here at the Mannen School of Musle since 1914, TWO SING SING GUARDS END MANY YEARS? SERVICE Orson E. Helm, on Duty Forty- two Years, and Philip Shoe- maker Retired. Orson E. Helms, seventy-two, who had been connected with Sing Sing for forty- two years, part of the time as a keeper in the death house, was retired to-day at half pay, He was one of the men who helped prepare Carlyle Harris for the electric chair for the murder of Helen Potts, Helm had been on duty only a| few days when Charles Williamson, | forger and swindler, set fire to the mess | hall and escaped, later being captured in Jefferson Count: Mo. Philip Shoemaker, who had been on! duty at the prison for twent, ven, years, also was retired, Both will spend the rest of thelr days on thelr farms. ly kui | ne hi Boot tigers cleariny from Colon the Limart. struck them and off the coast 1 gan to break up almost it and they set out in thelisiand, The wi too high and after several of the had capsized and drowned a no of the crew, the rest of tho Pulled out to sea, ‘The survivors pulled around in Ocean for two days before they rescued by the Chilean Montaro, They were hardly when wild animals, part of a signment for a circus, broke their cages, which had been bai by the starm. At first a few gers aboard. erty. According to members of the firm, thieves entered their place from an ad= Joining one, cercied the allke up to the roof and then left through the adjoining building, They say @ motor car must the Ju ‘Two ashore at the {i ot live rare Peruvian and Chilean add to her world. more than 600 which she has at home up the Hudson. ‘ ‘The Santa Louisa had 100 passen- She made her first “ as @ passenger ship from eH 4 Among the passengers was Spruill Braden, son of a large copper miner of Chill; Fred A. Claude, Chill's his wife, three children twenty-five trunks; and William Holloway, grandson of W. R. $2,000 REWARD OFFERED, — sf $4,000 Worth ve been un been used to Hayes, son of Hayes, and his wite arrived, here tos day ‘from South America on th Grace liner Santa Louisa with chronicles of a trip that included: Shipwreck at sea off the Island Santa Rosa, near Peru, when steamer Limari,.on which they Passengers, was broken w by waves following a tropleal An attempt of’ Mr. Hayes and.1 wife, with forty other reach Santa Rosa in be driven back by the violence the waves, Life in open boats at sea for days until picked up by a passing steamer. A battle with escaped lions an@ty — " the rescue ship. fl t Mr, and Mrs. Hayes said they would be satisfied with ti home at Croton-on-the- Hudson, ‘According to Mrs, Hayes, who told the story while her husband bageage. and boats, only ves Stolen Goods. Joseph and Henry Freisinger, owners: of the Up-to-Date Silk Dyeing Company ~~ at No, 415 West Broad ward of $2,000 for the return of atlke worth $8,000 that were stolen frgm thelr factory last Tuesday night, offer @ re The police to recover the prop. | ( ry the oitk away. OSTERMOOR™ Ostermeer & Co. H4 Elizabeth St. Phone 5 Spring, creased since March, and they are thelr on thay Bar eds 4