The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1919, Page 3

! | ‘ _ (OPEN UP UNUSED LANDS. Food : Expert Would First Break Refrigerator Monop- ‘Oly of Meat Packers, Law Fixing Percentage - on Profits as Well as on Money Is Needed, By P. Q. Foy. Food Expert of The Eve- sing World). Another investigation of the meat AT AFTERWARD, N TO CONGRESS had when loaded by the packers, oat”, sy wi miles & day when Al tor cars should be owned absolutely by the railroad companies. Foods cannot be carried without the refrigemtor car, and the smaller operator who cannot get those cars has to sell his products to the large packer at whatever.price the latter few Ba to pay him. In this case the pac! wned 4 them 5) ‘Slicgtnate wr The Fru refrigerated Ld it Growers’ EB: the Galitornia and ol market and be owned absoiu por bevel aad be res omable the lent shipper packer er 4 in business, ¥ rr @ Evening World is justified in feeling very proud of the fact that it has won a signal vietory tition. ‘as the Packers !s scheduled by Congress to situation Getve into the reasons for the present Aiigh cost of the necessaries of tite. ‘The consumers of the United States @o not desire investigations; they want relief and want it promptly. We ‘are informed that’ shoes will double 4m price this winter and that meat cannot come down. The consumers @re in no mood for a long drawn in- vestigation that beging and ends no- where. Congress should at once allocate about twenty-five refrigerated steam- | @te to take our manufactured goods to South America and return with cargoes of beef and lamb to free our consumers from the grasp of beef packers. The large packers now con- trol under charters the entire freezer @pace available, thus shutting out in- dependent operators. It now costs 5 cents a pound to bring beef from Buenos Ayres to New York, while the ‘cost to Iilverpool and London is 2% cemts per pound for the same dis- tance. This enables the laboring clasees in England to save $125,000 on @ cargo of beef as compared with the prices paid: for freight by the Ameri- can importers, HOW TO GET ARGENTINA AND AUSTRALIAN MEAT, Millions of tons of beef and mut- ton are piled up in the freezers of South America that cannot be Drought here because the large pack- s control the refrigerated space, hundreds of independent whole- sale butchers in the United states are shut out. Congress should not only order a sufficient number of steamers for that service, but it should cut the preaént freight mate in half, or make it not over 8 cents a pound to bring meat from South America to New York. ‘Then again there are hundreds of thousands of hides that could be brought here and the price of shoes would soon be cut in half. At least ten refrigerated steamers should be released for this service, Australia has over 400,600,000 pounds of beef and muton piled up in freezers, and a recent report from the American Consul said that live) sheep could be bought for $1 a head, | but no one wanted them, while the| @amé conditions obtain in New Zea- land, If Congress desires to help the | American consumer it can allocate a| suMfcient number of steamers to carry beef, mutton and hides from these countries, and our present strained economic conditions would memory, are vital matters and should Prompt attention from Con- gress and not be allowed to await a long drawn-out investigation. This would be constructive work of the highest order, and the first earnest move in that direction would find the packers abandoning their present position, A FEW SUGGESTIONS AS TO MUCH NEEDED NEW LAWS. Investigating the large packers, which commenced immediately after the Spanish American War, when “embalmed beef” was the issue, up to the recent Heney investigation, has always resulted in putting the pack- ing interests more strongly in the saddle and strengthening their stran- gle-hold on the American consumer, Take away the packer-owned refrigerated car, the contro! of the stock yards and the criminal contre! of banks’ with which they ruin competition. Warehouses should not be permitted to do a banking business or advance mone) on foods stored in their own warehouses, The Eveung Work offers the fol- lowing outline for investigating the large packers that will bring about the desired relief to the consumers of the United States, These sume tions are on actual pers observation of the methods employed by the large beef companies extend- ing over 4 period of more than twenty years, Eliminate the privately owned re- frigerator car, The large packers receive a mileage of % cents a mule on their own cars, This amounts to $15 for each car making a round trip between Chicago and New York. These cars make about twenty-six round trips @ year, thus earning $530, It costs about $1,000 to build and equip one of those cars; formerly it cost $750. Now the life of one of these cars is about twenty years, the packers to collect 37,890 railroads during that period, maki each car after allowing for repat This 1 nothing more or less than rebate, and is unfair to competitors. LI should also | slaughtered, so that | trol the price of boots, shoes, sadd: 1m yey which must inevitably sent to dump on account of this unbusinesslike method of with- holding it ‘key until it ‘and become tun for. hus has spotted jousands of tons of this foodst have been in warehouse oe gannea goods hav wn to the trade poag means that the’ ft lo ferment rol pode and rot, are worthiess If Congressmen are to investigate wilt peng Of the. high cost of living, it will be @ simple matter for thet to find out that it has been to a very large extent poor management on the part of the Government itself in bu: ing its supplies and in withholding them from the market until the food speculators an opportunity to unload such fobdstuffs as fo fooneusigan at unreasonably high ic of t © must not lose sight of the fact that high prices encourage produe- tion, and that the high :prices no’ prevaili: have had this effect hs casily shown by the present wheat crop which is already’ too small com- pared with (he world’s demand. OPEN UNUSED LANDS To crop RAISING, First, Congress should investigate and find out if large tracts of fertile <A bean ‘is, firms corporations for speculative pur- poses and are allowed to grow Nate grass, weeds and brush, when they should be thrown upon the market for settlement and farming purposes. There. are millions of acres of land east of the Mississippi River, both north and south, which are as fertile a2 any lands now un m the United States, a: lying absolutely ing pastured in. m Railroad companies and large lum- bering concerns are holding these lands for a profit and : have been holding them for a profit for the last twenty to forty years. Let the Government purchase these lands at a price establishe: by a com- mission, fair both to the owner and to the Government, and then throw: them open to settlers for development .) the homestead or some other such plan. Second, let the Govern: it Investi- gatl.g Committee make a recom- mendation of such legislation as wilt absolutely stop and prohibit for all time in the future concerns handling foodatudie controlling banking instatu- le, not t instances ions. Yor years meat packers h con- trolled the banks and have arranged the loans on livestock on the farm: and ranches and in many have prohibited banks from loanin, on the female cattle, forcing the own. ers to sell the females cattle would not be so ‘we tl the rice could not be manipulated to the advantage .f the meat packers. ‘Third—Let the In’ ting Com~ mittee look well into the large food dealers’ holdings of railraad company Stocks and bonds, which in some in- stances amount to a control of the railroads, THE EVIL REFRIGERATOR CAR MONOPOLY. Fourth—Let the committee suggest such legislation as will absolutely Prohibit the owning of refrigerator ears by any person, firm or cor- poration, other than the common car- riers themselves, With the common carriers owning all of the refrigerator cars it would be @ simple matter for any - inde- Pendent person, firm or corporation to obtain refrigerator cars for the trangporation of dressed meats, fruits and vegetables without making hin arrangements for his cars through his largest competitor and worat enemy, the Beef Trust combine. Fifth—Let the committee suggest such legislation as will absolutely eliminate the Beef Trust or any other bis combination of food dealers from owning and controlling the cold stor- age warehouses of any city, State or of the United States, At the present time the meat pack- ers own and control a very large per- centage of all of the cold a8 pawnbrokers in the of lending to their friends matter money secured by negotiable ware- house receipts covering placed in cold storage, Sixth—Let the Government elimt« Nate the owning of stockyardy and other public utilities by any combhina- tion of food dealers and let these stockyards be owned either by the Government itself or by separate and distinct corporations having in no way any connection with food dealers who utilize the yards as a conven- ience. Seventh—Let the cammittee der velop & plan whereby the consumer shall not be charged an excessive price over and above the actual cost of the:live stock from the producer and the legitimate expenses added to thin cost. Eighth—Tie ‘activities of every person, firm or corporation ‘should be limited and restricted to a certain line or lines of business” and thereby maké it impossible for food. dealers to not only control the food prices of the United States but also to co foodstuns harness, farm machinery, in fact practically every necessity of human as ABM adh Appears to be their ue) | gid South Ferry. in." |GRAEMO, LOUIS, fifty-one, of No. | | nds | storage | uses in the United States, Dest | Traffic Tied Up on Ninth Avenue Line“‘When Stalled | Cars Are Hit, Seven men were injured at 6.45 o'clock this morning when « rear end collision between = Ninth Avenue and Sixth Avenue train tied up trat- fic on the Ninth Avenue Elevated line between Battery Place Station , The injured. who suffered con- tusions and sprains are: D/ORIO, CARMINE, fifty-seven, of No, $2 Thompson Street, COLOGHRO, PIETRO, thirty-cight, of No. 180 Thompson Street. MILLDR, MITCHBLL, conductor of Sixth Avenue train, forty-two, of No, 2463 Bighth Avenue, OLSEN, DANIBIL, @fty-five, address | unknown, |GOLDMAN, ABE, forty-two, guard on Sixth Avenue train, of No, 246 West 106th Street, VERANNINI, JULIAN, thirty-six, of No. 228 Sullivan Street. 120 West Third Street. A Ninth Avenue train was held by the block just south of Battery Place station at 6.45 o'clock, waiting for the platform to clear at the South Ferry station. As the train was motionless, &@ Sixth Avenue train, said to have | been in charge of Motorman Frank | Read, crashed into it. The platform of the rear car of the Ninth Avenue train was wrecked, ag was the plat- form of the front car of the rear train. By a strange freak, no one was hurt in either of the two damaged cars, \Patrotman Mikael J. Hurley of the Old Slip Station “saw the collision, pulled an alarm and sent for ambu- lances when he heard tl houts and erles of those in the trains, He then went to the elevated structure and took cb of the work of pacifying the panic-stricken pgssengers, who were more frightened by broken glass jan anything else. Ambulance Surgeon Page of the Broad Street Hospital responded and rendered first aid, after which he sent the injured to their homes. CLAREMONT SHY $8,228 IN FIRST DRY MONTH Restaurant Pleads With City for Rent Reduction, Citing Losses, Under Prohibition. The extent to which intoxicating drinks figure in the profits of a New York restaurant was shown at to- day's meeting of the Board of Bsti- |mate by counsel for the Claremont, jon Riverside Drive, when he pleaded for a reduction of the $20,500 « year paid to the city. “in July, 19 said the lawyer, “the gross bar business amounted to The above is a new photograph of Princess Riabouchinsky, recently reported engaged to Robert Goelet, who tnherited a fortune of $40,000,000. She was the former wife of. Henry Riabouchinsky, of the Bank, of Moscow, Rusala, and is known on two continents for her beauty, She divorced him Robert Goelet married the beautiful Elsie Whelen of Philadelphia She then married Henry Clews BOMB THAT HURT LAWLER SANE AS ONE PLAGE HERE Identical Hand Made California in 1916. and was subsequently divorced by her. dr. im 1914, Ww" No. accident front seat |New Photo EITHER DRIVE OR ONE THING AT A TIME IN AUTO, COURT RULES Commissioner Revokes Saying “We Will Have None of This One-Handed Driving.” - will hove none of this one-handed driving in New Jersey,” said Motor Commissioner Dill at the hearing bef re him in Newark, N. Ralph Holleman, twenty-five, of % Marcella Avenue, West Orange, who was charged with colliding with’ another machine while driving bis automobile ‘from | Dover to Rockaway, N. J., July 20, Charles H. Gregory, an engineer of the North Jersey Water Com- mission, testified that before the Holleman_ passed him with one arm around a girl on the with him, Holleman admitted he had operated the car in this fashion from Lake Hopat- Commissioner Dill cong to Dover. revoked Holleman’s “You can only do one thing sald: ata License, » of Asi license, ard |$10.628, of which the profit was a 056." In July of this year the bar | receipes from non-intoxtcating drinks were $2,400 and the profits have not | been estimated. If the Claremont had een run for the past ten years with- ut profits from the sale of liquors d Wines its annual loss would have eon $4,671. The Claremont paid about $5,000 a |year rent to the city until Mayor Hy- lian came into office. He ordered the |new lease auctioned to the highest Bidder, The old lessor wag, highest. The city will go over the Claremont |Restautant books and determine how much It ought to pay. | SUICIDE. ASKED CREMATION. Daughter of Dead Actress Touring With Theatrical Company. The last wish of Mrs. Mary Hartley, the actress, who took her own life | gas in a furnished room at No, 329 West {29th Street yesterday, will be gratified, ‘She left a note asking that her body be cremated. Her husband, William, who ives in Canada, reached here this morn- ry ithel Lewis, fourteen, a daughter of the dead woman, In Canada with on tour somewhere eatrical company. STILL ON LICENSE PLAN; | TO PUNISH PROFITEERS No Danger That Supply Will Give Out, Says Zabriskie, Who Warns Gougers, HBPRE |s no reason why the people of this city should fear for their supply of sugar, according to President Zabriskie of the United States ; Sugar Equalization Board, The Government has plenty of raw sugar and it is only a matter of a few days when the refineries will be working to capacity, he says. Nor is there any danger that the price to consumers will soar very high, The bapacity of American re- fineries ,exceedg the norma! do- mestic demand by about 1,000,000 pounds, and the fact that none | of thelr products may now be ex- i eo was present Assistant Corporation Counsel Joseph said the franchise agreements jew York Railways Company je for free transfers at thirty-six e the two-cent chi a that he believes A, Dever; of the Provide in Prof, for the city, the New York Railways Company was making a better showing in from month to month Nixon interrupted to say that it was due to a realization of this increase that he had put the cost of transfers cents instead of three. not intend,” he went on, railway plants shall deteriorate and 1 at two B, McStay, any trouble. similar so that super! would receive an equal wa; ptrolier it, CITY ADDS TO PROTEST ON TWO-CENT TRANSFERS Assistant Corporation Counsel Dev- ery Tells Nixon Charters Are Being Violated. Public Service Commissioner Lewis Nixon continued to-day the hearing of the protest of the city against his ruling allowing Job B. Hedges, receiver of the New York Ratlways Company, to charge surface line passengers in Manhattan two cents for a tri Counsel Burr y jassistant, Edgar J. Farley represented the sion and Bemis, wages was false. Com fayor i work outside, es. represented by hi. Col. Henry L. Stimson as counsel the franchise agreemen comprised in the New York s Company pool would show that pore the |NO SHORTAGE OF SUGAR; j#Sbszesnoty’nel ny st points in Manhattan, testifying as an expert ‘said that In his opinion re out 3.000 men fer. Corporation Kohler, Terrence Public Service |‘the on to Regeiver cer’ the Mr. revenue Commissioner “I do “that these Cai PP ML a alt ' -———— Inspector Eagan said to-day, Eagan has carefully compared de- scriptions and found that both bom»s were of heavy iron pipe tep inches long, closed at both ends by pleces of meta} held in place by three long bolts running from end to end of the Inside each was a trigger op- erating on caps of fulminating mer- cury, packed. There was also a hole in th side for & fuse, in case it was We- cided to explode it in that way. Despatches trom Los day state that rewards for t and conviction of the persons who Lawier’s home now Mr. and Mrs, Lawler, who were burned in the fire follow- ing the explosion, are in @ critical | listed men of the Second Engineors. condition, but may recover, pipe. destroyed Mr, total $11,500. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Au: Counsel for Henry Ford, who {s suin, 1,000, rank. Md tose 4 French Wart Cross and the decogation some Tribune editorial writer be brought | of the Legion of Honor. back from Chicago to testify regarding} GEN. SNOW MEETS HIS SON, “Ford's magasine, was sworn to prove that Mr, Ford_can read and write, “How do you know he can read and| 24 write?” asked Attorney Lucking. “I have seen him write and I have heard him read,” replied the witness, Requiem Ma: of Russian Princess | Reported Engaged to Robe and Life Company “Ma- chines,” Says Eagan. The same person or gang that made the bomb found several months age in the New York Life Publishing Company building here made the one that destroyed the home of former United States Attorney General Oscar Lawler in Los Angeles, Combustibies Owen stant of &round which dynamit An, Avctomake: Chicago Daily Trib & charge of libel, ini tain editorials, Attorneys Kirkland and Stevenson for Tribune, declined to do so, Fo own page," in Mr, i tas saccade FUNERAL OF JOHN ENNIS, NGTON, continues after, vranun iene amar. Goelet wan to. arrest — | tenancy war Va. | | More Soldiers of the Famous Second Division: Arrive on Transport. ‘The transport Fintand, with 3,625 officers and enlisted men of the A. B. F. on board, came up the harbor this morning with only her ensign flying and that at half mast. Since the Good of men in khaki turned from France no ship has been te- ceived in such comparative quiet. The bands on welcoming ship and pier were silent by request. When the Finland was an hour and a hall out of Brest on July 25, her commander, Captain J. B, Hill of Phadelphia, collapsed on the bridge and died on reaching the ship's hospital, He was fifty-six years old and a veteran of the mercantile ma- jrine, . | Capt, Hill was succeeded in com- | mand by Lieut, Commander W. J. | Rague of ‘the United States Naval Reserve, who (he is only twenty- three) is said to be the youngest man who ever commanded a vessel of the Fintan ize on @ transatlantic voy- age. The Finland ts thought to have completed her last trip as a transport. SEVEN EUROPEAN WIVES OF NEW YORK SOLDIERS, ‘The big transport brought forty-six | soldiers’ wives and eight children, one young doughboy having taken on a ludy with @ son of fourteen who | looked almost as old as Pa. Seven young women are the brides of New York men, as follows: Mrs. William A, Baker, No, 1528 Amsterdam Avenue. (5ist Infantry Headquarters). Mrs, Joseph Dow, No, 159 Carroll Street Brooklyn. (30th Regiment, 77th Division). Mrs. Stanley Baer, No, 118% Bush- wick Avenue, Brooklyn, whose hus- band returned to-day as a casual, Mrs. Birgio Bolsi, No, 618 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn. (Field Hospital No, 304), Mra, August Schalkham, No, 602 Jackson Avenue, Bronx, (7th Engi- neers, Sth Division). Mrs. Joseph Barkos, No. 952 Colum- bus Avenue, (19th Field Artillery). Mrs, Joseph M. Caech, No. 915 Eagle Avenue, Bronz, (lst Machine Gun Battalion). Of the party of forty-six, nine were daughters of Luxembourg, one (the lady with the big boy) a Belgian and the others French girls. For the first time the wives were in charge of & Sergeant instead of a Red Cross or Y¥. M. C. A matron. The Sergeant was @ regular army man, Jesse W. Taylor, The ladies said he was cour- tesy personified. The French girls said “charming,” but after the boat docked at Pier No. 8, Hoboken, “Jess” confided to @ reporter that, as for him, a Yankee girl will do and he wouldn't marry the Queen of Europe if she were richer than John D. Practically every soldierman on the Finland was of the famous Second Division, On board wero 80 officers and 1,001 enilsted men of the Second Ammunition Train; 14 officers and 863 enlisted men of thé Fourth Ma- chine Gun Battalion; 7 officers and enlisted men of the 346th Service Battalion, and 22 officers and 647 en- ‘The percentage of regulars now jong them was said to be small on —— am FORD CAN READ AND WRITE, | account of the division's casualties, The troops were commanded by Witness at Libet Trial Testifies for |i jgut. Col. Andtew D. Bruce of San Antonio, Texas, who rose from a lieu- in France to his present He wears the D. 8. C,, the BOTH WEARING D. 8. c. Major Gen, William J. Snow, Chief of the Field Artillery of the United W. H. Cameron, a writer who takes|¢ ates Army, Was on the pler to meet ‘6 Ideas and expands thems tate his son, Major William A. Snow of 'e the 24 Engineers, a We:t Pointer who went to France two years ago was wounded four times at Chateau-Thierry. Both father and son—only case of the kind in the U. 8. A, it was said-—wear the D, 8. ©. The young Major could get only twenty-four hours leave, but his Dad is stopping at the McAlpin and promised to show h: @ good time. The “last man of the 27th Division II I can to build them up.” : to return” arrived again. This time am doing al ip. hn Ennis, for eight| he is Lieut. G. E. Joseph of No, 740 Serene ; Dt) West End Avenue, who was attached NO WHITE WINGS STRIKE, Fire Commissioner of Brooklyn, |i the 106th Kield Artillery. Lieut. took place this morning from 8! Joseph had been on detached duty Teresa's, Catholic Church, Classon| under the Provost Marshal General Avenue and Sterling Pl {at Tours as a member of the 266th Vue veeuieen ‘dani’ The | Military Police Company, of which six officers and 123 enlisted men were the Rey, Father Sylvester Higgins, When questioned to-day| assisted ‘by the Re’ Nev, Monsignor | on the Finland. regarding the organization of the em-| Joseph McNamee, rector and Father| “When the 24 Ammunition Train ployees of the Street Cleaning Depart-|John Cass, curate of the church. left Niederbieber-on-the-Rhine,” said ‘The interment took in Bt! Lieut. W. J. Elmore of St. Louis, “the ment said that he did not anticipate! yohn's cemetery. Mr. Bn: who died| people of that place turned out en He uid that the report] on Saturday morning from “a com- aces, They planed. roses on the Potente Talis, ks iin ieerpaee, ft |pllentan, 08 Aleeeaan, wes eighty | Dettiogas ana ‘dlaplayed our toler nd Borough. President with not a German flag to be seen. oe The irle were crying. 1 reckon ‘The Commissioner admitted that the about half the men could have mar- waxes did not compare with thowe Yor| PLANS FREE INSURANCE, | about halt the men sould have mar. He sald also for the regulations.” that he was trying de wipe Cut grades, | Compress Has eet “What made a hit with the sol- intendents and foremen vind Glee diers," said Captain Arthur B. Walton of that Ammunition Train, 1% ‘rl ported assures the American / 2,000 a Buffalo Ordered to Strike |Fisk Insurance for serviee men for two, was the way tne Kiria of the house people that they are in no dan- To-Niw yeare after thelr dlacharge is provided’ Which they were billeted. Every ger of running short of this com- | BUFFALO, N. Y.. Aus. 6—Twenty-|iR @ bill Introduced in the House to-day arurday morning, for examea modity or of being made to pay Pig LM ss ¥- | by ‘Representative Sweet, Iowa, as the ii Aion and idler | Seay es mate jp, [five hundred Pennsylvania Railroad|result of a special investigation by a ‘here Ja inspection and the soldier Zabriskie aaye that any ene who |shopmen in Buffalo will strike to-night ommittee of the House Interstate hae to Jook eplek and A , cording. to +, Homerlein, Bee 6 Committee, profiteere enecenly in this ne- | tary of the Buffalo’ System Federstion, ‘service man has paid premiums daughter of the house had his shoes Gessity wi wiget iy ped ‘The strike will extend from Scranton wince his discharge the t a “grace shined, his cleaned and every fvere, still on falo ai i ished before of button of his uniform ‘he was out of bed.” Ay ar Goff, Whom He Manhandled “at 9.45" Each Night. Miss Marte Goff, the. pretty young leading woman who was handled #0 |Foughly tn “At 9.45" by John Cromwell, Playing the detective chief, that tional persons in the agudlence man for Miss Grace George in Would and She Did.” which pened night at Long Branca, N. J. a RURYON WILL ENFORCE DRY LAW, IF ELECTED Jersey Governor Says New Yofk Income Tax Law Discriminates Against His State, TRENTON, Aug. 6.—Strict enforce- ment Hi \ ia i i “il scuits and m i f income tax law, which, he said, unjustly discriminates against New Jersey citl- sens by denying them the same exemp-! F- tions afforded the citizens of New York @ under the same law. f\ [Ne i ‘Wurren C. King filed his nominating (Sia petition as candidate for the Repub- Mean nomination for Governor, with the afternoon, digers of &t. Agnes Cemetery who elt work this morsing’ following an MALTE pane head of the Avold Imitations and order from Bishop Gil Sathoile diocese of 5 yo) Come Fill our Class With Tetley’s cool delicious iced” tea! 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