The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1919, Page 3

“TIEUPIMPOSSIBLE. | SAYS BROTHERHOOD “Majority Will Be Loyal to Company Declares O'Toole —Satisfied With Condtions, A tie-up of the “green” car lines of | Manhattan jx impossible, according to | statements made to-day by leaders of the men. Vmety-eight per cent. of the oper- ‘ting employees are members of our organization,” sald Hugh O'Toole, | Chairman of the Executive Com. | mittee of the Brotherhood of Em-| ployees of the New York Railways Company. - “They are satisfied with conditions, They are working under a contract that runs until Aug. 31, 1920, The men have béén canvassed since the Present situation arose and a big ma- jority of them will remain loyal to} the company. The Amalgamated | might get a few newcomers among the | workers, but not enough to inconveni- ence the lines.” O'Toole said the claim of Lous Fridiger, counsel of the Amaiga- mated, that 60 per cent. of the green line men were in that organization or about to sign, was exaggerated. Public Service = Commissioner | Nixon to-day conferred with Louis | Fridiger, attorney for the Amalga- | mated Association of Ratlway Em- ployees, relative to the details of the checking up of B. R. T. members of | the organization. P. J. Shea, who directed the B. R. T. strike, announced to-day that hi has received from Public Service | Commissioner Nixon the union mem- bership cards that were taken there to be counted by order of United States Judge Mayer. { Employees of the Interborough | Brotherhood are balloting for an/ executive committe of fifty-four to- day and to-morrow. This committee will select officers for the brother- | hood which is not affiliated with any | , other labor organization. Interbor- | ey F Fe en ough officiale do not look for any) “BALOINGER, Squadron + Executive Officer hange in policy as @ result of the ‘Comm ender... election. Commissioner Nixon, prior to his start for Washington, again ex- pressed the opinion that there would NEW HAVEN STRIKE END be no strike in Manhattan, at least| [() BF DECIDED TO-MORROW this week. He has the promise of the union officials that they will not . call a strike while he is in Wash-|Shopmen’s Ballots Go to Union Of- ington, where he is to testify before! ficiais—sRumored Secret Vote the Federal Commission investigat- 2 yt iar street railways, 5 sp Showed Sentiment for Return. Corporation Counsel Burr went to! Ballots cast by 6,000 shopmen of the Washington to-day to testify to-mor- New York, New Haven’ and Hartford vow before the Federal Commission Railroad on the question of ending the investigating street railways, Mr, Present strike will be turned over to the officers of the system federation Burr bad with him a bag full of data 10° serene von tomorrow, it was| PATHFINDERS acts taining t tree! \- ma ‘t ¥. He o4 voted secretly on Monday night, 3 May testify the same day as Public ang jt was sald among railroad men solos Service Commissioner Nixon. that the sentiment was for a cessation : ee lof the strike, leaving the grievances up Meecor ‘0 the National leaders of the workers “MA 14,000 STRIKING PAINTERS —|',.¥spct een een.) HATS. OFF." Pathfinders’ Will ‘Taxi the Clouds’’ . >< Ty Recrustin: Publicity OF Ficer | H. A. Porter, se of the Air ~ ‘MSSINGWHI Coast to. Coast YEAS BEST SHOW, + RSE, From lerk to 10,000 A Year +n 2 Year: Over This City. ASK 5-DAY WEEK, $1 AN HOUR Sze a general strike on all railroads may Some Employers Have Agreed to |be ordered to force increased waxes. + | Among New Haven railroad officials New Demands, Union Leader [in New York there was an expectation that the striking repairmen and car in- Says. spectors, would resume theif duties on | Mrs. Beeson Says She Is Not Afraid Labor Market Only Slightly Al Five days a week are enough for any jor three days would be required be of Ghost—Declares Slain Wife ‘ inter to work, in the opinion of the |fore the curtailed service could be re- Iprecnarnooe of Painters, Decorators | sumed in full. Also Appears. and Paperhangers, District Council No. 9. The council called » strike to-day of ‘ts 14,000 members in Manhattan, the Mrs, Agnes Beeson of pmen Call Off Strike in Atlanta ederates Shopmi mand an eight-hour day at the rate of | Federated Railway per heer, effective Aug. 1. the Atlanta, Ga., district, caused rail-/her argument against her The strike will not be effective in| Toad officials to-day to predict that the | stated that her apartment was vis- pm of the country would] ited by the departed spirit he operating at normal within @ werk. | weiter Keene Wilkins, suicide Brooklyn until Friday when it is/entiro rail ays planned to call out 6,000 more men. ae eaten Carigun parts of the cour Some of the master painters already tr ‘showed that striking shopmen were | slay has written The have agreed to grant the demands, it | returning to work. In the Chi » dis- | World asking to be set right with (9 ald, but resardless of what the oth- | {Feb MONWT: theaters, though & ers do net 2 per cent. of the men will | number of cancelled trains were re- be at work at the end of the day, | stored. Yausner said, The walkout comes in the busy season, as apartment owners | Balloting b: Dr, Wilkins's spirit Mrs, Beoson says she b Se speaking terms with on Return to | many years. usually set to work Aug. 1 to prepare nd t ne ‘ their properties for releasing in Octo-| BOSTON, Aug. 13.—Balloting by | old Postar Mrs, Be a op writ a ber. striking shopmen and mechanics of | #tate boldly, I'd r ————_— ailroads on the question | 'n# in my demned hin New —-— pleted until to-morrow night, Modif- | house, I say without h o i" Rations of the New York, Ne Strong Northeast Winds Coming, | iia Hartford and the Boston and Ma.t Seve ‘Weether Bureau, embargoes effective to- The Weather Bureau to-day issued | moved the fears of many com protection and love and s warning of a northeast storm cxtending| concerning the delivery o' attitude now from Delaware Breakwater to Boston, | 8nd foodstuffs The landlord against whom with disturbance on the Virginia coust B Maine Usex Strike Break- With increasing intensity the storm | Boston « etl ob tu will move northward, with strong +, bears 'escu of Mrs, Wilk fi » Al 3.—Strike nortveast winds, ‘this afternoon and to- |, bas ee ih athe ’ 2 ——»—_—_—_ & Maine Railr ° jay in the NEW YORK STEAMER HITS strike of railroad e The mea Darkness Delays Air Mail Start. |were used as coal The arrival of shorter days probably — will cause the establishment of a now|SEA OUTLET FOR BULGARIA. official starting time for the aerial mail from Belmont Park for Chicago, Now|Peace Conference Considers Nea-| Englewood Calls for Help, but Is Proceeding Under Her the time is 5 A. M., but to-day it was| tralized Port om Medi(erranean. so dark at that hour that Pilot C. H.| paRIS, Aug. 18.—The Supreme Anglin did not start until $40 AM) council, the Echo de Paris says, is Own Steam. fap persiog 280 pounce of mall preparing to give Bulgaria an op to th diterracan Sea through} DOV either Dedeagatch or Kavala, lean ste glewood struck a mine The territory surrounding ‘the ports!in the North Sea off the Thame: i) ted would be neutralize = . eR ypetihg SUNT C ed ‘under w status similar to Dan-|at 7:30 o'clock this morning, and sent out, a wireless message for help. a teamer, however, is in no imr a at thie, clog Balkan. wara| Qanee ot tngicwood is making luded Dedeagateh, ulgarians | Englewood is ma Ready to use and. Germans built” a Thames under her own steam, Central Bulgaria to takes on more water the steamer prob ———— ably will be* beached at Shi 7, The War Work Council of the ¥. usta Ww. C. A. 600 Lexington Avenue, 4 cablegram trom 1 vesse Shi An Inexpensive Condiment that the City of g Bf foot beam, 3 5 Lille has 1d’ medal on|depth of hold. She is operated for { Geog with Cold the Young Wom, fristian Asso-|Shipping Bord by the Cosmopolitan Dated tl ciation in’ recognition work done | Shipping Company of No. 42 Bre pies for Brai The Mayor of Lille p She has a crew of 48 men, and is ca sented decoration to Miss Harriet tained by Andrew Patterson, Tajlve, director of oveyeeaa work Cys Fe, 8, anor, lieaiately., to emir? WELCOMES DR. WILKINS’ | 12,000,000 ud, WOMEN SPIRIT IN HER HOUSE STILL HOLD THEIR JOBS normal, Says Densmore— Bartenders Idle. WASHINGTON, District. 65th Street, who appeared before the ' dioyment, which long threate Bronx and Richmond, They also de-| CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—Calling off of the | Mayor's Committee on rent profiteer~ ine piggest post-war problem, now has n’s strike IM} ing August 11 and in the course of ed to be) almost ceased to exist—as a problem, the Service, only ak in| the public as to her attitude towards sections of the on {the number of jobs exceeds th s been hosts’ Twelve million the “6o far from being afraid is m than those who con-| about normal return of sol- to cause even @ ripple _ of a return to work pending settlement Not only Doctor, WARNS OF STORM TO-DAY. | 0) tucirwage dispute will not by’ com-|.Atrs, Wilkins have been seen In the ation tha Haven | try, Wilkins had for the old Doctor (her convicted murderer) a feeling of diers have fall e labor market not had a ain on made compiaint is the administrator in charge of the estate approximately 60,000 persgns daily BRIDGE TRAFFIC RULES MINE IN THE NORTH SEA} FOR RUSH HOURS CHANGED) fic.uc.' Motors Go Manhattan Span, Horse-Drawn Ve Over Brooklyn Bridge. Aug. 18.—The In an effort to solve the problem of vehicle traffic congestion at the brid, 4 all automobiles to the mited the use of the police divert: Manhattan Bridi Brooklyn Bridge radways to horse- this morning rules will be in force between 4 and 5. lines |, of heavy trucks and of lighter pleasure cars are formed, to avoid aceld nglewood is a United built in 1918 by hip Building Company ¢ ia of 8.000 nis due this and army trucks are exempt from \ lf ISKER JUOGE WEEKS STA |Scene, Manhattan Club, With Jurists and Barristers in Supporting Cast. A smooth ghinned youth with | (lose clipped mustache boarded a New York Central train Inst night bound for the Thousand Islands, Hi ‘was laughing when he boarded the) train, and when the train passed Al- bany The Evening World was in- formed that fitful chuckles coming from the berth of | Bartow S. Weeks of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Yes, smoeth chinned—— Since Mr. Justice Weeks was an | Assistant District Attorney back in | the days of Nicoll, Fellows and Mar- | vine, and in all the time he has been jthe friendly arbiter and stimulator jot outdoor, athletics, he has been jeasily identified as the gentleman with the wide duplex beard. | Once, so antiquarians who delve into the back files of newspapers tell us, it was of the hue of a ruddy fall sunset, but it has since become more | |rlson of the Philippines and Mra, Har- about this time, the Justice was mac-| 1)" learned to-day that just betore ried. His bride, Mrs. Josephine de! sedate, not to say judicial, Last year, | Marigny Smith, was at that time en: grossed in war work here and abroad and their honeymoon waa” postponed until a few days ago, when they went |to the Thousand Islands, Gov, Smith | recalled Justice Weeks to this city to impanel the special Grand Jury on ,avarchistic investigations which met yesterday. At the court proceedings Justice Weeks looked very much as he bad for the last thirty years, But—/ Mr, Justice Bartow 8. Weeks, (ens his portieres, appeared at the door of the Manhattan Clab at 10 o'clock last night and started to walk right in, The graven image at the door stopped him and demanded whom he wanted to see. “I called,” sald the baretaced jurist, meekly, “to see my friend Mr. Penny yonder. Pioneer Expedition Will Leave “wnat can 1 do for you?” said Mr. Hazelhurst Field for Flight Penny: approaching with that pro- found courtesy with which he ever From New York to San meets a stranger. Francisco, With a Prelimi- nary Flight of the Roosevelt ternoont” inquirea the whiskerless “Who was that second guy the Grand Jury threw @ net over this af- intruder, giving free rein for a mo- ment to a sense of unburdended per- jonality. Two years ago, John Y. Morse of “SIR,” sald Mr. Penny—and he said No, 5% West 146th Street, Manhat- it just like that—"I am the clerk of tan, was a $22 a week clerk, He en-|that court. Any information to which listed in the army. Sept. 30 next he you may be entitled will be furnished will be mustered out to take a $10,000 by Judge Weeks, who may arrive a year job, When he went into the here at any time, Boy, kindly show army he had his eyes on a $1,500 a|this person to the waiting room.” year job that had thirty or forty| , Justice Weeks couldn't keep from other youths scraping to put him out breaking into audible chuckles, Mr, of the running. When he leaves off Penny circled around bim and urged his Sergeant's chevrons he will have | him to one aide. a dozen “captains of finance” fighting| “The laugh is on me, Judge,” he to keep each other from signing him said, “but let me share it with some up for a long period of employment! of the other people around here.” that will start on a basis of at least! John Godfrey Saxe was the next $10,000 a year and he will have aj victim, Mr. Justice Weeks japping motor car and chauffeur to take him|him on the back, Mr. Saxe retorted to and from his work every day. with the remark, “Whoever you are All because of the army and what/and whoever you may think I am the officers taught him, there is apparently a serious error Sergt. Morse is to begin @ trip|here,” and once more the hall man from New York City to San Fran-|was called and stood around looking back again, en-|trucks, searchlights, wireless tele graph, Wireless telephone and sim! | |lar equipment that has cost the War | brushed past Mr. Penny and Mr | Ho |8bd demanded the steward, saying a Department more than $1,000,000, partment, Exactly eighty entisted cluding Sergt, Morse—and Hazelhurst Field on the army § section and bi will stop at ruits, completing examinati the spot, (Continued on Eighth Page.) will have with him men whose brains are going to be leased to the Nation’s|and was to be eased out inte the business ‘men for more than $1,000,000 | street _with the least possible delay, & year after thoy have finished up the} ,-comsremsman Joseph Rowan was men—in- twenty- | resume his honeymoon, ave aE expedition| FLOODED BY BROKEN MAIN. with orders to take nine airplanes, - three on trucks as a reserve force, and rs for flying, and “taxi the from here to San Francisco and back in an effort to gain at least | afternoon are trying to repair extensive 000 recruits for all branches of the |Property damage in the vicinity of Van ice, including the aviation lvon division, The man|Bronx, © cities en Foute ana|water main which gave way at 3:45 show the people of the interior ex-|o'clock this morning tearing @ hole actly how formidible an aero squad- ron is, They will demonstrate the lite of the aviator and then pick up re- cad | 32 enlistments and swearing them In on|~ The. bro two commissioned officers will le ciseo to tell thousands of boys how | foolish until the de-forested Jurist it can be done. He will make the trip| explained the joke. in a Curtiss Army airplane and he| Followed by Mr, Penny and Mr. will have @ host of men ready to an-|Saxe, the Justice entered the loung Swer his slightest bidding all the way | Justice Robert L. Luce and James from where he takes the air at Haxel-|Dunn of the bar were playing dom!- hurst Field, to the Pacific Coast and|noes. Justice Weeks drew up a chair, “Why,” he said, truculently, “don't As one of the Army Air Service| you fellows take lessons before you “All America Pathfinders,” Morse wili| tackle an intellectual task like thi have behind him airplanes, motor} “Excuse me,’ counsellor,” sald Ju tice Luce, with that self posnes- sion which has always characterized his public and private activities, and Saxe disorderly stranger had invaded the questered quiet of the card room involved in the very polite altercation Job laid out for them by the War De-| before Justice Weeks thought it was time to identify himself. Then the Justice left to catch the 11,30 train for Cooperstown whence he gow to er Department employees this Cortlandt and Bainbridge Avenues, the used by a thirty-six-inch twenty-five feet square in the street and flooding cellars at Nos. 206 and 207 Avenue and Nos. 3204 and idge Avenue. n main is from the Je- station and supplies south rome Ave Sergt, Morse will fly at all the 171 |and west parts of the Bronx drawn vehicles between § and 10 o'clock Jeifles and tell prowpective recrutts how he was taught to be a weather ql , 30 o'clock this|°xPert, map maker, motor expert, FORD AND EDISON ‘ROUGH IT. electrician, photographer, dancer, a boxer, marksman and cioud explorer | Campinas the army when he did not know could do anything but push a pen He wit tell them how the army per-|Tnomas A. Exlison, Henry Ford, John : werving to get| sonnel officers’ tests showed that he slower moving commercial me y Spends Night tn Room of Farmhou SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. 13,— Burroughs, the naturalist, H, 8, Fire: | | | 725 Home Street, the Bronx, is in Lin-| head was taken to indicate he had coln Hospital with his left arm|struck with a heavy instrumer night on the Boston Road, near his! 159 West 180th Street, went to Bis home, Willie is the brother of nine-| room this morning. a department store at 150th. Street | s1 599. No investigation of the robb and Third Avenue. tutions, while detectives, military po- ling robbers. searched. the city in vain for the missing Sadie. Hines te Take Up Wages ap Seon aa Third Avenue, was instantly killed at| be ¢ Felt as Though - Since Husband Was SI Her Goodbye Note Says. A tragedy of the war had its ing to-day when the body of @ tiful woman, fully dressed, was r lying on @ bed in a room on the ied floor of a rooming house at No. 3ih_ East 1334 Street with ne end of @ new rubber tubé in her mouth the other attached to a gas jet. Of & bit of wrapping paper was the foie lowing not ij “Please do not put it in the papers as there is no one to call claim, Was married in 1912, . nd shot in war. Since then I am paralyzed—eannot work, so am no good for nothing but this.” = = | Mra, Katherine MeAleen, of the-premises, said that the known woman engaged the room terday afternoon, saying that she éx« pected sister from f Her personality was so ov that Mrs, McAleen did not ask for an advance, : ‘The lodger returned at 10 o'clock thin morning and that was the last — the landlady saw of her. About neon the odor of gas crept out into the | hall and @ policeman was sent to foree the door, The dead was apparently thirty-five years and had soft, wavy brown hair eyes of the same color, she wore | white shirt waist and pink and a large Leghorn hat, Her ne Ing was spotless and her a) fave evidence of refinement, PRETTY TYPIST ENDS LIFE WW LAKE ON VACATION TRIE pan es CY Sty pew, a Friends of Gov. Francis Burton Hi their arrival in Vancouver, B. C., sev- eral days ago Mra, Harrison lost or had stolen from her 4 handbag containing a sold mesh bag and two platinum but- terfly pins, ‘The loss occurred in a dining car on the way to the coast and amounted to more than $1,000, Governor and Mra. Harrison left Aug. 7 on board the Empresa of Russia for Manila, Their marriage took piace @ few montha ago in Chicago. RED GROSS WORKERS FLED FROM ALBANIANS Arrivals on Duca D’Aosta Tell of Raid, That Cut Italian Force to Pieces, The Royal ttallan mati liner Dues D'Aosta, from Genoa, docked at 57th Street, North River, this afternoon with 250 passengers, of whom asixty-three wore first class. There were forty-seven | York Engineering Company of Ne Red Cross workers—thirty-five women | Rector Street, Now York City, was. and twelve men—aboard, commanded | covered from the lake to-day, f by Gapt, William J. French of Philadél-|tho upset of a boat In twenty e phia, a Legion of Honor man. With him |water, the following note was twent was Capt. William Pitt of San Fran-|her room at the ttar Lake Inn: cisco, who has been Superintendent of| “Po whom it may conceri: I Supplies for the Red Cross at Durasz0,/ ail my to’ my bee Albania, He reported that on June 30] loved mothar and I ask the an Selim Wasa Bey came on Be ae of the hotel to notity Loule Bui - tains with Albanians 9nd attacl ©) New i Italian troops, causing the Red Cross] y» runamick Avenue, Ellaabeth, 2, workers to flee In amall sailing boate]” am. w, iil Se ‘i acroas the Adriatic to Italy, The Inaur- seven rection was finally put down by com- and remarkable for good logks bined English, French and Italian troops bya b inyray _ the boat alone dressed the Albanian mountaineers had cut is sult. the original Italian force to plec At No, 1021 7iryant Avenue, the” Capt. Charles C, Holway, who was! Bronx, where Mrs, ‘Sonia Burgess had Athletic Director of the Olymple Club|ived recently with her mother i of San Francisco and who has been |Kobin, It was sald to-day by Mri, 4 overseus for the ¥. M. C. A. reported! Marko, @ melghbor, that Mra, that the Italians have gong mad over had loft Inst Ay ioe ae basketball. Walter Farrar Green, who has been an] ** Star Lake, instructor In the American Protestant College at Belrut for the last five FOUND SLAN IN ROOM years, brought the news that the Turk- ish are discarding the vail throughout ‘ : the old empire, ROBBERS ARE NIM SHIS New Yorkers with the Red Cross De- tachment included Miss Mabél Buck- ley, No, 381 Fourth Avenue; Miss Mal-| Tenants at No. 318 West vina A, Herr, No. 244 Riverside Drive; ‘ Miss Bertha #B, Stenbuck, No. 806 Street Bélieve Hold-Up Men Prospect Place, Brooklyn; Miss Grace Killed Tenant. Ward, No. 7 Bay 324 Street, Brooklyn! 4 ie. poias rat , and John 1, Butterfield, No, 47 West] yo) prtindlgMe wend Btrc * Gath Street, tt 4. in a pool of blood in bee " ¢ at No, $18 West 49th Street to-day WENTZ BOY IN HOSPITAL. |r. charies Norris, chiet medical exe” ai ce aminer, reported to the police that the 7 Brother of Kidaapped Baby Hert/man, in his opinion, had been mur While at Play. deved, The skull had been fractured, © Nine-year-old Willie Wents of No.|and a large laceration on the top of he i od Writes Note to Mother and G Out in Boat Alone in Bath ~ ing Suit. STAR LAKE, N. Y, Aug. short time after the body of Mra, KK. Burgess, @ stenographer of the ct a broken from @ fall while at play last] A sister of Mulry, who live weeks old Sadie Wents, who was) ‘There wat a hold-up at the house” atolen from a baby carriage two] gunday, in which several families were: weeks ago while her mother was in| robbed of money and Jewelry valued ab has been made by the police, It ts Bee Mrs. Wents hi lieved likely that Mulry. was killed yr visited fifty insti- lice, neighbors and Boy Scouts have —nneypiewntias pen Strikers Return. Rol Skater Killed by Truck. WASHINGTON, Aug. j Ten-year-old Emil Sager, No, 3002|creascs for railroad employees will naidered by the Railroad Ad» “| 5 a * ministration immediately after the 7) 156th Street and Park Avenue to-day | Ministration [theca nen have tee bye an. automobile truck of the Peter/turned to work, Director Gem 2 4 Doelger Brewing Company. The boy,|Hincs said to-day. Requests for | on roller skates, had ooee hanging onto | cre are expected to come f p ‘the side of the trucl He let go,'of the fifteen railroad unloy "Shieh a slipped and fell beneath a wheel have not yet presented demands, would ke an expert air pilot and the course of training that not only |%n® With several secretaries, who are fitted him for the work but ‘have | oP camping tour that began at Albany, given him an education in two years |jxy ‘sua’ sopped half an hour OO that will enable him to earn thou- |°"hne ports, which uses five automo- biles, slept last night in the rear of a farmhouse near Northampton,