The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1919, Page 1

“ Circulation Books Open to All.’ PRICE TWO CENTS, Copyrignt 1919, by (The ‘New The Press Publishing York World). COST OF LIVING UNTIL WORLD WILSON TELLS LEGISLATORS President Addresses Joint Ses- sion in Minnesota in Plea for Treaty. ©. S. MUST TAKE LEAD. {Ovation at St. Paul as Girls Sing “Good Morning Mr. Zip, Zip.” 6T. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 9.—Presi- @ent Wilson's special train arrived at thd St. Paul Union Station at 9 @'clock, The President was officially ‘welcomed to Minnesota by Gov. J. A. A. Burnquist, and to the twin cities by Mayors L. C. Hodgson of St. Paul and J. BE. Myers of Minneapolis. President and Mrs. Wilson received ithe station a few minutes later, The streets around the station were pa- trotled by Minnesota National Guardsmen, The Presidential party was immediately driven to the State Capitol, where the President addressed @ joint session of the State Legisia- ture at 10 o'clock. ‘When the President appeared on the rear platform War Camp Com- munity Service girls sang war songs. The girls brought a big laugh from the crowd and a smile from the Pres- ident when they sang “Good Morning, Mr. Zip, Zip, Zip.” Troops were drawn up on the Cap- itol steps, presentin= arms as Wilson and Mrs, Wilson stepped from their flag-draped automobile. Before Wil- gon entered the House chamber the chaplain prayed for the personal safety of the President on his trip. The Legislature, which began yes- terday an.extraordinary session to consider the high cost of living and other subjects, received the President with cheers, He was introduced by Gov. J, A. A. Burnguist, who said Minnesota hoped ther® would be some afrangement to prevent future wars. The President congratulated the Legislature on its ratification yester- day of the Federal Women Suffrage Amendment, First of all, Mr. Wilson sald, tt was the Nation's duty to set the commerce of the world going by the establishment of peace, After that there were domestic adjustments that must be made, mentioning among “ether things that railway facilities in this country were not efual to the fomand. “Until the industrial world is put on its feet,” said the President, “you cannot finally handle the question of the cost of living, because the cost) of living in the last analysis depends upon the thing we a ing about, but do not know how to manage, the law of supply and de- mand, “We have got to see that our own finance and our own commerce are quickened in every way possible, and then we, sitting in Legislatures like this and in the Congress of the United States, have to sce to it, if you will permit a vulgar expression, that no one monkeys with the ma- ehinery. “We might as well sit up stratght| and look in the face, en. The laboring men of the wor not satisfied with their relations i? their employers. Of course, } _@ontinued on Bleventh Page.) _ @n ovation when they stepped from} production and our own methods of | CANT BE GUT IS AT PEACE, SEWER GAS BLASTS INJURE DOZEN AND DAMAGE BUILBINGS pa Wns Forty Manhole Explosigns Near Third Avenue and 42d Street Spread Ferror.- An explosion of sewer gas in forty | manholes that tore the fron covers off and sent them hurtling high in the air with a roar that could be heard half a mile away brought terror this morning to the district from Second | Avenue to Lexington on 42d Street and from 40th to 46th Streets on Third Avenue. Virtually every. window was smashed in more than a dogen build- ings, several of them large tenement houses, showcases were upset and shattered and at least a dozen per- sons were injured. The entire dis-| trict looks am $f it had been the site | of @ glass faetory which had been bombarded by a Big Bertha. The, damage is estimated. at $50,000, Most of the injured suffered cuts | lfrom flying glass or lacerations and | bruises from being knocked down by thoblast, None will die, Those treat- ed by ambulance surgeons from Belle- vue include: Joseph Early, No, 773 Third Avenue, face cut by glass; He&ry Springman, No. 214 East 46th Street, left hand and arm lacerated; Hilma Montero, No. 346 Hast 44th Str=-+ ¢ace and hands cut; Joseph Arnavo, No, 773 Third Avenue, right hand cut and bruises; Francisco Mastropolito, No. 424 West 136th Street, burns about the arms and face; Nick Catchonia, Past 107th Street, burns and bruises; William H. Engelbrech, a deputy in- spector of public works, burns about arms and body; Robert J. Keefe and |his wife, Boston, bruised by being blown off their feet while descending an elevated station stairway; Albert Rellly, fourteen, No. 334 West 534 Street, bruises and lacerations of the sealp; Kate Murphy, No. 465 First Avenue, thrown to ground and bruised; Frank Schnittzer, No, 155 East 47th St eye cut and lacera- |tions of the head; Francis Wiley, No. |212 Kast 40th Street, bruised and shocked by being hurled to ground, | Butidings and busineas places that |suffered heavily from broken glass and other damage were: Krays & Co., drug store, No. Third Avenue; Grand Central Cloth- ©, 663 Third Avenue, to- getther with the apartments on the upper floors; five-story tenement at 57 Third Avenue; tenement at No. |646 Third Avenue; Tux moving picture theatre, No, 648 Third A |nue; Cafe Byron, No, 650 Third Ave; nue; Barman Shoe Company, No, 652 Third Ayenue, Labes candy stor 664 Third Avenue; Washington Lunch | 666 ‘Third Avenue; J.| hardware, No, 670 ‘Third | Avenue; A. Davis, men's furnish. lings, No. 674-Third Avenue ut No, 667 ing Store, | Room, ; tenement hyd Avenue; chop suey s (Continued on Sixth Page.) NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 39, POLICE TO STRIKE. INBOSTONTO-NIGHT: MAY GALL TROOPS Governor and Mayor Confer Over Plans for Protection of the City. FORCE OF VOLUNTEERS. Prominent Citizens Offer to Help Guard the Town—lIssue’ One of Unionism. BOSTON, Sept. 9.—A strike of’ vir- tually the entire police force of this city was imminent to-day, With only two dissenting votes, the Boston Po- Heemen’s Union voted to walk out at evening roll call—6.45 o'clock--and the city faced the prospect of only @ hastily recruited emergency force to~ night. Gov, Coolidge and Mayor Peters considered the advisability of calling out the State Guard, ‘There was no indication ef any de- velopment likely to avert the strike. All official activities turned to sur. jveying available means for protec- tion, The vote announced by the police- men’s union, 1134 in favor of a strike, to two opposed, was learned with in- terest as showing the strength of the organization, ‘The presence in the olty of Samuel |Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, because of the death last night of his father, Solo- mon Gompers, was’ learned of by union leaders, who said that he prob- ably would be called upon for advice and assistance, Under the la the State Guard may ‘be called out to protect the city either by the Governor or the Mayor. It was said, authoritatively, that the Mayor undoubtedly would act before night, and that the Governor might .cail upon State Guard organizations in adjoining cities to report for duty in Boston, The strength of the emergency po- Mee force available to Commissioner Curtis was uncertain to-day, It was understood that aproximately 500 ctviliang+had volunteered to patrol beats Gov. Coolidge refused to accede to & demand of the State Federation of Labor for the removal of Commis- sioner Curtis, Credentials giving arrest have been hundred citizens and a volunteer force organized by former Police Superintendent Willlam H. Plorce ‘The size of this force was not made known, but a secret meeting last night was said to have been attended by more than 100 persons, Voluntwers include Prof. Edwin H. Hall of Har- the power ud Issued to seve: vard, Percy D, Haughton, former Harvard football cos students, business men and former ser- vice men. A largernumber of special police Permits have been issued for atores, banks, industrial plants and othe: properties, State police have. watch the terminals wharves to guard against an influx of undesirable persons and < ments have been made normal ambulance service, enteen regular police ambulances will |be operated by volunteers and vari ous hospitals will keep others ready for instant use Students at) Harvard Uni » urged by President Lowe te service as on them been detailed to railroad and fourteen | sity 4 \3 4 1919. of New York, Gen, Pershing’s four-starred flag flying on the Waldorf, where the nation’s hero is the guest of the City FIVE KILLED IN ICT OF 1,000 STRIKERS AT HAMMOND, IND. HAMMOND, strikers were ard Steel police, conditions, outbreak Gov. ment of the Hammond troops were weeks ago. to feeling to return, To-da their way foreign-b of the | WoRkLp Ind., killed wounded to-day in a battle between 1,000 former emplofees of the Stand- Car Goodrle restore withdrawn Yesterday returned to work and this caused bad among the men, who refused (Contunued on _> Company, Police Fire Into Mob Led by Soldier When It Refuses to Disperse. Sept. and 9.—Five fifteen and the Two months ago 2,000 workmen at the plant went on a strike for In- creased wuges and improved working Five weeks ago there was a riot between strikers and the police in which a number of persons were injured and as a sult of this sent a regi- Indiana State militia to order, The about two 200 strikers when the 200 men were on to work, a crowd of 1,000 rn strikers gathered in the several blocks from the Standard Steel Car Company and threatened them, plant It is said they th Page.) View the City from the Kiss AURANT, THREATENS 10 SHUT SOFT COAL MINES OF NATION ONNOV. Acting President Lew Lewis Recom- mends Strike if Demands Are Rejected. CLEVELAND, 0., Sept, 9.—Recom- mendation for a nation wide etrike of coal miners by Nov. 1, unlens a satis- factory basic agreement in the cen- tral competitive field is reached ‘hy that date, was made here to-day by John L, Lewis, Acting President of the United Mine Workers of America, in an address at the opening of the biennial conventio of that organlsa tion, i “The United America are in no way responsible for the failure of the United States Ben- ate to ratify the Peace Treaty within Mine Workers of a reasonable length of time and thus Washingtoin bituminous jay officially terminate the wage agreement in the field,” Lewis said. “We are to- face to face with the situation wher in we cannot justify further delay as concerns our own affairs. I accord ingly recommend that this convention stion declaring the Washington ement officially terminated ata date not later than Nov, 1 “In the event that a ment in the central competitive is not negotiated by t asic agree. fleld te fixed (Continued on Second Page.) _ TAKE DELIOANS BKLOKM MEALS fine Good CARDINAL MERCIER WARMLY GREETED ON ARRIVAL HERE Belgian Primate Delighted Over Fast Trip of Ship—Will See Pershing Parade. Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Bel- sium and one of the great figures of the great war, whom all America has been anxious to see and honor since the close of the conflict, arrived @t Hoboken late this afternoon on the steamship Northern Pacific. The famous Archbishop of Malines, who recelved a warm welcome by representing Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Hayes—the head of the archdiocese headed his own committee—expressed his delight that the Northern Pacific having beaten its schedule by two days, he had arrived in time to see the parade in honor of Gen, Pershing. committees After embracing the Archbishop and receiving the homage of the members of both committees, the Cardinal blessed everybody in the large assemblage of civilians on hand to bid him weleome, and then went the Patrol with the com- mittees to go up the riven to the foot aboard of West 50th Street, Here autiomo- viles were waiting, and the paprty was taken to the residence of the Archbishop at 60th Street and Madi+ son Avenue, Pershing Parade to-mor- After th ¥, which he will witness from the Vatrick’s Cathedral, the ero priest of the Belgians will leave | “ Circulation Books Open to All ie | 16 PAGES TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Parily cloudy, omne PERSHING SPEAKS TO 45,000 PUPILS CARDINAL MERCIER ARRIVES: GETS WARM WELC New York Sees First General’s Flag Flown in U. S. Since Sheridan’s Dea OOOOS 6: snl GENERAL MOVED 10 TEARS | AS SCHOOL CHILDREN GHEER= 150,000 Crowd Around Sheep Meade ow, While Every Tree Is Draped With Small Boys—10,000 Play Hookey to Hear: War I At the request of, The Kvening Worle the local Weather tsswed at noon the following special forecest of weather New York for this afternoon and to-morrow; ’ ‘ ‘TMs afternoon, unsettled, prodadly showers, Rain tonipnt, ” Tomorrow cool and cloudy,-byt Mitle probabititgroy rate: ~ The school children of New York monopolized Gen: John J: for, two hours this afternoon and probably this greeting of children linger longer in his memory than’ anything associated with ‘his home, for there hasinever been an occasion in this city.to equal in-eolon effect and heart moving pressure the scene in ‘Central Park Sneep MeidOw, when the commander in chief of the A. E. F, appeared ona raised-plat- form before a crowd estimated by police officials as pumbering 150,000, people. . ing among the grown folks. HELLO, NORWAY! AMERICA | TWICE CALLS BY RADIO AGROSS THE ATLANTIC: Christiania Announces That Voice Heard From This Shore Was Perfectly Clear, PARIS, Sept, 9. HPORTS received by the Radio Agency from Chris- . tlania announce that the Government wireless station at Bergen, Norway, has been called up twice recently by a volee from & wireless station on the Ameri- ean coast. The Bergen station, which ts Rot fitted with a wireless tele- Phone transmitter, sent wireless telegraphic messages in reply. The voice heard i» said to have been perfectly clear. WASHINGTON, Sept, 9.—The radio telephone messages referred to probably were sent during ex- periments made by the Navy Department, officials said to-day. Telephone messages were sent from the New Brunswick, N. J., station to the transport George Washington, then in French waters, and under some conditions the messages, it was sald, could have been overheard by any radio station within range. for Baltimore to spend with Cardinal Gibbons He returns to New York on Sept. 16, and: on Sept. 17 in the Cathedra) will assist at an anniversary mass of requiem for Cardinal Farley, At noon on the 11th, whieh will be New York's “Cardinal Mercier Day,” His Eminence will be received for- Serieneh en meee: Peony three days | Central Park. ok Superintendent of Schools William L. Ettinger had arranged oF tH aeieonan S| Presence, In the park of sbout:'3$,000 schoo! children, but theta sala $990%9990O% | been 10,000 more than that on hand participating in the official monies and thousands more who played hookey for the aftemoon i were mingled with the spectators. Every tree commanding a view Sheep Meadow was draped with small boys. . The’ nineteen actés of meadow was solidly packed with children and adults, women As Gen. Porshing appeared ati® o'clock a cheer went up that “fee sounded throughout the park and for ‘locks on every side. The gloomy skies and chill air added rather took away from the effect scone because of the contrast the moving mase of color on ground and the shadows above. Gen. Pershing was deeply affected and tears came to his eyes as he over the acres of almost del admirers who had gathered to do bonor. SHEEP MEADOW A FIELD OF . RED, WHITE AND BLUE, From noon yntil 2.30 o'clock school boys and girls from all boroughs of Greater New York emailer boys and girls from el tary schools within walking of the Sheep Meadow poured Marshaled oy teachers they deployed with the cision of war veterans, Thousands of the high school pupils wore costumes which they had used on eae patriotic celebration during the and the result was that the space in Central Park given over) te t the celebration was a field of med, white and blue, The smooth’ greens- ward was hidden, The apace assigned to the sdhpel children was roped off to the and north of the raised stand was in the middle of the Meadow, Outside the ropes gathered the srdwn-ups. The assemblage overs flowed into Central Park West to the | westward and as far away as Fi Avenue ¢ othe castwand, The was jammed, A great police guard had its handy full taking care of assembloge which was so anxtous get to the front that rules were erally disregarded, The salute opened the & eatch to the theh immense”