The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1920, Page 3

« SNOW REMOVAL: TRAINS DELAYED, ides {UP State Blizzard Threatens Shortage of Milk Due to Traffic Paralysis. (CARS REMAIN TIED UP. MacStay Blames Prohibition | for Shortage of Labor to | Clear Streets. ' "The cold wave which reached New | ‘Werk City yesterday from upstate gections continued to delay the work oft clearing the streets to-day and knocked out the overland schedules of the railroads on through (rains) from the West. Because of this it was reported | this afternoon that only about 80 per cont. of the usual milk supply will | reach New York to-morrow. Officials | of dairy companies said that no milk | trains are being moved north of Utica, An attempt will be made to suply | uch families as have children. In- valids also will be given preference in the distribution. Railway communication with points west of Syracuse on the New York Central has been suspended. ‘Through trains from Buffalo, due in New York early to-day, will reach) there lato to-night. The Wolverine, | the Twenticth Century Limited and the Detroit special, due this morning, were reported stalled between Buffalo and Syracuse Amold B. MoStay, Commissioner of Streets, said that he blames Prohibi- tion for bis failure to obtain laborers | m among the lodging house popu- jation. “In the old days, when a man could get a bumper of whiskey,” said the Commissioner, “he was willing to do this work. Now he won't. ‘The Commiasioner added that there are 15,000 men at work, and Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Madison and Lexing- ton Avenues have been cleared, as well as Broadway and West Street. | Sixty big army trucks are aiding, | Use of the two old Thirty-ninth Street ferry boats, Gowanus and Bay | Ridge, to carry fooddloaded trucks | from the Desbrosses to the ath | | Street ferry, as suggested by E. J. O'Malley, Commissioner of Pul Markets, broke down to-day when it was discovered that the boats would | not fit the 129th Street slips Surface companies continued their efforts to break the ice. Offi- cials say there #s no telling when the lines will be restored to normal, Dr. Freidman’s _ pic machine was used at Broadway 3 0th Street, and the baby tank, whith has been doing good work, in the vicinity of Eighth Ave- and 46th Streets. Two} more of these tanks are expected to | be acquired by the Street Cleaning | Department for snow removal work. The commanding officer of the Port of Embarkation at Hoboken has joaned about sixty trucks to the de- re being oper-| mu used nue and 45th partment and these ated by soldie: The cold has gripped the Fastern| part of the country from the Missis- sippi to the Atlantic. Weather fore- casts from Washington, however, | predicted that it would be of short} duration, and that the mercury might | be expected to rise to-night and to- | morrow, Near freezing temperatures have been reported from the Gulf sec- | tion as far west as the Mississippi, | and there have ling frosts in Georgia and Florida, and up-State New York points report temperatur hovering around zero with five to six inches snow Frozen ain oft n Island y to-day been kil dda Amboy Division on the Rapid Transit lines and hundreds of com- | brakes two ferry muters miased } reaching Ma han an| yur late. At Te am was | used thaw the switches, Trolley | cars maintained » tairly well, hough some schedules were di: organized, UP-STATE TRAFFIC TIED UP BY STORM Blizzard and Six Inch Fall of Snow Paralyzes Trolleys and Tra Service. Iroad t were to-day wh «the = snow when a six 1 ompanied b mite ar t near the many Bitxaard. RINGFIELD, Maas., Fi 16.— | tullroad conditions from the North and | West to-day were as bad as any re- | | suit from the recent Dligzard. Due > drifting snow Boston and Albany inch ature snow Was uc hou eelivd rie wban electric wed for more than Mohawk jacks sins Valley and bliazard delayed, zed in | favorite, | Reid denied | to make the long journey without m New England | : |New England Train: oan THE EVENING WORLD, MonDAr, FEBRUARY a8 1020. CoD HAMPERING American Legion Members, With Aid of Woman Pur aT Post Worker, Clear Christopher Street of Snow. REID DIVORCE SUIT TO JURY FEB. 23. Framing Justice Orders of Issues After Default of Financier. The @vorce suit of Daniel G. Reid and the counter-claim of his wife, formerly Margaret M. Carrier, a Casino will go to a Supreme Court jJuryMext Monday. An order was signed to-day by Justice Bjur for framing the issues on the default of Reid, who failed last week to be represented by counsel when the case was set down for argu- ment. 1919. Reid accused his wife of be- ing too friendly with Sampson Tchernoff of the Russian Army. the charges and Cupt. Techernoff also filed an affidovit in denial. In her counter-claim Mrs. Reid charged her husband with misconduct with various unnamed women from Aug. 10, 1910, the date of ther marriage in Paris, up to the commencement of his action ‘The Reids made a separation agree- ment March 27, 1919. Mrs. Reid is the ‘third wife of the financier. She cane from Detroit and appeared on the stage in “The Runaways,” “A Chinese Honey- * and “A West Point Cadet." ceid came from Indiana in 1899 and helped organize the American Can Company. MAYOR MAY LEAVE FOR SOUTH FRIDAY t Denartive ee On Condition ' of City Streets—Change of Cli- mate Ordered for Mrs. Hylan. If the streets of this city are in satis- factory condition by next Friday nient, Mayor Hylan will leave for Palm Beach then, reaching his destination Sunday He will be accompanied by Mrs. Hylan, who recently suffered @ nervous breakdown, very likely by Plant and uctures Commissioner Grover A. Whalen, who !s convelescing from an attack of Mrs, Whalen. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sinnott, tae former the Mayor's Secretary, the latter the Mayor's daughter, Virginia, will not accompany the party unless there is a last minute change in plans. “While I jook forward to a few weeks’ rest at about this time of the year,” sald the Mayor, “I would have aban- doned al! thought of a trip to Florida this year had it not been for Mrs Hylan's condition. Her physician has ordered a complete rest and a change of climate. Mrs. Hylan does not want 63 LOCOMOTIVES FREEZE. Service Resumed lambus. enusylvania After Tie-Up at © COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 16.—Traffic over the Pennsylvania Railroad lines through Columbus had been restored practically to normal early this fore- noon after a tie-up of several hours said by railroad officials to have been duo to 63 nes freezing up. OWjcials {denied the trouble had been caused by . strike of shopmen in the roundhouse ast night as was first reported, Extra crews, they stated, had been put to work carly to-day thawing out the es and service was be- ing rapidly restored, With the thermometer registering one degree below zero at Cleveland this morning and a * wind piling snow deep drifts, westvound passenger an freight traffic on the New York Centra nes was badly delayed. Pennsyiy Rail Company officials report trains delayed. rains from the West are from six to hours late, while others were an- ulled, Boston and Maine freight move- nients have been suspended, A foot of the Berkshires, Freezing troitey tracks demoralized olley service and some interurban nos ceased to operate. Sixty members olley crews were unable to report ‘o-day Owing to itiness, Shiver Whee G 100,000 Pipes Break. PITTSBURGH, Pa, Feb, 16,—More than one hundred thousand persons in the Ohio Valley, south of Pittsburgh, | shivered to-day because a sixteen-inch main of the Manufacturers Light and Heat Company had broken during hight hear Cameron, and cut off ths supply of natural gas. Many factoctes were shut down and schools aod. The divorce action was begun June | Atrs. | influenza, and by) | Tied Up by GEN ONG CHMISTOPUES ST Anis WAVERLY Mag, RADED REDS SENT TO ELS ISLAND ~ FOR DEPORTATION Pink Paper Found in Paterson Gives Clue to June Bomb Explosions. When pink paver similar to that found in Washington after the bomb explosions of June to-day in one | archist-. Ww. W. yesterday in Paterson, N. J. Chief Frank R. Stone of the New Jersey division of the Department of Justice Jeciared his belief that the bomb outrages which rocked the Nation ‘ast summer originated in Paterson, of L’Era Nuova, taken in yesterday's raids by 2 was discovered the alleged An- headquarters raided ot Sevonteen members 100 agents of the Department of Jus- tice and described as one of the most dangerous anarchist groups in the United States, were placed behind | Ellis Island bars iate this afternoon to await deportation proceedings. | Eleven of the twenty-nine men taken in the raid were peleased, and one escaped, | Two dozen sheets of the pink pa- per, alleged to have been found in the Paterson printing establishment of Benjamin Mazzotta, No. 298 + ght Street, will be sent to the Bureau of Standards at W imgton, Chief Stone said, is to be compared with the paper found at the home of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Chiet one called to Newark by toograph agents of the Department in a score of industrial centres of the East who will go over with him the I. W. W. records seized in the raid. Search was begun to-day for E, F Doree, described as the Philadelphia secretary of the I. W. W., who occu- pied a room with Andrea Graziano of the terrorist group. In this room, after the flight of Doree and Graziano, were found the letter-files, record books and other up ia formerly kept at 1. W. headquarters in Chicago. Books of account, the kept according to the most modern bust- ness methods, The filing system was of the latest design, Card-indexes and were kept in up- raiders say, were correspondence to-date style. The records show the existence of fifty I. W. W. branches in Pennsyl- vania, Illinois, New Jersey and the nufacturing — cer of ON and and a detailed ex mn material will begin with t of “D, J." agents from the \F prisoners is Ludivieo M. Caminetta, editor of the Ttaban An- ar st magazine La Jacquerie (the |M ) Only one of the arrested men ia an American citizen. Two are Spi one an Austrian and the rest |Italians, They are tho well dressed, lintelligent type, it was said. A bigh official of the Department from Wash- said: of Justice who had come Jington to oversee the raid, Ve feel | damage.” “L'Era Nuova group was formed about twenty-five years ago under the leadership of Enrico Malatesta, t was from the L Nuova group that Bresci, the assin of jKing Humbert of Itaty, graduated and he was an active member before he left Paterson for Italy. They be- lieve in furthering their aims by Jassassination and violence, comm by individuals without waiting for! the ‘mass action’ prominent in the| tactics of less desperate Reds.” pence as | Killa self With Safety B Michael Perresian, 0} 2ith Stree mmitted sul y ting his throat with F Aveme and East Mid Stre morning. He Was a palient {Practically be a battle between ex- ;| Charles Parbury 13 head of the special we arrested a dangerous | gang before they could do any serious | EXPERTS TO BATTLE IN FRITZ’S TRIAL |District Attorney Says He'll Show | “Motive” in the Coyne Murder, The second week of the trial of Ernest Fritz, the youthful Tuckahoe lveryman, charged with the murder of Mrs. Florence Coyne in his auto in Bronx Park last March, opens to- day with District Attorney Francis Martin claiming he will show both motive and premeditation and will convince the jury that his change of |a “ripper” murder is well founded. The dramatic story told by Police- man George Leis of the Bronx Park station is construed as “favorable” to | both sides. /The rest of the trial will perts. Drs. Kennard, Norris and Healy of the Mecia Medical Examin- ers forces, for the State, will attempt to convince the jury that the beauti- ful stenographer came to her death by violence. Arrayed against them will be the testimony of Herbert Coyne, ex-hus- band of the victim; Dr. Justin Herold, professor of toxicology at Fordham University, and Dr, Otto H. Schultz, who will attempt to show the jury that the death was the result of a series of criminal operations. The trial id being conducted by Supreme Court Justice Vernon M Davis in trial term part 1 of the ; Bronx Supreme Court. ELLIS ISLAND BACK ON PRE-WAR BASIS All Immigrants Will Now Be Ex: | amined at Station—New Tests | Likely to Reduce Number Ellis Island went back to Its peace- time organization to-day, and from now on immigrants, who during the war were examined on board steamstivs, will be examined at the immigration station. Michael F. Brophy has been placed charge of the registry and Informa- on divisions; Fred A. Cuttle in charge | the primary inspection division, | which, in future, will devote Itself to} the examination of first and second cabin passengers only; John McKee In| charge of the deportation division, and inquiry division, In the old days as many as 5,000 Im- migrants were examined daily at Ellis Island, but Acting Commissioner Byron H. UI this morning that, with the reading test, which is now necessary, and with the — shot of men, he doubted if more than 3,000 could be pat through in a day nov PAR A2 Sl R FLU RESTRICTIONS LIFTED. Copeland Says Fight Against Epl- demic Has Been Won. Business houses and the theatres re- turned to their normal schedules to- day, All restrictions growing out of the influenza epidemic have been abro- gated and Health Commissioner Cope: land says the fight against the disease hax been practically won. F o-day follow: — Influenza 5a day, 907 23. Deatin 115; pneu: SAYS M’ADOO WILL RUN. Indianapolis Paper Willing to De € Asserts He Ix ani INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 16 In |diana Daily Times to-day sald William G. McAdoo will accept the Democratic nomination for the presidency “if the | people demand his services." The article indorsed McAdoo as can-| | didate for President and Thomas Tag: | gart for United States Senator, to suc ceed Harry Ww. ELIHU ROOT IS 75. Elihu Root was seventy-five old yesterday. H part of the he received | | years | spent the great day at his home, where innumerable messages | vtulation where many and called upon him. evening Mr guest of Nicholas Murray Butler at a} dinner at the latter's home to which| er of Mr, Root's friends and atos had been invited, LS Aetna Setilemen Confirmed. Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer to- y confirmed the settlements made by Benjamin B. Odell and former orge. C. Holt, re ers for the Inc., with Root was the Lssoc! | 4 x-Gov. uiting | ment $241, NEW CLUE TO BONDS SLAIN YOUTH STOLE Revelations by Furey Put Police On Trail of Whitney Co.’s Securities, Following revelations made Satur- day by Edward Furey, one of the five; men arrested in connection with the alleged conspiracy to steal $5,000,000 worth of securities, police authorities to-day sald they are confident of be- ing able to recover a portion at least of the $128,000 worth of Liberty bonds stolen from Whitney & Co., No. 12 Wali Street, last August by Benhy Binko- witz, @ messenger, afterward found murdered near Milford, Conn. Fifty thousand dollars worth, of the bonds were recovered in Cleveland last No- vember As soon as Furey expressed a will- Ingness to talk a hurry call was sent for Depupty Commissioner William J. Lahey, Detectives Mayer and Brown, who have been working on the con- Spiracy case and Assistant — District Attorney Unger. Furey was taken to Unger’e office and shortly afterward a telegram summoned Bl Mix, Coroner at New Haven, Conn. conference lasted until late Sat- night, after which detectives New Haven were rushed to th scene of the Binkowitz murder, and also, police authorities here admitted, | put'on the truce of the still missing | Liberty bonds. — BROOKLYN TROLLEYS UNITED Hobart ter in Charge of Ope tlon—No DB. R. T. Strike. ‘Troley lines of Brooklyn began oper- ations to-day as a unified system under an arrangement by which H, Hobart| Torter, vice-president and general man- axer of the Brooklyn City Railroad Company, assumed direction of oper- ations of the Nassau Wlectric. Queens County and Suburban, Coney Island and Brook! and all other 1. R. 'T. lines. Clinton BE, Morgan will have direct con: trol of operation of the B, R. 'T, Ines which have been placed under the « eral management of Mr. Porter by K celver Lindley M. Garrison. A report that B. R. T. employees would strike Wednesday unless” th demands for a 23 per cent. in | were weenie as denied by P. J. §) ident of thi : Amalgamated As Foclation of the Street and “Biectric Rallway hoy ees. ———>—___ TELLS OF F SPANG TROUBLE. The Spang wilt contest before Sur- rogate Cahalan to-day entered into its third week. Mrs. Mabel Spang Ancker 1s contesting the will of her mother, Mrs. Rosa E. Spang, who left most of her $2,000,000 estate to charity. Miss Kathleen La Troy, a steno- grapher at the Waldorf, where Mrs. Spang lived, was the principal witn She testified Mrs, Spang had told she had trouble | with daugh’ Mabel; that Mabel had a very bad daughter and once had a woman companion that had_ cost Spang) $7,000 to get rid of." pied oil als FAVRE CASE TO GRAND JURY. Four Witne: her (Mrs, on Examined at veatigation Into Girl's Slaying. Evidence in the case of Mra, Emily May Fayre, charged with killing her twelve-year-old daughter, Emily Mar- karet, on Saturday, Feb, 7, in thelr «partments in the Hotel Ashton, 93d | Street and Madi.on Avenue, was to- | day presented to the Grand Jury. by | Assistant District Attorney ediet Dineen, Four witnesses were exam- ined The Grand Jury wit to-morrow re- port to Judge’ Wadhams in the Court > General Sessions, —_ = Ned Lantern Used in Raral Nold-t Redfield Forrest, chauffeur for Coul-| ter D. Huyler, was driving his emplo er's car down Round Hill Road, Gree wich, Conn, last night wher he 2 waving As he the lantern’ b ‘onched nd ordered hits r got a $5 bill and vd | ring, He also got a watch, but gave that back after examining it, and ese caped in @ waiting automobi | | | \Heights Taxpayers’ |uptown and downtown tra [96th Street to 157th Street, and urged SUPERIOR sa | SERVICE AT 5 CTS. DECLARES HEDLEY Against Plan to Yo Utilize Third) Tracks North of 96th St. for Expresses. Frank Hodiey, ' sumed the stand to-day before Deputy Public Service Commissioner Edward J. Glennon at the hearing on the request of the Washington Association for more adequate service in the Broad- way subway Maye: Goldman, counsel for the ‘Taxpayers’ Association, produced 4 blueprint of the subway, cmphasizing the third track which iies between cks from that it be used for express service downtown in the morning rush hours and uptown in the evening “impracticable,” said Mr. Hedley, examining it, “because it would re- sult in congestion and the service would be worse instead of better.” “Could the service Ge worse than it is now?" asked Mr, Goldman. “It could,” replied Mr. Hedley, very much worse.” ‘As to the wisdom of placing that third track there, eighteen years ago, when the plans were drawn,” Presi- ‘and j dent Hedley continued, “I should pre- fer to be silent. Engineers are great men, a8 a rule, but once in a while you find a pest among them just as among lawyers, for example.’ Deputy Commissioner Glennon poured ofl on the troubled waters and Hedley went on. “Admitting that the Broadway sub- way to-day is simply ‘saturated’ with | traffic,” he said. "No suggestion that has been made by the Washington Heights Association is practicable. All lack merit. ‘The solution of this problem lies in more snbways. We cannot carry all the people in the world in the present tunnels, Somo one must capital cannot be induced to do it Mr. Hedley does not agree with the finding of Stone & Webster, engin- cers, he said, that trains can be run on I minute and 30 seconds headway The station waits, he said, would be too long. “And I do not agree with this sug- gestion that the third track be used for express trains between 96th Street and 157th Street in the rush hours,” he declared, “because you would be taking express servico away from ,000,000 passengers a year—from 9th Street up to 157th Street—to give it 09,000 passengers beyond 157th Under existing conditions the or service goes to the greater supe numt ‘Superior’ service?” asked Lawy Goldman. “Is there @ ‘superior’ ser: vice?” “Considering the rate-of fare, fiv cents," replied Mr, Hedley, “a d cidediy superior service.” President and Gen-| |eral Manager of the Interborough, re- build more and private! FIVE MEN NAMED IN CLAYBURGH SUIT | rction tor Hasband’s Death tm Man- hole Up for Trial. Tria! of Mrs. Kate Harding's $50,000 suit against the City of New York and [the Robertson Construction Co, for [damages in the death of William Hard- jing. her husband, was begun to-day in \"o Supreme Court, Brooklyn. leer Accused by Cotton Conver- ter in Action for a Divorce. Five corespondents are named by Albert Clayburgh, cotton converter, of No. 200 Brogdway, to-day in papers} filed in Supreme Court in his action for |stepped into @ manhole at Greene and 1 enues a @ divorce from Alma Ciayburgh, the | feet to the sewer. His body was found singer, of No, 370 Park Avenue. At Gold Street the following September. - . | Testifying for the rtson Co., whieh Clayburgh charges his wife with mis-| Testifying for the Robertson © my leonduct with “Messrs, Wilson, Brown, |{ Kramer sald Harding stepped out | Black, Watson and Carr.” He does not |of the way of a trolley car und was give their first names. The divoree ac truck by anothe: |e | On Feb. 7, 1917, Harding, caretaker for @ number of familtes, Brookiyn some men shouted to him and n was started by Clayburgh Feb. 26,]stepped back and fell into the man- ‘The couple were married April 23, 1908, and have two children. ("Recently Mme. Clayburgh sued her husband for alleged arrears in payments Super-Extre Quality under @ separation agreement in whieh | : | sve was to eet $15,000 a year Sheeted Lambs Wool —_ | cesteses oy pemeemon comegett . Mame Cr SOO m | Patrolman ‘Thomas J. Rowan of the|| $87.50 | Onk Street Station, recently convicted | > | of assault, was given a suspended sén- | Bova fleet tence to-day by Justices Murphy, Ed- | [ construction. Highest | wards and Herbert in the Court of Spe- | [rade tetings. Ex- | olal Sessions. Rowan was convicted of assaulting Solomon Bloomberg, No. 61 Kast 118th Street, in attempting to | extract a confession from him tn a Iar- ceny case. Justice Murphy sald ciem eney was shown Kowan because of his previous excellent record. ‘WhiteRtose Deservedly The Largest Selling Ceylon Packed Tea in the World ILLE Getter Chocolates ata Lower Price” CANDIES Old FashionedFig | Chocolate Flav-| Chocolate Julep bart Pers Gum Drops—and | ored Nut Squares | Jellies —p u ro . 535 Broad there's nothing| —Nuts! Cut and] fruit Jellies, tra at Serine Be ‘Adjoining Bowery Savings Bank "ur" thasd, Prone § Spring new-fangled about | chopped, delicately | sparent, sugary | 40 Broadway them except the | tincture with fa-| brimfull with the | ar Bleecker Bt. flavor. Great, big,| yor of chocolates. ite favors and | 742 Broadway cry etal nuggets | Squares of nutrit: | buried ina square | At Astor Pl. studded with glint- | ous sweetness that] of delicious ie Brondway Ing aus will win the ap-|Chocolate “er raat ar e Proval A_favor- D repared 25 34 ite “with 1608 Broadway LD ert Chor the Cite wi CO ase wo Pound most Pou Box|and Pound Box | 120 Nassau St boxe Net Welent er tical. 3 old... Net Weight | Geekman & Ann ed 2 to bet 55 and ~ ny 5 and noise ee wears Husband Posed as Single. Mra fe Hanft of No, 100 ssth| et, F Hil, who ts suing her husband, 90d, for divorce. Lo. day asked Justice Callahan in lyn for $25 a week alimony sonable counsel fees pending Trecision was reserved, Mrs hares in her affidavit that Brown called on her at her hd told her Mr. Hanft had elven engagement ring and promised to her, saying he was @ single man, | i weet Sat bak Hoover We 1 Cet Herbert Hoover, who will augurated as President of the be In- Amer can Institute of Mining and Metal- lurgical Engineers to-morrow, will outline to the institute a plan for es tablishing a great at system at the mines at industrial plant aps in special Government : m which delivery. of be regulated, thus climinat delivery by spurts," which re- vult in serious tie-ups. t ore Small FRANKLIN SIMOX, MEXRCS SHOPS Special Disposition of A Limited Number of N’S OVERCOAT ALL REGULAR STOCK ALL WOOL FABRICS 560 °70 $75,880 and $8: £95, $100, $110 BUSIN 8 West 38th Street—Street Level AND TAILORED— Reduced to ®45 Reduced to #55 Reduced to £65 Reduced to $5 OVERCOATS OVERCOATS 5 OVERCOATS OVERCOATS charge for necessary alterations FIFTH AVENUE SS HOURS 9:00 A. 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