The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1920, Page 1

ILSON bib SAY HE MIGHT CONSIDER WITHDRAWAL To- NIGHTS WEATHER—Snow, warmer. mh. LX. NO. 21,358—DAILY. Che | Circulation Books Open to All. »| + Coostight, p20, by The Prev Publishing jew ld) York Wo _NEW YORK, “TUESDAY, FEBRUARY +f 758,000 CLERKS IN U.S. PAY 0 PULA DO WORK 335 000 SED TO BO BABY GIRL OF THREE HEROINE OF FIRE ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE ee Wakes Mother to “See the Light” and De Luxe Ten- ° ants All Escape. War Army Demobilized, But Atmy of Civilians Won't *Let Go. 101,450 IN THE CAPITAL Washington Jammed - With} Useless Job, Holders and | America Pays the Bill. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Hostill- | Ges between the United States and | Germany ended on Nov. 11, 1918. On that date there were 109,000 civilian clerks, artisans, laborers and mechan- tes im the Government employ in the e@y of Washington. Just before we entered the war there were 35,000 civ! employees on the Government rolls in Washington and about 300,000 in the entire United States, including those tm the postal service. Te-day, according to the best figures available there are still approximately 101,450 ci sin the Government offiges in Wash- ington, a little less than three times the number employed in days of peace. Incomplete figures—admitted to be incomplete by the Civi! Service Cemmission—show that there were on the civil list outside of Washington on July 1, 1919, 657,- 744 employees, and there are no figures at hand to show that this number has been materially re- duced; in fact, the total of em- pioyees eutside Washington is see the light!” cried three-year-old Marion Bellows in the |apartment of Robert 8. Bellows on the third floor of No. 910 Riverside Drive at 5.830 A. M. to-day. Mrs. Bel- lows was awakened and saw flames coming fror. abild's crib. Bhe sent \-arion to the hall in ner husband's arms and telephoned Rich- ard Harris, the colored telephone op- “ eratGr: “Then she and her husband | aroused others and went to the Totby: “Mamma, & dose near the ‘ar Luxe Apartments, is an “H” | etructure seven stories on Riverside Dr ve and six on 162d Street. phoning an alarm to Fire Headquar- ters Harris awoke the fifty-four fam- ilies in the build: me of thet afraid of bei 162d Street. Most o them were ted down in che elevator by Louis colored, and many used the w of the aited to dress. en Patrick Walsh and Join Probably in excess of the figure Halpin of the West 152d Street sta- quoted because statistics gathered | tion went into the Bellows apartment before we entered the war estab- (to see if everybody was out and for sh that the Washington civil employees usually numbered about | 10 per cent. of the total. It will be fair to let it go at 657,000 outside Washington and 101,000 in Wash- a time were “lost” in t Battalion Chief Hen: ent ina alarm and firemen got the ze under control after it had eaten e smoke. | second vi sh- /its way into the npartment above of| boss of the Legislature ington, a total of TER 000 civilian |jcice%, pectendy: mim with bie tus| Assembly chamber last night while employees an the Government [ij was ‘not at home, and had done| the members wer asked their payrolls fifteen months after the foolaamuat in ie vullaing | views of him as ndidate. Mr. | conclusion of the war. | Anderson's ve No stronger evidence to support the fora lot of things wer mtention of the Government depart-| ADMIRAL BENSON | him which weren't intended for print, ments and bureaus to continue exp | which couldn't be printed, @itures on a war tasis rather than a| HEADS SHIP BOARD) "ith cent vay ‘the members ant peace basis can be adduced t! host of civilian employee 150,000 strong—numberir n this s more than lapses and Is Called Off Until one- of the total armed force we vent to France to win the war, Senate Has Acted. ARMY IN SKIRTS AND WHITE) WasHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Rear Ad- COLLARS CONTINUES ATTACKS, | miral W. 5. Benson, chief of . naval The unif my has be operations during the war, and now on . — No. mobilized. but retired list, has been selected by] J ay. test aii Bava Ga : a sident Wilson to suegced John Lar-| | S—The xreatest Stay aaa i Ms m member of the Shipping} habil ation jidehib gas i to make tions, placing the country on a sound| Treasury debi s Secretary of the In- | business basis 3 on March 1 4—Prohibition is the law of the nson’s nomination will not! jand, a Pp of the Federal Constitu hairman tion, therefore, a closed e “| SIMON L, ADLER of Monroe, Ma jority Leader: 1—It is tou ridiculous to be dis (cussed, I don’t care to be quoted or on the rejection of fered in After | that 4, went down’ the fire-escapes | of Oswego: | 1—he Republican Party nas in the | past and will in the future be able|T to select its ¢ Jidates from its own ‘FEEL ON ANDERSON FOR GOVERNORSHIP | Assemblymen Willing for Anti- Saloon Boss to Run on Any Ticket But Theirs. |PROHIBITION BIG ISSUE. Forty Members Interviewed Are Divided on What Should Be Done About It. (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb. 17—The Evening World has submitied to Republican members of the Assembly the follow- ing four questions: 1 at do you think of William H. Anderson as the Republican candi- date for Governor? 2. Is not a liberal interpretation of with full recognition of personal lib- erty, bound to be the big issue in.the State campaign? 8. What wil) be the dimger Issue? 4. Do you favor a plank in favor of {Prohibition in the State Republican The building, known as the De} piatrorm? saped | The majority of thg Assemblymen | interviewed were in@fined to thinic while the issue of Prohibition would have a place t will not be the big issue. Some w the opinion the ex- pulsion of ihe Socialists might be the big issue. Others gave the food sit- i ction question or Gov. reconstruction plan > of few favored a plank in the State platfo and the forty members who answered the ques’ culed the idea of An- the Republican candi- NOT ALL “VIEWS” ARE MEANT FOR PRINT. Mr. Anderson in his role as “dry” was in the awered the questions: more than! Sale of Former German Liners Col- | spEAKER THADDEUS C, SWEET|!ittle over a ye enrolled me other on ° e first day of the auction three questi y approp House Posner German iiners because the bids| WILLIAM ©. AMOS, 11th District Gomunittec on Appr son Dee. gre too low. The prices offered we Manhattan: 39, 1919, ween JUly from $100,000 to $500,000 less than the) 1—Why speak seriously of a candi Land the date t sealed bi i. 2 on the same ves of six months, ¢ AD gels rece which were all wi (Contiy 4 ghth Page.) employees L dra vturda, i | / aa Abad 4S a cnikpesa here | BRIT gel NAVY SAVES $24 employees were taken on and 4 Bae etna teat. Ma Bor DOCTRINE, were dropped ‘Kime tere had been only one bid of | ( SAYS LADY ASTOR, Between Nov. 11 a 5 tor the O H 2929, the numi mit es ene se the District of ¢ v was cus erly the ¢ Was on—was cul 4 down by & rf ng men did of 500 empivs r at) wan show ¢ hand” while ti basis of ca 1 Ww . er tain been ¢r 1 t rr last Novembe ASKS $900,000 MORE FOR HOUSING READING DECLINES WORKERS. TO BE AMBASSADOR The United States Housing Corp eae? ation, which was zed to take] LONDON, Fab. 17.—Premiet Lioyd care of the housit niment | George has offered the Ambassadorshit offices and Government employees, | at Waalugton to the Earl of Read 6 2 opr uu of $1,203,- | the former Ambassadai . says the og dao -— BPP ken Canales Ward satiine iat (Cogtinued on Eleventh Page.) has declined the appointment. paper on w ten if it were t ’ * Lady Astor said in an here last nig! TA BE BELL-ANS AP IER MEALS and ooo | GOOD DIGESTION wakes you leek Adry | the Federal Prohibition Amendment, | 4: in the campaign! Prohibitton | “OTHER WOMAN" WRITES WIFE 10 | GIVE UP HUSBAND Mrs. Heiss Says Wealthy Di- vorcee Told Her She Was Not Loved. ASKED POR A MEETING. Mrs. Nelson Cites Own Un- happy Marriage in Urging Separation. Asking Supreme Couyt Justice Cal- laghan the Brooklyn $u Court for an order for alimony of $25 a week and counse! fees of $500 pending the trial of her suit for sep- aration, Mrs. Mr~garet M. Heiss to- day submitted a copy of the letter which, she says, she recently received from the “other woman.” The other woman, Mrs. Heiss says, |is Mrs. ivorcee of No. 55 West 173d Street. That also is said to be the address of the husband, John Heiss, chiroprac- tor. The alleged letter from Mrs. Nel- son, asking for a meeting at which ghe and Mrs, Heiss could come to an understanding, reads as follows: “My Dear Girl: As part of the ‘Eternal ‘Triangle of whieh you anc | Joan are component parts [ am writ- rit of in me ing this letter in a si I hope you will read | out criticism, | xteen years ago, when I gradu ated from college, I went abroad with | my mother and on the journey became acquainted with | singer. good wu it through with a charmin, der tha: Aurusta Nelson, a wealthy | LLIONARE KICKS. “ON GHARGE OF $25 | FORASSNGLE HAM, }Robert Mainzer Acc’ catessen Dealer of Extor- Uon in Lunch Bill. WILL FIGHT Says No Ham in the World Can Be Worth More Than $1 a Pound. a How much ham? Is $25 Could any ham cost that amount? Robert H. | of the | Hallgarten, an exorbitant price? Mainzer, junior member & Co, but fur better known as “Bob” Mainzer, King of | the Buffs—a civilian wo much inters, has been made an honorery battalion chief and has a ticker over his bed and everything—is anxious to get these questions before a jury in the Municipal Court without detay, Asked by the management of | Reuben's Pure. Food Shop, Inc. at} | Nos. 2120-22 Broadway to come, | jacross with for one—count it| | one—ham, Robert the Buff has | |reared up on his hind nd called | in a lawyer. Mr. Reuben also has }a lawyer. The preliminaries have | been disposed of and in a day or ave | Shown at Proce Wi nen [the Case | Ham will receive | “It began just be [are Mainzer sald to-day Twenty-five Dollar licial attention. New Year's, ore He was ten y on us that day, Mrs. Mainzer called Land knew how to fascinate ‘he | at the food- shop across from the | young American school 5 We were ULES GeGePAs ie SAGER | married. My mother died a year later days later we received the bill, eaving me all ler money oe ¢cllowa: “Then came lette from ladies,| 1m. », nam rs many letters. I pleaded with him but} Ts he told me he did not love me, and,| (4 4 well—and so we parted—what else! piste rie 4 z ) do? I begged him to re-| ft, 4.00 |turn. ‘Dhis is the greatest mistake a] {2 ine byes |woman can make, for even if he re- e turns both find it unendurable to live] seane under the conditions. | “Because he desired it 1 divorced | jhim in 1914. Even my closest friends | Stata knew nothing about it, [ went abroad rE und did what T coud to wlieviate the | utter ngs of the poor and returned a me Weasure unt | “Nothing guve net John, Life completery changed have learned to know what rea jlove is, His love and mine were neither pretheditated nor planned, | and became more g as time went on. He narried you without any love and from a false sense of duty | “He tries by kindness to Jcontented, so hat he has no love for » go West, I st not ts hn j from you—they were “We often you could find some good true man | Could e happily with Je | knowing you were an unloved wife, and that his every thought was with | | another }was spontaneou: | overpowe make you not notic I wanted 1 love you wou a 1 behind. but uve ken and bis ever yours 4k of you and wish you n, man? I would really Ke to meet you, so that we can | thoroughly understand this case, We n go to some quiet place and have lunch, When you have made your decis will you telephone Jobn, and he will’ communicate with me?— A rw says she and John were n Queen Imported Pompeian Olive Oli adds sest and flavor to « imayonaise Freaeh Grouting Adve % dn't kick because id Mr. a millionaire, “but because charge for the ham to be reason, I felt thi position to who is feit the ut of all for a man in my to Mainzer, 1 for a ham was going to make living a little larder for the other fellow. Go I wrote th food shop man the following letter J Jan. 7, 1920. “Mrs, Mainzer has turned over to me your bill for $52.10 for payment | We have to-day returned to you two bottles of olives costing $4.00 and ong bottle of mangoes costing 75 cents. | “Referring to your charge of $25 | for an R, V. ham, I can only say that f you expected to put this over you are vastly mistaken, At the time of Mrs, Mainger asked purchase how (Continued on Sixth Page.) (CRAZED MAN KILLS HIMSELF AND BABE Garfield, N. J., Electrician Driven | to Violence by the Death if His Wife. e death of hi flu,” John E mad by & baby son lived for nom ¢ Mrs. Fromberger had be for several days, and Fromberger had lost avach sleep ip nursing Ber at night, "DR. GRAYSON WOULD uses Deli-| IN COURT. | 1s enough to pay for a} Nassau Street banking firm of ested in fires and fire-fighters that hej} one or*two friends to drop in! I am unable} red us Second-Clase Post “Office, New York, 1920. vid. f “Circulation Books Open to Al” ad TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Snow, warmer. Matter Y. PERMIT PRESIDENT TO MEET CABINET nies Alarmist Reports Regarding | Improvement Continues. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. RESIDENT WILSON con- P Unues show improvement and was up early to-day, shaving himself, Hear Admiral Grayson, his physician, said. De. Grayson's statement was prompt- ed by reports that the President had a relapse last night, and that Dr. Francis X. Dercum, Phila- delphia specialist, had been sum- moned for a midnight conference. The President's Cabinet prob- ably will not meet this week, Dr. Grayson said, adding that if the President desired to call one his | Physician would not @bject. | Secretary Tumulty talked with the President as he took his morn- ing airing on the South Pot \ and found him in “splendfd con- dition, | hoe suid, “I spent the night at House," declared Dr. e Witte Grayson, | “but I have done that with the | exception of one or th two nights President's fliness " WILSON'S TEMPER _ UNDER ANALYSIS; Reldpse and Declares Steady \ NOTE ON FUME SETTLEMENT PUTS BLAME: ON PREMIERS ———_-—_++ President Said Present Situation Was Not “Created by an Act of American Government”—Not in Nature of Threat, White House Announces. WASHINGTON, Feb, 17.—President Wilson, in his “memoran- to the Allies concerning their Proposed Adriatic settlement, in- formed them that the United States might have to consjder withdrawing the Treaty of Versailles from the Senate if the Allies went ahead with their plans Without the consent of the United States. ° du This statement was made offi- cially here to-day, with the fur- ther statem: BILL URGES JERSEY TO CONTROL FOOD TO CUT LIVING COST) State Administrator and Deputy for | Each of Twenty-one Counties Provided for in Measure. TRENTON, Feb, 17. SSEPMBLYMAN SHIELDS of Hackettstown hay of- fored a bill to have New Jersey assume charge of the food and sea food products of. the State, for distribution and to mm- imize the ultimate cost to the con- sumer. The bill provides for a State t that the American outlined not in the nature of a threat, but as a state- ment of a situation created “not , by an act of the American Gov- ernment, but by an act of the British, French and italian Pre- miers,” which would place the United States in the position? Hf it were a party to the treaty ef” Versailles, of subscribing through the pact to rights of sovereignty and other agreements to which it was opposed. The Treaty of Versailles and the Anglo-Fianco-American pact are He Had Tiffs With Grover Cleveland. | By David Lawrence. Special Correspondent of The’ Eve- ing World. ‘ON, Feb. 17 (Copyright | WASHIN 1920).—Grover Cleveland and Wood Jrow Wilson never got along well to-| | other, in a tiff over acag | Matters at Princeton Unive | |sity the former said of the latter that | and once demic was a man of “violent prejudie es"! jand ungovernable tempe Probabiy in moments of s naly-| sis Mr. Wilson has admitted an in-| |clination to get furiously angry over} 1 | things that rubbed him the wrong | way. There have been times, espec- | ‘ally in the days when Europe was| |taunting Mr. Wilson with that “too jprodd to fight” phrase, when the| President of the United States would | have welcomed the opportunity to take on a serap with anybody WILSON’S DISCIPLINE CON- CEALS HIS HOT TEMPER. | he public doesn't know Mr. Wil- | }son as a man of hot temper. He has | | disciplined himself to « 1 it, and | shrewd anaged | to prevent vent ren abc t him have from giving n him to Angry Left to himself nost surely hav sion public ev exhibite quest ent wou'd his tem ons per long before the Lansing episode That is why 1 regard it as not an | unnatural or ¢ manifestation normal ot Mr. Wilson's mind, hut a perfectly and natural outburst. He jused to get angry at Paris, On one . he came away from a meet- | *rime Minister Lloyd | emier Clemenceau and the | | Peace Conference and he never said a word for hours after- | ard to any « ie household, He Was mad clean t sh In the f n years that IT have | studied the Wilson first n his lecture room at Princeton; ther ae ak expondent when he was Ge ersey and candidate | later in wr t the White Hc ons country—it haa | tt from time to tin ystem and checkpa | n Second Page.) | > - KESTAURANT | |. Borcial # Toowia A | tendon boil i Se | rea ggg and atring Sie Wate dinner, te, Lath Boor, World Bia. food administrator and an ap- propriation of $100,000 to carry the work. The administrator ‘onsidored inseparable, as far as tho question is concerned, and if Pres!- on dent Wilson should determine to would have power to control and | withdraw the Treaty of Versailles, it administer the food. products, | would mean that the Americans with a county administrator in French pact would be withdrawn at the same time, it was explained. State Department officials take the Position that the French press is em voring, through setting up a ery threat on the part of the Americam yvernment, to place the blame for Nearly Unanimous Negative Vote | the situation which has arisen at America’s door, euch of the t ore counties, peed |NO STATE INQUIRY IN ALMIRALL JURY a instead of :on' the in Senate Kills Thompson Re- ts of the foreign Premiers, where it quest for Investigation. | belongs.” ALBANY. If.—A resolution: in- It was reiterated that on Dec. | troduced ‘ e today by Sen-| 9,/before Acting Secretary Polk “aioe 4 F. Repulicnn. | left Paris, the American, British poige iinet ed to investigate | and French representatives had Extraordinary and Jyry in New ¥ agreed on a settlement of the * County, Diastric Attorney Swann si ea he hia rien lek fae Adriatic question and it was feated by a vote that was nearly unan- | charged that subsequently, with- Pheer out consulting the United Stat: Fj Senator ‘Thompac mond F. A biased and not a proper person to ait on that tribunal. | The resolution was attacked by Minor- ity Leader Walker,’who said the Senate e the Grand Jury | emed that Ray- | the Allied Pr@niers sitting at Paris adopted a new agreement which was transmitted to Am- bassador Wallace for the approval of the American Government. rail ¥ could not act, becau ta functioning | dinary manne his, it was said, came as a great Majority Leader ® criticised the | Surprise to the American Governmeft, resohu as the “most unheard of |which sent a communication to the thing ever presented by a lawyer in the | premiers asking whether they pro- Senate. ‘posed to settle the questio aN br dps posed to Je the question without cons' American Government. The rs were said to have replied that they did not intend to do so, but ing the rem MINIMUM WAG WAGE BILL. ovevelt Bill Previden fer Ap- Beceave! 143 ent an ultimatum to Jngo-Slavia that unless it ted the new settle nent, the terms of the original Treaty t London would be carried out Officials said Seoretary Lansing's signation Was not connected im any way with the A¢ question, ‘TEA AFTER CHURCH, |REPLY OF ALLIES TO BE CABLED TO WILSON TO; NIGHT IS BISHOP’S PLAN , IN JERSEY DIOCESE Wi mild Aid Clergymen to Get Ac- K ne London Report Is That Presi- sig quainted With Their People dent Will Be Asked to a Episcopalian Contends. | Settle Question, st oe LINES of the | LONDON, Feb. no alited ) k pal D se Supreme © 1 has competed the i sted ut af Lenten te answer to President Wil- oT f the clergy of his ‘ itic memorandum and wilt “a diocese yesterday that be and it to Ambassador Davis to-night 4 served after evening sery to An an to Washington, BS i sid the clergymen (o get better The council declined to-day to make 4 juainted with their people at President Wilson's comm agile ; old fashioned — people tion or its reply, It is dat this, but I publication of the texts will eat you ink it ver," ubly be left to the American Pres!- lent ay Api) Conrereore | w held | The matte me over by tis ‘Trinity Cathedral he y the [conference und the opin.” jon was <apert that the co-opera- nn a =—6— ee Ean +