The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1920, Page 3

TRADE, NOT ORK, LURES YANKEES TO CARBBEAN PORTS Vessels io Tropic Islands Filled with “Keen: Busi- , Mess Men. OPPORTUNITY IS THERE. Americans Converting Cold Weather Playground Into + a Business Arena. By Lindsay Denison. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haytl, Feb. 2 ~The crowded cabins of the steamers: bound out of New York for Caribbean ports are not altogether filled with fugitives made by the Volstead law. Tt may be true that Cuba’s 80,000 winter tourists chose their cold weather playground because of the attractions of the races and the priv- ilege of taking a drink out from un- der the chill shadow of a peniten- tary. But in the smoke room forums and atong the rail, among the passengers for the Isthmus, the Bahamas, Hayti, Jamaica, the French,West Indies, the Virgin Istands and Central America, the anticipation of the openly-sold stimulants at the other end of the route is a mighty small factor In the conversation. It is about equal to the sumount of discussion as to why tropic seas are so deeply blue, whether the flying fish wiggle their wings, whether the shaded sails of the purple cham- bered Nautitus has brought him bob- ving over the wavelets and where he * going and why. Tho real*talk is all of business chances. It ix the talk of the sort which one heard on trains going to- ward the big days of Goldfield and Tonopah, or later, in the Southwest, where the Texas and Oklahoma oil elds were only “comers,” or in the neighborhood, still more lately, of the new gas belt in Pennsylvania, The rearrangements of after-war commerce, as the confusion settles, has made ciear countless opportuni. ties for the man of small capital as well as for big business. MIDDLE-AGED AMERICAN GETS| A NEW START IN TROPICS. Only last night the talk of men and dollars brought out the name of J. D. Maxwell, once an extensive real ¢s- tate operator in New York, who found himself “cleaned out” at forty-five and went to the Isthmus to begin over again as a worker for the Isthmian Canal Commission at $80 a month. in three years he saved enough to start a small commission business on the Isthmus for New York houses. * Last year he had a respectable bank rating. He left a man in charge of the Isthmian business and came. to | Hayti | On this ship (though the Colon | ness man who was telling the ory did hot then know It) ts a clean-" ut ex-artilléry man, six months -dis- charged after duty on the Isthmus, who is joining Maxwell here as the first sma! port salesman. The Pan- ama Railroad Steamship Line—stow to speed up enterprise as a Federal corporation must be—is establishing a feeder route af small steamers to make the rounds of West Indies ports | from Colon. They will fetch and | carry for Maxwell and scores of * others like him who have begun bus- iness with little backing other than théir own sound sense and keen ob- servation. Five at least of the sixty-five pas- semmers are ex-service men. All of them have been on duty at Panama stations, They are ngt coming back to re-enlist. They dre not sleep- walking back to dreams of ‘tropic ease. ‘Left to themselves their talk fm the talk of the soldier from the ines around the worki—wine, woman and song—with very, very little accent on lyric music. . The tactful Ustener hears of many strangely diverting traditions—where they found Gladys Fequila’s false teeth the day after the armis- tice: why Gen. Blatchford was un- hurt when two sailors of the United States Navy blew up his sleeping porch with dynamite a year ago, and a thousand and one unfinished tales of glorious deeds—about which one may not ask questions lest the nar- rators become conscious of an audi- ance and grow silent. EVEN SOLDIER “IRRESPONSI- BLES” CAN SEE THE CHANCE. These same irresponsible-sounding doys, when the traders, bankers, plunters, fruit men and travelling salesmen begin thelr debates, fal) quiet and attentive. They frown if) anybody interrupts with a story. They | want to listen to business men who ‘talk tropic business. Not one of them is ameasy over the prospect of getting | a job; those who have not made per- manent engagements already have @ choice of several empitoyers waiting | for them. It !s not too much to say that they could all of sag Soe om- loyers right here on the boa! Mires cannot but be impressed with | the respect paid to the man with gmali capital but who also has a definite plan for using it. He is re- garded, with more real interest than | She agent of the great concerns, such | ) the Goethals-Wilfred-Boyd Corpo- | Mun of Colon, the branch of the ‘A\nours, the Hatien-American Sugar Company and the rest. , ‘On the Gorgas we have Frank M. ‘Tracy, a former soldier with Philip- | pine service, Who.now calls the Isth- faus home. He knows what he is talking about. He has made $10,000 capita! grow to an income of $26,000 a yeur "The man. who. will come down to) the Tropic Islands,” says Mr. Tracy, | “with small capital—and always) wrowing his trade or the technical aide of his business well—can do the same thing, nu EDGE ARE SURE ASSETS, “Tf 1 knew a young man with from 916,009 to $25,000 who had spent In a Pim or pajama or stocking oF lin a week. SMALL CAPITAL AND KNOWL-| tor, who came to this Northern Girls at Florida Resorts SS SS LiteR oo MISS. ALICE DELAMAR ano MISS EVANGELINE B. JOHNSON. in Aviation | | | oe. Aviation has now become a favorite sport for girls’in Florida's Winter resorts. The picture shows and Miss Evangeline Brewster Johnson, who have taken up (left to right) Miss Alice Delamar iation at Palm Beach and are seen out flying together each morning. the slightest hesitation in advising him to come to the Isthmus with a certainty for all the future. He would manufacture for the Central and South American trade—for working people. His fabrics, Great Britain, would cost him from tar less than they cost his United States | competitors, Panama exacts but 10 per cent. duty. The Government would at least listen to a plea to re- mit all duties as an incentive to the ishing of a new business. His cost is low; it may go higher in the, cost of th seale of living of our negro and native labor is not such as to threaten immediate in- creases, For a market he hag alll South and Central America and the West Indies—and the cheapest shirt which can be bought down here now wholesales ,at $18 a dozen and is so flimsy it falls apart. “Honest goods, sold within a day or a week of the place where they are to be retailed, will sell at a tre- mendous advantage against goods which must be bought months ahead of the season in the United States or Europe and pay $16 or more a ton freight charges and interest on time of transportation.” “Phere are over 2,000,000 negroes in Haiti who wear a jumper and a pair of overalls as their onl costume. Who is going to make these things in Haiti? He is one of our coming captains of industry.’ Mr, Tracy explained that the bank- ing end of such enterprises will not to be regarded as especially difficult, The American Foreign Bank, oper- ated by forty national banks in the United Sta’ is opening branches in every business community down here There is one in Port-au-Prince now. There will be one in Santo ‘Domingo These branch banks are in charge of men who know South American methods of finance and how to adapt their work to local con- ditions. The Royal Bank of Canada has been doing the same thing, sub- stantialy, since the Spanish-Ameri- can war. The National City Bank ts back of the Bank of Haiti. They are all looking for the business to come, all seeking to make it come and to deserve good will when the business man is no longer the small business man, Everything that the Smoke Room Council has ‘said along this trend was indorsed by Edward P. Sine, formerly United States receiver of all revenuey on the Isthmus and now one of the experts on tropic trade and finance-of the Foreign American. HIGH CLASS SPORT FOR THE BUSINESS MAN. But it was not Mr. Sine's dis- courses on banks and credit terms and the rest that the casual traveller inclined the most attentive ear, Sometimes it was possible to get him to talk fishing. Tales of catching a five and a half foot tarpon in the Gatun Lake at the top level of the nal, using an 18-thread line and a 21-ounce rod—easting « fly for tar- pon! Tales of papageta, the red snapper, the barracoseta and the rest of the big game fish—not as the object of a week's exploration with launches and costly paraphanglia and guides, but no farther away from one's office than the Dreamland Pier or the City Island docks from the New Yorker's skyscraper—and with what a difference! ‘And to return to business and pro- hibition, There {s no dry law sight south of Florida. There are many skilful brewers out of work for themselves and their capital in [the United States. Is the Balboa brewery at Panama to continue to be the only competitor with Chili and Holland in quenching the malt thirst of Middle Amprica? eaten \ h Jersey Oppores Pier Line Extension ‘The New Jersey State Board of Com- merce and Navigation intends to op- pose the request filed with Washington authorities by the Sinking Fund Com- mission of this city for permission to extend the pier head line of Manhattan flong the Hudson River from Chris- topher Street to 72nd Street 100 fect, > . Bellon! Has Pneamnta. Lieut. Leopoldo Belloni, Italian avia- to represent the Capron! Airship Com- pany of Italy after he had been wound- fd in “action and honorably discharged © YO@r from the Italian Army, was reported K jlast night to be eritlealt weaderwoar factory, 1 shouldn't have | monia at che Rite-Cariton. y i of pneu- the | city after the war ND FOR TENANTS FOLLONS MYSTERY OF MISSING LEASE Court Halts Proceedings to Conduct Inquiry Into Disap- pearance of Document. Additional regarding the disappearance from the files of the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteer- jing of a lease H. Kannensobn, owner of proper at No 5 to 119 East }rogeh me to light today. | mystery str Kannensohn is alleged to have signed |the teases with his tenants fast Sep- |tember and is now attempting to break them. A written complaint to Presiding J ice Aaron J. Levy, \eh: arg that Kannensohn is obtain- Jing eviction warrants, resulted in the | dise ery that the purported lease had disappeared, Justice Levy has halted proceedins against tenants and to-day said he would conduct an investiga- tion to a court. Cuptain Charles A. Goldsmith, who negotiated many agreements between fandlords and tenants while Nathan Hineh was chairman of the cammit- tee, said Kannenchan signed a Jease with al! the tenants in his property and that when he left the committee in Décember the lease was in the files, Since that time Miss L, Grant has been in change of the commit tee’s offic said had been told by one of Kanvensobn's tenants that Captain Goldsm given Kannensohn the | 20k over and that iit not been returned. ‘The nogotiations are marked “closed.” Miss Grant 6aid she knew nothing about the lease. Capt ¢ complainant ing the sure all of them their day had use to 1 had Idsuvith confirmed to Justice 1 tenms of the the y regard- These > of lease $1.50 a month last other $1.50 this plainant char ling the incre Justice Levy said, if a com- Jease Was ex- ecuted by Kunnensohn and that fact could be proved the loss of the lease would not react against the tenants. Their testimony would be sufficient to make th s of the ing, regardless of whether it had be- come lost or been stolen; he declared. a GOMPERS MEETS RAIL MEN. Confers on Prop Action to Pre- vent Return of Roads. el Gompers, President of the nerican Federation of Labor, con 4 to-day at the Hotel Continent: with representatives of vartous unions of railway workers, prelimin: toa meeting to be held in Washington next week by the heads of all the railway unions to bring pressure to bear upon Congress to prevent the return of the roads to private ownership March 1, and also to obtain a general wage increase ranging {rom 25 to 40 per cent. Mr. Gompers leaves to-night, and on to attend a meeting of the Exeoutive Committee of the American Foderatio: Stiecaieselede ua. May Test Practitioners’ Plea Court. Efforts of the Christian Setence Church to obtain recognition of its ractitioners’ certificates as an ecu: or the absence of public school teac ers from their work having failed, believed that a test case will be brought ise ub- | lease bind- | Saturday will be in Jacksonville, Fia., | a fiSe GRAND JURY REPLY TOSMITHTONAME OF A MILK FAMINE | SON SWANN STAFF IN NEW YORK CITY Answer to Governor Asking For Information About In- quiry Now Being Framed. The Extraordinary Grand Jary.ac- ‘Fears of a serioas muk shortage! cording to its foregpah, Raymond F. vanished day. according to J. J Almiral!, will meet to-day to for Fitapatrick, retail sales manager for uate a letter in reply to Gor. Smith's Borden Farm Products Company demands that he, be imformed of the; The Now York Central Raftwad nature reported a norma! transportation of the Grand Jury agw milk. Mf the suppty is low. an offt- District Attorney Swann’s stall See te eet, Sas ‘ " poe ‘ facilities Dut co the di’ Mr, Almirall says in the fepty changes will be made against at feast three of Mr. Swann's assistants. Mr. Almirall and his conferees believe that Gov. Smith will request Attor-/ ney Genera! Newton to take charge! of the investigation into the District Attorney's office. The District Attorney has learned jthat the Grand Jury has received | anonymous letters complaining of the manner in which cases have been handled by his assistants. ‘The Grand Jury for several months! would receive r THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1920. . NO DANGER EXIST Arrival of Delayed Trains Re- lieves Situation—Conserva- | tion Warming Issued. farmers | railroad Up-State milk York Sunday re getting mas farm traits due in New ned here to-day via mitk to ¢ was ‘The puditc to conserve Fitupatrick said warned. ho milk sappiy that $0 per cent been the the company had served and that ‘s patrons tally x to-morrow with a increasing percentage 70 pe daily has had charges before it made by xs Bronx was tery © pe: cent. Gaston B. Means against Assistant }™{% Dasis ~day with the arrival of District Attorney Dooling. Means changes that Dooling, because of the influence of the officials of a Chicago | life insurance company, inimical » him, had framed a conspiracy ring about his conviction for the murder of Mrs. King-Robinson. According to District Attorne Swann, Edwin P. Kilroe, an asst aft, is to be igrestigated Secause of | @ complaint that he had. failed to bring about the indictment and ar rest of the members of = Wall Street} concern which he investigated spring. The change that Arnold R paid $32,000 for the dismissal of the charges made against him of shooting two policemen in a gambling house raid is another case. Assistant trict Attorney Smith has said that be is the assistant referred to. Assistant District Attorney Peoora says that he understands that former Deputy Attorney Generdl Alfred L. Becker, who was a witness before the Grand Jury complained that Pecora, was using the functions of the prose- cutor’s office and the Grand Jury legally in his investigation to ascer- tain whether crime had been commit- ted in the trial and conviction of Joseph Cohen, for instigating the murder of Barnett Baff. Another complaint is that one of the deputy assistant district attor- during the raids on fake oil stock companies, exploited with @ number of relatives a similar com- pany, in which investors were misied. The grand jury conducting is ex- pected to file carly next week at least three indictments charging perjury and subornation of perjury. in the Cohen case. The grand jury meets to- night at the home of one af its mem- bers to complete this investigation, paige oes ROCKEFELLER WILL FILED. stein Reckefeller Named a of Hin Wifes Esta The will of Mrs. Almira G. Rocke- feller, wife of William Rockefeller, of No. 629 Fifth Avenue, who died Jan.| tion. Nelson Gray, Executive Secretary 1%, was filed for probate to-day All| a ted. se of corsets has decreased rf ’ 3 | considerably, owing to new styles, Gray | Mra. Rockefeller's, property 18 be-| aig and women make their corsets | queathed to her husband, who is named executor. The value of the estate is not given. / William Rockefeller brother of | John D. Rockefeller has a son Perey A of No, 292 Madi: Rockefeller, and two daught AY lier McAlpin, 4th Street and Mrs Rockefeller Dodge, of Madison, N. J ———— SEIZE TWO IN FUR THEFT. Detectives Allege They Were Carry- ing Part of $10,000 Rebbery Loot. | Mercer Street Police Station this morn g pending investigation of a $10,000 r theft from Lazarus Bros., manufac- turing furriers, of Xo. 38 West retary of Loe |nood of Carpen | bail by Magistrate lem Court to Charles Fieseler, Simms Mra. Favre Pleads Not! Sespended Sentence f | Mike. | ‘The Grand Jury filed with Juage; _ Michael Difaico, known in the Genero! Wadhams in the Court of General Ses- sions to-day an indictment charging |rurder in the first decree against Mrs Emily May Favre, who shot and \ner daughter, Emily Margaret Favre. [Recive stare olde in their ronm st te] merning by Judge Wadhams, The Hotel Ashton, Madlso: we and sd! port of the probation oft rowed Street, Feb. Attorn for the ac-' that Difaleo } i clean ed' woman entered a pla& gf no sinee hi er) and asked for time to make a/ gone to Cana ancw Judge Wadhams allowed tcn| Judge Wadliams said he would give | Dilalce smother chance, } t0}™ last | kiMed L. A. Van Bome! Manager of the he normal ies Were made to-day and | receiving station of his company, and while every borough had received the some milk ty curt: 0 milk. Health Com ind is planning a survey of the situation to- | day with a view of tmsuring a supply of milk to families with children and to invalids. ‘The Street Cleaning Department announced to-day that the main arteries of traffic were open and that it ts mow cleaning the side streets. Meanwhile it appears that the $2,190.- 000 appropriation which was voted by the Board of Estimate last Friday, a supply had been Yonkers received toner Cop total of $3,290,000 for the season, Is being expended at a rate close to $100.00 a day, prospect that must be asked. BLAMES LABOR FOR and that’ there a HIGH CLOTHES COST Ctothiers’ Association Says Prices Cannot Be Cut for Two Years. ing of the Clothters’ At the ope Soctation of Nationa! convention As- ed by would mi jatready hs Jat advanced 5 pred impos e “phic the labor, shoulders of longs. Corset makers voiced a similar com- plaint when the National Associatio:. of | | | Corset Manuf: | vention to-day turers opened its con- The cost of wear longer. . ~ MINING INSTITUTE j mes President of American En- | gineering Association — Will | Speak at Banquet To-Night. | Herbert Hoover this morning became of | President of t | Mining and American Institute Metallurgica, ngineer's Harry Goldstein now holding its I2lst annual m Street and Harry at the Engineering Building Rivington Street were detained at the | West 29th Street There wus no cere- mony 1 thank you for this hor highly esteem,” Mr ing in a diffident ma r, which I Hoover said, bow Jets Wide Open. King, prop 4 room hous» at Brooktyn. Street, tee of . iceman James S penters. Jot the Poplar Street station Fieseler charges Pineri fatied to ac-| broke into a room rented Last Frid count for $4 paid in as dues and that|to Pred Runtzel and Pineri's books show a shortage of |and found them both $3,000. Two gas jets | Seastons © “Vanishing M: because of his sensational escape fro: that court about six years ago, ‘wan recently | freed on a suspended sentence cent.; other appropriation | Secretary to- day Secretary Vance explained that or- | ders for next spring, fall and winter} retailers | cotton | rns and labor ts out of all prop>r-! } HONORS HOOVER © Thetr Room | who arrested in Canada, was HELEN A. CARRERE THE BRIDE TO-DAY OF F. K. BARBOUR WOMAN ADMITS “SHE GOT BIG SUMS. THROUGH SWINDLE One Friend Mortgaged Home | to Pay $5,000 for “Claim” | Against Du Pont Co. | Mrs, Willa M farkeyed Robinson. hand some ditoreee. thirty-one years pld, who tives at No. 2034 Grand Concourse, Bronx, pleaded guilty to three indictments in General oharging grand Hareeny Sessions to-day. | | J Wadbhams wilt pass sentence nursday The arrest and conviction of Mrw. sizing series of | xtending over a number of n reveal ano swindles years, in which 4 large number @@ ! |persons in Buffalo, Troy and New York, well a5 other cities, have) en F | sutter TAS w “1 Mrs. Robinson made | F jne attempt to “gaine.” Feature Will Be Two SétSixne nad asserted to her victims that of Twins, Sisters and Cousins, [she had a claim against the I I. Du as Attendants | Pont Company amounting to $87,000, strength of this and her conceal her t and on the Miss A. Carrere, aaughter Of] oq tools and charmipg manners Mrs. L. Sidney Carrere, No. 137 Bast|hag succeeded in “borrowing” sume A Street, was married to-day to }of money ranging from $75 to $5,000, Frederick K. Barbour at St. James's} Two specific charges wi made Church, Madison Avenue and Tist{ against her. One complainant was Str A reception followed at the | Samuel Pri cashier of Keen's Chop |RAILROAD WOR |etala of the company that Mar. St. Regis H House, at West 36th Street, who Mrs, Maynant Dickinson and Miss] said that he gave Mrs. Robinson $76 Eliza’ Carrere, twin sistegs of the}in cash. Chiles Howard Potter, of bride, attended ler. Thomas Bar-| No. 412 West Ith Street, asserts she bour, breher of yridegroom, was | obtained ayproaimately .$1,000 from best man flower girls were him the bride's twin cousins, Aan and} When the news of Mrs, Robinson's Jane Donald larrest and arraignment, became pub- ROB TANK CAR \SACRAMENTAL WINE. Considerable Number Incapacitafed When Tank Load of Grape Juice Breaks Down, SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Ped: 17. LARGE tank car of wing, believed to have been COM = + signed from California te Boston for sacramental purpose®, was broken into by railroad em= ployees in the West Springtieht yards of the Boston and Albany Ratiroad while held up for repair yesterday, officials of the rot said to-day, and enough of the wine was consumed to incapaci« Inte a consideraie number of workmen. lic a number of men and women from City Island hurried to the court. Alt claimed to have been victimized dy ¢ | the prisoner, The worst sufferer was Miss Amma Short, who tuld the court that she had met Mrs, Robinson at a social af r, and was so charmed by her she had mortgaged her City Istana home and “bought. the clam against the Dupont Company for $5.00." When whe investigated she was told by off. Reob- “working the same inson had beer game for years. Jwoques Vidal of City Island @aid that he had cashed three cheshe amounting to more than $1,000 for Mrs, Robinson, and all had proved worth- lem. ‘The Willow Brook Duiry Com- pany, also of City Island tad cashed checks which proved bad. Mrs. Robinson claims to be engaged to the editor of a Buffalo newspaper. A week ago Albert Tracy and tis wife, Bessie, with aix children were taken from Pawling, N. Y. Eastview Hospital at Tarrytown fering from the flu. Sunday a bal was born to them and yesterday baby and its mother and lat r two-year-old son died. Thi and four other children ar still in the hospital, two of, the children Delme iy ith. deapere ‘The mother was twee tyetlght years old nee | A Most Remarkable Dress Sale—Wednesday of Serge Sizes, 14 to Misses’ Dept.— 3rd Floor OPPENHEIM, CLLINS & € 34th Street—New York About 375 Misses’ Dresses Suitable for Small Women to 86 Bust. 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