The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1920, Page 3

THE EVENING HAYTI TO-DAY AFTER 4 1-2 YEARS OF AMERICAN OCCUPATIO Haytian Bandit U.S. FOUR YEARS IN HAYTI: MARINES SUBDUE BANDITS; ~ PEACE AND IMPROVEMENTS The American Administration Has' Ended Revolution and Accom-| plished Wonders in Production— A Transformed Country. By Lindsay Denison. (Special Staff Correspondent of The New York Evening World.) Cepyright, 1920, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). FIR ¢ A SERIES OF ARTICLES. PORT AU PRIACL, Hayti, Feb. 4 —For nearly four and a halt years the United States has practically governed the independent Re- public of Hayti. Yet, of what is actually going on in this black republic the people of the United States have had only glimpses: through brief ne .S despatches and occasional articles in periodicals. Most of us do not know how the United States came to be in Hay The President of the republic, Gen. Dartiguenave, does not venture to go abroad unless he is guarded by Pri- vate Miller of the United States Ma- rine Corps. The Chief of Police of Hayti is Col. F. M. Wise of the Ma- rime Conps, with the title of General Commanding the Haytian Gendar- meric. The virtual Military Sovernor is| Col. John H. Russell, commander of | the Provisional Brigade of Occupa-| tion. John H Mclihenny, former United tSates Civil Service Commis- sioner, is absolute dictator of the Government finances. A. J. Moamus, formerly a court clerk in the United States, is receiver of all revenues, and A. J. Matthews is the collector of , Customs, with an American subordi- mate in every pott. The National City Bank of New York practically controls the Bank of Hayti Under a ten-twenty year agreement to help Hayti become an orderly and prosperous country, making the most of her marvellous capacity for pro- duction, this body of Amierican rep- resentatives is sitting on the lid of a volcano, which within a month se- riously th: tened to blow them and the authority of the birt “bugs, to kingdom come and set e nation back on the road to bankruptcy and shiftiessness, down which it been meandering for more than a hundred years, This has been always by does at nothing Menaced (pronounced ckos") of the northern hills—“hills” which make White Mountains of New Hampshire look like hummocks— not mean iccomplished. Cacos the they have held off this militant, bloodthirsty and thieving band of ragamuffin politicians and politi- cians’ tools with one been trying to pull Hayti to its feet with the other. And it must always be remembered that Haytians friend- lest to the United States do not alto- gether n the thought that the country needs all this “help” to get it up. WONDERS ACCOMPLISHED UN- DER AMERICA’S OCCUPATION. There hundreds of miles of splendid roads in Hayti to-day where six years ago there but ten miles of road over which a wheeled vehicle of any sort could pass safely, The country is spanned in every direction with tele- phone wires. The streets of the busi- ness district of Port au Prince, which were mere pigsties before the occu- pation, are as well paved and drained us those of New York City, Evil smells have disappeared from the cities and along the highways; mos- quitoes have been diminished by at east 90 per cent.) laborers with @’H.” (Sanitary Service of Hayti) smeared in paint on the crowns of their straw hats are constantly work ing along the streets of the capital and larger towns. There are-or have been recently—no more burnings of sugar cane and cotton tracts and coffee usines (drying plants), As a result capital for the relis are automobile were D- lishing of advanced methods of eul- tivation and harvesting is beginning to flow into Hayti, Every steamer brings prospective investors or their investigators. There 1s a prospect that before ‘the ten-year term is up— if the 3 do not spill the beans before there may be +a a that good job at fair pay for every Hay- time: tian willing to work These things have by the marines or. the trators with pick and shovel been done civil adminis- "They have been done by the Haytians, ap- parently by their own initiative—but they were never done before. Col. Russell has to be a diplomat as well as a soldier, He is a man a little past middle age, with grizaled b kindly and smile and a square cut mouth under a round face, He is proud of “his boys"—“my erazy boys” he calls them with an affec- tionate smile when speaking of Han- neken and Button, who destroyed the Caco chief Charlemagne. not eyes hand and have} The most prominent feature of his office is a military map of the republic. He knows every minute where every de- tachment of Americins and Haytian ‘Gendarmerie is at work. How far from the ordinary fighting | Job of the sed-soldier his work has gone was shown but a day or two ago when 452 Caco rebels marched in and surrendered voluntarily, risk- ing their lives.on his word. | Some of them came in 150 miles. They did not dare march in a body along the main trails. They came through the jungles, through which your Caco can slip as quietly as a partridge through a stubble field. They did not show their faces until they gathered at a camp ten miles out of Port au Prince, and then, pro- tected by marines, marched into town in a body to Gen. Wise's htadquar- ters at the Gendarmerie. GIVEN A CHANCE TO SURREN- DER ON PAROLE. It must be remembered that the tacos have been murderers, thieves, Pillagers. They are outlaws, They have always assumed that the pen- alty of their capture would be death. But Col. Russell sent out word that those who would come in, iden- tify themselves, promise to be good and never again to wear the red shirt or arm or hat band which marks the Caco, to keep away from Caco camps or raiding parties, would be allowed to go free, They understand that if they vio- late this parole, the penalty will be death, The Gendarmerie, unofficially, do not hesitate to intimate that the death penalty will not be inflicted by a firing squad but that it may be hanging or “coupe la tete” (cutting off the head) Tell a Caco he is to be shot and he will slouch into the helpless hopeless- ness of the savage fatalist. But tell him hanging or “coupe la tete” awaits him and he will scream in agony, grovel, clasp your knees and with tears streaming d®wn his black face beg for slow death by torture instead, Nevertheless, knowing their own Past unspeakable sins—and despite all denials, I have heard stories which convince me that while voodooism and cannibalism, the eating of the “goat without horns,” is practically wiped out, it is not extinct—452 of these men have trustfully “turned themselves in"; 452, or just half as many again as the murder battalion which tore into Port au Prince, Jan 16, bent on robbery, arson and murder, Many who have been closely inter- ested in West Indian affairs for years find themselves somewhat at a loss to account for the presence of United States authority in Hayti and for the existence of a protectorate. The disturbances which were partly settled by the treaty agreeing to the protectorate began a few weeks beforc the turmoil of the World War began— in August, 1914—and reached ¢ their climax about a year later, At that time the news of the proceedings occupied but a few lines of in the news- papers and even less in the attention of Briefly, this i ac newspaper readers. what happened: HOW NEGOTIATIONS FOR A PROTECTORATE BEGAN. In the first half of 1914, Great Brit- ain, France and Germany were all de- manding firmly and thfeateningly that Hayt! meet her financial obligations. Deferring to the Monroe Doctrine, each of the foreign nations was intimatin, to the United States that it might be necessary to take over the Haytian The United States, through a commission headed by former Gov- ernor Fort of New Jersey, began ne- gotiations for a protectorate, In May, Great Britain got a partial payment of $62,000 from President Zamor, Imme- diately thereafter both France and Germany made a formal demand for control of Haytian customs. The out- break of the World War saved the sit- wation temporarily; Hayti declared a moratorium for her own benefit, Zamor was succeeded by President rah LO Ye K WORLD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1920. CACO'S SURRENDERING BARRACK 8 and Outlaws of the Northern Hills Pe s PorT AO PRINCE. |CITY FIGHTS FOR 5-CENT CONEY FARE| rt, Who Will Intervene in Test Case, Bases Claim on Dual Subway Agreement. Corporation Counsel Burr tas ob. tained court authority to intervene and | Mle « brief for the city in the matter of the five-cent fare to Coney Island. | He will contend that five cents is the legal fare as established by the dual subway agreement. The case is that brought by Julius} Merksamer against the receiver of the | New York Consolidated Ratiroad *Com- | pany, He pald ten cents fare to Coney sland under protest and sued to re- Jcover five cente plus a $50 penalty |In the municipal court the case was | decided against Merksamer, and it is now to be reviewed by the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court. The ap: | | peal will be heord early in Maroh. | If the appeal in miccessful the public will pay only five cents on the West | End, Sea Beach and Brighton ines to REFUSED T0 RAISE RENTS, SO TENANTS DOT THEMSELVES “Golden Rule Landlord” S Gougers Will Suffer in the Long Run. George C. Keily is the only Golden Rule Lardiord in New York. that's what the se en families who are bis tenants at No. 66 West 106th Street swear. When the war came and rents be. gan climbing, Kelly did a little figur- ing, and calling his tenants together announced that was perfectly able to meet the increased taxes and as he increase in rents It was a shock—a joyful one, They had been paying $30 a month for big, comfortable that. } Last figuring themselves and prepared for a raise at last, but the Golden Rule Landlord announced again there would be no raise. Thereupon the tenants called a meeting and yoted a volunta: themselve Kelly accepted just to get ev to install electricity in the building “IT be ise but once the increase, n set to work at ieve in live and let live as a with a bunch of two room and kitch- enette holes in the wall that nobody will live in, and a lot of building reg: ulations to face. They'll see then tha grabbing everything in sight doesn’t pay, for their ill gotten money will clas. There was a revolution and he was killed. During the fighting the French landed marines in Port du Prince. Gullaume Sam became Pres- ident, and a revolution was at once started him. ‘The United ates Admiral W. B Caperton, senior to the commander of the French forces, to Haytl, Be- hed Port du Prince, Sam had shot 160 prominent citizens, held by him as hostages and had himself been dragged from the French Le: against sent Rear fore,he r tion, in which he had sought asylum, 4 and shot. The next day, July 2 Admiral Caperton landed marines the American occupation prac' began, By the middle of August |there were 2 United States m |rines in the republic. They “supe vised” an election, Bobo, leader of the revolt against Sam, who had de. clared himself temporary President, fled the country. General Dartigue- nave, who has been Pi sident ever since, was elected. Admiral Caperton reported to |Washington that Southern Hayt favored a protectorate, but the people of the northern hills were not recon- ciled to it. Admiral Caperton pro- claimed mar! law opt, 4; the treaty for the protectorate was signed Sept. 16 The treaty provided that the United (1) receive toms furnish Hayti a ) form a constabulary gendarmerie'of Haytian citizens wi American white officers; (3) manage all public expenditures, taking out the | costs of the American occupation, the | gendarmerie and the interest and should all ¢ with a financial not accomplished in the first period, shai esate Strikes Lost Workers $14,000,000, HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 24.—Wages lost by workers during strikes In Penn- | sylvania in 1919 totalled $13,943,502, ac cording to figures compiled by Com- missioner of Labor and Industry Clif ford B. Connelley to-day. expenses himself there would be no 1 life policy,” he said ‘Just wait a couple of years, and these profiteer ing lan rdg will find themselves | most of it go for remodeling those cubby hole Theodore, who endeavored to make Jan arrangement with the United! States for a protectorate. It was told| among his enemies that he con-| templated granting a naval station to} the United States at Mole St. Nich- ys|Old Wooden Boats Atieast|cock and Whitehall, artments and had ex-| crossed from Atlantic Avenue Brook- pected to be charged at least double | however, they did some |to the helm, The Shinnecock caught | | | | | Men shouted and the |the Union Ferry GROWDED FERRE CRASH NEAR SLP AT THE BAT cape Damage Below Water Line —Women in Panic. Passengers on the ferries Shinne- both into a panic heavily loaded, were, thrown when the boats collided just outside the ferry slip at the foot of White- hall Street at 11 o'clock this morn-| ing, Both ferryboats are of the Union Ferry line and are old wooden boats. The crash could be heard some dis tance and splinters flew in all dl rections, ‘The Whitehall was leaving the south slip for Hamilton Avenue, Brooklyn, The Shinnecock was en-| tering the north slip after having | lyn, Passengers say that the rudder of the Shinnecock failed to respond the Whiteh@il amidshtps. Women screamed and fainted Horses on the boats were knocked down by the force of the collision sengers be- gan fighting for life preservers, The Whitehall immediately backed into her slip, The Shinnecock followed the Whitehall in, the captain ap- parently anxious to determine the nature of the damage to his boat Later, when it was found that neither ferry had been injured below the water line, the Shinnecock backed out and entered the north slip. notified Captain juperintendent of Company in Brook- Jent, and he gave or- employees M. Bedell Ferry George lyn, of the ace ders to permit no one on the piers. ‘The employees took this order literally to let policemen board ferries. They also refused to let re porters approach the boats, Finally a policeman from the Old Slip station, saying that he would arrest the first man who interfered with him, went on board the Whitehall, but when he found that no one had been injured he came off. A survey of the two ferries indicat- ed that neither had been seriously damaged, although much of the super- structure of the boats was damaged. IRONING BOARD ROW ENDS IN KILLING Laundress Stabbed to Death and refui After a Quarrel in Fashionable . Apartment There are seven ironing boards In tl 8 laundry of the fashion ap nt house at No. 125 Hast Street. Lack of an eighth led to a tragedy this morning. About two weeks ag Au dresses were working to in the basement, each employed by one of the tenants upstairs, One of them wa using two irowing boards, more than her share, A quarrel over th between Victoria Brown, No. We 60Un Street, and Fannie Jones, No, 27 | West Oth ‘eet, both negres Witnesses say that the Hrown womar houncing: "I won't talk no more now but I get you.” This morning the Brown woman, it charged, entered the lau with a buteher’ knife and stabbed the Jones | woman repestedt y th i. Jones woman was dead when Dr. ¥ land of the Flower Hospital arrived The Brown woman was arrested, i} ——— SLAIN POLICEMAN BURIED. High Honors Paid men, Shot to Death by Robbers, With full departmental honors the | sinking fund on the public debt, turn-| body of Policeman Henry Immen, mur ing over the rest to the Haytian Goy-|dered by two robbers he intercepted ernment for curre ENS. last Saturday n ning, at Gun Hil Hayti agreed to cede no territory] Road and Bairbrid Avenue ex >t to the United ates and not to| nx, was buried the Lut interfere with the disarmament of| Cemetery, Brooklyn, to-da : revolutionary forces, The agreement] | The services were attended by Com: | | was for ten years, with an extension] Noner Wallis, Chief Inspector Daly and of ten more years if its objects were] other officials the departm aus | well as by comrades of the slain Patro man, Led by the full Police Band, the | cortege went from Immen's late ‘res’ dence, No, 2249 Webster Avenue, to the Lutheran Church 187th Street and the Grand Concourse, where Lmmen was lauded by police chaplains he pall bearers were Patrolmen Wallace, Hough, Levitt, Yost, Leahy and Vobel of ‘the Webster | Avent etation, 4 STARS-TO-HOBOKEN | WIRELESS WARNS OF | JAZZ BAND BLIZZARD| i Prof. Meyer’s Heavenly Messengers Report It Coming This Week, With Disasters on Land and Sea. | ROF. GUSTAVE MEYER, Hoboken reader of the stars, | has a tip from the skies that he thinks ought to be con- veyed to New York's snow re- | moval. council and such others as may be interested. Says the professor: | “As an American scientific astrologer, I wish to state that the starry messengers Indicate and impart to me the fact, via | wireless, that a rip roaring, howl- | ing jazz band blizzard is due to | hit us on the 26th, 27th, 28th and | 291th inst “Hence the public would do well to secure sufficient supplies in advance, such as eatables, fuel, &c., or the necessities of life, and 1 might add that it would be very good for the city officiais to have the present snow full removed immediately in order td aver‘ serious conse- | quences. “I judge that we will experi- ence some of the most pecullar atmospherical disturban in history on and during the above mentioned dates and that calami- ties of magnitude will also occur on land and sea,” AGITATORS HAMPER REMOVAL OF SNOW i} in Pay Also Causes Men to Stop Work in Clearing Cut Streets. ors and the cut in the pay from ents to fifty cents per hour caused a decrease in the number of snow .shovelers to-day. The eighty cent rate was fixed for Sunday and Monday by the Snow Removal Commit tee, and Fire Chief K the temporary in in pay, brought 9,000 additional workers on two days jon said these nd much was accomplished in riddin the streets of snow James W. Brown, Deputy Btree Cleaning Commissioner of the Bronx complained to-day to Police Inspector Walsh that agitators were calling men from the work by telling them eighty nts an hour was being paid in Man-| hattan, while fifty cents was the limit| in the Bronx. On Longwood Avenue fifty-three men Joined t ators and » forty-five more quit. York's ¢ of the 1 difficult us, has been cleared: Sewer Department to-day was clearing out the catch basins. _—_— PARTY LEADER, JUDGE’S AIM. Senator Sutherland's Power May Be Contested by Ferguson, It was .eported in Democratic ¢ir cles to-day that Judge Cornelius on would contest the leadership the Sixteenth Assembly District Brooklyn, with the present leader, ator Kenneth F. Sutherland, | ‘Judg Fergueson said that he was looking into the law to ascertain whether the act that he n judicial eoffice | barred him from leadership. If h found that he w ible, he would make the race In the last election Judge Ferguesor was denied a renominatign by the Dem rts and bec the Republican ean- | didate, winning in a district nomina Democratic by a plurality of more thar 10.000. His father was leader in the d t for many year = : Girl Detained at Ellis Isiand Re-| leaned for Cere Three Belgian girls, it was learned to-day, were married to American sol diers on Saturday, after having been | detained at Bll nd for week ‘The ceremony formed at City Hall by an Ale The girls cam were: Marie k ied to Seret 1 MeDonald itt, N.J.; Marie Syl nty five, married Richard | Var to Henry “Owens of “afilis, | Md. eo | 25TH ARREST HIS HOODOO. | Who a, Admitw Atte Always Excaped Con-| ted Robbery Altho! east twenty-four always " pocket Franc a charg nd ted and had| Isidore | ore tion, to be ap grad to guilt robbery in Just n of the po wh from Petro ntered a plea of attempted 4H befor the Criminal Bran preme Court to-day Bloom was uceus xtract $240 from the poc ‘Samuel! Sabath, He said in court that his name was Leidore Silvermane A Broo) attempting to| ea | a ship It was announced to- Grace Burch Walkup, only 4: of Bishop and Mra, Burch, was martied six weeks to Major Analdo Marson of -the gineer Corps Mra. died two y son in Salonica four months ago, Chartes of the Italian Walkup, whose first ht ‘* ago, met Major Tom, Sr. “Say Ancre it, lease.” INQURYBECNS = IN OVERCHAREING FOR DOCK SPACE Revision Planned to Stop! Methods Which Have Been | Oe yu ee Enriching City Employees. ness of tailored woolens with Methods of obtaining dock space for the decorative quality of silks—-in Shipping Board vessels, whi have helped to enrich certain city em-| 1c pipes, are; ibe eoriaid Tollowley WOMEN’S Ww the return from Washington of G. Sterling, Assistant Director of Or eo vis WHIFF work here, I followed the established | routine and my principal énterest wa to get docks when they were de for our ships, “The various concerns offering dock ! space were on record here and when as coming in, LT oalled up and told what was r 1, They never failed to provide us with dock space and were paid the price fixed by the board—no more and no less,” Under the Shipping Board schedule, $75 day was allowed for vessels under 4,000 tons and $100 a day for thosé over 4,000 ton: The Dock De partment schedule calls for a sliding le of charges under which the permits cost fi n $10 to $50 a day and which the »ping Board could | have obtained direct District Attorney Swann to-day saiq William J. Kissane and John B. Skiff, two process servers in his office had ‘explained their connection with the Sun Shipping Company. ‘They as. , that they acted uccommoda eputy F ter, that they received no money and had acted so that MeCarthy could com ply with the technical requirements of nd that they had resigned as the incorporation was com Pricéd At 59.50 to 19:50 line or tinsel FI SVS S Sts 31d at ale note the law, soon 4 pleted Put a Piece on Your Tongue — Put a piece of Auerbach Milk Chocolate Almond Bar on your tongue—taste the smooth creamy, Auerbach Chocolate, mingled with the savor of big, fresh-roasted, crispy almonds —you'll have the most toothsome morsel you ever knew. AUERBACH Milk Chocolate with Roasted Almonds Dealers: If your jobber cannot supply you write us for namo of Auerbach jobber D. AUERBACH & SONS 11th Ave. 46th te 47th St. New York CThere is an AUERBACH candy for every occasion - ranklin Simon & Co. Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets Wool Grenadine Anew fabric that combines the trim- is appropriate. accordeon pleat dresses embroidered in silk ses with Poiret embroidery. WOMEN'S GOWN SHOP—Third Floor From Maine Mr. Sterling, who is expected back = . to-morrow, is understood to have a | started an investigation into charges \ for dock space charged by private : dock owners and “brokers” who *ive NAVY € HE who hesitates |charged the board $75 a day ander BLUE b A A « permits from the Dock Department, : etween tricotine é which cost from $10 to $50 a day Hise a CUR eciee Beeiele BLACK and taffeta for the tendent for the Board, said to-day first Spring dress may com- that the system of charges fixed and . allowed by: the Board had enabled ' promise and choose— the Sun Navigation Company, in r+ by which city employees are the leading wool grenadine. It sa spirits, to collect from the Hoard. I wool fabric, woven in a So far as 1 am aw , HO negotia-~ a . ations avert were tele with tie Dak fine mesh, and because it Department cor the: use of the ity combines the merits of the tion Company and other concerns tues of the dressy one, it pe eaten has been developed into Hoan, Ido sot know Whei or by h be used whom, the "a hedulo was fixed. It Moderately owns t lat ma i was in operation when { began my | for occasions when either Straight- leated thread, and dres- to California