The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1920, Page 2

oS a “E53 for declaring new Federal Ma! Prevengl ahje CT i ih adh Port Jervis this morning. For the iret time switch engines, seven of them, were busy im the Pavonia Eighty. care of grain wore roads there was a simi- ot the tension of i E fe i them Hy I i : ‘ { « * iil iff 3 strikers total forty, © participated in the I. Bullard at Governor's Island, as an incident in the formal inapection tour ook 4. TOW, te HL, to- for A haute they had “woh the of the strike” and making ar- STRIKE ITIONS ON NEW YO! Sally to Suburbs—More Freight Moving. EW YORK CENTRAL=Pas- Senger service complete; through traine subject to few minutes’ delay. Embargo lifted on westbound freight be- tween Yonkers and Buff: deliveries to Boston a deliveries in west PENNSYLVANIA — Passenger service complotoly re-ostablished, Freight in all yards and in tran- sit beyinning to move; strikers returning in large numbers. NEW HAVEN—Suburban ser- vice orippled. Freight yards clearing, IBLAND—AN electric LONG service normal; all steam trains restored on Oyster Bay and Wad- ing River branches and % per cont. on other steam lines by aid Of college student volunteers, who are also clearing freight yards. Yard freight’ Moving; volunteers aiding crews of steam trains, LAGKAWANNA — Suburban volunteer service increased. Sev> enty-four out of ninety-seven striking suburban trainmen fe- turn, Volunteer freight crews at work, ERIE—Ali through trains re- stored; volunteer suburban serv- foe increased. Moving perishable freight. P. edhger service at Pennsylvania terminal restored, | MERBEY OENTRAL — Caring \ for all commuters; 90 per cent. of all trains running; freight returning. WET SHORE-—Through and local service normal. All freight embargoes lifted. ABHIGH — Normal paswenger service rough Penn Station; freight improving. STATEN BLAND RAPID TRANSIT—All Tottenville trains restored; shore service still 1 ua HUDSON AND MANHATTAN TURES—No service to-day. VOLUNTEER CREWS SET A NEW RECORD: BRING IN 38950 (Continued From Fira: Page.) foltowihg the offer of matitifacturers of through the Queens Chamber Commerce, fifty volunteers came from Mastufacturing plants in Long Island AS REPORTED TO-DAY | Passenger Service Improved, Espe-} | Jw Wotle, 100 GIRL STRIKERS MAKE A “PINK TEA” OF (e) Jersey Central Freight Offices ‘Cause Ban on Smoking. OR the first time? to- Women jolted, the ou trike of eastern railroad employees. One hundred quit their desks this morning, affect- ing the freight offices of the West Shore in Jersey City and the New Jersey Central in Eliza- beth, where they had been em- ployed as clerks. ‘The immediate effect of their walkyout was to throw the strik- ers into consternation, for with their attendance at the outiaw strikers’ meeting in Grandview Hail, Jeiwey City, the Chair placed & ban on cigarettes. “Thin is @ bell of @ strike,” said one husky doorman to-day, “It's getting to be a pink tea affair, What's the wwe of trying to keep tien on strike when you take théir pipes and tobacco away?” But the main body of strikers seemed to be enthusiastic about the participation in the strike by the women. jay, UTLAW MEETING BALTIMORE AND OHio— | Women Clerks fh West Shore and MALE He, (Continued From First Page.} operators had stuck to their jobs and| only one, an extra man, had quit. Mc- Gill's report that “the whole financial district is walking up” was also dis- Proved. In the Bush Terminal Building in 424 Street the elevators were operated by tenants, clerks and even telephone witls who had learned the trick in and éven licensed engineers on th ine engineers dun) O Wave ehgineers’ licenses. OUTBOUND TRAINS, tig Goats. These last served as ma- the war and LACKAWANNA SCHEDULE OF sofhe cati¢s by working In wyattinent houses where the switchboard and the elevator were both In charge © ¢ one girl, Building owners who suffered most were those who had managed to get City to tackle hard work In thel'wamn “unemement Of the Taka | on bad terms with tenants and em- freight yards and freight houses./ schedule tor homebound trains this | Ployees alike, angering thélr tenahts DotiaM Wilson of the Pennsylvania Railroad ave the mon the necessary thetructions. This Mfty, the manu- facturens sald, will be followed by thore fifties. A Long Island volunteer who at- tracted some attention to-day was Georye C, Baker, a student at Cor- nell University, who read of the big doings last Sunday and on Monday i tae for hoine, George » figured ing a temporary with the raiiroad Id ‘i would be as breaking stioks. nsrigine ‘On Tuesday the collogian presented Mimeeif to Assistant General Super+ intendent B, D, Baker, y cae ne Lenny PR BY - Job.” Qt on your life,’ said the Super, “get baok to Ithaoa.4 si reo teturned on Wednesday. “T want work,’ “You'N get kille said his father, “if I lay eyes on you again before next June.” » Young Baker tried another tack. He at to one of the under. T'm ‘B. D,'s' son,” he said, “where's ane hare Loe I'm to fire? » Yesterday he took @ passenger 4 foe santos to Babylon, Today he tit mack again, He is keeping owt of the way of the Assistant Gen. eral Superintendent, STEVENS STUDENTS MOVE STRANDED MILK TRAIN, A milk train of the Borden Furm Pine Brush, N. ¥,, station this mor ing beemme of the railroad strike, was mannod™by two students fro! the Stevens Institute of Technology, who ran tt fourteen miles to the main road men aided the students, “The train contained about 7,000 quarts of clty milk,” said Putriek D. Fox, President of the company. we were able to carry milk into city on a 100 per cent, asia, Caldwell, N. J, two days for bis chance, his on: Me fi ward the end of the journey, Baker spent the Quartermasters’ a French ort. , On leaving the Erle yards in Jere night after firing & Thompson, eighteen, Who 1s taking ‘an engineer ing course at Stevens Institute, was ven strikers wey City last suburban train, RG, accosted by a party of and sympathizers, “How do you like the work?" he was asked, “Good forthe muscle,” said Thomp- Is it? asked one of the men, “Well, here's a dandy chance to find| we Thompson gave a good account ot} the face. He was back again on his run this morning. Students of Stevens are working in the marine divisions of the railroads. ‘They are firemen, oilers, deckhanda | Products Company, standing at the | Weste ‘The fireman on an Erie train from | Teachers to Jermey City, was Major Frank M. Baker, brother of the Secretaty of War. The Major, a New| or the United Parents York business man, had been waiting |eltisens committee trom Brooklyn Ine to Little Falls and then to Jersey City, getting some relivt to- Major three Years overseas Corps, handling supplies as they arrived at afternoon. lewood and all stops and Delaware Braneh, 4.00 ph and Gummit, 4.00, 4.15 jorristown, 4.16; tdisoh afd Mortistown, ton, Mountain Lake, Dover, beyond Branchville, and making re turn trip as express to Newton; Lynd hutt Delawanna, \Athenia, Moun tain View, Denville, 4.90; Dover, nam York Division, 4,30, Greenwood Lake Division, 6.14, 5.52; to Little Malls, 6.14; Jersey and New York Branch Spring Valley, 5.30; to Hillsdale, Northern Brangh, to Nyack, 6.1 and 6.84; New rn, to Hawthorn: Paterson, 5.50, 6.58 and 6.10. and 5.3aF meeting yesterday t trucks for bAmging reported that railroad looked for an early ending of th Pay Delegaiton Off t Albany. A cation and to Albany to-day on a special train t appear before the of the Lockwood Donahue teachers pa: bit. It was declared they would aa reached last night and pass the bi unamended, : hints OBBY COLE'S heart leaped as B bhe saw hin rin crouching gun leaped into position . . . for the neat flash of tigi tning. spatr. The drown Beek’ ground. “Oh, they got him!” sobbed. “They got him!" * Evening World. In every case ‘the time given ts Standard, of one hour cartier ot tHam, Madison, Cottvent Station, Orange, Pommit, al stops Laurel Park, Towado, Lyndhurst, Mountain Boy! Laurel Park, Towaco, Denville fone of the trains are scheduled to stop at any stations not specifieally except whore “all stops” are as stated. THe Krie announded the fallowiig Partial schedule of trains this after- hoon from the Pavonia terminal: Now 5.40 York, Susquehafina and e830; to North Students of the School of Business mm }of Columbia University offered at a man motor foo into New lime tracks. Mwo other yolunteer mull- | York. Seventy men and several worten offered their services, A committer excoutives wtrike and aid not feel the need of “Thanks to the services of these men, | calling on college men unless cond- {Pe| tons fated w improve. els Ba aac Golegation of 600 representatives Legislature in favor the Legislature to ignore the compromise to meet Tom Beck, and her she waited there in the “urkness as Jane Hunter also weited, her heart raving in de. horse hatted, ant agoing body supp?! to the Bobby From “The Last Straw’— Begin the story in Monday’s by raising rents and their employees ;| Ploy women who did not strike, The 3 | places of those who did go out wert filled, but there were some delays and bonfusion due to the inexperience of | the new operators—especially their inability to give directions to shop- pers, FEW TENANTS FORCED TO WALK BY STRIKE. ‘The strikers claimed this afterndon that 17,000 operators had quit and that the strike was already a success. Information from other sources did not confirm these clains. Evening World reporters - visited to Caldwer, | many buildings in all parte of the New to city at the time set for the strike. Most of them were affected in some degree, but the service reduction in Most cases was not more than % per cént, Even where it was out in halt few of the tenants walked. ‘Tenants of the New York Life ‘Building at No. 846 Broadway ox- inerienved long delays when the total Yorce, twelve operaters, quit, Two elevators were restored to sérvice boon afterward, amd those who did hot mind long waite were able to wide. Others, especially those on the tower floors, walked, Reports of intimidation came from some Hultdings, chtefly small one-ele- vator structures, W. T. Roper Di- reotor in charge of operations for the Horace S$. Fly Co, No, St Léberty Street, had reports from men running elevatots at No. 118 Greehe Street and No, 381 Broadway, who said they-had been threatened, They were advised to quit work unless police protection is offered, The Woolworth Building, tallest tn the world, was running at normal rate, with war-trained women in the elevators, The superintendent, Ed- win A. Cochran sald the women were being paid $7 a day and that thelr jobs are now permanent, “Wor pattiotle reasons these women came to us when the men went to war," he said. “For patriotic rea- sons the women gave back the jobs to the men when the war was over. Now it is only right that the jobs should be given with finality to the women, They do their work well.” | Mr, 1 o building's coal supply in retaliation, WAR TRAINED WOMEN RUN FLEVATOS AS EN SRKE by keeping wages down. Such own-| would last at least two months an@ was not worrying. Delivery of the United States mat! Wns delayed in some buildings. Poet- men sat on their packs in building lobbies waiting for a chanes tw sqlieere Into the few crowded elva- tors that were running. The sttikers gob some enooutage- ment in Brooklyn im the Temple Bar’ Building, No. 44 Court’ Street.’ The building \s occupied chiefly by law- yers. The slx operators quit at nine o'clock and crowds of angry tenants demanded that service be restored— they didn't care much how. The Mafagement refused to put in emer- Bency men on the ground that the cas- valty companies Would not take the responsibility for accidents im such cages. ‘The operators there haye been getting $20 a week and are striking. ah L Dayt be i} Through Tee to D wees Lat Pp, M.| ers got no sympathy from anybody | for the same waces as are demanded Sine Ampere and heperielé, $45; ]anda had some bad halt hours with by the strikers in Manhattan, lonritige And ‘Montolait, 8.45; Am: | conants, who stood in the lobbles ahd| Office building men demand the See Tare Sis ee AE MOM | demanded service, . | folowing wages: . Siartors, $38.60; | all stopd exvept| Department stores were affected | Sevlasqnt Barters, $35; hallman opor- §.00, 4:16, 4.80.1 yut slightly according to reports as StQme7¥36.60, and elevator operators late as 1 o'clog. Many of them em-| 889 In loft buildings and apart» ment houses they ask $83 for start- ers, $30 for assistant starters and $28 for operators, The Employees’ Committee of the Building Managers and Owners’ As- sociation offered the following com- promises which were rejected by the meeting after several speakers had strongly urged their acceptance: Office buildings, starters, $22; assist- ant starters, $30; hallman operators, $30, and elevator operators, $48. Loft pyllsings, t caystngs | $% and operators 4 partment buildings, operators from $28 to $10. ” 2, aaa STATE BONUS 18 LIMITED. Fiel@ Officers ana ALBANY, N. ¥., April 16.—Oficers above the rank of captain in the army and leutenant, senior grade, in the navy, and enlisted mon of less than two sponte wervice will mot be granted onuses by the State e HY voters at” the next general vieetion approve of a Wohd issue to raise the Toney for compensation for t v" war veterans si eases . reat pate bod Sanen soa estate of not mor an 1, mills I be lev: if approved by the vol hi — Cost ef U. & Treep: Mxaagerated, WASHINGTON, April 16—Cost of maintaining United States troops in Gormany 18 $176,000 a da: $1,100,000 as has ‘been charwed in one! gress ‘during debates on the army ap {ation bifl, Secretary Baker (o-~ rman Kai ilitars halrman Kano of the’ Mitita L126, 1920. $e 2u8 BVENING WORLD, PRIDAY, a roaps Cheerful Volunteers Who Help Bring Commuter Ho ts \ONh - Into New York and Aid in Breaking Big Strike THIS FARMER WANTS TO ‘PLANT’ PERSONS WHO PICK HIS CROP Tells Census Bureau His Altru Neighbors Relieve Him of the Necessity of Harvesting. WASHINGTON, Aptil 16. N retuthing Me agricultural sta- I tistics schedule to the Census Bureau, a Pennsylvania farmer éifminated facts about crops al- together. An inquiry by the ‘bufeau brought this explanation: “Tie population near and aboot ty farm has a tendency to re- Neve the owner from the labor f gathering his own crops, This uistic tmpuise is so predomi- nant that I have refrained trow planting anything for the past twenty years, Am just now turn- ing about forty acres Into a ceme- tery aml hope to Mil it soon.” DE MOTT BLAMED FOR OWN KILLING American Commission Finds Pater- son Man Was Armed When Shot. BERLIN. Avril 16.—Panl R. De Mott of Patetson, N. J., who was shot ang {eitled at Weeel by a German sentty re- cently, was making a deliberate attempt to escape from prison when fired upon, according to an oral report made by @ representative af the American Com- mission herg. A report being prepared for the Stute Department In Washing- ton will give a detailed recital of the physi¢al aspects of the case. De Mott was In possession of -arms when arrested, the investigation shows, and is said to have been in company with Communist soldiers. PRISONER AT PHONE NEARLY AN HOUR Rescue Crew Gets Merchant Out With Crowbars After Swearing Fails. ‘Henry Bose, a honey merchant of Richmond Hill, Brooklyn, was imprisoned for three quarters of an hour to-day before @ patrolman and two subway workers got crowbars and libefated him from a telephone booth at the South Ferry building. The door of the booth jumped the track after it hed been closed. Hundreds of people on their way to the ferry heafd the merchant swearing and rattling the door of the booth, but took ho noticn, Finally, Bose wrote on a piece of paper that he was imprisoned A and shot the paper under the door. girl got it and took {t to a policeman. FIRE ROUTS 20 FAMILIES. Biase in Chemical Works in Bre: Spreads Adjoining Tenements, ‘Twenty families were forced from their homes this afternoon by a fire in the plant of the Rexall Chemical Com- pany, No. 1319-1821 Sedgwick Avenue? the Brena, which spread to two pelt frame houses at Nos, 1816 a {17 rite yo "trame buildings were ily damaged. aeration Chief Hennesy directed the firemen, who worked, for twenty ml chemicals of explosi utes {etom tthe path. of tho hemes. nature from y t was not in operation. ‘The plant operat Father of Beli tern Made lly, father of the Dolly Sia- tent wan sworn In BY Justice Manning in the Brooklyn Supreme Court to-day as an Ai in oltiges Cochran said the teamsters’ union had threatened to shut off the| but he said he bad a supply shat + = — _— 3 factories. Sold through ' E \ The CRESCENT is built complete in the Crescent Talking Machine siialiowa oN Th cae jathorized dealers only. Inc, New York. ic | Machine Guns Also Sta- tioned in Centre of City. BERLIN, 15.—Goverpment troops are mi in the centre of Berlin, Aniong the units assembled are fifteen tanks, twonty armored cars and several detaehments of ma- chine gunners. This milltary move- ment was a result of tumors of a new revolt impending. Horr Severing, Prussian Miniater of the Interior, has ordered that the public be barred from the quarter of the city containing Government build- ings, and Wilhetmstrasse and Unter Den Linden were held by fully armed troops all day yesterday, Conditions in Pomerania, where re- actionartes are sald to be very ac- tive, are reported to be of the utmost gravity, The Government denies a report [that Major Gischoff and Gen. von ‘Luettwitz, alleged Monarchist piot- |ters, had been arrested. The Vossischo Zeitung says‘ there | can on longer be any doubt of the ex- istence of another Monarchist plot. It has beon established retiably, the hewspnper said, that the conspirators were {fn touch with the Corimunist leaders in their plans to overthrow the government. [t in belleved the plotters imtend to ally with the Ras- sian Bolsheviki in a nailitary cam- paign against France, ieee cee ALLIES TO NOTIFY | BERLIN TO DISARM Britain, France and Belgium Talk of Blockade if Treaty Is Not Carried Out. PARIS, April 16.—The representatives in Berlin of France, Great Britain, Italy and Belgium will join in a warning to Germany that she must execute with- out delay the disarmament and demo- | diligation clauses of the peace treaty. It {s understood that the Charges d’Affaires will also say to the German Government that In case the Instirrge~ tionary movements In Germany are suppressed the Allies may refuse fur- ther deliveries of foodstuffs. LONDON, April 16.—tn offieted quar- ters here it is stated ¢hat the final de cision regarding the situation will be taken at San Remo. Great Britain will strongly advocate the speedy enforce- ment of the disarmament clauses of the treaty, although she inends to ablde by the decision of the conference and docs not contemplate individual action. AMERICAN WOMEN IN PERIL IN SYRIA Missionary Workers and Bducators in District Where Turks and Armenians Are Fighting. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 16 (Asso- Gated Press).—Disconcerting messages have been received here fram the Aintab area, in Northern Syria, indicating that the Turke and Armenians ere engaged in beavy fighting, the Armenians occu- pying the American Mission buildings. This news has aroused uneasiness re- garding the position of the thirteen American rellot workers at Aintab. ‘The despatches indicate that a French tellef expedition entered Aintab late in Mareh, but left again. Consequently the few remaining French troaps are apparentty insufficient im numbers, the belief being that the Senegalese remained in Aintal East relief officials received a cable message from Constantinople to- day saying that the situation in Aintab was gfuve, bat that a relief force was reported en route. organization's records show eleven Amefican relief Workers at Airtab: Brame aw fecraltea in Pranoes Ail ot erulted in France: mance Barker, Rochester, N.Y. Loretta Bigley, Towa, a Rea Ci ure; Miss Elizabeth Kelty, Glowetand; ‘Miss Louie M. Clark and Miss Lucite Foreman. RCIST PLOT HUNT, OF PUBLIC. BLOCKED WN BERLIN’ CROUP IS HEAD OF BY FFTEE TANKS RAL LABOR BOARD Twenty Armored Cars and|Hangar Made Secretary as Wage Demands of 2,000, 000 ‘Men Are Taken Up. j WASHINGTON, April 16.—The rail- road Labor Board perfected a tem- porary organization at its initial meeting to-day by electing Henry Hunt, former Mayor of Cincinnati, as chairman, and G, Wallace M. Manger, of this city, as secretary. Both are Members of the public group. Wage demands of the 2,000,000 rait- road employes of the country were taken up to-day by the board, which held its first eession at the Railroad Administration. Both administration and Fatiroad officials believe that the prompt as- sombling of the board will have its Influence on the present strike of railroad men. Many of those-who walked out alrendy have returned to work with the understanding that their demands would recelve prompt attention. At the Ratlroad Administration t wns said that the demands of the strikers Would not be given prefer- ence over those ef /the other rati employes; that the wage quéstion would be considered as a whole. ‘Tae wage dispute as it stood with the breaking up of the bi-partisan wage Conference here two weeks ago was submitted to the board, Mr, Han- get announced, and the beard will begin consideration of it at once. ‘The three railroad representatives —Horace Baker, J. H. Elliott and William L. Park—were on hand, but J. J. Forrester was the only labor rep- resentative present while G. Wallace W. Hanger of this city, and Henry Hunt of Cincinnati represented the public group. Judge R. M. Barton of Memphis, ‘Tenn., the third public representative, has been urged to come to Washing- ton and is expected to-morrow. The President also ‘elographed to Albert Phillips and A. O. Wharton, the other two labor representatives to hurry to the city, Mr. Phillips is expected to- day from Cleveland and Mr. Wharton should arrive to-morrow from Ken- the International Commission In Schleswig, was slain yesterday at Flensburg while trying to calm an angry German mob, according to ad- views received hei man who kifled him escay ‘there ia some ‘ep- prehenston that this ertme is the be- of am organized movement against Danish control of Central Schleswig. . &: FOLD. STORAGE ‘or YOUR FURS 2%—Valeation ever $500 (3% —Valuation under $500 — Ovr automobile will call immediate- ly. 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