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| FINANCIAL NEWS AND PRICES | aucun] ( in aimless fashion, and at no developed » definite trend. ‘ trading the undertone was t unsettled, owing to pro- gelling, but later in the ses- of the losses were regained. an almost total lack of ing power. itions again became the ‘or, Late yesterday the ‘up to 10 per cent. and ind renewed to-day at & per highest renewal rate that recorded in the past ten ih i He i g Ht f i VBrokers asserted that this will prove to be only a flurry and that \t 18 caused by Western banks calli ‘Wall Street loans. Since the Federal Bank increased its discount ‘pate these interior banks have been i money from Wall Street ' Late in the day the call rate for money dropped to 6 per cent. and was by imniediate improve- ment in the tone of the stock market, Standard issues, such as United States Steel, were able to climb frac- tionally above last night's closipy «prices. . Rails in particular were in ood demand. Phere sdems to be a diaposition on to forsake recent pronounced favor- Am tm = Am Am Bxprem, Am Hide & Bide & L of, Am | Am Lounnotive, Am foe he... Am Sutoty Tasor Atetiinon Ry... 80% Atlantic Coam Line 87 Au Gulf & W 1, 162 Baldwin Lovo... 114% Maltimore & Calo 82% Barrett Co ¢ art of traders) o" tes in the industrial list for tow prided railroad shares. The decision of the Supreme Court permitting the City of New York to betome a litigant in the gas cases did not have much of an unfayorable ef- fect on Consolidated Gas, It sold at 79 for a loss of a point. Compar: tively few shares changed hands, Amnouncement that the General Motors Company will attempt to raise . $65,000,000 through the sale of new stock at $20 per share, and that the sWiltys-Overland Company will prob- _ Wig offer 600,000 shares at $25 per share renewed attention, to the dif- ficulty many motor companies are ‘e@xperiencing in financing their re- quirements during the present credit stringency, Further outside liquida- tion did not develop, but the motor @roup generally was unsettled throughout the day on professional The cotton market did not open un- ti 1 o'clock. Official word was await- “e@ that the President had signed the “repeal! of the Comer amendment, which »through a clerical error was included im the Agricultural Appropriation bill » enacted) recently. Previously the Gov- ernment report on toe coatition of Sead growing crop was issued, It was ie on record. The condition re- was 624 per cent, compared with 75.6 per cent. a year ago, 82.3 per cent. two years and a ten-year average of 78.7 per cent. ed worst previous report was~69.5 cent. in June 1917, which accur- Shey forecasted a short crop, Th re- port was sufficient to send cojfton ‘up between $3 and $4 per bale. corn and gats markets were strong, advancing approximately and 2 cents respectively. Foreign ex- change rates were steady, demand sterling ining. 3 cents to $2.94 1-4. Liberty bond issues were ly lower. Losses ranging from +0\7 points. BANKING AND FINANCIAL. The Stoneham WEEKLY MARKET LETTER issued every Friday since 1908, covers the active issues of the Oils, Industrials, eee see ket, either as an investor or pearaletars should fail to place name on our mailing list, to this full-o! LIBERTY BONDS i, depletiene ene to. me PURDY &:CO., Fel. John 8174-6-6-7.° 84 Pine Kt. N. 3 | off .08 ae [+ sazeEee* ! IJBERTY BONDS. Liberty 31-28 opened at 91.20; 24 48 8 10, off .10; 8 87.30, up .38; 2d 41-48 8d 4 1-48 90.46, off .14 Victory 4 3- ; 4thé 96.00, up -02- FOREIGN EXCHANGE HIGHER. Demand sterling opened at 8.94 1-2, franc checks 12.77, up 10 Bel- Swiss cables marks, demand .0965, cvbles |" lc:; peseta cables 16-35; Stockholm 80; U. 8. dollars on Canada, pesos 1.04, ire checks 16.82, cables Ta30" up 15; vi up 6 10 Argentin Opened steady.” Int. Pet., 35 to Retl. Cdy., 15 to 15 1-2; Houston, 70 to 80; Boat, 12 to 13; Simms, 18 White, 21 to 22; Asphalt, 67 Carlb., 18 1-4. # DIVIDENDS. ‘The clared the regular quarterly record June 30, * NOTBs. Application has been made to th Fepanee to Hat B. F. 400, ir value and Brown Shoe C ‘additional common stock, ————— FENCED-IN BEACH CAUSES PROTESTS Riegelmann Investigates Title to ted Oil Company sito dividend payable July 2% to stock of tock . Goodrich Co. res of common stock of no oe Inc., eeeer + ++ ps eeeecerere SeeS FFF g22R88 FE + ltt loti ti ° Bete8S FE estes litldat % CONGRESS WILL TRY TO END WAR LAWS Committee Votes Resolution to Re- peal Emergency Legislation Except Three Measures. WASHINGTON, June 2.—By unani- mous vote the House Judiciary Com- mittee to-day ordered out a resolution repealing all war time emergency legis- lation gxcepting the Lever Food Cor trol Act, the Trading With the Enemy jaw and the District of Columbia rent profiteering medsure, Chairman Volstead tok the commit- tee that he would attempt to have the House adopt the resolution before adjournment Saturday. House action, he said, would be attempted under sus- Pension af the rules, which would per- mit only forty minutes of deba Sani eel “MUSHY” SINGERS HELD. Girls Accused After Rald on Party Near Hylan Home. For their part in an entertainment in ‘Co-operation Hall, ‘over a (Brooklyn Municipal Court and but a few blocks young women entertain: and = the Janitor, Rudolph Bragiie, were held in 50 bail each for examination June 11 by Magistrate Reynolds in ‘Street Court to-day, Miss Mae Powers, who gave No. 501 West 116th Street, or the Library of Co- lumbia University, as wos charged with ling “mushy stories” amd singing “mushy songs.” Stretch on Shore Front Between |every part of her anatomy from her Brighton and Manhattan, feet up.” Mabel Bernard of No. 1319 Boston Road was accused of singing ‘The picket fence erected to enclose a| suggestive songs. long, stretch of sca front between from the home of Mayor Hylan, three Adams o} home address, Miss Lucille Goodwin of No. 352 West 38th Street was charged with “shaking Shares i 1200 Acme Cont 200 Actas 200 Am Candy 200 Am Woolen ris 1700 Car Light ...j, 1100 Gen Axphale . 100 Hercules Paper 400 Lig-Mar Cost 100 Meroer Motors . 3000 Pertggsion Tire 00 Com. 1700 Radio Com pt 515 Noy de France .. 20 Singer Mtg 1000 Sweets Co 200 Times Bq Anto . ‘ 100 U S High Speed Tool .. 32 moUsL aH, % 6000 U 8 Be ‘ 2% 900 United Ret Candy 15% © STANDARD OILS. 10 South Penn Ott 295 ‘Ss Uo NY . mt 10 Vacuum O11 vores OO INDEPENDENT O18. 100 Alien O11 me 12000 *Altied O11 3 6000 *Amal Moyaity . “ 1400 Boone O11 . a% 20.0 Boston Wyoming . % 500 Con Am 0. % 500 Carib Bynd + 18% 100 Cities Service + 35% 400 Condon & Co 1 4000 Cushing Pet 1000 Dominion O11 500 Duquesne 400 Rik Basin Pet. 1,00 Raginéers Petroleum 195¢0 Kjemeralda Ott 4000 Federal OU 0 Glenrock O11 500 Home Petroteum 100 Houston Ot! 100 Int Petraj 230 Iatand OW Kay County 40 King Petrolow 1€00 Lance - Creek 100 Livingston Pet new 10 Lone Star Gas 500 Metropolitan Pet . * 100 Mex Pan . 100 Morten Pete 100 No Am OU . on 1% 11% 10% 10% 20% 20% 18% 10% % 1 38% 30% % 9% 2% 7% oy “# % 1% Wish. Low, Last | ™ % ™ * 1% om hares 10CO Western States .. 100 White On * 2% in 2 * a4 * u% Mm € o ” Co 6 ct) we 1,00 *Rochester | Mines 4400 Roper Group . 2480 Sitver King pf Artz, 108 Bilver Lead... 1200 Tonopah Belmoout . 2800 *Tonopah Cash Boy 8200 Tono Divide 1560 Tonopah Ext 1000 *Tono-sim B 10(0 *Tenopas Midway . % % % Hh 6 1% nt Wilbert *Yerrington BONDS. 8000 Allied Packer 6s. 8% 3% PASSPORTS TO U. S. . FOR 300 GERMANS Sixty Per Cent. Are Women and Children Whose Husbands and Fathers Are in America. BERLIN,’ June 2.—Passports of 300 citizens of the German Republig have been vised by the United States author- {ties here, allowing them to proceed to the United States and assuring their admittance to the country. The pass- ports wer® approved’ by the authorities through permission from the State De- partment. ; . Sixty’ per cent. of the emigrants are women and children whose husbands or other relatives are in America, The remaining 40 per cent. are German ‘business men. ‘An interesting case 1s that of Prince Hohenlohe, a relative by marriage to the former Emperor Karl of Austria, who was reported to have obtained pas- e to the United States on a former ooseaion under a Polish passport. He is now back in Burope, but is again going to America, sae sani! SIX SEIZED IN TIRE THEFTS. Arrested in Co oti With Rob- Detectives working on thefts of auto- mobile’ tires from freight care of the Lackawanna Railroad last May valued at between $5,000 and $10,000 arrested six men last night, charging them with being implicated in the thefts, The prisoners said they were George Woods, chief clerk of the Lackawanna Railroad . 62, 28th Street and North Ay ait ie a No, 404 West 58th Bafana Marcus, a merchant { Passaic, N. J.; Max Goldberg, a mer- chant of Passaic, N. J.; Samuel Scart a merchant sp Opera maate: ber laborer 0. et reat. and Warren Roche of No. 432 t 36th Street. It is charged that the men acted in concert in breaking open the. freight cara and prealing the automobile tires, grees, from Mahonay City, Pa., to Steinfelt ity. Bros. of this BELMONT ENTRIES. | BELMONT PAR KRACE TRACK, N. ¥., Tom Te fol ere entries fc NEW YORK PASSES UP ~ CHANGE T0-DOUBLE $6,000 PER COME (Continued From Third Page.) atives in Congress of Philadelp&ia, Baltimore and various South Atlan- tic porte had more active and moral support from the shipping interests and the bisiness interests and ad- ministrations of their cities than the New York representatives had. A fundamental trouble with New York is the difficuty of combining for unified action the vast and divergent interests associated with the com- merce of the port. It is typical of New York to assume that ehe is so big and powerful that she does | have-to go out and hustle for any- thing. nd “They've got to came to New York,” was the long-standing motto that should be thrown into the discard. PLANS MADE IN 1867 WERE IN EFFECT IN 1914, In 1914 the Federal work in thi hi jane eo by The work of executing these begin until 1888. ernment work in 19 o der. plans made some time back in the seventies. it was a haga job to Ort the army to abandon fhose old plane and make new ones based on the growth of the size of shi; One city Administration r an- other madé costly mistak in the matter of pier improvements because such improvements were not planned with reference to each other and to the localities in which they were placed. For instance, the city piers on the East River, from 19th Street to 24th Street, built years ago to ac- commodate ships drawing 26 feet of er, have only just become avair: | able because j after they were’ completed it was found that a reef, extending from Corlears Hook to Bellevue Hospital, ‘barred them from ships drawing more than 18 feet. The “| reef has been removed. The immense pler built by the city High Low. Last. di backwardnéis of New “York as a AJ erld bow ! “Methods employed in New York for Pweg, t iL. were used fifty years agor We Mave "t moved one step since the Civil War—they use the same old lighter and bucket system you find In all the out.of the way, ports of the world. Why, in obscure Places in the West Indies they load coal quicker and cheaper than they lo Labor is cheaper there and it works faster. MODERN APPLIANCES IN OTHER ATLANTIC PORTS. “In Hampton Roads, Baltimore and Philadelphia they have the most¥nod- ern appliances for coal loading and that’s why New York does so littts jcoal Business in “comparison with mysterious woman. ‘ ce ra | | ‘|here has begun to flow toward Man- %|A shipker will not be bothered with treal and other’ places in the Do- minion. ’ “Conditions are so bad that we have lost carloads of stuff for two months at a time, “Many times we have to send trucks to Yonkers, Plainfield and Brkigeport to take stuff out of | cars which the railroads can’t move. trouble-of this sort*when he can send his business to Baltimore, Philade! luch of this diverted business will be a permanent loss. Port facilities fe Baltimore and Philadelphia are so good those ports will have no trouble in holding the business. Hbsansinse TROOPS DISPERSE MOB IN WATERBURY what she should do, < “Why it costs $2. ton anday to load here, while in Hampton fo it coats 26 cents a ton. You con't hey ae Tae like that. in a gang fant. much quicker there— / should my in about one-fourth the | (CHAPTER Il. time it takes here. You take a ship (Contsnees.) of 10,000 tons and say her +time is HERE was a wealth of disgu' worth $5 per ton per month—that's in the two words. “Red’ $50,000 & month, which would make Ri b hor time ‘worth about $1,600 a day, ley was a ganster, a burg- Just see what a day means when it! ta is frittered away! : | underworld. And to call him a “moll and etek ts fast losing business, | buzzer,” a robber of women, a man strike and port congestion aro over. | ther men, was the limit of insult as ovhing of the sort—shippers have! “Red” Riley understood it. karan te ttvantages of Phila-| He whirled, angrily, fis face laming Mere end Hampton |again, his chin thrust out, pis little Roads, and it is certain a great many of them are going to continue to ship | ©%e% siittering lke those df a snake. through thowe ports. \ “If that crack was made at mg,” he some instances we have figured | snapped, “suppose the gent that made it Beis as much ‘to ship a Havana as {t doce to lighter it trom | ¢ Snds up arid jets me get a goed some parts of the Jersey side to ships | °K at his ugly mug. in the hatbor, Of course these figures| There was silence for an insiapty take into account those of time and| and then a chair scraped against the Se natural inconveniences of the! flaor again and a man stood up | “led” jaw York is sliding back, and un-| ¢¥ bad not noticed him before, but lesa she does something very soon her|2€ knew him instantly now. He wus superiority will be gone.’ ‘Shifty” Slade, gang chief, the most J. A. Wells, President of the Ameri-| cruel and most formidable in the city. gan Foreign Service Corporation of| Kiley had not known that Slade had No. 55 Broadway, said when asked | allied himself with this particular abput the effect of the congestion on crowd; the knowledge had not been New York's future: spread through the underworld. "Already jhe great bulk of business| Slade walked forward to within ten from the Middle West we used to get | feet of him, his fists upon his hips, a has been diverted to New Orleans. | #neer upon hig face. men of the entire Natio made the crack, Rilgy!" he said, m to have learned it is impossible | “And I made it stfhigh® at you. i to get freight through here, so they | S4y you're a moll buzzer, a guy with are not taking any chances, The rate| 0 nerve, a third-rate dip tryin’ to to New Orleans from any of the big, Pose as a burglar. And I'th waitin’ centres in the Middle West is ths) to sce what you're goin’ to do about same as that to New York. itn” in New Orleans loading facilities} .That meant fight, One bf the are superior to ours and labor condi- | gangsters rushed to the alley door to tions are stesdy and dependable. prevent outsiders enter two “We are not only losing export! others hurried to thé swinging doors trade, but import also. European|for the same reason. ted” Riley shippers are fast learning they can't] hurled his cap to the floor, bellowed get their stuff through here, The con-| like @ bull and launched himself for- esquence is it goes to other ports.| ward. Canadian freight which used to come| He had not expected to have an easy time of it, and he did not. “Shifty” Slade was a match ‘for him physically. They crashed in the mid- dle of the room, and Slade’s one ‘shout to his friends was to the effect that this was his personal fight, a duel between gang leaders, and that he wag not asking for help and did not expect any to be offered. It would be an ordinary thing to shoot down “Red” Riley oF allt him with a knife: it weuld be a theme of glory for Sladé to break the rival gangster with his bare hands. * Back and forth across the room they fought,’ each trying to break away from the other’s grasp and send home a blow. Face to face theygstood when they had separated, and rained blows upon each other, blows that failed to mark a face, yet broke down stamina, Crouched aguinst the walls, Slade's gangsters watched the com- self through the past the two guards who had been stationed there. that direction, hoping almost against Unruly Crowd of Strikers Face Soldiers With Fixed Bayonets and Police With Clubs. WATERBURY, .Conn,, June 2.—Sol- diers .with fixed bayonets and police with drawn clubs were necessary to disperse an unruly crowd of strikers in the Oakville distict to-day. The trouble began with a parade in which, it was claimed, public vehicles were stopped and persons molested. The City Guard detachment and police were sant from *he city and in dispersing the crowd x arrests were made. One man was arrested for throwing stones, and it was claimed ‘htat many strikers carried missiles, although not using them, ‘The strikers claimed to-day that many mare factory employees joined their ranks which now number many thousands. Se Ce THRICE SENTENCED, IS FREE. ment Saves Girl gang. means, and his Byt he was not a foe. “Smash into then!” the newco! said, dozen against one is un- fair odds: finished speaking, and fists working like twin pistons. He drove back Riley's f nd urged the stag- Back, ruffians! you not fight fuir?’ ‘At any other time, Riley would have laughed at that question, but ne was beyond laughing now. rie did not pretend to guess why thiy man hud taken sides with him againat half a score, and he did not care. fle felt fresh strength come to him, and fought as well as before. Now they had meached the dov, and the mysterious newcomer had huried he cried, “Can After having thrice been sentenced for tho ‘same offense, Nettle Trol- linger yesterday was given ner free- dom by Supreme Court Justice Tomp- kins at White Plains. She was con- victed of petit larceny and sent to the Westchester County Penitentiary for six months. The‘ institution re- fused her on the ground {t does not accept women, Thereupon Police Justice Hopp of Bronxville sent her to the County Jail temporarily, Last Monday he had her brought before him and sent her to the Bed- ford Reformatory for three. years, Maurice Zuckert took out a writ of habeas corpus for the girl. He argued she had been sentenced three times for the same offense, contrary to law. The Justice, however, held that the commitment was defect ir strfick upon them and seemed to give them strength anew. But the gangsters were not done; they contin- ued to crowd forward, carrying on the fattle, fighting almost silently. And Riley and his néw comrade rewecated slowly, stopping now and then to fight back a rush, guarding alwiys against a knife thrust in the alley’s semi-gloom. They came to a tiny cro! Ney where but two men could stand side by side, and their foes forced them into it.’ “Red” Ril€y was almost ex- hausted now, but his companion, ap- parently was not. The man ‘who fought beside him, who wore specta- cles and had not taken the trouble to remove them, stood the brunt of the fighting and cried encouragement. Ive,| “Chastise them severely!” he her. | shouted. 08 gering itikey toward the door. { k, cccemtric college profe Pee geet Filth Sane Sete BO man of parts in the} into the underworld A college professor decided to turn criminall Read this exciting story of his adventures with a band of daring thieves, led by a beautiful and an rrr r t 1920 By W. J. Watt & Co. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTER, fessor and student of crim! he moet ‘tit ot one another on in lodder tones, and knives flashed in the fitful light that came between the buildings from the wide street ghey could not reach. And then it happened—the thing for which “Red” Riley and his companion had not been looking. They migh' have guessed that the door the top of that little flight of steps led into the rear hall of a lodging house, but they had given no thought tol, @ except that “Red” Riley had tried It at first,*and had found it looked. And ‘now the door was thrown cpen suddenly, Riley had been lean~,” ing against it, bracing himself, and’ so had his companion. They tottered and sprawled inside, “Red” Riley sensed, even as he struck the floor, that the door had been slammed shut again-and their ‘foes barred out. A woman's voice struck upon his ears, but he could not understand the words. i Riley was busy getting upon hia feet. ‘Dhe rage of battle was stile within him, He did not try to under- and, The man who wore the sped- tacles toek him by one arm and lifted him. And he found himself leaning against 4’ wall in a poorly-lighted hall, gasping, dizzy,’ blinking at the light .just inside the closed door, struggling to ré@alize that he was safe for the moment. Riley, looked at the woman who stood before him—rubbed hie eyes and looked again. She was of medi- um size, dresséd in an evening gown, bi Riley felt sure that she Was no wo-: man of his acquaintance. And he wondered what she was doing im euch a place, and why she wore th mask, and why she had rescued him and the man who wore the spec- taeless. THE MASKED WOMAN] \ : By Johnston McCulley A Thrilling Story of Mystery and Adventure Ruey staggered away from the wall and started to gasp his thanks. But his companion was before hi “My dear madam,” he said, “I fail to find words strong enough to thank you for what you have done. We were in perilous straits, Another five minutes and those wolves would have devoured us.’ ‘ This strange, bespectacled man did not appear to think it peculiar, ap- parently, that the woman wore @ mask and was dressed like a prin. bat, urging him on with whispers. | And then “somebody hurled him- | ture swinging doors, be seen another room furnished i Riley glanced in again. I shall assist you!” if He was at “Red” .Riley's side as he enough to refuse your proper name rere to a lady who has just saved your | the gangster guard to one side. Now| have been searching for a they were out in the, alley, aud the |lieve that is the term? a | cess, yet was in the rear hall of such a place. “Red” Riley gulped and tried to hed his breathing to normal again. . “Come this way, please,” the wom- an said. : She walked down the hall, and they staggered weikly after her. They came to a stairway and went up one flight, and there the masked woman opened a door and ushered them into @ room, ‘Red’ Riley gasped when they en- tered the room. It was furnished lavishly, and in excellent taste. There Was a piand; there were books, pio~ Throygh an open door could lavishly, Riley rubbed at his eyes “Allow me to thank you once more, hope that it,would be one of his own mudam," the voice of his companion But ‘he saw a medium-sized cume fo him. man who wore spectacles, and who duce myself, was dressed like a merchant of small Xenophon Salwick, holding the chair momentary hope of physics in the university, and an died. He noted that thid man rushed authority on anthropology. toward him—another foe, perhaps. | “And allow me to intr I am Professor Jame: My young friend is known, as ‘Red’ * Ri I believe, No names, you fool “I beg your pardon, fessor. “Would you be Riley hisued, said the pro- discourteous life?” I think I can understand,” the woman sai “There are times when it is dangerous to mention names. a dive in the alley, and I we assistance,” said the professor. was not from a pure motive of gal- lantry, however. d an axe to grind, as the saying js.” “Indeed !"" “A few days ago I dete: become a professional pal It ¢ my mind, when I saw the c gin, that, if I gave assistance to this young man, he would be grateful enough to combine forces with ms im my endeavors. . “He's mighty free with my nam but I don’t remember of hearin! yours,” Riley said to the woman, “You may eall me Madam Madcap— - many persons do.” “What an ingenious The Professor gasped. ing—charming!"" “I hope to make it feared—in cere tain quarters,” Madam Madcap rex turned, “Never heard of you,” Riley sneeredy ‘Have you ever been Paris?” she asked “No. Possibly that explains it.” sobriquet! "* “It 1s charm NY and on that ground di: patil LBs ld Brighton and Manhattan Beaches, with turnstiles and 10-cent @dmission signs ‘fat each end, is not to the liking of the thousands who want that beach open for week-end enjoyment at the seaside. ‘The enclosure wag made by the Brigh- ton Beach Development Company. Borough President Riegelmann of Brooklyn said to-day: “{ will investigute the title to this noperty to ascertain by what right the Benth thes been fenced off, It it can be determined that the public iv entitied to access to the beach, or any part of it, every legal step necessary to put the public’ in posveasion will be taken.” cna el Pig Rush in Naturalization, County Clerk Sechnelder to-day an- nounced the appointment of ten addi- tional deputy clerks, all women, to care for the rush of business tn the salary ralimati new ol yrar-obde Cy Oo ae Gouere Tia) “Thtle Lia: Grermated, 112. Ne avern yt! Pelt coder BT, any Wi Our D , M2: ir * vai, Ueenie 12); Orderly, 317; Boulen, SHOWN. MACK —Steelertaen: for maton; ferwesyearokln weal 2 tout two mallee, ee we: Yj M42: Ses Pon. Wiert THIRD WAGE & Th 142. Pantocker ‘turlimee--*Woleront. OT rounce, the ugly DIRECTO “Ah!” the professor eried. * it now! You are one of those clever Continental women of whom I have read, You play the game with strate and wit! Clever, dear woman! If there is any way in which we cam ‘]at the foot of West 46th Street, with forty-four feet depth sof water on each side, was useless for the ‘ac- commodation of large vessels long after its completion, because it was not discovered until the pler wi afmost ready for use that a bar at | outer end would not permit, the pas- | sage into the forty-four-foot slips of ORDERS BERGDOLL INQUIRY. House Committee Mak: Investigation. WASHINGTON, June 2.—The resolv- tion ordering a Congressional investiga- tion of the escape of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, rich Philadelphia draft evader, was ordered favorably reported to-day Oy Ene te ee it og loll fro mhis home in pniladelphia where he had been taken from Fort Ja yunder military guard o1 | [SS representation of his counsel that he desired to recover part af his fortune which he claimed to have hiddedt near Puiladelphia. thugs, “Red” Riley gasped. “On to the street! EUNERA “He knew he could not fight muc¥ longer. And he knew thal if they could win through the little alley and | serve you"— to the street they would be safe for| “I am starting work In this. city,” the moment. The gangsters would | she replied. “I have very few associe not follow them to the well lighted /ates us, yet, and Dam looking for o avenue beyond, recruits.” 4 M. Wood, presidelt of the American |"" pack they went, ,foot by foot.| “I shall enlist!” the professor exe Woolen Goods Company, for profiteer-| Riley's arms secmed As lead, and he | claimed, ing, before Judge Jultan W. Mack != Knew that his blows lacked force. “I am engaged in a certain enters the United Stat District Court. Once more he felt the prick of a knife! prise, and | can use you two men,” Judge Hughes exhausted six dic-) Smulhey his Sreare hg foue pasees ene Sonne d. ee hy pion” ° and began atlacking him from e of profit, ssure you. nd there w' ‘onesies Ae alee. oorsoee aes Ai \rear, but the man who wore the spec- be fame for you in the underworld, support, of his contenvien nat woolen | tacles sprang aside to attend to them, | too, for within a short time the name goods Aid ad the Tariff Acts of isi, drove them against the wall, forced of Madam Madcap* will be knowm 1864 and 1890 to show that woo! did not them in front again. | well throughout the cit: come in the category of wearing ap-| “To the street!” Riley gasped % Nothing could be more appropri= parel and therefore that his clent was, “Back to the street It's our—only Ate,’ said the Professor. “I am fore Rot guilty of an Infringement of the | chanc tunate in allying myself with you s@ Lever Act under which he was jn-|~ His comrade’s answer came like a soon after adopting my new iP" Bg aN ps leis shock: | vocation.” “It's a blind alley, my young friend! Well, IT ain't turning down any Dr. W. Seward Webb's House Dam-|1t is impossible for us to reach the good bets!" Riley said a BURLINGTON, “Let's ge street! down to cases!" “It is very simple!” Madam Made country home of Dr. W. Seward Webb sald. “You are to trust me, of of New York, at Shelburrie, was dam- aged by fire and water yesterday when a HUGHES ARGUES WOOD CASE Attacks Indictment Against Amew- can Woo Head. Former\Judge Charles Evans Hughes thiagafternoon began Mis argument to quash the indittments against Williom ‘Report on Ce At Your “ervice, Day «+ Night FRANK B. CAMPBELL Ming: Polgtiia 107: Wie ove, i Beall ioe, Fair Lami, 107; Pols: wn ee ; RTH RACK: The Latin Mardin: fh mame, Ware teased; ered anmmnnt teae veile A} Mi iermid, 128; Creredeg. Lass ady Lie) "Thm swelala ca Ritwlna. Inchon vessels drawing over twenty feet. The obstruction has been removes Advertisements ip trade newspa- pers indicate that the divergence of ocean freight from New York to Bi timore and Phil increasing. Dav: export ‘freight contractors, sent through Baltimore and Philadelphia in the month of April more than at tons of miscellaneous mer~- for | four your.iein: ond: Jo Tree, 108) Rania, ih Gath, Bd NERTH RACE <ylitiane: for. tam yenr-nin: font anda. hal fivclongs, ntralght.—~Stagetan en. ya: ras Ua a ea Tata, | 105 atte Dotlie, “ite, + Rae, Spite po ‘Tract fast elie Priesthood, ‘The Rev, Fred W. Dickinson, former tector of the House of Prayer, oldest of 1 churches in Ni he - BeteIrast We Folded Shin csi on F ‘will enter the monastery of ers in Hoboken, to be: \ Natu of th se. reight intrusted to our care,” reau, ‘The 8 will be $1,200 a year, ‘Beat reads an advertisement of this firm, “has been loaded Anto ships at Phila- delphia within one hour after its ar- ‘|rival at the railroad terminal, and documents covering the shipments have been in the hands if the New a The body of Lieutenant ‘Thompson, whd was killed on April 19, at Rockaway Point, when his airplane fell into Jamaica Bay, was found yes- terday by A. Kablou. who was Ashlie bow! yards: from the scene of t Burglars drilled a safe and gut $1,000 Waceldent. ‘The’ body, Was temovee to from it early yesterday morning in the] WASHINGTON, June 2.—The army the Brooklyn Naval Hospital for burial. ‘Theatre, Church and Gravesend | appropriation ‘bill carrying | $395,000.00) Ligutenan da father and th te and sent io brothe vente, Brooklya: ‘The police have’ bo | as peated by 1, Snen bs ae hy : ’ CHAPTER Uf. i aD course. You are to accept my odthe torch being used by a roofer set fire they were trapped! ‘They mands and execute them loyall¥e tothe attic, ‘The damage to the house had their backs to a wall, wits And you are not to ask questions.” n@ furnishings, Including pictures and Books, was estimated at $75,000." Aaslat= | who operate a line of steamships to a human pack before themf “About what?" Riley wanted te t the] ance was summoned from this city, i} South American and European ports, said to-day when shown The fvening World's series of on it paon ; know. © living in his home at Kalewgh, and now the gangsters realized ite their predicament and began urging (Read To-morrows Exciting Chapter}

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