The evening world. Newspaper, October 28, 1920, Page 2

1 er eel gs ae eae ia at a 2h 3 ‘<i I mata tal except the eay-so of Brindell's teu- tenants. From a businems of $400,000 & year, Walths said, he hed come to ‘the point where he hed not been able to make a contract of any sort for six weeks past. He told of a threat ‘by Brindell, in retaliation for oppo- sition, to Arive him out of business ‘not only In New York but through- out the United States. Walls told of buying a building for demolition for $8,000 with the understanding that he would clear the site, He told how Brindell’s as- Sistant said to him: “Don't be afraid of a suit for not Minishing that job on time. Sign up With Mrindell and be will Gx It up ao thore follows will pay you $6,000, in- stead of your paying them—all you have to do ip to give part of it to the boss.” TELL OF BEING FORCED TO PAY INITIATION FE Members of the American Federa- fon of Labor Union of Houne- Wreckers, big sturdy fellows, speaking Slowly and with difficulty, told of Being forced to pay 960 initiation feca to Join the Bullding Trades Counc! only to find after tho last instalment ‘Was completed they were lald off.and “a now feller with another 360 took ‘the job and there ain't no more work for awhile.” ‘i Brindell himeelf,: looking Ike the dapper, curly drug etore clerk which | ! he was before he came to Néw York Jess than ten years ago, sat in the midWe of the audience on the aisle during the hearing Mr, Untermyor Apnounced he had been subpoenaed “to hear what was said about him, so ‘that he might have an opportunity to} Wose things if he wished from the stand later.” Te was understood ‘that Trindel! ‘was not to be called as a witness cept Bt his own request and after Wwalving immunity, The audience Murned to wetch him almost as much ae it watched the witnesses, He Mever seomed worried, Occasionally he amiled slightly. Once or twice, as Walxe! said “He put the $1,000 4m hin pocket and I didn’t hear him aay thank you,” he laughed out toud, “*Why did you give Srindell the wecond $1,000?" asked Samuel Unter- myer of Waixel. “I'd told him,” replied Waixel, “I'd Bive him $1,000 if 1 mot the job and Be had wall ‘all right’” ‘ ~ "But why?” persisted Mr, Unter. | ( myer. © SVERYBODY ELSE GIVING HIM|t MONEY, SAYS WITNESS, “Everybody elise was giving him ee said the contractor; "$1,000, 000, $500. I thought I had better wet into. it.” Waixe’'s price was 87.000 for the feb, A contractor named Atwell of the Northern Wrecking Company who yeare—the old wreek \$, new men? A. Well, \ were picked Ms looked me if they were out all night, and they. would work a little while, and the next aay rey their money. We every day. (Lau Q Well, we: been in the building wrecking bus neas? the bnsiness twenty yours here New York. TOLD HE MUST LAY OFF HIS | contract wame As said, in that if 1 w cause if L put those t cost me $25,000 more to Ohinh that Job. labo: arrangement by which Wat to chan mon. hi called off the Fuller job? the change, would cost you? 1 figured tt would cost me with the ed men $12,000 to finish that jon» the time and he agreed to shut bis from that time, pam rapreves sre a WITNESS TO-DAY AT INQUIRY INTO BUILDING TRUSTS eae emt ~ THE EVE They were dishwash ots! a crime, id them on a wall with a could not use them “to @ a crowbar, I and quit.” “What was the effect of Trindell’s methods Mr in your business?” asked Untermyer for the committee. Fusiness became impossible for was tho reply. “From $350,000 00,000 @ year I have come to a For the last wix wooks 1) obtained any contract id later, representa - told Dordan, ady & Co,| in front of me, ‘I'm sorry, 1 t | do a thing for Walinn' Brindell is too powerful. He catia strikes in pis standatii! Frayne, Eastern tive of Samuel Gompe president of y a worked at the buy! ese © for Ofwon Q. What clans of mon were these 1 don’t know==I wouldn't think a whole lot of thems me of them Igoked like an if the in the parks some were ready for ad to change ghter.) they men who had A. 1 never siw one of them in my life befure, and I have been in mn MEN, What elne took Q place? A. Mr, Whiting of the people » sale “You have got to lay off your mon. I don't know what it was for, They had some tlk with Brindell. I said: "L won't Jay off there men; I have a and I am protected sou have. The only way lay off my m you carry part Q. Why? A. The difference In the it wasn't experienced; couldn't do anything with them: y couldn't wet them to work told them to work they would you something. You might just Well have stood and watched them. You couldn't even wateh them beck use you ob If you tell you wouldn't only find half of them half the tm Later the Fullge people made a 1 age his od men for Q. Why did you do that? A. 1 ad about ten or fifteen jobs in ti ‘ity of New York then and every one of them stopped automatically at one ime. ‘They celled their men out Q. All the Trades Council men were A. Yea, all DE ACcOUNt Of this one job, Q. And how much did you figuro A. Well, So we came agreement, they wore to pay the cess over $12,000 plus the interest Q. How much did that amount to? Bad been favored by Brindell, first A. Wall, tha whole thing after that Bid $49,000 against xel and then) amounted to about §47,000. (Laugh- ‘had reduced the bid to $14,000, i's Robert C. Whiting, in general .. Inatead of $12,000? A. They paid eharge of labor matters for tho Ful-| the balano der Construction Company, followed Waixe! on the stand and told how Brindell forced the company to pay 4,700 or more to meet Waixel’s added | expense due to the change from A. P. Of L. workers to Brindell's workers, ‘The only member of the committee absent from the opening of to-day's hearing was Vice Chairman Thomas A, MoWhinney, indicted for-minde- ‘mean. yesterday by the Nassau County Grad Jury in connection with @ local gambling scandal. BRINDELL APPEARS BEFORE THE HEARING GING. Brindell appeared at the hearing Unaccompanied by counsel fifteen minutes before proceedings were to begin. “Will you consent to take mtand?t™ he was asked, “I can't say a word about that,” he maki, “Wat ond ero.’ < “Is Mr. Littleton to be your coun- weit” “You'll have to wait and eee." Waixel, the frst witness, said he was President of the Garden City Wreeking Company of Long Island City, and had been a house wrecker for thirty years. " Waixel said he had been a mem- Der of the Housewreckers’ Associa~ tion of New York Cily, which broke up after Avo years’ existence, last May. It was not a member of the Butlding Traden and Employers’ As. wociation and it employed members of the A F, of L. only. Q. How did it happen to go apart? A. When the Building ‘Trades Goun- cil came in the union wrockers re- funed to go into it, They wanted to wtay out and form thelr own union. Q. Those wreckers belonged to the union of which William Zaranko is Prosident? A. Yeas, there were about 4,300 of them. ; Q@. Why did the entrance of the Building Trades Counci) break your | Association? A. Bome of the empioy- ers signed an agreement—twenty-four or five out ef thirty, Q. How did that affect those who did not make contracts with the Butlding Trades Councjl? A. We were Motified that if we did not contract with the Council @ strike would be sailed on our jobs. In May, 1920, Walxel's concern was wrecking the Munson building at Wall, Pearl and Beaver Streets for Abe Puller Construction Company. He uscd men of the old union. “1 bean to be bothered by dele- grates,” he said, “Men from the Build- ign ‘Trades Council, a Mr, Btadt- mutter and another, They wanted me fo change my men and put on mea from the Building Trades Council, wouldn't do it, break me if | the diets “d hayway 1 1 did what on their other Jobe? Ww the #on and Starrett, A. Yea, ixel th n told of bis effort to set “he gaid, “the gens ma out the contract, raid, © got A List from the Building Trades Council with twe wre reom, You ain't on that eqn't give you the job unigss you have Bullding Trades Council men, You better go and get fixed up, if you Went to get this Job, Q. Go to Brindoli? A. I wont to seo Mr. Brindell and Mr. Hrindell said, “You got away pretty good on Munson job," and L sald “Yes. said, “I ‘want an agreement; [ pect to get some jobs." Well, he said, “That is going to cost you something,” and 1 dickered With him and he wanted $2,000, Q. For what? A. To give mo the agreement, Q. Before you could do any work? A. Before I could get any men from the Building ‘Trades Council TURNED DOWN §500, SAYING HiE | WAS NO PIKER. Q. What did you tell him? A. T told him I would give him $1,000, I wanted | w Ox to give him $00—and he told me he was ho piker. (Laughter.) Q, And when he said he was no piker, you raised the ante? A. 1! rulaed the ante a little fit Q. What did he say then? A. Ho wanted to know if I had the money, and I told him no, and he told me| that wa that way. (Laughter.) So I told him 1 would have It in about an hour and I went and drew it out of the bank. Waixel produced the check with which he diew $1,000 from his per- onal account in the Long lwland City branch of the Corn Rxchange n you Kot th . where did you him at the Building E bills from the no? A. f met clation at 344 Ht out of town, he sald. Q. Tell aus what A Why, nothing more “only I rave him that and that Ls ‘all Gave him what? asked Assembly- man Leininger The ‘thousand witnons: Naoltars, replied the Q. And what did he do with it? A Put. tt in his pocket Q. Before you got the job from Thompson-ftarrett you had to show th ntract with Brindell? m the © el then told of paying Byin- nit $1,000 ‘COMPANY, amazed the committee by a story of the arrogance of Brindell in forcing compliance with his terns. Brindell told Provident Gor- don of John T. Brady & Co. in my presence, to throw me off a Job and that the Building Trades Council would furnish the men to finish the job, He sald if | sued Brady & Co. would be reim- bureed by the owners, He aid I had tried to keep other contrac- tors from signing agreement h the Building Trades Counci nd h aoing to put me out of business and keep me out. | told him there were othor places bosides New York for me to earn a living; he said he'd show me betta Wallan said he made an effort to at they wardba rade ta ea f *roket, Ac It might pateh things up with Brindell, Brin. ‘hy you! dell repudiated the areement of his be well | subord ate, Stadtmuller, that Wall: tht keep some of his old men If hi 4 ‘union feos, no way to come and see hirn | ¢ A way an hé likes, It is all untalr, there in nothing can be done.” Aldermanto Chatnber by this but The time had filled s0 there was acarccly standing room. There were office of unie everywhere~from finicky looking jewellers to stalwart, red faced: jongshoremen. — Sometimes th was a note of anrcastic anger in their laughter, Always there was & craning of nycks to look at Brine sitting well down the centro grinning unconcernedly or ut. terly lone. Members of mployers’ arsociation® and big gon- tracting firms were crowded in cheek, by jowl with the delegates of the workers Robert C. Whiting auld it was his busines to handle labor affairs for the Fuller Company and supeevine the out- rite on buliding constructien, Lately the volume of ‘bisinens of the Muller concern hag been from $8,000,000 to 000,000 por year, he wald, and tt em- | ployed five or. six ‘hundred directly. | ‘The balanes, he anid, are employed by | sub-contractors, Whiting sald he knew | v awh of the Building Trades nei! for about a yenr. Do you remember the occasion Q lef the trouble at the Munson bull ing in Wall Street? A. I ran across Hrindell without any appointment at the Employers Association about 6 o'clock on April 5, He said we would | have to give the Job te one of two or three contracting housewreckers, 1 told him that the contract had gl- roudy len awarded to someone ele, THREAT MADE HE WOULD GET INTO TROUBLE, Q. What did he say? A He said, "You will get in trouble if you don't give that to one of the fellowa that I} have mentioned.” | Q. J want you to explain why tt ts that you felt compelled to comply with the Hrindell demand. A, After » contract had been proceeded several weeks, Mrindell had been rome a number of tines to have! ixel switch men. Walxel refused it, Lt then came to a time when Kelly of tho Hailding Trades called me up and asked me to shut the job down for a few days, In that way they hoped to foree these old wreekers into the now union. Q. Away from the other union? A. Yes, I told Kelly that Watxel had & contract and that we were t breaking contracts, He wanted 0 to take It up with Watxel and sco} if we could get it done. Mr. Eidlita had the Western Union going on at job dow and he did, Watxel re- Job down because would not guarantee him agalnat I got @ message from Mr. Don- tuned w ye of the Buliding Trades yers’ Assoolation, 1 wert up there, and Kelly, Brindell and Albert Volk, a hous ker, met me, Brindell maid: “Why don't! Q. In ordor to get the work started You take Walxel off the job and let Ler of oth Albert UNot Volk finish It ng ae L live, up?" 1. sald, crm He will not ue throughout the country as well New York City on all of our jobs if I did not stop the job. So we had an agreement with the Building Trad Employers’ Association and the Council that no job would be struck until the matter was brought up be- fore the committee composed of both sides, Lrindcll on that afternoon t phoned to his headquar ° hext morning the men were pu of on the Gillespie job on Dey r Steamahip job on and part of the men gas plant. jobs involving mill- tons of dollars? A. The buildings themselves, Whiting said Charles J. Kelly, Chairman of the Exe of the Building Baployers' Assocla- tien, and Brindell aa a joint com- mittee finally made the arrangement by which Maixel Anighed the Munson Huilding job with Brindell’@ labor at the Puller Company's expense. PERMITS FROM BRINDELL Cost $10 A WEEK, ive Committee William Zaranko, No. 64 East Fourth Street, Pfesident of House- wreckers’ Union, Local No, 95,ssad Din Organization had 1,800 meanders, all afMiiiated with e A. F, of La ‘hey were not associated with Hria- dell’s council, he testifid, and in or- er to Ket jobs they got working pe mits from Mnindell’s acents, for whic hey 1 $60, at the rate of $10 4 iecelpts were exhibited to the toe showing some of theve mente » witness testified about $00 of his men made them weekly pay~ ments of $10 each to Brindell's col-| He was unable to tell what] { the $5,000 a week > Wis Next Questioned about had with Brindell at r offered him $75 a vould join Hrindell's vnd turn over to Brindell the | Ks and records of lis local, The ing was hed, be said, in the # of the HKullding Employers’ Jation. “where Heindell is all the Ue.” Zaranko refused Brindell's offer, He suid his ub had $7,000 in tr at Brindell to'd he would appoint’ @ new set of officers for the local, ine Wuding « treasurer, If It came into we council, Aarunke tostifiod the $50 collected A Brindell’s agents for working per- mits was “for the privilege of living n Now oYrk As & housowrecker,” aid t $50 was pald idors working permits ket no more ad that how mon were put $0 being collected from et Harry §! corroborated ank about being out of @ job after paying for work'ng permit r Me & hounewreeker on 7 vi dhe asked Brin ell what It "Would cost to get some id Virindell repiled “1 don't Untormyer discovered Walter Melton had heen subpoenaed by mis: inke for Prank Melton, hia brother, also a wrecker, who te betleved to have a story of @ $1,500 transaction in which Brindell figured alter Melton geid Macher, Brin- delt's aid, had advised him to “go ventown to see Krindell.”” This w NING WORLD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 28, 'SEES MORE NATIONS “IN WORLD LEAGUE Balfour — Predicts Great Powers, Not Now Members, ‘our The Council of the Langue of Nations to-day cloned ite sessions in ruanels, after referring the question of Danalk to the Assembly of the Leaguc, | whieh I* to meet at Geneva next month Tho Counell decided upon a plebiscite an to the disposition of the territory in dispute between Poland and Lithuania, A. J. Holfour, the British representa~ tive, in making the closing address de. clared that four great powers tot now embers of the League would enter :t tly, Without these great powers,” ho added, “it Ja imposible to predict what the Lengua may accomplinh.” —_—_—_ 700 HOSTAGES SHOT BY THE ‘RED TERROR’ Most Brutal of Bolshevik Leaders Wields Iron Hand as Mos- cow Commandant, COPENHAGEN, Oct. 28.-—With the Announcement that Daersjinsk!, Prost. dent Extraordinary of the Mxecutive Committee, has been named as Military Commander at Moscow comen wort that 700 persons held there as hostages have been ehot. Dreraiinakl tg known aa the gnost brutal of the Bolshevist Inaters. He is known as the Terror.” pes intend TEACHER DROWNS IN MINE. Profi Smith Falls 270 Veet Giving Geology Lenton Near Peeknkitl. Prof. H.C, A. Smith, sixty, an in- atructor in setence at the Hackley fichool, Tarrytown, took 6) students of | geology to examine the abandoned cop- | per mine Manitou, two miles north of akill, and fell 276 feet down the: shaft into 30 fect of water and was drowned, —-——>___— ASSADOR | FRANCE KEEPS AMB Officially D wen PARIB, Oct. 28,—The French Foreign | Office to-day denied it planned to ap: point another Ambasaador to the United States In event of Senator Harding's election to work with the Senator for & new association of nations Amn! dor Jusserand will sgil for the United States Noy. 13 to resume his post. ainenmeentiGiien ‘ Torchlight Parade Vrecedes a« Smith-Martia Rally. | An old*fasbioned torchlight auto parade was held in the lower Bronx last night under the auspices of the Lower Bronx Business Men's League for District Attorney Francis Martin. Fully eighty autos and sight-seeing ars formed @ line which travelled through the lower Bronx to the Me- trepolis Theatre, where the meeting wasturned into a Smith-Martin rally. District Attorney Martin, Congresa- man Anthony J, Griffin and a num- | ra addressed the meeting, urging support for the entire Demo- cratic Ucket at the polls next Tues- ndsor Arcade job from Thomp- “0 It" Brindell threatened to strike day. —— ACQUIT MILLIOVAINE Cop, Wito aT ONCE IS REANRKESTED, Charlies G. Cox of Patohoeue, L. 1,/ known there aa the “millionaire cop” waa acquitted of perjury yesterday be fore ty Judge Haskell in Brooklyn. only AL once re: 4 n > to Suffolk County with automobile tna of an alleged stol charged that to marcy Mi mn MeCormick No. 131 Mucon Street, Brooklyn, awore it was Min fret marriqge, although it was his third, Sok EE Ses) Alice Paul Casta Pirat Vote by Mal, WASHINGTON, Oct. 2%.—Alico, Paul for neven years one of the leaders iM the fight for Woman Suffrage, will cant her first yote to-day, Sie will voto by mail, having established residence in Mootestown, N. J. where she was born. tment in cont Atwell concern was a combination of fifteen house wreckers, ‘The next witness was Jacob Fredua & general contractor of No, 804 Riverside Drive, “Brindell put me out of business, 1 am done for now, | am @ bankrupt,” he teatified, Fredus teatified further that Brin- a had demanded $25,000 from him he wanted to Ko ahend with o $300,000 contract wich he had for housewrecking and buiiding work at 1th Avenue and 27th Street, ‘This contract wax let by the Gar- t Centre Realty Company, and the work was undertakon in Marah of this year. ‘The witness told of hav- ing steam shovels at work and fifty auto-trucks ready for excavating work when Brindelt pulled "e slueers off the jot i wtrike He said that later he went to Brin dell to “straighten out things.” Mrin- deil asked him to show his contract Frodus replied, “What (he hell ix that Fae business? and refused to show ho contract, Fradua tontified said to him, mofe buriness.” Whan they talked further, accord- to Fradus, Brindell demanded 000 “if you want ty yo ahead Ith this je ‘The witness added time he did not of money Vradus said he went to see & House, attorneys, about his cam j@ Mr, Untormyer asked the witness it he would release his attorneys and permit them to disclose what he had told tiem He replied that he would, and that the attorneys might relate In detail what he anid to them. After Fraduas'’s visit to Bring work on the job had stop stated that Ne tried er four other Jobs but was unsuccesafill HAD TO SELL TRUCKS TO ME HIS NOTES. He had his fitty trucks le the t Brindel) then never do any } tn that at have this ame that mt BR e and had >» well them to Meet notes. Finally © went into business with his son ind suid he went again to seo Brin dell to haye hin “classify 1m ‘radus stated that at this Rrindetl told him he would produce,” that to do business it would © ost $1,000, t tale witness went on. when @ strike two Melton to give up fob to Atwell and jcoks ago forced cro apa Mr, Untermyer eeked him much he had with him H ri] “K hact $2,700, bat I didn't let Hrin-| independens of part Ines than at ton sal eon knomelt,"’ was the answer, | Bae exp Wd Vir 1! sa vena |HOW LEAGUE FIGUR have to “T paid him $1,000 at that time,” the how | politicians that perhaps the | ‘augue of 1920. WOWVEN'S VOTE ABIG FACTOR G0) AMYSTERY diana, Oh HOW AT WL and w Jer Lawrence Sununing Up'the Re- fi . 4 wey there hi noticeable re- sults of His Observations in | vival of intorest ng men and wn in the League of Nations, a Many States. r reading of the covenant than ed ation that has the professionAl politicians as or with the statement that the “ - * are ~ and tired of the thing. ! ‘ : ‘ourth—Another remarkable thing, Heavy Registration May Have! is that while the street talk and club! the Effect of Shutting _| neawparor “tak fas wonsoruied “ne Out Votes, 00~ apparent wave of anti-Wilsoniam, the ensual mention of the name of Wood row Wileon in m: held by the Democrats has on met with] red hand-claps it by = taneous outburat of ap-| Democrats themeclves been pleasantly @eurpraed by these demonstrations and don't know whether to Interpret it as a feoling of sympathy for the man who has broken, down in health in his en- Geavo: to serve the people as he thought beat or whether to regard tt] aa an indication of Democratic strength at the polls. ECONOMIC QUESTIONS ARE COMING TO THE FRONT. Fitth—The economic situation has had many puzzling developments in| the last three or four weeks. Prices have Oropped so materially and un- | employment has come so suddenty in | many cigies that in more than one case ar jons expressed that the shut-down has something sto do with the oft-heard conspiracy of in- timidating labor, On the other hand in the rural districts the fall in the price of wheat and the general de Line of livestock prices has atirre ¢ tariff issue and made frie for the Republican tariff progran The reader himneif has probably noticed that Senator Harding has evidently. Lean, to of tite sentiment | 6 ; ? .|for he has devoted two or three} habit of America to change Adminis: statements to it lately. moreover: trations every few years, But the) yy g tide of interest in the Democrats have managed to force the | League of Nations hax been met by League of Nations to the front as an|the Republicans in the last two issue with remarkable success in the] Weeks by campaign speeches from By David Lawrence. (Copyrigit, 1920.) (This ia the first of a serve of / three artleles forecasting the trend of next Tuesday's electoral vote for President and analyzing the situ- ation in three-fourths of the States of the Union visited by the writer during the last two months. ‘The coalition of the West and South which gave Woodrow Wilson bia victory in 1916 was a now comb!- nation of electoral votes, Previously the big Eastern States—New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Ohto and Ilinots together with New England—were | sufficient to tell everybody on elec- tion night that the race was over. The ig question this year Is whether there In any combination of votes whereby Gov. Cox can win the Presidency. Senator Harding has been picked ®y most everybody to win chiefly because of thé traditional Sw nestdpinnl > ¥ Education and State Senator Lock- jtunity and recreation centres, elvic done we ask you how it is te done?” ( “Does (he Board of Batimate want the Board of Education to shorten the school year? Do you want ue to curtall certain activities, If we are to cut activities, perhaps you could wugsest Just which should be cut or, EDUCATION BOARD HAS PARED DOWN [=e For fully a minute not @ member of the Ewtimate Board answered. 'Finalty Mayor Hylan gald: “I propose to cut every dollar we can from the 1931 budget, provided the outting does not eripple some vitally important olty activity. Iam wiling to go the legal limit with the public schools, but mo further.” tots siieinemitnsls ITALY WANTS U. S SINGERS. Mayor Says it May Be Neces- sary to Ask Albany Aid to Provide for Shortage. State Commissioner of Education John H. Finley, the members of the Board of Betimate and the Board of Fernando Tanaro, former conductor wood will hold a conference next week for the purpore of arriving at some decision ay to where responsibility for financing mandatory salary increases for teachers should be placed. Among the reductions which have been effected in the Board of Edu- of the Metropolitan and Manhattan Opera compantes, arrived to-day on the Italfan Hner Duca D'Aosta, to carry buck to Italy a flock of Ameyean singers, He anid taly ls starving for soprance, 1 ve the greatest sopranos in’ the world areto be found tight here amoug the American girl4, and 1 hope to take some of them back with me in w caton budget, which total $4,000,000,| weeks The rae, Bapaianee mat are the following: Visiting teachers, | When va iqubelty ts rich the entire muaica Emma Trentini, day elementary schools, day high schools and enforcement of eompul- sory education, census and truancy laws and attendance officers, $174,000; Yoluntary continuation claases (Americanteation), §21,750; for aal- aries to care for incrensed register, &c., during 1921 in compulsory con- tinuation schools, $227,900; for ev Ding trade schools, $24,173.50; for eve ning high schools, $64,262; for com- xtended use of school build- ing, &e., $12,107. for athletic com- petitions and after-school athletic centres, $43,620.76. Among the other important redue- Rew positions amounting 14.38 day elementary new activities in vocational schools, $50,000; now Vocational activities in the manual training high schools, $38,000; pre cational suppiles and equipment for {fF YOU. SAVE $20°° .ON Your PED"AND LOS O NIGHTS SLEEP WHAT WHAVE “YOU GAINED Proposed activities, $35,000; com- |Pulsory continuation schools and classes’ equipment and supplies, $450,000; “special activities," $60,000; such friends of t eas Her- last fifteen: deya ahd any calcula-|trce discon, FREDO SE, Hoover, William Howa tions made by the writer or anybody and Elihu Root. ‘The attack else as early ae Oct. 1, are necessarily | been garulnst Article Ten and in subject’ to revision at the last mo- t An ° East, at least, ator Harding, has sent m ment. the last few days to EEKING TO VERIFY THE EAR-/#0n or Borah telling them t LIER ESTIMATES. Interproting the Republican platform | oorrect ‘Whea this correspondent Mette WILSON’S “JUDGMENT OF THE every State west of the Mississippt ISSUE VINDICATED. with one or two exceptions, he re- However, wet of the Migsisi ported after an investigation of thirty River it is the judgment of this cor- days that there were only a few reapondent that evon the changing of “J ; votos at the eleventh hour to Cox from Btates—Utah, Montana and Neva de ee ee ee ieee mble ‘the. Den —wherein the Democratic nominee! craty to carry N for the Presidency had a good chance. | \ 3 of Ohio, though they have ad- order to determine whether those |Mttedly made progress every day eee ne aot mate. fac Cox ana (since the Dew Moines apeech and are th ne @aily aequiring voled of large whether any others have been addeajnumbers of w to the lst, the writer has sent te President Wilson saw tho insue of West in whose judgment he can place poen vindicated in the wenve tat with reliance and has asked that tho re-!it the Demo: e¢ been able to plies be sent in a specified code su mane ware progress than with any~ that men working on Demo atie | he big question 13 whet newspapers or in the Dentocratic or-|Democrats have been aby ganization or those employed tn th ashe ey ae domentic Republican camp would have no keat-|oe" wy pat it tancy in wsing over the jcountry going graph wire thelr own confidential and jof foreign polic: Those telograms are coming in and the results will be embodied in to- morrow’s despatch. Ags for the situ- ation east of the Mississippi River, which haa been exatminod in person by the writer in the last thirty days, several factors stand out as extraor- dinary; First—The heavy registration of women has made it doubtful whether in some States everybody will have @ chance to vete in the limited portod that the pois are open, On account of the congestion at the polls, especially in States where no provision has Leen made w handle the crowds, many votes will not be cast at all. NEGRO VOTE REPORTED WELL ORGANIZED. ond—The negro vote in North- ern States is better organized than it ever haw been, In some of the border the ver oy le- on questions to the exclusion of irritations out of the The only place for such indenend- ence to be displayed—if It appoars at alli—in in the West, which showed itself a in 1916 to part company with the rock-ribbed Republican East. Can the West and South win for Cy or is there any other combination par- tially In the EXtst and partially tn the West which would carry him to vic- tory? ‘These questions will be an- swered with an oral table tn te- morrow’s article, DOCTORDISPELS ANYEETY MANIFESTED ASOT PRESEN eel States feeling is not altogether pleas- ant over the way the negroes have (Continued.> been mobilized by the Republicans, re and it is not altogether a certainty] only a few words were spoken, and whether, In caves where the Demo. |the President's remarks were of an erate control the election machinery,| informal character, The visit of the there will be time eftough for thr] Holt delegation consumed the best negroes to vote, though In certain| part of an hour The President's cities where the Republicans have | speech, the only address which he control just the reverse |e apt to be| as delivered in person since he was stricken, in ember, 1919, occupied the case and many w may noc| get a chance to vote. The race ques- |More than thirty minutes, Ie read tlon, unfortunately, enters into the| from his manusscript, Jeatcutation of certain important| “The President went through the Staten experience of greeting the delegation He never was in his first break- signs of fatigue In excellent shap better health sin Jown, He showes irom the conference.” There is no doubt in the minds of those around the ident that he Third—The truo effect of the enfranchisement of women throughout the nation is the most uncertain quantity in the whole situation, Politicians profess to | know how the women will vote, but they don't. No political leader in all the States that the writer | wilt fulfill y ‘expectancy visited was able to produce a can- of life, The has long since vass of the feminine vote which | assed the sts e anxiety nicht could be considered complete. be justified on the score of final re- Time and a ecanvaas of the | covery, but that naturally @ more masouline ¥ been accom-| oy come back’ could not reason- plished with such ably be expected from a man past Yance of tho elect nixty years of aKa, hos varied but little y areal Oto! rides rest, Most editors and political) | Neen ot Ly dusty “programme, [leaders ares, howover. that the) after a long interruption, Practically women will me fee | overy afternoon the big White House publican or Der automobile, with Mr, and Mrx, Wil- creaae it by at least 80 per cent ane hay Notes wo votes the wife,|#on, sometimes accompanied by a vis- tho husband votes, 9 votes the wife.) tor or friend, leaves the White House ‘FECT i grounds for a drive lasting aa hour EFFECT OF LEAGUE ISSUE ON WOMEN'S VOTE, Westerners who have had more ex- perience with woman suffrage for many yearé uphold that view, yet in Indiana, Kentucky, Weat Virginie even Ohio it bas been admitted or more —~-— m Much Better, Misha Apple- it was | Nutions has made more women voters nv York, New Jersey, | and the reconstruction period. | for compensation, salaries, janitorial services and not elnewhere provided for, $40,000; mainténance of school plant, replacements, alterations and betterments (foreseen), $767,000; | ditto, “unforeseen,” $242,000; heating, | repalrs, replacements, alterations and | betterments, $480,000. The $4,000,000 reduction js divided into two classes, one being the gen- | eral school fund and the other the} special school fund, The reduction tn | for Halloween umbo PEANUTS jthe former tp $426,183.74, and in the prolate de latter $3,373,816.28, aaeed corte! 25c Ib. President Anning 8. Prail of the! Pound-—Good, |New York City Board of Education | 24. Fresh Rofsted COFFEE wald: i “Buppat ive but $50,000,000 | We also fh anor: IMPORTERS MILLS COMPANY rather $7$,000,000, because of the pro- | posed $4,000,000 In-udget cuts? How COFFEE & PEANUT ROASTERS are we going to apportion $50,000,000} 173 Greenwich St., jto cover $75.000,0007 If it muxt be 14 Block We | We are ready with the biggest, brightest and most complete stocks of Sweets and Novelties to be found anywhere else in { these broad United States, Every LOFT | h nt with the cleverest and cutest creations And Store is tesplendeiic of the LOFT tremendous purchasing power sgt ‘as attractiveand thmpting as the articles themselves. A id comparison with. offerings anywhere else in the city will em- pitasize the REAL ECONOMIES and VALUES now available at our stores. Every Loft Store a Palace of Hallowe’en Treasures 4 Jack e! Lanterns, Black Demon Head Lanterns, Gob~ Pumpkia Hoot ns, illuminated Skulls and Baby Goblin Flead Lenteras A ene P Clown: fobs Lana, priced at 29¢ Doll and Pumpkin Candy | Boxes—very elaborately tied t Ge and 99c, Many others, Watch large announcements in Friday papers. Hallowe’en Sweets— HIGH GRADE ASSORTED CHOCOLATES or Bon Bons and Cho- colates in attractive Hallowe'en pound boxes 59, JACK O' LANTERN LOFTYPOPS, pack: x, 24c. MARSHMALLOW PUMPKIN CES in gayly decorated Hallowe'en Carto ch HALLOWE'EN MIXTURE of Hard Candy, favorites, Ora: pound boxes, 59c. MILK CHOCOLATE P MPKINS in 19c, Many other linos: See our large announcement in Frida: Special for Friday and Seturday, October 29th and 30th KR CUTH—Thone itt ho: ¥ the CHOCOLATE COV FRED ROARTED JOR- DAN A finest of ll Swed pluie Al iy rents tum, then MILK CHOCOLATE PARLAYS — These are bin, othsome bars of Honey Nougat, dipped relled For cxnct location see telephone directory The specified weixht includes tne contain 89c