The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1921, Page 2

2 tee ae ‘ —— eee ‘ eee @recst exhausted the visitie supply of weHting paper at the post before he Cee away. a “ARADE FOR AIRMEN iN THE ROCKAWAYS WHEN THEY RETURN Biz Celebration and Welcome Ar- ranged by Military and Civic Organizations. & The day of the return of the three ) gmyal balloonists to the Rockaway Point Naval Air Station, whatever that @ay may be, will be a holiday throug!- at all the towns in the vicinity of the station. At least 5,000 persons are ¢x- pected to take part in a parade of wel- >» cone. Plans for the celebration were drawn tentatively this afternoon at a meet- ing of a committee of business men and Rockaway Board of Trade mem- bers in the office of Jacob Stra of Rockaway Park. Capt, Damon E. Cummings of the alr station promised full co-operation. Stores will be closed and hoses Aevorated at Rockaway Beach, Reck- wway Park, Belle Harbor, Neponsit " amd other places along the line of march of the parade. | At tho air station the returning , aeronaute will be aajuted by com- panies of midier and sailors, There , wil also be a squadron of seaplanes ‘ami several blimps ff the arrival is bey Way. Te it 4s by night there will be torches and illuminated arches. The committees, headed by Patrick H. Morrison, is to be rotified forty-eight hours in advance. The parade will start at Hammel station and proceed to the air station. ‘The chitdren of the towns will stand before the wcliools to see the proces- ; Tho reviewing stand will be at 12th Street and Washington Avenue, * Rockaway Park, Among those in- yited to occupy # are Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Gov. Miller, Mayor Hytan and other city and State of- i In the parade will be the New York City Police Band, reorganized; tho Coast Defense Band from Fort Ham- itten, the iband from St. John's Orphan Asytum, Brooklyn; a detail from the air elation, a compary of soldiers from Fort Tilden, 400 mem- ders of the Daniel M. O'Convell Post of the American Legion, under Com- mander Hubert Murray; the Mth y of the 9th Coast defense, Lieut, John R. Murray; the Rockaway Beach Board of Trade the Far Rockgway Board the Neponsit Club, Relle Harbor Property Owners’ Asso- elation, and many lodges. —— AVIATORS’ WIVES KEEP UP COURAGE DESPITE DELAY Letters From Hinton Telling of Experience Create Wide- spread Interest. Mrs, Stephen A. Farrell, whose hus- band, from all accounts, was the most exhausted of the trio in their fight death in the Canadian wikis, to-day at her home, No. 1701 Woodbine Street, le: that no word of any kind his hands must be frostbitten, otherwise I am sure he would have written me something, His experi- have undoubtedly told heavily ) on him, cannot believe that if he had been in his right senses ho would ever have talked of suicide, as is re- lated in Lieut. Hinton’s letter. It may have been this suffering made my husband delirious and that he‘talked without knowing what he sald. «In Lieut, Kloor’s igtters thefe is no mention of suicide talk by my hus- band. All he said was that Mr. Far- #) rel) was so weak that it might be neovssary for tim to ride part of the way from Moose Factory to the rail- road. I am thankful that my hus- band is even well enough to travel, more about him wwtll offical word vomes to me." ; Mrs. Farrel] is at present under quarantine in her home, her daugh- ter being ill of scarlet fever, For this reason, when Lieut. Farrell re- turhs he must either remain away from his home until the quarantine be lifted or submit to quarantine himself, Only ingthis way will he be able to see his wife and daughter. Great interest is felt in the letters written by Lieut, Hinton and pub- lished under copyright in The World yesterday, One ;was to his wife. These letters came by carrier to Cochrane, Ont., and were mailed from there. In the one to his wife, Lieut, Hinton said: “Mr, Farrell fell from exhaustion several times. Wanted us to cut his throat and let him die, but we devided to stick and die together, I was the only one that did not express my feel- ings and kept them cheered up. “The thind day, after Farrell had of- fered up & prayer and was apologiz- ing for his sins, I,smiled to the kid (loor) and said, ‘Just think what all ‘ou will have to tell your little kids day, Kloor’ Farrell said, ‘For God's sake, Hinton, what shall do” 1 said ‘You heard a dog bark, ee ae eae didn’t you? (Answer) “Yes.” lw we are followings stream, «°Yos.") rent wet’ ‘Why, 1 baven't even start- But if you but I do not expect to,hear anything | CLERK ASSUMES BLAME FOR BILLS IN CRAIG CHARGES Declares _ Responsibiiity Chargeable to Him, and Not to La Guardia. Is TOLD TO BE CAREFUL. Employee in Board of Alder- men Also Absolves Stenogra- pher—Messages Explained, William O'Connor, a Legislative clerk, who for nineteen years has been an employes of the Board of Aldermen, in a statement this after- noon took full blame for Comptroller Craig's change that Aldermanic President La Guardia had spent $390 of taxpayer® money for bis personal, political and stock market telegrams. “Whatever responsibility there is for the failure to eliminate the tele- grams set forth in the communica- tion of the Comptrotier,” auld OCon- Nor’s statement, “is chargeable to me and not to the President” (meaning Mr. La Guawian, =” ‘Likewise, O'Connor fully whrsolved from all blame Mist Marit M. Fisher, stenographer to Mr. La Guardia, who, he said, always very carefully cheoked up personal telegrams of the Aldermanic President, after he had specifically requested her to separate them from officiug wires changeable to the city, President La Guardia aso issued a statement in which he explaing that there was only one bill for telegraph el and not monthly statements, and that therefore the mistake of charging personal telegram calls to the city occurred but once. Mr. La Guardia mys the total of the personal calls which he claims were charged to the city through O'Connore mistake, wus not $390. From the $390 total, he mys, there must (be a deduction of $209 for of- ficial telegrams sent by the Board of to the Legislature while logtvlation was pending on rent relief bills. These telegrams, Mr. Latiuar- dia eye, wore signed by the Acting President of the Board and the ma- jority and minority leaders, Mr. La Guardia himeelf was in Adbany at the time, P as ‘There ts another reduction of $26.97 ‘for the calling of a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen last summen. Mr, LaGuardia claims, His pérsond telegrams amounted to an average of three or four a month, he says, At the very ‘beginning of his Administra- ton, he aserts, he emphatically in- structed O'Connor to keep personal and official telegrams separated, In bis statement O'Connor in part aid: “Provident LaGuardia has several times instructed me, and in my pres- ence Jnstructed Miss Fisher, his pei ‘BOT stenographer, to be very cure ful to see that none of his personal telegrams ‘were charged “to the city. “These Western Union bills were all submitted to Miss #isher to check up the President's personal |tems, and she subseuently gave me a check to the order of the ‘estern Union Company in settlement gt the checked items, She alwo paid over, in cash, to the representative of the Western Union Company, the cost of the Scarborough telegrams of March 26. 1 told the Western Union Tele- graph Company to render new bills eliminating those personal items, which was done, and these corected bills were subsequently O.K'd and sent through to the Finance Depart- ment for payment without the knowledge of President La Guardia." sehen aed 15,300 “YANKS” IN GERMANY Senat New Cant Tell How Long ‘Troops Wilt Rem WASHINGTON, Jan, 10.—There are stil! 16,300 American soldiers in Ger- many, Senator New of Indiana, mem- ber of the Milltary Affairs Committee, told the Senate to-day during consid- eration of his resolution to stop entist- wits until the army reached 175,000 en, How long after March 4 will they }remain there? Senator Lenroot, Wis- jcongin, asked. won long, ¢ hope,” replied Senator New Lieut, Louis A. Kloor jr. pilot of the balloon, sent his first message from the frozen north, is a happy young woman. She appears to be not mory n elghteen years old. 1 think it is just wonderful tiat they came through it all alive,” she d sterday, “I can tell from Mr. Kloor's letter that the suffering must have been intense, or he would not have described his experience as ‘passing through the tortures of hell: But all's wal that ends well, and I suppose that I, as well as ‘all the other friends of the three men i the balloon, should be extremely thankful that things were not any worse. The men came through alive, and they have brought new honor to the Amer- jean Navy, and that ought to be enough. Miss Flowerton got the letter four dys ago. She immediately called up all the friends of the airman that she knew and gave them an outline of the contents of the letter, "If I had known Mrs, Farrell I cer- tainly would have called her up and told her about the letter, although Mr. Kloor said nothing of Mr. Far- rell's offer of sacrifice, Miss Flowerton was much im pressed with two things which worke oddly in favor of the airmen, They the barking of the trapped dog, which prompted Kloor to bring the balloon to earth, dod the fac Lisut, Bvans decided not to make the » havi just ol ned a furlough to visit, hin faa on SENATOR JOHNSON TO FIGHT 10 SAVE DIRECT PRIMARIES | Will. Take Stump in States | Where Move Is On to Return to Convention Methods. By David Lawrence (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (Copyright, 1921).+-Senator Hiram Johnson of Cul- Mfornia is turning his guns “on the forces of reaction” which are aiming to ‘ ‘ eliminate the direct primary system and go back to the convention method of selecting party candidates, Mr Johnson will go out on the stump and carry his cause to the people direcily in the States where the assault on the primary is greatest—New York, Iowa, Indiang and Western states. Senator Johnson sees in the attitude of Gov. Miller of New York ‘and the utterances of other Executives a concerted attaok on the primary sys- tem which he does not intend to pass by without a fight Speaking to-day of the recent speech of Charles Evans Hughes defending the primary system, ‘he said: “It was a brave speech for a man coming from New York to make.” Discussing the citadels of “reac- tion" in America, Senator Johnson said that if the ‘fight against the direct primary were successful it would eliminate progressivism alto- gether in American politica With the removal of the direct primary system and a return to the conven- tion methods, Mr. Johnson believes politicians will be able to do about as they please, FLAGRANT FAULTS FOUND IN PRIMARY SYSTEM. Unquestionably eome flagrant faults have been found in the primary sys- tem, especially in the West, where the Non-Purtisun League has cap- tured the well-advertised names of the old parties and turned things up- side down, but in the efforta to cure such a situation thé foes of the whole primary system of nominations have come to the fore. Modification and destruction, however, are two different things, and the friends of the primary here are unwilling to admit that its ills are irremediabie. This ls no sudden determination on the part of Hiram Johnson, He told the writer In Sacramento during the canrpaign that he was far from sat- isfied with the way many of the dele- @ates to the Chicago Convention last June disregarded the instructions of the people He had very little com- ment to make about the way Senator Harding was nominated, for the Call~ fornia Senator was engaged in the business of helping to defeat the pro- League attitude of the Wilyon Ad- ministration. Now that the election is over and the Republican Party is in power, Mr. Johngon emerges with the cause of progressivism at his ‘bosom, clinging desperately to it, to be sure, in an age which he will admit is filed with powerful reactiohary tendencies, WILL REMIND PEOPLE OF AIMS OF REACTIONARIES. “It may be that reaction is so strong with us,” he sald, “that the fight against it will not succeed, but I intend to do everything in my pow- er to remind the people of what the reactionaries are trying to do to thom," e senator Johnson has accepted the results of the election as a repudiation of pro-League policies and not as a mandate of the people to return to reactionary ways and it is this view- point which he will express in Con- gress When questions of taxation are actively under consideration, In his statement to-day, moveover. Mr. Johnson speuks of the “bitter, con- certed movement against labor” as an accompaniment “of the endeavor to take from all voters the right nominating thelr public servants The California Senator pecially friendly to the cause of labor is bound to be heard from when anti- strike legislation comes before the Senate this w The so-called group of “irreconcilables" which has remained @ unit in opposition may be divided as the conservative Hastern Republicans part company with some of the Western Progress! but there is a chance that Senator Harding may face a now “battalion of death’ before long—and the open- ing of the fight by Senator Johnson on the direct primary system may be taken as an augury of further cham- ploning of progressive measures, Senator Harding himself hay al- ways been counted as a conservativ but the word from Marion both by fore and after the election is t! Mr, Harding himself shows an clinat latic oft who is es- at in- toward social welfare legix- and the progressive wing of the party on seyeral things which stand-pattens would not whole. heartedly support, Senator Johnson has not waited for any cue bu out to make his fight for progr iam—and he has selected the direct primary system as the first bulwark needing defense. WANTS PUBLIC ROCK PILE. Persons Co 4 of Petty Crime to Break Stone in Park. RUSSELLVILLE, Ark, Jan, 10.-—-Chiot of Police Walter Turnbow sald to-day he would ask the City Council for au 1 rock pile in the pubiic f chuinsyattached to the centre, convicted of petty crimes ¢ thes THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JANUARY THREE BURGLARIES sas Throw of Mayor—No Arrest 6 and Police Deny. thavé been active within week within a short Mayor Hylan’s home the distance in 7,000, and the police deny the rotiberles, man, Nd 1512 Broadw Jewelry valned at $4,068 The lingerie store of the Hannan and McLaughlin, at No, Broadway, was. robied of silks jewelry, and otber goods $2,000. MILLER TO TAKE UP ject Governor Will Mention in Message Wanesday, ture last w ‘NEAR HYLAN’S HOME Week’s Loot $7,000 Within Stone’ It was learned to-day that thieves last of Brooklyn, getting loot valued approximately at Not an arrest has been made. On New Year's Day burglars went into the gewelry store of Max Slotz-| MARRIAGE REGULAR within a} block of the Hylan home, and stole| nine dozen rings and other pieces of Misses nd other apparel valued at $600 last Tues~ & Bro,, at No, 1489 Broadway, and stole valued at PROHIBITION FIRST tts Enforcement to Be Only Sub- | Miss Margaret French Wed in Italy To Philadelphia Military’ Attache The marriage in Taormina, Tuily. to-day of Miss Margaret Frenvh, daughter of Daniel Chester French, New York sculptor, to William Penn Cresson of Philadelphia, Chief of the Military Mission at quarters during the war, was an- nounced in private caible messages re- celved here, United States Amibas- sudor, Johnson and Mrs, Johnson at- tended the ceremony and Franklin Gunther, Cou or of the Embassy at Rome, was best man, , WAR HERO, AGE 15, WINS COURT AID Justice Hoyt to Investigate Re- imarkable Story of Boy Who Took } Up Arms When Ten Years Old. Jack Stefken, a fifteen-year-old Relgian doy, charged with juvenile delinquenay, to-day in the Children’s Court told Justice Hoyt of the de- struction of his Liege home carly in the war, His mother was slain, and of his four brothers and sisters thres were @lain by the shel] that blew \ up their home, and the fourth went | insane, he said. He was ten years <ld then, but he took up arms with his father, who was shot beside him hen he wis wounded, He regained consciousness in a German hospital and was kept prisoner throughout the war, working hard and recelving little to eat. Still a prisoner after the Armistice, he escaped and stiled many seas as cabin boy on ocean liners, Alleged desertion from the Red Star liner Lapland so he might go to Norwich, Conn,, ted to his arrest, Justice Hoyt directed an investigation with, the view of gaining permission for Jack to remain in the United States, “KISSLESS BRIDE” $ | Hoyt’s Suit for Annulment Dis- | missed in Supreme Court in | White Plains. Mrs, Estelle Carroll Hoyt, one of the original members Florodora Sextette, won a court victory who was of the day. t White Plains to-day when Supreme On Thursday night thieves broke “ Court Justice Platt filed {findings in into the pawnshop of Henr¥ 1. Gross (700, jo diamiased the action of Ar- thur S. Hoyt, ker husband, for an an- nulment of thelr marriage, charging fraud. Mrs: Hoyt who has heen deseribed as the “Kissless Bride," is about thirty years younger than Mr. Hoyt, who is seventy. She is now a teacher in a college in Kentucky, Mr. Hoyt is head of a big firm in Ohio. Mr. Hoyt on the wjtness stand swore his young wife had deceived him when she stated that she told hiny she had been legally divorced in Chicago from her first husband, Frank J. Mahon, and ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 10.—Prohibl- tion enforcement logisiation will be [that she had no right to marry him in the only subject considered in the |New York State. Mr, Hoyt claimed thit message Goy Pier Will send to the|the marriage had been a loveless one. legislature when it reconvenes on} Justice Platt yin disinising the wetion dnesday night, the Governor said | finds that Mr.Hoyt knew his wife had to-day. Mo did not make any state-|been divor and that he had given ment regarding his recommendations. [her money to obtain the divorce from In his first message to the L Mahon. age ONE KILLED, 2 HURT later he would r of the p tax law, . tion of the Excise Department AT GRADE CROSSING passsage of an att to enforce . Eighteenth Amendment, conformable! wfc er to the act ef Congress on the subject {Victims of Collision Between Train and enforceable by peace officers as and Automobile Declare other laws are ent Verdict for Boy Kun Ov. Eighth Avenue Trolley run over by an Eighth Avonu $42,000 FOR LOSS OF LEGS. by A veontict for $42,500 as compensation for the lows of both logs when he was our on Watchman Was Asleep. LONG BRANCH, N, J., Jun, 10,—One ian is dead and two are in the hospital as the remit of a freight train hitting the automobile in which they were rid- ing at the Broadway crossing of the Now York and Long Branch Railroad. od The eufety gates were open. and It is May 20 Inst, wan to-day awarded (9) charged that tho watchman, John alae » ae The dead man was Ralph Burns, ‘The boy who lives near Bighth| twentysane, a soldier at Camp Vail, Avenue and 144th Str was 80 jn- mal Corps Post, near here Harry jured that five operations were nece Layton of Long, Branch, driver of the oury bd father, wh rought suit} car, who was taking Burns and an- qeainet the Oamnany Sor «stl: | other soldier from this city to the post, transfusion several ‘Limes Thal recelved a broken arm and injuries son’ fe, and this hag so weakened] on the the othe; him he could scarcely’ continue his idler vane ine work driving for a bakery Hired Ghith : — . | POET'S LEGIONARIES IN ROUT, New P teem Marke tn Harlem TARANTO, Italy, Jan. 10.—The are} Comnitaste of Markets wit J. rival here yesterday of legtos s from] O'Malley toxlay announve ning Flume provoked a manifestation which] o; two new pushoart markets, one in wr ina riot. Ono Eocene was wound-| Park Avene, from ith to f6eh a re arrest Street, the other at First Aveoue and 28) Posen renner stnes Belgian Head- | 10, 1921. ALARM OF KIDNAP |Ten-Year-Ol “Flipped Ou | Autoand Alarm Was Promptly — | | Sent Out. | | | +b wanted a ride.” wag the explana: | tion give to-day by ten-year |James Hunter of No. 757 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, for Miving caused |the city's entire police force to set out) on a false kidnapping chase Inst night. Johh Adams of Astoria, L. 1, and) Thomus MoCarthy of Garden City, L. 1.,| | who arked James to get them @ wrench | when their autowobile balked near his |home, found him seated on the rear seat when they thad completed the repairs. James, they said, refused to budge. Meanwhile the boy’s parents, alarmed at his absence, reported to the police that he had been kidnapped by two |men in an automobile, and red signal lights flashed all over the city, Every | exit from town was guyded and Adams, MoCarthy and the bey were found at Colgate and Montgomery Streets, Jimmy's parents wanted to make a kidnapping charge against the two men, but. the boy , corroborated their story and the police refused to hold them, GOMPERS IN MEXICO FOR LABOR MEETING | Delegates From U. S., Mgxico and | 46-South and Central American Republics ‘Present. MENICO CITY, Jan. 10.—Bolegates lag JES’ STOLE A RIDE;| to an from labor organizations of the United States, Mexico and sixteen South and Central American repub- lcs, were here today for the opening session of the third Pan-American Federation of Labor conference. Sam: uel Gompers, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor and fourteen other representatives of American jabor made up the delegation from the United States, ‘The purpose of the gathering, ac- cording to Mr, Gompers, was “to pro- mote good relations among the labor- ers of the United States, Mexico and South and Central America.” jeaaaioni ae FOOTPADS ROB HER OF $733 INCROWD Pair Waylay Woman Near Tube Station in Jersey City and Escape. Mra. Catharine Willlam of No. 2774 Hudson Boulevard, Jersey City, was crossing the bridge over the Pennsyl- vania tracks near the Summit Avenue station of the Hudson and Manhattan tubes Inte last night when two men way- laid her. While one seized her by the throat the other selzed her satchel con- taining $450 in cash and $283 in checks made ont to her daughters, Gertrude and Catharine, who are school teachers, Mrs, William made an outery, but al- though many persons were passing and two motorcycle cops pursued, the men escaped. ‘Sho said they were bout thirty years old. Cotton Millx Rey ing Work. (Special to The Exening World.) PLAINFIBLD, Conn, Jan, 10.— There is a marked improvement all thhrough the cotton mill belt in this State, 3,000 operatives being added to those on full time this morning and 2,500 to longer hours, Some of the woolen mills long idle are also get- ting ready to start yp. Six thousand operatives In Arctic, R. 1, algo went on full time this morning. U.S. MAY WITHDRAW FROM THE COUNCIL OF ANBASSADORS America’s Position Taken Be- cause of the Result of November Election. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — ‘Phe United States, it was said to-day, withdraw from the Council of Ambassadors, which has been meeting continuously in Paris to consider the armistice question | and other questions growing out of| the peace treaty | The five powers, Britain, Prince, Ttaly, Japan and the United States wert represented in the council | The decision became known when | { was learned the State Department | had declined to send a representative to tho meeting of allied premiers in| Paris, Jan. 19, to discuss German dis- | haa decided to armament. | The Stato Department's policy, it is stated, is based on its conclusion that | the present Administration is no longer in a position to interpret the will of the American people in Wuro- pean affairs, following results of the Noveinber election. Matters relating to the armisticy it was explained, have nearly all been settled. The United States sit | ‘n on the treaty discussion on the assumption that the treaty would be | ratified in this country. Failure to | ratify dt was stated in Administration circles removes any justification of the present Government's continuing its representation in European coun- lls which are based on {nterpreta- tion of that document. Representation on the Council of Ambassadors has been the most im- portant link connecting the United | States with the post-war situation in Europe. There remains the con- | nection with the Reparations Com- | missfon and that ag the Rhineland Commission, but officials regard both of these a8 specific cises in which the United States is directly inter- ealad | WILSON NOW WORKS WITHOUT FATIGUE Can Do Two Hours’ Labor With- | out Tiring—Not Yet Able to Work All Day. WASHINGTON, Jan, 10.—President Wilson is now able to work two hours dally without fatigue, Rear Admiral , Grayson, his physician, said to-day, | He added, however, that the President was not yet ready for a full day's work, Commenting further on the visit to the White House yesterday of Dr. Fran- cis Dercum, of Philadelphia, Dr.! Grayson sad he had called in the speciulist because he feared that he himself might have gotten “stale” in his assessment of the Executive's con- dition Tt xo happened, he said, that casion of Dr. Dercum’s visit writ had one of the best days his Hines. since | of a lone telegraph operator to man a WHAT IS DOING TO-DAY IN CONGRESS SENATE. Kellogg Committee cable hearings, Finance Committee continues emergency Xariff hearings, Appropriations Committee takes up Sundry Civil Bul, Immigration Committee — re- sumes taking of testimony on Jobnson bil suspending Ammi- gration. Cakler Coal Committee to de- cide whether to continue hear- ings. Foreign Relations Committee menvbers to confer with Senator Lodge on Boruh disarmament resolution. resumes HOUSE, Sub-committees of Appropria- tions Committee continue hear- ings on Army, Deticiency, Diplo- matic and Agticuitural Appro- priation Bills, Committee begins jnvestigation of charges that big corporations are preventing development of Mussel Shoals nitrate, plant. Ways gnd Means Committee bewins hdarings on revision of / Scledule B of the Tariff Law which deals with pottery and glassware. Committed on Reform tw Civil Service considers legislation to reclaswifv Government employees. oo COOLIDGE ASSURED A BIT OF PATRONAGE No Senator Has Heart to Deprive Him of His Lone Tele- graph Operator. (Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan, 10.—When Vice President Cootfdge takes the oath of of fice he will have one piece of patrome, 4 outside of the appolatment of a secre- tary and stenographer to handle correspondence, He wil! have the namin! wire which runs from the Senate cor- ridor tothe various Government de- partments, Away back in 1 this job was created and aa the Senators could not agree wHo among themselves was to have the patronage, it was given to the Vice President, ‘The salary was fixed at $1,500 per anni A few years later the perfection of the telephone enabled members to com- municate directly from their office desks and the need for a private de- purtmenta! wire and an operator ended. But this appropriation, like some oth- ers, continued, since 20 Senator was willing to take the initiative in depriv- ing the Vice President of this litte bit of patronage Every Legislative, Judicial and Exec- utive ree pearicr sea Bill since 1873 has contained tle item, and in 1917 the war bonus of was added, making the salary $1,740. As for the work, there is none. {n 1920, Hame Smith, Vice Presi+ dent Marshal's appointee, handled one telegram, representing one minute's work, in twelve months. In 1919 he handied eighty messages, representing a little more thay an hour's work in that year. ‘This ts about the average for the past twenty years. Scarcel¥ a, handful of Senators and Representatives know the job exists, as the telephone has long since taken over {ts wort. But the appropriation, which bas cost to date approximately $50,000, continues and doubtless always will. since no momber has the heart to suggest that the single plece of patronage enjoyed by the Vice Preaideut be taken from him. Ss H. Altman & Cn. MADISON AVENUE « FIFTH, AVENUE, NEW YORK Thirty-fourth Street To be continued to-morrow (Tuesday) A REMARKABLE OFFERING of Choice Satin Charmeuse (40 inches wide) presenting a rare assortment of more than forty fashionable colors (including evening shades and the new metallic grays and beiges), as well as all-white and all-black, extraordinarily low-priced at $2. 65 per yard (Sale on the First Floor) ‘ Thirty-fifth Street