The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1921, Page 2

+ ‘os iano’ Operating Expenses in January. PLAN TO CUT WAGES.| chine at His Country Home | Plight Due to “Careless and Inefficient Management,” Is Labor’s Rejoinder. CHICAGO, thousand railroad employees have been laid off by sixty-four railroads of the country since Sept. 1. Thirty- x railroads failed to earn operat- img expenses in January, Twenty- eight railroads did not earn their | faxes and fixed charges. ‘These statements were made to- day by W. W. Atterbury, Chairman of the Labor Board of the Railroad ‘Hxecutive Association in a public statement supporting demands of the raitroads for a reduction in wages. ‘The thirty-six roads which did not earn their operating expenses during January, Atterbury sald, included: The Atlanta, Birmingham and At- Jantic, Buffalo and Susquehanna, Gentral of Georgia, Detroit, Toledo find Ironton, Hocking Valley, Long “Island, QMinneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste Marie, Maine Central, New "York, New Haven and Hartford, Northern Pacific and Philadelphia “and Reading. ‘Twenty-cicht railroads which did ‘pot earn their taxes and changes in Gpnuary included: Atlantic Coast, Baltimore & Ohio, Boston & Maine, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, ‘Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chi- cago, Rock Island & Pacific, Lehigh ‘Valley, Minneapolis & St. Louls, Mis- _sourt Pacific, Norfolk Southern, Pennsylvania, Pere Marquette, West- ‘em Maryland & Wheeling and Lake ‘Brie. Railroads of the country, in their efforts to drive down wages, ure try- ing to coerce the Federal Rallroad Labor Board to disregard the Esch- Cummins law, union teaders charged #. F. Grable, head of the Union of | “Unskilled Maintenance‘ of Way| Laborers and Shop Laborers, an- wered the petition filed by the rail- roads last week, asking abrogation of the national agreements and re- duction of wages of unskilled) workers, Mr. Grable charged that the rail- woads are attempting to “trample under foot and disregard the rights of laborers who have submitted their | interests to the board.” He said that $f the railroads faced a financial cri- wis as claimed, it was due to the “careless and inefficient manage- ment,” the maintenance of “large uunnecessary and expensive official staffs,” and contracting at “fabu- ‘ous figures for cost plus work?" ‘The question before the board, Mr. _\Grable said, was “whether the rela- "Wienship of the employer and employee shall be settled by just and legal meth- os or by economic force,” . ‘The union leaders attacked the de- “mand of the railroads for immediate “action by the board, demanding that the question be given a fair hearing. “The hearing by the board to-day was “to determine whether or not “emer- gency action” should be taken. Mr. Grable cited figures in efforts to ‘substantiate his claims that the men were not overpaid. He sald 286,300 maintenance of way employees re- esived an average annual wage in 1919 of $933, while 65,000 others received an average of only $695.83, DETROIT, Feb, 3.—S. J. Pegg, In- ‘ternational Grand Secretary-Treas- urer of the United Hrotherhood of Maintenance of Way Hmployees and Rallway Shop Luvborers, day that 370,000 memiber wit walk out if the national “agreement is broken iby ecutives and wages cut ag railway ex- Thousards of Brotherhood mem- bers, embittered over present wage sonditions, are threatening even now ‘to leave their work, he declared men will not work for lens Whether union officials want thom to oF Not, he added, NO STOWAWAY THIS TRIP. ‘The eppe Verdi Arri {Maly Establishing Unique 1 The Giuseppe Verdi of the Italian “Line, whieh arrived to-day for the first time in its history without a sto aboard, had, however, an interesting ‘passenger in David F. Wilber Jr., the three-year-old eon of United States Consul General Wilber and Mrs, Wilber, ate of Genoa. Young David can speak In four lan- guages and sing in eight, and delighted ‘the panseng with stories and songs The cord, B) in each of them, Mr. Wilber is to be fransferred soon to Now Zeaiard, Dwhere his son expécts to learn ut least ~ | “ne or two more tongues. ~ Yor Colds, Grip or Lofluense & Preveutier, whe GHOVE'S Laxative QUININE 7 The geauine bears (Be mute 30u go! “AALRODS LAY OF 200000, FORT To CFR Us, nA, BOR LEADERS DECLARE —. Thirty-Six Roads Fail to Eam| JOHN WISNEIWSKI, Feb. 3—Two hundred | , { _THE EVENING WORLD GUARDED BY COP TO SCARE THEE McQuillen, Special Revenue Agent, Learns Some Facts | About Police Activity. | BOY WAR HERO, AND HIS VALOR MEDAL BIG TRAFFIC IN AUTOS. | ‘One Official Used Stolen Ma-/ for Year and Half. Two police Sergeants were ques tioned at the Federal Building to-day by Hugh MeQuillen, Special Revenue Agent, regarding charges of police collusion in inteit traffic, | brought out at the Grand Jury in- liquor four years ago to go to war. of John's parents died, but his uncle, Joseph Wisneiwaki, No. Street, Newark: will take care of the boy warrior, who ‘Two companions who went to photo shows th CHAUFFEURS SHOW cause of a technical violation of the could do but make money, | From! vestigution into city corruption. Mr. MecQuillen refused to give the names of the Sergeants examined or to divulge the details of whut he learned, It was eaid, however, that his investigation will be entérely fn- | dependent of the inquiry being con- ducted before the Grand Jury by Mr. Whitman, At the latter investiga- tion evidence was mulmitted that policemen failed to turn over to the Federal authorities liquor seized in raids and that some members of the force oven rode with the drivera of loads of liquor being illegully trans- ported. Mr. Whitman declared to-day that transportation company. A fleet of. NEWTON 10 DEFEND SOLDIER BONUS IF he had received amazing details of _ "4 alleged traffic in stolon automobites|Attorney General Says He by members of the Police Depart- Cannot Find It Is ment One instance, he declared, was of 4 policeman who, it is charged, took a stolen Stutz car to a dealer In Unconstitutional. used automobdiles, had Rolls Hoyce | (Special From a Staff Cormmpomtent of ‘The wheel, ood put on it d Eyeing World.) ls and hood put on itand sold it! Arpany, Fon Qe attorney Gen- for $7,000 a8 a Rolls Royce car, Information also haa reached Mr, |¢tal Charles D, Newton this morning Whitman, he said, that a certain po- |handed down this opinion on the con- lice official used a stolen Cadillue car |stitutionality of the Soldiers’ at his country home for a year an¥a | half, This official sold the car since | the present investigation (began, Mr. Whitinan was told, Mr, Whitman mifil another case dis- SOHN WISNEIN SKK, INT, John Wisneiwaki, tiirteen, a vet- eran of two wars, possessor of a deco- ration for valor and boasting four wounds received in action, must re- turn to the school in Newark he left Bonus Law, which gives $45,000,000 to 460,- Q00 ex-service men in the Sta Gen. Newton says that while there may be some ground for the conten- tion of Benjamin S. Dean that the closed was that of a Brooklyn police-|jaw is unconstitutional, he will not man who has been riding around in |say that he is right, and he cannot an almost new Cadillac cur, Manhat-|find that the law passed by a major- tan policemen are said to have be-|ity of nearly 800,000 votes is, wrong. come jealous of him and one night’) He does not intend to attack ’the va- rode to Brooklyn in an old, dilapi-|tidity of the law and if any one else dated automobile, They found the |does, he will defend it, he says in a New car standing in front of a station |ietter to Mr, Dean, house and drove off in it, leaving the “A great many of the other States broken down machine in its place. baying bonuses to their soldiers ‘Thejr triumph was short-lived, how-| similar to that provided for in the ever, for soon afterward the Brooklyn | New York law and many of these policeman drove to Manhattan in the | States have constitutional provisions old machine he had jnherited. He| Similar to our own, Yet to the best During his four years’ absence both 94 Spring returned Sunday, ar Kiliel. ‘The above boy in the uniform of the ‘Polish forces and wearing his decoration. with John were LICENSE TOO SOON a =; “. of m rw] P, eC 3 bd Twenty-Six Fined $1 Each for] saw the new oar he had been “robbed” | Of my Knowledge, the | constitution Technical Violation of the of in front of Police Headquarters, | States has been attacked. In Massi chusetts, for example, of the courts 01 the decision propose bonuses to Mr. Whitman was told, and drove Auto Law. away in it, leaving old machine in its Civil War veterans payable by 1 ‘Twenty-six chauffeurs were fined | place. tions were similar to those of the #1 each in Traffic Court to-day be-| Mr. Whitman did not go before the |New York court, cited In your. le cause the apt ve 2 3 n but said he| ter, but Massachusetts, as a State, Pata y displayed licenses too |Grand ‘ ay orrow, when Detec-|!8 Paying bonuses to her citizens + . would do so to-«no! * who served in the World War. ‘The chauffeurs were summoned pe-|tive Sergt. John @. Armstrong, who] “Neither the Legislature nor the Comptroller (whom It is my duty to advise as counsel) has seen fit to ask already has testified for two days, Is law which forbids the display of |¢xpected to finish his testimony y opinion o1 estion — of Hicensen iarued for a certain year be-| Mr. Whitman declared he would £0 | Whetner payments can, constitution: fore the first of February of that|before the Grand Jury next week] ally be ‘made under the terms your, These chauffeurs had their 1921|4nd ask for the indictment of a po-| chapter 872 of the Laws of 1920, and licenses on their cars in-the dosing |!ice official in connection with the A ecoat ai eg Day a ey to offer days of January, and although they|revelations made concerning the cabal pleaded they did not know they were | traffic in stolen automobiles, PLAN TO REPEAL committing any wrong, Magistrate] District Attorney Swann told re- House aid ther was pothing nef Borers to-day that Assistant District | FRANCHISE TAX LAW Attorney Harold rea pudiated an interview in a morning them pay. Po Would Save $15,000,000 a Year to Twenty-eight business men who|newspaper in which he was quoted i ee = tha omobile Squad 4 parked «um in tromt ef ourhionss iS ADAL b6 Automoutle! fa and Other was made up of fine policemen and t and 4 where they: had stores or affices for from three and a half ¢o eight hours, were directed to pay (fines ranging from $5 tto $10. “The streets cannat be turned into Interests. ALBANY, Feb. favor of the Stat seen in a resolution offered by that the Investigation that resulted in disbanding it benefited automo- bile thieves. “And this is an opportune time for me to repeat my appreciation of the —Another move in traction interests 18 Assem- . splendid work being done by Mr.| blyman Judson, extending for another a public garage," sald Magistrate] Whitman,” said Mr, Swann. “He is | year the life of the special tax Investl- House. here at my personal request and at a| gating committee, It has already been great sucrifice of his time, and any~ altting two years and has held hearings ciry. GETS BACK and a Saving of 401 traction Int Judson sa 000,000 to the committee was n and the sub- tax, a levy on of the kind quiry along State Mr. COURT IS AGAINST GREAT ROAD CLAIMS Qheck From Hylan’s Secretary’ ‘Credited to “Conscience Fund,’ ‘Craig Tells Mayor. ‘ORS e ning id needed more Ume for In H rm, reactor > this lin = Says Highway Contractors Cannot) 'Y, "1" known that Gov. Miller has ayor Hylan received a letter from B i been discussing the question of repeal- be " é Reimbursed for Losses eouig Pires - So Mer Craix a € n » special franchise tax It is sald Comptroller Craig to-day in whieh During W Jthat until my Hgnt 1s obtained on the Comptrotler said he had credited During War. | subject and @ substitute found the to th macience fund" a check for| ALBANY, Feb. 3,—Iighway contrac: | will roma oe fae eee ad uy $148.14 sent to him by the Mayor's | tore who lost heavily on State highway | » will be found within a year. secretary, John F, Sinnott, to cover | contracts because of riving costs during peal of the tax would mean a ow e annat ree © ine| saving of $10,000,000 annually to. the Personal telephone and tele ep ee ee erie eet yee en” tha | publie uulity corporations In Now York messages which had been charged to | or Lae boa city. hevstts Court of Claims ruled to-day. Aboul = - th th aren $6,000,000 in claims is involved in the iaudeki Arrives in Paria, we case ¢ Mermanic Pres! gectaton, PARIS, Feb. f (Associated Prowa).— dent 1a Guardia, the Comptroller's} ‘phe ruling came In a clatm for President Pilsudski of Pola with a xperts found alleged personal tele- | costs, filed under the Knight act of large number of high Polish offictals amounting to nearly $400) which provided that tractora wholand their secretarios, arrived in Paris d to the city. Ginnott, how-| lost money because of rising prives|at 11 o'clock this morning to discuss sept his check before tho| could take their bills to the Court of] with President Millerand., Promier ‘ . Clalma for adjustment The Legisla- h and other om Comptroller's experts hu le the of flotals, Os oneptr 4 experts had made the] ¢c appropriated $3,000,000 to pay h officials, « possible Bol- discovery in this case. these, Last year it appropriated §4,-|#hevik offensive against Poland in Mayor Hylan smiled at the Comp-| 000,000 more,” a | the SRT SORE , 4 he opinion of the Court, written troller’s letter, and Mr, Sinnott s vd Ackerman m1 Siorschaieen, Charge of Theft Disntiased, word to the reporters that he was [hold# that the Legisiature cannot paas| James Reilly of Noi 116 Union Strevt, too busy to comment, for payment’ of private. clauna, The | Brooklyn, was discharged to-day In tie u further Son venbias in t up that such| Adams Street Court. It was alleged he a islation mwar higher pay for con- ol -owers, a broker of N | Mined for vi Wwacis already. in. existence, Judge) Nt John Powers, a ome George Vogel, Smith disse Avenue P, over the head with a ketchup No. 6h Grand Street is belle: the ruling will affect| bottle in’ Quinn's Restaurant, No. 24 | tined at ? Walters act of 1918 which provided | Myrtle Avetue, and then stole a dias day for violation of the sanitary rogu-| were hit by rising costn in the war| could not identify Reilly, lutions —Inrael Semankowltz, No. 304/ ¥en ce seetod to uppeal S eecicieae ‘ane Hedford Avenue; Metro Puloman, No.|que decision. ic lm Fire at Georgetown University. ( Wythe Avenue, ond Mrs. Sarah > NYAS OM, Fah Seni F0 GE iy Hoft, No, 205 Roebling Street, restau-| New MLonden’s Only Moraing Vaper|ietormined origin was discovered rant keopers, were fined $5 each, Man- Suspends. tile morning under the roof of the de) Roth, No. 1 Avenue: Louls| NEW LONDON, Conn, Feb, 8.—The | POrtly SOPRA DES Bh Rene Vals if A, _ No. 1, and Mra. | Morning thin city's iy the building had ween lh Bod Cook Str . | ma hy susp ded ann 4 The blast were fined HW for haying soiled to fnanelal dittieul- d for qum mat Blaseee wt thelr soda fountalng. before it broke through ’ , HOOGH IN MOTORS ‘New Six-Wheel Type of M In Paris to Solve Traction Problem } LAWS ATTACKED THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3 eas PARIS SIX WHEEL BUS. A new type of motor bus, much larger than the type | formerly used, has been placed in operation by a Paris| the machines, sup-| Police. S, Ae 5 1921.' Bus Used far soe A special permit to use the six-wheel motor cars on the Paris streets had to be obtained from the Prefect of! The photograph shows one of the big ma- ported by six wheels, have been placed in commission.| chines at a depot DAWES KEEPS ON CURSING POLITICIANS; (Continued from First Page.) |a Democrat. | TER COMMITTEE IS DEAD. “Long after this committee Is dead and gon ccomplish ments of the American Army will stand as an e' asting blaze of glory. You ha tried to make a mountain out a me hill, but thank God the army wi the Amenican not Republic cratic." rting that the people were tired k and fault-finding, Gen- Dawes, banging the table, 6a “There's no news in it. If I wasn't strutting around and swearing there would be no news in th Mr. Dawes ripped out another streak of oaths as he took up the attempt in some quarjers to criticise Gen, Pershing, “Tt will bo twenty-five or fifty years thing sald or done to interfere with | in every section of thy State, so the | his investigation would be deplored | sought for extension called for explana. by m tion, This revealed @ plan for the re- $148 MESSAGE COST peal of the special franchise tax. law éufore Porshing’s place in history is fixed,” SHe could not have won the war had Ne sought to put popularity above duty. And let me tell you the doughboys now complain- ing will live to sce the day when they will be proud that they ¢ought under him." TAKES NEW SHOT AT CON- GRBESSIONAL MUCKRAKERS. Gen, Dawes criticised membens of Congress who listen to every whipper- snapping bureau chitft who comes running with a tule of woe. “Look at t pinhead politicians who are raisi for men who earn he exclaimed. petty ons. wasn't in the cun be fair.” Gen, Dawes States aviation programme terrible failure “over-confidenc them in France,” 1 dirty shame. I army, but I It's regular re declared a of ence.” “ven if wo dowt have the planes, we heave the aviators—the best In the world,” the added, and inexperi- Distinguished Service Meduls “was the greatest mistake of the war, and it played hell with the service.” You opened a Pandora’s box and satisfied nobody,” he suid. "It was a new toy and the man wearing one on his chest wanted to lord it over some poor devil who deserved it but who was not eligible because limited the award to mon in high po- aitions of responsibillt ; Dawes said he “didn't believe a dwmmed word of charges” Gen. Pershing permitted unnecessary loss of life after the armistice, nounced the War Dops Jations for silver garvi men who did not get overseas, took up promotions, CALLS THE SYSTEM OF PROMO- TIONS ROTTEN. to criticise the War Dep criticise It too,” he sald. not permit us to promote a private Chief of Staff or the somebody in author’ result was that thou ing men came home hearts. sponsible for the unpom ‘Army, brought about by a disgrace ful attempt at chee refused with broken anybody wants to throw my way, bul don't ever call me General, I'm ou of the army.” —_—_—_.—_—_ New Jersey. LONG BRANCH, N. J. men were arrested late hotel hotel p ur, dn 4 CALLS THEM PINHEADS |flaws there and I am not speaking as ARMY WILL BE HONORED AF- n nor Demo- hell about promotion | ‘re doing it for) the United! had been largely (because Gen, Dawes said the question of Congress that ;juntil his pension game due, when he de- tment’s regu- stnipes for then “Now as it seems the popular thing rtment, 1'll “There was a rotten system that permitted pro- motions higher up and which would department or The ands of desery- That ruling was largely re- ity of the uring when millions and millions were wasted.” When the hearing concluded, Gen, Dawes turned to Chairman Johnson and said: “TF am able to take all the ertticism Six Arrested for Violating Dry Law in Feb, 3.—six last night on charges of Violation of tho Volstead BRINDELL SCORED BY MR. UNTERMYER IN CLOSING SPEECH (Continued From First Page.) his pockets—he cannot, like this man, send him to his home or his bank for more. He must risk the quences of carrying a pistol. conse- The :| hold-up of a buitding enterprise needs no pistol. He has a weapon more deadly for his purpose. ‘Pay me,’ be says, ‘or loge all." |“PLAN AND SCHEME” HE OPER- ATED. Mr, Untermyer went into all the nine collateral cases in which dell was described by witnesses as taking or demanding money from buildigg owners or contractors, ex- plaining that the court had admitu them, not as charges against Brin- dell, but as illustrations of the “plan and scheme” under which it is charged Brindell operated, it impossible for a labor union t except by grace of this axked Mr, Untennyer. “We ypuik of a den of theieves,’ buut Brin- dell had a whole den to himself, In his lair he took loot fram « hundred thousand victims, who paid the tribute with which he taxed the building in- dustry of this city, | “Phe absence of essential links in the evidence is ong of the most im- pressive features of this case, Where are Tompkins and Pike? Where are jthe minutes which might show that these strikes called by Brindell w |authorized and were not mere devic | to enforce his power ta enlist tribut Brin- Mr, Untermyer recalled that the Jcourt had struck out the conversation between Mr, Aronson, his t | Mr. Schwartz, and his banker, Mr. Ward, at the Lincoln ‘Trust Com “But,” he continued, “they tel through Birmingham and Danahy that no money ‘was mentioned when | Aronson called on Brindell at noon, Sept. The Court did not rule out the fact that Aronson did go directly to the bank and meet &§ wartz and Ward there by appointment. We know that after that conference he drew a cheak right there in the bank. Here it is. “If money was not mentioned In Brindet's ‘office, why this check, drawn and cashed immediately and after a hurried conference with his |banker and architect “We know he did not borrow it to meet his weekly payrolt—here is the weakly payroll; here are the checks ie that very day for the amount of jt. BIRMINGHAM'’S MOTIVE iS LAID BARE. My adversary has seen fit to eulo- guize the the witness Birmingham, the eashiered policeman. Birming- tun had been demoted trom g de’ | tive, first krade, and had been made a patrolman before he made the lying application *for six months’ leave, These things are not accidental in the Police Department, There wns a rea- son for it, you may be sure, .| “He applied for six months’ leave, meaning to apply again and again should receive it, ‘ “He did this to get from $4,000 to $4,800 a year ct fs HBrindell’s bodyguard, A ‘bodyguard who was lways with him, except when an one of a score of witnesses here hap- pened to be there. He was always with him—when nobody else was. “His story Is the fishiest of the whole case. He is the most profes- sional of all the professional wit- nesses [ ever saw. And what was his incentive? If Brindell goes where e|the safety of the community requires or a sengeant who had slaved in the/him to go ‘Birmingham js through mud, because the department wanted |He is out of the Police Department to save a little salary, Gen, Pershing |Self preservation dictated — that wanted to promote them, but the s| brazenly absurd story he told you." LINCOLN Not the great statesman whom we shall honor on Feb. 12, but Abe Lincoln, the rustic pioneer, the storekeeper, the champion {|| wrestler, the heartbroken lover of Ann Rutledge. Don’t miss the intimate story of his youth as told by Irving Bacheller in “A MAN FOR THE AGES” Beginning Monday, Feb. 7, in The Evening World. = \ | $1,000,000 KRAUS WILL A FORGERY, ~ ASSERTS NEHEN Says Mrs. Adeline Thomas Is| Not Uncle’s Daughter, in Contesting Administration, Bert Kraus of No, 728 Quincy Street, Brooklyn, filed a petition in the Surrogate's Court to-<lay ‘adking the removal of Mrs, Adeline Thomas. ‘and her husband, Oscar B, ‘Thomas lof No. 360 West 88th Street, as ad- jministrators of the estate of Samuel Kraus, who died Jail. 3, leaving more than $1,000,000, Mr. Kraus, who is a naphew of the deceased, deviated ehortly after the death of his uncle Mrs, Thomas filed & puper purporting to be the will of| Samuel Kraus and told the court she was his only daughter and the sole next of kin. On the strength of this letters of administration were issued to Mra, Thomas and her husband. Mr. Kraus aseerts Mrs, Thomas knew hi r statements to the court to be He asserts ghe is not the child of Samuel Kraus, or, if «he was, she was an {legitimate one, for his uncle, he asserts, was a bachelor. Mr. Kraus said ag a result of Mrs. ‘Thomas's statements to the court the usual citations calling for the appear- ance of next of kin were not issued and he learned only recently of the probate of the alleged will He sald he would prove the paper filed was} not the last will of hig uncle. ‘The alleged will 1s dated March 18, 1912, and in it three quarters of the | ute is left to Adeline Thomas, de- scribed ay “my daughter.” The re-| mainder of the estate was to be dis- | posed in accordance with my | Wishes,” ‘The alleged will directs the | appointment of Mr, and Mrs, ‘Thomas as administrators. The witnesses were Grace M. Tt Lack, No. 143 Montague Street, Brooklyn, and Rob- ert H. Hahn, "No, 20 West 183d Street. © Court issued a citation direct- se. Mr, and Mrs Thomas to show | at a hearing before Surrogate n next Tuesday why they should not be removed from control of the estate, EMILY SPIKER HAPPY WITHTHE BROTHER OF WAR BIB’ FATHER (Continued From First Page.) have none of {t and smiled visitor as if she were “You kno t her njoying it. , Mrs. Spiker,” she was reminded, “it was widely forecast that your marriage would wind up in the divorce courts within a year.” “That is ridiculous,” she responded, “We ho intention of getting a divorces We love each other and are happy. ‘Bygones are bygones, the past is forgotten and we are building bay for the future.” Her husband’ was found at their home, $512 East Baltimore Street, where they have an apartment over- looking Patterson Park. “Our marriage has been all right,” be declared, “We started out re- specting each cther and now we love each other and everything i fine.” “Did you find ‘that pubticity hurt rou?" he Was asked, “No, @ didnt,” Guy Spiker answered, ‘As a mutter of fact, it made friends for me—tnore friends than I ever had before.” “Where is your wife's baby?" he was asked. “Oh Ray—He's down at my broth- ers home. They've adopted him." “But how does Mrs, Spiker like be- ing separated from the child?” was the next question. “Well, he spends about halt the time here with us, My sister brings him up about three times a week, and my wife goes to see him aften, ‘They come h and visit us, too, and my wife and Pearley’s wife ‘are like| sisters, ‘Th go to the movies to- other and shop together and pal und general Do you regret your marriage?” egret ft? I should say not, We been happy-—no quarrels: ything smooth as silk and i¢ 1 had “it to aguin 1 would do the sume thing.” : After the Spikera were married in ‘all River last Heb, 8 they came to Zaltimore and stayed for a week at |the home of dearley Spiker until they eould find an apartment, ‘They found a furnished rtment within Ja.few blocks of the brother's home and lived there for a while, untit Mrs. longed for her own things. then furnished up an artment a few doors away, e Pearley Spikers adopted the baby, Ray, as the boy is called, about ja month after the wedding, JAIL FOR “DRY” VIOLATORS. Innkeeper Gets 4 Months, Saloon | Man and Barkeep 30 Days Each, | BUFFALO, Feb, 3.—The first ja'l sentences in this Federal District for violations of the Prohibition Law were imposed to-day by Judge John R, Hazet in United States District Court. Peter Klippel, owner of Transit Inn, a road- house, was sent to the Penitentiary for four’ months, A saloonkeeper and a lurkeeper were given thirty days each and fined. “Bootlegwer' and Others who violate the Prohibition Law cannot, in this court, escape the consequences of their cli by merely paying a fine that ren- and Jim M. dead store at Shallow W. west of COURAGEOUS “DIP” SCHWAB SAILS WITH NOTABLES ON THE AQUITANIA a Steel Man to Make an Investi- gation of Business Con- ditions Abroad. The Aquitania of the Cunard tne sailed to-day for Cherbourg and Southampton, carrying 715 first cabin passengers—a record numbor for eis season of the year. One of them was Charles M. Schwab, who is to make an investi. gation of ‘business and social condi- tions in Kurope, especially England, France and Italy, He wa ccom panied by his family physician, Dr Samuel A. Brown, head of the Belle- vue Hospital and (Medical College, but he |nsisted that this had nothing to do with his health, which he said was robust. “I have the utmost faith in tho /{ American people and the fairness of | the American press,” said Mr. Schwab, alluding perhaps to the at- utude of press and public in hie re- cent questioning about Shigpimg Board expenditures, He said he might have something to say on the question of disarma- ment when he returns drom Europe. He will be gone for two months or more. e Another passenger was Fhe High- ness the Most Honorable Harquis of Carisbrook, cousin of King George. He confirmed the story that he ‘going into trade,” but said there Was no news in it. He occupied one of the plainest staterooms on tho ship. His visit to America, he said, was “purely social." He wae the guest of Gen, Cornelius Vanderbiit, Dr. and Mra. John H, Finley of the New York Times were passengers. said he was going abroad “as @ cub reporter.” He did not tell what his ase nent we Col. and Mre. R. R. MaCormiok of the Chicago Tribune were » on board. is ‘There was a distressing incident— distressing to William Thomas Evans, but amusing -to others. He is the ship's trumpeter who bugles the pas. sengers to luncheon, and he is a medal-spangled person, veteran of ai! the British wars since 1876. He was bugling for luncheon to- day when a little girl who had heard that lemon juice was excellent for mal de mer passed in front of him sucking a lemon. The spectable com pletely disorganized the trumpeter's tune, which, some said, changed the luncheon call to “Lights just the Luncheon was served same, a FIGHT DUEL; BOTH KILLED. Both Over GO—Quarrel at of School Board. LUBBOCK, Tex. Feb. 3—Jim Bowles, sixty, wealthy Innd owner, Wright, sixty-two, prom- inent in civic affairs, shot each other in a duel in @ smal! country ter, ¢ifteen miles Lubbock, during @ echoos board meeting last right, according to word received here to-day. Their legs were intertwined when they fell. Meettow GETS PROSECUTOR’S WALLET IN COURT Valuable Papers and Money Stolen From Goodmann During Turk Murder Inquiry. EPUTY Assistant District ‘Attorney Henry Good- mann, in Essex Market Court, reported to-day that dur- ing the examination in the ‘Turk murder case yesterday his wal- let containing —_— considerable money and yaluable papers had. been stolen, ‘The court was crowded at the time, and it is presumed Good- mann’s pocket was picked during the examination of witnesses, “{ don't mind loging the money so much,” said Goodmann to Chief Clerk Isaac Rice in making his report. “But the valuable papers are needed immediately. The papers are invaluable to me." BEDDING: REFRESHING FRANK A. HALL & SONS [ Manwtactorers ot Bods and Bedding — 26 West 45th St., New Vork City resents a amall part of thelr ill-gotten Judge Hazel said are