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14 444 THE SUN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1919. COL. WILLIAMS OUT OF TWO B. R. T. JOBS Continues His $25,000 Duties ns Head of X. Y. Consoli- dated llnilrond Co. .HOLDS HIS TITLES ALSO JI. W. Tnft Succeeds L. M. Gar- rison ns Member of Arbitra- tion Commission. Col. Timothy S. Williams, head of the Brooklyn Rapid Tranalt System, has naked Llndley At. Oarrlson, receiver of tho n. R. T., tne New York Municipal '.Hallway Corporation and the Now Tork Consolidated Railroad Company, to him of his duties and responslbll-ti- e as president of the two first named companies on January 81. Mr. Garrison lias written to Cot. Williams that he ex- pects to be able' to accede to the re- quest. Col. Williams's withdrawal from ac- tive participation In the operation and .control of tho II. R. T. System Is the first Important development since tho receiv- ership went Into effect In December. By the receivership Col. Williams automati- cally ceased to draw J50.000 of his 875.-,00- 0 salary which was paid to him by the II. R. T. a fact which had not giVier-oil- y been known until yesterday. The Remaining $25,000, which he receives as president of the subsidiary surface lines, will continue, as those properties are ltot Involved In the receivership. It was said yesterday In the offices f the H. It. T. that Col. Williams's ac- tion did not mean that ho had resigned An president he retains his title,\ In other words and In his reply to the Colonel's communication Mr. Garrison emphasized the fact that the receiver- ship did not affect the corporation or- ganisation except In that the salaries fit officers ceased and they surrendered their control of the corporate finances nnd property of the companies. It was hinted yesterday that other officials of the companies might follow Col. Will- iams's example. Garrison Orders Announcement. Announcement of Col. Williams's withdrawal was made In the R. R. T, .jfTJJjes yesterday after telephonic In- structions fron; Judge Garrison. The receiver did not visit the- - offices of the company and Col. Williams declined to make any statement regarding his ac- tion. His letter to Mr. Garrison was dated January 22. It was announced also that Henry W. Taft, brother of Taft, has been designated to succeed Mr. Garrison as tho company's Yepresentatlve on the Arbitration commission appointed to consider the dispute arising between the It. R. T. and tho city over damage cjalms resulting from the Malbone street tunnel wreck of November 1. The city Is opposed to the company's plan to charge these damages to operating and by the terms of the dual contracts such a dispute may be re- ferred to a commission of throe, ono to be appointed by each of the Interested parties nnd the third by the Chief Jus- tice of the Court of Appeals. The other 'members of tho commission are Louis Marshall and Charles E. Hughes. Judge .Garrison's withdrawal from the arbi- tration commission was necesltated by ils appointment ns receiver by Federal Judge Julius JL Mayer. Letter Sent bjr Col. Williams. Col. Williams's letter to Mr. Garrison .follows : \Tho receivership at Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and New Tork Muni- cipal Railway Corporation automatically wevered me from administrative respon sibility and duties with reference to thoe companies, but, as you know, I jr.ave been on hand since \your appoint- ment as receiver to assist you In every ,way possible and to relieve you of ce- rtain, routine duties which you have as- signed me. \1 am much in need of a long rest and I therefore ask that you will release 'ire from all duties and responsibilities 'affecting the operations of these two companies. If convenient to you, I 'should like to .have this request take leffect not later than January 31, for I am planning to go away for a rest at that time.\ Judge Garrison's llrpl Judge Garrison's letter to Col, rill. lams follows : \I am Just In receipt of your letter of January 22, 1919. You understand, of; 'course, that the appointment of myself ns receiver doos not automatically or In any other way affect the corporation or- ganization, by which I mean that the of-- , (leers of the corporation elected by the directors or otherwise are not affected, xceptlng to tho extent that their salaries cease and they no longer have control of the corporate finances or of properly, the latter being transferred by the court's order to the receiver. , \Since on the 3tst of December, 191$, when I took possession under the court's order, you expressed the same sentiment that Is contained In your letter of the 2Id of January, and since you have re- mained at my request since that time In order to help me, I have, of course, been looking about for some one to assist me Is the operation of the properties and I hope to be able to securo some one and be ablo to relieve you by the time men- tioned In your letter.\ \I cannot let this opportunity pass without expressing to you my sincere ap- preciation of the fidelity, ability and energy with which you have assisted me In the existing complex and difficult situ- ation with which my duties require me to become acquainted. \I thanH you most heartily, and I wish you every measure of good health nnd good fortune,\ Col. Williams began hla connection with the B. R. T. in 1894. Previous to that ho had been private secretary to Gov. Rnswell I. Flower and when Gov. Tiower and the late Anthony N. Brady became Interested In the H. It T. a place In the organization was given to Col. Williams. He became within a short time and In 1911 suc- ceeded Edwin W. Winter as president, The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Is the holding company for the B. R. T. system, and the New York Municipal Railway Corporation, of which 'Col. Will-lam- s Is also president, has handled tho financing of the B. R. T, construction ork under the dual subway system. INFLUENZA CASES DECREASE. iDnj's Total In R78, n Drop of 04 In Twenty-fou- r Hours. Influenza cases reported yesterday in the flvo boroughs totalled 57R, a decrease of 94 from tho previous day's figure. Thero were 35 fewer pneumonia cases, a total of 178 being reported, as ngalnst 1 13 the day before. Deaths from Influenza numbered 76, two less than Wednesday, Pneumonia deaths reached 103, an Increase of 18 over tho total figure for tho previous day. Cases reported yesterday to the Health Department, by boroughs: Influenza, rneumonla Manhattan Ill lot lirnklyn 77 J J Jlrnnx 100 17 Queens . 411 It ltlrhmond 9 lt Totals 57 J 171 1 SHOT ENDS CHASE OF BOND THIEF SUSPECT f 10,000 in Securities Gone Stranger Causes Arrest. Policeman August Klmmono of the Old Blip station was standing nt I'lne and Nassau streets Just after tho close of banking hours yesterday when ' on excited man Btepped up' to him nnd, thrusting a 81,000 Brooklyn Rapid Tran- sit Company bond Into his hnnd, asked him to arrest Albert Shoenberg, who said he was a striking garment worker living at 90S I'rospoct nvenue, Urooklyn. A moment Inter. Norman l'eok, em- ployed as a messenger by tho brokerage firm of R. Rarnctt, 7 Wall street, made his way through tho crowd that was gathering, glanced at Shoenberg and said: \That's the man who stole the bonds.\ IClmmono was told by tho man who asked him to makn the arrest that he was In an elevator In the Kqultable Building when ho snw Rhoenbcrg Jostle the messenger boy and taUts from the lad's Inside coat pocket a buky pack-ag- o. The boy said the package con tained 810,000 worth of bonds nna mat he had been sent to deliver them at the Hank of Commerce, 31 Nassau street. Tho police would not give tho namo of tho man who said he wltnosscd the theft, but 'said he told them ho followed Shoen- berg out of tho elevator and picked up the 81,000 bond when Bhoenberg dropped It In tho Equitable Building corridor. From there ho said ho followed Shoen- - berg down to the street and trailed lilm until Shoenberg was passing the police- man. Klmmono took Shoenberg Into custody nnd started with him for the station. Near the door Shoenberg broke away and ran. The policeman fired a shot, which frightened Shoenberg. who was caught 'by pedestrians. When the pris- oner was searched no trace of the bonds could bo found, and a search by de- tectives along the whole route Shoenberg traversed failed to reveal thom. Shoen- berg admitted he roije In the Kqultable Building elevator, but said ho was ey- ing to offices In search of a Job. lie denied knowledge of the thelt. HYLAN TO ADDRESS NEW STATE BOARD Plans to Welcome State Commission Here To-da- y. Gev. Smith will address the Recon- struction Commission, which he has ap- pointed, when It meets In the Aldermanlc Chamber In tho City Hnll for organlza-tlo- n Mayor Hylan has con- ceived the Idea that he should deliver an address of welcome and will be pres- ent to give his views on what can be done In the way of reconstruction meas- ures. After the organization and appoint- ment of subcommittees the commission will adjourn until at 11 o'clock, when it will meet In the same place to begin its work. It has been de- cided that the commission shall meet practically continuously until It has de- cided upon measures to be submitted to the legislature. The preliminary work of organization has been In the hands of Abram I. Klkus. who, It Is expected, will be named as per- manent chairman. As counsel to the factory Investigation commission, of which Gov. Smith was he had much experience with the problems of labor. ' Permanent headquarters for the commission hae been assigned In Room 309 of the Hall of Records. SOCIALISTS GAIN IN KINGS. Male Republican Knrolinrnt Drop ni,382 From lfl(I Figures. Enrolment figures for Kings county announced by tho Board of Elections yesterday show a drop In the male enrol- ment of 31.352 for the Republicans and 7,118 for the Democrats from the 1916 figures. In two years the Socialists have Increased their enrolment by 2,408. Tho total enrolment for Kings for men and women by parties Is as follows: party. Men Women, nmtifallcan 77.SI.1 fin.-t- Democratic 1S4.2VI fcO.358 Socialist '. 8..V.4 7.810 Prohibition 1.843 Totals 211.440 1SO.S40 An analysis by Assembly districts shows that the enrolment fell off In only a few places where there were primary fights. WOMAN, 90, CAUGHT BY BROADWAY LURE Then for Six Years Mrs. Tay lor \Fell Hard.\ For ninety years Mrs. Catherine L Taylor escaped the lure of Broadway's bright lights, but when she fell she fell hard, according to Mrs. .Margaret Mcx Mullen, wife of Police Lieut. John Mc- - Mullen of the Oak Street station and a nleco of Mrs. Taylor, whose will, which disposes of an cstato In excess ot $250,-00- 0, she Is contesting. In an application to the Surrogates' Court, filed yesterday, Mrs. McMullen asks for tho appointment of a. temporary administrator of tho estate of Mrs. Tay- lor, nnd In her petition charges William J. Smith, the residuary legatee, with ex- ercising undue Influence over Mrs. Taylor, who was 96 years old at the time of her death. In April, 101 S. Smith Is 3j years old and was up to a short time ago head bellboy In the Long Acre Hotel. Ho Is now tho lessee of the Cor- nell apartment house, at 111 and 11 C West Forty-sevent- h street, which ls part of Mrs. Taylor's estate. \Mrs. Taylor was perfectly normal un til she met .Smith, about six years before her death,\ said Mrs. McMullen. \Then It was theatres. Broadway cafes nnd cabarets every night, In company with him. He would bring her back to her apartments at all hours ot tho night and morning, nnd she was completely under his control and dommntlon. Sheould not visit her relatives without hla n, and then only when he would accompany her.\ According to Mrs. .McMullen, Smith, while exerclslmc power of attorney for Mrs. Taylor, transferred the lease on The Cornell to himself nnd Installed him self as proprietor. The property Is val- ued at $100,000 and Smith's lease on It, Mrs. McMullen says, calls for payment to the estate ot an annual rental of $6.i00. \Tho building Is now filled with ten- ants, and his Income from It amounts to $15,000 or more a year,\ said Mrs. McMullen, who explained that she ls taking action to deposo Smith on behalf of several other nieces and nenhews of Mrs. Taylor, who were left small amounts, us well as herself, who was out off with a 15 legacy. Mrs. Taylor was the widow of AVash-Ingto- n dlenry Taylor, a real estate op- erator, who died In 1913, leaving hla fortune 'of moro than $500,000, except $70,000, which he bequeathed to his chauffeur, to relatives In Scotland, Al- though Mrs. Taylor had not lived with him for twenty-fou- r years, she contested his will nnd was given Judgment In $100,000, In addition to this she owned considerable New York realty in her own name, also fifty unimproved, lots In Wfstchester county nnd other property. Action will \bo taken In the Surro- - gates' Court shortly on the petition of Mrs, Mcaiuiicn 88 HUSKY CADETS NOW REGULAR COPS Display Their Newly Won Knowledge nt Graduation Exercises. ENHICHT ADDRESSES fEM Patrick Brady, Who Stands First in His Class, Gets n Revolver. Eighty-eig- youngsters In the blue police uniform tramped out pt Police Headquarters yesterday morning hoping to run up against a gunman or' thug, or good rough and tumblo burglar, nnd be able to relieve somo of that feeling that they had to clean up the world or bust off a button. Two months of Intensive .training under the eye ot Instructor ,Lleut. Charles Schofleld, who can snap out the words \forr-r-a- r m'ch\ In a way that makes a feller want to climb a tree, hail ftlUrl he etrrMv.elc-h- t vnunir hODO- - fruls so full of ginger that they were solemnly weighing the possibilities or Commissioner Enrlght's warning that If they were good, and did their duty faithfully, thoy might some day, even as he, head the beat. Police Department New York cvor Raw. Chock Full of Knovrledae. They had stowed away In their system the whole bag of tricks that Lieut. Schofleld drills Into police cadits, they knew how to lay down the law and the regulations of tho city to any person with n leaning to Bol- shevism, nnd Just the best nay to wal lop a Gopher In the Jaw and then lead him tamely to tho calaboose. They knew how to resuscitate the drowning and climb a fire escape In the most ap proved manner. So yesterday Commissioner Enrlght Invited all the 'relatives of tho budding policemen to see them graduate Into the ranks of the 10,000. and all the depu- ties nnd Mayor Hylan, as well as a good number of the higher officers of the department were thero also. One end of the big gymnasium was filled with an admiring uudience that included an Impressionable young lady of about 6 who wept when she thought some one was tossing her big brother around too roughly. First Drill Willi lllflrs. In these days when tile department boasts a machine gun squad and Is evin hoping to add aviation to Its accomplish- ments. It is only natural that they thould open the proceedings with military drills with rifles, and they went through their paces In a way that would make a Na- tional Army captain approve. There was snap and precision In their march- ing and their manual of arms. After that came gymnasium exercises, tho exhibition of grips calculated to makes thugs howl for mercy, a bit of boxing, and then the whole company swarmed up high Iron ladders, which they had to be tossed to, with an easy grace that spoke loudly of trained mus- cles. After the exhibition drills they marched on again In the brand new uni- forms they have been longing for two months to wear, with shiny new cluhs that will crack many a merry tune be- fore they get promotion. Commissioner Enrlght told them that thes are trou- blous times and they may have difficulty In keeping the peace, but that the whole city was watching them and depending upon them. Whereupon eighty-eig- chrHti (tuck out about two Inches more and chins were elevated till their own- ers were looking down their noses at their curly headed chief. Head of Clnns Iterrnrdcd. Perhaps the proudest of all, however, was Patrick Brady, a wiry young man of certain ancestry, who was called before the entire squad and presented with the Bloomlngdale prize for belnff nt the head of his class. The prize Is a .3S calibre revolver, which Patrick re- garded with affection as he walked back to tho ranks. Commissioner Enrlght told them that although he expected from thejn the maintenance of law and order, he didn't cling strongly to the belief that police- men are on the street to lo beaten up: Indeed, he hoped that If there was any beating up to be done the other fellow would get It. There Is little doubt that Policeman Brady went away from Head- quarters Just praying that all of Hell's Kltohen would fling Itself at his sturdy head. And, at that, they may send him to Whltestone. W. S. S. SALES $2,589,051. Department and Itetall .Stores Re- - port on 1018 Campnlcn. A report Just made to the National War Savings Committee by the Department and Itetall Dry Goods Stores Division is another evidence of what the trade qan nnd will do. The division's re- port represents tho efforts of approxi- mately eighteen hundred department and retail dry poods stores In Greater New York which havo given unstlnt-tngl- y In assisting tho Government In the selling ot stamps. Their total W. S. S, sales reached $2,589,051. In connection with the close of the 191S campaign the Arm of It. H. Macy & Co. presented last evening tho prize promised to the member of their staff who got the largest number of $1,000 subscriptions. Of the COS $1,000 sub- scriptions In the whole division, 243 were procured by the staff of B. H. Macy & uo., ana or these Jllss Helen Murphy, manager of tho muslin underwear de- partment, got H. Tho prlio was a dia- mond set platinum bar pin. CITY TO GIVE WOOD TO POOR. Will Distribute II, OOO Trees Phat Died In Parka. Deadwood from 3,000 trees removed from parks In Manhattan and Blchmond soon will be distributed to the poor through the Mayor's Committee of Na- tional Defence. Philip Berolthelmer, Park Commissioner for the two bor- oughs, made this announcement yester- day, Distributing stations will be set up nt Illversjde Drive and Seventy-sevent- h street, Central Park and Ninety-seven- th street and Fort Washington Park. Commissioner Berolthelmer expressed regret nt the loss of so many, trees and shrubs In recent years, and said that eight acres in Silver Lake Park, Staten Island, have been obtained for nursery purposes. Four thousand trees have been contributed by the Boroughs of Brook- lyn ami Queens. By next fall It Is hoped a supply of perennials will be ready for rebujldlng herbaceous beds In the city parks. Cook Snc Mrs. Poller for 81,713. A suit was begun yesterday In the Bronx County Court ngalnst Mm ICmlly Potter, \niece of the late Theodore Have-meyc- r, by Madeleine Flelg oV Clearvlew, Westchester county, to recover $1,715 for services rendered as a cook from May, 1914, to September. 1916, Mrs. Potter was served with a summons In her town apartment, 780 Madison AMAZONS BEWAIL DEATH OF CHIVALRY ON WATER FRONT Women Stevedores, Who Worked on Docks in War Time, Protest Being Replaced by Men and Losing ' the Wherewithal to Make Gay Promenades. It has taken the astute mind of II. B. Whipple, general manager of tho New York Dock Company, which operates many, of tho piers along tho Brooklyn waterfront, to discover that lovely woman, while having her value In ball- rooms, does not shape up to the rcquirei ments as specified by the soulless cor- poration for work upon the steamship docks. Social life In the sections of South Brooklyn peopled by certain descendants of tho Vikings and representing various If diluted strains of the royal and noble bloods of Poland, Lithuania, Croatia, Dalmatla and elsewhere, has been an nrld thing since Mr. Whipple, about the time this country went to war. Issued a call for maids and matrons to come and assist In the loading of steamships on the docks. His appeal to patriotic sentl-mo- nt was duly acclaimed by the fair, and by the hundred they cancelled their week end engagements and dinner dances and trooped to tho waterfront. Never In all the sartorial history of the territory lying between OatVanus Bay and the Erie Basin have the mod- istes and specialty shops thero dono so constant and remunerative a business. Ono of the shopkeepers, though In trade, haa a penchant for letters and has writ- ten a brochure setting forth that the feminine soul, given man size wages and under the compulsion of tolling all day In horrid overalls and a drab Jumper, will never, from a practical viewpoint, becomo a sorlous competitor of man, since all her money will Inevitably go Into personal adornments and thus ulti- mately find Its way home again to Its author and coiner, man. At all events It Ls history In South Brooklyn that ever since the women of the Lithuanian, Dalmatian and other CONTROL OF MILK BY STATE IS URGED Inefficiency in Production Is Shown nt Hearing to Help Consumers. In case of the failure of all other measures, public control of milk pro duction and distribution as a means of preventing the possibility of a milk famine hero and of keeping prices down to a reasonable basis' was urged at the John Doe milk Investigation before Chief Magistrate McAdoo yesterday by Irwin E. Jennings, assistant secretary of tho Metropolitan Trust Company, who appeared as a witness. Up to a few years ago Mr. Jennings was secretary of the Clover Farms Com- pany, a milk distributing firm, and he has made several investigations of the city's milk problem, the last ono In 1917. As n first step In stabilizing conditions he urged that an effort be made to In- duce the distributors and producers to cooperate and to realize, that the con- sumer was the person to be considered. Should efforts In this direction prove Ineffectual, Mr. Jennings said ho would have either the State or the municipal- ity assume control of the distribution machinery and, as a last resort, take over .the direction of. both production and distribution. Leadership, coopera- tion and unity, he said, were the three tilings most demanded by the' situation. During the winter of 1917 Mr. Jen- nings testified that he tiad made an In- tensive study of conditions under which milk was produced In the territory' cov- ered by the Dairymen's He said he found pronounced Inefficiency In production methods on the part of many of the farmers, a large proportion of wnom were urvuunfi muui u. i,,-,- . \\\v Jabor and equipment to producing small amounts or mint, onen as ume no cisrn or mne quarts a day. Others, he de- clared, were producing as high as 700 quarts a day with the expenditure of but little more time and labor. He pointed out the cost of sml production was exceedingly high and said that this fact should bo brought home to the farmers and that they should be urged to go \into the business on a large scale. \I would put a premium on large pro- duction, efficiency and wholesome milk of high grade,\ said he, \and penalize Inefficiency and those who deal In milk of a poor quality \ In citing Instances ,f what he termed Inefficiency among farmers Mr. Jennings told of one man who drove a pair of horses twelve miles to a creamery to deliver six quarts of milk. He- - found many others, he said, who were driving from six to nine miles oncli day to de- liver from ten to twelve quarts. No matter how high a price was received no farmer could hope to shoV a profit under such conditions, Mr. Jennings as- serted. Ilemarks by John T. Doollng, Assist- ant District Attorney, in the examina- tion of witnesses during the progress of Uio hearings, and various observations from the bench by Chief Magistrate McAdoo. have Indicated that some form of public control of the milk Industry has been In their minds since the begin- ning of the Investigation. Mr. Jennings was the only witness yesterday The hearing will be resumed at 11 o'aWk Monday. YOUNGEST PRIVATE HOME AS STOWAWAY Started Fighting at 14 .and Now He's Pinched. Army rules and regulations are neces- sary and valuable, but there are times when they provo a bit Inconvenient ahd lacerating to the feelings. Tako the case of Private Charles F. ICaveney, for Instance. Private Kavaney will be 17 years old May 22. But he has three service stripes and two wound stripes, nil of which tes- tify to his activity since he enlisted In thoarmy three years ago. He ran away from his home' In South Bend. Ind to Join the army and served on the Mexi- can Dorder, When tho big fight came along private Kavaney was very much among those present. But after the fight was over and things began to s!owup along the Rhine he decided that home looked better than It had three years ago, and he started back by the way he enlisted, by taking French leave. He stowed away on a transport, announced his presence when three days out, and when he arrived was arrested. Of course, what he has dons Is highly Improper from a military' point of view, but as army officers are human, they remember that Charles started out to do things for his country, at the tender are of 14, and they think he has done enough to be let off ensy. They don't say so, but they are doing n lot of worrying about him, nnd the ordor for his return to France has been countermanded. So perhaps Uncle Sam's youngest private won't have to to be d after all. quarters there took up war work tho Sunday afternoon promenades of the sec- tion have reminded ono of tulip beds In tho spring or groves In distant countries gorgeous with the plumage of parrots. But with the armistice all the soul- less corporation In Mr. Whipple was at once. Ho says now that from tho corporation standpoint women have r.ter been the equal of men as steve- dores: that they do not sling bnles of cotton well, and that their manipulation of coffee bags leaves much to be desired. \The formation of tho fejnlnlno collar bone,\ ho said yesterday, \does not per- mit her to pile coffee bags afyve her head with any degree of success.\ Shell! cries of womanly disapproval tnct this pronouncement, exception being taken rather to the form Uian the sub- stance of It, and the Criticism being made that In business affairs a man should speak out plainly .nnd honestly, not behind subterfuges. So the women aro being replaced with men ns fast n3 Mr. Whipple Is ablo to bring It about, and the death of all chivalry upon the docks ls manifest In a conversation reported by a woman Journalist In Brooklyn yesterday, fihe visited a pierhead and accosted a strap- ping youtji leaning against a hand scale and pulling at a clgaretto: \What has become of the Amazons who used to work here?\ \Chased he replied. \But why?\ \Because this ain't no place for a woman. Would you leave your .\Ister work up there (pointing to the ware- houses) with all thoso heathens'.\' \I do not see \ \You know you wouldn't. You'd break her neck Just the samo as I would If my sister done It.\ CHIEF POSTAL CLERK AT UPTON ARRESTED George L. Oppcrinnn Denies Theft of $2.1(iG of Gov- ernment Funds. After eighteen years In th Post Of- fice service. George L. Opperman, chief clerk of the post oftlec at Camp Upton, was arrested yesterday charged with converting to his own use $2,166 of Government funds. George M. Brown, post office Inspector, made a trip to Camp Upton yesterday to bring the postal employee to the of- fice of the Federal District Attorney In Brooklyn, after the theft had been re- ported by an expert who examined the books at Camp Upton Wednesday. Opperman, who Is 37 years old and has a wife nnd two children, denied tho theft, and said he did not know how the shortage occurred. He had under him at Camp Upton twenty-tw- o other clerks, most of whom had acces? to the postal funds. The theft may have occurred any time In the last two months. Opperman's salary at Camp Upton was $2,250 on a twelve hour basis, or $1,600 yearly base pay. He denied yes- terday that need forbore money to support his wife and' children caused him to steal, but said that some of the clerks under him received only $1,000 a year. When Opperman was arralsned yes- terday before Felix Ilelfschnelder, Jr., Federal Commissioner. Thomas J. Cuff of 120 Broadway, his counsel, requeued that the hearing be postponed until Jan- uary 30. Ball \was set at $1,000. which Mr. Cuff said would be furnished, Op- perman was connected with the Brook- lyn Post Office before Camp Upton was built. HIS home Is In 562 Balnbrldge street, Brooklyn. Recently two post office clerks at Camp Upton were convicted of stealing articles from the soldiers' mal. They received light sentences. UNION TO ASSIST AMERICANIZATION Organizations Unite to Elim- inate Duplication In order to eliminate duplication of Americanization work of various or- ganizations now engaged in such tasks a committee was formed yesterday at an Informal meeting in tho Manhattan Hotel looking toward the unification of Americanization organizations into a federation to be called the union of Interests. The meeting was purely In- formal. The committee, with TVIr. Wheaton as chairman, ls composed of Frank Morri- son, secretary American Federation of Labor, Washington: Charles 11. Hook, American ltolllng Mill Company. Mlddletown, Ohio ; Albert Shaw, editor Hevlcw of Reviews ; Howell Cheney, Cheney Silk Company, South Manchester, Conn.; Arthur S. Somers; S \ Fred Strong, treasurer n Savings Bank. New Haven: H. It. Walbrldgo; Mls Grace I\ J. Parker, National league for Women's Service; .Miss Frances A. Kellor, national Ameri- canization commute' ; M. W. Harrison, American Bankers Association ; Father John J, Murra, Americanization com- mittee, Connecticut State Counsel De- fence Hartford, and Prof. H M. Mc- elroy, National Security League. The temporary headquarters of the proposed union of Interests will bo In room 111 Hotel Manhattan. HUGE INSURANCE LOSSES. Metropolitan Life Pays 15 IS. (1(10,- - OOO Death Claim In Vrnr. Kxceptlonal losses and exceptional In- crease of business were reported at a meeting of 800 managers of tho Metro- politan Llfo Insurance Company from tho\Unltcd States and Canada In annual session, at 1 Madison avenue yesterday. The Influenza epidemic caused the death of nearly 90,000 policy holders, between Rnnlemhr.r 1 and December 31. and th payment of about J18. 000,000 In claims, j At the same time the company did u rec- ord business, placing on the books total Insurance of $SS2,34O,009, of which $119,000,000 was taken out In Industrial policies. Haley Flske. of the company, Instructed the managers not to attempt to \twist Government Insurunce Into Metropolitan policies.\ He said tho Government was furnishing Insuranco at net cost to men In service, and that no private company could hopo to rival that rate. He urged the managers to advise soldiers and sailors tn keep up their Government pollcios, or to convert what Insurance they have Into somo other form offered by the Government. ID Taken In Ilnld I)lrhnrcrd. Nineteen nlen who were arrested In n police raid on a crap game In an apartment on Wost Fifty-sevent- h etreet, were discharged, yesterday by Magis- trate Mancuso In West Side court. Three shots were fired during tho raid, wound- - .1 I.. - . 1. n ....... , I IHK line urirvux; ill ill,, mill. siniulll Rothsteln, 34,- - of 355 West Klghty-fourt- h street, was held for felonious assnnlt for examination n?xt Tuesday PLANS TO ASK FREE FOOD FOR JOBLESS Ellis 0. Jones, With Other Ad- vanced Thinkers, Calls Mass Meeting. SHOWS HE HAS GENIUS Writes 450 Words About Un- employment aud Never Men- tions tho Word Work. \We remind you that, when It was it question of conducting an overseas war, of conscripting our youth and tearing them uway from their homes nnd occu- pations, you allowed no precedent or constitutional limitation to stand In your way: that no usurpation of power., no expenditure of money, no reversal of i.n . i m a stwtfAmA tn n r- - compllfh thnt purpose. We ansrt that ... it is jus; ns important io iccu v....... the army of the unemployed as to feed and clothe our military nnd naval or- ganizations. \We demand that public eating houses be opened nt once whero food will be supplied to the unemployed without cost nnd that. If necessary, a special tax for this purpose be Immediately levied upon the war millionaires and other profiteers and traffickers In the necessities of life. .Inst Mli AVhUtler's'Works. When somo rude proletarian once ven- tured to ask the great Whistler why he didn't save art loving tyros a lot of trouble by signing his paintings, the modest James ls said to have replied : \They are signed In every stroke of tl;e brush.\ A memorandum addressed to Mayor Hylan, the New York Board of Alder- men, President Wilson, the House of Representatives, the United States Sen- ate, the New York State Legislature and other august personages ar-- Institutions, which camn to light yesterday, and of which the quoted passages foregoing are excerpts, Is not signed, but even' type- written line shrieks, out Its authorship. Or a general staff qf the aforemen- tioned nrmy. consisting of George Mlnt-ze- r, Jacob Stachel. Jack Levy and Kills O, Jones, who but Kills the Red. a tried volunteer of that army, could have com- posed this sonorous declaration of de- pendents? Kills the Red, whoso carmine outpourings earned him only lately the shelter of Jail and the. observation ward of Bellevue for a space of some days? One Vltnl Word Missing. The fact that the words \work\ or \Job\ or \employment\ or \situation ' or \position\ or anything like them do not occur even once In tho 450 word memorandum Is almost enough In Itself to establish that Kills the Red Is Us author. It's something of a literary feat to write 4 B0 words about unemployment without mentioning work, but Kills the tied Is equal to It. Eld\ the Red and his associates an- nounce that at 1 :30 o'clock afternoon 500 of their number will fore- gather In Madison Square to tell the rest of tho world what It must do for them. It's to ho a perfectly peaceable and law abiding affair and lis sponsors are going to accept the public verdict on their demands for free food and clothes and1 shelter, unless the demands are rfised. In which case, according to the memorandum, they will call on their friends to In&tituts general strikes. Y. M. C. A. ANSWERS CHARGES. Testimonial of Praise Reply to f:icrsrnmn' Allegations. Reported allegations by the Rev. J. Williams of Bessemer, Ala., chaplain of the 167th Infantry, Rainbow Division, reflecting upon the work of the Y. M. C. A. In France, were met yesterday by the organization with testimonials signed by high officers of the divisions praising Its services to the fighting troops. The Rev. Mr. Williams had been quoted' a-- sa'ylng that the Y. M. C. A. never penetrated to the front line trenches and that It had sold clgarettei Intended for free distribution. Thjo or- ganization yesterday produced letters from Cols. Tenley and Screws of the Rainbow Division warmly pralslns the work of two secretaries who accompan- ied the division throughout Its heaviest engagements. One of thee, Beveridge C. Dunlop of 254 Fourth avenue, received' a lov.ng cup costing J 100 from the officers and men of the 167th In \appreciation of his efficient and loyal service with, this regl-ine- from June. 13 to October 9. while engaging the enemy In tho battles of Chalons. Croix Rouge Farm, Ourcq River. Sergy. St. Mthlel and Verdun.\ 8 LUMBER FIRMS INDICTED. Fonr New York 'Conocrns Accused of nUcrlmliiatlmi. Klght lumber companies were Indicted yesterday by the United States Grand Jury' In Newark for alleged violation of the Klklns law It is charged they dis- criminated nsalnt certain customers and that lumber consigned to prlvnte concern was labelled a Government property to get It through embargo territory. Thoso Indicted were: Tho National Box and Lufnbtr Company of Newark, the Dltmar Company of 29 Broadway, the Forest Box nnd Lumber Company of 405 Kast Fourth Mieet, the Royal Box nnd Lumber Company. Inc.. of 11 Wooster street, the Union Wholesale Lumber Company of Youngstown, Pa. ; the Pas-sal- e Bergen Lumber Company of Pas- saic, the Alson-Park- Lumber Company of Tuscaloosa. Ala., aud the Star Box and Lumber Company of SI Tompkins street. TRIP IN MOTOR WINS MRS. NIMICK DIVORCE Wealthy Kin of Carnegie Of-fer- s No Contest. Mrs. Nellie Pearson Nlmlck. wife of Alexnnder K. Mmlck, who Inherited moro than i 1,000,000 from his mother, the widow of a Pittsburg steel man re- lated to Andrew Carnegie, tecelvcd a divorce yesterday from Justice Pendle- ton In the Supremo Court. The hurbnnd did not defend the action. He Is said to bo at a Florida resort. His lawjer, J. Larkln, was on hand, but only to get Mr. Nlmlck's denial on the record for the sake of the reputation of Beatrice Dorothy Arnold, who was named In the paiiers. Mrs. Nlmlr.k's lawyer w as George L. Ingrnham. Testimony showed thnt Mr. Nlmlck's mother, Mrs. Florence N. C. Nlmlck, had died In 1910, leaving her son ner entire estate, except (.peel-fle- d llfo Incomes to her brother and a woman friend. According to the testimony one of the mother's reasons for leaving so much to he' inn wan tint he had deferred to her n remaining unmarried during her lifetime, nnd postponing a long standing engagement. Soon after eho.dled he mairled Mlsa Pearson, Mrs. Nlmlck testified tlmflier young-es- t son was born In n hospital last Sep- tember, and that not until after she left the hospital did she hear that her hus- band had taken a woman to their home In Rye, N. Y. This her maid corrobo-rate- d. Nlmlck's chauffeur told of having driven his employer and the woman from the Hotel Marie Antoinette to Rye, $500 FOR MURDERER OF MISS RIDDELL Business Men Offer Reward O'Donnell Case Postponed. Tho Onco a Month Club of Morris Park, an organization ot Morris Park business mon. nnnounred yesterday that It would.pay a reward of 500 for the ar- rest and conviction of the murderer of Miss Marie RIddell, whoffl body was found In a vacant lot near her Glen Morris homo a week ago. Patrick O'Donnell, whoso confession of tho murder of MIsb RIddell has puzzled tho police, wns taken Into Magistrate Doyle's court In Jamaica yesterday, but at the request of District Attorney O'Lcary of Queens the case was put over until O'Donnell wns not ar- raigned and entered no plea. District Attorney O'Lcary told the court that ho would require until Saturday to gather, further evidence In tho caeo. O'Donnell Is the thlrty-yenr-o- ld em- ployee of tho Waterman Fountain Pen Company who Insisted tn the police that he murdered the young, stenographer. His confession Is contrndlcted by testimony from a number of his fellow employees, who Insist that O'Donnell was nt work whenthe murder was committed. Wh'en he appeared in court yesterday O'Donnell exhibited 'every outward ap- pearance of having recovered, from the hysteria from which he suffered after hU confession. He was represented by Will- iam A. Dompsey, a Brooklyn attorney, and was 'accompanied by his father. Michael O'Donnell, and a sister. Miss Margaret O'Donnell. Previous to O'Donnell's appearance In court several of tho Waterman com- pany's employees were examined by Dis- trict Attorney O'Leary and they nre Bald to have substantiated statements that O'Donnell could not possibly have been at tho scene of the crime when It was. committed. Attorney Dcmpsey said that ho ex- pected no difficulty In proving that his client had no connection with' the crime. District Attorney O'Leary expects to be able to malic somo motion for the disposition of O'Donnell's case. GREEN OPTIMISTIC OVER PROHIBITION Hotel Men's President Tells Colleagues All Ts Not Over Yet. Optimism, to Judge from the altitude of tho hotel men at the fortieth annual banquet of tho New York Hotel Asso- ciation In the Hotel Blltmoro last night, springs eternal In the breast of every man engaged In the trade. There wore S00 of them present In the ballroom of the Hotel Blltmore. nnd they applauded vociferously when their presi- dent, Thomas D. Green, nrose and spoke on prohibition and Its evils. This was his speech. Ills hearers seemed to gather a vast encouragement from It: \I'm not going to make a speech against prohibition. What I might say wouldn't be lntndd for you 'appren- tices' In the use of liquor It's the 'Jour- neyman drinkers' the h5Tcrltlcal cowards In the State legislatures that I'd llko to talk to, and what I've got to say wouldn't be fit to print. But thero Is Just one phase of the question which I do want to touch upon. \I said I had been busy trying to keep the country 'wet.' While I have done all that I could It has been very lltlo ns compared with what others In this heart- rending fight have been and are. doing for a cause that we bollevo and know to be Just to tho last decree. \And what'\ more this work has been going on for a lon time. Don't get it Into your head that this In a death bcd struggle, I'm not In sympathy with\ those of us who aro now saying. 'We should havo started something long ago.' Something was started long ago, and about all was done that could have been done o far as result.\ were concerned, taking Into consideration the circum- stances nnd conditions. Our great trouble has been that no matter what effort was made it would have been Impossible to Induce the public to drink moderately or regard furiously anything wo could have said. \If you h.id gone out on tho street four weeks ago, fecty-fiv- e out of fift persons jou met would have talked nbout like this: 'Prohibition, why the !dfa\ And 'New York go dry! Stop our kidding!\ \The country wouldn't stand for It.' 'Labor wouldn't have It.' Mf-c- t the forty-fiv- e people to-d- and how tho tono has changed. \What nre ou going to do?\ 'I know you said so, but I thought it was all talk.' 'I didn't realize it was so serious.' I may lv wrong in my conclusions, but I don't bellevo that aivy amount of ar- gument would hive made the moderate drinking man go to the polls and vote his way of thinking, muith less work for It. I bellovo he'll do It now when he find\ th'U his rights the rights of the majority have been trampled upon by a biHOted hyprocrlttcnl minority, \Mo didn't reallzo that his vote nt tho poll was the weapon with which to com- bat tha ronsclenco salving millions of Rockefeller, Heinz and their like. He thought that we. In taking care of our Interests, would protect hK Ho didn't think that a Government would conflscato n business employing 750,000 men at nn annual wage of $450,000,000, that paid more profits to tucli Goernment than to Itself. \All that wo could have said wouldn't have changed him enough to turn the tide of orgnnlzed fanaticism and bigotry. \Whnt has Just happened Is doing more than we ever could have accom- plished; but what we must do now Is to tako advantage of this altered ottltude of mind and drive our point home.\ The only other speakers at the dinner were Murray Hulhert, Commissioner of Docks and Ferries, and Rcnnold Wolf, who mado a speech beginning \Jesse James wns the first hotel proprietor\ and ending \It Is a pleasure to see all you hotel men sitting here and enjoying your own annual good meal.\ OIL SHARES INCREASE SHOWN. Mr. FlBRlcr's Ntnrk (inlnn f l.OOO, -- OOO tn Vrnr, The Increase In the value of Standard Oil securities is shown In the Inter- mediate report of Cornelius J, Sullivan and thf Guaranty Trust Company, com- mittee of the of Mrs. Ida M Flagler, called the \world's wealthiest Incompetent,\ In Part l. Special Term of the Supremo Court yesterday. The holdltigrt of Mrs. Flagler Include thirty-seve- n classed of oil securities, practically all In Stnndard Oil and sub- sidiary companies. From the jear be. pinning January li, 191 S. to the year ending January 10, 1919, these securi- ties Increased In value from $5,110,037,92 to $6,325,90S.71. leading the Increased Items Is one or 2.670 shares of Standard Oil Com- pany of New Jerwy. which lias Jumped In value from $1,415,100 to $1,930,410, wllo 407 shares of Atlantic Refining Company advanced from $II4,56S to $170,234.27. Mrk Flagler, who once was ihn wife of the ato Henry M. Fljgler, Standard Oil magnate, linn been nn Inmate of n sanitarium at Central Valley, N. Y for a number of years. The original trust fund, established In 1909, isa about $2,000,000. Despite the heavy which the estate lias been called upon to meet Mrs, Flagler'n present holding aro estimated at moio than J7.000.ooo in value. d STATE BOARD MOVES IN GARMENT STRIKE Industrial Commission Finds Right, of Discharge to Ho n Stumbling Block. CLOTHING MAKERS AGHER About, fiu, 000 Who Havo Been . Out Three Months Will Rp. turn on Monday. The State Induatrlul Conim'.ts'.jti started a series of conferences yesterday which may brlnpr about a settlement of the strike In the dress and waist lndu. try of New York city, now tlireo days under way. John Mitchell, chairman of tho commission, met several of the con- - tractors In his omco yesterday arternw.a and will see counsol for the tnanyfio turers y In the endeavor to bring about n satisfactory plan for arliltraiiot!. Nothing was heard yesterday of Man-Hylnn- 's attempt to bring peace, nd iKith strike leaders and shoo owners nurkrd time while thousands of girls and womn picketed the factories. There was llttl disorder. A representative of the manufacturers, without credentials sought nn lnterl with Benjamin Schlcslngcr, president o' tho International fiarment Worker' Union, and was told that until the manu facturers recede from their position o' unlimited right of discharge there ould be no peace talk. \If the union should allow the unilin. Itcd right of discharge lndmtrhl shierr would result.\ raid Mr. Schlcslngcr \I think the manufacturers will grant iin forty-fo- hour week without mufii ob- jection. Already S50 manufacturers Ijave npplled to the union for pettlmit on this b.isls, and the others will follo-- r suit.\ About 53,000 clothing workers u m havo been on strike for three months will return to work Monday s a ren.it of nn agreement reached by Sidney Hill man, presldnt of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Mat H. Friedman, president of the American Men's and Boys' Clothing Manufactur- ers' Association. The advisory commit- tee, composed of Prof. William L. lbp-le- Felix Frankfurter and Louts recommended the adoption uf forty-fou- r hour week for tho clothing in. dustry In New York city, and It is im.ier this schedule that the strikers wu back to work. The same schednl\ was urged by the committee for the r!oth'n Industry throughout the countrj TS strike Rtarted October 2S. Among tho recommendations of th committee are: That skilled invent- - gators bo employed to make a survcv nf the cost of living In order that wa4 scales may be determined, and t'lat nn advisor bo selected by employers and workers to settle disputes that arise ovt working conditions. Arbitration of 1 demand for lucreA'fd wages will be by tho committee on Wednctu.i) in the Bar Association rooms. Sidney Illllman said tho movement fur tho establishment of tho forty.four ,iov week already\ has begun In tho cluhlnz factories of Rochester, Boston. Philadel- phia. Baltimore, Cleveland and other centres of the trade. MILANO GUILTY OF MURDER, Third to lie Convicted of Snbmy .Uenl'a Hlnylnpr. Joseph Mllan'o, 21, of 104 Kast i:M street, was found guilty of murder In the first degree last night by a Jury in the Bronx Suprepie Court. He was n. cused of killing Otto Flala, 72, Hn ticket agent, who was shot f death by holdup men who attacked Inn at the Intervale avenue station of ''c subway early on the morning of Novc bor 14. Two other men have been convict'! i connection with the samo murder. Tne are James Cassldy and Charles F v Langhlln. The three will bo sentei . Saturday. The fourth man indicted ' the murder, Joseph t'schoff. 20 v placed on trial to.day. The fifth alleged member of r c Walter V. Kirk, turned Stat's ri.ie Ho ald he drove the automobile the other Jour and that Milano t\' he \had to kill a man a he iia t ; i him and p)it up a tight.\ ENRIGHT HAS ANNIVERSAS' Poller Commissioner's Olllrr l'ill'i AVIIh Flowers by Friend. Commissioner Knrlght passed anniversary yesterday an he . i New York police. On Jnn'iai- Frederick Hamilton Bughrr t three days In olllcc, was renin Mr. Rnrlght, in answer to ,i summons from the Mayor. nt the Stagg street \tatlon. Pr and went to headquarters a. '. Commissioner. Tho day 'o\' Mayor made him full Coinir sl In honor of the occasion fw ' associates piled the Commissi\' s ' tlco high with Honors. I'r.v every police organization, tnclui' Police Lieutenants Association. . f n ho had been a member for Im! wa represented. Inspector Iter , American beauty roses with n ' of congratulation, Impressing .r preciatlon the Commissioner kf never felt better or happier K ' t. SNOWLESS -- JANUARY SETS NEW RECORD Average Temperature, How- ever, Has Been 34. Psychologically consldere U.lry may bo classified as the m ' r liar on record. Viewed thernn r e\ ) up to thin date. It cannot lxa- - '' ords. Its mean temperature (r. t ','.'' mean as that of sne other Jar1.-\- ' being 3 degrees, Just two .i freezing point. The utter snowlessness ot ary has given a mental imnr.'t ' ' ' populace that It has bwn wiut\ month wearing tho mlst d,-- i early spring. This seems lo t l ' lief of Forecaster Scan-- , lm s.i ' terday that even he, .1 Interpreter and Mud1 i been led to suspect that the n i,'' 1 lot warmer than It li.nl bee i ' r ' not until he looked oer t Hk ' \ he realized that ho h.id be-- i upon bj- - exterior aspe-- '\ ' Jcctive Illusions. , Tho things that operated '''' ' cclvlng even , weather prop - , bo summarized thus: The a snow, thero bcim; inercl a f ' rles, or tracob. In nil the tw ' days that havo pahsed ; the l.t. ' 'r usually strong In January and ' ness of coal bins. To sum \ tury has not looked like i's -- blowy old self and therefore ' lude has decided that It va- - Mr. Soarr himself describe\ as \betwixt nnd between' but unique as lion In thu form of siviw .' hail. Never boforc have there hi three January days in ni' out snow. But thero are s first month days to hear frit, even the professional wa casters tell that far nlind
