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12 44 EES PANIC UNLESS Buying orgie ends! hv A. Day Warns Insurance L .Heads of uosfc of .'copies' Exh'avaft'tmco. ME TO HALT Battle With Tmnrovidencc Is m Needed Many Attend Life k liisk Convention. Jtts predicted yesterday by William ay, president of tho Equitable jiro BMurance Society, that unlets tho American people check their preent tiabltn ot extravagance nnrt substitute Hrfor reasonable thrift and economy. such . catastrophe as the panlo Pgitlch followed the civil war is certain Lw overtake them. J'Hr. ay Issued hla warning at tlie an- - ul convention or tne sociauon ui Mtifa Insurance Presidents, which is fag held at tho Hotel Astor. Ilia ad- - 'OBa. was devoted principally to a illa tion of the significance or the volume of life Insurance, but rhtlo lie cxpUlncd that prosperity as a Malt of the war lias incroaseu tue aount gf llfo Insuranco to $i,i 12,000,-O.'- $3,010,000,000 more in 1919 than Wis written In 191S. he said \tho other side of tho shield'\ showed that general itravaganco Is but of all proportion to m. thrift Indicated by the purchase cf Hew\ iterance policies. 'It is true.\ ho said, \that our wealth has Increased bb measured m 'dollars, but this la largely duo to tho Diet that the evidence of wealth has'ln- - OreabVu' it n. greater rate thin tho wealth It represents. i \The war thrust upon usan unnav-r- at and unbalanced prosperity and left iis a' legacy of Inflation, speculation and improvidence. V large volume of easy Money has found us way huu me tlonal Treasury ana into un many pooplo td wjipm a substantial cash Murplus was a new ana, tempting pos- - -- M.A Una tnUnrVf-- . nmnnc KBB1UII. lliciu w..-- .. --- - tlioso of improvident and self. Indulgent dencles a passion ior expeiiunuiu, mnit nf nlMsure nnd the purchase of Wily without parallel I history. Production Drop Behind. (IVa a result of tho labor, shortage and ther war conditions our products have mm consumed faster than we could produce them. Stocks on hanu were or exhausted. The high prices Which, inevitably followed but served to whit the nDoetlto of tha spendthrift. He Westi as vigorously as the provident i- -n 'against tho high cost or the neces-Kl- cs of life, but he eagerly pays high Wrlces for luxuries and other and for early service he is often ruling to pay a premium above the mar- - price. here has, as every one knows, been Lan'tjixtra'ordinary increase In' the price fir musical Instruments, automobiles. jraclous stones, furs, Sims and otnen oetty articles ot adornment, and in the oet ot travel and amusement, and of fancy foods, .candy, &c. There are so! many people with surplus cash who are buying these .iand other expensive Ipjfciurtes that the figures of the aggregate spies pince me armiauc- - tcuuiu n n,c ;ere a,vnuaoie staler ueuei. \The war almost stopped the con-- ! etructlon of homes, and prosperity has caused many people to seek more expen- sive auarters. Thus we' find rents roach- - ItC exorbitant figures, but many people who cannot afford It prefer to pay them than to lire In rnoro modest Pthe,r thousands of godd men who Jave ween uupillg iui jctiiJi iu. n. manic tfiy by (t snug sum encn month now have that chance, but they have been! M(cd with the tmondlne mania. Thtv if ki have, the illusion that this golden flow Wilt continue, permanently nnd that they will live forever to enjoy It. J3 Spending Cruse Spreads. \Our wasteful spending Is not coming stone ilrom current earnings. Many who finder ordinary circumstances would not tthinK ot indulging In extravagance ure f Joinlriar In this craze to spend. ' nay wan ior aavcrsuy 10 leacil ia this lesson as wo did after our great speculation and of high prices followed Kthat war. The extraordhtary demand Itdr labor had Increased wagea abnor- mally. A frenzy of extravagance seized people-I- ail wallcs of life. Nearly every One seemed willing to spend and but a fiw were willing to save their surplus earnings. \Our people were finally brought to their senses by tne great panic of 1S73, which resulted In immense losses, the I prostration of business and an enormous army of unemployed people, all or which finally led to the great railroad strike and the acts ot plllago and destruction r,t 1S7? Sl ''Our battle with Improvidence, at least nr the Immediate future, must hn jr planned with due regard for all these extraordinary conditions, with so many .people abandoning the saving habit ahd spending wnai iney nuvo ior pleasure (iand luxury, with production far behind . i iLtfgheavlly Increasing demand, with a \'rJUbor shortage uid no sign of allevl-U.- I fP\ w'tn tne,!B a\d other factors r ftfWoperaung 10 mainmm uie uigncosi of, living, the Imperative need of tho ' tlia gospel of thrift and saving among the people.\ The conventibn M life insurance li at which Mr. Day spoke Is being abided by Insurance olHcers from all fever the United States und Canada. DIs- - f cuIons of the day took in the housing rtsfilem, the agricultural situation, the iBfttteT of railroads Snd street railways and tho relation of the funds of Insur- ance' policy holders to all Of them. In tuMltlon to Mr. Day tho sneakers were Mfflir Henry Drayton, Minister of Finance t .IIIUUH , UUWdlU UI4IUI,, iUIUCIlk t the Northern Piclfle Ilatlroad; Wilt-,'jtr- a W. McClench, Gen. Ouy E. T. Tripp. k'Dr. Valter s. Rankin and Dr. Nicholas ' Murray BulKr or Columbia university. Urices of siks to ADVANCE SHORTLY Shortage Both in Labor and 1 -- ' . Raw Materials, vssr- - ' Sptsial Despatch to Tius dev. Crrr, Dec. 1. Prices of silks SWT shortly to ho advanced, according ' n Announcement mado hore to-d- by .Intnllfnrtlirrr4 nnnMrlnsr tifn. flif. Xm. ufcfod Dris lnduMrloa of iniftrici trf , Hi cuavcC'lori In Tho Breakers.) liters asseneu mat mcy ore unaeri ract to mill capacity, while the sup-- : ot raw silk Is rapidly decreasing. Saddlllon thay complained that labor Iajm efflr!.nt in thn mlllil rietilittp thp r re?: I ijTettad that Japan, which supplied much ' fc'ufi\'. raw s'\tf 1311 'a',or problems It, Y' StJ\fn'!cal with truiu of this country- - f'fz irhe cost or iirrslng women In Amer-\an- d In supplying raiment fdr the yten In othe- - countries by American Modes would rcpretent turn over I y5JssTrrmg Uio coming year r fuP.ooo.oov, lit F\ tS('H.'Jul':ni'-''- 1 'v'd Mesostohn, the Ulrtctor u't liie association, jtaVcuth j 1 iCRAZED IN NIGHT, HE kills wife and son roiidfiuerl row First rage. to Ms hOmc. Mr. Gaston was the last persoh to see Mr, Strong alive. Xow entei- - the two neighbors children, Catherine Mott. 13 years old, nnd lluth Kchmltt, 14, who live a short distance from the Strongs. They and Nina and isuzaiino Strong we'ro In the habit of go-i.- .r together to School No. 11. As the Strong children did not appear on Wednesday morning their chums went cn without them. On their way home In tho afternoon they stopped at the Strong .residence and rang the bell. There was no response. The children ihnt hn shades wero lowered. Itw- - thought tho wholo family must havo gone out ot town, mo sumo mm happened yesterday, but not satisfied with the sllenco In the house the Mott .Mid Schmitt girls went around to the back door of tnr house and rapped. No answer. Woanded Girl AiVta5' Milk bottles, full, two days supply, stood untouched on the back porch, o the front porch the children peered Into tho storm entrance and saw the newspapers of two days lying on the floor, Ruth said to Catharine: \Maybe the gas Is leaking nnd they are all un- conscious.\ That thought Impelled (hero to bang again and again at the front door. The door oponed. Nina Strong appeared, holding iierKlf up b clinging to the door. There was a big buinD over her left eye nnd she win so pale and so peculiar that the other girls asked both togethor what the matter was. \Everybody here is Blck,\ Nina paiii. Then Nina's sister, Suzanne cme to the door. Ilet appearance was even wor.e. The neighbors' children could make nothing of it all except that there must be some disease In tho house. At the suggestion they ran away. On tho side- walk they pasred Dr. Carlisle,' who had come in response to the telephone mes- sage from Nina Strong, who had bten unable to tell him anything except that everybody was sick and he must come quickly. Theory- - ot Officials. Aftersmaking a hurried investigation and sending to the hospital the three who were still alive, Dr, Carlisle called Dr. Robert R. Armstrong, the county physlolan, and Benjamin K.- Turner, cap- tain of detectives. They went to alt the rooms 'and to the cellar. They rea- soned that this Iv what must havo taken place : Sometime Tuesday night Mr. Strong, who had a bedroom on the second floor In which also slept his wife, had'got up, and with his mind probably already askew had dipped Into his copy of the Rev. Charles M. Sheldon's book \in Ills Steps; What Would Jesus Do?\ Tho Investigators found this book on a dresser open and held open by a match box at pagrs 96 and J7. where tha Dllcht of a minister who felt his powers falling was described. After marking the place Mr. Strong had gone, to tho cellar nnd got the family axe, which had n handle about three feet long. Ha then went upstairs where his wife lay asleep and crushed her skull with a single blow. A second blow with the blade ot the axe dis- figured her face. The daughter Eliza- beth was asleep In nn adjoining room. From the position of her body it seemed that she either awoke before the axe descended and tried to get away, or Be struggled with her father. Her skull was crushed. The father tln went to'a front bed- room nnd administered a similar blow .to his son Nathaniel. The two smaller girls had a room together. (ppafently tho mania of the father and his efforts had wasted, his strength by this time, for the1 blows Inflicted on Nina and Suianno wero less ferocious than the others had oerii. Found Demi on llnthroom Floor. To that fact they owe their lives. Supposing that he had made a com plete job of It. Mr. Strong then went to tho battiroom, stood the axe in a corner. got out his razor, and, standing over a, wash basm in front of a mirror, cut his throat almost from .ear to ear. The Jugular, vein was severed. He fell over backward and was found dead on the bathroom floor. In their gentle questioning of the two little girls at the hospital the authorities could get no Information as to when the murders and suicide and the attack on them actually occurred. They were so stupefied as apparently not to know what had happened except that it was some-thln- y terrible. They did not know how long Ihey had been unconscious or when they re- gained their senses, and the passage of time had made no impression upon them. On the dining room table were a. partly emptied milk bottle nnd a loaf of bread and apples which apparently had been nibbled. There was no fire In the rur. pace, but the flame under the hot, water heater in the cellar was burning. Capt. Turner said that the little girls acted as If they had been drugged. II found In one of the bedrooms a glass of milk and two bottles containing a gray- ish fluid. In tho bathroom was a wet cloth. Capt. Turnert wan not prepared to say that Mr. Strimg had chloroformed his family before attacking them with the axe, but said that the possibility was worth looking into. Dr. Carlisle and Dr. Armstrong said last night there was nothing to Indicate that drugs of any kind had been used. They said that the blows the two little girls had received were sufficient, to nt \ for their condition. They thought It possible, that the children were uncon- scious until a short time before Nina Strong telephoned Dr. Carlisle. The agreed that Mr. Strong's mind must have given way as he lay In bed and that when he got up his purpose was to get the axe and obey his homi- cidal Impulse. Late Investigation Indi- cated that 'Mr. Strong- - had had financial reverses, that his Illness had deafened him partly and that he was much wor- ried about his health. Mrs. Strong hefore her ma\rriage wag Miss Nina Colville. She lived In Blag-hamto- n. FiVe Records A.M. Lois. 13:50 Oil Southern Blvd., The Bronx; Ueorge Dale Slight SrEC 3S1 K. 119th St.. The Bronx: James Kovlatt Slight ;i6 s. una i ro unamoers su; Sunthlne Llghtlnv Fixture Co Trifling :0J 518 W. S7th t.r Ash Re- moval Corporation Unknown 8:10 Jl Maiden lane; .N'etvall Mff. Co i .Trifling :au 1.16 nosion rn., Tne iironi; Dr. Morris Mason P.M. 1:50 t K. t70!h at.. The Bronx; Morrla Katr. TrlSIng 606 n- - 151,1 Angelo Sado.Trlfiln; 3.1(,ii Downing L: city prop- - crty 7 .vrrlfltng j:;. hi ar. ana inn ti.; naaion Tubes '. Trlf\hir 1:10- - n Fonyth t.: M. Ver- - inak Trillin. COO-V- lH St. Mirk's pi., Antonio rutatuno ..'. Trlflinr I.1J Urltlx st. and Clly llnrt av.. Th Bronx; Mn. Frtand.Trlfllng-4:t- i: V rjit st.; Bayer & rjiu'rr ..Trifling :1S -- 33 Mutden lin: Ootbim Shop i....Trlfllntf 7. IS \34 E. 7M r . (iottfrled Bik. ir.e Co Unknown 1st ev Prank Cattl- - Una ...Trifling t It 111 vy. (Srt it ; Mrs. ror.- - am Mr \r'fllnit Trinity p.. in\ I.sttor' tt packing tMiei unknown. . .Trifling DR. DAY CHARGES ' A \WAMEUP\ PLOT Says His Storyto Grand Jury Will Interest the Mayor. Jonathan C. Day, removed by Mayor Itylan from the Commlsslonershlp of Fublio Markets, testified again before tho Extraordinary Grand Jury yesterday legartllng the profits from the' city's sale of surplus army food, ne was accom- panied by his counsel,' Mayer C. Gold- man of 7 Rcekman street. Ilefore entering the Grand Jury room Dr. Day said ho expected to tell about an attempt he said was made last June to \frame him\ on a bogus charge of taking graft for favors to owners of stands in tho West Washington Mar- ket, He said a ctty official tried to get a dealer In poultry to swear that the initials \D. D.\ on the back ot a $500 check moant \Dr. Day,\ and that whon tho dealer declined to do so he was lockinl In a room for several hours. The dealr later mado an affidavit 'Which Dr. Day ia!d he was willing to show to tho Grand Jury. \When I got wind ot how the city off- icial tried to frame me,\ Dr. Day said, \I wont to Mayor ilylan and told him my grlcvancc.T, Ho eoemed\to bo abso- lutely disinterested, but his Interest may be aroused now because I Intend to get this affidavit, which was verified on .Tune 17, before the powers that be.\ Dr. Day Is still hot after Edwin J, O'Malley, whom Jie removed as Deputy Markets Commissioner last month and whom Mayor Hylan appointed head of the department on Wednesday. He said that O'Malley letter to Secretary ot War Baker, dnted October15, protesting against Dr. Day's Interference with tie j resaio or roous was - written in uesperj-tlo- n In order to prevent my controlling the funds which belong to tho people,\ and that the letter was written afterJ O'Malley's dismissal from the deputy's Job. \Durlpg my administration as Com- missioner of Markets,\ Dr. Day added, \(he Commissioner of Accounts has de- voted many months, to a sweeping Inves- tigation of every book, record, docu- ment and transaction In m; department without being able to furnish the Mayor with any substantial reasons that he could give the public for removing me,\ MALBONE TUNNEL CASE TO GO TO JURY Justice Refuses to Dismiss Trial of Traction Official. Justlie Kapper, In Uie Supreme Court at Mincola, Ij. I., ruled yesterday that the case, of John J. Dempscy, former of the Consolidated Rnll-roi- d of New York, who Is on trial fcr manslaughter, must go to the Jury. Dempscy waa indicted for having been the primary cause of Uie Malbone street tunnel wreck, on the B. R. T. November 1, ISiS, In which more than ninety per- sons wero killed. Immediately after Herbert N. War-bass- ?, Assistant District Attorney, an- nounced that the people' had closed their cane, Stephen M. Baldwin, counsel for the defence, moved for' the dismissal of the Indictment upon the ground that there was no evidence to sustain It. Mr. Warbasse called ,the attention of tho court to testimony that there were no safety devices on the grade of the tun- nel approach, which would have stopped the train automatically, and Justice Kapper overruled .Mr. .Baldwin's motion. Court was adjourned early to glvo Mr. Baldwin an opportunity to confer with associate counsel and determine whether or not the defence will offer testimony when the trial Is resumed at jo o'clock OPERA LANDMARK BURNED. Xew Orleans Structure Saw Debut ot AdclluK Pnttl. New Ow.ea.vs, Dec. A. The historic French Opera House, at. Bourbon and Toulouse streets, scene of the debut l:i the- - United States of .'delina Pattl and where humy of the mot noted singers of tho world have been heard, was de- stroyed early y by fire. The loss was estimated at J20Q.O00. The opera tioure was erected sixty-year- s ago, being formally opened In December, IS59. . Puiing the, civil war the house was clused. but In 1SSS It was reopened. The pew director wa? on his way from France, with a large company of artists, on board the Evening Star, but Ufa ship foandcrcd and the entire troupe Anion; those who went down were the architect James Galller and his wife. . DEMA2JDS WOMEN JURORS. Lawyer Obtains Writ Aiding; Them in Ret on Pane's. Justice ScUdder Irf the Supreme Court. Brooklyn, signed an order yesterday directing tho Board of Assessors to show why a writ of mandamus ehould not be Issued requiring them to shojv cause why women should not' be quali- fied as Jurors and their names tarried on the voting lists. Tho order was obtained by Julia V, Orilll, a lawyer with offices at 175 Ful- ton street, who said that tho present jury' lists were \inddequate Insufficient nnd Illegal.\ It U returnable before Justice Lazansky. Miss Grllli said she thought a Jury mado up half of men and half of women might be fairer In certain cases. MANY AT FREUND ART SALE. First Day's Transactions at Amount to fllC.727. There was a large attendance at the first day's sale of the Karl Freund held at Deimonlco's yesterday afternoon. The total sales amounted to $12,727. Mrs. Ward Douglas pur- chased a pair of eighteenth, century cut crystal lustres, mounted on glass steps, fci $800. Miss Elsie do Wolfe socured a lot of printed French linen designed by Vera, for $282. T. L. Onatlvla, agent for a Philadelphia buyer, acquired an overtuffed sofa 'covered with Portu- guese linen, for $725, and a pair of directolre cabinets for $520. Mrs. Charles H. Sabln bought a pair of French library globes for $110, and Mrs. B. A. filiewan, a pair ot opal vases for $140 ami a pair of Italian porcelain cache pots of old Ducclo make for $100. F. L. Richardson of Herter Looms \bought thlrty-thre- o different lots ct art object for a toul of $3,49. RENT CASES CI0G COURT. Three Justices Will Help to Clear Calendar by Holidays. Bent' cases In The Bronx have devel- oped so widely that between 8,000 and S.noo cases are pending tn the Municipal courts. In tesponsa to an appeal for aid from Prealding Justices Harry Robltzek. William Storrls and Peter Shell, three Justicei. Simjnoa Friedlr.der, Aaron Levy ar.d Jacob Mark, cere assigned fronOtariJiattan. WICi this asniaUnce Judge Itobltsek hopes to get through UiA overcrowded calendars .before the. holidays ar over. The Jcdges met yesterday in the Brooks avenue rourl anJ\ decided to prevent pv'e'lons If passible during Hie holiday eajon, , , THE SUN, FRIDAY, THREE'S A CROWD,' BATTALION IN NOISE Scene of Comedy Is Laid in Stratford on Avon, Home of ' Shakespeare. F0UK VOW TO SAVE GIRL Then Things Happen' to Sup- port Name of Now Play at tort Theatre. \Three's a Crowd' At the Cort Theatre. Capt. John Jllalr, ,.E.F. .Allan Dlnehart Philip Kent Dyron Reaaley Mrs. Kent.,.. ,. , . . .llcatrlve .Morelaud tThe Rev. Jopli Tltieymosj, Walter McIJwcn ' Jcieplilno Vlncsn t, Daisy Ilud.! IJllly.Klng....... ..Charles Compton Sir Aan Forbes Harold Ue Becker Peter Whitney,. ...I,,. Hoy Gordon Kathleen Kent.. , . . .I'liocbc Foster To bo quite frank, the opening of 'Three's a Crowd\ at the Cort Theatre last night should havo been reviewed solely by college students with fraternity brothers In the cas Tills comedy, pre- sented by John Cort, made capital en- tertainment from a varsity standpoint In fact, It was even better than some 'rah, 'rah chows put on by the dear undorgrads. Or It a sophomore couldn't be pressed tt.o service as a dramatic critic col-leg- o students are so advanced nowadays, rcadlns Freud and sometimes tho Bible some very antiquated gentleman, who had received his theatrical baptism of Are during lite heyday of \Charley's Aunt,\ should have been conscripted as a reviewer, provided he retained the juvenile viewpoint which enjoyed all the romping practical Jokes, tlinoworn now, which were then considered novel tech- nical tricks on th- - singe. How such n theatrical reporter would havo liked burstlnsc a blood vessel from laughing nt Charles Compton skating around the Htage in women's clothes and masquerading on a cook badly in need of a shave. How ho would havo surrendered to hysterics when the heroine's father, who wan a ucml for mind reading ar.d spiritualism, willed that the cook should bring him the platter that was a valuable family heir- loom, ar.d the cook brought It to him smashed Into fragments In order to malic rt good climax for1 the second act. Scene In Shiikespenre's Town, Tint iiw trnublo. with one reviewer present was that ho tas born too late to havo a good time from all this the laughs missed him by about fifty years. Perhaps the offering suffered too by be- ing localized In Shakerpeare's town of Stratford on Avon, which, oeeiues gn nig tho breezy young American hero n nt..--- ., tn rfltfir in thft bard In the ex- - .,., \Tilll \ called to mind some other things that had been written in tho name of drama, and that still hold amusing qualities after six time fifty years. Into-th- e Blue Hoar ltin-a- r sirauoru n.i,r thrnA demobilized one almost said demoralized British soldiers and a homeward bound American captain, an nt n'lmm haw met durinir the war. and all are in love with the same Kathleen Kent, as life was meant to be in stana-ar- d farces. They find a letter she has written asking a certain \Joe\ to go away 'in her company \with no luggage ,i Vir mnmnnT.\ and not knowing that Joe is her girl friend, Jo.iephine Vincent, tho young gallants pay meir ueiovcu the compliment of fearing the worst. However, each wagers he'll not only t:. tir.t win her fcr himself. r,,1 tha lintlln nt lp?3 and lUnsTS Is on. The first act promised rather wellfor the idea Interested, the selling ni uie Inn attracted the eye, and there wasn't so much hopping around ana ueiiowing But tho second act sotting In the Keiil\ drawing room was dono In an Incendiary yellow and tho tone of the act Itself had the sanie amount of agitation. Crtm Into Ilrond Farce. Tnin this home the four young men torced themselves on various pretexts the American as nnoiner roinn ruaucr, -- o nriii.Vier :i .i cook, a second as an electric jepjirer wearing corduroys and DECEMBER 5, 1&19. a monocle and a third as a piano tuner, who struck the right pitch with the strings by yowling to them nnd who In- troduced the romantic pinnacle of tho play by mouthing \I You Truly\ oft key. Pn'rt of the broad farce to which the play descended nt this point consisted in outdoing \Charley's Aunt\ with flirtatious agones betweon the cook and the senile mind reader, who apparently wasn't psychio enough to rend the masculine thoughts ot his kitchen potentate. But it was. nil so noisy it could truly be said '\Three!! a Crowd'\ was a r, for when they nil got going it hounded moro like n battalion ii labor battalion. It seemed as if the authors, Christopher Morley and Karl Derr Rig- gers, took to heart tho lines of ono of their characters, \Do your worst,\ and tho result was comparable to the shat- tered platter. I'hmbo Foster as Kathleen was uncer- tain about the proper amount of coy- ness, and was at her best when she con- fined herself to wearing her fetching gowns, Allan Dlnohart In playing the American, was best among tho men be- cause he was tho most natural, but the others, Just skylarked. It was the sort of thing ono sees nt pnrties or wedding showers. Mark Twain's query, \Is Shakespeare Dead?' Is surely answered by this play, for lie must bo after what happened In his homo town last night. WOMAN STEALS G'EMS AND FLEES IN MOTOR Pistol Fired at Pursuers as She Escapes. i a woman wanted into me jewelry store of Armin Holllnger In 12 16 Third ntenue last night and asked to bo shown sonio diamond rings. When a tray full n placed upon tho counter Hie se- lected four which were valued at $1,350 and started toward tho front of the es- tablishment as if lo see them in a bet- ter light. A man outside Hrtung tho door open as though to enter, nnd be- fore Holllnger or Oullus Miller, his clerk, realized what ia. happening the woman ran across the sidewalk and Jumped into an automobile which was drawn up at the curb. Holllnger and Miller darted forward In pursuit. The man who had held open the store door followed the woman into the waiting motor car nnd a revolver va fired through one of Its curtained windows as It moved down Third ave- nue, swinging Into Sixty-nint- h street. Holllnger telephoned to Police Headquar- ters and detectives who were sent uund no trace of the automobile nor any one who had noted the number on the licjnse plate. .Miller to!d the detectives the .woman first hail called at the store Juct after it was opened for buMness Monday morn- ing. She asked to pee diamond rlnga then, but was told they had not been taken out of the. safe. Sho left, saying she would return some evening during the week. Two of tho mhuing rings are valued together at $ l\'0 another at ?\n0 and the fourth at (200. URGES BUSINESS TO FIGHT THE RADICALS ,Dr. Eaton Tells Wool Men to Americanize Workers. Threatened domination of American Industry by radical labor must be fought to a finish now, said Dr. Charles A.. Katon. former clergyman, engaged In Americanization work, to several hun dred members of tho American Associa- tion of Woolen and Worsted Manufac- turers at their eleventh annual dinner last night at the Waldorf. Dr. Eaton declared that American manufacturers must \put a soul Into In- dustry'\ and make It an educational force to turn out citizens as well as merchan- dise. \Sometimes I wonder If religion has done more harm than good In the world, ho said. \To-da- y the chief order of civili- zation Is Industry, and the one force most dominant tn tho life of the young man Is the foreman. Unless your busi- ness makes that man into a citizen as well as a worker you are falling down In tho building of democracy. Our busi- ness in this country has been an autoc- racy. It must becomo a democracy.\ Manton U. Metcalf, president ot the association, was toastmr.ster. and other speakers were Douglasi Mallock and Dwlght W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Morrow, speaking on tho sub- ject of international trade, declared that American credits to revive Europe mu't ! count on the unlimited possibilities c' - habilitated continental trade regardless of Its condition now. SYMPATHETIC ROLE LURES CRANE BACK Hei Will Appear in- - \Captain Warren's Wards,\ Custom \ Mado for Him. 'AJiL TIED' THE ATI! E CHAIN Canada Will Havo All-Briti- sh Circuit Iieaching' Prom Coast to Coast. William If. Crane, whose souh warm- ing impersonations of elderly gentlemen havo been sadly lacking tho last fow vir n a sedative for Jazz, sflll turn to shimmy torn New It Is announced ho will present all thujvlrtiies Innenarablo from growing old Inja com- - edy by Frank Howo, Jr., custom mado for nun from a novei oy -- useim coin, the most modern cx.ionentrof the btaylng powers of tho b'gosh school of literature. Tills is \Capt. Warren's Words.\ and in the form fitting role of Copt. Warren, Mr. Crane feels he lias all tho geniality ho can use. Lack ot play with a sym- pathetic ' part Is tho reason why Mr. Crane's twinkle has for so long been In eclipse in California, but now his mel- low dialect can renew Its strength like the eagle. Canada is to havo a chain of \all red\ theatres from coast to coast, which doesn't mean that they're to be Bbislio-vlsti- c, but simply that British plays and players aro to be alvcn the preference, so that It can truly be raid the sun never sets on the British drama'. Mar- tin Harvey. English actor manager, will send twenty-on- e British companies over the top In (ho near future, which shows that Great Britain got a giant ship like the Impera tor just in time. From Win- nipeg it was announced that the merger, wjth a lease of western theatres run- ning for ten years from last Monday, would establish a chain of house begin- ning in Halifax and ending In Victoria, and sticcess. Cnrt to Kxtrnri His Chain. Beginning with Christmas week John Cort. Intends to extend the nil Broadway chain with his Standard Theatre, beginning with Jllml Asuglla In her first throes with the English language. Mme. Aguglla, appearing In \The Whirlwind,\ by George C. Hazel-to- n nnd RItter Brown, will take the Standard out of tlio slough of the one week stand, so that productions thero will hereafter be given a longer lease of life at popular prices--moani- ng that two uprer West Side residents can crowd In for the price of one ticket downtown, not to mention the sodas after the show. Under the management ot Richard Walton Tully, Guy Bates Post cele- brated In Denver last night his thou- sandth appearance in \The Masque-radcr,- \ thereby beating the Post rec- ord ret up In Tully's \Omar the Tent-maker- ,\ which ran for KS perform- ances before Its tents were folded up. At a recent performance in the Lib- erty Theatre one of the most Important patrons was Patricia Zlegfeld. tho little daughter ot Blllle Burki who made her first visit to the theatre to see her mother In \Cnss.ir's Wife,\ and who be- rime a starring spectator. When Miss Burke took a curtain call her daugh- ter, who had been sitting with a nurse In the wing, stepped out and took It with her to show she approved of tho piece. F. Zlegfeld Is reported to have raised the salaries ot both of them on tho spot. A group of Broadway dramatic nnd musical rta-r- who will sell tickets for the first annual ball of the Actors Equity Association at tho association's ticket offices In the Hotel Algonquin will bo put on sentry duty by Capt. Everett Butterfleld of tho entertainment com- mittee, 'who learned how to handle ac- tresses and mules In tho army. Marjorlo Rnmbeau, Peggy Wood, Wlhla Bennett, Franclne Larrimore, Gertrude Vnndcr-bll- t, Julia Doan, Ethel Intropldl and Florence Shirley will be among those who will let none go by without the password, consisting of a few dollars. Calvin Thomas has been lined up ou tho side ot William Collier In \Tho Hot- tentot,\ the comedy, by Victor Mapes which Sam H. HarrU will produce early In January in order to give E. D. Dunn, publicity leprescntatlve anil author of I paper I1 1 I! P tho famous waistcoats, a chance lo write some poetry about It. Now that \Aphrodite\ In tho Conturj Thentro has been purged It Is fairly to state that Gabrlollo Ravlno, the Bel- gian actress now portraying u gypsy fortune teller with Ethel Barrymore In \Declarseo\ In tho Empire, was tho original vtpftro.ille In Paris though this information )b liable to bring forth a sanctimonious roar from Mian Civic Purity atop the Municipal Building. The British riglus to \Irene the i n.itiMi r.iilt i Dav musical m .. : - , ... .i i. thn Vanderblllt suuim mu uuu i : Theatre, have been sold by Carle Carl- ton, president of tho producing company, to J, L. Sacks of London, where U Is understood Sir Alfred Butt will bo n en the pot when it Is sent across In tne Oaloty Theatre m.Fobruary. John Charles ThomaH of \Apple Blos- soms\ In the Globe Thentro has ob- tained permission from tho big boss, who Is none other than Charles Dillingham, to glvo a limited numbor of recitals bore, starting in tho cold ot January, when tils votco will need warming up for tho operetta. It Is announced that Dorrls Duanc. p!nlng tho French maid In \Scandal In tho Thirty-nint- h Street Theatre, Is giving Franclne Larrimore, tha star, her initial leseons In tho languago ot Carpentler. According to n recent In- terview .Miss Larrimore already Knows fiat tonguo but ovldently thla Is stage 1' rencli she's learning, QUEENS BUILDERS RIOT. Expedition In Automobiles Attncks Workers on Cottnues. Four touring cars, said by tho pollco to have carried a dozen men each, drew up In front of a row of cottages being erected In Farmers avenue, Hollls, Queens, yesterday and tho occupants attacked the workmen employed there. During the next halt hour a pitched battle wagfd In whlclt 130 men Joined. Bricks, clubs and hatchets were used by the combatants and more than twenty persons wero Injured. Tho attackers escaped In their auto- mobiles upon the approach of the police. Two men who described themselves as John Savage. 1!12 West U'Sth street, nnd Jnincs Cunningham, 301 West Twenty-f- irst street, both of Manhattan, were clraggod from t'-- s rymins board of one of the machines. They said they were business ngents of Manhattan locals of tho Biothcrhood of Carpenters and Join- ers of America.- -' In the Jamaica Police Court Magistrate Ko.chendorfcr held them In $2,000 ball for examination next Thursday on a charge of felonious $560 FOR A HADEN ETCHING. First Snip From Print Collection Amount to SfO.ttTT.rSO. lne of Seymour Haden's beautiful etchings, \Mytton Hall,\ sold last night at the American Art Association sale of tho Flanagan and Klolne collections, to F Meder & Co. for ?.\60 heading all the prices. Mr. Meder also gave 2S0 for No, 38, D. O. Cameron's \Ponte Vec-ckio- .\ A. L. Salomar paid $400 for No. 3j, V. G. Cameron's \Belfo of Bruges,\ and $390 for No. Cameron's \Dinant.\ Kennedy & Co. gave $250 for No. 86, Cameron's \Veronica 5480 for No? 42, Cameron's \Joanuls Dariu,\ , .rrtft PimirAn'g \fl IHiTl ff.T tO Toibooth.'' C. A. Xiraushaar paid $260 for No. 37, Cameron's \Two Bridges ; A. II. Halilo & Co. gave $210 for No. 5S. Hcdley Fitton's \Two Mlllh\; A. Svann, astnt. bought No. CS, Hodley Fitton's \St. Maclow, Rouen,\ and No. 93. Sovmour Iladen's \Early Mornlna:, Richmond Park,\ went to F. Keppei & Co. for $200. The total for the sale was $9,97i.j0. Tiio auction will continue this evening. WAR BRIDES GREETED. l'Aeiiiy' Olrln. Who Soon Will' Br, AUo Arrlip From Ola-coi- r. Workers of tho Travelers Aid Society w elcomed last night eighty young women who are to marry men and two war brides who arrived from Glas- gow by the Anchor liner Columbia. Mrs. Mllle Uroadbent. whose husband wns in the navy and lives at Revenue, Ohio, was married on tho other flda under tho old Scottish law, which recognizes as valid a marriage ceremony performed by Jolnlnjr hands across a tablo and de- claring before the local authorities that the couple are man and wile. A Travelers Aid worker went away with Mr. and Mrs. Uroadbent and the marrlaec was Americanized by a clorgy- -' nun The rest of the joung women will I bn ewortcd to tholr bridegrooms by I representatives of the so.i a ULSTERITES ARRIVE TO FIGHT SINN FEIN Six Protestant Olcrgyinon Here to Institute a Coun- ter Propaganda. THEY WrLU; TOUJl lT. S. William Coote, jL P. for South Tyrone, Says Irish Itepuli-li- c Does Not Exist. Six Irish clergymen representing the Methodist, Presbytorlan and Episeo-palla- n churches, headed b' William Cooto, M. P. from South .Tyrone, ar- rived Inteven!ng from Movlllo by tha Anchor liner Columbia to counteract In America ,th,a propaganda of the Slim Felners. Although there were travelling In tho cabin' with the clerical party a score or more of Irish believing In tlu Sinn Fein movement, Including two young priests, the trip was Internally harmonious, but very boisterous other- wise, many aufferli!g from seasickness. \Representatives of Protestant bodies In this city met the 'uisteritcs nt the pier and Mr. Coote gave out a typewritten statement telling' the purposes ot the delegation. It said: \Wo are not here on a financial Money is not our object. U-ar- not hero tin a political campaign- -- American politics is a matter for Amer- icans, nnd British politics for Britls'iorr-- . We are here in the interest ot law and order, of truth and honesty, of fair play and principle, to protest against tho propaganda which Is boin njieioi in vour rountrr In relation to Ireland. Our mission tn not sectnn.. We raise no, religious Issue. \Our mission is, to say to Am-ri- ca that tho Sinn Fein movement n Ireland, which Is spreading Its proprgiv Ja, America, Ic not n solution of tho i. A question; that it is radteal and destruc- tive In Its methods; that it l cji.wit a in- - Ireland a campaign of coor.:u. threat nnd assassination, and llui It Is not supported or respected by- - tho belt r tvpo of peoplo In Ireland, whether CaUi-o'll- c or Protestant, who haie no ed or prejudiced motive: that it w:.i tho party of rebellion during the war; that It supported and furthered th causo of the foe, and that It was a traitor to the allied cause. \N'alurally in America you would favor a republican form of government. The Sinn Fein calls Itself a republic. Therein Ilea tho dancer. It is n move- ment akin to tho Bolshevik republic In Russia. Their methods are alll:o. The Irish republic does not and cannot exist. it w !ip Sinn Fein agents sy concerning the BritLh Government h true, and If our churches aro opposed i0 Sinn Foln, then wo aro partners with tho Government. We went their un- truthful propaganda. Wo arc hero tr. inform the American public op the rial situation. Wo know our mission will havo n wide hearing, for the re;--r- t '?t your fair play and honor Is abroad Ir our churches.\ Tho clerical memhrri ot the mslnn arc the Revs. Wylle Blue-an- d William Corkov, I'n\bytorlans ; the Rev. F. E. Harte! Edward Hazleton and II Wesly Maguiro, Methodists, and the Rev. Will- iam Crooks. Episcopalian. The Rev. Dr. David a. Wylte, general secretary of of church erecting of tho Presby- terian Church, who was anions the rs of the Ulster commission,\ said that a mooting at tho Presbyterian House, 153 Fifth avenue, would map nut the e:Trr!\a f\' 'h ommNslon in the various cities of the country. Cro.v ot Korwoocl lleiclieil. A cablegram received hero yesterday by the American Ship and Commerce Navigation Company, owner of the steamship Kcrwood, previously report :1 as having struck a mine in the Nor.h Sea, sa-- she was \bistro up and sun and that her crew escaped and lauded a' Leer, Germany. Hltheito tho fate of the crow hail not been learned. Tho s!- i and her cargo, made up mostly ot fooi stuffs ent by Americans to relatives Germatu ar. a total lns-i- .
