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Democrats Aid In Plans of New Radical Party Two Cabinet Members Said to Havo Been Represented in Conferences That Pre ceded the National Call Mr Wilson Not Unaware Meyer London Visited Pres? ident Just Before He Left for Paris on March 4 Th. attitude of tho politically wise toward tho new omnibus party of radi cals, the launching of which was an nounced yesterday, is that one should wait to see more of its features before making predictions. For several months some such move? ment as thii has been expected. It runs parallel to a conviction on the part of many prominent Democrats that party euccess in 1920 is improbable without the active cooperation of radicalism. There have been a number of confer, ences with that end in view.

Extreme secrecy from the beginning has been observed with reference to tho identity of those who participatcd in tho conferences. In conscquence gossip has been busy, and the same ru mors which accurately forccast the launching of the new party movement on Thursday now connect with it the names of several men high in thc coun cils of the Democratic party. Some Who Are Named For instance, it is declared that Sec? retary of War Baker was represented in at least one or two of tho confer? ences, and that Secretary of Labor Wil? son also was present by deputy. George Creel also is named. There are hints that President Wilson was not unaware of what was taking place.

On the day before he sailed for France, March 4, the President had long conferences in Washington with both Representative London, the only Socialist in Congress, and Representative Baer, of North Da kota, the Non-Partisan League member of the lower house. There is no suggestion, however, that the President or any of his Cabinet who may have been represented at purejy economic conferences had any part in framing the radical programme which is outlined in the call for the conference. William Randolph Hearst is said to have been represented. His publica tions are depended upon to Bpread the propaganda of the new international ism, and are already engaged in the task; and of course there were repre sentatives at the conference of the Nonpartisan League and the National party. Others named in the gossip about thc movement as participating are Frank P.

Walsh and Louis i. Post, Assistant Secretary of Labor. Two Elements in the Movement There are declared to be two ele? ments in the movement who are en? gaged already in a quiet contest for supremacy. One of these seeks to make the organization a distinctly new party, pledged to the most extreme i radical principles, and would like to I capture the Democratic party organ? ization. This element is in the ma jority and is responsible for the su? gcstion of the soviet system, which is vaguely hinted at in thc call for a national conference.

Thc other ele 1 ment hopes to keep the new movement I toned down and turn it to the uses of I the Democratic party. J. A. H. Hopkins, who has taken the leadership in tlie movement, says frankly: I "There is nothing to he hoped from either of the old political parties.

1 They have nothing but political issues. whereas the issues which the nation faces now are distinctly and emphati cally economic." A Democratic national committee i man, when hc was asked his vicws about tho new party, said: "Let il come. Wo may as well meet the issue and have it over The gentleman who said the old parties are barren of issues was morc than half right. The war has left us in an eco? nomic conditioh which is ripe for new political alignments and it will bo a good thing for thc nation to sce just where we stand." Union Seehs Rclcasv Of Men on Ellis Island The Central Fedcratcd Union at its meeting last night adopted a resolution calling upon the Secretary of Labor to release the twenty-one I. W.

VV. men now held on Ellis Island for deporta tion. Thc resolution was adopted after an address by Caroline Lowe, attorney for the men. lt also called upon thc Secretary of Labor to prevent further employment of spies to trap 1. W.

W. men in the Western lumber camps. William Kohn. chairman of the cx ccutive committee of the local brarich of the American Labor party, denied that the American Labor party would join any political amalgamation'of radi cal elements, as indicatcd in adver tisement corftained in the current issue of "The Nation." Mr. Kohn also said the I.

W. W. was precluded from any participation in such a movement, be causa its coii3titution especially pro hibited participation in politics or gov? ernment. James P. Holland, president of the State Federation of Labor, urged that the labor unions of the state give more general support to women candidatcs for office, especially legislative.

lie de? clared that thc women members of the present Legislature had proved more conscientious than the men, doing more for labor than the latter, who even when they had sponsorecl bills were prone to permit them to dic in commit? tee, whereas Ihe women were disposed to fight for them. I Rich Tax Dodgers Scored by Cohalan Effort to Defeat State Assess ment on Harbeck Estate Arouses Surrogate Surrogate Cohalan forcibly express? ed his views yesterday on men of wealth who try so to arrange their place of residence that their estate will not have to pay an inheritanco tax. The Surrogate spoke during the hearing on thc application of State Controller Travis that the $2,900,000 estate left by John II. Harbeck bc compeiled to pay the State of New York $61,000 as a transfer tax on the estate. Mr.

Harbeck died in 1910 at the Hotel Plaza. His widow, Mrs. Kate A. Harbeck, who received 700,000, probated his will here and contended her husband was a resi- I dent of Colorado. The State of Colo- rado tried to collect a tax, whereupon Mrs.

Harbeck said her husband wa3 a resident of New York. The Harbecks i had a house in Boulder, which they occupied a few months each year. Surrogate Cohalan, who reserved decision, declared "some men amasa a fortune or inherit one, and go from one state to another and think their home is wherever they hang their hat up, and as long as there is a tax they don't live anywhere. If it can be shown that this raaii's domicile was New York, I am going to see to it that his estate pays to this state what is coming to it." at is this TTEALTH COMMISSIONER COPE LAND and other prominent authori? ties tell what they have found out about the cause and character of this baffling disease. YORK Now the Biggest City That Ever 1 Was.

It passed London in population early this year. There are over 8,000,000 of us. A story to interest every resident of the New World James L. Bakret. A CHARACTER Sketch of Archbishop Hayes, the first American-born head of America's greatest diocese, sympathetically portrayed by Percy T.

Edrop. ITTLE Journeys Through the Kaiser's Empty Coriat, noted psycho-analyst, tells why the Kaiser made himself partner to Gott. Enchantmcnt of mystic tale A of life in the days of the Irish Kings, poetically Eleanor Rogers Cox. sj: Pages of Features, of Facts and Fiction not to be missed by any rcader who wants to be a contemporary of himself. nagazine Section of To-morrow Boulevard Map Plan For Jamaica Bay Is Adopted by Board Mayor Airs His Views on Citizens League and Other Matters Before Estimate Body Reaehes Its Decision The Board of Estimate and Appor tionment discussed yesterday the plan to construct a boulevard across Ja? maica Bay from Sheridan Avenue to Beach Channcl Drive.

After Mayor Hylan had had his say about the Citi? zens' Union, Leonard M. Wallstein, thc previous administration, payments, pavements and leases and Controller Craig and Borough President Connolly of Queens each had pointed out t'nc other's errors, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment adopted the map plan. Borough President Connolly opened the repartcc with an explanation that only thc map, and not the physical construction of thc boulevard, was be? fore the board. "What about thc long lcase this man Day got down there durmg the last administration and the Citizens' Union didn't say a word?" demanded Mayor Hylan at this point. Borough President Connolly replied that long leases were common and that the "Day people" would relinquish voluntarily their title to any part of the lease affected by the constructioy of the boulevard.

"There is a man by thc name of Wallstein," said the Mayor, "who now runs the Citizens Union and who was Commissioner of Accounts during the time thc last administration gave away almost all of Jamaica Bay. We didn't hcar a word from the Citizens' Union about it then." Controller Craig said Borough Pres? ident Connolly was in error. It was not merely thc map that was in ques? tion, tlie Controller said, for when that was npproved then there would bc the plan for the construction of thc boulevard and an appropriation. Borough President Connolly insisted that only the map was under discus sion. "Well, for one," said tlie Con? troller, "will not vote to improve the land of the Broad Channel Corpora? tion at the expense of the city." So the Mayor asked to hear from the Broad Channel Corporation.

H. S. Sayres, its treasurer, said his corpora? tion had not agreed to pave the boule? vard, "We never agreed to pave anything," he added. "That's just it," Mayor Hvlan agreed with enthusiasm. "You don't want to pay anything." "ot returnedj Mr.

Sayres. "P-A-V-E." Controller Craig said: "This discussion is unnecessary. It is simply a question of whether or not the Broad Channel Corporation is go- ing to stand between the Koekawavs and this improvement." "It is a question," amended Borough President Connolly, "of whether or not the Controller is going to stand be- tween the Rockaways and this improve- ment." The question of the map was put to I a vote. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment gave formal approval, Controller Craig dissenting, and the audience, Rockaway residents, ap plauded. Has New Kinds of Food Canucks Have Learned to Like Whalc Meat, Bcaver and Other New Dishes War-time conservation has given.

Canada a number of new kinds of food that bid fair to remain permanently on i the national raenu. Among the new foods are whale meat, ftatfish, beaver and wild rice. The Consolidated Whaling Corpora tion, which succecdcd the Victoria Whaling Company in 1918, has offices in Toronto and Victoria, and operates three whaling stations at Kyuquot and Rose Harbor, on Vancouver Island, and at Naden Harbor, Queen Charlotte Island, with ten steamers to It also controis two whaling companies operating at Bay City, and at Akutan Island, Alaska. The season lasts from May to Septem ber. The Canadian catch for 1917 was 379 whales and 500 for 1918.

Canned Whale Meat The principal whales taken are the nnback and humpback. They meas- i from forty to eighty-five feet in length and average in weight one ton to a linear foot. The little steel steam? ers which hunt them shoot a harpoon from a gun in the bow. The dead whale is inflatcd with air to prevent thc pos? sibility of its sinking and towed to from Algonquin Provincial Park were introduced in Toronto last year. Their popularity spread through the prov? ince into Manitoba and across the line i into Minncsota.

Beaver have been protecte'd by law for years, but they i have increased so rapidly that open seasons have been permitted in cer- i tain districts in which to trap them, and experiments in colonizing beaver i outside of Algonquin Park. along the line of the Grand Trunk railway have been undcrtaken with an idea of prop agating the animals on a commercial scale. Wild rice, which grows in abundance Sn the lake region of Western Canada, was rp.rcly caten until commission men of Canada and the United States saw its possibilities as food during the I period of conservation. They estab-! lished market for it and it is now i in growing Evening Post. Governor Reviews 7lst With Military Staff and Family Ile Inspects Kegiment Governor Smith, accompanied by Mrs.

Smith, his daughter and his en tire military staff attended a review of thc 71st Regiment held at the ar? mory last, night. Following irispection and thc review, a stand of colors was presented to the organization by the veU ran corps of artillery. The entire regiment then sang several popular war songs. A buffct lunch was served in the officers' rooms. This evening thc Gov? ernor will review the Kth Coast Ar? tillery X'orps in Thc Bronx.

Woman Vcrdict Against Chicago Poltcemen CHICAGO, March Mar garet Reevcs, wife of Melville Reeves, known as tlie "skyscraper burglar," to-day was awarded $25,000 in damnges against Nicholax Hunt, former chief of detectives, nnd Detoctivo Scrgeant Charles Gratton, on her charge of falso nrrest. Mrs, Reeves charged that the officers, while rtoeking her husband, broke into fti I otel nportmcnl tvhilc ihe was In I ci bath and compolled her to dress In Il She sued ror $75,000, The award wua mudo by a jury. American Socialist Society Fined $3,000 A fine of $3,000 was imposed yester? day afternoon, by Judge Julius M. Mayer, in the United States District Court, upon thc American Socialist Society, found guilty by a jury re? cently of violating the espionage act. Earl the United States At i torncv.

the maximum tine of $10,000. This society was tried jointly with I Scott Nearinsr for publishing a pamph let written by Nearing called thc "Great Madness." Nearing wa.s ac quitted. Mr. Barnes argucd that the text I of thc pamphlet was calculated to make a had impression on the minds of those who read it. He charged the defendant with knowing be true.

S. John Block. for thc defence, dis cussed the economic views and teaeh ings of the society and said there had never b'jen any intent to violatc the law. Judge Mayer said he belicved that the defendant had no malicious purpose in publishing the pamphlet, and for this reason and the dignilied manner in which the trial was con ducted he felt impelled not to inflict the extreme penalty. His chief criticism of thc pamphlet was its glaring and indefensible inac curacies.

Judge Mayer a stay of judgment until April 14th, to per mit counsel to prepare and submit a writ cf crror, W. U. Messengers Deisy Bolslievism Aniinates Strike i iWe Want to Do Everything Like Law Ahiding Boys, Says Yoiithful Leader; Zone Svslem a Grievance Jailure to receive a telegram, cost i ing two and onc-half cents to delivcr, may loso some brokcr $1,000,000. Adolf Brunwasser, seventeen-year old president of the striking Western Union Messengers Union, said yester? day. "We have got deliveries in the downtown and financial districts tied up," hc added.

"They are trying to telephone the messages, and if they don't connect, they mail 'em. A broker can't wait for the mail." The union, he said, would to-mor row to the War Labor Board to settle the dispute. Otlicers of the union denied their strike was a Bolshevik movement. "I challenge any Western Union official who says we are influcnced by Bolslie? vism to meet me in joint debate," said Isadore Sturman, fourteen-year old secretary. "I can show we are not." "We want an increase of half a cent for delivering messa'ges for which we are now paid two and one-half cents," said Brunwasser, who supports his wid owed mother.

"We protest against the zone sys? tem the company wants to put in be? cause it cut down every boy's pay. Thc old way kid with no an c'nors on his feet could make from to a week, With tiie zone sys? tem he can't make more than $10 or $12. We want a increase for week workers, who now get $12 for day work and $16.25 for a seven day week at night, and also ar-k a six day week for night workers and a lunch hour. "Nearly 2,000 boys are out and we will have all the oftiees in the city tied up to-morrow. We ain't iooking for trouble.

We want to get recog? nition of the union and win this strike peaceably, and are going to do every? thing like lawabiding boys." There were several clashes between pickets and messengers yesterday. Four strikers were arrested, one boy being taken in twice. Sol Grubois, an organizer of the union, said the Western Union had hired strong-arm men and stationed them in front of each office to inttmidate pickets. Meyer Wolozansky, a member of the strike committee, said when the com? mittee went to present their demands to D. Skelton, in charge of thc Western Union messenger service, last Friday, in company with their attorney, 1.

M. Sackin, of Broadway, they were told tho company would not deal with any attorney. Tuesday night, he added, the boys decided to give the company twenty-four hours' notice of a strike, but before this could be done, thc union leaders were discharged and strike breakers put into the Twenty third Street office. Xo statement was issued at Western Union headquarters, but it was said unofficially thc strike had had but lit? tle effect in delaying delivery of messages. Tobacco War Declared Blow to Small Stores The price-cutting war that started between the Schulte and United Cigar stores companies has spread to the rest of the trade, nnd unless soon quellcd, tobacco dealers predicted yes? terday, will result in- ovcrwhelming many smaller L.

M. Gales, president of the Liggett Drug Company, which met the 'irice cutters by reducing the price of its own tobacco and cigarettes, yesterday termed the conflict as "injudicious and bad for business." "Liggett has taken its action mere? ly for sclf protection," he said. Mr. Gales said there was no appar ent reason I'or the conflict. Hc as- serted no tobacco concern can sell at present prices and make a profit, but added that when a company operating a chain of stores makes a cut in prices this cut must be mot.

"I imaptne we can stand the gaff as well as Schulte," he remarked. When asked what had caused the price-cutting Mr. Gales merely Bhrugged his shoulders. can I tell why they are doing it." he asked. "There is no apparent reason.

Price-cutting is sometimca done for silly personal reasons." Ship Germans Oippled Makes Slow Passage to U. S. SAN' JUAN, March four months thc Brazilian passenger steam ship Leopoldina, formerly thc Ham burg-Amcrican Iiner Bldcher, has been voyaging by easy stages from Por nambuco, Brazil, toward New York' and has arrived hero. Frequent ro pairs have been necessary, owing to tho fact that when she was intcrnod a- Pernambuco the Brazilian au? thorities after lirazil soized the Ger? man vcaaela in Brazilian ports, tho Bltlchcr'H crcw endcavored to destroy her engines and damage tho boilers by burning flrea under them when they contuined no water. On her way north Ihe Leopoldina waa compelled to atop for Bixty-three dnya al Port of France Martinique, to undergo repaira to her burnod boii frH.

The veasel ia under command of Brazilian naval ofTlcer and is to bo thoroughly ovorhnul ul New York and thon placed in tho French truns-, atluntic oorvioa Becker Declines To Cross-Examine Baif Case Witness Instead, Ile Sends Jndge Mflntyre Copy of Menio randum of Conversation He Had With Di Paola Deputy Attorney General Alfred L. Becker yesterday declined tlie in i vitation of Judgc Mclntyre to cross examine Carmine Di Paola, a witness in thc John Doe inquiry as to per? jury in thc Baff case, who on Thurs? day testified to conversations with Mr. Becker relative to changing the testimony previously given by him on thc trials of Arichiello and Cardinale. Mr. Becker transmitted a copy of his office memorandum relating to his con ference with Di Paola in the Baff case.

According to thc memorandum fur nished by Mr. Becker, Di Paola re fused to talk to him in thc presence of a stenographer the occasion of the conference to which he had testi? fied. After the stenographer had beeri excluded, the statement says, the fol? lowing conversation took place: "Di Paola said: 'You know about the offer you made; does that still hold 1 said: 'What offer'." lie said: 'The offer of I said: j'You mean in case you change your I He said: I said: 'Things 'are different now, because after I said I would consider such a suggestion, provided you Would tell the truth, you went ahcad and told the story just as before, and said you were telling the Joseph A. Sorro was thc only 'wit? ness examincd yesterday. Judge Mc? lntyre warned Sorro that if any at? tempt to commit perjury was dctected he would be committed to jail.

Sorro's attorney, John Santora, ol jected to the remarks of thc court on thc ground that they tended to in timidatc the witness. "I have no intention of intimidating hun, was Judge Mclntyre's rejoiner, "but I'm not going to sit here and let him commit perjury if I can help it." Alderman Lee Willing To Explain Bolslievism Says He Approves Proposed Investigation by Legislalure it Investigales Alderman Algernon Lee, Socialist and edtic'ational director of the Rand School for Social Science, announced his ap proval of the proposed legislative com mittee to investigate Bolshcvism in tlie city and state and offercd to give aid as a witness. "If the committee would honestly try io find out and make public the cause oi the growth of what they call Bol? shcvism," said, "it would bc well while. The subject is even more important than most people realize. Nothing would please me more than to go before such a committee and give them an array of facts which I have at hand bcaring directly on the sub I ject and drawn from personal inquiry land observation, but I am sure that such facts are just'what they will not want, "Legislative committees are usually o( two kinds wbitewashing commit i tees and committees for the discovery of mares' nests.

This one will be the latter class. Dollars to doughnuts, they will have their conclusions ready to start with nnd will carefully dodge any facts that do not tally with their purpose." 'Tammany Times' Will Change Name April 15 District Attorney's Ofliee Sng gests Action to Curb Work of Grafting Agents Tlie name of "Thc Tammany Times" will he changed after the appearance of the -anniversary number of that publication on April 15. This decision was reached by the publishcr of the paper after a confer? ence with Assistant District Attornov Edwin P. Kilroe, who stated last night that for the past year many corn plaints have been received at lis office against solicitors ol" the paper. Some.

of these solicitors, he said, had repre sentcd that the paper was the official organ of Tammany llall and that it would be to the best interests of those approached to patronize it. In cases where advertisements were I refused, Mr. Kilroe said, the inference was invariably left by the solicitor that the refusal might bring disagree- i able results. About two weeks ago, he said, solicitors for the paper were at work among the steamship com? panies whose city licenses were about to expire, and broad hints were given out that an advertisement in "The Tam? many Times" would help materially in obtaining renewal of the George Feigl, editor and publisher I of the paper, disclaimed any knowl- i eclge of these practices when sum- moned to Mr. Kilroe's office.

Mr. Kil- roc stated that ho had no doubt that some of thc "hundred per cent had solicited advertisements and sub scriptions without authority. lt has not been announced what' the now name of the paper will be. Girl Wife Tells Story Of Old Man's Wooinpi Mrs. Katie Wolf Hart.

Aged 18, Witness Against Her Hus luuid. Aged 87 Mrs. Katie Wolf Hart, eighteen years old, whose eijrhty-seven-yoar-old hus? band, James Harvey Hart, is seeking an annulment of their marriage, was a witness on her own behalf before Justice Benedict in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, yesterday. Wearing a handsome suit nnd cloak which her husband had given her, the bride of ten months said that she had been forced to help support her mother and four other children ever since her i father, died three years ago. For a time she worked in a factory for a week, and then became a mani cure in a barbershop in the building in which Hart had his office.

Sho re lated at, great length her wooing by the aged man, and said he proposed to her a week after they first met. When this occurred, she testified, she told him he would have to see her mother. She also said that Hart prom ised to give her $50,000 on their wed day. Under crossr-oxamination, Mrs. Hart said her husband left their home aa a rcsult of a quarrcl.

Dirty dishes, sne related, had been left on 'the man tel, and when Hart ordored her brother to remove them and hc refused her husband left her, saying: "I'm through with you." "1 was so surpmed thut 1 was Bpeochles the witness said. PhyslclanB testified yostorday that except for slight heart murmur Hurb waa in surprisingly hcultk. Dr. Swanson Must Pay His Wife 85,000 a Year Ernie" Letter to Sec? retary Quoted From Mem ory as Part of Testimony Dr; Fritz Swanson, Fifth Avenue dentist, will hereafter extract $5,000 a year from his large income and pay it to Mrs. Ida Swanson, under r.n order by Justice Hendrick, who yesterday granted tho wife a decree of separa tion.

Mrs. Swanson ulleged that her hus oand found more pleasure in the com panionship of his secretary, Miss Ernes tine Edwards, than hc ilitl with her and their two children. Thc wife quotcd from memory a letter she said Dr. Swanson wrote Miss Edwards. Mrs.

Swanson said there waB a struggle bc her and her husband for posses? sion of tho letter, and Dr. Swanson got it and destroyed it. She said the letter was addrcssed "My Dearest Ernie." and was subscribed, "I love you, I love you, love you." "I would not have written 'I love you' three times." Dr. Swanson said on'the witness stand. "Once would have been enough." He told of returning home a week after he and his wife had an alterca tlon.

He bore a bouquet of roscs as a peace ofTering. His wife ordored him out, he said. and then threw the roses after him. Mrs. Agnes C.

Beebe, of 65 Central Park West. testified that Dr. Swanson and Miss Edwards had rooms in her apartment. Riverside Drive Tenants to Fight Increase in Rent Dwellers in the Laiighorne Apartments Voice Indig nation in Mass Meeting and Employ a Lawyer Thirty-six of forty-eight tenants in thc Langhorne, a six-story apartment house at 860 Riverside Drive, near 15Sth Street, held an indignation meet? ing last night. They formed an asso? ciation and formally retained counsel to combat the efforts of the new owncr of the building to get their signa turos to new leases at higher rentals.

Henry S. Miller, of 154 Nassau Street, whose law partner, Samuel Ncwmark, lives at the Langhorne, is the attorney engaged. He said thc Dis trict Attorney would be asked to in vestigate tho methods used to justify the increase in rents, and the Supreme Court would be asked to set aside an judgment under which the attempt was being; made to ab'oeate Ieasea. Tenants had been instructed, he continued, to resist all action by the Mumcipal Court to eject them and" were hrmin their resolution to do so. Lloyd Wiliis, who vas secretary to District Attorney vVhitman for a time, was chosen as president of the tenants' association.

Leases Expire Next Year The Bergmill Holding Corporation isi the present owner of thc hen thc leases, most of which expire October 1, 1920, signed the Lang? horne Construction Comnany was the owncr. That concern sold the to the Winters Realty Company, and within six weeks, according to Mr Miller, foreclosed a $15,000 mortgage given by the Winters Realty Companay. Ihe Bergmill Holding Corporation bought the property from the concern that bid it iu at the foreciosurc sale. According to Professor Robert Schuyler, of Columbia University, and other tenants of the Jacob Axelrod, president of the Lang? horne company, had assured them the sale would not affect their leases. Mr.

Miller declared that under a judg? ment. rendered in the Supreme Court January 2J the leases were not affect ed by the sale. On February 15, he said, thc judgment was amended at the request of counsel for the Berg? mill corporation to invalidate the leases. Xew Leases Boost Rents ln. new leases presented to the ten? ants i'or signature the rentals are said to show considerable increases.

One tenant, whose rent had been $660, said it was raised to another said his rent was to be raised from $1,000 to $1,440. They were told, the tenants said, they could sign the new leases before April 1 or get out. A representative of McDowell Mc Mahon, renting agents for the Berg? mill corporation, said last night the present rentals ranged from $10 to $13 a room and rentals in other houses in the neighborhood ran as high as $20 a room. The aew scale of prices at the Langhorne, he said, would averaee $19.02 a room. One of those at the tenants' meeting last night was Assemblyman Karl Smith of the 21st District.

"This is just a sample of what soon will be happening all over the city," said Assemblyman Smith. "We have tried to get legislation through to help tenants, but there is such a strong real estate lobby at Albany that every effort has been balkcd." Women of New Rochelle Defy Mayor in Beek Fight Club, Barred From Halls, Plans Jo Have Speaker Deliver Address in Large House NEW ROCHELLF. March defiance to Mayor Frederick H. Wal? dorf and thc Board of Education was given to-day by thc Woman's Club. i Mrs.

II. G. Dayrtfll. president, declared that notwithatanding opposition the club would havo James M. Beck as its principal speaker on Saturday evening, March The controversy began with the an-i nouncement by the club that Mr.

Beck would address the club in the High School. The Carpenters and Joiners Union protcsted to Mayor Waldorf, who declared he would use all hia power to pfevent Mr. Beck from speak? ing. Thc club relied on the fact that for years it has been nccustomed to se cure from tho Board of Education verbal permission for use of the high school. Similar permission had been granted for the meeting of March 29 but the Board of Education later with drow its verbal permission.

The executive committee of tho club met to-day. Mrs. Dayroll declared the club would go through with tho meet? ing. "If tho authorities bar us from pub? lic auditoriums," said Mrs. Dayrcll, "we will hold the meeting at some pri? vate home.

We are waiting to aacer tain the largest house available, be foro announcing tho place of tho meet? ing. Mr. Back haa been invited to address tho club aud he will." Shipbuilding Costs To Be Read ust ed to Basis of $150 a Ton Experts to Establish Peaee Tinie Price for Fnture Contracts; U. S. to Aban? don Absorption Hazard WASHINGTON, March 21.

Read justment of shipbuilding costs to peacc-timc production is expected by experts of the Shipping Board to estab lish a basic price in the ncighborhood of $150 a ton for future contracts let to American yards. Recent confcrenccs here between i General Manager Piez of the Kmcr gency Fleet Corporation and reprcsen tatives of Pacific Coast builders are said to have developed virtual unanim ity of opinion that high cost methods of production, which prevailcd at a time when the national emergency de manded speed in production above everything else, should bo eliminated as quickly as possible to obtain a re? turn to sound business practice. Pros pects of keen competition in world trade routes, the Western men were told, made it necessary to hold construc? tion costs to a figure which would per mit payment of dividends from com potitn'e rates which would have to be established to get business. Cancelled contracfj will be replaced with new orders when the ways are empty, but the prices are expected to be considerably belovv those prevailinjr during the war, which sometimes ran as high as $350 ton. -Government assumption of labor and material hazards also will be aban doned.

During hostilities, the Shipping Board adopted a policy of ahsorbing increased costs. Increases in wages and overtime pay alonc amounted to $300,000,000. Hereafter, shipyard op erators will assume the risk of a rise iu the price of material or of demands for more pay, the government with drawing its supervision over such questions. Read justment of produclion costs is expected to be facilitated by new prices for steel, though the reductions scarce ly will affect that part of the ship? building programme now under i struction. Most of the steel ships now being built were contracted for at a lumn sum, but the Fleet Corporation is expected to benefit in the remaining I contracts, based on the cost plus system.

It was said the Shipping Board re garded the cut in prices as likely to encourage more shipbuilding. iKev. Philip H. Fogel, Former Edueator, Dies Once Profcssor of Philosophy at Princeton; Was Iil Week With Pneumonia ALLENTOWN, March 21. The Rev.

Philip Howard Fogel, Ph. for merly professor of philosophy at Princeton University, died at his home at Fogel3ville, late this afternoon, af I ter having suffered for a week with pneumonia. He was thirty-eight years old. He was latterly associated with the Macmlllan Company, of New York. as an assistant publisher, and was also employed as a special cxnert in the Bu i reau of War Risk Insurance at Wash ington during the war.

MRS. CAROLINE L. T. RODMAN Mrs. Caroline Louise Townsend Rod i man, widow of Randolph and i daughter of the late Charies H.

Town send, who was prominent in the devel opment of Staten Island, died Thurs day night in St. Luke's Hospital. Mrs. Rodman was born in New York fifty six years ago. Her home was at 577 Hamilton Road, South Orange.

ABRAHAM J. DRAKE NETCONG, N. March ham J. Drake, lirst Mayor and first Postmaster of Netcong, died last night of apojilexy. He was president of the Coundf, head of a department store, a di-fector in the Netcong National Bank, a founder of Olive Lodge, I.

(). O. and Netcong Council Royal Arch Mason and a Knight Templar. CHARLES CASE WORCESTER, March Charles Case, aged fifty-seven, founder of the Caser Shoe Company, and promi? nent in Masonic affairs, died to-day. EDWARD C.

MAINES Newton. N. March Former SherifF Edward C. Maincs, of Sussex County, aged sixty-three, died last night at his home here of blood poison REV. J.

A. TALBOT HIGHLAND FALLS, N. March 21. -The Rev. J.

A. Talbot, rector of the Roman Catholic parish here and at Yv'est Point and formerly of Saugerties, N. died here to-day. Arehbishop Hayes will officiate at the funeral next Monday morning. HERBERT W.

KNIGHT Herbert W. Knight, a lawyer in Newark and a resident of Montelair, died Thursday afternoon. He was born in England in 1857. He was a master and examiner in chancery and a Su? preme Court commissioner, a Mason, an Elk and active in other organiza tions. OBITUARY NOTES JOHN JACKSON, for thirty years a boilermaker in the -Navy Yard, and member of the Seawanhaka Democratic Club, died Thursday.

EDWARD L. THOMPSON, connccted with the sales department of the Co? lumbia Graphophonc Companv, died Wednesday of pneumonia at his home, 132 Montaguc Street, Brooklyn. A. WELLS, widow dead at her home, 010 Last tilth Street, Brooklyn. WILLIAM MOFFITT, son of Hugh and Jcannettc Huston Moffitt, is dead at 1ns home, 4S1 Fourth Avenue, Brook? lyn.

MRS. LOUISE SCHERER, wife of Henry bcherer, died at Wyckoff Heights Hospital on Wednesday, aftor an oper? ation. FLOYD FARGO BROWN. insurance man forty-oue years old. is dead al his home, 321 Eastern Parkway, Brook? lyn.

WILLIAM GREEN, formerly fore- man at the Twenty-fifth Street car barns in Brooklyn, died Thursday at i his home, 101 Twenty-seventh Street, Brooklyn. PRIVATE NICHOLAS J. MINELLT, once reported as dead in tho casualty lists, who died of pneumonia aboard ship, received a military funeral yes terday lroni 51 Mott Stroet. DR. JAMES U.

CLARK. aged nineiv, inventor of pioneer telegraph devices, died in Washington yesterday. MATTHIAS JOHNSTON, iiged sev enty-nine, captain of thc 2d Duryea Zouaves, with whom he served aa a lieutenant during the Civil War, who died at his home, I.nlayette Ave nue, Brooklyn. waa buried yesterday. He was proprietor of the old hostclry ni Williamsburg known na tho "Byroii Shades." Later he served in Ucc Department.

ia? CHARLES SCHEFFLER. ker, died yesterday at his hni? Charlottc Place, Ridgewood 4: of aixty-nine. WILLIAM H. WOHLERS tea and coffee salesman, died at 1490 First Avenue. Intenneft take place Sunday at Cedar Orov? MISS GENEVIEVE died Thursday at her home ''(T ton Street, Brooklyn, at the twenty-one.

She was a Daughters of Isabella, the hiLH! ft Mary and Court Sl. Ciair MISS ANNA T1ERHEY, activ. work of the Church of f.l*tt Mercy, died at 538 State Street lyn. AUGUSTUS LIBBY. retired a merdhant, died Thursday at MsTllf 80 Prospect Street, Summit, tne age ot sevepty-scven director of the Cittwms' National of New York.

"8IB'c MRS. SARAH MILLS of J. B. Shale, former preshient Publishers'Press. at 301 West 103th Street HARRY BROWX, manager of Pl.es at Camp Perry.

ohio, died day of pneumonia at his home Fulton Street, Brooklyn JAMES W. BUTLER, a twenty-five years in the empiov Wilhamson family, Jamaica BATTALION SERGEANT EDWARD Mel.AUtiHI.lX Headquartera Co 77th Saranac Lake last Sunday an honor student of the claM fi of the Georgetown Law School and at one time associated with Assistant District Attorney Cl.rk was twenty-eight years 0Id and longed to one of the oldeat Jamaica. i GROVER FRANCIS JACKSnv President and sales manager of Mcllyane Baldwin distillers, died Thursdav at hWS 201. Bedford Avenue, Brookl Jackson waai th.rty-three yeara Elk, and had been prominently iden fied with Brooklyn amateur athletS MRS. ARMENIA HUNT ARm MORTIMER O.

R1CHARDS0N ca8f ier oi tho brokerago firm Farnum Co in Manlmtun 2 of the Masonic Club Wedneada, it home? St. Mark'aAvtt! CATSERINE SHAY, Thuradky a cy Street, Bro0i survived by daughter and two granddaughbrnl: GEORGE H. GOODHEART.whodk Thursday at Lloyd's Saiuumun aft a a icwcller Fifth Avenue. Jcweuer at 54 IMPORTANT NOTICE Birth, Engragement. and In may to Tlu Tribuno any UP t0 for Insertlon hj the nnt day's r.

Just call Beekman 3000 you wis'i Klll for aame will ha mMled you later. The notice will reaca own than 100,000 daily. BIKTHS BLUE8TONE- Mr. and Horbert I Olue tono am ounce the arrlval of tan. inursday, March 20, 1919.

ROGERS At 116 Easl S8d Tax Monday March 17, 1919, tt 4:25 La, Howard Elhott Rogers, son of Edith EliiKt and Edmund Pendleton Rogers. DEATHS March 20, et the ntUm of Gerrish H. Milliken, 723 Park tf Nn Anne. daughter of the late Rictun Beaston and Mary Somers. Itincral vices private.

Philadelphia pajem ploia copy. Friday, March 21. at 319 Vtv after a lonn illness, in her TStl year. Amelia Sillick, widow N. Dunn.

Funeral services St. Church, 86th st, and West End oi Sunday afternoon. March 23, at 3 Interment at White Piains. 13.. in her 88th year.

of the Itev. John Scott Gilmore, 0B I ridi March 21, 1919. Funeral al ftai late residence, 64 Hudson N. on Monday, st V.M a. on arrival of train leavinj hawken at 9 a.

m. on March tt. Ss vicea THE FUNERAL CHURCR way, 66th st. (Frank E. day, 2 p.

m. GRAVEL- Paulinr. on Ma ch 20. Serriea THE FUNERAL CHURCH, fiCth st. (Frank E.

Camphaffa), day, 2 p. m. March 21. Jacob belw husband of Julia K. Hctsch.

in his year. Funeral servici i al THE FOTDBtt CHURCH (Oampbell Buildinpi, BrorM'; Sunday. 3:30 p. m. convenience of NK'OLI Suddenly, of 21, at the Peck Memorial Hospital, fSm Greenlev Nic'oll, son of lat? and A.

Nicoll, of Mip, L- 74th year of age. Funeral Emmiiiiu.l Church, Great River. Sunday, March on arrival of train ing New York at 1:40 p. m. Inwrart.

private. Philadelphia VAN TINE- Thursday, Marca tt, Thomas H. Van Tine, in the 53d age, husband of Mini ie C. son of Adelaide A hrti H. Van.Tine.

Funeral private. 116 I New Yort Monday, Mardi 17 her 23d year, Edith Elliott Rogere, w' Edmund Pendleton Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Howard Elliott. 755 Pnag New York.

Boried Wednesday aMBtja" March 19, in St. vm Hyde-Park-on-Hudson, N'. V. a short illness. YreiI Romeo, in his 24th year.

l-eloved Franew Romeo. on Friday. Msrch .1. at 8322 12th Bi wktjrn. of fuueral later.

Dovcr (DelJ Tfi M'WADE Ada. on FUNERAL CHURCH, E. Camplx ll's), undayi SCHERMERHORN Suddenly, on 1919, Frcderick Augustus of Peter A I Schermerhorn. iivred 7 1 years. Grace Church.

Broadway and Monday, March 24, at jr. a. m. TYLER On Friday. March 21.

'-''v Farkhurst Tyler, widow of tho tf-. If. Tyler and mother of Oorgj Edith L. Tyler. at her home, st, in I a id interment in Chillicothe, day.

March IN MEMORIAM SCHAUFKI.KR A serxice ln Rev. A. F. Scbauffler. D.

the New York City Mission died 18. 1919, OHvet Memorial Chnrch, S9 on Sunday evening. o'clock. His are ui.in. In of Dettk 4, Cal! "Columbiu ii; 'THE FUNERAL CHURCH" (Non-SM at 66th St.

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