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estion on B.R.T.Subway Rivals Lines Lack of Track Facilities Over Bridges Important Factor Transfer Stations Prove Labyrinths Surging Crowds and Shov ing Guards Take Daily Toll of Accidents Manhattan has developed an acute transit problem since the "II" subway system was opened. Hut it is not alone in its distress. Brooklyn is confronted with conditions just as serious in the congestion on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's lines. A trip be? tween Manhattan and Coney Island, should take less than forty-five minutes, consumes from to two hours. In a rush hour the trip may take more than two in non-rush hours it may take just as long unless the passenger is an expert solving the intricacies of 13.

R. T. transfer facilities. Investigation by Tribune reporters disclosed that the main causes for congestion on the B. R.

T. lines are as follows 1. The three arteries connecting Brooklyn with Manhattan, leading over Brooklyn, Manhattan and Will? iamsburg bridges, are too narrow, causing congestion on all the bridges. 2. Transfer stations on both sities of the East River are cramped and frightful congestion takes place there during the rush hours.

3. The routing of trains entering Manhattan is changed almost daily. so that only experienced patron- of the B. R. T.

know jusi where to go to find trams which will take them to their homes. 4. Platform and train guards are discourteous and careless. 5. The Canal Street station laby? rinth daily the scene of indescrib? able confusion and congestion.

B. R. T. officials that recent heavy traffic, especially during the exodus from Manhattan to Coney Island throughout the hut swell; forced the company to increase its service SOU per cent over normal, making a con? gestion on the Coney Island lines in? evitable. The rail space over the bridges is not sufficient to cany the immense crowd of passengers during rush hours without clogging the tracks.

Canal Street Principal Point The main congestion point in Man? hattan is at Cana! Street, where the trains of more than half a dozen Man? hattan-Brooklyn lii es converge. The Broadway "It," Canarsie, the Myrtle Avenue, Jamaica, Sea Beach und West End lines are the principal ones ning into Canal Street, where they take on at night the crowd-- from Manhattan curried thither by the Manhattan local of the B. R. T. A train runs into the station every seconds, but the indications during iic three days that Tribune posted there seemed to show that no one transfer point could handle all ihe people who use the Canal Street station.

The Essex Street station is about as had.y congested as is Canal Street. The East Side sweatshops feed the Essex Street station almost as liberally as the shops further uptown feed Canal Street. The Trouble at Esses Street. The main congestion at Essex Street Appeared to be due to the fact that express trains from Chambers are held up by locals. The expresses are not supposed to stop at Essex Street at there are only two tracks over the Williamsburg Bridge, used by trains operating on four tracks in the loop.

Therefore, with four or five locals ahead, an express must stand in the Essex Street station, whether it has any business there or not. or on the bridge, until the locals ahead have discharged and taken on pas? sengers at Marry Avenue, the first in Brooklyn. The locals clut? ter up the track for the express trains till they leave the bridge. On the Brooklyn side, the expresa trains swing into a third track near the Marcy Avenue station and can run on to Myrtle Avenue without a stop. The trains which use this route Ridge wood, Canarsie.

East New York. Jamaica, Myrtle Avenue and Rockaway are delayed from five to fifteen minute? on every trip they make from Manhattan to Brooklyn during the rush hours at night. Change of Routings. One of the numerous complaints of Brooklyn residents is the daily change in the routing of trains. Thus the Jamaica and Myrtle Avenue trains run into Chambers Street during the rush hours, from about 6 to 9 o'clock in the morning, and from 1 to 7 o'clock at night.

During the rest of the time they run into the Brooklyn terminal at Park Row. Unless Brooklynitcs possess watches keeping standard time, and know exactly when the change takes place they find themselves going- to the wrong terminal, and are forced to walk back, or take the alternative of transferring their way to their homes by devious routes. There is probably no snot in the United States anything like the (ana! Street underground labyrinth of the B. R. T.

It covers a space three Works in length and is nearly as wide. It is a place of innumerable cor? ridors and half a dozen train platforms on two levels. It is cave transversed here and there by little brooks, long winding stairways, hall)', jammed at rush hours from end to end, from every entrance above to ever-, blind alley below, by a mass of people who work in Manhattan and sleep in Brooklyn. Jar? and Shoves ii the daily scene of accidt ni s. Tribune reporter? from one to two hours in the 'ana- Street laby? rinth during the rush houi on Thurs? day and Friday nights and Saturday noon.

Thuntduy nighl they two women fjat on tram plat? form? by the charging mon. One of the women wa? trampled upon by the crowd. Eriday night, an man cupped in of the many pools of water (Ic wan painfully bruised by the fall, The marrie night a boy was thrown violently off a by guard. The hoy lost hit balance and stumbled on bin and knees, A bit a 'i ribune reporter who had a short trip of inspection to Chamber? and was returning to the Canal Street hole, shoved off the ear ting The guard ihia by he roc. hutting 1 on his he? noon old men and an Cong old woman "who were bringing up the tear of a procession passing through the tunnel extending from the down? town platform of the Manhattan local iino to the maze of alloys leading to the Brooklyn train platforms were attacked from behind by the flying vanguard of another trainful of passengers.

The old woman feu. but the two old men man? aged to keep their balance as they were shoved along Every Train Ha? Its Thrills During the rush hours on these three days there was hardly a single. Sea Beach or West End train that pulled out of Canal Street without some scene of violence. Generally it took the form of closing sliding doors on passengers; that overflowed the jammed coaches. Passengers were pinned between door' and jamb.

When the doors were re? leased husky platform guards stuffed the obtruding members in or pulled them out, if the packed crowd inside: failed to yield sufficient room. It is almost impossible to give any intelligent description of this amazing underground puzzle of a station. How? ever, it "is divided into three main sec? tions: 1. Th" Manhattan local station, serv-i the Times Square-Rector Street branch of the B. K.

T. The upper leve! station, serving tin' Broadway Canarsie, the Myrtle Avenue and Jamaica lines. The lower level, serving the Sea Beach and West End linos of the Fourth Avenue system to Coney Island. A Choice of Transfers The passengers from the Manhattan local trains have to walk underground through picture-puzzle tunnels a dis? tance of from one and half to two and a half blocks: or, if they choose, they can gel transfers, climb out of the Manhattan loci! subway station at Canal Stree' and walk two blocks fron Broadway over to Centre. Stieet, climb down another system of stairways and eventually, by persistent walking, el? bowing, pushing and shoving, they may reach the platform where their train stops to be packed by B.

R. T. guards. During the early rush hours the schedule of the B. R.

T. is maintained fairly well. Sea Beach and West End trains operate on from six to seven minutes' headway. The Canarsie, Ja? maica and Myrtle Avenue lines run bravely on a three to five minute sched? ule until the congestion at Essex Street and the Williamsburg Bridge begins to be reflected through the whole system. Thereafter the schedule proves to be of the haphazard sort.

Lewis Again Attacks Whitman, Pointing to Subway Breakdown Attorney General Lewis, candidate in the Republican primaries against Governor Whitman, yesterday attacked the Governor for not relieving the trav? eling public from the vexations annoyances incident to the breakdown of the new subway shuttle service at the Grand Central Station. The At? torney Genera! said Mr. Whitman has power appoint a commissioner who should be able to recommend correc? tion of the existing subway abuses. Says Becker's Defeat Would Hearten Foe Attorney General Lewis expressed his satisfaction yesterday with the statement of Colonel Roosevel.t con? cerning Deputy Attorney Al? fred L. Becker in the following'state? ment: "The Colonel's approval Mr.

Beck? er is highly gratifying to me. I am as deeply interested in Mr. Becker's suc? cess in investigating the German prop? aganda as 1 am in my own. I feel that his defeat and consequent sev? erance from the work in which he is engaged would be a calamity to the people of the state. "His intimate knowledge of the law and of the activities of the German propagandists makes it of vital impor? tance that he remain in a position af? ter January 1 to cooperate with Cue United States government and the gov? ernments of our allies, as he has been doing in the last year, in running to earth the spies and traitors and alien enemies and bringing about the sus? pension of their activities here and abroad.

"Mr. Becker's defeat would hearten the enemies of the Allied cause." Traffic Accidents Kill 2 and injure 12; Another Drowned Peace time casualties in the vicinity of New York numbered fourteen yes terday, of whom two were killed and twelve hurt in traffic accidents, while one was drowned. Mrs. Rose Friedlander, 1314 Prospect Avenue. The Bronx, was killed at Pros? pect Avenue and Holmes Street by an automobile, owned and driven by Louis Weintraub, 1035 Prospect Avenue.

Ly man Van Orden, 96 Washington Ave? nue, Newark, a lineman, was killed by a Central Railroad of New Jersey pas? senger train at Port. Newark Terminal. Fred Clay. 126th Street and Lexington Avenue, was drowned off' T.ayton Ave? nue, The Bronx, when a boat in which he and his two brothers were rowing capsized. Dazzled by the headlights of another car, Frederick Farwell, of the Hotel Osborne, New Rochelle, drove his auto? mobile, containing four other persons, into a hydrant on New Rochelle Road opposite Hunters Point Inn, wrecking he car and injuring all in it.

John Oldsfield, a broker, also of the Hotel Osborne, suffered a fractured skull and was taken to the New Rochelle 'llos pi al. 1 he others were able to go home. A Hamburg Avenue car hit a car? riage owned and driven by Sam Mates, of 162 Lewis Street, at Rockaway Ave? nue and Avenue Brooklyn. "Mates and four others received minor in? juries. Otto Schoeck, of 648 Fairmont Place, West New York, N.

had climbed to the running hoard of an au? with which his car had been in collision at the "Hole in the Wall" on thi road from South Amboy to Key port, N. and was demanding the other driver's license number when the latter started his car. throwing Schoeck to the ground. His collarbone vat broken, and he was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, Newark.

6 Burned in Home May Have Been Murdered BINGHAMTON, N. Aug. charred bodies of Roth, his wife and five children have been found in the ruins of their home twelve miles east of yVillieyville, Tioga County. The I which in a remote section, had been burned Saturday night, County official! Investigating to-day found shotgun on the door of the room in which the bodies lay. A hole it, th? ckull of 'tie of the victims led to the belief that all may have been murdered and the house fired to con crime TI Roths from A about gbt eal ago and the rm on which tin lived.

When a Feller Needs a Friend bx briggs "Doc." Flood Bids Bowery Goodby To Wed Love of Boyhood Days "Dainty Old Lady" of Green Mountains, His One-Time Takes Famous Character of Bygone Back Home to "Die a Man" Time mo'-ed backward on the Bowery yesterday the behest, of a dainty lady from the Green Mountains of Vermont; backward until Yiddish gave. place to Irish; backward through and beyond tho golden days of "The Big backward almost to the days of the "Dead Rabbity" and the "Whyo Gang," when the gold brick man met the trains in Madison Square, when top-hatted railroad kings drove hard trotting bays down the thoroughfare to their backward to the bad old roystering "Black Crook" days. Just for an hour or so all the genuine good fellowship that was hidden be? neath the blustering wickedness of pre Lexow days returned from the. ghostly past to speed the parting between Doc Flood and the Bowery. The Bowery almost "got" Doc Flood and had pursued him more; than forty years, The Brooklyn Bridge was an engineer's when Doc Lined came to New York from th? Green Mountain--, under his own name of Ethan Allen Greenway, determined that name should connote riches and power before he returned again to the Green Mountain farm.

Old Love Left Behind Lack on a farm not far from Brattle boro was Salina Worthinglon, for whom the- world held nothing too good, but young Ethan Allen Greenway in? tended to see to it that the world did its besi for Ethan Allen Greenway, of course. But the young Vermonter founel the world none too ready to acknowledge its debt and the city most amazingly complex. His dwindled and he drifted from hotel to rooming house and from rooming house to lodging house, and in one of the the Bowery? the scanty remnant of his capital was stolen. Then the Bowery began its stealthy stalking of Ethan Allen Green? way. He became a hanger-on bar? rooms and backrooms, a lunch marauder, and at last a park bench Ish mael.

Then he got a job us porter in a Bowery saloon and for more than forty years was in tho clutches of the Bowery. Porter, bouncer, bartender, sparring 1 artner, tattooer and lobbygow spelled the rise und decline of the young Ver monter as it did of the street itself, ami the climacti? career made of hope? ful, upstanding Ethan Allen Greenway a slack-lipped, gray-bearded, next-to hopt less Doc Flood. Bouncer in a Saloon was a bouncer in the same saloon where Owen Frawley Kildare, the un? heralded "Kipling of the Bowery," laid violent and unpoetic hands upon chronic violators of tho five lunch II" vas bartender in the "Dead House." where reckless thirst was privileged, fvr a nickel paid in ad? vance, to draw fiery liquor from a cask through a rubber hose until compelled to pause for breath, when, according to house a nickel's worth had been consumed. It saved glasses and break age, and only an odept could gulp more than a swallow or so without pause. "The Morgue" also had his sendees as I-artender at a time when was the place of high and low degree, who divided their plunder in Ihe backroom with ir.any gun and knife fight.

also presided with muscular dignity behind the bar of L'm Street resoit Ihn back room ol known Room," to which one with a nickel iv a i i his pocket, could retire with the privilege or' imbibing enough liquor to tender him unconscious for hours an 1 of spending those hours of oblivion sprawled on the bare floor of the "Velvet Boon Blear-Eyed Old Man He survived even th sightseeing day of the Bowery, a doddering, blear eyed, unkempt old man who shivered through the winter and cheated Pot? ter's F'ield. His sole occupation con? sisted of loafing through M'ott in the evening when the women of the Chinese quarter yawned in up? per windows and cried: "Boy, oh, boy, take this can to the corner." But something vital that he brought, from the mountains on the further side of Ghamplain still stirred in what had been Doc Flood's heart, and winter's frosts, the airs, of Chinatown's women and cirrhosis of the liver were power? less to kill it. When the sap stirred sluggishly in the forlorn, exiled trees in Mulberry Bend, something re? sponded in the innermost shrine of Doc Flood's shabby, fleshy sanctuary. Salina Answers Appeal He fought it with ihe weapons which that jade, the Bowery, had placed in his hands, as he had fought it year by year for more than two generations. But it won, and last, week Ethan Allen Greenway did what Doc Flood had been afraid co do for all the years he wrote to Sauna Wort.hington back in the Green Mountains and told her I bravely that lie had been a coward, but that he intended to die a man.

Arid by the same miracle which re juvenated the Bowery yesterday. Sa? lina Worthington still lived, a spinster and alone, on that farm, and a telegram which arrived at a dingy lodging house I told Ethan Allen Greenway that she was coming to New York to take hin: back to the Green Mountains, where they would be married. A telegram for Doc Flood could nol be kep? from the what wa; left of it. The news was passed froir Chatham Square to Houston Street anc eyes kindled with memories of i that were dead and those who heard resolved that Miss Salina Worthingtoi should not be ashamed of "Doc" no: he of the Bowery. "Doc" Regenerated So thut was why wTien the "Doc" ap peared in hia old haunts yesterday ac companied by a timid, frail old lady who wore a black dress with jet orna ments and a little black hat with put pie flowers in it, he wore clenn linen a gorgeous new cravat, a suit clothes which no one outside the Bow I ery would know had ever seen Baxte Street, and why his beard was freshl; i trimmed an! a carriage waited to tak him and his bride wherever they chos to go.

But the new light in Do Flood's eyes had been kindled, not onl i by the kindness of the Bowery and th presence of Miss Salina Worthingtoi but by that something within hit which had responded to the bedraggle Bowery spring-time for more tha fortj ears. Mi8i Worthington shook hands stifl ly with more people than she ever ha met in her life before. Site thoug! they were "very nice" because the 1 "thought so much of Ethan." She sa Chinatown as few visitors to Now Yor have seen it and when she drove with Ethan Allen Greenway to th Grand Central Terminal and the Grec Mountains, handkerchief: flutters I ''mm almost o--orv window and i Salina turned -ti'liy in her sea; an waved her parasol. S. L.

Schoonmaker, General Electric Officer, Ends Life Kills Himself With Re? volver in Summer Home Near Locust Valley LOCUST VALLEY'. L. Aug. Sylvanus Lathrop Schoonmaker, secre? tary and director of the Genera! Elec? tric Company, and a director in several other corporations, shot and killed himself earlv this morning in his sum? mer home, Rosebaue, in Bridge Hall section of the North Shore. Mr.

Schoonmaker had been nielan I for some time and two nurses were in attendance on Rim. Not long after midnight he left one of them to gc to his bathroom and the next, in? stant two revolver shots aroused the household. Schoonmaker ran from her apartment, hut was prevented from entering Ihe bathroom at or.ee lest the shock prove too great. Adolph Fabrichus, the butler, en? tered the room first. Mr.

Schoonmaker, in his evening clothes, was stretched i motionless on the floor. A revolver lay beside him, but not until Fabrichus had turned the hotly over waS he eon vinced Mr. Schoonmaker had shot him I self. Two bullet holes were found close together behind his right car. Summoning Louis Lafare, superin? tendent of the estate.

Fabrichus got into an automobile am! drove to this place, where he aroused Dr. William II. Zabriskie and took him back to I Rosebank. The briefest examination I was sufficient to convince the physician that Mr. Schoonmaker had been killed i outright Justice of the Peace Edward Beasy, who also is coroner, was notified, and after a briet inquiry into the circum stances granted permission for burial.

Charles A. Coffin, chairman of the board of directors of the General Elec? tric Company, visited Kosebank to? night, and it is believed arrangements for the funeral have been made, but no announcement was made. Besides being secretary and treas urer of the General Electric Company, 1 Mr. Schoonmaker held the same posi tion in the Montreal Locomotive Works, i Limited, of which he a director. ami was a director of the American Beet Sugar Company, Chicago Junction I Railway and Union Stock Yards Com? pany, Norfolk Southern Railroad Com pany and the Woodward Iron Company.

Shots Kill Hotel Man; Drug Fatal to Bride The body of J. Otto Dutton, pro 1 prietor of the Sunset Inn, North Ber? gen. N. was found riddled with bullets yesterday morning in a room at the inn. His wife was lying uncon? scious in another room, suffering from the effects of some unknown drug.

She died later, without sneaking. Police were unable to determine whether the tragedy was the result of 'a quarrel between husband and wife or whether the couple had been attacked by an outsider, Mr. and Mrs. Dutton had been married only two months. A telephone from an unknown 1 woman received early in the morning by the police brought officers to the inn.

Mrs. Dutton was lying under the i telephone and it is believed she was overcome while tr; in" to itimmon help. A revolver with five exploded cartridges was found by Duttoil's body. $10,000,000 Pledged In W. S.

S. Campaign Salesmen Expect to Dispose of $25,000,000 in a Week's Drive With only one-quarter of its 000,000 ejuota of War Savings Stamps subscribed by New York City after eight months of work, the salesmen of city, under the direction of the National Council of Traveling Sales? men, are mobilizing for a drive dur ing the week of August 'lu to 29, which is expected to bring sales of stamps $26 000,000 nearer the goal. The next three days, leading up to l.he opening of the drive on will be fil'ed with meetings of sales? men and business men On Wednes? day evening, August 21, salesman will assemble for their final instructions in Carnegie Hall, E. Hedges. Charles F.

Hal! and Rev. Thomas Travis, jus', returned from three years at the front, will speak. Geoff M. father of the salesmen drive, is in charge of arrangements for the meeting. Various firms and rades already are underwriting the stamps, and accord- trig to reports Worth have been subscribed.

Shoes and Ships And Sealing Wax OUR OWN WAR ANTHOLOGY II Trench Mud We hace heard of Texas gumbo And ihe mud in ihe Philippines, Where, though ve had legs like Jumbo, The mud would cover our jeans. But never did we get a chance To feel real mud till we hit France. Our shoes are deep in it, We often sleep in it, We almost weep in it? It's everywhere. We have to fight in it. And vent our spite in it, We look a sight in it, But ive don't care.

The mud thai lies in No Mans Land. Is as i on the other side. And where the Germans make their stand Is where we'll make them slide. For our hob-nailed will force a ivay, And we'll knock them the U. S.

A. Though we must cat in it. Wash our feet, in it, Try to look, v.eat in it. This mud and slime. Though ire get sore in it, Grumble and roer in it.

We'll win the war in it In good time. SERGEANT ZWERLING, 305th Infantry. A. E. F.

Germans are wailing loudly over raids on the Rhine cities, but the Al- lies can't hear 'em. Their ears wore by bomb outrages long ago. "War's Horrid Front" An old-tine Broadwayite used to say that Broadway and Forty-second Street was the most blas? corner in tht world. It was and is thrill proof. An actor, under the spell of his press agent, walked past the corner one winter day some years ago incased in a barrel after hi? had burgeoned and bloomed for one night only.

Nobody paid any attention to him anel he did achieve the first pages. The other day the Broadway corner finally got its thrill. Out of a subway kiosk came a soldier with one sleeve flapping loosely. With his only re? maining arm he was piloting another soldier who had one trouser leg pinned up around the stump that told the story. Trains came to a sudden Every? body gazed at the pair, and a few, fael- ing they on hallowed ground, re- moved their hats, while others became self-appointed policemen and made a path for them to a surface car.

The conductor of the surface car. blue jowled and ferocious looking, made it his personal business to assist the two on his car, demanding two occupied for them with scant courtesy. It; was left to the ever-present street gamin to express the spirit of the ciowd. "Gee!" he chortled, "ain't them guys i some sweet patooties!" "Although his acquaintance with our rational game is probably not very ex tensive," says "Don Pedro," "the Crown Prince stands in a fair way to be christened 'Home Run Musings of Omar Karjam Wake, for the sun has donned his rooming dress. Brass knuckles now upon each finger press i And take at least two blackjacks and a club We gotta board a Brooklyn Bridge express.

A sign on the door of the First Pros- byterian Church. Twelfth Street and Fifth Avenue, reads: DANGER FROM ABOVE. LOOK OFT! But those who peer upward fearfully, expecting Divine intervention, see only workmen repairing the steeple. And, of signs, although to i our knowledge we- never laid eve.s on F. J.

Dahill, of New Haven. we'll take his tip and leave him a clear road. Directly across from the railroad i station in that city the following mit es the eye DANGER! F. .1. at Work.

Wonderland. Rtunderland i in Wonderland, four years 1 Drenmintr of watching the waves at Bor? deaux 1 himself no legion or shin i Flying his standard could falter or slip Handing out to any who Brought him the corpse of a baby or two. Willie in Blunderland, frantic uni blue Now hear? tin? throb in Iih bean, "You are through" Swears his armies retreat on the run. Led by his yellow though favorite son Shudders in dread nt the thought of a iveo: Helping him on down the slippery LESLIE ALAN TAYLOR. "Oh the Wild Charge They Made" H.

submits the following paragraph from a letter from his i brother, now in a hospital in France: I heard a veri Intereotlng little tale of the Germans' bravery I rut muh', during this recent drive of theirs. One the patienta told n-' that when they came over there two barrages, one that preceded them lu I oft i.uy of II Vllii i that gh he the fvtiy, another thai followed them i would kill Germans that might feel retreating The Great Rent Feud The Tenants' Which may begin on moving day in October The League teeth of the "walk-out" agitation By Kenneth Macgowan TNLESS President Wilson or Congress or Governor Whitman do something drastic the landlords of New York City had befu make this entry in their October this time look out Aloving Day. for a tenants' strike. That is the threat of the Greater New York League ft may become a a mighty serious fact, for this city of modern dwellers, unless some part of the present remedial proposals on ten's goes through. For a New Yorker the rent agitation begins with a resolution introduced by a Socialist Alderman.

Alexander Braunstein, and passed by the board on July 16, 1917: Whereas. A large proportion of landlords in the City of New York have increased the rent charge upon the tenants of their properties in excess of any just and reasonable amount, and In time of great national crisis it is of special importance proteel the masses of the from every burden which the warrant of actual necessity, and Whereas. Profiteering in rent is not confined to any single city or locality, but has become general throughout the coxintry; therefore, be it Resolved, By the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York: That the said board hereby petitions the Congress of the United to speedily enact legislation which will effectually pro? hibit profiteering in rent; and (2) That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. An Attack on "Excess Profits" Behind the resolution is the Grosser bill, "to prevent extortion and to impose taxes upon excess profits in rents," introduced in the House of Representatives June 21. It provides for 100 per cent tax on in creases in rents above 5 per cent of the rate in effect for the year prior to September 1916.

Unlike Congress's regulation of rents in Wash? ington, D. it is national in its application. Justly or unjustly, it would put an end to the rent problem in New the tenant. Back of the Grosser bill is the founding, on June of the Tenants' League. It is the "teeth" of the local agitation.

The league is a product of the Socialist activity which has put seven "red Aldermen" in the city's board. It was conceived by Mary Mardfin, a worker in the So? cialist party, the Woman's Trade Union League and the Cooperative League of America. Another active factor in the league is Assembly? man Orr, one of the Socialists sent to Albany: he is chairman of the executive committee. The president of the league is Rose Schneidermann, also president of the Woman's Trade Union League. A.

H. Howland, of the Socialist daily, "The Gall." is vice-chairman of the executive committee. Mrs. is executive secretary. The league dramatizes tin? extreme tenants' point of view.

It rep? resents actually only a small proportion of the New York rent payers, but it expresses a considerable body of emotion now agitating New Yorkers. The programme, as laid down by the Tenants' League, is this: The passage by Congress of the Grosser bill for national reg? ulation, or? The convening of a special session of the New York Legislature by Governur Whitman to consider and pass before October 1 some rent measure, or? STRIKE! What a Tenants' Strike Will Be Here is the picture conjured up by the ieasrue's last, alternative: lit the fall thousands of New Yorkers who rcfu-e to pay the in? creased rents will be homeless. A few will find satisfactory accom? modations with landlords not branded "unfair." But the comparative scarcity of apartments, owing to the stoppage of building, will put 99 per cent of the "strikers" into the streets. The league will do its best to storage room and moving service for these families at a minimum cost. It purposes to place as many as it can with members who, because of fair treatment by their landlords, will not have been ordered out.

To accommodate the rest it plans to go "hire a of set up housekeeping. And all the time the strikers will be picketing unfair houses, telling prospective tenants of the strike and giving them facts and figures on the offending landlords. Maybe that will mean violence. it won't. But at any rate it will mean the most picturesque strike New York has ever seen.

It won't be a very healthful strike the or the city or the landlords. "We are going to hold a big protest meeting at Ceo nor Union, Sep? tember 25, to urge national or state action," Mrs. Mardfin "Octo? ber 1 is the deadline. If Congress or the Legislature doesn't act, and the landlords don't reduce their extortionate demands, thousands of tenants will walk out on that day with bag and baggage. Calling Out the Strikers "The first move of the league's executive committee will be to des? ignate apartment houses where the increases are unfair.

All members of the league residing in such houses will be 'called Moving their belongings will be a big job, but the league will take steps to accomplis? it at a minimum of cost. The league will also arrange for storage until such time as the strike is over. It will canvass the lodging house situa? tion for accommodations for its striking members. "This will provide for only a minority, of course. Another large group will be taken in voluntarily by members whose landlords have been given a clean bill of health.

The league is so confident of the growth of this the government or the landlords put matters right--that it is making plans for housing an army of strikers in temporary barracks at vacant halls and other large buildings." In the three and a half months since the Tenants' League held its first meeting at the People's House. 7 East Fifteenth headquarters it has kept a small group of volunteer workers busy can? vassing for membership at $1 a year or 10 cents a month. Through these men and women and through meetings in street and hall Mr5; Mardfin and Assemblyman Orr claim that the league has established its basic contention the landlords are raising rents out of all Fr0' portion to justice or social weilbeing. Is This Profiteering? Here are a few typical complaints from among those made ing to the league 14-23 Charlotte Street, four rooms, formerly $20, now $31. GOO West 176th Street, in 1916 $40, in 1917 M4.

October, 1918, rat: to i he $65. 319 West Ninety-fifth Street, a year now $62.50, October rate 2117 Paly Street, three rooms, increase in one year. 2020 Washington Avenue, last year $23, now $26, another expected. East 134th Street, six three raises in a year. $18 42 112th Street, in $22, now $2-1, new rato to be $29.

The officers of the Tenants' League claim that rr.i^os arc throughout the city and in all grades of apartments. They believe toa the fiuures they cite are obviously extortionate and that a large prol tion of New Yorkers are face to face with such raises. They further, that on the one hand the living conditions and the the tenants won't stand Hie added strain, ami that, en the Ian llord is not economically justified in increasing his rents to --i'1 i degree..