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February 26, 1917
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February 26, 1917
THAW A LUNATIC,
GOVERNOR TO KILL
INQU1RYT0NIGHT
Will Demand Impartial
Body in Sending Veto to
Legislature
PARADE IN MEMORY OF SLAIN STRIKER
BOYCOTT SENDS .
PRICESTMBL1NG
Action of Nation's Consum
ers Brings Figures Down,
Washington Says
GREGORY PUSHING PROBE
MAYOR FOR SALE
MOTHER CONCEDES
OF FOOD AT COST I
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" Gives Up Long Fight and
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Smith Approves Director
Wilson's lan to Seek
Legislative Authority
GOVERNOR WILL ASSIST
Brumbaugh Willing to Rush
Measure and May Namo
Price Probe Board
r-y' Asks Appointment of
Commission
CALLS SON IRRESPONSIBLE
HALTS PENROSE FOR TIME
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Court Asked to Protect Stanford
White's Slayer From His
Infirmities
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Mrs. Mary C. Thaw, mother of Harry
. K. Thaw, today (Hod a petition through
'"' former Judge Gay Gordon In Common Fleas
Court No. S, asking for a lunacy commla
Ion to Inquire Into the sanity of Thaw.
Kills Ames Ballard ai appointed com-
, mlsaloner. The writ Is returnahlo tho first
Monday In April. It Is believed that the
petition was filed to head off action con
tomplated by New York authorities
Prior to the Mine of the writ, the Thaw
family made It known through two state
ments that they had abandoned nil efforts
V to keep Thaw out of tho lnsano nsjlum.
pne statement was Issued by former
Judge Gordon nnd tho other by Mrs.
Thaw.
In her statements, the mother of tho
layer of Stanford White makes a pathetic
acknowledgment of her son's lnsanltj This
mother, who for years has stuck to her
, ton through thick and thin and expended
a. fortune to save him pnjlng the penalls
for his rash acts, confesses at last that
her son la "an Irresponsible mm, whom
, the law must guard " hho now appeals to
the courts of Pennsylvania to protect her
on from his Infirmities.
CONVINCED WATCHINO IN HOSPITAL
The mother states 'that sho became con
Tlnced of her son's Insanity nfter living
aix weeks with him at St Mary's Hospi
tal whero Thaw has been convalescing from
self-inflicted knlfo wounds. Ho was taken
there following his attempt to end his life
. after ho learned that detectives wcro scarcli
for hlm-wlth warrants, charging him with
kidnapping and maltreating a boy.
In his statemnt, Judge Gordon says that
Mrs. Thaw has no w become the principal In
proceedings to havo Thaw adjudged Insane.
and his person nnd estates brought under
the Judicial authority of the State of Penn
sylvania. Ho states that ho has seen tho
District Attorney of New York and Invited
him to send his own medical experts here
to see Thaw and examine his condition
"Since the attempt on his life." Mild Gor
don, "Thaw's mental state has been so en
feebled that rational conversation with him
has been Impossible. Memorj, speech and
thought are so Impaired that he is a mental
"Doctor Kirby, who has him In medical
Charge, and who3c ability and disinterested
ness cannot be questioned, has gloomy for
bodlnrs as to his future '
MRS. THAWS STATEMENT
Mrs. Thaw's statement follows
"I am unable to resist the facts that
emgn3trata my son's Insanity While tho
truth shocks me, It also plainly points tho
path of duty. For lsx weeks I havo lived
with him at the hospital, where ho was
taken because of his self-lnfilcted wounds,
and now I know, ns I never knew before,
that my son Is an Irresponsible man whom
the law must guard Therefore, to tho
courts of my State of his .State I havo
applied to help a mother protect her son
from his Infirmities. With this statement
I should llko to oloso all discussion of tho
affairs of me and mine."
TODAY'S MARRIAGE LICENSES
fej-fph CI. Sperry. Jr 3"47 N Sjdenh.im t .
nd Elizabeth U Miller 2455 .V lillth t
John P. Kelly. 3HU Aramlngo ne. oml Gcrt-
,,,, V Vmllv -Hft I-' Alhert nt.
Leonardo Zappalo U.to christian st . nnd Itoslna
Zappalo. (Ml) I
, Charles Curtis,
VMt i;nriiiiian aireec
Lrl4.l uiisworin he
and Mar-
caret Keaton. 1NJ3 Fttzwater at
John J(. i-errow. uow waua at
and Elizabeth
IT Unitar 1 1 Oft tltrttAn Rt
Lculs H"to1. '740 a 10th at . and Anna Salbel.
OHOS Race at. . .
Max Obrlander, r34 Titan lit . and Hose
Orenstein. 23 Washington ae
Armando l.lberl. 1417 H Bancroft at . and
Esther Movenzl, 1417 h lirancroft M
Manllua Espy. 3510 N Carllalo at . and Trances
A. Domhcrty. 3"lu N. Carlisle st.
Henry Cotxen. .'3.'H S Franklin at., and Roso
Ilyman, 1113 Dudley at.
Ralph T. Ne, nn N ISth t , and Helen
6 short. 101') N, Hancock st.
erman Fink. New York city, and Eunice
tlanl,ta TlAltn In
''.i' Russell VV. folle' 113 Mnchanlc st , and Maggie
EM. Kllson. 1314 VVaArlir at.
Oustav A. Fries. Jr. milt Toplar ft, and
Marie A. IWrgesel 3J1D X. JOth St.
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M C. titevenson l'.'Jil Hope si
St. Talmage VV. Fossett, loon i 13th st , and
&; - Koberta v. heweii. mi3 H 13th at.
gfj.3nn Baxter, 1713, Kltzwater st . and I.llllo
Wl Houston. 1S00 Halnbrldei at.
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Another Week of Doing Nothing
to Be Begun by
Solons
fJovernor IltiimbaUKh'fi veto of the Sprout
r,exovv resolution will he pent to tho Senate
when tho Legislature leconvencs tonlfiht
according to frlcndi of tho State adminis
tration. There exlits no doubt that ho will dis
approve of tho measure among Vare-llrum-haugh
follow eri, and when ho sendH hli
veto message to tho Leg jU.ui re they ex
pect hhn to aU for an luvsstlgntlng body
that will not bo partisan or factional
The Governor's veto Is expected to put
an end to tho talk of a probe, for a time
at least. The I,cci'Intur will adjourn at
tho end of tlili week until Jlarch 12, and
Senator 1'cnroso could not carry out his
Jhrrat to push through a concurrent reso
lution that would not requite the approval
of tho Governor until th-vt time
The Legislature, vvien It reconvenes to
night, will start another week of doing
nothing Senators James F McN'Ichol and
Kilwln II Varo aro boih In the South, and
havo taken with them several of their fol
lowers who arc door leaders In tho House
The deficiency bill is scheduled for action
'n the Senate lloth branches have good
sized calendars, the sixty-two obsolete law
repealeis being on first reading In the
Mouse
I Included In a list of hills to bo Introduced
Into tho Legislature this week at tho in
stance of the Stato Hoard of Public Char
ities Is a measure tho object of which, It
was announced bv Hromley Wharton, sec
retary and general agent of the board. Is
"to prevent tho propagation of defectives
for the support of which the Commonwealth
would be chargeable" Some of tho other
bills on the board's list aro as follows-
An act placlu;; the contiol and manage
ment of countv Jails In boards of prison
Inspectors This ait takes the manage
ment of county Jails away from the sheriffs
and places them In boards of prison In
spectors appointed bv the Court of Quarter
Sessions of each county, thus making the
control Of Huch institutions uniform
thtoughout tho Commonwealth Tho act
provides elaborately for the management
of the Jails by said boards of Inspectors.
An act making an appropriation of $800.
000 to the building commission of the West
ern State Hospital for tho Insane, for the
erection of buildings on a site owned by
the State In Westmoreland County.
An act to provide for tho selection and
puichat-c of a site for an Kastern State
Hospital for the Insane. This act provides
merely for the selection and purchase of
a bite and tho preparation of proper plans
for the bulldlngH of the Institution, leaving
It to tho next Legislature to appropriate
for the buildings
Ai act providing for the establishment
of a State home for persons suffering with
Incurable diseases. There is no such State
Institution now, and the two private Insti
tutions. In 1'lttsburgh and Philadelphia, re
spectively, are both overcrowded, with long
waiting lists, so that, according to the board,
it Is Impossible to get patients admitted
to them even If they have money where
with to pay for their support therein.
An act requiring the consent of the courts
committing boss to Huntingdon Keforma
tory to the transfer of Incorrigible Inmates
to tho Stale penitentiaries.
An act providing for the" pensioning of
ruperannuated cmplojes of State and semi
State hospitals, penitentiaries, etc , more
than seventy years old, who have been con
tinuously employed by such Institutions for
twenty-one ears.
GRAVE ALREADY MADE
FOR BABY NEAR DEATH
For Economy's Sake Room Is Left for
Infant When Sister Is
Buried
Half of a grave in New Camden Ceme
terj. Camden, dug with two openings for
economy's sako. Is waiting today for two-year-old
Georgo Okeson, who u dying of
tuberculosis In the West Jersey Homeo
pathic Hospital The other half of the
grave contains tho body of his six-j ear-old
sister riorence, who died Saturday of burns.
The misfortune of the parents, Lewis and
Mary Okeson, of 121 Gant street. Camden,
has given them a new start In life for the
four children that remain out of a brood
of nine Attention called to their distress
brought food for the children, medical
treatment for tho mother, who is crippled
by rheumatism, and a brace for eight-year-old
Albert, an Infantllo paralysis victim.
It brought sympathy, too, and money for
Florence's funeral, which was conducted
jesterday by the Ilcv. Zed Iletzel Copp,
general secretary of tho Associated Chart
ties of Camden.
CAMDEN MADE BIG PROFIT
THROUGH ASPHALT PLANT
Saved $18,000 in Cost of Streets.
Workhouso Run Under Municipal
Auspices Earned $1000
Camden made money building asphalt
streets and running Its workhouso In 1916
according to the report of Street Commis
sioner Alfred L. Sayres, which was Issued
today. He showed that the cost of the as
phalt streets erected last year was about
(18,000 less than the amount paid In to
the city for them by taxpayers. The work
houso, which is directed by htm, cost al
most J1000 less to run than tne receipts
credited t" it.
Commissioner Sayres asks the Camden
Council to double the capacity of the city
owned' asphalt planti In order to make its
field of work wider. Almost 2C00 miles of
streets were cleaned by the city department
last year for $29,000. which Is a much
lower figure, he said than a private con
tractor would have charged.
PRETZEL PLANT FIRE
DOES HEAVY DAMAGE
Reading Blaze Caused by Crossed
Wires Police Investigate Previous
Outbreak of Flames
nnADINO, Pa.. Feb. 26. Defcctlvs wir
ing at the Biegler & Ktchberger pretzel bak
ery here caused a serious fire, with a loss
of several thousand dollars, early today.
A large, amount of flour, stored In the
building, was burned.
City and State officials will make a thor
ough Investigation Into the cause of the
fire, -which occurred at Bright & Co.'s hard
ware store In the heart of the city early
Sunday morning, causing a lossof more
thB'Jt0., Teltfhneae vails were. sent
tfcm tyre sXiasjMrM kfore aoVjJsirm
pmmH-miBsnsmimmm:.
More than 3000 men and women, wearing flowers and led by a band, defied
street following the funeral of Martinas Bedacziczia, who was killed during
NATION'S PATRIOTISM
QUESTIONED BY ABBOTT
Cleveland Cathedral Dean Says
It Will Come as Country
Grows Older
The patilotlsm of America was ques
tioned today bv the Vcrv Itev II P Al
inon Abbott, dean of Trinity Cnthedi.il,
Cleveland, O. wso was tho speaker at the
midday lenton servlie In tho Gnirlih The
atre. In ono respect.' he said, "wo are not as
patriotic ns other people The leoson for
this Is Uie great immigration of leccnt
years The process of assimilating theso
foreign peoples Into American civilization
has not et been completed. Hut Ameri
cans, whoso fathers havo been here for
generations, who fought in tho Revolution
ary and Civil Wars, aro tho keystone of
our national coherence and upon them much
depends "
Dean Abbott said, however, that wo have
every icason to bellevo that this assimila
tion will eventually bo brought about and
when It docs we will have n nation that
will be second to nono In patriotism
VALUE OF PRAYER THEME
OF LENTEN SERMON
The value of prajer nnd warning against
hvpocrlsy apply to man today Just as thev
did 2000 5 ears ago, when Christ gavo His
message on prajer to the Jcwh, warning
against hypocrites, according to tho Itev.
I)r i:illot White, of St Maik's Lplscopal
Church, who talked todav at tho noonday
Lenten sei vices at Christ Church
"Praver Is a special prerogative Only
good men, penitent men and nngels can
prnv." he paid 'Animals cannot pray Had
men cannot prav Prajer Is nn Intensely
real and personal thing a communication
with God. It Is not time for frivolity. Our
T ...1 .1a.. a.n. Hnnilnmli (.tllilt, (.CO. at I,,,,
ho advises us to go In a room by ourselves
wneu wo ira
"Prayer Is haid work" he added, "but It
Is putting hard work where It will do the
ljiost good It Is a natural result. It is
tho necessary consequence of exeiclso of
faith "
WELCOME TEMPT A TION
AS TEST FOR TRUE MAN
Tho "Lasiest Way" was discussed bj the
Tto l"r 4'h.irlp .T. Smith, nf Trtnitv
Chuich, New Yoik, who spoke at the Lenten
service in diu m .ioiiiis unurcii, iiaie anu
Sixth htreits, today.
"Temptation Is a much hated word these
days." he said, 'and it goes far to soil our
modern nlcetv. Wo slink from It lather
than receive It with Jos,
'Temptation tomes from the 'assajer's
office' In Heaven As man tries gold to see
wiipthpr oi not It Is mire : in turn he is tried
to see whether ho Is pure
"The experiment is dangerous to the man
who may bo weak. It Is full of delight to
htm who may be sliong. True Joy comes
Indeed to man. the servant, who Is weighed
In tho balance and Is not found wanting"
HUSBAND HEIRS-AT-LAW
WIN IN NEW TRIAL PLEA
Sisters and Other Relatives Will Have
Another Chance to Beat
Widow
The controversy over the will of the late
Thomas J. Husband, Jr , the magnesia
king, who died In 1913 was reopened this
afternoon In the Supremo Court. The case
has been In the courts twice before
When Husband died he left a widow and
no children. Ills will set forth that the
estate, valued at $100,000, should go to
his helrs-at-law They are Anna M. Hus
band and Mrs. Margaret Comly, sisters, and
children of a deceased sister. Catharine
II. Husband, tho widow contended that Uie
will was a forgery. She contested It In
Common Pleas Court No. I. In the first
trial the verdict was In favor of tho helrs-at-law
A second trial, In December, 1915,
resulted In a victory for tho widow.
The appeal to the higher court was taken
by Maurice B. Saul nnd John G, Johnson,
representing the helrs-at-law. In his
opinion ordering a third trial Justice Pot
ter reviews the circumstances of tho con
test and bustatns the contentions of At
torneys Johnson nnd Saul that there were
errors In the charge of the trial Judge.
THE REV. J. W. RIDDLE
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THRONGS LINE STREETS
AT STRIKER'S FUNERAL
Thousands Watch Procession as
Body of I. W. W. Leader Is
. Borne to Church
MANY TRIBUTES AT BIER
Soveral thousand persons. Including many
stilkers and their wives nnd children, wero
massed along the streets todav In the sugui
htrikn zone when tho f uncial procession of
Mai Unas Hedaezlczla, I." W W leader,
killed by a policeman's bullet In liotlng
last week, pabscd from Lithuanian Hall,
D2S Last Mojamenslng avenue to St Casi
mlr Itoinan Catholic Chinch, Iouith and
Wharton streets
Tho police estimate that fullv 10 000 per
sons participated In the funeral procession
L'ach participant In the funeial cortege
wore a red lose, purchased from the I.
W. W. strike committee foi ten cents
The proceeds of the ioo salo will be used
to defray the funeral expenses
Thero was no demonstration of nnv kind
along the loute of tho procession Scarcely
a bound or a movement came from the
thousands who watched the hearse pass by
with lis burden Tears streamed down
tho cheeks of tho wives of many of the
strikers who stood at the curb with their
infants In their arms Tor the most part,
the faces of tho men vveie stolid aflei tho
manner of tho Polish people. Thev showed
their feeling by their calm Manv of them
did not .seem to be looking at the cortego
at all, but gazed elsewhere in a blooding
manner There was no denionstiatlon, even
when the piocesslon passed tho Moya
monslng avenue nnd Dickinson btreet sta
tion. Tho bullet that killed Uedaezlczla
was fired by an unidentified policeman from
this station Many of the strikers -had
places of vantage on houso roofs; others
stood In dooivvays, or peeled out of win
dows. In tho piocesslon wero more than
200 negro longshoremen, who went on a
sympathetic strlko three weeks ago. The
longshoremen vvoie red roses and also I
W W buttons.
Moic than two hundred uniformed police
men wero scattered along the line of march,
and fortv or more plain clothes men fiom
Cltv Hall mingled with the crowds and
watched fot trouble
It Is estimated by the police that between
11 a. in jesterday and 10 a. m today more
than 15 000 persons viewed the body of
Hedaezlcla as It lay In state in Lithuanian
Hall following are some of tho Inscrip
tions on tloial tributes which were banked
about tlie coIlln. "Kallen III the Worklng
nen'n Struggle", "Wo Never Forget"; "Our
HrotLei ', "Krom Your Brethren " A stilker
carrr.ng an American flag led tho proces
nlon. He was followed by a band of twenty
pieces which plajed Chopin's funeral march
Six flower gills, wives of strikers, preceded
the hearse St. Caslmlr's Church was soon
packed to Its capacity, and the police weie
obliged to push their way In There was a
solemn high requiem mass, with, tho Itev. J
.1. Kaulkls officiating. Interment was In
Holy Cross Cemetery, Ycadon, Delaware
County Manv strikers and their wives
went to the cemetery In special trolley
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
BEQUEATHED TO CHARITY
Mrs. Nannie D. Conarroe Leaves Large
Amounts to Churches and Other In
stitutionsOther Wills Probated
Churches and charitable organizations
benefit to the extent of several hundred
thousands of dollars through bequests con
tained In wills probated today by Heglster
Sheehan. t
The will of Mrs Nannie D, Conarroe,
1701 Spruce street, leaves (76,000 In trust,
tho Income to be paid to the Church of St.
Peter's-by-the-Sea, Maid Head Cliff, Maine;
$20,000 In trust and a tract of land In
Maine for a public library In Ogunqulet vil
lage, Wells, Me.; $30,000 to the Home of
tho Merciful Saviour for Crippled Children;
$30,000 to All Saints' Sprlngwlll Cottage,
Sprlngvvlll, Nova Scotia; $10,000 to St
Thomas's Protestant Episcopal, Church,
Winn, Me ; $20,000 to the bishops of tho
Protestant Kplscopal diocese of Maine , $20,
000 to St. Peter's Protestant L'plscopal
Church, Third and Pino streets: $10,000 to
tho Ulshop White Prayer Hook Associa
tion; $10,000 to the Bishop White Parish
Llbtary Association; $10,600 to the Church
of St. Jgmes the Less, Kails of Schuylkill.
Tho vv 111 of Susannah K. Nead, Ninth and
Chestnut streets, disposes of property val
ued nt $132,000. The charitable bequests
Include $2000 each to tho Little Sisters of
tho Poor, Klghteenth-and Jefferson streets;
Ilush Hospital for Consumptives, the Free
Hospital for Consumptives and Home for
Incurables; $1000 to tho Association of
Perpetual Adoration and Work for Poor
Church, Convent of Notre Dame, and $3000
each to St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, St.
Vincent's Home, St. Vincent's Homo and
Maternity Hospital. Catholic Homo for
Destitute Children, St. Joseph's Home for
Homeless Industrious Boys, Society of St.
Joseph, for the. education nnd maintenance
of poor orphan children; American. Society
for Visiting Cathollo Prisoners and St.
Joseph's College; $10,000 to St. Vincent de
Paul Societies, $2600 for erecting chapels
and $3000 for the Missionary Fund.
Other wills probated were those of Robert
D. Wood, 1218 Walnut street, which, In
private bequests, disposes of property val
ued at more than $100,000; Alexander P.
Robinson, New York. $4600;-Amelia-Carlisle.
610 South Forty-fourth street, $20,
; Allen Shoemaker, 914 North Eighth
street, $26,000 ; Mary'.J, Madison. 2238 Tur
ner street, $10,000; Catharine McPollen. 203
.North sixty-second HnAJtWi WlUlam
utk. win. iwihs mmt:jmv"w
the police and appeared on Broad
a riot of sugar woikera last week.
PHILADELPHIA'S DOPE
FEEDS ADDICTS IN WEST
Ralph Oylcr, Special Agent, Re
turns From Round-Up of
Fiends in California
The bulk of the morphine, heroin nnd co
caine sold llllcltlj cm the Pacific coast comes
from Philadelphia, according to tho findings
of oltlceiH of the Internal llcvenuo Depatt
ment who have Just completed a clean-up
of tho dope tialllckcrs of California
Tho Philadelphia naicotlcs are shipped to
a little Mexican town called Ti.i Juana and
then smuggled over the bolder into Cali
fornia bj- agents of the dope syndicate
llalph Ovicr. special agent for tho Treas
ury Department at Washington, returned to
Philadelphia today after a thrll lug ex
perience covering two months among tho
dopcslers in the West. Befoio he left the
Pacific coast Ojler biought about tho ai
ret and conviction of eleven of tho biggest
drug dispensers In California- In an opium
den In San .lose he held off eleven Chinese
aimed with knives until the imlval of the
police
Uvier ..employed the same methods In
California that he used several months ngo
In Philadelphia to round up the dopesters He
went Into the underwoild of San 1'ianclsco
as "Toledo Johnny" and became tho com
panion of slaves of the diug habit. To
mako his role of "dopo" fiend seem real,
Ojler had Internal revenue olllcers nirest
him with other addicts in n mid on a
"dope" Joint This made him "solid" with
tho niembeis of the dope ling It was while
he was plajlng thn lolo of "Toledo Johnnj"
that Ojler learned of a plan to smuggle a
large consignment of narcotic drugs over
tho Mexican bonier into California This
consignment Included 800 ounces of co
caine, 1100 cans of opium and largo quanti
ties of moiphliic and heroin
Ojler notified Governor Cantu, of Lower
California, and In a laid on tho head
quaileis of tho dope ring at Tla Juana n
Chinese smuggler nnd a Mexican policeman
wei killed and several Chinese wcro
wounded
MET AT FRIENDS' WEDDING;
THEY WILL MARRY TODAY
Sister of Detective Gconnotti Was Serv
ing as Bridesmaid When Intro
duced to Bridegroom-to-be.
A romance that stalled a jear ngo this
aflernoon ut 4 o clock will result today In
the marriage nf Miss lieno ijeomioltl,
twenty jears old, sister of :itj' Hall De
tectlvo (leonnottl, to Lmest Vtncfll, of S10
Passjunk avenue
Tho brlde-to-bo was serving as brides
maid at a wedding on Febiuary 26 last,
when sho nnd Venefli were Introduced
Miss Geounottl will wear the same dress
this afternoon which sho wore nt tho In
tioductlou Tho wedding will tako place
at tho Church of St Mary .Magdalen do
Pazzl, Seventh and Montrose stteets Mon
eignor Isolerl will officiate. Tho ceremony
will bo followed by a reception at Lyric
Hall, Sixth and Cnrpentsr streets, to which
prominent Italians havo been Invited
Miss Koso Frcderlcko will bo bridesmaid
and Joseph De Camplo will serve as best
man Following their honeymoon the couple
will live nt C33 Carpenter street across the
street from the brldo's present homo at 628
Carpenter sticct.
MISS IRENE GEONOTTI
ERNEST VENEFIL
Their wedding this afternoon Is tho
climax to a romance which began
one year ngo today when they met
at .a .wedding where Misa Geonottl
was n brldMsmald. , Mr,. Venefli
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Determined to Obtain Jail Sen
tences as Example to
Speculators
NEW YORK, Feb. 2G.
Food prices went tumbling" today
when 281 carloads of foodstuffs arrived
in Xcw York and broke the "corners"
which had been existing- for weeks.
Onions, selling at $1 1 and $15 a bar
rel week ago, today were sold for $8
and $9. Potatoes last week commanded
$10.50 nnd $11.50 a barrel, but today
they were obtainable at as low as $7.50
a barrel.
Florida potatoes arrived on the
market today and sold for $3.50 a bas
kct, a price lower than that at which
other potatoes sold on Saturday.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 An unplanned
but well-enforced nation-wide bojeott by
consumers alreadj Is reducing the prices of
foodstuffs Tills In spite of the fact that
no nctlou jet has been taUen against the
speculators bv State or Federal authorities
,1'eports reaching the Department pf
Agriculture todaj' Indicate that potatoes
and onions, leadeis In tho "skyward move
ment ' nio mioted In the larger cities to
day at a lesser (lguie than nn last AVednes
day, when the situation becamo most acute.
It also Is repoited bv tho agents of the
department that tho maiKet everywhere has
absolutely fallen Hat as n icsult of the
general understanding by tho consumers
In consequence many wholesalers loaded to
the guards witl foodstuffs of nil sorts which
they havo been holding for highest prices,
nio said to bo anxious to unload beforo
spring foodstuffs are In sight from tho
South and tho Pacific coast
It was stated olllcially, however, that this
relief was ptobably not of a permanent
naturo and that It will In no way check tho
operations of tho Department of Justice
That department Is continuing Its Investiga
tion with a view of the criminal prosecu
tions which have been promised bj" At
torney General Oregorj. All Federal at
torneys throughout tho countrj' have been
Instructed to prosecute violations evidence
of which Is In their possession without de-laj-
And, If tills evidence can bo used to
better advantago In State Courts, they havo
been authorized to tjirn 'It over to local
officials. The position of the Administra
tion in the present crisis is declaied to be
that n few convictions, with Jail sentences,
would send prices tumbling down.
Chairman John J. Fitzgerald, of the
Houso Appropriations Committee, has not
abandoned his fight ngalnst an appropria
tion of $100,000 urged by President AVUson
for an investigation of tho high cost of
living bj- the Federal Trade Commission.
He was today lining up Democrats to
vote against tho norland amendment to
provide for tho food Imiulrj- when the sun
dry civil bill comes up on its final pas
sage. Insisting that such an Investigation
would be useless,
llepresentatlve Borland scored onlj a
temporary vlctoij- Saturday night when tho
House In committee of tho whole voted
eighty-three to fifty-one to adopt his
nmendment giving the Trade Commission
almost half a million dollars and more than
half a j ear's time to find out If food cor
porations are violating the antitrust law.
NEW YORK LEGISLATURE
BEGGED TO SELL FOOD
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 Representatives
of 126 unions and Socialist and women's
oiganlzatlons today planned to urge upon
Governor Whitman a legislative appropria
tion of JI, 0011,000 to $10,000,000 to be used
for puichaso of food which would be sold
at lost to the poor
While officials predicted a break In prices
soon, and city Investigations revealed a
constantly increasing picssuro on families
with small Incomes, the aimy of protest
continued Its campaign today
A school stilke to center attention on the
hardships endured by the children of the
Hast Sldo was proposed. The bojcolt plans
in the Last Sldo were so tightly drawn that
retail poultry dealers decided to close shop.
When slaughtei house owners voted against
this procedure women who have been pick
eting retail stores were shifted to slaughter
house picket duty
Mis, Ida Hairis, who was a leader In the
march on Clt Hall last week, made a
spirited attack on her husband, a grocery
proprietor, when ha spoke against closing
of grocery stoies befoie the Hebrew Re
tail Grocers' Association She led tho
women at tho iffletlng from tho hall In a
bodj-. The grocers voted against closing,
but approved the boj'cott of potatoes, onions
and lima beans,
After reporting that his Investigators
found no actual starvation conditions,
Health Commissioner Kmerson In a state
ment today said that unless wages were
raised or food conditions bettered "there
would be a constantly Increasing number
of people whose health will be Jeopardized
by their inability to buy sufficient nourish
ing food at tho present prices."
BALTIMORE SCOURS
COUNTRY FOR PRODUCE
. BALTIMORE. Md , Feb. !6 Twenty-odd
five-ton and seven-ton trucks of the city
departments will be sent out Into the con
tiguous counties to gather in farm products
In Baltimore's move to help smash tlfo cor
ners In foodstuffs. This was decided upon
by the board of estimates at a meeting In
Mayor Preston's home, when tentative plans
were drafte,dfor cutting In under the exor
bltant prices. The board will meet again
later today to whip Its plans Into shape
The trucks will bo sent to the various mar
ket houses and the produce sold "right over
the curb" at "cost" figures Upwards of
twenty-flva per cent, It Is expected, will be
cut from the current retail prices.
S. P. C. . ELECTION ROW
POSTPONED BY COURT
Complainants Fail to Perfect Contest
Charging Frauds, and Attorneys
Agree to Delay
No action resulted today, when court
opened, In tho contest between factlons'of
tho Woman's Pennsylvania Society for the
Prevention of' Cruelty to Animals In dispute
over the recent election.
The victors In tho election were to have
made answer today to the charges of the
defeated faction that the. victory of the
other sldo was due to "ruthless, Illegal and
Improper" proceedings.
James J. Breen, attorney for tho com
plainants, did not succeed In obtaining serv-
Zi".. -". ' aejenaante, and
wt
Concerted action to remedy the food i
uatlon In Philadelphia has been taken b,
both city and Stato officials. .
Maj-or Smith has sanctioned a bill to bs
Introduced Into the Legislature tonight
which would authoilze Councils to buy and
sell food at cost If necessary The bill was
suggested by Director AVUson as a result
ot tho recent food riots in South Phlladd.
phla.
The hill will be Introduced by Represen
tatlvo l.'dwln R. Cox. Kvery effort will ba
made. It was said, to rush It through,
Governor Brumbaugh announced that h
was heartily In favor of any measure that
would reduce the high cost ot living and
relievo the suffeilng It had caused
"I shall gladly sign such a bill, ' the Gov
ernor said, "and do all I can to rush It
through the Legislature "
Governor Brumbaugh also said ho had
been considering tho advisability of ap.
pointing a commission to Investigate the
prices for food In this city
MAYOR AVIRKS APPROA'AI,
The bill would permit establishment of
food distribution centers throughout the
city to fight existing food prices It was
drafted by Dlieclor AA'llson after an ex
change ot telegrams with Major Smith,
now In Flo! Ida.
Seveial local commission merchants al
ready have anticipated a drop In food prices.
Tho prices will diop slightly this week!
It was said, owing to Increased shipments,
waimer weather and receipt of heavy food
supplies from the AVest.
Another plan to nld the public in the
present high cost ot living "crisis" has
beau evolved by the Philadelphia Retail
Grocers' Association. At a meeting of the
executive committee of the association it
was decided to ask delegations of house
wives from tho zone where the food riots
occurred to attend a conference during the
first two days of the Philadelphia Food
Fair, which opens March 5 In Hoitlcultural
Hall.
RIOT SECTION XOAV QUIUT
Tho food riot section of South Philadel
phia was quiet this nftcrnoon Fish mar
kets and butcher shops on South Fourth and
South Seventh streets closed at noon In
view of the general turmoil, tho butchers
uij" thej will not open for the present
Mrs. Fannie Goldberg, ot 419 Durfor
street, who has taken a prominent pirt
In the food agitation, said that many per
sons downtown were considering the advis
ability of taking their children fiom school.
Asked how such n mcAo would improve
tho situation, sho said It would simply be
another reminder to the authorities that
something must be done qulcklj- to relieve
the suffering due to food shortage and high
prices.
THH MUNICIPAL PLAN'
Director AA'llson, discussing the food situ,
atlon, said:
Just ns soon as the Legislature au
thorizes Councils It Is the Intention of
the Maj'or to have an appropriation
made to the Department of Supplies,
this money to be used for the purchase
of the necessities of life It Is Impos
sible at this time to give the exact
amount of this appropriation, but this
will be determined later. AVhen the
money becomes available It Is tho in
tention to establish stations through
out tho city at places where they are
most needed. Theso stations will bs
the distributing points for the food
products purchased by the city, nnd
through them the suffering caused by
the present high prices will unquestion
ably bo relieved
It Is our belief that there Is no real
shortage of foodstuffs, notwithstanding
the fact that tho price has Increased
abnormally The present plan of
action, ns far as Philadelphia Is con
cerned, will overcome the present con
dition, so that tho unscrupulous food
trlanlpulators will not bo able to corner
tho market and create suffering for
the purposo of selling "their products
at outrageous prices, nvery effort will
be made by the officials of this city to
see that our citizens obtain what they
need and at a fair price.
Instead of marching on City Hall today
15,000 strong, as at first suggested, leaders
of the housewives of the downtown section
last night announced that It had been de
cided to postpone the parade and Instead i
hold two preliminary mass-meetings to- .
night to decide the date ot the march, on '
conference, tho largest, at 55 Reed street,
at 8 o'clock, under the direction of the
Socialist party ot Philadelphia, In connec
tion with about 100 other organizations,
and the other, at the same hour. In Mer
cantile Hall, Franklin street, above Poplar.
A chairman will bs elected at the Reed
street mass-meeting and a definite program
arranged.
Just "Spuds"
NEW TORK, Felj. 26. The first low.r
Ing of food prices as a result of New York's
war on the Increasing cost of living came
In a slump In potato quotations of from
seventy-five cents to ono dollar a bushel
wholesale.
NEAV YORK, Feb. SB. A boycott on po
tatoes and onions was declared by the AVI
llamsburg Branch of the Mothers' Antl
High Price League in New Plaza Hall.
Brooklyn, last night.
CHICAGO, Feb. 26, rotato bojeotts, t
bring the lordly price of spuds down to
lowly price, have started In Chicago ho-
At three hospitals, four institutional M
homes and In households in the congested a
districts, the fight to bring down the pn
of potatoes by abstaining from their u
was Inaugurated on the suggestion oj
Health Commissioner Robertson, who saw
"a real boycott will knock the pries or
potatoes Into a cocked hat In a week."
MAUCII CHUNK. Pa.. Feb. 26. Farmer -g
throughout this county are demanding
a bushel for their potatoes In their cel
lars, and aro not anxious to sell at tn
nrlr hftllAiini- thftv will trn higher.
Many families and some communities
have boycotted the tubers, buoshiu"
cheaper at tides of food. --
SOMERSET, Ta,, Feb. 26. The mark
value of potatoes In Somerset has been in
flated to tho extent that the tubers are MPH
planting the precious metals as a mediums
of exchange. For two bushels of po'"'B
one oi tne leaning, grocery rsmuii""""--
In tha town advertises that It will give i
following merchandise:
"Twenty-flve-poundysak of flour,
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