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Thirty -five Are Injured as Seven Crowded Hog Island Trolley Cars Are Wrecked in Crash
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STATE
2 TRAILERS BREAK
AWAY AND SHE
ONRUSHING TRAIN
pars Following Hit Wreckage as
Passengers Are Being
Lifted Out
WERE FILLED BY EARLY
MORNING SHIP WORKERS
Men and Women Are Cut by
Flying Glass Brakes
Fail to Work
Persons Injured
in Hog Island Crash
Lawrence II. Madden, 2G34 S.
Bonnaon terrace.
William Grafton, 012 May street.
Thomas J. Tobin, 1430 North
Hirst street.
H II Purse, 1207 South Forty
ninth street.
William Connors, 344 North Fifty -sUth
street. .
Andrew Duffy, 1236Mnrkoc street.
Michael McAneley, 5620 West
minster avenue,
Frank Ccllbarg, 8104 Holstcin
avenue.
Charles Cooke, 2135 South Sixty
first street.
Frank J. DuPont, 2031 South Sev
entieth street.
II. Ensminger, 2425 South Sixty
first street.
Louis Mion, 1117 South Fifty
fourth street.
Martin Waite, 227 North Peach
street.
J. Cummings, 5023 Willows
street.
Frank J. Keegan, 2000 South
Fifty-eighth streeL
K. M. Pcik,'C054 Kiugsessing ave
nue. 4John Beck, 1130 South Paxon
Thomas Iionsall, 6141 Upland
street.
Joseph J. Cypllcrs, 5004 Walnut
street.
George H. Scibert, 7254 Dicks
avenue.
William Stanton, 200 McAlpin
street.
II. Teirvilliger, 1827 South Fifty -fifth
street.
Jay W. Muiford, 7020 Saybrook
avenue.
William E. Giles, 22S Simpson
road, Ardmorc.
Thirty-five persons were injured and
seven trolley cars wrecked in the dense
fog that enveloped the meadows one mile
north of the island' shortly after 7
o'clock this morning.
After two cars, trailing a third, and
crowded with hundreds of persons, had
broken from the leader car and raced
through the fog to crash into three other
crowded trolleys, a third car, with one
trailer, loomed out of the fog and
crashed into the wreckage of the five
Wrecked cars.
The accident occurred at 7.15 o'clock.
en Route 45 of the Philadelphia Rapid
iransn, just at the foot of the hill np-
i i!xr llle, D"!iKe across the tracks
-.... i-uiix,viruma uanroad.
i,M a.S Vle ,flrst trnin of biK steel
.I. y? l'?(1 ubout accomplished the
2' n . e t0 "" the bridge, the
jnupllag between the fender car and
Tfl"i" 'joi'ero snapped in two.
fc-u i. D lcU(Icr continued across the
Sn.eVi.the.tW0.heavy trailers started
"a the steep incline, gathering mo-
&t yellow 'fog1! mhcd tllrUBh tUe
Men shouted and women screamed,
trail., ,wns; no oue on the wildcat
trailers who knew how to apply the
emergency brakes.
moL"? ,tlle, h?avj cars hiul al'
K..Ma.hc? the bottom of the steep
M"ne, the leader car of another train
w three ears loomed out of the fog.
carVe Vs, ' tci;rific ernsh os the wild
in7tri?b.d ll.en"-n into the oncom
aaVu?n,"' bcan",B feveraI hundred men
m, omen on their way to work.
fhock n i .iWB wero hl'attered by the
In n?ithc SSI"8 were fi""1 with fly-
A. tno "UUriCH.
aaBan,i VC? f tXlc'h anrt the motor
togan hin1n,lue.tlnr .f the fiecond tra'n
wck.w ?hnB ,he injurttl from tbe
tie thirS' !"D was a shriU whlstle an(l
rWlni "'V1" out from thc fB
lot BLnl?torwan, of the third train did
u it V w,r.c,k "ntil bo was directly
ut i, ?v,nppl d ,the fi'"gency brakes,
Vn IriS!,whwih of the third train
Mrs .nKal?st tbc rail- the two
atfiwP "e " BraaRhed into the
Women Were Hysterical
'criffi wh f0"wed were inde-
"a wverni :?e? bccame hysterical
i.i.. vrul fuinteH nt i,a 0iu i,
"d sevpmi til ? u;l-ume nysiencai
Injured VrfttlntFfI at tI,e si8ht of the
but if L. iMen shouted hoarse orders.
dreds of , Bnme tiwo bcfore the huu
iato thl ,,asseDK(,'-. crowded compactly
trlcate , S;..car,i.- were able to ex-
l ", l."TlStlVe.S from Mm wwim
SrX XT the' Hog Ishttid
N,?T,M1 were rushed to tho
Wnroo ' i?, 'A10 wnminatlon of in
' the st,pi ' U was founa that, due
ond mS'.Vi'S and. thc fact tbat u'c
ftC ?u llhi t,raiDS had been pro-
' the flnwi y owiDB t0 tbc fe. ne
All ?J.Uur,cs. was Kcrious.
pfrtoa 1th )"1Cll,1;cre tted by
bl to ti m? ,tl,c "'"hulances and sent
KWucjg homes on a 8Pe:,8l train
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W:B WsieASE'Lf-;
K Mb '-' ''? Police Investigate Circum- Wjk - .
mimr' , 't ' ' stances in Death of Dentist's ?',,'; '- ,
l881' ' , Wife at Girard Ave. Span W
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JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN
Who has tendered his resignation
as president of Cornell University
after having been for twenty-eight
years head of that institution
Famous Educator Resigns Pres
idency After 28 Years Was
Former Minister to Greece
HAD HONORARY DEGREES
By tho Associated Press
Ithaca, N. Y.. Feb. 14. Dr. Jacob
Schurman, president of Cornell Univer
sity for nearly twenty -eight years, 'ten
dered his resignation to the university's
feneral administration committee ut a
meeting of that body today.
In n letter to the board of trustees
Doctor Schurman said he always had
held the chief executive of a great in
stitution should not retain the post more
than twenty-five or thirty years. He
added that tendering of his resignation,
an act delayed because of the war and
thc past-war 'problems the university
faced, would set him free for other
duties he much desire'd to attend to.
He asked that his resignation become
effective June 23, 1020.
Doctor Schurman was elected to the
nresidency of the university in 1802.
succeeding tho late Charles Kendall
Adam's. He is descended from a Dutch
family of colonial Now York and was
born at Freetown, Prince Edward
island on May 22, 1854.
In 1875 he won the Canadian Gil
christ scholarship in connection with
the University of London and during
the next five years he studied abroad.
Returning to Canada in 1880 Doc
tor Schurman, during the next six
vears, taught in Acadia College and
Dalhonoio College. In 1880 the Sage
professorship of ethics av41 philosophy
was established at Corliyi and the
chair wus offered to him , He held
this professorship until Ktelection to
the presidency. .Vfe
President Schurman. wofi'lfead of thc
first United States commission to the
Philippines and spent most of the year
1809 in those islnnds. In 1012-13,
during the socqnd Balkan war, he was
United States minister to Greece and
Montenegro. He is the author of a
number of books.
He is an honorary doctor of laws
of Columbia. Yale, Edinburgh, Wil
Mams, Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown
and the University of Pennsylvania and
nn officer of the French Legion of
Honor.
TOBACCO TAX INCREASES
Total Income on Levies In This Dis
trict In $9,761,697
Receipts from taxes on tobacco and
randy iu the First Pennsylvania In
ternal Revenue district each totaled
more during January than during any
previous month, nccording to a report
made public bv Kphratm Lederer, col
lector iu this district.
Total receipts from intcrnnl revenue
in the district were $0,701,007.85. Mr.
Lederer said. Of this amount $1,501,
521.47 came from tobacco and $274,
178,17 from candy. Of thc receipts on
tobacco, $472,730 was furnished from
taxes on cigarettes alone. Taxes on
ice cream and nonalcoholic beverages
brought the government $101,007.35.
McAVOY NEW U. S. ATTORNEY
Recommended to Succeed Kane by
A. Mitchell Palmer
Recommendation of the appointment
of Charles D. McEvoy, of Norristown,
as United States nttornev for the east
ern district of Pennsylvania is in the
hands of President Wilson today.
The recommendation was made by
Attorney General A. Slitchell Palmer.
It is expected that Mr. McAvoy's nomi
nation to the office will be sent to the
Senate in u few days.
Mr. McAvoy, will succeed Francis
Fisher Kane, who resigned because of
ili a nlrnnnrm nnnnrnl'd (if tit twin tniimfil
radicals.
2 GIRLS MEET FIERY DEATH
Log Cabin Home Burned to Ground
While Parents Are Away
Uarrhburg. Feb, 14. (By A, P.)
Luella and Myrtle Gipe, small daugh
ters of Samuel Gipe, of Pikctown, near
here, wera burned to death yesterday
afternoon when their log cabin home
was totally destroyed by fire.
Both parents were abscut at tile time
and when tho blaze was discovered by
neighbors the chance to rescue had
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SCHURMAN
QUITS
AS CORNELL' HEAD
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MURDER OR SUICIDE?
ARREST IS PROMISED
Family Say Son's Death in Ac
cident in Brazil May Have
Affected Mind
Mrs. Isabel Stokes Nitzschke, thirty
years old, 4128 Market street, was
killed at 7:30 o'clock last night by n
fall from the eastern end of Girard ave
nue bridge,
Park guards and police are. investi
gating. They are not satisfied ns to
the cause of her fall, whether she
lumped with intent to commit suicide,
or was thrown over by some one.
The park guards hinted this morning
that an arrest might soon be made.
Members of the dead woman's family
said today that if she had committed
suicide it was while temporarily de
ranged through brooding over the denth
of her eleven-year-old son, William,
who was killed by an automobile in
Rio, Brazil.
The young woman's body was terribly
battered by the 100-foot drop from the
bridge to" the East River drive below.
Every bone in her body was broken.
No Witnesses Found
No witnesses have been found. A
motorist passing saw the body in the
snow and notified Park Guards Reed
and Phillips. They sent thc body to
tho Lankenau Hospital. The woman
was dead.
William E. Stokes, a brother of the
dead woman, who is a lawyer with of
fices in the Commonwealth Building and
lives ct 242 South Forty-fourth street,
idmlified the body at the morgue.
Mrs. .Nitzschke leaves three children,
the eldest nine years ohi, thc youngest
three. Her family say that her life
was happy, that she had no financial
worries and that her children were
very d6ar to her.
Her husband. Dr. William II. Nitz-
.schke, a dentist, practiced In Rio, Bra
zil, ior many years, ana it is sam ac
cumulated a competence. He returned
to this country last August, and since
then the family had lived temporarily
with Mrs. Nitzschke's mother, Mrs.
Ella IC. Stokes, 4128 Market street.
Mrs. Nitzschke Wears Jewels
Mrs. Nitzschke, when found, wns
well dressed in a black hat, dark coat
suit and white shirtwaist. She wore
two rings, oue a wedding ring inscribed
with iier initials and her husband's and
the date of their marriace. the other a
Lindsome jeweled ring set with diamonds
and blue stones.
There was no money found on the
body, which the police view as a sus
picious circumstance, though they can
not account for the rings on her fingers
if she was attacked by highwaymen.
Members of her family say that they
became worried over her continued ab
sence last evening and telephoned the
police. At 10 o'clock they received a
call from City Hall telling them that a
woman answering her description had
been found dead on the river drive.
Y0 H0J A BARREL OF RUM
Three Unwise Men Lose Whisky
Cast Up by Sea
New York, Feb. 14. A whisky bar
rel floated ashore yesterday at Long
Beach. Thc three men who first found
the barrel aren't on speaking terms be
cause after tapping one end of it all
they drew forth was a powder of some
sort. And so they spurned the barrel,
but after them came a wise man who
now is thc custodian of fifty-two gal
lons of the "real stuff."
While walking long thc beach Fred
erick J. Knob and Thomas J. Walsh
found a full-sized whisky barrel which
had apparently drifted iu with the tide.
Knob and Walsh were planning the
party they were going to have when
along came Carroll Tompkins, another
Long Beach man. The three monkeyed,
with the barrel for a few minutes, dis
covered the powder, and went their
way.
Now Gcorgo Loris happened to be
looking for just such a barrel in which
to store some cider, He found the bar
rel and started to roll it nway. Dis
covering it to be full, he investigated
further, cut a hole on the side, and now
any one can have his cider who wants
it. The barrel was built with false-bottoms,
in which tho powder was con
tained. KNOCKED DOWN BY CAR
While trjing to cross at Nineteenth
and Brown streets last night, Arthur
H. Henry, seventy-five years old. of
1830 Vineyard street, was knocked
down by u trolley car. He died a few
minutes later. At the Lankenau Hospi
tal, where the body was taken, it was
said that Mr. Beary's skull was, frac
tured. John Conroy, Judson street, the mo
torman, was held to await the action of
thc roropcr today by Magistrate Rooney
In Central Station,
FIRE DAMAGES NEW HOUSE
The newly completed stone dwelling
of A. Ernest Margerison, Seventh Btreet
and Sixty-fourth avenue, Oak Lane, was
damaged by fire last night. Margerison,
a towel manufacturer, who planned to
move there March 1. estimated the los
at $4000. H now lives at 1210 Foulk
lod street, Frunkford. The House is
valued at' $35,000, The blaze begun in
thc basement and wus of unknown ori-
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ROBERT LANSING
Former secretary of' state, who
lias resigned at the request of the
President as thc result of disagree
ments of long standing
CHARLES INVOLVED IN PL01
Former Emperor Tried to Re-enter
Austria, Evidence Indicates
Budapest. Feb. 14. (By A. V.)
Circumstantial detnils have been reveal
ed of u plot b which it is alleged for
mer Emperor Charles made a futile at
tempt to enter Hungary under a false
passport and re-establish himself on
the throne,
Documentary evidence said to be in
thc bauds of the government indicates
that it had been planned for the ex
empcror to cross the Austrian frontier
under thc name of Kaspar Kovacs. Then
he was to proclaim his return, with thc
expectation that his former subjects
would bupport him.
It is alleged that the plot was ar
ranged by Colonel Lchar, now- governor
of West Hungary, and by Minister Be
nitcky, thc latter having attempted to
have tho passports viseed. The Swiss
consul, however, recognized thc photo
graph of the ex-emperor, it is said, and
reported the matter.
GENERALS SUE ERZBERGER
German Officers Charge He Made
Defamatory Statement
Berlin, Feb. 14. (By A. P.)
Mathias Erzbcrger, vice premier ' and
minister of finance, has" been sued by
the League of German Officers for an
nllegednnsult In saying at a meeting of
the Clerical party that the Gerninn gen
erals who were asked to'-cscort former
Empress Auguste Victoria in Novem
ber, 1018, when she was permitted to
visit the cx-emperor at Amerongen, de
clined the assignment.
Shu finally made the trip, said Herr
Erzberger, in company with General
Rliadewald and Herr Molkenbuhr, ma
jority socialist leader, the latter travel
ing ns a representative of the people's
commissioners. t
The officers of the league charge
Erzberger with having made a defama
tory statement.
FAIR AND C0LDNEXT WEEK
Forecast Indicates Subnormal Tem
peratures to Start With
Washington, Feb. 1.4 (By A. P.)
Weather predictions for thc week be
ginning Monday are:
North and middle Atlantic stntes:
Fair, with temperature below normal
first of the week.
South Atlantic and cast guf states:
Fair, with temprcature below normal
first of the week ; rising to normal by
middle of the week and remaining nor
mal or above last part of the week.
Ohio valley and Tennessee: Generally
fair, rising temperature firt half of
tile week ; above normal second half.
Region of (treat Lakes:' Clearing
weather first of week, with rising tem
perature ; probably snow at close of thc
week, with temperature above seasonal
average.
MORE WOOD ALCOHOL
Llqubr Found in Wilmington Res
taurant Deadly Stuff
Wilmington, Del.. Feb. 14. Liquor
confiscated in a raid on the restaurant
of Ernest Harry, contained S3 per cent
spirits, principally wood alcohol. State
Bucteriologist AVatson testified at the
hearing in City Court yesterday.
Harry was sentenced to six months
in jail and fined $100. It was testified
that some of the liquor consisted en
tirely of denatured alcohol and that
nearly 1500 bottles marked "ginger"
were found in the restaurunt.
Mrs. Balderino Saienni wns fined
$100 on a similar charge. It was said
she sold two quarts of "raisin wine,"
containing I) per cent of, alcohol, in
fpilk bottles.
51 WILL OPPOSTCAILLAUX
Prominent 'Witnesses to Testify at
Trial Next Tuesday
Paris, Feb. 14. (By A. P.) Fifty
one witnesses have been summoned by
the prosecution to testify in the trial
of Joseph Cnilhiux. former nremier.
charged with intriguing to bring about
a premature and dishonorable peace
with Germany, which opens next Tues
day. Jean Jules .Tusscrand, ambassador to
the United States; A. R. Conty, am
bassador to Brazil; Camllle Barrerc,
ambassador to Italy; Henri Allize, dip
lomatic representative at Vienna ; Jules
Cambon, former ambassador to Ger
many, and former Premiers. Rarthou,
Brinnd and Vivinni will be among those
testifying.
STEP UP, CHEESE EATERS
Bucks County "Lightweight" Cham
plon Issues Open Challenge
Do j lest own. Pa,, Feb. 14,-r-WillIara
Lewis, of Wycombe, issued an open
challenge for n cheeso-eating contest to
uny "lightweight" for he weighs only
110 pounds after eating one and ono
half pounds of cream cheese in two
minutes without liquid to wash it
down.
Recently he ate five nounds of cheese
'ami twenty-two baker 'a Diva in one day.
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TROTSKY TORTURES
OFFICERS OF CZAR
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Sneeringly Calls Them Rad
ishes, Red Outside, but
White Within
REFINED CRUELTY USED
AGAINST IMPERIALISTS
Bolshevik War Minister As
sumes Napoleonic Airs at
Army Reviews
By B F. KOSPOTH
Special Corrrnpflndrnt nf the Kvenlne rubllc
I.edcrr In Switzerland ,
Copyright, J 020.
Geneva, Feb. 14. I have just had a
long talk with a Russian officer who
served until quite recently with thc
rank of major in Trotzky's Red army.
Like many other professional soldiersin
Russia, lie was forced bv starvation and
thc menace of death to take part inNthe
organization of thc Bolshevik forces.
He was with thc Red army in the
Ukraine and nurnoselv remained behind
in Kieff when it was forced to hastily
evacuate that city several monthil ago.
Passing through thc Ukrainian lines,
and subsequently through Galician and
Austrian territory, he succeeded in
reaching Switzerland as the, bearer of
fresh and valuable information concern
ing the mysterious military strength of
the Red dictators.
For obvious reasons it Is impoiblc
'o reveal his name, but responsible Rus
sian circles here vouch not only for his
reliability, but nlso for the sincerity
of his democratic convictions.
Arrested for Unknown Cause
His story, which helps to clear up
the vexed question of how the Bolshe
viks have been able to otgauizo and
maintain an armv callable of success
fully resisting and even defeating their
opponents, is as follows:
"After serving during the war with
Germany on the Galician front under
General Brussiloff, I left thc army upon
the collapse of Kcrcnsky's government,
intending to live the simple life of a re
tired officer in Moscow. For some time
I escaped the notico of the Bolsheviks,
but soon after Lcninc and Trotzky
transplanted their oanitnl fmm Pctm.
grad to Moscow I was arrested, along
mm muuy onier retired otneers, and
cast into prison. We were kept in prison
several months without being able to
find out on what charge we were being
held. The conditions in tile, prison
were frightful and we received barely
sufficient food to sustain life.
"Finally, one morning, when our sus
pense was growing intolerable, a Bol
shevik commivvarv arrived, accompa
nied by a squad of Chinese mercenaries.
All the ex-officers detoinel in the prison
were collected and ordered to line up.
At first we thought we were doomed
to instant execution, but instead wn
were ordered to form n column of fours
and marched through the streets of
Moscow to the Kremlin, guarded by
Chinfse and Lett soldiers with fixed
bayonets.
"We were led into n narrow court-
jnrd inclosed by the buildings of the
Kremlin. Here we found a great num
ber of former officers who had arrived
before us from other prisons. All day
long fresh detachments of prisoners kept
arriving, until at last we mustered
more thnn 1200, nil ex-offiecrs of the
regular army. The courtyard was so
crowded that there was scarcely room
to stand, and the higli walls of the
old buildings surrounding it added to
the sense of suffocation that soon op
pressed us,
"We arrived in this courtyard at 0
o'clock in the morning, and we were
kept there for three days and three
nights, without any explanation, abso
lutely without food, und so closely hud
dled together that most of us could not
even Ue down to lest, much less to
sleep. Rend the uccounts of thc Black
Hole ot Calcutta and you will know
what we suffered !
Tortured For Definite End
"Already exhausted by our previous
privations iu prison, many of us were
incapable of resisting this new diabol
ical form of torture. Madmen strug
gled, raving, amongst us. Corpses re
mained stiffij upright, wedged in be
tween the living. In vain wc implored
the guurds who watched us from the
Kremlin windows to tell us at least why
wc were being caged thus, and what
fate was in store for us. They only
grinned and answered that we must
wait. They knew well enough that it
wns the intention of their musters to
break our spirit by imposing upon us
these terrible mentul and physical tor
ments nnd to make us eager to hail any
chnugc as a. deliverance from intolerable
misery.
"At last, on the morning of the
fourth day, another commissary came
nnd made a sneech, declaring that all
of us who were willing to enter the Red
army as officers would he immediately
rolHnkorl. nnil nromisliitT US sneedv nrn-
motlon nnd high pay if we performed
our military duties well. Those who re
fused his olter, lie auueu, would nave
to btay where they were until they
changed tneir nuuu,
"What are we to do? We were ut
terly broken and unnerved by amr
sufferings, and the only alternative
offered us was slow starvation, mad
ness and death.
"Guardian Angels" for Iecrults
"Wc were conducted into u (second,
larger courtyard,, where wc were liar
rangued by Trotzky in person. Ho
told ' us that vast opportunities of
wealth nnd luxurious living awaited us
if wo served tho soviet faithfully.
His address culminated in the warn
ing; 'Don't imagine that you arc go
ing to have a chance to Indulge in
reactionary intrigues or propaganda In
my army, or to heray us to the enemies
of the revolution. Each of you w-ilj
Continued, oa I'm aeitan. Column Jtw
INTO S BSE VI
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Why Lansing Left Cabinet
Shown in These Letters
Washington, Feb. 14.
Thc corrripoiidcncc hetween the
President and .lrr. Lanning follows:
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington, 7 February, 1020.
My Dear Mr. Secretary :
Is It true, as I have been told, that
during my illness you have frequent
ly called the heads of the executive
departments of the government into
conference? If it is, I fe.cl it my
duty to call your attention to consid
erations which I do not care to dwell
upon until I learn from you your
self that this is the fact. Under our
constitutional law nnd practice, as
developed hitherto, no one but the
President has the right to summon the
heads of the executive departments
into conference, and no one but' thc
President and the Congress has the
right to ask their views or thc views
of any one of them on any public
question.
I take this matter up with you
because in the development ot every
constitutional system, custom and
precedent arc of the most serious
consequence, nnd I think wc will all
agree in desiring not to lend in any
wrong direction. I have therefore
taken the liberty of writing you to
ask j ou this question, and I am sure
you will be glad to npswer.
I nm happy to learn from your re
cent note to Mrs. Wilson that your
strength is returning.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
WOODROW WILSON.
Hon. Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State.
"VARE CAN'T GET AWAY WITH CHALLENGE
ON CONTRACT S-" SAYS MAYOR
"Senator Vare can't get a-way -xith this challenge to r;.
amine the books of his contracting firm," declared Mayor ooi.
in a fiery statement today, "uor will he get ama.y with uv.
political challenge. An examination of the contractor's booh
will probably be made." This statement was in response to
Vare's offer to submit his books to Chief Hepburn.
FAIR PRICE BODY TO CONFER WITH STOREKEEPERS
Joseph H. Hagedorn, chairman of the fair price com:nute,
has sent letters to heads of departments of all pi eminent ifta'i
stores asking them to meet in tho finance, Building- nt 3 o'eloc:;
Tuesday to discuss problems confronting the committee. Tiii
invitation includes heads of department and tpecialty stores.'
CONTRACTORS
r
Street Cleaning Men Have Until
Then to Prepare Defense to
Hepburn Statements
FACE $10,000 IN FINES
Street-cleaning contractors have until
Monday afternoon to prepare their de
fense against statements made by Chief
Hepburn, of the Burcnu of Street Clean
ing.
Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock the
contractors will "go to the mat" with
Director Winston nnd Mr. Hepburn.
Unless the contractors have a valid
defense to offer, they face the payment
of fines for the month of January total
ing $10,000 for deduction of duty. Of
this large Mini it is iudicuted that Sen
ator Vare will have to pay half.
It is possible also that they may be
asked to pav what it has cost the city
extra to remove the snow during the
recent blizzard, according to Slayor
Moore. Tliis cume to between $7."),000
and $100,000,
Tlie contractors w ill be given ample
opportunity to refute the assertion that
they have failed to keep the streets as
clean as their contracts demand.
May Accept Challenge
It wns indicated ut City Hall today
that Chief Hepburn would accept the
challenge made by Senator Vare and
others of the contractors recently, to
examine the books of the contrnctiuc
firm.
The' contractors say that their profits
have not been excessive, nnd say they
are so sure of their position that thev
would gladly submit to an examination
ot tnctr oooKs,
Chief Hepburn has an appointment
today to see Aicher Soby, general man
ager for Senator Vare, and is is ex
pected that arrangement will then be
mude for nn examination of tho con
tractor's books. ,
Street-cleaning inspectors freely ad
mitted todav the truth of the statement
by Chief Hepburn thnt some contrac
tors' wagons are credited with more
cubic yards of snow removed than their
rated capacity.
I)cny Dishonest Motives
They defied, however, that there was
any dishonesty in this. The explana
tion given by scernl inspectors was
that provision is made for "heaping
loads," and rules are given the inspec
tors for making extra allowance for
ftuch loads.
William Gumpper, nn inspector as
signed to the Eighth district, which is
in the central section of the city, said
when asked if the inspectors allowed
more than the cubic rating of wagons.
"Sure we do of course we (Jo."
He pulled out a blue-bound book of
prints from architects' drawing, which
Continued en I'Mt Xwo. Column Ona
MONDAY
THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Washington. February 0. 1020.
My Dear Mr. President:
It is true that frequently during
your illness I requested the heads of
thc executive departments of the gov
ernment to meet for informal con
ference. Shortly after you were taken ill in
October, certain members of the cab
inet, of which I was one, felt that,
in view of the fact that wc were
denied communication with you, it
was wise for us to confer informally
together on interdepartmental mat
ters and matters as to which action
could not be postponed until your
medical advisers permitted you to
pass upon them. Accordingly I, as
the ranking temper, requested the
members of thc cnbinet to assemble
for such conference, and in view of
the mutual benefit derived the prac
tice was continued. I can assure you
that it never for a moment entered
my mind that I was acting unconsti
tutionally or contrary to your wishes,
and there certainly wns no intention
on my part to assume powers and
exercise functions which under the.
constitution are exclusively confided to
the President.
During these troublous times, when
many difficult and vexatious questions
have arisen and when in the circum
stances I have been deprived of your
guidance and direction, it has been
my constant endeavor to carry out
your policies as I understood them
and to act in all matters as I be-
Continued on Tare Eighteen, Column One
IS
Alba B. Johnson Says Former
Secretary of State's Stand
Was Actuated by Patriotism
PAYS TRIBUTE TO ABILITY
Many prominent Philadelphinns to
day expressed regret at the resignation
of Secretary of State Lansing.
After reading the correspondence
which passed between President Wil
son and Mr. Lansing they were unani
mous in the opinion thnt Mr. Lansing
noted for the best interests of the coun
tr.v when he called conferences of heads
of executive departments und took other
steps w ithout asking the advice of the
President.
Alba B. Johnson, president of the
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce,
said :
"I have known Mr. Lansing for sev
eral years and have always admired
him. In common with the public at
large I have watched his course as sec
retary of state. I have realized the
difficulties, of his position nud noted
with much interest the comment
throughout the United States suggesting
his resignation because of the slights
forced upon him by the President,
Sacrificed Himself for Country
"Analyzing the situation closely,
however, I realize that lie had to make
n choice between obedience to his per
sonal inclination and his sense of patri
otism and loyalty to the best Interests
of the country.
"By remaining nt his post ho saved
the rountrv from nil sorts of compli
cations. His continuance in office was
the country's safeguard against prob
able indiscretions iu thc conduct of our
foreign affairs.
"His resignation comes aR a big blow
to the countij,"
Regarding Mr. Lansing's action in
conferring with the heads of depart
ments, Mr Johnson said:
"In view of the circumstances, Mr.
Lansing did what was necessary nnd
proper, nnd will be supported undoubt
edly by every patriotic American. Those
who kuow Mr. Lansing know that he is
a man of lofty character and charm
ing nature. He i8. sincere nud actuated
by thc best of motives in whatever he
does."
t
Lansing's Only Alternative
Former Governor Edwin S. Stuart,
president of thc Union League, said ;
"I do not see what else Mr. Lansing
could do under the circumstances. Of
course, I am not conversant with thc
steps which should be taken according to
constitutional procedure. From a
standpoint of common sense and prac
tical business methods, however, I thluk
that Mr. Lansing acted wisely in con
ferring with the heads of departments
.Ctauaucu on Jro Uihtem, ;,i,imVTfar.,.'
LAN!
A TIN
DEPLORED
HER
PRESIDENT AVER
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EXECUTIVE POWER
Lansing's Dismissal Due to
Long-Standing Clash Bul
litt Testimony Had Influence
NO MORE RESIGNATIONS
FROM CABINET EXPECTED
Polk Acts Ad Interim He or
Ambassador Davis May
Get Post
HIS AD
ED
By the Associated Press
Washington, Feb. 14. Rebuked by
President Wilson for calling cabinet
meetings during his illness, Secre
tary of State Lansing has resigned.
The President has accepted tho
resignation, which he requested,
"with appreciation," and Mr. Lans
ing becomes the second secretary of
state to leave the administration
over a disagreement with his chief.
Although the correspondence be
tween Mr. Lansing and the Presi
dent makes the calling of the cabinet
meetings during the President's ill
ness the incident which leads directly
to the secretary's resignation, per;
sons "on the inside" of the adminis
tration who know what has been
going on say that was only an inci- V
dent and that the real reasons for
the break go back over a period of
many months and come from funda
mental differences of opinion in'
policy.
No More Resignations
There will be no more resignmi
tions from the cabinet as a result
of the Lansing incident, it was sajii' -at
the. White House today. ",I .am,
riot going "to discuss tho , Lansing
Wilson controversy the letters
speak for themselves," Secretary'
Tumulty said.
There was no information avail
able at the White House as to a
probable successor to Mr. Lansing,
but the appointment is expected to
be made soon. John W. Davis, ami
bassador at London, and Under
Secretary Frank L. Polk are being
discussed. Mr. Polk will serve as
secretary ad interim following Mr.
Lansing's resignation.
Cabinet meetings will be resumed
"very soon," and as announced a
few days ago, President Wih?on will
preside. White House officials re
iterated today that he was making
rapid strides toward regaining his
health.
Differed Even Before War
The disagreements between the
President and the head of the Stato
Department even antedate the entry
of the United States into the war.
The relations between the two men
almost reached the breaking point
early in 1917, when Mr. Lansing is
sued his celebrated statement saying
the United States was daily being
drawn nearer and nearer the war.
By some it was taken to forecast
the entry of the United States. Tho
President made every effort to over
take the statement after it had been
given out at the State Department,
but it was impossible.
When Mr. Lansing went us a mem
ber of thc American pence delegation
to Paris more diffcrencf developed.
With other member of thc American
mission he was not in accord with the
President's idea of making the treaty
of pence and the covennnt of the League
of Nations one and the same insepar
able document. It wnR Mr. Lansing's
idea that such a plan would delay the
ratification of u peace treatv nnd in
this he wns supported by Henry White
nud E. M. House.
Many Differences Developed
It may be sold with a great degree
of authority that while the President
and Mr. Lansing were together In 1'arU
other differences of more than minor na
ture developed, and this is confirmed by
the reference which thc President makes
to it in one of his letters.
When President Wilson went back to
Paris last March and found that dur
ing his brief absence in the United
Stntes Mr. Lansing and the others of
the American mission had agreed, ten
tatively at least, to have the pcuco
terms nnd the League of Nations cove
nant spnrated, the situation cume very
near a breaking point and probably wuh
avoided only because the President
thought it more important not to let
European statesmen see n split in ths
American penco delegation.
While Mr. Lansing probably saw and
conferred with the President in l'rls
as much as any othrr member of the
American mission, it was a matter of
remark tlm he aw him very littlf.
However, the incident which came
nearer rauslug a break than any oth
was tho sensational testimony of yU
Ham C. Bullitt, one of the experts t
tached to thp American peace mixBlon,
before the Senate Fireinn UeUtlmm
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