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Yoi, 1AWI No. 28.644 tropTrlsht ton.The Tribune Ass'n.l WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1017 » . * ONE CENT u "- r~* «* **"*
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EATINGPLACESAREPUT UNDERCITYCONTROL
Health Board Orders10.000 Shops to Ob¬
tain Permits
SALOONS ANDHOTELS INCLUDED
Authorities' Power Far-
reaching-.Can CloseAny Establishment
'1 he Department of Health yestordayadopted an ordinance which requireseach of the 10,000 restaurants and
lunch counters in New York to obtain a
license. Failure to comply strictly with
the city sanitary code led to this ac¬
tion.The ordinance constitutes one of the
most farreaching steps taken in the
history of the city's tight for pure food.
Kor the first time «t gives the healthauthorities direct control of every placein the city where food is »old and con¬
sumed on the premises, and even ap¬
plies to the free lunch counters of bar¬
rooms.New York's authorities also have un»
l-mitts-d power to revoke any permit at
any time, and thus, without resort to
the courts, to inflict drastic punishmenton restaurant proprietors who violate
pirsistcntly the sanitary regulations.Permit» for All
The ordinance follow«:
No person »hall conduct, operateor maintain any restaurant in the
| of New York without a permittherefor issued by the Board of
Health, or otherwise than in ac¬
cordance with the terms of said
permit and the regulations of said
board. The term "restaurant," as
herein used, »hall be taken to mean
and include every buffet, lunch
room, grill room, lunch counter,
fining room of hotel and every
other public place where food i»
prepared, cooked, served, »old and
eonsomed on the premises, every
lunch counter in a saloon where
food is given away and all kitchen»
appurtenant thereto or connectedtherewith.Under the new eyetO., as explained
hy Dr. Haven Emoraoa, Health Com¬
missioner, inspectors of 'he depart¬ment who find unsanitary conditions in
reataurants or bimilar places will warn
tbe proprietor. Unies.« he takes promptsteps to conform to the la.***, his case
will b»*, reported to the Board of
Health.Ordinarily he, will have an oppor¬
tunity to appear and explain his side,
hut in extreme cases, as, for instance,
where a proprietor has been persist¬ently neglectful, the permit may be
revoked without hcirinir.
Heretofore the power of the health
officers has been limited strictly to
Bal suit« m the court«. The un-
iveraMe report of ¦ department in-followed by affidavits
olation of a specific sectionof the sanitary code.
May Continue Practices
f'erding his trial on these charge»,the defendant has been permitted to
.on*mue in bttalneas, ami often hascontinued the ven, practices whichcaused the complaint. The delaysmade possible by adroit eOUBOOl forthe defendants in these trials harevexed the herlth authorities. These,combined with the awkwardness and
eacy inherent in tit" Indirectcontrol through the eouits. brouRMabout the pastage of the permit ordi¬nance."The permit system." Dr. Kmerson
«-\plained, "will be far more effectivethan the old method. It will not onlybe much quicker, bu-. it will give us the
power, while- needed, to put immensejre o,i delinquent restaurant
in« ... It ii« «me ma'ter to threaten a
man with a small tine and a remotechance of imprisonment. It is quiteMother to threaten him with the im¬mediate loss of all hi-, business."1'nder the old system it was possible
for a man to continue to menace thehealth of his patrons while we prose-«uteri h'.m for his first offence, and we
wer«- powerless to stop him. l'nd«r thenew ordinance he'll either change hi»ways at once or quit busir.« >v \>«'il»imply notify the Police Departmentthat a cottain permit has been revokedand thev will close that man's place.
Found Insanitary Place»
"More than a year ago we made a sur-.f the places where food is served«»und a larpe number of unsani¬
tary conditions and practices. am
r'ad to say that most of the proprie¬tors have shown a disposition to meetus half way. But there are many whohave not. Recent!*, we completed a «rc--
*V'** l h convinced us that?he permit s\stem was necessar«.faults have been not so much'in thequality of the food sold as in the man¬ner in which it was handled.
"It will take two and perhaps threemonth» to put the system into effect.A" proprietor« will he notified of thenew ordinaiu> at once and instructedto appl> for permits. These will be i«-
Mien as fast a.« inspection» can be madeWe may work out «ome system for theA**ra of certificates of excellent toe»pecia:]y meritorious places."The permit s>s»<m has been found
~o»t effective in handling the city'smilk supply and with dealers in eggs.The present is a far greater undertak->ng c-'i account of the numbers in¬
volved, but it will be developed alonirtn« same lines."Th« system for hotel» .nd restau¬
rants is m force in manv cities of thecountry, including Chicsgo. Si. I.ou.s...fliofcespohs, S.n Antonia, Spokane and
nÍ»n..»«trtrSü0- -jn four i,,**t*-»' '¦*..'-
lltlV' *{ondm< ^""«-onsin and Kansas,¦»otel» 4re .0 controlled.
John J. Astor, 4, Needs$7527 a Day to Live
Mrs. Dick Sets Child's Expenses at $86,034.Toys, Including Lions and Bubble Blow¬
ers, Required with Pillows at $50 Each
«lohn Jacob Astor, four years old, ha«been »pending $76.27 a day.That is what it has cost Mr». Will-
ism I. Dick, his mother, and widowof Colonel .lohn Jacob Astor, to keephim clothed, fed and supplied with toys,according to the complete accountingof her guardianship, which »he tiledyesterday in the Surrogates' Court.This accounting extends from Novem¬ber 13, 1912, to December 31. 1916.The total cost of keeping the child
during that period was $86,034.21.His mother received from the estate
in that time $«50,360.07 for hi« mainte¬nance.
Besides the taxes and other infantileexpense« which were listed in the ac¬
counting she tiled last April, when »hesought to convince the court that a
small boy just had to have more than$20,000 a year, Mrs. Dick goes into de-tails concerning clothes and toys inthe new accounting.John Jacob'» clothes cost $6,790, and
as he grew elder he put »¡.way the toysof his babyhood and demanded some-
thing more mature and more expen-sive. So in December, 1913, he got a
"speaking book," fifteen disk» for a
music box, three "roly-polies" and twoboJes of horns and balls.
Arrive» at Go-Cart StageBy the following June he had got to
the go-cart stage, which meant $30more, and he also had to have a pail,a sand scoop and other beach toys, a
Mother Goose, a donkey, a railway and
a buoit on animal land. Hi« idea« con¬
tinued to expand, and his mothersought to catch up with them again inthe following December.She got him: A toy camel for $30, a
toy lion for $15, a goose for $3.60, a
bear for $3.76, another donkey for $6,a lamb for $1.50 and a duck for $2.
In the course of time August, hilbirthday month, came around andfound John Jr.cob disconsolate amidthe ruins of his donkeys and his lionsan«i his camels. There was a giftpie for twenty guest«, which cost $18,and John Jacob got five rollomobiles at$15, three bears on wheels for $12,five hoopr, for $10, a seesaw for $5, a
soap bubble blower for |1, and a magicfishpond and athletic hlides for $20.For a few days he was almost as
happy as the urchins a few blockseafrt, who blew soap bubbles from a
clay pipe «nd had a contractor's saw-
hor*;e for a see; aw. ,
One reason why John Jacob had toexercise caution in his teetering is evi¬dent from his tailor's bills. One ofthem probably arrived about the timehe did. It was for a dress costing$123.50, which was bought in June,1912, two months before John Jacobcould protest. A month later a job lotof clothes was bought for $102, andbefore John Jacob knew whether hewas wearing a blue bow under his chinor a pink one, his clothes hail cost$786.
Before he was five month.1« old win-
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WOOLWORTH TOBUILD STORE ON
FIFTH AVENUE
Five and Ten Cent Bazaar To BeOpposite New York Public
Library
By 1911 the two bored looking lion»that guard the New York Public
Library will be wearing a »till more
scornful and supercilious expression,for they will be staring across thebustle of Fifth Avenue, into the fiveand ten cent glories of a Wo ¡worth»tore.For the dime and nickel king is
going to invade Fifth Avenue, and has
chosen its busiest «pot for his entry.Tnc P. W. Woolworth Company leasedyesterday the property at 463-46'J FifthAvenue, directly opposite the library,and at 1 Fast Fortieth Street. Thelease will run for forty years, and thetotal rental will he $4,600,uOO.
M. & la, Hess, who represented theWoolworth company in the deal, saidyesterday that it was the intention oftheir principal to erect a six storybuilding. The upper floors will be usedfor offices, the lower for a "five andten cent store de luxe."Men well versed m real estate values,
while marvelling at Woolwortli's temer¬
ity in blinking one of his stores intothe exclusive shopping centre of thecity, said, nevertheless, that they be-liiv-d it would prove to be the mostvaluable o." bis long chain.
"I- orty-sreond Street and Fifth Ave¬nue is the hub of the city's traffic," one
»¦.»plained. "It la not. only the wealthywho will pass hir« store daily. Com-muten who use the (¡rand Central Sta-lion and those who travel by theStcinway tube will be attracted to thestore, and when the Hudson tubes are
brought north to Forty-second Streetai.d Sixth Avenue even more, possiblebuyers will pass it each day."
BRITISH WOULDLET WOMEN VOTEIF 30 YEARS OLD
Report of Committee on Elec¬toral Reform Disappoints
Suffragists-
London, Jan. SO, The report of theCommittee on Flectoral Reform, issuedto-night, confirms the main featuresof the forecasts published regardingvotes for women. It will disappointthe suffragists, as no definite agree¬ment has been reached.
By a majority of the committee itwas decided that some measure of wom-
fTrage should be conferred. Themajority also were of the opinion 'hatif Parliament r>i«sed such a meabU'*'*
;the franchise should be »riven to wom¬
en already entitled to vote at municipalelections, but that such women shouldnot vote m Parliamentary electionsuntil they attained a specified age,which the majority of the committeethought should be between thirty andthilty-fvi- -..-ar--.M ss Sylvia Pankhurst, speaking for
the Woman's Suffrage Federation, saidthe c-otisider-d the report most unsat¬
isfactory, adding:"Women mature if anything earlier
than men. According to the census a
majority of wrrren between twenty andtwenty-five year« of age »re earningtlü.r living. '1 o ex-lude them fromin« franchise is most unjust. Wewan» complete adult suffrage for bothnun and .04040."
SUFFRAGISTS IN WAR PLOT
"Remarkable Conspiracy" Causea Ar-
reet of Three British Women and Man
London, Jan. IL "Three suffragettesand a man, a conscientious objector to
military service, were arrested Tue.«
day on a remarkable conspiracy charge."shy« "The Daily Mail" to-day. " I fienan and two of the women wer« ar-
r..«tcd at Derby and the third woman
a Southampton. All of them will bearraigned to-day at Derby, and their'trial probably will attract the widestpublic attention."
MOTHER ACCUSEDOF KILLING SON
Finding of Paterson Boyof Four in August Led
to "Ripper" Scare
Mrs. Sarah Goldstein was Lrrestedyesterday in Paterson to plead to anindictment charging her with the mur-
der of her four-year-old son, Maxjwhose death on August 14 last caused a
"ripper" scare in the New Jersey city.Prosecutor Dunn, who conducted theinvestigation resulting in her arrest,refused to divulge any of the evidenceagainst her."The case against her is complete,"
he said. "I can only say that a bitof bloodstained cloth was an impor¬tant clew.''Max. the "Little Boy Blue" of the
(neighborhood, was found with hi«throat cut and his abdomen slashed atthe foot of the cellar stairs in his home,at 21 Hamburg Avenue. Beside him laya tin box, containing live marbles.
He had been missing for more thantweaty-feur hours, and the «ellar ofthe bouse had been visited by aéreraipersons in the meantime. The theorywas then expressed by the police thatthe boy had been held prisoner andkilled at leisure.
His mother appeared to he distractedliy grief. Her husband. Isidor, was avictim of tuberculosis and had lost hisjob in a silk mill. Resides the funeral« (peases and the doctor's bill for Isi-dor, somewhere she ha«) to find themoney to keep life in her and theirtwo other children. Soon, also, therewould be a baby.The child was born three months
ago, and went to the Passaic Countyjail last night with Mrs. Goldstein,In fact, her whole family wen«.When Patrolman Thomas Jewett en-
tered the house at 101 North Third¡Street, where they are now living.Isidor dragged h'msclf from his bed
ion learning of hi« mission."You can't have her," he cried.
"There is the baby and also the littleboy and the little girl. What shall wedo? 1 am worthless.*'
Isidor and his little son and daugh-¡ter trailed mournfully after the patrol--man and his prisoner. They sought invain to stay in the jail. The baby could»fay, said the. warden; in fact, it wouldhave to. But there was no place forIsidor or the other children. It was astill more mournful pilgrimage thatthey made back to the house on NorthThird Street,
Nathan Rabinowitz. who announced;that he would appear as counsel forjMr«. Goldstein, was inutmmental inraising a fund of $200, which was of-;fered last summer as a reward for thenrrest of the "ripper."John F. Webster, a plumber, whose
shop was in the building where theGoldsteins were living at the time ofthe murder, was arrested soon after it.A neighbor «aid that she had seen himcoming, white-faced and nervous, fromthe cellar, where the body was foundlees than an hour later.He cleared himself of any suspicion
of guilt, but is still held, it was saidlast nght, under $'.,000 bail, as amaterial witness.
GIRL LEAPS TO HER DEATHUNDER TRaAIN IN SUBWAY
Father at Morgue Identifies Body as
Hi« Daughter'sMen and women waiting for a train
on the southbound platform of the 14HthStreet Iaenox Avenue subway stationlast night noticed the slim girl **hovtrodr impatiently hack and forth. Sheseemed unable to keep atili, they re-membered afterward, but when a trainroared into the station most of themforgot, her. Motorman Guy Freelandand a few others saw her dive underthe wheels of the foremost car.
It was some time before the bodyrould h.- removed. When it was finally
.-.ted it was taken to the morgue.¡1er personal effects induced the policet<. call up Abraham Silverblatt, of IIMlWashington Avenue. The Bronx. At tbemorgue !.e identified the body as thatof Rebecca, his daughter. She wailtwenty-four years old and lived withher parents.
WILSON PLANSWORLDPOLICYIN NEXT TERN
Aims at Leading Rolein International
Politics
CHANGE OF ENVOYSAND CABINET NEAR
Hopes New Foreign IssuesWill Block Bryan's
"Dry" Campaign[From Th» Tribun« Bnr»«i|
Washington, Jan. 30..Worldpeace, and in fact world politics ingeneral, will be President Wilson'ifield in his second Administration,just as.except for casual issueiarising immediately out of the Eu¬ropean war.domestic legislationhas occupied most of his attentionduring the first term.The President on March 4 will
close the record on domestic prob¬lems, though there are certainprojects already started which hewill try to complete at the next reg¬ular session of Congress.World politics from now on is the
big thing. The President wants theUnited States to play a big part, un¬
der his leadership, in shaping thedestiny of civilization after the greatwar.
Want* No DiscussionMr. Wilson revealed himself to¬
day as acutely sensitive to the at¬tacks that have been made on theworld peace plan which he unfoldedto the Senate two weeks ago. Hois impatient at the contrast.» thathave been drawn between his atti¬tude toward American policy andthat of Washington, Jefferson andMonroe.He does not want it discussed, either
in the Senate, the papers or anywhereelse. Me doel not himself desire to bemore definite concerning the part that
the United States will be expected to
play in European quarrels, and stillless concerning the part that Europemight feel entitled to play in possibledisputes on this continent.To all questions designed to draw a
close definition of America's relationto Europe in such a league, he repliesthat such matters will be left to theconference of nations which draws up
the treaty. He appears to regard it
largely a.« a matter of detail whetherthe Monroe Doctrine is to be extendedonly toward greater American influencein Europe, or toward permitting Euro¬
pean influence in affairs peculiarlyAmerican.
Diplomatic (hange*. LikelyThe fact that discussion is discour¬
aged by the President confirms the in¬
terpretation that the speech to the Sen¬
ate was in fact a sequel to his peace
note, to the belligerents. It was in¬tended as further support to the Ger¬
man peace drive, though doubtlesiwithout much hope that it would be ef¬
fective.The President's intention to devote
himself almost exclusively to world af¬
fairs during his second term is well
known to his friends. It is disclosed in
his determination not to call a specialsession of Congress on March 6, but
onl> to convene the Senate to confirm
appointments and take UP matters of
foreign policy.The conhr.ation of new appoint¬
ments is directly related to the Pres¬
ident's new plans. There will be many
new appointment» in offices that have
to do with foreign affairs. All the
diplomatic representativos abroad have
beeen asked for their -esignations"purely as a matter of form," andsome of them will be surprised when
they are accepted.Cabinet J «»¦>¦» in Dancer
Some of the Cabinet also may he
surprised to find that the Presidentwill take their "purely formal" demis¬sions senouslv. For such a programmeas he has framed for the next four
years the President needs a new per¬sonnel, quite different from that whichsufficed in 19'. .*-, when the Europeanwar and its complications were un¬
dreamed of and any politician woulddo for a diplomat.Colonel House foresaw years ago »
greater role for Mr. Wilson than mere
domestic politics. The Colonel alwayshas laid emphasis on the world field,a"d it is probable that but for theEuropean war the President wouldlonu since have launched hi« campaign.Defeat, last November would have
spoiled a carefully thought out planof development for Mr. Wilson.Rut the election impressed twe
things on the President. The first was
that his domestic record has been ap-pr.-ved and that h.» could afford to
stand pat on it. The second wa« thatthe sentiment in the country was tre¬mendously for pear-'.
House to herí) Silent RoleAnd so, under the guidance of Colo¬
nel House, the President is going outinto his larger field, having conqueredthe smaller one. Colonel House, whoknows the Fvropean capitals thorough¬ly, is likely to remain the ».¡lent part¬ner, in spite of r*fl*OOri that he maybe made an ambassador or Secretaryof State.Me like« the obscure role, and it is
probable also that Mr. Wilson wouldrather n^it have the Colonel m an
official position, where too frequentopportunity would be given the public
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BERLINDRAFTSPEACE REPLYTO PRESIDENT
Germany HintsÂnswerWill Urge Wilson
to New Move
DOOMED TO FAIL,LONDON BELIEVES
Allies Ready "to the LastButton" for Spring
Onslaught
Washington, Jan. 30..The Ger¬man Embassy received informationto-day that the Berlin governmentwould issue a reply to PresidentWilson's peace address to the Sen¬ate, a copy of which was handed to
the Foreign Office by the AmericanEmbassy. Officials of the embassydisclaimed any knowledge of thetenor of the reply or the form inwhich it would be delivered.The coming of the communication
is awaited with great interest in allquarters here, and there is muchspeculation over the possibility ofits furnishing the basis for anotherpi-ace move by the President.A dispatch from Berlin to-day
said that Germany already had sentto Washington an acknowledgmentof the receipt of the President'sspeech. The Foreign Office, saidthis message, was considering a
reply.London, Jan. 31..The German
newspapers, according to a Rotter¬dam dispatch, intimate that Ger¬many will acknowledge PresidentWilson's speech in such a way as to
encourage the President to continuehis efforts in favor of peace.
According to the dispatch, Countvon Bernstorff has been instrucUîdto say that Germany Is ready to
formulate peace term** if asked to
do so by the Allies and if there is a
possibility of peace negotiations be¬
ing successfully undertaken. Thedispatch adds that Austria has senta similar communication to the Aus¬trian Charge d'Affaires at Wash¬ington and that it is believed Bul¬garia will follow the example of theTeutonic powers.
Allied Armies Readyfor Signal to Strike
By ARTHl'll S. DRAPKR[Pj fab!» to Tris Tribune
London. Jan. 30. Some fresh attemptto inspire his own people with spirit to
meet the sacrifices of the coming springholocaust, «nd also to counteract theeffect on neu'-al opinion of the Entente
reply to President Wilson, is expectedfrom the Kaiser as a sequel to hi«
birthday gathering of statesmen andgenerals at headquarter«.Foreign Minister 7.immermann has re¬
cently made two hurried trips to ÜMKaiüer'g qiiart»rs, and is believed to be
putting -.he declaration, whatever its
form may be, into shape for publica¬tion. From Denmark and Sweden alsocom« reports of indication« that theKaiser is preparing another peace mes¬
sage to the world.Great Offensive Inevitable
Whatever he may say, there is no
expectation here that it will preventor delay the spring battle».The grand spring offensive ir. now
considered inevitable in fact, it ismore likely that there will be two. TheAllies are ready "to the last button"for the first time since the war began.
It is believed here, too, that, howeverdesperate Germany's straits, she is farfrom a state of economic exhaustionwhich would mean the abandonment ofmilitary opération« or even preventtheir being launched on a large scale.
!t is possible that Germany may nothave food to last till the next harvest,though London has heard reports alongthis line too often to take new one« attheir face value. But it is certain thatexhaustion will not come for monthsyet.
It is also certain that Germany is notprepared to make peace now on term»which would be acceptable to the Al¬lies, and it i« thought likely that shehope« to show «uch force at arms as to
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GIRL AT HONOLULU SAYSSHE'S DOROTHY ARNOLD'
Declared She Was Long-SoughtNew Yorker, Stewardess SaysHonolulu, Jsn. ta% A girl who had
calle«! herself Dawn Moore and DorothyArnold and who was arrested when shearrived here from Hilo, three days ago,on the steamer Great .Northern andheld for investigation, was released to¬day and immediately tiled a libel of$6,000 atrainst the steamship company.
According to the stewarde«« of thesteamer, the girl declared tha' skawas the Dorothy Arnold who disap¬peared from Has» York. She ana taken,she «aid, to Shanghai by a marriedman.Tha police, nowever. said that there
*n no resemblance between the girland the description* they have of Ihemisamr Dorothy Arnold. The girl her-aalf refuse« to discuss tha matter.
GERMANY TO DEMANDINDEMNITY AND LANDS
Berlin, Jan. 30.--CountFriedrich von Westarp, theConservative leader in theReichstag, in a speech de¬livered in Dresden said therejection by the EntentePowers of the peace propos¬als oí the Central Powershad cancelled the terms ofthe Central Powers for a
future peace."Further sacrifices now
impending," said Count von
Westarp, "will call for quitea different standard of in¬demnities and restitutions.For the protection of Ger¬many there must be terri¬torial extensions east andwest and also in Belgiumfor the covering of Ger¬many's flank, especially witha view to a future war withEngland."Above all, Count von
Westarp said. Germany musthave war indemnities. Other¬wise her soldiers would re¬
turn home to meet tax billsfivefold heavier than beforethe war.
RAIDER PATROLOFF NEW YORK
British Admiralty Ad¬mits Warships AreGuarding Liner Lane
The patrol of fast British cruisersin the North Atlantic has converged be¬yond the three-mile limit outside ofNew York, a British Admiralty officialsaid yesterday. This official stated thathe had received a wireless messagefrom the commander of the fleet atHalifax informing him that the fleetwould be off New York yesterday.This man.uvre, the officer explained, '
was an answer to his request, sentMonday night to the fleet, to protectshipping lanes from any hostile Subma¬rine or raider.
"I don't know whether the raider,is off New York, and my request forprotection was only a precautionarymeasure, to allay fears of ocean trav-ellers leaving this port that any dan¬ger existed beyond the three-milelimit," the officer said.
False Reports Alarm Many"Many transatlantic voyagers have
become alarmed by various newspaperaccounts that submarines and raidersarc waiting especially for their ship,01 account of various interviews withincoming captains."A captain will report that he saw
a vessel with one funnol tant two mastson the horizon, iminedissrfr altered hiscourse, and went at all possible speedin the opposite direction This descrip¬tion will IH nearly any tramp steamer,and naturally means no hing. Anothercaptain probably will report that he,too, saw a vessel on tre horizon, andimmediately altered his course and es-,
caped by good luck.' "
"These two captains believe that tworaiders are present, when both are
honest merchantmen. The accountsdoubtle.-s make interesti ig reading, butin reality serve no purpose, other thanto alarm timid passengers. It is forthis reai-on that the sqi adron will pa-,trol particularly the route« convergingat New York."
Warships Off Saniy Hook
Great interest was manifested alongthe waterfront yesterday when reportsof the British squadron's presencethree miles outside Sandy Hook were
published. This is the first time sincethe beginning of the war that theBritish Admiralty has allowed thewhereabouts of any of Great Britain'sloot 'tb be made known.When asked if the squadron's pres¬
ence off New York did not simply mean
that it was on patrol duty betweenHalifax and Bermuda, the Admiraltyofficer replied: ".No; this manoeuvre isdifferent. It means that the s«iuadronwill be a little distance outside the neu¬
trality limit, keeping especial guardover the .shipping lanes entering theport nf New York."The fact that a portion of the British
fleet, is watching New York, is an ef¬fectual contradiction of the report thatthe raider wa.« sunk by the Britishcruiser Gla«gow 130 miles off Para on
.lanuarv II, which never received of-jticial confirmation.Among the fast British cruisers
known to be hunting the raider are theKssex, Suffolk, Glasgow, Lancaster, Ed¬inburgh Castle, Cumberland and Grama,but it i« not known whether all of thesevessels are watching New York or not.
WOMEN HE TRIES TO ROBBATTER "L" PICKPOCKET
Passers-by Arrive Just in Time to SaveHim from Plucky StenographersWhen a pi-kpocket at the Myrtle
Avenue station of the Brooklyn ele- ¡rota«*] attempted to relieve stalwartMiss Clarice Gunseth, of 13 (ioodwinPlace, Queens, of her jurse last nighthe made his lirst mistake. Hi.» second!and more grievo'j« error was to hitthe young woman. Immediately there¬after he began ;»-. choke to death.
Gunaoth Is nineteen and «trong.Mis.« Adeline McGregor, her companion¡ir.d a fallow -tc-nographer in the Wll-Ibur ¦en'Mtile Kxrhar-fp. Ht L'L'i» Broad-'way, i« eighteen and equally brawny,
.'Up ha« my parse." screamed Misa'Giin»eth, clutching the culprit."The horrid thing." Mi-« McGregor'
sympathized. Then the pickpocket hither friend. Miss Gunseth forgot herpurse and gave herself up to throttling*her assailant. Her companion grabbedthe man from behind and tried to dis-locate hi« vertebra*. The thief's fa.»had grown black bv the time men on
ike WOtfani tore him away.When detect«»..»- ».rr-veill they ar-
--»-.eil Morn« Batimán, of 55 VaretStreet They »ay he confessed to the;robbery. He hueged the detectives allthe way to the Seventh Branch Bureau,]for his accusers walked just behindhim.
BULLING FIRM GAVE PEACENOTE TIP,HUTTONSWEARSWire from Concern of Wilson'sBrother-in-Law Gave Forecast,
Leak Witness Admits
HEAD OFWASHINGTON HOUSETO BE ASKED SOURCE TO-DAY
Bernard M. Baruch, Denying Advance Knowt****edge, Tells How He Made Almost $500,000 inFew Days.Acted on Foreign Utterances
The trail of the elusive leak seemed to be growing hottoward the end of yesterday's hearing* in the Custom House.
E. F. Hutton, of E. F. Hutton & Co., brokers, waa on thewitness stand. He identified certain telegrams received an*1sent by his firm on December 20, about noon. At 5 o'clock on
the afternoon of this day the President gave his peace note tothe newspapers.
But the most important telegram of all he couldn't identifybecause it had not been preserved. This came to Hutton & Co.about noon, he said, from F. A. Connolly & Co., his firm's Wash¬ington correspondent. It said in substance that the Presidentwould issue that afternoon a message to the belligerents andneutrals outlining America's position in case of peace.
R. W. Boiling, President Wilson's brother-in-law, is a mem¬ber of F. A. Connolly & Co.
Mr. Connolly arrived here last night from Washington.He will testify this morning regarding this telegram and thesource of the information which it contained.
"I am ready to take an oath that Mr. Boiling has never ut¬tered any word about information from the White House andnever spoke to me about information concerning the first peacenote or any other in advance of publication," he said last night.
STEEL INCREASESEXTRA DIVIDEND
Earnings for Quarter of$105,968,347 Far Above
Past Records
The United States Steel Corporationbroke all record« during the last quar¬ter of 1916 by reporting yesterday net
earning« of $105,968,347. These were
larger than the prt/iona high water
mark, established in the third quarterof 191(5, by 120,151,280, and were in ex-
ces» of the full year's net revenue for1914, 1911, 1908 and 1904.An e?itra dividend of 1*4 per cent
was declared on the common »tock bythe directors at their quarterly meet¬
ing yesterday, in addition to the regu¬lar disbursement of 14 per cent. Forthe previous two quarter« the extra
distribution amounted to 1 per cent.
The regular quarterly payment of t*s)per cent on the preferred stock was
also declared.Wall Street, in view of the exception¬
al showing of the Steel Corporationla«t year, had hoped for a larger distri¬bution to the junior shareholder«. One
explanation offered for the conservat¬ism of the directors was that it was
their purpose to use surplus earningsin retiring underlying bond issues.The net earning« by months laat
quarter were: October, $36,177,392* No¬vember, $.36,443,543; December, $34,-347,411. Kach month exceeded the pre¬vious high monthly record of $30,420,-168 reached last September. In thisconnertion, however, it is recalled thatmonthly earnings in the third quarterof 1916 were on an ascending scale,whereas December fell be!"»*- the No¬vember total.
The Steel Corporation last yearearned a surplus of $246,412,318 forthe $508,302.600 common stock. Thisi« equal to $48.50 a «hare on that issue.In 1915 9.P6 per cent was earned, andin 1914 there was a deficit of $16,971,-9N4 after paying the common dividend.The most ever earned on the junior«hares prior to 1916 was 12.23 per cent,in 1910.After all charcres, including common
dividends, are paid there is a final sur-
pltM for 1916 of $201,935,749, based onthe figure« in the four quarterly re¬
port«. This means that in addition topaying common stock holder» $8.75 a
«hare, there was added to the surplusaccount approximately $40 a share.
Total net earning« for 1916, aftercharging off the interest on thebond« of subsidiary companies, were
$333,626,086. Thi» wag more thandouble the previous high record of
I onttnued no pas;« 3, nilumn Î
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» Among the other witnesses to bocall d will be a man named Toomey,the telegraph operator who sent themessage over the wire from the Con¬nolly offices.The Rules Committee ia even con¬
sidering summoning back fromGeorgia G. A. Ellis, jr., u member ofE. R Hutton & Co., who has goc*South for his b-eolth. Mr. EHia ifsupposed to be the man who per¬sonally received the message in thtHutton offices.
In any case, Ellis is the author ofI a telegram, which Mr. Hutton identi-fied, sem out by the Hutton firm toits forty-five correspondents through¬out the country and to its branchoffices in Los Ançeles and oan Fran¬cisco, combining rue information re-
ceived from Connolly with that re
ceived from Clement, Curtis it Co,its Chicago correspondent. The lat¬ter had telegraphed:
I hear that the State Departmentwill issue statement to-day regardingeconomic conditions European war
affecting neutrals intending to pro»mote peace prospect. What you thinkof this and how are you on stocks?
«Signed) CLEMENT.This telegram was received in New
York at 12:48 p. m., December 20. TheHutton firm immediately telegraphed Oreply, reading:
Clement: Our Washington wir«gave us similar message to yours.Others have same information andwe put it out, aa it is more or lea«generally known. Your message wa»marked confidential and w« treated Iteo. BUTTON A CO. .
Advent*« nig**-*t of Nota
The telegram sent by Mr, Ellis to allthe Hutton connections at 1:54 p. m.
ran as follows:We are confidentially Informed that
a highly important message to allbelligerents and neutrals has beenissued from Washington. Interpretednot as pressure on belligerent« labehalf o' peace, but a« an oppor¬tunity to put American demand« onrecord to be considered if there Upeace and warning that nevtral rightomu'.t not be further encroached upon.Full text to be given out to-night andwill I « looked upon a« a move ofgreat moment.
«Signed) <;. A. E., Jr!Among those who received this tele¬
gram was R. W. McKinnon, of Thomp¬son &. McKinnon, brokers of Chicago.Ellis addressed it "Rod and All." Earlyin the leak inquiry Representativ«Wood, of Indiana, instigator of theinquiry, mentioned McKinnon sa oneof the first to receive and disseminatethe advance peace note information.The chief importance of this message
for the purposes of the leak inquirylie«, II is considered, not only in it«description of the note, but in tt« ref.erence to it as having already been sent.This in'orm-j.tion wa« contained, It I«supposed, in the missing Washingtontelegram, since it is almost wholly ab-sent from the Chicago telegram. Mora.over, this information Is rauch richer Indetail, apparently, than Secretary Lan-sing's announcement concerning tb«lite to the newspaper men.
Lansing Gave No DigestThe Secretary of State, it will be re-
called, announced confidentially taWashington newspaper men at Ito'clock that morning that at b o'clockin the afternoon he would have an Ira»portant communication for them. Hi«own testimony in Washington on thispoint was:"At 11 o'eloek I interviewed the new«.
paper correspondents -.t the depart¬ment, and tol.l them that I would havean important communication to giv«them at 5 in the afternoon. ( told then«this in confidence. ... I stated to themthat the communication was, as I slat.ed, to all belligerents, but it did notcontain proposals for peace or an offer
j of mediation."i It was th« substance of this ou*
