W f: a t h e s«c.ir and somewhat colder to-day.Rain or snow to-morrow, withslowly rising temperature. Freshnotthwest winds, becoming

esst by Thursday.» nil Report eu Ta«e IÎ ^m%*^ First in l.iFirst to Last.the Truth

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'FEBRUARY 21, 1017 * * *» r.ViV' íTYT *.» .***»* ¦"«.** Citr- XtmmSt« ' 1 Tj v Ti.) 1 Jereey f*lly »ad Habokr«

President AvoidsDecision; Germany

. Renews DefianceCabinet and President Agree Upon

Delay, Hoping That U-BoatCampaign Will Fail

Germany Will Not Back Down, Teutons Declare_"Whoever Enters Barred Zone Perishes

in It," Wams «Semi-Official Over-seas News Agency

B> SIE*» KNSON H. EVA

Washington, Feb. 20..Th«

<j$nt and hie official advisers

ursly satisfied with the polie*this government has pursueitha break in diplomatic n

trith Germany. They b-eliev

the country is satisfied wi

policy.At a meeting of the Cabin

Uternoon the President in<

his firm purpose to go to the e:

rf patience. He will insistlongest possible delay on the |

«.] »rming ships and when he

gees before Congress he will

plain that only as a last recou

the face of actual destructiAmerican life and property, wi

loontry go to war.

AVOIDS DECISION ON ARM

Even on the question of a:

American merchantmen the mei

of the Administration hope tha

jovernment will be able to av

dtcision. American ships,thought, will not be held loi

port, ever, if arms are not supifter their owners see that the

»trine campaign has b«een a fa

Eventually, if conditions demaithe sbips will be armed with i

«runs.

Fiftrres supplied to-night byBritish Embassy go far Cowardporting the assertion that the«rani cannot make good their tlof frightfulness ,

on the highFor every hundred ships.veuB«Jer 100 tons not counted.wbave arrived at or left British jbetween February 1 and Febri14 the German? have sunk less I

«e. If that is the best the Gem»an do, American officials are ¦

mg to believe that the Germans

laardly f-irre the United States%S war by ruthless destructiorour ships, unwarned.The caution which the govcrnrr

¡i Ming was shown vividly to-da;the request sent to Turkey to ob1i ufe conduct for the Ameri»arships which are waiting to br

itfugee American» from Beirut.PORTING ACTION BY AISTRI.'The American government has

.tope of long maintaining diplom.relations w-th Austria. A high (

«a! of the department said to-<

'.lat break was sure and would co

«¦slickly unless the Dual Monarcpromptly reaffirmed its promise c<

«ained in the Ancona note.The aide mémoire which »*\mb¡

¦»dor Pcnfteld delivered at Vieri-.o-day was sent to force a statemr.*-**orj. Austria which in effect woi

«* a repudiation of the Genrran c

wee of frightfulness. As the Aitrians already have sent to this gcrrnment a note identical with t

^»erinsn note declaring unrestrictrobmarmc warfare, although t

united Statea ha.** not yet madeWOlir. there i- little hope of su<

'«Pudiation.Bulgaria has informed this go

*Tn*nent that no submarines fly tl

'?'.Ifariari fl-tg, and has reminded i

'¦at Bulgaria's ports all are on tl*-** Sea. The number of Turki*".«.aarines ¡n extremely small, bi*» soon ai the diplomatic brea'***1**s with Austria it will be c*

**niett to Turkey and Bulgaria.HM.SON < OM KAIS PLANS

High tMdals *aid after the Cab*** m-íetiriíf thai there had been n

w**lopmeTi! of importance, and in¦*ted that President Wilson ha«*** mad» known his decision as t*¦*«.¦ hip next sU-p would be taken.

castora of the Senate who talke-*¦* Administration officials durini* day gained the« impression tha

»¦'..»'liei-neritj- for thr- President's ap»..rapre before l ongtOM would In..««»early next i .

At the Sute I-epartitient it wai*** that the» situation continued U* *» aerious as it could be, short of

Th« Qispatvn from ( on«ti**H at Qut*«nirU>wn, announcing* «-.king by shall fire of the Nor

2»*> ».''»mer I'albtattie, with tm*¦».. Americans tn her i-rew, >.«.

,.7 *"* "f » number at reporU to* ^-"Un*rit whieh tell .r Vl())m.rr tof n««tr*' right«, and end«..^H tl aaiiieaL Hit. Available)

Only 1 in 100 Shipsin British Trade Sunk

Friajn Th* THlran» Bur«»iil

Washington, Feb. 20..The fol-lowing table, prepared from theofficial figures of the British Em¬bassy, shows how many vesselsbound to and from British port*)the submarines MISSED in thefirst two weeks of the U-boatcampaign from February 1 to 14,inclusive. In the same periodthey SANK 101 vessels.The embassy figures of arrivals

and departures do NOT includefishing vessels, coastioise trafficnor craft of under 100 forts bur-den. The. number of vessels sunk-does include all these, and alsovessels bound to other Allied andneutral countries:

Total Sumber DrtxiiyARRIVALS of Vessel» Aieraoe

British.4,053 290AllieA. 227 16Neutral. 497 35

Total.4,777 341SAILINGSBritish.3,928 280Allied. 225 16Neutral. 361 26

Total..4,514 322Total arrivais and

departures. ...9,291 663SINKINGSTotal sunk, in¬

cluding fishingcraft. ^017

information of such cases is beingassembled for the President.

Secretary Lansing would not dis¬cuss the Austrian situation.

Berlin Says PublicWill Not Brook Any

Yielding on U-BoatsBy ERNST KAHN

B«*\"a'ire!«*s» to The Tribun»

Berlin, Feb. 20 (via .Sayville.)There is no possibility of any inten¬tion on the part of the German gov¬ernment to change the submarinepolicy that was announced on Janu¬ary SI» The people would not under-derstand any such irresolution, espe¬cially in view of the fact that the re¬

sults of the submarine campaign so

far surpass expectation?.New developments in German-

American relations, therefore, must

begin at Washington. For that rea¬

son news from the United States isfollowed by the German public withthe keenest of interest.

Notwithstanding a break in thediplomatic relations, private con¬

cerns and communications so farhave been undisturbed. The .-\meri-cans still in Germany are treatedwith the utmost courtesy.American insurance companies do¬

ing business in Germany have an¬

nounced there will be no change in

policy on their port.

Those Who Enter ZonePerish, Teutons Repeat

Berlin (by wireless to Sayville),1 lb. .JO.."German newspapers pointout," says the semi-official OverseasNew| Agency, "that for several daystne British authorities have kept se¬

cret the amount of the losses of Kn-tente merdlant ships in order to

make the British people believe Uiat

there is no more submarine danger.But the British public will soon beundeceived."As to the destruction of German

submarines since February 1, com¬

petent German authorities knownothing.

"It must be repeated again andagain that whoever dares to pene-trate the barred MM perishe!* in it."

VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE FELT

.Seismofrsph at Washington KeeordsHh«Kks for forty-oae Minutes

Washington, Krb. 20. Extraordinär-

-J, fiaient esrth shocks wer. recordé

by the »»¡»mp-rrsph at <.eonet<>wn I m-

varsity Ob«-*rvaU>ry this afternoon.

from l<« ****** oVlock Th" d",U"M

.., e.timate*. .< \m *" Um* TamUt

'Th^nVÄ^f fer of «he H. ¡*. Vmeñts -ii th« observatory were

»tt^iwi ka tha wwu»U yikiattm.

IT BEATS ALL WHAT SOME PEOPLE CAN SLEEP THROUGH!

Two AmericansImperilled ByRuthless Sinkin

U-Boat Shells DefenceleNorwegian Passenger Shi]

After It Halts

London. Feb. ¡"O..The liwnative Americans werj imperilled Surday, when the Norwegian pausen«;steamer Dalbeatie was sunk by «ihellii

thirty miles off Festnet, it developto-day.The Dalbeatie. which was bound f

Gibraltar from Glasgow, was stoppwhen the submarine fired the first shibut was shelled without cessation whithe passengers and crew were takiito the lifeboats, according to the

statementsThe weather was rough and (i*e «u

i vivors were not picked up until ninteen hours later. Of the two Amei

i-ai. on board-Frank Wood, of KeenN. Ii., and John Guerra, of Los Ai

geles--the foimer is now in the ho

pi tal at Schuil. suffering from acu

br'.nchitis, contracted prior to the diastir, but severely aggravated by «

po.-urc on the open sea.The steamer carried neither gui

nor wireless, and was helpless und«thi- submarine's HtUck.Two other ships were reported sun

to-day. swelling the toll of destructioby the U-boat« just 1.023 tons- thsmallest amount of shipping reporte

i sunk on an*" day during I he threweeks of the campaign. They wer

the British schooner Rose Dorotheand Mayóla, both Newfoundland tishinboats. The former wa« owned at Provinretown. Mass., but was sold last yeato ¦ St, Johp's firm and transferred t

British registry- She measured onl

I 147 tons.

Unarmed, No Wireless,Dalbeatie Was Helples«Washington, Feb. 20. -Consul Fros

cabled the State Department toda;that two native Americans were ahnanthe Dalbeatie when it was sunk by shelfire last Saturday. He said the steamewar unarmed and stopped her engine;at the first shot from the submarinewhich continued to shell while the pas»engers were abandoning the ship. Th«dispatch follow» :

"Norwegian steamship Dalbeatie, HItons, coal, Glasgow to Gibraltar, sunl7 a. m.. 17th, hy shell fire, thirty mileioff FaBlast Carried neither gun noi

wireless. Stopped engine« upon first«hot, but wa« shelled wi!hout paus«while abandoning ship. N«i injuries;no offers aid. Weather heavy, -.well.«,light wind, clear »ky. Koats rescued1;M a. m., IMh, after burninir flares."Two native Americans, Frank Wood,

John Guerra, of whom former is in hos¬pital at Schuil, acute bronchitis, con-

i trarted prior to disaster, hu! aggiavat-e-d by exposure."Am mailing affidavit from master

and Guerra."

Germany Plans for CitiesTo Pay U-Boats' UpkeepCopenhagen, Feb. 20. The K.el"/,ei

lung," a copy of which ha» he« n re

reived here, announces that a new planfor the promotion of (¡ermany's sub¬marine war i» starting throughout (¡it

many, t'nder the plan it is proposedthat the important towns each "adopt".ne submarine and its crew, entirelydefraying tho cost of the upkeep ofthe ves»el arid men. supplying- ihemwith rfothes. provision» and luxuries.and p«*mß pension» to disabled men

Ol* Uiitmléo

U-BOAT TOLL IS LOWESTSINCE CAMP.4IGN BEGAN

The results of the (¡ermita ¦».»''.-mnrive campaign from FebruaryI to dote are ns fottotREPORTED SUNK YESTERDAY

Dalbeatir. Norwegian. 819Rose Dorothea. British ... 147Mayol*. British. 57

'.Total. 1.023PREVIOUSLY REPORTED

Number of ships, 124; tonnage.261,923.TOTAL SINCE FEBRUARY 1

Number of ships, 127', tonnage,262.946; British, 80; other Allied,8; American, 2; other neutrals, 37.

"This it the smallest amountof toniuii/r sunk reported ov anyday since Cermany declared onre-

ttfieted warfare.

More U. S. ShipsSail, Unarmed, for

The War Zone

Three American vessels sailed ye«-terday unarmed for ports situated with¬in Germnny's prohibited sea area. Fiveother merchantmen left New York lor

»he European submarine 7one.

The American vessels were the Mon-

golis for London, Navshoe for Genoaand thr* Algonquin for London. Allvessels carried general cargoes, includ¬ing contraband supplies for the Alliedgovernmentt. Other vessel» were theNorthern British i. Havre; J. B. Aug.;Kessler Dutch i, Rotterdam; Mar Bsl-tie* Spanish i, Mediterranean ports;Avala Italian i, Genoa, and the Danishbark Maggan for Aalborg, Sweden.

Nine vessels arrived throughout theday fiom ports located in the restricted(iernmn sea area. They were the Or-duna (British) from Liverpool; PstnaFrench », Naples; Ausonia British I,London. Thorvald Halvorten iSwed-ibhi, St. Nazaire; Ktaex (British), Liv¬erpool; Atholl »British). London;Trevor (British). Barry, and FarmusenBritisrS), Amsterdam.The French Line «.tesmship Lai

".©uraine left Bordeaux at 1 s. m. yes-terdsy. according to a cshlegrsm re-jceived by the line's sgents here. I

U. S. Seeks SafeConduct for NavyShips inWarZone

Turkey Asked to Get BerlinGuarantee for the Des

Moines and Caesar

TtOm Tea Tribuna lliliaa.i

Washington, Feb. 20. The cxtieme

to which Mr. Wilson is prepared to go

to avoid the risk of hostilities with

Germany wa« made plsin to-day in a

cable dispatched to the American An-

bssssdor in Turkey, Mr. Flkus. He

was instructed to inform the TurkishForeign Office that the United States

cruiser Des Moines and the collier('««ar, now at Alexandria, having on

board medical supplies, foodstuffs andother provisions, will be ordered to

.laffa to disembark their cargoes, then

to Reirut, to take on board 1.000 refu¬

gee American«, provided Turkey ob¬tains assurances from Germany and

Austria-Hungary that the American

naval vessels will not be interferedwith by the submarines of the Central

empires.It is the official judgment here that

discretion in this case is the better

part of valor. The government'sprimary purpose is to get the refugeeAmericans out of Turkey as quicklyand with as little trouble a- poásibl"The I'nited States has not admitted

ihe legality of the German submarine

blockade, but it accepts the fact an«l,

a« long «* Hiere is not actual war

between the German Empire and thiscountry, 't feels obliged to keep its

«hips Of war well away from tho firingline.

Voluntary assurances of the safetyof American naval vessels are expectedfrom Berlin and Vienna, and under no

circumstances will a direct request bemade to those capitals, because of therecognition of the blockade which sucha request would convey.

It i« thought that at least fifteenday« will be required to learn whetherBerlin. Vienna and Constantinople willpromise not to interfere with the DesMoines and the Osar.

Loi-ds Hear Woman Lawyer BillLondon, Feb. 20..A messure per¬

mitting women to practise as solicitorsreceived its first reading in the House

of Lords to-day. It was introduced byBaron Buckmaster, of Cheddington.

Inside pageUnited States calls upon Austria-Hungary to

say whether its U-boat pledges, given after -

Ancona and Persia incidents, still stand... .*

State Department investigating an allegedGerman espionage system maintained by ~

Count von BernstorfFs clerks. J

President Wilson may break a century oldprecedent by not calling special session of -*

the Senate on March 4. /

Senate adds fifty submarines to the naval con- »

struction programme. 0

Girl, 6, FacedPerils Aboard

¡ Torn U-BoatFather's Vessel Sunk, Child

Became Mascot ofUndersea Raider

Crippled by Explosionof Ship It Torpedoed

Commander of SubmarineSaid To Be Man WhoTorpedoed Lusitania

Copenhagen, Feb. 20..SoheigJacobsen, the six-year-old daughterof a Norwegian ship master, whohas arrived here with her parentson the way to Norway, has thedistinction of not only being the firstchild to make a voyage on a German-submarine, but of beinp the guestduring «.he eight-day trip of the sub¬marine commander, who is declared

j to have sunk the Lusitania.Solve g's father, Isach Jacobsen,

Wal the master of the Norwegianship the Thor II, which was sunk bythe submarine. The U-boat tow«edthe ship's boats with the crew oftwenty-eight toward land for a timeand finally left them to shift for1themselves, but the commander re¬

tailed the master, his wife and childm the submarini* while he continued.

the cruise.

The operations, however, were ofshort duration, for the next ship en¬

countered proved to be laden *A*ithammunition for France. The sub¬marine was so shaken by the terrificexplosion when the steamer was tor-

¡.ei'oed, and by an encounter with a

1«; itish destroyer, which all but sankthe U-boat by ramming, that one en-

pine was put out of commission.

Ketrested to Heligolsndi he ¡-ubmarine limped homeward

along a route west of Ireland and northI of the Shetland.!, dodging many British

patrol slips arid destroyers, and tinallv

¡went into port at Heligoland.Captain Jscobsen, in describing his

experiences, dwelt on the human side

of the man who he came to understandwas the Lusitania'* destroyer, as shown

in the treatment of little Solveig. The

child was adopted as a sort of mascot

by the submarine and decorated with a

bit of ribbon from the commander'sIron CroHS, which he received for an

«.¡irlier achievement.The submarine's phonograph played

"Solveig's Song," by Grieg, as tho wak¬

ing melody for the child, and the sail¬

ors made a pet of her during off dutyhours.During the short stay at Helgoland,

where the Jacobsens were the first neu-

tral visitors during the war. the com-

mander of the island called to pay his

respects and presented the child with

many souvenirs of her visit.

Captain Jacobsen's description of the

torpedoing of the ammunition shipshows one of the perils to which sub¬

marines are exposed. The submarinehad halted the ship, *nd. ignorant ofits character, prepared to sink it bygunfire to save the torpedoes.

Fled from l)estro>erThe first shot attracted s British de¬

stroyer, which came at full spqpd. Thesubmarine hastily submerged, sendinga torpedo at the steamer before goingunder. An appalling explosion fol¬

lowed, which, had the submarine been«till on the surface, might have hadeven more «erious consequences.

"\Vp had no time to see what becameof the steamer's crew, which were in

the boats near the steamer," said theNorwegian. "The submarine wits tossedabou*. M convulsively by the force ofthe explosion that we were all throwndown. The submarine's deck was rippedup and we thought our last hour had,come."The destroyer headed at ever increas¬

ing speed for the submerging subma¬rine, but the U-boat was far enoughdown to escape the full force of theblow. The men in the I ."-boat w*ere

thrown hither and thither, but a quickexamination showed that the submarinehad not sprung a leak.The return trip was one long succes¬

sion of "ups and downs," the subma¬rine being obliged to submerge fre¬quently, as often as once an hour, to

avoid British patrol thips.The sensations of the civilian pas

tengerrs during the frequent dive», andparticularly during the anxious mo-

meSjts when the submarine was care¬

fully feeling its way to the surface,ignorant of whether a British shipmight not be wsrting to ram her, were

by no means agreeable, and the ex¬

treme variations of temperature be¬tween the submerged and surface po¬sitions »ere hare» to bear.

I -Boat Orchestra Pit««

The food aboard was good and abun¬dant, the boat having been provisionedtee a four weeks' cruise.The arrival at Heligoland, where the

commander, owing to earlier achieve-ments, ¡s highly popular, was a tri¬

umphal entry. The entire crew offorty-two men came on deck. As thesubmarine slowly entered tha harbor,ts orchettrs ot fifteen men played theGerman anthem. The commander, hold-rng Solveig by the hand, stood on the Ibridge acknowledging the cheers fromthe crews of other crsft in the bsy.

The name, of tha commander of theGerman submarine which sank the Lu¬sitania hat never bten officially an¬

nounced. The latett unofficial an¬

nouncement of the submarine captainrespontible for that ship's destructionn, naine.! Captain Mn\ Valentirier. ton

of the dran «i( lh-' Sonilrr-b'jiv luth«-

English PacifistsRebuked by Law

They Had Asserted in Com¬mons That the War Was

for Conquest

London, Feb. 20-In the House ofCommons to-day addresses were madeby Arthur Ponsonby, Charles P. Trevel-yan, Philip Sn-)wden and other paci-fists, who asserted that the EntenteAllies were pursuing a wsr of con-

quest and reproached the governmentfor its failure to respond to the Ger¬man peace overture.Snowden «ieciared the longer the war,

continued the less likelihood there was

that terms satisfactory to either partywould bo found. Andrew Bonar Law,Chancellor of the Exchequer, said thatin no other country would suchspeeches have been listened to patient¬ly. It via.« impossible to conceive, headded, that there was any other methodfor securing peace and the liberties ofthe people except by fighting until theGerman military machine was beaten.

20 Injured WhenTheatre Elevator

Falls Six Stories

New York Roof Garden Vis-itors Sent to Hospital;Operator Arrested

Sunn-thing went wrong with an ele¬vator which carries patrons to andfrom the roof garden on top of theNew York Theatre last night. The car,

jammed full of men and women, shotdown from the sixth floor to the bot-torn of the shaft, shattering walls andsides when it hit and injuring twentypersons, eight so severely that theywere taken to the hospital.The cause of tho accident has not yet

been determined, although AssistantDistrict Attorney Sullivan is now con¬

ducting an investigation to fix the re¬

sponsibility. Eugene Johnson, the ele¬vator man. who is now locked up atthe West Forty-seventh Street policestste, insists that he was carrying onlyfifteen passengers, the legal limit forthe car. He is unable to explain howtwenty were injured by the fall.

Says He Counted Fifteen

When one of the performances was

over at the roof garden, shortly beforemidnight, Johnson began to csrry the

departing patrons down. He say« thathe counted carefully and had only fif¬teen on board. A.« he pulled the cableto start the car on it« downward jour-ney, the elevator began to drop at its

usual rate, but gained speed rapidly.Johnaon say«« that he gripped the

cable to stop its flight, but was carried

Of to the top of the car before he

could let go. Screams began before

the elevator had passed the fifth story

and increased in vigor as it fell further,

continuing to gain momentum.

There was a terrific crash when the

basement was reached, and the frantic

passengers were thrown into a heapupon the shattered floor. Men in a

billiard hall in the basement of the

building rush'-d la their aid and

dragged them out.

Police Hold Back Crowd

The noise of the fall and the clangof the ambulance« which appeared a

few moments later brought a swarm ofpeople to the doors of the theatre. Re-lerres from the West Forty-seventhStreet police station were called out to

hold the crowd back. Two Catholicpriests ran into the billiard room, whichhad been turned into an emergencyhospital, but no one was severelyenough injured to need their aid.

List of the InjuredThose taken to the hospital were:

i RESBNZO, Artillio D.. tenor, of 201West Forty-fourth Street; fracturedleft foot.

RRIN'DEL. Matthew, engineer, of 402West 115th Street; possible fractureof right foot.

GOLDBERG, Louis, of 18« Clymer |Street. Brooklyn; possible fractureof left foot.

EISEMAN. Joseph, of 175 East Seventy-ninth Street; injury to foot.

FEINMAN". Morris, of 523 West UOthStreet; injury to foot.

CUOMO, Francis, of 108 West Forty-ninth Street; ankle sprained.

Bl'SOM. Mrs. S. of 254 West Forty-fourth Strtet; possible fracture ofboth legs.

MARTINEZ. Mrs S. E.. of 12 FourthStreet, Weehawken, N. J.; both an¬

kles injured.Those who received medicsl atten-1

tion and went home were:

Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Motley. Bilt-more Hotel, »hock; J. A. Munyon, of1270 Broadway, sprained back; MorrisSpitzer, of 921 Market Street, Phila¬delphia, shock; Mrs. Morris Spitzer,sprained ankle; Clarence 11. Wenn, of27 William Street, shock; M. Busonl.of 254 West Forty-fourth Street,shock; Joseph Eisler, of 2100 FifthAvenue, shock; Louis Williams, of ni)\

Madison Avenue, shock; M. Bernheim-er. of 104 West Sixty-ninth Street,shock and sprained ankle; Miss MayArcher, of 96 Eighth Avenue, shockand sprained ankle; Emile Schoenberg,of 38 West Fifty-fourth Street,-sprained ankle.-.-

BENJAMIN N. DUKE ILL

Capitalist Suffers Nervous BreakdownEn Route to Palm Beach

Durham, N. C, Feb. 20..Benjamin N.

Duke, the New York capitalist, was

brought here to-day from Jacksonville,Fis., said to be suffering from a ner-

vou* breakdown. Accompanied by Mrs.Duke, he wa» en route to Pslm Beach,but on arrival it Jacksonville it wa*

«learned advisahle to return here. -Mem*her« of his family »aid he ¿»-as restingeasily.

Food Riotsof WomenExcite City

5,000 at Protest MeetingAsk Officials to Aidin Reducing Prices

City Hall Stormedby Hungry Mothers

Disturbances in Four Bor¬

oughs.Mayor to MeetDelegation To-day

A liorile of hungry women

marched to the City Hall yesterdaydemanding food. That was onlyone of the disturbances that th«

pressure of high prices inspired inNew York. There were riots on thelower East Side, on Park Avenue,north of 100th Street; in the Clare-mont Park district of The Bronx amiin Brooklyn.These culminated last night in «

meeting: of 5,000 frenzied, women in.side and outside the Forward Build,ing, 175 East Broadway, where, af¬ter much confusion, resolution,-; wenjadopted calling upon the President,the Governor and the .Mayor to In.tervene and brins* prices down.

RISE UNCALLED lV)R"The rise in the cost of living haï

been so great and uncalled for," th«resolutions read, "that we are com¬

pelled to deny ourselves and ourchildren the necessaries <.! lif.\ W.-»pay for our needs out of the wagesof our husbands, and the Americanstandard of living cannot b<« main¬tained when potatoes are 7 cents a

pound, bread 6 cents, cabbage L'Ocents and onions 18 cents. We callupon yog, Mr. President, in thi«!crisis that we are facing."The personal appeal of the worn« «r,

who marched into City Hall Pathearlior in the day failed otiU piir.pose, for the Mayor was away, liasaid, however, last evening that hewould be glad to see a commiUc«* «>ften women at noon to-day, if theycame in an orderly fashion.A cordon of uniformed poli«-emT|

and detectives was rushed in automn«biles to protect the hall at the first*word of the mob's advance. Behindthe cordon the iron outer «rates of th«building had been svvung to and locked.

i'tRK IN TUMULT

Nevertheless the women kept CityHall Park in tumult for more than anhour before a combination of persua«.sion aiiái force got them to march nortiiagain. While they remained theescriamcd their slogan up into the fac«*sof the mounted policemen who ro«i«among them: "Give u« food!"

There were only about 300 of ¦»

women, but the crowd in the park had!swelled to as many thousand« within *

few minutes, complicating matters foi»

the police. It was close to the nom

hour, and many other thousand» ofjbusiness men and women, passing th«park on their way to luncheon, obtaineda first hand glimpse of what, «oarini«

food prices meant to thé submerge«!tenth.

In the poorer districts throukhougthe city protests against th«- h-.uhi.ecost of living continued to be regí«,tered more strenuously if less spec,

tacularly. Pushcarts were upset, cellatstorerooms raided, atock* of boycottedonion« and potatoes »cattered or de¬

stroyed.But overturned carts and battered

pedlers and produce sprinkled ultitkerosene by embattled houscwr.c«, andthe hunger which wii the moving spinsin the carnage were all epitomized man incident which fell under the eye»}of a Tribune reporter at Madison andOliver streete.

BOY CAINS A PRIZEOn the corner stood a boy w.th »,

prize.a hunk of black bread overlaid]with a veneer of grime which wouldhave meant instant condemnation had a

minion of the Health Department beennear. The hungry boy was about t*Myears old.When he had bitten into his treasure

a couple of time» another boy qí about

the same age approached on the run.

There was a clash, out of which the

youthful bread pirate emerged with thestakes. Racing away, with the rightfulowner in hot pursuit, the pirate waa

knocked down by a streetcar and rolled

along in frjnt of ita fender for Severalyards. A crowd gathered. Into the

crowd plunged the boy who had first

posseased the bread. When he wormedhis way out again which waa juit a»

an ambulance came up to get the vic¬

tim.he waa contentedly eating *

diminished hunk of even more grimyblack 'oread.The mob which descended on the City

Hall formed in Rutgers Square. There

were a couple of tnousand of the

women then. Ha-lf a «loten took turns

in haranguing the crowd. They »pokein Yiddish, but there were plenty of

interpreter« on hand to volunteer th«

information that two ideas stood out m

nil the ineerhmakatig:"Lai US ..km. ixof txxmamm,** U »