Show VAIL HE WAS VAS 1 MADE SCAPEGOAT T Nov No 20 We We NEW YORK We are arc in iu tho midst of the greatest shakeup in Ufo the history of QI tho thin United Unite 1 States customs cus cuB toms tom department said bald William Loeb Lo-eb Jr collector r of tho tim port of New York 1 I toni tonight ht when shown Secretary MacVeagh's Mac Mac- summary or of the of-the the tho work thus far farl l in cleaning up tho the NewYork New New- cw- cw York customs house u Moro More employees have been een dismissed dismissed dismissed dis dis- missed from the Now York office o since I took charge tItan than in the entire previous pre pre- ious history of tho the service Benice service an and we wo arc not thi through We arc going goin to keep at it until the New York customs house is made thoroughly thorough respectable Am Amou Among o u g t those h ose dismissed yesterday was yas James N. N Vail deputy c collector II I I I ha have vo been bein m made mado do the scapegoat t said Vail Not only hayo havo J t becu ab ab- E faithful to the government for tho two twenty years rs c 1 have e been Inthe in the thc service but it is i's a known fact that while I was at nt the head of the weighing weigh weigh- h. h ing tug department I ferreted out the tho original original inal frauds |