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New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
RED ARMY AMBUSHEO
Attempt to Capture Roadway
Results in Heavy "LosS."
BLUES STRATEGIC MOVE
Forces Camp Within Mile of
Each Other-Day Full of Act
ual Warfare Maneuvres.
From The Tribune Correspondent

Camp Fielder. Sea Girt. y. J.. July 90
Tonight all that IS left Of the red army.
which this morning went under orders
from headquarters 10 capture the stra-
tegic position controlling the Burrsvllle
road are encamped about three miles
from here. waiting for dawn, when they
will return TO the base Of their army
here. In an endcayOr 10 capture the posi-
tion which would give them the com
manding hand over the roadway leading
from the north to the base OF the blue
army in the forests Of Ocean County.
ten miles away. the reds were attacked
by a rear guard Of the blues. The latter
had been detailed 10 hold the advances Of
the red army I'm check Until reinforce
ments could be rushed 10 protect their
possession OF the highway right
In command Of Major Lohman the red
army proceeded In the ncighborhood Of
the point where T. had been reported the
blues were cncamped. Within half a mile
Of their objective point they were at
tackled from both sides OF the roadway
by the guard Of the blue army
The blues held absolute control OF the
situation from the fact that they were
ambushed behind breastworks and en-
trenchme lts. which they had thrown up
during the me rning. Fearing that the
blues had still further strength beyond
the bend in the road, the reds decided 10
retreat. but this was not accomplished
without a great loss OF life, theoretically.
Tonight the two armies are encamped
within a mile OF each other. Double
lines OF sentrics surround the two camps.
both fearing a midnight attack II is ex-
pected the Reds will retire to the base
Of their army at Sea Girt early to-mor-
row morning.
The work to-day was part Of the
training through which the soldiers OF
the 9TH Infantry OF New Jersey are 60
Ing. II was carried on for the purpose
or exemplifying the duties OF rear guard
in time Of actual warfare and 10 give the
men instruction I'm individual cooking and
pitching Of shelter tents
While the third battalion was out I'm
the country on the tactical work the first
and second spent the day I'm camp here.
Practice kept the boys Of the second on
the rife ranges the entire day.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31

Evelyn Nesbit Thaw w1o recently made
hit with her dancing in London. ar
rived here yesterday from Southampton
on board the White Star liner Olympic.
She was booked on the passenger list as
Miss Evelyn Nesbit. She said she was
done forever - IN the name Of Thaw.
When told that posters announcing her
appearance at HJmmcrstein's Roof Car
den bore the name Thaw, the former wife
OF stanford Whites slayer said the bills
would have 10 be changed.
Il am through with that name" she as
serted with emphasis. II have had too
much Of that name in my lifetime, and If
any one tries to injure me because Of my
association with that case I'm going 10
hgnt 'em as nard as ! can. I'm some
scrapper, believe me! II you doubt 1t just
ask Jerome. Hammerstein will have 10
take the Thaw off the posters or l won't
appear"
when l went abroad" she said, Il had
no intention Of returning 10 the stage.
Jack Clifford. who with his VIE cane
over in the Olympic with me. induced me
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
IN DARK, M'POOKS FLUKE;
NEITHER WAS THE BURGL AR

together with her pewelry. had been
stolen.
pa. is that you?" Mrs. McPook saws
she exclaimed. but got no answer. the
hand still searching under the mattress.
Then she says she thrust out her hand
and clutched the burglar by the Shout
der whereupon the latter demonstrated
that he was not her husband by trying
TO choke her.
At this juncture Mr. McPook saws he
was awakened BY his wife's screams and
grappied with the burglar. who released
Mrs. McPook, and she shouted for their
son, William, twenty-seven years old
who was downstairs. Then. according %
both Mr. and Mrs. McPook. ensued a
three-cornered fight, and when II was
over and light was brought Mr.. Nc
Pook and his son were wrestling over the
room, each taking the other for the burg
lar, while the latter had gotten safely
away, but without any booty.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
DWYER ON MAYORS RACK
Barber's Charges in Letter
Bring About Hearing.

BY order of the Mayor, a preliminary
hearing was conducted at Police Head
quarters yesterday 10 determine II
charges should be preferred against John
+. Dwyer, police inspector in command
OF the 4th Inspection District.
Complaint was made by John Reisler.
known as John the Barber" who
charged I'll treatment. Reser said the
inspector was displeased because he did
not receive a large number of tickets To
recent boxing bouts in which Reisler was
interested.
Relsler told Deputy Commissioner New
berger. before whom the hearing was
held. that on Monday night Dwyer, with
several OF his men, came into his barber
shop in l7th street, near Broadway, with
warrant for the arrest of a man
charged with running card game. The
warrant was issued upon complaint OF a
man who said he lost S70O I'm card game
in the rear of the barber shop.
Reisler complained that the policemen
dsarranged his furniture and put several
customers to great inconvenience He
said also that no evidence of gambling
was found.
The barber said his trouble arose over
his refusal to give tickets TO boxing
matches to policemen. He said the off,
cials OF the 4ith Street Sporting Club de-
cided to limit the supply after they lost
5000 through giving tickets to policemen.
Reisler said Dwyer and his men tried
to enter his private office on Saturday
night but he turned them out, and the
inspector cursed him and made insulting
remarks to him on the street. He placed
the matter in the hands of attorneys and
wrote a complaint TO the Mayor
Deputy Commissioner Newberger will
submit his findings to Acting Commits
giOner Mckay
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
JUDGE ADVOCATES LASH
Lewis L. Fawcett Says It's Use
Has Helped England.

Judge Lewis L. Fawcett, Of Brooklyn,
who had been abroad for a month with
his two young brothers, James NJ and
Alfred II. Fawcett. returned yesterday
from Southampton by the White Star
liner Olympic.
While in England he visited various
courts and prisons. and came home with
the belief that it was time 70 use Ihe Idsh
on offenders in this country
'aThey have knocked out the white slave
,rsa7c IN England" he said, "by the whip
ming post They use the lash on first de-
gree burglars and highwaymen, and after
those prisoners have received sixty lashes
and havehad salt rubbed into the wounds
they either change their minds about en-
raging in further crimes or leave the
country. have come 10 the conclusion
that the way 20 stamp out the oad men
is 10 meet brutality with brutality
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31

to appear with him in a dance. He de-
vised tie dance snd We tried II out un-
hcraldei at matinee at the London HIP
podrome. Thes d.d not know either Mr..
clifford or myself. but they went Wild
over the dance
Mrs Thaw was slenderer than when
she went abroad She said the dance was
a hard one md had reduced her weight
greatly She was dressed simply. Her
three year-old son. Russell, was left with
frienl Is at Fokstone for the four weeks
she viii be I'm this country.
As soon as Mrs Thaw came ashore a
hig man with legal paper thrust II be-
fore her and asked her TO read IL. She
looked at the paper and calmly asked him
If ne intended TO arrest her. tie eA-
plained tnat sne was in contempt OF court
for leaving the country when She should
have appeared in answer 10 a suit brought
against her by local jewslry company.
She promised TO appear in court and re-
ferred the man to her attorneys. The
man dIsclaimed any intention of causing
her arrest.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
BOOSTERS" GET A MILLION
Thousands Victims by Okla
homa Land Scheme, Police Say

TRy Telegraph 20 The Tribune.l
Philadelphia. July 3O.-More than $4,000
was obtained in this state by the realty
statesmen who operated from the Okla
hona booster car according to the
statement mace by Postal Inspector
Frank Wilbur Smith to-day Before COM
ing to Pennsylvania the car toured iii
nois, Indiana and Ohio, and II is said
thousands purchased lots in or near
McAlester CITY, okla, with the assurance
that they would get the first chance at
government land when the Choctaw Res
ervation was opened. officials estimated
that the promoters gained 100000 by
their scheme.
-Four warrants have been issued for
statesmen who are alleged TO have used
false pretence in dsposng OF property.
Those named IN the charges are Judge
Roy Van Ness. Dr. Brown. G. c. Tobias
and Frank Hennessy.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
Mother Gives Alarm-Fathe
and Son Mix 1t Without a
Light, While Real In
truder Gets Away.

Newton. y. j.. July 3o.-An attempted
robbery, IN which father and son fought
each other in the dark each thinking the
other was the burglar. until the real In
truder got away, was described to-day
by Ezra McPook and his wife, Of No Il
Woodsde avenue.
They went to bed about 10 o'clock last
night Mrs. McPook says she was awak-
ened about fifteen minutes later by feel
ing hand thrust between the mattresses
and the under tick She thought her
husband was playing a practical joke on
her by making her think that the $40 she
had in a pocketbook under the mattress,
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
MILLER Anglers BRONX
Refusal to Approve Site for
War Monument Criticised.

Indignation is being expressed in The
Bronx over the refusal Of Borough Presi-
dent Miller to approve the site for the
Bronx Spanish War Monument in the
plaza in front OF the North Side Board of
Trade Building, 18th street, Third and
Lincoln avenues.
The project was started in 1901 but was
delayed through lack Of funds. There is
now prospect of obtaining the requisite
amount. and application has been made
to the Art Commission for approval OF
the site and design. The commission re-
fused TO act without the sanction Of Mr..
Miller. After delaying the matter for
nearly month, 1t is said. Mr.. Miller now
asks that the petition he denied on the
ground hat the fund mas not been com
pleted
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
BIG TURTLE FOR CENTRAL PARK

a leather back turtle. weighing s66
pounds and said to be one Of the largest
OF its kind in captivity. is the latest ac-
QUESTION by the Central Park menagerie.
IT measures 81 feet long from nose 10 tip
OF tail and is -. feet wide. The newcomer
was presented TO the park yesterday by
Benjamin Ka,zenstein. Of No. 1903 Second
avenue a fish merchant. who said II was
captured off the coast OF California
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
TOWN TO TAKE DAY OFF.

fFrom The Tribune CorrespondentI
Caldwell. y. j., July 3o-This place will
be n deserted village tomorrow. which is
the annual holiday OF the community
known as Caldwell Day" Most OF the
townspeople will make excursions TO AS
bury Park and Ocean Grove. Many Of the
stores Will lbe closed, and even the weekly
game of baseball has been called off.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31
STEAMER ON MAIDEN VOYAGE

The new steamer Tyler. Of the Old Do
minion Line. which left Norfolk. Va, on
Tuesday on her initial voyage. arrived
here yesterday. Her dimensions are about
$50 feet over all. with tonnage OF 5000
She is named in honor of President John
TYLER
New-York tribune., 1913-07-31

More hot Weather ntIps.
Suits without a vest-made
of featherweight fabrics.
Blue and gray feather
weight batiste - nunscloth'
porous English worsted. Cana
dian crash. natural silk, mo-
hair and Linen.
sui, Of tsathervesh, ta.s.s hy the
way. in an average mans size. weighs y
thirty ounces. g
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19
LINENS WOMEN'S DRESS TO
A LUNATICS FANCY FALL
Basil King, Author, Says Modern Fash
ions Affect Their Morals For
Good or Bad.

Cambridge, Mass, April 1S.-Basil
King, writer of fiction, declared today
that the changing fashions of the
modern women SAVIOR of the lunatic
asylum, and that woman's wearing
apparel affects her morals for good
or bad.
Il had walked down Fifth avenue the
other day and it was like being at a
fancy dress ball in lunatic asylum,
he said.
This fiaring of crazy colors, do
not doubt at all, affects the people who
are compelled to look at it day after
day. 1t makes you feel as if you hal
been looking at moving picture of
the cubist order.
THE more civilization was increased
the further people previously had come
to covering their bodies up. The in
clination of the present generation IS
on the down grade, for women take of
instead of put on.
''If you are walking in a street you
do not have chance to see what sort
of faces women have. Their gaudy,
weird-shaped clothes kill everything
except their figures. The spiritual
qualities of women dwell in their
faces. Since their faces are hidden
under hair or hat or put under a total
eclipse by their clothes, the appeal
women make is most decidedly to the
crosses senses"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19
WORRYING? gLAUGH
AND FORGET IT

too much. Later, he discovered that
there is enough prosperity for each
and every man to have a share if he
will buckle up. quit worrying, and go
after it.
Say, didn't God have you in mind
when he made the sun to shine, the
flowers to bloom and the birds to sing;
and when he taught little children 10
laugh, and good women to smile; and
when he put it into the heart of some
good man to call you Neighbour"
The stole says, Grin and endure
it." Robert Louis Stevenson says
Laugh and forget it."
The man worth while is the man who
can smile
When everything goes dead wrong"
Some wag has said that no mar
ever got so down-in-t he-mouth a:
Jonah, and he came out all right.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19
SENATOR WORKS ATTACKS THE
PAPERS Of UNITED STATES
Says Newspapers that Poison Minds of Readers Ought
to be Barred. Would Prevent Publication
of Crimes

Washington. D. c., April 1S.-Sen-
ator Works attacked present-day
journalism and the newspapers of the
United States in a speech today in sup
port of his bill to make it unlawful
for the District of Columbia newspa-
pers to publish details of crimes, acct
dents and tragedies The senator in
troduced a similar bill last session bur
it was not acted upon.
Whether people want this kind of
Eews or not is one of the questions t.
be considered, looking at journalism as
nothing higher than a means of max,
ing money" said the senator News
paper men maintain that they furni N
this kind of news because the people
want and will have it, and therefore,
it is the only way of maintaining their
publication on paying basis. If this
is true, it is certainly a melancholy
fact If it is untrue, it is a grave
charge to make against the American
people. Undoubtedly it is true of some
people. But | am convinced that the
masses of the people who support the
newspapers would prefer to have such
news omitted, and many people do not
re ad the newspapers and exclude them
from their homes because of objection
able matter"
Aside from publication of crimes,
accidents and tragedies, the senator
attacked newspapers for the discomfort
and embarrassment caused the rela-
tives and friends of persons involved
1T is well for the liberty of the
people, said the senator, that cen
sorship of the press is no longer al
lowed in this country. 1t was this that
the constitution was intended to pre-
vent. But to censor the press and
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19

thereby say what shall and what shall
not be published is one thing, and 10
make one responsible for a violation
OF the privilege thus secured to him is
quite another The very fact that the
right to publish what one pleas es
without abridgment is the strongest
possible reason for making the pub
fishers of news liable for abusing theil'
right and privilege
81 maintain that if a newspaper pub
fishes matter that is deleterious and
poisonous to the minds of its readers,
! thus violating the rules of good NOR
ais and decency, it should be made
criminally liable for this orfense, an
offense far more important and hurt
full than the libel of the individual and
upon precisely the same principles.
The senator admitted that his hi!
vas not likely to become law.
ct has been my purpose" he said
"to call the attention of the country to
one of the greatest, most powerful and
most corruptive evils of the present
age 1t is an evil, which | admit can
rot be overcome by law. 1t must be
net by brand of public sentiment
that will demand more pure and reli-
able journalism.
"The man who helps to make the
public mind impure. whether he be a
journalist or not, is a dangerous man
and an enemy to the best interests OF
his country"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19
THANHOUSER and
AMERICAN TODAY

The program at The Savoy today
consists of a Thanhouser, American
and Excelsior make of pictures. The
makes alone are assurance of excellent
subjects, and they are "first-run" pic
lures, too; that is, pictures that have
never been shown anywhere else, as
The Savoy is the first house on the
circuit
9oday's Thanhouser picture is a
comedy, When Ghost Meets Ghost,
a CHASTITY but funny story. Then the
famous American brand Cupid
Throws a Brick" a bully story al
which the hero connects with heal
thy brick Cupid considered tue
brick carefully and passed judgment
according to the evidence submitted.
The third reel "Temperamental
Alice" is roaring comedy; to watch
her pranks is a scream.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19
MANY WIRELESS OPERATORS
APPLIED FOR LICENSES
Under New Act Regulating
Such Operations

Washington, d. c.. April 18.-Sec-
rotary of Commerce Redfield is in re-
ceipt of statement from the bureau
of navigation showing that during the
first four months of the operation az
the act to regulate radio communities
ton, which took effect on December IL
1913, the department. of commerce.
through the bureau of navigation, has
issued 3,407 licenses to wireless oper-
ator9 and stations in the United States.
The first grade commercial operator s.
licenses number 1879, second grade
1856. while 1,1S5 amateurs have been
licensed, although work with the latter
CLASS has been delayed to push the IL
cchsing of commercial stations ami
operators. Eight operators license "
the experiment and instruction grade
| nave DeOn lSSueu.
The bureau of standards has design
ed special testing instruments for
the purpose of measuring wave length,
decrement, etc, to reduce interference
and insure. the orderly use of radil
communication and these instruments
are now being put into the hands of
the ten inspectors in the field, who viii
be fully equipped by the end of the
month
Thus far As American ship stations
and IS coast stations have been Ii
censed, and this branch of the work
will now proceed more rapidly. 6s5
amateur stations have been licensed.
The inspections already made have
considerably increased the efficacy OF
wireless apparatus on ship and coast
stations.
The wireless apparatus on ocean
passenger steamers has been in
spected before about 5000 sailings
from from the United States during
the four months.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19
"TBE WOMAN Who KNEW"
AT SAVOY YESTERDAY

In the Reliance picture one of the
first run pictures at The Savoy yes
terday, entitled "The Woman Who
knew" was as beautiful story as
has ever been thrown on a curtain.
The woman was good old mother and
the story carried in beautiful way a
lesson for the daughter and sons.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19

Sleeping cars between Americas and
Atlanta on trains leaving Americas
1926 p. M, arriving Americas $3.50
a. m Connects at Macon with sleep
ing cars to and from Savannah.
Pullman sleeping cars between Chi
cago. st. Louis and Jacksonville on
Seminole Limited" leaving Americas
for Jacksonville 1890 a. m. Leaves
Americas for st. Louis and Chicago,
via Columbus and Birmingham, at 1855
D. m.
For further information apply tos,
B. Ellis, Ticket Agent, Americas, or
John w. Blount, District Passenger
dgent. Macon. Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19

THAT defeated candidate made
Plunkville mad"
How so?"
When we tried to be polite and told
him me was welcome to the town, he
said it wasn't worth carrying away.
Washington Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-19

Pot of soap and crying at the thought;
What if l were married and had &
child and it were to fall into that pot, :
was no more foolish than the man or
woman who worries about the wealth
er. Riley has it right:
when God sorts out the weather and
sends rain,
Why, rains my choice"
Worrying because she looks old :
Worry saps the blood and whitens the
hair
Worrying because she is lean? Wos-
ry will make her cadaverous
Worrying because he is poor? Wor-
ry will unfit him for work and make
him poorer.
Worrying because his neighbor is
pun I1OW dD0uJ ulNlullS VIII Hlui .
Worrying about his own wealth i?
There are many right ways of getting
rid of a little of it.
Worrying because her neighbor has
a pug nose? She might go over and
pull it. If it does not help the nose, It
may change the worry
Worrying about what he is to eat To-
morrow? That will hinder the proper
digestion and assimilation of what he
has eaten today.
Worrying because her skirt has too
many widths in it? There are scis-
sors.
Worrying because the supplies OF
lumber and coal may give out in al
few centuries? eve will not be here to
miss them, and other and better things
will have been substituted for the use
of our great great-great-grea
81 andchildren.
Worrying because this earth NAV
bump into the sun and explode, al
thousand years from now? We shall
nrohahlvy not no on oitbo,, tI,op ord
our distant progeny - Judging from
the general trend and motion and noise
will me able to stand both the speed |
and the racket of such a catastrophe. I
Worrying because the earth way be-
come SO crowded a million years hence
that there will not be room for the 4,
Smiths, Joneses, Williamses, Eecetera'
That's Gods business. Standing room
has probably been at premium in
Hades ever since the deluge, but there
are reserved seats for those who fool
ishly and sinfully worry themselves 80
death.
Bob Burdette's preventive of worry
is Keep sweet and keep movin'."
When absolutely everything seems /
to have gone against one that's the
very time to cheer up. That's when the
tide is about to turn. 1t was so with
Job. 1t was so with the Vicar OF
Wakefield. !
An American writer says he once
got as low down financially as one =
cent stamp. He firmly believed God
had given him a message for the
world. In a moment of deepest des- !
pondency and desperation, his eye fell
upon this bit of advice: "Be sure you
know something about what you try co
write about
"Well,7 he chuckled to himself |
here's where the long lane turns"
Immediately he burned the stack OF
manuscripts that had been going out
and coming back regularly for years
They were impossible stories OF un-
real people in Typographical places. !
He began to write on poverty: why
/ is; how it happens; how best to en-
dure it; how to overcome it, etc. In a
self literally to grits without having
to spread out what was left in the dish
to make it look as if he had not taken