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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

held in the park Fences, walks and comfort
able pavilion have been erected by the use Of the
departments own materials and labor.
IN the direction Of new developments the dc
partments most ambitious plans concern the i'm
provement of the Dyker Beach tract This com
prses 1876 acres the shore front Just below
Fort Hamilton. Owing to lack Of funds III" only
work which has been done this year has been
the draining Of the salt marshes and the com
pletion of sea wall along the shore drive. Now
that the salt marshes have been drained an ap-
preparation for filling them has been asked for.
The commissioner hopes to utilize the dirt from
the new subway excavations for this "a well as
other important fills in the park, which. he says,
will some day equal any in the city for beauty
and utility.
Seventy acres Of ground which would afford
the finest athletic field in the city can be had
by completely filling the marshes. The cost is
estimated at $4,000, and the commissioner has
asked for appropriation Of that sum
TIE WADING POOL IN C!TY PARK, GIFT or
GEORGE d. PRATT
As is the case in all Of the boroughs there Is
q sad lack Of Fairgrounds. Public interest in
those which 90 exist is encouraging, however. One
strkng gift 70 the city is a wadng pool in City
Park, which has been presented by George d.
Pratt. 1t is semicircular basin about sixty feet
across, with sandbeds and arbor where parents
can sit and watch their children at play. II has
just been completed, and is proving source Of
endless delight to hundreds Of children. Il is
much the finest thing Of its kind in the city. City
Park lies in Che crowded Italian district, near the
navy yard, and the wading pool is particularly
welcome on account Of the large number Of chill
dren in the vicinity. II is hardly necessary to say
that such gifts represent thoroughly practical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
ENGAGING An AUTO. CHANGING ONES
MIND And THEN EXCHANGING IT.

My first thought to go there ALSO en-
Gagged an auto to take Us to Modane, at the from
tier the .cxt morning. The auto was then Iea'-
ing with party for Lyons and got back again
before D. M the Same day. had already found
three friends alone in AK whom | felt it my duty
TO look aftcr-Mrs. Charles II. Keys and Mrs.
Albert Jones. Of New York, and Mrs. Edwa"I
Mills. Of Cincinnati and after much thought |
decided that could not afford to leave a place
where seven Of US were sure of our bed and BOARD
and take our chances in Italy, when possibly
Smith had not reached Genoa, and we settlaj
DOM to wait further. About o'clock on Friday
received the following. which almost took my
legs from under me: Have chartered ship with
the American Consul sailing Wednesday, Re
serving accommodations for you. Must know
quick" / asked the proprietor Of the Gran
Ho. if he could get passports at 9 o'clock IN
the morning, when the Mayors Office opened. He
said: "Yes If you have had your pictures taken"
ave have these" said, for almost all
had been having their pictures taken during the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
oICHT OF HIS IIFE WAS LAST VIEW OF EUROPE
1t Took Both Ingenuity
and Luck to Escape
from Continent.

boards for seats, second and third class filed
with Italian aborers, men, women and children
fleeing from France. We arrived at Modane Al
$3.50 o'clock. The last train for Turin and Ceno,
would leave at o'clock. We had our baggage
examined by customs officers aud checked for
Genoa; paid our good money, Of which we bad
little for first class tickets, being told that good
train would be made up there. Six o'clock cam.
but no train. At 6:45 o'clock that terrible train
Of twenty-eight cars came into the station with
the whole load Of Italians singing and shouting
could not believe this was our train but .he
French girl was told that this the last and
only train for Turin tonight, and since Aodane
was even worse proposition we piled our hand
luggage into the corridor Of second class ca,
already full; also the six ladies and myself Fiy.
of them later succeeded in getting into seats with
those people, while two Of US sat on the luggage
We had few rolls left from our luncheon and
b,tte Of water-nothing better than the Italians
had.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
THE WATCH on THE RHINE.

4 voice resounds like Handicapped,
Mid cIashing waves and cIang Of steel:
"Thc Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine
Who guards to-day my stream divine"
Chorus Dear Fatherard. no danger thine:
Firm stand thy sons to watch the Rhine!
They stand hundred thousand strong,
Quick to 1yenge their country's wrong;
with ilal love their bosoms swell,
They'll guard the sacred landmark welI'
The dead Of a heroic race
From heaven look down and meet their gaze
They swear with dauHtess heart, 30 Rhine.
Be German as This breast Of mine
while flows one drop of German blood
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
RUSSIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM.

God the all-terrble, Thou who ordainest
Thunder Thy clarion and lightning Thy sword
Show forth Thy pity on high where Thou reignest.
Give to Us peace in our time, Lord.
God. the al-merciful. earth hath forsaken
Thy holy ways and sighted Thy word;
Let rot Thy wrath in its terror awaken,
Give to Us peace in our time, o Lord.
God, the omnipotent, Mighty Ayenger,
Watching invisible, Judging unheard;
Save Us in mercy and save in danger,
Give to us peace i'm our time, Lord
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

charge Of women. The goodbys Of all day sun
day. the crying women and children were things
10 be long remembered No one had been abe
to get near a bank for three days, and many
Americans Of wealth had less than $25 in their
pockets The hotels had agreed to take charge
Of their guests and accept personal checks or
other drafts in payment for board. Five francs
seemed like $50, and no one felt like letting "A
single franc get away. Monday the situation was
camer, when We were suddenly startled in the
afternoon by a big printed bulletin pasted on the
front of every hotel in AK notifying all stranger
that they must be out Of AiX-lcs-Bains by md
night on Tuesday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
SIEGES IN
ANNALS OF STRIFE

~RIE defence Of Liegc by 10000 belgah'
against three German army corps nun
bering $4,000. will go down To history
AS one of the most brilliant frats Of arms
in the annals of war. says "TIt-Brts
The Franco Prussian War OF iN5g.fl vas re-
markable for its seges. Bazaluc r'.l ou' a.
Metz against the Germans for nearly two months
and finally surrendered with 5000 officers anu
I73 900 men, For this he had 70 submit 20 eou''
martial. and was sentenced to tacn'g years '~
prisonment Afterward came the siege OF FaI'
which lasted six months. Thousand. o. she''
we're rained on the city every day boy me Ger
mans. and no fewer than 10000 Of the ruhaoitan"
succumbed to disease and hunger.
That lengthy sieges are quite BILE m the''
DAYS of huge guns is illustrated by 'huN'
Pacha's gallant defence Of Adriauoplc last yea
for 1855 days Then there was the compaat'"'
recent great siege of Port Arthur on the Russo
japanese War in l9Ol-'O5, which finally caPilu'
lated after being blockaded by Admiral Ioso 10,
2lO DAYS The name of General Stocssel VIZ
rank with those Of the greatest soldier Of mo''
ern times.
In Ottoman and Russian military history 'ne'
has never been a siege like that Of PleynS' !"
1877. when Osman Pachs defcd the Russians ,''
TO- with 10000 men and 100 guns, owing 20 pre-
visions and ammunition running short. 10 wv
same year Ksrs, long the bulwark Of the ot'O"'-
Empire in Asia, was stormed by the Rus''"''
after siege of five months.
Twenty-Five years earlier the fortress mad O'..
brilliantly defended for eight months against W
Russians by the Turks under General "i'l""'
who had but $4,000 men against $4,000
Sebastopol, in the Crimean War, held out ~
eleven months, while General Gordon deIehi'
Khartoum against the Soudsnesc for 800 osy'
The sieges of Ladysmith, Kimberley aud Na'ss
ing, In the South African war, lasted ~ -
and PSI days, respectively
There is probably. however, no siege "lP
Britishers like to read about so much a. ~"
carried out by France aud Spain IN their y
deavors 10 carry the Rock Of Gibraltar, l''s-S
Altogether the siege lasted nearly four yesi.
and as the world knows, resulted in eomP''''.
triumph Of British arms,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

substitution Of asphalt paycmcntS for cobblc-
stones, and through the fact that most Of the
older trees not Of the especial varieties which
experience has shown will thrive comparatively
we'll under adverse conditions.
We have issued Il pamphlet for the purpose Of
giving advice TO citizens IN the matter Of tree
planting, and encouraging them to plant in front
Of their own property. As an Immediate thing
We hope that trust fund be established to
be used in planting trees where requested by
citizens, at such charge to reimburse the fund.
This Is hardly the ultimate solution, AS It does
not produce the uniformity Of treatment which
is desirable This year does not however,
seem to be an opportune time for more radical
step.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
CCORDlNG to the report of RAYMOND V.
lugersoll, Commissioner OF Parks in
Brooklvn. the people Of that borough

CCORDlNG TO the report of RAYMOND '.
lugersou Commissioner Of Parks in
~ Brooklyn, the people Of that borough
= arc getting bigger dividends than over
before out of their investments in the park sys-
tenn. This comprises Prospect Park, the various
boulevards, several shore front properties, which
have fine possibilities for improvement, ond about
forty small parks and Fairgrounds. Although this
represents an investment of more than $5O,OOO
OOO the large area Of Brooklyn makes the need
Of more park space Of the utmost Importance
Additions are impossible in the present state Of
the citys finances, but land already owned can
be utilized to its maximum extent
Commissioner Ingersoll's report, which is for
the past six months shows that he has operated
larger and more active plant without any in
crease Of cost TO the city
We have had a number Of new activities going
on a general and rather far-reaching increase IN
al the active uses Of the parks This has been
sufficiently noticeable TO attract general attcn-
ton in Brooklyn. 1t has been done without IN
creasing the force and also without dong m
jury TO the landscape and other park features.
The chief savings TO be made will be IN the
improved efficiency Of the outside per diem en-
ployes under the general jurisdiction Of the SUI
perintendeut. AS the department was IN fairly
good working order, the urgent need has seemed
10 be to get the work accomplished and TO open
I'D enlarged facilities for the public
There is no doubt that the work of the de
partment can be done with smaller number OF
temporary employees and with smaller number
Of teams and carts hired by contract. Our con
fdence that this is the case will be shown IN
making a very substantial reduction on those
items i'm our estimates for the budget Of 1915.
We also expect to keep we'll within our present
budget on these items for the current year.
THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE AT
DREAMLAND
A number of shore front properties already
available for the recreation Of The public snd
work in perfecting arrangements on all such tracts
owned By the city is being pushed as rapidly
circum stances will allow Much has been accom-
plished at Dreamland Most Of the wreckagc left
bv the fire has been removed, and a small amount
of work in clearing away distractions below the
low tide line is all that remains to be done. 81
far as clearing the tract is concerned The beach
is q particularly fine one. and is open to the Tree
use Of the public When the heat is excessive
tents are provided to afford shade for visitors
The Dreamland beach has been open for gen
cral use since May go and its popularity has been
great Thousands Of picnic parties have been
held there. their members being able TO enjoy
themselves at no other expense than carfare to
the SPOT Several athletic meets have also been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
AMERICAN TOURISTS tERDED TOGETHER RETURNING STEAMER

My friend Dock Commissioner Smith, whom we
expected to join US at AK, to be IN venice
on August >, but could not get IN communlca'
ton with him. On Wednesday afternoon | re-
ceved from him the following: Suggest th"t
you join us in Milan, from where we can get 20
some southern port" / sent hfty-word reply
that it was impossible for us to get out OF AIN
at present. One hour later / received the follow
ing: I've are leaving for Genoa Hotel Nirt-
mare Smith"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
THE MARSEILLAISE.

Yc sons OF freedom, wake to glory!
Hark. bark! what myriads bid you rise!
Your children, wives and grandsires hosry,
Behold their tears and hear their cries,
Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding,
With hreling hosts, rutfian band
Alright and desOate the land
While peace and liberty lie bleeding?
To arms! to arms We brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe;
March on! march on! all hearts resolved
On victory death.
Now. now the dangerous storm is rolling
Which treachercus kings, confederate, raise;
The dogs Of war, let loose are bowling,
And 10, our fields and cities blaze
And shall We baseIy view the ruin,
While lawless force, with guilty stride,
Spreads desolatiou far and wide
With crime, and blood his hands imbrung?
With luxury and pride surrounded
The vile, insatatc despots dare,
Their thirst of power and gold unbounded
TO meet and vend the light and air;
Like beasts of burden would they load US,
Like gods would bid their slaves adore:
But man is man, and who is more?
Then, shall they longer lash and goad US!
q Liberty, can man resign thee,
Once having felt thy generous flame?
Can dungeons, bolts, or bars confne thee
Or whips thy noble spirit tame?
loo long the world has wept bewailing
That falsehoods dagger tyrants WELD,
But freedom is sword and shield,
And all their arts are unayailing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
NATIONAL SONGS
OF LANDS AT WAR
GOD SAVE THE King.

GOD SAVE THE KING.
God save our gracious King.
Long live our noble King.
God save the King!
send him victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over u,
God save the King,
. Lord our God arise,
Scatter his enemies
And make them fall
Confound their politics.
Frustra:e their knavish trich-
On Thee our hearts we fX,
God save Us all!
Thy choicest gifts in store
On him be pleased to pour.
Long may he reign
ay he defend our laws
and ever give Us cause
TO sing with heart and voice,
Gold save the King
TT.rrt t.t-sy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
TURIN AT LAST, AFTER SIX HOURS IN A
MOVING ITALIAN SETTLEMENT.

Six hours spent in the worst Italian settlement
ycu could find could not be than the SIX
hours spent on that train, for We got under way
At 8 D. m. and arrived at Turin a. O'Clock in the
morning. We all went to nearby hotel for tie
rest Of the night, after ringing the bell and get.
ting the clerk out Of bed. The neat morning We
got the 7:45 o'clock train, with first class section
t. ourselves, and arrived in Genoa at nool whsr,
we found Mr.. Smith and his family. After luncheon
went to the consus Office, and found Dock Con.
missioner Smith, DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, Of
Columbia University; e. Dunn and others In their
shirt sleeves working hard assigning ship aeon.
modations and financing the chartering aud sailing
Of the ship Principe di Udine, which not one man
in q thousand could have handled Smith did
What he accomplished you will hear rom him.
During this anxious week | had been able n
hear from one sister in Lausanne and one in Lon.
don but a young lady cousin travelling with
party of ten and in charge Of Italian conductor
could learn nothing Of. had met her in Venice,
and also knew from the itinerary or schedule Of
the party that sne was somewhere between
Geneva and Interlaken. | did not see how could
sail without knowing her whereabouts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
THE LOST COUSIN Is FOUND AND TIE
PRINCIPE DT UDINE SAILS

After dinner the first night in Genoa lady
came up to me and asked if my name "as Holmes.
| said DYES
"Haye you lost trace Of young lady cousin"
she said
81 certainly have" / replied.
well, she is within forty minute Of this hotel
was talking with her this afternoon az bathing
beach. She told me her name and said She wished
she could find her cousin, a Mr. Holmes, Of New
York"
/ found the porter, who, in Italian, called up the
Grand Hotel at Pegl and asked for Miss Holmes.
IN five minutes was talking to one whom | mad
been worrying about for more than week. The
next morning she at my hotel, ready to sail
with us On Wednesday at noon the good ship
sailed, with four hundred Americans aboard. On
Friday about p. NJ. we passed Gibraltar under
the searchlights from the fort, aud fast running
English gunboat came up alongside OF u, ask
ing where We came from and where bound. "Nes
York" and out went their light and they turned
and left US, and we were past GibraItar
We are now within five hundred miles Of New
York after calm and exceptional voyage, and We
are certainly glad to get home, and shall be snS'
ious to hear what luck has bcfaIicn our friends
whom we left in AK, Lucernc and other places
We have had little news or information IN three
weeks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
THE FORTUNES OF Wharf.-The GARAGE
GETS 4 LARGE PART OF THEM.

GETS 4 LARGE PART OF THEM.
| Immediately directed my family to get packed
and ready and sent word to the other three ladies
to do the same ready to leave at a m. Then |
rushed to the American garage, and with the great
help of Nelson Robinson, of West j5th ST., New
York, who knew the proprietor, engaged high
power limousine car and truck for baggage for
500 francs each C$2OO) For this and my hotel
til | gave my personal check. At 9:2O o'clock the
next morning we had our passports, and at 10
o'clock with many people in AK wondering how
we could take such chances, off. The
town had been full of moving troops for two days,
and we had heard reports of automobiles or gas
olenc being taken away; but the garage man said:
81 have been to Modane with Italians twice and
once to Lyons with French people, and will get
YOU safely to Modane." 1t seventy-five miles,
and we were held up by the soldiers seventeen
times twice with gun pointed directly at me
! sat on the front seat with the driver. After we
showed our passports and the American flag, also
having two French ones the front Of the auto
mobile and after few ovial words from the
french maid, we all laughed, and with a salute
Grove OIL At one place big logs Of wood were
across the road and at two others chains Three
times we passed and got mixed up with regiments
of moving cavalry and supply wagons.
We passed a railroad train of two engines and
twenty-eight cars of all kinds -boxcars with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

To arms, % arms, ye brave.
The ayengiug sword uushcatrc.
March on! march on. all hearts resolved
On victory or death
From the French Of Epu." - Lsi'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

last two days, having been told that We would he
obliged to have passports, or "laissez passer'' as
it is called in French, bearing our photos before
we could leave the town.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
EdWin T. Holmes Found
Himself Tangled in a
Maze of Trouble.

Mr.. Edwin T, Holmes, president of the Holmes
Electric Protective Company, was among the
four hundred Americans who chartered the
steamer Principe di Udine shortly after the out
break Of hOstiIities in Europe, sailing from
Genoa for New York in the early part of August.
Mr. Holiness story illustrates we'll the ParalyE'
ing effect of war on railways, perfectly good
American checks and the minds of folks gener'
ally His story follows;
49, HE first intimation Of war, except between
Austria and Servis, and the first hint OF
trouble for travelling Americans came
to us or the morning Of Saturday, Au-
gust l. We had left Milan Friday at ! o'clock;
duo at II o'clock p m. in Geneva, en- route to
Aix-es- Bains Owing to an accident in the Sim
plon tunnel. which delayed US four hours, 1t was
/ a m. when we arrived at Lausanne, We spent
the night there,
In the morning when went to the Office to pay
my bill. having no Swiss money, ! offered an
American Express Company check which | al
ways carry for emergencies, and was told that
they would not accept it; this the first time
had ever heard Of the refusal of an American
Express Company check, but the reason given
was that the banks were closed and that they
must have cash. / offered Italian money, but to
this they preferred the $50 express check. and
gave me in exchange one silver franc and a 20
franc Swiss paper. Before leaving the hotel
asked for small silver in exchange for my 20
franc Swiss paper, so that might be able to pay
the cab driver whom l had engaged to drive me
about Lausanne for an hour and leave US at the
station. They could not give me any, and told
nc 10 60 to Cooks.