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lie with an American steel plant and ap-
proved by the Chinese president will be
devoted to the construction Of small cruis-
ers and large gunboats to rout out the
Pirates - E4is ssrEsCc-~. sdf E9rtS
In the last two years many citizens Of
the United States have lost their lives
through the pirates Of the China water
ways, and perhaps the case of Hicks
Hoffman and Sheldon is as typical as any.
These three men were American citi-
zens and teachers in the Government Col
lege at Chengtu, toward which they were
travelling from Shanghai up.-the Yang
TIE river The start Of their Journey had
been safe enough in a large river steamer
to Hanlruw and thence by a smaller boat
'.--,c, rrtrrr- -nI H+n--u ~
\ = r.
But there, at the entrance to the
Gorges. they were forced to take 70 q
small craft. which they propelled them
selves by oars, and March %, 1912.
upon their arrival at Wanshien. they
made two fatal blunders. The first was
that They anchored in lonely Httae.
blight away From the usual smelly
anchorage of the town. The second
was that they did not dig their arms
out of their baggage.
The river pirates fell upon them dur.
ing the night. Hicks was murdered as
he lay sleeping, Sheldon was MANNED Tor
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Great Wireless Station.

w7AsHINGToN and Wales may soon
w be holding intimate wireless con-
versations. According to the report of
Deputy Consular General c. r. Loop, at
London, the largest transmitting wireless
station in the world has been completed
at Cefndu, near Carnarvon. Wales. and
within a short time will be reaching out
to all parts OF the world.
Experts state that, weather conditions
being favorable, there should be no diff
Guilty in this station reaching the wire
less naval station at Arlington. Hitherto
a marconigram sent from London was
transmitted to the west coast Of Ireland.
whence 1t was sent to Glace bay. New
foundland. Wireless operators have ex-
pressed much interest in the workings
Vt this new station.
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from the ship under cover Of the dark
ness and confusion.
But the crew. outnumbered three to
one, were beaten back, and those who
escaped the pirate knives leaped into
the sea to drown.
Left victors, the pirates looted the
steamer and then applied the torch, but
the flames Of the burning Talon attract
ed the attention Of other steamers. and
they speeding full ahead for the doomed
vessel, managed to pick up all the pas
sengers and Capt Wetherell of the
Talon, with all Of his European officers.
The second form Of freebooting In
Chinese waters takes the form Of river
piracies. The pirates themselves are.
unlike their deep-water outlaw brethren.
more of the jackal type. sinking coward
ly, but still murderous and deadly when
ever they fall in with unarmed parties.
They infest the shallow rivers, creeks
and canals which cut In from the China
coast.
. The big junks, in use by the deep-sea
freebooters, are of no earthly good In
shallow waters, and SO the river robbers
make use Of light-draft craft known To-
cally as fast crabs and "scrambling
dragons" The West river near Canton
is a favored ground for these shallow
water freebooters. although the great
Yangtse-Kiang river is also infested
with them.
!. In their little craft they navigate with
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standpoint of homesteader.
During this warm weather the secur-
ing of good attendance in the House
has been a dificult job. and the fire.
quent three rings for a call to the
House Is common over in the of5ices.
One day recently Sloan went ove- to
the chamber to find but few men there.
All around were rows on rows of empty
seats. with Only few oases Of MEM
bers in a desert Of desks. It remind.
ed Sloan Of his big quarter sections out
in the bounding prairies. So he rose
70 his feet.
Mr.. Chairman" he said, T have
looked around on the vast unoccupied
area in this House. and, not desiring
to raise question of no quorum, wish
to submit parliamentary inquiry"
The gentleman will state It." re-
sponded the chair.
Il wish to ask. Mr.. Chairman" con-
tinued Sloan. '1f It would be proper to
make a filing for homestead on the
great unoccupied public domain in this
chamberT
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GoREANs On Board
THEU.SS. COLORADO

cial armor plate-which incidentally costs
S1.25 pound and win turn modern high
powered rife ball and small cannon shot
at close range-the armament Of each
of the boats consists of a main battery
mounting two six-pounder rifles and six
thirty caliber machine rifles from which
high-powered service ammunition Is nred.
These are reinforced by two 3-inch
field guns for the use of landing parties.
In addition to this, the deckhouse walls
are pierced with loopholes for rifiemen.
Each gunboat is offfcered by two COM
missioned officers. two chief petty OFF,
GERS and forty-three men.
Within short time the Palos and
Monocacy will be in full commission, the
first commanded by Lieut.. Frank Rorsch-
ach and the second by Lieut.. Carter, who
was second in command Of assembling
> them.
For time out of mind piracy has been a
favored calling in the China sea. Nor
has the downfall of the ancient Chinese
dynasty under. which 1T thrived appa-
rently been any deterrent to these law
less predatory crews, who are a tribe
apart from the coolie dwellers Of the
land side of the late celestial empire, and
they carry on their slit-gullet, looting
trade today totally unawed by the fact
that the hands of all their countrymen
are against them.
Piracy in Chinese waters today takes
two general forms. The first is that
practiced by the crews of great, high
popped war junks which usually infest
the waters near Annoy and Swatow and
which formerly, If not today. had their,
rendezvous In the Fie-tse-long Islands
near the Tonkin gulf, although they fire.
quently have appeared much farther
down the coast.
These; great junks, carrying hundreds
of half-naked freebooters, are con-
slant menace to small unarmed trading
ships and steamers. as well as to smaller
Junks owned by the great commercial
companies of China And the junk pi-
rates methods of attack are today quite
as brutal and primal as they were fifty
years ago.
-Four months have hardly passed; since
the British steamer Talon was attacked
and burned by pirates north of Monaco,
with the loss of the ship and 1888 British
seamen..
threatened by pirates, for it is the Por-
Bocca Tigris, which gives ingress to the
Canton river, and steamers which ply
these waters are constantly upon the
alert for danger from this source.
As general thing, every state
room aboard Chinese coastwise craft
is equipped with brace of heavy cali
bered revolvers, a modern repeating
rife and plenty of ammunition within
Evening star., 1914-08-09
What Is the Brand?
r pre- sentative

R g pr e sentative
II. T. Helgesen Of
North Dakota Is OF
Norwegian descent.
In his district Is
the famous Devils
lake. which in re-
cent years has re-
ceded so much by
the drying up OF
the waters that
the town OF that
name, once on the
bank. is now SIX
miles inland.
In the course OF
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A Big Asset.

If ther e is one
thing that Repre-
sentative Anderson
of Minnesota hates
above all else 1t il
a demagogic fraud
in politics-one OF
those plus, friend
of-the-people type,
who spout and
spout but never do
anything.
He tells q story
of two voters who
were discussing a
candidate for Con-
gress, a
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Both in Same Boat.

Senator Albert B.
Cummins Of Iowa
rejoices in initials
similar to those by
which the diplo-
m attic mediation
9 o m m l ssion was
designated. for the
first letters Of his
three names are
A. B. G. His fam
lily originally came
from Pennsylvania,
but they ernigrated
to Iowa some years
ago-
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Plenty of Room.

r Pr e sentative
c. H. Sloan of Ne
braska is from the
land OF big farms
farms whose corn
fields run along a
railroad sometimes
for ten miles. while
in its wheatfields
several G e r m a n
principalities could
be lost. So Sloan Is
used to taking a
big view of things.
as well as viewing
things from fhe
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Elements of a Battery Of Artillery -


.ment in the American army vhisa-does
not differ essentially from artillery regl-
=. be that II is better; one can see that ,'th q
commissioned personnel of THE rsgipne1r
is; forty-two, the enlisted persennsL lib
the number of animals. LIS, >and the
number of carriages, 49, -, '.lg ~
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first, second third and fourth sections. or
the gun sections, and the nth sectlon'
son section. The combat and field trains
are the sixth, seventh and eighth sec
tons, which are caisson sections, the
ninth section and the field train.
In the matter of ammunition there are
in the caisson body seventy rounds, ana
in the timber thirty-six rounds while IN
emergency tubes" on each gun are -FOUR
rounds. So that in each gun section
there are 106 rounds of "fxed or MADE
UP ammunition in the caisson. thirty-six
rounds in the gun timber and four ROUNDS
in the ammunition tubes on the gun car
riage. In each of the four caisson sec
tions there are 212 rounds. Thus, Win
field battery of light artillery there are
i. .4s2 rounds on the firing line and on
wheels close by under cover mat Hs-
ures out 35S shots per rife. with tne
ammunition train there are, OF enolu
be, four wagons each with lOo rouhGs; els
and at the advance supply depot A.Soo
rounds or 4e4 shots per rife. raising the
ammunition supply on the firing nne' IN
the combat train close at hano' IN tne
ammunition train on the ROAD anu =. ns sns
advance supply depot to US rounas per
gun. At the main base or arsenais con-
yenient to the main base should pc ready
an additional ammunition supply OF We
rounds per gun, raising the supply ]"
1,S56 rounds per piece.
The ammunition on wheels at the point
of action, 35s rounds per piece, couio De
burned up, working the gun at. its maxi
mum capacity, in about fourteen minutes.
A battalion of artillery consists of three
batteries, and In addition to the personnel
and material of the three batteries are
one major. one captain, one lieutenant.
one sergeant major. one quartermaster
sergeant, two mounted orderlies. three
agents of communications (corporale).
three. scouts (corporals), three scouts
(privates), one corporal and one mounted
private as q signal detail, one musician.
three drivers, a reel cart and field wagon,
four draft horses, twenty single mounts
and four mules.
Two battalions Of artillery form a regi-
ment, and in addition to the personnel
and material of the six batteries and
the two battalions are one colonel, one
lieutenant colonel three captains. one
chaplain, two veterinarians. one sergeant
major, one quartermaster sergeant, one
commissary sergeant two color sergeants,
one trumpeter sergeant. five mounted ord
erlies, two agents of communication (ser-
geants),' one scout (sergeant. two scouts
(corporals). three scouts (privates). one
sergeant (signal detaiD. one mounted
private fsignal detaiD, four mechanics.
three drivers. one reel cart, one Held
wagon and band of thirty-six pieces.
When one brings. all these figures into
line, or into column, the artillery reEi-7
Evening star., 1914-08-09

THE word battery" in conjunction
with field artillery has come INFO
great prominence in the news.
Few persons, unless they have a little
understanding Of artillery, have proper
conception as to what battery Is. Inere
are batteries Of horse artillery, batteries
Of light field artillery. mountain batteries
and siege batteries, but that which is
most numerous Is the light battery. The
artillery strength of armies lies mainly
in light batteries. In the. American and
nearly all other armies there are four
guns in a batterey There used to be six
or eight, but that was before the breech-
loader with its modern recoil system. be-
gan to burn up ammunition, perhaps at
the rate Of twenty-five shots minute,
and ammunition supply became one Of
the stupendous problems of field artillery.
There are differences in the personnel
and material of field batteries in the
armies of the world. but the field battery
of the American army represents the
standard battery. A United States light
battery Of field artillery at war strength
has as its personnel one captain. two first
lieutenants, two second lieutenants. one
first sergeant, one quartermaster ser
geant, one stable sergeant, one mess ser
geant, one chief mechanic, seven me-
chanics, three musicians, three cooks. six
sergeants, four gunner corporals. thir-
teen caisson corporals, two corporais as
scouts, one corporal and two mounted
privates as a signal detail. sixty drivers
and sixty-five cannoneers, one Of whom is
carried on the roll as the gufdon. or
the thirteen caisson corporals, two act as
chief Of section in the seventh and eighth
sections The total commissioned per-
sonnel is five and the total enlisted per-
sonnel is I'll. There are four guns, twelve
caissons, one store wagon and Timber,
one battery wagon and forge timber and
four field wagons, a total OF twenty-five
carriages. There are liz draft horses,
forty-iiye saddle horses and sixteen
mules, a total Of 17S animals.
A section of a battery is a gun and
timber. caisson and timber and the men
and animals assigned to their transport
and service, or two caissons, with teams,
non-commissioned officers. drivers and
cannoneers. The first platoon consists Of
the first and second sections. the sec
ond platoon Of the third and fourth sec
tions, the third platoon of the fifth and
sixth sections, the fourth platoon of the
seventh and eighth sections. and the
ninth section includes the store and bat
terry wagons and the field train of four
wagons
The firing battery consists Of the
Evening star., 1914-08-09

WO pirate de-
stroyers" have just
been added to the
United 8 t a. t e 8
Navy. The one end
and aim Of their
existence will be to
sweep from the
now-a-day ocean
hordes of freeboot-
ing g e n t ry-t the
two-c e n I ury-ago
demise Of "Black-
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Uncle Sans ]KgW R3@ze DR&z

Two Ships to Join
the International Fleet
at Shanghai 80 Will
Clean the Sea and Riv-
ers of Chinese Pirates.
Gases of Atrocities Per-
petrated by These Cut
throats-Fighting the
Pirates a Hopeless
Task Until the Other
Nations Took a Hand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-14
DANIELS AT WAR COLLEGE
Naval Officers Often Best Dip
lomats, He Says.

Ncwport Il. l., July -. How the
nations foreign policy often hangs
upon the action and discretion Of a
naval officer commanding "A warship
in a faraway port was discussed by
Secretary Daniels here to-day at the
opening Of the Naval War College
session.
"If all American diplomacy in the
Spanish-hmcrican War had been mod
clled after that of Perry" the Sec
rotary declared. the United States
might have not yielded to the tcmpta-
ton Of Imperialism. II our govern.
mcnt had followed closely the diplo-
matte pact set by another great com
modorc Of the United States Navy, who
himself followed the diplomacy of
Perry and squared his every action
With the basic doctrines Of our Re
public. We would not have strayed
50 far ahcld.
I'VE would at least have been CON
sistent in our diplomacy; We would
not have laid down one rule for Cuba
and another for the Philippines
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-14
HAS 53,737 STOCKHOLDERS
American Telephones List Is
Third Among Corporations.

According TO figures published ny
"Thc Wall Street Journal" Yesterday
the American Telephone and Telegraph
Company had on April last 53,3'
shareholders. OF this number 223
owned 200 shares or over, of whom
129. or IS per cent. resided in Massa-
chusetts. In the number OF its share
holders the company is exceeded only
by the United States Steel Corpora
ton. with l2i.O9i. and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, with Si.24i.
The Atlantic and Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Company was the larg-
est stakeholder Of the American Tcle-
phone and Telegraph Company on
April /, 1911. with 12o.279 shares. The
Bankers Trust Company. as trustee.
with 55,9is shares, was second.
On April !, 1918, Harvard College
was credited with 1866 shares; on
April ! last it held only 32l shares.
The estate Of J. +. Morgan last year
was listed with 2.li2 shares. this year
there are no shares listed under that
name, but !. =. Morgan. as trustee.
appears as holder Of l.l36 shares.
The Adams Express Company does not
appear on the list this year. whereas
last year il held 2,16l shares.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-14
WOMAN AGAIN ON TRIAL
Mrs. Wakefield Accused OF
Helping usband' IS Murderer.


New Haven, July IS. The second
trial of Mrs. Bessie Wakefield on the
charge of being an accOmplce IN the
murder of her husband last year VIII
begin tomorrow morning in the Su-
perior Court.
Judge Joel Reed will preside. Mrs.
Wakefeld's attorneys will be Lawyers
Dauby and Devine. of Waterbury
State Attorney Alling will be assisted
by Walter Pickett.
1t is stated that the defence IS pre-
pared to introduce strong new evidence
mitigating Mrs Wakeheld's part in the
tragedy for which her admirer, James
Plcw, has already paid the death pen
atty.
A rumor that was current tonight
was that Mrs. Wakefield would plead
guilty to murder in minor degree and
would receive sentence of between
ten and fifteen years in jail. This was
denied. Another report was that the
state would introduce no new evidence.
but would simply place before the
court the testimony taken at the for
mer trial and rest its case.
II is known. however. that the state
Attorney has summoned every witness
who testified at the former trial.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-14
HELD. BUT IS ENUMERATED
Grand Jury Will Act on Killing
by Patrolman.

Regardless of the fact that coro-
ncr's Jury decided Police Lieutenant
BENJAMIN i. Ashley shot and Killed
William J. Nash. Of 20 West lifth st.
on the morning Of July , in the per-
Torrance Of his duty. the officer vas
held yesterday by Coroner Riordan m
$4,000 bail for action by the grand
Jury.
The killing happencd at the end Of a
dance given by the North End SOCIAL
CllL at its rooms. at 102 West lli.n
st.. when Patrolman Thompson arrest
ed John Farrell for disorierly conduct.
In the fight that ensucd Farrell Mas
Knocked down and received cut on
the head. Thompson then left for the
Harlem Hospital with Farrell. leaving
Ashley in charge. Ashley says seyera
men made a rush Al him and that Nash
kicked him i'm the stomach. Ashley
then fired Nash died before he could
be removed 10 the hospital.
The testimony on which Ashley was
held was that OF members or the gang
who we're present at the time OF the
shooting.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-14
WHITRIDGE CRITIC
OF STREET PAVING
Says City Seems to Have No
Conception of How to Serve
Public Convenience.

With the publication yesterday oil
the prelimiuarv income statement OF
the Third Avenue Railway for the ilscal
wear ended June 80. 1914, President
f. ". Whitridge took occasion to make
some trenchant criticisms Of the city $
administration Of its streets. During
the twelve months just closed the
company reported net income OF S64l,-
239. although for the last six months,
after deducting the interest upon the
. pcr cent adjustment income bonds, IT
was only So 900. much less than the
previous wear. This loss in earnings,
Mr. Whitridgc pointed out. was eX-
plained BY me unprecedentcdly unpro-
pitious weather beginning with the
two severe snowstorms OF February
and March and the subsequent eN-
penditurCs for paving, IN part caused
by those storms.
"Thc obligations Of the street rail-
ways" said MIR. Whltridge, I'm respect
20 paving have become. with the en-
tire change OF the character and vol
umc Of the city traffic trespasslng upon
the rails. very onerous, and the bur
den Is Increased by the manner
Of the city's administration Of the
streets. II seems TO have no con-
ccption that the public convenience Is
served by keeping heavy trucks of the
railway tracks. After a snowstorm |
have myself counted TO less than eigh-
teen vehicles on the tracks in one
block, although the snow had been
entirely removed in that place from
curb TO curb. Every pound of coal
burned on upper Amsterdam av. goes
UP or the Third av. tracks, IN often
overloaded carts. = very large number of
which in the winter time would not
get up the hill AT all unless the Third
~. ears pushed them up.
After and during the snowstorms
last winter the omnlbuses of the Flfth
Avenue Company occupied portions OF
our tracks for thirty days without per-
nit. apology or payment. Some months
ago in one single case seven nlne-toh
IRON girders were hauled over our
tracks in l2d ST., smashing over >l,OOO
worth Of manholeS and rails. This -
all unnecessary ana against the inter-
csts Of the travelling public
Mr. Whitridgc made the assertion. IN
connection with his company's policy
Of continuing TO charge everything 1t
caa against operating expenses, thdt
the system Of accounts prescribed by
the Public Service Commission, on the
model set by the Interstate Commerce
Commission requiring greater charges
against capital, means ultimate DIS
aster for the steam railways.
For the year ended June 80 last the
Third Avenues operating revenue
amounted 30 S10,S58. l54, an increase of
$7iO.607. Operating expenses and taxes
consumed S7726,l77. leaving an oper-
ating income Of S3.665,3l6, gain OF
$50. 90. The decrease OF $215.1l9 IN
the years surplus after fixed charges
was due 70 the increase of S3f,6ii IN
fixed charge.
The company yesterday declared the
regular semi-annual interest payment
of 2iz per cent on its adjustment in
come bonds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-14
WILLIAMS GOES TO EPIRUS
Accepts Invitation of Head 81
Provisional Government.

Vienna. July l3. 4 dispatch from
Athens to the "Neue Freic Prcssc' says
that George Fred Williams, Of MASH
chusetts. until recently American Min
lister to Greece and Montenegro. left
for Epirus, Albania. to-day. His jour
ncy was undertaken on the invitation
of VI. ZoGrafos. the president of the
provisional government Of Northern
Epirus. established by the Mussulman
insurgents who object to the rulership
of Prince William Of WED.
Durszzo. July IS. The important Al
bantam town Of Berat. thirty miles
northeast Of the port Of Avlona, was
captured to-day by the Albanian Mus
SulmaE insurgents who recently took
Koritsa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-14
Directory in 44th Edition.

For the forty -fourth time Phillips's
Business Directory has made its APP
pcarancc. and New Workers a. well
as strangers VINO wish to find the adj
dresses Of men IN the various profcs-
sions and manufacturers Of almost
anything IN the world have only to
open its pages TO be satisfied The
directory includes the addresses Of
firms not only in greater New York.
but in Jersey City, lIobokcn and New
ark. as well rs in England and France.
John +. White. Of Bcekman street,
is the publisher.