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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-11-10
Learn A Little Every Day.

Wild ducks fly at the rate OF 80
miles per hour, carrier pigeons 38
miles, and swallows so miles. Birds
have crossed the smaller seas at the
rate of 120 miles per hour.
At birth the beats Of the pulse are
165 to 104; from Is to 20 years they
are 80 to 81; from 20 to SO they are
112 to Sc.
Tea and coffee are drunk at 10 de-
grees. The heat Of the body is SO de-
grees.
The deepest coal mine in England
is near Newcastle and is 400 yards
below the surface.
Water boils at a depth of $500
yards below the surface of the earth
This explains hot or boiling springs.
In northern Siberia the ground is
frozen permanently to a depth of CSC
feet.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-11-10
Clouds.

Clouds are not vapor but small par
ticles of water, often in a frozen
state, floating in the air. They are
nearly always within 5000 feet Of the
|earth's surface and never more than
six miles distant. They always con-
tain electricity but are at greatest
tension during thunder storm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
WIDOW ARRESTED
ON ARSON CHARGE
Left Candles Burning in Paste
board Box and Clothes
Basket, Police Say.

Mrs. Johanna Hackeling, a widow,
fifty-eight years old, was arrested last
night on a charge of arson. She is said
to have left fifteen candles burning in
side pasteboard boxes on Sunday after
noon when she left her home, in the
Florette, an apartment house at 6l6
West 149d Street. The police say that
her effects were insured.
Since the death of her husband, DR..
Herman A. Hackeling, five years ago,
Mrs. Hackeling, her brother told the
police, has led a quiet life, pursuing
artistic and literary studies.
Sunday afternoon she left the apart
ment about o'clock to visit her broth
er, who lives in Brentwood, n. j. Half
an hour later the superintendent of the
building traced an odor of smoke to her
four-roOm apartment, and, on opening
the door, found the place ablaze.
Besides the candles distributed in
pasteboard boxes there are said to havs
been others in a clothes basket filed
with linen and waste paper, and still
more close to the wall in the bathroom.
The fire was confined to her rooms, and
the damage was estimated at $4,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
PAY OR JAIL EDICT
TO MRS. BARCLAY
Inherited Millions Squan-
dered, She Must Settle
Contempt Fine.
S3.0S2 JUDGMENT
BY BANK IGNORED
Court Refuses Illness Plea and
Allows Woman Five Days in
Which to Get $3.50.

Mrs. Maud Brevoort Barclay, Of 7
West Ninety-second Street, member of
one of New York's old families, who
inherited an estate of several millions
from her first husband, Augustus
Browning Prentice, was yesterday ad-
judged in contempt of court by Justice
Guy. Unless she pays a fine Of $3.50
which the court imposed on her within
five days from yesterday Mrs. Barclay
will be sent to Ludlow Street jail.
The contempt consisted of her failure
to appear for examination in supple
mentary proceedings on judgment for
S3,062 obtained against her by the Corn
Exchange Bank. Because the bank was
unable to collect on the judgment a
subpoena was issued for Mrs. Barclay
to appear and testify as to her ability
to settle She failed to appear, and
counsel for the bank then asked her
commitment.
Counsel for Mrs. Barclay presented a
certificate from a physician, who stated
that she was i'll and could not appear in
court. Justice Guy. however, was dis
inclined to accept this explanation and
held that the defendant was in con-
tempt. He fixed the penalty at $3.50
and gave her five days in which to pay,
in default of which she will be commit
ted to Jail.
Mrs. Barclay is the wife of Wright
Barclay, real estate owner and club
man. They are well known socially.
Mrs. Barclay is now waiting to 90
through bankruptcy, having recently
filed a voluntary petition in the Fed
eral court. Most of the estate which
she inherited from her first husband
was in the form of realty. This she in
trusted to the care of agents and SER
wants, it is said, with the result that
from the value Of millions Mrs. Barclay
lost all, with the exception of $4,000 in
real estate.
An effort was made to form a cor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
u. S. TRADE BOOM
NEW BUREAUS AIM
Custom House Exhibit Shows
Foreign Openings.

American manufacturers are now IN
position to take advantage Of i'm
portant trade openings in foreign cOun-
tries, since the war has crippled many
of the manufacturing plants in Europe,
according to the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce.
Chester W. Martin, consul at the Bar
bados, will be az the bureaus Office,
409 Custom House, between 10 d. m.
and noon to-day TO furnish information
regarding trade conditions in the Bar
bados and the opportunities for Amer
lean goods in the West Indies.
For manufacturers of railway sup
plies and materials used in steel con-
struction the bureau will have on
view a number OF specifications and
blueprints of foreign engineering prof.
ects. The plans show that China is
in the market for bids for rsilsoad in
the Hankow district. Bids must be in
by September 5.
Rio de Jsneiro wants water pipes,
which in the past have been supplied
by British, German and French man
ufacturers. The plans are on file in
the bureaus office. There are also
plans for building materials wanted by
Norway.
All the plans, specifications and blue
prints will be shown TO any interested
person at Room 400 Custom House.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
MORSE IN CHECK TANGLE
Partner Got the $5,000-Both
Appear in Court.

Charles W. Morse accompanied Ne
hemiah H. Campbell, his associate IN
the Bermuda Steamship Com
pany, to the Yorkville police court yes
terday when a summons was issued for
Campbell. 1t was alleged that Camp
bell had cashed a check for $4,000,
despite an agreement made with Morse
to whom Mahlon Terhune, ship
broker. had given the check, that 1t was
not to be cashed until funds came from
Chicago. Terhune was acting for Chi
cago packers, who wished to charter
the steamship 0ceana.
Campbell declared that when Morse
gave him the check he said nothing
as to delaying its presentation at the
bank. Magistrate Krotel declared that
no case had been proved against Camp
bell, but at the request of the com
plainant, Joseph C. Watson, paving
teller of the Commercial Trust Com
pany, adjourned the hearing until Au-
gust Is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17

were, upon their arrival, promptly ar
rested by the local authorities, who,
however, extended to them all possible
consideration until they were released
on a writ Of hsbeas corpus by Justice
Lands.
ut is proper, however, to add that
on one occasion, being called for as
witnesses, they were brought in irons
into our public hearing, proceeding
which seemed unnecessarily harsh with
officers Of the United States who had
as yet been granted no hearing, against
whom no indictment. existed and over
whose acts, performed in another state
and upon a vessel navigating the nav
igable waters of the United States,
the jurisdiction of the officers OF the
State of Illinois was open to question.
Commenting on his asking of Mar
vim B. Pool, merchant of Chicago,
and Harry A. Wheeler, banker of that
city, to act as unofficial members Of the
board of inquiry, Secretary Redheld
said he had desired to have well
known labor leader on the board also,
but had been embarrassed in securing
such by the fact that some, If not
most of Those Immediately concerned,
had expressed their views publicly In
advance of the hearing"
Tt,oroughness of Inquiry.
He finally solved the problem, ne
said, by asking Lieutenant Governor
Barratt O'Hara to serve. The Secretary
also pointed out that the witnesses
were examined not only by representa-
tives of the Department of Commerce
and the Department of Justice, but by
L., 80 81
nois, the City of Chicago and Cook
County, as we'll as by Congressman
SABBATH and others.
"This may be illustrated" ne said,
"by the case of Inspector Reid. the only
one of the inspectors conducting the Of
fetal inspection of the vessel who came
before US. He was examined first by
myself, then by Mr.. Thurman. He was
then examined by Mr.. Sullivan, Assist
ant States Attorney: by Judge O'Hara,
who for that day took the place of his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
SHOULDERS LIFT CAR
TO SAVE PINNED LAD
Policeman with Match CraWls
Under Trolley and Brings
Bow Out Dead.

A crowd of $50 men and boys put
their shoulders to a trolley car in
Williamsburg last night and lifted it
up on two wheels, while Patrolman
Ammon, of the Hamburg Avenue police
station, lighted a match and crawled
underneath to get the body of four
year-old Stephen Laccio. run down and
killed while playing in the street.
The accident occurred about 8 o'clock
in one of the crowded Italian quarters.
With the first scream of woman who
saw the child crushed under the
wheels, men, women and children
fiocked around the car, making work
impossible.
Reserves from the Hamburg Avenue
station pushed the crowd back, and the
work of raising the car by human arms
began. When the body was recovered
it was taken to the home of the lads
parents, at 143 Central Avenue. Motor
man Lawrence Grogan was released.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17

The Federation Of Austrians and
Hungarians in New York will hold a
celebration on August Is at Terrace
Garden in honor of the eighty-sixth
birthday of his majesty the Emperor
and King Francis Joseph /. The Aus,
tro- Hungarian. German and Turkish
con fulates will be represented.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
PULhOTOR PUMPS
HIS LITTLE JOKE DRY
Drowning Victim Takes Squint
at Machine, Then Runs
$40 Fine Ends Comedy.

No longer does the sun shine for
Abraham Basuk, twenty-one and prac-
teal humorist. Here is the reason:
Abraham went bathing at Coaey
Island yesterday. He permitted himself
to be dragged from the water apparent
ly unconscious while his best girl
screamed and women tainted. The life
savers got pulmotor. Then Abraham
opened one eye, took a squint at the
machine and ran for dear life.
The crowd quickly decided that if
Abraham was not dead he was a fine
candidate for a punching match. After
he was caught he was arraigned before
Magistrate Geismar in the Coney ISL
and police court.
at was just a little joke" pleaded
Abraham.
"If that's the case" answered the
magistrate, well keep it up. Ten dol
lars or ten days"
Abraham's father, who has a tailor
shop at SO Rivington Street, supplied
the money, but
an continue this little joke when l
get him home" said he.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17

son, the Lieutenant Governor; By Ca.
gresham SABBATH, by Mr.. Stebbins rs,.
resenting the Corporation Counsel IA
by James J. Bishop, the Public Adm.
istrator. He was, in addition. cues.
toned By others upon the board Of r.
quiry. The record will show, therefor.
that this inspector was examined ),
an officer of the Department Of Cor.
merce, one Of the Department Of jos.
tice, and was cross-eYamined SEARCHING.
ly by five persons and questioned !,
some extent by others.
instructions were given on the 81
instant to the Steamboat InspectiJ,
Service TO take the necessary steps J,
carry into effect the additional rvlg
and regulations suggested by the board
of inquiry. Instructions have also bee,
given to the Steamboat Inspection Ser.
vice to call together a special commit.
tee, consisting of supervising inspect.
ors selected from the Atlantic, Pact,
and Gulf coasts, who shall, with IA.
supervising inspectors upon the lakes
promptly consider what can be done
within the present lawful scope Of til.
Steamboat Inspection Service, 10 in.
prove its effectiveness"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
HIS HOME A NUTSHELL
Port Jeffersonian Arrested for
War on SQUIRRELS.

Port Jefferson squirrels are to blame
for the loss of beauty sleep of the cit
liens of that Long Island community.
If they hadn't persisted in eating up
the mansion of Donald B. Campbell,
ship builder and prominent resident, he
would never have used his double bar
relied shotgun on the critters at time
when decent folk are abed. According
to Mr. Campbell, the squirrels have
been digging holes in the house.
Mr.. Campbell has been apprehended
on complaint of Game Protector Over
ton, of Quogue, and has been directed
to appear before Justice Dreyer on
Thursday. Meantime, Port Jefferson
folk are complaining that it wasn't
the shooting of squirrels that troubled
them, but the loss of sleep as a result
of the persistent bang bang.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
LIQUID Fire Engulfs Men
When GA Gallons OF
Gasoline Explode.
CHEMIST, BURNED,
STICKS TO POST
Other Employees Rescue the In
jured and Beat Out Flames
in Clothing.

or man was burned to death, two
were so badly seorched that tl.ey will
not live until morning and five others
were injured yesterday afternoon by
the explosion + big tank OF gas
lene in tle laboratory of the Eagle OIL
Works, Cavan Point, Jersey City. They
are:
scHULz. william lahcrsr. &C West Twenty second
Sf-ec; Bayonne. burned 20 Ssath ,..., 1,.so,
uyIE Nf-hafI laN1rer. Z4S Warren street Jersey
C.ty. DYING from burns in 81 Frames hospl, =.
Ej'TER Michael. iG3olef 200 Washington StsV,'
Elizabeth. dying from burns IN 81 Ff@h'S nus
MY Walter chief chemist. Is wo, Forty third
sIss Bayonne' n1LnsJ or G,,b,m Street. Jsf-
xi,cA6Lk Fred isboTsT' 10 Feeder Street. Jsrse,
sIISsFR no Jossp6, lsborsr 40 A,snu. c. Bay
onne: scalp wounds add bruises c.-.,.r,,,.-
" I,s5us JsIss5 CITY: arms. chest and back
scOrched-
The cause of the explosion Is not
known. Schulz was tightening . valve
on a e4-gallon drum Of gasolsne and
the others we're working about the lab
oratory when it occurred. 1t is be-
lieved that q spark generated by the
friction Of the valve screw ignited the
easolene With crash and roar the
biz tank leaped into the air like a
rocket, blowing liquid fame over
Schulz, Kyle and Rufer as it did So
and smashed against the cellng'
Hyle and Rufer managed to get clear
Of the lake of fame which spread over
the floor. Their companions. VINO had
been stunned by the conclusion, man
soed 10 beat out their Asmi:.g slothlng'
Schulz lay in the middle OF the pla1e
until il burned itself out.
The FIRE ran along the floor ana 10
rited number of oil barrels standing
IN one corner. These were extinguished
nv other employees, VINO hur led to the
Tescne hurry call was sent for am
bnlances from the Jersey City and st.
Francis hospitals. Kyle ana NuIe5
were so terribly burned that IT was sai !1
last night they could not i've untiI
morning. The others had their WOUNDS
dressed by surgeons and went nome
Schulz's charred body was taken TO
the Jersey Cit. morgue, where II VIII
remain until his wife claims IT. lie was
an old emplo.e Of the company.
II is estimated that about N,O0O
worth of damage was done to the lab
oratory. Mr.. Hay, the chief chemist,
although badly burned, refused to 60
home. He remained to superlntend the
repair work, which was started imme-
diately. The Eagle Oil Company is
subsidiary of the Standard OH COM
pany.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17

poration to take over her property and
manage it on a business basis, but this
did not go through. Her lawyer said
Yesterday that her illness was caused
by her financial troubles. She was or
dered first to appear on June q. Fail
ing on that day, an adjournment was
taken to July 9. Again she was absent.
Mrs. Barclay is the daughter OF the
late George w. Fowler, Of Tarrytown'
She was formerly an exhibitor at the
horse shows. Her first husband, Au-
gustus B. Prentice, inherited his estate
from his father. It's management was
too great a mental strain and Mr.. Prem
tice was committed to Bellevue hospl-
tai, where he died in 1906.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
EXPLOSION KILLS S,
WRECKS PLANT
Countryside Shaken by Blast in
Etna Explosive COmpany's
Buildings, in Pennsylvania.

Emporium. Penn. Aug. 16.-Five
men we're killed and the gelatine house
Of the Etna Explosive Company's
plant at Grove Run. near here, was
blown to pieces to-day by an explo-
sion. Two other buildings were badly
damaged, and the entire countryside
shaken.
The men killed-Joseph Strayer,
Fred Haskins. Emery Haskins, Ossie
Miller and Michael Campbell-were the
only employees in the building and
company officials said the cause of the
explosion would probably never be
known. The company had been en-
gagged in filling war orders, il was
stated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
WORRIED, HE ENDS LIFE
Unable to Bear Reverses-
Wife Finds Body.

Lying in the bathroom Of mis- home,
s25 Riverside Drive, since Sunday af-
ternoon, u suicide from worry over
business reverses caused by the war,
Albert 0. Whitley, thi.ty-six years old,
treasurer of the china importing firm
Of r. II. Whitney Company, 10 West
Forty-sixth Street, was found yester-
day by his wife. She came from their
summer home in Babylon TO learn why
her husband had not spent the week
end with his family.
Whitney often complained to his wife
and friends is business troubles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17

Hats off, On the home
stretch!
All our stiff straws.
280were $500
5000 were $500
10l0were $3.50or more.
S. now.
Panama, Leghorn and
Bangkok hats.
800 were $500
$l.85 now.
10 were $3.50.
100 we're s7tt
15S were $500.
$2.85 now.
Caps and Summer hats.
2S3 were 800.
$50 were $3.50 or more.
65c. now.
l5s were 500 and $3.50.
$l.l5 now.
Summer suits-$l5, $40
and SIS.
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
atl3th ST. The at Saith ST.
Four
Broadway Corners Fifth Ave.
az Warren at4lst ST.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
Takes Commerce Depart
ment from Inquiry to In
sure Impartiality.
REPORT TO WILSON
CRITICISES CHICAGO
Thorough investigation of Boat
Inspection Promised Under
Navy Officials Lead.
From The Tribune Bureau

Washington, Aug 16.-Promise of a
Searching inquiry" into the whole
administration of the Steamboat In
spection Service, under the supervision
of representatives of the Navy Depart
ment and of the public was given by
Secretary of Commerce Redfeld to-
night in his official report 10 President
Wilson on his investigation of the
Eastland disaster. The inquiry will be
conducted under the guidance of naval
officers and others than officials of the
Department of Commerce, he said, 80
that there shall be no question of its
impartial character"
The report says nothing about blame
for the accident, pointing out that be-
cause Of the action Of Judge Lands in
directing that witnesses, including the
officers Of the Eastland. subp1naed to
appear before the Federal grand jury
should not be examined in any other
proceeding, II was impossible for the
inquiry to proceed TO it's logical con-
clusion prior to the action OF the grand
jury.
at seemed, however, important that
the board of inquiry should continue
its study as far as was practicable"
the Secretary adds, Gin order that it
might if possible suggest such remedial
changes in the law as would tend to
prevent recurrence of similar acct
dents hereafter"
Criticises Chicago.
Caustic comment was made by the
Secretary on the bringing, in irons, Of
the local steamboat inspectors into the
room in which the inquiry was being
conducted.
"On my arrival at Chicago" he said,
81 announced through the press that
the officers of the Department of Com
merce would aid in every possible way
to throw light upon the cause of the
disaster and upon its own service and
that it would welcome the assistance
of others and would cooperate with
any authorized authority to like end
"For this purpose Local Inspectors
Reid and Ecklitf, who this year made
the official inspection of the Eastland,
we're by my order summoned from
Grand Haven, Mich, to Chicago. They
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17

Summer suits-$l5, $40
and SIS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24

Altar in the music
room of the James L.
Breese country place.
the Orchard. in South
ampton before which
his daughter was mar
ried.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-23

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q t.snp Factors TO Be Faced. y
Whether this, reasoning be sound
orr not, the certain actors that We
have to face IN the event of an nm
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-23
In the Substitution of Law for
War Thinks the National
Chamber of Commerce.
'tsxjAssoc,xrrp parsa,

Y WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-Six imsl
portant recommendations having toll
do with the economic results Of thel
war and American business are en-
bodied in q referendum, which .wasl
sent out last night by the chamberl
of commerce of the United States to
local and national commercial organ
izhtions in every state in the union
and the American chambers OF com.
merce in Paris, Milan and Constanti-I
nipple. An organization which will havet
lts initial vote-the first organizat toni
In South America to join the nation
az chambers the American cham
Der Of commerce for Brazil, which has
its headquarters at Rio de Janeiro. I,
AS explained by Elliot II. Goodwin
secretary Of the national chamber, inl
this referendum as IN all others the !
purpose is to ascertain the opinion
OF the various trade bodies through
out the country, and not to secure APP
proval Of the reconlme tons Of thel
special committee voiced In the re-
port. This committee, Of which Ed
ward A. Feline, Of Boston, Is the head,
advances, as IT'S first Recommendation
that action be taken on the initiative
of the United States. TO secure confer
ences among neutral countries for the
purpose Of defining and enunciating
rules which will at all times give quo
\ protection to life and property upon
the high seas.
An International Court.
The committee recommends secondly
that for the decision Aof questions
which arise between nations and
which can be determined upon thel
application Of established rules orl
upon entertainment Of facts the United
States should take initiative In join
ing with other nations in establishing
am International court. The third pro.
position Is that for consideration 81
questions which arise between nations
and which do not depend upon es-
tablished rules or upon facts which
can be determined by an internationa
court the United States should take
the Initiative In joining with other
nations in establishing d council of
CANCELLATION. sis :. ..s
A Council 10 Cancellation.
The fourth recommendation Is that
the United States should take the ini-
tiative in Joining with other nations
ID agreeing to bring concerted econ
omic pressure to bear upon any ma
ton or nations which resort to mill
tary measures without first submit
ting their differences to an intarna-
tlpnal court or q council OF conciia-
!; ton, and awaiting the decision of the
curt or the Recommendation Of the
cornwall an III a4a~
more appropriate. : " y - &
Military Force.
The nexts Recommendation a. that
the United States take the initiative III
Joining with other nations In agreeing
to use concerted military force In the
: event that concerted economic pres.
sure exercited by The signatory nj
lions y not sufficient 10 compel nat