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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
By FRANK G. CARPENTER

Copyright, l9lo hy Y. V. Carpenter.l f~1HE great powers of Europe are
 ordering yerba-mate from Para PSS quay as a stImulant for their tSxAssA soldiers in the fields. The Ger
 mans have long realized it's value. The French use 1t in their hos pitals. and there is likely to be con- siderable exportation of it to Russia. This is due to the claim that it lessens the desire for intoxicants and will alle- ~iate the elimination of vodka. The Ger mans have had experience with yerba mate since the days of William I. During his reign he received a present of 50W pounds of 1t from President Lopez, who had been using 1t for his soldiers in the Paraguay war. The soldiers carried 1t with them on their forced masches, and it is claimed they could go for days without other stimulants and with al most no other food. Authorities here tell me that the liquor takes away hun ger. and that the average gaucho or cowboy of the pampas has nothing else but cup of mate on rising. and that he can work the greater part of the day before his first meal The drink is also q safeguard against insomnia, and it Is said to build up the nervous system. It was recommended to our government in 1899 for the soldiers in Cuba and the Philippines.
 Yerba mate is now the chief drink of more than 20 00OO,0OO people in this part of the world. It is used regularly by the inhabitants of Paraguay, Brazil, Uru- quay and Argentina, and there are peo- pie who sip a cup of 1t ever hour or so throughout the day. The tea comes from the leaves of a shrub about the size of an orange tree. The tree grows from l2 to 20 feet high. It's botanical name is Ilez Paraguayenss, and it might be calle da South American holly. Ths leaves are a little like the holly. The blossoms are yellow, and the fruit is tiny berry of purplish black.
 The yerba forests are found in parts of Paraguay and also in northeasterh Argentina and also in Brazil In all If these countries a great industry has grown up in gathering the leaves and preparing them for the market. The consumption in Brazil alone is somethins Ike 25,oo0o00 or 3000O,000 pounds per tn- mum, and the exports from Paraguay amount to more than $l,000000 a year. There are yerba tracts here belonging to one company that cover more than B. 0ooo00 square miles. These are chiefly wild forests in which the yerba is gath cred by peons and brought out to the markets. There are also plantations which have been recently set out. I know of one that has 90,oo0 plants, and there are other estates in the course of p.epara- tion.
 The mate leaves are gotten out by the peons. They chop off the branches and
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respondence )-"The machine is beginning to move" This l&kEYAhl statement made a few days
 ago by Lloyd George, the newly appointed British minister of munitions and one of the dictators of the British empire, is at once a re- port of great progress and a confess sion. It tells us that he is succeed ing in the job to which he has been Iut, that of providing guns and shells and clothing and all the thousand and one necessaries for an army In the fl, Id and it is a confession that it took England more than 10 months, during which her sons were being slaught- cred al a rate never known before in the worlds history, to become really awake to the fact that she was at war.
 Today she is awake and she is straining every nerve to organize her self for the one business in hand that of beating the Germans. The job, which is divided into two parts, has been en- u usted to the two men in whom the country has the supremest confidence. Lcrd Kitchener Is in charge of the or ganization of the armies and Lloyd George is in complete control of the business of equipping and supplying theln The job of the other members of the coalition cabinet is to- do what these two men tell them, for today the Politicians no longer rule in England and Parliament for all practical pur- poses Is nonexistent. Everyone feels that the time has gone by for talk and that what is wanted Is action. The spirit of the day can best be expressed by a statement attributed to Lord Fisher. the late first sea lord of tie admiralty, who resigned because he could not have his own way, and who helped 10 bring down the late liberal government Someone said to him just before he finally left his post: You have wrecked one government and nov you are endangerins another.'
 What do l care about governments or Parliaments." the old sea dog ii quoted as having said. My business k to kill enough Germans to end this Var" "Jacky" Fisher was allowed tc so and indeed no other course wa. possible. but the Fisher spirit is now in control at Westminster and the pol itician who tries to Interfere with thu stern business of war because some ol his pet theories are overriden will re cc've very short shrift indeed from thu xvi dictators of the British empire.
 Now the question arises of what the, will do to organize the empires resources
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He has magnificent head, a bru- rette complexion and kind and beau tiful eyes. I met his holiness through an introduction from Dr. Hector Val csduez, the minister from Paraguay to the United States. I was received at his house and we chatted together atout Paraguay and its future. As Co the latter he said:
 /. My country is like beautiful maid- en- the heiress to large fortune, which has yet to be dug from tho ground, and who Is surrounded by a number of courtiers. lusty young men who are anxious to marry her on ac- count of her property. The young men are the surrounding nations of Ar gentina, Uruguay and Brazil. They covet our lands and would like to con u o1 us for their own interests The truth is we are at present compara- lively poor. although we are potential Iy rich"
 I asked his holiness as to along what lines Paraguay would develop. He re- plied
 Along agricultural lines. Here will some day be the great orange and lemon
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beat water power and shifted the manu- featuring center of England to the north The streams of the west are dotted with splendid factory buildings. some of which have been running in small way and are still equipped with machinery. Others are mere empty shells, but all could be nut to good use by tho expenditure of comparatively little money. It is even said that at the present prioe of coal they could be worked profitabiy in com petition with the steam mills, but, of course, competitive working Is not in question at present. Some of tho cloth mills in this district have already been re-equipped and are at work on uniform material for England, France ana Rus sia. good deal of refugee labor from the weaving districts of Belgium has been employed on this work.
 It is also proposed to cut down the manufacture of luxuries to the lowest possible scale. Practically the only class that has not realized the neces- s'ty of putting every ounce of the na- t'onal strength into the war is the class of the newly rich. These people are still demanding luxuries, such as expensive motor cars, jewels, furs, etc, ail or which occupy labor that could be letter employed. It is stated that the government may prohibit the manu- fracture of such articles for tho period Of the war or alternatively place 70 heavy a tax on them that the pur- chaser will be compelled to do his share to support the country by way of payment
 All this method of appeal instead of d'rect compulsion may come as a sur prise to people who have been told that England would be forced to adopt con scription before the war was over. There is no doubt that there is a strong demand in this country for compulsory military service-something on the Swiss system perhaps-and 1t Is almost certain that some such system will be adopted when the war Is over. It is also certain, however. that the great majority of opinion in this country is opposed to any abandonment of the voluntary system in the middle of the War. The result Is compromise which Is typically English. The government says to the country, 'If you won't serve in the army or work in the fac tories. we can make you do SO, but we are sure we won't have to do any thing of the kind. Come along. boys and get busy" This is the sort of ap- peal that 10 exactly suited to the psy- cholo8y of England. The Hnglishmar likes to think that he 10 doing . thlns ef his own free will asd hs dessn't
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JOHN BULL AT LAST ORGANIZING HIMSELF FOR

mind . bit if the compulsory powers are in the background for use on the slaokers, of whom. of course. he never Is onA Appealed to like this he will give far more and better service than he would under any system of compul- sion
 The wonderful thing about it all is that the man who has taken on the job and who has adopted this method of getting the best out of the Eng lishrnan Is not an Englisman at all
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"RUBEs. ON THE DIAMOND
Best Material for Baseball Players
 Comes From the Hay
From Farm and Preside.

From Farm and Preside.
 "Rube" Waddell, "Rube" Marquard, ''Rube" Ellis, "Rubs Benton-a score of "Rubes'' have shone in major league baseball. and their nickname once was one of ridicule. Not now. Managers of major league baseball teams are look ing for ''Rubes,' and when they say "Rube" they mean, not the uncouth or awkward recruit. but the clean-cut clean living boy from the farm.
 Gap" Anson was farmer boy and worked on the farm near Marshalltown, Ia. "Buck'' Ewing. the greatest of all oatchers, was raised on a farm near Wcstboro. O. Ty Cobb confesses that he worked on a plantation in Georgia before he became the greatest of all. "Cy" Young, the wonderful old pitcher. was a farmer always.
 He came from farm near Cleveland, added to 1t during his 20 years of pitching and went back to 1t. Del Howard of the old Chicago Cubs was a farmer from Kenney. H., and transplanted himself to Jacksonville, Ore. Jake Daubert, the Brooklyn first baseman, king of the Ma tional league batters, was farm boy in Pennsylvania, as was Jimmy Sheckard, the famous veteran. George Mullin, De- -Ao'e sic"e pitSHSi' "uS nAi iiiN''fies Aet- if' boy. and still owns his lands near Wa wasee. Fielder Jones always has been in Oregon apples and alfalfa. Frank Chance worked in his fathers prune orchards and rasin vineyards at Fresno. Cal. as . boy, and went into orange rais- ing as a player. Carl Lundgren, once the leader of the Chicago Cub pitchers came from a farm in Illinois, and went back to 1t. Jack Plester the famous left handler, and George Stallings of the Bos- ton Braves are and were farmers.
 Jimmy Slagle ''The Rabbit" raised and milled buckwheat. Ham Hyatt planted corn on Hominy creek in North Carolina. Clark Griffith came from farm in Illi- nois and worked on a ranch in Montana. Miller Huggins. Ward Miller. "Chfck'' Fraser, Clyde Milan. Larry Wheat of Brooklyn, Larry Gardner of the Boston Red so1 Joe Jaclkson. tho great Caeve-
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but . Welshman. To the everags Amer ican this may seem a distinction wtth~ cut difference but there is really n wide difference between the psychologyI of the Celt and the Anglo-Saxon- Loyd~ George. the Celt. however. understands the psychology of John Bull, tho An- glo-saxon. and he Is succeeding in or Gs nizing John and sstting him out of lis old muddling ways, without letting him suspect that he is not reforming himself
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land slugger; Sam Crawford, vIo saier of the Chicago Cubs. ''Ducky' Holmes, the veteran of dozen clubs, Artis Phelau, Red" Killifer. Fred Clarke manager of the Pittsburg Pirates, Jim Thorpe, tho greatest athlete of the modern world, Claude Hendrix, the pitcher who jumped from the Chicago Federals, and the great Walter Johnson, all worked on farms and laid the foundations of their strength and speed in farm work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
His Trouble

From the Detroit Free Press. 'How are you getting on with you golfT Mot very we'll" What's the trouble?' I'm not able to get of often enough get on-c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
By JOHN $. sTErLE

LONDON, July 1.-(Special cor
 respondence. )-"The machine .s is beginning to move.' This 1ehi statement made few days - l-.- 1.
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and Bathgate avenue. thre" story
frame dwelling, on plot S2'lNlhh ..
The buyer will improve the plot with
q modern tenement.
TRINITY AVENUE. Joseph \. Was
scrman has sold for the Argonaut
Realty Company 1915 Trinity avenue,
northwea, corner Of l6jth street, u
four ory brick apartment house, 10
an ir eStor.
BRYANT ANENtE.--Joseph a Was
serInan has sold for the :. Stcinmetz
Construction Company the plot, "2N
lis, on the west side Of Bryant ave-
nue., 25 feet south OF East l7";h
street to the Trojan Building COM
pany, which will improve the plot with
two five story apartment houses.
NORRIS AVENUE.--William NJ. Moore
has sold to the Hyman Berman Build
ing Company the plot. l00Xl06, on tho
west side OF Morris avenue. ~ feet
north Of lS3d street. Plans are now
being prepared for the Improvement OF
the site with Ave story apartment
houses. for which the seller has agreed
to advance building loans.
UNION AVENrE.--Mrs. A. NJ. Har-
rington has sold to Ornstein Brothers
1925 Union avenue. three story
dwelling on lot 20xl3c7. near 16Stf
street. The property was given IL
part payment for the 30 foot plot nj
9si Tntervale avenue, the sale OF
which was reported yesterday
EAST l65TH EET,-Charlcs X
Schliess has resold for client the
three story fiat on lot. ls,3xsi AT $50
East l65th street.
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cotLEcr,Oh NNW ttSvoncAl 50cierY
THE ElGlN BOTANIC GARDENS.
BETWEEN so'"ANo sIRUEvS AND SIXTH AVeNUe


.uti on Fifth avenue hctNecn Forti"th
md Fur'y-siNth streets fnr SO 50u to
$1,000 and upward Fifth avenue
Forty eighth and FiftS.iirst streets.
$4,000. tffty se,olrl and riftt eighth
streets on rhc avenue. <I.uu" Lots ON
t'ifty-uuth street and Fifth avenue
brought $1,000. Fjfth avrrluc .oru.,s at
loGth street brought g., 800; aud At loeth
street. sl."OO. lfis'd. lol> were rs low
as sl,02j. Tn" prices decreased from
this point until between tn" north side
of Central Park and the south side Of
Mount Morris Park lots @iN % feet
were sold for as little a. $3.50.
Little known is the fact that a. .n"
very beginning Of this pairiciau aN,uu"
once lay Il paupers' huryiug ground"
continues the narrative. Three Other
putt"r'S fields w,rc lu"dt"d Ht uVc time
"r another, along Fifth avenue. Al
lhuuEn the one We here curnuIttr Is tho
.Irth"s' south. II was Mt The earliest.
AS epidemic after cpld"n,ir 49, yellow
fever, At lh" clos" "f the eighteenth ecu
tury, swept the Young city uf New
Nork, the need became imp.r.t.lNc for a
/ new pottcr's field to succeed tie ono
then AT Madison Square, aud accord
iugly the swamp and waste laud on tho
slt" of Washington square Vas bought
by the city for 81 500 on April 10. i7aT.
Tho city had hardly lcNcllel putt.r's
/ Held when Washington Spuar" became
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whence il flowed into the Harlem River
s. y. Altmayer. an elderly gentleman,
whose life has been spent in the upper
part OF Manhattan, az u boy often rowcd
from the Harlem River IN this crcek
| and fshed where II crossed the line OF
Fifth avenue.
"rravcrsing the land OF BENJAMIN Vre-
denburg and Thomas Adds Emmet. the
Irish patriot. " no IN 1872 was Attorney
General of the state OF New York. Fifth
| avenue reached. at 1eoth street. ~"
rUcky hill Of Mount Morris. called 10y
tho Dutch SlanGberx. or Snake viii.
| from the numerous rdttleSnakcs found
there This height was never cut
through beginning at Iaith street the
| avenue continued over the lpwlsnds to
| tho Harlem River.
The first appearance of plan of
F>fth avenro,' the story goes on. 'is
| on the Commissioners map OF ISL,
"\s At nrst laid out tho avenue was
100 feet wide. providing for II roadway
| OF so feet and sidewalks Of 20: but in
1888 and 1stl the city gave property
owners permission to encro,rh titt"er
feet for s;oops. courtyards and portiros.
| As traffic grew congestion increased amt
| the city advocated taking the full road
way. This led to emphatic protest from
| the owners of private and business
buildings In behalf pf their ornamental nj
entrances, Stops and areas. However.
| In April. 1905, the Board Of Estimate
and Apportionment ordered all the en-
| croachments removed
Fifth avenue, which century ago pre-
sented 80 rough and So unprnmising an
| aspect, Is to-day assessed At Si1o.33h,-
| 900. The most valuable piece OF prop
crty Is the Altman site. at Thirty-fourth
street, the total assessed value of which
is sl3.s00,000. dagonally opposite Is
the Waldorf-Astoria site assessed At
/ $i2,l25, 900, the next most valuable par
eel The average assessed value per
| block front is $l.495.627, while each
| twenty Ave foot lot has AN average as
sessed value OF slS6.953, This is TIN"
| more astonishing when one learns from
musty real estate records that early in
the nineteenth century property in'lud-
ing Fifth avenue frontac" was sold ~
valuations which made tw"uty-dNc foot
avenue lots then worth about Sl5
| ON August 6, 1904. pr, David iiosack
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acquired title 10 'our plots of tho com-
mon land or 256 city lots. extending
from Forty seventh 60 FINS -hTst street
Fifth 80 sixth avenue, nt price Oi
$t.s"7.35 and a yrAtly aVt rent uf -.N-
teen bushels Of good mDrl.hautahl, wheat
or it's equivalent IN gold or silver coin.
To-day this tract. whore he laid ont the
ElGin Botanical Garden, is -sessed for
S30.31o.uu0.
ON" Of tho hrs' Important transfers
OF Fifth avenue realty was tho sal" IN
Ayril. 1896. of the estate OF John cow
man. comprising the block between SIN
tccnth and Seventeenth streets, Fifth
Avenue and Union Suuar". Tho twenty
eight lots brought sl'1.n00, uf which
the seven Fifth avenue lots brought
S57.2o
In $3.50 luts ~ Fifth avenue aud FIFTY
eighth street " her" the toruclius Van
derhilt house stands. brought from >120
To- $40 each SiNty-iivo years ago So
little value had tirty-seNcnth street cor
ners ~ Fifth avenue that a :JNiu" foot
lot sold luI $l,n25. Three lots N Forty -
hftn street near Fifth aNcnu" brought
$500 apiece NJ the sam" time, while the
corner or F!Cth avenue and Forty -siN'h
street brought sl,3"n. li.luW ThrtN-
fourth street priccs were he,tcr. a FIN
nvcuur lot near 1NN.utv-soycuth stree
bringing Si1ut. bn b'i"hcr -, l>H>.
A. j. Elccckcr 6 sons sold at auction
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coLLEcrtoh J
NORTHEAST CORNER OF ,srSTREET ANO FIFTH AVENUE.
SNAIL FRAME HOUSES WHICH STOOD HERE PRIOR ERECTION
OF AN APARTMENT HOUSE FIRST IN THIS EXCLUSIVE SECT
ION OF FIFTH AVENUE.

q fashionable neiXhborhood Society.
driven successively from Bowling Green.
broad and wall streets. st Johns Park.
l.afay ette place, Bond and Rleerker
streets. fouid here an abiding place FOR
ALMOST n century. Among the We'll known
merchants who built along the upper
side Of the square IN 1881 We're Thomas
Suf'srn John Johnston ;cprsa Girls
void. saul Alley. James BoormaiI aud
| William =. Rhinelauder About the
sGuarc spraug m houses some Of which
to-day haN" beauty of line and color
and dignity of asI'rct uusurpa sscd In the
city. an tn" east sid. Of the square
| stood urtjl 1874 the old white csstel-
| lated ston. building OF New York l'ni-
N"rsi'y, which MAS opened IN 1871.
Washington square North Is the only
ction which still preserves unsltered
/ the characteristics Of early DAYS Some
| -; tho houses are still tcnanied by
descendants OF tho original occupants.
! ~ the .mtrauCc 10 Fif'h avenue
I stands the WASHINGTON Arch. one Of the
/ most beautiful monuments of it's kind in
! America. II was originally a temporary
| structur" erected hy the architects, Me
| Kim, Mead white. at the expense Of
, William Rhinslander Stewart and other
esidents of Washington Square for III.
l' utruuiil celebration on April 30 and
: way I, lN>', th inc NntnHurltliI O'
, ~ lshinston ~ President So beautiful
WAS N" temporary structure that steps
|"t" taken. through popular suhscrip-
ruJ. to make IL permanent. In May.
: lN".. this stately gateway to the ave-
: uuc was completed,
J l'n'i "f Fifth avenue between Waverly
, pl'', and Ninth street traNerses the
sailor. Snug harhor property. Ahou,
! tn's ilict hangs n romantic story Rob
r't Richard Randall. the donor Of the
twenty -one acres seeded to grass.
which were valued AZ Randall's death
! At s3J.oNh ard are now worth twice a.
many millions. was the son of Can.
! Thomas Randall u freebooter Of the
seas. who commanded " Fox and
sailed for years IN and out "f New or-
leans, whore h- sold the proceeds Of his
voyages or captures.
After Robert Randall vas born Capt
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FLATS AND DWELLINGS SOLD.

WEST s7TH STREET-William c. Hill
is reported to have sold 323 West
Eighty-seventh street, IA three story
and basement dwelling on lot COX
106.s, between Wes, End avenue and
Riverside Drive.
EAST 93D EET.-Lawyers Mort
gage Company has sold 1s3 East
Nincty-third street, "A four story tene-
ment. on lot 30xlo0, to Henry ",
Brande and Archibald Papa.
WEST 9TH STRt.ET--R chard +, FL
lott has resold the front and rear
dwellings on lot 25X931l. at 80 West
Ninth street. which he bought few
days ago from Louis e. Jacoby. Mrs,
W. Forbes Morgan, the new owner.
plans to make extensive alterations.
SECOND AVENUE--Lawycrs Mort
gage Company has sold 769 Second
avenue, five story tenement. with
stores. lot 25xS0. 20 an investor.
EAST 9TH STREET.--Gawyers Mort
gage Company sold 423 Fast Sixth
street, "A four story tenement, lot
22Sl00. To an investor.
EAST siTH STREET.-James A. Shee-
ran has sold for Frances &. Mcintyre
to Clara Porvolik the three story
dwelling on lot, 16,sxl02. at 3lC
East Eighty-fourth street, The pur-
chaser will occupy.
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s,ill living snipe were shot about where
the Waldorf f-Astora now stands.
THE land rose rapidly from the north
erly boundary of the parade ground at
Thirty-fourth street. reaching the sum-
nit Of the steep slope of "Inclenburg"
,now Murray HID at about Thirty
eighth street. In tho early days this hill
was used for signal fires and was known
as beacon Hill. From ThirtN-fCurth e.
Thirty-sixth streets the land belonged
to the city. and from Thlrtv-fifth to
Ihirt, seventh streets was the property
Of John Murray. Jr. whose hous" stood
between Thirty-sixth and Thirty seventh
streets on land which later became FIFTH
avenue. Tho property from Thirty-scv-
cnth 10 Fortieth strccts belonged to a
number of small farmers. and from For
teth to Forty eighth streets to the city
OF New York.
There was email pond ut the north
east corner Of what IL now Forty sixth
street and Fifth avenue. fed by n little
| brook which flowed across the line Of
the avenue From 1nclenburg the land
fell gradually until II reached Fifty
ninth street At this point on the sites
of the Plaza and SAVOY hotels. were
ponds fed hy a stream which flowed
easterly through Fifty-ninth street.
''Thc lard ascended from Fifty-nirth
| street, marked by abrupt rises and de-
! scents. and crossed by brooks at sixty
fourth. Seventy fourth and Eighty-third
streets. uutil its greatest height was
reached between Ninetieth and Ninety
! first streets. III feet above sea level.
about where Andrew Carnegie's mansion
now stands. This WAS later know. AS
obs ervatory Hin. and near here. because
of the elevation. was subsequently con-
structrd the Crotou storage reservoir
/ in Central Park. From Eighty-seventh
10 Ninety sixth streets were the Harlem
commons, At Nincty-first street the
| height fell away until Bensons Mill
Creek or Harlem Creek was reached.
now the Harlem Mere ut tho northerly
end of Central Park. The Benson farm
| extended along the line OF Fifth avenue
! from Ninetytixth to l2lst street
Harlem Creek. which was the larges:
stream that touched Fifth avenue. rose
in the neighborhood of Tenth avenue and
| l23d street, flowed to FYfth avenue AT
| llith street and swung southerly along
! the avenue almost to 1o6th street