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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
REPUDIATED BY ENGLAND.
Has Not Ordered Explosive Shells
Which Cause Agonized Death.

LONDON. July 1.-THE British gov
ernment has officially repudiated con-
nection with an advertisement which
appeared in the American Machinist
May 6 concerning a new kind of high
explosive shell, described as capable
of causing wounds which result in
death in terrible agony within four
hours If not attended to Immediately.
The government" says the official
reputation, have reason to believe
the advertisement was not genuine,
but was published with deliberate in
tention OF creating a false impression.
No order for an explosive of such de-
scription has been given by the gov
ernment.'
An investigation of the company
which is alleged to have inserted the
advertisement in the American Ma
chinist, made on behalf Of the United
States government, showed, according
to the report of Assistant Solicitor
Edwin Quigley of the Department of
Commerce, who made the Investigation.
that the company manufactured no
bombs or shells but turned out ma
chimes for use in drilling holes in
metal. The company, it was said. ex-
planned that the advertisement was a
mistake, and that it would not appear
again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
SHOWS BRAVERY OF GERMANS.
Berlin Points to Award of $500
First.Class Iron Crosses.

BERLIN, July II. by wireless to Say
vile. N. Y.-"As illustrating the brav-
cry of the German troops in the present
war;" says an announcement made to-
day by the Overseas News Agency for
transmission. ''the fact is noted that
since the war began $500 iron crosses
of the first class have been distributed.
''The regulations require that sol-
dier must have earned the cross of the
second class before the cross Of tho
first class can be conferred upon him."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
RUMANIA DEF1Es GERMANY.
Refuses to Permit Passage Of Mu-
nitions for Turkey.

LONDON, July 1.-THE correspond
ent at Copenhagen of the Exchange
Telegraph Company quotes the Vor-
waerts as announcing:
"a "Rumania has emphaticalfy refused
to comply with Germany's demands to
allow weapons and ammunition to ira
verse Rumania for Turkey"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17

WATCH FOR
THESE FEATURES
TOMORROW
"THE GIRL OF THE NUTMEG
ISLE," a thrilling ,,ei1 serial BY
BEATRICE GRIMSHAW.
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
,DrItes of prison reform at Sing
Sing.
another TORCHY story by
SEWELL FORD.
CHOW GREAT CLEARING
HOUSE IN PARIS DIS
TRIBUTES AMERICAN WAR
RELIEF DONATIONS"
4 tUo-page spread of photographs
of "INTERESTING PEOPLE,"
"THE A-B-C OF AMERICAN DE-
FENSE-OUR HARBOR DE-
FENS1S
GUST AS BRAVE AS MEN,
Famous Woman Aviato,s.
"ROMANCE IN THE HISTORY
OF OUR DEPARTMENT OF
STATE"
"WHAT THE HOTEL IS UP
AGAINST"
STERLING HEILIG tells a1.op all
Paris GDaHs Zeppelins, the
"NIGHT BIRDS OF WAR"
CHARLES N. PEPPER acrites of
E,iiti and the establishment of q
fiscal protect0rdte.
AsHMUN BROWN tells how
farmer beg rose to be the COM
pGnion of kings and rulers of
the Uorid
A Washington toomdn helps Ameri-
can acome,, to become intelligent
home makers aud mothers.
FRANK G. CARPENTER describes
trip across Paraguay by rail
Former Washington newspaper
nian contributes "FEAR AND
COURAGE UNDER FIRE IN
NORTHERN FRANCE"
"TRAINING COOKS FOR UNCLE
SANS SOLDIERS AT THE
WASHINGTON BARRACKS"
"NEW DEVICES FOR WAGING
WAR ON FLIES"
"SUMMER CAMPS FOR LITTLE
ONES AND THEIR TIRED
MOTHERS."
, And, remember, these are but
feao of the features OF
The Sunday Star
-t----s 10 ->~--5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
May Take Over Iron Trade.

LONDON, July 1.-THE Cologne Ca
zette, a copy of which has been re-
ceived here, in commenting on the
German governments plan to control
the coal trade of Germany, warns the
country that the government may be
obliged to take a similar step with re-
gard to the iron industry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
Germans Release Dutch Steamer.

LONDON. July IA dispatch to
Reuters Telegram Company from AM
sterdam says that the Dutch steamer
Batavier v. which was seized by
German warship in March and taken
into Zeebrugge, and which was order
cd released by the German prise court.
left Zeebrugge at noon yeaterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
EMBARGO ON GOLD EXPORT.
Swiss Government to Keep Its Pre-
cious Metal at Home.

PARIS, July 1.-THE Swiss federal
council has decided to prohibit the ex-
portation of gold in any form, says q
Havas dispatch from Bern.
Another Havas dispatch from Bern
states that the editor of a newspaper
at Neufchatel, France. now occupied by
the Germans. has been ordered before
court-martial for publishing an
article In which he violently attacked
Germany. ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
Director of Riggs Bank.

Mr.. Perry was director of the Riggs
National Bank. and for a number of
years he was counsel for that bank
He was formerly q director also of the
Warrington Gas Light Company, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
WEATHER.

Probably fair and not quite so warm
tonight and Sunday; light to moderate
westerly winds.
Temperature past twenty-four hours:
High. 80, at 1 pm. yesterday; low. IS,
at 4:30 pm. yesterday.
For full report see page Q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-17
Passengers Commend Captain.

The next day a meeting Of the pas
sengers was held in the saloon and the
following resolution adopted by twen-
ty-three of them was handed to Capt.
Taylor:
CONTINUED on Second Page.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02
Old Time Boxers Were the Products
 Of a Stern School

The process by which champion pugilists are developed is very differ ent now from what it was in the old days of the bare knuckle game. half a century and more ago. The gladf- a,tors who gained laurels in the ring in those times were the products of a stern school in which only the ffttest survived. A natural lust for fighting was the main qualification, and thA lads who aspfred to fiStic honors did not repair to gymnasaums for instruction by professors, but went, out into the fields and waded into each other regardless and with out gloves. A case in point is the ca fish champion, who died fifty-two years ago today, June 30, 1868, hacv- ing never recovered from the effects of the awful beating he took at the hands of Sam Hurst. Paddock was a farm lad and in his youth worked as an agricultural Iaborer. His boyhood associates were the needle pointers of his na- tive town, Redditch, in Worcester shire. These s'pointers' were g. hardy bunch of youngsters, and, like most of the boys of that day, they found
 each other. A description of the pugi1ist1o school in which Tom Pad dock was reared is thus given by 9 man who lived among the pugnacious Reddttoh lads. 7
 '~Ihe most terrible fighting I ever lot of the pointers who, having met there to spend quiet day, found that time hung rather heavily on their hands, and so by way of variety turn ed out to fight They paired them selves according to weight, and made the arrangements that no one should be permitted to fight more than three rounds, but those rounds might be as long as they could make them. Know ing, therefore, how little time they had to do the business ins you may imagine the manner they went to work, and the execution they did. never sin my life saw heavier hitting. or mofe b1oodshed. Some of the mems faces were battered out of all recognition, yet after it was all over they didn't seem to mind it a bit, but sat and drank their liquor quite kindly, cheek by jowl, with their re- cent antagonists
 Such ferocious exhibitions, repug-5 nant as they would be to the humani- tartan instincts of today, were yet not men as these,S sta1wart and strong. able to badke punishment without a murmur and with a true sporting spirit, that built the British empire. They represented the type of the hu-. man bulldog, and, while not pretty, they were mighty useful when the country needed defenders.
 Absurd, as it may seem, these brawny fighting men represented a true gain for civilization, and for hu- manity. We of today shudder at the thought of those long and terrible contests between the fisttc gladiators of old England. fought to finish with the raw +uns'' It must be re- membered, however, that before the era, of pug11sm men fought with md tests were much hloodier and more likely to be fatal than the combats with nature's weapons could possibly be. Even more important, the men fought fairly, seeking no advantage over each other, and when the fight was over they held no malice. The duel with deadly weapons has become a thing of the past in all countries where the manly art has become thoroughly established.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02

Police Commissioner Woods of New York received to date $6, THO for the benefit of the honor roll fund Ror the widows and orphans of policemen killed in the discharge of duty.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02
(To Be Contipa1ed.)

heart asks his mother, What shall do next,'' it seems strange that she will dodge the issue by making such an irrelevant suggestion as that he should weed the garden.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02

morning Inc -+wnirI'' had begun Ships were standing in toward Nahant bay in the north and of Cohasset in the south. Fifteen minutes afterward the people of Boston and Charlestown and Brookline, of Quincy and Wey- mouth, Bingham and Lynn, were brought out of their beds by explosions that shook the houses. They came from the sea, northeast and southeast and ~east. They were not only inces- sant, but they came two and even three so close together at times that they made a sustained roar as if the very air itself had turned to thunder.
 Battleships with fifteen and sixteen inch guns were bombardfng Fort Re were and the fort was answering with its tweIve-inch guns. Arnored cruisers were firing on Standish. Armored cruisers and battle cruisers were throwing twelve and fourteen inch shells into Deer island and on Win throp. Battleehips lying north of Ma hant in~Nahant bay, and thus invisible to the Boston defenses and not to be reached by searchlights, were lombard ing Forts Banks and Heath. Fort Warrenj was firing at them over Bos- ton light
 The people in south Boston, looking seaward, saw lights appear in the sky over the outer harbor islands. They slipped slowly downward, leaving long trails of stars behind, that hung, burn ing, in tfae. air as if they had been fixed there
 The falling lights opened, like mon ster. flowers, into. glaring, spectraIly white flame just before they reached the earth. All the harbor where they fell stood, revealed as. in a lightning fash, but this flame did not go out like a lightning flash It burned, steadily. fnextinguishab1e for long minutes.
 They were star bombs that were be- ng dropped on the forts by the great war fowl, the iron breasted aeroplanes. The white lights glaring below, and the hanging lights in the air that stood like a lighted staff, pointed out the forts to the hooded cannon of their iron sisters outSat sea.
 In a great semicircle around Boston harbor, from Nahant out to sea and curving in again toward Cohasset on the south, lay the flaming, roaring line. firing at the defenses all night long, till the dawn began to whtten.
 And behind Boston, inland, the other great armed semicircle was concentrat- Ing steadily. swiftly.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02
H 5ULT9Y OF TCPfEY

who was born at Derby, England, 1853 years ago today. Johnson's real name was Thomas lacking, but for reasons now unknown he did all his fighting and won the championship as Tom Johnson. Most of the early cham pions fought under their own names, how ever, notable exception being Tom Spring, whose real name was Thomas Winter. He did not change his name of his own accord, the name Spring having been wished on him by face tious sporting gentleman. Another celebrated early champion wh lew false co1ors was Bendigo, whose real cognonnen was William Thompson.
 Among the early American pug1Iists the custom of adopting ring names was soon taken up. Yankee Sullivan, one of the earliest American cham pions, used an assumed name, but his real monaker is Varfous1y given as James Abrose and Frank Amor. Country McCloskey, who fought the celebrated 101-round battle with Tom flyer for the American title, was George McCheester. Jake Kilrain's s real name is John J. Killfon. Frank S1avin, the famous Australian heavy weight, was Sidney Cornsta1k. An other famous Australian, Young Grf9- fo. was Albert Griffiths.
 It has often been said that Jack Dempsey, the 'NonpareiI,'' who long held the lightweight and middle weight titles, was John Kelly, Demp- sey beinS@the name of his stepfat11er. Among the champions of recent years there arc several who have used nome de ring. Young Corbett, the Denver boy who took the featherweight title from Ferry McGovern, is William Fl. Rothweu. Kid Williams, the bantam weight chief, is John Gutenko. Willie Ritchie is Geary A. Steffen. Tommy Ryan. thS former weIterwetght cham pion, is Joseph Youngs. and Kid Me Coy, the ex-champion of the middle weights, is Norman Setby. Dixie Kid, the colored boy who was for a time weiterweight champion, is Aaron Brown. Philadelphia Jack O-Brfen, sone-{ime n1iddleweight claimant, is Joseph Hagen. Hugo Kelly, who also claimed the middleweight honors, was the ring name of Ugo MichelL Stan ley Ketcheu was Stanislaus K1ecal. George Chips real name is Ch4puIonis. George Lablanche. who won the mid dleweight title from Jack Dempsey, is George BIais. Freddie Welsh Fred erick Hall Thomas.
 Young Peter Jackson was Sim Tonpkins. Kid Herman was Herman Landheld. Jim Flynn is Andrew Chiarighon. Johnny Dundee is Jo- seph Carrora. Harry Lewis is Henry Resterman Leach Cross is Louis WaI1ach. Franki CeonIey is Francisco Conte. Jack Britton is William J. Breslin. One Round Davis is George Jaus. Jack Dillon is Ernest Price Charlie White is Charles Anchowitz. Joe Rivers is Jose Ybarra. Patsy Kline is PasquaIe Gengro. Matte MeCue is Matthew Poison. George Knockout Brown is George Contas
 This list by no means exhausts the subject, for scores of other boxers of more or less prominence have fought and are fighting under names that bear little or no resemblance to those conferred upon them by their fond parents.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02
Many Great Boxers Have
 Fought Under False Names

If it be true-and it is doubtless only a pipe dream-that Jess Will 1ard's real name Is Arthur Brttting- am, as alleged by some person who claims to be a distant cousin of the big fellow, Jess would be far from being the first pugilistfc champion to do his scrapping under a false name. It is necessary to go no further back than Jof1nson's predecessor for a pre- cedent, as Tommy Burns started his career with the name of Noah Brusso. For more than a century ring glad4a.- tors have had the habit of Changing their nona41ers. Probably the first champion to do this was Tom John son, the celebrated champion of the latter part of the eighteenth century
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02
CHAPTER XII.

Deadly Blind Man's Buff.
 T OSTON harbor should have been
 impregnable to attack. from the
 sea. Had nature been a mod
 ern army engineer she could not have constructed an oceanic gate more perfectly designed for modern defense against modern ships.
 One might picture Boston as being protected by two. great claws that curve seaward and wait there on guard, pointing to each other. The northern claw would be Winthrop pen2 insula. with .ts beach and summer cottages The southern one would be the long, narrow arm of land that has famous Nantasket beach on it and ends northward at Point A1lerton Between these two claws a prodigal hand has scattered islands. From Deer island, lying in the north close under Winthrop. to Georges island in the south, they form stone wall with gaps that are the channels. Far out, group ed around the portal. the sea is sown with 1edges and rocks whose ke1p boards stream In an ever heaVing sea.
 Commanding that pass and all ap- pFoacfzes far out to sea with zones of fire whose 1n6ersectdng circles marked rings of sure destruction were defenses honestly built. They were ready to receive and withstand that climax of destructiveness which mans science has embodied in the eonicaI steel pro ject~e fired from the rff9ed gun.
 Tie navy that invested the harbor entertained no illusion on that score It had not dared tns attempt to force the passage of Narragansett. It would not dare to force the passages of Bos- ton. As at Narragansett, it's business was to occupy the defenders and wear them out while the army fell on them and on Boston from the land
 The ships entered a shrouded, black sea, where there was not light to warn of reef or sfoai. Ltghtless them selves, they groped with deep sea leads and sounding machines till they assur- ed themselves of safe positions where they might have sea room to swing around in great closed circles at high speed.
 They would have to fire without lighting thedr mark They dared not betray themselves to the waiting guns on land by throwing their searchhghts on the defenses, while the defenses could sweep the sea necessarily, for their seeFchlights were disposed along miles of coast far aloof from the bat Eeries
 (I.o Be Contimased.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-02

| We absolutely must make some Sort
 of a fight for them"
 The commander of the harbor de
 lenses of Boston was not concerning himself about the occult reasons that had inspired the re achievements He
 had been praying for men, for he needed half 8 dozen men wherever he had one He needed them 1ox the seaTch1tghts; he needed man khat he might establish defenses to the land approaches; he needed men for pro 1 tect1oa of base lines and cah5e sta l tona.
 Now that he had them he waited 1 for no orders and asked for no in struct1ons. He loaded qua teEnasters' boats with detachmeutS and rushed them to the waterfront of Bostun and Chelsea where he knew Of th4ngs he wanted. They returned with two tons of explosives and miscellaneous ord nance material that had been seized from merchants. He seized barbed wire From electric light plants and power works he obtained, by the same lead covered cable for hag mine fields, and from ships in the harbor he took half dozen searchIlghts.
 Es@The search1ight project is approxE mateIy 50 per cent completed. : The fRe control system may be said to be approximately 60 per cent com pleted +* Installation of power generating and distributing equipment is 25 per cent completed Sub marine mine structures are 83 per cent completed ~-Report Chief of Coast Artillery, Q. s. A., For Year Ended June 30, 1e14.l
 Before night, too, he had men in- trenched behind entanglements with
 machine guns on the narrow neck of land that leads to Nahant's bxoad cliff pzonaontoFy on the north of Boston haxbor to protect position fNading sta t9ons there and a great sixty inch gaarch11Rht
 southward at Point AIlerton, on the long cape that juts out toward Boston haFbor from Nantasket beach, to de- fer1d the stations and searchlights and approaches of Fort Revere with it's nigf1ty batteries, he placed a strong force with ample artillery. Regular manning detail for Boston defenses, twelve companies of coast artillery These have see en systems of defense to maintain. The companies arg not GA44G%S@<1 ~ SA4SS91 1NAl SJE0ASLu. FS1l IL they wore there would be less than 200 men to each defense. This is not suffi- ctent for any sustained action at the big guns alone. A suf1 1cfent1y energet- fc enemy, even if he might not damage the works, could wear out the men by incessant attack for a few days and nights. There certainly would not be men enough to provide for outlying de fense against landing parties.l
 This was the point where he feared a landing n1oet- He built an armored train, seizing the material from the town of Hull, and armed it with quick frersi that it might be sent to threat ened places.
 Outposts were sent as far as Nan tasket for fear the enemy should try to laEd there or cross the narrow neck and take boats over it into the bay behind
 Beyond Fort Revere he destroyed certain houses that would interfere with the firing At the far outlying islands called the Graves he posted men with signal rockets. He sent scout boats to lie at sea beydnd the fire gene from Nahant to the spot where the lightship was moored in times of peace