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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-07

practical side of policing the city has beer
given study.
MERIT SYSTEM HAS BEEN PRETTY
THOROUGHLY DEMONSTRATED.
The policeman who starts his career to-day
receives $1,000 year, which is $500 more than
the work called for up to some months ago.
The chief inspectors salary has been raised
from $500 to $4,000 year. The men serv-
ing in all ranks have been impressed with the
fact that merit counts to-day. This is not be-
cause of the speeches Police Commissioner
Woods can make so effectively. The open
door to all policemen who wish to air their
grievances was the first STEP Men who are
doing good work are impressed that this work
is being recognized. Their cooperation is
sought. This is the next STEP
In line with bringing out the best in each
man the need of exercise while in the station
house was next considered Gymnasiums in
all station houses will soon be an accom-
plished fact. The men have taken kindly to
the new move and have contributed pro rata
for the equipments required
Medals to the men who have good sugges-
tons for improving the service and marks to
their credit for promotion if the suggestions
are approved form another innovation Now
adays, if some minor matter is brought up
against policeman, the commanding officer
is given power to use discretion before bring
ing it to the attention of Commissioner
Woods.
At the time when it was announced that the
policemen would be permitted to leave post
for the purpose of eating while on duty, the
public did not appreciate the radical move,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-07

ing the number of possible law-breakers by
one Destitution often leads to crime We
are really doing crime prevention work to-day,
work. However, don't allow the thought to
go out that we are out to do social service or
welfare work, for that is not So"
PRACTICAL TESTS THAT HAVE JUSTI-
FLED THE THEORY.
Old New York laughed years ago when
Colonel Warning introduced the white wings
to Manhattan. And Old New York, wise in
her years, raised the same sort of laugh last
year when the tip went out that the cop" was
to be introduced to practical sociology. Well,
we've had our Bundle Day, and the Police De-
partment has succeeded in distributing nearly
100000 bundles to the needy ones who applied
for them short time before this distribu-
ton took place the department was put to test
as an adjunct and aid of the Street Cleaning
Department 1t then proved itself not want
ing by calling out the snow shovelling emer-
gency force, made up of men who had regis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-07
By HERMAN LAUE.

wv THAT has become Of the System"
w in the Police Department of New
Vol Citv2 Has il simply been
Evening star., 1915-05-12

Gillespie. chief Of police of Detroit.
chairman: A. A. Benesch, director Of
public safety, Cleveland, Ohio: George
H Gooderman. chairman. Toronto
Hamilton highway commission; Capt.
C. c. Healy. commanding traffic divi-
sion. Chicago police department.: w. P.
Hitchcock, commissioner OF public
safety. Syracuse. N. Y: y. George
Knapp. jr.. commissioner of public
safety. Toledo. Ohio: George b. La
Barre, commissioner of public safety,
Trenton, N j.: Harold w. Newman.
commissioner of public safety. New
Orleans; w. H. Pierce. chief of police.
Boston: Raymond N. Slotter. secretary.
department of public safety. Philadel-
phia: Col w. D. Sohier. chairman.
Massachusetts, state highway commits
sion: Charles NJ. Talbert. director of
streets, st. Louis, and Maj. Pullman.
This gives the street traffic commit.
tee very strong representation,
wrote Commissioner Gillespie. and II
is hoped all members will find II con-
venient to cooperate in the work.
The federation will have big rally
at it's first annual convention in De-
troit this year. it is stated. and the
street traffic committee will play an
important part in it.
Evening star., 1915-05-12
Most Important Findings.

The most important findings of the
committee are summed up in the follow
ing conclusion at the close of the report:
1T will be seen that the committee have
.'ome to a definite conclusion upon each
= the heads under which the evidence
mas been classified:
1T is proved:
First. That there were in many parts
T Belgium deliberate and systema tically
,.ganized massacres of the civil popu-
alton. accompanied by many isolated
murders and other outrages.
Second. That in the conduct of the
var generally innocent civilians. both
sen and women. We're murdered in large
aumbers. women violated and children
murdered.
Third. That looting. house burning and
he wanton destruction of property were
rdered and count enanced by the officers
oi the German army: that elaborate pro-
vision had been made for SyStema tic in
.,ndiarism at the very outbreak Of the
.'ar, and that the burning and deStruc-
ion were frequent where no military
recessity could be alleged being: indeed,
l;irt of a system of general terrorZation.
Fourth. i hat the rules and usages of
war were frequently broken. particularly
by the using of civilians including wom-
en- and children. as a shield for advanc-
ing forces exposed to fire. to a less de-
cree by killing the wounded and pris-
oners. and in the frequent abuse of the
Red Cross and the white flag.
Sensible as they are of the gravity
of these conclusions. the committee
conceive that they would be doing less
than their duty If they failed to record
them as fully established by the evil
dence. Murder. lust and pillage pre-
vailed over many parts of Belgium on
a scale unparalleled in any war between
civilized nations during the last three
centuries.
Our function is ended when we have
stated what the evidence establishes,
but We may be permitted to express
our belief that these disclosures will
not have been made in vain If they
touch and rouse the conscience of man
kind, and we venture to hope that as
soon as the present war is over the
nations of the world in council will
consider what means can be provided
and sanctions devised to prevent the
recurrence of such horrors as our gen
Grafton Is now MitneSSinR"
Evening star., 1915-05-12

Y. M. @. A.
Special Summer Membership
3 Months for $500
The Y. NJ. G. A. has on sale member
for three months.
These tickets may he extended for the
year. by paving $1,000 more at the end
Of the period.
ming Pool, Special Exercise Rooms.
Cubrooms, Hand Ball Courts. Billiards,
Bowling, Turkish Baths. Showers, ETC.
Tennis Courts may be added on payment
Of IS 90 additional
Full privilege membership only $500
Sustaining membership. including full
privileges and large locker 1s In. ks in.
x72 In, in the Club Locker Room. $500
a year.
The swimming pool has recently been
tiled and Is one OF the most attractive
pools in the country.
Special facilities for boys from II to
1S years of age
All men of good moral character are
eligible for membership, and are urged
to visit the building at 1876 g street
northwest.
Camp for boys at South River, Nd,
June so to July a. 1915, $500 for if.
teen days. This feature will be greatly
enjoyed by Washington boys.
Y. NJ. G. A.
Evening star., 1915-05-12
HARD FIGHTS EXTRADITION.
Man Accused of kidnapping Daughter
Gets Habeas Corpus Writ.

Chief Justice Covington today hon
ored the requisition of the Governor of
Michigan for the return to that juris-
diction of Herbert A. Hard, charged
with kidnapping his daughter, Eliza be tn
Hard, seven years old. Attorney James
A. OShea, for the accused, Immediately
sued out a writ of habeas corpus be-
fore Justice Mccoy to test the validity
Of the requisition Hearing on the
habeas corpus was continued until May
%, bond being furnished by Mr.. Hard in
the sum of $4,000.
Justice Gould also continued until
May % the hearing on habeas corpus
sued out by the mother, Mrs. Katherine
Hard, for the custody of the child. The
mother is represented by Attorney M.
E. O'Brien. The parents of the child
were divorced at North Dakota last
February.
Evening star., 1915-05-12
MAI. PULLMAN PLACED
ON TRAFFIC COMMITTEE
Accepts Appointment to Place in
Safety First Association
of America.

Maj. Raymond W. Pullman. chief Of
police. has been appointed a member
of the street traffic committee OF the
Safety First Association of America by
John Gillespie, commissioner of police
of Detroit. Mich. He has accepted the
appointment. and probably will attend
meeting of the committee in Detroit
in the near future
Maj Pullman was selected to serve
as member of the committee because
Of his deep interest in matters per-
tanning to street traffic. and it is his
intention to take an active part in the
work of the committee in standard
izing traffic signs, signals and other
phases of street traffic.
The committee is composed of John
Evening star., 1915-05-12
PILLAGE, ARSON AND
RAPE ASCRIBED TO GERMANS
British Investigating Committee, Headed
by Viscount Bryce, Amazed at Ex-
cesses of Invaders in Belgium

LONDON, May Ie-Niscount Bryce. former British Ambaa
dor Washington and chairman OF special
alleged
have been by during the has
submitted the report OF the committee Premier Asquit
The document is considered probably the
thus made OF German military Bel
mainly because Of the position of Niscoun Bryce historian
with which the made,
great whose and
Evening star., 1915-05-12

associated with Lord Bryce on the com
mittee were Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir
tiward Clarke Sir Alfred Hopkinson. II.
=. l.. Fisher. vice chancellor of the Uni
s. .sity of Sheffield: Harold Cox and
,onelem f. Digby. The committee was
pointed by Premier .Asquith January
last and was given broad instructions
investigate alleged outrages, the NAL
reatment of civilians and breaches of
sW and established usages of war
Evening star., 1915-05-12

Stricken with organic heart trouble
while visiting at the home of Mrs
Anne Comrades. in Baltimore. Daniel S.
Hildebrandt, sixty-fve years old. for
more than forty years a conductor on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, died
before physician could reach him.
Evening star., 1915-05-12
Gnnhoat Ordered to Progreso.

The gunboat Machias has been or
dered to coal at Key West, Fla, pre-
paratory to going to Progreso, Mexico
as relief to the Olympia. which will re-
turn to the navy yard, Charleston, S. z
The gunboat Nashville, at Guantanamo
Cuba has also been ordered to FRO
greso and will call at Santiago de Cuba
and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. en- route.
Evening star., 1915-05-12
To Invite Maccabees to CAPITAL.

Armed with literature and badges
about Washington, furnished by the
Joint conventions committee, D. W.
Call, representative of the Macabees,
has gone to San Francisco to attend
the auadrennial convention of that or
der and to urge the selection of the
National Capital as the next meeting
place He also carries an invitation to
come to Washington addressed to the
convention by Commissioner Oliver P.
Newman.
Evening star., 1915-05-12

s1tfons were then established. The
eNcesses recently committed in Bel
gum were. moreover. too widespread
and too uniform in their character to
be mere sporadic outbursts of passion
or rapacity
The explanation seems to be that
these excesses were committed-in
some cases ordered, in others allowed
on system and in pursuance of a
set purpose. That purpose was to
strike terror into the civil population
and dishearten the Belgian troops. so
as to crush down resistance and exrin-
gulsh the very spirit of seif-defense.
The pretext that civilians had fired
upon the invading troops was used to
Justify not merely the shooting of in
dividual francs-tireurs, but the murder
of large numbers of innocent civilians,
an act absolutely forbidden by the
rules of civilized warfare
Evening star., 1915-05-12
RED TOP RYE Arss,s:,: s;as:, v,,.,.,

Mrs Harriet Brennan. eighty four
years old, widow of Louis Oliver
Brenan. died from the infirmities of
age At her home in Baltimore. She re-
eeived her education at the Georgetown
Visitation Convent, this city.
Evening star., 1915-05-12
Spirit of War Deified.

I'm the minds of Prussian officers
. war seems to have become a sort of
sacred mission one of the highest
| functions of the omnipotent state,
which is itself as much an army as
state. Ordinary morality and the ordi-
nary sentiment of pity vanish in it's
presence, superseded by new stand
ard, which juStif1eS to the soldier every
means that can conduce to success,
however shocking to a natural sense
of justice and humanity, however re-
voting tor his own feelings. The spirit
of war is deified. Obedience to the
state and its war lord leaves no room
for any other duty or feeling. Cruelty
becomes legitimate when it promises
victory. Proclaimed by the heads of
the army, this doctrine would seem to
have permeated the officers and affect
ed even the private soldiers. leading
them to justify the killing of non-com-
batants as an act of war, and so ac-
customing them to slaughter that even
women and children become at last the
victims.
1T cannot be supposed to be a ma
tional doctrine, for it neither springs
from nor reflects the mind and feelings
of the German people as they have
heretofore been known to other ma
tions. 1t is specifically military doc
trine, the outcome of a theory held by
a ruling caste, who have brooded and
ed about war until they have fallen
under its obsession and been hypnotized
by it's spirit.
The doctrine is plainly set forth in
the German official monograph on the
usages of war on land, issued under the
direction of the German staff. This
book is pervaded throughout by the
view that whatever military needs sug-
gest becomes thereby lawful, and upon
this principle, as the diaries show, the
German officers acted.
IF this explanation be the true one,
the mystery is solved and that which
seemed scarcely credible becomes more
intelligible. though not less pernicious.
This is not the only case that history
records in which a false theory, dis
guising itself as loyalty to a state or
to church, has perverted the concep-
tion of duty and becomes a source of
danger to the world
Another division of the report is on
the killing of non-combatants in
France" This is not as detailed as the
case of Belgium, as the committee
states that the French official report
gives the most complete account as to
the invaded districts in France.
Evening star., 1915-05-12
Take a Tip From Big Business

We have been awarded the con-
tract to clear the site on the Fritz
Reuter- Corner, Az st. and Pa. Ave.
NV, for the Ford Motor Car Co.
of Detroit, Mich.
The Ford Motor Car Co knows
how to do things. Watch with
what dispatch these buildings will
be removed. How speedily but how
carefully we remove these ten
buildings. We have taken tip
from Big Business and applied the
wonderful organization of the Ford
Factory to our work. You take
tip from Big Business and get our
estimate when you have buildings
to be removed. or if you want
building material cheap.
SIDNEY l.. HECHINGER CO..
Expert House Wreckers.
Onice and Yard: 18th & SITS. NV.
Building Material for Sale.
Apply AZ st. and Pa. Ave.
See miscellaneous Column,
Star, Post. Times.
The Washington times., 1915-03-19
sec Blankets, Csc

White or gray Blankets,
single bed size. In pairs,
also half pairs for double
The Washington times., 1915-03-19
Misses & ChiIdren's Hats
$500 Values at g O2

Beautiful Trimmed Hats of fine quality Leghorn;
for young girls; in the charming poke and mush
shapes trimmed with flowers and velvet rib
bons. Values that cannot be tched elsewhere for
less than s7.00-on sale at $3.9S.
The Washington times., 1915-03-19
Children's Trimmed Hats
Wonder Values at O2c

A fine collection Of Trimmed Hats for little girls;
new and becoming styles of Milan and Hemp straws,
trimmed with silk velvet ribbons some with small
flowers Cute styles and exceptional values at CSC
The Washington times., 1915-03-19


Individuality
The Washington times., 1915-03-19
China Mating,
Sl.75 Roll

Twenty-yard rolls OF
Close Woven Seamless
China Mattings. IN checks
and stripes: colorinss OF
red or blue. Sold regular
ly at 1bc yard.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-26
BUILDING INSPECTOR
STILL UNAPPO|NTED

Mayor Lane isrso wei pleased with
the way Frederick w. X. .Beckley, the
deputy Lnilding Inspector, has filled
former Inspector Murasky 3 shoes that
he is making no haste to name Muras.
ky's successor. -
$50 far as am able to learn, said
the mayor yesterday, "Mr. Beckley is
conducting the Office to the satisfac ton
Of everyI ody. There have been no
complaints since he took charge.
1T is better to have n capable and
conscientious executive in charge, who
can read plans, than a technically quail
fed builder and contractor who do sn t
know how to run the Office"
"Then there is a possibility, mayor
that yOH may not fl Murasky 5
plaee?'' ~.
THAT" parted the mayor, "is a
matter of discretion and policy. Any
way, if wait little longer and the
applications keep coming in at the pres
emit rate, | am convinced I shall have
all the builders Of Honolulu to choose
from. '..-
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-26
QUEEN RECEIVES
I. Y BRIDAL COUPLES
Mr.. and Mrs. Armolr and Mr..
and Mrs. Nixon Presented
10 HerSMalesty B. 81"

Through the courtesy OF Mayor Lane
and his wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Philip d,
Armour III and Mr.. and Mrs. Bertram
o. Nixon, who are spending their
honeymoon in Honolulu, were pre-.
sented yesterday to Queen Liliuoka.
lani. - '|.@ u. ..t.t
The Royal Hawaiian band played
aloha De-" composed by the Queen
herself more than forty yhars ago, and
when there was silence again Colonel
laukea handed the Queen two sheets
of her own composition, which she au.
tograPhed for the two brides Both Of
them were very grntifed. aJ.s
The Queen signed her name in a bold,
flowing hand. . &|
| was surprised, - said Mayor Lane,
to see how good her eyesight was,
and how firm her hand. -. ;' w ."'0
d. with such talent rs yours, y said
Mrs. Nixon, cit seems pity that you
should compose no more"
The Queen sighed and smiled.
AL" she said, "the old days Of
love and song have gone. l am work.
ing on a dictionary of the Hawaiian
Language now" II E ~ o.. g.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-26
HELPED DEFEAT RUSSIA

General Chang Tsuo.liR, who is now
fOrty-one years old, was, until the out
break of the Russo Japanese war, one
of the leaders Of the Chinese bandits,
known as the Horse tBriNands," who
ravagsd the Manchnrian plain.
During the Russo-Japanese war,
Chang and his followers assisted the
movements of the Japanese army across
the Manehurian plain, and the success
scored by the Mikado's forces over the
Slay army was, on more than one oecar
sion, due to the valuable assistance of
ferea by the Chinese ,brigands,
For his good service to the Japanese,
the commander of the Mikado's army
recommended to the Governor of Muk,
den, immediately after the close of the
war, that he appoint Chang commander
of the Chinese garrison at Mukden, as
likely TO prove beneficial TO the Chi.
nese army at large. This was agreed
to by the Governor of Mukden, who ap.
pointed Chang to command the garrison
of the city, and the former chief of
hanaits became and is today one Of the
dominating factors in Chinese army cir
Gle. Pc. E"&&
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-26
NTER-ISLANID WILL
APPEAL BIG CASE

The InterIsland Steam Navigation
Company will appeal from the decision
Of the local supreme court, which uf
frmed the verdict of jury in the cir
cult court given in favor of George +.
Ward for $4,000 DANA cs, according to
n statement made by the company + at
tornevs yesterday. Whether the appeal
will be taken to the ninth circuit roart
of appeals in San Francisco or to the
supreme court of the, United States dc
ponds ON whether ornot the bill repeal
Ing the right Of appeal from the local
to the supreme court of the United
States became law, This is not know Il
here officially.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-26
MAN CHARGED WITH 1
MURDER IS INDICTED

Two indictments were returned by
the territorial grand jury yesterday,
one against saigi shiigi, charged with
assault with intent to murder, and
Chung Hoon and Lie Chew, charged
with burglary in the first degree. All
three win appear before Judge Ash
ford at two o'clock this afternoon to
plead. ...
SaiRi Shiigi Is the man who, it is
claimed, Henry w. Kinney, superintend.
emit of public instruction, prevented
from numbering his japanese woman
servant early Tuesday morning at his
home, Ninth, and Kaimuki avenues.
Among the witnesses called before the
grand jury yesterday in this case were
IL. w. Kinney, Tatsuyo Terada, the ser
want girl, and number of police Off,
Gals. ala
That the grand jury is still working
on the Kupihea case was evidenced yes
terday when Representative William T.
Rawhns, chairman of the house judi,
eiary committee, which recently inves-
tigated the affair was called by
the grand jury. Rawlins said that
his committee expected TO report on the
Investigation some time next week. II
has been whispered that Kupihea will
not be exonerated, but that majority
of the committee will eensure him.
Representative w. II. Crawford, it Is
believed, will file q minority report,
which will favor Kupihea.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-26
CODEX OF TRAFFIC
RULES IS PLANNED

\ col"H of traffic regulations a.
speed ordinances. Sounds good, NJ,
Motorist, docsn t it3 We'll, that /.
wst what the city is pondcring Nr,
pondcIiuE is the word, for puIpu0r.
would be too strong. The super, usor>
haven t reached the stage of vohtior
yet, but they are mull.ng the idra o.r
III their minds aud they feel hiuII,
II'"oscd toward it,
Not only would an expensive Iitu,
booklet placed on public sale lr OF
great convenience to all owners ~
drivers of ears, Lut it would hr Of ul
trIIal aid in schooling traffic ullrcl~
n all "t whom a." So we'll atquAlutr,
VITA tHctl duties as they might lr
NV hich way do go to get to Il,
"qualiuLnH' asked a stranger Of au Of
h.rr the other day.
Right this way, madam" anyvrlc.
thr""rhccr, and directed her TO the nsI
market.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-26
SOLDIERS ESCAPED
|. FROMFORT RUGER
STILL AT Liberty
Waterfront Saloons and Seure.
gated District Closely Watch
ed BY Authorities

Thirty soldiers from Fort Ruger are
securing the water front and the segre.
gated district and watching the saloons
for any trace Of the three general
prisoners who escaped early yesterday
morning from the Fort Ruger guard.
house. .
|. No trace of the men has been picked
up, although the police had an lRyeri.
fed report yesterday that they had
been seen in Punnpi Fifty dollars re.
ward win be paid to any persons Of
any nationality, whether a citizen or
not, who turns in TO the military au.
thorities any one of the three. 49,
Two other details are searching the
hills back Of the fort and will stay out
until the men have been captured; q
third was on duty all day in the. imme.
date vicinity Of the fort, and Colonel
Ellis himself was active in the hunt all
day. II t,s VIZ . -,