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The sun., 1915-11-14
CHELSEA ASSN. HAS BIG YEAR
NeIghborhood Club PrOcures Many
Civic improvements.

That many social and civic improve
men,s can be brought about by an
active neighhorhood association was
demonstrated at the annual meeting of
the Chelsea N,ighhorhoOd Association.
At 200 West Twenty-third street, FRI
day night.
Features of the years work hy tie go
members Wer. the procuring of new
children's playground. at Eighteenth
street and Tenth avenue workshop for
040 unemployed men, "A bungalow for
mothers and children at Midland Beach,
an eight day Christmas festival, with
- tree in Chelsea Park q neighborhood
s<Seerts. 81 ncighborhood dances. "a
exhibitions OF health Aims, numerous eA
,urstUS for mothers and bnbl"S durlng
tLe summer and campalpn for "a new
soul luil3hg, resulting IN favorable
','"n l., ilo Hoeid Of Education
* tl,ou Durham was elected prcsi-
drut, rh the Rev Father Joseph i
smith, Mrs, Joseph W, Cushman and
a." RDy. Theodore T.. Savage were
uc1 presidents.
The sun., 1915-11-14
CREW DEMORALIZED
BY SEAMEN'S LAW
Political Science Academy Told
How Statute Held Up Steam
ship Mongolia.
PICKETED BY STRIKERS

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ot tne 'h'efIa,'"" ''e 81 A.,a
at the con,iu"'ns sess'u" VI IL, tiai,
eny OF fon.cal ncie"'o Ut i'''' "
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VI ,nc SIN fa'l'' Mui p'a'9 ,,,
the At'ah'' ,raiSPoit o"p""! .
nVs SucVee"eu W sst."s eH -,
oeio.e 'ne scai'eh law "en' ,''o
On SoNenoer '; rue Mo,sva ,,, ,. w.. NJ
se, oaCh 'r"in 'l'c or.."' .,'' . ,,na.. -,
veihper l. Hu"stuuei,l! Wv
inc company III inc .'as' eo' 'nls u'e
cram 'ton wv. Hao rr''.'s'o ake".
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co,r,,ar,or a, ~ - N ,b., shin could
M, nroco.d ., 90, a. s.orn ,fs,d.yi.
had h,,n r,u1e tina, she was short of
certified s.a,n,u Took commander and
-four mon on This mnrn,ny had them
cer,,e.,, nass.,, an, nroc..d.d az, hoarJ
Meantime uuiou launch had taken on
two ouartermns,crs AZ about 10 pro.
ceed to suppIy vacancies all launches
and tugboats i'm harbor refused to take
of any nou-uuiou se,men Finally pro.
cured launch. got needed men aboa rd
Ship sailed Immediately. Most disgrace
ful incident aud discloses workings OF
new seancns law. Ship picketed con-
stantly with men Offering liquor to
The sun., 1915-11-14
D0EHME'S SUIT DISMISSED.
War Delay Ends Action BrOuEht
by Hungarian Tenor.

A suit for sl65,0oo damages was
brought In behalf of Zoltan Doehme, the
Hungarian tenor, who was divorced
In 1904 by the late Mre. Lillian Nor
dica. was dismissed yesterday b. SUI
preme Court Justice ilegcrch on the
application of the Stock Exchange firm
of strong. Sturgis 4 CO.. the defend
ants. on the ground that the plaintiff
has delayed the trial.
Ooehme alleged that the defendants
broke contract with him In connection
with stock transactions in 1905 and
1907, as the result of which he suffered
the damages alleged He assigned his
rights to Robert w. Appleton. who
brought suit,
Appleton opposed the dismissal of the
action. which was brought In 1913 and
would have been tried last January. o,
the ground that he was unable t. &c
to trial without the TESTIMONY o'
Doehme, who has been In Europe fol
some years. He said that becau use OF
the war he had been unable 70 c0mmu'
nicate with Doehme.
The sun., 1915-11-14
TO GIVE BAZAAR FOR HOSPITAL
Friends Of -. Marks Arrange for
nrnent.

bazaar VIII he held during the
week of December I3 in the Grand Cen
ral Paince for the benefit Of st. Marks
Hospital
The hospital, which - NJ II, Second
Avenue, on the fringe OF the conges'ed
lower East SIDE. has reached the limit
of Is capacity and the hospital au-
thoriiics are DESTROYS OF in,reasing It's
facilities for cumulative work in that
locality. bne OF It's features is the
education OF the poor along the lines OF
preventive medicines and sanitary train
ing.
Among the patroncsses Y ho arc work.
ing fDr the hazaur are Mrs Renlamin
T. Tilon. Mrs II II Rogers. Mrs
charles = Whitman, Mrs !. Borden
Hartman. Mrs Iohn keudrick Bangs.
Mrs. Albert Gai.4iiu and Mrs W. X
Vanderbilt, Jr. The chairman of the
executive committee j. Thomas W
Slocum and Bradley Martin is treas
uy,,.
The sun., 1915-11-14
CURBS FIST THAT MADE
SOLAR PLEXUS FAMOUS
Court Puts FitzsimmOns on
Probation and Fines Him
on Assault Charge.

NEWARK, y. j.. Nov. 13.-Bos Fitz-
s.nmons's fist got him into lot or
trouble here to-day. lie was placed on
probation for year and fined $40 be-
sides for landing blow on James
Hendricks of Dunellen. who served him
with n dispossess notice on his farm In
Dunellen.
Hendricks was acting for his brother,
Or. Joseph Hendricks Of Atlantic city.
who holds a mortgage on the farm. When
Hendricks served Fitzsimnons with tho
eviction notice the latter let 10 with
his fist and q charge Of assault and
battery was made that resulted In the
punishment for the former puGilist
When F'itxsimmons was called upon
by Judge Mancusi-Ungaro to tell his side
Of the story he said:
This fellow came to me while was
sitting on a high stool at the end OF
McGinnity's bar and handed me a paper.
! moved over to a chair In the corner
at table and read the paper and a letter
which was with II. II took me from
three to Ave minutes"
well, what happened them" asked
the Judge.
"Why, Hendricks comes over and says
TO me, DO you know what that means !"
and answers that 1t means that Dr.
Hendricks, th.. -. will never get that
farm. I'll kill him before III let him
take It from my children
Yes, yes. Go on" exclaimed the
Judge.
"Then Hendricks said, The doctor is
my brother and I won't stand for that,
and at the same time he punched me In
, /
like a pig
What followed" asked the Judge.
what followed" said Bob What
would be likely TO follow?' a broad grin
spreading over his face why, l just
put my left across Oh his cheek. he stag
pered. caught the bar rail and hung
there
Was he dazed?'
81 should say he was.
Then what happened?
IF took hold Of him with my right.
turned him around and was going to put
I the left to his Jaw. but ! was afraid |
would kill him. Instead gave him the
| solar plexus and he doubled up in a
heap
When Fitzs,mmons was cross-eN-
| amined by Or. Hendricks. who is law
| yer as we'll az a physician. he was asked
! which hand ne hit Hendricks with. and
/ he answered. with the left
lie, me see that hand demanded the
interrogation. who when bob held IL up
asked. rs not that the same hand you
( hit Corbett with
! 1T is. And IFS the same hand I'm
going To- hit somebody else with" an
swered Bob.
/ At the conclusion OF the hearing Dr.
| Hendricks asked that the threat made
/ by Fitzsmmons be put IN the record.
| Il do this" said the doctor. 'becausa
] mean to protect myself In the even, OF
an attack when leave this court room -
The sun., 1915-11-14

i'oRT CHESTER. NOV i".--l'r NHrt.
J. Sands one of the leading rhy.0 I'.-
of Westchester county, died tu-utgAt o.
a complication uf diseases. He WIs -
years Old. lie recently underwent a.
operation in Bellevue Hospital, Ne"
York. He was born in Port Chester, th.
son OF Dr. jerome Sands. nr nd,
was twice president "f the Village o.
Port Chester. lie was Il s'ockholior .'
several large corporations. among reV
the Russell, Burdsall n Ward tompln'
pr Sands owned the land upon wWici
the factories of this company are stu
ated here. He WIS a veteran NJ tn
civil war and "A member of charlo~ Law
renee Post. q 4. Il. lie leaves D..
wife. one son. DR. B. J. Sands. and ~
daughters, Dr. ieorg!aud sands am
Miss Adelaide Sands
The sun., 1915-11-14
DEATH BLAMED ON GOLF.
J. =. Cooke of Patterson Die. sud
denly of Heart Disease.

PATERSON, y. J. Nov. i3--pvejudul-
scnce in golf IL said to hiN. '.en the
cause OF the death Tonight nr John !
Cooke. IS years old. r"lir"d luromot.v
builder OF this city, Mr. Cooke DE-.
suddenly at his HON" and heart uuiGr"
was given AS the cause.
Mr.. Cooke was son Of .tonn : COO.
who established the baufor'h-Cpol,r
Locomotive Works. the original looomo-
tive plant IN Paterson. He -rll ne
works to the American LOGON 'tlv" iorR
pany for s5.OU0,n0o ten years ag0. VI
Cooke leaves "A daughtcr. Miss Margil''
Cooke. of Rosemary College. rye. y
Y. and son, John ;. Cooke, "a studcl
at Princeton.
Mr. Cooke was AN enthusiasts. Eof
player and was member Of the Nrrola
Golf Club near here. lie also vs. Z,
member of the Hamilton Club ~ r.
eIsOn.
The sun., 1915-11-14
TWO COUPLES ADOPT WAITS.
Characs of Chtidr-m's Aid society
Find Homes.

Through orders signed by Surrogate
Fowler two homeless children have been
adopted by we'll ia do persons. Giles
Whiting of sI3 Madison avenue. secre-
tary of the Persian Rug Company, and
his wife, Flora r.. Whiting. became ths
foster parents OF Anna Marisa. who was
horn December II. l9l2, and whose par
cnts are dead. The child was taken I,
the Children's Aid Society by Emily w
Dyer, next friend Of the mother or
October "a, 1914, and Was placed in
the Whiting family at once.
Dr. Albert +, Brugman and his wife
Gertrude. of is3 West Eighty-hfth street
adopted Dorothy Endr.ss, born January
l2 last. whose mother took her to the
Ch,ldren's Aid Society on July ! ana
asked that she be placed In Christian
home,
The sun., 1915-11-14
2 NORTHROP DIVORCE PLEAS
Wife of Wealthy -. Louis Man
Charges Him With Cruelty,

DETROIT, Nov. l3.--Soclal circles OF
several American cities. particularly ST.
LOUIS, New York and Detroit, are ex-
pccted to take more than ordinary
notice when the divorce suit of Juliette
smith Gilmore Northrop against Murray
:. Northrop Of 81. Louis. filed in the
Wayne circuit recently, comes up for
hearing.
Reid Sorthrop, father Of Murray. was
n wealthy manufacturer Of ST. Louis
and relation of George Gould, while
his wife IL first cousin to Cabinet
member. The couple were married in
Chicago on May 10. 1914. following an
"iopement. Northrop's mother is one Of
81. 1.ouiss wealthiest women, and
owner of the Tulsa oil Company.
Mrs Northrop charges non-support
and cruelty. and will offer more than
one hundred exhibits. Northrop has
filed Il cross-suit.
The sun., 1915-11-14
JAPAN's RULER H0NoRED HERE
cremation Celebrated With Mcct-
ing and Feast.

The coronation OF Yoshih!to as EN-
peror OF Japan was celebrated last night
by 500 japanese in Carnegie Hall
Speeches In praise OF the Emperor and
the progress of Japan were made by
Il. II. lchinomiya. DR., J. Takamine and
Consul General r. Nakamurn. A ,ele-
gram from the Japanese Ambassador
regrettIng his inability to be present
w;N read,
After the meeting about $50 japanese
many accompanied by their wives, dinet
in the large banquet hall of the Grea
Northern Hotel The room WAS gayly
decorated with American and Japanes,
flags.
The sun., 1915-11-14
FINED UNDER SEAMEN's ACT.
Vessels May Have 10 Pay $4,000
for Alleged Violations.

WASHINGTON. Nov l3.-Fines amount
ing To $4,000 have been imposed under
the La Toilette seaman's bill In Mobile,
San Francisco and Galveston harbors.
Commerce Department officials said to-
day. Most of the fines have been in
CURED. II was said, because of the ves-
sells alleged failure to have 4 sufficient
Proportion Of able seamen and ,ifeo :
men in their crews.
The Department has under advisement
whether these fines actually shall be
collected In all cases. Some vessels have
entered a plea that compliance with the
law was "A ply steal impossibiity.
The sun., 1915-11-14
LOSES j. s. JOB
FOR CRITICISING
WILSON WOOING
Continued from First Pooe.

me- az required by the civil service
act. am fully prepared TO make
answer to any charges that may be
made
deny with vigor that am guilty
of any disrespect in any manner to-
ward President Wilson, as you charge
in your letter. And also deny that
demerits have from time to time been
imposed upon me, as you state.
Without any charges having been
preferred against me you demanded
my keys and ordered me out Of the
post office. Yours very truly.
GEORGE BuRKITT.
Goes Higher Up.
This is the letter Burkitt sent to Oh,
First Assistant Postmaster-General:
DEAR SIR: Tho attached papers I
beg to submit to you for your Kind
attention. ] beg to ask that l be
given a copy OF any charges that may
have been preferred against me. that
I may make answer thereto. My re-
quest Is based Oh section q Of the civil
service act.
have been assistant postmaster
for six years and in that time have
been assessed mot leyible) as the
records will show. The letter next
attached does not give the honest
reason for my summary dismissal, as
all Investigation will disclose.
My request to be allowed to make
answer to any charges is honestly
made, and also ] beg to have my
work at all times made the subject
of an investigation.
To-day Mr.. Burkett received the fol.
lowing letter from the Office OF tn,
Postnaster-General:
With reference to your letter Of the
sixth inst. relative TO your removal
from the position OF assistant post
master In the post Office At Winnetka,
ILL.,. and stating that you have never
been furnished with copy Of the
charges preferred against you. you
are informed that letters from the
postmaster. dated October 20. 1915.
calling upon you to submit a written
statement quoting the exact language
used 10y you concerning the presi-
dents engagement. and your reply OF
the same date. constitute coirpi-
ancc with the provisions Of section
80. postal laws and regulations.
The papers In your case we're very
carefully reviewed before final ac-
tion was taken. Favorable considera-
tion cannot therefore be given your re-
quest that the matter be made the
subject Of special investigation by
post office Inspector
Held Two Conversations.
There were two conversations s.hou
tho subject" Burkitt said. but the,
were so trivial | hardly remember them
| recall that all the clerks were talkiu,
about the engagement in the post of'c
early that morning.
Il don't remember now ius, what
The sun., 1915-11-14
FIRST ZERO WEATHER IS HERE.
Two Bclow In Yellowstone aud
other Western Points,

WAsUtSGToS. Nov. l3.--Below zero
temperature In the United States for the
first time this season was reported TO
the Weather Bureau to-day from Bill
iings. Mont. Yellowston Park. Wyo..
and Sheridan. Wyo.. where two degrees
below was registered.
The sun., 1915-11-14

II was learned Yesterday that attor-
neys for Mrs. Amy Davis, wife OF Al
Davis, the cabaret dancer. who has been
Eusenia Kelly's close companion, in
tended To nsk Judge Pendleton to make
absolute the decree of interlocutory di-
vorce granted to her, This probably
means that the decree will he signed
within "A few days, and that Davis will
be free to marry. The present decree
gives Mrs. Davis $e5 a week alimony.
The sun., 1915-11-14

"But. of course our whole recruiting
case Is complicated. England has spe
cial kinds of duties which we've always
had to perform In European wars. OF
these I should say that first we have TO
hold the seas. which we have done 50
successfully.
That duty OF holding the seas Eng
land and the whole world always takes
for sranted. In fact It is taken so
much for granted that We hardly real
ize that our present control Of the seas
| Is "A bigger. more important feat than
any German success Of the great war.
| II Is beginning to prove already the de-
cisiyc fact Of the war And to make 1t
a fact everything that your Admiral
Mahan taught we are now applying,
( 'rhen England has a second specie
duty: TO he the purse and the banker
of the Allies. Already We have pro-
vided FOR our allies about two and
half billion dollars. And to do that and
to shoulder the enormous expenses Of the
war increased by England's military
unpreparedness at the outset. We have
10 maintain as much as possible our
normal trade with the rest Of the world"
"Germnny WrRkcnina.''
/ "Hu, jus, now the main factor at
home Is We are steadily passing from
strength to strength while Germany is
passing from strength to weakness. That
applies TO everything about the war. par
/ t!culorly to men and munitions"
There IL disappointment. OF course. In
; England, Mr., Brooks said, over the Dar-
! dane.lcS campaign, The people believe
the original idea Of the campaign sound.
hut they recognize that Il mistake was
made In attempting to make the navy
! force the straits unsupported.
| AT the same time" Mr. Brooks com
mented. 81 don't know that any blum
, ders or miscalculatons on our part have
been greater than the blunders OF Ger
many Not = single object for which
Germany began the war has been at
tained"
America TO Re nhc Old World"
"Mr, Frederick Palmer" said Mr..
Brooks, ''who is universally regarded In
England as the soundest and shrewdest
OF all the correspondents that have
visited the front, has told Americans OF
the physical and military perfection of
the British army, and has called atten-
tion 10 the amazing feat OF having got
together such magnificent army In so
short time. And perhaps the best way
OF realizing what that army OF England
has achieved In this war is TO imagn
what the present state OF affairs would
be- If England had not interviewed.
well have to reverse IA phrase after
the war liz over" Mr.. Brooks concluded.
"a phrase that has to do with America
and Europe. After the war one will
speak OF the new world OF Europe and
the old world OF America For in
Europe we shah become .ncomparably
more democratic than ever before. So
cIally and politically. and In industrial
matters we shall necessarily build up
again on a socialistic basis.
"You in America will go on as you
are, ns we were. going on in the old
fashioned lndIviduallstc way. These.
however, are speculations The main
thing now IL that England has risen
at any rate, is beginning to rise--to
the full height of the crisis, and un-
doubtediy will emerge from the war the
strongest Power in the world"
Mrs. Davis Seeks Absolute Decree.
The sun., 1915-11-14
SCHOOL PERIL LEFT
FOR.PUPILS A YEAR
Urgent Call for FireprOofing
Of School Stairways Stirs
No Action.
STILL WAIT FOR MONEY

The request of the Board of Educa-
ton for money TO fireproof wooden stair
ways in thrty.fye school buildings In
this city--recommended year ago as
urgent by Fire Commissioner Robert
Adamson and the Bureau OF Fire Pre-
vention--has been on the calendar of the
corporate stock budget committee Of
the Board of Estimate since last March,
but no action has been taken by the
committee toward appropriating money
10 get the work done. Other items to
he considered have blocked considera-
ton of the school fire prevention work
The Board of Education made a re-
quest for s3eS,so7 for fire prevention
work in sixty-three schools on October
30. 1914. and another request early In
March OF this year for s4s0.Si5 for
the urgent work on the thirty-fve
schools listed In Commissioner Adam
sons report of December 80, 1914. Til
den Adamson, head of the bureau OF
contract supervision OF the Board OF
Estimate, prepared a report on the sub
ject for the corporate stock budget
committee on March 5. in which he
recommended that s25o,ooo he appro-
priated at once to begin the hreproofins
OF the wooden stairways
The sun., 1915-11-14
May Act Next Week.

Til" corporate stock budget commit
tee. which has had the matter in charge
since March. is composed of Comptroller
Prendergast. President McAneny of the
Board of Aldermen. Borough President
Pounds of Brooklyn and borough Presi-
dent Ma;hewson Of The Bronx. There
will he another meeting OF the commit
tee early next week. The Comptroller
mas promised TO take up the school fire
prevention work then.
The Nomen's Trades Union League
announced yesterday definite steps to-
put an end to hazardous conditions in
factories throughout the city. The
league estimates that of the 10000
working girls IN the city 250, 600 Of
them work in buildings which are verta l.
BILE hre traps. 1t is the leagues plan
TO divide the city into nifty industrial
districts. TO sound the sentiment as to
conditions IN each district and II neces-
ssry 10 bring about safer working
places to call a general strike OF ?50.-
OOu worKers.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-21
FACES STIFF CONTEST
Democratic Nominee In Stafford md
King George VIII HIVE AssIstnnre
of Wcll-Known Men.

Whit d. Peyton, nominee or the
democratic party for the Hous. OF
Delegates from the district composed
OF Stafford and King George Counties.
arrived here last night He is on a
private business trip, but is also look
Ing after his campaign interests Mr.
P"yton conferred with J. II. G Grasty.
former member OF the House and now
OF tho United States internal revenue
service. and other men prornincn, in
state politics on his arrival
Mr.. Pcyton is opposed for tho House
by NJ Is. Lowry, former Collector CT
Customs here, one or tho strongest Pc
rublichns in the district IT is under
stood that Attorney John Car
land Pollard and two or moro OF Vir-
Yinia's Congressman will go to Mr. Pew
tons district to assist in his campaign.
Stafford County has vote OF Abou.
loco. OF which 400 on the Gunlifcn list
arc negroes. The proportion Of Re-
puhlicana and negroes In King George
is larger. OF the l.4On names ON the
paid pol! tax lis, In the latter county
about 500 are negroes
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-21
SHOW WINDOWS TO BE
ILLUMINATED TONIGHT
Latest In Fall Fashions VIII he Placed
on Di$plny-snles Open To-
Morrow Morning.

Early tonight the curtain will rise
on the United Fall Fashion show of
the Retail Merchants Association. The
opening scene will be an exterior one.
with three interior ones TO follow on
Wednesday,. Thursday and Friday.
The display men have about finished
setting the stage for the big fashion
show, which is a scmiauuual event sup
ported by the Retail Merchants .Nsso-
citation. and all viii be In readiness
by tonight, when the windows and
stores will be lighted and ready for
pie who are always on the streets on
the eve OF the united openings
The merchants are looking for record
breaking crowds in the stores to-mor-
row, rs we'll as the other days Of the
openings There has been considera bic
speculation in regard 10 the offerings
for this fall particularly in woman'a
wearing apparel and hats. and every
body Is Interested in learning ut first
hand what VIII he the accepted Thing.
The women may expect some startling
effects, for the dealers hav. searched
tho markets and have brought TO Rich
mond the correct things for wear and
use this fall and winter.
While masculine STYLES at a fashion
show usually play second TO the
feminine, IL is certain that the good
dressers OF the male sex are eagerly
waiting 70 see what the Broad and
Main street clothIcrs and matters have
TO offer in fall styles for men
While the chief interest centcrs on
wearing apparel. every line of ,ner-
chandising Will he represented with
IN" latest and newest offerings for
kichmond's retailers. All appear TO be
intent on making the fashion display
ono OF the best the city ever saw.
IL IS expected that many out-of-,own
shoppers VIII come 10 Richmond TO
do their fall buying. Secretary W. \.
Clarke, Jr., Of the Retail Merchants
Association, predicted last night that
the fall fashion show would tie as sue
ccssfui rs amy that have preceded II
lie said that the merchants believed
mat their patrons appreciated these
united openings, ANA that the local con-
Germs have outdon" themselves in
stocks, and Richmond and out -of-towu
shoppers can expect 10 see the most
wonderful offerings. both from ncwucss
and price. that have ever been seen
here.