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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
CAPT. BROOKS DIES AT 106
Voted for Andrew Jackson, for
Whom He was Named.

The funeral of Captain John Andrew
Jackson Brooks, who cast his first vote
for Andrew Jackson and died at the
ace of LOG Saturday, will be held to-day
from St. Anne's Church, Jersey City.
Captain Brooks, who spent most OF
his life on the sea, was born in Nor
folk, Va, in 1908, and was educated at
William and Mary College. Soon after
graduation he embarked on a vessel
which piled between the United States
and China.
When the Civil War began Captain
Brooks. who was opposed to slavery,
came North and enlisted. He won lis
captaincy on the brig Valley City.
Before his retirement, only eight years
ago, he was employed on the barges
about the city.
The captain did not marry until he
was ffty-four years old, not thinking
IL right TO take mate until he had
come 70 port to stay. His wife died
twenty-seven years ago, and since. then
Captain Brooks had been living with
his daughter, Mrs. Sadie Kraemer, his
five grandchildren and his great-grsnd-
child at 80 Terrace Avenue, Jersey
Citv
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
"SCOTTY SMITHS
A.kNITTIN' SOCKS"
Latest Ballad Below Stairs in
British Embassy-Al Jolson,
Please Copy.

Washington, Feb. Il. -" 'Scotty'
Smiths a-knittin' socks for soldiers Is
the popular ballad of the below stairs
jewellers in the British Embassy, even
superseding "Tippersry" as the favor
tie. There is no tune at all TO the
ballad, only the refrain chanted mer-
rily. and meanwhile "Scotty" Smith is
busily knitting.
"Scotty" Smith is just what his name
would indicate. His Smith lineage IS
evident in every lineament. His feat
ures are Smith features and his ma
tiyitv provides his nickname and also
a most delicious accent, the mellow
notes OF the Lowlander.
"Scotty" is messenger TO the en-
bassy. "Scotty" admits the reporters
who call TO ask about international
notes and war zone DEGREES and rights
of search and similar things that in
the piping times OF peace did mot
bother people. "Scotty" also receipts
for cable messages and deals with
cranks and other callers at the cnsn-
CELERY Of the embassy.
"Scotty" is exceedingly patriotic.
and as there were days when he had
little 10 do for Britain in his long
hours Of duty, he hit on the idea OF
aiding the quartermaster's department
OF the British army by knitting. One
of the maids gave him instructions
and now all day long. "scotty'' sits in
the chaneellery's anteroom. knitting
socks for Tommy Atkins at the front.
1--WE knitted three helmets already
but the winter is most over, so I'm
turning my attention to socks now,
"Scotty" explained TO The Tribune re-
porter. ALREADY I've knitted six pairs
of them. II fills in the time and IL
helps the boys in the trenches, TOO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
N. Y. HISTORY
PUT ON CANVAS
Artist Does Pictures for Big
Fair, Showing City in Three
1OO-Year Periods.

The change three hundred years have
worked in New York City is shown in
three huge oil paintings which were
shipped yesterday to San Francisco. TO
be displayed at the Panama Pacific
Exposition. They are the work OF
Birch Burdette Long, and portray the
lower end of Manhattan OF three peri
DDS Of it's history-17l5, 1915 and 1915.
The canvases will be part OF the city's
exhibit at the exposition.
All tho detail of the 1715 painting
was obtained from rare English print
loaned to the artist by !. y. Phelps
Stokes. Mr.. Long. after q study of the
history of the time and after recourse
TO old photographs and prints. was able
to locate three old buildings of 17l5
which are still standing facing BATTERY
which are still standing, facing Battery
Place. between Greenwich and West
Streets.
The task of recreating New York's
Topography of 1915 was easier. Prints
and photographs of the time clear y
show the spires of st. Peters Church,
St. Paul's, St. Johns and st. Marks. A
painting owned by Mr.. Phelps-Stokes
shows Manhattan Island, as viewed
from Governors Island.
Working with this material as his
background, Mr.. Long has produced a
painting which shows Old Castle Will
lam, frowning upon the frivolity of the
city: Clinton Fort, with its grim guns,
and Castle Garden, now the Aquarium,
where Jenny Lind sang.
The 1915 painting shows modern
Gotham, with its skyscrapers and
trotterics.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
NOT IN IDLE RICH CLASS
Philadelphia Society Leaders
Sure of Sundays Approval.
In relesr.rh 10 The Trihune

Philadelphia, Feb. 14.-Whst Billy
Sunday has said Of the sins Of the
idle rich" and the shortcomings OF
society is not worrying the women who
lead in social life here. They merely
raised their eyebrows to-day when they
were shown copies of what Sunday had
said. They are sure his visits TO the
horles Of Mrs. T.. T. Stotesbury, Mrs
A. J. Drexel Biddle and others cannot
have inspired his denunciations of card
playing, improper dancing, cigarettes
and cocktails.
Is il possible. the women ask with
a certain sadness. that when Mr.. Sun
day speaks Of society as being "on
the highrosd TO perdition" he is speak
ing from the standpoint of man who
does not know what he is talking
about?
81 really do not know who he can
mean" said Mrs. +. T. Stotesbury
"but he must have somebody in mind
| think he's wonderful and sincere in
everything"
ct must say that don't know any
of the so-called idle rich" said Mrs
John c. Groome. "The majority of the
rich women whom ! know are Just as
busy and Just as earnest as anybody
else. II is dec dedly harmful to stir
up feeling between two classes BY
singing out one elias of people for at
tack. have not heard Mr.. Sunday do
it, as a matter Of fact, although | have
read of such statements in the ne.Gs-
papers. / heard him only at Mr.
Stotesbury's, where he said nothing bf
the idle rich My impression of M
Sunday then was that he was a vefy
sincere moral teacher"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
DANCE MUSIC AT
SYMPHONY CONCERT
Miss Leginska Pleases Large
Audience with Her Piano.
forte Playing.

The fourteenth Sunday afternoon
subscription concert Of the Symphony
Society in Aeolian Hall yesterday
afternoon was given over to dance
music, though some of the compost
tons were sugsr-coated with names
which looked more dignifed and were
blended with strains to which no one
would think Of dancing even at the
present time when though one-hslf Of
the world is dying Of murder the other
half persists in dancing over the uni
versal volcano.
Under the circumstances il seemed
almost as il Mr.. Walter Damrosch had
missed an opportunity to point a moral
by not including a Dance Of Death to
enforce the observation Of Marcus Au-
relius that the art of living is just
now more like wrestling than dane
ing"
The dances which were hidden in
other titles were the Italian Sstarello
in the overture TO "Le CARNIVAL Ro-
MAN," by Berlioz; the Spanish Jota
and Malagueha, which are the principal
melodic elements of Chabrier's "Es-
paha." the Hungarian Lassu and Friss
in LISTS Hungarian Fantasia for
pianoforte and orchestra, and the Irish
Reel and English Morris Dance, called
respectively, "Molly on the Shore" and
shepherds Hey" in the delightful
prescriptions of folksongs made by
Mr.. Percy Granger. For the rest the
audience had dances from Carmen
with which we shall not quarrel
though we might, Slavonic dances BY
Dvorak, Norwegian dances arranged by
Grieg, a Polonaise by Beethoven and
Strauss Waltz, "Roses from the
South"
The spirit Of gayety pervaded the
concert, and the audience enjoyed q
lightsome season, which was startled
into something like excited wonder
menS by Miss Leginska's performance
Of the Hungarian Fantasia. A gypsy
demon possessed the little woman. who
played with a reckless daring which
took the breath quite away from listen
ers as we'll as the orchestra. Even in
her case the spirit frequently out
stripped the flesh, but its remarkable
reflection of the wild heart of the work
made ample amends for an occasional
technical mishap. When she had
finished the audience was quite beside
itself with delight, and regarded her
obviously with equal amszement and
admiration. II. 4. X.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
THEATRICAL NOTES.

Charles Frohman leaves this city
for Chicago to-day 20 arrange WIN
William Gillette. Blanche Bates and
Marie Doro for return engagement OF
Diplomacy in New York.
The "Maid in America" company re-
turned from Buffalo yesterday on
snecial train over the Lehigh Valley.
The Winter Garden will be dark until
Thursday, when "Maid in America
opens here.
Nv q new invention in sound record
ING "Chin. Chin" will be reproduced by
the Columbia Photograph Company
during a regular performance at the
Globe Theatre.
A party of Christian Science prac
titioners will attend to-nights per
formance of Otis skinner IN me
Silent Voice." at the Liberty Theatre
Elliott Schenck, musical director for
Winthrop Ames at the Little Theatre,
is 10 give a recital there tomorrow
afternoon with Miss Elliott.
The Modern Stage. founded by En-
manuel Reicher, of Berlin, will pre-
sent Hauptmann's "Elga" at the Gar
rick Theatre February %, with Hedwig
fletcher and John Blair in the leading
roles.
Recent engagements for the Marcus
Loew theatres include Pearl white.
we'll known star of "The Exploits OF
Elaine" and Homer Lind, who was the
barytone in Henry w. Savage's "Parsi-
fal." The latter will appear to-day in
"The Singing Teacher" at Loews
Seventh Avenue Theatre.
Captain SCOTS Antarctic Pictures
will be shown at Maxine Ellotts
Theatre To-day, where they will stay
two weeks. These pictures were Tor
merly at the Lyric Theatre for elgh-
teen weeks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
WHAT IS GOING ON TO-DAr.

Free admission 20 the American Museum OF
Natural History. Van Cortlandt PARK MI
scum and the Aquarium.
Poultry Show. Madison Square Garden.
I.ec,ur. on "Eszs: How to Select and When
10 Buy Them" before the National House-
wives, League. headquarters. IS West
Forty -hfth Street. 1880 a. m.
Luncheon meeting OF the New York Mer-
chants Association. Hotel Astor. J 30 y. m
Ne.tinE o. IN. Society for the Instruction In
FIRST Ala 10 the Injured. 100 East Twenty
second Street. .. m.
Entertainment and reception Of the Repub-
Ucan Club OF the Twenty eighth Assembly
District Palm Garden. evening.
Entertainment and dance Of the American
CommIt.e. FOR the Relief OF Babes Of Bel.
rum, Hotel Astor, evening.
Lecture by Or. r. ". Alger on "Saxin {
Your Eyes Ericient." The Lighthouse. II
East Fifty ninth street, evening.
Morris Hillquit and Professor Edwin r. A.
seilgmsn in debate on is Socialism De-
sIrablee' Horace Mann auditorium, Broad
way and 10Th street. evening.
Public lectures OF the Board OF Education.
SIS o. m, neutrality-suspicious. for
Employment In Great Urban Transporta-
ton company" Mr.. Harry \. Bullock.
Washington Irving High school. Irving
Place. sixteenth ard Seventeenth Streets;
America, the Land Of opportunity and
Public school q. Forty:seyenth Street. ives,
o, Eighth Avenue: The Conquest Of the
oregon Country" Mr. Are Hull Fish.
Public School Is. i5sth Street and -.
Nicholas Avenue; Joan OF Arc" Miss a.
Eas, Fifty-seventh street: Opportunities for
Women IN the Needle Industry" Mrs. Belle
Israel MoskowitI. Public School s., Hester,
Essex and Norfolk Streets: "a Week In an
indian Camp" SIR. Elias W Thompson.
Public School ils. 1874 street east Of Eighth
Avenue: Some Comparisons Between the
United States and Germany" J. Franklin
Brown. Pm. D.. Public school 10, Y, west
William G. Ieh,ns. House Of Refuge. Ran
ealIs Island. Rome: the Eternal city,
Mr. Albert ~. Heusssr, Public Library.
lis Fss, Ninety-sixth street: Peru, the
land OF the Inca" Mr.. Frederick Phil
lips ST Lakes Han. go Hudson street
south OF Christcpher street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
MOVE IN CANADA
TO REFINE NICKEL
Meanwhile, II Is Said, Germany
Is Likely to Get Her
Supply.
IBy Telesrsph 10 The Tribune ]

Toronto, Feb. 14.-Agitation for the
prohibition of the export OF nickel TO
the United States. where IL has hitherto
been available for German purchase,
has at last impelled government ac-
ton, though il is nothing more serious
than an announcement on the part OF
the Ontario government that 1t will
appoint a commission to inquire into
the practicability OF compelling the re-
fining of the metal in this country.
The commissioners are not even named.
BY the time they are and have investi-
gated and have made their report the
war may be over.
Frank Cochranc. Minister of Rail
ways at Ottawa and formerly in the
Ontario Cabinet. political godfather, IN
fact, OF the present provincial Pre-
mier, is q son OF the nickel camp.
When the Standard Oil interests,
through the international Copper Com
pany, were getting grip on all the
nickel properties worth while IN the
Sudbury region and developing and
building up the industry Frank Coch-
rane kept the towns hardware store.
II either the Ontario or the Dominion
government thought it wise and want
ed to prohibit the export TO the United
States, il could do so on twenty-four
hours notice, il is said, and thus rid
itself of all criticism OF aiding the
enemy" But. il is urged, TO do so
would mean that no nickel would be
available for anybody, because the only
refinery in the world that can treat
the Canadian metal is at Bsyonne, y.
j., and il would take at least a year
and a half 10 build a Canadian refinery.
even If il is practicable to do so at all.
And meantime what would England and
France and Russia do for nickel for
their battleships?
Nevertheless the latest move looks
as though one day Canada will rehne
its own nickel.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
GYM CONCERT NETS S. 900
Broadway Actors Help Make
Police Benefit a Success.

The concert given By the Police De-
partment last nigh. at the Hippodrome
to start a fund for sauipping all station
houses with gymnssiums nettsd the
committee $4,000, and the work OF In.
stalling the gymnasiums will be started
immediately.
The programme was made up OF acts
offered By George ". Conan, William
Collier, Al Jolson. Ina Claire. Mrs.
Henry Z. Dixey, Frank Fcgarty. Irving
Berlin, the Police Department band
and several operate artists
In the boxes were Deputy Commhs.
sioners Cooley, Durham, Lord and
O'Daniel, and scattered through the
audience were many we'll known city
officials.
The committee in charge OF the Of.
fair were Inspectors Cahslane and
O'Brien. Sergeant Pitts, Detective Mar
tin Sheridan and Patrolman A. W. Tay-
lor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
CARNEGIE FAVORITE,,
]. w. HAIR, DEAD
Life of Toll and Riches Ends in
Home of Woman for Whom
Wife Was Abandoned.
fBy Telegraph to The rrbuneI

Denver, Col, Feb. thames ".
Hair. wealthy coal and oil operator
of Pittsburgh and Denver, formerly a
business associate Of j. NJ. Gufey, OF
Pittsburgh, and favorite Of Andrew
Carnegie, is dead, after seventy-two
years of life Of toll, hardships, riches
End romance. Two women called him
husband. one legally, and both bore
him children.
He died in the home he had made
fer Miss Rose c. Deahl, whom he met
more than twenty years ago in Pitts
burgh.
His legal wife, Mrs. Ellen Hair,
aged and infrm, is at her home In
Paramount, Penn. Hair and Miss Deahl
had lived in Denver several years with
their son, known as James ". Hair. jr.
Hairs wealth was estimated at $780,
900. He vas helpless with palsy for
the last FIVE years Of his life. He
married when he was q young coal
miner. He won wealth, and twenty
years ago abandoned the wife Of his
youth for Miss Deahl.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
SUFFRAGE LAWYERS
TO TALK THIS WEEK
Judges and Others Who Advo-
cate Votes for Women Will
Speak at Suffrage Shop.

This is Bench and Ball" week at
me Suffrage Shop, 663 Fifth Avenue.
lhe lawyers who favor votes Tor
women will have their innings. Among
NE speakers will be several judges OF
zoe higher courts. Inez Milholland
soisseysin will be chairman of to-day s
meeting. and the other speakers will be
ssessie Ashley, Sarah Stevenson and
sohn Kirkland Clark. A letter will be
'esd from Judge Fresehi.
Inc speakers, all Of whom are law
'ers, for the rest of the week follow:
I1esdsy-Judge Appleton, Jean Nor
as Harriet Johnston-W Wood, Helen Hoy
SSfeeiey, chairman; Wednesday--Judge
ransom, Arthur Spingarn. Amy Wren
bertha Rembaugh, chsirman; Thurs
-Judge Ford, Charles Studin, Mary
iliiy, Mrs. Russell. chairman; Friday
sFssse Guy, Dorothy Strauss and MISS
.me Shannon, who will read Portis' s
,peech; Saturday-Judge Wadhams,
tnse,ge Russell. Marion Cothren, inez
N'ihollsnd Boissevain, chairman.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
MISS MENTH GIVES
A PIANO RECITAL
Also Manneses Play Son
atas and Opera Or
ChestraS Perform.

OF the minor events in the musical
world of yesterday the recital given by
Miss HERNIA Menth, a young pianist
and pupil of Busoni, attracted a mod
crate sized audience TO Mr.. Ames's
thrice delightful Little Theatre. Miss
Menth gave a varied programme and
an interesting one. She did not seek
TO scale the heights, but what she Of
fered gave the impression OF tai
ented young artist Of abundant tenn
permanent and force.
She played among other things Mo-
zart's Pastoral Varie." a gavotte OF
Sgambsti, two Brahms rhapsodies,
three Chopin etudes and selections by
List and Moszkowski. In all these she
displayed moderately fluent tech
niaue and some brillance OF execution.
When her experience equals her talent
she will probably be heard with even
greater pleasure.
David and Clara Names at their
second violin and piano sonata recital
in the evening in the Belasco Theatre
introduced a novelty in what was
called an Ascension Sonata" in a
major by Cecil Burleigh. This COM
position was in three movements, each
of which was on the programme de-
nominated Dy QuOtdlIOn lIOih oSiiPS-
ure.
The exact programmatic application
Of the quotations was not upon first
hearing altogether evident, but the
sonata itself proved graceful and
well made composition, which did not
stray upon the pathways of the mod
ems. II received a sympathetic per-
Torrance by Mr.. and Mrs. Names.
The other numbers on the programme
were the Handel Sonata in L major,
OPP. "a; the Schumann in A minor, Op.
105, and the Roger Suite. lin alien
Styl," in major. The audience was a
large and exceedingly interested one.
The regular concerts took place at
the Metropolitan and the Century Opera
House. At the former Miss Beatrice
Harrison, the English 'cellist, was the
outside artist. She gave great pleas
ure by her rich tone in Tschaikowsky's
variations sur un Theme Rocco"
The other artists appearing we're Miss
Frieda Hempel and Luca Botta.
At the Century Mark Hamburg and
the Russian Symphony Orchestra we're
the participants
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
MINING ENGINEERS MEET
Safety and Sanitation To Be
Discussed at Sessions.

The New York meeting Of the Amer.
lean Institute OF Mining Engineers will
omen this morning at 9 o'clock. and
will continue until Wednesday after
noon. Registration facilities have
been provided on the fifth floor OF the
Engineering Societies Building, at %
West Thirty-ninth Street. The tech
nical sessions will be held in the build
ing.
To-day's session includes a series OF
talks on safety and sanitation, by
Frank II. Kneeland. Howard n. Eaven-
son, s. lie Fevre and J. Parke Chan
ming, beginning at 10 o'clock.
At o'clock there will be addresses
on "Non-metsllic Metals" and Iron
and Steel
The annual business meeting will be
held Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock,
Technical sessions will be resumed ut
II o'clock. The annual dinner at the
Hotel Aston will be held at Z o'clock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
REFORMS URGED BY TAFT
Utica Throng So Great, Ex-
President Has to Speak Twice.

Utica. n. Y, Feb. 14.-That members
Of the Presidents Cabinet should have
the privileges of the floor in Congress
without the vote; that Postmasters
should come under the classified Civil
Service rule and that Presidents should
be elected for a longer term and not
be eligible for reelection we're some
of the points made by former President
Taft in two addresses before the men
of Utica this afternoon.
Mr.. Taft came to Utica to complete
n series of mems meetings arranged by
the Utica Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation. So great was the throng in
the street that he made an address
from the armory balcony.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
THEIR MONEY GONE,
THEY MOB BANKER
Di Simone, Arrested, Admits
War Ruined Plan of Handling
DepositorS' Cash.

Ralph Di Simone, thirty-nine years
old, junior partner in NJ. III Simone g.
son, real estate agents, l4l Broadway,
Long Island City. was locked up yes
terday by Detectives Teevan and Scully
Joseph Manisci, of 96 Broadway, ac-
cused him of obtaining $3.50 from him
on the representation that he was a
collector for the National Bank of the
United States.
The arrest of Di Simone, who is
chattel mortgage clerk in the Queens
County Clerks office at Jamaica, fol-
lowed a night and day of excitement
in Ravenswood and Astoria. Thousands
of Italians stormed the Offices of the
Di Simones. The reserves had TO be
called out. and the detectives had diff
Guilty III restraining the crowd from
assaulting Di Simone.
The rumors which caused the stir
were that as much as 100000 belong
ing to Italians Of the district was
tied up. Di Simcne said:
Some ten years ago we took about
$4,000 of the money that had been
intrusted 10 US and used it to erect
the store and dwelling where we are
located. From that time on, as money
came in, we were able to pay demands
for repayment or honor demands for
funds to be sent abroad because we
were continually receiving other funds
from depositors. We were not bank
ers, but simply custodians Of the
funds.
Everything was all right until the
war broke out, and then no more
money was given US. We got to the
end Of our cash several weeks ago.
We put our property into the hands
of a real estate agent, but there was
no market for il. We will pay every
cent"
Di Simone will be arraigned before
Magistrate Conway this morning. In
the meantime policemen are guarding
his Office and the apartments above,
where his wife and several children
are living.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
TO FEED NEEDY CHILDREN
Jewish Unions Open Kitchens
in Two Boroughs.

Under the auspices of the trade
unions of Jewish workers in Manhattan
and Brooklyn, kitchens were. opened
yesterday in each borough. where the
children Of members who are out or
work will receive meals every day. The
kitchen in Manhattan is at 1874 Henry
Street, and the Brooklyn one at 1882
Pitkin Avenue, Brownsville.
Three meals a day are to be fur
nished. They will consist Of rolls
butter and tea in the morning; bread,
meat and soup at noon, and FISH, bread
and tea in the evening.
Bundles of groceries and provisions
will be distributed 20 the parents OF
the children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15
OFFER BIG FLOWER PRIZES
Patrons Have $4,000 for Elk
hibitors at Annual Show.

Prizes aggregsting almost $4,000 are
to be offered at the third international
flower show to be held in the Grand
Central Palace March II to rs, under
the auspices of the Horticultural So
ciety Of New York and the New York
Florists Club.
Among those who have offered prizes
are Mrs. French Vanderbilt, Mrs.
Arthur Scott Burden and Mrs. Frank
Sturgis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-15

man prison camp at Wuensdorf, Ger
many, a letter telling of the prisoners
plight. Captain Rousseaux in his let
ter says:
81 take the liberty 20 inform you that
our unfortunate comrades have been
without any news from their families
for more than four months. Conse-
quently they have been unable TO re-
ceive either money or clothing, and dur
ing this severe winter their distress
surpasses all imagination. The unfor-
tunate men are greatly in need Of warm
underwear and other articles OF wear
ing apparel not included in their mill
tsry equipment"