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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
CT. BRITAIN PAYS
FOR COTTON CARGO
Makes First Settlement of $685.
600 for Bales Carried by
the Kina.

London, June 19.-The British gov
eminent to-day made the first payment
of s165,OOO (ss25,OOO) on the cotton
cargo Of the Danish steamer Kina,
which sailed from Savannah, Ga, on
April Is for Rotterdam. The pay
ment was made TO A. G. Hayes, repre-
senting the American owners Of the
Xmas cargo. The governments agree
ment 10 purchase the whole Of the
Xmas cargo makes one Of the heavi-
est purchases since the seizure Of cot
ton began.
The British government has made
part payment for the cotton cargoes Of
the Danish steamer Livonia. the Swed-
ish steamer Dicido and the American
steamer Navajo.
The American steamers Portland,
from San Francisco for Stockholm, and
the Seaconnett, from New York for
Gothenburg, have been taken into
Kirkwall. The cargo Of the latter YES
sci is being examined, but no action
has vet been taken in the case Of the
former.
The customs authorities have or
dered that 1850 tons of mixed grain,
consigned from an American firm TO
Norwegian ports on the Norwegian
ship Nordkyn. be discharged for prize
court proceedings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20

them IL necessary. with the intent Of
correcting the rate Of exchange against
Britain.
Another point decided to-day was
that relating to the Rumanian loan.
which was also ruled out for the pres
emit. Il is felt by the Bank Of England,
the British government and fnanciers
generally that Rumanian proposals.
both financial and rs regards promises
10 Join the Allies, are still too uncer-
tain 10 warrant any considerable ad-
vance money,
II was stated by influential members
Of the Stock Exchange to-day. and also
by leading bankers, that Sir Thomas
Shaughnessy had been selected by
Lloyd George TO go to New York and
Canada TO settle points at issue be-
tween the Morgans and American and
Canadian makers of munitions regard
ing British government contracts. But
on INQUIRY at Lloyd Georges new office.
the Ministry Of Munitions. The Trib-
une CORRESPONDENT was informed by
Secretary J. T. Davies that nothing
had vet been settled officially.
David A. Thomas, the Welsh coal
magnate, the Exchange Telegraph Com
panv says, has accepted an appointment
from Lloyd George to 90 TO the United
States and Canada TO supervise the
making OF munitions contracts.
Mr.. Thomas, a survivor of the Lust
tania tragedy. presided on June IL at
one Of Mr.. Lloyd Georges speeding up
munitions meetings" at Cardiff. He
was reported TO have said at that time
that he had been told by friends he
must have been spared when the Lusi-
tania went down that he might do for
the government some work not vet ac-
complishcd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
S1O,276,7S4 LEFT
BY ALEXANDER ORR
Owned Property in Several
Countries-Three Daughters
Get Bulk of Estate.

An appraisal of the estate Of Alex
ander Z. Orr, president Of the old
Rapid Transit Commission. filed yes
terday in the Office Of Surrogate
Ketcham, Brooklyn, showed gross
estate Of S1O,276,7S4. The net value
after deduction of debts, admiristra-
ton expenses. etc, was s997t,697. Of
which all but slS6,916 is personal. Mr..
Orr invested his fortune in many In
terests scattered about through the
United States. Mexico, England and
Ireland. He had extensive holdings In
various American railroads and In
banks and trust companies in New
York and Chicago.
Seven certificates aggregating 81
100000 worth of stock in the United
States Trust Company represented the
largest single investment. Among
other assets were 100000 worth Of
Columbia College bonds, Central Trust
Company stock worth 500, 25O, Guar
anty Trust Company shares worth
1852 800, also bonds OF the New YORK.
e. Harlem Railroad Company, appraised
at sl6s,OOO and $4,000 worth of stock
in the Continental Insurance Company.
Mr.. Orr's foreign investments were
largely in railroad bonds in England
and ireland. They included bonds OF
the Londonderry 4 Tough Swilly,. the
Great Northern and Midland Railway
companies. He had s4S,679 deposited
with the London City and Midland Bank:
He also had $4,000 of the stock Of
the Londonderry corporation Bonds
Of the Republic Of Mexico, valued at
sioS64. appear in the inventory. The
appraisal shows that no interest has
been paid on the bonds. -,
Tbe hulk Of the estate lie left TO his
three daughters, Mary Dows Mes
Mary Moore Orr and Juliet Ector
Munseli. Four grandchildren, nieces
and nephews and a sister. Margaret T.
Mum, also appear among the bene-
fcieyies in the will. Mr. Orr died June
8, 1914, at his home, 1o2 Remsen Street.
Brooklyn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
Author of Germany's Campaign Of Frightfulness Far
Different in Private Life from the Man Who
Dooms Women and Children to Death

many, even empowering Won Beth
mann Hollweg, and is to-day the great
obstacle to a softening of the German
sea policy. Behind him has rallied a
party of Junkers, who insist that the
submarine war be continued, whatever
the cost.
The -in-chief Of the high
sea feet brooks no opposition. He has
fought many political battles in Ger
many and each time has been victori-
Gus. He has even opposed the Kaiser
and won. He is the ono minister Of
state who has his own way with the
Emperor. He has held Office since
1897 without interruption. On April
q Won Tirpitz celebrated the fftieth
anniversary of his entrance into the
German naval service. The Kaiser
sent him n congratulatory telegram, in
which he called his Minister of Marine
the Saviour Of the German Empire"
Alfred Won Tirpitz, sixteen years old
the son of a Prussian lawyer, left his
home on Kustrin Oder, far from
tho salt sea, TO become naval cadet
in 1865. Four years later he had won
his way 10 a lieutenancy, and at TWEEN
ty-fve he was made lieutenant COM
I1fnder. IN 1891 he vas appointed TO
the command of the Kiei station. Six
years later, when he was fofty-eight
rank in the German navy, he was called
to the Ministry Of Marine.
With the advent OF Won Tirpitz into
Office n vigorous naval policy was begun
in the Empire. Won Tirpitz insisted that
Cermany's future was on the sea. lie
drafted naval bill after naval bill in
his fight for a force to cope with Eng
lands navy. This bald, stout, short
sighted man, who looks more like a
professor than the grand admiral OF
the high sea fleet. fought relentlessly
for Submarine fotilla, and finally he
won his fight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
..;des Patriotism viii
Garry Cheaper Issue
in England.
,soMAS NAMED
WAR AGENT HERE
- That Shaughnessy VIII
's;,,ate Between MorganS
and Munitions Makers.

II, June l9.-On the highest au'
The Tribune correspondent
go ,,,, the British government has
y. =. an. being abandoned the idea
. -, = the war loan in America
80 London bankers were sum
~, conference BY the Bank OF
'l -. to-day and the proposition was
I'fil. y ,he bank authorities that an
- y ~ lam OF from G350,OOO ,OOO TO
s-' ~ M bc foated in Britain before
se~ys''Sss lime No immediate de-
2 e -, e reached. but IT was under
81 ,s,t the Bank of England would
80 ns s,sin a United States loan, be-
N 'a.', -,;gbt affect their bill market.
81 !. ,', nroposal is 10 issue a loan
I! sssring I per cent interest oG'
: = c,Stinental practice will be FOL
- whereby holders OF tne previous rev, 81 >
~ -, viii be allowed TO take up the
Is ~. -. issue nj from 2 to points
s,IseF. ,s .ho+ the nlsn by
= Il understood Ahe' 80
> - sSs the approval Of leading
= L.nks. which would infinitely
80 .hS, the loan be hOated in Amer
~ .r,S AZ 81 per cent interest. But
q ' s.,k authorities and government
-. tba; a cheaper internal loan
~ I, issued on the wave Of patriot.
). herein all classes can be induced
r., new. was also received st the
~ TXehange to-day Of the immedii-
=. - ;~psnGing issue Of another ltal-
~ Ian This will be s4O,0O0,OoO at
: I .. ~ per cent interest, and
~, NJ the last loan will be enabled
: ,s1 holdings at 9S per cent.
III Al to-dsy's meeting Of the Bank
; T,rIspd and at previous meetings
!. rv,,tioI was brought forward that
i.,g,sn bankers are ready with a
4,r. whereby q British loan could
! laced in the United States to the
s-,i,,tion Of all concerned, but this
=, MED ont with a proposal or,gi-
~, MADE last March. whereby banks
ed take I'D six months bills OF
I.,r,an manufacturers, extending
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20

Grand Admiral Won Tirpitz, the man
who invented Germany's campaign OF
frightfulness and ordered the lombard
ing of undefended English towns and
the massacre Of more than a thousand
helpless men, women and children on
the Lustania, is far from a monster in
private life. He loves family life, was
a kind and indulgent father, and to-
day his chief delight is his little grand
daughter.
Since the undersea war to cripple
Britain's commerce was begun the Ger
man raiders have sunk trawlers and
steamers, enemy ships and neutral YES
sells and have killed over 1900 nom
combatants. 1t was Won Tirpitz who
conceived the idea Of this submarine
war, and it is Won Tirpitz whom Ger
many honors for the glorious achieve
ment" Of sinking the Lusitania.
Won Tirpitz. a man of Bismarckian
iron and force, has gained the leader
ship of the extreme war party in Ger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20

on April 10, 1914, at their home, sz5
senator Street, Brooklyn. At his hrst
trial. last year, his plea was that ne
was 90 intoxicated when he committee
the deed that he did not know what ne
wa. doing. The jury disagreed: =.
Among the witnesses for Bullock 81
tho second trial was his son, Chnrles
Bullock. jr. He testified that his iatner
WINS on the verge OF delirium I9"
drink when he attacked Mrs. buiIock'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
&C. FINE IMPOSED
BY S29,OOO,OOO JUDGE
Lands, of Standard Oil Fame,
Sentences Farmer to Un-
usual Penalty.

Chicago, June 19.-JudEe Kenesaw
Mountain Lands, of the United States
District Court, who once assessed a
fine of S29 100000 against the Stand
ard Oil Company, imposed one. OF 2
cents against Henry Johnson, Of Bar
rington, ILL.,, to-day.
Johnson, with a shotgun, drove a
government agent looking for cases OF
foot and mouth disease of his
nrerniSes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20

ginning August 2.
Mrs. Ferolas conviction Of the muir
der Of Carmelo Carmestralo, her nance
was the result OF her own confession
made soon after the crime. II is urged
that she wa. so unbalanced at tht
time that she did not know what sns
was saying. Although the Court Of
Appeals ruled against her, its decision
condemned the practice Of making the
defendant a witness against herself
Carmestralo was stabbed TO death OF
December "a, 1918. The motive for Ms
murder was said TO be Jealousy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
Lighthouse Keeper Off to Save
Blinded Soldiers from Madness
Miss Winfred Holt Sails New Mission OF Mercy
Among Men Whose Sight Has Been Ruined
bv Shrapnel or Gas

CHOSE men with their eyes shot away,
and here Is something that a man can
employ himself with while he is re-
covering in bed. | am taking playing
cards for the blind and checkers-the
French love checkers. We shall need
a great many of these things, and |
want to tell the American people who
have money to give this committee
that % cents means a pack OF cards
for the blind, 40 cents means q set OF
dominos and 30 cents a checkerbosrd.
board"
No Fear Of Submarines.
The Rochambeau docks at Bordeaux,
and from there Miss Holt will 90 to
Paris. She carried bsgful OF letters
of introduction, some of which were
given 70 her by the Ambassador from
France. when she saw him in Wash
ineton the other day. She also con-
ferred while there with Miss Mabel
Boardman.
"Our committee will cooperate with
the Red Cross, which has promised TO
help US in every possible way she
before deciding how ! shall proceed.
We want TO be permitted TO help the re-
lief agencies there, not interfere with
what they are doing. hope hospital
and school for the blind can be estab-
lished. but ! do not know. Anyhow
we shall send visitors and teachers 70
the blind soldiers we find, shall try
70 train them in occupations, send them
10 their homes when possible, or md
new homes for them. Being able 70
speak German, / can be Of special as
sistance, ! hope, 70 blinded herman
prisoners In France"
Miss Holt is taking with her blind
woman who speaks several languages
and who will act rs teacher.
Aren't you afraid OF submarines
one friend who came to see her OH
asked her.
give q letter Of introduction TO the
captain of the Rochambcau, sne
laughed, $50 II the boat is torpedoed !
can 20 up on the bridge with him ara
die bravely. No, Of course ! am not
afraid, but hate to leave my pima
people here. We need so many things
money for the lighthouse in town.
money for our river lighthouse, where
the sightless have their vacations. put
as an old man said to me the other DAY
he is a survivor of the Civil war
whose eyes were shot away at Gettys-
burg: -, .,,. xho
II know it is the blind soldiers VINO
need help most now
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20

despite our reserve and self-eontrol,
we shall be dragged into II whether we
like 1t or not, there will be but one
position for US 20 take, and that is to
be true TO ourselves, true to our fell
lows, true to the highest ideals Of hu-
manity for which our movement
stands"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
Heat Victim Dies in Hospital

Thoma. Broderiek died In Fordhsm
Hospital yesterday, victim Of the nor
weather. He vas brieklsyer, living
at 4i6 East l35th Street. and was
working on a building on l76th stree'
near Hope Avenue, The Bronx, when nc
Was overcome.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
MOVE TO SAVE FER0LA
Woman Slayer's Lawyer to Go
to u. s. Supreme Court.

Execution of the death sentence i'm
posed upon Mrs. Madeline Ferola may
be stayed by writ Of error. Nathan
d. Levy, her attorney, will apply for
the writ TO take the case to the Su-
preme Court of the United States. Mrs.
Ferola was to die during the week be-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
Son Fails to Save Wife Slayer

Charles Bullock was convicted oil
manslaughter in the first degree oy a
Jury before Justice Manning, in the
Supreme Court, Kings County; yestetf.
day. Bullock shot ard killed his wiie
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
Wed Each Other Again.

Henry Nichols, Of PSI West HIN
Street, married his wife again yester-
day. June 20, 1898, he was married 70
Miss Pauline Fialkowitz by a rabbi.
Recently they discovered that the rabbi
had failed to file the certificate ana
there was no official record of their
marriage. So yesterday they explained
things at the marriage license bureau
and were married again by Alderman
William F. Quinn. They have five chill
drsp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-20
BRYAN ATTACKS
TAFT AND 7. R.

Continued from page /
The Washington herald., 1915-01-18
TYPEWRITERS
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THB
District Of Columbia Washington. D. C., jan
uary Is. 1915. Application for permission TO tAka
the examination for the selection Of candidates.
be recommended by the Commissioners Of the
District Of Columbia to take the examination f0r
admission to the United States Naval Academy 40
Annapolis in June 1915. will be received by the
Commissioners not later than two O'Clock p. m, on
TUESDAY February 3 1915. Applications for
permission to take this examination must be made
in the applicants handwriting. and be addressed
to The Commissioners Of the District Of Columbia,
Room 5Os District Building. Washington. ID. @.
The application must state the place and date q
the applicants birth and his postOfice address;
and be accompanied BY a certificate from two
reputable residents Of the District of Columbia that
the applicant is q person Of good moral character.
and that he is an actual resident of the District
Of Columbia. Applicants must be between the ages
Of sixteen and twenty years the third Tuesday
in April 1915. A physical examination Of ap-
plicants will Be held in Fire Department Truck
House. No. 5. situated the southeast corner
Of Fourteenth street and Ohio avenue northwest,
on Saturday, February g. 1915. at ten O'Clock a m
A competitive mental examination Of appJicants
will be held in the Assembly Room Of the Frankn
School Building Tuesday aud wednesday, Feb.
ruary Is and Il, 1915. commencing at nine O'Clock,
a. m The mental examination will include the
following subjects: Reading. writing and spelling
in English; punctuation and capitals; English
grammar; geography: United States history; high
school arithmetic algebra Through qusdrattc equA-
tionsl; and plane geometry 1--we books Of Chau-
yenets geometry or eluivais1t No person wiz
be permitted to present himself for either physical
or mental examination who shall not have beea
notified in writing Of the approval Of his appliea-
tion hy the Commissioners. OLIVER Z. NEWMAN,
FREDERICK L SIDDoNS. CHARLES W.
KUTZ. Commissioners ot the District q Columbia
The Washington herald., 1915-01-18
PARIS MUST GO TO BED
BY LIGHT OF THE STARS
Government Orders All Lights Out in
Houses at Night. Fearing
Air Attack

Paris. Jan. l7.-APpended 10 the official
rommunique last night was the following
note:
The measures for the lowering Of the
public lights Of Paris which have been
adopted for several weeks as a precau-
tion against raid by the enemy's aero
planes which might have escaped the fire
Of our artillery cannot he really efica-
CIous unless the lighting Of private
houses. business places. factories and es-
Establishments open to the public is moGi-
fed in a corresponding manner.
The military government OF Paris, in
accord with the Prefect Of the Seine and
the PrefeCt of Police. has just submitted
to the national government measures
which will be made known to the public
as soon as they are approved Their
object is to diminish until further orders
the intensity Of the illumination in pri-
Vate houses, prescribing especially the
extinction of exterior lights and Of the
lights in the show windows the strict
limitation Of interior lighting, the clos
ing of exterior and interior shutters Of
private houses, or in default of this the
placing OF a blind, or curtain to veil
the light.
Identical precautions will be taken
in the suburbs of Paris, especially in
regard to factories where work is con-
tinued at night and from which the light
is visible at a great distance"
The Washington herald., 1915-01-18

them food. drink and "pals"-male OIL
! female.
If their spirit fails he supplies them
| with false nerve in the form Of cocaine
! The Twilight Sleep Committee will
| hold a meeting in the ballroom of the
| Hotel McAlpin on Wednesday, January
| 20 at O'Clock Among the speakers will
| be Miss Marguerite Tracy, whose ar
tirles in McClures Magazine first reused
interest in twilight sleep-three of the
| American women whose babies were born
in Freiburg by the twilight sleep method.
! also some of the twilight sleep mothers
whose babies have been born in America
If possible, some of the babies will be
! present
Miss Flora La Toilette will speak on
| What Twilight Sleep Means to the
Mothers of the Future
The officers and members of the COM
mittee are Mrs. Mary Ware bennett,
chairman: Mrs. Fenwick w. Ritchie,
secretary; Mrs. Temple Emmett, Mrs.
Mark Boyd, Miss Marguerite Tracy. Mrs.
Francis Y Carmody. Miss Rose Young,
Miss Rheta Child Dorr. Miss Flora La
Toilette, and Mrs. Julian Heath.
Mrs. Lois Pferce-Hughes, who is in
charge of the woman's floor Of the Hotel
McAIpin. will address the delegates to
the Drug and Chemical Exposition at the
Grand Central Palace on Thursday, jan
uary 81 Her subject will be THE
Stranger Within the Gates"
Mrs. r w. Hawkesworth and Mrs
NJ. P. Groner, who conduct the the dan
SAINTS at the Hotel McAlpin. announce
a series of fashion teas for February.
The prettiest models in New York will
he Snrinp- GtVleS he
tween dances Mrs. Groner has also
arranged for a series of Pavlowa dane
ing teas at the Century Theater start
ing Wednesday. February 3. Tea will
be served Russian style on the stage
and Pavlowa will dance. Miss Gladys
jackson and Mr.. Cedric Hamilton are
dancing daily at the McAlpin whose the
dansants retain all the early popularity of
these afternoon affairs.
The Black Cross Society of the United
States, whose collective motto is Char
ity Begins at Home-Feed America
First" gave a subscription dance in the
Hotel McAlpin ballroom. which was
very well attended. and from a finan-
cial standpoint will net a suhstantial
addition to the treasury. Exhibition
dances were given by Miss Irene Sam
den. of the Russian imperial ballet,
Miss Weinstein of the Metropolitan
Opera House forces. and Mile. Athena,
the Spanish dancer Other women's
clubs were represented by Mrs. Hen
rietta Strauss and Mrs Madeline Krope.
of the Round Table Club; Mime. Marie
Cross-Newhaus. president of the So
Ciete BeauX A rts: Mrs. Lillian Thomas
Schmidt, of the Gamut Club, and Mrs.
John Francis Yawger. president of the
Black Cross Society, and Nine. Beatrice
Goldie, president of the Bel Canto Club,
were the entertainment committee in
charge of the affair. In the throng
were noted DR.. and Mrs. Louis A.
O'BriCn, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Glenn
The Washington herald., 1915-01-18

days. As for keeping up my singing =
would you stand for me being away
from you forty weeks out of every
year? You'd stop it all in half that
time. | love my music better than any
thing on earth. and can't give it up"
What she really meant was that the
intoxicatIun of public homage was sem
sation she would not care to renOunca.
"An right. my girl, you're the doc
tori Joe got up and looked at his
watch, 81 didn't suppose it was much
use, but l thought I'd make one more
try. l won't bother you again. ever.
Goodnight. Peggy. I've just time for
my train"
He was gone! Peggy turned out
the light and sat watching the fire.
He loves children" she remarked after
a while. "and l ha-ha-don't care
much for them" The work she had
started to say suddenly failed to come.
Somehow Johnnie's big black eyes.
Flossie's brown curls. and the baby's
moist pink little fingers had a way of
getting themselves remembered lately.
Il guess I'll get the baby her bottle
and go to bed" she yawned.
A week passed. Peggy was getting
expert on mending kneeless stockings.
sorting clothes and bathing babies. 1t
never seemed to be a bother any more.
Then one night the baby got sick. very
sick.
The doctor and trained nurse hasti-
" summoned took it philosophically,
saving there was an equal chance OF
life and death. But Peggy, a poor,
white-stricken thing. never leaving the
side of the little crib thought the world
was ending. The dear little curly
headed, pink fingered baby had become
to her the dearest thing-almost-in
the world, dearer even than Johnnie
and Flossie of the troublesome clothes.
Morning brought change for the
better. The baby would live! Peggy
slipped silently away to her room and
sat thinking in the cold. wintry dawn.
Mr.. Joseph Sturtevant was just set
thing himself on the other side for a
nice winters morning nap. The tele-
phone rang. He was awake in An in
stant.
rs that you, Joe? This is Peggy"
Yes! Yesi What's happened?
Nothing, Joe dear. except that 1
have changed my mind. And that's all
I'm going to tell you until you come
out and hear for yourselfr'