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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-12-24

New York. Dec. 24.-Christmas IN
the financial district will offer many
striking and happy contrasts to the
to the same period year ago, "hen
Wall Street had barely emerged from
the gloom precipitated by four and
a half months of suspended activity
on the Stock Exchange.
Banks, trust companies, private
banking houses. brokerage firms and
institutions of all kinds have protited
very generally by the boom in stocks,
which began with movements in wal
brides" early in the year, and sent
those and kindred securities to prices
uhdreamed of few months before.
While much of the advance regis
tered by those and other mercurlaI
issues has been forfeited, and count
less paper profits have also prof.
ted. Wall Street mas been, and Is
still, very busy, and attendants say
prosperity is being shared by all,
from the humblest runner to the
michtiest captain of finance or IN
dustry.
Many of the financial institutions
and banking houses have already dis
tributed gifts or bonuses among their
EMPLOYEES for the year, and IN TINS
process many pension funds have
been strengthened ard numerous
"pIofit-sfaaring' plans have assumed
substantial proportions. Gifts to en-
plovces have averaged 10 to l5 per
cent of annual salaries, and one trust
company. long known for its gener-
ositv, is said to have given as much
as 80 per cent.
All the exchanges have taken up
subscriptions for their employees.
and it is far to assume that individual
disbursements will be larger than
anv of recent years. Last year the
time of recent years. Last year the
Stock Exchange. for good and sufll-
cient reasons, refrained from asking
it's members TO subscribe to the
Christmas fund, but drew on its pri-
vate funds. SO that the several hund-
red employees might not be utterly
deprived of some holiday cheer
Celebrations, formal and impromp7
tn will he held OH all the exchanges
after the close of busIness tomorrow.
The Produce Exchange, following its
usual custom will have an enormous
Christmas tree on the trading floor,
and the poor children of Lowe. Man
haitian will receive gifts of toys
and more material things such as
clothes, shoes and other articles OF
apparel.
Some idea of the extent to which
Wall Street has profited by the
general prosperity of the country may
be gathered from The fact that thus
far this year sales of stock aggregate
more than 173,OOO,oO0 shares, against
barely 47,O00,OOO for the correspond
ing period last year, while bond sales
total over s917,0OO,O00, against S455,-
100000.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-12-24
A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS,
Written by Dr.. Clement Clark Moore in 1872,


Twas the night before Christmas, When all
through the house
Not creature was stirring, not even mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug In their beds,
While visions of sugar-pums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her kerchief and in mytcap,
Had just settled our brains for long Wlnterss
nap
When out on the lawn there arose such clatter,
| sprang from the bed to see what was the. matter
Away to the window | flew like flash
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-falen snow
Gave the luster Of midday to objects below,
When what to my wondering eyes shouldtappear
But miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer
With little old driver, so lively and quick;
knew in a moment it must be st. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came
And he whistled and shouted and called them by
name: y
"Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and
Vixen!
On, Comet! on, Cupid; on, Donder and Bitten!
To the top of the porch; to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all?'
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky
So up the housetop the coursers they flew,
With sleigh full of toys and ST. Nicholas, too
And then in a twinking heard on the roof
The prancing and paving of each little hoof.
AS drew in my head and was turning around,
Down the chimney ST. Nicholas came with bound.
He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and
SCOT;
A bundle Of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like peddler just opening bis pack
His eyeS-hoW they tWinked! his dimpes how
merry
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the
snow;
The stump of pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encrced his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly
That shook when he laughed like bowlful of jelly
tie was chubby and plump, right jolly old elf
And laughed when saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and twist of his head
Soon gave me to know had nothing to dread.
tie spoke not a word but straight to his work.
And hIled all the stockings, then turned with Jerk
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving nod up the chimney he rose.
tie sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave whistle
And away they all flew like the down of thistle:
But heard him exclaim ere he drove out Of SIGHT
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL. AND TO ALL
s A GOOD NIGHT!".
COURT NOTES
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-12-24

STEAMED OYSTERS AT JACOB
BRILL'S, FOOT OF KING STREET.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-12-24
CHRISTMAS IN
WALL STREET
ED CONTRAST AWAITING

Financial Institutions Have Already
Distributed Gifts or Bonuses to Em-
plOyeeS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29
BRAZIL LAW KEEPS
HER DEAD { YEARS
Widow of American Engineer
Drowned in Rio Comes Home
Without Body.

Among the passengers who arrived
yesterday from Rio de Jsneiro on the
Iamport & Holt liner Nasarl we're
Mrs. Norman Berry. Of Milo, Me, and
her seven-year-old son. Because OF the
strict Brazilian law, Mrs. Berry was
unable to bring the body of her nus
hand. who was drowned on April 9.
Mr.. Berry was chief engineer OF the
Rio Light and Power Company. lie
was caught in an undertow in the har-
Dor while bathing. When his wife
made plans to bring his body north she
found the Brazilian Law required that
the body should remain buried for siI
wears before permission for removal
would be considered.
Also on the Vasari was Representa-
tive William L. La Toilette. of Pullman.
Wash. who was in the State Of Mlnas
Geraes Brazil. on May s, when he
learned Of the sinking Of the Lusitania.
The Brazilian newspapers carried sto-
rics that special session OF Congress
was likely. and Representative La Fol
lette FASTENED home TO oe In time. tie
said the feeling in Brazil favored the
Allies.
George /. Lorillard. secretary Of the
American Embassy in Argentina, re-
turned from Buenos Ayres on his an
nual leave. He said trade relations
between the United States and the
South American republics were being
eNtended. but would never become per-
fected without the assistance OF an
American steamship line. He declared
Argentina and Brazil were willing TO
nav % per cent subsidy each II tie
United States would pay the other %
per cent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29

compelled to testify 81 want 20 ties
tify." he said His testimony simply
corroboreted that given by Bieler. IN
so far as mis- going 20 the saloon with
him was concerned.
McArdle was on the stand when ad-
journmcnt was taken 20 Tuesday
morning
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29
JOHN D., JR., AIDS
ALLEGED SLAYER
Contributes TO Prison Fund for
New Freedom Fight-Other
Prominent Men Help.

Deeply interested by the fact that
prisoners in Sing Sing nave taken up
a collection among themselves to pay
for appeals fer two men whose cases
they consider very worthy, John 2.
Rockefeller. Jr. yesterday morning
sert check for $50 20 the Mutual
Welfare League. % be used for
the purpose indicated Samuel Inter
myer and Adolph Lcvisohn each sent
$50 and George W Perkins $50. Rich
ard NJ Hu-d and EVert Jansen Wendell
were also contributors.
One o. the cases u that Of
Max Minsky, convicted in January.
1914. of killing man named Max Le-
vine. The other is that Of nan
named Green. who was sent Up for
long term for robbery.
The members Of the Mutual Welfare
League have made up 4 fund Of Sl65.
but about $3.50 more was needed.
member of the organization wrote 20 a
OF well known men explaining
the cases. and some Of the results are
indicated IN ;hs contributions named.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29
WIFE STRENUOUS
AS HUSBAND TRAINER
Held by Court After lmprison-
ing and Beating Beefsteak
Loving Spouse.

Mrs. Dorothy Levy. of the Hotel
Maxwell, 900 West Forty-ninth Street.
qualified as a husband trainer of the
Amazonian school before Magistrate
Krotel in the West Side Court yes
tcrday. Her husband. Mitchell Levy,
d salesman. told a sad tale OF abuse.
He said he returned to his apart
ment in the hotel Sunday night after
attending beefsteak party. His wife
demanded, he said. that he make out
a check for $l25 payable 20 her order.
When he refused she locked him in his
room and mounted guard armed with
a knife and a pair OF shears. Scars
and cuts on Levy's wrists and face
corroborated his testimony. His wife
kept him prisoner until Tuesday after
noon, he said, not permitting him 70
eat or drink Monday his employers
sent a messenger TO investigate Leyy's
absence from work. but Mrs. Levy
would not let him in. Gus Levy, his
brother, gained entrance 20 the apart
ment Tuesday night and disarmed the
wife.
Mrs. Levy admitted in court she had
been an inmate of the River Crest
Sanatorium in Astoria for three weeks
last April as a morphine user. but said
sh, had been cured. She denied her
husbands story.
Magistrate Krotel committed her 70
the West Side prison until Tuesday
without bail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29
YOUNG PHYSICIANS
DEFY GALE; DROWN
Two Mount Sinai Internes Lose
Their Lives Canoeing in Storm
on Lake George.

Glens Falls. y. Y. May IS. Two
Young New York physicians Of Mount
Sinai Hospital. David y. Anderson and
Morris Kusch. who came to Bolton
Landing last Sunday TO spend their
vacation. were drowned In a storm on
Lake George Thursday afternoon.
The young men. who were out Of col
lege only a short time. decided Thurs
day afternoon 10 take canoe trip in
spite of the threatening weather. They
went to Paradise Bay, then started for
Turtle Island. There Erasmus c.
Smith, an old and experienced fisher
man, entreated the young men 70 stay
with him overnight. as the lake was
extremely rough. The pair insisted on
leaving and. after great deal OF trou-
bic in launching their craft, set out for
home
They went down the west side Of the
lake 20 Tongue Mountain, hugging the
shore. The wind had begun to churn
the lake 70 foam. and as the adventur-
ers reached Montcalm Point gust Of
wind capsized the canoe about one hun
dred feet from shore.
Mrs. F. +. Braley, az whose cottage
Andersen and Kusch had been staying,
rad become alarmed at their failure to
return. She waited until o'clock and
called in her husband. Mr.. Braley set
out in motor boat, but searched in
vain. He then returned to Bolton
Landing and organized a searching
party, which worked ell night.
Early this morning the empty canoe
was found three miles south Of Tongue
Mountain.
David B. Anderson and Morris kusch
had been interncs at Mount Sinai Hos
pital for two and half years Both
we're unmarried and about twenty seven
years old.
DR.. Anderson, whose home was in
Salt Lake City, was a graduate OF Johns
Hopkins University. DR.. Kusch was a
resident of this city and was graduated
from Cornell University about three
years ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29
NEW REVIEW ASKED
IN CAMINETTI CASE
Supreme Court to Pass on
Validity of White SlaVers
Sentence.

Washington, May 2s The Supreme
Court was petitioned to-day 70 review
tho conviction in the California Fed
eral courts Of +. Drew Caminetti, son
Of A. Caminetti. Comm ssioner-General
Of immigration, on charges Of violating
the white slave law.
Ex-senator Bailey of Texas will
bring the case up Tuesday, and de-
cisior is expected on June IA. A SINH
lsr application may be made on the lat
ter date on behalf of Maury |. Diggs.
Caminetti and Diggs were convicted
after sensational trial. Appeals 20
higher courts we're unsuccessful. Inc
case IS the first TO come before the
court in which the issue is whether
The law applies 20 cases involving no
element Of profit or coercion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29
.HEIRESS IS INCOMPETENT
Brother to Guard Estate Of
Miss Mary Butler.

Miss Mary Marshall Butler. OF
Yonkers. who recently inherited for
tune from her sister, and who - worth
about $4,000 in her own right, was
Yesterday adjudged incompetent to
manage her estate by q Sherif's jury
IN White Plains. Until she became IN
sane. six months ago. Miss Butler was
prominent in church and charity work
in Yonkers and was the founder OF The
Woman's Institute. She has been at
Bloomingdale Asylum since February,
1914.
William Allen Butler. her brother,
recently brought proceedings 70 have
a committee OF the person appointed
for his sister. and the matter came up
Yesterday before me jury. Dr. William
l.. Russell. Or. Sanger Brown and Miss
Catherine VI. Hern. all OF the Bloom
ingdale institution. declared that Miss
Butler vas incompeten, 10 manage her
sfairL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29
METZ OUT OF 14TH
Retires as Commissary To Go
on Guard Reserve List.

Former Representative Herman A.
Metz, Of Brooklyn. has retired from
active duty with the l4th Regiment,
\. G.. ~ Y. in which he was commis =
sary. with the rank Of captain. and at
his own request hLs been placed on the
reserve list of the National Guard.
Rumors Of friction between Captain
Metz and Colonel Foote. commander OF
the I4th. were Indignantly denied yes
terday By Colonel Foote. who said:
IL regret very much the retirement
of Captain Metz, who is known as one
Of the most efficient commissaries in
the guard. from my STAFF. Al the Con-
necticut manpuvres several years ago.
while many Of the organizations com
planned Of being almost starved. there
was always an abundance Of rstions in
the l4th."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29
GUST CONTROLLER,
CRY CHILDREN
Opposition to Floating
Baths Stirs 800 at Board
of Estimate.

Members OF the Board OF Estimate
were heckled yesterday by children
who. Controller Prendergast declared.
should have been in school. There
were no less than 800 BOYS and girls
IN the board room when the question
came up as to whether an approprla-
ton of s22,0 900 should be granted 10
Borough President Marks to repair ana
maintain his six floating baths.
An adverse report had been made
by the tax budget committee on rec
ommendation OF Health Commissioners
Goldwater. who said the baths wer"
unsanitsry. and Controller Prender-
CAST. who objected on the grounds OF
economy. When consideration OF the
matter was postponed for week some
OF the children booed the Controller
and cries Of Throw him out Of Office
and "aristocrat" we're heard.
President McAneny Of the Board OF
Aldermen said he would vote for the
baths. II it could be demonstrated that
they could be made tight enough TO
keep out the seepagc of river water.
remarks DS OlneI lHtHDfiS VI ~
board. however. seem to assure the
final defeat Of the proposition.
Among the children gathered by Bor-
ough President Marks was Alfred La
sinsky, a blind pupil. 81 ask you not
to deny the children of this city these
baths" he said.
IL am not impressed by the argu-
ments that the baths will improve the
morals Of the community,' said Con
troller Prendergast. When ! was
boy We did not even have bathtub IN
the house. Good soap and towel are
enough. How does it happen that all
these children are here. when they
should be in school. and is this what
we paw salaries to the teachers for?'
Borough President Marks countered
ty saving the children were learning
their civic duties.
"Moonshine!" exclaimed voice not
located.
"Well. the parents Of these children
psy taxes and pay your salaries de
clared Louis r. Krause. OF the Moral
and HYGIENE Association. "All we ask
is the right to battle like human be
ings. II you have the right to deny US
that suppose N time we shall have
to beg OF YOU the privilege OF breathing
the air OF heaven"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-29
Would War with Us Aid Germany?
What's to Become of Roycroft?

Since Ebert Hubbard was lost the Lusitania
people have been asking whether his work East
Aurora would end Here is the with pictures
of the Hubbard Juniors and the story of how they
plan to make the Roycroft a workaday monument
to Ebert and Alice Hubbard William Marion
Reedy has added tribute to this absorbing appre-
citation of the Fras life and work.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-12

that he refused to.sign new agree
ment because the mattresses union
could not furnish him sufficient help.
He put this excuse on the literature
he displayed in his windows during
the strike, but Miss Maloney testified
that, with the exception of one of
Knab's restaurants, calls were not
made for union mattresses, and that
on one occasion when she saw a card
in the window soliciting mattresses at
152 w. Washington st. and she went
in and volunteered to furnish wait
resses from headquarters she was in
formed that Knab would not employ
any mattresses who had done picket
duty during the Heinrich trouble, in
consequence of which not one of the
thirty girls waiting for positions at
union headquarters would be en-
ployed by Knab.
Regarding the preferential agree
ment Knab claims he offered the
mattresses, Miss MaIOney endeavored
to explain how the organization had
been ruined in 1903 when they had
accepted preferential agreements
with restaurant keepers, but the tes-
timOny was not admitted.
The veil was torn from the iden-
tity of the Mysterious Mr.. Smith, +"
who was foremost in fighting the
mattresses at the beginning of the
Knab trouble. Miss MaIoney detailed
a conversation she had had with
Smith in which she claims he told
her: "You had better accept Knab's
terms. We have the employers as
ISOLATION behind up and we will wipe
you and your organization off the
map if you attempt to call a strike.
], have had some experience with
labor organizations and strikes and
have a lot of political pull here. If
you have any common sense you will
accept. I was private secretary to
Mayor Busse and l can make things
i0forocfiuU for vOI1 -
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-12

day and that under the union agree
ment they could work them only six
days a week.
Knab made no objection to sign
ing Enlargement Dec. 5 and short
ened hours on Jan. l when it went
into effect. Powers at that time eX-
pressed a willingness to sign, but lat
er refused.
Miss Maloney declared that early
in March she had gone to one of the
Knab restaurants to discover why the
girls were not paying their dues.
Norma Newly, who testified for the
restaurant combine, said they had
been told they didn't have to pay any
dues to the union and they refused to
do so.
Miss MaIoney said Knab had offer
ed as his chief objection to renewing
his union agreement that the union
had not signed up the other houses
and he wasn't going to run a closed
shop while the others were not union
lied. This despite the fact that the
OllCdSO ABB IL VI II OOu L4ACAAosA4G5C 4csu
already been formed for the purpose
of fighting union mattresses.
Detailing a conversation with 3.
w. Rick, restaurant keeper named
in bill, who recently signed up with
the mattresses, Miss MalOney says
Rieck declared he had not known
when he joined the restaurant COM
bine that they intended to fight union
labor as he was friendly to union
labor, and that he had remained in
the combine because he sold baked
beans to most of the restaurants, but
now had left the association.
Miss Maloney denied at any time
making any threats against the res
taurant keepers and denied many of
the remarks they had testified she
made.
The hearing is resumed today.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-12
SHE WAS QUITE RATIFIED

STE WIZ NOI Q M ~ I'D
Cleveland, March ITO watch a
thief, Miss Viola Hatcher, secretary
to Justice McCannOn, hid in a closet.
The door locked and she could not get
out. A rat ran over her foot. Smash!
Lock broken.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-11-18
STATEMENT OF THE FINAN-
= CIAL CONDITION OF
Rankin County Bank

located at Brandon, in the County of
Rankin, State of Mississippi, at the
close of business Nov. 10, 1915, made to
the Board of Bank Examiners:
RESOURCES
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-11-18
FREIGHT CARS UNDER WATER
Novel Idea That Is Declared to Have
Been Given Serious Considera-
zion Recently.

The success of the submarine in the
great war of Europe has suggested to
imaginative minds wonderful posi-
bilities in the use of the submarine
in the business world. 1t is now pro-
posed to have submarine freight
trains, which may be operated at
small expense, and with less danger
from storms at sea.
TO Simon Lake, the well-known sub
marine inventor, belongs this newest
train idea. It takes the form Of two
or more submersible cars, cigar
shaped, water-tight, fitted with buoy
ancy tanks inside and wheels on the
bottom, and they go bobbing through
the water like corks, to rest on the
bottom or lie on the surface at will.
They have no propelling machine, nor
quarters for crews, and are tOwed be-
hind self-propelling submarine,
which operates them by means of cleo
trio, air-tube connections.
Should the weather be fine, air
pumps on the forward boat connect
ing by air hose to the water ballast
tanks Of the trailers, regulate whether
they shall float few feet below the
surface or upon the top. Should an
enemy be sighted, or storm come up,
the air pressure is released, the bal
last tanks filled with water and the
cars quickly sunk out of sight, where
all is serene. It is said that some
such device as this is now in opera
ton with the submarines Of Europe,
enabling them to go long distances,
with submarine trailers that contain
compartments for fuel, oil, fresh wa
ter, food supplies and ammunition
Wonders of Today" in National
Magazine.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-11-18
BIG MEN IN BRITISH ARMY
Ulster Volunteers Said TO Hold the
Record-SoIdiers Of Large Stature
All From ireland.

The Ulster volunteer force, unbeat'
an In its record of giving recruits and
money since the war began, is also
unbeaten in the record for big men.
Sergeant J. Bryan Stewart of the
Eleventh Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers,
thirty-two years of age, is feet Az
inches in height, chest 4S.45 inches.
He is believed to be the biggest man
In the whole British army at home or
abroad. Though of such great stature,
he is an international water polo play.
er. an old varsity Rugby man, a keen
motorist and sports enthusiast. Ser
geant Stewart is an Enniskillen man
and has two brothers in the army, one
q veterinary surgeon, Lieut.. Charles
Stewart, serving at the front, and an
other, Lieut.. Jack Stewart, in Kitchen.
er's army. Few regiments could beat
the record of the Eleventh Inniskill'
sings In the stature of their men.
The A and B companies, which are
all drawn from Donegal and Fer
managh, have several men over si5
feet.