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"reminiscences. political and social.
are evoked by the closing of the old
Hoffman House. which ended its career
yesterday. But to many there is moth
ing about the old hotel so significant
as the fact that It stood for that sin
gular union of art and alcohol which
for a score of years was so character
istic If the American barroom. The
hanging of the famous B~ouguereau
there and the paintings subsequently
collected about the "Nymphs and sat
yrs made all other barrooms seem
tawdry and commercial in comparison
with the atmosphere of high art i'm
parted Ia this room. The combination
was n source of unfailing inspiration
ior years to American humorists.
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When the fleet NJ the Allies began
operations to force the D%ardanel.es
THE SuN said that the greatest dan
ger to be encountered was not sta
tionary but floating mines. The sta
tionary nine could be m~ethodiCally
removed by graphing their cables, but
the "fioaters" coming down with the
strong current that runs through the
channel might do a good deal of
damage. Three battleships lost in
one day is such a heavy price to pay
for the reduction of the outer forth
tications that II may be decided to
launch the land campaign and take
the enemy's works in the rear in order
to get the fleet through to the Sea Of
Marmora.
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management promises that the old
fashion OF spectacle will he resume in
the autumn. when the times are more
suspicious.
SO New York will have its Hippo
drome in all its old splendor once more,
and there is no ground for a quarrel
with the movies on that score.
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VARIANT ~ Nasterpir,~

T" TVS EDITOR or 7HF Sr>- >r TH.
short poem IN a Mexican Presided. pun
Iished In TIRE SrN o. March Is exceeds
IN brevi,v vow celeh-a.od on. on tn.
blizzard oc som. Years ago that ma.
hitherto he'd the record
To one college chap 'ha' IA. paid som.
attention TO textual criticism f., looks a.
though a line has been omitted. perhap.
in tho composing room MAY I ask I.
he correo, form Is not a. tol'ows9
"preI
Mex
Fv"
PHI osTr pr.
WEsr Srw YohK. Y : March 20.
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In Nrr,hnrr's Magazine for April Thomas
Nelson Page Describes tho Aarll2i earth
uuake, General Grebhals continues hIs
story ~ tho Panama cana i ! \ Nrchi-
bald follows the Aus'r'ans I'm tho Carpa
tniau, aud c II Shcrril gives French
N,cH Of colonial, Awcr.rt. 4. GtsW prth' .,
ser't' Is continued there arc short stories
beside, hv VI S'mou. T. $ :, hao'cr L.. \
iiarkcr and j Gs,sworthy, anu four poems.
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London once, Eringhsm House, 1 Arun-
del street. strand.
Paris once, 6 Rue de Ia Michodiere, on
I,ue du Cuatre Septeinbre.
Washington Office. Hibbs Building
BROOKLYN once, los Livingston street,
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Published daily. including sunday, by the
Sun Printing and Publishing Association at
40 Nassau street, in the Borough Of Man
haitian, New York. President and Treas
urer. william {. Reick. 10 Nassau street;
vice President. Edward r. Mitchell, 40
Nassau street; Secretary. c. E Lux,on, 40
Nassau street.
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~ our friends rho tdror us tr'h mann
scripts and illustrations for publication wish
70 hove rejected articles returned thev must
- oil cases send stamps for that purpose.
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Immortal Names.

To nv ErlToR or THE ST. Nr r..
Knight { burns glsNttrrs, Rlvu.a y
i enter l"N.t"lEu
JENSEN CITY. Marsh -
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PHILIPPINES NOT
WANTED BY JAPAN
Prof. lycmaga Tells Republican
Club l.. :. should Re.
tain Islands.
ARE COSTLY To POSSESS

THE Future sf tho PINT. .c. g,
the subject OF the Saturdas dis ...,.
before the Republican club ,c.'c-d..
Only n speaker advocated a~,-o'.Io
permanent retention Of t." .sI,uqs =.
the United states. This advocate We.
Prof. Toyoklchi lycuaeH. vHt hobbs n,
chair NJ history i'm tho Chicago Do,
versity and is head of IN" E,s' ,,.
West News Bureau
He WAS called upon % c>p..-- ..
Japanese view and held tho dr,, u
terest OF the audience.
There Is a deeply rooted Nm. ,.,
suspicion about Japan hG boring d.
signs upon the Philippines PROT Iy.
maya said. THAT suspicion g 60 r,.
In the American mine thai ID secu-.
impossible to remove b.. ,Iau.r I,.
given assurances time and again ,r.,
she has entertained no such dc. co..
but She cannot djssiptte the susr ,.,,
Japan has never dreamed and r.ya,
VIII dream of taking tho Ehu'ppn..
If the United States were to o~e. ,h.
archipelago my country would no,
cept II unless you gave with INC rf.
81 1000. 600, 600 % carry on tho ed1ra,,or
and civilization of the iuhabitan,.
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All checks. money orders, &C, TO be
made payable to TIE 6us.
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This Il. 20 iuform tn" Fubtrk That 'h.r.
q, Just arrived IN this city. and TO ne
seen at the new House but, 'or tina, Pur-
pose. IN Mr., Adam Van Drnberg's Garden,
This Evening being Monday N. 18Th In
slant Tn" Surprising Performances Of N.
celebrated
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son fohor,oo ,orr Jos,r,,nI
a.. w., ..a' a.h.
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been driven away by the pollution Of
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voar n snriur bonnuot ft for n king
$40, ~ ,,hI. ,r ,,,
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h"'h'l Sulh'I'"'N "''h !" "h"N' ~.
OF them lollg Tor pork ANA cabbage, We
have an open sewer, in which tho vigi
| liant Guardians of our health viii not
o,or ,u,u no 10 ho,ho our ,ors,n,
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Justinablr suicide.

August 49, 1853
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MAs'i' ls,BU SroRN
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BREAD STREAM STILL Flaws
Hut sprinG IL Ncr" nud tho \"'
for u l. SmHli,'
hwr'lv

Ton N'prrE 80.
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Evening star., 1915-12-05
Alone in the Rockies

fifty cents volume; and let me tell you,
lady, there's not one word of friction in
that book
In spite of the tomahawk episode Cap
tain Jack believes in human nature.
bought the picture showing the murderous
weapon, but do you think could get
her to look at the money? The Cap
tain's wares are for sale; take what
you like and-leave the change on the
counter.
1--WE been mining now thirty-fve
years, said the Captain. al sold Black
Queen Mine for $4,000, and in this
mine," she added impressively, 81 have
just struck tantlum." She explained to
us that tantalum is sister to radum and
is worth sixteen dollars an ounce.
The little inn perched high on the side
of the mountain is called Buck Horn
Park. 1t is on the driveway built in 1908
by General Palmer, the founder of Col
orado Springs, between North Cheyenne
Canon and Bear Creek Cafon-the "high
drive in mountain parlance. Buck
Horn Park is more than nine thousand
feet above the level of the sea.
"The Indian Girls Prayer" and "The
Veterans Cry" poems, are printed on
cards, and constitute a part of the versa
tile Captains salable wares. Her book,
"The Fated Fairy" is the story of her
own actual experiences on the Rocky
Mountain range. Edna Heron.
Evening star., 1915-12-05

more miles to be travelled to the nearest
mission for the wedding; but of course
tins part OF the trip was, if anything, too
short
On the way to the new home, a full
grown storm came up; and when that
happens in those northern parts one
doesn't hail a taxi or drop into a neigh
bors cozy home to wait The Hentons
crawled into a friendly snow-bank and
there remained for the first eighteen hours
OF their married lives. Then they ven
tured to more luxurious quarters in de-
serted Eskimo snow hut, for the next
week depending for their meals upon
their luck in hunting ptarmigan, reindeer,
and seal
No moonlight beaches-not even
wedding cake or brides bouquet; yet
Mr.. and Mrs. Henton insist that theirs
was the best wedding and honeymoon
ever scheduled anywhere.
Evening star., 1915-12-05
She Spent Her Honeymoon in Cave

THE Fifth Avenue bride is mot0rod 10
church in her limousine; the bride
groom. if he be Of sporting turn.
drives over in his racer; and later they
are smoothly transferred to Palm Beach
or elsewhere in a private car attached 10
Pullman express train. The only exer-
tion required on their part is the journey
from the church door down the red carpet
to the waiting motor; and the only danger
attached is from the battery of agile
newspaper photographers.
But Frederick A. Henton couldn't
leave his mining engineering up in north
ern Alaska, to come down into civilization
to get his Oregon bride. So his fancee
instructed him not to worry, said good-by
to silk stockings and lingerie dresses. and
started on her trip to the Arctic Circle,
the last two hundred miles of which had
to be made by dog-sled. After reaching
the man in the case, there were sixty
Evening star., 1915-12-05
He Used to Drive J. P. Morgan

TOHN ANDERSON,
ruddy and hale, with
y a sailors eyes, a-squint
from being in the open,
sighs a bit for the old days
when he made as much as
thirteen or fourteen dol
lars a day in fares. Now
he considers himself in
luck if he takes in as much
as three dollars.
81. Pierpont Morgan
was my fare for years, he
says. sixteen years ago
| used to drive him down
to Broad Street every
morning.
"We cabbies would be
waiting at eight O'Clock
before the fine houses
around Fiftieth Street and
Fifth Avenue. to take
Rockefeller and Morgan
and all those big fellows
downtown. Then at one
O'Clock we'd crowd into
Evening star., 1915-12-05

John Anderson never
took to taXicabs.
"You see, | was a coach
man first, and | got so |
seemed to understand
horses. Now, a horse-a
horse is II human being;
but a machines always a
machine"
Johns horse is old and
tired now, and his ears,
once erect, lie horizontal.
He's a blase old steed,
bored because he has seen
New York-seen it for
nearly twenty years.
There are two classes of
people that still like to
ride in hanson cabs: gem
teel elderly ladies of the
old school use them for
shopping; and then, lovers.
Next to summer moonlight
on a lake, there has never
been ANYTHING so ner-
fectly desiuned for lovers
Evening star., 1915-12-05

vember, 1880, and rubbed poison ivy in
the wound. Here!" She scurried through
drawer, and handed me the picture of
herself with revolver in her hand. with
that gun l killed him." she added con-
clusively.
what did you fight about?' | ventured.
"My book will tell you-one dollar and
Evening star., 1915-12-05

TAPTAIN JACK is a seventy-three-
year-old young woman who lives all
alone on the top of the Rocky Noun
tains. Prospector, mine-owner. author,
poet, and merchant, she maintains small
inn where tourists stop to buy, and remain
to get acquainted with the redoubtable
little Captain behind the counter
Alert as canary she waited on us,
talking all the while asked her about a
long, wicked-looking scar across her cheek
"Indian Chief tomahawked me in No
Evening star., 1915-12-05

Broad Street. When they'd come out
we'd wheel up and say:
Make the l.20 express al Grand Gem
trail for 81
Never mind the money john Morgan
used TO say TO me. but can you make it,
Evening star., 1915-12-05

Young New York, that rides in taxis
in the daytime and dances to feverish
syncopation in the evening, has still
enough romantic temperament and good
sense to become engaged in a hanson cab
rocking gently through Central Park.
Evening star., 1915-12-05

And let me tell you l could make it.
In those days, in sixteen minutes Me and
the other fellows used to race up Lafay-
ette Street, where there were no surface
cars. I've seen lot of sparks fly from
those stones.
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Afterward when men compared the
time they knew 1t was heard at the
same instant at New York and Bos-
ton. and all the stretches Of coast be-
tween them and beyond. Even in that
moment OF fear there were thousands
who instinctively looked at their
watches and timed it, 1t was exactly
half past 10 when the first shot
sounded.
Very regularly, almost somnolently.
came the far off shocks through the
air. There were half minute intervals
between them, quite exact.
The last boom was heard at IL.
Long before that the bulletins had
begun to tell that ships were Smelling
the coast. Duxbury Beach near Bos-
ton was being shelled. Long Branch
and Asbury Park were bombarded
Amagansett on Long Island was in
flames
1T has stopped" said the bulletins
then. THE ships have ceased firing"
Then there came news from the
harbor defences. Two ships, said
Plum Island at the east end OF Long
Island Sound, had engaged the de-
fences at long range without effect.
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A ship had come in east Of Coney Is
land. just outside Of the zone Of fire
from Sandy Hook, reported Fort Ham,
ilton, and dropped shells into Brook
Ign suburbs.
Now the crowds We're silent no
longer. Long years arterward old men
told me how on that still April morn
ing they were in quiet places on the
outskirts of the great cities ard heard
from there great. strange sound as
Of vast IEolian harp. 1t was the
noise Of multitudes, risen.
They stormed their city halls, roaring
for soldiers. They tried to rush their
armories. demanding weapons. To
Washington flashed the dreaded news
of mobs. Troops must be sent at
once" SAID the cities.
The old Chief OF Staff. with '"the
bit in his teeth" dropped the des-
patches on the floor. Let 'em handle
their own mobs." said he.
Handle your own mobs!" he said
again to the boss from New York.
who appeared with a flaming face.
But the boss had the bit in his
teeth too Those dispatches and long
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-04
Part Two of the Startling Narrative
Fact Story Based on the MEMORABLE
Mathematics of War Published
in Last Sundays Sun

to soften his statement. He spoke
sharp and short. And, remember
the cities are not the United States.
Our business is to keep the army in
the field for the Union, not for New
York or Boston or even Washington
There is a price to be paid-and per
haps the cities must pay it,"
And you'll pay the price, too
muttered the Chief of STAFF, look ng
northward toward New England from
his window after the politician had
gone. You're paying Il now, with
sweat and nerves. and you'll pay for
It in lives"
There in Connecticut, lay the army.
looking formidable enough. Radiating
in beautiful precision from a central
point were miles Of tents separated 10y
geometrically straight rows of COM
pany streets. over all the great space
afoot and horseback, in companies and
troops. in squadrons and battalionS,
moved spruce agile figures in the trim.
efficient campaign dress Of the Ameri-
can soldier. Glossy, bright flags
fioated everywhere. The sweet bugles
sang.
1t would have seemed a very har-
monious, solidly welded whole, that
army, to any layman who could have
had a birdseye view Of its business
like assembly, it's great parks of ar
tillery. its full corrals Of mounts. it's
endless rows of tents and equipage
and it's enormous. trains of transport
vehicles and ambulances.
But at one end of that great, or
derby. formida bic camp We're hordes OF
organized militia firing at targets.
With the enemy on the coast these
men We're still being broken in to
shoot-not to become sharpshooters,
but to qualify merely as second class
marksmen that they might at least
learn enough about the use of Their
rifles to be not entirely useless in
battle Ever since the militia of the
coast States had come IN small arms
experts of the army had been clutch
ing greedy at every bit Of daylight
to teach $4,000 men how to shoot
$4,000 men of an armed force that
was offered by the States TO be the
country's first line Of defence,
Into that camp had marched a
month before with flags flying, bands
calamity playing, weapons cleaning
one whole States militia organization
g. From tdbuidtcd rctmnS by the mill
tia departments Of twcire Eastern states
Continued on SiTh Page.
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except for the voices Of those who
passed the news on. A man looking
from a high window in a newspaper
Office suddenly stepped back with a
choking in his throat.
1T is-it is" he said. and choked
again, las II they were waiting for
the end OF the world"
necessarily the bulletins spoke.
Lighthouses, coast guards, patrols.
harbor defences, ships. air scouts wire
lessed their reports to Washington and
Washington flung 1t swiftly through
the land.
Nantucket had seen ships. There
were ships moving toward the Long
Island coast as II to threaten New
York. Atlantic City on the southern
New Jersey coast and Rockport In
New England sent out warning.
1t was q still, warm morning. heavy
with the soft, humid air that early
spring lays on the cities Of the sea.
There was no breeze except for a Ian
guorous breathing from the distant
ocean, that stole up the harbors and
scarcely moved the air. Suddenly that
brooding. heavy air was shaken. One!
Two! Three!
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distance telephone messages from close
leutenants had filled him with dread
that was bigger than the new born
dread of the cd soldier.
1--WE broken bigger men than you"
he roared. "A thousand times bigger!
once and for the last time, are you
going to send the army to protect us?"
"Once and for the last time" said
the General quietly. mo-"
The boss looked at him. His eyes
glared. Then, all at once, he saw that
in the Generals face that gave him a
big, new, overwhelming knowledge.
He saw that the new word mo- had
been born in Washington, and that he
and his henceforth would have to
admit that it meant mo"
1t hit him like a club. Something
came from his throat that was not
a sob. yet strangely like one. Then
what-then-are we going to ever
lasting smash p
Listen" said the General grave.y
calm as in the beginning. He lad his
hand on the politicians shoulder. we
have swept together the stun that
YOU and your kind gave us in these
past years. Up there he pointed
north. lin Connecticut, our officers
have been fighting to make an army
of TT battalions that have no regi-
ments, Of divisions that are not divi-
slons. Of riflemen who never learned
to shoot and Of cavalry that never
learned to manpuvre. But even II
all that mess were not a mess-if all
these young men were fit to fight in
the battle line this NOM mt, there are
not enough of them to guard even the
water supply Of New York and
Boston,?
Then you won't put any men into
the city?"
ITO defend a city from within is ar
act Of desperation, no matter how
big ones army is said the General
The place to defend city is as fal
away from it as you can meet thu
enemy"
But the newspapers say that YOU
haven't men enough to stop him
The Boss had dismissed all attempt L
buster. isn't there a chance?'
Not If he comes in the force w
eXpect-and he will be sure to com
So" The General did not endeavo
2. This statement is based on oficid
calculations. In a succeeding instdimcn
there iUiIl be a detailed description o
these and other conditions facing III
dolcndors OF our large open cities,
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An Answer to Military Experts on
What Can Be Done to Oppose
an Invading Army With
Our Present Resources

there Is nothing to say-yet. Here
We are sending out a bulletin" He
passed II over.
1.-THE enemy fleet" said the bulletin,
has expanded its line enormously to
threaten many far separated points
simultaneously and thus mask its
actual design for landing. Our ships
and air scouts and the army air
scouts are trying to penetrate the
screen of cruisers, destroyers and
enemy aircraft to find the real feet
with the conveys"
"But is this not q chance for the
navy to attack the scattered enemy
ships?" asked one.
Opportunities may occur" an
swered the Admiral. But the busi-
ness OF our fleet is to keep itself IN
battle formation."l
The seacoast cities read the bulle-
tin and held their breath. Through
their streets Numbered their traffic
as in peace. But the exchanges were
cfosed-had closed half an hour after
opening, in panic. Even in that short
time a thousand fortunes had been
destroyed and men passing outside
had heard from within vast noise
of cries and shrieks as Of animals.
The banks were closing. The streets
leading to the railroad stations from
the financial centres were clogged by
slowly moving but madly crowding
automobiles and cabs and trucks.
Everything on wheels had been
pressed into service. On one open
truck, guarded by half dozen men
who showed automatic pistols osten-
tatiously, were bags of gold, The
United States Sub-Treasuries were
being emptied. Men tore at securities
in their safe deposit vaults and
stuffed them into valises and ran.
The treasure Of the cities was being
sent inland.
In front Of the newspaper offices
stood the citizens. They stood 81
closely crowded that there was no
passage through those parts Of the
town. Their throngs were so great
that from their outskirts only those
could read the announcements who
were armed with field glasses. These
fortunate ones told the news as II
appeared and II was repeated to the
crowds in the side streets who packed
the roads from house edge to edge.
All these great crowds were utterly
silent. There was no sound from them
l. A tactical necessity for an ont
numbered feet.