The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-30

toned fuel and straw. They called
for cams, cars, motors. wagons, boats
and GAINED the services Of their own
ers. They occupied our mills and
bakeries. They took machinery. ma
,erial, tools and equipment for repair
ing their munitions OF war, bridges
and roads.ll
In all the towns they seized parts
of the hospitals and set them aside
for the care of their men. impressing
the hospital attendants into the SER
vice. For the use of their own medi-
cal service they forced the towns To
contribute drugs n medicines.
They seized ali appliances on land,
on water or in the air that might serve
for the transmission of news. Under
the allegation that they were suscept-
ible Of use in war, they took all sorts
of subjects Of peaceful or
industry. from telegraph wire to
houses IL
Already they had subjected Boston
to a levy of $500 900 a day for the main
tenance uf the troops. They laid on
New fork and the factory cities Of
New Jersey n joint levy of 500. 900.
They laid another impost for the same
purpose on the big cities of New Eng
land Of $4,000. This one levy alone
amounted to s1.575.000 a week: and
II was Only one of many.i3
They confscated outright all the
cash. funds. realizable securities and
notes belonging to the state. city and
local governments. Every bank was
warned under threat of condign pun
G.z. A.. g.l.,.nr a,.ar ax..rx.thinu
that night be cons. defed public prop
erty. In New York city they seized
from a bank 500, 900 that was depos-
tied by a State department to pay a
draft. and they issued "A warning that
IL the holder of the draft attempted
to collect the amount or permitted 1t
to pass from his possession his house
n lands would be confiscatedl
They declared themselves possessed
as absolute owners by right of con-
quest of all public property besides
cash. Thus in New York they asserted
ownership Of ninety-nine million do
lars worth of suspension bridges ana
in Boston they look bridges To the
value of lO.2c0,0 900. They took the
New York city armories. valued at
SIS, 900. 900. They declared that they
owned the subways.
All United States property. COM
prising Notifications everywhere IN
the conquered territory. navy yards
most offices, custom houses. llSht-
houses, Treasury buildings and court
houses. were listed in proclamations
throughout the occupied country as
good and legal prizes of war. The
property so seized in the city of New
York alone amounted to sixty-slN mil
liuns.l5
The United States was working
furiously for defence. In the steel
country Of Pennsylvania and the West
all the works were being altered to
turn them into factories for shells,
~shrapnel. big guns and gun carriages.
At Watervllet and Indian Head the
capacity OF the shops had been en-
larged immensely and there was not
a in the day or the night
when there was a pause in the head
long labor.
Powder was being made in the mid
die West. in places safe from any pos
slble attack by aeroplanes. The fly
ing machine works Of Hammondsport
and Buffalo. in New York. a Diego.
California and Overland Park in Kan
sas were turning out machines at the
rate OF one and sometimes two n
month. Half a dozen other factories
were being erected.l6
A group of automobile factories had
agreed to turn out two ton trucks at
the rate OF forty a day and indeed
already were producing thirty a day.
one concern was working under a
contract to produce enough automo-
II. Spdight, an authority. says that
"DracticdIu ererythin1 under the sun
man be reguisitioned. and cites the case
of a bootjack being demanded for army
uses. See quotation and rulings OF
United states army.
IL. Under Hague rule, Article LIN.
II is held that "~crcrything susceptible
Of military use" may BE- rcqntsittoncd'
and modern army practice defines this as
meaning anything from telegraph trfre
TO canal boats.
10. Not a large sun, as compared
uith some impOsts laid on small ana
nnimpOrtdnt tOicns in rdrs during tho
past century. one such Iery trds ST.
900, 900 from one torn in one day
according TO European pritcrS.
IA. See case Of seizure by MdjOr-Gcn
Otis OF 800. 900 from Philippine bank
srs. being money OICned by insurgents
and payable on presentation OF a drdjl
held Jy insurgents. Report. Charles T.
Nd0oon, Lac OHcer, Dirision OF IN.
NIdr Affairs. 1902.
Is. List OF worcestershire Fedora
property. Nep York, 1914.
IL. Al present il is considered thdI
one military Jlying machine in tWt
months is good speed OF production.