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Evening star., 1916-07-31
JAMES HoRATIO WATMOUGH.

James Horatio Watmough, former pay
director in the United States Navy. but
now retired, veteran of two wars and
probably the oldest living man who has
ever served in the navy today quietly
celebrated the ninetyfourth anniver-
sary of his birth. Mr.. Watmough was
the recipient of many messages of con-
gratula tion at his home, 2144 Wyoming
avenue northwest.
Gen. Watmough, as he is known to all
his friends was responsible for the
hosting of the first United States flag
in California, when the naval forces
landed there during the Mexican war.
He ordered the flag hoisted being in
command of a small force at that time,
and presented IS to the man who ac-
tualfy set the flag flying.
1t is believed that Gen. Watmough
is the only living man who sailed on
the Constitution when that ship wae
in the active service of the United
States Navy In addition to serving
in the war with Mexico he served dur
ing the civil war. At the outbreak of
that conflict he was in African waters.
where he had been chasing slavers for
a number of years He returned to this
country shortly after the outbreak of
the struggle between the north and
south, not learning of 1t until practical
ly back to his native shores
Helped Capture Guaymas.
He was an acting midshipman in the
United States Navy from 1894. He
was made paymaster December II. 1874.
During the war with Mexico he was
not only present and assisted in the
capture of California, but he also took
part in the bombardment and capture
Of Guaymas.
He was commandant of the Santa
Clara and the Don Jose. He was fleet
paymaster of the South Atlantic
squadron, 1s64-1S65. serving in actions
on Stone river and on James and John
islands.
He was later made general pay in
spector and from 1873 to 1877 served
as paymaster general 1t was this
position which brought about his desig-
nation as Gen. Watmough. July 80,
1884, he was retired and June 1906
was advanced to the rank of rear
admiral.
Gen. Watmough was born at White
marsh, Pa, July 80. 1922, being the
Evening star., 1916-07-31
Other Mother Hospitals.

~~SOkNess~~s'
Besides the Johns Hopkins Hospital
the other mother" hospitals named by
Col. Kean are: 'f
New York-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai.
Bellevue. Now York. New York Post
Graduate, German and Lincoln hospitals.
one each: Chicago-st. Joseph. st.
Mary and Augustana hospitals. one
>ointly: Mercy and Wesley hospitals. one
Jointly; Presbyterian and County hos,
pitfalls. one Jointly: ST. Luke's and Michael
Reese hospitals, one jointly. Boston
Boston City. Massachusetts, General and
Harvard University hospitals, one each
Observation-Disclosures hospital. ,Philadel-
phia-Pennsylvania and University Of
Pennsylvania hospitals. one each. De-
troit. Harper hospital; st. Louis, Barnes
hospital: Pittsburgh, University Of Pitts
burgh: Rochester, Mimi. Mayo Clinic;
Rochester. N. Y. Or. John M. Swan.
director; Cincinnati, DR.. G. A. L. Reed.
director; Brooklyn DR.. w. B. Brins-
made director, for navy.
In addition. a field ambulance com
pany with $4,000 worth of equipment
has been organized in New York. DR.. T.
NJ. Strong, director. and similar COM
pany is located at Berkeley. Cal.
Evening star., 1916-07-31

could easily be made for the storage Of
this equipment aervice on government
reservations. but in this expectation
the Red Cross has been disappointed
and most Of the chapters now hnd that
the ymust make further appeal to In
dividual patriotishmm and generosity
Tho great advantage of organizing
these units IN connection with large
civil hospitals IL that in this way Is
secured q personnel which know each
other and which are accustomed to
work together SO that teamwork and
good organisation are possible at the
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Bit of Preparedness.

The organizing of these hospitals,
which. in war time, would pass under
the immediate authority of the War
Department and be transported to the
base of military operations as they
were needed. is considered piece OF
war relief preparedness along scien-
tific and constructive lines and is
based in part on the lessons OF the
European war.
The two field column of ambulance
companies are to connect the evacua-
ton or transfer hospitals of the army
with these Red Cross base hospitals.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti-
more. is one of the mother" hospitals
selected. The personnel of directors
Ind assistants that this civic hospital
in war time consists of: Director. DR..
Winford Smith, chief of surgical serv-
ice, DR.. J. NJ. T. Finney: chief of medi-
cal service. DR.. T. c. Janeway; chief
of laboratory service, DR.. T. r. Boggs,
and chief nurse, Miss Emily Nc
the most famous hospitals in the
United States, most of them with
equipment subscribed.
Purpose of Hospitals.
Col. Kean in making this announce
ment regarding military relief. ex-
planned the purpose of the base hos
pitfalls and the field columns as fol-
lows:
The medical officers attached to
regiments, together with those man
ming the field hospitals and evacuation
hospitals, constitute the medical serv-
ice of the front. Those field and
evacuation hospitals would scarcely
deserve the name of hospitals. since
they are marching units and have to
be provided with only the simplest and
most spartan equipment. Their fur
niture is bed sacks. filled with hay
and laid on the ground or camp cots
There are shelter places where the
tected from the weather on their way
to the rear. The service at the front
is therefore the special obligation of
the medical officers of the army and
of the National Guard. and tNe Red
Cross is not permitted to share it.
The next zone, however. which is
called the zone of the line of COM
munlcations and base, is one in which
the Red Cross will provide the greater
part of service. as the number of
medical officers in the Army Medical
Corps and connected with the National
Guard is quite inadequate to provide
such a service. The hospitals pro-
called base hospitals. They are OF
great Importance. because they are the
first real hospitals, provided with beds
mattresses, sheets and trained nurses
which the wounded soldier finds on his
journey to the rear
Evening star., 1916-07-31
BR0DY A POINT Of GREAT
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE
Galician Town Controls the Railway
Line Leading From Dubno
to Lemberg.

Brody, one Of the Galcian gateways
pressing their advance upon Lemberg, is
the subject of the following war geogra
ply bulletin issued today in Washington
by the National Geogra phic Society:
only about two miles beyond the Rus
sian border. the Galician town of Brody is
a point of great strategic importance on
the eastern war front because 1t controls
an important railway line leading from
Dubno. thirty-five miles to the northeast,
to Lemberg. which is only sixty-two miles
to the southwest
Eat the beginning of the world war
Brody was a thriving commercial center,
with population approaching 10000.
more than two- thirds of whom were Jews.
It's prosperity was checked to some extent
about forty years ago, when. after hav-
ing enjoyed the privileges of free COM
mercial city for exactly 100 years. its
charter was withdrawn.
Less than half century before Brody
was created a town in the seventeenth
century. ii was the scene of an important
battle, in which the Poles, commanded by
their famous grand hetman, stanislaus
Ponieckpolski, defeated a Tartar army
This was the last battle of Ponieckpolski's
distinguished career.
For a quarter of a century he was
at war with Turks and Swedes, his ini-
tiation in military science being some
what disastrous, for he was captured
by the Turks in his first important en-
finement for three years at Constanti-
nOple.
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Suffered Twice From Fire.

Upon his release, in 1929. he was
placed in command of the Polish re-
public's forces, and with an army Of
$4,000 defeated $4,000 Tartars at Mar
tynow. His achieyements against the
forces of Gustavus Adolphus were no
less noteworthy than his long series of
victories, whereby he succeeded in
keeping the Ukraine under Polish rule.
"Brody twice suffered from disastrous
coniagrations during the nineteenth
century. The first, occurring In 1901.
destroyed 1900 houses, while the fire
of 1853 reduced 1000 homes and busi-
ness establishments to ashes.
The upper waters of the Styr river
form an irregular arc extending from
the southwest to the north of Brody,
being ten miles distant at its nearest
point, toward the northwest. Five
miles from the city. just beyond the
border, on the Dubno-Lemberg railway,
is the Russian town Of Radziwilow
with a population of about 5000"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-27
HIS BUSY MONDAY

Jed Doolittle is the busiest man in
town on wash day. He rushes home
to dinner and informs his wife that
he must hurry back to keep an ap-
pOintment with a man at half past
H. And then he stand around the
postofice and ticks the Mexicans I'M
til 2 O'Clock. - Osawatomie (KaR.l
Graphic -a-1-.- -.--
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-27

THOMPSON LINKS NJ. v. l. WITH
PULLMAN INTERESTS
Perhaps Mayor Thompson has at
last awakened to the realization that
that element of Chicago commonly
for brevity's called big Bust
ness" has been dominating his ad-
ministratiOn in the fuTtherance of
its own ends.
In talk at the Harper school, 10Th
ward, yesterday he ripped up the
newspapers and certain business in
terests.
Find out what the newspapers are
for, then vote the other way" said
the mayor, quoting John M. Kantor,
who had spoken before him.
He termed the newspapers prosti-
tutes of the interests which have
much to gain by preventing public
opinion and consider the purchase of
the editorial soul of newspaper as
a good investment.
The mayor charged that the Pull
man company and the steam railroad
interests have united forces and are
dominating the Municipal Voters
league. He showed that the presi-
dent of the M. V. L. had been the law
partner of the president of the Pull
man Company.
"Who is the Municipal Voters
league-this crooked outfit which,
like an octopus, squiFts black ink
when it is interfered WITH" asked
the mayor.
'WeI, it's president, who has been
signing his name to statements at
lacking your mayor, is Frederic
Bruce tombstone. tombstone is or
was a member of the law firm of
RunneHs, Brury & tombstone. The
RunneIls who was the law partner of |
the president of the Municipal Voters
league is John S. Runnells, president !
of the Pullman Palace Car Co. He
- !, No
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-27
REPORT 8 SALOONS VIOLATE
LAW IN LAKE ST. DISTRICT

Lieut.. VIM. Fitzgerald of the Lake
street district reported eight saloons
to Chief Healey as having violated
the Sunday closing order.
Two of them are Geo. Dugdale's
cafe, 1888 w. Madison ST., and Tom
Hinton's cafe, 1701 W. Madison.
Proprietors of these cafes are alleged
to be contributors to a slush fund
collected for political protection. The
civil service commission is going to
probe the charges made by VIM.
STANCE, former campaign mgr of
Aid. Murray, 18th ward, about the
slIIsh fund
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-27

LOOP HOUND GIANTS ARE STILL
AUTOMATIC CHAMPIONS
The Loop Hound Giants, auto
matte baseball champions of Chicago,
successfully defended their title
against Fred Condit's Automatic IL
gers in a three-game series at the
HandeIan courts, 429 S. Wabash aV.,
yesterday.
The Loop Hounds took the sec
ond and third games after getting a
good beating in the opening contest.
Scores: Automatic Tigers, 1O7;
Loop Hounds SO; Loop Hounds 113,
Automatic Tigers 80; Loop Hounds
1O7, Automatic Tigers 1O4.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-03-27

steam railroads are fighting your
mayor"
Frederick Bruce tombstone today
denied that he is a law partner of
John S. Runnells, but he was until
four years ago. Then Runnells be-
came president of the Pullman COM
pany.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
EGGS ALMOST OUT
OF COLD STORAGE
State Officials Find That There
Are Few Left Even in the
Larger Cities

According to figures obtained at the
State Dairy and Food division offices
there are just about enough eggs in
storage in that city to supply one egg
to each person in the county of Phila-
delphia for the next ten days.
Dairy and Food Commissioner James
Foust figures out from the reports of
cold storage warehouses in that city
that on the date of the last report, Sep
tember 30, there were 1852 cases or
5.20S,360 dozens of eggs and that on
the last day of November there are
11O,S66 cases or 3,325,9S0 dozens. 1t
is the smallest stock farm in cold stor-
age at this time of the year and 1t is
expected that the stock will all come
out either from demands of trade or
because of expiration of time limit for
storage.
The Philadelphia warehousing and
Cold Storage Company is reported to
have had the most eggs and 1t has sent
out almost a million dozens since Oc-
tober l and the Industrial Cold Storage
and Warehouse Company has released
about 100000 dozens, many of which
have gone for export. The Linfield
cold storage plant in Montgomery coun-
ty and the Pottstown plant held 621,120
dozens on October 1, but now they
have but $4,000 dozens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
Studious "Newsie"
Wins Federal Job

Brockton, Mass, Nov. 20. - Max
Rafkin, known to all his friends as
Monte" is a boy who has made good.
From a newsboy he has graduated
to an important clerical position with
the Bureau of Construction and Re-
pair of the United States Navy De-
partment, and has already reported
for work.
For years Monte" had sold papers
at Main and Crescent streets, one of
the busiest corners in the city. He
made good selling papers, just as he
has made good in everything else he
has undertaken in his young life.
He attended school all the time he
sold papers. He graduated from the
Brockton high school in 1915, and
then went to a business school in Bos-
ton. It was there that he made up
his mind to take the Civil Service
examinations.
He took the examinations last
April. A few weeks ago he heard
from the Government. Then he
learned that there was a job waiting
for him in Washington.
HE'S gone to take the job. And his
friends here are convinced he will
make good, for Monte" Rafkin has
made good as a "newsie.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
SHOP EARLY AND
MAKESALN EARLY
Commissioner Jackson Gives
Some Advice Regarding the
Christmas Season

People of Pennsylvania were to-day
called upon to shop early" and mer-
chnts to "sell early" by Commissioner
of Labor and Industry Jackson In d
warning about the hours of labor for
women and minors in the mercantile
establishments of the State during the
Christmas season.
The Commissioner has asked for the
cooperation of the public, the mer-
chants and the employees to avoid vio-
lations of the law. while owners and
managers of stores are warned against
allowing waste paper. packing mater
ial, excelsior and other inflammable
material to accumulate in easements
The Commissioner says:
inspectors will cooperate with the
heads of establishments explaining to
them the requir ements of the law and
prosecutions will be instituted when
violations are discovered.
Women may not be employed more
than six days a week, ffty-four hours
a week, or more than ten hours In any
one day. If women are employed long
er hours, the law is violated, whether
the store is open and the clerks are
waiting on customers or II the doors
are closed and the clerks are engaged
in taking the after holiday inventory.
Girls under twenty-one years of age
may not be employed in store or fac
tories after o'clock at night nor be-
fore o'clock in the morning. When
an establishment is closed for legal
holiday females may be employed. dur
ing such week. two hours a day over
time for three days, but the working
hours for the week must not e&ceeu
nifty -four.
Child workers between the ages of
fourteen and sixteen may not work
more than fifty-one hours per week and
eight hours of that time must be spent
in continuation schools. Such chill
dren may not be employed later than
o'clock at night nor before o'clock
In the morning nor may they be en-
ployed more than nine hours in any
ane day. No children under fourteen
may be employed in any establish
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29

At the Regent to-day and tomorrow
Marie Doro (the Duncannon girD will
be seen in vital So
.'rhe Lash Mt ciety drama, THE
the Regent LASH" by Paul West
For the story of The
Lash" Paul West has selected a for
gotten little island, st. Ba'tiste, and the
drawingrooms of a fashionable So
ciety. The little island. where the first
few scenes of the picture are laid, was
settled several centuries ago, by some
hardy voyagers from Brittany, and al
though the rest of the world has ad-
vanced, this island still retains the Gus
toms and the religious bigotry of it's
ancestors. The inhabitants are ruled by
"Prefect," whose word is absolute
law. and one of the customs is that
any woman sacrificing her honor, is to
be lashed, by the ''Prefect," across the
shoulders with a heavy whip. Miss
Doro is seen as the daughter of this
"Prefect." She falls in love with a
young chap from the outer world, who
has been nearly drowned and brought
to her fathers house. She goes to the
mainland and they are married. Later
she is the idol of fashionable society
and an attractive young widow at
tempts to take her husband away from
her
How the girl of the island applies the
law of her ancestors to this society but
terfy, and eventually wins back her
husband, is brought about in a manner
which must be seen to be understood
and enjoyed. On Friday and Saturday
THE Victory of Conscience"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
California Going After
Tax on Hardness Estate

San Francisco, Cal. Nov. 20. - Cali
fornia is to start proceedings soon to
establish it's claim for an Inheritance
tax on the s1oo.OO0.OOO estate of the
late l.. V. Harkness, the Standard Oil
magnate, who died in this State two
years ago. Both New York and Ken
lucky also are claiming the right to
levy on the Harkness fortune. The tax
will approximate. it was said. s9,OOo,-
600. Attorneys representing the State
expect to file a brief in the State Su-
preme Court setting forth that Hark-
ness had made affidavit on four occa-
sions that California was his home
Robert Warning, State tax attorney,
said that Harkness paid his last Fed
eral income tax as a resident of Hol-
lister, Cal. Superior Court Judge John
l.. Hudner. of San Benito county. ruled
recently, however, that Harkness was a
resident of Kentucky.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
Meat Scraps Disappear,
Dog Population Is Less

st. Louis, Mo-, Nov. 29.-The high
cost of living is driving the dogs out
of st. Louis. Meat scraps, the appe-
tizing tidbits for dogs, went out when
soaring prices came in.
There are 100 fewer dogs in st.
Louis now than a year ago, because
1t is more expensive to feed them.
License Collector Alt last year sold
licenses for 20,049 dogs.
This year he has sold 1s,94S dogs
licenses.
High prices have meant less dogs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
Kissing in Belgium Only
to Guard German Interests

Amsterdam, Nov. 20. - "I am not in
Belgium to martyrize the population
nor mete out punishment but only to
further the interests of Germany in the
most comprehensive way" says Baron
Won Bissing, Governor of Belgium, in
an interview published in the Dussel-
dorf Tageblatt. He adds:
1--WE are doing this according to our
best Judgment and conscience, and
think it a great achievement that this
country, just behind the lines, has been
kept free from revolt. l am an old
soldier and should not like to use arms
against this unarmed population.
81 consider that l am serving the
Emperor and the Fatherland to the
best advantage when 1 cause the least
possible German blood to flow here and
the fewest possible Germans to be
withdrawn from our front lines to
watch over belgium"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
This Fish Story
Cost Him S10 Fine

Pittsfield, Mass, Nov. 30. = Ameil
Speass paid $40 in the District Court
for catching trout with his hands.
Speass was hunting and when he
stopped at a brook to wash his hands
saw fat trout lazily summing him
self and, with a sudden grab, caught
the fish. Speass might have had the
fish for nothing, but when he Dragged
about it on the way home he gave
away his secret to Game Warden
Fred Ziegler, not knowing who the
warden was, and was arrested for
fishing in the off-season.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
DON'T BE BALD
Here's a Good Way to Stop Loss of
Hair and Start New Hair Growth

If the hair root is absolutely dead,
permanent badness will De your lot,
and you might as well cheer UP as to
bemoan your fate.
If your hair is falling or thinning
out, don't wait another day but go to
II. c. Kennedy and get a bottle of
Partisan Sage, the truly efficient hair
grower.
Don't say, Its the same old story;
I've heard it before but try bottle
at their risk. They guarantee Partisan
Sage, to grow hair, to stop falling
hair, to cure dandruff and stop scalp
itch, or money back.
Partisan Sage contains just the ele-
ments needed to properly invigorate
and nourish the hair roots. It's a
prime favorite with discriminating
ladies because 1t makes the hair soft,
bright, and appear twice as abundant
1t is antiseptic, killing the odors that
are bound to arise from excretions of
the scalp and, as everyone knows, sage
is excellent for the hair and scalp.
Partisan Sage is inexpensive and
easily obtainable at drug and toilet
counters everywhere
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29

Surrounding the Majestic's excellent
headline attraction "Rubeville," is a
good bill of vaude
EsDe and DuttOn vile. One of the
nj the Majestic most versatile teams
of performers to be
found anywhere is Espe and Dutton.
two men in a novelty act that intro
duces some very good acrobatic dane
ing, juggling, hand balancing and
euuilibristic work. They are pleasing
in all of it with result that they are
given enthusiastic applause at the fin
ish An attractive show is booked for
the Thanksgiving holidays. The reign
ing feature of the bill is musical
comedy offering with nine people, en-
titled "Marcelle." This is another of
those popular girl acts-the kind that
local theatergoers like. Grouped
around this attraction are: Hsviland
and Thorton, presenting a comedy skit,
"a Question of Policy" Paula. excel
lent female accordionist; Hayes and
Rives, in a novel song ana dance Of
fering, and one other act. On Thanks
giving Day a continuous performance
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-29
will be run, starting at 2:S0 and last
ing until 10:30 at night

"Atta Boys Last Race" the new Tri-
angleFi Arts feature booked for
the Colonial Thea
Dorothy Gish at ter to-day only.
the Colonial Today starring Dorothy
Gish, is q rushing,
exciting, racing picture, and its expec-
tations are more than lived up to.
There's the "peppy" little jockey. the
sweetheart, who hated racing, and the
villain. Then there's a real horserace
that is the big thrill of the play. which
unites the sweethearts and wins them
a fortune. A new two-reel keystone
comedy called His Last Scent" will af-
ford you many opportunities for good,
hearty laugh. A couple other good
reels will be seen on the same program.
AS an especially strong holiday attrac-
tion, and owing to the many requests
received, the management has sue
ceded in booking "Pillars of Society"
Henry Walthalrs greatest success since
The Birth of a Nation" for Thursday
only. The play that shows the down
fall of an arch hypocrite. whose life
was built on lies and sham. new.
funny Keystone comedy Will be seen
on the same program.