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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
METZ WILL WED,
BUT WON'T TALK
Angry on Finding License
Excursion to Stamford
Betrayed Him.

Herman A. Metz, former City Con-
troller and Representative in Congress,
whose wife was granted divorce a.
Reno on November 10, 1915, on grounds
Of desertion, is to marry again. Thurs
day afternoon in Stamford, Conn. he
obtained a license 70 wed Mrs. Alice NJ.
Norman, Of West Eighty seventh
Street.
She divorced Lawson Norman, a
salesman. in The Bronx, last week ana
is the mother of three small boys.
Mr.. Metz has known Mrs. Norman
for about fifteen years, mutual friends
OF the two said last night. she IS )
native of Brooklyn and thirty-seVen
years old, while he is forty-eignt' seven
years ago Mr.. Metz organized the fIefo
Corporation Company, at "a NorIn
Moore Street. and Mrs. Norman. VINO
was then Miss Van Ronk, became treas
urer. Two years later she left the
Plexo company 10 marry norman
Every effort was made 70 keep tne
facts concerning the issuing, OF IL
cense .ouiet. and Mr.. Metz. who IS Nv
inc at the National Democratic Club,
617 Fifth Avenue, expressed his dis
Measure in no uncertain terms when
told last evening that the news was out.
81 haven't a thing TO say about It, not
a thing" he added. 81 don't care 10
talk about Mrs. Norman. myself or our
plsns. The news is true. and that's sll
there is 70 it," 80,
when are you going to be married"
he WAS asked.
81 don't care TO say; but perhaps
,o, narbans then. That's personal
matter, think"
Mr.. Metz refused to verify sugges-
ton that the marriage was to take
nlace in Stamford on Tuesday, the
earliest date the ceremony could be
nerformed under the Connecticut law,
which requires that residents OF
the state must wait five days after
taking out a license. He then said
however. that the wedding would take
nlace some time this week.
81 VAS in love with Mrs. Norman be
fore she married the other fellow,
Mr.. Metz said. at wasn't necessary
for US to go through the tormality Of
getting engaged.
Mrs Norman could not be seen at
her home last night, and other mem
bers Of the household refused to talk
about the wedding.
A friend Of the ex-Controller accom-
nanied him to the town clerks Office in
Stamford. where the license was OBJ
tained. Mrs. Norman did not go, to
: stamford. as the Connecticut law does
not require that the prospective bride
be present when the license is granted.
A few weeks ago Mr.. Metz leased the
residence at 3S West Seyenty-fourtn
Street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
SCOTTTS CONDITION
ALARMS PHYSICIANS
Singer, iii from Pneumonia, Has
Hard Fight.

Antonio Scott. the opera singer, is
seriously III from pneumonia at the
Knickerbocker Hotel. a statement IS
sued by his physicians early last night
said:
"The condition Of Signor Scotu Is
rot satisfactory. There has beeen no
Improvement since this morning. There
has been a slight extension OF the lung
area affected with an increase Of res
piration and temperature.
"Dr. II. Holbrook Curtis, Dr. Leopold
Stieglitz. Dr. Alexander Lambert"
Scott has beeen i'll four days. Pre-
vicusly he had the grip, but was sup
posed TO have recovered, when he con-
trLcted severe cold, which was al
most Immediately followed by pneu-
monia complications.
A bulletin at midnight said that the
singer showed slight improvement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
YO HO! P. S. MEN
FIND PIRATES TRAIL
Anchor Chain and Other Ancient
Wreckage in East River Tube.

Years ago some pirate crew may have
sailed UP the East River and their bark
sunk near the Brooklyn shore of what
is now Clark Street. That was the
theory of the Public Service engineers
yesterday when they found what ap-
pears TO be the remains OF a snip IN
the north tube Of the Old Slip-Clark
Street tunnel.
The wreckage was discovered IN the
heading of the tube, and consisted oil
planking, a neavy anchor chain and
large bowlder, which is thought TO have
been used as an anchor.
The hulk had worked its way through
the bed of the river to depth OF about
fifteen feet. The old chain was passed
ground in front OF the shield. wnien
will cut it out with the mud and sand
of the river bottom. The bowlder was
blssted and removed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
COLLARLESS BOYS O. H.,
BUT MUST WEAR SHIRTS
Jersey Education Board Rules
on Hot Weather Dress.

Trenton. y. j., Feb. .. If boys OF
New Jersey want to go TO school in hot
weather without collars they may DO so,
and for teachers to forbid them is an
exercise of power. This
is the decision of the State Board OF
Education in the collarless school boy
case brought to it on appeal in the
matter Of the exclusion of Van Lear
Turner and Robertson Turner, OF Mer-
chan,sville. They appeared in schooi
last summer without collars.
Had the boys appeared in school
without shirts. it would perhaps have
met the exigencies OF the not weather.
hut would have been subversive OF DIS
cipline; but TO say that they should
not come TO school collarlesS, the
board holds, "is an unreasonable ana
an unwarranted exercise of power by
the teacher"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
BUTLER BARON AGAIN,
BUT ONLY FOR A DAY
Mistress Invites Him to Luncheon
TO Trick Prlma Donna.
fBy Telesr.ph % The TTfbuns J

Cleveland, Feb. a baron in his
own country, a butler in Cleveland,
and for one exhilarating afternoon the
honored guest of an exclusive luncheon
given by the mistress OF tne mouse
1hece no is 'in service" was the remark
able experience that befell 0iehiro
yamanoto. at the home of Ralph l..
Fuller, a Cleveland bank director;
Yamanoto, a nobleman in Japan;
came here 10 learn American ways and
eventually attend college. During
week of grand opera recently, Mrs.
FULLER learned that he knew Nine.
Isnski Miura. japanese prima donna,
and had attended high school with her
in Japan. Then the butler in introduced koau',sa
the singer TO his mistress. and because
~ HE yeouest that the little japanese
woman not be told that he is servant
YSmsnoto was one. Of the invited
guests at the fashionable luncheon
Which followed in the Union Cluo.
After the feast Yamsnoto went back 10
his lob Of butler.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06

GERMANS KILL CHlVALRY.
SAYS LONDON'S BISHOP

London. Feb. 6. - The
Bishop of London, the Right
Rev. Arthur Wilmington In
gram. speaking at Stoke
Newington last night, said:
"One of the saddest men
in England must be the skip
per of the trawler which
came upon the sinking Yep
pelln in the North Sea. The
skipper would have liked to
rescue the men. though they
were enemies, but was un-
able to trust the Germans
word. Had he taken the
German. on his ship they
might have attacked the
crew. and the whole Ger
man press would have ap-
plaudcd the action as
clever piece Of strategy.
Therefore, we ought to
stand by the skipper. The
Germans have killed chIv-
airy in warfare"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
LONDON SPECULATES
ON BELGIAN MISSION
Believes Allies Are Informing
King of New Plans.
lBy csol. 20 The Tribune J

London, Feb. 5.-The greatest specu-
lstion exists regarding the mission OF
Sir Douglas Haig and Lord Curzon to
King Albert. The greatest secrecy IS
maintained in official quarters.
There is no reason to expect that
King Albert needs reinsurance or en-
couragement regarding the general
questions os allied policy. but Il is
likelier that he Is 10 be the recipient
Of fuller information regarding the
allied plans, as well az some tangible
mark OF their appreciation Of Belgian
heroism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
OhINOUS SPADE QUEEN
DRIVES GIRL TO SUICIDE
Brother Wounded in Battle, She
Leaps Fifteen Stories.

A card Of III omen crumpled in her
hand, Mary Hasentuss yesterday killed
herself BY leaping fifteen stories from
the roof Of the Alwyn Court Apart
ments, Seventh Avenue and Fifty
eighth Street. The card was the Queen
Of Spades, torn across the middle and
with the word funeral" written across
its face.
The girl. who was employed as maid
in the apartment Of Frederick Stein
way. had brooded over news received
from Germany that her brother was
held. wounded, In a Siberian prison.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
srAryROoM CAR FOR GOLFERS

To Pinehurst. Camden. Southern Pines. Lv.
y Y s.st r VI Feb II Delightful Resorts
for golf. tennis. shooting Ina lisa B~ay
-Adyt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
,rcrsT. sPFCIAI-i:Os T.. NJ. DAILY

AIKEN and Augusta. Nis>sOuTHEHN RAIL
WAY. Drawing and staterooin siuep'hs S,,,rS IsI
crnnartment car daily 10 Augusta DINING
car seryice. y. y. once. .si FIN Ave
AdNI
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
sEaBoARD FLORIDA LTD" s;is y. W.

and other fne steel trains 10 beSi "ii,eI 49,
sorts south Ina Seaboard Ohice. rs, Nay
--AdNL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
SCHOOL REFORMS
REST ON ELECTION
Progressive Members Say
Modern Methods Depend
on Wilcox Victory.

An exciting election is "redicted
when the forty-six members OF the
Board Of Education meet on Monday 70
vote for q president 70 succeed Thomas
W. Churchill Yesterday the opposing
factions met in many conferences ana
AZ present appear 70 be about equal IN
strength. Leaders Of the faction Ia
voring William G. Wilcox for presi-
dent and John Whalen for vice-presi-
dent. and urging the introduction OF
the Gary system and general progress
give measures into New York schools,
said they were certain Of twenty-nine
votes, six more than necessary to Sc
cure an election. Recent developments
in connection with the opposition OF the
New York State Federation OF Labor
to the progressive candidates renders
this forecast doubtful.
The candidate of President Churchill
and the group at present in control OF
the board. George G. Gillespie, chair
man of the committee on elementary
scbools has suffered more seriously, IL
IL said. by the open antagonism OF
Mavor Mitchell and many members OF
the Board Of Estimate TO President
Churchill and by the hostility TO the
Churchill group in The Bronx Inc
hostility Is blamed on the rejection OF
District Superintendent Joseph ). lay
lor on Wednesday, after he had been
unanimously reno minated 20 the Board
Of Education by the Board OF Superin-
tendents.
TAYLOR Case Causes Crisis.
The seriousness. Of the dispute be-
tween President Churchill and Mayor
Mitchell WAS intensified by statement
issued BY Mr.. Churchill. accusing the
Mayor of injuring the board by loose
talk" and challenging him to substan-
tiote his declaration OF Friday night
that "a dishonest attempt was made
last wear TO create the impression tnat
the Board Of Estimate did not want the
night schools to continue Public in
d.gnation against the action OF the
hoard in refusing TO reappoint Dlstrle'
cunerintendent Taylor has resulted IN
a steadily increasing number OF pro-
tests. the climax OF which was the oit-
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-06
WEATHER.

Cloudy to-day and tomorrow; light
variable winds.
Fun Report on Po0, 2, Part H.
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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
POST OFFICE EMPLOYEES
HUNG MAIL UP TO DRY

A portion of the st. Johns postofice
last Friday looked like home laundry
on wash day. Letters and packages
of all descriptions were hung up or
laid out to dry after having been fish
ed from a mail sack containing, among
other things, can Of maple syrup
that is, it was can of syrup when
the sender mailed it at Ovid, but it did
not remain so long after being tossed
about in a small sack. Such packages,
unless carefully .drapped are not sup
posed to be received for mailing, but
in the Christmas rush this probably
got by.
A quart of rye was also received
Friday at the local postoffice, care
lessly wrapped, but the contents in
tact. 1t might be well for the sender
to know, however, that Uncle Sam i'm
poses a maximum fine of something
like one thousand dollars and i'm
prisonment, for using the mails in
this manner,
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05


elected by the people. The intention
was that an organization of skilled
road builders was to be built up
around these commissioners, to oper-
ate in much the same manner as any
commercial organization. The idea
being that these county road commits
sioners need not be road builders
themselves. They were to act as dir
ectors of this business undertaking, in
the interests of the county. With the
exception of a few counties and as a
general proposition in the southern
peninsula Of Michigan, the county
road system has not worked out much
better than the township road system.
The intent of the legislature has been
perverted in many cases. Almost
without exception this has led to in
efficiency and failure. In some coun-
ties of the state the county road sys-
tenn operates in an ideal manner. In
other counties it is looked upon as
very inefficient or failure. The rea-
son for this is obvious to anyone who
has visited and observed county or
CARNATIONS in operation. In brief,
1T may be stated that whenever a
county was fortunate enough to elect
men of good business ability, sound
judgment, and above all, men who are
accustomed to employing other men,
as county road commissioners, there
is no question as to the success of the
system. Such men are not seen along
the highway with pick and shovel, OF
in charge of grading gang posing as
road builders. They are the directors
of road building for their county, and
they rely on men employed by them
who are trained in road construction
to execute the work.
On the other hand, in these coun-
ties where the system is considered
as failure or at least very inefficient
you will find that the county commits
sioners are men not fitted for the job
by past experience, and that they do
not have a proper conception OF their
duties. In other words, they are not
large enough for the job. These men
are usually Woodworking, honest men,
doing all they can as they see it for
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
MOVE TO DISARM
WARNING NATIONS

A world court for the judicial in
vestigation and settlement of all
questions of international dispute,
former President William H. Taft as
honorary president and John Hayes
HAMMOND as president, was formally
launched in New York last week.
eLading men Of this and other coun-
tries will be invited to address the
congress. The work of organizing
world court leagues throughout the
United States and various foreign
countries, with a view of ultimate
disarmament and the enlistment of an
effective international tribunal for adj
justing differences between nations,
was discussed at length at luncheon
given by Mr.. Hammond. The move
ment has not for its object immediate
diarmament. This is, it is agreed,
must be gradua land only after the
nations of the world have subscribed
to the establishment of an information
al arbitration. Meanwhile thorough
preparedness is urged as being in
cumbent upon the United States.
Among other officers elected be-
sides Messrs. Hammond and Taft,
was Gov. w. N. Ferris of Michigan,
vice-president.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
Good Roads Department
Conducted Especially for the Banner by Hon P.
T. Colgrovc, President of the Michigan
Good Roads Association.

their county. They fall down in SO
many cases because they carry the
idea that the only way to be road
commissioner is to get out and per-
sonally build roads. This idea soon
gets them into deep water and they
become SO absorbed in the small in
consequential troubles of construction
organization that they lose sight of
the larger and more important mat
tiers. Under this method of handling
work, If the efficiency is poor, there
Is no way in which change Of man.
agement can be made except by the
election of another man at the expira-
ton Of the commissioners term of Of
flee.
Success in road building in Michi-
gan, under the county system, has
only been attained where the commits
sion has acted like board of direct
org to a commercial enterprise, and
have directed their work through an
organization of skilled road builders.
The state highway department is
the most efficient organization in the
state. | doubt whether any state in
the Union has better or more eff
cient organization. This is not due
so much to the law governing its or
ganization as to the men who have
been in charge. This department is
getting results. That this is appre-
ciated by the people of the state is
shown by the increase in the demand
each year by counties and townships
for the state highway department to
spend their money for them. This is
also one of the reasons why the leg
islature is so willing to raise more
money each year to be expended
through the state highway depart
ment. They argue that they get
more for the money thus expended
than if it was expended through the
county. and township organization.
Michigan has been fortunate in the
past management of it's state high
way department.
In the past ten years the attitude
of the public toward good highways
has changed. The problem is no
longer one of getting the money or
inducing the people to build roads. The
ITO Be Continued)
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
F A r M A N u
O r CT A r d


at less cost of production.
The contrast between the earning
power of the dollar in the possession
of intelligent progressive farmers and
the shiftless farmers is very great,
while the basic value Of the dollars do
not differ in the least.
The earning power of the dollar
depends upon how it is used. This
on the farm means that the proper
use would be, not to cultivate more
acres than what could be given the
very best attention that a mans abil-
ity and facility will permit. 1t means
that every known agency employed
in modern agriculture must be APP
piled. More crops must be produced
upon less acres, at less coat of produc-
ton. General farm efficiency must be
greater. These are vital propositions
and cannot be indifferently dealt
with.
The farm subdivision idea with
more intelligent intense application
and higher efficiency means more
dollars, with a higher earning power,
more comforts on the farm, less
drudgery and anxiety and with all
happier and more contented farmers.
These ideas are applicable to every
farm, because they are individual
problems. The farmer has it within
himself to say whether he shall follow
the one which combines the elements
of good business or the one that is not
progressing and keeping many just
above the danger line OF failure.
1t is not the earned dollar or the
saved dollar on the farm that shows
the profit in farming, but it is the
dollar whose earning power has been
enhanced by such wise applications
that production is cheapened and the
value of the product enlarged.
We urge the small farm idea be-
cause it embodies the possibilities of
success to the greatest number en-
gagged in agriculture and success
means larger purchasing ability.
These thoughts are neither vision
airy or speculative. Thousands of in
stances can be cited, where enormous
crops nave been taken from very small
holdings, and in every one such cases
when analysed is found that the per
unit cost of production has been re-
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05

duced TO the minimum and the mar
ketable character of the product has
reached very high standard Of value.
An eight-acre farm on Long Island,
New York, employees Is men ty the
year and the annual sales from this
small farm are greater than is taken
from the majority Of large farms.
Market gardening by intensive in
ter-cropping remove from to 6 crops
year from a single acre. A mail
carrier in Pennsylvania, specializes in
Danish Bald Head cabbage. He oc-
cupies his spare time when Off duty.
He buys the highest grade fertilizers
and applies them literally. He cult
Yates thoroughly, uses selected pedi-
gree seeds and sets only strong vigor-
Gus plants and secures almost incred-
ible yields Of the very highest quality
cabbage, which commands special
high prices on the market.
nj. l.. Reutenik of Cleveland, Ohio,
is lettuce grower, as side line to
lettuce he grows some celery which
yields him 81 200 per acre.
Hull Bros. Of Waymart, Pa, are
celery specialists, they have only three
acres Of land, but from this small
farm their returns are greater than
from farms of 100 acres surrounding.
M. L.. Howard of Benton Harbor,
Michigan, produces larger returns
from single apple tree than the
average acre of the apple orchards Of
the state.
Such instances are not SO few and
far between that they are exceptions.
They are in evidence in every agri-
cultural community in the land, and
such instances Of intense farming rep
resent good management, but as well
that dollars made upon these small
holdings, are so wisely invested for
the purpose of economic production
that their purchasing power has
reached the limit. Thus their earn
ing power is increased beyond that of
those who have not and are not secur-
ing the profit out Of their farms that
they should or that is possible.
: The final proposition then is that
the earning power of farmers dol
lar is determined entirely by the me-
thod in which it is employed to reduce
the cost of production, on the one
hand and to increase the yields per
acre of the highest marketable value
crops on the other.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
The Earning Power Of the Farmers
Dollar

Inc Earning IOWcI ~ TIC a. AsSH
Dollar
There is an old saying which has
come out to us from the dim past that
"a dollar saved is dollar earned. =
This is a truism, andsyet 1t has an
intensely negative side when we apply
it to farm productions.
To- simply save a dollar IN needed
equipment or supplies OF improve
ments by which more dollars could
be earned would be and is the utmost
folly. But dollar saved on the farm
through the agencies of better seed,
better culture, better fertilizing,
spraying, harvesting and marketing
or in better stock, better labor saving
machinery, and more farm efficiency
as a whole is a dollar made. And
where good management and business
Judgment has been the means OF earn
ing that dollar the dollar thus earned
on the farm is not represented by It's
intrinsic vadue of one hundred cents
but the value of that dollar secured
in such way is beyond the power
of any individual to estimate. Such a
dollar has back of it knowledge, abil-
ity, wisdom and an intelligent COM
prehension of many possibilities by
WnlCn LlaL UOlldT CdH Dc tihpioyCu
with which to reduce the cost of pro-
duction per unit. While at the same
time the number Of units are increas-
ed.
1t resolves itself then into this pro-
position that dollar can only said to
be saved on the farm so that it has a
value other than its basic value, and
in this view its earning power is
greatly increased.
1t is proverbial that the farmer is
a great spender, but it is also equally
true that taken as a whole he is a
judicious spender. Furthermore when
he is prosperous, he is great con-
sumner of products other than those he
himself produces. In this way, again
is to be seen the power of the dollar
he has produced.
The shiftless farmer does not have
many dollars to spend and therefore
he cannot invest in labor saving de-
vices for the farm or secure improved
farm equipment, better stock, better
end more valuable crops are produced
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
IONA DOGS VICTIMS OF
POISONING LAST WEEK

There has been an epidemic of dog
poisoning in the north end of the
Fourth ward lately, starting on
Christmas eve with the poisoning of
Van Morse's valuable Airdale. Since
then Ed. Poole has lost collie and
Otto Meisling a poodle. There is also
reported loss Of dogs by Frank Ga
zalla and Wilbur Postle. Emil Krie-
ger had fox terrier poisoned, but It
recovered.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1916-01-05
Marquette train time at Beldino

mber i, 1915
To 0resnville and Big Rapids 7:ss
. m. and e:se ,. m.
TO Lowell ana Grand Rapids io:so
:, m. SOS p. "a. and ss:ss ,. IA.