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lively few years ago were given over to
market gardening.
London has not been standing still
while New York has been growing. 1t Is
likely, however, that the population Of
the.two cities. counting New York's out
lying districts politically. but not socially
or industrially separated from it, have
been growing unequally in favor Of New
York. In that case New York is the
largest. city in the world In population
as we'll as the greatest in industry, COM
merce and wealth.
AS far as traffic goes New York as a
city has greater amount of traffic and
vehicles according to statistics than Lon
don, and at the same time is in far
more chaotic condition than the English
metropolis. London merely grew into
chaos by reason of streets being built
when they we're needed. New York on
the other hand sinned in its planning
with its eyes open.
Because the Island of Manhattan is
long and narrow the planners went out
OF their way to provoke, not relieve, con-
gestion. The problems which have to be
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solved in dealing with Londons transpor-
tation are being solved by a man who
learned his business in Detroit and in
Newark. in the person of Sir Albert H
Stanley, chairman of the vast trust
which, with the exception of the London
County Council street cars, controls the
traffic problem of the English capital.
For years the Speyer group OF bankers
had been gradually buying up the inter
ests Of the various subway and motor
omnibus lines and reached their culmina-
ting effort about eighteen months ago
when all the competing and conflicting
interests were welded together. Prior to
that time there had been competition as
disastrous to the public as It was to the
corporations.
Yet the difficulties of London are far
greater than those Of New York Man
haitian Island is a bowling alley-straight
up and down. London traffic is centrip-
etal In the morning. centrifugal in the
late afternoon. To and from the small
square-mile center known as the City Of
London, the traffic comes and goes City
commuters live as far out as fifty or
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For his marching order he had now
fully developed the scheme of the bat
talon carre. Each corps advancing in
three lines, forming a sort of square,
was by this method so subdivided, that
II 1t was attacked at any point during
the advance it would be equally easy to
mass troops in support of the portion
attacked, no matter at what point the
pressure was brought to bear. 1t was
also very easy to advance the corps into
such attacking positions as would be
most effective. Thus the advance upon
Jena was very successfully made, and
when the opposing forces did come into
conflict, the advantage was all with the
French, both for numerical strength and
for strategic position.
Striking as an example of the danger
and insuficiency of Napoleon's too indi-
vidualized command, however, was one
of the incidents of the battle Of Jena
Duvou, at the extreme right, forced his
marches so brilliantly that by the night
of the thirteenth, he was already at the
point which Napoleon had not expected
him to reach until the fifteenth. Thus,
in an advanced position, and left without
support, It is a military miracle that
Duypu was not completely destroyed.
Berhadotte, who should have come 10
his relief, was not far distant, but had
given drastic orders that applied only to
himself. gave him no sufficient knowledge
of the general situation, and hence ne
basis on which to take any vigorous init
atlve. He remained al Camburg. OF ne
use 20 the French. and no harm TO the
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seventy miles and all travellers enter by
one Of fifteen stations.
London's working hours are shorter.
The rush hours are not OF two or three
hours in the morning as in New York, but
commence at a. m. and finish at 10:3 80
and similarly from to $50 in the
evening.
Into that little City Of London, where
less than 10000 sleep at night, there en-
ter every day over one million persons
and one hundred thousand vehicles, not
all the latter, Of course, being passenger
vehicles.
This exodus with all the surface con-
gesuon that 1t signifed in the narrow old
streets-for there is not one reasonably
good street in the City of London-had
to be borne in mind by Stanley when de-
vising means for relieving the congestion.
The motor omnibus is the essence Of
London surface work. 1t is double-decked
and holds thirty-four people. The strict
est possible injunctions are given to the
police not to allow one more than the
thirty-four to take their place in the
omnibus. Dismissal is the lot of the con-
ductor whose negligence causes an in
fraction, of the law. No franchise need
be secured by any one who thinks there
Is money in the motor omnibus business.
Subject to the vehicles being safe and
easily maneuvered the streets are as free
as air to all who will. On the other hand
the south side of the river Thames is
the home of the middle and lower classes
for whom the London County Council
operates the street cars at loss. And as
the council is the body governing the po-
lice overcrowding on their street cars is
permitted to a degree.
Efficiency has therefore to play with
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infantry was improved in drill, and in
discipline, under better officers than it
had during the revolution. 1t still relied
on small columns Of attack, very mobile
and adjustable, and arranged to make
support from artillery effective and easy.
To supply and move the largely in
creased armies were, of course, the chief
new problems which confronted military
scientists of the time. AS a compromise
between the concentration and wide dis
persal OF forces there grew up the sys-
tenn known as distribution. AS the value
OF strategic marches was increasingly
recognized, so the Importance of mobility
became increasingly evident AS armies
became larger, the shock Of concentrated
attack became less decisive than it had
been in the old days Of the small trained
forces, and so 1t became safer to divide
the troops of the new conscriptfon army
Thus developed the concept of the great
national force, subdivided into several
cooperating armies.
In the problem of mobility was neces-
sarily involved the division of authority.
The Frederickian general had always had
about five officers In control on the field.
These men were close to him. and the
soldiers could all be under his and their
direct supervision. AS armies grew, d.
rect supervision became no longer pos
sible. Much authority had to be left to
the corps, and even to the division CON-
mander. IL became very important to
establish a good system OF intercom-
munication. Subordinate officers must
be left some free play for action on
their own initiative. and u was the spirit
The Washington herald., 1916-02-06
Blaming Napoleon For Fate That Has Befaen France

may be that It is all the great Ma
poleon's fault that the French have
not accomplished more than they
have in the present war. At least
that is the way an American pro-
fessor of history and the science of war,
DR.. r. M. Johnston, has 1t figured out.
Napoleon was a great genius, Profess
sor Johnston admits. l He succeeded by
the sheer force Of his genius. But even
at that he left out of account several
factors which in the end cost him and
France dearly.
At the very time when the growth of
large armies was making necessary a
new division Of authority and a new con-
cepton Of military strategy and science,
Napoleon stolidly refused to delegate au-
thority away from himself, was a man
who could tolerate no will but his own.
AS result he was often burdened
with more details than even he, with his
great genius could master, and his gen.
erals, left within sufficient initiative, often
were forced into mistakes. Considering
all the points Of the march on Jena, Pro-
fessor Johnston Is inclined to believe
that the praise given its strategy has done
more harm than good to French military
thought during all the years that have
followed that campaign.
The growth Of conscription armies
made available large masses Of men, and
IL also made men less precious. since the
loss Of a small, or even a considerable,
part Of the army could be borne with less
risk to the whole. In the twelve years
between wsttisnies and Jena The French
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Metropolitan Parliamentary Borou CHS,
combined do not comprise more than III
square miles Of territory against the S2s.
Of Greater New York. what is called the
metropolitan district of London COM
prises nearly 700 miles of territory.
The Metropolitan district of New York
includes all of nearby New Jersey and
much Of Westchester county and its popu-
lation is now larger than the similar dis
trict Of London.
But London is London. The resident
Of footing and Shepherds Bush gets his
letters as Londoner, harked s. W. or W.
as the case may be. Yonkers and Hast
ings and Mount Vernon and Newark and
Elizabeth are not New York.
Nevertheless a population of about
100000 has developed not actually
within its political boundaries but under
the very influences, commercial and in
dustrial, which have caused the rapid and
amazing growth Of the city itself, which
nowadays is restricted area of 326
square miles and contains a population
variously estimated at from 5,253,SS5 to
5,5S3,57r.
Comparisons OF the population. of Lon
don with that of New York, however, are
very difficult. Even If there were an error
in the 1911 estimate Of population Of the
administrative county Of London, which
is of about the same area as the Metro
politan Parliamentary Boroughs, which
would have shown 1t to be somewhat
smaller than that of Greater New York,
in that year, the increase of transit facflt-
ties in nearly every direction has been
followed by an increase Of dwellings In
parts of London which until compare
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n English of the standard Of
worlds exchange by replacing
the pound sterling with the dollar and
having again robbed the English Of the
honor, Of having the greatest shipping
port in the world, America now robs the
same nation of the honor Of possessing
the worlds largest city.
Statistics recently published show that
New York is now larger than London and
Is therefore the worlds largest city. The
population of Greater London today is in
round numbers 100000. The popula-
ton of Greater New York is in round
numbers 100000. Therefore Greater
New York has a margin Of at least
10000 over its great rival across the
seas and stands as the most populous city
in the world
There is no question in the minds Of
statisticians that New York can hold
the proud place she has so long been
striving for. The great war is depicting
London's population at steady rate. At
the same time it is. rapidly increasing
N'S" 4OAh POpulaAOn' IL VIII nut Oe at
all unlikely that within a few years the
great metropolis of New York will have
such a great margin in its favor that it
will be out of the question for the great
metropolis of London to hope to overtake
her rival
In considering the actual relative size
Of the metropolis called London and the
metropolis called New York it has to be
remembered that London spreads out in
every direction and that although the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-17
EVEN Cross, SIC
CHILDREN Low
SYRUP OF FIGS
LOOK At ToNGuEl " FEvEHfeh,
BILIOUS. coNsTIPATED,
TAKE NO CHANCES.
"cALiFoRNiA SYRUP OF FlGa*
CAN'T HARM TENDER SToM
AcH, LIVER, BOWELS.

Don't scold your frctfui. peeyist
child. See IL tongue In coated: this
Is a sure sign it's little stomach. liver
and bowels are clogged with souI
waste. SssS
When listless, pale. feyerish, fun Cl
cold, breath bad. throat sore. doesn't
eat, sleep or act naturally. has st0m.
achache, indigestion. diarrhOea. give
a teaspoonful of california Syrup ~
Figs" and in a few hours all the foul
waste. the sour bile and fermentinR
food passes out OF the bowels and you
have a well and playful child again.
Children love this harmless fruit iaS-g
alive" and mothers can rest easy
after giving 1t, because II never faflA
to make their little "insides" clean and
sweet.
Keep It handy. Mother! A little Eivens
today saves a sick child tomorrow, but
get the genuine. Ask your druggtst
for a 50-cent bottle OF California
Syrup of Figs" which has directions
for babies, children OF all ages and for
grown-upsI plainly on the bottle. Re-
member there are counterfeits sold
here, so surely look and see that you're
is made by the California Fig syrup
Company" Hand back with contempt
az" other fig syrup. s ss
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MAY QUEEN is CHOSEN.
Ruth Hanson, Of Toledo, Honored al
Leardee Clark COLLEGE, r

Ruth Hanson. Of Toledo, Honored at
LeandSr Clark College, r.
Special to Times-Republican - s%5
Toledo, April T.--Miss Ruth Han
son, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.5J. M. r.
Hanson, Of this city, has been elected
May queen at Leander CLARK College.
She wonxover Misses Gertrude Breaw
and NiIva Smith, both seniors, by "a
plurality OF is votes. Miss Hanson, who
is junior, an ardent Y. wv. c. A.
worker and member Of the Calliopean
Literary Society, is one OF the most
popular girls in college as her cleo
stion to this office signifies. 4
Plans for the festival are we'll
founded and the fourth annual May
day program promises to be the best
presented at Heander CLARK. In keep
Ing with the tercentenary Of the death
of the immortalized Shakespeare the
pageant will have an Elizabethan
strain. The prominent characters Of
the poets best known plays will ap-
near in costume and sketches will be
presented from some of them. "A large
chorus will render some Of the lyrics
that have been set to music
Drills and dances will have the usual
place on the program, which will end
4witf8the May pole in the college colors
bys every girl in the school. Miss Flora :
belle Houston, Of the local high school
faculty. has been secured to take
charge OF the training. She has had
special work in this line and her ex-
1,erieEce- will go~far toward making
tEe day a complete success. The date
hasssnot vet been announced, but prac-
tee is regular and the time will prob
& Div be the latter part OF next month. z
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Northern Io,ua Items

/ primaries. The officials declare that
the people have been burdened with
taxation and ALSO will be forced to
pay. for the presidential primary cleo
ton held last Monday. They assert
| that they Will take no steps to call a
special registration for this particular
| issue. They maintain that the listing
of the voters would be useless and
merely cause an added expenditure OF
the countys funds. Word has been
J received here that other counties Will
make no effort to hold registration.
Manchester.
The people Of Manchester will be
asked to vote the sum of $4,000 for
enlargement of the city's school racili-
| ties, at a special election to be held
within the next three weeks, presum-
ably early in May. This much has
been determined by the circulation
Thursday by the club women of the
city Of petitions addressed to the board
of education, asking that an election
be called for the purpose named. Sign
ers were freely secured, and the en-
Enthusiastic interest shown by band Of
seventy five club women indicates an
affirmative outcome as the women will
partake in the election.
Usage.
| The Usage school board has engaged
w. K. Letha of Waverly to prepare
plans for a new school building to
take the place of the old grade build
ing and will soon Gall special cleo
ton asking the district to vote to is
sue bonds for about $4,000. The old
building has long been considered in
adequate for the needs Of the district
| 1t was at first suggested to rebuild the
| old building at a cost Of about $4,000
Protests against the proposition were
made and the board decided to ask for
funds sufficient to erect new build
ing.
Dubuque.
! Chief of the Fire Department Joseph
Reinfiried is convinced that an effort
was made to burn the three story
building In which the Dubuque Ma
tional Bank is located. An alarm
called the department to the building
at 1890 o'clock Friday. A slight
blaze was found in a hallway on the
second floor. Oil had been poured or
spilled on the floor and a match had
been touched to it. A number af fam
| lilies live in "a rooms on the upper
floors of tn. building, but none OF
them could account for the oil on the
! floor.
| Sioux City.
Leading business and professional
men of Sioux City who favor woman
suffrage have formed a league to CO.
operate with the various suffrage or
ganizations in conducting vigorous
campaign between now and June 3, the
date of the primary. Frank r. Wilson
publisher OF an evening daily, is presi-
dent of the new league. The executive
committee includes Il dozen of the best
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Sioux City, ~" l@
Alphonzo j. Prunot for twenty-four
years city electrician. died at his home
Friday. He had been in the city en-
ploy thirty-five years, record.
Sioux City. - ,.EE
Assessed valuation of Sioux City in
1915 was nearly s1,000,OO0 over the
previous year. The total valuation In
Sioux city in 1915 was $l3,O39914. In
the entire county it was $23,15O,6SS.
Moorhead. E%
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Taylor of near
Moorhead, on Wednesday of last week
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of
their marriage. Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor
have been residents of Spring Valley
township more than forty years.
Independence.
! At the meeting Of the city council on
Wednesday evening, resolution was
passed to the effect that unless the
Illinois Central Railroad Company
places Waterman or bell at the
would be compelled to slow down to
; the city. ..,..
Independence.
The Independence high school is
never behind the times. but always up
| and doing. The students have organ
lied a cadet company and have al
ready a membership of about sixty and
will get military training without be-
ing bound for service At the drills
the boys are instructed in the handling
and care of firearms, also how to shoot
and military discipline.
Cedar Rapids. r~..'g
Five thousand dollars was the
amount left to charity by B. H Wit
wer, the requests being divided be-
tween his church-the First Christian
and the civic charities. Altho the
estate left was not exceedingly large,
the generous gifts to church and
Echarity are "a representative of the
spirit Of Mr.. Witwer during his life
time. r'-s
Vinton. '
Robert, 4-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hugh Mossman, met with a pain
full accident on Wednesday afternoon.
He was coasting on his wagon with
some playmates when the wagon was
overturned suddenly by coming in
contact with a. rock and the boy was
thrown so violently to the ground as
to break his arm. The break is in the
elbow and on that account is serious.
Two physicians were called who set
| the arm and he is getting along salts
factorly. ~
Clinton.
Clinton county officials have de-
clared that they will disregard the re-
cent ruling by Attorney General Co.'S
son requiring voters to register for
the June special election on the equal
suffrage amendment, which will be
held on the same day as the regular
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market milk contest by the dairy de-
partmerlt at Iowa Ctate College. The
contest, aimed to educate dealers to g
cleaner product, is open to all milk
dealers OF the state. Three more con-
tests will complete the series this year
to be held May Is, Sept. p and Dec.
"a.
The scores received thus far this
Year are higher than last. OF the en-.
tries inNthe raw milk class 80 per cent
received 80 or above with an aver
age Of 90. 40. The average last year was
$685. In the pasteurized milk class
this year the average was S0.93 COM
pared to an average of $3.50 last year.
n III each of the contests there will
be a raw and pasteurized milk class
The three highest scores Of each ex-
hibitor will be averaged and all re-
ceiving an average OF 80 or over will
receive certificates Of merit. After each
contest the detailed scores will be Civ
en- and criticisms suggested ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-17
BRICK WRECKS FRAiL CRAFT OF
SIOUX CITY LADS AND V
CAUSES DEATHS.
THIRD BOY NEARLY &}g IL. ...-. ~
browns IN BRAVE EFFORT
comoanions Of Victims Drop Brick
Into Boat From Bridge, Tearing Hole
in 1Fraii Graft and Causing II to
Sink-Bodies Found in Death EN-
brace-Had Been Warned by Parents

Sioux City, April 17.--Urable to es-
cape from a boat after brick dropped
by companion had torn a gaping hole
in the bottom of the craft, John Avory.
11-year- son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Avory, 2413 East Fifth street, and Gus
tav johnson, Jr., 14-year-old son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Gustav Johnson, 2431
East Fifth street were drowned in the
Floyd river near Fifth and Plymouth
streets. ~ ."J
Ernest Rowley, 14-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Rowley, 2511 East
Fourth street, who .dived into the
stream in an attempt to save his COM
panions, was pulled out of the riVer
after his body reappeared to the sur
face for the second time. He recov-
cred from the shock. The Rowley boy
was rescued by William Dixon, 221S
East Fifth street, who, after hearing
the cries of the youths, dashed into the
river and wading out, caught hold Ut
'Rowley. e. ' s5ss .z4lss,-saa l.. ..... a.
Is. Fail to ,Resuseitate Boys.
Efforts to restore respiration to the
two drowned boys with. puimotors were
without avail. Within a few minutes
after the craft had sunk the lifeless
forms of the two lads were taken from
the river by Dixon who used a garde.l
rake. The bodies were clinging to-
gether, indicating that each had sought
succor from the other.
The Avory and johnson boys were
rowing in the river near the Plymouth
street bridge, between Sixth and Sew
enth streets, the water being from
seven to nine feet deep in the center
Of the stream. The boat was OF home
construction, and belonged to young
Johnson. AS the boys pulled directly
under the crossing, the johnson boy
yelled to Edward Boldon, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. j. S. Boldon, sos Plymouth
street, and the Rowley boy, who were
standing on the bridge, to throw. down
a brick or rock that they might use
it as an anchor. ~-a ...y,x..s.s.
~ Brick Wrecks Frail crsft.
:" Young Boldon got a brick and let 1t
Drop The brick struck directly in the
bottom of the home mad vessel. tear
ing OUT hole that eahsedya rush OF
water fo. quickly fill the frail boat.
Boldpn al erwards declared that he told
the boys that they better not let the
rock drop but the youths in the boat
said that they would catch it. .,-
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MEMBERSHIP IS INCREASED.
Toledo Commercial Club Now Has 152
Members Enrolled.

Special to Times Republican
Toledo, April 1.-THE Toledo Com
mercial Club has a membership of 1872,
sixteen new members being admitted
at the regular monthly meeting, Fri
day evening. OF this number ninety
three are active members. and fifty
nine associates. Interest in the or
ganization and its accomplishments is
rapidly increasing and it is the aim Of
the club members to have every bust
ness man in town enlisted IN men,
bership within the next few months.
Especially gratifying is the fact that
the farmers in the Toledo trading ter
ritory are taking great interest in the
clubs work and quite a. large number
have already Joined. Extensive plans
for cooperation with the rural resi-
dents Of the community are contem-
plated. "A feature Of the meeting FRI
day evening was at-good roads talk BY,
AZ. r. Hebenstreit, county engineer. He
took up the estimates for replacing
Esemporary bridges with permanent
structures, grading and gravellng Of
the county road Ssystem. and explained
the figures and plans in detail.