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New-York tribune., 1916-03-21
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS:
MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS
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ARMY
lieu, ,a THOMAS Ii sLkyTNs U " G.. o.
ar.fa. af ~a. llaItI.... IrrHr fl command. q
general Weston HIt f.r temporary auJ a. a..
.Isf..f fH % a. .. fH-f department
H..I.I .rHH nf -..'.f If.r. tul-ItE D. BAR.
MITE rI 'ff. ACCEPTED in fHe r-~.Il.lt fH
c.it ,Ii,nLis g. MORTON. rf. unassigned
oapt Joif, o. u,-~oN. cn cav. ae'auei g.
u W g. fD fa.r rTrf AqII g. report t1 Depot
y 30. l It.H. a. hH hfuf
Iolosns o~..H No. G. to 90 ruo fr tom
p1I4u dIf. s a...flHts fp q ". SlufH.ru
uep. oap.. LoGtNlp d. GAsSiE sni
cap rRANK U HUTTON 1fh Inf detailed in
q VI e.. t1 take effect March -. report % com
f6anlirg general ruprn.. o. assisnment
Walter Reed General Hospital
Iir.t iIru. EDWARD NAllI.r and JOINS 10
HAltrLlfr Mfd Re- Corp. io o. u iir-
.f|
Second Lieut. GToHGE o. LOWELL Dr.. lri cav.
O.. lI sam linusfHI f0r rrairinHiiYu i1 deiefHiHr
fu~H fr detail n aviation snr'ir q" sE
'nrI.
Cau SAMUEL 4 sNoEE re.ifedl. iron. present
duties WITH crGiuiysd militia detailed 50 Artins
q ~ AMI aiu prnr.sI fo ~ y = Russo ro.
urrinr tarf WILSON e. uEArOT q. 80 e.
s1r HIH lf...~i FOB 49, Lpui, - Depot
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SEN JERSEY.

ATTRACTIVE BARGAINS OFfERLD BY HANK.
rNG DEPARTMENT STATE OF NLW YORK
10 builder Investors ard prospective honeseehsrs
A iarse number o. vacAut lots at GRANTNsOOp
MJ!ssmere LcUaia. Eilgeted and reansrk. New
Jersey a. one haR % former owners prices Asc
Beisu's ,itr side and PALISADES PARK. New Jerssy
IN about ore haf - former prices. A. o. u'
,bove urgueftics are within = Eve cent fare zoue a
vifhln thirty minutes Of Msnhattsu Tnese prop
,--tes must ue sold quchly 40 close The business a
ing ueusrmcut aud sfe offered a. real ,acrhc,
price. special Inducements 90 CONTRACTORS s.d
tui!dess VINO wiz purchase CONS .dcrable lum-s'
~ ir, fDr fuuner particulars address
BENZ u UkiGHT.
Slscial Deputy Supt. of Banks. % Ranking Dspt
u Netg NrrL
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BUSINESS CARDS.
.IIIIiIl NJ

JDKDAN'S
NIN YORK CNRPET CLEANING NOI:k-
tt i6c--lS95 Bry 4nf. ta,-fSt N'rt t.. 30 -
rinp-ai;erlHg-R.lGi
tINE RUGS WONEN FROM Old 'AiIttiS.
t.KIttI CARPET CLEANING tU.-Ciesas ~
rompir. sed sir steam. h4ud v ou 7oJr ass,
Broadssy. al last 18th 81 COZ 4 BRANDT
10 ia--3Sh
NILTICEAPG TYFENRlTTEN LETTERS. 90
$50. 900. S. IS. 10000. 50 GEo.
WIAIHERFURp 10 BfosdwAy tLluitaoe Blds }.
Room f.l Rector i5i3.
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NIEY PROPERTY.

LIT YOTR RENT PAY FOR YOUR HOME
Res, financial plan explained by Courty Hom,
re,ct.a No. 20 West I'D ST.. Dep. Phone
sSaf Me- ca
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New Building Plans.
Manhattan.

l2sTH ST. s. l>l W fI ar. frs 81. ..-.t.
.IAas Do. A uocsRcl ..I WIU. N -,
~ Y Howell. 81 a. sni i19ih - u-fi.c e. o6
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Alterations.
Manhattan.

ii6TR ST. ioS " fo - A. hi.rn,.rr -...,..
rarf efc. Williams Building tof7 ~ "a N.ft
owner. NJ Nhirsflr. go -'.1 o. K.,rk.,.
ar.hifs.f. B. sa
26TH ST 21.h o.. Dr. sr and Fs.f R.r-r. p. II.
.f. paVlioHs. Bellevue end A'rf Hr.rf 4it %
tsr Z IS ~ New ioIN osU.l Mrhlu Ns.I =
Wi'- l0l pars AZ. 2--hieHs. tf0oN
The Bronx.
WALKER Az. q. i5 " Ll-lrg So. n = 8 .r
Zane s,ore snf fv'1 2-.0. Ctarss ~fyr.r,,
'.r c5l5 Walker AZ. orU. J. fna lsi-
Ovcrrg St. architect sos
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FOR SALE.

ron SALE 200 DAVIS SEWING M,
chimes. tfpo \ manufacturing. In us-
-Four months Address MASSrIi. sOl
South 9th St. 81 Louis Mo.
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BY AITRrD KING IRON IITTIE

POND SCHOOL. EAST THONFNON. lbNN-. .
Francis Vassa-. Chester Nas.ar Lillian blanchard
Veronica Ror0vch. Harold Nunyan. E.1e 'eirh
Miriam YogHg. Cortland Young Viola sanger
Asucs Mrozlnssi. Edwin Nroziu-E BreIle hreus oN'
ana Peter We.och. 10 cents each
New-York tribune., 1916-03-21

CHAULEs EASRiEL shoe dealer D. 1885, rh
as. I.- WaIr gu a- igUuelt tp thaurrtT g.
I.I'.H.l
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Tounder Do BE- Gucst.

Marjorie Sterrett. whose dime start
ed the fund. with Admirals Sigsbee
and Usher. will be the guest of Win
chester Post, 197, G. A. r., tonight az
It's concert and reception. The pro-
gramme viii consist Of selections by
The Aeolisn Orchestra, Grace Belows,
conductor and solos by well known
artists. Dancing viii follow. and part
of the receipts will go toward the fund.
in the list OF contributors published
yesterday several names were iDad-
vertently omitted from those who gave
their contributions 90 make up the
New-York tribune., 1916-03-21

Samuel K Hu,U. Mrs Bush Viola R.,.
Mildred Bush Fuul-o Hu-h. r. a. Jones. Mr.
p A. Jones. kstherlue Trytor. Ms J. ?. Jones
and Dorothes Martin 10 cents each
.r..f Sr- go
p.e,foa.'v .otrovi edged ............ 5S44 -
7.,,.i o., Ia. ............. t-aI-u
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-27
An Infant Which
REQUIRES Some Attention

The prosecution of work on the Alaska
government owned railroad has brought
other departments of the federal govern
ment actively into the field in getting
things shipshape for the great commerce
that will develop with the great northern
territory as soon as railroad communica-
ton with the interior makes possible the
opening up of its vast resources.
Thecoast and geodetic survey is pointing
out the necessity for additional work in the
coastal waters of Alaska to make the poten-
tial steamship routes safe for travel. The
tourist who is astonished and delighted at
the magnificent scenery along the Alaskan
coast, usually does not realize that the
very features which cause admiration,
when continued below the surface of the
water, form the dangerous pinnacle rocks
and other distractions so dreaded by the
navigator.
All commerce between Alaska and the
Pacific coast and between the ports of
Alaska is water-borne, and many vessels
are obliged to pass through the intricate
system of narrow channels in southeastern
Alaska These passages, which are usually
deep depressions between high ridges, are
apparently safe, but the appearance of
security is deceiving on account of the ex-
istence of very sharp pinnacle rocks, rising
in many cases from great depths, and OF
such small extent that the ordinar-
methods of photography, such as casting
the lead, fail to reveal them
This has made necessary the adoption of
the wire drag device supported by
buoys, and carrying rigid cable at a given
depth below the surface, and dragged over
the surface of the sea by two tugs, one at
either end. When the drag encounters a
pinnacle point. the buoys dip and the rock
is charted
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-27

sinking fund the sum of SGT 1868
And gentlemen, the auditors summary
on the same subject says:
History of interest and
sinking fund, receipts and disburse-
nents: Received from back tax collec-
tions, NOTHING.
Why has the interest and sinking fund
received NOTHING from back tax collec-
tons? The public would be greatly inter
ested in learning what became of the
money. And gentlemen, when YOU explain
this take time TO give your employers some
information on why $4,000 of personal
taxes were charged off the city books, for
the auditor says:
: This state of affairs exist
ed until October, 1915, when the entire
personal taxes unsolicited, good and
bad, were written off the books and
lost sight of The procedure for the
other years covered by this audit was
the same and the unsolicited personal
taxes amounted to about $4,000.
Further along in his summary Auditor
Hagerman makes another statement that
is rather puzzling Perhaps you, Messrs.
Commissioners, can enlighten the public.
He says:
= The coal purchased by this
department (referring to waterworks)
amounted to 6,354.95 tons, the coal
weighed at the plant as used amounted
to 5,354.70 tons, a shrinkage of
1,00025 tons.
Such statement, gentlemen, needs ar
explanation. Can you supply it? Why
does coal shrink and how does il
Shrink"
You have explained, possibly to your owr
satisfaction, that shortage of $27, 600, un
paid bills of $24 900 and a bank balance O
$4,000. Now let's have an explanation O.
some of the above statements by the audi
tor. When you have finished with these
there are some other things in that sum
mary of which the people would like t.
know, and when you have concluded you
labors on this document you can then tax,
up the audit itself Doubtless there ar,
some things containedein it which the pub
lie would better understand if given an ex
PLANTATION,
When you have concluded with all these
Messrs. Commissioners, we have anothe
report, preceding that of Mr. Hagerman
on which the public would appreciate lit
tie enlightenment
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-27

The auditors report explains that
the shortage mentioned by him is oc-
casioned by the failure to collect the
full amount of taxes levied for that
fund. Said amount of money is not
in the sinking fund for the sole rea-
son that property owners could not
pay their taxes, and the commission
ers could not enforce the collection
without taking action that would i'm
pose unnecessary hardships on the
property owners, and making worse
the general financial conditions and
business depressions. The taxes are
not lost, but are secured by tax GER
tifcates which are liens upon the
property, and are drawing interest,
and as collected will go into the sink
ing fund, long before they are re-
quired to pay the bonded debt. Ever
since the sinking fund was created,
during the time of the bond trustees
and aldermanic government, when
there were no bank failures, or fnan-
cial distress, but when money was
plentiful, and our city on a great
wave of prosperity, there was the
same kind of shortage in this sink
ing fund, as is shown by the forego-
ing figures. The commissioners have
collected some of the aldermanic gov
ernment's shortage for this fund, and
are making collections almost daily,
and under a system which they have
adopted, and, as was known 20 the
auditor at the time he made his re-
port, are putting in the sinking fund
back taxes as they are collected so
as to secure for this fund every cent
to which it is entitled by ordinance
requirements. Neither the newspa-
pers nor the auditor make any men
ton Of this important matter. More
property was sold for taxes last year
than was sold altogether for the ore
ceding fifteen years. This is a start
ling fact, but no intelligent person
viii blame the commissioners for the
! existence of the conditions which pre-
vented the citizens from paying their
taxes on their property, nor for their
inability to collect taxes which the
property owners have been unable tC
pay.
The same conditions which caused
so many property owners to default
in the payment of their taxes, caused
them to default in paying the assess
ments against their property to pay
the street paving, or special improve
ment bonds, and likewise out of con
sideration for the property owner
who were well disposed, but were un
able without considerable sacrifice t,
make their payments promptly, thu
commissioners did not deem it neces
sary to take action to enforce pay
ment which would entail unnecessa-,
hardships on the property owners an,
contribute TO the general financial de
preston, while there was no imme
date need for money which is secures
by liens on the property and is earn
ing six per cent interest, and whicl
if deposited in the bank would onl
earn the city four per cent.
The commissioners have forced col
J Iections whenever it has been neces
sary to enable them to pay any q
the bonds falling due. They have al
ways succeeded in making collection
as was necessary to pay maturin
bonds and on April 1st viii have RI
deemed and paid $4,000 Of sal
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-27
vox PoPUL1
,AA~ AAA AAA4 &c =.

Go charge is made for articles pub
Hshed under this heading. but The
Journal reserves the right to limit their
length, as weil as 10 decline articles in
tended to further the candidacy OF any
person seeking once. The Journal makes
an exception In this instance, because II
desires to have the public read in fuu
the explanation of the commissioners or
one Of the several items contained
In the report Of Auditor Hagsrm&n.-
Editors note.
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4
the sinking fund, while the total
funds available to meet this indebt-
edness of $52,772.2O aggregate only
81, 901.41."
The alleged unpaid bills referred to
by the auditor, amounting to $24,947.-
81, were for salaries due October l,
and for other expenses incurred dur
ing the month of September and not
required to be paid until the 10th OF
the following month, with the excep-
ton of about $1,000 for lighting
streets for three previous months,
which method of payment prevailed
under all previous city administra-
tons. Had there really been unpaid
bills on October l to the amount
claimed by the auditor there was S4,-
901 Al on deposit in the banks and
sufficient assets on hand, as stated
in the audit to meet same. 1t would
be impossible to operate the city
without mourning expenses to be paid
during the following month out of
collections during that month. The
books and accounts of the city show
that every indebtedness of the city
has been promptly met, and there is
nothing in the auditors report to the
contrary.
In reference to the auditors state
ment of the alleged shortage in the
sinking fund:
There was on deposit to the credit
of the interest and sinking fund the
sum of SAT, 674.17, all of which was
applied to the sinking fund. The
auditor, evidently for some reason
best known to himself, improperly
calculated interest at the rate of Az
per cent per year on the 81, 900 bonds
from July 1, to October /, or three
months, amounting to 11,250, and de-
Quoted same from the balance in said
sinking fund obtained a balance of
| $3S, 424.17, to apply to the amount
required by ordinance of $3.50.
This interest calculation was in err
ror, for to follow strictly ordinance
requirements the levy of taxes for
the payment of this $11, ESQ interest
| for three months stated, together
with interest from October 1 to Jan
uary 1 is made after October 1 of
each year and to be paid on January
1 from collections of taxes made dur
ing that time. Had not said amount
ST, $50 been deducted from the
amount on deposit in the sinking fund
as it should not have been, the short
age in that fund would not be ST.
1858. The true condition of this
fund to October 1, 1915, the time COW
cred by the auditors report, is shown
as follows:
Required sinking fund
: June 1, 1913 .......... 44,145.0C
Cash on hand
June /, 1918 s54,71o.11
Less interest
due United
! States Mort
) gage & Trust
Il Co. on June
) 20, 1918. ~. 22,5oo.oo-82 .21o.1.
Shortage aldermanic adj
r rninistration ......... $11,e848.
2 Required sink
: ing fund by
Il commissioners
S since taking
s charge to
y October /,
e 1915 $500. s22,fo5.oo
: Collected on &C
E count 800. 17,46406
4
lordin nee requirement.
. shortage by commits
0 sioners ..... s 4,640 9
: Total ordinance require
n ment shortage 1899. sl6.575.s
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-27

The passage by the United States senate
OF the bill providing for a government
armor plant is the most important action
taken by that body in many day, looking
at If from both the economic and political
viewpoints.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-27
Garbled Statements and
Telling the Truth

Elsewhere in The Journal this morning IS
published "a statement by the three city
commissioners, in which they attempt to
convey the impression that The Journal in
recently quoting from the report of Aud1-
tor Hagerman, garbled the report OF the
auditor in such manner as to present to
the public condition which did not really
exist and which was not contained in the
auditors summary.
That he public may judge for itself who
has made garbled statements and who has
told the truth-the city commissioners or
The Journal-we print below in parallel
columns extracts from the statements of
the commissioners and Auditor Hagerman.
These speak for themselves.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-27

For the payment Of these bonds The
city holds assessment certificates
against abutting property, and the
property owners viii pay, or be con.
PEELED to pay, the amounts assessed
against their respective properties in
ample time to enable the city "a
meet its obligations to pay the bonds
as they become due at the tines
above stated. Attention has been
given, and will continue to be r,ivpn
to the collections in such manner az
to enable the city to meet its obJ;0a.
tons, and as far as possible with.
out compelling property owners r.
sacrifice their property or suffer any
great or unnecessary hardshfus.
This much is sufficient to hreat
down the main charges that have
been made against the Commission.
ers by the newspapers, and we viii
not go more into detail az THE fine
We earnestly invite you 10 examine
Auditor Hagerman's report anc
audits, and any other books. pubIie
records and vouchers Of the eitv 81
you may determine for voursel1
whether the newspapers are giving
either you or the commissioner Z
square deal. x
Al GREENHTFT.
THos. Fl. JOHNSON,
F. R. POU.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-27

bonds before their maturity, and
thereby save the city some mOrey in
interest and strengthen the ceys
credit
The special improvement
bonds issued in 1909 and
1910, payable out of the
1909 paving fund amount
ed in the aggregate tn. e2T2.o00
OF these bonds the
aldermanic gov
eminent paid -. s $4,000
The commissioners
paid .......... 16S5oo
e0Ka eon
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-03-27

The Journal-we print below in parallel
columns extracts from the statements of
the commissioners and Auditor Hagerman.
These speak for themselves.
THE COMMISSIONERS AUDITOR HAGERMAN.
The Pensacola Journals According to these ordi
editor or representative has nance requirements there
had access to the auditors should be deposit IN ht
report for by recent edi- bank the sum OF $6625C
torial it endeavors to have for sinking fund. The
lis readers believe that this amount deposit October
report reveals deploraple l, 1915, was $3S2417 This
condition of affairs It at sinking fund is therefore
&nuts to support its con- short of ordinance require
clusion by rarbled state ments the sum of SGT,
ments is so unjustifable S25sS
and detrimental TO the
city's best interests that The ctys floating deb
deem 1t proper TO make this October L. 1875 Their
statement 50 the people unpaid bills and out
may know the truth. standing warrants of tn
The Journals editorial operating departments I'll
says, "The auditor in one sum of $2494697. The in
paragraph refers to the terest and sinking fun
ctys unpaid bills amount was short of ordinance re
ing to $24,94637, and a quirements another SGT
shortage of $27,77220 of 1858. The cash in tn
ordinance requirements in bank at this time to app
the sinking fund, while the against this is s49o1 Al
total funds to meet this in
debtedness Of $52,772.20
aggregate only $4,sO1.41."
In closing their lengthy communicates
relative to this shortage of $27, 900, unpaid
bills of $24,0 900 and a bank balance o.
$4,000, we note the following by the com
missioners:
This much is sufficient to break
down the main charges that have been
made against the commissioners by
the newspapers, and we will not go
more into detail at this time
The commissioners no doubt would Xix,
$ka - H.
profess to see it. 1t is quite probable tina
the tritmvirate, proudly viewing thei
labors, would weep with Joy if the tax-pay
ers, suddenly bereft of sight, could no
read other statements made by the auditor
For instance the auditor says:
** The net amount turned over
by the old administration, SIS, 1860,
was not sufficient to meet the expendi-
lures as liability was incurred
amounting to $24,946.37
You might take your $500 gold pens i
hand gentlemen and explain the above. an
while you are about it give the public som
light on the following simple statement b
the same auditor:
: The probable expenditures
listed (not including payment of liabil-
tiles now eoIisting) are STOPS more
than the probable collections.
AS hnanciers, men capable and accus
toned to handling vast sums, you, Messr.
Commissioners, may give the public til
benefit of your knowledge of the interes
and sinking fund and tell these paymaster
OF yours how you propose to finance tn
end of the city's business, when your If
come is over 5000 short of your expend
lures, for the auditor says:
The expenditures as listed
here are 5000 more than the probable
collections. AS previously referred to
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Balance .............$ $4,000
Ten thousand dollars CT ne above
$4,000 viii have been 1edeemed. on
April 1, 1916, as stated above, funds
for the payment Of same having been
forwarded the u. S. Mortgages &
Trust Company of New York. where
they are payable. The balance due
on July 1, 1916, is $4,000, for the
payment of which the commissioners
hold paving certificates against abut-
ting property for sums SUFFICIENT for
their redemption, collections on said
certificates being made almost daily.
The special Improvement
bonds payable out Of the
1912 paving fund amount
ed originally to S2se .sof
The commissioners have paid. 1S5,0oO
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The balance unpaid

amounts to ....... .$154, 300
None of which are yet due, but
will be due and payable as foIIovx.
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= V1aL oLN-lIIe-ILN~ TT
msnt shortage ...a... sl6.575.88
The Tomahawk., 1916-11-23
A SchooImaster's Story.

Happening into a classroom OF boys
recently l gave them this oplAlon:
You desire to know just how old l
am, so am going to have you figure
it out for yourselves and this is the
problem: am twice onc-half the age
of my twin brother and he is thirty
three years old, now how old am l?'
The boys were in their third year in The
2rammcr grade and were not reckoncd
stupid or backward by Their teacher
yet this statement of the question was
so much puzzle to them. that only
four boys out of tifty-one present
caught on to the question and gave
a correct answer. 1 fully expected
every one would answer correctly, and
requested all to stand and 10 resume
their seats, when an answer was giver
that was Ike theirs Most of the boys
insis ed that l was sixty-six years OF
age, some that / was forty-nine and a
half years old, others varioas answers,
and but four that l was about as old
rs my twin brother. In the words OF
Artemas Ward, What is the rca on
Of this lhusuessp'--Ame"!oan Teacher
The Tomahawk., 1916-11-23
Mr.. JONES IN AN EMERGENCY.
Except for Single Unfortunate Incl
dent He Was Just the Man to
Deal with 1t.

When Jones reached home the othef
night he found MIS-. Jones huddled :rp
IN corner Of the sofa weeping, aud
about four inches of water On the
kitchen floor.
The Joneses hadn't been married
very long, so he contcnted himself
with a general ''emark concerning the
nonresourcefulnsss Of women and
asked how it happened.
THE water pipe under the sink
BURST" Mrs. Jones told him
Jones smiled pityingty, walked de-
liberately to the kitchen closet and
produced wrench. Opening the Gel
lar door with a confident air he de
scended to the region below.
After humping at least seven OBJ
stacles he finally reached the wall and
reached out for the cock which he had
noticed in pipe which traversed the
wall. lie applied his wrench and shut
It off.
Pattfng himself on the back for be-
Ing able to cope with an emergency,
he started back upstairs. Just half
way up the steps he bumped into his
wife.
Mrs. Jones was the first to speak.
20, DEAR" she said, what in It's
world did you turn off the gas for?'~-'
Philadelphia Times.