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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
Will You Celebrate To-day
with Defence Society or
Peace League?
PREPAREDNESS GUNS
'TOROAR AT BlLTMORE
Woman PaciflstS In Whirlwind
CITY Tour-Many ParadeS
Scheduled.

Ever since February p became Ia
nous, the United States has celebrated
WashinSton's birthday IN much the
ssme way.
But to-day the eagle will scream to
TWO distinctly different tunes.
The American Defence Society open
10 convention at the Hotel Biltmore'
will call 20 mind Americas dire neeo
% better armament ashore and ahoaS
To combat this propaganda the Wom-
ans Peace Party will conduct series
o. twenty-three anti-preparedness
meetings covering all New York
Leslie VI. shaw, formerly Secretary
Of the Treasury, will address, the de-
fence soeiety's luncheon on prepared
u.ssp Dr. David Jayne HILL one time
Ambassador 20 Germany, will preside
Among the other speakers will be Rep
,e.e,tative Fred A. Britten, Of Illinois,
Henry Reuterdahl. the naval architect
and w. ". lodkinson'
Tho smallest Of the meetings ar
,.ngsd by the Woman's Peace f"r's
,,ul he held in The Bronx, where TWO
c,1co women viii discuss peace over
80. Guns. In the Neighborhood Play
house. far downtown, I'VE nii'G 49,,
snccches against preparedness Nii -
,crrupt the movies at hei4-nOU'
tcrvals. ,,. = .bo hattie
shin North Dakota. now lying ' ,im4
PHILADELPHIA Navy yard. VIII Dc "a ,6e
=, ~. attention Of the members % '"0
defence society. F.. ,,bicb the
5..,5~ougbt was named are surreu
80 tboir sea champions enforced lN-
sc.;,;ty The North Dakota was lHS
@,.st nericsn battleship 20 be EQUIPPED
,...tb tirbine engines. and because these
,,,.i,e. are faulty she is now reN Ieu
80, .or,ice one reason Tor inc
,-,.+b of the North Dakotans is the
,..- thcy presented $4,000 SILVER ser
,ico fo their battleshlp shortly OSIoI0
.t, ,..s ordered into the navy yard
t-e,,hcrs Of the Washington helghIs
,..,.l.c club viii celebrate Nashlhg
IONS Birthday by raising "a pig amer ~ -
e.o over, thcir new clubhouse, ~
$50 West 159th Street ..,.
Three thousand people viii take par,
:, "a military parade under ihe aus -
80 cor,nanv + Of the 41th Regiment
.ti, afternoon. The parade forms at
o'clock IN the ash Regiment Arnory
ILL.,, Avenue and Hayward street.
p~c,Eivn Dedication of hnerty pore
snd aac viii be held at the Williams
bnr,, Bridge plaza a. o'clock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
Merchants Association
and Connecticut Chamber
Want Ships Kept.
SHIPPERS OPPOSE
DIVORCE OF LINES
Interstate Commission Ends
Hearing Hereto Hold
Sessions in Boston.

Having listened 70 praise OF their
Sound Line steamship service. given b.
the Connecticut Chamber of Commerce
the New York Merchants Association
and dozen Of the largest New Eng
land shippers, officials OF the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com
pany ware optimistic after yesterday
hearing before the Interstate Com
merce Commission that the attempt TO
compel the railroad TO divorce is
Sound Line Of steamships would fail.
The commission adjourned its New
York hearing yesterday. and will re-
sumo it's deliberations in the Boston
Chamber Of Commerce tomorrow.
The Endorsement by the New York
Merchants Association was the sur
prise OF yesterdays hearing. II simply
requested the commission not to sever
al this time the New Haven rail and
water routes. Efforts 10 discover what
had prompted such Z resolution proved
futile. az the representative Of the as
ISOLATION said r. mad no authority TO
speak on that question.
There was no mystery, however, III
the O. KS Of the Public Utilities Com
mission of Connecticut and the Connec-
ticut Chan Der OF Commerce.
I'VE think it would be unwise at this
time" said the Public Utilities Com
mission. "to take from the New Haven
Railroad Company its present control
Of the Sound line transportation. and
We vote that one or more members OF
this commission appear before the In.
terstate Commerce Commission ana
urge against such separation The
Chamber Of Commerce. comprising
Is. 900 members and representing thlr-
ty-fve Connecticut towns. "decrled any
contemplated change and called upon
the Interstate Commerce Commission
TO maintain the existing conditions.
Harold l.. Derby. a traffic freight
agent for half dozen concerns. testi-
fed that while competition is good
thing. in this case an Independent wa
ter line would have no railroad with
whic TO connect.
Thomas 4. Grant. traJc manager OF
the Corn products Refining Company
said that the New Haven handled about
$4,000 tons year for his company
The service, he said, was most salts
factory.
Other men who testified to the salts
faction given by the present arrange.
ment. were George F. Hichborn, general
traffic manager Of the United States
Rubber Company; former Lieutenant
Governor Everett J. Lake. of Connect
cut. pres ident Of the Hartford Lumber
Company, II. +. lverson. traffic man
ager of the Perkins Goodwin Company;
J. Roth, traffic manager OF the Bigelow-
Hartford Carpet Company: David A
Pomfret, traffic manager Of Colgate &
Co: Harry Strachan, transportation
manager Of the Maxim Munition Cor
poration Edward Chase Douglas. pres
dent Of a pump concern Of Middletown,
Conn. and W. A. Becker. traffic man
ager Of the Diamond Match Company
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
State Charity Board Attacks
Conditions on Randall's Island

Commissioner Kingsbury Of the De
partment of Charities. VINO is investi-
eating private charitable institutions
Of greater New York. received report
Yesterday from the State Board of
Charities calling his attention TO GER
tain Irregularities of prophylaxis In
his own department at the reformatory
on Randall's Island. The report saws
that five boys have recently been re-
moved from the reformatory TO the
metropolitan Hospital suffering from
disease contracted on Randall's Island
as a result Of the lax moral discipline
there.
Al Commissioner Kinesbury's Office
II was said that reply would be made
to-day. Conditions cited in the renorf
had existed for a long time and nov,
Tor the first time were on a fair way 10
be remedied. Under Commissioner
kingsbury the sexes had been seere-
gated, II was said, and the present
trouble was laid to the low clsss Of
help employed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
VILLA ROUTS ENEMY,
MOVES ON CHIHUAHUA
Carranza Troops Refuse to Try
to Check His Advance.
tBy Telegraph to The Tribune.l

III Paso, Tex, Feb. 81 Following a
victory over Carranza troops sent TO
crush him, General Francisco Villa is
making a drive from Cusihuiriach;c
toward Chihuahua City. Carranza
troops in Chihuahua are refusing to
attempt TO check his advance. This in.
formation was received tonight in ad-
vices from Chihuahua to Americans in
Fl Paso.
Three hundred Carranza soldiers
under General Jesus Cavazos, who
were attacked and routed by Villa. fed
back to Chihuahua City and there
have spread the old terror of Villa
among the troops.
Spanish Consul Elguera. at Mon
terey, deported by Carranza authori-
ties, arrived at Loredo, to-day.
Elguera is said TO have protested
against the deportation of priest and
was given twenty-four hours to leave
Mexico.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
LAMAR SEEKS TO APPEAL
/. :. Opposing Application for Order
Wants Him Imprisoned at Once.

Washington. Feb. Counsel for
David Lamar, convicted in the Federal
Court. in New York. of impersonatine
an officer of the United states. in al
attempt 20 defraud J. =. Morgan & Co
and others, applied to-day TO the Su
preme Court for an order 20 compel
the Circuit Court 10 reinstate Lamar
appeal from the District Court, which
was recently dismissed.
Lamar's attempt TO appeal, his coun-
sci said, had fallen between two courts
the Circuit Court Of Appeals and the
Supreme Court because ne had fled an
appeal with each. The Circuit Court
dismissed the appeal because an appeal
had been taken 70 the Supreme Court
the Supreme Court dismissed IL foi
lack Of jurisdiction.
The government opposed the applica-
tion and asked that steps be taken at
once 10 send Lamar 10 prison. lie was
sentenced 20 serve two years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
ROCKEFELLER GIFTS
TO ARMENIANS. $4,000
Foundation Sends Check fer
100000 TO Relief Committee.

Sending n check for 10000 yester-
day. the Rockefeller Foundation IN
creased its total contributions TO the
Am s.ican Committee for armenian and
Syrian Relief 10 sB5 900. Charles X.
Crane. treasurer OF the committee. an
nounced that with $500 from the Chi
cago committee the total fund 10 date
is 334A79.43. In all instances the
money has been forwarded either 20
American consus or missionaries in
Constantinople. Cairo, rifis and Ia
briz.
With an honorary committee that in
cludes Hr and Mrs Joseph Choatc,
General Horace Porter. Mr. and Mrs.
Henry White, Mr and Mrs. Robert Ba-
con and Nr. and Mrs. Myron T. Herrick,
n benefit will be held March - at Car
negie Hall for the relief Of musicians
and members OF the Paris Conserva
toire. The benefit was suggested By
Ernest Schelling. the American pianist,
who entered the Conservatoirc At the
age Of seven. Other artists 70 appear
20 l~nace Jan Padercwski. Enrique
Granados. Georges Barrere. Lucien
-.u,a..4e and the tlonzaley Quartet.
Feiix Warburg, treasurer Of the
American Jewish Relief Committee,
WnOse fLUbs Ioldi Yosl i-.Sl 80, M
nounced the following recent contribu-
tons: Alamenda Committee, 81 ,090.l1;
San Francisco Committee, S40,92480;
Santa Crus Committee, 5000: Johns-
town Committee, sI7i.50; Reading
Committee. 1880: Indianapolis Com
munity. $1,000: Napa Committee
$141.25: Meridian Committee. $500;
Newman Committee. S94.25: Tulso Com
mittee, s4.957.s5; Atchison Committee,
1900; MERGED Committee, S46T.25: Mon
terey & Pacific Grove Committee. 5000;
Bakerield Committee. $2,73S.60; Gal
weston Committee, 81. 200; Vallejo Com
mittee. $10l.25; Modesto Committee,
s706.I0: Dayton Committee. sl90.45;
Des Moines Committee. 81 900; Wausua
Committee, sl,l59.93; Mayor Mitchell
reception committee. $792.64: through
American National Red Cross, $4,000;
Fort Smith Committee, 81 900; Ashland
Committee, 1854: Warren Committee,
$1,000; Memphis Committee, $50 900;
Tuscaloosa Committee, $3.50. and Des
Moines Committee, $4.1I.35.
Cable messages just received from
the American Relief Clearing House in
Paris BY the War Relief Clearing
House mere emphasize that the chief
trouble in getting relief to the Serbian
refugees is lack Of transportation IA
clities. Many refugees suffering in
Albania and Montenegro could be re-
moved TO places Of ss,ety IL it were not
for the Austrian gunboats threatening
tr@nsportation on the Adriatic. Con-
trIbutions for the stricken Serbians
may be sent to the committees head
quarters, 200 Fifth Avenue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
Jusserand Honor Guest
at Washington, D. c., Exercises

Washington. Feb. ~. Plans Tor GEE, GEE
bratiuc George Washingtons blr'hday
tomorrow ON an elaborate scale were
completed to-day H.,
President Wilson and many high gov
eminent officials have accepted INVITA-
tions TO attend exercises TO DE- nelu az
thc Memorial Continental Hall under
,bo Joint auspices of several pa.rlotc
societies. French Ambassador Jusse-
rand will be the guest of honor.
Addresses VIII be made by JuugSs
William C.. Fits. of the Department OF
Justice: Mrs. William Cumming STORY
Of New York. president general oil tne
Daughter of the american Revolution;
and James Mortimer Montgomery T oo
New York, president general oil tng
Sons of the Revolution. A feature, wi N
lie The reading Of passages from WASH s;
ington's state papers expressing I r ms
views on national preparedness. toi,
lovine the custom, 1t IS expected una
Wasbjngton's farewell address Will be
read ia the Senate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
VIDA'S DEBUT MAY DIN
FAME OF SISTER INEZ
Busting Miss Milholland, Future
Diva, Has Opinions of Her Own.

The Milholland apartment at 247
Fifth Avenue vibrated TO a quiverlng
soprano. Taking advantage Of inter
walls of comparative quiet. Vida Milhol-
lands mother spoke Of the daughter
who seems extraordinary even TO one
who mothered Ine7.
"Vida's debut? Her debut as a sing
er YOU mean she's been out ever
since she learned to creep. you know.
That will be this afternoon. Nothing
formal: just few artist friends m
Miss Harriet Cady's studio, at COL
Madison Avenue. Her first public APP
pcarance will be in Aeolan Hall on
March 20.'
a palpitant young woman entered. 10
was Vida. Her vocal lesson over, She
was ready TO talk about love, marriage,
music, divorce. pigs, cattle, farming
work. suffrage and birth control. She
did Then she rushed of TO take a les
son in Russian.
"Marriage great stuff if you strike
it right. Love-greatest thing IN the
world, but the germ never nipped me.
Divorce sure Why not If YOU aren't
in right Money piille. 'Tis great 10
have il, but what does il get you. Means
nothing in life. Love and hard work
and lots of il that's life"
That's Vida Milholland. She sat
crouchod on a divan, legs crossed. Ell
bows on knees, chin IN her left hand
and her face thrust forward; eager and
earnest and desperately sincere.
ado you like work?'
love it,"
"Do you have to work."
mo"
what do you call work ."
Singing, studying. writing. man
/ aging the house, running my fathers
farm and dipping into suffrage dis
cussion when ! find time"
Vida Milholland wants to be a grand
opera star Her ambition is to sing
"Brunnhilde." She doesn't aspire TO
fame; she wants TO earn her own living.
Cotillons and pink teas mean nothing
to her-she's only twenty-four. She
doesn't care rap for man with
money.
"If my fate breezed into the room
right now I'd marry him if he didn't
have a nickel she said. So far that
lucky beggar has kept himself hidden.
Miss Milholland has been awfully keen.
as she puts it, on many, but never
loved.
She will talk about men, but would
rather discuss llolstein cows or pigs.
She has the sole managing of a 400
acre farm belonging to her father
There she spends her summers. Proud
~, she asserts, that farm pays divi-
dends."
When she isn't singing or taking a
lesson in Russian. French or German.
Miss Milholland writes scenarios. She
writes thrillers. too.
Suffrage great. I'm heart and soul
in il.
Birth control I'm for Mrs. Sanger.
| think she's doing bully. She's preach
ing to the poor what the rich in this
town have been practising for years"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
Plays and Players
of the Film World

Mary Fuller has revealed her secret
al last. I'm Yesterdays Tribune she tod
Of the fund for the women and children
Of war-ridden Europe which she IS col
lecting and which she headed with a
subscription of $500. The fund is gain
inr hcadway. and as IL is for worthy
purpose IL is hoped that the motion
picture industry will respond. Send all
contributions TO the Mary Fuller Fund,
i'm care of The Tribune, which will for
ward the money to the American Red
Cross
Aaron Hoffman, who was one Of the
most successful authors of musical
comedies and vaudeville sketches, Is
now engaged in writing all the photo
dramas in which Nine. Petrova, the
Metro star, appears.
Although not of Scotch extraction,
Ruth Roland, the Balboa film star, is a
thrifty Young woman. Recently she was
arrested for speeding. When the desk
sergeant required her 10 put up So cash
bail she asked him if he couldn't reduce
il little. Chilly the minion of the
law said there were no bargain days"
for speed violators.
Marguerite Snow. the Metro star, has
recovered from injuries she received
while working in her last feature and
which nearly cost her her life. While
racing IN an old-fashioned blackboard
20 catch a train on the outskirts Of
Savannah one Of the rear wheels came
Off and Miss Snow was thrown TO the
roadway. She rolled for several feet
over the gravel and rocky surface. and
in addition TO severe bruises and
scratches all over her body and face
she suffered three fractured ribs
The Smalleys this week began the
production Of their second Tyrone
Power feature for the Universal. This
story was prepared for the screen by
Olga Printzlau from the story by Jo-
seph Hatton entitled John Needham's
Double" Power appears in the dual
role of Needham and his double. The
supporting cast includes Marie Wal
camp, Frank Elliott, Agnes Emerson,
Richard Sterling, Frank Lanning. Wal
ter Belasco, Lew Short, w. Hajamar
and William Carlock.
That Selig wag is at il again. to wit:
"Mlss HOrtense Bourbon. who is 20 ap-
pear in a movie deathbed scene, has
selected her own pailbearers"
Al meeting held by the Metro Pict-
urcs Corporation Richard A. Rowland
was reelected president and Joseph W.
Engel was reelected treasurer The
board of directors was increased from
seven TO nine by the addition of L.
Lawrence Weber, president of the Pop
ular Plays and Players. Inc, and an
associate Of II. II. Frazee i'm theatrical
enterprises, and 4. $. Beymer. of the
Keystone National Bank. of Pittsburgh.
The following is a list of the other
officers elected: First vice-president.
James a. Fitzgerald. of Detroit; Sec
ond vice-president. James B. Clark. of
Pittsburgh; treasurer, Joseph W. Engel.
Of New York; secretary, Louis b. Mayer.
Of Boston. assistant secretary and gen
cral counsel. j. Robert Rubin. of New
York; executive committee. Richard A.
Rowland Joseph ". Engel and Louis b.
Mayer; directors. Richard A. Rowland.
Joseph ". Engcl. Louis b. MAYER.
James A. Fitzgerald. l.. Lawrence
Weber, A. s. Bcymer, O. y. Davies.
John d. Clark and James b. Clark.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
HIS RELIGIOUS BELIEF.

A Liverpool curate was teaching his
Sunday school class the Greed. says
"The San Francisco Argonaut." The
boys sat in the same order every Sun
day, and, Of course. only learned that
part OF the Greed which came to them.
One Sunday boy was absent. ard the
boy who was sitting in his place hest
tated for a moment, when it came 70
his turn to say a piece, and then said:
well. believe in the Life Everlast-
ing. I'm as believes what comes aforo
amt ere"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
FORTY YEARS 4 PROFESSOR.

The retirement from active work on
January | of Professor Charles
Chandler, Of the department of Latin
at the University of Chicago, recalls
his long service as an instructor in the
university and elsewhere, says The
San Francisco Argonant." He went TO
Chicago at the founding of the institu-
ton in 1892, and had previously been
instructor and professor in Latin in
DenisOn University for seventeen years
"a consecutive service Of forty years.
masters degrees at the University Of
Michigan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
TIE "DEYIL'S BIBLE."

A remarkable exhibit at the royal
palace iu Stockholm is the so-callcd
Devils Bible" huge copy Of the
Scriptures, written on 800 prepared
asses skins. says The San Francisco
Argonaut.' Tradition says that u took
five hundred years, or from the eighth
90 the thirteenth century. TO complete
tho work. which b, SO large IL occupies
the entire table According TO another
tale, Satan did the job in night and
gave the monkish recipient of the gift
picture of his fiery self for the
frontispiece.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
Philadelphia Boasts Two
Real g. WaShingtOnS


Philadelphia, Feb. 2l.-George Wash
ington will be present at the Washing
ton Birthday celebration held by the
Sons Of the American Revolution to-
morrow afternoon. He has also de-
cided 10 spend the afternoon without
any particular festivity in his home at
Waterbury. y. T.. and true 20 his repu-
tation of never telling one. he Will keep
10th engagements.
one is George Steptoe Washington,
Of this city. and the other IS his
nephew. George Lafayette Washington,
Of Woodbury.. y. j. Both are descend
"a from Nashington's brothers, colo
mel Sam" and Colonel John Washing
ton, and are the nearest surviving rcl-
atives Of the first President George
:. Washingtons father. Richard Black
burn Washington. was born and reared
at Mount Vernon while the estate still
belonged 20 the Washington family.
For tho other half-dozen Philadel-
phia descendants Of the Washington
brothers II viii he a quiet holiday
Mrs. Anne Washington Naulty, her
three sisters, the Misses Margaretta,
Martha and Elizabeth Washington, and
her nne-year-old daughter Anne, are
IN mourning and viii have only the
simplest of obseryances at their home,
PA South Forty-third Street
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22

The Indian Of British Columbia has
shown himself 10 be passionately fond
Of music and apt az learning TO play
modern instruments. says writer IN
"The Vancouver d. c. World Hart
ley Bay has brass band of about
twelve pieces. Concerts are frequent
~ arranged among Themselves, and
just at present "Iipperary" looms
large on their concert programme.
"Tipperary" has so gotten hold OF this
settlement that some of the first Eng
lish words that the children have
learned have been OTIS Long Way 90
Tipperary." One small boy Of barely
four years even became so enamoured
with its charm and confused as 20 it's
place that he thought the song was
good enough for church, and startled
the devout worshippers one Sunday by
lusty rendering Of 1t in the service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-22
METROPOLITAN GSSft,

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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-31
THURSDAY, AUGUST 81, 1916
Hayseed Still Haunts
Our Hair

Hayseed in the hair has been for
years held to indicate rural condl-
tons. Probably it is about the last
thing that could be found on the scalp
of any one. rural or urban, but the
old saw got going somehow and prop
ably would persist even if hay and
tts seed had forever passed from the
earth. 1t is "a useful fallacy, however,
and we should hate to part with II.
Just now we would employ the term
for the few towns that continue the
uses of swinging signs along the bust
ness streets These noisy and un-
slightly contrivances of wood and met
al certainly constitute hay seed In
our municipal hair. They have been
cast out of most communities and
their continuation here gives us an
undesirable quaintness and 18th cent
ury appearance we ought to be just
little ashamed of.
The dependent-Reporter display
ed one of these nuisances over the
Russell street sidewalk. up to a few
years ago. A friendly providence
blew 1t down one night and 1t was
never replaced. We feel sure that
providence had to do with 1t because
It came within foot OF biting Som
erset county's High Sheriff on the
head. Perhaps we had best change
that to a couple of feet for, coming
from above. it could scarcely have
passed by Franks figure to the
ground unless it were "a inches or
no In the clear when it went by his
shoulders.
The town could vote to abolish
these oyerhanging signs at its next
March meeting. II sudden change
of this kind were too great a shock.
we might provide that the ordinance
become effective year from the date
of its passage. -,