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New-York tribune., 1916-07-24

by sea we are not less great tnan were
our ancestors, while by land our mill
tary achievement in two years is rela-
lively and absolutely incomparably
greater than theirs. And that has
saved the day in Europe. But for that
the whole Continent, from Paris TO
Moscow, from Hamburg to Bagdad,
would have been under the Prussian
heel. The enemy's area of supplies
would have been immensely enlarged;
sea power alone would have been less
effective against William II than
against Napoleon.
The first forces we threw on TO the
Continent baifled the German outhank-
ing sweep when the enemy was three
TO one, and even five to one. We had
! share according TO our numbers in
the honors of the Marne. The British
defence Of Ypres when the German ad-
vantage IN guns seemed overwhelming
was as heroic as the French defence
OF Nerdun, and one cannot say more.
Even now we cannot understand why
the Germans failed then TO burst our
thin lines across the road 10 the sea-
Had the Germans known with what
desperate difficulty We held for want of
guns and numbers the enemy would
probably have been at Calais and Bou-
logne long before the first year was
over.
Some military experts of very high
authority indeed think that if the Ger
mans had made their chief effort in the
West in the spring of last year, instead
OF against the Grand Duke, they might
have broken through and finished with
Russia afterward. This year il would
So
for the enemy TO throw his utmost
weight on Russia. But again the enemy
did the contrary and made. as we think,
the greatest strategical blunder of the
war. IL was too late for the Boches in
the West. as 1t is now too late in the
East. too late everywhere. France was
attacked this spring with the intention
OF exhaustlng her reserves, Of bleeding
her white at Verdun. But something
else was happening.
Britan's new armies were made at
last and had become equal new" as
they were-to any troops in the world.
In numbers and equipment they were
becoming every day more redoubtable.
They had reserves certain TO outlast
those of Germany. To insure that re-
markable situation was the bedrock Of
Lord hltchener's policy. When the
Germans attacked Verdun the British
took over more of the French lines-a
very important step, and the beginning
OF a still more important process. We
were entirely at Generals Joffre's dis
posal and were very willing to do
more.
But even in April our preparations
were not, and could not be, adequate.
Our munitions organization had taken
a year to create. Nothing bigger was
ever done in the time-not even by
Germany-snd by spring il was only
beginning 70 give its due results. But
from then things were going forward
by leaps and bounds. Every month
saw far more formidable output than
the month before. Mr.. Lloyd George
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
Jersey CONVICTS
TO FORM LEAGUE
Tell Osborne They Will Organize
for Mutual Welfare.

Trenton. n. j., July 23.-Warden
Thomas Mott Osborne of Sing Sing
prison renewed old acquaintances and
made several new ones when he came
to the New Jersey state prison here
to-day and talked with the men, prin-
cipally about themselves. Some of the
men in prison here knew the warden
as "Tom Brown" in Auburn, and shook
hands with him.
Several persons prominent in prison
reform work were at the prison TO
greet the warden ard hear what he had
TO say to the men. These visitors sat
among the convicts during the talk.
They were Naval Officer and Mrs. H..
Otto Wittpenn, Mrs. Washington A.
Roebling, Chief of Police John j..
Treacy Of Trenton, Commissioner of
Charities and Corrections Richard
Stockton, Judge Edwin +. Marshall and
other state and city officials.
The men promised 70 take up the
organization Of Mutual Welfare
League here and. with the consent Of
Principal Keeper Hughes. named a
committee of their own to organize it..
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
MERCHANTS AID
PEDLER In CELL
Raise Fund to Save Ven
der Who Refuses Meat
at BlackWelrS.

Fifty Orchard Street merchants, IN
dignant at the two years sentence I'M
posed in the Essex Market Police Court
last week on Sam Donmis, a pedler,
met yesterday in the store of Cohen &
Sacks, 81 Orchard Street, and started
a fund for an appeal. Seventy-five dol
lars was raised at the meeting, and
more will be added.
Donmis said he was given the severe
punishment because of some scraps OF
paper thrown on the street A police
man ordered him to pick them up. he
refused, saying storekeeper had
thrown the paper from his shop
Another version is that Donmis, who
is an ardent vegetarian, took it upon
himself to rebuke a young woman he
saw purchasing some meat. Donmis's
vegetarianism is said 10 be so extreme
that he will not wear leather shoes.
The pedler had displeased the po-
lice by lecturing while he was display
ing his supply OF drygoous' ne en-
braced every opportunity to inveign
against eating meat. Frequently the
police had to disperse crowds that gath
cred.
Donmis, whose real name is said 70
be Dianofsky, was well known several
years ago in the Brownsville section OF
Brooklyn, where he was interested IN
nublic markets at Belmont Avenue, Sut-
ter Avenue and Watkins Street.
His fortunes waned shortly after the
beginning of the European war. he
lost his father and mother. Then ne
began peddling on the East Side.
The fare on Blackweifs Island, he
writes his friends, is not to his liking
1t does not take vegetarians INTO ac-
count II he does not soon get away
from there he fears he will die. and ne
will not, he says, eat meat if he starves
70 death.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
BIG SUBMARINE
AWAITS BREMEN
Continued from page I

1t would be considered of much great
er Importance to American German
trade and deeper chagrin to the Brit
ish blockaders could the Bremen make
sudden appearance in New York
Harbor, among British and French
ships.
Captain Koenig, in a talk to Ger
mans last Friday night. said that he
would see them again in few weeks,
and intimated that he expected to make
frequent trips to this port in tho
Deutschland. Neither the captain nor
his officers, nor the members of his
crew, are nearly as confident as they
talk. Members of the crew have told
German friends here that it is a ter
rble risk, a constant peril. and that
the nerve strain is too severe to be
long continued
1t is believed certain by Germans
here that, if the Bremen is lost,
captured or sunk, it will end the un-
dersea German-American traffic, as the
experiment is too costly to be re-
peated.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
KJNCSBURY DEFENDS
HONE BUREAU PLAN
Sending Children to Board wont
Hurt Institutions, lie Says.

John A. Kingsbury, Commissioner OF
Charities, declared last night no nos
tility to institutions and no sectarian.
ism whatever has entered into the
formation Of the new Children's Rome
Bureau Of his department: one OF inc
results of the bureau will be the ra,s-
ing Of the age limit for placing de- de
pendent children in private homes 80
that this may be done with chiidreh up
70 seven years of age. .ha
"To contend that TINS means w
end Of the institutions is whoi.y eiro
neous." said Mr.. Kingsbury. In tne
srst nlace. none Of the children VINO
are already in institutions will be AZ
feeted: in the second place, only chii,
dren between the ages specified VIII
come within the bureaus scope those
over seven years continuing to De
nlaced in institutions
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
TWO AUTOISTS HELD
FOR FATAL ACCIDENTS
Driver, Charged with Homicids'
Fled After Killing Boy.

Two magistrates in New YORK ClV
Yesterday gave an indication OF the
seriousness with which they regsH
charges of reckless driving brousi'
against careless chauffeurs.
In jefferson Market court Magis'rsn
McQuade held John Sisti, Of 50 kH
Street, on a charge of homicide, vssi
evidence was presented to show heM "a
abandoned his car after he had ~
down and killed fve-year-old J'i'
Desapio, OF is macdougal Street.
Magistrate Ten Eyck. in Morrisara
court, held William J. Martin, OF for.
kers, without bail following e colliss,
in which Miss Daisy Mandelbaum, Of
1857 Seventh Avenue, was killed. MAT
tin drove taxicab which plunged ln~
the automobile in which Miss Msnds.
baum was riding. The charge agsh,n
him of operating an automobile "1la
intoxicated will probably be changed |"
one of homicide to-day.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
CAR STRIKE FILLS
PEWS IN YONKERS
Thousands Forced to Fore
90 Beaches COnnecti-
cut Lines Threatened.

Trolley cars in southern Westchestef
County were tied up yesterday by the
strike and there were rumors that the
Connecticut Traction Company, whose
cars run through Port Chester TO Stam-
ford, New Haven and Bridgeport, and
the White Plains, Tarrytown q
Mamaroneck road might be drawn into
il. Employees Of both companies be-
long TO the international Street Rail-
way Mems Union, and it is said they
have been sounded as to their willing
ness to join the strikers.
Thomas +. Curran, Corporation
Counsel of Yonkers, will appear before
the Second District Public Service
Commission in Albany to-day TO ask
for an order directing the Yonkers
Railway to put cars in service. II is
likely that officials from Mount Yer
non and New Rochelle will join in his
demand.
Il was like Old Home Week in Yonk-
ers Yesterday. All day the sidewalks
were thronged with people who ordi-
narily 20 to the beaches near New
York or to Van Cortlandt Park for
their Sunday outings. Churches re-
ported record congregations.
Not an employe of the company was
TO be seen in uniform.
For almost the first time since the
Broadway subway was extended to Van
Cortlandt Park, the Yonkers station
of the Putnam division was crowded.
Map reading citizens discovered that
for cents they could ride to the Van
Cortlandt Park station on the Put
nam, walk three or four hundred yards
to the Van Cortlandt Park subway
station and ride to their hearts con-
tent for another nickel.
Workmen who were seen about the
lines Of the Union Railway Company
of The Bronx running into Yonkers,
Mount Vernon and New Rochelle gave
rise 10 reports that Union Railway
cars were to be switched back at the
city line and no transfers were to be
issued to the cities of Westchester
County.
Nathan A. Warren, president Of the
Chamber Of Commerce in Yonkers, will
make another effort to-day 70 get the
company to agree TO arbitration. lie
has small hopes of success, as yester-
day the company posted notices say
ing that only men who reported for
work before Saturday would be ac-
corded the privileges of old en-
uloves
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
CARDINAL GIBBONS, 81,
IS FOR PREPAREDNESS
Celebrates Birthday by Declar-
ing for Military Training.

Baltimore. July 23.-Cardinal Glib
bons to-day marked his eighty-second
birthday, spent at Union Mills, Carroll
County, by declaring for universal
military training as the best possible
thing for America.
He was in fine spirits and excellent
health. He expressed the opinion that
military training would safeguard the
nation, keep it at peace with the world,
upbuild its manhood and fuse its many
foreign strains into one patriotic
people.
"Order is the first law of Heaven"
he said, "and order comes from author
ity and obedience"
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
MOTOR SMASHES
KILL CYCLISTS
Nine Injured in Days Au.
tomObiIe Accidents
About City.

Two bicyclists were killed yes.erd,,
when their wheels collided with anti.
mobiles and motorcycles. Pasou,l,
Spino, Of 232 East Kinney Street. No.
ark, and Nicholas Martino. Of 23l "a,
Kinney Street, rode their bicycle, n.
an automobile owned by Julius Cerl..
of 1877 Harrison Street, Hoboken. a,
Lincoln Highway, near the Pau.,
River Bridge. Spino died from a fr,-
ured skull. Martino, who was b.,
bruised, was taken 10 a hospital !,
Mr.. Gerleit. The accident occurs
when the bicycle riders turned out 4,
pass a carriage.
A motorcycle overlook John Naac.
xix, of Mineola, while he was ridngts
bicycle on the Jericho Turnpike n.r
his home, finging him over the handle.
bars. The rider Of the motorcycle tjt
not stop. Nattuzik died from a frac.
ured skull.
Mortimer Isen, Of II Washngo,
Place, was struck by an automobi.
owned by Edward Morgan. Of $50 Riy.
erside Drive. near the Long Beach rail.
road station. His back was broke
and he is not expected to live. Nm
Isen was also knocked down. Morgs,
had swerved to avoid hitting another
car when he struck the pair. He va
arrested and furnished pail in $1,000.
Car Goes Over Embankment.
Driving down a steep hill on the cr,.
ton Lake Road, near Mount Kisco. Riet.
ard Rutledge, a real estate operatorg
Mount Kisco, lost control Of his a.
II shot over the edge Of an embat
ment and Rutledge was thrown o..
His skull was fractured and he wA
taken 10 81, Luke's Hospital. New YORK
His son James was with him, but es-
capped with bruises.
John Phibb, thirteen years old, Of
1853 East l07th Street, was struck by
a motorcycle at 125th Street and Third
Avenue. He was taken to Harlem Hos.
pital suffering from bruises. Raymond
Wennik, of 957 Cauldwell Avenue, The
Bronx, rider of the motorcycle, was ar.
rested.
A boy about eighteen years old who
was riding a bicycle on Glenmore Ave.
nue.. Brooklyn, turned out at Crescen.
Street to avoid running down two girls
AS he swerved an automobile driven
by Edward Franklin, Of III Montaus
Avenue, Brooklyn, struck him. His
skull was fractured and he was tases
to Kings County Hospital unidentified.
Michael Jesualo, five years old
pushed a boy who was playing witt
him in front Of his home az 293 Second
Avenue, Brooklyn, out of the path o..
en- automobile, but was himself rus
over. His foot was crushed and be
was taken TO Bushwick Hospital. II.
automobile belonged 70 Fredera
Gagel, of Bayonne. y. J.
Hit by Shinney Stick.
A boy playing shinney at Easter
Parkway and Pacific Street, Brooklyr,
flung his stick away as ne ran TO ayoid
an automobile. The stick hit MIS-
Eleanor Walkol, of S32 Eastern Psrk
way, a passenger in the car, cutting her
head. Al
A neighbor who had invited Nm.
Anna Poliske, Of Dorothy, y. j., fo'
a ride in his car, let go of the steer.
ing wheel to light his pipe. an
Poliske was pinned beneath the ups';
automobile and seriously injured:
Charles Pirls of Union Hill, Nd
whose automobile capsized a monthv,
injuring two chorus girls. was nna
$50 for speeding in Hsckensack yes's''
day.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
POLICE FIND NO CLEW
IN FRISCO BOMB CASE
Search in Vain for Man Who
Killed Six at Parade.

San Francisco, July pa day spent
in watching anarchist headquarters
and investigating rumors had brought
to the police tonight no tangible trace
Of the culprit who vented his feeling
against national defence yesterday by
timing a suitcase bomb and leaving it
on a crowded downtown corner to ex
plode and kill six persons and wound
more than two score spectators and
participants in San Francisco's pre-
paredness parade.
The death list remained at six to-day,
although Thomas II. Turnbull. of this
city, who suffered fractured skull, has
little chance for recovery.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
Police Chief Turns Editor.

Major Charles G. Kizer. Superin-
tendent Of Police at Norfolk, Va. has
been appointed associate editor of
"The Policeman's Monthly" published
at 81 East Twenty-eighth Street, Man
haitian, it was announced yesterday by
the magazines board of directors
Major Kizer has been at the head of
the Norfolk police for ten years, and
is secretary of the international As
sociation Of Chiefs of Police.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
PRUDENTIAL AGENTS
READY TO WALK OUT
Will Strike To-Day If Union
Mates Are Discharged.

Prudential agents are ready TO strike
to-day if the insurance company car
ries out its threat to dismiss men iden-
tilted with the new protective organi-
zation.
Charles Garfnkle, secretary OF the
agents union, went to Philadelphia yes
terday to obtain the cooperation OF the
agents there. II is estimated by tne
men that 1000 will be affected. Ofhciais
of the Prudential company believe that
the union membership is nearer 600.
They said a strike would involve
negligible proportion Of the company 5
agents.
Henry Lumpkin, president Of the
union, has established headquarters at
55S West l58th Street.
The Prudential has about 1900
agents in the United States and Canada.
OF the 5000 expected by the union TO
walk out 1900 represent the company
in New York City, Newark and neigh
boring towns.
could count on general cooperation
throughout the country. They received
kilograms yesterday from Chicago,
Hartford, Providence and other cities
pledging support.
fBy Telegraph to The Trbune1
Philadelphia, July 23.-More than
fifty delegates, representing the Pru-
Dental agents from various sections OF
the East, have been in convention here
for two days. To-day meeting was
held in the Windsor Hotel. Those who
attended declared that they have al
ready been told of their dismissal,
which will take place within week.
The delegates elected officers and an
executive committee to conduct the al
fairs during the coming contest with
the company.
The officers elected tonight were:
President, Harry Lumpkin, of New
York; first vice-president, Andrew In
res, Philadelphia; second yice-presi-
dent, Harry NJ. Shapiro, Brooklyn;
treasurer, Harry Spinnehor, Philadel-
phia.
All delegates here are prepared to
Join in a walk-out if necessary.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
12-F00T FALL KILLS BOY
Two Other Children Plunge Five
Stories, but Will Live.

Salvatore Balando, twelve years old,
fell twelve feet from a second story
window yesterday afternoon. and was
instantly killed, while three hours
later, two children plunged fifty feet
from the roof of five story tene-
ment house, and neither was seriously
injured. Salvatore, who lives at 253
East 10th Street, was visiting his
aunt, who lives on the second floor Of
62 Division Street.
Elna Gelve. seven years old, and
Samuel Tannenbaum, twelve. were the
two who fell from the roof of the
tenement house at 40 st. Marks Place.
Both of Elna's legs were broken and
Samuel suffered concussion of the
brain. At Bellevue Hospital it was
said both would recover.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
BOY SHOT WITH BEARING
Lad Who Fired Cartridge Substltu's
in Game Arrested.

Samuel Gerken, thirteen years ols'
playing Indian yesterday in his fathers
candy shop, at 1877 Osborne s,res.
Brooklyn, made the discovery that I,'
bearings from his roller skates exse.g
fitted the blank cartridges OF ."
Fourth of July pistol. -
Shortly afterward Morris Musnnn'
chief of the Indians, got one OF ~
bearings through his jaw. He w
treated by physician and went TO ~
home at 904 Liberty Avenue. Samse
was arrested.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
Umpire Hit by Bottle.

Toledo, Ohio, July 23.-Umpire
George johnson, officiating as plate
umpire in the first game with 81. Paul
here to-day, was hit by bottle thrown
from the stands and rendered uncon-
scious. The bottle struck him on the
back of the head and Johnson was car
ried off the field.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24

A trim little power boat with big
round faced man at the wheel nosed out
into Arthur Kill early yesterday ana
headed for a clump Of trees near tho
north shore of Staten Island. The pilot
and his younger companion watched n
small green flag tapping on jackstah
half hidden by the trees. Soon it stif-
fened out, and dark craft rounded
Lakes Island straight for the invader.
The big man chuckled and gave the
wheel a slight tug to port.
Here they come. Tom," he said
Captain Turkeys given them a signal.
Look! The gucrillas are piling out Of
their tents half dressed. Now we'll
head right into shore as though we
meant to land. Then watch that po-
lice boat ground"
Anti-Garbage Navy Wins.
A few minutes later she did. The
Sunday morning trip of the anti-gar-
bage navy had succeeded. Admiral
Edward p. Doyle swung his boat down.
stream. Now the chuckle became n
derisive laugh. The police-boat sail
ors were overheard showing hard to
float their craft. When they had, the
power boat was safely moored at Port
Richmond.
This same Mr.. Doyle. president of
the American Title and Surety Com
pany, is the man whom Staten ISL
/, anders must thank if they succeed in
preventing the city from erecting its
garbage disposal plant in Richmond.
He has done everything to drive out
the contractors-from kidnapping their
watchman with derrick TO planting
oysters in ring about Lake Island,
forcing the state to protect his bivalves
if the garbage men try to erect piers
for their scows.
Admiral Doyle Hopeful.
"They have fixed up an old house on
the island as a saloon" Mr.. Doyle re-
marked. We'll get that in a little
while. There are all kinds of schemes
ahead. Some day we may 90 over there
and drag out their tents or fix up gas
bomb and drop it from an aeroplane.
or we might get somebody to steal over
some night and jab them with bu-
bonic plague injector or send over
some carrier mosquitoes. We found a
man with smallpox down here little
while ago and almost succeeded in per-
suading him TO 90 over"
Doyle has sat up nights figuring out
ways to beat his foes. One of his big
moves will be argued before Justice
Benedict in Brooklyn to-day. Mr.
Doyle started suit TO eject the con-
tractors on the ground that they had
taken possession by force, but the con-
tractors obtained temporary injunc-
ton, which will be argued this morning.
"We1l beat them at that" Mr.. Doyle
said confidently, "and we'll win the
suit, too. But this whole proposition
is Just like Gulliver and the Lillipu
tians. We have the whole city admin
istration and the local police against
us. They are Gulliver. All we can do
is to try to win by pinpricks and tieing
them up by legal threads. We would
win hands down if the city administra-
tion was not against US"
Doyle Charges Conspiracy.
The plant would be we'll advanced in
construction but for the resistance Of
Mr.. Doyle Instead, it requires the con-
slant attention of thirty strong-arm
guards, thirty policemen, working in
eight-hour shifts, police boat always
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
Admiral Doyle, Hopeful, Makes
Willy Sunday Garbage Strike
Forces Police to Ground Launch. Then fees-oure Nch
mond Will Danish Disposal Pant-Court
Fight to Continue To-day.

on guard and nearly 100 workmen T.
keep possession Of Lake Island without
even trying TO build on it.
Mr.. Doyle charged yesterday that
Staten Islands plight. fighting desper-
ately to be rid OF what it fears may be-
come pest, was the result of con-
spiracy on the part Of the city admin
istration, the hackers Of Gafney, Gaha--
gen e. Van Etten, the contractors. and
real estate interests about Jamaica Bay
and Neponsit, all working together.
Some persons behind the alleged con-
spiracy, he said, were waiting chance
to make a cleanup on Jamaica Bay real
estate when the garbage plant is re-
moved from Barren Island and lodged
near Richmond.
There are some things that make me
think the proposition to build here may
be fishy. Their plans are full Of flaws
and their maps show that their surveys
and borings were taken on the Islam 4
of Meadows. They claim Simnodson
Island is the same as Lakes Island, but
we have affidavits to prove that the two
have always been known by their own
names.
Pavilion" Attempt Fails.
"a few days ago found out that Mil
ton s. Quinby was up at Albany trying
to get a site under water. He said h.
wanted the site for munitions plant
went up to Albany. What do you sup
pose I found? The munitions plant WIS
nothing else but a garbage plant FOR
Gaffney. Blu: | guess we've got that
stopped"
Admiral Doyle, as Staten Islanders
now refer to this jovial minute man,
who does not cease his vigilance even
on Sundays, eagerly showed a Tribune
reporter the Lake Island site yesterday
He took title to it on May 16. The con-
tractors seized possession four nights
later. Mr. DOYLE tried to beach barge
on the island on May 27, to open
"Doyle's Bathing Pavilion" and recapt-
ure the place, but the ever-present po-
lice boat towed the barge away and
knocked down the bathing sign. The
barge is still there, about a hundred
feet from the tented island.
ave have bought up all the property
on the land side of the island" said
Mr.. Doyle, $50 they can't come ashore
Ny watchman told me this morning
that the men mutinied last night.
guess it was settled, because they were
there as usual this morning"
Half dozen tents dotted Lake Island
yesterday, from the clump of trees near
Staten Island to the water edge of the
meadow land on Freshkills, but the
only work toward erecting a disposal
plant that seems to have been done is
some levelling near the shore.