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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-26
MARJORIE'S BATTLESHlP

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Dear Sir: read in your paper
every morning lot about prepared
ness. My grandpa and grest-grandpa
were soldiers. If ] vas boy l
would be soldier, too. But | arm
not. 80 ] want TO dc what ] can TO
help Mama gives me dime every
week for helping her. am send
ing YOU this weeks dime 10 help
build a bsttleship for Uncle sam.
! know lot of other kids who
would give their errand money III
you would start a fund. ] am thir-
teen years old and go TO Public
School Q. brooklyn. Yours truly,
MARJORIE STERRETT.
am true blue American, and ]
want TO see Uncle Sam prepared TO
lick all creation like John Paul
Jones did.
=. S.-Please call the baitleship
America.
Since thi. letter vas printed dimes and
dollar. have flowed into The Tribune
office increasingly. Other papers across
the country have reprinted the letter
and the dollars have slowed in upon
them.
Marjorie has asked The Tribune to
take care Of her fund until IL rfows big
enough 10 build a battleship or at least
some Kind of ship worthy OF the
traditions Of John Paul Jones. The
Tribune cannot undertake 10 enter into
correspondence about the fund. but IL
-iII print a daily list Of contributors.
and eyery one Who sends a dime or n
dollar or million dollars to The
Tribune for the fund will receive
button bearing the legend ~. :. :.
America" That will be your receipt for
a patriotic deed.
Total TO date te..................b .b,Sli.Oe
Number Of contributors 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-26
Urges Coleman's Removal.

The singular inability Of George ,
Coleman. chief counsel to the Puolic
co,,,ica Commission. to remember con-
versations and consultations he had
with some OF the counsel engaged IN
those two cases so angered Senator
Thompson that he recommended Cole
mans removal from his slO.OUO berth
70 Oscar Straus, chairman Of the com
mission.
louis Marshall. who argued the Ad-
miral Realty Company's case IN the
Court of Appeals. occupied the ent're
morning session describing his connee-
ton with the case.
As in interviews the day before, Mr'
Marshall testified that he presented
the case with all the skill and ability
At his command. lie declared he did
not know when he was retained by
Havs. Hershfeld e. Wolf, that his real
client was the Interborough.
Mr.. Marshall was one of the lawyers
connected with the case who was NOT
involved by the testimony. in the opin-
ion Of the committee and its counsel.
During yesterdays inquiry into th'
morris Of the Admiral Ryon suits
lanes L. Qusckenbush, counsel OF the
Interborough. defended the INTERIOR
ouch's action in the matter. lie sai'
that Il would have been TO his com
pany's interest for the contracts to DC
declared unconstitutional. This deei
sion of the court, he explained, would
have driven the Brooklyn Rapid iran
sit Company from the field and lett inc
entire subway situation in the hand'
of the Interborough.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-26
Says $4,000 Gillespie
Check Was for Le-
gal Services Only.
P.S.C. COUNSEL'S
REMOVAL URGED
Thompson Advises 1t, An
gered by Coleman's Per
sistent Forgetfulness.

Nobody has spoken to me about this
committee but wayfareHs on the high
way" said Lemuel Ely Quigg, as he
rose from the witness stand at the
Thompson committee hearing yesterday
afternoon.
The "accelerator"-s he described
himself during the Interborough-Met-
ropolitan investigation Of i907-then
smiled and bowed low to Senator
Thompson. and paid the same courtesy
to Frank Moss, the committees coun-
sci.
Mr. Quigg denied that the $1,000
check from 7. A. Gillespie, whose firm
has the contract for third-tracking the
81" lines, was for anything but legal
services.
Throughout his examination Mr.
Quigg and HIS inseparable smile and
brown derby held the fixed attention OF
the entire room. Even when he gave
way TO a slight show of temper under
the examination Of Senator Thompson,
whom he called Conscious black
guard" in letter Wednesday night,
tn. smile did not leave his ruddy, boy
ish face, whose boyishness was height
ened by his snow-whte hair.
When the committee adjourned Tor
the day Senator Thompson, after con-
sultation with Mr.. Moss, said that the
committee would send transcript OF
the testimony regarding the friendly
suits Of the Admiral Realty Company
and John Ryon to test the validity OF
the dual subway contracts 10 the griev-
snce committees Of the State Bar As
sociation and the New York County
Bar Association, with recommends
ton that the conduct Of some OF the
lawyers who participated in these SUITS
De investigated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-26
adventure" Favors Fund.

Another magazine TO favor the plan
Of a battleship built by popular sub
scription is adventure in whose col
umns the idea Of the American Legion
first appeared. Its managing editor
Arthur Sullivant Hoffman. whose views
Continued on page d, column
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-26
WEATHER

Rain and snow to- day. Overcast
tomorrow. Northwest gales.
FuH Report os Page l..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-26
GUARANTEE

Your Money Back
II You Want IL.
So, Edito-idl Poee, Colwmn 1.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-26

Continued on page ?, column )
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14
ONES OWN HOME IS BEST
Preference for Rented Quarters Marks
Something Of Doing Away With
Personal Initiative.

When men come to be renters In
habit, that Is, when they grow willing
to depend on some other hand to pro-
vide and maintain their homes for
them, society loses much of that indi-
vidual Independence; that personal In
ltlative, that self-rellance which differ
entiates great people from a mere
human mass, remarks the Columbus
(Ohio) Dispatch.
For two hundred years America has
led the world In individual initiative.
The fathers pulled out of the European
huddle for the sake of standing alone,
md when they reached America they
had to stand alone.
However we may excuse ourselves
for inclination toward the easy COM
fort of the rented quarters II must still
be admitted that our inclination Is a
symptom of phase of social degen-
eracy, drift toward the huddle, the
beginning of an Abandonment of that
vltalizlng independence of which the
owned, detached home Is pre-eminently
the symbol and support.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14
Obedient Youngster.

One cold winters day little boy
was sent to the store by his mother,
one of her last instructions to him be-
ing not to forget to put on his mittens.
He ran off to the store and had waited
while, the storekeeper being busy
with other customers, when all of a
sudden he started for the door. The
storekeeper called to him. asking him
why he was leaving. The youngster,
just going out the door, called back,
II must hurry home, cause l forgot
my mittens."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14
HOME CIRCLE COLUMN.
WOMAN AND THE HOME.


Even at wage of $40 per week with
board and room furnished, u family Of
two persons and three.year-old child
is unable to secure the domestic service
made necessary by circumstances.
Neither in the city nor In the smaller
town where the. family resides can the
needed assistance be procured. There
fore that much abused parsonage, the
mother-in-lGw, must step into the po-
sition and make good" 1t is in such
circumstances that the mother, in-law
becomes the domestic angel, the lever
present help IN time OF trouble" Per
haps the seif.sacriice and kindliness
of her may Offset in some measure
the miserable misunderstanding pro
pensites of others.
With every occupation open to wom-
en-, girls will do anything-almost-
rather than enter al kitchen. They
will hardly enter their own. The
passing of the family, the break up of
the home, which w. L. George ard
certain prominent feminists predict
and herald as an integral part Of the
full emancipation of woman" seems
to be indicated by this aversion to
housekeeping. Those who would serve
are pathetically incompetent those
who will not serve prefer to eat out OF
paper bags and at cafeterias, and call
hall bedroom home.
The question is, what will be the late
Mrs. Thomas Palmer's 100000, in
vested in the proposed Merrill Palmer
Home" for. the teaching of domestic
arts and the love of wifehood and moth
erhood, do to relieve the present situa.
ton? Our ideas of education have been
SO long associated with books and labo-
ratories that to divorce them and adopt
simpler and more practical plan,
which will provide for girls the tech
meal training for what is promised tc
be their life work which is now
thought necessary for boys, is in the
nature of a peculiar experiment, the
working out of which will be watched
with much interest by the public and
the philantropists.
That the bequest realizes and is
meant to meet the great need is evi.
dent. Thousands of babies die every
year because of their mothers incom-
petence; hundreds of thousands OF dol.
lars are wasted through inetficiency in
pre- pairing food; thousands of divorces
are due 70 ill-kept, slatternly homes,
all ia consequence of the ignorance
and incompetence Of wives and moth
ers. But will the women who pique
themselves on having outgrown the
old confines of womap's activities bring
up daughters who will appreciate this
species of opportunity Will those who
most need the proposed instruction
avail themselves of iJf Will the in
stitution be made so simple and prac-
teal that those who enter can 90 from
it's modern conveniences and perfection
of equipment into the plain home Of
the average citizens and adapt their
knowledge TO its needs without
grumbing?
The idea of the Palmer bequest is
fine and noble. On the fashion in
which it is crystallized into actually
will depend its usefulness and the
value of its millions.-Detroit Free
Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

This is the best land in the world
and man Is utterly inexcusable for
being ill-tempered here. Look at
Growl, Spitfre & Brothers, wasp
ish, cross grained, naggy fellows,
whom children avoid, customers fee
from and everybody dislikes. They
frown and snap and snarl through the
world until the last drop OF milk OF
human kindness is frozen at the bot
tom OF their hard hearts and the last
spark OF human interest Is quenched
in tho ashes of Their selfshness. But
here are Merryman & Warmgrasp,
poor boys when they came from the
country, carrying all they had in one
small roll, with mothers gingerbread
in their luncheon and mothers bless.
ings in their ears, "Be good boys and
mind the boss" They were soon fav-
orites in the store, accommodating
and cheerful everywhere, and when
they set up !yr themselves, every.
body locked to the place where even
the shelves and counters seemed run
ming over with good cheer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

Lie Is filed to the brim with little
disappolntments and irritating tritles,
but II we learn to keep our patience
under them they cease to irritate and
become impatient every time we are
crossed In any way we soon find more
and more things to become irritated
about.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

eighty acres of land and become indie
pendent. In our day the farmers son
runs from his fathers farm into the
city to become policeman, fireman or
some other official, and in the end die
in the poorhouse. ear
might follow with other sights [
have seen, but will stop here for the
present.--Jermiah Quin in Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

John Randi has returned to Pitts
burg, Pa, after visit ct his home in
this city.
Frank Swoboda and John Porten
left Monday for Chicago for visit
with friends.
Mrs. Geo. Barstow is at Onekama,
Mich, her former home, for a few
weeks visit.
VIM. Rathsack has returned from a
visit with relatives at Chicago and
Aurora, III.
Thomas Gretz, departed Monday for
Marion, wis, for few weeks visit
with his son.
Ell. Kelle returned Saturday from
Kewaunee, where he had a case in
circuit court.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wits departed
Saturday morning on trip to Chica-
60 and Pittsburg.
William Stericker, student at
Madison was called here by the serious
illness of his father.
Charles Hauchthausen. who resides
in Minnesota, is here to spend the
holidays with his sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. j. Barta have ar
rived home after q months visit with
relatives at Lodi, Wis.
Mrs. 6. H. Dickson and daughter
Doris have returned from visit at
Chicago and Milwaukee.
Misses Irene Doyle and Anna krue-
ger OF Sheboygan, spent Saturday and
Sunday with friends in this city.
Miss Marion Brown has returned to
her home, after spending several
months at Miller, South Dakota.
Mrs. William Wiese returned Satur.
day from Chicago, where she was
called by the illness OF her father.
Mrs. Max Staehle and her sister,
Mrs. John Kucera left Monday for a
few weeks visit at Chicago and Mil
| waukee.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Davis, Wollmer
street, left Monday for New York,
being called there by the death of Mr.,
Davis sister.
A college professor declares wom-
an cannot be a friend. Nobody can be
everything, and what an enemy a
women can be.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Werra OF
Waukesha, former residents of this
city, were visiting with friends here
the fore part of the week.
Mrs. George Bass left saturday for
Washington D. c., where she attended
the cabinet dinner on Tuesday night
given by President and Mrs. Wilson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Stole OF
Tacoma, Wash, are visiting with Mr..
Stoze's father Henry Stole, Sr. They
are on the way home from trip
through the south. Their daughter
Florence has been visiting here for
some time.
Mr.. w. G. Wehrwen and his sister,
! Mrs. II. Wernecke, have returned to
| Chicago after few days visit with
their mother in this city. While in
the city Mr.. Wehrwein made call
at the Pilot odice.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Il. L. Markham and
daughters were at Sheboygan Friday
evening to attend the performance
which was staged in that city by Miss
Charlotte Markham, for the Mead
CLUB. Miss Markham staged an ORR
ginal play, "The Man Who Married
The Moon" which she recently gave
at Milwaukee for the Art Club.
Mrs. Chas. Kittleson, who has been
here on an extended visit with her
father, Henry Stole, Jr., left Monday
for Montana where her husband Is en-
gagged as railway engineer asslstin
in driving a tunnel through mour-
tain.
Postal cards with tinsel or ground
glass etc. on them are unavailable un'
less enclosed in sealed envelope ard
require cents in stamps. PENNANl
cards require cents III stamps when
there is message of some kind writ
ten on them, and only cent without q
message.
Fl. c. SCHUErTE p. NJ.
Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts,
has bought the Charles Evans Hughes
residence in Washington. The moral
is that sticking to the supreme bench
is very good rule.
A man without arms, and with but
one leg, is arrested and charged with
vagrancy. A man who has both legs
and arms and can "move on" runs
slight risk of such charge.
The grip season approaches ard
drug store remedies are selling at war
prices. Only the pessimist who never
did bel eve that any treatment would
be beneficial will not participate n the
high cost of having grip.
"STYLE" AND COST OF LIVING.
Here are some of the things l have
seen in this somewhat heightened life
of mine. In the earlier days the
American cry was, let government
keep it's hands off, the le sst governed
are the best governed. In our later
day the cry is, the government must
do everything for Us.
In the early days, if the average me-
chanic or other working American
could get dressed hog in the barrel
and some potatoes and cabbage in the
cellar, his provision for the winter was
secure. At the present day the Amer
lean working man lives in Hat AMI
steps with his wife into the restaurant
next door to get his menu, No pork
barrel no potatoes, no cabbage in the
cellar; in fact, there is no cellar at all
In the early days, when the Ameri.
can girl-and strong, healthy Cir
she was, toc-came in from the country
to see the cattle show, her young man
stepped into the bake shop anc bought
two squares of "rusk," which he and
his girl ate as they walked along. In
this later day when young man offers
his girl treat he must take her into q
restaurant and run the gastric gamut
from oysters on the half shell to the
bubbling wine glass or the more insid-
ious cocktail.
In the early days the average Amer.
lean girl washed her fathers shirt In
our later day she disdains it, and SC
the shirt goes to be consumed in the
laundry.
In the early days it was the dream
o the average working man to get on
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14
LOCAL AND Personal


Rev. ]. t. o'Leary visited at Sheboy.
gan Friday.
Mrs. Frank Guse, Jr. took trip to
Bheboygan Friday.
Hugo Richter left Friday on bust
hess trip to Chicago
Bruno Dalwig was at Milwaukee
tuesday on business.
Mrs. G. II. Dickson left Friday for
Chcago on business.
James Cody spent Sunday with
riends at Sheboygan.
Mrs. Edward Spindler is at Milwau-
ee on visit to friends.
F. X. Belcher has returned from a
business trip to Chicago.
Miss Louise Best spent week at
bheboygan with friends.
Chief Of Police. 6 roffman was at Mil
yankee, Friday on business.
Mrs. Max Woellert left Friday for a
ew days visit at Sheboygan.
Mr.. John krizek of Kossuth made a
ball at the Pilot OBI 70 Monday.
Mr.. Anton Krall of Married. made
The Pilot office call Monday.
Jos. Ratbsack has returned from a
shing trip to Little Suamico.
Mr.. Ferd Zutz OF Rockland was q
taller at the Pilot Office Friday.
Mrs. A. c. Schreiter of Appleton is
listing with friends in this city.
Miss Mary Jens has returned from a
kisit with friends at Milwaukee,.
J.P. Jensen has return Ell from Chi
Eapo, where he transacted business.
Miss Eliza Manley, Of Winona, Mimi,
visiting with relatives in this city.
Mr.. Mat Keehan OF Kellnersville was
b caller at the Pilot Office Saturday.
Mrs. Lou Wagner left Monday for
Nukwonago to visit with her parents.
Mrs. William Pauly left Monday for
Milwaukee, and Watertown for visit.
Mrs. B. c. Worden OF Elgin, Ill, is
listing at the home Of F. McFarlane
Miss Margaret OConnell Of Kaukau-
la is a guest at the Christensen home.
Miss Elizabeth Robinson is visiting
With relatives at Milwaukee and Keno.
Bha.
Mr.. George Gilhertsen of Liberty
was a caller at the Pilot office Tues
bay.
Mrs. VIM. Schultz has returned to
bheboygan after visit with friends
here.
A daughter was born Tuesday to Mr..
md Mrs. Reuben KEENAN,, South 10th
street.
Osul Bredeson is here from Muske-
ron for a weeks visit at the Torrison
home.
Mrs. Richard Klingholz is at Mil
yaukee for visit with relatives and
rends.
Mrs. John Kucera of Wausau is a
quest at the home of DR.. and Mrs.
btaehle.
Henry Meisner has returned from
Milwaukee, where he had been on
business.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

If there is anything we desire above
all other things, it is to be broad
minded and liberal. We have 20 use
for prejudices and narrowness, be IL
in one party or another. This is a
good world to live in, but it can be
made great deal better. We believe
that human nature is naturally good
and that sooner or later it will throw
off the selfshness that Is the cause OF
the misery of the down trodden. We
believe in the religion Of humanity,
in the brotherhood OF the race. M
man owns muzzle for US. No man
stays very long in this world; he should
try and make it better for having lived
in it. In the long run it will yield
more happiness than any other course.
There is no better friend can attend q
man at his death than the conscious
ness that he has tried to 90 right. These
may be old fashioned ideas, but they
are good enough for us.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14
Tabloid Philosophy.

1t may be better to have no inl.
tiative than to be always starting
something you can't fnish.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

For wonder, it is now the fashion
for woman to be as healthy rs she
can. Fresh air Is admitted to be a
good thing for the complexion. No
one disputes that a girl who is an in
valid can walk five miles day with
out dying Of fatigue, and an hours
canter on a good horse is recommended
as a more helpful pastime than lying
abed or reading French novels. The
new style for women has not arrived a
bit too soon.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

Men ought TO be mighty good TO
women, for nature gave them the big
end OF the log to lift and mighty little
strength to do 1t with.--Lincoln.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

Joe Arnold Of Weatherford, Tex,
raised n watermelon that weighed LOG
pounds.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14
Therefore Cultivate Wisdom.

If wisdom be not our guide In the
journey of life, 1t Is more than prob
able that self-conceit will take Its
place.-Dillwyn.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

Waste neither time, money, talent
or opportunity.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

Read the Manitowoc Pilot.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-12-14

Optimistic Thought.
Joys shared with others are more
enjoyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-12
WIT tRRf fE1H'iNE

Commander Brockway of Gen. M
Emmett Urell Camp. No g. has an
pointed the following stanJing COM
mittees for 1876: Sick and relief com
mittee-Southeast. F. A. Dollar and
Ralph Provost: northwest. H. b. Barry
and John Murphy: southwest. Patrick
Meagher and r, J. Tobin; northeast.
J. c. Mcconnell and W. r Ponton: Fort
Myer. S. M. Bovee. Recruiting COM
mittee-Past Commander r. E. wal
lace. Senior Vice Comma hder H. F. PAT
terson and Officer of the Day Capt w
T. H. King.
The following recruits were recently
mustered into the camp: George Van
Buskirk, sergeant. 43d L. s Volunteer In
fantry; o. A. Price. second lieutenant.
LIST West Virginia Volunteer Infantry;
Walter J. Lynch. sergeant. 9TH L. S
Cavalry; E. J. Barajow, private. Hos
pital Corps; II. F. de Jarnette. private.
4th Virginia Volunteer Infantry: Guy
G. Wisotzki, private, 4th Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry: Michael j. Collins.
sergeant. I'd L. S. Cavalry: Chris Teel-
ing. private, Hospital Corps: Herbert
T. Sherman. private. 203d New York
Volunteer Infantry, and John W Pat
terson. private, Hospital Corps.