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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13
HIPPODROME, IL,
HAS GALA MARCH
Entire Force Parades to Cele-
brate Birthday of Big Playhouse.

The great Hippodrome Pee-rade,
containing every last one Of the 1874
people on the payroll of the monster
playhouse. Bill Powers's five elephants,
horses. automobiles, floats, and led By
Sousa's band. with John Philip him
self directing, proudly marched around
town yesterday noon.
At IL o'clock the procession got
under way to the tune of THE Stars
and Stripes Forever II swung
through Forty-second Street, down
Eighth Avenue 20 Thirty-fourth Street.
Thence the route led 20 Madison Ave
nue., TO Forty-fourth Street and home.
At the New Amsterdam Theatre the
line passed in review of c. B. Dilling-
ham, manager of the Hippodromc, and
Mrs. Dillingham;. A. l.. Erlanger, Hip
podromc officials and Theodore Rous-
seau, who represented the Mayor.
Persons who crowded the curb at
the sound Of Mr. Sousa's mighty band
could not guess from his jaunty gait
down the avenue that this was the
fifth parade In all his life that Mr..
Sousa had participated in. Once at
the Chicago Fair, once in Cleveland,
once 10 welcome home Admiral Dewey,
once at the Lambs Gambol. and yes
terday- those are the only times he
ever marched. That's how big an
occasion it was yesterday.
After the band came Manager Harry
Askin and the house executive staff,
clad in natty busters OF linen. Specially
wakened for the occasion, Charles
Moore, the All-Night Ticket Man, fol-
lowed rather slcepily. Then came
James W Mathews, house manager,
and a squadron of Hippodrome ushers,
respondent in their spring suits. Mark
A. Leuscher. careful custodian of
passes. rode on horseback.
Several hundred stage carpenters
electricians. engineers and other
mathematical geniuses took up two
blocks of the march. They were led by
one Robert billiard. who turned out to
be the chief engineer. and not Robert,
the pride Of this race.
Chin Chin, the youngest elephant in
captivity, was CARRIED in new Easter
jacket OF white silk. purchased on q
recent shopping expedition. The othe-
four elephants parsded in melancholy
file. Having recently walked down
Fifth Avenue, this affair meant moth
ing to them. Bill Powers displayed a
new suit so covered with gold lacing
that you couldn't tell whether il was
red or blue.
The principals in the cast rode in
automobiles. Then came hundreds OF
chorus girls. Toto and Marcelline.
clowns Of to-day and yesterday. left Oft
their grease paint for the day, and oc-
cupied the tonneau of touring car.
Moneys and Potter's horses, girls
from the skating ballet, 100 gentlemen
Of the chorus and Dr. Oscar Lesser, the
Lambs pet physician, also tramped. r.
II. Burnside grand marshal, the man
who staged the gigantic pageant and
put on most of the Hippodrome scenes,
a. IN hnrSchacl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13
$500, 900, 900, PLEASE!"
BUT WALL ST. CRINS
John D." Finds Cupboard Bare
of pin Money"

Wall Street presented an extrsordi.
narily poverty stricken aspec. yester'
day TO prosperous looking man who
made the rounds Of the financial dis
trict in quest OF little matter Of $780,.
900 900.
T'd like 100000 900 in gold. please
he said, entering the United States Sub
Treasury, a. Wsll and Nassau, where
the search began. To back up his re-
quest ne calmly produced checkbook
and fountain pen.
Hugh Byron. cashier. 20 whom the
request was made. boasts OF knowl-
edge OF the faces OF all the New York
men who might be expected TO make
such a request. But this man was not
one Of them. So he told the stranger
that nc was sorry, but the Sub-Treas-
ury was jus. little short Of that sum.
lie suggested one Of the banks in the
Street.
"Oh. very we'll" replied the substan-
tial appearing one Its a little an
moving, "a need some pin money.
am John d. Rockefeller, Of &c Broad
way"
Then he stepped into the National
City Bank and voiced like request. A
bulky special officer took him aside and
whispered into his ear.
THE whole Street Is shy Of cash TO-
day" he said. you'll hardly find car
fare around here. Why not try il a
little later
The stranger, somewhat annoyed, de-
parted Should he return to-day, how
ever, he will find a comfortably padded
cell in the observation ward at Belle
vue Hospital has been reserved for his
special use.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13
PERFUMED NOTE
UPSETS DANSEUSE
Temperament, Plus Pow
der, Nearly Disrupts Bal
let Russo Matinee.

An explosive letter from an equally
explosive admirer of Mile. Flora Rs-
velles, who is the chief mime OF the
Ballet Russo. came near 20 upsett.rg
the matinee performance Of the ballet
Yesterday afternoon. When Nile. Pa
velles arrived at the Metropolitan
Opera House she was handed a letter,
addressed 10 her in pencil. She took
the letter with her 10 her dressing
room, where she opened il hastily, and
the next moment found ncr eyes and
mouth filed with a peculiarly suifocrt-
&c white powder. The letter had con
tsIr.i this powder, and rs sudden
opealng had thrown it into ker face.
Now. Mile. Ravelles is tho Cleopatra.
and the Queen Of nc Scheherazade
harem, and the Thsmar Of the ballet,
hence she is tempersmental. At once
visions OF poison and vitriol flashed
across her mind and, letting out one
piercing scream. she collapsed in 4
faint. Attaches of the theatre rushed
in and wiped the powder from her
eyes. II seemed TO them like q scented
talcum or sschet but Nile RavellCs,
being tempcrsmental, vas sure 1t was
poison.
This vas why Mr. John Brown. bust
ness controller OF the Metropolitan.
stepped before the curtain fifteen min
utes later, and explained that owing 10
shock Mile. Ravelles had just re-
ceived, "Scheherazsde," in which she
was TO appear. would come not first, but
third on the programme. During the
interval Mile. Ravelles got her nerves
once more together, and when she did
appear was quite as effective as ever.
The letter which contained the pow
der was evidently the production OF an
insane man. II WAS signed prince
Adolph A. de Won Zeil," and Il va,
largely i1coherent. 1t was written on
the stationery OF the Peninsulsr House,
Sesbright. y. j.
As FOR the powder. Prince Adolph A.
de Won Zeil, evidently wishing 10 be
gallant. had perfumed his epistle. Thus
vas solved the mystery of the explosive
envelope.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13
Work Play Study Scheme
Now to Take In 100000
Students.
ESTIMATE BOARDS
APPROVAL REQUIRED
Plan Cuts Part-Time Pupils to
50,000-$3,847,6 sos Corporate
Stock Issue Asked.

The Board OF Education voted unani-
mously yesterday to extend the Gary
system Of school management TO IoO,-
600 pupils. This means, IL the action
Is upheld, that the number of children
in New York City under the duplicate
school plan will be tripled and that
the number now on part time-l5O,O 900
will be cut down to one-third.
Victory came to the Gary forces only
after a three-hour fight.
However, the Board of Estimate must
pass the appropriations recommended
By the Board of Education before
these recommendation become potent.
The recommendations request the board
10 authorize an issue Of corporate
stock in the sum OF s3,s47,695.
This sum is 10 be expended in new
buildings, alterations, repairs and
equipment Of existing buildings for
the elimination of part time, and fitting
up 10 be reorgsnized on the duplicate
school plan the following schools.
-Four districts in Brooklyn, one in
Manhattan and the extension OF the
movement that is already we'll under
way in the Bronx.
Churchill Leads Losers.
Thomas ". Churchill, former presi-
dent of the Board OF Education, was
general Of the losing forces. The at
tack was led by John Martin, who in
troduced and carried through the mo-
ton on his fourth call for the "ques-
ton An attempt WAS made by the
minority TO enlist the support of the
Board OF Superintendent, a group of
school experts, but Martin carried the
assault through their first line OF de-
fence when he announced that the
Board of Superintendent, 70 man.
were in favor Of recognizing The
schools on the duplicate school plan.
An effort was then made to head OF
the action By introducing recommen-
dation for q 100000 appropriation
for the Neptown High School-a rec
ommendation that was supported By a
large delegation OF NeUtown patrons
in the gallery. Martin Immediately de-
ClAreQ IN lhFOr OF lDlS dpprOprlsllOn
and won at once the support OF the
noisy Newtown people.
Churchill finally announced that he
would vote for the recommendations IL
the plan would be called by some name
other than the Gary" or "Wirt" plan.
There was no quarrel over this, and
the motion, being put, was carried
unanimously, the minority not caring
10 fight further.
Up to Estimate Board.
If the Board Of Estimate approves Of
the recommendations. it will mean that
next fall one-eighth Of New York's
school children will be- under the plan
originated in the Indiana steel town.
L will mean. for 100000 pupils. tn. ad
vantages Of enlarged opportunities Of
fered by the "work-play-stu school
system.
There will be seats for the children,
and playhouses. workshops, lsbora-
tories, music and drawing rooms, gym
nasiums ad audtoriums.
Recommendations were also passed
asking for s399,1s7 for the three
schools in Queens. and s99,095 for the
Bryant High School. and s250,O00 for
fire prevention work in the city
schools.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13

ing defeat for the defaulting New York
Disposal Corporation
The Mayor said that while he would
have preferred municipality owned
and operated plant. the new contract
vas far better than the other one. The
GafFney, Gahagan & Van Etten Com
pany owns the land on the Staten Isl
and Kills and will build and pay for
the plant. They will give the city
81 100000 for the five years which the
contract runs for the privilege of utiit-
ing and disposing Of all city garbage.
At the end Of that period the city may
purchase the plant n 10 sees IT.
Investigation will show that the
stories that the people ~ Staten Island
were up in arms in their objection TO
the plant are wholly imaginary h.
said.
Case TO Come Up April p.
The city is suing the Gillespie Com
pany TO recover s95.s33. and the case
is on the calendar for trial on April
"a. in the Supreme Court Of Brooklyn.
The company has put in counter
claim for 5000 600, contending that the
city should have collecto' the hotel
garbage and turned it over 20 the com
pany. which they estimate is worth -
ton. According 20 the Corporation
Counsel, hotels are permitted 70 dis
pose Of their own garbage 50 long -
they DO not keep II long enough 10 be
come q public nuisance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13
SAVED FROM DEATH CHAIR

Charles Stielow. sentenced 10 die in
the chair in Sing Sing tomorrow. re-
ceived a sixty-day reprieve from Gov
ernor Whitman last night. Stielow was
convicted of the murder of Henry
Phelps. farmer, and his housekeeper
in Orleans County. lie got the stay on
the ground of newly discovered eyi-
dence. 81 thought something would
save me- said Stielow.
To Edward Van AIKEN. another slayer
OF Ulster County. new trial has been
granted. 81 expected it, said Van
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13
Middletown Hat Maker Suicide

Mddletown, y. Y, April l2.-Willism
A. Demarest, manager Of q leading To-
cal hat manufacturing establishment.
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart on entering the fac
tory to-day. 1t is believed that fnan-
cial hiculties led TO his act.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13

This contains a clause which would
have committed the city TO additional
wears Of what ve are now passing
through IL we didn't succeed in enter
ing into new agreement with some
other concern. The action OF the
Board Of Estimate last Monday vas not
= blow .. Staten Island. but . crush
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-13
,nerican fromWhom Brit
n Seized Documents Is
D., o,residential Press Agent.
HITCHCOCK AND
j. M'HARG HIS AIDS
,.,,v Of Publicity Experts Have
,s.poom Suite in the Broad
vay-S25O.OO0 in Fund.

-.,. are the three men through
-. efforts General T. Coleman du
,.,,--Ais political and business assoc
Va ,o,isye-will be nominated for
s -, on the Republican ticket;
1--we, =. J. Archibald, war cor
..,den, and messenger on mem
~. ...s,e occasion FOR DR.. Dumba' then
..'..-o.uyncarian Ambassador 70 the
r,I.ed States.
Trsnk H. Hitchcock, former Post
-'..sr General and manager Of the
-sf; campaign IN 1905.
0rmsby Ncliars. former counsel 10
40 Choc.sw Indian Nation. etc. ana
7. o-esent the visible head Of the Bust
-. Mems Presidential League.
Throuch Ormsby McHarg the boom
49, ~ General du Point are conducting
-s.ion-wide campaign from a suite OF
..,.ssn rooms on the sixteenth floor of
80 Citv Investing Building, 165 Broad
..v where d force Of stenoGraphers
=; nublicitv experts are striving 20
-.ts their chief the csident Of the
Fksr tANA+
llied States.
Friends Put Up S25O,OOO.
Contrary 20 general belief. General
IN pon.-so several days investigation
-.realed has not put up any Of his
Fan money 20 carry or the campaign
tr-g conducted by the Business Men S
p-s,,dertial League. Ten or twelve
. D..
,-by,ed 70 a fund 20 carry on the
,sgYs's work. A sum close 20 S250,0O0
las amassed. and Leroy II. Baldwin.
resident Of the Empire Trust Com
-srv. was chosen treasurer. Friend
lin FOR General du Pout caused Mr..
Baldwin 70 do this work. Mr. Bald
r.,': banking house occupies half the
rosnd floor 81 the Broadway side Of
flo Equitable Building.
L vas OF this sum kept b. Mr.. Bald
-|n that the Business Mems Iresiden-
.al Larue drew 90 insert an advertise
rent telling 90 j., existence IN 10
principal newspapers throughout the
country Two weeks ago. Also this same
Sun +, paving the Office staff. the rent
f'r tie sixteen rooms. and for mailing
tie 10000 business men throughout
ts country that the league wants 70
sa.s, N its cause. But that his Pc
teal ambitions arc costing him d
rre,.y penny no one associated with
General du Point will deny.
So far as could be learned the
league consists OF but a dozen men
hose who subscribed 10 the s250,000
isnd and Mr.. McHarg McHarg did
20: subscribe.
Archibald Office Secret.
When a search Of the directory
ioari OF the Equitable Building was
-sde yesterday there was nothing
.sreon 70 show that Nr. Archibald
Hsr put his foot in the building, let
iols had an Office there with General
% Pon;. a further search OF the
,oari failed 20 show that General Gu
Zen. had an Office there.
Inquiry OF one Of the elevator start
rs caused the production OF a book,
irhsbeticaliy indexed. and the infor-
-siion that both Mr. Archibald and
ssnersl du Pout could re found in
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-11
EQUAL SUFFRAGE ADVOCATES PLAN
 DEMONSTRATION
Pretty Tableau Arranged by Women to Impress the
 Democrats.

St. Louis, June 1O.--For their dem- onstration during the Democratic na- tonal convention here, suffragettes have adopted as their slogan: "A woman in line is worth ten petitions in the waste basket
 The first day of the convention, Wednesday, June ii; will be Suffra- pists Day
 A golden lane," twelve blocks in length will be formed at 10 a. m. Lines of women wearing yellow and white sashes will be seated on camp stools along both edges of the sidewalks. Behind them will be a line of women standing The women seated will car ry closed yellow suffrage parasols across their laps, and those standing will carry theirs open, to protect themselves and their seated compan- ions from the sun, The women will change places every fifteen minutes.
 When the noon whistles begin to blow, the lines will break. Immed lately after, members of the Baby Welfare association, the Visiting Nurses association and other organi- cations interested in baby welfare, will be hostesses at luncheon.
 From three to five during the same afternoon the Women,s council will give an entertainment.
 At 6:30 p. m. the Town club will give dinner at which visiting suffra- eists will be speakers. At p. m, the Business Women's Equal Suffrage league will take charge of great demonstration on one of the principal St. Louis streets. Business and pro fessional women and all those whose vacations prevent them from having a place in the golden lane will take part.
 According to St. Louis leaders, the day as a whole will be huge demon- stration of the solidarity of women's interests.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-11
YO1OR TRUCK DOES WORK 0f 250 ARMM
 WAGONS EACH DAY
Transportation Methods of Bulgarian Army Revolu-
 tionized by Gas Vehicles.

With the Bulgarian Amy, Macedo- nian Front, May 22-(Correspondence of The Associated Press)-The motor truck has revolutionized transporta- ton for the Bulgarian army. An of ficer in charge of the supply depart ment of one of the units stationed here submitted figures which, he said, instead prove that each motor truck used by his army has been doing the work of 500 oxen and 25O wagons each day.
 In the past the Bulgarian army has depended entirely upon the OK wagon for the transport of it's food supplies and ammunition. In the early stages of the campaign against Serbia no other means were at the disposal of the army. The few horse-drawn ve- hicles had to be used as combat trains, so that all the work of bringing up supplies had to be left to the OK wag- on, rickety homemade farm affair drawn either by two oxen or two water buffaloes. With railroads few and far between in Bulgaria and Serbia this made campaigning very difficult. Not only was the supply system itself slow, cumbersome and unreliable, but it also prevented the troops from advancing as rapidly as they might have done had it been pos sible to get food and ammunition to the front more rapidly.
 The opening of a through route of communication between the Central Empires and Bulgaria changed all this. The first motor trucks reached Bulgaria over the Danube. Later more came over the re-established Belgrade Nish railroad. Today the OK wagon is nearly a thing of the past, as The Associated Press correspon- dent was himself able to ascertain. The conveyance is still used to carry frontward such light supplies as straw and hay, or materials when de- livery is not urgent, and bread is brought into the trenches by the OK wagon; but outside of this the vehicle has been supplanted entirely by the motor truck.
 The OK wagon is in charge of a driver, generally man of advanced years. It carries an average load of of about two and a half miles an hour for eight hours each day.
 The motor truck carries a crew of two, is able to transport 5000 kilo- grams at an average speed of 15 miles an hour, and runs 16 hours a day if necessary. This means that each motor truck replaces, at 16-hour run, 18O oxywagons, 360 animals, and about 200 men. Considering that the motor truck with a capacity of more than 5000 kilograms is by no means rare at the Macedonian front, and talk ing into consideration the length of the various lines of supply, the aver age for each truck is, the officer stated, 250 wagons, 50 Oanimals and about 300 men.
 The figures indicate that only about 120 motor trucks were necessary to
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-11
CREATES
 ANOTHER HOPEWELL

Eau Claire, Wis, June 9.--Barks- dale, hamlet in the woods of north en Wisconsin, a place of six or eight houses and general store, will soon be as famous as Virginia's new city of Hopewell. Barksdale is coming into big money. For score of years the village has struggled close to the railroad tracks, dirty, unkempt, and as poor as the proverbal church mouse.
 But a wonderfully good fairy whose real name is the Wisconsin legislature smiled on poor old Barksdale. And when January comes around In 1917, there will be S118,000 of real money dumped into the hamlet for it's bene- fit.
 The population of Barksdale town ship in 1910 was 303. The inhabitants were farmers, lumberjacks, hunters and trappers. Today the population is about 800. The town cast 98 votes at recent election.
 Behind the munificent gift of the Wisconsin legislature is the story of Barksdale's rise to fame through the manufacture of munitions. Wfln the du Pont powder company decided to build big powder plant in upper Wisconsin, it located in the northeast corner of Barksdale township. Here it erected group of buildings where many persons are now employed, and from which a constant flow of high explosives is going forward to feed the big guns in Europe.
 Not soul stays at the powder plant at night, unless it be guard or two, and all the ammunition workers live in the town of Washburn, just north of the township line. But the plant is in Barkdale, and the Wisconsin income tax law provides that corporations must pay percentage of net earn ings to the township wherein the in- dustry is located.
 The township has maintained itself and kept up it's roads the best it could on an annual income amounting to about $9,OOO. Heretofore it has raised enough to be able to spend $22.09 per capita on it's schools and roads and other needed things, including salaries of township officials. After January, without any taxes at all, it will have $162.25 per capita to spend.
 Of course there will be no taxes. And no township official need fear a salary cut. And why should not every Barksdale farmer have a good road running past his place, and a. new school house close by? A bank of- ficial figured up the big plum a few weeks ago and estimated that the in-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-11
FINDS WAY TO CUT
 THE GROCERY BILL

June 10.-R. L. Lightfoot of Thorn ton is most enthusiastic advocate of the Arkansas "Feed Yourself" cam paign which was started a few years ago, and he has every reason to be an advocate of this cause since he had remarkable results in raising food stuffs for family use since he took up the idea, along with thousands of others, in this campaign. This year, MT. Lightfoot put in 45 rows of Triumph Irish potatoes. These rows were three feet apart and about 65 steps long. This patch made enough potatoes to be eaten by all his family of six from the time they were ma tured until the second crop was made. In addition he sold 40 bushels at $1 per bushel. As soon as these potatoes were out of the ground, he put in a second crop. The second crop has fur nished him enough potatoes for the family for the rest of the season and he now has 15 bushels left. Every farmer in Arkansas should have a patch of Irish potatoes and could cut down the grocery bill as MT. Lightfoot has done. There are many other things besides Irish potatoes that can be raised to advantage and which would make not only excellent food for the family but give them diet which they need.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-11

ferred, but there seems to be no trou- ble even when young farmers are the apprentices. This to large degree is attributed to the fact that the Ger ma nmotor truck is built for army purposes, is exceptionally we'll made throughout, and easy to operate. An additional advantage, it is pointed out, is that the motor truck has decreased the size of transport columns, making them less susceptible to attack by hos tile aircraft, and that it cannot be stampeded.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-11

permit the Bulgarian general staff to restore to the farms the 6O,OOO oxen which were "furloughed" some time ago. The change also liberated from military service, or made available for other branches, more than 30,000 men who had been drivers.
 Rapid progress has been made in training Bulgarian soldiers as motor truck drivers and assistants. Gener- ally the men are taught by serving as assistants to the German drivers. Alert young men with some previous experience with machinery are pre-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-06-11

For the New York Giants the num- Der 13 seems to be lucky number instead of jinx. The McGrawites won their first game of the season on April 13. And then after losing 1S out of 15 games they started on their record-breaking Western trip. pulling out of the Pennsylvania station in New York on track 13. They won their opening game at Pittsburgh by a score of 13 to 5 and used 13 men to accomplish the trick.