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New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
Thought They Would Be-
come Cambridge and
Oxford of Future.
BEAUTY
OF THEIR BUILDINGS
Despite Operation, He Was Never
100 Blind to See Charming
Women" He Said.

Four instances purporting to show
that Amos F. Emo had a high regard
for educational institutions were pre-
sented yesterday in the trial OF the
contest of his will before Surrogate
Cohalan. Miss Ruth &. Lawrence.
daughter OF ex-Supreme Court Justice
Abram Lawrence, Of the Supreme
Court, said Emo had declared that Co
lumbia and New York Universities
were destined to be the oxford and
Cambridge Of the future.
Mrs. william A. Greer, Bishop
Greer's daughtor-in-law, related con-
versation which she had with Mr. Emo,
in which he said that in establishing
the School of Journalism at Columbia
University Joseph Pulitzer had done
much needed thing for New York.
Miss Lawrence quoted him further as
expressing great admiration for the
beauty of the buildings Of New York
University, and Mrs. Greer said he
spoke particularly about the library at
Columbia.
Continuing, she said ne had once re-
marked to her:
Don't you wish we could live 4
hundred years TO see this wonderful
city of ours develop? II is the greatest
city in the world and it will continue
20 grow in greatness"
The contestants of the will are try
ing to show that he had an intence
aversion to Columbia, and was
mentally incompetent when he gave
his residuary estate of more than S4,-
100000 TO that institution.
Emo told her, Miss Lawrence de-
clared, that his sister, Mrs. Pinchot,
loved him, but that she was afraid
that her son, Clifford Pinchot, would be
elected as President of the United
States by acclamation. Emo thought,
she said. there was not the least
danger of that. Clifford Pinchot. one
of the contestants, was named among
a large group of relatives whom Mr..
Emo thought did not care whether he
died or not, according to Miss Law
renee.
She declared that Emo told her he
Hdu iclHOFeu MS LctePhVhS A.OHi ',''
home because he did not wish to be
bothered with his business calls. The
contestants wish to show that he had
it removed on grounds of small econo-
mics, because he thought himself poor,
although he was a millionaire.
Mrs. william VI. Hoes. of $50 East
Seventy-second Street, told Of seeing
Mr.. Emo at Saratoga Lake and asking
about his eyes after he had undergone
an operation for cataract. His reply,
according 70 Mrs. Hoes, was:
Il am never too blind to see charm
ing women" She also said he declare l
that neither of his nephews. Clifford and
Amos Pinchot, cared about him, and
that both merely wanted his money.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
RAILWAY MAIL PAY
COMPARISONS WRONG
Canada Swamped by United
States, Peters Tells BurlesOn.

Ralph Peters. chairman Of the com
mittce on railway mail pay, has given
out statement commenting on Post
master General Burleson's comparison
of mail pay to Canadian and United
states railroads. Mr.. Peters says:
"lf IT were true as it is ot-that
the Canandian space basis for railway
mail pay had been adopted as a per
mancnt system, and after deliberate
and scientific investigation. IL would be
no criterion for similar action in the
United States. because the conditions
are so different. Relatively the postal
business Of Canada is small retail
business in comparison with the great
tonnage of the postal traffic in the
United States.
"Thc difference is emphatically shown
IN the post revenues of the two coun-
tries for the last fiscal year. which, in
the United States amounted TO s2s7,-
2iS.l65, as compared with $l6.444.792
for Canada. The postal expenditures
show the same tremendous difference,
United States expenditures being S29S.-
546,026. while Canada's amounted to
S16,907, GA"
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
KITTY O'NEILL' COLLAPSES
Former Bowery Favorite Faints After
ReIenting Against Woman.

Mrs. Catherine Connolly, once the
popular Kitty ONeill," comedienne
and singer in the old London Theatre.
on the Bowery, tainted yesterday as
she was leaving the Yorkvlle Court.
Loss of blood from a wound on the
face caused her collapse. She was
taken TO Bellevue.
Mrs. Connolly, now sixty-four. was
complainant against Mrs. Bertha
Dewey, of 243 East Fifty-third Street.
who was charged with assault. Mrs.
Connolly is an attendant in the Chill
dren's Hospital on Blackwelps Isl.nd.
She alleges that Mrs. Dewey struck her
in the face with a cuspdor
When Mrs. Dewey appeared in court
with her baby in her arms, Mrs. Con-
nelly asked that the charge be dropped.
Magistrate Barlow declined TO do so.
holding Mrs. Dewey for examination
to-day in 81 900 bail.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06

tension we're entertained at breakfast
Yesterday at the City Club, 30 West
Forty-fourth Street, by the Public
Education Association. Superintendent
William Writ. author Of the plan, was
entertained as the guest of honor.
Howard W. Nudd. director of the as
sociation, presided.
DR.. David Snedden, Commissioners OF
Education in Massachusetts, predicted
that within six years every important
city in that state will have adopted
the Gary system. Its fundamental
ideas were approved by most OF the
school superintendents with whom ne
had talked. DR.. Snedden said that ne
regarded the plan as signal contribu-
tion to education in that 1t made pos
sible economically and administratlvely
the actual accomplishment OF educa-
tional ideas which school men nave
held for ten years.
The advantages of he flexible pro-
grsmme and an all-dSy school for all
children were stressed by !. T. OiaA.
ton, United States Commissioner o.
Education. "The plan will save many
millions of dollars to the United
States" the Commissioner added, ana
will thus enable communities 10 enrich,
V.
Mr.. Writ has pointed the way out OF a
crisis in the affairs of public educa-
tion which had promised to be serious
There has been a great danger that inc
public school system might cease TO DC
a unit. that IT might be broken up INTO
fragments, each one of which would
concern itself with a particular type oil
education. Mr. Writ, by making pos
sible q more flexible programme, mas
opened the way for binding into one olg
public school system all the educatonal
advantages that are necessary TO tram
children TO live in a democracy
William VI. Davidson. superintendent
Of Schools in Pittsburgh, reported that
both the Board of Education and the
community were in favor OF the Gary
plan. Edgar S. Pitkin, princpa OF a
school in Newark where the plan is
in oneration, said that the teachers VINO
opposed it's introduction are now IN
favor of il because they have observed
what II means to the children.
Superintendent Aryie Eldred OF Troy
caused laughter with the anecdote that
he had been accused by his opponents
of burning down a school building two
years ago so that he might 1orce 'he
Gary plan on the city.
In conclusion Mr.. Writ pointed out
that the significant thing IN the GARY
plan is that it applied the familiar
business principle of using every op-
portunitv all the time 20 the greatest
advantage that the greatest good 70
tho greatest number may be accom-
plishcd.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
ARKANSAS TO GET NEW HEAD
Capt. Bullard to Relieve Capt. Shoe
maker as Dreadnought's Commander.

The dreadnought Arkansas, flagship
of Vlce-Admiral De Witt Cofman. is
TO have new commander. Captain
William c. Bullard, chief Of the radio
service in Washington. is to take charge
of the warship on July -, succeeding
Captain William Shoemaker. who has
been in command for the last fifteen
months
Captain Bullard is one OF the best
known nayigators in the navy. When
the submarine E-2 blew up at the navy
yard last February, killing ten men and
injuring four others. he was chairman
of the board of inquiry.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
THINK 3 IN CANOE DROWNED
Madison, Conn, Residents Search
Sound for Bodies.

Madison, Conn, July 5.-A search
has begun here for the bodies Of two
women and man believed drowned
in Long Island Sound when their
canoe overturned last night. The
canoe was found this morning on the
beach.
The three went out yesterday AZ
ternoon. They had just come here
for the summer and knew no one, but
inquiry has identified the man as
Robert L. Furness, Of Hartford, chauf-
feur for c. n. Veeder, and the women
rs Margaret Burns and Tessie Gar
rick. maids in the families OF Will
lam Warren Smith and Seymour
White, both Of Hartford.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
UNPROVOKED ATTACK
ON U-BOAT CHARGED
New Submarine War Seen in Re-
port of SheIling by Steamer.

BY cable - ne lrlf in'
London. July 5.-An indication
that the German government Is
preparing grounds on which TO
begin "a new and unrestricted
submarine war" as predicted by
Captain /. Persius, is given in the
following announcement to-day by the
admiralty:
"a submarine Of tho Central Powers
recently returned from the Mediter-
ranean and reported that on the even
ing Of May p, while east Of the
Balearic Islands. il vas shelled by a
large steamer Of unknown nationality,
at range of about 10000 metres.
The steamer had not been stopped by
the submarine No damage was done
TO the submarine"
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
FUME NUISANCE NEARS
END; PLANTS REF0RM
Emerson Says Three Jersey
Factories Cease to Offend.

The Jersey fume nuisance is waning,
according to DR.. Haven Emerson, Com
missioner of Health. He said yester-
day that he looked for an early end Of
the nuisance through cooperation OF
the New York and New Jersey Boards
Of Health and the manufacturers.
"There were five plants" Mr.. Emerson
explained, land three of these have en-
ti-ely ceased to offend"
Leonard j. Obermeier, Deputy At
torney General, said that the suits filed
against the manufacturers had been
stayed because of the promise Of the
manufacturers to reform.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
THRIFT SPOILS WIFE'S PLEA
Bank Account Causes Dismissal oil
Abandonment Charge.

When her husband returned 70 on
kers 70 celebrate the Fourth MIS- Mag
gle Keiszer, of lO2 Riverdale avenue,
proceeded 10 press a two-year- old
charge Of abandonment against MN pc
fore Judge Joseph II. Beall, OF fonkers'
yesterday.
Mrs Keiszer's name caused the judge
10 dismiss the charge. When arrested
Nopdav afternoon on a charge Of i'm
toyication Keiszer gave his address as
4f Elm Street. Derby, Conn.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
RECEPTION FOR EDUCATORS
Women's City Club Entertains 500 WIS.,
fling Teachers at Vanderbilt.

A reception for members of the Ma
tional Education Association was gwen
by the Women's City Club at the Ho-
tel Vanderbilt yesterday. II was IN
tended that the guests should be en-
tertained on the roof garden. but the
threatening sky turned the affair into
an indoor party.
Dr. Katherine b. Davis and Mrs.
John Purroy Mitchell. Mrs. Henry WI
Lard Mrs. ralcott Williams. Mrs. st:
Clair McKelway. Ellen T. O'Brien and
Miss Mary G. May were among the
six hundred guests who came during
the afternoon. On the receiving line
were Miss Virginia Gildersleevee; Miss
MARY orr, Mrs Wallace and Mrs. ;.
pnllifZer.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
YNDAM DAMAGED BY ROCK
Arrives in Rotterdam with Hold No. |
Flooded-To Go to Drydock.

Rotterdam. July 3. The Holland 20
America Line steamship Ryndam. which
left New York on June II, arrived here
Yesterday with hole in her forepeak
caused by hitting a rock in dense fog
near Kirkwall There were no casual
ties.
watertight bulkheads kept the other
holds dry. The vessel will be placed
in drydock on Thursday morning. The
extent of the damage 10 the cargo has
not yet been established.
The sailing of the Ryndam for New
York. scheduled for Saturday, will be
postponed.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
WAR CALL AIDS CHAUFFEUR
Opel Escapes Paying Alimony by
Service at Border.

Service on the border saved Eugene
Irving Opel, chauffeur and automo-
bile mechanic, from paying counsel fees
and alimony in a suit for separation
brought against him. Mrs. Nance
Oppel. through her attorney, Herman
1. Roth. alleges abandonment and non
support. They were married on No
vember II. 1912, and have no children
"The defendant" said Justice Whita-
ker Yesterday, "is a soldier in the list
Regiment, now in active service. Inc
defendants income at present IS no
more than sufficient for himself. Leave
IA renew when an increase OF defend
ants income is shown is granted
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
POPULACE FLEES STR0MB0LI
Menace Grows as Lava Destroys Set
tlement Homes.

Rome, July (via Paris, July 81
The eruption Of Stromboli has become
serious. The flow Of lava is spreading
to the sparse coast settlements, burn
ing and destroying houses, and the pop
ulation is fleeing to the sea and taking
refuge on relief ships sent from Mes
sina. Telephone communication with
Messina has been interrupted.
There are many signs of seismic dis
turbances throughout Italy. The heat
has been intense for the last two days.
Earthshocks occurred this morning at
Ancona, Rimini, Belvedere, Narettlmo
and other Adriatic districts, but no loss
of life has beer reported.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
KILLED BY LEAP FROM AUTO
Youth Sought to Avoid Train Crash
-Four In Car Inhurt.

Far Hills, y. j., July William W.
Scott, a youth of Basking Ridge, was
killed late last night at the Far Hills
crossing when he jumped from an au-
tomobile to avoid threatened crash
with a Lackawanna train.
According to the engineer. the train
did not hit Scott, and his injuries a
fractured skull, a broken arm and
severe cuts were the result of his
leap. He was picked up in a ditch
eight feet from the track.
His four companions, who remained
in the automobile, which was en- route
10 Morrstown, escaped injury.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
PLAN RED CROSS LIFEB0ATS
Danes Would Rescue Sailors After
Naval Battles.

London. July "a new project for
saving life at the time of naval en-
counters is reported in an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen.
It says a number of prominent
Danes, actuated BY the idea that many
sailors might have been saved during
the North Sea battle. intend 70 organize
as soon as possible a fed Of seversl
hundred motorboats along the west
coast of Jutland
These boats, flying the Red Cross
flag, will go to pick up wounded after
each battle.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
BEN REITMAN FREE TODAY
Anarchist Will BE Guest at Birth Con-
troll Meeting and Reception"

DR.. Ben L. Reitman. anarchist and
press agent for Bouck Whites Church
of the Social Revolution, will be
sprung" from the Queens County Jail
at 3 o'clock this morning. According
TO an announcement in Mother Earth" "
he will be met by friends, and after he
leaves the Jail will stop at several res
taurants before going to his Office. 20
East 125th Street
Reitman spent half Of his sixty day
term as cellmate Of Bouck White.
Bouck was in fos lag-burning, Ben for
spreading birth control knowledge. To-
morrow night Retman will be the guest
Of honor at what is announded as "a
big birth control meeting and reeep-
tion" in the Harlem Casino, 1l6th
Street and Lenox Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
Autos in Collision Hit by Train.

Two AUTOMOBILES are hopeIessIy
smashed. the pilot of a locomotive is
wrecked. and the steps Of four railroad
coaches are torn off as the result of
peculiar accident at Lindenhurst. Long
Island. Tuesday night. The machines
were in a head-on collision on the
tracks and before they could be dragged
out OF the way were struck by a Long
Island train. No one was hurt.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
Printing Samples Shown.
Long Distance Dive Fatal.

Phillipsburg, \. J., July 5.-WaIter
Moon. twenty-seven, a camper from
Trenton. died yesterday at Riege!s-
Vile. when he dived from the Della
ware Bridge and struck his head on
a rock in shallow water. He had
wanted to dive off the bridge for
some time. but was warned of the
danger. His body has not been re-
covered.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
T0-DAY'S PROGRAMME
OF N. z. A. MEETINGS
9:2O A. NJ.


Department of Secondary Education.
joint meeting with National Council
Teachers of English. Washington lrv-
ing High School
Department of Vocational Education
and Practical Arts. theatre Madison
square Garden. Lecture hall. Mctroroh-
tan Museum Of Art. special meeting on
Relationship between Museums md
Schools.
Department Of Music Education. au-
ditorum. Hunter College.
Department of Business Education,
Washington Irving High School.
Department of Child Hygiene. Sage
Foundation Building.
Department of School Administration.
ballroom. Hotel Waldorf
Department Of Science Education
Washington Irving High School
Department of Special Education. PUB
lie School %.
Department Of Classroom Teachers.
ballroom. Hotel Astor.
200 L. NJ.
General session. Madison Square Gar
den.
1880 7. NJ.
General session. Madison Square Car
den.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
Sits on Tracks: Train Kills Him.

Newton, y. j.. July 5.-Charles Cort-
wright, of Lafayette, sat on the Lacka-
wanna tracks here to-day and was
killed by train. He did not move
when the engineer blew the whistle.
He leaves a wife and six children.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
Educators Fete Writ;
Praise Gary Plan

..,ondinc fbe National Education AS
"ociation convention, who have either
introduced the Gary plan or have been
;nstrumental in assisting in It's eA-
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
TEACHERS SEE
DETECTIVES DRILL
Newest System of Special
Education on Display
for Visitors.

A pathetic procession Of nearly
hundred blind, deaf, crippled and men
tally defective children struggled yes
terday morning into the hall Of T. ).
27 to show 800 visiting teachers who
are specializing in the work New
York's newly developed system OF spe-
cial education.
The blind boys and girls, clinging to
each others hands while they were led
up the school steps; the incorrigibles,
from six to twelve years old, who have
already had a taste Of the criminal
courts. and their unfortunate compan-
ions represented 5000 defective chill
dren in the special classes OF the cry
schools. .
After a drill, in which the children
showed they were as happy as normal
boys and girls, they were taken mo
classrooms crowded with teachers. In
one the deaf and dumb children were
mt through the same training as they
get in their daily work. Two lltt.e
Girls who have been TO school only
short time did their level best TO try TO
talk. making queer cultural SOUNDS
that will some day be regulated INTO
human speech. A visiting teacher %
whom the work is new turned away
with moist eyes. and no one was par
ticularly astonished
Blind Weave Baskets.
Blind boys and girls woye baskets
and made rugs almost as we'll as il thty
had ewes. Some had become so pro,
ciert that their fingers were quicker ana
better trained than those of the average
normal child. Another group, degener-
ates and mentally deficient poys' MUS
trated their progress IN making
brushes In q. single year IN the cIasscS soS
which specialize IN TINS Worh ,9l'oV1
worth of brushes have been mace ana
sold TO the Department OF Education.
After the morning session, at whlcn
score of addresses were delivered Dy
professional men and authorities on the
education of detectives throughout the
country. there was a reception ana eN-
bibition of the children's work IN the
hall of the SCI ool. The programme OF
the special education convention is IN
charge Of Miss Elizabeth l.. Farrell
ms wears president Of that section,
"Tbe handspring f the idea of teach
inc detectives in the public schools,
she said Yesterday. els that every child
no matter how unfortunate, deserves 10
have the love OF father and mother
until he becomes adolescent. After
tbat if necessary, the institutions can
take him in charge.
Detectives Made Happy.
Gustavc Straubenmuller, Acting Su-
nerintendent Of Schools, who was pres
ant at the reception, said the keenest
interest was manifested by visiting
teachers in the progress that New 1orA
was making in this direction.
"One of our latest experiments, ne
said. "is in bringing the blind and otner
handicapped children into contact WIN ,tn
dof.ctive children happier and more hu-
man, and teaches the others .a,hori thst IN
many ways their unfortunate oroln"'' pro-
and sisters are as gooD as they are.
In the receiving line yesterday aiter-
,oon we're Dr.. William Cornell, director
~ 'SV tbe RandalPs Island Reform school
OF u Cornell: Nh, T. VI Seguin,
sTse Olive VI. Jones, Miss Carrie v.
Kearns and Francis L. Moscrp'
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
NOTES OF THE STAGE
AND NEWS OF PLAYERS
Lew Fields Show to Move from
Shubert TO AstOr.

Lew Fields and "Step This Way" Will
move from the Shubert Theatre to the
Astor on next Monday evening. The
Astor, until recently the property Of
Cohan & Harris. was acquired by the
Shuberts last wek. and will be operated
by the latter firm for at least six years.
The Shubert Theatre during the sum-
mer will undergo important alterations.
As the opening attraction al the
Princess Theatre the Marbury- Com
stock Company will offer musical
comedy, entitled Go To IT, a piece
built along the lines Of the successful
Nobody Home" and "Very Good
Eddie" In the cast will be Charles
Judels, Eva Fallon and Laura Ham
ilton.
Lord Dunsany's play. a Night at an
Inn" will be performed for the last
time this season at the Neighborhood
Playhouse tonight THE Price OF
Ccal,7 by Harold Brighouse. and "A
Marriage Proposal" By Anton Tchek-
nov, also will be given.
Maude Adams closed a forty weeks
tour i'm "The Little Minister on Sat
urday night. and has returned TO New
York. She viii be seen at the Empire
Theatre in December in the new Barrie
play, "A Kiss for Cinde ella
"The Man Who Came Back" by Jules
Eckert Goodman, will open in Stamford
next Monday.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-06

The association appointed a special
,,-m...ee on military training, which
viii make q report in the form OF res
o,srons 10 the business session.
]. was predicted al Madison Square
GARDEN las. night that Dr. David Starr
Jordan. who is hurryng back from
Mexican mediation council IN Wash
.ncto, 10 address the teachers to-mor-
VOW. viii sake his protest 20 the floor
Il The convention if the committees
.eror. +, favorable TO school drills.
"A notion that military training has
.o-ethinr 70 DO with preparedness
seems TO be running through the coun-
,rr c. Ward Champion, director Of
atys.ca. ,ra.ning in the local schools
sad q, the De Witt Clinton meeting.
-l.s q silly. hysterical, fatal mistake.
This drilling small boys and putting
..sm in Uniform is absurd from mill
.a-v point os view. Il is worse than
absu.d from an educators point OF
view. II is a cheap expedient Of per-
sons in misguided, interfering mood.
Randall Warden, Of Newark, scotfed
q. the idea that schoolboys can De
made soldiers. You might as welI
rive chem course in medicine In the
zone that thev would know how 70
.g-e their own ailments later, ne
aid. Germany and France both nave
lad couuu.sory military training II
.,e schools and both have abandoned
=. ss no. favorable 20 the best inter-
tsts o. che army.
A similar argument was advanced Dy
Thomas IS. Churchill, former preslueH'
,f -Ae New York Board Of Education,
rler be- address sed the department OF
school administration IN Aeo4ian Ilali'
while ] am in favor Of prepared
ness" SIR. Churchill said, 81 am op,
ro,ed positively 20 the idea Of enforced
military service for school pupils. 1ou
cannot teach them physics az lO cIoCN
and r.. rife in the boys hands az
y o'clock"
A. the general afternoon session IN
Madison Square Garden the opposition
90 school drills was represented Dy
Mrs Fannie Fern Andrews, OF Boston,
.ecretarv Of the American school
Peace League. and by Philander r.
C'sx.on. United States Commissioner
~ Education.
Woman Raps Drill Course.
Compulsory military training in
to schools is not only hostile to
American traditions" Mrs. Andrews
said. "but an acknowledgment Of help