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KILLS TURNED INTO
MASS OF LIQUID FIRE
&275.OO0 Blaze at BayOnne
Destroys Pier and Two
Loaded BargeS.

A waterfront FIRE that sent UP clouds
OF thick smoke IN which flew exploding
cans OF kerosene ard gasoiene destroyed
a pier. two loaded barges and kerosene.
gasolene ana true oil barrels innumerable
yesterday afternoon and evening and
narrowly missed exploding FIX big oil
tanks. The Texas Company OF Rayonne.
probably $4,000.
The fire started Oh a corrugated iron
pier OF the Texas Company a, the foot OF
West F.rst street in the Bergen Point
section of Bsyonnc The pier. 400 feet
long and 80 feet vide. was piled with
kegs and tin cases OF gasolene. $4,000
gallons in all. and several hundred bar
It began these were exploding like a
string OF bombs. the tin cases shooting
into the air.
The blazing oil poutsd irto the waters
OF Newark Ray and the Kill Van kuil,
and great clouds of smoke drif,ed and
hung low over Port Richmond and other
staten Island towns, turning the twi-
light almost into darkness The rain OF
flaming cans descending and the heat
Hity foot barge that was tied TO the dock
and could not be flowed on because OF the
iufnacelike heat.
This barge, loaded with 5000 salons
OF Kerosene. became at once a fire ship.
the explosions OF the kerosene adding 10
tn. roar The burning oil spread over
the XIII Van kull nearly 60 the staten
Island shore, making the Kills. az they
are called. "A mass of liquid tire,
Meantime the wind was shifting from
northwest to north, and the lighter cans
began to fall dangerously near the six
great storage tanks of the company. each
OF which holds from 10000 to $4,000 sal
Ions OF gasolene. The nearest was only
400 feet from the land end OF the burning
pier. II seemed only question of
minutes when one or oil OF them would
explode with tremendous force which
might irper.l the entire plant and per-
haTx the waterfront.
By this time chief Davis had out the
entire Bayonne Fire Department and
engines from Jersey city. together with
three Standard Oil iireboats and one
from the Tide Water oil Company. He
called for two iireboats from New York
and kept the big tanks soaked with
water. Luckily the wind veered again
and saved the tanks.
The tide borne flaming oil set fire
to another oil dock below the flrS.
one, at which WAS moored second
barge loaded with 10000 gallons OF
oil. Al first it was thought this barge
could he towed out of danger and the
small fires smothered with water but
it was too late. The barge had to he
left to burn to the waters edge near the
Port Richmond shore,
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Meeting Expected to Result
in Display Of Strength
by Rival Leaders.
HARDING WILL BF.
CHAIRMAN JUNE
PrOgrcsSivcS Sec Challenge
i'm Ohio Senator's
Election.

Seventy -four prominent members ot
the Republican party, including repre-.
sentatives Of all factions. have for
mally declared themselves in favor of
the nomination of Elihu Root for tho
Presidency. Seventeen Of these are
delegates TO the Republican national
convention.
At the meeting of the l,.pnhlican
State committee to-day a test ~
strength is expected to be made IN be-
half Of the rival candidates. or Mr..
Root, Justice Hughes and col. Roos.-
welt
Col. Roosevelt received many aSSur-
anCes Yesterday that his strength was
growing rapidly in the ranks OF th.
Republican party. and sentiment IN his
favor was said to I've especially strong
in Pennsylvania. West Virginia and on
the Pacific coast
Warren &. Harding. United States
senator irom Ohio. was cluscn tenn
porary chairman of the Ecpublicsn
national convention. to be held Jupc :.
The decision to make Mr.. Harding
! chairman Is taken 70 mean that the Old
= Guard is determined t. hold control of
thc convention.
Progressives IN WASHINGTON and tive
Senate were disappointed over the d.
feat of Leader Mann. whose candid;,c,
they had urged III "A telegram t. th.
subcommittee. Eoosevelt's friends su.
a challenge from the Old Guard
Gov. Biumhaugh of Pennsylvania i,-
sued statement accusing Senate =
Pcnrose and Oliver of tryin; to driNy
him out Of the Presidential nomin"-
tion race by threatening L. expos, an
alleged campaign fund S'anda.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-08
P0RTcHEsTER GIRLS MISSING.
One EOund by u Police IN, hut
Other ls Sttll Betng Sought.

GREENWICH. Conn. April THE po-
lie. in Port chester and surrounding
towns We're asked to-day to help In the
search for Nellie Markley. aged 20
years. daughter of Frank II. Markley.
ana i'oris ronty, aged i6. daughter vt
Dedrich II. l'onty. of Portchestsr. both
of whom disappeared from their homes
Miss Marklcy WAS found by police
man in Westchester avenue. Portchester,
tonight, She would not say anything
as to her Whereabouts since leaving
home and refused to tell II Miss Ponty
had been with her.
No trace has been found OF Miss
Ponty, whose father is an architect.
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BARNEY's FORTUNE TO CITY.
skate Maker Leaves 18OO,OOO "a
springfield, Mass.

of Springfield was left virtually the en-
tire estate of the late Everett II. Barney.
skate manufacturer. who died On March
81 In Sarasota. Fla, amounting to ap-
proximately $500 900. through the terms
of the will filed IN Probate Court late
this afternoon. soon after Mr.. Barney =
funeral.
The estate comprises real estate in
Florida and this city. the Florida prop
erty being valued at Si50.O0O. The re-
ma inder Of the estate comprises the
Barney T. Kerry Manufacturing COM
pany In this city and stocks and bonds.
In his Springfield holdings Is his late
home. Peconuric Villa. together with a
fund for It's maintenance for one year.
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SPEAKING AS PHYSICIANS.
The POIssyIlabic One shows Hes
There IN the Job.

IN a paper in the Journal OF TIE
Chemical Society for September" SAYS
the Medicdi Record, discussing THE
Polysyllabic Physician" I'VE find the
word tetrddimeth yInmin inOtetrdphenyl
drasintI,
"A few lines further on the writer
speaks OF frimeth yiindd ~ IN Odine ethy-
inophenylnethy ct yloq uiOnedi-imide and
a little later he refers casually to tetru-
meth yIdidm tetrd me IN yidia mi cd iphen :
yidih hydrOphsndsinC
After these Gargantuan pathological
outrages lei no one accuse the physician
Of expanding his ideas into polysyllabic
labyrinths"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-08
GERARD REASSURED.
Holds Conference on 4 Boat Iasu.
at Wilhelmstrassr.

BERLIN. via London. April ide-
layed) The submarine situation was
discussed yesterday by Ambassador
Gerard and Dr. Alfred r. y. thinner
mann. Under Secretary for Foreign Az
fairs.
II is believed that no Information con
cerning the Sussex and other steamships
recently sunk was given to Mr.. Gerard
An intimation that Germany is ready to
meet the United States more than half
way should il he found that the SUSSEX
was torpedoed by mistake was conveye ed
IL is understood.
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NO PEACE ON
GERMAN BASIS.
BRITISH REPLY
Lord Robert Cecil ScOrns
Terms Outlined by kais-
cr's Chancellor.
SAYS THE ALLIES
CANNOT BE SPLIT
sD,ciai ,a1,e bespaich to rnk srv

LONDON. April Lord Robert Cecil.
the British Minister Of blockade made
the following statement To- the corrc-
spondert Of Tnr SrN to-day with ref
erence to Chancellor Won Dctlmann-
lIollwegs speech in ile Eeichs;as on
"Wednesday
The German Chancellor. a. usual,
claims that the AN,es have no legal right
to blockade Germany. and he appears 10
think that rcutra.s hold the same opu-
.ou. l.i among all neutral ioNcrnments
who protested against oar action none
mas !o, argued that blockade - in
Itself Illegal, precisely Ia proportion IN
which it Is effective
That. however. is GeJmauSs : conteu-
ton. Germanv has openly proclaimed
her intention Of blockad.ng this country.
and has done her best to do so. Pre-
sunably her action il justified because
il is ineffective"
Rei'rrirs to ihe thlu,ciiut's aSSer-
tion that Gr"a; Britain j. IL Nf,onsible fpf
continuation Of the war and that tha
proposal made 10y Dr Nuu Eethmann-
Hollweg last December was not answered
by the Allies. Lord Robert said
by singing out separate Powers
among the Allies ia. Chancellor .li-
dcavois to SOW mischief AID d.~,rust be-
tween them. Iiut the Allies stand to-
g,ther and are pledged to make reace in
common
"rnc chancellor know. md .te pcopl.
of Gernany. whom he delud.s. should
snow. that nothing IN any ',ublic s,,eech
lie makes can ever form basis for ;,cace
ovottules No oratorical cTcr q. makes
VIII ever deserve. or H. even intended tn
obtain. the least attention fiom the
.tl'os
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<o statement bS Parents.

Her parents have decided :" make
no statement now he added, "necause
they want 20 make her return as easy
a. possible, Her mother ana father are
here nov,
II was hciicvci that Mr.. Myers in
tended 10 ,uk- the first train he could
each FOR Port Jeryis. as he made in
uu,ries concerning trains running to that
point on the Erie.
Miss Myers dropped out OF sigh, last
Saturday night after visiting the home
OF Mrs. Arnold Nettel Il friend. at 1870
Bryant avenue. The Bronx. Mrs. Nettel
accompanied the girl to the simpson
street subway station, which Ia elevated.
and bade her good night. \ train was
coming in at the time and Miss Myers
ran To board II Mrs. Nettel said she
saw the girl enter the station and that
was the last word received concerning
her until she was found in Port Jervis.
4 most active search was prosecuted
by the police OF many cities and numei-
Gus supposed clues turned out to be
yalueless. Members of the girls family
and many OF her friends dismissed from
their minds any thought that a romance
was responsible for her disappearance
Mrs. Myers declared as late as yeeter.
day afternoon that she was positive her
daughter had no love affair
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ENGLAND CALLS MARRIED MEN,
Britons Between 25 and 2. Years
Must JOiu COIOrs,

LONDON. April 7,--The first group o.
married men was called to the coiors
to-day by the War Once
The group consists Of men between IS
and SO years of age
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-08
ALL TYPES OF REPUBLICANS
JOIN IN LAUDING MR.. ROOT

FOIOWlNg Is Tie FORMAL statement dncNng ENhN Roofs
boom for the Presidency:
7 = L1HU ROOT 10 he ablsst living American.
of
OF vitality problems
ona readusmen OF the
welfare
for solution be defined
In terms OF relations
most thoroughly
State and Senator United u stands preeminen
highest
pei his acceptance.
As Americans abroad.
to
of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-08
FRENCH HONOR MRS. WHARTON.
Enrolled ~ Legion ~ Honor for
Her Relief Work.

PARIS. April Mrs. Edith Wharton,
the novelist. hase been made member
Of the Legion Of Honor Yor her work
In behalttf French war sufferers,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-08
SteR inshlp China Case.

referring to the steamship emma the
Blockade Minister said
"There is no question that soldiers
may he taken from any ship as they are
contraband In the highest sense We
contend that these men are engaged IN
warlike operations, stirring revolutions
and conspiracies, They left Shanghai
because 1t became too hot for them
there They intended to go elsewhere to
continue their activities.
II am not aware thai the United
States will demand the release of those
over military age. hut II such a demand
is made we must wait and see it's basis. -
Regarding the seizure OF the mails
Lord Robert said:
"Germanys overseas trade IL so
crippled that II remains only to the ex-
tent Of between I and 6 per cent. II is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-08
ALMA MYERS
is FOUND AT
PORT JERVlS
East Orange Girl. Missing
a Week. Ran Away to
Escape a Suitor.
HAD CLASHES WITH
HER PARENTS ALSO

PoLr JEs>is. y. V, Aprl ,--Miss
Alma Fuller Myers, Is years old, uf SO
Ellington street. East Orange. y. j., for
whom the pole. Of New Jersey and
New York hadebecn searching since last
saturday. was found to-day by Police
man Campbe AT the Wickham board
ing house. ], Broome street. this ct,
She had taken II room tn remain unlii
tO-morrow. when she was 10 accep; Il
position as u domestic servant in tile
hom. of ~ wealthy hardware merchant.
John -. Swinton Jr of sullivan avenue.
Miss Myers came to this city OH
Wedn.sda, morning and had been
known here for the last three days as
Grace Davis She spent her time visit
ina business aud professional offices
looking for work and answered an ad-
ver,sement for help wanted by an un-
deiwear manufacturer. II. NJ McCathie.
Unable to get a position rs stenographcr
with the latter tomTany III, agreed 10
work a. domestic in the home OF Mr.
Swnion.
Mis. i.o... Wa,ital,cr discovered IN
the Miss Davis resemblance Ia the
missing Miss Myers She confided her
suspicious to Stephen campbell. chtef of
police who visited the young woman
and learned that sh. had passed some
time in previous years at Millrft, Pa.
whcic She with her parents went during
III. summer months. She also told Of
the drowning of - brother IN the Wall-
kill River AZ Middl.town. y. V. III May.
1914. At MiUrift tn. police could hnd
NO one 10y the name of Davis and he
adv >ed his 'uformer TO have II talk
with the rirl. In the course of the
"A. ,..I
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Iiol Baco Is the following
to
Republican
personal BOTH
born Of o
principles recently
responsibilities
OF VIII we have sgnaly Of
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'odiinned on Fourth Page.
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ARTHUR n MAsToN
LOUIS VI MARTIN, Clinton.
JOHN II. MOFFATT. risttsbur.
EtiGENE H. OCTERBRiDiE
John PARMENTER. Geneva
HENRY =. PRlTCHETT.
EDMUND PLATT. Pouyhkeeps.
W. A. PRENDERGAST. Brooklyn, Delesate.
CHARLES u. ROGERS. Utica
RUSH RHEES, Rochester.
REV. KARL IRELAND
CONGRESSMAN X. B. SANFORD
HENRY j.. STIMSON. Delegate
John A. SLEiCHER. Troy.
GEORGE r. SHELDON, Delegate
CHARLES ii SABlN
JAMES X SHEFFIELD. Delegate
FREDERICK STRAUSS.
ISAAC n SELIGMAS
HENRY NJ. SAGE. Albany. DELEGATE
SEvRYN II. SHARPE. Kingston.
y g STALEY, Albany. Delegate
HOMER SNYDER. Herkimer. Delegate
THOMAS THACHER
RAY TOMPKINs. Elmirs
WILLIAM u. TRtESDALH
". wADSwoRTH. JR.. Livingston Co.
delegate
HEEKMAN WINTHROP. Nassau County
BRONSON WINTHROP
\I.BERT H. w1GGIN.
SAMUEL wALLIN. Amste erdam Delezs'e
WILLIAM WATSON. Warsaw, Delegate
WILLIAM WILLIAMS
GEORGE W wHITEHEAp NIAGARA FAILS
FRANK 6 wITHfRBEE. ESSEX County
r STAGG WITHIN
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l. was announced lat n.shl d! the
Rev. John e. Donnen at the home OF
Mss MIXERS. East Orange, that the young
woman Will remain IN Port Jerv!s for
'cw day. Mr. Donnell. vino is rector
az -, Thomas's Protestant Episcopal
,hurch, which Miss Myers attended, said
tn, girl was safe and sound.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-22
MORO SEATED IN
PHILIPPINE SENATE
Former Prime Minister Of Sultan
Of Sulu HOnOred

Correspondence of the Associated Press)
Manila, Oct. 16.-The new Philip
pine congress, convened under the
Philippine bill which was signed by
President Wilson on August 29 met
today and, for the first time in the
history of the government OF the
islands, full blooded Moro took his
seat in the upper house. The Moro
senator is Hadji Bulu, for many years
prime minister Of the sultan of Sulu,
that unofficial functionary of the
American government who Yields an
hammedans of the -Sulu archipelago
and of the Far East generally. Two
other full blooded Moros took their
seats in the lower house side by side
with two delegates from the Wild
tribes--one an Igorot and the other
an Ifugao. The tribes these men rep
resent stepped out of saVagery only
yesterday and their names are linked
with some of the bloodiest deeds in
Philippine history
Hadji BuIu, who becomes mem
Der of the senate by appointment of
Governor General Harrison, is looked
upon as one of the strongest men
among the Moros, and has always
counselled a conciliatory attitude to-
ward the government. In the last
few years he has played a leading
role in the transformation of the
island Of Sulu from region of MUIR
der and pillage to one Of progress and
industry
Altogether nine provinces, hitherto
regarded as too close to savagery to
have governmental representatives,
have spokesman in the congress.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-22
FRENCH SOLDIERS
ARE VERY VERSATILE
Troops in Trenches Show Artistic Ten
Wonderful Products
Exhibited at Compiegne.

Correspondence of the Associated Press)
French Front, Oct 31.-An expo
sition of art at the Front compos-
ed of the creations of soldiers of the
French army now on view at Com
peigne includes contributions from
every branch of the service.
Pictures in oils and water colors,
colored crayons and pencil, charcoal
and burnt wood are displayed side by
side with statuettes carved out of
chalk or soft strne' or modelled in
plaster colored to represent nature
Metal objocts made of shell cases,
hammered in beautiful designs to form
flower holders and lamps, and splint-
ers of steel shells made into paper
weights and inkstands, rifle cart
ridges transform ed into pen and PEN
Gil holders, paper cutters, thimbles
and other useful things. fuses made
into finger and napkin rings, fancy
; work baskets fashioned out of the
long wicker cases in which loaded
projectiles for the big guns are con-
veyed TO the firing line-all give evil
dence that art goes together with
war.
! Many of the pictures exhibit a
strength which can never be found in
any academical salon. They all rep
| resent objects of actually as seen by
/ the men themselves and reproduced in
| such a way as to bring home to those
who see them the conditions under
which the soldiers live in face Of the
enemy. There is no idealism or fan
tasy in the mems work-al1 is real
| ism. This, however, does not prevent
many of the artists from portraying
! humor in it's broadcast sense, for the
| soldier i'll the field is very keen on the
] comic side, and some. OF the car1ca-
lures are excellent.
Few people have had the opportun-
ity of seeing the exposition, owing to
the difficulty of reaching Compiegne
under the restrictions Of war time,
but ARRANGEMENTS have been made
for the transfer of the collection to
Paris and possibly later 10 America.
Tt is probable that the work of the
soldiers of other French armies will
be Joined together with this exhibit.
The soldier-artists are content with
very small comforts during the COM
ing winter, on condition that pur-
chasers make contribution towards
the assistance of their wounded ana
i invalid comrades.
Their. are works, by winners OF the
! Prize of Rome Of the French acao-
ernv who were mCbilized Whlle pur
s,1ina their studies and some Oh 'h0se
=, 1a+er wears may come to be regard
ed as masterpie ces.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-22
RUTH LAW ~ MACHINE AND WEIR 80 90
"CROSS COUNTRY SMILE Y9

quarter pound lots It consists of
'buttered herring consisting of one
very small. thin herring, encased in
about pound of butter, which has
been selling on the Berlin market for
some nine marks a pound Before
the authorities discovered the ruse,
dealers who had managed to get both
fish and butter from Denmark and
elsewhere had succeeded in disposing
of hundreds of pounds. Many Gus
toners bought in 20, so and 100.
pound lots, gladly paying the extraor
binary price or any price for the
chance to get butter again, even
though most Of them threw away the
tiny fish and with it lost some little
of the butter that chung to it's skinny
sides.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-22

without "uphcr nipples on the milk
bottle, tho Bundesrat has ordered that
the entire available supply within the
empire, AMI all that are imported,
shall be turned over to a specially
created company that in turn is to
have charge of the eqtAble distribu-
ton of his snail tut necessary arti-
Gle. Mothers will in future be able
to procure two nipples per child under
one year Of age on presenting birth
certificates to- prove the age of the
children, and then will be able to buy
new nipples by turning in the old
ones. A maximum price of 35 pfen-
nigs per nipple has beer set for all
that are made in Germany.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-22
NO DISTRESS IN
dublin, SAYS MAYOR
City Better OF Financially This
Year Than Last

Correspondence of the Associated Press)
Dublin, Ireland, Noy., 3.-The Dub
lin correspondent of The Associated
Press has interviewed the Right Hon
James Gallagher, lord mayor of
Dublin, in reference to the statements
which have been made regarding a
supposed exceptional state of distress
in the city due to the April rebellion,
and its suppression.
The Lord Mayor said: 1--WE are alb
Nsolutely better off this year than last
year, Notwithstanding the rebellion.
There Is, as far as [ can see, no ex-
aeptional distress at all. There is, on
the contrary, a good deal of money
coming into the city for separation
allowances for the dependents of the
men, most of them of the working
classes who Joined the army. Infor-
nation obtained from various traders
in the city enable me to say that
trade is as good if not better than it
WAS twelve months ago. Moreover,
employment has been adde's to owing
to the amount of munition work done
In the city. We have five or six fac.
tories each employing from one hun
dred to six hundred hands. Women
are earning very good wages, and
Dublin women have proved very
adaptable in shell making. The re-
suit is that the government is able to
turn out shells in Dublin and in
Ireland generally, cheaper than it can
dc 1T in England"
1.-THE effect of the rebellion,' said
the Lord Mayor, was only temporary.
A certain number of people were
thrown out of employment by the de-
struction of the premises in which
they worked but that temporary need
was promptly met. I got up a fund
which amounted to five or six thou
sand pounds, and the local committee
which had been working for the
Prince of Wales fund in relief Of war
distress gave me permission to spend
from their resources something like
1000 pounds in addition We had the
advantage in distributing these funds
to the necessitous of all the machinery
used by the local relief committee.
The need was only temporary, most
of. the people who were not employed
at that time have got employment
either from their old or new employ
ers. Some went to England and Sc,
cured employment in the munitions
factories"
1.-The authorities of the ST. Vincent
de Paul society, who have closer touch
with the poor of the City of Dublin
than any other organization, tell me
Chat the number Of cases on their
books in the city is exactly the same
today as was at the beginning Of
October last year."
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-22

CLEVER WAY TO GET BUTTER.
Berlin, Nov. 22.-The authorities
have discovered clever though SIM
pie method of getting around maxi
mum prices for butter and the general
prohibition of selling it in more than
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1916-11-22

NIPPLE SUPPLY REGULATED.
Berlin Nov. 22.-To make sure that
as a result of the rubber shortage in
infants will not have to go