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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-27
PERSONALS

Mrs. Iva Lavender and daughter, Miss Edith of Nashville. and Miss Lylis of In- glenook, are visiting Mrs. B. M. McCrary on Eighteenth street.
 Mrs. William Workman and children. Agnes and Bill, of Fort Worth, Tex. are the guests of friends in this city for a few days.
 Miss Willie Allen has returned from a visit to relatives and friends in Gadsden.
 Miss Berney Gillen is able to be out after a recent illness.
 The many friends of Prof.. A. A. Per- sons will regret to know that he is seri- ously ilr and will be removed to the Elizabeth Duncan hospital Monday where he will probably undergo an operation.
 MT. and Mrs John Shannon of Wood- ward entertained at a most enjoyable dance on Friday night at their home. Music and dancing were enjoyed until a late hour At the close of the evening tempting refreshments were served. A number from Bessemer were included in this hospitality.
 Dr. Powll, the rector of the Episcopal church, will leave September for Char lottesville, Va, where he will enter the university there.
 MT. Hataway continues quite i'll at his home on Seventeenth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-27

Those who razed a building in Rich- mond Kan, recently, expected a neat treat Apparently despite state prohibi- tion) in the form of bottle of wine
 known to have been placed in me cor ner stone when the structures was erect
 ed back in the early eighties. They found, to their dismay, that Kansas air, being less strict than Kansas law, had long ago
 drank the liquid, or, in plain English. that
 the cork had routed out and the wine evaporated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-27

< The newest way of removing sediment from bottles of wine before being sent to the market is effective and more econom. ical than the older method. It consists of allowing the particles to settle in tho neck of the bottle while in an inverted position and then freezing the part of the contents, whereupon it is easily blown off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-27
SOLDIERS LETTERS l. REVEAL CONDITION
 IN GERMAN EMPIRE
Prisoners inDetentiOn Camp Write Telling Truth as to TeutOnic Fight
 at Home

London, August 10.-The best source
 of news as to what is going on in Ger
 many is sometimes found in France
 on the bodies of dead or wounded Ger
 man soldiers or in the pockets of pris- l oners. When an army comes into pos | session of dead or wounded or pris- oners thorough search is made, some
 times with profitable results. Often transIations of captured letters are made public. Here is one of a letter written from Wermsdorf, in Saxony, to
 a man in the XIX (Saxon) corps by his younger brother:
 The hay crop has been delayed a l fortnight owing to the rainy weather.
 Yesterday our dear father left for the l western front with draft for the | 1S3d regiment. Now am left at home
 alone; unfortunately I didn't see him before he went off; he had to go in
 such hurry that I could not even say | good-by. Yes, dear brother, 1t is hard l to have two brothers fighting and
 then to see ones father go, too. GARRISON TOWNS EMITTED | "The garrison towns are now being | emptied, for the decisive battle is now l being fought in France, so the papers
 say, and it will mean lot of young | blood being split. Father left with a draft of 150o men; 500 from Wurzen, l 500 from Debeln and 500 from Leipzig
 all old men, At Dobeln, where uncle | Is, the young fellows start for the
 front on Thursday and also the fellows | of the 1916 class from Wurzen. We
 shall soon be called up now. Here at
 home things are looking bad as re- | gards food"
 Sometimes, too. the British officers get fine insight on what has trans
 a prisoner is taken. This letter is an 1 example,:
 l Our regiment has now been in ac- | tion for six days. Already we hardly
 find pleasure in anything; for in-
 stance, for six days we have neither | had hot meal nor even sip of cof- fee. We suffered terribly from thirst | because the heat was awful.
 l Today we made ourselves a little | coffee and forthwith the English be-
 came bold and peppered us with their
 artillery.
 MANY WOUNDED
 ! Three days ago we were under | heavy fire-which buried me in the I ground. I scrambled out and found that I had received no further hurt. 1 At midnight the same evening we wanted to fetch food. We arrived all 1 right at the field kitchen and turned
 to come back when we met with an
 other lot of fire. The field kitchen stood behind sugar factory and g. perfect hail of stones came down upon us, several of which knocked me down 1 and naturally our food was done for. | "One could write more but it is not permitted. One can only mention that l the number of wounded carried off is very heavy. The trenches are so nar- | row; for the most part they are choked 1 up and altogether unrecognizable. Perhaps we shall be relieved soon and , then one will be able to wash again l and put things in order for we do not | look like human beings. However, it | cannot be altered. Hold out and hold
 on as long as a drop of rain water Is | at hand"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
RECEIVERS NAMED
FOR AUTOSALES CO.
Slot Machine Firm, Admitting
Present Difficulties. Sure Of
Ability to Paw.

William H. Covcrdale and George ".
Morgan were appointed receivers yes
terday in an equity suit against the
Autosales Gam and Chocolate Company.
a $4,000 900 concern selling chewing
gum and candy through automatic vend-
ing machines. The plaintiffs in the
action before Judge Mayer in the Fed
eral District Court are George ". Hol-
loway, Of Beverly, Y. j.. and the Mutual
Candy Company, which claims $685.
for merchandise delivered. The re-
ceiyers are required 10 file a bond Of
$4,000 and are authorized 20 continue
the business % the autosales company
and prosecute necessary suits.
The plaintiffs allege that the concern
has not sufficient funds to meet its
debts. It's liabilities, the complaint
says, include accounts payable, $3S, $50,
notes payable, $4,000, and $4,000. 900
in 6 per cent sinking fund gold bonds.
Of which S3,l2l,000 are outstanding II
Is. said the company failed to pay the
semi-snnuai interest on the bonds due
January l and that it is unable TO meet
the claims Of merchandise creditors as
they come due.
An affidavit filed by the defendant
company admits that il is unable to
pay its bills and its sinking fund in
terest. but denies il is insolyent. II
adds that after all the claims are salts
fed there will remain sufficient prop
erty and assets 20 enable the company
20 exercise its corporate franchises and
business. All the allegations of the
complaint were admitted.
Edwin r. Potts, treasurer of the com
pany, filed an affidavit that the I'M
mortgaged assets under the admins
tration Of the court would be sufficient
TO pay off all creditors.
Following the appointment Of re-
ceiyers for the Autosales company a
protective committee. representing the
cOmpanys Is per cent 2O-year bond
holders, was formed. consisting of
Stacy &. Richmond. chairman: Lewis l..
Clarke, Oscar l.. Gubelman, Alexander
j. Hemphilb c. d. Smithers and Arthur
Turnbull
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
EXTENSION URGED
IN WATER SUPPLY
Board Favored by Merchants
Association in Oppose
ton 10 Mayor.

The Merchants Association yester-
day adopted resolutions in favor OF the
immediate extension Of the Catsklll
water supply system 10 the Schohare
watershed. These resolutions, which
were sent to the Board Of Estimate,
urged that body TO approve and author
ize the plan recently submitted by the
Board Of Water Supply for the add
ton Of the Schoharie basin to the Cats
kill system and that the execution OF
the work be intrusted to the present
Board of Water supply.
This action Of the association IS
opposed to the recent suggestion
that the Board of Water Supply be
abolished and consolidated with the To-
cal Department Of Water Supply at the
completion and opening Of the aque-
duct from the Esopus watershed 70 this
city. which the water commissioners
promise will be by the end Of this year.
Commissioner Charles y. Chadwick,
of the Water Board took the matter up
recently with the Merchants Associa-
ton and other civic bodies for the
purpose of obtaining their support for
the continuance Of the present board
until the entire Catskill system, as
originally planned, is completed.
Necessity for action by the Merchants
Association was based upon report
made to the board Of directors by
Henry R. Towne, chairman Of the as
sociation's committee on water supply.
In Mr.. Towne's report he said:
Because the first stage OF tins great
work is now nearing completion some
argue that the special organization
which was created to administer the
work should be disbanded and the fur
Their conduct Of that work be commit
ted to one Of the regular departments
Of the city government. The only plea
made for this argument is alleged
economy; the purpose Of this report Is
to show the fallacy Of that plea
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
ACCUSE HAMMERSTEIN
OF ILLEGAL PAYMENTS
Three Charge lmpresario with
Favoring Certain Creditors.

Proceedings in bankruptcy were filed
against Oscar Hammerstein Yesterday
afternoon ls the first move Of the cred
itors since the impresario's assets
were released from a friendly re
ownership last week. Three creditors
whose demands total 1854 appear as
complainants I'm the plea, in which it
is charged that Hammerstein. while
insolvent. made payments 70 preferred
creditors.
Hammerstein's liabilities are set at
$4,000. 1t Is believed that they will
be exceeded by his interest in the Man
haitian Opera House and the Lexington
Avenue Opera House. Under normal
conditions these interests would be
valued az between 100000 and $780,
900. according 20 experts.
Yesterdays proceedings were held
off for more than nine months by q
legal move that Judge Learned Hand
characterized as giving Hammerstcin
all the privileges Of receivershlp
without permitting his creditors 10
share in his assets. Judge Hand dis
missed the original friendly" receiver
ship in order that yesterdays appllca-
ton might be made possible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
Health Head to Demand
Purchase of New Ones ii
All Are Now Used.
p. S. G. TO BE URGED
TO AID SERVICE WAR
Railroads Obedience Of Full
Car" Rule Leaves Many Would
Be Passengers to Freeze.

Commissioner Emerson Of the Health
Department announced last night that
he was going 20 compel the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company 20 operate
moro cars on ts competing sur
face lines. II the company proves that
il is using oil the cars it owns, the
Health Department will do its best
through the Public Service Commits
sion. to compel the company to buy
enough new cars 70 handle traffic and
obey the full car" order.
The B. r. T., Commissioner Emerson
says. is obeying the full car order now
but by so doing compels hundreds OF
passengers to wait on cold street cor
ners Tor a car that isn't carrying the
maximum load. Even in the non-rush
hours, Commissioner Emerson says,
many must wait From his study OF
traffic conditions in Brooklyn. the Com
missioner says, this condition 10 en-
tirely unnecessary, because II cars
were operated on one or two minute
headway. instead of a three. four or
sometimes five minute Roadway, there
would be seats for all.
with matters in the Public Service
Commission as they have been during
the last few weeks, " was impossible
for us 10 present this B. K. I. matter.
I hope soon 20 have conference with
Chairman Strauss" said Commissioner
Emerson. at IS conceded that the
maximum traffic is already passing over
the Brooklyn Bridge. We shall make
no further demand for cars between
Park Row and ands Street. We WILL
however. demand more cars between
the main transfer stations beyond the
Borough Hall and the terminals OF the
various non-parallei lines. -,
II was amused to-day while in Brook
lvn 20 see how the B. K. I. surface
cars are used for free transportation
OF baggage. and al the same time leave
passengers standing in the cold. l was
on a Flatbush and Seventh Avenue car.
Az one of the corners starter stopped
the car and threw on 20 the head END
"a huge piece of timber IL caused con-
siderable delay, and the incident was
so truly rural that | couldn't heIp
thinking how little consideration APP
parently is given 20 efficient transporta-
ton Of human beings
DR.. Emerson spoke Of the efforts OF
the surface lines in Manhattan 70 com
ply with the full car order by. operat-
ing under a minute and hall head
way. In many cases. ne said, TINS was
done on parallel lines. This had ne.
cessitated additional cars for most Of
these lines. and that was what Brook
lon must come 20. Dr. Emerson said
he expected TO appear before Chairman
Straus at the rooms of the Public Ser
vice Commission in a few days relative
20 this Brooklyn matter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
Entire Block from Win
dOws Guides Police in
Hunt for Burglars.
PAIR RIFLE HOME,
THEN TURN ON GAS
Flee Down Fire Escape, Drag
ging Long Coat-Cornered
After Flight Over Fences.

Inhabitants of an entire Bronx block
were the excited supers in chase IN
which real policemen and two real
burglars starred yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Hattie sitter, Of 52l East l57th
Street. and her twelve-year-old daugh-
ter, Erna. on the roof hanging out
clothes, opened the thriller In the
background lurkcd two young men,
whom the Stlers saw depart into the
house. Ten minutes later Erns, sus-
picious. descended TO the Stiers's
fourth floor fiat. Silhouetted on the
glass upper half of the door she spied
the shadow Of a man. Screaming, she
rushed upstairs to her mother, who
WAS Fastening down.
Startled neighbors saw two men jump
through the front window Of the FIAT
20 the fire escape. They knocked of
A full milk bottle which just missed
little boy in the street A head in
every window watched the two, hauling
Mr.. STEERS overcoat along. jump the
ladder to the fifth floor and disappear
through the window.
Patrolman Hayden heard the uproar
two bio ks away Dashing up 10 the
house, he saw two men dart from a
hallway four doors away. In approved
movie fashion. Hayden smpcd into a
passing automobile and gave chase.
Tho men sprinted around the corner
faster than the machine could turn. and
disappeared into a hallway in 158th
Street. Hayden saw one man scale a
fence, and set out through the hallway
of an adjoining mouse. Spurred on by
the cries Of spectators, Hayned caught
his man after chase Of two blocks.
Meanwhile, fifty-scyen telephone calls
10 The Bronx Detective Bureau sent
Detectives Frank Pickett and william
Niemand on the run Pickett straddied
a fence and, after five minutes. sighted
young man swinging over the fence Of
house a few doors away.
Pickett scaled three teices, and guild
ed by the tenant observers. entered a
dark hallway. lie brushed against
something warm. He grabbed just as
his wrists were seized. The detective
jerked one hand loose and threatened
TO shoot. The threat was enough
On Pickett's man the police say they
found $50 worth Of jewels. later identi-
fed by Mrs. Sitter. The overcoat. which
she also claimed, was found in the fiat
above her Both men pleaded guilty
before Magistrate Krotel in the Nor
risania court. They described them
selves as Abraham Stern. twenty, and
Frank Walsh. also twenty. They said
they lived at a boarding house in East
Seventy-second Street. near Second
Avenue Last night it was said at the
Bronx Detective, Bureau that Walsh
was a former inmate Of the House OF
Refuge.
Mrs. Sitter said that the men, before
leaving her fiat. turned on several gas
jets. They overlooked her pocketbook,
but had wrapped up a pair Of trousers
belonging 10 her husband. Ten cents
in change was still in them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05

who sent tho order, said the gift was
inspired by a story in The Tribune OF
December %, which reached her on
Christmas Day.
Tho story told how Clara. little
mother" Of the lower East Side az ten,
had made sortie 20 capture a lump
Of coal dropped from a wagon In front
Of her homo, at q Mangin Street. AZ
a result OF n miscalculation, her right
hand was crushed under the wheels Of
another truck.
Along with the money order good
news came 20 Clara. Doctors At Gou-
verneur Hospital said the worst posi-
bic aftermath OF tho accident would be
the loss Of a single finger. The Trib-
une has received several other con
tributions for the relief % the family.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
GIRL In DISTRESS,
NOT In UNDRESS
Merchant, Sued by Wife, Says
He Was Samaritan, Not
OthariO.

Henry Strachstein. wholesale cloth
ing merchant, Is willing TO admit that
the correspondent named by Mrs Rose
Strachstein in her suit for divorce
was a girl in distress. but he denies
that when in his presence WAS she a
girl in undress. as alleged By the wife.
All his present trouble came about
through his softheartedness, and now
he is being made the victim OF a
"frame-up," Strachstein asserts.
The woman named By his wife, says
Strachstein, was unknown 20 him, nor
had he ever seen her until one evening
near an elevated station she approached
him. With tears in her eyes and sob
in every sentence, he says. she told
him her story Of hard luck. She had
come from San Francisco, where her
parents had been killed in tho earth
quake. She wanted something 20 eat,
Here the testimony conflicts The
wife's detective says Strachstein took
the stranger 20 Hesly's. Strachstein
says ne took her 20 Childs's.
Strachstein promised 20 obtain en-
ployment for the stranger. That
would be lovely" said the girl But
before she could accept such assistance
from a stranger be must call at the
home Of her aunt for inspection.
Strachstein says ne was in the house
lust two minutes when his wlfe's
brother, two friends and a detective
broke in. From the testimony Of the
detective. Edward Kiersky, the young
woman in the case might have been
qualifying for a job as artists model
Strachstein says she didn't even have
her hat of
Mrs. Strachstein denies there was
any "frame-up."
The detective said that after he and
his companions had obtained the evil
dence they were held up by the owner
Of the house, who took them for burg
lars. 81 didn't blame her. I guess we
did look like burglars" ne said. This
testimony was in contradiction Of
Strachstelns assertion that the young
woman from Frisco had received an
envelope with money in it from the
raiding party and that the owner Of the
house had given key 70 the raiders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
MEDICINE REGISTRY BOOMING
Patent Remedy Makers Injunction Hp'
pllcations Have No Eject.

Contrary to the report that inc
BOARD Of Health had refused to regis
ter any moro patent medicines pending
the outcome Of legal action brought
he two wholesale drug houses, the de-
psrtmcnt announced Yesterday mat tno
number OF applicants FOR registration
In four days since the first of tho year
was ono-third of the total number OF
applications received from October to
December 81.
'Thc application Of two Of tho man
ufacturcrs Of patent medicines Tor an
injunction restraining the Health ~
nortment from compelling them "a
register and to label Ingredients OF
their medicines has had no effect on
the other big manufacturers, r. w
Fiske. the secretary 10 Health Com
missioner Emerson. said
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
Plays and Players
of the Film World

Mary Pickford there goes that name
again Marguerite Clark, Pauline Fred
erick. Hazel Dawn and other Para
mountainous Players-Lasky- Morosco
stars will attend housewarming,
which the Paramount will submit at its
new Offices, $50 Fifth Avenue, Friday
evening. beginning at o'clock, and
ending subsequently.
The National Motion Picture Board
of Trade will send a private carload
Of representative men 90 Washington
10 convince the House Committee on
Education that national censorship
is unnecessary and unconstitutional
The board is waiting on the committee
20 set a date for the hearing.
Rumor- the same old rumor that
has been 80 busy Of late has il that
a prominent film producing company
il in serious financial straits because
Of inability TO collect a large sum due
from one of the most important dis
tri5utuG agencies In this land Of ours.
Now guess.
Nine. Pctrova. Metro star, is ac-
cused Of being goldfish fancier. And
Bushmau was a bicycle rider before
he reformed and became an actor. On
the other hand, Metro announces that
Valli Valli was bitten on the nose By
a greyhound.
Clara Kimball Young is to play a
cave-woman in Cuba, where the days
are warm, and at night the balmy gar
lie scents the Silly air, or words 70
that effect.
Harry Rayer announces the engage
rnent OF an artist 10 color the film Of
Augustus Thomas's THE Other Grip
not for all the world would It be per-
Missile TO mention the fact that It
may eventually be The Colored Girl
Crane Wilbur has written a play
(Which the Mutual will release), en-
titled The Majesty of Carter Breene.'
Crane Wilbur plays the hero, Of course,
and Celia Ssnton the heroine. Mr.
Crane, il will be remembered, was mar
red last week.
william Farnum is TO play a lumber
Jack in new Fox production, with
DOTOLNE ifAl lAIA 4il Allf Afill tAt ANtA'As
In keeping with the uplift of the
cinematographi art, Miss Louise Car
basse, of the Universal, has changed
her name 10 Louise hold fast WEIGH!
Twenty thousand persons, $50 barrels
Of plaster Of Paris, several million
nails and q few actors. are, II Is an
nouuced. engaged In making the An
nette Kellermann picture in Jamaica.
which, Fox aserts, is 10 be round
million dollars count 'em picture.
Biograph is releasing through the
Edison-K leine service, it Is announced.
Hitherto Biograph has released
through the General Film.
Charles Chaplin has finished his "Car-
men" burlesque He plays Don Jose,
and Miss Purvance the title role.
And the publicity man probably
throws the bull
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
LENDS ART FOR EXHIBIT.
Mrs. n. T.. whitney Contribu,.
Collection shown in Her G.

Mrs. III. J.. whitney COntribu,,-
Collection Shown in Her s,n1,'
The first OF a series Of lo,, a..
lions Of painting, sculpture and =.
in2s will bo placed on view ,o.5,.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney .r IA,
lerics az her studio building. n =
Eighth Street, and VIII conengs .,
including January n.
There was a private view y,,,..,
Of the thirty-nire painting, h.
Whitney has loaned q portal, !. (,
rolla Of The Duke % Ve-aygs. -
Fishermau's Return" also By 81.
Before Her Appearance" By 81
seke: Easter" By Nsxfeld Pa.
The Anatomy Lesson" By IA t..
1.-THE Courtyard o. the Tempt. -
by Guerin, md a portrait % d.
Whitney's daughter Fora. pslr,,i
Howard Cushing. Clsh.rgs x.
Life" IS lent By Mrs. Henry Glen,
portrait Of Mrs. ". z. Var4erba,
81 Boldini. was lent b. Mrs yrs
Bit. Other artists include ~.
Beaur. Robert ". Chan,er Ara,
Davies, George -. Bellows. pI.
Henri. Ignacio Zuloaga and IA Fs,,.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-05
SHEvLIN ESTATE $3,5O0,000
Companies Athlete Headed Get 81,
100000 Policy-Balance tn Family.

Minneapolis. Jan. A.-The will OF
Thomas l.. Shcvlin. Yale football star
who died here last week, was fled Tor
probate to-day. The entire estate, the
estimated value Of which is SS.5OO'oOo'
is left TO the widow and two children
The executors, business associates Of
the late lumberman, are hamcd ms trus-
tees Of the estate. n large part Of which
is placed in trust until the children
reach thirty. The money then will be
equally divided between them. Mrs
Shevln will receive an annual income
Of 100000, in addition to money from
certain holdings
Although Mr. Shevlin's life was heav-
ilv insured. only $4,000 ia payable TO
the widow. Sl,500,00 being payable TO
two companies Of which he was the
head.