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New-York tribune., 1916-07-24

chant ships, launched only 78e,s75
gross tons in 1915. The neutral powers,
outside Of the United States, launched
257,8 1874 gross tons in 1918 and 254,303
tons in 1915.
The shipyards Of Japan are fully oc-
cupied with work for two years and
have had to decline foreign orders 70
supply their own ship owners. The
ships building for delivery this year
number fifty, of l89,45O gross tons,
which will be more than double Japans
largest output, that of 1914. Japanese
builders have contracts for l04 ships, o.
464,370 gross tons, TO be delivered IN
1916, 1917 and 1918. the Osaka yard
contracting to deliver thirty-hve, OF
l62.40O tons. Japan is obliged TO i'm
port steel, and this has extended con-
siderably the market for American steel
products.
Shipyards of tie Netherlands have
contracted to build merchant ships
practically up TO their capacity for lGI6,
1917 and into 1918. Ships thus build
ing =. ordered late in 1915 were report
ed at seventy-one, Of 25l, $50 gross tons.
Delivery, however. seems to be some
what slow, as during the hrst three
months of 1915 only seven new ships, OF
15,349 gross tons, were added 10 the
Dutch seagoing merchant feet, while in
the same period the Tubsntia, 1870
tons; the Palembang, 6,673 tons, and
others were sunk by submarines and
drifting mines.
Norways output of $4,000 tons in
1915 was the largest recorded, and
doubtless will be exceeded this year,
as more than a year ago Norwegians
began TO place large orders in Amer
lean yards, some with a view 20 subse-
quent sale 70 Americans or others.
Shipyards of the United Kingdom
had under actual construction on
of l,423,335 gross tons, many of which
have been nearly completed but await
materials. The dates OF launch ard
completion in British yards are uncer-
tain so long as yards are employed
fully on naval construction and turn
ing out war munitions for the Allies.
During the first three months of 1918
British yards launched only sixty nine
steel steamers, of S0,56l gross tons.
French shipyards also are fully
employed on naval construction and
the manufacture of munitions, and
French ship owners have made in
quiries for tonnage from American
builders. There is in France a con-
siderable tonnage OF merchant steam
ships partly built.
In December, 1915. Italian shipyards
had twelve steel steamships, OF s2,4s2
gross tons, under construction. There
are no returns from Austria Hungary,
and presumably shipbuilding has
ceased under the Italian blockade OF
Trieste and Fiume.
Since the outbreak of war Germany
has printed no returns, and is sup
posed to be engaged in building sub
marines and on other naval construc--
ton. repair and munition work. Cabled
statements 10 the United States in
July, 1916, from Hamburg-American
and North German Lloyd authorities
indicate that such merchant work as
Germany has done since the outbreak
of the war has been, with few excep-
tions, on ships ordered late in 1918
and early in 1914.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24

come to tell The "Mrs. Nurse" that they
were going to stand by her in her in
fantile paralysis fight, ard that nothing
could hurt her around that neighbor-
hood.
work at tho clinic, Just the same as
have always DONE" Mrs. Henry said.
"The people need me, whether they
know it or not, and they have never
needed me more than they do right
now. have had nothing to do with
having the children Of the neighbor-
hood sent to the hospitals. for it hap
pens that none with infantile paralysis
have yet been brought to the clinic.
But in my work in the neighborhood !
have reported homes that were ill kept
or overcrowded, where the conditions
were such as to make the disease prob
able"
Mrs. Henry declared that the feeling
against doctors and nurses in the
neighborhood was due to the fact that
parents are neither allowed TO visit
children stricken with the plague in
the Brooklyn hospitals nor to see them
after they were dead.
Not Afraid of Threats.
"The babies are taken away from
them and they never see them again"
she said. This is very superstitious
neighborhood, and they are quite capa-
Bile of imagining that we spirit the
youngsters away or infict a curse upon
them. But can't imagine who would
write such letter to me-"
Mrs. Henry is the widow OF Daniel
Henry, formerly member OF the
mounted police near the same district:
my husband was never afraid OF
Italian threats and Pm not either" she
declared.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
Construction This Year
May Exceed That of
Rest of the World.
AMERICAN YARDS
WORKING TO LIMIT
japan and Holland Booked
Ahead-War Orders Occupy
Britain and France.
From The Tribune Bureau.

Washington, July 23.--The United
States, for the first time in over half
a century, is not only building more
merchant shipping than any other
country, but the American output for
1916 probably will exceed that Of all
the rest of the world.
The total decline in the worlds ship
building for 1914 and 1915, both COM
pared with 1918, was 1,43S ships, Of g.
6l1,373 gross TONS Adding the de-
creased output in shipysrds for the
first six months of 1916 would bring the
August, 1914. up TO 100000 gross tons,
notwithstanding the present activity Of
American, Japanese and Dutch yards,
The loss to international commerce
through the decline in shipbuilding
thus has been greater than the loss
through the actual destruction of ship
ping, although the latter has fixed the
worlds attention because of the sub
marine attacks on passenger steam
ships. Reports compiled early this
month show that l ,346 ships Of 2,713.-
996 gross tons were destroyed from the
outbreak of the war TO June 80, 1916.
These facts stand out in statement
on Merchant Shipbuilding, 1912 to
1916" made public to-day by Eugene
T. Chamberlain, Commissioner of thu
Bureau of Navigation, Department OF
Commerce.
In the first six months Of 1916 the
United States launched and put into
operation 1872 ships of 228,0l6 gross
tons leach over 100 tons)-more than
the entire years output of 1914 or
1915. On July last private American
shipyards were building or had on
order 385 steel merchant ships Of l.
225,7s4 gross tons, of which l59 ships.
of $4,000 gross tons, will be launched
before December 81 next, thus indicat-
ing a total output for the present year
of 351 steel ships, Of 672, 2,l06 gross tons
The belligerent powers, which in 1918
launched 2,79S,58 gross tons of mer-
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
WOMAN HANGS SELF
IN RAYMOND ST. JAIL
Arrested on Husbands COM
plant, Mrs. Bergensen Ends Life.

Mrs. Lors Bergensen, imprisoned IN
Raymond Street Jail, Brooklyn, on q
charge of disorderly conduct, sworn To
by her husband, hanged herself IN he1
cell last night, and was found dead by
Matron Mary Ryan. She cleyerly
fashioned her hangman's knot from the
three-foot steel chain which supported
the suspension bed in her cell. allowing
a quick drop Of the bed to snap away
her life.
Coroner Wagner at once began an in
vestigation of the death TO learn
whether the type Of bed, which has
been used in ell cells Of the jail for
more than FIVE years, does not invite
prisoners to an easy suicide.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
HEAVY SEAS POUND
STRANDED VESSEL
Wreckers Unable to Reach Bark
on Long Island Beach.
tBy Telegraph to Tn. Tribune ]

Bridgehampton, n. Y. July 23.-Thc
four masted Norwegian bark the Clan
Galbraith, which went ashore on the
beach at Flying Point in the fog yester-
day morning, is now but fifteen feet
from shore, the wind and sea having
piled her up further on the sand.
Three wrecking tugs have been here
since daybreak, but because of the
heavy swell and the rain and fog have
been unable to yet near the ship. The
men in charge of the work of salvage
are hoping for bettering of weather
conditions and a high tide TO enable
them 20 get hawser 20 the stranded
vessel.
Captain Olsen, of the Clan Galbraith,
said tonight that he believed it possi-
Bile 10 float his ship in the course of a
couple of days The coastguards fear
that il will be a work of at least a
week. and that before she is foate I
the midsummer storms will have set
in
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
SAY POLICEMEN ATTACKED z
Girl and Youth Accuse Pair Sought by
Ex-Queens Prosecutor.

Ira G. Darrin, ex-District Attorney of
Queens, will make an effort to-day at a
hearing before Chief Inspector Max
Schmittberger to discover the identity
Of the two plainclothes men who he
alleges, attacked Miss Louise Hahlock.
eighteen years old, Of 20 Fresh Pond
Road Maspeth. and her escort. Frank
j. Schultheis, twenty-five years old, of
25 Mymaud Place, Maspeth, on July 8.
The policemen, it is said, refused TO
give their names, and when asked to
show their shields did 1t in such a
manner that the numbers could not be
seen.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
AUDREY MUNSON SEEN
AS SCREEN PURITY"
Film, After PostpOnement, Is
Shown at Liberty.

purity" the motion picture which
Commissioner Of Licenses Bell refused
TO lndorse earlier in the week, was
shown for the first time at the Liberty
Theatre Saturday night. With regard
TO Audrey Munson, the young woman
who is featured in the picture, it must
be said that the showing was extremely
successful.
Miss Munson is an artists model OF
repute. and a likeness of her graceful
form adorns many public buildings
monuments and galleries. An honest
desire to familiariZe those few who
have not vet seen her there induced
Miss Munson to pose as PURITY Tor
the movies.
The story, attributed to Clifford How
ard. il the usual ingenious dramatic
conception. Thornton Darcy, poet
who may have been the graduate OF
business school, writes an epic under
the influence of an inspiration supplied
by Purity Worth Miss Munson, con-
ventionally attired). The publishers
do not accept it, and Thornton suffers
a nervous breakdown.
An artist discovers Purity enjoying
a hath in the old swimming hole and IS
struck by her beautiful figure. He Of
fers her work, and later she accepts TO
obtain money to print her lovers poem.
Thornton RECEIVERS and becomes famous.
and discovers that Purity has been pos
ing for the artist. To his poetic mind
this is terrible, and he discards her.
| Subsequently, he learns of her sacrifce
and all is well.
The first half of the picture reveals
the poet on the shore of brook COM
posing his poem. Stanza by stanza-in
! fact. as fast as Thornton can write 1t
| the work is thrown on the screen. The
bomely phraseology. the simple. noble
thoughts conveyed in this 6rookslde
composition at once mark MT. Darcy
as a disciple Of the erudlte and accom-
pished verse fashioner MISS Mary I.
Burke. Miss Munson and several other
iris stroll up and down powered pain
ways and through gardened grottoes 70
illustrate the poem. All this has noth-
ing to do with the narrative. ana al
tbouqh il is rather pretty, IT is GER
tainly very dull. As an actress MISS
Wrnson is quite incapable Of register
ing an emotion 80. ~ ,,,,,aI
feature pictures. but hardly merits the
honor Of an individual theatre. Ire
mnral of the allcgory is: Mustn't II De
- IN he q license commissioner
Rita Jolivet. the actress who recently
married an Italian count, is this weeks
attraction at the Strand in AN Inter.
national Marriage" a perturbation of
George Broadhurst's drama. AT the
Rroadway owen Moore and Hazel Dawn
,.orc seen in "Under Cover" Mae
Marsh. who gave a creditable account
~ herself in "The Birth of a Nation"
was starred at the Rialto in "The Mar
rage of Molly-0,' an Irish landlord
plav. DR.. l.. S. Sugden and his Alaskan
pjctures were also there. At the Aead-
emv of Music George Walsh and Anna
- - -. .aar In nThe Reast"
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
Con Halts Runaway Saves Two.

Patrolman William Cohen was
dragged a block yesterday by a runa-
way horse. Dominick Scoazia and his
wife were driving in First Avenue, at
10th Street, when their horse became
unmanageable. Cohen was at Hath
Street when he halted the animal. The
patrolman was slightly injured.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
Wilcox Makes Hurried
Trip to Urge Nominee to
Change Itinerary.
BUT THREE SPEECHES
HAVE BEEN PLANNED
Democrats Write That Many
Former Wilson Men Will
Support 6. o. P.
From a s,an Correspondent Of The Tribune

From q stan Correspondent Of The Tribunal
Bridgehampton, N. Y, July 23.-The
insistent demands of Republicans all
through the West that Charles E.
Hughes make speeches in their COM
munities on his coast-to-coast trip
brought William r. Wilcox. chairman
Of the Republican National Commit
tee, here tonight Mr.. Wilcox ar
rived at $3.50 o'clock, after six
hours drive in an automobile through
the mud from Great Neck.
Mr.. Hughes has contended all along
that there is no need to make more
than a dozen speeches, and these in
the principal cities, on his transcon-
tinental trip. His stand was caused
by the gratifying reports thY~ughout
the West, and he feels that to make
more speeches than he has planned
already would be a waste of ammuni-
ton.
Mr.. Wilcox, his campaign manager,
has received so many requests, how
ever, that he is in quandary how to
deal with the situation.
Wilcox Has Hopes.
He hopes by his visit here tonight
that he will persuade the nominee to
add to the tentative list OF cities he
proposes to speak in.
The exjustice said tonight that be-
fore Mr.. Wilcox left for New York to-
morrow morning the chief work Of
mapping out the itinerary would be
done. SO far only three cities have
been decided upon definitely. These
are Detroit, Chicago and st. Paul. Mr..
Hughes will speak in these cities in
the order named, opening in Detroit
August 7 and speaking in Chicago the
following night and in st. Paul on Au-
gust 9. He will start on his trip Au-
gust 5, accompanied by Mrs. Hughes,
his closest adviser
The reports from the West that have
poured in on the nominee and Mr.. Will
cox have told of the large number Of
Democrats who have grown dissatisfied
with the Wilson administration and
who are going to vote the Republican
ticket this fall. Many of these Demo
Gratis have written personally pledging
him their support.
Offer Comes from Utah.
The most prominent of these is
Chauncey p. Oyerfeld, of Salt Lake
City, and treasurer of the Democratic
State Committee of Utah until last
April, when he resigned
Mr.. Overfield in his letter said the
Republicans would poll tremendous
vote in the West, a large part of it
coming from Democrats.
Mr.. Overfield has been prominent in
Democratic politics in Utai for many
years, and in 1912 was a delegate-at-
large TO the Baltimore convention, vot-
ing for Mr.. Wilson. On several oc-
casions Mr.. Overfeld has been men
toned as a candidate for the United
States Senate.
When william G. McAdoo, Secretary
of the Treasury, and Mrs. McAdoo,
President Wilson's daughter, visited
Utah. about year and a half ago, they
were entertained by Mr.. Overheld.
In his letter Mr.. Overfeld said he
had just finished trip through the
West and that the people were out
strong for Hughes and that he would
be elected without doubt.
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
PLAN PREPAREDNESS SHOW
Will Be Given at Glen Islands by
American Defence Society.

Announcement was made last night
Of a preparedness exhibition to be
given under the direction of the Ameri-
can Defence Society. Through the
courtesy Of the Glen Islands Corpora
tion the exhibit will be held at Glen
Islands, in Long Island Sound, from
August II 10 20.
Three branches of the United States
armed service are expected to cooperate
in the exhibit. The plans include the
exhibition Of a warship. submarine,
aeroplane and wireless apparatus over
which visitors may talk by the new
xiEAlasa tAiAnhaaA
New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
Car, Carrying High Off
Cial, Also Used as
Silent Menace.
MORE INDICTMENTS
DUE TOMORROW
Women Tell Of Double System
of Extorting Money by
GO-BetWeens.

Police Department automobiles were
used by some of the policemen accused
of levying tribute on the underworld, it
has been learned by the District Attor-
ney, in his investigation of the charges
made against William j. Enright and
David Foley. The cars, with the in
sigma of the department prominently
displayed and their occupants no less
visible, rolled through the streets on
which were the resorts that paid for
protection.
The motive, District Attorney Swami
believes, was to inspire in their vic
Tins a sense of the power welded by
the policemen. Police automobiles, 1t
is said, conveyed the idea that the pass
sengers pulled strong at Headquar-
ters."
Some of those who paid monthly
tribute to the police were actually per
suaded that they had seen a high OH
cial of the department riding with the
man to whom they paid. Whether this
impostor was civilian or another
policeman, perhaps innocent OF any
knowledge of the purpose for which he
was invited 10 have a ride, the District
Attorney has not yet determined.
Police Left Trail of Awe.
Several women have told James r..
Smith, Assistant District Attorney, OF
the grandeur and power of the police
men they were accusing.
"Why, they let them have an automo-
bile for their own use," one OF them
said. 49,.
Even though the women's identihca-
tion of the mysterious stranger In the
automobile is worthless so far, tney
have been positive in picking out the
collector in every case, and 1t Is eN-
pected that half dozen new indlct-
ments, some of them naming pollce.
men who, by hook or crook. employed
department automobiles in their graft
ine, will be returned tomorrow.
Mr.. Smith has found that the prices
paid for protection varied according
TO the part Of the city in which the
houses were. nc dHtihbe pAiS' ~ ~
found to be S25 a month for each in
mate. Sometimes the protection money
was paid twice in single month. The
policeman himself rarely, If ever, took
il from the proprietor. lie had MS
recognized collector, such man as
those that were turned up by the dozen
during the Rosenthal investigation.
Double Collections Made.
If the stories Of the women who have
confded in the District Attorney are
to be believed and the prosecutor has
verified much of the information thus
obtained-it was not uncommon for
couple of collectors to call. The flrst
would come early in the month. exact
his payment and go his way. BY the
middle of the month another man would
drop in, declare the first to have been
an impostor, and demand the regular
amount. He generally got it.
There were cases in which payment
was refused. Threats were made that
the action would be regretted, and
within a few days the house would be
raided by men who apparently had no
thought of making arrests, but would
demolish the furnishings.
The two women who have told OF
beating administered by policemen
after they had been TO the District At
torney's office are more eager than
ever TO testify before the grand jury
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-16
JAPANESE ADOPT
 AMERICAN SPORTS
Occidentals Show Vast Prof. ciency in Assimilating Our
 Favorite Pastimes.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Americans interested il sport, returning from Japan, report that the. Japanese are rapidly assimilating Occidental sports in general, just as they did baseball following its introduction into the Land of Nippbn Golf, tennis and motoring are all gaining devotees by the hundreds and some of the Jap anese players are showing a profeieR, cy on the court and links that pro mise to make them formidable oppon- ents in the course of few years.
 In a recent discussion on sport in general, and golf ih particular, a prominent Japanese, who was gradu- ated from the University of Pennsyl- Vannia, not so many years ago. said:
 You know, we really have no game perhaps excepting tennis which ma, may continue as his years pile up and we know that exercise is necessary to keep fit. Golf fills this bill for us. A a nation we are fond of games. Wrestling and fencing have for cen turies been compulsory in the educa- ton of all Japanese gentlemen and re- cent years have seen our schools talk ing up baseball. tennis, hockey and football with very considerable sue cess"
 Mr George W. Guthrie, the Ameri- can ambassador, who is an enthusias- tic golfer, has presented the Tokio club with a beautiful challenge cup which will probably be selected as the club championship cup always to re- mai nthe property of the club, the winner receiving replica. In honor of the donator and the country he represents the final round will always be played off annually on the Fourth of July.
 Several of the other p..ncipal citi- es have established golf clubs, notably Yokohama, and Kobe, while in other sections organizations of a similar character are in progress of forma- ton. The turf in Japan lends itself readily to ideal fairways and greens and the courses have sufficient natur- al and artificial bunkers and hazards to test the skill of the best players. Another indication of strides golf is making in Japan is the fact that a publication, devoted entirely to the game and bearing the title "The Bun, ker", is now published monthly in Tokio
 That the game will be a success in Japan returning tourists say is cer- tain. They point out that the younger Japanese generation, which was chief ly educated in the United States and England and is now mostly engaged in successful commerce at home means to establish there the same healthful sport and games which they found in Occidental countries. Horse racing has taken on new interest anG successful automobile and motorcycie race meets are being held at frequent intervals.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-16
TRENCH S 'o,ooo MILES.

LONDON, Jan. 15.-There are at least 10,0Oe miles of trenches now in the western theatre of the European war, according to H. Warner Allen, special correspondent of the British Press in the French army He writes:
 "In the section of the French lines that have ust been visiting there are already, on a front of ust over ten miles, 375 kilometers tor slightly over 234 miles, of trenches. Q make cer- .ainly still more sure another 10 kilo- meters tor 46 miles of other trenches are being dug, so that by the end oi the. mont hthere will be in that neigh borhood 20 miles of trenches on ten miles of front.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-16
Sunday Morning, January 16, 1916.
PRESCRIPTION BY WIRELESS.

new use for wireless teegraphy is reported from North Carolina The wireless station Cape Haeras the other day picked up message stating that there baby critically i'll ship several hundred miles away the ships had been unable do anything for it. The message gave the babys symptoms and asked that some good physician be asked to prescribe for it.
 The operator got in touch with doctor. obtained the desired prescription and flashed into the ether And another message bringing the pleas that the prescribed treatment had been followed the chids condition had already improved that it was considered out of danger.
 There have been greater radio trumphs than this, particularly in bringing burning vessels at But it would be hard to find making stronger human appeal. It is magic, enough in comparison with which all the magician's work in the middle seems trivial and unimpressive.
 And is another proof of the scientists assertion that the wireless development has taken all isolation of world Whether far at in the midst of desert barely accessible mountain top, if there is wire anywhere within reaching distance in touch with the whole world.
Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-16
wHITe-FEATHER CRAFTSMANSHIP.

When little group of United States senators argued he other day the floor of the United States Senate American citizens should be kept off bellgerent ships, they surprised the country but they must ave surprised Germany For at the very mo :lent when they insisting that Americans their right of travelling peaceful ships of az the German government dspatching to Wash lgton a note recognizing thoserihts in full
 Germany explicitly announces that German submarines v destroy neither passenger freight ships of ationaty without saving the passengers and crews nless they resist try to escape, inv hich of course they immunity She further gives pledge lat if any submarine commander disobeys orders and ljures kills any American citizen in violation of these ledges commander will be punished and reparation i'll be made.
 We have yet to be shown, of that Germany and ustria will abide scrupuously by these promises But eed that they will In any case, is that ought deeply humiating those Id the Teutonic powers themselves asserting
 very principles of neutral rights necessary for self respect which white feathered 'en have wanted to surrender abjectly.