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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17
CotfnuxeAH on

New York May le.--In cottonseed
on declines Of I 70 II points were
registered There was scattered liqui-
dation and some Offering from re-
liners Outside business was SLOW hut
consuming demand was not Of dis
couragtng volume.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17
Marriage Licenses,

Deputy Clerk Breeder yesterday Is
sued licenses to the following couples;
II. s. West and Emma f. Bryant.
+. II. Childrcss and Clara V. Davis.
O. c. Harris and Madeline NJ. Eitel.
J. II. Wade and Sarah A. Selden.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17

New York, Ma 1g-After "a riv
strength today the curb market de
veloped Q reactionary tendency with
the list in general becoming dun on
she declines, though few strong
apots prevailed
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17

Put slices of dried beef In the hot
tom Of a ramekin, break in an egg,
sprinkle with Worcestershire sauce
mustard salt. cayenne pepper and
cheese Cook until just coddled.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17

The Toulouse is the heaviest OF the
domestic geese. This breed was de-
veloped in France. II was taken to
England about 1910 and first ap-
peared in America twenty years
later These fowls are massive In
appearance and very domestic In
habits. The plumage Is gray. mark
ed with white. The geese shown
are OF the Toulouse breed.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17
RIcHUo I'D ror,rco MAnnsT.


New Toll eco - Suncured Receipts
m oderate; market good at quotations
BARK fred Receipts light. market In
fair quotation. Unsound Tobacco nard
TO sell at any price.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17
PETERSBURG PEANUT MARKET,


pany, Incorporated.
Petersburg, Va, May Is. 1916 .
SPANISH. FARMERS STOCK
First quality. sl.00 per bushe1 nom.
inal
VIRGINIAS, FARMERS STOCK.
Fancy jumbo. &C per pound
Fancy handptcked, SIC per pound.
Extra prlne- a. per pound
Prime, 5Mc per pound.
Smelling stock, "a to SC per pound.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17

New York. May I6-Raw sugar
quiet. CentrifUgal ss test $50. mo-
lasses 50 test, SIS. Refined un-
changed
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17
Hastings Court.

Levi Rose eoiorca. was given sixty
days in iai on appeal. from the Ju-
venile Court where he was given
siN months for contributory neg!i-
liquor.
c. E. Landlord was given fiftee
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17
<ETS, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

days in two cases OF petit larceny.
In Police Court he had been given
thirty days in each case.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17
miCRHOyD PRODUCE wARwET.
Y Quotations Furnished by Woodnn 4
scott, COnnmiszion Merchants


Richmond. Va. May Ia, 1919.
The Wholesale market from actv al
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17

Cabbage, new. per crate. % 90
MAINE GROWN SEED POTATOES
Eoblers. l50 lbs. bags, per bag 90
Red Bliss, $50 lbs bags, per bag. 4 30
Green Mountains, per bag. 3 rs
Early Rose, 1E0-lh-- Ia gs. per bag 90
MARKET CtnNnJTIONS.
The wholesale commission market
here today, though somewhat sluggish
In comparison with the activity of
week end periods. was fairly good for
a Tuesday There was an increase Of
business over that OF yesterday and re-
cetpts were moderate.
Chickens weighing over / u pounds
and IN good condition, were greatly in
demand and hee4sht In fets prices
Small chickens, however, did not appear
so desirable The wool market con-
tinues strong and active.
As a general thing the market today
was unusually nrm as regards prices
though quotations on chickens were
slightly unsteady
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17

RICHMOND STOCK MARKET,
tFrorn Caskie g. Burch & Coz
Richmond, Va MAY "a. 1918.
state Securities.
AslF
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-17
GRAIN AND PROVISION MARxET.

Quotations ny Miller Il CO.. Members
Chicago Board of Trade.1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
The Country DweUer Has His OaUn Garden but Despite
Birskys Bubbling Enthusiasm, Zapp Doesnt Want
to Have to Live on Radishes All Summer

stance, once in FIVE years Mr.. Roosevelt
makes a trip OF about 10000 miles,
understand, and when he comes back,
understand, dozen magazines, is fall
ing over themselves that Mr.. Roosevelt
should accept five thousand dollars apiece
for an article telling about these here ten
thousand miles he travelled; he writes
book about it. Birsky, and gets paid at
the rate OF a dollar a mile. or $4,000,
for it. he gives lecture about it in Car
negie Hall and six people sends letters
to the papers and complains OF the man
in the box office because he says all right
he's liar then, when he told them two
hours after the advance sale opened that
the entire house was sold out and they
said he was liar. The Explorers Union
Local No. gives dinner to him-not
the box office man but Mr.. Roosevelt,
and he makes an after dinner speech
downright T. Roosevelt, 1919 about 1t
and realizes another $500 or so, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

Committing Is Like Being Salesman
in Territory Where You Make
Different Town Each Day,
He Concludes.

TO be such habit with me TO take cold
plunees. Birsky. that the second summer
we was there when they had that bad
water famine on Long Island. used bot
tied water as long as | could get the
spring water companies to send me trial
samples. For over month there we done
the weeks washing with artificial vichy
and my wife had to get rid OF the wash
lady because for every siphon she put in
the tubs she drank one herself"
You were lucky it was only vichy,
Zapp," Brsky said 1T might have been
ginger ale or root beer, in which case she
would of took it home to the children
"Joke if you want to, Birsky," Zapp re-
torted But what l am telling you now
is facts from living in the country
"Schmoocs, Zapp" Birsky said. You
could have shortage of water in the city
lust so much as in the country. Just be-
cause you didn't like Brunswick Beach
amt nothing against it Simon Kuhney
has been living now in Brunswick Beach
for six years, understand, and he says If
he leaves his house at seven o'clock he IS
in his office at eight fifteen
Sure | know Zapp said, but If
Teller which leaves his home in Bruins
wick Beach at seven o'clock would arrive
in his office at eight fifteen only often
enough. Brsky. sooner or later on his &C
count the conductor would got to go from
car to car asking is there doctor on the
train
Well if everybody felt the way you
do about living in the country Zapp,'
Brsky said, who would buy suburban
real estate?'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

ton unchanged in the Lorraine and in the
Vosges."
On Thursday the Boctcs stirred a bit.
They came to see what we were doing. We
taught them the pas de qldtre and we played
them pretty tune for il. They learned their
lesson quickly. Two hundred OF them were
left on the field It was not much, and yet
the Official report simply announced: THE
Germans attacked our outposts between Bla-
mont and Baccarate, and their attack was
completely stopped" In reality they were
thrown violently back on Blamont
Here is part Of letter from a Canadian
soldier in the trenches;
VXIHEN night came both the wind and
w til. cannonads had abated About
Q D. m. I took my turn as our ad-
vanced sentry In front Of the trenches Of the
second position. Just imagine night as black
as ink, night worthy of Dante's Inferno.
full of mystery from which the worst could
DC expected.
One thing struck ne when | took my post.
Usually one could see during the night flashes
OF light, the explosion Of obuses, the white
light Of electric projectors or the luminous
fuses sent up by the Germans into the air
to enable them TO discover the French patrols.
Il was ike the most spectacular exhibition
OF fireworks. But on that night there was
no light 70 Be seem nor were the guns boom
ing. perceived also in the sky what looked
Ike star. but It grew brighter and DINNER
and moved from lett 10 right, as II making
signals. This turned out to be captive bal
loon.
I could not help thinking, and this thought
would ;a,;stcray come back TO me- that l
was an actor playing the part of some hero
in some dark drama Ike La Toscs." My
mind was busy amusing itself with this and
other thoughts when all OF a sudden, without
the least previous notice, hldeous light IL
Eliminated the horizon, and before / could
catch my breath hail OF obuses fell on our
trenches, working terrible havoc. The ex-
plosions shook my body, surrounding me with
flames and FIRE, while / could hear in the far
distance ~. noise OF an intense fuslade and
terrifying shouts and cries, such as would
come from a crowd Of wild men. The Ger
mans had gone 70 the assault on our first posi-
ton.
Suddenly we heard great noise behind US,
a noise OF chens, irons wheels or horses pull
ing hard in great number and OF swearing
hurrying men. Before we had time to resiiae
what had happened thunderbolt rent the ~"
We could feel the heat OF it. deaien'ns
roar shook the earth. while the dispiA.e".
OF the air was so great that we were -"
against the forward wall OF our u.d ;uss
One of our famous rs" batteries " %
arrived upon the ground and "A 70"
make the Boches danee'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

that's the way it goes. But you take Max
Paikcs which in FIVE years travels $1,000
miles to Mr. Roosevelt's 10000 Birsky,
and what is it2 Nobody asks him to write
about it: nobody wants him to talk about
it. and if somebody blows him on account
of it to rye bread tongue sandwich and
a package of all-tobacco cigarettes it
would be big already
"Evidenccly you seem to think that It's
a hardship that Teller should live in the
country" Birsky said. Did you ever
think what it means TO business man
that he should be able to raise his own
vegetablcs?'
Sure did," Zapp replied. 1T means
that he is going to eat principally radishes
for the whole summer because that's the
only vegetable which business man who
raises his own vegetables could really rely
upon. Furthermore you think / am a
greenhorn in the country. Birsky. but
already done my twenty odd thousand
miles in round trip instruments Of a miles
a day on the Long Island Railroad. and
| know the whole game of living in the
country right the way through, from get
ting stuck with the lots downwards.
used to own q house at Brunswick Beach
and when | schcnctcd it to the second
mortgage a year and half after 1t was
built, understand, it had cracks in the
walls on the second floor which If you'd
put a couple Of windows and a door in
EN- could of been considered as extra
masters bedrooms"
Steam heat will do that to a new
house, Zapp,' Birsky said. Maybe you
kept the place too warm
Too warm" Zapp exclaimed. Listen,
Birsky, the heating plant OF that house
wasn't designed for nothing bigger than
a FIVE dollar year safe deposit box.
With the furnace going full on, Blrsky,
whenever my wife opened the refrigerator
door. Birsky. it raised the temperature OF
the kitchen ten degrees. The plumbing
was nothing extra neither. We had gas
heater for the hot water, Birsky, which,
figuring at the rate of $3.50 per thousand
cubic feet, if you took six hot baths 1t
was the equivalent Of suit of clothes.
For years in New York | tried to bring
myself to take a cold plunge in the morn
ing. but couldn't stand the shock till
seen my first months gas bill out IN
Brunswick Beach, and after that all had
to do when jumped into cold bath was
TO think how many cubic feet was saw
ing, and if it was six below zero even got
a pleasant glow all over. Later on IT got
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

and it's the o56th white colonial house
with green blinds and a For Sale sign
on it."
rs Paikes's house for sale?" Birsky
asked.
Sure it is" Zapp replied. What do
you think-Paikes is such close friend
Of mind that he asks me up for pleasure?'
For why does he want to sell?' Birsky
inquired.
He says before lunch that his wife
takes dislike TO the place on account IN
summer the smell of the flowers reminds
her of the cemetery where her Uncle
lakes first wife is buried, and for that
reason he would take Sl2,25O for the
house. After lunch he also said that his
hay fever was something terrible up there
and he might be willing on that account
TO call it an even twelve thousand. After
supper he says if it wouldn't be that his
father-in-law is getting pretty feeble and
might 90 off at any moment, corner OF
seth Street and Madison Avenue, yum
dcrstand, he wouldn't take a penny less
than Sll, 500 for the house, and just before
got on the train to come home he says
how much would give for the house
But Paikes really and truly paid
twelve thousand for the house Blrsky
declared.
Then how could he expect to get rid
of il for Sll ,5OO?" Zapp demanded. III
YOU would read the Sunday papers.
Birsky. YOU would know that the stand
ard amount below cost which they adver-
tise country houses to sell for is $4,000.
In fact, / often figured it out, Birsky'
that as everybody is willing to sell his
broom house with 3 baths, sun parlor
and every modern improvement for $1,000
below cost, if such house originally
cost SIS. 900 and changes hands six times,
v'understand, the last owner gets 1t tor
nothing with bonus of $4,000 thrown IN
And even then he is welcome to the house
for all Of me-
That because you uoii hi0" "i'"' -
is like 10 live in the country, Zapp'
Birsky said.
II think I've got pretty good idee'
Yam retorted. It's something like being
Southern salesman for a line OF goods
where you've got to make different town
each day. The distance you travel is the
same the railroad accommodations amt
No better. but instead OF getting every
nigh, rotten dinner and good game OF
ninochle afterwards at dollar and a halt
dav hotels, American plan, you go home
and get good dinner and no game OF pi-
rochIe at all from one years end to the
other Yes. Birsky. it's very unjust the
way the world looks at things. FOR M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02


III RUN across Max Paikes yesterday
afternoon" Louis Birsky, the real
estater, said one morning in
March He was telling me that you
spent Sunday with him at his place in
Sand Plains"
He amt lying to you Barnett Zapp'
the waist manufacturer, admitted.
What kind of property has he got
up there" Birsky asked.
He's got all the conveniences of tel-
ler living in a $40 month cold water
fat, without janitor service, before steam
heat was invented. except that he amt
50 handy to a delicatessen store. The
bread run out at lunch time, Birsky, and
for supper we had to eat Fig Newtons
with the einqsmGchte herring and luncheon
bolony, as Mrs. Paikes didn't know the
neghbors good enough to borrow a loaf
from them on account of only living up
there three years"
But amt the air elegant up in West
chester County," Birsky. insisted.
Say" Zapp exclaimed, after teller
escapes with his life from the subway at
end Street, understand, and travels up
70 Sand Plains every night in a comblna-
ton baggage and smoker along with five
or six dozen decent, respectable, hard-
working Italiener ash cart drivers, under
stand ne, when endlich he arrives in the
country Birsky, the air must got to be
elegant otherwise.it wouldn't be too
much 70 expect there is waiting for him
a couple Of soda water tanks full Of oxy-
gen ike they give it to pneumonia pa
tents with rating Of A to {, credit
high"
What are you talking nonsense
zapp'" Birsky said. II bet you wasn't on
The train half an hour. Sand Plains is one
Of the most convenient suburbs to get TO-
Sure know" zapp said, but Paikes
don't live in the suburbs. Birsky. he iiVes
IN the suburbs Of the suburbs, and ne says
70 me on the train that from the the sta
ton 70 his house is only twenty minutes
BY trolley, but he practically never taxes
II as his oitermobile is waiting for MN at
the station practically every night ana
gets him 20 his home in ten minutes
Well, after we got out Of the trolley
birsky. we walked another ten DOCKS
and az last we reached the house. II ever
y'u 70 up 70 Sand Plains 70 sec fd'He'
and The oi,ernobile should Goh coll h"eie"
Practically not be at the station b'rsHy'
you couldn't rnisg paikes's house. Keep
70 the right after you cross the tracks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

Nobody" Zapp replied.
But you admit that there's whole lot
OF people living in the suburbs, Zapp,'
Birsky said. and Zapp nodded.
Then there must be some advantage in
it, Birsky insisted.
Well" Zapp admitted. there's one
thing that fellers which lives in the sub
urbs has got more than fellers which lives
in the city"
What's that2" Birsky asked
Mileage Zapp concluded.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
"WAR LETTERS FROM FRANCE"

n, MtIe volyme entitled "WGr Letters
from France" abIy edited By 4. dc Lapradeie
and Frcdcric r. Coudert and published By
b. Ippie'on & Co., are some Of the most
human documents of the zrdr
"Out Of oil the revelations Of courage, Of
suffering. Of hope7 say, the editorial preface
10 the letters, there comes one single great
rcreiafion-the heart Of France
From Vcrdun Louis Madeln. now Captain
Madelin. the historian Of Danton and Fouch6
and author Of history Of the French Reyo-
luton, wrote on November ;, 1914;
r HAVE little devil OF nephew who
enlisted at the age Of eighteen, and FIVE
l. days later was sent to the front He
fought like demon with the light infantry
on the Marine and the Aisne, and when his
shoulder was broken by bursting shell he
begged the doctors to heal it quickly so that
he could return to the front Eighteen years
old! There's your type of volunteer that
shows what generation we have IN reserve
and with what spirit they will march to re-
conquer lost ground.
the Germans have been spreading the news
that Verdun is besieged, taken, destroyed. 1t
is one of our favorite jokes here. Whenever
one OF US is going to Verdun we tell him
that it is useless to start seeing that Verdun
is DESTROYED. But the Germans seem to make
their countrynen swallow any kind OF story
Yesterday I heard a German prisoner being
examined az the Office Of the colonel to whose
staff I am attached. The fellow had been
before Verdun for eight weeks. and yet he
stupidly persisted in his assertion that Yer
dun was captured.
cannot find words TO express the aoso-
lutte confidence Of our men IN the ina! sue
cess OF our arms. Even during the terrible
weeks when General Joffre tested their taith
20 its utmost there was no wavcrng Equally
Undesirable is the spirit OF genial com
radeship and Of self-sacrihoe. We would all
devote ourselves to death; we woud even
devote our young sons to death II thereby we
could unite Alsace- Lorraine 20 France IN SIX
months or twelve months or sixteen months
or in any number OF months. an IN TIE
best OF health and spirits.
Unsigned and undated, the following letter
is published as evidence OF the touch Of bit
terness noticeable IN the letters Of men al
the front who md their exploits not quite
sufficiently appreciated in the Official com
munications":
~HE day before yesterday they did US
the honor OF sending US an offcla!
communication We had been in
fight had seen loaded ambulances going to
the rear. had crossed woods filled with corpses
and passed ravaged farms; and we had said
10 each other What battle it has beenF
No wonder we were somewhat astonished to
read in our official communication "Situa-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02

Unsigned and undated the following letter
is published as evidence OF the touch OF BIT
terness noticeable in the letters Of men at
the front who md their exploits mot quite
sufficiently appreciated in the Official com
r,unications":
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-02
By MONTAGUE GLASS;
Illustrations by Briggs.

Copyright I9I6-The Tribune Assn.
(T RUN across Max Paikes yesterday
afternoon" Louis Brsky, the real
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-01

asek. Now the attorney has filed suit
against the Herald on behalf of the
girl for 100000.
John Wesley Hill is a pal Of ex-
Pres. Taft and Andy Carnegie. He
is generally reputed to be the high
est-paid preacher in the country.
Karasek says he has been informed
that Hill rakes in $4,000 weekly for
work as preacher, head of the Peace
Forum" and talking for the Repub-
Hcan national campaign committee
to boost Hughes for the presidency.
Miss Covington and Karasek make
the charge that when the girl filed a
similar suit in New York several
months ago, C. E. Morse, Republican
boss in Missouri, visited her at the
Waldorf-AstOria hotel in New York
and offered her several thousand
dollars if she would withdraw her
suit and sign an affidavit generating
Hill.
The girl further says that since
the original suit was filed she has
been threatened with disgrace by
DOWGIlul ulCn dluu uoL0 DCCu IOIu Ildl
no newspaper would credit her
charges against the political
preacher.
Miss Covington, an attractive and
Intelligent young woman, met Hill
several years ago, according to her
story, while the preacher was chas-
ing around the country urging the
election of Theodore Roosevelt to
the presidency. The preacher be-
came attracted by the girl and gave
her a position as secretary.
Later, the girl says, he made love
to her, representing himself widow
er. She says she has found out he
has been married twice, has two chill
dren and that his second wife is still
living.
when l discovered he was mar
ried 1 went to him and demanded an
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-01
TAKE WATER FROM BOYS HEAD
HAS GOOD CHANCE TO LIVE

Thomas Barber, 4, 1918 y. goth St.,
S. Chicago, may get the benefit Of
the one chance in a thousand that
was granted him when his parents
submitted to an operation on the
boys head. DR.. H J. Milestone, 9119
Commercial av. performed the opera
ton Thursday. -Four ounces of wa
ter were removed from the boys
head. His condition today is favor
able. ..
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-01

''When Frealized he had no inten-
ton of marrying me l filed suit in
New York. Then began a series of
threats, cOaXing and anonymous let
tiers. l heard ugly rUmOrs that
would get nowhere with my New
York suit; that his influence was too
powerful, so 1 decided to begin suit
in Chicago. It seems that his Unfit
ence reaches even here. The Herald
story, l believe, was meant to dis
credit me-"
The Herald story said that friends
of DR.. Hill believed the girls suit
was blackmail. But none Of the
friends" were named in the story.
When Miss Covington first filed
suit against the preacher it startled
political and 'sOcsial circles. Hill
travels high. His best friends are
among the fnanciers and national
politicians. In addition to Carnegie
and Taft, Hill enjoys the friendship
of John D. Rockefeller.
On the platform Hill has a great
way of mixing the bible and Repub-
ican politics. He starts off with a
prayer and winds up by linking Char
ley Hughes with the Lord. Hill is said
to have been a discovery of the late
Mark Hanna, one-time national boss
of the G.. o. P. His first campaign
work was done for Pres. Mckinley.
1890
TAKE WATER FROM BOYS HEAD
HAS GOOD CHANCE TO LIVE
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-09-01

Gary, Ind.-Aetna Explosives Co.,
employing 1000, shut down on &C
count railroads refusing to accept
war munitions for shipment. Every
Gary industry likely to close If ran
strikers called .,"y '1.-,""@-''sz ~