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The sun., 1916-01-12
FRISCO COMMITTEES AGREE.
Reach Z ndrrstandinR on Reorgan-
isRttOn Plan.

|; is understood that III. three pro-
tectiva committees of the So. Louis and
san Francisco Railroad Company have
come to an understanding with regard
TO all of the features OF tho plans for
the reorganization of the property which
were presented To the Missouri Public
Service Commission. but which were
not entirely approved by that body
The committees have decided that they
may accept the rulings OF the commits
sion on certain points with slight modi-
fcations As TO the matter of the voting
trust they are understood to have agreed
to accept the commissions suggestion
that seven members he appointed. ma
jorl'y OF whom shall represent the stock
holders. The bankers who put forth
the plan, however. insist that they shall
have the naming Of the trustees.
The sun., 1916-01-12
JEWISH RELIEF DISTRIBUTED.
Felix W. Warburu Announces
AmOunts for various War Zones.

The JOINT distribution committee work.
ing for the relief of Jews in the war
zones Of Europe met yesterday IN the Of
flee OF Felix NJ. Warhurg. treasurer OF
the American Jewish Relief Committee.
The joint committee. OF which Mr.. War
burg is chairman. consists OF representa-
tiVes OF the American Jewish Relief
Committee. tho Central Relief Commit
tee and the Peoples Relief Committee.
The following appropriations were
made For general relief IN Russia,
100000: for the relief of Galican pris-
oucrs and refugees In Russia, $4,000
for Austro- Hungary. $4,000: for GER
man Poland. si7j. 200: for Jewish stu.
dents IN Swiss universities. $1,000. and
for refugees IN Alexandria, $1,000 a
month FOR four months.
Mr.. Warbu-r announced tNat ur 20
date the American Jewish Relief Com
mttee Las received sl,llS.,S6 In cash
and pledges.
The sun., 1916-01-12
MAUDE ADAMS AS "BABBIE. "
Seen Again ms the Heroine Of
..Tbc Little Minister"

Maude Adams returned to the New
York public last night at the Empire
Theatre IN the incarnation which first
cndeared her to IT, This was the inn
mortal LddU Bdbbie in The Little Min
ster." Since Miss Adams played this
role first she has advanced from a
struggling star tn the unique post she
has held for years az the most popular
actress on the American stage.
All the witchery and charm of Miss
Adams's acting in the part We're az
Irresistible as ever, The audience de
lighted in her gay comedy and her elnsh
couuetry. To judge from the applause
Of the audience last night. THE Little
Minister" has not lost bit OF lts
potency to amuse the public. Dallas
Anderson was Miss Adams's capable
assistant as Gdrir.
The sun., 1916-01-12
Half q stan VIII 10.

SON OF the mon who have refused
n so~yc." he said. ARE those who were
rked either up or down stairs. Others
appointed TO the consulting STAN be-
rgsc did not think 1t desirable to
. 'are them on the active stan. IN some
ses I'm sorry 10 receive the dcclina-
oHe IN some I'm not. The hospital
N rs' along with half the staf that
appointed As "A matter of fact my
,ysory committee recommended a
NAL s'aff hu; as I wanted to give the
~ members q chance to serve re-
appointed all except ten OF them. |
-'s-et that tWenty-seven men have de-
nod and II any of them reconsider
her action the doors will be open. I
bear 70 grudses."
Tte r-bellious doctors say that when
'Ne c.'v got control OF the hospital II
vas agreed that the staN would have
'A,oI'c control. This contention is the
ISIS o. the mandamus or injunction suit
wlich j. low threatened. The twenty
S'cG s.cU"rs OF the decliEation letter
s-e
n-s Herbert n. Schenck. Charles F.
'a'ro II. : DuCret. W. :. Rink. r. =.
500. A Bormau. william H. Alien, j.
.."s''r Keep, William Norris Butler,
''dor.i T. Meeks Nathaniel Robin
,-.. william H. Pierson. William II.
"e. Orlando Eitch, Chester A. Peake.
Ralph a. Ncaton, Bruno W. Bierbauer.
william II Blackman. Edward Chaplin.
ra' Z. BurWaun. J. y. Given. Alton 8.
Warner W b. WInchcll. Albert Com
'rf. Clark Ruruham. Gustus G.
W s'' and NJ T. PaliSter
The sun., 1916-01-12
ARGENTINE CROPS BIGGER.
wheat aud Oats Promise Larger
Yield Than Last season.

NNSHlNGToN, Jan. IA Nobel re-
""I i".'iNcd to-day by the Bureau OF
,'op Estimates of the United States De-
",'n"n' ni Agriculture from the Inter-
.,rV"HAl Institute Of Agriculture at Rome
.p'''asiS the l9l5-l6 production OF
,nN7l IN Argentina at 1s4.161, 500
.nsn'Is, oats 75,43S. 900 bushels, faxseed
":'i 900 bushels.
Expressed in percentages. taking 1914
90, ploiurtion as 100 per cent. these
,naa''I6 crops promise to be for wheat.
a. so,' n"r cent -; oats. 1918; faxseed,
wv per cent
The sun., 1916-01-12
DRAMA LEAGUE IN DEBATE.
Stage Novelties. Unless Exception-
ally Well Presented, Failures,

The Drama League of America at IL,
monthly meeting In the Playhouse yes
terday afternoon undertook lengthy
discussion of the subject "Revivals and
Innoy ailons" and their place upon the
present day stage.
The speakers were Louis Calvert, Miss
Grace Griswold. Emanuel Reicher.
Lucien L. Bonheur, Elizabeth Valentine,
stuart Walker and Mrs, NJ. Morgen-
thau, Jr. Grace Georges present series
Of novelties came in for particular
praise, but there was general senti-
ment that unless novelties were pre-
sented In superior manner many were
doomed to failure.
The sun., 1916-01-12
RIG STRIKE ON IN SPAIN.
Move said tn he Intended Ia Force
workers to EmiGrate.

PAn,s. Jan ll.--A general strike IN
tho metal industry began to-day In Bar
celona. spain. Back Of the strike Is
believed to be the activity Of interna-
tional labor agents who are attempting
to involve all Spain in labor troubles
with the hope OF forcing the emigration
Of many laborers to other countries.
According to the Hdpas correspondent
at Madrid, the Duke Of Alba declared
that he received information to that ef-
feet when he took the portfolio OF Min
lister Of the Interior. The Duke looks
,,non the Barcelona strike as the begin
r;nr OF the campaign. His only state
ment I'm regard TO the treatment Of II is
that the Government win act ~ events
require
The sun., 1916-01-12
ARMOR PLANT PLAN UP AGAIN.
Manufacturers Asked to Attend
senate Committee Hearings.

WAsuISGroN, Jan. 1l.-iiearings will
berin next Tuesday before the Senate
Committee on Naval Affairs on the bill
TO authorize the Secretary OF the Navy
10 acquire a site and build plant for
making armor and proJectiles AT cost
not to exceed $il ton.
Letters were sent to-day to officers of
tho NiNyale. Bethlehem. Carnegie and
other private plants making armor plate
asking them to testify. II is likely that
representatives of the Navy Department
also will appear and give expert advice,
The sun., 1916-01-12
"Cantaioup Trust" suits FaiI.

Los ANGELES. Jan. 1l.-Holding that
no violation of the Sherman ANTITRUST
laws had been shown. Judge Benjamin T..
Blcdsoe of the United States District
Court dismissed to-day the So-called
"cantalo,lp trust" suits. involving about
1876 persons and Arms throughout the
country.
The sun., 1916-01-12
RED LIGHTS ON GO.CARTS.
hr''ish Order baby Carriages T.
Garry Lamps After Dark.
Spsctnl CdhLe nsanafch IA Tar SrN

LONDON, Jan. 1.-The Home ONCE
Includes Il rule In its latest order pre-
s,t'nlhg that all vehicles shall show
sner dark white light In front and
..d one at the rear
Carriage.
The sun., 1916-01-12
MRS. MOHR, DENOUNCED
AS MURDERESS, SMILES
he1uses to Accompany Jurors to the Spot Where Three
Negroes, Hired by Her, Are Said to Have
Killed Her Husband

PROVIDENCE. II. l., Jan. Ii.--Scath-
'ngly arragned as the instigator OF the
murder Of her husband, Mrs Elizabeth
L. Mohr sat in court to-day as unmoved
az though she were mere spectator.
Even Cecil Brown and Henry Spell,nsn.
negroes, alleged 10 have done her bid
ding In Staying Dr. e. Franklin Mohr,
were so unconcerned that they were
continually smiling.
When Assistant Attorney General
Phillips asserted that Mrs. Mohr's mo.
uVeS Tor desiring to have her husband
killed were her intense jealousy of Miss
Berger, the doctors housekeeper; the
FEAR that the latter was getting all the
physlcian"s money. and desire to
thwart her husbands suit for divorce,
Mrs. Mohr only smiled
AT the same time she directed her
glances at August II. Mohr and Mrs.
Ella Hogan OF McEwensville. Pa,
brother and sister OF the dead man. who
arrived here to-day 10 he witnesses for
the defence. Mrs. Mohrs cousin, Miss
Ella Henson OF North Adams. Mass.
also was In her line Of vision.
When Judge Stearus made the an
nouncement that the court and jury
were ready to proceed to the scene Of
the murder the defendants waived their
right and declined to participate. Ar
irving at the place the jury found Dr
Mohr's automobile drawn up M the
roadside exactly where Heals, the
chauffeur. had stopped II in compliance
with the alleged understanding with
Brown and Spellman.
Jurors at scene Of Murder.
the jurors were taken to the place
where II II said the negroes hid and
where barbed wire fence had been cut
away for the convenience of the alleged
conspirators, \ Journey was then made
across the footpath where. II IL charged,
the motorcycle was trundled TO the
khode island Country club driveway
Returning To the city, the jury visited
the Mohr home and then the house oppo-
site, where Mrs. Nohr is said 10 have
spied upon the doctor
The trial was formally opened in the
afternoon by statement of the states
case by Mr.. Phillips. Mrs. Mohr. though
unruiiied. was more attentive during the
afternoon than she had been In the
morning and the negroes were less in
Clined tu be mirthful
After describing how two fish poa ,hers
al Echo Lake had seen two negroes
hauling a motorcycle from the path
way leading from Washington road soon
, after the shooting. Mr.. Phill! ~ said
II want TO show you that "A deliberate
murder was committed that when one
of these coiored men came out OF the
ambush he rested his revolver on tho
back OF the car to make sure OF his
aim. Robbery was not planned. for 1t
will be shown that tn. personal effects
I OF neither OF the victims Of the shoot
The sun., 1916-01-12
LAWSUITS IMPEND
IN HOSPITAL ROW
rrrndcrgast and Kingsbury
Threaten DR.. Brown Of Old
Cumberland staff.
nrMAND 4 RETRACTION

49,, rqrnus over the reorganization Of
o,,,,,rland street Hospital In Brooklyn
cached a point yesterday where three
,,..,,i.s were threatened. Compt rpller
,..,a.rrast and Charities Commissioner
.oesbury said they'd Sue Or. Charles
Brown % ljj Halsey street, "A visiting
,A,..ci,u of the old hospital stan, who
as not rpappointed. for things he was
.,o.cd a. saying about them unless he
,e.rsd retractions. The twenty-seven
1oc,o.s who have declined appointment
- tho new stafr vowed that they would
=, ,n court to compel Mr.. Kingsbury by
'-tuctiou or mandamus to keep his
b,,fs on the institution.
Meanwhile the Charities Commissioner
,.,f over to Cumberland street. talked
with the four department chiefs and an
,,mccd that the reorganization was in
rect with u staff less than half as large
a was contemplated In the original
programme.
40 libel suits. was quoted in a Brook
IA, newspaper on Monday as saying
ia, commissioner Kingsbury offered
.n staT position II he would stop
sCftirE 10 Ut pIuNn l1ls tsSeTtior
was a.so attributed
"On August last ! was informed Of
,ov Comptroller rrendcrgast was very
dcs.-ous Of having his family physician's
Issls,aut pr IT. : Schall appointed a
.-erhor VI tho staff For such consd-
,-s,ion on the part OF Commissioner
knrshury the Comptroller promised an
,ap-opriltiou Of half n million dollars
lo- new hospita! building"
Notice for Dr. brown.
Yesterday morning Commissioner
Iirgsoury instructed his lawyer 20 in
tl-u r. Brown that unless he withdrew
hose statements there would be a libel
~ Comptroller prerdergast got Or.
B-own ON tho phone and asked him II
Ne had been correctly quoted. The
uhysicar replied that he had merely
,apeticd information that had come TO
IN
Your statement" said MIR Prrnder-
tast practically charges that the Comp
'o.ler. for the appointment OF one OF his
'-erjs ~ wiling to barter his vote "a
O. member ~ the Board of Estimate in
gard 60 the appropriation of public
money I will give YOU reasonable
ne - retrart. and II YOU do not do
N shall resort to the law
VI Prouiergast said later that he
ill Yct specifically asked Mr. Kings
#B-y to appoint pf. Schall. but had rec
,~re-ici Dr. Schall to him as one OF
'NS ahes, surgeons in the homeopathic
700 in Brooklyn"
Although more than one-half OF the
-''ors whom Commissioner Knesbury
aaroutci, including the entire consult
staff. signed their name to letter
? ic.'iuaiion received by him yeTer-
-~ afternoon. tho Commissioner said he
rn not downcast.
The sun., 1916-01-12
SCHIFF GUESTS HEAR
OF WORK BY NURSES
Miss Wald Of Henry Street
settlement Gives Life
Saving Figures.
IA RGER WORK PLANNED

Mlsh Lillian n. Wald told % the work
Of the Henry street settlement. particu-
larlr IN nursing persons i'll In their
homes Yesterday afternoon NJ n recep-
ton given by MIR. and Mrs. Jacob n.
Scdifi q. their nome. 96j Fifth avenue.
No effort was made to gather needed
funus for tho settlements work, but
after Miss Wallis talk several of those
present told her they intended to endow
nuiscshirS.
Miss Waid's talk. which she called 4
report Of 4 work OF communal Interest.
wos aided 10y charts showing the COO
OF nursing cases. ,her length of illness
dud the circumstances encountered IN
the twenty-five years that the settlement
has carried on This work. in which IL 10
q pioneer.
The sun., 1916-01-12
uusunI Need Now.

This year Wa need more nurses ran
ever" sad Miss Wtld We have now
10 of AL natiunalities ami cieeds. bu,
y, need twenty-five more. partly be-
cause of tn" prevalence this season OF
pneumonia and grip. The patients are
rurSed almost entirely at home. II takes
10000 or 1000 TO cndow nurse
sap. the salary IL $1,000"
I'm 1914 ur visiting nurses attended
t $3.50 cases OF pneumonia in the
homes oi the patients The mortality WAS
N.u1 per cent. while l.6l2 cases IN four
hospitals showed - mo ta,itv rate ~
3i.2 rer cent. ! ito not cit. these figures
To- diSptrtgc hospital treatment. but to
show % " many more sick persons re
main at especially poor people e
thnu 81 To hospitals
Tie figures concerning little childr~n
are u.hr. iMprrSs.N', trd -" are rart.cu-
lari, dnNluus t. extend our work among
them The average mortality rate from
pneunoui, aiuong children under . yedis
~ age IN the -Four hospitals I nave
SpDl<.n OF was ~ ut- cent. ~ one
u was - per ccut The mortality rat.
among children at thor homes va! only
93 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-16
Many Out-of- Town Visitors

In many ways the Business Mems league is doing effective work for Birmingham's mercantile interests and for the general upbuilding of the city. One of the greatest of it's re- cent achievements has been in help ing to make music week" a brilliant success.
 The league induced the railroads to grant low rate round trip ticket to birmingham from all sections of Ala bama. Without the special rate many out-of- of-town visitors would have come to attend grand opera and the sym phony, but when the railroads gave their ready cooperation an unusual crowd was assured.
 Not since the State Fair have so many visitors been seen on the streets or in the stores as on yesterday. While hundreds have come primarily to hear fine music, most of them will make this an occasion for their early spring shopping.
 Birmingham has long been noted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-16
SYKES

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Why do useful words die? In good use today there are scores and hundreds and doubtless thousands of needless synonyms, useful only to the poet and the stylist, willie excellent words, of honorable Anglo Saxon ancestry, and needful for use have been doomed to death, executed and forgotten.
 Shaw, for example. Is fine old Eng fish word. It meant a small and pleas ing open group of trees, neither copse nor a forest. It was not so impressive as a grove. nor was it as insignificant as thicket or a coppice.
 Through shaw there often ran a sike We might spare shaw, nowadays, but sike is one of those words which should never have been thrown in the pathological garb- age can. It is little less than shameful that the dictionaries put (obs) after it. l A sil1e is brook or Till that makes a handsome showing in spring and autumn, but which is quite dry in midsummer. It 1 requires dozen or more words to tell 1 what a sike really is. And yet sike has been permitted to go by the board, while needless opportunities have retained places of honor in the language.
 The reason is not hard to find. In | olden days, when cities were not much,
 men knew the country, and the language
 was built in terms of natural objects, Then came distractions and emotions and i philosophiZings and abstruse delvinys, and the little things of nature faded into ,insignifcance. Men who read and wrote
 did not think of sikes.
 l Only within the past half century have
 men turned back again to the pleasant
 and inspiring phases of natural beauty. They have found skes everywhere, and have described them with labored cir cumlocution. For a ske is one of the
 6aintiest and happiest offerings of the
 wide world.
 Instead of "simplifying'' the language by
 pedantic and despotic dicta on so superfi-
 ciaI and unimportant d detail as orthog-
 raphy we might we'll go through the die 1 tionary in d conscientious search for use- | ful 'obsoletes." There would be common sense and practical advantage in such a
 work, and it would not outrage the spiii' 1 and essence of the wonderful hybric I which we know as the English language and which we should revere as the eff
 cient albeit Iawless speech of the world $
 greatest peoples. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-16
NO SEGREGATION HEREAFTER

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 The following catchy advertisement ap- pears in our want columns
 AGENTS-You have been looking for
 something to sell colored people, We
 have it. Negro Angels Entering
 Heaven" Home Supply Co, Jackson,
 Miss.
 Whether an immortal soul inhabited the dust of white or black body we opine will matter not at all on the day Gabriel summons us to rise to judgment, and as sure as there is a heaven there will be negro angels entering it-else we shall all be of one color. Mark Twain, if memory serves us. relates a true story of an unsuccessful canvass made among the colored folk of Ohio by an agent who strove to sell them Bibles with illustrations showing that Moses and Aaron and Isaac and Jacob and all the rest of the biblical characters were dark-skinned. Don't make any difunce if dey wah," was one old negro's explan- alton of his refusal to buy; lease we's all gwine ter be white in Heaben." Bt that as it may, we believe there will be plenty of room for everybody, irrespec- tive of race color or previous condition and neither segregation nor Jim Crow re- strictions, neither friction nor ground ol complaint on any score.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-16

as shopping center. In no city of approximately it's size are merchants found who carry such large or such rich and varied str ks. And now that the city has hotel accommodations unequaled in the south and has come to be known for it's high-class amuse- ments, it only requires the co-opera- tive spirit on the part of the Cham Der of Commerce and the Business Mems league to cause the city to be filled with visitors at frequent periods during the year.
 Everyone will be glad to accord credit to President R. A. Brown and the other officers of the league for the telling work they have accom- plished this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-16
John Townsend Trowbridge

To make the remark among several people of average intelligence that John Townsend Trowbridge, poet and author of boys stories, was dead at the age of 90, might cause mild rip ple of interest. A few would recall something about his work and others would remember having seen the an- nouncement of his death in the news papers. However, if you stated that the man who wrote Darius Green and His Flying Machine" was no more, nearly every person who heard you would prick up his ears and smile reminiscently over the memory of that famous piece of doggerel, which was thought to be the height of absurdity when it was written about forty years ago. MT. Trow- bridge lived long time and labored diligently. He wrote many books and some poetry, but he is perhaps best known for his satire on the flying machine, which is today getting to be almost as commonplace as the auto mobile.
 In his old age when Mr. Trow- bridge saw birdmen soaring about the heavens. with marvellous speed and safety, he exclaimed: q never dreamed when I wrote that poem that such thing as flying machine was even a possibility in my lifetime" Jules Verne had more lively imagi- nation and perhaps a greater faith in the scientific achievements of the future when he wrote his daring tales of adventure on land, under the sea and in the air.
 Aeroplanes are taken so much as a matter of course nowadays that it is hard to realize that even members of the present generation can recall when the idea of mans flying was a theme for mirth. Poor Darius typi- fled the crack-brained fool who thought such thing possible and years after Darius was born in the brain of MT. Trowbridge the problem was still unsolved. Today when an aviator sails over a city scarcely any one in the busy throngs who go on about their business so far beneath him fails to recognize instantly the sound made by the aeroplane's pro- pellers. A few persons will gaze lan- guidly up at the sky, but to most of them the sight of an aviator in flight is so common that they do not stop to look at him. In Europe, of course, it is different The aviator over there carries death and destruction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-16
Kitchener on War Situation

Lord Kitchener makes an interest ing review of the war situation. It is reasonably hopeful from the en- tente angle, but duly restrained in expression. He concludes his state ment thus:
 'In the future as in the past we have our dangers and difficulties throughout which the spirit of our troops at the front and the calm de- termination of the people at home to support them will enable us to look forward to victorious issue which should ensure peace for many gen. erations."
 It has looked for sometime as if the end of the war would come, not as the result of any decisive victory one alliance over the other; but by compromises.
 The English leaders will not admit that there can be any peace unti Great Britain whips Germany; but this Britain cannot do. The entente allies cannot crush Germany anc Germany would have a hard time 1T undertaking to invade England.
 In the meantime it would be better | i for Britain if Lord Kitchener were to relinquish his cabinet position ot war secretary, in which he has tht responsibility of administering tn, complex business of the war office and take command in the field. | Admitting that Kitchener is thor ough soldier, he evidently lacks som, of the qualifications for executiv, work. It need be no surprise to tn, public if such change as that sug [ gested should take place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-16
R;r,,,;nrbou, MetropoIitan

Ex-United States Senator Burton of Ohio, who delivered a lecture in the lyceum course at the high school last Friday night, said that one of the best evidences of Birmingham being large and metropolitan city was the fact that counter attractions did not have to be reckoned with said Mai Carl H. Seals.
 CT am told remarked the senator that the Fuller sisters in English and Scotch songs drew fine crowd, the theatres were filled. lecture services at large Jewish temple well attended and I was honored with a very large audience and the most uniform ly appreciative I nave addressed in the south Yes, so many big audiences indicate that Birmingham is large and wide-awake city.