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The evening world., 1916-03-28
TOWN DRANK 325 CARS
OF BEER IN FIVE YEARS
Suit for Commissions Shows That
Supply Was Sold and
Consumed There

COLUMBUS. Kan, March 2s.--
Alleging that s76 carloads OF beer
were sold at Weir City. in the north
part OF Cherokee County. during the
past FIVE years. and claiming that
he Is entitled to a commission on all
the sales. Mike Simone Of that place
has brought suit against the Dick
Brothers Quincy Brewing Company
Of Kansas City, No. for the colleo-
ton OF $4,000, charging that the COM
missions amounted to at least that
sum.
Through tho allegations made IN
his petition, Simone admits that he
was In the wholesale liquor business
at Weir City for several years prior
20 Sept. /, 1910. and that ne pur-
chased large amounts OF beer from
the Dick Brothers Quincy Brewing
Company. When September came,
however. Simone says he was owing
tho defendant $500 on account and
decided to quit the business.
When the defendant learned of his
intention. he charges II asked him
20 find a person who would take tho
business over. and In return IL agreed
60 pay him a commission on all
goods sold his successor. He says
he knows the company owes him at
least 1000 because he learned OF
the sale OF s25 carloads Of beer
through Combs. his successor IN the
business.
The evening world., 1916-03-28

cred 10 sell to upland owners lands
line. This power Is extended by the
proposed bill, so that tho Commits
sloncrs Of the Sinking Fund are au-
ihorizcd to approve agreements sub
mltted by the Commissioner OF Docks
for the sale 10 adjacent upland own
ers of lands under water lying out
shore OF the high water mark and iu-
shore Of any bullthcad line"
1t Is understood in Albany that the
hill was prepared by Dock Commits
sloner II. A. c. Smith and approved
by the City Administration. Accord
Ing 20 the accompanying memoran-
DUN. the purpose was 70 permit the
strengthening out OF the shore line OF
jamaica Bay in anticipation of dock
improvements there.
But jamaica Bay is nowhere mem
toned in the bill. Its provisions are
broad enough TO permit. the selling Of
New York City's most valuable asset,
the water front. 1t would be pos
sible under 1t, with the consent Of the
Dock Commissioners and approval OF
the Sinking Fund Commissioners, 10
turn over the Hudson River shore to
the New York Central Railroad.
When Senator Walker examined
the measure he declined to be Its
sponsor until further explained, and
nt his request the Senate laid IT
aside.
The evening world., 1916-03-28
BLUE TIGER HUNT
HEADED BY ANDREWS

Curator Of Natural History Museum
Starts for Central Asia to Get
Flying Dutchman of Zoology"
SAN FRANCISCO. March 2s.--A
quest Of the blue tiger. a beast which
has been termed ''the Flying Dutch
man OF zoology" because many scien-
lists and explorers have seen II, yet
none over has been caught-is to be-
gin to-day, when Roy Chapman An
drews and Mrs. Andrews sail from
San francisco for the Orient on the
liner Tenyo Maru Somewhere in
Central Asia or Tibet they expect 20
capture a specimen of the animal and
90 make an exhaustive study Of
zoology for the American Museum of
Natural History of New York, of
which Andrews Is assistant curator.
At F>uchow Edmund Heller, formerly
Of Stanford University. viii Join the
party. Heller was with Theodore
Roosevelt on his African big game
hunt and has explored the remote
provinces of China From Fuchow
the party will journey up the Yangtse
kiang River to the border or Tibet 20
meet Harry X Caldwell, a famous
hunter and explorer. Here n party OF
guides, porters and servants will be
organi zed and a start made for Gen.
tru Tibet, the home Of the blue tiger.
me expedition expects 70 be away
from civilization for about a year.
The evening world., 1916-03-28
FEAR Of AIOKER
RALTS CITY DOCK
BILL IN SENATE
A d ministration Measure
Loosely Drawn Would Per-
NIT Sale of Water Front.
Especial From Q staff Correspondent
OF The Evening World).


ALBANY, March 2s.--On the Gen
ate calendar last night ready to be
passed was q bill that at tho last mo-
ment aroused suspicion and inquiry
as to the broad possibilities It con-
tanned. It was entitled AN Act to
amend the Greater New York Char
ter relative TO selling and conveying
the right. title and interest OF the
city OF New York in and to lands
under water to upland owners
The bin had been introduced by
Senator Walker of the lower west side
Of Manhattan, who explained that II
had been handed TO him by r. J. Nc
Goldriok. official representative Of the
city administration In Albany, to be
presented as a city bill. Mr.. McGold-
rick said he had received It along
with other approved measures from
the city government.
Under the charter. the Commission
ers Of the Sinking Fund are empow-
The evening world., 1916-03-28
Fashionable
Striped
Innings

Black and white, Min,
MIN. and full inch stripe,
all silk satin, excellent quail
ity, light weight; just tho
lining for your Easter suit.
36-in., $l.85 yd.
All silk, satin graduated
stripes In black and white.
and brown and white, me.
dunn weight; soft finish,
good wearing; the latest
lining for the new fared
coats. ,6-in., $3.50 yd.
Cotton back satin, black
and white one-inch striped.
Lustrous face. Is gusran-
teed to wear two seasons.
,6-in., $l.25 yd-
Lotus silk. Jo-in. wide,
light weight silk and cotton
waist or clip Innings to bs
used under chiffon, crepe,
net or lace garments; soft
but strong and durable; 10
eolou, black, white, light
and dark gray, Alice blue,
Copenhagen blue, light blue,
royal blue, light navy, navy.
wistaria, purple, rose, Law
ender, nile, reseda. emerald,
tan, light and dark brown,
mahogany, maise, wine,
scarlet and several other
shades, 35c yd.
Witchtex" Interllnins,
the new resilient stiffenins
that 10 being used by lead
ing dressmakers to give
tho flared and ripping
effects (water or crushing
will not injure fsbrie). 36
inch, $50 I'd.
CIMBELS-Sscond Floor
The evening world., 1916-03-28
Han Left s70,aoa Estate.

Barnet Ban, the poultry dealer who
was assassnated Nov. "a. 1914, left a
gross estate OF sS2.72l and a net estate
of s76.S92. according to tho tax transfer
report filed yesterday in the Surrogate's
Court. Mrs. Fannie Ban widow, will
receive $l9.2i0 ana three sons and one
daughter slS.377 each.
The evening world., 1916-03-28
DYING CHILD BARS TRAFFIC.
LsttIe Oolored Girl Is Run Down by
seth street Crosstown Car

LsttIe Oolored Girl Is Run Down by
seth street Crosstovn Car
A hook and ladder company dashed
up. a wrocking crew was summoned,
westbound traffic on West F1fty-ninth
Street was halted for some time and a
crowd gathered early last night when
Florence Davis. a sir-year-old negro
child. No. $50 West Sixty-ninth Street,
was pinned for twenty minutes. alive
but badly crushed. under a Fifty ninth
Street crosstown surface car. Just east
OF Columbus Avenue.
The girl stepped in front OF the car
when she tried to cross the street at
s.3b o'clock, was struck and jammed
under the forward trucks. II was at
FIRST impossible to extricate her. The
crowd grew larger, Flremen Of Truck
No. IS finally lacked up tho front OF
the car and lifted out Florence. She
died an hour and a half later in Poly
clinic Hospital
The evening world., 1916-03-28
PREHISTORIC.

Anytcdy, the antis haus an ar
purpent. They viH drag q ten.
ton dtnosaur up Fun Avenue,
placarded: IAN Arntor Plate and
No Brains, Thts Animal Believed
In Preparedness. He Is Moo En-
ftncf."
The evening world., 1916-03-28
Two-Year-OId Boy Toddirs From
sidewalk and Truck Kills Him.

Two-yeaf-oId Nicola BorusO tOdlled
from the curb In front OF his homo at
No. s0i Metropolitan Avenue. Brooklyn,
yesterday afternoon. directly in front OF
two horse truck which passed over
the little body and caused Injuries from
which the child died later IN the VIII
Olsen OF No. 1914 Utica Avenue. Brook
Ign. tried to avoid the accident but
he was arrested.
The evening world., 1916-03-28
Wife OF Ex-Governor Harmon Dead.

CINCINNATI. March 2s.-Mrs. Olivia
scobey Harmon, wife Of former Gov
ernor Judson Harmon OF Ohio. died last
night at her homo. aged siIty-rve. She
became Mrs Harmon in 1870 and Is sur
vived by her husband and two daugh-
tiers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
To Entertain Real Estate Men

"The visit of about 400 real estate men to Birmingham next Sunday means much for this city" said T. P. Hay Jr., ex- ecutive secretary of the Birmingham Real Estate Exchange. "The real estate men of the city have made preparations to entertain the visitors, who will be en route to New Orleans to attend the na- tional convention of real estate exchanges next week.
 We intend to show the visitors what Birmingham has by taking them for a tour of the city in automobiles, and hope to have 100 machines placed at our dis posal. Already something like 70 have been pledged, and we feel sure that the public-spirited automobile owners of Bir- mingham will supply the deficiency, as the coming of the real estate men means that Birmingham will be advertised throughout the country by a class of men who know how to advertise city.
 'The real estate exhibit at the Tutwiler hotel will be one of the best things of it's kind ever attempted, and we expect hundreds of local people to visit it Fri day and Saturday,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
A LONG LIFE AT SEA

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 To cross the Atlantic HOO times ana travel 100000 miles by sea is the rec ord of Thomas Kinsey, purser or the steamship St. Paul, who is now to settle down on land for the rest of his days. It took him 63 years to do it. His experi- ences go back to the early days or the Inman line, which the American line succeeded. He saw transport service to India as long ago as 1857, and he was pay master on the St. Louis when she was taken over as an auxiliary cruiser during the war with Spain. He has known the ocean in all kinds of weather, and, what is worse has had to calm the storms that arise when passengers imagine they have a grievance. He has witnessed de- velopment of the passenger steamship which is among the marvels of the age. The City of Manchester, in which he shipped in 1853, would look like tugboat beside the Aquitania. In all these years he has been in no serious danger, ana leaves the service in the best of health. That mother and lover of men, the sea, as Swinburne balls her. is often kind to those who love her. There are dangers in seafaring life, but landsmen often ex- aggerate them. Probably Mir. Kinsey would not change his lot with another for all it's inevitable hardships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
NO "GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL"

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 Why there has not been, and never will be- that great American novel" so long looked for-and, if truth be told. so often hailed by publishers-is well explained by the Branch Library News, the publica- tion of the New York Public Library. America is too big, too varied, for any one novel to be typical of it.
 "To find America in fictitious literature one must read different writers for each region," says the article referred to. On reflection, this would seem undoubtedly to be true New England, New York, California and the south before and dur ing the war between the states are none typically American, and they are no more alike than Mrs. Watts or Miss Will kins, o. Henry. Bret Harte and Thomas Nelson Pake are alike, either in thought or expression. Which, for example, is the more typically American-Winston Churchilrs "Coniston," Owen Mister s "The Virginian," or Mrs. Wharton's s "The House of Mirth?'
 After all, what does it matter whether or not we ever have the great American novel?" A few great novels we have, perhaps; certainly many fine ones. and some of our writers today are doing work of which any country might be proud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
ALABAMIAN AT THE FRONT

From the Mobile Register.
 Col Robert Lee Bullard of Alabama IS in command of the Twenty-sixth infantry on the border and probably is engaged in the expedition into Mexico. No details have been allowed to pass by the censor, and we can only guess that the Alabama colonel is in the midst of it. Colonel Bull lard was educated at Auburn Polytechnic institute and West Point and served until 1892 In 1898 he volunteered and was colonel of the Third Alabama infantry during the Spanish-American war In 1901 he was taken again into the regular army. and was made colonel in 1911. He has seen active service i'll Cuba and the Philippine Islands, and in 1902 was governor of Lanao Moros, Mindinao. In 1907 he was special aid and investigator for the United States provisional government of Cuba; and in 1908 supervisor of public instruc- tion and fine arts in Cuba. Colonel Bull lard also is a writer of some note.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
HOOP SKIRTS

From the Cincinnati Times-Star. When we turn back to the fashion plates of 40 or 45 years ago and are confronted by the Zeppelin arrangements then worn by ladies fair, we confess some anxiety over the present tendencies in feminine apparel
 The sheath skirt came in for a round oi satirical comment few years ago. But when all is said, that mode, with it's ef feet of Greek drapery, was really charm ing. The directoire and the divided skirt likewise, pleased the eye, whatever we may have said glibly as to it's expense. The modern mode of short skirts, with their revealment of shapely ankles, also has its appeal. But it is far cry from these styles to the balloon effects which are showing strong symptoms of soon tempting the spring winds.
 The birdcage was said to be only hint
 a preparatory warning, as 'twere. We did rot take 1t seriously, thinking that women folk would come back to sanity with a short jerk But the warning that bustles are coming in, and will be worn where they will do the most good, and that the hoop effect threatens to spread wider and wider in ever extending concentric circles, is a crushing blow.
 If man really believed the worst of ru- mors afloat, he would be ready to lie down on the hall mat and pass away.
 However, hope springs eternal in the human breast. We must go on bravely and tenderly nurse the faith we have in women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
Aid for Veterans Fund

"Tbe finance committee or the Cham Der of Commerce is facing a serious proposition in the task of raising funds for the entertainment of the Confed- crate veterans at the approaching re- union," said Sol Caheen.
 "As is usual in such cases, the mer- chants. and business men of the city are responding nobly, but the required amount for this laudable purpose is rot yet in sight
 Tt occurs to me that the owners of the downtown business property should make substantial donations tc this fund as there is no class of per sons who are greater beneficiaries o1 the progress of the town than those who own business property. l am fully aware that in some instances the property owners have made liberal donations to this and other causes, but regret to say they are in the minor ity
 .Birmingham gained an enviable rep utation through the splendid manner Tn which she entertained the veterans at the last reunion and certainly Birming- ham should do as good or better than on that occasion.
 "The finance committee has adopted the slogan, veterans First and they assure every contributor to the fund that the money will be carefully and economically expended and that the veterans themselves will be the main beneficiaries of their generosity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
In Smoother Waters

1 Admiral Von Capelle, who sue
 ceeded Admiral Won Tirpitz as head of
 the German navy, is credited with be- | ing friendly toward America and de-
 sirous of retaining the good will of
 the American people. The Kaiser is
 believed to share in this feeling and in fact his unwillingness to continue
 Won Tirpitz's "frightfulness" on the sea is responsible for that able offi- ciaPs. downfall. AS a result of the
 change, tension between the two
 countries has been considerably les
 sened and there is no reason to fear repetition of such disaster as the
 sinking of the Lusitania, the most fragrant offense charged to the Von Tirpitz regime.
 Admiral Von Capelle is no doubt fully competent to fulfill the duties of the important post to which he has been appointed, although little is known of his qualifications in this country. At least he is opposed to the desperate course which threatened for time to involve the United States in war with Germany.
 Admiral Von Tirpitz is one of the strongest men Germany has ever pro- duced. However unpopular he made himself abroad and to. certain ex- tent at home by his ruthless naval policy, the fact remains that for half a century he labored with tremendous energy and signal success for the up- building of the German navy. He was always unyielding, even to his su- periors, and this attitude finally ended his career.
 Won Capelle, it is hoped, will do much to re-establish more friendly re- lations between Germany and the United States. Germany has realized at last that it is unwise to turn the whole world against her by crimes against humanity and the appoint ment of Won Capelle is conclusive proof of this change in national sentiment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
Enthusiasm On the Farm

Alabama's first campaign for crop diversification, organized in the Bir- mingham Chamber of Commerce last year, extended to nearly every county and was pushed with special vigor in the black belt and in the wire grass section. The results were of the prac- tical sort and marked new era in the agricultural progress of the state.
 The enthusiasm aroused year ago in the movement to free the cotton farmer from his old-time dependence upon one crop has not waned. There is more optimism on the farm this spring than was ever manifested be- fore, and it is optimism that counts. Every husbandman with any grit in him is fully alive to the opportunities open to him, and he faces the planting season determined, weather conditions permitting, to make this a banner year in farm achievement.
 Alabama made an excellent record in 1915 in the production of food crops. The amount of money that had been sent out of the state annually to pay for foodstuff was reduced by $26, ,O00, ,000. But that record must be beat, and it doubtless will be this year. As no state in the union has more varied agricultural resources than Alabama it must not only learn to feed itself, but become one of the great sellers of grain, forage and meat.
 Alabama as corn and live stock stnte should run race with Kentucky, which aas grown rich on it's beef cat ils; as hog state should run a race
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
THE powERY FOREVER

From the New York Globe.
 Shall the Bowery be changed in name to Central Broadway, or Cooper avenue : 1t is put in the form of question. It is. in reality, however. no question. It IS simply an exclamation, an exclamation which arouses surprise. amusement, de- rision, maybe but never doubt.
 Change the name of the Bowery to Central Broadway or Cooper ave nue. Why not change the name of Broadway to Main street? Broao way as Broadway conjures picture not only to New York but to the world. The picture is not always favorable. It IS picture of lobster palaces and several other things not always accepted as the last word in virtue. Broadway by the name of Main street would be robbed of all these associations in the mind of the nearer. It would lose it's identity and pe- come one with a great number or other Main streets, one of a long, dull mono tone of Main streets, no. worse and no better than any other Main street. Yet there is no move to change the name of Broadway.
 Why, then, change the name of the Bowery? It may have, to be sure, an un- savory atmosphere in spots. But there are many who have worked on the Bow cry, lived on the Bowery, had the Bowery as the center of their existence. To them the Bowery as the Bowery is home. It IS Bowery that is much better than Il used to be. Bowery that improves stead- fly. But whatever it is it represents life. Why, then, should the old historic name that comes to us from the original Dutch be made to bear the disgrace of the old and ugly days and to be given none of the relative honor that comes with the better days.
 The Bowery it is, and the Bowery it al ways will be- As one of the old residents of the historic street says, Its safer to walk the Bowery at 2 o'clock in the morn ing than to walk along Broadway" The Bowery is all right
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
To Be a Lady"

Two typical 'female brigadlers' whose "real estate" operations are ai- leped to have been of such nature that "brigands" may be substituteo for "brigadiers," are on trial Ill a New York court charged with de- frauding an old scrubwoman, Mary Steen. out of S7450, which she had saved during 20 years of toll. The de- fendants, who are sisters, dangled before the eyes of the old woman the fair prospect of living like lady" with nothing to do but draw interest on gilt-edged first mortgage bonds, an investment far more desirable, they said. than leaving her money Tn savings bank, where it would draw a paltry 31a per cent interest.
 Mary Steen signed some papers with trembling hand-she IS "A wears old-and then went away to the country for awhile. When she came back the Annex Homes (Inc. !, in which her money was invested" i" had failed. She didn't even have the proverbial "scrap of paper" to show for the transaction, and received not a penny for her $7450. The stern, masculine-looking" sisters, as a re- porter describes them, would do noth- ing for her, so they are now being tried on the first of a series of six indictments charging them with grand larceny. Their fake land deals are said to have amounted to more than $70,0O0 and their alleged victim in each case was some old working woman whom they promised to make a s.lady."
 When the irrepressible Rufus J.. Wallingford succeeds in separating" some village miser from large sum of money, gathered in more or less dishonest ways, we feel like saying to the rascally Rufus, "well done!" The sort of confidence game that flour ishes because of human cupidity, quite as much as it's gullibility, is dishonest, of course, but less reprehensible than the meanest form of thievery in the world d-preying on the weak, the in firm and the ignorant.
 Mary Steen will never be '1ady." She and her fellow dupes are more likely to end theip days in the poor house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-24
Must "GrOw" Into It

Alabama is admirably adapted to the dairy business" said Dr. M. P. A. Son. dergaard of St. Paul, dairy manufactur- ing specialist of the United States de partment of agriculture, who was in Bir- mingham Thursday on his return from Talladega, where he had been assisting J. P. Quinerly of Auburn, special agent in dairying, in opening the new cream cry just completed
 "But Alabama must grow into dairy ing, for it is a far cry from the cotton farmer to the successful dairy farmer, and I would strongly advise against go- ing into dairying over night, as it were. for, like other businesses that are suc- cessful, the growth must be gradual.
 Mr. Quinerly has just returned from the farm meetings in Gadsden and Hunts vile. by way of Talladega, and states that while the creamery at the latter point has a capacity of 1000 pounds Of butter per day, an output of 20O0 pounds per week will make the institution a paving one. "The spirit of cooperation, says Mr. Quinerly, lis manifest, and the Chamber of Commerce of Talladega has employed a man to go over the territory in an automobile to secure business for the new enterprise"