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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
The Commuter Turns
His Wrath Is Visited upon No;.v
Hucksters on l.. |. r. r. Train.
TO the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Permit a daily traveller on the L..
Island Railroad to lodge this protest ar.i,,.
the abominabls practice Of that road Of ,,,.
hitting a gang Of loud-mouthed huekst.,, :,
the Long Island News Company TO inv,I.
all its trains leaving the Flatbush Ay,,,.
station in Brooklyn. Trains are gener,n,
ready for the passengers between two al
five minutes before leaving time; srat,,
the opening Of the gates the passengers A..
compelled to crowd around the gates % .,
platform. With them, or practically VII.
them, the gang OF hucksters two, three a,
four young men between the ages Of 6f,...
and twenty fve-crowd their way throp,s
the aisles Of the ears, obstruciing the pro,.
ress Of passengers, their large bundles =,
baskets still further aggravsting the ca.
dition, and in loud, sometimes nasal, SOM.
times strident, voice announcing their ware,
One boy is working his wsy through a.
car shouting, "'Hoist's Magsz me- Jest our,
Judge the funniest number OF the year.
He is still shouting at one end Of the ca,
while through the other end in walks Ar.
other boy, yelling, IN a different key: 0Stim.
sons fresh molssSes candy; buy box a,
peanut crisps, only 10 cents" And in mor
CAGES We are favored with one or two nor.
trips through the cars, shouting the sam.
merchandise or different selection. In sun.
mer the choice is increased by boys sens,
soft drinks in bottles with strsws in then, a,
ice cream cones.
We are paying the road high fares ever,
day, for which we are supposed TO get deco,
accommodation. This cheap sort Of din,.
chasing IS most annoying, and added 70 Il
the other aggrayatlons-the fact that in NOS
cases the trains are not ready to receive pas
sengers until two to five minutes before lesF
ing time, the poor ventilation IN the can
the frequent switching of smoking ears int
non-smOkers and other things. perhaps litts
in themselves cannot fail 10 have a cumuls
tive effect which. instead OF making frlena
of the patrons, transforms them into resent
full enemies.
Won't you invite criticism. or praise, fror
others Of your readers?
THOMAS D. LONG.
New York. April ?, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
"A Great Document

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May tell you how gratifying is the
spirit of your editorial this morning relat-
ing to the Presidents war message? "a
Great Document" expresses whoehearted
admiration for President Wilson's present
stand, and, please God, he will merit even
more appreciation in the days to come.
We who have felt in the past that he was
not UNFOLDING the high ideals Of the Ameri-
can nation now freely admit that at last, in
this message at least, he has arisen to the
situation, and such sincere praise from a
newspaper that once did not hesitate to con-
denim is certainly to be highly commended.
Aida A. RAUSCHENBERG
Mount Vernon, y. Y, April 3, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
The Red Angel

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Here are the closing lines from the
epilogue in w. f. Henley's Hawthorn and
Lavender" written sixteen years ago:
In golden fog,
A large. ful-stomached faith in kindness
All over the world. the nation. in dream
or money and love and sport. hangs at the
paps
or well-beng, and so
Goes fattenng, mellowing, doing, rotting
down
Into a rich deliquium of decay.
Then, if the Gods be good,
Then, If the Gods be other than mschievous,
Down from their footstools. down
With a Authenticated shouting, swoops and
storms
War, the Red Angel, the Awakener,
The Shaker Of Souls and Thrones, and at her
heel
Trail grief, and ruin. and shame!
The woman weeps her man, the mother her
son,
The tenderling its father In wild hours,
A people, haggard with defeat,
Asks if there be God, yet sets its teeth,
Faces calamity, and goes into the fire
Another than il was. And in wild hours
people, roaring ripe
With victory, rises, menaces, stands renewed,
Sheds its old peddlng aims.
Approves It's virtue. puts behind itself
The comfortable dream, and goes,
Armored and militant,
New-pithed, new-souled, new-visioned, up the
sleeps
10 those great attitudes, whereat the weak
Live not But only the strong
Have leave TO strive, and suffer, and achieve
S. T. X. NJ. d.
South Amboy, y j. March 81. 1917,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
The Breed of the Birkenhead
IRON Tho Philadelphia LodOeJ

tFTOm Tho PhllddcipHiG LtUDT
The glory of the British navy cannot die
while there are men like those Of the British
transport Tyndareus to sustain II. Their
ship had struck mine off southernmost
Africa. It began to settle by the head. I'M
mediately Assembly" was sounded the men
nut on their lifebelts and stood at attention
till the roll was called. Then the order
Stand easy was given, and they began to
sing as ferventy as though marching home
ward on leave through a lane Of France or
Flanders. They were perfectly sure that most
Of them would find grave in the sea that has
cngulfed so many of their fellows They had
no hope of rescue. They stood exactly as the
men Of the Birkenhead stood when they went
10 their doom and their imperishable renown
of the same coast siXty-tive years before.
But the sequel by a modern miracle was hap
piIv otherwise Two steamers summoned by
wireless came and towed TO port the founder
ing vessel with ii display of seamanshlp on
the part Of the crews Of all three ships that
has maintained the British navy's proud ira
Gitons. The bravery OF those who had al
ready given up their lives as lost was just as
sublime as if that ultimate forfeit had been
required. Wherever the deed is known it will
stir the pulses of men with the assurance that
the pages Of to-day's newspaper may hold the
story of a heroism quite as exalted as any
that Homer or Putarch immortalized.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
America and Her Dead

strike at last. They will not let me be,
The little children plunged beneath the sea
The mothers whose fond eyes may nevermore
Behold my cherished shore.
All these long months my weary ears have
heard
Them calling 10 me- Deeply every word
Has sunk into my heart Now ] shall know
How 10 avenge their woe.
Will they in that far place forgive at last
The shame brought upon them in the past!
Will they forget how slow ] was to tread
The pathway TO my dead?
Now in the sunlight of my strength ! fare
To find them in the oblivious shadows there.
o Lord, have mercy on me, who stood by
And vainly watched them diel
EDWARD FULLER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
Freedom Become License

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Present conditions cause me 70 ~0s.
der if we in this country are afraid to aon''
that there is right and wrong to All gu
tions. Are we afraid TO condemn ana pun,
wrongdoers, or is it mawkish sentimentaiiV
1t is no evidence OF intelligence or hisnmln-II
edness that we cannot realize that repeS...
wrongdoing calls for punishment. 1t Is me-
~ lack OF moral backbone, an un"iHi"s
ness to do our moral duty We are 700 80 40
and 100 pleasure loving to bring up our GU
.dren in the way they should go; we w,
morally (as well as physically aaooy' ~
cannot. or rather we do not, want 7" -
difference between right and wrong' oes"1s
IT might be too much trouble-no' 70
right ourselves, but TO see that inc wv.
fellow is also made 70 do what Is nsn- q
other words, we have carried the ias' "a
personsl freedom to the point where q NJ
become personal license. Ella roLhN'
New York. March 80. 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
No Jewish Regiments
Patriotism Should Not Be Organized
on Racial Lines

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: My attention was called to an article
in your paper March 3O) stating that Mr.
Samuel Untermyer heads board to recruit
Jewish regiments under the supervision of
a newly organized Jewish league of Ameri-
can patriots. IL is further stated that with
Mr. Untermyer there will be associated Jacob
H. Schif, myself and other Jewish citizens.
wish to state that my name has been used
without my knowledge or authority. | do not
doubt that Mr.. Untermyer is sctusted by gen.
orous and patriotic motives in an endeavor
TO assist the mobilization of all forces of the
jewish race with view to protecting the
nations honor.
|, however, conceive it to be an error to
single out any particular race in our country
az requiring any impulse for patriotism.
The Jews as race have always, both here
and abroad. displayed good citizenship and
true devotion to the best interests of their
country, and require no outside influence to
arouse their patriotism.
No greater mistake can be made, in my
opinion, by any friend of the Jews than in
organizing any purely Jewish leagues or as
socations Of patriotism which may give the
public distorted impression and which can
only disadvantageously reflect on the Jewish
race.
This whole movement is unnecessary and
should be discountensnced. |, for one, am
unalterably opposed to such projects.
ISAAC n. SELIGMAN.
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va, April /,
1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05

Of New York will have TO pay, as Its snare
of state taxes. about 20 per cent 1t VIII
not receive the $4,000 and taxes 1t stood
to get if it sold the submerged lands to the
corporation.
For this Senator Wagner and those VINO
stood with him must bear the reSponSioil-
itv. If his activity was not in the interest
of an enemy of this country 1t assuredIy
was not in the interest of the State OF
New York or the taxpayers of the City OF
New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
The Best Defence
. Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: That certainly was a splendid mes
sage to the American people that President
Wilson yesterday read to Congress, and sec
ond only to it is your Endorsement of same.
Every line Of il breathes the highest patriot
ism. Now it is certainly fitting, it would
seem to me, for us all to remember, particu-
larly those in authority at Washington, the
old Yale football adage: THAT the best de-
fence was a ripping good offence"
JULIAN W. CURTISS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05
The High Cost Of Cauls

lFrou M Uuchesfer GUARDIAN
In Nelson's days infants cauls, which sail
ors believe to be charm against drowning,
were sold for 500. Five years ago seafaring
was so safe that they could be bought for
shillngs. To-day they are said to bring
about 30 shilings at the docks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-05

The foHowiug extracts are taken from
nm editorial printed in The Tribune OF
JUly II, 1918.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23
OUR SAM

Sam Sells, who represents the LIST
District in Congress from "Crick to
Crick" outside this Home is at his
legal residence in Johnson City this
week He is the only Congressman
representing constituency in a
"Deestrict" in which soldiers home
is located that is not visited by the
Scion who is only too glad to shake
the hand of the soldier who carried
musket in defense of the Flag. But
the reason for Sam not visiting this
Branch is obvious. Not that the mem
bers are by the law of Tennessee de-
prived of vote. but in former cam
paigns he had to fight combination
of political proletariats formerly
connected in an official capacity with
this Home, who made him sough
sigh and part with cash. However,
he has worked faithfully in the inter
ests of many veterans of this Branch.
has aided others, and their friends
will not now damn him with faint
praise.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23
TURN OUT THE GUARD!

We have no further curiosity con-
corning rumors or guesses in relation
to the transfer of members of the
Southern Branch.
This week the Board of Managers
contracted with the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad to transfer from 800 to
1000 veterans from Hampton to this
Home between September LIST and 18th
Quartermaster's stores will be for
warded ahead, so that beds, bedding
dishes, food, clothing, etc, will be at
hand.
Arrangements here will be perfected
beforehand for the accommodation
of the hundreds of soldiers to be sent
here. The occupied barrack buildings
will first be closely filled up, and the
three vacant barracks will have to
be utilized.
President Wood, Col. Marshall and
possibly other members of the Board
will accompany the trains.
The exact date could not be agreed
upon until the railway company finds
out when the movement of recruits
will give them certain open date.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23
VETERAN Of TWO WARS
OLD INSTRUMENTATION, WHO
AT 95 YEARS SAYS HE'S "WHOLE
HEART AND FANCY FREE"

We printed in a late issue of THE
COMET an item noting the arrival of
Comrade John Osborn, aged 1O1 years,
a survivor of the Mexican and Civil
Wars. This week we introduce to our
readers another aged hero in the per-
son of Captain Ed c.. Sandell, aged 95
years, veteran of the Crimean War
and of our late unpleasantness.
Captain Sandell was born in Dublin
Ireland, January 4, 1928, from stock
that has ever been tenacious of the
principles it accepted as right. His
father was Frenchman, who with
his family immigrated to America in
1929. Our subject grew up in Phila-
delphia where he says he absorbed
the love of liberty which would not
have been found in Ireland. He
learned the trade of millwright and
at the age of 25, with his father went
to France and enlisted, serving with
the allied armies of France, England
and Turkey against Russia. He was
present at the memorable siege of
Sebastopol in 1856, and when hon
orably discharged returned to this
country.
While working at his trade in New
Orleans in 1862, at the age of 80, with
20 nd En- hic
adopted country he showed his I'M
flinching patriotism by leaving that
/ hot bed of secession, stealthily making
his way to Ohio thence to New York
where he enlisted and like many of
his compatriots here, served with dis
/ tinction during the remainder of the
Civil War.
Captain Sandell is well preserved
looking more like man of 20 than
95; is of generous proportions, in
possession of all his senses, and says
he'll beat Osborn's record for lon
gevity. He is member in good stand
ing of Co. A and scouts the idea of
leaving younger men to house himself
up in the hospital or old mems bar
racks. 'Tis said he's good judge of
liquor and has used it all his life;
he smokes pipe from which the
mound builders probably puffed the
fragrant weed-in fact he represents
the type of the old soldier more
prominent a generation ago.
The captain. very companionable
man never married, although he says
he's still whole heart and fancy free
Always courteous and ever obliging;
he is good raconteur and his remin-
iscences are used to enforce some
truth or as accessories in the accom-
plishment of high aims.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23
CHEER THEM!

Conscious of being fascinated with
Joyhood interest and enthusiasm in
seeing veterans return home amid
ears and cheers from the Civil War;
remembering the unstinted applause
of thousands inflamed with the true
war spirit when the Spanish War
volunteers went forth; seeing else
where this year fitting tributes of
honor and respect for World War re-
cruits, how lamentable the cold and
clammy disinterestedness displayed by
Johnson Citians last Saturday at the
parade of their own volunteer COM
pany, cannot be reconciled by us or
other soldiers of the Home. These
volunteers, related by blood-Ameri-
can-Cherokee-to nearly all natives of
Washington county, will soon be on
the firing line; on stretchers; some
dead, some mortally wounded and
many in one or another degree Grip
plSu IOl lie why lHeSe young HeTOS
were not acclaimed and applauded in
the march as other comrades in other
towns are lauded, we cannot say.
Can it be from selfish pacism
illusion or self seclusion?
If some of these soldiers re-
turn home after writhing in tor
ture from poisonous gases or from
liquid flame, slashed and disfigured |
from bombs, maybe then the people
will turn aside from trade, or sport
and pleasure, and manifest interest
enough to give them hearty welcome
much in contrast to that Indifferent
attitude displayed last Saturday by
Johnson City's highly moral, very
sweetly Christian town-on
he make.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23
TO THOMAS HENDERSON
Nancy Henderson
Vs
Thomas Henderson

In the Chancery Court at Johnson City
Tennessee.
In this cause, it appearing from the
bill which is sworn to, that Thomas
Henderson. the defendant, is a nom
resident of the State, he is, therefore,
hereby required to appear, on or be-
fore the 1st Monday of September
next, before the Clerk and Master of
said court, at his office in Johnson
City, and make defense to the bill
filed against him in said court, by
Nancy Henderson, or otherwise the
bill will be taken for confessed.
1t is further ordered that this notice
be published for four consecutive
weeks in The Comet.
This July 81, 1917.
]. w. CASS, Clerk and Master.
Vines and Price. Soils.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23
Office of
THE EAST TENNESSEE AND WEST
ERN NORTH CAROLINA
RAILROAD COMPANY

Johnson City, Tenn, Aug. 6, 1917.
The Annual Meeting of the Stock
holders of The East Tennessee and
Western North Carolina Railroad
Company will be held at the office of
the Company, Johnson City, Tonnes
see, on Wednesday, the twelfth day of
September, 1917. at - o'clock, Noon,
for the purpose of electing Board
of Directors to serve for the ensuing
year, and for such other business as
may come before the meeting.
JOHN S. WISE, Secretary.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23
We very much dislike to make point

We very much dislike to make point
ed references to former company
commander now keeping his name on
the payroll of the N H. d. V. S. at
Hampton, but Bill Morrison is persona
non grata here, and he knows it.
When the Southern Branch is dis
membered Bill will probably stay on
his chicken farm somewhere on the
Virginia peninsula.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

1t seems. but yesterday that we
ancients were told that we were in
the way, or were hustling around to
take grandchildren to the movies. Now
it seems some of our young relatives
are frantically beating the bushes in
the hope of discovering somebody who
will consent to be dependent upon
them.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

A well-deseryed compliment was
paid Walter Corprew, head baker, by
the War Department inspector last
week who said the plant was the
cleanest, best kept and arranged of
any in the several branches.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

The swallows having paid their an
nual visit to us, left for the far South,
and now hundreds of martins are our
guests for a week or so, when they,
too. will vanish from. our sight.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Fred Heffner returned here this
week from years stay in the Pacific
Branch at Sawtelle, Cal. He reports
that there is now plenty room in that
Home for ramblers, and that Col. Joe
Tibbets and Geo. Worrall are pleased
to be where the sun shines on both
sides of the street.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Where's there's smoke there's fire.
The committee on rumor has circu-
lated the report that two or three
officials of the Home have rendered
there designations to take effect Oc-
tober /. Anyway the news from Day
ton Headquarters sounds like therell
be some changes about that time.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

William Rattigan, formerly mem
Der here, H Co., 25th N. Y. Inf, aged
IA years, died August 10, at the Gov
eminent Hospital for Insane, Wash
ington, D. C.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

In removing the whaleback floor
from the receiving ward of Co. E bar
racks, the upsetting of locker scat
tered medicine around but did no
particular damage, except that the
"Shake Well Before Taking" line was
rendered useless.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

During the vacation of Commander
Eaton, Geo. E. Wood is acting captain
and Geo. Lloyd acting sergeant.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Ike Bassett of Co. C. famous as a
truck farmer, says he'll go before any
decent justice of the peace and make
affidavit that he went to bed with one
glass eye Tuesday night and that it
must have tired of its mate and boun-
ced away. 1t cost him $40. and if any
comrade while looking for snipes gets
a glance from it, will see Isaac he
will be given rams horn as reward.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

c. j. Wilson, known as "The Duke :"
went to Dayton on a nine-day pass
last week, and returned today.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Tom Wakefield, of Co., A is now
stable boss. and VIM. McKinsey, of Co.
c, assistant.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23
BARRACK TALES
Personal and ImpersonaI

Dan Mitchell has returned from a
pleasant visit to his birth place, Piqua
Ohio.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

J. r. McCutcheon, of the clerical
force in Treasurer's office. and family
left Sunday to visit relatives in Da-
mascus, Va.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Edward B. Love, of Co., F, our
amiable lightweight fresco painter,
left camp on furlough for Hagerstown
Nd, to be at the bedside of sister
who is dangerously ill.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Miss Singleton will return to the
Hospital in a few days to resume her
duties as nurse, after an absence of
a year or more. She is one of the
best nurses the Home has ever had.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Miss Marie Killelea, of Chicago, is
visiting her uncle, Chaplain Mcintyre
Mrs. Bresnahan of Washington d.
c., is the pleasant guest of her brother
Capt. Kyle M. King and Mrs King.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Sheldon Gunnip, of Co., F, who's
ancestors came over on the Mayflower
has been readmitted on condition that
he behave himself hereafter and be
good.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

"Flag Station.
Nos. 1, 2, 8, and daily.
Nos. daily, Sunday
and parlor
Skulls Mills
Blowing Rock NJ. c. distance miles
GEO. W. HARDIN, Supt
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Old Charley Sanford, Co. F the all
round sport and tourist, struck out for
Boston in order to make few remarks
in regard to unrestricted submarine
warfare and the high cost of bacon
at the G. A. R. Eneampment.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Among the new arrivals this week:
H. ]. Allison, D. Covell, Geo. w. Cal
vert and Pulaski Calvert brothers,
Fred Heffner, Dan Holland, James
McKenna, and Thomas Sexton.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

SUBSCRIPTION sl.OO A YEAR.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Ezra A, d. Wilson, of Co., E, native
of the old bay State" sailed for
North Chester, Mass, on a 80 days
furlough in order to investigate the
clam and bean crop.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

There are uncalled for letters in
the Home postoffice for the following:
John Selfrage, Sheridan Wheaton,
Justin Brisekley, S. W. Felty. Jno. R.
Fields, Harry Huntsman and James
Thornton.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

The whole family enlisted-not in
1917, but in 1861. Leander Mott, who
transferred to Marion Branch, John
NJ. Mott and VIM. ]. Mott. natives of
Indiana, all joined Pap" Thomas at
Perryville, Ky. John and Billy ran
away from home.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

Important business matters has
called Ed Rice, of Co.. B, to Washing
ton, D. C. He will return early next
week
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1917-19??, 1917-08-23

AUGUST Specht W. Is now almost
totally blind has been transferred to
the Home hospital. August is an old
Pennsylvania railroad engineer.