davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
FRENCH WAR CROSSES
GIVEN TWO YALE men
Ballou and Harrison Transported
Wounded Under Violent
Bombardment.

PARIS. Oct. 27.--war crosses have
been awarded TO Paul II. Ballou and
Benjamin V. Harrison jr. for trans
porting wounded men under violent
bombardment.
Both are Yale men Mr.. Harrison
IL from Mont clair. N. J.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
GEN. SCOTT IN FRANCE.
Former chief of u. .. Army stan
Goes to the Front.

PARIS. oct. 27.-Major Gen. Hugh l..
Scott, former Chief OF Staff of the
United States Army. has arrived in
France and gone to the front.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
THIRTY CIVILIANS KILLED
BY GERMANS IN AIR RAID
France Officially Announces Cas-
ualtieS in Attack Upon
Dunkirk.

PARIS. Oct. 27.-Thirty civilians were
killed in German air raid on Dunkirk
II was officially announced to-day.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27

as you have in the last three SEN
tences they will continue TO be-"
replied the Mayor.
81 repeat that the money OF the
city has been spent ON oxtrava-
gances," declared Mr.. Bennett, "and
that extravagant undertakings have
been abandoned. We have as good
experts on schools right here as Mr..
Writ. THIS must be true, for we have
Mr. Wir's own word for It.
''Do YOU know. Mr.. Mayor. that IL
takes from $4,000 TO $4,000 OF the
taxpayers money, represented in city
employees time. to get Mr.. Writ the
information he wants about our
schools2
at is easy TO suggest other pos
sible economies. For example. the
salaries of tho high priced officials In
the Mayors office are increased $2,0OC
in the aggregate over last year. The
fund for contingencies OF the Board
of Estimate is $4,000, or one-cighth
OF the entire appropriation, which IL
| entirely out OF line with appropria.
tionS In other depaTtmentS
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
After his retirement last mt

After his retirement last month as
Chief Of staff. Major Gen. Scott was
made Chief Instruction Officer OF the
new National Army. He went to France
20 study operations on the western front
and on his return will supervise the in
tcnsive training OF the National Army In
trench warfare.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
CITES PROVISION FOR $4,000
SALARY 10 WlRT.

Il refer" said Mr.. Bennett, "to the
itcm providing for $4,000 cduca-
tlonal consultant, with the name
William Writ written in parcnthess
alongside OF It. lnasmuch as the
public school system Of this city has
been injected into politics, I think I
have a right to refer to n here The
attempt TO force upon our public
schools tho so-called Gary system
10 typical OF many other eXtrava-
gancos In the city administration
past and present.
The tendency Is to make too MANY
experiments. Money of the city has
becn spent on eXtraNagant schemes
which have been Abandoned. As "A
result OF this we haven't enough
money on hand TO meet dire neccs-
stiles. The site for the new county
court house has been acquired. at a
cost OF $l3,OO0,OOO. and has been
abandoned. Tho sum OF $4,000. 900
has been set aside by the city for the
Brooklyn Marginal Railway, and il
now appears that the project was
premature by ten years.
''By naming Mr.. Writ in the budget
this administration is endoavoring "a
hamstring new administration that
may not want MIR. Writ or any OF his
system. What right has this admin
istration TO commit new administra
ton TO The Gary system?"
| "The naming OF Mr.. Writ in m,
1918 budget does not mean that new
administration next year would hav,
to accept him." said Mayor Mitchell
The provision In the budget is not re.
strictlvc and does not amount to ;
law. II can be changed. modified o.
wiped out altogether"
Mr., Bennett said tho city had n,
fright to adopt tho Gary System un
I'll it had fully passed tho expcrimon
tai stage here. lie called attention
TO the wide differences Of opinion a
TO It's merits Superintendent Max
well and DR.. Ettinger, he said, ar
opposed to the Gary System. Tn
city has had enough instances O
costly experiments, Mr.. Bennett sait
? without committing itself irrcvoeabl
ana, furthar
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
NEW YORK LOAN
TOTAL S1,3O3,OOO,OOO;
FIVE BILLIONS SURE
Continued from First Page)

s2 nOo 900; Iackawanna steel Com
many. t75O,OOO (additionaD, total
~ sl.750. 900: Anaconda Copper Com
many. 81 900. 900 (addltlonaD; United
states Trust Company, 100000 (ad-
ditionaD; Lee, Higglnson & Co.,
81 oooO 600 (additlonaD; Sinclair OIL &
Refining Company, s1,OOO,OO0 (addi-
tionaD; Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy
railroad Company for employees,
s552. 900; Peoples Bank OF New York,
100000 (additlonaD; Liverpool and
London and Globe Insurance Com
pany, 100000 (additlonaD.
c. A. Stoneham & Co., 5000 900 lad
dltionaD; Henry r. Carse, 100000;
G.. Sldenberg g. Co., 100000 employ
ees at Sailors Snug Harbor, $1,000;
John Hays Hammond, $4,000; Chino
Copper Company, 100000; S. Blumen-
thai g. Co., $50, 900 (additionaD; Inter-
national Alcohol Corporation, $780,
900: Fifth Avenue Bank, S435, 200 lad
dltional; Deering Harvester Com
pany, 100000; Utah Copper Company
$780, 900; Henry w. Taft. 100000.
East River National Bank, on
own behalf and customers, S5O0,O00;
Greenwich Savings Bank, through
Union Trust Company, 100000 lad
dtonaD; Oppenhelm. Collins & Co.
$3.50, 600; Jacob Gerhard Lang. $780,
600; Department OF Finance, Porte
Rico, 1903, ,450; Fleischmann Company
5000 900; American Can Company EN-
/ ployees, 5000 (additionaD; Ma
tonal Electric Company. Niagari
! Falls, 100000: Iroquois Natural Ga
Company, 100000; A. NJ. Kidder
CO., sljO,OoO (additionaD: G. B. G
Manufacturing Company, 100000
/ Weinstein Bros, SlO0, 900 (additionaD
Handy Harman, 100000; Aeolls
Company. 100000; Middleton s. Bur
rill. SlOO, 900 (additionaD: Globe an
Rutgers Fire Insurance Compan!
500, 900: Buffalo and Susquehann
Coal Company. 100000.
Excise Reinsuring Companies, 500
900: Chubb & Son for themselves an
various English insurance companie
$3.50. 900: Consolidated Arizor
Smelling Company, 100000; Amer
can Exchange National Bank, 5000
(additionaD; Federal Insurance Con
pany. 100000.
Christoffer Hanevis, si,ooo,ooo (add
tlonaD; Church. Dwight & Co, "
600. 900: Victor Talking Machine Con
pany, 100000; employees OF t
company, s25O,OOO; Universal Tran
portation Company, sS5o.ooo; j.
Bache g. Co, 100000; Federal /
suranco Company. 100000.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
L,rd NortbcIiIfc PIns Medal on OrvlIIr
Wright.

DAYTON q. oct 2l-Orvillc Wright
pNions foremost citizen. who, with
hia brolh,r invented the airplane. was
honorei TODAY by Lord Northcliffs.
head Il tho British War Mission TO the
United Siatcs, who decorated him with
I'M Alh.LL Mnlll
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
MANY BANKS OPEN UNTIL MID
NIGHT FOR SALES.

Instead OF being a half holiday In
the banks, trust companies and In
vestment houses, to-day will be a
rourteen-hour stretch. Most of the
financial institutions in New York
and the district will remain open for
Liberty bond business until midnight.
I, anv person wishes TO subscribe to-
pIght and by any chance finds his
own bank closed. he should call up
Liberty Loan headquarters. Rector
AooI. and the committee will direct
him 70 banks which are open.
Al McCreery's store this morning
sergt. Arthur Guy Empey, tho Amer
ican soldier who went "over the top"
with the British Army. sold bonds,
and each purchaser OF bond OF 500
or mora was given an autographed
conv of Empey's book, over the
Top"
No set programme Of activities had
haen MANNED for to-day. The prin-
cipal things scheduled were a number
- short rallies in various sections OF
,he city throughout the afternoon
and evening. Even tomorrow, the
doy after the end OF the drive, will
Nave its Liberty Loan meeting. when
uernan-Americans wall gather at the
carl SchurB monument, at ll6th
! strast and Morningside Drive.
Buad sales returns from every part
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
STRONG GIVES PRAISE 7
BANKERS AND PUBLIC.

Chairman Strong in his statement
gave high praise to New Eorkf
bankers.
TOO much cannot be said OF the
patriotic effort and tlreless energy OF
the bankers Of this district upon
whom the Government has placed the
chief responsibility for raising our
share Of the loan" he said. And
the support these men have had from
men, women and children In every
town has been nothing short OF won
dertul.
I'VE shall in this loan add prob
ably two million people in this dis
trict alone to the great democratic
army OF Government bondholders.
know OF nothing which gives create
assurance OF the deep and united de
termination OF our people to pus
this war through to a victorious con
clusion.'
In New York City the last stage
Of the big drive to-day are In IN
nature of whirlwind. A feet {
ATTY motor trucks. manned by Sui
Treasury volunteers. speakers an
bond saiesmen and guarded by so
diers and police, started out froi
loan headquarters, No. 12o Broad
way. Each truck was loaded wit
bonds In denomination OF $50 to $40
for street sales, and 1t is hoped thu
s2o, 900, 900 worth may be disposed I
in this way.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-10-27
BENNETT FIGHTS
VERBAL DUEL WITH
MAYOR ON BUDGET
Specifies "ExtravaganceS" in
Heated Debate-AlSo Clashes
With PrendergaSt.

At to-day's public hearing In CITY
Hall on the 1918 budget william NJ.
Bennett. regular Republican candidate
for Mayor, engaged in verbal duel
with Mayor Mitchell and Comptroller
Prcudorgt.. The three cornered
argument was punctuated with Kisses.
hand -clapping and the tattoo OF the
Mayors gavol Tho man who de-
fehtcd the Mayor ut the Republican
primaries opened hostilities when he
said:
Mr. Hylan, your Democratic op-
poncnt. is apparently either unwilling
or unable to accept tho challenge
made by you that he appear before
the Estimate Board and suggest pos
siblo reductions In the 1918 budget
OF S2iO.79G, ll9.ii that would aggregate @
$4,000"
II never made such challenge, -
retorted tho Mayor. That is, never
specified sum. | hope, however,
that moro than $4,000 can bo cut
from the tentative 1918 budget"
''I read In newspapers that you did
specify sdeh a sum" persisted Mr..
Bennett. However. thcrc arc somo
newspapers that can't be trusted"
II agree with you as 10 some Of
them" replied the Mayor.
Mr.. Bennett then explained that
tho principal object Of his visit was
TO point To one $4,000 item in tho 1915
budget that could be- eliminated In
the Interesta ot tho tnNnnYera.
Evening star., 1917-02-11
.WE,VE GOT THE GOLD, BUT DON'T
LET'S HIDE 1T IN A NAPKIN.

serves were saved in great measure.
Had German banks accumulated much
before the war? Once. after the first
Morocco trouble. when French banks
had called back sS0.000.000 French gold
from Germany in single month, the
kaiser said to his twelve banks: The
next time, gentlemen, shall expect you
to be ready" Were they ready? 1t is
considered a fair estimate that Germany
and Austria Hungary have had (and
took) 5000. 100000 of French gold. They
have probably spent IL long ago. Some
of it is In America and much has
trickl.d back to France through neu-
trail countries. Leave it out. Don't
count it. France don't need 1t now.
So. by subtraction. all told (and quite
outside the public French gold reserve
and deposits maintained abroad of ST.
NAV still be $500. 100000 in French gold
nieces in the hands of private persons
in France. earning no interest. wrapped
in a napkin.
ass them for it. They turn in. steadi-
O1D to s., 2,OOO.0 per week in exchange
for hank notes, with which they buy
war bonds Some may be waiting for
htgber interest. With others it is
,nare negligence. An enormous amount
is held in little boards. kept by dumb
prudence. in cruel war. BUT every week
some laugh and let 1t go.
No Frenchman keeps his gold long
in a napkin.
gold finance the allies. Many were as
fonished. How did France get this
great power of gold
Every French child. as soon as it can
talk and listen. has dinned into It's ears
Continually: IF have cents. must
snend but I. and make the other work
Evening star., 1917-02-11

United States mark it's disapproxal of
the course of the government which he
represented. f-...-
1t is sometimes difficult to determine
just how far diplomatic representa-
tive is culpabie, and how far his gov
ernment can be held accountable, but
under the old-style diplomacy the prac-
tice was to absolve the government and
put all the blame on the minister or
ambassador, although it might be felt
that his government was really the
party at fault.
In the early days Of the republic most
of the European governments were at
little pains to conceal their contempt
for the United States as nation. Their
diplomatic representatives not only re-
fected this attitude. but sometimes
went further and sought to influence
the domestic policies of the country by
open criticism of the national admins
tration.
The most notable case in the early
DAYS and the one which is most fre-
uuently cited is that of Citizen Genet.
He was accredited by the revolutionary
government of France, which had be-
headed the king and made an END TO
royalty. His government wanted the
United States to join France in. the
war against England and Minister
Genet made no effort to restrain his
Indignation when Washington refused
TO let the United States he drawn into
the war.
There is an interesting chapter of dip
lomatic correspondence IN which Ie1-
ferson, as Secretary of State. under
took to explain to Minister Genet why
the decision OF the executive branch OF
the government was final. The ever
mild and conciliarory Jefferson, how
ever. was against taking strict meas
ures and his view prevailed in Wash
iugton's cabinet as against that OF
Hamilton. .-.--. .4.-....
Genet's offensive activities thereupon
became more pronounced. and his criti-
cism of Washington was unbounded. He
was aided and abetteG by Phillip Ere
neau, the poet, and by Bache. the
son-in-law of benjamin Franklin, both
persistent libeiers of Washington. Ul-
timately. however. the French govern
ment listened TO Washington's stern ad-
nlonition, and Minister Genet was re-
called. Nevertheless, he did not return
to France. He married the daughter OF
Gov De Witt Clinton and settled on
the Hudson. After her death he mar
ried the daughter of POSTING ster Cen
eral Osgood. t.'
Evening star., 1917-02-11

@1HE Library of Congress, already
rich in Lincolniana, has in the
III last nine months made Il small
x but rare addition TO its invalua-
Bile collection by the acquisition of the
original of the second inaugural ad-
dress. the first and second drafts of the
Gettysburg address. the memorandum
of August 90, 1854" and the last writ
ing of President Lincoln, written just
iyvo hours before his assassination
The last constitutes the most valuable
autograph of Lincoln in existence.
It has become the fashion to quote
l.incoln's speeches and utterances. and
10 compare the prominent public men
of the day with him. And get it took
the American people forty years TO dis
cover the beauty and power OF ais Eng
Hsh. and his mastery of address with a
comparatively limited vocabulary when
his writings and speeches are compared
with those of Webster, Clay and Ever
ett-
II was for the English critics 10 dis
cover for America the wonderful
strength and purity and choice OF Lin
coins English as exhibited in The sec
ond inaugural address and the Gettys-
burg address, which have now passed
into history as classics.
During many years OF Lincoln s life
mis- library consisted of but three books
the Bible. Blackstone and the drama
These We're his constant companions in
his early years, whether hewing timber
in the backwoods, keeping his small
store. or in the idle days after being adj
niitted to the bar when clients were
scarce and hardships almost unbear-
able. In his public speeches, as in his
daily life, there was ever an undertone
of sadness bordering on melancholy.
quaint touch of that mysterious awe
which came doubtless from his init
mate knowledge of the Scriptures and
a vision of the sorrows which were to
encompass his public lifc and of the
tragedy of his last hours
On the afternoon of April Il, 1865, on
Good Friday, President and Mrs. Lin
coin left the White House and drove in
the direction of Soldiers Home. a IA
vorite drive of Mr.. Lincoln. 1t was the
beautiful season of the year when
Washington begins to blossom forth.
and the roads were lined with wild
honeysuckle, dogwood. Hiacs and the
rioted undisturbed where there are
now rows of stone mansions and
smoothly trimmed lawns.
Mrs. Lincoln afterward recalled the
unusual pleasure of the drive. and how
Mr.. Lincoln had planned after his term
of Office, to which he had just been
elected. to return to his old home at
Springfield, ILL.,, Or to Chicago, open his
He spoke gratefully of the small
amount of money they had saved, and
hoped to save more with which to es-
tablish home for their old age.
The north was reSounding with
paeans of victory. and everywhere
preparations We're being made for cele-
brating the return of the conquering
heroes. His own son. Robert Lincoln,
had just returned from the war. The
streets and buildings were decorated
with gay bunting and flags and crowd
ed with soldiers and officers passing
through the capital. all anxious for a
sight of the great war President, for
whom many of them felt a personal af-
lection. Mr.. Lincoln knew this, and
Evening star., 1917-02-11

dence at the corner OF 18th and H
streets. Joined the President and Mrs.
Lincoln at the White House and went
with them in their carriage to the
theater in 10th street. Gen. and Mrs.
Grant were to have gone with them.
but at the last moment asked to be
excused. as they were anxious to go
to Burlington, n. j., to see their daugh-
ter, who was in school there.
In the frame with this autograph
card at the Library of Congress is
small likeness of Mr. Lincoln and
card written by Mr.. Ashmun. reading:
President Lincoln. 1t was written and
given to me at half-past PM Apr.
IA, 1855, just as he and Mrs. Lincoln
were. starting for the Theater where
May 1. 1866" The friend to be ad-
mitted with Mr.. Ashmun was Judge
C. P. Daily of New York This exhioit
is a loan to the Library of Congress
Mr. Herbert Putnam. the librarian or
Congress- in a letter to Clarence l.. Hay.
published in his official report OF 1916,
in speaking of the original OF Abraham
Lincoln's second inaugural address. and
the two drafts, by him, OF his address
at Gettysburg. together with the mem
orandum OF August %, says They
are! / think, the most precious indi-
vidual documents that have been in
years that / have been in charge OF the
library"
OF LincoIn,s autograph memorandum
of August 20, 1864, presented to the IL
brary by Miss Helen Nicolay, Hay and
Nicolay,f in their biography, wrote:
when at last, toward the end of Au
gust. the general gloom had enveloped
even the President himself. his action
was most original and characteristic.
Feeling that the campaign was going
against him. he made up his mind de-
Nberately as to the course he should
pursue and laid down for himself the
action demanded by his. conviction of
duty. He wrote. August 2P, the 1olioW-
ing memorandum:
This morning, as for some days past,
1t seems exceedingly probaDle that this
administration will not be reelected.
Then, it viii begmy duty to so coop
crate with the President-elect as to
save the Union between the election
and the Inauguration, as ne Will have
secured his election on such ground
that he cannot possibly save 1t after
ward"
Such was the famous memorandum,
which, in few words. revealed the
breadth and depth Of Lincoln's love for
his country and his determination to
save the Union at all hazards. regard
less of party or personal feelings. Hav-
ing written this, he folded and pasted
the sheet of paper In such q manner as
to conceal its contents. and. as the
members of the cabinet came in, hand
ed 1t to each. in turn, asking them to
write their names. across the back of II.
He then put the paper away. giving no
hint of the nature. Of Its contents
Lincoln believed that Gen. Mcclellan
would be the nominee Of the democratic
convention which was to meet in Chi
cago August 20, and such was the case.
The campaign was bitter one. but
Lincoin was victorious at the polls in
November.
At the next cabinet meeting Mr..
Lincoln took paper from his desk
SAYING, "Gentlemen, do you remember
last summer I asked you to sign your
names to the back OF a paper of which
I. did not show you the inside? THIS is
Evening star., 1917-02-11
7HERE do all the valentines come

00 7HERE do all the valentines come
MW from? Perhaps one is lacking
w in the proper romantic feeling
To desire to trace valentines TO the
source of their manufacture. These
bits of verse and color appear TO spring
spontaneously from the heart OF the
sender, and to transfer their origin TO
a commercial setting is trick AKIN 10
that which exposes the sawdust stuff
ing of a beautiful doll.
The love-giving couplet and the love-
entreating quatrain encircled with DOW
knots of roses and adorned with hesrts
pierced by Cupid's darts are manufac-
tured by the millions ana IN ,ac'or,es ias,
The romantic tidbit which my laoy
fair will receive in Wednesdays man
NAV accord with the sentiment that
throbs in her lovers heart ana mihu.
and truly be what he woulo nave
written were his inclinations poettcaa.
hut II passed many alien hands. ana
even Travelled great distance oefore
n finally came to his notice to be Sc
iected for his lady-love.
Valentines like Christmas. Easter
and hirthday cards. are manufactured
in ali parts of this country. Hemem,
hrance card SPECIALISTS is the general
name by which the manufacturing nrms
are known. They are the sources OF
the different cities draw for their val
entine stock.
The manufacture of valentines.
though a sentimental occupation ike
the professional baking Of wedding
cakes. is a business-like operation An
artist. who combines talent for both
poetry and designing. is kept busy the
year round writing new verses arrans-
ing new decorations and devising new
style valentines. He or she starts the
ball rolling at the valentine FACTORY.
SO the modern versions of Roses are
red. yiolet's blue; sugar is sweet and
so are YOU" are dashed off by the
dozen and decorated with appropriate
figures and garlsnts. Usually the
ut-iter of the verses conceives the idea
for the entire valentine at once. deco
rations and all If so. he sketches II
with water color and pens the verses.
Then 1t Is submitted to the CHIEF II
n is approved many more are made.
some copied in water color by less ex-
pcr.enced artists who haven't reached