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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
PRESIDENT RETIRES
Byram. Once Call Boy, to Become
Head of the c., Nj. s. St. p.

Chicago, Sept. 13.-Harry E. Byram,
vice presidenat of the Chicago, Bur
Hngton Il Quincy railroad, will be-
come president of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul at the meeting of
the latters directorate in New York
the last of this month.
This announcement was made by E.
j. Earling, president of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul since 1899, who
is retiring because of age. He is So
years old. He will be named chair
man of the board
Byram, who is 81 years old, started
in railroad work as call boy for the
Burlington in Galesburg, ILL., He has
been vice president of that road since
1910
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
BETWEEN TWO FIRES
Swiss Dealing for Food From Germany
and Allies Unsatisfactory.

Berne, Sept. 13.-The general coun-
Gil has published report on economic
conditions in Switzerland and the
country's relations with foreign pow
ers. The council says it considers the
recent agreement with Germany was
inevitably less favorable than last
years agreement, but that it proved
Germany's wish to preserve friendly
relations with Switzerland. Dealing
with economic relations with the en-
tente the council declares that the i'm
portation of foodstuffs in the coming
months will be far from satisfactory.
1t hopes to obtain concessions from
the entente, notably with regard to
grains
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
CLOSE STATE HOUSE
Kansas Officials and Clerks Attend
Big Fair Today.

State house officials, clerks and
employees are attending the Kansas
Free State Fair this afternoon. It is
the second half holiday declared in
the state house this week. All state
depa -tments closed at noon unocr an
order from the executive council
Kansas officials declared a half
holiday for the Kansas DERBY Tues
day This afternoon they granted
another half holiday that employees
might witness the races and inspect
the exhibits at the fair grounds The
banks are also closed this afternoon,
likewise the Santa Fe general offices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
DEAD MAN" PASSES
FINE EXAMINATIONS;
CERTIFIED IN ARMY

Joliet. ILL.,, Sept. 13.-Joseph Petak.
who was drowned last June, was certi-
fled into the national army today.
But you are officially dead" pro-
tested the clerk when Petak appeared
before the local exemption board to be
examined.
The body of man answering Pc
talks description was taken from the
Illinois river near Morris nearly three
months ago. In one of the pockets
was Petaks registration card.
Petak passed fine physical exam
ination, considering his demise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
Triple-Check ON War Stories.

Washington, Sept. 13.-To avoid is
suance in the future of such enron
eous reports as that Tuesday concern
ing the sinking of German submarines
a plan involving triple checking of
official statements of the navy de-
partment has been presented to Score
tary Daniels. 1t involves the coop
Grafton of officers of the navy bureau
of operations and editors of The COM
mittee on public information. The error
also has led officials responsible for
war department publicity to take ad-
ditionaI precautions against mistakes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
Railway Reports.

September reports just made by all
the railroads of the country to the
American Railway association show
that on September l, the excess of I'M
filled orders for cars in some parts of
the country over surplu>es of cars in
other places was 1851, a reduction
of IA per cent as compared with the
previous month. On May 1 the car
shortage was 1862. The reduction
in four months, therefore, has been rs
per cent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
TROUBLE IN PORTUGAL
Nation Declared i'm State of Siege Be-
cause of General Strike.

Madrid, Sept. 13.-Portugal has
been declared in a state of siege, &C
cording to a telegram received here
from Lisbon on account of d general
strike All establishments in the
portuguese capital have been closed.
Several persons, including a number
of soldiers, nave been wounded by
the explosion of bombs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
New York stock Market.

Wall St. New York, Sept 13.-STOCkS-
A further reimbursement occurred in invest
ment values In which new low records
were reached. This movement was partly
counterac1ed by short covering on ex-
tensiye scale, causing highly irregular
fluctuations. Total sales Appropriated
zoe 900 shares
The later dealings were signalized by i'm
prevement as short covering made itself
felt Steel and other favorites made up 1
to points from the lowest The close was
firm. Liberty bonds sold 5000 to 1896.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
SIX WEEKS IN LIFEBOAT
II Survivors of Wrecked Japanese
Steamer Finally Reach Port.

Vancouver. B. c.. Sept IA life
boat containing Captain Haruhiko
Shioga and 16 of the crew of the
wrecked Japanese steamer Kotohira
arrived yesterday at Ikeda Bay, Queen
Charlotte island.
The vessel was wrecked on July 27
in Alaska waters and during all the
intervening weeks the lifeboat was
at sea making for this coast
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
FIGURE ITALY LOSS BIG
On Isonzo Front, Quarter Million Men,
10000 Captured, Vienna Reports.

Vienna, Sept. 13.-'The Itana n
losses in the eleventh Isonzo battle"
says an official statement issued to-
day by the Austrian war office. have
reached almost a quarter of a million,
including 10000 prisoners"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13

We wish to express our many thanks
to friends and neighbors for their as
sistance. kindness and sympathy in the
sickness and death of our beloved
wife, mother and sister.
c. B. Hypes.
Misses Hazel and Grace Hypes.
Maude Renfro.
ADVERTISEMENT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

CHRISTOPHER H. STIEBY, age 81. died
this morning at the home of his son, F.
NJ. Stieby; 1871 College avenue. The body
will be sent to Council Grove for burial.
The funeral of Mrs. ]. S. Belts will be
held at 10 o'clock Friday morning from
the home, 400 Central avenue. Burial in
Granville cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13

Solomon, Kan, Sept. 13.-R L.
Land, signal man of the Union Pa
cific. while riding in a motor tricycle.
on the track west of town, was struck
by freight train and instantly killed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued from the
office of Ralph Cav. probate judge today
to the following persons:
Otto G. Schwab, Morganville o0
Minnie c. Thoren. Clay Center. .21
Joseph Palmer Fuller jr. Beloit %
Minnie Elizabeth Geiser, Beloit, %
Paul D. Rogers, Willard. p
Marie L. Stone, Willard. ..............1S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13

wedding rings. lS-K gold, 81 I'D.
Co. 1924 E. 6th.-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13

Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel s27.-
Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13

Our "City Fathers lives are full of woe,
In days like these,
For they're asked to quell the rooster
crow.
And bell the honey bees.
-Cir-CinrIe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13
Boys School Suits, $1.9S
up to $3.50.

Boys csc Bearskin Hose. 15c
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
Miss Storey Film Star
aladdin from Broadway" Is
Done with Realism

One of the best things Edith Storey
ever has done is aladdin from Broad
way" when was shown at the Vita
graph studio yesterday. The picture IL
intensely interesting and the scenes IN
the desert and in Damascus and Mecca
most realistic.
James Fitzgerald. an Englishman'
loses his Armenian wife and child dur
ing an uprising among the Turks. lhen
the scens shifts to New York, eighteen
wears later. where Jack Stanton hears
Fitzgerald tell of his experiences IN
Mecca. and Immediately offers to wager
$4,000 that he can go to Mecca and re-
turn with impunity.
Meanwhile Fitzgerald's daughter has
grown to be a most fascinating young
woman. in the person OF Edith Storey
and of course she meets Jack stanton
in Damascus. The plot is hung on the
divorce law Of the Koran, which reads ::
"If man shall say publicly 70 his wife
three times Il divorce you she is no
longer his wife, and he may not again
wed her until she has married and been
divorced by another man"
Antonio Moreno is excellent as Jack
Stanton.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
Pekingese Dogs Broke Up
Women's Partnership
Mrs. Sherwood Sues Miss Sim
clair for CANNES

Six Pekingese dogs and Boston
terrier are the chief causes of the
disruption of the copartnership that
existed between Mrs. Lulu NJ. Sher-
wood, of Roslyn, Long Island, and Miss
F. Marie Sinclair, of 322 West Tooth
Street. Mrs. Sherwood, widow of DR..
Thomas G.. Sherwood, has asked the
Supreme Court TO direct Miss Sinclair
TO account for the seven pedigreed
dogs which the plaintiff alleges her
partner "surreptitiously removed
from the Roslyn kennels on Febru-
airy q.
Miss Sinclair is said to be young
woman Of wealth, whose family has
place at Newport. Before signing
lease for the apartment she now occu-
pies she exacted a promise from the
owner that the building would contain
an elevator for the accommodation OF
dogs.
The two women opened the Wensen
Kennels. at Roslyn. where Mrs. Sher-
wood lives, and Miss Sinclair main
tanned a branch in her dog elevator
apartment. Pekingese dogs were their
specially. although they always were
ready to purvey a well bred dog of
other variety 10 their wealthy patrons.
Miss Sinclair furnished the money
for the project and Mrs. Sherwood the
knowledge These arrangements were
disturbed by the alleged removal OF
the seven dogs. the value of which
Mrs. Sherwood places at $1,000. AT
the same time. she complains, certain
books and papers of the copartnership
also disappeared.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
Ellen Terry's Copy
Of Chaucer Brings
$1,O10 at Auction
George D. Smith Also Pays
$500 for Church Manuscript
at Learmont Sale

Ellen Terry's copy Of the works OF
Chaucer. with her bookpiate, regarded
by photographers as the finest produc'
ton Of the Kelmscott Press, brought
the highest price yesterday at the maj
session Of the sale at the Anderson
Galleries o. the Learmont library
George d. Smith paid Sl,0l0 for this
masterpiece, which contains eighty
seven woodcut illustrations by Sir Id
ward Burne-jones. The decorative
frames around them were designed by
William Morri.. The woodcuts were
presented 10 the British Museum with
the stipulation that they were not TO
be reproduced for one hundred years,
so that this edition. which was limlteo
70 A25 copies. cannot be reproduced IN
this generation.
Mr.. Smith also paid 500 for fine
manuscript Book Of Hours" on vellum
written in Gothic characters, red and
black. with the calendar in gold, red
and blue. The manuscript was exc
cuted in the North of France in the
fifteenth century. The same buyer
gave 1856 for a first edition OF The
Nuremberg Chronicle" by Schedel,
printed in 1893. J. +. Drake paid Sou
for a rare first edition Of Prynne's
THE Loneliness of Love LOCKS" The
total of the session was SS,356.75, and
Of the entire sale Sl3,G4695.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
Plays and Players

Charlotte, the we'll known writer on
matters pertaining to skating, will re-
turn to the IIippodrome on Monday
afternoon. Charlotte has been on tour
with last years Hippodrome spectacle,
which will close its season in Cleye-
land on Saturday.
Another member OF the incoming
Hippodrome entertainment, Nat Wills,
has been acquired by the Cocoanut
Grove, and will make his debut on Mon
day night. Mr.. Wills has been away for
nearly six months, and 1t is understood
that he has several new kilograms.
The Morningside Players, who lately
produced Elmer Reizenstein's Iron
Cross will give bill of Columbia
written one-act plays at the Comedy on
the afternoon of April 10. The plays
will be given privately on the preceding
Sunday evening.
Florerz Zegfeld, who is going in for
the drama on a Wholesale scale, re-
turned yesterday from Palm Beach.
As proof of the seriousness Of his pur-
pose Mr.. Ziegfeld brought along COM
plete scenario of one act of the new
"Follies.'
Gabrielle Dorziat, the French actress,
announces that two plays now running
in New York will be produced by her
in Paris next season. One Of these is
"The 18th Chair"
John Galsworthy's "The Fugitive"
had its first American performance in
New Haven last night under the man
agement of Oliver Morosco. Among the
typical ones were Emily Stevens. Con-
way Tearle, Edward Emery Charlotte
Granville, Annie Hughes. Charles Har-
bury, Thomas MacLarnle, Alice johns,
Duncan McRae and Henry Warwick.
Ekaterina Galanta, who came to
America with the Ballet Russo IN Octo-
Der. will be a part of the ballet in THE
Wanderer" tonight and thereafter.
There is no news OF Importance so far
as the sheep are concerned.
+. II. Sothern is about TO begin work
on a series OF magazine articles per
tanning 20 the stage, and it is an
nounced that ne will also continue TO
dash off plays at intervals.
Roscoe Arbuckle. having crossed the
continent in private car and having
made numerous stopoyers in large
cities, where he has been feted, wlned
and dined," will arrive in New York
this afternoon. Thousands Of his adj
mirers have been invited TO meet him
at Grand Central Terminal, and 1t Is
assumed that there will be still further
feting, wining, etc. Mr.. Arbuckle IS
motion picture actor. G. s. X.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
Tolstoy in Vaudeville
Now at $1,000 a Week
Count to Have Try-Out on the
Pacific Coast This Month

Vaudeville is about to acquire Count
Iva Tolstoy. The count, son OF Leo
Tolstoy, is now on his way to Cali
fornia. and will make his debut IN the
two-a-day during the week OF Marcn
% at the Orpheum Theatre, San Fran
cisco. For the week at this theatre
he will receive $1,000, and If ne Is a
success on the stage ne will be booked
for a tour of the Western vaudeville
houses at the same figure.
Count Tolstov. by grace Of certain
adventures at Columbia University. has
acquired considerable publicity since
mis- arrival in This country, and II
was this fact that led William Norris
vaudeville manager. 10 see IN MIN a
possible theatrical asset. Mr.. Morris
communicated with Martin Beck. head
OF the Orpheum circuit.
The count, Mr.. Beck SAID YESTERDAY
will talk about Russia and the works
OF his father, and has agreed 70 omit
all comments Of the kind that precipi-
tated the trouble at Columbia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
Westchester Prisoners
Are to LiUe in Style

The new Westchcster County penn
tertiary. at East View, will be more
like modern hotel than jail, accord
ing to plans issued yesterday by "
Everit Macy, Commissioner OF Correc-
tiOns.
Every cell will be light and airy and
will be fitted with washstand, win
running water. a cot and wfit'hg
desk. There will be marble lined snow
or baths. and the old stone-topped eat
inc tables. common in the older prisons,
u.iil be done away witio The prison
ora instead, will eat their meals on
clean linen table covers.
The prison will have its own moving
,;ctu,e machine and "A theatre for en-
tcrtainments. The opening has been
postponed until April !.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
Maker of Great Paige
Composition" a Pauper
Old Inventor, Once Million.
aire, on Chicago Poor Farm
lBy Telegraph TO The niOune

Chicago, March 6.-James ". Paige,
inventor of zone OF the most remark
able pieces of mechanism ever put to-
gether." as The Encyclopedia Britain
MICA" described il, is in the poorhouse
to-day at Oak Forest.
twenty-five years ago he was owner
of the Paige compositor plant on the
West Side, for the making of type
setting machines. Nearly 100000
was invested in the plant. Paige was
reputed 20 be worth $1,000 900 himself.
Mark Twain was one of the investors.
In the panic of 1898 Mr.. Paige lost MS
money. His great invention, although
mechanical marvel. needed further
development. which never came. Mark
Twain. who lost a large sum by the
smash. went on a lecture tour around
the world, in order 10 pay his debts.
Mr. Paige disappeared"
The old man to-day came into the
Office of John Welch, me farm upper
intendent az Oak Forest. He walked
firmly. He wore a discarded black
coat. buttoned at the throat with
safety pin, sweater and heavy shoes.
His hands trembled somewhat. but he
sat up straight in his chair as he used
to sit at meeting of the board OF
the great Paige compositor.'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
What Is Going On To-day

Free admission 20 the American Museum Oh sa,-
,irsi Hstnr The Metropolitan Museum o. Ar.
tie New YORK Ioo,osi,al PAR snd ne A91"'' 'lA
u,ilitns Trades Fap.sitlon Grand Central Palace
Adt,,.s b. Don G. seitE On The Newspaper Shop
IRON the Inside az the luncheon o. the br9oAll I
,trir cub clubhouse. III Remsen street, Bn"S
soi, messing meets Of IN. Rainy Day Club q NV Yors.
is S;s A y, 4. Boara Of Education bal. Of tn.
basr,i PARK Avenue and Fifty ninth Street.
,il-e.s by Ros.-, r. sherwood On The story. Of
ne Motion Plc,orr ard The Nationsl Board b~-
fore me Clu. Forum. educational Alhsnoe
heafauartsss. StuyTesart and Ninin streets >
Di.r,.s,,n On Tie Poor and the Prsn~." A.
own meeting % the CIVIC Forum. cSness Hal.
Adde'S by DR.. Frederick 4 Blossom on TIC
Birth Control Movement. is organitsiion; Ans
nd Methods Churrh n th. Messiah. Para Ave-
nue. and Thirty fourth street. p M.
I.-sturs by Professor Tdssrd T. psvins on cer-
man Philanthropy. Puddle and Private nefpre
Tie Germanlstlc Society Of New York. ho;el A
vacation A5soc alton Circus. Madison Square Gar
den. evening
PUBLIC LECTURES or THE BOARD or EDU-
CATION. SIS p. NJ
MANHATTAN
..Norsay" Ms r. D. McNee. Public school o..
West Houston street. vsrss sucet
Tile United states Nav" John {. Welsh. Prois
School l0l, lllth street. near Lexington Avenue
Edward Grieg" Daniel GrSOrY Nasr. Hunter
college. LeAington Avenue and sSJ-e
Street
Unto The British Columbian Widernes." Miss
Mary T. lobe sis East iesih Street
The School tn tho lcne." A. A. Ber.s Public
Library sos West li5th street
china" Guy Maine. Seamsn's Church instiig!.
. south street
What 10 Fesblcniind,dness - Yrantvood " w'n..
iAms. ~ D.. Y ~ {. A Hall. Vest 18Th
sireet
Henrik rhsen." Professor ]. c. C1t9 rrpp
" u A W., iiTh stree,
TliE BRONX
-Anthrsclis Coal nessDs" Frsrs ]. Milnan.
~. n. rubIe, seh,'s ~. Randolph and Beach
.Fenues
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
"The Cloud" Is Shown
Jean Sothern Star Of Newest
Art Drama

"The Cloud" an art drama picture,
was shown yesterday. "The Cloud" has
for its silver lining little Jean Sothern,
remarkably talented girl, who de-
serves to be hitched to better vehicle.
Miss Sothern is Gloria Dixon, who
sacrifices a fortune and permits cloud
to obscure her good name that she may
protect the reputation OF her dead
mother.
Gloria seems a bit hszy in regard TO
the state Of her heart, and she does not
discover that she loves John Saunders
until after she is married to Henry FL
hot. Then, when she thinks that 1t IS
too late, she discovers that the mar
riace ceremony had been performed by
a bogus minister. Miss Sothern is par
ticularly good in her emotional scenes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
Walters in Seven
Downtown Clubs
Ask Higher Wages
So for Three and One-Half
Hour Day and No Dish
washing Demanded

Waters in seven downtown luncheol
clubs will present demands this week
for higher wages and better working
conditions, it was announced yesterday
at headquarters of the New York Club
Employees Association, Fifty-ninth
Street and Madison Avenue. A strike
will be declared as last resort.
Rumors OF concerted action have
been prevalent since last Tuesday, when
1875 walters walked out Of the Bankers
Club of America, in the Equitable
Building, while the members were COM
ing in for luncheon. The men are still
on strike.
The clubs marked for visits from a
committee % walters this week are the
Whitehall Club. 80 Battery Place; Law
yers' Club. lj5 broadway; Downtown
Association, 90 Pine Street; Machinery
Club, 90 Church Street; Railroad Club
of New York, 30 Church Street; Hard
ware Club, 253 Broadway, and Drug
and Chemical Club, 100 William Street.
The walters will demand 81 a day for
six days week the year around, q
working day of three and one-half
hours, the privilege OF buying their
own food during working hours, abo-
lition Of Christmas gratuitles. sanitary
uniforms and no dishwashing.
Eddie johnson was as busy az a
pacifst in Congress yesterday noon.
His six associate hallboys of the Mcr-
chants Club struck at noon. leaving
Eddie 10 open the door, answer the
telephone, serve drinks and check
coats. While Eddie kert busy the
other six visited the newspaper Offices
TO let the world know their decision.
ave get 1922 a week and bum
meals" said Jack Gruner, Of 9s4 Put
nam Avenue, Brooklyn, the spokesman.
eve want $3.50 day without meals"
The boys are not affiliated with tho
New York Club Employees Association,
but they are eligible for membership.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
u. S. May Levy
Advertising Tax
Says G. G. Battle
Declares Federal Board Is
Planned to Control
Paid Publicity

The creation OF Federal advertising
commission 70 regulate commercial
publicity and Federal tax on all sd-
yertising expenditure are government
plans which are entirely possible Of
speedy fulflment," George Gordon Bat
tie told members of the Advertising
Club. at a dinner in the clubhouse. ~
East Twenty-hfth Street, last night.
The advertising business, Mr.. Battle
declared, is in the same position as the
insurance business was in before the
Huches investigation, and he warned
his hearers that they must be prepared
for a similar investigation. 1t was es-
timated. he said. that more than
81 900. O00, 900 had been spent IN edver-
Using in the United States last year:
The influence of publicity on the life or
the nation, he declared, was enormous
and ever present.
at is inevitable" he continued, that
this great force should require the re-
striction of the law. IL could not be
hoped that the large profits and swollen
fortunes Of advertising men could De
overlooked DIV lne leBlSlaNOiS' SN"'S
action is undoubtedly necessary to pro-
hibit dishonesty in advertising and cor
rect abuses
MIR. Battle reviewed the development
Of advertising from its earliest days
in England. when the common law
was assuming definite shape and trad
ers were mostly adventures" and
when the law favored the seller to the
detriment of the buyer
within the last few years he SAID
there has been great improvement
but it is incomplete. Constructive
law is lacking. There is some feeling
that advertising is wasteful. be,
Iieve it TO be the most economical
method Of getting manufacturer ana
consumer together
L. +. Fehlmsn was toastmas'er' anu am
others at the speakers table were U;
&. Harm, William J. Malone. FLOYD
Keeler. Richard II. Waldo and Alan -
Kelley.