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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-22
RUBENS ON EXHIBITION
Valuable Painting Is shown Here Nv
the Gift Shop. on Adams
Street.

After having been in the possession
OF the family of the present owners
Tor more than 800 years. an original
painting. by Peter Paul Rubens, OF
the Admiration of the Holy Family"
is being exhibited for sale in the win
dow Of the Gift Shop. PA North Adams
street. The picture is valued by its
owners ut many times It's cash value
put is being disposed OF because of war
conditions. The public, whether inter
estcd In It's purchase or not. is invited
TO call and view the painting
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
u. S. Will Lead
In Freeing Men
For New Army
Government Will Not
Claim Exemption for
Mail Carriers
Policy To Be General
Only Expert Distributors Are
Excepted in Postoffice
Regulations
Policy To Be General

Washington, Aug. "a ruling issued
to-day by the Postoffice Department
shows that departmentofflcila will make
few requests for the exemption Of postal
employees from military service. Post
masters are instructed not TO ask for
exemption for carriers or laborers or
for clerks in second class Offices below
the $1,000 grade, clerks in first class
Offices below the S1,100 grade, or any
above these grades unless they are
qualified distributors of mail.
The ruling is the first formal action
by an executive department in compli-
ance with President Wilson's order d.
rccting that department officials indi-
cate exemptions and that the require
ment Of indispensability be rigidly en-
forced.
As generally construed the postal
ruling shows the purpose Of the Ad-
ministrstion to make the government
departments leaders in freeing valu-
able employees for war service.
Carriers Force Excluded
The entire mail carriers force, num-
| boring thousands of men, OF whom 6
considerable percentage Is within the
| draft age limits, is excluded from ex-
| emption as such. Even the rural car
riers are included.
The departments ruling in regard TO
clerks leaves railway mail clerks within
the exemption classes, as they are
highly specialized distributors.
The cost Of drafting Americas first
great National Army-from registration
to enrolment, was placed by Secretary
Baker to-day at $780, S0, in his esti-
mates to Congress.
This amount includes all overhead
expense of registration, examination
and selection. II is based on registra-
ton of 100000, examination of sp.
proximately 100000 and enrolment OF
$4,000.
Early and scattering reports from
| local boards do not indicate any in
crease in physical exemptions from the
army draft over the average of 25.77i
established in 1863.
To Reduce Exemptions
Provost Marshal General Crowder
took steps to-day to reduce the number
of exemptions because Of dependent
families. Instructions were sent to the
Governors of all States pointing out
that the minimum pay of soldiers is
now $50 q month, and that local boards
must consider whether a mans de-
pendents could not be supported on
that amount. The telegram said:
"All clothing, subsistence, medical
treatment and housing are furnished to
the soldier. He may allot any part Of
his pay to a dependent. Many soldiers
receiving $50 a month are easily able
to allot $50 monthly to the support OF
dependents. In case of death in line OF
duty the government will pay to the
beneficiary designated by the soldier
six months pay.
"The selective service act provides
that those in a status with respect to
persons dependent upon them for sup
port which renders their exclusion or
discharge advisable may be discharged
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Plattsburg Student
Dies of Typhoid
William n. Jones. Of This City
Also Had Bright's Disease
lBy Telegraph TO The Tr.bunel

Plattsburg, Aug. 3.-William H.
Jones, a student in the Sd Battery, I'd
New York Training Regiment, who
lived at 3sl East 13sth Street, New
York, died early this morning. The
hospital surgeons declared his death
was due to typhoid, with complications
Of Bright's disease.
Major George S. Simons, U. S. A. lin
fantry), arrived at camp to-day to ad-
dress the students on the methods en-
ployed by the English and French in
the trenches. He is fresh from the
battlefield.
Governor Whitman, who remained
over at the Hotel Champlain Thursday
night after visiting the training camp,
came down to the camp of the LIST Regi-
ment, Field Artillery, n. G. n. Y, at
10 o'clock this morning and reviewed
that organization. He then left for
Albany by automobile.
Washington, Aug. 3.-An increase Of
80 per cent in the number of candi-
dates to be admitted to the second
Officers Reserve training camps OPEN
ing on August q has been ordered by
the War Department. Sixteen thou
sand were to have been admitted. The
number has been raised to 10000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04

Peter Sturber is twenty-seven. His
parents came to the United States
in 81.
: In the examination room Of Local
Board AZ, in the Brooklyn Public Lii
brary, the doctors thumped and bumped
Peter yesterday until their fists were
sore. Blond, mighty and good natured,
typical of the sort of young German
American that Uncle Sam is glad to
have in the family, he joshed the ex-
aminers in English as pure and humor
as American as if both dated back to
the Mayfower.
"You bet!" he roared when A. E.
Lawton, clerk of the board, asked him
if he was ready to fight.
Then Lawton's eye caught check
opposite Peters name on the list
"Got your papers," he demanded.
Peters jaw dropped.
"Papers?" he echoed. I'm Ameri-
can!"
you're exempt" said the clerk.
1
Under tho regulations" said Law
ton, I'VE must exclude you"
II took Peter quite while to get it
through his head, and he was blinking
dazedly as he stumbled out into what
had become Of a sudden the enemy's
country.
Peter Sturber is twenty-seven. His
parents came to the United States IN
lss1-frOm Germany. (Now figure IT'D
1t was reminiscent Of that great re-
cruiting cartoon Of Gibson's, Here he
is, sir!" Only instead of a gray
haired motherly person it was a gray
haired fatherly person. The boy looked
like "the boy" of the cartoon, stalwart,
we'll dressed, fresh-faced.
Side by side, sturdily, they marched
into Public School No. III, at Sterling
Place and Vanderbilt Avenue, Brook
Ign, and up to the table at which the
chairman of Local Board a. was sit
ting.
I'm Marks, the lawyer" said the
father, or brusque words to that effect.
This young man is registered in Con-
necticut and I guess we'll have him
examined here" g,
az guess we'll see about it," remarked
the chairman Of the board. DE hap
pened to be Frank Harvey Field, q
former member Of the Board OF Edu-
cation and more or less of lawyer
himself)
"Now, young man." continued Mr..
Field, whats this Connecticut busi-
ness?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Madison Barracks
ToBe Base Hospital
General Gorgas, Surgeon Gen.
eral. Inspects Camp With Col
onel Dercle, of French Army
TBy T-sSrtph 70 The TrbunsI


Madison Barracks, n. Y, Aug. g.
Major General Gorgas, surgeon general
of the United States Army, was here
to-day on an inspection tour. He was
accompanied by Colonel c. H. Dercle,
Of the French army, who is making an
inspection of American training camps
for his government. General Gorgas
is making an inspection with a view of
creating base hospital at this post
when the present training course is
completed.
Many of the students now in the
camp who will not receive commissions
are to enter second camps. These men
for the most part are condmates who
show aptitude, but for some reason
have not been able to keep up with
the work Of the school. Many Of them
have spent a part Of their time in the
hospital.
Those who fail to receive commits
sions and are not designated for at
tendance at second camps are advised
to enlist as non-commissioned officers
in the regular army. Men who take
advantage Of this offer will probably
receive commissions very soon. II Is
announced that all promotions after
the second camps are to be made from
the ranks Of the regular army, National
Guard and National Army.
Governor Whitman will visit the
camp next Tuesday. He will inspect
the camp, after which he will address
the students and review the candidates
on the parade ground.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Will Send a Comfort
Box to Every Fighter
Committee Opens Headquarters
in the Hotel McAlpin

The Army and Navy Field Comfort
Committee, which plans to send COM
fort box to every soldier and sailor in
the service of the United States, at
home or abroad, opened headquarters
on the second mezzanine floor of the
McAlpin Hotel yesterday. The first
days receipts amounted to sl,s0425,
most of which is for organizing ex-
penses.
The committee, of which Justice John
Ford, of the State Supreme Court, is
chairman, has assembled an assortment
Of articles which will give to the
men in the trenches, training grounds
or on the high seas some little COM
forts which they cannot hope to get
from the commissary department.
The boxes, which have been approved
by the War Department, will contain
smoking articles, candy, chewing gum,
tooth brush and paste. pencils and
stationery, safety matches and shoe
laces.
In every box sent out will be re-
turn postcard addressed TO the donor
and on the reverse side printed in
structions asking the recipient to write
a word of greeting to the sender.
Governor Whitman is on the general
committee and has Endorsed the work
of the organization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
u. S. Not to Join
Allied Conferences
Will Hold Aloof Despite Sug.
gestion of Cambon, OFF,
Gals Say
Iron mo Tribune Bureaul

Washington, Aug. 3.-The hope OF
Jules Cambon, general secretary to the
French Ministry Of Foreign Affairs,
that the United States would "take
part and make its voice heard in all
future conferences" of the Allied
powers, expressed in the Chamber OF
Deputies yesterday, will not be real
lied, according to high officials here.
They said that as the United States
obtains all the information concerning
these conferences without attending
them, it is not necessary for the gov
eminent to participate.
This policy of the United States is
believed TO be dictated by desire to
maintain itself free from the necessity
of having to declare its position re-
gardng the questions, many of them
political, arising at such conferences:
1t is considered that the influence Of
the United States will be the stronger
the longer it holds aloof from political
discussions.
The other reason is the fact that the
United States is not at war with Aus
tria-Hungary, Bulgaria or Turkey as
the Allies are.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Appeal Boards
Still Unnamed
Failure of Washington to
Pick Exemption Judges
Hampers Draft Men

The machinery Of the selective draft
was hampered again yesterday--not by
any error or delinquency of local func-
tionsries, but by sin Of omission in
Washington.
Two local exemption boards--Nos.
l42 and l54-had certified lists Of reg.
istrants who have been examined and
found physically qualified for military
service, ready to turn over to the dis
trict board, which, the law says, shall
act as court of appeals on exemption
claims based on dependents, and shall
have primary jurisdiction over voea-
tional exemption claims.
The absence. Of a district board In
Manhattan-or any place else In New
York State, for that matter-is all that
prevented the completion Of this i'm
portant step. Governor Whitman NOM
mated seventy citizens as members of
district boards on July 26, but these
nominations have not been confirmed
by President Wilson. Consequently,
those proposed for board memberships
have no legal status, and cannot organ
ize or begin work, though there is work
to do, and delay introduces additional
elements of complication.
Deputy Attorney General Roscoe s.
Conkling has advised the local boards
to hold theiS lists until Washington
acts.
Meantime the district nominees are
having a trying time. Meier Stein
brink, of Brooklyn. who resigned from
local board 10 accept the district
nomination, asserted he and other NOM
inees have been besieged by applications
Tor exemption on industrial grounds.
Much already could have been accom-
plished. he asserted, had Governor
Whitman's nominations been con-
frmcd.
Charles (. Hughes. Nathan Straus
and George L. lngraham are among
those named to serve in Manhattan.
After a long wait and no word from
Washington they have left the city,
but through their secretaries are in
constant touch with the situation here,
and are ready to return to New York
the moment word of confirmation o.
their appointments is received.
Provost Marshal General Crowder, in
Washington last night, suggested to
the Governors of all states that each
assemble the full membership of all
district boards for general confer
ence regarding appeals. The Gov
errors were asked also to appoint an
official in each local district TO file
appeals. County attorneys were sug-
OaSted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
3 Slackers Jailed;
Five Others Held
Arthur c. Byrne, Of Albany
Burgesses Corps, One of
Those Questioned

Some of those who failed to regis
ter on June felt the clutch OF the
law yesterday. A strangely assorted
handful of delinquents was arraigned
before Federal officials.
Arthur C. Byrne. vice-president Of
the Cornelius E. Byrne Piano Com
pany, who lives at 302 West Seventy
second Street, was taken from his
fathers cottage at Long Beach and
brought before Frank NJ. Rosa, AS
sistant United States District Attor-
ney, to explain.
Mr.. Byrne's explanation was as
prompt as his enrolment in the Home
Guard at Long Beach, or as his ofer
of his services as registration clerk
there on June 5. He was exempt, he
said, being a member of the Albany
Burgesses Corps, whose dazzling ball
at the Metropolitan Opera House In
1909 is one Of the brilliant pages in
the military history Of the state.
After hearing the explanation Mr..
Roosa turned the young burgess over
to United States Marshal Power, OF
the Brooklyn district.
Henry Banks, a negro, and Frank
Rayman and Frank Zedel, Russian
Poles, could offer no such explanation
when they were arraigned before
Judge Manton in the United States
District Court. Henry, as spokes'
man, simply opined that they were IN
Dutch again." and let it go at that
without attempting to snalyze the sit
uation for the court.
The prosecutor did the explaining
in their case. The three men had
been arrested in White Plains nearly
six weeks ago, he said, having failed
to register. They had been in Jail
ever since, because letter which
Sheriff Wiesendanger, of Westchester
County, wrote, asking instructions, had
miscarried. Judge Manton sentenced
the trio to day in the Tombs, and
ordered that they be registered when
they were released.
Wilson Farnum, who said he was an
actor, fell into the hands Of the law
as he got off an Albany boat. When
he was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Hitchcock he
said he was ready to register then and
there. He was informed that the date
for delinquents was set by the gov
eminent and was held in $1,000 for
the grand jury. John J. Hoar and
William Meyers also were held for an
investigation by the grand jury.
Federal agents who visited the Sea-
mems Institute asked James Banks, a
West Indian negro. for his registra-
ton card. James said that he was a
British subject. Upon the query be-
ing repeated, he said that he was in
London on June and had been sick
ever since. He felt distinctly i'll at
that moment, he added. He was held
for further examination.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Duchess of Connaught
Left G125,611 to Kin

London, Aug 3.-The will of the
Duchess of Connaught, who died in
March last, disposes OF property Of the
sworn value of a125,611. The duchess
bequeathed s25,000 to the former Prin-
cess Margaret Of Connaught, now
Crown Princess Gustave Adolph of
Sweden, and $4,000 to Princess Vic
toria Patricia. The remainder of the
property goes to the son Of the duchess,
Prince Arthur of Connaught.
The Duchess of Connaught was seized
with a bronchial attack last February,
and during her convalescence bronchial
pneumonia developed. She died in
London March IA. The duchess was
Princess Louise Margaret Alexandra
Victoria Agnes Of Prussia, third daugh-
ter of Prince Frederick Charles of
Prussia. When she was nineteen years
old she married, on March 13, 1879,
Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert,
Duke Of Connaught, third son of Queen
Victoria, uncle of King George and a
former Governor General OF Canada
They had a son and two daughters, one
of them, Princess Patricia, being the
patroness of the famous Canadian regi.
ment, THE Princess Pats"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Draft Slow in Chicago
rBy Telegraph to Tbs Tt1buneI

Chicago, Aug. S.-Alarmed at the
large number of men subject to the
draft who are claiming exemption,
Major Chiperfeld to-day instructed the
eighty-six exemption boards to scru-
tinize all claims more closely.
"More speed and closer scrutiny will
have to be the slogans adopted by the
local boards of Chicago from this
time on" said the major.
MANY of the boards are proceeding
so slowly that their actions, unless
speeded up, will be an absolute hin
drance to the collection of Chicsgo's
quota Of men,"
Major Chiperfeld has received from
General Crowder telegram, in which
il is announced that those who regis
tered June as being twenty-one years
old and have since learned that they
are younger, may claim exemption II
they can support their claim.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04

The Crindings Of the Draft Mill

"objection." cried the lawyer. IL
except! Don't answer him.
Get outl" ruled Mr.. Field.
The first draft lawyer had learned
that in the present important proceed
ings lawyers have no standing. After
which the chairman found out that
the young worthy had played the same
trick on the Connecticut board.
The examination is set for to-day
here.
This same board has in its jurisdic-
ton the fashionable Park Slope sec
ton. It's registrants, for the most
part, are the young men who inhaoit
the big apartments Of the neighborhood
And for another part the African ad-
miral. and generals who. guard the
gates, tend the switchboards and make
the elevators to lift.
No. 25S-latc in getting around.
proved TO be large and black beyond
compare with any present. For
couple Of hours he heard one after an
other of his brethren declare them
selves West Inoians. acclaim the King
and claim exemption.
"You amt losin' much in them folks,
he confded to Clerk William NJ. Pat
terson when his own turn came. mo,
sab. This hyah's my country and I'm
fghtin' for it."
There was touch Of decent black
in her costume that suggested bereave-
ment.
wills gonc," she said "I1l leave
his picture with you"
She did-and II the husband, who
registered and then deserted her,
claims exemption before Poard "A,
mentioning any dependents, he'll be
wasting time.
II. Jarvis Beach is so anxious to ex-
change his comfortable quarters in the
Warrington Hotel, at 161 Madison Ave
nue., for dog tent at Yaphank that he
not only waived exemption yesterday
but grandly waived examination, too
Local Board 159 certified him at once
without mentioning the army surgeon
whose whack at Registrars comes
later on.
No voice can cry "Vive la France!'
more passionately than Maurice Meu-
nier's, nor has there been one among
all the garcon persons at Sherry's more
avowedly anxious to meet the boche on
the field of honnaire. But Maurice
when he came before Local Board 10
seemed to have adopted for his motto
ale also serves who only stands and
waits" The board granted a condi-
tional exemption on Maurice's plea he
was an alien Collector"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Soldiers Uniform Got
Him $346 at Biltmore

William R. Gill, who discovered that
it was easier to cash checks if one
wore khaki, pleaded guilty Of attempted
grand larceny yesterday in General SEES
sions. He had British soldiers uni
form, button Of valor," a limp, and
a tale of adventure in the Royal Flying
Corps when he presented two checks
at the Hotel Biltmore, thus adding
S346.86 to his outfit. The hotel still
ha. the checks, marked IN. G."
Gill said he was a clerk, and lived at
1911 Michigan Avenue, Chicago. when
he was not adventuring around.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Lookout in Baff Murder
Sentenced to Sing Sing

Tony Zaffarone, one of the lookouts
who protected the slayers of Barnet
Baf in November, 1914, was sentenced
to state prison yesterday by Judge Ro-
salsky, in General Sessions, to not less
than five nor more than fifteen years.
Zaffarone pleaded guilty to attempted
murder in the first degree and turned
states evidence, which materially aided
the conviction of Joseph Cohen and
Abraham Graf, the men who procured
the murder.
District Attorney Swami told the
court that Zaffarone had already been
seventeen months in the Tombs. and in
view of his assistance to the state he
recommended leniency.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
General Weston Dead
Veteran of Two Wars; Fought
With Custer

Ossining, N. Y, Aug. 3.-Major Cen
eral John F. Weston, retired. veteran
of the Civil and Spanish wars and cam
paigner under General Custer against
hostile Indians, died yesterday at Os-
shining Hospital, in his seventy-second
year. He had been i'll with bronchial
pneumonia.
Born at Lexington, KY, in 1s45, Cen
eral Weston enlisted at the outbreak
of the Civil War in the 4th Kentucky
(Union) Cavalry, and was mustered out
with the rank of major.
In 1867 he entered the regular army
and served as second lieutenant of the
7th Cavalry through Clusters campaign
on the plains. He entered the Com
missary Department in 1875, and when
the Spanish war began was appointed
brigadier general of volunteers. He
was made commissary general Of the
army in 1900.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
95 Per Cent of Virginia
Negroes Fail in Army Tests

Richmond, Va, Aug. 3.-Though they
were eager to join the colors, Virginia
negroes are failing in large numbers
to pass physical tests. About 50 per
cent of those examined here to-day
we're rejected.
In Petersburg, where about as many
negroes as whites registered, 70 per
cent of the registrants are claiming
exemption.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04
Christian Science Election

Boston, Aug. 3.-The election of Ed
ward A. Merritt, of Cleveland, as a
member Of the Christian Science board
of directors; William P. Mckenzie. OF
this city. as editor Of "The Christian
Science Journal "The Christian Sci
ence Sentinel and "Der Herold Der
Christian Science" and John r. Watts
as manager of the Christian Science
Publishing Society. was announced to-
day. David B. Ogden and Lamon,
Rowlands were chosen trustees Of the
socie.v
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-04

but it does not require that they
shall be discharged in all cases.
"The discretion Of local boards is in
voked BY this provision, and such boards
may we'll take the facts recited above
into consideration in deciding claims
for discharge due to dependency with
a view to determining whether, as a
matter Of fact, the person claiming such
discharge will not be in as good or bet
ter position to support his dependents
after selection for military service than
he was before. II such is the case, Of
course, the discharge should not be
o>ranted"