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they bought furniture to the amount
or $4,000. That they should now
seek TO have this furniture shipped
10 Concord, Is regarded by, the Dis
trict Attorney as evidence that they
do not intend 10 return to New York
Reports made TO Mr.. Swami by
brokers in Chicago and New York
show that $50 shares of preferred
stock OF the Brown Shoe Company
were sold outright last February.
when the stock was at about 105, for
Mrs. King. and that at the same time
$4,000 worth OF bonds held by her
were also disposed OF on written
orders.
The notes giving these orders have
been submitted to "A handwriting ex-
pert, who will pass on the genuine
ness OF the signature. Evidence OBJ
tained by Assistant District Attor-
ney Dooling shows that last February
CASTOR Means had lost Sl0S,00O in n
speculation on cotton, and his brokers
were pressing him for more margin.
Mr.. Dooling showed to-day several
sheets OF paper on which. II Is al
legged, some person had been practis-
Ing tho signature OF Mrs. Melvin, sis
ter OF Mrs. King, the chief benehc 'ary
under her will and the sole survivor
Of those named as witnesses OF the
alleged second will OF James G. King,
which has been denounced as a
forgery.
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COMRADES CHEERS
WELCOME ROCKIES
At YAPHANK CAMP
brooklyn Men llrl to Arrive
One Nan Overcome
ON lup.

rHssasI rraH ts0 Drfart n 90
I.ff.Hf WH
CANr Ui'ToAa NsrHHuE n s.
iioili. ls.--gfeeisd bY sHr.rs from 80
newly uniformed "ruotirs' In camp.
The fret trsihioaI 81 fu.laf.s rss
National Armt mon from Greater
Ncw York rolled uf1 camp at l-w
=. M the DISTRICTS represented
Ser, Nos. % 90 90 boo nro1s'yu and
th" first man to hop Uff upon the
brand nov grayrilcd c0uoour-c AZ She
camp station was Thomas .. Griffin
OF No. 10 Tillary street brooklyn.
The starting away TO- barracks %
the new men was delayed by Two in-
cidentH which caused a rumor % &C.
rious trouble 60 spread about The
camp and brought workmcn and
other civilians crowdinE up TO Join
the uniformed men who were lucky
enough TO have leave 10 b, present.
A scuffle between two rockies" IN
an efort To prove their relative
merits as fghting men created lot
Of excitement until they were sep
arated by IA sergeant, who did the Job
alone and without turning a hair.
even though this Is mighty hot and
sunny day down here.
The second incilcnt was the col
lapse OF Alfred Glass OF District No.
%. lie had recently recovered from
appendicitis and the heat affected
him so much that he was unable to
rise from his seat when the order
came to detrain. lie was carried Off
and taken In an automobile TO the
Camp Hospital.
Close behind the Brooklyn section
came a troop train OF men from Man
haitian. The trains bringing the
Greater New York contingent were
decorated with banners, and a major
ity OF the men carried small Ameri-
can flags. No attempt was made this
time to march the men in military
formation to the reception barracks,
as was done with the first quota ten
days ago. Instead, to-day's arrivals
were permitted to walk by twos at
an easy pace behind the reserve Off
GERS detailed to guide them.
In every barracks the men found a
hot dinner ready for them. As soon
as they were assigned to their hunks
on which they placed their hand lug
gage, they were summoned to eat.
Fully ono hour before troop trains
began to pull in dozen automobiles
arrived with fifty-four men from the
districts including Riverhead and
sag Harbor. These were installed in
| their barracks by the time the Man
haitian and Brooklyn ''rookies" began
to march up.
1--WE put one over on the big town
was the comment of several of the
Riverhead recruits.
Including the drafted men arriving
from outlying districts. in addition
to those from Greater. New York, the
camp population is increased to-day
bV 73g
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AoUEDUCT WINNERS.

FIRST RACE-For three-y year -olds
and up; selling: six furlongs. s.-Alvord,
l06 g. McTaggarD, IL TO 8, even and l
to 2, won; lmperator. 100 lDavies), TO
l, to and S TO 5. second; Mary. Pow
third. Time-1l3 3-5. Miss Kruter.
Nonesuch. Dancer. Mr.. Specs, Andes.
Charmeuse. Hwfa. Kalmia Park. Pierre
A Feu and Mother Machree also ram.
SECOND RACE-For three year olds
Sss4l7 added: one mile and a sixteenth.
-Sasin, III Gyke). / 10 4, out and out,
won; Traction, 100 (Troise), TO ].
] TO 2 and out. second; Water Witch.
l05 (Obert), s to 1, 4 to and out, third.
Time i.46. Only three starters.
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WRIT CALLS MEANS
TOCDURT TUESDAY
N CONTEMPT CASE
Must Show Why We Has Noi
Turned over Ms. king
Property as Oriered.
fosssisi Fror. . sat- csrssspoassn,
81 I've Isenina Nofial

80
ofEf1NanpRo. A. g. sept - -
Judss BOYD 81 ths United states pis.
inct Court IN tsis city to-day siFnci
ea order citing oaston nuiloch
Aesns, business adviser - Mr.
Mauds A. KinE. The wealthy NeE
ToFk womah mysieriousiy Killed Al
Concord. 10 show cause neat Tues
day Why he should not BE- adiudEed
in contempi of court
The proceedings resulted from re-
osivcrship actions In which Judge
Boyd had signed an order directng
Means 20 turn over all tho property
in his possession belonging 20 the
dead woman 20 the Central Bank q
Trust Company OF Asheville.
PC. McDuffie. the Atlanta lawyer.
representing Mrs. Annie l.. Robinson,
mother Of Mrs King. sought 10 have
Judge Boyd make the order return
able this week lie argued that i'm
mediate action was necessary that
dissipation OF funds In the possession
OF Means, the once confidential and
financial adviser OF Mrs. King might
be prevented.
Judge Boyd said that proceedings
brought before him were purely OF a
civil nature and had no bearing on
motives that had anything to do with
possible criminal phases. lie said
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l,O36 MORE MEN
OF NATIONAL ARMY
DEPART FOR CAMP



irhufri a. tHs kuitisrr feasus -
Nee norhriis Ths Msnni Vernon
Hf.assIun % tsfHfJ .fEHf mfu uaH
'FfIuaitfiT iiaiiah ahd each - tht
recruits rafrird 90 Italian nar
Do tht MHrhafian drI.Faf.sn fr1m
local Hoard so. ot vsrs three Chi.
nansu L. i'on. TON 500 aua DAN
Ton. Hl eager 70 49, into The hEhL
Ih,sr three ell bring tho Chinoss
frpfearutation in Nrv norks army
at iaphauh up 20 o. quartet. There
wee u 'h.namHn In the hfst quota.
Win to-day's movement % recruits
10 Camp Upton the transfer of New
hofits quota 90 ths National Army
becomes . matter Of routine The
fareSells are not 20 poignant as those
which have attended the departure Of
soldiers FOR fnr distant points bccauss
these recruits are 60 be allowed leaves
10 visit their homes in New York at
not infroqucnt intervals while they
are IN training at Yaphank
Brooklyn's contingent of 52s men left
the carlton Avenue yards IN a special
train of nine cars promptly at 1880
o'clock. From the experience gained
In the departure OF the first con
tingvnt. ten days ago. the railroad
management was able 60 handle the
soldier travellers to-day with expe-
dltion ana absence OF confusion.
The scenes attending to-days con
tribution OF Brooklyn's young men to
the National Army were about the
same as those which marked the de-
pGrture OF the first batch Of selected
men. Bands played and crowds
'cheered and flags waved. and as the
train pulled out the chimes in the
stceple OF the Church of the sacred
Heart played '"rhe star spanglcd
Banner" while the factory whistles
footed.
All the Brooklyn selected men ar
rived at the railroad station in auto
mobiles. The old neighoorhood spirit
of Brooklyn stood out strongly in the
manner OF assemblage. Besides the
relatives and near nelghbors OF the
boys. hundreds OF business men and
residents OF districts embraced In the
various local boards gathered at the
point Of departure to say goodby
There were several bands and fife
and drum corps.
The Brooklyn contingent was given
smart appearance from a military
viewpoint by the presence OF fifty Sc
lected men in uniform who have been
drilling under Capt. Boyce at Cover
nor's Island. These men were in uni
form and marched in company forma-
tion. There were flve city firemen In
the Brooklyn outfit, but no policemen.
Probably the most interesting mem
Der OF the Brooklyn contingent was
Philip McGovern OF No. So Quincy
Street. lie already has a brother at
Yaphank and two others are going
later.
Young McGovern Is n member of a
family OF ten boys and six girls, and
is cousin Of Terry McGovern, the
former prize ring champion.
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ITEMS FOR INVESTORS.


Shattuck Arizona Copper Company
and usual extra dividend ot rs cents,
both payable oct. 20 to stock record
Sept 20.
New England Telephone and Tele-
graph Company-Quarterly dividend Of
tl.75 share, payable sept. 20 to stock
record Sept. 10.
Gulf States Steel Compnny-August
31S6,l53 largest monthly earnings in
history OF the country
Delaware & Hudson Company-Sur-
plus for August over ana above fixed
charges was S970.076, AGAINST S354,l47
year ago surplus for first Ax months of
current calendar year was $2,9S7,S ,Sjl
against S2.3i7,iS4
Western Electric Company
quarterly dividends OF s. on common
stock and IN per cent, on preferred
stock. payable Sept 20 to stock record
Sept 20.
Motor Products orporation-Regular
quarterly dividend OF 81 a share, pay
able Oct. /.
Texas & Pacific Railway-lrrom Jan.
/, gross earnings increased Sl,70S,li3.
Vacuum oil Company Regular semi
annual dividend OF per cent, payable
oct. 20 to stock record oct II.
silver bullion quoted at 1O5ls cents per
! ounce. up cents. Market quotation iii
to ll3h.
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MRS. MELVIN GUARDED
IN NMEANS HOME, SAYS
MRS. KINGS FRIEND
Continued from First Page.)

employing this method OF spying on
or checking the conversations Of his
friends. II the apparatus had been
found. she said. she was confident
that II had been planted there by
the police or other authorities direct
ing the search OF the rooms.
'Mrs. Melvin then broke In ana de-
clared that all the trouble that had
come TO her recently had been made
by the Northwestern Trust Company
Of Chicago. trustee OF the first King
will. She asserted that this concern
had melted the newspapers to make
big display Of the news Of Mrs. Kings
death. and that II was through It's
efforts that the Chicago Coroner had
been induced 10 exhume the body and
hold an Inquest In the city
MRS. KINGS SISTER PROMISES
70 COME HERE.
a subpoena TO appear and testify
at the second inquest which is to be
held In Concord Is keeping Mrs. Mel.
vim In that place for few days, but
as soon as she Is free | expect her
TO come straight TO New York. She
has promised 10 visit me as sosn as
she has given her evidence at the re-
hearing before the Coroner.
In announcing that he would send
several OF his assistants TO North
Carolina 20 help clear up the mys-
terlous killing Of Mrs. King, District
Attorney Swami to-day declared he
was convinced that Mrs. King was
a victim OF "premedltated murder"
He gave the FIRST intimation OF what
prosecutions may be started here by
saying;
we have evidence there took place
IN this county a number OF forgeries
number OF larcenies. a conspiracy
to probate a forged will, and a con.
spiraey to commit a murder Prosecu.
lions for these offenses will DO held
here II major crimo is not estab.
lished In North Carolina"
Among those Mr.. Swami will sent
TO Concord are his assistant, John T
pooling. who has worked night ant
day ON the case; Or. Otto IL. schultE
pathologist. and Capt. William L
Jones, police pistol expert
MI. Dooling will leave for Concor,
friday afternoon, He will take will
MIN all Of the more important paper
seized In the Means apartment, con
sequently there will be no presenta
tlon OF evidence TO the Grand Jur,
mere until he returns.
A letter was received to-day b
Mr. Swami from the firm OF O'Gor
man, Battle a. Vandiver, saying tina,
as attorneys for Mrs. Julie i. Mean,
/ wife OF CASTOR Means, they demande
! the furniture OF the Means apartmen
dtt No. lib5 Park Avenue, as the
mad Instructions TO forward II /
, Concord,
; MI, Swami announces that he wi
oppose the surrender OF the furnituT
on the ground that investigation n
has made leads him TO believe thu
II was purchased with money loote
from the estate OF Mrs. King.
When the Means family move
from the f26 month nat on or
. Hundred and Seventh Street TO n
: $500 apartment on Park Avenu
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Every few days a ship
comes in carrying a
cargo of beautiful
things from Paris.
They are taken up
tow n Immediately
and displayed in the
great shops OF the
Avenue, where the
managers have to
make things particu-
larly interesting, with
cargoes of customers
coming along every
few seconds in every
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HAVRE De GRACE RESULTS.

FIRST RACE-Selllng; two-year-olds;
five and half furlongs. " Vocabulary'
show 1870, first; Onico, lQ (Mulcaheyl;
place $40. show $500 second; Scabbard,
9 Rowan); show $3.50, third. Time,
| on 2-5. 'Carrome, Fusty Boots. sweet
Marguerite. Tumble In, Tit for Tat also
ran.
SECOND RACE-SellinR; handicap
steeplechase: three-year- -olds and up;
two miles.-Early Light, 1856 Jarrett
straight A.10, place $3.50. show f2,2O,
Won New Haven, LAG (O'Connor), place
s. 80. show, So 20. second; Carl. 1877
O.andry), show $500 third. Time, EO7.
Slumbcrer, Phil +. also ran.
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100000 MORE MEN OFF
TO-DAY To 16 CAMPS
OF The NATIONAL ARMY
Forty-fve Per Cent. of the Total
Draft Quota Joins Advance
Guard at Cantonments.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 1s.-on their
way to the battlefields OF France,
more than 100000 men of the Ma
tional Army--approximately as per
cent. OF the total quota under the
first call-proceeded to-day 10 six-
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CHICAGO CORN MARKET.
Tuesday N"t
Az Rs, ?B ?Bs Fta IIsss 2H Iis f$'' i$s + :1t; !
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GOmperA' Pledge OF Aid Hemches
the Russian Government

PETROGliAD, Sept ls-pavId r..
Francis, the American Ambassador, last
night presented TO tho Russian Proyis.
iona Government the telegram ad-
OF the American Federation OF Labor.
TO Premier kerensky, pledgng the SUP.
port OF American labor In ths war and
urging the aid Of Russian democracy.
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ing their country and it's Inhabitants.
l would like to talk to every man,
woman, boy and girl in the United
States. That being impossible, we can
only, here in this Office. send mission
INSTRUMENTATION and lecturers. we
call them They go into states, where
they meet and teach certain main off
Gals. who. in turn, meet and teach dis
trict officials. and the latter meet and
teach county officials. The county
demonstrators and lecturers mingle
with the people in towns and villages
and at rural schoolhouses.
Thus the methods discovered at the
Department Of Agriculture-discove
and proved, as to their merits-are
carried into all parts of the country
A farmers wife. and the farmer him
self, also their sons and daughters, are
shown that the bushel of peaches for
which there is no sale will fill, with
the expenditure of only a little labor,
eighteen quart jars. The same guam
tity of plums will fill thirty quart
jars. Nothing need be wasted nova
days on an American farm.
Whether we are at peace or at war
the farmer should make use of every
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prosecute the undertaking myself without as
sistance and without patronage. and this ! have
done to the full extent Of my very limited
means. desire to he useful to my countrymen
has animated all my efforts and given slim
illus to all my exertions.
Farther along in the pages of that
book, published in 1923, Maj. Album
says:
II is now upwards of thirty years since I
planted the first grapevines with an intent to
make wine: in all of which time have been at
a considerable expense having In the first essay
paid upwards of $40 for the cuttings Of grape
vines and since that time have laid out consid-
pense has been lost by my endeavoring to force
the propagation of the foreign vines, and in
which | have utterly failed. But ] have
ceeded in making good wine from the grapes in
duced the making of it to a science, that the
operator can make 1t as good as 1t is possible
for the materials operated upon TO produce,
hitherto unknown. or. II known, was never COM
municated to the world.
The date of Maj. Albums advent in the
District of Columbia has not been ascer-
tanned by the Rambler. A deed from
James Dunlop of Georgetown to John
Album of the county of Washington
was recorded February 8. 1920, which
recited that Whereas the said James
Der, 1906. sold the following described
lands to a certain John Hugh and condi-
toned to convey the said lands clear of
all encumbrances with clause Of gen.
eral warranty unto the said John Hugh,
his heirs. executors. administrators or
assigns, upon the payment of the pur-
chase money, and. whereas the said John
Hugh hath fully paid to the said James
Dunlop the said sum of $1,000, the
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old book. which any one may see in the
Library of Congress, are these strange
words:
for 1t was made to make men glad Moderate
ly drank and in it bringeth gladness to
the heart and cheerfulness to the mind.
The preface to this quaint old book
follows:
The following little book has been prepared
for the purpose of difusing some practical and
useful information throughout the countrvs on
the best mode Of cultivating the native grape
and of making wine. The writer has for Il
number of gears devoted his time and alton
tion to this highly interesting subject, and he
1atters himself he will he enabled from his long
experience and the numerous experiments he
has made to throw out some new and addi-
tional lights to those who wish to understand
this valuable but too much neglected branch Of
agriculture. Its importance and utility must be
obvious to every one who gives the least re-
Election to the subject. Almost every species
Of grape to he found in widely extended
country Is capable by proper cultivation of
yielding n wine superior to the best cider az a
wholesome beverage and equal to most imported
improvements and the rapid increase of popula-
tion. are diminishing daily and will finally, IL
not attended to in time, become altogether ex-
tinct. 1t was TO prevent this evil las far I
wished TO obtain of the President of the United
States few years ago lease of a portion of
the public ground in the city of Washington for
the purpose of forming a vineyard and Of culti-
tention II had been successful to procure cut
tings of the different species Of the native vine
to be found in the United States. to ascertain
their growth, soil and produce, and to exhibit
been too long neglected. Ny application was,
however. rejected. and l have been obliged to
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receipt whereof he doth hereby acknow]-
edge. and the said bond of conveyance
both been assigned to John Album"
John Album paid, grants. bargains. sells.
and assigns forever all that tract of land
called Part of Addition to the Rock Of
Dunbarton. lying in Washington county.
The bounds are defined by references
to old boundary stones and oak trees.
but in the definition of the bounds oc-
ours this. which is easily to be under
stood: Part of the north line of said
tract extends to the middle of the road
leading from Isaac Pierce's mill to
Georgetown" The area of the tract is
given as ninety-three and a quarter acres.
The deed also carried another tract called
Gizor. lying on the south side of the
Pierce Mill road. embracing eight and a
quarter acres. The deed was signed
John Dunlope," and was witnessed by
Daniel Rented and Thomas Corcoran.
There is no doubt that Album had es-
tablished his experimental vineyard on
this property good many years before
the making of the deed as recited above
mortgage was recorded against the
property February 8, 1920. the deed Of
mortgage being from John Album to
John Laird of GEORGETOWN. John Laird
gave to John Album on July II, 1924, a
release of mortgage "on account of
money ($1o,ooo). borrowed from John
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Hugh on a bond dated March %, 1915"
The release was witnessed by Nathan
Lufborough and Daniel Bussard.
A few yards southwest of the build
ings of the bureau of standards there is
a survey circle the District map.
where Idaho avenue, Reno road and
Tilden street intersect. This point
would be in John Albums vineyard.
Fernwood Terrace Richmond Park, Con-
necticut Avenue Highlands and at least
the northern part of Cleveland Park
cover some part of the site of the vine
yard
Centuries of effort to cultivate Euro
States for wine and dessert had failed.
and favorite form of speculation and
sands of families had been deluded into
this form of agriculture and specula-
ton by the abundance of wild grapes in
the United States. John Album and a
few other notable men reached the con-
ciusion that the only way to success
lay in the cultivation and development
of the wild grape species into wine and
table grapes. After years of tribula-
ton they succeeded
1t is clear that John Album was rails
ing grapes long before the date of the
Dunlop deed. for among his papers was
the following letter from Thomas Jeffer-
son under the date of October 7, 1909:
While l lived in Washington a member from
your state Il do not recollect which, presented
with two bottles of wine made by you,
Of which, Of Madeira color, he said was en-
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standing that they were to put down
three wells A well was then sunk
within a few feet of the first, and the
great gusher came forth as ! have de-
Scribed.
Following the Lucas Gusher more
wells were put down and other streams
of oil spouted into the air. One well
produced 5000 barrels in two hours.
and another gave a million and a half
barrels in ten months. Within three
years after the discovery, more taan
thirty million barrels wee taken nom
under this hill, and other millions have
been pumped OUT since then. Alto
.,eticr more tha1 200 wells were sunk,
and it il; estimated that enough has
come out to cover the whole 200 acres
with crude oil To. a depth OF twenty
nv" feet.
tic .lIy exhausted. but some people here
believe that there is another great
reservoir OF oil lying thousand feet
or more below the first. and capital
lists have bought up the property with
the idea of getting THAI oil | under
stand that much of the mound now pc
longs t" the Gulf l;ctininE Company.
ard that they will test the lowe: strata
within the near future.
the belief as to there being more oil
lower down is based on the fact that
other fields in this region which have
produced vast quantities OF petroleum
arr. now being worked at lower depths,
with results better than those from
the first strata discovered. THIS Is so
OF the Humble field. eighteen miles
northeast of Houston. and also OF those
OF Sour Lake and Goose Creek. Sour
Lake is twenty-five miles northwest of
here. 4 big guSher was struck there
in 1908. and by the end of that year
300 wells had been sunk and nine MIL
lion barrels of oil produced The
whole field had produced about thirty
five million barrels when il was thought
to be exhausted. but they have since
gone down "A thousand feet or more
deeper and struck second supply. At
Goose Creek they have found great
beds of oil-bearing rock at two thou
sand feet. and they are sinking wells
there fifteen hundred feet deeper.
! am told that one company has
leased seventy acres not far from Spin
die Top hill on a contract which pro-
vides that the ground is to be tested
to a depth of twenty-f five hundred feet
Tie tract lies in the direction that the