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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
Fire at Camp Mills
Sweeps Near Hotels
Meadowbrook Inn Saved by
Firemen From Westbury
and Hempstead

CAMP MILLS. Long Island. Oct. 2l.-
Thousands Of visitors TO the temporary
home Of the Rainbow Division were
treated to an unscheduled spectacle
hero this afternoon. when a fire that
started in straw pile suddenly spread
over a field Of dry grass and threatened
to destroy Meadowbrook Inn. Firemen
from Westbury and Hampstead were
rushed TO the camp and. with the aid Of
the military police. succeeded in cxtin-
gushing the fames before the hotel
was reached.
To-day's visitors. including many sea-
soned veterans Of the regular army.
declared that the intensive drilling Of
the last few weeks has brought about
marked improvement in the appear
ance of the division. Not only has
the health Of the men been greatly
benefited by their new life in camp, bu.
their drilling. particularly the handling
Of guns. is greatly improved.
Hundreds OF soldiers attended masses
TODAY al the improvised chapel on
Hampstead Plains. where Chaplain j..
P Duffy conducted services. Many
members Of all the regiments here, also
attended the services conducted by
Chaplain +. p. Smith. Of the l67th Ala
hama Infantry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
War Surgeons Plan
To Salvage Wounded
Congress at Chicago Takes
Steps to Care for Men on
Return Home

CHICAGO, Oct. 21.-Surgeons from
the war front and those from diner
ent sections Of this country met here
to-day to consider plans for the care
of men injured in the war after their
return home. The meeting was pre-
liminary to the eighth annual clinical
congress of surgeons which viii be
held here throughout this week. Two
sessions of tie surgeons were held to-
day. morning one, which was open
to the public. and an executive ses-
sion in the afternoon.
At the later meeting the plan OF
human conservation, including the
physical. mental and spiritual welfare
Of the returning injured. was taken
IN, and outlines of n plan Of salvage
for such soldiers agreed on. The
plans involve the STANDARDIZATION OF
treatment from the first aid for the
injured back of the trenches to the
base hospitals and those on the home
shores. Then follow the expert psy-.
biologists and others who will attend
to the building up Of the moral char
actor Of the injured soldiers.
At the meetings to-day were Surge on
General Gorgas, L. S. A Sir Berkel icy
Moynihan, special represe ntative of the
surgeon general OF the british army;
Colonel Deckie, French army, and a
number of other distinguished surgeons
OF this and other countries. The meet
ings proper of the council will begin
tomorrow, and upward of 5000 sur
geons are expected to attend during the
week. The council is un Ter the direc-
ton Of the General Medical Board OF
the National Council of Defence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
r. P. Huntington Gets
Commission in Navy
Vincent Astor's Father-in-
Law Leaves Rhinebeck
Home for Sea Duty

RHINEBECK, N. Y, Oct. 2l.--Robert
p. Huntington, father-in-law OF Vincent
Aston, has obtained commission in
the navy as lieutenant He left his
home, Hopeland House, near here, two
days ago to report for duty. Mr.. Hunt
ington is descendant of Samuel Hunt
ington, a sgner Of the Declaration OF
Independence.
He had asked to be assigned to trans
port service, and it is believed that his
request has been granted. He Is
member OF the New York Yacht CLUB
and owner of the ffty-foot yacht Trou-
badour.
Vincent Aston also Is a naval officer
and has been on duty in foreign ser
vice for several months. His wife is
in France engaged in Ped Cross work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22

morrow TO put ceilings in the hospital
structure. and hot and cold running
water will be installed. Surgeons con-
nected with the camp for some time
have been seeking TO get the necessary
authorization to make the hospital hab-
table and finally have succeeded.
Taxicab operators near camp did
land Office business to-day, and the
prices they charged would make a mill
ionaire groan. Taking advantage of
the holiday, thousands Of the soldiers
decided to visit the mountains, but
when they began TO negotiate for auto
mobiles many decided to remain in
camp. Those who did make the noun
tain trips found that they were being
charged from $3.50 20 SO an hour.
A dozen baseball games and several
football matches were played in camp
to-day. II was a great day of recrea-
ton and Of eating. At every hotel and
restaurant in Spartsnburg hundreds Of
soldiers were in line waiting for a
chance to get into the dining rooms.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
fs,ar Coresponiencel

CAMP UPTON, L. l., Oct. 21.--"Pret-
ty well set IN lad for Hunkie,' said
the drill sergeant, jerking the thumb
from which the tobacco bag hung
pendant.
In the doorway OF the 93d Depot
Brigade Company's barracks TALL
fresh-faced, blue-eyed youth had ap-
peared. He stood looking blankly up
the road, along which hundreds of
happy family parties were travelling
under convoy of figures in olive drsb.
For him there were no visitors. sun
day was just the first day Of new
week.
Don't savvy much of what you say
to him." went on the sergeant, but
kinda runs along on instinct Put him
in ranks, and he falls to like an old
circus horse that hears band music.
If he could get next to the English
language there'd be good non-com
material in him. Funny! Up to
COUPE WeehS hRO PVet hN wv"
maxim pants or vests all his life"
Had Been Russian Officer
The sergeant was partly right and
partly wrong. as was developed in the
course of a painful conversation with
the Young man, who answers to the
name of Anthony j. Boyarsky. While
the subject of his fattering comment
had never made a pair Of pants nor
vest. nor so much as sewed on but
ton. he had showed considerable APP
titude for soldering.
Rightly he had. for he had spent no
less than eight years OF his life under
the rigid discipline of the Russian West
Point-the Suvorow cadet corps, OF
Warsaw. More than that, for his brief
day ne had served as a subaltern in
the Cars army.
The story of Anthony Boyarsky came
hard. For one thing, he wasn't over
anxious TO tell It; for another, even
had he been anxious it would have re-
CURED the services Of an interpreter
TO keep the course of the narrative
running true.
He was in the senior class in the
Warsaw Academy when the great war
came 20 Russia. Three days after the
first shot was fred came word that his
brother. already commissioned, had
been killed on the Eastern front. Later
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
Fifty Carried Out of Surgi-
cal Wards When Receiv-
ing Building Burns
Two Officers Scorched
Former New York Fireman
Directs Work of Subduing
the Flames

AVER. Mass. Oct. 21.-Patients in
some Of the wards Of the base hospi-
tails 1T Camp Devens we're removed
hurriedly early to-day. when fire de-
stroyed one-story wooden building
containing the receiving ward and the
sick and wounded Office An oil stove
EXPLOSION started the fire. Two medi-
cal officers were slightly burned.
There we're no patients in the
burned structure. As soon as the
alarm was given Major W. L. Cousins
Of Portland. Ne, in charge Of the
two surgical wards nearest the blaze
had fifty OF his patients carried out
on mattresses as measure Of pre-
caution. Many other Of the 262 pa
tients in the thirteen hospital build
ings went 90 the verandas Of their
wards.
Meanwhile Sergeant Joseph Mois-
son. Of Clinton. and Private Edward
Evans, of Boston. who were on duty
IN the receiving ward when the stove
exploded. had summoned aid. Hun
dreds of soldiers turned out 10 assist
The environment fire department but
thew found. on their arrival, that the
fremen. under command Of Lieuten-
ant John ". McAree. formerly Of the
New York Fire Department, had the
flames confined TO the receiving build
ing.
The base hospital buildings arc in
the far southwestern corner Of the
cantonment and are isolated from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
SoIdierly "Hunkiie . atCampOpton
Found To Be Russian Officer
Anthony Boyarsky Private in National Army Caught "h
So Rapidly That Sergeant Became Interested ana IN
o,rv Reveals He Was Potter OF Late Revolution

his father. colonel Of the 18th Russian
Husssr Regiment, fell in action.
Graduated and commissioned, Boyar-
sky was ASSIGNED to the l7Jth Fusiliers,
in garrison at Wologda, and ready 10
take his part in the war rs an officer
Plotted Revolution
That was a prospect thrilling enough,
but the series OF adventures which
brought him to Camp linton, a private
in the American National Army, led
directly away from the fighting.
In the Suvorow corps there had been
a fierce sentiment against the oligarchy.
Most of the students, Boyarsky among
them, were pledged among themselves
TO support some day republican gov
ernment. TO see it into power and to
uphold it in power. Tho revolution, as
they saw il shaping, was rot TO have as
It's aim the overthrow Of The Gar, but
the downfall Of the dark agencies work
ing through and about him.
Revolution was already in the air
when Boyarsky joined his regiment at
Wologda in the spring of 1914. Boyar-
sky found his symrathies shared by
number of younger officers. They
DlOtIeu together " Hoiu hhN'A t'NNG'.
inactive should there BE- IN uprising OF
the people.
In those days the secret police were
the hounds, not the hunted. A police
agent sat in at one Of the conferences,
after which word was passed to Boyar-
sky by friends that trouble was In
store.
With a score of other subalterns
who had been involved in the plot,
Boysrsky fed 10 Archangel, aided By
the same friends who had brought the
warming All but three of the fugi-
tives. he says. were overtaken and
summary executed.
Struggled in Barrel
Struggled aboard ship ar Archan-
gel, Boyarsky was nailed into a bar
rel and slowed in the hold. In the
barrel he tainted, and he was still
unconscious when the vessel cleared
port and the sailor accomplices of his
friends brought him forth.
Two weeks before the draft law
went into effect he found himself in
New York. There he tried TO enlist in
the regular army, but was rejected by
reason OF cyesight that was not up to
the American mark.
That is how Anthony J. Boyarsky"
happens to be in Camp Upton, and
why, for n "hunkie," he is making
such good impression.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
100 More Poles Join Army
Loyalty League Also Subscribes
$4,000 to Loan

Two hundred and fifty members of
the American Loyalty League Of Polish
descendants met yesterday at SO Sew
enth Street. One hundred Of them en-
listed in the "Army of Americsnized
Poles" which is training for service in
France. twenty-five thousand dollars
was subscribed to the Liberty Loan.
More than three thousand young men
Of Polish descent are being trained a.
Niagara Falls under officers of the Pol
ish contingent of the French army, sc-
cord;ng to Edward c. Rybicki, who pre-
sided at the meeting. None of these
men was subject to the draft. Mr.. Ry-
bicki said Paderewski is chairman Of
the central recruiting committee in
New York
The meeting was called yesterday to
institute publicity campaign to com.
bat pro-German propaganda.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22

other structures. The wind was not
high and at no stage of the fire was
there any danger Of its spreading 70
the regimental barracks. Captain l..
II. Spooner and Sergeant Nathan l..
berry. jr., both Of Boston, who were
asleep in rooms adjoining the sick and
wounded office when the fire started,
escaped through windows.
Captain Spooner was slightly
burned about the head. Sergeant
Berry. who went into the burning
building to rescue record book. was
near another oil stove when IL ex-
ploded, and he. also. suffered slight
burns. MANY medical instruments
we're lost in the fire and some hospi-
tai uniforms were destroyed.
This is the second fire caused by
an oil stove explosion at the camp.
Last Friday a stove in the Office of
Major General Harry F. Hodges ex-
ploded when 10 was picked up too
quickly by an orderly. The orderly
wrapped the generals coat about the
blazing heater and extinguished the
flames.
Runors that the fire had been set
and that there had been loss OF life
we're emphaticelly denied at camp
headquarters. II was said that two
members OF the medical staff were IN
the room when the stove exploded and
that there could be no room for doubt
rs 10 the cause OF the fire.
Reports Of fatalities were said TO
have arisen from the fact that two pa
tients at the hospital died several
hours before the fire. They were Peter
+ Gotaros, of Springfield, Q victim Of
pneumonia. and Ben II. Johnson, OF
the sth headquarters company Of the
303d Infantry, who came from North
ern New York in poor physical condi-
ton and died OF cerebral hemorrhage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
Whom the Army Rejects

OF men rejected for physical causes out OF
called 49, 500 would rejected for diseases OF the SKIN II p
ace Of former years held true under the draft; aVo as
weight AZ 800 for diseases of the respiratory system i
f oetb AO5sO for mental weakness 1880 for vaoceie
oo for veins and for diseases of the nervous
system. -, 90
Ninety per cent Of the nervous diseases wouu DC
- L - ossos and easily cured all the of defective
teeth varocele and veins could be cured IN moh
large percentage of the Of mental weakness eoud eu
nassed psychology; practically all OF the cases oil SKIN
Of those under weight many who suffer from respiratory o
cd be cured Reclamation would provide means
Of efecting the cures. ---------
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
Engineer Who Handled
Presidents Killed in Crash

CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. Oct. I'll
Frank Larmand, for thiriY-fve years a
Southern Railway engineer and driver
Of Presidential specials. was fatally
hurt to-day. His train, the New York
New Orleans Limited, struck. local
emerging from n siding near Larmand,
town named for the engineer.
With his negro fireman. James L.
Johnson, also fatally injured, Larmand
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
Camp Wadsworth
Sick Get Stoves
War Department Acts to
Make Big Base Hospital
Safe for Men

CAMP WADSwORTH, 6. C., Oct. 81.
A rush job of equipping the base
hospital here with stoves was performed
to-day, and the scores OF New York
Guardsmen who as patients have been
experiencing Arctic conditions in the
big frame building are able tonight
TO expose their faces and hands with
out danger of being frostbitten. The
War Department has authorized Major
William p. Allen, the medical officer in
charge Of the institution, TO remedy a
score Of defects that made the hospital
a menace to its patients.
Carpenters will be set to work to-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
Jersey Men Start South
5000 to Make Way for
NEGROES at Camp Dix

CAMP DIX, y. j.. Oct. 21.-Six thou
sand men who are to 20 South 10 JOIN
other army divisions. so that room can
be made i'm the cantonment here Tor
two regiments OF negro troops, began
to leave to-day. One thousand Of them
will Join the 26th Division, National
Guard, at Admission, Ala, and the otn-
crs will become part Of the SD Divi-
sion. National Army. at Atlanta. ia.
It was also learned to-day that rev
hundred men with engineering expert
anco win be sent TO join the DIST and
ATTN Engineers at Rockford, III.
The men who are to 20 South started
10 leave at noon to-day. but few OF
their comrades were IN camp to see
them off. The cantonment was prac-
ticaIly deserted, more than so per cent
of the men having received furlough
for over Sunday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
Plattsburg Graduates
Start Work in France
Many of Them Undergoing In
tensive War Training
There Now
fBy Tie Associated Press !

AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN
FRANCE, Oct. 2l.-A Dig contingent of
reserve officers, which recently reached
France, has been split into several in
tensive schools, at which the officers
are supplementing their obstruction at
Plattsburg, Mcpherson and other train
ing camps in America.
The officers are being trained in
every detail Of war operations. When
they are finished they will be distrib-
uted among the various divisions as
they arrive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22

was brought to a hospital here. where
both of them died. The engineer re-
peated again and again:
at was not my fault. They gave me
n clear board"
Many passengers on til, limited were
thrown from their berths and badly
bruised.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22
Ransom-or Swami?

Ransom has fought and won brilliant
battles for the public-the marlborough
coal shortage inquiry, the two cent trans
fer cases, the New York Edison rate
reduction, the hearings as to the quality
and prices of gas, the B. r. l. car order
case, and the like.
No man who inquiries fully as to his
record will escape the conclusion that ne
is the best man named for the place.
He does not look upon the District
Attorneys office as a refuge for political
cripples or an annex of Murphys clubs.
He would end SWANS misrule and
make the Office a great human instru-
mentality for justice.
He will tackle the big problems of this
office in the same fair, patient, thorough
way in which he has been dealing with
men and their difficulties all his life
New York County should rally to the
opportunity Of electing man of Ransoms
rugged common sense and constructive
qualities.
Ransom must be elected, or Swann and
his staff wiN stay in office.
A cote cast against Ransom is cote to
re-elect Swann.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-22

Come men just 60 about their work, in
= public as in private business, without
any press bureau or brass band. They
are unwilling to do injustice to any man
for the sake Of personal glorihcation.
William l.. Ransom is that kind of
man. He has done valiant service for the
public in "a big way He has shown a
remarkable ability to make legal ma
chinery yield real justice
He accomplished big reforms in the
City Court for example, changes in cal
end ar practice SO as to secure prompt
trials.
Oscar S. Straus, who as Chairman of
the Public Service Commission sees
Ransom's work day by day, says:
Judge Ransom will go to the District Attorneys
office plendidly equipped by experience. character and
ability and know that he will give just the kind Of
energetic. openminded public service there here, and
put that office high plane Ct independence humanity
and aloofnes from politics He has the kind Of vision
and broad .mindedness which the office needs he will
make genuinely devoted to the defense Of human rights
Men like Charles f. Hughes, David
Leventritt. VIM C. Breed Timothy Healy,
Adolph Lewisohn and Charles c. Bur
lingham joined recently in saying:
Judge Ransom was selected on his record which
through ten years the Bar Of this City has proved him
able fair independent energetica public above
fear and above reproach.
Gilpin observer., 1917-09-20
SEVEN HURT IN CRASH
PASSENGER TRAIN RUNS INTO
FREIGHT AT MARSHALL.
Thomas Brown Had Hip DIsIoeated
and, Together With Other Six,
Taken to Boulder Hospital.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Boulder, Colo.-Seven men were in
jured and traffic delayed several
hours when the Colorado & Southern
Billings flyer. which left Denver,
crashed into a southbound freight on
siding at Marshall. Thomas Brown,
10, who lives at 1928 Alcott street.
Denver. was the most seriously in
iured. His left hip was dislocated.
The other six, together with Brown,
were brought to the Boulder County
hospital.
William Zoller. Berthoud. Colo;
Clements A. Beck. 974 Lipan street.
Denver; G. E. Pearson, 241s Stout
street. Denver; George Craig. La
Crosse. Mo-: c. J. Halloran. 604 West
Second avenue. Denver, and Henry
Clause. farmer living near Berthoud.
Colo. were all badly bruised and were
brought here, although their injuries
are not likely to prove serious. The
wreck was caused by an open switch.
which sent the passenger train into
the freight sidetracked for it to pass.
Gilpin observer., 1917-09-20
L.rpe Crop ot Bean. In colorado.

Denver.-Beans take their place
this year as one of the country's most
important and valuable crops. Fore
cast of production in the five import
ant bean-growing Michigan.
California, New York, Colorado and
New Mexico-announced by the De-
partment Of Agriculture in a special
report. shows 1890 900 bushels. COM
pared with S.S46,000 bushels last year
and 10.321.0 900 bushels in 1915. More
than 100000 acres were planted to
beans in those states and the average
farm price being paid for them on
Aug. Is was 1924 bushel, compared
with $3.50 on that date last year. At
the Aug Is price the prospective crop
was worth about $145,00O,O00. No es-
Innate was made for the production in
other states. Michigan's crop is fore
cast as 7,380,O00 bushels; California.
6.3ss, 900; New York. 1889 900; Colo
RADIO. 2.32S,000, and New Mexico.
963.0OO.
Gilpin observer., 1917-09-20
Sporting News

David X. Billings, former Chicago
newspaper man, was killed during a
practice flight at Birmingham, Fog
land. where he was serving az a men,
Der of the British royal flying corps.
Maj. Taylor. the famous colored bi.
cyclist of Worcester, Mass, won a
mile "Old-timers' race at Newark, N.
j., competing against riders who were
stars Of fifteen and twenty years ago.
The victory of Fred Sutton over
Carl Morris. cleancut through every
punch in six rounds of the mills, spell
the word that means championship
battle. Willard will sign articles to
meet the huge Minnesota boxer just
as soon as the proper place to pull off
the bout is found.
At Joplin, Mo-, Hutchinson won from
Joplin by a score of to 2, the first
game Of the series that will decide the
Western League championship for the
second half of the split season and de-
termine which team shall meet the
Des Moines club In a post season
series for the league championship.
General
For the first time in the history OF
the university. women are to be ad.
mitted to the Harvard Medical school
at Cambridge, Mass.
Nearly 10000 Odd Fellows from all
parts of the United States and Canada
were in Louisville, KY, for the open.
ing of the ninety-third session of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge of the order.
DR., Luis b. Molina, the Argentine
minister at Berlin, informed the Arg
entine foreign office by cable that the
German government had expressed re-
grets over the action of Count Won
Luxburg, the German minister to Arg.
entina.
The most serious group of strikes in
the history of the Pacific coast devel
oped at San Francisco Monday. Fol
lowing the walkout of $4,000 members
of unions affiliated with the Iron
Trades council which lied up every
ship building plant in the bay region
rioting broke out in many parts OF
the city.
With the arrival of an American line
steamship to an Atlantic port II be
came known that on Friday afternoon
wireless broadcasts were sent from
the Camp Ray, Newfoundland. radio
station warning shipping of the pres
ence OF a German submarine off the
New England coast.
The investigation into the affairs
and relations of Mrs. Maude A. KinE
and CASTOR b. Means, her private sec
retary. who was present when the
wealthy widow was shot and killed al
Concord. N. c.. Aug. 20. was begun b,
] the grand jury in New York.
Gilpin observer., 1917-09-20
Huntsr,s Skull Fractured.

F1orence.-A party Of hunters 70
turning from trip in the mountains
was precipitated into creek in Rain
bow park. George Rayburn received
. fractured skull and has since been
unconscious. Wesley Van Taylor suf-
fered broken leg. and Mike Rayburn
. broken arm. Miller McClelland and
Ralph Peed, the other members OF
the party, we're not injured. The &C
cident occurred when George Rayburn,
who was driving, turned out to pass
. horse and buggy. The car got too
near the road edge, and went over.
Gilpin observer., 1917-09-20
Love In q Cottage.

He-Their engagement Is broken of.
l understand.
She-Oh, yes.
He-What was the reason?
She-Why, both were satisfied that
they could live on love In a cottage,
but when they got to details they dis
covered that each of them contem.
plated supplying nothing but the love.