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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Notes of Kings Bugle
Arouse the Soldiers

The keen wind whooped over the
oross and drummed on the boards OF
IN. buts. A soldier at bench fitted
nails into his boot and crooned to him
SELF a. he tapped. A blast or two ex-
nIoded somewhere down the new-made
screamed road along which we had come,
ord Tho echoes clamored through the
valley. Then a rotor horn with a dis
tinctive note rang fierce and piercing.
That's the Kings bugle," some one
said ale may be coming here. Listen.
No; he's going on to look at some Of the
new batteries. You never know where
he'll turn up, but he's always some
where along the lines. and he never
leaves anything unseen"
The remark was not addressed to the
nrivate with the boot, but he grinned
as men do at the name OF popular
general. Many pleasant tales are cur
rent in his armies concerning the King
Of Italy. The gist of them all is that
he i. very much of man as well as a
statesman. Kings and ammunition
dumps are fair targets for aeroplanes,
but. if the tale be true, and 1t squares
with all the others, there is one KING
at least who shoots back and shoots
straight. No gear or circumstance dis
tinguishes him from any other general
in field kit, down TO the single ribbon
that testifes to years war service.
He moves temperate, loyal, keen, IN
stark simplicity among his men and
the full hazards Of war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Snowclad Monte Nero
Scared by Many Trenches

All that day a triangular snowpeak
had risen like a master wave, now to
one side, now to the other, Of our road
On the steepest slopes OF its topmost
SHOWS it carried a broad, open V, miles
long on either limit, which appeared
in the changing lights like faint cat
lie brand, or giant skit racks, or those
dim canals of Schiaparelli which mark
tho face Of the red planet Mars. That
was Monte Nero, and the mark was
the line Of the Italian trenches on IT,
They are cut through snow that melt',
in,o packed snow that never softens;
and where the snow cannot lie on The
sheer rocks they are blasted in and
out among the frost-riven rubbish OF
the mountain crest. Up there men
fight with field guns, machine guns and
rines, and. more deadly. shoots OF
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13

(Copriohted BY Rudyord KipIinO. All rights
reserred)
A falcon swooped off the hilltop and
hung below US, searching the valley at
the head Of the pass, which was
broad, grassy funnel dipping out into
space. exactly like the Muttianee behind
Simla. The usual roughly paved cara
van track led over il between hum
mocks Of board, rock and earth, whence
it seemed only right that hillmen would
presently came out with brick tea. But 1t
was a gunner with kindly offers of cof-
fee-a weather-worn commander whose
ewes were set to views Of very distant
horizons. He and his guns lived up
there all the year, and on the highest
grazing grounds on either side OF h'
lair were black she'll holes by the score,
where the enemy had hunted for him.
The snow had just gone, neatly turn
inc in the winter-klled grass stems
round the edge Of the older shell holes
ms it melted away. This commandant'
like the others, controlled an observa-
ton post. When he clicked back its
shutter we looked down, as the falcons
do, into an Austrian town with
broken bridge over a hver and lines OF
Italian trenches crawling toward II
across river fats-all laid out mapwise,
three thousand feet below. The town
waits-as Goritzia waits-while de-
cisions Of which it knows nothing are
being taken overhead whether 1t snail
live or die. Meanwhile, the comman-
dant pointed out its beauties. for it was
his possession, you see, by right OF emil
nent domain, and he dispensed the his"'
the low and the middle justice over IT,
When we were at coffee subaltern
came with word that the Austrians, ten
thousand metres away, were shifting
something that looked like a gun
Gums take all sorts Of shapes when
thew have to be moved) The COM
mandant excused himself, and the tele-
phones called up observers laid out
somewhere among the tangled sleeps
and hanging woods below.
mo" he said presently, shaking his
head OTIS only cart--not worth
shot just now"
There was much bigger game afoot
elsewhere, and fancy that the orders
were not TO flush it too soon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Rutgers Honors Coethals

New Brunswick, n. j., June, 12.-
"The government doesn't want every
one on the firing line; the ranks of
educated men behind the lines must be
kept intact as WE'LL" Governor Walter
+. Edge made this statement to the
graduates at the exercises at the l5lst
annual Rutgers College commencement
here to-day. Major General George W.
Goethals advised the seniors to stick
to the job you are fitted for and give
the government the best you have"
Governor Edge and General Cocktails
received degrees, as did also l.. +.
Loree. president of the Delaware g.
Hudson Railroad; Victor Heiser, ssni-
tation expert; Bishop Edward S. Lines.
Of Newark, and the Rev. Eugene Booth,
Japanese missionary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Make Roads to Stand
The Ravages Of Winter

"But if you make a road, you must
make road" the officer insisted.
Admitted. But can all these ire
mendous works be necessary"
Believe me, we do not lay one stone
more than we have to. You are see
ing the roads in spring. We make
them for winter in the mountains.
They must be roads to stand every
thing"
They clung to the hillside on hang
ing arches of concrete, they were riv-
eted and sheathed thirty or forty feet
down with pointed masonry; protected
above by stone wallings that grew out
OF the rock itself, and above that
again by wing walls TO part and divert
uneasy snow slides or hopping stones
a quarter Of mile uphill. They were
pierced by solid bridges and culverts
at every turn where drainage might
gather, or hanked with long aprons
and spilways OF pitched stone. where
some mountains soaked side slid
down in broad fans of stony trash,
which, when the SHOWS melt, delivers
sudden blasts Of racing pebbles and
water.
Every few hundred yards on the
road were the faithful old man and
the boy, the stone heap and the spade.
and the twenty miles an hour lorries
rolled as smoothly over the fawless
surface as they had in the plains.
We passed a touring club notice, OF
peace times, bidding people pay at
tention" to avalanches. A tangle Of
pines, snapped like straws underneath
one drunken bowlder about the size of
a house, underlined the warning.
ayes, before the war; people used
to whisper and hold their breath when
they passed some of these corners in
winter. And now! Hear what a noise
that string of cars makes in these
corges! Imagine it in winter! Why,
a single NOTORIOUS sometimes would
start an avalanche. We've lost many
men that way. But transport can't
stop for snow"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Headway Made on Levy on
Corporations Excess
Profits
Based on Pre.War Rate
Committee Decides to Assess
Only Corporate Earnings
Over $4,000

Washington, June 12.-Working upon
sections of the war tax bill designed to
raise more than half of the proposed
81 500, 100000 in revenue, the Senate
Finance Committee to-day nearly COM
pleted the income tax clause and made
much Roadway on the levy on corpora
tons excess profits.
Provisions giving effect to the COM
mittee's previous decision to require
income tax Conformation from the
source" instead of collection at the
source were formally adopted. The
House rates, except for the additional
surtaxes on incomes over $4,000, SUBJ
stantially were retained. They are es-
timated to raise about 1888, 100000. Still
pending. however, are proposals, re-
spectively, by Senator La Toilette TO
substitute an entirely new section with
materially increased rates on large in
comes. and by Senators Penrose and
Lodge for further reduction of those in
excess of $4,000. Committee sentiment
is said TO be against the latter.
Increase in revenue return from cor
porations' excess profits of from Sl25,-
100000 to Sl50000,00O over the House
estimates of S200,000,00O is expected
from the new taxation plan and pro-
spective increased rates of the commit
tee. To-day il tentatively adopted pro-
visions TO carry out the committee
substitute plan, by which an average
of corporations of pre-war period and
normal profits for period of years
would be the basis of fixing excess
profits. The committee tentatively agree
profits. The committee tentatively
agreed to consider profits of 1911. 1912
and 19l3-all before the outbreak of
war-as the basis for computing aver
age normal profits. Some plan will be
devised to calculate normal profits Of
corporations organized since the begin
ming of war.
Only corporate incomes in excess
of $4,000, the committee decided, will
be taxed. The rate is expected to be
around 20 per cent, as compared with
the House tax of 16 per cent. The COM
mittee still is considering the British
excess profits plan-of allowing cor
porate taxpayers TO select any calendar
year within the three-year pre-war. or
normal profit, period as the basis
of computing taxable excess profits.
Completion of both the excess profits
and income tax sections is expected to-
morrow. A minor amendment adopted
to-day would exempt from income tax
alton investments of foreign govern
ments in American stocks, bonds and
other securities
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
News Of the Play World

Claire, Ann Pennington nor Bernard
Granville, and il cannot be said that
they are not missed now and then. But
here and there is recruit who does his
share TO plug the gap. Chief among
these is Eddie Cantor, who is a gradu'
ate OF Mr.. Ziegfeld's training school on
the roof Cantor is a blackface come
dian who possesses the comic spirit and
knows wha. 70 do with a song. He
runs considerably ahead OF the depend
able Bert Williams in the new show,
although the latter, with a Ring Lard
ner song and a cinnamon bear stunt as
his principal contributions. is funnier
than he has been in the several pre-
ceding "Follies."
Another newcomer is Walter Catlett.
who has half a dozen scenes and man
aged 10 be fairly amusing, particularly
when he was impersonating the Presi-
dent. Catlett is the latest foil for W.
c. Fields, the perennial "Follies" Jug
gler, who is tennis player this sea
son. The scene has moments Of hu-
NOR, but it does not offer the talented
Fields the opportunities which he de-
serves.
The eyes Of Fanny Brice roll as OF
yore, and il is safe 70 assume that she
won ner auulence III the songs WHICH
came some time after the eleventh
hour. Allyn King and Edith Hallor
divide the work that was Ina Claire's.
and they sing pleasingly snd are inter
changesbly good looking. Don Barclay
appears this year in but a single scene,
which is a circumstance perhaps ex-
rlainable by the elisions which fol-
lowed the try-out week. Russell Vokes
end his inebriate dog. familiar TO roof
patrons, fill a spot before the curtain
with thorough satisfaction; youth
named Fred Heider contributes some
excellent eccentric dancing, and Doro-
thy Dickson dances well and shrug-
gingly. And there are pair of new
corners. entitled the Fairbanks Twins,
who are pleasing 10 look at.
The number Of authors and composers
concerned in the matter is staggering.
The patriotic number aforementioned is
the work of Victor Herbert, the pro-
g:amme naively having it that mr..
Herbert. in writing this ensemble. was
inspired BY motives" Chief among the
other writers are George V. Hobart,
Gene Buck Raymond Hubbell, Dave
Stamper aud Jerome Kern, but the pro
gramme credits half dozen or more
others as having also done their bits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Slayer and Slain
Keep Company in Hills

On most of the other fronts war is
waged in hot contact with all mans
work and possessions. The slayer and
the slain keep each other company at
least in q world that they themselves
created. But here one faces the i'm
mense scorn Of the hills preoccupied
with their own affairs; for between
frost, snow and undermining waters
the hill. are always busy. Men, mules
and motors are busy, too! Tho roads
are alive with them. They inhabit
cities inside dim forests Of pine, whose
service paths are cut through stale
snow and whose aisles ring with MA
chinery. They march out, marshal and
distribute themselves among the snow
fields above by whole regiments and
arsenals at a time. Take your eye OF
them for an instant, and they are swal-
lowed up in the vastness Of things long
before they reach the upthrusting rock
walls where the mountains and the
fighting begin.
There is no scale to lay hold on.
The largest shells make 4 smudge no
bigger than a nudge In corner Of
fold o. a swell on the edge Of a snow
fields flank. A barracks for two hun
bred men IS swallows nest plastered
beneath overhanging caves, only visible
when the light is good-the same light
that reveals the glancing spider web Of
steel wire strung across abysses. which
is the aerial railway feeding that post.
Some of these lines work only by night,
when travelling cradles that hang from
the wires cannot be shrapnelled. Others
spin and whisper busily all day against
riffs and chimneys of the rock, with
their loads Of building material, food,
ammunition and the blessed letter from
home, or a still burden of wounded,
two at time, slung down after some
fight on the very crest itself. From the
wire rope and its cradle, to the mule
which carries two hundred pounds, to
the fve-ton lorry or the cart, to rail
head, is the way of it for every ounce
of weight that travels up or down this
battle front. Except the big guns.
They arrive at their proper place by
the same means that Rome WAS built.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Miss f. w. Loughman
Bride Of John F. Dunn

Miss Elizabeth Wlmot Loug hman,
d.ucL.er Of Michael +. Loughman,
former Deputy Commissioner of Water
supply. Gas and Electricity. was mar
,ied 10 Jonn Francis Dunn, Of this city,
Inst evening in Holy Trinity Church;
The Rev. Father Mccain performed
the ceremony, which was followed by
ra.on,ion AZ Sherry's. The bride WAS
attended BY Miss Katherine Dunn, Miss
GLADYS Brown. Miss Amelia Mcintyre,
Miss Marjorie Downey and Miss kath-
crime Loughman VILLA Dunn. Jr'
was best man, and the ushers were
Richard Coleman, Frank VI. Loughmah'
Thomas T. Dunn and Ralph Lewis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13

stones heaped together and sent slid
ing down at the proper time. Up there
little before he is found the cold
kills him in minutes, not hours. Whole
companies can be frostbitten and Grip
pied even while they lie taking cover
in the pauses Of a rush, and the wan
dering mountain gusts take sentries
from under the lee of their rock as
they stand up 70 be relieved and dick
them into space.
The mountain draws its own supplies
and troops for miles and miles back,
over new roads that break of from
the main arteries of traffic and split
into mule trails and man tracks, emery
ing at last against the bare rocks as
thin and threadlke as the exposed
roots of botanical diagram to illus
trate capillary attraction. There has
never been greater work Of inven-
ton, preparation and endurance among
fantastic horrors than the winning and
holding of this one post. And it has
passed almost unnoticed by nations,
each absorbed in its own hell.
eve climbed. We climbed! We car
ried the approaches. Now We are up
there, and the Austrians are little to
the right, just above that sinking cloud
under that cliff. When they are dis
lodged we get full command of that
height" etc, etc. The officer spoke
without emotion. He and few million
others of mankind had been goaded out
of their old known life to achieve the
incredible. They had left the faculty
Of wonder at home with the pictures
and the wallpapers and the unfit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13

enemy do not she'll the hotels much, be-
cause they are owned by Austrian
heyduks who hope to come back and re-
sumo their illustrious trade.
In the old days whole novels were
written about Cortina. TIE little used
mountains round made an impressive
background for love tales and climbing
adventures Love has gone out OF this
huge basin Of the Dolomites now. and
the mountaineering is done by platoons
in order to kill men, not by individuals
who read papers before Alpine clubs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Have Placed Heavy Guns
On the Glacier Edges

Men explained and reexplained their
transport to me, giving weights, sizes.
distances and average allowance per
head Of troops. Their system is not
like ours. 1t seems to lack our sbun-
dance of forms and checks, as we'll as
of palaces full of khakied clerks initial
ling bits Of paper in quadruplicate.
"Oh, but we have forms and papers
enough" they protested. ANY amount
Of forms. You'll find them in the cities.
They don't grow we'll in the snow here"
THAT sounds reasonable" I replied,
"but it is the infinite labor imposed on
you by your mere surroundings that
impresses me most Of all. Everything
you handle seems to end in two-hun-
dred-pound package taken up the side
of a house, and yet you have heavy ar
tillery on the edge of glaciers. It's a
new convention"
True. But these are our surround
ings, and our people axe. used to them.
They are used to getting loads up
and down hill, used to handling things
and straps and gears and harness and
beasts and stones all their lives; be-
sides, we've been at it for two years.
That is why the procession moves"
Yet / came on one ghastly break
in it, nevertheless. There had been
a battery with guns, mules. barracks
and stables complete. established on
a mountain side, till it had seemed
good TO the mountain to brush them
away as woman brushes of snow
from her skirt Fifty we found and
buried" said the officer, pointing to 4
row of little crosses just emerging
from snow hollow. Ninety are
down below in the valley with the
mules and the. rest. Those we shall
never find. How did it happen? A
very little thing starts an avalanche
when the snow is ripe for it. Perhaps
a rife shot. And yet he added, grim
ly. I'VE must 90 on and shake all this
atmosphere with our guns. Listen!"
There was nothing doing, at the mo-
ment, on this front, any more than
the others-only q hidden piece here
or there answering its opponent.
Sometimes the discharge sounded like
a triumphant whoop across the SHOWS.
then like the fall Of trees far Of in
the thick woods. But it was most
awful when it died down to . dumbed
beat no louder than the pulse Of blood
in ones ears after q climb. or that
hint which a mountain slide might give
before it chose to move into action on
its own account.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Society

Miss Elizabeth B. Averell, daughter
of Mrs. William H. Averell, of 535
Park Avenue, and niece of Mrs. f.
Henry Hartman, was married to
James c. Rogerson, of ~ West Forty
fourth Street, yesterday afternoon in
the chantry of Grace Church. The
| chantry was decorated with white
Japanese iris, syringa and Easter
lilies. The Rev. DR.. Charles Lewis
Slattery performed the ceremony in the
presence Of about twenty relatives and
intimate friends. The bride wore an
afternoon gown of white embroidered
orgsndie with hat of ecru straw trim
med with pink ribbon and pink roses.
At her corsage she wore a small
bouquet of pink rosebuds. The only
attendant was little Miss Meigs, of
Philadelphia. niece of the bride, who
was dressed in a Kate Greenaway
frock of white taffeta. There was no
best man nor ushers. In the small
gathering that witnessed the cere-
mony were Mrs. Hartman and her
three daughters, Mrs. Robert L. Gerry,
Mrs. Charles c. Rumsey and Miss
Carol Hartman, whose engagement 10
r. Penn Smith, jr., of Philadelphia,
was announced on Monday.
Mr.. Rogerson was graduated from
William College in 1892, and is a
member Of the University, Ardsley
and Squadron A clubs.
The annual rose party at the home
of Rear Admiral Aaron Ward, L. S. n,
u
Roslyn, Long Island. will be held from
June Is to 81, inclusive. Admission 20
the garden will be 81, and the proceeds
will be devoted TO the American Am
bulance Hospital in France.
Miss Annetta r. Weaver, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Weaver, of
Kew Gardens, Long Island, will be
married to Henry Schroeder, of this
city, on the afternoon of June 20 in
All Souls Unitarian Church, Fourth
Avenue and Twentieth Street. Miss
Weaver will be attended by Miss
Bessie Martin, Miss Jessie Boyd, Miss
Vera 0natvia and Miss Phyllis Bar
reto. Robert b. Parker will be best
man, and the ushers will be Clifford
J. Munger, Walter II. Powers and
Frederic A. Baker. A small reception
will be held at the St. Regis after the
ceremony.
Miss Josephine Osborn, daughter of
Professor and Mrs. Henry Fairfield
Osborn, has returned to New York
from Japan. and will go TO Garrisons,
y. Y, for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barclay Warburton
and Miss Warburton have arrived in
town from Philadelphia and are at
the Ritz-Carlton.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave
luncheon in the japanese Garden of
the Ritz-Carlton yesterday.
Mrs. Rufus l.. Patterson has re-
turned to Southampton. Long Island,
from Pennington, Conn, where she
was a guest Of Mrs. Sheffield Coles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
Lambs Auction Nets $4,000

The auction sale of seats for the
opening night Of the annual Lambs
Gamboi. at the Manhattan Opera House
next Sunday, took place at the Hudson
Theatre yesterday afternoon and
brought in more than $4,000 in pre-
miums. The first box was sold for
sl,2O2 to syndicate of Lambs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
The War In the Mountains
A Pass, a King and Mountain
By Rudyard Kipling

articles
by Italy, Klg has the Italian
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13

,.s from Plutocratic Poetaster to Ditch-Diseer

ines from Plutocratc Poetaster to Dtch.Disser
Sullcn, grimy laboring person,
AS passed you in my car,
could sense your mufAed curse on
1t and me and my cigar;
And though mute your maedction,
| could feel it my head
As in countless works of fiction
have read.
Envy of mine obvious leisure
Seemed to green your glitterng eye;
Hate for mine apparent pleasure
Filled YOU as | motored by.
You who had to dig for three, four
Hours in that unpleasant ditch,
Loathed despised, and hated me for
Being rich.
And you cursed me into Hadcs
As YOU envied me that ride
With the loyeliest of ladies
Sitting at my dexter side;
And your wish your idea,
Was to hurl US off some cliff.
could see that you thought me
Lucky stiff
If YOU came to the decision,
As my car you mutey cusscd,
That allotment and division
Are indecently unjust
Laboring man, however came you
Thus to think the world awry,
should be the last to blame you
So do l.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13
So do |

r. we knew poet we'll enough suggest idea to him. we
,ud fell him TO write poem about General Pershing-abou
at he is thinking days of acclaim and welcome For great
ors are his likely TO come 70 him. ANA
What General Pershng thinking these days is the PRIDE
~ have given his wife his three daughters who were burned
20 death a wear ago last August, read Of those honors
u, came IN answering Exactly what work do do?
s ware as YOU might say nonpussed The question: the phrase
s ne naue But the gracious, intelligent pleasantsp spoken
sympathetic who was acting as census agent seeing
49, bo;tancv said: "Just say Editorial. So did.
But not without g. F.
Why not conscribed' instead of conscrped one doesn't
r 70 thing as being proscrped What the
BY the way that reminds Who has our copy Of Ann
Veronica?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13

Mrs. Rufus l.. Patterson has re-
turned to Southampton, Long Island,
from Pennington, Conn, where she
was a guest Of Mrs. Sheffield Coles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13

Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave
luncheon in the japanese Garden OF
the Ritz-Carlton yesterday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Barclay Warburton
and Miss Warburton have arrived in
town from Philadelphia and are at
the Ritz-Carlton.