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New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
100000 New Gardens
Increase British Food
Small Growers Huge Efforts
Enlarge Acreage by Six
Per Cent

London, July 81. In England and
Wales the increased acreage in wheat,
barley, oats and potatoes this year is
S47, 900 acres, or about per cent, ac-
cording to the Official returns published
to-day. These figures do not include
any allowance for the enormous efforts
made by small growers, the results OF
which il is impossible TO estimate.
The official estimate is that "the area
of small cultivation has been qusdru-
pied, and this estimate probably Is
below the mark, as the number OF
small vegetable gardens in England
and Wales has been increased by more
than half a million and the dlsplace-
ment OF flowers by vegetables has been
general"
The figures published to-day consti.
tute the first authoritative evidence OF
the tremendous agricultural efforts
which have been made throughout
Great Britain.
Unofficial estimates had placed the
increased acreage at about 100000 acres,
and in view of climatic conditions and
labor shortage it would not have been
surprising if these estimates had
proved over-optimistic. That these es-
Inmates were exceeded by $4,000 was
due largely TO the assistance given by
the War Office in lending soldiers for
work on the land. Without such help
il would have been impossible to avert
decrease from that of 1916 of at least
100000 acres.
To-day's figures show this years
acreage in England and Wales TO be
as follows:
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Canning Kitchen
Sends sos toCheck
Cucumber Plague
CITY Food Conservers Want 80
Volunteers to Save Per-
ishable Goods

A plague Of cucumbers has beset the
municipal canning kitchen, at Tomp-
kins and Delaney streets. The East
Side infants steal and eat many; the
garbage cans all along Delaney Street
have a dark green cast; the basement
and storerooms of the canning kitchen
ooze cucumbers from every shelf and
corner; the women of the staff can and
can from early morn to dark; they see
cucumbers in their dreams; and still
the cucumbers cumber the earth.
"Help US or we drown in our own
dill pickles" The women sent an 5
o S call 10 the city yesterday, asking
for thirty volunteers to come next week
and help stem the dark green tide. At
present " 5 nellie Johnson, head can,
ner. has th rty women on her staf, ana
she thinks with sixty she might be able
TO get the better Of those cucumoers'
I'VE had four hundred boxes OF Gu
cumbers offered US yesterday that we
couldn't take, because we were unapIe
TO handle the supply a ready on hand;
groaned Miss Johnson last night we
had twenty barrels of them Thursday
and thirty-eight barrels the day be-
fore"
The kitchen has been reorganized
with a staff Of six teaching Gamers
under Miss Johnson, who instruct the
recruits how 20 peel tomatoes and now
10 pack the cans for sterilizlng.
1t is because the kitchen has 70 de-
pend on volunteer workers that MISS
johnson has found il impossible up 70
the present 10 save all the produce the
energetic committee finds on the docks
every morning.
The six teachers are women who nave
been attending the kitchen faithfully
every day and are skilful enough now
10 take part of the responsibility or
training the "rookies.'
The new volunteers will be asked to
work at least two or three days each
week, so that new group will not have
TO be taught every day. They will be
paid in time cards redeemable next
winter in canned goods.
In spite of the difficulty in getting
workers. the kitchen has a store OF
goodies ready TO make the hungry
mouths of the East Side wish il was
winter. There are seventeen crates OF
tomatoes put up in fifty-seven different
ways. and apricot marmalads, canned
peaches, lemon syrup for the city hos
pitals, canned carrots, beets, squashes
and string beans, and three barrels Of
sauerkraut.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Prosperity Leads
To a Decrease In
Juvenile Crime
Infantile Paralysis Also Con
tributed to Falling Of
Last Year

When inefficient handling OF delin-
quent children two years ago led the
Legislature and the city to reorganize
the Children's Court, it was hoped
that education in crime among young
malefactors would in time be checked
by segregation and careful municipal
treatment. In one year the decline in
the number of children's cases is so
encouraging that Justice Franklin @.
Hoyt calls the court the best in the
world.
Justice Hoyt, who is the presiding
justice OF the court, offers the record
of 1915 in volume of 252 pages, con-
tanning a history of the court since IL
was established in 1902.
The number of cases in 1916 fell be-
low the total for 1915 by l,7l0 and the
number Of commitments was smaller
by pa than in 1915. In 1915 commit
ments of children cost the city SiO3,-
9l0, and last year the expenditure was
s376,090. a saving Of Sl02,570.
Manhattan leads with decrease Of
1,l0f, a reduction OF almost is per
cent less than the total for 1915.
JuNeUlle utllHQuShCy was OchNNCiA
l5 and So per cent less in four bor-
oughs. In Juvenile delinquency Rich
mond shows an increase Of almost IL
per cent.
The epidemic Of infantile paralysis
in 1916 and general business pros
perity are the reasons given by Justice
Hoyt for the decrease in children's
cases. He holds that infantile par
alysis prevented the appearance at
court of children and that prosperity
enabled more young people TO secure
employment. There were fewer
trivial arrests reports the chief clerk,
"in 1916 than in previous years, thanks
10 the efficient conduct Of the affairs
Of the Police Department"
In a classification of offences by ma
tionalities, it is noticeable that more
than so per cent Of the violations were
committed by American children.
Justice Hoyt proposes the passage
of constitutional amendment grant
ing the court chancery and equity
powers. 20 broaden authority and TO
remove a semblance Of criminal pro-
cedure. He also recommends the re
vision Of laws and codiAcation OF
statistics. The court also needs larger
facilities for committing children, and
Justice Hoyt urges the establishment
of observation stations where children
can be studied, as we'll as graded in
stitutions for the mentally defective.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Society
Misses Marian Mears and
Marian Shaw To Be Brides
at Double Wedding

Mrs. Henry W. Shoemaker, of 2l
West Fifty-third Street, has announced
the engagements OF her niece, Miss
Marian Mears, TO Allan Shaw, Of this
city and Riverside, Conn, and of Miss
Marian Shaw, sister OF Mr.. Shaw, 70
Cresap Watson, nephew Of Mrs. Shoe
maker and a cousin of Miss Mears.
Mr.. Shaw is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Irving Shaw, and is a member OF the
Headquarters Dispatch Corps. Mr
Watson, who is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert N. Watson, of Coronado, CAL,
is Il member of the 7th Regiment. The
two couples will be married at double
wedding at the country home of Mrs.
Shoemaker, at Riverside, some day next
week.
Miss Florance Hall Colgate, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Colgate, OF oO6
West Seventy-sixth Street, will be mar
ried to Major Edwin ST. John Greble,
jr., this evening at 1880 in the Rutgers
Presbyterian Church.
At Falkland, the country home Of her
parents, near Washington, Miss Edith
Blair, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Mont
gomery Blair, will be married at noon
to-day to Lieutenant Commander Adol-
phus Station, Z. S. N.
The marriage of Miss Frances Curtis,
daughter of Nelson Curtis, Of Boston
10 William Henderson Woolverton, IT.,
son of Mrs. William II. Woolverton, OF
this city, will be celebrated to-day IN
st. Johns Church, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Mrs. T. J. Oakley Rhinelander is the
guest of her aunt, Miss Campbell, at
Sea Gate, Long Island, for few days
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Nixon will &c, TO
Tompkinsville, Staten Island, to-day
for the rest of the summer.
Mrs. Adrian Hoffman Joline has ar
rived In town from Bernardsville, n. j.,
and is at the Plaza for short time.
Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mr..
and Mrs August Belmont were among
those who entertained friends at dinner
last night on the roof of the Ritz-CarI-
ton.
DR.. and Mrs. William Allen Bartl EFT
will give a dinner on Tuesday evening
al their home, 27 West Sixty-seventh
Street, for Mr.. and Mrs. Eliot Butler
Whiting, whose son is Lieutenant Com
mander Kenneth Whiting, U. S. N, in
command of the American avistors IN
France.
Sir Frederick William Taylor, OF
Montreal, Canada, is at the Plaza for
short visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Fairfield Osborn, jr,
arrived in town yesterday from Garri-
son, n. Y, and are at the Ritz-Carlton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Courtlandt Nicoll have
taken a cottage at Watermill, near
Southampton. Long Island, for the re-
mainder Of the summer.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Yesterday Hottest
July u in Is Years
| Man Dies and 8 Overcome;
Years Heat Record Broken

In the hour between and o'clock
yesterday afternoon the mercury insti-
tuted a drive that carried it up TO the
90 degree mark and established the
hottest July 27 for the last twenty-five
years. All records for the summer
were also broken, for yesterdays heat
was at least 3 degrees higher than any
previous day in 1917.
The heat, aided BY its old ally, hu-
midity. succeeded in claiming one life
before the day ended. Seppello Tu-
periello, forty-tive, of S2i East Hath
Street, fell ct Second Avenue and ll4th
Street. He died shortly after he
reached Harlem Hospital. Eight other
persons were overcome in Manhattan
and The Bronx.
Concerning to-dsy's temperature, the
Weather Bureau limits itself to the
ambiguous statement, Generally fair
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
rHR DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYs

JulJ 24-Up very betimes, being i'll from crab. To
nv office and did my stint suffering greatly, and very
angry at myself for my folly for as F. Keppel told me- it
cannibastic for to devour crab Whlch was an Ill
timed lest rneseemed Met F. Morse the pampheeer and
he drove me- in his yellowandbue petrol Wagon the gay
est ever saw to the ballpark and we saw w. Johnson
pitch winning game which was glad or albeit lost 81
on the game which, in all honour can not charge 10 ne
Office as expense Thence home, and read IN Hackers
"The Riddle of the Universe" until, in five minutes was
asleep. go
25-Rain again to-day and, as had on my new silKen
suit must needs tarry at an inn for near three hours
which was not unpleasant, neither. d. Lawrence the
scrivener 10 visit me- and he took me for ride IN MS Pc
troll Wagon along the Potomac which was as quiet as te
poet hath said save now and then stray knock IN the
engine Of D. Lawrences With D. to dinner and home'
and TO bed
26-Essaying all day to work but 1t IS lar from easy
forasmuch as one must 90 here and there to CLEAN n OF
Information and has difficulty finding people IN theH
Offices B. Blake TO see me- and j. Collins, and they told NE
many things.
The President it transpires is the guy VINO put 'ne
COP in Goethals
How long are you going TO stay III washington
people ask; and add Better stick around
What with the humidity, nothing else is possible
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Children Aid Food Saving
Juvenile Army to Show How
to Conserve Necessities

Washington, July 27.-Eight hun
dred thousand boys and girls, Uncle
Sans Juvenile food army, to-day
entered the food conservation campaign
BY joining forces with the food training
camps to be held this fall in connection
with the leading fairs and expositions
Of the country.
The organization, which Is eight
years old, is made up Of the thousands
Of boys and girls clubs and working
under the direction Of the Department
Of Agriculture. These clubs are located
in every state and in practically every
community.
The boys and girls, according TO
plans worked out by the government
for the food training camps, will de-
monstrate at these camps methods OF
canning and drying fruits and vege-
tables in the most efficient manner.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Daisies Tell Mother Her Kiddies
Are Happy as Fresh Air Guests
Faded Flowers in Letter From Three Sons Brighten Her
Wan Face AS She Pictures Them at Play in Country
Through the Aid of Tribune Readers

faces Of the three framed within an
aureole Of "sparker" glory.
Perhaps, too, the mother knew
enough to add 70 these visions others
of the lads swimming in the brooks,
climbinSthe hills, threading the woods.
watching the birds. picking the berries.
rousing the echoes, smiling the ira
GRANGE of-The Country.
IL was The Tribune Fresh Air Funds
Shepherd Knapp Farm country OF which
81, Herman and SOL" wrapped up a
sample .nd sent il home. Tuesday,
when they come home, they will bring
other samples in the tan on their cheeks
and the added flesh on their bones.
2.i5f Children in Country
To-day there are 2.i5l Hsrrys, Her
mans and Soils. 70 say nothing OF the
Marys and Sarshs, in different parts OF
The Tribune Fresh Air country gatn-
ering similar samples 70 exhibit 10
parents and friends on their return.
OF this host sol youngsters began their
vacations during the present week. ana
So have by no means completed their
harvest season.
Yesterday the Fresh Air Fund opened
a new vacation centre at Westminster,
Conn. IL i. TO be known as Newton
Farm. and will accommodate twenty
five children in a party. IL Is IN tne
real country. on the hills about forty
miles north OF New London.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Woman Killed in Ambulance
After Fall From Trolley

Elizabeth, n. j., July 27.--With two
small children clasped in her arms, Mrs.
Fred Deranzo, Of Elizabeth Avenue and
Spring Street, was instantly killed to-
night when an ambulance Of the Eliza
beth General Hospital crashed into q
motor truck. The impact Of the col
ding. Amidst the wreckage beside the
dead woman were found the two chill
dren, both escaping without a scratch.
Mrs. Deranzo was injured when she
fell alighting from a trolley at Gallop-
ing Hill Road, where, against her pro-
tests, an ambulance was summoned.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Buckner to Head Committee
On Fusion Judicial Nominations

Emory R. Buckner, Republican, OF
The Bronx. was chosen yesterday as
chairman Of the committee on judicial
nominations of the Fusion committee
of 1917. There arc twenty-five mem
bers Of the committee. They will con-
slider candidates for three Supreme
Court justiceships, six City Court
judgeships. seven Municipal Court
judge,hips and for District Attorney
of New York, The Bronx and Queens
counties.
Mr.. Buckner's public record is best
remembered for the work he did as
counsel to the aldermanic police inves-
tigating committee in 1912 and 1918.
He served also as Assistant United
States Attorney for this district.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
School Gardeners
Harvest War Crops

The Bureau Of Children's School
Farms, Department Of Parks, announced
Yesterday that the young farmers had
harvested their first crops in the 1000
war gardens in city parks and were
planting more. Some Of the children
have canned their produce.
There are 1000 gardens in Thomas
Jefferson Park, Hath Street and East
River; 500 in De Witt Clinton Park,
Fifty..econd Street and Eleventh Ave
nue., and 500 in Corlears Hook Park,
Jackson and Cherry streets.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Canada Begins Control
OF Wheat Exports to U. S.

Winnipeg, Man, July 27.--The Board
Of Grain Supervisors for Canada late
to-day issued an order prohibiting the
ed states without permission Of the
board.
The order stipulates that IL IS 10
govern the remainder Of the present
erop until further notice.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
Australian Flour Arrives

An Atlantic Port, July 27.-rhe irst
cargo OF -four from Australia ever TO
reach this port was brought in to-day
IN a Swedish steamer. IL consisted of
1900 tons and was consigned to .
British agency,
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
ng those who are Strangers Here Themselves is

Among those who are Strangers Here Themselves is
Tad perhaps better known Thomas Aoysius Dorgan.
For purposes of illustration Mr. Dorgan went to see the
Presidents private telephone. 1t was just telephone
telephone by tables brim. Gee" said Mr.. Dorgan,
who since he has been in Washington, has formed the
habit of using slang 81 thought it'd have gold handle,
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28

Total. July a. 1917 ...........,.,....s2e. l''o
Contributions, preferably by check or
money order, should be sent TO The
Tribune Fresh Air Fund, The Tribune.
New York.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28

The Bureau of Public information as it is nalvely
called is preparing chart showing the various insignia
of rank in the navy There is only that this depart
ent feels if is qualified to ask for and to that of
turret captain.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28

Songs of the Food Administration
Washington, July 81.

washington,
Songs of the Food Administration
Give a rouse, then in the wartime,
For life that knows no waste.
Of had a little more time
This would not show signs of haste)
For it's always spare weather,
When food fellows get together,
With war bread on the table,
And beltstrap tightly laced
Oh, it's always spare weather,
When food fellows get together,
With rice on the table,
And betstrap tightly laced
The sun shines bright on my conservation fat
'Tis summer, as will gainsay.
We have cut out milk, and eliminated fat,
And our meals are only two day.
The young folks dine a conservation pie,
Bereft of potatoes and meat;
And our bread is made of the barley or the rye,
And nobody any wheat
Wheat no more, my LADY,
Oh, wheat no this year.
We will sing one song for our conservation fat
Till we make the Germans disappear.
A truce to the chroncling of triviaity pause in
the inconsequenta task of telling the government where
il detrains Here is real and cosic news: Baron Ire
land the veteran contrib has become professional He
is conducting "Postscripts, for the Chicago Evening
Post; and now is as good time any to subscribe.
Add unpreparedness: Vice-President-just a mo-
ment-
Marshals automobile is unequipped with spare tire,
too.
The Recruiting Station Fifth Avenue and 42d Street
The two white lions of the library
Look out and wonder at the thing they
They who have known but students, shabby, lone;
They who have known
But poets, eager, odd, with rapt air
Looking beyond the gray crowds, and the white
Great doors, to a far perfect goal somewhere;
Women their eyes alight
With thanks for the holiday from little cares
That in this house is theirs;
And old calm men, who find no better thing
In life than dead books companioning
Since all else fails
And children coming to read fairy-taes;
And all the weary, who wish to read, to spend
4 piece of life for dreams. That is at an end,
That tranquil time And now all the strange day,
From those high pedestals where they must stay
The two white lions of the library
Look out in wonder at the thing they
New York MARY CAROLYN DAWES
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28

This is the story Of Harry, Herman
and Sol, who sent home a part OF the
real country. The three boys-hroth-
ers-are having vacation where
streams ripple and fields are green
They collectively indited letter 70 the
home folk, which their fond mother
showed to-well. say her neighbor. The
letter read:
July %. 1917.
Dear Family: ! received your let
ter right after dinner and was very
glad 20 hear from you. received
the 10 cents. We are having a fine
time, but am sorry 10 say we are
going home Tuesday. | wish we
could stay all vacation because
consider the place better than any
other one.
Tonight we are having a grand
concert and |, Herman and Sol have
tickets. We had an excellent time
yesterday, At night there was a
war celebration here and we had
fireworks and each one Of Va got
spsrker.
I
the last letter? | love the meals,
as does Herman and Sol. am
sending you a daisy in this letter
also. Please write as soon as you
receive this letter. We have swings
and seesaws and an entertainment
every night.
The 10 lost in the mail is moth
ing as the fun & food & everything
out here is worth 500 ten cents.
HARRY, HERMAN & SOL.
Worth of Those Daisies
Reduced to terms of coin current
two daisies worth of the country
wouldn't represent much, would it
Just about a hs'penny worth. more OF
less. But terms OF coin current won,
do. You must reckon il in terms OF
the visions. first one daisy and ther
the other, called up for the mother ot
Harry, Herman and Sol.
Can you imagine the smile thai
cleaned through the lines Of her face
for hers has been a life OF battle
with poverty-as the crushed daisy
dropped from the folds of the first let
ter? Can you imagine her vision Of
Harry, Sol and Herman, knee deep II
a field of daisies, dispurfng as TO which
was the biggest and fairest flower anC
most worthy of being inclosed in the
letter to Dear Family?
And surely you can imagine what she
saw when she reid the second OF th'
daisy letters: Harry and Sol rioting or
a seesaw and Herman sweeping through
the air in delight on a swing, or the
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28

Totals. 6,1o4,OOO increase BAT 900
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
There are

There said 10 De oOUOO nOI- Washing loLldHS
the town. Music cue
where's the Burlington Hotel|
Where s Seventh Avenue?"
Where's Eleventh Street and II"
Where is Twenty-frst and O."
Comes the answer, shorn of pity
"I'n stranger in the city"
Where is Thirty-seventh Street"
"Am a station carr"
where's a quiet place to eat?"
"How to get Tenth and R?'
Comes this old one off the shelf:
"I'1 stranger here myself"
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28

Marsha's automobile is unequipped with spare tire
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28
The Sinews of War
Nebraska Women and Girls Learn to Dry Perish
able Foods and Pass knowledge to Neighbors as
Patriotic Way of Helping Feed Cities in War Time
Bv THEODORE NJ. KNAPPEN

FORK, Neb, July IA dronng sound issues from
classroom in the big brick schoolhouse correctly chaste
New-York tribune., 1917-07-28

Add unpreparedness: ePresident-just mo-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-03
OLIVER PLAYERS
OPEN AT MURRAY
MONDAY NIGHT

Commencing Monday night Otis
oliver and his players will inaugurate
short season Of stock at the Murray.
The plays will be changed twice q
week, Monday and Thursday. The
opening play will be "In Walked jim
my" 1t is structurally somewhat on the
order Of along Came Ruth" "The
Fortune Hunter and perhaps SIX 9TH
ers which are founded on the old idea
that Nothing succeeds like success. :"
The lines and dialogue are even more
materially and designedly constructive
than in any other Of these plays.
The thing into which Jimmy walked
was broken down shoe factory when
the clerks had all been fired, when
election was imminent, and when the
proprietor had a pistol at his head in
serious contemplation Of suicide. JIM
my, nothing else but plain Jimmy.
would have been q mysterious figure
had 1t not been for his matter-of-fact
manner. his smile and everlasting hui
manness. He puts the shoe business
on its feet. or rather on the feet Of
several hundred thousand babies, wins
the heart Of the girl clerk, saves the
efring brother from Jail, escapes that
places as q permanent boarding house
himself, and foils the william.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-03
MISS FREDERICK
COMES TUESDAY

TN "Ashes Of Embers" at the MUIR
fetts Tuesday in which the celebrated
Pauline Frederick Ii starred by the
Famous Players Film company On the
Paramount Program, the beautiful
emotional actress does some of the
most remarkable acting of her career.
In this dramatic production which
was staged under the direction Of
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-03

Gregory" at the Murrette Sunday rep:
resents wide range ef activity upeA
the part Of Valentine Grant, whe Ii be.
Ing featured In the production aaa
Sidney Aleott. who directed It. bur-
Ing the course Of this produe dou, the
company has travelled from the Cam
adinn border to Florida. Ia Florida
there were staged the scenes which
take place In an American lumber
camp and on the Canadian line there
we're enacted those portions Of tho
picture which occur In Scotland.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-03
BUSHMAN PLAYS
AT MURRETTE

Francis K Bushman and Beverly
Bayne, the foremost stellar combina-
don in motion pictures, will be seen
on the screen here at the Murrette
theatre tonight In "In the Diplomatic
Service" q five-part Metro wonder
fplay. Mr.. Bushman and Miss Bayne
win Be surrounded by an exceptional
Ily stDong supporting cast.