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roads, which later became Ballston. and
you may see the tombstone of this man
close to the electric line between Clar-
endon and Ballston. Horatio Ball and
Sarah Ball were of the Ball family. of
which Mary. the mother OF Washing
ton. was a member The wife of Will
fred L. Faulkner was Catherine u.
Easton, a daughter of John T. Easton
of Georgetown
A short distance eastward from the
Faulkner house stood, until few years
ago, one of the oldest houses Of tho
region. 1t was a wide two-story frame
with heavy outside chimney at one
end and a little cabinlike kitchen At
tached. The roof was high-peaked. and,
as long ago as the Rambler can remem-
Der this house. the shingles of the roof
were thick-grown with moss, warped,
split or decayed. 1t was the homo OF
James Payne. who owned farm of 200
acres southeast of Rockwell Station.
and his youngest son, Amos, whose age
is now around eighty years, is still Nv
Ing on part of the old place. The
Payne cemetery, which was near ths
house, was removed and the relics re-
inferred in the cemetery OF Walker 3
Chapel, about a mile and a half east of
Chesterbrook and on the Chain Bridge
Vanderwerkin road. The larger part of
the Payne tract was bought n few
years ago by Edward Carlin Of Wash
ington, who sold a part of the tract
One of the Old settlers at Chester
brook is Martin T. Peyton, who married
Alice Crimmins, whose father. Eugene
Crimmins owned the land on which the
suburb Franklin Park has grown up
The Crimmins tract was bought by
Myron Horton. who was the founder Of
Franklin Park and who lives there
now.
Another of the old settlers around
Chesterbook, although he lives nearer
the new settlement of Ell Nido. Is John
Carlin. He is near ninety years old.
He came from Ireland in his youth and
married one of the Peyton girls of
Chesterbrook. He is the father of Ed
ward Cariin of Washington, who
bought the ancient Payne lands. John
has a son. William. and a daughter.
Jennie. who live with him. Here is a
little story which will indicate the es-
TEEN in which Mr.. Carlin is held by his
neighbors:
Close to Ell Nido stands a new Cath
Ollie church. 1t is fine little church on
a hill. A settler In the region was tell
ing the Rambler about John Carlin.
Hes an Irishman. but he's a good
man." he said, land they have just put
up church close to where he lives
and named it after him" What Is the
name of the church," asked the Ram
bier. They call 1t St Johns" was the
quiet and smileless answer.
Some of the HANDLERS old friends
who have been long settled in the Ches-
Textbook neighborhood and who have
not been previously mentioned are
George William Reid. a son of that
George Reid whom the Rambler mem
toned in his narrative of Rokeby. and
Luther /. Macintosh. who came into
the CheSterbrook country from Prince
William county about a quarter of
century ago. There is one Chester
brooker whose memory is kept green
by all the jewellers there. He was for
years the public school teacher there.
His friends were legion. His name was
Samuel Stalcup. His wife was Matte
Decides of Georgetown. who is living.
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see the misty ridges north of the Po-
tomac and they can make out the farm
houses along the Georgetown and Lees
burg pike, several of which the Ram
bier has told about in preceding ram
tie distance northwest Of the Nelson
house shuts off a view of Sugarloaf
mountain. But the time came when the
Rambler should bid farewell to the Nell
son place.
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of the law clerks, she determined that
she would perform this minor work
only so long as 1t was necessary.
Although she was the sole guardian
and dependence of two fatherless little
sons. she took up the study of law in
the evening, and at the end of four
years she was graduated with the de-
gree of LII B. The result of this effort
was that she was soon promoted to
the position of law clerk and the desk
over which she still presides.
Although Mrs. Munroe confesses to
having passed the INSTRUMENTATION
year limit, she is full of interests and
enthusiasms. Her first and foremost
interest is in her work, to which she
has given more than half of her life,
The two sons, for whose support and
education she entered the service of the
government as a widow nearly forty
years ago, are sources of intense pride
with her. Her eldest son. Hersey Nun
roe, who was taken into the geological
survey as n lad by the late director,
Maj. John w. Powell, is now regarded
as one of the best topographers in
the United States. Her second son,
Benjamin Munroe, is an expert drafts
man.
Few movements have been inaugu-
rated for the benefit and welfare of
government employees in which Mrs
Munroe has not taken an active part,
dence in which she is held by her fell
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MICHAEL. By Z. F. Benson, author of
"Dodo," etc. New York: George ID.
Doran Company.
-T would be an incomprehenslble
English novelist who could, just
now, get completely away from the
war, even in the matter of each of
his novels Not many of them try
to do this. For the purpose of his new
story, laid squarely down in the pres
ent, Mr.. Benson has taken two out OF
the many outstanding facts of Englsh
life today. One of these is the new
order of thinking in which young Eng
lishmen are at present engaged Thls
new line of thought reduces to its low
est. terms the old background of Eng
lish prescription and aristocratic limi-
tation 1t is a kind of thinking that
projects new social horizons. less ex-
elusive than the old ones, and liber-
ates the individual into the freedom of
an amazing era. The other fact is that
of old friendships between England and
Germany, friendships suddenly snapped
and abandoned. Upon this double basis
Michael rests. Michael, Lord Com
Der, refuses the regulation path lald
out for the eldest sons of his order. He
not a soldier. He claims the right to
exercise his manifest gift. As a mat
ter of course this is a body blow to the
lordly house of his inheritance Her
mann Fable, a young German, IS
MchaeTs friend and instructor. Sylvia
Fable. Hermann's sister, is singer and
a woman of beauty and character. This
situation projects the story. Then the
war comes on Michael, a matter
of course resumes his abandoned army
career Hermann flies to the call OF
the Fatherland. Sylvia stands between
Michael on the one hand, Hermann ana
Germany on the other. From this
point the story progresses in line of
interesting and plausible incident. Mr.
Benson has excelled himself in the
quality of these three people, and in
the skill with which he has also por-
trayed his lesser ones. 1t is a dramatic
and vivid story, full of interest and
conspicuous flor all-around hne con-
structive work.
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The farm which William Nelson, the
owned contained considerably
more than a thousand acres OF land
The first of his holdings and that on
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q ALT MILE west of Fort Marcy,
~ ruins of which are heaped
It'll across the backbone of
q x ridge three-quarters of a mile
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an industry which cannot escape the no
tce Of every one to procure peace. Why!
Because every German sympathizer who
knows anything about German conditions
knows that Germany is doomed II she has
10 endure another year of Allied attack,
Never was there more interesting spec
tacle than that supplied by the Germans
to-day. At one time the Kaiser boasts that
Germany is invincibly victorious, and every
German statesman is seeking peace. Al
one time Berlin is behagged, ana the cross
~oads of the world are congested with the
German agents talking peace, pleading
peace, clamoring peace.
No one should be mistaken. The fall OF
Riga should deceive no one. 1t will do
Germany no permanent good if its effects
are limited to the military side. 1t VIII
be a disaster for the Allies only if it turns
out a moral as we'll as a military victory
for the Germans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-07
The Pathological Typewriter

Literary critics of President Wilson's
writings are fond of pointing out how
even his best state papers could be i'm
proved, from purely literary point of
view, by the elision of n word here and
there. A correspondent incloses the elo-
0uent message to the National Army with
thirty-six words lined out In the follow
ing sentence he cuts the words italicized
Let it be your pride, therefore, to show
all men ece,y1cherc not only what COCOA
soldiers you are, but also what good men
you are, keeping yourselves III and
straight in everything and pure and
clean through and through"
The improvement can hardly be dis
puted. The barer style is stronger and
finer in very way. As a matter of fact,
that particular utterance of the Presi-
dent was more vulnerable, from the
rhetorician's point of view, than most.
For an outsiders guess the Presidential
blue pencil did not spend as much time
as usual over the typewriter copy.
But superhuous words are character
istic of the Presidents style, and the fact
has stirred the suggestion that the type
writer is responsible. Let any observer
of words set on paper testify. Is there
something about the motion Of flying
fingers on keyboard, or perhaps, the
rhythmic patter of the letters against the
paper, that floods the mind with words?
1t is a convenient theory, and probably
holds true of quick writers. Whether it
applies to any stylist as expert as Mr..
Wilson is doubtful For whatever detailed
criticism may be passed upon the Presi-
dents style, there is no question Of It's
individuality and distinction and of his
painstaking attention to it. Furthermore,
there were apparently just as many
wordy writer's before the typewriter was
dreamed of. In that historic case where
President Lincoln recast Secretary Sew
ards proposed closing for the first inaug-
ural and transformed wordy, soggy sem
fences into literature by the simplest of
changes, both authors wrote their YER
sions in longhand We are inclined to
think that if President Lincoln had licked
off the Gettysburg address on a folding
typewriter on the train it would have
come out much the same.
Lesser souls than Presidents are an
ether story. They may well beware of the
Pathological typewriter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-07
Food Control Wanted, Not Politics

Preparations are being made to defeat,
CT at least to postpone the confirmation Of
Mr.. George W. Perkins, whom Governor
Whitman intends to name as one of the
members of the State Food Control Com
mission. These are based, it appears, not
on the ground that Mr. Perkins would be
unable to handle the work Of that i'm
portant office efficiently and with benefit to
the public, but on the ground that it would
he politically ineXpedient to confirm him
because upstate farmers are antagonistic
TO his appointment. The plan is to beat
mis- confirmation if possible; if not, to con-
firm the other two appointees and to take a
recess without action on Mr.. Perkins's
nomination, possibly until January of
next year.
The law provides for a food control
board Of three members. That number
was fixed so that there might be repre-
scented a diversity of experience and point
Of view on the problems arising, and so
that there might not be likelihood of delay
or stoppage of work arising from tie
vote on any issue before the board. On
the Governor will rest the responsibility
for the selection of these commissioners.
The only ground on which the Senate
should undertake to reject them or any
one of them is unftness for office-either
such mental or moral unftness as would
manifestly render an appointee an unfit
public servant.
If the Senate rejects Mr.. Perkins for
political reasons, or holds up confirmation
Of his appointment on any basis other than
unfitness, it will be exceeding its rights,
though perhaps not its technical powers.
It will be handicapping the organization
and operation of the food control board.
To that extent it will be taking action
which handicaps the state in prosecuting
It's manifold war activities, which can only
go forward at top speed when an abundant
supply of food at the lowest possible prices
IS assured to the workers. This may seem
far-fetched, but the Browns of the Senate
are VIGOROUSLY shortsighted and disin
clined to consider any fact which doesn't
smite them in the face. If they were ca
pable of seeing present-day conditions
straight, even they would hesitate to plan
to hamstring food control in order to play
petty politics.
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Our Better Band Leaders

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In answer to "Tritonus," Better Band
Leaders" allow me to object to his statement
that there is not military band leader in
New York or Brooklyn who can orchestrate
or compose music.
My objection is based on the past works of
such able bandmasters as II. Edward Zitz-
man, the present leaderof the old seth Reg-
mental band, who was formerly bandmaster
as well as the organizer of the mounted band
OF the I'd New York Field Artillery This
band, incidentally was the first mounted mil
tia band in the country.
Since the time of the Dewey parade in New
York, at the close of the Spanish American
War, troops have been marching to the strains
of the Maryland, My Maryland" march. This
march was composed by Professor Migrant,
at that time bandmaster of the 18th New
York Coast Artillery Band, and at present
bandmaster of the mounted band of the 1st
New York Field Artillery.
The present bandmaster Of the 18th Regi-
ment Band is Richard Schumacher, one of the
ablest clarinetsts and one of the most apt
artists at both composition and orchestration
in Greater New York. w. II. BENDER.
New York Sept. 3, 1917.
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Civil Service for Band Leaders

To The Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: "Tritonus's" letter, Better Band
Leaders Needed in your issue of September
>, is a true statement of conditions prevail
ing here at present in the band business 1t
Is a deplorable fact that legitimate band
music is rarely heard now-and exactly fo-
the reason given by your correspondent Two
years ago | endeavored to have the state Leg
islature provide a system Of civil service for
hand leaders, in order that the charlatans
might be eliminated, and the public be pro-
tected-but my effort failed. Perhaps a con-
tinued agitation by the people for better
music might, in time, bring results.
New York possesses many excellent band
irstrumentalists. The trouble is caused by a
scarcity of competent leaders | feel certain
that we shall not enjoy good band music mere
until the leaders are obliged to qualify for
their positions by law
GIOVANNI L. CONTERNO.
New York. Sept. 6, 1917.
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Bohemians Loyal to America

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: On August 81 in the column Enemies
Within" read a reference to a statement
from a Bohemian Socialstic weekly showing
dIsloyalty and almost treason to our govern
ment beg to call your attention, which |
hope is not necessary, to the fact that the
mentioned paper is not representing opinion
of Bohemians in America, not even opinion
Of majority of members Of the Bohemian
Socialist party, but a caprice of very few
madmen, whose soul is either bought by Ger
man money or their mind poisoned by Ger
man propagandists. They are not only in
sincere in what they say, but inconsistent in
their acting, for as a whole they belong TO
the Bohemian National Alliance of America,
a body truly representing our ideals.
Bohemians in America are staunch sup
porters Of American government, bitter en-
cmies of Germany and Austria and indie
fatigable fighters for freedom and independ-
ence of Bohemia.
CHARLES A. KNAKAL.
Elizabeth, n. j., Sept. I, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-07
The Wild Fruits and Berries
From The Hartford COpronD

iFr rom me HufIJOf0 JOhftH)
Reports indicate that, so far as Connecticut
is concerned Nature has been fairly gen.
erous with her wild berries and fruits in
this year, when special effort has been
made to conserve food, and it seems certain
that only an insignificant part of these wild
berries and fruits have been saved. They
have furnished banquets for the birds and
quadrupeds, thus fulfilling their purpose in
one sense of the word, but the season for
them is now over. There remains still the
wild grape, with its fascinating taste and
odor, but the high water mark is a week
or ten days back.
Most of the berries were wasted. In
some cases the owners of the land were
occupied with other matters and had no time
TO harvest them. In other cases owners Of
the land were unwilling that others should
harvest the berries. and in still other in
stances berry fields remote from main roads
were not visited By any one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-07
That Staten Island Garbage Plant

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: You have recently published several
articles in regard to the garbage reduction
plant on Lakes Island We Staten Islanders
prefer to call it Mitchell Island or Prendergast
Island.
1t is remarkable that all the favorable pub
LEFTY given 70 this garbage plant has been by
those who were paid for such service; first,
by the attorneys and second, by an advcr-
Using man in Beekman Street, Mr.. Snapp.
The Staten Island people have put up a
great fight; and although the plant has been
built, II is probably the best Of its kind ex-
listing and cost its projectors far larger sum
than they ever intended TO spend, and it may
not be so horrible as anticipated.
The problem of offensive odors from gar
bage in transit is yet TO be solved
Just now there is peculiar condition. The
rendering plant for dead animals on Barren
Island has been destroyed by fire, at least
so the papers say. Does this mean that that
plant is to be transferred to the island men
toned above?
Back of this whole question comes the
reason for the removal from Barren Island,
viz, the enhanced value Of certain property
in Brooklyn.
Your readers have noticed that District At
torney Swami and the grand jury have been
questioning certain Brooklyn men in regard
to this matter. "More power TO his arm"
E. C. BRIDGMAN.
Clifton. n. Y, Sspt 8, ISlS,
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A Wide East Side Street
The Urgent Need of a Thoroughfare
in Lower Manhattan
To the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The lower East Side OF New York
always has been u business section, and II
never will be less so than now. Brooklyn IS
growing, and will be larger in population
than Manhattan. The bridges and tunnels
between the sections of our city are there
Wall Street, one must believe. will always be
the centre of finance, and there is hardly
street from the Brooklyn Bridge 70 the Staten
Island ferry which is At for thoroughfar
or street of any kind.
Nassau Street, from building 70 building
is filed with pedestrians; William Street IS
congested now, and when the subway is fin.
shed it surely will be more So Gold Street
is crowded, and so narrow that often you will
see carts on either sidewalk and everything
blocked. Cliff Street is short Pearl Street,
once the grandest street in the city, is given
up 10 the elevated railway and useless as
street, and Front and South Streets are FAR
away and only used locally.
Should there not be at least one street.
And could such street be built az any time
in the future, when improvements are made,
as cheaply as now? For instance, II Cold
Street was widened and Strengthened ana
heightened in some way below Maiden Lane
would it not improve the entire lower part
Of the city? You remember the opening Of
Plat Street and the change in Beehma'
Street. At that time, if they had foreseen
the necessity, they should have made tne
map over by wide, comfortable streets mob
only on the East Side, but on the West side'
Is it possible to do something now TO cor
rect the errors Of the past? K. H. VI
Pocono Manor, Penn, Aug. 81 1911 -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-07
An Ideal Only
A Pacihst Concept Poorly Fitted to
Present Conditions
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: There is a concept of so-called paci-
fsm abroad in our land to-day which Is APP
rlicable only in an ideal world. Because this
general notion is based not only upon the
ethico- political philosophy of Confuciuc
which has uprooted the splendid human yir-
tues Of patriotism and loyalty in China and
placed her at the mercy OF almost every mill
tary power in the world, and because it is a
concept based upon an erroneous interpreta-
ton of the character and teachings of Jesus
Christ, it requires both an antidote and a
preventive.
By instinct primeval man knew only he
who was willing to fight might live. Slowly
with the education of the mind came moral
enlightenment. At first spark in the con-
science, a dawnng of the truth that might
does not make rght-aDd at last the endur-
ing fame, the clear knowledge of the eter-
raj truth, that life, reason and the will are
venerable and sacred.
For this present day moral attitude of civ
ilization Of the world owes much to the teach
ings of Jesus. He taught the kingdom OF
heaven in the earth; He supplanted the re-
ligious life with the righteous life. He
taught the ideal, the brotherhood of man and
the Fatherhood of God and showed the world
that the only vital life is the one which con-
forms TO "the first great commandment" and
10 "the second, which is like unto it," The
iuling powers of His day were everywhere
oppressive and despotc, yet He proposed no
form of government. His own race was prac-
tically in bondage, yet He never spoke Of
slavery. His people felt the burdens of war,
yet He never arrayed society against the
soldier or his calling He struck rather at
the causes which make men and nations un-
just and cruel, knowing it is neither arma-
ments nor the righteous, merciful uses Of
force when sacred laws and institutions are
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hope TO win the war. They have been re-
vealcd rs able, courageous workers and
citizens, and political recognition is coming
rs matter of course. The same proc.
csses have been at work here for years
md they are being daily accelerated by
the war. Votes for women is no longer
the plea of few imaginative reformers.
1t is the logical and inevitable consequence
Of woman's new position, 70 oppose 1T to-
day is to set ones back not only against
,he rights of women, but against the whole
development of our economic and social life