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successor. Charles b. Slower. Mr.. Holt
continues:

successor. Charles b. Slower. Mr.. Holt
continues:
These were the men, he has told me. who
gave him his first inspiration for social ser
vice and his ambition to get an education
He was forced however TO leave school IN the
second grade and 60 into sweatshop, where,
as baster, he earned SO a week. Then
nc found employment in law Office as office
boz. where he prepared himself,
without any outside tutoring. to enter the
College Of the City Of New York, through
which he largely worked his way and from
which he was graduated in 1899.
after two years OF postgraduate work in
philosophy and economics in Columbia Uni
versty he went to Germany, where he re-
ceived his PHI. ID. at Erlangen. In the mean
time he had established the Downtown Ethical
Society. which later became Madison House,
a settlement on the East Side, of which he
has been the head ever since. he has
peen an active member Of almost all move
ments for social and political reform in New
York during the last decade. 1t was he who
started in 1899 the investigation of vice con-
dtions on the East Side which led to the
formation of the Committee of Fifteen and
resulted In the reform wave that elected
Low"
DR.. Moskowitz has been the arbitrator
of many strikes on the East Side. and in
1910. with Louis Brandeis, settled the strike
of 10000 cloakmakers.
He was chairman of the first Fusion
mass meeting in 1910 and appointed the
members of the Committee of One Hundred
and Seven, which nominated Mr. Mitchell
for Mayor. He was also chairman of the
committee that drew up the state platform
Of the Progressive party, and although an
Independent in politics he has identified
himself with that party because Of its an
tagonism to Murphy and Tammany.
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hind the Scenes One Meets the Actors Themselves

tered tho Naval Academy In 1880 - cadet
engineer After graduation he served two
years at sea, thus qualifying for the lins
he did not continue, however, In the opera.
ton of vessels, but went 10 Scotland, where
he took the degree Of Bachelor Of Science
at the University Of Glasgow, an institution
which IN 1912 gave him the honorary degree
Of Doctor OF Science for bis eminent attain.
ments in ship designing. In Scotland he
studied construction In the great yards there.
lie returned to the United States in 1889
and received his appointment as naval con.
structor.
Service in the various shipyards and In
the Bureau Of Construction in Washington
continued until the outbreak OF the Spanish
War. when he was ordered 20 Manila on Ad.
r,iral Dewey's staff. Here he attracted the
attention OF Secretary Of the Navy Moody,
= no. upon the retirement Of Chief Constructor
Francis T Bowles on October 81, 1903 spe.
cialIy requested President Roosevelt 70 name
Capps for the vacancy with the rank Of rear
admiral and this was done. Meanwhile he
had been serving as chief OF the department,
of construction and repair at the New York
Navy Yard.
"There never was man who brought
more zeal or more devotion to work for It's
own sake into the Bureau OF Construction
than Caps did Whatever he is doing en-.
crosses his attention and Is likely 70 arouse
his enthusiasm, for he is a man OF enthus-
asm. He drives himself relentle'sly and
he drives those under him in the same way.
"When he retired in 1910, Congress, IN rec
IGNITION Of his great contributions to Amer-
can naval power, conferred upon Caps BY
.,o,t,I 40, .ba rank Of rear admiral and thA
title OF chief constructor. Since then he
has served as senior member Of the Board on
Hull Changes for the Atlantic Coast, the Ma
val Compensation Board and the Navy Yards
Commission. In 1918, President Wilson sent
Rim "a London rs q commissioner 70 the In
t.rnstionsi Maritime Conference
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Ewald Vogtherr

EWALD VOGTHERR represents the
IL city of Stettin, by far the greatest
and most important merchant seaport OF
Prussia. in the Reichstag. II is remark
able fact that Vogtherrs opposition 10 tne
fourth. fifth. sixth and seventh war loans
was approved not only by the Social
Democrats Of Stettin, but also by many OF
his other constituents fact that seems
10 show that Stettin commercial and IN
dustriaf circles, or at least men in close
touch with them, are against continu-
alton of the war and despair Of German
victory.
When a small boy Vogtherr was imbued
with revolutionary ideas. Although living
in a small town, his father officially sew
cred his connections with the Protestant
Church. declared himself free thinker,
ORGANIZED a congregation of free thinkers
and became their preacher" He was an
enthusiastic disciple Of Ferdinand Las
sale, whose revolutionary writings made
deep impression on young Ewald when he
attended the Realschue Technical High
SCHOOL, at Bunzlau. At the age Of twenty
nine Vogtherr, who inherited small fort-
une from his parents, established com
mercial firm of his own at Berlin, where
he was member of the City Council from
1889 to 1899, when he declined nomina-
ton. because he intended to move to Stet-
tin. At Stettin he was a city father from
1901 to 1906. Since 1907 he has lived in
Warnigerode. In the Reichstag he repre-
scented one of the Berlin districts 1888
1881 and Stettin since 1912.
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4 Scrap? Put 1t Up
n To the HunI

Huns" yelled the observer. "Six of
EN-, and coming like stink" and he pointed
Up and astern to half dozen dots in
the sky.
Would you like a scrap, Spotty?"
shouted the pilot. Shall we take 'em on7"
Don't ask me-" shouted Spotty. ASK
the Hun. He'll scrap if he wants to, and
you and your old bus can't helpit, Barry"
Thought you knew the old Marah bet
Ter" retorted Barry. "You watch; and
he twisted in his seat and opened his en-
CINE out.
[So, despite their commanders orders to
get their information home without run
ming any risk, the Marah dallied to fight
with her fast pursuing enemies, while
shells from the "Archies" again began
smacking about them.l
Spotty swung his machine gun round in
readiness and trained 1t aft and up on the
hostiles. Two single-seaters were half a
mile ahead of the other four and looming
larger every minute. They were within
Icing range now and, presently, one Of them
loosed off dozen rounds or so at the
Marah. Spotty jerked signal that he
vas going TO fire, and taking careful sight
raped off about twenty rounds
The range was too great yet for him and
the Huns made no sign of swerve from
their direct path, so Spotty ceased firing
and waited, glancing over his sights at one
machine that had forged slightly ahead Of
the other. Barry looked back over his
shoulder and up at the two machines. They
were still a good thousand feet above the
Marah, but Barry was satisfied enough
with the way the game was running, be
cause while they had dropped from per-
haps 10000 feet TO $4,000 the Marah had
gained three to four thousand as she flew.
The advantage of height was half the
battle, and Barry wanted to snatch every
inch Of it he could gain. For that reason
ne passed a signal back TO Spotty to open
fire again, and Spotty obediently began TO
rip out a series of short bursts. The two
men had flown so long together that each
knew the others lodges and ideas 10 an
extent precious beyond words, and had a
code of brief signals in head-noddings and
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When. in 1882, at the age OF nineteen
years. he went to Koenigsberg to STUDY
law and political economy at the uniVer-
sity. he was exposed to antagonlstlc IN
fuences. Koenigsberg, where the corona
tions of the Prussian kings take place, has
q strong conservative tradition; on the
other hand, Koenigsberg was represented
in parliament by such unfinchlng Kadi-
Gals as Johann jacob and G.. Moeller, who
had been prosecuted by Bismarck during
the constitutional conflict in Prussia
Haase. who went to public school, high
schools and college in small towns, was
"the typical German schoolboy," with his
"head bursting with Hohenzollern cult
Although his parents were well to DO,
Haase Joined, in Koenigsberg, the Frele
Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung, an organi-
cation composed mostly of poor students
striving for Independent thought. Before
he graduated from the university ne was
Socialist. In 1890 he was admitted to the
bar. and five years later was elected to the
City Council of Koenigsberg. Haase rep
resented Koenigsberg in the Reichstag
from 1898 to 1906. In 1907 he was de-
feated by the Radical Gyssling, the fusion
candidate; but in 1912 he was again sent
to the Reicfstag.
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Dlack Pufs-Which Meant a
IL Case of Pooling En-

Back about the point where they had
last turned string of black smoke puffs
flashed out rapidly. The pilot shut his
engine off for an instant. Fooled 'em
that time" he yelled back, and grinned
gleefully at his observer. The observer
peered out carefully and exposed another
plate, turned and passed another signal to
the pilot. Instantly the engine roared out,
and the machine tipped her bows down and
went plunging earthward.
The observer watched the needle of his
height indicator drop back and back
through 100000 10, Is, II, 16, hang there
on instant, leap up again to 16 and II.
There it stayed quivering for ten seconds.
while the machine hurtled forward at a
hundred miles an hour on level keel.
There the pilot dropped her nose little
again and went slanting down with the
engine full on and the needle of the speed
indicator climbing up and up until the
speed touched 140 miles an hour and the
height indicator dropped TO a 14,000-foot
level.
The Archie" shells were spouting and
splashing round them in all directions, but
their erratic course had sufficiently upset
the gunners to bring the bursts we'll out
and clear. and the pilot made the last dizzy
plunge that brought him to the 10000 foot
height his observer had asked for But at
this height they were we'll within the range
Of smaller Archie" batteries. and the OBJ
server jerked the handle of his camera to
and fro at intervals, with the racking
cough Of the shells sounding perilously
close and the reek Of their burst at times
swirling past as the machine tore through
their smoke. Three times heavy splnters
whirred vciously past them, and once a
sharp crack and rip left a gaping black
rent in the cloth of the body close astern
Of the observer.
For a good ten minutes the machine cir
cled and swung and darted to and fro,
while the observer hung on and snapped
his plates at such objects as he wanted on
the ground below; and for all that ten min
utes the ARCHES" continued to pitch a
stream of shells up, round and over, and
under them
Then the observer signalled finished
end the machine jerked round and streaked
off at top speed in a series of curves and
zigzags that carried her westward and
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hand. Immediately the machine began to
swing in a wide curve, while the observer
rusied himself with his camera and ex-
posed plate after plate.
lie looked up and out a moment as there
came to his ear, duly but unmistakably
above the roar of the engine, the hoarse
'woof" of a bursting anti-aircraft shell.
The black smoke of the burst showed a
good hundred yards out TO their left and
some hundreds of feet above them, and the
observer returned TO his photographing.
Wool" came another shell, and then in
quick succession another and another, the
last one dead ahead and with such correct
elevation that. a second later, the machine
flashed through the streaming black smoke
Of the burst. The pilot looked back inquir-
inely. and the observer made sign which
meant "Do what you please and sat back
10 wait until the pilot took such steps as he
thought fit 10 disarrange the aim Of the
gunners below.
The harsh rending cough OF another
she'll came so close beneath the machine
that both men felt her distinctly jolt up
ward and twisting from the wind shock
The pilot waited no more He damned the
controls hard over and flung the machine
..,t into vicious sdesip, caught her at the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21

Fen pictures of air fighting haze
been more UitId than those done re-
Gently IN a series for "The CO1mhiH
Mdqozine' By Boyd Gable, English
author of many 1CGr stories. What
American dUidtOrS may expect to
meet merit year is suggested IN the
tolloUing extracts from q sketch en-
titled "B,inging Home the Bus" IN
qchich tCo English airmen, sent OUer
the German lines to get pictures Of
an important position, are first at
tackled by enemy "ArchieS" and
then By enemy planes. But they
bring home the bus"
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jerkings and hand motions that saved much
waste of time and breath In shutting off
engine 10 shout messages or yelling
through the communicating phone. Spotty
figured now Just the plan Barry had in
mind, plan TO hustle the enemy into max
ing his attempt before he was at the closest
effective range for diving attack.
The plan succeeded, too. His bullets
must have been going somewhere close, for
Spotty saw the nearest machine swerve
ever so slightly, as if her pilot had flinched
or ducked instnctively. Then Spotty saw
her nose dip slightly until it was pointed
straight at the Marah, the machine gun
firing through her propeller broke out In
long rapid burst of fire, and the bullets
came flashing and streaming past in thin
pencils of flame and smoke.
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Gere Groundlings Can Only
wi tumble in Conjecture

What followed takes good deal longer
in the telling than It did in the happening.
All three machines were travelling re-
member, at a speed Of anything round a
hundred knots, speed that rose at times
as they dipped and dived to nearer perhaps
a hundred and thirty or forty. While
they were flying on the same course with
little difference in speed each airman could
see the other closely and in detail, could
watch each little movement, look over at
leisure small items about each others ma
chimes. Mere groundlings cannot get
nearer to the sensation than to imagine or
remember sitting at the window of a car
riage on the slow numbering sixty-mile-an-
hour express watching the almost equally
slow mail rushing over the rails at sixty
five miles on a parallel line, and seeing the
passengers at her windows scanning DELHI
erately the shape Of your hat or color of
your hair.
In Just such fashion Spotty saw the pilot
OF the leading machine rise slightly and
glance astern at his companion. saw him
settle himself in his seat, saw him raise a
hand and motion downward Instantly he
ierked the cord fast to Barry's shoulder,
signalling look out" and with swift
clockwork motions snatched the almost
empty drum off his machine gun, and re-
placed it with the full one ne held ready
cutched between his knees.
Vaguely in the swift ensuing seconds he
felt the machine under him sway and leap
and reel; but his whole mind was for that
time concentrated on his gun sights, on
keeping them full on the bulk Of the ma
chine astern of him, in pressing the trig-
ger at the exact critical second. He saw
the round bow Of his nearest pursuer lift
end for one long breath saw the narrow,
tapering length of her under5ody behind it,
That was a chance, and he filled it full
and trimming with fifty-round burst of
which he saw the bullets fash and dsap-
pear in the fuselage above him. Then
in a fash the underbody disappeared,
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finish himself, and Spotty, and the Marah
in drop Of five thousand feet and full
hundred mile-an-hour crash below. On
the other hand, he had only to move his
hand, push the joy-stick out and sweep the
Marah down, fatten her out and pick
decent field, land, and he and Spotty would
be in the doctors hands in a matter OF
minutes, both Of them safe and certain Of
their lives at least.
In ten seconds they could be on tho floor
and In safety-and in German hands
the two Of them and and
the Marah. 1t was probably the
thought Of the Marah that turned the
scale, if ever the scale really hung IN
doubt. 1--WE can't afford" What
was it the squadron commander had said!
Cant afford to lose the old Marah from
the squadron" No (Barry's vision cleared
mentally and physically at the thought),-
no, and, by the Lord, the squadron wasn't
going to lose the Marah, not If 1t was In
him to bring the old bus home.
The Last Lap-and
l Safe Landing
So they took the bus home, flying low.
shot about by "Archies" and skimming so
rear the trenches that rife fire pierced
the map in front of the pilot. Spotty
wanted to shower the German lines with
his machine gun, but Barry, his senses
Keeling, gripped his teeth on his lips and
steered for the cluap Of wood that hid his
own squadron's landing ground
He made his landing there. too; made Il
trife badly, because when he came 10
put rudder on he found that his left leg
refused its proper work. And so he crashed
et last, crashed very mildly it is true, but
enough to skew the wheels and twist the
frame Of the under-catriage little. And
as Spotty's first words when he was lifted
from his cockpit were of the crash
Barry, you Brighter, if you've crashed
those plates of mine, III never forgive YOU
80. You'll find all the plates exposed,
major, and notes Of the bearing and OBJ
servations in my pocketbook also
were Barry's last Of the same thing he
didn't speak till near the end. Then ne
opened his one eye to the squadron COM
mander waiting at his bedside and made
all apology. "An apology
Good Lordw as the major said
after. "Did ! crash her badly, rajor!'
And when the major assured him No, moth
ing that wouldn't repair in day and tha'
the Marah would be ready for him when
he came back TO them, he shook his head
family. "But it doesn't matter" he said
Anyhow, | got her home. And
if I'm going Vest the old Marah will 60
East again and get some more
Huns for you" He ceased, and was sen'
Il minute. Then, "I'm sorry crashed her,
major but ySee my les
was a bit numb"
He closed his eye; and died.
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IN THE INDEPENDENT OF January
IL, 1914, appeared a sketch by Hamil-
- ton Holt, covering the career Of DR..
Henry Moskowitz, then the newly appointed
chairman of the Municipal Civil Service
Commission. an Office he has Just resigned
&c take up his duties as chairman Of the
new city Department of Foods and Mar
lets.
Mr.. Holt tells Of the first evening of his
residence at the University Settlement, the
year after he was graduated from college
The members Of one of the clubs, boys of
about fourteen or fifteen years, were en-
gagged in debate as he entered the room,
and before the evening was over nearly
every member took part. He writes:
81 remember was ut once at
tracted to a short. thickset, sunny faced fell
lew, who was evidently the real leader OF the
club That boy was Henry Mosko-
WITT To-day Henry Moskowitz is perhaps the
most useful man Of his age in New York City.
His career, which has evidently only just
begun. is therefore worth telling.
Born thirty-four years ago, in the little
town OF Husch Rumania, of Polish-Jewish
lineage, he emlgrated 70 New 1ork Win MS
mother when he was four wears old. HIS
father. who had been a small tradesman in
the old country. had come to New York year
previously. end had eked out a scanty living
as pushcart pedler selling suspenders and
notions. Young Moskowitz went to school as
soon SIS he was able and supported himself
by selling papers after school hours"
1t was at this period that the boy came
under the influence Of Stanton Colt, who
founded the University Settlement, and his
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Wilhelm Fr. K. Dittmann

WILHELM FIR. X. DITTMANN is an
w autodidact. The son Of poor
wheelwright, he attended public school up
to the age of fourteen years, when ne was
apprenticed to a cabinetmaker. During his
spare time he sat over books which he
bought or borrowed. First he read indis-
crimnately and without much profit to
himself After his apprenticeship was
over he Joined the woodworkers' union and
had the free use Of carefully selected
books. At the age Of twentyseven he was
the editor of Social Democratic paper.
He held for five years the responsible po-
sition Of Labor Secretary at Frankfort-on-
the Main where he was also a member of
the City Council, and was the first Social
Democrat ever elected as a member of the
Presiding Board Of the Council. For the
last eight years he has been managing
editor Of the "Bergische Arbeiterstimme,"
at Solingen, Rhenish Prussia.
The district of Solingen Is represented
in the Reichstag by Philip Scheidemann,
the Kaiser's chief Social Democratic aid.
1t was Dittmann who successfully APP
pealed to the Social Democrats Of Solngen
to censure Scheidemann for voting for the
war credits, Dittmann himself did not at
tend the meetings of the imperial parlia-
ment when the vote was taken on the first
three war loans. Since then he has helped
TO organize the Socialdemokratische Ar
belts Gemeinschaft Social Democratic
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end of it, tipped her nose over and plunged
straight down with the engine full on for
a thousand feet, banked sharply, pivoted
fairly on his wing tip, and shot off at right
angles to his former course Cor quarter
of a mile; then, climbing slightly as he
went, swung hard round again, dipped a
little to gather speed, hoicked hard up, and
in few seconds was back somewhere
about the position at which he had first
departed from the course.
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Haase, Dittmann, Vogtherr

The Three Social Democratic Reichs-
tag Deputies Accused by Admiral
pon Capeue, Secretary Of tho Ger
man Navy, Of Conspiracy With tho
Mutinous Sailors Of Wilhelmshnven
and the Cruiser Ndrnberg.
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and the rounded bow Of the hostile
came plunging down upon him, grow
ing and widening as it came with full
power and speed of engine and gravity
pull. He was dimly conscious Of her firing
as she came, and he kept his own gun
going, pumping bullets in constant
stream, his eyes glued to the sights, his
finger clenched about the trigger.
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7 Ted Been Hit Somewhere and
l i Wasn't Quite Himself

The Marah leaped out suddenly and at
full stride IN a hundredfoot sideslip,
checked, and hurtled upward; and in that
breath of time the pursuer ficked past
and down and hurtled out of the vision Of
Spotty's sights. 1t was all over so quickly
that Spotty, looking oversize, could see
still the first enemy spinning down ierkily
with black smoke whirling up from her
fuselage, spinning helplessy down, as he
knew, TO hit the earth fifteen thousand feet
below.
Spotty, it seems, at this point found
himself Surprisingly sick and faint"
He was able to answer Barry-Barry
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A pilot lost doesn't very much count
(But don't tell his girl or his
mater this,)
There's always another 70 take his
mount,
And push the old bus where the
Arches" miss.
But bus that's lost you can't re-
new,
For where one works there's the
want of two,
And all they can make are still too
few,
50 we must bring home the bus