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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Root Still Anti-Sufrage
Seeing Russian Women Fight
Failed to Convince Him

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4. -Reports
that Elihu Root was converted to
woman suffrage by seeing women fight
in Russia are denied by him in a letter
TO Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr., presi-
dent of the National Association OPP
posed to Woman Suffrage, and to-day
made public by her.
81 have not at any time since my re-
turn from Russia expressed TO any one
any opinion about women voting or
fighting in Russia, where it is none Of
my business" Mr.. Root wrote, cor about
women voting or fighting here, as to
which have not changed my opinion
AT all"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

bought to SELL" said Colonel Green.
"She exercised extreme care in max
ing investments, and what she bought
she retained. Her surplus income ae-
cunulated sometimes faster than per-
manent investments. She never lent
money on call or in the Street. She
didn't deal with the public or hold her
self out TO the public az having money
10 lend. She maintained no Office and
had no office force"
. Mortgage Company Failure
Besides the Westminster Company,
the Windham Realization Company was
organized 70 handle Mrs. Green's bust
ness interests. It's function was 20
take over and foreclose mortgages held
by her. IL turned out 10 be a losing
enterprise. At the time Of Mrs. Green,
death, on July 3, 1915, the assets
amounted to s749,9f7 and the liabilities
10 SSS7,s06.
To the Westminster company, o.,
which Mrs. Green held $50 OF the
1850 shares and her son 500, were
turned over loans on collateral. At the
time Of her death Mrs. Green held
none Of the corporation stock. The
company, however, still had the loans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Plays and Players

Owen Davis, it develops, has been
spending the summer rewriting the
arabian Nights" and the result will
shortly be produced by Charles Hopkins
at his Punch and Judy Theatre. The
new play is called "a Thousand
Nights and a Night
The first of the Goldwyn films.
"Polly of the Circus" will be shown
at the Strand next week. Mae Marsh
is the star.
Messrs. Dillingham; and Ziegfeld
who seemed 10 be intent upon prolong-
ing the suspense, yesterday announced
the addition of one more performer 20
the ranks at the Century. The new
conner is Ann Pennington, hitherto
identified largely with Mr. Ziegfeld's
"Follies."
Maude Gilbert will have a role IN
the new Hatton comedy, lombard
Ltd" coming TO the Morosco.
Charles Stevenson. who had a part
in THE Inner Man" during the pre-.
liminary tour of that piece. rejoined
the cast a few days ago. Mr.. Stevenson
has recently been sitting up with
Friend Martha" which lately expired
completely in Boston. G.. 5. X.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Makes Fortune
Overnight

A farm Of 100 irrigated acres was
rented for 500 year. At the end or
two years "the man who came back
finds himself with $500 in the bank,
TO debts and the ability and warrant,
as he put it, "to look any man square
in the eye"--which Is a pretty good
Western definition of independence:
He was on his way TO make "dlcker
to buy the farm at 500 the acre.
alfalfa did it," he said. and best
of ALL it has been fun. The only time
really felt bad was when | sold car
load OF potatoes for $3.50 hundred.
Honest, felt like a robber. We live
like lords, taking most our living from
the place, and there are grouse in the
fields and deer on the hills. The city
for the suckers, the country for the
wise. Hardships? A jitney bus passes
the door every half hours and we have
running water and bath tub. What
more do you want?"
In the cities the hotels are full Of
business men and tourists with obese
rolls. As yet no bill OF fare IS Hoover
lied, except for a little peace Offering
in the way Of Herbert Hoover lunch"
that nobody wants or takes. The dining
cars, it is true, have tried 10 economic
a trfe, but the net result is only pleas
ing 10 the public, for it means a table
d'hote meal of reduced portions for Is
cents, as against an expedition TO find
something to cat in the la carte de-
partment for $3.50 The restaurants
are full Of good things, and in them
you can get square meal of such di-
mansions as no man ought to eat in
these times, for the magnificent total
of 80 cents.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Miss Elsie Saltus to Wed

Miss Elsie Saltus will be married to
J. Theus Munds, Of 40 Park Avenue,
son of the late Mr.. and Mrs. James
Dickson Munds, of Wilmington, n. c.,
on October 25 in st. Thomas's Church.
The engagement was announced in May
by Miss Saltus's aunt, Miss Josephine
Chandler Smith, of 555 Park Avenue.
Miss Ssltus made her debut last winter
at large dance at Sherry's.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
VIII Bequeathes 100000
To Find Cure for Cancer

The will Of Julian A. Hellman, mer.
chant, filed in the Surrogates' Court
Yesterday, creates a residusry fund
which NAV amount to 100000 to be
used by Mount Sinai Hospital for the
nurnose Of cancer research work.
To the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. the
Von+afore Home and Temple Emanu-
Fl the testator left $1,000 each, The
Misses Ella and Beatrice VI. He!lman,
sisters, receive $4,000 each, and other
relatives receive $4,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Ship Burns; Eleven Saved

AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept A.
Forced to abandon their burning ship
the Spanish schooner Aigua Freda--
without provisions or clothing, eleven
men Of the crew were brought in here
to-day by fishermen, after having drift
eG more than twenty-four hours. Ex-
ploson of large gasolene tank on
deck caused the fire. The ship for
merly was the American schooner Ham
rock. She was fifty-fve days out for
pa rcaIona
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

which seems quite foreign to her It
is a nice ingenue part, and she marries
the minister. too.
The thing which remained uneX-
planned was how did Andrew Bottoms
armchair remain intact after seeing
seventeen years service in the Dodge
household9
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Shoe Factories Reopened

LYNN, Mass. Sept. 4.--The twenty
shoe factories shut down April IS re-
opened to-day. The workers were in
vited to return under old working con-
ditions. Labor leaders said only a
dozen men responded. Lasting machine
operators voted to-day to expel any
member who returned. Pickets were
uosted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
TO MORRIE

Dear lore: could write poetry free verse
could talk to you your language but mind and type
writer are adaped to prose have felt the you
d. but feel different
As one older than you-several months oderet me counsel
m Did YOU ever stop think how far would get If we looked
an life with a What the hell you do?' attitude?
From my acquaintance with know you are pasonaey
eager TO see the flaming of humanity carried into dark
p Furthermore you have thought and worried The man
who has thought and worried likely to get discouraged at
times than the one who less concerned with the worlds woes
But not by crying out in despair that wrongs VIII De
rsj This war will for the world by those VINO don
s and ashes Neither will justice and right be brought 10
asHering universe by those who wall in the night
To call life futile weakness. Let think now OF keeping
our sword clean while sharpen it. With high heart let US con-
sr ourselves TO great and worthy endeavor Ii we can cast
Of petty hates if we purge ourselves Of sordd seShneS We
can bring a new order to the world.
feel the same way you about Preachers say lot OF
things can't agree with of them expressed my thoughts
The only glory in that taken into by glorious men
Look about YOU you know who are willing to de LOT
cause Young fellows gentle, decent and kind There nope
this Is there not quality there which we can build 'he
foundation of the house? ,.
Young men like grownup boys who worry and nave WIS.,
are needed to keep sword bright God knows there are
those who would tarnish But it must be frightened with nope
and courage, with despair. JOE a. 'HOA'o'''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Murdoch on Trade Board

WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-Victor
Murdoch, former Representative in
Congress, from Wichita, Kan, and one
of the leaders of the Progressive party,
was sworn in to-day as a member OF
the Federal Trade Commission. He sue
ceeds the late Will II. Parry, Of
Seattle
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

life than Johnnie and Susie Fresh Air
are used 70 IN Ludlow street or Tenth
avenue.
Out of these partial answers the
final answer begins to grow clear,
doesn't it? Ten thousand times the
best time in ones life is one OF the
biggest things in the world. II is the
beginning of health, the awakening OF
inspiration. a different idea Of life for
the owners OF narrow little minds and
puny little bodies.
The answer to ten thousand times
the best time in ones life when one
is Johnnie and Susie Fresh Air is an
arithmetic progression ending in in
tinity.
Like every other proper problem this
one has a corollary--a thousand or so
OF the brothers and sisters and cousins
of the 10000 who haven't yet been to
the country this year, but would like,
even at this late day, to 20 II you
would pay their way.
CONTRIBUTIONS no. TIE TRIBUNE FRESH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
The Coming 7o7ver
LINES WRITTEN AFTER \ VISIT TO BOSTON

Or ever Id. visited Boston (the Hub).
| harborcd the uncertain notion
That, maugrc its l. and its surface and SUBJ
II wasn't much given TO motion
Some where's I'd read in copy of Life
Had helped me to keep the thought burning
The Hub rather passed up the turmoil and strife
In favor of culture and learning.
But now have visited Boston, and O!
Believe me, that village can step it,
No more do think that it's hestsnt slow,
Or hating or lame or decrepit.
And this Is the that notion fell fiat,
And speedily persisted a-borning
purchased five o'clock newspaper at
Eleven o'clock in the morning. G. S. H.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Weather Hits
Wheat Crop

From Spokane to the green Columbia
swiftly sliding to the ocean in its
sombre, deep-scooped channel OF rock,
the golden grain wheat is falling be-
fore reapers, headers and combines
The crop is light, alas! For once, adj
verse weather has reduced the wheat
WELD all over the continent, but the
price is high; general minimum price
is assured for next year, and there IS
no gloom. In the irrigated valleys
there is good cheer aplenty. Alfalfa
is selling at $40 a ton, the demand for
apples and all fruits is good, the pay
ample and the yield bountiful.
Look at me-" said a sun-burned
farmer in the smoking car, as the
train sped along through the Wenat-
chez Valley, past miles Of orchards;
trees, dropping YEARLY with their loads
of red-cheeked apples. peaches. pears
and plums; "look at me if you want
to see contented man. plead guilty
There followe: a welcome tale Of
business failure in Spokane turned
into agricultural victory in the Methow
Valley. The contented one, aged fifty
FIVE, wife and eight children, reiterated
from the business rout in the city with
$50 cash and three teams, two years
ago. They found their haven in the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
By Theodore M. Knappen

SEATTLE, Aug. 2i.-From the pine
crowned hills of Spokai. on the east
TO the fr-covered coasts of the Pacific
war wears no scowling mask. Here, as
In most other regions Of the republic,
Mars still smiles benefcently. The
war is a distant thing. which the peo-
pie have given up visualizing. They
are doing their duty, but they are do
ing it as a duty, not as a thing imposed
of intense necessity. Except for a
weeping wife or mother here and there
as some man in khaki swings onto the
steps OF departing train one sees
nothing of the gloomy side OF the war.
Here it is not business as usual. but
more than usual. War has come to a
depressed region, bringing prosperity
and money-making activity, bringing
81 wheat and $50 to s1O5 lumber, bring
ing heaps of money to distribute among
farmers and wage workers, and bring
ing also, It is true, strikes and indus
trial ferment, but they are regarded as
but slight Inconvenience that will soon
be brushed away.
Time was when if the lumber indus
try was dormant Seattle and al! West
ern Washington retired into cave Of
gloom. Now a widespread strike mas
rendered the chief industry of the
state non-productive for time, but
Seattle would never know it, so far as
the sum total of business activity goes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Drama

DE Luxe Annie" a mystery play
by Edward Clark, based on n short story
ny Scammon Lockwood, Presented by
Arthur Hammerstein at the Booth The
Mt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYS

Ssppber 3-Eary it being Labor Day, and to my office
500 after the prnter-men had set long communication signed
az found there remained little space for anything else. So
IN MARQUIS and Mr. Hawkbury and G. Burgess to luncheon,
"a Mr. Hawksbury told tayle of going to sodafountan
ID asking for plain soda without favour Without what favour,
3 the clerk Strawberry responded the We all out
avberrv ouoh the clerk, but give IT to without
a Thence the courts and beat Will Wolff two sets,
@ was easy and beat f. Jones which hard and then
to+ mo two which harder. To the playhouse and
aTbs Country Cousin of B. Harrington and Street which
~ some good lines and fine bits of actngEugene OBrens
- Donad Galahers My Lord Theodore there in box with
S,.s Ada Stree who looked very beautiful and he made
b saving that young in the play had had to
~ tho same food sleep in the tent they might have TO
M country had year of obligatory military training and as
- ~ ch widely different kinds will have to in the National
49, II would be fine thing. But thought that g. AIDE, in
~ fable had put the telngy and convlncngy
With R. the courts and trounced him. Thence
luncheon Of rice and milk, with W. Morgan and R. Jewet and F.
- aud we talked of this and To the Office until even
w. and thence to playhouse G. Post in The Masquer
sder"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
@. 5. h.

We have read the oath that takes his entrance
h naval service but there must be something in it that
sailor on shore cling tightly to the of the girl
y -slts with, wheresoever and whatsoever
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

smiling valley tributary TO the gigantic
gorge the restless Columbia has worn
deep into It's rocky barriers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

Contamination Of "The Deluge" leads to the meditation tna'
those who were unfortunate enough miss seeing 1t can get tn
same philosophy in O. Henry's "The Pendulum And there "
something similar in "The devil was SICK etc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
Green S
Health Rules
Told by Son
Love and Kisses" Among
Necessaries to Happiness,
She Wrote in Letter

Eat slow"
Don't drink ice water"
keep out Of draft
Don't stay up all night"
Love and kisses"
These phrases, according TO testi-
mony given yesterday by Colonel Ed
ward II. R. Green before the State Con-
troller, constituted the personal ele-
ment in letters he received from his
mother, the late Hetty Green. For the
rest, he said, the correspondence held
strictly TO business lines and, on his
mothers part, often consisted merely
of 20. K" inscribed on copies of bust
ness letters he had transmitted 70 her.
Her letters were very Short" said
Colonel Green.
Hearing on Transfer Tax
The Controller summoned Colonel
Green in an effort to discover some
part of Hetty Green's vast estate which
was subject to the Inheritance tax IN
this state. The attempt was only part
ly successful. George Brokaw Comp
ton, Transfer Tax Appraiser, refused
to report to the Surrogates' Court that
capital employed in New York by the
Westminster Company, which was in
corporated to manage Mrs. Green's af-
fairs, was taxable under the law. Mr..
Compton did discover property which
he estimated at s2,266,7l2 TO appraise
for taxation. OF this S1,2s3,2S7 was
left to Colonel Green; 1911, 6S4 70 his
sister, Mrs. Sylvia Aston Wilkes, and
the rest divided between Miss Ruth
Lawrence and Mrs. Herbert F. Ban
croft.
"My mother never speculated or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

Contributions. preferably by check or
money order. should be sent 70 The
Tribune Fresh Air Fund, The Tribune,
New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
FRov MACY HARLAN TO RENNOLD WERRENRATCH

NJ
Sir:-Assuming that really such person as he
Werrenrath feel that ought TO get reputation as pro-
room euder at least equal mine before he ventures
Furthermore is he not asking shade the better OF inc Qua" ~
he offers IN WAGER q box at his recital at - OF
purpogev ded) against box at the Maxine Elot
where it is nv privilege to appear in Miss Marjorie haHoSS
support in Tbe Ewes of Youh"matnees Wednesday ana "a
urdsy? MACY HARLAN
Lucky old Boz Hawey!" writes Japonee i pet ne teg
great going after that German barber person Wonder nc
would object 10 bringing home for me the toot OF
Count | danced with a few seasons ago WIN ~ " -
foot he sepped on my $4,000 gold-coor satn opera
while saw the end of horrible eveninghe augheu ~
lie LAUGHED, I want foot dream OF u nlenV', d.
won't be happy until get it. SO, Nj da"ley' "heh w.,
lin don't forget To bring that No 10 1901 as d S0u'
is no new thing the scarcity of rhymes 70 S tb
Inc same difficulty confronted Harrgah al"
aghtes and they evaded it thus ., d drur,
We prvates in Sixty-nnth, We 1910" up nv Wv
Re can't forget our old comrades their glory at buI nun,
there viii bayonsts brstlng, thckest OF inc HHs H.
Where hot and she whistng our o0ES "'F
CHORUS
We march behind band, true sons OIL i"0'
The boys for style are excelieh'' . .r..d
tn, 60. - tho red with martial step we treao
the gallant sxty-ninth Regimen"
The war as some one cleverly has fenaiN' royocs
Everything Tbnos one once could laugh AT nave grown nv Il
tive tears and certain tidings of now give Us JOY o
Snle-a malicious ono we own-we got yesterday was w.
read headline:
:. COAL SHORTAGE IN GERMANY" -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

ooTu CT Thea. near B'way ESss.. SIS.
39l II d. 81 30 Matinee To .day, 2l5.
ALLEN DOONE B 3, " ne, BUT GST s,sr..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
MR.. JONES BEGs LEAVE TO PRINT

Sir: Having read Morries "These Times 1eeI VHaV III
correct the opinion that he may have given in quoting me- u
m "Ra il was ras of course discussing such subject
with Noo The rest of the quotation can't remember at all
CHARLIE JONES
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

er imitation of middle West dialect the Sun of Miss
Alexandra Carlisle added fresh grace to her exquisite delivery
b sneecbe' Now Carisle's delivery exquisite but
br middle West far from true She speaks of the
middle Weserners numbering their r and when she thinks
she pronounces them. But when she forge which is often
M nesks Of ahgeh and widen ultchah Which they don't
A in Certervlle. O.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05
The Sinews of War

Seattle Basking Beneath Silver Lining of War
Cloud; Prosperity Is Unprecedented; Saloons,
Where Soda Fountains Now Flourish, Places OF
Gloom
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

Maude Gilbert will have a role IN
the new Hatton comedy, lombard
Ltd" coming 10 the Morosco.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-10-25
|PALLID PEOPLE e:s;9; s;is s. IRON ! :; ;'i F1l1 +
Too Much Grammar.

A man made a bet with a friend
that he could go into the Billings
gate fish market in London and put
one of the well-known loud-mouthed
fishermen in a rage without saying
a word that she could understand.
The nan commenced by silently in
dicating with his nose that her fish
lad passed the fresh stage. The
Billingsgate lady at once made a YER
bal attack.
The man answered: you're an ar
ticle, ma'am.n
mo more an article than yourself,
you villain"
"You are a noun, woman"
"'You-you@' stammered the WON
an, choking with rage at a list of titles
she could not understand.
You are a pronoun.'
The beldam shook her fist in speech
less rage.
you are q verb-an adverb-an adj
jective-a conjunction proposition
interjection!" suddenly continued
the man.
The nine parts of speech complete
" conquered the old woman. and she
dumped herself down in the mud, cry
ing with rage.-Ladies' Home Journal.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-10-25
DESTROYER OF THE FRONTIER
Aircraft Promises Such Swift and Easy
Transportation That Peoples Will
Not Be Rooted in Soil.

IF you Wen; ii the ordinary way
from the Italian city Turin to Eng
land, you woul! change trains three
times, cross the channel by boat, force
yourself to be patient while locomo-
tives cOaled and took IN water, pas
sengers embarked or alighted along
the railway, and customs officers went
through their fussy examinations. A
proper allowance of time, we would
say. would be Sc hours.
The other day, Captain Lauriat of
the Italian aviation corps made the
journey by airplane in u hours and
two minuteS- For him, there was no
such thing az frontiers, no delays ex-
cept those he himself willed, no Off
Gals in seedy uniforms to make a
mess Of his baggage unless, he elected
to let them.
It is the idea Of internationalists
that We'll have a world state when
everything is so mixed that there is
NJ Strengthening 1t out by national
command, when borders can be
crossed as one would county lines,
when transportation is so swift and
easy hat no peoples can be or will
desire to be rooted In the soil. Well,
should this come about, the world has
The instrument which will compass it.
Il is the flying machine.-Toledo
Blade.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-10-25
War Declared on
Rats BY u. S. Govt t.

The government at Washington is pre-
pairing a campaign that should be effec-
tive IN killing the rats that are SO destrucn
tive both to lives and property. A con
~seryatiye estimate places the loss of food.
stuffs from rats at over two hundred mil.
lion dollars annually, n in the present.
scarcity Of food, this loss must be pre-
vented. The most efficient way 10 .iKi'
the Rat" is by the use OF Stearns' Past.
and thousands OF dollars worth have bee 4
bought by the government. Every house,
or waterbugs should buy a small box Of
this reliable exterminator for thirty-.lpe
cents, n stop further loss of food. in
her home. ADV.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-10-25

ypsosia dlatillers fosrassiy usca g.
I6Qef1nnk&an sofS EN- AaalSES
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-10-25
Uncanny.

ANFaaE EEt - HE2s 4AAL atLr
THE way Germany prepared for q
generation for this war was positively
uncanny," said Representative Frear
OF Minnesota. Yes, Germany's forty
years Of minute war preparation Is Us.
uncanny as the story Of the potato
bugs.
Q an autumn evening a group OF
minnesota farmers sat round the Are
In the general store and complained
Of the pOtato bugs ravages.
1.-THE pests ate my whole potato
crop IN two weeks saidsone farmer.
They ate my crop In two days.
said q second farmer, and then they
roouted on the trees to see IL I'd plant
more
4 drummer for 4 seed house.
cleared his throat.
Gents he said. MI THAT'S yery r.
markable. Let me tell you though.
what 4 saw ii our own store. saw
q couple Of potato bugs examining the
books about y week before planting
time to 80 who had bought seedlss
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-10-25
Experienced.

COMMUNICATIVE makes you think
you can get through the eneiny's
barbed-wire entanglements safely?
American Priyate-Slr, I've pinned
up my wife's party dress many Il time
without getting a scrntch.-~Judge.