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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Warren S. Young

WASHINGTON. Nov. 1s.-Waren ;.
Young. seventy-three, for thirty-siX
years social clerk at the White House,
and known personally by every Presi-
dent, Cabinet officer and foreign diplo-
mat in Washington during that time,
died to-day at his home here. He was
the oldest employe In years Of service
at the White House, and since his sp-
pointment by President Garfield, in
1881. had made all arrangements and
issued all invitations 10 state dinners.
receptions ard other social events at
the White House. Mr.. Young came to
Washington from Warren. Ohio.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Ferguson May Head
Shipbuilders for u. S.
Staff Of Practical Constructors
To Be Named to Help
Fleet Corporation

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.-Homer L.
Ferguson, president and general mana
ger Of the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Drydock Company, probably will
head a staff Of practical shipbuilders
which will be named soon 20 serve with
the Shipping Boards Emergency Fleet
Corporation. He Is known as one OF
the country's foremost builders.
The naming Of Mr.. Ferguson and
probably two other builders will virtu-
ally complete the reorganization or the
Fleet Corporation, at the head OF which
has been placed Charles Piez. Of Chi
cago, as vice president. Henry Ford,
who has been made a special assistant
70 Mr.. Piez in charge of standardiza-
ton, will start TO work tomorrow.
James Heyworth. Of Chicago, already
has taken charge under Mr.. Piez OF
the wooden shipbuilding programme.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
James n. Weller

YONKERS. Nov. 1s.-James H. Wei
Ter retired merchant and former Mayor
Of Yonkers, is dead here Of compli-
cation Of diseases, at his home, az
DOT South Broadway. The shock OF
his wife's death a few weeks ago IS
believed 20 have fastened his end. He
was eighty-two years old. He was
elected Mayor in 1892 on the Republi-
can ticket. He leaves five children.
The funeral will be held Monday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19

ure. and Colonel Brady adapted it for
the screen. Il is extremely well done
in every detail. In the supporting cast
arc william cambridge and George Nc
Daniels.
The Silent Lady" is the other FIVE
reel picture or the programme, In II
little Zoe Rae is featured and she does
prettily all the things that clever screen
children DO.
Il is a simple tale OF simple people
on the coast of Maine. and has in the
cast supporting the tiny star Gretchen
Lederer, Winter Hall and Harry Hol-
den.
At the Academy The Woman God
Forget" will be the attraction for the
week. h. l.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
United States Steel Mills
Equal to Task

as Il possible for the corporation 20
image IN shipbuilding on a large scale
itsef and not interfere with the oe-
iosnds made upon II for steel by the
inngmerable other yards o. asked.
eve shall take care Of al the re
quirements Of the other builders WITH
cut delay" was the answer. no
steel mills o. America are equal 70 the
task 81 building 100000 tons OF snip
ping in q year.
THE real problem IN that connection
u that Of labor. The labor outlook ~
Dfsesnoue. Considering the smai
amount Of tonnage American ySrds
hsys been putting out. II seems almost
Impossible 70 build 5000 900 tons next
year. But have great faith In Chair
man Hurley Of the Shipping Board. he
Il getting a great executive stan around
hin.
%Chsfles Piez, whom he has sum
nsnsd from Chicago 70 become vice
trssldent Of the board, 10 q great es-
sentlye, energetic, competent and sue
essafpi, and will be Of great assistance
70 BIZ. Hurley. ] ana not personally nc
gnaintsd with Mr.. Heyworth, who has
b1@2 Das IA charge Of fastening the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Mary Kingsbury Talcott

HARTFORD. Conn, Nov. 1s.-Mary
Kingsbury Taleott, lineal descendant
OF one of New England's Oldest fam
lies and noted genealogist. died
early to-day OF pneumonia. She was
stricken yesterday afternoon while a
paper she had written was being read
AZ n meeting of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Seventy To Be Combined
Cargo Transport Boats

or the vessels already authorized the
greatest innovation is TO be found in
the seventy fabricated vessels Of 5000
tons each. These are to be combined
cargo and transport boats, so planned
as to be able TO carry a complete mill
tary unit of ! 200 men. with their equip
ment. and leave room for 5000 tons Of
freight.
The Emergency Fleet Corporation is
especially proud OF these boats, be-
cause, contrary 20 all expectations, It
has been found possible to give them
the lines that will result in speed OF
fifteen knots without dispensing
with the fabrication plan of con-
struction. They are TO be built by the
American international Corporation
and will be sandwiched in groups among
the fifty 7,5O0-ton boats that company
had previously undertaken, so that
some Of them will be among the early
deliveries.
While the Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton is plainly leaning toward larger
vessels, a large number Of 5,O0O-ton
vessels are included in the additional
programme There is 4 difference OF
opinion as to what should be the dlf-
ferent types Of the vessels not yet or
dered, but they probably will include
some novel types, and the whole pro-
gramme will be determined upon IN the
near future.
At present the Shipping Board does
not plan TO ask Congress for authorize
ton of a further programme, but If it
should appear that additional tonnage
will be required in 1919 the shipyards
Of America viii then be in shape TO
build 10000 600 or 100000 tons a
wear. Two years more OF war will thus
make the United States easily first o.
the maritime powers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19

ayes. we shall have a merchant ma
rine," said Judge Z. II. Gary, chairman
Of the board Of the United States Steel
Corporation. lie said it not as a pre-
Gietion. but in the matter Of fact way
IN which Friend Wife" decides that
chicken shall be served for dinner.
/ had just said 20 him that it was
TO be inferred from the fact that the
Steel Corporation was going into the
shipbuilding business itself that 1t
must have made up its mind that the
United States had future on the sea.
Then ne went on 70 tell about the
'wo new shipbuilding companies the
corporation is starting, the Federal,
which is now building It's plant on the
Haekensack meadows. and the IN
named corporation, which Will build
hips on Mobile Bay, where there has
been acquired q great tract Of land.
The latter is an ofshoo. Of the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company. which
- erecting q new plate mill at Birm-
irghsm. chiefly for the purpose Of
meeting me requirements OF the No
bile yards for shipbuilding material
Quite Independently Of the plans Of
the United States Shipping Board, the
Steel Corporation had decided to build
fifty ships. varying in size from 5000
tons Up 20 5000 tons. At present. Of
course. there il no use in any private
corporation attempting to serve its own
purposes in rhipbuilding, as the Ship
ping Board would undoubtedly reauisl-
ton any ships it might build. So
While building It's own type Of vessels
subject 20 minor notifications 20 meet
the submarine menace. the steel Cor
Dorstion has wholeheartedly tnro"n
itself into the great task OF cooperrast-
NJ With the government IN snipouild-
lar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Ships Ships Ships
II S. Plans to Have $40 Vessels Ready in
19l6-Craft Under Way in IA Yards
Have Tonnage of 100000

different yards to different kinds of
ships.
OF the $4,000, 900 900 authorized by
Congress for the shipbuilding pro-
gramme a balance remains sufficient 20
build $50 to 400 vessels Of approx
mately 100000 tons. The grand total
Of vessels building and to be built is
about $50, of total tonnage Of al
most II 100000.
Some OF these figures are qualified by
"about" because the balance Of the pro
gramme has not been determined upon.
and the number Of vessels will, Of
course, vary with the types decided
upon. and also the total tonnage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Lieut.. Cooper To Be Married

Miss Elizabeth Hubbard, daughte !.
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Lee Hubbard, o.
Fayetteville, y. c., will be married 10
Lieutenant o. T. Cooper. Y. :. NJ on
Wednesday. in the First Presbyterian
Church at Fayetteville. Lieutenant
Cooper is In charge OF the United
States Navy Recruiting Bureau in New
Work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Fabricating Yards
To Build 21O Ships

Two hundred and ten Of the ordered
steel ships are 10 be built in the fab
Tcating yards. fifty being Of 800 tons.
and forty Of 1900 tons. All the fab
rieated vessels have turbine engines,
with reducing gears.
o. the iS5 steel vessels that have
teen ordered by the Fleet Corpora
ton outside or the fabricating
plants 70 is impossible 10 get the dis
tribution between different sizes and
designs. Some are OF the 7.300-toh
standard tyre. some are Of $500 tons.
some are Of 5000 tons, and there are
many other sizes. being determined. for
the most part. by the adaptations Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19

conventional scheme. Yet IL is built IN
meticulous and clearly logical way
from its upward-sweeping germinoi
theme, and 70 the student is an excel
lent piece OF musical architecture.
The mere listener Is likely 70 Re
haffled by Scr.abines structural mYtt'-
cism and by his highly personal idlom,
in spite OF its occasional lapses into
Chopinesque sentimertality. The re-
mainder Of the programme, however.
including the Giszounow Sonata IN. II.
fat minor. was of transparent Sad
rather academic sort.
Arthur Friedheim, at the Princess
Theatre, gave the fourth IN his series
of recitals. this time with the subject,
List, the GYPSY" His playing has
the honest. old-fashioned bravura
quality, and his conversational conf
ment on the music the virtue OF brew
ity. More than other pianists. he makes
a List rhapsody seem an improv'sa-
ton straight from the composers heat
ed fancy.
The first OF the Sunday night con-
certs az the Metropolitan brought out
a capacity house, owing perhaps 70 the
presence on the programme O. Nischa
Elman. The Ru sian ylolinist was az
his best. playing with great brillisney
and dash the Wieniawsk Concerto No.
2 and a number of shorter pieces. The
two singers Of the evening were Miss
Souhie Braslau and Miss Ruth Miller.
Miss Brnslau in her singing OF Glueks
"Chee faro" proved again that she has
one Of the most beautiful contralto
voices now before the publis.
Il still lacks a little IN hexlbility,
but there IS no reason why this Amer
can singer should not be heard In more
ir-portant parts than she has yet r.
eeived. Miss Miller SANG Micsela's AIR
from Carmen and the Waltz front
ga Bohame." Sho was in far better
voice than az her debut. though II WIS
evident at times that she was stil
suffering from her cold. Il was ar
parent. mono the less, that In Mss Nii-
Ter the Metropolitan has secured new
singer possessed Of a voice OF rare
uuritv and sensuous beauty.
There were two other recitals In the
evening. At the Hippodrome John Ne,
Cormack turned away several hundred
persons. The Irish tenor was at his
best, and deserved the whlrlwind OF APP
plause that WAS his. At the Princess
Theatre Miss Clara Pasvolsky, con-
tralto OF fine natural quality, gave
programme Of Russian songs.
=
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
7 OF "a %
1,33O,oO0
100000
6,0S2,o00
I,640 Io,9l9,OO0

OF the steel ships $50 were originally
ordered by the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration and Az were requis!oned
while building for private parties or
foreign governments. Of the latter 80
are already in service and others are
being completed almost daily.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Most Of This Tonnage
To Be Finished in 1918

Of this vast tonnage is to be completed
in 1918. Il is intended to put forth
every possible effort TO put it all in
the water during that year, but the
Shipping Board is determined that
100000 tons Of the total shall be
completed in 1918.
Whether that goal will be reached or
rot depends now almost entirely on
matters Of executive direction by the
corporation and the contractors and
upon labor. The reorganization Of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation appears
70 insure the highest order OF admins
;ra.iou on It's part. The strike side Of
the labor problem seems to be over for
good, bu. qrantity and quality are still
uncertain factors. They are being
dealt with BY the best specialized tai
rnt in America. The changes that have
been made in the stalls Of the Fleet
Corporation and the Shipping Board
are not sudden shake-ups, but are the
natural sequence Of Chairman Hurley's
assumption Of supreme authority and
The steady attainment of his purpose
to make the Board and the Corpora
ton the most efficient possible instru-
mentality Of building IN the shortest
possible time a merchant feet Of pro
portions hitherto urdreamcd Of outside
Grea- Britain.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
Drama
Losing Eloise' at the Harris
Theatre Is Full of
Laughter

Losing Eloise," a farce By Fred
Jackson. Presented Saturday night BY
Selwyn & Co. at the Harris Theatre.
THE CHARACTERS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19
rStof Correspondence

WASHINGTON. Nov. 1s.-Here's the
.,ipbuildng situation in the United
S..tes at the moment, expressed in up
,..4be-minute figures, which are now
,.blished for the first time:
One hundred and fourteen yards
-.e,ived contracts fcr ships as follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-19

There is a double bill at the Broad
way this week The principal photo
dramatic offering is "The Door Be
tween" a screen adaptation of Samuel
Merwin's serial story Anthony the
Absolute" Ct.
That sterling actor. Monroe Sails
bury. is Anthony. and 80 well does ne
portray the absent-minded, gentle An
thony that II is difficult TO believe that
only last week Salisbury was an IN,
trepid halfbreed, who carried beautiful
Young ladies away on the pomme! OF
his Mexican saddle.
The whole cast is excellent, Ruth
Clifford playing the woman with Jus,
the right MIXTURE OF hrmneSs ana
yielding. Oh.
,.a hous,a In the Land Of the Rising
Sun and some cunning Geisha girls IS
Rupert Julian. who knows Japan SO
well. kas staged and directed the pieI-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-12
Paving interests Busy;
Run1or That Conce rms Were
Back of Harley's Dinner

will of the commissioners, but not to ex-
ceed four years.
The commission shall also appoint
such clerks and assistants as are neces-
sary and the cost of these and other ex-
penses shall not exceed one-tenth of the
total tax collected under this bill, The
commission shall construct a series of
state highways, designating them Wy
number and giving their terminals, and
shall cooperate with the federal govern
ment as provided in "the act of con-
gress aiding in the construction of rural
post roads and for other purposes.
1.-The Niger in the Woodpile."
The bill provides that in all contracts
costing above $4,000 bids must be ad-
vertised for, and the contract let to the
lowest responsible bidder upon the
Kind of material finally selected by said
commission; provided, however, that
any and all bids may be rejected if it
appears to the best interest of the
state.''
1t is further provided that a tax of
one-fourth of one mill be collected as
other taxes are collected and this shall
constitute the state highway fund. This
shall be divided by setting aside a fund
for the state and amount to meet sal
aries, etc, not to exceed 10 per cent of
the total tax. then a sufficient amount
to cover the cost OF operating and main
tanning state highways which have al
ready been constructed or improved;
then sufficient funds to meet the fed
eral government appropriation as before
mentioned, or any that may hereafter
be provided, and the remainder shall
be used in aiding counties on secondary
highways. The bill then formally ac-
cepts the offer of the federal govern
ment, repeals all laws in conflict and
adds an emergency clause.
! This as briefly as it can be stated is
the main feature of the proposed state
highway law. This is also the bill which
Dame Rumor asserts has caused the sud
| den interest of the bitulithic interests
which it is claimed by the old lady
aforesaid, is real and profound.
Some Other Jokers.
An examination of the bill in con
nection with the congressional act shows
so it is stated, that the counties of the
state can also participate in securing
this congressional aid by putting up al
much as does the federal government
That it is claimed would permit the tC
get hold Of large part of the gov
ernent funds or all of them; and this
would release the entire fund raised by
the one-fourth mill tax so that it could
be expended entirely outside of the fed
eral aid if the counties should take uI
all that portion of the funds allotted te
this state. Dame Rumor goes further
and says this has already been arranged
and that certain counties are ready ts
take up all the money the government
offers. If it is as those making the IS
sertion say and counties can take ad
vantage Of the governmental 3 offer, thers
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-12

would be nice little sum available for
outside road work, and this the wise
ones assert is where the idea now TO-
nous dinner at the Marion hotel origin.
ated. 1t will be noticed too, that moth
ing is said about any bridges in connec
tion with the bill, and this leaving them
out has an ugly look. There is no pave
ment used on bridges, and it might be
that that is the reason the commission
and ther state highway engineers are
not bothered with them. The engineer
is given no control over bridges other
than what might be implied from their
being a necessary part of the highways,
which they are, as Salem well knows.
1t is bill that will. bear close scrutin-
ity, and it should get it.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-12

Dame Rumor is an uncertain old lady,
not always reliable, but generally hav-
ing some fire behind such smoke as she
sends up. The old lady has been pretty
busy ever since that feast of oratory
and flow Of unstinted dispraise at the
Marion hotel Thursday night. Friday
morning she had it that the Macleay IN
terests at the mouth of the Rogue River
was responsible for the dinner, and the
gathering of the Legislators. 1t was
claimed it was an attempt to get on the
friendly side of the legislators, In order
to defeat the Rogue river fishing bill.
That story was passed around indus
triously by the lady with hundred ton
Eues, and from the way she travels, with
more feet than centipede. One story
is good until another is told, and as
the Yirst one seemed to be getting a
trigle stale, she started another to the
effect that it was the Bitulihis interests
that were behind the friend-making
feed. The Capial journal does not pre-
tend to know if either Of the stories
had any foundation in fact, but is un-
willing to compromise and split it "fif-
ty, fifty"
1t will be noted in this connection
that the first talk was about good roads,
and what the second might have been
will probably never be known, as AS
toria 5 picturesque mayor somehow got
the floor and sure spilled the beans
It is claimed he was not down. for a
talk, but he made it just the same as
the Legislators can testify.
It is evident that he was not on the
program, that is Il it was calculated to
win any large amount of friendship for
anything, and so it is permissible to
aseribe the meeting to the bitulithic in
terests, if to anyone.
A Well. Oiled Machine.
In this connection it is proper also to
take cursory glance at what if any
fling is before the legislature that
might interest that elemasynary insti
tuition.
There is before the legislature bill
now in the house which is house bill No
5O2, which it is well to notice was intro
duced and read first time Tuesday OF
this week. 1t is entitled:
GA bill for an act to provide gen
eral system of construction, improve
ment and repair of state highways and
for the administration and operation
thereof, and repeating chapter 339 Of
the general laws Of Oregon for 1913, and
CHAPTER 337 of the general laws of Ore
gon for 1915, and declaring an emerg
ency.'
The bill creates highway depart
ment which shall consist Of three mem
bers to be appointed by the governor
one from each congressional district
They are to be paid a salary Of $500 8
year each and aetuI travelling and othei
expenses. These shall appoint q state
highway engineer who shall receive al
annual salary of not to exceed 5000 {
year and who shall hold office at thu
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-12
A Man Who--
(Oregon Voter)


So many senatorial, gubernatorial and
congressional bees are being discussed
around the state house these days that
we may be permitted to take stock of
booms and boomlets.
Some of the booms are of the self
starting variety, some need cranking
up, and some have to be towed in, so
their spark plugs can be cleaned.
DIR. Harry Lane s successor will be
elected next year. The genial senator
has made many friends in Washington
since it was discovered that he was a
joke, so he is not as unpopular as he
was when they took him seriously. In
proportion as his popularity has increas-
ed in Washington; it has decreased in
the journal office in Portland. DR.. may
be cheerful, but he has mind Of his
own, which same has one Charles Sam
uel jackson, who owns the journal but
does not own DR.. Lane.
Democrats as well as republicans
therefore feel that DR.. Lane cannot be
reelected. DR.. is some campaigner in
his way, and he may fool them both.
But the prospects invites, and many
candidates are in the bushes, straining
their ears to hear whisper from the
people.
Chiefly mentioned among the dems
is Oswald West, who Is as peppery as
ever, but has managed to stick around
the journal just like a member of the
family and by many is regarded as
Mr.. jackson . candidate Many repub-
lieans predict that he will be the next
United States senator from Oregon, and
| the talk is "who can we unite on to
beat West7"
Then there is that Virginia states
man, the Honorable Samuel NJ Gar
land, of Lebanon, the ornate orator of
he state senate. Mr.. Garland is toe
good man to stand chance against
either West or Lane. but he doesn' I
know it, and might be entieed into
battle. Judge A. S. Bennett, Of The
DaIles, is one of the also mentioned Z
but he belongs TO a school so old that
the tens of thousands Of young voters
have never heard of him except as q
lawyer
| c. S. jackson himself is much dis
cussed as possible aspirant for DR.
Lanes seat, but in spite Of his bully
lragging, he really is a big man and
probably could not be tempted into the
race SO long as he thinks he owns Os
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-02-12

a logical republican candidate for con-
gress on the issue of national prohibit
tion. Representatives Bean and Eaton
of Eugene and Thomas and Gore of Med
ford are discussed for congress, also
the amiable and eloquent Salem bust
ness man, George T. Rodgers.
Among the democrats most talked Of
for congress in the first district arc
Mark Weatherford of Albany and Sen
atof Garland, who can't help it that
people do talk about him.
To succeed Snnott in the event Of
his being candidate for senator, fhero
is talk of Fred Steiwer and Roy Ritner
of Pendleton, two of the livest men in
the general assembly.
Amongst both republicans and tleaso-
Gratis, Mrs. Alexander Thompson Of The
Dalles is talked Of for congress moro
than any other, although Walter Pierce
of La Grande and w. III. Strayer OF
( Continued on uape ninel